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You may have already noticed the three little icons in the corner of each post that have been added in the last day or so. These are little javascript popups. Two of them were written by H.P. Nadiq and included in his Blue Radiant theme for WordPress. The third I wrote myself, based on the other two, but I am rather impressed that I seem to have made it work right, if I do say so myself.
The middle one with the envelope icon allows you to email a link to the post to anyone you want to share it with. Please use this a lot. 🙂
The one on the right with a little printer creates a print friendly version of the post. Use that all you like also – it includes the website address, so you can even do reprints if I write anything worth reprinting and be compliant with my Creative Commons License.
The third one went surprisingly well. It's the Google icon and, as you might expect, opens a popup window using the post title in a Google search. It defaults to a search of the web, although once there you'll also have the option to search just this site. I'd love to hear comments as to whether you think this is useful, neat, amusing, horribly written, annoying or whatever. Interesting thing I found is on how many of the searches, the actual post came up in the top 2 or 3 results.
I modified the Google search to use the post title plus the first several words of the post, since some of my titles may not create good search results by themselves. The goal is just to get enough keywords for a basic flavor of the post. You can always modify the search once the Google box pops up by adding a few words that you think are relevant.
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This is Gray's homepage at College of the Atlantic — which includes archives of a bunch of original songs in MP3 format.
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How to Fake A Full Night's Sleep
Gearing up for the holiday season requires more than the perfect festive nail polish or smoky eye palette. Whether you're traveling across the country to visit family, or pairing late nights at holiday parties with early work meetings, a full night's sleep probably isn't a high priority right now. So we asked celebrity esthetician Joanna Czech—she travels between New York and her home in Dallas to work with clients like Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet—how to get rid of under-eye bags quickly.
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After your skin is cleansed, gently tap and massage under your eyes, starting in a circle at the outside corners, tracing under your bottom lashline, along your brow bone and back to the outer corner. Use your middle or ring finger and the same amount of pressure you'd use to apply concealer. Repeat several times. This helps to loosen up the fluid that's trapped under your eyes.
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Submerge two tea bags in water and pop in the freezer for a few minutes (if you're short on time just use cold water). Wrap each one in a paper towel (or toilet paper if you're in a hotel room!), lay down, and place on your eyes for about five minutes. "Green tea is the best to use because it's much more powerful than black tea, since it's not as processed," Czech says. "Take your time and rest while they sit on your eyes."
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The first two steps should remove any puffiness, but if you have a few more minutes finish with a cold compress. "Ice or cold teaspoons will work," Czech says. If you happen to have eye cream handy, apply it, then dab on a little concealer to cover any darkness. Now don't you look well rested!


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Dover, Del. (July 11, 2017) – The Delaware State women's lacrosse team will begin a new era as a member of the Southern Conference beginning in the 2018 season.
The Southern Conference announced today the addition of women's lacrosse as its 22nd sport and that Delaware State, Central Michigan and Detroit Mercy will join the league as associate members for the upcoming season.
The new additions will join full Southern Conference members Furman, Mercer and Wofford to form a six-team league with an automatic bid to the NCAA championship tournament.
Delaware State was a member of the Atlantic Sun Conference in 2017 after competing as a NCAA Division I independent for four seasons after the team was formed in 2013.
Central Michigan and Detroit Mercy are also former Atlantic Sun women's lacrosse members.
The Southern Conference, headquartered in Spartanburg, S.C., is in its 96th year of intercollegiate competition, making it the fifth oldest NCAA Division I collegiate athletic association.
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Magen David Adom warned IDF Medical Corps soldiers in Judea and Samaria that a serious accident had occurred on a road in the region early Tuesday morning. The accident took place near the town of Efrat between a private vehicle and a Palestinian minibus. In less than five minutes, Cpt. Karin Yamin and three paramedics arrived on the scene. All of the minibus' passengers required medical care.
When she arrived at the scene, Cpt. Karin Yamin had to act quickly to take care of the twenty Palestinians wounded in the crash. The IDF Medical Corps team in Judea and Samaria is regularly in contact with the Palestinian Red Crescent. In this case, IDF soldiers were the first to respond, and quickly afterwards, the Red Crescent arrived and transferred the wounded to ambulances.
Cpt. Yamin's team working with the Palestinian Red Crescent at the scene of the accident
Cpt. Karin Yamin has been serving as an IDF Medical Officer in Judea and Samaria's Etzion Brigade for around seven months. Today's emergency was just one of many that she handles on a regular basis.
"For the soldiers in my unit, saving lives is a priority. Whether the patients are Israeli, Palestinian, Christian or Druze, we take care of them all in the same way. We also provide equipment to Red Crescent ambulances, especially when we see that they lack medical equipment," Cpt. Karin said. "It's important for me to emphasize that cooperation between the IDF and the Palestinian Authority goes in both directions." She added that the Palestinians treated this morning were very satisfied with the care they received.
Last December, a car accident took place in the region involving three Palestinian women who were seriously injured. Then, as now, Cpt. Yamin and his soldiers immediately responded and treated the wounded. The three women needed more extensive care and were transferred to the civilian Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem.
"We are constantly on the alert. My soldiers and I act with one value in mind: We are all doctors and our purpose is to save lives. It makes no difference where we are or who is in front of us," Cpt. Yamin said.


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Archive for May, 2013
Listener Increase by 25% oever the last 5 days!
Hello all… just wanted to say we have increased our listening audience a good 22% over the last 5 days!
That's "Very Sexy Baby"
Not sure what caused the increase, but Thanks to all the loyal listeners and all the new ones too!
Now go make yourself a double Martini, The Weekend Has Arrived!
New HTML5 Audio Player
Hello all, we have a new Audio Player to listen to The Lounge Sound. It uses HTML5 so you will be able to listen for days on end with no freezing vs the Flash Player.
You can go here Listen Live Page and select the "New HTML5 Player" and off you go.
It would seem though that most of you use other players like Winamp or iTunes, but if you want to use a web player than this new HTML5 player is for you.
However, it does not work with Firefox(shame on your Mozilla), but Internet Explorer and Chrome work just fine!
Dean Martin & Tony Bennett
Singing various melodies in one sitting, very cool…
Norah Jones – Live in New Orleans – Entire Concert
The amazing Norah Jones, an entire concert, 55 mins long.
This is a 3 Martini session for sure!
Somthing Stupid Cover – The Piano Shack
Had to post this, I was looking around for a video of Michael Buble and Reese Witherspoon, and came across these guys, not bad at all..
Intermittent outages.
Hello all just to let you know we put in place our backup radio server and were doing some testing this morning, you might have been disconnected once or twice for 30 seconds or so. All should be working fine now; If one server or network fails the other will take over seamlessly.
