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I'm a frequent viewer of ESPN's First Take, and there have been plenty of times I have disagreed with host Stephen A. Smith. I'd say there were a few times that Stephen A. Smith has offended me with his views (same with Skip Bayless). Recently, Smith was discussing his opinion in regards to the Ray Rice suspension, and his words stirred up a hornet's nest of opposition in the media, mostly from ESPN's SportsNation host, Michelle Beadle. I'd wager to say that a lot of the angst and disappointment that commentators have for Ray Rice's two-game suspension is now directed at Stephen A. Smith.
I think this is a bit unfair to Stephen A. Smith. I've watched the broadcast and read through the transcript a couple of times, and I'm not entirely convinced that Smith's words are as offensive as many are labeling them. In fact, he may have something of a point that we are hastily disregarding in light of a shared disdain for abuse of women. Stephen A. Smith may have not been as eloquent in this instance, but he might not deserve the knee-jerk reaction he is receiving from those with an inclination for proving their staunch opposition to the Ray Rice suspension.
First, as to what I think about the Ray Rice suspension, his receiving two lost games is not a long enough suspension…not that four to six games might necessarily magically cure Ray Rice of his physical attacks on his wife. The public scrutiny on Rice seems to be more of a cure than this suspension, and who's to say that a four-game suspension would be enough to satisfy the crime? Would the media have become incensed if it was a four-game suspension? Probably not, which could indicate that the media's moral majority might be the ones who have the most beef here. It seems a bit arbitrary to me, especially considering how unbalanced the NFL's system for handing out fines and suspensions has been to this point.
I think this has become a case of political correctness, especially concerning Stephen A. Smith's commentary on Friday. Here is what he said:
We know you have no business putting your hands on a woman. I don't know how many times I got to reiterate that. But as a man who was raised by women, see I know what I'm going to do if somebody touches a female member of my family. I know what I'm going to do, I know what my boys are going to do. I know what, I'm going to have to remind myself that I work for the Worldwide Leader, I'm going to have to get law enforcement officials involved because of what I'm going to be tempted to do. But what I've tried to employ the female members of my family, some of who you all met and talked to and what have you, is that again, and this what, I've done this all my life, let's make sure we don't do anything to provoke wrong actions, because if I come, or somebody else come, whether it's law enforcement officials, your brother or the fellas that you know, if we come after somebody has put their hands on you, it doesn't negate the fact that they already put their hands on you. So let's try to make sure that we can do our part in making sure that that doesn't happen.
I bold-faced the text that I believe has been deemed offensive. What I think Stephen A. Smith is trying to say involves something that happened in his life. If I'm reading it right, then it might have involved a situation where a female might have been attempting to persuade a male, whether a male family member or a male police officer, to vindicate a perceived crime (I say perceived because that's how our legal system works). It's possible that a female might have been asking for a "chivalrous" reaction in the form of returned violence (think of the commonly-used phrase, "Be a man"), which is not what should be advocated in such a situation. We want the law to handle domestic violence situations without further violence, and we certainly don't want to add to the list of potential arrestees. Perhaps, Stephen A. Smith was attempting to convey how, at times, females shouldn't goad males into escalating a situation in the after-effects of domestic violence…and if you don't believe that this could occur, then I'd suggest watching a few episodes of Cops (the truest reality TV show).
Stephen A. Smith continued:
Now you got some dudes that are just horrible and they're going to do it anyway, and there's never an excuse to put your hands on a woman. But domestic violence or whatever the case may be, with men putting their hands on women, is obviously a very real, real issue in our society. And I think that just talking about what guys shouldn't do, we got to also make sure that you can do your part to do whatever you can do to make, to try to make sure it doesn't happen. We know they're wrong. We know they're criminals. We know they probably deserve to be in jail. In Ray Rice's case, he probably deserves more than a 2-game suspension which we both acknowledged. But at the same time, we also have to make sure that we learn as much as we can about elements of provocation. Not that there's real provocation, but the elements of provocation, you got to make sure that you address them, because we've got to do is do what we can to try to prevent the situation from happening in any way. And I don't think that's broached enough, is all I'm saying. No point of blame.
Michelle Beadle, who is EXCELLENT on SportsNation, posted some Tweets showing her disgust for Stephen A. Smith:
So I was just forced to watch this morning's First Take. A) I'll never feel clean again B) I'm now aware that I can provoke my own beating.
I'm thinking about wearing a miniskirt this weekend…I'd hate to think what I'd be asking for by doing so @stephenasmith. #dontprovoke
I was in an abusive relationship once. I'm aware that men & women can both be the abuser. To spread a message that we not 'provoke' is wrong
Violence isn't the victim's issue. It's the abuser's. To insinuate otherwise is irresponsible and disgusting. Walk. Away.
Since Beadle has been in an abusive relationship, it's obvious that she is taking this personally. Unfortunately, she is stretching Smith's words a bit, especially with asking about wearing a miniskirt, which Smith did not indicate anything about how a woman dresses being involved in provocation.
He also did not say that Michelle Beadle in any way provoked her own beating. It's understandable that Beadle might assume Smith is referring to all women who suffer domestic violence, but it was not his intention. Smith suggested that it is possible that women might provoke a response from men AFTER an incident of domestic violence. I do not see where Stephen A. Smith suggested that any woman who is beaten "provoked [her] own beating." It is a leap on Beadle's part.
Beadle suggests that Stephen A. Smith censor himself and walk away. She has a great point about violence being the abuser's issue, and it is true. However, she wants to suppress (deems it "irresponsible and disgusting") any discussion about how provocation might be a factor in domestic violence. This isn't exactly fair, and it might work against efforts to cease domestic violence. Does Michelle Beadle believe that women are not capable of provoking men to commit violence? If we allow no discussion about the factors that lead to domestic violence, is it possible that some women might manipulate the system to falsely accuse or "get revenge" on men who have wronged them? Do men (and women) frequently engage in violence against their partner WITHOUT provocation? I'm not trying to make excuses for those who commit violence, but it's obvious that domestic violence happens on a disgustingly large scale. Do we honestly think that suppressing a voice that might actually have a decent suggestion to avoid cessation of further violence helps? Is censorship going to help avoid further domestic violence? Michelle Beadle's shaming of Stephen A. Smith isn't exactly helping her cause, in some ways.
It's obvious I'm in the minority when defending Stephen A. Smith here. I'm sorry to say it, but I agree with him on one point: I don't think this topic is broached enough. Unfortunately, I don't think Stephen A. Smith is going to broach this topic ever again, thanks to the backlash he's receiving. This is unfortunate, in the sense, that it contributes to the difficulty of designating what causes violence in the first place. I live on the South Side of Chicago, where a culture of gun violence has surfaced, in which young people are shot, based on imaginary grievances and manufactured provocation (some of which are provoked by females, instigating easily-manipulated male characteristics). Nobody talks about how these shootings in Chicago are so easily provoked. In fact, most people ignore the details…and the violence increases.
I might also bring up Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman. Was there provocation involved? Is provocation a factor in "stand your ground?" In this case, was Zimmerman provoking an attack, or did Martin? Did the young dead victim deserve to be shot, because he provoked Zimmerman? Did our justice system exonerate a killer because of the untalked-about factor of provocation involved in the case?
How about we scrutinize the nature of provocation in a specific case of a female who suffered domestic violence? Marissa Alexander could serve 60 years in jail because no one wants to talk about how provocation should be defined in her Florida case, even though it is the exact opposite of the justification for George Zimmerman's exoneration.
My point is that we shouldn't be so quick to stifle an opinion that asks us to consider the nature of provocation in instances of human violence. Certainly, I'm not willing to make the leap that Stephen A. Smith is advocating that any woman who is beaten by a male asked for it by her own provocation.
A few days earlier, Tony Dungy was lambasted for comments about St. Louis Rams rookie Michael Sam. When asked about the comments, Michael Sam gracefully replied, "I have a great respect for Coach Dungy, and like everyone in America, everyone is entitled to their own opinions." I fail to see how this situation is that different. Stephen A. Smith gave his opinion, and I'm not sure that his opinion, according to his rhetoric, is "women deserve to get hit," as some are suggesting it is.
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"Hola hermana!" A booming voice and beaming smile greeted me as I walked into the Flamenco Louisville studio in early December 2015. She was back! Mi hermana de España! The legendary Carmen Ledesma had returned to Louisville for a 2nd year of flamenco workshops and I was elated!
I have amazing teachers and friends at Flamenco Louisville and they push me everyday. We love one another and are family. However, in the beginning of my flamenco studies, I would often come home from class frustrated; I was not as graceful or as technique-rich as the other students. Many were younger, quicker to pick up intricate moves, and had smaller frames than I. It was a feeling that held me back from expression and from fully embracing all that is flamenco. Then, one of my flamenco teachers suggested I watch a video of Carmen Ledesma. I was mesmerized….Carmen is a flamenco icon in Spain with many years of experience, notoriety, and loads of duende! She is also an older, full-figured woman like myself, and yet exuded so much confidence and attitude in her dancing!!! And it was so pure and emotional! Yes! This was what I needed to see! I felt an immediate and natural affinity for Carmen. Soon, the impression Carmen was to have on me would go well beyond flamenco.
When Carmen was here in 2014, we formed a special connection that went beyond teacher/student; we became sisters. She told me I reminded her of her real sister back in Spain and hence forth, was called "mi hermana de América." We had memorable times… in and out of the flamenco studio. One night, we took her to dinner at Brazeiros, a Brazilian steakhouse, and laughed for hours over her amazement at all the delicious meats swarming her plate, even posing for silly pictures with the gauchos. It was, indeed, like being with family.
Although I speak very, very little Spanish and have never been to Spain, we kept in regular communication (and still do) through the year until her return last month, exchanging family pictures as well as flamenco performance stories. During her most recent visit, we spent a lot of time together outside of flamenco, and she never let me forget that I was not only a student of flamenco, I was part of her family. The night we ended up at one of my Louisville teachers homes after a full day of workshops, eating, drinking wine, talking, playing music, singing and dancing was the best! I was surrounded by my family, my Flamenco Louisville mentors and friends along with Carmen and her son! It doesn't get any better than that!
Somewhere along the way, I found my spirit, and my confidence soared. Carmen was a part of that. I admire and love my sister from Spain. Our connection goes beyond language and culture. We have an unspoken bond. So much so, that she contacted me recently when she learned of my fathers death, giving me heartfelt words of support and encouragement in this difficult time.
In addition to my inspirational teachers here in Louisville, Carmen is a large contributor to the passion I continue to have for the art of flamenco and is a great role model for both my flamenco journey and my soul.

