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"Straight roads do not make skillful drivers."
The task of the people now working for Cedric Grant, Executive Director, since July, 2014, of the Sewage and Water Board of New Orleans, has been anything but a straight road over the past ten years as they initiated and moved along the recovery of their city's water, sewage, drainage and power systems devastated by Katrina.
Grant, a former deputy of Mayor Mitch Landrieu, used the 'straight roads' analogy on August 29 in releasing a book-length report entitled 'Katrina 10' — subtitled 'Progress . . . Devastation to Recovery to Restoration to Rebuilding'. The book outlines, in 149 pages, what's been, is being and will be done with the close to $20 billion being dedicated to not simply restoring but significantly improving the city and its ability to withstand — heaven help us — storms even greater than Katrina.
The storm-initiated damage resulted primarily as a result of failed levies intended (but poorly designed) to protect the partly-below-sea-level city from just the kind of massive overflows it suffered on August 29, 2005.
New Orleans lost close to two thousand people, something like a million homes and businesses dwellings, and massive damage to many of those that remained standing. Roughly a quarter of the pre-Katrina population never returned from places to which they were evacuated or fled. On August 28, 2005, nearly 480,000 people lived in the city. Today, there are fewer than 370,000 residents — and many of them remain unable to return to storm-damaged and still unrepaired homes.
The vast majority of the mountain of 10-year-anniversary coverage on the internet and in print has focused, to a certain degree logically, on the human aspects of the tragedies — the initial one and the ongoing smaller ones affecting areas of the city and their residents. How communities have, to one degree or another, moved on — some better off, some not. How individuals have, too. Or not: Many remain homeless; many others who'd like to still be in the city they consider 'home' remain elsewhere, more than likely never to return.
Depending on your perspective, it's either as, or more, important to explore how the city's infrastructure — the publicly-funded physical elements — as well as it's 'corporate culture' — the far-less-obviously-corrupt way its government operates — and its 'future awareness' have changed and will continue to.
To put all that in perspective, there's this: Two years ago, The Times-Picayune (often abbreviated, like it's website to NOLA, a common 'nickname' for its city) cited a fascinating statistic from a collection recently released by the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center, which has steadily tracked recovery indicators since shortly after the storm. Its 'New Orleans Index at 8' report, detailing progress, and lack of it, in that eight-year interval, noting that, as the Times-Picayune put it, "The New Orleans metro has weathered the Great Recession impressively; As of 2012, it had recovered all its recession-era losses and reached 1 percent above its 2008 employment level while the nation remained 2 percent below its 2008 job level."
The Times-Picayune also noted at that time, "The New Orleans area is showing encouraging signs that it might be pulling off a rare reversal of a once-entrenched economic decline."
That, in a nutshell, points to how steadily New Orleans' labor- and construction-intensive efforts carried on even as both those indicators faltered in the nation as a whole.
'Katrina 10' (see paragraph 3, above) includes details on "a new plan to coordinate infrastructure management, commitment to reform,the ongoing rehabilitation of the sewage collection system, the major rebuilding of the massive drainage system and improvements to the water system and the Board's own power plant."
That plan was announced in a press release in June of this year. It then was said that, the Sewerage & Water Board had joined with The Coastal Protection & Restoration Authority of Louisiana, the City of New Orleans, agencies across the metropolitan area and the US Corps of Engineers — which is responsible for levy construction and support — in "a coordinated, region-wide preparation effort . . to ensure that coordination of operations and communications between [local agencies and the Corps of Engineers] were in place and tested."
Specific storm-anticipation preparation efforts have included
• Emergency contracts for prestaged generators at key facilities;
• Emergency response boats and communication equipment staged at various Drainage Pumping Stations;
• Arrangements for an Emergency Operation Center at the Main Water Plant to coordinate the S&WB's response to emergency events;
• Providing employees with placards for response and reentry;
• Giving employees a 1-800 call-in number to report their location in the event they have evacuated;
• Building emergency protective Tiger Dams to protect against flooding at the Main Water Plant Power House; and
• Establishment of a Mobile Command Post to be staged in Baton Rouge as an alternate Emergency Operations Center.
'Katrina 8,' says, "Management and staff [are] confident that their team of experts [is] well prepared and able to work internally with our own forces and externally with the City's overall Office of Emergency Preparedness Command Center, Corps of Engineers, levee districts and [with] adjacent parishes." It also notes that employees who experienced Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav, Ike and Isaac "were invaluable resources" as the new preparedness plan was put together.
Even as that press release was distributed, Corps' contractors were hard at work on what undoubtedly will be the most important infrastructure effort ever undertaken anywhere, to date, to guard against hurricane damage.
The "current projects" tab on S&WB's web site offers details of, among other things, the post-Katrina-created Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System (HSDRRS) for southeast Louisiana, a sizable chunk of which is known as the Permanent Canal Closures & Pumps (PCCP). It "will provide a permanent and more sustainable measure for reducing the risk of a 100-year level storm surge entering [three] outfall canals," the web site says. That project is due to be completed, at a cost of something like $615 million, in 2017, when the PCCP replaces temporary barriers erected in 2006.
(This photo shows another similarly-massive part of the new flood control system — so-called Inner Harbor Navigation Canal Surge Barrier. At lower right, U.S. Senator David Vitter, is poking his head through one of the many openings that line the entire length of the that structure. [Photo: Chris Granger, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune].)
An NPR story on Aug. 28 looked at some of the details of the largest single piece of this flood control project::
First, it quoted Susan Maclay, president of Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority — West — one of two state-created agencies that, since Katrina, have been charged with consolidating and improving flood control. "The West Bank is astronomically safer; There is no comparison since before Katrina and today," she said.
Next, the story talked about "A giant concrete and steel structure called the West Closure Complex [that is] one of the engineering marvels of the new [flood control] system. During a flood event, a water gate nearly as long as a football field slowly shuts and 11 behemoth diesel engines kick on to pump water out of Jefferson Parish.
