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England 226 for six wickets at close of first day at MCG
Record crowd of 91,092 watch the action in Melbourne
Australia lead series 3-0 and have won back the Ashes
Kevin Pietersen 67 not out as England falter again
Basking in the glory of winning back the fabled Ashes from traditional rivals England, Australia's cricketing fans turned up in world record numbers Boxing Day in Melbourne to see their side continue its domination of the series.
England closed on 226 for six wickets, with only Kevin Pietersen, undefeated on 67, suggesting they might post a challenging first innings total.
Two late wickets with the second new ball for paceman Mitchell Johnson swung the initiative Australia's way to leave the majority of the 91,092 crowd at the MCG celebrating.
Read: Australia win back Ashes with Perth triumph
The attendance broke a previous world best for attendance at a cricket match set 52 years ago in the same vast stadium.
"In years to come Melburnians will remember Boxing Day 2013 as the day their city created sporting history," Cricket Australia's CEO, James Sutherland, told Cricket Australia's website.
England's loyal band of cricket supporters – nicknamed 'The Barmy Army' – also helped boost the figure, but with their team 3-0 down in the best of five-match series they came more in hope than expectation.
Until Johnson's late first day burst, removing Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow, who had replaced the out-of-form Matt Prior as England's wicketkeeper, the visitors had held their own, although the scoring rate was pedestrian.
Put in to bat by Australia's captain Michael Clarke, England made it to lunch for the loss of his counterpart Alastair Cook to Peter Siddle.
Read: Kallis to retire from Test arena
Cook's opening partner Michael Carberry went after the interval, again failing to capitalize on a solid start to be bowled by Shane Watson for 38.
That brought Pietersen to the wicket and he looked determined to atone for earlier failures in the series, which had led some to question his place in the side.
He enjoyed a slice of luck, hooking a short ball from the excellent Ryan Harris in the direction of substitute fielder Nathan Coulter-Nile, who could only carry the ball over for a six.
On 41, Harris almost had him again, but George Bailey could not hold a sharp chance at midwicket.
Pietersen found support from Joe Root and Ian Bell, but both departed after starts to Harris, both caught behind by Brad Haddin, the Australia wicketkeeper.
Stokes and Bairstow were unable to cope with the 90mph plus pace of Johnson, a key figure in Australia's three earlier wins.
It left Pietersen at the wicket with Tim Bresnan and just the England tailenders to come.
Bell, who starred for England in the summer when they beat Australia 3-0 in a home series, still held hope that Pietersen could lift them into a good position on the second day.
"With Kev not out it's a good sign for us," Bell told Sky Sports.
Read: Trott returns home with stress-related illness
"A lot of us got starts and are disappointed not to get scores. We would have liked a few more runs as well," he admitted as the pattern of the earlier matches continued.
"We need big runs and we've not got them, but if Kev and Bres (Tim Bresnan) can hang around, maybe we will get 300 plus and put some pressure on Australia."
But with Johnson fired up, Australia will look to quickly remove the remaining England batsmen at the start of the second day and post a big score of their own in their bid to achieve a humiliating series whitewash of their oldest rivals.
Meanwhile in other Test match action Thursday, India reached 181 for one wicket on the first day of the second Test against No.1 ranked South Africa in Durban.
Indian batsmen Murali Vijay and Cheteshwar Pujara were sharing an unbeaten century partnership for the second wicket before bad light stopped play.

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S&P Drops for Fourth-Straight Day
FOX Business: Capitalism Lives Here
The broad S&P 500 fell for the fourth day in a row Wednesday as energy stocks sold off on the back of a profit warning from oil giant Chevron.
Today's Markets
As of 3:20 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 136 points, or 1%, to 13339, the S&P 500 dipped 9.7 points, or 0.67%, to 1432 and the Nasdaq Composite slumped 15.7 points, or 0.51%, to 3049.
Chevron (NYSE:CVX) revealed after the close of trading Monday that its third quarter profits would be substantially lower than the second quarter. The Dow component's shares tumbled more than 4% on the news, shaving close to 40 points from the blue-chip average and weighing heavily on the energy sector.
Alcoa (NYSE:AA) kicked off earnings season after the closing bell on Tuesday with a beat on both the top and bottom lines. However, the blue-chip aluminum giant chopped its 2012 global aluminum demand forecast to 6% from 7%, citing the ongoing "slowdown" in China. The warning sparked fears about the forward outlook for corporate profits.
"Expectations for earnings season are for a general slowdown in revenues, a reflection of the stagnation seen around the world," Chris Beauchamp, a market analyst at IG Index wrote in an email.
Analysts also said a report from the International Monetary Fund suggesting European banks may have to shed between $2.8 trillion and $4.5 trillion in assets as a result of increasing stress on the financial system weighed on sentiment.
The U.S. economy continued expanding modestly in September from August, the Federal Reserve said in its anecdotal Beige Book report. The central bank noted that the residential housing market was showing "widespread improvement," while consumer spending and manufacturing improved slightly.
Employment conditions were largely unchanged; however, many districts noted that uncertainty from U.S. fiscal policy, the presidential elections and the European debt crisis were restraining hiring.
Also, the Commerce Department said wholesale inventories climbed 0.5% in August from July, matching economists expectations. Later in the day, the Federal Reserve releases its Beige Book. The report provides an anecdotal look at how the economy is faring across the central bank's 12 districts.
Oil futures sold off after posting big gains in the prior session. The benchmark contract traded in New York dipped $1.10, or 1.2%, to $91.29 a gallon. Wholesale New York Harbor gasoline rose 0.02% to $2.961 a gallon.
In metals, gold gained 10 cents, or 0.01%, to $1,765 a troy ounce.
Foreign Markets
The Euro Stoxx 50 fell 0.63% to 2457, the English FTSE 100 dipped 0.58% to 5777 and the German DAX slumped 0.41% to 7205.
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WOLHAUPTER, BENJAMIN, watchmaker, silversmith, justice of the peace, militia officer, and office holder; b. 10 July 1800 in Saint John, N.B., second son of John Wolhaupter* and Mary Payne Aycrigg; m. 1820 Catharine Phoebe Brannan of Fredericton, and they had six children; d. 27 Jan. 1857 in Fredericton.
Having spent his early years in Saint John and Sheffield, Benjamin Wolhaupter moved with his family to Fredericton in 1813. There, working under his father, he began his apprenticeship as a watchmaker and silversmith. He finished his term in 1820, bought a house, married, and commenced practising his craft, probably with his father. Shortly thereafter he opened his own watchmaking and jewellery shop which he continued to operate until 1825.
On 16 May 1821 Wolhaupter petitioned the lieutenant governor, George Stracey Smyth*, to grant him the small three-acre island, known as Rain Island, situated in the River Nash (Nashwaak River) just above its confluence with the Saint John River. Although he promised to cultivate and improve the land, the petition was denied by 22 May, perhaps because the island had been inundated by the spring runoff. Despite this unsuccessful petition, Wolhaupter soon secured a more valuable grant within the town limits of Fredericton at the site of the old jail. The 6 Dec. 1825 issue of the New-Brunswick Royal Gazette carried a notice to his customers in which he advised them of his change in locale. Wolhaupter had two apprentices: in 1824 he took on Benjamin Franklin Tibbits (Tibbets) who is credited by some with later inventing the compound steam-engine, and in 1832 Wolhaupter's eldest son, Charles John, joined him. Charles completed his training in 1839 and in August of that year opened his own business in Chatham.
In 1837 Wolhaupter had been appointed magistrate for York County, the first of a series of public offices he was to hold. He was called on for active service as captain and quartermaster of the York-Sunbury Regiment of militia during the 1839 confrontations which arose over the New Brunswick–Maine boundary dispute [see Sir John Harvey]. On 15 February of that year, in a letter to his brother Charles, Wolhaupter explained that he was "no advocate of war . . . but if our country is threatened with invasion, it is the duty of every man and every Christian to turn out cheerfully and protect the Blessings and Privileges that we enjoy."
Once the threat of war was removed, he extended his business interests; he became a director of both the Commercial Bank of New Brunswick and the Quebec and St Andrew's Railroad, and in 1846 he was elected president of the Central Fire Insurance Company. A short time later Wolhaupter was appointed provincial commissioner for public buildings. In 1847 he became high sheriff of York County, a position he held until his death. His son Charles John, who had returned to Fredericton in the early 1840s and gradually assumed sole responsibility for his father's business, left in 1851 to join the adventurers going to the Australian gold-rush. It can be assumed that the Wolhaupter watchmaking and jewellery business was closed before he left. Wolhaupter Sr was a devout member of the Church of England, a vestryman of Christ Church, Fredericton, and a close friend of Bishop John Medley*.
