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Prince Saud Al-Faisal: "In the Name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.On behalf of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, it is my pleasure to reiterate welcome of the President of the United States of America and his accompanying delegation to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
All over the years, Saudi-American relations have witnessed great strides in the service of mutual interests, and promoting bilateral cooperation in economic, commercial, technical, cultural and other fields.
Through these historic relationships, we have dealt with several international and regional challenges that we encountered together with continuous cooperation, consultation and coordination, within the framework of our shared objectives for fostering international peace and security.
This same spirit prevailed the talks that were carried out between the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, and President Bush, which were comprehensive, deep and candid. The outcome of these talks yielded promoted bilateral relations by signature on an agreement for technical cooperation in the field of installations and infrastructure security.
We also signed a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in the field of nuclear energy and other energy fields. The two sides also exchanged diplomatic notes on completion of discussing the text of the scientific and technical cooperation agreement, to be signed in the near future.
Under the exhaustive examination of regional and international situations and their developments, there will be a major focus on the peace process in talks of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and the U.S. President this evening.
I would like to point out that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has followed with interest the American President's speech in the Israeli Knesset. We are all aware of the special US-Israeli relation and its political dimensions.
It is, however, important also to affirm the legitimate historical and political rights of the Palestinian people under international law and its legitimate resolutions, which are still confiscated by the Israeli occupation.
We fully agree with vision mentioned by His Excellency [the US President] on the right of peoples to justice, tolerance, freedom and hope. The Palestinian people are in dire need to enjoy these rights and principles from which it was deprived over 60 years.
Perhaps the size of the humanistic suffering weighed upon the West Bank and Gaza Strip population, is the biggest proof of that under the policy of collective punishment practiced against it.
We believe that stressing the right of a nation to exist should not strike out or revoke the legitimate rights of other nation. Hence comes the importance of the meeting in Annapolis in its emphasis on the comprehensive, permanent and just solution to the ongoing conflict, based on the principle of guaranteeing the rights of the Israeli and Palestinian peoples to two independent States living side by side in security, peace and accord.
Undoubtedly, Israel's continued policy of expanding settlements on Palestinian territories, and its unilateral actions would further complicates on the situation and disrupt the peace process.
As regards the Lebanese crisis, we must praise the efforts of the Arab Committee, which resulted in the detente (ease) in the Lebanese crisis. We hope the measures for opening Beirut international airport and harbor, and all roads, and return of the situation to what it was before the recent events, and not to recur.
The Kingdom expresses its support of the agreements reached based on the Lebanese Constitution and the Taif Agreement. The Kingdom emphasizes that the real test lies in the full and comprehensive application of the provisions of this Agreement, especially in terms of rejecting the use of armed violence to achieve political ends.
The Kingdom also sees the importance of ensuring that weapon will not be reused against the Lebanese people, so that dialogue can realize its objectives in permanent solution to the crisis without any pressure and away from the threat of arms, together with emphasis on ensuring the most important sovereign rights of the state; i.e. preservation of peace and declaration of war, and strengthening its capabilities with all legitimate means to enable it undertake this responsibility.
We also stress abidance by the constitutional underpinnings and elements of the comprehensive consensus solution of the Arab Initiative. The Arab Initiative provides for the immediate commencement of election of the consensus President Gen. Michel Suleiman, and forming a national unity government, and beginning the review of the election law.
With regard to Iraq, we believe that the recommendations of the recent expanded meeting of neighboring countries in Kuwait constituted an appropriate framework to address the situation in Iraq in the light of the recent developments, particularly with regard to the call to expedite the launch of an all-inclusive political process that accommodates all Iraqis without exception.
We support the Iraqi government attitude towards uncovering the facts about external interference, which should be dealt with decisively, so as not to hamper the efforts of the Iraqi government and international efforts to achieve Iraq's security and stability, preserve the unity, independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Finally, I would like to express the Kingdom's welcome of the statement of principles on the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism, as well as the Security Initiative of weapons proliferation and ban principles.
The Kingdom's support for the t the international and regional efforts to distance the Middle East and the Gulf region and the world from the threat of proliferation of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction as a whole. Our support of the initiatives calls for the need to subject all the peaceful uses of nuclear energy for the standards and measures of the IAEA and under its supervision.
It is my pleasure to take your questions, together with my colleague the Minister of Petroleum.
Question: May I ask the Oil Minister: if you see a need now to increase production as President Bush has suggested. And Mr. Foreign Minister: Do you think it is realistic at this point to think there would be a Mideast peace agreement before president Bush leaves office.
Al-Naimi: You know every month, we receive nominations from our customers worldwide. On may 10th, we increased our response to our customers by 300,000 barrels because they asked for it. So our production for June will be 9,450,000 b/d. this per request of about 50 customers worldwide. As far as the US is concerned, most of the 300 came from the US and we responded to it on May 10th.
Question: So nothing further necessary?
Al-Naimi: Any request that comes from our customers will be responded to favorably.
Prince Saud: That I could visualize the peace happening during this administration? It is a very simple question. The answer is yes. And I hope it happens.
Question to Prince Saud: After your recent statements addressing a call or may be a blame to Iran for supporting what happened in Lebanon recently, some voices inside Iran accused the Kingdom with the same position that it is not at the same distance from all parties in Lebanon. What is your reply?
Prince Saud: We say that we are taking the same distance from all parties. However, we do not take the same distance from those who are right and those who are wrong. There is a wrong action, and there is a right one. No doubt, the use of power to reach political ends is a wrong action. Undoubtedly, the Lebanese weapons should not be pointed at the Lebanese. This [position] we do not consider it a bias. If this action were taken by the other party, we would have the same position. I do not know if the same thing applies to who wonders about this issue, if he stands at the same distance from the two parties.
Question to Prince Saud: You talked about help of the United States to Saudi Arabia in using the nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Would that be a message to Iran that Saudi Arabia could have nuclear weapons in the future?
Prince Saud: It is a message to everybody that Saudi Arabia is going to produce atomic energy peacefully. And I hope it would be emulated.
