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A master barista's guide to everything from caffe fredo to cold steeping and cold brewing—with an emphasis on proper technique and how to preserve true coffee flavor
With seemingly little thought, or plan, our beverage choices naturally evolve with the seasons. Full-bodied cabernets give way to light-hearted spritzers. Dark, malty ales yield to blonder lagers. For coffee, the iced kind takes a supporting role, if not a leading one.
Iced coffee is a global phenomenon with some good local color. In Greece, where per capita coffee consumption ranks among the world's highest, one-third of coffee is consumed as the iced coffee Greeks call frappe. Simple and refreshing: just combine ice, espresso, and simple syrup in a blender until it thickens like a smoothie, then pour over ice from your freezer. (Ice from a freezer tray is better to use than ice from a refrigerator's ice machine, which is usually less dense and therefore less effective at keeping frosty beverages cool.)
Moving along the Mediterranean, we land in Italy, where the trend now is cooling a single or double espresso in a cocktail shaker, with a lot of ice and maybe a little simple syrup (50 percent sugar, 50 percent water, boiled for five minutes and then cooled). Milk, Baileys, and coffee or vanilla liqueur are often added to create coffee cocktails. The Italians strain out the ice for a smooth coffee drink. This method yields far better results than the old-style caffe freddo, a cold coffee drink still served in many bars across Italy—a lot of espresso shots mixed with water and sugar, refrigerated for a couple of hours, then served straight in the glass.
Among the country's traditional cold coffee preparations are the Sicilian granita al caffe, espresso with sugar, quick-frozen until semi solid, and mixed several times during the freezing (for a recipe, see Corby's The Joy of Coffee); espressino, originally from Puglia, with one shot of espresso poured over three ice cubes in a glass; and Northern Italy's affogato ("drowned"), a shot of espresso poured over a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Simple and delicious. To the east, Germany's Eiskaffe is considered the inspiration for affogato: espresso with milk, over a scoop of vanilla ice cream, topped by whipped cream and shaved chocolate.
Whereby Israel's café kar gets down to basics—coffee, milk, and ice—South America's café helado is complex. Chile's version mixes no less than espresso, Chantilly cream, sugar, cinnamon, vanilla, chocolate ice cream, dulce de leche, and ground almonds.
Japan's aisu kohi is a mix of coffee, gum syrup, and milk, commonly found in cans. Ready-to-drink coffee and tea are Japanese staples, found in about every corner store and vending machine. Thailand's iced coffee contains cardamom, and in the Philippines, condensed milk lightens and sweetens things up.
Purist that I am, I stick with the hot stuff year round, for the aroma, the taste, the elixir-like qualities that only a freshly pulled espresso provides. And while iced may be the natural summertime call, hot beverages do a better job governing temperature perception under sultry conditions—in effect, producing a better cooling effect. The African Tuareg tribe, for one, travels camel-top across the Sahara sipping tea for mile upon sand-swept mile.
But the people have spoken. The time is right. Let's talk iced coffee technique.
Pour hot coffee over ice and you get diluted coffee. So logically, the idea is to melt as little ice as possible, making espresso ideal for iced coffee, owing to its relatively low volume and higher concentration. Rapid cooling is your goal, so pour just-pulled shots right over ice in a cocktail shaker (the glass and metal kind, not all metal), shake, and strain.
Why hot shots and not espresso cooled to room temperature? Because the nearly instantaneous cooling of the hot liquid preserves aromatic integrity—and aroma is the gateway to taste. Bottom line, you get the most "coffee-like" iced coffee experience with espresso. Sweeten and lighten to suit your taste. Use simple syrup or a liquid sugar substitute like blue agave instead of granulated sweeteners, which don't dissolve well in cold beverages.
Brewing coffee in high volume and then cooling in the fridge to satisfy a café's rush hour demands, or a week's worth of commuter travel mugs, is not the way to go. Refrigerating coffee promotes rapid and prolonged oxidation over time, doing irreparable harm to coffee's essential, aroma-harboring oils, accompanied by fast-escalating acidity. Two recipes for disaster.
The longer the cooling time, the greater the breakdown of harder-to-detect complex acids into simpler acids our taste buds perceive more readily. Darker roasts can help counter this breakdown to a degree. But the espresso-based rapid cooling method is the best way to maintain balance and fight sourness.
There is another way. Though not new, it's being newly rediscovered, and becoming something of a movement. Actually, make that two closely related ways: cold brewing and cold steeping. Each can produce stellar results.
Cold brewing and cold steeping rely on time rather then heat to transfer coffee's substances into water—a completely different kind of extraction from hot water. There are tradeoffs, because numerous substances in coffee can't be fully extracted without heat—most notably oils and certain aromas. But cold methods also giveth, by extracting fewer acids than heat-based infusions. The result is somewhat less aromatic but very clean—an almost sweet concentrate, neither acidic nor bitter. As with hot infusion, major variables impacting taste are the coffee's contact time with water, fineness of grind, and amount of ground coffee used.
As in hot coffee preparation, there are two "families" of cold extraction: infusion and percolation, which is also called transfusion. Cold steeping is extraction by infusion. Simply mix cold water and ground coffee, steep in the fridge for up to 12 hours, then strain and filter. It's quite similar to the traditional French press, and indeed a press pot serves cold infusion well. Remember to gently stir the coffee before placing in the fridge, and don't press down until the cooling is complete. Use a coarser grind—more readily trapped by the filter in a French press pot—and don't be stingy: you'll need about six times the usual one gram of coffee per one ounce water of recommended for hot French press preparation. Gear lovers can also find dedicated cold infusion devices, like the Toddy coffee maker, which has been around since the '60s.
Cold brewing is filter coffee's stone-cold brother, requiring special gear ranging in price from $45 into the hundreds of dollars. (Some adventurous types rig up their own cold brewers and spend nothing.) Picture a tall glass tower with multiple chambers and filters. Ice-cooled water drips from the upper part of the tower, where a special valve and a spiral-shaped pipe regulate the speed of the drops, ideally one per second. The drops run over ground coffee housed in a clear cylinder covered by thin tissue or a paper filter. Underneath, another filter prevents ground coffee from entering the next section of spiral pipe, from which finished, brewed coffee drips and collects in the tower's base. Cold brewing takes time—about 12 hours—so it's best done overnight. You might save a little time by using a coarser grind, and be willing to tolerate a less aromatic coffee.
With beautifully balanced, aromatic, chilled coffee as foundation, the power to create iced coffee perfectly suited to your tastes, and summertime whims, is all yours. Take inspiration from your favorite stop along the world tour we took earlier. Experiment with your shaker, with ice cream, liqueurs, sweeteners. Or, with nothing at all. Prepared correctly, starting with high quality, properly stored beans, your coffee will hold its own—even on the rocks.
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F1 test driver Maria De Villota lost an eye when she crashed into parked truck early in July. She gave her first interview to Spain's ¡Hola! magazine and she's happy to be alive.
De Villota complains of headaches that may last for years and a loss of smell and taste, but in her interview she spoke positively about the crash.
The accident has given me a new perspective about life, about the things that matter…Now I have just one eye maybe I perceive more things than before. Before this, my life was a race against the clock, and now I see you have to stop and measure things in a different way.
She also spoke about the crash itself and the horror of waking up.
The first day I looked at myself in the mirror I had 140 black stitches on my face, and they looked like they had been stitched with a boat rope, and I had lost my right eye. I was terrified.
While she is out of the hospital, she has more surgeries to come. She says that the worst is behind her and we wish her a speedy recovery. Officials are still investigating the cause of her crash.
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The final deployment of British combat troops to Afghanistan will take place in June this year, the defence secretary has announced.
In a written ministerial statement, Philip Hammond said it will be the final phase of Operation Herrick - the UK's operation in Afghanistan - with the drawdown of combat troops due to be complete by the end of the year.
The announcement comes as Task Force Helmand, the UK's military headquarters in Afghanistan, was disbanded this week in the latest major step in the drawdown of British troops.
The British-led coalition task force's functions will now be absorbed into the wider US-led Regional Command (South West).
Announcing the final deployment of British troops to Afghanistan, Mr Hammond said around half of the units will come under the command of Brigadier Robert Thomas, who becomes the senior British officer in the province, serving as deputy commander Regional Command (South West).