Only a few pieces of Benjamin Wolhaupter's work as a watchmaker and silversmith are known to have survived: a grandfather clock and a silver teaspoon are part of the collection of the York-Sunbury Historical Society Museum, Fredericton; another clock, a few pieces of silver flatware, and a gold watch belong to his descendants. Letters to the Fredericton papers after his death extolled his virtues as a man and offered tribute to his integrity and magnanimity in public office. The Head Quarters stated that "no man we know of had more of the milk of human kindness in his breast than Sheriff Wolhaupter. Always merry and jocose – always kind and humane – sympathizing warmly with the distressed – we do not believe that he left behind a single enemy."
PANB, MC 1, A. C. Wolhaupter, "Wolhaupter," 1960; MC 300, MS60; RG 10, RS107, C10: 143. Gleaner (Chatham, N.B.), 21 Aug. 1839, 6 Oct. 1842. Head Quarters (Fredericton), 27 Jan. 1857. New-Brunswick Royal Gazette, 6 Dec. 1825. True Liberator (Saint John, N.B.), 30 Aug. 1847. The old grave-yard, Fredericton, New Brunswick: epitaphs copied by the York-Sunbury Historical Society Inc., comp. L. M. Beckwith Maxwell (Sackville, N.B., 1938). Fredericton's 100 years; then and now, ed. Frank Baird (Fredericton, [1948]). I. L. Hill, Fredericton, New Brunswick, British North America ([Fredericton?, 1968?]). D. C. Mackay, Silversmiths and related craftsmen of the Atlantic provinces (Halifax, 1973).
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Dad took me to a new VET so I thought maybe it would not involve the usual treatments, but I was wrong. Mom had recently noticed that my Sass-O-Meter was down again and that I have been a bit on and off lately. So when I had some gastric distress over the weekend, coupled with some weight loss she conspired with Dad on a plan to remove me from my happy home.
I don't think I can even go into the horror that was my visit. Sure the new VET was very nice and the gave me a little gas to keep me calm but really, I Never! I am still a bit groggy now.
Turns out I have Hyperthyroidism. It's pretty common in older cats and it's very treatable the VET said. Unfortunately I need to take a pill twice a day and although they are small, I will search and refuse that pill out of any treat they try to hide it in. My mission is clear!
Mom Meg Edit: If anycat or human has a kitty with this issue or any ideas on how to sneak in a pill or two a day please let me know.
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Sorry! SS has NEVER had any luck in getting me to take pills in the last decade.ReplyDelete
Purrs to you, my SIF. You have my sympathy as well as purrs.
no food until treat goes down the hatch! sorry, fin.ReplyDelete
My mom has a ton of experience with hyperthyroidism, both Morgan (the one who started it all) and my dear precious mentor Jonathan had it. Mom did not give them pills. She went with the radioactive iodine treatment. It seems more expensive up front, but in the long run it's cheaper and super effective.ReplyDelete
She's also a master pill popper too.
Mom lays me on my back and pries open my little mouth and puts the pill in the back of my mouth and blows on my face to make sure I swallow it. It usually works! I'm not going to saw how long it takes for her to pry my little jaws open.ReplyDelete
I hope you are feeling better.
Hi Finny friend,ReplyDelete
I'm so sorry to hear of your VET drama. We've all been there. (as you know I've got a "mark" on my vet file... cantankerous, etc...) Hold your ground with the pill, at least at first. You have to on behalf of all us cats. But eventually you'll need to let your mom win. She and we are going to want you around for a long, long time.
PS - Glogirly has a pill popper syringe thing that she thinks works pretty good. (I won't eat anything except my crunchy gingivitis food, so there's no place for those pesky pills to hide there.)
Oh we're so sorry you are hyper-t, Fin, but we hear it is really treatable...but that means taking pills! Our mom is an expert pill giver and we usually don't give her much trouble with taking pills when we gotta take them. But there's also these things call pill pockets which are treats with a little place you stick a pill in and you get the pill and the treat all at once! A win-win situation! You can get pill pockets at PetSmart or other pet stores.ReplyDelete
Good luck and we hope you feel your ol' self soon, Fin!
Poor Finny! What an indignity!ReplyDelete
Mummy uses a cat Pill Popper for me and Cosmo (like this one)..
We both have jaws of steel, but this works really easily and makes the experience less stressful for all of us!
Now, I'm off to Google "Hyperthyroidism in cats"...
- AnonymousOctober 26, 2009 at 9:14 PM
Fin, we sympathize, and Caitie in particular... she also has hyperthyroidism. However, where we live there are "compounding pharmacies" that put together alternatives to pills. There's transdermal cream, which we rub into Nicky's ears, and flavored liquid, which we squirt into Caitie's mouth 2 times a day. Way easier than pills!ReplyDelete
Awww, Fin! I'm sorry to hear you're unwell, but you gotta take the tablet, and just be sure to get the cuddles afterwards!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 26, 2009 at 11:33 PM
Good things it´s curable!!! And oh, pills are hard! We have nooo idea how to trick the cats into swallowing them, other than holding the cat tightly, placing the pill deep in the cat´s mouth and stroke on the throat to get it down. But it´s bit of a hassle. Would love to get good tips!ReplyDelete
Get well soon!
Oh Fin, I hope u will get well soon! But u must take the pills.ReplyDelete
My mom usually will get my two sisters help her, wrap me with a towel like a burrito, only my head are not wrap.
Then, one of my sister will hold my body, mom will open my mouth, and my other sister will put the pills.
I can't resist..
But I hate it!
I'm sorry to hear you're not feeling the best Fin. Mum says the pill syringe is the only thing that has worked for her in the past. But it can get ugly :)ReplyDelete
Oh, Fin. Well, I am glad the vet figured out what ails you and it is very treatable. When Harley was taking pills, my Mommeh just pried open his mouth and stuck the pill far back in his mouth. To make sure he swallowed it, she gave him a piece of food.ReplyDelete
Sorry you had to go to the V-E-T. Not fun at all. Maybe you'll feel perkier though, my floofy friend.ReplyDelete
We have never had to take any pills so I am at a loss as to what to suggest. Put it in ham?
Purrs and good luck!
Scylla refuses to take pills I even tried the Greenies pill pockets without luck. So we had to resort to the force it down her throat method. Not nice for either one of us. ~AlasandraReplyDelete
Suey is an expert at not taking pills. She has had some epic battles with mum in the past. That was, until mum got a pill popper. It was the best $5 mum ever spent.ReplyDelete
We are glad that they found out what was wrong and are able to treat it, Finny.
Oh Finny, I'm sad to hear that you have to be on medication. But it sounds very good that it's so treatable and I'm relieved your humans found out so quickly. With pills mom either cradles us in her left arm, opens the mouth and pops in the pill, or she put it in a treat we call "sticks". Those are long "meat" sticks where she pokes a hole in at the front to hide the pill. It always works with Chilli, but not everytime with me.ReplyDelete
I hope you will feel better with this treatment and your sass-o-meter will be full again!
Purrs, LSIF
I'm so very sorry to hear about your condition -- but at least it is very treatable! Fin, you be a good girl now -- it's all in the interest of your health.ReplyDelete
I found if I put the pill in a bit of butter, that it generally went down the throat better -- didn't get stuck or anything. Also, you have to open the mouth with one hand, and place the pill right at the back of the throat. Then they automatically swallow it.
With the butter, too, it leaves a nicer taste in their mouth, and it's a small treat as well. I mean we are talking a very small bit of butter, here. Just enough to coat the pill.
Good luck!
Poor Fin, we're sorry to hear about your being sicky. At least it's something sorta easy to fix, but you really do need to be a good kitty and let your mom give you your pills. We wouldn't want to lose you, dear friend!ReplyDelete
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The Kitty Krew
Sorry to hear that you were a little under the weather. And more sorry to hear that you had to go to the vet. Even thought we don't like the vet he/she is trying to help you get feeling better. It is just they don't go about it in the nicest of ways.ReplyDelete
I have no idea to pass on to your folks about hiding a pill, thought even if I knew I don't think I would share that with them, but I don't think there is anyway to get a pill snuck to us if we don't want it.
So best thing to do is just take the pill, makes things easier on all. They are going to give it to you anyway.
