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Prompted by these EU requirements, CEN/TC 264 Air Quality established working group CEN/TC 264/WG 15 to present a manual standard gravimetric measurement method for the determination of the PM2,5 mass concentration of suspended particulate matter in ambient air.
There are no traceable reference standards for PM2,.5 measurements. Therefore, the standard measurement method set out in EN 14907 [3] effectively defines the measured quantity by convention, specifically by the sampling inlet design and associated operational parameters covering the whole measurement process.
To support the drafting of the standard measuring method EN 14907, working group EN/TC 264/WG 15 on PM2,5 carried out a field evaluation program at various test cations throughout the EU. Following a pilot study, 8 test locations representative of arious ambient air situations were chosen so that the impact of semi volatile particulate atter to the PM2,5 mass concentration would be investigated.
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• to develop a practical test procedure to demonstrate whether non standard easurement methods (like other manual gravimetric or automatic monitoring ethods) are equivalent to the designated standard method.
• to provide information on the performance and measurement uncertainties of some ommonly deployed automatic PM2,5 measurement methods, in line with the ncertainty requirements set out in the data quality objectives within the Directive 999/30/EC.
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WG 15 agreed that the candidate reference samplers to take part in the Field Test hall comprise:
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(2) a Low Volume 'unconditioned' system (with no mechanism to reduce solar eating effects on the sampling line or filter), for comparability with the PM10 tandard EN 12341 [4];
(3) a High Volume system, for comparability with the PM10 standard EN 12341;
(4) a Low Volume 'conditioned' system, with an air flow mechanism designed to educe solar heating effects, because of the recent understanding of the ignificance of these effects;
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Here's the news in Oregon beer for Thursday the 21st of June. As usual I'll be periodically updating this post throughout the day with news as I find it, so check back often for the latest news. And if you have news to share, please contact me and I can get that updated as well.
The Green Dragon (Portland): Tonight they are hosting a meet the brewer with Portland's own Sasquatch Brewing, one of Stumptown's newest breweries on the scene. The beers will be tapped at 5pm and the meet the brewer portion of the evening starts at 6; no word yet on what's being poured but they list a Pale Ale and a couple of IPA currently so that's a safe bet.
GoodLife Brewing (Bend): Yesterday they were in Portland, and today they are pouring beers in Corvallis at Suds & Suds. Brewer Curt Plants will be on hand to talk about the beers and the good life in Bend (har) and they'll be pouring Descender IPA, Mountain Rescue Pale Ale, Comatose IIPA, 29′er India Brown Ale, Sweet As Pacific Ale and "potentially one more beer that has yet to leave the brewery." Check them out!
Raccoon Lodge (Portland): Befitting the start of summer, the west Portland outpost for Cascade Brewing has their beer garden open! It's looking good too: you can see they've posted the picture to their Facebook page. Where else would you rather be right now than a beer garden?
McMenamins Roseburg Station (Roseburg): Apparently they hadn't been brewing beer for awhile, as McMenamins posted on Facebook today: "Roseburg brewed beer is back at McMenamins. After a three month hiatus to recover from a knee injury, brewer Tom Johnson has returned to the brewery. Diamond IPA is now on. The Ruby, Hammerhead and Terminator will soon be locally produced again as well. Also watch for the pending return of Whistlers Wheat and Half Shell Golden Ale in the next couple of weeks."

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By Sairana Mohd Saad (Malaysia) Because the attached picture was taken on the 1st of February 2013, it makes it exactly 2 years now since I have donned the Hijab. I clearly remember how excited I was and how painful it was to properly style the long shawl. It felt pretty warm too! One of the first questions people would ask …Read More »
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Gerry Cottle, 67, ran away from home when he was 15 to join the circus, starting as an apprentice and eventually running and owning three circuses: the Cottle and Austen Circus, the Moscow State Circus and the Chinese State Circus. In 2003 he sold all three and bought the tourist attraction Wookey Hole Caves in Somerset (wookey.co.uk), which he still runs. This year he returned to the circus and his new show, Gerry Cottle's Wow, is touring until September 4 (wowshow.co.uk). He has four grown-up children and five grandchildren and lives in Wookey Hole village.
Routine I wake up early at 6am and have a bowl of porridge with soya milk, blueberries and bananas. That's my healthy start. I faff around and get to the office, which is just down the path, at 8.30am. In the evenings I have tea at 6.30pm, watch Coronation Street and a news programme, unless it's too depressing, and go to bed at 11pm. Of course, if you're moving the circus it's a totally different schedule: you work all night and it's a hard life, but I stay in a hotel nowadays and let the younger ones deal with all that.
First love I fell in love with the circus when I went to see Jack Hilton's Circus at Earls Court at the age of eight. Seven years later, in 1961, I ran away from home to join the Roberts Brothers' Circus. I left a note for my parents saying 'Please do not under any circumstances try to find me. I have gone.'
Alternative life Dear old Dad was a stockbroker. He had a rolled umbrella and a bowler hat. He caught the same train at 8.10 every morning and was back home by 6.30pm for a gin and tonic. His father and grandfather were stockbrokers and it was assumed that I would be too. This is his box (pictured below) which is made from the original wall of the Stock Exchange. It's a reminder of the life I could have had, but would have hated.
Support Dad always supported the circus – he came the first couple of years when I had my own one. He retired early, but then died within a year when he was 60, from cancer. It was very sad and made me even more convinced that you have to grab life and live it.
Gimmicks I've always tried to do things differently. I've had a strong man who used to lift an elephant and then have a car driven over him – I love gimmick acts. This year I've got a guy who shoots an apple off a girl's head – the girl used to work in the local Somerfield before she joined us.
Inspiration I'm constantly thinking up ideas for new shows – I've got a million ideas, that's the trouble. I get a lot of inspiration from circus books – I've got a great library of them. This one (pictured below) is from 1935 and is full of photographs of circus and variety acts from that day. When you look through you realise that there is no such thing as a new idea; it's how you put them together to form a show.
Painted horse My girlfriend, Anna Carter, who runs Carters Steam Fair, painted this lovely horse (pictured below), which is one of the horses from her fair. She's a very talented artist, she paints all the pictures on her wagons. This horse sits in my office now. I see Anna only about once a fortnight because we're both so busy with our businesses. I met her in the late 1970s, but we didn't get together until a couple of years after her husband, John, died in 2000. I'm still married and my wife lives in the village. We won't ever get a divorce, but we just didn't get on.
Home truth If you own a circus, people think you're a gipsy, but I've always lived in a house. My son Gerry Junior says that the first time his friends came to our house they were shocked that it was bigger than most of theirs.


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- n. Plural form of sahib.
Sorry, no etymologies found.