The remainder will deploy elsewhere within Camp Bastion and in Kandahar and Kabul as part of the UK's overall contribution.
The number of British personnel in Helmand has reduced from a peak of more than 10,000 to just under half that number as Afghan National Security Forces have taken the lead in security across Afghanistan.
Units deploying will include The Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish); Royal Artillery regiments; Royal Engineers; Signal Regiments; The Royal Logistic Corps; Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers; Royal Military Police as well as Royal Air Force squadrons.
Some 762 individuals from each of the services will also deploy, made up of 67 Royal Navy personnel, 320 Army personnel and 375 Royal Air Force personnel, while reservists will also be called up.
Mr Hammond said this deployment, which will be the 20th Operation Herrick, will be the final phase of the mission as UK Armed Forces end combat operations by December 31.
The closure of Task Force Helmand, which at its height had 137 bases across central Helmand, marks the end of the U K-led combat mission in Afghanistan, but British forces are continuing to support their Afghan counterparts with training and advice until the end of combat operations later this year.
Its disbandment is the latest in a series of steps marking the UK's withdrawal from Afghanistan - l ast month the MoD announced the closure or handover of three frontline bases in Helmand, leaving just one outside Camp Bastion.
Some 448 British forces personnel or MoD civilians have died in Afghanistan since the start of operations in October 2001.
The latest was Sapper Adam Moralee from 32 Engineer Regiment, who died on March 5 in Camp Bastion when he was injured while preparing equipment to be brought back to the UK.
Announcing the closure of Task Force Helmand, Mr Hammond said: "At this important point in the final year of the UK's lengthy and crucially important combat mission, it is only right to reflect on the significant achievements - and sacrifices - of the past eight years.
"The servicemen and women who have fought under the command of Task Force Helmand have protected the security of the UK and its people; prevented international terrorists from using Afghanistan as a base; and created the conditions for a brighter, more secure and more stable future for the country.
"However, the job is not over yet and UK troops will continue to operate in often risky and challenging conditions in Helmand supporting the Afghan forces and continuing the redeployment effort, until UK combat operations are concluded later this year."
At a ceremony to mark the end of Task Force Helmand, its final commander Brigadier James Woodham, said it was a "significant moment" in the drawdown.
"We are leaving Helmand in a better place and the Afghan National Security Forces are well set to continue to deliver security to the region."
Brig Robert Thomson, ceputy commander Regional Command (South West), added: "Having served in the province back in 2009, I have witnessed the progress delivered here by British forces under Task Force Helmand.
"In Regional Command (South West) we will continue that great work, supporting the Afghan National Security Forces and the people of Helmand, until the end of 2014 to see out the mission here alongside our US comrades."


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This book provides a systematic and organized approach to analyzing data for RCTs with noncompliance under the most frequently-encountered situations. These include parallel sampling, stratified sampling, cluster sampling, parallel sampling with subsequent missing outcomes, and a series of dependent Bernoulli sampling for repeated measurements. The author provides a comprehensive approach by using contingency tables to illustrate the latent probability structure of observed data. Using real-life examples, computer-simulated data and exercises in each chapter, the book illustrates the underlying theory in an accessible, and easy to understand way.
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2.1 Testing superiority.
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3.1 Testing superiority.
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4 Randomized clinical trials with noncompliance under cluster sampling.
4.1 Testing superiority.
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Heurelho Gomes has hit out at referee Mark Clattenburg for allowing Manchester United's controversial second goal against Tottenham on Saturday.
Nani prodded the ball home after the Spurs goalkeeper placed the ball on the ground feeling a free-kick had been awarded by Clattenburg for a handball by the United player. The referee allowed the goal to stand, though, seemingly having invited Tottenham to play on, and United went on to claim a 2-0 win at Old Trafford.
Gomes said: "In my opinion, the whole stadium saw what happened. It is impossible the ref did not see the handball. He did not gesture in any way to play on, like you would normally expect. When I put the ball down on the floor, he started gesturing with his shoulders."
He added: "He is supposed to use his hands. It was not clear to anyone. It was only when I saw (Paul) Scholes shouting at Nani to shoot that I reacted.
"The biggest mistake was not being clear afterwards. Maybe he did not have to give the foul but you have to be clear. He only gestured after I put the ball down.
"Nani stopped the game with his hands but this is not basketball."
Gomes maintains that, as far as he is concerned, he did nothing wrong.
He added in The Sun: "I feel bad, as I let in a goal. But I would react the same again.
"The ref was not clear. He gesticulated with his shoulders and barely moved his arms. He was not able to explain and show to anyone in the stadium what was going on.
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Negative Entropy: Jan Robert Leegte's Remake of Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in Minecraft
Jan Robert Leegte, Remake of Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in Minecraft (2013).
Jan Robert Leegte's title leaves little to be explained. From sunrise to sunset in 12 minutes, and from a fixed angle, we see the famous Jetty rendered in blocky pale yellow over equally clunky, rich blue water, below slow-moving Tetris-shaped clouds. With digital facility, Smithson's piece has been taken from its Utah site and injected into the non-site of Minecraft. Gone are the inconsistent pinks, reds, and purples of numerous Jetty photographs. They've been replaced with the bright color blocks of a Minecraft world.
Minecraft—in which users are encouraged to "build anything they can imagine"—provides an ideal support for Leegte's Jetty. The game has an inherent Romanticism, evidenced by its creation of an open, natural world, in which players wander, survive, marvel, and build. (Nicholas O'Brien's video game The Wanderer (2012), may have most rigorously explored the implications of digital Romanticism.) Visually, Minecraft doesn't disguise its particulate texture, foregrounding instead the raw pixelated material of synthesized images. The sun and moon emerge as squares from a flat horizon. The jetty itself has a too-perfect straight line and a clunky curvature, reminiscent of the balance of rough texture and precision in Smithson's Jetty.
That Jetty is—by design—subject to the chaos of nature and decay. It was a place where, as Smithson wrote, "No ideas, no concepts, no systems, no structures, no abstractions could hold themselves together in the actuality of that evidence." Leegte's jetty, though, isn't subject to that kind of change. The monitor could break or the lights could go out, but the Minecraft jetty won't sink under water or crumble apart. It exists in an algorithmic landscape, which embraces variability within ...
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The Supertask (Yesterday's Today), installed at LEAP, Berlin, January 2013
Your work displays an interest in the interplay between narrative and identity. How do those notions inform your practice?
My interest there mainly originates in questions around myth and reality in regard to the development of new technologies, which all tend to have their proper narratives. Any such effort requires the expense of resources and as such has to be 'sold' to society in one way or the other. In the twentieth century this often happened for political ends whereas today arguably narratives of business are more dominant again. Technologies that originated in vast government projects have transitioned into something else. The Golden Institute from 2009 which is set in an alternate history 1980s America was the first project to have the question of the technological narrative at its center and also the first piece in which I worked with an actor. This was a conscious move that aimed to give this fictitious narrative an identity – in this case the strategist of a think-tank which develops and deploys fairly radical energy technologies. The character, Douglas Arnd, is loosely based on historical figures such as Herman Kahn, who was one of the first to point out the importance of narrative in regard to technology. In Forever Future from 2010 he was joined by another character, Robert Walker, who in a sense is the disillusioned customer of the dreams of the 1950s, yet refuses to let go of his dreams of life in space. As a reaction, he constructs a sort of earth-bound spaceship, helping those unfulfilled visions to survive while also hoping that this may be a cure for his own nostalgia for the futures that he never got to live. Both men's identities are probably fairly American, but ...
An Interview with Metahaven
Metahaven in collaboration with IMMI, Data / Saga, digital models and sketches, 2013
I was wondering if you could tell me a little bit about the foundations and origin of Metahaven.
