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Top Brass
It wasn't all fine wines and canopies at last nights NOPA awards. In between hobnobbing with Barry Glendenning, the chaps from the Football Ramble, Zonal Marking, Swiss Ramble and virtually all of Twitter, I managed to grab a few words with European football freelancer, Andy Brassell.
Since you ask, European Football Weekends went home with 66% of the trophy for best blog during the aforementioned ceremony. The other 33% of the award currently resides under the floorboards of Hoxton Hall. After Glendenning and Luke Moore from the Football Ramble had brought the house down with a plethora of funnies, I shuffled up to the stage, mumbled something about Qatar, and back down again to be met by bear hugs from the equally shocked Cynical Dave and Mr Fuller from the Ball is Round. In the ensuing melee, the award was knocked to the floor, and the glass globe rolled comically along the ground and into a hole never to be seen again.
Anyway, back to the issue in hand. Andy Brassell is a bit of hero of mine, not least for his unrivalled knowledge on European football. So it was about time we dragged him on to these pages to share some of his pearls of wisdom:
We're fairly partial to a European Football Weekend on this site, and boy, you've been to a few. Which city would you recommend as the perfect EFW destination? It has to be Marseille's Stade Vélodrome. Football is a central part of the city's personality and that really comes across. It's a rough and ready town, and they're so passionate. The Vieux Port is great for going out, a really lively hub, and it's not expensive to get tickets. The noise is extraordinary in the stadium, and not just for the big games. I was speaking to Habib Beye about it recently and he was pointing out how noisy it must have been before the roof was removed in the renovations for World Cup 98, given what it's like now. It's one of those rare stadiums where the atmosphere comes across really strongly on TV too, and quite a few people tweeted me after the Chelsea game saying how great it looked and would I recommend a trip there.
Athletic Bilbao's San Mames has to get a mention as well. I've been to around 15 grounds in Spain but nowhere else in the country has an atmosphere like it. A fair bit of that comes from the pride of the Basque people of course, but the stadium's always almost full, the stands are nice and tight to the pitch and the fans are noisy, despite there being lots of women and children, as opposed to that typically English demographic of all blokes between 10 and 65. You can make a good weekend of it with mates; bus it to Mundaka, about 45 minutes away on the bus, which is one of the prime surfing spots in Europe. An Aussie guy runs a shop hiring gear and giving lessons, and for history buffs, you go through Guernica on the way.
You spent a couple of seasons watching Lyon. Where does their match with St Etienne rate in the great derbies of Europe? It doesn't have the extent of historical context as, say, the Old Firm, but its newness is what gives it its edge. St Etienne's chairman from their glory years in the 1970s, Roger Rocher, once famously said that "in football, St Etienne will always be the city and Lyon the suburbs", as opposed to the other way round as the cities themselves are, but that's all changed since then. St Etienne are really sore about a nouveau riche club (as they see it) that doesn't have a smidgeon of their history lording it over them, whereas older generations of Lyon fans love getting their own back on the golden boys of the '70s who laughed at them as small fry.
The April 2006 derby at the Gerland (Lyon's home ground) marked the first home game since Lyon had won the title that season and they showboated to a quite ridiculous extent, dyeing their hair in the club colours and celebrating the goals (they belted Sainté 4-0 that day) extremely ostentatiously, running to the corner flag and letting off streamers and the like. St Etienne are still fuming over that one and it shows the mutual enmity there.
You are a regular down at AFC Wimbledon. How far can they climb up the leagues and are they any close to a dream move back to Merton? I always said from the start that I'd be happy with being in the fourth tier for forever and a day, and not much has changed there. The size of the club means much higher isn't realistic, and you could argue that Wimbledon punching above their weight was what left the club so vulnerable to opportunists in the first place. The Conference is great fun and having long-distance away games again is great, but ideologically getting back into the Football League is important. Our league place was stolen from us and to get it back is the major thing.
Merton is a tricky one. I really want to believe it's possible, though I'm not prepared to cede supporter control for that to happen; we've been down that road before. What concerns me a little is that supporters younger than me, who never saw Wimbledon play at Plough Lane (they left when I was 13), don't feel the pull of the area as keenly as the older ones, and fans who've started following in the AFCW years won't get it at all. It's always been a waiting game and will be for a while yet. It's much more important than relentless on-pitch success to me, but I accept that others don't feel the same way.
Any other clubs tickle the Brassell fancy aside from AFC Wimbledon and Lyon? I have admiration for a lot of clubs - I'm a lover, not a hater, Dan - but I can't help but have a bit of affection for Valencia. Great city, great stadium with tons of character, and their bat mascot has to be seen to be believed. It's like something from Hitchcock on acid. I bought a small replica, whom I named Joaquin, and after I flippantly mentioned having a pet bat in some potted bio that I dashed off, rumours about me being some sort of European football Ray Reardon spread like wildfire.
I've read All or Nothing: A season in the Champions League by Andy Brassell a couple of times now. That must have been huge fun to put together? Blimey, that's more than my wife's read it! It really was. The idea struck me when I'd already started doing the research; that I could do some sort of rolling travel narrative of the season as I was getting about to these places, so I just went with it. It would have been a heck of a lot harder but a lot of great people showed real kindness and gave me some brilliant help along the way - the likes of Phil Ball, Xavier Rivoire, Guillem Balague and Sid Lowe.
When I was a kid, I lapped any bits to do with European football as they were so few and far between, especially with the Heysel ban. If I saw a snippet of a team on TV or in the newspaper, I always used to run and fetch the atlas and look up where I might find Lech Poznan or Red Star Belgrade. I never could have imagined going to half of these places (I think I went on an aeroplane twice before I was 18) so it was something for nine-year-old me as much as it was adult me.
To pen the book, you travelled 20,000 miles, through 8 countries in 18 different stadiums. Just like heaven. Which was the best and worst of those 18 (eighteen) different stadiums? So many fall into the best category. The Vélodrome was the first one on the list and (as mentioned above) that's pretty special, but then you have the European night atmosphere at Celtic Park, the biggest standing terrace in Europe in Borussia Dortmund's Sudtribhune, Deportivo La Coruña's Riazor right next to the sea on the end of the beach...the list is endless.
I'm not sure I'd go as far as 'worst' for any of the stadiums; I genuinely enjoyed every one. Although I did briefly question my vocation in Moscow, sat on the coach's bench the day before the match in a minus 15 February watching the Monaco team do light training. Though any chill was alleviated at the match by one of my mates texting me "Alright mate. Looks a bit cold there." Do you think so?
Are there any plans afoot for another book? There's always a few irons in the fire. The difference now is that I have to think about the dreaded 'sell' to make it worthwhile time-wise, whereas for the last one I just did what I wanted. I'm busy enough that it's hard to find the time to sit down and write a coherent draft too.
There will definitely be another one along at some point though. The actual writing (as opposed to researching) of 'All Or Nothing' took ages and for a long time the thought of doing another book made me want to throw. I'm over that now though! The feeling of satisfaction when you've got the first copy in your hands makes it all worth it. As you'll find out. So when's yours out, then?
It may be all singing, all dancing as far as UEFA are concerned. But the early rounds of the Champions League can be a bit dull can't they? You could say that for a lot of cup competitions, really. It's natural that a competition should get more exciting as it goes on and gets to the latter stages. As far as the first half of the Champions League goes the organisers can't win; you either have competitive groups with the same old names, or reorganised qualifiers that give lesser lights their chance but ultimately end up serving up the likes of Zilina as cannon fodder for Chelsea and company.
If, as would be utopia for many, it reverted to the old European Cup straight knockout, the stakes would be so high in every tie nowadays that I couldn't see it producing much other than very cagey, negative football, with both teams scared to make the mistake that would finish a large part of their season.
