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Couscous, I have missed you. Your quick cooking time, your delightful nuggety-ness, your ability to soak up tasty dressings and sauces. But alas, couscous is made of little bits of gluteny semolina flour and so we haven't enjoyed it at our house for the last five years.
Until now.
Lundberg Family Farms, a family-owned rice farm in California, has launched a new product line of Brown Rice Couscous. They take their organic brown rice, grind it up into small pieces, roast it and then package it up plain, or with seasoning packets to make three other flavors: Savory Herb, Mediterranean Curry (my favorite) and Roasted Garlic and Olive Oil.
Lundberg Farms sent me a package each of their four flavors of Brown Rice Couscous to try and I can enthusiastically endorse it. What a great product. It's got great fiber from the brown rice, it's kosher and vegan in addition to being gluten-free, and it can be used as a quick side dish to zip up simple dinners or as an ingredient in a casserole or main dish salad. While this rice couscous is not quite as quick cooking as wheat-based couscous which I used to throw into boiling water, cover, take off the heat and let steam for 5-10 minutes, it is only a little more time intensive, with a fifteen minute cooking time after tossing in the brown rice couscous into boiling water.
I found all four varieties of Lundberg Farms Brown Rice Couscous at my local Hannaford's supermarket where they were selling for $3.19 a box. I also noticed that Lundberg Farms is the source of the brown rice in the Hannaford Bulk Foods Bin, so that was interesting.
There are some great recipes for all kinds of rice dishes on the Lundberg Farms website as well as other information, including a printable coupon for 75 cents off the Brown Rice Couscous so you might want to stop over and check it out.
* Disclosure: Thank you to Lundberg Farms for sending me these four boxes of couscous to sample. I received these items for free, but was not compensated otherwise. My opinions are completely my own and I was not influenced by this company to write a positive review. And that's always the way it is on The Crispy Cook with my product reviews.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Gluten Free Product Review: Lundberg Brown Rice Couscous
4 comments:
- Simply...Gluten-free said...
I haven't had couscous in forever - will have to try this out!
- Saturday, 05 March, 2011
- Joanne said...
Awesome review! If I ever have a person with celiac's coming to dinner, I'll know where I can turn for some good quality pasta/couscous!
- Saturday, 05 March, 2011
- Esme said...
Couscous is one of my favorites-have you ever tried quiona?
- Tuesday, 08 March, 2011
- Rachel said...
Esme: Quinoa is great too. I like the little crunchy bits and it's my favorite grain for making tabbouleh. But this brown rice couscous is a bit heartier in texture and it's nice to have more whole grain options.
- Tuesday, 08 March, 2011
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Spring is here, and while the season brings much anticipated warmer temperatures, it also brings back allergies.
For those afflicted with allergies, spring can be especially rough because of all the pollen in the air from plants budding and blooming. As bodies work to build up tolerance, there are things people can do to help ward off allergies, Dr. Paige Hatcher of St. Luke Physicians Clinic said.
She said the first step to treating any allergies is knowing what your allergies are. Hatcher recommends getting allergy testing, especially for patients with other respiratory problems such as asthma.
"If you're allergic to dust or pollen, there isn't much cure because they are things you can't really avoid," she said.
She said those allergies, the kind that are inflamed this time of year, are not serious as much as they are annoying, but there are some things residents can do to lessen their effects.
Hatcher said HEPA air filters help circulate air in homes and remove allergens from the air.
"Nasal saline flushes, though uncomfortable, can help with allergies by flushing out your nasal passageways," she said. "It can also prevent people from getting sinus infections."
Other things that can help reduce allergens in homes can include cleaning out vents. Hatcher said these methods are a double-edged swords because they temporarily release allergens into the air.
"It's a good idea," she said. "But if you do clean things do it with the windows open, wear a mask, and step outside every once in awhile," she said.
She said home remedies like drinking elderberry wine or eating locally made honey, have been proven to help with allergies.
"There are some theories using these things are like getting an allergy shot," she said. "They help your body fight allergens later on because it has a little dose of pollen in them that the body can manage."
She said the tricky part is knowing what doses are affective because they haven't been studied as extensively as pharmaceuticals.
Another helpful tool for those inflicted with pollen allergies is a daily pollen count published by the National Weather Service.
"It's a great tool for people to use to plan their days," she said. "During days with high pollen counts, wear a mask and limit outdoor exposure."
Hatcher also advised that even though the weather was getting nicer, to not forget about the potential to catch the flu.
"We've seen a resurgence of flu cases this week," she said.
She said due to a severely cold and harsh winter, flu season was particularly hard in Marion County as well, with several patients testing positive for the H1N1 strain.
"This is a different type of flu, so those who haven't had the flu yet are still susceptible, but those who have had the flu already cannot get it again," she said.
Tips to stay flu free include washing hands often, and staying home if feeling ill or have a fever.
Unlike colds, flu symptoms are not gradual and often hit people quickly and extremely.
"If you have flu symptoms, see a doctor within the first two days of being ill to get medication," she said.
She also recommended those who feel ill to stay home to prevent the spread of the virus.


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Editorial Note: For those of you curious about the song being played in the riverine sequence of S.O.G., it is "Sympathy for the Devil" by the Rolling Stones (1968).
Board the PBR / Head Up-rivah'[edit]
Crash Site - Intel 1 This tape player is retrieved before you get on the boat (if you already did, you're screwed. Restart the level). Locate the flaming drum barrel on the pier. There should be some background containers nearby; the player is on those containers. (See the intel page for alternate Wii version locations)
Before boarding the PBR, or river monitor, be sure to check the secret beforehand. If you already grabbed it, then go right ahead and climb aboard.
Bonus Task - Lord Nelson While on the PBR, destroy all the enemy vehicles and village structures (including guard towers). Use Woods' and Bowman's M-202s to destroy these objects (it will take a few rocket shots). The brown and gray buildings will take up the most time, as your buddies need to reload their rocket launchers. Just float on the river slowly, and rocket anything suspicious. For a building to be destroyed, it's four walls and ceiling need to be gone. Any supports left do not count as a "structure".
If you're just chugging up-river and not going for total destruction, you can go through this section pretty quickly since you have plenty of firepower and the ability to zoom ahead. Light up the tree line with gunfire and rockets (the explosions should shred nearby infantry).
You have limitless ammo, but your weapon systems are tied to the logistics of time. The gun overheats if fired constantly, and the rockets take time to reload. Squeeze off a few rounds (away from friendly soldiers) and get a feel for how they work.
Destroy the three mortar vehicles, blast the dam, and continue onwards. Along the way, you will be attacked by:
- Groups of RPG soldiers: Hose with zoomed-in machinegun fire, augment with rocket-fire.
- RPG soldiers in guards towers: Destroy the guard tower.
- Enemy sampans: Sink them with rockets and machinegun fire, as the closer they get, the more fire they pour out.
