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Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration
Featuring Warren Haynes
Fri. Aug. 1, 2014
The Greek Theatre
Berkeley, CA
Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
Warren Haynes – vocals & Jerry Garcia's guitar "Wolf"
Jeff Sipe – drums
Lincoln Schleifer – bass
Alecia Chakour – background vocals
Jasmine Muhammad – background vocals
Set 1 8:10pm – 9:10pm
Jam >
Dark Star
Bird Song
Here Comes Sunshine
Jam >
Shakedown Street
China Cat Sunflower
Russian Lullaby
Scarlet Begonias
Morning Dew
Set 2 9:25pm – 10:45pm
Comes a Time
Crazy Fingers
Uncle John's Band
Jam? Song?
West L. A. Fadeaway
Doin' That Rag >
Drums >
Blues for Allah
Lady With a Fan >
Terrapin Station >
Slipknot! >
Terrapin Station
(Warren: "Happy Birthday Jerry")
Encore: Attics of My Life
(Symphony players only)
Warren: band intros
China Doll
Set list compiled by Rob Scalcione
Because the Phans want to know!


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The Cape Cod Baseball League will play the All-Star Game on Wednesday night at 7pm. The coaches have put out their starting lineup for the game and announced the starting pitchers. Austin Wood from St. Petersburg and the Cotuit Kettleers will get the ball for the Western Division while Andrew Gagnon from Long Beach State and the Brewster White caps will get the ball for the Eastern Division. You can check out the full lineup below. Remember to join TCBB staff members Kat Cornetta and Brian Foley as they will be live blogging the game and you can set up a reminder for the event by clicking here.
2010 CCBL Western Division Starting Line-up
- CF Chad Wright Cotuit Kettleers (Kentucky)
- LF Johnny Ruetigger Hyannis Harbor Hawks (Arizona State)
- RF Zach Wilson Wareham Gatemen (Arizona State)
- DH Jordan Leyland Cotuit Kettleers (UC Irvine)
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- C Andrew Susac Falmouth Commodores (Oregon State)
- SS KC Serna Falmouth Commodores (Oregon)
SP Austin Wood Cotuit Kettleers (St. Petersburg)
Head Coach Harvey Shapiro Bourne Braves
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America has just celebrated the 10th anniversary of "September 11". This commemoration was made in sobriety, as the U.S. and the rest of the world are more concerned about the depression that strikes them as being by the memory of this painful event.
Indeed, by dropping the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York, the terrorists unintentionally and indirectly brought down the whole edifice of the global economy.
Thus, we can say that the "September 11" is indirectly the cause of the crises of 2008 and 2011, the most serious crisis since the great "crisis of 1929."
We will ask Mr. THIERRY TAN - promoter of the "New Vision" for the development of Africa - to explain the causes of this economic and financial crash and then tell us whether this crisis will impact our economy?
Thierry TAN: In every century is a major global crisis.
In the 20th Century was the "Great Depression of 1929" and the 21st century, these. Indeed, this time, it is not a small crisis in any country, then that stops. It is a crisis that began hitting America and has spread in Europe and the world.
That is why we speak of "global crisis".
Under these conditions, it would be nice to know what is the origin of this crisis, and second, and most importantly, what would the impact of this crisis on our economies.
I am not a historian, but to understand this crisis in the world, it would be interesting to know its origin. Without going back to the 19th century, I'm going to take two important dates;
The first date is 1971 with the abandonment of the gold-dollar parity.
Before 1971, the U.S. economy could be summed up to running the money supply depending on the amount of gold that America possessed, i.e. the gold stocks that the Americans had stored at Fort Knox.
For such quantity of gold, they put in circulation a equivalent money.
Then in 1971, President Nixon decided to separate the two entities, because it was found that the economy is growing much faster than gold production. So we abandoned this standard, the dollar-gold parity.
Therefore, since there was no standard to regulate, the money supply was freely and unrestrained.
There is then a Hyper-Inflation!
At this period, Mr. Paul Volcker - chairman of the Fed - (short for "Federal Reserve Board", the U.S. Central Bank) - said: "we should not have such inflation, because it creates many problems for Americans, including economic stagnation. "
He has taken extremely important and unpopular measures: higher cost of credit, reduced the money supply, rising interest rates, which rose to 13% or 14%, etc..
It was drastic measures, but needed to curb stagflation (a combination of inflation and economic stagnation) that struck the U.S. economy at the time!
2nd date : September 11, 2001 with the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. Americans and even the world were shocked by the fact that terrorists have dared to bomb the United States, in their own territory. And destroy two skyscrapers that were the very symbol of American financial power.
This created a huge shock.
And President George Bush said, in these conditions, he needs to restore the confidence of Americans.
First, on military fields, by attacking Afghanistan and Iraq, to show that America is still powerful.
Secondly, on economically fields, by the so-called "deregulation", that is to say we're going to deregulate everything.
Clearly, Alan Greenspan, the new chairman of the Fed, will do exactly the opposite of what had been done by Paul Volcker, his predecessor.
Instead of letting the high interest rates, Alan Greenspan will lower interest rates.
Instead of currency restrictions, it will release new loans.
This means that, firstly, they will lower more and more the interest rates, and on the other hand, they will increase money funding.
How do they will find all this money?
Going into debt to Asian "new rich" countries and especially China and Japan.
Did you know that these countries together hold $ 2,000 billion of U.S. Treasury bills and the city of Hong Kong holds, alone, $ 139 billion of Treasury US, equivalent to 40 times the Ivorian National Budget?
This means they are the main creditors of the United States and one day, if they want to "bother" America, they just need to go claim immediate repayment of their claims, and the U.S. would be indeed very bothered, because they could not afford to repay.
This is only a hypothesis, since neither China nor Japan have any interest in doing so, because America is a great partner in financial and business matters to them. You do not kill the "goose that lays the golden egg"
In short, the policy of America from 2002 to 2007 is :
- The economic recovery in consumption, thanks to low interest rates and abundant credit.
- A policy of relocation of factories to have the cheapest products, because they say: "Why make our products in the United States, it is too expensive. Manufacturing in China is much cheaper "
Thus, Americans are urged to spend (they buy anything. The essential point is to consume, to buy a new camera, a new TV, computer, air conditioner and refrigerator). The only problem is that factories are in China.
Thus, more Americans are buying, more Chinese are rich.
To let the Americans keep on buying, the Chinese and Japanese lend them money.
This is the remake story of "Cicada and the Ant".
Except that in this case, the ant has not dropped the cicada, she lends money to the cicada, so it keeps on singing....
Question: So, Mr. Thierry TAN, faced with all these constraints, how will the Americans to make money?
Thierry TAN: They do what they can do better than anyone else: it is speculation.
They are speculating on the stock market, on real estate, but also on raw materials such as oil, precious metals, coffee, cocoa ...
In short, they are speculating on everything.
They will even play on paper, "the future", such as forward contracts.
Thus, even with little money, they can play on very high amounts, and they will be helped by banks and "golden boys" that are "traders".
To them, the bankers say, "if you do make money in your bank, you get your bonus." This premium is sometimes several million dollars per "trader".
So galvanized, these "golden boys" will do everything to get people to buy anything. Even better, they also grants them credits to buy.
Thus, the more people buy, the more they get credits and the "traders" earn money. Thus began a race bonuses where "traders" will push speculation to the extreme.
And that's the so-called "subprime".
That is to say those bankers will go to U.S. households who do not earn enough money and they will offer those loans which will be based not on the income they earn, but on their estimated property.
