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Two cities loom large in the history of American urban restructuring. New York City's 1975 technical bankruptcy and Detroit's 2013 Chapter 9 bankruptcy have played an oversized role in urban theory. This is currently reflected in competing theories of post‐recession urban restructuring. "Austerity urbanism" uses Detroit as an exemplar, whereas "pragmatic municipalism" adopts the converse position arguing post‐recession reform is defined by local context.
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At the reunion, Roy Roberts, son of Roy Gilbert Roberts and Ruth Taylor Roberts, presented each family with a book of the family's genealogy. Roy's book contains a lot of interesting stories about the family and paints a portrait of what life was like for a rural Kentucky family in the early 20th century. I contributed a bit to the book, mostly by referring Roy to other Roberts researchers who had far better and more detailed information than me. Since the Roberts family already has this detailed information on their family, I am merely going to post a summary of my findings on the Roberts family instead of my usual posting that includes source documents:
The earliest confirmed ancestor of the Roberts family is a John Roberts who died in 1724 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Family tradition is that this John Roberts was from Wales, but like most early Virginia settlers, it is impossible to tell where he was from as few colonial documents recorded this information.
John Roberts and his wife Elizabeth Trammell had at least five children. One son, John Jr., lived to be about 100 years old. We do not have exact dates for his life, but we know that he was born prior to 1703, and he is mentioned in an 1802 letter as being "one of the oldest residents in the county." He may have been over 100 when he died. He and his wife Elizabeth Russell had at least four children.
John Jr.'s son Benjamin was born in about 1741. He served as a Sergeant in the General George Rogers Clark's Illinois Regiment in the Revolutionary War from 1779 to 1782. This was the group that headed west to defend settlers on the frontier from Indian allies of the British.
It appears that Sgt. Benjamin signed up with Gen. Clark with the intention to permanently move to Kentucky. Three days after enlisting, he sold his land in Culpeper county, Virginia, and his family likely followed the army west.
Once in Kentucky, Sgt. Benjamin was part of the expedition that established a fort at the Falls of the Ohio, which was the founding of the city of Louisville. Also present in the expedition were several of Sgt. Benjamin's cousins, including the confusingly similar Captain Benjamin Roberts, son of George Roberts. Many researchers (including myself) have mistaken these two, as they were about the same age, from the same county, and both married to women named Anne (hence the reason I refer to him as "Sgt. Benjamin").
The Falls of the Ohio at Louisville, Kentucky, circa 1912, before dams largely removed the falls as an obstacle to boat travel.
During his service, Sgt. Benjamin filed for a land grant for land in Jefferson County, Virginia that eventually became a part of Henry county, Kentucky. His wife, Anne Duncan, died shortly after arriving in Kentucky in 1780. Sgt. Benjamin remained on his land in Henry county for the rest of his life, and died after 1810. Sgt. Benjamin and Ann had 8 children.
Sgt. Benjamin's son James was born in 1766 in Culpeper county, Virginia. He moved to Henry county, Kentucky with his parents in 1780 and then on to Daviess county, Kentucky around the time his father died after 1810. James was married twice in Henry county. James and his first wife, whose name is unknown, had three sons, James, Merry, and Benjamin. His second wife, Elizabeth, had two sons, Willis and Henry. All five sons moved with their father to Daviess county to the village of Yelvington. James died there in 1822.
James's son Benjamin was born about 1793 in Henry county. Moved to Yelvington in Daviess county prior to 1820. In 1821, he married Rebecca Frazier, daughter of James and Nancy Frazier. The had seven children, and lived in Yelvington their entire lives.
Marion Franklin Roberts and Relly Ann Bowlds Roberts
One of Benjamin's sons, Marion Franklin, known as Frank, was a bricklayer in the Knottsville area in Hancock county, Kentucky, who helped build one of the first Catholic schools in that area. On May 9, 1917, at age 80, Frank converted to Catholocism. He died at age 88 in 1924 and is buried at St. Lawrence Catholic Cemetery in Maceo, Kentucky along with his wife, Arilia Ann (Relly Ann) Bowlds, daughter of William N. Bowlds and Sarah Pickerell. Frank and Relly Ann had six sons and five daughters. Their son Joseph Lawrence, born July 6, 1881, married Anges Maud Hartley on January 2, 1909. It is the descendants of their children that attended the Roberts family reunion. Most of their descendants still live in Daviess and Hancock counties, Kentucky.


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Hello European Classic-Castle members!
Maedhros and myself want to organize a meeting for Classic-Castle members in Legoland, Billund, Denmark this upcoming spring. After all, what place would be more suited for this kind of meeting than Legoland?
Anyone who wants to come is more than welcome to, whether you're from Europe or elsewhere in the world (though I realise it's easier for Europeans to get to Legoland in Denmark then it is for people from other continents).
Basically we were thinking of making it a weekend thing, where we'd be in the area on saturday and sunday, and stay over at the Legoland Hotel for a night. Of course if you can only make it one day, that's fine too, it's all up to you.
This thread will serve the purpose of planning the event with those interested in coming over. If you want to come, start by posting which dates would be best for you, so that we can figure out what would be the best time for everyone.
Since I'll be in the area with my car, we can arrange pick-ups from local airports (Ärhus or Billund) or stations.
This plan is still in the early development stage, so any input or ideas are welcome. I'm sure it'll be very cool meeting all you guys
So please, if you're interested, let us know. Feel free to ask any questions here in this thread so Maedhros and I can answer them.
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Alright guys, we picked a final date:
The weekend of saturday the 21st and sunday the 22nd of june (and possibly friday the 20th of june too if you're up for it).
The venue will be Legoland Billund.
Now all of you who will definitely be there, let us know, and all of you who may possibly be there, let us know too!


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Summer is fast approaching and many of us are making plans to attend one or more family reunions. Maybe it's a small, informal gathering of adult siblings and their families or maybe it's a large gathering of the descendants of a common ancestor. I put together a short list of items that as a genealogist/family historian you may want to consider bringing with you to the reunion.
- First and foremost is a good quality camera – I prefer digital, but film works just as well. You'll need this to take photos of the event as well as the attendees. You can use the macro setting to get close-ups of small artifacts or family heirlooms that might be on display. Depending on the venue, you may want to bring a tripod or monopod. Charge your batteries the day before and bring spares if possible. Also, clear off your memory card or purchase a new one so that you don't run out of space mid-way through the day.
- Bring pre-printed cards with your name and email (or phone number) to hand out to the relatives you'll want to stay in contact with. You can buy sheets of blank business cards at an office supply store. Then use a word processor or even a graphics program to design your card and print them at home. You may even want to include the name of the reunion to make it easy for your relatives to remember when and where they got your card.
- If feasible, bring photographs or other artifacts or heirlooms that you own to display and show to your cousins. Use common sense when deciding what to bring. You certainly don't want valuables or irreplaceable photos to be damaged or stolen. Keep in mind that many reunions are in public parks so be cautious about leaving your belongings unattended.
- If you own a portable scanner, such as a Flip-Pal or a wand scanner, bring it along. You never know what photos, clippings, etc your relatives may bring. If the owner of the item allows it, you might be able to get a better quality copy with the scanner than by taking a photograph – particularly if the lighting is poor. And, of course, don't forget to bring extra batteries. (See my recent review of the Flip-Pal here.)
- You may also want to consider bringing your genealogy data (or at least a relevant subset). You can use this to compare notes with your relatives as well as to help you identify exactly how you are related to the cousins you meet. Gadgets are great for this. Many smart phones have genealogy apps as do the ipod touch/ipad and android tablets. You could even bring a netbook or small laptop with your data. If you're not into the electronic gadgets, you could always bring a binder or notebook with hard-copy charts.
- Bring something with which to take notes, jot down emails, phone numbers, etc. You could use a pen and paper for this or use your smart phone/ipod/android/netbook/laptop/etc.
- One additional item I would throw in my bag is a USB thumb drive. I brought one of these with me to a reunion a couple of years ago and a distant cousin was kind enough to copy digital photos of our mutual many times great-grandparents onto it from his laptop. So I got the photos right there on the spot – no waiting for email, etc. In return, I created a gedcom of the relevant part of my family tree and put it on the flash drive so he could copy it onto his computer.