Richard Keys and company will continue to have kittens when AC Milan draw Chelsea, but is the increasingly regularity of those games decreasing the value of the Champions League? In other words, are they still special? Just about. The problem is the competition has to hit such a fine balance between what's befitting the history of the cup as the very pinnacle of European football and what makes the big boys the most money - because if the second clause isn't fulfilled, then the giant clubs will just break off and form their own European Super League. Obviously the upshot of that would be even more of the biggest clubs playing each other all the time, and the domestic leagues' worth drastically decreasing.
The other point to note is that the same clubs often dominated in cycles in the European Cup days - Real Madrid won the first five, Benfica were in four of the next five finals, Ajax and Bayern both won three in a row in the '70s. It's just we're more conscious of repetition now because this is the first generation where we have all of the live matches at our fingertips, so we naturally have less patience and get bored more quickly.
The Europa League is a long draw out competition which very few people give a rats arse about and should revert back to a straight knock out competition to generate interest. Discuss. Again, a tricky one. People were complaining about the UEFA Cup being worthless for ages, and the same people jumped on the new format and ripped it to shreds within weeks of it starting. It's only in its second season now, so to write the new format off already seems very premature to me.
In the medium/long term, I'm hopeful that the format will help bridge the gap with the Champions League, which is definitely something that needs to happen. That a club as rich as Shakhtar Donetsk has taken this long to qualify for the last 16 of the Champions League shows how important that prep is, and hopefully it'll lead to both competitions being even more competitive.
You're an expert in, amongst many other things, Spanish and Portuguese football. Where did their World Cup bid go wrong? Even given the view of the rather murky bidding process, the talk of collusion between the bid and Qatar didn't do them any favours. The fact that the bid leaders didn't get after this as a major PR issue betrayed a certain arrogance, but the bid team didn't have too much public confidence anyway. The FPF (Portuguese FA) have had their hands full dealing with the Carlos Queiroz situation in the World Cup, and there's a strong body of public opinion that president Gilberto Madail should have gone after that.
The fact that the two countries are on their uppers economically can't have helped either. Even bearing in mind that the facilities are already good in both, it's hard to escape the feeling that improvements in infrastructure, security etc would have placed an intolerable burden on the public purse. Some things, like health and education, are simply more important than football, and most football fans realise that. Especially in Portugal, where public cash went on white elephants like the stadiums in Leiria and Coimbra for Euro 2004, many feel that the bid missing out is actually best for both countries.
Qatar was the natural choice as a venue for the 2022 World Cup was it not? The tradition factor isn't something that bothers me that much. It's what seems to be the horribly vague attitude to the bid's shortcomings and supporters' comfort that gets me. The idea that air conditioning is the solution to all the climatic problems is simply laughable. Remember Ricky Hatton's performance against Juan Arango in his first fight out in Vegas? He got a stinking cold from the air-con, and anyone who's worked or lived in it constantly knows how hard it can be on the nose and throat.
Of course, this doesn't cover the other 21 hours of the day that the fans won't be in the stadium either. That we're already hearing talk of moving it to winter shows how little attention was paid to whether the logistics of the bid. It's not even going to leave a legacy there, with the stadiums being dismantled and shipped off. For me, the idea that we'll be going into the most ecologically unfriendly sports tournament of all time over a decade from now is negligent beyond belief.
Did it bother you that England spent millions of pounds to secure just two votes in their 2018 bid? I'm probably not the person to ask. I always thought the FA should have spent on youth development rather than doing up Wembley. The best thing about the construction phase was when England were 'on tour', around Old Trafford, St James's Park, St Mary's etc. There are huge swathes of English football's heartlands that deserve the opportunity to host the national team, and I think I'd feel pretty pissed off if was from the north-west, or north-east, and had to get down to an obscure part of north-west London to see England all the time. Of course if Wembley hadn't been constructed, it may well have been that all big qualifiers would just default to Old Trafford, but the plan is a good one in principle at least.
Going back to the 2018 bid, I accept that you have to speculate to accumulate in this situation; that's simply part of any bidding process. What I found a far more upsetting prospect is the FIFA standard of them not being charged tax on any World Cup profit. It's nothing new, but something that I find very hard to stomach. Who do they think they are? They won't accept political interference but they can interfere with politics? I'm glad that didn't happen to us, however much I would have liked to see the tournament here.
Who is to blame for their failings in bringing football home? The idea that the media should have kept schtum about FIFA throughout the bid process is absolutely ludicrous, as is the suggestion that Panorama or the Sunday Times broke the bid; it's their right and responsibility to do as they did. That the British media is nosy is no news to anybody, and the idea that FIFA was blissfully unaware of this before is simply untrue. It's unlikely that they would have wanted the extra scrutiny of their activities for the next seven years or so that would have gone hand in hand with it being on English soil.
Clearly the voting procedure is fundamentally flawed, though why this couldn't have been addressed before now, especially by a football market as strong, influential and lucrative as England's, is a mystery to me. But the bid team glad-handing, withdrawing complaints about Russia's comments, and disassociating themselves for the media only to turn around and cry foul afterwards takes the edge off what are mainly legitimate complaints about transparency and procedure.
The World Football phone-in with Tim Vickery has a large following, and is a tremendous listen. Would you like to see that brought forward in the 5 Live scheduling, 8-10pm on a Thursday night for example? Thanks! The creation of a podcast has really made it blow up (as Jay-Z or Kanye might say), which is great and something I'm grateful for, but it does make people forget sometimes that its context is that of a late-night show. Much as getting to bed at a more civilised hour has its attractions, the timetabling gives us the chance to not have to be so mainstream, wander off topic in whichever way suits and create a more intimate setting with the listeners - all things that give the show its charm.
Which players are currently catching the Brass eye that we may not have heard about? I'd heartily recommend watching Alexandre Lacazette. Yes, he plays for Lyon, but his career highlight thus far is probably scoring the winner for France versus Spain in the summer's European Under-19 Championship final. That was on the Friday, he got up at the crack of dawn on Saturday, made it to London where Lyon were playing in the Emirates Cup and made his first two first-team appearances on Saturday and Sunday to make it three games in three days! Jumpers for goalposts! He's quick, intelligent and a tidy finisher too. France is still great for producing talent and another young one to look out for (though older and a slightly later bloomer than Lacazette) is Lynel Kitambala, who's banging them in for Lorient this year.
I should probably pick a defender too, so I'll plump for Yaroslav Rakitskiy of Shakhtar Donetsk. He's been very impressive in the Champions League this season, having got a chance when Dmytro Chygrynskiy went to Barça last year. He's proof that you don't need to be a six-and-a-half-foot brute to be a good centre-back, and you should get to see him in the latter stages of the CL this season, as well as with Ukraine in Euro 2012.
Do you get time to read any football blogs? Yes, although not as often as I'd like because I'm pretty busy doing my own stuff most of the time. I don't really want to single out individuals because there's an enormous amount of quality and enthusiasm out there. I feel encouraged that there's more and more recognition of that, not just with stuff like the NOPAs but from the mainstream, with Michael Cox of Zonal Marking's column in The Guardian for instance, which shows what's out there and what a public appetite there is for it. Great football bloggers are great for football writing as a whole, raising standards and keeping the traditional outlets honest.
Who are your favourite football journalists? From the European angle, it's hard to look beyond Sid Lowe. He's been doing it for years, but his column is still exciting and action-packed. There's always a breathlessness to his stuff that tells of someone who still loves what he's doing. The best - for me - are the journos who can put football in a wider human context. I'm lucky enough to have my work published at ESPN Soccernet now alongside some people that have a always set a gold standard in writing about European football in this way, like Phil Ball and Uli Hesse.
