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This afternoon, most glorious spousal unit sent me a recipe. It intrigued me, but not enough to actually follow it.
This cold soup is amazingly simple when you have ripe avocados, shrimp, lime juice, butter, sherry, pequin powder (or cayenne), fresh garlic, chives, and some whole milk on hand.
Oh yeah, you'll also need a blender and a pan to cook the shrimp.
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CINCINNATI -- Now, it's the Washington Redskins who may have trouble keeping all of this in perspective.
The Redskins yesterday gave Cincinnati Bengals coach Sam Wyche a chance to repeat last week's lecture on making the effort to win more important than actually winning. Washington blew a 17-point, second-half lead before coming back to edge the Bengals, 34-27, before 52,038 fans at Riverfront Stadium.
"The two teams played a whale of game today," said Wyche after his team dropped to 0-4. "It was a tremendous game. Both teams should be congratulated. Neither team should read any headlines calling them bums [or] calling them bad guys because they didn't win.

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Posten Norge's integration initiatives
Posten Norge has a clear aim of reflecting Norwegian society's ethnic diversity at all levels of the organisation. The following measures shall contribute to achieving this goal:
Recruitment and recruitment ethics
Posten Norge's ethical guidelines for recruitment state that, «Recruitment work in the Group shall be anchored in Posten Norge's core values and thus all applicants shall feel that they have an equal opportunity to be given a job regardless of their age, gender, sexual orientation or religious, ethnic or cultural background».
The introduction in the Group's job vacancy advertisements is worded generally and should apply to all applicants, regardless of gender, age and ethnicity: «Our values, Integrity, Respect, Cooperation, Openness and Courage, control the way we work and contribute to an inclusive and diverse workplace».
Posten Norge's working language is Norwegian. In order to work for us, we require employees to have good spoken and written Norwegian skills. In our experience, language is the key to successful integration. It also provides the individuals in question with better opportunities for furthering their careers.
Employee survey
Posten Norge's annual employee survey (which is anonymous) has questions about bullying, harassment and discrimination. If the survey reveals that such conditions exist, the manager is responsible for bringing up the subject at the departmental meeting and setting up an action plan that outlines the specific measures to be taken.
Religious freedom
At several of Posten Norge's units a room is set aside specifically for meditation and prayer. Some units have also installed a crouch toilet in addition to standard toilets. The wearing of stipulated religious clothing is accepted in Posten Norge. The selection of food at the cafeterias at some of our largest worksites takes into consideration different allergies and provides a larger selection of vegetarian food, and some sites offer halal food.
Racism and discrimination
In Norway, Posten Norge has been a racism-free zone since December 2000. The contract between Norwegian People's Aid, the Group's LO-affiliated unions and Posten Norge AS was renewed in January 2012. This contract applies to all of the Group's companies.
Through this agreement Posten Norge is obligated to work for equality and assure diversity among its employees. The contract sends a clear message: «There is a place here for everyone, irrespective of colour, religion, disability or cultural heritage». Posters stating this have been hung at all workplaces and breaches of the rules are reported. The racism-free zone is also included as a specific point in Posten Norge's company rules.
In addition, MOD courses are regularly held in collaboration with Norwegian People's Aid. The aim is to prevent prejudice and racism, increase awareness of one's own reactions and attitudes and help to work through these in group discussions.
Internal development programme
«You make the difference» is an internal development programme for employees with immigrant backgrounds who want experience from jobs in administration and management in the Posten Norge Group. It is specifically directed towards operational workers who possess skills that they do not have use for in their current jobs. Our goal is to contribute to increased diversity. The programme consists of year-long internships in various parts of the Group. The candidates are offered their own mentor, relevant courses and the opportunity to build networks.
Here our differences are the norm
All of the Group's departments can apply for funding for initiatives aimed at promoting diversity and integration.
Placements for immigrant women
In collaboration with NAV, the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Authority, Posten Norge offers employment placements for unemployed immigrant women who have not previously been employed in Norway.
