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Highlights from Day 3 of Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week 2012 - 13 August 2012
Cowes Week - A truly international regatta
Sail World
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Up close and personal at the Jr. Olympic Sailing Festiv al
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Sharp turns, jockeying for position in tight quarters, strategical navigation; the Jr. Olympic SailingFestival had a little bit of everything to offer in terms of excitement during Monday's opening races. In fact, about the only thing missing in ...
Warship kept Olympic sailing safe in Weymouth and Portland
Dorset Echo
He said: "Nothing has caused interruption to sailing. We've dealt with people who have come through from different parts of the water. We wanted to act as a discreet deterrent to those who want to do ill against the Games and they haven't – that's what ...
Chance to cheer on Olympic sailing team at Weymouth Carnival
Swindon Advertiser
Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark. MEMBERS of the Team GB sailing team will take part in an open top bus parade through Weymouth and Portland to celebrate their success. It will take place on Weymouth Carnival Day tomorrow to thank fans for their support.
Youth sailors take to Lake Winnebago
Fond du Lac Reporter
Kevin Gratton, owner of Wind Power Windsurfing and Kiting Center in Fond du Lac, assisted Steve and Sara Eliasen of Oshkosh with the races held at Menominee Park in Oshkosh. Several of his Fond du Lac Yacht Club Sailing Program students competed.
Yacht Club to Host Africa Sailing Championship
YOUNG domestic sailors will have a memorable chance to showcase their virtuosity when Dar es Salaam hosts the Coca-Cola 10th Africa Optimist Championship at the Dar es Salaam Yacht Club, Msasani Bay, from the 18th to 26th of this month. Tanzania ...
Four Seasons: Set sail: Harvest Moon Regatta comes to Atwood Lake
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Atwood Yacht Club's 62nd Harvest Moon Regatta will be Sept. 8 and 9 on Atwood Lake. The Sherrodsville yacht club will be the host that weekend of dozens of skippers and crews entered in a variety of one-design and cruising boat divisions. "This ...
Youth Sailing European Championship - Five medal haul for Team GBR
Sail World
Britain's Youth sailors matched the efforts of the British sailing team at London 2012 with a five medal haul at the event in Aarhus, Denmark. Saskia Sills, who was crowned 2012 Four Star Pizza ISAF Youth Worlds Champion last month, led the charge for ...
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Children's Cup Regatta
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Cork International Sailing Regatta underway
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Cork and Ontario Sailing provides racing and learning opportunities for all participants with daily debrief sessions, including the Maclaren Debrief on Wednesday August 15th, featuring Canadian Olympic Team Sailor David Wright. David will meet with the ...
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Leveraging London - how to turn sailing gold into participation
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Despite the national broadcaster, Nine, snubbing sailing by not broadcasting the final minutes of the gold-medal winning race, sailing enjoyed huge popularity with spectators in Weymouth and viewers all over the globe were treated to some of the best ...
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Dad of three drowned on sailing trip with son
THIS is the father-of-three who drowned during a sailing trip with his teenage son. John O'Leary died after his boat capsized last night off a picturesque West Cork Peninsula. His brave son Christy (18) swam almost one kilometre to shore in a desperate ...
Guard of honour at National Yacht Club in Dún Laoghaire
Irish Times
SAILING: THE SUN smiled on Annalise Murphy as a guard of honour formed outside the doors of the National Yacht Club in Dún Laoghaire yesterday evening. A cool sea breeze whipped around the gathering of friends and family who had come to welcome ...
Team GB sailors bring Olympic spirit to Weymouth Carnival
Dorset Echo
As revealed in the Echo, members of the Team GB sailing team will parade through the borough just before the carnival procession tomorrow. Borough mayor Margaret Leicester, who bought a ticket to officially launch the grand carnival draw, is delighted ...
Brave George's sailing challenge
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The event was organised by The Ellen MacArthur Trust, which was set up by the Derbyshire-born yachtswoman to give unique and life-changing sailing experiences to brave youngsters like George. The St John Houghton Catholic School pupil said: "I've ...
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7 rescued after sailboat sinks
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"Within a couple minutes of bailing water from the boat, we knew we were in trouble," said Denzer, who sailed for the University of Hawaii Sailing Team. "Never did it cross my mind that our boat would sink. At that point, I just put lot of faith in our ...
Sail away: National Regatta kicks off
"The chairman decided to invite the number 2012 to this Regatta without knowing that the boat is located in Japan," said Tsutsumi, who had reservations to travel all the way to the U.P. but decided the race is worth it. His team is one of dozens ...
Australian Men's 470 sailing team latest athletes to appear on Olympic Gold ...
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Mathew Belcher and Malcolm Page are Australia's latest Olympic gold medallist athletes to feature on a stamp after winning our third Sailing gold medal in London, this time in the Men's 470 Class. Stamps featuring Belcher and Page will be available in ...
Club to cash in on Olympic gold
Fraser Coast Chronicle
DARLING Downs Sailing Club president Jason Elliott hopes Australia's success at the OlympicGames will attract a wave of new interest in the sport. The Aussie sailors were a shining light in London, winning three gold medals and a silver when so many ...
SAILING: Spinnakers flying at Menai before a windward finish
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It was sunshine sailing all the way for the Royal Welsh Yacht Club and Caernarvon Sailing Club and the light wind very conveniently changed direction overnight to ensure a different challenge. Falcon wins were posted by Peter Evans and John Corkhill.
Panerai Sails Into Port With The Classic Yachts Challenge In Marblehead, MA
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The Game Developer's Conference has come and gone. While we don't have a game title currently in development, we've worked on game projects for SEGA, Atari, and Motorola. We've also written books on game programming, so we have a soft spot for GDC.
The music game genre has become popular, and due to their nature, they push the boundaries of new user interfaces. Two of our favorites are Guitar Hero for the Playstation and Elite Beat Agents for the Nintendo DS. It is interesting to read the history of the Elite Beat Agents and the challenges of bringing it to the US.We're keeping our eye on the mobile game market...the outlook for mobile games gets better every year and we enjoy the challenges of developing for the platform. Games are some of the most demanding programs you can write. And fun, too.
