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Linnaeus-Palme is a SIDA- (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) funded exchange program for teachers and students at undergraduate and master´s level in higher education. The program aims at strengthening long-term co-operation between Universities in a developing country and in Sweden to their mutual benefit.
The first part of the program, Linnaeus, enables teachers and students to work and study in developing countries.
The second part, Palme, offers teachers and students in developing countries the opportunity work and study in Sweden.
In order for students to be eligible for the Linnaeus-Palme grant his/her University has to have a project together with a Swedish University. The student then applies to the University to participate in the program and have the possibility to partake in a Student Exchange for 12 weeks.
The School of Health Science at Blekinge Institute of Technology has ongoing projects with the following Universities:
- University of Botswana, Botswana (www.ub.bw)
- University of Limpopo, South Africa (http://www.ul.ac.za/)
- Egerton University, Kenya (extern webbsida)
For more information, contact Doris Bohman, International Coordinator, School of Health Science or, Tobias Ericson, International Secretary, School of Health Science.


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Anchor your Mojo Mallard motion decoys or other spinning wing decoys in any terrain with a Mad Mallard Pole. Made of 3/8" solid steel, the auger guarantees a secure and confident placement. A multi-purpose cam lock head accepts most spinning wing decoys without tools, adapters or attachments, and reduces rattling and noise.
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Samantha Ruiz has a freak gene that makes her turn invisible, or ripple. She can't control it, and it's getting worse. Afraid of becoming a lab-rat, Sam keeps her ability secret, until fellow runner Will Baker sees her vanish into thin air. Will promises secrecy and help, and Sam begins to fall in love.
Together, the two discover there are worse things than being a scientific curiosity. Someone's been killing people who possess Sam's gene. A mysterious man from France sends letters that offer hope for safety, but also reveal a sinister connection with Nazi experiments.
The more time Sam spends with Will, the less she can imagine life without him. When Sam uncovers secrets from her past, she must choose between keeping Will in her life or keeping Will safe.
I try not to review a lot of YA books, because I tend to have rather strong reactions to them, either I love them a lot or I hate them. I was really happy to find that I really did enjoy this book from beginning to end.
To start with I would say the writing in this book is really good in terms of flow, so readers will really enjoy the experience. The book just had a really nice kind of pace to it, I never felt like I had to rush to finish it (and then of course miss out on things because I read to fast), but I also didn't feel like the book was dragging or getting boring. So it was a nice pace, especially for the YA crowd.
Another thing I feel like i have to mention is that the dialogue is pretty good. A common problem I have found in YA books is that you have a bunch of adult writers trying to write to either appeal to a younger demographic or to actually write a younger character, and it doesn't always come off right. I have to say this was pretty good dialogue. It was enjoyable, easy to follow, and didn't feel like it was trying to hard.
As for the characters, I enjoyed reading both Sam and Will. Sam is a smart girl, but more than that she is tough. She has been through a lot, and of course is dealing with a lot with her condition, so she is a strong girl. I also liked that Will was also a smart guy, he's definitely quick on his feet. And the two of them together are definitely cute.
As for the down side of the book, I can say the only thing I felt was lacking from the book was that I wish there was a bit more action in it. I hope that as the series progresses there will be more action in the books, but in this one I did wish there was a bit more. That being said, if you like YA books then I think you will enjoy reading this one.


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More than just a FallHealth
Red is an auspicious colour during Chinese New Year. Oh well, on the 12th day of Chinese New Year, we had RED indeed!
Bloody Red! *super eyes rolled*
[For my non-Chinese readers, we celebrate Chinese New Year for 15 days.]
Never did we expect a fall during a soccer game at the parade square in school during recess could cause my Binbin to be in this state:
He fell on 2nd March and my thoughtful boy did not want us to worry, he limped all the way home from school. Thereafter, he could not straightened his right leg at all. After putting Aloe Gel on his wound 2x, the exterior was healing fast. Just before we could celebrate, he knocked that wounded knee onto the edge of his wooden study table. My heart felt like it was stabbed by a thousand knives when I saw him burst into tears!!!
This was how it looked when he came home from school:
After knocking on the edge of the table, it became this:
*sigh* Then on, he limped even more. His fall in school also hurt his hip and his elbow, but they were just bruises without blood, unlike his knee. When he rests his arm on the edge of the table while doing his school homework, he would scratch the tender elbow occasionally, causing him to twitch in pain. When I held his hand and my hand hit his hip accidentally, he would "tsk" in pain too. In short, he is almost untouchable!
Every move of mine must be made with extra care when I am near him.
After 1 more application of the Aloe Gel at night, I sent him to bed. The next morning, the layer of dried blood was well formed and Binbin could stroke the so-called wound without going "tsk" or "ahhh" in pain.
However, I noticed that he had to bend his knee more than the previous day and the injured area started to swell!
I realised that I was wrong to think that it was recovering. The exterior yes, BUT NOT THE INTERIOR. I do not want him to limp in school with that heavy school bag. Furthermore, his classroom is at level 4 !!! Taking the lift in school is not an option for the students unless he/she is on crutches or has a medical certificate to prove that he/she cannot climb the stairs or there is special permission granted by the teacher.
Hence, I decided to let Binbin stay at home to rest, instead of putting him at risk of hurting himself again, especially when limping was still his way of moving around.
Binbin was holding onto walls and furniture as he limped around the house. His limping got worse as the swelling grew. Something was very very wrong. After discussing with Allan, we decided to bring him to KK hospital at 10pm+.
I wanted to go with them so badly, but I could not because its unfair to make Kitkit stay at home alone or keep him awake if we bring him along to the hospital with us; remembering that he still has school the following day. So I stayed at home while Allan drove Binbin to the A&E.
Though my body was not in the hospital, my mind was… Totally cannot concentrate on anything while I was at home. Kept holding onto my phone and waiting for my Watsapp tone to ring. Hoping for updates, ANY UPDATES, from Allan…
Allan knows me well and gave me updates often; big or small, or even when there's nothing at all, he would send photos to me….
After the X-Ray result was out, the doctor said there were too much blood 'blocking' the view. The 'too much blood' resulted in the swelling and the visibility of the bone was affected too as a result. The doctor could not see if there were any hairline fractures on the bone. However, he told Allan to rest assured that there were no major damage done to the bone. In order to know if there are any hairline fractures, Binbin needs to go back for another X-Ray a week later. By then, hopefully the 'too much blood' would be gone.
To prevent hurting the injured area, Binbin had to be on cast till the next visit. *heart drop*
And crutches will be his new toy……….
*heart pain*
I told Allan to inform me when he has parked his car at our place, so that I could go down to help to hold Binbin or help to carry things. When I went down, I saw an exhausted Father and Son. Binbin tried to walk with his crutches, but he was so tired and was not used to it, he made a few baby steps and lost balance!!! Thank goodness I was there to hold him! I could not imagine what would happen if he had another fall !
Another fall was the last thing I want on my wishlist, hence I told Allan to carry him home, while I carry everything else: medication, bag, right shoe, pants etc.
Doing such things at almost 1.30am is both tiring and heart aching….
Oh Well, I always tell myself that NO MATTER how bad things may seem, there is always something to rejoice in.
Thus, I have to say I am very grateful that no operation whatsoever was required and my dear Binbin can be home safely, sleeping on his bed and I get to be with him as he takes each restricted step for the next 7 days….
PS : We put the phone beside him on purpose; for him to call us, in case he needed to go to the toilet in the middle of the night.
As a result, the next X-ray is scheduled on 11th March and Binbin is on Medical Leave till 12th March. If the second X-ray turns out well, he should be back in school by then, otherwise… Hmmmm…. he would be having extended 'school holidays'.
As much as he loves skipping school, this is definitely NOT one of the way….
More than just a Fall
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With all the Travel Blogs and Sites to choose from there is something for everyone. I read a lot of travel blogs and follow some very good travel sites. There are basically five types of travel sites.
The General Blog, which has everything from travel tips and photos to read about my trip to some wacky travel destination or stories about "How I survived a night in a Lithuanian jail".
Those that talk about budget travel which deal with everything from coupons, discount sites and staying in inexpensive (notice I didn't say cheap?) places.
