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So this might be a really dumb question ;-), but how do you get companies to allow you to do giveaways or reviews on your blog? I see so many bloggers doing it, but I have no clue how to get started. I think it would a great way to drive traffic to my blog, help!
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The way I started out was to do a couple of self-sponsored giveaways, just to work the bugs out and to be able to show an example to companies of what I could offer in terms of giveaway promotion and entries. It was a lot more work involved than I had realized!
Then, whenever I won a product as a prize at a Twitter Party, or liked a product really well, I wrote a letter to that company's customer relations or media relations department explaining that I liked that product very much, and why, and that I had a blog and would very much like to do a review and giveaway of that product. (That's how I got the first giveaway sponsor.) Basically, once you get your Facebook fanpage fans over 500 and your Twitter followers over 1000, that seems to be when companies get more interested.
So you have to send "pitch" letters describing what you can offer to companies who sponsor a review/giveaway on your blog.
There are also blogger networks/organizations that have campaigns for companies seeking bloggers - and some of them don't have a minimum for Facebook or Twitter or pageviews.
Try: Bloggerdise.com and Business2Blogger.com
I started blogging in July 2008, but did my first giveaway around April 2011. In the meantime I was building up my blog to be content-rich. So even though it's frustrating sometimes to see the fantastic giveaways that some bloggers can offer - if you look at their stats, you can see that they can offer the sponsors a large readership base - and therefore pull in the big fish in terms of prizes and sponsors.
Just be patient. Eventually you'll get there!
And in the beginning, if you don't get alot of entries, try posting the giveaway at tightwadinutah.com they have a listing for low-entry giveaways.
Try Tomoson.com. Some of them have no stat requirements!


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1964 Winter Olympics
Death and unseasonably mild weather hung over the ninth Winter Games in the Tyrolean Alps.
Two athletes, 50–year-old British luger Kazimierz Kay-Skyszpeski and 19–year-old Australian downhill skier Ross Milne, were killed taking practice runs less than a week before the Games began. And three years before, on Feb. 15, 1961, a plane crash in Belgium had killed 18 members of the U.S. figure skating team—including America's top female skater, 16–year-old Laurence Owen.
Springlike temperatures plagued Innsbruck both before and during the Games, forcing the Austrian military to carry in over 50,000 cubic meters of snow from higher elevations.
The USSR won 11 gold medals—a combined seven by speed skater Lydia Skoblikova (4) and cross-country skier Claudia Boyarskikh (3). Other stars included the skiing Goitschel sisters, Christine and Marielle, of France; and cross-country skiers Eero Mäntyranta of Finland and 34–year-old Sixten Jernberg of Sweden.
The lone U.S. gold medal was won by 23–year-old barber Terry McDermott in speed skating.
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Will Ford Outperform in 2013?
Will Ford's stock outperform the market in 2013?
It's a tricky question to try to answer. On the one hand, the Blue Oval's stock ended the year on a high note, rising about 12% in December. And there's a good chance that its recent momentum will continue for awhile, as U.S. auto sales continue to look strong.
On the other hand, while Ford as a company is healthier than it has been in ages, there are still some big challenges ahead - and those could weigh on the stock in months to come.
Could Ford's biggest strength become a vulnerability?
While Ford's earnings last quarter were generally fairly strong, they did raise a couple of points for concern looking forward. First, the company is exceptionally dependent on its North American sales at the moment.
Ford's net income last quarter was $1.63 billion, but the company earned $2.3 billion in North America before taxes. It's fair to say that North America, and specifically the U.S. market, is carrying the company at the moment. It might even be fair to say that a single product line is carrying the company: Many analysts believe (with good reason) that much of that fat profit was driven by U.S. sales of Ford's flagship F-series pickup line.
That's not a bad thing, but it could be a vulnerable spot in 2013. The F-series is a good, popular, well-reviewed product - but it's also one that is coming to the end of its life cycle. An all-new F-series is due next year, and as General Motors has discovered recently, selling a pickup that's about to be replaced can be a challenge without heavy discounts. As good as it is, an F-series that is on its way out might not show as well as Ford would like next to fresh pickups from GM and Chrysler in 2013.
If F-series sales decline - or if Ford boosts incentives to try to hold sales ground - that could hit Ford's currently fat North American margins hard. On the other hand, Ford has so far done a good job of keeping its flagship product looking fresh through its current life cycle. Can it continue to hold its ground without big incentives for another year? This will bear close watching.
Will Europe start to improve - or will it get worse?
As recent earnings statements have made clear, Ford's biggest challenge (or at least, its biggest money pit) at the moment is in Europe. Ford Europe has been losing big money for several quarters, including $468 million in the third quarter of 2012, and will likely continue to lose money for a while.
Ford is hardly the only automaker struggling in the region, of course. A protracted economic downturn drove the region's overall auto sales to a near-two-decade low in 2012. That in turn has given all automakers a grim choice: Discount heavily to keep sales going, or risk losing ground in a declining market.
To its credit, Ford has taken a long-term view and so far refused to join the deep-discounting war being waged by Volkswagen , Fiat , and others. But that has been an expensive choice, as the Blue Oval's market share in the region likely fell about one-half of one percent last year.
In October, Ford CEO Alan Mulally announced a comprehensive plan to fix the company's European operation. It's a good plan, one that includes plant closings, a slew of new products, and a significant shift in marketing strategy.
But Ford itself said that it was unlikely to lead to profits in the region until "mid-decade." Meanwhile, the company currently expects its Europe losses in 2013 to be comparable to those of 2012. From a shareholder's perspective, that's already priced into the stock. But if things take a turn for the worse in the region, or if Ford's turnaround plan doesn't work as expected, the company's losses could increase - and that would hurt the stock price. Again, shareholders should watch this closely.
The upshot: Despite challenges, Ford's still a good bet
These aren't the only challenges Ford faces at the moment, of course, and none of this is to say that Ford is doing badly. On the contrary: Sales have been steady, margins in North America have been terrific, Ford's business in China is growing fast, management continues to make good decisions, and the company is for the most part on very solid ground financially.
I continue to own Ford stock, and I continue to think that it's a good bet to appreciate over the next few years. But the company is facing a number of key challenges as 2013 opens, and shareholders should keep an eye on developments as the year unfolds.
Ford has been performing incredibly well as a company over the past few years -- it's making good vehicles, is consistently profitable, recently reinstated its dividend, and has done a remarkable job paying down its debt. But despite some recent gains, Ford's stock still seems stuck in neutral. Does this create an incredible buying opportunity, or are there hidden risks with the stock that investors need to know about? To answer that, one of our top equity analysts has compiled a premium research report with in-depth analysis on whether Ford is a buy right now, and why. Simply click here to get instant access to this premium report.
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As a family, we all like to read.
When the girls were younger, My wife and I made the deliberate decision to set aside a portion of every, single day to read to them. We read picture books, mainly. But we also read joke books, cookbooks, riddle books, non-fiction books about whatever happened to be of interest in their world at the time, crafting books and so on. We read to the girls because we valued sharing a portion of ourselves with them. Just us and just them. Usually, some cuddling and cosy times were involved. Often, good questions were asked and discussions held. In time, both girls sought comfort from books on their own and, as such, both have developed subject interests that reflect their personalities. Both read a lot. Since they are both growing up, they read less and less with us by their side and more and more on their own. But, they do read. In order to encourage them to continue reading on their own, we gave them a card. No, not a gift card to a book store. Instead, we gave them a card of immense value and importance and it didn't cost us a dime. We gave each girl their own Library card.
If reading is our religion then, libraries are our church.
