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Cash Michaels, Wilmington Journal/BlackPressUSA.com:
Exclusive: Duke Official Told By Duke Police "Boys: called dancers the "N and B" words — A top Duke University official confirms that last spring, after allegations that a black exotic dancer was raped at a drunken Duke lacrosse player party made headlines, Duke Campus Police told him that when she and the second dancer first got there, unidentified white males inside were overheard saying, " Oh no. We're not going to f—k a nigger bitch." ...While the racist remark allegedly made by some party attendees is not clear evidence that a rape or sexual assault indeed occurred, as the accuser maintains, it does confirm a frame of mind at that party that alleged slurs which have been previously reported seem to allude to. It may also be why Durham police investigators felt that an assault may have indeed happened.
In an exclusive phone interview Tuesday with The Wilmington Journal/Carolinian newspapers, John F. Burness, vice president of Public Affairs at Duke University, confirmed that's what he was told by Duke Campus Police, in the presence of Duke Prof. Karla Holloway, an African-American, who was in his office at the time....
"I will share with you what I have not previously shared publicly," Holloway wrote to her colleagues Jan. 3. "It has colored this matter for me since last spring. It is legally hearsay, but nevertheless speaks volumes to what I think are the intricacies of the event that deserve a legal hearing."
Holloway went on to recall how last spring, while she was in Mr. Burness' office, she overheard him speaking with Duke Campus police by phone.
"…[T]he Vice President took a call from the Duke Police, who had returned from a meeting with the Durham Police," Prof. Holloway continued. "He repeated aloud what the person on the phone was telling him: "So you are telling me that when the boys opened the door and saw the dancers they said "Oh no, we're not going to f—k a 'n' (expletive).'"
"I cannot help but think that if I was privy to this, this statement had to have been shared with our administration," Holloway continued. "So what does it mean to readmit students with an indictment for violent acts, without an internal investigation of our own regarding the event? I think it is a choice the institution has made. And it has led to my own that I cannot work in shared good faith at a time when principled conduct matters less than polls and parents' pleas."
In his Jan. 3 email response, Vice Pres. Burness wrote, " The comments you overheard in my office which were attributed to the Durham Police were as you described them. We both found them to be profoundly painful/disgusting. They clearly, if true, spoke volumes about the climate of the event, but I knew that it was not clear who had made them and I knew that conducting our own investigation would instantly be seen as compromising that of the Durham Police. That would play into the hands of those who assumed—-as many people in Durham did as the case first surfaced—Duke would use its power to influence the case and the process."
Burness continued, " I also knew that the Durham Police didn't clarify who apparently had said it and I made no assumption that the students who ultimately were indicted, did. But I also knew that [Duke President] Dick [Brodhead] had said from the start that independent of the criminal allegations, some inappropriate and dishonorable things had occurred that night and when the Police investigation was concluded, he committed that Duke would conduct its own review."
"That commitment stands," Burness continued. "In a matter of days after the report you overheard, I also heard numerous different and conflicting things attributed to the Durham Police about the incident, many of which I knew to be false. And, there was one other issue. At the time I was concerned that in a case of this sensitivity, we might be given seemingly confidential info from the authorities as a means to test whether we would act on it and violate the confidence or their investigation. For all of these reasons, I never reported it to anyone—-either in my office or in the administration. It was in some notes I took but never went further than that. That may be difficult for you to believe, but it's the God's honest truth."
discussion:ABC11 TV/AP:
LS forum: Incendiary Charge by Cash Michaels, Claims of Racist Coments by LAX Players — I think this is a transparent effort to cry "racism" now that the accuser's case is sinking. Furthermore, it has nothing to do specifically with the indicted players. It is a vile attempt to smear the lacrosse team-- why now? Cash Michaels and Karla Holloway are cut out of the same mold-- both race baiters. And Burness has some explaining to do.
LS forum: Burness Answers - Archive, Questions about Cash Michaels Piece
TalkLeft: Duke Official Told By Duke Police: Boys Called Dancers The ''N AND B'' Words
KC Johnson: Let's Play Telephone (see comments) — Just when it seems like we'll see nothing worse emerge in this case, Cash Michaels has just posted an article asserting that he:
that one of the lacrosse players used ugly racial epithets at the start of the party. Some would call this sixth-hand slander.
- was told by Karla Holloway,
- who overheard a call to John Burness,
- who was told by a Duke police officer,
- who overheard a Durham Police Officer
- say that a Mystery Witness told him or her . . .
No Federal Probe in Duke Lacrosse Case — Officials from the Department of Justice have told a North Carolina congressman that it's too early to launch a federal investigation into the handling of the Duke lacrosse case, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. Rep. Walter Jones wrote Attorney General Alberto Gonzales last month, asking that the Department of Justice investigate whether the district attorney prosecuting three Duke lacrosse players charged with sexual assault has violated the athletes' civil rights.
The department's Office of Legislative Affairs responded last week that it was premature to initiate a federal investigation while criminal charges and other investigations at the state level are ongoing, said Cynthia J. Magnuson, a Department of Justice spokeswoman.
Jones' spokeswoman Kathleen Joyce said Tuesday that the congressman still planned to meet next week with the head of the department's Civil Rights Division...
discussion:Editorial - Chicago Tribune:
LieStoppers forum: The Hoax's Latest Enabler, Alberto Gonzalez
FreeRepublic: Justice Department Won't Investigate Duke Lacrosse Prosecutor
TalkLeft: "Premature to initiate a federal investigation..."
As the Duke case implodes (reg. req.) — Our criminal justice system most notoriosly fails two kinds of people: wrongly convicted defendants, and crime victims whose guilty assailants walk free. Privileged young men who attend elite colleges and face charges of violent sex offenses usually don't attract public sympathy. That may be why the story of an African-American woman who said three white players on the Duke University men's lacrosse team raped her possessed an air of plausibility from the start.
This case may yield victims, but it appears less and less likely that the woman is one of them. On Friday, Durham, N.C., County District Atty. Mike Nifong recused himself from his imploding case and handed what's left of it to North Carolina's attorney general, Roy Cooper....Defense lawyers have demanded that the remaining charges be dropped. From this vantage, it's hard to see why Atty. Gen. Cooper wouldn't investigate and then do as the defense asks.
If that happens, the list of Nifong's victims will start with the defendants. But that list also will include Duke faculty members, students and Durham residents who, caught up in the symbolism and politics of the case, initially rushed to judge them guilty. One other group of victims: women everywhere who, because of this case, may have a harder time persuading police and prosecutors to bring sexual assailants to justice.
Editorial - Newsday (NY):Kaffie Sledge column, Ledger-Enquierer (Columbus, GA):
Get to bottom of Duke case — Evidence needs unbiased examination - The North Carolina special prosecutor now in charge of evaluating the all-but-demolished sexual assault case against three Duke University lacrosse players should speedily determine whether there is any evidence to support the remaining indictment and, if not, finally administer some justice by dismissing all the charges. The rape case against the three players, including Collin Finnerty of Garden City, raised questions from the start, but it has quickly unraveled in the past few weeks....
Nifong, an appointee facing a black challenger in an election for the job, apparently sought the black community's support by prosecuting affluent, white athletes from out of state, however flimsy the evidence. The Duke case should be a warning that a campus culture that tolerates drunken behavior and sexual indiscretions by star athletes can only lead to problems. In this instance, however, the best case remaining is that of ethical and prosecutorial misconduct against Nifong.
Duke case raises questions — It's said so often on all the crime scene shows -- "the evidence doesn't lie" -- that it has become cliche. It's criminal that the D.A. in the Duke lacrosse fiasco didn't bear that in mind. Durham (N.C.) District Attorney Mike Nifong, who recently recused himself from the case, accused three white lacrosse players of raping a black stripper.
Most of us thought this was just another case of testosterone overload. Male athletes gone wild. It was believable. We could also believe because there was drinking -- underage drinking at this party -- things got out of hand when a couple of athletes didn't think "no" really meant "no."
Perhaps because of the number (too many) of forensic TV shows, I would never have imagined a D.A. filing charges with such blatant disregard of the truth and the law...Now we're told the accuser has taken psychiatric medications, and perhaps that is the reason she did what she did and said what she said. What are Nifong's reasons?
Jack Kelly, RealClearPolitics.com:
A Rush to Condemn in the Duke & Plame Cases — Mr. Nifong's reason for pursuing such a flimsy case seems clear. The electorate in Durham is more than 40 percent black. At the time the accuser made her accusation, he was trailing in the Democratic primary to a woman he once had fired. If he lost, it was unlikely the winner would keep him on, and his pension has not vested.
Mr. Nifong won the election. But short term gain likely will be followed by long term pain. Last week he bowed to pressure to recuse himself. He faces a hearing before the North Carolina bar association that could result in his disbarment....
Liberals rushed to condemn the Duke lacrosse players because they loved the narrative: rich white guys abuse poor black woman. Some furious backtracking is taking place as evidence of their innocence mounts. A new verb, to "nifong," has been coined. It's a synonym for "to frame."...
