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Top 5 Spring Fix-Its
It's Time to Repair and Refresh!
Forget May flowers, for most homeowners April showers bring rust, clogged rain gutters and all manner of sticky doors and windows. To help you solve these troubles, here are some sure-fire solutions to common spring problems. They're easy enough to tackle in a weekend so you can spend more time smelling those flowers.
Rain Gutter Repairs
Nobody likes to clean or repair gutters. However, there are a few ways to make the job easier. First, for clogged downspouts, try using barbecue tongs to reach in and pull the leaves out. This doesn't always work but considering the alternative — using a hose to flush the clog out, getting wet and covered with gutter goop — it's worth a try.
Second, to repair loose gutter nails try replacing them with extra-long lag screws. The lag screws tend to be stronger, hold better and can easily be installed with a cordless drill equipped with a nut driver bit.
Repairing Cracks in Concrete
Concrete always cracks, but that doesn't mean you have to live with it that way. For most cracks less than 1/4″, applying concrete caulk is a good way to make repairs. Just clean the crack out with a high-pressure hose nozzle, let it dry and then apply the caulk into the crack.
For larger cracks, substitute concrete patch for caulk.
Large cracks or small, repair is necessary because water that finds its way into cracks will soften the ground underneath and cause more cracking. The situation worsens if the water freezes.
Sticky Windows and Doors
With all the wet weather that spring brings, wooden windows and doors can't help but swell and stick. To repair a sticky door or window, first mark where it is sticking. Next, remove the door or window by taking out its hinge pins, prop it up securely and with a hand plane, carefully remove any excess material. Power planes will work, too, but there is a tendency to remove too much. When the wood shrinks back during the drier, warmer days of summer, the gap will be too wide.
For sliding windows, often the trim around them is the culprit and must be removed and reinstalled to allow for more movement. To do this, carefully remove the trim with a flat bar and pull the nails out backwards that is, grasp the nail point with pliers and pull. If the trim was installed properly with finishing nails, you should be able to do this without damaging the wood. When reinstalling, keep the fit snug but not as tight as it was. If you reinstall the trim too loosely, the windows will rattle when the wood shrinks again.
To keep windows and doors from sticking in the first place, make sure that they are sealed with a good coat of paint, including the tops and bottoms. But dont paint the channels where windows need to slide. Instead, use a light coat of linseed oil as a sealer.
Painting Over Water Damage
The problem with water stains is that painting over them will not make them go away unless you use a primer-sealer first. When looking for a sealer, follow these basic guidelines: First, oil-based sealers usually work better than water-based. Second, choose a sealer that has a high amount of solids. Solids consist of pigments and other elements that do the actual covering of the stain. Paint, hardware and home centers carry primer-sealers (sometimes called sealer-primers) such as Kilz and Zinsser.
One other tip when using an oil-based sealer, consider using disposable brushes and rollers. Cleaning up after using oil-based products can be messy and often requires that you spend more on paint thinner than your brushes and rollers are worth.
Painting and repairing rusty fixtures It used to be that the only way to do a good paint job over rust was to get out the naval jelly or wire brush and remove the rust first. Thankfully, paint additives are now available to help paint stick to rust while also neutralizing the rust and stopping corrosion from continuing under the paint.
If left untreated, rust will eventually cause your fixtures to lock up. Prevent this by keeping fixtures well lubricated. One of the most common mistakes people make is trying to lubricate outdoor fixtures with light oil or silicon from spray cans. Because these oils are so light, they often evaporate and/or dilute existing lubrication thereby making the problem worse. For fixtures like gate hinges and latches, use heavy grease. It will not evaporate and its heavy viscosity is the best thing for heavy-duty parts. Most auto parts stores have heavy grease.


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Dec. 21: This post has been corrected.
Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino magnate and emblem of the Citizens United-era of campaign finance, spent gobs of money on the 2012 elections — more money than anyone else in American history.
Exactly how much, you ask?
We don't really know, and it's likely we never will. Many of the groups that spent the most on the election aren't required to report their donors. But thanks to recent campaign finance filings, we can get a better idea.
We dug through Federal Election Commission and Internal Revenue Service records and found that Adelson and his wife, Miriam, spent at least $98 million this election cycle. The money went to at least 34 different candidates and groups, with contributions ranging from $2,000 for a Florida congressional candidate to $30 million for Restore Our Future, the super PAC that supported Mitt Romney.
Adelson also gave $20 million to Winning Our Future, a super PAC backing Newt Gingrich; $23 million to American Crossroads, a conservative super PAC; and $5 million each to the Congressional Leadership Fund and the YG Action Fund, both of which supported Republican candidates for Congress.
One of the more puzzling contributions was a $1 million check Adelson wrote in October. The money went to Hardworking Americans, a super PAC that attacked Sen. Debbie Stabenow, a Michigan Democrat who had a big lead in the polls and was re-elected three weeks later by a 21-point margin.
A spokesman for Adelson's company, Las Vegas Sands, did not respond to a request for comment.
The $98 million figure matches up with the $100 million that Adelson, who is worth a reported $21 billion, had vowed to spend to defeat President Obama. But it doesn't include the checks he wrote to "dark-money" groups — organizations that don't have to disclose their donors, making their spending harder to track. These groups have proliferated since the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which opened the door to unlimited corporate and union giving.
The Huffington Post recently reported that Adelson's total spending may have approached $150 million.
Two anonymous Republican fundraisers told the Huffington Post that Adelson had given between $30 and $40 million to Crossroads GPS, the dark-money group founded by Karl Rove, and at least $15 million to groups affiliated with Charles and David Koch, the billionaire industrialist brothers. Adelson also gave millions to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Republican Jewish Coalition, the fundraisers said.
If accurate, those numbers would place Adelson's total spending on the election at around $155 million.
Correction: The original version of this story overstated the amount of Sheldon and Miriam Adelson's election spending that can be tracked through public records. It is at least $98 million, not $101 million. The original story did not take into account a $5 million donation to the super PAC Winning Our Future that was refunded Miriam Adelson, which lowered their total spending, as well as several state-level contributions.

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Photography Tips for Capturing Summer Vacation
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Summer is here again and that means ample opportunities to create memorable photographs with family and friends. Today I'm sharing Tips for Capturing Summer Vacation Subjects and Scenery. Be sure to check out the other posts from this series for more handy tips and advice for making great pictures throughout the summer.
Before we get going, please know that I'm not a professional photographer. Over the years I've improved by reading, observing, and lots of doing. I still have so much to learn. These tips are practical common sense concepts that I've learned and implemented with much, MUCH trial and error. Much.
For starters, any experienced photographer will tell you that great images aren't the work of the camera but the person using it. They will also tell you having the right tools on hand certainly doesn't hurt.
A few tools to consider:
DSLR: If your budget allows, a DSLR (a camera that enables you to change the lens) will give you more control over making pictures. If that isn't an option right now, learn to use your point-and-shoot (a camera with one lens permanently fixed to the camera) like a pro. Take it off of auto and push it to the limits. There are great examples of amazing point-and-shoot photography everywhere.
Tripod: For those family portraits and night-time shots, a tripod is mighty handy. An inexpensive one will work just fine if you're not planning on doing a bunch of tripod work. And if you're going to be in the shot (and you should), learn how to use your timer BEFORE you get the group set up for the portrait.
Diffuser/reflector: You can find basic diffusers/reflectors (sometimes called a scrim) for around $30. They're light and they pack flat for travel.
Polarizer filter (for DSLR users): For daytime outdoor photography, a polarizer filter (I recommend a circular one) will help reduce glare and reflections, helping to bring out details and features. You'll be amazed at the difference a polarizing filter will make a on a cloudy sky.
Regardless of you photography equipment budget, take some time to brush up on a few areas to make your summer picture making fun and more relaxing. Here are a few things to consider:
Know your camera: Don't take off on a trip with a new camera that you haven't learned how to use. Spend some time getting to know your camera and its basic features. Most cameras come with a video tutorial. Watch it. There are also independent camera guides you can purchase, most with video tutorials for many camera models. And don't forget to pack the manual when traveling. I'll never forget arriving on vacation out of the country and finding that a random button was pushed on my camera, leaving my camera locked. With no internet access or camera shop around, I couldn't figure out how to get it back to normal. I incurred major long distance charges when I had to call my sister to get her to search online for a solution.
Learn the Basics of Photography: A good book or online tutorial about the basics of photography will go hand-in-hand with your camera's manual. There are many great photography books and sites out there that contain tons of information. Even the smallest time commitment will help.