Mentor programme for unemployed immigrant women
Resource persons at Posten Norge in Norway serve as mentors for unemployed immigrant women. When the programme was started in 2011, all of the mentors were female managers at Posten Norge. Today, mentors can be managers, union representatives, safety representatives or other specialists who would like to work help with integration. The mentors act both as a contact and a «door opener» for the women on their way into employment. They assist women with job applications and teach them about Norwegian working life.
Contact details:
All inquiries related to diversity and integration may be sent to email@example.com


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Skip to comments.Iranian Alert -- July 17, 2004 [EST]-- IRAN LIVE THREAD -- "Americans for Regime Change in Iran"
Posted on 07/16/2004 9:21:53 PM PDT by DoctorZIn
The US media still largley ignores news regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran. As Tony Snow of the Fox News Network has put it, this is probably the most under-reported news story of the year. Most Americans are unaware that the Islamic Republic of Iran is NOT supported by the masses of Iranians today. Modern Iranians are among the most pro-American in the Middle East.
There is a popular revolt against the Iranian regime brewing in Iran today. I began these daily threads June 10th 2003. On that date Iranians once again began taking to the streets to express their desire for a regime change. Today in Iran, most want to replace the regime with a secular democracy.
The regime is working hard to keep the news about the protest movement in Iran from being reported. Unfortunately, the regime has successfully prohibited western news reporters from covering the demonstrations. The voices of discontent within Iran are sometime murdered, more often imprisoned. Still the people continue to take to the streets to demonstrate against the regime.
In support of this revolt, Iranians in America have been broadcasting news stories by satellite into Iran. This 21st century news link has greatly encouraged these protests. The regime has been attempting to jam the signals, and locate the satellite dishes. Still the people violate the law and listen to these broadcasts. Iranians also use the Internet and the regime attempts to block their access to news against the regime. In spite of this, many Iranians inside of Iran read these posts daily to keep informed of the events in their own country.
This daily thread contains nearly all of the English news reports on Iran. It is thorough. If you follow this thread you will witness, I believe, the transformation of a nation. This daily thread provides a central place where those interested in the events in Iran can find the best news and commentary. The news stories and commentary will from time to time include material from the regime itself. But if you read the post you will discover for yourself, the real story of what is occurring in Iran and its effects on the war on terror.
I am not of Iranian heritage. I am an American committed to supporting the efforts of those in Iran seeking to replace their government with a secular democracy. I am in contact with leaders of the Iranian community here in the United States and in Iran itself.
If you read the daily posts you will gain a better understanding of the US war on terrorism, the Middle East and why we need to support a change of regime in Iran. Feel free to ask your questions and post news stories you discover in the weeks to come.
If all goes well Iran will be free soon and I am convinced become a major ally in the war on terrorism. The regime will fall. Iran will be free. It is just a matter of time.
Flame of the ancient faith still flickers in Iran
17 July 2004
CHAK CHAK: Zoroastrians say the sacred spring at Chak Chak, a shrine perched beneath a towering cliff face in the searing desert of central Iran, has lost none of its miraculous healing powers.
"A 32-year-old Muslim came here as a last resort when he was dying from leukemia. I was not sure we should let a Muslim in but he insisted and spent the night here," said Goshtasb Belivani, a priest of Iran's ancient pre-Islamic religion.
"During the night he was visited by a beautiful woman dressed in green who gave him sherbet to drink," he continued.
For the last three months, since being given the all clear from his doctor, the young man has been a regular visitor to the shrine.
The beautiful woman was the ghost of Nikbanou, a 7th century Persian princess who fled to the mountain refuge, escaping Arab horsemen who thundered across the border and planted the green pennants of Islam in Iranian soil.
Islam spread quickly in a society where the priestly and royal elite had alienated most classes beneath them.
Now there are only 30,000 followers of the ancient religion among the Islamic Republic's 66 million people, down from 60,000 at the time of the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Zoroastrians see life as an eternal conflict between their good God Ahura Mazda and Ahriman, the embodiment of evil.
Followers of the prophet Zoroaster, who died in the 6th century BC, say the central tenets of their faith are: "Good thoughts, good words, good deeds."