I don't always read the British dailies from cover to cover as my focus is mainly on continental Europe, but I always really enjoy reading Rory Smith. Not only is there real wit and insight to his writing, but he has a great sense of the ridiculousness of the whole roadshow, which I think is really valuable in a context where some people in and around the game take themselves far too seriously.
I've heard you're a bit of an actual footballer yourself. In fact Luke Moore from the Football Ramble has just described you as Zlatan-esque, in that you don't run anywhere, but score some decent goals. Guilty as charged? I'll take that. Though I'm of a much sunnier disposition than the great man, so I'd describe myself as Zlatan after a week at Club Tropicana. Though last time I turned out for the Ramble, I played more like Zlatan after a week in mid-Britpop Camden Town....
Talking of the Football Ramble. Those boys must be on a high after all the critical acclaim that rightly comes their way these days, no? They're doing things the right way, trying to expand into new areas - with the new website etc - without moving away from what they're good at. Even allowing for the egalitarianism of the Twitter and Facebook age, they're brilliant at connecting with genuine fans just because they're so incredibly enthusiastic about the game, as well as knowing their onions and being very, very funny.
And you're contributing to their success with a series of articles on their blog as well? It seemed a natural enough thing to do; I already knew them and what they were about pretty well, so I was pleased to be asked. I really believe in their values (well, apart from those involving drunken exposure) and what they're aiming to do. The quality of writing on the blog is absolutely phenomenal too; Chris Nee, James Appell, Chris Mann, Jim Campbell, Rupert Fryer, Steve Grant and co are as good as you'll find anywhere, which is good to be part of. You also get the recognition that there's football outside Europe and the Americas, like with the reports from Pyongyang and Pete Josse's piece from Nepal.
You've got upwards of 4,000 followers on Twitter. Does that eat up much your time in between radio shows, penning articles and tv appearances? I try to respond to every question, though time sometimes holds up responses and I imagine I miss the odd one or two. Tweet Deck is a godsend, as I can dip in and out while working. I've had a few people say thanks for responding, to which I always wonder - why wouldn't I? If people weren't interested in reading or listening to what I have to say, then I wouldn't have a job. So thank you.
And finally, who else would you like to see interviewed on EFW and why? Paulo Futre. An absolute legend and you'd be able to bust it in Spanish, of course! He still lives in Madrid, where his son plays for the Atléti youth team, and does co-commentary for Al-Jazeera. And who better than you to ask him about the famous 'Futre 10' moment in the dressing room at West Ham?
With Christmas just around the corner, you could do worse than to treat yourself with a copy of his excellent book. Go mad and buy it HERE.
Andy's sidekick on the World Football Phone-in, Tim Vickery will be interviewed on the excellent In bed with Maradona website next week.
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My mom makes margaritas all the time, and all summer that's what I've been craving. My friend Kait is coming over, and so I made margaritas. A pitcher. A small pitcher, since I only had a few limes. This is a super thing for your 4th of July party!
Small pitcher margaritas
Can be doubled, tripled, etc.
1 c lime juice, fresh squeezed
1 c tequila
1/2 c triple sec
1/2 c simple syrup (equal parts sugar and water)
lots and lots of ice cubes
Mix lime juice, tequila, triple sec and simple syrup in a small pitcher. Rub the cut side of the lime on each glass and then dip in a small plate with salt or sugar. Fill the glass with ice cubes, then with margaritas.

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Obama to Iowa: Let's finish what we started
- President Obama stumps in Wisconsin, Ohio and Iowa on Monday
- The president says this is his last campaign
- Obama will wrap up the day in Iowa, where he launched his presidential career
DES MOINES -- President Obama wrapped up his re-election bid Monday night – "his last campaign" – in the state that launched his presidential drive more than four years ago, asking voters in Iowa and across the nation to send him back to the White House for a second term.
Speaking at the downtown street corner where his 2008 campaign office was set up, Obama told some 20,000 Iowa residents: "This is where our movement for change began – right here."
Obama, whose win in the 2008 Iowa Democratic caucuses propelled him to the presidency, said the economy has improved and the world has become more peaceful on his watch, and told the crowd: "We're not done yet on this journey."
At times wistful, at times emotional, Obama teared up at one point. He later said: "We cannot give up change now."
First lady Michelle Obama, in introducing her husband, noted that this was her husband's last campaign rally as a candidate.
"This is a pretty emotional event for us," Mrs. Obama said, adding that on Tuesday "we've got a chance to finish what we started here in Iowa."
The late night appearance in downtown Des Moines, just down the street from the Capitol Building, capped an election eve swing through three Midwestern states that could decide his race with Mitt Romney: Wisconsin, Ohio and Iowa.
Singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen accompanied Obama throughout the day, singing some of his greatest hits and urging Democrats to crank out the vote on Tuesday.
After the Des Moines appearance, Obama boarded Air Force One for a flight to his home in Chicago, where he will spend Tuesday.
During an early morning appearance in Madison, Wis., in the shadow of its state Capitol, Obama told some 18,000 supporters: "We have come too far to turn back now ... Now is the time to keep pushing forward."
From downtown Madison, where residents began gathering in the early morning hours to hear the president as well as Springsteen, Obama traveled to Columbus, Ohio, for a rally in the city's hockey arena. That event featured both Springsteen, the New Jersey rocker known as "The Boss,' as well as Brooklyn-bred rapper Jay-Z.
Noting that it's "the last day I'll ever campaign," Obama told supporters in Columbus that traveling with Springsteen is "not a bad way to bring it home ... with The Boss, with The Boss."
As Obama stumped, his aides exuded confidence about Tuesday's result, predicting a sweep of Wisconsin, Ohio and Iowa as well as other battleground states, clearing the necessary 270 electoral votes to claim a second term.
"We see many paths to 270," said Obama senior adviser David Axelrod. "All those pathways are intact today."
Romney also campaigned Monday in Ohio as well as Florida, Virginia and New Hampshire.
While Wisconsin has been a Democratic state in recent presidential elections, Obama is trying to fend off a late charge by Romney and running mate Paul Ryan, a Badger State native.
Both sides see Ohio as a key state. Many Obama aides believe that victory in Ohio would be fatal to Romney's candidacy; no Republican has won the presidency without carrying Ohio.
After the Wisconsin and Ohio stops, Obama capped his campaign day and year with a sentimental journey to Iowa.
His 2008 win there over Democratic rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Edwards established him as a formidable national candidate. He rode that momentum all the way to the White House, where he fashioned a record that will be put to the test on Tuesday.
On Monday, the president told Des Moines residents: "I've come back to Iowa one more time to ask for your vote."


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Kevin Goldstein is naming his 2010 all-disappointing team:
Catcher: Tyler Flowers, Chicago White Sox
After hitting .297/.423/.516 across two levels in 2009, Flowers seemed nearly big league-ready, but everything went backward this year. Not only did he scuffle to a .220/.334/.434 mark at Triple-A Charlotte, but his defense, which improved in 2009, went backward again, to the point that many scouts wonder if he could play the position every day in the big leagues. With A.J. Pierzynski hitting free agency in the offseason, the timing of Flowers' regression couldn't be any worse.
Flowers: Stats, Splits. A look at his BABIPs shows all his minor league seasons, besides Winter Ball in 2007, had BABIPs higher than .330. In 2009 Flowers had .394 BABIPs in AA and AAA. This year's BABIP? .287.