Learn the basic elements and principles of design, color and composition: The best camera in the world can't compensate for bad composition. Practice these concepts before you need to use them. That said, remember, all rules are sometimes meant to be broken. Some of the best photographers know when to break the rule of thirds and when not to.
Light: Pay attention to the direction of the sun. While summer is full of bright, sunny days, they aren't ideal for getting the best pictures. For the most part, early morning and late afternoon, when the sun isn't high in the sky, are the best times for getting better color and less squinting. But we all know that the events of summer will not line up perfectly during those times. Always look for available shade or dappled light options. To avoid dark shadows on faces, try bouncing light back onto the subject with a reflector. Be aware of glare reflecting off water, glass, white sand, buildings and such. Learn what to watch for and be creative with finding good light and avoiding things being blown out by the harshness of summer light.
Basic knowledge of reflectors/diffusers: Basic knowledge of how to use reflectors/diffusers can go a long way in the bright summer sun. As mentioned before, inexpensive, easy-to-pack reflectors can be purchased, or look for simple things in your surroundings like a white towel or sheet, aluminum foil, poster paper or foam core board. Anything that will reflect light back on the subject or diffuse/soften bright light when needed will work.
Frame your shot through the viewfinder: I know this is a piddly point, but I never use the LCD screen to take shots. I know others may disagree, but personally I find it difficult to see details, light/shadows, and hold good composition with the shakiness of it all. Using the LCD also runs the camera battery down much more quickly.
Different points of view: Whether making photos of landscape, scenery, or people, try using different angles and points of view. You never know which ones will end of being your favorite.
Go for "no pose" captures: Try to capture photos of people while they're doing something other than posing. My favorite shots of my children are the ones they don't know I'm taking. The photos are more relaxed and natural. The photo below will always be one of my favorites. There's no perfect composition or other principles applied, but it's special to me and exactly how I remember that vacation.
Say no to flash whenever possible: On-camera flash can be harsh and blow out details, plus nothing can replace the beauty of natural light. However, there are times when flash is needed. Try to take the time to learn how to use it properly and practice before you go on vacation. A flash can help as a fill light for dark shadows in bright daylight. If using flash in the evening, see if your camera has a special setting for night-time flash.
Finally, here's the biggest and best tip of all: make pictures. And then go make some more. No expensive camera equipment will ever replace experience and doing. The more pictures you make, the more you learn, and so on. Plus, to capture those serendipitous moments we all want to have to hold on to forever and ever, you have to have your camera in your hand, don't you?
Happy picture making! And best wishes for a wonderful fun-filled summer.


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hercules --- System/370, ESA/390 and z/Architecture EmulatorSYNOPSIS
hercules [-f config-file]
This manual page documents briefly the hercules program.
This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation in HTML format; see below.
Hercules is an open source software implementation of the mainframe System/370 and ESA/390 architectures, in addition to the new 64-bit z/Architecure. Hercules runs under Linux, Windows 98, Windows NT, and Windows 2000.
- -f
- Use a config file other than /etc/hercules/hercules.cnf
The programs are documented fully by The Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emulator available in
Hercules was created by Roger Bowler and is maintained by Jay Maynard. Jan Jaeger designed and implemented many of the advanced features of Hercules, including dynamic reconfiguration, integrated console, interpretive execution, and z/Architecture support.
This manual page was written by Matt Zimmerman firstname.lastname@example.com for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.
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Christened Dangote Business School, the business mogul disclosed that talks are on to affiliate the school with the popular Harvard Business School, in the United States of America
LAGOS, Nigeria, March 5, 2018/ — The business educational development of Northern Nigeria took a new turn at the weekend when the renowned businessman, Aliko DANGOTE donated a N1.2 billion ultra-modern business school edifice to the Bayero University, Kano, (BUK), first of such in the northern part of the country.
Christened Dangote Business School, the business mogul disclosed that talks are on to affiliate the school with the popular Harvard Business School, in the United States of America. Speaking to a group at the opening of the School at the new site of the University, Dangote stated that no effort was spared to ensure that the school, building gate was up to international standard and one of the biggest in the sub-Saharan Africa. Dangote said the Business School, which was commissioned by the Kano State Governor, Abdulzhi Umar Ganduje, was conceived as part of the contributions of the Nigeria's business mogul, Alhaji Aliko Dangote towards encouraging world class entrepreneurship education at the highest level in Nigeria. He described the School as best of its kind in northern Nigeria, adding that the School, as accredited by the Nigerian University Commission, will be the first business school to offer Doctor of Business Administration PhD. program in Nigeria. Africa's richest man added that the business school would ease sharing of business information globally and how future African leaders could advance their businesses as well as building capacity which would translate to boosting the continent's economy. Dangote traced the journey of the construction of the school to the days of Prof Attahir Jigawa as the Vice Chancellor of the University when he pleaded with him to help in the establishment of a business school that can accelerate entrepreneurship in the country. He said he agreed to build the edifice because of his conviction that good quality education is the bedrock of meaningful development in the country and only a sound mind can facilitate development. The school, according to him, will train African Business leaders by carrying out research on how Nigerians can do business in the very particular kind of environment and succeed. On his part, the Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. Muhammed Yahuza Bello said with the new business school, the university is now poised to serve the society better through training, research and services. He said the university adopted the name "Dangote Business School", because the name Dangote (http://Dangote.com) is internationally synonymous with innovation, entrepreneurship and successes in business and industry and pledged that the school will live by its name and tradition. Explaining the uniqueness of the school, he stated that the new structure comprises 650 seating capacity auditorium, two theaters, four lecture halls, two libraries, incubation center, two cafeterias, 800kva soundproof generator and borehole among others. In their separate remarks, Gov. Ganduje, represented by his Deputy, Prof. Hafeez Abubakar, his Jigawa State Counterpart, Gov. Muhammed Badaru Abubakar and the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II showered accolades on Alhaji Aliko Dangote for his several interventions in various sectors in the State and beyond, urging other wealthy individuals to emulate. Kano Deputy Governor, Professor Abubakar who represented Gov Ganduje said Nigerians have a lot to learn from Alhaji Dangote whose wealth has no influence on his humility and is ever willing to do for his immediate environment and make the society better. He pleaded with the University authority to grant Alhaji Dangote opportunity to lecture once in a while in the school, even if it's an interactive session because he has a lot to offer beyond available in the text books as a successful business man. Emir Sanusi said what Dangote has done is what he has always advocated for other Nigerians to do and that until Nigeria gets her education right a lot of things may not fall in place as expected. He expressed his appreciation to Alhaji Dangote for rising up to the occasion each time he calls on him to do one thing or the other in the interest of the society. Emir Sanusi urged other well meaning Nigerians to emulate him and contribute to the development of their society Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Dangote Group.
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Warning: The following is a detailed walkthrough of Beyond Time. It will help you solve the game. Please, DO NOT READ FROM START TO FINISH. If you do, Game Revolution is not liable for any severe damage it might cause to your cornea....