McCutchion's letters to his student, Suhrid Bhowmik, who works on tribal languages and Santali, vouch for his dedication to the point of obsession, his meticulousness about the measurements of temples, and the demonic energy with which he documented terracotta shrines through images and writings, ignoring inhospitable weather, terrain and dysentery, the bane of all "sahibs", that finally took their toll.
London biographer Richard O'Connor suspected Jack of adopting a condescending attitude toward both the Japanese and Koreans, more or less along the lies of Kipling's sahibs toward the Indian natives.
For the British in India, the Raj came to an abrupt halt: No sooner were the states of India and Pakistan born than the British pukka sahibs who had long resided in India scuttled "home" to England.
They began to remember that the hakim might after all be a trickster, and to realize how much too friendly -- how almost intimate he had been with the sahibs at Ali Masjid.
"Come and ache out of the sahibs 'sight!" he snarled.
"Hundies, with printing on the face that sahibs accept instead of gold."
The women crooned love-songs to their babies over the clear fires and the men talked -- and talked -- and talked until the stars grew big as moons to weary eyes and they slept at last, to dream of khaki uniforms and karnel sahibs who knew neither fear nor favor and who said things that were so.
And I cried out: ` Shabash, mem-sahib! 'and ` Heep-heep-heep-hoora', as the sahibs do, to comfort her.
"I saw it - I, and Muhammed Din here, for they brought us out to the jokan Bagh saying, ` See thy mighty sahibs; see thy proud mem-sahibs who looked on us as dirt; see them crawl to us before they die. '"
The North is rising - there, lie still, man - there will be sahibs enough for your knife-edge, when your wound is healed.


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Congress and the president have finally agreed to raise the nation's $14.3 trillion debt limit, along with spending cuts of an equal or greater amount.
There are many points of view about the final agreement, but here's a positive aspect of the underlying principle: If we pledge to hold all future debt-limit increases to the same "dollar-for-dollar" standard, we can balance the budget within a decade.
Increases in the debt limit used to be routine. In fact, for many years the House of Representatives did not even take a stand-alone vote to raise the debt limit, but rather employed the so-called Gephardt Rule to "deem" the necessary increase every time they passed a budget expanding the debt. As a result, the past decade saw the national debt soar from $5.6 trillion to $14.3 trillion with no significant deficit-reduction bills attached to any of its 10 debt-limit increases.
That era is over. With this latest debt limit increase, Congress—at the wise suggestion of House Speaker John Boehner—adopted a new standard: that the bill raising the debt limit must also cut an equal amount of spending over the following decade. In this instance, rather than accede to President Obama's demand as recently as this spring for a "clean" debt-limit increase, Congress matched a $2.4 trillion increase with at least $2.4 trillion in spending savings over the decade.
My hope is that Congress and the president will make further structural spending reforms to respond to the fiscal crisis. But at a minimum, lawmakers should commit to making the "dollar-for-dollar" rule a permanent debt-limit policy. Using Congressional Budget Office data, I have calculated that if we apply this every time we reach the debt limit over the next 10 years, we will balance the budget by 2021 without raising tax rates over current rates.
That's more than $5 trillion in spending cuts over the decade. And because many of these spending reforms would necessarily carry over past 2021, the savings in the following decade would be even larger. If this framework were followed, starting in 2021 budget surpluses would end the era of debt-limit increases.
Granted, cutting more than $5 trillion over the next decade will be challenging. But that is out of the $46 trillion in projected spending which increases the annual budget by 57 percent. So there is room to cut.
With this agreement, Congress has already begun a process to cut the first $2.4 trillion with nearly $1 trillion of those savings up front. I've identified more than $2.8 trillion in possible spending reductions that have received bipartisan support through either Vice President Biden's working group, the Gang of Six, or other bipartisan legislative or public pronouncements. Any of those proposed cuts that do not make it into this current two-step reform should be applied to the next round.
All spending should be on the table. Discretionary spending—both defense and nondefense—has surged in recent years and cannot be excluded from responsible spending reforms. Entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid must also be modernized and reformed to aid 77 million retiring baby boomers and yet ensure solvency for future generations. Repealing the new health-care law would save hundreds of billions of dollars, while providing a second chance to get health reform right. Wasteful spending must be eliminated, and Washington must right-size the federal budget to fit the new realities.
The right tax reform can also reduce the deficit. The current tax code is so large and complex that Americans are forced to spend a combined 8 billion hours complying with it annually. Worse yet, the tax code discourages the working, saving, investing and entrepreneurship that are vital to growth and prosperity. We should create a tax code that's fair for everyone, not just those who can manipulate it. Fixing the code can bring in new revenues not by raising taxes, but by creating economic growth, jobs and higher incomes.
These spending and deficit reforms are vital to encouraging economic growth and job creation. An April 2008 study by economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff shows that when a nation's debt exceeds 90 percent of the size of its economy—which ours passed last year—growth is reduced by one-to-two percentage points. For the U.S., that means one million fewer jobs today.
Over 25 years, continuing this fiscal irresponsibility would leave the economy one-fifth smaller than otherwise. But by committing to the "dollar-for-dollar" rule that keeps spending cuts in balance with any debt-ceiling increases we could actually begin paying down the national debt, to strengthen our economic outlook and to save future generations from inheriting this unconscionable burden.
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You may know that I relaxed my hair almost three weeks ago and I have shared some of the pictures on Instagram but this post is crammed with loads more.
I stretched for 6 months plus and I certainly learned a few lessons along the way which as always, I hope you can benefit from. I will attempt to keep things short and sweet and jump right into it.
The Cons of My 6 Month Stretch
It was time consuming and got increasingly difficult
The longer your hair and the longer the stretch, the more time and effort hair care takes. I am usually quite good at stretching but I really struggled on this stretch and absolutely dreaded wash days.
Even though my wig regimen usually makes my stretches more bearable, I struggled to be consistent and patient with my hair.
I think I also found the stretch challenging because I was quite busy with work over the last few months and just really didn't have the time that was needed to manage my hair as well as I would have liked.
Breakage at the line of Demarcation
I noticed that I had more breakage at the line of demarcation. The breakage occurred more in the areas that have thinner and weaker hairs. This reminded me that everyone's hair is different and some ladies may not be able to stretch for long periods as it may do more harm than good. I usually notice some breakage on my 5 month stretches but the breakage on this stretch was more than I felt comfortable with. This is the main reason I doubt I'll stretch for 6 months in the future.
The Pros of My 6 Month Stretch
My hair feels healthier than it does after shorter stretches.
At several points on this stretch, I felt as though my hair was becoming quite damaged as a result of my struggle to manage the two textures. The length of my hair added to the difficulty of it all.