FreeRepublic: A Rush to Condemn in the Duke & Plame Cases
Letters to the Herald-Sun:
Jon Edge, Charlotte:Forum topics of note:
Durham's a joke — I'll be the first to admit, this is completely from an outsider's point of view because I live in Charlotte. But come on Durham, wake up. The Duke rape case has been an embarrassment to North Carolina as a whole. You've dropped the ball...Most of all, I expect better from the City of Durham. You let a DA and one segment of the community hijack your entire city and make it a laughingstock in the public eye. It's time to purge, and I don't just mean Nifong!
M. Michael Dor, Kildeer, Ill.:
Durham's morality play — There are several actors in the morality play about rape produced and directed by District Attorney Mike Nifong. The first is Nifong, who used the incident to create a criminal sex scandal enhanced by racial overtones to further his political aspirations. His choice for supporting actress billed as victim could not tell the same story twice and DNA studies of her clothing revealed semen from several males, none matching that of the three accused lacrosse players....And then there was the news media that is only obligated to report the "news" as it occurs -- uncritically. Finally, there were the three accused male athletes who were given little sympathy by the others. Who are the bad actors? Who are the criminals? What rating does the play deserve?
Gregory Day, Huntsville, Ala.:
Not choosing Duke — Having watched the lacrosse case and having two college-age children, I know the nation is wondering exactly what is happening in Durham. I know co-workers who, a year ago, were seriously considering Duke for their children. Not any more. This entire event has simply highlighted for the nation the high ethics and standards of the Durham police, the district attorney's office, and Duke University itself...
Kelly Bowling, Raleigh:
Duke, Durham should be ashamed of conduct — Like many people in the area, I watched the report on "60 Minutes" on Sunday about the lacrosse case. I am a Duke graduate and this fiasco has caused me to be embarrassed by my school. President Richard Brodhead should resign or the board of trustees should fire him. The administration inserted itself into this case by its decisions, and by doing so, added to the injustice that the accused suffered. Durham residents should be ashamed that in the midst of this case, they elected District Attorney Mike Nifong. I hope, and have full confidence, that Nifong will be disbarred after his hearing on his misconduct. I also hope that a civil suit will be brought by the players against Nifong, the City of Durham, the Durham police, the escort-victim (having four separate DNA samples in her the night of the incident) and DNA Security
LieStoppers: Did Nifong plan this hoax himself?LieStoppers:
LieStoppers: The "Something Must Have Happened" Mantra — Kathy Seligman's [on '60 Minutes'] read on the "something must have happened" mantra:"You know what? I believe you'll never change those people's minds. And what's so sad, to me, is I almost get the feeling they're disappointed that something didn't happen..."LieStoppers: The Evolution of Crystal Mangum!, A study in Victimology - Victim Stage 1: The trauma inflicted upon her is this horrifying and brutal gang-rape...Victim Stage 2: Mike Nifong used this woman...a benign, unwitting pawn. Victim Stage 3: Mental Illness...
related: The Johnsville News - American Victim — America get ready to meet your new 'American Victim.'
Nifong's Ripples Reach General Assembly — With the egregious nature of Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong's prosecutorial misconduct now approaching universal acceptance, the effects have begun to spread like ripples across water. It has been predicted here, and elsewhere, that the effects of the Hoax have, or will, extend to future rape victims, race relations in Durham County and beyond, academia as a whole and Duke University specifically, the mainstream media, the blog-o-sphere, and elsewhere. A clear presentation of Nifong's ripples, however, has already begun to emerge within at least one realm- the legal profession as a whole and the criminal justice system in particular...
For those who believe that reforms, whether aimed at bringing North Carolina's grand jury system out of the Stone Age, or focused on ensuring that other innocents do not fall victim to a rogue prosecutor without a mechanism for state intervention, it would seem that the time is right to turn up the volume in the direction of the NC Legislature.
KC Johnson:
The Special Prosecutor Route — Two days out from Roy Cooper's announcement that the AG's special prosecutions division would assume control of the case, it's worth offering some tentative conclusions. Having Nifong off the case is an unqualifiedly positive development, since in recent weeks the "minister of justice" had displayed increasingly erratic behavior....A special prosecutor provides the best chance for an immediate investigation of "whether there was manipulation of evidence and statements," as defense attorney Joseph Cheshire hoped.
Vikram Srinivasan, Duke Chronicle:
MLK panels touch off heated debates — "Freedom School"-a series of twelve discussions and presentations honoring different aspects of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legacy-began and ended amid controversy Monday. Two panel discussions on affirmative action and race relations at Duke inflamed both audience and panel participants' passions. Some audience members described the discussions as unproductive and angry, but others said they appreciated the diversity of viewpoints represented. Ben Reese, vice president for institutional equity and co-chair of the MLK Commemoration Committee, said the motivation behind this year's "Come to the Table" theme was to engage student groups who had not participated fully in past programs. For example, politically conservative student groups have been actively involved in the planning this year, bringing a wider range of opinions to the discussion, he said. Richard Spencer, a second-year graduate student, said the result was a "clearly impassioned" debate.
"There was blood on the floor," he said...
Editorial - Duke Chronicle:
Time for a calming effect — In the last week, the lacrosse case has turned rapidly in favor of the lacrosse players-and it's been quite clear in the news. Recently revealed court papers show the alleged victim has changed key details of her allegation, including recanting her claim of Reade Seligmann's participation in the alleged assault. Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong asked to be removed from the case in response to a North Carolina State Bar complaint, among other things. A CBS "60 Minutes" report Sunday night showed guests questioning the credibility of the victim and focused largely on the responses of the indicted lacrosse players' parents. In the midst of these recent developments and this renewed media attention, we, the public, the bystanders, must remember one thing: to respond in moderation and to control our emotions and opinions...
Strong opinions about the lacrosse scandal have also found an outlet on the Internet. Many blogs do promote positive discussion and investigation of the scandal. But some irresponsible members of the Internet community have turned to childish devices to direct their anger. Impersonations of public figures, such as President Richard Brodhead, are simply immature and not conducive to a rational dialogue that must occur between all sides, especially now. In a time of such great public energy, we must remember to act responsibly. The lacrosse case is still in a state of limbo, and while we most certainly should not act prematurely, it is also absolutely imperative that at no time we act stupidly or maliciously...
Letter by Steven Beckett (Fuqua '87), Duke Chronicle:Adam Eaglin, Duke Chronicle:
McCarthyism in Durham? — As an alumni of Duke, I have followed with great interest the case involving the three Duke lacrosse players...time will hopefully show what truly transpired in March, it is already clear that the three students' right to due process was violated and presumption of innocence ignored by people who let their own political and social aims guide their actions. What is more ironic and disturbing is that these actions were taken in the name of justice. There was a time, not that long ago, when a group of people were similarly singled out and persecuted and, in some cases, prosecuted in a similar manner. So egregious were these cases, so horrible these times, that a name was given to the hysteria that led to it, a phrase that we often use today when similar situations arise: McCarthyism.
Letter by Asher Steinberg (Trinity '08), Duke Chronicle:
Malaklou column wrongly implies racist tendencies — I have a couple criticisms of her latest piece ("Cruel intentions and dangerous liaisons," Jan. 10). Malaklou has always contended, and does so again, that there is something racist about the sexual preferences of Duke women. In her words, "Duke women... do not lust after famous black basketball players... rather, they lust after white preps with celebrity status on campus, but not off." The implication seems to be that, if Duke women were nondiscriminatory, they would take the world-renowned basketball player over the relatively small fries of the frats, but because they do not, some racism must be at work....Wherever one goes, there are men, whether they be frat guys, scions of wealthy parents, professional athletes, rock stars or even drug dealers, who attract inordinate amounts of no-strings-attached female attention. This certainly may be unfortunate, but the problem, if there is one, is with life in general and not with Duke in particular.
Legal experts: recusal may lead to dismissal — A number of legal experts have commended embattled Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong's decision to step down in the Duke lacrosse case, while noting that the changeover may lead to the case's eventual dismissal. The most immediate effect of the development is that Nifong will lose all authority over the prosecution and the administration of the case, Duke law professor Paul Haagen said. At a press conference Saturday, North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper appointed two attorneys from his office to take charge of the case. He said the two will begin the task of reviewing all evidence...
Even though the appointment of a special prosecution does not change the facts in the case, many legal experts speculated that the case may be dropped once the evidence is reviewed. "If I were a betting man, I would wager that this case will be dismissed," Ronald Sullivan [Yale Law professor] said.
Katherine MacIlwaine, Duke Chronicle:Arizona State University, statepress.com:
Nifong steps down from lacrosse case — The North Carolina state attorney general assumed control of the Duke lacrosse case Saturday and appointed two special prosecutors to replace Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong, who requested to be recused Friday. "Any case with such serious criminal charges requires careful and deliberate review," North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper said at a Saturday press conference. "Our goal is to seek justice and truth respecting the rights of everyone involved."
Cooper appointed James Coman, head of the attorney general's Law Enforcement and Prosecutions Division, and Mary Winstead of the Special Prosecutions Division, to the case. He said the special prosecution will meet with witnesses, investigators and defense attorneys and will offer a "fresh and thorough review of the facts." "I wish I could tell you that this case will be resolved quickly, but it is my understanding that there are numerous other documents and other information in the district attorney's files and in the court records," Cooper said. "Since we have not been involved in the investigation or the prosecution of these cases, all of the information will be new to our office."
