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On the weekend I went out with Miss Pinky AND finally we got her a laptop. She hasn't had one for years, and I have no idea how she coped without one for this long. I would just breakdown and collapse... That's how much I love computing...
Anyway, back to this review. When we finally got the laptop we did a little food shopping, but we also needed to eat as both of us hardly ever eat breakfast as usual (plus Miss Pinky is usually a late riser)... She said to me she wants roast duck and noodle soup, the most greasiest one... Ewww... Really?! So as we were heading to China Town via Oxford Street, which I haven't been to for a few months I think... Then I saw the a big sign 麵 (noodles) on top of a shop, and said to Miss Pinky let's look at this place. I wanted to try somewhere different, and I'm sure Miss Pinky didn't want to carry her laptop all the way to China Town. I had a brief look at their menu book outside, and Miss Pinky already saw what she wanted. Heheheh.
|People walking pass Noodle Oodle... Couldn't get a clear shot... Fine, people, you can be in my blog!
|Roast duck hanging in the window, Noodle sign and the ceiling ¬,¬"
|Menu Cover
These noodles are in fact called laai-min (Canto) 拉麵 or la-mian 拉面 (Mando), which means "pulled-noodles" as they pull the dough to make lengthy noodles.
|The noodle chef in white
My meal special consisted of a plate of pak choi, a plate of rice covered with a thin slice of omelette and beef in black bean sauce, plus a lemon tea for £11.80.
|My Special
|Iced Lemon Tea - it was ok
|Pak Choi
|There was a lot of rice underneath that omelette!
|Close up
Overall cost came to £23.70! That included a 10% service charge... Service charge again! Doesn't anyone tip these days...? Why must there always be a service charge in every restaurant I have been to recently?!
Good points:
- Fresh noodles are made in front of you (if your back is facing the kitchen which mine was, then turn around and have a look)
- Halal - nice to see, not all Chinese or Shanghainese restaurants are Halal
- Would go again to try out one of the noodle dishes
- Food is absolutely filling
- Would go again to try out one of the noodle dishes
- Food is absolutely filling
Bad points:
- Seating arrangements are a little bit tight (you might be elbowed by someone behind you - that happened to me!)
- Service is a little slow
- Some would say this is cheap, but I think the noodles were expensive even if it is freshly made
- Service charge (uh-hm!)
- Service charge (uh-hm!)
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"Nakatomi Space"
by Geoff Manaugh at BLDGBLOG
by Geoff Manaugh at BLDGBLOG
What is the best architecture film of the past 25 years? According to Geoff Manaugh, it's Die Hard. BLDGBLOG is deeply interested in the relationship and usage of designed spaces, and Die Hard is an action flick wherein Bruce Willis survives and succeeds by navigating Nakatomi Plaza on his own terms:
Over the course of the film, McClane blows up whole sections of the building; he stops elevators between floors; and he otherwise explores the internal spaces of Nakatomi Plaza in acts of virtuoso navigation that were neither imagined nor physically planned for by the architects.
His is an infrastructure of nearly uninhibited movement within the material structure of the building. The film could perhaps have been subtitled "lessons in the inappropriate use of architecture," were that not deliberately pretentious.
The discussion extends to other films that interpret space well (the Jason Bourne series, District 9) and those that don't (James Bond), and it becomes apparent that, on a broader level, this essay explains why movies are important to architecture. "It is Hollywood action films that reveal to us something very important about how cities can be known, used, and navigated," he writes.
It's becoming a little embarrassing how often I applaud BLDGBLOG, but until I find another writer who forces me to rethink my relationship with everything around me — and now even in action movies — I'll continue to give high praise for Geoff Manaugh.
"How Far We've…."
by Lynsey G. at McSweeney's
by Lynsey G. at McSweeney's
It's hard to deny an article that opens with: "I've been thinking about facials." And because this is the sixteenth installment of McSweeney's very excellent The Conflicted Existence of a Female Porn Writer, you know immediately what kind of facial Lynsey G. is talking about.
Pornography is an inherently fascinating subject. It's the most pervasive of private activities. Lynsey G. admits that porn operates in a "moral gray zone" but understands that it also plays an important role in how it affects our sex lives. Which brings us back to facials:
The degree to which the facial has, happily or unhappily, invaded the bedrooms of many got me to thinking even more about just how much pornography may have affected our sex lives. Really, I wonder where we might be sexually without porn… Would we as a society be anywhere near as comfortable with anal sex, whether heterosexual or homosexual, if not for our heavy consumption of pornography?
I've enjoyed the entire Conflicted Existence series — other highlights from the series include the rise of "gonzo" porn and the time Ron Jeremy gave her his number — but I think "How Far We've…" is Lynsey G. at her best: funny without being cheeky, smart without taking herself too seriously.
"The Last Beautiful"
by Robin Sloan
by Robin Sloan
Over at Snarkmarket, Robin Sloan has a number of posts I have adored but my favorite thing he's written this year is actually a piece of short fiction. "The Last Beautiful" surprised and charmed me.
I grew up reading a lot of science fiction, but I've had a hard time getting back into it since high school. Much of it is too dark, often cynical. (Case in point: William Gibson's Twitter account is @GreatDismal.) Sloan's fiction isn't sci-fi per se, but where most authors tell us why we should be afraid of technology, Sloan gives us a reason to be excited about it. Perhaps fiction is a better space for him to humanize and embrace these ideas.
"The Last Beautiful" is short enough that it might be better if I don't give you a dust-jacket synopsis, but I admit that I found myself returning to this story more than once since he posted it last April. And maybe it's worth pointing out that @robinsloan has ten times more Twitter followers than @GreatDismal.
"Cheater Cheater" by Michael Erard at The Morning News
"13 Ways of Looking at Liz Lemon" by Sady Doyle at Tiger Beatdown
"Metagames and Containers" by David Cole
"Untitled" by Meaghan O'Connell
"The Editor and the Curator" by Joanne McNeil at Tomorrow Museum
"On Tetris" by Jacob Lambert at The Millions
— Editor Kevin Nguyen
"Real America: The 'Treasure Hunters Roadshow' and Their Small-Town Newspaper Grift"
by Abe Sauer at The Awl
by Abe Sauer at The Awl
This is the perfect counter-argument against anyone who says that blogs are bad for journalism. In a flurry of unconventional sources, blurry cellphone photos, online snooping, and personal experience, Sauer explains, explores, and dismantles the shady Antiques Roadshow-knockoff known as Treasure Hunters Roadshow. The story invokes familiar specters of the collapse — skyrocketing gold prices, personal finical ruin, desperate optimism, the woes of newspapers — and shows how one unscrupulous organization exploits them all for a delightfully old-fashioned prize: cheap gold. It's a modern tragedy of the highest caliber; a pleasure to read thanks to Sauer's wry, indignant, and humanizing prose; and it is everything that journalism can and should be in 2010.
Oh, and now is a great time to jump on the "Real America" column's bandwagon. Sauer is currently using it to hold Target's feet to the fire for hypocritically backing a PAC with anti-gay positions. Fantastic work.
"Toy Soldiers"
by Greg Purcell at The Supercollider
by Greg Purcell at The Supercollider
Tower defense is one of the more mundane styles of videogame yet invented. The whole genre is just a brute-force attack on the player's obsessive tendencies. There isn't much to say about it, really. Well, except this:
Video games do not capture the subtle quality of ennui well, and the violence they depict is explicitly not arbitrary. For this reason, games have jibed well with the journalistic historical record of World War Two described in the first-person accounts of Pyle and Murrow and even Liebling, but not with the accounts of First World War captured by writers like Robert Graves and Paul Fussell. I chalk this up to the change in journalism's cultural position between the wars.