Metahaven is a strategic graphic design agency. We make anything between a conference, a publication, an interview, a product, a visual identity, a policy document, or a set of floating appearances on the Internet. We are not only interested in the development of hypothetical image, but also in its realization. Some of our projects are an identity proposal for the Principality of Sealand, which is an off-shore micronation which played an iconic role as a "data haven" during the late 1990s dotcom boom. In 2010 we released Uncorporate Identity—a design book for our dystopian age. Some parts of Uncorporate Identity were about dismantling and attacking the "brand state"—the notion of promoting or creating reputations for countries—and by proxy, about dismantling branding itself. We have also attacked and criticized Joseph Nye's notion of "soft power"—the power to attract—which is arguably the only political concept which branding has ever heard of. One of our upcoming projects is a collaboration with the Iceland-based think tank IMMI, thinking up a set of images and messages for the excellent and forward-thinking legal, energy, and social environment which Iceland has created for internet and cloud hosting. We recently interviewed two people who are involved in this: Eleanor Saitta and Smári McCarthy. Both of them work for IMMI.
Metahaven in collaboration with IMMI, Data / Saga, digital models and sketches, 2013
You've spoken of current conceptions of branding a processes of consolidation as opposed to differentiation. In a post on your Tumblr related to an exhibition at the Museum of Display in Antwerp, you write that the process of assigning identity is "a surface or screen by which an organization mirrors its surroundings, both in the physical space as well as in information space." In an article you wrote about 4 years ago in e-flux, which was also published in Uncorporate Identity, you suggested that state branding had to become "more concerned with both the structural standardization implied by network power and a pluralistic understanding of decentralized and distributed political alternatives being developed on various scales." How do you feel design and branding can function to create a multiplicitous understanding of identities that operate within political contexts?
Metahaven, Uncorporate Identity, Lars Müller Publishers, 2010
A brand is a socially and economically sustained form of prejudice. Branding is the management of first impressions, and to that end, it is inherently deceitful. To establish the few initial thoughts people have about something is a very hard thing to accomplish by design, but is swiftly and almost irreversibly done by uncontrollable events; reputations literally shift overnight. The main way in which branding has been embodied in politics is through the concept of soft power. As the Innocence of Muslims YouTube video showed, American soft power can be affected, inversed even, overnight, by only a handful of pixels.
Not soft power, but "network power" should be regarded as the structural force behind presence and identity. This idea, which is explored in more detail in Uncorporate Identity, takes globalization as a process unfolding through various standards: of communication, exchange, payment, travel, language, etc. Such standards both enable and limit actors in their agency and choice of alternatives. Importantly, such network standards are ultimately predominant over the positive or negative emotions associated with particular actors in or on the network. In the case of the Innocence of Muslims video, for example, American soft power is volatile, while its network power—YouTube—is stable. In other words, the network power is a prerequisite to even have soft power.
Artist Profile: Ed Atkins
Still from Warm, Warm, Warm Spring Mouths 2013, HD video with 5.1 surround, 13'. Commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and Jerwood Visual Arts.
Your video installation Us Dead Talk Love, currently on view at MoMA PS1, makes use of hi-def and surround-sound technologies. How do you approach these in your video installation process? How did you approach the installation specifically for Chisenhale?
It's predicated on immersion, I suppose. An attempt to address the body whole, rather than privilege sight, hearing. This might begin with a redressing of the balance between ocular and aural, and pan down to take in the whole wobbling form, up to some emotional affect – the surround sound penetrating, the visuals interrupting and shifting themselves between depths of field and vast cosmic spaces; infinitesimal motes of dust. These technologies are corporeal in their totalising address, which I see as dichotomous to the material reality of the technology – which seems to be dissipated or perhaps simply deferred to some desperate mine in some OTHER continent. The combined effect being one of possession – the work finding its home entirely within the body of the audience.
You've spoken of the tension between text or writing and filmic realization in your work before. How did this tension come into play during the production of your work in Us Dead Talk Love? Was it exacerbated or sublimated by your chosen technologies?
If I had to choose, I'd say sublimated – though I think that it's more straightforwardly performative. The one to and of the other. New media as a home for these things. Whether that's somewhat apologetic for the a failure of these things to stand alone is moot, I hope.
You've mentioned before your exposure to Hollis Frampton. What influence did Frampton have on ...
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Morenci Education Foundation president Bill Van Valkenburg is asking area residents to "adopt a classroom" to help with funding the foundation mini-grant program.
The foundation's annual golf tournament serves as the group's fund-raising event for mini-grants—an effort that gives cash to teachers for classroom projects and equipment.
The mini-grant program was one of two purposes of the foundation when it was established in 2002. Over the past decade, 135 projects were funded with nearly $50,000 distributed.
The mini-grant program started off with a combination of the golf tournament and donations from the Sage Foundation. After two years, it was just the golf event.
Now, survival of the program depends on donations.
"Because the area economy is so poor," said foundation president Bill Van Valkenburg, "we were forced to cancel our 10th annual golf tournament back in June. We are therefore coming directly to the public to seek support for this year's mini-grant fund."
Van Valkenburg knows there is always a lot of generosity shown when a need arises.
"It's no secret that the residents of Morenci and the surrounding area form a very caring, compassionate community," he said. "This is made evident very clearly in the number of benefits scheduled to assist those in need."
At the same time, he notes, the school district is facing enormous financial challenges, without the funding to support special programs.
"This is an opportunity to directly impact students in the classroom," Van Valkenburg said, "and every penny donated will go into our mini-grant fund."
Donations can be mailed to Morenci Education Foundation, 500 Page St., Morenci MI 49256. Donations can also be made via the group's website: www.morencieducationfoundation.org.
For projects valued at $250 or less, funding comes through a mini-grant. For larger projects, such as the classroom sound systems that were funded in the past, Van Valkenburg is putting to use what he learned at a grant-writing seminar and is hoping to attract funding from another source.
Van Valkenburg is seeking donations of money or supplies for the following eight requests from teachers:
• The Mayan Pot project (70 eight-inch clay pots needed), $230;
• Geometry class supplies, $250;
• A drill press and band saw for the Project Lead the Way science/engineering project, $250;
• Personal CD players and batteries, eight for $188;
• Personal CD players, 10 for $175;
• 25 copies of the National Geographic Student Atlas, $240;
• Mathematics supplies for a special education classroom, $133;
• Replacement of science learning materials, $250.
A donation could cover the entire need of a classroom or several donors could work together to provide funds.


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Told you I had one more negative post for 2009 - sorry but I just could not help taking a long look at this last year for all Chicago sports (you get a break, Blackhawks) and thinking, "What a bunch of crap."
So, maybe on New Year's Day when you're laying around watching all the "bowl" (how appropriate) games, leave a comment here saying what 2009 Chicago sports-turd (or turds) you most want flushed down the toilet. Sports-turds that have already been flushed out of Chicago are fair game as well.
Because I've already started down in the sewer, please feel free to let it rip - I do not expect this to be rated PG.
It'll be liberating, in fact.
And besides, everybody gets a new start in 2010, right?
I'll begin with the turd I've been the loudest about - it'll be the easiest for me: Chicago Sports-turd Milton Bradley, for your absolute lack of realizing there's a world outside your own head, for your lack of hitting, and of knowing how many outs there are in an inning, I FLUSH YOU DOWN THE TOILET!


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I recently received "Storm over the Pacific" to review for http://www.game-debate.com/ but unfortuately the manual folder http://www2.wastelands-interactive.c...c%20Editor.exe contains only.aaaaaaaaabbbbbb
While I have managed to figure out alot of the basic stuff: Deploying units, moving, attacking, reinforcing, upgrading, repairing small naval units etc. I am sure I am missing much of the more advanced stuff.
I am really enjoying the Invasion of Australia and would love to know:
1/ How to pause the combat dialogues since they flash past to quickly to read, and
2/ How to send my major vessels for repair/ how to upgrade my shipyards to repair them.
Review will appear at GameDebate on May 8th, meanwhile here are some of my efforts on games in the same genre:
Hearts of Iron III Review: http://www.game-debate.com/articles/...94&game=Hearts of Iron III
For the Glory Review: http://www.game-debate.com/articles/...d=369&game=For the Glory


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As is the practice on Wednesday we will now sing O Canada, and we will be led by the hon. member for Saint John.
[Editor's Note: Members sang the national anthem]
House of Commons Hansard #131 of the 37th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was copyright.
2 p.m.
The Speaker
As is the practice on Wednesday we will now sing O Canada, and we will be led by the hon. member for Saint John.
