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...the numbers indicate one of the biggest gainers in sales is from something more fuel-inefficient and just as environmentally destructive as a compact pickup truck from the Big Three — a compact pickup truck from Toyota. You see, contrary to what the mainstream media's been shouting from the rooftops, it ain't all peaches and cream and small compact cars that are increasingly getting the love from the state where bowers of flowers bloom in the sun — it's also the small pickups, which saw an increase in sales of just under 1.0%. Ok, you say, but doesn't Ford, GM and Dodge's market dominance in the sector mean they should be selling more of the general enthusiast sector pickups — what with the higher fuel economy and quality they've had within (remember the word within) the segment? You'd think wouldn't ya?
In reality the company getting the biggest boost in sales in the small pickup from the land of the rising sun, the Toyota Tacoma, which has now moved up to the #6 placement in the list of top ten best-selling vehicles where a sun-kissed miss said don't be late. But that's weird — the Toyota Tacoma gets worse gas mileage than other similarly-equipped small pickups built by the Big Three — why're they getting more sales? Wethinks maybe folks feel better buying the small pickups from a brand also selling the Prius, and hope that maybe if they carry one of the hybrids around with them in the truck bed, maybe the fuel economy will rub off on them in some way.
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- nixon33 said...
fuck him.
- August 20, 2008 at 11:25 PM
- tim said...
Good. Fuckin' laptop.
Got home from the awesome concert last night to see the top of the 9th, and was shocked that the fucking O's scored 11 times. Then I remembered it was a HH start and the shock went away.
Fuckin blue jays suck too
- August 21, 2008 at 5:50 AM
- ish said...
I'd love to see what the roster move will be.
- August 21, 2008 at 6:18 AM
- andy said...
Wow talk about a complete implosion. Can he ever recover from this? I am not sure he can with this team. He will need to be released so he can be a WS MVP for some other team. Preferably for a team that beats us in the WS. Isn't that always the way?
- August 21, 2008 at 6:36 AM
- Pepe Lepew said...
Gosh, it was about time. He had turned into an automatic loss. I couldn't believe they kept putting him out there to get shelled.
- August 21, 2008 at 12:27 PM
- ish said...
I thought since the Red Sox acquired Paul Byrd it'd be the end of HH, especially when they called Zink up. Then Zink proved to not be very valuable, and they went back to HH. I wonder if they'll try a guy like Michael Bowden sometime soon. Have a Masterson-Lester-Papelbon type taste of the bigs.
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And the quoted study by the Russian Science Academy into solar cycles, and the predicted onset of 200+ years of global cooling of which they claim there are already indications, and which will override man made global warming?
Poppycock, is it, because;
a) the warming consensus doesn't take it seriously?
b) the warming consensus scientists can't now possibly admit to doubts without looking extremely foolish?
The science is settled! End of??
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NW--you get comedy of the day award for your advice to keep an open mind. I agree, and appreciate the irony. Correct me if I am wrong, but I saw nothing in this article fundamentally different than what I posted here a few weeks back--May 26--saying that it is hard to detect changes as small as a tenth of a degree in a chaotic data set. Some here have posted information that shows that short term phenomena that we sort of understand--sun spots--and others that we don't, affect average temperature. True enough. Anyone grappling with trying to tease a trend--or a lack of a trend--out of an inherently chaotic data set will always want more data. Hopefully, they will work in a field with peer review and sufficient humility that the imperfect theories will get better over time.
There may be something else happening in temperature trends, but it is too early to tell and it is certainly not benign. The earlier models that predicted temperature changes did not take into account climactic factors that we know of that could buffer, or mute those increases. Most notable are increased cloud cover and absorption of CO2 by the oceans. We have a developing body of information that says that ocean acidification is increasing fairly rapidly right now. Of course that reduces the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, but the trends are still going up at an alarming rate. Greater CO2 has the potential to increased cloud cover, which in turn has the potential to reflect some of the solar heat before it reaches the ground, and thus reduce the heat gain. But acidification has huge ecological implications, and changing cloud cover patterns will affect agriculture and heating and cooling needs throughout the world. We certainly don't have enough data to put them into our models, and I don't know if anyone is yet trying. I do know that deniers have blocked additional monitoring that might help us develop the science.
So I agree, keep an open mind. Take those actions at this stage, like a small price signal on carbon emissions, that would encourage conservation, but not significantly affect the economies of any nation.
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GT, a re review of the literature makes it clear that nothing is settled in this complex subject unless you work for a carbon company.
Climate scientists like the Russians are proposing numerous theories and altering them as their data sets evolve.
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Well at least they're open to alternatives K.C., and that's the kind of science I like.
Perhaps, some of us are feeling frustrated after enduring four severe Winters (only weather, of course, and of no significance), only to have the frirst cuckoos of the barmy army pipe back up now that, at long last, we've had a week of hot and welcome sunshine, to proclaim it as proof of global warming! (Yes, I KNOW they are just idiots, and not credible scientists.)
However, I do see a serious issue. Just supposing, for the sake of argument, that the cooling theory turns out to be correct, and the consensus scientific warming community has got it wrong, how would that play out in the current battle being waged over half the world, between science and fundamentalist religious dogma?
Even in our enlightened Western world we already have a problem with religious bigots who insist that evolution is nonsense, and the world is only a few thousand years old. What a godsend it would be to them if the scientific community as a whole ends up with egg on its face.
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The scientific community as a whole does not appear to have bought into anything outside of the media.
Many scientists have no opinion on global warming.
Climatologists generally think there is growing support among the data.
Other scientists are studying their old bones , tiny bugs and all the rich panorama of science without a thought to climate.
I read studies like the Russian one which examine data both for and against the current global warming model. This model constantly evolves.
The politics are the news. That is the arena where open minded discourse has collapsed.
And ,of course, in some churches.
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I know, I know, Scientific American--what could they know?
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Given the history of exaggerated predictions of global warming effects by climate scientists, and subsequent back-tracking and downgrading of such claims, might not your quoted one also be uncertain? How do they respond to the claim of a predicted global cooling phase? Have they factored it in to their claim, or just dismissed it as irrelevant? (If so, on what grounds?)
Projecting what is happening now (the 'teasing out' of warming effects and sea level rises) accelerating into the future, is another prediction which remains open to uncertainty.
Until counter arguments to the sun cycle study, and the prediction of an imminent (starting roughly 2030, but claimed signs of it starting already) cooling phase which will be strong enough to override any future warming effects, can be presented to prove this theory in error, and it can therefore be discounted, the science is not settled!
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GT--there are certainly people who exaggerate threats--Obama is a socialist, TARP will bankrupt the country, and global warming will drown us all in half a century, the list goes on. Those people should be ignored or taken with a grain of salt, and we should calmly think of how wrong the folks who truly believed that a Communist government in Vietnam would lead to the fall of all the Asian countries like a series of dominos.
In the world where I work in America I know few scientists who make exaggerated predictions. Instead, I know of scientists who model future scenarios using different assumptions, and they
give ranges from low to high, along with what unknowns affect those scenarios.
It is perhaps not helpful to use a term like "the science is settled," because it covers for a series of assumptions that are not made explicit. We have seen this in religious attacks on evolution as a theory. There is certainly DNA evidence that documents evolutionary change and common ancestors for humans and apes. But there are huge data gaps, and the science of evolution cannot thus be said to be settled. While this leaves room to believe in a divine hand in creation, it does not mean that "intelligent design" should therefore be taught in public schools.