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The full source code for this tutorial is available at my github at https://github.com/tidyui/TidyUI.Web.
MVP - the "Model-View-Presenter" pattern, like the MVC pattern, is used to separate business logic from the application and presentation layer. For a quick walkthrough of the MVP pattern, visit the following link:
Now let's move on to how I've implemented this pattern for ASP.NET.
The implementation consists of two base-classes and an item template for Visual Studio that you can drop in you template directory. The template will then show up with the name "Mvp form" when you choose to create a new Web item in your project. If you were to create a new form with the name Default.aspx you would get the following files.
Default.aspx Default.aspx.cs Default.aspx.designer.cs Default.aspx.presenter.cs Default.aspx.view.cs
The three first files you'll recognize as the standard .NET files for a webform. The two at the bottom are the additional files needed to conform to the MVP pattern. Now let's try to map these files against the MVP pattern and see which files implements what part.
Default.aspx.cs - The view Default.aspx.view.cs - The view interface Default.aspx.presenter.cs - The presenter
The model is your business logic and should not be grouped with the page. Let's now quickly examine the code that the item template generates for the different files and then build a simple example with it.
Default.aspx.cs - The view
public partial class Default : MvpView<DefaultPresenter, IDefault>, IDefault { protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) {} }
As we can see the code-behind now inherits the generic class MvpView instead of the standard System.Web.UI.Page. The generic base-class is supplied with the type of the presenter and the view interface, this allows the base-class to create a new presenter object in it's constructor ready to use by the view.
public abstract class MvpView<TPresenter, TView> : Page where TPresenter : MvpPresenter<TView> { /// <summary> /// Gets/sets the current presenter for the view. /// </summary> public TPresenter Presenter { get ; set ; } /// <summary> /// Default constructor. Creates a new MVP view. /// </summary> public MvpView() : base() { if (!(this is TView)) throw new Exception("MvpView must implement the interface provider as generic TView type") ; // Create and initialize presenter Presenter = Activator.CreateInstance<TPresenter>() ; Presenter.View = (TView)((object)this) ; } }
Default.aspx.view.cs - The view interface
public interface IDefault { }
As we can see the view interface doesn't contain anything at this point, but we'll get to this shortly when we create our simple example.
Default.aspx.presenter.cs - The presenter
public class DefaultPresenter : MvpPresenter<IDefault> { }
The presenter inherits the generic class MvpPresenter to which we provide the same view interface as we provided to the view implementation. This allows for the base-class to contain a typed property for the current view object.
public abstract class MvpPresenter<T> { /// <summary> /// Gets/sets the current view. /// </summary> public T View { get ; set ; } /// <summary> /// Default constructor. Creates a new presenter without an assigned view. /// </summary> public MvpPresenter() {} /// <summary> /// Creates a new presenter for the given view. /// </summary> /// <param name="view">The view</param> public MvpPresenter(T view) { View = view ; } }
So, how about that example then?
Sure, first of all we'll add a simple Label to our asp-page, let's call it lblName. No need to show that as you all know how to do it. Second of all let's add a property for the name in our view interface, like this:
public interface IDefault { /// /// Gets/sets the current name. // string Name { get ; set ; } }
In order for everything to compile, we need to add an implementation for this to our view:
public partial class Default : MvpView<DefaultPresenter, IDefault>, IDefault { protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) {} #region IDefault Members public string Name { get { return lblName.Text ; } set { lblName.Text = value ; } } #endregion }
Ok, now what? Well now we simply add the business method in our presenter for fetching the name. In a real scenario this method would probably access a model which would load the name for the current user from a database somewhere. But for now, let's just set it to John Doe.
public class DefaultPresenter : MvpPresenter<IDefault> { public void GetName() { View.Name = "John Doe" ; } }
And last, but not least, let's call our presenter action from our view implementation:
public partial class Default : MvpView<DefaultPresenter, IDefault>, IDefault { protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { if (!IsPostBack) Presenter.GetName() ; } #region IDefault Members public string Name { get { return lblName.Text ; } set { lblName.Text = value ; } } #endregion }
Now why on earth did we write all that code?
Yes indeed, why did we just add two extra files and added some complexity to our application architecture? The simple answer is testability. If you think about it we've just managed to extract all application logic from the code-behind to a separate class with a nice and clean API. We've also made sure that the presenter knows nothing about the class implementing the view interface, making sure we can supply it a pure container for test data.
All of this together adds up to the fact that we can now easily create a test project in .NET and apply unit testing to our application, like so:
public class DefaultTestView : IDefault { public string Name { get ; set ; } } [TestClass] public class DefaultTest { [TestMethod] public GetNameTest() { IDefault view = new DefaultTestView() ; DefaultPresenter presenter = new DefaultPresenter(view) ; presenter.GetName() ; Assert.AreEqual("John Doe", view.Name) ; } }
I hope you found this tutorial useful.


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The story of Anniston is a cautionary tale. Monsanto's internal documents, many of which are being posted here for the first time for the world to finally see, uncover a shocking story of corporate deception and dangerous secrets. As The Washington Post revealed [Monsanto Hid Decades of Pollution" (front page, Jan. 1, 2002) and "In Dirt, Water and Hogs, Town Got Its Fill of PCBs" (Jan. 1, 2002).], Monsanto hid its advanced knowledge of the health effects and vast PCB pollution problems from the public and - most importantly - from its closest neighbors, the people of Anniston. While the documents provide a glimpse into Monsanto's corporate culture, a spokesperson for a Monsanto spin-off corporation, Solutia, has repeatedly asserted that the company is "really pretty proud of what we did" and that Monsanto "did what any company would do, even today."
The Monsanto-Solutia public relations propaganda being used to counter these revelations is replete with assertions that press coverage has been unfair, based on comments from its documents "taken out of context."
Now, the world can read the story of Anniston, in context, and in Monsanto's own words.
The Monsanto documents posted on this website surfaced from a series of lawsuits brought by Anniston residents, including Owens v. Monsanto, 96-CV-440, (N.D. Ala.). The Owens case settled in April 2001 for $43 million dollars. The current case Abernathy v. Monsanto, CV-2001-832 (now called Bowie v. Monsanto), Etowah County Circuit Court, is in trial now. Besides questions of who will pay to clean up Anniston, these court cases, and the documents emerging from them, raise a more contemporary question:
If Monsanto hid what it knew about its toxic pollution for decades, what is the company hiding from the public now?
This question seems particularly important to us as this powerful company asks the world to trust it with a worldwide, high-stakes gamble with the environmental and human health consequences of its genetically modified foods.