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When I was younger and attending sleep-a-way camp, my mother used to send the best care packages. I'd receive one and my friends would flock to my tent. We'd spend the next two weeks of downtime playing the games and eating the snacks she always included. Somehow my mom always managed to strike a balance between things that I coveted and things she thought I should have.
I haven't received any care packages in college. When I asked my mother why, she reminded me that I live less than an hour from home and it's quicker and easier for her to take the train into Manhattan and treat me to a sampling of world-class pastries at a NYC bakery than devise a package. She then admitted that she wouldn't quite know what to pack for a young adult with a debit card and internet access to whom most of life's essentials had already been provided.
While I value quality time with my mom, I miss the thrill of opening a package of goodies. In view of that, I've decided to give her some tips to make shopping for me easier (hint hint, nudge nudge). Keep reading to learn what would be in my dream care package--a gift bundle that I think a lot of young folks away from home would be happy to open.
100 Calorie Packs. A care package without sweets would be like college without the Freshman 15. I wish my mom would whip up some of Good Housekeeping's healthy cookie recipes and pack them in 100 calories or less bags. Then I wouldn't have to choose between my figure and my sweet tooth.
Chain Restaurant Gift Cards. I've many fond memories of eating at T.G.I. Friday's and Applebee's on Friday and Saturday nights in high school. While in college I find it more convenient to order take-out or visit the dining hall, it would be nice to be able to eat out once in a while without worrying about paying the bill. Gift certificates from Restaurants.com or Groupon.com would also be very welcome.
Tea and Coffee. Freshman year, I went through a cube of 100 bags of Mango Green Tea from TJ Maxx. All of my roommate's meal plan flex points go to the campus Starbucks. It would really help us out if mom would send a GHRI-tested coffeemaker and/or electric kettle.
Small Games. No television, no problem! It's surprising how much time I've passed in the past year playing Bananagrams and Uno. Another good idea: Apples to Apples.
Socks. I suspect that my dorm's washing machine and dryer might be powered by missing socks instead of electricity.
Magazines or Subscriptions. Back in my summer camp days, Seventeen was a real hit. In fact, I still read it and when I'm home I spend hours catching up on my mom's magazines. Yet even though 45 minutes of flipping through a magazine is my idea of the ultimate study break. After I drop big bucks on textbooks, I'm never quite willing to shell out money for mags. I'm hoping one of my treats will be Good Housekeeping.
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California First State to Pass Bill Allowing Noncitizens on Juries
California First State to Pass Bill Allowing Noncitizens on Juries
California lawmakers have sent a bill to Governor Jerry Brown that would allow noncitizens to serve on state juries. If passed, California would become the first state to allow noncitizen legal immigrants to serve on juries. The federal court system also does not permit noncitizens as jurors.
The bill, AB 1401, came up against Republican opposition, but passed the Assembly on a nearly strict party-line vote, 48 to 28. Three Democrats sided with all Assembly Republicans. The bill was then later approved by the Senate.
As of this writing, it awaits its fate on Gov. Brown's desk. If the bill is signed into law by the governor, legal immigrants who are permanent residents of the state of California would be eligible for jury duty. According to the Los Angeles Times, if signed into law, more than three million permanent residents in California would be eligible for jury duty.
The governor has not commented on whether he supports the measure or not.
The Debate
Undoubtedly, the measure, which seeks a way to expand the jury pool, has caused quite a debate in Sacramento.
In favor of the bill was sponsor Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski (D-Fremont) who characterized jury duty as an "obligation" that noncitizens should have as they also "benefit from the protection of our laws."
"Lawful permanent residents, who live in the same county and speak English, can serve effectively as jurors," said Wieckowski, according to Reuters.
On the flip side, however, was Assemblyman Rocky Chávez (R-Oceanside), who stressed the importance of a "jury of your peers," defining peers as "people who understand the nuances of America." Some immigrants, according to Chávez, were brought up in countries with laws and customs very different from the United States, including the basic premise of our criminal justice system: innocent until proven guilty.
"In some countries, it's guilty until proven innocent," said Chávez.
Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles), however, took Chávez's argument and turned it on its head, noting that noncitizens should be allowed to serve on juries precisely because noncitizens also deserve juries of their peers. He likened the exclusion of permanent legal residents from juries to the practice of keeping women and nonwhites out of the jury pool years ago.
Some other detractors of the bill wonder whether this legislation could lead to allowing noncitizens to vote.
Notably, the bill does not require jury duty of legal permanent residents explicitly, but many legislators reportedly believe it could or would become mandatory if called to serve.


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i do fresh install Archlinux 2013 x86_64. so i see some change btwin that and 2011, any way , everythings work OK, fast (KDE) but sometime i need work in console mode (ctrl+alt+f1) but i cant change resolution of console font, because now is settingsome basic and so big. i have nvidia card and drivers. i try read ths https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uvesafb but i cant find some solutions how setting everything with grub2 etc. in my old laptop i have arch 2011 and grub1 but everything work OK include console font, that was much better to setting, in that arch i cant find any working solution, so please help me if somebody know about this.
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i try read ths https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uvesafb but i cant find some solutions how setting everything with grub2
First edit /etc/default/grub commenting the GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep line.
Then regenerate grub.cfg via the standard script
What don't you understand?
i do this, but after regenerate windows os missing from my grub list and still nothing... that i dont understand what i do wrong, why windows missing ? after this i need add windows again manualy .
This has nothing to do with resolution setting in a framebuffer, which is what the title of the thread suggests.
Change the thread title to accurately reflect your issue. As for Windows disappearing, that would seem to be a win.
(Which is another way of saying, I have no idea as I don't use Windows, but someone else here may be able to help)
[ 15.458823] NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console
[ 15.458830] NVRM: on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver
[ 15.458834] NVRM: requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other console
[ 15.458838] NVRM: drivers including, but not limited to, vesafb, may result in
[ 15.458841] NVRM: corruption and stability problems, and is not supported.
I suspect that it's still the case. You may even have this message in your own dmesg.
Switch console to VGA mode and use xterm instead.
This has nothing to do with resolution setting in a framebuffer, which is what the title of the thread suggests.
I'm pretty sure it does - it looks like the console is being switched to VGA text mode; nvidia has no reason to touch fonts.
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xterm is for use in X: OP wants to change the resolution of the framebuffer.
Their issue is not using uvesafb, it is configuring grub to dual boot with Windows.


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Summer is the time of the year when you spend more time on your feet than any other time, whether it is on a vacation, a hike, the beach, trying to get into shape or just going for a walk to enjoy the weather. That simple walk sometimes for a large portion of people can lead to pain in your back, knees and feet, but just using the proper footwear can alleviate a large portion of these problems. Orthaheel has put the research into creating the footwear that will allow you to enjoy being on your feet again.
You can walk into any shoe store or most retail stores and you can find flip-flops and sandals that range from a few dollars to ones that can be pretty expensive. Having tried the wide range of flip-flops and sandals over my lifetime I came to the conclusion that if I didn't want to have knee or back pain after being on my feet for an extended period of time I would just have to stick to athletic shoes. That was until I tried the Orthaheel sandals and gave them a try on an extended vacation. I didn't notice anything until my vacation was over and what I noticed was that I wore my sandals all-day and everyday and I never once thought about my back or knees. Comfortable and stylish, these are the perfect sandals for any type of use and they look very similar in construction to most other sandals, but clearly there is some magic to them.
Orthaheel offers a wide variety of flip-flops, sandals and shoes with built-in orthotic support to alleviate pain, but regardless of what you choose to put on your feet, each style has the same podiatrist designed technology, constructed to provide natural relief from the ground up. Orthaheel also carries several different orthotic inserts depending on your specific foot problems or fitness needs.