Beyond Time Abydos - West Bank The game begins in the Ruins of Abydos. Turn around, go forward three, take left, and the statue of Osiris will flash and take you back in time to present-day Abydos. Navigation: F=Forward, R=Right, L=Left, U=Up, D=Down, LA=Angle Left, RA= Angle Right, T=Turn Around During this first part of the walkthrough, follow these directional abbreviations to guide you to the necessary locations/items. At different locations throughout the game, visions of Isis, Osiris, and the Priestess will appear. Listen to what they say as they will give clues. You can rehear their clues by pushing the Play button that appears on the screen after the first time you hear it. This Play button will always appear anytime you are in the exact location/direction of when you first heard the message. You are in Osiris Court. Go F,L Priestess appears with message to find Horus' Amulet and restore it to him. Go F, F and you are standing in front of the door to the Great Court of Horus. Open it. Go F, F, F and you will be standing in front of the Statue of Horus. Go F, L, F, R, D and pick up Horus' Amulet (to pick up, click the "hand" on it; automatically it will be transferred to your inventory). Note there is a video-tape machine next to the Amulet. You can't do anything with this until you have put the Amulet in Horus' chest. Go U, R, R, R, F, L, F, L, L to again stand in front of the statue of Horus. Click on the Amulet in your inventory and drag it to the light spot in Horus' chest. The Priestess will appear and say you can now pass. Go R, F, RA, F, D and read the ragged parchment paper. Go U, L, F, F, L and note the three symbols on the pillar. This is one of the four combinations to enter the Isis Chamber. Go F, R, F, L, F and open the wooden chest to find another of the four combinations to enter the Isis Chamber. Go U, U, L, L, F, L, F, LA, F to find the third of four combinations to enter the Isis Chamber. Click hand to back away from wall. Go L, F, R, F, F, R and click on table. Read ragged parchment paper on top of table. Open drawer in table and find fourth combination to Isis Chamber. Go U, L, F and open the chest and read the ragged parchment paper. Go U, T, F, R, F and read ragged parchment paper on the desk. Next, click on the scroll on the desk and the scroll will open. If you move the cursor over the right side of the opened scroll, to the right-pointing finger, and click, you will read more of the scroll. Keep clicking on the side until the entire scroll is read. Note one scroll page with symbols of the four elements (air, fire, water and earth) and another page with symbols for the four directions (North, East, South and West) -- these eight symbols are needed to solve the Obelisk Puzzle. Note other pages talk about the offerings needed to take a boat ride across the river to the east bank (Anubis, Horus, and Urn of Wheat). Go U, R, F, R, F, L and move cursor around till it turns into a hand. Click the hand to open the scroll titled The Book of the Dead. Read this scroll all the way through. It has clues to the four gates later in the Labyrinth. Go L, F, F, R and click hand on scroll to open the Book of Gates. Note specifically the following four pages which are clues/solutions to rooms in the Labyrinth (pages about the First, Second, Third, and Fourth chambers): Go L, RA, and click hand to read scroll about Akhenaten. Go T, F, F,F,F,F,F,F,U,U,RA,F into the Priestess' Room. Go F,F,D and read the letter from Menet on the desk. Read the scroll titled the Betrayal of Osiris. Read the scroll titled The Serpents of Sakkara, which is the solution to the snake puzzle. Go U,T,F,R, and click hand on the snake puzzle. (Right click your mouse and push the Help Button to see the Egyptian number equivalents.) Note that the Snake Puzzle abstractly looks like a pyramid with four number disks on each of the three sides (4 on left, 4 on right, 4 on bottom). Note that there are six snakes, each with two heads, a number disk in each head. Disks numbered 10, 11, and 12 are fixed. To solve this puzzle, the sums of the 4 disks on each side of the pyramid must total 26, and at the same time, the sum of the two heads of each snake must total 13. Once you have done this correctly, the drawer will open and you can pick up the Eye of Horus. Now, we want to go back and look at the video tape that was next to the Amulet of Horus we found on the floor below. We also have to find the four Element Keys. Before we leave the Priestess' Room, go back to the desk across the room. Don't look Down. Move the cursor over the wall above the desk until it turns into a hand Click the hand to open the secret cache. Click on the Element Key for Air and it transfers to your inventory. Go back downstairs to the Great Court of Horus to find the video tape on the floor. Push the blue button to activate the video and listen to it. When you come Up from the tape, Priestess appears with message about the Travelers. Go into the Great Hall to the side of the Altar facing the Library. Move the cursor around the base of the altar until it turns into a hand. Click the hand to open the secret cache. Click on the Element Key for Fire and it transfers to your inventory. Leave the interior of the Great Court of Horus back out into Osiris Court. (Before you leave, you might want to wander around to see if you can trigger any more appearances of the Priestess with messages and clues.) Two steps out the door, turn left to the water pool. Move the cursor till it becomes a hand and click to retrieve the Element Key for Water and transfer it to your inventory. Go U, R, F,F,F to the door of the Isis Chamber. Move the cursor till it becomes a hand and click to focus on the door combination. Enter any one of the four combinations (noted earlier) to open the door. Enter the Isis Chamber. Once inside, Isis will appear with a message (you might have to turn left once to trigger the appearance). Her message will be a clue to getting past one of the Isis Gates in the Labyrinth. After her message, an item will appear on the floor. Click on the item to transfer it to your inventory. Leave the Isis Chamber, turn around. Repeat these instructions for all four of the combinations, hearing four total messages with clues to the four gates in the Labyrinth, and receiving four total items: a golden Ankh, a golden Urn of Wheat Offering, a golden statue of Anubis Offering, and a Golden statue of Horus Offering. Back in the Osiris Court, head towards the Boat Dock. Notice the two clay pots on either side of the Dock. Facing the dock, the left-hand pot contains the fourth Element Key of Earth. Find it, click on it to transfer it to your inventory. Go to the Obelisk in the Courtyard. Right click your mouse and push the Help Button; turn the pages of the help book until you come to the glyphs for the four directions. Note which one is East. At the Obelisk, walk around it (there are four sides, one for each direction) until you find the glyph for East on the Obelisk. Go forward for a closeup of that direction. On the top of the Obelisk your cursor turns to a hand. Click until the Ankh glyph appears, that back away. You have just set one of the four Obelisks to East. Wander around the Osiris Court to see if you can trigger any more visions. Go to the front of the statue of Osiris. Move the Eye of Horus from your inventory to the indentation on the base of the statue in the shape of the eye. This opens the stairway down into The Dark Way. Go down the stairway and forward to the room with the orb above the four-sided pedestal, with four doors other than the one you came in. Drag the four Element Keys in your inventory onto the corresponding side of the pedestal. When you have all four in place, push the Earth Element Key on the pedestal to open the doorway. Go down the open door tunnel and pick up the bucket of dirt which transfers to your inventory. A gap appears in the wall before you, but you can't do anything with it yet. Go back to the Orb Room and push the Element Key for Water. Go down the open door tunnel and pick up the bucket of water which transfers to your inventory. Move the cursor around until a hand appears over a "scale". Drag the bucket of dirt from your inventory onto the "scale" to trigger a bridge over the moat surrounding the Obelisk. Go to the Obelisk and set this Obelisk to East as well. (Same as you did to the Obelisk in the Courtyard.) Go back to the Orb Room and push the Element Key for Fire. Go down the open door tunnel and click on the torch on the wall which transfers to your inventory. Go the rest of the way down the tunnel and drag the bucket of water from your inventory onto the fire to put it out. Go further down the tunnel to the Obelisk, and again set this one to East. Go back to the Orb Room and push the Element Key for Earth again. Go to the end of the tunnel and drag the torch from your inventory onto the gap in the wall before you to open the door. Go further until you find the Obelisk. Set this one, too, to East. Go back to the Orb Room and push the Element Key for Air. Go to the end of the tunnel into the organ room. The door shuts behind you. The only way to open the door to get out is to solve the organ puzzle. Listen to the sounds being played. You must make the pipes in the puzzle sound the same tune. The solution looks as below. When the hand appears, click it to play the pipes in order from right to left as they appear in the rack. You have to move the pipes around in the rack until they look like this and play the same song. When successful, the door will open again. There is no Obelisk. here. When you've solved the Organ puzzle and set all four Obelisks to East, the Boat from across the river will be waiting for you at the dock. Leave the Dark Way back to the surface. When you step back into the courtyard and the statue of Osiris moves back to cover the stairway to the Dark Way, turn around and click on the Eye of Horus you put in the Osiris statue's base, to put the Eye of Horus back in your inventory. You will need the Eye later in the game, and if you don't pick it up now, you'll have to come back for it. Go to the Boat Dock. Go forward to the end of the dock, turn left and forward to the boat. Turn left and face the altar. This is where you place the three offerings you received from Isis: The Golden Urn, the Golden Anubis, and the Golden Horus. Drag each item into it's cubbyhole in the altar. From left to right: Urn, Anubis, Horus. To get successfully across the river to the East Bank, you must get all three offerings across without them eating each other. You can only carry one offering at a time, so: 1.At the West Bank altar, click on the Horus and take the Horus across the river and place it in the East Bank altar on the other side. Come back across the river (empty-handed). 2.At the West Bank altar, click on the Urn and take the Urn across the river and place it in the East Bank alter there. Pick up the Horus in the East Bank altar and bring it back across and put it in the West Bank altar. 