Then there are sites written for the 20 something's, which if the truth be told some are in their 30's now. These sites talk about everything from party places to adventure traveling to how to quit your job work anywhere and travel the world.
Next up women travelers, now this is an exclusive club. I read some of the articles but I am usually afraid to comment on them fearing I might be hunted down and attacked for encroaching onto woman land.
Then you have the top tier sites, those that deal in luxury travel. It's like watching an episode of "lives of the rich and famous". Stories of Tuscan Villas for $3000.00 per night that come with monogrammed towels and slippers with a balcony overlooking the unspoiled countryside and a private chef named Enrique.
Now I get something useful out of all of these sites.
General travel blogs have given me some useful tips, funny stories and articles on places I might not know about along with insights to the author's travels.
Budget travel sites have turned me on to some great finds where I can search for low airfares or accommodations. As a result I have managed to stay in some nice places without breaking the bank and learn a few tricks when it comes to booking flights.
The 20 something crowd has opened my eyes to new ways and ideas for businesses and earning an income without having to be trapped behind a desk in an office. A lot of the people behind these sites are not demanding someone give them a job or provide a living for them, instead they are creating their own jobs on their own terms and they are highly creative. Don't tell them though most are still very idealistic.
Travel sites geared towards women often offer great info on traveling alone or how to stay safe while traveling which everyone can benefit from. A lot of them tend to be very good at pointing out what to do and where to go when visiting various places. I still get visions of Amazonian women hunting me down when I read these blogs .. wait never mind that was a dream I had.
Luxury travel sites have that Ooooh, Aaaah factor. The perfect photos of accommodations that looks better than anywhere I have ever lived. But once I stop drooling over the private in room bar stocked with single malt Scotch, I do get some useful info out of the articles. I learn about out of the way places that a lot of people don't visit and it feeds my auto accident needs. You know what I am talking about, like when you see a bad auto accident and you know you shouldn't look but you can't help yourself.
Of course there are others, like the cruise sites, the Disney sites and the Hi Mom and Dad look what I am doing with my tuition money sites. The bottom line is, there are a lot of great travel sites and when you find one share it with your friends. If you enjoyed the article tweet about it or hit the share buttons on the blog like Stumble Upon or Digg. Join the conversation and leave a comment. Writers like comments. Not just the ones that say "You're great!" but the comments that add to the article or give your opinion, good or bad.
For a list of some of the travel blogs I like, head over here and check out some great sites.


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I was wondering if there is anything other than cd burners that support audio extraction at 16x and up. I want to burn music cd to cd and i can only get 7x audio extraction from my 52max cdrom. I was also looking to get a dvd player. Is there a dvd player that supports high audio extraction??
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It's going to come down to the wire for the top spot on the charts next week as Prince and Keith Urban are locked in a close race for Number One. According to Reuters, "industry prognosticators" anticipate Urban's Defying Gravity will edge out Prince's triple attack of LOtUSFLOW3R, MPLSoUND and Bria Valente's Elixer. Both albums are expected to sell in the neighborhood of 150,000 copies, though Urban might top out at 160,000.
LOtUSFLOW3R would be Prince's fifth U.S. chart-topping album, following Purple Rain, Around the World in a Day, the Batman soundtrack and, most recently, 2006's 3121. Even if it doesn't claim the top spot, the LOtUS package will undoubtedly sell more than the 96,000 copies Prince's previous album Planet Earth mustered in 2007. Urban has never claimed a Number One spot, settling for Number Three on both of his previous albums.
If Prince does win the sales race, the victory will likely come with some kind of industry asterisk: The LOtUSFLOW3R package was released on Sunday, March 29th, giving Prince an additional two days of sales and a nine-day debut week. However, Keith Urban isn't leashed to an exclusive deal with Target like Prince is, making Defying Gravity more widely available. Plus, the amount of copies purchased via membership to Prince's newly launched LOtUSFLOW3R Website likely won't be included in his final tally. One thing is for certain, and that's that Now! 30 probably won't be topping the charts again.
For more on the LOtUSFLOW3R package, check out this week's New Music Report for Rolling Stone's take on the Purple One's three-disc set.
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This time of year, watering can become a major trauma on the plot. I can almost hear the squash and celery plants screaming at me to come over and flood their roots.
I rarely make it to the plot more than once a week so I've made efforts to increase the water retention in the soil around the most thirsty of plants. The celery, squash and butter beans have all been planted into trenches that were filled with partially rotted kitchen waste in the spring. In addition, the squash have been set into valleys so that I can tip a bucket of water around each plant without it running off to nurture the surface weeds.
Watering on allotments can be a contentious practice. Effin Frank will forcefully inform any newcomer to the site that they shouldn't "effin water them plants or you'll effin burn the effin roots".
He could be right if watering means a scant drizzle from the rose of a watering can. The trick is to drench a plant if you're going to bother watering at all. Send the roots downwards rather than encouraging them to stick close to the surface where the soil will bake in hours.
At home my problems are much greater. Most of my garden plants are in pots and although I technically ought to be able to water my plants daily, they rarely get considered from one week to the next. When I see the pathetic wilting of the entire plant I rush out with my jug of water and attempt to saturate the compost. It's a futile effort. If you've ever let a pot plant dry out (I'm sure everyone has) its darn tricky to get the compost to absorb more than a thimble full of water. The rest whizzes through the drainage hole at the bottom of the pot and nourishes the weeds in the cracks between the paving slabs.
I was recently sent an easy watering kit to set up amongst my pot plants and it has proved to be an ingenious way to re-saturate dried out pot plants and deliver a steady drip of water during the summer months.
You get an awful lot in your kit for the money. The drip irrigation kit I used was just under £30 and provided enough drippers for 20 pots and huge length of the main supply pipe, with connectors to allow you to cut and split the supply so you can water pots in different areas.
I set it up before I went away on my summer holidays and I have arrived home to find my pots looking extremely healthy, which never happens when I go away.
I'm extremely happy with this kit but if you keep your pots on different levels it takes a bit of faffing to ensure a steady drip to all pots.
- accurately delivers drips of water direct to your plant
- most efficient way of watering pot plants without run off
- takes a while to install, laying out the feeder pipes, cutting out the dripper pipes and inserting the connectors
- can lead to different rates of dripping if you have pots at different levels


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Bay-breasted Warbler
The Bay-breasted Warbler (Dendroica castanea), is a bird of the New World warbler family. They breed in northern North America, specifically in Canada, into the Great Lakes region, and into northern New England. These birds are migratory, wintering in northwest South America and southern Central America. They are very rare vagrants to western Europe.
The summer male Bay-breasted Warblers are unmistakable. They have gray backs, black faces, and chestnut crowns, flanks and breasts. They also boast of bright yellow neck patches, and their underparts are white. They have two white wing bars, as well. Breeding females essentially resemble washed out versions of the male. The females are grayish above and white below, with much weaker head patterns. The females also only have chestnut markings on small flank patches, although tiny tints in their gray crowns have been observed. Non-breeding birds have greenish heads, greenish upperparts and yellowish breasts. The yellow extends to the belly of young birds. The two white wing bars are always present in every stage of life. These birds differ from non-breeding Blackpoll Warblers in the absence of breast streaks.
These birds feed on insects, and the numbers of these birds vary with the abundance of the Spruce Budworm. These birds will also feed on berries and nectar in wintertime. Their breeding habitats are coniferous woodlands. Bay-breasted Warblers nest in conifer, laying 3-5 eggs in a cup-shaped nest. More eggs are laid in Spruce Budworm years. Their songs are repetitive high-pitched si si si's.


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Hello guys.
I dont know what wordpress team did from yesterday to today, but it suddenly appeared a new top menu on the top of my blog. And now its messing up the rest of my blog, like my about me section is over this new menu and the first topic title of my blog is under it, so i dont have idea how to fix this or even remove this unecessary second menu on my blog, any ideas?
The blog I need help with is rehula.wordpress.com.


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Baltimore Orioles: Can Dan Duquette Build a Winner with No Big Free Agents?November 21, 2011
It's one of the topics that draws the widest array of opinions in sports. Is it more effective to spend a lot of money on one big-name free agent or on a few smaller names that could make an impact?
Dan Duquette has only been with the Orioles for a little more than a week, and it's already becoming clear that his style is not the same "buy the bats" mentality that Andy MacPhail had in his tenure.