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(AP) -- The United States court system doesn't lose jurisdiction in international custody disputes simply because the child involved is no longer in the country, the Supreme Court said Tuesday.
That unanimous ruling is the latest in the battle between a U.S. soldier, Army Sgt. 1st Class Jeffrey Lee Chafin, and his estranged Scottish wife, Lynne Hales Chafin, over their daughter.
Chafin wants to appeal a federal judge's decision to let Lynne Hales Chafin take their daughter back to her native Scotland. But the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Chafin's appeal was moot because the 6-year-old girl has now been in Scotland for more than a year, and that his only remedy is in Scotland's courts.
Chief Justice John Roberts said that was wrong. "Such return does not render this case moot; there is a live dispute between the parties over where their child will be raised, and there is a possibility of effectual relief for the prevailing parent," Roberts said. "The courts below therefore continue to have jurisdiction to adjudicate the merits of the parties' respective claims."
The Chafins married in Scotland in 2006; their daughter was born in 2007. The family lived in Germany until Chafin was deployed in Afghanistan, and mother and daughter moved to Scotland. Chafin transferred to Alabama in 2009, and was joined by his family the next year.
The Chafins agreed to divorce in 2010, and Lynne Chafin was deported in February 2011.
She sued to take her child with her, citing the 1980 Hague convention on international child abductions, which is designed to return children illegally taken from member countries. She said their daughter's residence was Scotland, and that her husband illegally retained the child in the United States. A federal judge agreed, and ordered the girl be taken to Scotland. The judge also refused to stay the order. The mother and child boarded a plane and left the country.
Chafin appealed to the circuit court, which said the case was moot because the girl was in her official residence of Scotland.
That doesn't matter, Roberts said. Chafin has a right to make a claim, and a possibility of success, which eliminates an argument of mootness. And the fact that the girl is in Scotland doesn't matter, he said.
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"Even if Scotland were to ignore a U.S. re-return order, or decline to assist in enforcing it, this case would not be moot," he said. "The U.S. courts continue to have personal jurisdiction over Ms. Chafin, may command her to take action even outside the United States, and may back up any such command with sanctions ... Enforcement of the order may be uncertain if Ms. Chafin chooses to defy it, but such uncertainty does not typically render cases moot."
Roberts said if they allow Chafin's case to be ruled moot, judges would automatically stay rulings in Hague convention cases to preserve jurisdiction. "In such cases, in which a stay would not be granted but for the prospect of mootness, a child would lose precious months when she could have been readjusting to life in her country of habitual residence, even though the appeal has little chance of success," Roberts said.
A ruling for Ms. Chafin would also send the wrong signal to international parents, Roberts said. "A mootness holding here might also encourage flight in future Hague Convention cases, as prevailing parents try to flee the jurisdiction to moot the case," the chief justice said.
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I was born in 1952. I was born in London but was raised mostly in the country. As a child I can remember that milk was delivered to our doorstep in glass bottles each day. Horses and carts were still surprisingly commonplace when I was a child too; coal was delivered on a horse drawn wagon and beer was still being delivered by a horse drawn brewery 'dray!' People were routinely delivered to their destinations in railway carriages hauled by steam locomotives right up to the time that I left school. In fact one of my greatest childhood pleasures was travelling to and from school by train. As a boy, I even spent my spare time at the railway to watch and record these marvels of engineering snort, steam and puff their way on journeys to far away places.
The aircraft I watched lazily winging across the skies were still mostly driven by propeller engines and jet travel was the almost exclusive preserve of the very rich. Of course, our own holidays, if and when we could afford them, were taken at home or, if we were very lucky, by the sea. Most families around me did not have access to a car; we travelled by bus or we cycled or we walked. In the street where I lived there were only two working men who could afford a motorcycle; both of these were fitted with sidecars and used as the principle means of family transport for these more fortunate and wealthier families. Few of my friends at school had either a television or a telephone in their homes; we all trooped round to our teacher's house to watch events of national importance.
In my own lifetime there has been a vast amount of incredible change. Not only that, but in my own lifetime the pace of change has accelerated; and this seems to be speeding up more and more each day. Human intelligence appears to be capable of much more than I ever dared imagine when I was a child. I have witnessed the replacement of steam locomotives with tilting high speed trains that travel at more than 100mph and which have shrunk my world. Not only have my family taken their holidays in exotic and remote countries; we have travelled by air almost every year. I have lived away from home for most of my adult working life and have commuted to and from my home by air. In the street where I live now several families have more than one car and motor cycles have been largely in use for recreation rather than a regular means of transport to and from work. Families can now have a television in every room and most family members carry their own personal and portable telephone with them every day.
The wider world has experienced changes that have completely amazed me. I have actually seen men walking on the moon. I have seen the information revolution transform my world. People can now mobilise and organise to change their world in inconceivable ways and they do this almost every day. This blog is an example of how. I have just been corresponding with friends all over the world by email and my messages now take a fraction of a second to reach destinations that previously took weeks. I have access to stores of information, to libraries of books, to video images and to music files in such abundance that most days I no longer have time to cope with all the data around me. My children have such an easy facility with technology and are frequently more expert in its use than I am myself. Human beings all over the world have opinions about everything and they are no longer afraid to use our technologies or to make a big noise!
Our ability, as a species to make war on each other is being constrained; largely because people mobilised and organised opposition quite effectively. Atmospheric nuclear testing has been stopped. Bilateral nuclear weapons agreements have been begun. The politicians we vote for are very clear that nuclear proliferation must be stopped. Generations of ordinary people have taken to the streets and marched to our parliaments to demand an end to this particular insanity. Young people everywhere across the world risked being beaten, imprisoned and even shot as they campaigned to bring the decades of war in Vietnam to an end. I watched Nelson Mandela walk to freedom on the TV in my living room. I never dared dream that apartheid would be dismantled in my lifetime but I was there to dance in the street parties of Johannesburg with the thousands of South Africans who had waited so patiently in line for several days to cast their vote for the first time ever.
It has been nothing short of a miracle to witness the peace and reconciliation hearings that prevented a bloodbath of epic proportions take hold in the new South Africa. Peoples who had been bloodied, beaten, imprisoned and cruelly oppressed simply forgave their persecutors and decided to get on with their lives. I grew up with the iron curtain as an indisputable fact of life. Witnessing ordinary people climbing onto the Berlin wall and tearing it down with their bare hands was nothing short of a miracle. I watched in total amazement as young women and mothers climbed onto the tanks in Red Square to press flowers into the hands of startled Russian conscripts. The domination of half the world by the Soviet Union and its allies has now been consigned to history. I meet young adults in their 20s every day who have lived all their lives since the Berlin wall came down.
These same young adults now mobilise and campaign to end poverty, to lobby for effective pollution controls, to protest against the worst excesses of globalisation. The dare to do it and they do it regularly and often. In my own country, in the islands where I live, people who have spent generations bombing and murdering each other now sit down together at the parliament at Stormont and jointly act to prevent a renewal of the conflagration that consumed them just a few years before. Strident public outrage has also shortened the regional wars in Bosnia, in Kosovo, in the Gulf, in Lebanon, in Gaza and in a host of other global hotspots. Human beings now realise the power that he really have and they are not afraid to use it. The peace rallies organised across the entire planet to stop the war in Iraq represented the largest peaceful mobilisation of people at one time in the history of our species.
YES! Of course we can get discouraged sometimes when things go wrong, when our leaders make mistakes, when hubris and greed threaten our homes and our jobs. It is so easy to forget how good we are when a proliferation of media channels stream bad news into our lives 24/7. Outrages like the twin towers of New York, the bombing of UN schools in Gaza, the genocide in Rwanda and Darfur horrify and shock us. Having the graphic details of bloodied bodies and screaming children brought to us on our TV screens is so deeply disgusting that we somehow train ourselves not to feel it. But at some deep level we react and eventually we pluck up the courage to act according to the goodness in our nature. Millions of donations pour in with each appeal. Our rock musicians and our movie stars organise concerts across the planet and these events shame our leaders into commitments and promises to match our giving. So far it has never been enough BUT malaria will probably be beaten; HIV/AIDS is being controlled in an increasing number of countries; technologies designed to preserve life and to prevent disease were one the exclusive preserve of the very rich and now are increasingly becoming available for the very poor.
Progress is painful sometimes and often painfully slow, but progress is being achieved step-by-painful-step every day. What can no longer be denied is that we live in a world where progress is possible. We live in a world where human decency and human dignity are forces for progress. We live in a world where there are no longer any limits to what can be achieved by us! This means that what happens to our planet is now in our own hands; what happens in our lives is essentially up to us. The legacy we leave our children is something we actually can do something about.
I grew up in a religious tradition that taught us human beings were inherently bad. I now live in a largely secular society where the evidence of our inherent goodness is almost overwhelming. In reflecting on these events it really is very difficult to deny that there is something incredibly good, courageous, selfless and generous in the inherent nature of human beings. We are all capable of altruism, we all routinely practise idealism, we will even risk our own lives to do what is right, we all instinctively know now that ethical principles really are necessary to regulate our relationships with each other and to mediate between nations. A general consensus on these principles has resulted in a charter of human rights being adopted by the majority of peoples in the majority of countries of the world. Gradually we are building the institutions and processes that might, just might, save our planet from irreversible climate change and which now give us great possibility of have our lives the way we all deeply want them to be.
NO! Its not simply empty utopian aspiration any more….We have done so much in such a short time. I have seen and experienced so much in my own lifetime; we have now proved beyond any possibility of doubt that so much can be done by people of goodwill!
All that it will ever take is for each of us to do our best and for each of us to do our bit! Nothing more will be required!
"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing."
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Today is International Women's Day! Plus is run entirely by women who are happily disregarding maths and gender stereotypes, so we're very pleased to join in the celebrations. We've got lots of content by or about women mathematicians on Plus and here are some of our favourites. (And we'd like to ask all remaining dinosaurs to stop sending us emails starting "Dear Sirs"...)
Interested in the connections between art and science? Then come to this free public lecture at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge on March 14, 2012 to hear theoretical physicist David Berman and artist Grenville Davey talk about string theory as an inspiration to art.
Struggling with that new year's resolution to lose a few pounds? Weight not dropping off as fast as you'd expected? A new mathematical model has some good news and some bad news for you. Which would you like to hear first?
How many people died? It's one of the first questions asked in a war or violent conflict, but it's one of the hardest to answer. In the chaos of war many deaths go unrecorded and all sides have an interest in distorting the figures. The best we can do is come up with estimates, but the trouble is that different statistical methods for doing this can produce vastly different results . So how do we know how different methods compare?
From jelly fish, to biomass, to topology and speeding neutrinos, we've had a busy first two days at the AAAS meeting in Vancouver.