To my genuine surprise, when I texlaxed eventually, I found my hair to be in the best shape it has ever been since I began my hair journey. This reminded me that the less we expose our hair to harsh chemical processes the healthier our hair is….so long as we remain consistent with good hair care practices.
My ends are the best they have ever been
A long term hair goal of mine was to have even blunt or full looking ends.
I don't want to create unrealistic hair goals. It is normal for hair to be a bit thinner towards the ends because with age and wear and tear, the cuticles of our hair gradually chip off and results in thinner hair especially towards our ends which are the oldest part of our hair. I however felt that because I was no longer letting my hair get longer by cutting off approximately 6 inches a year, with normal hair growth, good hair care and regular trims I would eventually have thicker ends.
Towards the end of my stretch, my hair began to look very uneven and I became discouraged about the stretch and I ended up cutting off two inches just so that wouldn't look so bad.
When I eventually texlaxed my hair I could see that my ends where nowhere near as bad as it looked but I still cut off a further inch and half after my texlax.
I have trimmed off a total of 3 and half inches and my ends are currently in pretty good shape. I hope to maintain this by being consistent with my regimen and trimming as and when necessary.
If you are on a long term stretch, it is normal for your ends to begin to look very thin and lifeless in comparison to your thick new growth. Try to hold off trimming until your next relaxer and if for whatever reason you can't wait that long, try not to get too scissor happy and cut too much off.
Despite the positive aspects of this stretch I don't think I will stretch beyond 5 months in the future. I simply don't want to work as hard as I had to on this stretch.
Have your recently ended a stretch? How did you manage the stretch and were you happy with your results?
My next post will be a simple hair style pictorial after a much needed wash day.
See you soon.
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George Haner, M. D., an able physician and prominent citizen of Tannersville, Greene County, N.Y., was born in Prattsville, Greene County, on the 6th of August, 1847. His sole heritage was that of an unsullied name and a constitution which had been developed through generations of industrious sons of the soil. For three generations the Haners and their wives have been hard-working, persevering, and in some degree successful citizens of Greene County.
Martinus Haner, the Doctor's great-grandfather, was one of the pioneers who came to Prattsville from the more settled regions of Columbia County. He immediately engaged in peeling bark for the tanneries, which at that time formed the chief industry of the neighborhood. This pursuit he followed as long as his health permitted him to work. His son Martin continued the gathering and sale of bark, but besides this he cleared a large farm and won by his diligent application a degree of prosperity and comfort.
Martin Haner married Miss Shoemaker, a native of Columbia County, by whom he had seven children, namely: Isaac; Henry; William M., the Doctor's father; Patty M.; Elizabeth; Lavinia; and Mima Ann. Patty M. married Samuel Chamberlain, who is no longer living; Lavinia became Mrs. Spencer; Mima Ann was married to Henry Palmer; and Elizabeth became the wife of Edward Cronk. Martin Haner brought up his children in such a way as to fit them for the battle of life; and, if he did not leave them a fortune, he at least taught them to win their own way to respect and independence. His wife died at the age of fifty, but for a few years more he remained with his family, closing an honorable life, with the love and respect of all who knew him, at the age of sixty-six.
William M. Haner, like his brothers and sisters, obtained his education in the common schools of the town. In the course of time he took possession of a part of the old homestead property, which he farmed with some success until 1866, when he removed to Jewett. There he purchased a farm, but he only occupied it one year; and then selling it he removed to the town of Roxbury, near Grand Gorge, Delaware County. Here he purchased a large dairy farm, which he continued to occupy until 1895. He is now (July, 1899) seventy-six years of age, and is living with his children at Tannersville. He is a Democrat in politics, and has held office as Road Commissioner and Overseer of the Poor.
His wife, Cornelia, was a daughter of Jacob and Jennie (Stanley) Maginnes, who also were among the first settlers in Prattsville. She became the mother of eight children, four of whom are still living, namely: George, the subject of this sketch; Jennie E.; Homer H.; and Clark R. Jennie E. is the wife of Charles Voss, the genial Postmaster of Tannersville, a sketch of whom will be found elsewhere in the Review. Homer has been for twenty years general agent for the Davis Sewing Machine Company, and for upward of three years he represented their interests in Australia. Clark is a book-keeper and clerk, and resides at Tannersville. Mrs. Cornelia M. Haner died on May 15, 1899, at the age of seventy-three. She was for many years a useful and honored member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Thus it will be seen that George Haner started in life with no great advantages, but such as he had he turned to the very best account. All that the common schools of Prattsville had to give he devoured with avidity, and speedily made his way at eighteen years of age from the pupils' bench to the teacher's desk. Quiet and reserved though he was, his efficient work soon called the attention of trustees and school commissioners, and he successively and successfully taught in the schools of Red Falls, Jewett Centre, Windham, and Prattsville in Greene County, and Gilboa, Gallupville, and Middleburg in the neighboring county of Schoharie. With the power to teach came the love of and craving for more knowledge and he very soon proceeded to Fort Edward Institute, where he took an advanced course of study. A period was, however, put to his attendance at this school through lack of funds, but, nothing daunted, he turned to manual labor to supply his needs in this direction. He obtained work as a carpenter, and it was while thus engaged that a direction was given to his mind which determined his choice of a lifework. He was assisting to build a house for Dr. D. M. Leonard at Broome Centre, Schoharie County, and in discussing his future with that gentleman he was advised by him to adopt the profession of medicine. Taking this advice, he at once began his studies with Dr. Leonard, with whom he remained until he entered the Medical College of the New York University from which he was graduated in the class of 1877. Thus equipped, Dr. Haner took up his residence in the town of Conesville, where he practised with success until 1880, when he came to Tannersville.
In 1880 Tannersville was only a small village, and the arrival of a young doctor with a university diploma and some experience was indeed an acquisition. He very speedily impressed the inhabitants with his professional knowledge and ability, and as the years have rolled along his practice has increased and his reputation as a skilful physician has continued to grow. For ten years he practised without opposition. Besides his ordinary practice he has a large clientele among the many city boarders who visit Tannersville during the summer months, and among whom he is deservedly popular, both from a professional and social point of view. His present residence was erected in 1881, but it has been recently enlarged and beautified and made complete by a most convenient suite of offices.
In politics the Doctor is a Democrat. He has twice represented his town as Supervisor, and during the latter term was chairman of the board. The esteem of his fellow-citizens has also been manifested in his election to the office of Coroner for three terms of three years each.
His public spirit has led him to take an active interest in all that concerned the prosperity and development of the village in which he resides. He was one of the incorporators and its first president. He took measures for the laying out of its sidewalks, and was a member of the building committee which erected the first public school-building.