In early summer, Zoroastrians from across the world meet at the shrine where Nikbanou sought refuge. During the scorching daylight hours they doze on rugs, have picnics and attend prayers in the cool grotto shrine around the flame focal to their worship.
Toward evening, the atmosphere gets far more convivial. Young Zoroastrian men in cowboy hats jive away as one of their friends plays catchy tunes on his Yamaha keyboard.
Girls with free-flowing hair, wearing bright dresses, play catch and giggle while prayers in Avestan, the ancient religious language of the Zoroastrians, are read out over a loud-speaker system.
The Islamic Republic's strict rules on dress and wine are relaxed in the private spaces of the religious minorities.
Iran's Shi'ite Muslims are generally tolerant of the ancient religion.
"We get on fine, we use each other's shops and chat every day," said Mohammad Ali Karimi, who teaches Islamic history and religion in a primary school in the nearby city of Yazd, 400km southeast of Tehran.
"But many of them are emigrating or becoming Muslims," he added.
The Towers of Silence, the two outcrops where Yazd's Zoroastrians used to leave their dead for the vultures, are now a picnic spot.
Many Zoroastrians at Chak Chak said whole families would convert to Islam if someone married outside the community so they would not be denied inheritance payments under Iranian law.
Zoroastrians have their own member of parliament and hold high positions in bodies such as the Oil Ministry. They say their communities are more vibrant in Canada and Australia.
In India, where they are known as Parsis, the community is more than 60,000 strong.
"Many reckon they will do better as doctors and engineers abroad. If I had a second chance, I would probably emigrate," said priest Esfandiar Dastour, 73.
Former parliamentarian Khosro Dabestani insisted problems for Zoroastrians were the same as those for most Iranians but many disagreed.
Some said friends and family had been denied jobs teaching in universities because they were Zoroastrians. Another mentioned being booted out of a chess team just before reaching national level.
"One Muslim elder confiscated our land in a village I know saying 'This is an Islamic country, the land belongs to us'," said one woman.
Another woman, Golchehreh, protested about dress codes.
"I am not a Muslim, why should I have to wear these headscarves?," she complained.
But gray-bearded Zoroastrian pilgrim Iraj thought they had all missed the point.
"There are no mosques, churches and synagogues. They are all in your own heart," he said.
"This shrine is a sham. You need to be out there alone with your God under the sun in the wilderness," he said, pointing into the shimmering whiteness of the desert.
Son of slain photojournalist protests outside Iranian Embassy
Canadian Press
July 16, 200
OTTAWA (CP) - The son of slain photojournalist Zahra Kazemi joined a small but vocal band of protesters at the Iranian Embassy on Friday to demand justice in her murder case.
Stephan Hachemi and about a dozen other demonstrators railed at the embassy with bullhorns and chants from the sidewalk across the street. The noisy protest followed a diplomatic rebuke earlier this week from the federal government.
Ottawa recalled its ambassador to Iran to protest the exclusion of Canadian observers from monitoring the Tehran trial of Kazemi's accused killer.
"It's really the public displaying its anger over this case," Hachemi said.
"We want to make sure we make Zahra Kazemi's case an example so they understand they can't act with impunity against somebody - that human rights are important and they have to be respected."
A pastel portrait of the late Iranian-Canadian photojournalist was placed on the sidewalk facing the embassy building.
Kazemi died last year in Iranian custody after she was arrested outside a Tehran prison.
Iranian authorities at first said Kazemi died of a stroke following her arrest for photographing a protest. They eventually charged an intelligence agent with her beating death.
The incident has strained diplomatic relations.
Iran has insisted the trial will be fair and impartial. But Canada says the secrecy of the proceedings violates international standards and has twice recalled its ambassador in less than a year.