Public libraries are a gift to the world. Within our communities, they provide access to the totality of the world's stories and ideas and opinions. And what's more, they do this for free. You can borrow almost any book on almost any topic and the good folks at your local library will let you borrow it for a few weeks for free! DVDs, audio books, magazines……all free to borrow. You can research historical documents, attend lectures, meetings and workshops, all for free! A Library is a safe haven for the lonely, for seniors, as well as for parents with newborn babies who just need some adult contact in order to maintain their sanity. Public Libraries, by their very nature, are open to all who seek inspiration or solace from stories or, who seek knowledge of the world around them. They are Holy places. Libraries are a treasure and the MacInnes Family loves them!
This is our local public library. We wear it out!
When the girls were first born, up until they entered the school system on a full-time basis, they spent much of their time here. The Library had many programmes for toddlers and newborn children that exposed them to songs, poetry, drama, stories and crafting, all the while doing so in a social setting with other children. These programmes were fun. Pairing reading with pleasurable sensations is one of the keys to helping children develop a desire to become readers as they grow older. It is the same philosophy behind the bonding process that occurs in your home, with your newborn babe, when you hold them in your arms and sing to them or read to them. Babies soon begin to associate your words with the pleasure of being held close. After continued exposure to this combination, babies grow into toddlers who grow into young children who begin to automatically view books and stories warmly, even if you are not there to hold them. Our library did a great job of augmenting the loving parenting that our girls were getting at home. It was the beginning of a very wonderful relationship for our girls with public libraries in our area and around the world.
Whenever we travel, we make an effort to visit libraries. When we travel to Cape Breton to visit my mother, we always stop at the Glace Bay and the Sydney branches of the Cape Breton Regional Library System. Nanna has her own library card which she makes available to our girls whenever they visit. The beauty of this arrangement is that we do not have to pack copious amounts of heavy books when we travel "back home". Instead, we go to the local libraries upon our arrival and stock up with enough reading material to last throughout our visit.
Sometimes, when we travel to bigger centres, just visiting gorgeous libraries is enough. This is certainly true of the beautifully-designed Halifax Public Library, which has been listed as being one of the top 10-20 public libraries in the world. When we travel east to see my Mom, we always make a point of stopping in Halifax to see my sister, Mary. When we visit with my sister, we always end up at the Halifax Public Library.
Hopefully, as a family, we have many more travelling adventures in store for us. Wherever we end up, you can be assured that we will find a way to include a trip to the library on our itinerary. But, you don't need to travel the world to see a great library because a great library already exists within the comfort of your own community, ready to share the world with you there. If you haven't visited your local library recently then, please do so. You might be pleasantly surprised at all it has to offer.
This month, libraries are encouraging citizens; especially families, to come in and sign up for free library cards. This is what we did years ago for our girls. By providing access to the world of free books, these library cards have proven to be the best, most practical and cost-effective gift we have ever given to them. Not long after getting their cards, they became aware that they were allowed to borrow fifty(!!!!!) books at a time. Now, when we go to the library, which is fairly often, we take those large, heavy-duty shopping bags with us……and we fill them to the brim!!! I kid you not. 🙂
Our girls are readers. Our family loves Public Libraries. Do yourself and your family a favour and visit your local branch today. The world awaits……….and it is all for free!!!!!!


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Summary: Here we have another case study in disinformation. The story of Raymond Davis (US covert operative in Pakistan) illustrates how our mainstream media and experts collude to help the government shape our view of the world. It's important that the sheep of America receive distorted news, as the truth might upset us. Fortunately few Americans read the alternative news websites or foreign news sources.
What results from a people fed on paranoia, hubris, and lies? Thousands of people singing variations on this about the affair Davis:
Raymond Davis is covered by immunity and shot two men who were pointing guns at him , as verified by the police. Davis should have been released long time back, but due to wild anti-Americanism in Pakistan, Davis is being held and will be illegally tried …
Here we sort through the reports to get the outlines of what happened. We might never learn the truth. However we can try to see through the legends the US government passes to us through their lackeys in the US news media. And we can at least hear the Pakistani side of the story.
For more information see How to lose an ally: updates on the Raymond Davis affair.
- Accounts of the story in the mainstream media
- Real journalism — in the alternative media
- Better information — from the foreign news media
- Does Davis have diplomatic immunity?
- Conclusions, and a guess why we do these things.
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(1) Accounts of the story in the mainstream media
Clay Shirkey has esoteric theories (see here) explaining the decline of the mainstream media. But perhaps their subscribers just tired of reading regurgitated government lies along with a confusing fog of the facts.
- "American Charged in Pakistan Killing", New York Times, 28 January 2011
- "A Dilemma in U.S.-Pakistani Relations", Stratfor, 16 February 2011 — A touching account of the US government's story, with no hint that much of it has looks false. Best line: "Davis shot and killed two armed Pakistani nationals on Jan. 27 because he thought they were going to rob him."
(update) For example, the news media now commonly describe Raymond Davis as a "diplomat", which is clearly incorrect. He has a military background, and may have some degree of diplomatic immunity as a member of the technical or service staff in the US embassy or one of the consolates — the degree depending on his exactly status and place of work (see below for more). But such facts will confuse the narrative, so you shouldn't know them.
But there are nuggets of good coverage, if one digs to find them. These contain details that contradict the US government's story about the Davis incident, and so seldom mentioned in the US press (and by mainstream geopolitical sources like Stratfor):
(a) "In Pakistan, rumbles of a revolution over Raymond Davis", Los Angeles Times, 16 February 2011 — Excerpt:
Witnesses say Davis then got out of his car and snapped photos of the men before driving away. He was pulled over by police minutes later and arrested.
Police continue to seek the driver of an SUV from the U.S. Consulate in Lahore, who rushed to the scene of the shooting after Davis called him. Police say that driver drove the wrong way down a Lahore street and struck and killed another person on a motorcycle. Pakistani police say the Lahore consulate has refused to turn over the driver to authorities.
The men on the motorcycle, Faizan Haider and Faheem Shamshad, were carrying stolen cellphones and handguns, police said. But Lahore Police Chief Aslam Tareen says Davis' claim of self-defense doesn't hold up because Haider was shot in the back as he tried to flee. Tareen also said that though police found ammunition in the magazine of one man's gun, they found no cartridge in its chamber.
(b) "Pakistani police report deems American official 'guilty' in shootings", Washington Post, 13 February 2011 — Excerpt (red emphasis added):
A Pakistani police report says a U.S. Embassy official jailed in the killing of two Pakistani men is "guilty" of murder, citing investigators' findings that the official shot each victim five times, including in their backs, and lied to police about how he arrived at the scene.
… In Pakistan on Saturday, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who was foreign minister until a cabinet reshuffle last week, broke his silence on the incident, asserting at a banquet and to a newspaper that he had lost his job because he did not think Davis was qualified for diplomatic immunity.
… U.S. officials in Pakistan have maintained that the two men, who were on a motorcycle, had criminal backgrounds and held up Davis while he was in his car at an intersection in Lahore. After the shootings, the men were found in possession of cash and a cellphone they had stolen that day, the U.S. officials say. U.S. and Pakistani officials told The Post last week that a police report corroborated that account.
But the police's five-page investigative report, which was written in Urdu and submitted to a municipal court in Lahore, does not reflect that. … The report, citing witness statements, says Davis first shot at the men from inside his sedan, then got out and shot twice more at one of the men, Faizan Haider, as he ran. Davis then took photos and called the U.S. Consulate before fleeing in his car and being apprehended by two traffic wardens, it says. A consular vehicle that came to Davis's rescue fatally struck an uninvolved motorcyclist on the way to the scene, police say.
According to the report, Davis told police that he arrived at the scene from the consulate, but a Global Positioning System tracker in his car indicated that he had driven from his residence. Police had previously said that Davis told them he was returning from a bank.
The two men on the motorcycle were found to be carrying five cellphones, two pistols and currency from Pakistan, Japan, Oman and the Philippines, according to the report. Quoting autopsy results, the report says that each man was shot twice in the back and that one was struck in the head. The report later contradicts itself, saying each man was shot thrice in the back.