"This structure cost approximately $1.1 billion," Maclay was said to have boasted. "It consists of the largest pump station in the world. It can fill an Olympic-size swimming pool in three seconds." (The photos on this page shows renderings of three new pump stations in New Orleans.)
It and the rest of the new flood protection system are expected to render New Orleans virtually impervious from storms with winds up to more than 200 miles per hour as well as the storm surges they generate.
Meanwhile, at considerably less cost, the populace of the city has so strongly said 'enough is enough' where rampart public corruption is concerned. Te people's outrage at (corrupt) 'business as usual' in the years leading up to Katrina has, since then, resulted in the conviction of no fewer that 17 politicians being convicted on charges of one or another kind of corruption in office. The 17th was former NOLA Mayor Ray Nagin, who was sentenced in 2014 to ten years in federal prison after being convicted on "20 counts including bribery, conspiracy and money laundering stemming from his two terms as mayor, including the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005," as Fox News reported.
A lot of the people-focused media coverage of Katrina+plus+ten has mentioned — sometimes almost in passing, because the fact has long been part of the city's reputation — how 'politics', particularly the less than savory kind, contributed to the climate causing minority citizens of the city to be denied opportunities for better jobs, reasonable housing and, by the way, fair treatment by the police and other officials with whom they come in contact; How residents of primarily-Black areas were, after being hardest-hit by Katrina, made to wait longest before being rescued, and then given the kind of help and support they deserved.
Now, much as some of those neighborhoods have changed (The New York Times has provided a detailed look at that), the city's 'corporate culture' has, too, with public officials have come to be, if not as honest and straight-forward as they should be, at least superficially for the people, as they are serving by — at the will of — the people.
While a lot was lot, a lot has been gained in NOLA since August 29, 2005. Perspective is high on the list of 'gains': Both 'city fathers; and citizens have come to accept — many of the citizens, anyway — that their city will never see, in its good and less good aspects, July 2005 again.
New Orleans is in some ways worse off, and in many ways gaining, from Katrina — continuing to gain: New blood, new spirit has come to town; Business start-ups, and people aiming to make them happen and succeed, have invested themselves, and their money, into a 'new world'.
The past is; The future's brighter.


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text: 06 August 2010Cat Deeley has revealed that she will likely consider cosmetic surgery when she gets older, if she feels having treatments will help her hold on to her youthful complexion.The British TV star, who currently presents the hit show So You Think You Can Dance, said she would consider treatments such as Botox to reduce the appearance of lines and wrinkles, and feels lucky that she hasn't needed it so far. "I haven�t had any Botox, nips or tucks. But that doesn't mean I wouldn't in the future," Cat told The Mirror. "Nothing bothers me that much at the moment. Whether that would change as I get older, I don't know. "I wouldn't want to change the expression on my face because of the job I do. I'm very expressive and I wouldn't want to lose that." The 33-year-old also said there is a great deal of pressure on women to look young in the entertainment business, both in the United States and back home. "It's quite difficult for women getting older in the entertainment industry and it's much tougher for women than it is for men," Cat revealed. "Sadly, it's just one of those things. There is a huge double standard." Having presented the American version of So You Think You Can Dance since 2006, Cat returned to British screens to host the UK version earlier this year.


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People are really, really annoying. There's no doubt about it. Despite my desire to maintain the overly sunshine-and-rainbow delusion that all people are lovely individuals who almost never clip their toenails in public, it's just not reality.
Chances are, the majority of the people you have encountered and will encounter on a plane have been perfectly normal people who don't talk to you nonstop on a nonstop from San Francisco to Paris. Most likely they've kept their mouth breathing to a minimum, and they didn't seem to ooze odors from every orifice. Most likely.
Sometimes, you're not so lucky. Sometimes you get Del Griffith as a seat partner.
Behold, four airplane travel types that no one likes (please don't be any of these people):
1. The Cougher
Covering your mouth when you cough or sneeze is covered in Kindergarten and is practically a curriculum standard. However, some people don't retain this information into adulthood.
When you're on a plane, it's already bad enough that you're confined in a space that's 50% recycled air. It's perfectly ghastly and inexcusable that a grown adult chooses to blast their germ-riddled spittle into the air and onto every surface around them in such a confined space.
Sharing is NOT caring on an airplane.
Cover your fucking mouth like the civilized human you are pretending to be with your Ann Taylor pant suit.
And, for your convenience:
2. The Farter
OK. Lemme be real a minute. We all have to fart. In fact, I've heard holding in your farts can be hazardous to your health. So, it's unreasonable to expect anyone and everyone to cease farting the entire length of their flight (especially when you're flying halfway around the world on a 9+ hour flight).
However, if after your test fart (the little baby toot you let out to test the waters, er-air) you're met with something that could melt the fuselage, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna have to hold those in.
When you have one of those metal melting farts, this better be you.
Some things you can do to prevent excess gas during your flight are:
- Eat smaller portions the day before and immediately leading up to your flight
- Take Beano or other gas-reducer
- Avoid greasy, fattening foods, as well as wheat, lactose, broccoli, asparagus, cabbage, Brussel sprouts, lentils, beans, carbonated soft drinks, onions, pears, and all other foods
- Essentially, eat NOTHING before a flight
Really, it's for the common good.
There are no private trees to fart behind on a plane. I repeat: THERE IS NO WHERE TO FART (other than the bathroom, but do you really want to be the person who destroys the bathroom on a long flight? No, you don't).
3. The What Was That(er)
Farts aren't always the worst thing that can come out of someone sitting next to you on a plane.
Sometimes, your next door neighbor sounds like they are working on an almighty hair ball. Sometimes, your seat partner coughs up mucus and spits it out in their barf bag. Sometimes, people moan/whisper/belch/mouth breathe/mumble/groan without end or for any discernible reason.
My favorite idiot. This was on a bus, but you get the idea.