In 1877 Dr. Haner was united in marriage to Miss Agnes More, of Roxbury, Delaware County, a daughter of Andrew and Ann E. (Hardenburgh) More and a third cousin of the late Jay Gould. She had two sisters, Cornelia and Kate, and she has one brother, Samuel P. Kate was married to Mr. M. L. Benham. Samuel P. More is a publisher in Great Bend, Pa. Dr. and Mrs. Haner have one daughter, Helen.
The Doctor is a charter member of the Mount Tabor Lodge, F. & A. M., and belonged formerly to the Gilboa Lodge. He is a member of the County Medical Society, of which he has been secretary for three years, and also of the New York Physicians' Mutual Aid Association.
Dr. Haner is also a prominent and enthusiastic member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and actively and generously participated in the movement which resulted in the erection of the present beautiful edifice in Tannersville belonging to that body. He worked indefatigably in the erection of the Methodist Episcopal parsonage, and to these objects combined has contributed upward of five hundred dollars.
His interest in Sunday-school work dates back to his Conesville days, when he was superintendent of the school; and ever since he came to Tannersville he has been ready with hand and brain, sympathy and purse, to advance the work of God in the church of his choice. He has held almost every office that a layman can hold, representing his brethren at both the district and annual conferences, and is at the present time a trustee.
Dr. Haner is yet in the prime of life, and if spared will be of inestimable service to the community amid which he resides.


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Peyton Place was America's first truly successful primetime serial and one of the classiest television programs ever produced for American television. The series was the brainchild of veteran producer Paul Monash, who, impressed with the success of Britain's monster hit Coronation Street, wanted to import that UK series. However, ABC executives felt that US audiences would not cotton to the thick British accents and kitchen-sink drama.
Monash countered with a slightly revamped version of Peyton Place, which had been a wildly popular novel by Grace Metalious and subsequent Hollywood film starring Lana Turner and Diane Varsi. While the book and series centered on the pious, hypocritical behavior of New England residents, the TV series eschewed most of that lasciviousness to create a portrait of life in a small Massachusetts fishing village. In many ways, Peyton Place resembled a dramatic version of The Andy Griffith Show, featuring a recurring cast of warm, sympathetic characters who lived, loved, and died in a quaint town. Like the former series, Peyton Place was breathtakingly well-written and directed, while superbly acted by a cast of both veteran actors and talented newcomers.
By far, the most popular performers were Mia Farrow, Ryan O'Neal, and Barbara Parkins playing, respectively, confused young adults Allison MacKenzie, Rodney Harrington, and Betty Anderson, who were often at odds with the changing values in the world around them and constant intrusion of secrets from the past.
Before the program went on the air, Monash consulted with veteran soap producer Irna Phillips who had created and wrote top-rated daytime serials As the World Turns and The Guiding Light. Phillips made several crucial decisions that ensured a long, healthy run for Peyton Place. First, she switched core character Michael Rossi's profession from high school principal to town doctor. This gave him a logical reason to participate actively in the lives of all Peyton Place residents, not just the school-age teens. Secondly, Phillips wisely dropped the novel and film's incest story involving Selena Cross. While this plot played well in the film and book, it was highly inappropriate for an evening network drama.
Peyton Place was an immediate hit for ABC-TV, with both of its twice weekly episodes finishing in the Top Twenty Shows for the 1964-65 season. It was seen in nearly 30 million homes each week, capturing an astonishing 40 to 50 % of all viewers watching television at that time. Ecstatic over its success, ABC added a third episode to its weekly lineup. Unfortunately, the tactic backfired. Unable to keep up with three weekly broadcasts, some of the audience began to stop watching altogether, and lower than average ratings for the third weekly show (airing Friday nights initially) pulled down its overall Nielsen rating.
Cast changes of popular performers also eroded the series' popularity. After two years, Mia Farrow decided to exit Peyton Place to seek fame in films and concentrate on her highly publicized marriage to "Old Blue Eyes" Frank Sinatra. At that point, Barbara Parkins' Betty, who originally had been slated to die after the first twelve episodes, became the central character in Peyton Place intrigue. Subsequent ingenues like Leigh Taylor-Young and Joyce Jillson were brought in to help replace Allison's innocence, but none of these characters ever truly captured the imagination of PP's audience. Finally, in 1968, Dorothy Malone and Tim O'Connor were given their walking papers as Connie and Elliot Carson. That fall, Leslie Harrington and Martin Peyton were also disposed of.
In its final season, Peyton Place attempted to recapture Nielsen popularity by restoring its original formula. Barbara Rush and Elizabeth "Tippy" Walker were brought in as the Mackenziesque mother/daughter duo Marsha and Carolyn Russell. Also, in a nod to the "relevance" campaign of the late 60's, the soap added an African-American neurosurgeon and his confused son to the cast, but these changes were unable to stop the slide in ratings. By the winter of 1969, Peyton Place ceased its two-episode telecasts, airing just once once a week. With abysmal ratings, the series quietly left the air in June 1969, leaving all loose plot threads untied.
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Less Offensive Rich Chocolate Cake with Coconut Filling and Ganache
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Author Notes: I made this cake yesterday for my parents 71st wedding anniversary (not a typo). I used unsalted butter instead of the other, more controversial ingredient. The cake was delicious. —nannydeb
Serves 10-12
- 18 ounces good quality bittersweet chocolate, chopped, divided
- 2/3 cup unsalted butter
- 4 eggs
- 2 tablespoons vanilla, divided
- 1 1/2 cups strong black coffee
- 3 1/3 cups sugar, divided
- 3 cups cake flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup unsweetened flaked coconut
- 1 cup heavy cream
- Set out the cream cheese to soften.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease a 10 -12 cup bundt pan and dust with cocoa powder.
- In a small sauce pan, melt 8 ounces of the chocolate with the unsalted butter. Set aside to cool slightly.
- In a mixing bowl, combine cream cheese with one egg, 1/3 cup sugar, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla and the coconut. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the cooled chocolate mixture, 3 eggs, 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, and coffee.
- In another bowl, whisk together cake flour, 3 cups sugar, baking soda and salt.
- Combine dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until incorporated.
- Pour half of the chocolate cake mixture in to the prepared bundt pan. Top that with the coconut mixture, then top that with the remaining cake mixture.
- Bake on the center rack of the oven for 45 - 55 minutes, or until tester comes out clean (this time I had to bake it for 55 minutes).
- Cool on a wire baking rack for 10 minutes in the pan. Invert the cake onto the serving plate to continue cooling.
- While cake is cooling, bring the heavy cream to a simmer. Remove from heat and whisk in 10 ounces of the bitter sweet chocolate. Set aside to cool.
