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Under the Agreement, SFECO will pay Chalice US$80 million in cash for Chalice's share of the mineral resource at the Koka gold deposit. In addition, SFECO will pay Chalice a further sum, not to exceed US$20 million for the balance of the area falling within the Zara Project (including Zara North, South and Central). This figure is to be agreed between the parties and, failing agreement, will be determined by binding independent arbitration to a cap of US$20 million.
Chalice has also agreed that it shall not solicit or be involved in discussions or negotiations concerning the sale of its shares in ZMSC until completion of SFECO's due diligence or, until completion if the SFECO confirms it is satisfied with its due diligence, but subject to a carve out allowing the Chalice directors to discharge their fiduciary and statutory duties where there is a superior proposal.
The parties will prepare more formal transaction documents incorporating usual terms and reflecting the current short form agreement.
Assuming completion of the Transaction, Chalice would be liable to pay tax to the Eritrean Government on the SFECO and ENAMCO proceeds at a rate of 38%. This will be calculated after deducting the Company's share of project-to-date costs of at least ~US$30 million (subject to audit).
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A subsidiary of Shanghai Construction Group Co. Ltd. will acquire gold mining assets in Eritrea, according to a company announcement.
Shanghai Construction will acquire a 60% equity stake in Zara Mining Share Co. for US $80 million, the statement said, citing a framework agreement signed by the two companies.
The deal also gives Shanghai Construction the option to acquire additional mining rights from Zara for areas where gold reserves have not yet been confirmed.
Shanghai Construction will conduct the acquisition through wholly-owned subsidiary China Shanghai (Group) Corporation for Foreign Economic & Technological Cooperation (SEFCO Group).
SEFCO is involved in various infrastructure projects overseas, including Vietnam, where it is building a 40,000-seat stadium in the capital Hanoi, a coal-fired thermal power plant, and a conference center, according to its website.
The company is also building a liquified petroleum gas pipeline and terminal project in Pakistan and has worked on some of Shanghai's highest-profile infrastructure projects, including the Shanghai World Financial Center, the country's tallest skyscraper.
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Shanghai Construction Group approved a plan by its wholly-controlled subsidiary, SEFCO Group, to acquire a 60 percent stake in Eritrean gold mining company, Zara Mining Share Co., for $80 million, reports Shanghai Securities News, citing a company filing.
SEFCO Group may make further cash payments to acquire additional mining rights from Zara Mining Share.
The target company has exploration and mining rights to an area covering 147 kilometers. Its mining rights to the Koka Gold Deposit in northern Eritrea is valid for a period of 18 years.
ENAMCO, which has a 40% stake in Zara Mining Share, has given its approval to the transaction.
SEFCO Group will soon engage a third party to investigate the assets, liabilities and financial status of the target company.
According to Shanghai Construction, should the acquisition succeed, it will obtain stable investment returns and about one billion yuan worth of mine construction contracts, expanding the scale of its business in Eritrea.
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Shanghai Construction Group Co., Ltd. announced on December 27 that its board allowed China Shanghai (Group) Corporation for Foreign Economic Technological Cooperation (China SFECO Group), a wholly-owned subsidiary under the company to buy 60% equities in ZARA Mining Share Company in the State of Eritrea.
The subsidiary is also permitted to sign a conditional framework agreement with ZARA Mining. According the framework agreement, the acquisition consideration consists of USD 80 million (equivalent to CNY 508 million) and another payment separately discussed for mining equities of the area whose reserve is yet to be verified.
As a company indirectly established by Chalice Gold Mines Ltd. (asx:CHN) in the State of Eritrea, ZARA Mining is mainly in charge of KOKA gold mine exploitation. It now holds exploration and exploitation rights of 147-square-kilometer area in ZARA mineral region and 18-year mining rights of KOKA gold mine. The Eritrean National Mining Corporation (ENAMCO) is the other shareholder of ZARA Mining, owning 40% equities in the latter. The ENAMCO has agreed that Chalice Gold Mines would transfer 60% equities in ZARA Mining to China SFECO Group.
The company said it would get stable investment return and mines and mine plants totaled around CNY 1 billion if such equity acquisition was finished and the gold mine was exploited smoothly. Shanghai Construction Group believes this will help it to further enlarge its business scale in the State of Eritrea.


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The Post About Lassie, Get Help
Back to the rescuing animals. I read this report about a dog who dialed 9-1-1 after her owner had a heart attack. Who's a good girl? She is, for surely.
Of course, how many other dogs have gone to rescue their passed out "mom" or "dad" and dialed 4-1-1 and probably ended up with the number to the local Hooters?
Probably more than you would think.
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Ha ha! this gave me a good laugh this morning :)ReplyDelete
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I think including the word "Hooters" was genius.
Now when people google that word, it's possible they'll find your blog.
Now, there's an interesting way to being increase your traffic.
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- CaryannMay 1, 2009 at 10:10 AM
This post needs some pics. How about one of those pictures of dead animals that I used to send you when I worked at the animal hospital? Or maybe a picture of an owl. That would be appropriate.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 1, 2009 at 3:03 PM
I sometimes read LOLDogs. My favorite is of a collie with the caption, "I know Timmie is down the well, I pushed him!"ReplyDelete
Maybe Lassie is much smarter than we think!
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Part 2: The Benefits of A/B Testing
Now that you have a better understanding of what A/B testing entails, let's expand on the process—and why it's such a great tool. There's a reason 60 percent of companies believe that A/B testing improves their conversion rate optimization. Once you start, you're likely to notice some of the following benefits flowing toward your business as well.
A/B Testing: Improving Your Content
Above all else, A/B testing improves the quality of your content. While only you can control what you write, A/B will let you know:
- What keywords draw in the most conversions.
- Whether or not your images resonate with consumers.
- How your technical SEO variables draw in conversions.
- What page elements consumers engage with most frequently.
As you A/B test, you'll be able to better tailor your content to its audience – and quickly. No need to wait a full month before replacing ineffective content – within a week's time, you'll be able to tell whether your existing content draws in conversions or drives them away.
Boost your Profits
As you use A/B testing, you'll be able to make more accurate conversion projections. By relying on consumer data instead of expert opinions, you can properly delegate your resources and create enough of your product to suit your consumers' needs.
In this way, A/B testing cuts costs while helping you boost your revenue, and that's a huge benefit in our book.
Take Fewer Publication Risks
Likewise, A/B testing will keep you from publishing content that might otherwise tank your platform. For example, you can test product prices and see to which one's consumers respond most positively.
You'll also be able to increase your content's ROI by tinkering with the page elements that prevent consumers from completing a sale. This may mean altering the organization of your page or completely reworking your platform's checkout. Either way, you'll be attending to a page risk before it has time to give your business a bad name.
Experiment with Multi-Functionality
A/B testing isn't confined to an assessment of your text, headers or platform's visual elements. That's part of what makes it such a welcome addition to any marketing campaign. With A/B test, you can assess anything – from the content, you want to share on social media to the checkout you use on your business's website. That versatility helps you optimize your platform from the top down.
With A/B test, you can assess anything – from the content, you want to share on social media to the checkout you use on your business's website. That versatility helps you optimize your platform from the top down.
Simplify the Process of Analytical Assessment
A/B testing also gives you quick and easy access to all of the data you need to assess your platform's functionality. You can analyze your data quickly and break down which of your page variations generated the traffic and consumer response you wanted. That speed lends itself to the overall functionality of your platform, as you'll be able to publish the most effective variation of your content immediately upon news of its success.
The benefits of A/B test are many, and the downsides are limited, if non-existent. All that remains is to choose your A/B testing tool of choice and integrate it into your next marketing campaign.
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Questions From Readers
● Is it proper for a Christian to have a pet sterilized or to have it "put to sleep"?—U.S.A.
There are no specific statements in the Holy Scriptures that rule out a Christian's sterilizing or taking the life of an animal.