Yeah, you're gonna want to keep reading. Purcell deftly explains his thesis, offers an insightful lesson on wartime reporting in the process, and introduces a well-measured dose of academia into the discussion of videogames. That last part is the trickiest, a path that many have failed to navigate, so it's heartening to see a writer who manages to keep it readable and relatable. That's a rare skill, and I hope Purcell deploys it in the service of videogames again in the future.
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by Jody Tresidder at MetaFilter
by Jody Tresidder at MetaFilter
It would probably be dishonest if I didn't list the one thing I read on the web this year that made me cry, so here it is. (It's a comment on MetaFilter post. When you click the link, the text will be at the very top of your browser window, starting with "My late (lovely) father died very young in a car accident.")
The post in question is about how social networks are making confidential adoptions more challenging, but Tresidder's comment on it is decidedly low-tech. She describes a beautiful relationship that grew when her family tracked down her late father's birth mother (he was adopted), only to discover that she had also died, leaving her 90-year-old husband a widower. I won't say too much, only that it's a lovely story, capped with a perfect closing line that I defy you to read without misting up.
"Video Game Feminist of the Decade: or, When 'You' Is a Girl" by Jenn Frank
(This is actually the best thing about videogames I read this year, but since Frank implores readers to check out the expanded version in Kill Screen Issue 1, and since it gives me a chance to brag about Kickstarting Issue 0, I'll encourage you to buy that instead. It's an excellent magazine, and Frank's essay is worth the $20 alone.)
"The Birth And Death Of Big Air" by Katie Baker at Deadspin
("It's only a matter of time before we witness a death at the X Games.")
"It Is Written" by Matthew Battles at HiLobrow
(Remember that weird story about "artificial cells" earlier this year? Want to know what that actually means, and have your mind thoroughly blown in the process? Read this.)
"Playing The Odds" by Soren Johnson at Game Set Watch
("At their core, solitaire and Diablo are not so different.")
"The Form of the Book" by Mandy Brown at A Working Library
(Since we're talking about great writing on the web, it's worth taking a second to consider how that writing is presented.)
— Editor Nick Martens
"Charles Dickens: The First Great Travel Writer?"
by Frank Bures at World Hum
by Frank Bures at World Hum
After reading Great Expectations in high school, I put down Charles Dickens and never really picked him up again. To me, his writing was all the wrong things: needlessly verbose ("he got paid by the word!" I'd remind people), heavy-handed and sentimental in places, and otherwise generally about a social world that I really didn't get into. Even his ghost stories left me cold.
So when I came across this piece arguing that Dickens had quite a knack for travel writing, I was skeptical; I had never thought to describe any of the travel writing that I had come across as "Dickensian." But by the end, the author had convinced me:
It seems remedial now, and it is, but it's something Dickens seemed to realize long ago: Travel is not that interesting. People are. Stories come alive only when there are people in them. Travel and nature writing both purport to be about physical things. But they are really about us, and to the extent that they aren't, they are simply bad, or boring, writing.
"Somewhere A Dog Barked"
by Rosecrans Baldwin at Slate
by Rosecrans Baldwin at Slate
I'll admit, I'm a sucker for these kinds of literary miscellany. And Rosecrans Baldwin has managed to find a pretty good one that's also really obvious in retrospect. I can think of a couple more barking dogs that come to mind right away, from Murakami, Orwell, and (I think) some Star Trek novel the name of which I'd forgotten a long time ago. Maybe that one was a space dog of some kind, I'm not sure.
Most authors…employ the trope as a narrative rest stop, an innocuous way to fill space and time; since the bark is hollow, a reader can read anything into it, or nothing at all.
From now on, I think the dog bark will be the literary equivalent of the arrow in the FedEx logo: you don't realize it for a long time, but then when someone points it out, you can never un-see it — and you can't resist pointing it out to everyone, either.
"The Pretend Astronaut"
by Jason Zasky at Failure Magazine
by Jason Zasky at Failure Magazine
Did you know that one proposed idea for early space waste disposal was the "defecation glove," which was basically a self-pooper-scooper for zero-gravity? Or that NASA will pay you $17,000 to lie in bed for three months, not get up for any reason, and keep your head at a six-degree downward tilt? Or that right now, nine intrepid volunteers are going on the grown-up version of space camp, wherein they get locked in a mock spacecraft to simulate a 540-day mission to Mars? This and many more little gems in this Failure Magazine article:
It should be noted, however, that weightlessness can do wonders for one's physical appearance. Your hair has more body, your breasts don't sag, body fluid migrates to the head (filling out wrinkles and crow's feet), and water weight decreases by ten to fifteen percent due to the absence of gravity. So astronauts may look more attractive in space than they do on Earth. (On the other hand, these effects have also been referred to as Puffy-Face Chicken-Leg Syndrome, so perhaps beauty is in the eye of the beholder.)
"29 Rules for E-mailing Your Instructor" by Sara Joy Culver at The Rumpus
"Confessions of a Book Pirate" by C. Max Magee at The Millions
"The Arab Tomorrow" by David Ottaway at The Wilson Quarterly
"Paying Zero for Public Services" by Fumiko Nagano at The World Bank Blog
— Assistant Editor Darryl Campbell


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How Norway Became a Country: In Love and Folklore
How Norway became a country is shrouded in mystery and folklore. The most well known tale is of Harald Hårfagre who gathered the small kingdoms of the north into a unified nation in 872AD - and of course, this story is about love.
The legend has it that Harald's marriage proposal was mocked by Gyda, a Viking princess from the south. Instead of directly refusing Harald, she said she would not marry him until he became king over all of Norway.
Rising to the challenge Harald vowed never to cut or comb his hair until he was king and he set out to conquer the land. He became known as 'Shockhead' or 'Tanglehair' because of his unkempt appearance.
One by one he claimed each village and after ten years he stood at the borders of Hafrsfjord in Stavanger to battle against Erik the King of Hordaland, Gyda's father. After the victorious Battle of Hafrsfjord, Harald became the first king of Norway, married Gyda and could now cut and comb his hair which earnt him the name Harald Hårfagre (Harald Fairhair).
King Harald lived a ripe old age (about 83 years) and passed his crown to his bloodthirsty son Eirik Blodøks (Eric Bloodaxe).


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The Pleasures of Casanova
History of My Life
History of My Life
Casanova's Women: The Great Seducer and the Women He Loved
In the popular imagination the Venetian adventurer Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) is, above all, a smooth operator, the archetypal "man who loved women"—even if no one today could possibly believe such a sweet talker. Or could they?
Whether Casanova really did all the things he is known for is a question that haunts critical opinion surrounding his enthralling and immensely long book, History of My Life. Over the years this upstart son of Venetian actors seems to have insinuated himself into the palaces of cardinals and the arms of courtesans, hobnobbed with famous philosophers and notorious charlatans. By the time he was fifty Casanova—a/k/a the Chevalier de Seingalt, a/k/a the occult master Paralisée Galtinarde, a/k/a the spy Antonio Pratolini—had lived in Venice, Rome, Istanbul, Corfu, Paris, Geneva, Vienna, Marseille, London, Berlin, Madrid, Moscow, Warsaw, and Trieste. Ten years later—broke, ailing, and apparently cast aside by Fortune—he accepted a sinecure as the librarian at a nobleman's estate in Dux, a Bohemian backwater of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. There, from 1790 to 1798, as blood flowed in the streets of Paris, Casanova scribbled away, recalling happier times, largely for his own amusement and consolation. As he said in a letter:
I write thirteen hours a day which passes like thirteen minutes. What pleasure it is to recall pleasures! But what pain it is to recollect pains. I amuse myself because I do not invent. What bothers me is the necessity I am under to disguise the names for I have no right to publicize the affairs of others.