For example, this is a house: they say: "buy this house and pay $ 2,000 a month." Unfortunately, the household does not earn $ 2000 per month.
So they say: "It does not matter. If you cannot pay, we will give you more credit to repay your loan, because your home will be worth more in six months, and even more in a year, and even more in two years. "
Indeed, the bank believes that, at worst, it will seize and sell the house. And as in one year, the house will be worth more, so there will be no risk for the bank.
As everyone was speculating on the rise, housing prices and stock market shares have actually increased significantly for some years.
Thus, during this period, there are investment companies or banks who earn from 20 to 30% annually, while the U.S. economy has a growth of 4 to 5% per year.
You see, one side was from 20 to 30% growth and the other 4-5% only. This speculative distortion can only work for a period of three or five years. But this cannot last long.
There comes a time when the bubble will burst.
As the Internet bubble that erupted in 2001.
In this case, it is the real estate bubble that began in 2008.
Thus, once confidence down, as soon as people want to withdraw their money, the financial institutions cannot pay their claims. Because these companies have their assets in real estate or shares that were worth very large sums of time when everyone was speculating on the rise, Well, all these values tumble now.
As their assets are worthless now, these companies and the banks find themselves bankrupt.
Thus, the large bank Lehman Brothers went bankrupt on Sept. 15, 2008, followed by 40 other U.S. banks
Question: Mr. Thierry TAN, people talk a lot about subprime causing the housing crisis. But what is a subprime?
Thierry TAN: The "subprime" loan is a loan that calls "toxic", because it is given to people who normally cannot repay, because their incomes are too low.
However, if financial institutions give so easily the "subprime", this is because the credit is granted with a higher interest rate, so banks and credit agencies earn more with these "subprime" than with a conventional credit.
Question: Give credit to people with incomes too low to repay, is a risk. How these financial institutions have apprehended that risk?
Thierry TAN: Yes, there is a risk. And this risk, how do they manage?
They do what is called "securitization."
What does that mean?
This means they'll combine these "toxic" funds which are "subprime" with other funds that are suitable and even good.
The banks make a mixture and place the package on the market.
People like to buy it, because it brings more earning than they usually buy.
Even better, these banks that sell these packages, are rated by the so-called "Rating Agencies" such as Standard and Poor's, Moody's or Fitch.
And because these banks are rated "3A" ("Triple A"), that is to say full marks, it means they offer a seemingly guarantees.
Under these conditions, people buy without restraint or reservation, because they rely on the Rating Agencies.
In addition, the largest global insurance group - AIG (American Insurance Group) - is also involved in providing guarantees to these banks.
Thus, besides the good grades awarded by the rating agencies (Standard and Poor's and Moody's), the U.S. banks are surrounded by all sorts of guarantees and insurance.
As a result, the U.S. banks can pass these "toxic packages" to European and Asian banks who buy them thinking that there is no risk and it pays more than their normal operations.
Ultimately, everyone buys and refile those "toxic loans".
But when the problem first appears, it is panic.
Since they don't know if the packages contain or not "toxic" credits, because they have been "securitized."
Result was a general panic.
And companies, who are asked to repay, cannot.
Because their assets, that were worth very expensive, are now without value.
And since they cannot repay, they are put out of business.
This is what happened to the U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers and 40 other U.S. banks. The Citi Bank Group and AIG have escaped bankruptcy only through the hundreds of billions US dollars injected by the U.S. Government to save them.
And the panic spread.
Banks are no longer trusted;
Even the banks that they used to lend, they do no more. It is the "Credit Crunch"
Q: Mr. Thierry TAN, you just tell us how we went from the housing crisis, with the subprime, to the financial crisis. Now, could you explain how this financial crisis has evolved into the "economic crisis" in 2008-2009?
Thierry TAN: It's still the problem of trust.
Since they have no more confidence, they stop lending, not only to the banks but also to businesses. It is the "Credit Crunch".
And since these companies have no more credits and cash, they are forced to close or slow down their activities.
Thus, during the month of February 2009, the three largest U.S. automobile manufacturers (General Motors, Ford and Chrysler) saw their sales fall by 50% because people have no more money or credit needed to buy cars!
Thus the financial crisis in 2008 has turned into an economic crisis in 2009.
Indeed, there is a real recession. i.e. a negative growth (-6% for U.S. and -1% - 3% for Europe in February 2009).
This is the worst crisis since 1929.
All this confirms that the "September 11" is indirectly the cause of current global crises.
Indeed, without the "Sept. 11", President George Bush would have no pretext for the war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
These wars have already cost America more than 3000 billion Dollars in 2008.
And to finance its huge military spending, the U.S. government could do either by raising taxes or by increasing debt.
George Bush chose to increase the debt of the U.S. Government.
So, the U.S. Government debt has increased 3-fold in 11 years!
Secondly, without the "Sept. 11", George Bush would not have launched its recovery plan by the consumption (Stimulus Plan), thanks to the abundance of cheap credit, creating the illusion that Americans are getting richer and that they can spend lavishly, they just go into debt. Unfortunately, like any other illusion, this one disappears very quickly without warning.
Then, in 2009, appeared the recession and the economic crisis that first strikes the United States, before spreading to Europe and the world as a result of globalization.
We can therefore say that the "September 11" is the cause of the global crisis!
Q: Why, after a small recovery in 2010, we see another crisis in 2011? How to explain this new crisis of 2011?
Thierry TAN: To get out of this financial crisis in 2008 which turned into economic crisis of 2009, the Federal Reserve (Fed) has practiced the policy of monetary easing or quantitative easing: The QE1 which was to buy back bad debt (subprime) to banks, to give them oxygen, i.e. liquidity.
In fact, the QE1 was a failure. Of course, banks have been saved, but consumption and economy have not resumed. Indeed, the money injected by the Fed has mostly served to fuel speculation and boom in equity markets since early 2009.
But Unemployment settled permanently around 10% with a consequent reluctance to consume. So what to do?
Ben Bernanke, the new Fed chairman will again inject into the economy - through "quantitative easing 2" or QE2 - 600 billion dollars.
So Americans live in the reign of excess credit.
In the United States, "They live on credit". Starting with households and banks. And spreading now at the US Government who are left with "sovereign debt" abysmal, representing virtually 100% of their GDP (Gross Domestic Product).
Thus, the debt of the United States rose from $ 5,500 billion in 2000 to $ 15,000 billion in 2011, three times more debt in 11 years!
As a result, the rating agency Standard & Poor's downgraded the USA rating in 2011 from Triple A to Double A.
This means that Americans must now pay more interest on their debt.
They therefore find themselves in a very difficult position, with rampant unemployment of 10%, a weaker dollar, rampant inflation and recession...
They enter in the so-called "vicious circle": the recession lead to even more unemployment, less wages, thus less consumption, less purchases, less business for companies and banks.
And for the , it get less tax revenue, so more difficult to repay the "sovereign debt". And to repay its debts, the US Government is forced to raise taxes that are strangling businesses and households ... So they have new recession, new policy of austerity, and creating new crisis in 2011.
All this created a climate of distrust that causes widespread panic in all financial centers.
Between July 22, 2011 and September 12, 2011, stock markets have lost almost 25%, a loss of 7.500 billion dollars in one month and a half, the equivalent of the GDP of Germany and France combined , lost in 45 days!
In this context, the whole Europe, led by Angela Merkel and Sarkozy, are trying to save the Euro, while trying to save Greece from bankruptcy or "credit default" when speaking of a country.
Indeed if Greece falls, speculators will attack the other European countries nicknamed the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain).
