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Jacksonville NASL: Does the Commissioner Want You to Watch Another League if You Don't Agree?
06 October 2013
|The supporter groups of the Fort Lauderdale Strikers and Tampa Bay Rowdies protest NASL Commissioner. Photo Credit, Chris Arnold.
Before I get to the events that led to the actions at Lockhart Stadium during the Florida Derby, let's look at the man who is the commissioner of the North American Soccer League. Bill Peterson is a man who is use to failed ventures. According to the league's bio on Peterson, he has served as COO of the United Football League (A league full of so many problems it actually folded in season), and lasted less than a year as President of the poorly thought out NFL Europe (Despite being long serving GM of the Amsterdam Admirals). Soccer wise, he spent six years as Senior Vice President of AEG Sports and Managing Director of the Home Depot Center. Looking at all the various roles he's had over his years, it reads like a 'I'm not good enough for this, so I'm going to go do that'. He seems a man who can create a vision, but the man who cannot see any vision out.
Upon his arrival to the NASL, he immediately cut critical members inside the NASL front office. While costs need to be curtailed, replacing known soccer guys with people who were with Peterson during the dying days of the UFL is shoddy business at best. The current PR Director was an abject failure in steering the UFL's narrative during the days prior to closing up shop. The current Director of Operations was a man so non existent he didn't register on anyone's radar as a man who could conduct serious business. It doesn't stop there:
* He did not reverse a poorly thought out decision that allowed the New York Cosmos to be Soccer Bowl eligible despite only playing the fall half of the 2013 season. If the season was to end today, they would play Atlanta in the Soccer Bowl.
* In July, he approved expansion into the Oklahoma City market. Rumors have circulated (though it must be stressed unconfirmed) that the group accepted from Oklahoma City was rejected by USL and their tougher admission standards. There has some minor speculation that Peterson receives a hefty bonus for every expansion team the NASL approves. Again that's also unconfirmed.
* After an incident on September 15th in Edmonton that saw the majority of the Fort Lauderdale Strikers' coaching staff ejected, it took three days for Peterson to say anything publicly on the situation. During that time, Peterson did not speak on the subject despite numerous media inquiries on the matter until issuing the suspension.
* On September 20th, it was reported on the Ultras Alive Podcast, following a Fort Lauderdale Strikers fan forum that Bill Peterson admitted to a journalist that he had never read the NASL Rules and Procedures. It's a pretty damning admission that the head of the league has never read up on the procedures of the league he runs.
While fans have felt they could at least engage Peterson, it could be said that all changed after Tampa Bay's trip to New York. The fixture had been rearranged, and some fans were unable to get in on Tampa Bay's group rate to make the trip north. While those who had committed early to the group rate were okay, many others had to pay the balance out of pocket.
During the game there was a fan incident that took place at the end of the game in New York between the Rowdies and Cosmos. Depending on who you ask will determine who and what started the incident. on Monday, Charlie Cole, the leader of Ralph's Mob (the Tampa Bay supporters group), attempted to reach out to Bill Peterson in order see if any actions would be forthcoming in wake of that incident. Those calls went unanswered, and on Thursday sent a tweet to Bill Peterson, who then not only sent the reply to the wrong account (the account in question should have been @speedcake), sent the following as his official league response. The first bit has been proven to be an outright lie, the second bit is simply inexcusable for any leadership of a flailing organization.
Almost immediately after realizing how stupid the above mentioned tweet was, Peterson had already tried to go into damage control mode among the varying supporters groups. Those who were against the walkout did not believe what Cole was saying to be an accurate version of events that led to the above mentioned tweet. However, it didn't take long to convince them with actual visual evidence that Peterson's version of events were a lie. Once Cole was able to convince them Peterson was selling them a bill of goods, it didn't take long for all three supporter groups in attendance to agree to a mass walkout. The fact that all three groups agreed to do anything in unison is a feat in and of itself. While most of the banter between the Fort Lauderdale and Tampa Bay is generally in good fun, they have had plenty of heated moments in recent times.
Despite attempts from Andrew Nestor (CEO & GM of the Tampa Bay Rowdies) and Rishi Sehgal (Director of Business Development and Legal Affairs for the NASL) to stop the walkout from happening, 15 minutes into the Florida Derby, all three supporters groups emptied out. Once they got out of the field of play, some chanted expletives about Bill Peterson to let him know they were not happy with what he said. After 15 minutes, some returned to watch the remainder of the game while others simply left.
While I think a sustained chant of "Peterson Out" would have been a much better course of action than using expletives, I can empathize with those fans. With Jacksonville getting a team in 2015, I have to seriously question if Peterson is the right man running the NASL. If his reaction to very passionate fans that spend their hard earned money is to tell them not to watch, then he doesn't need to be the position of power he is. There needs to be a flat out apology written for the NASL website, he needs to go on every public forum and media that will still have him and offer a heartfelt regret. Anything that smells of bull will be quickly pounced on...just like his lies were Thursday night. Read more...


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No. 12 Penn State outlasts No. 24 Texas A&M 66-58
Maggie Lucas went for 26 points to lead No. 12 Penn State over
No. 24 Texas A&M 66-58 on Sunday.
Penn State (7-3) got 14 points from Ariel Edwards and Tori
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Waldner pulled in 11 rebounds.
Texas A&M (6-3) was led by Courtney Walker with 20 points,
while Tori Scott had 14.