- Enemy riverboat: More protected than the sampan and has a macheingun on its bow. If you can manuever to its side or rear, you will take less gunfire.
Your bow gunner auto-tracks and fires on enemies. You can use his A.I. as a way to plan out your next set of attacks. Make sure to zap the guard-towers to reduce the incoming rocketfire.
Dock and Clear[edit]
After destroying the NVA river monitor, your boat will chug on and dock on a beach near the plane crash. Once you land, get your bearings and be prepared to do some heavy jungle fighting.
Crash Site - Intel 2 In front of the PBR when it docks. Locate it by standing on the bow gun, then go straight ahead until you encounter a rock jutting out from the right side of the trail. The tape player should be on the ground near the rock.
Snipers will be in the trees (the Viet Minh loved burrowing through the thick growth trees and perching a sniper on top to take pot-shots at U.S. troops. In Black Ops, some of the enemy snipers will wear headlamps on their helmets, making them easier to spot. If not, simply be alert for the tree tops as you head forwards.
If you get lucky and a marksman's sniper rifle drops into the playfield, take it and use it to pick off enemies from afar.
For those snipers you down, check the spot where they fall. They may have their SVD with scopes nearby. Take one if need be so you can return sniper fire yourself. Fight towards the rocky field, then head uphill (more snipers in the trees). You should be within sight of the wreck now.
Reach and inspect the wreck[edit]
The plane's wing shifts right midway up the span. If you start on the left side, you will have plenty of leftover room to side-step (left) and avoid falling to your death.
Going up the plane wreck is dangerous if you received a checkpoint with enemies still active -- that's because you have to go up partially, then stop and re-adjust your footing (usually to the left), when the plane's wing shifts. After the wing shifts, and you are not dead, you can go up the rest of the way without incident.
Take the China Lake grenade launcher and stay hidden in the wreck. You need to deal with the incoming sampans (they have RPG soldiers). If you cannot aim well with the grenade launcher, use a sniper rifle and down the man at the bow of each boat -- he's the rocket guy.
Crash Site - Intel 3 Locate the rear entrance ramp of the plane. While the squad talks about the mission, identify a rock adjacent to this ramp. The tape player is next to this particular rock.
Swap your weapons with the gear you find in the plane. You want a sniper rifle and a grenade launcher to attack the enemy below. Fire at the troops attacking your allies, blow up the boats on the river, and sit tight when the choppers show up. Once the explosion ends, the mission should be over.
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As The Car Market Moves East, An Extravaganza In Shanghai
If you visited the Shanghai and Detroit auto shows in recent years, you could sense the auto world's center of gravity shifting from West to East.
Around the time of the GM and Chrysler bankruptcies, I covered a show in Detroit where GM was actually shedding brands. Displays for Saturn and Hummer, which GM tried and failed to sell to a Chinese company, were pushed to the side in Detroit's Cobo Center like leftovers at a yard sale.
In 2009, China passed the U.S. to become the biggest auto market in the world.
The U.S. auto business is much healthier today, and the Detroit show has bounced back. Twenty-six manufacturers held press conferences there this year. In Shanghai, by contrast, more than 90 carmakers made presentations across 17 convention halls that dwarfed Cobo.
In 2010, it took a few hours to walk the Detroit show. I had to return to the one in Shanghai this week for a second day and still didn't see everything.
One reason the Shanghai show is so huge is because China has so many small car companies, just as the U.S. did back in the early part of the 20th century. Another is because the China market is now so big it's become a magnet for automakers from around the world. Light vehicle sales in China topped 19 million last year, compared with more than 14 million vehicles in the U.S. the same year — which was a five-year high.
In the hall devoted to luxury cars, there was an exhibit by Carat Security Group, a multinational firm that makes armored vehicles, including a blue, two-tone, bulletproof limo on display. Nearby stood Eterniti Motors of London, a boutique luxury automaker; and Brabus, a German firm that custom-tunes cars.
Maybe I should have, but I'd never heard of any of these companies.
Brad Wernle, a senior writer with Detroit-based Automotive News, explained.
"China is where it's happening now," he said, as we tried to talk over the din of blaring music from a nearby stage. "You have to be here in China if you're in the auto business."
"The forecasts are that the Chinese market will be 30 [million] to 32 million by 2020," he continued. "That's larger than the U.S. and European markets combined."
Wernle says these forecasts may prove overly optimistic. After all, Beijing's road system often feels like a slow-moving parking lot, and the air, at times, is unbreathable. But per capita car ownership in China's smaller, inland cities is still relatively small, and that's where companies hope to make their money.
Beyond size, the Detroit and Shanghai shows have a different style and feel. Over the years, Detroit became known for stunts designed to create buzz. In 2008, Dodge introduced the new Ram pickup by driving more than 100 head of longhorn steer through the city streets.
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The Shanghai show is geared more toward Chinese consumers, many of whom are looking to buy a car for the first time. Instead of livestock, the Shanghai show attracts attention with scores of Chinese models dressed in black cocktail dresses or long gowns, slit down the side.
The most striking model this week was a woman in a skintight, latex cat suit — complete with inflatable tail. Sporting a pink wig, she posed on the hood of an otherwise nondescript SUV built by Landwind, a Chinese company that sells about 10,000 vehicles a year.
About two dozen photographers strained against the rope line to capture her picture.
What would be decried as shockingly retro and sexist at the show in Detroit was a big hit among male customers here in Shanghai.


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An artist's concept shows the supermassive black hole in the heart of M87, a giant galaxy in the constellation Virgo. The black hole is in the center of the orange disk. The disk itself is made of hot gas spiraling into the black hole. Powerful magnetic fields funnel some of the particles in the disk into jets (left and right of the disk) that extend hundreds of thousands of light-years into space. As the particles spiral through the magnetic fields, they emit radio waves. Recent research suggests that the black hole may be slight off-center. [Bill Saxton/NRAO/AUI/NSF]
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Everything about the galaxy M87 is big. The galaxy is a million light-years in diameter, and it contains a million million stars. And the black hole in its core is several billion times the mass of the Sun -- one of the largest black holes yet discovered.
But recent observations show that something has pushed this monster out of position. It's about 30 light-years away from where it should be, which is at the exact gravitational center of the galaxy.
On that kind of scale, 30 light-years isn't much. But the black hole is so "heavy" that it should settle right in the middle of M87. Since it's offset a bit, something must have pushed it out of position.
One possibility is a "jet" of particles from the disk of hot gas around the black hole. Like any other jet, it would produce thrust, pushing on the black hole. But the jet from M87's black hole doesn't seem powerful enough to move the black hole that far.
Instead, the researchers who found the offset think it's the result of a merger of two smaller black holes. As the black holes came together, they shoved each other away from the center. If so, then over time the black hole should settle in the center -- right where it belongs.
