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If you were a large business owner, property owner, famous or wealthy, you were either a member of the Nazi Party, or you were an enemy of the Nazi Party. Just like the Hitler youths. They had no choice in the matter.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
George S. Patton
Well that's legitimate reason.
How long before people let things die. Slavery, Nazi's. War's over most of the people from that era are dead or fast approaching it. Time for people to shove it and move on. I hate seeing this crap...
Also for reference to someone's earlier post about removing the confederate flag. it still flys at the border of Georgia at the north and the south before entering Florida.
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Imagine how much better this country would be today had Germany won the war.
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Boiler Up!
Make it three yards mother****er and we'll have an automobile race
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"I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us are. Very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad."
Boiler Up!
Make it three yards mother****er and we'll have an automobile race
Why are they naming a street after Porsche? Aren't there many past Americans worthy of a street name instead of Porsche?
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Gone but not forgotten: '99 Camaro SS 6MT | '00 Mustang GT 5MT | and a bunch of Maximas and other cars...
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"I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us are. Very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad."
General Motors owned Opel during WWII which made vehicles for the Germans.
General Motors produced vast quantities of armaments, vehicles, and aircraft for the Allied war effort during World War II. Its multinational interests were split up by the combating powers during the war such that the American, Canadian and British parts of the corporation served the Allied war effort and Adam Opel AG served the Axis war effort. By the spring of 1939, the German Government had assumed day-to-day control of American owned factories in Germany, but decided against nationalizing them completely (seizing the assets and capital). Soon after the war broke out, the nationalization came.[11]
GM's William S. Knudsen served as head of U.S. wartime production for President Franklin Roosevelt, who called Detroit the Arsenal of Democracy. The General Motors UK division, Vauxhall Motors, manufactured the Churchill tank series for the Allies. The Vauxhall Churchill tanks were instrumental in the UK campaigns in North Africa. Bedford Vehicles and GM of Canada, CMP manufactured logistics vehicles for the UK military, all important in the UK's land campaigns. In addition, GM was the top manufacturer of U.S. Army 1½ ton 4x4 vehicles.[12]
By mainstream accounts, General Motors' German subsidiary (Adam Opel AG) was outside the control of the American parent corporation during World War II. Some conspiracy theorists posit that this was a hoax, with the American GM as a secret war profiteer on both sides, but Alfred Sloan's memoir, for example,[13] presents a description of lost control that is much more Occam-compliant than the fringe alternatives. However, even without any such conspiracy, GM found criticism for its tax avoidance around the Opel topic. During the war, GM declared it had abandoned its German subsidiary, and took a complete tax write-off worth "approximately $22.7 million", yet after the war, GM collected some $33 million in "war reparations" because the Allies had bombed its German facilities.
In August 1938, a senior executive for General Motors, James D. Mooney, received the Grand Cross of the German Eagle for his distinguished service to the Reich. "Nazi armaments chief Albert Speer told a congressional investigator that Germany could not have attempted its September 1939 Blitzkrieg of Poland without the performance-boosting additive technology provided by Alfred P. Sloan and General Motors".[57][58][59][60] During war Opel's Brandenburg facilities produced bombers JU-88, trucks, land mines and torpedo detonators for Nazi Germany.[61]
Charles Levinson, formerly deputy director of the European office of the CIO, clearly stated in his book, "Vodka-Cola":[62]
"Alfred P. Sloan, James D. Mooney, John T. Smith and Graeme K. Howard remained on the Opel board . . . in flagrant violation of existing legislation, information, contacts, transfers and trade continued [throughout the war] to flow between the firm's Detroit headquarters and its subsidiaries both in Allied countries and in territories controlled by the Axis powers. The financial records of Opel Rüsselsheim revealed that between 1942 and 1945 production and sales strategy were planned in close coordination with General Motors factories throughout the world.... In 1943, while its American manufacturers were equipping the United States Air Force, the German group were developing, manufacturing and assembling motors for the Messerschmitt 262, the first jet fighter in the world. This innovation gave the Nazis a basic technological advantage. With speeds up to 540 miles per hour, this aircraft could fly 100 miles per hour faster than its American rival, the piston-powered Mustang P51."
David Farber, author of Sloan Rules: Alfred P. Sloan and the Triumph of General Motors (2002), stated that:[63]
"GM destroyed Sloan's files to protect itself from lawsuits regarding antitrust issues, the neglect of automobile safety and its investments in Nazi Germany."
Sloan's memoir presents a different picture of Opel's wartime existence.[64] According to Sloan, Opel was nationalized (along with most other industrial activity owned or co-owned by foreign interests) by the German state soon after the outbreak of war.[11] Sloan presents Opel at the end of the war as a black box to GM's American managementan organization that the Americans had had no contact with for 5 years. According to Sloan, GM in Detroit debated whether to even try to run Opel in the postwar era, or to leave to the interim West German government the question of who would pick up the pieces.[64]
Given the extreme difficulty of civilian communications between Germany and Allied nations during the war, Sloan's lost-contact version of the wartime era seems crediblemore so than the CIO's version. However, GM's actions during the era before the war, between 1936 and 1939 when Germany was rearming in open-secret violation of the Versailles treaty, are much more difficult to defend. The idea that corporate interests weren't prioritized above national or ethical ones during that era seems basically defenseless. Not surprisingly, Sloan's memoir doesn't mention this topic at all, either because Sloan himself avoided it or because GM's lawyers succeeded in getting it redacted.
Defending the German investment strategy as "highly profitable", Alfred P. Sloan told shareholders in 1939 GM's continued industrial production for the Nazi government was merely sound business practice. In a letter to a concerned shareholder, Sloan said that the manner in which the Nazi government ran Germany "should not be considered the business of the management of General Motors...We must conduct ourselves as a German organization. . . We have no right to shut down the plant."[65]
After 20 years of researching General Motors, Bradford Snell stated, "General Motors was far more important to the Nazi war machine than Switzerland ... Switzerland was just a repository of looted funds. Opel was an integral part of the German war effort. The Nazis could have invaded Poland and Russia without Switzerland. They could not have done so without GM."
Also while were on the subject go ahead and throw out your tv, your stereo, your smart phone and just about every other electronic device you owned because while were at it the Chinese pushed us back in North Korea, Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and lets give up Pizza because the Italians were in line too! People that dwell on the past are hippocrits this is proof of it.
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But what this decision is about and what it is ONLY about is the legacy of one man, Ferdinand Porsche. He threw his hat in with the Nazis and designed weapons for them and built weapons using forced labor. He has to bear responsibility for that. Not his car company, not Germany in general, not every person named Ferdinand; it's his legacy and his alone. For that reason, he doesn't get to have a street named after him, boo ****ing hoo.
It is not bad to hate the groups that are responsible for what happened.
As to who saw the Nazis rosy-eyed after the war and who didn't, that depended much on how much they profited or benefited, and how much they suffered. Think similar to Gaddafi supporters until the last minutes.
Since the majority didn't benefit but suffered one way or another, majority public opinion soon turned against the Nazis after the war. But it wasn't a huge majority (e.g., many of the millions of Germans who had lost everything in formerly German-settled regions in the East blamed the allies and their new border drawings for their losses - not the Nazis). It also took a couple of decades for Germans to be educated about what really happened during the war - many had been politically naive and rather ignorant (well, otherwise they wouldn't have voted in the Nazis in the first place).
After incessant complaints from a to z, I am now calling all of my characters "special."
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I came home this week to see my family and do some hunting. Great time with
the family. Hunting turned out to be a lot of scouting, some hunting, problems
with boats, and a few unlucky ducks shot. The dogs did great and I was able to
hunt with my son.
Those of you that I have met this week, and those that I have spoken to, I just
want to say thank you for all of your kindness. Everyone has been really great
and I appreciate everything.