3.At the West Bank altar, click on the Anubis and take the Anubis across the river and place it in the East Bank alter there. Come back across the river (empty-handed). 4.At the West Bank altar, click on the Horus and take the Horus across the river and place it in the East Bank altar on the other side. You have successfully solved the Boat puzzle. Abydos - East Bank Click on the three offerings in the East Bank altar to put them back in your inventory. Leave the Boat Dock and head for the doors straight ahead. Enter the chamber and go forward to the foot of the statue of Osiris. Drag each of the three offerings onto its corresponding spot at the feet of Osiris. The door will unlock behind Osiris into the Labyrinth. Enter the door into the Vestibule (first room in the Labyrinth). Use the map provided in the Strategic Clues Booklet provided with the game. Go to each of the crew's living quarters. Look around and observe things. Each room will have a video player with five crystals in front. Each crystal, when placed, shows chronological videos made of the room's inhabitant. Look at all the videos on each crystal in each room to get clues and understanding of what is going on. These are the Travelers. Take special note in Lantis' quarters of the torn paper on the desk. The numbers on the paper are the solution to the end-game crystal puzzle. Go to each of the Rooms: Crystal Orb Room, Scale Room, Jackal Room, and Mummy Room. Each has a puzzle you must solve. Earlier in this walkthrough are pictures of the hints from the scrolls in the Library back on the West Bank corresponding to each room. In each room, after you solve the puzzle, find the crystal and click on it to get coordinates needed to open the various time gates: Jackal Room: Use the Eye of Horus on the statue. Click on the cube for coordinates to Lhasa 85:80:40. Mummy Room: Use the sequence provided in the Hint Picture (above) for this room to solve the puzzle. Click on the obelisk for coordinates to the Space Station 14:25:50. Crystal Orb Room: Hands appear over tiles in front of you on the floor. Use the map provided in the Hint Picture (above) for this room. Step on tiles according to the map picture: Star, Star, Moon, Moon, Star. This will get you across the room. Click on the orb for coordinates to Atlantis 19:60:30. Hall of Scales: The scroll page to solve this puzzle is provided above in the Hint Picture for this room. The solution is to pour blood from the biggest pitcher into the middle pitcher; then pour blood from the middle pitcher into the smallest pitcher; then compare the biggest with the smallest and they should be equal. Once solved, click on the crystal pyramid for coordinates to Tikal 64:90:20. After you've visited all living quarters and solved the four room puzzles, you can go on to solve the four Isis Gate puzzles. When you get to each gate door, a pillar will rise from the floor. When you click on the pillar, Isis will ask a question - the same ones she told you about back in the Isis Chamber on the West Bank. You need to answer by clicking the correct number on the pillar: Isis Gate 1 = 074 Isis Gate 2 = 018 Isis Gate 3 = 004 Isis Gate 4 = 014 After you've opened the fourth gate, before you go through the Guardian Doors, go investigate Howard's Living Quarters (between the third and fourth gates). As you did in each of the other living quarters, listen to all the crystal video tapes and look around. On the desk in Howard's room is a box with a key inside. You must pick this up and put it in your inventory for future use. Now you can go to the Guardian Doors. Drag the Golden Ankh from your inventory onto the doors to open them. Go through the doors to the elevator. Take the elevator up one level to the Time Gate room. Stepping into the room, you face the Time Gate Console. Walk around the room to find the planet for Earth and click the red button on it's pedestal to activate. Go to the Time Gate Console. On the console are a red and green button and a triangle to the right. Click on the red button to activate the triangle. Click on the triangle until the word Lhasa appears below the green button. Click the green button to select the location, and the screen changes to a grid with number input buttons for coordinates. Enter the coordinates given above for Lhasa and be transported in time to Lhasa, Tibet. Lhasa Go into the Buddha chamber and click the hand on the Buddha's head to open the stairway down. Go down the stairway. Wander around until you find the Monk's Room. You can open the door and hear the chant, but nothing else to do. Wander some more until you find the room with the open door. Enter. Go forward and read the book on the low coffee table -- this is the solution to the Mandala puzzle on the wall. Go to the Mandala puzzle. The solution to this puzzle is like the snake puzzle. There are six Lobes (clusters of three numbers). There are nine "snakes" each with two heads. The top lobe, from left to right, should be 8, 18, 4. After you've set this first, make each of the six lobes total 30, and at the same time the sum of the two heads of each "snake" must equal 20. Once you accomplish this, the puzzle is solved and the "key" transferred to your inventory. Go back to the TimeGate Console. Click the Red button to activate the triangle, click the triangle until the word Tikal shows below the Green button; click the green button to select Tikal; and at the grid screen, enter the coordinates to Tikal (noted earlier). You will be transported to Tikal. Tikal Find the Ballcourt Puzzle. This is the tilework on the ground that looks like dice. It doesn't matter from which direction you approach it. On the pillar in front of you as you face the ballcourt are the dice sequence you must follow to safely cross the ballcourt from one yellowed tile to the yellowed tile on the other side. The sequence is different depending upon which side you approach from. Once you are safely across, the highest temple is accessible. Climb the stairs and click on the power crystal to transfer it to your inventory. Find the temple with the well (blue pillars). Go down into the well. Use the key from the Mandala puzzle on the door to open it. Go forward seven steps down the hall into the Sarcophagus room. Turn left twice and click the hand on the post to get close. Click the hand on the post and hear a click. Go around the room opening the four panels with Hawks on them to see glowing globes. Step once back into the hallway, turn right, and click on the skull that was behind the hawk panel - your focus is now on the post again. Click the post again and the lights from the glowing globes will center and beam on the Sarcophagus to open it. Look in the Sarcophagus and take the power crystal from the skeleton's hand. Go back to the Time Gate Console. Atlantis At the Time Gate Console, go to the Atlantis coordinates. When you arrive, go forward from the timegate in Atlantis till you find the elevator to the underwater pod. Take the elevator down to the pod. Note that it's easy to get lost in the underwater city. Again, your quest is to find another of the power crystals hidden by Howard. Navigation: R= Right crystal, L=Left crystal, U = top crystal, D = Bottom crystal. Of course, Left means left, Right means right, Up means forward, and Down means turn around. Go F,F,F,R,F,R,F,L,F,L,F. Use the "arm" control in the pod to retrieve the crystal and transfer it to your inventory. Reverse this sequence to get back to the pod dock. DON'T FORGET: THE DOWN CRYSTAL MEANS TURN AROUND, NOT BACK UP!! When you are back at the dock, the only way you know you are there is if you can "finger up". Go back to the Time Gate Console. Space Station Back at the Time Gate Console room. Walk around to find the planet for Traveler I and click on it's red button to activate. Return to the Time Gate Console. Again, you want to go to the Traveler I coordinates. However, when you try to do so, it indicates you don't have sufficient power. That's what the POWER crystals are for that you've been gathering in the other Times. You must go to the Power Room and insert these crystals in their places. To get to the Power room, go back into the Lift and go up one more level. Step out and drag the three power crystals in your inventory into different power receptacles - it doesn't matter which. Go back down to the Time Gate Console and go to the Space Station. When you arrive at the Space Station, go out the door, take a right and go back into the other door. This is the elevator. Go to the second level - the garden. Find the access keycard as you walk around the garden. In the garden there is also a lounge area. Click on the game center with the arms and note the three digit code on the pyramid crystal. This is the entry code into Howard's cabin on the station. Go back to the elevator and put your access keycard into the elevator pad. Go to level three. There are two stairways. At the top of one is the keypad access to Howard's cabin. Enter the access code to his cabin to unlock the door (the one you got in the Garden). Go back down and then up to Howard's cabin. There are two levels in his cabin. Upstairs you can view a couple videos. Downstairs find the cabinet. Use the key (from the box in Howard's living quarters in the Labyrinth) on the cabinet to get the last power crystal (blue). Go back to the Time Gate Console. Turn around and go into the lift. Go up to the crystal power station. Place the blue power crystal in the only empty receptacle. This triggers the end-game crystal sequence. Remember the torn paper in Lantis' room? Enter the numbers from that paper here to solve the end game. VOILA! That's It! Th-th-th-that's all folks!!!
An Adventure Game by DreamCatcher Interactive
Walkthrough by Karen July


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Triple glazing strawberry-balsamic pork tenderloin
Published 12:00 am Tuesday, June 17, 2014
When you discover foods that have a natural affinity for one another, it's easy to find numerous excuses to enjoy them together.
One of my favorites is strawberries and balsamic vinegar. Both sport assertively sweet, nicely acidic flavors that not only work well together, but also pair up wonderfully with so many other foods. Often, I'll keep it simple and make a vinaigrette — 3 tablespoons olive oil, 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar, 2 tablespoons strawberry jam, pinch each of salt and pepper, sometimes some minced garlic. Dump it over a salad and top with almonds.
Or if I'm feeling lazy, I'll just make a salad and slice strawberries into it, then squirt the whole thing with balsamic glaze. Intense, but delicious. If I'm in the mood for something sweet, I'll use that same combination — fresh strawberries and balsamic glaze — over vanilla ice cream.
With grilling season well underway, I decided to come up with a way to put these ingredients to work with something meaty. The result was a fantastic grilled pork tenderloin that is slathered with a strawberry-balsamic glaze. For optimal flavor, the pork gets hit with the strawberry-balsamic blend three times — as a marinade, as a glaze during grilling, and again as a sauce when served.
