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The Archivio Storico Foto Locchi, under the protection of the Ministry for Cultural Assets and Activities and containing material of unequalled historic and artistic value, is considered one of the world's foremost collections of its kind.
A continually expanding corpus of images, which thanks to recent acquisitions now counts upwards of 5 million photographs recounting the history of Florence and Tuscany from the 1930s to the present, preserved in the form of the original negatives.
Images from the worlds of sports, entertainment, and fashion, and reportages of great events in history – as well as "minor" picturesque fragments that tell of customs and daily life, yesterday as today.
The Foto Locchi mission is and always has been to keep alive the Archivio's exceptional heritage and the immense iconographic wealth it represents, and to make it available to the public, that it may become not only an avant-garde tool but also a point of reference and a source of inspiration for companies, professionals, scholars and students, and aficionados of photography and history.
In March 2014 the new website www.fotolocchi.it was inaugurated.
In 1924, landscape photographer Tullio Locchi, also an esteemed war photographer and official photographer to the royal family, decided to found a studio and shop in the city center: Foto Locchi in Piazza Vittorio, today's Piazza della Repubblica.
Giorgini Archive manages the most important documentation on the birth of Made in Italy as a brand.
Collection includes photographs, letters, invitations, programs, press releases, magazines and newspapers on early Italian Fashion.
In 2001 Neri Fadigati, G. B. Giorgini grandson, established Giorgini Archive as a no profit organization.
Giovanni Battista Giorgini spent his entire life to promote and export Italian high quality handcrafts. He opened his buying office in 1923, and traveled to North America, presenting a collection of selected samples to the most important department stores.
On February 12, 1951 he organized the First Italian High Fashion Show, at his home in Florence. Then he directed the shows, in the Sala Bianca of Palazzo Pitti, contributing to the worldwide success of Made in Italy.
Neri Fadigati, Giorgini grandson, established the Archive in 2001, to manage the materials documenting his grandfather activity.
Collection includes photographs, letters, invitations, programs, press releases, magazines and newspapers. Some are in the V&A Museum show "The Glamour of Italian Fashion" that will next tour to the USA, until 2015.
The owners of the antique shop Traslucido, both graduated at Accademy of Belle Arti in Florence in scenography and painting, opened the antique shop in Florence in 1985.
They like best Liberty and Decò ,historical periods dated 1940-1950 of both Italian and Europen nineties. They select carefully furniture, pottery and glasswork items, for the lighting chandeliers, lighting fittings, reading lamps and appliques, paintings and sculptures of Italian school and others countries as well.
Particular attention is to the quality and the rareness of each article so that customers can always find the right offer.
You can find manufactured articles like tables, sideboards, armchairs and sofas of the most prestigious Italian and European furniture-makers of nineties.
Among ceramics you can find works of authors like Gio Ponti, Galileo Chini, Cantagalli, among glassworks and Murano lightings you can find factories like Venini, Seguso, Barovier.
Two large exhibitions, the first one in Via Maggio 11/r and the other one inside prestigious Palazzo Ricasoli in Via Maggio 7, give you the oppurtunity of appreciate a large quantity of articles and variety of choice.
What is real in a world invaded by texts and images? What is hidden behind our personal vision of things? How can one set and develop a coherent photographic reportage?
Creating personal photographs different from the mass of images which we are invaded by daily seems like an impossible task.
The secret is slowing down, reflecting, and using essential instruments, whose limitations becoming a starting point to then expand our visual capacities.
At the forefront for over a 100 years, Leica has realized a camera capable of going beyond technical limitations and allowing emotions to emerge.
In 1914 Leica revolutionized photography forever, becoming a point of reference for the best photographers in the world.
The secret? Don't just make cameras, create immortal values, combining clever design and exceptional craftsmanship.
DOGUE, Australia's favourite dog brand has finally arrived in Europe and is thrilled to be associated with The Lungarno Collection of hotels.
DOGUE opened its first store in Sydney in 1988 and was Australia's first dog boutique. Known for its luxurious bedding and custom made outfits, DOGUE – The House of Canine Couture, catered to every dog's whim and their owners desires.
Here you could find a dog bed to match your lounge room, food bowls too good to serve dinner in, collars covered in jewels and outfits inspired by the latest fashions.
In 2004 DOGUE began wholesaling its exclusive range of products and today their range can be found in over 600 stores across Australia.
DOGUE continues to lead the way when it comes to doggie must haves, their products are fresh, fun, unique and fashionable. All accessories are designed by DOGUE founder Simone Kingston, and together with her partner Tony Kingston have recently moved to Florence to set up an office to work on the expansion of their brand into Europe.
The very lucky dogs staying at The Portrait Hotel, Firenze will be welcomed on arrival with a "G'Day Mate Aussie Animal" toy, theirs to keep, take to the park, carry across the Arno, or save it to play with when they return to the hotel.
They will sleep and relax in complete comfort in one of DOGUE's soft, luxurious beds and eat in style out of one of their stunning bowls.
Dogs can now experience their own piece of 5 star luxury when visiting Florence.