The Lady Lions scored the first 12 points of the game, and the
Aggies didn't score until 10:57 of the frame. But A&M went on a
13-2 run to pull within one and tied it up at 15 on a pair of
Rachel Mitchell free throws. Penn State went on an 11-1 run at the
end of the half to hold a two point lead at half.
Penn State came out hot after the intermission, using a 9-2 run
to stretch the lead to nine, and they never lost the lead

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India's largest writing & printing paper companySeven manufacturing plants in India & Malaysia
Manufacturing base in India, Belgium, Ireland, Canada, USA,Indonesia & Hungary
140 sales offices worldwide
Customer base in 50 countries
Sourcing base in India, Belgium, Hungary,the Netherlands, Turkey & Germany
End-to-end mortgage service providerComplete range of telecom expense management services
"No large economy in the world has been able to provide its citizen sustainable income growth, ever higher standards of living and employment growth opportunity without the active participation of its business leadership and the growth and development of its manufacturing sector. Sadly, both have been lacking for the past 20 years. I would like to see this change and manufacturing return to its rightful place in the economy, providing employment and a solid foundation for sustainable growth."- Gautam Thapar, Founder and Chairman, Avantha.
Business Standard, October 27, 2014
"The FDIs won't drive your growth. You need domestic investments to come up and that's where small and medium enterprises, in my opinion, suffer the most. How easy is it for them to get going? That's where the real challenge lies."- Gautam Thapar, Founder and Chairman, Avantha.
Mint, November 20, 2014
"India's paper sector is likely to see a turnaround this quarter following estimates of increasing profitability".
Business Standard 2014
"What got them (companies like CG) to take the leap (CERN) was the chance to impress the world in a virgin field and the nod of approbation they ultimately received vindicated their punt."- ( on Avantha Group company CG).
Fortune Magazine, 2014
"The achievement (of CG) appears even more momentous if you consider the general sloth around innovation in the Indian market."- ( on Avantha Group company CG).
Fortune Magazine, 2014
"CG picked up two critical skills from this (CERN) experience. Miniaturisation...and cryogenics.....But perhaps the most remarkable thread running around them is a nationalistic agenda."- ( on Avantha Group company CG).
Fortune Magazine, 2014
"Fly ash bricks can save the earth."
(on Avantha group company BILTECH),
Fortune Magazine, 2013
"Demand for AAC bricks - expected to go up."
(on Avantha group company BILTECH)
Fortune Magazine, 2013
"Gautam Thapar, chairman & CEO of the Avantha Group announced a cultural blueprint for the organisation, labeled 'The Avantha Way.' The vision was created by an initial group of 16 senior leaders, drawn from across the group companies, which was later expanded to 30. Now the group is 'actualising' the vision down the line,"
The Economic Times, 2012
"Given the global shortage of pulp-wood for paper board production, Ballarpur Industries [is] helping small farmers with degraded land pockets by providing them saplings, financial and technical support and an assured buy back of timber; this ensures sustainable raw material supply for the company, but also improves farmer's livelihood. Such initiatives go well beyond monetary financial donations, and more importantly, is sustainable!"
The Hindu Business Line, 2012
"An organisation that transcends all boundaries and is very concerned about its people and does not put a denomination on them."
Financial Express, 2011
"Power equipment major CG Power and Industrial Solutions has set up a new transformer manufacturing facility at Washington as the $4 billion (Rs 18,400 crore) Gautam Thapar-led Avantha Group steps on the pedal with its go-global drive launched five years ago."
Hindustan Times, 28th June 2010
"An Indian conglomerate has committed to spending $20 million over the next
five years at the University at Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and
The company -- Avantha Group -- is setting up what's being called the CG
Power Center for Intelligent Power. CG Power is an Avantha subsidiary that
specializes in manufacturing equipment for electric utilities"
TimesUnion.com, 26th June, 2010
"Avantha charts a course for its rivals to follow."
The Economist, 8th April 2010
"The paper-to-power conglomerate fashioned from the erstwhile Thapar Group
aims to more than double its revenues in the next three years."
Hindustan Times, 18th January 2010
"Things happen fast at Avantha; the dither quotient is very low."
Business India, 2009
"Avantha has been expanding overseas. It operates in ten countries, employing
20,000 people, of which 4,500 are outside India."
Forbes, 2008
"From among all the enterprises trying to get from 'good to great', we
believe Avantha will be one that completes the journey."
Business World, 2008
» The Global Green Company Limited
- Intergarden N.V.
- Puszta Konzerv Kft.
» Avantha Power & Infrastructure Limited
» Biltech Building Elements Limited
» Avantha Business Solutions Limited.
» Avantha Agri Tech Limited
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Alienware Launches "ALX" Brand
Subject: Systems | June 3, 2004 - 07:22 AM | Sean Pelletier
Today, Alienware launches its new premium "ALX" brand of high-performance gaming systems. Complete with a custom watercooling system and the latest and greatest hardware money can buy, these new systems are certianly worth taking a look at.
Alienware ALX systems feature performance-enhanced hardware to provide more speed, power, and responsiveness than ever before. High-performance hardware is carefully engineered and configured to define and deliver a brand new class of high-performance systems. Pushed beyond all previous performance thresholds, ALX systems satisfy even the most extreme need for speed.