We're sorry to hear yoo've been under the wevver.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 27, 2009 at 7:17 AM
pills are the worst...too bad it dosen't come in a liquid, the squirt medicine I recently had for Arjuna went down like a dream.ReplyDelete
Aw poor Fin. At least now you will start feeling better! Smokey likes when I hide his pills in cheese, but most times I have to be the mean mommy and force them down the hatch. ;(ReplyDelete
Along the same lines as smear the pill with butter, a smear of soft cheese (like Velveeta slices) makes at least the aftertaste better. And my brother Gandalf liked the cheese so much he ate it even though he knew the pill was inside.ReplyDelete
Mommy uses a pill shooter followed by a treat for me. I am such a good girl that I come when she calls me to get my pill. She barely pulls up on my fangs and I open my mouth for her. Sometimes I start opening my mouth before she even puts her hand there. She never held me down or burritoed me. Even in the beginning she just pulled up on the top of my head with one hand (thumb and 1st finger over the fangs). I really like treats, so that worked well for us. I have trained her to give me treats almost every time.ReplyDelete
P.S. The dog takes his in kielbasa and Riley used to take his in cheese or pill pockets.
Sorry you're under the weather, Fin! Minnie loves pill pockets, so I hide pills in there. I've also hidden them in a ball of her favorite stinky-meat. Either way, she eats 'em. I never had any luck shoving a pill down her throat manually.ReplyDelete
Oh noes, Fin! Sorry to hear about your condition, but we are so glad to hear it's treatable! As for the pill, Cal refused and spit our any pill mom would give him, but he LOVED pill pockets!!!ReplyDelete
Feel better soon, sweetie!!
oh no the v e t! that is always a horrifying experience for us, even the car ride so much that we dont go very often cause mo cant bare it or something. i guess that is good for us.ReplyDelete
we hopes you feels better!!!!!!!!
we do well , well kinda well, with liquid and droppers but no pills!
I'm a pill-popping expert, and I swear by the pill shooters. They're like a 6 inch straw but they have a little compartment up front that's rubber that you stuff the pill in and so you just get the cat's mouth open and put it at the back of the throat... push the little trigger down and the pill goes down the hatch. Close cat's mouth and hold for a few seconds, and release. The trick to getting them to cooperate is 1, sit around them... almost on them. Back legs wrapped around their hind end, your butt on your heels (so long as you don't squish the cat). this keeps kitty from going any way but forward. As for opening the mouth, push into their mouth near the jaw hinge on both sides. I haven't yet seen a cat that doesn't open for that. Ask your vet for a pill shooter... they'll know what I'm talking about. TRUST ME on this. I used to get MAULED. Now I don't even get nibbled or scratched. The cat'll get over it soon enough once the ickiness goes away!ReplyDelete
pills are horrible! My mom always takes me to the vet to take them (she cann't put into my mouth)ReplyDelete
Fin, taking pills can be a drag, have your 'rents try pilll pockets, you might like them!ReplyDelete
ps - I am glad that you have something that can be treated! Whew!
We are sorry Fin! I too am not good with the pills! We hope you do take them though!ReplyDelete
I've never had to take pills (knock on wood) so my humans don't have any advice. I hope you figure something out soon!ReplyDelete
Hi Fin,ReplyDelete
I hope you're feeling 100% sassy in no time.
Fin that stinks that you have hyperthyroidism - but at least it is fairly easy to take care of (well, other then wrestling to get the pill down). We had two cats with it growing up - they didn't mind the pill in their food though.ReplyDelete
With Floyd when he was still eating he would take it in either a treat or cheese but now that he is not eating on his own I have to give it to him - convince him to open the mouth and pop the pill in as far back as possible. That is working better now then it used to but he really fights me on it sometimes. I wish I had a better suggestion for you.
Oh dear! The cursor not working!! Mom had trouble with that on her laptop once.... come to find out it was just one little tiny button that got pushed accidentally!ReplyDelete


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PRAGUE (WOMENSENEWS)–Jana Ciglerova may be on maternity leave from her regular newspaper column, but that doesn't mean she's left off focusing on her writing.
While filing stories from home for the Mlada fronta Dnes, the major Czech daily, and taking care of her first child, the 32-year-old journalist also regularly produces documentaries about high-profile women for the popular Czech television program "13th Chamber."
On Jan. 1, the country took the helm of the European Union's rotating presidency, becoming, for the next six months, the agenda-setter for the political and economic bloc.
Over the past 20 years, the formerly communist Czech Republic has made massive strides in catching up with its Western neighbors. In 2006 the country was also one of the first former communist nations recognized by the World Bank as having graduated to "developed" nation status.
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Most recently, on Jan. 9, her subject was the well-known Czech architect Eva Jiricna, who now lives in London.
"I concentrate on their struggle to break through in a man's world," Ciglerova says of her TV subjects.
In 2007, while Ciglerova was still working full-time at the newspaper, she focused one of her columns on male-female relations.
In one part of the article she questioned the Czech tradition of women assuming their husbands' surnames and then attaching the suffix "-ova," meaning "belonging to." She also criticized the widespread attitude among Czech men that women should be solely responsible for domestic duties.
In 2008, a Prague-based nongovernmental organization that focuses on gender issues, Zaba na Prameni (Frog in the Spring), gave her column its second annual award for best gender equality article of the year.
Dana Radova, program director of Prague-based Zaba na Prameni, says Ciglerova's column was selected from a large number of articles nominated by the public. "This was a super text from Jana Ciglerova," Radova says. "She very often writes about this problem between women and men."
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By contrast, Ciglerova says the column wasn't so well received among colleagues at Mlada fronta Dnes.
One male colleague, she says, accused her of being "bitter as a woman" and unsatisfied with her job. "What am I bitter about? I have a wonderful husband. I have a wonderful relationship," she recalls telling him. "I like what I do and I'm very good at it." The colleague, she says, could not comprehend that she wrote the column to point out real injustices and not out of some personal unhappiness.
Ciglerova says a female editor–one of the few on staff–pressed her to tone down her column, claiming it was "too depressing." Ciglerova refused and the editor refused to work with her on it.
In a recent interview Ciglerova took up an issue that she hasn't written about, at least not yet: male co-workers who freely joke about their female counterparts' physiques.
She says anyone who expresses offense at such behavior can be quickly dismissed as hysterical, especially in workplaces that are run by men. "Once you start speaking out against chauvinism or sexism, you're speaking out against your bosses, so it's not cool," she says, adding that feminism "is like a vulgar word here."
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To get ahead in Czech society, women are pressured to emphasize their physiques and are discouraged from speaking out against sexism, she says, adding that female news anchors on commercial television are widely known to be professional models, not trained journalists.
And in the country's male-dominated parliament, female politicians tend to avoid raising issues of women's rights, like pay equity and sexual discrimination, so that they may continue to "play with the guys," Ciglerova says.
Women make up about 15 percent of the parliament's Chamber of Deputies, and 17 percent of the Senate, giving the Czech Republic one of the lowest representations of female politicians in the developed world, according to the nongovernmental organization Forum 50% in Prague.
Czech men earn on average about $1,290 a month, women $965, according to the latest government data for 2007 from the Czech Statistical Office.
She says that Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek is widely tolerated for publicly starting a family outside of his marriage.
"It's like it's cool to have lovers, it's cool to have mistresses," Ciglerova says. "In any other civilized country, a man like this would have to resign."
Ciglerova was born in Slovakia, which was then part of Czechoslovakia, in 1976 and moved with her family to the Czech capital of Prague when she was 6 years old.
Memories of Working Mother
During the communist regime, she recalls that her mother, an office manager at the country's union headquarters, was responsible for financially supporting the family as well as taking care of the household while her father was away studying in Moscow. He later returned to become a financial director at the same union headquarters, but it was Ciglerova's mother who continued to be the main breadwinner.
"She taught me there's nothing you can't do," Ciglerova says.
Under communism, women were in some ways treated more fairly. Both men and women, she says, had a legal duty to work.
But even though under communism they received the same salaries as men, Ciglerova says women in those days were also expected to take on all domestic duties, freeing their husbands from cooking, cleaning and other household work.
"So now," Ciglerova says, "we really have to fight with our husbands or partners who were brought up by fathers of this generation."
Ciglerova studied journalism at Charles University in Prague, and went on to earn a graduate degree at City University in London, where she worked as a reporter for a year for the Guardian newspaper.
She says her eyes were opened to issues of gender disparity during her early 20s, when she met female journalists from other countries at a foreign correspondents' conference in Finland.
There, she says, it was pointed out to her that her Czech way of addressing female colleagues as "girls" was unprofessional.
"Czech society is very, very sexist. There is absolutely no pro-women culture," says Ciglerova. "I feel the responsibility as a media person, to communicate not only (women's rights) issues, but to speak well, to use politically correct language."
Wency Leung is a freelance writer in Prague.