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|Michelle, it's not gays molesting children, it's your son.
You may have heard about the scandal with the Duggars. No, not the anti-gay bigotry, or their cult, Quiverfull, but Josh Duggar's molestation of his sisters among other minors. I won't go into the fact that their little slice of Christendom told the Duggars that it is their daughters to blame for being molested, that has already been covered.
What you may not know, is that the Springdale police knew about the molestation since 2002, but an official accusation in 2006 resulted in a police investigation. Then the records were destroyed after Josh was given a "stern talking to". The records of the 2006 accusation was destroyed to protect the victim (this is somewhat backed up by TMZ). But that is just one official report.
But is that the real reason: to protect the victim? The Duggars are heavy into Arkansas politics, and even Mike Huckabee has come to the defense of little Joshy-poo, with a Facebook post this past Friday:
Janet and I want to affirm our support for the Duggar family. Josh's actions when he was an underage teen are as he described them himself, 'inexcusable,' but that doesn't mean 'unforgivable.' He and his family dealt with it and were honest and open about it with the victims and the authorities. No purpose whatsoever is served by those who are now trying to discredit Josh or his family by sensationalizing the story. Good people make mistakes and do regrettable and even disgusting things. The reason that the law protects disclosure of many actions on the part of a minor is that the society has traditionally understood something that today's blood-thirsty media does not understand—that being a minor means that one's judgement is not mature. No one needs to defend Josh's actions as a teenager, but the fact that he confessed his sins to those he harmed, sought help, and has gone forward to live a responsible and circumspect life as an adult is testament to his family's authenticity and humility. Those who have enjoyed revealing this long ago sins in order to discredit the Duggar family have actually revealed their own insensitive bloodthirst, for there was no consideration of the fact that the victims wanted this to be left in the past and ultimately a judge had the information on file destroyed—not to protect Josh, but the innocent victims. Janet and I love Jim Bob and Michelle and their entire family. They are no more perfect a family than any family, but their Christian witness is not marred in our eyes because following Christ is not a declaration of our perfection, but of HIS perfection. It is precisely because we are all sinners that we need His grace and His forgiveness. We have been blessed to receive God's love and we would do no less than to extend our love and support for our friends. In fact, it is such times as this, when real friends show up and stand up. Today, Janet and I want to show up and stand up for our friends. Let others run from them. We will run to them with our support.
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I emphasized that segment for a reason. Huckabee is talking about Josh, not the victims. Here is a GOP Presidential candidate that is defending a pedophile! But the Duggars have been in Arkansan politics for some time. Jim Bob Duggar (never a more Arkansan name has been given) has even ran for office.
Being a leader in a the Christian cult, Quiverfull, Jim Bob has friends in high places including Ted Cruse (who I've already pegged as a GOP throw-away candidate).
The tragedy here is that Arkansas politics are ran not by the righteous, but the self-righteous GOP. And one thing that can always be said about the GOP is that it is the ultimate good-ol'-boys club. Unfortunately, that is to the detriment of Josh's victims. If the rapist was anyone else but a Duggar, they would already be in prison. But not in Springdale (which is just an hour and a half from my front door).
For a decade, Josh's parents have failed to protect their daughters, and the police have failed them too. One has to wonder if Josh's wife knew of his crimes, if so, she's an accomplice. The judge who ordered the records destroyed did nothing to "protect" the victim, it was assuredly a measure to protect Arkansas' favorite family.
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So what are you reading this weekend?
Or whenever your spare time happens to be?
Since summer school let out, I've been on a bit of a bender. Reading for leisure, what a joy! Sigh. And with only three weeks left for me to soak up all that is non-required reading...
Anyway, right now I've just begun reading Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse. I'd previously read Mrs Dalloway, which I enjoyed enough to start picking up her other work. I'm finding that Woolf's writing does this really fine balance of hitting emotional cores within broader social concerns.
However, in doing some light research on Woolf herself (and I emphasise light), I've come across some criticisms that suggest some anti-semitism on her behalf. I thought this odd considering that her husband was Jewish, but I'm still interested in finding out about the validity of this accusation.
Virginia Woolf is an amazing figurehead not just in literature but for feminism, for artists, and for people suffering with mental illness as well. What becomes of her work if it is tinged with a form of racism? I haven't found her novels thus far to be particularly reflective of this alleged attitude but this criticism of hers must still beg the question of how we read or accept one's work, or if we should, when the artist betrays a negative ideology. Do we brush it under the table for all the important things she brought to in the first place? How do we critically engage with an artist's work when certain attitudes come to the table?
Perhaps the first real question I should be asking is if this is even true about Woolf. I only did a flimsy little Wikipedia search; I'm definitely going to be scouring some more trustyworthy and indepth resources.
This reminds me of the whole Roman Polanski debate. He raped a thirteen year old girl and escaped to Europe to avoid jail time. Still making award-winning movies in exile, how does he remain uncriticized? How do the actors and producers that work with him forget about this enough to make with him what are apparently critically acclaimed movies? Why doesn't Polanski own up to his actions and address them? Maybe I could take him more seriously if he had at least faced some serious consequences for his crime. Exile in Europe hardly seems on par with jail time.
People are complex and certainly we cannot expect anyone to be flawless in their thinking and belief systems. But I think it may be a tad flippant to dismiss all such criticisms in this way.
So seriously, how do we critically think about the work that artists (and politicians and anyone else who makes history)offer to the world, when they have shady attitudes and actions lurking in their backgrounds?
Friday, August 10, 2007
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At the end of this Friday, just as I'm climbing into my nice soft bed in the capitol, I had to think back over the day to decide what I'm most glad for. I've decided I've officially bored the topic of buses and miscommunications to death, and while it really does constitute much of my life, there are certainly many other things that are infinitely more amazing.
I thought out loud, and though I felt little of importance stuck out to me, my perfect partner reminded me of a series of small but momentous moments, and they all were all together outstanding. Here they are, team. What I'm most glad for on this Friday:
- Following directions from a team of helpful PCVs to a new building in Baku without getting lost once (hollah!)
- Seeing a friend and catching up after her voyage to Europe
- Delicious chicken salad from the market
- Toblerone! Delicious, delicious Toblerone devoured during a productive meeting this evening
- Hot showers and new shampoo
- Sleeping in a bed that is a real live bed with actual support and fluffy, heavenly pillows
And on that note, I am most glad for sleep after this long day.I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms. – Walt Whitman


