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Archive for January, 2009
Matt Rouge writing update for January 15, 2009
This week, for a major Japanese automaker I translated some goodbye speeches to a manager who is leaving India to return to Japan. A somewhat unusual job, but quite interesting.
I have had a tremendous amount of medical interpretation work the past month.
My coauthor and I are picking up the pace on the book we're writing. Actually, he is the star of the show; I am just helping him edit a bit.
Things are not too complex or harried right now, but suitably busy.
"Center" by Matt Rouge: now available online
You may have read the press release I posted on this site for "Center," my short story about high school football player going off to college in the year 1948. The story was recently serialized in Touchdown Illustrated magazine, and I now have it available on my personal blog. I think you'll enjoy it as a story, and it's another sample of my writing available for your inspection.
Matt Rouge writing update for January 4, 2009
December, as noted in my last post, was most busy. I was actually incorrect about how much extra work that one internal manual would require; it was a slam dunk! And the reason it was a slam dunk was that I was able to see what dangers lurked from the beginning of the project and prepare accordingly with thorough research and documentation. Forgive me, readers, a tiny pat on the back for this; I am somewhat proud of and relieved at how things turned out there.
Since my last post, for a major Japanese automaker, I have done the following:
- Did further editing of the press kit of a major new model so that the kit could be reprinted.
- Translated the year-end speech of a major executive of the company.
- Translated a press release for a major automotive event held in Japan.
- Translated an internal video concerning a major new safety technology. I translated the original press release as well, in effect branding the technology in English.
Of course, all of these documents except the press kit required skill in Japanese-to-English translation, which is something I have to offer. But getting a good and accurate translation isn't enough: good English with the right feel and cadence to it is also necessary. And I have that to offer as well, whether you require Japanese-to-English translation or just well-written English from scratch!
One other thing that made December a very busy month was that for the last two weeks of it I was spending a lot of time in the hospital interpreting for families with sick kids. This post on my personal blog talks about the situation in greater detail, should you be curious.
I will be back in the hospital tomorrow morning, too, interpreting for a family whose child is having open heart surgery. Please pray with me that things turn out well for this child and this family.


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2001 Lexus ES 300 6 cyl Front Wheel Drive Automatic 90000 miles
I was cleaning the Lexus so I took out both front seats and back and then the lower part of the dash board.
Reason: Cleaned Carpet.
Problem: I re-put everything back in the same way I took it out. I connected everything the same. Someone said that under the seat the battery wasn't connected or something, but it is. I herd there are also air bags in the seats?
Tried: I have tried what people said online about reseting air bag lights. I tried disconnecting battery in the certain way and I also tried putting the key in "ON" position and then opening the door and pushing the door sense? Button 5 times and then shutting the door and turning the car on.
Question: How do I reset the computer or whatever needed to reset the airbag light and make it disappear without going to the dealer?
I know that when the airbag light is blinking, that means there is a problem, but mine is just steady ON.
have the same problem?
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The Voice Recap: Instant Elimination Quarterfinal Twist!by Free Britney at . Comments
With all the teams narrowed to four singers, Blake Shelton and Christina Aguilera mentored their proteges on The Voice's quarterfinals Monday night ...
... and had to axe one on the spot.
That's right, ANOTHER Voice format change! In an unprecedented twist, both coaches were obligated to immediately eliminate one of their charges.
Tonight, America's votes will determine who else will go home from each team. "I think it's caught us off guard a little bit. ... It sucks," Blake said.
From Team Blake, RaeLynn performed a rendition of Jason Aldean's "Country Girl," prompting Shelton to say he was proud and that she kicks ass.
Jermaine Paul was dubbed Christina's "favorite" after his rendition of Phil Collins' "Against All Odds." Blake called this a "turning point" for Paul.
From Aguilera's team, Ashley De La Rosa marked her 18th birthday with a rock version of Jewel's "Foolish Games" that was very well received.
Before they had to make their impossible decisions, Shelton and Aguilera each took the stage to perform with their remaining team members.
Team Christina performed Aguilera's own hit "Fighter," while Team Blake tackled the Eagles' "Heartache Tonight." Then came the hard part ...
"I was really hoping for somebody to come out here and not do a good job ... and it just didn't happen," Blake said, before eliminating Jordis Unga.
Blake based that on audience votes two weeks ago that placed her in the bottom three. Hard to blame him for that, even if he loved Jordis.
Then, in a surprise move, Aguilera opted to let Jesse Campbell go.
After Campbell's performance of Beyoncé's "Halo" earlier, Adam Levine told him he was a "huge, huge favorite" to win the entire competition.
So much for that.
Tonight, the votes of fans will decide who joins Jordis and Jesse in the former contestant category. Next week, Teams Cee Lo and Adam go for broke.
What do you think? Do you like the newest twist, and did Blake and Christina do the right things with it? Sound off on The Voice below!


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That's quite well possible.
The specs in our review http://reviews.cnet.com/desktops/dell-inspiron-531/4507-3118_7-32486097.html don't say if it has currently has a SATA or am IDE drive (although, with 500 GB in 2007, I suppose it's SATA), nor if there's any spare SATA or IDE slot available.
My advice: take the case with you to your favorite computer shop and let them have a look inside to see what's possible and what's best. They will be able to install it for you also, for a not too big amount of money.
My Dell Inspiron 531 is running out of space on the hard drive. I'm using the Vista OS. I would like to add a second larger hard drive with Win 7 but keep my old Vista hard drive.
I'd like to make them independent of one another but running them in the same computer. I wouldn't transfer anything to the new hard drive but use it as I do now.
Is this possible to do? What are the complications involved.
I'd appreciate your input.


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Quality Affordable London Apartment
Size56 m²
Floor No.1(with elevator)
- Family/child friendly
- Kitchen
- Washer/dryer
- Gym
- Elevator in building
- Lockable room
- Air conditioning
Accommodation summary
|Mannock Close, NW9 5WD London, United Kingdom
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|Property ID
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|Response time
|A few hours
|Calendar updated
What do you get from a hotel? Just a room with costly room service. What do you get from us? A fully equipped 1 bed flat where you feel just like in your own house. How do we compare cost-wise? We simply have the nicest places, and the cheapest. CHECK REVIEWS
Nicely and tastily decorated, this top class flat located in Colindale, North West London, is suitable for short term stay and ideal for tourists, business professionals, contractors, or anyone in London looking for short let. Absolutely spotless and clean. Nothing to share with anyone except, an access corridor to both this flat and a separate studio flat next door.
You will enjoy a beautiful bedroom with overbed mirrored wardrobes, a spotless new bathroom, and a large open plan living/dining and kitchen area.
- City life with all the buzz around, shops, supermarkets, pubs.
- Top security, the estate is completely gated and secure. 24 hours CCTV.
- Nicely decorated bedroom with double bed with clean bedding sets
for two guests
- In the living room, there is a Large L shape sofabed in the living room large and comfortable enough 136cm wide X 230 cm long suitable for 2 extra guests and one double size sofabed with memory topper for comfort for an extra two guests. So in total 6 guests can live comfortably in this appartment.
- Freshly clean Carpet floor, double glazing;
- TV and sky box with over 300 channels.
- Complete office for all your business needs: PC with Printer-scanner-copier (ink cartridges not provided), 30MP Webcam & headset for Skype, video conferencing, wireless internet (up to 36Mbps speed).
- Landline telephone with free dial for 0800 numbers
- Fully functional Kitchen with kitchenware, tableware, Microwave, toaster, juice maker, tall fridge freezer, washing machine with drying room, dishwasher
- Spotless neat bathroom with fresh towels
- FREE London travel information about travelling by bus, train or cycling in London
- FREE USAGE of communal football table, gym equipment.