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united states mine rescue association
Albuquerque Cerrillos Coal Company
Morgan Jones Mine Explosion
Madrid, Santa Fe County, New Mexico
December 7, 1932
No. Killed - 14
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The Tuscaloosa News
, Dec. 7, 1932
Prescott Evening Courier
, Dec. 7, 1932
Successful Rescue
Following the first impact of the explosion, some ten men near the outer edge of the area made a dash for the main passageway. Three of these, including Jimmie Taylor, 19, son of H. L. Taylor, assistant superintendent of the company's Madrid mines, were overcome. They were picked up and carried out safely by their comrades. Andrew Sampria, rushing out, picked up a prostrate form and carried it with him. When he had reached the area of clean air, he learned that it was his own son, Pete, he had rescued.
14 Bodies Taken from Mine
Albuquerque Journal, New Mexico
December 8, 1932
Madrid, N.M., Dec. 7. -- The bodies of 13 men killed in an explosion in the Morgan Jones mine about 8 o'clock Wednesday morning, were brought to the surface at 6 o'clock Wednesday evening. The fourteenth victim had been removed soon after the explosion. All of the 53 men in the mine had been accounted for. Six men were injured, none seriously.
Several hundred persons were grouped around the entrance of the mine when the bodies were brought out by the rescue crews. Camp fires were burning on the hillsides to furnish warmth to the watchers, presenting a grim picture.
As the stretcher bears each with his miner's lantern on his cap, loaded the bodies heavily covered with blankets onto waiting open trucks, watchers waiting on the hillsides followed the procession about a mile into Madrid.
The bodies were taken to the hospital of the Albuquerque and Cerrillos Company, where again several hundred persons, including many of the wives, children and relatives of the dead miners, were waiting.
A few hours after the first report of the explosion, a check-up revealed that 14 men were missing and their names were determined by others who were in the mine at the time of the explosion, but who escaped alive.
But until the bodies were removed, relatives had not entirely given up hope. They did not rush to the trucks on which the bodies were placed, but stoically they followed the funeral cortege of the five rough trucks to the company hospital, converted into a morgue for the occasion.
The dead:
Bony Gabaldon, 37
Augustine Padilla, 38
Angel Ortiz, 34
Guadalupe Morales, 23
Pablo Escarino, 32
Julien Ynostraza, 34
Manuel Cabera, 24
Telesfor Macias, 30
Damacio Perez, 44
Julien Garcia, 45
Juan Acosta, 40
Francisco Torejo, 25
Batzar Oaxaca, 40
Euseblo Ramos, 21
At the hospital the bodies were laid out in rows and each miner's identification tag placed upon him. Then widows and children ranging from youths attending high school in Cerrillos or Santa Fe to little tots who had been kept in the Madrid grade school all day as teachers tried to soften news of the tragedy, received the final fateful news as some relative turned back the dirty blanket and verified the identification tag placed upon it.
Six men were brought in from the mine in the forenoon suffering from shock and suffocation from the smoke and dust. They were treated at the hospital by Dr. A. R. Causer and returned to their home.
These men were:
Jimmy Taylor
Rosalio Liscano
Guadalupe Saldivar
Rafael Juarez
Andrew Samiripa
Pete Samiripa, his son
The cause of the explosion has not been determined by Warren Bracewell, state mine inspector, who rushed to the mine from Albuquerque, entered it shortly before noon and assisted Superintendent Oscar Huber in the rescue work.
The explosion came before some of the miners reached their positions. The dead were found, many with their lunch pails in their hands. Others had not yet even taken off their coats to begin work.
Little debris fell as the result of the explosion and although three of the bodies were burned slightly, none was mangled. As the usual flame of a coal mine explosion swept down the passageways of the first and second dips of the fourth right entry, nearly three miles from the mine entrance, all of the oxygen in the area was consumed, and the men suffocated.
Bracewell said that some of the men apparently fell to the ground after having run a short distance in the direction of the main passage way. Others fell where they stood caught either by "mine damp" or poisonous carbon monoxide gas.
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The force of the air wave that precedes the flame and gas of such explosions, jarred loose the safety devices such as rock dust barriers and heavy cloth curtains. These prevented the spread of the explosion and poisonous gas to other parts of the mine and probably saved the lives of the other miners at work.
At the time of the explosion the men were working in the fourth right gallery, nearly three miles inside the mine. Gabaldon, Padilla and Ortiz were at the north end of the galley, Morales at the hoist at the mouth of Number Two dip and the ten men were in Number Two dip.
A few hundred feet further down the gallery in Number One dip, another crew of men was at work. They escaped without injury other than shock.
The ten men so long missing were working under Juan Acosta, one of the ten, who had sub-leased the Number Two dip from the company.
Following the first impact of the explosion, some ten men near the outer edge of the area made a dash for the main passageway. Three of these, including Jimmie Taylor, 19, son of H. L. Taylor, assistant superintendent of the company's Madrid mines, were overcome. They were picked up and carried out safely by their comrades.
Andrew Sampria, rushing out, picked up a prostrate form and carried it with him. When he had reached the area of clean air, he learned that it was his own son Pete he had rescued.
The oxygen helmeted rescuers, rushing back into the danger area, first stumbled upon the body of Guadalupe Morales. He had made a dash for safety but fell just short of the rock dust barrier and his goal. His body was the only one to be removed from the mine in the forenoon.
The rescue work proceeded slowly. There were six oxygen helmets in the mine and men equipped with these rushed into the area where the explosion occurred to see if some comrades were still alive. They located most of the bodies before noon, and four were removed to the clear air of the main passageway but all were dead.
The ventilating system in this area was little damaged by the explosion, and easily restored, members of the rescue parties said. It was not until the area had been ventilated and flushed out, that the bodies were removed from the main passageway. They were hauled on cars to a spot and then the slow procession of stretcher bearers to the waiting trucks began.