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Some of you may have fond memories of Radiant Entertainment's debut game Rising Thunder, an experimental game of accessible robotic fisticuffs designed for online play on PC. While it never drew huge crowds, it was enough to get the attention of League of Legends studio Riot Games, who bought out the company and their game. Neither have been heard from until just recently.
While Rising Thunder may not have grown any in its long absence, it will at least be getting an encore performance this January, according to this developer's comment on the Rising Thunder Reddit. A minor Christmas miracle for fighting game fans.


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"Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience"
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Stepping out of our comfort zone and speaking to locals led us to an inspiring place in the midst of abandoned buildings…
… a Jazz school, where we turned into creative urban popstars!
Why is the Jazz school here? Because nothing else is! Musicians can be as loud as they want and be creative without any boundaries.
"Tutaj jest nic!" ("There is nothing here"), said one of the Jazz students. Especially no annoyed neighbours.
We will definitely try to use this unexpected strength of this run-down neighbourhood.


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Updating Molière's Les Femmes Savante to the present day, Ranjit Bolt's adaptation tackles intellectualism, the purpose of education and indirectly, feminism. The author pokes fun at both sexes, but it is telling that with the women it is the worst traits of men that they've adopted that are lampooned.
Armande (Candice Price) a well-educated woman, is aghast that her younger sister Henriette (Maria Austin) is getting married and is not coy in letting anyone know her thoughts on the matter. However, there is more to this matter than meets the eye as Henriette's fiancé id Clitandre (Matthew Marrs) who used to be engaged to Armande before her 'intellectual pursuits' drove them apart.
However while Clitandre is prepared to marry Henrietta – with or without her mother's blessing and inheritance – the thought of a penniless marriage galls Henrietta. She suggests they get help from her aunts Ariste (Katherine Hartshorne) and Belise (Lia Hatzakiis) to help persuade her mother Philaminte (Rebecca Bell) of the worthiness of their match. However, Philaminte has someone else in mind as a suitable for Henriette – her artistic protégé Trissotin (Richard Swann)...
The Sisterhood is a play that works on many levels and one is most likely to get out of it what one brings to it. On the surface it is an inspired adaptation of a 17th century satire, a comedy of manners that would work as a Joe Orton-esque farce. However, beneath the caricatures, rhyming couplets and broad comedy lies a kernel of truth about intellectual 'snobbery' and the inherent artistic value of anything.
While Philaminte has instilled within her home for the 'love of learning' – turning it into a de facto educational establishment – this has been replaced with a complusion for acquring knowledge as a means to sift one's true 'peers' from the rest of the pack. Case in point, of the servants who partake in Philaminte's 'collegial syllabus', it is Martine (Danielle Williams) who gets short shrift of this academic regime, a casualty of this intellectual Darwinism.
It's not so common these days to see plays – let alone comedies – that have so many female roles, so it's all the more remarkable the original play was written 400 years ago. But within its 60+ minutes, The Sisterhood offers an entertaining foray into world where learning and one's humanity don't sit hand in hand, Of course if the ladies were studying the ideas of female authors, the play may ended very differently indeed!
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The ever-increasing threat of climate change on the environment, especially, on food security and other key-resource dependant sectors, has become a worry to nations around the globe. In Ghana, an increased body of evidence shows that climatic variability is adversely affecting the country's natural resources such as land, water, forests and vegetation, as well as human capital.Its rippling effect on the country's agriculture sector is enormous, as recent statistics show that a total of 1.2 million Ghanaians are with limited access to sufficient and nutritious food throughout the year, while a further two million are at risk of becoming food insecure during the lean season, or at the onset of natural or man-made disasters.
"Climate change is not solely an environmental issue. It is a risk to the hard-won development gains made by Ghana since independence. It is a development issue, a financial issue, a social issue. It is a challenge to food security, water security, and future development," noted Madam Sherry Ayittey at a workshop organised to upgrade the skills of journalists in 2009.
To avert this, the Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology (MEST), through its Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP), in collaboration with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), has mounted community-based strategies and other supporting initiatives to assist local farmers adapt to climate change.
Areas being tackled by the two government institutions include bush or wildfire prevention and control in farming communities in the country, as well as the use of non-hazardous pesticides and insecticides to help increase yield. The farmers are also taught and guided to select drought resistant seedlings during the growing season, as well as modern methods and technologies in farming.
The farmers are also provided with early warning systems, early warning information on pest infestations, disease outbreak, and rainfall patterns.
Much of these activities, according to the Minister, who appeared in Parliament yesterday to answer questions relating to her ministry, are done hand-in-hand with the traditional authorities, through community durbars, focal group discussions, stakeholder meetings at the local level, community radio broadcasts, and local information vans.
Currently, five districts in Ghana are benefiting from the joint initiatives of the MOFA and MEST. They include Aowin Suaman in the Western Region, Keta in the Volta Region, Fanteakwa in the Eastern Region, Sissala East in the Upper West Region and West Mamprusi in the Northern Region.
To further prepare the country to adapt to climate change, MEST is implementing the Ghana Sustainable Land and Water Management Project (GSLWMP). The GSLWMP is funded by a Global Environment Facility (GEF) Grant to support the Government of Ghana to (a) improve land management of selected micro-watersheds in northern parts of the country to reverse land degradation and enhance agricultural productivity; (b) improve spatial planning through the integration of watersheds management plans.
The five-year project aims at supporting the Sustainable Development Initiative for the Northern Savanna to realise the vision of a diversified and resilient economic zone in the north, with significant regional environmental benefits.


