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Add that to the ever-growing list of things I can thank Clarence Gaston for. You see, when Cito not-so-subtly announced that the Jays would have a good team....in 2010, he did us all a favour. He did his players a favour by taking the pressure off before the team had even played one game of the 2009 schedule. He did the front office a favour by simmering down the public demand for a big offseason move at baseball's winter meetings. Maybe most importantly, he did me (and by "me", I mean "us") a favour by lowering expectations to a point where I (we) can enjoy the upcoming season for what it is.
Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not being a total defeatist. I'll still be following the team religiously and agonizing over every game, every GIDP, every strikeout in a big spot. I still hold out hope the team can be good - and maybe shock the baseball world. But....the pressure's off now, isn't it?
And while we're at it
Fuck A.J. Burnett, too.
I know, I know....he had every right to take the best offer on the table, and it was inevitable that the Yankees would be that team. But still......fuck him, you know? For all the talk about how close he was with Roy Halladay, A.J. really is proving to be the anti-Doc, isn't he?
Speaking of which, outstanding work by Cathal Kelly with this piece on A.J. Our man Cathal does a great job reminding us of what we really lost when he walked away, and de-mystifies the "legend" that was/is A.J. Anyone else looking forward to the first Yankee Stadium showdown with Doc and A.J. on the hill?
6 comments:
- dave said...
If the Jays are mediocre in 2009 I hope the public and media do see it as a set-up year for 2010. But it's hard to get people to think long term when they've been waiting for "PLAYOFFS!" this long.
I just don't want people getting fired or traded away because of the upcoming season. Just hold on, lets get to '10 and see what happens.
But who know, eh? Cito got me all worked up with what he said about Rios last week. Maybe we can pull some shit out....
- December 14, 2008 at 2:44 PM
maybe, maybe, maybe
fuckin' Jays
- December 14, 2008 at 3:52 PM
- eyebleaf said...
Anyone else looking forward to the first Yankee Stadium showdown with Doc and A.J. on the hill?
I can't mother fucking wait.
- December 15, 2008 at 1:21 AM
- The Ack said...
I'm hoping the "wink wink" came through here....
- December 15, 2008 at 11:51 AM
2010 Rolen and Overbay will still be on the team. They need a shortstop so maybe Inglett will take over. They will have no veteran catcher on the team and need to possibly get one. So far the 2010 Jays look like the same old shitty Jays as usual but with more holes. Who knows if Purcey pans out or even Cecil.
To give up the 2009 season and not trying to sign Giambi, Bradley and etc is a flip of the bird to the fans. This 2020 talk is bullshit. What 2020 might be is the last time you see Doc in BLue.
PS Fuck you JP!
- December 15, 2008 at 3:58 PM
- The Ack said...
How do you know Overbay will still be around in 2010?
Why would they need a veteran catcher for any more than 2 starts a week, if Arencibia proves he can handle the job?
And in 2010, Marcum and McGowan will be back at full strength, Doc will still have a year on his contract, and it's certainly not unreasonable to assume that two of Purcey, Romero, Cecil, Mills, Litsch, Clement, etc can fill the remaining 2 rotation spots admirably.
Snider and Lind will be that much further advanced and comfortable as major leaguers. Rios, Wells, and Hill will still be in their prime (I'd argue Rios isn't even quite there yet).
The bullpen will still be The Shit (in a good way).
....and that all assumes JP (or successor?) will do nothing....which is the only unreasonable assumption I've made here.
What's not to like?
I wish I could take this post back. Totally didn't express what I was going for.
- December 15, 2008 at 4:26 PM


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"BAE are left in a tricky position ... Consolidation would seem sensible in the face of such difficulties, but as we have seen, this is not going to be easy to achieve," he said.
None of the investors contacted by Reuters demanded an immediate management overhaul following the deal's collapse but indicated that Chief Executive Ian King and Chairman Dick Olver face a tough few weeks in trying to restore their credibility and avoid a vote of no confidence at the next shareholder meeting.
"Until you sit down with the company, you cannot make those kinds of judgments on whether the chairman should stay or go ... So we'll hold fire, talk to the company and then decide how we feel about it," the first investor said.
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One of the most difficult things was being away from their families for a month. Idries is married to Nikia, a lawyer, and they have sons Adam, who turned 15 on Friday, and Noah, who turns 10 next week, and daughters Najiyah, 11, and Hana, 4. Jamil is married to Rubi, a nurse whose family hails from Mexico, and they have sons Laithe, 11, and Leo, 2.
"My wife, she's a fan of the show," Idries says. "She said, 'I will be sad not to see you for a month, but I'm so excited.'"
That excitement rushed over Jamil at the starting line at Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles when host Phil Keoghan dropped his arm and yelled, "Go!"
"The funnest moment to me is the start. It's so surreal," Jamil says.
"Running through the airport is fun, too," Idries adds.
While the show took them to exotic locales from the beaches of Bora Bora to the sheep fields of New Zealand, the brothers say they were too focused on the tasks at hand to take in the sights.
"We went to some pretty cool places, but it's almost like we weren't there," Jamil says.