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Being the Apple fanboy that I am, I find it hard to type that title. It's true though that I will be passing on the iPad Mini. I had actually decided this even before I had a chance to play with the device. After having the opportunity to fondle it, my mind hasn't changed. Don't get me wrong....it's a great device. There is a scenario in which I would even consider buying it but right now, it's a pass.
So, most importantly, in what scenario would I actually buy the iPad Mini. Well for one, if I didn't already have an iPad. I had the first generation iPad and now use regularly the iPad 3 (or whatever the right number is for the last one with the 30-pin connector.) I'm quite happy with that device and have grown fond of the form factor. Together with the Switcheasy case I have on it, it's my go-to travel machine. I hardly ever take my Macbook Air on the road anymore and my iPhone 5 is with me at all times anyway. So, if I didn't already have an iPad, I'd immediately get the iPad Mini. It's the best combination of tablet and portability as well as usability if you already have an iPhone and laptop. Further, I use the device for content consumption and email first followed by some content creation (I don't blog on it for example.) Therefore the Mini is perfect for everything I need....I couldn't care less about it not having a Retina display and a faster processor.
So, you may be scratching your head and wondering why I don't just get it. Well, here's the main reason. There will be a follow-up device to the current Mini. It will be faster, have Retina display and some other features which we may not be aware of. Most importantly though, it'll come out in about a year's time. At that point, I am sure my current iPad will be getting tired. Further, I will have upgraded most of my charging accessories to Lightning (thanks to iPhone 5) and will also want my iPad to have this technology. Hence, the current Mini just doesn't fit into my upgrade schedule. Same was the case for the iPhone 4S. Sure I wanted it but it just didn't make sense. I was fine sticking with the iPhone 4 until the iPhone 5 came out, skipping a generation. Same is the case for the Mini and Apple knows this. I'd also bet that by the time the next iPad Mini comes out, it will be just as fast and feature-loaded as the full size iPad. It will simply be a matter of having options in terms of size, just like with the Macbook. There you have the Pro and Air. Both can be bought fully loaded and are wonderful machines, each with their own fan base. I went from a Pro to an Air and would never go back. Highly likely that this will be the case with the iPad too.....just not now.
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Sunday, May 29, 2011
Things worth to mention and remember (IV) - Data Loading
1. If you want to load a large amount of data quickly into a table or partition that gets truncated before the load and indexes also need to be maintained, then it is probably faster to set the the indexes to unusable before the load and rebuild them afterwards instead of letting the insert maintain the indexes. Note that even with a direct-path insert the index maintenance of usable indexes will generate undo and redo, whereas a separate index rebuild doesn't generate undo and can be also be run as a nologging operation if desired. However, as always, test for your particular situation/configuration as the index maintenance as part of direct-path inserts are quite efficient and therefore might not be that much slower than separate index rebuild steps.
However, there is a simple, yet important point to consider when attempting to load with unusable indexes:
A truncate makes indexes automatically usable
So the order of DDL statement execution before the load is relevant:
This way the data load will maintain the indexes since the TRUNCATE after the ALTER INDEX has set the indexes to USABLE again!
The probably intended order is:
The same applies to a data load into a partition of a table, only the syntax of the two commands is slightly different.
2. Note that you cannot load into a segment with a UNIQUE index defined that is in UNUSABLE state, you'll get an error "ORA-26026: unique index ... initially in unusable state" (when using a direct-path insert) or "ORA-01502: index ... or partition of such index is in unusable state" (when using conventional insert) even with SKIP_UNUSABLE_INDEXES set to TRUE (default from 10g on).
If you want to use an UNIQUE index that is not maintained during the data load you need to drop it and re-create after the load.
There is a however a way to circumvent this: You can support a UNIQUE or PRIMARY KEY constraint by means of a non-unique index. This way you can either set the constraint deferrable, or disable the constraint before the load while keeping the index in unusable state and rebuilding the index and re-enabling the constraint afterwards.
But you need to be aware of the following implications and side-effects of doing so. Note that depending on how you use the index and how your data manipulation patterns look like, they might not make any difference to your particular situation, but they can also have a very significant effect:
A non-unique index behaves differently from a unique index in several ways. Richard Foote has covered these differences very detailed already and since I probably couldn't say it any better I'm only going to mention here short recaps and corresponding links to his posts.
- It requires slightly more space for the same amount of data (one additional length byte, see Richard Foote)
- Depending on the data manipulation patterns it might require potentially significant more space as part of DML operations because the index entries can not be re-used within a transaction even when the same data gets re-inserted, see Richard Foote and again here (because the ROWID is part of the key to make the index expression unique and because the ROWID can not be re-used within a transaction because the row entries in the row directory of a block can not be re-used within a transaction, see Jonathan Lewis)
- For non-unique indexes only: If you insert multiple rows with the same index key expression depending on the ROWID there might also be differences in the efficiency of a potential index block split (50-50 vs. 90-10 (actually 99-1))
- At execution time an operation based on a INDEX UNIQUE SCAN is handled differently from an INDEX RANGE SCAN in terms of latching and optimizations of the consistent gets, so there might be measurable run-time differences (see Richard Foote). Note that this changes under certain circumstances from version 11g on, which I will cover in a separate blog series because it is a very interesting topic on its own.
More on the topic by Richard Foote.
Also there are a few oddities with this setup to be aware of:
- In 10.2 a unique/PK constraint supported by non-unique index disables direct-path inserts, see here for more details
- In 11.1 and 11.2 a unique/PK constraint supported by non-unique index allows direct-path inserts but unfortunately allows you to accidentally insert duplicates, see here for more details
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thank you for the very instructive summary. I am a little bit surprised to see ORA-26026 - recently I made some tests with unusable unique indexes (in 220.127.116.11 and 18.104.22.168) and always got "ORA-01502: Index 'DBADMIN.TEST_INTERVAL_IDX' oder Partition dieses Index in nicht brauchbarem Zustand" - do you know what's the difference between the two error messages?
Apart from this I don't understand why it's not possible to defer the checking of duplicates in an unique index until I try to rebuild the index (as it is for a pk constraint). (I asked Richard Foote for his opinion, but he only acknoledged that the need to drop and recreate unique indexes was a bit of a pain: http://richardfoote.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/oracle11g-zero-sized-unusable-indexes-part-ii-nathan-adler/#comment-12687)
Hi Martin,ReplyDelete
the difference regarding the error message is that I've used direct-path insert for testing - and conventional insert gives a different error message interestingly.
I've updated the blog post accordingly, thanks for pointing this out.
I agree that it is a bit unfortunate that a unusable unique index behaves like that.
- Bernard PolarskiMay 31, 2011 at 8:44 AM
Thanks for sharing this.ReplyDelete


