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2 ½ tablespoons flour
2/3 cup cane/natural sugar
1/3 cup locust powder
2 ½ cups coconut milk
2 egg yolks – beat – (set egg whites aside)
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Combine flour, sugar, locust powder and milk. Stir and cook over double boiler (over boiling water).
Stir constantly, add beaten egg yolk, and continue to cook until it thickens.
Now whip egg white, add salt and then fold together into the mix – set to cook. Put in freezer trays or bowl until frozen.
Serve in tall glasses. Top with whipped cream, ground chocolate, or fresh fruit.
Recipe by Chef Tahirah Abu-Bakr

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Comic readers and fans of unverified gossip were stunned this morning by a new article at Bleeding Cool. Titled "The Top Five Batman Villains of All-Time?", the piece lacked news, gossip, rumor, snark, or any other meaningful content. Instead, it seemingly exists only to act as click bait.
Although the segment's byline indicates it was written by Brandon Engel, sources confirm it was posted by recently-appointed Editor-In-Chief Hannah Means-Shannon. At this hour, speculation is running rampant that this is proof of Shannon's secret plans for the Newsaramafication of Bleeding Cool. Indeed, in the Bleeding Cool forums, one regular user, identified only as Matt Krotzer, asks "Did I somehow end up at Newsarama?"
We reached out to 52-year old comic book fan Herbert R. Kellenberger for a quote. Mr. Kellenberger had this to say: "The only Blogs I read are Bleeding Cool and The Beat, but The Beat hates white men, and then they started doing those stupid Gawker-style headlines. Now Bleeding Cool is doing the same thing. If Bleeding Cool starts hating white men, too, I don't know what I'll do. Probably have to stop reading comics. Or at least threaten to. Or maybe just stop reading comic Blogs, and sign up for Match.com or something. Do they have cosplay pictures on there?"
Sources inside Bleeding Cool, who wish to remain unidentified, confirmed that planned follow-up articles include "Top Five Rob Liefeld Pouches", "Top Ten Reasons Kelly Sue DeConnick Should Relaunch Captain Marvel Again", "DC Comics Rebooted Their Continuity, And What Happened Next Will Underwhelm You", and "Ron Marz's Top Five Political Tweets". The unidentified source then said, "Oi, governor. Make bloody sure you don't tell them it came from me, wot? There's a good chap."
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Reviewer: Alan Chin
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
Pages: 187
Dave Brandstetter is an insurance company investigator in charge of looking into difficult claims. When radio personality Fox Olson's convertible plunges off a mountain road into a river, Brandstetter is called in to determine why nobody can find the body. Was it an accident? Suicide? Murder? Or is Fox alive and in hiding? And how does all this relate to the sudden reappearance of Olson's war buddy.
Brandstetter has his own demons to fight. He has recently lost his lover, and this is his first case after coming back onto the job after a number of months off to get over what he can't get over.
Olson lived in a small western town, one where everyone seemed to love him, and also where everyone has secrets. Brandstetter must expose all those secrets in order to uncover the truth and solve the case.
In 1972 Joseph Hansen published the first of what would grow to twenty-five novels, twelve of which feature Dave Brandstetter as the hard edged, openly gay, thinking man's investigator. Brandstetter was not the first gay sleuth, but he was the first healthy, gay detective that was utterly comfortable with his sexuality. He is as real a person as a novel character can be.
The writing and pacing are superb. Hansen has been compared to Hammett, Ross MacDonald, and Chandler, and for good reasons. Although there are some plot twists that are obvious, there are plenty of surprises that keep the reader guessing to the last few pages.
It is a moving, interesting, sure-handed book on every level.
After four decades, every aspect of this story and the writing holds up. Hansen's work is destined to be deemed classic. This is a story I can highly recommend to all readers who enjoy a good mystery.