If all of these countries fall, European banks also fall because they have lent much to all those countries PIIGS,
And if the euro falls, the European Union will disappear.
So the general panic spreads.
Again, the "western cicadas" are turning to "Asian ants", asking them to save western countries from economic disaster.
This is truly the world upside down. We are witnessing a shift in the economic and financial power which is now in Asia and not in the West.
Anyway, the Debt Crisis of the West may fear an explosion of the Euro and bank failures. To prevent this, European banks are expected to increase their capital, i.e. setting aside their own funds, 7% of the loans they grant to their customers, instead of the 2% currently. That is to say 3.5-fold increase bank reserves today.
They are banking rules known as "Basel 3", named after a Swiss town.
Banks will therefore restrict their credits.
This is called the "Credit Crunch" strangling businesses and households, causing crisis.
So what are the consequences for us, Africans?
As we know that Europe and America are drowning in their debts, it would be unrealistic for African countries to ask them for credit.
Indeed, never rely on a drowning man for help.
The drowning first seeks to save his life.
In addition, you should know this : When Africa is receiving 1 franc as aid or credit, Africa is obliged to disburse 5 francs, in the form of debt repayment.
For these reasons, it is necessary for Africa to rethink its current policy based on aid or credits, instead of trying to process its own raw materials and to create their own wealth and millions of jobs for Africans.
Q: Mr. Thierry TAN, Your analysis is clear and understandable, even by non-economists, so we would like to know if these crises could not be predicted?
Thierry TAN: Sure, we could have predicted these crises.
Indeed, long time ago, I said in my previous interviews, that as long as Western economies are based on the speculative economy, they will face multiple crises, ranging from the subprime crisis in 2008 to the Sovereign debt crisis in 2011.
That's why I'm for the real economy. Thanks to this real economy, Asian countries, such as China and "emerging countries" will come out faster than others in this crisis. Indeed, modern China has been built from industrialization, based on the principle that they must build an economy on the real, funded by savings and not by credit or loans.
We should not spend more than we earn.
This is what the West tends to forget.
They think they can live forever on credit, i.e. by going into debt.
But there always comes a moment when they must repay their debt. And to repay sovereign debts, the Western countries are forced to raise taxes, lower wages and even lay off staff. In short, they have to apply a policy of severe austerity.
All this causes the crisis.
What lesson can we draw?
The lesson is that if rich Western countries cannot live forever on credit, don't believe that poor African countries can afford to live forever on credit.
And to believe that a magic wand, donors will clear all our debts, because we managed to reach the "completion point of HIPC"! It's not true, since the Report of the UN General Secretary quotes that only a small portion (23%) of our debt will be removed!
In this case, we must change our behavior. We must no longer live on credit and we make use. It is therefore necessary that we will create our own wealth through the industrial development of our products.
Thus, with the only Attiéké, we can win 20 000 billion francs a year. It's more than enough to finance our development, without resorting to debt, which is a bottomless pit!
Moreover, cassava is not the only product we have.
We have 1000 other products that we can transform.
If we do this, it is we who are about to give credit to Western countries, as do Asian countries today.
Question: Mr. Thierry TAN, the "New Vision" that you have long advocated, is it not precisely based on the real economy?
Thierry TAN: That's right, we do have the raw materials that are real, real coffee, real cocoa, real cassava...
Next, we turn them into real industries, and once transformed into actual finished products, we sell them in real markets of real multi-billion consumers, including China which alone has 1.3 billion consumers.
That's the real economy: you buy your raw materials at 2000 francs, you transform them into finished products, and then you resell them to 20,000 francs.
You really won 20000 - 2000 = 18,000 francs
This is your added value. This is your gain, your profit.
With industry, we do not speculate! These are real, tangible gains
By cons, speculation on commodities : petroleum, coffee, cocoa, oil.
Let take oil as example: July 11, 2008, it was 147 dollars a barrel, and in 2009, it was worth only 46 dollars a barrel.
Within a few months, we lost over 100 dollars a barrel.
Thus, over two thirds of its value disappeared in a few months!
It is speculated, therefore, on all raw materials.
But once converted into finished products (chocolate for cocoa and instant coffee for coffee), they are not "speculated". Better, their prices do not stop growing.
Have you ever seen a single chocolate or instant coffee down in price? Never!
At the contrary of the beans and grains which are constantly exposed to price changes. This is to say that when we remain in the raw materials, we are in the speculative economy.
Worse, they are outsiders who speculate on our core products.
Thus, when our raw materials are rising, it is the speculators who pocket the gains, but when prices going down, it is we who suffer losses, because speculators are the ones who set our earnings, by setting the course of our raw materials, depending on their will.
To better illustrate my point, I give you the example of a shopkeeper that allows customers to fix prices and pay at the cash they want. Under these conditions, our shopkeeper will go bankrupt in a week.
This is what African countries have been doing since their independence, 51 years ago. That is why they are now HIPC "Heavily Indebted Poor Countries."
So should we remain in the speculative economy with the export of raw materials which we have derived no benefit to date? Or, should we go straight to the real economy through the transformation of these raw materials that can reap maximum gains? The answer is common sense.
That's why I've always been against the speculative economy and 100% for the real economy.
And to confirm the benefits of the real economy advocated by the "New Vision", I give you, as example, Singapore.
Per capita income in Singapore was $ 400, 40 years ago, this income increased to $ 40,000 2 years ago and now, per capita income in Singapore is $ 57,500, or 2 times more than the European !
It is the same for citizens of Hong Kong. They have the same income per capita as the U.S. ($ 45,000) or $ 10,000 more than in Europe!.
And remember that these countries are tiny and have no natural resources.
They only do their work and have a clear vision to develop their economy.
So why not emulate them, we who have all the resources and even many-bodied, because of high unemployment at home.
The problem is that we refuse the "New Vision"! And we see the results: the Ivory Coast, once thriving, is currently ranked in "The 10 worst economies in the World" by the famous American business magazine Forbes, based on studies of the IMF and the World Bank.
Q: Assuming that your "New Vision" is now adopted, we would like to know if, in the context of the general panic and the loss suffered by stock markets, the global crisis would not have a negative impact on the "New vision "that you promote. In other words, will this global crisis not hinder the realization of this "New Vision" in Ivory Coast and Africa in general?
Thierry TAN: If we do nothing, the impact will be disastrous for our country, because the crisis will lead to lower commodity prices and so on.
By cons, if we know how to manage it, the impact of this crisis will be very positive for us.
Indeed, having recently lost $ 7,500 billions in stock in 45 days, fund holders do not want to invest heavily in the Western countries which are now too risky.
They therefore seek safer places that give them a good return and good future prospects.
For different reasons I have given (important natural resources, fertile land, lack of disasters), the Ivory Coast is the place!
Definately, I confirm that Ivory Coast is the place, but only if it adopts the "New Vision", whose broad outlines are largely explained in my previous interviews, i.e.
- Industrial processing of our raw materials (that's the real economy);
- A very liberal regulations, because too many rules automatically bring too much corruption. However, no investor wants to settle in a corrupt country.
- Little or no taxes. Because "too many taxes kill taxes." Moreover, contrary to popular belief, the countries that have lower taxes are the countries where the Government earns the most money that is to say that the budget revenue of the Government is large surplus.
I take as examples Dubai or Hong Kong which are countries "Duty-free"; i.e. without taxes (or very little). Even the VAT is excluded in Dubai or Hong Kong.