There are a few things in climate change that are settled. Sea level has risen, fairly steadily, over the 100 or so years that we have accurate records. (We need to be careful to look at net sea level rise--some areas are sinking, and others are rising as they rebound from the last ice age.) Temperature records are accurate enough to say that the average temperature has risen by about 1.2 degrees C over the past 100 years. There are changes in biological communities where plants are blooming 2 to 4 weeks earlier, and ecological communities are migrating upslope on mountains and northward in response to warming. It is possible that some of that apparent 1.2 degree of warming is not really an increase in the average temperature trend, but the result of another factor that we don't understand. That is why the increase is reported, responsibly, as 1.2 degrees plus of minus 0.5 degrees--we only know with that accuracy. Finally, the physics of the solar cycle are well enough known to be sure that increased CO2 causes some level of temperature increase--unless there are offsetting factors.
Anyone that says the science of climate change, as vast as it is, is settled, is guilty of arrogance. But anyone that says there is no evidence of human-emission induced warming is dishonest, not arrogant.
I studied modeling for physical phenomena that are pretty well understood--water surface elevations in oceans, bays and rivers. The models have steadily gotten better, and come close to fully capturing the physics and predicting, with an acceptable degree of precision, the impacts of floods, waves, tides, and tropical storms. Climate models are in their infancy. I did not go into modeling because, as you suggest, modelers have a tendency to believe their models as predictions of reality, rather than of scenarios. While they are improving rapidly they don't come close to capturing the fully physics of the climate system. But to take those limitations in human understanding and conclude that climate science is far from settled, is equally wrong.
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Once again, thank you for a response. I am not a scientist but I do take what I like to think is a logical line on things. To make my thoughts clear ...
I fully agree with the accuracy with which temperature rises, and sea level rises have been researched and 'teased out' (not intended as an insult) from the 'noise', by responsible and dedicated scientists. Their findings are accepted, and I also see it as obvious that the warming process must continue as CO2 levels continue to rise alarmingly. That, to me, is the settled part.
The current contradiction is that there now is an opposing scenario (a very big spanner in the works) with this Russian research into solar cycle effects, and their observations and recordings of ground effect data.
The beautiful simplicity of their theory (if it is not flawed) is that it doesn't deny the forces of global warming (as the doubters do) but claims that the strength of the imminent solar cooling cycle will override, and possibly reverse, that continuing process. They thus have no need to attack the global warming scientists, and the current consensus. They simply say that their solar cycle effect will be stronger.
Isn't that the crux of the matter? So far, warming scientists have down-played solar cycle effects as being of low magnitude. Clearly, the Russians are claiming otherwise. That, is the question which I would like to see resolved. Are we going to get cooling (for the next couple of centuries), or warming?
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GT--I certainly hope that there are other cycles, including sunspots, increased cloud cover, and CO2 absorption by the oceans that will mute the impacts of warming. I have consistently said that I don't believe the more doomsday scenarios. However, as I understand it, the Russian study was not a comprehensive study that looked at the physics, nor has it yet been peer reviewed. We need that part of the scientific process before we decide it is the answer.
By the way, increased vegetation growth is another way that natural forces could blunt the impacts of climate change. The scientific community has been involved in researching whether or not there is a trend towards greater vegetation, and the advance of satellite technology gives us a greater capability of actually monitoring vegetation change. Even with those tools, what work I've seen is very inconclusive--carbon needs to actually be sequestered in a young forest or marshes, at a landscape scale. Older forests tend to be in balance of rotting and growing, with little net sequestration, and clearing for agriculture and timber harvesting, globally, seems to offset any net sequestration benefit. Of course it would be nice if the Republicans in Congress would actually support the research that might be able to let us make smarter decisions...
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WASHINGTON—Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, like many before them, called on Americans to gather in D.C. for an afternoon of calling for sanity, fear and reason.
And come they did. The crowd, estimated to be more than 200,000 strong, stretched from in front of the Capitol building to the Washington Monument, spilled onto side streets, and clogged the highways and Metro system.
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They came to represent their political views, to express their anger, to poke fun at the political atmosphere or just to have a good time. And they came from everywhere.
Richard and Durema Kestner of High Rolls, N.M., proudly waved the state Zia flag and dubbed themselves Bill Richardson's "unauthorized, unofficial" rally reps. "We're here because of all the fear and misinformation that's being spread through the media," Richard said. "It's great to see so many people who want sanity."
Mike and Becky Travis, dressed as Captain America and Lady Liberty, traveled from Indiana to "restore sanity" and because "Jon Stewart is awesome," Mike said. Their message? "People need to chill out; most people aren't extremists."
Students Danny Bathgate and Zach Brass made the trek from Boston. Bathgate told the Alibi, "It sounded like fun. And besides, there really is too much insanity in our country today." Brass came because he's been a longtime fan of both shows, adding, "It's a good cause to rally for; you know, combatting stupid shit."
The duel was settled when the The O'Jays took to the stage and performed "Love Train."
Tory O'Conner and Jan Stanley hoisted a sign reading "Alaskans For Sanity." They said it was important for them to travel all the way from the Land of the Midnight Sun to represent the reasonable majority of Alaskans. "We didn't want everyone to think we're all about Palin," O'Conner said.
For at least 10,000 attendees, traveling to the events meant lining up in New York City before sunrise to hop on one of 200 buses provided by the Huffington Post at no cost to the travelers. Bettinna, a bus-rider who didn't want to give her last name, described the six-hour commute as exhausting but worth the trouble. "I've had enough of the hostile political atmosphere in this country," she said.
It's unclear whether the rally accomplished anything more than decrying the absurdity of political media while putting on a good show for the thousands packed on the Mall. The crowd was treated to several surprises, including a musical battle between Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) and Ozzy Osbourne—they sang "Peace Train" and "Crazy Train," respectively. The duel was settled when the The O'Jays took to the stage and performed "Love Train."
Tony Bennett also made an appearance with a smooth rendition of "America the Beautiful." Rally-goers raised their voices to sing alongside the musical legend, and they chanted "USA, USA" in lieu of applause. The overall message was often muddled and seemed to walk a fine line between straight entertainment and all-out media bashing. But moments of clarity, between performances by John Legend, The Roots and Kid Rock, did present themselves.
The closing came in the form of a 12-minute speech by Stewart and was particularly poignant. Stewart called on attendees to look at each other without the distorted camera lens of the "country's 24-hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator." Instead, he encouraged them to use their own eyes to see America for what it really is: a country populated by people who want the punditocratic volume turned down long enough to hear one another.
While never straying too far from the comedy arena, his message was a call to insert reason into the country's minds and media outlets. He summed up the afternoon in feel-good fashion. "Because we know instinctively as a people that if we are to get through the darkness and back into the light, we have to work together," he told the crowd. "And the truth is, there will always be darkness. And sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel isn't the promised land. Sometimes it's just New Jersey."