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|Ringed Plover at Landguard
Elmley on the way home gave good views of Marsh Harriers, Curlews and Lapwing but little else of note.
|Marsh Harrier at Elmley
This morning I headed up the A12 with the Jims stopping first at Landguard where it was quiet on the migrant front with a few Chiffchaffs and lot's of Linnets the exception. Six Ringed Plover entertained me before we made it to the point. Lot's of Gulls and Gannets followed the massive cargo ships into the port but we had a surprise encounter when I picked out a Pomarine Skua steaming north.
We dipped out on the Iken Cattle Egret on our way up to Minsmere but managed to find a Bittern for the Jims from the Bittern Hide and had some terrific views of displaying Marsh Harriers from both Bittern and Island Mere. An Adder sat out for a while but eventually moved out of the wind and into cover.
|Marsh Harrier from Island Mere at Minsmere
|Ringed Plover
Year list now 177
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" Numquam est tam male Siculis,
qui aliquis facete et commode dicant......".
qui aliquis facete et commode dicant......".
My grandfather Giuseppe Muscarà was born January 2, 1874 at 3 in the afternoon; his parents were Don Gaetano Muscarà and Donna Angela Natoli. The witnesses for the birth were Pasquale Fuso, contadino age 34, and Michele Salpietro (son of Felice), age 53 contadino. The mayor at that time was Fortunato Gugliotta. The official documents that I read categorize Giuseppe, Angela, and Gaetano as Industrioso or Civile, this terminology indicated that they were part of the upper class (the social classifications were clearly stated in all official documents). The family, at the time of grandpa's birth, lived in the neighborhood of Librizzi called Porta Patti.
Great grandpa don Gaetano Muscarà, died when his son was only three years old. After Gaetano's death, great grandma Angela married don Giovanni Muscarà, brother of Gaetano.
Grandpa Giuseppe, known as don Pippinu, married Catena (Maria) Rottino, daughter of Filippo Rottino and donna Teresa Marziano. The Banns of marriage for Giuseppe and Catena were posted March 21, 1896. The witnesses for the Banns were Giuseppe Capitti, age 29, and Giuseppe Palino, age 27, calzolaio. Grandpa and grandma were married on March 22, 1896. Once again the witnesses for the wedding were Giuseppe Capitti and Giuseppe Palino.
Maria Catena Rottino, age 68 or 69
My grandparents had the following children:
1. Antonino Muscarà. My father was named for his paternal great grandpa don Antonino Marziano.
2. Giovanni Salvatore Natalino Muscarà.
3. Filippo Muscarà. He was named for his maternal grandfather.
4. Gaetano Muscarà. He was named for his grandfather.
5. Angela Muscarà. Angela was named for her grandma donna Angela Natoli.
6. Francesco (Ciccino) Muscarà. He was named for his great grandfather Francesco Muscarà.
7. Teresa Muscarà. She was named for her maternal grandma donna Teresa Marziano.
8. Eufrasina (Frasina) Muscarà. She was a redhead just like grandpa.
9. Carmela Muscarà. She was named for grandpa's sister.
Grandpa had a brother and a sister. I was unaware that he had any siblings until a few years ago when I started to research my family tree. I left Italy when I was very young and, to my recollection, I was not aware that he had siblings. Grandpa's sister was Carmela Muscarà, she was born on September 21, 1871 and died on September 29, 1883. At the time of her death Carmela was only 13 years old. Grandpa named his first daughter Carmela in remembrance of his sister. His brother was Francesco Muscarà, born in 1877. He married Anna Finocchiaro in 1907.
Giuseppe Muscarà was a descendant of Greeks colonists, a Siceliot (Siceliot refers to Greek Colonists of Sicily and their descendants). I base the conclusion that the Muscarà name is of Siceliot origin on the results of my research on the history of Librizzi, the consistent naming of family members with names of Greek origin, and the fact that the surname Muscarà is derived from a Greek word meaning "owners of calves". Through the Census records, I have been able to establish a direct Muscarà ancestry starting with the early 1400s. The records show that the Muscarà owned large estates of land and homes, in the areas of Librizzi called Feu, Spinello, Fossa, Pantano, Pianoforno, Vallone Vina, Nasidi, etc. The documents also record age, sex, occupations, honorary titles and educational titles of the people living in the household of the person declaring the Census information. The documents are signed by the head of the household if he or she could write and also by the census taker. If the declarant could not write, that information was annotated as well. All of the Muscarà documents are signed by the head of the household. Most of the male Muscarà were referred to as Dottore. In the early centuries the title of Doctor did not mean medical doctor but doctor of philosophy, law, etc.
First page of a Census record of one of my ancestors il Dottor Gianmatteo Muscarà
Last page of the same document signed by il Dottor Gianmatteo Muscarà
The estate at the Feu is located in the area of the Colla (Codda), it abuts the river Timeto. When I was a child, the Feu (Sicilian for fiefdom) was one of the places that I often visited with grandpa. He used to go to the Feu to talk with the overseer of the Feu and to visit with the people who formerly were tenant farmers on his estate. They were descendants of serfs and later tenant farmers who for centuries had been part of the Muscarà estates. In the 1940s the former Muscarà tenants still lived in the same ancestral homes on grandpa's land, even though the tenants no longer were part of the Feu. My great grandfather and my grandfather felt a responsibility toward these people and allowed them to live rent free (as far as I know) in their usual homes.
River Timeto
Photo by Carmelo Rifici
In early 1800s the Sicilian Parliament outlawed feudal privileges, and by the end of the Risorgimento, the War for the Unification of Italy, former feudal lands were arbitrarily confiscated. When Garibaldi and his Redshirts (also known as the Thousand Men), predominantly Piemontese, landed in Sicily, Garibaldi actively recruited Sicilian volunteers to fight for his cause. He did this by appealing to the peasants, promising them the division of large estates and giving them "free land" if they joined the fight. In addition if they died their family would get the promised "free land". At the same time Garibaldi was giving 'assurances' to the landowners that their estates would not be broken up if they supported his cause. It was a time when Sicilians wanted to get rid of the Bourbon regime and Garibaldi also promised to free the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies from the Bourbon State of Naples and Sicily.
The Bourbons were driven out but now Sicily was controlled by the Piemontese government. The new regime confiscated the National Bank (and five million ducats from the Palermo mint) whose assets dwarfed those of Piedmont. Most of the landholdings by the Church were confiscated by the new government, and with them numerous schools which were then closed. Most Sicilian schools had been administered by the monastic orders and were not substituted by state institutions. This meant that illiteracy became widespread with the poorer class. The promise made to the large landowners was not kept and large tracts of land were confiscated and parceled out to the peasants. Many peasants immediately sold the free land for paltry sums to a new moneyed middle class, but now they did not have a padrone to give them work and protect them. So the poor got poorer and the landowners were impoverished.
The societal changes in Sicily brought about by the War for the Unification of Italy are very well described by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa in his novel Il Gattopardo, The Leopard in English. The 1963 film The Leopard directed by Luchino Visconti and featuring Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon is based on Lampedusa's novel. The novel is an accurate account of what happened historically and it reflects pretty much my family's story.
The Muscarà family was tremendously affected by the land reforms of 1812 and especially by the confiscation of land during and after the Risorgimento. My family lost huge tracts of land at the Feu, nearby Spinello, at the Fossa, at the Pantano, etc., land that had belonged to the Muscarà for centuries. The Riveli di Bene e di Anime (Census records) clearly show that the Feu had been in the family at least from the early ,1500s hundreds. In addition to the Feu other locations for the Muscarà land and houses are mentioned in the earliest available Census records, not only in other sections of Librizzi but also in the towns of Montagnareale, Patti, Nohara (today's Novara di Sicilia), Sant'Angelo di Brolo, and Raccuia. Many of the properties mentioned in those early records were still owned by my family when I was a child, particularly land and houses in the areas of the Feu, Pianoforno, Fossa, Pantano, and Librizzi center. In fact even today's Muscarà descendants including myself have land at the Pantano, Fossa, and Pianoforno, and perhaps at the Feu as well. In addition part of grandpa's ancestral house is still owned by our family although it is abandoned, crumbling and in disrepair, a mere shell of the former edifices. When I look at the building it makes me think of a derelict who once had been a noble prince!
Grandfather don Pippinu was caught between two worlds, the feudal and privileged one of his ancestors and a new social order that turned the old world upside down. His world was an inheritance already fading away, the values and expectations of a moribund social elite were no longer relevant or possible. From his birth to his death, Grandpa actually watched his own world dying. I am sure that grandpa would identify with don Fabrizio the main character of Lampedusa's The Leopard. At one point don Fabrizio says "I am a member of the old ruling class…. I belong to an unfortunate generation, swung between the old world and the new, and I find myself ill at ease in both. And what is more, as you must have realized by now, I am without illusions…. We of our generation must draw aside and watch the capers and somersaults of the young around this ornate catafalque."
Grandpa was the Pater Familias of the Muscarà and responsible for their well being and economic sustenance. The ancestral estates provided not only the land but the manpower to work the land. With the loss of feudal rights and the diminished landholdings he was also left without the manpower to maintain the former established way of life. He needed to adjust to a new world but it was very difficult for a man who lived almost 96 years. As grandpa's liquid assets diminished, he started selling his houses and land piece by piece, and when the funds from the sale of his estates ran out he sold another house or another piece of land. Trying to adapt to the 'new world" and having to make a living he opened a food store – macelleria - tavern, in fact he turned part of his house into his business venue. Of course the remaining land was still cultivated by people that he hired and it yielded wine, olive oil, fruit, wheat, etc. for personal use. The land was also the source of the hazelnuts family business, in fact the cultivation of the hazelnuts (not just by the Muscarà but by other families as well) was the town's biggest agricultural enterprise. I have been told by old timers that large amounts of these nuts were purchased by the Perugina Chocolate Factory to make their best known treats called Baci (Kisses). Baci are truffles made with milk chocolate, hazelnuts, and nougat, and then bathed in inky black dark chocolate. Pure heaven!
Grandpa must have felt the conflict between the love of his own past and his appreciation for the possibilities of the newly unified Italy. I never heard grandpa talk about the past nor complain about life's hardships in a changing world. In addition to the complications of the Risorgimento, during his lifetime he also had to deal with other historical life changing events such as the First and Second World Wars. Yet I saw a positive and fun person who took the time out to spoil me, a person who was very proud to be an Italian. One vivid memory of grandpa is that he always wore the Italian colors on his lapel. Although grandpa never spoke to me of our ancestry, perhaps because I was just a child and left Italy soon after WWII, he did make my cousins and family aware of the Muscarà history. I was absolutely surprised when in 2003, during a visit to Librizzi, I commented to a couple of cousins of my research about our ancestors, the famous Muscarà that I discovered, and that our coat of arms is found inside the church of Maria SS della Catena. They looked at me as if I had come down from Mars and said "Yes we know, grandpa told us about our family history". In fact I found out that the town of Librizzi considers one of our ancestor don Andrea Muscarà as one of her three illustrious sons. I find it ironic that I spent years researching my family when MY FAMILY was well aware of the Muscarà history; my family just accepted our historical roots and never bragged about it. I was the one who was uprooted and trying to fit in a new country. I was the one who grew up without knowing about the ancestral roots and I was the one who truly needed to feel rooted in my ancestry!
As I mentioned above, I used to visit the Feu with my beloved redheaded grandpa (Yes, grandpa had beautiful red hair.) who would hop on one of his horses, sit me in front of him and gallop away to the Feu. Upon arrival at the Feu I was always treated to goodies by the former tenants and by grandpa's friends who lived at the Colla, having a sweet tooth I always looked forward to the visits. Another fun part of the trip was the crossing of the River Timeto in order to get to the Feu itself. This was done on foot because during the summer the river would dry up and we could cross the river by stepping on the strategically placed river stones. Interestingly while researching the history of Librizzi I discovered that at one time the Timeto had been navigable! The land along the river was fertile, there were vineyards, orange and lemon groves, olive groves, and acres and acres of "golden fields". Wheat was grown in the area and it was quite a beautiful sight to see the fields of golden wheat spikes dotted with beautiful red papaveri, poppies.