[Editor's Note: Members sang the national anthem]
SeniorsStatements By Members
2 p.m.
Derek Lee Liberal Scarborough—Rouge River, ON
Mr. Speaker, I want to bring to the attention of the House that in October we recognize the International Day of Older Persons and in November we recognize National Seniors Safety Week. I also want to restate our collective obligation to prevent the neglect of our nearly four million Canadian seniors.
As announced in the February 2003 budget, the federal government has established compassionate care employment insurance benefits for workers who have to be away from work temporarily to provide care to a member of their family who is gravely ill. Further, to help identify the challenges we may face in achieving quality of life for our elder persons, the life they deserve, the Prime Minister announced on September 17 the creation of a Liberal caucus task force on seniors. The task force will examine and report on issues including abuse, poverty alleviation, disability supports, housing and home care.
The contributions made to Canada by our seniors are well recognized, but we must be mindful of the various forms of neglect to which seniors are exposed. I would like to take this opportunity to urge all Canadians to continue their support of the efforts--
SeniorsStatements By Members
2 p.m.
The Speaker
The hon. member of North Vancouver.
Election CampaignsStatements By Members
2 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Ted White Canadian Alliance North Vancouver, BC
Mr. Speaker, on June 27 the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the government's mean-spirited 50 candidate rule, a rule designed to prevent small parties from participating in elections. The government House leader wasted tens of millions of dollars on legal fees after he refused to accept the realistic 12 candidate rule I had negotiated for him with Canada's small parties more than three years ago.
It is time the Liberals stopped wasting taxpayer money on frivolous court cases like their hugely expensive and ongoing defence of their election gag law, or will they wait yet again for the highest court in the land to tell them that it is unacceptable and unconstitutional to try to limit freedom of expression during an election campaigns?
Unfortunately, the minister is a walking disaster for the taxpayers of Canada. Every bill he has ever brought to the House has ended up costing taxpayers their freedom to participate in election campaigns, tens of millions of dollars in legal fees, or both.
International Day of Older PersonsStatements By Members
2 p.m.
Yolande Thibeault Liberal Saint-Lambert, QC
Mr. Speaker, as Chair of the Prime Minister's caucus task force on seniors, I am pleased to rise to pay tribute to the millions of Canadian men and women who are celebrating the International Day of Older Persons today, October 1.
Our government believes that no older person in Canada should suffer from a lack of services or support. The Liberal task force on seniors was created in order to focus more attention on health care and poverty, and to ensure that older persons obtain the services they need, when they need them, and that they take an active part in community life.
By creating favourable conditions for them, we will continue to benefit from their experience and their significant contribution to Canadian society.
Hike Canada WeekStatements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Alan Tonks Liberal York South—Weston, ON
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise today to invite all hon. members to participate in the inaugural Hike Canada Week and to encourage participation of others in this fun and fast growing recreational activity.
From October 3 to 12, all across Canada hikers and walkers will be on the trails that link people, places and heritage of Canada, Canada's tremendous system of footpaths winds from the rugged coastline of Newfoundland, across the Bay of Fundy, through the Appalachian and Laurentian Mountains, over the Canadian Shield and the Niagara Escarpment, through the prairie grasslands and across the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean.
Our nation's varied geography, history, environment and cultures are all reflected and showcased through our network of trails. From heritage sites to historic paths and from fishermen to farmers, our trails link Canada and Canadians.
Having more Canadians aware of and connected to their natural heritage and environment through hiking and walking will help produce a population that is healthier, more protective of their environment, more likely to travel within Canada, and more respectful of our mutual heritage as Canadians.
Our government has made a strong commitment to foster the Canadian mosaic and I am pleased to trumpet the efforts--.
Hike Canada WeekStatements By Members
2:05 p.m.
The Speaker
The hon. member for Vancouver Kingsway.
B.C. FiresStatements By Members
October 1st, 2003 / 2:05 p.m.
Sophia Leung Liberal Vancouver Kingsway, BC
Mr. Speaker, we all watched in horror this past summer as fire burned parts of Kelowna, McLure, Louis Creek and Barrère, but out of the ashes has emerged a community spirit full of generosity and caring.
Recently I had the pleasure of attending a fundraising dinner organized by the Chinese community in Vancouver that raised over $250,000 to assist people who were affected by the fires in B.C.
I want to congratulate co-chairs, Mr. Johnny Fong and Mr. Patrick Wong, MLA for Vancouver Kensington, for the hard work and leadership that made this donation possible from our Chinese community to show our caring spirit for the fire victims.
Young OffendersStatements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Chuck Cadman Canadian Alliance Surrey North, BC
Mr. Speaker, in February 2001 a drunk 17 year old crashed his $70,000 BMW at 140 kilometres per hour street racing in West Vancouver. His passenger, 17 year old Payam Yaghoobi, died.
On Monday, convicted of criminal negligence causing death, he was sentenced to eight months open custody, followed by four months of house arrest; statutory release at two-thirds for young offenders.
Prosecutors complain they cannot get serious consequences for violent young offenders.
In 1993, long before coming here, I met with the member for LaSalle--Émard over coffee as he campaigned in British Columbia and I was left believing that he shared my concerns about the lenient treatment of violent young offenders. Now his government has given Canadians the flawed Youth Criminal Justice Act under which police hesitate to charge, prosecutors are frustrated, the hands of judges are tied, victims do not get justice and violent young criminals laugh for the TV cameras.
What happened to the 10 year old Liberal promise to get serious with violent young offenders?
Stéphanie DuboisStatements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Raymonde Folco Liberal Laval West, QC
Mr. Speaker, today I would like to salute the perseverance and talent of Stéphanie Dubois, a young woman from Laval for whom 2003 has been an impressive year in tennis.
She has played brilliantly in recent months, moving up in the International Tennis Federation ranking from 110th in the world in the junior category before the season began, to her present position of 68th.
Along with the people of Laval, I want to congratulate Stéphanie Dubois who, through her talent, has earned a berth among Canada's best under-18 tennis players. I am convinced that we will be hearing about her accomplishments in this sport for some time to come.
Violence on TelevisionStatements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Christiane Gagnon Bloc Québec, QC
Mr. Speaker, the Bloc Quebecois welcomes the initiative of partners in education, health, social services and municipalities, which launched a campaign to counter violence on television.
In today's papers, CRTC spokesman Denis Carmel noted that, over the past few months, broadcasters have definitely let their standards slip.
The Bloc Quebecois can only wonder about the indifference of the federal government which, since the first campaign against violence on television, has always refused to take action and continues to state that this falls under the CRTC. Since the CRTC is a federal agency, the federal government is responsible for providing it with the necessary means to take action in this matter and implement measures to counter violence on television.
The federal government must stop denying its responsibility and take immediate action in support of parents and educators, in order to protect our children from violence on television.
Kirk MagarianStatements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Sarkis Assadourian Liberal Brampton Centre, ON
Mr. Speaker, I rise in the House today to pay homage to the late Mr. Kirk Magarian.
Born in Armenia in 1914, Mr. Magarian came to Canada in 1923 as one of the Georgetown Boys. Orphaned as a result of the Armenian genocide of 1915, the boys represent the first wave of Armenian immigration to Canada.
Mr. Magarian was an outstanding member of the community of Campbellford, dedicating himself to many charitable and social issues in his neighbourhood. His efforts on behalf of the community will be remembered and sorely missed.
I ask my fellow members of Parliament to join me in passing on our condolences to his wife, Marjorie, and in celebrating the life of Mr. Kirk Magarian.
Government ContractsStatements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Rob Merrifield Canadian Alliance Yellowhead, AB
Mr. Speaker, almost daily it seems that new evidence is uncovered of a culture of corruption, cronyism and mismanagement that is flourishing under the Liberal government.
Yesterday another former senior official was arrested by the RCMP in the growing Virginia Fontaine scandal. The accused stands charged of giving preferential treatment to the Fontaine Treatment Centre for a payback of almost $1 million in government contracts to a company owned by his wife. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
He is the seventh person charged in an all too familiar tale of kickbacks, junkets, bogus travel claims and lucrative government contracts.