- FREE ACCESS TO Communal areas with seats on top floors for fresh air or to enjoy panoramic view of the area and beyond (6th and 7th Floor)
Location is excellent. You are within walking distance to all amenities, fast food outlets, supermarket open 24 hours a day, 15 mins by bus 142 to the iconic Brent cross shopping centre, the first large enclosed shopping centre ever built in the UK in 1976 or 10 mins to Edgware shopping centre or Burnt oak town centre catering for all other international food needs (including Asian, European or afro-Caribbean)
- 5 mins walking distance to Colindale station.
- The entry point of Central London, Camden Town is 20 minutes from the flat, the south end of Central London is 50 minutes from the flat. So depending on where you are going, you are within 20-50 minutes from the flat.
- Even at night you don't have to worry about how to get home.
2 NIGHT BUSES N5 & N16 run all night from Trafalgar square and Victoria and stop right outside the block.
- Day buses include 303, 204, 142, 324, 142, 192, 32 run all day from bus stops outside.
House rules
* Check-in and release of keys: Will be done at the property itself.
*Check-in time: To be arranged between host and guest. Please ensure you have arranged with the host a check-in time before coming to the property. Else no one will be waiting for you.
* How to arrange check-in time? Just let the host know your preferred check-in time once you know. The host will confirm at least 3 days before your arrival the best possible time for your check-in. It is flexible if there is no guest before you checking out. Otherwise it could also depend on the guests before you check-out time and the time required to get the property ready for you.
* Check-out is by agreement with you taking into consideration the guest after you preferred check-in time. You can check-out late if guests after you want to check-in late.
* Please ensure you have Host contact number available on the day of check-in.
* Due to a minority of guests not turning up at agreed time, please do contact host at least 30 minutes before arrival at the property to confirm how far you are or for any delays. If you just turn up at the property late, there is a high chance the host would have left and you will have to wait for him.
* The flat is in a block of flats completely gated with no access to outsiders. Your host Oliver will be waiting for you but please call him when you arrive.
* Strictly No smoking anywhere inside the flat to ensure it is always suitable for non-smokers as well and child friendly. You may smoke outside in open air.
* If you would like direction to the property, the best and even cheapest transport connection from any airport, please call your host Oliver. Good planning means you should always be prepared before you leave your house.
* Return the house as you have found it, reasonably clean and tidy. What need to be completed before check-out and return of your deposit will be fully explained. You will get your deposit back in full if you respect the Check-out rules.
|Price for > 4 guests
|£ 11 per guest/night extra
|Check-in After
|On arrangement
|Check-in before
|On arrangement
|Check-out Before
|On arrangement
|Cancellation Policy
Reviews of this property
Oliver is a good host. Willing to answer all questions and possible problems are quickly resolved. Apartment is big enough for 4 people. Lovely shower (or self-stick shower) good heating. 3D TV with blue ray player (great for kids) computer with internet and wifi in the apartment. Apartment reasonably clean. Walking distance to metro station (about 5 minutes walk). Large supermarket close by as well as several eateries (for takeout). From central London apartment about 45 minutes. Was doing good. Private parking, secured with fence and camara's.
From highway to reach. Apartment well
Apartment located next to a busy road. You hear this, but has not bothered us and the kids.
All in all a good stay and we certainly an apartment once again to go back.
Oliver is een goede host. Bereid alle vragen te beantwoorden en evt problemen worden zeer snel verholpen. Appartement is groot genoeg voor 4 personen. Heerlijk douche (wel zelf douchekop vasthouden) goede verwarming. Tv met 3d blue ray speler (leuk voor de kids) computer met internet en wifi in het appartement. Appartement redelijk tot goed schoon. Loopafstand naar metrostation (ruim 5 minuten lopen). Grote supermarkt dicht bij evenals diverse eettentjes (ook voor afhalen). Centrum Londen vanaf appartement ca 45 minuten. Was goed te doen. Eigen parkeerplaats, beveiligd met hek en camara's.
Vanaf snelweg appartement goed te bereiken.
Appartement ligt naast een drukke weg. Dit hoor je wel, maar heeft ons en de kinderen niet gehinderd.
Al met al een goed verblijf en voor ons zeker een appartement om nog eens terug te gaan.
Great apartment for a short stay in London. With 2 adults and 3 young children it is just big enough. Quiet location, good subway connections. Time to the center is about 20 minutes. Supermarket directly opposite. Oliver is very helpful. We had a great time. Thank you.
Super Wohnung für Kurzurlaub in London. Mit 2 Erwachsenen und 3 jüngeren Kindern ist sie gerade noch groß genug. Ruhige Lage, gute U-Bahn Anbindung. Zeit bis zum Zentrum ca. 20 Minuten. Supermarkt direkt gegenüber. Oliver ist sehr hilfsbereit. Wir hatten eine tolle Zeit. Danke.
Oliver was a pleasant and helpful host. Easy to deal with. Apartment was relatively clean and had most everything you need for a stay. Smaller unit but still adequate. The ASDA was very convenient to have need by and we visited often. Beds were ok to sleep. Shower head did begin to fall off at our stay but Oliver was taking care of that. Not a bad location to tube and buses. Street was noisy but we got use to it. Overall a nice stay. Value for your money.
We had a nice family stay in this apartment. It is clean, functional and well equipped for vacationers. Oliver is very friendly and helpful. It is to listen and care about your comfort in the apartment. This apartment is well served by buses. It is very convenient to the center of London. We will not hesitate to return if we go back to London.
Nous avons passé un agréable séjour en famille dans cet appartement. Il est propre, fonctionnel et très bien équipé pour les vacanciers. Oliver est très accueillant et serviable. Il est à l'écoute et soucieux de votre confort dans l'appartement.
Cet appartement est bien desservi par les bus. C'est très pratique pour aller au centre de Londres.
Nous n'hésiterons pas à y retourner si on revient à Londres.
Very nice and helpful host. The settlement worked out great, the apartment is equipped as described. What we did not like was the loud noise from the street (at night) with the windows open.
Sehr netter und hilfsbereiter Gastgeber.
Die Abwicklung hat super geklappt, die Wohnung ist wie beschrieben ausgestattet.
Was uns nicht gefallen hat, war der laute Straßenlärm (Nachts) bei geöffneten Fenstern.
Oliver is a very nice and very helpful for people who occupy the apartment host. The apartment is comfortable, clean, close to public transport. The neighborhood is quiet. A small flat, the noise at night from cars double glazing would be required) I propose this property and the day I return to London I will praise bringing earplugs.
Oliver est un hôte très agréable et très disponible pour les personnes qui occupent son appartement. L'appartement est confortable, propre, près des transports en commun. Le quartier est tranquille. Un petit bémol, le bruit la nuit des voitures un double vitrage serait nécessaire)
Je proposerai ce logement et le jour où je retournerai à Londres je le louerai en amenant des boules Quies.
We stayed for 4 nights in the apartment. The location is good. The big supermarket was very grateful to 24h. is open. That must make the final cleaning yourself, you must purchase the company. But very cheap.
Wir waren für 4 Nächte in der Wohnung. Die Lage ist gut. Der große Supermarkt war sehr dankbar, der 24Std. offen ist. Dass die Endreinigung selber machen muss , muss man im Kaufnehmen. Aber dafür sehr günstig.
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Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church would like to thank all who helped make the Fourth of July Community Party a huge success. We especially want to thank Thrivent Financial for Lutherans for the grant to pay for the party supplies. We also want to thank McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Costco, Safeway and SuperBear for their generosity.
Over three hundred people attended the party and had a great time. Many thanks to the other churches who participated: Aldersgate Methodist, St. Brendan's Episcopal, Glacier Valley Church of God, Church of the Nazarene and St. Paul's Catholic. We appreciated the musicians who assisted, Lorenzo Il Magnifico for his balloon animals and the help of Southeast Alaska Gymnastics.
Again, many thanks to all the people who attended.