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Beth Jacob Brotherhood Honors Linda Heyman A large crowd of well- wishers joined the officers of the Beth Jacob Brotherhood to pay tribute to Linda Heyman as the VPerson of the Year for 1989" at the ; Twenty-Seventh Annual 7 Music Festival held'on March 28 at Beth Jacob Synagogue. 7 A handmade illuminated citation was presented to Heyman in behalf of the Beth Jacob Brotherhood by Rabbi David Stavsky for her "many exemplary efforts and leadership, role at the Beth- Jacob Congregation and in recognition of her selfless giving to others to enhance their lives." Philip Cohen, president of the Beth Jacob Brotherhood, was joined by Jack Rubin, president of the Beth Jacob Congregation in extending good wishes to Heyman as "Person of the Year." Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, internationally known Jewish folk singer, musician and composer, was the guest star entertainer for th^ evening. Rabbi Carlebach was accompanied by members of The Ohio Slate University- Jazz Ensemble. Richard Kohn was master of ceremonies for the evening; Following the concert and award ceremony, the audience was invited to a reception in honor of Heyman. JERUSALEM (JTA) - Hundreds of thousands of Soviet Jews are on the verge of being allowed to emigrate, according to Depuuty Foreign Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Speaking here at the closing session of the Jewish National Fund's fourth national assembly, Netanyahu said that Moscow is about to change its policy on emigration. The result, he said, is that "Jewish citizens are going to have the opportunity to leave the Soviet Union in numbers that we don't even imagine." He said this could be "on the order of hundreds of thousands, and I'm being conservative;" The Jerusalem Post, mils March 31 edition, confirmed that the source of Netanyahu's information is a secret intelligence report delivered • to the Foreign Ministry. Netanyahu said the Soviet decision to release so rtiany Jews is based on its desire to change its image. "It's going to do so, not because of the love of Zion, and it's not .going to let out Jews exclusively. "It's going to let out Soviet citizens basically under the assumption of, why should it carry the monkey on its back? Why should it be accused of being a prison.?" Netanyahu said that only two countries in the world will open their gates: "Germany, which will accept all Germans and repatriate them, and Israel. Now that's a fact of life." The deputy foreign minister told the JNF audience that it must do all that it can to help absorb the expected influx of Jews. "We're going to have to change our priorities," he said. "Our effort so far has been to open the gates. Our new effort is going to be to absorb these hundreds of thousands of Jews. And hundreds of thousands of Jews here make a tremendous difference." First Woman Ever To Be Temple Israel President The 143rd Annual Meeting of Temple Israel will take place on Sabbath eve, Friday, April 14. Dinner at 6 p.m. will be followed by the meeting at 7:15 p.m. Rita Cohen will be installed as president during the 8 p.m. worship service, the first woman to hold this office. A native of Cincinnati, Cohen became a member of Temple Israel in 1958 when she moved to Columbus. She has served as a member of the Board of Trustees since 1978. As a member of the Executive Board, she was the first elected woman vice- president in 1982. As a life member of Temple Israel Sisterhood, she served on the Board of Sisterhood at different times over a long period of time. Cohen has also served the general community on many other boards of trustees. She is a member of the Board of Heritage Village Auxiliary; Rita Cohen a member of the Board of Trustees of the Columbus Jewish Federation and treasurer of National Council of Jewish Women. She is also SPECIAL FEATURE Kosher Market Assumes Special Significance Especially At Passover By Mara Gales Ryan In spring; a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. Although Jewish men—and women— are no strangers to love, spring also prompts thoughts of Passover and all of the special preparations that must be made. Of course, the beauty and joy of Passover make all the preparation worthwhile. Still, there is so much to do and so little time to do it! But we who live in or near Columbus are lucky. Unlike Jewish people in certain other cities, we do not have to order all our holiday food from out-of town. Whether we cook from scratch or buy prepared delicacies, we can purchase everything on the Pesach menu locally. And instead oif 'placing our orders weeks iq advance, and hoping for the best, we can go to Martin's, on Broad Street, and take a look at the brisket for ourselves. Although it is convenient to shop locally at Passover, it is esential for the community to have year-round access to a kosher market. This viewpoint was expressed by a cross-section of prominent Jewish spokesmen, who uniformly agree upon its validity. However, Columbus, which supported a number of kosher establishments, a geifihraWon ago, now has only one This turn of evt?nte/seems odd because various members of the Columbus Jewish community stress pat kashruth is flourishing. Ulan Gill, executive director Wfttie Columbus Jewish FederatiC Heinz Hoffman, president of, the Vaad Ho-Ir (City Kasl ruth Committee); Rabbi David Stavsky, of "Beth Jacob Congregation, and Irv Szames, the new owner of Martin's, all note a resur gence of kashruth. Nevertheless, they blame lack of community suport for the decline in exclusively kosher markets. They explain this paradox by pointing out that Jewish people in Columbus are buying kosher food but not at kosher stores. Mike Singer, associated with Martin's for many years, is familiar with the contradiction and questions Columbus' commitment to the survival of a kosher market. Citing its role in uniting observant and non-observant Jews, Singer says, '... a community without a kosher [establishment] is at a [greatf disadvantage because ia Jew who observes kashruth has serious problems when he can't buy food right here.' Rabi Stavsky, for example, compares the plight of these shops to the demise of "Mom and Pop" grocery stores/Because of their high volume of sales, chain supermarkets can afford to lower prices and force out small competitors. Big Bear, Kroger's and Cub all carry a fairly wide variety of kosher products and are able to undersell local merchants. Unfortunately, customer loyalty often ends at the check-out line. "You're not able to keep kashruth for the community without a kosher market," He adds that "kosher catering is invaluable for meetings at hotels, for institutions such as Heritage House and for private simchas, wed-y dings and brisses." Moreover, Singer feels that "a kosher market tends to draw Jewish people [to Columbus]," Nonetheless, customers find it tempting to buy lox at Martins; but to pick up an Empire turkey at Big Bear. But temptation, too, has its price. Alan Gill points out that it would be "a shande (shame, pity) for Columbus to lose [its kosher supermarket]," and cautions the Jewish community to patronize the store "no matter who owns it." He notes that, too often, people engage in recrimination "when it is too late." In this vein, Gill warns that it would be "a major inconvenience" for those who keep kosher to trot from store to store, checking labels on every product. Without a kosher market, observant Jews would be susceptible to the whims of ordinary supermarkets. Similarly, it would prove almost impossible tp host community functions. Gill feels strongly about the issue, emphasizing that "a community without a kosher [establishment] is at a (CONTINUED ON PAGE 17) Installed , April 14 an active volunteer at Children's Hospital, staffing.the Information Desk, and a past president of the Columbus Public Schools Volunteer Advisory Council. In 1988, Cohen received the first Volunteer Recognition Award for outstanding service to National Council of Jewish Women, of which she is a past president. Cohen is married to I. David Cohen, and they have four children: John, James, Kathryn and Amy. Other Temple leaders to . be installed at the Annual Meetingare: first vice president, Fred Summer; vice presidents, Mark G. Feinknopf and Henry Epstein; secretary, . Arline Altman; assistant secretary, Elaine Tenenbaum; treasurer, Mark Herman; assistant treasurer, Jody Scheiman. New members of the Board of Trustees to be installed are: Marcy Gross, . Roger Sugarman and Bar- bara Seeder. Renewing terms to expire in 1992 will be Irving Barkan; Dr. Walter Baum; Harriet Kallenberg; Alfred Kobacker; Tudy Krupnick; Charles Loeb; Morris Oaklander; Tussy Shnider, and Judi Ull. Serving on the Planning Committee with Hope Ellen Kaplan as chair are: Sheila Feinknopf, publicity; Reva Levy, invitations; Harriet Kallenberg and Roberta Davis, decorations; Sandi Dubin, program; Shirlie Levitin, Felice Schiffman, Lois Greenblatt, dinner; B.D. Krakoff and Bunny Co- wall, Oneg Shabbat; Bar- (CONTINUED ON PAGE IS) Yn The Chronicle mmmmmimmmmmmmam At The Federation ..,.,.,. 6 At The Center , ;* i% U Dowling ,...,.,»»"...,.< 1$ Classified,.,...,,......,. 14 CommunityCalentfaif .,♦. £ EditwialFeatures,.,., &3 Marketplace. .r.«.,, > 7< *, '|g Social New* .,*.,♦**/, 7. ,vif mm**** HtaatM
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Cleveland crazy about Manziel
BEREA, Ohio — Johnny Manziel expects life in the NFL to be even crazier than college.