M87 is the largest member of a collection of galaxies known as the Virgo Cluster. Virgo's brightest star, Spica, is to the right of the Moon this evening. M87 is a good bit farther along that same line. But you need a telescope to see it.
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This past week, a well-circulated article titled Kosovo Catastrophe in Human Events magazine, written by a Martin Sieff, included the following:
It is hardly a conservative policy to support the establishment of an Islamist state on the European continent, turn a blind eye to the well-documented persecution of an ancient Christian community, engage in a Woodrow Wilson-style passion for nation building and follow in the footsteps of Bill Clinton. Yet that is what the United States has done by recognizing the independence of Kosovo.
Kosovo is the ancient heartland of the Serbian people going back to the dawn of their history. It certainly had a Muslim ethnic Albanian majority before Clinton and his Secretary of State Madeline Albright bombed Belgrade back in 1999 in order to force the Serbs to cede its autonomy. Since then the Albanian Muslim majority has become overwhelming and had has run rampant over the ancient Christian Serb community.
Clinton and Albrights policy had other far-reaching consequences. They established a very novel and dangerous principle whereby long-established borders could be redrawn and long-established nations dismembered with U.S. support on the principle that a disaffected national minority in a single province refused to accept the overall rule of the state. These were the same Clinton policymakers who could not pay any attention to the rise of al-Qaeda as a serious threat to American national security and lives around the world
Like the rest of the mainstream, alternative and blog media alike, Human Events doesnt generally pay attention to the Balkans, but when it has done so, its been the rare publication to be on the correct side of the Kosovo issue. I first noticed this with a 2006 article titled Will U.S. Back Islamo-Fascist State in Europe?
In addition to the unequivocal tone which Sieff is to be commended for using in the article, I bring up the piece for two reasons. First, and most important, is a comment picked up by the always sharp Nebojsa Malic, posted by a soldier who had done two tours in Kosovo:
One comment, writes Malic, on the bottom of the first page, caught my eye. I reproduce it here, because there is no direct link to it. It is from PaulAndrewKirk of Redmond, Wa.:
I have served two tours in Kosovo with the US Military and I can tell you the following as factual:
1. Almost all facets and levels of the provisional government in Kosovo are corrupt. In fact its the worst Ive ever seen and Ive had to deal with some pretty corrupt governments during my career.
2. Supervised independence or even full independence will not improve the miserable lives of the ordinary people of Kosovo. Partly because of what Ive listed as fact 1?., and partly because it will take decades of imense amounts of foreign aid throughout economy in order to bring Kosovo into a functioning state that wouldnt need foreign assistance for its survival.
3. Ethnic cleansing is still a common occurence in Kosovo but, this time [sic: always been] its the ethnic Albanians ethnically cleansing the Serbs, Roma, Ashkali, Croatians, and Turk minorities through intimidation and at times outright force. I have personally witnessed this on many occasions.
4. No amount of foreign investment will provide enough jobs for the amount of unemployed people in Kosovo. The only way for Kosovo to maintain stability is for the EU to open its borders for an influx of foreign workers from Kosovo.
5. Islamic extremism is on the rise in Kosovo. KFOR soldiers have been attacked in Gjilan [sic: Gnjilane], Ferizaj, [sic: Urosevac] and Prizren when I was there. You just wont see or hear about it in the news. More Mosques have been built in Kosovo in the last five years than schools, roads, health clinics, and all other santitation project combined. Compliments of Muslim charities from the Middle East.
6. Mass graves of Kosovo Serbs and Roma have been found during my rotation and reported to the UN. Yet nothing has been done. Why? When we posed the question to our UN contacts in Pristina they replied: During the transitional stage of Kosovo this would be destablizing. Well wait until there is a final resolution before we proceed. All those journalists interested in a real story start looking in around Novo Brdo.
7. The US Government along with key EU allies never had any intention of allowing Serbia a fair opportunity to negotiate with the Kosovar provisional government on the possibilities of a workable settlement that might have been permanent. I was party to a couple of meetings where US Government officials point blank told the Kosovar representatives that no matter what, the US will support independence and that going to these conferences in Vienna were just to give a favorable impression on the world opinion.
These are the facts. Some people might be outraged and some might be supprised however it really doesnt matter in the final analysis of all things considered. Superpowers will do what they want.
Kosovo independence will do nothing for stability of the region, in fact, the opposite will occur.
The Kosovar Albanians are now joyous they will have a new nation but, when all the partying ends and the dust clears, all that will exist is another backward, poverty stricken, underdeveloped, internationally protected country in an area of hostile neighbors thats todays news story and tomorrows breeding ground for extremism and resentment.
Its worth re-reading that comment a few times for anyone who is on the fence about which side of jihad he or she is on in this particular region.
The second reason I bring up the article by UPI defense editor Sieff is to say that its a refreshing, relieving change from an article that appeared on Sieffs United Press International in the wake of the Fort Dix plot discovery in May, titled No Balkan Nexus to Fort Dix Plot and written by Sieffs colleague Shaun Waterman, though troublingly carrying Sieffs byline for a day before suddenly changing to Watermans. The piece was one of those standard dismiss-the-Balkan-connection jobs that were dominating the papers at the time, and it singled out for ridicule one Julie Gorin writing for a right-wing Web site titled FrontPage.com, for stating that Ft. Dix was blowback for our Balkans policies. (Whoever this Julie Gorin is, and whatever the publication FrontPage.com is, I admire them both.) The writer, whether Sieff or Waterman, also faulted those complaining that media were using the term Yugoslavs instead of naming the would-be culprits for what they were Albanians whose cause wed furthered.
The byline confusion may have been a simple mistake, or the two editors may have collaborated on the piece and there was an issue over who got the byline. Regardless, Sieff may want to have a chat with his colleague, who is supposed to be UPIs Homeland and National Security Editor but who laughably tried to attribute significance to the fact that the three Albanian Duka brothers came from Macedonia rather than Kosovo. Which means that the security editor isnt aware of the Kosovo-Macedonia connection, nor of the fact that our Kosovo action radicalized not only the Albanians of Kosovo, but of neighboring Sandzak, Montenegro and particularly Macedonia. (Albanians moved on like clockwork to destabilize Macedonia once theyd gotten Kosovo going, so that a country that had sheltered 400,000 Albanian refugees from Kosovo erupted into full-fledged civil war by 2001.) Quite simply, this national security editor isnt aware of the pan-Albanian nature of the Balkan threat. Then again, that makes him eligible for a Cabinet position.
Whichever of the two men was the actual author of the piece, he also played up the secular nature of Albanian Muslims, and pointed the finger where many American friends of Albanians did: they were homegrown jihadists like any others, radicalized like anyone else via internet and other materials; after all, the piece pointed out, the three brothers had lived in the U.S. since childhood.