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I was a real dum dum today. I hit a new low. I was totally rude to two ladies. Like not just kind of rude - Outright rude and gruff and so unChristlike. If I could find them right now I would apologize. It just isn't my nature to be rude like I was. It was like I have always wanted to say what I said but at the end of the day it made me feel really really bad. Does anyone remember You've Got Mail? Meg Ryan finally says the right rude comeback and realizes it didn't make her feel any better. Yup, that was me!
I was in line at FM with a cart full and was putting it on the conveyor belt. I was in a hurry. I was going to be late to a rehearsal at a high school. And the checker was SLOW SLOW SLOW and chatty to the lady in front of me. These two lovely women came up with a bag of corn on the cob and asked if they could go in front of me because they were in a hurry. I looked at them and told them that I was in a hurry too. They said they had to get to Merrill. I told them I was going to be late to a rehearsal and my obligations were just as important as theirs if not more important. And then I just kind of kept at them. I felt so stupid that I allowed my lack of preparation to be somewhere on time get in the way of me being nice. Arghhhhhh!
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UIS Programs: Peru
June 6 – June 23, 2009 (17 days)
Program Overview
Base Program Includes:
• Round-trip Flight Lima -Cusco
• 2 nights in Students residence in Cusco
• 6 overnight stays with host family housing
• 4 nights in Taray School
• 2 nights on Excursions (Machu Pichu and Titicaca)
• Three meals per day (not offered during excursions)
• 28 hours of Spanish immersion at the intermediate level
• 8 sightseeing cultural and historic tours led by licensed local guides –in Spanish
• 10 visits to academic/learning sites
• 4 walking tour on Cusco, Machu Pichu, Ollantaytambo, Puno/Titicaca
• Cusco –Orphanage
• Visit to the Market
• Visit and 2 day excursion to Machu Pichu
• Stay in Aguas Calientes
• Excursion to the village and ruins of Ollantaytambo
• Visit and 2 day excursion to Lake Titicaca
Excursion to the Floating Island of URUS
• Excursion to The Bridge of Qeswachaka
• Excursion to the Sacred Valley of the Incas
Experiential learning:
• Haciendo música
• Bailando Salsa
• Cocinando Comida Peruana
• River rafting/horseback riding
PROGRAM FEE (exclusive of UIS tuition and university fees): approximately $2200 depending upon the final number of participants. Fee includes international airfare from Chicago, internal travel in Peru, excursions, most meals, lodging, Spanish language classes and special lectures.
Saturday June 6th 2009:
Departure from the States
Arrival to Lima
Transfer to hotel (**), overnight in Lima
Sunday June 7th:
Breakfast, transfer to the airport, flight to Cusco.
Welcome in Cusco, transfer to guest families.
16:00 Welcome Reception at the school & Walking tour in the city center.
Monday June 8th:
8:00 Placement test
8:30 – 12:30 Spanish group classes
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 6:30 Cusco City Tour
6:45 Lecture about Ruins in Cusco
8:00 Welcome dinner
Tuesday June 9th:
8:30 – 12:30 Spanish Classes,
12:30 Orientation meeting about the Sacred Valley & more Programs
1:30-2:30 Lunch
2:30-6:45 Free Time (Visit the local market)
6:45 Lecture Peruvian culture.
Wednesday June 10th:
8:30 – 12:30 Spanish Classes,
12:30 visit to a clinic for mentally & physically disabled children
1:30-2:30 Lunch
2:30-6:45 Free time
6:45 interactive music class at the school
Thursday June 11th
Excursion to the Sacred Valley of the Incas
Friday June 12 th:
River Rafting
Saturday 13th
2 day tour to Machu Picchu with overnight in Aguas Calientes
Sunday 14th
Machu Picchu; transfer from Ollantaytambo to the school in Taray.
Monday June 15th:
8:00 – 12:00 Spanish Classes
12:00 lunch
13:00 – 16:00 time off to explore the surroundings and the village of Pisac
16:00 – 20:00 free time
20:00 dinner
Tuesday June 16th:
8:00 – 12:00 Spanish Classes
12:00 lunch
13:00 – 16:00 Excursion to the Salt Mines of Maras
16:00 – 20:00 free time
20:00 dinner
21:00 bonfire
Wednesday June 17th:
8:00 – 12:00 Spanish Classes
12:00 lunch
13:00 – 17:00 free time
17:00 Cooking or Salsa Class
18:00 Dinner
19:00 Transfer to Cusco to take the night bus to Puno
Thursday, June 18th/ Friday, June 19t/h Saturday 20th
8:00 – 12:00 Spanish Classes
12:00 lunch
13:00 – 17:00 free time, or: Excursion to Ollantaytambo
18:00 Dinner
19:00 Transfer to Cusco to take the night bus to Puno
Friday & Saturday
Bus to Cusco, nightbus to Lake Titicaca & the Floating Island of URUS, overnight stay in on the islands. Friday: bus back to Cusco, back to accommodations (students residence) at 6.00 a.m. Sunday morning!
Sunday 21st
Rest and free time
Monday June 22nd:
Excursion to the bridge of Qeswachaka
Tuesday June 23rdth:
Departure back to Lima and to the States
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There's nothing like seeing a baseball game at Safeco Field. Or any other stadium, for that matter, but I like Safeco best—especially when my pal Mark shares one of his season-ticket-holder seats.
To flip the ball over, though, I also believe that listening to a baseball game on the radio in your own backyard when the team's on the road is pretty special. It's better than watching a game on T.V. any ol' day, especially any sunny day.
While baseball tends to be associated with beer (hence the "hey, beer man" yelps at games), I think, now and again when I'm pondering such things between innings, that our national pastime deserves and goes dandy with a good cocktail. I'm shaded into the current camp that sees the Mariners as showing some signs of better things to come; but I also know supporting our local heroes sometimes needs to be accompanied by a strong drink. The following, while maybe not designed for baseball, fit this cocktail bill like a glove. And all go well with peanuts.
The Enchanted Field
On good days for our home team the field seems to have an otherworldly nature —it's where heroic and wacky things happen. This drink can help replicate that feeling when listening to the team play an away game, especially if Alex Liddi is in the lineup. Just follow the recipe from Dark Spirits: Fill a cocktail shaker halfway full with ice cubes. Add 1-1/2 ounces rye (I'd suggest a High West rye if you can find it), 1 ounce Strega (a golden Italian liqueur), 1/2 ounce freshly squeezed orange juice, and 1/4 ounce simple syrup. Shake well. Strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with an orange twist.
Rusty Nail
Have this one in honor of Rusty Kuntz, who may never have played for Seattle but who is as far as I know the only baseball player who shares my birthday (you can toast Rusty Staub, too, if you want). Also, this has that sweet-with-a-kick nature that sometimes goes hand-in-hand with being a fan. This version of the classic is out of Ginger Bliss and the Violet Fizz. Add ice cubes to an Old Fashioned glass until it's about halfway full. Add two ounces Scotch (a nice blended variety like the Famous Grouse) and 1 ounce Drambuie. Stir briefly.
The Natural
Drink this when watching the Robert Redford classic of the same name or reading the Malmud novel it's based on, but also drink it when listening to any young prospect knock the ball around or throw a perfect inning (Danny Hultzen might soon be good for the latter). This recipe's from Dark Spirits: Fill a cocktail shaker halfway full with ice cubes and then add 2 ounces dark rum, 1 ounce brandy, 3/4 ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice, 1/2 ounce orgeat syrup, and 1/2 ounce grenadine (B.G. Reynolds is a good brand for both syrups). Shake well and strain into a cocktail glass.
The Set Up
There's thanklessness to being a setup man. You don't have the glamour of the starting pitcher or the drama of the closer. In my mind all the setup hurlers and one time setup hurlers deserve a cocktail sipped just for them, even without the accolades. And this is it, with a recipe from Good Spirits: Fill an Old Fashioned or other short squat glass with ice cubes, add 2 ounces whiskey (I suggest Woodinville Mash Bill No. 9 bourbon), 1-1/2 ounce fresh orange juice, and 1/2 ounce Pernod. Stir everything with a miniature bat.
King's Peg
This drink from days of yore may be a bit tuxedo-with-tails for baseball at first glance. But darn it, the King on our team deserves a little sparkling reverence and there's nothing that shows appreciation better than a glass of bubbly. And besides, I'd be willing to bet at least an order of waffle fries with cheese sauce that Babe Ruth slurped his fair share of Champagne. And channeling the sure swings of his bat on any night couldn't hurt us. This recipe is also from Dark Spirits: Put one or two ice cubes in a Champagne flute or a plastic glass from the ballpark. Add 2 ounces Cognac or brandy and then fill with chilled brut Champagne or sparkling wine. Stir briefly.