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I'm going through some gear and have decided to sell my JRB Bear Mountain Bridge Hammock. I purchased it new approximately a year ago and have only used it twice. Please be advised that you will need your own suspension system. I had whoopies on it and have decided to keep the whoopies for another rig. It is in excellent condition.
$110 shipped CONUS. Please post I'll take it as this seems to be the way to conduct business here. Thanks.


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James Taranto nails a perverse metric
On female and male employment parity.
It assumes that in a society with more traditional sex roles, women contribute nothing of value. Gross domestic product measures only commercial work, not unpaid domestic (in the sense of household) work. It doesn't capture the reality that a traditional marriage–or, for that matter, its reverse, a union between a working woman and a "house husband"–is an economic unit to which the homemaking spouse makes a vital contribution.
As we've noted, Scandinavian countries have promoted "gender equality" by employing armies of child-care workers, most of them female. That is, they get paid to take care of other women's children. That counts toward the GDP figures, whereas it does not when mothers care for their own children at home. It's not immediately obvious that the Scandinavian way leaves society as a whole better off.
Actually, it's immediately obvious to me that this leaves society worse off.
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Traveling Luck for Elliott High Ranch, Nevada, United States
Where is Elliott High Ranch?What's around Elliott High Ranch?
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The timezone in Elliott High Ranch is America/Whitehorse
Sunrise at 06:32 and Sunset at 17:23. It's Dark
Latitude. 40.4800°, Longitude. -115.9589°
Weather near Elliott High Ranch; Report from Elko, Elko Regional Airport, NV 49.1km away
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Temperature: -9°C / 16°F
Wind: 0km/h North
Cloud: Solid Overcast at 5500ft
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Geographic features & Photographs around Elliott High Ranch, in Nevada, United States
- mine(s);
- a site where mineral ores are extracted from the ground by excavating surface pits and subterranean passages.
- Tripoli Mine (7km)
- Davis Tunnel (7km)
- Standing Elk Mine (7km)
- Grey Eagle Mine (7.1km)
- Ennor Mine (7.1km)
- Mendota Mine (7.2km)
- Brodine Mine (7.3km)
- Webfoot Mine (7.3km)
- Mahogany Mine (7.3km)
- Palisade Mine (7.3km)
- Bullion Mine (7.3km)
- Key Mine (7.3km)
- Sky Blue Mine (7.3km)
- Burke Mine (7.3km)
- Storm King Mine (7.3km)
- Independence Mine (7.3km)
- Helen M Mine (7.3km)
- Delmas Mine (7.5km)
- Sylvania Mine (7.5km)
- Sweepstake Mine (7.6km)
- Copper Bell Mine (7.7km)
- Silver King Mine (7.8km)
- Red Bird Mine (7.9km)
- spring(s);
- a place where ground water flows naturally out of the ground.
- Rock Springs (6.2km)
- Crane Springs (8.6km)
- Potato Patch Spring (8.7km)
- Mill Creek Spring (10.6km)
- Cherry Springs (10.8km)
- Murdock Spring (11.5km)
- Indian Spring (14.6km)
- Papoose Spring (14.9km)
- Local Feature;
- A Nearby feature worthy of being marked on a map..
- Elliott High Ranch (0km)
- Hackwood Ranch (4.5km)
- Elliot Ranch (8.8km)
- Elliott Ranch (9km)
- Upper Scott Ranch (12.6km)
- Indian Campground (13.5km)
- mountain;
- an elevation standing high above the surrounding area with small summit area, steep slopes and local relief of 300m or more.
- Ravens Nest (6.1km)
- Squaw Mountain (6.2km)
- Bunker Hill (6.7km)
- Pine Mountain (12.2km)
- Robinson Mountain (12.6km)
- valley;
- an elongated depression usually traversed by a stream.
- Cissillini Canyon (5.4km)
- Crane Springs Canyon (15.1km)
- Lee Canyon (15.2km)
- Papoose Canyon (15.4km)
Accommodation around Elliott High Ranch
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- a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work.
- Highland (historical) (6km)
- Bullion (7km)
- Old Bullion (7.4km)
- stream;
- a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land.
- Dixie Fork Trout Creek (9.7km)
- South Fork Trout Creek (11.4km)
- Front Creek (15.9km)
- flat;
- a small level or nearly level area.
- Evans Flat (10.5km)
- Dixie Flats (13.3km)
- range;
- a series of associated ridges or seamounts.
- Pinon Range (12km)
- Dixie Hills (14.2km)
- ridge(s);
- a long narrow elevation with steep sides, and a more or less continuous crest.
- Cedar Ridge (14.5km)
- well;
- a cylindrical hole, pit, or tunnel drilled or dug down to a depth from which water, oil, or gas can be pumped or brought to the surface.
- Sleeman Well (12.1km)
- administrative division;
- an administrative division of a country, undifferentiated as to administrative level.
- Railroad Mining District (5.7km)
- basin;
- a depression more or less equidimensional in plan and of variable extent.
- Smith Creek Basin (10km)
- post office;
- a public building in which mail is received, sorted and distributed.
- Bullion Post Office (historical) (7.4km)
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Pepper @ b8ta
August 11, 2016 | Palo Alto
Pepper will be appearing for the very first time in-store in the United States! B8ta a retail innovation space will be hosting Pepper for a special week long event from August 11th - 18th.
Visitors will be greeted by Pepper and invited to discover more about Pepper's capabilities through special events and prize giveaways planned throughout the week. This is part of our series looking at RaaP—Robotics as a Platform— learning about the opportunities, tools, and support available to create custom robot apps.
On Tuesday August 16th (7pm - 9pm), there will be a Pepper Developer Evening showcasing Pepper and the possibilities with connected devices.
Store Hours
Sunday - Thursday 11am - 7pm
Friday - Saturday 11am - 8pm
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Palo Alto, CA 94301
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This gadget just might be a bartender's new best friend.
The "Bottoms Up Draft Beer Dispensing System" from Montesano-based GrinOn Industries uses special cups and magnets to dispense beer into cups in seconds.
As the name implies, the cups are filled with beer from the bottom. TechFlash reports it's not the most economical system for pouring beer — the cups cost 45 cents each — but branding the magnets with advertisers' logos could help offset that cost.
Check it out in action. (I think the cartoonish music adds something to the process, don't you?)
Here's what it looks like from above.


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Campus Watch in the Media
The NY Times Covers for Obama on Khalidi
by Ed Lasky
The latest whitewash of members of the ring of rogues around Barack Obama is delivered by the New York Times this morning.
Barack Obama has had a long-time friendship with Rashid Khalidi, who taught at the University of Chicago from 1987 until 2003. They both lived in the small enclave of Hyde Park and socialized. They both taught at the University of Chicago. The topic of their friendship has risen, in part, because Khalidi is a fierce critic of Israel and US support of that nation. Also, Barack Obama, when he served on the small seven person Board of Directors of the Woods Fund, gave 2 grants totaling over $100,000 to an anti-Israel activist group headed by Khalidi's wife.
The Khalidi's also held a fundraiser for Obama at their home.
The ties between the Barack Obama and Rashid Khalidi generated some attention when a Los Angeles Times article ("Allies of Palestinians See a Friend in Barack Obama") was published earlier in the year that portrayed the extent of their friendship as deep and enduring. There is a video (that the Los Angeles Times refuses to make public) of Obama delivering an encomium to his friend during a going away party for the Khalidi's (Khalidi was moving to Columbia University, where he now holds the Edward Said chair of Arab Studies and is director of the Middle East Institute of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs"):
From the Los Angeles Times article:
This is the history that the Times tries to whitewash today.
The New York Times has front-run for the Obama campaign for two years - downplaying his close ties to ACORN, to Pastor Jeremaih Wright, to William Ayers. Now the paper is back for a repeat performance. The article in today's paper describes Khalidi as a "passionate defender of Palestinian rights" , quoted him as saying "I didn't endorse killing Israeli solders" and "I am a ferocious critic of Yasser Arafat". The New York Times also derides the view that he had close ties to the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).