According to the Mosaic law, a castrated animal was unfit for sacrifice. It stated: "[An animal] having the testicles squeezed or crushed or pulled off or cut off you must not present to Jehovah, and in your land you should not render them up." (Lev. 22:24) This law did not specifically prohibit castration, but it evidently did cause the Israelites to refrain from this practice.
Christians, however, do not offer animal sacrifices; they are not under the Mosaic law. (Rom. 6:14) Hence the command at Leviticus 22:24 would not prohibit them from sterilizing a pet. There are other factors that govern a Christian's decision regarding what he might do to or for his animals.
The Bible shows that Jehovah God gave man dominion over the animal creation. (Gen. 1:28) He may, therefore, use animals for food and clothing. He may also kill animals that are definitely injurious to his welfare. (Gen. 3:21; 9:3; Ex. 21:28, 29; 1 Sam. 17:34, 35) Man's rightful interests and welfare always take precedence.
So a Christian has the right to determine what he considers best respecting his animals, including pets. He can decide whether it would be in his or his family's best interests to have a pet sterilized or "put to sleep." He, of course, should recognize that a Christian does not cruelly mistreat animals. Proverbs 12:10 says: "The righteous one is caring for the soul of his domestic animal, but the mercies of the wicked ones are cruel." The person who is brutal with his animals, causing them needless suffering, shows disregard for God's creation; what he considers 'merciful treatment' is actually "cruel." The Christian, on the other hand, appreciates the needs of his animals and has feelings for their welfare. In the case of an animal that is suffering from serious disease or injury, or that cannot be properly cared for without imposing undesirable burdens, he may feel that it would be the wise and merciful course to put it to death. The Christian is responsible to make his own decision in this regard.
● What does 2 Corinthians 6:7 mean when it refers to "weapons of righteousness on the right hand and on the left"?—U.S.A.
Second Corinthians 6:7 is part of a discussion about how the apostle Paul and his fellow workers recommended themselves as God's ministers. One of the ways they did so was "through the weapons of righteousness on the right hand and on the left." This may allude to the fact that anciently the right hand was used to wield the sword and the left hand to hold the shield. In any event, assaulted from all sides, Paul and his associates were fully armed to wage spiritual warfare.
This spiritual warfare is described at 2 Corinthians 10:3-5: "Though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage warfare according to what we are in the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful by God for overturning strongly entrenched things. For we are overturning reasonings and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God." So that the Christian congregation at Corinth would not be led away from faithful devotion to Christ, Paul waged this spiritual warfare against false teachers and "superfine apostles."—2 Cor. 10:8-10; 11:12-14; 12:11.
As to the flesh, Paul and his fellow workers were imperfect men, with sinful inclinations. But they did not resort to weapons of the fallen flesh—cunning, deceit or trickery. (2 Cor. 11:3, 13; 12:16) They did not rely on human ability, wisdom and power. By avoiding extravagance of speech or display of human wisdom and its power to persuade, they could help others to build up faith through God's spirit and power. (1 Cor. 2:2-5) The chief weapon for overturning wrong reasonings was God's "word" or 'message.'—Heb. 4:12; Titus 1:9.
Deep love and concern for others prompted them to wage spiritual warfare. Their motivations were in no way fleshly. They did not seek honor, riches or influence. As Paul told the Corinthians: "If we have sown spiritual things to you, is it something great if we shall reap things for the flesh from you? If other men partake of this authority over you, do we not much more so? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this authority, but we are bearing all things, in order that we might not offer any hindrance to the good news about the Christ." (1 Cor. 9:11, 12) "We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have taken advantage of no one."—2 Cor. 7:2.
Thus it can be seen that the "weapons" Paul used were righteous or just means for furthering the cause of true worship against all assaults.


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Kelley School of Business' MBA entrepreneurship program, director earn top national honors
Jan. 18, 2007
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University has earned another national honor for its entrepreneurship program. The graduate program was named the 2007 National Model MBA in Entrepreneurship by the U.S. Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE).
The National Model MBA in Entrepreneurship Program is awarded to a university that develops an exemplary program in entrepreneurship that reflects innovation, quality, effectiveness, comprehensiveness, sustainability, transferability, depth of support and impact on a national or global level.
Chosen from among 31 programs, the Kelley School demonstrated the distinctiveness and depth of its entrepreneurial curriculum by emphasizing unique opportunities offered such as the Entrepreneurial Management Academy and the annual Velocity Conference. The conference underscores the primary role of entrepreneurship, technology and innovation in contemporary business environments to accelerate entrepreneurial careers.
The school also focused on its cross-campus initiatives with other IU programs, specifically the medical life sciences developments being created by physicians and researchers at the IU Medical School. Working together, MBA students and medical school faculty are establishing business viability of new medical technologies.
Accepting the award on behalf of the Kelley School was Donald F. Kuratko, the Jack M. Gill Chair of entrepreneurship and executive director of the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
"This award is an exemplification of our phenomenal entrepreneurship team at the Kelley School of Business. This award acknowledges us as the nation's foremost model program in entrepreneurship," Kuratko said.
In addition, Kuratko was awarded the John E. Hughes Entrepreneurial Advocacy Award for his contributions to the field of entrepreneurship throughout his academic career. USASBE presents the advocacy award to noteworthy individuals who have exhibited exemplary leadership and sustained contributions to the support and advocacy of the entrepreneurship field. The awards were presented at the association's annual conference Saturday (Jan. 13) in Orlando, Fla.
Dan Smith, dean of the Kelley School, said, "Ultimately, the success of any program is due to its people. Over the last few years, we have made a number of important investments in the area of entrepreneurship. We believe that entrepreneurship can be a driving force that transforms lives, communities and societies. Being recognized as having the model MBA program in entrepreneurship is certainly a great honor and is the result of the commitment to excellence of our faculty, staff and students.
"I am particularly proud of Dr. Kuratko's individual recognition by his peers as it demonstrates the national visibility he has created for IU and the Kelley School," Smith added. "He provides tremendous leadership for our Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation."


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Collingwood Days Festival 2014
We're still a couple months away from the dog days of summer but the Dog Days of the Collingwood Days Festival are just around the corner!
From May 24 to 31, the annual Collingwood Days Festival will set up shop at Carleton Elementary School on Kingsway and will play host to a variety of family fun and games, including; a BMX Bike air show, cultural performances, children's rides & games, an international marketplace, a hockey tournament, as well as martial arts and yoga demonstrations.
Plus, what would the Dog Days be without a dog show? Collingwood Days is fun for the entire family – pets included!
But the highlight of the week long festival comes on the final day – a pancake breakfast with local firefighters. The event is free and everyone is welcome!
Since 2003, the annual Collingwood Days Festival has been organized by the Collingwood Business Improvement Association, the Collingwood Community Policing Centre and the Collingwood Neighbourhood House.
For more information, visit the event website at collingwooddays.com.
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Non-Organic Skin and Beauty Product Company Reviews
Non-organic skin and beauty product companies produce a full range of skin and beauty products in a form that often utilizes non-organic materials including fillers, binders and preservatives.
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While many would agree that beauty may be only skin deep, most individuals have at least some level of vanity, and a resulting desire to look and feel youthful as well. This is completely normal and represents a valid health concern. This being said, as the average age expectancy continues to rise, the desire to look young at any age has never been greater.
There are several factors that can lead to, and even accelerate, premature aging. However, the best way to delay the visible signs of aging is a healthy, nutritious, and fit lifestyle. This includes a nutritious and balanced diet, plenty of exercise, rest, relaxation, and a solid skincare routine.