Question: for Al-Naimi: Do you agree with the Iranian assessment that OPEC nations would have to cut the supply of some heavy grades of crude oil because there is not as much demand for that kind of oil right now, especially after the winter periods ended? For Prince Saud: Are you anxious about Prime Minister Siniora's ability to hold on to power given his bullies push this last week? Is there more the United States and Saudi Arabia can do to help him?
Al-Naimi: Let me respond to your question in this manner. Saudi Arabia responds to the requests of its customers. If they want heavy crude, they will get heavy crude. If they want light crude, they will get light crude. Saudi Arabia has 5 types of crude so we are able to respond to the requests of all our customers.
As far as I know, the demand for heavy crudes is high. It is not low. The problem is not the crude supply. The problem is in the type of refineries, which are mismatched with the supply of the crudes.
So, in other word, it depends on the customer. If their customer has only the ability to process light crudes, they do not see demand for heavy crudes. Whereas, we have customers worldwide, that are able to process heavy crudes, and we give them what they need to process.
Prince Saud: Premier Siniora is currently representing the Lebanese legitimacy. For that reason, there was a stress to support and stand by the international legitimacy in the Arab League resolution. Till the Lebanese legitimacy changes based on elections, standing by will continue.
Question: Your Highness, you conducted preliminary talks with Secretary Rice. Did you felt that there is a positive progress in the US position on fulfilling the two-state promise? Secondly, did you sense from her support to the Lebanese agreement brokered by the Arab Ministerial Committee?
Prince Saud: As for the second question, I think the agreement is received with welcome. The hope is of course common that it would yield implementation of what is agreed upon. As for the question if I sensed optimism form her about finding a solution; I do not think that she comes to visit the Middle East region for fun. She occasionally comes, and she must have confidence that there is progress in the talks. But I think that the tactic adopted in these talks, is to maintain sort of secrecy. I do not think that I am not in a position to tell that in what tracks there is progress, and in what tracks there is not. This question is to be addressed to the Secretary of State.
Question: I would like to ask the Foreign Minister a question: In the United States today, the American politicians are being quite critical of Saudi Arabia for its collaboration on oil, on terrorism, on the Middle East peace process. I just would like to know how you respond to this kind of criticism that you are hearing more commonly on the American campaign trailing in Congress.
Prince Saud: All I can say to those who criticize is this: Come on over! And see what we are doing in all these fields. Here, our Minister of Petroleum says: Customers! Where are you? I want to sell oil, but where are the customers? Do I sell oil to just be stored in the sea? No customers are coming to. So, where does the problem lie? Certainly not in our willingness to sell oil.
As to the cooperation on terrorism, I do not think there is more cooperation on terrorism than between us and the United States. All the official agencies that are responsible for fighting terrorism, and have reported to Congress, have assured of this situation.
But anything about Saudi Arabia that questions the motives or the actions of Saudi Arabia, I would suggest to the Congress to come and see! Come and tell us what the questions are! What are their anxieties about the Saudi policy? We will talk with each other, and the famous word goes in Congress: "Let us sit down and reason together". May I have Minister Ali add to this
Al-Naimi: Let me just say what Saudi Arabia is doing in the upstream business and in the downstream business. Over the next four years we are gonna be spending 90 billion dollars. To do what? To increase capacity, which will take us to 12.5 million barrels per day by the end of 2009. We are spending money to build three refineries to the tone of a million barrels per day in Saudi Arabia for export internationally.
We are, as you well know, investing heavily in the Port Arthur Refinery in Texas. We are doubling the capacity of that refinery. So how much more does Saudi Arabia need to do to satisfy the people who are questioning our oil practices, or our oil policy? And as His Royal Highness said: We will say: if there is a customer that needs additional crude, please come and ask for it.
To also give you an example, over the last few months when supplies from Venezuela and Mexico were reduced to the US, Who supplied the difference? We supplied to the tone of additional 300,000 barrels per day, from 1.4 million to 1.7 million barrels per day to our customers in the US. So how much more can we do?
Question: One question to follow up Minister's on the comment he's just made on the investments that Saudi Arabia is going to make in the future: Do you envision expanding capacity beyond 12.5 million barrels per day? And the second question is: When President Bush visited [Saudi Arabia] in January, the price of crude oil was in a low nineties per barrel, and now it is over a hundred and twenty seven I think. I would like for you to explain what has happened? Can you account for why the price is going up so much? Do you envision a scenario where the price could go back down?
Al-Naimi: the price, as you well know, WTI's NIMEX price is affected by many, many factors. The least of them are the fundamentals of the oil business. Supply and demand are in balance today. If you look at inventories world, they are also high. So, the fundamentals are sound.
Where we have a problem; is in the value of the US dollar; the financial institution hedging in the commodity market; there are geopolitical problems in the world: Venezuela, Nigeria, Iraq, sanctions on Iran and so forth, and the is of course the pessimists in the oil business, the peak oil theory that says oil is going to peak, people questioning Saudi capacity and so forth. So these are all elements that impact the price of oil. But the fundamentals of the oil business are very, very sound.
Expanding capacity depends on projections of demand. All the projects today, from the IEA, EIA and so forth are up to 2030 does not show supply from Saudi Arabia more than 10 or 11 million barrels per day. The 12.5 million barrels per day capacity as far as we see it in the distant future is more than enough.
Now, should these projections differ to a higher level, Saudi Arabia has no policy not to expand its capacity. But we are very pragmatic in this area. We need to make sure that the demand is there. We have always maintained around 2 million barrels per day of spare capacity. And we intend to so in the foreseeable future.
Question: How much do the geopolitical uncertainties boost the price, and particularly what else can the US and Saudi Arabia do to dampen down concern about Iranian nuclear program or simply Iranian meddling in the whole region?
Prince Saud: Question addressed to whom? Since there is political in [the question], I will give it a try. Of course, geopolitical considerations affect the economies of the region, not just the oil, industry. Uncertainty is the devil that besets all projections or plan and all other considerations. What to do about it is to settle issues that are in the region.
Palestinian issue is an example. Settling of that problem certainly will quiet the geopolitical implications in the Middle East. The nuclear file of Iran, we hope will be settled through negotiations. We hope Iran will follow our policy of having the Middle East free of nuclear weapons. All these elements definitely affect the economy. And settling them as much as we can will be the way to go about solving.