I loved my grandpa and he loved me. Apparently I reminded him of his wife who passed away when I was 7 years old, and therefore he doted on me, so I was told, more than he did for his other grandchildren. Actually my opinion is that he was able to spend more time with me because by the time that I was born he was an older gentleman and had plenty of time to chase me around the piazza, or read the newspaper to me, or take me on his horse to visit his land, etc. I remember that I was very mischievous and that I would run all over town with him chasing me, I ran with abandon in an effort to outrun him. I am sure that it was grandpa's plan not to catch me but, of course, I was too young to realize that it was all part of the game. I thought that I was the one in charge! The times spent with grandpa are happy memories for me. I felt free, loved, and very happy. He did not forget me when I came to the United States, he often wrote to me and it was obvious that he missed me tremendously. When my husband and I were married, grandpa wrote to me a lovely congratulatory note. I still have the treasured note written by the trembling hand of an 89 year old man.
Grandpa had a daily routine. First of all, on most days he walked for 5 or 6 miles, just for the fun of it. He did this until the year before his death at the age of 96 minus a month. Invariably his lunch consisted of two fried eggs, bread, and a glass of wine. He always had a newspaper nearby to read silently to himself, or aloud to me. Another item that he kept close to him for daily reading was a Bible. This was unusual since the Librizzi men of his generation seldom went to church, they expected their wives and daughters to go to church and pray for them! However many of our ancestors had been priests since our family followed the historical custom of designating the second or third son to the priesthood, perhaps grandpa was influenced by the traditional family piety.
After lunch and the usual siesta, grandpa used to sit on his balcony and chat with a man across the street whose balcony was directly across grandpa's. Grandpa's friend was a very old man who even in the heat of the Librizzi August summers, would sit on the balcony covered with blankets! I was fascinated with this old man who wanted to live a little longer so that he could reach his 100th birthday! His dream almost came true but not quite, he died just before his 100th birthday! In my adult life I frequently thought of this man and wondered who he was, I finally discovered his identity this past June of 2009. He was don Achille Marziano a renown mayor of the town, and grandpa's first cousin! Finding out that the 'old man' was actually one of my ancestors was a pleasant surprise. For years I had known about the celebrated mayor don Achille Marziano from the book "Memorie di ieri e dell'altro ieri" that his son Marco Marziano wrote and dedicated to his dad. I also 'knew' him from reading the town's records and from reading the book "Librizzi" written by Antonino D'Amico.
The book written by Marco Marziano is very interesting because it is a collection of remembrances of Librizzesi who are eighty or older. The first story in the book is actually Marco's own memories about "a summer night of many years ago". It takes place during the Second World War and three of the people featured in the story are Andrea, Giuseppe, and Gennaro Muscarà, my dad's first cousins and accomplished musicians.
The story that is of interest in regard to the events of the Risorgimento and the Mayor Achille Marziano is the one titled 'Il Garibaldino', his name was Cono Pizzino. The date was February 6, 1935 and the Garibaldino's coffin was being brought to the church for the burial rites. When the Podestà of the town asked whose funeral it was he discovered that it was the Garibaldino's. The Podestà immediately asked the family to wait for him in church. In less than an hour a platoon of the MVSN was presenting arms in front of the altar in the church, a band was playing a funeral march, and the Italian flag was being carried in front of the procession. The Podestà explained that it was his duty to render homage to a patriot who fought for the Unity of Italy. Cono Pizzino had been 18 years old when he joined Garibaldi's army of volunteers. Cono was not a Librizzese, he came to live in Librizzi to get away from the town that did not appreciate his contributions to the War. On the other hand Librizzi appreciated and honored their three volunteers who had joined the Garibaldi army, and had been rewarded by the mayor of Librizzi, as ordered by the new State, with plots of land! The mayor who awarded the land was cousin don Achille Marziano, the little old man who was the object of my fascination.
There is one memory about grandpa that is of special importance to me, it took place during the Second World War. It occurred at the time of the invasion of Sicily and the Allied soldiers were conducting warfare against the Germans in the area of the Colla. The Colla is located at a crossroads at the foot of historical Librizzi, one road led to the center of Librizzi the other one was a major road that connected Messina, Catania, and other large cities . The rumors and stories of Allied soldiers molesting the women and children on their path were consistent and frightening. As their march got closer to the Colla, the town's residents went into hiding in isolated parts of the nearby mountains. Grandpa started to evacuate his little grandchildren, especially the females, then the other children and adults (basically women and old men) into the remote and less accessible areas of our land or to friends' summer homes in the mountains. The first grandchildren that he brought to the mountains were me and my little brother Pippo, he placed us on his horse and furiously galloped away. It was an exhilarating flight with the wind caressing my face and the speed of the flying horse to add the element of reckless excitement. Besides, I was with my grandpa. I was three and a half years old at that time. He brought us to the home of a friend where others from the town had already arrived. He left us there to go back and get the next batch of grandchildren. My family and I were separated for a day or two as it took a while to figure out which grandchild was left where. Eventually grandpa and my mom found us and brought us to where the rest of the family was taking refuge, we arrived to the other location in the middle of the night. The children were bedded down inside the house and the adults were sleeping outside. I did not wish to be away from mom and I went out looking for her. Walking over or around the adults sleeping under the moon I finally found my mother, grandmother, and aunts. That night and subsequent nights I slept outside with the adults. It was a magical time for a little girl, I was reunited with my mother, the warm nights were clear and the night sky was full of twinkling jewels. I was content and fearless. It was a peaceful break from the very chaotic and frightening bombing of bridges in the Colla area, town of Patti, and other nearby locations. I do not know how long we remained hidden in the mountains but eventually we returned to the town where the old men, including my grandfather, had gone back to immediately after the evacuation. Once their families were in a safe place the man were prepared to guard their homes and businesses. Grandpa was 69 years old.
Grandpa, age 94 or 95
Grandpa always wore a beret
I own a tiny part of the centuries old compound of houses that used to be the Muscarà residences. For some reason my heart is tied to the past and to the part of the house where during my childhood my grandparents lived, and where my father and his siblings were born and grew up. No, I am not emotionally ready to let go of the 'house' and so here are a few more comments and remembrances about the house.
Portico Muscara' with a brief view of the inner court
One of the doors inside the courtyard where the horses were kept
These are my remembrances of grandpa's house: To access the house from the lower level on Via San Michele, one had to go through the East entrance which was protected by a huge wrought iron gate, this entrance led to a covered area and from there one exited into the inner court. The gate was decorated with a design which I assume was the family stemma (crest). The sheltered area and the open court, known as the cortile, is where the horses were kept. The open court was formed by connecting buildings which faced East, West, North, and South. During my childhood the East and West wings of this courtyard were still owned by grandpa and the other two opposite wings had been sold. I remember being told that for centuries the whole compound had belonged to the Muscarà family. This assertion is supported by the Census documents that I read as they record the houses that made up this compound and give the names of specific Muscarà ancestors who lived there as well as names of the neighbors (the neighbors were all Muscarà related). The documents locate this compound in the area called Il Belvedere. To my knowledge, today there is no specific place in Librizzi called Il Belvedere, rather Il Belvedere today refers to any place from where there is a spectacular view. It so happens that the upper level of the compound was located on Via San Biaggio a few feet from the piazza, from this location there is a spectacular view of the Aeolian Islands and the Tyrrhenian Sea! I really am not sure if the Muscarà Belvedere refers to the location of grandpa's house by the piazza or if centuries ago there was another Muscarà compound. Perhaps the early Muscarà lived in the oldest section of Librizzi by the Chiesa Matrice, where indeed there is a spectacular view of the River Timeto, the Gulf of Patti, the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Aeolian Islands, several towns, spectacular mountains to the East which came alive at sunrise, ….
I have always wondered why Grandma and my aunts Teresa and Frasina lived on the East Wing of the cortile while Grandpa lived on the West Wing across the cortile. The West wing had one entrance in the courtyard of the lower level and another entrance on the third floor level which was on Via San Biaggio near the Piazza Catena. The third floor of the West wing is where grandpa had his store-macelleria-taverna. Above the store there was a fourth level of the West Wing, the forth level and the level below the store (second level) were grandpa's living quarters. By the time that I left Librizzi the store was no longer in operation, and when I visited Librizzi in the 1970s that third level had been returned to the original living quarters. After his death at the age of 96 minus a month, the East Wing had been sold and the two unmarried aunts Teresa and Frasina lived in the West wing.
In 2008 I learned a little more about my grandpa from a newly found cousin who is the daughter of my mom's uncle and his wife C.B. CB. is 94 or 95 years old but her memory is phenomenal. She remembers grandpa don Peppinu very well. She says that grandpa, Angelo Calabrese (my mother's grandfather), and Filippo Palino, nicknamed "Passuluni" (husband of grandma's sister Antonina Rottino) used to be friends. The three of them used to meet in the piazza where they spent hours chatting. Apparently one favorite topic was taxes. When the bills for the taxes arrived Angelo used to complain bitterly, but grandpa don Peppinu instead of complaining would face the church in the piazza and addressing himself to the Madonna, he would let her know what he thought of her!
CB says that grandpa was impetuous, had a great sense of humor, loved to talk incessantly, .... She also says that grandma Rottino used to keep him in line, and knew how to keep grandpa from getting 'too excited' about things. CB also says that grandpa Peppino was a hard working man. I asked CB what grandpa's nickname was and she said that it was 'don Peppinu Chicentra'. The nickname could be derived from the expression 'Chi centra?', 'what does it have to do with anything?' Or the word 'centra', which is derived from the Greek word 'centron' means "punta, grosso chiodo, or spranga di ferro". These words all suggest a pointed object and strength. Was his nickname a reference about his personality or character? Did it refer to his strength, being honest, "calling a spade a spade"? Was it about his favorite saying "Chi centra"? I do not know.
Grandma and grandpa continued to be a presence in my life long after their death. Starting at the time of grandma Rottino's death (when I was seven years old) and ending about ten years ago, I had frequent dreams of both grandparents. Unfortunately when grandma came into my dreams, they were always scary and nightmarish (My life started to feel the consequences of my father's two years spent in the German concentration camps around the time that grandma passed away. I associated grandma's death with the sad moments of my young life.). However, when I dreamt of grandpa they were good dreams. I used to dream of grandpa anytime that painful events were occurring in my life, and no matter how chaotic my real life was, grandpa used to come to my rescue through my dreams. He used to take care of me in my dreams and he would not let harm come to me. I am convinced that the calming dreams of grandpa kept me sane when my real world was too much to bear. Factual or not, possible or impossible, grandpa was and is my Guardian Angel.
My beloved grandpa don Pippinu was and is my Angel and my hero.
May he rest in peace together with his beloved wife, my grandmother.
Dorme l'angelo
Su rose d'aria, candido,
sul fianco,
a bacio del grembo
le belle mani in croce.
La mia voce lo desta
E mi sorride,
sparsa di polline
la guancia che posava.
Canta; m'assale il cuore,
opaco cielo d'alba.
L'angelo è mio;
Io lo posseggo: gelido.
Salvatore Quasimodo, "Oboe sommerso"