Thanks for your patients! And it's Martini Friday!
Interruption of Music.
We would like to apologize for the outage we had from May 23rd 2013, 3AM EST to May 23rd 2013, 8AM EST we had a network failure that was out of our control.
Our technical team is looking into creating a secondary service that will be on a different network that will take over if the primary goes down.
Thank you for your patients.
The Lounge Sound staff.
Time for a Martini Now!
Neil Diamond – Sweet Caroline – High Quality
A young Neil Diamond singing my favorite song of his. From the late 70's
Paul Anka – My Way
Paul Anka with hair singing one of the greatest songs of all time. However I do prefer Franks version of it.
New songs added today
A few new tunes I added this morning….
Billy Merman – 900 Miles
Al Hibbler – After the Lights Go Down Low
Neil Diamond – Sweet Caroline
Marvin Gaye – Got to give it up – Parts 1&2
The Champs – Tequila
Dinah Shore – Buttons And Bows
Louis Prima -Che La Luna-Fresh
Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis – Sometimes I'm Happy, 1955
A rare video of Dean and his Buddy Jerry from a way back…
Wayne Newton – Danke Schoen (1968)
Most people think this is a woman singing until they find out it's early Wayne Newton!
Made popular in the great 1986 movie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off. A must see movie if you have not seen it.
New Songs Added today
Here are a few new tunes added today!
Sammy Davis Jr – Love Me Or Leave Me
Robin McKelle – Night & Day
Jane Monheit – A shine on your shoes
Nancy Wilson – the things we did last summer
Caf'e De Flore-Rendez-vous A Saint-Grrmain-Des-Pr'es – Plus Je T'embrasse Blossom Dearie
Stacey Kent – Let Yourself Go
Anita O'Day – Why Shouldn't I
Susie Arioli – It's all your fault
Jill Barber – Tell Me
Harry Connick Jr. – I Could Write a Book
Ella Fitzgerald – You Do Something to Me
Tony Bennett – Top Hat, White Tie And Tails
Teddi King – Laughing At Life
Johnny Hartman – Charade
Kim Basinger – Honeysuckle Rose
c2c – Electro Swing World Champions
Interesting New Modern twist on Swing, Bossa & Blues.
Electro Swing! Not for everyone, but interesting non the less.
Stan Kenton – The Peanut Vendor
Live From 1972
Video & Audio is not the best but you still get that orchestra feel of this popular Jazzy Swingy tune!
Amor Verdadero – Afro Cuban All Stars
I saw these guys in concert, they were fantastic!
I love Paris – Peter Cincotti
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Stamped the sentiment from Rose Wonder stampset in black.
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Formed: 1992, Nashville, Tennessee
Members: Michael Britt, guitar (born Fort Worth, Texas, 15 June 1966); Richie McDonald, vocals (born Lubbock, Texas, 6 February 1962); Keech Rainwater, drums (born Plano, Texas, 24 January 1963); Dean Sams, keyboards (born Garland, Texas, 3 August 1966). Former member: John Rich (born Amarillo, Texas, 7 January 1974).
Genre: Country, Pop
Best-selling album since 1990: Lonely Grill (1999)
Hit songs since 1990: "No News," "Amazed," "I'm Already There"
Lonestar emerged in the mid-1990s as a traditional-sounding country band with pop leanings, achieving renown through adept musicianship and a strong pair of lead vocalists. As the decade progressed, the group gradually incorporated a harder rock edge into its work, an approach resulting in the 1999 smash crossover hit, "Amazed." By 2001 Lonestar's country sound had largely vanished, although classic country instruments such as pedal steel guitar still appeared on a few songs. Never known for grittiness in sound or message, Lonestar's later work is largely notable for its unabashed sentimentality.
Although all five original band members hailed from Texas, Lonestar formed in the country music capital of Nashville, Tennessee, in 1992. Most of the members carried years of experience performing with previous bands; however, lead singer John Rich, an eighteen-year-old blue-grass enthusiast who had forsaken college to pursue a career in music, was a novice. Lonestar became known for its unyielding professionalism as it toured the country in a Jeep Cherokee, promoting a self-produced live CD and performing more than 500 shows from 1993 to 1994. In 1995 the hard work paid off when the band secured a recording contract with BNA Records, a division of music conglomerate BMG. Lonestar's self-titled debut album appeared that year and featured the gentle hit, "Tequila Talkin'," a charming, midtempo song that mines time-proven themes of love and regret while featuring a lyrical hook built upon tequila's reputation for promoting verbal indiscretion. The album's most enduring hit, however, is the sharp, danceable, "No News," a guitar-driven shuffle recalling the work of modern blues artist Robert Cray.
Crazy Nights (1997), Lonestar's second album, largely sanded down the few rough edges the first album had possessed. The result is a pleasant release that relies on easy melodies with little instrumental or lyrical surprise. After Crazy Nights the band lost Rich, who departed to pursue a solo career. Beginning with Lonely Grill (1999), member Richie McDonald assumed lead duties on all vocals, ushering the band into its most commercially successful phase. By now Lonestar's sound resembled that of 1980s "arena-rock" bands such as Journey or REO Speedwagon, complete with blaring electric guitars and heavy, thudding drums. The group's giant hit single, "Amazed," which climbed to the number one position on both the country and pop charts, recalls the loud power ballads of the 1980s, with devotional lyrics and a dramatic modulation before the final choral repetition. The fleeting presence of a pedal steel guitar sounds like an afterthought, added in acknowledgment of the group's country origins. In 2001 Lonestar released I'm Already There, similar in spirit to the rock sound of "Amazed." Picking up on a salient trend in country of the early 2000s, the hit title track radiates feel-good sentiment. After a little boy, speaking on long-distance telephone, asks his father when he will come home from a business trip, the father replies, "I'm already there / Take a look around / I'm the sunshine in your hair."
Beginning as a raucous, if clean-cut, country outfit in the 1990s, Lonestar slowly achieved stardom by adopting a blunter-edged rock sound. In the process the group became a polished example of country's late 1990s assimilation into the pop mainstream, bringing country music a new level of recognition.
Lonestar (BNA, 1995); Crazy Nights (BNA, 1997); Lonely Grill (BNA, 1999); This Christmas Time (BNA, 2000); I'm Already There (BNA, 2001).
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Lonestar, a band whose members all boasted Texas origins and all shared songwriting responsibilities, created music that naturally contained hints of traditional country and dance-hall swing. However, the band also explored folk-rock music and incorporated easy ballads into their overall sound. Since the release of the band's 1995 self-titled debut that earned the group an Academy of Country Music award for best new vocal group or duo,Lonestar attained respect within the country music industry built upon strengths such as solid group harmonies,danceable up-tempo tunes, and expressive lyrics. The group's subsequent albums, Crazy MgWsrelesed in 1997,and Lonely Grill released in 1999, produced a string of country hits, many of which peaked at number one.