9/11 Commission Finds Ties Between al-Qaeda and Iran
Senior U.S. officials have told TIME that the 9/11 Commission's report will cite evidence suggesting that the 9/11 hijackers had previously passed through Iran
By ADAM ZAGORIN AND JOE KLEIN
Friday, Jul. 16, 2004
Next week's much anticipated final report by a bipartisan commission on the origins of the 9/11 attacks will contain new evidence of contacts between al-Qaeda and Iranjust weeks after the Administration has come under fire for overstating its claims of contacts between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
A senior U.S. official told TIME that the Commission has uncovered evidence suggesting that between eight and ten of the 14 "muscle" hijackersthat is, those involved in gaining control of the four 9/11 aircraft and subduing the crew and passengerspassed through Iran in the period from October 2000 to February 2001. Sources also tell TIME that Commission investigators found that Iran had a history of allowing al-Qaeda members to enter and exit Iran across the Afghan border. This practice dated back to October 2000, with Iranian officials issuing specific instructions to their border guardsin some cases not to put stamps in the passports of al-Qaeda personneland otherwise not harass them and to facilitate their travel across the frontier. The report does not, however, offer evidence that Iran was aware of the plans for the 9/11 attacks.
The senior official also told TIME that the report will note that Iranian officials approached the al-Qaeda leadership after the bombing of the USS Cole and proposed a collaborative relationship in future attacks on the U.S., but the offer was turned down by bin Laden because he did not want to alienate his supporters in Saudi Arabia.
The Iran-al Qaeda contacts were discovered and presented to the Commissioners near the end of the bipartisan panel's more than year-long investigation into the sources and origins of the 9/11 attacks. Much of the new information about Iran came from al-Qaeda detainees interrogated by the U.S. government, including captured Yemeni al-Qaeda operative Waleed Mohammed bin Attash, who organized the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole, and from as many as 100 separate electronic intelligence intercepts culled by analysts at the NSA. The findings were sent to the White House for review only this week. But Commission members have been hinting for weeks that their report would have some Iran surprises. As the 9/11 Commission's chairman, Thomas Kean, said in June, "We believe....that there were a lot more active contacts, frankly, with Iran and with Pakistan than there were with Iraq."
These findings follow a Commission staff report, released in June, which suggested that al-Qaeda may have collaborated with Hezbollah and its Iranian sponsors in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers, a key American military barracks in Saudi Arabia. Previously, the attack had been attributed only to Hezbollah, with Iranian support. A U.S. indictment of bin Laden filed in 1998 for the bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa said al-Qaeda "forged alliances . . . with the government of Iran and its associated terrorist group Hezbollah for the purpose of working together against their perceived common enemies in the West, particularly the United States." But the Commission comes to no firm conclusion on al-Qaeda's involvement in the Khobar disaster.
Since 9/11 the U.S. has held direct talks with Iranand through intermediaries including Britain, Switzerland and Saudi Arabiaconcerning the fate of scores of al-Qaeda that Iran has acknowleded are in the country, including an unspecified number of senior leaders, whom one senior U.S. official called al-Qaeda's "management council". The U.S. as well as the Saudis have unsuccessfully sought the repatriation of this group, which is widely thought to include Saad bin Laden, the son of Osama bin Laden, as well of other key al-Qaeda figures.
Iran at or near nuclear 'no return'
Washington, DC, Jul. 16 (UPI) -- Iran may have passed the point of "political no return" in the development of nuclear capabilities, a leading scholar told a Washington conference Friday.
Ray Takeyh, professor of National Security Studies at the National Defense University, told a panel discussion held by the Center for American Progress the prospect of negotiation was fading "as every day passes."
He stressed Iran was developing weapons for the purpose of deterrence, particularly against the United States and a politically unpredictable Iraq.
There is now a common nationalist unity in Iran against capitulation to outside intervention, he said, pointing out that even the usually progressive Iranian students demonstrated against the signing of additional protocols put forward by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Iranian Revolutionary Guards Enjoy Resurgence
July 16, 2004
The Financial Times
Gareth Smyth
Nearly four weeks after Iranian Revolutionary Guards seized six British marines and two sailors on the wide river separating southern Iran and Iraq, the Iranians have still not returned the digital navigational equipment that would show whether the boats were in Iraqi or Iranian waters.
British officials at first apologised for the craft straying on to the Iranian side. But once Iran freed the eight men, Geoff Hoon, the defence secretary, said they had been snatched from Iraqi waters.