Merry Christmas to all and be safe for the rest of the season.

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - The University of North Carolina officially announced its 2013 women's soccer schedule Thursday afternoon. The 19-game regular-season schedule for the defending NCAA champions includes 13 ACC matches with the addition of Notre Dame, Pittsburgh and Syracuse to the league.
Coach Anson Dorrance's team is coming off its 22nd national championship season in 2012, a title won after the Tar Heels had an inconsistent regular season performance last season. But UNC got hot at the right time, winning three overtime games in the NCAA Tournament and finishing 15-5-3 overall (6-3-1 ACC). The Tar Heels triumphed in the 2012 NCAA championship match over Penn State 4-1.
Carolina will open the season with appearances in three Nike-sponsored tournaments at Virginia, Carolina and Duke, respectively. UNC will meet Santa Clara and VCU in Charlottesville, host New Mexico and Kennesaw State in Chapel Hill and meet up with UCLA and West Virginia in Durham.
Altogether, UNC will play 12 of its 19 regular-season matches against teams that played in the 2012 NCAA Tournament. That group includes NCAA semifinalist Florida State, NCAA quarterfinalists Duke, Notre Dame and UCLA as well as Santa Clara, West Virginia, Virginia Tech, Miami, Maryland, Boston College, Virginia and Wake Forest.
The league slate begins with a match at Virginia Tech, a place UNC has not won at since 2007, on Thursday, Sept. 12 at 7 p.m. Three days later, UNC will meet long-time rival Notre Dame for the ACC home opener for the Tar Heels at Fetzer Field at 1 p.m.
Four of the first five ACC matches are on the road before Carolina hosts five of six matches in Chapel Hill between October 6 and October 24. UNC's match with Syracuse on October 17 is scheduled for 2 p.m. on a Thursday so as not to conflict with that night's UNC-Miami football game in Chapel Hill.
The ACC slate concludes on Halloween Night in Chapel Hill when Carolina meets arch-rival Duke at 7 p.m. at Fetzer Field on Thursday, October 31.The ACC Tournament quarterfinals are set for the home fields of the Top 4 seeds on Sunday, Nov. 3. Semifinals are Friday, Nov. 8 and the championship on Sunday, Nov. 10 at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, N.C.


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Georgia Volleyball Opens Season with 3-1 Win
Aug. 24, 2012
ATHENS, Ga. - The University of Georgia volleyball team opened its season with a 3-1 (25-23, 25-21, 19-25, 25-10) win over the Georgia Southern Eagles in front of packed house of 1,009 fans at the Ramsey Student Center on Friday evening on the first day of the Benson's Hospitality Bulldog Invitational.
Brittany Northcutt picked up the season's first double-double performance, tallying 14 kills and 10 digs. Tirah Le'au notched a .414 hitting percentage, picking up 12 kills in 29 attempts. Lauren Teknipp added 12 kills on the day.
Maggie Baumert paced the Bulldog offense with 24 assists, while Kaylee Kehoe added 17. Defensively, Allison Summers led the way with 21 digs, while Elena Perri picked a pair of solo blocks and a pair of block assists. Jasmine Eatmon totaled three block assists in the contest.
"I was very impressed at how this team battled and fought for points today," said head coach Lizzy Stemke, who improved to 2-0 in season openers. "Georgia Southern is a well-coached team and we knew we had to bring our `A' game tonight. Our players responded well and really showed that they are willing to fight for every point and not make mental errors. I am really proud of how our players responded when they got behind. I think this team will be one that doesn't accept losing, which will help us as the season progresses."
Enjoli Johnson, who tallied 12 kills, and Meredith Paskert, who added 10, led Georgia Southern offensively. Kate Van Dyke paced the offense with a match-high 42 assists. Three Eagles finished with double-digit digs, led by Moriah Bellissimo and Alexandra Beecher with 13 each. Meghan Morillo tallied 10 digs. As a team, Georgia Southern tallied six total bocks, led by Johnson and Paskert with three assisted blocks each.
"I thought we played really well today, especially in that last set," Briana Bahr said following her nine-kill performance. "It was a little shaky in the third set, but we pulled through and showed that we have fight and are able to come through with a win. We just have a refuse to lose attitude this year."
The Bulldogs jumped out to an 8-4 lead in set one before Georgia Southern answered by stringing together a run of its own to tie the match at 11. Georgia maintained the edge throughout set one until a block by GSU's Van Dyke and Paskert put the Eagles up one at 23-22. The Bulldogs answered by scoring the final three points of the match on a service error and kills by Northcutt and Teknipp.
Georgia grabbed a 4-1 lead in set two before Georgia Southern fought back to take a 14-10 lead. Behind the serve of Nicole Choi, the Bulldogs put together seven-straight points, including a pair of kills by Northcutt and a service ace, which allowed them to take a 23-19 lead. The Bulldogs never looked back, as a kill by Bahr sealed the second set 25-21 and put Georgia on top 2-0.
Georgia Southern took the third set 25-19 to make it a 2-1 match and force a fourth set. Trailing 3-0, Georgia fought back to tie the set at five before the Eagles scored seven of the next nine points to take a 12-7 lead. UGA cut the lead to three at 13-10 on a Northcutt kill, and again at 20-17 on a kill by Teknipp, but would not come any closer as Georgia Southern scored the final two points to take the win.
Georgia bounced back in the fourth and final set, racing out to a 14-4 lead. Georgia Southern could not find an answer to Georgia's offensive outburst that saw it hit at a .480 clip, including nine combined kills from Northcutt, Le'au and Bahr. The Bulldogs went on to score six of the final seven points on the match, including the game-winning kill by Bahr.
The Bulldogs return to action tomorrow night at 7 p.m., when they take on the Troy Trojans at 7 p.m., in the Ramsey Student Center.
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All Over but the Outing
posted at 2:01 am on October 21, 2009 by Dafydd ab Hugh
This is one of those posts where I'm reading a lot of subtext packed into a soupçon of text. In such cases, it's always possible that I'm reading more than the authors and actors intended; but on the other hand, that doesn't mean my read is wrong.
We retort, you deride!
The passion play begins thus: Over the past several years, the legislature of the state of Washington has enacted three succeeding domestic partnership (DP) laws, each moving DP closer to same-sex marriage (SSM); with the last iteration, lawmakers gave all marriage rights to domestic partners… literally everything but the word "marriage":
Lawmakers in Washington state have taken an incremental approach to increasing gay rights without actually taking on the state's marriage ban, which was upheld by the state Supreme Court in 2006. The following year, lawmakers passed the state's first domestic partnership law granting a handful of rights, like hospital visitation, to gay and lesbian couples.
In 2008, that law was expanded to add more rights, and this year the latest law added such partnerships to all remaining areas of state law where currently only married couples are mentioned. The statutes range from labor and employment rights to pensions and other public employee benefits.
Nobody, of course, has troubled to ask the citizens of Washington state whether they're down with this. Why give ignorant peons who lack "the vision of the anointed" any say in such an important institution as DP?
Nobody until now:
Conservative Christians rallied to get Referendum 71 on the November ballot, arguing that Washington state's latest move is the last step before full civil marriage for gay and lesbian couples in the state.
Referendum 71 would of course repeal some of these grants of rights; it's the equivalent of California's Proposition 8, which overturned a state supreme-court ruling mandating full SSM. As in California, voters will now actually have the opportunity to overturn the offending actions of their own arrogant legislature.
(Note: I am not a hypocrite; I would absolutely oppose state or federal courts overturning the DP law by judicial decree — absent a specific prohibition the state constitution — just as I oppose courts rewriting the marriage definition to force SSM down citizens' throats. This is a purely political question. But the people themselves are the "best evidence" of what they want, rather than the proxy of a state legislature; thus I always accept a referendum on such basic issues as more binding and dispositive than a mere vote in the state lege.)