Selected in the first round of the draft by the Cleveland Browns, Manziel was introduced Friday to a soundtrack of whirring cameras as he took the initial steps of his pro career. Humble and self-assured, Manziel, who raised Texas A&M's profile with his playmaking ability and "Johnny Football" persona, said he's entering the league expecting the spotlight to be brighter.
"I'm going in expecting madness," he said.
Manziel says he's learned from past mistakes and the 21-year-old vowed to earn the respect of his new Cleveland teammates, some of whom may have their doubts about him.
His arrival in Cleveland has already triggered "Manzelmania" as the Browns have been overwhelmed with sales of season tickets in the hours since they drafted the former Heisman Trophy winner with the No. 22 overall pick on Thursday night. There were fans waiting outside the team's headquarters to welcome Manziel when he arrived shortly before noon.
"It means a lot to me obviously, getting a lot of support already," Manziel said of the buzz he's created. "But there's work that needs to be done. There's things that need to be done. I'm very excited, very eager to be here and really get things rolling."
Manziel was joined at his introductory news conference by fellow first-round pick Justin Gilbert, the No. 8 overall pick and a graduate of Huntsville High School. A cornerback from Oklahoma State, Gilbert said he rolled down his car window and screamed when he heard Manziel was taken by the Browns.
Gilbert was asked if he kept tabs on Manziel's college career.
"Who didn't follow him?" the soft-spoken Gilbert said.
Manziel, who posed for photos holding his new No. 2 jersey, insists he's not burdened by all the attention he receives, and said he's confident he can separate his celebrity and football lives.
"I think I'm Johnny Manziel," he said. "Johnny Football is what I am in the media. I accept it, but I know who I am. I'm Johnny Manziel, from Kerrville, Texas. I don't let that weigh me down."
Manziel doesn't expect to receive any preferential treatment with the Browns. He wasn't surprised to hear starter Brian Hoyer said "bring it on" when he was told he will be competing with Manziel in training camp.
Manziel acknowledged he has a lot to learn, and that his sole focus is on helping the Browns end years of futility.
"I want to win," he said. "That's the main thing for me. I don't handle losing very well."
He's gotten better at handling the constant swirl around him. After he was drafted following a nearly three-hour wait, Manziel went out in New York and celebrated with his family and friends, which reportedly included rapper Drake and Cavaliers All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving. There are photos circulating on the Internet of Manziel drinking from a large bottle of champagne.
"I'm 21 years old," he said when asked about the bubbly.


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Buffett's Latest Bargain: Berkshire Hathaway
Warren Buffett may be nearing the end of his 47-year tenure at Berkshire Hathaway. The shares are trading as if he's already gone. Andrew Bary joins Markets Hub to discuss.
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Well, I would say the reason that Orcs have these siege weapon because that's the focus of their culture. Dwarves mine, so they make cavernous extensive subteranean fortresses, Elves build tall spires because they reflect their natural tendencies to strive for their hight of perfection, and Humans build quickie castles (a one sided, I mean come on, whoe else makes a one sided castle )
So it stands to reason: Orcs are conquerers, so they put their advancments into the ream of Siege weaponry, so as to keep up with the forstifications of more 'enlightened' races. In other words:
To Orcs the best defence is non-existant, because they have nothing to defend, thus, their offense has a distinct advantage. You'd think this would mean they could get some halfway decent bodily protection, but I guess since the whole race is militant, it would mean that all they could afford to mass-produce, despite all of their 'loots', but maybe I'm just overanalysing things.


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WELLINGTON - Disgraced former New Zealand batsman Lou Vincent on Tuesday was banned for life from cricket for match-fixing, admitting he was a cheat who had shamed the sport and his country.
"My name is Lou Vincent and I am a cheat. I have abused my position as a professional sportsman on a number of occasions by choosing to accept money through fixing," he said in a statement. The punishment, which was confirmed by the England and Wales Cricket Board, stems from one-day matches that Vincent admitted he helped rig in English county cricket.
His former Sussex team mate, Naveed Arif, was also banned for life last month after admitting similar corruption offences. The ECB said in a statement that Vincent pleaded guilty to 18 breaches of its anti-corruption regulations. Four charges related to a Twenty20 match between Lancashire and Durham in June 2008. The remaining 14 concerned two fixtures played in August 2011 -- a Sussex v Lancashire Twenty20 and a Sussex v Kent CB40 match. "We are extremely pleased that the matter has now been brought to a satisfactory conclusion and that an individual who repeatedly sought to involve others in corrupt activity for his own personal gain has accepted that his conduct warrants a lifetime ban from cricket," said ECB chief David Collier.
International Cricket Council chief executive David Richardson welcomed the ban by saying: "The ICC has a zero-tolerance approach towards corruption and these life bans, together with the life ban recently imposed by the ECB on Naveed Arif, should send out a loud and clear message to all those who indulge in corrupt practices and think they can get away with it." Vincent, 35, has given additional evidence to ICC anti-corruption investigators about his involvement in fixing in five countries between 2008 and 2012.
Among his allegations were that a "world-famous international" dubbed "Player X" recruited him into the murky world of match-rigging. New Zealand legend Chris Cairns has said he believes he is Player X but questioned Vincent's credibility and vehemently denied any involvement.
Vincent's statement about his ban made no reference to Cairns or any other player. Instead, he said he had shamed his homeland and the game, prompting him to come clean to try to ease his conscience. "Speaking out. Exposing the truth. Laying bare the things I have done wrong is the only way I can find to begin to put things right," he said. "The time has come for me to now face them like a man and accept the consequences."
Vincent played in 23 Tests and 102 one-dayers for New Zealand before retiring from international cricket in 2007. After that, he travelled the globe playing in numerous domestic leagues before retiring early last year. He has previously spoken publicly about his battles with depression and the loneliness of being on the road but said in his statement that he did not want to use his mental condition as an excuse. "The people who know me know I am vulnerable," he said. "But they also know I am not stupid and that I know what is right and what is wrong."
Vincent, who testified to the ICC that he was offered bribes of money and sex, said he wanted his fate to be a warning to young players not to repeat his mistakes. "It is entirely possible that I can use this moment to convince others not to be tempted by wrongdoing," he said. "To do the right thing for themselves, for their families and friends, and for the sport they love."