Cooper said there is no guarantee whether or not the case will go to trial, but Joe Cheshire, defense attorney for one of three indicted members of the 2005-2006 men's lacrosse team, expressed hope that the new prosecution will influence the outcome for the defendants. "For the first time, someone who is honest and objective and doesn't have an agenda will look at this case," Cheshire told The New York Times. "We feel confident that when they do, these young men will be exonerated."
Opinions: What's in a name? — Printing names can harm both the accused and the accuser - The truth of what happened that night will forever be known only to the accused and the accuser. However, our country has placed our faith in a court system dependent entirely on the impartiality of a judge and jury. The reports on the accuser - who could have been under extreme stress on the night of the attack, and may have legitimately remembered things differently - will surely sway any jury member who watches the evening news. A big trial is certainly newsworthy. But before pumping out every detail, every name, the press should consider the consequences. It is not our job to coddle anyone. But we should all proceed with caution before providing anyone with a bridge from which they can leap to damaging assumptions.
Nifong Could Face 2nd Bar Complaint (1/15/07) — The former prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse case could face another complaint from the North Carolina Bar...They say Nifong broke other professional conduct rules by failing to turn over exculpatory evidence, which works to a defendant's benefit rather than a prosecutor's, to defense attorneys in a timely manner. The evidence in question is test results in which no DNA from any lacrosse player was found on the accuser. After a December hearing, Nifong insisted he did nothing wrong.
discussion:Tom Bevan, RealClearPolitics.com:
LieStoppers: WRAL Says 2nd Ethics Complaint Coming...
Trying to Right Nifong's Wrong (1/15/07) — As far as compelling television goes, Bush's interview with Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes pales in comparison to Leslie Stahl's sit down with the families of the Duke lacrosse players who were falsely accused of rape but remain in the legal crosshairs thanks to the outrageous and unforgiveable behavior of Durham DA Mike Nifong. The interview is available on CBSNews.com in two parts (Part I and Part II).
As a parent, it's impossible to watch the interview without sharing the rage these folks feel over the way their children have been persecuted. And as a son, it's also impossible not to empathize with how the accused boys must feel seeing their parents' anguish, and watching them fight at great personal cost to try and right the horrible wrong done to them by Nifong...
Michael Gaynor:
"60 Minutes" again and how to stop the pain (1/15/07) — On Sunday, January 14, 2006, after a great football game that fortunately did not go into overtime, "60 Minutes" presented its much anticipated and very moving follow up to its original Duke case expose, with Leslie Stahl replacing the late Ed Bradley. Ms. Stahl interviewed the parents of Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and David Evans as well as reported on the collapsing of the prosecution's case and the replacement of the prosecutor. Only oblivious or willfully blind viewers are still unaware that (1) the Hoax was horribly hurtful to people who had not deserved to be hurt and (2) an end should be put to the prosecution that has been a persecution as soon as possible...
Rush Limbaugh:
More Outrage in Duke Lacrosse Case (1/15/07) — I don't know if you've seen that press conference on Saturday afternoon where the North Carolina attorney general announced that he's taking the case over and assigning two prosecutors in his office to handle it. Nifong wanted to be recused, Nifong wanted out, and fine, Mike, you're gone. But I'm getting ahead of myself here, but they said, (doing impression) "Well, you know, we don't know anything about this case. I wish we could promise a speedy conclusion, but we can't promise anything. We're starting from scratch. I mean we haven't seen the case file. We're not going to get the case files 'til next week. We can't rule out anything. We can't rule out rape charges."
Oh, okay, so we're looking at another year of this, perhaps? The parents of these three guys are facing another year or whatever length of time it is of legal fees to start all over again? There's no case! You know, this is one of the things that just frustrates me about the legal system. This case is not about the evidence because there isn't any. This case is about the seriousness of the charge. So some stripper comes forward now with three or four different versions of what happened to her that night and we've got charges based on that because the charge is the only thing that matters. Not the veracity of the accuser, not the legitimacy. No, the nature of the charge, the nature of the evidence here is irrelevant. I can't believe these people...


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Kory Teneycke was just on CBC's Power & Politics. His comments were really something, totally inflammatory regarding the Speaker's ruling. If this is what's to come from Conservatives, it's really shameful. Teneycke referred to Milliken as "the Liberal Speaker" of the House of Commons, insinuating that the ruling favours the Liberals and NDP and that essentially, Milliken is biased. The scorched earth spin from Teneycke is just plain wrong, however. Constitutional experts have weighed in, heavily, in support of the ruling and its rightness on parliamentary supremacy.
Notably, Conservative Tom Lukiwski disagreed with Teneycke's framing of the issue in a subsequent panel. That is a good sign but it could just be a good cop-bad cop tiresome rhetorical strategy we might see.
It's a bridge too far to be sliming the Speaker the way Teneycke did. It will likely make the opposition more resolved, in any event. And it's just more typical partisan excess from Conservatives that is just not appropriate for this serious issue.
Update: If this is what we're going to see, I hope the opposition gets some clarity in its response. Harper defying parliament. And so on.


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I had to cobble something together for the health sciences faculty here (an intimate group of a few thousand of my closest friends) on how the NIH Public Access Policy actually works, and I thought I'd share the wealth here. Hope this is helpful.
All peer-reviewed articles that arise from work funded in part or in whole by grants or contracts awarded by the NIH must be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication.
This mandatory requirement applies to all grant and cooperative agreements awarded on or after October 1, 2007 and to all contracts awarded on or after April 7, 2008. Principal Investigators are responsible for ensuring compliance with the Policy even if they are not an author or co-author of a publication arising from their NIH-funded work.
Compliance is a three-step process: address copyright when submitting a manuscript to a journal for review, submit the accepted manuscript to the NIH, and cite the manuscript using the PubMed Central reference number.
Address Copyright. As an NIH-funded author, you must ensure that any copyright transfer or other publication agreements allow the article to be submitted to NIH in accordance with the Policy. If you submit your manuscript to a journal that already cooperates with the NIH on this, you need not do anything further to ensure compliance with the Policy.
If you wish to publish in a journal not on this list, you must inform the journal that the article is subject to the Public Access Policy when submitting the manuscript. You must then communicate with the journal before any of your copyrights are transferred to ensure that all conditions of the Public Access Policy can be met. Some journals ask authors to transfer copyrights when a manuscript is submitted for review, so please be careful not to transfer rights during the submission process without confirming the journal's ability to comply with the Public Access Policy. Please remember that this Policy is mandatory for all NIH grantees, and avoid signing any agreements with publishers that do not allow authors to comply.
Submit Manuscript to NIH. If your journal does not submit the accepted manuscript to the NIH on your behalf, you or your designee can deposit a copy of the peer-reviewed manuscript via the online Manuscript Submission System (tutorial available). The submitted final, peer-reviewed manuscript must include all graphics and supplemental materials that are associated with the article. Please note that not all open-access journals automatically submit manuscripts to the NIH; you are responsible for ensuring your manuscripts are deposited in compliance with the Policy.
Cite PubMed Central Reference Number. Beginning with the May 25, 2008 receipt date, your applications, proposals, and progress reports sent to the NIH must include the PubMed Central (PMCID) or, if the PMCID is not yet available, the NIH Manuscript Submission reference number (NIHMS ID) when citing applicable articles that arise from your NIH-funded research.
You'll find additional information and details on how to comply with the Policy at:
NIH Public Access Policy Notice
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Google admits less than half of Motorola price was patents
Google surprised many in the technology industry last year when it made the announcement that it intended to purchase Motorola. It argued that the deal would strengthen its patent portfolio.
However, in a regulatory filing on Tuesday (July 25th), the search giant said that just $5.5 billion (£3.5 billion) of the eventual $12.4 billion price tag was attributable to "patents and developed technology".
At the time of the purchase, chief executive Larry Page said it would help "supercharge Android".
Last week, Google reported second-quarter earnings that included Motorola results from a small portion of the period.
Google claims it contributed around $1.25 billion in revenue, despite posting a $233 million operating loss.
This led chief financial officer at the firm Patrick Pichette to say during a conference call with analysts about the company's strategic plans: "Clearly, everybody should expect some changes at Motorola but we have nothing really to announce right now."
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Man, were my dogs a-barkin! And I don't mean my own daggum dogs neither!
Translation: My feet ached from the plethora of work I completed yesterday. My personal canine companions were not literally vocally boysterous--I was using a turn of phrase.
I did meander on the world wide web a bit and found some interesting articles on famous horses. Two of these horses ended up having a personal connection that I found both interesting and helpful in explaining my terrible addiction. Apparently a love of great horses runs in the family.
Let me back up a bit here. My 4th great-grandmother was Mary Ann Sheridan. Her family came from Ireland, she married a Neel and gave birth to my 3rd great-grandmother Mary Ann Neel who in turn married George McCandless. George and Mary Ann are buried just a mile from where I now live. And now you know the rest of the story....
Mary Ann Sheridan was a lady I would have loved to have known. She lived most of her life in Ohio and (in her own words) was a cousin of both General Robert E. Lee and General Phillip Sheridan. I've been able to solidify the line between her and General Sheridan, but the connection between her and General Lee still needs to be verified. However, in some way, Mary Ann knew both these individuals as family.