You're going to want something starchy to help balance the flavor — and mop up some of that sauce. Consider microwaving some new potatoes until nearly, but not quite cooked. Gently crush them so they are partly flattened, but not falling apart. Drizzle them with oil, then season them with salt, pepper and garlic powder, then finish them on the grill.
Start to finish: 40 minutes
Servings: 6
• 1 cup fresh strawberries,
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 tablespoons balsamic
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 3 cloves garlic
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1/4 teaspoon ground black
• 2 pounds pork tenderloins
In a blender, combine the strawberries, oil, vinegar, honey, garlic, salt and pepper. Puree until smooth. Pour about a third of the mixture into a small saucepan and set aside. Pour another third of the mixture into a large non-reactive (glass or stainless steel) bowl. Pour the remaining sauce into a small bowl.
Slice the pork tenderloins into 1/2-inch rounds. A few at a time, place the rounds between sheets of plastic wrap, then use the a meat mallet or rolling pin to carefully pound the rounds to an even thickness of about 1/4 inch. Place the pounded rounds in the non-reactive bowl with the sauce, turning to coat evenly. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
After the pork has marinated for 20 minutes, heat a grill to medium-high.
Place the saucepan of strawberry-balsamic sauce over medium-low heat on the stovetop. Bring to a simmer and cook, stirring frequently, for 8 to 10 minutes, or until thickened. Cover the pan and remove from the heat.
When the pork has finished marinating, use an oil-soaked paper towel held with tongs to oil the grill grates. Place the pork rounds on the grill. Baste the pork with the sauce set aside in the small bowl. Grill for 3 to 4 minutes, then flip the rounds, baste again and cook for another 3 to 4 minutes.
Divide the pork between 6 serving plates, then spoon a bit of the simmered sauce over them.
Nutrition information per serving: 240 calories; 70 calories from fat (29 percent of total calories); 8 g fat (1.5 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 100 mg cholesterol; 9 g carbohydrate; 1 g fiber; 8 g sugar; 32 g protein; 240 mg sodium.


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A few months back, I was presently surprised to find a new stall that sells muffins at the hawker centre near my place. It is not very common to find a stall in hawker centres that sell nothing but muffins. The muffins are freshly baked and sold at the stall. I bought a few of them for breakfast and they were very tastey especially with a cup of kopi. Their muffins are rather big and have nice huge domes. I told myself I should try making these muffins somedays, and so since I got my oven, I have been trying out different muffin recipes.
These Banana Strawberry muffins are one of those earlier recipes which I have tried. Even though I have read up on how to achieve huge domes and followed the method recommended, my muffins still came out with cracked tops. These muffins were very fragrant and fluffy. The recipe is based on the standard method, i.e. the dry ingredients are mixed with the wet ingredients. The other method is the biscuit method, where the butter and sugar are creamed together before adding the other ingredients. Muffins made from the biscuit method are usually sweeter and have a cake-like texture. I suspect the muffins sold at the stall are based on the biscuit method as they are more dense and sweeter. By the way, ever since I started baking, I have stopped buying muffins from that stall ;)
(Makes 10 to 12 regular sized muffins)
110g butter, melted
150g sugar
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
2 large ripe bananas, mashed
315g all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup fresh strawberries (cut into small pieces)
- Preheat oven to 180 degC. Position rack in center of oven. Line muffin tin with paper muffin cups.
- Melt butter over low heat in a saucepan. Set aside. Mash the bananas.
- Whisk together sugar, eggs, vanilla extract and mashed banana. Add the melted butter to the sugar mixture and stir to combine.
- In another bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Use a spatula or whisk to mix the dry ingredients completely (to prevent having lumps of baking powder/soda).
- Gently fold in the strawberries, making sure they are coated with flour. This helps to prevent the strawberries from sinking during baking. Do not over mix or the strawberries will end up coloring the batter red.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir only until the ingredients are just combined. The mixture will appear very lumpy. Do not over mix the batter otherwise the muffins will become tough.
- Fill each muffin cup about two thirds full of batter. Fill any unused muffin cups halfway with water to prevent warping of the pan or uneven browning of the muffins.
- Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until a tester inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean.
- Let the muffins cool for 10 mins in the muffin tin, then transfer to a wire rack to cool. Do not leave the muffins in the muffin tin otherwise the base will be soggy.
Tip: To make high-domed muffins:
- To bake high-domed muffins, fill muffin cups nearly full. Make sure that the recipe yields a thick batter. In a full cup, a thin batter will flow all over the oven before setting. The batter should be "spoonable" not pourable.
- Preheat oven to 210 degC. A high temperature is needed to create a burst of steam which will lift the top of the muffin and quickly set the starches and proteins in the muffin. After the muffin tin is placed in the oven, set the temperature back to the required temperature setting.


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John R. Bolton
John Robert Bolton, appointed August 1, 2005, as ambassador to the United Nations by President George W. Bush and was unable to "win" confirmation by the U.S. Senate, will "step down when his temporary appointment expires" in January 2007. [1]
In 2005, Bush "sidestepped" the Senate and "installed [the] embattled nominee ... ending a five-month impasse with Democrats who accused Bolton of abusing subordinates and twisting intelligence to fit his conservative ideology. 'This post is too important to leave vacant any longer, especially during a war and a vital debate about UN reform,' Bush said. He said Bolton had his complete confidence." [2]
"Mr. Bolton did not win the support of a majority of members of the Foreign Relations Committee, and the Senate refused to make a final decision on this nomination pending review of documents that the Administration declined to provide in blatant disregard for the Senate's constitutional rights and responsibilities." [3]
- Former member, US Commission on International Religious Freedom [1]
John R. Bolton: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Background on Nomination and Opposition
Bolton, who has served as the Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security (sworn in May 11, 2001), and "whose strong statements on North Korea's nuclear program irked the leaders in Pyongyang," was nominated March 7, 2005, by President Bush as U.S. ambassador to the UN to fill the vacancy created when John C. Danforth resigned on November 22, 2004. [4][5][6][7]
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told journalists that "The president and I have asked John to do this work because he knows how to get things done. He is a tough-minded diplomat." [8]
Indiana Republican Senator Richard Lugar scheduled hearings on Bolton's nomination for April 7, 2005. However, 59 former American diplomats sent Lugar a letter "urging the Senate to reject John R. Bolton's nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations." The diplomats' criticism centered "primarily on Bolton's stand on issues as the State Department's senior arms control official," saying that Bolton had "an 'exceptional record' of opposing U.S. efforts to improve national security through arms control." AP, March 28, 2005.
Key statements of Bolton
Bolton is known for his strident criticisms of the United Nations, international treaties and in favour of the U.S. taking unilateral measures to pursue what it sees as in its national interest. The nomination of Bolton has "shocked diplomats at the United Nations." [9]
Bolton's confirmation will not be without controversy, however, as "Bolton, who has been a leading hawk against Iran and North Korea as the top arms control policies diplomat, has complained the United Nations does not take strong enough action against such nations. He also is a leading critic of international treaties." [10]
Some of Bolton's controversial statements include:
- At a 1994 panel discussion sponsored by the World Federalist Association Bolton stated "There is no such thing as the United Nations". He added that "if the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference." [11]
- "...treaties are law only for U.S. domestic purposes. In their international operation, treaties are simply political obligations". John Bolton, Wall Street Journal November 17, 1997.
- Responding to moves by a lawyer seeking to indict the then President Clinton and Secretary of Defense William Sebastian Cohen for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Yugoslavia, Bolton said: "It is a big mistake for us to grant any validity to international law even when it may seem in our short-term interest to do so - because, over the long term, the goal of those who think that international law really means anything are those who want to constrict the United States. We ought to be concerned about this so-called right of humanitarian intervention - a right of intervention that is just a gleam in one beholder's eye but looks like flat-out aggression to somebody else. What we did was bomb innocent civilian Serbs into the ground in order that the Albanians can come back and ethnically cleanse the Serbs' relatives out of what's left of Kosovo." [12]
- "United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has begun to assert that the U.N. Security Council is 'the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force.' If the United States allows that claim to go unchallenged, its discretion in using force to advance its national interests is likely to be inhibited in the future." [13]
- In 2001 Jim Lobe reports Bolton told foreign delegations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at the UN Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons that the US would reject any attempt to regulate the trade in firearms or non-military rifles as it would "abrogate the constitutional right to bear arms." (Jim Lobe, "Ultra-right State Dept. official clashes with Pyongyang", Inter Press Service, August 4, 2003).