There are some big names at a few positions of need on the market. Albert Pujols and Prince Fielder are looking for huge deals at first, and Aramis Ramirez could be a big bat at third. On the mound, C.J. Wilson, Yu Darvish and Mark Buehrle could make a huge difference for the Orioles' pathetic pitching staff.
It seems like there are a lot of reasons that the Orioles should sign someone for big money because any of the guys above could be stars for Baltimore, but there are some definite cons.
One thing overlooked in a major league budget is the amount of money spent on scouting, player development and the international market. A little-known fact is that while the Toronto Blue Jays had the 22nd highest payroll in the year, they spent the most money of any team on player development. Homegrown talent like Ricky Romero, Adam Lind and J.P. Arencibia are complemented by the emergence of Jose Bautista, Brandon Morrow and Yunel Escobar to make them one of the league's top up-and-coming teams.
The Orioles could gain a lot by allocating the money that they could be spending on Prince Fielder or C.J. Wilson to developing players like Manny Machado, Dylan Bundy and Jonathan Schoop into cheap stars in the future.
Another reason that the Orioles can't spend on a marquee free agent is the risk associated with that. History has shown that big contracts have failed spectacularly in the past. In 2011 alone, Carl Crawford, Jayson Werth and Adam Dunn were paid way too much for pretty poor performance. The Orioles can look to Albert Belle in their own history to see how a big contract is a risk that they can't take. Dan Duquette don't have the same wiggle room as the Red Sox, Nationals and White Sox to recover from failed risks.
The Orioles aren't ready to sign a big-name free agent because they are not ready to compete in 2012, so a big-name free agent might be moot anyway. Baltimore's fans may be angered by Dan Duquette if they see another losing season, but this isn't the way to win in the AL East.


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About Steele House Kitchen
Meredith Steele
Meredith Steele is a professional recipe developer, food writer, food photographer and author of Steele House Kitchen, an acknowledged food blog celebrating creative and fresh foods. Her recipe development and photography company, MBS Recipe Development specializes in multimedia recipe development for commercial brands to small business who's clients include everyone from large PR firms to small family wineries. Meredith's work has been published online, in various print media, and has been nominated for the SAVEUR Food Blog Awards. She also wrote a monthly column about delicious food and recipes for JamieOliver.com and has recently published the, Effortless Entertaining Cookbook (Page Street Publishing). When Meredith is not in the kitchen, she's roaming Dallas, Texas with her husband, curly-headed pixie of a daughter, and big floppy-eared dog.
How This All Began…
My name is Meredith and I'm the one behind the computer (usually adorning a pair of well worn sock monkey slippers). In October of 2008, my wonderful husband and I had our first baby. A beautiful, brave, amazing little girl that has as much fight and determination in her little pinky finger than all of us combined. She came into this world sixteen weeks early weighing only one pound and thirteen ounces. It's been a long journey but she is doing fantastic now. Since she was so early and spent five months in the hospital, the doctors asked us to keep her out of daycare and at home for at least the first three years. Thus creating a stay-at-home mom, something I wasn't used to.
When I left my job as a graphic designer and became a stay-at-home mom my world changed. Trading logos and billboards for dirty diapers left me with a yearning for a creative outlet. So, I got back into my love for all things culinary, picked up my camera, and started a blog playfully titled, In Sock Monkey Slippers. It first was a way to keep my stories about raising a preemie and recipes organized for my own usage but it was to my surprise that I was hooked and found myself stuck in the blogging world.
Once our lives settled down from the excitement of having our first and only child, my husband decided he wanted to pursue a career as a sommelier. The transition left us without a major income for a while and with the support of my small but growing number of freelance clients, I officially opened my own recipe development company, MBS Recipe Development, in 2012. A job that keeps me very busy but I adore every minute of it.
As you see, with time comes growth and at the end of 2015, InSockMonkeySlippers.com had outgrown it's slippers — so to speak. With our lives constantly full of good food and wine it was only fitting that this little blog of mine evolved as well. All of the old content from years past is still here but with a new look and name, Steele House Kitchen finally becomes the space I've always wanted it to be — a place where we all can relate and bring a moment of laughter, inspiration, and creativity around good honest food (complete with a daily dose of nonsense and wine pairings, of course).


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Ayala Center Cebu
Building on the strengths of an existing shopping center in the Cebu Business park, the two phase renovation and expansion of the center created new indoor and outdoor venues expanding retail offerings and amenities.
CityOn Xi'an Shopping Center
The design of CityOn Xi'an plays on abstractions of the city's majestic physical setting—inspired city planning, sturdy walls and heirarchical order—expressed in a lively 21st Century vocabulary.
Del Amo Fashion Center
The freshly reinvented Del Amo Fashion Center, with its light filled galleries, sleek glass storefronts and sophisticated finishes, is testament to STIR's commitment to executing the design vison for the fabled mall.
Engine Co. No. 28
Originally built in 1912 this state-of-the-art firehouse was one of the first reinforced-concreted stations in the area. In 1979 it was registered as an historic landmark, remaining vacant until 1986 when it underwent restoration and adaptive reuse.
Fashion Show
The Fashion Show was a game-changer. It bought sophisticated technology — super-sized LED screens suspended 180 feet in the air bring visual entertainment, shade and an iconic identity to potential shoppers right on the street.
Southwestern Law School
The conversion of the historic 1929 Bullock's Wilshire department store building into a state-of-the-art library for Southwestern Law School preserved the famous architectural details of the so-called "Cathedral of Commerce".


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It's time once again folks, for one of the most exhilarating sports in the world, whitetail deer hunting in Oklahoma.
While archery season is just starting in many areas of the nation, there are a certain few that are allowing extended archery, but the majority of the USA is gearing up for rifle season.
All states have different ways of doing things and the seasons change from place to place, but there are similarities in the deer and how to hunt them from Pennsylvania to Texas.
We're here to show you the best way to get that trophy buck you have been dreaming all year about. Good luck and safe whitetail deer hunting!
Rutting Season: Starting in mid September or so, depending on the area you're in, the best time to start tracking the actions of deer is during rutting season, and it's key to start watching tendencies of deer starting far before you ever step foot in the woods for a hunt.
Deer are ready to mate around this time each year, and they will be shedding the velvet that has grown on their antlers during the year. It's during this period that you want to be observing the trees around trails where you will hunt for rubs.
Rubs are scrapes on trees where deer grind off the velvet on their antlers and expose the bone antlers. These rubs happen along common pathways the deer use to obtain food and these spots can be used as great reference points to find your hunting location.
Keep Warm: While many hunters worry first about the weapon they carry into the woods, that's where they make their first big mistake. Hunting season is late fall and winter and avoiding the cold at all costs is the most important part of the hunt.
If you are cold and sitting for long periods of time, your body will start having trouble functioning and you will not be able to last as long in the woods as your fellow hunter who has the proper attire.
The key for me has always been layering your clothes so that the temperature doesn't have the chance to permeate your clothing. Another key has been the insulated one-piece suits that allow for good functioning but still keep you cozy.
The most important body parts to keep warm should be your extremities and your head because that's where most of the heat is released from your body, but when covering your head be sure to make sure you can still hear what's going on around you.
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Finding the Perfect Spot: Finding the right spot is going to take at least one, and preferably more, trips to the spot you want to hunt for the main portion of hunting season. Pick a general area in public hunting lands or on private property you have secured permission to hunt on, and scout the land.
All of the technology in the world can't make up for a good, old-fashioned walk where you leave the cell phone at home, keep your mouth shut and eyes open and study the land.
Deer are creatures of habit, and if you can pick the location where they will appear in the morning hours or the evening hours, you will be in the right spot to take that prized buck.
Patience: This will be the biggest key to hunting every single year you decide to try to take the trophy bucks. Big deer aren't all around us, but the key is putting yourself in the best position to have a chance at seeing the monster buck.
You won't get a monster deer on your first time in the woods, heck; there is a good chance that you could not see a deer the whole day at times. Don't worry, though, there's always tomorrow.
In a fast paced world of instant gratification, hunting hearkens back to a time where you waited patiently for things and enjoyed the free time. Hunting is an old sport and people who don't understand that will miss the point of the adventure and the majesty.