Taking the last point, first. He did have close ties to the PLO. According to CampusWatch:
The Times portrays Rashid Kahildi as just a passionate defender of Palestinian rights who did not endorse the killing of Israeli soldiers.
That is not true.
In a speech given to the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Khalidi said that "[k]illing civilians is a war crime. It's a violation of international law. They are not soldiers. They're civilians, they're unarmed. The ones who are armed, the ones who are soldiers, the ones who are in occupation, that's different. That's resistance." This certainly strongly implies that he does endorse the killing of Israeli soldiers, no? The New York Sun argued that was precisely the meaning in this editorial
Khalidi also beleives that all of Israel - even pre-1967 Israel - is occupied Palestinian territory which would seem to deny the Israelis all rights to a nation with any kind of realistic, defensible borders (that goes beyond defending "Palestinian rights").
He has called Israel an "apartheid system" and is fiercely critical of the so-called Israel Lobby and any think-tanks that he considers too pro-Israel (even if they employ Arab and Arab-American scholars).
Actually, he considers Israel as acting in a such a away that is worse than apartheid (Jennifer Rubin continues her superb reporting on Obama and found a 2007 video of a Khalidi lecture where that statement is made.) In that same lecture, Khalidi castigates American Jews and their influence in America that, in Rubin's words:
"[H]is description of American Jews who control the money and votes to manipulate Congress sounds an awful lot like Mearsheimer and Walt's "The Israeli Lobby." Or General Tony McPeak for that matter".
I would add to Rubin's comments that Obama's foreign policy gurus Zbigniew Brzezinski, Samantha Power, and Daniel Kurtzer have also expressed sentiments against American Jews who engage in their constitutionally protected right to have a voice in foreign policy discussions.
One can also add prominent Barack Obama supporter George Soros and on again, off again foreign policy "pal" Robert Malley who share disparaging and unpleasant views about the putative Israel Lobby.
Finally - and just to be brief because the infamies heaped upon Israel by Rashid Khalidi are too numerous to list - is Khalidi's claim that he was a "fierce critic of Yasser Arafat" which the Times uncritically accepts. Most readers would consider a fierce critic of a vicious and unrepetant terrorist as admirable. However, the devil (literally) is in the details. Was Khalidfi critical of Arafat's terrorism? His serial lying? His authority being used to indoctrinate young children to hate Jews? No.
Khalidi was a critic of Arafat in one area and one area only: his governing style when he was in control of the West Bank and Gaza. No condemnation of Arafat's support for terrorism and the teaching of hate, or his serial lies and breaking of commitments. None.
The Times - in the tank for both Barack Obama and apologists of terror.
See also this outline of the ties between Barack Obama and Rashid Khalidi.Note: Postings in "Campus Watch in the Media" do not necessarily reflect the views of Campus Watch.
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A Year at the Post Office
Posted on September 24, 2012 by Lou
Scooting around town in a postal service jeep collecting mail in rural New England was one of the best jobs I ever had and stabilized me at a pivotal time in my life. But was I just borrowing a working-class persona to bolster my fragile identity?
As a nonunion postal clerk in Brattleboro, Vermont, I earned the starting hourly pay of a regular employee but without benefits or representation rights. Hired by the local postmaster to staff a new plan to consolidate and then automate mail sorting, I was brought on with other "casuals" straight from the unemployment lines.
Though the civil service process was bypassed, we were paid nearly triple the minimum wage. This would supposedly inhibit postal service management from filling full-time permanent positions with guys off the street.
To be clear, I was not a scab. There was no labor dispute or picket line. The union didn't like local postmaster hiring, but the system allowed it.
These jobs were mostly being doled out "patronage" style to families who'd been around Southern Vermont and New Hampshire for generations. When I learned about the work, I tracked down Brattleboro postmaster Harvey Dix and stopped by his office every day for a week until he told me to report the next afternoon.
I was 26 and had lived in Southern Vermont for nearly five years. But I had been less than successful in my recent career as a "helping professional." A counselor at a group home for delinquent teenage boys, I couldn't project enough authority to keep these kids in line. I recall spending much of my time and energy rounding them up for meals and bedtime. Therapy, such that it was, consisted largely in teaching and modeling "impulse control," which – at the time – was not among my strengths.
I just didn't have the chops to control troubled 16 and 17-year-olds with criminal records (mostly breaking and entering, auto theft and/or drug possession). There was an "incident" one night with a few of them sneaking off to steal a car. I left the job after eight months and was washing dishes at a motel restaurant when I joined the P.O.
What could be better than sorting mail by hand in Brattleboro,Vermont in 1977 for $6.50 an hour plus overtime?
Under the rules, I was allowed two 89-day shifts per calendar year. The job would last nearly 12 months and consisted mostly of sitting on a stool facing a slotted cabinet, sorting tray after tray of of letters. The primary tool of the trade was a rubber finger tip for my right thumb. Before long I would learn the zips for many of Vermont's 246 towns and cities from White River Junction 05001 to Norton 05907.
I had moved to Vermont in September, 1971 – sight unseen – to attend Windham College in Putney. I didn't even know what fall foliage was. (I'd only been north of New York City during summer months: in the mid 1960s for six week sessions at Jewish "sleep-away" camp and when I hitchhiked to Canada after I graduated high school). Noticing that the mountains all around seemed to be lighting up, I asked somebody what was going on. I learned for the first time that leaves in New England change color this time of year.
Twenty miles north of the Massachusetts border, Putney fit the bill as a cute rural New England town but what I didn't expect – and what I would come to love about Vermont– was its curious mix of parochial and cosmopolitan culture.
In the middle of the village was the Putney Paper Mill which had been manufacturing paper products – napkins, towels and wrap – for generations. Nearby was Basketville, a throwback tourist destination and showcase for hand-woven products once used by local farm families for harvesting, hauling and storing. Basketville continued to do a nice business in the modern era selling laundry and picnic baskets of all shapes and sizes.
But this was no backwater region and Putney showed its other face on the outskirts of town: the Experiment in International Living, a pioneer in cross-cultural education; the Putney School, accommodating the sons and daughters of the well-to-do from coast-to-coast; and Windham College where students like me could bond with a highly-qualified faculty.
With the completion of Interstate 91 in the early 1960s, Southern Vermont had become more accessible and attractive to out-of-staters. Just two hours from Boston and four from New York City, investors and builders were enticing farmers to sell-off dairy land to commercial strip developers. But for a variety of reasons – including aggressive statewide land-use protections – Southern Vermont would not go the way of Connecticut and New Hampshire. The quaint towns and villages clustered around Brattleboro – Putney, New Fane, Guildford, Dummerston, Marlboro, Westminster– had too much cache. There was a "way of life" at stake.
To be "neighborly" in Vermont was not just cliché. Despite a rural New England stoicism and reserve, people in these towns tended to be very respectful of each other in everyday situations. I was not only impressed by the common decency among grocery clerks, bank tellers and others but by how Vermonters of that era tolerated what at times seemed like a counter-cultural invasion.
It wasn't just the scenic country roads, covered bridges and hillside farmhouses which attracted young Americans from the northeast and elsewhere. Stirring up the hopes of many social change activists was the state's political atmosphere rooted in community democracy. The Brattleboro area in particular was gaining traction as an urban refugee hot spot where you could live modestly, renounce materialism, attend town meetings, and build your own house.
(This is not to deny or conceal Vermont's problems. It was and remains a relatively poor state afflicted with – among other things – alcoholism, family violence and bad teeth).
By working at the Post Office on Main Street, I was taking a big step toward assimilating into the mainstream community; joining about 50 diligent postal clerks on 24/7 shifts breaking their backs to convert the Brattleboro branch into a "sorting center." Engaged in mostly repetitious and tedious assembly-line style tasks, the working atmosphere was characteristically friendly and restrained, with lots of harmless local gossip, tasteful humor and an occasional Red Sox game on the radio to pass the time.