The members of Lonestar include Richie McDonald,Dean Sams, Keech Rainwater, and Michael Britt; vocalist John Rich, born and raised in Amarillo, Texas, left the group in 1997. McDonald, Lonestar's lead singer and rhythm guitarist, was born on February 6, 1962, in Lubbock, Texas. After graduating from high school in Lubbock, where he first started singing and writing songs, he moved to Dallas to pursue a career in music. There, he joined an award-winning local band called Showdown and also sang in national commercials.Eventually, his advertising work earned him enough money to relocate to Nashville, Tennessee, a city known as the heart and soul of country music and home to the Grand OleOpry. In addition to writing songs for Lonestar,such as "When Cowboys Didn't Dance," and "Everything's Changed," McDonald also wrote successful tunes for other country singers, including "She's Always Right" for Clay Walker and "I Couldn't Dream a Love (Better Than This)" for John Michael Montgomery.
Sams, who played keyboards and harmonica and provided background vocals for the group, was born on August 3,1966, in Garland, Texas, where he lived until the late 1980s. Then, while in his early twenties, he migrated to Nashville, also hoping to find work in the music industry. When he arrived, Sams secured a position at Opryland USA theme park singing in shows. In addition, Sams, also a recording engineer and producer, set up a studio where he created demos for himself and other musicians. Like McDonald, Sams wrote songs for other well known country singers; Joe Diffie, for one, recorded Sams's song "Willing to Try" for his 1995 album Life's So Funny.
Britt, born June 15, 1966, in Fort Worth, Texas, and raised in his place of birth, played lead guitar and sang background vocals for the band. A self-taught guitarist who played by ear and never took music lessons, Britt performed with numerous groups throughout high school and college. After a few years of college, though, he decided to leave in order to devote his attention to music. In 1990, he started playing professionally in Texas forvarious groups such as Santa Fe and Canyon, a band nominated for an Academy of Country Music award in the early 1990s, before moving to Nashville in 1992. Britt's song credits for Lonestar include "Runnin' Away With My Heart" for the band's debut album. Lonestar's drummer and percussionist, Rainwater, was born on January 24, 1963, in Piano, Texas, and grew up in the small town located just outside of Dallas. Before joining Lonestar, Rainwater played with numerous other country groups,including Canyon with Britt.
Lonestar's origins date back to 1992 when Sams and McDonald met in Dallas at an audition for the Opryland USA theme park. After moving to Nashville, the two men continued to discuss forming a band and soon invited Rich and Britt to join them. Still needing a drummer, they later enlisted Rainwater, at Britt's recommendation, to fill the opening. And by late 1992, they were ready to start playing before an audience.
Determined to spread word about the band, Lonestar hit the road, performing more than 500 shows between 1993 and 1994. Traveling in a Jeep Cherokee that pulled their equipment trailer, the group played an amazing four to five sets every night in towns across the southern United States and promoted Lonestar with a six-song live compact disc.
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Members include Michael Britt (born June 15,1966, in Fort Worth, TX), guitar, vocals; Richie McDonald (born February 6, 1962, in Lubbock, TX; wife: Lorie; children: son Rhett; daughter Mollie Ann, born 1999), songwriter, vocals, rhythm guitar; Keech Rainwater (born January 24, 1963, in Piano, TX; children: daughter Dakota, born 1992), songwriter, drums, percussion; John Rich (born January 7, 1974,in Amarillo, TX; left band 1997), vocals; Dean Sams (born Augusts, 1966, in Garland, TX; wife: Kim; children: daughter Britney Deann), songwriter, producer, keyboards,harmonica, background vocals.
Sams and McDonald formed Lonestar, recruiting Rich,Britt, and Rainwater, 1992; signed with BNA Records,released debut album, Lonestar, 1995; released Crazy Nights, (includes number-one hit "Come Cryin' To Me,")1997; released, Lonely Grill, 1999.
Awards: Academy of Country Music award for 1995's best new vocal group or duo, 1996.
Addresses: Home—Nashville, TN. Record company—BNA Records, 1 Music Circle N., Nashville, TN 37203; phone: (615)780-4400; fax: (615)780-4464. Fan club—P.O. Box 128467, Nashville, TN 37212. Email—[email protected] Website—Lonestar (official website), http://www.lonestar-band.com.
Before long, Lonestar accepted an offer to record for BNA Records and released their self-titled debut, Lonestar,in 1995. Featuring four original compositions written by various member of the band, the album also yielded Lonestar's debut single,"Tequila Talkin'," a song that reached numberfour on the country charts. The group's follow-up single, the infectious "No News," proved even more successful, holding the number one spot for three consecutive weeks in 1996, and "Runnin' Away With My Heart," cowritten by Britt, entered the Top Ten. As a result of the popular success of Lonestar, which also included the single "Heartbroke Every Day," the album achieved gold status just one year after its release. The accomplishment also helped Lonestar earn their first major award. In 1996, the Academy of Country Music named Lonestar as 1995's best new vocal group or duo. Likewise, publications including Billboard, Music Row, and Country Weekly gave year-end awards to the group. After trading in their Jeep for a van and eventually a tour bus, Lonestar continued to travel and promote their music. By June of 1997, they released their sophomore effort, for BNA entitled Crazy Nights. The album rendered yet another number one hit with "Come Cryin' To Me" and "You Walked In," a single composed by songwriters Bryan Adams and Mutt Lange, appeared on country charts as well. While the record contained standard romantic ballads, Lonestar's second release took on country rockers like a cover of Pure Prairie League's 1975 song "Amie" and questioned the shifting direction of American culture in "Everything'sChanged," another number one hit cowritten by McDonald. In this song, noted Brian Mansfield in USA Today, "the band shows its maturation by surveying middle America's changing economic geography without letting things lapse into political posturing or mawkish nostalgia. The song's resigned, bittersweet tone makes it sound like something [country singer] Dan Seals once might have done." Eventually, Crazy Nights earned the band a second gold album to their name.