Sulejman Talovic, the Bosnian in Utah who shot nine Americans for Valentines Day 2007, also lived here since childhood. The point is: we were sold that Bosnians and Albanians arent nearly as susceptible to what their Arabic Muslim brothers are susceptible to, and that there isnt a tradition or history of that kind of Islam in the Balkans (though check out the pre-Communist garb in Bosnia and Albania).
Even more bizarrely, the piece had the following sentence: As Janes [Terrorism and Insurgency Monitor] points out, the affidavit does not mention any religious figure or other outside inspiration, and the men according to a report in the International Herald Tribune met in high school, not in a mosque.
For some reason, the men meeting at school rather than a mosque appears significant to the UPI writer(s). Though the only thing this would emphasize to a logical person is that these people dont even need the benefit of a mosque to be radicalized. But the writer persisted along these lines, going on to quote author and Naval College professor John Schindler to [recall] an aphorism of Albanias now-deceased communist dictator Enver Hoxha, to the effect that the true religion of Albanians is Albanianism.
A bit of trivia about the anti-religious, Stalinist former dictator Hoxha: In Albanian, his last name means imam.
Its probably time that Americans started to familiarize themselves with the nature of Albanianism, and I plan to have a blog post on Albanianism vs. Islam sometime. But one important point that the confused imposters to this issue miss is what Chris Deliso has written: radicals are radicals, and their radicalism is easily manipulated:
In Kosovo, the Wahhabis have cleverly concentrated on those areas historically most susceptible to radicalization and rugged individualism, areas such as Drenica, Skenderaj, Djakovica, and Decani, all strongholds of the former KLA. By concentrating on these centers of Albanian nationalism, the foreign Islamists are banking on the idea that any sort of extremism is just extremism and can simpy be redirected, like a stream, as and when needed. Indeed, as one active global charity, the Birmingham, UK-based Islamic Relief makes a point of noting, Skenderaj is a place with a long history of Albanian defiance of Serbian authority. Eventually, hopes the foreign Islamic movement, that defiance can be redirected toward the West.
Media and policymakers in the West, however, have always blindly assumed that since the KLA and its supporters were once pro-American any Albanian extremists remaining among them will always remain eminently controllable nationalists. However, as has been noted, the end of the national question in Kosovo is the beginning of the religious one
So former KLA strongholds are emerging as, and morphing into, fundamentalist havens (which means ultimately al Qaeda havens). This is what happens when radicalism of any kind, even if benignly rooted in Serb-hatred, is supported and encouraged by the West. The following development, reported this past fall, was an apt illustration of such a phenomenon:
Fatmire Jashari, 18, was suspended [for wearing a headscarf] from her high school in the central Kosovar town of Srbica a former stronghold of the now-disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army, the guerrilla group that fought Serb forces in the 1998-1999 war I hope I wont be pushed to choose between the two, she said. But if I am, I will choose the headscarf. It was easy to proclaim adherence to the democratic principles of the West in during the repression of the Serb regime, said Dukagjin Gorani, an ethnic Albanian commentator. But when the West actually came to Kosovo, people started going to mosques. This will not necessarily make Kosovo a religious state, but it will certainly start a heated debate on what it should be.
Ill close with another illustration of the symbiotic relationship between the greater Islamic threat and that harmless secular Albanianism, again from Delisos The Coming Balkan Caliphate:
The terrified Macedonian and Serbian residents of these [Macedonian] villages, mostly elderly people, were forced to flee south to the city of Kumanovo. Some stated afterwards that long-bearded, non-Albanian foreign fighters had tortured them Throughout the fighting, jihadis were also penetrating Macedonia from the other, western front in Tetovo and reportedly had connections with Kosovo Albanian officials such as Daut Haradinaj, chief of general staff of the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) and brother of ex-KLA leader Ramush Haradinaj, according to other Macedonian military sources. On April 28, 2001, a Macedonian Army patrol of nine soldiers was ambushed and massacred near the Tetovo-area village of Vejce. The only survivor attested that mjuahedin with long beards and knives conducted the massacre to its gruesome end, killing only one person by shooting, and cut to pieces or burned alive the rest. An NLA [the Albanian National Liberation Army] commander confirmed this to Canadian war reporter Scott Taylor .This commander and other NLA fighters had fought in Chechnya and Bosnia, and attested the presence of mujahedin in Macedonia.
Tasked with raising war funds from Muslims in Europe was a well-traveled, 50-year-old Albanian imam, Jakup Asipi, who hailed from the capital of the so-called free zone, muddy Slupcane. Beloved by Albanians as a fatherly moral authority, and feared by Macedonians who considered him a radical Islamist, Asipi had received clerical training in Egypt and developed strong contacts with Albanian Islamic communities in Europe, especially in Switzerland and in German cities such as Leverkusen. While the Macedonian media soon linked Asipi with the mujahedin, his friends and family would later deny that he had anything to do with Islamic fundamentalism, but was rather a nationalist who also happened to be a very devout Muslim. On January 7, 2006, Asipi, then head of the Kumanovo Islamic Community and candidte for the national leadership, died in a tragic car accident. Some 15,000 Albanians from around Europe, among them both NLA/KLA leaders and Islamic clerics, attended the funeral, held at a new NLA war memorial center above Slupcane.


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Below is a list of communities that have won the Pacesetter Award and their citations (when available). The year listed refers to to the membership year for which the community received the award; the awards are given at the following year's Summit.
Chicago: For your excellent Volunteer Incentive Program (VIP) that encourages and rewards an active membership at all levels of involvement.
Instructional Design and Learning SIG: For your innovative Article Writing Competition that encourages student participation with a unique two-level award system that benefits both the community and the Society.
STC India: For your innovative and quick response to new local financial laws that help your community with overall tracking of finances.
Philadelphia: For your innovative two-level approach to sponsorship and scholarships for students that lets them experience STC membership and encourages volunteerism within the community.
Rochester: For your innovative and collaborative Multi-Community Virtual Techcomm Showcase that provided many benefits to participating communities, STC members, and stakeholders at the same time.
Texas Tech University Student Chapter: For furthering Society and community goals by participating in your university's Diversity Week and promoting technical communication to a larger audience.
Chicago: For promoting STC and the Chicago Chapter through a creative and active year-long anniversary celebration, bookended by special events highlighting the rich history of STC.
Southeastern Michigan: For successfully promoting STC webinars and sharing their benefits with your community through your creative "Choose Your Own Learning Adventure" program.
Rochester: For your creative use of the Periscope app to offer low-cost virtual "live" attendance at your face-to-face programs, including the ability to ask questions via Twitter and for a strategic use of a regional Media List to improve your marketing to increase membership and program attendance.
Orlando Central Florida: For innovative fundraising to support chapter activities, particularly your partnership with California Pizza Kitchens and United Way payroll deductions.