Despite its status as "Duty Free", budget revenues from Hong Kong amounted to 377 billion Hong Kong Dollars in 2010, about 20 times the Ivorian national budget.
And remember that Hong Kong has only 1000 km ², compared to 322 000 square kilometers of the Ivory Coast.
Better, if Hong Kong is very rich, its citizens are also very rich, since the per capita income in Hong Kong is the same as that of the U.S., i.e. $ 45 000 USD per year, or $ 10,000 more than the German or French people.
- With this new tax and regulatory business-oriented environment, the "New Ivory Coast" will become a "commercial Hub" to which the whole of Africa will supply, as "Shopping in Abidjan" will become very interesting, with cheaper products, because it's "duty free". Just like in Dubai or Hong Kong.
- Under these circumstances, investors and tourists will thus flow into the "New Ivory Coast", creating factories, wealth, highways, schools, hospitals and jobs for millions of Ivoirians.
- Under these conditions also, the security will be provided.
Indeed, "There is no war, where there is prosperity! "
It is certain that with these advantages, the "New Ivory Coast" will attract some of the "sovereign funds" (funds belonging to rich states) which are valued at $ 12,000 billion. And these "sovereign funds" are looking for such places as the "New Ivory Coast," to invest. Even assuming that the Ivory Coast can attract only 1% of these "sovereign funds", that's still $ 120 billion, 30 times the national budget of the actual Ivory Coast!.
In addition, they are not loans but investments. That means we do not have to pay interest. This is very important, given that our "debt service", i.e. the payment of interest on the debt already represents 43% of the Ivorian national budget in 2011, double the salaries of civil servants including the army forces.
Under these conditions, should further increase our debts and consequently, increase our "Debt Service" to the point of reaching 100% of our national budget? The answer is no. Instead of debt, it is better to attract investors with the "New Vision". As with investments, there will be no refund or interest payable.
It will be all profit for the Ivory Coast.
And the third thing that strengthens my conviction, about the "New Vision" to transform our agricultural products, is that even if the global economic crisis occurs, people still need to eat.
They can stop buying cars, refrigerators, televisions, etc..But they cannot stop eating.
But what have I advocated in the "New Vision"? It is the transformation of our raw materials in food products (attiéké, for example).
And food passes through all crises, because people need to eat constantly.
If we apply the "New Vision", instead of fighting it, the Ivorian economy will derive great benefit.
Even better, the current global crisis, instead of hitting us very hard, will turn into a great "Blessing" for our country!
Finally, I would like the other African countries also benefit from the application of the "New Vision" by the Ivory Coast - and thus its economic success - to emulate and to build together a true "Union of Africa "which will be based on real socio-economic linkages, and not on political statements that fly once spoken!
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Tellico is a collection manager for keeping track of your books, bibliographies, videos, music, comic books, video games, coins, stamps, trading cards, wines, board games, or any custom items. It supports any number of user-defined fields, of several different types: text, paragraph, list, checkbox, year, URL, tables, images, dates, and combinations.
Tellico imports Bibtex, MODS, RIS, PDF, and CSV and exports to Bibtex, Bibtexml, CSV, and HTML. It offers grouping, view filtering, and searching. Tellico can also import data from Amazon.com and IMDb.com, along with z39.50 servers, CDDB data, audio files, SRU servers, several different websites, and from the Alexandria and GCstars applications.
Note that kde-apps.org is not a support forum. Please sent comments, questions, or bug reports to the Tellico mailing list or the Tellico forum.
Tellico 3.0 1 year ago
* Added support for user-defined SRU queries
* Changed UI to include switchable view between icons and detailed list
* Updated data source for bedetheque.com
* Improved merging performance for comic books
* Improved performance for deleting many entries at once
* Improved performance for merging large collections
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and it is not easy to entry other links
for example german imdb ...
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but version 2.1 (KDE4)
not londer supported???
8 years ago
Please stop accusing me of things. It's not nice. I don't use kde-apps as a support forum, either. I'm only answering you because I'm awake early this morning. The best channel is the tellico-users mailing list, which is given in the About Tellico dialog. The second-best is the KDE forum, linked on the Tellico homepage.
8 years ago
to improve the quality of the
internally saved JPG images?
They're looking quite poor...
8 years ago
I am very interested in this program but I do not know how to install
It looks to be a good alternative to GCStar ;-)
Thanks in advance for your response
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cmake .
make install
the executable file will be found in /(yourdirectory)/tellico-2.1.1/src/tellico
hope this helps.
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Let me know if I need to give any more info.
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for most of its scripts,
why add another language? Can we have
this optional? (I will definitely
renounce to table games to got rid of
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I hope that helps you.
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instructions,and after having compile
blocked by an xdg issue, I supposed
ruby was not optional like in amarok.
Thanks God it is, an I'll happily do
without boardgames database.
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issue, I got another error:
Good - your configure finished. Start make now
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/kde-misc/tellico-1.3/work/tellico-1.3'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/kde-misc/tellico-1.3/work/tellico-1.3/src'
Making all in core
make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/kde-misc/tellico-1.3/work/tellico-1.3/src/core'
/usr/kde/3.5/bin/kconfig_compiler ./tellico_config.kcfg ./tellico_config.kcfgc; ret=$?; \
if test "$ret" != 0; then rm -f tellico_config.h ; exit $ret ; fi
/usr/qt/3/bin/moc ./drophandler.h -o drophandler.moc
/usr/qt/3/bin/moc ./netaccess.h -o netaccess.moc
/usr/kde/3.5/bin/dcopidl ./dcopinterface.h > dcopinterface.kidl || ( rm -f dcopinterface.kidl ; false )
dcopidl: yacc.yy:786: int yyparse(): Assertion `!dcop_area' failed.
/bin/sh: line 1: 1895 Aborted /usr/kde/3.5/bin/dcopidl ./dcopinterface.h > dcopinterface.kidl
make[3]: *** [dcopinterface.kidl] Error 1
Something wrong in kdelibs-3.5.8?
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file -> import
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tellico: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libxslt.so.1: undefined symbol: xmlXPathCompiledEvalToBoolean
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Tellico 3.0 1 year ago
* Added support for user-defined SRU queries
* Changed UI to include switchable view between icons and detailed list
* Updated data source for bedetheque.com
* Improved merging performance for comic books
* Improved performance for deleting many entries at once
* Improved performance for merging large collections
14 years ago
Tellico 2.3.11
* Improved support for importing PDF files from Science Direct.
* Enabled optional build support for QImageBlitz library.
* Fixed scrolling problem with large tables (Bug 348189).
* Fixed HTML exported titles with quotation marks (Bug 348381).
* Fixed crashing bug with file listing importer (Bug 345458).
* Fixed crashing bug with importing MODS files with external fetcher.
* Fixed accelerator key conflict (Bug 351226).
* Fixed bug with image importing for Discogs data source.
Tellico 2.3.10
* Updated Discogs fetcher to new API (Bug 342827).
* Updated Moviemeter fetcher to new API.
* Added filter rules for "Greater than" and "Less than" numbers.
* Updated BoardGameGeek fetcher to new API.
* Added capability to import a BoardGameGeek collection.
* Added a data source for Mathematical Reviews.
* Fixed crashing bug with some ISBNdb results (Bug 339063).
* Updated Producer results for IMDb and TheMovieDB fetchers (Bug 336765).
* Fixed bug with Allocine API search using punctuation (Bug 337432).
* Fixed bug with importing Goodreads collection.
Backup your data file and collection images often!


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February 7, 2017, 7 PM at the GoggleWorks: We will be taking another trip to Key West with the Ballantyne's. A new topic requested by members….Can you guess what it is?