Today's top-quality skin and beauty products are designed to feed and nourish the skin with the nutrients necessary to delay the degeneration of the skin, reduce wrinkles, minimize sun spots and promote elasticity. In fact, modern skin and beauty products can be thought of in a similar way to the foods that we consume: healthy foods provide our internal bodies with nutrition, while skin and beauty products provide our outer bodies with the same. To this end, it is important to determine your exact skin condition(s) and requirements before purchasing high quality skin and beauty products that will complement your outer beauty.
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Niadyne skincare products utilize Niacin, or vitamin B3. The Nia24 product lines are specifically designed to combat skin deterioration and aging. Nia24's skin and beauty products were formulated by two professors at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, and have been proven to be effective at treating and alleviating the typical signs of aging, including discoloration, fine lines and wrinkles.
Kinerase Review
Kinerase skin and beauty products include Kinetin, an antioxidant that prevents plants from withering. Kinerase products seek to prolong skin beauty and improve overall skin health. Kinerase offers a high quality product line that is moderately high in price. Their product lines are divided into the various categories of skin problems.
SkinCeuticals Review
SkinCeuticals manufactures advanced skincare treatments and products. SkinCeuticals produces high quality products by focusing on researching and developing new and innovative types of skincare regimens. SkinCeuticals was one of the first companies to support their skin treatment benefits with scientific evidence and research.
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Oil of Olay Review
Olay skincare products have been available to the public for several years, and have become a mainstay for individuals looking for effective skincare products at an affordable price. Olay offers multiple skincare product lines that are not only affordably priced, but designed to address the unique and specialized needs of the individual as well.
Revitol Review
Revitol provides skincare products that extend into many areas of beautification, from stretch mark prevention to acne relief. Many of Revitol's products focus on anti-aging skincare technology, and the product line is renowned for its commitment to high quality natural ingredients. Revitol is a member of the Natural Products Association.
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Throw a spin to your overall looks wrapped up in this Drashti Dhami green color georgette palazzo suit. The lovely lace and resham work a intensive feature of this attire.
- Material: Georgette
- Fit: Straight Cut
- Neck Line: Fancy
- Workmanship: Embroidered
- Lining: Art Silk
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Osagyefo Theatre Company - African Arts in Education
Osagyefo`s participatory arts in education programme, is our main activity. It has been the toast of many schools who have participated in it. This programme is designed to give schools the opportunity to learn more about Africa, the African people and their culture.
The company has been running workshops in African drumming, dance, cookery, beads making and other activities for young people in the communities during out-of-school hours and holidays, to enable them use their leisure hours to learn something better.
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In its attempt to bring African arts closer to everyone in Britain, Osagyefo has designed projects for Prisons, Immigration Detention Centres and HM Young offenders' Institutions in the country and has been running taster sessions for these institutions in the past.
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SPRING & SUMMER OFFERS – Osagyefo is offering discounts to all schools, from Nursery, Primary, High(including Special Needs'), for workshops in art & craft(tie dye, mask-masking), storytelling, drumming & dance, as part of activities […]Read More


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We know that Apple provided Pixar designers the opportunity to meet with their head product design team while coming up with the concept for the robot 'Eve' from Wall-E, but was the collaboration between the two companies before that? /Film has a post speculating that Steve Jobs used his interest in both companies to test market the idea of the iPad by inserting a similar design into the Pixar film The Incredibles.
Here are the important scenes from the movie:
The Incredibles was released in 2004, 6 years prior to the iPad and 3 years prior to the iPhone. What do you think?


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Bitcoin Proponents Respond to JP Morgan Executive's Statements
Bitcoin proponents got fired up last week when JP Morgan executive Jamie Dimon called bitcoin a "fraud" and told the CNBC news outlet that cryptocurrency markets would end badly. Following Dimon's opinions, many crypto-enthusiasts responded to the banker's recent statements. Also read: GMO to Invest 10 Billion Yen in Its Own 7nm, 5nm and 3.5nm Dedicated Bitcoin […]
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A plethora of Royal Guests and Relatives from around Europe pose ahead of a glittering Ball at the Royal Palace of Stockholm on this day in 1960, which were among a series of Balls hosted by King Gustav VI Adolf, Queen Louise, Princess Sibylla to find suitable Royal matches for the Haga Princesses and other the Royal Guests. The Royals in this group portrait are:
First Row, L-R; Princess Margaretha of Sweden, Crown Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands, Princess Sibylla of Sweden, Queen Frederica of Greece, King Gustav VI Adolf and Queen Louise of Sweden, Princess Astrid of Norway, Princess Alexandra of Kent, and Princess Sophie of Greece.
Middle Row, L-R; Crown Prince Harald of Norway, Princess Birgitta of Sweden, Princess Irene of the Netherlands, Crown Princess Margrethe of Denmark, Princess Irene of Greece, Princess Desiree of Sweden, Princess Beatrix of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, and Prince Bertil of Sweden.
Third Row, L-R; The Hereditary Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, the Duke of Aosta, Prince Carl of Hesse, Crown Prince Constantine of Greece, Tsar Simeon of Bulgaria, the Duke of Kent, Prince Moritz of Hesse, Prince Ludwig of Baden, Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Count Hans Veit of Törring-Jettenbach.
A special thanks to our friend JR for translating the following sections from Veckorevyn's Biography of King Gustav VI Adolf about the Ball!
The Palace Ball in 1960, one of the last large ones with 27 royal participants, the majority of them young people: At 20.30, guests gather two stairs up the eastern vault [with general curtsey training]. Most the girls have long dresses. The boys are in white tie, except the officers who have uniforms. Everyone has gloves, but they start debating whether to take them off or not when greeting. The court official who`s giving directives usually intervenes with the result that the right glove is taken off.
Another court official (usually a chamberlain) makes sure that the invitees stands two and two, gentleman and lady, outside the door of the White Sea, where the royals wait. The chamberlain takes care to find out the names and introduces them by shouting their names when the couple enters. They then cross the floor to firstly greet the royal couple, the girls do deep curtseys, the gentlemen kiss the queen's hand, after which they curtsey and bow for Sibylla and the princesses.
Everyone then socialises in the White Sea until the dance is opened with a Viennese waltz. Champagne and wine punch are served. The King and Queen opens the ball by dancing the first dance. This year Arvid Sundins orchestra plays, and everything from waltz to cha cha cha and rock'n'roll dance.
In each room there are magnificent sets of flowers in pots and vases [lilacs, azaleas, daffodils and tulips]. Bowls with sweets and cigarettes are everywhere. Christina and Carl Gustaf usually sit on the balcony above the White Sea with some friends and look at their older sisters and their friends. Christina are not allowed to take part until she reaches the age of 18. Supper is served at midnight. The guests are seated at small tables. The food – soup, main course, dessert, coffee – is placed on long tables placed by the walls and while the main course and dessert is self service, the soup and coffee are served by lackeys. With the exception of the princess' three tables which are seated according to placing, everyone may sit wherever they want. The King and Queen and their older guests are seated in a separate chamber.
The dancing goes on until two o'clock. The invitation says, "To be collected at 0200" and that means that the ball is over. And then the about 300 guests can go home after a successful evening. Because everyone has fun at the palace." This ball had been arranged by Princess Sibylla to find suitable matches for her daughters. King Gustav VI Adolf felt uncomfortable with it all since he feared that there would be rumours about romances in the press.


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Romain Grosjean drove an excellent race at the Hockenheimring to beat Giorgio Pantano to the chequered flag. Grosjean followed Pantano closesly throughout the race and took advantage of a heavy shower late in the race to overtake the championship leader.
But on the following lap he overtook the lapped Marko Asmer under a yellow flag. The stewards added 25 seconds to his race time afterwards as punishment, dropping Grosjean from first to second.
It's the second time this year Grosjean has lost a win after the race had finished. He was stripped of his win in the Barcelona sprint race after he was deemed to have defended too aggressively against Kamui Kobayashi.
Pantano failed to add to his lead in Sunday's sprint race however as he crashed into Andy Soucek early in the race.