But here is where things get creepy: In response to the petition that put Referendum 71 on the ballot, gay activists have become obsessed with "outing" everybody who signed it — publicly printing not just their names but their addresses as well. They even wanted to put all the personal information on the internet, so it would easily be searchable by anybody who suspected his neighbor might be insufficiently tolerant.
Activists claim they are only trying to exercise the state's "public records disclosure law;" but it's hard not to come away with the sick feeling that SSM proponents are hoping that friends and neighbors of the petition signers will punish them for their apostasy, especially if they live in a liberal (or gay) neighborhood. That is, I believe the legal fight to release the signers' names and addresses is a transparent attempt to intimidate and frighten them into not signing any future petitions.
So far, the legal fight has see-sawed between a District Court judge, the notoriously left-liberal 9th Circus Court of Appeals, and one Supreme Court Justice:
In September, U.S. District Judge Benjamin Settle temporarily barred state officials from releasing the identities of those who signed the referendum petitions. Settle held that releasing the names could chill the First Amendment rights of petition signers.
Gay rights supporters and open-government groups sought to disclose the names, saying that signers should be identified so the public knows who is behind Referendum 71.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Settle's decision last week. The appeals court said Washington's secretary of state can release the names and addresses of people who signed petitions calling for a public vote.
In appealing to [Justice Anthony] Kennedy to intervene, Protect Marriage Washington argued that state officials had suddenly changed a long-standing practice of keeping confidential the identities of those who signed referendum petitions. The group said signers of the petition fear hostile confrontations from gay rights supporters and noted that their campaign manager had received death threats.
Justice Kennedy issued a temporary restraining order on the ruling of the 9th Circuit; and just today, the full Court ruled on the TRO:
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld an order preventing Washington State from releasing the names of more than 120,000 people who signed petitions seeking a voter referendum on whether to give same-sex couples most of the same rights as married couples.
The 8-to-1 decision, with Justice John Paul Stevens dissenting, upheld a recent ruling in Federal District Court in Washington that was overturned last week by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
The order by the Supreme Court said the injunction against releasing the names would remain in place at least until parties involved filed new motions. That process could take months and essentially assures that the names will remain anonymous through the Nov. 3 referendum.
This was an obvious attempt to harass and intimidate voters whose only sin was to exercise their First Amendment right to petition government for a redress of grievances, and it went far beyond mere political hardball. "Hardball" is falsely accusing Rush Limbaugh of being a racist… a man who has one of the largest megaphones in the world to announce his innocence.
Rather, the activists' targets were free elections and the vote. The campaign to "out" the signers of the Referendum 71 petition is the vilest abuse of "action directe" I've seen in ages: The gay Left is trying to corrupt the very fabric of democracy itself.
The core of democracy is legislative representation coupled with public participation — not legislative usurpation enabled by public passivity and poltroonery. By trying to frighten voters into shunning the political marketplace, the anti-71 mob orders the citizens of Washington to sit quietly in the dark and wait for instructions.
That's despicable. It's unAmerican. It's French.
The role of the government anent petitions, as the Supreme Court has pretty clearly held (though it was only reinstating a TRO), begins and ends with verifying the petition signatures to ensure they are all registered voters and that they petition circulators have met the numeric threshold. There is no valid reason to release the names and addresses, thus holding the signers hostage to any gay-rights thug who wants to go straight-bashing.
(By the same token, I would fight to protect the privacy of anyone who signed a petition to implement SSM in Washington or any other state. But then, I'm not a leftist activist: I actually believe in all that hooey about freedom of speech and the right to petition.)
I'm going to stick my limb out: The attempt to publish dangerous and threatening information about the signers will be Washington's "Paul Wellstone funeral," a defining moment that triggers a number of citizens to turn out and vote for Referendum 71 who, absent the blatant intimidation tactics, would have just stood in bed. Referendum 71 will not only pass, it will pass with a much larger majority than it would ordinarily have done.
When all is said and much is done, we are all still Americans, with a deep respect for the sacred traditions and creeds of our unique country. The inability of the Left — including our illustrative president and his henchmen — to understand that much about the United States of America is our greatest weapon against them.
Cross-posted on Big Lizards…


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Dianne Bellamy-Small gets it. Watching the discussion unfold about the noise ordinance at Monday night's Greensboro City Council meeting, it was apparent that she was the only member who really understood why the issue has sparked such outrage.
The disconnect between our elected officials and the people who stood before them at the last two meetings was so blatant that a handful of council members admitted their confusion. But Bellamy-Small laid out the situation succinctly.
"These folks feel insulted by us dealing with this noise ordinance," she said. "I think this is a David-and-Goliath situation."
The opponents of the noise ordinance certainly feel insulted, and it's easy to understand why. These club owners, the target of the complaints, have built their own businesses, drawing countless people to downtown. They never asked for or received incentive money from the city, and this is their livelihood. For the patrons, it's their creative outlet, their cultural scene, what they look forward to on the weekend to get them through the week.
Unlike the club owners, complainant Roy Carroll has investments all over town, has repeatedly received piles of money from the city and has recently requested another $5 million or so for a new development. His business partner, the mayor, put the item on the agenda.
The opponents of the noise ordinance certainly feel insulted, and it's easy to understand why.
Opponents of the ordinance undoubtedly see this as a David and Goliath situation. A number of council members just couldn't grasp this division.
Marikay Abuzuaiter, Nancy Vaughan and Nancy Hoffmann tried to align themselves with the opponents, repeatedly saying the new changes would actually be more favorable to clubs and their patrons by modifying the ordinance to be less restrictive — raising the permissible decibel level to 75 from the existing 65.
But they missed the point. The opponents ultimately weren't asking for a less restrictive ordinance. They were fed up with the way the issue was brought forward; they felt Carroll was given preferential treatment by city staff and council and that the council's vision for downtown was on a different trajectory from theirs.
District 5 representative Trudy Wade's paternalistic tone exemplified this generational and cultural rift.
"Your perspective will change when you get older too, even if you don't believe it," she said.
Ironically, it was council members who seemed to have little understanding — despite their tours of downtown noise, nobody seemed clear on the exact decibel levels that were being voted on or where precisely it would be measured.
When two speakers said they moved here from Philadelphia in part because of the music scene and one said the ordinance made him want to leave, Zack Matheny questioned where he would go, suggesting Chapel Hill and Portland have more restrictive ordinances.
Any mention of Winston-Salem, which is working to create a downtown entertainment district exempt from their noise ordinance, was conspicuously absent.
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By Joe Brewin
Arsène Wenger is confident that Ju Young Park will step up to the mark when the time comes in January.
With both Marouane Chamakh and Gervinho set to depart for the Africa Cup of Nations next month, Wenger will be relying on Park to provide competition for Robin van Persie.
Wenger believes the moment will soon arrive when he has to call upon the South Korea captain.
"The adaptation period for him is over now so he has to come in and show he has the quality to play for us," said the manager.
"I believe he has [the quality]. We also have Arshavin and Oxlade-Chamberlain, who is now ready to play.
"We lose Chamakh and Gervinho for January - two strikers. Maybe Chamakh has not played too many games, but he is still a security that we have. So Park has to step up.
"The problem we have first of all is that we have a big squad. To add players to our big squad, we will have to see how we can balance our books as well."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Conservatives repeated Bush administration's misleading comparison between explosives, other munitions
Media conservatives have echoed the Bush administration's misleading argument that the reported 380 tons of explosives that went missing from the Al Qaqaa facility in Iraq pales in comparison to the reported 405,944 tons of munitions [1] that have been captured in Iraq so far. In fact, explosives -- many of which were reportedly in the form of white powder [2] -- weigh far less than some other types of "munitions," which include explosives, but also "rockets, guided and ballistic missiles, bombs ... grenades, mines, torpedoes ... and devices and components thereof," according to the Pentagon [3].