- Bolton suggested that "A sounder US policy [towards North Korea] would start by making it clear to the North that we are indifferent to whether we ever have 'normal' diplomatic relations with it, and that achieving that goal is entirely in their interests, not ours." [14]
- Bolton said of the UN that "many Republicans in Congress - and perhaps a majority - not only do not care about losing the General Assembly vote but actually see it as a 'make my day' outcome. Indeed, once the vote is lost, and the adverse consequences predicted by the U.N.'s supporters begin to occur, this will simply provide further evidence to many why nothing more should be paid to the U.N. system." Christy, Think Progress, March 7, 2004.
- In an interview in 2000 on National Public Radio, Mr. Bolton told Juan Williams that "If I were redoing the Security Council today, I'd have one permanent member because that's the real reflection of the distribution of power in the world."[15]
Bolton, born November 20, 1948, in Baltimore, is considered to be a neo-conservative. Bolton is one of the signers of the January 26, 1998, Project for the New American Century letter sent to President William Jefferson Clinton. [16]
"Before joining the current administration, John Bolton was Senior Vice President for Public Policy Research at the American Enterprise Institute." Bolton was a member of the Council on National Policy in 1988. [17][18]
"During the Ronald Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush administrations, he served in several positions within the Department of State, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Agency for International Development. He is the former executive director, Committee on Resolutions, Republican National Committee. [19]
Bolton served as Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs at the Department of State (1989-1993); Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice (1985-1989); Assistant Administrator for Program and Policy Coordination, U.S. Agency for International Development (1982-1983); and General Counsel, U.S. Agency for International Development (1981-1982). [20][21]
Also an attorney, Bolton was an associate at the Washington office of Covington & Burling, where he returned as a member of the firm from 1983-1985. From 1993-1999, Bolton was a partner in the law firm of Lerner, Reed, Bolton & McManus. Bolton received both his undergraduate and law degrees from Yale University." [22][23]
What others say
Carl Ford, Jr.
At a Senate Foreign Relations hearing into the appointment of John Bolton, Carl Ford, Jr., former assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research, described Bolton as a 'kiss-up, kick-down sort of guy' who abused analysts who disagreed with him.[24]
Bolton Scandals
National Congressional Club
"As a young lawyer Bolton in 1978 Bolton helped Sen. Jesse Helms' National Congressional Club form Jefferson Marketing, Inc. 'as a vehicle to supply candidates with such services as advertising and direct mail without having to worry about the federal laws preventing PACs, like the Congressional Club, from contributing more than $5,000 per election to any one candidate's campaign committee' (Legal Times). He later defended the club against charges from the FEC that led to a $10,000 fine in 1986. As a reward for his service Sen. Helms 'helped the career of John Bolton' by supporting him for his Department of Justice and State positions (Legal Times)." [25]
"At the Justice Department, Bolton acted as the Department's 'no man' refusing to provide congressional committees documents on Supreme Court nominees William H. Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy. He also refused to provide information, including his personal notes regarding the Iran-Contra scandal, and aided congressional Republicans who attempted to stop investigations of Contra drug smuggling." [26]
"The Taiwangate affair--which involves a $100 million secret Taiwan government slush fund that financed intelligence, propaganda, and influence activities within the United States and elsewhere--seems to be in the latter category ['fizzle'] at the moment. The beneficiaries of the lack of attention include three prominent Bush appointees at the State Department who, before joining the Bush administration, received money from this account. And one of these officials, John Bolton, the undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, submitted pro-Taiwan testimony to Congress in the 1990s without revealing he was a paid consultant to Taiwan. His work for Taiwan, it turns out, was financed by this slush fund." [27]
Abolition of International Law
Bolton was instrumental in undermining international law, undermining the International Criminal Court (ICC), abrogating key international treaties, and scuttling attempts to implement important international agreements. Law is "only domestic law"; the remainder for Bolton is an issue of unhindered US power.
Pushing the Iraq war
Bolton was one of the key cheerleaders for the US-led war in Iraq in 2003, and appeared often on CNN and Fox News making the case for the war.
Foreign travel
Bolton stated at a congressional hearing in October 2005 that it was important to travel beyond New York. Bolton said:
- "Well, I think that's why it's so important to work not only in New York…but to work in capitals as well. It is the phenomenon that sitting up there at Turtle Bay, that you operate in a little bit of a bubble... So that's why this effort, I think, really does require a lot of attention not just in New York. If we left it only in New York I think we'd have the bubble problem and trying to break through that bubble should be one of our main diplomatic efforts."
However, in June 2006 the United Nations Security Council reported that Bolton had not attended any of the four missions undertaken by the Council to foreign countries.[28]
- American Enterprise Institute, Senior Vice President for Public Policy Research 1997-2001
- Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf [Barry, op. cit.]
- Council on Foreign Relations, 2001
- Federalist Society – "Prominent role together with Ed Meese"– Jim Lobe (Mar. 9, 2005, DemocracyNow).
- Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, Advisory Board
- Institute of East-West Dynamics
- Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Research Fellow 1993
- National Policy Forum, President (1995-1996)[29][30]
- National Rifle Association
- New Atlantic Initiative [Barry op. cit.]
- Project for the New American Century, Signatory 1998
- Project on Transitional Democracies
- USAID, General Counsel 1981-1982; Assistant Administrator for Program and Policy Coordination 1982-1983
- Taipei Times – Contributing columnist [Barry op. cit.]
- Yale University, B.A. 1970, J.D. 1974
- Diamond Offshore Drilling, Board Member [2]
Related SourceWatch Resources
- arms control
- axis of evil
- Bush administration
- David Wurmser
- globalization
- International Court of Justice
- non-proliferation
- nuclear weapons
- outposts of tyranny
- preemptive war
- Proliferation Security Initiative
- rogue nation
- war in Iran
- weapons of mass destruction
External links
John R. Bolton: External Links: Articles & Commentary
John R. Bolton: External Links: Speeches & Commentary
John R. Bolton: External Links: Nomination to UN
- Individual Profile: "John R. Bolton", RightWeb.
- Who is John Bolton?, Center for American Progress.
- "John R. Bolton" in the Wikipedia.
- John R. Bolton, U.S. Department of State.
- Chris Suellentrop, "No Relation No. 14: The Bush White House Edition," Slate, November 6, 2001: "How do you tell the difference between Bush administration officials Josh Bolten and John Bolton? Both worked in the Reagan administration, both worked for Bush's dad, and both worked on Bush's legal team during the Florida recount before landing jobs with the administration. And their names sound alike. But the similarities end there."
- Ben Ehrenreich, John R. Bolton, Foreign Policy In Focus (from Mother Jones), November 9, 2001.
- Biographical Profile: John R. Bolton (cache file), Warstories:CC.
- Biographical Profile: John R. Bolton, NNDB.com.
- John R. Bolton, "Weapons of Mass Destruction: The New Strategic Framework," Biographies of the Authors.
Bolton Publications
- Kenneth Roth, John R. Bolton, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Ruth Wedgwood, "Toward an International Criminal Court?", Council on Foreign Relations, 1999. ISBN 0-87609-261-x


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CBN.com It was 1979, the year that a million protestors flooded the streets when the Ayatollah Kohmeini overthrew the Shah of Iran. He established Islamic law for all citizens. Samira was just a young girl when this happened.
"In the beginning, I had a very fun childhood," she tells The 700 Club. "When I was born, it was during the Shah's time and soon after was the Islamic revolution."
Samira's family didn't practice Islam though, so she rebelled against the strict laws.
"We started having clothes restrictions. We couldn't wear certain clothes anymore. Then we had to wear overcoats and jeans and scarves. Then there were color restrictions. We only had to wear dark colors like black, gray, dark navy, brown, and you can imagine it gets very hot in the summer in Iran and so it was very difficult."
She especially hated the laws that didn't treat boys and girls as equals.
"You would go to a swimming pool. The boys could go swimming, but the girls couldn't, because if the government police came by and saw girls in the swimming pool, parents and families would be arrested and taken to jail."
She continues, "Little by little, as a little girl they took the life out of me. Where what used to be fun -- going to school used to be fun, playing with my friends used to be fun -- all of that changed."
One day Samira experienced the injustice of being treated as a second class citizen. Her hair had come out of her head covering and a female police officer stepped in.
"She grabbed me. She starts shaking me, [saying] 'What are you doing? You have hair showing?' She started going on and on about how what I'm doing is a sin and what I'm doing is completely inappropriate. I kind of kicked her as a little kid and ran away. I don't get arrested. I was afraid of being arrested, of being thrown in jail, because I had some hair showing. But it was very traumatizing for me."