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Well, after a loooong absence, I've returned to the blog. New photos are up in Coastin' Around (the link is at left), as is my new portfolio website.
My life, as usual, is being eaten alive by theater – I did Five Finger Exercise by Peter Shaffer in May (playing Louise Harrington, the mother of an all-too-dysfunctional family whose dysfunction is aggravated by the inclusion of an attractive young German tutor – the pictures are in Coastin' Around), and tonight Working, by Stephen Schwartz and others, opens. Whether we're ready is somewhat questionable, whether I'm ready to sing and dance in front of real live humans is extremely questionable.
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Monmouth plan faces scrutiny
NEWPORT It's been talked about and planned for about 10 years, but City Manager Phil Ciafardini insists this is the year the $2.2 million project to remake the Monmouth Street business district will start.
Of course, a year ago city officials were saying that the streetscape project which includes new sidewalks and curbs, removal of all utility poles and overhead wires, and new landscaping would be completed by the summer of 2001.
Now, the city manager says construction will begin in April, which means putting a new face on Monmouth Street from Fifth Street to 11th Street will be finished in 2002. Depending on the weather, of course.
By the end of February, we will have a new package put together, Mr. Ciafardini said. There will be public meetings in February for property owners and residents to see the plans and make comments. But we want to start construction in April.
The project also includes opening Monmouth Street, which is now one way north from 11th Street to Third Street, to two-way traffic.
That plan has drawn opposition from a number of business owners.
In the past 12 months or so, there have been talks between the city and business/property owners on Monmouth Street about what parts of the project will work and what parts won't work, and about how much the work will cost the property owners.
And there's the matter of some 700 new parking meters throughout the city, including Monmouth Street, proposed last year by Police Chief Tom Fromme.
A lot of business owners don't like that idea, even though it would be performed by a private company at no cost to the city.
City commissioner Jerry Peluso, who owns a grocery on Monmouth Street, has re peatedly said he is opposed to a streetscape project that requires the property owners to foot more than half the cost, as was originally proposed by the city manager in his budget report last fall.
We've gone over the numbers and tried to make some changes, Mr. Ciafardini said. What we are looking at now are the costs
any other citizen would have to pay for work on their property. Everyone has to pay for new sidewalks, and for private electrical work. That's where we are now.
Mr. Ciafardini also emphasized that two-way traffic (on Monmouth) is a priority to make the downtown business area a success.
Tom McQueen, who owns Uncle Charlie's Music at 835 Monmouth St., said he believes the upgrades proposed for the city's main street will be gorgeous. I like the idea. But I think it depends on how much people like me who own the property on Monmouth Street are going to have to pay.
Mr. Ciafardini said that would depend on how much frontage was involved and what kind of upgrade to utilities inside the buildings was necessary.
For the sidewalks, we'll probably charge by the linear foot, he said. Obviously, the more sidewalk a business has, the more it will cost to replace it.
All electricity will be brought into the buildings underground or from the rear when the utility poles and lines are removed, depending on location of current meters.
The city will work with the property owners to extend payment over a reasonable period of time, but the city manager said his staff was still finalizing the numbers.
We're applying for another Kentucky Renaissance City grant, and if we get more state money it will lower the amount each property owner will pay, he said.
The last Renaissance City grant application was for $1.4 million, and the city got $300,000, bringing the total public money available for the streetscape project to about $850,000.
The parking meter proposal immediately drew fire from Monmouth Street businesses accustomed to open parking spaces on the street. Many complained that the meters would keep customers away.
There is no enforcement of two-hour parking limits on the street now, said shop owner Peter Garrett. There's no reason to think that a limit would be enforced if meters were installed, so people who work here would put money in the meters all day and we still wouldn't have any customer parking.
Mr. Ciafardini said the city continues to look at the possibility of additional off-street parking lots behind some of the Monmouth Street businesses to alleviate the parking concerns. But no specific parking plan has been proposed.
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According to Reuters, 47% of Trump supporters said their main priority when voting will be to stop Clinton from reaching the White House. And 46% of Clinton backers said the same of Trump.Imagine if everyone who said "I'd vote for Johnson if he had a chance," actually did? We would win the whole thing.
Heh, the Green party convention is going on in Houston, and I had no idea.I wonder if I can get some Zoltan shirts printed up and go hang out.
Why would a libertarian want to protect your famile, freedom, finances and future???


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I have officially graduated to a crazy city person who mumbles to themselves as they walk around aimlessly looking in trashcans.
Convincing evidence #1: Yesterday, I had to run to the grocery to get a few things and while I was there I happened upon several extra items that I could not pass up. Here they are in order of importance:
Half Sour Pickles
Ranch Dressing
Tuna salad
Tapioca pudding
So you know this is going directly downhill, right? I did not realize how heavy my stash was going to be to carry the 8 blocks to my apartment so while crossing over Broadway I spied the parkbench those nice city planners strategically placed directly in my path, and I decided to rest a bit. And while I was resting, I decided it would behoove me to have a little snack to keep up my energy on the long walk home. Two half sour pickles later I took stock of my situation as passerby after passerby stopped to stare at me and I couldn't stop laughing. Well, I was in this far, I might as well go the distance. So I ripped open the watermelon container and had roughly half of it. I would have moved directly onto the tomato and cucumber but I didn't have a knife or salt and pepper so I opted to save those for home.
I gathered up my loot and started the long walk only to stop several blocks later to readjust my grip. There I started hysterically laughing again as my inner brain whispered to itself, "I definitely didn't get enough half sour pickles for this".
Convincing evidence #2: Last week after work I had to run some errands and while doing so I remembered all I had for lunch was a giant plate of fries, and that I better have something a tad more on the nutritious side to even the score a bit. At the smoothie place I studied my choices to get the best possible bang for my beverage and picked the Protein Punch. Back outside I swigged a couple gulps of it and literally almost grabbed the nearest person walking past to force them into the smoothie place to buy a Protein Punch. It was the most spiritual experience I've had since Ocean's 11 came out. I was in awe.
It took every ounce of my energy to not stop the next 4,000 people I passed to do the exact same thing and I barely made it to Duane Reade and Planet Kids before I died.
Is this what self actualization is all about? Because holy hell.