The shots to the back are cited in a list of reasons investigators rejected Davis's self-defense assertion. The list notes a lack of witness testimony attesting to a robbery and two empty bullet casings found outside Davis's car, indicating that he shot offensively. It also notes that there were no bullets in the chambers of the victims' pistols.
(2) Real journalism — in the alternative media
"The Deepening Mystery of Raymond Davis and Two Slain Pakistani Motorcyclists", Dave Lindorff, CounterPunch, 8 February 2011 — Journalism lives, just not at our major news media. Excerpt:
Davis (whose identity was first denied and later confirmed by the US Embassy in Islamabad), and the embassy have claimed that he was hired as an employee of a US security company called Hyperion Protective Consultants, LLC, which was said to be located at 5100 North Lane in Orlando, Florida. Business cards for Hyperion were found on Davis by arresting officers.
However CounterPunch has investigated and discovered the following information:
First, there is not and never has been any such company located at the 5100 North Lane address. It is only an empty storefront, with empty shelves along one wall and an empty counter on the opposite wall, with just a lone used Coke cup sitting on it. A leasing agency sign is on the window. A receptionist at the IB Green & Associates rental agency located in Leesburg, Florida, said that her agency, which handles the property, part of a desolate-looking strip mall of mostly empty storefronts, has never leased to a Hyperion Protective Consultants. She added, "In fact, until recently, we had for several years occupied that address ourselves."
The Florida Secretary of State's office, meanwhile, which requires all Florida companies, including LLSs (limited liability partnerships), to register, has no record, current or lapsed, of a Hyperion Protective Consultants, LLC, and there is only one company with the name Hyperion registered at all in the state. It is Hyperion Communications, a company based in W. Palm Beach, that has no connection with Davis or with security-related activities.
The non-existent Hyperion Protective Consultants does have a website (www.hyperion-protective.com), but one of the phone numbers listed doesn't work, an 800 number produces a recorded answer offering information about how to deal with or fend off bank foreclosures, and a third number with an Orlando exchange goes to a recording giving Hyperion's corporate name and asking the caller to leave a message. Efforts to contact anyone on that line were unsuccessful. The local phone company says there is no public listing for Hyperion Protective Consultants — a rather unusual situation for a legitimate business operation.
(3) Better information — from the foreign news media
(a) "Raymond Davis case: Men killed in Lahore were intelligence operatives, says official", The Express Tribune (Pakistan) and International Herald Tribune, 5 February 2011
(b) "Video reveals US diplomat's Pakistan police encounter", Guardian, 10 February 2011 — Excerpt:
Mobile phone clip of Raymond Davis, who shot dead two men in Lahore, deepens mystery about his US embassy role. … Davis says at one point in the video that he's with the US Embassy, which is in Islamabad, and says later that he's doing consulting work for the consular general, who is based at the US consulate in Lahore. He also says he's with the RAO, an apparent reference to the US Regional Affairs Office.
… According to records from the Pentagon, the 36-year-old Davis is a former special forces soldier who left the army in August 2003 after 10 years of service. A Virginia native, he served with infantry divisions prior to joining the 3rd Special Forces Group in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
(c) From Dawn (Pakistani newspaper), 6 February 2011 — This material is the key to the extent of Davis' diplomatic immunity, if any (see below). Excerpt (red emphasis added):
Davis, who was first claimed by the US embassy as a Lahore consulate staffer and was later declared as assigned to Islamabad embassy, at the time of his arrest, according to his interrogators, carried an ID showing that he worked for the US consulate general in Peshawar, a copy of which has been obtained by Dawn. It looks to be an interesting case of an embassy staffer concurrently working at three different stations.
Some of the other information shared with by the investigators confirmed the previously known information that he had a military background and was posted with US Regional Affairs Office {RAO}, which is linked by many analysts to CIA.
A US Department of Veteran Affairs card and Department of Defence contractor card were also in possession of Davis, which only adds to the confusion over his identity. The contract documents in Davis` possession revealed that he was on an annual contract with a fee of $200,000.
The US embassy, in a list of cases of its employees pending for registration, given to the FO {Foreign Office} on Jan 25 (two days before the incident), intriguingly did not mention Davis. However, a revised list submitted a day after the incident on Jan 28 carried his name.
(4) Does Davis have diplomatic immunity?
US sources misrepresent the situation.
- Frequentlycited: Can't Touch This. How far does diplomatic immunity go?", Christopher Beam, Slate, 8 April 2010
- "Can You Get Away With Any Crime if you Have Diplomatic Immunity", Joshua E. Keating, Foreign Policy, 15 February 2011 — "Pretty much, unless your own government gives you up."
In brief, staff of foreign governments have varying degrees of diplomatic immunity, ranging from total to none. For accurate explanation we must turn to the Pakistan news media, such as these two articles in The Express Tribune (Pakistan) and International Herald Tribune by Najmuddin A Shaikh. He served as Pakistan's ambassador to Iran (1992-94) and the US (1990-91), then as Pakistan's foreign secretary from 1994-97.
- "The curious case of Raymond Davis", 7 February 2011
- "The Raymond Davis case: Options for the government", 10 February 2011
The two governing treaties are:
- Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961 (see Wikipedia)
- Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 1963 (see Wikipedia) — Weaker protections for consular staff than in the 1961 treaty.
Davis may have one of three roles, if he is in fact an employee of the US embassy or consulate staffs, as the US State Department explains in their publication Diplomatic and Consular Immunity: Guidance for Law Enforcement and Judicial Authorities (update: I expanded this after publication}. It distinguishes between members of embassys (diplomatic missions) and consulates; the initial reports about Davis (and his IDs) indicate he worked at one or more consulates.
Members of Diplomatic Missions
Members of the administrative and technical staff of a diplomatic mission perform tasks critical to the inner workings of the embassy. Accordingly, they enjoy privileges and immunities identical to those of diplomatic agents in respect of personal inviolability, immunity from criminal jurisdiction, and immunity from the obligation to provide evidence as witnesses.
Members of the service staff of diplomatic missions perform less critical support tasks for the missions and are accorded much less in the way of privileges and immunities than are those in the other categories. Service staff members have official acts immunity only (see further explanation below) and they enjoy no personal inviolability, no inviolability of property, and no immunity from the obligation to provide evidence as witnesses. … {page 4}
Members of Consular Posts
Countries have long recognized the importance of consular functions to their overall relations, but consular personnel generally do not have the principal role of providing communication between the two countries-that function is performed by diplomatic agents at embassies in capitals. The 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations grants a very limited level of privileges and immunities to consular personnel assigned to consulates that are located outside capitals.
There is a common misunderstanding that consular personnel have diplomatic status and are entitled to diplomatic immunity.
Consular officers are those members of consular posts who are recognized by both the sending and the host country as fully authorized to perform the broad array of formal consular functions. They have only official acts or functional immunity in respect of both criminal and civil matters and their personal inviolability is quite limited. Consular officers may be arrested or detained pending trial only if the offense is a felony and that the arrest is made pursuant to a decision by a competent judicial authority (e.g., a warrant issued by an appropriate court).5
… As indicated, official acts immunity pertains in numerous different circumstances. No law enforcement officer, State Department officer, diplomatic mission, or consulate is authorized to determine whether a given set of circumstances constitutes an official act. This is an issue that may only be resolved by the court with subject matter jurisdiction over the alleged crime. Thus, a person enjoying official acts immunity from criminal jurisdiction may be charged with a crime and may, in this connection, always be required to appear in court (in person or through counsel). At this point, however, such person may assert as an affirmative defense that the actions complained of arose in connection with the performance of official acts. If, upon examination of the circumstances complained of, the court agrees, then the court is without jurisdiction to proceed and the case must be dismissed.