Moreover, one pound of C-4 plastic explosive -- of which HMX and RDX, the missing explosives, are key ingredients -- was enough to blow up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, as an October 25 Associated Press story noted [4].
Nonetheless, Vice President Dick Cheney has advanced this misleading comparison, and media conservatives have dutifully repeated it. On October 26, Vice President Dick Cheney criticized [5] Senator John Kerry, saying Kerry "doesn't mention ... the 400,000 tons of weapons and explosives that our troops have captured and are destroying." The next day, the Pentagon released two pages of talking points in which it asserted "that the missing explosives are 'less than one-tenth of 1 percent of the 400,000 tons of total munitions coalition forces have destroyed or lined up to destroy,'" according to an October 28 Washington Times article [6]. National security adviser Condoleezza Rice underscored this point in an October 28 radio interview [7]: "370 tons is a lot, but 400,000 tons is really a lot."
But the administration is not just making a misleading comparison between tons of powder and hundreds of thousands of tons of artillery shells, bombs, and other ammunition. It is also neglecting a far more apt comparison -- between the ammunition captured and the hundreds of thousands of tons of ammunition that are thought to exist but have not been captured. As the Associated Press pointed out [8]: "At least another 250,000 tons from Saddam's regime remain unaccounted for, and some has undoubtedly fallen into the hands of insurgents."
Yet media conservatives have continued to repeat the flawed talking point:
• The Wall Street Journal: Meanwhile, the Kerry campaign continues to hammer President Bush over the missing explosives, as if this is anything more than a minor mystery in the broader debate over who can best secure victory in Iraq. To put the missing 377 tons in further context: The recent Duelfer report says that the U.S. has found 405,944 tons of munitions in Iraq, of which 243,045 tons have already been destroyed. [Editorial, "The U.N.'s Revenge [9]," 10/29/04]
• Laura Ingraham (radio host): And when you fail to acknowledge that the great successes of our military are undeniable, including, by the way, the fact that our soldiers have already secured and are destroying 400,000 tons of weaponry in Iraq, well, you demean the troops. [MSNBC, Scarborough Country, 10/28/04]
• Robert D. Novak (CNN co-host): This is just -- this [the missing explosives] is less than 400 tons. And there's hundreds of thousands of tons of explosives. ... What is the answer to what Dick Cheney said about the fact that if you hadn't gone in there that Saddam Hussein would be sitting on 400,000 tons of explosives? [CNN, Crossfire, 10/27/04]
• Sean Hannity (FOX News Channel host): Our troops have destroyed in Iraq now over 400,000 tons of weapons. Not only would the weapons that John Kerry is so concerned about, 380 be included, but those 400,000 that would still exist. [FOX News Channel, Hannity & Colmes, 10/27/04]
• Brit Hume (FOX News Channel host): The statistics are that we have already destroyed -- now, this isn't all explosives -- but 245,000 tons of weapons, including presumably explosives have been destroyed, and another 167,000 or something like that await or are under guard, and await destruction. That takes us over 400,000 tons. So I suppose you could presume that, what, some percentage of that is explosives, right?
Morton M. Kondracke (Roll Call executive editor): Right.
Hume: Three hundred and eighty is not a lot. [FOX News Channel, Special Report with Brit Hume, 10/25/04]
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Norwich - The new drive-through coffee shop on Route 82 near I-395 Exit 80 interchange will be the city's first Starbucks.
Essex developer Henry Resnikoff received approval in fall from the Commission on the City Plan to tear down two small houses at 88-90 Salem Turnpike and build a coffee shop with a drive-through window and parking lot. Entering traffic would use the access road to the Thomas Mahan School, which has a traffic light at the Salem Turnpike-Route 82 intersection.
On Thursday, Pratt LLC, with Resnikoff listed as a company member, purchased the property for $280,000, according to city real estate records. Pratt also immediately filed a 10-year lease with Starbucks Corp. The tenant has the right to renew for four consecutive five-year periods.
Pratt also obtained a construction loan from Chelsea Groton Bank for $787,350 on the property.


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I know these tools have tons of uses on all kinds of sites, but the first thing I thought when I saw the new generation of cordless impact drivers was that these could be the ultimate deck-building tools. Manufacturers make big power and speed claims for these little tools so I had to check them out.
I tested the 9.6-volt Hitachi WH9DM and Makita 6990D; Hitachi's 12-volt WH12DM; the 14.4-volt Makita BTD150 and Milwaukee 9081-20 models; Panasonic's 15.6-volt EY6535NQKW; and Milwaukee's big 18-volt 9079-20 driver.
First, I evaluated their screw-driving power and speed using 3-inch deck screws. Then I drove 1/2" x 6" lag screws and tightened nuts on 1/2-inch carriage bolts. I also drove Tapcon screws into a block wall and solid concrete. Then I took a run at driving screws into metal studs.
Screw driving. Not surprisingly, there was no problem driving 3-inch screws into treated pine other than the noise. Impact drivers make a racket. The 12- and 14.4-volt models drove screws about as fast as my 15.6-volt drill/driver and faster than my 12-volt drill/driver on high-speed. The 9.6-volters weren't far behind. All the impact drivers (except Milwaukee's 18-volt tool, which is designed for heavier work) had plenty of power left once the screws seated, while my drills' power tailed off. All the batteries have ample run time for lots of screw driving.
Next, I used each driver on some light-gauge steel framing with wood-to-steel and steel-to-steel connections. The tools performed a lot like my cordless drills on high speed again, except they're a lot noisier.
Pushing hard on an impact driver will only give you sore hands; whether I pushed hard or just firmly guided the tools, the screws sunk at the same speed. But be sure to make good contact between the driver bit and the screw head, because it's easy to ream out the screw head.
Lags. In the shop, I piloted a 3/8-inch hole in a double stack of 2-by and sandwiched a piece of 1-by pine in there to simulate siding or sheathing for a 1/2" x 6" galvanized lag screw.
The 14.4-volt tools and Panasonic's 15.6-volt model took between 20 and 30 seconds to drive the big screws. It was so easy that I added another thickness of 2-by. It took longer (about 45 seconds) but the tools seated the screws securely. This test was a cinch for the 18-volt Milwaukee tool, which easily sunk and removed screws. I was happy to discover that as the screw head bottomed out, there was no sudden reaction torque like you get with a corded drill.
I then took the tools to a deck job so I could try them in old, hard framing. I drilled the same 3/8-inch pilot hole through the new PT ledger, 1/2-inch OSB, and into the old SPF rim joist. This time, the little tools took longer (an average of 30 to 60 seconds) and worked a bit harder to drive a lag, but they seated the screw enough to squeeze water out of the PT.
Among the compact tools, the 14.4 Milwaukee takes the power title -- it even drove one lag in 15 seconds -- but averaged around 30 seconds. The 12-volt Hitachi and 14.4-volt Makita run second and third, respectively, at around 33 seconds. Panasonic's 15.6-volt tool is close behind at 45 seconds. However, no tool could compete with the 18-volt Milwaukee for lag-driving strength. Its shape and mass are similar to corded impact drivers and it easily sunk screws in about 13 seconds -- even in solid 6-by.
Nut driving. Tightening carriage bolts on decks can be maddening. They always seem to end up right next to a joist or wedged in a corner. A corded impact driver is bulky and a ratchet can't always turn. All the cordless impact drivers, though, were perfect for this task.
They're so small they get into tight spaces easily and have no problem crunching the head of the carriage bolt right into the lumber, which keeps the connection tight as treated stock dries and shrinks. At 14-plus inches (with socket), the big Milwaukee tool was more unruly to handle and a bit long for working between joists.