Question: Your Highness: despite your optimism about Secretary Rice's visit to the region, how could we interpret the difference in language i.e. "US President's promise to establish a Palestinian state this year" compared to his yesterday's evening speech, and emergence of the form of the Palestinian state , and difference form prior promises.
Prince Saud: The wording of my introductory remarks is a reply to this question specifically. Refer to it. The proposed vision of H E the President about a two viable independent states living in peace and security side by side, is the same perspective toward which we all acted to achieve it.
The perspective of the Arab initiative identical to this perspective, our participation in Annapolis meeting, and the promises given in the meeting affirm this perspective. If we were to talk in terms of rights, they are here and there. What is required is equality in treatment, and referring to legitimacy and absence of eclecticism in dealing with the two parties. I would like you refer to the statement I talked about.
Question: There is an agreement between the Kingdom and the United States requiring protection of oil installations. What is the nature of this protection? Does it require send for US troops? Will this affects Saudi sovereignty?
Prince Saud: First, the agreement signed is in the field of training and exchange of experience. There will not be any other party protecting these installations except Saudi Arabia.
Question: Some Lebanese bodies called for changing the Taif Agreement. How do you see this?
Prince Saud: The Lebanese people know their own affairs best. If they want to change the Taif Agreement, it is up to them.
Question: Do see that the US is still committed to solve the Lebanon and Iraq issues?
Prince Saud: This is what affirmed by the US government.
Question: Are the results reached by the Arab Ministerial Committee on the Lebanese issue or crisis in agreement with Saudi Arabia's priorities? Or all that is addressed is the same?
Prince Saud: In fact, the conclusion reached by the committee reflects to a great extent, not to say completely, the resolution issued recently in the Arab League, since it does not overlook anything. In some points, there could be more clarity. Around the issue of weapons, for example, there could be more clarity than what it was. But I think this issue is discussed, as I visualize, extensively in the negotiations conducted so far. It will be discussed more in the talks to be lead by the President and participation of the Arab League.
Question: I would like to ask you if you perhaps could give us a flavor of your discussions with President Bush around the oil issue. How forcefully did he ask you in increase production? Was there is any concern on your part that this sticking to your stands would be construed as an embarrassment for him at home?
Prince Saud: The discussion was carried out in a friendly fashion. I do not what you mean by 'forcefully'? He did not punch any tables or shouted at anybody. But we talked about the issue which dealt with oil. And His Excellency the Minister of Petroleum explained our policy, and that is to respond to any request that comes to us. And I think you are satisfied with that.
Al-Naimi: He was because our response is positive. If you want to move more oil, you need a buyer. And we have said, let the buyer come, and will satisfy his quest. It is very simple business: You want more oil, who is gonna buy the oil? We have customers that are satisfied. Do you have additional customers, we will satisfy them. What more can we do?
Prince Saud: May I say the President showed great concern for the impact on the American economy. He showed of course great concern for that. And we of course sympathized with that completely. But on our part, we are doing everything we can to help the international economy by producing as much as needed from us.
Question: On what you have announced on the Saudi-US agreement on the peaceful nuclear energy, would you kindly give us some details of the agreement? Is this agreement different form the movement of the 6 GCC states, and what announced two years ago regarding their nuclear program?
Prince Saud: Read 'Um Al-Qura' [the official gazette]! You will find the statment there. It is not different from what we have agreed upon in GCC.
Question: Your Highness: The US expressed its desire, in several times, at different levels, to have Saudi presence in Iraq within a certain peaceful political process. Is the situation of Saudi Arabia is the same, or there are new developments with President's Bush recent visit, i.e. presence of security there?
Prince Saud: Presence of security is a major criterion as he said. We will know this when we see it. If security is there, we will dispatch the ambassador. Lack of security is also clear. Arab presence is not absent in Iraq. We called for the Arab League meeting in Baghdad.
This is a proof of our desire to have Arab presence in Baghdad. Why not, and Baghdad has been the capital of Islamic and Arab nation for centuries. We are keen. We are confident that security will be secured. When it is available, there will be Arab embassies. Meanwhile, outreach and contact between the Arab League, Arab countries and Iraq will continue and intensify.
Question: How much support does Saudi Arabia give to holding another peace conference sponsored by Moscow? We know that Israel stands in the way of this subject. Eventually, it is agreed upon in Annapolis.
Prince Saud: As you have cited, it is agreed at the Annapolis Conference on holding a meeting in Moscow. All attendance agreed on it. I think it will be held. What we heard from the Russian authorities is that they are preparing for this meeting. It is only a matter of time.


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At least three people sustained multiple gunshot wounds today at Lone Star College in Houston, Texas, apparently the result of an argument in which guns were drawn. One of the two alleged shooters is in custody, and the college says the "situation is under control."
According to Lone Star, the shooting occurred at 12:31 local time. Of the three injured individuals, one was a shooter and the other two were caught in the crossfire.
According to CNN, a fourth person suffered a heart attack at the scene. KRTK reports:
At least two students have told Eyewitness News they heard five shots. One girl said sounded as if they occurred outside, in an area between the library and the cafeteria. Other students say they heard gunshots when they were in cafeteria.
One of the victims is said to be speaking. NBC's Pete Williams is reporting that the shooting "MAY be gang-related"
Lone Star College is a two-year community college. In 2011, the Texas State Senate nearly passed a bill allowing concealed handguns on public college campuses; last week, the effort was revived in the new legislative session.

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Getting error when installing php5-mysql. Looks like a dpkg error. Perhaps a broken package.
Have tried to fix the broken package. Have reinstalled the lamp server and everything seems fine except being able to install the php5-mysql extension, I get:
Errors were encountered while processing: php5-mysql
The sub-process for dpkg is returning an error code.
Any ideas appreciated.


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My co-workers and I frequently share passwords for many different online services. We are constantly emailing each other passwords and resetting them because of the difficulty in locating the old ones. Is there a way we can share and manage passwords securely and efficiently that will work for multiple people?
I came across this answer which I really liked. However, I don't see it working between multiple indiviuals. Many of us already have personal dropboxes and it isn't realistic to switch back and forth to sync new passwords.


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Putin sets us straight
Reading Vladmir Putin's op-ed piece in Thursday's NYTimes put me in mind of rhetorical flourishes. Read it and notice the pivots, the advice, and the not-so-subtle tendency to point out how right the Russians have been. Case study for a class in English composition!
