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This will be a short post, just to give readers a little information -- I have been taking a break from the blog, perhaps, but have been busy writing and power-pointing the speech I am giving at the Blue Moose Cafe in Hope, B.C., on January 19th, at 7pm.
Books will be available at the site, but those of you who want to purchase a copy sooner can buy it at Hope Visitor Centre and Museum Complex (Destination Hope) at 919 Water Avenue.
This occasion is being put on by the Hope Mountain Group, at www.hopemountain.org -- you can obtain more information on their website.
Once this talk is written and given, I will post much of it on this blog, so that those who listened to it can "re-read," or those not able to come can catch what I said.
There will be some Fort Colvile information here,too, so it will be relevant to the place we are at in the blog.
Immediately following that speech, I will be working on the talk for the Historical Maps Society, in Vancouver, on Alexander Caulfield Anderson's important maps -- fourteen or more of them.
They all have their stories: on the reverse of one of his maps is a drawing of two voyageurs -- one an Iroquois, the second obviously French.
So when that talk is written and given, I will post much of what I said so that all of you will learn something about Anderson's maps.
I certainly don't have all the answers, but I have a lot of family information that I can apply to the maps that I have.
The second thing I have to tell you -- that I just learned today -- is that my book, "The Pathfinder: A.C. Anderson's Journeys in the West," is now available on e-book.
It is available through Chapters, at this link: http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/Pathfinder-Andersons-Journeys-in-West-Nancy-Marguerite-Anderson/9781926936826-item.html?__lang=en=CA
I am glad it is available by e-book so quickly because I know so many people use e-books -- you see them everywhere right now!
Thursday, January 5, 2012
"The Pathfinder" is available as an e-book
Posted by Nancy Marguerite Anderson at 6:21 PM
3 comments:
I'm eager to read this, but the link for the Kobo ebook does not work.ReplyDelete
Also is it available on Amazon's Kindle? I don't have a Kobo and the formats are not interchangeable?
- AnonymousJanuary 6, 2012 at 10:21 AM
Hi Julie,ReplyDelete
Yes, the book is available for your Kindle: http://goo.gl/evr0r .
No, Kindle and Kobo are not interchangeable at this time.
Thanks, Neil, for catching this; and thank you, Julie. Hope it loaded fine.ReplyDelete
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The classical RHQ setup assumes an agent and agent plugins being present on a machine ("platform" in RHQ-speak). Plugins then communicate with the managed resource (e.g. an AS7 server); ask it for metric values or run operations (e.g. "reboot").
This article shows an alternative way for monitoring applications at the example of the Ticket Monster application from the JBoss Developer Framework.
The communication protocol between the plugin and the managed resource is dependent on the capabilities of that resource. If the resource is a java process, JMX is often used. In the case of JBoss AS 7, we use the DMR over http protocol. For other kinds of resources this could also be file access or jdbc in case of databases. The next picture shows this setup.
The agent plugin talks to the managed resource and pulls the metrics from it. The agent collects the metrics from multiple resources and then sends them as batches to the RHQ server, where it is stored, processed for alerting and can be viewed in the UI or retrieved via CLI and REST-api.
The above scenario is of course not limited to infrastructure and can also be used to monitor applications that sit inside e.g. AS7. You can write a plugin that uses the underlying connection to talk to the resource and gather statistics from there (if you build on top of the jmx or as7 plugin, you don't necessarily need to write java-code).
This also means that you need to add hooks to your application that export metrics and make them available in the management model (the MBean-Server in classical jre; the DMR model in AS7), so that the plugin can retrieve them.
Pushing from the application
Another way to monitor application data is to have the application push data to the RHQ-server directly. In this case you still need to have a plugin descriptor in order to define the meta data in the RHQ server (what kinds of resources and metrics exist, what units do the metrics have etc.). In this case you only need to define the descriptor and don't write java code for the plugin. This works by inheriting from the No-op plugin. In addition to that, you can also just deploy that descriptor as jar-less plugin.
The next graphic shows the setup:
In this scenario you can still have an agent with plugins on the platform, but this is not required (but recommended for basic infrastructure monitoring). On the server side we deploy the ticket-monster plugin descriptor.
The TicketMonster application has been augmented to push each booking to the RHQ server as two metrics for total number of tickets sold and the total price of the booking (BookingService.createBooking()).
public class BookingService extends BaseEntityService<Booking> {
private RhqClient rhqClient;
public Response createBooking(BookingRequest bookingRequest) {
// Persist the booking, including cascaded relationships
return Response.ok().entity(booking)
This push happens over a http connection to the REST-api of the RHQ server, which is defined inside the
RhqClient singleton bean.
In this RhqClient bean we read the
rhq.properties file on startup to determine if there should be any reporting at all and how to access the server. If reporting is enabled we try to find the platform we are running on and if the RHQ server does not know about it, create it. On top of the platform we create the TicketMonster instance. This is safe to do multiple times, as would be the platform creation - I am looking for an existing platform where an agent might perhaps already monitor the basic data like cpu usage or disk utilization.
The reporting of the metrics then looks like this:
public void reportBooking(Booking booking) {
if (reportTo && initialized) {
List<Metric> metrics = new ArrayList<Metric>(2);
Metric m = new Metric("tickets",
(double) booking.getTickets().size());
m = new Metric("price",
(double) booking.getTotalTicketPrice());
sendMetrics(metrics, ticketMonsterServerId);
Basically we construct two
Metric objects and then send them to the RHQ-Server. The second parameter is the resource id of the TicketMonster server resource in the RHQ-server, which we have obtained from the create-request I've mentioned above.
A difference to the classical setup where the
MeasurementData objects inside RHQ always have a so called schedule id associated is that in the above case we pass the metric name as is appears in the deployment descriptor and let the RHQ server sort out the schedule id.
<metric property="tickets" dataType="measurement"
displayType="summary" description="Total number tickets sold"/>
<metric property="price"
displayType="summary" description="Total selling price"/>
And voilà this what the sales look like that are created from the Bot inside TicketMonster:
Bookings in the RHQ-UI
The display interval has been set to "last 12 minutes". If you see a bar, that means that within the timeslot of 12mins/60 slots = 12sec, there were multiple bookings. In this case the bar shows the max and min value, while the little dot inside shows the average (via Rest-Api it is still possible to see the individual values for the last 7 days).
Why would I want to do that?
The question here is of course why would I want to send my business metrics to the RHQ server, that is normally used for my infrastructure monitoring?
Because we can! :-)
Seriously such business metrics are also able to indicate issues. If e.g. the number of ticket bookings is unusually high or low, this can also be a source of concern and warrants an alert. Take the example of E-Shops that sell electronics and where it happened that someone made a typo and offered laptops that are normally sold at €1300 and are now selling at €130. That news is quickly spread via social networks and sales triple over their normal numbers. Here monitoring the number of laptops sold can be helpful.
The other reason is that RHQ with its user concept allows to set up special users that only have (read) access to the TicketMonster resources, but not to other resources inside RHQ. This way it is possible to give the business people access to the metrics from monitoring the ticket sales.
On the left you see the resource tree below the platform "snert" with all the resources as e.g. the 'rhqadmin' user sees it. On the right side, you see the tree as a user that only has the right to see the TicketMonster server (™").
The above is a proof of concept to get this started. There are still some things left to do:
- Create sub-resorces for performances and report their booking separately
- Regularly report availability of the TicketMonster server
- Better separate out the internal code that still lives in the
- Get the above incorporated into TicketMonster propper - currently it lives in my private github repo
- Decide how to better handle an RHQ server that is temporarily unavailable
- Get Forge to create the "send metric / … " code automatically when a class or field has some special annotation for this purpose. Same for the creation of new items like Performances in the ™ case.
If you want to try it, you need a current copy of RHQ master -- the upcoming RHQ 4.6 release will have some of the changes on RHQ side that are needed. The RHQ 4.6 beta does not yet have them.