The Orthaheel secret begins with Phil Vasyli, a pioneer and innovator in the foot health category. Phil used his podiatric and biomechanic expertise to create a performance line of footwear that meets and exceed the demands of amateur to pro-athlete lower limb health and recovery. Orthaheel products are ideal for heel pain and plantar fasciitis, moderate to excessive pronation, complementary orthotic treatment, shock-absorbing support and stability and low- and high-performance athletes.
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Our feet were designed to walk on soft, natural surfaces like soil and sand but today we find ourselves on concrete, asphalt and other unnatural, hard surfaces. When you take 8,000 footsteps per day as most people do, the 26 to 28 bones in your feet tend to suffer. By wearing Orthaheel footwear it makes sure that our feet are working correctly to prevent the common aches and pains that many of us suffer from.
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Royal Penguin
Royal Penguin Facts
|Scientific Name
|Eudyptes Schlegeli
|Size (H)
|60cm - 68cm (24in - 27in)
|3kg - 6kg (6.6lbs - 13lbs)
|15 - 20 years
|Conservation Status
|Black, White, Grey, Yellow
|Skin Type
|Favourite Food
|Rocky Antarctic Islands
|Average Litter Size
|Main Prey
|Krill, Fish, Shrimp
|Leopard Seal, Killer Whale, Sharks
|Distinctive Features
|Orange beak with yellow feathers on head
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The royal penguin is a medium to large sized species of penguin that is found inhabiting the freezing waters that surround the Antarctic continent. The royal penguin is best known for the yellow feathers that grow from its forehead to the back of its head and are not to be confused with the macaroni penguin which they are closely related to.
Like other penguin species, the royal penguin spends the majority of its life hunting out at sea and are usually found in the nutrient-rich waters that surround Antarctica. However, royal penguins are known to only breed on Macquarie Island, a rocky south-western Pacific island that lies roughly halfway between New Zealand and Antarctica.
Until recently, the royal penguin and the macaroni penguin where thought to be the same species but there are a number of distinct differences between the two. Royal penguins have white chins and faces, where the face of the macaroni penguin is black. Royal penguins also breed exclusively on Macquarie Island, a place inhabited by no other penguin species.
All penguins are fantastic swimmers and the royal penguin is no exception. Royal penguins use their powerful flippers and streamlined bodies, aided by their webbed feet to soar through the water and are able to reach speeds of nearly 20mph. Royal penguins also dive to depths of up to 150m in order to catch food, with dives usually lasting for a few minutes.
The royal penguin is a carnivorous animal, that like all other penguin species, survives on a diet that is only comprised of marine animals. Krill and small crustaceans make up the bulk of the royal penguin's diet along with larger organisms including squid and various species of fish. Royal penguins can be at sea for days at a time whilst hunting.
The royal penguin has no natural land-based predators due to the fact that royal penguins inhabit pretty harsh environments. Large leopard seals hunt the royal penguin in the water along with large sharks and killer whales. Royal penguin population have also been seriously affected by human hunting for the oil found in their feathers.
Royal penguins nest on beaches or on bare areas on slopes covered with vegetation along the island's coast. Royal penguins are colonial birds, nesting in scrapes on the ground up to a mile inland (these sites are known as rookeries). The female royal penguin lays two eggs which are incubated for 35 days. The chicks leave the nest after a couple of months returning when they are 5 to 6 years old to begin breeding themselves.
Today, the royal penguin has been listed as a vulnerable species as populations were seriously affected by overhunting at the beginning of the 20th century. This species is now protected so can no longer be poached for its oil.


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Congratulations team North Beach for your valiant victory in the world's first Bus Stop Derby. Well played. Your 363,650 points and over 150,000 game plays got you first place, with the Tenderloin in close second with 329,625 points. We don't know how many buses you missed, but the sacrifice was worth it: in addition to citywide bragging rights you get to host the rock block party with OK Go!
The entire city is invited to rock out on the rooftop at the SF Art Institute, from the toughest competition (Mission and Tenderloin—so close!) to the slightly less tough (Noe Valley, thanks for playing). The block party is on February 5, doors open at 3:30pm with a variety of street food, games, and other surprise! But remember to come early to make sure you get one of the 800 wristbands to enter.
P.S. Take the bus. Parking at the block party is very limited so hop on the Muni (nearby lines: 45 Union/Stockton, 30 Stockton, and 41 Union) or ride your bike.


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The Best Holiday Gifts for Guys Who Run
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In the lead up to the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday, here are some other numbers you may never learn by just watching the Hollywood ceremony from the comfort of your couch.
There's a lot of time between the industry's greatest stars first setting foot on the red carpet and hearing their named called to retrieve an Actor statuette. To start, each person attending the show is faced with over 17,000 square feet of red carpet to mingle on.
If that's not enough steps to get the heart pumping, for the actor or actress lucky enough to be called up on stage, they can actually start doing bicep curls with their award, which weighs in at 12 pounds of solid bronze and stands 16 inches tall.
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Rest assured, any star who is honored with The Actor has faced a tough crowd – over 100,000 of their own peers were eligible to vote in this year's competition.
Once someone wins, rest assured there's plenty of bubbly to go around in celebration. With nearly 1,200 bottles of wine, over 150 bottles of tequila, 722 bottles of Fiji water and nearly 500 bottles of champagne, no glass will stay dry for long.
For the ceremony's "garden" theme, more than 200 actors and actresses will enjoy the sights of more than 5,000 white roses and over 1,000 orchids.
Warning: this isn't a bat mitzvah. While they can admire from afar, the stars aren't allowed to take any of the floral arrangements home with them, head florist Chris Matsumoto shared with E! News.
While we oggle over star's diet secrets, there's no surprise about what they'll be eating come the night of the show. Chef Wolfgang Puck will be catering the event with a menu calling for 450 pounds of salmon, 500 pounds of jidori chicken, 300 pounds of heirloom carrots, 1,800 meyer lemons, 800 strawberries and nearly 5,000 pieces of good 'ol bread.
From the looks of the menu and hefty bar supply, everyone will leave a winner no matter who goes home with that bronze statue.
E!'s Screen Actors Guild Awards coverage starts Saturday at 6 p.m. ET / 3 p.m. PT.
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Here are a couple of my favorite moments at the sanctuary this last week.
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Jackson is shocked (SHOCKED!) that I said I'd write more frequently and then didn't!
Sorry, Jackson!! I hope everyone has a wonderful week! Don't forget to follow me on Twitter (@mindingtheminis) for live tweets from the farm on Sunday afternoons.
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You'll be missed, Apricot…
I realize that it's been practically forever since I've posted and that the recent ones are all about the sadness in losing friends. I'm sad to report that this one isn't much different as I found out yesterday that my little friend, Apricot, passed away. She'd been in poor health for quite some time and had fought through it by continuing to be as sweet as pie. I'll miss her little under-bite. She was always moving around a lot so I have only one photo of her to share that I can find right now. But if I locate an under-bite pic, I'll post it.
You'll be missed, sweet sweet girl.
And I'm going to try to start writing regularly again. I love love love my job but it keeps me busy. I always get to the farm to visit my friends though and will try to bring those adventures back to the page. I'm still live-tweeting/gramming while there, so please follow me on twitter (@mindingtheminis) or Instagram (@mindingtheminis).
I hope that everyone has a wonderful week. Hug your two-legged and four-legged friends close.
Sweet sorrow
I realize that I've been pretty silent for a long time now. My job has really taken off and my focus has definitely shifted. That's not to say that I haven't been at the farm! Just that the mental energy I've put into documenting my adventures has been redirected. In addition, there has been a lot of sadness for me at the farm recently. In a week's time, two of my very best friends passed away suddenly.
