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In this new climate anything less than anti-abortion absolutism is unacceptable.
The Russian Revolution summed everything up in an instant: in place of dynastic rule, absolutism of a different kind.
What are some great works of literature that you admire for their ability to combat dictatorship and absolutism?
But beneath was the continual struggle for absolutism on the part of the monarch and emancipation on the part of the people.
On the other hand, they marked the approach of France to absolutism.
They prepared to undo the work of absolutism by the hand of absolutism.
If Romanism is to be the religion of the State, let it be allied with absolutism.
This explains his detestation of all forms of absolutism on the one hand, and what he always called "the revolution" on the other.
absolutism may thrive without a God, for it needs only slaves.
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Veterans Day events around the Lowcountry
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There are plenty of ways to celebrate this Veterans Day around the Lowcountry.
CARTA celebrates Veterans Day by providing no-cost transportation for active duty military and veterans. Make sure you have proper identification.
Texas Roadhouse restaurant in North Charleston invites veterans and active members of the United States military to enjoy a free lunch.
Sticky Fingers offers Veterans and Military personnel including active, inactive or retired, a buy one entrée, get a second entrée free with their Facebook coupon. You must download the coupon offline.
O'Charleys and Applebee's offer free meals. Free dinner is available between 4 PM and 9 PM at Golden Corral.
Shoney's offers All-American Cheeseburgers to Veterans and Active Duty military.
Great Clips offers free hair cuts to veterans Monday. Non-military customers will get a coupon to give to a veteran for a later use .
Magnolia Plantation and Gardens offers free entry to veterans along with their spouse and dependents.
Glasspro provides free car washes on Tuesday, November 12 to veterans and current military personnel in Goose Creek.
Patriots Point welcomes veterans and their families for a full day of events starting at 9:30 AM. The Veterans Day celebration will be streamed live and available for viewing on www.patriotspoint.org.
In Beaufort, the annual parade begins at 9:30AM. The Parade will be followed by a Veterans Day Ceremony in the Beaufort National Cemetery at 11 AM.
The City of North Charleston will host its annual Veterans Day tribute from 10:30 AM to 1:00 PM at Park Circle. Prior to the ceremony, from 9:30 to 10:30, a story swap will be held in the Felix Davis Community Center Lunch for all of the event attendees will be provided immediately following the ceremony.
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Off-Duty Firefighter Saves Man Who Cuts Himself With Saws at Home Depot
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Korn's Brian 'Head' Welch hospitalized for kidney stone in Russia
Korn guitarist Brian "Head" Welch will be out of action for a little while after a kidney stone sent him to the hospital mid-tour.
The band is on the road in Russia, and Welch's medical issue forced him to miss their tour stop with Soulfly. He shared a video apologizing for his absence and praising Love and Death guitarist JR Bareis, who filled in for him.
Korn's trek through Russia is scheduled to continue through May 28th, but it's unclear when Welch might be able to rejoin his bandmates. He said in a Facebook post that he'll be staying in the hospital "for a few days."
Korn is also scheduled to play Rock Fest in Kansas City, Missouri on May 31st before kicking off a North American tour at the end of June.
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Security Council press statement on UNAMA attacks
The following press statement was issued today by Security Council President Nestor Osorio (Colombia):
"The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the violent attack against the United Nations operations centre in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, on 1 April 2011, which resulted in the death and injury of United Nations staff.
The members of the Security Council expressed their deep condolences to the families of the victims. The thoughts of the Security Council members are with the wounded and with all UNAMA personnel.
The members of the Security Council condemned all incitement to and acts of violence. They called on the Government of Afghanistan to bring those responsible to justice and take all possible steps, with the assistance of ISAF, as appropriate, to protect UN personnel and premises.
The members of the Security Council reaffirmed their support for the people and the Government of Afghanistan, their support for the crucial work that the United Nations is doing in partnership with the Government for the benefit of all Afghans, and the Council's commitment to a secure and stable Afghanistan."


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In the last few weeks I have written about the complementary relationship between Mobile Device Management (MDM) and Mobile File Management (MFM). As a proof point to that, yesterday we announced a new partnership with MobileIron (press release is here), a leading MDM vendor and the innovator in enterprise management and security for mobile devices and apps, and we are one of the first companies to join their MobileIron AppConnect program. This partnership spans marketing, development and sales.
MobileIron Appconnect is loosely a mobile device management framework which allows enterprises to secure mobile apps and data. Essentially this allows apps, such as our mobilEcho, to operate within the MobileIron ecosystem with all the security and management capabilities inherent with MobileIron. This will not only provide more secure mobile computing but will also greatly enhance management capabilities through integration.
We are already seeing (and actively engaged with) enterprises who want to have mobilEcho as part of their enterprise mobility strategy and see it as very complementary to MDM. Some of the organizations have already bought MDM and considering mobilEcho as an add on. Others are considering MDM for the first time and they see mobilEcho as a natural extension of that effort. Our partnership with MobileIron is an outgrowth of this demand and a desire on the part of both companies to deliver complete solutions to customers.
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Concerned citizen to legislature: You work for us
I am a proud yet concerned citizen living in a wonderful growing suburb of Nashville, Tennessee, in Wilson County.
As you know, we are one of the fastest growing counties in the state. And I am a taxpayer which is supposed to mean elected officials work for me. Our local elected officials have signaled their intent to build an Expo Center on the grounds of the James Ward Agricultural & Community Center to improve our local economy and the lives of Wilson County residents. In light of recent activity at the state legislative level, I feel the need to express my opinion.
Our elected County Commissioners voted to send a private act to the state legislature to be passed to raise the hotel/motel tax up to 3 percent to help fund the Expo Center. Now I understand people panic when they hear the words tax increase. I do, too. But you have to seek to understand, then to be understood. This concept is something no one at the state level or national level is seeking to do these days. We are not asking for the citizens of Wilson County to withstand a property tax increase, a sales tax increase, a wheel tax increase. We are asking for those people who choose to come into our county and stay in our hotels to pay a little extra. It's no different than what other counties in this state have also had passed successfully by the state legislature.
Isn't one of the best ways to decrease taxes on the citizens of any county is to increase sales tax revenue? How? By bringing more people into our county to shop, eat, stay in our hotels, buy our gas. How do you do that? Through building a structure that allows us to host events that people want to attend. This building is not going to increase our taxes. It's going to decrease them! Our County Commission has done their due diligence. They have used our taxpayer money to get a feasibility study completed to seek to understand the impact this Expo Center would have on our community. And this study supports that the building of this facility would have a positive impact on our county in many ways.
So why is there opposition? Our Representative Mark Pody told our County Commission, "Every single legislator had received something from Hilton Hotels asking them to vote against the 3 percent. It's being lobbied hard down there for us not to have it. It does not have any support."