When whitetail deer hunting, learn to be patient!


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Contact Borland and ask for SQL-LINKS. They run for Approx $99 and would allow you to connect to Oracle natively from within Paradox. I have also used Oracle's ODBC driver from Paradox. It runs a bit slower but it is cheaper <g>. You should be able to use ODBC w/o having to purchase SQL-LINKs. If you need connectivity from Paradox 7 Win '95, I do not think there is a 32 bit Oracle ODBC driver ready (from Oracle that is). SQL-LINKs for 32 bit are not ready as far as I know.
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Oct 27, 2011 (CIDRAP News) Wegmans Food Markets yesterday recalled bulk Turkish pine nuts sold in most of its stores after health officials linked them to a Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak that has so far sickened 42 people in six states.
The recall involves 5,000 pounds of pine nuts sold at the company's stores in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, and Maryland between Jul 1 and Oct 18. It does not apply to a store in Northborough, Mass., that opened on Oct 16, according to a recall notice from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Wegmans said the recalled pine nuts were imported from Turkey by Sunrise Commodities, based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday in an outbreak announcement that though the nuts were imported from Turkey, they may not have originated there. Federal and state officials are tracking the source of the pine nuts to determine if they were distributed to other retailers.
The CDC said epidemiologic and laboratory investigations by local, state, and federal agencies linked the illnesses to the pine nuts, which Wegmans also used as an ingredient in prepared foods such as Caprese salad sold at its stores.
Information from shopper cards helped health officials narrow the list of products suspected as the source of the outbreak early in the investigation, the CDC said. The review of sick patients' purchases, with their permission, found that they had purchased the same type of Turkish pine nuts from bulk bins at different Wegmans locations before they became ill.
Wegmans said it sent automated phone calls to customers whose shopping cards reflected Turkish pine nut purchases to notify them about the recall.
Lab tests by the Virginia Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services identified the outbreak strain in a sample of Turkish pine nuts from the home of a sick patient who had bought them at Wegmans, as well as from retail samples collected from Wegmans stores where sick patients had shopped.
Meanwhile, testing at the New York Department of Health's Wadsworth Center Laboratory on two samples of pesto containing the pine nuts collected from two sick people's homes yielded the Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak strain. Additional tests on bulk pine nuts are pending.
So far most of the people sickened in the outbreak are from New York (26), with cases matching the same genetic fingerprint reported from Pennsylvania (8), Virginia (4), New Jersey (2), Arizona (1), and Maryland (1).
The CDC and its partners are using PulseNet to identify additional cases and interview sick people about the food they ate before they became ill.
Illnesses began on or after Aug 20, the CDC said, noting that illnesses occurring after Sep 28 might not be reflected in the outbreak numbers yet, due to the time lag between diagnosis and reporting, which can average 2 to 3 weeks.
Patients range from younger than 1 to 94, with a median age of 43. Two patients were hospitalized, and no deaths have been reported. Fifty-seven percent of the patients are female.
The CDC advised consumers to check their homes, including refrigerators and freezers, for pine nuts that they may have purchased from Wegmans bulk bins and avoid eating foods such as pesto and salads that were prepared with the recalled nuts.
Symptoms of Salmonella infection include diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramping, which usually occur 12 to 72 hours after infection, the CDC said. The illness lasts about 4 to 7 days. Though most people recover without treatment, diarrhea can be so severe that patients need to be hospitalized. The disease can be more severe in older people, infants, and those with impaired immune systems.
A review of the medical literature and a CDC foodborne illness outbreak database turned up no previous Salmonella outbreaks specifically linked to pine nuts. In January 2010, Hines Nut Company, based in Dallas, recalled pine nuts packaged under the Harris Teeter Farmers Market brand after routine tests by its supplier, Red River Foods, detected Salmonella during routine sampling, according to a FDA recall notice. No illnesses were reported.
See also:
Oct 26 FDA recall notice
Oct 26 CDC outbreak announcement
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ALBUQUERQUE — A proposed $350 million transmission project is one step closer to opening northeastern New Mexico to more solar and wind energy development thanks to a decision by federal regulators.
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THUMBS UP! HONOR FOR AN HONORABLE MAN. We hope former coach and Las Vegas mayor Henry Sanchez, who died last November at age 72, is smiling down right down. Highlands University has named the basketball floor in the Wilson Complex in his honor. Sanchez had a storied career as a New Mexico high school and college basketball coach, including as coach of the Highlands men's team en route to a 702-450 won-loss career record.
The lives he touched were immeasurable. We're glad to see Highlands bestowing this honor on him.
Education is dominantly interwoven in the tale of two cities, from their earliest days. Just as Catholics had done in Old Town beginning in the 1860s, Protestants established New Town's first school, the Las Vegas Academy, built in 1880 at the southeast corner of Douglas Avenue and 12th Street. By 1886, the impressive two-story brick school had an enrollment of 121 boys and 10 girls, and seven teachers provided instruction.
It's near the halfway point in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference football season, and New Mexico Highlands University — picked to finish sixth in preseason poll — is holding on to a share of first place in the league standings.
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• NMHU men's cross country leads the pack. The team has been ranked as high as 18th in the NCAA Division II this season and is sixth among men's teams in the South Central region, the toughest in the nation. Highlands' goal will be to crack that top six, the cut-off to qualify for nationals as a team.
Several area teams are ranked in the most recent of various statewide polls.
Robertson girls' soccer is tied with St. Michael's for fourth in the Class 1A-3A ranks, according to New Mexico Soccer.com. The Lady Cardinals are 11-2 overall under first-year coach Ian Williamson.
Hope Christian is No. 1, followed by Sandia Prep and Socorro, with RHS and St. Mike's rounding out the top five.
The following is this coming weekend's schedule of Las Vegas Young American Football League games, coordinated through the Las Vegas Recreation Department.
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U6: Galaxy vs. Chivas, Rapids vs. Fire, Sounders vs. Earthquakes, United vs. Dynamo, all at 8:45 a.m. Saturday at Commerce Street Park; Crew have bye week
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Archive for Tea Party-gate
A Picture Isn't Always Worth Many Words
by John Weckerle
We continue to peruse the internet in search of local political commentary, and came across this post on Sandia Tea Party Official Internet Spokesman Chuck Ring's blog. With our curiosity in a state of pique, we decided to poke around the web and learn a little about the photograph contained within the post.
As it turns out, this image has reportedly been used in disinformation campaigns, including a posting of the photo by President Elect Donald J. Trump's attorney in October suggesting that he had received an award from the NAACP. We found this article from the Huffington Post to be very interesting. The article points out that the award, correctly named the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, as well as the organization that awarded it (the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations, or NECO) came into being as an outraged reaction to then-President Ronald Reagan's decision to award the Medal of Freedom to 12 naturalized citizens. NECO was formed by Mr. Trump's real estate broker, William Fugazy, and Mr. Trump received the award in its first year. We have found no specific reason for Mr. Trump's receipt of the award.
According to the Huffington Post article:
Officially, the medal criteria are broad and inclusive: Winners should "uphold the ideals and spirit of America," while "maintaining the traditions of their ethnic heritage." In practice, the winners are mostly white Americans of European descent.
They certainly were the year Mr. Trump received the award; as reported by the Huffington Post and as documented in this New York Times article, only four of the 80 recipients that year were African Americans.
The NECO website states: "The Ellis Island Medals of Honor embody the spirit of America in their celebration of patriotism, tolerance, brotherhood and diversity." It is perhaps rather ironic that, as the Huffington Post article points out, "At the time, Trump and his father held the dubious honor of having been the defendants in one of the largest-ever housing discrimination lawsuits, a case sparked by a Justice Department civil rights investigation that found the Trumps discriminated against prospective tenants who were black." And it is perhaps even more ironic that the person dead-center in the photo posted on Mr. Ring's site is none other than anti-gay activist Anita Bryant, whose name had by that time become synonymous with that particular form of bigotry.
We'll leave it to our readers to form their own opinions (and, of course, post them here; unlike the Sandia Tea Party site and Mr. Ring's, we allow comments) as to whether or not Mr. Trump is a racist. We'll simply observe that standing next to a civil rights icon in a photo doesn't make one "not a racist" any more than standing next to an oak makes one a tree.
In closing, we note that the NECO website lists Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as a past awardee.