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Hidden War, Massive Suffering; White People's War For Oil
On May 18, 2007, ABC News "The Blotter" posted a story titled "Secret Photos Reveal New African Horrors." The short ABC web clip describes in unusual candor—for ABC—the hidden war and horrors in Northern Uganda. The title suggests that it is a "new" conflict, and yet another "African" conflict. Is ABC sincere in their reporting? Or is this just another propaganda campaign narrowly controlled to serve private profits?
"Documentary filmmakers in Uganda were subjected to intimidation and coercion and were the victims of break-ins while attempting to film what a former U.N. official calls 'Uganda's secret genocide' in the northern part of that country," the ABC Blotter report begins. "The filmmakers say these threats came from Ugandan officials and secret intelligence organizations there."
The story goes on to describe how an American film crew was reportedly robbed of footage and equipment as the photographers documented the suffering of millions of people, and the role of the Ugandan People's Defense Forces (UPDF) and Ugandan government officials in perpetrating massive atrocities, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The ABC report calls it "Uganda's Secret Genocide," a remarkable revelation in a world attuned only to the crisis in Darfur, Sudan, a place not so far away from Northern Uganda, and one involving some of the same combatants.
"The Ugandan government says it created refugee camps," ABC reported, "for displaced people who were victims of a violent, ongoing civil conflict with a rebel group from the north called the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)."
Like Somalia and eastern Congo, the wars in Darfur and Northern Uganda are actually prosecuted for the same reasons: petroleum, gold, land—and other natural resources. There is money to be made, indeed, and the Uganda government is depopulating the land to make it easier. But this has been going on for years. Out of sight, out of mind. But absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Spotlight War, Hidden War
While the war in Darfur is always described as a genocide by Arabs against Black Africans—and never a "war" by competing factions—the war in Northern Uganda is almost never described at all. This is also true of the multiple fangs of conflict in Ethiopia, where the U.S.-backed government of Meles Zenawi is committing genocide against indigenous people, the Anuak minority and others—but it's completely out of the Western news. The AID for ARMS scandal in Ethiopia has seen hundreds of millions of dollars of weaponry purchased—and used—by AID dollars. This is a country where there is widespread starvation, drought, and famine—and now the largest standing military in Africa, serving the interests of the Pentagon. The United Nations, UNICEF, everyone is silent.
The Darfur story receives massive press, but the Northern Uganda story has been in complete media whiteout. Like the millions of people at risk today in Somalia, where hundreds of thousands of refugees are on the move today due to a U.S.-backed insurgency there, the war in Northern Uganda is off the agenda. The Darfur story has been running for about five years—an outrage where nothing happens to stop it—while the Uganda conflict has been running for more than 15 years.
What's the hidden agenda? Whose hidden agenda is it?
In the mid-1980's today's President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, seized power in a bloody conflict. Fighting alongside Museveni were Tutsi soldiers who would later go on to overthrow the government of Rwanda, in a low-intensity conflict that began in October 1990, and culminated in the spectacle of the Rwanda genocide of 1994. Powerful corporate, intelligence and defense interests from the United States backed both insurgencies.
Museveni also sent his bloodthirsty troops into Congo. Millions of innocent people died under Ugandan occupation, while Museveni and his gang plundered Congo's natural resources, raped women and whipped up killing fields scattered with skeletons.
But Museveni is someone's "Golden Boy," just like Uganda was always Britain's "Pearl of Africa."
President Yoweri Museveni has controlled Uganda for more than 20 years in a one-party dictatorship friendly to powerful corporate interests predominantly from the United States, Britain and Israel.
But years ago, up in the north of Uganda, the Museveni government herded the minority Acholi people into forced settlements—they called them "refugee" camps—under the claim that the government was providing protection from rebel forces supposedly hostile to the Museveni government. They became death camps, and they are death camps still.
For years Museveni's low-intensity war against the Acholi people has waged on, completely out of sight, while the army of Joseph Kony—the evil Christian forces of the Lord's resistance Army—was the only party ever accused of anything. The LRA is purported to be a rebel army opposed to the Museveni regime, but this is a convenient ruse that serves the dictates of a permanent warfare economy.
The Lord's Resistance Army
A perfect example of the skewed Western racist reportage is the Vanity Fair feature article of January 2006. Here we have popular writer Christopher Hitchens—the once left wing (sic) Nation magazine writer who went right wing after September 11—telling us a tall tale as if the only culprits—and even the only combatants—were the fanatical Lord's Resistance Army. The Hitchen's story, "Childhood's End," appeared in the posh Conde Nast publication Vanity Fair, which almost never runs anything on Africa by anyone other than Hitchens. (The Vanity Fair editors once returned a query letter to this author stating that Hitchens was their expert on Africa.)
"For 19 years, Joseph Kony has been enslaving, torturing, raping, and murdering Ugandan children," Hitchens began, "many of whom have become soldiers for his 'Lord's Resistance Army,' going on to torture, rape, and kill other children. The author exposes the vicious insanity—and cynical politics—behind one of Africa's greatest nightmares."
But the very same enslaving, torturing, raping, and murdering have been policy—from the highest officials—by UPDF soldiers against innocent people in Congo, Sudan and Uganda.
"These children are not running toward Jordan and the Lord," Hitchens also wrote, putting an African "tribal" face on the conflict, "they are running for their lives from the 'Lord's Resistance Army' (L.R.A.). This grotesque, zombie-like militia, which has abducted, enslaved, and brainwashed more than 20,000 children, is a kind of Christian Khmer Rouge and has for the past 19 years set a standard of cruelty and ruthlessness that—even in a region with a living memory of Idi Amin—has the power to strike the most vivid terror right into the heart and the other viscera."
My Acholi friends look to the days of Idi Amin as "the good old days," wrote human rights activist Lucy Larom of the Campaign to End Genocide in Uganda (CEGUN). Several of Larom's posts to the ABC Blotter site were also removed or sanitized. "Things were better then. At least in my understanding individuals were targeted, not a whole population. Or maybe because death was quick, relatively speaking. Not the prolonged year by year kind of suffering that has caused a whole new concept and reality to creep into the Acholi consciousness: suicide, one of the leading causes of death in the camps among women."
Why does Joseph Kony get so much attention? Because he's a terrorist? Because he's a fanatical Christian? Maybe. Mostly because he is reported to be an ally of the Islamic government—read Islamic fundamentalist terrorists—running the genocide show in Sudan.
Currents Of Holy War
"Joseph Kony and four other leaders of the L.R.A. were named in the first arrest warrants ever issued by the new International Criminal Court (I.C.C.)," wrote Christopher Hitchens, in the one paragraph in the entire Vanity Fair feature that has any ring of truth about it. "If that sounds like progress to you, then consider this. The whereabouts of Kony are already known: he openly uses a satellite phone from a base across the Ugandan border in southern Sudan."
Kony also has direct ties to people in Washington. In 2006, while working in northeastern Congo in 2006, I spoke with a special intelligence investigator sent in by the United Nations Secretary General and tasked with finding and negotiating with Joseph Kony. When Washington got wind of it, they intervened, and blocked the negotiations, and the investigator was called off.
"Like the United States, Sudan is not a signatory to the treaty that set up the I.C.C.," Christopher Hitchens went on to explain. "And it has sponsored the L.R.A. because the Ugandan government—which is an I.C.C. signatory—has helped the people of southern Sudan fight against the theocracy in Khartoum, the same theocracy that has been sponsoring the genocide against Muslim black Africans in Darfur."
And so this is a remarkable admission by Christopher Hitchens: the Ugandan government has helped the people of southern Sudan fight against Khartoum. Of course, the Hitchen's comment is a gross understatement. Uganda's clandestine support for the people of South Sudan—the Sudan People's Liberation Army—and the UPDF/SPLA alliance with the Pentagon and private military companies is something that is equally unreported and hidden, especially by the purveyors of the genocide line on Darfur. The UPDF and SPLA, with their foreign backers, have perpetrated massacres and war crimes using the human population as shields.
(See: keith harmon snow, Oil in Darfur? Covert Ops in Somalia? The New, Old, Humanitarian Warfare in Africa, <www.allthingspass.com/journalism.php?catid=24>.
Christopher Hitchens never gets into the reasons for the conflict, and instead of telling the truth about the natural resources that might be up for grab, or the depth of foreign intervention, or the involvement of companies like Bechtel, for example—whose subsidiary Nexant is part of the consortium of corporations building a massive oil pipeline across Uganda and Kenya—instead we find Hitchens spewing the standard litany of racist excuses for Africa's hopeless plight. This could not possibly have anything to do with white people, according to Hitchens, and the posh luxury wasteland of Vanity Fair, instead it must be that the problems in Uganda are the "decades of war and famine and tyranny and Ebola and West Nile fever and AIDS."