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YANGON (Reuters) - Rioters attacked a mosque and Muslim businesses in central Myanmar on Tuesday, police said, the closest a series of sectarian clashes pitting Muslims against majority Buddhists has come to the commercial capital Yangon.
Roaming gangs armed with bricks smashed the mosque's windows and looted dozens of shops after a Muslim woman collided with a Buddhist monk while walking in the street, angering residents, a police statement said.
"Police had to disperse the crowd by firing warning shots," presidential spokesman Ye Htut said in a statement on his Facebook page. He said order had been restored in Oakkan village, 100 km (60 miles) north of Yangon, Myanmar's former capital and by far its largest city.
Sectarian clashes between Buddhists and Muslims, who make up about five percent of Myanmar's population, have regularly erupted since a quasi-civilian government took power in March 2011 after five decades of military dictatorship.
Rioting broke out in March in the central town of Meikhtila and led to the deaths of 44 people, with 13,000 displaced.
The government declared a state of emergency after three days of violence, but attacks on Muslims spread southward towards the capital, Naypyitaw, and reached areas just a few hours drive from Yangon.
Radical monks have been accused of inciting anti-Muslim violence through speeches delivered throughout the country and disseminated on recordings sold at shops and street stalls.
Seven Muslim men are on trial in Meikhtila charged with murdering a monk, seen as a spark that set off the riots.
A witness in Oakkan, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters that monks had tried to subdue the crowd.
Systematic attacks on stateless Rohingya Muslims erupted in western Rakhine state in June and October last year. More than 200 people died and 120,000 were driven from their homes.
A government report on the Rakhine violence recommended on Monday an increase in the numbers of security forces, accused by rights group Human Rights Watch of complicity in the "ethnic cleansing" of Rohingyas.
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The Blues bounced back from Tuesday's cup exit to deliver an excellent victory against Newcastle in a game which once again showed the importance of Everton's left sided fluency………
The Blues made two changes in personnel with Jermaine Beckford able to start and replace Billy with Tony Hibbert coming in at right back and Seamus Coleman dropping out. The big changes from Tuesday's horror show involved a switch to 4-4-2 and Mikel Arteta switching to the left side with Phil Neville coming into the centre of midfield and Leon Osman switching to the right flank. Newcastle had injury problems down their right side with Barton and Ireland out, so Simpson was pushed forward to right midfield and Steven Taylor slotted in at rightback. Both sides were pretty much 4-4-2 – not a familiar sight in the Premier League nowadays.
Arteta revitalised
Mikel Arteta has had a frustrating spell this season from the centre of Everton's midfield. During a previous post late last year I asked the question whether the Spaniard could be switched out to the flanks where he had his most productive campaign with 9 goals and 13 assists in 2006/7. My argument is that in the modern game teams flood the midfield in 4-5-1 battles with teams often having 3 centre mids each, the area becomes congested and the room to manoeuvre creatively is reduced. Out wide though, you get more time and space and with 2 centre mids Neville and Rodwell's remit purely to defend, he was almost given a free role to create chances. Although based on the the left side, like Pienaar he tucked in centrally between the lines and Newcastle simply couldn't handle him. His run and ball to setup the excellent Leon Osman's equaliser showed the advantage of having him playing in the final third to utilise his creativity, as opposed to being crowded out 25 yards further back in the middle of the pitch.
In the opening exchanges Arteta is fed the ball out wide, Newcastle often keep a high line and with Simpson caught up field and Taylor sucked inside to his more usual centre back slot, Arteta has acres of space to run and then get a shot in which Harper saves well….the same move led to the Blues opener shortly after.
The 2007/08 campaign also saw Arteta on the flanks and in this campaign he was the most fouled player in the league, fouled every 28.8 minutes in season. This ability to win free kicks was to prove key in us taking control of the game, as the Spaniard bought a foul from Tiote in an area which Baines thrives on whipping in dead balls. It was to see Baines go into double figures for assists and break his previous best of 9 assists in a season– the most for a Premier League defender in the last decade with Jags the beneficiary this time. Our recent focus on Baines and our left side showed it had accounted for the source of 75% of our goals this season. Somebody should have told Alan Pardew.
Before this, Newcastle had taken the lead against the run of play when Best converted after Nolans effort was parried by Howard into his path. For the sizeable unit that he is, Nolan has the ability to find space inside the box and he was a threat on more than one occasion to the Blues rearguard.
Newcastle kept the ball better throughout as the passing stats show, overall completing 73% of their passes to our 65%, which is the lowest figure we have recorded all season
Second Half
Like us, the Geordies are also better down their left side with the consistently excellent Enrique and Gutierrez making good combination play, and the left flank was the source of their opening goal. With Enrique now on the sidelines through injury, Gutierrez was taking the fight to the Blues himself. His ability to beat his man was suspect and out of the 13 times he took on his opponent he only emerged victorious 3 times.
Chalkboard Analysis – Everton shut down Newcastle's left side better than our opponents with more interceptions
An exciting game between 2 sides looking to exploit their respective strengths down the left flank. Crucially, the Blues looked defensively more solid in defending their right side than Newcastle. For the first time in the league this season the Blues conceded the first goal and came back to win, it was also one of the few occasions this season where the Blues have seen less of the ball and been inferior to an opponent in retaining possession, and yet made more of the ball when in possession to win the game. The midweek game with Birmingham now beckons and if we are to salvage something from this season we need to show consistency and back up the great results we have had against the better sides in the league by picking up points against teams from the bottom of the table.