While Vincent's ban appears to draw the ECB's investigation to a close, the ICC is yet to release the results of its anti-corruption probe. The ICC investigation, which was first revealed in December, focuses on Vincent, Cairns and another New Zealander, Daryl Tuffey, who has also denied any wrongdoing.


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maberi wrote:Hi All,
Kayden and I will be attending our first sanctioned (IWPA) event on Sept 27th and 28th. I have never been to a weight pull event so I'm not sure exactly what to expect.
Can anyone out there give a newbie some tips that might help? Things to remember, things to bring, how many pulls do you usually do in a day, etc...
I also understand food or any type of baiting cannot be used but can you treat your dog after you leave the pull area? (I know in tracking you can't have food within a certain distance of the field)
Leslie H wrote:IWPA, no fouls, and last I heard, you can't call your dog until after you've crossed the line. The dog may have started pulling, but you can't pull or gesture (or touch of course).
maberi wrote:God, I have so many questions (sorry!!)
Rule 1 states the following
1.) Each dog shall be required to pull a loaded sled/ cart a measured sixteen (16) feet within 60 seconds. If the sled/cart is in continuous forward motion the dog shall be allowed to complete the pull and the actual time required to make the pull shall be recorded.
So if a dog is pulling and stops midway and thus the cart stops but the dog then pulls again and completes the pull, is this pull counted?
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Last night, Sandy Alderson hosted a conference call with a few Mets bloggers that was by far the best one I ever participated in. We had some great questions from everyone and Sandy, who was very cordial, took his time and answered all of our questions concisely and proficiently. The tone of the call was kind of upbeat and it was interesting to hear how passionate everyone was about their concerns. Amazin Avenue was good enough to transcribe the entire call which you can read here.
My question to Sandy was regarding Jose Reyes (of course), but it started out kind of funny when when he responded to Shannon of the Mets about Shannon of Mets Police just as I was introduced.
Shannon Forde, Mets Media Relations: Shannon [Shark] really wants to know if you watch the Walking Dead.
Alderson: The Walking Dead, by the way, was a Marine battalion in Vietnam, I don't know what it's referring to now, probably Vampires or something..
Joe DeCaro: Actually the Walking Dead is about zombies.
Sandy Alderson: Oh is that what it is? Zombies? Thanks. (laughing)
Joe DeCaro: When the season ended, you met with reporters at Citi Field, and at that time you said there would no preemptive offer to Jose Reyes and that you were going to let other teams set the market.
A few weeks later it was reported that you had an understanding with Jose that he would meet with you after he was done shopping and that you would have substantive negotiations with him at that time.
There's been so much information and mis-information circulating about Jose Reyes that it's become such a huge blur for Mets fans right now. I don't know if you've kept up with the latest gossip, but apparently there's a report generating some buzz about a potential Mets offer worth five years and $80 million for Jose Reyes.
Forget whether or not it's fact or fiction — I'm leaning towards the latter — hypothetically speaking, if Jose Reyes came back to you with a five-year, $80 million offer from another team, could you and would you beat that offer if that's what it took to re-sign him?
Also, does your front office consider Jose Reyes a franchise player?
Alderson: Let me start with your last question first: Do I consider him a franchise player? Yes. But a franchise player is only valuable as such if he is contributing to a winning franchise as opposed to simply acting as eye wash for a team that is not very good. So for me, franchise players are critically important — this goes back to the bonding that takes place with a handful of players on each team — you need those kinds of players to win. But ultimately, even a franchise player has to make a contribution to a winning team.
Now with respect to what we would do or not do with Jose, that's hypothetical and it would be speculative for me to respond to that, and also very public, and I would prefer not to do that {laughing}. It's fair to say that, in light of his status, at least in my mind, as a franchise player, that there's a number that we would find acceptable. We're very interested in retaining Jose.
As far as his coming back, it has never been my understanding that we would not negotiate until he had made all his rounds, until he got a good offer from somebody else, and then we got a chance to match it or get a discount from it. That's never been my understanding. I do believe that if Jose really wants to be in New York after everything is said and done, he'll talk to us. But I don't know that we can rely on that. So our inactivity at this point, or the fact that we haven't given him an offer, is not based on our confidence that when everything is said and done, he's going to come back to us. I think it's a combination of a lot of other things.
Right now, it's not clear where his market will be. We've never wanted to be a stalking horse for somebody else. We're sincere in our desire to have him back. But we're just going to have to see what develops for him. Now the fact that nothing has materialized to date, doesn't mean that something won't tomorrow or the next day, I'm realistic enough to know that. But I also have a sense of what we can do and what would be beyond our ability to do.
And when I say beyond our ability, this doesn't have anything to do with Bernie Madoff. This really has to do with our vision of where the team can be and what we need to be able to do over the next two-to-four years to create a sustainable, winning roster. I have said on many occasions, that what we need is some roster flexibility eventually that allows us the freedom from a roster standpoint to make some of these decisions that are going to be costly, but to be able to do them in a way that enables us to rationalize the overall roster and the overall payroll.
There's so much that came out of my question I don't know where to begin, but lets start with this and I'll disect the rest of his reply to me throughout the day:
"A franchise player is only valuable as such if he is contributing to a winning franchise as opposed to simply acting as eye wash for a team that is not very good. "
Obviously I asked him whether Reyes was a franchise player based on the comment he made the day before while speaking to season ticket holders: "We want to have franchise players."
Well first off, there was no hesitation when he said yes, that Reyes was a franchise player, but he didn't stop there and threw in the eyewash line, which kind of reminds me of the old standby of "we didn't win with him, so we can just as soon lose without him".
What did you take out of his comment?
I've never been a proponent of that sort of argument because it hangs the blame for losing on one player – the best player – when losing and winning is actually a team effort. You can't blame the star for being a star if all you surround him with is below average players and nobody to compliment him. Am I right or wrong here?
Don't most championship caliber team build around their core players – by complimenting them with role players to fill in the missing pieces of the puzzle?
Anyway, I'll have more to say later on.
Other sites that participated and blogged about the call were On the Black, Mets Police, and MetsBlog. There were a few other blogs as well, but as of this writing they hadn't yet posted on it. I'll try to update this as they do.
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Spread pesto on 2 slices of toasted sourdough bread. Top with slices of fresh mozzarella, bacon, sliced tomato and lettuce.
Split a corn muffin in half. Cover cut sides with honey mustard. Top with sliced deli ham, lettuce and gruyère cheese.
Sandwich sliced strawberries and bananas between 2 pieces of whole-wheat bread covered with Nutella.
Week 3:
Top 2 blueberry bagel thins with cream cheese, sliced turkey and avocado.
Wrap monterey jack cheese, black beans, salsa and avocado in a whole-wheat tortilla.
PB & Banana S'mores Stack graham crackers with peanut butter and banana slices.
Toss together shredded chicken and carrots, crunchy Asian noodles and peanut dressing. Spoon into a mini-whole-wheat pita.
Italian Sub Add mustard to half of a demi baguette. Top with provolone cheese, salami and roasted red peppers.
Week 4:
BLT Wrap Roll bacon, sliced tomatoes, lettuce and ranch dressing in a spinach tortilla, and cut crosswise.
Layer sliced deli chicken, swiss cheese and pesto on a spinach tortilla. Roll up, and cut crosswise into slices.