Concrete. Finally, I used the tools to drive Tapcon screws into a block wall. The drivers effortlessly snugged a piece of 2-by to it. Then I drove them into solid concrete, which didn't work as well. With all of the tools, some of the screws sank and some didn't. However, the 12-volt Hitachi had enough power to break two screw heads off.
Conclusion. These little tools pack more driving wallop than a drill/driver of equal -- or even greater -- voltage. I'd rather do my screw and nut tightening with these than with my 1/2-inch corded drill or a corded impact driver. I'd pull them out first for driving lags in deck boards, too, as well as for other tasks.
Although I've heard some carpenters swear by these little guys for everything from hanging doors to driving screws in plaster, I'm not ready to give up my quiet cordless drill/driver yet. Cordless impact drivers are loud and you don't need their impressive speed and power for every screw-driving job.
Also, with the exception of the 18-volt Milwaukee, you can't drill holes with them. Milwaukee promises impressive drilling power with the 9079-20: It has an adapter that accepts special bits. The company claims you can easily drill a 1-inch hole through solid material like 6x6 or other larger timbers. If the smaller tools could drill holes, they could take one more job away from my cordless drill.
I'd happily add one to my cordless fleet, though. Despite their $250-plus price tags, I liked all the tools I tested. The 9.6-volt tools, the Milwaukee 14.4- and 18-volters, and Panasonic's 15.6-volt model come with two batteries, which would sway me at the checkout line. And, the Panasonic is the only tool that's both a drill/driver and impact driver -- a tremendous feature.
The Hitachi 12-volt is very comfortable to use and has a great combination of big power and compact feel, but the 14.4 Milwaukee has all that, too. The 18-volt Milwaukee is a different kind of tool and I'd seriously consider replacing my corded impact driver with this battery-powered bulldog.
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Wang Shu of the People's Republic of China is the 2012 Pritzker Prize laureate. While not entirely unknown outside China, his relatively anonymity is confirmed by the fact that neither he nor his practice—Amateur Architecture Studio—had Wikipedia entries as recently as this past weekend. With the $100,000 award and bronze medal, the 49-year-old Shu takes his place among such architectural luminaries as Frank Gehry, FAIA (1989), Renzo Piano, Hon. FAIA (1998), and Zaha Hadid, FAIA (2004).
Shu received architectural degrees form the Nanjing Institute of Technology in 1985 and 1988. Prior to establishing his Hangzhou-based practice in 1997, Shu eschewed design to work with craftsmen to learn the art of building. "I decided to work outside the system," Shu says, noting that within the Chinese technical institutes, "they don't touch real things. I did renovations where I had to work with materials and craftsmen. I wanted to know everything."
The 10-person firm led by Shu and his wife, Lu Wenyu, as produced a substantial body of work in just a decade and a half, including the serenely elegant Ceramic House in Jinhua; a sprawling Xiangshan campus for the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou; a dramatically rough and primitive box for the Ningbo History Museum in Ningbo; and a complex of six 26-story towers for the Vertical Courtyard Apartments in Hangzchou.
Shu's work often incorporates recycled and natural materials, developing distinctly modern buildings that are unique to their place and culture. "Modern architecture is very abstract; it's pristine when it's new, but then it decays," Shu says. "Traditional building is dirty and rough, but it makes you feel better." He places his work in a context with those modern, Western architects who have most influenced him: Louis Kahn, Le Corbusier, Adolf Loos, Carlos Scarpa, and earlier Pritzker laureates Aldo Rossi, Hon. FAIA (1990) and Alvaro Siza (1992). "I build on the masterworks, but my experience is Chinese," Shu says. "Craftsmen in China do things by memory. It's a challenge [to incorporate this into your own designs], but you can use this to do creative things."
The Hyatt Foundation chairman Thomas J. Pritzker—whose family sponsors the Prize that bears its name, but does not sit on its jury—comments that Wang Shu's "standard of excellence" will be important to China's future. "The fact that an architect from China has been selected by the jury represents a significant step in acknowledging the role that China will play in the development of architectural ideals," Pritzker says.
American I.M. Pei, FAIA, who won the award in 1983, is the only other Chinese-born individual to be so honored. The prize will be formally presented on May 25 in Beijing, a site announced at the presentation of last year's Pritzker Prize to Portugal's Eduardo Souto de Moura in Washington, D.C. Interestingly, the Pritzker Prize website went bilingual earlier this month—adding Chinese. It will be interesting to watch in coming years to see if the addition of new languages tips future winners.


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text: I've never come across it myself. But I'm sure some of you diehard fishermen in here have. White, maggot like parasite inside a fish fillet. I got this pic off another website that I frequent. But the res is bad. So if anyone has any better quality pics, please post them up. This pic was a bluegill fillet.


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But vaginas itch too, and it's not okay for women to relieve their genital prickles when they're just chilling. Vagina is made of skin, and it's skin that sometimes gets irritated. For me, it's particularly bad when I shave off my bush, as I occasionally do - the two weeks after I quit shaving are usually filled with mid-conversation trips to the bathroom just to scratch. Chilling with friends is supposed to be relaxing, but as with many spaces in this kyriarchy, women have additional pressures and requirements to live up to.
I didn't notice this disparity until my very clever friend remery scratched, apologized, and complained about it one day, but it's true: as with many bodily functions, cis women only feel free to attend to pressing bodily urges when they are in cis women-only spaces. If we are in the middle of a conversation with a cis man, we must excuse ourselves so they're not confronted with the horror of our ladylike hands scratching our precious flower.
But though balls are safe for cis men to scratch, not all people with testicles are quite so free to soothe themselves. As with many of the itches of inequality, people who are trans experience particular and intensified scrutiny in attending to their prickling private parts. Genital policing is not just socially awkward for trans men, women, and nonbinary people; any extra attention to the contents of their underwear can be dangerous, particularly since bathrooms are a contested space where trans people receive extra scrutiny rather than the relief of privacy. Trans women particularly have no recourse for this cissexism, since they do not usually get into the "women-only" spaces referenced above, where scratching lady bits openly is okay.
I've never seen a woman scratch her bits with men around, so I have no idea what the reaction would be in a mixed-sex social situation. But I do know what the reaction is when those most overwatched, overpoliced, overexposed women - celebrities - scratch themselves in public:
The animated picture [since removed] above, of pop singer Christina Aguilera scratching herself while wearing tight clothing, is described with distaste and slight disgust in the attending text. Scratching balls as a concept has 65,000 fans on Facebook, and describes the practice as "natural pleasure that is every mans god given right to enjoy at home and in public!" The image of men watching TV with their hands in their pants is familiar because of characters like Al Bundy. But scratching vagina just elicits the adjective "gross".
Christina Aguilera is being judged because she's a woman attending to her needs in a way the kyriarchy doesn't like to see. Though there's much emphasis and judgment placed on our bodies, an awareness of the needs of our bodies is more than the kyriarchy can handle.
As a woman, my body is supposed to be without functions or needs. There is a huge culture of shame and stigmatization around discussing the processes that are a natural part of our body - my menstrual cycle, my bowel movements, and my sexuality are all things that are supposed to happen for the most part alone, something I shouldn't talk about.
Though our bodily fluids and urges are often beyond our control, we must keep them clamped down so that we can remain appropriately feminine: scratching, pooping, and bleeding are gross, and if we discuss or attend to them, we are gross.


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The Iowa Lakes Community College men's and women's cross country teams are preparing this week for the regional tournament scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 26 in Fort Dodge.
Head Coach David Peterson has the team where he wants them to be.
"We are continuing to improve each week and are expecting some good times from our runners," he said.
The women will not be competing as a team, but have a few runners who could finish towards the top.
"Leah Courtney is capable of a top 5 finish if she continues to run like she has been and Ashley Weston has the ability to run in the top 25 if she has a good meet," Peterson said.
On the men's side, the Lakers are looking for Andrew Krueger to place in the top 25 and Tian Siggins to run in the top 40.