A Little Catching Up, And A Little Clearing Up
by John Weckerle
With the election safely over, we turned to some of our local favorites to see what sort of high-fiving might be going on – and surprisingly found essentially none among our normal haunts. After apparently selling its trademark to the fossil fuel industry (the site essentially became a re-posting venue for screeds by petroleum industry-funded fossil fuel advocate Marita Noon), the Sandia Tea Party site appears to have gone "dark" in October. As expected (and hoped), the East Mountain Tea Party remains silent, but a little searching revealed that its former denizens Therese Cooper and Char Tierney are alive and kicking on the internet, dispensing their version of reality via Facebook. We don't want to be raising the relevance scores on their accounts, so we won't link directly, but on Facebook they are therese.cooper.9 and char.tierney.9, respectively, the latter having recently changed her Facebook account from CharTierney. Both accounts are reminiscent of what we saw on the East Mountain Tea Party site and sites associated with the Table of the Remnant and Operation Jesus Pictures. Silvana Lupetti is also apparently on Facebook (SilvanaLupetti). Unfortunately, we didn't find anything particularly worth commenting on, but we'll keep an eye out just in case.
We do, however, occasionally receive e-mails from readers containing what might be described in the current vernacular as "fake news," and we thought we'd share a little of that with you today. We recently received an e-mail containing the following:
The Sandia Tea Party Lets Someone Else Strike (again)
by John Weckerle
It was with some surprise that, several weeks ago, we decided to look in on the Sandia Tea Party site to see how they were treating the political silly season – and found that it had vanished from the web. Repeated visits over a week or two were fruitless, and it looked as if the Sandia Tea Party had, like its former sister organization, the East Mountain Tea Party, vanished from the face of the Earth, or at least from the Internet.
Alas, with this morning's browsing we find the site back in place, with Sandia Tea Party Official Internet Spokesman Chuck Ring at the helm. Unfortunately, the Sandia Tea Party site appears to have become primarily a venue for screeds provided by fossil fuel energy industry advocate and anti-environment writer Marita Noon, executive director of Citizens Alliance for Responsible Energy, which is described by SourceWatch as "a lobby group funded by New Mexico oil and gas industry interests." Ms. Noon is also an author at Breitbart.com, founded by the late serial liar and fraudster Andrew Breitbart. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately, depending on one's point of view), it would appear that the energy industry is not getting its money's worth, at least based on the most recent article, dated August 2, found on the Sandia Tea Party web site.
In the most recent article, Ms. Noon attacks the biofuels industry, and particularly the Renewable Fuel Standard, on the basis that these have led to widespread corruption, influence peddling, and fraud. The article presents a number of examples in which various parties have fraudulently sold or otherwise taken advantage of tax credits associated with the production of biofuels (Renewable Identification Numbers, or RINs). Ms. Noon presents these as support for eliminating the Renewable Fuels Standard. We do not challenge the idea that these incidents occurred, and we recognize that there are some environmental and socioeconomic issues associated with biofuels that require more consideration than they are getting, but it seems a huge stretch to portray these accounts of fraud as an indictment of the biofuels credits or the industry as a whole. This would be akin to saying that telephone solicitors who defraud people are the fault of the telephone system, or that the solution to identity fraud would be to eliminate identities. Regardless of the system, there will always be those who will try to turn it to their advantage illegally. Fraud in the energy industry is not limited to the biofuels sector – after all, we all remember this little incident. As to influence peddling and possible corruption, we found this article by Bill Moyers interesting. And there are plenty more out there for those who are interested and have time for a little searching.
The reality of all this is that fraud is a crime that has been committed in nearly all sectors, and that the issue is one of dishonesty rather than something industry-specific. We'll leave our readers with a link to America's 10 most famous fraudsters, and draw attention to number 2 in the slideshow.
Energy, Such As It Is
by John Weckerle
In a recent article re-posted by Sandia Tea Party Official Internet Spokesman Chuck Ring…
Okay, we're ribbing Chuck here a bit; as we recall that he wasn't crazy about the implication that he is the "official internet spokesman." Still, as essentially the editor of the site, the mantle falls upon his shoulders and we're sticking with it, while acknowledging that Chuck is a good person and a dedicated member of the community. We would like our readers to understand that our reference to Chuck as "the official internet spokesman" carries a specific recognition that may not have been apparent: We may agree or disagree on a variety of issues, but Chuck is willing to put his name where his mouth is, where the entire planet can see it, and that takes a certain amount of intestinal fortitude.*
We are, however, a bit concerned to see that the Sandia Tea Party site, apart from a few cartoons, seems to be dedicated to reposting articles by Marita Noon on the subject of – well – energy. We will begin with some disclosures, beginning with Ms. Noon's relationship with the conventional energy industry:
SourceWatch article: Marita Noon
SourcWatch Article: Citizens' Alliance for Responsible Energy
We will also disclose your editor's occasional commercial involvement with the energy industry, which includes consulting to the oil and gas industry in the early 1990s and to some small solar enterprises in the early to mid-2000s.
Ms. Noon's article opens up with what has become a bit of a tired argument – the idea that including solar and wind energy in the total energy portfolio would result in a situation in which coal-fired power plants would be turned off during peak hours and have to be restarted from cold state on a daily basis. We do not dispute Ms. Noon's proposal that natural gas-fired plants would restart more effectively. However, we do find the idea that conventional power plants would have to undergo a shutdown-and-restart process based on some perceived peak productivity on the part of renewable energy rather questionable; given the state of the industry, we see no reason to assume that renewable energy resources, as currently projected, would be expected to entirely satisfy peak demands in the short- or medium-term. We challenge Ms. Noon and her compatriots – given that she and they are making the case – to provide convincing economic analyses to make their case -and if they cannot, we challenge the Sandia Tea Party to do so.
* Guts.
Proof Positive: There Is Life After Death
by John Weckerle
Or something to that effect.
On January 4, 2013, the East Mountain Tea Party announced its dissolution. No doubt some were relieved, and others disappointed (not the least of whom were those of us who enjoyed commenting on their commentary). As it turns out, the East Mountain Tea Party is back, and may never really have gone anywhere in the first place.
A recent Internet search led us to a Facebook page* upon which the first post, written on April 4, 2010, provides convincing (to us, at least) evidence that the owners of this Facebook account are likely the same people responsible for the posts that gave us all so much to discuss some years ago. The fact that the cell phone number associated with the page (505-269-5617) is the same as that used for the previous web site perhaps supports that conclusion. The commentary continued at a reduced pace, with a meager nine posts in 2013 and just one in 2014. Now, however, we see two posts less than a week apart in March 2015, and one of them contains an all-too-familiar combination of religious intolerance and inaccuracy, referring to President Barack Obama as a "Marxist, Muslim man-boy," all of which is clearly intended to be derogatory. And of course, there is the signature anonymity – no name, just the pseudonym "East Mountain Tea Party."
Is the East Mountain Tea Party back, or are these just a couple of posts before the page goes silent again? We'll see – because we'll be watching!
* We're not providing them with a link, but if you search Facebook for "East Mountain Tea Party," you'll find them right away.
But On Us, It Looks Good – Good And Boring
by John Weckerle
In a June 3 article titled "Stranger Than Fiction: Which It Appears To Be," Sandia Tea Party official internet spokesman Chuck Ring denounces the Evangelical Immigration Table – a coalition of evangelical organizations seeking immigration reform – and its logistics partner, the National Immigration Forum, on the basis of a Breitbart.com (once the web site of the late serial liar Andrew Breitbart) article. Mr. Ring and the Breitbart writer, Mike Flynn, take issue with the fact that the coalition had announced a $250,000 ad buy as part of its efforts to support the immigration reform bill currently slogging its way around (note that we did not say "through") Congress. The criticism is based on two premises: that the coalition "doesn't legally exist as an incorporated entity or nonprofit organization," and that the organization is not transparent with respect to its funding and activities to the point that Mr. Ring, speaking for the Sandia Tea Party, accuses the organization of "hiding its true agenda."