- Once the cake has cooled, drizzle or pour (depending on how much icing you want) the ganache onto the cake.
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Around The Block, New York News Edition
At a Glance AP takes a look at the decline in new construction, which is at its lowest level since November. And the WSJ offers an opposing, more upbeat view on the end of the homebuyer tax credit, which led to a dive in home sales and lots of folks predicting a double dip recession.
New York, New York, cont. Mayor Bloomberg has some ambitious plans for expanding affordable housing, but the NYT profiles a potential kink in the plan: what happens when people fall off the program? Also from the New York world, check out Andrea Star Reese' powerful pics of some of the city's homeless population (the source of the image above).
One Step Closer, cont. President Obama will be signing Wall Street reform into law in the next few days. In anticipation, the National Low Income Housing Coalition spotlights the bill's extension of the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act, the law that "provides renters whose landlords have lost their properties to foreclosure the right to stay in the home for 90 days after the foreclosure or through the term of their lease."
The Seniors are Booming Quicker Than the Teens Last week we talked about the need to provide suitable living options for seniors, a group projected to grow 120% by 2050. Now, the NYT looks at the efforts of New York's city planners to make the city more livable for the older population.
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Liberty - The inherent freedom of individuals from outside compulsion or coercion, in which human beings are able to govern themselves, to behave according to their own free will and take responsibility for their actions.
This site is meant to encourage political thought, discourse, and the development of a principled argument. The platform may change as these principles develop. We use data-driven decision making, so as the data becomes available it should help inform both principles and policy. One fundamental assumption we make is that the role of government is to protect life, liberty, and property in a non-interventionist role. The other fundamental assumption we make is that the people are sovereign. As a practical matter this means that governments are only legitimate if they enjoy the consent of the governed - the citizens.
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What we are reading...
TomDispatch.com - While the authors of the Deming Liberty Platform originally endorsed the TomDispatch site for good reasons, we have withdrawn our support for this site on philosophical grounds.
Ludwig von Mises Institute - Advancing the scholarship of liberty in the tradition of the Austrian school of economics. Here is the wiki.
The Cato Institute - Dedicated to individual liberty, free markets, and peace. Some critical pieces are found in the Cato Policy Reports...
Campaign for Liberty - An all-access pass to the principles of individual liberty. An example of the types of items included in the C4L site is the Anti-Tax Protestors Targeted on Terrorist Watch List. This item summarizes a story originally found in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
LewRockwell.com - anti-State, anti-war, pro-markets.
The American Conservative - Interesting perspective, including some earth-shattering revelations. For example, see the discussion of Senator McCain's role in covering up evidence of American POWs in Vietnam after the war. It is also interesting that these details were not brought to light by either the liberal or conservative media outlets during the 2008 campaign, and have gone virtually unreported since the story broke. The families of these soldiers, as well as the entire American public, have a right to know why these individuals were continually left behind.
The Southern Avenger - The "Southern Avenger" Jack Hunter is a conservative commentator (WTMA 1250 AM talk radio) and columnist (Charleston City Paper) living in Charleston, South Carolina. His columns are intelligent and provocative, and they bring a fresh voice to the tired, mindless banter of the mainstream media. His work is a must-read.
The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty - "The flagship publication of the Foundation for Economic Education and one of the oldest and most respected journals of liberty in America. For almost 50 years it has uncompromisingly defended the ideals of the free society."
The Statesman Sentinel - "a news publication for the those committed to restoring constitutional government, liberty and sovereignty to the United States of America by promoting the fundamental principles which ensure the preservation of a free society, and which were advocated by the founding generation of the American Republic: Individual Liberty, Constitutional Government, Free Markets, Sound Money, and a Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy."
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Economics in One Lesson - "Economics, as we have now seen again and again, is a science of recognizing secondary consequences. It is also a science of seeing general consequences. It is the science of tracing the effects of some proposed or existing policy not only on some special interest in the short run, but on the general interest in the long run...The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups...Nine-tenths of the economic fallacies that are working such dreadful harm in the world today are the result of ignoring this lesson. Those fallacies all stem from one of two central fallacies, or both: that of looking only at the immediate consequences of an act or proposal, and that of looking at the consequences only for a particular group to the neglect of other groups." For an online version of this book, click here.
From Dr. Tom Woods' site..."During these times that challenge our freedoms there is no one more qualified to make U.S. history relevant to the fight against big government than Thomas Woods. This book is a must read for all who cherish liberty." -Barry Goldwater Jr. (Former Member of Congress). For a longer lecture delivered for CSPAN by Dr. Woods on this book, click here. For more information on nullification, click here.
Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse
Cult of the Presidency - America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power
More Guns, Less Crime - Research-supported thesis is that crime goes down in juristdictions that allow private citizens to protect themselves in their homes with firearms, and goes down even more in places where citizens are allowed to carry concealed firearms.
Constitution of Liberty - "A reflective, often biting, commentary on the nature of our society and its dominant thought by one who is passionately opposed to the coercion of human beings by the arbitrary will of others, who puts liberty above welfare and is sanguine that greater welfare will thereby ensue."—Sidney Hook, New York Times Book Review
Give me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries - Portions of this book are available online by Naomi Wolf. Although Ms. Wolf is a self-proclaimed Progressive, she does a good job describing how a concerned citizen can make a difference in promoting liberty.
The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot - Another book by Naomi Wolf. This book describes the ten steps every fascist regime follow, in order, when converting a democracy to a fascist state. It details the policies of Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, more recent fascist states, and how America is currently implementing many of those policies. For an online description of this book, watch all of the YouTube videos on it, beginning here.
WallStats - Death and Taxes 2012 - A visual poster of the federal government's budget. It is a wonderful summary of where taxpayer dollars are going, and gives some indication to the relative amounts going to different agencies. It is well worth a look.
The County Sheriff - America's Last Hope - A short description of the power of the local sheriff when protecting against invasions of liberty.
And some audio/video files...
Why Free Markets Matter - Tomas E. Woods, Jr.
"The market does not have natural antagonists..."
What is Sound Money? - Joseph T. Salerno
Discussing the differences between commodity money and fiat money. Fundamentally important discussion of inflation and its effect on purchasing power. How do we define sound money? The answer has two parts. "First, it is a commodity chosen by the market, like gold and silver. Second, the commodity's supply and value are completely independent of the government." For a good discussion of the history of money, watch here.
Applying Economics to American History - Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
The Core of What Economics Teaches - Mark Thorton
Discussion of Economics and private property rights. "Violations of property rights makes us poorer...so that theft and taxation makes us lose our incentive..."