New York Metro: For gamification of all your chapter activities, which engages all members in a fun, innovative way.
STC India: For success with your YouTube channel to educate members and promote technical communication.
Collaboration between Orlando–Central Florida, Willamette Valley, and the Academic SIG: For creative collaboration among STC communities, for cultivating a partnership with the Sigma Tau Delta Society, and expanding interest in technical communication among students, thus ensuring an optimistic future for STC.
Carolina: For showing technical communicators how to use their skills to design a media kit and attract sponsors—a simple idea with admirable application.
Instructional Design & Learning SIG: For promoting STC and the IDL SIG through the creative use of a Virtual Open House, allowing current and prospective members to "meet" and chat and giving a large group of geographically divided members a sense of closeness.
New York Metro: For launching a "Year of Education" to encourage and support the education and development of future technical communicators, through partnership with academic institutions, a dedicated education section on the chapter website, the Research Assistance program, and the Talk to a Professional (TaP) service.
Southeastern Michigan: For putting in place a process to redesign and maintain your website using best practices and usability testing, making future changes easier and ensuring that future leaders can continue to manage the site with minimal training.
Carolina: For developing a mobile application that enables pervasive and updated communication to mobile device users while promoting both STC Carolina Community and the Society
Chicago: For increasing member engagement through a comprehensive social media approach that allows open, on-going contributions; reinforces involvement in the community; and keeps focus on the STC Chicago community, its activities, and the profession
New York Metro: For adapting Agile methodology to community management by allowing volunteers to accept manageable tasks, leaders to track progress regularly, and the STC New York Metro community to achieve more in an organized and constantly improving way
Northeast Ohio: For creating the NEO STC book club that provides members opportunities to select books appropriate to the technical communication profession, get exposure to new viewpoints, and share personal knowledge while engaging in stimulating discussions
Rocky Mountain: For creating additional meeting opportunities for a widespread membership; including webinars, training sessions, workshops, a museum tour, and networking events; while facilitating the professional development of STC Rocky Mountain
Washington, DC–Baltimore: For jointly planning and executing Tech the Halls! Holiday Party in coordination with local communication organizations to celebrate the DC area's status as a tech mecca while providing STC Washington, DC – Baltimore members with management experience, networking opportunities, and exposure to diverse groups of professional communicators
Alberta: For implementing the use of social media to engage an audience previously not accessible to the chapter, bolstering their image as an active and evolving chapter, gaining new members, increasing volunteerism, and increasing their chapter income.
Canada West Coast: For offering an information interview service for the dozens of people wanting to speak to experienced chapter technical communicators about our profession.
Technical Editing SIG: For broadening its use of MySTC in ways that expand their reach to members, fostering interactive communication, and automating the broadcast of SIG activities to multiple channels—all while promoting the MySTC network.
Phoenix: For creating an online judging and entry system for student writing competitions and applying it to the decades-old, full-day judging event for research papers that accompany students' projects at the state Science and Engineering Fair.
Rocky Mountain: For developing a comprehensive financial strategy to evaluate and reduce or eliminate costs without reducing benefits, to continue to offer the greatest value to their membership while remaining good stewards of the Society's funds.
Rochester: For the strategic use and combined application of Web-based tools and social media strategies to create and document sustainable, repeatable, and cohesive processes to promote, manage, and evaluate a regional conference.
Technical Editing SIG: For devising a simple and effect method to engage your community in live chats on targeted "watercooler" topics.
Alberta: For broadening professional affiliations that increase program options while promoting STC to other organizations.
IDL SIG: For developing a virtual training evaluation workshop that extends the opportunity for SIG members to receive expert evaluations without attending the STC Technical Summit.
Rochester: For engaging a university marketing concepts class to develop a community marketing plan that identifies strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for growth.
Philadelphia Metro: For adding a Donate button to the community web site to encourage donations to the scholarship fund.
Carolina: For employing webcasting to enhance community contacts and to enrich programs by presenting speakers from other communities.
Canada West Coast Chapter: For technology used to provide all functions of a chapter.
Cedarville University Student Chapter: For fundraising through work that provides experience and portfolio pieces.
James Madison University Student Chapter: Educational events to build career skills and community service.
Northeast Ohio Chapter: For innovating in all areas to grow and increase value, the Community Involvement Campaign, New Sponsorship Committee, work with Cleveland Technical Societies Council, membership campaign and reaching students, new Social Networking Committee, and Leadership Workshop.
Tokyo Chapter: For your Document Solution Open Competition.
AccessAbility SIG: For reaching out to STC members with special needs and disabilities; for supporting those members by developing an excellent Accessibility Guide for the annual conference in 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005; for setting an example for all STC communities by creating a highly accessible SIG Web site; and for contributing to the accessibility of the Society website.
Canada West Coast: For showing a willingness to embark on new journeys; and for not only embracing change, but implementing innovative technologies for the betterment of your community and others.
Carolina: For your dedication, hard work, and enthusiasm in hosting the 2005 TriDoc Conference.
Consulting and Independent Contracting SIG: For collecting, formalizing, and sharing the knowledge and wisdom of members in an encyclopedic resource of best practices for all technical communication professionals, but especially for consultants and independent contractors.
East Bay: In proud recognition of the East Bay chapter's remarkable Literacy Outreach Program; for six years it has garnered praise and support from academe and science researchers for delivering excellent education about our craft to high-school students.
Intermountain: For brilliantly managing and successfully holding the 2004 Region 5 conference, through encouragement and inclusion of local student chapters and by stimulating a small, struggling chapter to rise to excellence in this endeavor.
Management SIG: For demonstrating leadership in the business of technical communication by providing education and professional development for communicators, and for expanding those opportunities and resources by collaborating with other communities.
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GOP's state victories haunt Obama
Barack Obama has spent well over $1 billion on his political campaigns, but it's the $20 to $30 million Democrats didn't shell out three years ago that is costing the White House as he slogs through the first six months of his second term.
The GOP's wildly successful, low-key, and stunningly cheap campaign to seize state capitals in 2010 has come back to haunt Obama and his fellow Democrats. It's now clear that the party's loss of 20 state legislative chambers and critical Midwestern governor's seats represents an ongoing threat every bit as dangerous as the more-publicized Republican take-back of the House that same year.
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There was no stopping the GOP wave that year — but strategists in both parties say Obama's team might have blunted it if they had somehow managed to cut into the GOP's $30-to-$10 million cash advantage in state house races by making campaigns at the very bottom of the ballot a priority.
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For that seed money, Republicans secured an historic return, cementing a ten-year grip on the House of Representatives and a score of state houses, and erasing the remaining smudges of blue in red states.
"The Obama team has done some amazing things, those guys are really something, but the Democrats plain got skunked on the state houses," says former Rep. Tom Reynolds (R-N.Y.), chairman of REDMAP, the group founded by Republican über-operative Ed Gillespie in late 2009 to influence state races ahead of the critical once-a-decade map-drawing process.