"What you see on TV is what it's like," Idries says, noting adrenaline kept him going.
"It was more emotionally demanding than physical," says Jamil, who, like his brother is a fit 5 feet, 11 inches and 180 pounds.
Of course, how the brothers come off to viewers depends on the editing of the show.
"We see it with everybody else for the first time," Idries says.
"When people see it, hopefully we will dispel some myths," Jamil says, noting the brothers represent a lot of cross-sections of the country, from male OB-GYNs to twins to African-Americans to Muslims to people who grew up in the city and now live in the suburbs.
"Without sounding corny or cliché, it was an amazing experience," says Jamil, who says he and his brother liked the host and even the other contestants. "Everybody from the top down was awesome."
"I can cross it off my bucket list," Idries says.
The publicity and instant fame doesn't seem to have had an impact on their relationship.
"I'm the better doctor, and I'm better looking," Idries jokes with an impish grin.
"And I let him believe that," Jamil says with a laugh.
Regardless of how they end up doing in the competition, the experience was just another fun and rewarding thing these twins have done together.
"At the end of the day, it's a game," Jamil says, "and no one is going to lose their life."


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Put all accounting details in one place: This software enables users to manage all their accounting details in a centralized location. It also lets them undertake tasks, such as money deposits, bill payments and check writing. In specific cases, users can also integrate all their accounting information into Quickbooks so that their accountants can use it.
Streamline management of rent cycle: The mobile home park management system simplifies the management of the overall rent cycle and has various features, such as automatic rent payment reminders, general ledger accounting, late fee reminders, on-demand report generation as well as tenant and lease tracking. Also, property managers can receive payments via the net and completely automate rent collection.
New user and first-time buyer: As a first-time buyer, you need to set your goals regarding what you want to achieve. Goals must be supported by short- and medium-term objectives that are time sensitive, relevant, attainable and measurable. Also, there must be purchasing criteria that focus the buyer on the essential parameters, such as property type, price range, condition, geography and size.
Experienced IT buyer: Expert and qualified buyers are more focused on the solution's functionality and its integration within their existing information and data infrastructure stacks. Integration across different entities is usually more important for these buyers than the solutions' ease of use.
The advent of modular homes: With the arrival of modular homes, people need some clarity about the differences between manufactured or mobile and modular homes. On the one hand, modular homes are developed in a factory, either off-frame or on-frame according to state or local codes, and then transported to the designated site and placed on a stable foundation. Though manufactured homes are also developed in a factory, they have a permanent steel frame — or chassis — fixed to the foundation. Both types of homes can be created as single or multi-section buildings.
Improvement in the construction of mobile homes: The construction quality of manufactured or mobile homes has improved over the years. These days, mobile home builders use high-quality materials and provide all the whistles and bells that are part of conventional homes. These homes are now available in a broad range of floor plans and can include advanced features, such as modern appliances, cabinets, flooring, doors and windows.
Diverse groups of individuals opt for mobile homes: Mobile or manufactured homes are fast becoming popular among varying age groups, including families, couples and singles. The average family size living in mobile homes is two to three people, which goes to show that they attract diverse groups of people.
Direct-from-factory mobile homes offer huge savings: Although most of the new mobile home purchases are made through a dealer, buyers now think that direct-from-factory homes offer significant savings, among other benefits. Consequently, the direct purchasing trend is fast becoming increasingly popular.
So, as you can see from these trends, manufactured or mobile housing has come a long way over the past few years. As a software buyer, you should be aware of these latest trends as they can help you take the right decisions to grow your business.


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After describing the NDP (New Democrat Party) science policy launch/discussion as a bit of a 'sausage fest' in my Nov. 14, 2012 posting about being at the Canadian Science Policy Conference (part 2 of a 2-part series), I realized (very early this morning [Nov. 15, 2012]) that I could have described my own panel presentation in those terms since the majority of the response (if memory serves, 100% or thereabouts) was from the male members of the audience.
My interest is not a discussion about the rights or wrongs of this state of affairs but to find new ways to encourage engagement/discussion with everyone. Thrillingly and also this morning, I found a notice of a Nov. 14, 2012 blog posting by Curt Rice titled, "Gendered Innovations: Making research better" which touches on the topic (how do we better integrate gender into the discussion) and applies the thinking to research,
Could your research be better if you thought more about gender? I'm not asking if you could say more about gender if you thought about gender; that much is obvious. No, I'm asking if the quality of your research results more broadly could be improved if issues of gender informed the methods you use and the questions you ask. [emphasis mine]
At the University of Tromsø, we suspect that gendered perspectives could make your research better, and so we're kicking off a new project to explore these issues and to better communicate them to our students. We're doing this to improve the quality of our science — anything that might have that effect, after all, deserves careful exploration.
We're also doing it because our primary funding agencies will reward grants that include gendered perspectives, regardless of the field of the grant. This is true of the Research Council of Norway and it's true of the EU's upcoming Horizon 2020 program [major European Union-funded science programming]. Arvid Hallén, the Director of our Research Council, tells us* how important this has become.
A gendered perspective is a criterium for all applications being evaluated by the Research Council of Norway.