Since I don't want to presume that every one of my readers (including international ones) is well-versed in American Civil War history, here's a little background on these two famous generals:
Robert E Lee is probably the best known (and arguably the most well-respected) of the Confederate Generals. He was the General in Chief of the Confederate Army at the close of the war. Lee was actually asked by President Lincoln to command Union troops but since Lee's home state of Virginia was succeeding from the Union (which, by the way, was a decision Lee did not agree with), he chose to fight for the Confederacy. After the war Lee supported President Johnson's Reconstruction program.
General Phillip Sheridan is not as well known as General Lee but in his own time was considered a very powerful (and sometimes controversial) commander. He was actually instrumental in Lee's surrender at Appromattox. Later in life he helped develop Yellowstone National Park.
Perhaps Sheridan's biggest claim to fame was his famous ride:
Sheridan's Ride
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Up from the South, at break of day,
Bringing to Winchester fresh dismay,
The affrighted air with a shudder bore,
Like a herald in haste to the chieftain's door,
The terrible grumble, and rumble, and roar,
Telling the battle was on once more,
And Sheridan twenty miles away.
And wider still those billows of war
Thundered along the horizon's bar;
And louder yet into Winchester rolled
The roar of that red sea uncontrolled,
Making the blood of the listener cold,
As he thought of the stake in that fiery fray,
With Sheridan twenty miles away.
But there is a road from Winchester town,
A good, broad highway leading down:
And there, through the flush of the morning light,
A steed as black as the steeds of night
Was seen to pass, as with eagle flight;
As if he knew the terrible need,
He stretched away with his utmost speed.
Hills rose and fell, but his heart was gay,
With Sheridan fifteen miles away.
Still sprang from those swift hoofs, thundering south,
The dust like smoke from the cannon's mouth,
Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster,
Foreboding to traitors the doom of disaster.
The heart of the steed and the heart of the master
Were beating like prisoners assaulting their walls,
Impatient to be where the battle-field calls;
Every nerve of the charger was strained to full play,
With Sheridan only ten miles away.
Under his spurning feet, the road
Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed,
And the landscape sped away behind
Like an ocean flying before the wind;
And the steed, like a barque fed with furnace ire,
Swept on, with his wild eye full of fire;
But, lo! he is nearing his heart's desire;
He is snuffing the smoke of the roaring fray,
With Sheridan only five miles away.
The first that the general saw were the groups
Of stragglers, and then the retreating troops;
What was to be done? what to do?--a glance told him both.
Then striking his spurs with a terrible oath,
He dashed down the line, 'mid a storm of huzzas,
And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because
The sight of the master compelled it to pause.
With foam and with dust the black charger was gray;
By the flash of his eye, and his red nostril's play,
He seemed to the whole great army to say:
"I have brought you Sheridan all the way
From Winchester down to save the day.
"Hurrah! hurrah for Sheridan!
Hurrah! hurrah for horse and man!
And when their statues are placed on high
Under the dome of the Union sky,
The American soldier's Temple of Fame,
There, with the glorious general's name,
Be it said, in letters both bold and bright:
"Here is the steed that saved the day
By carrying Sheridan into the fight,
From Winchester--twenty miles away!"
The horse immortalized in Read's poem,"Rienzi" (whose name was changed to Winchester when the poem was written), now resides in the Smithsonian. Rienzi was presented to Sheridan in 1862 by officers of the Second Michigan Cavalry. He was ridden by Sheridan in nearly every engagement in which he participated during the remainder of the Civil War.
Rienzi/Winchester died in 1878. His body was mounted and presented to the museum of the Military Service Institution of the United States, Governors Island, New York. He is now on display at the Hall of Armed Forces History, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
General Lee's horse was famous, too. His name was Traveller. Traveller was a 16H American Saddlebred and Lee's main mount after he purchased him in 1862. He was reportedly a steadfast horse and not easily spooked.
Traveller outlived Lee and during Lee's funeral procession in 1870 he was led behind Lee's casket, his saddle and bridle draped with black crepe. A year later Traveller stepped on a nail, developed tetanus and was euthanized.
Traveller was so popular that after his burial someone dug him up and bleached his bones. The skeleton was recovered and mounted for display, but students would break in and carve their initials on his skeleton for good luck. Finally Traveller was laid to rest in a cement coffin not far from Lee's grave.
So you see, this addiction...this "horse-thing" has to be genetic, right? I even have historical evidence to back up my theory.
That's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it.


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[Here we have part II of Asia Times dispensation of latest dangerous CIA myth, that "Al-CIAda" has established a "watershed" in the area around Chaman. As with all CIA "Public Diplomacy" psyops such as this, the well-placed agency writer/patsies, like Syed Saleem Shahzad, follow the traditional tactic of citing his last installment as established fact and self-reinforcing proof of his latest claims. His words gain credibility when unnamed "security officials" give unsubstantiated leaks that are echoed by current news reports--"al-Qaeda" captured in Chaman, coinciding with British press claims of Iran releasing "al-Qaeda" leaders.... This tactic echoes the mind-bending techniques perfected in Oliver North, William Casey and Otto Reich's Central American "Contra" deception operations.... They have been working on these techniques for a long time-- I guess that is why it takes old researchers with long memories like Robert Parry to tie today's CIA deceptions with yesterday's CIA deceptions....
The following line gives away his entire deception, expressing truthfully what he and the spooks would like us to believe.]
"An indication of a strong pro-al-Qaeda LJ presence in the region shows a complete anti-thesis of the grand American designs for an endgame,"
[Keep in mind that the covert government has entrapped us in a Hegelian trap, intending to trick the American people and everyone else into embracing contradictory solutions. Seen in this light, the CIA mouthpiece's words make it a little easier for us to understand what is going on. If they want us to believe that "al-Qaeda" has established a beachhead near Quetta, then the opposite of that is the real truth--THERE IS NO ISLAMIST PRESENCE IN QUETTA, except for a few token "Islamists" imported into the area for publicity purposes, such as the alleged IMU terrorists also supposedly captured near Chaman, on the same day as Bugti's 12-16 vehicle convoy was busted allegedly importing heavy weapons.
The US Army/CIA must be getting desperate to attempt such a lame gambit, even though it probably will give them their objective, allowing military actions to flow from Kandahar into Baluchistan. The flurry of Iran/al-Qaeda/IMU reports will increase and become blurred with those about Shahzain Bugti.]
[For those of you who know the work of Asia Times reporter, Mr. Syed Saleem Shahzad (or his Agency counterpart, Mr. Michael Scheuer SEE: CIA Sees Dead People), you already know that he is used to introduce false narratives, the "official version" of planned events. He previously outlined the "Taliban split" psyop that introduced the official story on the TTP to the world.
Now, Syed is setting us up for the next psyop, by introducing the concept of the "strategic corridor" into the media (SEE: 'Final Solution' Frenzy – Part Four: Final Solution for Pakistan), only he is doing his usual job of flipping the truth, making claims that it is "al Qaida" who has plans to occupy the western corner of Baluchistan, setting us up by introducing the false plot line, in order to justify pursuit by the American/international coalition.
A sudden surge in attacks on Afghanistan-bound (through the Chaman-Kandahar border crossing) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) supplies, a hallmark of al-Qaeda and its allied groups, especially in the ethnically Baloch regions of Baluchistan, forced decision-makers for the first time to rethink the serious penetration of al-Qaeda in the region that had been the domain and ownership of the indigenous Pashtun Taliban.
"This is evidence that the situation is clearly slipping out of control," a senior security official told Asia Times Online. "There was a hope in the past that Pakistan could intervene and talk through the Taliban who run southwestern Afghanistan without any al-Qaeda influence, but if they have opened a theater in Baluchistan, that means the situation is taking a new turn and the war theater will flare up."
"An indication of a strong pro-al-Qaeda LJ presence in the region shows a complete anti-thesis of the grand American designs for an endgame.....," the Pakistani security official said.
[We are a long way from the point where our Afghan follies are admittedly described as mistakes. Even though most of us already understand that we have failed, very few are willing to admit that the entire terror war has been a huge mistake. Just like our failure in Vietnam, there is a time lag of years between the point where we realize that we have lost and the point where we understand why we have lost--because we were wrong all along. Between that future time where we understand our massive error and now, how many more people will die and how many more uncounted billions will be poured down the bottomless pit?
If America really had a peace movement, then we would now be witnesses to and participants in a massive effort to save our sinking country by hastening the day of our understanding. Unlike the ending of the previous war, the resolution of the this war will affect our own survival as a functioning Nation. The longer it takes to reach its inevitable conclusion, the worse our chances become to survive the impending economic/military collapse. As long as we keep dedicating trillions to a lost war and trillions more to the corrupt financial centers who have financed that corrupt war (fueled on pure debt), we will have nothing left but austerity to deal with our real problems. If we resolve it more quickly, devoting less resources to futile schemes at "winning," then the more resources will be available to fix the collateral damage.
There is nothing as costly to a Nation as an entire government of failed leaders who are intent upon hiding their mistakes. A single admission of error is seen as the final fatal mistake.....]