Cover flatbread or 2 slices of toasted sourdough bread with edamame hummus. Top with sliced red peppers.
Tea Sandwiches Spread cranberry sauce on cinnamon bread. Top with Brie.
Fill a pita with deli turkey, strawberry cream cheese and baby spinach.
Out of bread? No biggie. Here are five kid-friendly breadless wonders.
- Fill a Bibb lettuce leaf with sliced turkey or leftover chicken, sliced carrots and chopped peanuts.
- Thread quartered grape tomatoes, leftover meat (like chicken), lettuce and bacon pieces on a skewer (snip off pointy end). Serve with their fave salad dressing for dipping.
- Stuff a taco shell with your choice of black beans, corn kernels, chopped tomatoes, shredded cheese, a splash of lime and salt.
- Smear cream cheese on a breadstick, or a thick cucumber strip, and wrap with sliced deli ham or turkey.
- Fill celery stalks with veggie cream cheese and chunks of tuna. (Best for kids over 4.)


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Sun 28th May 2006 15:03 UTC, submitted by Andy Updegrove
"Lately I've been blogging quite a bit on the state of on-line journalism. One aspect of that topic that I haven't touched on for awhile is the way in which a story breaks, builds, morphs and spreads electronically. The recent announcement of the Backdoor.Ginwui virus provides an interesting opportunity to do this once again, in order to see who addressed the story and how (including by me), and what, if anything, it all means." OSNews did not report on this Backdoor.Ginwui virus.


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Steam top ten sellers chart: July 7-13
The Summer Sale has made first impact on the top ten selling products chart for Valve's service, with Civilization V and Borderlands 2 offerings making up nearly half of the list.
Civ V's latest expansion Brave New world finished ahead of BioShock Infinite for the top spot on this week's chart. Civilization V: Gold Edition finished in sixth.
Meanwhile, Borderlands 2 and its DLC season pass finished third and fifth, respectively.
Keep in mind that these, and every other game on the list below, are going off the strength of the deep discounts Steam's Summer Getaway Sale provides.
- Civilization V: Brave New World
- BioShock Infinite
- Borderlands 2
- Skyrim - Legendary Edition
- Borderlands 2 Season Pass
- Civilization V: Gold Edition
- Left 4 Dead 2
- Tomb Raider
- The Walking Dead
- Half-Life Complete
Update: It's been brought to our attention that Civ V: Brave New World wasn't carrying the standard Summer Sale discount and was selling at (or close to) full price during the period– making the top finish even more impressive.


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Like a lot of people in retirement, one has to watch the purse strings. Making your pension go a long way requires skill and dedication constantly counting the coffers so to speak.
One of the many questions people ask themselves is how much does it actually cost to operate a stair lift. This article explains how much it costs in Broadway-Orleans Homes Maryland so read on.
What Is The Price of a Stair Lift in Broadway-Orleans Homes?
What are the usage overheads of home stairlifts? Good news! They use very little electrical power based on an average day running costs! Seven full journeys a day the average outlay would be 1.4p per day.
Loads of people switch off their unit when they go on vacation. There is no necessity! The device has been designed to be left permanently switched on 24/7 actually switching it off could introduce difficulty on your return.
Stair lifts use rechargeable batteries these types of batteries can fail to revitalize if their voltage sinks beneath a given level! If they are entirely drained then a good possibility, they will not pick-up and recharge once the lift is switched back on.
You arrive home after two weeks vacation to discover you and your suitcases are stuck downstairs not an excellent finish to your vacation.
If you had simply left your device switched on it would have been waiting at the doorway wagging its tail and more than eager to ferry you and your overweight suitcases up the stairway.
If you switch your stairlift back on and it fails to activate then leave the unit switched on for a good 8 hours then try it yet again. If it still fails to drive after this amount of charging time then good chance your batteries are bushed! Sunk to such a base level, they will not revitalize.
The only alternative you have now calls for an engineer who will need to swap the flat batteries this type of situation is bothersome, and if you have no maintenance service contract with a local company, it can also be very expensive.
How Much Does An Acorn Stairlift Cost in Broadway-Orleans Homes
We are helping the elderly senior citizens find low-cost stair lifts in City of Baltimore Maryland. Let's be honest you do not save up to buy a stair lift, and when one thinks about retirement, hopefully, a lift was the last thing on your mind.
We can help you choose a supplier and point you in the right direction to find local approved installers.
We will be keeping you updated on all the local and international news regarding pensions and retirement issues. So please feel free to add us to your favorites.
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Soroptimist International of Hood River has selected the 2012 winners of its annual Women of Distinction award: Dotty Nelson of Parkdale, Becki Rawson of Hood River and Kim Yasui of Mt. Hood.
The trio will be recognized at a luncheon in their honor on Wednesday, Nov. 7, beginning at 11:30 a.m.
Soroptimist International is an organization for business and professional women who, according to its mission, "work to improve the lives of women and girls, in local areas and throughout the world ... with community-based and international projects."
In Hood River County, SI members fundraise to offer several program goals: to provide grants to local adult- and college-entry-age women seeking to increase their education or skills; to support new mothers; to end sex-trafficking worldwide and to end domestic violence.
The event will be held at the Best Western Hood River Inn Gorge Room and is open to the public. Proceeds will be used to continue Soroptimist programs for women and girls in the community. Tickets are $18 and available at Waucoma Bookstore or by calling Jean Harmon, 541-207-4226.
The three women selected for this year's Women of Distinction awards exemplify the spirit of personal responsibility, diligence, effectiveness and compassion the organization hopes to promote, and have all worked over many years to improve the lives of others in our community.
Soroptimist supports Helping Hands Against Violence, New Parent Services and "Gutsy Girls" anti-bullying programs for elementary school-age girls, among other programs.
Funds are also raised via the "Wine, Women and WOW!" women's networking event in September, and Harvest Fest quilt raffle tickets sales."
Another fundraiser, Lunafest, an inspiring festival of short films written, produced and directed by women and focused on women's issues, is set to screen in March at Columbia Center for the Arts."
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Plaster Creek ( Martin )
Indiana : Flag of State
Plaster Creek is a place of kind Stream belonging to the County of ( Martin ).
The closest populated place is that of Hindostan Falls that is2.98 miles far from Plaster Creek.
Plaster Creek is also 1,000,000.00 miles far from the closest airport or heliport, the .
The weather forecasting are available for the town of Shoals , that is 9.75 miles far from Plaster Creek .
The Zip Code of Plaster Creek is 47581.
Besides Plaster Creek in the County of ( Martin ) there are the following places of kind Stream . These are reported in what follows in alphabetical order:
American Run - Barn Run - Beech Creek - Blue Creek - Boggs Creek - Branch Run - Buck Creek - Buck Knob Creek - Buzzard Run - Cedar Brook - Church Brook - Crooked Creek - Culpepper Brook - Dover Run - Elm Creek - First Creek - First Creek - Flood Run - Free Run - Freemans Spring Branch - French Run - Friends Creek - Grassy Creek - Grove Brook - Gushing Creek - Haw Creek - Hickory Run - Hill Branch - Hoffman Run - Houghton Run - House Rock Branch - Indian Run - Iron Creek - Jackman Branch - Jet Run - Knob Branch - Lacy Drain - Leaf Branch - Lemon Run - Limb Run - Lime Run - Little Sulphur Creek - Mountain Stream - Nest Brook - Nubbin Ridge Branch - Nut Brook - Opo Run - Opossum Creek - Overlook Drain - Peek Run - Poplar Creek - Poss Creek - River Drain - Root Brook - Seed Tick Creek - Sherfick Stream - Shurn Creek - Silverville Branch - Simmons Creek - Slate Creek - Sod Run - Speel Creek - Spurt Run - Squirt Run - Sulphur Creek - Sum Creek - Turkey Branch - Turkey Creek - Union Creek - Virginia Rill - West Boggs Creek - Willow Creek - Windy Run .