For Liberty - A documentary of the grassroots effort by ordinary Americans to fight the political establishment during the 2008 presidential campaign. Provides compelling evidence that both the liberal and conservative news outlets, especially Fox Noise, actively downplayed the people's support for congressman Ron Paul during the campaign. This documentary also provides perspective on the origins of the Tea Party movement and the initial attempts by citizens to begin to take back their rights as individuals. This documentary illuminates the deciding point in America's history where the citizens finally began to systematically take back the government from statists, both liberal and conservative.
Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve - A google video that provides a good starting point to begin your education in our current monetary system.The Tea Party movement is being pulled in two directions - Ron Paul or Sarah Palin. With whom do you most align?online surveys


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Interview with BOA for Operation Representative on 1/30???
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Dmlloyd in Jonesboro, Georgia
61 months ago
Hello I had an interview with BOA in regards to an operation Representative position. Prior to the interview I went through the regular channel of applying, receiving an email to take a 10 key assessment, then phone interview, and lastly moved on to the face to face interview. I was told I would hear something by the beginning of the following week, 2/3, but I have yet to hear anything. So its going on almost a week. Does it usually take this long or am I being impatient?
jackieisapunk in Plano, Texas
59 months ago
I'm in the same boat.. filled out the background check 2 days ago and am waiting on a response. On the BoA background check website it says "In compliance with applicable law, I will be notified by the Bank if employment may be denied because of information obtained from Early Warning Services, LLC." So they're supposed to notify you if you don't get the job. It looks like you can get a copy of the report from Early Warning too.
Did you end up getting the job?
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/15/a-world-without-america/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly declared that "a world without America is not only desirable, it is achievable." While that sentiment won't be embraced in President Obama's inaugural address next week, all other things being equal, it seems likely to be the practical effect of his second term. Of course, Iran's regime seeks […]
To read and order Frank Gaffney's pamphlet, The Muslim Brotherhood in the Obama Administration, click here.
Last June, Rep. Michele Bachmann and four Republican colleagues sent letters to the Inspectors General at the Departments of Homeland Security, Justice, and State, asking them to investigate whether the Muslim Brotherhood—the ideological wellspring from which such terrorist outfits as al Qaeda and Hamas first emerged—might be gaining undue influence over high-level U.S. government officials. One letter, for instance, noted that Hillary Clinton's closest aide, her deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin, "has three family members … connected to Muslim Brotherhood operatives and/or organizations."
A few days ago, when Bachmann was reassigned to the House Select Committee on Intelligence, the left-wing activist group, People For the American Way (PFAW)—which had originally launched an unsuccessful petition drive to have the congresswoman removed from that Committee last year—decided to revive that effort. By PFAW's telling, some 178,000 people have signed the petition thus far.
According to PFAW president Michael Keegan, Rep. Bachmann's warnings amount to nothing more than a "smear campaign" of "baseless conspiracy theories" designed to ruin "the reputations of honorable public servants." PFAW spokesman Drew Courtney accuses Bachmann of engaging in "reckless extremism" aimed chiefly at "making headlines and pandering to the Tea Party." And PFAW's online strategy manager, Ben Betz, derides Bachmann's "Islamaphobic fear mongering" and her "disregard for honesty." These accusations are entirely consistent with PFAW's previous claims that "right-wing anti-Muslim activists," filled with "anti-Muslim paranoia," routinely "demoniz[e]" and "vilif[y]" members of the Islamic faith in an effort to stoke Americans' "irrational fears." Such conservative activists, says PFAW, "sanction and encourage [the] persecution" of Muslims while aiming to "prevent" them from "freely worshiping and practicing their religion."
Editor's note: The following is the fifth installment of a series of articles Frontpage is running in response to Oliver Stone's revisionist documentary series, "The Untold History of the United States." Frontpage will be reviewing each episode of the Stone series, exposing the leftist hateful lies about America and setting the record straight. Below is a review of Part 5 of the series.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower is responsible for transforming America into the imperialist global bully it supposedly is today, according to radical Hollywood fabulist Oliver Stone.
In the fifth episode of his multi-part revisionist assault on modern American history, Untold History of the United States, Stone argues that Eisenhower was a willing tool of greedy U.S. corporations and a warmonger who refused to make deals with a Soviet Union that was suing for peace.
Stone blames Eisenhower, the popular former five-star general who led the U.S. and its allies to victory in World War Two, for creating "a permanent war economy." Essentially, Ike turned America into a high-tech modern-day Sparta, Stone claims, by permanently ramping up military expenditures. Of course to the extent that Eisenhower promoted high levels of defense spending he was only carrying on the policies of President Franklin Roosevelt. The Communist-loving director, known for palling around with Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, could never forgive Eisenhower for deploying nuclear weapons that were aimed at Stone's beloved USSR.
"Nuclear bombs were now the foundation of America's empire and provided the new emperor, its president, with a mystical power that required more and more suffocating secrecy even if those powers went far beyond the original limits of executive power defined in the Constitution," Stone says.
Of course the United States has never been an empire, but Stone's Marxist worldview clouds his perception. Apart perhaps from its pursuit of "manifest destiny" and a few military adventures in the 1800s, when the U.S. has projected its power beyond its home territory it has eventually pulled back.
The U.S., unlike so many world powers, does not conquer other countries: it liberates them and then goes home. This has, understandably, given the U.S. a special moral standing in the community of nations and it certainly does not make the American president an emperor.
But Stone's unpatriotic rant continues. America's nuclear arsenal and the pricey infrastructure supporting it allowed the imperialistic U.S. to dominate the world for decades, he insists. "And although the bombs themselves were not expensive, the huge infrastructure was, requiring bases in the U.S. and abroad and enormous delivery systems by bomber, missile, aircraft carrier, and submarine."
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/disarming-americans-arming-terrorists/print/ While the White House was busy drafting proposals to ban assault rifles, the last of the regulations imposed on Saudi travel to the United States after September 11 were being taken apart. While some government officials were busy planning how to disarm Americans, other officials were negotiating the transfer of F-16s and Abrams tanks […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/337798 'He was much more liberal than his presidential campaign let on," Charles Kesler writes of Barack Obama in 2008. You can say that again. "Liberals like crises, and one shouldn't spoil them by handing them another on a silver salver. The kind of crisis that is approaching . . . is probably not their […]
In the good old days, consumers got what they wanted. Supply and demand governed product design and manufacturing, not causes or ideology. That's why we have great American icons like the 1969 Chevy Camaro, the charcoal burning Weber grill, and DDT.
But things have changed. The Green Movement's worship of scarcity has changed the consumer landscape for the worse. Instead of big, powerful, and most importantly, effective products, in 2012 consumers must suffer with pansy products. Sure, they are designed to save energy and make you feel good. But they just don't work as well as the old, and usually cheaper, versions.