Early chapters of his story, which he wrote in French, were read by the debonair Prince de Ligne (the so-called "first gentleman of Europe"), who enthusiastically compared them to Montaigne's essays in their frankness. But the book itself was never finished. Casanova had just reached the year 1774—and his return to Venice after nearly two decades in exile (because he was wanted for escaping from the Leads, the infamous prison in the Doge's palace)—when he succumbed to an infection of the genito-urinary tract. (Not surprising in one who had, he said, experienced at least eleven episodes of the "pox.") According to several witnesses, his last words were: "I have lived as a philosopher, and die as a Christian."
The manuscript of the History then drifted into the hands of a grandnephew, who sold it in 1821 to the Leipzig publishing firm of Brockhaus, which published it in a loose German translation (1822–1828). This was followed a few years later by a French text (1826–1838), edited and reworked by a Jean Laforgue, who had been commissioned by Brockhaus to polish the occasionally Italianate diction and tone down some of its sex scenes (even though the decorous Casanova is never graphic). All subsequent translations—including the one into English by Arthur Machen (1894)—necessarily followed this nineteenth-century travesty. Not until 1960–1962 did Brockhaus, in conjunction with Plon in Paris, finally…
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As a follow up to this series on harmonic substitutions, I thought that I would include a few choice pages from my book, The Improvisor's Path, related directly to what we've been discussing.
First, here are the pages that relate to my breakdown of some available scaler substitutions.
Next is the Wayne Shorter tune, "Nefertiti" with a few scaler options from alternate roots thrown in as an example of the kind of thing I might practice doing while soloing.
Last but not least is a list of standards to practice and familiarize yourself with and a handful of chord charts to get you going (for those of you who have yet to purchase a Real Book.
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How to eliminate "um" and "like" for student success
Hey, you know, like, um, dude, seriously, it's like totally uncool, um, you know what I'm sayin' … No, you probably don't. Colloquial speech may be okay among your friends or social group, but in your school and business life, you need to communicate well. Effective communication skills reflect confidence in the message you're trying to convey. For a student advantage in your college life, with professors and in your business communication, learn how to drop the "um" and "like" right away.
Why use "um" and what it says about us
The use of "um" and "you know" and other filler words in our speech is a habit we get from an early age.
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Project 'failure' is political. It's about power. People with power get to define budgets and deadlines, to approve specifications, to assign teams. Thus they define the boundary between success and failure. Go outside the boundary, and your project fails.
The problem with politics is that it fuzzes our vision. We tend to see what we want to see rather than what's really going on. That means we miss the early signs of failure.
And that, of course, increases the risk of catastrophic failure. If you spot the early warning signs, you have time to fix things before they become critical, before problems propagate. Miss those signs, and you sail blithely across the boundary of failure, never to return.
So it'd be nice to have some clear indicators that my project is heading into trouble. I can't give you a magic formula, but here are some of the signs that make me nervous:
1. "Failure is not an option"
When someone says 'failure is not an option', most people hear 'don't talk about potential failure modes'. That cuts us off from information about risk. It means we don't hear about problems that people are having.
It almost guarantees that small failures are going to grow and accumulate before we hear about them.
Failure stays beneath the surface until it's so large it can no longer be hidden. When it emerges, it's too large to mitigate.
2. "Don't bring me problems; bring me solutions"
This is very similar. If I've got a problem and I don't know how to solve it, what am I supposed to do with it? Hide it and hope it'll go away? That's what this phrase says. When I hear it, I start looking for hidden problems.
(Sometimes, people do escalate problems too quickly. This often happens because they're scared of being blamed if they pick the 'wrong' solution. In that case, this phrase is a sign of a blaming culture. And again, the organisation's projects almost certainly have hidden problems.)
3. "I'll do my best"
When a developer says this, typically after losing a negotiation about the time needed to do something, it generally means: "I don't think I can do this, but I can't admit that. I can at least make sure no-one blames me for not trying hard enough".
Most people try to do their best most of the time. If they need to say they'll do it, there's probably something wrong.
4. "I haven't got time to think"
It's amazing how often I hear this. Often from people who regard themselves as 'knowledge workers'. How do you create knowledge without thinking?
Our projects rarely fail for lack of physical effort – it's lack of clear thinking that kills them. Yet our organisations load us with so much work that people spend all their time running around doing stuff, with no time to step back and think about what they're doing.
If you're not taking some quiet time to think things through occasionally, your project is at serious risk of failing.
5. "We'll sort out the quality later"
Are you cutting corners? Building quick-and-dirty features, with a promise that you'll come back and tidy them up later? Avoiding discussions with stakeholders because they'll open up too many issues?
Sometimes this buys you a little time in the short term. Often it doesn't even do that – quality problems often hit you a lot sooner than you expect.
Then you have all the costs of dealing with operational failures, handling disgruntled stakeholders, etc, as well as the costs of reworking the original deliverables.
6. Too many projects
This is a problem at just about every organisation I know. Rather than say no, managers commit to a portfolio of projects that far exceeds the capacity of their teams.
This kills projects in several ways. People waste time context switching between projects. Work products 'decay' over time (requirements get out of date, technology platforms are superseded, bugs are a lot harder to find long after the code was written. etc), so we waste time on rework. Coordination overheads explode.
And the biggest failure: when we spread our resources too thinly, we ensure that our most important projects will be starved of resources.
Stop pretending
None of these is an absolute guarantee of failure. Sometimes, for example, it's OK to say 'failure is not an option' – a startup's bet-the-company project may well need to commit everything to the one small chance of success.
But in this case we're engaging with known risks, not pretending that risk doesn't exist.
It's the pretence that kills projects. All of the above signs suggest that someone is avoiding reality. They don't want to know that risk exists, that some problems are hard to solve, that there's a limit to the team's capacity, that simple models don't always apply in messy situations.
Projects begin to fail when we lose touch with reality. The above signs suggest this is happening on your project. If you notice them, start looking for failure.
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Have heard all of these at one time but you missed my favourite phrase 'Just do it', which often means do not plan just get the job done and we will work out a structure later. The idea is to get things done quickly, but nearly always results in a longer timescale or a repeat of work.
One of my favourites is from my husbands workplace, "There's never enought time to do it properly but always enough time to do it again!" So true if you don't get the planning right and be realistic about what you expect to achieve.
The problem with "projects" is they are often a one off and we don't know what good looks like, so we are not aware of the potential risks.
We need to learn to accept "failure" and learn from it, but also, be flexible in the approach.
I used to hear "Work Harder and Longer" and "We'll sort out the quality later"
"Studies on project failure are easy to find and make depressing reading. Gartner studies suggest that 75% of all US IT projects are considered to be failures by those responsible for initiating them. But what do they mean by failure?"


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The Bondi (3.5.0) release of Virgo
This is the first release candidate for the Virgo Bondi (3.5.0) release.
A full list of bugs included in this release is available here.
From 3.5.0 onward, Virgo can be initial provisioned via p2. Bug 343543 and its dependencies track the work done on this topic. Now it's possible, using the standard p2 director, to provision every Virgo distribution.
This release candidate is more a bugfix release with almost no new features and small optimisations. Most notable is the upgrade of the Eclipse bundles to the Juno release train binaries. Another notable change is consumption of some third-party bundles from Eclipse Orbit instead of EBR. This has the consequence of different symbolic names for the bundles from Orbit, so keep an eye on that in case you had a fragment or required any of them in your own projects.
This milestone also includes many bugfixes and other enhancements.
Improved Virgo Web Console.
Tooling working with Virgo Nano.
Support Java Enterprise APIs.
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COLLOQUY Privacy Policy
Who are we?
COLLOQUY is a global research, educational and publishing resource dedicated to the dissemination of information and analysis about the loyalty marketing industry. Launched in 1990, COLLOQUY is the first publication of its kind, and is often cited and quoted in research and publications on the topic of loyalty marketing. Available in both printed and web versions, COLLOQUY and www.colloquy.com are operated by LoyaltyOne US, Inc. an Alliance Data Systems Company ("LoyaltyOne").