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The Labour and Community Welfare Section plays the role of a coordinator and facilitator by providing guidance and support for the redressal of grievances of the large number of Indian nationals residing in Qatar.
1. Services Offered by Community Welfare Section
The services cover a wide canvas of welfare measures including:
Authentication and verification of employment contracts.
Attestation of documents pertaining to recruitment of Indian nationals from India.
Registration of Companies on eMigrate System.
Counselling and assistance to Indian workers in settling disputes related to work contracts.
Assistance to workers in claiming legitimate dues relating to termination benefits.
Registration of death of an Indian national.
Assistance in follow up work with sponsors & local authorities for the earliest burial / transportation to India of mortal remains.
Issue of No Objection Certificate for the local burial or transportation to India of mortal remains of deceased Indian nationals.
Assistance to family members of Indian nationals in claiming death compensation, due to accidental or unnatural death.
Attending the Shariah Court for the settlement of death compensation claims of deceased Indian nationals whose families authorise the Embassy with their Power of Attorney.
Realisation of death compensation claims from Qatari authorities and remittance of the same to India to the next of kin of deceased Indian nationals.
Assistance for taking up problems of a personal nature back home, of the Indian nationals in Qatar, with the authorities concerned in India for redressal.
Release of an Indian national from prison, on completion of sentence.
2. Consular Services Management System(MADAD)
Consular Services Management System(MADAD) has been set up for users to register grievances pertaining to the Consular Services offered by Indian Missions/Posts Abroad.
Processing Steps: {www.madad.gov.in }
Click on "Grievant Registration (New User)" and fill required details.
Click on "Activation" link sent in email (or OTP sent in SMS to Indian Mobile Holders) to activate the account.
Log in to the Consular Grievances Management System (MADAD).
Click on "Register Grievances" link to fill details of your grievances.
Click on "Track Grievances Status" link to view latest status and processing done on your grievance.
3. Instructions for Distressed Indian Maids
Such women may carry their passports and visa copies, contact details of the employer and recruiting agent before approaching the Embassy.
Click here to view Information on : Welfare and Protection of Indians Abroad
Contact Details of the Labour and Community Welfare Wing:
Telephone Numbers:
24-hr Help-Line:
33451607, 66275337
Fax Numbers:
For Labour Disputes:
Third Secretary [L&CW]: TEL: 4425 5706, 55808254
For Death Compensation:
Third Secretary [L&CW], Tel:44255706, Mb. 55808254,
Att [L&CW]: Tel. No. 4425 5714, 44255729, Fax N. 44675399
For eMigrate System
You can get in touch with the Indian Embassy, Doha or register your grievance on the MADAD Portal - www.madad.gov.in. You will need to provide details of your relative's Indian passport, visa, sponsor/employer's name and contact details, and the name and contact details of your Recruiting Agent (if applicable). The Embassy will approach the local police/government authorities and try to get some details about your relative. The Office of the Protector General of Emigrants will also approach the sponsor/employer through your Recruiting Agent, to try and get more details.
As soon as the information about detention/arrest of an Indian national is received by the Embassy, we get in touch with the local Foreign Office and other concerned local authorities to get consular access to the detained/arrested Indian national and ensure his/her welfare. The Embassy also supports initial legal assistance to distressed Indian nationals in deserving cases. Other assistance provided by us includes requesting local authorities for speedy trials, seeking remission of sentences, providing advice and guidance in legal and other matters, ensuring fair and humane treatment in jails, issue of emergency certificates and repatriation to India of those who are released. The Embassy also requests the local government for grant of amnesty to the arrested Indians and if any mercy petition for remission of sentences is received from the family members of the Indian prisoners, the Embassy forwards them to the local authorities for consideration.
Please approach the Indian Embassy, Doha with all details. Wherever possible, the Embassy can provide legal assistance to compete the necessary paperwork for your release and repatriation after completion of your sentence. We can also help by issuing necessary travel documents or emergency certificates and provide support for his repatriation to India.
The Indian Embassy takes all steps possible under local laws and as applicable for a diplomatic Mission, to protect the rights of Indians in foreign jails. These include:
Deportation can be done by Qatari authorities when a foreigner violates the immigration laws of Qatar. In most cases, the Indian Embassy will not be able to intervene in preventing such deportation for violation of immigration laws. However, in cases where the Indian national concerned may not be at fault or feels he is being unfairly deported, this can be brought to the notice of the Indian Embassy, so that it can be taken up with the local immigration authorities concerned, by bringing the relevant facts to their attention.
Yes, Indian Missions provide initial legal assistance to distressed Indians, but only in the most deserving cases and on a 'means-tested' basis, i.e. if the distressed Indian is assessed to be otherwise unable to afford such legal help on his/her own. Such initial legal assistance may include:
No, Indian Missions/Posts do not fight court cases on behalf of Indian nationals. In a few countries, Indian missions have arrangements with empanelled local NGOs to assist overseas Indians for litigation processes. For more details on this, it is advisable to directly contact the Indian Embassy.
Yes, the Ministry of External Affairs has such a scheme. Please click the link below for details of the scheme: www.mea.gov.in/legal-and-financial-assistance. The Embassy can also provide limited assistance on a case-by-case basis, subject to a needs assessment.
OCI card holders can purchase residential and commercial properties in India. But they are not permitted to purchase agricultural land, including farmland or any kind of plantation property.https://rbi.org.in/scripts/FAQView.aspx?Id=117


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- 4 Beds
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Property TypeResidential – Duplex
SubdivisionBighorn Third
Listing Date11/27/18
Year Built2019
AreaEast Vail
Lot Size0.20 Acres (8,581 SqFt)
Parking2 Car Garage, Surface
Property Description
The future of East Vail architecture and design has arrived. Enjoy walls of glass from this brand new 4-bedroom plus family room residence offering panoramic views, private entry, natural light and a warm contemporary design. The thoughtful floor plan offers a spacious master suite, family room and guest bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms. Entertaining from the creek side outdoor spaces and access to your favorite Colorado activities will be effortless. This opportunity will not last.
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- District Sewer
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- Electricity Avail.
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- Phone Available
- Snow Removal
- Trash Pickup
- Natural Gas
- Radiant
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About East Vail
Only four miles away from the Village and tucked under the Gore Range at the base of Vail Pass, East Vail is a favorite of locals and Front Range visitors. As a strictly residential area, it offers peace and tranquility as well as sweeping views of its high alpine surroundings. East Vail residents enjoy the many conveniently located hiking trails, a large dog park on the Eagle River, and several waterfalls along the north facing slopes. East Vail is convenient to the heart of town by the free bus system yet maintains moderate property prices in comparison.
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USB Key
Often called a LiveUSB Key, most if not all Linux distributions can be installed and booted directly from a USB key (flash drive) in the same way as a LiveCD, but with the optional added benefit that files and configuration changes can be written back to the USB key and are not lost after a reboot.
A LiveUSB Key is a USB flash drive containing a full bootable operating system and productivity software. LiveUSB Keys are closely related to LiveCD's in that they fulfill a similar function except for their ability to write changes back to the LiveUSB Keys file system, making the changes persistent and allowing the installation of additional software, and the saving of documents and configuration files.
It must be remembered however that some older computers lack the BIOS support to boot directly from a USB device, and that some computers that do have USB boot support built into the BIOS may still have problems booting from USB Key's, in such cases it is normally possible to "redirect" the boot procedure from a bootable floppy disk to the LiveUSB Key.
Recently LiveUSB Keys have fulfilled a role as an installation medium for netbooks and other devices that don't contain an optical drive as part of their original equipment .
Linux LiveUSB Keys can be created from within Windows or Linux with easy to use tools that can be found in the links below.
- Files can be saved, software added, and any changes can be made persistent
- Faster boot times than a LiveCD
- Portability – a full OS and software can easily be carried in your pocket
- Durability – less succeptable to damage than a CDROM
- Can be encrypted in case of loss
- Linux can be installed to a USB Key from within Windows or Linux
- Multi use – can also be used to transfer files between computers
- Running from a LiveUSB Key is still slower than running from a hard drive
- Easily lost, but can be encrypted for file security
- Booting from USB is not supported on all hardware
External links
- Pendrivelinux.com and Universal USB Installer
- UNetbootin
- LinuxLive USB Creator
- Fedora Live USB Creator
- List of others (wikipedia)
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Florida Rough Green Snake
Scientific name: Opheodrys aestivus carinatus (GROBMAN 1984)
* Currently accepted name
* scientific names used through time
- Coluber aestivus – LINNAEUS 1766
- Leptophis aestivus – BAIRD & GIRARD 1853
- Leptophis majalis – BAIRD & GIRARD 1853
- Herpetodryas aestivus – DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1854
- Cyclophis aestivus – COPE 1872
- Opheodrys aestivus – CONANT 1958
- Opheodrys aestivus carinatus – GROBMAN 1984
Description: Adult size is 22-32 inches (56-81 cm). The record is 45.4 inches (115.3 cm). A slender bright green snake with a cream to pale yellow belly. The belly color extends onto the chin and lips. (In death the green coloration changes to blue-gray.) There are 17 dorsal scale rows at midbody and the scales are strongly keeled. The pupils are round. Juveniles coloration is similar to adults, but not as brightlly colored. A distinguishing characteristic is the scale in the third row of dorsal scales opposite the seventh belly scale (counted back from the throat) is usually keeled.
A. Top of the head
B. Underside of the head (chin and throat)
C. Front (face view) of the head
D. Side of the head
E. Keeled scales
F. Elongated scales below the tail (subcaudal scales) are typically divided
Range: In Florida, the Florida Rough Green Snake occurs in the central and southern peninsula.
Habitat: Found in mixed hardwood and bottomland forest as well as hardwood hammocks. It is fairly abundant in maritime forest and dunes meadows of Atlantic coast barrier islands. Because of its arboreal habits, it prefers densely leafed trees and shrubs, often at the edges of fields and around ponds.
Comments: HARMLESS (Non Venomous). The Florida Rough Green Snake is arboreal and feeds primarily on insects found on the leaves and stems of trees and shrubs. Its bright green color provides excellent camouflage in vegetation. When disturbed it typically ceases all movement and will sometimes sway to mimic the movement of the surrounding wind-blown foliage. Eggs are laid in mid to late summer under objects in damp areas. The 3-12 hatchlings are 6-8.5 inches (15-21.5 cm) long.
Comparison with other species: There are no other (native) bright green snakes in Florida.