Let's deal with the legality of the group's existence first. There is no legal requirement that coalitions or other groups of people exercising their First Amendment right to free speech (and, as legal precedent based on the First Amendment dictates, free association) be registered or recognized by government in any way, and there is no prohibition against such groups purchasing advertising. The Breitbart article states: "There are strict limitations on what (c)3's (sic) and (c)4's (sic) can undertake" (somewhat true, but these limits apply primarily to interference with elections and lobbying and can be fairly murky; see the IRS web site on exemption requirements for charitable organizations for more information) "and clear prohibitions on them coordinating on an issue campaign" (an absolute falsehood in the grand tradition of the site's founder).
As far as transparency is concerned, those who have already clicked through to the two organizations in question will have seen what we did: both organizations list their leadership and/or key members, something that the Sandia Tea Party has neglected to do on their web site. Neither does the Sandia Tea Party publish the names of their contributors and the amounts of their donations. We challenge them to do both. On our own, we can't gather much information about the latter, but a little research has provided us with some information regarding the Sandia Tea Party, its officers, and its (at least as far as we can find out) "nonexistent" status as a Federally recognized tax-exempt organization.
Agenda 21 Is Coming To Kill Your Local Tea Party
by John Weckerle
Okay, maybe not. However, having seen just about enough of the associated silliness and paranoia on the Sandia Tea Party web site, and having had just about enough of special interests and political ideologues misrepresenting sustainability for their own ends, we decided to do a little looking around and gather some information that perhaps represents something just a little closer to reality than what has been presented there and in other far-right venues. We found a few FAQ sites and others associated with organizations officially associated with Agenda 21. Predictably, what we found was substantially different from the interpretations provided by the Sandia Tea Party, and we'll get to that presently.
We also decided to see what the other local Tea Party chapter, the East Mountain Tea Party, had to say about the issue, and were surprised to find evidence that the organization may be defunct. The domain now resolves to the Albuquerque Tea Party site, and there have been no posts to the EMTP's Facebook page since October. With no other explanation, we must assume that the proponents of Agenda 21 are responsible for the demise. Less clear is the reason that the Chavez County Tea Party Patriots web site, as linked from the Albuquerque Tea Party site, is now presented in either Chinese or Japanese (we're not sure which); perhaps they've outsourced themselves to Asia.
Now, on to Agenda 21. We will not provide an exhaustive description here but will highlight a few points and provide links for the perusal of our readers, who we believe to be just a little more fact-conscious than some. We'll begin by providing a link to the text of Agenda 21, provided by the Institute for Global Communications (alternatively, you can download it in PDF format from the UN website). It's a big document – 351 pages – but what we've read of it does not seem to support an impression of a socialist/environmental extremist conspiracy. A bit of "myth debunking" can be found in the article "Agenda 21: Just the Facts" presented by the Better World Campaign. Of critical importance: Agenda 21 is not a treaty, is not binding in any way, and does not afford the United Nations any particular authority for implementation. The article "What Is Agenda 21?" by the UN Dispatch explores the "controversies" surrounding the initiative, including the conspiracy theories being presented by various special interest and political groups opposed to what they describe as "sustainability" – which is, of course, not sustainability at all. The Wikipedia article on Agenda 21 similarly points out the initiatives voluntary and non-binding status.
A non-UN organization composed of local governments – ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability (formerly the International Council for Local Initiatives) describes itself here, stating in part: " ICLEI is a powerful movement of 12 mega-cities, 100 super-cities and urban regions, 450 large cities as well as 450 small and medium-sized cities and towns in 84 countries. ICLEI promotes local action for global sustainability and supports cities to become sustainable, resilient, resource-efficient, biodiverse, low-carbon; to build a smart infrastructure; and to develop an inclusive, green urban economy. The ultimate aim is to achieve healthy and happy communities. We have developed stable, long-term programs to support local-level sustainability and continue to develop innovative new programs to respond to issues of international concern." In its article "FAQ: ICLEI, the United Nations, and Agenda 21: Setting the Record Straight About ICLEI," ICLEI-Local Governments USA states (among other things): "ICLEI is a champion of local governments. Working with elected officials, ICLEI's World Secretariat helps voice local government needs and priorities during international negotiations and agreements that will effect local governments, such as the U.N. climate negotiations and the upcoming Rio+20 summit."
Sustainability is not an international socialist-environmental extremist conspiracy. It is not out to take anyone's land away, prevent anyone from having children, or force anyone into indentured service as the only means to get drinking water. We encourage our readers to follow the links provided in this article and learn more about Agenda 21 and sustainability initiatives in general.
by John Weckerle
In the November 1, 2012 edition of the Mountainview Telegraph, Edgewood resident and Tea Party organizer Bob Steiner provides a letter to the editor titled "Property Rights and Edgewood." In the letter, Mr. Steiner opens with a lament with respect to the multiplicity of jurisdictions to be encountered near the borders of a small town located near the borders of three counties. These focus on the multiple jurisdictions as they apply to emergency services and animal control, and the duplication of services. About halfway through the letter, Mr. Steiner gets to the main point: that Santa Fe County has proposed a Sustainable Land Development Code (SLDC) and "that may really hurt some county residents." Mr. Steiner, after stating vaguely that the ordinance "will force land owners to strictly adhere to severe new restrictions that limit where they could erect housing and industrial buildings," declares that "It also dictates that some multi-family housing (apartments) must be built."
A sentence or two further on, after suggesting that the County has assembled a sort of ideological goon squad to market the ordinance, Mr. Steiner states: "According to another local press source, this "simple" ordinance has some 350 pages and has still to be vetted by legal authority." This would, on the face of it, seem to suggest that Mr. Steiner had not actually seen the ordinance, and we figured that we should take a look. Employing more of the advanced research techniques that are available to us and not the Tea Party – the County web site, Adobe Reader, and the CTRL and F keys – we were able to isolate all uses of "multi" in the document (there are 75), and determine that there is absolutely nowhere in the document where the use of "multi" involves a requirement to build anything. Neither do references to "apartments" (7 instances).
There is, however, a requirement that a certain percentage of housing be affordable, which might be part of the confusion, as such requirements tend to cause some heartburn in certain circles – especially circles that have gone on record with the opinion that sustainability is some sort of international socialist conspiracy. This section of the ordinance – Chapter 13 – also causes some indigestion here, although for different reasons. Chapter 13 contains references to terms not defined or used in any other place in the ordinance (for example, Major Project and Minor Project). The ordinance requires the Affordable Housing Administrator to "recommend and present to the Board proposed Affordable Housing Regulations" and appropriate amendments. The affordable housing requirements in the ordinance rely on income ranges "specified in the affordable housing regulations," which of course would appear not to have been passed, at least based on the wording of the ordinance. Proper definitions and regulatory references are vital to any ordinance and, based on this and a quick perusal of other parts of the ordinance, we find it difficult to argue against Mr. Steiner's suggestion that it has not benefited from a thorough legal review – which we think should happen before, and not after, release to the public.
While we agree that the County should proceed slowly, it is not because of unspecified, probably fictitious, egregious requirements but because the ordinance as currently worded simply does not appear to pass muster as a well-organized and enforceable document. Because we are staunch supporters of sustainability (which probably brands us as socialist conspirators from Planet Ten), we'd like to suggest that the County engage their attorneys and other specialists in developing sustainable development codes, rework the document to a greater degree of completion, and reissue it for public review.
In case Edgewood residents are concerned about where they fall in all this: we feel it important to point out that this ordinance specifically applies, as pointed out in Section 1.8, to the unincorporated portion of the County, which does not include Edgewood.
Assaulting Battery Grants
by John Weckerle
We turn our baleful eye once again on the writings of the writings of the Sandia Tea Party. In an article titled "Stimulus Funds: Failing & Falling Into The Tank," Edgewood Town Councilor and Sandia Tea Party internet spokesman Chuck Ring provides us a link to a Washington Times article that is apparently to be considered evidence that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) has been a failure (this despite steady, albeit slow, improvements in key economic indicators): a bankruptcy filing by battery maker A123 Systems, which had "received a nearly quarter-billion-dollar stimulus grant in late 2009, but federal job-tracking figures show only a few hundred positions were created before the company joined a growing list of federally backed energy businesses that ended in bankruptcy." The Sandia Tea Party article laments: Many a dollar has been wasted and deposited in Obama's vast wastage pit.