Of course, he has some very good points: Like, really how exceptional is America...
UPDATE: And the Times defends its publication after criticism from some readers: Here!!
Juan Cole offers an analysis of Putin's points: Arguing with President Putin.
About the Author
Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, a former editor of Commonweal, writes frequently in these pages and blogs at dotCommonweal.
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Why shouldn't he point out how right the Russians have been? They warned us not to get involved in Afghanistan, e.g., but the Republicans, after decades of red-baiting, couldn't give up the chance to further enrich war profiteers.
I thought it was a wonderful op-ed piece. If only our country would work together with our old allies, we could do wonders for the rest of the world. Hard for some, obviously, to bury the hatchet and give credit where credit is due.
Well at least he avoided high dudgeon!
Old Allies! Wow!
You must chuckle as much as I do at Putin's reference to the opinion of the Pope, his reference to God, and his his espousal of Jeffersonian /Enlightenment "we are al created equal" in God's sight. I guess he's found religion! Maybe his next Opinion piece will be an altar call!
As my British friends would say: Doesn't HE have bloody cheek!
I wonder how you say "chutzpah" in Russian? Google translate says this: наглость
What a statesman. Maybe he'll be Time Magazine's Man of the Year, too.
Let Putin [What did Dubyah call him? "Putie-Poot"???] say whatever he wants. The whole world knows Putin is in no position to lecture any nation or people about justice and freedom.
It must be infuriating to Putin that our Kenyan socialist President states what is obvious to the whole world: America is the exceptional nation.
Don't you really think that everyone understands that the former KGB thug, now Russia's most recent Czar has no clothes on??? That gagging sound you hear is the rest of the world throwing-up in their mouths.
Put your shirt back on, Vald.
Detect lots of bluster here. Give him enough rope - he'll hang himself. Actually, it might be good for folks such as Putin to write/publish editorials....he may actually be held to some of these statements. Ms. Steinfels - as a first year college prof, please enlighten me on the case study on composition?
Editorials don't usually cite footnotes, references, etc. Will give you the fact that some of his thoughts are not consistent; his thesis or is it multi-theses aren't sufficiently supported by his arguments, facts, etc. Was the thesis just to poke fun at American exceptionalism? We must have short memories - plenty of woods and paper were destroyed after Vietnam and our own internal debates about the US on the Hill like a golden light; debates about exceptionalism (Bush declaring mission accomplished); even as a significant debating item in our presidential elections.
But, will grant you what you state. Best example - his opinion that the chemical weapons were not used by the regime? Really, then why ask Assad to turn them over?
Others point out his other inconsistencies - but, on the whole, it might be a good thing that we find world leaders being published on our editorial pages - just like folks such a Michele Bachmann, Ted Cruz, The Alaskan Mama.....they might be held to what they say. What a novel idea.
Re: Put shirt back on
Vanity is a vice among alll public leaders. But Vlad is also a martial artist, a martial ARTIST!
In this instance, I agree with Margaret in that this is a brilliant piece of prose at this moment. Every culture has its strengths and the Russians are brilliant at analytic mind games like chess and as writers they are deliberate and their messages refer to histories and spiritual values. This is Putin's playground. I do not doubt his sincerity but there are layers and layers of messages and meanings.
I have read interview with Putin and it is evident that he has studied the world and the US deeply. In my opinion, I think that he knows American people are decent, generous and fair but he also know the the US government is sneaky, covert, and anything but transparent. The Russians have lived under the Tsars and under Stalin so they do not have the same innocence around government. Revelation of secret deals and Russian interest will not rock their confidence in him because, I think, he has their trust. And make no mistake, he has carefully studied Obama and taken full measure of him. Clear revelations of US dealings authorized by Obama will rock Americans perception of him and Obama's perception of himself. His message to Obama is that he is prepared to have an open and transparent dialogue in the press, directly to the people including what America is really doing. But if his interests are met, he will o away quietly.. Your move Barack!
History in the making here and most fascinating to watch the moves.
B de H: Didn't know you were teaching. History? or English? I read Putin's op-ed as a former editorial writer. If I were teaching a composition class, I'd make clear that opinion-editorial rhetoric is a distinct genre and work to have the students distinguish among what works and what doesn't.
Ask them to imagine this oped encompasses a set of views about the U.S. role across a range of international issues prompted by the Syrian conflict.
Ask them to ignore that the head of the Russian government is writing this. What do they find convincing, what not convincing about the piece.
They may have to do some research here or have some tutoring about U.S.-Russian relations since the outbreak of WWII (just enough for them to see that this is complicated).
What do they think the author (presumably a U.S. pr firm writer, approved by the Russians) is trying to do for the Russian position?
Sentences I might ask them to analyze for accuracy, emotional appeal, conviction:
"Relations between us have passed through different stages. We stood against each other during the cold war. But we were also allies once, and defeated the Nazis together."
"The potential strike by the United States against Syria, despite strong opposition from many countries and major political and religious leaders, including the pope, will result in more innocent victims and escalation, potentially spreading the conflict far beyond Syria's borders."
"Syria is not witnessing a battle for democracy, but an armed conflict between government and opposition in a multireligious country. There are few champions of democracy in Syria."
"Mercenaries from Arab countries fighting there, and hundreds of militants from Western countries and even Russia, are an issue of our deep concern. Might they not return to our countries with experience acquired in Syria?"
"From the outset, Russia has advocated peaceful dialogue enabling Syrians to develop a compromise plan for their own future. We are not protecting the Syrian government, but international law."
"It is alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States. Is it in America's long-term interest?"
"We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal." David Paskinski has already raised an eyebrow about this.
If students were able to distinguish among feints, accurate statements, inaccurate ones, authentic concerns of the Russian government, and spin, they might acquire some sense of how such statements/editorials/opeds, etc. convince people or not.
Tell us how it turns out!
Some not so great things about Putin/Russia:
- Putin's connection with the Orthodox Church and its leader, who's said by some to be former KGB .... http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1622544,00.html
- the homophobia ... http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/08/the-battle-over-r...
- problems for women ... http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/19/us-russia-church-women-idUSTRE...