She began to associate the strict Islamic laws with God Himself.
"I remember thinking if this is God, I want no part of Him, because if God exists, He is just. He's going to be fair. He's not going to make a big difference between a man and a woman."
Her views were challenged though when her family moved to the United States. Her younger sister became a Christian. It wasn't her new religion that Samira noticed; it was the change in her heart.
"She became a different person. When I looked into her eyes, I remember thinking, what a dramatic difference. I thought I was seeing angels. It was through that that I saw power of Christ and I thought maybe God exists."
She decided to find out what made such a difference in her sister's life and talked to her pastor.
"He came to talk to me, and he shared the Bible with me and the story of Christ and salvation."
She still had questions in her mind, but what she heard one day on a Christian radio program made it all clear.
"The radio station was talking about a lady who had tried to do good, who tried to help people, but at the end of the day, she didn't know where she was going. She didn't have God in her life. I thought when it's time for me to go, I don't know where I'm going."
Samira prayed with the man on the radio. She recalls, "I went through the prayer with him, not realizing what I had done. I accepted Christ into my heart."
She is amazed at the freedom women have in Christ.
"When you see Jesus and how He talks about women in the Bible and how He values women, I think that's just all helped me realize how God is just and love, no matter what time in history we're talking about."
Today Samira actively works in the legal system helping women in the United States escape from the harsh rules of the Islamic lifestyle.
"I thank God for the fact that I'm here in the United States. I thank God for the freedom that I have."
Samira knows firsthand that true freedom comes only through Jesus Christ.
"We've seen how women are put down, treated badly, all because of who they are and what they come from. But when it comes to Jesus, all of that goes away. We have all the same rights. We all have the same amount of love that we get from God, which is a lot. We're all one. There's no difference. I think that's the beauty of Jesus."
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Students working together without authorization or submitting work containing plagiarized material in the programme will be charged with academic fraud under Algonquin Academic Regulations. Read the plagiarism document for details.
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The Republican presidential candidate who's been ignored by many in the news media spent 20 minutes on the air with Talk of the Nation's Neal Conan and Political Junkie Ken Rudin this afternoon.
Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, now making his third presidential bid and a man who you have to say is consistent in what he says and does, told them he thinks his "philosophy of liberty and the Constitution ... has been vindicated to some degree" in recent years.
From financial crises to problems with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Paul said, his warnings about a government that's too big and spending that's out of control have come true. It's other politicians, Paul said, who "get in office and ... pursue global war mongering."
We'll add the audio as soon as it's ready. In the wide-ranging conversation, Paul:
-- Said that as the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks approaches, he is "saddened by it all because we haven't changed anything and we've made things much worse." He made the case, as he has before, that there's a "direct correlation" between the presence of U.S. forces in Iraq and other Arab nations and a rise in suicide bombings there and in neighboring regions.
-- Repeated his criticism of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and said that the states should be mostly responsible for the recovery efforts after disasters such as Hurricane Irene. If states' Guard units weren't being deployed overseas to help in "war disasters," Paul said, they would be in better position. He also said that if the U.S. wasn't involved in wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, the federal government might be able to provide financial support for recovery efforts without adding further to the federal debt.
-- Questioned why the White House has scheduled an address to Congress by President Obama for next Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET, which is exactly when Paul and other GOP candidates are to be debating on MSNBC. "It's very obvious" that the White House picked the time knowing the debate was also then, Paul said.
-- Called Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a fellow GOP presidential contender, a "formidable candidate." But, Paul said, "so many of his political positions are not the same as mine. He noted that in 1988, when Perry was a Democrat, the future governor was an aide in Al Gore's presidential campaign. Paul also said he hasn't met Perry, who has been governor since 2001.
-- Said "the real test" for his campaign will come in January with the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary. "We have support" and can raise money, Paul said.
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As with any controversy, argument or debate, there are always two sides of the story. In this expose we will reveal both sides of the online poker rigged debate, and let you decide the truth.
Online Poker Is Rigged
Browsing forums, chatboards and even poker sites themselves, one can always find plenty of players claiming that online poker is rigged. Yet few of these posters are able to give real concrete proof that online poker is rigged. Responses such as 'rigtards' or 'you play badly' come from opponents of the argument, yet they also fail to provide proof.
The actual proof is not so much in the fact of whether the sites are fixed, the real proof is in the way in which poker sites deal and shuffle, thereby creating poker hands that appear to be outside of the statistical norm as opposed to live poker.
First let us examine the ways in which all poker rooms deal and shuffle their cards. Since it is a computerized game, and lacks real human intervention in the shuffling and dealing, they must use a software program to do the job of a poker dealer. That software is commonly referred to as a random number generator (RNG).
Now most people will accept the fact that a RNG is truly a fair and honestly random way to deal and shuffle a deck of cards,. However, the fact is that a RNG lacks the ability to truly be random. Randomness, by definition, is the absence of any such order, in other words, if I were to ask you to give me 20 different alphanumeric symbols for a password, you could easily create a RANDOM sequence (such as 45tsk3uyeasa9j2udt1), and that password would clearly and truly be a random number as there is obviously no ORDER in the way you selected it. (Your brain simply rattled off 20 random numbers and letters).
On the other hand, if I use a software program, such as dewapoker a hardware random number generator entropy source (a popular way sites 'deal and shuffle' decks) to create the 20 character password, it WILL have some order to it as a computer program is restricted in its ability to truly choose a random sequence. Although poker sites will claim that their software is highly unpredictable and no person or program could truly crack poker, the truth remains the RNG is NOT and can NOT, by any scientific definition, be random.
Furthermore, in an effort to prevent anyone from cracking the RNG and gaining an unfair advantage, every poker site uses additional poker algorithms with the specific design of preventing a player from continuously winning poker hand after hand. This was accomplished in response to the Absolute Poker scandal wherein a player, using inside information, dominated a $1000 buy in tourney and won every single hand in the tourney except the first two.
The fact that internet poker uses a computerized mathematical function to create an appearance of randomness combined with additional poker algorithms to prevent players from winning consistently certainly lends credibility to the Online Poker is rigged debate.
Online Poker Is NOT Rigged
Those that claim online poker is not rigged will point to the fact that hand histories reflect the true statistical odds of the game and combined with the poor playing style of many players is what actually results in why too many suckouts occur in online poker.
In addition, these debaters will add that a poker site would not jeopardize their relationship with customers or their profits by rigging the games. Although online poker is a multi-billion dollar industry, the bottom line is their profit margin and keeping customers or creating new customers.
Most of the online poker is not rigged arguments come from those that have faith in the RNG and the integrity of the internet poker sites themselves. However, no concrete proof has ever been offered from anyone on the online poker is not rigged side as to the truth about whether the poker sites are rigged or not. In fact every major poker site, such as pokerstars or full tilt poker will simply state that they are certified by auditing concerns as to the integrity of the software.


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Former University of Oklahoma player and head coach John Blake, died of a heart attack at the age of 59.
Blake, who graduated from Charles Page High School in Sand Springs, became the first Black head coach in Sooners history (any sport) in 1996.
OU remembered Blake on their social media pages:
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— Oklahoma Football (@OU_Football) July 23, 2020
He served as head coach for three seasons, and while his record was 12-22, he recruited well enough to set the table for the 2000 National Championship team coached by Bob Stoops.
Blake played nose guard for Barry Switzer from 1979-82.
Before becoming the Sooners' Head Coach, Blake served as defensive line coach for the Dallas Cowboys, helping the team win Super Bowls in 1993 and 1995.
Blake's coaching career began as a tight ends/receivers coach in 1987.
He was an assistant at OU from 1989-92 and also coached at Mississippi State, Nebraska, North Carolina and with the NFL's Buffalo Bills.
Blake was most recently coaching high school football in Princeton, Texas.


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What is Web Design?
A Web site is the final output of Web design. The Web site sits on a Web server where electronic files are stored. The Web site presents the contents and interactive features or interfaces to the end-user in the form of Web pages. How the information requested is displayed to the user is part of the Web design process. Additional controls are embedded in order to display more complex media like animations, sounds and other forms.
What's New? The Clouds of Course!
Everybody wants something new from time to time and yet some need a fix of something totally different. In the realm of the internet, that is quite a common occurrence with the many innovations that are always popping up and with all of them, none can be as exciting as the move into the clouds.
The Open Design Community: Free CSS Templates!
If you're most people out there who don't know CSS and have no time or care, on how to do one for your blog, then the next action for you would be to find a place where you can download one for free. Thank goodness that there are a lot of sites out there that give them away for free. The only problem is, that since you were not the one who created it, you will be subject to their designs and whims.