Problems at Health Canada were allowed to fester for years before the infamous Caribbean cruise story broke in October 2000.
This is another example of Liberals acting only when a scandal become public. Clearly the Liberals are incapable of managing taxpayer funds and undeserving of the public trust.
Parc Industriel Roger-LefebvreStatements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Gérard Binet Liberal Frontenac—Mégantic, QC
Mr. Speaker, the Black Lake industrial park is being renamed after Roger Lefebvre, in recognition of his contribution to our community.
Mr. Lefebvre was the provincial justice minister in 1994, and deputy speaker of the National Assembly for three years. He was elected for three consecutive terms as the MNA for Frontenac.
Mention Roger Lefebvre and two words come to mind: admiration and affection. Admiration, because he was an organizer par excellence and also because he put his talents to work for his community.
He deserves this honour for his community involvement and outstanding contributions. His success in mobilizing others is a daily source of inspiration to me as member for Frontenac—Mégantic. I want to publically pay tribute to him in this House.
Mothers Against Drunk DrivingStatements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Progressive Conservative
John Herron Progressive Conservative Fundy Royal, NB
Mr. Speaker, it gives me great pleasure to rise in the House today to congratulate Ms. Karen Dunham as the new president elect for Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
For those who are not aware, the mission of MADD Canada is to stop impaired driving and support the victims of this violent crime.
Ms. Dunham has been an active member of the MADD Saint John and Area Chapter since 1997.
On September 8, 1998, Ms. Dunham's involvement in MADD Canada became more than just a membership, it became her reality. Her oldest son, Jonathan, and his best friend, Mike Green, were victims of an alcohol related crash. Having suffered serious injuries, today Jonathan is considered to be a miracle.
The strength, the courage and the selfless dedication Ms. Dunham has demonstrated in the face of adversity will no doubt ensure that she will serve as an excellent president elect of MADD.
I ask all members in the House to join me in congratulating MADD Canada's new president elect, Ms. Karen Dunham.
International Music DayStatements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Michel Guimond Bloc Beauport—Montmorency—Côte-De- Beaupré—Île-D'Orléans, QC
Mr. Speaker, on this International Music Day, let us recall the history of music: from Gregorian chants to troubadours, from classical to contemporary, let us listen to music from all around the world and of every type.
Let us acknowledge that music has a constant presence in our lives, whether at a restaurant, in the car, at the shopping mall, at the dentist or anywhere else. Music is part of our daily lives and behind this music, first and foremost, are the artists who contribute to the musical wealth of Quebec's society.
To all you musicians, teachers of music at all levels, instrumentalists, and composers, thank you for allowing us to appreciate your art. You know how to touch our hearts and awaken our senses. Your harmonious melodies help us to discover our inner spirit and, to some extent, our spirituality.
Happy International Music Day.
LiteracyStatements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Marcel Proulx Liberal Hull—Aylmer, QC
Mr. Speaker, this year, Canada Post announced 32 winners of its Literacy Awards. These are the country's only national awards dedicated to recognizing grassroots literacy initiatives and to celebrating the achievements of learners and the people who help them along the way.
Recently, one of my constituents, Francine Guindon, won such an award. Ms. Guindon won the 2003 Individual Achievement Award in the French category in Quebec. She overcame social and economic obstacles by participating in the literacy program offered at the Centre d'éducation de base de l'Outaouais.
Congratulations to Francine Guindon. Her hard work is an example of courage and determination.
Women's History MonthStatements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Bev Desjarlais NDP Churchill, MB
Mr. Speaker, October is Women's History Month. Through the hard work and determination of our foremothers, women in Canada today have access to higher education. They can work, earn money and own property. They have the right to vote and run for elected office.
Today when women stay home they do it by choice knowing they are valued at home or at work. We should never take these rights and liberties for granted.
Women's History Month is a time to encourage us to look back on our past and see how far women in the country have come. It is also a time to acknowledge that we still have far to go.
Today women represent 44% of income earners in Canada, yet continue to struggle with issues of equity. Women make up more than 50% of the population, yet hold only 21% of the seats in the House of Commons.
This year's theme, "What Do You Mean Women Couldn't Vote", reminds us that gaining the right to vote must not be the final chapter in Canadian women's history. We must continue to ask: What is the most effective way to use that vote?
I ask all members to join with me this month as we celebrate the achievements of Canadian women. Let us keep up the fight.
Cancer ResearchStatements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Raymond Simard Liberal Saint Boniface, MB
Mr. Speaker, I am proud to announce today that in my riding on Sunday, October 19 an amazing 10 year old student named Zoe Wreggitt is holding her fifth annual walkathon for cancer research.
In the last four years, Zoe has raised over $6,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society, of which $3,000 was raised last year. Her goal this year is to surpass the $4,000 mark. She has invited children from her community to join her in this extraordinary fundraising activity. The walkathon begins at her home and the participants walk around the block for one hour.
She is certainly an exceptional individual and was recognized as such by the Manitoba Teacher's Society which this past spring awarded Zoe the Young Humanitarian Award.
It is an honour for me as the member of Parliament for Saint Boniface to recognize this remarkable person who at such a young age has demonstrated the true art of giving.
I ask everyone to join me in congratulating and supporting Zoe in this unique endeavour.
Coast GuardStatements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
John M. Cummins Canadian Alliance Delta—South Richmond, BC
Mr. Speaker, a fishing vessel out of Caraquet, New Brunswick went down early Monday morning. Two fishermen are presumed dead. The vessel was out in 50 knot winds and 20 to 30 foot seas near Anticosti Island.
The vessel's distress calls went unanswered because there was little or nor search and rescue coverage in the area at that time. Two search and rescue stations, Rivière-au-Renard and Saint-Pierre on Quebec's north shore, were not open as they had no staff and no vessels. This region has five relatively large vessels on the books. However three of the vessels were in the Arctic, one was in lay-up and the other was in dry dock for repairs.
Why was there no Coast Guard rescue capability in the area when it was obvious to everyone that a hurricane was on its way? Does the government not know that lack of coverage means no chance to save a life? It means loss of life.
The Liberal government has decimated the once proud Canadian Coast Guard search and rescue service since it came to office in 1993 and has put the lives of everyone on the water at risk, whether on the east or west coast.
Member for LaSalle—ÉmardOral Question Period
2:15 p.m.
Calgary Southwest Alberta
Canadian Alliance
Stephen Harper Canadian AllianceLeader of the Opposition
Mr. Speaker, we know that identity theft is a serious problem with the government. We have seen the problem in the revenue minister's department.
However we have a more serious example of identity theft. We apparently have someone running around the country saying that he is the prime minister and organizing first ministers meetings.
Does the Prime Minister think it is right that the new Liberal leader, someone he calls a mere backbencher in his government, would be setting a full first ministers conference for November 16?
Member for LaSalle—ÉmardOral Question Period
2:20 p.m.
Saint-Maurice Québec
Jean Chrétien LiberalPrime Minister
Mr. Speaker, apparently there will be a number of them watching a football game and I hope it will be good. I hope the Alouettes will win but if it is Saskatchewan I might have second thoughts about it.
If he meets with the first ministers, it will be an occasion for the first ministers to show their shopping list for the budget of February 2004.
Member for LaSalle—ÉmardOral Question Period
2:20 p.m.
Calgary Southwest Alberta
Canadian Alliance
Stephen Harper Canadian AllianceLeader of the Opposition
Mr. Speaker, I am more concerned about the political footballs that are being pushed around.
The government has told us that the member for LaSalle—Émard is a mere backbencher. Now he is acting as the intergovernmental affairs minister, setting up his own federal-provincial conferences. He is not a minister, not the prime minister and he should not be doing this.
If this individual wants to act like the prime minister why is he not in the House of Commons answering questions on government business?
Member for LaSalle—ÉmardOral Question Period
2:20 p.m.
Saint-Maurice Québec
Jean Chrétien LiberalPrime Minister
Mr. Speaker, we had a vote yesterday and he voted with members of Parliament.
Other members of Parliament are not in their seats today. It is the right of members of Parliament to work at the same time when we have question period. I do not know why the member is so excited.
The problem is I know how disturbed the Leader of the Opposition is and I am about to become a marriage counsellor for him very soon.