Although the record fared well with both critics and country music fans, Rich left the group shortly after the release of Crazy Nights to pursue other interests. Nevertheless, the four remaining members lost no time in writing and selecting new material for Lonestar's next album, Lonely Grill, released in June of 1999. In preparation for the group's third collection of songs, Lonestar spent approximately eight hours each day, five days a week listening to potential songs at BNA Records. Once the band reached the studio, they spent long hours working together to arrange guitar sounds, percussion touches, keyboards, and vocal harmonies for each recording. Previously, for the group's first two albums, record producers opted to use other Nashville session musicians to arrange music. But when Lonestar found Dan Huff to produce Lonely Grill, they were allowed more creative freedom. And while Lonestar had always shared writing and developing responsibilities for their prior work, they nonetheless believed the band collaborated even more closely during these sessions by arranging songs together.
Like Lonestar's earlier albums, Lonely Grillyielded major hits. One song, a straightforward ballad entitled "Amazed," topped the Billboard and Radio and Records country music charts in the summer of 1999. Setting a new record, the single sat at the number one spot on both charts for nine consecutive weeks. The last record was set back in 1966 with a Jack Greene hit entitled "There Goes My Everything" that occupied the number one spot for seven consecutive weeks. Furthermore, the single later that summer debuted on the B/7/boarc/adult contemporary chart at number twenty-six as the "Hot Shot Debut." With such mainstream acceptance, the group hoped to gain more country listeners and Lonestarfans. Regarding the success of "Amazed," McDonald humbly told Leanne Carter of the Ottawa Sun, "What separates the good acts from the really successful ones is finding the right song."
Another heartfelt ballad, "Smile," climbed country music charts, while "Tell Her" proved that Lonestar could take a love song in a different direction through moody, unusual lyrics detailing the simpler facts of life. Despite the group's talent for writing, singing, and performing standard romantic songs, Lonely Grill maintained Lonestar's focus on other styles of music. For example, "Saturday Night" combined an electronic rumble with country-infused rap and "Don't Talk About Lisa," co-written by Benmont Tench of rock star from Tom Petty's Heartbreaker band, sounded reminiscent of a Jimmy Buffett rock tune. Another album highlight included an acoustic version of a previous hit,"Everything's Changed."
In less than one month, Lonely Grill shipped over 500,000 copies, earning the group still another gold record; during the first week after Lonely Grill hit record stores, the release sold over 47,000 copies. Overall, the album debuted at number four on the Billboard country album chart and reached number three, behind Shania Twain and the Dixie Chicks, retaining this position for two months.
On August 3, 1999, the Country Music Association nominated Lonestar in two categories for their annual awards show. The group received one nomination, along with Alabama, Diamond Rio, the Dixie Chicks, and the Wilkinsons, for group of the year, in addition to a nomination for single of the year for "Amazed."The other artist nominated in this category included George Jones for "Choices," Mark Wills for "Don't Laugh At Me," Tim McGraw for "Please Remember Me," and the Dixie Chicks for "Wide Open Spaces." Although the Dixie Chicks won awards in both categories during the awards ceremony at the Grand Ole Opry that aired on television on September 22, 1999, Lonestar still felt honored just to have received nominations. As of 1999, Lonestar, whose members love making and learning more about music, performing, and staying busy, held no plans for slowing down. Even with their tremendous success, the band continued to maintain an extensive touring schedule, booking about 150 concert dates each year.
Selected discography
Lonestar, BNA Records, 1995.
Crazy Nights, BNA Records, 1997.
Lonely Grill, BNA Records, 1999.
Kingsbury, Paul, editor, The Encyclopedia of Country Music, Oxford University Press, 1998.
Arizona Republic, June 24, 1999, p. 36.
Dallas Morning News, June 11, 1999, p. 4.
Ottawa Sun, August 22, 1999, p. S5.
Reuters, April 24, 1996; August 3, 1999.
Tampa Tribune, July 23, 1999, p. 15.
Toronto Star, August 4, 1999.
USA Today, April 25, 1996, p. 01D: July 7, 1997, p. 05D; June 1, 1999, p. 12D; August 4, 1999, p. 01D; August 20, 1999,. 01E.
"Lonestar, Lonely Grill" Great American Country Lonestar Home Page, http://www.countrystars.com/artists/lonestar/html, (September 15, 1999).
Lonestar, http://www.country.com/gen/music/artist/lonestar.html, (September 15, 1999).
Lonestar (official website), http://www.lonestar-band.com, (September 15, 1999).
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This is an Amazon School initiative, supported by E-Cons (Conservation Entrepreneurs Program), which aims to promote and disseminate best practices in the use and conservation of the Amazon region's natural resources. The project involves young students, their teachers and their schools and provides acknowledgement and appreciation of their important role. The focus of the first edition of this award was the Ouro Verde State School, in a rural area of Alta Floresta, where thirty high school students participated in workshops and the development of a play aimed at environmental communication about the region. The winners went to Sao Paulo to participate in a roundtable at the Lourenço Castanho school, as well as visits aimed at environmental and scientific communication, such as the publications Super Interessante and National Geographic - both part of the Sustainable Planet section of the Editora Abril publishing house - the Globo TV network's Globo Rural program, the Butantã Institute's Museum of Microbiology and the Museum of Veterinary Anatomy at the University of São Paulo (USP).
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I knew we had kids for a reason, other than a Biblical command to go forth and multiply.
Almost all of us are getting a fat "Stimulus Payment" for just being us. Are we that cute? The idea is that we will take this "windfall" money and buy something nice for ourselves;.. something costly, to help stimulate the economy.
However, according to a survey, less than 50% plan to surge the economy with buying something nice for themselves. They are finally learning that it is best to save for a rainy day or pay on a bill. It looks like the stimulus is not much of a stimuli when people start thinking about a wise way to use the money.
And we don't have to pay it back!! Sure, it puts us deeper in debt but politicians are not about to raise taxes – that is one of the ways they got elected by balking taxes.
But they still owe the money they borrowed to pay the Stimulus Payments – Radio and TV consumer advocate Clark Howard said our children will have to pay for the stimuli.
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Pony Express Mail-Order Bride by Rhonda Gibson
When Pony Express rider Philip Young arrives at his home relay station his brother greets him with a surprise. Bella Wilson and her two young nephews have answered a mail-order bride ad that Philip never placed! Bella sees no other way to care for her young nephews. Bella and Philip agree to a marriage of convenience. Neither one are looking for love since their pasts have proven that love cannot be trusted. Slowly but surely Philip and Bella begin to care for each other, but what happens when Bella's former fiance' arrives and threatens Philip and Bella's newfound happiness?
I enjoyed Philip and Bella's story. I did get frustrated with Philip's reasons for not wanting to fall in love with Bella, but everything worked out in the end, so that made me happy! I also enjoyed several other characters in the book. Hazel, the neighbor that gave Philip and Bella her home to live in, was quite a character. I loved her outspokenness. Philip's brother Thomas and his wife were a big help to Philip and Bella with the boys. If you enjoy historical romances then I definitely recommend this book for you to read. If you like Pony Express stories then you will enjoy it even more!