Our project draws inspiration from an international enterprise drawing the connection between overall research quality and the presence of gender-related questions and methods. [emphasis mine]
Rice is referring to Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment based at Stanford University in California. Here's more from the What is Gendered Innovations? page,
Gendered Innovations employ sex and gender analysis as a resource to create new knowledge and technology.
This website has six interactive main portals:
1. Methods of sex and gender analysis for research and engineering
2. Case studies illustrate how sex and gender analysis leads to innovation
3. Terms address key concepts used throughout the site
4. Checklists for researchers, engineers, and evaluators
5. Policy provides recommendations in addition to links to key national and international policies that support Gendered Innovations
6. Institutional Transformation summarizes current literature on: 1) increasing the numbers of women in science, health & medicine, and engineering; 2) removing subtle gender bias from research institutions; and 3) solutions and best practices.
I'm going to check this Gendered Innovations website for any information that can help me develop sessions that encourage more participation from women and who knows? Maybe next year we can have a session at the Canadian Science Policy Conference where we discuss some of this thinking about gender issues, i.e., using information about gender bias and information about how it functions in real life situations for designing new research and policies.
This isn't the first time I've mentioned Curt Rice. He featured in a July 6, 2012 posting about the European Union campaign to encourage more girls to take an interest in science careers. The video produced by the project's marketing communications team caused a sensation and a huge amount of criticism,
I find the June 29, 2012 posting by Curt Rice at the Guardian Science blogs gives insight into some of the current response (condemnation and support from an unexpected source) to and the prior planning that went into the campaign,
Advertising professors everywhere must be thanking the European Commission for their new campaign, Science: it's a girl thing! This campaign – designed to convince high school girls to pursue careers in science – had such a badly bungled launch that it's sure to become the topic of lectures and exam questions for communications students throughout Europe and beyond.
The problem lies in the "teaser" video, which went viral last week for all the wrong reasons. It was put up on the campaign website, disliked, criticised, mocked and then pulled down faster than the gaga male scientist in the video could open his zipper.
As a consequence, Rice created a contest for a new video and invited anyone to submit. Since July 2012, the European Science Foundation took on the project which offers three money prizes and the opportunity to have your video seen at the 2nd European Gender Summit, Nov. 29-30, 2012. Science: it's a girl thing! has been renamed to Science: it's your thing! Here's more from the Oct. 18, 2012 European Science Foundation news release,
This contest, co-organized by the European Science Foundation and Curt Rice (check his excellent blog: curt-rice.com) offers you the chance to highlight the diverse career options that science offers to young women everywhere.
This contest follows a campaign recently launched by the launched European Commission to encourage more young women to choose science in their future careers. With several countries taking part, the cornerstone of the campaign is a fresh and lively webpage, called Science: It's a girl thing!
A video of the same name was made to raise awareness of the campaign. And indeed it did! The video was successful in creating discussion and engagement, triggering an animated debate on how to promote science to young women – a crucial element in bringing the campaign to life. However, feedback about the contents of the film was mixed so the Commission decided to remove it.
Since the original video is no longer being used but the excellent campaign remains, we have devised a contest to make a new video for it. By entering the competition you can help the European Commission better understand how the issue should be communicated and you get a chance to win €1500 if your video is selected as one of the 3 winning videos.
The contest is being promoted by a number of science bloggers and tweeters. And Nobel Prize winner Brian Schmidt (Physics, 2011) has made a donation for the cash prize!
The winning videos will be shown at the European Gender Summit Networking Event 2012, November 29 at the Science14 in Brussels.
Here's more about the contest which appears to be open to anyone from anywhere in the world, from the Contest* page,
- Contest Instructions
- Visit the Science, It's a Girl Thing website.
- Create a one minute (or less) video (in english) designed to create awareness for the initiative and to encourage young women to consider scientific careers.
- Upload your video to YouTube or Facebook.
- Follow the instructions on this site to submit your video.
- Tweet to @gendersummit with a link to your video using the hashtag #ScienceItsYourThing. We will promote your videos on this site and on Twitter.
- Encourage people to vote for your video from 19 November 2012, 18:01 Central European Time to 28 November 2012, 12:00 Central European Time .
- The video with the most votes on 28 November at 12 noon Central European Time, will be one of the winners.
- The other two winning videos will be determined by a panel of judges from the European Science Community & Industry.
- All three winning videos will receive a cash prize of 1500 euros and will be screened at the European Gender Summit networking event 2012, November 29 at the Science14 in Brussels..
Still have questions? Email us at email@example.com
The final deadline for the contest is Nov. 19, 2012 at 6 pm CET. Good luck!
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Remember Rwanda?
Remember Rwanda?
The genocide of 1994 seemed inexplicable. But a study of links between extreme environmental degradation and the enormous violence that occurred between Hutus and Tutsis could have important implications for stressed populations in other regions.
Editor's Introduction
On April 6, 1994, a plane carrying the presidents of two African countries was struck by a missile and crashed. Both presidents-Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and Cyprian Ntaryamira of Burundi-were killed. Both were members of the Hutu ethnic group. Counting the murder of Burundi's president Melchior Ndadaye the previous October, a total of three Hutu presidents had been assassinated in six months.