"If our top five men all run well, we could be looking at placing fourth as a team," added Peterson. "That would be a huge accomplishment from where we started at time trials in August."
The Region 11 cross country championship meet is on Saturday, Oct. 26 at the Lakeside Golf Course in Fort Dodge. The men's 5K will begin at 11 a.m. with the women's 5K beginning at noon.


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It's tough being an infrastructure & operations professional these days. According to our ForrSight surveys, for every cloud project you know about there could be 3 to 6 others you don't know about. Business unit leaders, marketing and sales professionals and Empowered developers are leading the charge. They aren't circumventing I&O as a sign of rebellion – they simply are trying to move quickly to drive revenue and increase productivity. While every I&O professional should be concerned about this pattern of shadow IT and its implications on the role of I&O in the future, the more immediate concern is about whether these shadow efforts are putting the company at risk.
The bottom line: Cloud use isn't just test and development. In fact, according to our ForrSight research there's more production use of IaaS cloud platforms than test and development and broader use is coming (see Figure 1 below). The prominent uses are for training, product demonstration and other marketing purposes. Our research also shows that test and development projects in the cloud are just as likely to go to production in the cloud as they are to come back to your data center.


text: Finally got out for a little fishing on Friday. The action was a little sporadic. Keepers have been caught for the last week in the Duxbury area but yesterday they were a little tough to come by. My friend Tom and I did enjoy some light tackle and fly rod bass for a few hours and also jigged up about 150 macks in an hours time.


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I put a few rounds through my son's P210 today, and it certainly is a fine shooting gun. He tells me that the original P210 mags are pretty pricey, and that he has done a bit of filing to make P210 Legend mags work with his Swiss P210 for that reason.
I think I'd start by talking to Sig if it were me. Some parts from the Legend may be compatible and some not; I hope you'll update us on this project as you get further along.


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This post has been published by me as a part of the Blog-a-Ton 1, the first edition of the online marathon of Bloggers. To be part of the next edition, visit and start following Blog-a-Ton.
You see there are two types of people in the world, one who write a blog and second, as Nivedita says, whose soul has been sucked out!!!
So the point right now is the cream...
1) With blogging you get to voice out your opinion to the world (yeah I know I have very less page views but world sounds cool)
2) You can impress that sweet girl sitting in the next cubicle that you are a writer.
3) Your soul remains with you (Courtesy: Nivedita)
4)You get to know good friends and hear what others think over you.
5) At the end of the day whenever you logging on blog dashboard, you see 1 Comment need to be moderated, you have a smirk on your face (That reminds YOU, do comment)
6) You get to participate in all such marathons without moving a inch (Lazy boy speaks)
Aaah, but you see the Law of Kalyuga, nothing has a happy ending, cos if there is a happy ending, it simply means the TRP is very low, right Ekta???
1) People like Champak Bhumiya can voice out opinion like Why should Obama release Nukes?? (Meaning alternate and useless and dangerous theories)
2) Personal experience, you get comments from unfit and unwanted people who propose alternate theories on you (Specially religious)
3) You get a feeling of hopelessness if you do not get a comment (Again note to reader, COMMENT MARO)
4) Your post may offend someones sentiment (Again personal experience, deleted the controverial post)
5) You get a urge to splash your personal life online (Someone posted the number of time she had sex in a week!!!!)
Can't think of anything anymore...I find that pic very disgusting thought. Anywaysm what are your thought on the topic???
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An An Lao (Thonglor) opened its first restaurant in Baytong, the most southern part of Thailand, in 1980. Baytong is where the Chinese from various parts of China migrated and call this town their home. This formed the mixture of Chinese culture, the richness of Baytong food ingredients, and the way local Baytong cook and resulted in unique Baytong cuisine. An An Lao is the only restaurant in Bangkok to carry on this unique cooking tradition and serve you local dishes together with Chinese, Thai, and Seafood dishes daily. It also serves their popular Peking Duck for B350. An An Lao is now located in A Square Soi Sukhumvit 26 (opposite K-Village). You can make reservation for a table or private banquet at 0-2261-8188-9
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* From Sukhumvit Road: Enter Soi Sukhumvit 26 then drive towards the end of the soi. The restaurant is located in A-Square opposite K-Village. * From Rama 4 Road: Enter Soi Sukhumvit 26 (Big C shopping center Rama 4), the restaurant is located on the left side in A-Square.
Take BTS to Phrom Phong Station and use exit to the entrance of Soi Sukhumvit 26. You can take taxi into Soi Sukhumvit 26. The restaurant is located in A-Square opposite K-Village near the end of Soi Sukhumvit 26.
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text: Tenants' Rights for Victims of Natural Disasters In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, countless people were displaced from their homes. While homeowners confront destroyed houses and navigate insurance woes, renters have their own set of problems. Disputes between landlords and tenants are one of the more common legal problems to arise in the wake of a major storm. Find Out More… Cohabitation Agreements Protect Relationships More and more couples are living together without being married. For those who do, …Read More Leave a Comment


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In the late '50s, Rebennack gained prominence in the New Orleans R&B scene as a session keyboardist and guitarist, contributing to records by Professor Longhair, Frankie Ford, and Joe Tex. He also recorded some overlooked singles of his own, and by the '60s had expanded into production and arranging. After a gun accident damaged his hand in the early '60s, he gave up the guitar to concentrate exclusively on keyboards. Skirting trouble with the law and drugs, he left the increasingly unwelcome environs of New Orleans in the mid-'60s for Los Angeles, where he found session work with the help of fellow New Orleans expatriate Harold Battiste. Rebennack renamed himself Dr. John, The Night Tripper when he recorded his first album, Gris-Gris. According to legend, this was hurriedly cut with leftover studio time from a Sonny & Cher session, but it never sounded hastily conceived. In fact, its mix of New Orleans R&B with voodoo sounds and a tinge of psychedelia was downright enthralling, and may have resulted in his greatest album.
He began building an underground following with both his music and his eccentric stage presence, which found him conducting ceremonial-type events in full Mardi Gras costume. Dr. John was nothing if not eclectic, and his next few albums were granted mixed critical receptions because of their unevenness and occasional excess. They certainly had their share of admirable moments, though, and Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger helped out on The Sun, Moon & Herbs in 1971. The following year's Gumbo, produced by Jerry Wexler, proved Dr. John was a master of traditional New Orleans R&B styles, in the mold of one of his heroes, Professor Longhair. In 1973, he got his sole big hit, "In the Right Place," which was produced by Allen Toussaint, with backing by the Meters. In the same year, he also recorded with Mike Bloomfield and John Hammond, Jr. for the Triumvirate album.
The rest of the decade, unfortunately, was pretty much a waste musically. Dr. John could always count on returning to traditional styles for a good critical reception, and he did so constantly in the '80s. There were solo piano albums, sessions with Chris Barber and Jimmy Witherspoon, and In a Sentimental Mood (1989), a record of pop standards. These didn't sell all that well, though. A more important problem was that he was capable of much more than recastings of old styles and material. In fact, by this time he was usually bringing in the bacon not through his own music, but via vocals for numerous commercial jingles. It continued pretty much in the same vein throughout the '90s: New Orleans super sessions for the Bluesiana albums, another outing with Chris Barber, an album of New Orleans standards, and another album of pop standards.