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Evelina Cajacob | Carla Guagliardi
exhibition from 30 August 2013 to 11 January 2014
Evelina Cajacob
drawing, 2013
video installation
Il paun da mintgadi (das tägliche Brot)
, 2011/12
Carla Guagliardi
Partitura (I) / Score (I)
, 2012
Uns Águas
, 1999-2004
Galerie m Bochum is pleased to present from 30 August 2013 to 11 January 2014 works by the artists Evelina Cajacob (*1961 Sumvitg, CH) and Carla Guagliardi (*1956, Rio de Janeiro, BRA).
Elementary conditions of life, nature, time, gravity and lightness, delimitation and openness – these are the parameters around which the featured works revolve.
While Evelina Cajacob tracks in her drawings and video works timeless, recurring phenomena, Carla Guagliardi explores the irrevocable changes that are inscribed in materials. The two artists share an immediacy in presentation and the use of materials that also finds expression in a clear aesthetic language of form.
The video projection shown in the entrance area, Cajacob's
, begins with the end of a long, thick wool thread that seems to come out of nowhere. A human figure, of whom only the upper body is dimly discernible, winds the rough wool patiently and evenly into an ever-fatter ball. With time, the ball grows so large and heavy that the act obviously takes some effort. After 80 minutes, the loop starts up again from the beginning.
The time it takes to practice a craft is also a theme in drawings by the Swiss artist: sheets of paper and walls are covered in strokes that are often only a few millimeters long. Delicate shadings outline the contours of plant structures or meander in node-like, forever transforming loops across the paper. A large-scale wall drawing developed specially for the show at Galerie m responds to the vegetation surrounding the gallery. The exterior is brought inside – but not as an image copied 1:1 onto the wall. Instead, the drawing evokes the ideas of outdoor light and shadow, nature and space.
The lightness of Evelina Cajacob's works is juxtaposed with the more weighty installations created by Carla Guagliardi. In Guagliardi's pieces, contrasting materials face off as equal players. A preoccupation with the interaction between carrying and being carried, with how objects mutually shape and hold each other, distinguishes the work of the artist born in Rio de Janeiro. The expansive floor installation
consists of several wooden planks over four meters in length that are in part stacked up atop large white balloons filled with air. The balloons are deformed by the weight of the boards. But at the same time, the load is a guarantee that the air inside the balloons cannot escape through the unknotted openings.
The other installations by Carla Guagliardi, the two versions of
Partitura / Score
Big White
O Lugar do Ar
, play as well with the formative concept of inertia and change. Guagliardi's works set into motion physical processes in which the materials highlight the dynamic relationships between gravity, pressure and expansion.
The works of both artists are unpretentious and yet complex. They raise questions about the concepts of duration, repetition and development, heaviness and patience, existence and experience. Each drawing, video work and installation is bound up in its own timeframe, a time that also has a human dimension.


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Pain de mie (poolish, yogurt)
We love pain de mie a lot, the kids specially. Yogurt makes the bread even better as the second part of liquid after the poolish is added!
We love pain de mie a lot, the kids specially. Yogurt makes the bread even better as the second part of liquid after the poolish is added!
Very nice!
really nicely done.
can you print the recipe...that looks amazing, I make my own yogurt so it is a win, win!
Thanks, Diane
Pretty hard to find fault with that beautiful crumb. Nice loaf!
which of your two versions look better. They both do. Eagerly awaiting more details. -Varda
example of what this bread is supposed to be all about. Well done. The kids should be happy as can be!
Beautiful! Poolish, and yogurt.. can't be beat. I have baked hamelman's pain de mie, which is a straight dough with no preferments and the kids loved it.
Love your sandwich loaves and the crust is so evenly coloured. May I please ask if your you need to add more liquids to the poolish version if not using yogurt? I'd like to try both. Many thanks.
I made a mistake when reading your recipe and thought you used water and yogurt for the main dough but now I can see that you only used yogurt for the liquid part so I will adjust accordingly. You loaf pan is quite large so I may have to half your recipe. I recently made a loaf using 60 grms of starter with cream, milk and water but would like to use yogurt as it's less fattening.


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Which lights were monitored by the rear pod, seems the two outer red lens fibers are for the tail/stop lights, not sure about the center one?


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August 26, 2004
I urge the Commission to WITHDRAW, not amend, the rule proposal. I believe the rule is harmful to consumers by creating two different standards of conduct for persons offering financial planning services: a higher fiduciary standard for registered investment advisers and a lower one under NASD suitability rules. The rule also exempts, in effect, brokers from being required to disclose conflicts of interest in connection with the offer of financial planning services. .


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TORONTO -- Blue Jays president and CEO Paul Beeston soaked in the opening day buzz, considered the scene in the sold-out ballpark and said he hadn't felt this kind of excitement around his team since …
"Him!" Beeston blurted out excitedly, pointing about 20 feet away at Joe Carter.
BOX SCORE: Indians 4, Blue Jays 1
They're rocking again in Toronto like it's 1993, when Carter's walkoff home run ended a second consecutive Blue Jays World Series victory. In fact, they even had Geddy Lee of Rush throw out the first pitch Tuesday.
And they're hardly going to let a 4-1 loss Tuesday to Cleveland with little to excite the crowd mess up the anticipation.
"What's tough is that we're not going undefeated," said Blue Jays catcher J.P. Arencibia, the one guy who could come away from the opener with some trepidation.
Arencibia was charged with three passed balls in the first two innings in his first regular season attempt at handling the knuckleball of marquee pitching acquisition R.A. Dickey. Two of them came in the Indians' two-run second inning.
"Early on, it was moving very violently right at the plate," Dickey said. "We'll fix it. He's going to be fine."