The crash of the plane was described by a Rwandan official as being "like pouring fuel on a burning house." The country exploded into genocidal conflict between the Hutu and the rival Tutsi, who had been out of power in Rwanda but who had established a base in neighboring Uganda from which they had been launching attacks against the regime that had ousted them. Hutu bands killed large numbers of Tutsi in an effort to forestall the invasion. But within weeks, the Tutsi regained control and waged retaliatory attacks on the Hutu, hundreds of thousands of whom were by then fleeing the country.
The exchanges of massacres were so horrific that people in other parts of the world, who had paid little attention to Rwanda until news of the genocide broke, were bewildered as to what could have caused such fury. The conflict was portrayed in the media as one of deep ethnic hatred. But to those who were on the scene during the years preceding, the story is far more complicated than that. The real causes of the blowup are rooted in a half-century history of rapid population growth, land degradation, inequitable access to resources, political power struggles, famine, and betrayal.
James Gasana, who was Rwanda's Minister of Agriculture and Environment in 1990-92, and Minister of Defense in 1992-93, at one point tried to warn his government of the coming conflagration (see page 29), but to no avail. In the following article, adapted from a paper he wrote for the IUCN's Task force on Environment and Security, he analyzes what happened as environmental and economic decline set the stage for a social collapse. It's a story that has important implications not only for Rwanda, but for every region where population pressure threatens to exceed what the resource base can maintain.
Before the end of the 1950s, it was the Tutsis who dominated Rwanda, both sociologically and politically. Tutsis constituted only 10 to 15 percent of the population, but they owned most of the arable land and accounted for more than 95 percent of the chiefs and 88 percent of the bureaucracy. In 1959, however, a revolution by the Hutu peasants of southern Rwanda brought the Hutu to power and resulted in a redistribution of land to previously landless people. Many of the Tutsi aristocracy fled to neighboring countries, particularly to Uganda, from which they launched counter-attacks against the Rwandan regime in the 1960s.
The Hutu, enforcing a one-party regime in which the Tutsi had no voice, lived from then on with the specter of counter-revolution. The hostilities between the two groups were exacerbated by the Cold War, as the Communist countries helped arm the counter-attacks of the Tutsi refugees, while the Western countries provided support to the the Hutu regime.
In 1973, under pressure from both internal dissent and external attack, the regime was toppled by a coup d'état. Major General J. Habyarimana, supported by a northern faction of the army, took control from the southern-based group that had progressively assumed power after independence in 1962. Habyarimana was to hold power for the next 20 years, but under increasingly difficult conditions. It's the story of those two decades that explains the otherwise incomprehensible events of 1994.
The story begins with a country undergoing a population explosion that was to increase it from 1,887,000 people in 1948 to 7,500,000 in 1992-making it the most densely populated country in Africa. Most of the people were poor farmers, and in the 1980s, many of the poor got even poorer, as a result of what I call "pembenization"-from the Swahili word "pembeni," or "aside," as used in the Rwandan expression "gushyira i pembeni"-"to push aside."
One of the root causes of pembenization was, ironically, the land tenure program established by the 1959 revolution as a means of giving the peasants a more equitable share in the country's assets. The revolutionaries did not foresee what would happen as children inherited their parents' land and divided it up equally. With the population expanding, the inherited pieces-many of them very small to begin with-got smaller.
At the same time, the land holdings of the elite who were in power got larger, as wealthy northern Hutus and their allies spent much of the 1970s and 1980s accumulating land for their own estates. Of course, this further reduced the amount of land available for peasant farmers. Many of the peasants moved to marginal land-to steep slopes and acidic soil, where crops barely grew. By 1989, an estimated 50 percent of Rwanda's cultivated land was on slopes of 10 degrees or higher. Slopes this steep eroded severely when tilled, and the cycle of poverty worsened (see Table 1).
By 1990, the erosion was washing away the equivalent of 8,000 hectares per year, or enough to feed about 40,000 people for a year. Moreover, because demand for land outstripped supply, virtually all the cultivatable land (other than that being hoarded by the elite) was being used, and there was little opportunity to let fields lie fallow and regenerate. As a result, soil fertility declined faster yet.
Of course, as population grew, the demand for energy increased as well. Rwanda has been heavily dependent on biomass for energy-either wood or crop waste. Most of the energy in those years was provided by firewood. But with more people trying to get more firewood from smaller pieces of land, the country's trees were disappearing at an increasing rate. Deforestation on the steep-sloped lands made the ground more exposed to running water, and increased erosion still more.
In 1991, we estimated that annual tree growth would allow for about 1.9 million cubic meters of wood to be cut. Yet, actual wood consumption by then had reached nearly 4.5 million cubic meters. This heavy overharvesting had yet another impact on farm output: with the firewood supply diminishing, people were forced to increase their reliance on straw and other crop residues for fuel. That meant the residues were no longer going back into the soil. The loss amounted to approximately 1.7 tons of organic matter per hectare each year.