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DAVE Kitson is convinced Callum O'Dowda has a big future after seeing the way the youngster dealt with a miss last weekend.
The winger headed wide from close range at Plymouth Argyle, in what was only his second league start.
But Kitson was hugely impressed with the way O'Dowda, who turns 19 next week, shrugged it off as he played a key role in the 2-0 win.
The veteran said: "He should have scored, but actually he got better after that.
"It seemed to spur him on and you don't see that a lot in kids.
"I don't think it's any secret in how highly I rate Callum. I think he's a fantastic asset for this club and I think he will be a fantastic player for us.
"He just reminds so much of the top players.
"Everybody misses, everybody gives the ball away, but it's how you react and his temperament is outstanding.
"He never gets above himself and he has the talent to win matches on his own and the selflessness to contribute to team performances as well."


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A Hollywood studio where dogs learn to fly
Photo: Air Hollywood
In this July 14, 2012, photo, provided by Air Hollywood, members and volunteers from Guide Dogs for the Blind (GDB) take a K9 flight class, as they experience airport distractions during a simulated airport security check in at the K9 school in Los Angeles. The idea was the brainchild of Talaat Captan, president and CEO of Air Hollywood, the world's largest aviation-themed film studio, who noticed a dog owner having a rough go getting a dog through airport security. (AP Photo/Air Hollywood, Matt Souder)


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"Gold Bars Soar"
Gold bars soar that may or may not be there as dollars rise and fall
While doves and hawks lose feathers and the bourgeois stain
Their corporate tablecloths; numbers genuflect as mortgage rates
And candidates trade places in the spin. Who sleeps in the caterwaul;
Who stampedes for attention in the networks' nightly call
To arms not heard since Boston; whose cotillions root for the notorious? Bait
And bombast never fails; the remedy is ever there and altogether late,
Meticulously timed by someone out to fill the stadia and malls
With never ending seasons' greetings and wherewithal
To keep the vital signs of spinning polls and sardines at the gates,
Martin's dream is deemed appropriate for the calendar and numbers integrate
The use of steroids and youthful thrall so no one drops the ball.
Who needs another change for heaven's sake as one size fits all:
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Light a diya or a candle in a quiet spot.
Light up the mind with a poem titled Diwali by Vikram Seth. So what if it is a long one? But it makes you keenly aware of the anguish and conflict of a mind struggling to integrate diverse cultural influences, including those resulting from the colonial history of India, and doing all this in the backdrop of what "home" means to a heart, especially around Diwali - a festival of love, light, home, family and all such good things in life.
Guy Fawkes Days-I recall
That lonely hankering-
But I am home after all.
Home. These walls, this sky
Splintered with wakes of light
These mud-lamps beaded round
The eaves, this festive night,
These streets, these voices...yet
The old insensate dread,
Abeyant as that love,
Once more shifts in my head.
Five? Six? generations ago
Somewhere in the Punjab
My father's family,farmers,
Perhaps had a small shop
And two generations later
Could send a son to a school
To gain the conqueror's
Authoritarian seal:
English! Six-armed god,
Key to a job, to power,
Snobbery, the good life,
This separateness, this fear.
English: beloved language
of Jonson, Wordsworth's tongue-
These my "meridian names"
Whose grooves I crawl along.
The Moghuls fought and ruled
And settled. Even while
They hungered for musk-melon,
Rose, peach, nightingale,
The land assumed their love.
At sixty they could not
Retire westwards. The British
Made us the Orient.
How could an Englishman say
About the divan-e-khas
"If there is heaven on earth
It is this; it is this; it is this."?
Macaulay the prophet of learning
Chewed at his pen: one taste
Of Western wisdom "surpasses
All the books of the East,"
And Kalidas, Shankaracharya,
Panini, Bhaskar, Kabir,
Surdas sank, and we welcomed
The reign of Shakespeare.
The undigested Hobbes,
The Mill who later ground
(Through talk of liberty)
The Raj out of the land ...
O happy breed of Babus,
I march on with your purpose;
We will have railways, common law
And a good postal service-
And I twist along
Those grooves from image to image,
Violet, elm-tree, swan,
Pork-pie, gable, scrimmage
And as we title our memoirs
"Roses in December"
Though we all know that here
Roses *grow* in December
And we import songs
Composed in the U.S
For Vietnam (not even
Our local horrors grip us)
And as, over gin at the Club,
I note that egregious member
Strut just perceptibly more
When with a foreigner,
I know that the whole world
Means exile of our breed
Who are not home at home
And are abroad abroad,
Huddled in towns, while around:
"He died last week. My boys
Are starving. Daily we dig
The ground for sweet potatoes."
"The landlord's hirelings broke
My husband's ribs-and I
Grow blind in the smoke of the hearth."
"Who will take care of me
When I am old? No-one
Is left." So it goes on,
The cyclic shadow-play
Under the sinister sun;
That sun that, were there water,
Could bless the dispirited land,
Coaxing three crops a year
From this same yieldless ground.
Yet would these parched wraiths still
Starve in their ruins, while
"Silkworms around them grow
Into fat cocoons?", Sad soil,
This may as well be my home.
Because no other nation
Moves me thus? What of that?
Cause for congratulation?
This could well be my home;
I am too used to the flavor
Of tenous fixity;
I have been brought to savour
Its phases: the winter wheat-
The flowers of Har-ki-Doon -
The sal forests - the hills
Inflamed with rhododendron -
The first smell of the Rains
On the baked earth-the peaks
Snow-drowned in permanence--
The single mountain lakes.
What if my tongue is warped?
I need no words to gaze
At Ajanta, those flaked caves,
Or at the tomb of Mumtaz;
And when an alap of Marwa
Swims on slow flute-notes over
The neighbours' roofs at sunset
Wordlessly like a lover
It holds me-till the strain
Of exile, here or there,
Subverts the trance, the fear
Of fear found everywhere.
"But freedom?" the notes would sing...
Parole is enough. Tonight
Below the fire-crossed sky
Of the Festival of Light.
Give your soul leave to feel
What distilled peace it can;
In lieu of joy, at least
This lapsing anodyne.
"The world is a bridge. Pass over it,
Building no house upon it."
Acceptance may come with time;
Rest, then disquieted heart.
Light up the inner being listening to Deep Ki Jyot Jale by Pandit Kumar Gandharva. After all that intellectual exercise understanding the long poem, all that one needs is a quieting down. And this soulful rendition provides just that...and more. Experience the silence!
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Hi guys, thought it was time for me to say hello.
I'm usually the head of my club's N gauge group but I have other interests and since discovering the delightfully quirky Gn15 and GNine scales I feel like stretching out my modelling!
Currently I have a 'U-Drive' Gn15 layout underway for the kids to play with at shows (a bit more durable loco stock than the N gauge one we have now I'd say) and am drawing up a two-module club exhibition layout in GNine- this might very well be an Australia first if its shown!
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FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. – A Flagler County sheriff's detective has been arrested on a domestic violence charge.
Ronn Rauber, 42, was booked into the Flagler County Detention Facility following an argument with his ex-wife at their Palm Coast home that turned physical Sunday evening, deputies said.
Rauber has been suspended without pay. His bond was set at $2,500 after his first court appearance Monday morning.
Deputies responded to the couple's home about 6 p.m. after receiving a 911 call. They said the argument started after Rauber learned his ex-wife had introduced one of his children to a male friend, according to deputies. The couple is divorced, but live together as a family, deputies said.
Rauber is charged with misdemeanor battery. His ex-wife told deputies he pinned her by her wrists against a wall in their bedroom. Rauber denied the argument turned physical.
"This is a serious problem in our community and no one is immune from their actions during a domestic argument that turns violent," said Undersheriff Rick Staly. "Our agency has a zero tolerance for domestic violence."
Rauber has been with the Sheriff's Office since 1993.