March's program will feature Glen Wenrich on Canal history and lore. April's program will be our newly juried members presentations of their crafts.
Our meetings are held at the GoggleWorks, one way our guild gives back is by donating to the GoggleWorks Scholarship fund. Our Chapter will match your donation. Checks should be made out to Reading-Berks Guild – PGC. Please send your donation to:
The Reading-Berks Guild of Craftsmen
Attn. GoggleWorks Scholarship Fund
P.O. Box 85,
Mohnton, PA 19540.
We are sorry to inform everyone of Anita Geiger's passing on November 22. She was a long time member of the Reading-Berks Guild of Craftsmen as well as an active member of her church. She was a well respected teacher and coach in our area. She will be missed by family, students and fellow craftsmen.
Do you have a Reading-Berks Membership Badge? You may order one until February 28th using the order form our website: http://rbcrafts.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Badge-Order-Form.pdf. Badges will be available for pick up at our Spring Show.
Stanley G. Seltz Student Awards Program
The awards ceremony for the 2017 BCIU Secondary Art & Craft Exhibit will be held at the GoggleWorks on Sunday, March 5, 2017.
The exhibit will be on display at the GoggleWorks from February 25 – March 12, 2017. Gallery hours everyday from 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
February's show will feature Marilyn Diener and her traditional scherenschnitte. "Scherenschnitte" is the German word for scissor-cutting.
In March, Kay will be interviewing Terry Boyer and a selection of our craftsmen who will be exhibiting and selling their work at the Spring Festival. April will be the filming of the BCIU exhibit and winners.
Opportunities for our members:
Get Juried! Our next jury session is Tues. March 7th. This will be the first time our Guild will be jurying Fine Art.
The Standards Committee will meet on Tues, March 7, 7:00 pm at the Goggleworks. Members who have belonged to our chapter for a minimum of 3 months are eligible to present their work for jurying. The room will be open at 6:30, and jurying will begin at 7:00. Check the board at the entrance of the Goggleworks for the room #. Members will be asked to leave before jurying begins, and can return in 1- 1 1/2 hours for the results. Any Standards Committee member who can't attend, please let Louise know. For more information or for an application, go to http://rbcrafts.org/our-guild/standards/ or contact Louise at firstname.lastname@example.com or 610-334-1891.
Sarah Drennen,the curator at Rock Ford Plantation http://rockfordplantation.org/ would like to invite our members to a May Fair Celebration on the Rock Ford Plantation grounds, which cover 33 acres on Sunday, May 21, 10am-3pm. There is no No fee to be part of this celebration. Please bring your own table(s), chair(s), pop-up tents, etc. You may simply advertise, and/or sell your crafts/goods. If interested, please email Sarah Drennen at email@example.com.
Pat McBride is selling his Craft Show Pro Master indoor Booth Frame with 9 Curtains Panels: 7 Foot High Made by Flourish Co, plus table covers
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An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution
As a revolutionary model, Charles Darwin hardly seems the archetype of choice. Certainly, his work on natural selection was groundbreaking and created a rift between Christian faith and science that grows wider as the years go by. But the radical scientist was actually a studious son of a doctor and something of a homebody. After stepping off the HMS Beagle, he settled in the countryside to pursue his scientific research, oversee lucrative investments, and battle against persistent illness. In this exploration of Darwin's development of his theories, Quammen explains that it took over 20 years for him to publish his findings in On the Origin of the Species (1859)—and then, only when he was spurred by another scientist who had come to the same conclusions.
Atlas Books. 192 pages. $22.95. ISBN: 0393059812
"Even non-science types will be pulled in by the friendly prose here and Quammen's sound explanations of Darwin's quiet and, yes, reluctant challenges to the scientific thinking of his time." Debra Gwartney
Rocky Mountain News
"Quammen paints the shy, perennially ill, 'reluctant' Darwin as simply human: neither the towering scientific demigod portrayed by certain evolutionists, nor the seething, godless demon vilified by many creationists." Steve Ruskin
NY Times Book Review
"If some big themes—progress, race, empire—are absent from Quammen's boils-and-all distillation, plenty are present. … The Reluctant Mr. Darwin works well as a vernacular primer on the Victorian view of evolution." Adrian Desmond
Christian Science Monitor
"With clarity, brevity, and quick, colorful anecdotes, he sketches a compelling story. While we may not end up inside the head of one of the most influential thinkers in centuries, we certainly make his acquaintance in a most agreeable way." Gregory M. Lamb
Houston Chronicle
"The great man's personality remains elusive. … That said, the book can be recommended as a quick and relatively painless way to weld some substance to that famous name rattling around in your head." Fritz Lanham
Critical Summary
David Quammen takes up Darwin's story after the Beagle landed on English shores, a decision that allows the author to tighten his focus on the conundrum that presented itself to the famed scientist: when to let his discovery out of the bag? Though critics point out that the price of such concision is a lack of context, they agree that Quammen does an admirable job of giving information where it is needed and galloping over gaps for the story's sake. Those hoping for a more comprehensive tome on natural selection should look elsewhere (perhaps to Quammen's The Song of the Dodo or The Flight of the Iguana), but this entry in Norton's Great Discoveries series delivers an entertaining, enlightening glance at one of the world's most influential thinkers.
Also by the Author
Song of the Dodo(1996): In this brilliant book, Quammen explores evolution and extinction on islands and relates it to the islands of land formed in the United States (and elsewhere) as the human population envelops wilderness areas.


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By Howard Schneider and Scott Wilson
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, November 10, 2010; 8:44 PM
SEOUL - A pending agreement among world leaders in Seoul will mark what U.S. officials hope is a turning point in efforts to better balance trade and capital flows, and in particular come to terms with China over core principles of global economic policy.
The accord is not expected to go as far as U.S. officials had hoped in defining the specific commitments countries will make to keep their surpluses or deficits with the rest of the world from getting out of line. That technical work will be deferred - a make-or-break discussion that will determine how meaningful the broader agreement becomes in practice.
But U.S. officials say they will regard it as a success if they leave the Group of 20 summit with an endorsement of the principles and will consider it a victory if China signs on.
"It's not going to happen all at once," President Obama said in Indonesia on Tuesday as he prepared for the summit.
The accord reflects a core dynamic at the meeting: There may be many seats at the table, but the central debate revolves around the "G-2" - the United States and China - and the struggle between those two top economies.
Both sides kept the relationship front and center as the sessions approached. Chinese officials pledged a "candid" conversation about U.S. economic leadership at the summit. And Obama released a letter Wednesday defending recent U.S. decisions and saying China's exchange-rate policy is hurting the economic recovery.
"A rebalancing of the sources of global demand, along with market determination of exchange rates that reverses significant undervaluation, are the best base for the shifts needed to bring about the vigorous and well-balanced recovery that we all want," he wrote.
Obama administration officials are aiming to broaden their criticism of Beijing - including concerns about practices that boost China's exports by keeping its currency relatively weak compared with the dollar - into a discussion involving other countries.
With the accord, they have succeeded in part.
But it remains unclear whether the meeting will make progress on the top U.S. priority of addressing how China manages its currency, the yuan, and reshapes its economy to generate more demand for imported goods and services. Underscoring China's outsize emphasis on exports, the country's monthly trade surplus jumped to $27 billion in October, more than economic analysts had expected.
With Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao scheduled to meet Thursday, the two sides have been saying they concur on general concepts, including their dependence on each other's economic success. Officials from both sides have said they agree that China should do more to develop its domestic markets so its consumers can spend more, and that the United States should borrow less.