In 1994, Television did at least offer some original material. At this point he began to rely more upon cover versions for the bulk of his recorded work, though his interpretive skills will always ensure that these are more interesting than most such efforts. His autobiography, Under a Hoodoo Moon, was published by St. Martin's Press in 1994, and in 1998 he resurfaced with Anutha Zone, which featured collaborations with latter-day performers including Spiritualized, Paul Weller, Supergrass, and Ocean Colour Scene. Duke Elegant followed in early 2000. Additional albums for Blue Note followed in 2001 (Creole Moon) and 2004 (N'Awlinz: Dis Dat or d'Udda). Sippiana Hericane, a four-song EP celebrating his beloved hometown of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, arrived in November of 2005. Mercernary, an album of covers of songs made famous by Johnny Mercer, appeared on Blue Note in 2006. City That Care Forgot followed in 2008. The Night Tripper persona was revived for 2010's Tribal, which featured guest spots from Derek Trucks, Allen Toussaint, Donald Harrison, and the late Bobby Charles. Dr. John also contributed to French electronic artist Féloche's international hit single "Gris Gris John" the same year. He teamed up with the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach to produce and record Locked Down. It was issued in the spring of 2012. Two years later, he released the third album in his tribute series, a collection of songs by and associated with Louis Armstrong entitled Ske-Dat-De-Dat: Spirit of Satch. It featured guest appearances from Bonnie Raitt, Ledisi, the McCrary Sisters, and Blind Boys of Alabama, and appeared in August of 2014. Earlier that year, Don Was assembled an all-star tribute to Dr. John and that May 2014 concert was released by Concord in October 2016 as The Musical Mojo of Dr. John: Celebrating Mac & His Music. ~ Richie Unterberger
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Peplums, which graced the ready-to-wear runways a few seasons ago, began popping up at Bridal Market last Spring, so this season designers pushed the envelope even further by taking peplums to the extreme! Asymmetrical, double and embellished peplums walked down almost every runway this Fall.
So why is a peplum so popular? It's a chic way to accentuate your curves as well as give the illusion of a slimmer waistline. It also offers designers a myriad of ways to embellish a dress – ruffles, beading, tiers, etc. It can be both sexy and demure at the same time – a true win, ladies!
Without further ado, a few of our favorite peplum gowns:
This Olia Zavozina gown was one of the first we saw strut down the runway, and it's made a lasting impression. The lace used gives the dress a more classic feel, but the mini-peplum and glam waist details update it for the 2013 bride.
This short white lace dress from Reem Acra is a fun and fresh take on a peplum wedding dress. With a high illusion neckline, sleeves, and jewel encrusted belt detailing at the waist, it will add just the right amount of flair to your wedding day.
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Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley announced today that 2,126,776 passengers traveled through Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport in June. That figure, an increase of 2.0 percent over June 2010, was an all-time June record for passenger traffic at BWI Marshall. For the first half of 2011, passenger traffic has increased 5.3 percent to 10,913,788—a new record for the first 6 months of any year.
BWI Marshall Airport has set monthly passenger records in 13 of the past 14 months. Passenger traffic at the Airport has grown for 16 straight months, and for 24 of the past 25 months. Over the past 12 months, total passenger traffic at BWI Marshall has climbed 5.5 percent to 22,488,838, also a new record.
"The steady growth and record-setting performance at BWI Marshall Airport reflects the strength of our Maryland economy," said Governor O'Malley. "We remain committed to customer service and to fostering a convenient, efficient travel experience."
Southwest Airlines, the largest airline at BWI Marshall Airport, served 1,185,864 passengers in June, a 6.7 percent increase over June 2010. Southwest offered an average 195 daily departures from BWI Marshall Airport in June, a record for the airline.
Other airlines that posted significant percentage increases at BWI Marshall Airport for June 2011 included Delta Air Lines, US Airways, American Airlines, and British Airways. Cargo shipments also grew in June, to 19,726,645 pounds—an increase of 9.0 percent.
"As we projected, the busy summer travel season kicked-off with a record June," said Paul J. Wiedefeld, Executive Director of BWI Marshall Airport. "We will continue to build upon the momentum and growth that we've had over the first half of the year."
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Every three months, roughly, using the change of seasons as a guide, I like to spend a few moments sharpening my small set of cooking knives.
They're nothing really special - Chicago Cutlery from back in the days when it was still a respected brand - but I've been using them for most of my adult life. The larger chef's knife has been my No. 1 kitchen tool since around 1974, so it's an old friend.
I hone them on a steel before just about every use, but you want to be more circumspect about actually sharpening these sturdy but comparatively soft carbon-steel blades. Use a diamond stone on them every few days, and in a few years you'll turn your chef's knife into a boning knife! Or so I'm told. I really don't want to find out.
Instead, I keep an eye on the calendar and, when the seasons change, give them all a fresh edge. This approach seems to work, and when I can zip through an onion or julienne a green pepper in just a few seconds, it makes me happy.
How about you? Do you keep your best kitchen knives sharp? Any particular scheduling or technique "rituals" that you'd like to share?
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For the last few years, by the way, I've been using a simple diamond whetstone that I got from Amazon.com for around $30. I think the investment was well worth while. It's easy to learn how to use it - basically, just think of yourself as using the knife to shave off a very thin layer of diamond (as if it could) for four or five strokes on each side. Then finish with honing steel and I'm good to go for another three months.
Here's a link to the stone on Amazon.com. Highly recommended, and if you buy, we'll earn a few pence on the sale for our little Internet corporate empire.


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Union Village Community Association Director Richard House (right) and UVCA Engineering Committee Chair Richard Mauser (left) pose with the steam powered "Fitchburg" engine that was used at the Drew Mill in Union. The engine, which is located in the basement of the Mill, is at least 120 years old. (LARISSA MULKERN PHOTO)
The Union Village Community Association (UVCA) is championing efforts to refurbish the mill and dam, located in the Wakefield village of Union, for use as a working museum of antique mill technology — water, steam and electric powered engines — that was once used to run manufacturing equipment.
Soon after, the UVCA acquired its nonprofit status from the IRS, enabling it to accept tax-deductible donations and raise money to cover many aspects of renovations, including engineering studies, state fees and local taxes. The association has held a number of volunteer work days at the site, where community members have most recently scraped the exterior paint.
Yet one should not judge an old building by its cover. The Drew Mill and Dam was selected by the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance for its 2012 "Seven to Save" list. The list focuses attention and resources on significant historic properties in New Hampshire that are threatened by neglect, deterioration, insufficient funds, inappropriate development, and/or insensitive public policy, according to the "Seven to Save" website.
In that document, he noted that the Drew Mill is one of nine water powered woodworking mills that survive in New Hampshire out of many hundreds, and probably thousands, that once occupied nearly every available site on every perennial stream in the state.
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I have been taken to task by some academics because I objected to Professor Robinson sending an email to his students in which he compared the Israel invasion of Gaza to the "Holocaust." I have been told my comments infringe on the right to free speech by Professor Robinson and that subsequent comments by me that many students fear contradicting what professors say in class indicates that I am a vindictive educator who refuses to allow students to voice opposing viewpoints from my own.
Few who have commented actually examine the nature of what is termed a "classroom discussion." Let me identify several versions of what is termed a "classroom discussion."
1. Teacher Lecture With Discussion: In this form of "classroom discussion," a professor presents a lesson and asks questions. Statistically, about 95% of the questions posed in this form of "discussion" consist of students recalling what the professor said in his lecture. A few questions ask for meaning, and unless the student is brain dead, the response is to repeat the point made by the professor.
2. Discussion About Readings: In this form, students are assigned a reading and the professor asks questions about what was read. Statistically, 95% of questions posed are for recall of what was read. Or, professors ask the ever famous, "what was the main point?" of course, the professor has his own idea as to what is the "main point" and students learn to give it back to him.
3. Present An Issue For Discussion: Ordinarily, the issue is related to what is being studied. However, teachers also pose an issue that may not directly be part of the curriculum. The quality of the discussion is related to student knowledge about the issue. Obviously, if they don't know too much about the issue, students will struggle.
4. Present An Issue Arising From What Is Being Studied: This discussion arises from an issue that is linked to the course of what has been read or discussed in previous sessions.