The compounding of all these factors led to a disastrous shortfall in food production. Two-thirds of the population of Rwanda was unable to meet even the minimum food energy requirement of 2,100 calories per person per day. The average person was getting just 1,900 calories-becoming gradually weaker and at the same time more desperate. Nor were there any readily available alternatives to subsistence farming. By the end of the 1980s, the unemployment rate for rural adults had reached 30 percent.
Throughout the 1980s, the worsening of the rural situation, especially in the south where most of the poor farmers lived, had generated increasing resentment against the Hutu government, which was accumulating wealth for its mostly northern elite. It's important to keep in mind that the peasants and the people in power were both mainly Hutu, so this resentment was an economic, not ethnic, concern. At the end of the decade, however, with internal strife splitting the Hutus, the Tutsi-led rebels in Uganda judged that this would be a good time to declare full-scale war against the regime.
By 1990, then, the Rwandan peasants were being stricken by both starvation and war. In an interview with Radio Rwanda, representatives of a peasant association named Twibumbe Bahinzi declared:
"There is a generalized famine in the country, that is difficult to eradicate because it is only the cultivators-pastoralists [peasants] who are bearing its impacts while the 'educated' [the elite] are enjoying its side effects. Those who should assist us in combating that famine are of no use to us.... It will require no less than a revolution similar to that of 1959.... On top of this there is war. Even if the cultivators-pastoralists can still till the land, it is very difficult for them to work in good conditions when they have spent the night guarding the roadblocks, and are not sure that they are going to harvest...."
In retrospect, this statement confirms that even under the added stress of war, the peasants did not at this point consider ethnicity to be the issue. It was still an issue of rich and poor, or north and south.
In 1991, with divisions among the Hutus getting worse, president Habyarimana was forced to abandon the one-party rule and allow a multi-party government. But he continued to hold on to the presidency. Some of the splinter groups tried to weaken him by recruiting bands of disaffected youths based in the south, who mounted a sporadic uprising and perpetrated acts of vandalism aimed at destabilizing the regime. The groups were called Inkuba, or "thunder," and Abakombozi, or "liberators."
The splinter group leaders spurred on these youths by linking their deprivation to the accumulation of land by the northern elite and its allies. It wasn't that simple, of course. There were other factors, including a collapse in the world market for coffee in the 1980s, which dropped the value of Rwandan coffee exports from $60 per capita in the late 1970s to $13 by 1991. But the political targeting evidently succeeded. A study of the patterns of Inkuba and Abakombozi acts of violence shows that these acts occurred most frequently in the areas with lowest income, most often in places where daily food energy intake had fallen below 1,500 calories per person. In fact, a table showing the average food energy production in each of Rwanda's 10 prefectures shows that incidents of sociopolitical violence occurred in 18 communes (communities) where food production was under 1,600 calories per day, but in none where it was above that level (see Table 2).
The Hutus in power, fearful of losing their government positions and properties, also recruited young men for their protection. A youth wing of the governing party, the Interahamwe, was organized to protect the politicians and their lands from the opposition youths and from the large numbers of squatters who had fled their impoverished hillsides. In some cases, the Interahamwe "re-liberated" land that the youth groups of the opposition parties based in the south had seized or occupied.
Habyarimana worked hard to deflect the peasant opposition, personally lobbying farmer representatives to rally the peasant movement to his side and to abandon their rhetoric about rural poverty. He accomplished this by promising them that their concerns would be addressed, and by letting his supporters help them to deflect their anger from the elite Hutus to the attacking Tutsis. By 1991, the Uganda-based Tutsi army was making that strategy easy for Habyarimana, as it was targeting Hutus in its guerrilla attacks. By now, thousands of Hutus were fleeing the war and the famine, and had become "internally displaced persons" (IDPs) gathering in refugee camps. The Tutsi rebels were more than happy to treat the camps as military targets. By the time a cease-fire took place in 1992, the IDP population had reached 500,000. But the cease-fire was short-lived, as the plane crash that killed Habyarimana immediately reignited the war. By 1993, the number of refugees had reached 1 million, and by the end of the war about 100,000 had died. It was during this post-assassination period that the worst of the genocidal acts occurred.
The internally displaced persons, rather than finding themselves taken in and protected by fellow Hutus whose districts they had fled to, found themselves resented. There were too many of them, and they put impossible strains on traditional hospitality. Where population pressure had become increasingly unbearable on the farms, it became worse around the refugee camps, with IDPs adding heavily to host populations. As the war escalated, food energy dropped to 1,100 calories per person. And while the IDPs were increasingly resented by their fellow Hutus (the host populations, too, were now hungry), they were increasingly attacked and killed by invading Tutsis.
In the two years before his plane was shot down, the embattled Habyarimana and his political enemies both took political advantage of the Hutu refugees' desperate circumstances. IDP children and teenagers, with no schools to occupy them and often no parents to guide them, became the principal recruiting base for the Interahamwe militias-the ones bent on sabotaging and destabilizing the regime. At the same time, as the Tutsi invaders drove more Hutus from their homes, and killed more of them as they fled to the camps, the IDPs also provided a base for Habyarimana's retaliation against the Tutsi, and enabled him to reclaim some of the support he'd lost in the rich-poor conflict. For many of the Hutu IDPs, the harsh reality was that they were forced to choose between two warring camps: the camp of those who wanted them to die before voting, and the camp of those who wanted their votes before they died.