But frustration has grown on both sides over how to translate the principles into action.
This week, China's Dagong Global Credit Rating agency cut the U.S. government's rating and criticized the "hollowing out" of the U.S. economy as manufacturing has moved overseas.
"The serious defects in the United States economic development and management model will lead to the long-term recession of its national economy, fundamentally lowering the national solvency," the firm wrote, saying that to spur growth, the Federal Reserve "has to resort to the banknote printing machine."
Senior officials from China and elsewhere have criticized the Fed's decision last week to pump $600 billion into the economy by buying Treasury bonds. If the Fed's move stimulates U.S. growth, it could benefit the global economy. But concerns about the Fed's action, which could weaken the dollar, have clouded discussions before the G-20 meeting.
U.S. officials, meanwhile, are increasing pressure on China, pushing the G-20 to adopt standards that would be used to highlight when one country's economic policies - such as China's currency management - damage another.
"You're seeing some countries run up very big surpluses and intervening significantly in the currency markets to maintain their advantage," and the focus at the G-20 will be developing ways to change that, Obama said Tuesday. ". . . It's not going to happen all at once."
With U.S. and Chinese officials at odds over their economic relationship, South Korean finance minister Yoon Jeung-hyun said it was like two freight trains heading for a collision, with the rest of the world hoping it can be avoided.
Yoon said U.S. criticism of China's currency practices makes sense, but added: "From the Chinese perspective, in developing their economy, appreciation [of the currency] could hurt. Coming up with a sustainable compromise is something they are trying to do."
Some G-20 economies are under pressure from both directions. By keeping the yuan weak, China makes its exports more competitive at the expense of those from other emerging markets.
At the same time, the Fed's policies can also harm exports from developing countries. That's because steps to lower U.S. interest rates and put money into the economy have the effect of making other countries' currencies more expensive.
Even an economic powerhouse such as Germany feels squeezed. Leaders such as French President Nicolas Sarkozy and World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick have called for more explicit talks on new rules for managing currencies.
Zoellick said the current system, based on major economies allowing exchange rates to fluctuate with relative freedom, is struggling. Speaking in Singapore en route to Seoul, he said: "It's better for the key governments involved to recognize it and start to figure out how they want to change the rules."
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The Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise is boasting its new painters, as beluga whales at the aquarium are taught to paint using special brushes. With a trainer guiding the whales, the marine animals are then able to show their inner Picasso.
According to the aquarium's spokesperson, showing the beluga whales' new learned skill is part of their season's gimmick called 'geijutsu no aki(autumn, the best season for art).' "The ideal is that a beluga will emulate what one of our customers has painted – of course trainers will guide the whale to do that," said the spokesperson, adding that they will watch out how the dolphins manage. Located at the Yokohama Bay, the aquarium involves two female and one male beluga whales for their 'geijutsu no aki.' The three belugas will be in rotation once during weekdays and twice a day during weekends.
This may be an in-season attraction of the Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise featuring unusual skills of the beluga whales, which are also known as white whales, but environment activists have been opposing the training of dolphins and whales to be featured in aquariums. Beluga whales are also considered threatened species according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Despite protests from environment groups, Japan has been obstinate in keeping and promoting aquariums.
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Lesson Plan:
Introduction to Similes
August 7, 2015
August 7, 2015
Learning Objectives
Students will understand the concept of a simile and be able to create their own similes.
Introduction (10 minutes)
- Write an example of a simile on the board.
- Explain that a simile compares two things using the word "like" or "as."
Explicit Instruction/Teacher Modeling (10 minutes)
- Hand out the Easy as Pie and Clear as Crystal worksheets.
- Using the document camera, complete #1 on Clear as Crystal.
- Have the students underline the two nouns being compared (Chris and mouse).
Guided Practice/Interactive Modeling (15 minutes)
- Complete any other problems you believe will help the students.
- Make sure they are underlining the two nouns being compared in each sentence.
- Allow students to work in pairs on the two sheets.
- Come back together and go over the answers using the document camera.
Independent Working Time (10 minutes)
- Hand out the Similes worksheet.
- Have students complete this on their own.
- Students can write more similes on the back of the worksheet.
- Enrichment Have students move onto metaphors or personification while going over the answers to the first two worksheets.
- Support Circulate the room and help students as needed. Give word banks if needed for Simile worksheet.
Assessment (10 minutes)
- Review the answers to the worksheet on the document camera.
- Assess students' understanding of the lesson content based on how well they did on their worksheets.
Review and Closing (5 minutes)
- Review the definition of a simile.


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'Poker Pals HD' Review: A Great Twist on a Classic
Poker Pals HD Review: Chillingo have come to the table again and this time it's the poker table as they release Poker Pals HD for iPad, their twist on the traditional card game of poker crossed with a scrabble type card game.
While, thanks to the in game tutorial, it's not required for you to know the hands of poker, it can certainly help with your initial understanding of the rules of the game and the tile placement that will earn you the most points.
The game is played on a 7×7 grid and you are dealt a hand of 5 tiles that represents cards from a standard deck to start with. Taking it in turns with either one of you virtual opponents or against a live competitor you take it in turns to place up to five tiles to make the best poker hands possible.
As you come to expect from a Chillingo title the game looks polished and is slick to use, while sounds are minimal yet effective. Moving the cards around the screen is easy whether it be around the board or on your tile rack.
As you place your tiles on the board the points that you will earn will be displayed on the tiles, this will enable you to decide on the best placement for your tiles to maximize your score. The key to your success will be the successful completion of multiple hands at the same time by combining multiple columns and rows of 5 cards.
While playing against the AI is fun enough the game comes into its own when you either use the pass-n-play option to play against a friend or via a random player via the Game Center integration. This online integration is so quick and simple it makes playing against real opponents a real pleasure and you can play against multiple opponents at the same time.
Thanks to the push notifications you also don't need to be in the app at all times as while you are working in other applications or even away from your device you will be notified once it's your turn again. Depending on your opponent games may last minutes, hours or even days.
Unfortunately, while their is Game Center integration that doesn't extend to Leaderboards or Achievements, instead these are limited to the Crystal social gaming which also comes built into the game.
While the game is available for all iOS devices and is apparently the same on each of them it's not universal meaning that if you want to play it on both an iPhone and an iPad you will need to purchase it twice. Poker Pals HD {$1.99} is an addictive game and one that will keep you entertained for quite a while.
What we like:
- Great twist on a classic
- Excellent multiplayer integration
- Looks great
What to know:
- Not a universal app
- Lacking full Game Center integration


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Wildlife researchers and conservationists believe that the South Sudan Boma National Park migration is much more bigger than the currently famed Serengeti Wildbeest migration. Estimates put the South Sudan Boma National Park animal migration close to 2 million white-eared Kob Antelope, Tiang Antelope, Mongalla Gazelle, Elephants, Buffalos plus many more other animal species as the animals that follow the South Sudan general migration path. Simply, the animals are follow the grass and water from wet season to dry season as the grass recedes and then comes back. The wet season is April to October and the dry season is November to March.
During the wet season April, May, June, July, August, September and October the game herds are migrating into Bandingalo National Park from the Boma National Park South Sudan.
Thus the best time to travel to Boma National Park to witness the great animal migration spectacle is November/December/January when it is dry season and the roads passable.
Habari Africa will assist you plan your safari holiday to South Sudan, ground handle same for you, and assist you through the sometime cumbersome process of acquiring South Sudan visas(required prior to arrival to South Sudan) and filming/camera permits.