WOW… Why are so many Americans so fed up with government officials? This is why! Why are the ratings of the federal legislative body at an all-time low? This is why! Because the American people have lost faith in believing that government officials are working for them because of examples just like this. And if this does not pass, then our Tennessee legislative body is no different than Congress.
For us to be a red state, we are not acting very red. No wonder conservatives and the Republican Party are having such difficulty. Why are we not supporting every effort to let the individuals in this community decide what is best for them? Why are we OK with others trying to tell us what's best for us? Where is that freedom that red states and conservatives are always preaching about? A private act means it has no bearing on anyone else but those people in our county. Period. Our County Commission voted, and it was approved to send this act to the state. What gives the representatives and senators in East Tennessee or West Tennessee the right to go against what we feel is right for us in our county?
I would bet there are a VERY small percentage of owners of these hotel/motels and lobbyists who are against this private act that actually reside in our county. So why should they get to dictate what's best for our citizens? Are we going to let a handful of hotel/motel owners and their big powerful corporate bosses dictate what happens to the future of this county? They are not the elected officials, our county commissioners are. And so are our state representatives and senators. It is the job of these elected officials to bring to the state legislative body what the county has approved whether they agree with it or not. Your job would be to do the same thing if it passed in your county.
Other State Representatives and Senators, why are you not supporting this? Why don't you feel the same way? How would you tell your constituents, "Sorry I can't get this passed because Representative Sarah in Knox County and Senator Don in Shelby County think they know what is best for us and do not think you are capable of making a correct decision for your people". That is what a "no" vote is and nothing more. A slap in the face of those people it would affect believing we don't know what is in our best interest. Or better yet have the right to make those decisions for ourselves.
I once thought lobbyists were there to lobby for the good of the people. In this case they are lobbying for their pockets, pockets that will in fact get deeper when this Expo Center is built because we all know they will raise their rate per night to offset their "loss of profit" from the tax. They are not going to see a dip in their income but an increase!
This is nothing more than big government intruding in our lives at the local level. It's other people removed from our county trying to dictate what is best for us. Let us be the deciders of that. Wouldn't you want the same? This is why Americans across the United States are fed up with the federal government. I am hopeful that in the end our state legislators will not make those same mistakes!
Editor's Note: This was a letter that was sent to members of the Tennessee General Assembly. Michelle J. Hill is executive director of Empower Me Day Camp which provides activities for special needs children at the James E. Ward Agricultural Center. If the Expo Center becomes reality, Empower Me Day Camp would have use of the facility along with office space.


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London's best bakeries
Crumbs! There are a lot of good bread shops in London these days, and here's the upper crust
Balthazar boulangerie
Nice buns! This Covent Garden bakery might take its inspiration from the bakehouses of Paris (by way of New York) rather than London, but its bakers are not too proud to whip up the classic British Easter treat of hot cross buns (£1.75). As for the rest, there's flaky croissant (£1.75), well-crafted loaves, perfect patisserie and lunchtime salads or sandwiches to take away. Breads include large rounds of flavoursome rye-based pain de seigle (half loaf £2.50 / whole £5), perfect for toasting; pillowy olive ciabatta (£3.50); and multigrain bâtards (£4.50). This might not be the cheapest bakery around, but it's one of the best in the centre of town.
E5 Bakehouse
Tucked into the arches below London Fields rail station, E5 Bakehouse is a hive of bread-based activity. Each boule, baguette and country loaf is lovingly handmade and shaped by a team of passionate bakers – with a former neuroscientist at their helm. One of the most popular loaves is the round, slow-risen Hackney Wild (£3.50), made with white, wholemeal and rye flour. With a light, open texture and satisfyingly crunchy, chewy crust, it's perfect for sarnies. And if you get bitten by the bread baking bug, the team also do near-weekly bread-making master classes (£120 full-day course).
In the last year or so the arches around Hoxton station have become a destination for interesting eateries, and this Scandinavian bakery was one of the early colonisers. The first branch of the chain outside of Stockholm, it does all its baking on-site. While the back half of the vaulted space is taken up with sacks of flour and ovens, the front has a handful of tables for enjoying a cup of coffee and a filled baguette. In terms of the bread, it's all about high-class, stone-baked sourdough loaves made with traditional methods, plus excellent Swedish-style cinnamon and cardamom buns (£2.50).
Started in Hampstead in 2004 by some serious breadheads, Gail's has gone from strength to strength since then, opening branches in affluent pockets across the capital (South Kensington, Queen's Park, Dulwich Village, etc). The highlight of the spring season is light, fruity hot-cross buns glazed with glossy, spiced syrup (£1.20), while regulars include rectangles of seeded spelt dough (£3.20), German rye (£3.20) and white or sourdough baguettes (£1.60/1.70), each made with natural processes and ingredients. But, one of our all-time favourites is the mashed potato, rosemary and nigella seed round, which keeps for days (£3.20).
Old Post Office Bakery
Take one German psychotherapist, a disused Brixton post-office-turned-squat, and a secondhand oven, and what do you get? The Old Post Office Bakery. Started in 1982, this place was serving up organic sourdough loaves long before they became trendy. Thirty-odd years on, the Old Post Office may have moved site and upgraded its equipment, but this community-focused bread business still maintains its reputation for impressive handcrafted loaves. There's anything from Brixton Rye (£1.60) to classic tin loaves (90p-£1.90), Chelsea buns (£1.40 each, available weekends), French pastries, pizzas, and sausage or spinach rolls. The Old Post Office also sells its breads at various farmers' markets around London such as Herne Hill, Oval, Venn Street and Bloomsbury.
St John Bakery
'Bread is as vital as your knife and fork in the eating process,' according to Fergus Henderson, which goes some way to explaining why the slices in his restaurants have always been so nice. But you don't have to indulge in a slap-up meal to get your hands on Henderson's loaves. For a weekday dough fix, St John's baking is sold in the Selfridges food hall, while the St John Bermondsey bakery (72 Druid St, SE1 2HQ) opens its doors for trade on Saturday and Sunday mornings (9am until 2pm-ish). Along with tangy, brown sourdoughs (£2.79 per half loaf) and dense rye rounds (£4.99), cream and jam doughnuts are always a winner (available weekends at Druid Street).
The almond croissant in the Wolsley is possibly the best thing I have ever eaten. They add chocolate to the filling to make it taste like it is filled with a crunshy nutella... Yum!
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When I give you my own products to create bread for me and deliver it to my place would you do this? And how much i need to pay then?
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fabulous, great value, plus the grocery and butcher next door
Patisserie ste Anne , An independant french bakery just opened on kings street in hammersmith near ravenscourt park station. Really good baguette, pain au chocolat .. amazing cakes ... I stamp it with my french approval!!