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How do we gather information about you? Simply put: we ask for it. Through enrollment forms, surveys, and other methods of VOLUNTARY participation, we collect names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and other relevant information about you and your business, and how you use this site. We abide by strict opt-in principles—you decide whether or not to volunteer the information and submit it to us.
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Core file and print sharing services foster collaboration across the college by providing access to share resources.
File & Print Sharing
Individual File Shares
Franklin OIT provides all faculty and staff with a basic home folder to foster a flexible computing environment. This home folder (also known as a U:\ drive) stores your Favorites and Documents allowing them to travel with you between computers on the Franklin directory. By default every user starts with 2GB of space, but this can be increased based upon need.
Secure File Exchange (sendfiles)
UGA provides encrypted file services through SendFiles to securely transmit sensitive documents and larger files online.
Unit File Shares
Franklin OIT provides all Franklin College units with a basic set of shared folders to foster collaboration and support business processes. This unit share (also known as a S:\ drive) allows for basic file sharing within a given unit, where access can be easily controlled based off MyIDs. By default every unit starts with 10GB of space, but this can be increased based upon need.


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Reprogramming your key fob involves turning on the car, pressing the button to be reprogrammed and turning the car off. The precise steps to reprogramming a key fob vary by make and model, with some steps shared by many fobs. Reprogramming steps are often provided in a car's owner's manual.Continue Reading
For security reasons, auto manufacturers do not allow fobs to be reprogrammed from outside a vehicle. Get into the car, insert the key into the ignition, and turn it to the On position. This should prompt some indication, often a flashing light on the dash, that the vehicle is in program mode. In some cars, you must turn the key to the On position several times before this occurs.
Once the vehicle is in programming mode, press the button on your fob that needs to be reprogrammed, thereby syncing the vehicle with the fob. Once this is done, turn the ignition to Off. The fob should be reprogrammed.
If your car has more than one fob, synchronize all fobs at once. Otherwise, sometimes fobs that are not programmed correctly or that are out of sync cause other fobs from the same vehicle to stop working. When all else fails, dealerships sometimes offer assistance in reprogramming fobs.Learn more about Car Parts & Maintenance


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From Whitetail 365: What is little known about Buffalo Co. Wis. is that albino deer are fairly common there. In fact it's entirely possible—after talking to the right people—to drive around some summer evening and see a pretty good wad of white deer feeding in soybean and alfalfa fields. While there's no such thing as an ugly deer, albinos are a pretty darn special sight. The people of Wisconsin think they're so special that you can get into big trouble for shooting one.
Of course, right across the Mississippi River from there is my home state of Minnesota. Kill a white deer here and you'll get your picture in the paper, and not in the "district court report" section. Protecting albinos is an interesting thing. Most of us know by now that these are genetically inferior deer that in most cases are poorly equipped to survive in the wild. Indeed, some of my Wisconsin friends have found albino bucks dying in the middle of summer from any of a host of diseases they're susceptible to. Naturally, there are exceptions. About five years ago, I was hunting Buffalo and rattled in a 3-1/2 year old albino buck with an 8-point rack. That deer is still alive. He is now a monstrous 10-point with candelabra antlers that appear anything but genetically inferior. People drive for miles to check him out, lining up along his favorite fields with spotting scopes sprouting from their truck windows.


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The Confucius Institute at the University of Helsinki is an academic unit with a focus on Chinese language, Chinese culture and research on China. Confucius Institute organizes courses on Chinese language and culture, as well as the HSK Chinese proficiency test and the Chinese Bridge speech competition. The institute also organizes various cultural events, lectures, conferences and seminars. In addition, the institute takes part in and manages research projects on China and organizes training for Chinese language teachers. The institute also maintains a special library on China.
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Upcoming events
2018 Events JULY Institute is closed AUGUST 10 August Registration for courses start (non-university students) 20-26 August...
Past events
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Study and research
Confucius Institute organises regularly different kind of courses for different target groups.
Chinese Bridge - International Chinese Language Competition
The Chinese Bridge ("汉语桥" 世界大学生/中学生中文比赛) is an international Chinese speech competition for College and Upper Secondary School students...
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Finnish-Chinese language learning series and dictionaries have been published by Hanban/Confucius Institute Headquarters, to serve the...
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Confucius Institute at the University of Helsinki shared Pinto Design's post.
Hope the two pandas will not get homesick after listening to the song.
The lyrics of the song is based on a well-known poem by Su Shi (1037-1101), also known as Su Dongpo, a great Chinese writer, poet, painter, calligrapher, pharmacologist, gastronome, and a statesman of the Song dynasty.


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An underdog candidate for a South Bay congressional seat has lent his campaign a second $250,000, pushing him past the $500,000 mark and giving him the biggest war chest of any of the 16 contenders to replace former Rep. Jane Harman, campaign records showed Friday.
The latest infusion by Republican businessman and first-time office seeker Craig Huey enabled him to overtake Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn, who had raised nearly $424,000 in contributions, and Secretary of State Debra Bowen, who had collected about $338,000 as of the April 27 end of the latest campaign finance reporting period.
Democrats Hahn and Bowen are widely perceived as the frontrunners in the May 17 election in the 36th Congressional District, where their party outnumbers Republicans 45% to 27.5%. Most observers expect them to advance to a July 12 runoff, which will be necessary if no candidate wins a majority this month.
In addition to the money from his own pocket, Huey raised about $16,000 in donations, according to Federal Election Commission records. He has sent political mail to Republicans and independent voters and blanketed the district with campaign signs.


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Traditionally, I have responded to the transcendent mystics of all religions. I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that God does not live in a dogmatic scripture or in a distant throne in the sky, but instead abides very close to us indeed- much closer than we can imagine, breathing right through our own hearts.
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Open Thread: Everything You're Reading, Watching, Listening To and Looking At
This is your place to talk about the TV, movies, music, books and art that are thoroughly entertaining you.
I'm infatuated with romantic comedies. Like most cupid-crazed women seeking a soul mate, I purchase rom-coms with fervor, embracing the female heroine as she suffers through the various pangs of love. When the ending credits roll on movies from "Legally Blonde" to the iconic "Pretty Woman," I feel satisfied, full even. These films reignite the interminable desire to stumble upon a Prince Charming worth the effort. It might seem disillusioned, but the child in me –- who assumed that Cinderella's fairytale ending would be immediately attainable -- sometimes dwarfs my conscious life experiences.
Though I wouldn't object to channeling my inner Elle Woods and championing animal rights on Capitol Hill while organizing a wedding, I realize that life rarely bears resemblance to my beloved romantic comedies.
That derisible reality, however, never stops me from perusing the Wal-Mart movie shelves, scouring for new and older films about the trials of love. Last week I nabbed a triple feature of black romantic comedies for $7.50. The set featured "Deliver Us from Eva," "Something New," and "The Best Man," three timeless pictures. I spent the weekend indulging in these classics, smiling and tearing up as I watched fellow black women find love and gallop off into the city skylines with their companions.
As usual, my emotional cup was runneth over. But then I began to reflect on these black rom-coms that I've watched repeatedly with friends, lovers and even elders. I turned my critical analysis lens on and what I noticed was a common, disturbing trend: The black women characters fit into archetypal stereotypes that have been continually perpetrated in media.
This might not be a revelation for other black academics in media and maybe I've been watching these films with rose-tinted glasses until now. But I'm out of the rom-com stupor, and I'm not fond of what I've discovered.