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Alabama is currently blocking defensive back Maurice Smith from attending Georgia as a graduate transfer
Alabama is currently blocking defensive back Maurice Smith from attending Georgia as a graduate transfer, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Smith, a Houston native, will graduate from Alabama on Saturday, making him eligible to play immediately at another school. He has made it clear that he wants to play for Kirby Smart at Georgia, but must be granted his release from Alabama first.
Smith's mother, Samyra Smith, drove to Alabama from Houston on Tuesday to discuss the issue with Alabama coach Nick Saban in person.
"The university is continuing to be resistant to any request to release my son. That's where we are," Samyra Smith said. "In (Saban's) mind, the best decision is for him to stay here. And he doesn't think anything other than that is best for the kid."
• Ohio State leads AP's all-time Top 100 rankings
According to Samyra Smith, the family has already gone through an appeal, hearing and a written request for his release.
Smart and Georgia defensive coordinator Mel Tucker both worked with Smith as coaches at Alabama last season.
Smith recorded 15 tackles and a sack last season and saw time as the first-string nickelback this spring.


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Designed exclusively by Bibi Design, these beautiful gift tags are designed and produced for yourself or as a beautiful gift.
6 x gift tags with 'leaf' design on one side printed on white 220gsm card, blank of the other. Each tag is a different design with 3mm black double sided ribbon.
Dimensions: 4.6cm x 7cm. Packaged in a cellophane protective wrapper.
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Here's Noel talking about the Premium a…
Here's Noel talking about the Premium and Free theme P2. A great perspective with GPL undertones.
Here's Noel talking about the Premium and Free theme P2. A great perspective with GPL undertones.
A Theme is a Way of Life.
A short video clip of Noel Jackson's awesome talk.
Thanks to all of the feedback, both positive and negative, regarding the first WordCamp Columbus. With all of your input and hopefully parcipitation in planning the next one, WordCamp Columbus 2 will be even better.
I'll add more as I find them
WordCamp Columbus schedule is now online: http://snipurl.com/ht90c
Kim Parsell is discussing. Toggle Comments
Thanks! Grabbed a copy and have it printed down. Looking it over now.
T-shirts are ordered! Sorry, but we can't guarantee shirts for new ticket purchasers. 😦
Six days left. Hard to believe it's almost here. All of this accomplished from a single tweet.
Need to plan a meeting with volunteers to ensure we have the resources to pull off and extremely efficient and killer WordCamp. Thanks to the volunteers I don't foresee and issue. 🙂
Putting Final Tweaks on the WordCamp Columbus Schedule. We have a great lineup. Everyone is going to learn something.
Here's what Noel has to say about P2! http://jcksn.com/2009/05/06/p2-is-the-future/
webreview2 is discussing. Toggle Comments
Sweet! P2 is optimized for the iPhone. I'm posting this from it right now. And on the front page.
wyliemac and stopcrimeorg are discussing. Toggle Comments


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Staff Resources
AESOP - Substitute and Absence System.
SafeSchools Training - Online Training Sessions.
CCS Forms - District Forms Website.
School Board Information - District Website for School Board Information.
Facility Work Orders - Used for creating work orders for building, facilities, and maintenance related issues.
eSchoolPlus - eSchoolPlus Login.
eFinancePlus - Login for eFinance, requisitions, and purchase orders.
MESSA - Medical Insurance Information.
Office of Retirement - Michigan Office of Retirement.
Technology Ticket System - Used for creating trouble tickets for technology related problems.


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Find the Real Names of Telegram Users Just with a Phone Number
I follow and admire Telegram project since their first release. If you haven't already heard about Telegram, it is a messaging platform with tons of useful privacy and security features, and offered completely for free. Telegram project still misses some key features such as an open source codebase and organization level Github repository, to gain my full adoption, but I trust their guarantee for making the source code open in the future.
Yesterday I noticed an interesting behavior of Telegram, and perhaps a potential issue to concern about your privacy. During an update on my contact list, I accidentally noticed that I could retrieve the real names of random people just with mobile numbers.
TL;DR: If you ever created a Telegram account with your real name, anyone with your phone number can reveal it. Or anyone generating a random list of phone numbers can match which phone number belongs to whom. In reverse, you can find the real names of prank callers, or just random people.Read more


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Mike Saved My Life (repost)
Occasionally on the pod we reference that time I almost drowned. I blogged about it shortly after it happened. The entry was from July of 2013. I had lived in Sweden for about five months. I was still getting to know people that I know very well now. Check out the entire story below:
One of the things that's made the transition here easier is the fact that I have been plugged in to my own circle of friends. I think that's important for my sanity. I mean, Sandra's cool and all; but I think it's healthier for our relationship if I can hang out with my own friends. I was very honored when I was invited to one of my new friends' wedding recently. And if that wasn't enough, I was even invited to the bachelorette party. I had never been to a bachelorette party before, so I didn't know what to expect. The invite and follow-up information was all in Swedish. I was able to follow along. There was something about a boat and a sauna and everybody was to bring snacks. Simple enough.
So the day came around and I was ready to party. It just so happened to be the most beautiful day of the year so far. It was hot out with a gentle breeze. Not a cloud in the sky. I would guess it was about 85 degrees. Like a Jill Scott song (minus the food references). I got there just before the bachelorette and nearly ruined the surprise. Way to go me. We had a nice picnic in the park. Great start to the day. Once the picnic was over, we all packed up and headed over to the water. The boat was headed in to pick us up. We were going to have our own party boat. I heard some people mention how fun it was going to be to swim. Swim? I didn't know we were going to swim! I thought we were going to get in a sauna on a boat. Then my friend explained that this was a party boat that goes out deep into the lake and stops so all the partygoers can swim around for a bit. Then you board and continue with the party until you get back on shore. I ask around to see if I'm the only idiot without swimming trunks. You guessed it. I was. It was alright. I would just jump in with my underwear. We're all friends anyway.
We board the boat and it's awesome. Two levels. Sauna and bathroom (with no potpourri). Coolers and sitting area downstairs. Tables, audio equipment and flat screen TV on the top deck. There was also a diving platform. Wow. This was going to be fun. We snacked and drank as the boat motored towards deep waters. There were Swedes scattered about the mountains sunbathing in the distance. The patches of sand on the shore were littered with people as well. This was the perfect day and the perfect place to enjoy it. Nothing could bring this day down. We got some drinks in us and hung out in the sauna. It was fun. My boy kept pouring water on the rocks and making it hot as hell in there. That water was going to feel good.
Then the boat came to a stop and we were told that we could swim now. That sauna had everyone ready and they all ran out and jumped into the water. I dropped down to my underwear and wondered, "Why me?!" Oh well. It's a beautiful day. Just go with it. I got my camera and got some good pictures of my friends jumping from the platform up top. It was cool to see. I personally wasn't going to jump just yet. I didn't even know if I was going to get into the water. After the pictures were taken I decided it was time. The sun and the sauna had left me no choice. Plus I was the only one left on the boat now besides the captain and co-captain. I went to the bottom and climbed down into the water with my back to my friends (you know why). It was cold in the water! But nice. I swam for a bit in my underwear and then headed back in with a couple others to drink some more. Now I had done it. My underwear were officially my swimming trunks.
I saw a couple people take some more dives off of the platform. Man I wanted to do it. My friend told me it was great. I said I would after my beer. Then the boat started up again. I figured I missed my chance. We put some old school music on and did our best impressions of the artists that performed the songs. It was a great time. Then we got word that we could swim again. This time I was going to dive from the top. YOLO right? People started diving. I got in line. I told myself I wouldn't do anything crazy like try a backflip and find a way to die out here. After a bit of egging me on by my friend who was ready with the camera I took the leap. It felt like I was in the air forever. I grabbed my knees like I was going to cannonball, but then I decided to go feet first. I extended my legs just as I entered the water. It was a great feeling going into that water. I opened my eyes to the light green tint of the water as I swam back to the surface. I looked up and gave a thumbs up to my friends.
Side note: I've never swam in deep open water before. All of my boat trips have been for fishing and all of the swimming I've ever done has been in pools and not far from the shore at the beach. I never swam in a lake before because I made the mistake of believing my mother for about 20 years too long (that's for another entry). My mother taught us how to swim when we had a house with a pool. We learned to dog paddle, freestyle and backstroke from her. I consider myself a pretty good swimmer.
I was the only person on this side of the boat. I swam back to the boat and grabbed the side of it. There was a jet ski roped to the boat, so I went under the cord. I figured I'd go along the back of the boat and climb up the ladder that I came down earlier. I had done my swim and now I was going back to drink some more. As I moved along the side, a girl that I had just met that day started yelling at me. Apparently I was getting close to the propellers. She asked me was I stupid and did I want to get myself killed. My initial thought was, "Who she talking to like that?" But she had a valid point. The answer to her first question might have been yes, but the answer to her second question was definitely no. So I decided to swim away from the propellers. I was thinking I would be sucked into the propellers like a jet engine and just ruin everyone's afternoon. I was actually starting to get a little scared. This is NOT my style. So then I started to try and just B-line it for the ladder. I'm a pretty strong guy. Shouldn't take me long. I didn't realize I was in the stream of the propellers. I was going NOWHERE. Now I was in full on panic mode. I felt tired. My rhythm was off.
I don't know exactly what my face looked like at the time, but in my mind I was saying, "OH FUCK I'M GONE DIE! HEP ME! HEP ME PLEE! DON'T LET ME DIE IN MY DAMN DRAWS!" I tried to assess the situation before I completely drowned. I have my friend in front of me who is probably exactly half my size but I am pretty close with the guy now and he probably doesn't want me to die. To my 3 o'clock is my friend that's 6'8" and likely weighs more than me. I'm pretty sure he doesn't want to witness me drown either. He's been having a good time thus far. So what do I do? I reach out to the guy who is exactly half my size. At this moment I was still at that point where I was trying to be a little bit cool. You know, die with swag. Apparently he didn't see the struggle in my eyes. He tilted his head like a dog that hears a high-pitched sound. I later found out he thought I was joking around (me and these jokes!). So now I have my boy wondering why I look like this and I decided to go for broke after the 6'8" Brit. I lunged after him. I tried to say, "Mike, would you please assist me. My swagger is completely broken and I don't want to die in my Banana Republic boxer briefs." What came out was, "Hep me, man! (swallow water) Hep!"
I really didn't give Mike a choice in the matter. I grabbed him. I was completely out of it. I consider my mother a good teacher, but for some reason I just couldn't think of any basic swimming motions or human movements whatsoever. I've never had a panic attack before, but I think I was having one at this time. Mike went under the water. Just at that moment I was able to take a complete breath. It was awesome. But was I killing Mike? Where was he? I thought about when Mom told me that if you ever see someone drowning, let them go under and get them when they stop struggling so you both don't die. First thought: Oh no, I'm killing US! Second thought: Oh no, Mike is going to leave me until I halfway die like my mother suggests. Before I could torture myself with anymore thinking, Mike came back up. I didn't want him to do my mom's technique so I decided to show him some concern. Dying me asked, "Mike are you okay?" He looked at me like the other guy did a minute ago and said, "Yeah." Then I kept saying, "I panicked, man. I panicked." Then he said in his British accent what I thought was something like, "Throttle leg." So I started kicking my feet like I was on a paddle boat while I was upright and he was holding my torso and swimming me to safety. Mike was really nice at the time but later he said he wondered what the fuck I was doing. It turns out he said "frog legs". Thanks mom. I didn't learn shit about frog legs in the pool. He got me to the ladder and I climbed up onto the most comfortable boat deck ever.
Needless to say, I did not get back in the water. We talked about it a bit and laughed once everybody got back on board. I did drink more and wondered what could have been throughout the rest of the day's events. Man... Mike saved my life! What more could you ask for from someone in your new circle of friends? 'Til next time...