The "damp" referred to in this article is "white damp," which is a toxic mixture of Carbon Monoxide (CO) in air. For more on mine gases,
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It is a received wisdom that we Scots are to cricket what Norwegians are to surfing. And it's not just that we aren't particularly good at it, it's the fact that we don't want to be any good at it. Think cricket, and it's difficult not to think of John Major lookalikes in panama hats, sipping Pimms and listening to plummy radio commentators who call each other 'Johnners' or some other irksome public school epithet.
'The idea that Scots don't like cricket is a misconception that's promoted by the popular media,' says Alex Richie, general manager of the Scottish Cricket Union. 'Actually, there are more cricket clubs in Scotland than there are rugby clubs. Throughout the summer, more than 12,000 people regularly play the game in Scotland. And more cricket is played in places like Aberdeen than in many similar English cities.'
The Scottish Cricket Union has been in operation in some form or other since 1883. As well as affiliated clubs, the Union supports a national side that 'plays touring teams and participates in the Benson and Hedges Cup against English county sides. Scotland's greatest successes have come in this competition: in 1986, they thrashed Lancashire and, in 1990, they repeated the feat against a well regarded Northamptonshire side that featured internationalists Allan Lamb and Curtly Ambrose. With a team that plays seasoned veterans like captain
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Events are listed alphabetically by sport, then by day. Fixtures are correct at time of publication, but may be affected by weather. Sports Listings compiled by Brian Donaldson.
BASEBALL Sunday 5
I Glasgow Comets v Dundee Dodgers Linwood Sports Centre. Glasgow.
I Tayside Cobras v Edinburgh Reivers Diamond .Iubilee Park. Alyth.
Sunday 12
I Edinburgh Reivers v Dundee Dodgers Jack Kane Sports Centre. Edinburgh.
I Glasgow Comets v Tayside Cobras Linwood Sports Centre. (ilasgow.
For further information call the British Baseball Eederation (Scottish Federation) on 01382 668420
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I Aberdeenshire v Strathmore Morningside Road. Aberdeen. 1pm.
I Carlton v Watsonians Grange Loan. Edinburgh. 1pm.
I Freuchie v Heriot's FP Cricket Ground. Ereuchie. Ipiii.
I Grange V Prestwick Raeburn Place. Edinburgh. 1pm.
I West Lothian v Arbroath United
Boghall. I.inlithgow. Ipm.
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I Aberdeenshire v Heriot's FP Morningside Road. Ipm.
I Freuchie V Carlton Cricket Ground. I-'reuchie. 1pm
I Prestwick v Arbroath United Prestwick ()vaI. Prestwick. Ipm.
I Strathmore v Grange I.ochsidc Road. Eorfar. 1pm.
I Watsonians v West Lothian .'Vlyreside
Road. Ipm.
For full details on the Scottish Cricket League. call the Scottish Cricket League Committee on 0131 538 1652.
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I Scotland v Worcestershire Grange Cricket Club. Edinburgh. 11am. For further information. call the Scottish Cricket Union on 0131 317 7247.
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I Aberdeen V Falkirk Pittodrie Stadium. Pittodrie Street. Aberdeen. 3pm.
I Celtic v Raith Rovers Celtic Park. Kerrydale Street. Glasgow. 3pm.
I Hibs V Partick Thistle Easter Road Stadium. Albion Road. Edinburgh. 3pm. I Kilmarnock v Rangers Rugby Park. Rugby Road. Kilmarnock. 3pm.
I Motherwell V Hearts Eir Park. Eirpark Street. Motherwell. 3pm.
I Dundee v St Johnstone Dens Park. Sandeman Street. Dundee. 3pm.
I Dunfennline v Airdrie East End Park. Halbeath Road. Dunfermline. 3pm.
I Hamilton v Dumbarton Douglas Park. Douglas Park Lane. Hamilton. 3pm.
I Morton v Dundee United Cappielow Park. Sinclair Street. Greenock. 3pm.
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What a great day! Started off by wanting to eat, it's always about food, what is it with this family. Anyway it started off by Mr Doodles wanting to go to one of our fav Mexican haunts called Tito's Taco's.
Tito's is located in the town we all grew up in and a place that we frequented a lot with
good, simple food. A tad bit of history when we first started going to Tito's the tacos were 24 centavos and if you wanted cheese it was five cents more. Now they are $1.45 and w/cheese $1.85. And ya know something you can go home again, this place has not changed one bit in all these many years they are are as good today as they were many years ago. So if y'all ever in Culver City, California look up Tito's, you'll be glad you did.
Next stop on the nostalgia tour was to go by all the houses each of us had lived in. BIL's parents home looked almost the same as it did 40 years ago.
Mr Doodles and I lived in this house the first two years of our marriage. It was called the party house and we just had the best time in this house. Obviously it looks a lot different, but still has the same bones.
Next as we are driving over to the house sister and I grew up in we passed by the apartment where my Mr Doodles lived prior to our marriage, danged apartment is still there next door to the Catholic Church Convent.
Then we toddled on over to the house sister and I grew up in....and BIL and Mr Doodles knew quite well. Gosh it hasn't changed much.
Then we drove around Culver City, saw all the places we all worked and played.
It was a great day....but then any day with sister and BIL is a great day.
stay tuna'd...........there's more
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
a nostalgia trip today...
Posted by barb at Wednesday, June 06, 2007
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I love your first house! You sound like you are having so much fun. Don't ya just going by all the places you used to live when you were younger. The town I lived in until I was 10 is only 25 miles away and whenever I'm there, I ride by the houses and the schools. Makes me feel closer to my daddy whom I miss so much!
Keep having fun!
- 6:39 PM, June 07, 2007
love that house !! and you mean to tell me that Mr. Doodles didn't completely run those nuns out of town when he lived next door ??
sounds like you're having a blast...can't wait to see more pictures!!