5. Present An Issue That Is Controversial: "Should We Have The Death Penalty?" type of discussion in which students offer their views but do not have to support them with evidence.
Let's examine what is meant by "discussion."
The basis of a "classroom discussion" depends on willingness of students to voice opinions. But, if you examine time allocated between posing a question, waiting for a response, if none given, then posing the question to someone else, it comes to about five seconds. In other words, "discussions" favor students who are glib and speak quickly. A thoughtful student who needs time to reflect is punished by the system known as "discussion."
Professor Robinson's "discussion" centered around an issue that was not studied in class, students had no exposure to a multiple range of ideas, but were being asked to quickly respond. There is no doubt, the "discussion" awaiting Robinson would have involved a few students and would not be characterized by reflective thinking. I suspect there would have been emotional comments, and Robinson would have dominated and imposed his views due to greater knowledge of the subject. Please do not misinterpret my comment about "imposing views," most professors do so because they know more than students.
Allow me to use a favorite classroom "discussion" topic: "Should the United States Have Dropped the A Bomb on Japan?" I have heard this "discussion" at least twenty five times. Students are asked their "opinion." Of course, students have no knowledge of the military campaign in the Pacific, the deadly struggle to take the island of Okinawa which witnessed the introduction of Kamikaze pilots who killed five thousand, no information as to military estimates of casualties if an invasion occurred, and, no information as to the thinking of Japanese leaders even though we have English translations of Japanese Cabinet meetings. Teachers beam with pride as their students, "discuss." Of course, the "discussion" is merely sharing of ignorance.
I suspect a "discussion" in the class of Professor Robinson as to whether the Israel invasion of Gaza was analogous to the Holocaust would have been analogous to the Atomic Bomb "discussion." His students know nothing concerning Nazi plans for killing Jews, no knowledge of the stages of the Holocaust, etc.. I have been told students study the Holocaust and know about it. In most "study" of the Holocaust, students see a film, read Anne Frank and may have guest speaker who was a survivor of the Holocaust. They don't know a damn thing about the process of the Holocaust. The remark by Professor Robinson has to do with the process of the Holocaust, not the experiences of those who endured it.
Is my complaint concerning the email a violation of academic freedom? I don't believe Professor Robinson should be fired, I don't disagree with his right to comment about anything under the sun. I believe he is guilty of poor teaching, lack of respect for his students, and allowing his emotions to take over in an academic setting. His remarks were flippant, he never offered his students an intellectual presentation, and took advantage of their lack of knowledge. There was absolutely no chance for an academic centered discussion concerning his remarks to occur in his class. He was emotional and was seeking emotional remarks from his students, not intellectual centered ones.
I have been a Dean, I have spent years as the head of our local chapter of the AAUP which guards the rights of faculty. Academic freedom also entails responsibility to the rights of students and to respect their right to an academic centered education. I have yet to read any comment from those who disagree with my views as to the rights of students to have professors who are engaged in the marketplace of ideas rather than emotional outbursts concerning the latest issue which arouses their concern.
I wonder if those who support Robinson would support a bigot who disparages blacks or Hispanics on ground he has a right to his opinion. Larry Summers, while president of Harvard, was blasted by the Harvard faculty because he made remarks they viewed as insulting to women. I disagreed with his views, but the Harvard faculty was furious and wanted him fired. I suspect when college faculty discuss "academic freedom" they mean there are ideas that can be expressed and their ideas that can not be expressed.


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My customer experience with T-Mobile UK (or was it EE — Everything Everywhere, the joint venture between Deutsche Telekom and France Télécom in the UK?) last Friday was so shocking — and in some cases ridiculous — that I had to share it and highlight the potential customer experience parallels with IT service desks.
For balance: I've been a T-Mobile customer since February 2011 and its actual mobile service has been pretty good to date. I might whinge a little that availability seems to have dipped post–transition to EE (and I have no idea why) but that is probably just me imagining things. However, I didn't imagine this . . .
So what happened?
I bought a second-hand phone and when I put my partner's SIM in it (to test it), it registered on the EE network but I couldn't send or receive calls or text; however, I could use mobile Internet. So I thought: is this a service provider, software, or hardware issue? After a quick but unsuccessful "Google" — always my first port of call for support these days — I realized that I needed some expert advice. As the SIM was "nearly working" I decided that I would call EE first.
It started well-ish, taking three minutes to get through the interactive options to a point where I could hear the now mandatory "we are really busy so you might be wasting your time on hold for a while" message. Thankfully I think it was only a minute or so. Then the "helpful" Patrick was available to help. And this is where the relationship started to break down . . .
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Ryan Seacrest stopped by Access Hollywood Live on Friday, where the radio host/TV personality/producer dished on everything from the future of "American Idol" to how "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" (which he executive produces) got its start, to which of The Wanted boys has the "messiest room" he has ever seen.
Here's what the busiest man in Hollywood had to say:
Why "American Idol" is still around: "'Idol' has built this track record of credibility unlike the other shows that haven't been around long enough to do it as much. But when you think about this success of what Carrie [Underwood] has accomplished and what Kelly [Clarkson]has accomplished and what Jennifer Hudson has accomplished, I mean, that's huge success."
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Whether there should be three or four "Idol" judges: "I mean look, when we had four it was fine. My opinion would be three. It makes for a faster moving show. Of course, they don't really care what I think, but I think three would make for faster moving show."
On a possible reality TV reunion with Simon Cowell: "To have a chance to spar with him again, on live national television, would be heaven. I would love it."
On Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner: "She is so brilliant at marketing and she is so smart. And she outworks me. I mean, she has incredible work ethic."
How "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" got made: "[Kris] was interested in doing a television show and this was in the time that 'The Osbournes' was popular. I had seen 'The Osbournes' and thought to myself -- because I had formed a production company -- I thought we should find something in this vein. And at the time, we had heard that Kris was interested in doing something with the family, so it was me and one other guy at the company. I had to buy a video camera for this shoot to go to a barbeque they were having on a Sunday. And I remember thinking to myself, 'Is this going to be worth spending X amount of [company] dollars?' We went up and we shot a barbeque on a Sunday of the family. They were all together -- as crazy and as fun as loving as they are -- and they were throwing each other in the pool and I came back and saw the tape. And I thought, 'Oh my God, we've got to show this to E!' and we took it up to the folks at E! and pitched it to them and they said, 'Let's do it. Let's go for it.' We had no idea it would become the monster pop culture business that it is."
How "The Wanted Life" came about: "We had been playing their music on the radio and they came into the office one day. And a lot of people that you meet with are a little bit guarded when they're in a meeting or when they're gonna do a television show. The Kardashians are not guarded and I noticed that The Wanted are not guarded at all. They really will let you shoot anything. And they're wild. And they are unapologetic about being crazy rock stars, 20-something years old and not caring if they're diving into fountains in Las Vegas and getting into trouble for it. And so, when I saw that I thought this is a TV show.
On Max George's messy bedroom: "I went into their house where they live and I saw all of their different bedrooms and Max, the lead, he has the messiest room I have ever seen in my life. And it was a Friday. I know that they are single and like to go out on Fridays. And I said to him, I said, 'Dude, you gotta clean up your room before you go out. You cannot go out on a Friday night and expect to come back to something like this.' And he said, 'It doesn't really matter how clean my room is. It still works for me.'"
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On how he convinced his parents it was OK to drop out of college for Hollywood: "My father's a lawyer and I had to present a case to him over chicken salad and we sat there and he said, 'Well, what is it you want to do?' And I said, 'Well, here's my plan. I'll give myself a year. If I can't get some sort of a job and support myself in a year then I'll come back.' And so I put my stuff in a Honda Prelude and I drove out and I split an apartment on Verdugo and Hollywood Way, right? $360 bucks a month. I knew one person in town, we split a one bedroom with Ikea furniture on both sides."
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