Below are seven crappy products we must endure, courtesy of the Green Movement.
1. Low Water Toilets
Any article with the headline above must start with low water toilets. Many of you will remember an age before the government decided water was scarce, when toilets could be counted on. In 1992, Congress passed the Energy Policy Act, and President George Bush signed it. It mandated a maximum flush capacity for toilets. Naturally, the 1992 version of the Green Movement was behind the law, and behind the Republican sponsor – Representative Philip Sharp of Indiana. Since Bush signed Sharp's legislation, plunger sales have sky-rocketed. Sharp's bad idea has caused some of the most embarrassing moments of people's lives, especially when they are visiting someone else's home.
Beware, the freaks next want to eliminate water in your toilet, as well as toilet paper.
2. Mercury-Filled Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs
We have learned a number of things in the last few years. First, the new environmentally friendly light bulbs, aren't. When one breaks, mercury spills into your home environment. And even if they don't shatter, they still spew out cancer-causing chemicals when you turn them on. They are expensive. The Green Movement tells us they last longer. Poppycock. I started writing down the installation date on the bulbs to see how long they really last. And the longevity is comparable to the old style bulbs, the ones that cost a third as much.
3. The Boeing 787
I love air travel. I flew over 110,000 real miles last year. I couldn't wait to get on a new Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Not anymore. A series of mishaps has exposed a frightening problem with the plane – electrical components are catching fire. This is no ordinary glitch that Boeing can easily sort out. Boeing has introduced an entirely new design paradigm which causes the problems on the 787, a paradigm that makes the Green Movement happy. Instead of using mechanical energy to power aircraft systems, the 787 uses stored electricity. Electricity is stored in high-capacity lithium ion batteries, freeing the engines from burning fossil fuel. Boeing jettisoned efficient copper wires, replacing them with lighter aluminum wiring. At the FAA's urging, it reduced the punch of the batteries because they were known to explode and burn – bringing down at least one 747 that carried them in cargo. The new Boeing design paradigm is a light, electrical, fuel-efficient jet that uses less energy. Sound familiar? Boeing boldly trumpets this new paradigm.
The Boeing engineers are some of the smartest people in the world. So odds are they will sort out the problem, hopefully quickly enough. Until then, I'll ride on fuel inefficient MD-80s or 737s.
4. Front-Loading Clothes Washers
Here is the dirty secret about energy-efficient front loading clothes washers: they suck. Before I owned one, a friend warned me, "they really don't get clothes clean." I didn't believe her, but she was right. Front loaders utilize a technology still used to clean clothes on the banks of the Ganges in Bangladesh – small amounts of water and soap are used to beat damp clothes on rocks. Instead of rocks, American front loaders use a rough drum. The clothes gently swirl, then rest and thump in a puddle of soapy water. Sure they use less energy, but who cares when clothes stay dirty? And the mandatory "HE" detergent you must buy also costs more. The Green Movement hated the top loaders that cleaned clothes efficiently. In those good old days, clothes sat submerged in several gallons of water filled with detergent. Lots of electricity agitated the clothes to pure, clean beauty. So don't be fooled by the neighbor or salesman who tells you front loaders are the way to go. Get yourself a big, wasteful, but effective top-loader before the government bans them.
Prior to joining PJ Media, Congressman Allen West served 22 years in the U.S. Army before being elected to the House of Representatives by the constituents of Florida's 22nd district. Throughout his time in Congress, West consistently stood for policies that would make the United States prosperous, strong and free, even when speaking up was not easy. In January 2013, he joined PJ Media as the Director of Next Generation Programming where he is leading the effort to develop new Internet TV shows and other media that can be viewed onNextGeneration.TV starting in February 2013. Congressman West received his Bachelor's degree while at the University of Tennessee and later went on to earn a Master's degree from Kansas State University, both in political science. He also holds a Master of Military Arts and Sciences from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff Officer College in political theory and military operations.
Today I'm excited to announce that I have joined PJ Media, LLC, as director of its Next Generation programming. I am truly honored to be a member of the PJ Media and PJTV team and to continue to be a voice advocating for principled, pragmatic solutions to the issues affecting our constitutional republic.
I enjoyed my time serving as a member of the 112th Congress. However, those who think losing a congressional race defines me and ends my service to my country fail to realize what drives my patriotism and passion for America. True leaders do not need a title, just a conviction, a cause, and the character enabling them to make a stand.
My parents taught me a simple maxim, "A man must stand for something or else he shall fall for anything." And that is why I took this course for the next phase in my life — to be the leading voice for the Next Generation program, and to stand up for our nation's future. I know there were so many trying to predict the direction I would take, and one thing everyone needs to recognize is that I do not often do the predictable. PJ Media will give me the freedom to explore a multitude of topics and relate them to our next generation in a non-conventional manner.
Schumer Defects from Pro-Israel Cause, Backs Hagel for Defense; Confirmation Likely: Joel Pollak
Partisan loyalty trumped pro-Israel policy as Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) announced, over the objection of many of his constituents, that he would support the nomination of former Sen Chuck Hagel (R-NE) as Secretary of Defense today. Pro-Israel Democrats in the Senate majority who might have voted against Hagel, are now likely to support him in the wake of Schumer's decision, making Hagel's confirmation all but certain.
Even as pro-Israel advocates mobilized against Hagel's appointment, the White House has worked hard behind the scenes to shore up his support. Yesterday, Hagel delivered a letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) in which he expressed regret for his controversial comments about a "Jewish lobby" (though, as with an anti-gay remark in 1998, Hagel made the apologetic gesture to a third party, not to the target of his offensive comment).
Schumer's announcement coincides with a long essay by Arianna Huffington in today's Huffington Post in which she describes Hagel as a "neoconservative nightmare" and attempts to debunk criticisms of his candidacy. As with other defenses of Hagel, the Huffington post article does not make the case for Hagel–whose focus was foreign affairs, not defense, in his Senate days–but rather argues against Hagel's opponents.
For example, Huffington attempts to dismiss concerns about Hagel's temperament, calling them a "modern-day male version of the old dig that used to be directed at women." Yet President Barack Obama himself made John McCain's "temperament" an issue in the 2008 campaign–even mentioning it in his nomination acceptance speech–and Democrats rejected UN Ambassador John Bolton based on "temperament" concerns.
Huffington makes clear that the primary reason that President Obama nominated Hagel, and that Democrats are willing to overlook his anti-abortion, anti-climate change views, is that Hagel emerged as a potent critic of the Iraq War. Like many on the left, Hagel also has expressed the view that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the "core" of Middle East turmoil, and now supports defense cuts that he once warned strongly against.