Alarmed, we employed some of the advanced research that is available to New Mexico Central but apparently not to the Sandia Tea Party – Google – and found an article in the Washington Post that provides what may perhaps be a more detailed and less politically focused account of A123's bankruptcy. In short, the stimulus-funded facilities were acquired by Johnson Controls, Inc., and are still operating, and no jobs have been lost. The company had only drawn on $129 million of the grant when it filed for bankruptcy – specifically, Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which allows the company to continue operations while reorganizing. The ultimate goal of Chapter 11 bankruptcy is not to go out of business, but to emerge from bankruptcy and continue to operate thereafter. We'll also note that the stimulus grant has resulted in 400 jobs so far. We recommend that readers of the Washington Times article also read the Washington Post article before deciding whether reports that the A123 story represents a "failure" are perhaps a trifle overblown.
Here, And Gone, And Here, And Gone Again, And Here Again, And…
by John Weckerle
Those of our readers who are still tuned in most likely noticed that there was a nearly two-month hiatus in our coverage of – well, everything. This is probably the longest break in our commentary since we started up, and we're still not sure just how often we'll be posting, although we're pretty sure it will be more often than once every couple of months.
There are two major reasons for our absence. First, your editor has experienced a reconfiguration of professional activities, and this change, while a very good one, has included both a great deal of being very busy and an unavailability of access to the blog. Second, quite simply, we got tired of being angry.
Let's face it; when you're spending a substantial amount of time investigating corruption and debunking politically motivated falsehoods, bigotry, and other nastiness, you run the risk of having it get to you. It can be very labor-intensive, especially for those of us who actually try to research and fact-check the things we produce, and the risk of doing so is that it typically involves immersing oneself in a rather unpleasant stew of unsavory material. Indignation, anger, and similar emotions can be a drain on one's energies.
During a trip to Washington, D.C. last week, I had a discussion touching on this with a colleague. We both probably fall within the "more or less centrist" realm, although we are likely on different sides of the theoretical political mean. One of the many things we agreed upon was that the fringe groups are co-opting the political discourse, and in a destructive manner. The problem is that a lot of the rest of us appear to be either falling for it or bowing out, and the result has been a prolonged economic downturn, the appearance of a negative national attitude, and a dubious future. We're stuck with a legislature that cannot seem to make progress on what should be sensible national priorities because it is mired in ideological conflict, and hardly a half-year goes by without Congress flirting with national financial disaster over some dearly held, all-or-nothing political position that is probably not held as an absolute necessity by most of us.
It is time for line-in-the-sand politics to come to an end. The nation faces serious problems that need attention and action, and opportunities that should be seized. If we turn our attention to what works rather than what we believe (as opposed to what we can demonstrate), we can make headway and not only bring our economy back from the brink, but set it on a course to reach new heights that include opportunities for all – and we can do it without destroying the environment or leaving people behind. To accomplish this, however, we're going to have to take the spotlight off the fringes, get it on center stage, and let the bitter, anti-government extremists wail alone in the darkness.
At this point, we've pointed out enough dishonesty and prejudice on the part of the fringes to make it clear that these are the hallmarks of their efforts. At this point, anybody who's still taking them seriously is probably going to continue to do so, regardless of what we demonstrate concerning their credibility, and we're tired of sounding like a broken record. We'll probably take aim once in a while, but likely with far less frequency. Instead, we may wish to bring out information that will shine a light under the rocks, so to speak, and counter the disinformation being circulated by special interests masquerading as grass-roots movements with actual information that has at least some support from the world of facts and real analysis.
In short – it's time for us to move on – and by "us," we don't just mean those of us at New Mexico Central headquarters, but all of us who can. Let those of us who can come together do so, and let the others remain apart if they must.
Swift Blog Veterans For Old, Debunked Stories
by John Weckerle
We find ourselves, as always, in bewildered awe at the jaw-dropping oddness we see out the in the flatter parts of the political bell curve. We refer once again to a Sandia Tea Party article, this one titled "A Slap in The Face By FLOTUS" (this refers to the First Lady of the United States, currently Michelle Obama. We're getting just a bit tired of the constant appending of "OTUS" onto just about everything; then again, we got sick of the "you-name-it-gate" thing a long time ago). In this missive, the Sandia Tea Party leadership makes mention (of course, with no links) to an article which was first purported to have a photograph of Ms. Obama holding hands with Bernadine Dohrn, wife of Bill Ayers. Readers may recall mention of Mr. Ayers – a leader (along with Ms. Dohrn) of the Weather Underground Organization, or Weathermen, an extreme radical left organization of the 1960s and 1970s – during the 2008 Presidential campaign. Mr. Obama was, at that time purported to be "palling around with terrorists." The photograph in question (but not provided) is supposedly evidence linking the Obamas to Ms. Dohrn and Mr. Ayers.
The Sandia Tea Party leadership corrects itself (after, apparently, having been corrected by somebody else), stating: "I have been corrected. The hand clutch is with Terresa Heinz Kerry." Now, at that point, most people would have at least gotten suspicious and done a little research into what they were writing about – or at least changed the title, given that Ms. Obama had apparently not held hands with Ms. Dohrn. Instead, the Sandia Tea Party provides a link to a Freedomworks article (surprised?) titled "Charles Manson and Three Degrees of Separation" by Jack Lloyd Rowlinson. This is, according to the Sandia Tea Party, "an excellent account by Jack Lloyd Rowlinson, of politicians and their pussy-footing around with folks longing to overthrow our form of government using the most violent methods possible … warping our young people's minds in progressive colleges and slaying our first level protectors at every opportunity." Leaving aside the rather hyperbolic/paranoid tone of this particular piece of prose, the Freedomworks article demonstrates nothing described in the Sandia Tea Party article. It is a rather rambling discussion of Charles Manson's purported pre-murder relationships and a short history of the Weather Underground's activities, followed by an assertion that the Obamas maintain a relationship with Mr. Ayres and Ms. Dohrn "to this day."
Now, we're not going to waste a single word defending Mr. Ayers or Ms. Dohrn and their past activities. Not one. What are going to do is point out that the supposed relationship between Mr. Obama and Mr. Ayers was subjected to rather intense scrutiny back in 2008, and the entire "controversy" was shown to be politically generated bunk. We refer not to the partisan blogsphere of which the author of the Sandia Tea Party is so clearly fond, but to articles by the master debunkers at Snopes.com (here) and the renowned Factcheck.org (here).
Now, we know that the falsehood factories may have lost a little of their production capacity in recent months, but this particular product didn't gain much all that much traction the first time around and recycling it seems a bit odd, especially given that the recycling's being done by FreedomWorks. We're a little surprised to see FreedomWorks – with money from Koch Industries and other major corporate sponsors – wasting its resources on rehashing old and discredited attacks. With their resources, shouldn't they be able to do better?
Unfortunately, we're far less surprised to see the Sandia Tea Party picking this sort of thing up and passing it along.
A Rare Point Of Agreement – And The Usual Disagreement
by John Weckerle
We have, perhaps typically, kept silent on the issue of the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman debacle. Looking over an April 10 article on the Sandia Tea Party site, however, we find ourselves in a rare state of agreement with a single point in the article, that the media – and, quite frankly, the blogsphere – have behaved digracefully in the coverage of this tragedy to date. In a rush to sensationalize the situation and exploit societal tensions, the media, as well as the multitude of pundicrats who are even less accountable than the "professional" journalists, portrayed the issue in such a manner as to incite anger and divisiveness. That people from all parts of the political spectrum reacted strongly is no surprise, although we should continue to hope that people on all sides of the issues will eventually adopt a reasonably skeptical attitude toward early media and blog coverage of – well – just about anything.
Now, we've listened to the uncut version of Mr. Zimmerman's 911 call, and we've reviewed the list of prior 911 calls made by Mr. Zimmerman. What we do know is this: that Mr. Martin was walking around in a neighborhood in the rain, and that was considered "suspicious" by Mr. Zimmerman. At least to us, Mr. Zimmerman's voice seemed very nervous on the call. The Sandia Tea Party's official internet spokesman is correct that NBC edited the 911 tape in a way that might increase a listener's perception of George Zimmerman as a racist – although he does fail to mention that Fox News and the New York Times, among many, had reported that an NBC producer had been fired over the incident three days before the Sandia Tea Party article was posted. From the 911 recording, we know that the dispatcher indicated that Mr. Zimmerman should not follow Mr. Martin, that Mr. Zimmerman agreed, and that Mr. Zimmerman then followed Mr. Martin. A confrontation of some sort ensured, and Mr. Martin lost his life. What we do not know, after trying to filter the facts out of the coverage, is why this happened. We have often made the case here that the best judgment comes of examination of facts, and given that actually very few of those have been, and continue to be, available to any of us, it remains premature to speculate on the degree to which race and racial issues contributed to the horrible events that led to the end of Mr. Martin's life at the age of seventeen. We encourage our readers, and pretty much everybody else, to reserve judgment until such time as a reasonable set of facts is available.