To get through long shifts and tiresome routine, some of my co-workers at the P.O. would, every now and then, wander out to the parking lot to "check their tires" and return to their sorting stations a little fortified. Management tolerated this behavior and, in fact, the night shift supervisor – George – was particularly susceptible.
Though I was finding my groove sorting mail, cancelling stamps, tossing bundles of letters into sacks, I didn't quite match the output of the regulars. One night, a particularly irritated and agitated George spotted me loafing and warned me that I'd better pick up the pace.
Unionized full-timers could mostly ignore him, but as a casual I was easy prey. Afraid that George had it in for me, I worried that my lucrative postal career would be coming to an early end.
The next day he called me up to his desk.
"You got a license," he asked.
"What kind of license," I answered stupidly.
"A drivers' license," he said.
"Starting tomorrow," George said, "you'll do collections."
I never figured out why George chose me over other casuals to scoot around town in a postal service jeep collecting outgoing mail. But for about an hour each day before sorting letters, I would drive and walk through Brattleboro with my canvas and leather collection bag and a U.S. Mail Box key chain swinging from my belt. This daily routine not only relieved some of the the stress from the repetitive indoor work, it gave a boost to my developing identity as a Vermonter.
No longer just an interloper in this region, I had become a "mail man." Connecting with my Brooklyn roots, I had earned my way into the adult American working class. Here in idyllic and idealized Vermont (notwithstanding the social problems and hardscrabble life) I was proud to be a blue-collar federal employee; even if I was just borrowing a working-class persona to survive a volatile and pivotal phase in my life.
Of course, casuals weren't really postal workers. Though a few of the 15 or so temporary employees would go through civil service to land permanent – unionized – positions, I wasn't interested in a career at the post office. I needed the money, appreciated the camaraderie and recognized – then and now – how the P.O. matured me and gave focus and direction to my future.
Turns out that working the night shift helped cut my career path in journalism. My curiosity about the state – its people, culture, history, values and government – motivated me to look for local freelance writing gigs. Vermont, I knew, was a good story. A state with a long tradition was changing fast and there were some particular characteristics – conservationism rooted in conservatism, the last vestiges of liberal Republicanism – which were worth covering.
My break came when I wrestled an assignment from a weekly alternative newspaper based in Western Massachusetts on the demographic trends transforming the town.
The Valley Advocate was a free distribution alternative weekly, one of many regional spin-offs of "left" press publications such as New York's Village Voice and San Francisco's Bay Guardian (The L.A. Weekly would launch the following year).
Ad-driven commercial enterprises, these news, arts and culture publications showcased personal liberation and radical politics. Expanding circulation was important to the business model, while building the movement – women's and gay rights, environmental and consumer protection – was central to the editorial mission.
The distribution core of the Valley Advocate was Amherst, Northampton, Mount Holyoke and Greenfield Mass but the publisher was expanding circulation north of the border. For weeks, before clocking in at the P.O., I would interview local residents – oldtimers, newcomers, town officials and civic leaders – for a cover story on the mid-70s "lifestyle" makeover reshaping southeastern Vermont.
Here was my lead:
The New Age arrived in Brattleboro and Putney with packs on their back, in old Volkswagons, just passing through, to sleep in the woods. They came here to go to college, to get away from college, to get a job, to avoid one, to take acid, to visit their friends. There was plenty of room to be yourself and it was a nice place to stay and watch the season's pass. The searchers, the ones trying to figure out how to live where the air wasn't poisoned and the people weren't paranoid, had discovered Vermont.
They weren't the first.
Not too bad. Looking back 35 years, I appreciate the effort even if it now seems a little overwrought. I go on to outline a bit of the state's history, its tradition of "independence, tolerance and equality" and then pose these questions:
Are Vermonters still free to conduct their own lives? And does the Southern Vermont area stand a chance to protect itself from the kind of commercial and industrial development that has homogenized so much of America?
Next, I profile the town manager and discuss issues of growth, architectural standards, tourism and crime. Then I get to the best part. I feature a long-time resident willing to talk about what it felt like when the "draft dodgers and potheads" started showing up in town. The guy was pragmatic:
There were some fights and some hard feelings, he remembers, but things calmed down pretty quickly.
A lot of the community said this is the way it's gonna be, we may as well make the best of it. Then they found out that a lot of the hippies had money. After they got settled, they started spending it.
I finished the piece by profiling "Fritz", the manager of the Common Ground, an archetypal, worker-owned natural food restaurant which would close forever in 2007.
I went there for lunch the day the story came out and was immediately rebuked by Fritz for mischaracterizing him in the piece as a "committed Marxist." On my way home after the scolding, I was bitten by a small neighborhood dog. Though it was just a nip, my skin was punctured and I thought it wise to stop by the Brattleboro Memorial Hospital Emergency room. I didn't need rabies shots but this was not a good day.
Was there a lesson in humility I was supposed to be learning?
My journalism career, however, was in gear and for the next three years I would cover local and state politics, economics and culture for many different media, including a Vermont-based weekly called the Vanguard Press.
After my year at the post office, I moved a hundred miles north to Montpelier, Vermont – the nation's second smallest state capital with 8,000 residents – to focus on state government and politics and to cover a region which was (and probably still is) somewhat less trendy than Brattleboro / Putney.
Vermont was continuing to shift toward what we would soon call progressive and I fashioned myself as a chronicler of this movement. Having carved out a nice niche, perhaps I could have settled comfortably on a dirt road in a small town and spent my 30s and beyond with a goat in my backyard, shoveling snow and watching my small state lead the way in green energy, gay marriage, universal health care and the election of a socialist to the U.S. Senate.
Instead, I watched from a distance.
Very specific circumstances – the end of a relationship, the death of a parent – triggered my migration 3000 miles west in 1981.
Trading inclusiveness for alienation, I left the cozy land-locked state for the sprawl and anonymity of L.A., a city on the edge.
I still feel some remorse when I think about deserting my Vermont compatriots who carried out the mission. Maybe I cared too much about Vermont, was being smothered by my attachment and wanted to escape before I became disillusioned with my idealized object?
In Los Angeles, I would fulfill my primal need to "belong" by reaffirming my affinity with the American working class and in the camaraderie of the labor movement. In other words, I abandoned Vermont because I needed to craft a self-identity more consistent with my familial roots. I could even argue that labor activism is my redemption for working nonunion at the Brattleboro Post Office.
But that would be a stretch.
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You missed a great party last night. You would have felt very included and your journalistic juices would have been flowing!! See (?) you in Albuquerque………….
I loved that story. Thank you.
I can sense Vermont in the air, now. Even leaves in the Pacific NW are beginning to light up. Well written reminiscence, Lou.
Great story and great storytelling. I recall Putney and Brattleboro of the 1970′s and can attest that when I last visited Putney in 2002 little had changed except the paper mill had closed and Windham College transmogrified into Landmark College, a Bible school. In one week begins the peak of the fall foliage, which too may have changed, postponed a day or two by global warming, due in part to my combustion engine automobile that transported me back in time to Brattleboro and Putney.
You are a wonderful story teller….and I really hope you will do a book…I would love to hear more about the details of your life. And keep these coming!
Union since 1985. Somehow your non-union postal job does not offend. Perhaps because it was Vermont. Whan an interesting life you have led. I look forward to your posts and always share on Fb
I was transfixed reading your narrative. All these bygone images of Putney that lay dormant in my mind began to surface.
Hey Lou:
Great story. One minor correction – Montpelier is the smallest state capital in America, not the second. Vermont, as small as it is, is first in many things and that's why I still live and love it here.
Thank you, Lou.
Captivating writing, pulled me in and filled me in more about your life and journey.
Noa (L.A. transplant to Brooklyn)
Great story. Amazing, you have such an uncanny memory about those days and your job. I know because I was there.