Hagel's supporters have been at great pains (even to the point of concocting outright lies) to defend him against charges of antisemitism–charges prompted by his poor record on Israel and his statement that members of Congress were "intimidated" by the so-called "Jewish lobby." More than a poor choice of words, his critics argue, Hagel's statement reflects a particular animus towards Israel and its political supporters.
The 2006 speech on the Senate floor in which Hagel called for a more even-handed approach to Israel and the Arab world is a case in point. Hagel's words came at a time when Israeli civilians were under attack by Iranian-backed Hebollah, and Israel was isolated at the United Nations. Hagel's premature call for an immediate cease-fire would have prevented Israel from responding to the threat–and sent a message of opposition.
Con Coughlin and David Blair:Can Mali be Saved From the Islamists? Can France Do It Alone?….see note please
Something is amiss here…the French want to stop a Moslem terror state in Mali but they actively promote one on "The West Bank"…..rsk
France's President François Hollande is sending in troops in to prevent the creation of a terrorist super-state, but can they do it alone?
As hundreds of French troops are deployed to Mali to do battle with al-Qaeda-backed terrorists and another chapter in the long-running war against militant Islam develops, it is hard not to feel a sense of déjà vu.
It is now more than a decade since the UN Security Council unanimously approved the American-led campaign to destroy the terrorist infrastructure al-Qaeda had assembled in southern Afghanistan. There is nothing the world's most notorious terrorist organisation likes more than to move into the ungoverned space of failed Islamic states, and southern Afghanistan proved the perfect hide-out from which Osama bin Laden and his cohorts could plot their diabolical attacks against the West.
Thanks to the success of Nato's military intervention in Afghanistan, al-Qaeda and its allies no longer enjoy that freedom: its terrorist infrastructure has been destroyed and the few survivors of bin Laden's original organisation have sought refuge in mountain retreats.
But arguably the most depressing aspect of what used to be known as the war on terror is that no sooner has one group of Islamist terrorists been dealt with than another pops up. Since the elimination of al-Qaeda from southern Afghanistan in late 2001 we have seen variations of the movement take root in failing Islamic states such as Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, and large tracts of North Africa.
Indeed, the ease with which groups of al-Qaeda operatives were able to set up new terrorist operations prompted General David Petraeus, the former CIA director, to liken the agency's counter-terrorism campaign to a "whack-a-mole" policy, saying that "you need to hit all the moles at once".
"The West is trying to impose its moral norms on the Muslim world with bribes and interventions, while the Muslim world imposes its norms on the West by settling and blowing up Western cities. Within that chaos, the passenger planes depositing their cargoes of Pakistanis, Jordanians and Somalis at Heathrow, JFK and Charles de Gaulle Airport (the latter two names being quite fitting considering JFK's impact on immigration policy and de Gaulle's impact on North Africa) and the fighter jets and drones flying over North Africa and the Middle East, are a hundred small wars."
The French are in Mali now, being shot at by Islamists armed with the very same weapons that France airdropped into Libya. Either those or the weapons that France sold to Gaddafi in the preceding period when European countries were competing to be his arms dealers. The joke is equally bleak, either way.
It used to be that decades would have to pass before a bad policy unraveled, but these days it only takes a few years to go from arming a tyrant to arming the rebels to shooting at the rebels.
In less time than it takes a pop star to go from fresh faced to train wrecked, Saif Gaddafi went from the toast of European academics to a mass murderer, Gaddafi's opposition went from Al Qaeda terrorists to brave rebels, then the brave rebels, many of whom were actually Iraqis, Tunisians and Jordanians, shot up an American diplomatic mission, hooked up with some of Gaddafi's Tuaregs to take over Northern Mali, shot them up and began carving out their own Islamist Emirate.
In barely two years, Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood president of Egypt, went from screaming that Egyptian children "must feed on hatred" to the toast of foreign diplomatic circles as the same geniuses behind the invasion of Libya try to make the best of handing over the most powerful country in the region into the hands of a terrorist organization.
In that same period, Syria's Assad went from the pages of Vogue and meetings with John Kerry to being the most reviled man in the world. But two years from now, if he survives the worst that the Syrian rebels, most of whom are Al Qaeda or wish they were, you might well find him meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry while his family gets another four pages in Vogue Magazine.
In two years, the evil ruthless dictators who kill and torture their own people have been replaced by ruthless democratically elected dictators who kill and torture their own people. In Egypt and Tunisia things are worse now than they were under the "dictators" and unsurprisingly the one thing that they can all agree on is that it's America's fault.
The press can't be expected to pay much attention to these events. The media will provide the obligatory coverage of Muslim Brotherhood torture chambers in Egypt and the labor riots in Tunisia. But it would really like to spend its time lamenting Israel's fall to the far right by covering the rise of a political party which holds the shocking and outrageous position that the twenty year old peace process has failed and should be wrapped up and put away.
It seemed like only a few weeks ago that the cognoscenti were enthusiastically predicting a new Middle East, sending reporters in droves to be kidnapped and molested at the celebrations of freedom and democracy. And now the new Middle East looks a lot like the old Middle East.


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Akelarre was the second highlight of my trip in San Sebastian after Asador Etxebarri. It's one of three restaurants in San Sebastian holding three Michelin stars which is quite remarkable for a city with less than 200,000 inhabitants. Together with other Michelin institutions and cutting-edge pintxo bars the international culinary status of San Sebastian has … Continue reading
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I have been looking forward to this visit for a long time. It was the first restaurant I knew of in the Basque region and naturally my expectations were high. Asador Etxebarri is known for their grill and most dishes I had reflected this. By coincidence I timed the visit during baby eel season (March … Continue reading


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I had an exceptionally nice 4 day break — I worked maybe a total of an hour over four days. That's… crazy. I worked more than that when JMP was born and I was on vacation in Hawaii. Hah. (Thank you, Sassymonkey.)
I got a lot of odds & ends done. TW and I had fun by ourselves, with the girls and with the puppies. I did some housework. I didn't read very much and I realized yesterday that I never did put any time in my schedule to work on JMP's stocking which really made me laugh because Sassymonkey pointed out out that my PTO to do list did not have any stocking time on it. I told her that's an every day thing, not a PTO thing — and then it promptly fell off of my normal schedule, in favor of other things. So, I had to re-create today's to do list and add that back in. Sheesh.
I've got two more PTO days coming up in a couple of weeks but I'll be working more than an hour since Sassymonkey is traveling a bit over that weekend. I'm still very much looking forward to that break, though because it will be #readathon time!
I think April might be my favorite month, or it would be if we didn't also pay $18K in taxes this month but let's not think of that and ruin my nice vacation high, ok?


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