No one wants to listen to the plethora of noises your body makes. If you can't help it and your repetitive throat clearing is a verifiable tic, I feel for you and you're excused.
But, if you can hold in your whispered devil worshipping incantations or that weird belch/cough thing, quit being an annoying asshole already. Please and thank you.
My favorite annoying asshole.
4. The Groomer
In case anyone here wasn't already aware, it's not proper etiquette to do any sort of extreme grooming in your seat on the plane. Basic freshening up, like running a brush through your hair, applying a covert swipe of deodorant, or wiping your greasy face down with a face wipe can all be tolerated.
What should never be tolerated, however, is:
- Clipping your finger or toe nails
- Filing your finger or toe nails
- Cleaning wax out of your ears (especially when you place your wax-coated q-tips on the tray table)
- Popping zits or squeezing black heads out of the end of your nose
- Scratching excessively anywhere below the belt
- Picking crusted crap out from under your long, brown finger nails
This last one I actually had to endure during a 9 hour flight from Vancouver to London. A man sat down in the aisle seat next to my boyfriend, settled himself in his spot, and then proceeded to pick his long, poop brown nails the ENTIRE FLIGHT.
It was a real test of my gag reflex not to barf all over him.
If you have a gross habit that is not exactly socially acceptable behavior, IT DOESN'T BELONG ON AN AIRPLANE WHERE YOU ARE INCHES AWAY FROM A STRANGER FOR HOURS ON END.
*Bonus* When I was *that* person on the plane
Sometimes, we really have no intention of being *that* person, but it just happens.
Years ago, on a domestic flight with my then-boyfriend, I tried an Airborne immune supplement for the first time. Both my boyfriend and I had no idea how to take one. We popped them into our mouths, feeling pretty smart and proactive about our health.
Just seconds later, we discovered our horrific mistake as our mouths ballooned with ever-growing fizz. Pretty quickly, we were literally frothing at the mouth.
The fizz was growing ever bigger and we both tried to swallow it down, hoping to minimize the embarrassing mistake we had made. Instead of swallowing it all quickly and silently, because the fizz was coming and coming with no end in sight, we both gagged and coughed and spit as orange-tinged froth overflowed and spilled down over our chins and all over our clothes.
The people next to us and across the aisle looked at us, shocked and disgusted, as we literally looked rabid.
The boyfriend was irate that I didn't read the packaging and didn't know you were supposed to put the tablet in a bottled water to dissolve before ingesting. Oops.
So, even without trying, one can be shocking, disgusting, and annoying.
If we all just read label directions more thoroughly, tried breathing through our noses more, and picked the dried crap out of our nails before getting on the plane, air travel would be so much more enjoyable.
What annoys you the most about the people you have to share a plane with? Let me know in the comments.


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The GANNI mission is simple: To fill a gap in the advanced contemporary market for effortless, easy-to-wear pieces. From the perfect date-night dress to slouchy-chic Sunday knits, we design to please style-obsessed women everywhere.
Ganni is deeply rooted in Copenhagen and the easy-going and straightforward culture of the city. The Scandinavian heritage is essential to our design process, however we're not limited by its traditional minimalist expression. We find inspiration in the bold girls of Copenhagen and around the world."
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Tomato and Carrot Marinara Sauce
If you're trying to eat less meat but miss chunky tomato sauce, you'll appreciate the finely diced carrots in this one.
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1/2 pound carrots, peeled and finely diced (1/4 inch dice or smaller), or finely chopped in a food processor fitted with a steel blade (1 1/2 cups)
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 pounds tomatoes, seeded and grated, or peeled, seeded and chopped; or 1 (28-ounce) can chopped tomatoes, with juice
- 1/8 teaspoon sugar
- 1 sprig of fresh basil, if available
- Salt to taste
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano (optional)
1. Heat the oil over medium heat in a large, wide nonstick skillet or saucepan. Add the carrots. Cook, stirring, until tender, five to eight minutes. Add the garlic. Cook, stirring, for 30 seconds to a minute until the garlic begins to smell fragrant. Add the tomatoes and their juice, the sugar, basil sprig, salt, tomato paste and oregano. Stir, and turn up the heat. When the tomatoes begin to bubble, lower the heat to medium, and cook, stirring often, until thick and fragrant, 20 to 25 minutes. Remove the basil sprig, and wipe any sauce adhering to it back into the pan. Taste and adjust seasonings.
Variation: Substitute 1 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves or 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme for the basil.
Yield: 2 1/4 cups (about eight servings).
Advance preparation: The sauce will keep for four to five days in the refrigerator and freezes well.
Nutritional information per serving (per rounded 1/4 cup): 65 calories; 4 grams fat; 1 gram saturated fat; 0 grams cholesterol; 8 grams carbohydrates; 2 grams dietary fiber; 27 milligrams sodium (does not include salt added during preparation); 1 gram protein


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Bss is posting
I don't know if any of our three readers noticed, but Bss has actually begun posting some items on the blog. I know that this has already more than doubled the actual quality of the posts.
Posted by Brn at Tuesday, January 23, 2007
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2 comments:
- lulu said...
Not to mention the QUANTITY - welcome back Bss - it is so nice to have news from AA and Brn was sometimes a leeetle bit busy!!
- 23 January, 2007 12:48
- Bss said...
Thank you, Lulu!
- 23 January, 2007 23:36
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The hull and superstructure mouldings are of excellent quality and are produced using hand laid chopped strand mat and woven rovings in Lloyds approved isopthalic gel coat and resin, over double brushed isopthalic gel coat all but eliminating the risk of osmosis.
Substantial tranverse and longitudinal stringers are incorporated throughout the hull for strength. The hull and deck joint is both riveted and bonded.
Deck Layout
Well laid out to provide an easy to use boat when either passing through locks, low bridges or mooring up, yet provides comfort and safety when cruising offshore. Easy access to the transom with built in steps both sides on the large bathing platform.
The 395 incorporates a large deck area with full width seating and access doors each side enhancing security when cruising with children or in inclement weather.