When the presidential plane crashed, it in a sense prefigured the crash of Rwandan society. Extremist Hutu politicians seized on the shock and fear of the moment, using the presidential guard and the Interahamwe, comprising mostly the Hutu youths from IDP camps near Kigali, to perpetrate the murder of rival Hutu politicians and the mass slaughter of the Tutsi. Their efforts to turn back the Tutsi failed, and by mid July 1994, the Tutsi-led RPF had taken over. Following this takeover, more than 2 million Hutu refugees fled to neighboring countries, including 1.2 million to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The mass exodus, predictably, had a devastating environmental, social, and political impact on the DRC.
In the report I wrote for the IUCN's Task Force on Environment and Security, I suggested that four lessons be learned from this tragic chapter in Africa's history:
First, rapid population growth is the major driving force behind the vicious circle of environmental scarcities and rural poverty. In Rwanda it induced the use of marginal lands on steep hillsides, shortening of fallow, deforestation, and soil degradation-and resulted in severe shortages of food.
Second, conserving the environment is essential for long-term poverty reduction. Consequently, it is essential for the long-term elimination of links between environment scarcity and conflict. In the long term, this is possible only if Rwanda adopts a bold population policy with aggressive family planning programs aimed at reducing the country's fertility rate. The pressures that produce conflict can also be reduced by adopting more sustainable forms of agriculture, based on techniques that improve soil fertility and increase fuel wood production.
Third, to break the links between environmental scarcities and conflict, win-win solutions-providing all sociological groups with access to natural resources-are essential. The winner-take-all model results in a society gripped by fear, which too easily is exploited by unscrupulous politicians, leading to ethnic enmity and violence.
And fourth, to prevent a bipolar ethnic conflict of the kind that ravaged Rwanda will require a rethinking of what national security really means. Certainly, it means placing human and environmental security ahead of the security of ethno-political regimes.
The Warning
"It can be concluded that if the country does not operate profound transformations in its agriculture, it will not be capable of feeding adequately its population under the present growth rate. Contrary to the tradition of our demographers who show that the population growth rate will remain positive over several years in the future, one can not see how the Rwandan population will reach 10 million inhabitants unless important progress in agriculture as well as other sectors of the economy were achieved.
Consequently it is time to fear the Malthusian effects that could derive from the gap between food supply and the demand of the population, and social disorders which could result from there."
-Report of the National Agriculture Commission (1990-1991), chaired by James Gasana


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Aaaaand now I'm craving donuts. Thanks a LOT, Anony M.
It's nice to see a member of law enforcement with such a good sense of humor, though. At least, I hope this was his idea: it would have been a tad awkward if the bride's father ordered it. No one wants a parking ticket at their own daughter's wedding, right?


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Australia/Adding Gas Stations
How to add a Service Station (Gas/Servo Station)(Australia)
Before adding Service Stations to Waze Editor
- Please read the Australian Style Guide for to ensure consistency with the stations that are added.
- Check the List of Completed Australian Service Stations to see if your Service Station has already been added.
Add a Service Station to Waze Editor
1. To add a new gas station to the map, first view the basic map editing here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVksbb1Z4SQ
2. Login to the editor: http://world.waze.com/editor.
3. Locate the place of the gas station on the map:
4. Choose to add a new landmark (click on the + icon and choose Landmark):
5. Draw the landmark, then click on it:
6. Now from the properties menu on the left side choose gas station as the type of the landmark, you can then define the rest of its properties, such as brand name and address.
- Enter the FULL ADDRESS for the Service Station, to aid with routing the driver to the station. (not just the street name). For example:
266-278 Hoddle St, Abbotsford, VIC
- Enter the complete phone number including area code. Do not add any parenthesis or symbols.
03 9419 6494
7. Click on Save.
8. Draw a new Parking Lot Road through the new landmark. This will prevent Waze from seeing the main road as traffic conjestion when Wazers stop to refuel, and also will prevent Waze routing through a Gas Station.
9. Go to the List of Completed Australian Service Stations and add the station that you have just added to the list.
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In some countries, you'll see that the editor is missing a list of local gas brands. Not to worry though, you can help by contacting your local Country Manager and ask them to submit your country's gas brand.


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World of Warcraft seems to have a very heavy following, to say the absolute least. This game has injected itself into popular culture in only a few short years in a way that some religions cannot manage to in a few thousand. Needless to say, WoW is intensely popular. If you were to run a quick search online, you?d find entire communities devoted to the game, thousands of blogs set up in its honor, and more tips and tricks for success than there are in the archives of Hints from Heloise. But what does this all mean to you if you?re brand new to the WoW world?
Watching Peyton Manning?s cadence and learning his motions is good to gain some tricks on being an effective quarterback, but that doesn?t explain anything to you if you don?t know the first thing about football. The same applies to World of Warcraft. Not every newbie surfacing for the experience is privy to how to play. Level guides and mining tips and the respawn times of grinding fodder may be a foreign concept to you ? essentially useless. By borrowing these formulated-for-players strategies, you?re blowing your chances of a successful game start. What you need is a beginner?s guide.