By Pepe Escobar
Forget the iPad; the ultimate icon of fetishized commodity is the drone. Israelis do it - and sell them like hot cakes.... Mexicans do it - to patrol their side of the border. Brazilians wanna do it - to patrol the Rio favelas. Saudis wanna do it..... Uzbeks wanna do it..... Everybody's singing: Let's do it. Let's fall in love (with the drone).....
Furthermore, abandon all hope those who enter (the doors of misperception): Afghanistan is now officially just a lowly, troop-infested sideshow to the AfPak war. The real thing is an illegal drone war against Pakistan. Viva Richard Nixon. As much as Tricky Dick annexed Cambodia to the Vietnam War, the Barack Obama administration pulled a Nixon regarding Pakistan. And the great thing is that no one needs another CIA/WikiLeaks "dump" to know this. It's out there in the open.
Tricky Dick's tricks paved the way to Year Zero for the Khmer Rouge. Obama's throw of the dice may be paving the way to a Year Zero for the Pashtun brotherhood. The 16-agency US intelligence establishment says the Afghan adventure is doomed. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is somewhat gloomy. But the surge-addicted White House - in a stark reminder of those George W Bush-era reports about Iraq - says it's all swell (Taliban "momentum has been arrested in much of the country"). Pentagon supremo Robert Gates says Washington now controls more Afghan territory than a year ago; maybe in terms of Kabul shopping malls - and that's already a stretch.
Taliban momentum, anyway, is just an afterthought. What matters for the White House is to smash ("significant progress") al-CIAda, allegedly holed up not in Afghanistan but in Pakistan's tribal areas. Take them Pakistani Talibs out from the air, with the CIA playing Ride of the Valkyries, just like in an orgiastic Facebook-friendly remix of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, with all those US Marine tanks rolling along in Helmand province offering a cute counterpart. I love the smell of a burning Talib in the morning. Makes me think of ... re-election.
But what about collateral damage? Tough guys of the "real men go to Tehran" type say this is for sissies (the New America Foundation says around a third of drone deaths are civilians, but that's hugely underestimated, according to Pakistani sources.) Blowback, anyway, is guaranteed to last until the 22nd century.
Faster CIA, kill, kill
So it's not the Pentagon but the CIA that is showering Death from Above over dirt-poor mud-hut villages in a country against which the US is not at war. Things may change - witness the frenzy to legally nail "terrorist" Julian Assange - but US law does not exactly condone mass assassination campaigns.
The CIA drone war is obviously secret and illegal. That can be fixed with the incoming chairman of the US House Armed Services Committee updating the congressional authorization for this extended war on al-Qaeda. As for Pashtuns collaborating with the CIA, they are technically Afghans, not Pakistanis, from different tribes; that will foster centuries of subsequent tribal trouble once the families of the dead ascertain who the snitches are.
Whatever the rhetoric emanating from Washington in 2011, the game will keep being duly played according to only one plot-advancing script; American Pentagonists visit Islamabad/Rawalpindi to warn the Pakistanis of Washington's perennial "strategic impatience" with what they're doing, while their military/intelligence establishment go live to spin they're doing all they can, but also need to be watchful of Pakistan's own interests.
In a nutshell: expect for 2011 an endless parade of Predators and Reapers firing barrages of missiles at the usual "suspected militants" in North Waziristan, Khyber or anywhere else in the tribal areas; and forget about Islamabad/Rawalpindi sending their army into North Waziristan to fight "al-Qaeda" or even the local tribes.
What this essentially means is that the nebula/myth conveniently branded "al-Qaeda" remains in the clear. There's no way its few dozen invisible jihadis can be crushed by the CIA's illegal air war, not to mention troops from Islamabad/Rawalpindi. And even supposing they were, the "franchises" would still be in business - as in AQAP, al-CIAda in the Arabian Peninsula/Yemen.....
Drone Eye for the Straight Guy
Who cares about Don't Ask, Don't Tell? The new hit in all things AfPak is Drone Eye for the Straight Guy. The next chief of the CIA's National Clandestine Service - that is, the CIA's new top spy - is John D Bennett, none other than the former head of a drone-infested CIA paramilitary wing. An Associated Press story even claimed that he directed the drones in Pakistan during the Bush era.
Even the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General "Hoss" Cartwright, has totally gone Drone Eye for the Straight Guy. As he sees it, COIN is now history; the hip thing to do is "counter-terrorism", as in drone-saturated air war. Consider the drone war as Washington's premier stimulus package to Central Asia.
Progress in over-stimulated Afghanistan, according to the Obama administration's year-end report, is "frail and reversible". This means in practice that for all the spin, missile-saturated Kandahar is not becoming Orange county anytime soon.
The Afghanistan plot won't thicken; it will dilute in the usual diarrhea. Afghans will keep saying over and over again they are not exactly Taliban fans - but they hate the corrupt Hamid Karzai gang and Washington even more, for allowing their occupied country to be controlled by gangsters and warlords.
Washington will keep tweaking its losing "strategy" of smashing the Taliban with extreme firepower. The Taliban for their part have already fine-tuned their own strategy of "flee the south-go north". All the roads in Afghanistan lead to Kabul; not by accident, all are intercepted or under Taliban attack. Karzai rule stops abruptly at the last rickety police station south of Kabul, on the road to Kandahar. It's as if Kabul was enveloped by an eerie Titanic feeling - that pampered, gated-condo isolated neo-colonial coterie of generals, diplomats, non-governmental organizations and security contractors partying hard as in before the fall of Saigon.
But soon anyway a "new" narrative will be taking over - the snail-pace North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) "drawdown" from 2011 to 2014. But does that mean the beginning of the endgame - no more war? Rather it's back to the beginning, as in "abandon all hope those who enter (the doors of misperception)". To (literally) thunderous applause by a coterie of neophyte neo-jihadi bombers, the Obama White House has explicitly emphasized "NATO's enduring commitment beyond 2014".
A key feature of this "enduring commitment" is that the Afghan army soldiers and cops NATO is training (supplemented by US private contractors of the Dyncorp/Blackwater mould) will need no less than US$6 billion a year, every year, till probably eternity, from the usually euphemistic "international donors", key among them US taxpayers.
It's a gas, gas, gas
And here's where The Year of the Drone merges with what the late, great deconstructionist Jacques Lacan would qualify as "the unsayable": the invisible, dangerous liaisons between the "war on terror" and the energy war, as in the topography of the war on terror matching all the key 21st-century sources of energy from the Middle East to Central Asia.
This implies a key Pipelineistan chapter - the never-ending saga of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline, which has been at the very core of the troubled Washington-Kabul marriage since the mid-1990s.
The TAPI inter-government agreement was finally signed in mid-December. Make no mistake; this is Washington in overdrive. The Washington-backed Asian Development Bank is to come up with the bulk of the $7.6 billion (and counting) financial package. The 2,000 kilometer-long TAPI - to be built by an international consortium - should snake through a very dodgy 735 kilometers of Afghanistan and 800 kilometers of Pakistan.
Hype apart, there's no hard evidence that TAPI will "stabilize" Afghanistan or contribute to India and Pakistan trading kisses instead of insults. AfPak in this case are both transit countries. Most of the Afghan stretch will be underground - much as the US-supported BTC from Baku in Azerbaijan to Ceyhan, Turkey. In theory, local villages will be paid to guard the pipeline. But that still does not guarantee security to a steel serpent crossing western Afghanistan and then going east through Kandahar.
Once again in theory, TAPI is indeed a steel Silk Road between Central and South Asia. If TAPI is ever built - and that's still a big "if" - certainly it will mark a monster crossover of Pipelineistan with the US Empire of Bases. Because none other than the Pentagon and NATO will provide the overall security. And that means the Atlanticist West forever embedded in AfPak. One can imagine what the Taliban on both sides - not to mention disgruntled Pashtuns in general - will make of that.
And even if TAPI is built, this still does not mean that its key competitor, the $7.3 billion Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline, also known as the "peace pipeline", has lost the battle - much to Washington's horror. The Indians have said that much - they are now chasing insurance giants of the Lloyds variety. And Pakistan definitely wants both TAPI and IPI.
TAPI theoretically should be finished by 2014. Surprise! That's exactly the deadline year (for now ...) for American troops to exit Afghanistan. No one will be exiting anything. Finally, the whole AfPak imbroglio will be revealed for what it is; a Pipelineistan gambit.
Meanwhile, enjoy the Year of the Drone. And while we're at it, here's some breaking news. The 2011 Pentagon/NATO strategy for AfPak is already established: wait for the Taliban spring/summer offensive to see where they're at. And then drone them to death. Call it Drone Eye for the Bad Guy....


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By TOM LEONARD IN NEW YORK
-Breaks the speed of sound after traveling at mach 1.24
-Austrian daredevil had been planning the feat for five years
-Previous launches had been delayed due to wind
-One tiny error could have resulted in his blood boiling and his brain exploding
For more than four nerve- racking minutes, he was a tiny white speck against a dark sky, hurtling from 24 miles above the Earth at up to 729mph.
Then his parachute opened and five minutes later, to the relief of the millions watching, 'Fearless Felix' Baumgartner was back on solid ground – having made the highest and fastest skydive in history .
In the process, the 43-year-old Austrian became the first freefall diver to break the sound barrier, and also broke the record for the highest-ever manned balloon ascent.
He made his death-defying jump from a tiny capsule that took him up to the edge of space after days of delays due to bad weather.