Engine tachometers
Oil pressure gauges with alarms
Temperature gauges with alarm
Speed and distance log
Depth sounder
Compass/ fuel gauges/ fresh water gauge
Calorifier water system with immersion heater
Two showers
Ringmain with outlet in engine room and one 240 volt plug point in each cabin, complete with shoreline
Remote battery isolating switches
Seacocks on all inlets below waterline
Engine hour meters
Automatic fire extinguisher in engine room
3 hand held fire extinguishers
Fire blanket
Clock and barometer
Entertainment system with speakers in saloon
Galley extractor fan
Hot air heating in each cabin
Electric fridge
Gas hob and oven
Pressurised fresh water system
Hydraulic steering
Battery charger
Battery state indicator
2 sea toilets (1 electric)
Waste tank available
2 shaver points
2 electric bilge pumps
High capacity manual bilge pump
Engine room bilge pump
Separate engine start and domestic batteries
Tool kit
Gas cylinders
Cathodic protection
Antifouling-colour to choice
Navigation equipment-Quotations available for complete navigation packages
Painted boot-topping line
Bathing platform with built-in illuminated steps to deck
Frameless tinted glass except for upper top screen
Full width radar arch hinged for lowering
Spray hood forward of mast, plus canopy aft enclosing sundeck
8 cleats
All-round stainless steel deck rails with boarding gate each side
Fender baskets
Electric anchor winch with dual controls
Anchor in stemhead
15 fathoms anchor chain
4 mooring lines
4 fenders with lanyards
Emergency boarding ladder to bathing platform
Ventilators in each cabin
Full set of navigation and anchor lights
Screen washers/ wipers
Mast deck lights
Aft deck seat cushions
Aft deck table
Opening hatch in each cabin
Lower front screen cover
Ensign staff and ensign
Stainless steel fendering to deck edges
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Perhaps this game meant nothing. After all, that is what the coaches say. Perhaps it meant a lot. Apparently, that is how the fans felt.
Most likely, truth falls somewhere in between, just like most debates in life.
But for women's basketball, still the scorched earth of the mainstream sports terrain, Monday's Baylor-UConn game at the XL Center provided two hours of drenching rain the game so desperate needs to grow.
And two of its biggest stars, Baylor center Brittney Griner and UConn's Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, complied by matching baskets as the game moved closer to the tape.
Griner, the 6 foot 8 force of nature, scored 21 of her 25 points in the second half, to...


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by Michele S. Byers, Executive Director, New Jersey Conservation Foundation
New Jersey is blessed with many individuals who have taken a stand and fought against ill-conceived development projects that would have forever altered the natural landscape of this state we're in.
But one, in particular, has left an enormous legacy for all New Jerseyans. Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen Jr. passed away on May 23 at the age of 95. His family's long tradition of public service uniquely positioned him to champion open space in the halls of government, as well as at the grassroots level. Thanks to his courageous effort, New Jersey has the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge.
The Frelinghuysen family traces its roots of public service back to the birth of the nation – to Frederick Frelinghuysen, a Revolutionary War veteran who later served as a member of the Continental Congress and U.S. Senate. Peter's ancestors include a Newark mayor, Rutgers and New York University presidents, N.J. State Senate president, N.J. Attorney General, four U.S. senators, a vice presidential candidate and even the 29th U.S. Secretary of State.
Despite this bloodline of public service, Peter Frelinghuysen initially believed his twin brother Henry would take up the political calling. Peter was a graduate of Princeton University and Yale Law School, and served as a naval intelligence officer during World War II. Afterward, he studied at Columbia University and worked in banking.
But when the local Congressional seat was vacated in 1952, it was Peter who ran and won. He held the seat from 1953 until his retirement in 1974. This same seat is now held by Peter's son, Rodney.
The newly minted Congressman Frelinghuysen made his mark quickly, as a freshman with courage enough to vocally oppose the McCarthyism of the day. During his tenure he supported civil rights, federal funds for school construction and the Higher Education Act of 1965, which helped more students afford college.
When asked in 2009 by New Jersey Monthly magazine what his proudest achievement was, however, Peter Frelinghuysen named his work protecting the Great Swamp in Morris County. He called it "the most exciting thing that ever happened to me."
In 1959, the Port of New York Authority announced plans to build an international airport in New Jersey's Great Swamp. Recognizing that the plan would forever alter the Morris-Somerset region, a grassroots group of volunteers – Peter Frelinghuysen among them – organized to save the Swamp. In the face of some of the most powerful development interests of the day, their strategy was to buy blocks of open space and block the airport by establishing a wildlife refuge.
Peter's tenacious opposition to the airport helped derail it. A leader at the local level, his government connections helped garner federal support. Ultimately, he had the privilege of sponsoring the legislation establishing the 7,768-acre Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge.
"My father was absolutely devoted to New Jersey as demonstrated by his willingness to fight to preserve our open space long before it was popular," said Rodney Frelinghuysen. "He was a committed conservationist and one of his most satisfying moments was to work with like-minded citizens to establish the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge and support the New Jersey Conservation Foundation's early leadership in protecting and preserving similar open spaces of environmental and historical importance across northern New Jersey. His view of the 'public trust' he held as a Representative was to assure that succeeding generations would inherit such remarkable sanctuaries and protect them."
Conservation wasn't just policy for Peter; it was personal. Much of his Harding Township estate has been preserved, including 14 acres he donated to the Harding Land Trust. This comes as no surprise from someone who's part of the extended family that bequeathed the Frelinghuysen Arboretum in Morristown to the county Park Commission.
Perhaps it was Peter Frelinghuysen's deeply rooted sense of tradition and passion for the land that set him upon the non-traditional path of conservation trailblazer. His family name and history of public service lives on, and his wonderful legacy – written in New Jersey's green woodlands, blue waters and amber fields – will remain forever, to be enjoyed by future generations. Thank you, Peter!