- freedom of speech/expression .... http://www.economist.com/node/16490095
The so called anti-gay legislation is in part intended to block homosexual propaganda supporting sexy with minors. I think this is not a bad thing. NAMBLA has been sidelined by many LBGTQ groups as well in recent years. As the movement gained ascendancy, and the issue of sexual abuse of minors began to be widely reported, NAMBLA was a liability. I don't think anybody will weep for their demise and I, for one, would not be opposed to laws forbidding their propaganda.
As for free speech and the so called crack down on it, Putin addressed this issue in a wide ranging interview with journalist at RT (a good source)
Vladimir Putin: No. Well, every opposition can prove useful. You just mentioned Occupy Wall Street. At a certain point we saw the police cracking down on the Occupy Wall Street activists. I won't call the actions of police appropriate or inappropriate. My point is that every opposition movement is good and useful if they act within law. If they don't like the law, they should use democratic ways to change those laws. They should win voters on their side, they should get elected into legislatures so that they have a chance to influence the laws. This is the way to change things on the ground. If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of majority. That's the way it's done in the US, and that's the way it's done in Russia.
Truth be told, we are grilled for that, but when the same thing happens in the US, it is considered to be normal. Never mind, these are double standards and we have got accustomed and pay little attention to it.
Margarita Simonyan: When it happens in the US, RT grills America.
Vladimir Putin: Way to go! Everyone must be treated in the same fashion. Because these situations are identical. The only difference is that our diplomatic missions don't actively cooperate with
Occupy Wall Street, and your diplomatic mission works together and directly supports Russian opposition. I think this is wrong because diplomatic missions must forge ties between states and not meddle with their domestic politics.
Getting back to popular movements. Reckless behavior is not appreciated by people. If these activists are breaking the law, then it's illegal. If they express their will by legal means, without breaking the law then they are fully entitled to do that. Then it would be beneficial to any state because it's a way to provide grassroots feedback on state policies – social, domestic or foreign ones.
Note, that he particularly mentions how American (the question was asked by an American) diplomatic mission directly support Russian opposition. This of course is wrong and is precisely what the Soviet Communists used to do in the United States!
Why should the US trust an ex-KGB colonel who has suppressed the press and free elections in his own country? If you want to know what he's thinking, ask: what would perpetuate his own power and safety? Those seem to be hisi goals.
George D,
The Russian law, though it's titled as a prohibition of propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors, makes it .....
"a criminal act to hold any sort of public demonstration in favour of gay rights, speak in defense of gay rights or distribute material related to gay rights, or to state that gay relationships are equal to heterosexual relationships. International human rights organisations and the governments of developed democracies have condemned the Russian law. The United Nations and European regional institutions have called for it to be repealed, making clear that the Russian law in question as well as other infringements of LGBT rights in the country are a direct violation of international human rights law, including the right of children to receive proper information, and of Russia's international obligations." .... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Russia
I don't see how working for the equal rights of LGBT people in Russia should be construed as promotong NAMBA.
And the world should trust the US because.......?
Maybe this is beating swords into ploughshares time. Tough to do but have to start somewhere.
Good explanation by the Public Editor and good comments below.
If we're going into literary criticism of his piece, how about asking him to write a review of "Animal Farm." Would love his insights on some animals being "more equal than others."
Thanks, Ms. Steinfels....short answer, history. Okay, appreciate you taking the time to explicate - your suggestions, questions, directions are excellent and now I understand what you were saying.
Will incorporate your suggestions.
Also, never answered you on an earlier post - the book I was referencing was later cited in a review by Fr. Komonchack....July, 1914.
Ms. Steinfels - two other additions. Watched both Rachel Maddow and EWTN last nite (well, for a few minutes).
Maddow - wonderful topic and slant on chemical weapons - she expounded on the history lesson from Kazahstan and the breakup of the Soviet Union. Left behind was the largest Soviet nuclear testing ground (size of the state of New Jersey); complete with mines, bunkers, etc. with high value, pure plutonium. The narrative shows how soviet scientists reached out to US scientists who engaged the US government (including the current Secretary of Energy). Secretly, Kazahstan folks, US scientists, and Soviet scientists began a 17 yr long project to destroy, seal up, and neutralize the active nuclear wastes. That project was completed in 2012 preventing their use by extremists. (and, of course, during this time period Russia, etc. constantly said that everything was safe and under control - so much for believability) Anyway - it was a nice comparison to the challenge of identifying, locating, and destroying Syrian chemical weapons....efforts at locating and destroying nuclear wastes have been going on for years and have been very successful e.g. Mexico.
EWTN, Arroyo, and Buchanan - besides laughing, Buchanan and Arroyo basically defended Assad and other dicatatorships because they provide stability in the face of terrorism. A very simplistic analysis based upon an unnaunced, if not, partial reading of the situation. Buchanan also supports Assad because he protects Christians and he compared this to Egypt today. His inaccuracies were astounding:
- Christians in Eygpt were attacked by Brotherhood extremists because they thought christians supported the military. It is the military that is now in control. He then equates this to Assad/Syria...yet, in Syria, Christians align with Assad because he currently protects them - Assad is more like Morsi/Moslem Brotherhood; then the Egyptian military or opposition parties in Syria. He skips over the fact that Assad has violated scores of other international declarations - torture, use of cluster bombs, napalm, ethnic cleansing, etc. (but, of course, this is justified because he defends Christians - the illogic is just mind-numbing)
- Arroyo/Buchanan go on as if they are some type of John Birch Society remnant followers. US has to support dictatorships because the whole region could be destabilized and create exactly what Hillaire Belloc preached against 100 years ago - the resurgence of a worldwide Moslem revolution that would destroy Christianity. Arroyo characterized (or caricaturized) the Arab Spring as another Moslem worldwide revolution - the sweeping generalizations to fit his narrow, bigotted ideology was again astounding. It really is like watching a neo-con Catholic version of FOX News. The spouting of made up opinions masquerading as facts - oh well.
Thanks for posting Juan's article .
Mr. deHaas, I must defend Mr. Arroyo from your unfair pounding. Whatever you may say of him, he is a brilliantly innovative linguist. It was he who reformed German phonology to make the word "Sorge" (in "Mit brennender Sorge") rhyme with English "forge" (as God, who has been called an Englishman but may be an exceptional American) intended.