Consular employees perform the administrative and technical support services for the consular post. They have no personal inviolability, only official acts immunity, and enjoy immunity from the obligation to provide evidence as witnesses only in respect of official acts. …
Consular Service Staff: Consular service staff do not enjoy personal inviolability or jurisdictional immunity of any kind, but they do have immunity from the obligation to provide evidence as witnesses in respect of official acts. Their family members enjoy no personal inviolability or jurisdictional immunity of any kind. {page 5}
(5) Conclusion, and a guess why we do these things
Now we see the reason for the apparently frantic attempts by the US government to after the fact upgrade Davis' employment status, attempting to give him full diplomatic protection.
None of this matters, since the US government will apply pressure until Pakistan's government releases Davis. This insult to their sovereignty will enrage many in Pakistan. More accurately, further enrage them — following the attacks by US drones and over-the-border crossings by US forces. But we know that no minor nation deserves national pride, but must bow before us.
Our government does not worry about the likely consequences of these policies. Perhaps because our leaders have target fixation:
… the brain is focused so intently on an observed object that awareness of other obstacles or hazards can diminish. … This is a common issue for motorcyclists and mountain bikers. … The term "target fixation" may have been borrowed from World War II fighter pilots, who spoke of a tendency to want to fly into targets during a strafing run. {from Wikipedia}
Despite a decade of killing — by the CIA's mercs, special ops foreces, drones — we are not winning. The reason is obvious to the people running the war.
At an early intergovernmental meeting on the importance of psychological warfare, one of {General} Harkins' key staffmen, Brigadier General Gerald Kelleher, quickly dismissed that theory. His job, he said, was to kill Vietcong. But the French, responded a political officer named Donald Pike, had killed a lot of Vietcong and they had not won. "Didn't kill enough Vietcong," answered Kelleher.
— From The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam (1972)
(6) For more information
For more information about the feeding of sheep see the FM reference page Information & disinformation, the new media & the old.
- News from the Front: America's military has mastered 4GW!, 2 September 2009
- 4GW at work in a community near you , 19 October 2007 — Propaganda warming us up for war with Iran.
- Successful info ops, but who are the targets?, 1 May 2008
- Psywar, a core skill of the US Military (used most often on us), 26 November 2008
- How the Soviet Menace was over-hyped – and what we can learn from this, 13 October 2009
- Another example of war advocates working their rice bowls, 24 December 2009
- Think-tanks bribe journalists to promote our wars, 24 December 2009
- Successful propaganda as a characteristic of 21st century America, 1 February 2010
- Another sad little bit of agitprop, this time from John Nagl, 28 February 2010
- A note about practical propaganda, 22 March 2010
- Programs to reshape the American mind, run by the left and right, 2 August 2010
- The US government successfully smears Wikileaks, while America sleeps, 22 October 2010
- Every day brings new advocacy for war. That's our America., 1 November 2010


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Citrix: Novell's only option for virtualization marriage
Rush to beat Red Hat, repent at leisure
What is commercial Linux distributor Novell going to do about server and desktop virtualization?
It's a good question, and one that the company's top brass has not really addressed.
In July 2006, with the launch of SUSE Linux 10, Novell was the first commercial Linux vendor to ship a Xen hypervisor tuned for Linux. And it is arguable that Novell probably jumped the gun, given the state of Xen, its management tools, and Novell's support of other operating systems beside SLES 10 at the time with its embedded Xen product.
Red Hat certainly thought so. It delayed its embedded Xen support for its Enterprise Linux 5.0 distro until the following March, and then after further consideration, decided to chuck Xen in favor of the KVM hypervisor that it now controls thanks to its $107m acquisition of Qumranet last September.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, a KVM-based, freestanding server hypervisor, has been in beta for two months and is on track to be announced by the end of the year.
What is Novell doing? Well, it has support for Xen in SUSE Linux 11, of course, which debuted at the end of March, and yes, SLES 11 includes a technology preview of a KVM hypervisor.
But nobody wants to use a Linux distro to host Linux and Windows images. If that were the case, Red Hat would have stuck with Xen and its Advanced Platform version of RHEL 5.0 and be done with it. Free-standing hypervisors are the order of the day. And Novell doesn't have one.
VMware does, and has made lots of hay - OK, probably well north of $1bn - with its ESX family of hypervisors over the past several years. The new ESX Server 4.0 hypervisor and related vSphere 4.0 management tools, which were launched in April started shipping a month later, are better than their predecessors that have garnered dominant market share on x64 servers so far.
And from the look of things, ESX Server is not under much of a threat from Hyper-V R2 and its related Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system, which was released to manufacturing in July and will ship later this year.
On the technical front, Hyper-V is not much of a threat to ESX Server, but the fact that Microsoft is giving away Hyper-V puts pricing pressure on VMware just the same because you can bet everyone is telling VMware how wonderful Hyper-V is gonna be. That must make VMware's president and chief executive, and ex-Microsoftie, Paul Maritz cringe.
The freebie XenServer 5.5 hypervisor from Citrix Systems, which was launched in February and started shipping in June, is also putting pricing pressure on VMware. With some tools from partners to help manage Xen-based VMs, XenServer 5.5 is probably the best iteration of Xen in the field to try to compete against VMware. And, considering Citrix shelled out $500m to buy XenSource, the commercial entity behind the Xen hypervisor project, it had better be.
While Citrix was last week crowing that it had more than 150,000 customers download the freebie XenServer, which is a full-featured, standalone hypervisor, it has yet to demonstrate that this will result in revenues.
Oracle is cranking up its server virtualization products, buying Virtual Iron and plotting a course to deliver a complete software stack including its ripoff of RHEL, called Oracle Enterprise Linux, and its take on the Xen hypervisor, called Oracle VM Server. As soon as Oracle is done eating Sun Microsystems, there will be Solaris and other virtualization technologies to throw in the mix.
Wedding bells?
Circling high above the server virtualization space here at El Reg, it sure looks like Novell and Citrix need each other. They need each other as much as Citrix needed to closely ally itself with Microsoft to put out its Essentials tools for managing both XenServer and Hyper-V hypervisors, and as much as Novell needed to make a pact with Microsoft to distribute $340m worth of SUSE Linux support contracts into Windows shops.
I would guess that it won't be long before we hear of a Novell and Citrix announcement debuting Citrix Essentials for SUSE Linux and that Novell - which still does not have a profitable Linux business and cannot afford to code its own standalone hypervisor - has endorsed the XenServer 5.5 hypervisor as its own standalone product.
Novell could endorse KVM, in theory, but that would only help rival Red Hat and it would still mean that Novell has to do something to create its own SUSE Enterprise Virtualization product. It could just pull an Oracle, of course, and change the logos on Red Hat's virtualization. But there is not much honor in that, either.
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The Lakenvelder is thought to originate from the Westfalen area of Germany as long ago as the 1830s. The name, however, is Dutch and is believed to mean a shadow on a sheet and describes their striking black and white plumage. There is also a bantam version and a blue variety which was developed in the Netherlands and brought to the UK. They have a medium sized single comb, white almond shaped ear lobes and an orange-red eye. The legs are featherless and slate blue and they have four toes. They are a slightly built breed with an elongated body and a tail which is carried high. They make a very good utility bird and have white skin and a particularly plump breast. They are seen quite rarely in the United States but always attract attention.
Lakenvelder Behaviour
They are fairly small birds and are good layers, producing white shelled or occasionally tinted eggs. The hens are not good sitters and tend to be rather flighty and wild so need to be contained carefully with suitable fencing as they can manage a 2 ½ metre flight. Chicks mature quickly and grow vigorously but they don't gain their characteristic markings until they have been through their third moult. They are confident, robust birds which tend to avoid human contact and are able to adapt to being kept in confined spaces but prefer to be allowed the freedom to free range. Males weigh around 5-6 lbs while the females are from 3-4½ lbs.
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j aime beaucoup cette poule et tres belle - Coco,
Wonderful Rooster - Ian,
I have a Rooster of this variety. He guards our chickens well, He is very flighty and I think to be honest probably doesn't even like me, but he does his job so damn well I don't care. He is very attentive, in fact he will eat last so he can keep an eye while the hens eat there food. He is always looking for feed for them and then calling the hens to let them know where it is and then while they feed he will get on a high place and look for predators. We have quite a few around here and in the past year since he arrived have not lost a single chicken.