We can start with Sanaa Lathan's "Kenya" character in "Something New." She is the definitive independent, black woman who is "too particular" to find a man worth falling in love with. Kenya is emasculating, particular about her weave, fearful of the judgments of her peers and relatives, and so invested in her career that she often dismisses life's simple pleasantries. I've seen this character before. Actually, it isn't much different from Sanaa's "Andrea" in "The Family That Preys."
But these overarching depictions of black women don't end there. What about Gabrielle Union's matriarchal "Eva" or Taraji P. Henson's "Lauren" in "Think Like A Man"? Or Vanessa Williams' "Terri" in "Soul Food"? Or Robin Givens' "Jacqueline" in "Boomerang"? Or Sharon Leal's "Dianne" in Tyler Perry's "Why Did I Get Married"? Even Vivica A. Fox's "Shante Smith" from "Two Can Play That Game" has type-A tangents that translate into her need to use rules to control her partner.
The characterization of these women falls directly into the intersection of the "independent black woman" stereotype, which is a spawn of the sapphire foremother. The historical sapphire depicted black women as exaggerated, cruel, and emasculating, using words and body language to berate black men according to Mia Moody, PhD. an assistant professor of journalism at Baylor University.
Dr. Moody analyzed the evolution of the independent black woman stereotype in her research work, From Jezebel to Ho: An Analysis of Creative and Imaginative Shared Representations of African-American Women and The Meaning of 'Independent Woman' in Music. What she discovered is that over time, the pendulum of the "independent black woman" has shifted from a positive connotation that was considered admirable to something we are swearing off in favor of mainstream acceptability.
For instance, Roxanne Shanté's "Independent Woman" impressed the need for reciprocation in relationships. Even Urban Dictionary gets it. They define "independent woman" as "A woman who pays her own bills, buys her own things, and does not allow a man to affect her stability or self-confidence. She supports herself entirely on her own and is proud to be able to do so."
Now, independent black women are immediately connected to negative connotations that prevent us from finding and sustaining prosperous relationships. It is associated with neck-rolling, harsh words, and an untamable attitude. The perpetuation of this negativity in black romantic comedies isolates who we are from how we're caricatured in media. It also ignores our complexities as black women. We're too dimensional to be boxed in.
Elle Woods is different from Vivian Ward. Where is that scale of diversity for us in rom-coms?
After black Hollywood reached its pinnacle with films including "The Wood," "Love & Basketball," "Love Jones," "Brown Sugar" and "How Stella Got Her Groove Back," it is commendable that Tinsel Town is beginning to see the value of ensemble black casts and have chosen to financially back these projects. A lot of these successful films, however, aren't accurate portrayals of our love.
With the exception of Love Jones and a few others, most urban romantic comedies lose sight of what makes black love beautiful. The admiration between Clair and Cliff, love between Barack and Michelle, hustle between Jada and Will, and sizzle between Jay and Bey is so dimensional that it is almost impossible to translate to the silver screen.
But at the bare minimum, can we get some realistic black women in front of the camera? Or is Hollywood not ready for that?
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Easter Safety: Keeping pets safe over the Easter holiday ( Pet Poison Hotline)
Chocolate poisoning occurs during this holiday. Reminder to keep dogs away from Easter basket goodies. If your pet does ingest chocolate here are the steps to follow immediately.
What to do if your pet gets poisoned
Your pet has just injested something toxic. What do you do? First, take a deep breath. The more calm, cool, and collected you are, the sooner you
can seek the correct medical attention. Then get a handle on the situation by taking the following steps:
1. Remove your pet from the area. Make sure no other pets or children are exposed to the area, and safely remove any poisonous material.
2. Check to make sure your pet is breathing normally and acting fine otherwise.
3. Collect a sample of the material, along with the packaging, vial, or container. You'll need that information to help your veterinarian or a pet poison expert assess the situation.
4. Don't give your dog any milk, food, salt, oil, or any other home remedies. Doing so will likely complicate the poisoning.
5. Never induce vomiting without talking to your veterinarian or a pet poison expert—doing so may be detrimental or contraindicated. Sometimes,to induce vomiting in dogs, it may be recommended to give hydrogen peroxide. However, hydrogen peroxide won't help induce vomitingin cats, and stronger veterinary
prescription medications are necessary to get your cat to vomit up any toxins.
6. Get help. Program your veterinarian's phone number into your phone, as well as an emergency veterinarian's number and a pet poison
hotline number. There are two 24-hour hotlines: Pet Poison Helpline at 800-213-6680 ($35 per call) and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal's Animal Poison Control Center at 888-426-4435 ($65 per call).
Remember that a pet's prognosis is always better when a toxicity is reported immediately, so don't wait to see if your pet becomes symptomatic before calling for help. Calling right away is safer for your pet and could help you save on treatment costs in the long run. Remember that there's a narrow window of time to decontaminate in cases of poisoning.
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ROBBINSVILLE, NJ (March 11, 2013) -- Autism Speaks today joined with supporters of Anthony Starego, a New Jersey high school football placekicker with autism, in urging state athletic officials to grant him one more year of eligibility to play. Starego's game-winning kick last fall became the subject of the ESPN video Kick of Hope.
Starego has developed "a skill and a talent that allow him an opportunity to belong to a group of peers where he is respected and valued for what he can do – not what he can't do," said Peter Bell, Autism Speaks' executive vice president of programs and services. Bell (center, below, with Starego and his parents Ray and Reylene)appeared before the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) which will rule on Starego's eligibility to continue playing.
A dozen placekickers with the National Football League, former Philadelphia Eagle Rep. Jon Runyon who represents Starego's Congressional District, the Rutgers University athletic director Tim Pernetti, and Starego's principal, teacher and coach at Brick High School were among the supporters urging the NJSIAA to allow Starego to continue playing high school football after he turns age 19 this summer. Under federal and state educational and disabilities law, Starego can continue to attend Brick High School until he is 21.
"Routine is essential to most people with autism and football has clearly become a positive routine in Anthony's life," Bell said. "Taking that away from him could produce a negative impact on the remaining years of his high school career or even produce an adverse consequence on his adult life. Why risk affecting his future?"
Bell noted the irony that Starego lives in Brick Township, NJ, where concerns over an "autism cluster" in the late 1990s raised by a group of parents first brought the issue of autism's soaring incidence into the national spotlight. The Congressman who represented Brick at that time, Rep. Chris Smith, went on to sponsor critical federal legislation affecting the autism community, including the Children's Health Act, which created the National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD) within the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as the $693 million reauthorization of the Combating Autism Act enacted in 2011.


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The Thomas P. Shelburne Telecommunications Center,
educates young media professionals and provides services to the local community by managing and programming educational-access cable channel 97 for Service Electric Cable, Wilkes-Barre, and one closed-circuit channel.
Shelburne is an 8000-square-foot, 14-room facility.
It was dedicated in 1996, and named to honor Thomas P. Shelburne, a pioneer in the field of electronic media in northeastern Pennsylvania. Generous gifts from Mrs. Thomas Shelburne and other friends of Wilkes University made the center a reality.
Shelburne houses three television production studios, one master control center for
programs, and cable operations with one production control center for all studios.
The center also contains three editing suites with analog and digital capabilities, one audio recording suite, and industrial- and professional-grade field production equipment.
Our purpose:
- To teach students the art and science of Television Production.
- To train students in the use of State of the Art Television equipment.
Our Programs:
- Wilkes Now: A 30 minute magazine show that is totally produced by students each week during each semester.
- Profiles: An interview program introducing new faculty members to the Community, hosted by Dr. Mark Stine, Chair of the Department of Communications.
- Occasional student round table discussions, Political debates and public affairs programs produced in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Cable Network and occasionally WBRE TV, the local NBC affiliate.
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All-division preview: No. 10 Arizona to face in-state rival Arizona State
Arizona State will take to the water at Mona Plummer Aquatic Center in Tempe one last time for the season this Saturday in a Territorial Cup showdown against No. 10 Arizona. For ASU, it will be the last competition in the pool before heading to Pac-12 championships.