Because of the impassable nature of the roads, we recommend flying into Boma from Juba. We land at Nyat and then drive onwards to Boma National Park. The road infrastructure is still in bad shape and as such driving into Boma can take anything from 3 days each way. Embark on a memorable safari to South Sudan, Africa's newest nation and experience the beautiful gems that this vast nation has to offer to ardent tourists.
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Vacation in Badingalo National Park for game drive safaris, migration holidays, Nature walks,cultural village visits, and why not safari in Boma National park for the ultimate great migration spectacle safari of all time.
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British Islamists jailed over Al Qaeda bomb plot
Three British Islamists have been jailed for planning mass suicide attacks supported by Al Qaeda that prosecutors say could have been as deadly as the 2005 London bombings.
A fourth man was sentenced for terrorist financing.
The three plotters had intended, with the help of others, to detonate eight rucksack bombs and possibly use timers to set off other devices.
They had also considered welding knife blades to a truck and ramming it into a crowd of people, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said that although the targets remained unidentified, the intent was to create an attack more devastating than the suicide bombings on London's transport system on July 7, 2005, which killed 52 people on the Tube and a bus.
Irfan Naseer, Irfan Khalid and Ashik Ali were sentenced after their conviction at London's Woolwich Crown Court in February on 12 counts of committing acts in preparation for terrorism between December 2010 and September 2011.
"Clearly nothing was going to stop you, short of intervention of the authorities," Judge Richard Henriques said.
"I have no doubt you would have continued with your plan but for that intervention. Many deaths were planned by a determined team of individuals who were fully radicalised and you, Naseer, were their leader.
"Your plot had the blessing of Al Qaeda and you intended to further the aims of Al Qaeda."
Naseer, who the judge said was a "skilful bomb-maker", was jailed for life and told he must serve at least 18 years in prison.
Khalid, who had boasted the planned attack would be "another 9/11", was given 23 years and will spend at least 12 behind bars before he can be released.
Ali was jailed for 20 years with a minimum of 10 years in custody.
Naseer and Khalid had spent time at training camps in Pakistan where they had learnt how to make bombs, mix poisons and fire guns. The court was told they had prepared "martyrdom videos" in anticipation of their suicide campaign.
The group tried to fund their plot by posing as street collectors for the Muslim Aid charity organisation, raising $18,500 for themselves in this way.
But they were forced to apply for tens of thousands of pounds in loans after their associate Rahin Ahmed, 26, lost more than 9,000 pounds trading on foreign currency markets.
He was given a 17-year jail term and will serve at least six years in prison after pleading guilty to collecting, investing and managing money for terrorism, and assisting others to travel to Pakistan for training in terrorism.
Naseer also sent four aspiring militants to Pakistan for training, although three had to return after just three days after a relative got wind of the real reason for their journey.
All four of them pleaded guilty to engaging in conduct in preparation for terrorist acts.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, terrorism, england, united-kingdom


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Archive for January, 2010
Welcome "Florida" Jim Cowan!
It's no exaggeration to describe "Florida" Jim Cowan as one of the most respected and admired commentators in the online wine community. A true gentleman, Jim is the consummate voice of reason, with a common sense view of all things wine-related that resonates strongly with his many friends and readers. Most of us in Gang of Pour go back a number of years with "Florida" Jim, having met up with him all over the country to share good food, wine and friendship, and several of those events have been documented in our pages, going all the way back to the second "Bacchus tour." Read the rest of this entry »
Florida Jim Cowan's 2009 Tasting Notes Archive
All notes, except as otherwise noted, were from bottles that were opened and drunk with a meal over an extended period. The 2009 archive is divided into the following categories: Bubbles, Red, White and Rosé
Wine with Pizza
It started a few weeks ago with some twittering back and forth between our friends Master Sommelier Claudia Tyagi and Western Market Wine Manager Jarred Gild about Beaujolais, and in particular, one of our favorites from that oft-maligned appellation. We were privy to said twitters, one thing led to another and it was decided that the wine in question would be tasted at Gang Central, along with a few others in support and a variety of Kim's killer homemade pizzas. Also in attendance were Jarred's friend Dawn Astrop and Roastmaster aka James Cadariu. After we started things off with a glass of our house bubbly, Mionetto Brut Prosecco, we turned our attention to a wine that James brought back from a recent visit to Romania. Read the rest of this entry »
Tasting Chateau de la Font du Loup Chateauneuf du Pape
Our friends at AHD Vintners invited us to a wine luncheon held at the Forest Grill in Birmingham this Monday past, to present the wines of one of the producers in their portfolio, Chateau de la Font du Loup Chateauneuf du Pape. On hand to talk about the wines was Anne Charlotte Melia-Bachas, who, along with her husband Laurent, owns and operates the Chateau. "Font du Loup" means "Fountain of the Wolves," a reference to the local legend that tells of the wolves of Mont Ventoux stopping to drink at the spring located on the property while making their way down to the Provencal plains. Read the rest of this entry »
Blind Tasting with the Brownbag Irregulars
The Brownbag Irregulars gathered for their inaugural meeting last Thursday to blind taste and consider a dozen wine selections from around the world. Tasters were all "in the biz," and the event was held in a shady location of questionable repute better left unnamed here. There was no arm-twisting or sales pitches being given, just some good palates checking out some new wines. Festivities kicked off with the only two whites in the lineup. Read the rest of this entry »
Alan Kerr's January 23rd, 2010, Vintage's Release – Tasting Notes
It is good there is no charge to the reader to view my notes for this release as they are rather skimpy to say the least. This weekend showcases wines from Argentina. Sadly though, the LCBO shipped very few wines period for the tasting. I guess even the largest purchaser of alcohol in the world has to tighten the belt after the holidays. Siduri, a well renowned producer of Pinot Noir from California has two AVA wines making their debut in the catalogue. Asking prices are unfortunately, high according to friends south of the border who buy them regularly, but any Siduri I have tasted in the past has been stellar. Perhaps I may splurge. Anyhow, as always, I found a couple worth picking out so please read on. Read the rest of this entry »
2008 Chateau Grand Traverse Semi-Dry Riesling ~ The One That Almost Got Away
I was a little disappointed in not being able to find the Chateau Grand Traverse Semi-Dry Riesling in my neighborhood when I reviewed the other three 2008s a few weeks ago. I would have preferred to have published notes on the four of them together for continuity's sake but was unwilling to wait, not knowing when a bottle of the Semi-Dry might turn up. And so it was that I happened to stumble upon a stash of these at a good price last Friday at Plum Market in West Bloomfield. I didn't think twice before grabbing one, paying for it, bringing it home, chilling it down and opening it that very evening. I was very pleased with what I found, and here are my impressions. Read the rest of this entry »
A Tale of Two Michigan India Pale Ales
I drank almost no beer throughout the '90s and well into the new century. The reasons for this are roughly equal parts of the following: the usual boring suspects (Budweiser, Molson, etc.), the thrill of exploring the endlessly fascinating world of wine and the vain (but ultimately futile) attempt to retain my once-girlish figure. About the only times I would indulge in any malt and hops beverages were the occasional Chimay Trappist Ale at Christmas, or in the middle of March, when I would take advantage of St. Patrick's Day promotions, grab a discounted case of Guinness Stout, gain five pounds in a matter of days and swear the suds off until the following year.