Beautiful but Noisy Bird - Keiko,
I have only had one Lakenvelder. She is a striking bird to look at and despite being called a poor layer has produced eggs with equal consistency to my Easter Egger. The eggs are about 5g smaller than the other chickens. She is an active forager and will eat bugs out of my hand, not at all scared of humans but not fond of being handled either. She does occasionally get stressed at egg time and run around acting flighty. She also tends to be loud, crowing and barking in the early morning when she wants out or cannot find her friend in the garden. Probably a better bird for a country flock with more space. She is excellent at avoiding predators, especially hawks.
Three lady Lakenvelders - Dorothy,
Only had the three lady Lakenvelders for two weeks, and they have settled in with our other bantams very quickly, and were exploring our garden on the second day. Prefer to be outside (even in the rain), and retire later than the other birds.Easy to keep, but do tend to like scratching the garden borders. One bird has laid eight eggs under a prickly Piracantha bush. Perhaps they prefer to lay outside rather than in the nest box in their Ark. Have sent photo's via seperate e-mail to email@example.com
Worthy addition - Piers,
Our Lakenvelders are smart, adaptable, nervy and very alert. They are excellent flyers - 3m vertical lift from a standstill and a 10m+ glide from a fencepost - and this needs to be borne in mind when planning housing. We don't attempt to contain ours; they free-range widely over 10 acres, but always come back to their coop as soon as the light begins to fade. Would like to swap either a pullet or two or a cockerel fort similar from another breed line.


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Many types of death have been described as martyrdom (shahada) by the Prophet (upon him blessings and peace) in his hadiths, which were gathered in a monograph by Shaykh `Abd Allah al-Ghumari entitled Ithaf al-Nubala' bi-Fadl al-Shahada wa-Anwa` al-Shuhada' from which I gathered most of the following:
1. Abu Hurayra (Allah be well-pleased with him) reported that the Prophet said: "Who do you reckon to be martyr (shaheed) among you?" They replied: "The one who is killed in the way of Allah." He said: "In that case the martyrs among my people would be few!" They asked: "Messenger of Allah! Then who are the martyrs?" He said: "He who is killed in the way of Allah is a martyr; he who dies naturally in the Cause of Allah is a martyr; he who dies of plague is a martyr; he who dies of a stomach disease is a martyr; and he who is drowned is a martyr." [Sahih Muslim].
When he was asked why plague is considered as martyrdom, he replied: "It used to be a form of punishment that Allah would send on people, but He made it a mercy for the believers. Any believer who perseveres through it will get the reward of a martyr."
2. "There are five kinds of martyrs: One who dies of plague; one who dies of a disease of the stomach or intestines; one who drowns; one who is crushed in a collapsing building; and one who is martyred in the way of Allah." [al-Bukhari, Muslim, Malik]
3. "He who is killed in the way of Allah is a martyr; he who dies of plague is a martyr; a woman who dies due to pregnancy and a woman who dies during delivery, her baby will drag her into Paradise with the umbilical cord." Musnad Ahmad.
4. "The one who dies of Dhaatul-Janb is a martyr." Ibn Hibban and others. Dhaatul-Janb is a disease in which a swelling happens in a membrane under the rib bones that could lead to death. From the contemporary diseases to which this also applies is death due to cancer.
5. "Dying due to the plague is martyrdom." al-Bukhari and Muslim.
6. "Whoever is killed defending his property is a martyr." al-Bukhari and Muslim
7. "He who dies defending his property is a martyr; he who dies in defense of his own life is a martyr; he who dies in defense of his faith is a martyr; and he who dies in defense of his family is a martyr." Al-Tabarani.
8. "Dying in fire is a martyrdom." Al-Tabarani and Ibn Hibban.
9. "The keeper of my Sunna at the time my Community has lapsed into corruption will receive the reward of a martyr." Al-Tabarani.
10. "Anyone who asks for shahada truthfully shall be given it even if it does not happen to him" i.e. even if he dies peacefully in his bed. Narrated in the Four Sunan.
11. "Whoever leaves his house in the way of Allah then dies or is killed is a shaheed, whether his horse or camel tramples him, or a venomous animal stings him, or he dies in his bed, or in any kind of death Allah wills, truly he is a shaheed and shall have Paradise." Sunan Abi Dawud and al-Hakim.
12. "There are seven kinds of martyrdom other then being killed in the way of Allah: the victim of a stomach disease (al-mabtun) is a shaheed; the victim of fire is a shaheed; the drowned person is a shaheed; the victim of cancer is a shaheed; the victim of plague is a shaheed; the victim of debris is a shaheed; a woman who dies from complications of
pregnancy is a shaheed." Ahmad, the Sunan, al-Hakim and Ibn Hibban, Sahih.
13. "Whoever dies as a stranger or in a strange land dies a shaheed." Narrated by Ibn Majah and declared sound by al-Daraqutni.
14. "Whoever recites the Divine Names in the last three verses of Surat al-Hashr after the dawn or after Maghrib then dies that day or that night, dies a shaheed." Al-Tirmidhi (hasan).
15. From Anas: the Messenger of Allah (upon him blessings and peace) told me: "My son, if you are able to always be on wudu' then do so, for the angel of death when he seizes the servant's soul while the latter is in wudu', he records martyrdom for him." Al-Bayhaqi in Shu`ab al-Iman and al-Hakeem al-Tirmidhi in Nawadir al-Usul.
16. "Whoever prays duha; fasts three days of the month; and never omits witr, shall receive the reward of a martyr." Al-Tabarani in al-Kabir.
17. "If death comes to the student of knowledge while he is thus engaged, he dies as a martyr." Al-Bazzar with a very weak chain.
18. "Whoever falls passionately in love (`ashiqa) but remains chaste and keeps his love secret then dies, dies a shaheed." Narrated by al-Hakim and others. The hafiz Mughultay said: "Its chain is like the sun, there is not the least doubt over its soundness whatsoever."
19. "Whoever dies the night before Jumu`ah or the day of Jumu`ah will be spared the punishment of the grave; and he shall come on the Day of Resurrection bearing the stamp of martyrs." Abu Nu`aym from Jabir but the most authentic part is the first part.
20. "The rider who dies thrown off by his mount is a shaheed." Al-Tabarani.
21. "The one who speaks to a tyrannical leader and commands and forbids him, then the latter kills him–he is a shaheed." Al-Hakim.
22. "The muezzin who expects reward is like the bloodied shaheed and when he dies and is buried the worms leave him alone." Al-Tabarani.


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Dragan de Lazare was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1964 into a family of Yugoslav diplomats. He became interested in comics by reading the work of Franco-Belgian artists like Macherot, Deliège, Tillieux, Hermann and Franquin.
In 1986, he decided to move to Paris, where he received an education in interior decorating. At the same time, he made several comic pages for Yugoslav comic magazines like Strip Zabavnik and Val Strip. In 1989, his work first appeared on the French market with 'Le Témoin', an album starring 'Yves Rokatansky'. Two years later, De Lazare met Mythic, who asked him to participate in the creation of 'Rubine' with François Walthéry. De Lazare has illustrated this police series until 2002, and then handed over the artwork to Boyan. He has also contributed to the Belgrade comic magazine Finesa.
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Heroes in a half-shell show how turtles evolved
Clad in hard, armoured shells, turtles have a unique body plan unlike that of any other animal. Their shells have clearly served them well and the basic structure has gone largely unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs. But this unchanging nature poses a problem for anyone trying to understand how they evolved and until now, fossil turtles haven't provided any clues. All of them, just like their living descendants, have fully formed two-part shells.