Arencibia said he had it fixed by the third inning, when veteran backup catcher Henry Blanco suggested he adjust his stance behind the plate, opening up his right leg so he was less square to the mound and better able to adjust to the unpredictable pitches.
"I felt real comfortable from then on," Arencibia said.
The Blue Jays never got comfortable against Indians starter Justin Masterson and three relievers, collecting four hits, just one after the third inning.
"I'm not going to blame that loss on J.P.," said Toronto manager John Gibbons. "We scored one run. They shut us down pretty good.
"I know (the fans) are probably disappointed," Gibbons said. "But they'll have a fun, entertaining year."
Oh, they're counting on it – and then some.
Gibbons was reminded of that with the first question in his pre-game media session?
"Where were you when Joe Carter hit his home run?"
Expectations, anyone?
But when you add NL Cy Young Award winner Dickey, plus Jose Reyes, Mark Buehrle, Josh Johnson, Melky Cabrera and more in one off season, what do you expect?
"It's a good feeling. We can build on it," says Beeston, who was in charge back in '93. "But let me spell it out for you: W-I-N-N-I-N-G. You can do what you want to do. You can market only so much. At the end of the day, you've got to win."
And that hasn't happened much lately. The Blue Jays could celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Carter homer against the Phillies, but it also would be a reminder they haven't been to the playoffs since, let alone won another World Series.
"If you had said in '93 that's the last time the Jays were in the playoffs, I'd have never thought that," Carter says. "Now, there's excitement again … but it's still early."
Carter says he isn't as concerned about the team losing perspective.
"Is it the team or is it the media?" he says."What they have to do is not believe all the hype. They have all the talent. They know that. They have to go out there and perform and stay away from injuries. There's a lot of excitement but you have to keep in perspective. It's just starting."
And an opening night loss hardly should change the perspective. That '93 team lost its opener 8-1 despite starting Jack Morris, who was coming off a 21-win season. That team was below .500 on May 13.
Count Carter among the believers.
"With the Yankees getting old, it's all about timing," he says. "Right now, timing is good for teams like the Orioles, the Rays and the Blue Jays.
The current Blue Jays understand they've accomplished nothing.
"We have a good team out there," Gibbons says. "The talk's over. We have to go out and do something."
But even they might not understand the impression they can make.
"I've had maybe 200,000 people tell me they were at the game," Carter says. "People will mention where they were, what they were doing. Let me say it this way. There are a lot of 20-year-old people out there named Carter or Joe or Carter Joseph."
For the record, Gibbons was at home in San Antonio watching the game with family.
"Lenny Dykstra (Phillies center fielder) and I were roommates in the minor leagues. I knew Darren Daulton and some of those guys on Phillies. Now, I don't want to say I was rooting for anybody."
He'll be forgiven. All he has to do is what's expected.


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Jan. 20, 2007
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Senior Craig Edwards, sophomore Deke Hu and freshman Rastislav Racz each picked up a pair of individual victories on Saturday afternoon in the Zesiger Pool, but it wasn't enough for MIT to overcome Tufts University, as the Engineers fell, 158-136.
The loss, which was Tech's first of the 2006-07 campaign, dropped MIT's record to 6-1. The Jumbos, who entered the meet hot on the heels of a victory over Div. I Boston College on Wednesday night, raised their record to 8-1 with the victory.
Edwards was dominant in the backstroke events, picking up first-place in both the 100-yard (53.82) and 200-yard (1:57.98), while Hu earned maximum points in the 200-yard butterfly (1:59.58) and the 400-yard individual medley (4:20.98).
Racz, who has impressed throughout his freshman season, lowered his NCAA "B" cut time in the 100-yard breaststroke for the second time this season. On this occasion, he clocked in at 58.24, earning the victory in the process. The Bratislava, Slovakia, native also led a 1-2 Tech finish in the 200-yard breaststroke, touching the wall first with a time of 2:09.22, while teammate Kalvin Kao followed up closely at 2:14.25.
The Engineers also notched a pair of relay victories, in both the 200-yard medley and the 400-yard freestyle. The medley team consisted of Edwards, Racz, Hu and Luke Cummings, while the freestyle team was comprised of Edwards, Cummings, Jeff Zhou and Peter Wellings.
Tufts was led by Gregory Bettencourt and Patrick Kinsella, who each picked up multiple victories. Bettencourt finished first in the 200-yard freestyle (1:43.28), the 100-yard freestyle (47.90) and the 100-yard butterfly (52.60), while Kinsella won the 1000-yard freestyle (10:04.30) and the 500-yard freestyle (4:52.32).
The Engineers will return to the water on Saturday, Jan. 27, when they travel to Amherst College to take on the Lord Jeffs in a meet that will begin at 1:00 p.m. The Jumbos will next compete when they host Bates College and Wheaton College that same day at 12:00 p.m.


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Don't send out specials for booking a wedding at Trump winery
It's incredibly offensive to send out email offers for booking a wedding at Trump winery. You'll be alienating alot of users, including myself.
I don't want to know about weddings at Trump winery and I would never consider booking any event there. Many people who live in the Charlottesville area feel the same way.
Save yourself from losing users by not sending updates about them. You could even remove them as a vendor. No one wants this.