Hello! ...My name is Andreea and. .... I saw the pictures and I think that u are doing a great job.My mother-in-law,the same, she is passionate about cakes.It's her way of relaxing.Everything she's doing, put the soul and devote himself to get all this wonderful crafts.Soon,on 5 March will be back in London.It is currently in the country and very much she would like to start working in a cake shop and to thank the world around her.It is a person who deserve the chance to present and demonstrate that is able and i can say with hand on my soul,she didn't disappoint anybody.She making efforts to meet the demands and wishes of all clients.So, if you are interested,just give her a chance to see some exhibits, and who knows, maybe u gonna add a new colleague in your team.I hope i haven't bored with my words and maybe with luck I will get the answer from you guys: D. Thank you!!!
Hi Frankel, Thanks for your input. I have bought bread from them a few times in the past and a few tarts.Maybe they have upped their game.I shall give them another try next week. I see the amazing improvements in UK gastronomy(we have several World Class/beating restaurants now),but cannot say the same of bakeries.
I'm a real bakery fanatic Anil, Euphorium bakery is a real find. Cant go wrong, has to be the best in london if not the Uk.
Seriously everybody should try the bread and cake stall in Brick Lane. I think it's called Saint Sugar of London and they are on Sundays in Brick Lane under the railway bridge. Their sausage rolls can change your life! Even their sweet stuff is quite impressive...
best bakery in the london area is the maids of honour in kew, been there over 100 years, ones to watch are the maids of honour cakes and the sausage rolls, however they do have new owners and i hope the standards havent slipped
I bought some posh bread from Gail's for my mum who was visiting. It was inedible, as tough as old boots and in the end I put it out for the birds. They didn't eat it either. My mum was horrified when I told her what I paid for it.
peyton & byrne's bakewell tarts were a big dissapointment ... and i love bakewell tarts!
You just cant compete with EUPHORIUM BAKERY they are head and shoulders above there nearest rivals which is great as they have just opened their flagship branch where i live in the ANGEL. Viva la british baking revolution!!!!!!!
I'm afraid I have to disagree with Clara, I've bought QPFM cakes twice and had them bought for me too and wasn't that impressed. The cupcakes were OK but the cakes that I tried all had a strange, almost undercooked texture and tasted like marge. Best cakes in London? Check out the stall on Golborne Road - mmmmmmmmm!
Best cakes in London? Try the cake stall at Queens Park Farmers' market on Sundays. The Chocolate and Guinness cake and Barbie Beetroot cake are to die for.
I used to work for Peyton & Byrne. I miss their fruit tarts & chocolate fairy cakes damn it! Working outside of the food sector is overrated ;p They don't mention it in this article, but there's another P&B between heals and habitat on Tottenham court rd. Oh & if you do stop by, say hello to the lovely lady who sells the big issue out front. Maybe even drop her a pound if you can spare it ;)
Ive been to most of the bakers above but have to say euphorium bakery is one hell of a find!!! I go thr for lunch most days and at weekends with the kids. Cant get enough of thr carrot cake simply divine...
Baker and Spice are stuck up, I go there every time I want to pay over the odds for flour and water. Gail's is mostly the same stuff but no attitude.
i would like to see you bake something with "flour and water" and see what comes up!
Where oh where is Baker and Spice??
Konditor and Cook? They remind me of the supermarket cakes back home in the States---sickly sweet. Good pick on Gail's Cookies though, they're actually great!
Asiatique Restaurant
Serving up Thai, Lao and Vietnamese cuisine, this East Sheen restaurant has something to satisfy your cravings for all things Asian. Located on Upper Richmond Road, the vibe here is cosy and casual, the menu offers up classics such as Vietnamese pho to pad prik (meat of your choice stir-fired with chilli, onion and sweet basil and noodles).


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Alex Woo's Delightful Chimpanzee Pendants Benefit the Jane Goodall Institute
Alex Woo designed these adorb pendants in honor of DisneyNature's latest movie, 'Chimpanzee.'
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New York-based jewelry designer Alex Woo has long used nature as inspiration for her delicate and lovely pieces. She's got her pieces around the necks of Rachel Bilson, Zooey Deschanel, Kelly Ripa and Kellan Lutz, to name a few celebs.
For the DisneyNature movie, Chimpanzee, she designed two pendants in honor of the documentary's protagonist, Oscar. Woo said in a press release, "As the mother of a toddler, I instantly bonded with Oscar, the adorable 3-year-old from the film. I really wanted to capture his youthful and precocious spirit, as well as his beautiful surroundings."
The pendant's composition is made of up Oscar and three vines. The vines were inspired by the Jane Goodall Institute and its mission to protect animals, people and the environment. Twenty percent of the sales of the pendants will go to the institute's conservation efforts to protect chimpanzees and their environment.
"Alex Woo created this design to benefit the Jane Goodall Institute and its mission to improve the world for all living things," said Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace in a press release. "We are extremely grateful for her support."
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The pendants come in recycled sterling silver and 14K gold. The one inch open, cut-out pendant starts at $218. the 4/5 inch sold disc pendant starts at $158. Both pendants have from 18 inch chains. You can pick up the pendants at AlexWoo.com and at specialty stores nationwide.
To learn more about DisneyNature's Chimpanzee, visit their site. If you buy your movie ticket anytime during opening week: April 20-26, Disney nature will donate to the Jane Goodall Institute. Learn more about that here.
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LYNNWOOD — Brexton Place, an intimate collection of eight homes, opens for sales this weekend.
The community is located southeast of Alderwood Mall, and is within walking distance of Whole Foods, Barnes & Noble, and other popular shops and restaurants.
"This is a phenomenal location," says Larry Sundquist, the president of Sundquist Homes, which is building Brexton Place. "We're less than five minutes from Interstate 5, then I-405 is only one exit to the north. You're at an advantage, regardless of the direction you're headed: south to Seattle, north to Everett or east to Bellevue."
Homebuyers at Brexton Place can choose from three floor plans: the Belvoir, the Ashford and the Dalton. "This is a great opportunity to purchase one of our best-selling home designs," Sundquist says.
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The kitchen includes an island, a pantry for added storage and a centralized computer desk. "It's a great space to hang out in before dinner," Sundquist says.
Upstairs are four bedrooms, plus an oversize bonus space that can be used as a media/game room.
The 2,798-square-foot Ashford design is a four-bedroom, three-bath home with a three-car garage. In addition to both formal and informal living spaces on the main level and a den off the entry, it features a main-floor guest suite with adjacent three-quarter bath. Upstairs are a master suite, three additional bedrooms and a bonus space that is accessed by French doors.
"I'm really proud of this design," Sundquist says. "It's a wider home, so we don't have the chance to build this one as often. When we do, it's a great opportunity for homebuyers. There's a wonderful sense of arrival with a large entry foyer, and a formal space on the main level that can be used as a living room or dining room, depending on how you like to entertain.