- 9:24 AM, June 13, 2007
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£19m plan to safeguard businesses along Don Valley nearing completion but remaining work to keep city residents secure including flood alleviation scheme for Sheffield rivers will cost an extra £64m.
A decade after the 2007 flood left much of Sheffield submerged, killing two people, leaving hundreds homeless and destroying many livelihoods, work is continuing to protect the city against a similar catastrophe.
A £19m scheme to safeguard businesses along the Lower Don Valley, including the construction of a huge new wall, is nearing completion.
But there is much more to be done elsewhere in the city, with the council anticipating the remaining work will cost an additional £64m.By far the biggest project in the pipeline is the flood alleviation scheme planned along the Upper Don, Porter Brook and Sheaf rivers, for which the estimated price tag is £53m.
Building flood defence walls, planting more trees to absorb the water and installing 'debris catchers' to prevent blockages at bridges and other pinch points are among the measures envisaged.
But probably the most controversial part of the wide-ranging proposals being considered is turning parks, sports grounds and other spots into 'flood storage areas' which would hold water at times of heavy rainfall to prevent built-up areas being inundated.
It makes more sense to use a managed area like the park
More than 1,000 people had their say on draft plans during a consultation last year, and the initial list of 16 potential flood storage areas has now been whittled down to seven.
Some of the original proposals were ruled out because of the potential harm to woodland, the impact on homes or strong objections from landowners.
The most unpopular option during the consultation was storing floodwater at a spot in the Rivelin Valley known as Wolf Wheel.
Nearly half those who were consulted opposed the plan, with less than a third in favour, and it was dropped amid fears about the impact on wildlife and obstacles to construction.
But while most people recognise the need to improve Sheffield's flood defences, the remaining seven proposed flood storage areas are not without their detractors.
The most controversial one still on the table is at Roscoe on the Rivelin Valley, which would hold an estimated 217,199 cubic metres of water – equivalent to 87 Olympic-sized swimming pools – reducing flood levels downstream by more than 1.2 metres.
Plans to build an embankment there close to Rivelin Valley Park were opposed by 49 per cent of those having their say, with just 32 per cent saying the proposal merited further consideration.
The Rivelin Valley Conservation Group is vehemently opposed, arguing that a dam more than 11 metres high and 150 metres wide would destroy precious habitats and the remains of many old watermills which are part of Sheffield's heritage, as well as submerging allotments during storms.
Graham Appleby, who chairs the group, told how members had put together alternative proposals to release water from the Rivelin Dams ahead of storms so they had more capacity when the rain began falling.
"We've been told dropping water levels in the dams by one metre before a rainstorm would enable them to hold an equivalent amount of rainwater to the dam the council wants to create by building an embankment near the park," he said.
"If they build the embankment it would really spoil the valley. We want to do what we can to minimise the impact but obviously we still support reducing the flood risk in Sheffield generally."
Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust has praised Sheffield Council's 'strategic approach' to reducing the flood risk across the city, and welcomed its decision to drop some of the more controversial plans for flood storage areas it claimed would have harmed the ecology.
But the charity still has concerns about remaining plans for large embankments to hold back water at wildlife sites in the Rivelin and Loxley valleys. It has called on the council to 'make space for water in ways that work with nature, rather than against it'.
As well as planting more trees, it says the council could take inspiration from Centenary Riverside in neighbouring Rotherham – an old industrial site transformed into a wetland reserve which soaks up water during heavy rainfall.
Endcliffe and Millhouses parks are among the other sensitive sites which could be used to hold back floodwater.
During consultation a clear majority said the plans for both sites should be taken forward, but friends groups say the details need ironing out.
The Friends of Millhouses Park, where 14-year-old Ryan Parry was swept to his death in 2007, says it supports the proposal for a flood storage area holding up to 21,000m3 of water in principle and is keen to work with the council to develop the plans.
"In our view it makes more sense to use a managed area like the park rather than an area of wild countryside where any scheme is likely to be intrusive," the group has said.
"That said, the scheme does have its implications and some compensatory work would be needed in the park."
At Endcliffe Park, a horseshoe-shaped embankment would be built to hold back 40,500m3 of water.
The council says existing facilities would be protected and the park would only hold water for short periods during 'significant' storms, with resources in place to quickly mop up afterwards.
Ann le Sage, who chairs the Friends of the Porter Valley, said the group was keen to cooperate with the council to protect the city from flooding but wanted to ensure public access was maintained when detailed plans are drawn up.
The council plans to select its preferred options for flood alleviation measures along the Sheaf and Upper Don in the next few weeks before submitting its business case to the Government for funding.
Should government cash be secured, work will begin next year on detailed designs and further consultation will take place.
Councillor Bryan Lodge, cabinet member for the environment said: "We need to create the right balance between protecting our landscapes and protecting this city from the scale of flooding we suffered 10 years ago."


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- Written by Imam Taqiyuddin al-Subki
Thus it has been established by the majority of scholars that he who opposes the ijmā` (consensus) is a disbeliever; It is among the conditions for a muftī that he shouldn't issue a fatwā that contradicts the consensus of earlier scholars. And if he does so, his verdict is rejected and it is disallowed to quote him [such a scholar who opposes the ijmā`] and the Qur'ān and the Sunnah of the Prophet (sallallāhu `alayhi wasallam) bear evidence that it is not permitted to oppose the ijmā`. Allāh (subhānahu wa-ta`āla) has said:
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BRAISED CHICKEN and APPLES
4-6 tart apples
2 large carrots, peeled
1 onions, chopped
4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1/3 cup apple brandy (optional) eg Calvados
1 cup chicken broth
1 tsp dried thyme
salt and pepper to taste
juice of 1/2 a small lemon
2 tsps cornstarch
2 tsps water
Peel, core and slice apples. Thinly slice carrots and dice onions.
Heat oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Brown chicken breasts on both sides (about 2 minutes per side).
Add in apples, carrots and onion.
Mix apple brandy, chicken broth and thyme. Pour over chicken. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 30-40 minutes.
Season with salt and pepper. Stir in lemon juice.