If you'd like more information about conserving New Jersey's precious land and natural resources, please visit the New Jersey Conservation Foundation's website at www.njconservation.org or contact me at email@example.com.
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CAIRO/PORT SAID, Egypt (Reuters) - At least one protester was shot dead and dozens wounded on Friday when riot police clashed with demonstrators demanding the overthrow of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi.
Youths threw petrol bombs and shot fireworks at the outer wall of Mursi's Cairo presidential compound as night fell. Police responded by firing water cannon and teargas leading to skirmishes in the surrounding streets.


text: This position is located in the Network Systems Branch of an Air National Guard (ANG) Air Control Squadron (ACS). The purpose of this position is to supervise, direct and manage employees designing, engineering, analyzing, installing, maintaining, programming and operating Theater Air Control Weapons systems comprised of sensor systems, Information Technology (IT) networks, and communications systems in both tactical and fixed base environments. Plans work to be accomplished by subordinates, sets and adjusts short-term priorities, and prepares schedules for completion of work of the full range of C-E (Communications-Electronics) equipment and systems assigned. Evaluates scheduling, rescheduling or reassignment of work by assigning work to subordinates based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and requirements of assignments, and the capabilities of employees. Establishes work performance standards and evaluates the work performance of subordinates. Gives advice, counsel, or instruction to employees on both work and administrative matters. Provides highly complex technical solutions to support unique systems requirements for specialized command and control, communications, and computer equipment. Monitors quality control practices and identifies ways to improve production, timeliness, efficiency or quality of work. Monitors system and equipment status, repair actions, modifications, and related matters. Analyzes the branch's mission support capabilities, evaluates maintenance effectiveness, and reports the branch's mission capability. Initiates action required to maintain maximum degrees of efficiency and reliability. Develops new procedures to solve unprecedented technical problems. Takes, directs, or recommends remedial actions to correct problems or deficiencies and to preclude recurrence. Advises the Communication/Information Maintenance Manager of significant issues and matters concerning the branches mission readiness capabilities. Interviews candidates for positions in the unit and recommends selection of new employees for reassignment and promotion to such positions. Ensures the proper use, management, and training of all personnel, consisting of multiple technical disciplines within the branch. Identifies developmental and training needs of employees, and provides or arranges for such. Ensures Drill Status Guard personnel are properly trained and able to perform the assigned activities. Hears and resolves complaints from employees, referring group grievances and more serious unresolved complaints to a higher level supervisor or manager. Initiates minor disciplinary actions, such as warnings and reprimands, recommending other action in more serious cases. Recommends awards, approves leave and step increases. Realigns duties within the branch to ensure efficient use of assigned manpower to accomplish units mission. Manages overall personnel program within the section. Prepares and submits budget estimates and revisions for the procurement, installation, and operation/maintenance of equipment and supply items. Monitors and controls the expenditure of material and manpower resources in accomplishment of peacetime and wartime mission goals. Identifies resource shortages or projected shortages to supervisor and/or unit commander. Analyzes and evaluates new requirements and recommends most efficient completion method. Exercises continuing responsibility for safety conditions, procedures, and work practices employed within the branch. Provides work force guidance on safety matters and ensures safe work practices are utilized. Ensures periodic inspections of work centers are performed and immediate action is taken to correct unsafe conditions. Performs the non-supervisory work by designing, engineering, analyzing, installing, maintaining, programming and operating the equipment within their assigned career field alongside of those employees supervised. Performs other duties as assigned.


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A clever use of Obama's pal Al Sharpton's moronic chant wherever he buses in protesters to agitate.
Outside the Marriott, where there was a heavy police presence, about 75 protesters were on hand chanting ''hey, hey, ho, ho, Barack Obama's got to go.'' In support of the demonstrators, 64-year-old Palin Smith of Woodbury brought the crowd 100 sandwiches from Chick-fil-A, the fast-food chain at the center of a national debate over gay marriage. The company's president recently touched off the skirmish when he told the Baptist Press that Chick-fil-A was ''guilty as charged'' for backing ''the biblical definition of a family.''
Jim Berger, a 65-year-old retired small business owner, traveled from Valhalla, N.Y., for the rally. He voiced concern about the level of government spending during Obama's first term.
''We've spent trillions of dollars,'' he said. ''We have no jobs to show for it. The economy hasn't improved.''
On the upside the Globe has finally mentioned the Chick-fil-A story now.
Meanwhile, the supremely arrogant Obama had local beaches shut down so he could land close to the mansion of fatcat supporter Harvey Weinstein.
The president's presence was also felt in Fairfield County, where state officials closed Sherwood Island State Park in Westport on Monday ''due to a special event.''
State Republicans pounced on the decision to close the state park in the middle of summer.
''It is the arrogance of power and crass partisanship to shut down Sherwood Isle at the height of the summer vacation season and dislodge all these families,'' House Minority Leader Lawrence Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, said in a statement. ''It is outrageous that the Democrats turn Sherwood Isle into a personal heliport for the president so that he can be ferried back and forth to hobnob with millionaires and billionaires for the day.''
Connecticut Republican Party Chairman Jerry Labriola, Jr. said the closure came on a day when temperatures climbed in the 90s.
''And while 50 guests pay $35,800 per person to hobnob with President Obama and movie celebrities and Governor Malloy at Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein's six-acre beachfront estate in Westport, area families and their children will not be able to go to the beach today because the President's helicopter is parked there,'' Labriola said in a statement.


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Garden designs are increasingly popular among home-owners that have backyards and lovely green space to get creative with.
In particular, Mediterranean garden designs are a great way to design your own landscape for a beautiful and creative landscape setting. Try one of these top 10 Mediterranean garden design ideas for your own garden experimentation.
10. Statues
Traditional Mediterranean gardens almost always include at least a few statues, like this dramatic pair from Design Toscano. Select angels, replicas of ancient statues or classic accents like urns or columns. You'll instantly add an old-world feel to your brand new garden.