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To find a place of business offensive is fine, Don't go there. But to actively try to prevent a business from operating for no other reason than you dislike the name or owners is inappropriate. What you find offensive others do not. I find it offensive to ask a business to drop paying customers (in this case a specific vendor who may or may not pay for advertising with this site). Why put the employees and owners of a business in the position of choosing between paying customers and customers who are getting a free service? Everyone is not going to approve of every vendor or suggestion, but that doesn't give us the right to tell them how to operate their business.
Thank you and hopefully I didn't offend anyone.


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I came to the World Development Report with years of field experience in conflict-affected countries, but I learned some startling things from the exercise.
One is that violence today is very different from the violence of the Cold War era. Another is that how to escape from persistent violence isn't something we can really learn from academic or policy literature — we need to listen to those who have managed actual transitions from violence to stability.
Modern violence
When I joined the Bank in 1981, Cold War politics dominated the debate on violence. Proxy wars between the US and its allies and the Communist Bloc were playing out across the world. Researchers and policy-makers, caught up in this global contest, focused on the wars that formed the pieces of this jigsaw. With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the eclipse of Soviet power, a great deal changed. There was a brief surge in the number of civil wars in the mid-1990s, but since then the incidence of "conventional" civil war (wars for political control of the state) has declined. Inter-state warfare is also rare now.
What we see, though — in part because we're casting the analytical net wider than we used to— is still pretty alarming. We've estimated that 1.5 billion people live in areas experiencing or threatened by organized violence; that's roughly a quarter of the world's population.
Violence today is frequently localized, mutates from one form to another or just repeats. Motives often defy easy categorization. In central Africa, militias fight for control of mineral deposits, not the state. The FARC in Colombia, once known for its revolutionary Marxist credentials, is now notorious for kidnapping and cocaine trafficking. Moreover, global communications and transport networks have supercharged the international drug trade and have created virtual alliances between violent transnational groups — as well as animating the citizens' democracy movements we saw in Eastern Europe in the 1990s and in the Middle East today.
Annual deaths from civil war are a quarter of what they were in the 1980s, but homicides from organized gang and drug violence are rising steeply, and leaving large parts of Central America and West Africa beyond effective government control.
The world is still a violent and frightening place.
The triggers of organized violence
What is important to understand is that these various forms of violence are triggered by similar kinds of stress factors — and that good policies can make a real difference.
Some stresses emanate from the global environment (such as drug trafficking and steep food price hikes), but those generated within societies are mostly rooted in exclusion, inequality and injustice – unfairness, in other words, be this in the sphere of security, politics or economics.
What transforms these stresses into open violence is a lack of credible, legitimate national institutions capable of mediating demands in ways that people find acceptable. Legitimate institutions, above all, are what break equations of violence.
This is powerful information for policy-makers.
Escaping the gravitational pull
We focused our research on countries like Ghana, Vietnam, Rwanda and Indonesia — countries that have managed to extract themselves from repetitive, destructive cycles of violence over a generation or more. They did so through a simultaneous combination of short-term confidence building measures, and sustained efforts to build national institutions.
Short-term measures include creating inclusive political and social coalitions to help defuse the incentives for violence, and visible actions that signal positive change — particularly to those with grievances. Convincing signals come in many forms: firing abusive policemen, reinstituting rural health services, creating employment. Whatever has real local resonance.
Building institutions that people trust takes time, in many cases 20 years or more, and will always involve setbacks. As with any political process, institution-building is usually contested. It took over a decade for Nepal's community-based forestry program to show serious results. This isn't surprising when you consider that a feudal government was being asked to cede effective control over property to ordinary villagers.
What this means for the World Bank
Such findings have major implications for the way donors operate, starting with the Bank.
One implication is that our traditional division of labor between civil war and criminal violence makes little sense. The motivations behind different forms of violence are similar, the forms blur together and the solutions have much in common.A second is that knowledge of how to deal with today's violence lies less with western institutions, more with emerging nations. Latin American community crime programs have much to offer to US and European cities struggling with gangs and drugs. This suggests very different ways of transferring knowledge than the ones we are used to.
A third is that institution-building is inevitably contentious, and that it takes decades to deliver durable results. This reality sits uncomfortably alongside the Bank's relatively short operational time-horizons and risk-averse technical culture.
There are other implications too, and accepting them will require uncomfortable internal change. I've been pleasantly surprised so far by the enthusiasm the Bank is showing for reforming its approach to fragility and violence, and I'll write about this in more detail in another blog.
I hope you'll take a look at the report now on the WDR site.


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California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) bilateral exchange programs and California State University (CSU) Systemwide exchange programs are available to students without U.S. citizenship attending foreign universities with established exchange agreements. If you are uncertain if your university is an exchange partner, please contact your university's exchange advisor.
If your university does not have an exchange agreement with the CSU or CSULB, you might consider attending CSULB for one or two semesters as a visiting student through the Study Abroad @ the Beach program.CSU Systemwide Exchange Program Information
The CSU systemwide program is run by the CSU Office of the Chancellor staff, not CSULB staff. The deadline dates for students who wish to apply to CSULB through the systemwide CSU International Programs Exchange Program are often much earlier. Students should contact their Exchange Coordinators for exact deadline dates and instructions.
Application forms and detailed program information are available from your university's exchange advisor. There is no application fee. See your home campus advisor for a copy of the CSU Systemwide applicaiton.
Students: Please address all questions regarding the exchange program to your home campus advisors until you are offcially accepted (or at least officially nominated).
CSULB Exchange Application Deadlines
(Again, please note that CSU systemwide program deadlines may differ.)