But three stunning new fossils are very different. They belong to the oldest turtle ever discovered, which lived about 220 million years ago in the area that would become China. Unlike today's species, its mouth had a full complement of small, peg-like teeth but even more amazingly, it had a feature that distinguishes it from any other turtle, either living or extinct – it only had half a shell.
The ancient turtle was unearthed by Chun Li (no, not that one) from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who called it Odontochelys semitestacea, a name that literally means "toothed turtle in a half-shell". It was a small animal, just 35 cm from snout to tail, and its shell consisted of just a plastron (the bottom half) and not a carapace (the top half).
Li's team believes that this incomplete shell represents an intermediate step along the evolutionary path to the modern version. To them, Odontochelys's anatomy settles debates about how the group's distinctive shell evolved, which animals they were most closely related to and what sort of lifestyles the earliest members had. It's a true hero in a half-shell.
For a start, Odontochelys suggests that the shell was a two-step innovation, with the plastron evolving first and the carapace coming later. In a way, modern turtles replay the evolutionary history of their ancestors as their embryos mature, for the plates of their plastron harden before those of their carapace. Some scientists have used this sequence to argue that the turtles evolved a lower shell before an upper one, and Odontochelys provides strong support for this theory.
The animal also has structures that look like the very earliest stages of carapace evolution. Its upper body may have been uncovered but its upper ribs had started to expand, and its backbone had bony outgrowths at its flanks called neural plates. Li thinks that the widening ribs would eventually merge with each other, and the neural plates, to complete the second half of the distinctive shell. Again, turtle embryos do the same thing as they grow, accomplishing in mere months what their entire lineage took millions of years to do.
Scientists have put forward other theories for the evolution of the carapace. According to one alternative, it evolved from bony scales called osteoderms, which lie just beneath the skin. They are found in many reptiles and are responsible for both the distinctive plated look of crocodiles and the formidable armour of the ankylosaurian dinosaurs. Some say that turtle shells are merely very large osteoderms that fused together over the course of evolution, but Odontochelys consigns that theory to the shredder. Its remains show no signs of any osteoderms.
In this way, the new find settles debates that no previous turtle fossil could. Proganochelys, the animal formerly known as the world's earliest turtle, lived 10 million years after Odontochelys. It, however, did have a fully-formed shell and a massive, spiky one at that. In this way, it was of no use in piecing together the shell's origins and may actually have led scientists down some wrong alleys.
Proganochelys does have possible osteoderms in its legs and some camps used these, along with other features, to suggest that the turtle lineage splintered off from a group of extinct armoured reptiles called pareiasaurs. But according to Li, Odontochelys's bones suggest that turtles were more closely related to another reptile group – the diapsids, which include modern snakes, lizards and crocodiles.
The bones of its foot also suggest that it had reached a stage in development that only adult turtles get to, ruling out the possibility that the three Odontochelys fossils were teenage specimens whose shells simply hadn't finished growing. But whether it truly represented the ancestral turtle body is a more open question.
Li certainly thinks so, but others are less convinced. In a related editorial, Robert Reisz and Jason Head from the University of Toronto argue that the fossil could equally represent a turtle that did have a carapace, but one that hadn't hardened into bone yet. Their view is that Odontochelys is a more advanced species than Li suggests and its carapace had been reduced into an incomplete, softer version, in the style of modern soft-shelled turtles. That would make it an adaptation rather than a primitive state.
Both sides agree that Odontochelys's protected underside, and the size of its front legs, suggest that it spent a lot of time in water (although probably not in sewers). After all, land reptiles would have a greater need to protect their backs than their ground-hugging bellies. But in Li's view, this means that turtles probably evolved from an aquatic ancestor, while to Reisz and Head, it means that Odontochelys evolved from a land-lubbing ancestor and was one of the first turtles to adapt to a watery life.
For now, it's an open question, but either way, Odontochelys is a wonderful example of a 'transitional fossil'. I've blogged about similar discoveries before and they are always great cause for excitement, providing vivid illustrations of the evolutionary past of today's species. What they can't do of course if tell us if Odontochelys led, did machines, was cool but crude, or was, in fact, a party dude.
Reference: Chun Li, Xiao-Chun Wu, Olivier Rieppel, Li-Ting Wang, Li-Jun Zhao (2008). An ancestral turtle from the Late Triassic of southwestern China Nature, 456 (7221), 497-501 DOI: 10.1038/nature07533
Image: from Nature; fossil altered by me
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- Earliest bat shows flight developed before echolocation
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture released its fourth Outlook for U.S. Agriculture Trade in fiscal year 2013 Thursday. USDA projects $139.5 billion in agricultural exports in FY 2013, which if realized would be a new record. Since 2009, U.S. agricultural exports have climbed from $96.3 billion in 2009 to the most-recent forecast of $139.5 billion.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack made the following statement:
"Today's report is promising news that keeps American agriculture on track to continue the strongest period of exports in our nation's history. Agricultural exports are an important part of our economy, supporting more than one million jobs – and as a part of President Obama's National Export Initiative to double U.S. exports by the end of 2014, USDA has worked hard to open new markets for quality U.S. agricultural products. We've helped achieve new trade agreements with countries around the world, helped organic producers export more products through new equivalency agreements, broken down hundreds of unfair barriers to trade, and utilized trade promotion programs that have helped more than 1,000 U.S. businesses and organizations promote agricultural products abroad. Today, we're looking ahead to the next big achievements – particularly a Trans-Pacific Partnership with Asian nations, and a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the European Union.
We must continue working to strengthen markets and opportunity in American agriculture. That's one reason why it is important that Congress achieve passage of a comprehensive Food, Farm and Jobs Bill as soon as possible. Trade promotion efforts provided by the current Farm Bill have been extremely valuable for U.S. producers. A long-term Food, Farm and Jobs Bill would continue these programs, enabling USDA to keep working with producers and businesses to promote their quality products around the world. This is an important step to further increase agricultural exports from the United States and create more good jobs here at home. As we continue our efforts to strengthen agricultural trade, USDA will keep working hard to help Congress pass a multiyear, comprehensive bill as soon as possible."
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World Freedom Day, 2004
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Fifteen years ago, the people of East and West Germany tore down the Berlin Wall, and freedom triumphed over Communism. The dismantling of the Berlin Wall reunited Germany and helped spread freedom across Central and Eastern Europe. With free elections and the spread of democratic values, these countries won their liberty, and their people became free. These democracies today contribute to a strong Europe, and the United States values their friendship and their partnership.
On World Freedom Day, we recognize all of those who fought for liberty and helped end the oppression of Central and Eastern Europe. We stand by those who today are enjoying the blessings of liberty. And we reaffirm our commitment to extending peace and freedom in the world.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim November 9, 2004, as World Freedom Day. I call upon the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities and to reaffirm their dedication to freedom and democracy.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this ninth day of November, in the year of our Lord two thousand four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-ninth.
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Ricki and Kim announced that carob was the theme for this month's Sweet or Savoury (SOS) event, I wasn't sure I would participate. I wanted to. It is the year anniversary of the event. Then I discovered that Sylvia likes it. So I bought a bag and now I must use it.
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favourite chilli non carne, it was a good one. I enjoyed the texture of the soft buckwheat, lentils and kidney beans. The carob gave it a pleasing dark richness. However I couldn't work out if it was my prejudice against the stuff or that I was unused to it or that I just needed some more spices and seasoning but it seems to be a sweeter flavour than usual. Despite that, I would try carob in a chilli non carne again. After all, Ricki and Kim have pointed out that it is packed with nutrients. And Sylvia loves carob.