Where to stay: Hotels and other Accommodation Plaster Creek
Please find in what follows the full listing of the Hotels, Bed & Breakfasts and other accommodation available in Plaster Creek.
A lot of pictures and fully detailed descriptions are available for the Hotels, Bed & Breakfasts and other accommodation, along with the ratings assigned by the guest of the same Hotels. The ratings are divided by age, sex and much more.
Indiana : Emblem of State
- Capital : Indianapolis
- Inhabitants : Indianian (Hoosier, Indianan, Indianer)
- State's Motto : The crossroads of America
- English translation : The crossroads of America
Map and road map of Plaster Creek
View the interactive maps of Plaster Creek and get road maps, satellite maps and much more. The maps cover a wide area centered on Plaster Creek .
On each map are available: a selector scale, on the bottom right of the map,a menu for choosing different views of the same map, placed in the upper left corner of the map, a free text search field for locating any business activity within the map itself, placed at the top center of the map.
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RIAA Wins Again: Judge Says LimeWire Induced Copyright Infringement
from the and-there-goes-another-one dept
You can read the full decision here:
Either way, I'm still wondering if, based on the Supreme Court's ruling in the Grokster case, which solidified this non-legislative concept of "inducement" for copyright infringement (something that Congress had chosen not to put into the law -- despite having the opportunity), if it's possible to create a system for more efficiently sharing files that doesn't violate the inducement standard. In most of these cases, part of the problem is that these sites advertise themselves for the ability to infringe on copyrights, and employees at the sites were active in helping users infringe. As such, you can see how that's clear inducement. But what if a site was set up that didn't do all of those things, but was still widely used for infringement. Would that still be inducement? If so, that seems incredibly troubling. The law should not be set up in a way to outright ban a technology that has a wide variety of useful applications, and is used for plenty of legitimate purposes, even if it's also used (even if regularly used) for infringing purposes.


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Marek Butko: Bureaucracy is unacceptable in struggle against Lukashenka
- 25.01.2013, 15:41
Actual economic sanctions should replace symbolic measures in the struggle against Lukashenka's regime.
Marek Butko, deputy chairperson of the Polish Freedom and Democracy Foundation, former first secretary of the Polish Embassy in Minsk, said about it in an interview to charter97.org.
- Marek, you left your diplomatic career and became one of the directors of the Freedom and Democracy Foundation in Warsaw. Belarus is high on its agenda. Could you give a brief report on the work done?
- First of all, since 2007 we have been working with a program Center of Documentation and Support of Victims of Political Repressions in Belarus. During this time, we have helped almost 500 people.
We have collected extensive data about those who actually steer the repressive machine, and about those who perform the repressions. These people have no clue what detailed information we possess. We will share the information with new democratic powers in Belarus. These documents will be used to put every person involved in the repressions against their fellow countrymen in front of judges.
Moreover, we search for funds for the TV-channel Belsat, and we are proud of the fact that due to our efforts the share of these funds in the channel's budget is growing. We even helped to found the Belarusian House in Warsaw. The Belarusian House had been located in our office, before they got their premises. From time to time we help political refugees from Belarus with some minor problems that in fact are difficult for them to solve on their own. We publish a significant number of issues of the newspapers of the independent Union of Poles in Belarus Magazyn Polski and Głos znad Niemna, prohibited by Lukashenka's regime. We have a couple of media-projects in Ukraine, and we do our best to support the human rights struggle in Cuba.
- On May 18, 2005, when you were an employee of the Embassy in Minsk, the Belarusian powers announced you persona non grata and you were forced to leave Belarus. How did they explain this decision, and what do you think the actual reasons of your deportation were?
- My deportation from Belarus shows that the KGB and Lukashenka's regime "recognized" my activity in some way. As an Embassy employee I was facing a choice: to keep a low profile, to visit diplomatic parties and get my monthly paycheck, or to do something. And I chose the second option, although I know that for many officials in our Foreign Ministry I am everything what a diplomat should not be. I was deported from Minsk "for having interfered with the interior affairs of the Republic of Belarus", although I still don't understand what it means. In fact, Western diplomats have been forced to leave Belarus before and after my deportation. So my story is not unique.
In those times people from the KGB lost control over the Union of Poles in Belarus, and it made them mad. It was right after the Union elected a new democratic independent leadership headed by Angelika Borys. Special services had to explain their mistakes to Lukashenka, so they said that the elections were a conspiracy of the Polish government. And where there's a conspiracy, there's the foe that should be punished. They chose me for that role, although I was never involved with the Union of Poles.
If I had had the opportunity to finish my job in the Embassy on time, I would have returned to Poland and got back to being a journalist. But I thought, "you want a war – you'll get a war", and acted accordingly. And that is why I keep on working with human rights in Belarus. Today I work for an NGO with no diplomatic limitations.
- After graduation you worked at the Polish Foreign Ministry with issues related to Russia. When and how did you first become interested in Belarus?
- I am half Polish, half Belarusian. My father was born in Vilnius, my mother comes from Baranavichy, and I spent a couple of years in Belarus when I was a child. In 1939, my father was deported to Siberia, he spent several years in Soviet jails, he worked in taiga cutting wood, and then he returned to Poland with the unit of Tadeusz Kościuszko. In Stalin times, my mother graduated from a medical university. She was the only one of three hundred students who refused to join the komsomol. I have always been proud of that. So one can say that I was fostered with repulsion against the soviet system.
But I developed a real interest in Belarus in 2000-2005, when I worked in the Polish Embassy in Minsk. I met with Belarusian intellectuals and democrats. I read Belarusian literature, books on the Belarusian history. And then I realized that I must help these courageous people because this country deserves freedom. I realized that Lukashenka is a butcher of any freedom and any human values. I could have probably done even more, but at least I tried, and I'm happy I did.
- What impressions do you have left after your time in Belarus?
- As I've already said, I see myself as a Pole, but I have such strong bounds with Belarus, I have always thought of Belarus as of my second home. Who knows, if Belarus had been a free and friendly neighbor to Poland, maybe I could move there. Anyway, I spent 8-9 years in Belarus on the total. I have lots of close friends there. Unfortunately, some of them are in prison, some had to emigrate. I think of those who are left in Belarus with respect and worry, because I know what the bandit soviet system can do to people.
Frankly, sometimes I feel that Belarusians are spiritually much closer to me that some of my fellow countrymen. I used to think that Poles are a courageous and brave nation craving for freedom, ready to sacrifice everything for it. With time I realized that it is not entirely true, that people are the same everywhere, here and there great people ready to help others are born side by side with scoundrels who can trade their mother for comfort and a sweet life.