Pole sitter Karun Chandhok was passed by Lucas di Grassi at the start but soon passed the Brazilian for the lead. Andreas Zuber also passed the Brazilian and closed in on Chandhok towards the end of the race but wasn't able to pass.
Zuber also came under pressure from Bruno Senna, who fought his way up through ther field to take the final podium place. Romain Grosjean was fourth.


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Nana's Kitchen Table
The inspiration for Nana's Kitchen Table came from Emma Semmler's own nana. Her kitchen table was always the heart of the home, set with cutlery, homemade jam and chutney for tomorrow's breakfast. Memories of family gatherings and nana's homemade treats led the former Flinders Street Project pastry chef to create her own kitchen table.
Set within historic Waverley House, the quaint provincial decor contrasts with modern wooden benches and an open kitchen. The scents of home-style cooking draw customers inside to sip on Blk/Mrkt coffees while they peruse the modern-Australian menu. Savoury offerings might include housemade focaccia, loaded toasties, or poached Rohde's free-range eggs and slow-cooked lamb on sourdough. On your way out, grab one of Nana's cakes, jams or chutneys to take home.
Seasonal fruit and veg come from Mount Barker Fresh Markets. Fresh herbs are grown in the courtyard garden, which kids can explore after having a freshly squeezed juice or ice-cold smoothie. The cafe also serves local wines and beers, adding a little more zing than you may remember at nana's.
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It appears that a few days ago there was a slight change to Flickr's logo: an addition of a small Yahoo logo to the right side so it reads "Flickr from Yahoo." In response, many Flickr users have taken to the photo-sharing site's forums to express their horror at Yahoo's branding on Flickr.
The underlying fact is that Flickr users, many of whom are techy hipsters, just don't mix well with "middle America Yahoo" as Bartz put it a few days ago at the unveiling of Yahoo's $100 million marketing campaign about "Y!ou." Bartz said to a roomful of journalists and bloggers:
"When you get outside New York and Silicon Valley, everyone loves Yahoo. I just want to transplant all of you guys out of your cynicism. What is wrong with you guys?. Go be cynical about frickin' Google. You got me pissed off."
Yahoo also got into a bit of a sticky situation with users when it removed a photoshopped image posted on Flickr of President Barack Obama that makes him look like the Heath Ledger (Joker) character from The Dark Knight. Flickr took the image down, citing a DMCA notice, adding that "We very much value freedom of speech and creativity." Thomas Hawk had a good overview of all the gory details.
Strangely, the company not only took down the image, but also removed the Flickr page and comments, even though this isn't required by the DMCA. And then, in what was a totally contradictory move, Yahoo shut down the forum discussions about the political controversy, cutting off further political discourse about the image.
Judging from the comments in the discussions surrounding the (re)branding of Flickr, users don't want to be reminded that Yahoo bought Flickr. On the forum, users call Yahoo "stale" and think the logo is "horrifying" and "ugly" with many writing that they'd rather ignore the fact that Yahoo even owns Flickr. It's kinda sad that even though Yahoo owns one of the most popular photo-sharing sites on the web, Flickr's users would rather not be reminded of that fact. Perhaps Yahoo should start to make nice with its younger, hipster users that reside outside of middle America.
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Take a break from all of that Thanksgiving prep this week, because Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and HBO are serving up a veritable feast of streaming goodness. Whether you're ready to marathon a whole lot of cheesy Christmas movies or settle down for a four-course meal of Western excellence from the Coen Brothers, the big four streamers have you covered.
Add in two new British imports, a fresh Chuck Lorre comedy, and two animated series that you'll actually want to watch with your kids, and you have zero reasons to leave the house this week.
Nov. 12
Nov. 13
Loudon Wainwright III: Surviving Twin
Oh My Ghost
Nov. 15
The Crew
May the Devil Take You
Nov. 16
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Break-Up
The Kominsky Method
Narcos: Mexico
Ponysitters Club: Season 2
Prince of Peoria
The Princess Switch
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Our Picks:
Joel and Ethan Coen's six-part Western anthology series is finally arriving on Netflix this week.
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
A group of rebel princesses drives this kick-butt new animated series.
Sitcom superman Chuck Lorre is turning his attention to single camera laughs with this Michael Douglas-starring comedy.
Nov. 11
Monster's Ball (2001)
Nov. 12
The Little Death (2014)
The Wolfpack (2015)
Nov. 13
Bigfoot (2018)
Keepers of the Magic (2018)
Killer Bees (2018)
Nov. 15
Hip-hop Houdini: Complete Season 1 (Fuse)
12 Dog Days Till Christmas (2014)
A Christmas Kiss II (2011)
A Cinderella Christmas (2016)
A Dogwalker's Christmas Tale (2015)
A Puppy for Christmas (2016)
Angels in the Snow (2015)
Back to Christmas (2014)
Cartel Land (2015)
Christmas Belle (2013)
Christmas with the Andersons (2016)
Dust 2 Glory (2018)
Girlfriends of Christmas Past (2016)
Holly's Holiday (2012)
Luis & The Aliens (2018)
Married by Christmas (2016)
My Dad is Scrooge (2014)
My Santa (2013)
Naughty & Nice (2014)
Rodeo & Juliet (2015)
The Bank Job (2008)
The Christmas Calendar (2017)
The March Sisters at Christmas (2012)
The Secret of the Nutcracker (2007)
Nov. 16
The Bisexual: Complete Season 1 Premiere (Hulu Original)
Holly Hobbie: Complete Season 1 (Hulu Original)
Dept. Q: A Conspiracy of Faith (2016)
Dept Q: The Absent One (2016)
Dept. Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes (2016)
Our Picks:
After a woman splits from her longtime partner, she goes on a journey toward discovering and exploring her sexuality in this British comedy.
The March Sisters at Christmas
Think of this movie as proof that Beth doesn't always have to die, Little Women, fans.
Nov. 15
Gotti (2018)
Nov. 16
Gymkhana Files (Prime Original series), Season 1
Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny (Prime Original series), Season 1a
Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams (Prime Exclusive) (2018)
Nov. 17
Our Picks:
The modern bad movie masterpiece starring John Travolta is officially on Amazon this week.
Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny
Settle down with your kids, and watch this adorable (and funny) cartoon spin-off of the hit movie franchise.
Nov. 11
Sally4Ever (Series Premiere)
Nov. 12
The Price of Everything (2018)
Nov. 13
24/7 The Match: Tiger vs. Phil
Nov. 14
Annabelle: Creation (2017)
Ideal Home (2018)
Nov. 15
The Emperor's Newest Clothes
Nov. 17
Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)
Sesame Street (Season 49 Premiere)
Our Picks:
HBO's latest British import looks wonderfully weird, melancholy, and hilarious. The series follows two women who fall for each other while one is married to a man, and the other is trying to get her acting career off the ground — what could go wrong?
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Please call 508-748-1252, email firstname.lastname@example.com, or stop in the Elizabeth Taber Library to register for these exciting new Library workshops.
Technology Tuesdays: Start off the New Year by learning a new skill! This eight-week "New Year's Resolution" themed technology series starts on January 7 at 11:00 am and runs through February 25. Workshops will include topics such as using your device to check out e-books and audiobooks, learning a new language, creating websites or blogs, and creative, fun websites to use for traveling, losing weight and cooking!
On Tuesday, January 7 at 11:00 am, we'll be learning how to check out e-books and audiobooks from the Library. Please make sure to bring your device with you to the workshop.
On Tuesday, January 14 at 11:00 am, we'll take a look at Mango Languages, which is the latest electronic resource to which the Elizabeth Taber Library has subscribed. Mango Languages is an online language-learning system that can help you learn languages such as Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Italian and more. It's free, fun and interactive.