"Having a private bedroom on the first floor is perfect for anyone who needs single-level access or for out-of-town guests who want their own private space," he says.
The third design available at Brexton Place is the 2,502-square-foot Dalton plan. The three-bedroom, 2.5-bath home includes a three-car garage and covered front porch. The great-room design includes a flex room off the entry and a bonus room upstairs.
All of the homes include gas fireplaces in the family rooms, five-piece master baths with soaking tubs, and second-floor laundry rooms.
"You can move in as early as July, and you still have time to personalize your spaces to your own tastes," Sundquist says. "Brexton Place is a great address — there aren't a lot of homes this size that are being built in this area, especially at our pricing. With only eight homes available, they won't be on the market long."


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faze stay away from paint for a while go practice on some paper
nothing else to crit really
faze stay away from paint for a while go practice on some paper
nothing else to crit really
For the Evil throw contest, didn't show up for some reason so just wonderin what you guys thought about it, crits please!
I dnt like the pink. i dnt like the 'e' or 'v'
still messin around with styles
ages = work on it a bit, it looks kinda toy, no offence
evil = not bad, i would take out the eye of the I tho
sike= DOPE
rusty as fuck from the winter
First Off You Know What It Is If You Heard Drake
Making Ho's Wobble Like A Bridge In An Earthquake
Made the R a little too skinny but w.e
Sike- So sick
Faze- Not really a throwie, read the new to graff thread maybe?
Evil- I like it but the letters need more definition
Ages- Keep sketching
Eack- I like it alot, especially the R
Wallace- Sick stay up!
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KFSone- i like the evil
lose the huge circles on the bottom of your R... your A is way too wide, try making the line for the left side of it showing, but only a little bit(like right next to the R)
or don't.
it still works. Redefine the top of your R...the bottom bar(the one that extends outwards) also doesn't have to be right below it. you know what I mean? It's all squished together.
don't look at other people's throwies; in throwies is where you can be most creative. So do that shiet.
RA- yea the bottom of the R is ugly.. and like sallybsk said, the a is like huge
still tryin to get somethin goin
DirtyDozen520 Bars bars bars bars and more bars!!! Stick with block letters.
^You are fucking retarded this is a throwie thread. There shouldn't be bars in throwies. What he wants to do is maybe observe what's going on in other throwies by looking at galleries or something, and then make one thats just a bit of your own style of whateverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
rusty as fuck lol i need to clean it up
work on that R and the bottom lip of that 2nd e and it will be on a solid start. name change again aeks?
First Off You Know What It Is If You Heard Drake
Making Ho's Wobble Like A Bridge In An Earthquake
yarbles thats looking good,but your r seems a bit smooshed
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Nick Foles, QB, Arizona
Foles played in a pass-heavy offense at Arizona that at times was one of the better offenses out of the Pac-12 this season. Foles has very good accuracy from within about 20 yards. He can hit guys in stride, which of course allows them to make plays. When his feet are set, he puts good velocity behind his throws and Foles can certainly attack downfield with his strong arm. His deep range accuracy is lacking. At times, he is a bit of a chucker and sometimes, it looks like he's trying to place it. Either way, he needs to be more consistent with those big throws.
Before the snap, he makes pretty good reads and doesn't have problems checking down. He has a tendency to lock onto his first option so he'll need to learn to look off of other receivers. When Foles is pressured, his elongated release and sub-par mobility really become an issue. Given his size, you'd like to see him hang in the pocket just a bit more and keep his eyes upfield.
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I can see him going early to mid second round has good size a very strong arm they say his mechanics is in need of improvement bottom line is he will grade out low but someone you may want too keep your eye on.
BigHogs2621 12/15/11 11:11 PM
With Barkley and Jones returning for there senior year i could see Foles going in the first round and I also think the Redskins will show a lot of interest in him.
BigHogs2621 12/27/11 04:21 PM
I see him as the 4th QB gone. Reminds me of Kerry Collins
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Jim Everett-clone. Huge upside. Should go to the Browns in 2nd round to push or start over Colt McCoy.
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AVP Mary Jo Gorney-Moreno and Instructional Technologist Menko Johnson lead several sessions covering learning space design and research into learning spaces from the work they have completed over the past 2 years. Their half-day preconference session on " 21st Century Learning Spaces" was a big success and shared many of the insights they continue to generate as part of the ASC project. The following day, Gorney-Moreno and Johnson presented another session on " Driving Research in Technology and Pedagogy" which focused on their efforts to evaluate the ASC and Incubator Classroom in particular. Menko Johnson also gave a lunch-time talk on integrating technology and pedagogy during the conference. If you attended the conference and are looking for the extra materials and video, please visit : http://ic.sjsu.edu/news
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8.1.07 San José State University's AVP of Academic Technology Mary Jo Gorney-Moreno and Instructional Technologist Menko Johnson gave a presentation at Campus Technology's Roadmap to IT Leadership Conference in Washington, DC. They shared their experiences designing, implementing and evaluating this new technology enhanced learning space. If you attended the conference and are looking for the extra materials and video, please visit : http://ic.sjsu.edu/news
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8.1.07 SJSU's efforts at building innovative high-tech learning spaces were recognized by Campus Technology magazine in their August 2007 issue. Blending innovative teaching and technology tools to build student success has been the focus of San José State University's Academic Success Center. Read the article at Campus Technology's website: "2007 Campus Technology Innovators: High-Tech Learning Spaces," Campus Technology, 8/1/2007, http://campustechnology.com/articles/2007/08/2007-campus-technology-innovators-hightech-learning-spaces.aspx?sc_lang=en
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Duo combine for three of the first five points in Brevard's victory
Brevard, N.C. - Claire Dillman and Lindsay Hostetter combined for three of the seven Brevard College points in the Tornados SAC Home Opener on Sunday afternoon at the McCoy Tennis Complex as Brevard defeated the visiting Newberry Wolves, 7-2.
Dillman and Hostetter combined in doubles to record the first point for Brevard (8-5, 1-0 SAC) as they defeated Marina Ziehe and Amanda Simmons, 8-0. Ellie Bartholomew and Michelle Prata teamed up at no. 3 doubles to record the Tornados second point following their 8-3 victory, but Shannon McManus and Lindsay Kyzer put Newberry (2-9, 0-5 SAC) on the scoreboard with their 8-4 victory at the no. 2 position.
Hostetter continued her recent string of success with a 6-0, 6-0 victory at the no. 2 position to post the first point for the Tornados in singles competition. Dillman followed with a 6-2, 6-0 victory at the no. 1 spot and Labus clinched the match for Brevard with her 6-1, 6-2 win on court no. 5.