And yes, before you ask, I'm contributing my own modest innovations in the field of parenthesis placement.
Margaret and Bill - I also thought the piece was pretty well targeted to NY Times readership. I'd think a Putin piece in the WSJ or Orange County Register might make a different set of points - perhaps fewer paeans to peace and a good deal more shoe-pounding.
I am no fan of EWTN but do watch it from time to time to see their take on things Catholic and political.
Mr. Arroyo likes to be flippant. (I watched him mimic his beloved Mother Angelica in a smart- alecky imitation and it burned me up.) He thinks that will contribute to his appeal, I guess.
I had boys like that in class when I was teaching high school. They spent after-school time writing 50 times:
"I will not act like a fool in Mrs. ___________'s Humanities class."
An aside: Believe it or not, these boys would come back to visti me after graduation and say; "Do you miss me?"
Jim...You may be right, BUT if so, how come so much religion? That appeal at the end sounded more Orange County than NYC. Of course, Putin may read polls showing how religious Americans are. He might have thought (or his info officer/pr contact) that "God made us all equal" was just the right note.
And then, I think there is still a strong anti-Communist streak in the NYTimes (for example, Stephen Lee Myers reporting from Moscow). http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/world/europe/as-obama-pauses-action-pu...
And take a look at Putin's picture in the story: looks like one of the Observers in "Fringe."
NB: NYT public editors piece mentions a PR contact for the piece.
Margaret - yes, I thought the invocation of the Almighty was an interesting touch. As a statement of religious conviction, it was from the I-pledge-allegiance school of civic faith - that may be the effect the writer was after?
From today's Times:
To the Editor:
For Vladimir V. Putin, just two thoughts:
Can I publish an opinion critical of you in Moscow's most prominent daily?
Just F.Y.I., my grandparents did not flee the United States for Russia.
Tenafly, N.J., Sept. 12, 2013
Re: Putin's invocation of the Almighty. He and the Orthodox Church have been playing patty-cake for quite sometime now. This most likely is his bow to their continued support of him and his anti-gay activities.
s/b "their" continued support ....
Puhleez ... reintroduce the "edit" feature! Pretty please ... with sugar on it.
The invocation of the Almighty was a way to support his greater equity point and criticism that the continued encouragement of the United States leadership,including Obama's, to perpetuate the myth of Amercian exceptionalism is dangerous. I concur.
Don't stone the prophet!
Tsar Putin is loathsome and dishonest, but I am happy to stand with Pope Francis on this issue.


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WINTERSVILLE - Christopher Michael Tost and Nicole Elaine DiFranco were united in marriage on June 5 in an outdoor ceremony in the gardens of Landerhaven with the Rev. Phil Marcin officiating.
The bride is the daughter of Piero and Jacquelyn DiFranco of Solon. The groom is the son of William Michael and Laura Tost of Wintersville.
Kelly Mayerski and Sarah Wantz were maids of honor. Bridesmaids were Megan DiFranco, sister-in-law of the bride; Janet Maxon and Ann Marie Dohnal, sisters of the groom; and Veronica Villella and Natalie Wlotzko, cousins of the bride. Sophia Grace Maxon, niece of the groom, was the flower girl.
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A reception was held in Landerhaven's East Grand Ballroom.
The groom is a graduate of Wintersville High School and received his bachelor's degree at St. Francis University. He received his juris doctorate from Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He is an attorney with the law firm of Rolf and Goffman of Cleveland.
The bride is a graduate of Notre Dame Cathedral Latin High School. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland and her master's degree from Tiffin University. She is working with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Federal Investigative Services.
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Let $X$ be some variety over $\mathbb{Q}$, and let $\pi_1(X\times_{\mathbb{Q}}\mathbb{C},x)$ denote its (topological) fundamental group. As is well known $Gal(\mathbb{Q})$ acts on this fundamental group. I was browsing old MSRI videos, and in the middle of one of them I saw an intriguing explicit description of this action:
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As it says there, there was also a talk by Ihara about this. I'm looking, however, for an explanation of this in a more systematic way, in a paper or a book. Do you know of a good reference for this?


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"I've been putting number 40 on my tape," said outfielder Daniel Macias. "Just to think that I have to do it for him, for his last games. It's been a hell of a rollercoaster with him. It's been good."
In honor of his "victory slide," Bartow was presented with second base, signed by his current players and many former players at Bartow's last Saturday home game. SWC cheerleading advisor Patti Moore has been going to baseball games for 21 years and worked with Bartow when he was the instructor of record for the cheerleading squad. She said she was excited to see so many of the players return.
"I think it's amazing, he's so deserving of [his player's admiration]," she said. "He's put so much into the school and his players, above and beyond just being a coach. He means so much to them that they come back for him."
During Bartow's final home game against Mt. San Jacinto there was another surprise. Head football coach Ed Carberry led his team to Jaguar Junction and started cheers of "Forty! Forty! Forty!"
"We knew it was his last home game and I just wanted to give him a bit of a good send off and some respect for all his hard work," said Carberry. "With everything that goes on in the world today it's going to be hard to see anybody coach for 40 years. Probably not going to happen very much in the future."
Bartow's co-head coach, Jay Martel, said he believes one of the reasons for Bartow's longevity is his relationship with players.
"Players love to play for him," he said. "He does a lot of things for the players to put them in a position to do well on the field and to make sure that they had baseballs, oranges and apples. He made sure that when they came to Southwestern College it was a very enjoyable time for them."
Bautista said he is most impressed by Bartow's integrity.
"The one major thing I remember about him is that he's always a man of his word," he said. "And that's something he taught the rest of us."
Bartow (l) shakes a boy's hand before a game against Rio Hondo. Bartow was presented with an award before the game. Photo by Russell Scoffin.Bartow (l) shakes a boy's hand before a game against Rio Hondo. Bartow was presented with an award before the game. Photo by Russell Scoffin.
Ken Salazar played for the Apaches from 1990-93 and coached the Jaguars in 2011 and 2012. He said Bartow has been near retirement for years.
"It's funny because when I was playing here it was supposed to be his last year," he said. "It was always his last year every year. He just kept on coming out here because was never happier than when he was on the baseball field."