"They weren't in the same league as us, and that's having lasting consequences," added Reynolds, who represented the Buffalo, N.Y. area for five terms.
It might be the greatest opportunity cost of the Obama Era in terms of sheer damage to Democrats, a gift that keeps giving to the Republicans in the form of GOP-dominated redistricting and a barrage of state actions that challenge Obama's core agenda on health care, civil rights and abortion.
( PHOTOS: Obama's second-term Cabinet)
"Huge pain in the ass, yeah, every day," is how one senior Obama aide described the GOP's creation of safe House seats — and the subsequent assaults on Obamacare, abortion rights, gun control, voting rights and municipal unions emanating from suddenly GOP-dominated states like North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio.
"Everyone is focusing on the House as hampering us, but no one has really focused on losing all those governerships and state legislatures," the person added.
Those consequences are reshaping policy debates all over the country and forcing Democrats to play defense, wreaking particular havoc with White House implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
For starters, Republican mapmakers had GOP state legislatures in Florida and Ohio, their ranks fattened in 2008, buck their own Republican governors to reject Obamacare's expansion of Medicaid in their states. More importantly, the conservative revival has capped the number of states fully developing their own health care exchanges at 17, far fewer than Obama's team had anticipated.
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The flipping of both houses in North Carolina has led to passage of new voter ID and registration laws Democrats claim are intended to restrict minority voting. The 2011 Alabama law that made it a crime to harbor or transport immigrants in the state was passed weeks after Republicans took over both houses in Montgomery.
And the new Republican supermajorities in Texas and elsewhere have resulted in a renewed push to limit abortions, with the GOP takeover of the Pennsylvania legislature and governor's mansion leading to a crackdown on abortion clinics, spurred in part by the ghastly practices of convicted clinic owner Hermit Gosnell in Philadelphia.
Obama's team has already begun prepping for the 2014 crop of races, when high-profile GOP governors, including Ohio's John Kasich, Florida's Rick Scott and Michigan's Rick Snyder, are up for re-election. Earlier this month, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, former head of the Democratic Governors Association, quietly slipped into the West Wing to meet with Obama Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer to map out fundraising and campaign strategy.
( PHOTOS: 7 controversial voter ID quotes)
The meeting came after several Democratic governors, including O'Malley, implored Obama personally at a meeting of the nation's governors this spring to help roll back the Republican tide in traditionally Democratic states, according to several aides familiar with the situation.
But when it comes to redistricting, the damage has already been done. The next chance Democrats have to fight back comes in 2020, seven long years away.
"It's just one of those things Republicans have always done better than Democrats," said Michael McDonald, a politics professor at George Mason who has served as a redistricting consultant in Virginia and New Jersey.


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Kindness Begins with Me
Young women, you are changing the world by centering your life on Jesus Christ, and you are "becoming what He wants you to be" (see "Guardians of Virtue, Strength of Youth Media 2011: We Believe").
Thank you for your benevolent lives: for including those who may be different; for your kindness to your peers, the elderly, your family, and little children; for being neighbors to those who are lonely and those who have challenges and heartache. Through your benevolence, you are "pointing others to the Savior's life" (see "Guardians of Virtue"). Thank you for remembering "kindness begins with me."
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by Sally Cohen and Len Lear
Meri Adelman, 58, whose brain tumor forced her to leave the position of Curator of Education that she held at Woodmere Art Museum from 1992 to 2005, is currently exhibiting 10 sumptuously colored still-lifes of fruit through September at Stockton, N.J.'s, Via Ponte, a charming Sicilian fine dining restaurant. Adelman, who has been drawing since she was 11 years old, exhibited and drew only in black and white until a benign brain tumor was removed eight years ago.
Told by doctors to expect nothing to change except maybe needing some rehabilitation, it was dramatic when her voice was transformed permanently. (It is still slightly difficult but not impossible to understand.)
The West Mt. Airy resident remains somewhat off-balance and is an avid member of the "sleep festival," needing 12-14 hours a night. "Being in a wheelchair and drooling really shook me up," she said. "Luckily, I can use my own legs now, and I only spit occasionally, but hey, so do camels."
She took advantage of a bad situation. "You might say it blew the top of my head off, or, as I like to say, 'popped my cork.' I even have a painting of that." Still loving black and white, Meri admits that life and her consciousness of it have been changed permanently. "It's like an on-going hallucination; everything is more intense than ever before."
She ferociously set about making pictures. She used to do life-size portraits, but now her works are much smaller. "She was driven, couldn't be stopped; it was a necessary obsession," said her agent and friend, Kathleen Statue, who watched her work flourish over the past 20 years.
Luckily, Ms. Statue's dear cousin is Katherine Wytovich, part-owner and concierge of Via Ponte, along with chef Giuseppe Finazzo. "He's the real thing," said Adelman. "He's a native son of Sicily and a fabulous chef."
Katherine, very interested in creative production, has watched Meri's artistic development and was anxious to include her vibrant work on the walls of Via Ponte. "Be sure to stop by and have a look-see, and don't miss out on a great meal," said Katherine.
Adelman has been drawing for 40 years. She served as the Robert L, McNeil Curator of Education at Woodmere Art Museum for 13 years. She received her B.F.A. in painting from the Maryland Institute, College of Art, 1980, and her M.A. in art history from Temple University, 2000.
Prior to her work at Woodmere, Meri was a freelance exhibition curator in Philadelphia. For example, she organized "From Salonika to Curacao: A Sephardic Odyssey" for Gratz College at the National Museum of American Jewish History. She researched archives and selected materials from 10 national institutions tracing the history of two Jewish communities in the old and new world.
And for the 250th Anniversary Exhibition of Congregation Mikveh Israel, the second oldest synagogue in America, Meri researched archives from the 1870s to the present day, selected objects and assisted with text and label writing.
Meri also taught art courses at several community-based non-profits such as Mt. Airy Learning Tree and Main Line Art Center; she lectured at Woodmere on such subjects as legendary abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock, French Impressionist Paul Cezanne and Ben Shawn, a Lithuanian-born, 20th century American artist famed for his social realist works. "I have been and always will be indebted to early Italian painting," she said, "and then there's always Cezanne. Always."
And since the successful removal of her benign brain tumor in 2005, Adelman continues to happily paint, exhibit and teach. According to Gary Miller, a Chestnut Hill resident who is an artist and photo teacher at Germantown Friends School, Meri "represents all the good things about being in and of the arts."
And it's not unusual for a Chestnut Hill area resident to stop Meri and say, "You look like the woman who worked at Woodmere." Meri said she always replies, "That's because I am."
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Department/Office InformationClassics
He is a research professor in the Department of the Classics, and his two main fields of interest are archaeology of the Mediterranean world and placing archaeological sites in an environmental context.