Previously on Green Gourmet Giraffe:
This time last year: Sophie's moreish tofu - adapted
This time two years ago: Heidi's Chocolate Cake
This time three years ago: Condensed Milk: Heirloom Comfort Food
This time four years ago: MM #12: A marriage of vanilla and chocolate
Chilli non carne with carob and kasha
Loosely based on this recipe
serves 4-6
- 1 tbsp canola oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 2 medium carrots, diced
- 1 tbsp carob powder
- 1, 1/2 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 1/2 tsp smoked paprika
- 1/2 tsp chilli powder (or more if you aren't squeamish about heat like me)
- stir one minute (or add after liquids)
- 3 cups vegetable stock (I only put in 1 cup stock and added some salt)
- 400g silverbeet, chopped (including stems)
- 600g pumpkin, peeled and chopped
- 2 x 400g diced tomatoes
- 400g tin kidney beans, rinsed and drained
- 2/3 cup dried green lentils
- 1/2 cup kasha (buckwheat groats or buckwheat kernels)
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Fannie Kyker Collection
Identifier: M518
Post cards, correspondence, printed items, photos, and other memorabilia collected by this long time Hattiesburg resident.
Dates: circa 1910-2010
Found in: Historical Manuscripts and Photographs
James A. Riley Collection of Mississippi Documents, Newspapers, and Letters
Unprocessed Collection
Identifier: M23
Scope and Contents
Large collection of books, printed material, and memorabilia related to Mississippi and other subjects.
Dates: 1646-to date
Found in: Historical Manuscripts and Photographs
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On Saturday, Nov. 30 at 9 a.m. Eastern, indie developer Hunted Cow Studios is launching its flagship project Eldevin, a 3D massively multiplayer role-playing game (MMORPG) that aims to be the largest ever played in a web browser.
Eldevin has been in development for eight years at the small, self-funded studio. Designed from the ground up, it uses Java technology and is playable in most web browsers on systems running Windows, Mac, and Linux. Founder Packs for early access will be available until midnight on Nov. 29.
Players begin their exciting journey in the Eldevin Kingdom, where the mysterious Elemental Spheres of Power have corrupted the guardians tasked with protecting them, plunging the world into chaos. Now Tristan, the Emperor of the Infernal Empire and guardian of the Dark Sphere, will stop at nothing to satisfy his greed for more power and to conquer the remaining Spheres – even if it means destroying his former homeland of Eldevin. During their quest, players will travel through countless areas, discover lost cities and artifacts, and encounter challenging bosses. With revolutionary real-time combat, Eldevin delivers an exciting adventure for gamers of any age and experience.
Players can ally with the Eldevin Army or the mages of the Arcane Council in an epic quest to protect the Eldevin Kingdom. The game promises hundreds of hours of content and features 14 gathering and crafting professions and several thousand items. Players can take on one of six unique roles – Templar, Warrior, Assassin, Ranger, Mage, and Prophet – but are completely free to mix and match in a classless system of abilities and talents. Adventurers can play solo, participate in group dungeons, and engage in exciting survival challenges. Optional open-world player-versus-player (PvP) combat and competitive game modes like Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, and Domination extend the experience.
"Eldevin's launch marks the culmination of many years of hard work by our small and dedicated 15-member team," said John Stewart, studio manager of Hunted Cow. "Development won't stop here, however, as new features and content are already in the works so the game will continue to grow over the coming years. We'd like to thank all our fans and beta testers for their dedication and support, and we look forward to seeing everyone in game on the 30th."


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The Chapman University Fowler School of Law offers an Appellate Moot Court Board, a Mock Trial Board, and a Dispute Resolution Board where students participate and compete in various simulated court situations, both in house and with schools at the regional and national level.
Lawyering skills competitions at the Fowler School of Law offer "real world" opportunities for students to practice research, writing, analytical, and communications skills. The competitions also provide practical training in ethics, judgment, and professionalism. By participating in the various competition programs, students put their skills into practice in a setting where pride and healthy competition drives them to excel.
Chapman's competition programs are consistently competitive on a local, state and national level, with teams frequently placing among some of the nation's best law schools.
- Graduates who have participated in the competition programs are sought-after by the hiring community, based upon their real world experience.
- Competitions offer an opportunity to learn and internalize necessary skills and values in an intense, enjoyable way.
- Competitions also offer a way to meet and learn from members of the local bench and bar, who have acted as judges and coaches for our teams, and to interact with skilled advocates and judges from outside of Orange County.


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The World Upside-Down: Absurdities, Inversions, and Alternate Realities
The World Upside-Down: Absurdities, Inversions, and Alternate Realities
Columbia University Ancient Mediterranean Graduate Student Conference
November 1-2, 2019. Columbia University in the City of New York, USA.
Keynote Speaker: Patrick R. Crowley (University of Chicago)
In an era of 'fake news' and 'alternative facts' it can seem like no form of media should be entirely trusted. While these issues are a modern problem, exacerbated by the unprecedented rise of social media, evidence from the ancient world produces a similar 'truthiness': an upside-down world or alternate reality that is latent, barely below the surface of the present and just beyond the borders of civilization and norms. Unlike utopias, which are placeless or displaced, many of these imagined dystopic or feigned worlds are presented as dangerously close to their contemporaries.
We invite papers from graduate students working across disciplines related to the ancient world––and interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged––for a conference that will explore the relationships between fact and fiction, order and chaos. From representations of alternate realities in ancient drama, painting, and sculpture, to disparate histories and archaeological evidence, we hope to discuss the motivations behind, and effects of, the absurd, inverted, and alternative.
We will consider papers in any field pertaining to the ancient Mediterranean and its surrounding regions, including Egypt, the Near East, Anatolia, and the expanses of the Roman Empire, falling within the period spanning from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity.
Potential topics could include:
- Parodies of social norms or myths; visions of dystopia in any media
- Humorous, didactic, or bleak exaggerations or distortions of reality
- Intrusion or inclusion of 'outsiders'/'others' or inversions of gender roles
- Intentional falsehoods, perversions, or omissions of facts, events, truths, etc. (e.g. imperial art and architecture as propaganda; Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus)
- Reuse, erasures, and/or destructions of media to support 'alternative facts'
- Political or philosophical theory concerning the preconditions of civic disorder/chaos
- Religious or ritual interventions (e.g. curse tablets, incubation/healing cults, oracular questions, the Lydian confession stelai)
- Ancient reception that serves to either reveal inherent disparities in or alter its source material (e.g. Plutarch's Lives, Pausanias' consideration of alternative versions of the same narrative)
- The power of nonsensical/untrue performative utterances
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be emailed to email@example.com no later than May 4th, 2019. In the body of your email, please include your name, institution, contact information, and the title of your abstract. The abstract should be anonymous and sent as an attachment. Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes in length in order to accommodate questions.
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Committee Members:
Müge Arseven (Art History & Archaeology)
Bailey Barnard (Art History & Archaeology)
Karin Christiaens (Art History & Archaeology)
Maria Dimitropoulos (Classical Studies)
Alexander Ekserdjian (Art History & Archaeology)
Mary-Evelyn Farrior (Classical Studies)
Geoffrey Harmsworth (Classics)
Nikki Sarto (Art History & Archaeology)
Brian van Oppen (Art History & Archaeology)


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As the book industry continues to change, we are inundated
with statistics about user behavior:
49% of e-book readers are bought as gifts
28% of US adults are avid (5+ hours/week)
readers [Verso]
– 64MM avid readers
The heart of the U.S. romance novel readership
is women aged 31-49 who are currently in a romantic relationship. [Romance
Writers of America]
These statistical nuggets are great because in
isolation they give us a glimpse into why people do what they do, and how we
can adjust our business to match market needs. But how often do we blindly
accept data because it comes with pretty graphs and sound bites that seem to make
sense? Probably more often than we'd like to admit.
The best way to ensure that we are not led astray,
is to look at what biases have been introduced into a study before using its
data to make a decision. Bias is
systematic favoritism in the data collection process which causes misleading
results. Two types of bias are hazards in
studies: selection bias and measurement bias.
Selection Bias can occur when the group that is
surveyed does not accurately reflect the target of the study, or is simply too
small to matter. For example, if a study claims to describe the behavior of all
readers in the U.S. but only surveys 30 stay-at-home moms in Indiana, it is
hardly representative of every reader in the country.