Christopher Hitchens is a peripheral player in the propaganda campaign to shield the Museveni regime however. In fact, as Hitchens notes in the Vanity Fair text, he traveled in Northern Uganda to do his Lord's Resistance Army story with the assistance of John Prendergast of the International Crises Group. It's likely that the Ugandan government provided security for the Hitchens/Prendergast mission. The International Crises Group is a flak organization pursuing an aggressive U.S. foreign policy, premised on predatory capitalism and neoliberal economics, behind a face of "humanitarian" concern. On the ICG board, for example, are some of the world's leading military strategists. ICG directors include former Supreme Allied Commander General Wesley Clark; former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski; and Thomas Pickering, formerly special assistant to Henry Kissinger, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs in the Clinton White House, and now a Boeing Corporation executive.
Prendergast has achieved some recent notoriety by authoring a book about the Darfur crises with Don Cheadle, the Hollywood actor who starred in Hotel Rwanda. But John Prendergast's role in manipulating world consciousness around war and genocide must be situated not in the "humanitarian" front that the ICG gives him, but in his role as National Security Council during the Clinton Administration. In 1997 he met frequently with other intelligence officials to organize the fall of the rogue Islamic state of Sudan. One event came under the euphemistic title: "Religion, Nationalism and Peace in Sudan" (www.usip.org/religionpeace/rehr/sudanconf/panel6.html). Speakers included John Prendergast and Roger Winter. Prendergast's discussions—published in unclassified documents—make it clear that economic and military pressure was being applied from all directions. This is what we are seeing now: the culmination of a multi-pronged strategy to dismember Sudan.
Prendergast's ties to the classified arena are unknown to us. And who is Roger Winter? He helped the Rwanda Patriotic Front overthrow the government of Rwanda, beginning as early as 1988, backed by the U.S. and U.K., using bases and logistical support, and with military advisers and troops, from Museveni and the Uganda People's Defense Forces. Roger Winter is today running USAID programs in Sudan. Pentagon documents that discuss the U.S. military's Africa Command, AFRICOM, indicate that USAID likely has some role as intelligence offshoot of the Pentagon.
According to the investigations of the United Nations and the humanitarian law work of lawyer Karen Parker, the war in Uganda involves massive rapes, killing, tortures, and extrajudicial executions as a policy by the Ugandan military. Some 1.3 million people have been displaced in the Gulu, Kitgum and Pader districts of northern Uganda. There are over 73 camps with from 1,000 to 50,000 people in them, all forcibly displaced by UPDF soldiers, with over 350,000 people out of some 400,000 people displaced from the Gulu district alone. Forced displacements occurred after UPDF bombed, and burned Acholiland villages, and beat, killed, raped and threatened people into moving. Some of the displacements occurred prior to 1993, but the most recent round of forced displacements began in 1996 and peaked in the 2002-2005 time frame. The United Nations and World Food Program in 2006 classified Northern Uganda as a severe humanitarian emergency due to the disease and death occurring in the camps. The Ugandan government claims to provide security for the camps but the camps are raided at will by the Lord's Resistance Army and, instead of security in any case, UPDF forces pursue terrorism against the people of the camps. (Karen Parker, Forced Displacement in Northern Uganda, United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, http://www.webcom.com/hrin/parker/sub01wsu.html
To see the map of petroleum concessions controlled by Tullow Oil, whose subsidiaries include Hardman Resources and whose partners include Heritage Oil and Gas please see the original version of this article on my website www.allthingspass.com. The map is from a Tullow Oil company document. Please see additional maps of regional oil concessions provided through links below.
The ABC's of War in Uganda
And so we have this new ABC expose, which takes quite a different line. Now we find ABC revealing the true story, with a little obvious hesitation, and a lot of deception of its own, but reporting, nonetheless, that more than 1,500 indigenous Acholi people are dying every week. ABC even cites a recent report about Northern Uganda by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), claiming that "approximately 1.2 million internally displaced persons—IDPs—reside in overcrowded camps where mortality rates remain above emergency levels, largely as a result of inadequate water availability, poor sanitary conditions, and the spread of diseases."
"It's a huge conspiracy of silence about the genocide which has been committed in northern Uganda," ABC quotes Olara A. Otunnu, the former U.N. undersecretary-general and special representative for children and armed conflict.
But if ABC is interested in exposing the truth, why have they censored so many of the comments from readers of the story? Hundreds of comments were deleted on the night of May 20, and hundreds more were deleted or blocked before and since.
Perhaps the answer can be found in the comments made by those whose posts were deleted. Here are some, the comments of this writer, which were copied by another ABC reader (before ABC found and deleted them) and sent back to their source.
The posts were made with a sense of hope, and trust, that ABC was concerned about the people of Uganda, and interested in doing the right thing.
First post to ABC Blotter:
Posted by: keith harmon snow | May 20, 2007 11:50:49 PM
My deepest respect to the people who have taken it upon themselves to expose this nasty little secret kept by Uganda and its military allies, the United States, Britain and Israel.
First of all, it is about oil. It is also about gold, and if I look into it I assure you I will find other resources up for grabs. The oil concessions stretch along the border with Congo from the North Kivu Province, under Lake Albert—the Semliki basin—and up into northern Uganda.
The companies involved in exploiting the oil include HARDMAN and HERITAGE OIL & GAS. The Heritage connection is a guy named Tony Buckingham, who also is notable for his mercenary companies like SANDLINE INTERNATIONAL, and another nasty firm—BRANCH ENERGY. The oil concessions stretch from near the Rwanda border to the Red Sea—right smack through Darfur. You can see the oil maps on my web site. You can also search on HERITAGE—Uganda.
The U.S. is very close with Uganda, and ships in military equipment—paid for with AID and DEVELOPMENT funds—through Entebbe, an airbase [Uganda] refurbished by the U.S. Weapons and logistics and training go for the secret U.S. war in Sudan—DARFUR—and in Congo and, now, in Somalia. There are at least 2000 UPDF—UGANDA PEOPLES DEFENSE FORCES—in Somalia today prosecuting the war [there] with U.S. backing.
Anyone who claims that U.S. troops if they got involved would end up dead—what a bunch of nonsense. First of all, the Lords Resistance Army is not the main problem here it is the UPDF—as with their criminal operations looting Congo and backing the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army and now other factions in the war for Darfur. These are not in any sense "tribal" conflicts. Someone in the U.S. has deep ties to Joseph Kony and the LRA, and if they wanted this guy dead he would be dead long ago.
There are LRA agents in Washington connected at the highest levels. As long as Museveni—perhaps the worlds leading terrorist and war criminal today—right up there with his pal Paul Kagame from Rwanda—has these so-called 'rebel' so-called 'enemies' on its borders, like the ADF [Alliance of Democratic Forces] and LRA—then the Uganda government can continue to scream bloody murder "we need help" and continue to get AID, which is turned into weapons in what may be the world's largest AID for ARMS scandal after the AID for ARMS scandal in Ethiopia.
This is an open policy of depopulation, the elimination of large numbers of human beings, as policy, to make way for resource extraction to benefit multinational corporations. It is an active policy intended to perpetuate despair, disease and death, and it is not reported because:
[1] The campaign of the day is DARFUR—a campaign meant to propagandize the U.S. and U.K. public into believing that we need to "stop genocide" and help those poor Africans;
[2] There are people in power who have knowingly made decisions to allow these people to be rounded up, herded into death camps, and allowed to die, or be killed;
[3] The U.S. is too close to Uganda militarily and economically.
Like DARFUR, this is all about resources, and it is a competition today between Republican and Democratic factions from the U.S., allied with their various internecine partners—multinationals, governments, intelligence agencies, so-called "humanitarian" organizations. Israel is all over it.
It is all about money. Most important, to anyone reading this, there are easy answers, and there actions that can be taken, and it is clear that the world "community" does not wish to take any actions.
This is unconscionable. Any American who sees this and continues to live their life as they have—business as usual—is complicit in genocide. Of course, we are all complicit in genocide, and this is one of the most recent and ongoing examples [to be brought to light].
Somalia, Ethiopia, Congo, Sudan, Zimbabwe....Please read about the criminal activities and relationships of the Uganda government in the journalism section of my web site.
Again, my highest respects to the people who are telling this story, and who are helping them to do it.
keith harmon snow
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Second post to ABC Blotter:
Posted by: keith harmon snow | May 21, 2007 12:15:09 AM
Additional clarification:
See the Heritage report, PAGE 13:
~ BLOCK 1 stretches well into northern Uganda near ARU, and is controlled by Heritage;