The main focus of his career over the past 40 years has been on research. The topics that he has explored run from the pioneering work that him and Luca Cavalli-Sforza did at Stanford in the 1970s in bringing together human genetics and archaeology, a new field of research, through the work that he is now doing on the origins of seafaring in the Mediterranean.
He has often divided his time between teaching at Colgate for a semester and conducting projects in Rome, Athens, and Venice or more recently on islands such as Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean. In the upcoming Fall 2013 semester, he will be leading the Colgate Study Group to Venice.
He was also the organizer for a meeting, sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, on "Island Archaeology and the Origins of Seafaring in the Eastern Mediterranean," which was held at Reggio Calabria in October of 2012.
On the evolution of his research interests over the years, please see this profile written by John Bohannon that appeared in Science in 2007. A recent Colgate podcast focuses on Ammerman's examination of saving Venice from acqua alta.
PhD, Institute of Archaeology in London, 1972; BA, University of Michigan, 1964
Origins and spread of agriculture, landscape archaeology, early Rome, development of interdisciplinary studies
Early seafaring in the eastern Mediterranean, early architectural terracottas in and around Rome, Neolithic transition in Europe
Over the years, he has taught the following courses at Colgate: Legacies of the Ancient World, World Archaeology, Archaeology of Italy, Roman Archaeology, Venice: the City on Water, and World Food and Hunger.
He was the O'Connor Visiting Professor of the Humanities in fall 2007 and in spring 2009, and director of the Venice Study Group in 1999 and 2009.
In addition, he has taught in the human biology program at Stanford and at Binghamton University, as well as at the universities of Parma and Trento in Italy.
Listed below are six of the main topics that he has investigated along with a selection of three publications on each given topic.
1. The first argonauts: The origins of seafaring in the Eastern Mediterranean. (There are plans to publish the proceedings of the Wenner-Gren Workshop on this subject. )
- "The first Argonauts: toward the study of the earliest seafaring in the Mediterranean." In A. Anderson and K. Boyle (eds.), The Global Origins and Development of Seafaring. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 81-92, 2010.
- "The paradox of early voyaging in the Mediterranean and the slowness of the Neolithic transition between Cyprus and Italy." In G. Vavouranakis (ed.), Seascapes in Aegean Prehistory. Athens: Danish Institute of Athens, in press.
- "Underwater investigation at the early sites of Aspros and Nissi Beach on Cyprus." In J. Benjamin, C. Bonsall, C. Pickard and A. Fischer (eds.), Submerged Prehistory. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 263-271, 2011 (A.J. Ammerman, D. Howitt-Marshall, J. Benjamin and T. Turnbull).
2. Sourcing the roof tiles and architectural terracottas at early sites in and around Rome.
- "Environmental archaeology in the Velabrum, Rome: Interim report." Journal of Roman Archaeology 11:213-223, 1998.
- "The clay beds in Velabrum and the earliest tiles in Rome." Journal of Roman Archaeology 21:71-30,2008 (Ammerman et al.).
- Winter, N.A., Iliopoulos, I. and Ammerman, A.J.. "New light on the production of decorated roofs of the 6th c. B.C. at sites in and around Rome." Journal of Roman Archaeology 22:7-28, 2009.
3. The origins of Venice and also saving Venice from flooding.
- "Sea-level change and the archaeology of early Venice." Antiquity 73:303-312, 1999 (A. J. Ammerman, C. E. McClennen, M. De Min and R. Housley).
- "Saving Venice." Science 289:1301-1302, 2000. (A. J. Ammerman and C. E. McClennen)
- Venice before San Marco: Recent Studies on the Origins of the City. Hamilton, New York: Colgate University, 2001 (A.J. Ammerman and C.E. McClennen).
4. Origins of the Forum and other landscape transformation in early Rome.
- "On the origins of Forum Romanum." American Journal of Archaeology 94: 627-645, 1990.
- "Dal Tevere all'Argileto." Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Communale di Roma 105: 7-28, 2005 (A.J. Ammerman and D. Filippi).
- "Forum in Rome." In M. Gagarin and E. Fantom (eds.), The New Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press, vol. 3, 212-222, 2010.
5. The Neolithic transition in Europe
- "The wave of advance model for the spread of early farming." In Renfrew, C. and K.L. Cooke (eds.), Transformations: Mathematical Approached to Culture Change. New York: Academic Press, 275-293, 1979 (A. J. Ammerman and L. L. Cavalli Sforza).
- The Neolithic Transition and the Genetic of Populations in Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984 (A. J. Ammerman and L. L. Cavalli Sforza).
- "The Widening Harvest: The Neolithic Transition in Europe." Boston: Archaeological Institute of America, 2003 (eds. A. J. Ammerman and P. Biagi).
6. Surveys and excavations at Neolithic sites in Calabria, Italy
- "The Acconia Survey: Neolithic Settlement and the Obsidian Trade." Institute of Archaeology, University of London, Occasional Publication No. 10, 1985.
- "A Neolithic household at Piana di Curinga, Italy." Journal of Field Archaeology 15: 121-140, 1988 (A. J. Ammerman, G. Shaffer and N. Hartmann).
- "The dynamics of modern land use and the Acconia Survey." Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 8:77-92, 1995.
- Fellowship at the level of full professor, American Council of Learned Societies (Origins of Rome, 2003-04)
- Kress Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art (Reconstructing Ancient Rome, 1995-96)
- Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (Environmental Studies in Ancient Rome, 1990-91)
- Mellon Fellowship in Classical Studies, American Academy in Rome (early Rome, 1987-88)
- Research Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities (Vico's Anthropology, 1984)
Research Grants and Major Institutional Support
- Cassa per il Mezzogiorno, Italy (Calabria Survey)
- City of Rome (Early Rome)
- Colgate University (origins of Venice)
- Delmas Foundation (early Venice)
- Fulbright International Exchange Programs (Cyprus)
- Institute for Aegean Prehistory (Aegean Thrace and Cyprus)
- Kress Foundation (early Venice)
- Ministry of Culture, Italy (early Rome and early Venice)
- National Geographic Society (Rome, Athens and Venice)
- National Science Foundation (Calabria and Sahara)
- State University of New York Awards Foundation (Calabria)
- Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (Parma, Calabria surveys and two of its workshops)
- Williams, II, 1984 Foundation (sourcing the earliest roof tiles and architectural terracottas in Rome)
Invited Lectures
Calabria Neolithic Project:
Amsterdam, Arizona, Berkeley, Cambridge, Columbia, Durham, Harvard, London, Ljubljana, Michigan, Oxford, Padua, Pennsylvania, Pisa, Rome, Southampton, Stanford, Tennessee, UCLA, Valencia, Venice, Washington.