Fall term (August-December) and Academic Year (August-May) DEADLINE: March 1
Spring term (January-May) DEADLINE: October 1


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EclipseLink/Examples/JPA/GlassFishV2 Web Tutorial
EclipseLink JPA Deployed on GlassFish 2.1 using Eclipse WTP
Note: This tutorial' is under construction for the next week as of 20080915.
If you want to get a small web application running quickly on GlassFish - the services provided by the Web Tools Project pluggin in the Eclipse IDE can take care of the deployment details and set the server into debug mode for you.
This basic example details how to use Eclipse to run/debug a minimum J2EE web application servlet using EclipseLink JPA as the persistence provider. The goal of this example is to detail the minimum steps needed to run EclipseLink inside GlassFish using the Eclipse IDE - at this point no presentation/controller layer such as JSF, Spring or Struts will be used beyond a basic HttpServlet so we can concentrate on the the integration layer JPA setup.
The DALI project was used to generate Entities from a schema with sequences already populated.
Development Environment
Software: Eclipse IDE for Java EE 3.4 Ganymede (June 2008 +) with all 5 packages (DTP 1.6, EMF 2.4, GEF 3.4, WTP 3.0, XSD 2.4), Oracle 11g DB 188.8.131.52.0, Java JDK 1.6.0_04, GlassFish V2.1 build 50
This example will run fine with any Database that EclipseLink supports.
Install Eclipse EE
- I installed a clean version of Eclipse Ganymede (June 2008) with all of WTP 3.0
Install a Database
- In this example I am using Oracle 11g, the table schemas have already been created manually and all entity java classes have been generated using the Eclipse DALI tool.
Install GlassFish
I installed the latest GlassFish V2.1 build and followed the instructions on that page.
- C:\opt>java -Xmx256m -jar glassfish-installer-v2.1-b50-_20080915_windows.jar
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Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 3:45 am
Post subject: Another Variation
Use half whole wheat and half unbleached flour, add 3/4 cup raw shelled sunflower seeds, and shortening made partially with cottonseed oil. In the early 80's, we used Snowdrift shortening (a Hunt-Wesson brand), but can't find it nowadays. I noticed Walmart's Great Value brand has simular ingredients. Cottonseed oil gives a better flavor, and gives the cookie a crusty outside, but still chewy inside. Make your own brown sugar by simply adding 1 tablespoon of molasses to each cup of granulated white sugar.
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Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 3:07 am
Post subject: four differences in recipes
If you are purchasing your ingredients outside of the U.S. you will find that flour varies greatly in other countries as far as the size of the grains. It can make a big difference in the final product if you use too fine of a grain of flour in cookies in particular as flour is the structure for your cookies. I found when living in France that the type 45 was what I should use with my cookies. Type 55 is best for yeast cooking and fluide flour was the finest grained that was great for sauces, much like Wondra brand flour is in the U.S. Baking powder is also not the same in France as it is in the states, it doesn't rise as well. I am guessing it is in the mix of baking soda and dry acid--the French don't generally use baking soda in their cooking, so you have to look for it in a pharmacy.
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Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 5:47 pm
Post subject: Chocolate chip cookies
I like to eat chocolate chip cookies. Hope my input helps...
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Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 1:00 am
Post subject: Crisco in Toll House Cookies during WWII
Toll House Cookies I: During WWII Toll House cookies were a rare treat becaue eggs, sugar and butter were heavily rationed. ('Oleo' was some kind white, firm fat fat that came with a packet of dye to be kneaded in by hand.) My mom and several neighbors pooled ingredients bought with ration coupons, and the cookies were distributed among the contributing families. For the fat, we used only Crisco (not rationed, as far as I remember). Perhaps because I was too young to be critical, I thought the cookies were wonderful!
Toll House Cookies II: Although we lived in a city, I spent much time during the war helping on my grandparents' farm. Grandma's 'Toll House' cookies were the best ever, made with fresh eggs from her 'free range' chickens and butter hand churned from the thick cream that rose to the top of the milk hand-squeezed from her milk cows. No chocolate chips were available locally, so G'ma chopped up squares of baking chocolate. The results, while not the 'real thing' were absolutely delicious.
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Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 7:43 am
Post subject: Success!
I had not made Toll House cookies in years and attempted them recently. How hard could it be, right?! Anyone should be able to follow simple directions. You can imagine my disappointment when they turned out flat and crispy. I prefer them thicker and softer. What made it worse is that I was making them because my new boyfriend loves them and kept hinting around for me to make him some. Way to make a first impression with my baking skills....not! Of course he ate them and said they were good but I knew different and was determined to redeem myself.
I realized that my problem was that in order to save time, I had nuked the 2 sticks of salted butter and they got over melted. I tried again a few days later, letting the butter soften at room temperature for about an hour, but got the same results.
After reading a lot of the tips on this site, I tried again. Third try's a charm, right? In my case, it absolutely was! These are the best Toll House cookies I've ever tasted. Variances I made were using 1/2 salted butter and 1/2 butter flavored Crisco instead of all butter, using a 1/2 cup more flour, and using 2 1/2 teaspoons of vanilla. I hand mixed instead of using beaters and kept the dough in the fridge between batches. I only had jumbo eggs on hand so I used 1 1/2 eggs to compensate.
These cookies taste extra sweet because of the extra vanilla and remind me of Mrs. Field's. If you're not a fan of extra sweet, try 2 teaspoons of vanilla instead of the 2 1/2 I used or the 1 teaspoon called for.