Member for LaSalle—ÉmardOral Question Period
2:20 p.m.
Calgary Southwest Alberta
Canadian Alliance
Stephen Harper Canadian AllianceLeader of the Opposition
Mr. Speaker, I think the better marriage counsellor might be Aline but I will leave that to the Prime Minister's judgment.
The new Liberal leader might meet with the premiers. Yet according to the Prime Minister, the new leader is nothing more than a government backbencher.
Can the Prime Minister tell us whether he was invited to this meeting and whether, as Prime Minister, he intends to be there?


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'The Silence,' a starkly beautiful yet bleakly hopeless police procedural, opens with a child's rape and murder in a German field in 1986. There's no question of 'who done it' here. We see all too clearly the murderer (Ulrich Thomsen), a caretaker from a nearby apartment complex.
So does the murderer's friend and fellow pedophile Timo (Wotan Wilke Mohring), who stands by helplessly yet complicit in the crime. Here's a man whose own sexual predilections are less appalling than his failure to stop or report the killing, which he doesn't condone. That Timo is so disgusted by the murder that he quits his friend, leaving town, doesn't begin to let him off the hook.
Timo's silence is awful, and deafening.
Suddenly, the film jumps forward to 2009, when, 23 years to the day after the first crime, a second murder of a young girl is committed and in the exact same spot. 'But why?' asks Krischan (Burghart Klaussner), the detective who handled the old, unsolved case, and who, despite his recent retirement, jumps back into the fresh investigation. His question isn't existential. Though there are overtones to the film that hint at life's meaninglessness, 'The Silence' does ultimately answer Krischan's question, if in a way that is staggering in its sadness and lack of conventional closure.
This is film noir at its noirest.
As 'The Silence' progresses, others besides Krischan are drawn into a re-examination of the past, including Timo, who, after moving to a nearby town, has changed his last name, married and is now the father of two small children. Elena (Katrin Sass), the mother of the first dead girl, is also forced to confront all her old grief.
Frankly, it never really left her. Elena still lives in a house with her daughter's bedroom untouched, like a shrine, since the day she died. When a young detective who has just lost his wife to cancer (Sebastian Blomberg) asks Elena when the pain of loss begins to subside, she answers, bluntly, 'Never.'
Life, as seen through the frame of this story, is something to be endured, not lived. We're shown small rays of hope: a pregnant policewoman (Jule Bowe); a child on a trampoline; the parents who wait, against their better judgment, for word that their daughter is merely missing. But those flashes of sun are choked by gathering clouds. The sense of dread is pervasive, and coolly encroaching.
Written and directed by first-time feature filmmaker Baran bo Odar (from a novel by Jan Costin Wagner), 'The Silence' is something of a thriller, albeit an unorthodox one. Although we know who all the players are from the get-go, watching them move about the narrative chessboard -- in ways that feel both strategic and fatally pre-ordained -- is almost unbearably suspenseful.
There's an unblinking stillness to Odar's camerawork that heightens the creepy mood. Whether we're watching the mundane spinning of an electric fan or the handle of a knife ominously peeking out of the killer's pocket as he's interrogated by a cop, everything seems to hint, inevitably, at some some horrible, unhappy ending.
'The Silence' satisfies, not by giving us the climax we want, deserve, or have seen before, but the one that we know, with a sinking feeling, is coming.
--- Three stars. Unrated. Contains disturbing thematic material, violence, obscenity, sensuality and brief nudity. In German with English subtitles. 119 minutes.


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Band recording piece composed by Belshaw
PLAINVIEW -- The U. S. Naval Academy Band will record "Oldest and Finest," a march composed by Dr. Gary Belshaw, Wayland Baptist University Assistant Professor of Piano Pedagogy. The recording of the march will be included in a planned 4 CD set commemorating the 150 th Anniversary of the Academy Band. Lieutenant Commander Donald H. Keller, leader of the U. S. Naval Academy Band, requested permission to use the piece.
The march was composed during the summer of 2002. The idea for the march originated during a visit with members of the band after a performance of Belshaw's doctoral dissertation, "Wind Sculptures" for trombone and band. That performance in May 2002 featured Don Lucas, Professor of Trombone at Texas Tech University, and the U. S Naval Academy Band.
"Some of the band members and I were dining after the performance, and they told me the band was coming up on its 150 th anniversary. The march is dedicated to the band in honor of its Sesquicentennial Anniversary," Belshaw said.
"Writing a march is one of those wonderful challenges every composer must face at one point or another. And it was John Phillip Sousa who set the standard. He said that a march 'must be as free from padding as a marble statue.' That's a pretty tough standard. In literary terms, it means there can be no snow job."
The U. S. Naval Academy Band premiered the march during its Gala 150 th Anniversary Concert on May 9, 2003. Belshaw was unable to attend the performance as he and the rest of the Wayland Music Department were preparing for a mission trip to Spain. During the trip, members of the Wayland Pioneer Band, International Choir and Wayland Singers performed three movements from "A España" by Belshaw. The three movements feature scripture verses in Spanish set to music.
In addition to "Wind Sculptures" for trombone and band, and "Oldest and Finest," members of the U.S. Naval Academy Band's trombone quartet premiered yet another Belshaw composition, "At A Lake" for solo trombone and trombone quartet. The quartet was premiered at the convention of the Texas Bandmaster's Association in San Antonio during the summer of 2002.
"It has been a real honor just to have my music played by such a distinguished group of professionals," Belshaw said.
The Academy band provided Belshaw with a recording of the live performance of the march.
"The recording of the march sounded amazing," he said. "The band plays with such incredible precision and skill, that I heard the best possible rendition of my music imaginable."
Belshaw is in his fourth year at Wayland Baptist University. He received his Ph.D. in Fine Arts from Texas Tech University in August 2000. He teaches private and class piano, orchestration, piano pedagogy, and he accompanies both students and faculty in recital. He also teaches private piano through the University's Academy of Fine Arts.


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Dear Sam,
On my return this morning from a little over two weeks vacation up in New Hampshire I found your postal which is dated in El Paso on Aug. 21st, hence you will see why the answer is delayed so long.
I was very glad to get your card but have heard about you right along so knew you were getting along first rate. Also, let me congratulate you on your promotion. As I understand it you are in reality a fourth sergeant as the first duty sergeant is the second sergeant of the company. I may be wrong about this but what difference does that make as long as you are coming along all right.
Everything is about the same around the store except that at times we are not very busy. I don't know of any new faces and the only one who has left since you went away is Benson. He left the latter part of July to work up in Manchester, N.H. About a week after he left we got a notice that he was married. They're all hitching up except you and I and I guess we are doomed to be old maids.
I see Jimmy Mellor once in a while and he seems to be getting along. Our bath room sink stopped up while I was away and Jim came to fix it. After he got through he told my mother that it would not stop up again if Walter and I would stop washing our feet in the bowl.
While up in the country I put on a little weight and now when I get on the scales they say 139. That is not very heavy for a fellow of my height but you will appreciate that it is pretty good for me.
I understand by the papers that you ought to be home sometime after the first of October and I shall be very glad to see you. That will make four months in the open and I suppose you have gotten fat and browned up so we will find it hard work to know you. Living in the open must be doing you good and I am glad to learn that you are feeling so fine.
I was mighty glad to get your card and would like to hear from you again. I remain,
Sincerely your friend,
P.S. How many greasers have you put away and how many rattle snakes have you killed for the skins. I see by the papers that some of the boys are making a few extra dollars selling the skins for belts etc. When you get back you won't know how to appreciate a little hot weather. It will probably be so cool here.
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Silence the Sneak
|Silence the Sneak
Ray Machowski telling Claude that his former partner, Leon McAffrey, is in the witness protection program and is currently in hiding in a flat in Newport.
|Ray Machowski
|Leon McAffrey
|Belleville Park
|Leon McAffrey escapes
|Arms Shortage
|Unlocked by
|Payday For Ray
Silence The Sneak is a mission in Grand Theft Auto III given to Claude by corrupt police officer Ray Machowski from a public bathroom in Belleville Park, Staunton Island, Liberty City.