Drop in Tech Help Thursdays, 2:00 – 3:00 pm, starting January 9: Do you need one-on-one help with a device you received for the holidays, or do you just have a technology question? Then stop by the Elizabeth Taber Library any Thursday in January between 2:00 – 3:00 pm, and Libby O'Neill will try to walk you through it! First come, first served.
Mystery Book Club: Join us at the Elizabeth Taber Library on Wednesday, January 8 at 11:00 am for our monthly Mystery Book Club meeting. This month, we will discuss Gillian Flynn's book, "Gone Girl." Please stop in the Library today to register and reserve a copy of this book. The next Mystery Book Club meeting is on February 5 at 11:00 am.
Knitting Group, Thursday, January 9 at 11:00 am: Do you love to knit? If so, bring your yarn and knitting needles to the Elizabeth Taber Library for our informal knitting group where you can work on projects, socialize, and share advice. Please note that this is not a knitting class. No instruction will be provided, although participants are more than willing to help each other if problems occur.
iPad Workshop with Tech Expert Jacqui Pinto on Saturday, January 11 from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm. Find out how to best use your iPad or iPhone for many different functions, and learn some tips and tricks. Be sure to upgrade your device to iOS 7 before the workshop. Space is limited, so please call 508-748-1252 to register.


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Jonathan Romeo (pronounced Ro-MAY-o) is Interim Executive Director of The Crooked Road: Virginia's Heritage Music Trail, headquartered in Abingdon, Va.
He is responsible for coordinating all activities and programs of The Crooked Road, an economic development project based on the traditional music heritage of Southwest Virginia. He works closely with an Executive Board and a full Board of Directors which consists of one representative from each of 10 counties, 20 towns, three cities, four planning district commissions, two regional tourism organizations, eight major venues, and four state agencies.
Prior to this position, Romeo worked as Artist in Residence/Instructor of Music at Southwest Virginia Community College (SWCC) in Richlands, Va. Romeo initiated a Traditional Music Program at SWCC in 2003 and works with several annual festivals including the Old Time & Bluegrass Fiddlers' Convention in Tazewell, Va.; the Redbuds & Bluegrass Festival in Honaker, Va.; and the Charlie Poole Music Festival in Eden, N.C.
Romeo is a classical guitarist and composer working with orchestral and chamber music as well as traditional American music. His interest in folk music of the southern Appalachian region began in 1990 through a year-long residency at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, VA. Since that time, he has collaborated with numerous musicians of Southwest Virginia to help sustain and promote this unique American heritage.
Romeo's recent work as a composer includes "John Hardy's Dream" for banjo and orchestra, which was premiered by Mike Seeger and the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra in April 2005 alongside the U.S. premiere of an arrangement that Charles Seeger wrote for the CBS Radio Orchestra in 1940.


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Global Military Bloc: NATO's Drive Into Asia
With the sixtieth anniversary summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to occur jointly in the French city of Strasbourg and and the German one of Kehl on April 3-4, the world should take note of how far from its original area of operations this, history's first, international military bloc has expanded in the interim since its creation in 1949.
At its genesis the Alliance did seem to have chosen an accurate name, as 10 of its 12 founding members – Belgium, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and the United States – had coastlines on the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea.
Italy of course didn't and neither did Luxembourg. And Iceland learned the first lesson of the new trans-Atlantic system by being forced into the Alliance against the will of its populace.
Three years later, after bloody civil war and heavy-handed repression made Greece and Turkey ready for NATO's 'Euro-Atlantic values,' the Alliance, whose tortuous logic and distorted sense of geography are both equally infamous, expanded into the Aegean, Marmara and Black Seas and demonstrated that its aims extended far deeper into Eurasia than its name – false like everything about it – indicated.
During the 42 years of its Cold War embryonic stage NATO's major powers (surely no one can imagine nations like Iceland and Luxembourg having much of a say in important matters or, as NATO officials disingenuously and routinely state, possessing veto power) were content to use other, comparable, regional military blocs like CENTO (Central Treaty Organization), SEATO (Southeast Treaty Organization) and ANZUS (Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty) to both continue a half-millenium long Western domination of Asia and the South Pacific and to expand the American Century into former European colonial and semi-colonial domains.
Both the above objectives faced formidable opposition from the peoples of the affected areas in the wave of post-World War II anti-colonial and liberation struggles, where the wartime propaganda of the Western powers was taken at face value and the notion seized hold that democracy both within and between nations could no longer be denied to the majority of the human race.
But it was no easy or peaceful struggle. In fact it immediately cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Asians and several million more in the aftermath. The following founding members of NATO still possessed as colonies, territories or outposts in Asia, aside from the Middle East and the South Pacific:
Britain -Burma until 1947 -British Indian Empire (now India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Bhutan) 1947 -Sri Lanka 1947 -Malaya (now Malaysia) 1957 -Hong Kong 1997
France -Cambodia 1953 -Laos 1954 -Vietnam 1954 -French India (Pondicherry, Karikal, Yanaon, Mahe [Malabar coast], and Chandannagar [Bengal]) 1954
Netherlands -Indonesia 1949
Portugal -Goa 1961 -East Timor 1975 -Macau 1999
With the end of the Asian anti-colonial and post-War anti-neo-colonial campaigns – all against founding members of NATO, note – in 1975, it appeared that the continent and its peoples were finally rid of Western military presence and threats.
But after the self-dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, itself formed six years after NATO and as a reaction to it, in 1989 NATO and its major powers in the first place saw that not only all of Europe but the entirety of Eurasia as well was open to it.
Five years later it initiated what it chooses to call the Partnership for Peace, effectively an apprenticeship program for full NATO membership, amd immediately inducted all fifteen former Soviet republics, all former non-Soviet ex-Warsaw Pact/Comecon nations and six of the seven mainland European nations that had been in neither bloc formerly – Albania, Austria, Finland, Ireland (a holdout until 1999), Sweden and Switzerland – as well as Malta in the Mediterranean Sea.
That is, NATO established military-security relations with every state in Europe except for those in Yugoslavia, former and then present, excepting Macedonia by 1999.
The latter gap would soon be addressed, with NATO's first two military operations – Operation Deliberate Force in Bosnia in 1995 and Operation Allied Force against what remained of Yugoslavia in 1999 – completing the fragmentation of the nation.
Now all six former Yugoslav republics – Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro (the world's newest nation, only two and a half years old), Serbia and Slovenia – are in the Partnership for Peace and four of the six have been levied for troops for the Afghan and Iraqi wars.
The Balkans and the Black Sea region – of the last nine nations invited to join NATO five are in the Balkans (Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Slovenia), two on the Black Sea (Bulgaria and Romania) and three on the Baltic Sea (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) – are NATO's bridgehead to the Caucasus and from there to Central and South Asia and to Western Asia, the Middle East.
But with the incorporation of the former Soviet republics into NATO's nexus the bloc acquired outposts and basing and transit rights within Asia itself: In the South Caucasus with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia and in Central Asia, right to the Russian and Chinese borders, in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
NATO was then well-positioned for its next transformation, the deployment into Central and South Asia and its first Asian and first ground war after the events of 9/11 in the United States.
As the State Department's Matthew Bryza, formerly Deputy to the Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State on Caspian Basin Energy Diplomacy (1998-2001, the three years preceding 9/11) and current Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, boasted last year:
"The East-West Corridor we had been building from Turkey and the Black Sea through Georgia and Azerbaijan and across the Caspian became the strategic air corridor, and the lifeline, into Afghanistan allowing the United States and our coalition partners to conduct Operation Enduring Freedom." (U.S. Department of State, June 24, 2008)
NATO's tortuous, indeed torturous, logic and geography have already been remarked upon. That attacks on the capitals of US finance and government blamed by Washington on nineteen perpetrators from Arab nations would be used as justification for global and permanent military operations from the Strait of Gibraltar to the Philippines archipelago and from the Indian Ocean to the Caribbean Sea is, then, perhaps not to be wondered at.