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Today is a list of various questions that a lot of you have asked about. None of them warrant an entire blog article, so instead I thought I'd just run through all of them here.
How are things going with your TRT? You haven't talked about that lately.
I haven't talked about it because I really don't have anything new to report since my last post on the topic over a year ago. I'm extremely pleased with it, as my testosterone levels are still nice and high, I'm feeling great, sex is great, motivation is great, everything is great.
The only change is that about a year ago or so, sperm count came back. Not all the way, but a significant amount. GOD DAMMIT! So TRT didn't turn out to be a very good male contraceptive, at least for me. However, every man's body is different, so just because that happened with me doesn't mean it will happen with you.
I was checking my sperm count on a regular basis, and one day, they were back. Very sad. My sperm count is still lower than before I started TRT, but I've got plenty of swimmers now as compared to the zero or near-zero I had when I first started the program.
As to why it happened, your guess is as good as mine:
1. There was NO change in my shots or dosages.
2. There was NO change in the supplements / vitamins I was taking.
3. There was NO change in my overall testosterone or estrogen levels. My LH and FSH levels may have changed; not sure on that, but if they did, I couldn't tell you why.
4. There was a change in my diet, but I'm always experimenting with that. Not sure if that had any effect on it. (I doubt it.)
There was literally no change in my routine at all. My doctor didn't have any definitive answers either. My body simply adjusted I guess. I guess I should be impressed(?).
This goes back to why its so important that you regularly check your sperm count when on TRT. If I hadn't been doing this, I could have gotten someone pregnant.
Regardless, my opinion of TRT has not changed, and I strongly recommend it for men over the age of 35 if they need it (and most men will).
Will there be a sequel to Sampson and the Wizard?
I promised that I would write a sequel to Sampson and the Wizard if I sold enough copies on its release weekend. I sold a lot of copies and I'm very pleased with the sales, but it didn't quite hit the goal number that I had in mind to make it sequel-worthy.
However, in terms of positive feedback, Sampson and the Wizard has a higher positive feedback-to-sales ratio than any other book I've ever written. I get piles of positive feedback for the Unchained Man, but that book sells thousands of copies. Sampson and the Wizard has sold only a tiny fraction of that, yet the positive email I received was surprising.
So honestly, I'm a little torn on this and I'm not sure what to do. Writing a book, even a short one, is a considerable time investment, and I'm a really busy guy these days. I can't do something unless I know for damn sure it's going to result in a decent amount of profit.
If any of you have any ideas, let me know in the comments or email me. (One person suggested doing a GoFundMe for a Sampson sequel.) Anyway, I'm all ears for any ideas.
What's the status with you and girlfriend, Pink Firefly? You need to talk more about this.
My post about my OLTR was one of the highest-trafficked posts of 2016. I knew there would be some interest in this topic, but I honestly had no idea how much interest. So yes, message received. I will start posting more regular updates about our relationship.
My overall plan hasn't changed. I plan on moving her in with me some time this year. I will document every step of the process here at this blog so you can learn how to do this yourself, and perhaps dodge any mistakes I make. In terms of us actually getting married, some of you seem to think I'm a moron and that I won't take my own advice. Trust me, I will. I always do. There are about five different ways one can get "married." I'll discuss this more in future posts.
Pink Firefly reads every blog post and every comment at this blog, though she's a quiet person and rarely comments unless it's about something she feels strongly about. Because of the level of interest in her, I've told her she's welcome to write her own guest blog post here and she's considering it.
In terms of when exactly she'll be moving in, we were just discussing that last weekend. As soon as things get definite, you guys will be the first to know.
Will you be updating any of your other Blackdragon ebooks like you did with the Ultimate Online Dating Manual?
Yes. I am slowly going through and updating every Blackdragon ebook, all six volumes, one at a time. This process will take several years, so you're going to have to be patient. Until then, the current volumes still work and are still 100% valid; I'm just adding more material to them.
I have a very big one planned reasonably soon. Can't talk about it quite yet though. I'll be announcing it here at this blog as usual.
How many FBs do you have now that you have an official OLTR?
A few. Honestly, the number fluctuates almost every six weeks or so. I'm slowly working on reducing the number (I just permanently eliminated one a few days ago; a "nice" hard next). My goal is to get the number down to just one, with one backup. That's what I've wanted for many years, and it would be my dream come true. I'm not sure if I can pull that off, but I'm going to try. Years ago, I dropped the number of women I was playing with because my work schedule became so crazy. Sexual variety has never been my motivation anyway; just frequency of sex without absolute monogamy. In all seriousness, one OLTR and one FB on the side would satisfy me for the rest of my life, as long as neither of them ever left.
The problem is that's not how women work. You always need backups, unfortunately.
Will there be a sequel to The Unchained Man?
That's sort of like asking if there will ever be a sequel to the Bible. The Unchained Man is my opus, the most important and comprehensive work I have ever written and probably ever will write. If I tried to write an actual sequel, I wouldn't be able to do it justice.
Instead of sequels, I will be writing spin-offs. On the drawing board are books such as:
1. An Alpha 2.0 business manual
2. An Alpha Male 2.0 manual for younger men
3. An Alpha Male 2.0 manual for older men
The younger men/older men books would just be that, a book each. The business manual will probably be a full-on business kit (that will probably be expensive). As I get closer to one of these, I'll update you here.
Are you ever going to post on PUA forums again?
On forums, sure, but rarely. On PUA-specific forums, no. The reasons are these:
1. I don't have the time.
2. Whenever I post on a PUA forum, too many guys lose their minds, turn into poop-flinging monkeys, and want to make the conversation about me instead of the topic being discussed. This makes real conversations difficult or even impossible, and is not fair to the thread creator or readers seeking help.
3. Literally every argument on a forum that would involve me would be an exact duplicate of arguments I've already had on forums many times. People forget that I posted on PUA forums, almost daily, for almost seven years. There's only so many times you want to hear the same Alpha Male 1.0 arguments about defending monogamy, or bashing online dating, or complaining that all I want to do is make money (which is true of course), or screaming about how soft nexting is terrible, or whatever. Every argument to be had about my views on any dating or relationship topic has already been had, many times over. There would be nothing new.
Are you still going to debate Stefan Molyneux?
Stefan is my bro and I'd love to. The trouble is, since the election last year, Stefan did what Scott Adams, Vox Day, Roosh, Mike Cernovich, Wayne Allyn Root, and many others have done and switched from talking about libertarian or lifestyle stuff to Trump Trump Trump TRUMP TRUMP TRUUUUMMMMPP!!!