Mix cornstarch in water and add to the skillet, stirring constantly until thickened.
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Here's my girl Hannie B. with a donut the size of her head. She's a part of our neighborhood swim team this summer and she thinks the part with the donuts is awesome.
She's not the fastest swimmer, but she's learning a lot and having fun. She has beat her personal best each time she swims. I keep reminding her that she's already a better swimmer than her mom.
Keep up the positive attitude Hannie B. We're cheering for ya!


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It may seem unlikely -- especially to those who came of age in college dorm rooms during the Day-Glo daze of the late '60s and early '70s -- that the Moody Blues, providers of the psychedelic soundtrack of their youth, should still be going strong today. Yet indeed, nearly half a century after issuing their first definitive musical statement, the indelible Days of Future Passed, the Moodies continue to tour the world, re-creating with effortless efficiency the signature songs that pronounced them the pied pipers of a generation, songs like "Ride My See-saw," "Tuesday Afternoon," "Question," and, naturally, "Nights in White Satin," a ballad that ensured them immortality.
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Formed in Birmingham, England, in the mid-'60s, the first incarnation of the Moody Blues was, as Lodge describes them, "a cover band, really," that specialized in American blues and R&B standards. However, when Lodge and Hayward came onboard in late 1966, joining original members Edge, keyboard player Mike Pinder, and flautist Ray Thomas, the dynamic changed dramatically.
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I am sitting on my futon and feeling at ease. with a bowl of chili and a corn muffin in my tummy and a glass of wine by my side (the fat bastard chardonnay). I am watching tv and it is my nice good relaxing night of the week. the only one I have. I spent it doing my taxes ugh, and filling out my financial aide forms for next year...again I am a highly exciting person. I need friends. I love to be alone and I have friends spread about the US, but no one who I know will come and play with me on a tuesday in Cincinnati. I talked to lili yesterday and I really need to follow up with dance classes we can take because if I don't start moving soon my body will mummify and the slow steady stream of alcohol will just help.
yesterday I had a minor meltdown after coming home from work. crying for no reason or maybe too many reasons. I am having trouble keeping up with school to my liking, which is not the same as really having problems and keeping up with life. I wake up minutes before I need to leave and race around the apartment wishing I had more time to boil and steep my tea....more time to iron and choose my clothes, and more time to just sit and breath by myself.
I like to be alone but I am cocooning myself in the apartment in a false effort to do schoolwork and really I am just watching bad tv and wishing my living room was filled with the people I used to know, in what seems like another lifetime.
also-I am so tired of trying to pretend I am smart or maybe insightful in posts to blackboard regarding our future roles as educators or therapists and how we will provide everything within our power to students, think outside of the box to give this child the best services possible. while I feel this is an important point I am tired of talking about it. At some point we must stop being idealists and become materialists making a difference in our world in a real way. I am currently just making a dent in the futon and wishing it was a comfy couch.
want to come over for wine and cookies? that doesn't go right? well A- you can have vanilla soymilk and I can have bread and cheese and it will all work out. take a road trip and come to see me soon. spring break starts March 21st.
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
trying to gain some clarity...thinking I'd rather have another glass of wine
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I'll try to get out there soon, Nancy! I'm so afraid right now that I've made some bad decisions, and Zach doesn't seem to trust me. That really hurts.
- nancy said...
I don't think you made any bad decisions. you are just starting out on a new path. albiet a rough one so far...I think it will get easier.
oh-and Zach is welcome to come too!
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Well I guess you can cry if you threw the glass of milk out of anger and rage.
Okay super random I know but yeah DEAl WITH IT.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Don't Cry Over Spilt Milk
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Predictions for EU LCS Playoff Brackets and Results
Posted: Mar 16 2016
With just one regular week left in the split, it's time to start making some predictions for how the end of the split is going to play out, and which teams will surge or tank under the pressure of a playoff series. However, in typical Godmode fashion, we're going to make some potentially unpopular/unconventional predictions, not for the sake of being controversial, but to dispel a lot of the myths and fallacies surrounding the LCS.
Let's start with the EU LCS. There are three clear top-tier teams in H2K, G2, and Vitality that will be hard to predict against in any playoff series facing a lower team. The potential dark horses would be Fnatic and Origen, who have both looked quite inconsistent but are both still teams with a veteran presence that find a way to win.
In the case of Origen, a lot of their success will depend on the potential return of owner and veteran mid-laner xPeke. Nobody is certain if xPeke plans to play in the playoffs over his newly-signed replacement Powerofevil, but his presence and experience does elevate Origen into a spoiler-pick if he continues to start. Ultimately, it comes down to the quality of teams they may have to face. Let's first predict how the EU season will end:
Predicted final Spring Split Standings:
1) G2 Esports (15-3)
3) Team Vitality (14-4)
4) Fnatic (11-7)
5) Origen (10-8)
6) Unicorns of Love (9-9)
7) Elements (5-13)
8) Splyce (5-13)
9) Roccat (3-15)
10) Giants (2-16)
The top three teams look fairly locked in at this point. Unicorns have a chance of playing spoiler, facing against both G2 and H2K this week, a daunting task had they not already secured their playoff spot. Vitality having seemingly easy wins against Splyce and Roccat could shake up the standings if Unicorns get a win against either top team, but they just haven't looked very good with Loulex, and thus we predict all 3 top teams to win out in Week 9.
The 4th and 5th seed are in an interesting spot, particularly because those two seeds will play each other in the first round. As mentioned previously, Unicorns have an impossible schedule, and will likely leave Origen and Fnatic to batle for 4th/5th with easy wins on Thursday against Elements and Giants respectively. Since the two rivals then play each other on Friday, we'll be watching a battle for blue-side for the first round of playoffs. Our conclusion is simple, if xPeke plays, Origen wins and secures the 4th spot. If not, Fnatic takes 4th and thus secures 3 blue-side games.