Thanks to everyone for the helpful tips; I'll invite you all to the wedding!
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Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 7:56 am
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I love chocolate chip cookies and cookies in general but cannot stand this recipe. I find it to be way too sweet and the cookies a bit too crispy and crumbly for my liking, so I altered this recipe. Instead of 3/4 cup white and brown sugar I kept the 3/4 cup BROWN sugar and downsized the 3/4 white sugar to 1/2 cup WHITE sugar. I also add 2 teaspoons up to 1 Tablespoon of vanilla. I find that this makes a much more chewy dense cookie and it tastes great!
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Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 11:30 pm
Post subject: thin and chewy cookies
I'd really like to know how to make the thin chewy looking cookies from your first picture. I love them that way but have only had them turn out once or twice that way myself. What am I doing wrong?!?! Mine usually turn out more cake-like and I follow the recipe exactly. Does altitude have anything to do with it?
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Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 8:33 am
Post subject: Re: thin and chewy cookies
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I'd really like to know how to make the thin chewy looking cookies from your first picture. I love them that way but have only had them turn out once or twice that way myself. What am I doing wrong?!?! Mine usually turn out more cake-like and I follow the recipe exactly. Does altitude have anything to do with it?
The primary contributor for the cakey texture of cookies is the proportion of flour to butter. How are you measuring your flour? Using a cup and straight edge to level is a poor way to measure flour since a cup of flour can vary from less than 125 g to 200 g depending on how settled the flour is. Since the recipe calls for 2-1/4 cup flour (about 280 g), scooping out of the bag without having sifted the flour could very likely result in a 160g per cup scoop yielding 360 g (which results in the other recipe that is more cakey). Since flour settles over time or might get stirred up, I would suspect that is the reason for the inconsistency.
If you're measuring your flour accurate by using a scale, then the problem might be the temperature of the butter and dough when it hits the oven. In general, the warmer it is to start with, the more it will spread.
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Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 5:29 pm
Post subject: Micheal Chu Wrote:
The primary contributor for the cakey texture of cookies is the proportion of flour to butter. How are you measuring your flour? Using a cup and straight edge to level is a poor way to measure flour since a cup of flour can vary from less than 125 g to 200 g depending on how settled the flour is. Since the recipe calls for 2-1/4 cup flour (about 280 g), scooping out of the bag without having sifted the flour could very likely result in a 160g per cup scoop yielding 360 g (which results in the other recipe that is more cakey). Since flour settles over time or might get stirred up, I would suspect that is the reason for the inconsistency.
I find it contradictory that an engineer would compose recipes in an imprecise and antiquated system of cups and teaspoons.
An engineer would formulate recipes in baker percentages, which is a more precise method and it also has the advantage of being able to scale easily.
Yes, I realize most readers employ cup and teaspoon measurement, but an engineer should first write the recipe in bakers percentages then give the recipe in the approximate cups and teaspoons.
The most frustrating thing is to find a great site like yours and then have to convert a desired recipe to bakers percentages.
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Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 6:39 pm
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I use a scale out of habit for many many things - not limited to baking - proportions of rice and water for example.
the inability to translate between volume and weight measures is not a engineering problem for the experienced engineer baker / cook.
I would also offer the opinion that using baker's percentages would be a complete disaster for the average baking homemaker. the disaster typically takes shape as:
"What up? how can I have a 100% hydration dough? it would be all water!"
there's a reason they call it "baker's percentage" - bakers know what to do with it - the average home person in charge of cooking / baking does not.
baker's percentages are very useful for scaling a recipe; for a fixed recipe they are of little actual value.
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 9:44 pm
Post subject: tollhouse cookies
I find simply substituting shortening for half the butter makes the cookies perfect! they don't flatten or burn.
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Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 10:10 pm
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Allright, count me among the ones who believe the old Massachusetts lady used butter in her CCC recipe, but there is another possibility...lard...why would she maybe not have used lard? After all she may not have had butter in her larder, she may have only had lard in her larder.
Sorry, but I like my cookies flat, not fat. I am also like the other poster who said maybe he could help with his comment and his comment was that he "liked eating chocolate chip cookies". I can help that way as well.
This is a great forum. I am an engineer and its nice to see it engineer friendly....but I agree shouldn't the recipe be shown in BP's?
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Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 7:32 pm
Post subject: Sifted Flour is Only a Check for Weevils, Always Was
For you who are sifters of flour and who stick by it rigidly, you may be getting a flat cookie because of the way less amount of flour you get when you sift. If I weigh my level cupful of sifted flour I never get more than 110 grams. So I give you the next paragraph which is the converse of this paragraph:
125 grams all-purpose flour makes a cupful? Actually you cannot put 125 grams of aerated all-purpose flour into a measuring cup without tamping or tapping the cup on the countertop or squishing a bit to get it all in there. I suppose that the standard for 125 grams per cup is a good standard, but the only good way to get that is to weigh it, in my opinion. Don't use the cup.
I would forget about the sifter unless you keep your flour long enough to get weevils in it. In my opinion the only real use for a sifter came from the days when people were so poor that they couldn't afford to replace their flour when it got old and they used it unhappily to get the weevils out. I still use one but it is because of my eyes; I can't see all that well anymore and sometimes need to check my flour for weevils to see if I need to toss it. Common sense tells me that that was all the sifter was ever really used for.