Seriously, the appearance of Donald Trump on the political scene has forever changed online discourse in and around the manosphere, probably permanently. It's very profitable, in terms of getting new followers, to exalt our new Lord and Savoir Trump. I'm not very happy about that, but that's the way the cookie crumbles. Anyway, now that Stefan's focus is politics and TRUUMMMPP, my odds of getting in there are a little lower than they were. But I'd still like to do it, sure.
Does your daughter still live with you? How are you going to make that work when Pink Firefly moves in?
Yes, she still lives with me full time. She's 18 and has her own car so living with her is pretty easy. Being a teenager and Millennial, she's a lot messier than I am, and we butt heads about that occasionally, but other than that it's good. She's an introvert like me and we give each other our space.
Hopefully she'll be moved out by the end of summer, before Pink Firefly moves in, but we'll see. It will feel very weird for me to live with a "family" again if Pink moves in before my daughter moves out. I'll talk more about that when it happens.
Are you going to start doing YouTube videos?!? You keep saying you are!!!
Yes. I have just ordered the first round of video equipment and I have a slew of videos already outlined. We'll be getting to production by April at the latest. It's a process, so you'll have to be patient. I have to do this right; I'm not going to half-ass this which is what most bloggers do with their videos. I also have to double-host with Vimeo because left-wing YouTube loves to censor men like me. Pain in the butt.
I have three types of videos planned:
1. Free classroom-style training videos, available on YouTube and Vimeo.
2. Free casual videos with me talking about whatever, available on YouTube and Vimeo.
3. Detailed technique videos that you'll have to pay for. I will either integrate those into my membership program or start up a new video-only program.
In the videos, I will be covering all Alpha Male 2.0 topics (women, money, business, finance, lifestyle, international, etc), pretty much everything for a man except fitness, which I'm not qualified to talk about since I'm still a somewhat chubby fuck. Coming soon.
Before the videos though, I have another big announcement about something I've been hinting at for about a year now, and something many of you have asked about. I'll be announcing it by the end of February. (You guys in the membership program already know what I'm talking about, but please don't say anything about it yet. Once I announce, you guys can go crazy.)
That's it for the items many of you have been asking about! Hopefully that brings you up to speed. 2017 is going to be another heavy year for me, in terms of new things headed your way. 2018 also. Hell, pretty much every year until 2020 or so, but even if things slow down after that, I'll still post at this blog regularly until 2024, as I promised many years ago. After that, I reserve the right to focus on something else. We'll see!


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Apparently, it is not as easy as it seems to be for a part-time blogger to constantly keep his / her blog updated at least twice a month. Here, I am talking about quality contents that are created based on one's own opinions and experiences; those that require plenty of brain juice. During the past few months, I have drafted some posts spontaneously about different topics that flashed through my mind but most of them were often left unfinished, and eventually deleted. That's probably how my passion for blogging begins to fade slowly. Such feeling sucks.
For your information, I have started my very first permanent job at Layang Layang Guest House in Malacca since 11 January 2015, after the submission of my final Industrial Training Report. After being in this food paradise for more than six months, including those days as an intern, I sure have come across certain good places nearby that are not popularly known or recommended on many travel sites. While I wished to introduce my fellow readers to all of these places, I think I ought to stop when I find myself being biased, because of it being one of the main responsibilities of any bloggers out there. This sucks, too.
Argh! ;(
Our latest family portrait taken at Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (KLIA2) before Kenneth left for further studies in Australia.
It's that time of the year again, when all lovely mums deserve a day off from all sorts of household duties and fully enjoy being showered with unconditional love. I am supposed to be at home, having endless conversations with my family members over a great dinner. Yet, here I am, sitting on my big bed in a tiny room all by myself albeit extremely comfortable, and being emotional.
I miss my family, too much. It always sucks to be homesick.
I return home only once a month on average. I work seven days a week and I accumulate my off days (once a week) and holidays to return home for my family. Even though we constantly share our stories and experiences to keep everyone updated via WhatsApp from different places including Australia, Kuala Lumpur, Johor Bahru and Malacca, it will never feel the same to have them by my side, listening to my boring words and knowing that everyone is still growing well horizontally wtf.
Indeed, my family is my everything. Right now, I just want to go back home, spend a day or so with them, and return back to reality again. Homesickness is definitely a killer.
Something about Malacca and food next time, perhaps?


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The 'Responsibility to Protect': a neo-colonial project?
January 9, 2012 Leave a comment
The Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) represents a dramatic shift in the post Westphalian nation-state. States have voluntarily accepted the right of the international community to intervene in cases where governments are unable or are the perpetrators of crimes against humanity, war crimes, mass atrocities and genocide. Sceptics of the doctrine like Mahmood Mamdani argue that the doctrine will be abused by the big powers for their own self-interest in continental Africa. The premise of this argument exploits the past wretched colonial history that most African nations are still battling with today. This paper will negate the argument that RtoP and international justice are merely facades for a larger western agenda to recolonise Africa in three parts. Firstly, RtoP represents a significant movement away from the traditional notion of sovereignty. Mamdani's assertion that the concept was born out of Western capitals and forced down the throats of Africans is a lie. Secondly, RtoP has advanced the norms of international justice, particularly the International Criminal Court. Mamdani and his colleagues argue that the ICC is a Western court designed to try Africans. Nothing could be further from the truth, Africans were heavily involved in the creation of the court and the subsequent operations of the court, both administratively and referring cases to the ICC. Thirdly, Mamdani misrepresents the Darfur conflict in his book Saviors and Survivors as a conflict between Arabs and Africans and argues that calls intervention by the international community in Darfur were unwarranted as the situation did not meet the criteria of a 'genocide'. This paper argues that Mamdani and his colleagues have oversimplified the RtoP doctrine as a 'neo-colonial' project that will give credibility to African dictators who will continually evade justice and commit crimes against humanity.
In 2001, the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS) coined the phrase 'The 'Responsibility to Protect'. This linguistic shift radically altered the traditional notion of sovereignty. By adopting the principle in 2005, the United Nations General Assembly accepted that states were responsible for the protection of their populations, and if they failed to do so adequately in the face of mass atrocities, the international community had a duty to intervene (UNGA Resolution 1674, World Summit 2005). The shift had begun in 2000 when Kofi Annan had made a powerful statement in the Millennium Report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, "If humanitarian intervention is indeed an unacceptable assault on sovereignty, how should we respond to a Rwanda, to a Srebrenica- to gross and systematic violations of human rights that offend every precept of our common humanity?"(Annan, 2000). The RtoP doctrine was introduced to bridge that traditional gap between two contradicting norms of international law, that of state sovereignty and humanitarian intervention. The doctrine was mildly successful in negating the old arguments that RtoP would be misused by the West to legitimise their military and opportunistic interventions, often branded 'old militarism in a new bottle' (Bellamy, 2009).