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by Bob Shea
Picture book
Interest level: K-3
Reading level: 1.6
4 out of 5 stars
I really loved this Buddy and the Bunnies book. At first it reminded me of Keiko Kasza's My Lucky Day, where the very thing that is planned for dinner, keeps distracting and delaying the moment of being eaten. In this story, Buddy the monster plans to eat some bunnies he finds, but they were about to bake cupcakes, and he is very willing to wait until after the cupcakes to eat them. After eating a few too many cupcakes (and who can't relate to that!) he has to come back tomorrow to eat the bunnies. But then they have to go swimming because it is so hot out….you get the picture.
I love how each day there are more and more bunnies, and the final message at the end is very sweet, "And I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to eat your friends!" This would make an excellent read-aloud from pre-school age children up to third grade.


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1. Pumpkin Spice Lattes
2. It's the perfect time of year to wear the mini skirt, tights, cute boots combos that I'm perhaps a little too fond of (knee socks are optional here but usually a plus in my opinion)
3. Apple picking and all of the lovely things that accompany it – apple pie, home made applesauce, etc.
4. The colors; leaves changing are just gorgeous, which brings me to my next reason…
5. Jumping in leaves. Granted I haven't done this in a while since I'm busy with school and don't really have time to rake, plus my college is in a city so there's not really an abundance of space in which to create a leaf pile, but when the opportunity arises it's definitely fun to feel like a five year old again. Just try not to think too hard about what those leaves have been doing/where they've been.
6. Yesterday's reason to love fall? Pumpkin peanut butter whoopie pies. The kitchen literally smelled like fall when these were baking, it was awesome. I stumbled across this recipe yesterday afternoon http://www.eatrunread.com/2010/10/cake-of-week-pumpkin-and-peanut-butter.html and was in the mood to bake but wasn't quite sure what I felt like; not cupcakes, not cookies, I almost wanted to bake a cake, but that seemed like a bit much for just a random Sunday afternoon, so whoopie pies were actually the perfect solution. They're as easy as baking cookies but the filling is reminiscent of frosting and the texture is more cake like than cookie-ish to me. It reminds me of when you are baking a layer cake and need to trim some cake off of the top of your layers so that they are nice and flat for stacking. Now in my house this was always a fun thing for us because our mom would save the scraps and then put a bit of frosting in between them and make little sandwiches out of it for us, so whoopie pies remind me of that a bit. They're also just really cute for some reason I mean doesn't a plate full of whoopie pies look so inviting and yummy? I sure think so.
Just fall foods in general are pretty swell I think – I'm not talking Thanksgiving here either, to be honest I don't find the Thanksgiving-type foods too exciting, but things like my mom's home made applesauce, apple cider, the aforementioned pumpkin spice latte, pumpkin – themed desserts, squash, etc. Autumn foods are just warm and cozy in a way, which I personally really enjoy. Andrea made us some roasted squash for dinner last night, and it was awesome. Super simple too, you just cut your squash in half, stick it in the oven for an hour-ish I think and then take the skin off and mix the insides together with some butter and brown sugar. That is literally all you need to do, but it's so good.
Speaking of good food, tonight Andrea and I made dinner; she put together some awesome home made macaroni and cheese and I made stuffed cheese buns from a recipe I found on Yammie's Noshery. Here's the link http://www.yammiesnoshery.com/2012/08/peetas-stuffed-cheese-buns.html and I'm telling you guys, I have yet to try a recipe from this girl's blog that hasn't been kind of fabulous and these were no exception. You make the dough and then wrap pieces of dough around chunks of mozzarella cheese and then you sprinkle even more cheese on top before baking them off. Here's one that burst a bit in the oven and you can see the cheese just oozing out.
The recipe made about two dozen of these too, so there are plenty of leftovers to enjoy.


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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Male Bonding
Ledger has been suffering through a bad bout of allergies or summer or cold or whatever. Basically he's been a big ol' snot box since Friday. He's been amazingly cooperative with our ministrations, but just like last year, he refuses to take any oral medications. One major upside to all of this has been that our little man has been very cuddly... with Mommy, Daddy, and even Cooper...
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Victims the real heroes at London sexual violence summit[ Asiancorrespondent][ Frances Harrison ]
I had the unusual experience of attending last week's preventing sexual violence summit in London with a survivor of rape I know. I bumped into him at a play called Unlocked, which is based on the testimony of three survivors of male rape – Congolese, Bosnian and Sri Lankan Tamil.
It was an incredibly brave thing for the young Tamil man, who needs to remain anonymous, to think he would be able to sit in the audience and listen to his own story recounted by an actor. He lasted about five minutes before he signalled to me that he had to leave. [ full story |
Selective genocidal rape in arsenal of 'international community' imperialism[Tamilnet]
The so-called Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict is a clear demonstration on the acceptance of genocidal rape as a weapon in selective cases, where the deployment of it through agent States is needed for imperialistic engineering. Omission is more powerful than inclusion in sending messages. If the Summit has risked its credibility by the omission of the 'very special case Sri Lanka' that always relished in seeing Tamils naked, then the global importance of the 'Sri Lanka paradigm' to today's 'international community imperialism' has to be understood without any doubt. While William Hague and Angelina Jolie are just managers of the main show, the imperialism behind them was ingenious in choreographing sideshows too, to diffuse any uprising. Full story >>
Celebrities Join the Fight to Stop Rape as a Weapon of War[ Newsweek ][ Jun 18 17:31 GMT ]
Raj, a 25-year-old Tamil student, is watching a play, "Unlocked," about three young male victims of rape. One of the actors is playing a character based on him. Even though he is in London, thousands of miles away from the barren prison cell in Sri Lanka where he was raped several years ago, Raj is still thrown headlong into searing memories. One of the actors reads the words Raj—whose real name has been changed—has spoken: [ full story |
General Assembly confirms Jordan's Prince Zeid as new UN human rights chief[ UN News Centre ][ Jun 17 19:15 GMT ]
The United Nations General Assembly today unanimously approved Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid al-Hussein of Jordan as the new High Commissioner for Human Rights, succeeding Navi Pillay of South Africa. "I am going to be the first High Commissioner from the Asian continent and from the Muslim and Arab worlds," Prince Zeid said after the 193-member body approved his appointment by consensus. "Needless to say this reflects the commitment of the international community towards this important dossier and its commitment to push it forward in this continent as well as in other regions of the world," he added. [ full story |
Who is behind Sri Lanka's religious violence?[ Al Jazeera ][ Jun 18 03:21 GMT ]
The Sri Lankan government has imposed an indefinite curfew in a popular tourist area after a group of Buddhists killed three muslims and injured dozens of others. President Mahinda Rajapakse's government is accused of doing little to prevent this latest violence. It is said to have encouraged the rise of the Bodu Bana Sena, the group at the heart of the latest crisis. Rajapakse has denied any link to the group. The latest unrest came weeks after Muslim legislators asked President Rajapakse to protect their minority community from what they described as Buddhist extremist elements, blamed for a recent spate of attacks. So, will further violence be averted? Or could Sri Lanka slip into another civil war? [ full story |
Tamil asylum seeker who set himself on fire, Leo Seemanpillai, remembered at funeral in Geelong[ Yahoo News ][ Jun 18 06:33 GMT ]
Leo Seemanpillai had been living in Geelong on a bridging visa for about a year when he set himself on fire last month. He died in hospital after suffering burns to 90 per cent of his body. Mr Seemanpillai's friend Robert was with him when he arrived in Australia by boat. "He created very meaningful friendships in this country," Robert said. "We pray through his peace of soul." Mr Seemanpillai's family were denied a visa to attend his funeral because the Government said there were doubts they "genuinely" intended to stay temporarily. The service was streamed live to the refugee camp in India where they live, and many people took photos and videos to share with friends and relatives who were not there. It was given in both English and Tamil. [ full story |