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They say it happens when you least expect it. It did for me. It started the moment I saw the simple message pop up on my computer screen: Cameron's Mac: Hi. And when I met the eyes of the gorgeous man messaging me from across the coffee shop, I never thought my reply would lead to the most intense, sexual, and passionate relationship of my life. We both agreed to check our bags at the door and put our future hopes and aspirations on the table. It worked. I fell in love with his no holds barred attitude, sexy smirk, and undeniably good heart . . . and for a while, we forgot about our baggage. We happily tripped over it to get to the other, neither of us willing to show the contents of our pasts in the off chance it could ruin us. We built our love on a foundation of gray. It was life in black and white that threatened to tear us apart.


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Seafloor Mapping Systems
Kongsberg-Simrad EM300 Multibeam Echo Sounder
What is it and why do we use it?
Scientists use the EM300 system to obtain detailed maps of the seafloor. EM300 can be used in water as shallow as 10 meters and as deep as 5000 meters. The EM300 system is very helpful to scientists mapping volcanic seamounts and mid-ocean ridges, as well as submarine volcanoes near subduction zones and hot spot ocean island chains. The EM300 system is also applicable to marine biological habitat analysis. The EM300 system is also useful because it collects information about the relative hardness of the seafloor (sediment vs. lava) by measuring the amplitude of the echoing sound waves.
How does the instrument work?
The EM300 system sends out pings of 30 kHz acoustic energy, pulsing the seafloor with a series of soundings perpendicular to the track of the vessel. The pulses are sent down toward the ocean floor by a transducer that is mounted to the hull of the ship. The beams produce a fanned arc composed of up to 135 individual beams, each with a width as narrow as one vertical degree by one horizontal degree. The width of the swath of sonar echo beams produced by the EM300 system depends on the water depth, with a maximum width of 5000 meters.
Reflected echoes are received by another array that is mounted parallel to the vessel track, which records the time required for the acoustic signal to travel to and from the seafloor. This number can then be converted into water depth to create a bathymetric (water depth) map. Measurements of water column sound velocity profiles are taken daily with a CTD instrument to ensure that the path of each acoustic wave through the water column is accurately measured, both in two-way travel time and where it actually hits the seabed.
Location is determined by very precise global positioning system measurements. Corrections are automatically made for the attitude of the ship, including pitching, rolling, yawing and heaving --- the ship's heaving, that is! This is very important in rough seas to ensure an even, continuous map. Scientists orient their planned cruise track lines like they are mowing the lawn, so that the mapped areas overlap in order to minimize "holidays," or data gaps in the maps.
What platforms are needed for its use?
Several international scientific vessels have EM300 systems mounted to their hulls, including the R/V Thomas G. Thompson (operated by the University of Washington, Seattle, WA) and R/V Southern Surveyor (operated by Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization; Hobart, Tasmania, Australia). Several computer software programs are utilized for data collection, cleaning and visualization.
What are the advantages of using this instrument?
The EM300 system is a great tool for mapping large areas quickly: the EM300 system operates best when the ship is traveling between 7 and 10 knots (nautical miles per hour). Other multibeam systems, like the DSL-120 towed multibeam system, can produce even higher resolution maps by utilizing higher frequency acoustic energy and are towed less than 100 meters above the seafloor. However, these towed systems require higher maintenance than the EM300 systems, which only requires the click of a mouse to start and stop.
What are the disadvantages of using this instrument?
The outer beams of the EM300 swath can be of low quality, due to speed and signal reception errors because of the great travel distance, large propagation angle and low angle of reflection. These outer portions can be removed using software programs. Ship turns also produce unevenly spaced swaths and data logging is normally paused during turns. It is possible to eliminate data gaps with graceful ship maneuvers such as the "Farmer's Turn," however marine mappers lay out survey tracks in straight lines to ensure the high quality data collection.
What's the data look like?
The EM300 system has been used to map the seafloor of numerous regions around the world, from the continental shelf of Vancouver Island, to the rift zones of Hawaii, to the Galapagos Islands. Other multibeam systems have also been used to locate and image sunken ships like the Titanic and map the bottom of Crater Lake, Oregon. Assuming good external sensors and sound speed profile, vertical error with the EM300 system is less than 1%, and horizontal accuracy is determined by the accuracy of the Geographic Positioning System on the ship.
Submarine Galapagos images below were obtained in January 2006 on the R/V Thompson and were processed and gridded at 25 meter resolution with CARIS HIPS and SIPS ® and iView Fledermaus ® software. The total area mapped was approximately 5,000 square kilometers, about the size of the state of Delaware. Marine geologists from the University of Washington (Seattle, Washington), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, University of South Carolina and Instituto Oceanografico de la Armada (Guayaquil, Ecuador) are collaborating in compiling EM300 data with other data sets to better understand the volcanic processes that build up the Galapagos platform, including rift zones (sites of focused volcanic eruptions and lava flows), volcanic cones and deep submarine lava flows.
Shown in Figure 1 are bathymetric maps of three regions of the submarine Galapagos. Figure 1A shows the submarine region west of Ecuador Volcano, off the northwestern tip of Isabela Island, Galapagos Islands. Three linear volcanic rift zones of focused eruptive activity are visible propagating to the north, west and southwest. A lobe of debris from a major landslide off the west slide of the volcano about 100,000 years ago was found in between the western and southwestern rift zones. Two different types of volcanic cones are seen: "pointed" volcanic cones and "flat-topped" volcanic cones.
These two different volcanic cone types are also found on the northern submarine flank of Santiago Island (Figure 1B). Pointed volcanic cones are concentrated in areas shallower than about 1500 meters, and flat-topped volcanic cones are found at greater depths. Another region of interest is the shallow (600 meter water depth) area in between Santiago and Isabela Islands, named Canal Isabela, where both complete and "breached" volcanic cones are found, the latter with their western sides missing. Scientists are now exploring the question of the geologic process that removed the western slopes: was it submarine landsliding activity or explosive volcanism, or something else entirely?
Shown in Figure 2 is EM300 bathymetric data for another region, the continental shelf of eastern Australia, just northeast of Fraser Island, Queensland, surveyed in January 2005 on the R/V Southern Surveyor (data courtesy of Earth and Ocean Science Research Group, University of Newcastle, Australia) and processed by Kristian Llewellyn using University of New Brunswick Ocean Mapping Group software. The image depicts the bathymetry of the area from 40 meters down to 4350 meters. Use of the multibeam system was used to produce a detailed topographic map of the area in order to better understand the sediment transport system in the area.
Jennifer Glass
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
Summer Student Fellow 2006, Geology & Geophysics (WHOI)
Kristian Llewellyn
University of New Brunswick (Canada)
Ocean Mapping Group
See Also
U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 00-124
Acoustic Mapping of the Regional Seafloor Geology in and Around Hawaiian Ocean Dredged-Material Disposal Sites by Michael E. Torresan and James V. Gardner U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 00-124 2000
Kongsberg, Inc., Information Page.
Kristian Llewellyn, Ocean Mapping Group, Univ. of New Brunswick, Canada


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The Supreme Court said, on Friday, that courts cannot run the affairs of the Indian Army when the court was…
The Israeli military said the two men surrendered in Jenin, their hometown in the occupied West Bank, after they were surrounded at a hideout that had been located with the help of "accurate intelligence."
Israeli forces on Sunday arrested the last two of six Palestinian prisoners who escaped a maximum-security Israeli prison two weeks ago, closing an intense, embarrassing episode that exposed deep security flaws in Israel and turned the fugitives into Palestinian heroes.
The Israeli military said the two men surrendered in Jenin, their hometown in the occupied West Bank, after they were surrounded at a hideout that had been located with the help of "accurate intelligence." It said the men, along with two others who allegedly assisted them, were taken for questioning.
Palestinian media reported that clashes erupted in Jenin when Israeli troops entered the city. But a spokesman for Israeli police, said the two escapees, Munadil Nafayat and Iham Kamamji, were arrested without resistance. The military said clashes broke out as the forces withdrew, with residents hurling rocks and explosives at troops who responded with live fire.
Fouad Kamamji, Iham's father, said that his son had called him when the Israeli troops surrounded the house and said he will surrender "in order not to endanger the house owners."
The prisoners all managed to tunnel out of a maximum-security prison in northern Israel on Sept. 6. The bold escape dominated newscasts for days and sparked heavy criticism of Israel's prison service. According to various reports, the men dug a hole in the floor of their shared cell undetected over several months and managed to slip past a sleeping prison guard after emerging through a hole outside the facility.
A massive pursuit operation followed, and the first four inmates, who also are from Jenin, were captured in two separate operations.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett praised the various Israeli security forces that worked to recapture the men for "an impressive, sophisticated and quick operation."
"What has broken down — it is possible to rectify," Bennett added.
Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have celebrated the escape and held demonstrations in support of the prisoners. The earlier arrests of four of the men prompted Gaza militants to launch rockets into Israel.
Israel considers all six of the men to be terrorists. Five are from the Islamic Jihad militant group, with four of them serving life sentences, and the sixth, Zakaria Zubeidi, is a member of the secular Fatah group of President Mahmoud Abbas. Zubeidi was a militant leader during the second Palestinian uprising in the early 2000s and well known in Israel both for his militant activity and his love for giving media interviews.
Lawyers for Zubeidi and Mohammed Aradeh, who was captured with him last week, have said their clients were badly beaten after their arrests.
Israeli security forces have been accused of torturing high-profile prisoners in the past, most recently in 2019 after a deadly bombing in the West Bank. The Shin Bet internal security service said at the time that interrogations are carried out in accordance with the law. A 1999 Supreme Court ruling forbids torture, but rights groups say it still occurs and that perpetrators are rarely held accountable.


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...Azerspace/Africasat-1a, which is one of two satellite passengers to be orbited on Arianespace's first flight in 2013 with its workhorse heavy-lift Ariane 5. Azerspace/Africasat-1a was designed and built by Orbital Sciences Corporation based on its STAR-2 platform, under contract to the Republic of Azerbaijan's Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies—which is the sole shareholder in the country's national satellite operator, Azercosmos.
Carrying 36 active C- and Ku-band transponders, the spacecraft is to provide communications services to Azerbaijan, Central Asia, Europe and Africa from an orbital location of 46 deg. East. Azerspace/Africasat-1a will weigh approximately 3,250kg. at liftoff, and has a designed mission life of 15 years.
Joining Azerspace/Africasat-1a on Ariane 5's upcoming mission will be Amazonas 3, which arrived in French Guiana earlier this month and will be used by Spanish satellite communication operator HISPASAT and its Brazilian subsidiary, HISPAMAR Satellites. Outfitted with Ku-, C- and Ka-band transponders, this Space Systems/Loral-built spacecraft will be positioned at the 61 degrees West orbital slot following its deployment by Ariane 5.
Arianespace's launch with Azerspace/Africasat-1a and Amazonas 3 is planned for February 7 from the Spaceport in French Guiana. It will follow a medium-lift Soyuz flight conducted on February 4 at Baikonur Cosmodrome by the Euro-Russian Starsem affiliate of Arianespace—orbiting the final batch of six satellites for Globalstar's second-generation constellation.


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Well, maybe you will. Mojang, the folks behind Minecraft, is a success story. Great news for them! That not only means Mojang honcho Notch (aka Markus Persson) can afford nicer hats, it also means the studio can afford nicer digs. And boy, look a these digs.
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The studio recently moved to a bigger pad, MCV reports. And now is up for the best looking office in Sweden as it's been nominated for the "Sveriges Snyggaste Kontor 2012". Congrats on that! Always nice to see people do well.
Here, have a look at Mojang's leather-wrapped and wood-covered workplace.


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NEKTON-E is a supplementary feed that consists of the biologically effective and durable vitamin E component ?-Tocopherol. NEKTON-E helps to protect the cell membrane, decontaminate metabolites, hormone production and muscle functions. Furthermore, NEKTON-E primarily improves animal fertility, embryo survival rate and viability of young hatchlings. NEKTON-E also encourages the entire cell metabolism, anti-body production, increased defenses and has a positive effect on the body's immune status. NEKTON-E supplements the minimum content of vitamin E in feed and covers the animals' needs with these nutrients that are so important for the body.
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The first Thanksgiving wasn't like it says in schoolbooks – the Pilgrims ate eel instead of turkey, wore brightly-colored clothes instead of black and guzzled booze!
"The people we've come to know as Pilgrims didn't even call themselves Pilgrims," disclosed William Deetz, a famous anthropologist.
"Those who were members of the Separatist Church Movement referred to themselves as 'Saints.' About 60 others who came over in the Mayflower with them were called 'Strangers.'
"But they all knew how to have fun and enjoy life. They made and drank a lot of beer, hard cider and something like today's brandy. Occasionally there was drunkenness and fighting.
"When the settlers had the first Thanksgiving giving in 1621, they almost certainly had eel, which the Indians taught them to catch, Turkeys are not mentioned until many years after 1621. There were 90 Indians in attendance – and only 50 English. That's considerably different from the pictures you see of many black-garbed Pilgrims sitting around a table with an Indian at each end.
"We know the Pilgrims wore very colorful clothes. And the settlers wore boots, not the black shoes with the big buckles you always see in pictures. That was a style of clothing that came along many years later in England."
What's more, the first Thanksgiving didn't take place in November, said Dr. Benjamin Ehrlich, former executive vice president of the Plymouth Plantation Museum in Massachusetts.
"The celebration we've come to call Thanksgiving is really an outgrowth of the harvest home celebration that goes all the way back to the Middle Ages.
"It was a celebration held when a bumper crop came in and was almost always held in September or October at the latest."
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Thursday, December 10, 2009
Fudge Part II: Baileys Vanilla Bean & Peppermint Mocha
I wrapped up yesterday's all morning fudge making marathon with four flavors: Pomegranate, Espresso Chocolate, Baileys Vanilla Bean and Peppermint Mocha. I've recruited Mr. Humble to sample all the flavors and he is groaning, but I am pretty sure they are happy groans.
This is some great fudge. I am very happy with how all these recipes turned out, each has great flavor and texture. I'll post two recipes today and then the rest tomorrow. So... you know, stay tuned!
Let's get down to our first flavor, Peppermint Mocha:
Yes, I know there have been a lot of peppermint flavored items on the blog lately, what can I say, 'tis the season. Besides, I adore the occasional Starbucks peppermint mocha, so I need to create a fudge version.
Please note that this recipe calls for instant espresso powder, so don't try substituting instant coffee or worse, coffee grounds. Doing so will make me cry.
Not so Humble's Peppermint Mocha Fudge:
yields roughly 64 pieces
2 cups granulated sugar
1 stick unsalted butter
1/2 cup heavy cream (40% milk fat)
1/4 cup milk
2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
2 drops peppermint oil
2-3 teaspoons instant espresso powder
7 ounce jar marshmallow creme
1/4-1/2 cup crushed candy canes
Line a 9x9 inch pan with foil and coat with a little nonstick spray.
Combine sugar, butter and milk and cream into a heavy bottomed sauce pan-- again I recommend non-stick--and bring to a boil over medium heat. Once boiling, attach a candy thermometer and reduce the heat to a hair above medium low and cook for 7-10 minutes until your thermometer reads 234°F , stirring constantly.
Once your mixture hits the appropriate temperature, remove from heat and grab a wooden spoon. Add the chocolate chips stirring vigorously until the chocolate is completely melted and smooth. Sprinkle in the espresso powder while stirring. Add the marshmallow creme and peppermint oil and mix until well blended.
Pour the mixture into your pan and sprinkle with the crushed candy canes. Allow to cool on a wire rack until room temperature.
Baileys Vanilla Bean Fudge
This fudge came out great, rich and creamy with the flavor of Irish cream. Om nom nom.
Not so Humble's Baileys Vanilla Bean Fudge:
yields roughly 64 pieces
2 cups granulated sugar
1 stick unsalted butter
1/3 cup heavy cream (40% milk fat)
1/2 cup plus one tablespoon Baileys Irish cream
2 cups good quality white chocolate chips
1/2 vanilla bean scraped, reserving seeds
7 ounce jar marshmallow creme
Line a 9x9 inch pan with foil and coat with a little butter or nonstick spray.
Combine sugar, butter, heavy cream and Irish creme into a heavy bottomed sauce pan and bring to a boil over medium heat. Once boiling, attach a candy thermometer and reduce the heat to a hair above medium low and cook for 7-10 minutes until your thermometer reads 234°F , stirring constantly.
Once your mixture hits the appropriate temperature, remove from heat and add the white chocolate chips, stirring vigorously with a wooden spoon until the chocolate has melted and the mixture is smooth. Add the vanilla bean and marshmallow creme and mix until well blended.
Pour the mixture into your prepared pan and allow to cool on a wire rack until room temperature.
If you're in a rush you can also cool both of these in the fridge without any ill effects.
Both these fudges freeze well and are best stored in an air tight container or wrapped, at room temperature.
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Hi there - is marshmellow creme " Fluff" ? Thank you!ReplyDelete
Yes, I believe so. Fluff and creme are essentially the same thing. So you should be able to use both in these recipes.ReplyDelete
Bailey's fudge?! Awesome!ReplyDelete
Dana: I had always been under the impression that Fluff was just a brand of creme.