9. Plants and grasses
Add grass and some plants to your garden design for a natural and peaceful setting. Low water plants in a Mediterranean-style decorative pond and multi-colored grasses can enhance your garden's look and décor.
8. Greenhouse
Think about adding a stylish greenhouse to your garden for a boost in your kitchen gardening, fragrant herbs, and tending of more exotic Mediterranean plants like Viper's Bugloss, Canary Island Foxglove, and Rock Purslane. A greenhouse can be placed at the entrance of your garden to greet guests as they enter the premises.
7. Pool
Who doesn't love a pool in their backyard? A pool is actually a great addition to a Mediterranean garden as it adds sophistication and a serene atmosphere. The striking blue color of pool water also adds richness to your garden's color scheme.
6. Trees
Trees help to create a beautiful Mediterranean setting for your garden. Try planting trees around the perimeter of your garden or even surrounding a fountain for a graceful, sweeping look.
5. Flowers
Brighten up your garden with a variety of flowers that will please the eye and your nose with sweet-smelling fragrances. Plant a flowerbed and line a few flower pots around gates and garden entrances. Ornamental flowers favored in Mediterranean gardens include a wonderful selection of brightly colored annuals and perennials. You can even add herbs for a fresh – and useful – take on your garden.
4. Stone tiles
Stone tiles and garden stones will lend an elegant hand to your Mediterranean garden design. Use tiles or stones as a walk-way around your garden or as a walk-way to a pool or reclining chairs. Place decorative engraved stones in your garden to welcome guests, using greetings in Italian and other romantic Mediterranean languages.
3. Hanging pots
Try hanging pots filled with lush greenery from the entry way or foyer of your garden. Choose plants that work well in shade for more protected areas, and sun-loving plants for exposed locations for healthy, thriving blooms. Add lights to your pots for additional brightness and romantic appeal during evenings when the sun goes down.
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QUICK STORY: An early, 1-0 lead did not hold up for the Susquehanna men's soccer team which fell 2-1 at Gettysburg on Wednesday night.
TEAM RECORDS: Susquehanna is now 5-7-2 while Gettysburg stands at 7-3-1.
FIRST POINTS OF THE SEASON: Jake Heyser scored his first goal of the season which also marked his first points of the season. Heyser is currently second on the team in shots with 21.
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GAME WINNER: The game remained tied at one until the 66th minute when Henry Smith netted an unassisted goal.
SECOND HALF STRUGGLES: All four of SU's shots came in the first half as the River Hawks were held without a shot for the final 45 minutes of action.
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE: Gettysburg out-shot SU 18-4 with Heyser taking half the shots. All four of Susquehanna's shots were on goal while Gettysburg put seven shots on goal. The Bullets had 10 corners to SU's three.
GETTYSBURG CONTINUES WIN STREAK: The Bullets have now won three consecutive games against Susquehanna. The last time Susquehanna defeated Gettysburg was in 2013 when SU advanced to the NCAA Tournament.
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Rumour Mill: Calgary Flames to Pull the Trigger on a Trade?October 23, 2011
With the Calgary Flames struggling in the early going of the 2011-12 season, general manager Jay Feaster appears to be under pressure to make a move.
According to ESPN's Pierre LeBrun, a trade could be on the horizon for the Flames. The speculation began earlier in the week when TSN's Darren Dreger reported that Flames forward Rene Bourque is being shopped around the NHL, but things really started to pick up after Feaster spoke with ESPN.
"I'm not going to sit around and wait," Feaster told ESPN.com. "There is urgency here. There's very much a sense of urgency. We kept this group together for a reason this summer. We articulated what that was and articulated to the players. They talked about the need to get off to a good start. We saw what happened last season when you dig yourself a hole. We played like our pants were on fire in the second half last year, and it wasn't enough. We were all paying lip-service to what we needed to do. Now we need to do it."
While there is no guarantee that a trade will be completed in the near future, the possibility is there.
The aforementioned Bourque, 29, has gotten off to a slow start this season. While he has scored three goals, he has yet to record an assist and owns a minus-1 rating. There are plenty of teams that would like to have the two-time 27-goal scorer, with the Toronto Maple Leafs rumored to be one of them.
Lukas Hardonk is the Editor-in-Chief of Bottom Line Hockey. For more NHL news and notes, follow him on Twitter: @LukasHardonk.
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NOTRE DAME, Ind. -- Advance ticket sales remain brisk for the upcoming two-game baseball series between Notre Dame and Arizona State, to be played Friday night (6:05) and Saturday afternoon (3:05) at Eck Stadium on the University of Notre Dame campus. ASU is 26-15 overall and ranked 17th in the nation in the Baseball Weekly/ESPN poll.
The highly anticipated series between the nationally ranked Sun Devils and Fighting Irish will serve as a renunion of sorts for ASU head coach Pat Murphy. Murphy coached seven years in South Bend, leading the Irish from a virtually non-funded program into a national power.
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Oxnard dentists, Dr. Saj Jivraj and Dr. Mamaly Reshad of the Anacapa Dental Art Institute in Oxnard and Woodland Hills, Calif., regularly give patients dental implants to replace teeth that have fallen out or been removed due to dental disease.
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Dr. Reshad trained at Kings College Dental School followed by the Eastman Dental Institute in London.
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Finnish pulla
|Piia Lintunen shares her family recipe for Pulla, a soft, sweet Finnish bread with cardamom and sugar. (COLLEEN THOMPSON)
Some foods evoke an immediate sense of deep comfort. It might be the tactile pleasure of kneading dough, a smell that is instantly recognizable and warming or simply the taste of a memory. More often than not it's ritual more than recipe that's involved with the preparation. In Piia Lintunen's kitchen this morning, it happens to be a good dose of all three.
She's making Finnish pulla (sounds like boola), a traditional coffee cake made from cardamom-spiced yeast dough. Pulla might just be the most-loved baked good in Finland.