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With this article, you can be pointed in the right direction. We?ll discuss a few tips you can heed at the very start of your game. But be warned here: your best bet will always be to play the game and to garner your own experience. There?s truly no substitute for learning through trial and error.
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Take a look at the various professions you?ll be able to choose throughout the game. One of the most important aspects of WoW is the gold you?re make during gameplay. Keep this in mind when selecting your character and/or your respective professions.
Also, be prepared to play the game for all it?s worth. Don?t pass up on quests. Taking the time to complete all quests laid out will enable you to get a feel for the lay of the land, the gameplay, and also enable you to put together some funding.
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Stand Down Erap Estrada
To David Frost, Richard Nixon related his biggest regret: "I let down the country. I let down our system of government, and the dreams of all those young people that ought to get into government but now think it too corrupt.…"
In a functioning democracy, where a dishonored leader is expected to fall on his own sword, there is a requirement for all major players to work hard to secure the continued active participation from the most capable, most idealistic and most passionate members of the youth.
Not in our country. Disgraced, convicted criminals like Joseph Estrada continue to posture and act as if they have any moral credibility left to pursue once more the very highest public trust he completely wasted. And behold his large retinue of hangers-on hoping to regain a part of the glory days of plunder.
We can never hope to learn from our mistakes as a nation if we never punish criminals who directly harm the poor and powerless with their corrupt dispensations. There is too much magnanimity going around in our oligarchic society because everyone expects to get a free pass when their day of reckoning arrives, the traditional politician's version of professional courtesy to one another.
This is the moment to call for a division of the House. Will the very True Marcos Loyalists identify themselves once and for all and proudly proclaim their allegiance to their evolved ideology of greed and selfishness. How many of this demagogic breed openly strut about in the guise of being servant-leaders? Words always come easy to these disciples and it's fairly easy to identify them because they never seem to yield power and privilege to anyone. They are master survivalists willing to do anything, compromise on everything to maintain, at the people's expense, their reprehensible hides.
When will our day ever arrive? It is up to you and me.


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House votes to avert shutdown
The House approved a six-month stopgap spending bill Wednesday to keep the government operating past March 27 and shift billions of dollars to military operations to help the Army and Navy cope with automatic spending cuts ordered last week.
The 267-151 vote sends the measure to the Senate, where a bipartisan coalition hopes to expand on the package next week and give other Cabinet departments the same relief promised to the Pentagon.
Story Continued Below
It will be a delicate exercise given the tensions over sequestration and the need to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the month. But influential House Republicans said Wednesday that they welcomed what the Senate is proposing, and by acting quickly, the House deliberately gave itself three weeks to make such a deal.
( Also on POLITICO: 6 W.H. sequester claims shot down)
"They may well add other departments. Frankly, speaking only for myself, I would hope that they do," said Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), who has become the new, gentler voice for the often partisan House Rules Committee. "We can have a good negotiation going back and forth between the two parties.
"This is the beginning of a real discussion, the beginning of a real dialogue," Cole added. "But we are going to reduce spending."
Beneath all the bonhomie, a bitter divide remains. And as adopted, the House measure leaves in place the sequestration mechanism that forced landmark across-the-board spending cuts last Friday.
( PHOTOS: How sequestration could affect you)
Money is moved between select accounts to mitigate the impact on Forest Service firefighting, for example, or Border Patrol in the Southwest. But on a 231-188 vote, Republicans upheld keeping sequestration language in the bill. And total discretionary spending will fall to about $984 billion, more than $60 billion below the amount that had been the initial target for this year under the 2011 Budget Control Act.


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Some games go on in spite of tragedy
FAIRFIELD -- The games went on.
At least they did inside some high school gymnasiums across Connecticut only hours after the shocking tragedy Friday morning at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown that left 28 people, including 20 schoolchildren, dead.
The state's high school athletic governing body, the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, released a statement Friday afternoon, leaving the decision whether or not to postpone games scheduled for Friday night in the hands of the individual schools. More than half of the games originally slated for southwestern Connecticut, including all games involving SWC schools -- the home conference of Newtown High -- were pushed to a later date. Some schools also decided to postpone Saturday's games as well.
"It was a mutual decision out of respect for the situation, for the community of Newtown," Bunnell athletic director Dave Johnson said. "It was a simple decision. We can make up basketball games down the road. We wanted to make sure we did the right thing."
The Bunnell boys basketball team had been scheduled to play ND-Fairfield in the championship of the SWC Tip-Off Tournament Friday night. The consolation game was to be Newtown against Kaynor Tech. No makeup date has been announced for either game.
Elsewhere, such at Fairfield University's Alumni Hall, the regularly scheduled game between Amity and Fairfield Prep went on.
The game, won by the Jesuits 55-44, was preceded by a lengthy moment of silence to acknowledge the victims of Friday's massacre.
The tragedy had an immediate impact on Fairfield Prep with two of its players -- Dillon Palumbo and Colton Smith -- residing in Newtown. Jesuits coach Leo Redgate said the players' parents arrived at the gym before the start of the freshman game to take them home. The eventual game itself did provide a temporary mental respite from the day's shocking events.