These standings will result in a first round bye for both G2 and H2K, leading us to the playoff brackets below:
On first glance, people will probably call us crazy for having Fnatic make it so far, but let's pump the brakes and break down the matchups and recent history. Fnatic have been looking better since their trip to Katowice to compete at IEM. They are still getting wildly inconsistent performances from their two new Korean imports, Spirit and Gamsu, and on top of that, their new Swedish support, Klaj, looked extremely nervous and shaky under the high-pressure environment of IEM.
Quarter-final: Fnatic vs. Origen
Looking at Origen, Fnatic's all-but-guaranteed Quarter-final opponent, they have similar issues with their top laner and jungler. Amazing has never quite looked the same as he did in Season 5 Summer, and sOAZ has never quite looked so bad. The majority of their issues seem to be that Amazing, their veteran German jungler, has no synergy with sOAZ, often being across the map while sOAZ is being ganked. On top of that, Amazing doesn't seem to have much better synergy with Powerofevil. It's no wonder Season 6 has been a disappointing one for Amazing, with him being on totally different pages with both his solo-laners.
We're assuming xPeke will not play this series, and Origen's woes will continue to haunt them, losing a close series 2-3 to the reigning EU champions, simply because even at their lowest points, Fnatic's individual players are much more stable and able to recover from bad games. That could be a testament to their coach, Deilor, and support staff, something notably lacking from Origen's side of things.
Quarter-final: Vitality vs. Unicorns of Love
Not to much to say about this matchup. Vitality are overall a stronger team in each role and as a team. Unicorns are fielding Loulex who appears to be struggling to adapt to the team with such little time to build synergy. I have the Unicorns winning game 1 due to some jitters on Vitality's part, and some luck from the Unicorns.
Semi-final: Fnatic vs. G2 Esports
Moving on to the Semi-finals, Fnatic will then find themselves playing G2 Esports, a truly exciting new team lead by infamous owner and former SK mid-laner Ocelote. G2 were perhaps the most impressive team for the majority of the year, particularly due to the performances of their mid-laner Perkz and jungler Trick. While the team is stacked with talent, the key to beating G2 appears to be to avoid letting them get an early advantage around their playmakers (Hybrid, Trick, and Perkz).
The reason why Fnatic will be able to match up against G2, despite almost losing to them twice this year, is that G2 plays very well around Perkz in the mid lane, which also happens to be Fnatic's strength currently with Febiven being their most consistent player. While not having quite as tremendous a year as he did last season, Febiven has been able to go toe-to-toe with every LCS mid, and should be able to control mid lane enough not to allow G2 to get Perkz fed early on in the game.
Additionally, G2 have been somewhat 1-dimensional in their strategy which is definitely exploitable in a long series. We haven't yet seen G2's ability to adapt in a series, and their progression over the split has been relatively minor. Granted, when you win the majority of your games, you won't need to change too many things, but it's often safe to err on the side of experience and veteran status in a difficult series. Fnatic are very good at stalling the game long enough for Rekkles to get over his early game woes and get the items he needs to carry. If Fnatic avoid giving G2 too big of an early lead and can surprise them with a pick or two, they should be able to make it back to the Grand Finals.
Semi-final: Team Vitality vs. H2K
In what will probably be the best series of the playoffs, Team Vitality are looking to make big waves in their first LCS split as a team over favored H2K. This series features indisputably the two premier top-laners in the EU LCS currently, with H2K's Odoamne vs. Vitality's Cabochard. Unfortunately for Team Vitality, however, is that behind Odoamne sits Jankos, who is probably the best jungler in EU, and an absolute force in the early game.
H2K plays a very controlled and tactical game, focusing on objective control first and foremost. We don't expect Vitality to be able to push them out of their comfort zone too much, primarily because they don't have enough of an advantage in the bottom lane against the always aggressive Forg1ven, or in the mid-lane where Nukeduck and Ryu match up about evenly. It seems entirely up to Cabochard, who is our Spring Split MVP, to put a wrench in H2K's well laid plans, but we doubt it will be enough to overcome H2K's crisp, clean play.
Grand Final: Fnatic vs. H2K
Unfortunately, if the playoffs do indeed play out this way, I expect we'll have a rather dull Grand Final. Even with recent improvements, it would stand to reason that Fnatic's apparent communication issues and tendency to want to stall games for scaling will be too much of an obstacle against a team of H2K's skill and experience.
Unlike G2, H2K's strengths are mostly in their sidelanes and in jungle pressure, which is the worst possible matchup for the defending champs. Febiven won't be able to stop Forg1ven and Vander from punishing the passive, and quite frankly inferior bot-lane. Additionally, H2K play much better around their top-laner than Fnatic, who essentially tell Gamsu to play a tank and be useful about 25 minutes into the game.
While the games may not be blow-outs, we don't see Fnatic being able to take a game off H2K, who are too good at punishing passivity and snowballing a lead.
3rd Place Match: Team Vitality vs. G2 Esports
An important series for championship points, the battle for third in EU should also be an entertaining contest, and a repeat of a recently well played, nail-biter of a game. The primary force in this series, however, I believe will be the team's mentality and preparation. After losing to H2K, a team many regard as the overall best EU team, Vitality won't be too down on themselves for their performance, and instead look towards the next split to continue their improvement.
G2, however, losing quite easily to Fnatic, a team that struggled most of the year may have their mentality very negatively affected, despite being a new team. G2 seem to play with so much confidence and bravado that losing to a lesser opponent may just set the team off on the wrong foot coming into the series.
The premier advantage Vitality will be able to exploit is in the top lane, where Cabochard will likely have his way with Kikis, a recent transplant to top from jungle. Additionally, like Febiven, Nukeduck's prowess will be able to keep Perkz in check for the most part. I could see Vitality dropping game 3 with some oddball picks.
As always, thanks for reading, and look for our NA LCS playoff predictions later this week!


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10,500 feet up (3,200 meters) on the grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau...
Nomads, Buddhist monks, and thousands of years of culture...
Empowering the local community through sport on the anniversary of Buddha's Enlightenment, Sagadawa...