Lunar had a blockage in her stomach that needed emergency surgery. Dan and Connor, two of the incredible teens that devote so much of their time to the sanctuary, spent hours trying to get Lunar onto a trailer to get her to the vet. They struggled with her, attempting to get her up the ramp in any way that they could. And at the moment that they almost had her all the way up, her halter broke and they had no way to hold onto her. They couldn't go on and she was unable to go to the vet. She was healthy in every other way, but because this was so serious, she ended up having to be put down. I found out about the blockage when I went to volunteer and spent a bit of time with her while others helped out, thinking that she would get better. I found out that she had been put to sleep when I visited on a Friday because I would be missing my Sunday shift. I never really got to say goodbye to her. When Deb and I talked about it, she said that by not being able to get Lunar on the trailer that she knew she wouldn't survive. They did everything that they could to get her to surgery and Lunar would not go.
While I was there, she mentioned that Athena was not doing very well. Her eyesight had deteriorated a great deal and she was having problems walking. I stayed with Athena for a while in the sheep area just chatting with her. And then she did something very interesting. When I squatted down in front of her, I put my face close to hers and she actually put her nose right up against mine. Her soft, fuzzy nose was pressed up against me. She stared into my eyes and then she walked away.
I went off on my weekend trip. And on the drive home late Monday, I received a text from Connor. He said that he was really sad to tell me that they'd had to put Athena to sleep unexpectedly that day. She hadn't been able to get up and was suffering. I went to the farm early the next morning and spent time with her resting body in Gully's pen. I haven't cried like that in a long time. I held her for a long time and kissed her sweet face and told her I loved her many last times.
In addition to my two friends passing, there were two other sweet creatures that also passed in the same time frame. Crazy Xena, the goat and beautiful Shiloh, the horse, both left us. To say the least, it has been a sad couple of months, peppered with the joy and beauty that surrounds me when I'm there. Gully and I continue to be the best of friends and the alpaca girls actually approach me for food now. I will tell stories about that transformation soon. But all of the animals will be missed.
The first week back without Lunar and Athena, which landed on the same Sunday, was really tough. Everything felt so empty without them.
I still look longingly into Lunar's stall and Athena's empty space at the front of the barn. I am sad that I never got to say goodbye to Lunar and sad that I had to say goodbye to Athena.
Lunar and I always had an easy friendship. My favorite thing that she did was to scratch her head (and often almost knock me over) on my leg. She was a sweet, wonderful friend.
Beautiful, beautiful girl. I miss and love you.
My relationship with Athena blossomed from a shy friendship to what I am convinced was love. By the end of her days, she trusted me enough to let me scratch behind her ears and along her soft nose. She even fell asleep a few times while I was petting her. She was a true friend and I will never forget her.
When I posted this to Instagram, my caption was "The fact that I can just walk up to Athena and do this is still nothing less that astounding to me." And it felt that way every single time. She really grew to trust me. And in trusting me, she'd let strangers pet her when I was with her.
Athena and Gully shared a quiet friendship. Now that she's gone, Gully no longer wants to stay up at the barn (a story for another day). It makes me sad that I'll never see this sight again, but I'm happy that I did get to see it so many times.
I'll miss this beautiful smile.
The photos included in this post were all pulled from my Instagram account and can be found in my twitter feed. I take photos every week and post live to Twitter. So, if you'd like to "be there with me," please follow me at @MindingTheMinis or go straight to the source for photos on Instagram, also MindingTheMinis. Hug your two and four-legged friends tightly. See you next week!
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I haven't written in two months, so get ready for some photos!
My job is so busy and so wonderful but coming home at night to write has fallen away from me, I'm sad to report. My last post was about sweet Pandy's passing and I still feel a pang for her each time I visit the farm.
I miss her so.
It's all part of the bittersweet moments that make up being part of a rescue or having any animal in your life, really. The probability that you will experience their death is always there. So, take all the moments that you can with them.
Here are some photos of other friends at the farm that I've taken while my has sat waiting.
Athena was shorn along with the rest of the sheep at the beginning of May. Her face wasn't entirely done so as she's gotten more comfortable with me touching her (I've gotten to where I can pet her without needing to give her treats! Full body pets!), I've pulled off what I could. I happen to really like the look though, so mostly I just go for the pieces that are really loose.
And if you don't like it, this is what Athena thinks of you!
The alpacas were shorn in the middle of June. This was actually a somewhat scary situation because there aren't a lot of people willing to shear alpacas. It's a dangerous undertaking for both the animals and the people involved, so unless the animals belong to the shearer, many won't undertake the risk. Deb sent out pleas nationwide and finally someone came forward to do it. (Thank you!) Alpacas need to be shorn each summer so that they don't overheat, which they can do very easily and it can be fatal. So, while they remained furry, we kept a special eye on them for signs of distress. I was thrilled to arrive a few weeks ago and see them sans fur!
First up, Pisca and Karolina. I especially love the patch of white that runs down Karolina's back legs.
Ms. Noelle!
A cat nap is pretty glorious…
…any way you look at it!
Niko is going to have eye surgery soon and I am very happy about that. I haven't posted about her in a long time, but she's one of the cats who lives in Mooney's barn (the name of the barn where Spirit, Lunar, Athena and Gully live) and she's as sweet as ever, even when in terrible pain.
Willow and Spirit becoming friends!
There is a new structure near the big barn that was built for the goats. They're kind of terrified of it though so it's rare to actually see a goat on it. One afternoon, while feeding treats to Mervin at the end of my visit, I decided that he and I should go on an adventure.
Here he is checking out the structure. "I don't think so…"
His opinion stayed on the "no, thank you" track until I pulled the treats back out. And climb it we did! He discovered that there was tasty hay on the top, too. He even climbed around on the lower levels and followed me back up for a second trip.
My plan, when it's not a million degrees out, is to do this with a bunch of goats.
Last week, my friends came to the farm so I spent time all over the farm with them. I haven't seen my turkey love in forever! He was just as affectionate as always and I plan to get into the bird house again soon.
Noelle, mid-bite!
I haven't seen the donkeys in forever. Jezebel is such a beauty and has the sweetest disposition. And she's soooo soft.
They got to meet Gully and that's always the greatest experience ever. (For me. He's actually pretty standoffish with strangers.) Oh, Gully, my Gull. I love you endlessly.
And since it's July, there are tons and tons of dragonflies around, so I'll end this catch-up post with another one of my favorite creatures on this earth.
Have a happy week!
Follow me on Twitter (@mindingtheminis) or Instagram (mindingtheminis) if you want to see live tweets from the farm on Sunday afternoons!
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One of my sweet, sweet friends at the farm is sick.
Dear Pandy has lymphatic cancer. Due to the cold weather, the dogs were often in Deb's house during my visits and I chalked up not seeing her pretty face to this. A few Sundays ago, she bounded up to me, pine cone in mouth and we played a rousing game of fetch. She leaned into my hugs a bit harder and I figured that she just missed me as much as I missed her.
Right before I left, I was chatting with Deb about my excitement over seeing Pandy and she broke the news to me. The gentle dog had been on her deathbed for two weeks with a grim assessment. But then, all of a sudden, with a little help from Prednisone, her energy returned. Defying all odds, not only was she up and about, she was running around. Watching her closely (she was at my feet while I talked to Deb) I noticed that a change had definitely occurred in her. The extra hugs I thought I was imaging were in fact an actual response from her. Obviously, I don't think she's having conscious thoughts about a near death experience, but something has changed in her.