Prata followed with a 6-1, 6-1 victory on court no. 3 for Brevard. Sam Parrish recorded a point for Newberry in her singles victory at the no. 6 position, defeating Bartholomew 6-1, 6-2, and Nyman finished up the day holding off Kyzer with a 6-4, 6-1 victory.
The Tornados remain at home this week as they continue South Atlantic Conference play on Wednesday, March 23rd, as they host Lenoir-Rhyne University. Doubles between the Tornados and the Bears is scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m.
Singles competition
1. Claire Dillman (BCW) def. Marina Ziehe (NEWW) 6-2, 6-0
2. Lindsay Hostetter (BCW) def. Amanda Simmons (NEWW) 6-0, 6-0
3. Michelle Prata (BCW) def. Shannon McManus (NEWW) 6-1, 6-1
4. Jennifer Nyman (BCW) def. Lindsay Kyzer (NEWW) 6-4, 6-1
5. Elise Labus (BCW) def. Sierra Hoover (NEWW) 6-1, 6-2
6. Sam Parrish (NEWW) def. Ellie Bartholomew (BCW) 6-1, 6-2
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Baboons Can Learn Words?
Though they are credited with being intelligent, crafty, and adaptable, baboons have frequently found themselves in direct conflict with human beings.  By some, they are considered little more than vermin.
But now, researchers in France have concluded that baboons have the ability to master one of the basic elements of reading.
Even though the baboons have no linguistic skills, the monkeys in this study were able to learn how to tell the difference between sequences of letters making actual English words, and other nonsense sequences of letters.
The baboons live in a large enclosure, and they can enter testing booths whenever they want.
A microchip implanted in their arms allows the computer to identify the baboon, and launch an appropriate experiment.
Here, a touch screen presents the letters, and a food dispenser delivers a reward after a correct response. That is the noise you can hear.
This baboon is performing the experiment: touching the screen to begin a test. The animal touches the plus sign if the letters are a non-word, and the oval shape, if the letters make up a word. This baboon is making correct answers and gets a reward.
Over a period of a month- and a half, the researchers say the baboons learned to tell dozens of words apart from more than 7,000 non-words with nearly 75 percent accuracy.
The researchers in Marseille, France say their findings challenge a long-held notion that the ability to recognize words in this way is fundamentally related to language. They say it now appears that when humans read, we are partly drawing on an ancient ability, predating the evolution of our own species.
The findings are published in the April 13, 2012 edition of Science Magazine.
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Senior Rob Pannell stepped back onto the lacrosse field like he had never left. Hobart wished he had just taken a few more days to heal up.
Pannell recorded four goals and five assists in his first game since missing the final 11 games of 2012 with a broken foot and the Big Red offense scored 12 second half goals to pull away from the Statesmen 19-11 on Sunday evening at the Carrier Dome. Cornell won its season opener, while Hobart fell to 1-1.
Pannell, the 2011 national player of the year, moved into second place on the school's career points list (261), surpassing the legendary Eamon McEneaney '77 who had 256. He also joined McEneaney as the second player in school history to surpass 150 career assists, as his five helpers gave him 154. The nine points were one off a career single game best.
Pannell's return, a resurgent Steve Mock and an emerging Connor Buczek sparked the Big Red to an uneven, but resounding, victory against its regional rival. Mock matched a career high with five goals, including four finished off Pannell feeds, and Buczek scored four goals and assisted on another. The Big Red took control of the face-offs in the third after struggling in that area in the first half, winning 9-of-11 in the period as the offense started clicking. Doug Tesoriero won 14-of-23 face-offs, including six to himself.
Senior goalkeeper AJ Fiore was strong in the first half as Cornell shrugged off some dust from a long offseason, making six saves in the first 30 minutes and seven for the game to pick up the win. His defense had moments of excellence, with Jason Noble and Thomas Keith each causing three turnovers.
The Statesmen were in the game much of the night, but never could get back to even after Cornell jumped out to leads of 3-1 after one, 7-3 at the half and 10-3 midway through the third. The only tie came at 1-1, and Pannell single-handedly ended that with a pair of rocket goals to announce his presence. Pannell then added assists on a pair of goals 32 seconds apart to help the Big Red extend the lead to 7-3 at halftime.
Hobart, with a game under its belt, looked more at game speed early before Cornell was able to get its legs under them. By the time they did, it was lights out. The Big Red scored the final three goals in the span of 1:52 late in the second quarter to look more like the team it envisioned itself. They opened the second half with three goals in the first three minutes and it was all Cornell.
Except that Hobart had one last run in them. Four straight scores, including the first two of the season for Derek Akner, tightened the game to 11-8 with a little less than two minutes left in the half. Buczek answered 43 seconds later to start a 6-0 run that sealed things, making it 17-8 with 9:28 left in regulation.
Alex Love had three goals and two assists for Hobart to lead the Statesmen, while Cam Stone had two goals and an assist. Goalkeeper Peter Zonino had 10 saves in picking up his first loss of the year.
Cornell returns to action on Tuesday, Feb. 26 at 4 p.m. when it meets Binghamton at Schoellkopf Field for its home opener.


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Why Study People's Stories? The Dialogical Ethics of Narrative Analysis
Narrative analysis is presented as continuous with personal storytelling in the work of remoralizing what Weber identified as disenchanted modernity. Critics of contemporary storytelling seem to misunderstand what kind of authenticity of self is expressed in stories. Against those whom Charles Taylor calls "knockers" of the idea of personal authenticity, this article affirms authenticity, but in terms that are dialogical: authenticity is created in the process of storytelling, it is not a precondition of the telling, and authenticity remains in process. This authenticity is shown to have an affinity with democratic politics, in contrast to the neo-liberal affinity of the knocker position.


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Gestational diabetes - self-care
Gestational diabetes is high blood sugar (glucose) that happens during pregnancy. Usually there are no symptoms. But gestational diabetes may:
- Cause mild symptoms, such as increased thirst or shakiness. These symptoms are usually not life threatening to the pregnant woman.
- Cause a woman to have a larger baby. This can increase the chance of problems with the delivery.
- Cause a higher risk of high blood pressure during pregnancy.
How Is It Managed?
- A healthy diet can keep your blood sugar controlled and may keep you from needing medicine. Your doctor, nurse, or dietitian will create a diet just for you. Your health care provider may ask you to keep track of what you eat. Do not drink alcohol while you are pregnant.
- Exercise will help keep your blood sugar under control. Walking is usually the easiest type of exercise. Try walking 1 - 2 miles at a time, 3 or more times per week. Swimming or other low-impact exercises can work just as well. Ask your health care provider what type of exercise, and how much, is best for you.
- Medications can help control gestational diabetes. Most women with gestational diabetes will not need diabetes medicines or insulin.
- But if changing your diet does not control blood sugar levels, you may need oral medication (taken by mouth) or insulin therapy (shots).