"I'm still in shock," said Redgate, who has three school-age children. "To me, I'm not sure what else I would do, sit home and feel miserable? I'm not sure that's healthy either."
Both Amity and Prep players said there was a lot of confusion in regard to the information trickling out of Newtown and if they would go ahead with the game.
"It was in the back of everybody's mind," Jesuits' senior Tim Butala said. "When you get out there on the court you forget about it. It was a good way to try to move past it, but at the same time with the moment of silence to remember."
Amity's Zac Campbell said the shootings made players on his team take pause as they wondered if they'd still play Friday night.
"It could have been one of our little brothers, it could have been any of the elementary schools in our town," he said. "It affects all of us."
Spartans coach Jeff Nielsen made note of what happened in Newtown before tip-off, but also wanted to make sure his team was focused on playing basketball.
"You're thinking about the situation. You're not really thinking about the basketball game," he said. "Before the game we talked about it. We said we're here to play, so focus on the game right now."
About half of the FCIAC went forward with its boys and girls basketball games Friday. The league issued a statement on its website to express sympathy for Newtown as well as allowing its member schools to decide on their own whether or not to play. Those that did tried to honor the victims as they could.
Westhill athletic director and girls basketball coach Mike King felt keeping a sense of normalcy was important.
"I didn't see there was a reason not to play tonight," King said.
"I live in Newtown, my kids go to an elementary school in Newtown. It's a tragedy but things do need to go on. I think the best thing to do was go forward with life."
Added Darien girls basketball coach Katie Lauten: "I think even in light of everything that happened, it was good for the girls. I know both schools were OK with it, so yeah."
Part of what made it easy for some schools to postpone Friday night's games was logistics. The fact it was early in the new season with plenty of available dates to reschedule the games allowed some to err on the side of caution.
For instance Kolbe Cathedral and Stratford's boys basketball game set for Sacred Heart's Pitt Center Saturday night was also postponed to a later date.
"After we learned what had happened, I'm pretty sure it was appropriate (to postpone the game)," Kolbe athletic director Henry Rondon said. "I'm sure we can get this game in at another date."
Correspondent Ryan Lacey contributed to this report
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Mercurial Branches
This page documents how to use Mercurial, rather than Subversion, to hack on Django. See also DjangoBranches.
Core developers
For people who are core committers, and want to use Mercurial rather than Subversion as their client:
- Install the hgsubversion extension (and understand basically how it works).
- Clone the Subversion repository (do this using hg version 1.5 or higher, or else the changeset hashes generated by hgsubversion will be incompatible with those from repos generated using newer hg versions, including the official Django hg mirror).:
hg clone svn+http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/ djangoThis will take a Good While (lots of hours), and in some cases can take a Very Long Time for just one changeset (I gave up on r11505).
- Clone the official Django hg mirror in the normal way, using hg 1.5 or greater.
- Edit .hg/hgrc to say:
default = svn+http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/
- Do
hg svn rebuildmeta. This works because the official Django mirror was been created by hgsubversion, and is updated only by hgsubversion.
- Use normal hg commands to make commits, switch branches, push back to the subversion repository etc. Remember to use
hg rebase --svn, and not
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- Use the bookmarks extension for git-style local feature branches, or named branches for feature branches that you need other people to see.
- Alternatively, use the queues extension to manage long lived patches.
- To collapse several commits into a single commit before pushing back to svn, use the histedit extension
- To backport a changeset from trunk, use the transplant extension. Or use this handy script which will generate the commit message for you:
The command line is like:
#!/bin/bash function usage { echo "Usage: hg_backport <branch> <hgrevision>"; } if [ $# -ne 2 ] then usage; exit 1; fi SHORTBRANCH="$1" BRANCH="releases/$SHORTBRANCH" # we only backport to release branches. HGREV="$2" hg st -a -r -m | grep '' > /dev/null && { echo "Working directory not clean - exiting" > /dev/stderr; exit 1; } SVNREV=`hg svn info -r $HGREV | egrep '^Revision' | cut -f 2 -d ' '` if [ "x$SVNREV" = "x" ] then echo "Can't find svn rev"; exit 1; fi echo "Backporting Subversion revision $SVNREV" hg update $BRANCH || exit 1; # Make a commit message first in case the transplant fails. hg log -r -1 --template "[$SHORTBRANCH] {desc}\n\nBackport of [$SVNREV] from trunk\n" > hg-commit-message.txt || exit 1 hg transplant $HGREV || exit 1; # Modify the commit message hg rollback > /dev/null || exit 1 hg commit -l hg-commit-message.txt || exit 1 echo "Backport committed."where 1.2.X is a directory under 'releases/' in the Subversion repo, and 13643 is a hg revision ID. The change is already committed to the local repo, but not 'pushed', so you can still rollback if changes need to be made.
hg_backport 1.2.X 13643
If you make two commits, and only want to push the first, you will have some trouble, since the
hg push command doesn't support specifying revisions. Nice solutions to this welcome! - use
hg push -r rev ?