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Welcome to the darkness. We had Daylight Savings last weekend, so I've really been getting into darkness when I wake, darkness by 5pm, darkness for all my friends! At least you can eat some delicious food for dinner, while you're gazing out into the darkness. If this was Pee Wee's Playhouse, I'm assuming you'd know what the Word of the Day was by now!!!
You'll notice that most of the recipes I'm posting this week are vegetarian…I go through phases where meat doesn't sound good to me, and I also rarely cook meat when my husband is out of town (it's more work and leftover meat weirds me out). So, please feel free to add meat to any of the vegetarian/vegan dishes. You're allowed to go off script. Recipes are just guidelines. I loosely follow recipes. The idea of actually measuring out spices? Ain't nobody got time for that.
Monday: Kitchari– Ok, what the hell is Kitchari? Don't let the name scare you. Kitchari is a very soothing, healing dish…great to eat after a candy and booze filled weekend. Did anyone else think that it was a good idea to eat barrels of chocolate covered almonds for lunch on Saturday? I like to simplify this dish…I use all mung beans (if I can find them in Germany, you can find them in the states), and I typically use a mix of quinoa and brown rice. I have never seen black mustard seeds- so I leave it out. Kombu? I'm fresh out. So, I skip that too. And this is still delicious, filling, and healing.
Tuesday: Gluten Free General Tso's Chicken– What makes this gluten free is the use of g-free soy sauce and cornstarch. If you don't have issues with gluten, just use normal soy sauce, and you can still use the cornstarch, or all purpose flour.
Wednesday: Southwest Salad with Creamy Avocado Salsa Dressing– Lots of options here. This is naturally vegetarian and gluten free. To make vegan, use non-dairy milk and sour cream for the dressing. To make it heartier, add meat. Throw in whatever vegetables you like.
Thursday: Deconstructed Eggplant Parmesan – Another example of a recipe being an idea…I don't have access to baby eggplants, so I'll just use regular sized ones. I'm not wasting my time scooping some of the eggplant out, either. And I don't have g-free panko, so I'll use regular g-free crumbs, or leave it off. Leave out the cheese, or sub dairy free to make this vegan.
Friday: Spaghetti Squash with Vegan Tomato Basil Cream Sauce – I might use almonds instead of cashews for the "cream" sauce…feel free to try using heavy cream, or even full fat coconut milk instead.
Saturday: Peach Chutney Samosa Stew – Naturally vegan and gluten free. I think I'm going to use mangoes instead of peaches…and I'll just buy a bag of frozen fruit, instead of peeling and dicing. I'll leave out the Better than Bouillon too. Throw some meat in there, if you want. Serve with rice &/or naan.
Sunday: Chicken Pasta with Sundried Tomatoes and Spinach in a Creamy Cauliflower Sauce – What a nice, concise name. To make this g-free, use g-free pasta. Leave out the chicken to make this vegan. Use frozen cauliflower to save yourself from having to grate cauliflower. You can also sub white winter squash for the cauliflower.
Easy peasy!
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On the way home from the doctor's office
Fiona looked out the car window at a dirt lot filled with large earth movers and construction equipment. She asked in an aghast tone, "What are they doing?"
I flicked a glance sideways, but kept my focus on the busy traffic, "I dunno, building something, I guess. What do you think they're building?"
"Zombie Houses," she answered after a short pause, completely deadpan.
"Zombie houses?" I choke out.
"Yeah. For Zombies to sleep in," she says, unaware that she is strangling me with laughter.
"And eat stuff," she adds.
I gather my breath as I picture the construction workers building zombie homes and feel the need to press my luck, "What do Zombies eat?"
"Dirty Stuff. Like yucky, dirty bananas," she says, as though anyone should know this stuff, "And dirty chocolate. And dirty sugar."
"Oh." I say, at a loss.
She continues, "And dirty Pants. And dirty houses."
There is a long pause while I process this information.
"Zombies eat dirty houses?" I ask.
"Yeah," she answers completely seriously, "But it takes a really long time."