For such is exactly was has occurred.
The US launched Operation Enduring Freedom (after its initial name, Operation Infinite Justice, was discarded) which to this day takes in fifteen nations:
Afghanistan, Cuba (Guantanamo Bay Naval Base), Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, the Philippines, the Seychelles, Sudan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan and Yemen.
Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) has four components:
Operation Enduring Freedom – Afghanistan (OEF-A)
Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines (OEF-P)
Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa (OEF-HOA)
Operation Enduring Freedom – Trans Sahara (OEF-TS)
And formerly Operation Enduring Freedom – Kyrgyzstan and Operation Enduring Freedom – Pankisi Gorge {Georgia).
Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa is too little examined and commented upon, but as it's the US-NATO opening to naval expansion into the Arabian Sea and from there to the Indian Ocean where it links up with Operation Enduring Freedom – Afghanistan, a few details are warranted.
After 9/11 the Pentagon's Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa moved into the French Camp Lemonier in Djibouti in the Horn of Africa, setting up what in Pentagonese is called a forward operating site.
There, with the participation of French, German and other NATO forces, Lemonier has been a base for overseeing the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, the latter leading into the Persian Gulf, and for coordinating what can only be described as counterinsurgency wars in Yemen and Somalia (with the US also shelling the latter from sea) and proxy conflicts like the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia and the Ethiopia-Eritrea and Djibouti-Eritrea border wars of the past seven years.
The importance of this control over the Horn of Africa, the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea will be demonstrated later when the role of NATO's most ambitious project in Asia, the military integration of India, is explored.
In conjunction with Operation Enduring Freedom, both its naval and its ground and air war components, on October 4, 2001 NATO activated for the first time in its then 52-year history the Alliance's Article 5 'mutual defense' clause and embarked on the 'international war on terror.' (Though one would be hardpressed to find many references to terror or terrorism in NATO documents prior to that.)
This unprecedented action played out in three realms. NATO begin what it calls and continues to run as Operation Active Endeavor, a comprehensive naval surveillance and interdiction effort throughout the Mediterranean Sea, controlling all access into and out of such key chokepoints as the Strait of Gibraltar, the Suez Canal (at the north end of the Red Sea) and the Dardanelles Strait leading into the Sea of Marmara, which in turn leads into the Black Sea.
As NATO itself fairly brags of, Operation Active Endeavor has already 'contacted' 100,000 vessels and boarded 148.
As the Alliance describes it, "The mission assigned to Operation Active Endeavour was to conduct naval operations in the Mediterranean to actively demonstrate NATO's resolve and solidarity."
Secondly, NATO contributed – German – Airborne Warning and Control Systems aircraft (AWACS) to the United States to patrol its Atlantic coast.
The third and most significant facet of NATO invoking its Article 5 was to open up South and Central Asia to NATO military forces.
In 2003 NATO officially took over the International Security Assistance Force mission in Afghanistan, which includes most military forces outside of the bulk of US ones, that is all troops not serving with Operation Enduring Freedom.
All twenty six NATO members have troops in Afghanistan and the war that is now in its ninth calendar year has also been used as training grounds for NATO combat deployments for such Partnership for Peace members as Albania, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Croatia, Finland, Georgia, Ireland, Macedonia, Sweden and Ukraine.
In addition, the US has an air force contingent at the Manas airbase in Kyrgyzstan and had one at the Karshi-Khanabad base in Uzbekistan before the government in Tashkent expelled it in 2005.
Germany retains a military base in Uzbekistan at Termez and France has a military force and six Mirage fighters in Tajikistan, the latter to be transferred directly to Afghanistan as the West escalates its South Asian war.
US, French and other NATO nations' militaries are also present in Pakistan, though the fact is not touted for obvious reasons.
NATO now comprises not only 26 full and two new candidate members, and not only 23 Partnership for Peace adjuncts throughout Eurasia from the Irish Sea to the Chinese border, but also enough other partners on five continents to comprise over a third of the world's nations.
As the Alliance's US-based headquarters reported of a recent meeting in Albania:
"Allied Command Transformation (ACT) and various other NATO member Nations joined together for the 2008 Strategic Military Partnership Conference (SMPC) Nov. 3 – 5 in Tirana, Albania. "SMPC [Strategic Military Partnership Conference] is an annual event dedicated to providing a unique venue for all [26] NATO, Partnership for Peace (PfP), Mediterranean Dialogue (MD), Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI) and selected Contact Country (CC) Chiefs of Defence for frank and open discussions on issues important to partners and NATO." [NATO International, Allied Command Transformation, November 5, 2008)
The following is an attempt at a comprehensive list from the Stop NATO email list:
Partnership for Peace members: Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Finland, Georgia, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. Mediterranean Dialogue: Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia. Istanbul Cooperation Initiative: Effectively the Gulf Cooperation states of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Contact Country: A looser term to designate NATO partners, ad hoc and long-term, that are not in any of the above three categories, which at this point could reasonably include Afghanistan, Australia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, India, Iraq, Kenya, Kosovo, Japan, Mongolia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore, Somalia, South Korea and others not yet openly acknowledged to have agreements with NATO such as Lebanon, the Dutch Antilles and numerous sub-Saharan African nations. (Stop NATO, November 6, 2008)
The so-called Contact Country allies are largely in the Asia-Pacific area and are such primarily because of their involvement in NATO's Afghan and related operations.
Australia has as many as 1,500 combat troops, including special forces, serving under NATO command.
New Zealand has military forces serving similarly.
South Korea had over 200 troops in Afghanistan before pulling them out in exchange for the release of kidnapped aid workers.
In reference to earlier comments about the new, self-proclaimed, global NATO absorbing members of former Cold War military blocs like ANZUS, CENTO and SEATO, the ongoing and endless Afghan war marks the first time that US, Australian, New Zealand and South Korean troops have fought together since the Vietnam War.
Despite the withdrawal of South Korean ground forces, it's recently been reported that "The Korean government plans to send an investigation team to Afghanistan in the wake of the Obama administration's expected request to Seoul for deploying troops to Afghanistan." (Dong-a Ilbo, January 2, 2009)
And that "South Korean officials said Thursday that South Korean and Japanese government will hold talks on expanding their roles in Afghanistan." (Xinhua News Agency, January 22, 2009)
The Japanese navy has been assisting Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan in the Indian Ocean from 2001 until a brief pause last year when the nation's political opposition demanded a halt, but plans seem afoot to resume that role soon.
Another historical footnote: The war in Afghanistan (and increasingly in Pakistan) is the first time since World War Two that military forces from the former Axis powers – Germany, Italy and Japan – are engaged in a joint military campaign.
NATO has established a tripartite commission with Afghanistan and Pakistan to prosecute the wars in both nations independently of the US and Operation Enduring Freedom and NATO General Secretary Jaap de Hoop Scheffer was in the Pakistani capital two days ago to ratchet up the war effort.
Yesterday the official NATO website (URL: www.nato.int – NATO International) announced that "The Secretary General welcomed Pakistan's acceptance of NATO's offer to provide training to Pakistani officers in NATO schools…."
Afghan troops have been trained by NATO in Europe for years. (Analogous to the NATO Training Mission – Iraq.)
Growing out of the Greater Afghan War and the Proliferation Security Initiative begun by the US in 2003, a worldwide naval interdiction effort similar to NATO's Operation Active Endeavor in the Mediterranean, but far more comprehensive and aimed predominantly against Asia, recent years have witnessed increasing references to the creation of an Asian NATO.
Candidates for this emerging bloc include Afghanistan, Brunei, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore (with troops in Afghanistan), South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand, with Australia and New Zealand further expanding their military roles in South and Far East Asia. (Australia, for example, is involved in the counterinsurgency campaigns in the Philippines in addition to its activities in Fiji, East Timor and the Solomon Islands.)