Helpful article – I loved the analysis . Does someone know where my assistant could possibly grab a blank NYC RPIE-2010 Instruction version to fill out ?


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The National Crime Agency (NCA) said a joint investigation with the City of London Police had led to the arrest of three men from Crouch End, north London, and one from Islington, also in the north of the capital.
The four were questioned about their alleged role in a wider organised crime group which is thought to have counterfeited notes with a face value of £8 million.
A spokesman for the NCA, launched earlier this month to replace the Serious Organised Crime Agency, said the latest arrests were made after an investigation which was launched in August 2011.
The four suspects have now been released on bail after being interviewed at police stations.
Trevor Pearce, director of the NCA's economic crime command, said: "Counterfeit currency costs the UK millions of pounds each year, and not only hits the pockets of the general public but also businesses in our communities.
"On this particular operation we worked in collaboration with the City of London Police and the Bank of England, which clearly demonstrates the need for partnership to lead the UK's fight to cut serious and organised crime."
Last year police seized more than 700,000 counterfeit Bank of England with a face value of £13.1 million, compared with more than £50 billion worth of notes in circulation.
The most counterfeited was the 'Adam Smith' £20 note, said an NCA spokesman.


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Wedding expo planned at stores
A free wedding expo has been scheduled from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at all of the Market Street stores operated by United Supermarkets in Lubbock and other areas served by the company.
During the event, guests will be greeted by a bride and groom in wedding dress and tuxedo, who will point them to product samples and demonstrations from Market Street's floral, cake and wedding catering services.
Market Street team members also will be on hand to discuss ideas, answer questions, give recommendations and schedule individual consultations.
One couple at each store will win an $800 wedding package, including $200 each in floral, bakery, catering and Dish Gift Boutique services.


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20 Mar 2013 17:40
Welcome back Brumbull. Nice to have things resolved and a troll put to flight. I like the fact that 'forkers' has overtones of being a pet name for gardeners in general.
20 Mar 2013 17:43
Brumbull, best news I've had all day. Good to know you will still be around.
20 Mar 2013 18:28
I think it's a good term, and was myself thinking it was just the slang everyone used round here for forumites or gardeners in general. Anyways, bygones are bygones, there's only been this whole drama because of the fire at the Rovers, we felt we had to compete!!! Glad you decided to stay bud, always enjoyed your posts, informative and thought-provoking topics, definately in the case of the last one!!! Just think how boring it'd be if we all agreed!
Take care all
20 Mar 2013 18:39
All that fuss over a 'Good Morning'!.....
I'm astounded how quickly the mornng change..deary me..
Glad you are sticking with us...
20 Mar 2013 19:28
Have left a message on the good morning thread, but I'm so glad you are back. I also tried to message you but failed, so I'm glad to be able to say it now.
20 Mar 2013 19:44
great matey there is much joy in giving than receiving.glad to here it brumbull.
20 Mar 2013 19:54
Hello Brumbull, so glad you are back. I tried to send you a message to ask you to come back, but it wouldn't accept it. I wrote to Brummie Ben instead as it seemed to me you were friendly.
20 Mar 2013 20:20
Hi brum its Alan from Tenby as you know im in norwich house hunting which you wished me luck with,iv got this erm wifi thing iv managed to almost conca up here and have just loged on,i dont know wots happened while iv been away but youll do fa me mate and when i get back to Tenby on proper PC i,ll back on the air proper asking for help SO talk soon matey and Hi Soto hope your all good,B lucky by4now
21 Mar 2013 08:58
Hey up Brumbull I,d have sent you a private message but I have,nt sorted that one out yet but I will in time. Any way talking about gardening is the best therapy.So to start up at me plot this morning at 6.30 green house showing 8 degrees on the ricter scale got a lot of sedlings starting to shape themelves. We still need the sun to start doing what its supposed to GIVE US SOME BL.....DY HEAT!! Regards Brian
21 Mar 2013 18:47
21 Mar 2013 22:18
hi us in paignton have had non stop rain all day still pouring(why has the writing gone small any ideas)
21 Mar 2013 22:33
There is a technical fault apparently. Everyone's writing has gone small.
21 Mar 2013 23:15
The North wind doth blow...bitingly cold in the open. Did odd jobs in the garden this morning - thank goodness as now...sleet and snow and the biting wind. Set until the weekend. Gloom...gloom.I can hardly read this - hope you can.
22 Mar 2013 06:22
It's a problem with the css. As a tempory measure you can zoom the page with ctrl + , reduce text with ctrl - and reset to normal with ctrl 0 (zero).
If that is as clear as mud find the button on the left of your keyboard labeled Ctrl and press it. Then at the end of the number row it should be ...90-+ the plus may be above an equals sign. but don't worry about that press this key maybe 3 or 4 times while holding the lefft ctrl key down.
This will make all text bigger, the more you press the + the bigger it gets doing the same but with - makes it smaller and with the 0 key resets to the normal size. The bigger text size should remain that way as long as the window is open.
22 Mar 2013 07:44
Another example of the way a little information makes a big difference! Thanks again, Blackest. Just tried it and it worked perfectly.
While on the topic of information, I downloaded an app on Firefox that makes all cookies and trackers self-destruct and tells you how many have done so. It is astonishing how many covert cookies and apps there are! It gives me a buzz every time one of the little notifications appears.
22 Mar 2013 07:57
Morning to everyone especially those of us experiencing the snow! Hope you all have plenty of tea/coffee/other supplies to keep you warm! Not really too bad with me but the wind is bitter. A good day to do things indoors like seeds etc.Thanks for the tip re the text blackest- know what you mean about the eyes Brum ! I'm afraid I might have to have a rant on your thread GG - people going up hills not properly equipped and thinking it'll all be fine... I have to go and get shopping. What a thrilling life I have. Keep warm all!
22 Mar 2013 08:53
22 Mar 2013 09:08
Morning everyone. I have been away for a few days and was wondering what had happened to the text, now I know, thanks. Extremely cold this morning, when will it warm up
22 Mar 2013 09:13
Morning all, welcome back Woo2.
Thanks for the info on the text. What I'm really missing are the emails to tell you that someone has written on a post you are following.
Perhaps this time Spring has sprung in SW France at last. 11° and sunny now 19° forecast this afternoon. Going to my daughter's for the weekend. Hope the tech problems have been sorted when I get back.


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Two months, three deaths later, no action taken to improve conditions
Two months after three people died and more than 500 fell ill due to cholera in the Garha locality, the district administration has failed to take any action. Moreover, the three inquiries, of which two were ordered by two deputy commissioners and the third by the municipal corporation, appear to have been an eyewash.punjab Updated: Nov 10, 2013 21:38 IST
Two months after three people died and more than 500 fell ill due to cholera in the Garha locality, the district administration has failed to take any action.
Moreover, the three inquiries, of which two were ordered by two deputy commissioners and the third by the municipal corporation, appear to have been an eyewash, as the authorities are yet to fix the responsibility for the outbreak of the disease.
In the second week of September this year, people in the locality had fallen prey to cholera after drinking water reportedly got mixed with sewage due to multiple faults in the system and illegal water supply connections.
First inquiry
However, the first inquiry by the municipal corporation had reportedly given a clean chit to its officials, who had failed to take note of the illegal water connections.
Second inquiry
After the preliminary report was submitted by the MC, the-then deputy commissioner Shruti Singh, dissatisfied with the report, had ordered a fresh inquiry into the episode and constituted a three-member committee comprising SDM-1 Iqbal Singh Sandhu, Punjab Pollution Control Board executive engineer (XEN), and public health XEN.
Blaming plot owners for the outbreak, the report said migrant labourers working in the scrap dealing business in Garha were living on certain plots in unsanitary conditions. Their quarters were unhygienic, and more than 50 people were sharing one toilet and bathroom, which adjoined the kitchens. Besides, the owners were providing them with illegal water connections.