~ BLOCK 5 stretches further north and occupies a huge swath of the northwestern corner of Uganda to Gulu and is currently not yet claimed;
And that is partly why there is so much conflict here.
And these are only showing the concessions revealed through the Heritage/Turrow/Hardman documents. The northern regions of Uganda from Central to eastern Uganda include gold mining areas where the defense attaché of the British High Commission (Kampala) has inspected the gold samples personally, with South African mining experts (I have a photo showing this), and Branch Energy officials. Branch Energy is another Tony Buckingham mercenary mining firm with big interests in Uganda.
What other concessions or exploration is ongoing in Northern Uganda has not yet been exposed, although exploration is certainly underway.
For further background articles see:
Two important oil concessions maps can be found here:
If you click on the above oil concessions link—the oil map is from the petroleum industry itself and was published 1996. Note the MASSIVE concessions in the Darfur region of Sudan and in the Lake Turkana regions of Kenya. Most likely there are other vast concessions stretching across northern Uganda that connect these to the concessions in the northwest. It may also be that there are newly discovered uranium and/or natural gas finds in this vast region.
The oil companies and Uganda government have ABSOLUTELY NO INTENTIONS of sharing the oil wealth with the people whose land the oil (gold, uranium, etc.) is under.
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"Secret Photos Reveal New African Horrors"
Send a message to ABC that their reportage and censorship violate freedom of speech, the journalism code of ethics, and the international covenants for the protection of human rights.
To educate your self and help your self understand the racism and deception of Conde Nast Group, Vanity Fair and its premier Africa reporter, Hitchens, see the standard claptrap on Northern Uganda in the Vanity Fair story:
"Childhood's End"
Article published in The Black Star News with permission of the author. Please visit www.allthingspass.com for more reports on profit-driven genocide
The Black Star News Publisher's Note: Readers, you all have the power to help end this genocide and other atrocities in Africa ignored by corrupt corporate media and to force justice and accountability. You have to adopt the attitude, "not on my watch" and "not on my tax-payer dollars." Start by calling ABC news president David Westin at 212-456-777 and denounce the news organization's journalistic duplicity and send him a copy of Keith Harmon Snow's article via e-mail or forward the link; Please call The White House at 202-456-1414 and ask why President Bush has denounced the Darfur situation but not said a word about genocide of Acholi by a U.S.-sponsored government, in the interest of oil profits; Readers please call The State Department at 202-647-4000 and ask to be transferred to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's office and denounce her silence on the genocide in Acholi; Readers please call Senator Joseph Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at 202-224-5042 and ask him why he's denounced the situation in Darfur during a recent Presidential candidates' debate but did not say a word on genocide of Acholi; demand that he hold a hearing of the senate committee; Readers please call Senator Barack Obama's office at (202) 224-2854 and ask why this major presidential candidate, whose ethnicity is part Luo (Acholi are Luo) from East Africa, has remained silent while Acholi are exterminated; he is intelligent and well-informed, so what does such silence suggest? Ask that the senator denounced the genocide and call for the U.S. to stop subsidizing it by backing the Museveni-regime;
Readers please call the United Nations Secretariat at (212) 963-1234; when the system answers hit "0" and you'll get an operator, ask to be transferred to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's office and demand that he denounce the genocide in Acholi; American readers please call your Senator and Congressman and demand that he or she denounce this U.S.-sponsored genocide; Please forward your elected representatives Keith Harmon Snow's article and also send it to everyone on your e-mail list; Readers please call The New York Times' publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger at (212) 556-1234; hit "0" when the system picks up and ask for Sulzberger's office—demand that he tell his editors to stop ignoring this major genocide story; Readers please call The Commonwealth Secretariat in London at 44 20 7747 6380 and ask its Secretary General, Don McKinnon, why Uganda, a country whose civilian and military leadership, including Yoweri Museveni, is being investigated on war crimes allegations by the International Criminal Court (ICC) gets to host this year's Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting; this is not only a form of obstruction of justice, by tacitly sending a message to the ICC not to pursue its investigation vigorously or return indictments if warranted, but it also amounts to abetting genocide, by deflecting focus away from the crimes and exonerating suspects before investigations on grave allegations are completed; Readers please also forward this article to the the Commonwealth organization's Director of Communications, Eduardo del Buey at firstname.lastname@example.com and cc to as many foreign affairs ministers as you can. McKinnon, like the many other foreign players, is culpable by having gone to Uganda recently where he met with government officials, visited some primary schools but somehow failed to denounce the genocide in Acholi.
The ICC started its investigation of the Ugandan civilian and military leadership on war crimes and crimes against humanity allegations after a complaint was referred by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) government under Joseph Kabila according to a front page article in the June 8th, 2006 edition of The Wall Street Journal, a newspaper with almost 2 million circulation. Did Don McKinnon, and separately all the officials mentioned above, not read this Wall Street Journal article? The allegations include mass civilian murders, rapes, kidnappings, mutilations, the recruitment and training of child soldiers, burning of villages, and theft of natural resources, by the Ugandan army and allied militias during Uganda's occupation of Eastern Congo; these are the similar allegations that have landed former Liberian president Charles Taylor at his current location; the Hague, facing trial. Separately, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in December 2005, ruled in favor of the Congo on the civil aspect, based on similar set of allegations of mass civilian murders, rapes, kidnappings, mutilations, the recruitment and training of child soldiers, burning of villages, and theft of natural resources, and subsequently ordered Uganda to pay Congo $10 billion dollars (http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/116/10455.pdf). This suggests the likelihood of a verdict favoring Congo on the war crimes allegations now being investigated by the ICC. Surely, the US was aware of this when it asked Uganda to send troops to Somalia; how can the Bush Administration blatantly continue to cozy up to suspects on such serious crimes as war crimes and crimes against humanity?
Readers, more than anything else, do your part in fighting for the Acholi victims, children, women and men, who are dying from slow-motion genocide in those Uganda camps by sending this article to everyone on your e-mail list and the editors of your local newspapers—even if they don't pursue the story, at least you know they would have to live with the shame of it and that you did your own part in some measure to expose the genocidal conspiracy of silence.
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Phillies announce 2014 Spring Training schedule
The Phillies announced their 2014 Spring Training schedule on Thursday, a schedule that includes 16 games at Bright House Field in Clearwater, Fla., and two exhibition games against the Pirates on Friday, March 28 and Saturday, March 29.
Those March exhibition games against the Pirates will take place at Citizens Bank Park.
Toronto stands as the Phillies' first Grapefruit League opponent at Bright House on Wednesday, Feb. 26. Other opponents include the Yankees, Tigers, Red Sox, Braves, Twins, Orioles, Astros and Pirates.
Spring Training three-game packs go on sale Nov. 14 and individual ticket sales for Spring Training begin on Jan. 9. Tickets can be purchased through phillies.com or by calling 215-463-1000.
Phillies' pitchers and catchers have their first scheduled workout for Feb. 13, with the first full squad workout set for Feb. 18. The Spring Training schedule is available at Phillies.com.
Official Phillies Fan Spring Training trips are currently on sale. The trips include the Early Bird and Grand Slam packages as well as the escorted Seniors package, including airfare. For more information, go to www.phillies.com/springtravel or call 1-877-833-7326.