Two perspectives on this development appeared, one recently, the other almost three years ago, in the Russian and American press, respectively:
"The meeting [of the Russian and Chinsese defense ministers] will…address the creation of a regional missile defense system in Asia and the Pacific involving the U.S, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and Taiwan." (Interfax-Military, December 10, 2009)
"[T]he Navy's 7th Fleet currently holds 100 exercises per year and will increase that number. It will include exercises with India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Australia, the Philippines, South Korea and Japan. "All branches of the U.S. military also have been conducting secret war games that use China as an adversary. The war games have been kept secret to avoid alerting the Chinese." (Washington Times, April 20, 2006}
To consolidate the Pentagon's and NATO's plans for complete global military domination, and to further the encirclement of China as well as Russia, the main target of both is India, acquisition of which would be the most significant advancement in both's history along with the intended absorption of Ukraine.
Former career India diplomat M K Bhadrakumar wrote in 2007:
"Washington genuinely seeks a NATO-India partnership. As NATO retools for the 21st century for new missions in Africa and South Asia, and as it advances across the Middle East toward the Indian Ocean, looking for global partnerships (numbering 20 at present), India inevitably figures in its agenda. "NATO's future role in the Indian Ocean forms part of a well-thought Western strategy. NATO's naval mission to the Indian Ocean in September coincided with another major initiative by Washington. The newly created Africa Command (AFRICOM) of the US military, reflecting the long-term strategic value of Africa, is poised to begin its initial operations in October. "For any security system in the Asia-Pacific (US, Japan and Australia), India remains the prize catch. Equally, without India, NATO's partnerships in the Indian Ocean region would remain inherently weak. (Asia Times, October 5, 2007)
The above came shortly after the Malabar 07-2 naval exercises in the Bay of Bengal, described by the official US armed forces newspaper as follows:
"The ongoing naval exercise called 'Malabar Exercise' between five nations in the coast of Bay of Bengal including United States, India, Australia, Japan and Singapore…More than 20,000 naval personnel from five countries kicked off Exercise Malabar off the coast of India on Wednesday. "The United States will be represented by the aircraft carriers USS Nimitz and USS Kitty Hawk; guided-missile cruisers USS Cowpens and USS Princeton; guided-missile destroyers USS Curtis Wilbur, USS Mustin, USS John Paul Jones, USS Chafee and USS Higgins; and various aircraft." (Stars and Stripes, September 7, 2007)
Below are excerpts form the Indian press at the time.
"Days ahead of the crucial multi-nation naval exercise in the Bay Bengal, top defence officials from Japan, Australia and US are visiting New Delhi for talks with the Defence Ministry to identify areas of mutual interest and chalk out plans for further military cooperation." (Indian Express, August 22, 2007)
"The five-nation Malabar war games are being conducted on rules and procedures compliant with the requirements of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, Indian naval and air force officers disclosed in interviews aboard the aircraft carrier today. "The Malabar 07-02 war games, now into the fourth day, have raised concerns in Beijing of an emerging 'Asian Nato." (Calcutta Telegraph, September 8, 2007)
Two months earlier noted Indian journalist Siddharth Varadarajan had observed:
"Two weeks before the July 2005 nuclear deal, India and the U.S. signed a 'New Framework for the Defence Relationship,' which envisaged an action plan ranging from joint exercises, collaboration in multinational operations, 'expand[ing] interaction with other nations' (i.e. U.S. allies such as Japan and Australia), enhancing capabilities to combat the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, collaboration in missile defence, and so on. "For the true purpose behind the aircraft carrier's [the nuclear-armed American aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz's] 'landmark visit' is to anaesthetise the Indian public to the Pentagon's decade-long plans for logistics access and 'interoperability' with the Indian military, thereby smoothening India's eventual participation in U.S.-led 'structures of cooperative vigilance' in the wider Asian region." (The Hindu, July 5, 2007)
Immediately after the above-mentioned Malibar exercise, India was invited for the first time to the annual US-NATO Red Flag war games, held that year in Alaska.
Here are comments from Indian press services:
"Red Flag will take India even closer to NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) countries…." (Press Trust of India, October 6, 2007)
"Red Flag, an advanced aerial combat training exercise, has been hosted at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, and the Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, since 1975. "It is meant to train pilots from the US, NATO and other allied countries for real combat situations. This includes the use of 'enemy' hardware and live ammunition for bombing exercises. "As for the NATO procedures, the Indian armed forces adopted them for the first time during the five-nation Malabar-2007 war games in September, the biggest to be held in the Bay of Bengal….The NATO procedures were extended to other sectors of the exercise as well in areas like anti-submarine warfare drills and aerial offensive and defence manoeuvres." (Indo-Asian News Service, November 26, 2007)
To end and pull together many of the strands examined above, here is another analysis by M K Bhadrakumar from a feature entitled "NATO reaches into the Indian Ocean":
"US officials are on record that Africom and NATO envisage an institutional linkup in the downstream. The overall US strategy is to incrementally bring NATO into Africa so that its future role in the Indian Ocean (and Middle East) region as the instrument of US global security agenda becomes optimal. For the strategy to succeed in the Indian Ocean, however, NATO will need to align three key littoral states – India, Sri Lanka and Singapore.
"NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General John Craddock, acknowledged that the mission furthers the alliance's ambition to become a global political organization. "By acting with lightning speed and without publicity, NATO surely created a fait accompli. NATO's naval deployment in the Indian Ocean region is a historic move and a milestone in the alliance's transformation. Even at the height of the Cold War, the alliance didn't have a presence in the Indian Ocean. Such deployments almost always tend to be open-ended.
"In 2007, a NATO naval force visited Seychelles in the Indian Ocean and Somalia and conducted exercises in the Indian Ocean and then re-entered the Mediterranean via the Red Sea in end-September. "[T]he Indian warship will eventually have to work in tandem with the NATO naval force. This will be the first time that the Indian armed forces will be working shoulder-to-shoulder with NATO forces in actual operations in territorial or international waters. "The operations hold the potential to shift India's ties with NATO to a qualitatively new level."
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If you're over the age of 40, you may have already noticed that your clothes don't seem to fit the same as when you were younger. Maybe you're carrying a little extra weight around your midsection or on your thighs. It's common for individuals to pack on the pounds as they approach midlife—and for them to keep piling on.
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1. Deal With Stress
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Aim for at least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity activity, five days a week. This includes a combination of cardiovascular exercise and resistance or weight training. But even more important, make a point to move more throughout your day, whether it's walking or biking to work, or stepping on a treadmill every time your watch television.


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These are all things I've been called after telling people that we are headed to Virgin Gorda next week with our three children- yes, newborn included. I guess they're all probably pretty true, but here's the thing: This isn't our first rodeo! Ryan and I have always loved traveling and after having Q, we took the 8 hour flight over to Hawaii when she was only two months old and we never looked back. We figured out the best and worst ways to travel with a baby (some major bumps and "learning experiences" along the way)! Fast forward a few years to Cubby being born and we were cruising around the Caribbean with another 2 month old in tow. So yeah, we might be totally crazy- but we're doing it again. Why? Because we feel like we kind of have this "traveling with kids" thing down pat by now, but mostly because mama needs to have her toes in the water, ass in the sand….and a cold rum punch in her hand! 😉
Anyways, I've been sharing some of my packing over on my Instagram stories and I've gotten lots of requests for more info so I figured I'd share a little bit about how we travel with the kiddos, and the products that make it a little bit easier!
- Lists and Schedule: I'm an OCD nut so when we plan a trip the first thing Ryan and I do is sit down and write out a loose day-by-day itinerary. Sure, plans change once we are there, but knowing vaguely what we'll be doing each day helps me with packing. Then I make a list, and then a list of my list and then a master list of all my lists. 😉 (Lists are your friend.) I make a page for each family member, Ryan excluded (cause he's a big boy and can pack for himself) and I write down everything I need to pack for that person- even the most obvious things like "underwear" and "toothbrush" make the list, because you KNOW those are the things that always get forgotten!