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Africa Briefing N°49
8 Nov 2007
Ten months after an unprecedented popular revolt shook the 23-year regime of President Lansana Conté and more than a half year after a new government was formed, Guinea's stability is as fragile as ever. The honeymoon of Prime Minister Lansana Kouyaté, the ex-diplomat entrusted with producing "change", is over. The movement that brought him to office is deeply fragmented, creating opportunities for Conté and his clan to regain control. To prevent more bloodshed and counter-revolution, Kouyaté urgently needs to demonstrate that he means to work for a democratic and peaceful transition, and he needs help, especially from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), donors and the two states, the U.S. and France, with ties to the unreformed army.
The protestors in the streets in January and February 2007 (between 137 and 183 died; over 1,500 were wounded) demanded radical change and felt they had won a significant victory when Conté agreed to name an independent prime minister, who would pick his own government. But the mood today is grim. Although inflation has slowed, initial enthusiasm has been replaced with doubt over the capabilities and will of the new government to break with the Conté system and alleviate daily economic difficulties.
It is premature to judge Kouyaté a failure but he has yet to send strong signals that his way of governing is a real break with the past. The Conté clan and its supporters have not accepted their defeat and are manoeuvring to regain full power, not least by playing on popular disappointments to provoke divisions between the actors in the "February revolution": trade unions, civil society organisations and opposition parties. It is Conté, however, who remains the prime obstacle to improvement in the lives of Guineans. The agreement that ended the February crisis left him as the constitutional leader; he must sign all decrees and can and does easily stall government action. Kouyaté's office does not exist in the constitution, and he has only the powers the president delegates.
Free, fair and transparent legislative elections are needed within the next six months to begin the true process of dismantling the Conté system by democratic means. In the meantime, however, Kouyaté, democratic forces and the international community need to take a number of steps in order to revive the dynamic of change:
Without such measures, Guinea's crisis is likely to return, quite possibly in the form of less orderly demonstrations than early in the year, which could easily tip the country back into violence and set the stage for restoration of the discredited Conté regime or a coup.
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It's just a voice plucked from the air: 'The American wants a hundred million dollars'.
For what? Who from? It's 1996, and the Soviets are long gone. But now there's a new enemy. In an apartment in Hamburg, a group of smartly-dressed young Saudis are planning something big.
In the morning they gave Reacher a medal, and in the afternoon they sent him back to school.
Jack Reacher is fresh off a secret mission. The Army pats him on the back and sends him to a school with only three students: Reacher, an FBI agent, and a CIA analyst. Their assignment? To find that American. And what he's selling. And to whom. There is serious shit going on, signs of a world gone mad.
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Cute! Lol. If you do provide the perfect perch…
Yeah….as you can see, he has a sense of humour!!!He insists on getting up close and I had to call my son to bring his camera and take the photo of the birdy watching me!!! LOL
LOL….fabulous!!!! Oh this is too good! I would love to spend time with this little one ~ I'm feeling he's just a bit more of a point and shoot kind vs the expert on DSLR ;) how lucky you are to have him so friendly ~ I'm just in love with him xxx
me too! I just can't believe my good fortune with this little bird (and his mate)…… every time I look at that photo to the right, I crack up…..because that is just his sense of humour! LOLI wish you lived closer so you could come and take some pics too…..it seems a shame that I am having all this fun by myself!
Amazing capture! He is not even scared when you took the picture! I wish I would have a little bird landing on my lens for modeling. :)
Thank you Mariann…I feel so lucky to have this little wild bird show such trust in me….he is such a character! And definitely LOVES the camera! lol
This is so precious!!! Beautiful wendy :)
Thanks Tainia…knowing how much you love your birds, I am so happy to share with you…xx
hahaha, love it, great title too…
Hey Jason, thanks so much!
Heis totally priceless and unique!!! Hard not to love him!! X
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Great title Wendy! Thanks for sharing – it's made my morning!
these birds have that effect on me! xx
Crikey!!!! I only tried once to snap them after hours of patiently trying to get close enough. Fantastic shot.
LOL……I have spent years doing the same…stalking, waiting, watching, holding my breath….and MISSING! Then suddenly I meet this little one who demands I take his photo! (over and over!) lolJust very lucky I guess! (smiles)
Don't you just love Fairy Wrens?… wonderful animals.
Oh yes! I sure do love them! (smiles)
Wow! They're so shy – he obviously trusts you 100% You have great shots here – how wonderful to have them in your life, so close like this!
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Staghorn Lace Sock
This intricate pattern will make these socks your favorite to knit and show off to all your friends! The Staghorn pattern runs up the entire front of the sock and up the back of the leg. A great project for anyone looking for a challenge!
Size: Women's Small 7" circumference (Women's Medium 8", Women's Large 9")
Gauge: 27st/4"
Needles: (2) US 2 Circular needles 16", 20" or 24" in length or needles to obtain gauge and Crochet hook Size E
Materials: Recommended yarn is Claudia's Hand Paints' Fingering (100% Merino Wool: 175yds/50g)
Yardage: Approximately 400 (440, 500) yards (3 skeins)
Notions: Cable Needle
Skill Level: Advanced
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A special CBI court in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday removed Fr. Jose Poothrukayil from the list of accused in the case of death of Sister Abhaya in mysterious circumstances at a convent in Kottayam in 1992.
CBI Special Judge J. Nazar decreed that he found no clear evidence against the priest in the suspected homicidal drowning case.
The judge, however, ordered the other two accused, Fr. Thomas Kottoor and Sister Stephy, to face trial.
The CBI had told the court that though there were no eyewitnesses to the crime, which took place on the night of March 27, 1992, there was enough evidence to prosecute the accused.
The CBI's case was that Sister Stephy hit Abhaya three times on the head with the blunt side of an axe when the 19-year-old entered the convent's kitchen to drink water and found the suspects in "objectionable circumstances."
The CBI deposed that the accused threw Abhaya's body into the convent's well to make it appear that it is a case of suicide or an accident. It concluded that the inquest report filed by the State police was 'false and forged.'
The CBI said forensic analysis had proved that Abhaya's was a classic case of homicidal drowning. It had filed three reports in the case, the first one stating that Abhaya committed suicide. In the second one, it indicated that it could not establish beyond doubt whether it was a suicide or a murder. In the last report filed in in 2008, it stated that the nun was killed. It subsequently identified and arrested her alleged killers.


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There's less than a month til January, and you know what that means: Trump will officially become President of the United States. Some are devastated, some are rejoiced, but lets pull that aside for now and talk about health. There are many uncertainties in the health field because of the current president-elect's views on healthcare, especially HCV experts.
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All I'm concerned with this week is: Running gear, blazers for lazy class days, comfy denim, and boots to get me through the ice and snow!
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ISRN Tribology
Volume 2013, Article ID 408016, 6 pages
Research Article
Effect of Cryosoaking Time on Transition in Wear Mechanism of M2 Tool Steel
Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Government College of Engineering, Pune 411005, India
Received 13 October 2012; Accepted 30 October 2012
Academic Editors: F. Findik and R. Hambli
Copyright © 2013 N. B. Dhokey et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
How to Cite this Article
N. B. Dhokey, J. V. Dandawate, and R. Rawat, "Effect of Cryosoaking Time on Transition in Wear Mechanism of M2 Tool Steel," ISRN Tribology, vol. 2013, Article ID 408016, 6 pages, 2013. https://doi.org/10.5402/2013/408016.


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I took my Scottish great grandmother's needle made of bone to the bench today to mend the broken line. First, I cut the frayed ends off—a good 5 inches worth. Then I laid one end on top of the other and began putting stitches through both to join them. The moment felt sacred to me, like I was mending my broken heart…so many fractures now, I can't keep the straight! "Heart heals like good bone," I kept saying to myself…what I remember as a line from a Denise Levertov poem. How did we come to imagine the "heart" as a bone? I wonder. It's curious. A broken tooth or bone is so much easier to mend.
C. came out with a photo album of her beloved dad, so I put aside my surgery and looked at these pictures of her now deceased dad…Such a beloved man. A book full of smiles, letters, love…Then she left, and I went back to work.
The results are not as pretty as I had hoped—a bit lumpy and bumpy—but it feels so strong. I thought about how some of the most difficult circumstances in my life have inspired my best artwork—suffering transubstantiated into beauty. It almost feels as if a certain degree of heartache and loneliness is necessary to give rise to the need to express one's self to another through a work of art. Just then, the sun split the dark clouds open and everything was lit up with brilliant light like noon day. It was then around 7 pm. I grabbed my camera and tried to capture the transfigured landscape.
I walked up behind E's place after my knit in search of strawberries but only found one. Instead, I found flowers growing wild in tall grass on the other side of the alley. Filled with gratitude at nature's free gifts, I gathered a bountiful bouquet of red and purple flowers, and daisies.