For six Sun Devil swimmers and one diver, it will be the last home meet of their careers with what better way to go out than hosting their in-state rivals in the biggest meet of the season.
Last time out for Arizona, it fell to Texas 196-157 despite eight first-place finishes on day two of a two-day dual meet.
No. 7 Virginia will face Pittsburgh and No. 9 North Carolina will compete against the College of Charleston in other Division I matches this weekend.
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In Division III action, No. 8 MIT will swim at the Wheaton Invitational while No. 4 Johns Hopkins will take on the Virginia Tech Invitational.


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Have you been gaining weight recently after having been a member of a fitness center for years? Are you disappointed that your weight loss program has progressed very slowly? Then you might need to switch gyms. Try Snap Fitness, a health club franchise that takes on a straightforward approach to fitness.
Snap Fitness has veered away from the trend of fitness centers offering various luxuries like spas, tennis courts, and pools. Instead, it focuses on delivering only the essentials like the best fitness equipment and clean and comfortable environment.
Snap Fitness also does not have long-term membership contracts. Members are given individually designed workout programs and diet plans.
Of course, you'll ask how much it would cost you to become a Snap Fitness member. On the average, you'll have to pay around $35 for a month of membership. If your partner or flat mate agrees to apply for joint membership with you, the rate is around $50. Alternatively, you can apply for a family membership for two adults and a maximum of three minors for only $60.
On top of the monthly fee, you also have to pay $99 for the initiation fee.
To say that Snap Fitness membership is cheap would be wrong because there are other gyms that offer lower membership rates like Planet Fitness. But this does not mean that you are would have to pay that much money to be able to get into a Snap Fitness gym.
For a measly $8.95, you can be a Snap Fitness member for 40 days. This translates to just 30 cents for every day that you work out in a Snap Fitness gym.
The $8.95 fee actually covers for the cost of the Snap Fitness smart card. Bring this card with you and you can enter any Snap Fitness location worldwide. Keep in mind that there are more than 1,500 Snap Fitness locations around the world, so whether you are in Los Angeles or in London, you can keep yourself fit as long as you have your Snap Fitness smart card.
You can also work out in any Snap Fitness location 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Aside from paying a measly fee for a 40-day period, you can also be one of the 40 lucky daily winners of the Snap Fitness raffle draw.
This limited-time deal is applicable only online, so you should visit the Snap Fitness website now to be able to qualify for this promotion.
Once in awhile, the company also offers deals in support of a certain event.
For instance, it offered a free seven day pass at all Snap Fitness locations in commemoration of the National Public Health Week. The complimentary seven-day pass was offered to online registrants who had to visit the Snap Fitness website, enter a zip code to find a Snap Fitness location nearest them, and fill out a form.
The successful registrants were then contacted by personnel of local Snap Fitness clubs.
You can also score great savings by finding Snap Fitness coupons online. These discount coupons are carried by various specialist discount websites like Living Social and Retail Me Not. You can do a quick search on available or current Snap Fitness coupons by using Google.
What can you expect from Snap Fitness coupons? A lot of savings, as you can avail of special offers like free one month unlimited gym access in participating Snap Fitness locations. Aside from the free gym access, you also don't need to pay participation fees nor sign contracts.
There are also coupons that give you discounts on one or two month membership with Snap Fitness. Using these coupons is quite easy, as you only have to click the "Buy" or "Get It" link. Depending on the voucher website, you can either print the voucher then present it to the participating Snap Fitness location, or the link will direct you to the Snap Fitness website where the discount will be applied before you check out.
Becoming a member of Snap Fitness can put a dent on your budget. A monthly fee of $35 can be quite costly especially if you are not earning enough. Add to that the initiation fee of $99 and you're looking at expenses of more than $500 a year.
The good news is that you can cut down on the cost of joining Snap Fitness club by availing of its numerous promos or using discount vouchers. You can log on regularly at its official website to find out if there are any promos that the fitness center franchise is conducting. Or you can visit your favorite discount coupon website every now and then to find discount codes.
Now becoming a member and working out at a Snap Fitness gym should no longer cost you a significant amount of money.
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Archived Jul 17 2009
ODAC Newsletter - July 17
Welcome to the ODAC Newsletter, a weekly roundup from the Oil Depletion Analysis Centre, the UK registered charity dedicated to raising awareness of peak oil.
The Nabucco gas pipeline project came a step closer to reality this week as Austria, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary came together to sign a transit agreement. The project, aimed at reducing Europe's reliance on Russia and the Ukraine transit route, still has significant hurdles to overcome. Gas supplies must be secured in a Russian-dominated market where the competing main players are Iran, Iraq or the ex Soviet states of Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan (and, longer-term, Kazakhstan). Geopolitics will no doubt continue to play a significant part in Europe's energy dependency whatever the outcome.
Reducing UK dependence on imported gas and oil is just one of the drivers for the government's energy white paper The UK Low Carbon Transition Plan released on Wednesday. The plan brings together many previously announced strategies and initiatives, but adds a timeline and structure along with increased government powers over the National Grid. A companion report the UK Renewable Energy Strategy 2009 maps out the path to the government's 30% renewables target and a real shift from fossil fuels. A CBI report also released this week challenges the government bias towards renewables calling for a greater focus on nuclear and clean coal.
One area of energy security and policy which the white paper entirely misses out is peak oil. While the report acknowledges that the UK's own oil and gas production is in decline and that "In the longer term we need to reduce our dependence on oil." In the short to medium term, the plan actually sees UK oil consumption increasing – "Demand for oil is set to rise through to 2020 in the UK, driven by higher demand for diesel oil in motor transport and aviation fuel." The dual assumptions that this will be possible and that the oil price by 2020 will be$80/barrel (described as the 'Timely investment, moderate demand scenario') ignores the warnings not just of peak oil commentators, but the International Energy Agency which has continually warned of the possibility of an oil crunch within that timeframe. Ed Miliband has stated previously that he is "in the business of optimism". Where peak oil is concerned he appears to be in the business of 'ostrichism' – or burying his head in the sand.
Oil Falls From Highest in a Week Before Unemployment Report
OPEC: World Oil Demand To Rebound In 2010
Nigerian Peace Remains Elusive After Oil Region Truce
US seeks to underpin oil supply from Africa
Venezuela tells oil workers: join socialist groups
European countries sign up for Nabucco deal to break Russia's gas monopoly
EC adopts new rules to prevent and deal with gas supply crises
CBI calls for rise in UK's nuclear energy spending
€400bn energy plan to harness African sun
ExxonMobil's Algae Exploration
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After the assassination of his brother-in-law, and regardless of the uneasy nature of their relationship, the struggle in Syria for Bashar Al-Assad became that much more personal. The mixture of spite, contempt and vindictiveness that has always colored his view of dissent and dissidents will now drive him to commit even more massacres and spread more mayhem. Going gently into that good night has never been a favorite choice of Middle Eastern dictators. Spite, rather than bravery, has made it so. Assad is but a case in point.
Thursday August 2, 2012
Today's Death toll: 145. The Breakdown: 50 in Damascus City and Suburbs (including 20 in Yarmouk Neighborhood), 30 in Daraa Province (including 4 children and a woman), and 17 in Homs, 7 in Hama and 5 in Aleppo.