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I have a few CD purchases to update from the last month and a few on the way when they arrive in the mail! There are a few Ebay purchases and a big one from Newbury Comics on a great sale!
Tokyo Blade – Night Of The Blade (1984/1997 reissue) – $13: Cross another High Vaultage release off the list! I could just kick myself for not buying these High Vaultage reissues 12 years ago when they first came out, back then they were $15-$20 at the import record store. Now they are out of print and harder to find. This reissue has the original album with original vocalist Alan Marsh and includes 8 bonus tracks from three different EPs.
Autograph – Buzz (2003) – $11: Cross another CD off the WANTED list! I have been looking for this Autograph album basically since it came out. I saw it as an import in the record stores for $20 and I always passed on it. Now it's harder to find and it goes for a higher price on Ebay. I was able to get this CD cheaper because the seller misspelled the album title by one "Z".
Eden's Curse – s/t (2007) – $9: Eden's Curse has been on my radar since this debut album and I actually have their last two albums. Everytime I go to order this album online, it's out of stock. Everytime I would watch an auction, the price would skyrocket in a bidding war. The seller that I bought this from had a bunch of these up for sale so I was able to pick this up at the $7 starting price with $2 shipping…..a great deal!
Twenty 4 Seven – Destination Everywhere (2002) – $7: Another CD off the want list and another CD that I should have bought years ago. This band features Bobby Blotzer (Ratt), John Corabi (ex-The Scream, ex-Motley Crue, ex-Ratt, ex-Union) and Robert Marcello (ex-Obsession, ex-Iron Horse, current Danger Danger). I read reviews on this disc back when it came out and I always meant to grab it but never did. The online ordering price is usually $15 + shipping but I got this from the same seller as Eden's Curse for $5 plus $2 shipping…..another great deal!
Talon – Fallen Angels (2008) – $9: I had this on my want list when it came out in 2008 but I never got around to it. I read some good reviews online hailing it as one of the best albums of the year so I bumped it up the list but I never found it in the stores and the online ordering price was always around $20. This is the 3rd CD I bought from the same seller, and just like Eden's Curse & Twenty 4 Seven, he had a ton of these up for auction at once. The deal was too good to pass up for $7 and the cheap shipping!
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Bon Jovi – The Circle (2009) – $13: I haven't picked up a Bon Jovi album on the day of release since CRUSH back in 2000…..even then I hadn't bought a Bon Jovi album on the day of release since NEW JERSEY in 1988! For some reason I wanted this album. Maybe it was the media blitz the band put out? Maybe it was the various documentaries I watched on cable TV? Maybe it was seeing my wife's excitement at the tour announcement? For some reason I wanted it…..maybe to believe that Bon Jovi had returned to their old form? I was wrong…..read my review. At least it came with a bonus DVD for value.
Halford – III: Winter Songs (2009) – $13: I will buy anything Rob Halford puts his name on because he is one of my favorite singers and Judas Priest is my second favorite band. It's the holiday season so why not a holiday record from Halford? I was going to preorder this through the Halford website but I forgot. I was able to pick this up at a decent sale price that ended up being cheaper than buying direct from the Metal God but not by much. Read my review…..it's the Album Of The Month for November!
Trans-Siberian Orchestra – Night Castle (2009) – $12: I've been waiting for the new TSO album for the whole year! They had a free download of one track at the beginning of the year and they delayed the album's release to coincide with the band's annual holiday tour. NIGHT CASTLE is a double disc set but it's not a holiday album, it's a concept album. TSO is usually known for their holiday music but they have branched out before on BEETHOVEN'S LAST NIGHT in 2000. It's definitely mandatory listening, especially when one of my favorite singers, Jeff Scott Soto, is involved! Hard to believe it's been 5 years since their last record.
Slayer – World Painted Blood (2009) – $10: If Slayer releases a new album, you buy it! I waited a week to get this one and I opted to buy the regular version instead of the deluxe with the bonus DVD and packaging…..I ended up saving an additional $10 by picking up the regular version. I haven't even cracked the cellophane on this one yet because I have so many albums to listen to! I will probably get to listen to it this week.
I was going to Newbury Comics anyway but I ended up getting an email from the store with their new weekly "Flash Sale"…..buy 1 used CD, get 1 free. How can you pass that up? There was a limit to how many you could get (5 used and 5 free) so I searched every used bin they had but I could only come up with 3 discs and 3 free…..that's what happens with a big collection! The very cool thing about the sale was that they charged you for the most expensive used CD and then they gave you the next most expensive free…..and so on. Usually the protocol is they charge you for the most expensive CDs and give you the cheaper ones free. I ended up saving more than I thought the way they did it this time!
King Diamond – Abigail (1987/2005 reissue) – $14 used: I'm filling the holes in my King Diamond and Mercyful Fate collections and ABIGAIL was on the list. I had my choice: the original pressing single CD for $10 or the deluxe reissue with the bonus tracks and bonus DVD for $14…..I went with the reissue because it was pure value. So I got the ABIGAIL album, 4 bonus tracks, and a DVD with 7 songs from Sweden in '87 and 3 videos…..a great deal!
Slayer – Reign In Blood (1986) – $11 used (FREE): Saved $11 right off the bat with the sale! A lot of you are wondering how I don't already have REIGN IN BLOOD in my collection and I admit it's a MAJOR oversight on my part. I had it on cassette back in the day and I thought I had it on CD already. I've been filling the holes in my Slayer collection so when I saw it was missing I bumped it to the top of my list. Not bad getting it for nothing!
3 Inches Of Blood – Advance & Vanquish (2004) – $11 used: I started my 3 Inches Of Blood collection with their second record FIRE UP THE BLADES (2007) and I have picked up their new album and the reissue of their first independent record this year. I have been waiting to get ADVANCE & VANQUISH for a decent price for a long time, it's usually $16-$18 regular price and I've never seen it used. This was the first used CD I found.
Metal Church – The Dark (1986) – $8 used (FREE): Another awesome free CD and that brings my savings up to $19! Of course this is another classic record that you might be wondering how I don't have it in my collection. This CD replaces a long worn out cassette. The crazy thing about this CD's price is that there were two other used copies but for higher prices. I went with the cheaper used disc trying to save extra money but the way the sale worked out I got it for nothing.
The Doors – L.A. Woman (1971) – $7 used: I've always been a big Doors fan and L.A. WOMAN has been that missing record for years. The singles are all on various greatest hits packages but I needed the actual album to complete the Jim Morrison led discography (I haven't bothered to seek out the vinyl albums the band released after he died). I wasn't going to pick this up because it's always there used but I went through the entire store and it came down to this being one of the only albums I didn't already own.
Helloween – Keeper Of The Seven Keys (Part 1) (1987/2006 reissue) – $7 used (FREE): I already own KEEPER (Part 1) on CD but I started picking up the expanded reissues back in 2006 when I filled in some holes in the Helloween collection. I'm a sucker for bonus tracks and this expanded reissue has four bonus tracksand deluxe packaging. Normally I find these reissues for $20 in the stores so I couldn't pass up finding one used in perfect condition and getting it free.