// 1/3 heavy cream (40% milk fat) \\ReplyDelete
I understand this to be 1/3 cup, based on the peppermint mocha's recipe portion of it, is that right, or is it maybe 1/3 pint?
Sorry, that is 1/3rd of a cup! I seem to be making a habit out of dropping units when typing out my recipes.ReplyDelete
Thanks for pointing it out, I'll fix that.
Wow! All of your fudges look so great! We just posted out peanut butter fudge recipe! hihiReplyDelete
Your blog looks great! We'll have to try one of these recipes!
Absolutely love your blog. I made the peppermint mocha fudge this weekend for a cookie-swap party, and it was so delicious! And easy!!! I didn't have a candy thermometer, so thank you for putting in approx. cooking time--I let it cook for 8 min, and it seemed to do the trick. Can't wait to try more of your recipes!ReplyDelete
Can peppermint extract be used instead of peppermint oil? I am having trouble finding peppermint oil in the grocery stores. Thank youReplyDelete
Yes, you can use peppermint extract. Just use roughly one drop more extract in this fudge as it isn't quite a strong a oil. The fudge is usually cool enough to taste test at this point too (before you pour it into the pan). So feel free to double check the flavor. You don't need a lot of mint flavor in the fudge itself, just a hint. As it mostly relies on the candy canes to give it the peppermint kick.
Dr. Becca,ReplyDelete
I'm so glad the fudge came out great!
Though, I wouldn't personally recommend cooking candies purely based on times given. As it is not impossible to take a pan of fudge to toffee-like hardness in 8-10 minutes. So other folks might not get as lucky as you did with the fudge.
It all depends on the heat applied and since everyone's stove is a little different, I prefer folks use a candy thermometer. At the very least, people attempting this recipe should use the cold water method to determine the temperature of your sugar syrup.
For more details on how to determine sugar temperatures without using a thermometer click here: http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/candy/sugar-stages.html
Thank you so much for the peppermint mocha recipe. Your instructions were so helpful. I was very thankful that you said how long the butter, cream, and sugar should cook for because my thermometer did not work properly. The texture is amazing! This is definitely going to impress my fiance's family this Christmas!ReplyDelete
I made the peppermint mocha fudge today. This is the best fudge I've ever made! Thanks for the recipe.ReplyDelete
hello, i live in germany and i don't think that i can purchase marshmallow creme here.... could you recommend an equivalent product?ReplyDelete
My mother lives in the UK and she has bemoaned the same lack of marshmallow creme there (and candy thermometers, she can't find one anywhere). There really isn't an equivalent product in the UK or Europe, or at least one that I know of (I send back jars of the stuff to her when she comes to visit). If anyone in the UK or Europe knows of an equivalent please let me know.
Of course, that doesn't mean you can't make fudge in these flavors.
Many more traditional fudge recipes--ones that don't require marshmallow creme--can be modified. Peppermint mocha in particular just requires a basic chocolate fudge recipe with the addition of espresso powder and crushed peppermint candies.
The Baileys fudge can probably be made from a modified traditional opera or white chocolate fudge, reducing the amount of milk or cream and substituting the Baileys. It might just take a little kitchen experimentation.
Late to this party, but bookmarking for next Christmas. One question -- can I really not sub a tiny bit of superfine coffee grounds dust for the instant espresso powder? *really*? On what grounds (har har) do you make this requirement?ReplyDelete
I guess I could state the obvious by noting that instant espresso powder isn't the same as coffee grounds (when it comes to taste or ability to impart flavor). If you're looking for a substitute, Starbucks Via coffee powder would be a better option.ReplyDelete
Nice pun though.
Though, if you wanted to play with the recipe and experiment. Try brewing the grounds in the cream. Bring the cream to a simmer over medium heat, add the grounds and cover. Remove from heat and let stand for 10 minutes? Then strain out the grounds and use the coffee infused cream for the recipe.
For those asking about substitutions for Marshmallow fluff: when I basically mass produce fudge for Christmas gifts, I just measure out 7 ounces of mini marshmallows - so much easier than trying to scrape fluff out of a jar!ReplyDelete
Hello! I've had this recipe (for the Baileys) book marked FOREVER and a day and finally tried it this afternoon. I am now the favorite of the house hold....they all loved it!!! Thank you very much for the awesome recipe!!!ReplyDelete
I am going to make this recipe soon because it looks awesome. I was wondering-if I used ground vanilla bean instead of a whole bean, how much of the ground bean would I need? I DO like a strong vanilla flavor...
This is pure ground vanilla I'd use, not vanilla sugar.


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Teatro Juarez, Guanajuato.
Across the street from Antiguo Vapor, our hotel in Guanajuato.
Tunnel entrance near the Hidalgo Market, Guanajuato. The city sits in a bowl surrounded by steep hills. As a consequence, flooding had been a serious problem through most of the city's history. In the late 18th C two major floods nearly wiped out the city. This spurred construction of large tunnels to divert floodwaters during the rainy season. These eventually crisscrossed a large part of the city. The flooding was eventually brought under control through means other than the tunnels, and many of the tunnels were converted into underground roadways. As a result, the streets of Guanajuato have very little traffic, as you can see in this photo.
The neighborhood just outside the gates of Antiguo Vapor, our hotel in Guanajuato.
San Roque Church, Guanajuato. The plaza in front of the church (in the foreground) was the site of the Entremeses Cervantinos founded by Cervantes scholar Enrique Ruelas, whose statue is just around the corner of the church to the right. The Entrmeses Certantinos was the predecessor of the current Festival Internacional Cervantino.
El Pipila
Statue of El Pipila, hero of the Mexican war of independence in 1810. The 17 year old miner was instrumental in the capture of th Alhóndiga de Granaditas where Spanish troops had been holding off the Mexican insurgents. The statue is on a hill above the city which offers a commanding view of the city of Guanajuato.
View of Guanajuato from the El Pipila monument. Buildings in center foreground are (L) Iglesia de San Diego (R) Teatro Juarez. The green-canopied area in fron of them is the Jardin de la Union. The area is one of the liveliest spots in Guanajuato at all hours of the day and night.
View of Parroquia de Basílica Colegiata de Nuestra Señora de Guanajuato from the Plaza de La Paz.
A "Danzon" competition in the Teatro Juarez, Guanajuato. Danzon is a formal dance style imported from Cuba. It is popular in Guanajuato and many dance clubs competed in this event. We were told that the idea of the dance is to move as if your feet were shackled with ball and chain.
Inside Dulceria La Catrina, a surprisingly large candy store just opposite Teatro Juarez, Guanajuato.
An alleyway near our hotel in Guanajuato.
Mercado Hidalgo, Guanajuato. The building that houses the market was intended to serve as a train station. but the train never arrived. It stands as evidence of the rampant speculation in railroads that occurred in the late 1800's when the dictator Porfiro Diaz was attempting to modernize Mexico. The building is now filled with a chaotic collection of stalls selling food on the lower level and gifts and household items on the mezzanine level.
Office with door left open on the mezzanine level of Mercado Hidalgo, Guanajuato. The portrait hanging on the wall is of Miguel Hidalgo Y Costilla, a leader of the Mexican War of Independence in 1810. The statue of the rooster has unknown significance.
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
Street vendor, the Jardin, San Miguel de Allende
After school, kids from private church schools in San Miguel de Allende come to the Jardin to play.
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
In the historic center of Queretero City.
Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico.
View of the Peña de Bernal from a street in the amall town of Bernal. The massive outcropping is one of the largest of its kind in the world.
Wool worker hanging dyed yarns to dry, Bernal.
Calaveras fashion show, Bernal. Calaveras (skulls) are a popular artform in Mexico and are especially in evidence during the Day of the Dead celebration. The female skull figures are known as Catrinas, after a satirical lithograph "La Calavera Catrina" by the 19th C Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada.
View of the Peña de Bernal at daybreakas seen from the balcony of our hotel, Hostal Medieval, in the small town of Bernal.
Somewhere in the Sierra Gorda on the way from Bernal to Jalpan.
Street scene, Jalpan
Children dancing in the main square after school, Jalpan.
Delivery man, Jalpan
Jalpan de Serra, Mexico
Templo del Señor Santiago Jalpan
Dentist, Jalpan
Beauty salon, Jalpan
Shot from under kiosk in the main square (plaza principal), Xilitla.
Xilitla, Mexico
Shoeshine man in Miguel Hidalgo Square, the main square in Tequisquiapan.
Street vendor selling scapulas near the Church of St. Mary of the Assumption, Tequisquiapan.
Atontonilco, Mexico.