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will there be a U3 version?
I see Pocomail PE listed at http://software.u3.com/ProductCategoryL ... lang=en-US
it comes in as the second most expensive, but on Pocomial website I see no reference to U3
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The increases were mandated by Ohio voters who in 2006 approved an amendment to the Ohio Constitution that links the minimum wage to inflation.
Ohio's minimum wage is increasing again and with it should come a boost to about 300,000 low-wage earners, according to one policy group's estimate.
The minimum wage rose 10 cents to $7.95 per hour at the start of the new year. For tipped employees, the new minimum increased 5 cents per hour to $3.98.
The increases were mandated by Ohio voters who in 2006 approved an amendment to the state constitution that links the minimum wage to inflation.
The Consumer Price Index for urban wage earners and clerical workers rose 1.5 percent during the period used to calculate wage increases. A year ago, Ohio's minimum wage jumped 15 cents at the beginning of 2013.
Ohio is one of 13 states raising the minimum wage at the beginning of the year, according to the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute. Most of those states, like Ohio, have automatic increases to adjust for inflation.
The group estimates that 330,000 workers in Ohio will benefit directly from the wage hike.
How that will impact the state's economy is debatable.
The Economic Policy Institute says the wage increase will increase Ohio's economic growth by $38 million, but others including some business associations counter that higher minimum wages force businesses to raise prices or cut hours or jobs for workers.
Ohio's new minimum would earn a full-time employee $16,500 a year.
"This is not nearly enough to achieve a livable wage for many workers but any and all upward pressure on wages is better than the stagnant wages we have seen," Ohio AFL-CIO President Tim Burga said in a statement.
The powerful labor union helped bring about the vote in Ohio that bound the minimum wage to the Consumer Price Index.
The wage for employees at small companies and 14- and 15-year-olds is tied to the federal minimum wage, which is $7.25.
President Barack Obama has been pushing Congress for much of the last year to raise the federal minimum wage.
Labor unions, Democrats and other worker advocacy have been staging protests with fast-food workers in big cities to draw attention to the issue.


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Favorite Handy Reference Book: People, Places, and Things
When patrons come to me at the reference desk, there's one book I readily pull out to consult. It's not a replacement for checking the catalog but it's a helpful starting point for patrons looking for a particular topic. This handy reference book is titled People, Places, and Things, a reference book once published by OCLC.
People, Places, & Things is a reference tool listing popular LCSH headings in alphabetical order with corresponding Dewey call numbers. (I found a description of the book on page 4 in a 2003 newsletter by OCLC) Depending on the topic you're looking up, there may be more than one Dewey number assigned to it.
The book doesn't list every topic patrons ask at the desk but it's still useful. Sometimes I have to think of another term for a subject if I can't find it listed. If it's still not there after looking it up, I'll consult the catalog. At times the book been a back up for looking up call numbers when our catalog was offline.
I discovered People, Places, & Things when I first started 5 years ago. It was one of several reference resources we kept on the History-Biography reference desk. (The copyright date is 2001 on the copy we have) Since then this book has been invaluable to me.
When I worked in our Popular Library Division on the first floor, I continued to use this reference resource because patrons frequently came to our reading room first. Patrons would tell me what subject area they needed; I'd look it up in the book and write down the Dewey number. With that in hand, they could locate what they needed in the other reading rooms. When I returned to non-fiction reference, People, Places, & Things came along too. It's worked well for me and a great tool.
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Cross Country at Plymouth State University
The following text is from PANTHER PRIDE A History of Intercollegiate Athletics at Plymouth State College, by Michael I. Moffett (©1990). Men's and Women's Cross Country was reinstated at Plymouth State for the 2013 season.
The history of Cross Country at Plymouth State College is short but sweet, (beginning in 1966 and) basically encompassing the decade of the 1970s.
Dr. Paul Hartman, Doug Wiseman, Jack Rhodes, and Rick Hutchins were the head coaches who guided the program, which featured participation in a number of dual and combined meets each fall.
During the early '70s, Wiseman's harriers were quite impressive, particularly in the annual New England State College Athletic Conference, which awarded Wiseman "Coach-of-the-Year" honors in 1972.
Jack Rhodes took over as head coach in 1974, and guided several outstanding PSC teams as they rolled over opponents, at first on a course running through the hills behind the Holderness School, and later on an even tougher course running through PSC's Langdon Park.
Until it was discontinued, the NESCAC meet was an annual highlight for PSC. Later, schedule highlights would include the SMU Invitational, annually hosted by Southeastern Massachusetts University, and the Cod Fish Bowl Races, which were held in Boston each year, and the annual New England and Eastern Regionals, which allowed runners to qualify for the NCAA Division III National Cross Country meet.
A special event for the PSC cross country program was Plymouth State College's annual Foley Invitational, named in honor of the longtime coach at the Home of the Panthers. PSU often turned in some of its best performances at the Foley Invitational, which was held during Homecoming Weekend, and often featuring as many as ten teams.
Perhaps the finest Panther cross country runner ever was Bob Rindfleisch of Seldon Park, N.Y. Rindfleisch set school records on both the Holderness and Langdon Park courses before graduating in 1976.
The PSC cross country team would feature several other running standouts, including Jim Clark (two-time winner of the PSC Invitational).
During the late 1970s, Dave Severance established himself as PSC's finest distance runner ever. Although Severance competed on the cross country team for only two seasons, his years at Plymouth State were marked by many hundreds of miles of roadwork, and in 1978 he won the Lowell Marathon in his first marathon distance race ever.
In 1979, Severance finished second in the Skylon Marathon held in Buffalo, New York, with a time of 2:19.21. His performance on the 26 mile 385 yard course qualified him for the 1980 Olympic Team trials. Severance would be recognized for his running achievements in 1988 when he became the first cross-country/track and field performer to be inducted into the Plymouth State College Hall of Fame.
In 1980 the cross country program was dropped as a varsity program by Plymouth State College, for a variety of reasons. The sport was missed by running enthusiasts, but fond memories would forever remain with the many student-athletes like Bob Rindfleisch, Jim Clark, and Dave Severance who so ably represented PSC on New England cross country courses during the 1970s.