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Morgan Stanley: Apple Will Ship Over Six Million iPads This Year
Apple's iPad hasn't yet arrived at market, but the device's suppliers are already raising their build rates in expectation of strong sales, thanks to encouraging pre-order rates.
This according to Morgan Stanley (MS) analyst Katy Huberty, who says Apple's manufacturing partners now expect to ship 2.5 million iPads between March and May, considerably ahead of her previous estimate of 750,000 for the June quarter.
What's more, they are now forecasting shipments of eight to 10 million iPads in calendar 2010, considerably more than prior expectations of five million-plus.
Current Street consensus is for Apple (AAPL) to sell three to four million iPads, but Huberty figures the company will sell over six million iPads.
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New Rules for Expungement of Certain Broker Check Complaints
December 2011 may be a watershed date in the battle for fairness for stockbrokers. Constantly barraged by complaints, which are often no more than attempted extortion, the FINRA board may make some rule changes. It's a modest beginning; but it's a start. The proposal would amend the arbitration procedures adopting rules for expunction of consumer complaints for parties that are not named. You need to read that again: the new rules, and I'm quoting from a FINRA press release, better yet I'll just let you read it: "….new rules that would permit persons who are the "subject of" allegations of sales practice violations made in arbitration claims, but who are not named as parties to the arbitration, to seek expungement relief by initiating In re expungement proceedings. " Albeit not a breakthrough….. it does represent the first of what should be many steps towards a level playing field in fairness for brokers who are the victim of consumer complaints that are little more than money-grabs. It needs to be done so that the true purpose of Broker Check, that is to apprise the public of financial advisors who are performing below standard, can be identified fairly without maligning the entire industry. More news will follow as we move forward toward Broker Check becoming a meaningful vehicle for the general public to become aware of broker malfeasance.


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"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away."
I have that quote framed in my bedroom – a gift from my mother-in-law for the husband and my first married Christmas. I have been a fan of that sappy-love-story quote for quite some time, and as I wake up and see it every morning, I continue to try to make it a part of my daily existence.
I haven't written very often this summer, even though, ironically enough, my last post was entitled I'm Back. However, in my literary absence, Mr. Six Eight and I did take a two week jaunt through five states…enjoying every moment along the way.
Joplin, Missouri…talk about taking your breath away.
Somewhere between Missouri and Alabama…the midwest makes for the longest alphabet game ever. But, I love it.
New Orleans, Louisianna…where we celebrated four years of marriage and ten years together.
Gulf Shores, Alabama…where each morning when I woke up I was reminded of what God's beauty truly is. Somehow sunshine, sand, ocean waves, and my husband constantly reminding me to apply sunscreen have the ability to bring peace to my heart.
In just a couple weeks my life will be bombarded again with school, coaching, and work. And as grateful as I am for all my opportunities coming up in the future, I am beyond grateful to have had the opportunity to spend such precious moments with my happiness.


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Make use of your fresh tomatoes by stuffing them with this shrimp-apple salad. Serve with a whole-grain roll or bagel, or low-fat whole-grain crackers.
In a nonstick frying pan, heat the water over medium heat. Add the shrimp and onion, and saute until the shrimp is opaque and the onions are translucent, 5 to 7 minutes. Transfer to a bowl, cover and refrigerate until well-chilled.
In a small bowl, add the apples and lemon juice. Toss to coat evenly and set aside.
In a large bowl, combine the celery, parsley, dill, horseradish and mayonnaise. Add the black pepper to taste. Stir in the shrimp mixture and the apples. Refrigerate until well-chilled, 45 to 60 minutes.
Just before serving, stuff the shrimp salad into the cored tomatoes. Serve immediately.
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The Federal Pell Grant is a need-based grant awarded to students based upon the information submitted on the Free Application for Federal Financial Aid (FAFSA). The Federal Government determines the amount to award each student according to a standardized formula and demonstrated need. The maximum annual award for the Pell Grant for the 19-20 academic year is $6,195. More information on Federal Pell Grants can be found here.
Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (SEOG)
The SEOG grant is a need-based grant awarded to students based upon information submitted on the FAFSA. Students must have exceptional financial need. Awards are based on federal funding levels and can range from $100-$4,000 annually. Priority is given to Pell Grant recipients first. The institution determines the amount awarded and the funds are limited. Go here for additional information on SEOG Grants.
Federal TEACH Grant
The Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) Grant Program provides grants of up to $4,000 per year to students who intend to teach in a public or private elementary or secondary school that serves students from low-income families. As a recipient of a TEACH Grant, you must teach for at least four academic years within eight calendar years of completing the program of study for which you received a TEACH Grant. IMPORTANT: If you fail to complete this service obligation, all monies that you received through the TEACH Grants will be converted to a Federal Direct Unsubsidized Loan. You must then repay this loan to the U.S. Department of Education. You will be charged interest from the date the grant(s) was disbursed. Note: TEACH Grant recipients will be given a six-month grace period prior to entering repayment if a TEACH Grant is converted to a Direct Unsubsidized Loan.
Eligibility Requirements
To receive a TEACH Grant you must meet the following criteria:
- Be a full-time sophomore, junior or senior who has been accepted into the Maryville College Teacher Education Certification Program and who is planning to teach in one of the high-need fields of education.
- Complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), although you do not have to demonstrate financial need.
- Be a U.S. citizen or eligible non-citizen.
- Be enrolled in course work that is necessary to begin a career in teaching or plan to complete such course work. Such course work may include subject area courses (e.g., math courses for a student who intends to be a math teacher).
- Meet certain academic achievement requirements (generally maintaining a cumulative GPA of at least 3.25).
- Each year sign a TEACH Grant Agreement to Serve.
Teacher Education fields offered at Maryville College that qualify for the TEACH Grant Program:
- Math for Teacher Licensure
- Biology for Teacher Licensure
- Chemistry for Teacher Licensure
- Teaching English as a Second Language for Teacher Licensure
- Spanish for Teacher Licensure
The Maryville College Education Department, in conjunction with the Financial Aid Office, will determine a student's eligibility for the TEACH Grant.
For additional information on the TEACH Grant please go to: Federal TEACH Grant Program


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The new capacity brings Spain's overall figure to 20,674MW. This surpasses the objective for 2010, which was set in 2005 at 20,155MW.
However, absolute growth at just 8% is the lowest figure for seven years.
The industry blames the poor figures on the central government's project-licensing register, introduced in 2009 and capping new capacity to end-2012.
The register, which AEE believes has cost over 10,000 jobs, leaves 2011 and 2012 each with 1500MW of new capacity, against over 3500MW installed back in 2007.
The government has promised the European Commission that Spanish installed wind capacity will reach 38,000MW by end 2020.
AEE is demanding negotiations with the government on both post-2012 capacity and on a new pay mechanism to drive the market, when the current regulation expires.
Wind penetration rose two percentage points, covering 16.6% of electricity consumption in 2010.


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A Hunters Pledge
Responsible hunting provides unique challenges and rewards. However, the future of the sport depends on each hunter's behavior and ethics. Therefore, as a hunter, I pledge to . . .
- Respect the environment and wildlife.
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By following these principles of conduct each time I go afield, I will give my best to the sport, the public, the environment and myself. The responsibility to hunt ethically is mine; the future of hunting depends on me.