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Statue of Alende (Ignacio José de Allende y Unzaga) in the Plaza Civica, San Miguel de Allende. Allende fought along with Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla in the first stage of the Mexican War of Independence from Spain in 1810. San Miguel de Allende is named for him.
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Francis Fukuyama posed a trenchant question for those neo-conservatives who so ardently supported President George W. Bush's quest to bring democracy to the Middle East in the November 2005 Commentary symposium "Defending and Advancing Freedom": "So much of what neoconservatives have written over the past decades has concerned the unanticipated consequences of overly ambitious social engineering, and how the effort to get at root causes of social problems is a feckless task. [So] why should anyone have believed we could get at the root causes of alienation and terrorism in a part of the world we didn't understand particularly well, and where our policy instruments were very limited?"
A good question. And it would be an even better question had President Bush awakened one morning, asked himself what he could do to make the world a better place, and hit upon the idea of bringing democracy to the Moslem world by any and all means, including the overthrow of despotic regimes. That, unfortunately, is not exactly how things happened.
Rather the United States was hit by a major terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001, which claimed nearly 3,000 lives and brought the country's major economic center to a near standstill. September 11 cast, and continues to cast, a shadow over the future of America and the free world.
In addition, it revealed with full clarity that the West faced a new enemy. For various reasons, the president defined that enemy as terror and declared a war on terror. What that description of the task ahead gained in dramatic flare, however, it lost in analytical clarity. Terror is not the enemy; it is one of the tactics employed by the enemy.
The real enemy, as the president well knew, is political Islam, and the dream of reestablishing an Islamic imperial empire across the globe that lies at its ideological core. Refuge in dreams of glories past and future exercises great appeal for those for whom the present is little more than an unbroken succession of failure and humiliation.
That includes both those living in Moslem states, which by every measure of progress have fallen dramatically behind their non-Moslem neighbors, despite, in many cases, being endowed with untold riches in natural resources. (The GNP of Israel, for instance, a nation with few natural resources, is greater than all its Arab neighbors combined, despite their far greater populations and natural resources.) And it includes millions of Moslems living in Western Europe as second class citizens in their host countries.
President Bush and his advisors could not have failed to notice that terrorism has become something of an Islamic monopoly in recent years, and that the failed and deformed states of the Middle East have produced most of the world's terrorists. Terrorism, as David Brooks has noted, is what Moslem jihadis do, because terrorizing the West is the one thing that they do well, the one thing that gives them a sense of power.
The anger of millions of young Arab males simmers, and is ever waiting to erupt. And that anger feeds on itself. The more Moslems try to find salve for present failure in dreams of past and future glory, the more unpalatable the present becomes.
Suddenly aware of the new threat, President Bush faced two questions: (1) how to degrade the capabilities of already existent terrorist groups; and (2) how to drain the swamps that have produced a seemingly endless stream of recruits to the banner of radical Islam. The answer given by President Bush to the second question was nothing less than the transformation of failed Middle Eastern states by means of democratization and liberalization.
Obviously transformation of even one society, much less an entire region, is a vast undertaking. Nor could it yield results in the short-run. Indeed as Fukuyama points out, the immediate effect of the disruption of traditional, hierarchical societies could make more attractive highly structured, authoritarian sects that claim to have the divinely-given answers to all of life's challenges.
To these objections, however, it is important to add a number of caveats. First, many of those most critical of the Bush administration's efforts to bring freedom to the Middle East refused to even acknowledge the threat facing the West in the form of politicized Islam. They continue to view the threat as a law enforcement issue of rounding up and prosecuting the bad guys.
Second, among those who acknowledge the Islamic nature of the threat, no one has offered any alternative to the liberalization and democratization of failed Middle Eastern states. As Charles Krauthammer said in a November 14 speech at the Foreign Policy Research Institutes annual dinner, "[The enterprise of changing the culture of the Arab world] was . . . a radical idea, an arrogant idea, a risky idea. But it was the only idea of any coherence and consistency that anyone has advanced on how to change the underlying conditions that led to 9/11."
President Bush has noted many time the failure of the United States' traditional Middle East realist policy, based on propping up pro-Western despots. Saudi Arabia and Egypt, the lynchpins of "realist" strategy, produced virtually all of the 9/11 hijackers, and the leading Islamist ideologues. And Saudi-exported Wahhabism inspires fanatical Islamic groups around the globe.
The Islamists themselves have tacitly acknowledged the threat democratization poses to their dream of a new world-wide caliphate governed by Islamic law. In a famous letter to Osama bin Laden, Jordanian-born Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most vicious leader of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq, declares war "on this evil principle of democracy and those who follow this evil ideology." In that same letter, Zarqawi set forth his strategy for preventing democracy in Iraq: trigger a civil war by terrorist attacks on Shiites, which will lead to Shiite retaliation against Sunnis, which will then force all Sunnis to join the battle. Though Zarqawi is thankfully no longer with us, we are pretty much watching that strategy play itself out today in Iraq.
But as Norman Podhoretz asks, "If this murderous collection of diehard Sunni Baathists and vengeful Shiite militias, together with their allies inside the government agreed that democratization had already failed, would they be waging so desperate a campaign to defeat it?"
To be sure, no one in his right mind would declare the effort at establishing a viable democratic society in Iraq a success. The real question, however, is whether that lack of success demonstrates the inherent incompatibility of Moslem societies and democracy, as many have suggested.
That verdict would seem, at the very least, to be greatly premature. Millions of Iraqis risked life and limb to vote not once but three times. A constitution has been drafted and approved.
It is hard to get a grip on precisely who is killing whom, and for what reason, or to know how many Iraqis are participating in the current violence. It seems hard to believe that most Iraqis would prefer the even bloodier civil war into which Iraq would certainly degenerate in the absence of American troops to finding some kind of framework for all ethnic groups in what would inevitably be a Shiite-dominated state.
Unquestionably mistakes in American planning and execution contributed to the current morass. Precisely what those mistakes were is less clear. For every expert, for instance, who claims that the Iraqi army should not have been disbanded and that de-Baathification went to far, one can find another expert to argue that it should have gone farther, in order to restore Shiite confidence in American intentions shattered by the American abandonment of the Shiites to Saddam's butchers after having encouraged them to rebel in 1991.
Most experts agree that American troops should have removed Muqtada al-Sadr from the scene when an Iraqi magistrate issued an arrest warrant on murder charges. The Shiite death squads of his Mahdi Army constitute one of the most destabilizing forces in Iraq today. And al-Sadr is one of those who would definitely prefer a civil war to political rapprochement, as he believes that the result of that war would be to bring Iraq into the orbit of Iran. It is far from clear, however, that most Iraqi Shiites seek an Iranian-style theocracy or a closer alliance with Iran.
Ultimately, if a liberal state, based on the rule of law, does not come into being in Iraq, it will probably have less to do with American mistakes or hubris, or even with the incompatibility of Moslems and democracy, and more to do, in Krauthammer's words, with thirty years under Saddam's sadistic, cruel and atomizing dictatorship, which left in its wake "a dearth of the kind of trust and good will and sheer human capital required for democratic governance."
That failure, however, should give no comfort to critics of the Bush Doctrine – at least the responsible among them. Their vindication will come at a high price, for, as Krauthammer states the matter, "if democratizing the Arab/Islamic world is unattainable and undoable, then there are no remaining answers as to how to counter the threat of Islamic radicalism."


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: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:52:11 +0200
Geostrategic Basis Of Libyan War: Hydrological Warfare and Energy
Death for Libyans; billions for the West
by Garikai Chengu
> Global Research, September 23, 2011
From oil to water, water-boarding to arms and from gas to reconstruction the
war in Libya will rake in billions of dollars for the West. Just how much
will trickle down to the people of Libya remains to be seen.
People who think that the West's intervention in Libya is just another oil
grab are mistaken. Broadly speaking, for Britain military intervention is
mainly about arms, Italy its natural gas, France its water and for the US
its counter-terrorism and reconstruction contracts. Spreading democracy and
saving the people of Benghazi form merely tangential benefits used to
justify these ends.
Lest we forget, Nato's bombardment began because Mr Gaddafi threatened to do
to Benghazi what Mr Bashar al-Assad's forces are doing to various Syrian
cities and Nato itself is poised to do in Sirte.
''History is a set of lies agreed upon'' once remarked Napoleon Bonaparte.
If left unchallenged the true motives behind what the French mainstream
media have coined ''Sarkozy's War'' may be lost in the fog of war.
So what makes Libya so important to the West? Any real estate agent could
tell you: location. Given that Libya sits atop the strategic intersection of
the Mediterranean, African, and Arab worlds, control of the nation, has
always been a remarkably effective way to project power into these three
regions and beyond.