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This is the first object I have made in Curvy 3D that I have saved as an OBJ file. It's part of a larger project I'm working on.
What I did is I made this image in gimp as a height map bmp file:
And I used the inflate function to bring it into Curvy 3D. I also had to resize it making it bacwards.
Then I did the same with this other image from gimp as the bottom:
I had to scale it to invert it and reverse the surface before grouping it with the other side, selecting both while holding the shift key and then stitching them together from the mesh menu:
I really like this program.


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I have wanted to make this recipe since January when I first saw while I was waiting for my Dr. appt. in the December 08 Better Home and Gardens. I took a picture of the recipe on my iPhone. I suppose I should have gone to the magazine rack and purchased it, but all I wanted was the recipe!
For two whole weeks I didn't bake a thing. I had the flu, then went to Texas. I was going to bake these for my Mom and Dad while we were staying with them in Weslaco, but a woman across the street kept on bringing treats over for everyone! One day she brought M&M cookies, then a lemon pound cake, bran muffins and caramel rolls. I couldn't believe it. I told my sister 'well, I guess I'll make the Red Velvet Whoopie Pies when I get home'. She said 'oh great, all we'll get is a picture!'. Sorry!!
These were real easy to make. This is not the frosting I use on my Red Velvet Cake. It is the frosting I use on my Carrot Cake. It's easy to make. The whoopie pies are simple to make as well. The batter is pretty thick, easy to scoop onto wax paper. I baked 9 minutes.
Red Velvet Whoopie Pies
Makes 30 sandwiches-**If you make 1" Pies. I made big ones and got SIX!
Cake:2 cups unbleached flour
2 tablespoons cocoa powder (not Dutch processed)
½ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter, softened
1 cup (7 ounces) packed light brown sugar
1 egg, preferably room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ cup buttermilk, preferably room temperature
1 ounce (2 tablespoons) red food coloring
Filling:4 ounces cream cheese, softened4 tablespoons (½ stick) butter, softened
2 cups (8 ounces) powdered sugar
½ teaspoon vanilla
1. Adjust oven rack to middle position; preheat oven to 375F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper. In medium bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt.
2. In large mixing bowl, beat butter on medium-high speed for 30 seconds, until smooth. Add brown sugar and beat until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. With mixer at medium speed, add egg and beat until thoroughly combined, then beat in vanilla. Add about one-third of flour mixture followed by half of buttermilk mixture, mixing until incorporated after each addition (about 15 seconds). Repeat using half of remaining flour mixture and all of remaining buttermilk and food color mixture. Scrape down sides of bowl and add remaining flour mixture; mix at medium-low speed until batter is thoroughly combined, about 15 seconds. Remove bowl from mixer and fold batter once or twice with rubber spatula to incorporate any remaining flour.
3. Spoon (or pipe) batter in 1-inch diameter rounds about ½-inch high on prepared baking sheets, allowing 1 inch between each round.
4. Bake 7 to 9 minutes, or until tops are set. Cool cookies on cookie sheets.
5. To make filling: Add cream cheese and butter to mixer bowl and beat until smooth. Gradually add powdered sugar, alternating with vanilla. Beat until smooth.
6. To fill, dollop (or pipe) cream cheese filling on flat sides of half the cookies. Top with remaining cookies, flat sides down.
To store: Refrigerate in airtight container up to 4 days. Let stand at room temperature 15 minutes before serving.


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I know you love your cat, we all do. But I also understand all the frustration you get when you find your cat pee on your favorite coach or your bed. I can imagine all the thoughts you get about giving up your feline friend and, if you shout at it, I won't judge you. At the end, no matter how much you love your cat, having its pee all over your house will make it stink, not to mention all the effort and money you spend for cleaning your furniture.
The good news, my friend, is that you don't really have to give up your cat anymore. With Cat Spraying No More, your relationship is saved! Your cat will never pee outside the litter box again, and you will never have to shout at it for ruining your furniture. It's a win-win for both of you.
Video: How to stop cat spraying inside


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In its commitment to support the creation of a true community of social sciences and humanities researchers in Africa, CODESRIA attaches great importance to organising a wide range of events that allow scholars, researchers, and African intellectuals to share, discuss and connect on a diversity of issues and create new networks or revitalise existing ones.
The various conferences organised by CODESRIA are essential to creating and strengthening the intellectual community of African social sciences and humanities researchers. However, these conferences are intended as forums to meet and interact with other members of organised African societies ranging from policy-makers to representatives of civil society. In addition, they are also opportunities to bring together community members operating on the continent with those in the diaspora, and with members of the worldwide community of social sciences and humanities researchers, including those in Latin America and Asia.
These conferences result in the publication of volumes which were selected after passing through the peer review process.
To see if there is currently a call for applications for a conference, please consult the Announcements section.


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Sunday School – 10:00 am
Worship Service – 11:00 am
Bible Study – 12:15 pm
Wednesday Bible Study - 6:30 pm
12859 Martin Road Spur
Northport, AL 35473
One of our teachers, Brian Farley, fills the pulpit while Pastor Todd is preaching out of town. Brother Brian's message deals with the transition from theology to practicality in Romans. We pray this charge to live daily for the Lord is beneficial for you.


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Eleven people were injured in a drive-by shooting in the nation's capital early Monday.
Authorities said someone in an older blue BMW opened fire on a crowd of people outside an apartment building on N. Capitol Street in Washington, D.C., around 2 a.m.
The majority of victims are being treated for shooting-related injuries, which include both gunshot wounds and grazes, said Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier.
The most serious injury was in a man who was shot in the back. All victims are expected to survive, NBC Washington TV station News4 reported.
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It's also possible some victims were injured by flying glass from a shattered bus shelter or by something else.
Police said the crime scheme was chaotic, and they are still investigating. Authorities had to wait until the sun rose to finish laying down evidence at least 46 markers to record where bullets and fragments landed in a crime scene that stretches nearly a block.