Now if you guys are ending up with a flat cookie and you decide logically to add more flour, you really need to know whether you are adding more flour on top of a 110 gram per cup measures or maybe 125 gram per cup measures or even the 150 grams or more that you may get from a scooped cup. I can guarantee you that if you use scooped out cups of packed flour and you are still ending up with flat cookies, something else is definitely wrong, because a scooped out cup obtained from stored, settled flour is going to yield fat cookies. Personally, I don't know what all the hubub is over wanting fat cookies. To me if you use quite a lot of flour, you really can taste the flour. So if you are wanting to add more flour for a fatter cookie make sure you don't add so much that you get a flour-ry tasting cookie.
What I really like is double chocolate CCC's and with those I surely like them better if they are flat, so I for one really don't understand the desire for fat, cakelike chocolate chip cookies.
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Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 12:41 am
Post subject: Salt in CCC
I am 50 years old and have 10 children. CCC is their favorite.
I buy regular butter and never add any additional salt to the recipe.
Everyone who tastes my cookies wants the recipe.
I only use the Original Toll House Recipe with real vanilla, and no salt.
Just exactly what is the purpose of adding salt to the recipe? Will it imporve the recipe?
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Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 4:13 am
Post subject: Re: Salt in CCC
Guest wrote:
Just exactly what is the purpose of adding salt to the recipe? Will it imporve the recipe?
Salt adds another flavor dimension to the cookies. Next time you make CCC, add a pinch of salt into the batter (perhaps just one tray's worth) and bake as you normally would. If you put just the right enough, you'll find that the cookie tastes a little sweeter, a little stronger than normal and you shouldn't be able to readily identify the change as saltiness. Some people prefer cookies with a bit more salt than others (just as some prefer more sweet or more chewy) but I encourage trying out the use of salt in chocolate chip cookies at least once. You might find that to be your new secret ingredient
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ANAHEIM -- The Angels took their team photo Friday afternoon, a snapshot of who the team is and what they could become in the month leading into the postseason.
But Friday's picture also documented what the club no longer had -- injured starter Garrett Richards, who returned to the team for the first time since tearing his left patellar tendon last week in Boston.View Full Game Coverage
ANAHEIM -- The Angels took their team photo Friday afternoon, a snapshot of who the team is and what they could become in the month leading into the postseason.
But Friday's picture also documented what the club no longer had -- injured starter Garrett Richards, who returned to the team for the first time since tearing his left patellar tendon last week in Boston.View Full Game Coverage
Richards rode a cart to the platform in center field for the photo and leaned on crutches as he spoke to reporters, a far cry from preparing for his turn in the rotation on Saturday.
The 26-year-old flame-throwing right-hander will miss the rest of this season (and potentially part of next year) as knee surgery will sideline him for six to nine months.
"The first couple of days were rough," Richards said. "You go from a routine of coming to the yard every day to being stuck on the couch. I went through the phase of 'Why did this happen to me?' and you kind of get past that, and it's time to move forward, it's time to address this, it's time to get back on the field."
Richards crumbled to the Fenway Park field on Aug. 20 when he was running to first base, trying to finish off a potential double play in the second inning. But his foot got caught in the ground and Richards laid on the infield dirt for nearly 10 minutes before being carted off.
"After I heard the pop and the crunching," Richards said, "I knew something wasn't right. I didn't know what it was. Initially, it felt like I had a bone sticking out of my body.
"It's kind of a freak accident, you can't really explain it. It's just going to be something I have to deal with."
Richards had surgery on Aug. 22 and will try to start his rehab in Newport Beach, Calif., on Tuesday (a day after his stitches are removed). He said there is "less pain every day."
"From what they've told me, this is an injury where you can come back 100 percent of what you were before," Richards said. "With the rehab and stuff, I'm hoping to come back a little bit stronger. ... I'm motivated to get back on the field."
When Richards does return, he'll be coming off a career year, going 13-4 with a 2.61 ERA in his first full season in the rotation. He went from rotation question mark to possible ace and Cy Young challenger in just 26 starts.
"I took a lot of positives from [this season]," Richards said. "Even the games I that didn't particularly pitch well, I still took positives from it. Made some major strides with my mentality and my delivery. It was another year where I felt like I made some major strides."
Richards' major strides have left the Angels with a major hole in their rotation, which they struggled to fill Monday, the first time Richards' spot in the rotation came up. After Saturday's game, that spot is scheduled come up another five times before the end of the regular season.
"Obviously, right now, we're trying to piece that together and that's rough because that's my day," Richards said. "That's usually the day that I go and work. It's a little bit frustrating to see us having to struggle to fill that void. We got great guys on this pitching staff who can piece it together for a day. I think we'll be OK."
Richards said he would try to make it to as many games as possible and has watched recent games on TV.
"It's just different for me to see that game on TV, I turn into a fan," Richards said. "It's a little bit difficult but at the same time, it's what I look forward to at night."
Matthew DeFranks is an associate reporter for MLB.com.


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– WWE's website has a new storyline article up looking at Brock Lesnar suing WWE and speculating that Paul Heyman's involvement may be part of his own personal vendetta from his controversial past with the company. They wrote:
"Following the abysmal ECW December to Dismember pay-per-view in 2006, a very public disagreement about who was to blame for the subpar show saw Heyman part ways with WWE either by resignation or termination, depending on whether you ask Heyman or WWE. Heyman remained publicly silent about his acrimonious split from WWE. Did Heyman sign a non-disclosure and non-disparagement agreement or was the Extreme mastermind simply biding his time until anopportunity for vengeance materialized or both?"
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