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CEO Compensation
#43 Randall L Stephenson04.13.11, 06:00 PM EDT
- Total Compensation
- $21.28 mil
- 5-Year Compensation
- $55.292 mil
- Education:
- College: University of Central Oklahoma BS
- Graduate School: University of Oklahoma MS
Randall L Stephenson's Compensation vs. Telecommunications Services Medians
|$1.53 mil
|$1.00 mil
|$5.05 mil
|$1.14 mil
|$14.69 mil
|$3.67 mil
|Stock Gains
|$0.00 mil
|Total Compensation
|$21.28 mil
|$7.68 mil
Randall L Stephenson Ownership Of AT&T
|Industry Medians
|Stock Owned (% Of Co)
|Stock Owned
|$15.5 mil
|$0.02 mil
AT&T's Stock Performance
|Total Return During Tenure
|Relative to Market
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Complete Coverage | Complete Rankings
Methodology: Compensation rank is based on total compensation for latest fiscal year. Total compensation for each chief executive includes the following: salary and bonuses; other compensation, such as vested restricted stock grants, LTIP payouts and perks; and stock gains, the value realized by exercising stock options. Efficiency rank is based on our chief executive's performance/pay score. Ranks are given only to chief executives who have a six-year tenure and six-year compensation history. The most efficient rank is 1 and least efficient is 196.
Footnotes: Compensation data is from the latest available proxy statements filed through Mar. 25, 2011. Total returns and value of stock owned (including all classes) is based on Mar. 18, 2011 stock price. Compensation percent change is based on combined salary and bonus. Annualized total return during tenure covers the tenure of the executive or from the time of the IPO or available stock history. Relative to market is the ending value of $100 invested in the stock, divided by the ending value of $1 invested in the S & P 500 (a score of 100 = the S & P 500). NA: Not available or not applicable.1Annualized. 2Four-year total. 3Three-year total. 4Less than 0.01%. 5Prior-year data. 6New chief executive; compensation may be for another executive office. 7Less than $100,000. 8Includes shares indirectly held. *Return is for less than tenure.
Sources: Company SEC filings; Interactive Data, LionShares and Thomson Reuters Fundamentals via FactSet Research Systems; Forbes.
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source from http://blog.csdn.net/watsy/article/details/8857252, thanks to watsy.
1. Download and install Qt: http://qt-project.org/downloads What I downloaded is Qt 5.0.2 for Mac(404MB), Decompress and follow the steps, quite easy.
2. Download SIP: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/sip/download
I download the development snapshots sip-4.14.7-snapshot-74e1df1d9940.tar.gz
Decompress it. Commands in Terminal:
3.Download PyQt4: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/download
cd sip-4.14.7-snapshot-74e1df1d9940
python configure.py -d /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages --arch=x86_64
(change the arch to i386 if your mbp is 32 bits)
sudo make install
I downloaded PyQt-mac-gpl-4.10.2-snapshot-11b3001947c9.tar.gz
After all the steps, you can try from PyQt4 import QtGui if there is no error message, Congratulation. Have fun with PyQt :)
cd PyQt-mac-gpl-snapshot-4.10.2-ffcf323516fc
python configure-ng.py -q /Users/qqli/Qt5.0.2/5.0.2/clang_64/bin/
make -d /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ --sip /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/sip
sudo make install


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Storytelling is a natural progression from rhythm and song, introducing the
exciting world of books. This includes pop-up, lift the flap, noisy and touch
and feel books, which are all essential to the child's development.
Reading to children feeds their imaginations and encourages them to learn.
Libraries run Storytimes, which are ideal for children aged five years and
under. See your local library for more information.


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Works in process.
I have my first ever solo show coming up next March at Arkadia International Bookshop. I've settled on a working title for the exhibition: Hippies And Hipsters. I'm going through my father's photographs from the 1970s when he was about my age as well as my own, finding similarities in the ways young people pose and want to be photographed.
The idea of us branding ourselves and hiding behind labels like "hippie" or "hipster" is very interesting to me. I don't want to judge or praise, just state that it's something people my age do in western culture.
I've been searching for a way to combine acrylic paint and woodcut printmaking and I think I'm finally finding marks and little visual things that I want to pursue.


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Kim Klassen is amazing with textures. I stumbled onto her page by accident through reading something else, and I was hooked.
Enough that I stayed up till 4am for two days messing around with textures and photographs. This of course is intentional sleep deprivation but I'm not blaming anything except my magpie attention span for it.
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
This post of Kim's caught my eye, especially Day 1 - Adding Drama. So I dug out some photographs I took when I was travelling in Austria for the World Choir Games this year, and had a go at it.
Which (after some instruction tweaking as I'm using Photoshop CS2 rather than CS4) resulted in this:
I nicknamed this lady the Smoking Bride for obvious reasons. She seemed to be somewhat annoyed as well, apparently waiting for her wedding car driver, and she did tend to speak rather loudly (though whether that's just a language thing or actual annoyance, I couldn't tell. I went by the cranky expression.)
And because I couldn't leave well enough alone, I tweaked the photo with one of Kim's textures, added in some gorgeous brushes from Annika Von Holdt, and voila - vintage ephemera ahoy:
After years and years of resistance, finally I seem to have caught the Photoshop bug. I don't know whether it's good or bad - the last thing I need is a new distraction, with production, graduation, and exams coming up...
Ah, heck with it. I'm filing it under Rest and Relaxation.
And yes, THAT'S my story and I'm STILL sticking to it.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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I made Oliver some dress pants. The pattern is from Sewing for Boys, and is called Little Heartbreaker Pants.
They are wool. I love the red pocket lining...
He is tricky to sew for because he is big around the waist and not super tall yet. He wears a 5/6 waist and a 3/4 length. These work though and there is room to grow. (blurry picture, messy house)
We are having some family pictures taken on Saturday, and I think these will be in the ensemble. I love/hate dressing the family for photos. Clara will be wearing this skirt that I won, in the mustard color pictured, and I think I will sew her a fitted collared shirt to go with it...maybe. No clue for Ruthie, Oliver's top half, the husband, or myself. I have five days to figure it out. A visit to Goodwill is in my future.