Bartow said he genuinely appreciated that so many alumni players stopped by to visit him this season.
"It makes tears come to your eyes to see all of the former players we had over the years," he said. "They date back from all the teams I've had here. Some of them were Apaches, not Jaguars. A lot of them came from when I used to have that teepee up on the roof. It makes you kind of think back through all of the years."
Hundreds of players have laced up their cleats under Bartow. Some went on to play professionally, many moved on to play at four-year universities, and others saw their careers end at Bartow's field of dreams. Salazar said the 79-year-old coach left a lasting imprint on all of them.
"He used to always say, 'You know guys, one day you're gonna be gone and you're gonna miss it,'" said Salazar. "'You're gonna wish you worked hard. You're gonna wish you played like it was your last day. It's gonna happen.' And I can honestly say I didn't have many regrets because I know I always worked hard just like he told us to."
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A ballad is a song. Think boy bands and chest-thumping emotion. Maybe a few tears.
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Many (though not all) ballads are written in a little something we like to call ballad meter (creative, we know), which consists of alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter. That means they sound a little something like this (ahem): daDUM daDUM daDUM daDUM / daDUM daDUM daDUM.
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Nationally-recognized metropolitan scholar and former Mayor of Albuquerque David Rusk and Rutgers School of Law–Newark professor David Dante Troutt are the featured speakers at the February 21, 2014 Scholarship Conference hosted by the Center on Law in Metropolitan Equity (CLiME) at Rutgers University–Newark.
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Rusk will present his article, "Measuring Regional Equity," and Troutt, who is director of CLiME, will read from his new book, The Price of Paradise: The Costs of Inequality and a Vision for a More Equitable America.
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Slated to begin Monday, Feb. 13, Mommy Wellness is a four-week program that aims to help new moms get back in shape while planning for the healthiest future for themselves and their families.
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Moms with babies ranging in age from 6 months to 2 years will meet twice each week for one hour. Each class will consist of a presentation and hands-on exercise instruction.
The class is free to moms who delivered their babies at MCMC and is offered at a minimal cost to those who gave birth elsewhere. Griffin says the program illustrates MCMC's commitment to Gorge women during their post-partum recovery period and beyond, helping them to feel like themselves again.
"We want to create healthy communities and healthy communities start with the family," says Griffin.
During the program, childcare will be available at the Kids Club located within the Water's Edge facility. The cost is just $2 per hour for members of the Fitness Center at Water's Edge and $4 per hour for non-members. During some of the classes, babies will exercise with their moms.
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Christina Castellano, P.T., D.P.T., a physical therapist with MCMC's Outpatient Therapy program at Water's Edge, spearheads the program.
"The idea for Mommy Wellness stemmed from my passion to improve wellness for women in the community," she explains.
She hopes the program will serve as a springboard for a personalized and effective self-care plan for each participant. Her goal is to give women the education, support and resources they need to create their own path to wellness.
"Once a woman become a mom, her whole life is dedicated to her child," she says. "Then she becomes 50 or 60 and her body often starts falling apart."
One of the program goals is to help moms learn to exercise effectively so they get the results they desire.
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Castellano and Griffin will work together to teach participants the right ways to exercise for the best results -- from how to lift weights to how to do a proper kegel to prevent incontinence, a common post-partum problem. Women will also learn about postural awareness and biomechanics, including how to preserve their backs while properly lifting the baby or carrying a car seat.
Other components of the class include stress-reduction, relaxation through yoga, time management, post-partum depression and healthy eating.
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Castellano points out that MCMC, the health and wellness center at Water's Edge and the community at large offer numerous resources for moms, yet, many women are unaware of them.
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spoiler:Yoda's final words on his death bed in RotJ have a different meaning now. Before we thought of his last words referring Leia, but now it seems that Yoda was repeating the prophecy he was told in the final episode of TCW.
spoiler:Agreed, I like to think that too, I mean I have nothing against Leia, but I don't think she was ever intended to be a Jedi, and there's no evidence that she would automatically have the same force potential as Luke
spoiler:I still think Leia is important in that in realise that Leia is his sister, it gives Luke a new motivation and also helps to turn Darth Vader back to the good side in the realisation that he also has a daughter. So her importance is still there in that regard, but I also like how Yoda's last words now carry a dual meaning. One for Yoda himself who is remembering in his final moments, his journey coming to this point and to also give Luke a clue that he is not alone in his journey to help his father back to the light side of the Force.


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If $H$ is a typical secure hash function, then $(k,x) \mapsto H(k \mid\mid x)$ is not a secure MAC construction, because given a known plaintext $x_1$ and its MAC $m_1$, an attacker can extend $k \mid\mid x_1$ to a longer message with the same hash.
Is $(k,x) \mapsto H(k \mid\mid \mathrm{len}(x) \mid\mid x)$ (where $\mathrm{len}$ unambiguously encodes the length of $x$) a secure MAC construction? Obviously it's inconvenient because you can't treat $x$ as a stream, but is there a known security weakness, or is this known to be as strong as HMAC?


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the stuff of life is spread throughout the cosmos, then the universe
could be teeming with aliens. Will alien brains think in ways we
understand? Without an alien to study, that seems
impossible to answer. But by studying non-humans here on Earth,
scientists are learning how alien minds might work. The popular
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Thermal Pins Taken Out of the Fire John Simon, AHC, February, pg. 38
Building Fire Safety in the Far East September, pg. 58
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IP Communications: The Integration Door is Wide Open - James Gompers, pg. 40
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DHI Remembers Joseph F. LaForce June, pg. 60
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Balance Being Restored to Active vs. Passive Issue Jerry Heppes, March, pg. 6
DHIs Guiding Principles Jerry Heppes, May, pg. 6
DHI Members Seize New Opportunities Jerry Heppes, December, pg. 6
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Shipping System Integration - Kevin Faeger, March, pg. 44
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Distributor Power Tools Jason Bader, March, pg. 61
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If You Want it, Write It Scott Stratman, August, pg. 97
Liquidating Dead Inventory Vendor Returns Jason Bader, June, pg. 77
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Three Heads are Better than One Jason Bader, February, pg. 61
Variable Compensation for the Purchasing Manager Jason Bader, November, pg. 66
We Dont Have it in Stock Now What? Scott Stratman, December, pg. 66
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With just 16 floors and 120 units, this facility combines the charms of living in a small complex with the amenities and professionalism of a larger establishment. The modern mid-rise located at 340 East 29th Street was built in 2000 and is currently being managed by A & R Kalimian Realty. Designed by Meltzer Mandl Architects, Berkley Park is snugly located in Manhattan's Kips Bay neighborhood. With units ranging from studios to 2 bedrooms, this facility has a long list of amenities and quality finishes to match.