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Johnson's OT Buzzer-Beater Lifts Nets Over Bucks
Joe Johnson hit a tying 3-pointer in the closing seconds of the fourth quarter and then his buzzer-beating jumper at the end of overtime lifted the Brooklyn Nets to a 113-111 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday night.
Johnson finished with 24 points, and Brook Lopez and Deron Williams added 19 each as the Nets snapped a 13-game losing streak against the Bucks dating back to March 30, 2009.
Brandon Jennings scored 34 points to lead the Bucks. Ersan Ilyasova had 21 points, Monta Ellis added 18 and Larry Sanders 14.
Jennings saw his short jumper go in and out with 15 seconds left in overtime. After a Nets timeout, Johnson was intentionally fouled by Luc Mbah a Moute with 5 seconds left. The Nets inbounded again and Johnson won the game with his foul line jumper over Mbah A Moute.
(Copyright 2013 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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Today I am going to Review Aaranyaa Rejuvenating Green Apple Face pack Gel. I have received it a month back and finished it a few days back. I love natural and home made face packs very much, because they are safe to our skin. This face pack in gel form sounds very interesting for me, when I received it for Review along with Aaranyaa Neem and Tulasi Scrub. To say truth I loved both of this product very much. Let's see the Review...
About The Product:
|Aaranyaa Rejuvenating Green Apple Face pack Gel Review
Price 175 Rs for 100gms
Shelf life 2 years
Product Description, Ingredients & Usage Directions:
My Experience with Aaranyaa Rejuvenating Green Apple Face pack Gel:
Colour, Smell & Texture:
My Take:
I am using this face pack weekly twice regularly and it is very easy to apply. Very small amount of this gel face pack is enough to cover the entire face and neck well. I like this gel form of face pack very much, even if I apply it nobody knows that I am applying a face pack.
Why I am telling my sad story here? this face pack made me free from this annoying situation lols. Yeah, since it is gel there is no white or sandal or greeny faces, only it will looks like that you have applied something like oil.
My Likes with Aaranyaa Rejuvenating Green Apple Face pack Gel:
- Affordable.
- Travel Friendly.
- Goodness of Green Apple.
- Leaves skin rejuvenated and soft.
- Gives a good glow.
- No allergy for me.
- Hygienic package.
- Easily absorbed by the skin.
- Easy to wash.
- No Dryness or tightening feel after washing.
PS: Product Sent By PR


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Williamsburg Fashion Weekend S/S 2013
Williamsburg Fashion Weekend's founder, producer and creator Arthur Arbit is all about conscientious, ethical clothing made here in the USA, not in 3rd world countries.
His message was when you're shopping for clothes made in the corporate fashion world, someone's paying with their blood. But not these clothes…each piece of clothing featured in the shows was made by its designer's hands or otherwise American born.
Details and photos for each designer after the jump!


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On Monday night, at "Glee's" spring season premiere soiree in Los Angeles, Lea Michele turned up with a new look – bangs.
"I'm like working these new bangs today," Lea told AccessHollywood.com's Laura Saltman on the red carpet at LA's Bar Marmont.
Lea revealed that the new 'do was actually the result of a whim.
"Oh my God! It was totally spur of the moment," she revealed of her fringe. "I was just at home getting ready tonight and I was like, 'I think I would like some bangs.' So we cut them."
In fact, when Lea hit the premiere, it was the first time her castmates from her FOX show got to see her new look.
"This is real and they don't know it at work right now," she said. "We'll be using some headbands for a couple of weeks I think."
Lea previously had some fake bangs last year for a photoshoot.
In related Lea news, the brunette beauty raved about "Glee's" latest filming schedule, which has seen the gang shooting their Lady Gaga inspired episode.
"We're doing our Lady Gaga episode right now, so we were dancing our butts off this morning," she laughed.
"We're all different Lady Gagas," Lea added of the upcoming show, set to air later this season. "All the girls have different Lady Gaga looks."
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Children activities
Label tourist ''Famille Plus'' acknowledges hospitality and services offered to families. The city of Marseille is now part of labeled committed to develop a range suitable for families.
More information : www.familleplus.fr label.
Providers engaged in quality 'FAMILLE PLUS',
The Tourist Office and Convention Bureau of Marseille recommends them to you…
Discovering Marseille in family :
The young visitors and their parents will be able to benefit from various means of transportion to visit Marseille as they see fit. A double-decker bus, tourist train, boat or bike as exploring the city promises to be unique!
Activities for children in Marseille :
You can continue the adventure thanks to family outings in Marseille proposed by the Tourist Office and Convention Bureau of Marseille.
Together, you will be able to take part in a game of treasure hunt in Marseille, a game of enigma, or with a photo circuit in the district of the Panier…
Suitable for all ages, these activities for children in Marseille will allow you to spend pleasant quality family time.
But that's not all ! Many structures are present to entertain people who stay in Marseille en famille, à starting with various museums of the city. Visit the "préau des Accoules", the History Museum, the Natural History Museum or the memorial of "La Marseillaise" to share a cultural activity as a family. Also consider performances by Marseille theaters: family outings in Marseille to relax, laugh, educate your children to the art scene.
Finally for those who like to move, activities for children in Marseille also takes place in leisure parks, gardens, acrobatic parks, skate park, ice rink …Not to forget the numerous nautical activities such as sailing, kayaking, diving...
Discover all the places of family outings on Marseille for budding adventurers!
In short, games, activities, museums, theaters, parks... everything is done so that your stay in Marseille family remains an unforgettable moment !
Sites that make your life easier :
- www.ideesdenfants.com
Cultural and leisure magazine for children, their mothers and their fathers.
- www.tourismeenfamille.com
Portal enabling families to prepare their tourist stays in Provence.


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Tiger Woods has already gone through his damage control cycle: giving press conferences and controlled interviews and finally returning to applause on the golf course. His life is a shambles, of course. But America is pretty much done with his story. Now glorified mechanic and Sandra Bullock ex-husband Jesse James gets to start his own spin cycle. It started with a written public apology (just like Tiger!), and now James is moving on to a televised interview with Vicky Mabry over at "Nightline." Lynette Rice over at Entertainment Weekly has all them juicy deets:
Nightline scored the first interview with Jesse James since the break-up of his marriage to actress Sandra Bullock. In the installment airing Tuesday May 25, James talks to Vicki Mabrey about the split and why he went to rehab. He's also expected to address the role he'll play in the raising of Louis, the baby boy Bullock recently adopted. James issued a public apology after Bullock spoke to People (magazine).
James' predicament s a little more difficult than Tiger's because Tiger, all along, had golf to salvage his reputation. He's a worldwide sports icon. James is a dude who builds stuff on basic cable. There aren't a lot of people right now who are saying, "The best way James can fix his public image is by doing what he does best: Turning a dishwasher into a miniminivan." Most people (women, especially) will always consider him a random dirtbag who lucked into Sandra Bullock and threw it all away. Oh, and that Nazi photo from US Weekly wasn't a big help, either.
There's little James can do to salvage his public reputation, because he didn't have much of one until just now. That's why I suggest that Mabry use the thirty minutes she has with James to ask him the most entertaining questions humanly possible. Such as:
-Could you please cry on camera? Right now? America will only accept you if you're groveling.
-Are you sexually rehabilitated? What if I were to bring out these three Suicide Girls for you? Still not tempted?
-America would like Sandra to have full custody of your kid. Please sign these papers.
-Don't you think other men are extremely annoyed at you and Tiger Woods for making wives all round the world assume their husbands are lying, cheating dogs? YOU'RE RUINING IT FOR EVERYONE, YOU IDIOT.
Stuff like that. Interview airs Tuesday. Prepare yourself for a very mild case of redemption.