Humanitarian interventions' were not uncommon through the 20th century, take for example India's intervention in the Pakistan civil war in response to atrocities taking place in Bengal, Tanzania's attack on Uganda to bring down its leader Ida Amen or Vietnam's invasion of Kampuchea to allegedly end the inhumane policies of the Poll Pot regime (Soroos,1985). It is clear that Mamdani's claim that great powers would abuse the RtoP doctrine as premise to cover their unilateral interventions in smaller, weaker states in Africa is farfetched.(Luck, 2010; Newman, 2009; Mamdani, 2008). Mamdani cites Russia's unilateral intervention into Georgia in 2008 or Kouchner's advocacy that RtoP was applicable when Myanmar refused entry to emergency relief after cycle Nargis (Serena, 2010). For Mamdani and his supporters RtoP is simply the 'humanitarian intervention' characteristic of the Cold War era world order (Bellamy, 2009). Even Evans acknowledges this danger. Mamdani however fails to engage more deeply with the doctrine's benefits in tackling the humanitarian challenges of the 21st century. Notably, whilst he criticises the doctrine and makes the argument that RtoP should be abandoned in its African ambitions, he fails to adequately give an alternative. Perhaps the best one can draw from his argument is that the African Union should be responsible for ensuring mass atrocities and human suffering are averted. This argument has little credit, given the African Union is severely underfunded and under-resourced, lacks adequate technical and technological expertise in interventions and is still in its youth, combating problems of corruption and legitimacy (Cohen, 2006). In rebuttal that RtoP tends to be overly militaristic and interventionist, supporters of RtoP such as Evans can point to the Kenyan case, where the principle was invoked and diplomatic measures were pursued to bring an end to the violence that took over the country in the aftermath of the 2008 elections (Bellamy, 2010).
Alex de Waal, a supporter of Mamdani's position on RtoP and humanitarian intervention argued in the immediate aftermath of the doctrine being accepted by the international community that the Global South would soon realize its fatal mistake in accepting the doctrine because it was simply the old humanitarian intervention repackaged (De Waal, 2007). What both Mamdani and de Waal both miss is that RtoP was a moving away from the 'right to intervene' towards embracing more soft power mechanisms of preventing atrocities and suffering on a mass scale. Both fail to acknowledge the strong Global South support for the doctrine, take for example African National Congress (ANC) member and liberation fighter, Cyril Ramaphosa or former Filiopeno President Fidel Ramos who were strong advocates of RtoP and party to the Canadian government backed Commission (Just, 2009). Furthermore, to prove that there is strong support for the doctrine in Africa, I will point to the African Union Constitutive Act which has at its core, the right for the African Union (AU) to "intervene in a member state in the presence of grave circumstances such as war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity (Constitutive Act of the African Union, July 2002).
Take the Southern African Development Community (SADC) for example, in recent times has meaningfully engaged with human rights discussions and pushed forward human rights discourse in the continent (Schabas, 2007). To suggest that these initiatives are not those of Africans but of Western imperialists are to ignore how far Africans have come in their battle to fight human rights abuses. There has also been strong initiative and cooperation between Africa and Europe, most notably the EU-Africa Summit in 2007, which aimed at combating crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide, including the punishment of those crimes under international law (Max Du Plessis, 2008). Scholars such as Mamdani have chosen to ignore the normative developments in Africa in their fight against human rights abuse.
This is not to ignore the humiliation, pain and subordination Africans suffered under colonialism (Obadina, 2008). Europeans had exploited Africa for its vast mineral resources and cheap labour for most of the 20th century and upon independence, most of these states were left with poor institutional capacities, arbitrarily constructed societies and political hierarchy. Few will forget their experience under colonialism. However Mamdani and those who support his argument that RtoP will be misused by Western powers to force-feed their agenda onto Africa are merely exploiting these sentiments. There is also a tendency for many educated Africans to portray Westerners for their woes, blaming their current political, economic social turmoil on the West (Obadina, 2008). This populist sentiment has allowed many African leaders and dictators to cling onto power as they fight the imaginary white man (Obadina, 2008).
Another major criticism surrounding RtoP has been the emphasis on pursuing international justice; that is, the persecution of those responsible for committing mass atrocities. Most notable in this routine criticism is that the ICC is a creation of western powers designed to target Africans (Obadina, 2008). Mamdani's arguments that the ICC is out to get Africans rests on two pillars: firstly, that the ICC was created solely by Western imperial powers, and secondly, that it was forced down the throats of African leaders who were forced to choose between accepting the court or bidding goodbye to development aid (Pheku, 2008).
In rebuttal, African leaders have embraced the ideals and objectives of the ICC, as embodied in the African Union's core principles including the ratification of the Rome Statute by thirty African countries (Max Du Plessis, 2008). African states were also very active in the formation of the court. Consider that 4 of the 18 judges of the Court are African, the Deputy Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda is Gambian and the Vice President of the Court, Akua Kuenyehia is Ghanaian. The Court itself represents the ICC even better than the UN Security Council does. The arguments by Mamdani and those in his side of the court would have you believe otherwise. Furthermore, in recent years, African leaders have spent significant political capital tackling the culture of impunity that is prevalent across the continent, particularly crimes against humanity and mass atrocities. (Mochochoko, 2005).
Add to that the growing support for the International Criminal Court within African civil society, including over 90 NGOs scattered around the continent in Kenya, South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda and Ethiopia and claims that the ICC is not in the best interests of Africans is an overly exaggerated and artificially constructed concept for those seeking fame (as in scholars such as Mamdani) or the cosiness of some African dictators (Mochochoko, 2005). The Responsibility to Protect and the pursuit of international justice is intrinsic to changing the culture of impunity in the continent. The large amount of public pressure within African states has also translated into added support for the doctrine and the pursuit of justice.
Mamdani does have a valid concern in that the four countries standing before the ICC currently are African countries namely, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic and Darfur. However upon closer examination, it is clear that the first three were self-referrals and the last, was referred to by the United Nations Security Council. Mamdani overlooks this pivotal point as it would inconvenient his argument that Westerns are using the ICC as a mask to pursue their colonial interests (Fritz, 2008). Perhaps what is most frustrating about radicalists like Mamdani who ruin the good work of the ICC and the justice element of the Responsibility to Protect is that they fail to propose any meaningful measures to combat the current humanitarian crisis we face, whether it be human rights abuses in Damascus or it mass atrocities in the weakly governed areas of the eastern Congo. Mamdani's argument that the ICC is part of some new 'international humanitarian order' in which big powers have unilaterally given themselves the power to be arbitrars of justice rests on little or no empirical evidence. It rests on the oversimplification of Africa's problems on its wretched colonial history. It is easy to see why approaching that line of argument can be tempting, however as an intellectual argument it has gained little traction (Mamdani, 2008).