In every village and monastery across the Tibetan Plateau you will find nomads herding their yak and sheep, monks reciting their mantras, and Tibetans' engaging in their newest passion: basketball. Basketball has allowed Tibetans to connect with each other and the rest of the world, transcending languages, cultures, and borders. With an extremely limited number of coaches and formal training, Tibetans relish the opportunity to watch and learn from foreigners. During your time on the plateau lead basketball clinics for youth, women, and men, and participate in the annual Norlha Basketball Invitational.
Norden Camp offers urbanites from around the world the rare opportunity to experience authentic Tibetan culture in complete comfort. Managed by and for the benefit of grassland nomads, Norden Camp operates sustainably, without compromising the existing Tibetan Buddhist culture or our spectacular natural environment. Located at 3,200 meters (10,500 feet) above sea level, Norden Camp is situated 20 minutes outside of Labrang, the famous Tibetan monastic town in the Tibetan Autonomous Kanlho Prefecture, Gansu Province, China. The 11-hectare (27 acre) site borders a meandering river and is home to gazelles, hares, marmots and foxes, and visited by a vibrant array of migratory birds.
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Norden Cuisine is based on the local pastoral lifestyle and the food derived from it. Ours is an innovative, culturally conscious menu rooted in tradition, based on local seasonal products, and suitable for meat lovers and vegetarians alike. The area is untouched by development and the food that emanates from the pasture is organic by default. The milk from dris (female yaks) grazing in areas teeming with medicinal plants is known for its high nutritional value and reduced lactose content; it is the source of our healthy and delicious butter, yogurt and cream. The pasture in summer abounds in local herbs and mushrooms that can be collected daily and added to the menu. Bread is baked in traditional mud brick ovens and noodles are hand pulled and fresh at every meal.
On Day 4 of the exchange we make the 2.5 hour journey to the remote village of Zorge Ritoma, home of Norlha Textiles and the Tibetan Hoop Exchange. Norlha, Norden's sister organization, is a groundbreaking social enterprise and one of the few luxury brands in the world merging cultural and environmental sustainability with the most sophisticated and enduring style. Norlha is internationally known for its innovation with yak textiles and its inclusion of local nomads in the entire process of transforming the yak. Tour Norlha's atelier and the village of Zorge Ritoma, participate in cultural exchange programs with Norlha's employees and the local community, lead basketball clinics, and participate in the Norlha Basketball Invitational!
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Participation in the exchange not only directly supports these important initiatives, it also gives rise to a true community gathering connecting the international and Tibetan communities through the common language of basketball.
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We journey to the remote village of Zorge Ritoma, participate in cultural exchange programs with Norlha Textiles and the community, lead basketball clinics, and participate in the tournament (May: 5v5; September 3v3)
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Morning Departures to Xiahe and Lanzhou Airport.


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Well the other day the sun finally came out! Okay...so that may be a tad dramatic - the sun has been out before but really, this year has been one gray year!
I think I've mentioned that enough already...just saying, when it came out we were ecstatic! Hence the title for and all the sun filled photos of my 1000 Words post for this week - oh and there is still time to link up! A picture is worth a thousand words - so post some photos, no words, letting each image tell it's own story, your story, of every day life!
So we got out doors - the wind was cool but the whole day was gorgeous! We soaked it in! The girls and I played and puttered about the yard while Joseph slept.
I snapped most of the photos from the 1000 Word post then - it was just so nice. And seeing as we were not living here this time last year, I was very excited to see those tulips and a few other plants poking their heads up through the soil!
So after the baby woke up, we headed down the road...
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The kids sure got a kick out of seeing that baby and they even got to watch it drink from it's momma. But honestly - the girls were most excited about the barn cats! lol!
At least Joe liked the calf!
We are very blessed with such lovely neighbours! This family has lived on our road for two generations now - it's pretty neat! They are the ones that own the fields behind our home and they really are so kind!
They also have a donkey...named Jack!
Oh it felt so good to be out soaking up the sun!
After the kids were in bed, while the sun was sinking low, my hubby and I took a walk around some of our land. When we moved here last May, most of the fields were over-grown so we really didn't get a good look at everything.
But now it's Spring and so we wanted to walk a few of the fields and see what we could see...
....needless to say, it was a perfect ending to a gorgeous day!
We are still overwhelmed by what God has blessed us with. It has been a long hard road and I know there will be many more trials and testing in the days to come but we are immensely thankful for our Lord and all He has done for us! We feel greatly blessed and undeserving but we know we serve a wondrous and loving God and praise Him for all we have!
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus,
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Professor Aman Gebru is a visiting assistant professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. His research interests lie at the intersection of intellectual property law, innovation policy, international trade, and development. His current research focuses on intellectual property law, traditional knowledge, and bioprospecting and it examines the rationales and legal frameworks for the protection of traditional (medicinal) knowledge. His work has appeared in several journals including in the North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology, John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law, and Asper Review of International Business and Trade Law and in media outlets including Canadian Lawyer and Slawmagazines. Before joining Cardozo, he was a Global Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University School of Law. Aman has taught courses at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and at Haramaya University (Ethiopia). He has a doctorate in Juridical Sciences from the University of Toronto, an LL.M. in intellectual property law and policy from the University of Washington, and an LL.B. from Haramaya University. Earlier in his career, Aman worked at Landesa (formerly the Rural Development Institute), a Seattle-based nonprofit advocating for land rights for the poorest one billion people, and at the Prosecutor's Office of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. He is the author of Intellectual Property and Bioprospecting: A Model Legal Framework (North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology Volume 19, Issue 2: December 2017).
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Maybe Goldberg can back up his claims with some proof that the "far right" is as awful as the far left was to Bush next time he comes on. This was a really shameful segment.
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Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Choose wisely
The short version of this post:
Please do Vote Compass before you vote in Australia's election this weekend. Then vote carefully and wisely. Please.