"There is a Finnish folklore metaphor which says
Piia has lived in Halifax for just about a decade, raising her two young sons. She grew up in Helsinki and, after graduating from university with a political science degree, she left Finland to explore and work in Europe, before meeting her Canadian husband and moving to Toronto and then on to Halifax.
I met her years ago when our boys were toddlers and we were both new immigrants to Nova Scotia. Her easy manner, wicked sense of humour, intelligent banter and quirky Scandinavian ways made her instantly likable to me.
We met over coffee after she caught my attention by parking her infant son outside in his stroller on a cold January morning for his nap, bundled tightly in blankets. She explained, as I stared in amazement, that in Finland babies sleep outside in the fresh air.
"Wander through a snowy Helsinki and you'll see strollers lined up outside coffee shops while parents sip on coffee inside," she said. "The fresh air makes them sleep better."
Like all good Finns Piia takes coffee breaks seriously and I've never had coffee with her where she doesn't offer up something sweet, delicious, unfussy and always Finnish.
"In Finland coffee isn't just coffee. It's a way of life," she says. The average Finn drinks around 12 kilos of coffee per year, which makes Finland the country with the heaviest coffee consumption in the world. "You sit down together, drink coffee, chat and usually eat something sweet. It's all very civilized" she says.
Coffee drinking in Finland constitutes a ritual that has been compared to the tea ceremony of Japan. It marks a time of day (afternoon coffee, evening coffee), a place (sauna coffee), or a special occasion (nameday coffee, engagement coffee, funeral coffee). At its simplest, coffee is almost always accompanied by the sweet bread pulla
The braided loaf is soft, like delicate challah bread, but sweet and perfumed with the exotic flavours of cardamom. Of all the breads I've tasted, no other uses cardamom in such an intoxicating way.
Pulla consist of a few simple ingredients: wheat, yeast, eggs, cardamom and pearl sugar for sprinkling. The end result however, is much more than the sum of its parts and each ingredient carries weight. "The difference between pulla
Cardamom gives the bread its exotic taste and fragrance and it's a spice more readily associated with eastern recipes.
"I think it's because Finland lies so close to Eastern Europe, we have this mix of east and west throughout our recipes," she says. "It was introduced to Scandinavia by the Vikings and now we use it to season all kinds of foods, from pickling herring to baking."
As she mixes the pulla dough, she tells me about her strongest food memories growing up in Finland. Friday nights were sauna (rhymes with cow-na, not fauna, she insists) sausage nights.
"Finns are devoted to saunas — it's where we gather to talk about life," she says. "It's as much a social thing as it is a health thing.
"Every Friday evening my dad would put sausages on the coals in the sauna to cook. When he would pour water over the hot coals the smell of steaming sausages would waft through. As kids we couldn't wait to eat the hot steaming sausages with Finnish mustard."
Once the dough is mixed it is kneaded lightly, left to rise and covered with her best linen tea towel — a symbol of appreciation. Once risen the dough is divided and rolled into buns and placed on a baking sheet before being brushed with egg wash and sprinkled with pearl sugar.
While we wait for the pulla to bake, she is riffling through her cupboard, pulling out some of the foods she brought back on her last trip home to Finland: mustard, salmiakki
"I think you might be the first non-Finn to actually like this. Mämmi freaks my husband out a little. He can't believe I actually eat this," she says.
When the pulla is ready, the buns are golden. We sit down to break bread and drink coffee at her long wooden table just off the kitchen, like we've done so many times before.
"My kids are more Canadian than Finnish and making pulla I feel like I keep them rooted to their Finnishness," she says.
Sipping coffee from her elegant blue and white coffee cups, and eating this sweet, satisfying bun, it's easy to understand the connection to recipes, childhood and lohduttaa (comfort). The only thing missing is a sauna.
2 cups + 2 tbsp lukewarm milk
2 sachets (16g) instant active dry yeast
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp fine sea salt
1 tbsp + 1 tsp freshly ground/crushed cardamom
1 egg
5 1/2 cups bread flour
8 tablespoons unsalted butter
for the egg wash:
1 egg
1 tbsp water
pearl sugar, to sprinkle
Dough Recipe
In a large mixing bowl combine the yeast with some flour and add to the warm milk mixture before adding the rest of the flour. Stir until the yeast is completely dissolved. Add sugar, salt, cardamom and egg and mix until combined. Gradually add about two-thirds of the flour and knead. Add butter and knead until well combined. Continue to knead the dough, and gradually add just enough flour so the dough comes clean off the sides of the bowl and doesn't stick to your hand.
Don't overwork the dough or you'll end up with hard buns, not soft, as we want them to be. Shape into a ball and cover with a clean kitchen towel. Let the dough rise in a warm, draft-free place for about one hour, or until it's double in size.
Make the buns
Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
Shape the dough into about 16 equally sized buns and place them on the two baking sheets, spacing them about half the diameter of a bun apart. Cover with a clean kitchen towel and let rise for a further 30 minutes, or until they double in size.
Preheat the oven to 400°F.
For the egg wash, whisk together the egg and water until combined. Before baking, brush each bun with the egg wash and generously sprinkle them with pearl sugar. Bake the buns on the middle rack for 10–15 minutes, or until golden brown.
Pulla are best eaten still slightly warm, on the same day.


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Little Leaguers' Run at Williamsport Is About More Than BaseballAugust 29, 2009
Raul Rojas is not even a teenager, but already he has achieved legendary status in his hometown.
After striking out the final batter in Mexico's 6-0 semifinal victory over Japan at the Little League World Series in Williamsport, PA, Rojas and his teammates from Guadalupe Trevino Kelly Little League officially put their hometown of Reynosa on the map.
And this time, it was good publicity.
Since his inauguration in 2006, Mexican president Felipe Calderon has made it one of his goals to rid his country of widespread drug trafficking operations that have been entrenched throughout the nation for years. Six months ago, while Rojas and the other Little Leaguers were still in school, Reynosa made headlines as one of a number of towns near the US border which were rocked by the latest violent run-in between Mexican authorities and drug traffickers.