One of the sites that give free CSS of cool web designs is The Open Design Community (TODC). The Open Design Community is a hub for open source website designers from around the world providing thousands of XHTML and CSS based free web design templates available for download. So, please feel free to take a minute or two and browse through the designs that our fabulous designers have submitted and see if one might work for you! And remember they are free!
Bad Web Design
Here are some features that can really mar the overall concept of your web design. It is important to take notice of the most common mistakes web designers commit. You might be able to use some insights into creating an effective web design which might be simple but can invoke your projected image. Backgrounds that are grey in colour by default presents so many problems most especially with the readability of the page. Avoid colour combinations that can render the characters unreadable. Backgrounds are mostly effective when it is left simple and does not interfere with reading. Texts must be readable. Avoid small characters. Keep the links coloured blue as much as possible because common users are already used with the colour.
DIY Web Design
Do it yourself design projects are proliferating on the internet these days. There are a number of web sites that practically teaches you what to do without hiring a web designer. A do it yourself web site design applies perfectly for young professionals who are just starting to learn stuff in business or trying to reformat the existing business that they are running. DIY web site design offers you total control over the project and over the site that is why its simply gaining popularity. It takes the work out of dealing with consultants, designer, contractor landscaper and the likes. In DIY design, your ideas are sure to be heard and taken careful attention to. You get to express your style and personality. because at the end of the day, it still will be your website, selling your products. This has solved constant problems with web designers who are truly passionate in their work who sometime can get overly sensitive to a small correction or observation of his work. Do it yourself web designing surely saves you money and time and energy.
Benefits of Web 2.0 Applications
Web 2.0 applications are the latest trend in website design. Many Internet companies and users are turning to web 2.0 for its added features. It has also increased functionality. It has brought about a new wave in how sites are to be built, designed and applied hands-on. It makes the users enjoy blogging, download, RSS feeds etc. These developments give added excitement to the online experience. It is said that Web 2.0 companies sites get higher ranking in search engines, like Google, yahoo and countless others. Web 2.0 benefits are countless. You can post photos, albums, help guides and maps for planning your travel abroad.
It has radically changed the quality of social interaction worldwide. Blogs proliferate. marketing online costs much less. And it has created networking success stories. Web 2.0 gives you full control over your business while adding smaller but very useful features to it.
Website design is of course not giving the visitors another plain piece of text. Go as per the old saying "beauty is in the eye of the beholder". Here the beholder is the visitor of the website that you are going to design. So as a skilled website designer you should have mastered all the skills needed to create classy and attractive graphics, colours and shapes placed in perfect balance to catch the eye of the visitor together with drawing his focus to the most important sections of your website. Your job as a website designer is to make use of colours, text and graphics and translate into a visually appealing layout, logo, banner, and button system.
As a professional website designer, you need to chalk out a well-devised approach for creating the website. First, you need to understand the specific business necessities of your client and lay out the basic structure of the website. In order to minimize the cost of the setup, the website designer should be equipped with predefined web templates. Having this feature in your armoury, you don't need to go hog-wild with the designs for the reason that you are not designing a website by tinkering.
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One feature I do like in Facebook that Google+ did not have, until yesterday, was the ability to be reminded when your friends and family have birthdays that day.
Irene Chung from Google announced on Google+ that Google now has that feature.
Assuming your circles on Google+ share their birthday with you, you will see a notification of your friends (circles) birthday for the day and you can wish them a birthday greeting. Same with you, if you share your birthday with your circles, they can wish you a happy birthday greeting.
Irene from Google explained:
Everyone deserves a little love on their birthday, so we're making it easier for you and your friends to celebrate on Google. Starting today, you'll see a reminder on Google.com when someone in your circles has a birthday! From there it's easy to share a fun message, photo, or video with the birthday gal or guy.When it's your special day, we only remind the people you've chosen to share your birthday with. Update your Google+ birthday preferences to make sure you're sharing with the right people: https://plus.google.com/up/birthday
At first you'll only see birthday reminders if you're searching in English on Google.com. We'll be rolling this feature out gradually over the next few days. Here's to all the happy birthdays to come!
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Chorizo Egg Taco
Breakfast tacos are something of an art in Texas and this chorizo egg taco is no exception. Spicy chorizo meets fluffly eggs and fried potatoes, topped with a roasted salsa, to make for some satisfying morning Tex-Mex.
4 oz. raw chorizo sausage
8 oz. eggs, beaten
2 oz. fried potatoes, diced, held hot
4 6-in. flour tortillas
Roasted Salsa (recipe follows)
Roasted Salsa:
1 lb. + 12 oz. tomato pieces
10 oz. yellow onions, diced
1 tsp. garlic, chopped
1 oz. serrano peppers, chopped
2 tsp. vegetable oil
11/4 tsp. ground cumin
11/4 tsp. ground coriander
11/4 tsp. cayenne pepper
21/4 tsp. oregano leaf, dry
2 tbs. red pepper flakes
2 tsp. salt
1/2 bunch cilantro
1 can tomatoes, diced, in juice
12/3 cups water
1. Cook chorizo on griddle or in sauté pan. Discard part of fat but leave enough to cook the eggs—about 1 tsp. per egg.
2. Push cooked chorizo to side of pan and add beaten eggs. When eggs begin to set, gently fold in chorizo and fried potatoes and cook until just set.
3. Heat flour tortillas in classic method over gas burner. Place two tortillas on plate and fill each with 3 oz. of egg mixture.
4. For Roasted Salsa: Mix tomatoes, onions, garlic and serranos and spread them on an oiled sheet pan. Roast in 325°F convection oven until edges start to get dark, about 12 to 15 mins.
5. Stir in dry spices and continue to roast until edges are blackened. Cool to room temp, then place in deep container. Add cilantro, canned tomatoes and about three quarters of the water. Fine chop with mixer or food processor in small batches. Do not purée. Add water as needed to achieve desired consistency. Serve with tacos.
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One thing you can't do with babies, you can't give them steak" – Flavor Flav.
Given the sage words of Flavor Flav, it was just as well we didn't have any babies in tow when we visited Black Salt, as steak is what they are fast becoming renowned for in this stylish little eatery.
Peter Didier – The owner of the restaurant, has pulled off something quite spectacular here.
His restaurant, L'ami Pierrot, found a little off the beaten track, offers a blend of traditional and contemporary French food where diners can lose themselves in a chilled out, Mediterranean haze.
Wandering into Bangkok's bustling Arab district (around Sukhumvit soi 3-5, just across the road from the sleazehound mecca of Nana Plaza) really is like entering another country – the shop signs are in Arabic, the smell of shisha smoke fills the air, and you feel rather inadequate for not having a moustache. If you suddenly woke up here with no idea where you were, you'd assume it was Cairo or Casablanca.
On his foul-mouthedly entertaining Kitchen Nightmares show, one of Gordon Ramsay's pet hates is restaurants with overly-complicated or multiple menus. "Keep it fucking simple!" is one of his regular aphorisms, and so I hope Bangkok's popular French bistro Le Petit Zinc isn't lined up for an appearance – not that it should be, it's wonderful, but upon arrival I'm handed two menus, both containing apparently similar dishes at different prices, with no explanation as to what, if any, is the difference between them.
For two countries so close geographically, there is very little cultural overlap between Thailand & Vietnam, and that includes the countries' cuisines. Just as it's nigh-on impossible to find authentic Thai food in Saigon or Hanoi, so it is a real challenge finding proper Vietnamese cuisine here in Bangkok. Which, given the fact that both cuisines use pretty much the same ingredients, is rather surprising.
I love asparagus. I adore panacotta. It has never occurred to me to combine the two.
Last week I discovered the result: asparagus panacotta, mint-green and wobbling on the plate.
It's a rare thing for a dining experience to be one you're sure you'll never forget. But this was the case with Cocina Cartel – incidentally not for the food, but for the monsoonal rain that flooded the road, forcing us to stay inside after finishing our meal and knock back the numerous cocktails on offer, before finally giving up at about 11pm and wading knee-high through the flood water.
On the left side of the pavement on Street 149, across from Baktouk Primary School, where schoolchildren from all over the country come to take extra classes, you can find an unusual couple with a very unusual business enterprise.
Koh Pich dining, in all its barbecued, deep fried, fairy-lit forms, is a fast and shiny experience best enjoyed with as many people as possible. From burger joints and barbecue chicken to Americana-inspired soft-serve salons – once you're ensconced, the novelty is hard to resist.