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Regolith is a fully Horizontal and Responsive Wordpress theme that utilises the latest and greatest technologies in web development, to achieve a truly unique look and feel. It works great on mobile devices, tablets and computers. The horizontal layout will not only make your posts and pictures stand out, but will also provide a more efficient use of screen space in an era dominated by wide screens.
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WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday called on the U.N. Security Council to move swiftly to approve a U.S.-Russia deal to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons, saying there is no time to argue with those who remain unconvinced that the Syrian regime carried out a chemical attack last month that killed hundreds.
Kerry didn't mention Russian President Vladimir Putin, but his remarks were a clear attempt to rebut Putin's statement that Russia has strong grounds to believe that Syrian rebels -- not President Bashar Assad's regime -- were responsible for the Aug. 21 attack.
Speaking at a conference, Putin said, "We have every reason to believe that it was a provocation, a sly and ingenious one." He said those who perpetrated the attack relied on "primitive" technology, using old Soviet-made ammunition no longer in the Syrian army's inventory.
While a recent report by U.N. inspectors did not ascribe blame, the U.S., Britain, France and others believe that the report's findings offer conclusive evidence that the attack was conducted by the Syrian military. Assad, in an interview this week with Fox News Channel, denied that his regime was responsible for the attack.
The U.S., Britain and France pointed to evidence in the report -- especially the type of rockets, the composition of the sarin agent and trajectory of the missiles -- to declare that Assad's government was responsible. Moreover, they argue that there is no evidence that opposition forces possess sarin gas.
"So there you have it. Sarin was used. Sarin killed," Kerry said. "The world can decide whether it was used by the regime, which has used chemical weapons before -- the regime which had the rockets and the weapons -- or whether the opposition secretly went unnoticed into territory they don't control to fire rockets they don't have, containing sarin that they don't possess to kill their own people.
"And then, without even being noticed, they just disassembled it all and packed up and got out of the center of Damascus controlled by Assad. Please. This isn't complicated."
Kerry's comments in support of the U.N. report followed weeks of U.S. skepticism about whether the U.N. inspectors would be able to make valid determinations, mainly because of the length of time that transpired between the attack and when the inspectors were given access to the site.
The U.S. wants a new Security Council resolution now under discussion to make the U.S.-Russia agreement reached last week in Geneva legally binding in a way that is verifiable and enforceable. The U.S. and Russia are arguing over putting the resolution under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter. Chapter 7 deals with threats to international peace and security and has provisions for enforcement by military or nonmilitary means, such as sanctions.
Russia, which already has rejected three resolutions on Syria, would be expected to veto a U.N. move toward military action, and U.S. officials have said they do not contemplate seeking such an authorization. Russia holds veto power in the Security Council, along with the other permanent members, the U.S., China, Britain and France.
"We really don't have time today to pretend that anyone can have their own set of facts approaching the issue of chemical weapons in Syria," Kerry said. "This fight about Syria's chemical weapons is not a game. It's real. It's important. It's important to the lives of people in Syria, it's important to the region, it's important to the world that this be enforced - this agreement that we came out of Geneva with."
The U.S., Russia, China, Britain and France met again Thursday to discuss the text of the resolution.
Before the Security Council can act, members of the world's chemical weapons watchdog must meet and approve the deal that Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov agreed to in Geneva last Saturday to put Syria's chemical stockpile under international supervision for later destruction.
That meeting of the executive council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which is based in The Hague, Netherlands, is scheduled for Sunday, spokesman Michael Luhan told The Associated Press.
Actions taken by the OPCW are not legally binding, which is why the Security Council will then have to adopt a legally binding resolution enshrining the agreement, and likely referring to consequences if Syria doesn't comply.
-- AP Diplomatic Writer Mathew Lee in Washington and AP writers Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations and Michael Corder in The Hague, Netherlands, contributed to this report.


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MOSCOW (AP) — A motley gaggle of hipsters, mothers with children and two babushkas with hair dyed bright red gather to listen to something they haven't heard in over a decade: a stump speech for Moscow mayor.
Alexei Navalny, an anti-corruption blogger who has become the best known face of Russia's protest movement, is trying to take his following offline and into the street, waging a traditional campaign of hand-shaking and leaflet drives to win voters outside his base of the young and web-savvy.
Navalny has little hope of defeating incumbent Sergei Sobyanin — but polls show his star is rising. And if he gets a big chunk of the vote, the Kremlin will face pressure to show leniency over his five-year prison sentence, and the grassroots protest movement that fizzled out after Vladimir Putin's return to the presidency last year may gain new wind.
Sobyanin, meanwhile, is playing the regal incumbent: Throughout the campaign, the Kremlin-backed politician has been all but invisible, allowing the constant drone of jackhammers or whiff of fresh paint that are signs of a Moscow makeover to remind voters of who's in charge — and who can pull the purse-strings.
Navalny is the one who has been soaking up attention, and generating buzz. On a recent August day, the opposition leader stood on stage in a sprawling Moscow park dotted with enormous space shuttles and other scraps of Soviet-era glory, and attempted to connect with an audience he rarely reaches through Twitter: the feared and revered babushka contingency.
"We know that (in Soviet times) our oil money was spent on enormous factories, industry, railroads, roads, science, health care, rockets," he boomed, riffing on a nostalgia felt by many older Russians, who saw their hopes dashed and savings depleted under post-Soviet political reforms.
"But can you name a single major business that's been built in this country in the past 10 years? I can't!"
The old ladies sitting in the first row chuckled and shook their heads.
On Sunday, police briefly detained Navalny after he left the stage of a campaign event, and released him a short time later. The detention was part of a series of public signals to Navalny, who was given a verbal warning about various alleged campaign violations by the Moscow electoral committee last week.
Polling data on the race is spotty and inconsistent, but the trends are clear: The number of Muscovites ready to vote for Navalny on Sept. 8 has breached 10 percent and may even be moving toward 20 percent. Meanwhile, Sobyanin's ratings — while still above the 50 percent that would allow him to avoid a run-off — are slipping by the week. There are four other party-backed candidates in the race, none projected to snag more than 5 percent.
Alexei Grazhdankin, deputy director of the independent Levada polling center, said that Sobyanin's voter base was clearly no longer growing, and that there's now a small chance there will be a second round.
Last month, Navalny was sentenced to five years in prison on embezzlement charges, but was released the day after his conviction in what many have described as an effort to legitimize the mayoral race and ensure that Sobyanin — who was appointed as mayor and is seen as a possible successor to Putin — is regarded as an elected politician with widespread support.
Such legitimacy is considered important because Putin's forces are at their weakest in his seat of power: Moscow. When Putin won back the presidency last year, after ruling for a term in the lesser role of prime minister, he won only 47 percent of the capital's vote, compared to 64 percent nationwide. That may also be a reason why, although there's no doubt that Sobyanin is the Kremlin's man, he is running as an independent and has avoided public appearances with the president.
Masha Lipman at the Carnegie Endowment in Moscow said that Navalny had already achieved something: cast doubt over the inevitability of Putin's power.
"One of his greatest achievements is ... adding an element of risk and uncertainty," she said. "Putin built a political system in this country that is risk averse, it's a political monopoly."
Rather than the issues — immigration, traffic, high cost of living — it's a contrast in political style that lies at the heart of the mayoral campaign. In the Levada Center poll, 48 percent of respondents said they would vote for a mayor with "experience," whereas 47 percent said that personal qualities, such as "openness and determination," were crucial.
Navalny, a sharp-tongued 37-year-old lawyer, has plenty of the latter. He has waged an intensive campaign with nearly $1.5 million in funds raised online, meeting with hundreds of voters every day and mobilizing enthusiastic young volunteers to help hand out leaflets in the street and on the metro.
His team has also unleashed a flurry of new online projects. From a GPS mapping system that shows how many supporters live in each apartment block to an application that helps users spread pro-Navalny information on Russia's biggest social networks, the campaign has been keen to lock down his natural base of young voters, many of whom often don't make it to the polls.
"Currently the polls are assuming that those who haven't yet figured out who to vote for will vote the same way as those who have," Leonid Volkov, Navalny's campaign manager, told The Associated Press. "The fight is for the 30 percent of voters who haven't decided yet."
Andrei Tvertnev, an unemployed 25-year-old former soldier who was lingering in the crowd around Navalny, is one of those yet to make up his mind.
Tvertnev wasn't keen on Sobyanin, saying that the changes he's brought to the city "could have been done much faster." At the same time, he remained skeptical about Navalny.
"Do I vote for a bureaucrat who made some changes, or a different person who promises even more changes?" he asked. "I think I'll only make up my mind on the day of the elections."
Sobyanin, who made his name as the governor of the oil-rich Siberian province of Tyumen, makes up for his lack of charisma and enthusiasm with what talks in Russian politics: experience, access and the money that comes with it.
Despite his almost invisible candidacy, Sobyanin is genuinely well-liked for the changes he's brought to Moscow. He has poured a yearly budget of approximately $54 billion into the city's parks and cultural institutions, although other promises to tackle traffic and parking have been lagging or limited in scope.
As if to shore up his reputation as a fixer-upper, the city, which usually hits a sleepy summer lull in August, has been converted into an enormous construction site — with sidewalks torn up and facades repainted.
"There's little doubt that before elections, the government becomes very affectionate and thoughtful," Levada's Grazhdankin said about the city's makeover.
While Sobyanin, who was appointed to the mayor's office, is eager to prove himself as a legitimately elected politician, the tactics used against Navalny — from accusations that he receives foreign funding abroad to refusals by media outlets to play his campaign ads — show that he still sees Navalny as a threat.
Even if Navalny's eventual vote tally is relatively low, he may end up having an outsized impact on the Russian political scene.
"If he gets 10 to 12 percent, they can say, look at your opposition leader, he was only able to get this tiny fraction of the vote," said Lipman. "But those people who are investing their emotions, time and money into this campaign, that experience won't go away."
Oleg Bogomolov, a 42-year-old human resources manager who was at Navalny's headquarters to volunteer for the first time, said he didn't truly believe Navalny could win.
"But I think the more people who know about him, the greater his chances of being set free," he said. "If they put him behind bars again (after the election), there will be even more people in the streets."