Checking Your Blood Sugar
You can see how well you are doing by testing your glucose level at home.Your doctor may ask you to check your blood sugar once or more each day.
The most common way to check is by pricking your finger for a drop of blood. Then, the blood drop is placed in a monitor (testing machine). If the monitor gives you a number that is too high or too low, you will need to get your blood sugar stable.
Your health care providers will follow your blood sugar levels with you. Make sure you know what blood sugar level should be.
Visits and Tests for You and Your Baby
Your health care provider will closely check both you and your baby throughout the pregnancy. This will include:
- Visits with your doctor every week
- Ultrasounds that show the size of your baby
- A non-stress test that shows whether or not your baby is doing well
After Your Delivery
Women with gestational diabetes should be watched closely after giving birth. They should also continue to get checked at doctor's appointments for signs of diabetes.
High blood sugar (glucose) levels often go back to normal after delivery.Still, many women with gestational diabetes develop diabetes within 5 - 10 years after giving birth. The risk is greater in obese women.
When to Call the Doctor
Call your health care provider for the following diabetes-related problems:
- Your baby seems to be moving less in your belly
- Blurred vision
- More thirst than normal
- Nausea and vomiting
Landon MB, Catalano PM, Gabbe SG. Diabetes mellitus complicating pregnancy. In: Gabbe SG, Niebyl JR, Simpson JL, et al, eds. Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies. 6th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2012:chap 39.
Review Date: 8/23/2012
Reviewed By: Susan Storck, MD, FACOG, Chief, Eastside Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Bellevue, Washington; Clinical Teaching Faculty, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Washington School of Medicine. Also reviEwed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc.


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The subscription genealogy website formerly known as Footnote.com will now be called Fold3.
Ancestry.com, which acquired the site along with its parent company, iArchives, last year, is rebranding it with the new name and a new focus on military-related content.
Historical military records have always been one of the site's strengths. The name Fold3 refers to the third fold of a flag in a traditional flag-folding ceremony, which is said to represent the sacrifices of military veterans.
Military records currently on Fold3 come from the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Vietnam War and others.
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That'll be more than 3.8 million images with 130 million records. Even better, they'll be indexed by 45 fields, meaning you'll be able to search on the name, street address, county, state, parents' birthplaces and more.
The records won't be on Ancestry.com right when the census is released April 2, 2012. Ancestry.com's press release says they'll commence "streaming onto the website in mid-April 2012."
Can't wait until mid-April? The record images will be available first on the National Archives' website, but they won't be searchable right away by name. Click here to see our post about finding your ancestors' 1940 census enumeration district.
Get help with your census research—including preparing for the release of the 1940 census records—in the May 2010 Family Tree Magazine.
Visit FamilyTreeMagazine.com for tips on researching the 1940 census and our free video on how to find your ancestors in the records.
What a find! The article has so much "what was he like?" detail that I wouldn't have found elsewhere. So I wanted to share some resources from contributing editor Rick Crume's
November 2011 Family Tree Magazine cover story on researching ancestors in online newspapers.
In the article, Rick provides a chart with the essentials on 15 large online historical newspaper collections—some free, some by subscription or with society memberships, some available through libraries—including:
He also notes where the sites' collections overlap, and offers some advice on finding other, smaller collections of newspapers:
The November 2011 Family Tree Magazine also has articles on using published family histories, researching English roots, finding cultural and ethnic heritage organizations, tracing ancestors in Chicago and Portland, Ore., using Mocavo.com and more.
The issue hits newsstands next week, but you can order it now from ShopFamilyTree.com.
For even more help finding ancestors in old newspapers, check out Family Tree University's Newspaper Research 101 class.
In this blog post Aug. 11, Geni announced that free, "Non-Pro" members can no longer add new profiles to the "historical" tree (any public part of the Geni tree) or merge profiles. Free members still can add to their private trees.
Geni Pro subscribers, who pay $4.95 per month for a one-year membership, now "have full permission to add on to, edit, and merge profiles in the historical parts of the tree," according to the blog post.
Pro users also can search through all the 110 million public profiles on Geni to find relatives to add to their trees. Free members can search and find only their close relatives in the historical tree, as well as profiles they added and profiles they follow.
"Close relatives" means 4th cousins and closer, as well as third-great-grandparents and closer. In-laws are included.
"I'd like to make it clear that Basic (free) users did not lose their ability to view or edit any profiles as part of these changes," says Geni CEO Noah Tutak. "In fact, we did not change view or edit permissions at all. What we did is align permissions in the historical, public sections of the tree, beyond close relatives."
But comments on Geni's blog post are largely negative. A common theme: Many members, some of whom have added hundreds or thousands of profiles to the site, feel Geni is cutting them off (without advance notice, according to the comments) after encouraging them for years to build its historical tree.
"Losing control" of their public data strikes fear in the hearts of genealogists. They don't like to idea of others merging their ancestors without having to compare notes first. They have visions of mistaken merges and incorrect names and dates replicating themselves across the internet.
Tutak thinks Geni's changes will reduce such errors. "These changes were designed to restrict merging to a smaller group of more engaged users, with the goal of increasing data quality," Tutak says. "If a merge is made in error, the same set of tools are available now as in the past to correct mistakes. In the near future, we'll provide even more robust tools to undo merges that will make correcting these mistakes, which are extremely infrequent, even easier"
Several Pro users commented that they'll no longer be able to entice relatives—who aren't likely to purchase Pro subscriptions—to collaborate on building their family trees.
"A member with a free account can build out a large enough tree to get a good feel for the quality of Geni's tools and decide whether or not they would like to use Geni for their entire tree," says Tutak.
"The number of users contributing to the world [public] family tree is a small percentage of our overall user base, and so far we haven't seen a slowdown in the growth of the tree due to these changes."
Family tree sites have struggled for years with how to build accurate trees that are large enough to attract additional contributions—that's why we're still waiting for the trees feature on the new FamilySearch.org to be publicly available. Skewing benefits toward paying users—who, theoretically, are more heavily invested and knowledgeable—is one approach. It's also likely to anger free members. Many comments on Geni's blog predict that the site won't survive this change.
You can read genealogists' opinions on the changes at Genea-Musings and Dear Myrtle.
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Other new records come from Austria, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Panama, and the US. Note these record images aren't yet indexed, so you'll need to browse them. See the updated collections and link to them from here.
Missouri, a border state, supplied troops (nearly 110,000 to the North and 40,000 to the South) and equipment to both sides. Separate state governments represented each side during the war, and both the Union and Confederacy considered Missouri theirs.
Initially, Missouri tried to stay neutral by remaining in the Union but not contributing men or supplies. After Wilson's Creek, Union Gen. John C. Fremont imposed martial law, but the remnants of the elected government voted to secede.