The helium inside the capsule's vast silver parachute had expanded to fill nearly 30million cubic feet by the time Baumgartner opened the hatch, more than 127,000ft above the New Mexico desert.
Falling to his knees, he punched the air in triumph as his mission control room, packed with scientific experts and family including his teary-eyed mother, Eva, erupted into roars of applause.
The extreme sportsman has skydived or base-jumped off statues and skyscrapers around the world, but yesterday's feat was easily the biggest challenge of his career.
Nobody could be quite sure about the physical effects of breaking the sound barrier in freefall, and if Baumgartner's pressurised spacesuit and helmet had been damaged it could have been catastrophic.
The multi-million pound attempt, sponsored by the energy drink maker Red Bull, had begun before dawn as a support team unwrapped the huge parachute on a landing strip that had been hand-cleared of anything that might damage its thin fabric.
The ascent took around two-and-a-half hours, faster than expected. But there were fears the mission would once again be cancelled, after he reported that the heating device in his visor was not working properly, causing it to mist up.
He and his mentor, Joe Kittinger, back in mission control, discussed whether to terminate the attempt. Kittinger, an 84-year-old US Air Force colonel who set the previous freefall record in 1960 when he jumped from 102,800 feet, had agreed to come out of retirement to help Baumgartner set a new record.
source: dailymail


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Derren Brown is an illusionist, Mentalist and a Magician. You can't believe everything he shows in his performance. Its all part of his show. Darren Quotes that he achieves his results by "magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship" which includes the viewers as well. If you go through his old shows he used to do more incredible tricks than this like David Blaine which is moreover like illusion and magic. I cant believe that he can hypnotise such a huge audience by snapping fingers unless they are treated with hallucinative drugs or something. While its a part of show; when there are cameras around, audience will be more conscious and mind will be more active. Its impossible to hypnotise such a large audience into a trance state at such a crowd. Plus this show is in Channel 4 for years. It has been taken out from SciFi Category to Entertainment years ago. Its quite entertaining. You have to question your intellect before believing anything. Its quite a popular show though.
Its just entertainment. Purely Entertainment. Unfortunately, People believe it. When I watched his first show, I was almost convinced. But, I couldn't get along with some of his psychological and Hypnotic abilities. I searched about him in the internet and watched a few shows including the interview with Prof. Richard Dawkins. He himself claims that 'I'm being honest about my dishonesty'. Which is the punch word, "Magic, Suggestion, Psychology, misdirection and showmanship". He is honest in that. Everyone should approach this show just like WWE or a street magic. Some of the shows are informative and some are misleading. Its Entertainment Bussines. No one cares about your intellect.


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New photo released over the past week shows Chris Brown and Karrueche Tran cuddling. The two look exhausted and somewhat sad, most likely due to public criticism of their relationship via Rihanna fans.
In a matter of a few short weeks after breaking up with singer Rihanna, Chris Brown got back with model Karrueche Tran. The fact of the matter is the two never truly broke up. Tran and Brown were sneaking around together, as he saw no real faithfulness coming from Rihanna, but kept her around for his career comeback and probation hearing.
The domestic violence incident between the two in 2009 changed the dynamic of their relationship and things were not the same. There are issues there, hence the couple repeatedly breaking up and getting back together. They need therapy. They've inflicted so much damage on each other, mentally and emotionally. Then there's the actual fist fight, which was regrettable, as couples should not be brawling.
The photo of Tran and Brown should give Rihanna pause. Clearly Tran means something to him, as he could have chosen a number of other women, yet he went back to her. Ironically, people in the industry are still stating Rihanna wants Brown back and is hoping for a reconciliation. Man beats you after you started hitting him, dumps you, gets back with you, then dumps you again for the same woman and you're still asking around in the industry about what he is doing like he has you whipped. And she calls herself a bad girl. Sounds weak to me.


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State considers decertifying election software
Thadeus Greenson/The Times-Standard
Posted: 02/22/2009 01:27:29 AM PST
California Secretary of State Debra Bowen is considering withdrawing
the state's approval of the flawed Premier Elections Solutions
software that resulted in almost 200 ballots disappearing from
Humboldt County's final November election results.
Bowen's office announced that it will hold a public hearing March 17
at her Sacramento office to discuss the findings of its investigation
into the problem, and to take public comment on the possible
withdrawal of the state's approval of the voting system. Meanwhile,
the two other counties in the state that use the system are left
contemplating what its decertification would mean, and some election
advocates are lobbying for some punitive action to be taken against
Premier Elections Solutions.
"The public hearing is typically the last step in the process,"
Secretary of State spokeswoman Nicole Winger said. "It
offers one final opportunity for input, for the vendor to state their
side of the story and for the public to give comments or input as
well. It's a chance for everyone to be on the same page and see where
things stand."
The software error reportedly first came to Bowen's attention after
Humboldt County Registrar of Voters Carolyn Crnich informed her office
that the first-of-its-kind Humboldt County Election Transparency
Project had uncovered a discrepancy in the final vote tallies from the
county's November election.
The project found that 197 vote-by-mail ballots, which had
been scanned through vote counting machines, mysteriously disappeared
from the final ballot tally as tabulated by Premier Elections
Solutions' GEMS software.
The problem was traced to a programming error with the specific
version of the software used in Humboldt County -- GEMS version
1.18.19 -- a programming error that sometimes results in the first
deck of ballots scanned through the vote counting machine vanishing
without a trace from the final results.
Chris Riggall, a spokesman for Premier Elections Solutions, said in a
previous interview with the Times-Standard that the company had known
of the programming error since 2004. Saying the certification process
is too lengthy and time consuming to have had the software
re-certified, Riggall said Premier instead issued "work around" orders
by e-mail to its customers instructing them how to take steps to avoid
the problem.
The terse, 40-word e-mail, a copy of which was obtained by the
Times-Standard, tells the vendor's customers that it is "very
important that you follow these instructions," and urges them to
the Premier's representatives with any questions.
In two other California counties using the same software -- San Luis
Obispo and Santa Barbara -- elections officials included the "work
around" orders into their written Election Day procedures. In Humboldt
County, then Elections Manager Lindsey McWilliams said he received the
e-mail, but failed to pass the information along to his boss at the
time, Crnich, or his successor, Kelly Sanders.
The transparency project that discovered the error passes every ballot
cast in an election through an optical scanner after it's been
officially counted. The ballot images are then placed online, along
with open-source software, created by volunteer Mitch Trachtenberg,
that allows viewers to sort the ballots by precinct and scrutinize the
vote as they see fit.
Trachtenberg and Crnich met last week with Bowen and members of her
staff to offer a demonstration of the project, and they said the
presentation went well.
Careful to say that Bowen has not yet endorsed the transparency
project, Winger said her office was certainly interested to hear about
the fledgling project.
"Secretary Bowen is always interested to hear the details of efforts
to make elections more transparent, auditable and accurate," Winger
said. "She certainly is open to ideas about how to accomplish that on
a secure, statewide level."
Reached Thursday, Riggall said Premier believes the version of its
GEMS software in question should be taken out of circulation in
"We completely agree that that version of GEMS should not continue to
be used," he said. "We absolutely have no problem and certainly would
concur were the secretary to take that action directing counties to
use a later version."
In Humboldt County, the Board of Supervisors has already approved a
plan for the county elections office to switch to Hart InterCivic
equipment. Crnich is currently working with Bowen's office to come up
with a plan to fund the switch, which will then come back before the
board for final approval.
But, the possible decertification of the version of GEMS currently
used in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo is raising some questions
there for elections officials, especially with the state calling a
special election in May. Officials in both counties said they are
still looking into how they would proceed if the approval of their
voting systems were to be withdrawn.
Meanwhile, some in the election watchdog community are pushing for
either the Secretary of State's Office or the federal Elections
Assistance Commission to pursue punitive actions against Premier,
which they say knowingly kept elections systems in place that had
unacceptable error rates.
Riggall said Premier has done nothing disingenuous, and notified its
customers immediately upon discovering the error in its vote counting
system, carefully instructing them how to "work around" the problem.
"I don't see that there is anything -- absolutely nothing -- in how we
have handled this issue going back several years that has been
disingenuous," Riggall said.
Trachtenberg, on the other hand, said he thinks it would be
appropriate for the Department of Justice or the Attorney General's
Office to investigate the matter.
"I think that would be totally appropriate," Trachtenberg said. "They
sold software that doesn't work."
Thadeus Greenson can be reached at 441-0509 or email@example.com.


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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
One very special Endo
Dr "D" agrees that Maddison needs to see a GI doctor based on her lows being only after meals. She also assured me I'm doing nothing wrong. I'm not missing anything, and there isnt anything else I could be doing that I haven't already. PEACE OF MIND. Now was the time I needed to hear that! I can't tell you enough how one simple visit today changed so many of my hard feelings! I feel like I'm cured of this guilt trip. I've been heard and my concerns are validated! Now we can move forward. A cancellation at the GI's office leaves us with an appointment tomorrow after school. Hallelujah!