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First Look: Aliment Serves Comfort Food with a Twist in San Francisco
Aliment opened its doors a few weeks ago in Nob Hill, just a couple of blocks from Union Square. Eric Rud, formerly with Nob Hill Grille and part of the local food truck scene, is the restaurant's managing partner and chef. Matthew Sullivan joins as co-chef, bringing experience from Bottle Cap and Blue Plate.
Located just a block away from the city's iconic cable cars, the restaurant hopes to attract tourists and neighbors alike. Aliment is situated between a high-end restaurant in one direction and a brewpub in the other, placement Rud finds fitting: "We don't really consider ourselves fine dining, but we're not a diner either." Both the space and the menu reflect upmarket comfort.
The menu features primarily American cuisine with subtle twists, like the heaping pile of brussel sprouts finished with caramel fish sauce and sesame seeds, and seared diver scallops with grilled nectarine and pea shoots. Although mains are mostly meat-centric, take note of the homemade smoked gnocchi with English peas and seasonal 'shrooms (the herb spaetzle is from scratch too). Rud says they plan to expand the menu slightly, adding a few simple items like a cheese board.
The space seats 49, with spacious booths lining one side of the restaurant and a balcony of tables above. A handful of stools line a sleek marble bar at the window that opens up to Bush Street, ideal for fog-free San Francisco evenings. Dining is also available at the bar, where light marble meets a wooden backdrop, displaying bottles from the wine list. Beer is on tap, including the Imperial IPA from Pacific Brewing Labratory, a local brewery that got its start in brewing in Chef Sullivan's basement.
Aliment is currently open for dinner on Sunday-Wednesday, 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. and Thursday-Saturday, 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. Rud says they're considering pushing back the hours, so it can be a place for the food industry crowd to gather after work, something he believes is lacking in San Francisco. On August 10 the restaurant started serving brunch as well, on weekends from 10am-3pm. Keep an eye out for the fried chicken and waffle balls, as well as their take on a continental breakfast.
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Drum clacks pebbledash the air. Riffs purr down every alley. Singers fight for your attention on bar stools and while crawling across speaker stacks. Nothing but the aroma of BBQ sauce fills the sunburnt nostrils of Radio 1 DJs spotted rushing from one bar to the next. It must be that time of year again…
South By Southwest (SXSW) is an annual music-festival-cum-conference like no other. This pick 'n' mix festival is to the indie-music world what Sundance/Cannes is to cinema. For four dizzying days a year SXSW takes over the self-proclaimed_ "live music capital of the world" _(Austin, Texas). It's a festival like no other, where, despite playing host to some of the biggest names in recent music history (this year's big guns include Van Morrison, The Lemonheads, Motorhead and REM), it's renowned as the place for breaking new music - previous years have seen the likes of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Gallows, Foals and Be Your Own PET begin to highlight their names as ones to watch.
Anywhere a PA can be erected - car parks, churches, pizza restaurants, backyards of bars used in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - the assembled laminate-wearing music industry movers, shakers and wannabes pitch up to catch the festival's 2,000-plus new acts. There's music from everywhere in every genre and style, ranging from metal, country, and hip-hop, to unique shows, like an intense Anti-War super group called BODY OF WAR featuring members of System of a Down, Rage Against the Machine (Tom Morello pictured) and Juno-soundtracker Kimya Dawson of the Moldy Peaches or there's the less stage-filling acts like THE BLOW - who's a girl from Portland, Oregon playing her disco odes to Beyoncé with a super-sweet charm and her live show is both hilarious and fascinating. However, this SXSW seems like it'll be the year of Canadian rave-punks CRYSTAL CASTLES whose teasingly short live show at Emo's saw queues of 500-plus people left outside as their 8-bit Game Boy sounds muddled with Daft Punk-inspired dance-antics and screamo tongue-like vocals, proving that their forthcoming album will be much more than a-record-by-that-band-who-were-on-Skins and more like a new generation's Sonic Youth.
A handful of other acts made their mark, including the haunting* BON IVER* (just signed to 4AD, and his album's really special). Swedish pop-blog princess LYKKE LI sounded like she'll be all over radio playlists and festival bills this summer; Björk's tip for 2008, SANTOGOLD, whose Karen O-styled, genre-crossing mixture of M.I.A. and Kelis and her exhilarating live show involved some brilliant military-robotic dancers. Plus everyone was talking about art-punk bands like TIMES NEW VIKING,* THE MAE SHI* (soon to be on a DiS tour - dates), and particularly LA's finest NO AGE: their no less than 14 gigs at SXSW involved the twosome climbing speaker stacks and playing guitar from atop crowd members' shoulders and rumours of people falling off a precarious bridge during one of their more bizarre shows.
Meanwhile, Brits like DUFFY, THE PIGEON DETECTIVES and JOE LEAN & THE JING JANG JONG were a major disappointments, especially Joe Lean's sub-Razorlight Britpop clatter, which failed to gain much of a reaction from even the most enthusiastic anglophiles. Conversely, Emo-pop sweeties I WAS A CUB SCOUT dived in fountains and told everyone they met how amazing PARAMORE and BE YOUR OWN PET were, before discovering their synths had been half-inched.
And the rest, in annoying Facebook-status style:
WHITE DENIM is like MC5 taking over Sesame Street and sticking a feedback-riddled guitar down the cookie monster's throat. Think a hipster QotSA swarming in static like spay painted crows.
ANTHALLO is used to be an emo band; now they make Broken Social Scene seem overblown, as they bash, soothe and tease like a Chicagoan Stars.
THESE NEW PURITANS is the quintessential English indie (too smart for their own good, too dour to be from anywhere but drizzle kingdom). The Tom Paulin to Arctic Monkeys' Stephen Fry.
OX.EAGLE.LION.MAN. is as outta context as a band can be, dressed in black Jewish-Christian regalia on the roof atop some air-con'd place called Wave, playing their post-My Chemical Romance sprawling gothed-pop at an_ NME_ party.
JENS LEKMAN is a very nice Swedish man. Playing on his own he sounded like Jonathan Richman at a Rufus Wainwright tribute night.
EL GUINCHO is being talked about by hipsters and people who've bought into this whole Afrobeat not being some Paul Simon tribute nonsense. Despite just being one guy on stage with decks and clever bits of kit, he's fun live, which endears him to the world a little more.
WHITE WILLIAMS is what Brian Wilson would be uploading to MySpace if Afrobeat was the new surf rock rather than some ridiculous scenester crush or fake media bowel movement, based on non-Pavement/Fugazi/Screwdriver influences.
GEORGIE JAMES is super pretty, doing lush little weezer-lite ditties from a pretty and a guy who used to be in seminal party-punkers Q and not U.
YACHT is the music part of The Blow and live he's a one-man sampler pincher and Peaches lyncher, with enough rhythm to lift the Glastonbury dance-tent off of the ground.
M. WARD is playing a church but DiS is left outside with 500 other people hoping to get in.
And there was oh-so-much more…
South By Southwest in photos HERE.