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Studies Lessons for High School is designed for social studies teachers to use with their government and history courses. It was developed in response to a shift in education throughout our country: a move away from rote memorization and toward the critical thinking skills necessary for many of the new performance assessment programs.
Each lesson will enable teachers to teach seven specific critical thinking skills in a step-by-step process. The information has been adapted for old media and new media formats. Web sites will be provided that will allow teachers to choose the most appropriate resource for the selected activity. All selections can be copied for classroom use. Teachers may adapt activities to allow students to complete assignments via the web.
Black is former Teachers Network web mentor. He is a social studies teacher at the Harbor City Learning
Center, located across the street from the historic Edgar
Allen Poe House in Baltimore, MD.
Lesson Plan
Students will utilize principles of economic costs and benefits and opportunity cost to analyze the effectiveness of government policy
in achieving socio-economic goals.
Students will evaluate solutions and strategies used to solve problems.
Lesson Objectives
Students will be able to:
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Dmitri Trenin is the director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, where he chairs the center's research council and the Foreign and Security Policy Program. He's written a number of articles over the years trying to make sense of Russian ties to Syria and Russia's position on the Syria civil war. We spoke by phone Wednesday.
Brad Plumer: I'm sure you saw Vladimir Putin's op-ed in the New York Times this morning about Syria. What is he trying to achieve here? What are Russia's goals with this latest deal for Syria to turn over its chemical weapons?
Dmitri Trenin: At a minimum Russia wants to achieve U.S. non-intervention in Syria. The medium-term goal here, although it's pretty high up, is resolution of the Syrian issue, with some kind of political resolution. But the larger goal, the really big goal is forcing the United States back into the U.N. Security Council-centered international system.
There were many things that struck me in that op-ed, an it's hard to deconstruct or summarize in a sentence. I think Putin is basically saying something that a lot of people will find objectionable — that the United States has been soaring above international law and it's time the country to return inside the framework of international law as codified by the United Nations charter, especially with the Security Council.
BP: Okay, let's break those down. Why is U.S. non-intervention so important for Russia here?
DT: I think Putin believes that an inertia can be created that would lead to progressively more and more U.S. actions around the world which might collide at some point with Russia's core interests, to use a Chinese expression. They want to stop the use of force by the United States outside of the U.N. Security Council framework. They're trying to keep a hold on the use of force internationally.
BP: Isn't that a little hypocritical? When Russia launched a war with Georgia in 2008 it didn't go through the Security Council framework.
DT: I think that Mr. Putin would say to that in Georgia we acted in response to an aggression committed against our forces. So we were acting in accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter. And Putin has said before that the United States does not face any threat of an aggression from Syria.
BP: There's been a lot written, including by you, about the longstanding ties between Russia and Syria that go back decades. Is Syria itself important to Russia here, or is Putin mainly just focused on constraining the United States?
DT: Syria is marginally important. It's important as a market for Russian arms. But Russia is not involved in the geopolitics of the Middle East the way the Soviet Union was, so Syria's not important as a foothold in geopolitical terms. There are some other things like the Tartus naval facility [a naval station in Syria and Russia's only resupply spot on the Mediterranean], but I would say they are relatively marginal in Russia's thinking here.
BP: So it seems like Russia is mainly stepping in here because they're worried that the U.N. Security Council will become irrelevant in foreign policy decisions?
DT: Yeah, it's happened before. Russia was left out of Iraq, Russia was left out of Libya, although Libya it didn't have much of a position. They are concerned that if Russia is eased out of Syria that will reflect badly on Russia's international image abroad or on Putin's foreign policy at home.
BP: You mentioned that Russia is concerned that U.S. interventions in the Middle East or elsewhere might eventually clash with the country's "core interests." Are there specific worries there or is this more of an abstract general fear?
DT: Well I think that they've been thinking of former Soviet republics as areas where the United States might eventually become involved. Places like Belarus. It looks far-fetched, and seems far-fetched, but those are definitely places where the Russians would not want to see the U.S. do anything militarily.
But I think Putin is really more concerned with this inertia of using military power to solve political issues. And of course Russia has no parity in conventional military terms with the United States.
Militant Islamist groups are seen as a big concern by the Russians. They think that the longer the war in Syria continues, the worse off everyone including Russia will because of the militants gaining ground. And that's something that could come back to Russia itself, absolutely.
BP: So why is the U.N. Security Council itself so important to Russia? Is it just because this is the one are where they can constrain U.S. power?
DT: Russia thinks its veto right at the Security Council as perhaps the only thing that can prevent activities that Russia strongly dislikes and disapproves of by making them illegal. That's the only instrument that it has. It has nuclear weapons, yes, but in real life you can not use deterrence, certainly not often. The veto threat is something you can use quite often if you need to.
BP: So there's this deal where Russia will help take control of Syria's chemical weapons and eventually destroy them. How do you see this playing out?
DT: This whole business with chemical disarmament is exceedingly difficult. They're in uncharted waters and we don't know how this will turn out. It's never been done before. It's never been thought of as a procedure to be undertaken under conditions of civil war. So it's exceedingly difficult. Whether they put it off or not is a big, big, question of mine. But I think in Putin's view and in many others, that's the one option that's better than the others.
BP: And you mentioned Russia is looking for a political resolution in Syria. How is that likely to work?
DT: I think they see the chemical frame as something that leads to a wider political frame. In a way you cannot treat the two separately, you have to ensure a ceasefire in the areas where chemical weapons are kept in order to proceed with the mission. So that calls for the beginning of political process. But this is really the first time that Russians have tried anything like that.
Interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity
Further reading:
-- How Russia saw its chance with its Syria deal.
-- Vladimir Putin's New York Times op-ed, annotated and fact-checked


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European External Action Service
EEAS Building, 9A Rond Point Schuman - 1000 Brussels
EEAS Building, 9A Rond Point Schuman - 1000 Brussels
At the invitation of the Government of the Republic of Zambia, the European Union established a mission to observe the Presidential and National Assembly elections of 20 September 2011 in Zambia.
The EU Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) was led by Chief Observer Maria Muñiz De Urquiza, a Spanish Member of the European Parliament.
She was joined by around 100 experts and observers from 23 EU Member States as well as Norway. The observers were deployed throughout the country to observe the electoral process, meet government and electoral officials, candidates and political parties, civil society representatives and the media.
A delegation from the European Parliament joined the mission for the duration of the election itself.


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Shortly after 2 a.m. Monday, Aug. 15, two black males robbed the Quik Trip at 2801 S. Hydraulic. One suspect entered the store armed with a handgun; the other held a stun gun. One suspect used the stun gun on an employee stocking the shelves. They then forced the employee to open the cash register and give them the money and fled on foot. Loss was minimal, and the clerk was not injured.
The suspect with the stun gun was in his 20s, 5-foot-11 and 170 pounds. He was wearing a black shirt; black pants; black shoes with white soles; a black hat with a gold sticker on the bill and gold writing on the front; a black mask; and brown cloth gloves.
The other man was also in his 20s, 5-foot-11 and 170 pounds. He was wearing a green shirt, black pants, a black mask and brown cloth gloves.
If you have information about this robbery or any felony crime, call Crime Stoppers at 267-2111. You can also submit a tip online at www.wsccs.com or from your mobile phone by texting TIP217, then your message to CRIMES (274637). All ways are secure and anonymous. If your tip leads to an arrest you may be eligible for a cash reward up to $1,000, and Crime Stoppers will never ask your name. Crime Stoppers of Wichita/Sedgwick County is a non-profit organization of citizens against crime.Sgt. Scott Plummer Wichita/SedgwickCountyCrimeStoppers


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Real Stuff
Last Friday I wrote a guest post about being an alcoholic for Stefanie's blog, and some of you guys went over and read it. One of you, in particular, who has been reading me for a long time, liked the post because you said it felt "real." This made me think a little bit. Because I like to think that what I write here is always real, but sometimes I take a particular slant to things or emphasize one thing or the other, but it's all genuine, so that's real, or a version of reality, right? But then I was thinking, there's definitely a difference between what I ordinarily write and a post like this one from BHJ, which I could have written, maybe, if I were a little bit more gifted, and also a little less self-conscious about form. I don't have a close friend who killed himself, but I did have Tanya, which is pretty much the same thing, she was cast in the same role, more or less, as Skip was for BHJ. But instead of just writing about that, I have to change everything around into some different form, I'm going to "fictionalize" a part of my past, and put it in the second person, and that way you will all know that I'm writing about myself but I can still feel detached from it a little bit, just enough to write about it.
Surcey, your comment made me think about the topics I haven't really talked about here, and why. Some of them are for practical reasons, but others are . . . I don't know why. I guess sometimes I feel worried that I'll sound like I'm feeling sorry for myself, or that I'll hurt people's feelings. But the thing is, who am I writing this for, anyway? Are these people I'm worried about actually reading this blog? And if I sound self-indulgent and like I'm feeling sorry for myself, well isn't that what most bloggers do, anyway?
Just give me a couple ideas to riff on and I will go on and on about genre for like fifty years and bore you all to death.
Here's what I've been thinking about lately: I've been thinking about what I would have to do to Mini to make him into a kid like I was. I don't want to make him into a kid like I was, mind you, I'm just wondering what it would take to do it. Because when you're a parent, you start living your childhood over again a little bit through your kid. And the other day, Mini had just gotten this toy robot from a store, just a little black robot that kind of wiggles and walks, and he was so excited about it, and proud of it, the way two year olds can get about things that are new (which is pretty much everything, when you're two). And one of his grandparents was there — I won't tell you which one — and that grandparent looked at the robot and said, "I'm not impressed," and then two things happened in quick succession: 1) I seriously considered the consequences of punching said grandparent in the face with a closed fist; and 2) I saw the air deflate from Mini's chest — just a little bit, since it was someone he barely knows anyway — but still enough to almost bring me to tears.
A few years ago I ran into an acquaintance of my parents' who had not seen me since I was in high school. I spoke to her for a few moments and thought nothing of it until I later heard that this woman had been shocked to see me so happy and functioning so well. She had said that, as I child, I had always struck her as "morose." I cannot argue with that assessment, and certainly the addition of anti-depressants to my life has something to do with that change. But still, I go back to wondering what I would have to do to Mini to make him into a morose child. Is it some kind of switch that gets thrown at some point, and parenting has no real effect on it? Or is it even more banal than that — too much time left in a crib or a play pen, not enough Mommy and Me time, not enough declarations of love and value? I don't know. I think about it, but not because I'm worried about it. I already know that Mini's experience is totally different from mine, and I never worry about him the way that it pains me to think of myself as a child.
This morning I was getting Mini ready for school and, as has been the case of late, he was not pleased about it. So I told him, "Mini, you know that even when Mommy's not there, she's with you, in your heart. Just like I always carry you with me, in my heart," and I pointed to my heart. I think he understood me. I never decided to become a good parent. It's not like I set about studying how to do it, or what I should do when, or had a checklist of the stuff that I should do to make him happy. I just had a baby and that imperative was there, to protect him and hold him close to me, and over time that grew into something more like a special bond. I don't think to myself, "I should go snuggle Mini," or "Have I told Mini that I love him today?" or "Maybe I should tell Mini his new robot is cool." I don't think about any of that stuff with Mini. I just do it. I don't really see why it's so hard.