What we would like our readers – and, again, pretty much everybody else – to consider is this: how have we, as a nation and a society, come to such a pass that the simple act of walking around in the rain (a long-time pastime of your editor's, by the way) is "suspicious behavior?" What has brought us to the point where one person has the right to demand, perhaps even forcefully, an accounting from another citizen as to the nature of his business as he walks down the street? At what point did we become so suspicious of each other, so angry at each other, that such an event should come to pass? And let us not forget that a young man's life is cut off, and a family is mourning, for reasons we cannot yet fathom. All we can be sure of is this: those reasons will never, ever be good.
Lest our readers think that we agree entirely with the Sandia Tea Party spokesman, we will point out that there is much in the article with which we disagree. Providing a litany of horrible crimes perpetrated by African American criminals as an unnecessary demonstration of media bias toward African Americans is nothing short of contemptible given the situation. These horrific cases have nothing in common with the Martin/Zimmerman case – but the fact that the Sandia Tea Party chooses to sign on to such a comparison speaks volumes regarding the character and biases of the organization, its members, and those who attend its events for the purpose of political expediency.
We're getting tired of the nastiness. It's time for those of us who are willing to work together to stop giving the fringe – on either side of the carpet – center stage. "Liberal" and "conservative" are not endpoints on a line; they are points on a continuum, and we think they are points that have more in common than many people realize, regardless of the irreconcilable differences that the people at the extreme ends of the bell curve may have with one another. As a nation, we're not accomplishing much by yelling at each other. There will always be those among us who insist on the yelling, but as for the rest of us, we could do better with a serious talk here and there. Perhaps if we talked more and shouted less, we'd get closer to living in a nation in which we can all walk down the street, wearing whatever clothes we see fit, in whatever weather we see fit, and not be viewed with fear or suspicion. We're a long way from that now, for a very complex set of reasons, but if we try, we can get there some day. Rather than focusing on our differences, and listening to those who seek to gain by driving us apart, perhaps we should consider working to come together and move forward.
Absent Is As Absent Does
by John Weckerle
We turn our attention today to a couple of articles from different sources regarding the upcoming Congressional elections here in New Mexico. One of these is a Sandia Tea Party article titled "Progressives Spreading Bull Butter Again — Why Not, It's What They Do Well" by Edgewood Town Councilor and Sandia Tea Party official internet spokesman Chuck Ring, excoriating Eric Griego, (seeking election in the Democratic primary for Congressional District 1), for not affording the "organization" the "courtesy" of responding to an invitation to a "candidates forum" to be held by this august organization. The second is an article titled "Dems Skip Tea Party Candidate Forum" in the East Mountain Telegraph. Both articles note that Democratic candidates did not attend events hosted by the Sandia Tea Party.
Surprised, anyone?
Racist, Indeed?
by John Weckerle
We find ourselves today shaking our heads over another Sandia Tea Party article titled "Racist Indeed," posted January 19. In the article, Edgewood Town Councilor and official Sandia Tea Party internet spokesman Chuck Ring states that the word "racist" "has lost its meaning except as a buzzword which progressives and other detractors of conservatism love to throw to see if it sticks to the wall like so much scat." Mr. Ring provides two links to the same "Real Clear Politics" article in which former Bush press secretary Ari Fleisher and Democratic strategist/Obama 2012 pollster appear on CNN with Anderson Cooper. In the video, Mr. Belcher states:
"First of all, do you think you're going to invite me on the show and then I'm not going to talk about the ridiculousness of that statement? Two things. One is a great way to sort of get people on your side and win voters is to attack their intelligence. So great job there. Really sensible, Herman Cain.
The second part here is, it's really a teachable moment. You know, if I came on your show, Anderson, and I said, all Jewish people are brainwashed, I probably wouldn't be invited back to CNN and I assure you the condemnation would be swift and it'd be powerful and be strong. What Herman Cain said was a racist, bigoted statement and he should be treated like a racist and bigoted person who makes those racist and bigoted statements."
He goes on to say:
In Hot Water Again…
by John Weckerle
Your editor has again apparently stepped on some toes – specifically, those of the folks over at the Sandia Tea Party web site. This should not be surprising to our readers; we have on multiple occasions taken issue with the postings there.
On October 17, Sandia Tea Party internet spokesman and Edgewood Town Council member Chuck Ring posted a cartoon depicting a balloon in the shape of U.S. President Barak Obama's head, captioned "Running Low on Fuel?" In the basket below the balloon can be seen a beleaguered donkey, and the basket bears the words "White Guilt." Now, we admit that we don't usually make comments directly on the Sandia Tea Party web site, preferring to conduct our reviews and analysis in our own space. However, we did think it appropriate in this case to get some more information, given the lack of any commentary other than the cartoon in the post, before publicly making any conclusions. Your editor posted the following, rather direct comment:
Would you care to elaborate on the meaning of this image and how it relates to the political and/or socioeconomic issues that face the nation at this time? Would you also care to enlighten the readership with regard to how this image communicates the official position of the Sandia Tea Party?
At first glance, and several subsequent looks, this post would appear to suggest that the official position of the STP is that the President was elected (and remains so) because he is of African American descent ("white guilt") and/or has received support from the electorate based on this premise. If this is the official position of the STP, please provide credible references to support the position.
After accusing your editor of attempting to paint him as a racist (and later accusing me an "attempt to steer any reader to your interpretation of the cartoon"), Mr. Ring responds to the initial question somewhat in the affirmative, suggesting that "some" voters likely supported Mr. Obama to expiate the "sins of their fathers." No real evidence is provided to support the claim – but to be fair, it would be wrong for us to dispute that "some" may have done so, because "some" probably did. We do, however, question whether this was a significant influence on the results on the election, and welcome the Sandia Tea Party to provide any credible (that is, verifiable) evidence that this was a major factor. We will also say that, after kicking the idea around New Mexico Central headquarters, we did not settle upon "racist" as describing the cartoon, although "racially charged" and "racially insensitive" did gain a little traction before we gave up on the exercise altogether.
Mr. Ring then expresses offense at the question and engages in an attempt to put your editor in his place, whatever it is that he believes that place to be. This is not the first such attempt, and it is likely to be about as successful as previous efforts. Despite the explicit statement that no criticism or judgmental language had been offered, Mr. Ring states that this must have been the case because "your IQ is probably in the stratosphere as to the number and I know you have common-sense." I have, in fact, been wondering what happened to my IQ, and I do appreciate the help in trying to find the darned thing and put it to use, but the fact that I apparently left it on a plane at some point hardly seems good reason to call me a liar. An inference is made to the cleaning of diapers on the blog. I now have my own scatological Sandia Tea Party web site reference – and that without expressing a single opinion!
Mr. Ring denies being the Sandia Tea Party's spokesman, and I challenge that point. Mr. Ring responds: "Since I have corrected your opinion, I believe we can lay it to rest."
Let us address the latter point first – Mr. Ring has repeated his denial of our characterization of him as the Sandia Tea Party's spokesman, but he has corrected nothing. For the reasons given in the comments, we consider him the one of the organization's spokespeople, and denying that until the cows come home will probably not change our position in that regard – the Sandia Tea Party site is not his personal blog (he also has one of those), and what he posts there reflects directly upon the organization. With respect to the "offense" taken, we see this as an attempt to deflect attention away from the issue originally raised, and put it into the same category of the "I know you are but what am I" strategy to which we have declined to respond in the past.
We have a little insight for the would-be non-spokesman: These tactics do little to enhance the credibility of your positions or decrease that of those who question them. They may play well to a limited audience – and if that's all that's intended, that's fine – but the world at large likely assigns them very little weight in the debate.