Early Rome:
American Academy (Rome), American School (Athens), Amherst, Berkeley, British School (Rome), Cambridge, CAARI (Cyprus), Cornell, Exeter, Glasgow, Lecce, Lisbon, London, Michigan, Oxford, Pennsylvania, Princeton, SUNY Buffalo, Venice, Williams.
Early Venice:
Berkeley, Bowdoin, Cambridge, CAARI (Cyprus), Cornell, Lecce, Padua, Princeton, Venice, Warwick.
Early Cyprus:
ASCSA (Athens), Athens (University), Cornell, CAARI (Cyprus), Edinburgh, Glasgow, Istanbul, Lecce, Michigan, Oxford, Padua, Patras, Pennsylvania, Smithsonian Institution, Venice, York.


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Zoho users beware. There appears to be a nasty bug whereby a user logs in with their own credentials, but finds themselves logged into another user's account.
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Food for thought nonetheless. This is the kind of reason people cite for sticking with on-premise applications. I argue that data is often safer in the cloud, but this kind of incident makes you wonder.
This article originally appeared in ITWriting.
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from the who-did-what-now? deptIf you haven't followed the .xxx saga, it's been a bit convoluted. While it's still not at all clear why we need top level domains at all any more (or, if we must have them, why they should be limited to the ones chosen by ICANN), for many years, ICANN has been in charge of reviewing various proposals to expand the available top level domains (things like .com, .net, .org, etc.). That's how we got other such useless TLDs like .info, .jobs and .mobi -- which have mostly just turned into money grabs for the companies that operate them, rather than anything that was really needed. .xxx is the same story. Obviously, it's a huge money grab, because whoever would operate it would stand to rake in the cash from porn operators looking to set up new sites. While ICANN initially rejected the proposal at the beginning of the decade, the guy behind .xxx tried again, and in 2005, ICANN agreed that .xxx met all the criteria and should be allowed.
So why doesn't the internet yet have this official redlight district?
Well, what really happened was that "protect the children"-type family groups freaked out about admitting to the fact that (gasp!) porn exists on the internet. Amusingly, some of those same groups and their favorite politicians had pushed for .xxx anyway, in an effort to force all porn to be located there. But, for some reason, after .xxx was approved, they suddenly freaked out that this somehow meant porn was okay, and started causing trouble. Suddenly, months after ICANN had already approved .xxx, the federal government (under whose umbrella ICANN kinda-sorta belonged) suggested rather strongly that .xxx was not a good idea. Suddenly, everything was put on hold, and in 2007, ICANN officially said no to .xxx.
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According to the BBC, twenty-one-year-old Payam Tamiz was running for District Council in the English town of Margate (pictured) when his Facebook remarks from last year surfaced. He said he wanted to "settle down with someone decent," but that it was "impossible to find someone with morals and a bit of self-respect." He then added, "It's the ones that look respectable and decent but underneath it all are complete sluts that you got to watch out for."
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Last week, this C list celebrity offspring of a former A+ list mostly movie actor was asked about the woman who was with him. He said that his dad paid for her for the week to be with the offspring. Interesting gift.
Last week, this C list celebrity offspring of a former A+ list mostly movie actor was asked about the woman who was with him. He said that his dad paid for her for the week to be with the offspring. Interesting gift.
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Has Connor Cruise been seen with anyone new?
Scott Eastwood (although why he'd have to pay for it is beyond me).
Weston Cage
Schwarzenegger kid.
HA, could be anyone...wonder if mom knows?
Depending on who it is if Mom knows that would be the interesting part & whether she approves or just goes along for some reason
Ah-nald's son in Miami.
Also, his dad is a pig.
Maria showed up Saturday looking mad ya'll.
Jaden Smith came to mind... I don't know that the clues fit.
could be worse? dad could be encouraging date rape? pedophilia? yeah...not a whole lot much creepier than this.
@Vintage, Jaden is much closer to C list than Conor Cruise, having been in a couple of successful movies. The only place Conor Cruise is C-list is in the phone book.
WTF kind of parent does this. How could it possibly be a good idea? Buying friends of any kind for your kid is getting them off to a bad start. It teaches them that they can't make friends on their own, and it teaches them that people are currency to be used.
Nice one, Wiglet. Cage and Raymond Nicholson are also good guesses
Good Dad points. "Here's a hooker to practice with".
I like the Nic Cage guess - his son looks like he might need some extra help with the ladies. The DM identified the girl with Swartz's kid to be his girlfriend. He was also randomly photographed holding hands with a guy
I believe that this could happen. What I don't buy is the son telling someone straight-up that his *dad* paid for her. I mean, that's basically saying, "I gotta pay for it" or "I can't get laid unless my dad pays someone", right? Why not lie or be vague?
I feel like there's an age range for guys where you would mock this. The age range of, "I get it. You don't pay them for sex, you pay them to *leave*," perspective comes later. God, I can't believe I just quoted Sheen. Ugh.
Also possible, the kid is an indiscreet idiot.
Weston Cage is not at all unattractive.
Batshit crazy, yes, but not unattractive.
Her son Patrick was my first and onlu guess as well. This wouldn't be the first time that good old mom has been the (seemingly only) voice of reason on that family and intervened; remember when she flew out East and immediately put the ki-bosh on Swifty trying to get her hooks into Patrick a few years back? (GREAT mom-move btw.) Taylor immediately realized that's Maria was not someone who she wanted to or could f**k with and took the next Kennedy she actually could get-that poor high schooler Connor.
Could be Cages's son. He might have some trouble finding a girl. I wouldn't be surprised if Cage pays for it.
Maybe not sexual. Maybe sober coach.
I thought the gossip was that Purdy Patrick S was gay. Obviously, I have zero kid knowledge about him, other than he wants celebrity fame badly, and knows he's a good looking kid born stealing home.
I also thought Cage had long ago bought ass for Weirdo Weston before he found steady female company himself. Wasn't it a blind here, lol?
Serious question: how long could you talk, face to face, with Jaden Smith, until you jack slapped the stupidity off of his face? My palm itches whenever I see that constipated faced jizz whistle.
Couldn't have said better myself about Jaden
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Not one of the Kennedy's can claim the victim card. They are all a victim of the family hubris. The same hubris that catapulted them to the upper echelons in government, power, and pay offs. The same that keeps their criminal asses out of jail consistently, no sympathy for any of them. However, if a family did fare better than any other in the Kennedy clan it was Eunice and Sargent Shriver. They and Jackie, didn't want their kids running wild all over Massachusetts like wildebeests on cocaine and acid.
I was far more worried about Tyler Swifts reputation and well being. She is far too good for any Kennedy off spring.
di Butler asked: Serious question: how long could you talk, face to face, with Jaden Smith, until you jack slapped the stupidity off of his face?
I have patience now that I didn't have when I was younger. Thirty seconds sounds about right. Is that about how long it takes to walk across the room to where he's standing?
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