Machowski is angry at McAffrey (his former partner) for ratting on him about his ties with the Yakuza. He instructs Claude to head to Newport and torch McAffrey's safehouse to lure him outside and kill him. Claude is given some grenades to do the job. Claude heads to McAffrey's safehouse and lobs a grenade into an open window. The safehouse is torched and McAffrey attempts to escape in a Sentinel from the garage. Claude manages to kill McAffrey in time with LCPD officers attacking him with AK-47s.
Ray Machowski: That scumbag McAffrey, he took more bribes than anyone. He thinks he's gonna get an honorable discharge if he turns states evidence. He just squealed! He's under armed protection in WitSec property down in Newport, some apartment behind the car park. Torch that place, that should flush 'em out, and you'll hunt 'em down, make sure he never talks to nobody.
The reward for completing this mission is $30,000. The mission Arms Shortage is unlocked.
- An easy way to complete this mission is to drive a large vehicle like a Bus or a Coach to McAffrey's safehouse. Park the large vehicle directly in front of the garage to prevent McAffrey from getting out of the garage. Just be careful when throwing the grenades to the window as the grenade have a possibility of missing the window and the grenade may explode near the large vehicle and thus may set it on fire. After setting the safehouse on fire, McAffrey would try to escape but couldn't because of the large vehicle. With this, simply assasinate McAffrey and the LCPD officers from the open garage just left of the garage to pass the mission.
Claude throwing a grenade into Leon McAffrey's apartment.
Claude shooting Leon McAffrey's car as he attempts to escape.
Leon McAffrey during the mission.
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The Snow Is Calling Once Again
By Ramesh Manvati
This time, I made my arrival quite early,
With the hope to embrace you tightly,
But, nowhere could you be seen.
Day in and day out, to meet you, I am so keen.
I am calling you once again.
Oh, Pandit ! Don't you realise my pain?
The winter has set in yet again.
Have I to continue to seethe in pain?
I had called you in the past,
Your eerie silence has made me aghast.
Your roots, over five thousand years old, continue to seethe in pain.
I fail to understand what is the gain?
Over twenty painful years, we are already ages apart.
Your journey back home – not yet ready to start?
Seems, I have to bear, still, your being so upset.
To welcome you back, do I need to re-assure you,
That I will lay my best and thick velvety carpet?
Everything you have forgotten, so I feel.
Compelling me to remind you, with a fresh appeal.
On the onset of every winter, you would wait
for my arrival, with much zest and zeal.
And on my arrival from the heavens above,
within the warmth of your ancestral homes,
peeping through the doors and
through the windows-partly open,
or many a times from the 'dub' of your 'bub',
the leisure time you would enjoy,
gazing my elegant movements in sheer joy.
"sonna sheen vollun dhaaray-dhaaray,
maharaaza raaza kumaaray aaw……"
some would merrily sing. And, at times, many
sipping 'sheeri-chaai' or even some hot 'kehwa'
in the traditional 'khos' or a 'kenzi-khos',
held on the sleeve of your 'pheran',
prepared in a 'samawaar' and served by a 'nosh',
with a 'garma-garm' 'taeil-woar', 'tomlla-tsaot' or ' makkaai tsaot',
or with it, even some enjoying 'soa'tt',
With a cosy 'kaangar' beneath your 'pheran';
The eldest among you, even smoking a 'jajjeer'.
Forgotten? Occasional 'shalfaa-malfaa' , you had
with your toddlers to warm their hands and feet. And,
simultaneously narrating to them local folk-tales and lullabies.
Even 'nav-sheen' you celebrated,
in the company of your kith and kin,
music and dance; well dressed and decorated,
with the choicest of your dishes. And,
a 'welcome drink' would not be a sin,
even in the ancient times; just recheck
from the treasure of your 'Neelmat Puraan'.
Remember? On my very first arrival,
the new brides you would routinely tease,
Forcing them to bring a 'paschin' – raw or cooked,
from their 'maaluen' with much ease.
Children would playfully sing everywhere,
"sheena petto-petto, maama itto-itto…………".
Even the stray dogs would dance merrily here and there,
on the roads, in streets or outside your ghetto.
You can be so forgetful, baffles me.
When I have not forgotten, how can you?
Walking, through your orchards and rice fields -spread across Kashyap's valley.
Or through the towns and villages or 'Sri-nagaree' of goddess Sharada's seat;
Through the serpentine and uneven lanes and narrow by-lanes,
with a 'khraav' or 'pullhor' or a long boot or a 'duck-back' shoe protecting your feet;
Your daily routine, even though being hurt, once in a while,
because of pervading 'tulkattur'- exposing my frozen attitude,
would continue with serenity and great fortitude.
Even your cursing me at times – that, at times, I would mind,
while finding it difficult to move around.
Still, my cool but peaceful white cover on the ground,
over the surrounding houses, trees and the distant mountains,
lovely murmuring streams, though in deep sleep;
would make you overlook my hurt and dirt.
At the same time, no more feeling of being slighted, I am telling you.
Stray dogs, cows, crows and other perching birds,
without a fail and religiously you would feed, I still remember.
In the plains or atop a nearby hillock, temple bells you would ring,
Morning and evening, 'kashiri leelaai' you would sing.
As a habit, whether young or old; men or women,
busying yourself in the company of holy men,
always keeping your household, body and mind-neat and clean.
oftenly, you would praise my beauty and the surrounding scene.
My periodic arrivals and my stays
long or short, you enjoyed and cherished too.
I too enjoyed, let me now reveal to you,
your rolling me into a 'sheena-mohneow' occasionally-
in your 'waaeri', in the streets, or in nearby open fields. And,
even the 'sheena-jung' with your 'mohalla' friends.,
I remember vividly, why cannot you?
The vacations, children spent in their 'maataamaal', during the stay
of my old friends like 'chillai-kallaan', 'chillai-khorrud' and 'chillai-buchcha'.
Remember? The sheer panic of being caught red handed,upon the sudden
bursting of a stolen egg – hidden inside the embers of your cosy 'kaangar' ;
Or, making and eating of a 'mallai-kulfi' on the 'braer-k'anee' of your residence,
secretly from the prying eyes of your elders including 'bub', 'dyed' or 'baed- maej',
Also, the 'faaka' many of you kept for the entire sacred month of 'maag';
Or the visit of your family priest, on the eve of 'gora-trai' of this month to your homes
with handmade pictures of 'Saraswati'-blessing new brides and youngsters; and
exhorting them to continue the ancient tradition of learning.
I have just not forgotten; how can you?
'hayrath-pooza' was incomplete till, some of you, made my use.
That I had to be there even in the summer month of 'haar',
to defeat the evil designs of a tyrant Afghan ruler-Jabbar Khan,
and to uphold the sanctity of your sublime faith.
The popular tease – "wuchutoan yi jabbar jandha, haaras ti korrun vandha….."
is an ample proof of my historical claim.
Even performing of your annual 'jattae'n-ttae'n……..',
on 'teela-aettham'- concluding day of the sacred festival of 'hayrath';
Or distribution of 'dooen' to 'haenz' children, curiously watching on the 'yaarbal' and,
offering of burning 'chaeng' to holy 'Vitasta' in the evening of the day,
Have you so conveniently forgotten?
I have not, how can you?
The aroma surrounding many of your winter festivals, rituals like
'kheschri-maavas', 'gaada-batta', 'kaaw-punnim', or
'shishur' of a new born child or a 'nav-nosh'; And,
the twenty three day long 'hayrath' celebrations, still haunts me.
Such ancient festivities you will be observing in exile, so I earnestly hope.
Though, in an alien land, difficult it surely must be for you to cope.
The special dishes, as per your 'reeth', that you
prepared on such joyous occasions, still water my mouth.
Oh, Pandit ! Treat me back to that aroma and couth.
Decades have passed; have not heard a Lall-Vaakh,
" hayrath maej aayay, marscha papar kyaaway………"
or "thukk-thukk, kuss chuv….", nor seen anyone playing with cowries,
Please no more deprivations, I pray thee.
You cannot be so cruel to me.
Holding back the tears and trying to be brave.
My children – 'shishar -ghaaent', many now grown and
many on their way, hover in desperation. And,
for the warm kiss of your teeth continue to crave.