- Pack in advance: Life is pretty damn crazy with three kids, I'm not going to lie. I get little pockets of "free" time each day when I can actually get things done before getting interrupted. So I start shopping/packing weeks in advance. I take out each family member's suitcase and lay it in the hallway with their list on top. As I do laundry or shop or see an item I know we won't be needing to use before the trip, I lay it in the suitcase. Then when the time comes to actually pack, most of what I need is already there, and I can use the list to quickly figure out what still needs to be packed. Packing in advance is key!! I've had so many people message me about the packing cubes I use to pack for the kids, so I've linked them HERE. They really are game-changers!!!
- Planning Outfits: So I'm a bit of a nut with dressing the kids. As in, I enjoy it and I like them to coordinate and look put together (most of the time). The only way this is possible for me is if I literally lay out every outfit- bow to shoes. Once I lay out coordinating outfits and suits, I stack them up together (meaning both of the girls' "Monday" outfits are in a pile together) Since Max is so young and will mostly be wearing onesies and pjs, he's excluded from the daily outfit piles…for now! 😉 This helps SO much when we are there and the kids are sandy or dripping water everywhere from the bath, and the baby needs to be fed and we are late for dinner reservations- I can literally hand Ryan the "Monday" pile and he can get the kids ready without them winding up wearing two left shoes (which, let's be honest- is Cubby's favorite thing to do!)
- Plane Entertainment: We reserve ipad time for special occasions so that once on the plane, the kids are actually excited to use them. Before we travel, Ryan let's the girls pick out a few new movies/tv shows/apps to download onto their ipads. They get really excited about this! Then I let each girl have a backpack. Here are some packs we love! These are from Herschel and I LOVE them, except they were a bit too small for this trip. I linked them here: Herschel Survey PacksSince this is a longer trip, I grabbed these bigger packs from Pottery Barn Kids. They were on sale for $12…TWELVE!! I don't believe they are on sale anymore but I linked them HERE for you just in case you want to keep you eye out! Since they were "the same" I let the girls pick out their own key chains to individualize them- they like to feel special like that. Aside from being cute and cheap- these backpacks are the perfect size and have cupholder slots on the sides for the girls water bottles (aka one less thing I have to carry!)
I keep a cabinet in the house that I stock with small toys, books, magnet tin games, etc. that are specifically for travel/restaurant use. Target dollar section is my best friend for this! I let the girls "shop" the closet and decide what they want to pack in their bags. They LOVE doing this and again, it keeps them excited to play once they board the plane. Here's a peek at some of the things the girls chose for their bags: ipad (obvi!), kleen kanteen water bottle (our fav brand), a school workbook for Q, sticker/coloring books, "Grab & Go" coloring Play Packs (Thanks Target Dollar Section!), Some marshmallow clay (this stuff is awesome), a plain notebook & fresh crayons (always a kiddo favorite!), a small pouch of figurines (Cubby especially loves to play figurines! Q packed some shopkins & Cub packed My Little Ponies), a mini Buddha Board (check this out- you paint with water & it dries and erases!), wiki sticks (so awesome for travel!) and of course, some of the dreaded "surprise packs" (LOL Dolls anyone?!). Most of these toys have passed the test of time- meaning they keep the girls occupied for longer than 30 seconds. Anything they get easily board with, doesn't make the cut!
- Secret Weapons: Aside from their "quiet bags", as we call them, here are the secret weapons for traveling with kids: snack, snack, and SNACKS. Seriously, imagine that you are going to be stranded on a deserted island for a month and then pack that much food for your several hour plane ride- trust me. I pack lots of different snacks in small amounts because it's all about the novelty of "trying a new snack"…with my kids at least. I love using THESE plastic organizers to fill will all different small sized snacks: granola, almonds, m&ms, fruit snacks, goldfish, etc. And don't forget lollipops or something chewy to help pop those ears during descent! I also ALWAYS pack a giant gallon sized ziplock (or five) to use as my "trash bag" during the flight. It makes keeping our row not look like a stage-5 disaster zone a little easier.
- Travel Clothes: We usually fly super early in the morning so the key to getting out the door is dressing the kids in their travel clothes the night before. Crazy, you say? Not with Plain Jane Play Gowns! These adorable and cozy dresses function as a nightgown BUT are cute enough to pass for a dress! I put these on the girls the night before and lay out a pair of sandals and a jean jacket or cardigan to throw on in the morning. Then I pack an outfit in one of the zip pouches from my packing cube set above that into my carry on. At some point during the flight I get the girls changed into their real clothes and do their hair. Sounds like a lot of work, but in all reality- it kills a good 15 -20 minutes of flight time! 🙂 If you have little girls and you don't know about Plain Jane…do me a favor and click that link right there!!!
- Sunscreen: I linked a few of my favorite organic/mineral based sunscreen brands to use on the kids. I've used them all and find these brands are the cleanest (chemically speaking), the easiest to use, and work the best. Babo Botanicals, Babyganics, Blue Lizard, Alba All of these brands have a spray option (besides Blue Lizard) and I know we are supposed to "stay away from the spray cans", but let's be honest- practicality trumps all when dealing with wet, sandy kiddos! What I usually do is apply a thick coat of a lotion sunscreen in the morning and once again mid-day, then I use the spray can for all the in-between coverage! 😉
- Items for the Trip: I've been known to ship an item or two to our location in advance…especially when we have a teeny tiny baby. This time, since we are staying at a house, I went ahead and shipped a rock n' play. It's Max's current favorite sleeping apparatus & the pack n' play they had available just wasn't going to cut it since it's not what he's used to. Plus, I figured the rock n' play is so light and easy to carry, we can easily cart it down to the beach and then back up the house for naps/bedtime every day! Amazon Prime is my BFF, people. Here are some other items we are bringing. (Sidebar: Most of the time we like to pack any "extra items" (that we know won't be coming home with us) in a box- this way we aren't traveling home with extra EMPTY luggage- cause that's just annoying.
I haven't used it yet- but look how small it is?! I think it'll be a perfect beach mat!
Ok, if you do beach trips and like to snorkel these are a MUST!!!
The girls absolutely LOVE these!
Again, I haven't used these yet but since we are going to be in the Caribbean and our "car time" will be limited, I thought these would be perfect for the girls in a pinch. Look how tiny they are!! (Although I have to say- they are pretty heavy!)
Mosquitos, Zika, Heat…you know.
Max insists upon being carried at all times so although I love my Solly Baby, I thought this one would be much better suited for a beach trip!
Cute floaties: Flamingo float, arm floaties
Because, hello photo opps!
The only travel bottle warmer I found that didn't require you to boil water on a stove first or be plugged in for it to work. This one has a warming packet that you add to the water in the base cup. It heats the water and the stainless steel bottle that goes into it. Takes up to 2 minutes to warm the bottle. I am breastfeeding but I'm still not fully comfortable breastfeeding in public (or when sitting next to a stranger) and sometimes when Max is really sleepy he does better with the bottle anyways. So we will be bringing a few packs of breastmilk in a little cooler bag and this warmer will be perfect for on the plane/ on the go! But here's a little warning: there are "hot" packets which will boil the water and "warm" packets- make sure if you get this for bottles that you ONLY use the "warm" pouches!
Two Words: Rum. Punch.
For my little budding photographer. But really, we all have fun snapping polaroids when we are away. I bought some cute little polaroid albums and Q loves collecting all of our snaps. 🙂
That's about it, I think! What'd I forget? Let me know and I'll add it!
Now, all that's left after alllllll that hard work and planning is to sit back in the sun and enjoy a frosty beverage uninterrupted.
Bahahah! Well, a girl can dream…
Happy Travels, friends! xo