On February 19th, twelve people were shot in Reynosa as gunfire and bazooka shells tore the town apart, shutting down four bridges that access the US and throwing the city into chaos.
This was the environment into which a few young boys bravely took the field to play baseball this spring and summer.
Fast forward to late August. Inspired by a congratulatory phone call from Reynosa native and Florida Marlin Jorge Cantu, the Little Leaguers wasted no time in going undefeated in international pool play, riding the dominant pitching of aces Marcelo Martinez and Raymundo Berrones. Each pitcher carried no-hit bids into the later innings of their starts.
On Thursday, Berrones handed the ball to Rojas, who worked the last five outs to secure Reynosa's spot in the International Championship.
"Honestly, I feel like I'm famous," Rojas said at the time.
As of 5PM this afternoon, "el sueño está muerto" (the dream is dead). Two rain delays and six errors threw Reynosa out of its rhythm, ending in a 9-4 loss to Chinese Taipei that is anything but easy to swallow.
Little League prides itself on the sportsmanship, and there's no doubt that Martinez, Berrones and Rojas will have that awkward feeling of accomplishment and loss that accompanies the act of keeping your head up after a loss. For these kids, though, championship or no championship, it's a testament to their courage for them to have just come this far.
It's a long way home for the Mexicans, but every mile was worth it. For the families and residents of Reynosa who cheered them on, this was the lone bright spot in a year of trouble, and that's worth hanging on to. If any of the teams who have competed so brilliantly this week deserved our admiration, this one certainly does.


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Signs Of The Times:
"'Blank-check' shell companies, also known as a 'special purpose acquisition company' raised $4.1 billion on 33 IPOs so far this year, compared with $1.4 billion on 22 offerings during the same period a year ago."
- Wall Street Journal, June 26
During the final year of the South Sea Bubble of 1720 there were some 485 new stock issues. Many were touts about "new" technology, and one was about a deal that was so good it had to be kept a secret.
"UK pension fund with £ 8 billion in assets plans to double its commodity allocation to 2% over the next 18 months.
Chief Investment Officer said 'reducing the volatility of returns is the reason behind our investment in commodities.'"
- Reuters, June 27
Glad they included the explanation - thought they were talking their book.
"Regulators Tighten Subprime-Lending Rules"
- Wall Street Journal, June 30
The BBB subprime mortgage bond we've been following plunged from 100 in August to 73 on February 27. The rebound took it to 84.60 on May 24 and the old low of 73 was taken out a week ago Wednesday and it only took a few days to get down to 68.
It is not certain if this is based upon transaction or a math model.
"United Capital Hedge Fund Halts Withdrawals [by clients]"
- Bloomberg, July 3
The fund has been positioned in subprime mortgage bonds. Where is all that "liquidity" when you really need it?
Stock Market: Last week the BIS published an overview on the financial markets that was meant to be sobering and, as belated as it is, sobriety is the usual consequence to "Rational Exuberance". So far sobriety has been selective.
Our rational exuberance theme has served to emphasize that certain characteristics of the culmination of a great boom are common to each one. Other than the signature of outstanding technical dynamics, the key items include important changes in the yield curve and in credit spreads.
As we've been noting, typically the final stages of a bull market are accompanied by 12 to 16 months of curve inversion. This began in February 2006 which suggests that culminating excesses would be probable in the March to July window.
So far so good, and the next step in this pattern has been that typically the wheels start to fall off the most salient speculations as the curve reverses to steepening. Inversion reached its maximum in late February and had reversed to steepening in May.
Outside of credit instruments, the most intense speculations have been recorded in base metals and the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The latter generated a rare "Upside Exhaustion" reading in May. These types of signals were last seen in the first half of 2000. Opposite signals ("Downside Capitulation") were registered on a number of sectors and exchanges in late September 2002 as that bear concluded.
As represented by nickel and lead, intense speculation accomplished the biggest percentage gains in a hundred years of data. That's on a real basis, as deflated by the PPI and the gains were away beyond previous "bests". Copper did it to May 2006, nickel to this May, and lead is still working on a huge record gain (some 3% of concentrate production has been shut down due to a "lead-poisoning" investigation).
Since nickel's high on May 21 the decline amounts to 34%. From a sensational high in late May Shanghai's initial hit amounted to 21%.
Then we have the second phase of what appears to be an exceptional liquidity problem in the subprime mortgage game. This is not just a problem presented by the end of a sensational ramp up of price. Essentially the markets have to deal with the culture of pricing by mathematic models. Exacerbating this artificiality has been that with all the "bundling" of various mortgage bonds has been the convention of rating the quality by mathematical models as well.
As if that is not enough, there is the culture that because of the assumption of infallibility enormous powers have been granted to central bankers. (One of the most disastrous promoters in financial history, William Patterson, backed the formation of the Bank of England in 1694. The promotional material included the still appealing notion that a central bank with the power to issue notes beyond reserves would "infallibly" lower interest rates.
A brief, but comprehensive, story by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is worth reading: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/07/02/bcncrunch102.xml
It includes some fine word craftsmanship with "mutant capitalism", "This is the big one: all portfolios will be shredded", as well as some comments from the BIS report.
Our conclusions are that the immense liquidity problem created by financial engineering will eventually be cleared through trade-set prices.
Mr. Margin is having serious meetings with the big brokers with considerable exposure to the mess. Before it is over Mother Nature will be converting even Keynesians to the ancient benefits of sound money.
In the meantime, the SSEC has been working on the test of its May exuberance. The high was 4336 and the test made it to 4312, from which the action has been dull.
That's until today when the 5.3% slump set a series of descending highs and lows. This violates the major trend line and taking out the 3600 level will establish the down trend.
Given the excesses of an "Upside Exhaustion" on the monthly reading, and changes in global credit markets, this could be the start of a cyclical bear market. As this possible transition comes in it will have profound consequences on the senior stock exchanges.