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Just a quick update that I pushed live new code for our support portal which is polling a lot more servers now and displaying information in the UI. We're tracking number of users, current load, memory consumption, disk consumption and print jobs. Not having native chart widgets made this kind of tedious to build the charts, but once I figured it out I was able to dupe it and get it working pretty quickly. I activated tooltips to display additional information. For instance, hovering over the server name at the top now displays the CPU speed and number of cores.
You can hover over each chart element too and get detailed information about each time slice.
The little bit of time spent on this application is easily recouped by our IT department. We're able to detect possible problems immediately and assist users before they even call.
Current projects: Setting up the Zimbra demo for the Wifi so we can test with tablets; working through a few LibreOffice bugs and watching for patches (3.6 is working OK for the most part ); poking at the HP Ubuntu thin client upgrade and working out a plan for integration into our environment; Setting up a VNC pathway for a few tablets to begin logging into our GNOME servers using that protocol; reviewing NX alternatives (thank you for all of the suggestions and ideas); starting to think about the SuseCon/OpenSuseCon tour next month and best use of their time and transportation details.


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This week's readings focused mainly on the mechanisms and effects of nuclear weapons including specific models on what would occur under different scenarios. For me, one of the most interesting parts of the reading was a passage in the article by Leo Sartori which discussed the "window of vulnerability." This idea basically states that a Soviet strategic strike on American ICBM silos, targeted at crippling the American response capabilities, would result in:
- a large number of civilian deaths,
- the destruction of a majority of these missiles, but not bomber and submarine-launched ballistic missiles,
- no American retaliatory response due to the fear of escalation.
The most striking part of this theory is that it seems to be contrary to the popular belief of mutually assured destruction since it postulates that the US would not retaliate with their own missiles since this would undoubtedly result in all out nuclear war. If this were the case, then the production of large numbers of missiles no longer serves as a deterrent to war. So the questions then become: which of these theories is more likely? how do these opposing theories affect the way the cold war developed? and how do these theories apply to the nuclear age that we live in now? — Bohao


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Hello, I'm Ron Craig and here is my story? I was born and raised in Southern California and after graduating from Warren High School in Downey, CA, a long time ago, I enlisted in the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War. Both of my parents were WWII veterans, actually met in the service and it seemed the natural next step for me. I would like to confess, I wasn't drawn to writing and storytelling through my high school years, but I was the guy in the garage building go carts or working on my car.
I too left the service after four years with a bride then started a family and a new career in the engineering field. Attending night school I earned a Business Degree from California State University, San Bernardino. The fascination with writing set in about 2008 when the seed for Watson Manor was planted. It would be great if I could convey the cosmic occurrence that gave birth to this new desire to write or that I was inspired when Mom obtained a degree in creative writing, but it just happened. I know, any fiction writer worth his salt could have come up with something better than, it just happened!
I made the move from Southern California north to Elverta, California in 2012 to be close to my now four of my six grandchildren that my two daughters have blessed me with. Following that move, I dusted off my original story, Call of a Dying Goose and created Watson Manor Eventually and then book two, three and four in the series and am currently working on book five. I was inspired by one of those real life experiences and between books three and four in the series wrote the novella In His Time.
That brings me to the present as self-employed and exploring my passion for writing. I encourage readers to contact me through email as I would love to hear from you.
Update Sept 2017
Beyond writing and always having a book I'm reading on my bedside night table, 2017 added some adventures outside my home. I am enjoying the time between the proverbial two best days of boat ownership, buying it and selling it, satisfying the urge to share and explore our local lakes and rivers ...
Then there is the call of the many country roads surrounding me and I had to add this set of wheels to the stable...


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Salley, SC (March 2, 2014) - Maxxis/KLIM/DirtWise KTM Race Team riders came through with some stellar performances over the weekend at the first round of the National Enduro series in Salley, SC.
Pro class rider Jesse Groemm got the season started with an excellent 2nd place position, team owner and Offroad legend Shane Watts convincingly won the +40A class by 10 minutes and also scored 12th Overall, plus Rory Mead enjoyed a solid day of GNCC fitness training with 15th Overall, while DirtWise "Ready to Race" bike rental participant Greg Olenic achieved a great day roosting some awesome trail on a fully prepped Pro race team KTM machine!
Jesse Groemm was ecstatic with his result, saying, "This is the exact way I wanted to start the race season! A lot of effort went into my preseason preparation, and the Maxxis/KLIM/DirtWise KTM Race team is a great fit for me. The whole environment I'm in now gives me the best opportunity to challenge for race victories - I want to win this year, and I want to win a lot of these Enduros but for now I'm looking to roll this great result over into a strong performance in the XC2 at next week's first GNCC race!"
After several years off the race track Shane Watts made a triumphant return. "What a great day out on some magnificent single track! I basically just rode a steady and smooth pace out there tagging along with Rory as we finalized his race prep and testing for next week's start of the GNCC series. I actually surprised myself with how close to got to hitting the top 10 Overall - maybe I should have pinned it a little bit harder out there, ha, ha!!!"
Rory Mead was content with his on-track performance, commenting, "The GNCC is my main goal for 2014 so I was pretty much just using this race as some quality seat time in a race situation to test a variety of different settings. I had so much fun ripping through the single track today!"
Meanwhile Greg Olenic from Pittsburgh, PA went full factory and signed up for the DirtWise "Ready to race" bike rental program, and spent the day roosting around on a fully prepped DirtWise KTM 250 machine. "What a great way to go racing! I just showed up to an immaculate KTM 250 and got on and raced it. I didn't even have to adjust the bars or levers - it was perfect already. All I had to do was focus on getting to the race and having one of the best days ever riding a great bike on some sensational single track. I'm doing this again for sure!"
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I'd like to recommend a book! It's one I discovered fairly recently after cheekily asking the waitress in a local tea shop if I could have the recipe for the fabulous piece of cake I'd just eaten.
"Red velvet & chocolate heartache" by Harry Eastwood, is a beautifully presented recipe book of delicious cakes. What I like about the recipes is the incorporation of different vegetables which add fibre and nutrients as well as providing structure, moisture and natural sweetness.
While most traditional cake making starts with creaming together butter and sugar, these recipes start with whisking eggs and sugar together until tripled in volume. The remaining ingredients include rice flour, ground almonds and finely grated vegetable, such as carrot, courgette, sweet potato, butternut squash, parsnip or beetroot.
The natural sweetness of the vegetables mean that less sugar is used. Rice flour and ground almonds instead of conventional wheat flour give the cakes a lovely lightness and intensity of flavour. In my opinion, these cakes are nicely digestible, although there's no getting away from the fact that they are still a high calorie treat. (Even though these recipes for the cake itself is low fat, once you add a dollop of butter icing…..)
Cake has an important role in our lives. It's social and forms the centrepiece for celebration, whether that's Christmas, birthday, wedding or simply a celebration of friends and family. My favourite so far has been the mint choc chip cupcakes….lipsmackingly gorgeous!