The report suggested that a case should be registered against the owners under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code.
The commitee members also suggested measures to prevent a similar situation in the future, including conducting a survey to gather the latest information about illegal water supply connections in the city, replacing PVC water supply pipes and ensuring a year-round chlorination process. The report also said that a five-member committee, including two women, should be formed at community-level, and the members be given training about the chlorination process.
Third inquiry
In second week of October, present DC Varun Roojam had ordered a fresh probe into the incident, after the first inquiry failed to nail anyone.
HT Survey
An HT survey in Garha, Basti Sheikh, Basti Bawa Khel, Qazi Mandi and Basti Danishmandan localities, among several others, revealed that over a thousand migrants are living in unsanitary connections.
In Garha, there was no change from the earlier situation, and migrants were still living on the plots earlier visited by the-then local bodies minister Chunni Lal Bhagat and senior functionaries of health department and the MC. These officials had promised action, but nothing has been done till date.
DC Varun Roojam said, "I have received a report from MC in which it stated that illegal water connections have been disconnected in Garha, and it has started forming sanitation committees ward-wise."
"I have asked the MC to give certificates regarding the disconnection," the DC claimed, adding that he had also asked the MC to form a policy limiting the number of people living on a plot, to control the problem of overcrowding.


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Juventus will hold talks with Sampdoria at some stage on Monday to register their interest in Andrea Poli.
Juve director general Beppe Marotta, formerly of Samp, has been in the city of Genoa since last night.
It's being widely reported that the official will talk to Doria directors in an attempt to sign Poli on a permanent basis.
The Under-21 international is a promising player who has also caught the attention of Napoli and Inter following Samp's relegation.
There is a possibility that Juve could offer cash and Luca Marrone in exchange for the tough-tackling midfielder.
Marotta may also take advantage of the meeting to make an enquiry about central defender Daniele Gastaldello.
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Perry Fair is heading back to Atlanta. Fair, who attended college and ad school in the city during the 1990s, is leaving Boston shop Mullen to become chief creative officer at JWT in Atlanta.
Fair, who'll also oversee creative staffers in Houston and Dallas, fills a vacancy left by the July exit of Carl Warner. (Since then, creative directors Justin Baum, Roy Trimble, and Thurston Yates have managed the creative department.)
Atlanta's top accounts include the U.S. Marine Corps, Transamerica, Scana Energy, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Houston handles Shell and Jiffy Lube, and Dallas serves as a technology hub, providing database management and analytics to marketers.
In his new role, Fair, 36, will lead some 50 staffers and partner with Rob Quish, who in the spring became CEO of the three offices. He's expected to start next month. Quish, who considered a handful of candidates for the position, described Fair as a hard-working "doer" who "leads by example," adding, "He's a really driven guy, really ambitious and has consistently taken bigger and bigger jobs."
Fair's move south comes just eight months after he and R/GA's Mauro Cavalletti joined Mullen as co-chief digital officers. Before that, Fair was an executive creative director at Grey in New York, where he focused on digital efforts and worked on DirecTV, E-Trade, and the NFL. His other brand experience includes Nissan, Gatorade, and Propel, having worked earlier in his career at TBWA\Chiat\Day, The True Agency, and Element 79.
Fair left Atlanta in 1999, after studying advertising at the Creative Circus and earning a bachelor's in art from Clark Atlanta University. His first job was as an associate creative director at Burrell Communications in Chicago.


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"Oh, one more thing" said the landlord as I signed the lease, "the couple sharing the house is from Israel." In a split second long hours of interfaith dialogue, community organizing and genuine friendships all flashed before me as I grinned at his apprehension and simply replied, "…that shouldn't be a problem." Relieved, he collected the lease with a proud smile reflecting, "How amazing, an Egyptian and an Israeli couple living under the same roof!"
I presume that ten years ago I wouldn't have been as calm about my housemates. But during the past decade I witnessed two transforming crises. The first was when a major mosque project in Boston was halted due to a smear campaign linking it with terrorists. The second was a spiritual crisis. The first ordeal was resolved after numerous community organizations came to the rescue, campaigning against hatred and fear mongering. Most of that support came from Christian and/or Jewish organizations.
The spiritual crisis was a by-product of this resolution. How could I have the audacity to view such sincere and simply good people as deviants from The Straight Path I was on. How could I smile in their faces, and shake their hands with a firm grip, or hug them with a warm embrace, but within my heart conceal a sentiment that I am "righter" than they were in the eyes of God.
This spiritual crisis was resolved by changing my perspective on faith. Instead of my Islam being the Only Right Path to God, it was one of the several traditions that our species developed to come to terms with the big questions in life. It is an extremely rich tradition and it happens to be the one I was brought up in. To me, Islam became like Arabic, a native language to communicate my deepest questions and discover answers. Islam became a spiritual and religious language rich in term and metaphors, but like Arabic, it isn't the only language and English or Mandarin can do just as well.
Along with the transformation came a disenchantment with politics; I came to see politics as the bottom of the human fish tank were the worse residues of fear and manipulation aggregate. I was therefore comfortable living with Israelis; there would be no room for contentions, neither religious nor political.
Our evenings were warm and family like. The couple, a little older than I am, were very close and meshed well with each other. When we first met one evening we had a simple conversation and the next day I immediately accepted their invitation to have lunch with them; sharing bread and salt being the eternal Arab gesture conveying trust and friendship. I taught them Arabic and they taught me Hebrew, we talked about work, politics and God. We had a great time. I couldn't help but see my parents in them. They must have been just like them thirty years ago.
It was a big house though and we expected more tenants. An American Jew, a Polish Catholic and a divorced grandmother moved in a couple of weeks later. With the variety of housemates a shuffling of cards seemed to happen on my side. I identified more with a housemate my age and professional background and I started to spend less time with the Israeli couple. Long dinners became shorter and language lessons were always postponed to another day. The extent of polished sharing of lives started to diminish and with that friction emerged. This is what I call domestic dialogue and feel that it is relevant to the interfaith community at large.
It is one thing to interact for the purpose of civic engagement and another to interact out of the necessity of sharing a home. The first type of interaction is higher form of civic life, attained only after securing your basic domestic and private needs. The second type is part and parcel of securing your basic and private needs.
Civic dialogue affords to wait for you when you're ready. Domestic dialogue catches you off-guard. Civic dialogue, I beg your pardon, is many times a bunch of summer time fancy "bs." The heat of domestic dialogue seperates the "b" from the "s," sending the later straight to the fan.
I sometimes allow myself the flattery of seeing my living situation as a femtocosm of the world (femtocosm is much smaller than microcosm). We live in a home but it really isn't ours, it belongs to a [land]lord. We share limited space and are limited by our emotions and needs. In this domestic dialogue environment I have learned that the key to pleasant co-existance is respecting difference.
The attempt to minimize the differences is futile and counter productive. The attempt to say, "Hey, whatever, you're my housemate and I have your back, as b-tchy as you are today," is more productive. I've learned that circumventing contentious practical issues is not necessarily the right solution. Yes, at times you must dodge the booby traps of disagreement in order to make progress when discussing who is supposed to clean the upstairs bathroom this week or if a couple should pay two shares instead of one for cleaning supplies. There are times, however, when a good ol' fight with hand waving, shouting, cursing in native languages and mean faces, all while sitting around the kitchen table, is cathartic; as long as you have an instinctive commitment to respect that we are different and will never be the same but at the same time must live well in our shared home. At the end of the day we are commonly human and need a be happy in the place we call home.
As much as I dread war, I can't help but conceal a curiosity for how the recent events in Gaza will complicate my relationship with my Israeli housemates (I use the word complicate in a is a positive manner). For several years, as a Muslim in post-9/11 America, I have learned and taught others how to painstakingly search for a common ground and to avoid disagreement at all costs. Living with an Israeli couple has taught me how to maintain a delicate balance between establishing common grounds and demarcating your [shifting] boundaries at the same time. The perpetual pursuit of common ground had relegated the crisis in the Middle-East to the recesses of my mind. Sarah and Cohen have empowered me to bring it back to the forefront. I love them both.