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I'm such an ass.
I saw people in wheelchairs this weekend that will never walk again. I listened to a homeless guy on the Caltrain this morning babble incoherently about his Lamborghini in Los Angeles and his need for a phone to call an 866 number to get some kind of payment card. I watched a blind man purposely shuffle from the train station down the sidewalk. It's a chore for him to get to work everyday.
And last night, over dinner of organic meat hamburgers, three kinds of barbeque sauce, homemade cheese and frozen yogurt, I whined about my commute schedule like a spoiled brat.
I'm such an ass.
After reading a novel from a Nobel-prize winning author on my Kindle yesterday, I blamed stir-craziness and hopped on my $3000 triathlon bike for a 25-mile ride.
I chose from five differently colored golf shirts and then packed by Bose headphone, iPod, and Via for this morning's train ride where I would be granted silence to read and think and write a little. But yet I found time to complain last night.
I'm such an ass.
Yesterday morning, I slept until 8:00 am for the first time in months, drove to a local coffee shop for French Toast, scones, and espresso with my loving wife, but I still managed to utter the words – "Everyone else gets to do what they want" last night.
I'm such as ass.


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When -1.200.000 means +207.000
Mortgate rates won't stay this for long Before adjustments for the season, there were 134.7 million jobs in the U.S. during June. But the number of jobs fell to 133.5 million before seasonal adjustments in July.
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|Petersburg CITY / Guide to St. Petersburg, Russia
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Events, August 13, 2002 - August 31, 2002
Exhibition "In gardens of liceum" in a regional museum of Pushkin town.At an exhibition exhibits from wax museum are presented. Its characters - the historical persons surrounding young Alexander Pushkin in time of his studing in Tsarskoselsky liceum. The exhibition works from 10.00 till 18.00 and will last up to the end of August.
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Here are two stories which should surprise nobody with even an elementary understanding of economics.
Emerson Electric Votes With Its Feet, Saying The Goverment Is Destoying American Manufacturing
One of the country's most important industrial companies says the United States is not a good place to manufacture and it will continue moving its assets offshore.
The federal government is "doing everything in [its] manpower [and] capability to destroy U.S. manufacturing," says David Farr, chairman and CEO of Emerson Electric Co., in a presentation at the Baird 2009 Industrial Conference in Chicago Ill., on Nov. 11. In comments reported by Bloomberg, Farr added that companies will continue adding jobs in China and India because they are "places where people want the products and where the governments welcome you to actually do something. I am not going to hire anybody in the United States. I'm moving. They are doing everything possible to destroy jobs."
In his Powerpoint presentation available on the Emerson Electric Web site, Farr notes that the federal government is damaging prospects for U.S. economic growth with a $1.41 trillion federal deficit (10 percent of GDP); $12 trillion in government debt that will grow to $20 trillion in 10 years; a policy of printing money; a "non-targeted $800-billion stimulus"; bailouts for Wall Street and the automobile companies; the prospect for cap and trade legislation; a "government takeover" of health care to the tune of more than $1 trillion; increasing taxes and regulations; and a "lack of U.S. $ support" for manufacturing…
U.S. Democrats demand analysis of drug price rises
Congressional Democrats are seeking government investigations into recent price increases of brand-name prescription drugs, as Congress finalizes an overhaul of the healthcare system.
Lawmakers are concerned the companies are trying to reap gains ahead of reforms aimed at lowering drug prices and forcing drugmakers to partly fund changes that aim to boost the number of Americans covered by health insurance.
Drugmakers "may be artificially raising prices for certain pharmaceutical products in expectation of new reforms," wrote Charles Rangel and Henry Waxman, the respective chairmen of the House Ways and Means Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
The Wizbang response to this story says it best…
"Well imagine that. Drug companies trying to "reap gains" by "artificially raising prices". What's not clear is how Congressional Democrats expect drug companies to continue the R&D necessary to bring new life-saving drugs to market if they're to do so without "reaping gains" on popular drugs already on the market. Do they expect that these drugs will fall from the sky? Profits are what businesses depend upon to fuel development of new products. Without profits, businesses fail, and failing drug companies should be low on anybody's wish list—even economic know-nothings like "Congressional Democrats".
And what's this about "artificially raising prices"? There's a market for drugs, isn't there? And drug companies sell drugs, don't they? There's nothing "artificial" about their setting prices for their product based on the public's demand for it. It's actually quite organic. You want "artificial"? Let the government set prices based on things OTHER than the supply of that product and the public's demand for it. See where that gets you…
Drug companies need profits to make new drugs and to make current drugs better. The "reforms" that Congressional Democrats have in mind (price fixing, taxation, etc.) will reduce those profits, raise prices on patients and result in us all having diminished access to life saving drugs.
This is not reform. This is suicide."


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Calcite Mines – October '10, a photo by InkSpot's Blot on Flickr.
The word gratitude is derived from the Latin base 'gratus'. This root signifies thankful / pleasing, and also gives us the word 'grace'. To traverse the rabbit hole a bit, from antiquity we have the Three Graces, the Charites, whose virtues were those of beauty, charm and creativity. This odd reflection on gratitude is only partially stimulated by the recent celebration of gluttony, also known as Thanksgiving. The New York Times ran an article called "A Serving of Gratitude Brings Healthy Dividends", by John Tierney.
In it, Tierney summarizes the findings of various researchers. Basically, being grateful makes you a better person. The following are associated with a spirit of thankfulness: less depression and anxiety, being kinder and more understanding (especially in established, close, personal relationships), better health, better sleep.
Huh? Simply being grateful does all that for you? Being somewhat of a health nut, I'm thoroughly attracted to this idea. Being strange, I imagine bitterness and discontent changing us on some basic, cellular level. Like a darkness spreading inside and choking out beneficial interactions, slowing things down, making them more difficult and monumental. Still, how does it work? Does the neurochemistry of positivity cascade through other signaling channels, impact cellular machinery is some sublime way?
However it works, I'm intrigued by this notion, and its implications. Factor in the findings of the "gratitude journal" experiment. Participants were asked to write down five things for which they were grateful once a week. They did this for two months. At the end of the experiment, they reported sleeping better, feeling more optimistic, working out more and being happier. Interesting.
Thus begins my own personal Gratitude Journal.
1. Starting off with something small and stupid, I am grateful for my heater. The pilot's been out since February (about 10 months). In San Diego, a heater is not all that necessary for most of the year. There are, however, ~3-4 months during which it's a nice thing to have. After huddling under a mountain of blankets for a month and a half, I was very excited to not see my breath on Saturday morning, after SDGE coming out to light the pilot on Friday. Yay!
2. My mom found a sweet dog yesterday. She'd been dogless for two years (since Sammie passed away). My own dog passed away recently, so there's a bit of a furry void. It's not the right time for me, but it was the right time for her. The adoption event was full of wagging tails, loving volunteers, and people searching for new four-legged family members. I think Mom and Satin are a good match.
3. I'm grateful for my story, my history. It's been a strange journey with unexpected twists and turns, and uncomfortable discoveries. It's taken me inside and out. Still unfolding. Uncovering. Illuminating. Driving me ever forward.
4. Music. Because it makes my soul vibrate. Because it gives me hope that we aren't just animals. That there is the capacity for more.
5. For out there. Out there is waiting to be discovered, with all its twist and turns. All its beauties and blights. The richer our experience, the greater our capacity for understanding, graciousness, appreciation, and hope. Right now I am open to and welcome out there. I feel the hunger to go further. To seek it out.
What's in your gratitude journal?