About four or five years ago, it became necessary for me to gain some knowledge of the considerable stock of beers and ales in the retail department that I managed in order to better serve my customers. My distributors were generous with samples and I got up to speed fairly quickly, in the process discovering that the hoppier the beer, the more I liked it, and India Pale Ale quickly became my preferred style. There are plenty of great American IPAs being brewed, from the likes of Dogfish Head, Stone Brewery, our own Short's and Bell's here in Michigan and many more. (I've already expressed my admiration for Bell's Two Hearted Ale in previous blog entries here.) My Bell's rep at the time, Todd Hill of Rave Associates in Ann Arbor told me, "If you like IPAs, you'll LOVE Bell's Hopslam."
Oh my, how right he was! Read the rest of this entry »
Exhuming an old Cornas
I seem to be on an "old wine, off vintages" kick right now. After my favorable experience with the 1986 Serafin Gevrey, I decided to go with an older, "off-vintage" Northern Rhone this time. Going over my inventory, I found a lone, long-forgotten bottle of 1981 Cornas, Auguste Clape just sitting there, waiting to be put out of its misery. There was an old note with the list entry, saying "medium rich, good fruit, slightly short, drink up." Well, that note was from 1991, so I didn't exactly take my own advice. 1981 was a mediocre year in the Northern Rhone to be sure, so this probably was best drunk in its robust youth. And yet, I thought, this is Clape—if any Cornas from 1981 was still alive, this would be the one. So, with rather low expectations, I pulled the cork, which broke into two pieces. The level was good and the cork was clean, so I had hope. Read the rest of this entry »
Alan Kerr's January 9th, 2010, Vintage's Release – Tasting Notes
Happy New Year and welcome to 2010. The premier release of the year is the annual "Great Wine Great Value". This basically translates as 'you spent too much money in the last couple of months, so the board is going to be kinder and gentler on the pocket book.' There certainly are several wines that offer a great drinking experience and are priced below fifteen bucks. All you need to do is read on to find them. Read the rest of this entry »


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So Declan had a bit of an accident on Friday. He leads a Bible study every Friday night and plays basketball after with the guys. This was the result of basketball:
Yeah, he rolled his ankle pretty bad and had to deal with a bruised, sore, and swollen ankle all weekend long. But he managed quite fine on the dance floor during Erica's cousin's wedding! Anyway, today's recipe has nothing to do with rolled ankles so don't worry. We found this awesome recipe for a warm goat cheese potato salad in the NY Times. Erica's friend from Maryland moved up to Pittsburgh recently and we welcomed her with some pulled pork and this potato salad as a side. She approved that it was blog worthy.
Warm Goat Cheese Potato Salad
Only attempt this awesome potato salad recipe if you are super excited to make an awesome potato salad.
- Servings – 4 to 6
- Prep time – 5 minutes
- Cook time – 10 minutes
For the dressing:
- 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar or sherry vinegar
- 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
- Salt to taste
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 1 small garlic clove, minced
- 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
For the salad:
- 1 1/2 pounds red or Yukon gold potatoes
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 2 to 4 tablespoons finely chopped red onion
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
- 2 ounces soft goat cheese
1. For the dressing, simply whisk everything together in a small bowl and set aside.
2. Wash and quarter the potatoes and boil for 10 to 12 minutes until tender (not mushy for mashed potatoes).
3. Drain the potatoes and in a large bowl toss together the potatoes, salt, pepper, onion, parsley and goat cheese.
4. Serve and enjoy!


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Figurines were the "photographs" of the 18th and 19th centuries. Well-known politicians, royalty, sports figures, actors, writers, religious subjects and newsworthy criminals, places and events were the inspiration for the figurines. They were made to sell, so the figurines had to depict something that would add decorative value to a home. But the potters had few sources to use when making a portrait — just a few prints, paintings and sometimes statues. Staffordshire potters wanted to tap the American market by selling figurines of American politicians. George Washington was a popular subject, and both standing figures and busts of Washington were made. But since no English potter had ever seen the first U.S. president, some potters wound up labeling figurines of Benjamin Franklin as George Washington. William Shakespeare and John Milton were famous British writers seldom shown in widely distributed prints, but a large statue of Shakespeare stands in Westminster Abbey, and a smaller one of Milton is owned by the York Castle Museum. So several Staffordshire potteries made 12-inch copies of the statues that could be displayed on a fireplace mantel. And, of course, displaying the statues suggested that the owners were well-read.
Q: My mother gave me a pressed-glass plate that has a frosted center embossed with a picture of a man on horseback spearing a lion. The scalloped edges have alternating panels of oak leaves and diamonds. It's signed "Jacobus." It's approximately 11 1/2 inches in diameter. I'd like to know more about it and its value.
A: Your plate was made by Gillinder & Sons of Philadelphia, which was founded by William Gillinder in 1861. It's part of the Classic pattern designed by P.J. Jacobus (1844-1910). There were five plates in this pattern. The others pictured the 1884 U.S. presidential and vice presidential candidates, Democrats Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks and Republicans James G. Blaine and John A. Logan. Value: under $100.
Q: Can you tell me if there is a market for vinyl records from the 1940s and '50s? I have two albums' full.
A: Most records made before the 1940s were made with a hard shellac surface, so they usually broke if dropped. By 1946, unbreakable vinyl records were being sold commercially. Companies began phasing out the production of phonograph records after compact discs became available in 1982. There has been renewed interest in vinyl recordings in the past few years because they produce a fuller sound than digital recordings, which don't capture every tone. Some companies are even making new vinyl records. Most old records sell for less than $20, but an early rare recording by Elvis Presley might sell for several hundred dollars. Elvis Presley's first recording for Sun Record Co. in 1954, "That's All Right" and "Blue Moon of Kentucky," recently sold for $896.
Q: I have a collection of swanky swigs with various decorations. Most of them are in good shape, but some of them are cloudy. I've tried soaking them with denture cleaner and scrubbing the outside gently with liquid dish detergent, to no avail. Do you have any other suggestions for getting the glass clear again?
A: It depends on what caused the glasses to become cloudy. Hard water can cause calcium deposits to build up on the glass and make it cloudy. Filling the glasses with warm water and adding a denture tablet usually clears it up. Other solutions include soaking the glasses in a mixture of hot water and a cup of white vinegar, or washing them in a dishwasher with a cup of vinegar poured in the bottom of the dishwasher. You also can try using a cleaner meant for shower doors. If none of these solutions works, your glasses probably are permanently etched. Sometimes this happens if the water is too soft and too much detergent is used. This condition can't be cured.
Q: I have a mahjong set that I'd like to know more about. The cabinet holding the drawers of tiles is elaborately carved on all four sides and the top. I've been assured that the tiles are real ivory and bamboo. I've had the set for about 65 years. Can you tell me anything about its origin or value?
A: The game of mahjong is based on a card game played in China in the late 1800s. The game became popular in the United States in the 1920s. Early sets were imported from China. Tiles were made of ivory, bone or wood. Some sets came in intricately carved rosewood boxes, while others were packed in cardboard boxes. Sets made in the United States during the 1930s usually have Bakelite or plastic tiles.
Joseph Park Babcock, a Standard Oil Co. civil engineer, often is credited with bringing the game to the United States after he saw it being played when he was sent to Suzhou, China, in 1912. One of the names the Chinese used for the game was "ma que," which means "sparrow." Babcock trademarked the name "Mah-Jongg" and published a book of game rules in 1920. Several manufacturers made their own versions of the game but had to use other names for it. Babcock assigned his rights to the name to Parker Brothers in 1924. Mahjong is still played in the U.S., but the version played now is different from the version played in the 1920s, according to the National Mah-Jongg League.
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