Cities & Towns Under Shelling: Harasta, Arbeen, Moadamiah, Harran Al-Awameed, Ain Terma, Zabadani, Madaya, Eltal, Dmeir, Hameh, Yelda, Rankous, Qarrah (Damascus Suburbs), Sit Zeinab, Al-Qadam, Midan, Al-Hajar Al-Aswad, Yarmouk, Kafar Sousseh, Mazzeh, Qaboun, Barzeh (Damascus City), Daraa City, Khirbet Al-Ghazaleh, Tafas, Bostra Al-Sham, Na'eemah, Mseifrah, Jimreen, Hraak (Daraa), Rastan, Talbisseh, Houla, Tal Kalakh, Al-Qusayr, Al-Hosn, Al-Ghanto, Al-Bouaydah, Old Homs (Homs Province), Hreitan, Elbab, Eizaz, Marei, Bayanoun (Aleppo Province), Haffeh, Jabal Al-Akrad (Lattakia), Deir Ezzor City, Mouhassan, Albou Kamal (Deir Ezzor Province), Kafar Zeiteh, Hawash, Shahshabo, Hama City (Hama Province), Jabal Al-Zawiyeh, Ma'rrat Al-Nouman, Saraqib, Maar Shoureen, Ariha, Kafroumah, Al-Rami, Khan Shaikhoon (Idlib).
More clashes have been reported along the Syrian-Jordanian borders. President of Iraqi Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani, met with SNC leader, Abdulbassit Seida, to discuss the situation in Kurdish areas in the region, and the prospects of unifying the Syrian Kurdish opposition.
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Rebels give inside account of Damascus fighting "We never had enough ammunition to capture the entire city, so how could that have been our plan? We withdrew when we received the order, not because we were forced."
After Assad Falls: When his regime ends, will a new slaughter begin? Syria is a mosaic of ethno-religious communities. Good fences will be required to make them good neighbors. Start with Syria's Kurds, who have been aloof from the fighting, relatively safe in their northeastern territories. In a post-Assad Syria, they'll want substantial autonomy. They should have it within a federal Syria that guarantees minority rights — to Alawites, Christians, Druze, and other groups. Al-Qaeda won't like that, Iran and Hezbollah won't like that, and some in the Sunni majority won't like it either. But those who hope to rebuild Syria as a decent country, independent and at peace within its borders, should readily grasp the benefits.
Washington, get ready for more Iranian influence after Bashar al-Assad falls in Syria After the fall of Bashar-al Assad in Syria, Iran will compensate for its lost ally by strengthening its influence in Lebanon alongside its affiliate Hezbollah – the Shiite militant group that now dominates the country. To prevent this, Washington must take a leadership role in the Lebanon.
Resigning as Envoy to Syria, Annan Casts Wide Blame …"without serious, purposeful and united international pressure, including from the powers of the region, it is impossible for me, or anyone, to compel the Syrian government in the first place, and also the opposition, to take the steps necessary to begin a political process."… "It is clear that President Bashar al-Assad must leave office," Mr. Annan wrote. "The greater focus, however, must be on measures and structures to secure a peaceful long-term transition to avoid a chaotic collapse."
Leading from behind? Syria's invisible president "Until the regime feels it has the upper hand, I don't think we will see him again," he said. "His style and personality is one that only engages, whether with his own people or the international community, from a position of strength."
How to stop al Qaeda in Syria "The number is relatively small now," Benjamin said. "I would put the numbers in the dozens to a hundred, a hundred plus. We don't have that much granularity that we can say with any certainty how many there are."
Syrian human rights activist Ammar Abdulhamid, with the Washington-based Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, says his contacts in Syria tell him there is no evidence of a surge in aid to the rebels. "I do not really see any intensification of these efforts. I see a lot of leaks, it seems to me, that were sort of primed to show that something is being done. But the reality is, so far on the ground, we have not detected any real involvement by the U.S. in the ongoing military operations in the country," Abdulhamid said… Human rights activist Ammar Abdulhamid says he expects much of the new aid to go to refugees in camps in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq, as well as to those trapped in Syria. "But I will also imagine that they will try to send some aid to local communities who are cut off and have been cut off because of the fighting, and where food supplies are getting more and more scarce," Abdulhamid said.
Aleppo's Berri Clan and Summary Justice
While we have every reason to be appalled by the summary executions that have taken place in Aleppo, we still have the responsibility to put things in perspective. For such acts of retribution remain pretty isolated and have been widely condemned by opposition groups and known dissidents and activists. More importantly, it's important to point out that the victims were not some randomly chosen individuals, nor was the motivation involved sectarian in nature.
The three victims of yesterday's execution, as reported by local activists, were high ranking members of the Berri Clan, including its leader Zeino Berri. The Clan is Sunni and is known for its involvement in drug-trafficking and gun-running, among other illicit activities. The Clan is known as well for its affiliation with Maher Al-Assad and, before him, with his late brother, Bassil. This connection has served to guarantee Berri elders at least one spot in the parliament, and has allowed them to make a mockery out of the legal system in Syria for decades. In fact, many of their members have multiple death sentences issued against them. Naturally, the sentences were never carried out. The worst thing that has ever happened to a Berri clansman, before yesterday, was spending few months in prison for offences that by law warrant execution. Zeino Berri himself is known to have had three death sentences issued against him. It was the fourth one that finally killed him.
Early in the revolution, members of the Berri Clan went to Damascus where they met Bashar Al-Assad and pledged their loyalty. Almost every member of the delegation had at least one sentence of one type or another hanging over his head. That didn't seem to bother Assad who is said to have given a carte blanche to the Berris in Aleppo. On their return, the Berri Clan became more vicious than ever and served as the de facto pro-Assad militia in the city, spreading terror by jailing, torturing and killing activists, as well as extorting local businessmen and merchants. By the time the rebels entered Aleppo City and clashed with the Berris, the level of popular animosity against the Clan was simply too high. Commanders of Al-Tawhid Brigade were simply ill-prepared to deal with such volatile situation.
The positive thing, however, is that FSA commanders have now become aware that simple assertions and exhortations are not enough to deal with such eventualities, and have promised to establish special courts and prisons for dealing with likes of Berri in the future.
Should the U.S. and other western powers become more closely involved in supporting the FSA, their ability to prevent similar occurrences in the future and to encourage the adoption of a more institutional and legal approach to captured pro-Assad militias will increase dramatically. Crying foul from the sidelines has not stopped the Assad and will not affect the rebels. Only friends and allies can influence the rebels' behavior. Considering the identity of current backers of the rebels, preventing such scenarios in the future will not constitute a priority for them. By continuing to stand on the sidelines, the U.S. and E.U. will have little influence in this matter. Their condemnations will ring hollow and hypocritical and will have little effect. The more they balk from intervention the worse the situation will get and the more necessary and complex intervention will become.
The indiscriminate shelling http://youtu.be/vs1fnoXZ7qI of the Yarmouk Neighborhood, Damascus City, leaves 20 locals dead http://youtu.be/GvV4OnNuiN4 and scores wounded http://youtu.be/w4889Te2waw , http://youtu.be/5cgpbxvE8lI
The pounding http://youtu.be/6hf77KZlSo4 of nearby Tadamon Neighborhood left several dead as well http://youtu.be/PFm1QqS8HWE , http://youtu.be/-D35-CJX9L4 , http://youtu.be/XjT73WhoWNU
The suburb of Zamalka came under intense gunfire during the day http://youtu.be/9QJqC2csbmA Clashes left a number of casualties http://youtu.be/fS70-dT7-JI
The shelling of the town of Zabadani to the West continues http://youtu.be/YfuRUhk1u1g , http://youtu.be/-Ir6IFhzLTU , http://youtu.be/G29XxzhvHeg , http://youtu.be/7FwXh_8MaT0
Elsewhere in the province, rebels form a new fighting unit http://youtu.be/CqQB0498w3Y
The pounding of Talbisseh continues http://youtu.be/cTjURKknV-U And Rastan http://youtu.be/mADhw4D2I_8 In Qusayr, the pounding left 7 dead that were buried in a hasty funeral http://youtu.be/67QMERZrjEg
Pounding Aleppo City with MiGs continues http://youtu.be/ZV5UMeWauTU Helicopter gunships are also taking part http://youtu.be/iVBkS-9hM8Y
Colonel Ammar Al-Wawi, recently interviewed by the Daily Beast while on a stop in Turkey, is taking part of the battle in Aleppo City with his brigade, Al-Ababeel http://youtu.be/Oks0ixZVemU , http://youtu.be/izsE6Od_xXI
In Treimseh, the pounding resumes, and local FSA members rush to save the civilian inhabitants http://youtu.be/wbPFvJVRNHs
Local defectors form a military council for the province http://youtu.be/yNRaMsy7QRI
Deir Ezzor
Locals in the town of Asharah form a new fighting unit under the banner of the FSA http://youtu.be/4GOxhY8UXxc More to the east, closer to the border with Iraq, another group is formed http://youtu.be/BZUCZ25b2ns
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Facing eviction, woman strangles pit bull; says she didn't want anyone else to have it
Faced with eviction unless she got rid of her pit bull, a Florida woman got rid of her pit bull — by strangling her and burying her in her mother's yard, authorities say.