Measurement Bias occurs when the questions asked
favor a specific outcome. A survey question like "Do you agree that e-books are
replacing print books as the preferred medium?" will deliver very different
results than one that asks readers to choose their preferred medium from among
e-books, purchased p-books or books checked out from the library.
As you read a study, ask yourself the following
questions to determine if the authors tried to mitigate bias. Remember: the
target population is the group that you want to generalize about, and the
sample is the group that you actually survey in order to make those
Is the
target population (sometimes called the sampling frame) well-defined? If it
isn't, the study may contain people outside the target, or it may exclude
people who are relevant. In researching e-book reader purchase behavior, a
well-defined population could be American consumers who purchased an e-book
reader either online or in a physical store over the last 2 years. But if a
study only looked at online shoppers at Christmas, the results could be skewed
towards gift givers, and they could not be generalized to consumers who bought
e-book readers in stores.
Is the
sample randomly selected from the target population? In a truly random sample, every member of the
target population has the same chance of being included in the study. When
asking this question be wary of surveys that are conducted exclusively on the
web, but draw generalizations about all people. These types of studies have
participants that are not randomly selected, as they only capture a
slice of the traffic to a given domain, and at best can only ever speak to the
habits of the users of the particular site conducting research.
Does the
sample represent the target population? Here it is important to look at all
of the characteristics of the target population to see if they are mirrored in
the sample. If you are looking to figure out the book purchase habits of
Americans, make sure the sample has the same diversity of ethnicity, geographic
distribution and age as is reported in the latest U.S. census.
Is the
sample large enough? The larger the sample the more accurate the results. A
quick way to estimate if a sample is large enough to produce a reasonably small
margin of error is to divide 1 by the square root of the sample size (Margin of
Error=√Sample Size). So a 1,500 person survey would produce a margin of error
of 2.58%. It is also important that the sample size in this calculation be the
number of people who responded to survey, not the number of survey requests
that were sent out.
What is
the response rate for the survey? The response rate is defined as the number of people in a target population who actually responded to a given survey. If the response rate is too low, a study may only reflect people who have a strong opinion about the topic, making the results biased toward their opinions and not the larger and less vociferous target population. A "good" response rate is dependent upon the margin of error that a study is looking to achieve (or that it claims), and the size of the target population being studied. There are two factors to consider here. The first one is a no-brainer: The higher the response rate, the more accurate the study. The second is a little more subtle. The larger the target poplulation being examined, the lower the response rate required for the same level of accuracy. The linked figure helps explain the correlation graphically. (According to the chart, for a study that is looking to achieve a margin of error of +/- 5%, and is studying a population of 2000 people, the response rate needs to approach 20% to achieve the desired result.) At the end of the day, know the response rate and make sure it closely matches the stated margin of error that study purports to achieve.
Do the
questions appear to be leading the respondents into a particular answer? If
they do, run the other way! This means that the researchers' agenda is adding a
measurement bias and the results aren't worth the paper they are printed on. Also be wary of any study that doesn't
share its sampling method, sample characteristics and survey questions.
In the end, the goal of a
survey is to accurately describe a larger population. This can only be done if
great care is taken to 1) ensure that the results wouldn't change much if
another sample was taken under the same conditions and to 2) reduce biases that
can be introduced into the system.
About the Author
Jeevan Padiyar is a technology entrepreneur and product strategist with ten years experience in e-commerce and product development. He is passionate about using data to validate growth strategies for new market penetration.
A pioneer in the book rental industry, Jeevan is CEO/CFO of BookSwim. Jeevan helped shape podcast monetization as chairman and CFO of RawVoice, Inc., making ad deals with GoDaddy, Citrix and HBO. Prior to that, he studied medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellow. Before coming to New York, Jeevan founded arena blimp manufacturer Simply Blimps. He led it to $30M in sales in five years, with clients like NHL, NBA, Yum Brands and Subway.
Jeevan holds degrees in chemistry and biochemistry from Kansas State, graduating Phi Beta Kappa


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Part 46 Training Assistance - Forms
This is the menu page for the forms found in the Part 46 Starter Kit. You may fill these out while on they are on your computer screen or download these forms by using the "File Save" option in your browser.
Please be aware that on-screen completion of forms is not to be confused with on-line submission. After completing your selection, you will need to print the plan on your printer.
You may also choose to submit your training plans to MSHA via regular mail or e-mail. If you wish to submit your plan by e-mail, it will need to be in Word format. PDF forms will not save the data when you save the form. If you have Adobe Acrobat you may export data to a form data file and then import that data back into the same form. This gets complicated for alot of users. We are working on alternative methods for submitting this data. You may find both e-mail and postal mailing addresses at Educational Field and Small Mine Services Contacts .
You will notice that there are buttons at the bottom of each page designed to clear a particular page of information. There are also buttons on the last page of each document which will allow you to clear the whole form or print the form.
Important: You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or higher for these forms to function properly. If you do not have this version, it may be downloaded from Adobe, free of charge. Please use the link below to download the latest version of Adobe Reader.
30 CFR Part 46 Starter Kit Forms
- General Information (Cover Sheet)
- New Miner Training Program (Section A)
(Part 1 of 2)
- New Miner Training Program (Sections B & C with Other Subjects)
(Part 2 of 2)
- Newly-Hired Experienced Miner Training Program (Section A)
(Part 1 of 2)
- Newly-Hired Experienced Miner Training Program (Sections B, C, D & Other Subjects)
(Part 2 of 2)
- New Task Training Program
- Annual Refresher Training Program
- Hazard Awareness Training Program
- Training Materials Order Form
- All of the Above Forms
30 CFR Part 46 Training Records/Certificates
- New Miner Training Record/Certificate
- Newly-hired Experienced Miner Training Record/Certificate
- New Task Training Record/Certificate
- Annual Refresher Training Record/Certificate
- Site-specific Hazard Awareness Training Record/Certificate
- All of the Above Forms
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summertime has finally arrived. One of the first things that come to mind when you think about these hot summer days is a swimming pool. Whether you have one in your own yard, or spend time at a friends pool, or even a local town pool, the best ways to beat the summer heat is relaxing poolside. With the temperatures rising, swimming pools in NJ are about to be enjoyed by many.
Swimming pools have long been one of Americas favorite summer past times. While they are a common enjoyment, it is also a big investment and responsibility deciding to add a pool to your home. With the seasons that New Jersey endures, there are often obstacles and delays that you may face throughout the process. Though the pool installation process may be grueling at times, and though the delays with Mother Nature can be frustrating, the final product of your new swimming pool makes it all worthwhile.
Pool landscape design is another investment that goes hand in hand with a newly installed swimming pool. It takes a professional landscape design firm to understand the proper plants and bulbs to complement the pool and how to design a landscape that will work best with your yard and natural daylight. Annuals and Tropicals need to be strategically placed and chosen carefully to guarantee longevity and work best with their natural surroundings.
There are many landscape architects that specialize in pool designs in New Jersey. Its important to do some research to see which firms have the most experience in pool landscape design and would be able to work alongside a pool installation company. Achieving the ideal pool in your yard, that fits in seamlessly to its surroundings, requires a harmonious partnership between contractors and designers.
With the summer months rapidly approaching, the idea of adding a pool to a homeowners yard becomes a more and more popular request. Swimming pools are becoming more and more common throughout many towns in New Jersey. Weekend trips to the shore always entail traffic and traveling. Many families are opting to have a swimming pool retreat right in their own backyard.
Swimming pools are the ideal way to get family and friends together, on hot summer days, to relax and enjoy the sunshine. It provides easy entertainment for parties and gatherings all season long. While the process may seem tiresome and overwhelming, the payoff is great. It is a worthy investment that will be enjoyed for generations to come.
Escape the heat this summer and for many summers to come by researching a team of pool installers and a pool landscape design firm that would work best to bring your dream pool oasis to a reality.