In Poland in different times there were people employed by the regime and people who were passive laymen, but there were even those who were ready to give their lives for freedom. And the fact that "the entire nation" won in 1989 in Poland, is just a stereotype. A small but most active part of the society won, the people who in the hard times of the martial law didn't give up and didn't abandon the Solidarity. They became neither successful businessmen, nor influential politicians. Some of them are poor.
Belarus, too, has its heroes. For example, Ales Bialatski and others who choose prison over being subdued by the regime and over betrayal of their ideals. These people are the consciousness of the nation, and it is due to them that the people of Belarus have the right to be called a great nation. History values their deeds highly. It is a pity though that they and their families have to pay such a price for freedom.
- What actions, in your opinion, should the EU take in order to make Lukashenka release and rehabilitate all the political prisoners?
- For many years I have been saying the same thing: we need real economic sanctions, including trade embargo, instead of symbolic measures. Just likethe Soviet Union, Lukashenka understands only the language of force. There are no other ways. All intentions to make the dictator more "human" are a mere fantasy of European bureaucrats who try to pretend that they have ideas and solutions. Often their common interests with the regime and their fear to anger Russia affect the process. Their ideas have frequently resulted in the European politics being compromised, but that it bureaucracy's nature, always making the same mistake.
If Lukashenka at least once could feel the danger of real sanctions, they could be avoided. He plays a hero because he knows perfectly well – the threats of the EU to the regime are not to be scared of.
Of course, we should support independent media such as charter97.org, Belsat or Radio Racja, we should help the repressed Belarusians, but it is not enough. We need a strong political and economic factor of pressure, not on the people of Belarus, as Lukashenka tries to persuade them, but on himself, on the system he has created. This is a stupid soviet system that is the enemy of the Belarusian culture, that destroys the Belarusian nation spiritually and physically.
- Before the events of December 19, 2010, you said in an interview that the EU doesn't provide democratic forces in Belarus with real support. Has the situation changed since then?
- After December 19, 2010, when Lukashenka's brutal actions shocked everyone, the European politics regarding Belarus became more rigid, but with time everything turned back to bureaucracy.
Let's look at that realistically. Almost all more or less significant initiatives of support the democratic forces in Belarus have been financed from the Polish budget: Belsat, Radio Racja, help for the victims of repressions, the Kalinowski Scholarship Program, and so on. Besides us, the actual help comes from Sweden, a bit from Lithuania; the European Union gives funds to support the European Humanitarian University. The rest is a fiction, plain talks of European bureaucrats with nothing specific. What "European assistance" are we talking about?
- The Freedom and Democracy Foundation supports the Union of Poles in Belarus that Lukashenka doesn't recognized. Recently Mecislaw Jaskiewicz has been elected its chairperson. He said that he was going to demand that the organization is recognized officially. Is the recognition possible, and is it in general needed in the current situation?
- I've known Mecislaw for a long time; he is a person of principles. I'm amazed at his passion and courage. If he says that he's about to do something, he will do it. I admire such people as Angelika Borys, Angelika Orekhvo, Andrzej Poczobut, and in front of many other activists of the Union of Poles in Belarus. Because of these people I am proud to be a Pole myself. I hope that the powers will finally realize that repressions against the Poles in Belarus have always given and will always give reverse results. The stronger the repressions are, the stronger the resistance becomes.
But the Union of Poles is not a political organization, and the Polish people in Belarus want to have the rights a national minority has in any normal country. They want to be able to go to Polish schools, to keep their traditions alive. Nobody in Poland thinks of getting the Grodna region back, and the Polish minority respects democratic values, it poses no threat to Belarus' sovereignty. On the contrary, multiculturalism is one of the biggest treasures that history has given this part of Europe, and we should use it instead of pushing the Poles of Belarus into the politics with repressions. The Union of Poles in Belarus, legal or not, will still be there and work as usual.
- Can you give your evaluation to the Belarusian independent media as a journalist? Are they effective? The pro-government Belarusian media constantly report on some kind of amazing financial support of the independent journalist from the West. Is this support so big?
- I never start any discussions with the Belarusian propaganda out of principle. I don't see these uneducated slaves as decent partners for a discussion.
Radio Svaboda or The Voice of America that broadcast in Poland in the communist times were supported by the U.S. government. I am very grateful to these Americans for it was them who saved us from the soviet propaganda and who provided the people with true facts. These broadcasts kept the national spirit alive and called to act. Today independent media play this role for Belarus. They work from abroad, and they are an oasis of democracy. Lukashenka hates them because he cannot make them be quiet despite the KGB 's attempts to control the Internet and to intimidate the journalists.
But it's not only the journalists' enthusiasm that can make a radio program or a webpage attractive for as many listeners and users. Means for modernization, equipment, production of the programs are needed. In my view the needs in this sphere are three times higher than the resources. If Europe really gave these funds, Lukashenka's propaganda would be trembling with fear.
- What was your opinion of the article published in the Belarusian state press after the protest rally on December 19, 2010, that accused Europe and you personally of basically financing terrorists who were trying to seize the power with violence?
- As I said before, I don't engage in debates with the Belarusian propaganda. I'm not interested in its opinion. When I was working in Belarus, in my job I had to read crazy scribbles of Yakubovich, Zimouski or Charginets. This reading was, as a matter of fact, pretty tiresome. Not enough that they lie – they get paid for that, that's their pity role. But their primitive style and the total absence of any talent give no desire at all to read their works. Such mediocre persons could actually have a career only in the soviet system. In a normal country they wouldn't be allowed even to edit a wall newspaper with culinary recipes.


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Student or Learner
Has anyone ever had any experience with the schoolbook « Access to English, Stating out » for beginners ? I just got a job as a teacher of ESL (actually I am a translator) and I really dont know how to proceed with this material. For those who did use it the layout looks like this : first there is a text (6 to 5 paragraphs) followed by questions, then there is a dialogue (rather long), then drills and exercises.
Any suggestions?
Thank you all
I haven't used it- it's from the seventies and, from what I can glean from Google, has accompanying Drill cassettes, which suggests it's a grammar based book with substitution and other type drills, designed to ram home grammar points. Do the unidts focus on specific grammar points, with rather artificial texts crammed full of examples? If so, it's likely to be a Direct Method type book, where you're supposed to fire off questions to get specific answers highlighting a specific grammar point. I could, howver, be doing the book an injustice. Could you put up a few examples or some more details?


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Style # 227403
AVAILABILITY: Unavailable for immediate shipment.
Feeling sporty? This bebe midi dress featuring double shoulder straps, stretchy knit fabric and mesh cutouts is a complete home run. Its high neckline and body-hugging silhouette cry to be styled with a pair of high heels and metallic clutch for a daring nighttime ensemble.
- 88% nylon, 12% spandex
- Hand wash
- Made in USA
- Center back to hem: 38" (93 cm)
- Model is 5'9" and is wearing a US size S
Strappy Side Cutout Midi Dress is rated out of 5 by 1.
Rated 1 out of 5 by lcarp from Poorly made! I was so excited to finally find a little black dress that was sexy but "not too". Unfortunately, the quality of the manufacturing of this dress is very poor. The dress has a zipper in the back that, when sewed in, left an extremely bulky line down the back. The dress did not lay smooth, as pictured on the website. I have returned to Bebe. :(
Date published: 2013-11-26