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According to the charity Mind, one in four people will experience a mental health problem each year. And in the high-pressure environment of City law, maintaining the right mental balance is harder than ever.
Over to Hogan Lovells, which has been examining policies and procedures around workplace stress.
The firm is now offering all of its staff the facility to refer themselves to a trained in-house counsellor who will be available two days a week. Although Hogan Lovells stresses that the counselling service is not related to the death of IP partner David Latham last year, its deliberations around stress management were certainly accelerated by that event.
Hogan Lovells is not the first firm to prioritise mental health; legacy Herbert Smith was well ahead of the curve back in 2009.
How long will it take for other firms to follow suit?
Also on The Lawyer:
- EY acquires Shanghai-based Chen & Co to make first move into China legal market
- Jones Day targets Australia with Perth office
- Norton Rose Fulbright moves into Brazil with Rio launch
- And SJB and the problem with private equity


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Big, poofy, afros :D
13 comments · save · last comment by Selina M. over 3 years ago
I think lady afros are pretty much fantastic. I'm white and have straight hair, lulz
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I love when someone can rock one. They're gorgeous and I do think they represent something, but not necessarily a 'black power' movement thing. I suppose, it's mostly because of the social suggestions that come with 'straight' hair (and more specifically straightening ethnic hair) that make something so big and poofy seem so rebellious, but when I pass a nice afro I can't help but admire it.
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My girlfriend is African-American and I'm really excited for her to grow it naturally (we buzzed it a month or so ago). I don't feel like there are any serious, present-day associations connecting it to the Black Power movement, but even if there were, so what? There's no shame in pride.
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I love afros on girls and guys the volume is just epic, If I could have one I would, they look amazing when you dance too! Fuck my straight hair.
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Adore them. I love big hair in general and afros are like the mother of all big hair. I think they create presence.
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I love poofy hair, any kind
0 ▲ · May 8, 2011
I don't think I could pull off an afro myself, but they look good on people that can!
0 ▲ · May 8, 2011
I adore them. I wish I could have one!
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they are adorbz... My opinion is that the world needs more fro'age, on everyone.
0 ▲ · May 8, 2011
'Fros are SEXY!
0 ▲ · May 8, 2011
Love them! There's this girl at the college where I work who has a massive blonde white-girl fro and it's gorgeous!
0 ▲ · May 15, 2011
i have a bit of a jewfro but few people have actually seen it which is how i like to keep it :P afros do look cool but i always wonder how it is maintained
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Happy Saturday and welcome to March! Here are the most popular stories we shared online this week.
The second largest television advertising event was last Sunday: The Academy Awards. Brands spent between $1.6 and $1.8 million dollars for each thirty second commercial block. If you missed them, watch them all on Ad Age. Online, brands tried to replicate the recent success of the Super Bowl real-time marketing. Brands "newsjacked" the event with Oscar-related ads on social media, sharing them with the hashtag #OscarsRTM, created by advertising mega-house, Edelman. Check out the list of 17 "failed" brand tweets from the evening, compiled by Jay Baer.
Brick and mortar stores are increasingly concerned with "showrooming", as consumers make their purchases online. However, a new report reveals some positive news for brands: two thirds of shoppers who use a mobile device in a store are more likely to buy a product. 32% of mobile shoppers bought something they did not plan on buying while in a store. Without mobile, it's 7%. Read the full findings on Marketing Pilgrim.
Facebook announced on Thursday that it purchased Microsoft's ad platform, Atlas. The service will allow Facebook to show targeted ads across the web, and it solidifies the site's relationship with Microsoft, who also owns Bing. The New York Times reports that investors are very pleased with the deal.
Just in time for Mobile World Congress this week, Compete published our reviews of the latest smartphone devices: the HTC One and Blackberry Z10. Please share your thoughts on the blog! What were your first impressions of the phones? Do you think they will be successful?


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Make yourself at home in one of the 106 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and microwaves. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms have complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include laptop-compatible safes and desks, and housekeeping is provided daily.
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About the Inauguration
Inaugural Ceremony
The Inaugural Ceremony, or investiture, is an academic tradition originating in English universities. The word "investiture" comes from the Latin phrase for "dress in robe," and this term used in academia refers to the donning of the university's regalia.
The Inaugural Ceremony is an important institutional event that formally marks a new era of leadership. The event includes many academic traditions and protocols, including an academic procession with delegates from other colleges and universities, as well as faculty of the host institution. The ceremony typically features musical selections, greetings from university and community groups, introduction of the president, an address, the official transfer of institutional leadership, and the singing of the Alma Mater.
Academic apparel originated in the Middle Ages when scholars were also clerics. Efforts to keep warm in drafty monasteries resulted in capes with hoods attached worn with robes — though robes were typical of medieval men and women and hardly confined to monks. Even so, gowns and robes acquired distinctions reflective of various professions, trades and religious orders. The tradition spread to America, but not until 1895 did this country adopt a specific code for American academic apparel. With only slight modifications by committees of the American Council on Education in 1959 and in 1986, the 1895 regulations still govern academic apparel.
The gown is usually made of black material of varying fullness. The distinguishing characteristics are the sleeves' length and shape. Bachelor's gowns have long, pointed sleeves; master's gowns have full-length, square sleeves, crescent-shaped at the bottom; and doctoral gowns have full, round, open sleeves with three velvet bars. The doctoral gowns are closed and faced down the front with panels of velvet.
The cap, the mortarboard worn for all ranks and degrees at The University of Southern Mississippi, bears a tassel that is gold, the University color, for the bachelor's and doctoral degrees; the color of the tassel for the master's degree reflects the general degree area of study. Ceremonial switching of the tassel from the right to the left after the awarding of the degree is permitted.
The hood indicates the source of the graduate degree. Candidates for bachelor's degrees do not wear hoods at The University of Southern Mississippi. Master's hoods are approximately three-and-one-half feet with three-inch panels; doctoral hoods are approximately four feet with five-inch panels with reversed double chevrons. The silk lining bears the institution's colors of black and gold, and the velvet panel colors indicate the general field of study (e.g., M.A., white; M.B.A., camel; M.Ed., light blue; M.F.A., brown; M.L.I.S., lemon yellow; M.M., pink; M.M.Ed., pink; M.P.A., camel; M.P.H., salmon pink; M.S., gold; M.S.N., apricot; M.S.W., citron; Ed.S., light blue; Au.D., rhodes blue; D.M.A., pink; D.N.P., apricot; Ed.D., light blue; Ph.D., dark blue).
University Mace
The University mace, carried at the head of the procession by the grand marshal, symbolizes the authority of the Office of the President of the University. Originating in the Middle Ages as a hand weapon used by guards of kings and other high officials, the mace has evolved into a ceremonial symbol in academic processions. The mace was designed by Ronlin Foreman, a former University of Southern Mississippi student, and fashioned by Wakely and Wheeler Ltd., London, England, silversmiths since 1791. An eagle, encased in an open orb of sterling silver, points with uplifted wings to a crown of laurel, signifying honor and distinction. With "Southern Mississippi" embossed at its base, the orb adorns a 36-inch ebony staff, banded and tipped with silver.
Presidential Medallion
The presidential medallion, designed by Southern Miss alumnus Ronlin Foreman and worn by Rodney D. Bennett, symbolizes the Office of the President of The University of Southern Mississippi. Suspended on a ribbon of black velvet, the sterling silver medallion displays the eagle, clutching quill and scroll, with wings uplifted toward a crown of laurel, signifying honor and distinction. Engraved on the reverse side of the medallion are the names of past Southern Miss presidents and the dates of their administrations.