The state suffered from its own internal war, in addition to the larger one. "Conflict in Missouri was characterized by savage guerilla warfare that led to the destruction of entire towns," writes Michael O. Varhola in Life in Civil War America.
Learn more about Missouri in the Civil War in Varhola's book and at the state's sesquicentennial website.
Also, the free Missouri Digital Heritage (one of our 101 Best Websites for genealogy) has a Civil War section with several collections of digitized records, newspapers and research guides that'll help you trace ancestors of the era and walk in their shoes.
See Missouri research resources at ShopFamilyTree.com here.
Get research guidance for Civil War service members from Missouri and elsewhere in our Family Tree University course Civil War Research: Find Your Ancestors in the War Between the States, with instructor Diana Crisman Smith. The next session starts Aug. 29. (You can use code FTU0811 to get 20 percent off tuition.)
A bunch of you chimed in with advice, encouragement and stories that'll benefit other overwhelmed family archivists. The gist of your advice is:
Here are some more details from your suggestions and stories. To read the full comments, go to Allison's "Organizing Grandma's Archive" blog post and click Comments at the bottom.
John Dugan birth certificate, box 1 Photo of Anderson family reunion 1930, box 1
"At some later date you might relocate everything to a better storage system," Claire adds, "but at least for now you'll know the contents of each box."
She also recommends digitizing as you go. "If you re-create the folders and boxes digitally, you'll always know the exact order they arrived in. You can then tag them or make digital copies and reorganize them according to your preference. It will make you familiar with what's there and you won't have to reorganize the actual papers. You can just store them (or toss, if needed) and work with the digital copies."
Patti's tip for labeling photos: "Take a stack, and anytime you are sitting down, write on the back the who, what, where etc. There are pens made for this that will not damage the pictures."
She separated papers from the pictures, and had some of the old photos and tintypes restored and copied. "I am copying all pictures to CDs or SD cards and having prints made to share with other family members … the originals are in safe, acid free boxes, with copies in albums."
"I have been given a huge store of pictures, which we went through with my mother to assign names, then sort by family. Each family gets theirs. Older ones are being digitized, copied and spread around so that hopefully somewhere there will be a copy. Unidentifed ones are kept together in the hope that some reunion or gathering can attach a name."
Battlefield trees like this one, still bearing scars and bullet wounds, are called Civil War witness trees. (Another kind of witness tree is found in public land states—a surveyor would blaze a tree near a section corner as evidence of the section boundaries.)
I hadn't heard the term until I read about the Gettysburg discovery, and it makes perfect sense: Eyewitnesses are long gone, but these trees stood on the battlefields when our ancestors dug trenches, reloaded guns, charged the other side, were injured and died.
Many witness trees are famous and were captured in contemporary drawings or Mathew Brady's photographs, for example:
You can see photos of these and other trees at The Bivouac website.
Sections of the Culp's Hill tree with bullets will be displayed in a museum at Gettysburg. The Gettysburg Daily blog has posts about witness trees, with lots of photos and directions for finding them.
Here are some Civil War resources from Family Tree Magazine:
It stands for Illinois Regional Archives Depository, a statewide records management system that divides the state into seven regions and helps you access genealogical records.
IRAD is just one of the Illinois resources Thomas MacEntee will introduce you to in our Illinois Genealogy Crash Course webinar, Wednesday, Sept. 21, at 7 p.m. Eastern (6 Central, 5 Mountain, 4 Pacific).
MacEntee, a Chicagoan, creator of the GeneaBloggers website, and author of the November 2011 Family Tree Magazine Chicago research guide, will cover important Illinois history, including migration patterns:
"From 1800 to 1840, many migrated to southern Illinois from Kentucky, Tennessee, the Carolinas and Virginia," he says. "After 1830, they came to central Illinois from Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The period from 1840 to 1920 saw a flow of immigrants to the Chicago area. A great migration of African-Americans from the South to Chicago and other northern cities took place from 1920 to 1970."
You'll also get information on essential Illinois records, including the marriage return, and other websites where you can do research on ancestors from the Land of Lincoln.
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- 3-4 Tablespoons green onion, chopped
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Fox News claimed that federal government policy was failing to lower unemployment by citing recent decisions made by the Federal Reserve. However, economists note that Federal Reserve action alone cannot increase employment, and federal spending must be increased to improve the economy.
Reacting to the May 2 weekly jobless claims report, Fox Business anchor Stuart Varney dismissed the 18,000 drop in initial claims to the lowest level in five years, stating that "it's a better number, but it's still not a good number." Varney went on to claim that the Federal Reserve's recent decision to continue its bond buying program was not producing expected drops in unemployment, claiming "unemployment rates are not falling the way they should when you're printing all this money." From America's Newsroom:
While Varney was quick to dismiss the government's role in strengthening the labor market by citing the Federal Reserve and the effect of current monetary policy on job creation, he completely ignored the fact that decreases in government spending have negatively impacted the economy, overlooking statements made by the Federal Reserve and the warnings of experts.
In the statement released by the Federal Reserve on May 1 outlining its future decisions regarding monetary policy, the board specifically cited that "fiscal policy is restraining economic growth."
Indeed, many analysts have been claiming that actions by the Fed are not enough to bolster economic growth, and that increased government spending -- that is, expansionary fiscal policy -- is necessary to improve current conditions.
In The Washington Post's Wonkblog, Roosevelt Institute fellow Mike Konczal explained how actions taken by the Federal Reserve have failed to counteract the negative effects of decreased government spending:
But the most important lesson to draw is that fiscal policy is incredibly important at this moment. In normal times, the broader effect of government spending, or the fiscal multiplier, is low because the central bank can offset it. But these are not normal times. It's not clear why the Federal Reserve's actions haven't balanced out fiscal austerity. But since they haven't, we should be even more confident that, as the IMF put it, "fiscal multipliers are currently high in many advanced economies."
The main point here is that while the Federal Reserve is attempting to spur economic gains through monetary policy, it simply can't do enough to counteract recent contractions in government spending. Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich echoed Konczal, stating "easy money from the Fed can't get the economy out of first gear when the rest of government is in reverse."
By only focusing monetary policy as the government's way to bolster employment and economic growth, Fox is only telling half the story -- the negative effects of decreased government spending are far too damaging to be mitigated elsewhere -- and continuing its trend of downplaying positive economic news.
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1/2 pound onions – chopped
1/3 pound carrots – grated
1 tablespoon garlic – chopped
2 tablespoons ginger – chopped
1 tablespoon safflower oil for sauteeing
1 2/3 cups red lentils – dry
5 cups strong vegetable stock
2 bay leaves, whole
1/4 cup nutritional yeast (optional)
1/4 pound red or green peppers – chopped
1 cans diced tomatoes with juice
2 tablespoons safflower oil
1 tablespoon cumin – ground
1 tablespoon coriander – ground
a pince of cayenne (or to taste)
1/4 cup lemon juice
1/2 cup fresh parsley – chopped
salt and pepper – to taste
Chop onions and grate carrots.