This last visit, I checked in with Deb and she said that during Pandy's most recent appointment, the vet said the cancer had spread throughout her body. Her energy levels haven't changed and Deb reported that she'd been active all day and was just resting at that point in the house, but that we all know that Pandy's time is limited.
I went into the house to sit with her for a while. At first, Freedom tried to hog my time but even she sensed that she should hang back. Different cats kept trying to pile onto my lap and when I became distracted, Pandy reached out with her paw and touched my arm redirecting my attention. She'd never done anything like this before. I gave her lots of hugs and thought a lot about how much I love her. She smelled like the campfire, like the farm, like life.
I don't know how much time I have left with this beautiful creature but I'll cherish every moment that remains. If she wants to run after pinecones, that's what we'll do. If she wants hugs, they're hers.
Hold your four-legged and two-legged friends a little closer this week.
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Athena, the shy sheep, continues to melt my heart, piece by piece.
My relationship with Athena has continued developing each week. Where there were baby steps for months on end, it seems to be progressing in leaps and bounds now. When passing through the gate into the corral, she used to bolt by me and now she walks right up to me instead. She even followed me out of the barn and over to the alpacas' pen when I went to feed them! Like Gully did the other week, she's started opening the grain room door with her nose to gain access to me (and my treats, of course!). All of these changes feel wonderful but I had an even more spectacular time with her this last visit.
For the most part, I interact with her now by squatting down. The more time I spend face-to-face with her, the more responsive she is and the more confident she acts towards me. From this position, I gave her treats and kept moving my hand closer to my face with each one. She sniffed around looking for more and ended up touching her nose to my nose and didn't back off. I had tears a few weeks ago when she nuzzled my hand and they were doubled when she pressed her fuzzy face to mine. Out of this world!
Confidence brimming over, I decided to push the limits again. This time I held the treat in one hand and while she ate it, I petted her with the other hand. The first few times, she backed off hastily. But almost as quickly, she started accepting my advances. Every time she let me pet her, I said, "good girl!" After a few minutes, I was able to pet her without giving her a treat. The pets grew from very brief to much longer ones as the time passed. She even leaned into the ear scratches like she does when she's lying down! As our bond grows stronger, I am looking forward to even more from her.
To think, a few months ago, I couldn't get this close without her running off and now look!
Excuse the blurriness and as I show off how bold she's gotten!
Precious, precious girl. I've said it before and I'll say it again, "A face only everyone could love!"
I hope everyone has a wonderful week and that the weather is beautiful for all of you! Don't forget to follow me on Twitter (@mindingtheminis) for live tweets from the farm on Sunday afternoons!
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Gully, the goat, is a crafty one!
Gully is all about breaking out of his pen when I bring hay through to put over into Spirit's area. This week, however, I was a bit behind on getting his food prepared (made even longer by the fact that I took photos of this) and he decided to go right to the food source.
"Oh, hey there!"
"Soon the grain will be mine!"
"Almost there…"
Don't forget to join Gully and me on the farm on Sunday afternoons (@mindingtheminis). Have a great week!
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I'll gladly give up an hour of sleep if it means spending more time with my buddies
What a joy it was this week to be there as late as 6:15 and it was still light out! I love spring so much. No more snow storms, please! I've already broken the top off of two plastic shovels at home since I haven't gotten it into my head that you can't step on the top of them.
I spent most of the time enjoying the great weather and hanging out with the animals. Dan, an amazing kid who's essentially Deb's number two, witnessed Athena rush me for treats. "Wow, she really comes right up to you," he commented. I was proud of both Athena and myself at that moment.
Here are my favorite photographs of the day:
The always elegant Spirit
Delilah looking super innocent perched on a fence post.
And this snorty snout belongs to Miss Willow!
I hope everyone has a wonderful week! Don't forget to follow on me on Twitter (twitter.com/mindingtheminis) if you'd like to experience Winslow with me on Sunday afternoons.
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The current debate going on internationally against the srilankan government's atrocities against tamil civilians has sparked contrasting reviews in different lobbies.
It was a rather late response to UK based channel 4's documentary Srilanka's killing fields. The video was shown in the UN human rights commission (UNHRC), which shocked each and every person and the world, many of them in tears. The video illustrates a very disturbing account of the attacks of srilankan army on LTTE stronghold. They started the attack on the town named kilinochi and slowly wiping out most of the people in other northern and eastern parts of lanka. During the war, the video shows common civilians running for life, beaten up to death, shot at gunpoint and young women sexually abused and killed later. The video also shows men n women stripped and killed with a gun shot on the skull, much like the Taliban killings. As the nude bodies were piled up in a truck, the srilankan soldiers even passed some lewd comments on the dead bodies of young females.
To make it more painful, the army even did heavy shelling on the no fly zones, which were used as makeshift hospitals to treat the wounded. The hospitals, refugee camps, and food shelters everything was brought down with attacks. The channel gives an estimate of 40000 casualties and many wounded and disabled. Srilankan government as expected out rightly denied the allegations and said the videos were maligned. One of the srilankan channels also counterfeited the claims of the documentary. The most shocking part was that supposedly UN had full knowledge of things going on in srilanka but did nothing.
US then passed a resolution against the war crimes in UNHRC which was later passed by UN. Then the decision was taken to vote for the resolution. 24 Countries supported the resolution, 18 against and 8 absentees. There was a whole debate whether India should support or not, but they finally gave up to the pressure by Tamil nadu govt and voted against one of the most trusted allies of our country. Though India tried to lighten the stand with a request to bring an amendment to the resolution that the entire human rights enquiry is done with consultation of the government. Most neighbors including china, Pakistan supported Lankan stand. Srilankan president Rajapakshe quoted it was against the very international law, it is an attack on sovereignty. Though srilanka did agree to make some amendments abiding to Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation commission (LLRC). And said that they would do whatever is feasible. So does this make us the odd one out amongst the SAARC countries, the debate continues?
Interesting thing is the resolution was passed by the very United States, who themselves were accused of war crimes on innocent people in Afghanistan and Iraq. Well the matter just died down. There were no UN resolutions to it as far as I know. So did we bow down to the west, supporting the very country that have accused us many times of human rights violations in Kashmir and Assam and need for international interference. Did US just made us look like puppets, the question remains?
Finally no one thought about the humanity in the whole raging issue of diplomacy we have all forgotten the common man, aam aadmi. What were the fault of those young kids who were killed in the attack, or the men and women. These people just worked hard to earn their daily bread. Immaterial of the fights between srilankan government and LTTE, they just carried on with their life to feed their family. Killing people is not new to LTTE either. Thousands of people have died in srilanka due to their suicide bombings and attacks on bureaucrats. Who died the innocent common man. LTTE killings cannot be pardoned; the most famous was the killing of our then prime minister the charismatic late Rajiv Gandhi. India might have done lot of progress with him at the helm. LTTE even trained small kids to operate guns, they trained their army, got their weaponry secretly from neighboring countries. They used to make innocent civilians as pawns, provoke them, and train them to carry out suicide bombings. Again the common people suffered because of these extremists. Fighting for a cause is just but resorting to terrorism is not. But again it's easier to say it sitting here, but situations over the years have provoked terrorism.
In the aftermath of the war, it just makes you wonder, decades of rivalry, perseverance and fight for a separate state just got these people a lot. Was it worth? Was it worth to see your family die in front of you or the ladies brutally and sexually abused. Was it all worth for the common man? He still suffers and will do so in the future...


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Ukraine: The Bomb That Pro-Putin Libertarians Want To See Detonate
The Libertarian Republic ran a piece about a British-Lithuanian undressing weak Libertarians that seem to be okay with Russian intervention in Ukraine, while simultaneously hating on America for doing the same around the world. Whether one agrees with him or not, it looks like there's a bunch of butthurt Libertarians in the comment section, and nothing gets his point across more than that. It's a lovely article. And it reminds me why The Libertarian Republic and Austin Petersen is a breath of insanely fresh air.