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I have a trusty pumpkin bread that I make countless loaves of every year. My wife and I love Chai Tea and I was curious how one could go about adapting the linked recipe above to include Chai spices or some type of Chai tea as part of the ingredients. To me this seems like the best convergence of many tasty flavors for the fall.
I just noticed that your recipe uses water. That's an ideal way to get tea flavor into things - you can replace it with concentrated tea. Assuming you use teabags, you should be able to steep two in that 2/3 cup of water. Tea is a fairly subtle flavor, so you may not taste it too much in the bread, but this is easy and doable with what you have! There's also instant tea, if you want to try to boost it - but it of course won't be as good as real, fresh tea. (You could buy chai concentrate, but I think it's usually about double strength, so not really better than you'll do on your own.)
I'd then replace the spices normally in your recipe with chai spices. If you've ever made chai from scratch, you could use that recipe as a guide, but it sounds like you might not have. There's an awful lot of variety here, from region to region, and in Western variations; you could search around online for chai recipes that appeal to you. I'm not an expert (I'm from Texas!) but from what I know, here are some common spices, with the most standard ones toward the top:
Cardamom is pretty much required, and that'll help give you a flavor very different from your usual spice blend. I'd mix/grind up the spices separately from the rest, smell them to see if they're what you're looking for, and adjust as needed before mixing into the rest. Aiming for a similar total volume of spices to that of the original recipe should work fairly well. It might be a bit spicier, since you'll also have the tea, but that's probably fine. (Fresh ginger obviously won't go with the dry spices, if you use it - maybe a teaspoon or two minced?)
what's wrong with opening the tea bag and pouring the spices into the batter?


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It's that romantic time of year again. As a holistic interior designer, I think this is perfect time to ask, "What kind of relationship are you having with your home?" As with true love, we know that home is much more than just a physical connection. I believe that if you treat your home as you treat your sweetest lover, you experience a deeper connection to your surroundings and — ultimately — to yourself.
The most logical place to start this process is in the bedroom. Is your bedroom conducive to romance? In the homes I visit, this room, sadly, is often the least sexy of spaces.


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I found a wonderful tutorial on how to install my driver here but I quickly ran into a problem. Let me explain the problem i am facing. I want to install a Linux distro (still looking into different distros) on my machine. From my past painful experiences, I know that I need to install drivers separately for the wireless adapter to work. Yet in order to get the tools to convert my driver I need an internet connection. Sadly no other computer in my house has Linux on it for me to do this and since everyone in my house is scared that I'm going to break their computer (past experience makes this understandable) using a LiveCD is unheard of. I've come to the conclusion that I would most likely need to get Ndiswrapper on my Windows machine convert the driver from there and then store it in the drive somehow so I can access it later. Any ideas?
You probably don't need to extract the drivers from your Windows install. Provided you can find your device in this list: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ndiswrapper/index.php?title=Main_Page
... you'll simply need to follow the procedure to obtain the Windows drivers here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper#Downloading_Windows_Drivers
The Netgear WNA3100 does have a page: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ndiswrapper/index.php?title=Netgear_WNA3100
What you can do is to get whatever you need downloaded under Windows. It might be a bit tricky to find out what "automatized installation procedures" grab and how they do it, but if it isn't obvious perhaps a Google search with the exact card version gives step by step instructions. Just be careful with "practical joker" instructions, or just misguided people who don't know what they are suggesting.


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Is there a way to tell Visual Studio 2005 to just ignore source control binding when opening a solution? I sometimes need to load a solution for which I don't have access to the source control server, but Visual Studio insists on trying to connect anyway, meaning I have to click "temporarily work offline in disconnected mode" for every project in the solution (of which there are about 20) as it loads. For some reason, it also tries to check each project out immediately after I've told it to work offline, so I have to click past that dialog box too.
As I will never need to edit anything in this solution, is there any way I can open it and have Visual Studio just ignore the fact it has source control bindings in it?
Edit: Ideally, I'd like a way to do this without having to change the project/solution files. They change fairly frequently, so I'd have to redo any changes every time there was a new version (otherwise I'd just unbind them once and it wouldn't be a problem).
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As in the time of milchemes Ay, Hashem stopped the sun for 36 hours . Where else in Tanach did it happen? I need more then one.
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The verse immediately following Joshua's miracle states:
So it would seem it didn't happen any other time.
That said, the Talmud (Avoda Zara 25a) discusses two other times the sun stood still: once for Nakdimon ben Gurion (see Taanit 19b) and once for Moshe. Rashi in Avoda Zara understands this to be referring to the sun standing still during Moshe's battle with Sichon. Devarim Rabbah (to Parashat Va'etchannan) says that the sun stood still for Moshe on 5 occasions: the day of the Exodus, of the Splitting of the Sea, of the war with Amalek, of the Revelation at Mount Sinai, and of the crossing of the Arnon Valley.
It's worth noting that Ralbag in his commentary to Joshua (10:12) rejects that the sun stood still for Moshe, becuase that would be so great a miracle that the Torah, which is meant to inspire us, would certainly have told us about it. (More interestingly, he then rejects that the sun stood still for Joshua because that would make Joshua a greater prophet than Moshe. So he explains the verse to mean that the battle finished extremely quickly before the sun and moon made it to Givon and Emek Ayalon respectively.)
Immanuel Velikovsky is well known for writing on this topic, in his book Worlds in Collision. Velikovsky argues the position that described phenomenon, like the sun stopping, were astronomical realities.
I welcome more authoritative sources and references for Velikovsky.
References like this, I think, are not those for which @Curious is looking:
I continue to look for work that can fill out this answer.