The long version:
I don't like to bang on too much on this blog about the aspects of life in Australia that depress, exasperate, disappoint, frighten or disgust me but if I'm honest, today, after stupidly deciding to listen to some political debate and commentary on the radio, that list is feeling a bit too long for comfort. Before I moved here I thought Australia was quite progressive. Sadly after living here for three years I don't think that anymore.
I've found this election campaign truly depressing and I know I am not alone as so many people I know seem to be having great difficulty deciding who to vote for. As one friend put it "It is like choosing between a really frightening option and a truly terrifying option". I know what she means. After listening to the radio this morning I found myself shouting at the two supposed leaders "Big picture guys! Just say your vision for the sort of country you want this to be in 10, 20 or 50 years time then outline the steps you think we need to take to get there! Even the hard, unpopular steps. And base it on solid research, not prejudice and unfounded beliefs!" (Yes, I got quite ranty.) But instead all I heard was petty bickering over minutiae and the promotion of attitudes, policies and actions that seem surprisingly outdated and out of step with much of the rest of the world.
(And before you think here that I mean that NZ has all the answers, I certainly don't. If you ever get 46 minutes to spare, watch this: Mind the Gap by documentary maker Bryan Bruce . Basically a New Zealand story but with lessons for everyone everywhere. Hope that link works. My internet speed is so slow that I couldn't check it. Sigh.)
Here are some of the reasons I've found this election campaign so depressing.
One of the major parties has released almost no policies and absolutely none aimed at addressing what seems to me to be one of the main challenges for Australia in the coming decades: climate change. Every year since we have been here numerous weather records have been broken, with this latest one being the hottest year on record. Australians apparently have the biggest carbon footprint of anyone on the planet and as coast dwellers are extremely vulnerable to sea level rise. Years before I moved here I heard talks from a panel of international water experts and their predictions for Australia's future in a world of changing weather patterns, sea level rise and increasing soil salinity were dire. They predicted that within my children's lifetimes, great chunks of Australia would be so adversely affected by climate change that the country wouldn't be able to feed its population. Since moving here I've heard similar predictions many times from many different sources, yet from Australia's two main political parties there is near silence.
The Murdoch press are blatantly backing one party. News Corp Australia is by far the most dominant player in the newspaper market here so they have considerable clout among people who believe what they read in newspapers. A commonly held belief is that News Corp are doing this because the party they are backing would ditch the National Broadband Network currently being built, which would leave Australia with its current snail-pace internet speeds, which would effectively lock new players out of the internet-entertainment industry (watching TV on demand here is often p-a-i-n-f-u-l-l-y slow) which would then protect Murdoch's income from their Foxtel interests. Surely that can't be true. It's like something out of the Simpsons.
Recently I have been on my first protest march in many years because each of Australia's two major parties are trying to outdo each other with ever more cruel asylum seeker policies. Obviously they are doing this because they think this will win them votes, but I am horrified by the measures they are promoting. I was so shocked by the ghastly Tampa affair that I became a volunteer helping refugees to settle into life in Christchurch and I did that for several years until we left NZ. But attitudes towards asylum seekers have become even worse here, to the extent that human rights lawyer Julian Burnside recently described asylum seeker bashing as Australia's new national sport.
Choosing who to vote for here becomes even more difficult because of Australia's crackpot Preferential Voting System which ensures that votes get skewed and diluted; it looks to me like a system made up by a bunch of gambling drunks. The more I analyse this system and the seats it delivers compared to votes cast, the more it reminds me of many board-games that are essentially strategy undermined by randomness. There are all sorts of complicated electorate by electorate guides on how to vote to ensure that your vote actually has the effect you want it to. There are better ways people.
I can't vote here but I really do care about Australia and the many serious issues it faces (or refuses to face) and therefore I really do care about the election result. So I have been spreading the word about the most interesting thing I have seen in the whole election campaign. The ABC is hosting an interesting tool called Vote Compass which basically compares your answers to a whole series of questions to the policies of the main parties. Then it tells you which party you are most closely aligned to and why.
I recommend that anyone out there who can vote in this election gives Vote Compass a whirl. Then take a deep breath and think very carefully if it gives you a completely unexpected result, as it has for many people I know who have had their entrenched voting habits challenged by this tool. Then vote very carefully and wisely this weekend.
Then go out somewhere nice on Saturday night as whatever the result, watching the election result unfold on TV will surely be a very grim way to spend an evening; we are treating ourselves to a night out at Circus Oz.
Hopefully by the next election Australians will be given a choice between real parties, with well thought out policies and honest, credible leaders. Maybe that is too much to hope for, but Australia is a great country and it certainly deserves better than the nonsense they have been offered this time around. Then hopefully sometime in the not too distant future Australians will realise what a complete barking dog their electoral system is and change to a less crackerdog one. One that actually reflects who Australians vote for. What a novel thought.
Posted by Deidre in Interwebland at 11:11 AM
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What a great tool VoteCompass is! As the recent referendum on asset sales in NZ is showing, parties do not know know which policies have given the mandate to lead. People may voted for their educ policy, not economic, or trade policies, not health spending etc but you only get the whole parcel. I reckon we need something like Votecompass, where each elector gets to show how they feel about a range of policies and then vote in people who then have the mandate to fulfill the wishes of the people. Fraught with issues, I know (ie majority rules, who pays for it if we want eg more educ spending but lower taxes, etc) but there has to be a better system then this!ReplyDelete
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Netherlandish painter, named after a picture representing the Virgin Mary with the virgin saints Barbara, Catherine, Cecilia, and Ursula (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam). He is thought to have worked in Delft, for his style is reflected in the woodcut illustrations (which he presumably designed) to several books published there between 1482 and 1498. About twenty paintings have been attributed to him, revealing a very distinctive and distinguished artist, who obtained his highly emotional effects through intense colours, desolate landscapes, and gaunt figures. His work is sometimes awkward but always sincere and involving. Two of his finest paintings are the Crucifixion (Bowes Mus., Barnard Castle) and the Entombment (Walker AG, Liverpool).
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