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For many of you, the day after Thanksgiving requires you to put on your best Gap sport coat, head out to the local beef-and-beer drink your way through a high school reunion. Sometimes, the outcomes are disastrous. Heed these warnings
Back in 2008 during the Thanksgiving holiday a few of my high school friends and I decided to visit the local tavern for a couple drinks like most college age kids, since the group was back together for the weekend. We'd been doing this for the past few years checking out old classmates to see who got fat, who got hot and to try to run into some of the girls that got away. Well that year some of the kids from our old high school that I wasn't really friends with decided that it would be a good idea to have a charity bar crawl to honor one of their friends who died of cancer, how that exactly worked I have no idea. The bar was way overcrowded as there were probably around 200-250 people there just getting completely wasted, on a good day the bar can probably fit 100 people uncomfortably.
Everyone was having a good time, until about 1 am when one of the locals started getting into it with the owner of the bar, over what no one really knows. The two were about to come to blows when the owner storms over to his office and calls the cops. No one was really aware that he had called the cops at this time. All of a sudden, the local police offers storm into the bar pepper spraying and macing the entire group of people. It was the most insane thing I had ever seen. Police were shoving people out of the bar, and arrested one of the bar crawl members. Outside waiting for everyone were a ton of squad cars and police dogs. The crowd starting getting unruly and were screaming at the cops as they through the arrestee into the squad car. However, not one punch was thrown, if anything it was a bunch of college age kids upset that things had been blown so far out of proportion. More cops from the surrounding neighborhoods all came out with their own attack dogs to try to disperse the crowd. My friends and I just took off after that as it looked like pretty much everyone was going to get beaten, attacked by a dog or arrested. The next day the local paper had published a story about the event:
GRAYSLAKE — More than 200 people brawled in the street and inside the Last Chance Saloon after a patron questioned the bar's closing time early Saturday.
There were no injuries or damage at Last Chance, 125 Center St., but one person was arrested after police summoned help from 15 other departments.
"It was a brawl for it all," said police Cmdr. Matt McCutcheon. "There were about 100 people in the street fighting and another 140 inside fighting."
The crowd had been part of a pub crawl called the Turkey Trot, sponsored by local taverns in support of a cancer victim. An argument erupted at 1:30 a.m. between the the tavern manager and a patron.
"We just wanted to disperse the crowd and get everyone out of there and going home," McCutcheon said.
Kellan Sams, 23, of Grayslake was arrested and charged with two counts of assault, accused of threatening physical harm to two officers and resisting arrest, McCutcheon said.
The Lake County Sheriff's Office, Waukegan, Mundelein, Gurnee, Libertyville, Round Lake Beach, Round Lake Park, Round Lake, Lindenhurst, Fox Lake, Lake Villa, Antioch, Vernon Hills, Wauconda and Island Lake dispatched officers to the scene. Canine units were also used to disperse the crowd.
"We sure appreciated the help," McCutcheon said. "We had it wrapped up in about 20 minutes."
With over 200 people brawling in the streets don't you think there would be more than one arrest? Anyway it was probably the funniest/craziest night ever in the small town of Grayslake, I'm glad I was there to witness it.


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new german #ACTA info site - http://bit.ly/z6TN5R we need these for each language: anyone got links for others? #de
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More than half of all UK MPs are now on Twitter - http://tnw.co/AyHLK3 hopeful sign


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Friday, July 18, 2008
Show and Tell: Rescuing plants nobody wants
24 comments:
- Dawn said...
You are great! I would have looked at the plants and said, "no thank you". My daughter always looks for the cheaper, almost throw away plants! I used to have coleus all over my house. I haven't had one in about 20 years. Maybe I should rethink and go buy one of these days.
I really like what you did with the pots too. You are a clever lady.
take care,
- July 18, 2008 at 4:31 AM
- Kathi~Lavender, Lace and Thyme said...
What a master gardener you are and so thoughtful to think of others to give them to. I'm sure a lot of people are finished planting for the year and your pots are now gorgeous!
Have a wonderful Friday!
Kathi :)
- July 18, 2008 at 8:26 AM
- A Hint of Home said...
You did a great job on the plants, the pots and are very thrifty. You do have a green thumb.
- July 18, 2008 at 8:27 AM
- pammiejo said...
You are a gal after my own heart! I lurk around those same racks at Lowe's and have saved several plants from doom and had them grow just great in my yard. I agree about the coleus - they have so many different colors that they enhance any combination of colors! Guess I should head for Lowe's again this morning - you motivated me!
- July 18, 2008 at 8:37 AM
- Anonymous said...
Diane, I love to save plants marked down and sad looking. I have to save my own plants when I rely on my sister to water them when I am out of town.:) The containers look very nice painted black. Good job my friend.
Warning, this week I am going to be frantic with nine grands and the wedding reception for my son's wedding on the 26th. If you don't hear from me that's why. The reception is at my home, about 30 will attend.
Have a nice weekend,
- July 18, 2008 at 10:50 AM
- Anonymous said...
What a great idea! You did a beauitful job with them.
- July 18, 2008 at 11:09 AM
- Ceekay-THINKIN of HOME said...
What a great idea! And they look great!
- July 18, 2008 at 11:27 AM
- Anonymous said...
Wow, you made something inexpensive into something beautiful! I wish I had a green thumb like that. Your arrangement looked lovely and so summer-y! :-)
- July 18, 2008 at 11:50 AM
- Southern Lady said...
You're so smart, Diane! Would you come "rescue" my plants? Poor things, some of them look like little orphan plants.
I enjoyed your post and love your new plants -- and planters, too!
Hope your weekend is good. Try to stay cool in Meridian.
- July 18, 2008 at 1:43 PM
- Jean said...
Great way to rescue plants and save money! They should be really beautiful for fall.
- July 18, 2008 at 1:58 PM
- Anonymous said...
You are so sweet. I'm probably the one that brought them back to the store. I try but I just don't have a green thumb. I can grow annuals but kill everything else.
- July 18, 2008 at 3:36 PM
- Steve Buser said...
A great horticulture lesson. I have done the black-paint-on-old-pots thing before -- it works wonderfully, just like you said. I wished I had learned it -- or had enough courage to experiment -- twenty years before that.
- July 18, 2008 at 4:37 PM
- Pat @ Mille Fiori Favoriti said...
Great job Diane! I rescued some geranium hanging baskets from Home Depot a few weeks ago -- they were half dead because they let them dry out, but for $4 each I knew I could bring them back and they are now full of flowers and look great!
I never thought to spray paint planters -- good idea!
- July 18, 2008 at 4:55 PM
- Alexandra MacVean said...
awwww...you are too good. You did a good thing and the results are beautiful!! :)
- July 18, 2008 at 6:11 PM
- Susie from Bienvenue said...
I too rescue plants from time to time... It makes it all the more fun... Some make it and some dont... yours looks great! Susie h~
- July 18, 2008 at 7:48 PM
- Anne Fannie said...
I have some plants that need rescuing from all this heat!
I never knew Lowes had plants marked down that much. I am going to have to check that out next time! I also never thought of spray painting my pots...hmmmm, thanks for the ideas!
- July 18, 2008 at 7:55 PM
- Love Bears All Things said...
What a bargain. Coleus comes in so many colors and varieties and is always a good filler.
Mama Bear
- July 18, 2008 at 8:46 PM
- Darlene said...
Wow that is a great idea. The pot looks wonderful and the plants look great together. I once sponge painted some pots when that was the going thing.....lol
- July 18, 2008 at 9:21 PM
- Gone said...
I've had some success with those plants at Lowe's, too...yours look GREAT!!!
Thanks for the visit and comment about my "finds". GREAT BUYS, for sure!!!
I can't wait to get started...but so many things to do!!!
- July 18, 2008 at 9:58 PM
- Anonymous said...
You did a wonderful jobs on the plants and pots. You remind me of my sister....she would have done the same thing. You are very created. You have a wonderful weekend.
- July 18, 2008 at 11:47 PM
- Tammy said...
How great that you are able to do this!
I, on the other hand, take plants that are just fine and seem to accidentally kill them.
I truly admire your green thumb!
- July 19, 2008 at 1:03 AM
- Kelli said...
You got some great deals and how wonderful that you were able to rescue the plants! I love Coleus!
- July 19, 2008 at 8:32 AM
- Kathy said...
They look great - the pots and the plants!
Kathy (mimisgarden.blogspot.com)
- July 19, 2008 at 6:36 PM
- Jon said...
Way to go, Diane! I sometimes thnk I am a charter member of the Vicksburg Plant Rescue League as I can't stop myself from "saving neglected plants" at nurseries. I can't pass them by anymore than I do when I see abandoned kittens or puppies on the street in danger of being run over. I love how you made striking and winning combo planters with your "orphan" plants! Not only kind and merciful but beautiful! Jon at Mississippi Garden on 7-20-08
- July 20, 2008 at 3:20 PM