There are historical reasons for why Ukraine in general was a domestic political bomb waiting to go off. Crimea sadly shouldn't have been part of Ukraine to begin with. After all, it was gifted to Ukraine back in the 1950s, when everything was the Soviet Union anyway. Then again, Crimeans have nothing to gain by being part of Russia either. Crimea should always have been its own country. Then they could choose which evil to ally with. Sadly, it seems like they'll just go from the ashes to the fire this time.
After the Soviet Union exploded, it left many time bombs undetonated in the satellite states. We all know Ukraine has been boiling for the past decade. The Orange Revolution only marked a beginning for what is now unfolding. Putin simply jumped to the occasion and has been making the most of it. Actually, Putin did have some political and military treaties on his side that he's made use of to get the balls rolling, like the Russian-Ukrainian military agreement in Crimea, in order to let Russia keep its only ice free naval base. This is the "legitimacy" in question. Moral legitimacy? No. Political/legal legitimacy? Sadly, yes. It's a very complex situation in today's political environment. A situation the Russian puppet regime in Ukraine left behind for the new quazi-revolutionary government in Ukraine to handle. It might just be much more complex than what the good man being interviewed in the LR article would like to admit to. This is the problem of completely blacklisting Russia as a huge bad guy in this. They have some defense against such allegations, and Putin can use it for his political propaganda at home. They love his giant steel balls back in Russia. It's the culture there. And we in the West constantly give him excuses to show them off.
Personally I've been fascinated by Putin. Not because I like Putin. He's a maniac. But it's fascinating to see how he always gets his way. He's brilliant at the whole international politics thing. I mean, insanely brilliant. He's incredibly sneaky and have been playing circles around Obama for years now. Like how I noted during the Syria crisis, he was basically able to avoid a possible third world war over Syria by playing the political game like a genius, while America was willing to ally with Al-Qaida against Russia and Syria, in order to punish Assad in what had been nothing but an internal and contained Civil War. Not to mention Putin has continuously been properly critical of US endeavors in the Middle East. He gets how things work. He wasn't in the KGB for nothing. He knows. He actually knows much better than our fluffy leaders.
So what does all of this do to me as a lover of freedom? It doesn't make me weak in the knees for Putin. And it surely doesn't make me an anti-American drone. I love America. I love our Western Civilization. This is where my ideals as a Libertarian and hardcore Capitalist and Individualist were born. Ayn Rand didn't flee from Soviet to America for nothing. That's why it makes me furious that Western leaders are nothing but a bunch of incompetent pillocks that play straight into Putin's political trap. It makes me furious when America sends a young, incompetent hipster intellectual as a UN ambassador, only to get her vegan-environmentalist-Harvard woven sweater laughed at by ballsy Russians that were breast fed with vodka from infancy. We hold no respect. We talk about principles, but we look like a bunch of hypocrites that show no thought to uphold those principles at home, while John Kerry opens his gigantic jaw just to make some empty and thoughtless threats and spouting deeply hypocritical slurs. Our political class is in shambles; a bunch of pretty boys and bimbo girls that think sweet thoughts and puppies will save the world, and that if we only talk stern enough, all the rowdy kids will eventually listen.
Putin knows very well he can do what he does without the West daring to do anything about it. He knows he can be a bully and a brat. Why? Because Americans have become fed up and tired with continuous wars (not to mention bankrupt), just like Ron Paul said 6 years ago, the EU are a bunch of social democrat pansies and Putin and China can completely silence the UN. There is nothing left. I guess the only ones left that knows how to play hardball are Israel. But how would they be able to stand up against a Russian threat when they can't even handle Hamas?
So if the goal of the West (and us freedom lovers alike, for that matter) is to lead by example and make Russians rebel against Putin and move towards freedom, we're doing a terrible job at it. We're just feeding his "whataboutism", we set up these silly situations where we make it legitimate for him to annex land masses by sneaky tactics, and we're incapable of doing anything about it when he starts to line up his military along our borders. That's sad.
But indeed, there is potential for Ukraine to get something good out of this too. Hopefully, Ukraine can finally break free from the puppeteers in Russia. Ideally, they should just have forcibly excluded the areas of anti-Ukrainian sentiments, like Crimea, and offered complete assimilation to anyone in Ukraine who wish to live in a pro-Western, independent Ukrainian republic. Yes, they should have played ball before Putin did. Kick out all the pro-Russian puppets and oligarch jerks, get on the freedom train and ally with the US and EU if they so wish. That would have been brilliant for the people of Ukraine. The excluded areas would be turned into independent states that could choose which side they wanna be on: Become Russian satellites or friends and trading partners with the West. Then if Putin would get trigger happy, we could rightfully bomb his ass into oblivion – no ifs or buts.
That is actually a very Libertarian response. Give me Liberty or give me death! Don't tread on me! Live free or die! Americans, do you remember these words from your proud past? We certainly wish the rest of the world to uphold those same ideals, don't we?
What do these words mean? To be moral and peaceful as far as it goes, let people decide over their own land and their own destiny, and always seek the most freedom for individuals, always… but as soon as someone wishes to trample on the individual moral rights of someone, make the greatest use of your right to self defense and fight tyranny by shooting them up, blowing up bombs and kicking in their faces until they can't trample on your rights any longer. Yes, it's tough to say that, but it's true: Always be loving and kind to the loving and kind, but show no mercy to evil.
I know this political situation is not the fault of Libertarians. On the contrary, I believe a Libertarian world would never have produced a mess like this. But when push comes to shove in this mess of a world, please fess up, Libertarians. There are both rights and wrongs in the situation, yes, but there's never any reason to take it up our asses. Don't become Pro-Putin Libertarians. You may think that America doesn't have a say in this situation as of now, and yes, that is completely true. This is a stupid situation that Ukraine should settle on its own. But if Russia starts acting like a bully and comes knocking on our collective doors, like Hitler in the late 30s, we should all dare to take up arms against evil yet again. Not for Obama the socialist, not for the socialist EU, but for our liberty to live without fear of a tyrannical state. We should dare to say and think that. We're not the same pansies like the hippie-socialist-environmentalist crazies that run our nations and wants to take our guns from us (or as in my country, not really allow me to have a gun for self defense to begin with). At least we should strive to not be like them, even if they make it hard for us. We should dare speak up for the rights of our brethren. That is what the heroes of the Age of Enlightenment would have done.
But then again, we can't afford to take a hard line against tyranny, because our leaders have slowly been destroying the Western civilization from within. We're old and tired. We've gotten lazy. And we're bankrupt. And that just frustrates me even more. Our leaders have really fucked us over good. And again, Putin knows this. That is reason enough to be angry as hell.
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Heh, LOL, you still haven't understood 🙂
"This is a stupid situation that Ukraine should settle on its own." …you are really confused libertarian.
Thankyou very much for the analysis, I accept all of it 🙂
By the way, I love you for "British-Lithuanian" because I would love to be that, but unfortunately they don't give dual citizenship, even if I speak the language and swear to defend the flag.
"But if Russia starts acting like a bully and comes knocking on our collective doors, like Hitler in the late 30s, we should all dare to take up arms against evil yet again."
Could you please clarify what you mean by this? One could argue–indeed, many are already arguing–that Russia has already begun behaving this way. At what point does Russian encroachment on former Soviet republics become a casus belli for the United States?
Thanks for the engagement, Morten. Austin and I are glad to know we have readers in Norway.


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