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Sunday, December 27, 2009
Notes from the Holiday
A few days in beautiful Utah. Cold! lots of snow.
Back here some nice sunny days. Good time - lots of cooking!
Avatar - photo 20th Century Fox
"The Princess and the Frog" for the kids, "Avatar" for me (both movies 83% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes!). I loved it. I found it visually really beautiful, at times mesmerizing, especially the way the light is rendered all along, and I regret that the children cannot see it yet...
Ready to go!
I sent - at last - (I could not find the time since I took some pictures of the show) the documents for "Here not There" at the MCASD. There are still a few more days left before the deadline. It's always very interesting to put together documents for something like that, although I do not do it very often!
We are heading to Death Valley National Park tomorrow morning for a family trip. We went there several times during winter, we love that place! We'll celebrate the new year in the desert around the campfire!
Happy New Year to Everyone!
Carpe Diem!
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Lucy, Darwin and Me in The San Diego City Beat
"Artifacts", display case and video
photo Janine Free
In "Around the Corner", in the art section of the San Diego City Beat, I had the nice surprise to read an article by Seth Combs about the show.
From vintage jewelry to modern industrial masterpieces, our takes on five current art shows
By Baudelaire Shepherd, Sarah Nardi, Seth Combs
Michael McAlister @ Andrews Gallery
Susan Hauptman @ Lux Art Institute
Tara Donovan @ MCASD
Lucy, Darwin and Me @ Art Produce Gallery
Calder Jewelry @ SDMA
Friday, December 18, 2009
Alfusainey Suso, Kora player
Alfusainey playing the Kora
at the opening of "Lucy, Darwin and Me"
photos Janine Free
with Anna Stump
This show gave me the opportunity to meet very interesting people, and Alfusainey Suso is one of them. My idea was to find a Kora player and ask him to play at the opening of my show because it was such an important - and beautiful - instrument I was listening to when I was living in Senegal. The task was not super easy. I posted something on Craig's list in "talents gigs" (like I did to find the story teller) . I simply said I was looking for a Kora player. I got some responses asking "what exactly is a Kora player?".
Then eventually Alfusainey called me. We talked on the phone and then I met him at Art Produce Gallery to show him the space. I explained the project to him: playing at the opening the show and I talked about the show.
He said he's never been to Senegal or Gambia, the country his father comes from. He talked about his uncle who taught him how to play the Kora, how he likes that instrument. And how he would like to play more often for the public. His father plays professionally the Kora in the United States and teaches it.
I invited Alfusainey to my house the same night I invited Marian Williams, the story teller, and we had a great time talking about Senegal, Gambia, the perception we have of West Africa and plenty other things.
At the opening of the show, Alfusainey played beautifully and made the evening very special. I thank him a lot for that! It really reminded me the poetic music I was listening to when I was leaving in Senegal.
I hope to have the opportunity to work on another project with Alfusainey, he is very talented and truly loves the music he plays.
Lucy, Darwin and Me
Art Produce Gallery
December 12, 2009 / January 24, 2010
Biodiversity Series
Biodiversity Series - the first twenty ones.
2009 - ink on paper mounted on wood panel, 6"x6"
Lucy, Darwin and Me
Art Produce Gallery
December 12, 2009 / January 24, 2010
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Lucy, Darwin and Me / photos of the show
The first room - Lucy
And so it is done! I really like the fact that I could pretty much do whatever I wanted inside the gallery and that I had no commercial pressure to sell anything. In fact there is not a lot of items for sale in the show: only the series of small inks on paper. Otherwise things will either disappear at the end of the show or I will keep them, like the personal objects in the display case.
The window from inside the gallery
From outside the gallery
Some things I wanted to do, like using decals, are pretty expensive if you do not own the machine. Recently, I was talking to a friend artist and she was saying "we leave in this country where so many amazing techniques exist and we cannot use them because they are too expensive." Of course we are not obliged to use all those new machines and materials to make a good work but experiencing new things has always been something I was interested in, even if I enjoy very much "making things with what I have." For example, for this show I wanted to face-mount the prints in the second room with Plexiglas and not having any kind of frame. But after I got the estimates I decided that I had to go back to earth and make something really less expensive. And different. But that's ok.
I love the fact that I worked for the very special space of Art Produce Gallery. I wanted something viewable from the sidewalk, something people could enjoy even if the gallery is closed. I wanted to play with the transparency of the window, which matches the length of the wall.
I wanted people to enjoy details when they are inside and so there is this series of very small inks. But nothing is really hanged at a "normal" height. The first day someone made one of the inks hanged very low on the wall fall on the floor, I think it will happen again and I am fine with it. It is unusual to have to pay attention to things hanged very low - or very high!
Detail of the series "Biodiversity", 2009,
inks on paper mounted on wood panels
There is also the series of tiny square photos on the mural. They are a light bridge between then (Mauritania 1975) and now (my attachment for the deserts, and the fact that with my family today, we spend time in the desert together).
I wanted to put together different medium, each of them being a part of the big picture. Decals, mural, photos, inks, mini-photos, mini-book, video and display case with objects... I enjoyed very much finding a way to make them flow together. Although it was sometimes a little bit overwhelming trying not to forget anything (I made lists...), the making of was really interesting.
"Mauritania, Sahara Desert, between 1972 and 1975"
- a series of 7 photos taken by my parents,
Denise and Gerard Guieu
Text which goes with the series:
Areas of Nouakchott, Atar, Akjoujt, Amokjar, Chinguetti and Ouadane.
photos by my mother and my father, Denise and Gerard Guieu
Between 1972 and 1975 I lived in Dakar, Senegal, with my family. My father was a geologist and my mother was a biologist. Each vacation, we would explore some place, either in Senegal or in Mauritania, which shares a border with Senegal.
Taking the old Land Rover loaded with water, gas and food (mostly oranges, pasta, rice and tomato sauce - all heat resistant), we would go to the Saharan desert, discovering amazing landscapes scorched by the sun, meeting Tuareg people and their salt caravans, watching the jackals, marveling at the ancient human artifacts laying on the ground, stopping in remote oasis, drinking mint tea and sleeping under the stars.
This is a tribute to the things I discovered with my parents, the discussions we had about the history of Earth --which, in the Saharan desert was unfolding under our eyes -- the continental drift, the origins of humanity and biodiversity.
"Artifacts": video and display case
My father's field notebook. The video was made
in Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California.
The windows outside the gallery
(photo, video, kettle and wood) (photo Janine Free)
Lucy, Darwin and Me
Art Produce Gallery
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Keli Dailey (San Diego Union Tribune) about Lucy, Darwin and Me
By Keli Dailey, Content Producer
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 6:29 p.m.
To celebrate how right Charles Darwin was about where human life blasted off (answer: Africa), from noon to 8 p.m. on Saturday, during North Park Nights, Art Produce Gallery will throw an Afrocentric Darwin party, with folktales and a fair trade market, and later, free booze (hopefully) for mixed-media artist Michele Guieu's opening reception.
Guieu's solo exhibit, "Lucy, Darwin, and Me," transforms the two-roomed gallery into what feels like a friendly graphic designer leading a fift- period physical science class. Guieu knows it's after lunch and even though she prepared this whole lecture on how 2009 is Darwin's 200th birthday year, the 150th anniversary of his "On the Origin of Species," our focus is flagging. So she uses personal artifacts, paintings of invented species, family photos and video to share how she was a teenager, in Africa, following her geologist father out into the field right around the time the famous Lucy the Hominid fossil fixed humankind birthplace to one place.READ MORE
And Listen here to the podcast of the program "These Days": Week-end Preview
With Keli Dailey from the Union Tribune about Lucy, Darwin and me.
Seth Combs from the San Diego City Beat talks about Matt Stallings show "After the bomb drops" at Subtext.
Anchor/Producer(s): Angela Carone, Maureen Cavanaugh
December 10, 2009
Friday, December 11, 2009
Installation at Art produce - Day five and Six - We are done! Opening tonight!
We are done! We did a fantastic job together, I am super happy! Thank you to all of you, it was a fun, intense, amazing week.
I hope a lot of people will come to the opening but it looks like it will rain... We'll see.
We had a "not so happy" viewer who told John he was going to hell. Referring to what she read on the window when she was passing by. I guess the words "Darwin" and "Evolution" are enough for some people to get angry. Hope everything will go smoothly though.
John Belfiore in action
(Beau Vue Window Cleaning (619) 507 9064)
John Belfiore, Claudia and my mom Denise
Me, John and Claudia
Lori Lipsman, touching up!
My mom, touching up too!
Kyle Forbes in the second room
Pause-cafe and photo in the Caffe Carpe Diem (from left to right):
Marie (Caffe Carpe Diem), Lori Lipsman, Sema (Caffe Carpe Diem),
Keli Dailey (Union Tribune), me and Kyle!
Claudia and me sifting the sand in the display box
Kyle and Lori
Kyle leveling the tiny photos
Claudia and the very last words!
Art Produce Gallery TODAY:
Noon- 4:00pm--Art Produce is hosting a fair trade market of African art and imports to benefit Womens' Empowerment STAR Center.
2:00-3:00pm-- Marian Williams tells African children's tales.
6:00 – 9:00pm--Opening Reception, meet the Artist.
7:00-8:00pm-- Alfusainey Suso plays the traditional West African kora.


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Bangkok vows to reclaim top tourist destination title
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is trying to restore confidence to reclaim its role as the top tourist destination title from Kyoto, Japan.
Deputy Bangkok governor Amorn Kitchawengkul said Bangkok lost its top tourist destination championship to Kyoto and fell to the third position in a survey by the Travel + Leisure magazine this year because of continuing political demonstrations.
Bangkok's city hall will discuss efforts to restore confidence among tourists with operators of five-star hotels whose client numbers have dropped by half, he said.
The BMA will join with concerned organizations in government and private sectors to restore confidence. It will explain Thailand's local situations to participants in international conferences in Bangkok including those in the International Publishers Association Congress that was postponed from last year to September this year due to the political situation, the 3rd Lower Mekong Tourism City Mayors' Summit this November and the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) next February.
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"You cannot buy the big one so you buy 1,000 of the small ones," says Billy Karam, a Lebanese toy car collector and amateur rally driver who has over 30,000 model cars and 400 dioramas, making it the Guinness Book of World Records largest collection of model toy cars and dioramas.
Several of the dioramas depict "all my beautiful moments" during his amateur races. The Porsche fan has an estimated 7,000 to 10,000 Porsche toy cars, shelved in glass cases by model and color.
He started rebuilding his collection as a child, when his house and collection were robbed during the Lebanese civil war.
"This is a way of staying young," Karam says, "So I can get the best out of the whole world and put it in one place."
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