I'm still freaked out by the fact that Maddison is unaware of her lows. We have always been very fortunate that Maddison was able to sense her lows before they got unsafely low. All I can do is run her higher right now and PRAY that someone can tell when she is off. School will continue to stress me out for now I guess. How do you send your kid to school knowing they dont feel their lows!!?? I've emailed Maddison's teacher and asked her to be especially attentive to any changes she may exhibit. I know she thinks I'm crazy by now. Thats ok. Sometimes we have to be.
Speaking of crazy....the school continues to suggest that Maddison no longer qualifies for an IEP. New testing results are back and we will be reviewing the results in a meeting the next few weeks. Today I contacted the ADA for an advocate. Now we will be good to go in this fight. It disgusts me that we have to fight for Maddison in so many ways. I guess I was naive to think the school is out for HER best interest.
Today Maddison woke up in the higher 300's with moderate ketones which is weird. New ratio from 1:14 to 1:20 left her in the 300's after breakfast. She wasn't low, and thats all that matters at this point. Maddison's A1c came back at 7.7% which I was HAPPY with. HAPPY. I was honestly relieved to hear I wasn't missing too many lows. Now we move forward and hope we find the answer to getting us back on track.
((Oh and thanks to everyone who offered suggestions on changing our meter. You never know what one might forget to consider! Unfortunately, these lows aren't a meter issue. We replaced all meters when these lows started back in Septemeber, and I even traded pumps with Maddison to assure they weren't malfunctioning.))
5 comments:
- Amy said...
Congrats on the great A1C! So glad that you have a great Endo...and find it amazing that you can get right in to see a GI Dr.-- anxious to hear how it goes!
- November 3, 2009 at 3:55 PM
- phonelady said...
thank god kelly . I m so glad and I so hope that all gets worked out soon . please let us know how it works out .
- November 3, 2009 at 5:05 PM
- Wendy said...
I'm so happy you're feeling better :) Dr. D just has a way of doing that!!!!
Can't wait to hear what GI has to say....
- November 3, 2009 at 6:28 PM
- Meri said...
Hooray this doctor was able to get through to you...it is never your fault! You are doing a phenomenal job!
- November 3, 2009 at 9:29 PM
I'm glad the endo validated your concerns. I hope the GI doctor can diagnose the problem quickly. Celiac can take a while to diagnose. I hope the endo gave you a strategy for the low blood sugars after eating in the meantime. Now would not be the time I would seek to change her diabetes plan. With all these lows, the school should be very concerned. After all, they are legally liable for her while she is in their care. Pray for that GI doctor to solve the problem.
- November 4, 2009 at 9:19 AM


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Yes, it's difficult to contain my enthusiasm for the Pommes winning the 2003 Rugby World Cup, but I'll manage. It did turn out to be a good final game, almost very good, but it had everything to do with the hype surrounding the game than the actual play itself. This article, I think, captured the pre-game festivities just about right. World sporting events just help to show everything that is right with the world - in my humble opinion. From the previously-mentioned article, check out the joking that will go on between the Brits, the Aussies, and the New Zealanders:
Ordinary Australians are more likely to joke about the English not taking a bath; your average Pom about the Australian finding culture only in the bottom of yoghurt cartons. Both will joke about New Zealanders being over-enamoured of sheep: hence the notion that the "Cormo Express" be re-named the "Love Boat" and sent to Auckland.We got at least one great headline (coming soon) out of it, though.
Johhny Wilkinson was superb, per usual, for England. He kicked the winning goal with just one minute remaining in overtime.
Now, let's get to detracting. Rugby is far too slow for my taste, even though I had some Brit sitting across the table from me (at Summers) explaining to his significant other how much faster and continuous - continous? - Rugby was than American football. Now, I'm not going to sit here and defend the American football as a continuous game, but to call Rugby continuous because it has slightly fewer stops than American football is like calling Afghanistan a nice place for a visit because it's slightly less violent than Iraq.
Let's set up another joke - it's worth it. During the runup to the final, the Aussie press was all over England for playing a predictable, sleepy game - and the criticism wasn't all undeserved. With that, there is also a general knock that the version of Rugby played in the Rugby World Cup relies too much on the not-overly-exciting 'goal' - like a field goal in American football. The 'try', worth five points instead of three, is akin to the touchdown in American football, and like the touchdown, it is much more exciting than a 'goal'. When you add the automaticity and long range of a goal-kicker like Johnny Wilkinson to the mix, you get more and more predictability, more stops in play, etc. Here's the joke from an Aussie:
I was sitting in my favourite local pub last weekend, watching the England v France semi-final. There was a group of England supporters at the bar, and they had a mascot with them. A dachshund done up in a little red-and-white vest. Don't ask me how they talked the doorman into letting them bring it in, but they managed it somehow.
Well, not long into the match, France gave away a penalty and, true to form, Johnny Wilkinson nalied it through the uprights for 3 points. The dog started yapping and rolling about, much to the delight of the English, and the amazement of everyone else.
A little later, Johnny made one of his famous field goals, putting the English further ahead. The dog went mad! It did three back-flips on the bar, and then ran up and down high-fiving all the punters. Most of us were agape by this stage at the dog's athletic ability and intelligence, so I went over and said to his owner, "That dog really is amazing. I've never seen anything like it, but I have to know... What does he do when England score a try?"
The Englishman gave a shrug, and with a totally straight face said:
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Teacherskills And The Online Classroom
Teachers planning to move their teaching and learning online must be aware that it is important for them to equip themselves with certain skills. Besides the ICT literacy that is to be expected of them, what other skills would they need?
In truth, the basic teaching skills that a teacher is supposed to have in brick-and-mortar classroom still applies and perhaps it may be argued that some of them become even more essential. The essential ingredients of what makes a good class and lesson will still remain. Teacher beliefs and values, class management skills, a clear understanding of the learning outcomes, the assessment of the learning, good instructional planning and motivational skills are all still important ingredients of a successful class whether online or otherwise.
However, the manner these skill are put into practice in the online classroom will differ quite considerably. For example, with regards to the need to create a safe learning environment, in a brick-and-mortar classroom, everyone is able to see and talk to each other spontaneously while in an online classroom, this is not the case. Plus the facial gestures and the nuances in the way words are spoken that is so important in everyday communication is replaced with only dry and impersonal text. This is where the well-known emoticons come into play. Other examples of unique online class management skills include for example taking into account the types of online behavioral tendencies of online participants.
Good instructional planning or design becomes even more important in the online classroom. Good instructional planning is required in a brick-and-mortar classroom but in such classrooms, teachers can make spontaneous adaptations to the situation in the classrooms. In an online environment it is not as easy to do so. This can influence considerably the flow of the lesson or instruction.
In short, teachers need to familiarize themselves first with the likely online classroom environment. They must also remember that the online classroom environment can differ according to the kind of learning activity that is to be used. A discussion forum is quite different from a synchronous chat session. The facilitation approach for both would also be quite varied. Drill-and-practice activities require perhaps less class management attention. The best way for teachers to understand the differences between these environments is to perhaps undergo an online class themselves.
In seeking to understand the students' online experience, the teachers must learn to be online students themselves. The online experience for the teachers does not have to be a class on online learning itself. But it is important that whatever the online course the teacher undergoes, the teacher should consciously note the experience and compare it with their past classoom learning experience. Only then can they craft an online lesson themselves. The crafting of an online lesson goes beyond the technicalities of the online learning platform. More important is the re-shaping of the traditional teaching skills to fit the new environment.
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You only get one shot, that's right, just one. With the controversy over the judges' scoring in the eyes of some in the Cotto-Clottey WBO welterweight title bout last month, many boxing aficionados have gone back and re-watched the fight several times. This is a great concept and it helps one make their case for whatever side they happen to come down on regarding the fight and who should've been awarded the decision.
There's only one problem with that, and it's a rather huge one. The judges scoring the fight as it happens live only get one shot. They don't get the option of going back and re-watching it to check and see how cleanly Clottey's uppercuts were landing or by how much they may have missed by. The replay is something that the three judges scoring the fight didn't have the luxury of benefiting from as they were scoring the fight on June 20th. They had one shot and one shot only.
The judges must block out the crowd noise and make sure they score rounds/fights on what they saw and aren't influenced by the crowd and don't submit cards reflective of such or they'll end up sitting amongst them. This is something I tend to beat to death sometimes. It's just that I believe some opinions are wrong and some rounds in boxing can only be seen one way, right or wrong. Scoring a fight like Chambers-Dimitrenko a draw as did judge Paul Thomas did is dead wrong — end of story.
I hate to break the news, but whatever you score any fight as you're watching it live is your real score. Whatever you changed after the fact doesn't count. Sure, it may be a more realistic score of how the fight should've been scored, but it doesn't count because it took you at least two screenings to derive at that final score.
What's important to keep in mind when scoring a fight live that is drastically different from watching the tape is you know the result when you watch the tape. So that big right hand that you saw watching the fight live, that looked like it did damage, you realize when watching the tape that it didn't do all that much. And that perception definitely affects how you see and score the round/fight.
Since I have been obsessed with the sport of boxing, my all-time favorite fight is the first fight between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali. The reason I bring this up is because Frazier vs. Ali I is the fight that I have watched more than any other fight in my life. In fact, I must embarrassingly admit that I have watched the closed circuit broadcast in its entirety over 500 times. To this day I can tell what round it is by just watching no more than 15 seconds of it. I only reveal this because it came from watching this fight so many times that it taught me a lot about scoring a fight and why the first score of the fight on the night it happens is the only one that counts.