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Student Teaching in India Offers a Variety of Lessons
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Drew DiSario barely had time to unpack before he walked to the front of a classroom of Indian students to teach trigonometry abroad.
"I knew it was going to be my first time teaching in India, so I was going to bring my A game. I was up all night," he said. "They loved it. I made them strategies for problems I knew they were having."A secondary education major, DiSario's destination in India was Bangalore, a sprawling metropolis in the south-central section of the country that is known as the Silicon Valley of India. With 8.5 million residents, Bangalore is the third-largest city in a country with more than 1.2 billion inhabitants.
DiSario was completing his student teaching in India as part of a student teaching abroad program available through the Penn State College of Education.
"The short term student teaching abroad option allows students to do both a traditional student teaching placement in Pennsylvania followed by an international placement in one of 16 countries: Australia, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, England, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, Scotland, Spain, Turkey, or Wales," said Dr. Leila Bradaschia, director of International Programs in the College of Education.
Students spend 12 weeks in Pennsylvania and then travel to their host nation school for five to eight weeks.
DiSario was surprised at how many people live in India. He also had to adjust to a large variety of language barriers.
"They spoke English, but there are some British words that I just don't know. The way that it comes out of their mouth is so different. It took a little while to understand that," he said.
"India is broken up into so many different states. Eeach state had its own language. Even in their own English, there are differences."
There were differences in the classroom, as well. However, the lessons learned in his College of Education courses at Penn State enabled him to adapt quickly.
He had to. Midway through his first day, his host teacher asked him to circulate throughout the room and check the students' work in 11th standard (India's equivalent of grade) trigonometry. Then, at the end of the day, the teacher asked DiSario to teach the next day's lessons.
His most rewarding experience came later when he was asked to lead small group lessons in algebra. Other teachers came to observe and help instruct groups of three to four students.
Early on in the lesson DiSario observed the other teachers deviating from the lesson scripts he had written. But what first appeared to be a failure morphed into a resounding success.
"They tried what I said, and when it didn't work for one or two kids they came up with something else on the spot. Even I deviated from what I had planned," he said. "But we came together and talked about all the different ways to do it. I learned so much in that one lesson."
The experience in India confirmed DiSario's love of traveling and teaching. He said it's something he sees in his future.
"I honestly learned to fall in love with traveling. When you go somewhere you know so little about, it makes you a little uncomfortable. But you can't 'not' learn. When you do that many classes abroad, you're doubling your chances of learning," he said.
"The bigger underlying lesson is there are people doing things differently. There are different ways to work. It reminds you that you are part of a bigger picture. You're teaching because you want to see people being taught, want to see an educated population coming after you."
And that's the whole point of student teaching abroad, Bradaschia said.
"They live with host families and teach in a local school to allow them to be immersed in a new culture and look at education and schooling from a different perspective," she said. "It is a unique opportunity that allows students to see the world in a new and exciting way since they are there as professionals rather than tourists."
DiSario will graduate from Penn State in May 2013 with a major in secondary education with the mathematics option and a minor in African Studies.
-- By Andy Elder (April 2013)


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NEW YORK (AP) Rasheed Wallace picked up two technical fouls and was ejected for the first time since returning to the NBA in the first quarter of the Knicks' victory over Phoenix on Sunday.
Wallace played only 1:25 off the bench before getting upset after fouling Luis Scola. He was called for a first technical for hitting Scola across the arm after the whistle, then hit with the second and an automatic ejection after yelling ``Ball don't lie!'' - his way of saying the call was wrong - toward an official after Goran Dragic missed the free throw.
It was Wallace's 31st career ejection, most in the NBA since 1991-92, according to STATS, LLC. The temperamental forward has been called for more than 300 techs in his career, leading the league seven times. He said before the season that at 38 he was too old to be clashing with officials after a two-year retirement, but with four techs he is now within one of the league lead.
Carmelo Anthony said he thought Wallace's reputation was held against him Sunday.
``I mean, he's the only guy in the league that gets technicals for saying `Ball don't lie,''' Anthony said. ``So, I mean that should tell you right there.''
Anthony said Wallace, who did not speak to the media, apologized to the team before leaving.


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Blessing Hotel located just above the BNI Bank and below of Komodo National Park Headquater office in Labuan Bajo, This hotel running by the chinese families and it has excellent chinese cuisine in Labuan Bajo
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The player to the left of the dealer places the small blind (half the minimum stake) and the player to his left places the big blind (the minimum stake) into the pot. The purpose of these blinds is to ensure a minimum amount in the pot. The dealer then deals two cards face down to each player. These are known as pocket or hole cards. The dealer's position keeps shifting to the left after each deal. The first round of betting then begins. Each round of betting is commenced by the person who placed the small blind. Based on their cards and their ability to bluff the players have three options. They can fold and be out of the deal. Or they can place the minimum bet to stay in the game. Or they can raise the stakes. If the stakes are $5/$10, then the betting begins with $5 and is raised by $5 as well. Once this round is complete the game proceeds to the next stage.
The first three community cards are dealt face up on the board by the dealer. The board is placed at the center of the table so that it is visible to all players. These cards are known as the flop. The players can reassess their hands and enter into a new round of betting. This round also takes place at the minimum stake. The same three options are available to players. After the betting is completed, the fourth community card, known as the turn card is opened by the dealer. Now players have seen six of the seven cards from which they are to make their final hand. The betting now takes places at the maximum stake, which implies that the raises will be by the maximum stake. If the stakes are $5/$10 the bets in this round will be raised by $10. After the round of betting is complete, the last community card is dealt face up by the dealer. This card is known as the river. Now players can make their final hand from their hole cards and three of the community cards. Another round of betting takes place at the maximum levels. After this there is the showdown. The players still in the game show their cards, starting from the one who placed the last bet. The player whose hand is highest in the poker rankings wins the pot, after the casino takes away its cut. If only one player is left in the game after the final round of betting, he does not have to show his hand.