In fact I would argue that Africa has more to gain from the work of the International Criminal Court than any other continent. A senior African legal adviser in the ICC's Registrary agreed on this point, stating that no other continent had fallen prey to the widespread culture of impunity than Africa (Mochochoko, 2005). It is no surprise that African leaders have decided to tackle this culture head on by first assisting in the creation of the Court and later, would refer multiple cases to the Prosecutor, including the famous Ugandan case in 2003 when it referred its situation to the Court which ultimately resulted in the arrest warrants for five senior commanders of the Lord's Revolution Army and its leader Joseph Kony (Max Du Plessis, 2008). In this case, like the other African cases, the Court has not undermined state sovereignty; rather it has strengthened their legitimacy and pursuit of criminals (Slaughter, 2003). The Responsibility to Protect doctrine has strengthened the mandate of the International Criminal Court.
Richard Just points out that Mamdani's book Saviors and Survivors fails to correctly define genocide correctly. Mamdani's defines genocide as "killing with intent to eliminate an entire group"(Mamdani, 2009). Yet the Genocide Convention adopted in 1948 defines genocide as"an attempt to eliminate a group in whole or in part" (Just, 2009). The factual and definitional mistakes only begin here and there many more that could be listed. What's more important however is that this misstep by Mamdani undermines his credibility, he ignores facts that are inconvenient to his argument and most of all he is out of touch with humanity. His book fails to provide a serious alternative to RtoP on what the international community should do in the event that we are faced with mass atrocities, crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide.
Instead his book advocates overly simplistic and naive proposals to solve Africa's human rights woes. He ignores comments such as those made by Jandaweed leader Musa Hilal who said "We should change the demography of Darfur and it of African tribes" (Just, 2009). If that does not constitute genocide, it's hard to find a conflict that fits his definition of the term. Either way, even those who don't refer to Darfur as a genocide agree that the loss of 300,000 lives in conflict in the region constitutes mass human suffering that warrants a response from the international community. By characterizing the Save Darfur movement as one that begged the U.S. government to invoke RtoP together together with neoconservatives of the Bush administration, the author lost all credibility in his advocacy of non-intervention in the Darfur conflict (Just, 2009). Mamdani's mischaracterization of the human rights activists as intellectual descendents of European colonialists proves this point.
Mamdani and his colleagues have failed to keep up with the transformation of human rights and justice at the international level, ignoring the acceptance by the international community of the RtoP doctrine and holding onto sovereignty as if Africa's main security threats are western military adventures (Murray, 2004). The African Union has moved much further to promoting human rights, support for democratic institutions and culture and good governance (Max Du Plessis, 2008). If the AU is a strong supporter of these international norms, what motives lie behind Mamdani and his colleagues' assertion that these norms are Western values forced onto Africans? Mamdani's solution to combat humanitarian abuses and injustice in the continent is to allow the African Union to deal with these problems. Yet, it is fatal to ignore that the AU is severely under-resourced and cannot adequately enforce these values on the continent (Mills, 2008).
In conclusion, this paper has argued that the RtoP doctrine has been misrepresented by Mamdani and colleagues as a neo-colonial project forced down the throats of Africans. Instead this paper has shown that African leaders and civil society were strong in their support for such a doctrine, including the adoption of the principle in the charter of the African Union. Furthermore, arguments that Mamdani's oversimplification of RtoP and the establishment of the International Criminal Court as western ideals in his book Saviors and Survivors is a gross misrepresentation of the continent's views. In contrast, Africa has embraced the RtoP principle and has shown strong support for the pursuit of international justice through multiple self-referrals of situations to the ICC. Lastly, this essay has demonstrated the weakness in Mamdani's arguments that human rights activists who argued for intervention in Darfur were not in fact neoconservatives tied to the Bush administration nor European colonialists; rather they were genuine activists who wished to stop the bloodshed in Sudan. It is clear that the only beneficiary to Mamdani's claims that RtoP and international justice are simply neo-colonial projects have been the anti-West, ruthless dictators club that include Mugabe, Gaddafi and others.


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Monday, June 30, 2008
I see faces - Canarian style
All right ... I admit that this photo is on its side. Is that cheating? The rest are genuine and unadulterated though. I particularly love the happy little bollard.
1 comment:
- willow said...
Yep, that cute bollard is my favorite, too.
- June 30, 2008 9:27 pm
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SHORT-NOTICE Ernest W. Tyler, WWII USAAC, Forest Hill,13-15 Feb 2011
- Details Saturday, 12 February 2011 07:00
It is with great sorrow we learn of the passing of Ernie Tyler. Ernie was a member of our "Greatest Generation" and showed his dedication his entire life. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during WWII. When he returned he worked for the State of Maryland and took a part-time job as Umpire Assistant for the Baltimore Orioles.
He was a true "Iron Man" working 3,769 consecutive regular season, 40 post-season, nine exhibition games and one All-Star Game, over 48 years from 1960 through 2007. The streak ended only because Cal Ripken Jr. requested that Ernie be his guest at his Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremonies in Cooperstown, New York.
Our sincere condolences to his wife of 64 years and his 11 children.
Mission Itinerary
Sunday, 13 Feb (Viewings 1500-1700 hrs & 1900-2100 hrs)
Rally Location: Evans Funeral Home, 3 Newport Drive, Forest Hill, MD.
Rally Time (Early): 1415 hrs
Rally Time (Late): 1815 hrs
Monday, 14 Feb (Viewings 1500-1700 hrs & 1900-2100 hrs)
Rally Location: Evans Funeral Home, 3 Newport Drive, Forest Hill, MD.
Rally Time (Early): 1415 hrs
Rally Time (Late): 1815 hrs
Tuesday, 15 Feb (Funeral Service & Interment)
Rally Location: St. Ignatius Church, 533 East Jarrettsville Road, Forest Hill MD 21050
Rally Time: 0945 hrs
We will place flag lines for the viewings and Funeral Service. Immediately following the funeral service we will join the procession for interment at Bel Air Memorial Gardens Cemetery.
Remember to bring your 3x5 US Flags. Weather forecast for Sunday-Tuesday is lows in the low 30s and highs in the 40s. Dress in layers appropriate for the weather. Don't let the weather stop you from coming out to show respect for this man's service. Cage or bike, once you are on the flag line no one cares how you got there. Only that you got there.