From hours and hours of watching the closed circuit copy of SuperFight I, there were two rounds that stood out to me every time I watched it regarding how they were officially scored and how I saw them. Rounds three and four were all scored in favor of Joe Frazier by judges Artie Aidala, Bill Recht and referee Arthur Mercante. However, when I watched these rounds reviewing the tape of the fight, I always score them for Ali. Not once in a while or most of the time, every time.
During rounds three and four, Ali dominates Frazier for at least the first 2:20 of them, so much to the point that Frazier doesn't land a clean punch during that time. Even blow-by-blow commentator Don Dunphy says during the fourth round, "These are big rounds by the ex-champ." However, in both rounds Joe finally catches up with Muhammad and lands a couple of big left hooks to his chin during the last 30-40 seconds of the round. In the fourth round, Frazier lands three big hooks spread out over a 10-15 second gap on Ali that have the crowd at the Garden on their feet oohhing and ahhing. When the round ends, going by the crowd noise you get the impression that Frazier has Ali in trouble. But he really didn't.
So what gives here? How can an opinionated writer such as myself be so emphatic that in the "Fight of The Century," Muhammad Ali clearly won rounds three and four against Joe Frazier, yet not have the slightest bit of an issue with the three officials who scored both rounds for Joe Frazier?
The reason for that is simple. Being at the fight that night I remember the crowd being in an uproar. The noise was deafening and I have no doubt that Frazier's big hooks that landed flush on Ali's jaw gave the perception that it was impossible for him not to have been shook at the end of the round. This excitement and anticipation of the moment caused the crowd and the judges to forget the going over Ali had just administered to Frazier for more than two minutes prior to Joe's nailing Ali with his signature punch a few times.
I'll go one better. Forget the fact who was there at the fight watching it live. Just go by the tape. The crowd noise stimulated by Frazier's massive left-hooks gives the impression that he has seized control of the round. Despite the fact that I don't have a morsel of a doubt that Ali won both the third and fourth rounds, I also don't have an issue with them being scored in Frazier's favor, simply because I believe had I been a judge that night, I would've scored them the same way, for Frazier.
See, on Monday night, March 8th, 1971, I didn't know nor did the officials that Ali would be tagged with bigger hooks from Joe Frazier even more flush and he wouldn't be stopped. Watching the fight live that night as an official, I might have thought Frazier had Ali in real trouble. Only in hindsight did we learn after the fight that Ali was only in trouble and close to being stopped during the last minute of the 11th round.
This is why my watching the fight and scoring it 500-plus times is irrelevant. Most likely in the moment I would've seen those rounds as Frazier's just as those working the fight that night did. That cannot be adjusted or changed after viewing the tape. That's why your first score of the fight while watching it in the moment is how you saw the fight. Whatever you pick up or realized you missed doesn't factor in to what you scored it that night.
I'd be willing to bet had Artie Aidala, Bill Recht and Arthur Mercante not worked Frazier vs. Ali and watched the tape of it in my living room, all three would score rounds three and four for Ali. But that ain't how it works. The judges only get one shot to decide and score it. Just as they are held to their score in the eyes of history, so should we.
The next time you score a fight that you're watching on TV as it's happening, save your score sheet. Go back a week later and score the fight again. No doubt your second score of the fight will probably be more accurate and a better indication on how it went, but your first score is how you really saw it.
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I love those independent, locally owned and operated places that kick the giant's asses. The ones that you discover by accident, or through a friend, or just because it was on the way and smelled too inviting to pass up.
There are four in particular that, if I could arrange the world to my liking, I'd plunk down right next to my house. Or possibly live in....
Taj Mahal, Prescott, Arizona: I've been going to this one since my college days. It's one of the few things I was grateful to my vegan ex boyfriend for - I'd never even considered Indian cuisine until he dragged me in for dinner. Instant addiction. I ended up there for the champagne brunch regularly on Sundays the whole time I lived in Prescott, and it's the first place I hit whenever I'm in town. They make a great chicken tikka masala, but their butter chicken is absolutely to die for. I never walk out of Taj Mahal: I waddle, stuffed to the gills with some of the best Indian food this side of India.
Pita Jungle, Tempe, Arizona: Another thing I can thank the ex for. He discovered this hip little college town joint and convinced me to yet again expand my culinary horizons. It's a loud, bohemian little place that serves some of the best Mediterranean food ever cooked. Their shawarma weighs nearly a pound: a thick pita stuffed full of rotisserie chicken, onions, lettuce, and pickles, finished off with the best garlic sauce in the known universe. Add a side of garlic new potatoes and a slice of baklava for dessert, and this is another place I have to loosen the belt for. Ye gods. It's the only thing I'm looking forward to when I go back to the Valley next week, aside from friends and family.
Pike Place Chowder, Seattle, Washington: Located right by Pike Place Market, this place doesn't look like much. It tastes like a billion dollars. I'm an inveterate chowder hater - I've never been a soup person to begin with, and chowder was one of my least favorites. I tagged along with a couple of visiting friends who are chowder fanatics, and got suckerpunched by the seared scallop chowder. Seared fucking scallops! They serve it up in a sourdough bread bowl, and it's one of those flavors I dream of on a regular basis.
Pagliacci Pizza, Kirkland, Washington: This was one of those wonderful discoveries made by poking through the intertoobz in search of something a little better than Papa John's when we first moved up here and our dishes hadn't arrived yet. I rely on them to keep me fed and happy most weekends. Their pizza is fantastic - really premium Italian American goodness, with a ton of fresh and exotic ingredients to choose from. Top it off with some sweet cream gelato, locally made, and heaven is at hand, delivered to my door by some of the nicest delivery guys and gals ever. And calling in the order is painless: they've hired smart and fun folks who always make me feel like their most cherished customer. As if they weren't already awesome enough, their pizza boxes are currently printed with voting information.
So there ye go. Just a few of my favorite local establishments. What're yours?
26 September, 2008
Friday Favorite Restaurants
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|Page from Something New by Lucy Knisley
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Graphic Memoir Review: Something New
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Thanks for your review of "Something New." I've read and enjoyed "An Age of License" and "Displacement" by Lucy Knisley, but haven't yet read "Relish" or "Something New" - more additions to my library list!ReplyDeleteReplies
Oh, those are the two I still haven't read yet! My library system doesn't have them - still need to get them!Delete
This looks like a real fun graphic novel, one I'd enjoy. The only graphic novels in our house involve superheroes :)ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing with Small Victories Sunday Linkup. Pinning to our linkup board and hope you found some great posts to visit this week!Replies
I think you would enjoy all of Lucy Knisley's graphic memoirs, Tanya!Delete
I'm not a huge comic book fan, but I love love Lucy Knisley's books. It's great to see you are a fan also!ReplyDelete
Loved this one too! She is so talented!ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes, she is! I loved Relish. Can't wait to read a couple of hers that I missed.Delete


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Hope your weekend was a good one and you managed to see some sunshine :) My weekend was good, busy with the workshop and some crafting.
Thought I'd make some cards using Crazy For Cupcakes seeing as it was out for the workshop and it's a stamp set I have not used in a long time. Made a card or two in different colourways :) Loved the card by Jules, so have taken inspiration from her card that she recently made.
Here's a Crazy For Cupcake Birthday card for my collection:
Here's a close-up of the gorgeous glitter!
Cardstock: Bashful Blue and Whisper White.
Inkpad: Chocolate Chip and Bashful Blue. Versamark Stamp Pad.
Accessories: Striped Grosgrain Ribbon - Bashful Blue, Stampin' Around Handle, Stampin' Around Wheel Guide, Sponge Dauber, Stampin' Pastels - Chocolate Chip, Stampin' Write Marker - Real Red, Tombow Multi Purpose Adhesive, Fine Cosmo Glitter - Light Blue, Stamp-A-Ma-Jig, Bone Folder and Dimensionals.
Non-SU: Oval Nestabilities.
Card Size: A6
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(Again, i took these photos, not quite as nice as if my husband had taken them... sorry!)
3-4 handfuls of spinach
2 handfuls of walnuts
3/4 cup olive oil
1/3 cup lemon olive oil (we got this from Stonehouse Olive Oil)
1/2 table spoon minced garlic
Pinch of salt and pepper
A basil leaf or two
* Also, I have always wanted to throw in some sun dried tomato, so that could be a good addition to try.
Basically, just combine all ingredients into a cuisinart and blend. Also I add more oil, salt, or pepper to taste and texture.
We put this on sandwiches, pasta and toast. It is so very delicious!


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I thought "Bruk Out" was one of the best cuts on the Major Lazer album and thought it could do with some bass-y remix action, and I could not have thought of someone better for the job than Foamo. So imagine my delight when Diplo's label Mad Decent gave this monster away yesterday. The original's ragga shouts are layered over the top of an angry bassline and thunderous beats. Exactly what I was hoping for.
Major Lazer - Bruk Out (Foamo Remix) [click to download]
Keep it funky,
Saturday, 27 February 2010
Major Lazer (Foamo Remix)
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- Mr. Brown said...
Sick tune
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- Nite said...
This is quite epic!
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