The winter has set-in, once again,
This time, I made my arrival quite early,
with the hope to embrace you tightly.
But, nowhere could you be seen.
Oh, Pandit ! I am reminding you once again,
Don't you realize my seething pain?
Over two decades already, we continue to be apart,
Journey back home to your very own-'Pannaen Maej-Kasheer',
Still not yet ready to start???
The writer , a Sr. Activist of Panun Kashmir, can be reached through e-mail : email@example.com /firstname.lastname@example.com
This poem is dedicated to the Youth of 'Internally Displaced' Kashmiri Pandit community ( now scattered across the globe) on the eve of "Ist International Kashmiri Pandit Youth Conference" organized under the aegis of Panun Kashmir, in Pune ( India), on 7- 8 January 2012


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GSA Seeks Developers for Federal Triangle South Project
Agency Seeks Construction Services in Exchange for Two Washington, DC Properties
Apr 07, 2014, 03:11 ET
WASHINGTON, April 7, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) seeking developers who can provide construction and development services in exchange for the GSA Regional Office Building and Cotton Annex, both located in Southwest Washington, DC. These services would be used to help GSA consolidate about 1,500 regional staff from the Regional Office Building into the GSA headquarters located at 1800 F St., NW and renovate up to three historic buildings at St. Elizabeths campus in Southeast Washington.
This action will allow GSA to leverage the value of outdated and underperforming properties to provide the government with efficient modern office space to better serve our current needs. Last year, the agency issued a Request for Information (RFI), soliciting innovative ideas from the development community to help the agency gather possible development scenarios that provide cost savings, space, efficiency, and modernization solutions for federal agencies located at Federal Triangle South.
"The Federal Triangle South project is an opportunity to reexamine how the federal government uses these buildings and reassess how this space fits into the surrounding community," said GSA Administrator Dan Tangherlini. "This action will facilitate the city's efforts to transform this precinct that is dominated by federal office buildings, into a mixed-use neighborhood that will both provide for a modern workplace for federal employees and create a vibrant, diverse, and special community of its own."
About Federal Triangle South and the RFQ
GSA's action supports the vision for Federal Triangle South identified by the National Capital Planning Commission's Southwest EcoDistrict -- a sustainable community stretching from the National Mall to the Southwest Waterfront. The vision includes a number of federal buildings and seeks to reduce costs by overhauling these outdated and underperforming assets, developing state-of-the-art green facilities, and encouraging mixed-use and improved infrastructure. The deadline for RFQ questions is April 17, 2014. Responses are due by May 22, 2014. The RFQ is now posted on Fed Biz Opps.
Reducing the Federal Footprint & Increasing Efficiency
The Obama Administration has set aggressive goals for using federal real estate assets more efficiently, and GSA has increased its efforts to help federal agencies identify underutilized properties and move them into the disposal process.
The Federal Triangle South RFQ is part of GSA's ongoing effort to get underperforming federal facilities, such as the Cotton Annex, off of the government's books, while creating the greatest possible value for taxpayers. It would also allow GSA to consolidate its employees in the National Capitol Region into one building, the 1800 F St. NW headquarters. This would not only cut costs and reduce energy consumption, but also maximize workplace efficiencies by bringing employees into GSA's Total Workplace program.
Quick Facts:
- GSA is moving more than 800 properties owned by other federal agencies into the disposal pipeline.
- Last year, the agency sold or transferred 213 facilities across the country, generating $97.7 million in sales.
- Since 2010, the agency completed 565 disposal transactions, which have generated $207.5 million in proceeds and eliminated more than 28,121 acres of excess land.
SOURCE U.S. General Services Administration


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|Hearts on the table.
|Me, *patiently* waiting for the hearts to dry.
|My sister got me this fabric, so cute!
|The hearts strung. I think it would have been cute to string them together using baker's twine. Alas, I had none.
I am still in shock that I actually made something with the red fabric, BEFORE February. I might need to make more hearts. . .


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Filed under: Freedom, Heartwarming, History, Politics, Sports, The United States | Tags: 2002 Winter Olympic Games, Mitt Romney, Salt Lake City - Utah
A large group of Olympians from Team USA, 2002 spoke about their experience in the Winter Olympics. It was not long after 9/11 and the nation was still reeling from the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.The Salt Lake Olympics were a shambles of scandal, mismanagement and financial failure that threatened to cancel the games and damage the Olympic Games program itself.The athletes thought all their years of training might go to waste, but Mitt Romney pulled it together, corralled hundreds of smiling young LDS volunteers who made every attendee feel welcome.
Mitt made it all work and gave the athletes their chance to compete. Remember the "Miracle on Ice"when the new kids on the block defeated the Russian team. Couldn't find a video of the whole Team USA medal winners, but Derek Parra, a 5'4" Mexican American kid from Southern California talked a bit about his background and how unlikely it was that he should become a champion speed skater. He called Mitt Romney a "Facilitator of Dreams."
Parra set world records, and won the gold in the 1500 meters and silver in the 5000 meters. He went on to become the coach for the U.S. Olympic speed skating team for the 2010 Olympics.


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Local voters decide to put their money on Pre-K 4 SA
Mayor Julián Castro's Pre-K 4 SA initiative to offer high-quality pre-kindergarten to thousands of San Antonio children won a clear victory Tuesday night.
After a close early vote, the measure won going away during balloting Tuesday, setting the stage for a small sales tax increase starting next year to fund new pre-kindergarten centers.
During a victory party at La Fonda on Main Avenue, Castro said voters made a sound decision.
"The people spoke tonight, and they decided to make a necessary investment in the education of our young people," he said. "As mayor, I serve all of San Antonio, and I'm ready to work with everyone — whether they were for it or against it — to ensure this is an excellent initiative."
Castro addressed a few hundred supporters who had gathered at the Monte Vista-neighborhood restaurant, thanking his staff and volunteers who made the victory possible.
"I know in the last few days, we were sweating bullets," Castro told a jubilant crowd. "Today, San Antonio said very clearly that we're not just thinking about the next two years — we're thinking about the next 20 years."
San Antonio is sending a clear message to the rest of the country and the world that it "means business" when it comes to economic prosperity, he said. "We'll take a backseat to no one when it comes to educating our young ones."
Pre-K critic George Rodriguez, president of the South Texas Political Alliance, said that, despite the loss, he felt "good" about the "David and Goliath" battle his camp waged to defeat the measure.
"We had nothing. We were up against seven mayors, virtually every big business in San Antonio and the entire City Hall establishment," said Rodriguez, the former San Antonio tea party president. "For us to pull the number of votes that we did ... this says a lot."
Bexar County Commissioner Kevin Wolff had opposed the plan and engaged Castro in public debates.
"The voters have spoken," he said Tuesday night. "I will support it."
Castro staked his mayoral tenure on the success of the proposal, which will increase the local sales tax by 1/8th of a cent, bringing the rate to the state maximum of 8.25 percent. The increase amounts to about $8 more a year in sales taxes for the median household.
The program is set to start next fall. The tax will raise about $31 million a year for the first eight years of the program. If the program proves successful, voters will be asked to renew the tax in 2020.
The city will begin collecting the tax April 1 and receive its first payment from the state in June.
Originally conceived as the "Brainpower Initiative," the Pre-K plan was launched by Castro as a key building block to improving San Antonio's educational attainment.
The city trails the national rate in the number of students who go on to college, a trend the plan aims to reverse.
Studies have shown early education is a key to improving student performance in secondary school and beyond.
As Castro and his supporters began pushing the proposal, they also talked about its potential effect for economic development — an important plank in the campaign to woo a conservative business community.
They said the long-term outcome would be a stronger local workforce that would keep existing companies in town and attract new ones.
The proposal won the endorsements of San Antonio's seven largest chambers of commerce and all its living mayors.
In the first year, two city centers will serve about 700 children.
During the ensuing "ramp-up" years, the city will open two additional centers and begin expanding its reach to existing campuses.
While the program targets 4-year-old who meet certain criteria, including family income guidelines, it will reserve 10 percent of its slots for children who don't meet the criteria. Their families will pay a sliding-scale tuition based on their income.
Annually, 3,700 children will be served, with the city expecting to reach about 22,400 children in eight years.