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Episode 39 Books about Bullying
Episode 39 Books about Bullying
The topic of bullying has never been more prominent in the media than it is today. Over the past ten years, young adult literature has exploded with stories of bullies and bullying. Reading these stories gives adults and teens a way to talk about this problem. Tune in to hear insights on bullying from bullying expert CJ Bott, author of The Bully in the Book and the Classroom and More Bullies in More Books. Youll also hear about a variety of fiction and nonfiction books for teens that explore the problem of bullying.
After listening to this episode, be sure to print out this list of recommended titles to take to the library or book seller.
Books featured in this episode:
- The Misfits by James Howe (Atheneum, 2001)
- Out of the Pocket by Bill Konigsberg (Dutton, 2008)
- Shine by Lauren Myracle (Amulet, April 2011)
- It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living edited by Dan Savage and Terry Miller (Dutton, March 2011)
- Rage: A Love Story by Julie Anne Peters (Knopf, 2009)
- Bitter End by Jennifer Brown (Little Brown, May 2011)
- The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney (Little, Brown, 2010)
- Burn by Suzanne Phillips (Little, Brown, 2008)
- Everybody Sees the Ants by A. S. King (Little, Brown, October 2011)
- Dear Bully: 70 Authors Tell Their Stories edited by Megan Kelley Hall and Carrie Jones (HarperTeen, September 2011)
Other highly recommended bully books:
- Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser (Simon & Schuster, 2000)
- Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher (Greenwillow, 2001)
- Shooter by Walter Dean Myers (Amistad, 2004)
- Endgame by Nancy Garden (Harcourt, 2006)
- Hate List by Jennifer Brown (Little, Brown, 2009)
- Project X by Jim Shepard (Knopf, 2004)
- Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (Razorbill, 2007)
- By the Time You Read This, Ill Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters (Hyperion, 2010)
- Buddha Boy by Kathe Koja (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003)
- Raiders Night by Robert Lipsyte (HarperCollins, 2006)
- Freak Show by James St. James (Dutton, 2007)
Recommended resources on bullying:
- The Bully in the Book and the Classroom by C.J. Bott (Scarecrow, 2004)
- More Bullies in More Books by C.J. Bott (Scarecrow, 2009)


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Sunday Meditation Session- Central Madison
1st, 3rd, 5th Sundays: 45 minutes sitting followed by discussion period. The discussion is led by volunteers from within our our group who offer to lead on a topic of interest to them.
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Veronica McLymont
Director Food and Nutrition Services
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York
Waste management is very important to us, so if we overproduce something, we try to find ways to use it instead of throwing things out. So if we don't use all the bacon from breakfast, we cut it up and use it as bacon bits on the salad bar, Or, hardboiled eggs from breakfast we put into salads and sandwiches for lunch. Of course, sanitation and health concerns are strictly watched.
Veronica McLymont


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Digging into Data Challenge Award Ceremony
On Thursday, December 3, I attended a ceremony in Ottawa, Canada, for the announcement of the awardees of the Digging into Data Challenge. (For a description of each winning project, please see the Digging website and the NEH's press release). The ceremony was sponsored by SSHRC, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, which is a Canadian government grantmaking agency and one of the participating funders in the Digging competition. The ceremony was very well-attended, with about 50 university administrators in attendance, all of whom were in town that day to attend the SSHRC Leaders Meeting. This is an annual meeting that SSHRC holds with the Canadian higher education community to discuss funding priorities and procedures. In addition, numerous other guests were on hand from Canadian humanities and social sciences organizations.
The first speaker of the evening was Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, a political scientist and Vice President (Academic) and Pro Vice-Chancellor, Pro Tempore at Memorial University, who was representing the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Dr. Tremblay welcomed the assembled audience and said a few words about the Digging competition before introducing SSHRC President Chad Gaffield. Dr. Gaffield, an historian who has been leading SSHRC since 2006. spoke about the Digging program, its aims, and about the four funding partners, NEH, SSHRC, NSF (National Science Foundation), and JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) of the UK. Then President Gaffield introduced the keynote speaker of the evening, NEH Chairman Jim Leach.
Chairman Leach gave a speech entitled "The New Digital Class," that talked about technology as a bridge, bringing together different cultures, including the cultures of the sciences and humanities.
After Chairman Leach's keynote, President Gaffield returned to the podium to announce the eight winning Digging into Data Challenge projects. The eight projects cover a wide variety of humanities, social sciences, library science, and computer science topics.
On a personal note, I'd like to thank my colleagues at SSHRC, NSF, and JISC for their many months of work in putting together the Digging into Data Challenge. And most of all, to the 87 international teams of scholars and scientists who competed in the Challenge, exemplifying international cooperation between the humanities and sciences.