Shelly Bezanson, 28, of Osprey, told police she choked the dog to death with her own leash because she didn't want anyone else to have her, the Herald-Tribune in Sarasota reports.
"The vet would not put Diamond down, so I did," Bezanson said, according to a probable cause affidavit filed by the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office.
After learning she faced eviction, Bezanson repeatedly asked a veterinarian to euthanize the otherwise healthy 7-year-old dog. When the vet repeatedly refused, suggesting rescue groups that would take the dog in and find her a new home, Bezanson took matters into her own hands.
On Nov. 14, Bezanson strangled Diamond using the dog's chain leash, turning up the music in her apartment so her neighbors would not hear her, officers said.
Sarasota County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Wendy Rose called the incident a "horrible story — particularly when you have so many willing rescue groups to help take the dog and give it a forever home."
Bezanson told officers she did not want anyone else to have the dog.
"I promised Diamond we would be together until the end," deputies quoted Bezanson as saying. "And this was the end."
In later interviews, she told deputies that she regretted what she did and wished she would have found someone else to take care of the dog.
Bezanson also owned a kitten and a domesticated rat when she was arrested, and she told officers she planned to adopt another dog.
Charged with animal cruelty, she is being held at the Sarasota County Jail on $25,000 bond.
Judging from the comments the article is generating, she might want to stay there.
(Photos: Mug shot of Bezanson, and undated photo of Bezanson with Diamond, provided by Sarasota County Sheriff's office)
Posted by John Woestendiek January 22nd, 2014 under Muttsblog.
Tags: animal cruelty, animals, apartments, bans, chain, charges, choked, cruelty to animals, diamond, dogs, eviction, florida, killed, landlords, leash, osprey, pets, pit bull, pit bulls, pitbull, pitbulls, sarasota county, selfish, shelly bezanson, sheriff, strangled, tenants
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"I ain't gonna let no dogs punk me"
A Chicago man charged with beating and stabbing a neighbor's dog to death told police he did it because the dog tore his $3.78 shirt.
Damien Wilkerson, 34, was being held in lieu of $80,000 bail and faces felony animal cruelty charges, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Witnesses told police they saw Wilkerson beating the dog near his home Saturday while holding a knife. Police found the dog's body in a trash can in nearby alley.
"Yeah I killed that … dog," Wilkerson told police, according to court documents. "I don't give a (expletive)," Wilkerson said to police. "The dog tore my shirt. This … cost $3.78."
Wilkerson said he went after the dog after it bit and tore his shirt through a fence, according to court documents. He said he hopped the fence and began beating the dog with a milk crate, then "choked the dog out" when the animal went for his neck, according to officers.
Authorities say Wilkerson is a member of the Insane Vice Lords gang.
According to court documents, he told police, "I ain't gonna let no dogs or no (expletive) punk me."
Posted by John Woestendiek June 3rd, 2013 under Muttsblog.
Tags: animal cruelty, animals, arrest, beaten, bit, bite, chicago, choked, damien wilkerson, dog, dogs, fence, gang, gangs, insane vice lords, killed, neighbor, pets, shirt, stabbed
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Burglary suspect strangled dog, deputies say
Suspects in a Houston-area home burglary have confessed to choking to death a police dog who was pursuing them, FOX 26 in Houston reported.
Harris County deputies sent K-9 teams into a wooded area Tuesday night in search of two of the three suspects, but one of the dogs — a five year old German shepherd mix named Bleck — never came back and was later found dead.
One of the suspects who was found in the woods confessed to fatally choking the dog, Fox26 reported. A third supect was found in a car trying to escape from authorities.
Members of the Harris County Sheriff's Office say a necropsy will be performed on the dog.
Posted by John Woestendiek December 23rd, 2009 under Muttsblog.
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Today, I'm taking inventory of all the roles I play in my everyday life… as a result of being inspired by Heidi Lender's latest photography projectShe Can Leap Tall Buildings.
Here are some of my full-time & part-time roles:
The Organizer
The Cleaner
The Travel Planner
The Manager
The Cook
The Photographer
The Laundress
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The Provider
and my latest and most favourite role…
The Mother!
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Protesters say no to BT Brinjal in a unique way
The idea of BT Brinjal and genetically modified crops must be sounding delicious to the government, but it is not finding many takers in the farmlands and households.delhi Updated: Sep 06, 2011 22:37 IST
The idea of BT Brinjal and genetically modified crops must be sounding delicious to the government, but it is not finding many takers in the farmlands and households.
This is what Greenpeace, the NGO fighting against the introduction of genetically modified crops, claims.
In a unique protest against BT Brinjal, Greenpeace, along with chefs of hotel Le Méridien, cooked 342 kg of organic brinjal bharta on Tuesday at Dilli Haat, making it a world record. Some bharta was also dispatched to Prime Minister's house with a letter of protest.
"At Le Méridien, we believe in doing whatever we can to ensure safe food and a sustainable environment. We are happy that we could do our bit by joining this movement for safe food," said Davinder Kumar, executive chef and vice-president (Food and Beverages), Le Méridien.
The record also found space in the Limca book of world. Renowned food show presenter Rocky Singh, who has extended his support to the cause said, "Through this event, we want to spread the message that Indians should say no to genetically modified food and Biotechnology Regularity Authority of India Bill (BRAI), 2011, as such food is very dangerous for health."
The activists pooled in over 200 kg of brinjals and 300 kg of spices and ingredients. "Genetically modified food is poisonous and will also kill small farmers by creating a monopoly of a single seed manufacturing company," said Kapil Mishra, sustainable agriculture campaigner with Greenpeace India. Many RWAs and farmers associations also joined the unique protest.
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Suspected Palestinian attacker injures 5 in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (AP) A suspected Palestinian motorist rammed his car into a group of people near an Israeli police station in east Jerusalem on Friday, injuring five before being shot and wounded by guards, the police said.
Police spokeswoman Luba Samri described the assault as a "terror attack."
The attacker plowed onto the curb next to the police station in east Jerusalem, running over five people, including four officers, Samri said. The guards fired at the vehicle from the entrance to the station, she added.
The motorist then got out of the car, apparently holding a knife, and the guards shot and seriously wounded him, she said. The injured and the motorist were taken to hospital.
Police were still trying to identify the attacker. Samri said initial reports suggested he is a Palestinian from east Jerusalem and the car he was driving was registered as belonging to a Palestinian from east Jerusalem.
"The swift and determined response stopped the attack as it was beginning and prevented more innocents from being injured," said Moshe Edri, regional police commander.
The attack mirrored a spate of similar assaults on Israelis late last year amid heightened tensions over the most sensitive holy site in Jerusalem, revered by Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and by Jews as the Temple Mount.