Mince garlic and ginger.
Heat safflower oil in a soup pot and add onions, garlic and ginger. Sauté until onions are translucent and soft.
Sort and rinse the red lentils. Using a flame tamer or on low heat, add lentils, stock and bay leaves to the soup pot.
Add the grated carrots, chopped peppers and diced tomatoes with their juice, nutritional yeast, and parsley to the soup pot. Bring soup almost to a boil, reduce heat and simmer, covered , stirring frequently until lentils are tender.
While soup is cooking, heat safflower oil in a frying pan and sauté spices gently until fragrant. If spices burn, discard and start this step over with new spices. Remove from heat.
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Hi there,
My apologies if my first ever BT forum post is a bit of a 'noob' / RTFM type, but here goes:
When using KPackageKit to check for updates, etc. I have no qualms selecting any 'security' updates that come from the BackTrack repository, but as to 'updates' that are sourced from Ubuntu repositories, etc. I'm not sure what the deal is.
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He really doesnt like Galbraith.......
Im gona come at you like a SPIDERMONKEY.....you hear that a SPIDERMONKEY
Hope he keeps racking up the wins, good to see some personality in Scottish mma. He better hope he doesn't accidentally find himself in the colosseum of a night though or he'll see the gladiator unleash hell.
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Would like to see Taylor vs Galbraith, that would be a cool fight
Would be a cool fight, cant imagine it happening tho as they are in different weight classes.
Im gona come at you like a SPIDERMONKEY.....you hear that a SPIDERMONKEY
yeah i think galbraiths a LW and think Shauns at WW, maybe a catchweight would be cool
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How Mexico's Cartels Are Behind the Border Kid Crisis
NOGALES, Mexico — Father Ricardo Machuca strides back and forth between six long, metal picnic tables packed with men and women as volunteers pass out plates piled high with corn, beans, rice and pork rinds. Clutching a microphone and wearing jeans, a white tunic, sandals and a messenger bag, Machuca looks more like a bohemian motivational speaker than a Jesuit priest.
Don't accept offers from strangers who want to help you cross, he warns his audience in Spanish as they quietly dig into their meals. Crossing with coyotes is human trafficking and it's "un delito federal," he says. A federal offense.
In recent years, warnings about who to avoid on the streets of Nogales have become a key part of Machuca's advice to those who pass through the binational Kino Border Initiative's migrant outreach center. Better known as the Comedor, meaning "soup kitchen" in Spanish, the center has been offering hot meals, first aid, clean clothing, and spiritual guidance to migrants since 2009. Someone offering to help wire money could rob you, Machuca tells the migrants. Or a stranger willing to let you use their cellphone to call your family might save their number and use it to extort them later.
"The vulnerability is very high here on the border," Father Sean Carroll, Machuca's American counterpart, tells me as an assembly line of volunteers rushes hot plates from the kitchen to the tables. "They want to contract the migrants to try to cross again."
Carroll is referring to Mexican drugs cartels, along with the smugglers hired by the cartels to recruit desperate migrants looking for a way back into the United States. Over the past decade, after long existing side by side with coyotes, the cartels decided to get in on the action. Now, they've turning what was once a relatively informal and somewhat familial underground operation into a highly sophisticated human trafficking network.
While the journey north was always treacherous and costly, in the hands of the cartels it has become deadlier than ever. The entire border, and the routes leading up to it, are controlled by some combination of the Los Zetas, Sinaloa and Knights of Templar cartels, along with a few smaller groups—making it impossible to cross without their permission. And their permission will cost you. Where migrants may have once paid a single person from their hometown $300 to $500 to guide them across, the initial going rate to cross the cartel-occupied border can range between $3,000 and $6,000 per person, the price varying depending on the age, gender, and origin of the migrant. Most people can't afford that much up front, so family members in the States will often wire money to the smugglers, or pay in installments along the way.
Under the cartel-run migration model, migrants typically make arrangements to cross from their hometowns and are told to find their own way to a certain point where they will meet the coyote. The city of Altar, for example, about 112 miles from Nogales in the Mexican state of Sonora, is a popular launching point for border crossers, and as such, it has become a center of immigration commerce. Here, smugglers often tell migrants to wait for days before they cross, during which time they are nickel-and-dimed into buying stealth desert-crossing gear—camouflage backpacks, black water bottles, and carpet booties—from vendors who set up shop around town.
For those coming from Central America, just getting to a meeting place like Altar often means riding buses or atop freight trains from southern Mexico where they may be subjected to robbery, beatings, and getting thrown off the train by cartel lackeys. Those who make it will continue to encounter crippling fees at practically every leg of their journey to the border. Refusal or inability to pay may result in migrants being forced to carry backpacks filled with marijuana, getting kidnapped in order to extort money from their families, or being murdered on the spot. Last year, Zetas leader Miguel Angel Trevino Morales was captured by Mexican Marines and charged with ordering the kidnapping and murder of 265 migrants. For female migrants, there is always a good chance they could be raped along the way, either by their guide or one of the stray predators who stalk the desert.
It's almost impossible to separate the cartels' migration takeover from the security crackdown on the U.S.-Mexico border. In the 13 years since U.S. Border Patrol became a part of the post-9/11 Department of Homeland Security and adopted the mission of keeping terrorists out of the country, the Southwest border has been transformed into a militarized zone, with nearly 700 miles of varying degrees of steel fencing, 21,000 Border Patrol agents, security cameras and ground sensors, with more high-tech surveillance on the way. Some combination of this beefed-up security, a George W. Bush-era policy of jailing and formally deporting all illegal border crossers, plus the U.S.' weakened housing and job markets, brought the net flow of migration from Mexico to a standstill in 2011. While traffic over the border has slowed, those still crossing have been funnelled into the roughest corners of the desert, where human predators are only part of the danger.
To avoid areas where Border Patrol agents are most highly concentrated, migrants must take longer routes through Mexico, often walking for days through the blistering heat and unpaved and often mountainous desert terrain, dodging rattlesnakes, yellow jackets and cacti, before they even reach the international line. It's physically impossible to carry the amount of water needed for more than a few days in the desert.
To coyotes getting paid for each person who successfully makes it over, it's not worth the risk of stalling the whole group to stop and care for someone who is hurt or sick. More often than not, those who can't keep up will be left to die in the desert. Even as the number of illegal crossers apprehended at the border has reached all-time lows, more people are dying than ever. According to a report by the human-rights group the Washington Office on Latin America, 463 migrants died in fiscal year 2012. The last time that there were more deaths was in 2005, when 492 migrants died. But the pool of people crossing over was much larger—that year, Border Patrol apprehended three times as many people as in 2012.
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