Ever since time immemorial Western control over Libya has been of great
importance. After Libyan independence in 1951, US, British and French
payments for military basing rights formed the single-largest element of
Libyan GDP until oil exports began to flow in 1961.
Nowadays, Mr Sarkozy's interest in Libya lies in a commodity more precious
than oil, namely water. It is becoming increasingly accepted that water
promises to be to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th century: the
precious commodity that determines the wealth of nations.
Unlike oil, there are no substitutes, alternatives or stopgaps for water.
Nature has decreed that the supply of water is fixed. Meanwhile demand rises
inexorably as the world's population increases and enriches itself..
Population growth, climate change, pollution, urbanization and the rapid
development of manufacturing industries are relentlessly combining such that
demand for fresh water will outstrip supply by 40 per cent by 2040.
Libya sits on a resource more valuable than oil, the Nubian Sandstone
Aquifer, which is an immensely vast underground sea of fresh water. Colonel
Gaddafi had cleverly invested $25 billion in the Great Man-made River
Project, a complex 4,000-km long water pipeline buried beneath the desert
that could transport two million cubic metres of water a day. Such a
monumental water distribution scheme could turn Libya - a nation that is 95
per cent desert - into a food self-sufficient arable oasis.
Today France's global mega-water companies like Suez, Ondeo and Saur,
control more than 45 per cent of the world's water market and are rushing to
privatize water, already a $400 billion global business. For these French
companies, Libya will be a bonanza. No wonder Le Monde coined it ''Sarkozy's
War'' and had a ''Victoire'' front page splash when Mr Gaddafi's compound
was stormed.
Late last year, the Central Intelligence Agency suspiciously raised the
spectre of ''future 'hydrological warfare' in which rivers, lakes and
aquifers become national security assets to be fought over,'' or controlled
through proxy armies and client states. Regime change in Libya is the first
major instance of hydrological warfare.
With the spoils of war from Libya's water market largely reserved for the
French, Mr. Cameron is eyeing another market, that of arms.
The subject of the West selling arms to regimes suppressing uprisings
remains as wilfully overlooked as an American war crime. Even as The Times
of London has just reported that Britain enjoyed a 30 per cent spike in arms
sales to regimes in the Middle East during the Arab Spring. Arms sold
between February and July jumped to $101 million, the Times' report says,
noting that these include weapons that could be used to suppress domestic
Mr Obama's administration is even more steeped in the controversial arms
trade. The US accepts no rival on this front. Over the past decade the US
has averaged a staggering $5.8 billion per year in arms sales with the
Middle East.
The very Libyan military hardware that Nato boastfully claims to have
downgraded by 90 per cent will need to be rebuilt. US arms companies will
gleefully be on hand to arm their proxy regime to the teeth. Libya will be a
bonanza for American arms dealers.
American infrastructure contractors will also reap the windfalls of post-war
reconstruction. The grim reality is that every bridge, road, rail-link and
building that US war-planes bomb will have to be rebuilt and paid for by the
Libyan taxpayer.
Even grimmer still is the fact that the approximately $1.1billion spent by
the US government on bombarding Libya is a drop in the ocean compared to the
profit that American contractors stand to make. Many of whom have strong
ties to the upper echelons of the military and the Obama administration.
In-fact, more than 70 American companies and individuals have won up to $8
billion in contracts for work in post-war Iraq and Afghanistan over the last
two years, according to a new study by the Center for Public Integrity.
According to the study, nearly 70 per cent of these companies had employees
or board members who either served in or had close ties to the executive
branch for Republican and Democratic administrations, for members of
Congress of both parties, or at the highest levels of the military.
Therefore, those in the military tasked with minimising 'collateral damage'
to property stand to directly profit from less than pinpoint precision. In
short, dropping bombs can be profitable.
The recent bombshell revelations of correspondence between the CIA and
Libya's security apparatus prove that the US has been outsourcing its
torture or ''enhanced interrogation' ' of terror suspects to Libya through
the internationally illegal rendition process. These revelations are
embarrassing but hardly surprising. Nevertheless, there is little doubt a
pliant proxy regime will continue to do America's dirty work.
Last but not least there is oil. Much as the self-righteous West might
pretend otherwise, oil is unquestionably a key part of the equation. Libya
has the largest oil reserves in Africa and 85 per cent of its exports are to
Archival footage of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi surrounded by Mr
Gaddafi's female bodyguards, kissing the Libyan strongman's hand at Leonardo
Da Vinci airport is indicative of just how important Libya is to Italy.
Libya's oil is especially important to Italy because of its proximity, the
ease of its extraction, and the sweetness of its crude. Most refineries in
Italy and elsewhere are built to deal with sweet Libyan crude, they cannot
easily process the heavier Saudi crude that has recently replaced the Libyan
production shortfall.
Libyan natural gas reserves are estimated to be over 52.7 trillion cubic
feet and large areas of the country are still to be surveyed. With assured
supplies available from Libya, Italy will become less dependent on supplies
from Russia, which on the energy front is increasingly flexing its muscles
and thumbing its nose at mainland Europe.
Libya has a 1,800km coastline just miles from Italy and porous southern
borders with three poor African nations. Therefore, a pliant regime that
will stem the flow of asylum seekers and keep the oil and gas flowing is
vital for Rome.
From oil to water, water-boarding to arms and from gas to reconstruction the
war in Libya will rake in billions of dollars for the West. Just how much
will trickle down to the people of Libya remains to be seen.
The author is a research scholar at Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and
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First of all, I need to sincerely apologize to the health nurse who performed my COVID-19 test.
I don't always act like the melting Wicked Witch of the West, growling and pawing at my own face. Then again, who knew that swabs were half-a-foot long and could reach around to scratch your brains.
For the rest of you, I'll back up a bit. It all started last week, with a post-workday nap that turned into a deep sleep.
Then there was the dry cough, the runny and tender nose, the pain in my forehead. Ultimately, there was the fact that all of the above didn't disappear with a good dose of allergy medications.
I called in sick, because clearly I had caught a cold. And in addition to the ultimate cure of hot soups and daytime television, I had to go for a COVID-19 test. If we've learned anything from COVID-19 it's that distancing works. And even the slightest chance that I may have spread the novel coronavirus around the office in the preceding days sent a flu-like shiver up my spine.
The first part was the easiest. I called up my family doctor's office and told them I was sick. The doctor called back the next day and agreed I needed a test. A family member picked up the requisition and I was on my way to the Chilliwack Public Health Unit.
I ran through the raindrops to the front door, only to be turned around to the side of the building I had sprinted past.
Around the corner, signs on the building and markings on the ground direct you where to stand and what to do. A nurse was waiting at the doorway, ready to screen me for my symptoms. With that out of the way, I was in the building, which has been temporarily turned into a make-shift COVID-19 testing ward. The first thing I noticed is that the windows are all sealed off with poly and tape.
A few wide rows of spaced apart chairs face away from the entrance, and a few testing areas have been curtained off along one wall.
Distancing is in place that is well above the suggested two metres, and it made me feel safe. It also reminded me that this is a serious threat to some people's health. It underscored why I was standing there, requisition in hand, sniffles in my nostrils, and a fear of what's about to happen. I would have preferred to be back at the office, writing. Prior to COVID-19, I wouldn't even have blinked twice at going to work with a dripping nose. A bit of cold medication, some strong coffee and tissues and I would have been on my way.
But we know more now, don't we? If anything, staying home when sick should be adopted as the new normal.
I'm sent to a curtained off area, and we run through the list of questions. As my 'yes' answers pile up faster than the 'no' answers, the hypochondriac within me feels like maybe I do have the virus.
When it was time to tilt the head back, and let the nurse do her thing, I felt immensely brave. But as brave as I am in my heart, my body always has other plans. I felt my eyes widen as the swab entered my nose and quickly jammed up. My eyes teared. I gagged. I grabbed my chin, for some unknown reason, coughed and snorted and began to make those aforementioned witchy noises.
With no luck on the right, she moved to the left. I felt the swab glide up easily and for a slice of a second, I thought this would be easier. Of course, I was wrong and I was once again writhing in the chair.
So the bad news is, I'm utterly ridiculous. The good news is, it was over very quickly and shouldn't be avoided for any reason. Results are quick, available on myehealth.com within 24 hours, and if you test positive they will call in the same time frame.
Also good news? My COVID-19 test that day was negative and it was likely just that regular 'old' coronavirus — the common cold. As of today, I'm one of more than 171,000 people who have been tested for COVID-19 in B.C. To date, there have been 2,775 cases in this province, and 168 deaths. Eleven people are in the hospital today with COVID-19, and five of those are in an ICU.
And so, despite the temporary discomfort, I would do it again.
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