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Skip to comments.Serbs remember 3,000 killed by NATO
Posted on 03/24/2009 2:06:43 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
SERBIANS marked the 10th anniversary of the start of a NATO blitz on the former federal republic of Yugoslavia on Tuesday with commemorations honouring over 3,000 victims.
Air-raid sirens sounded at noon throughout the country, while schools opened classes with a minute's silence for the 89 children who were killed in the 78-day bombing campaign, which was initiated without UN security council backing.
NATO claimed that it had launched Operation Allied Force in order to force then president Slobodan Milosevic to stop a military crackdown against Western-backed separatist insurgents in Kosovo province and pull out his troops.
But the US Clinton administration blocked a negotiated settlement at the Rambouillet conference.
Some 15,000 NATO-led soldiers remain in Kosovo, which 56 countries now recognise as an independent state after its ethnic Albanian-dominated parliament declared unilateral independence from Serbia 13 months ago.
Deputy Serbian PM Ivica Dacic described Kosovo's unilateral declaration as a resumption of the NATO aggression.
Ms Dacic said: "I wish to reiterate that the bombing was a result of false accusations of genocide and ethnic cleansing - the bombing of Serbia was just the culmination of pressure on the former Yugoslavia that began at the start of the 1990s."
Visiting Communist Party of Greece (KKE) general secretary Aleka Papariga said: "We are in Belgrade to remember and show our respect to the Serb people for the barbaric attacks by 19 NATO countries and to renew the two peoples' friendly relations."
Ms Papariga and a KKE delegation visited the home town of late president Slobodan Milosevic in Pozarevac and laid a wreath at his tomb.
The KKE leader said: "We came to remember the abduction, in essence, of Slobodan Milosevic, which fully exposed the so-called European democracy.
"Precisely on this continent, which supposedly has a great culture and humanism, a person was abducted before being tried with lies.
"He died shortly before the outcome, reminding us that the struggle of a people never has an end," Ms Papariga declared.
She called on the people of Serbia and Europe to "lead matters to the ultimate condemnation of imperialism" observing that "there is also a popular trial that inspires the peoples."
Later in the day, the KKE delegation participated in an international peace conference in Belgrade which was attended by representatives of anti-imperialist groups from 45 countries.
Clinton told the American people that 250,000 people were the victims of genocide and that we must act.
And you'll find people on this very forum that still believe Kaiser Willie above all else on this subject.
We suspect they're having someone else read the big words for them.
Did they ever find the missing 100,000 men?
They did find the mass graves...
...but we found them in Iraq, filled with Saddam's victims.
this a dark chapter in American history,
and a darker chapter in European history.
"Clinton told the American people that 250,000 people were the victims of genocide and that we must act. "
Interesting Clinton arrived at that figure, because that was the estimated number of dead, wounded, missing and "ethnically cleansed" during and after the US/NATO bombing campaign. But no worries... nothing about that will be held against Clinton, unlike what the "world" has tried to hang on Bush as a result of Afghanistan and Iraq.
It's a sad day when Greek Communists are on the right side but President Bush chose to join Clinton on the wrong side.
Did the Serbs commit any atrocities? Sure, probably some of them did. But not nearly as many as the Muslims. And they were fighting to defend themselves and the survival of their country against terrorist infiltrators.
A man kisses a poster depicting former Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic,
on a poster as a religious icon, during a rally Tuesday, March 24, 2009.
Protesters hold a photo showing top war crimes fugitive Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic, during a rally to
mark the 10th anniversary of the NATO bombing campaign in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, March 24, 2009.
Thanks for the pics.
Do you know if there are any books that give a clear, non-biased view of the Kosovo War/Incident/Campaign? The handful that I have found on the subject make Clinton look like a saint for going in an rescuing the helpless Kosovars from the brutal and tyrannical Serbs.
Should be called "Bill Clinton's War." To the Mid-stream Media a Democrat war is a "good war." A Republican war is a bad one.
Fool's Crusade by Diana Johnstone.
She's a leftist and it's not a perfect book. It is, however, another viewpoint.
I'm sorry to say there isn't much out there that won't either praise Clinton as savior or praise Milosevic as hero. Well, not in English.
I recall the Russians were pretty upset about that war:
I traveled in Russian shortly (2 weeks) after Clinton's War started, and everywhere I wented people asked me "Why did he do it? What does he have against Russians?"
Which of course they consider Serbians to be.
This was probably the beginning of Russians' disillusionment with the U.S.
Say hello to Atzlan.
Where's the one of you bowing before 0bama?
He is your Supreme Leader, right?
Much of the Milosevic worship was the result of the Clinton bombings. Expand your mind and maybe you can grasp how badly we screwed up by getting involved with THE WRONG SIDE!
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LONDON (Reuters) - The euro zone's private sector started 2014 in much better shape than expected, with stronger growth across the region marred only by a continued downturn in France, surveys showed on Thursday.
Markit's Flash Eurozone Composite Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), which gauges business activity across thousands of companies and is seen as a good guide to economic health, jumped to 53.2 in January from 52.1 last month.
That was well above the 50 mark that denotes growth and was its highest reading since mid-2011, beating all forecasts in a Reuters poll of 25 economists.
"Hopefully the upturn we are seeing in Germany and across the rest of the region - which saw the strongest growth since around mid-2011 - will help pull France out of its current malaise," said Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit.
An earlier composite PMI from France, the bloc's second-biggest economy, showed activity contracted for the third month running in January, although the downturn was less pronounced and both its services and factory PMIs beat expectations.
In neighbouring Germany the composite PMI rose to a 31-month high.
Williamson said if the data held near current levels, the bloc's economy would grow around 0.3-0.4 percent in the first quarter, stronger than the 0.2 percent suggested in a Reuters poll last week.
New orders rose across the bloc for the sixth month, with the sub-index matching December's 30-month record of 52.2, indicating the PMIs might rise higher next month.
The upturn was broad based, with growth in both the services and manufacturing industries, and the data comes after Ireland and Spain saw strong demand for their bonds this month, while European shares climbed to fresh 5-1/2 year peaks on Tuesday as investors become increasingly bullish.
Markit's euro zone services PMI, which covers the bulk of the bloc's economy, climbed to 51.9 from 51.0, beating the median forecast in a Reuters poll for a more modest rise to 51.4.
However, some of that work was generated by firms cutting prices, as they have for over two years. The output price index nudged up to 48.5 from 48.2.
Inflation was just 0.8 percent across the euro zone in December, official data showed last week, well below the European Central Bank's 2 percent target ceiling.
But with a depleted ammunition box, having slashed its main interest rate to near zero and given more than 1 trillion euros of cheap cash to banks for a three-year period, the ECB's options to shore up the recovery are limited.
Still, extra support may not be needed.
The PMI for manufacturing bounced to a 32-month high of 53.9 from 52.7, beating all 39 forecasts in a Reuters poll. A gauge of manufacturing output, which feeds into the composite PMI, climbed to 56.7 from 54.9, its highest since April 2011.
With demand for manufactured goods at the strongest in nearly three years, factories built up backlogs of work at a faster pace, with the subindex notching up a rise to 53.9 from 52.6, a near three-year record.
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COLUMBUS – The North American Soccer Reporters (NASR) announced today that Columbus Crew midfielder Bernardo Anor has been voted Major League Soccer Player of the Week for Week 3 of the 2014 MLS Season.
In the Crew's 2-1 victory over the Philadelphia Union on Saturday, March 22, Anor scored both of Columbus' goals during the first half, leading the Crew to its first 2-0-0 start in club history.
In the 24th minute, Crew playmaker Federico Higuain launched a high arching corner kick into the box, where a wide-open Anor ran onto it for powerful header that bounced once past a crowd of Union defenders into the back of the net.
In the second minute of first half stoppage time, Anor scored the eventual game-winning goal. Crew midfielder Wil Trapp won possession in the midfield and played a one-touch ball to Anor, who took two touches before sending a left-footed rocket from 35 yards out past Union goalkeeper Zac MacMath.
Following back-to-back wins under new Sporting Director and Head Coach Gregg Berhalter to begin the 2014 MLS campaign, the Crew returns to action on Saturday, March 29 in Seattle, when the Black & Gold take on Sounders FC at CenturyLink Field (10:00 p.m. ET / Time Warner Cable SportsChannel).
The MLS Player of the Week is selected each week of the regular season by a panel of journalists from NASR. The group consists of members of print, television, radio and online media. More information and membership information can be found at http://www.soccerreporters.com/.


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Phil Moore / AFP - Getty Images
Residents of the district around the military barracks celebrate as a Congolese government army (FARDC) soldier arrives in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Dec. 3.
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Congolese government army troops ride on trucks through Gomaon Dec. 3.
Reuters reports: Government forces re-established control over Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern city of Goma on Monday after rebels withdrew, but a senior official said the insurgents were only a few kilometers away and still posed a threat.
The M23 rebel movement pulled its fighters out of the North Kivu provincial capital on Saturday after seizing it from fleeing U.N.-backed government forces and holding it for 11 days. Full Story
Also on PhotoBlog:
- Congo's displaced fearful after attack on camp
- Reluctant to leave, some rebels begin withdrawing around Goma
- Congo rebels pulling back; fate of Goma uncertain
Phil Moore / AFP - Getty Images
A Congolese government army soldier stands outside the military barracks in Goma on Dec. 3.
Goran Tomasevic / Reuters
A woman dances to celebrate the return of government soldiers to Goma on Dec. 3.
Goran Tomasevic / Reuters
A boy dances to celebrate the government army's return to Goma on Dec. 3.
Goran Tomasevic / Reuters
Government army soldiers use mobile phones to record videos in the town of Sake, some 17 miles west of Goma on Dec. 3.


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Landra Reid, the wife of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, has been diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer and is being treated in Washington, DC.
Reid's office confirmed the diagnosis this morning when I called. Landra Reid is receiving treatment, including chemotherapy. Reid's folks emphasized that he is by her side but that his work as majority leader will not be compromised.
"Senator and Mrs. Reid appreciate the thoughts and concerns expressed during this time." Reid spokesman Zac Petkanas said in response to my inquiry. "They ask that they be afforded the respect and privacy that any family would want."
You may recall Landra Reid was in a terrible car accident in March of 2010, but she had fully recovered. The Reids have been married for 52 years.
Our thoughts, prayers, and best wishes go out to them. Hopefully, they can weather this next storm.