One British official told the FT that the boats - being delivered to Iraqi police - were in shallow water 500m from the border, which is the deepest channel of the river called Shatt al-Arab by Arabs and Arvand Rud by Iranians.
For the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), the arrest of the British forces was a propaganda coup - showing their growing influence in a wider rightwing resurgence after Iran's reformists lost their parliamentary majority in February's election.
The Shatt al-Arab incident is not the only example of the IRGC flexing its muscles. In May, it used tanks to close Tehran's new international airport on its first day of operation, apparently on the "security" grounds that management had been transferred to a "foreign" Turkish-led consortium.
"Any kind of confrontation and isolation helps keeps the military faction strong," said Saeed Leylaz, a newspaper columnist and senior manager in a government-owned vehicle manufacturer.
Separate from the regular army, the 125,000-strong IRGC sees itself as the stead fast defender of the Islamic revolution and is answerable not to the government of reformist president Mohammad Khatami but to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader and most powerful figure.
One reformist newspaper estimates that 90 deputies in the 290-strong parliament have a "revolutionary or military background".
The government will remain in reformist hands until at least next June's presidential election when Mr Khatami stands down. The right's growing strength is felt in a shift in the country's atmosphere. The regular early summer crackdown on women wearing "bad hijab" - coats that hug the figure or scarves showing hair - has been sharper than in recent years. A more pressing effect of the rightward trend, say analysts, is in foreign and security policy, where the IRGC and its allies are exploiting tension over Iran's nuclear programme.
After the International Atomic Energy Agency last month passed a critical resolution, Iran has threatened to resume uranium enrichment, which it suspended last year after an agreement with Germany, France and Britain.
The rise of the Iranian right is also complicating the situation in Iraq, where US and some Iraqi officials complain of Iranian "interference" and have recently alleged that Tehran's agents are retraining the militia of Moqtada al-Sadr, the militant Shia cleric.
Other Iraqi politicians dismiss these allegations as the US Central Intelligence Agency disrupting relations between the new Iraqi government and its eastern neighbour.
But Iran's attitude to Mr Sadr is ambiguous. While many Iranian leaders dislike his Arab nationalism, the militant right and some of the conservative media portray him as a Muslim resistance figure fighting US occupation.
Some moderate conservatives argue that the influence of the military right should not be exaggerated, but are showing signs of unease. During the election, Amir Mohebian, a columnist with the conservative Resalat newspaper, expressed in print his own scepticism when the Guardian Council, an Islamic watchdog, barred more than 2,000 reformist candidates.
Analysts also detect a weakening in the position of Hassan Rowhani, head of the Supreme Council of National Security and Iran's main negotiator over last year's nuclear agreement with Europe.
Mr Rowhani has been seen as a likely candidate of the pragmatic conservatives in next June's presidential election.
Just a few days after Mr Rowhani used a rare press conference last month to welcome the sovereign Iraqi government, Ayatollah Khamenei denounced Iraq's new leaders as "lackeys".
Bomb At Any Cost?
July 16, 2004
TEHRAN -- One of Iran's top ruling clerics vowed Friday that the Islamic republic will continue to pursue its controversial nuclear programme "at any cost" and is determined to become fully self-sufficiant.
"Even if some officials are taking it easy on gaining the technology, the people will not give up," Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said in a Friday prayer sermon in Tehran.
"We are resolute. It is worth achieving it at any cost," said Jannati, who head the powerful Guardians Council -- a body that screens all of the Islamic republic's laws and candidates for public office.
"Nuclear technology is the issue of the day, and neither our officials nor our people will give up this scientific growth," he said.
Jannati also reasserted Iran's desire to be independent in its bid to generate nuclear power, including in fully mastering the sensitive nuclear fuel cycle.
"We are now begging Western nuclear know-how by importing what we lack in this field. Once we achieve the technology, we will no longer be in a position where we have to ask," he said.
Iran is currently top of the agenda for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is probing allegations the country is using power generation as a cover for a secret weapons drive.
Tehran insists its programme is solely aimed at meeting the future energy needs of a burgeoning population and freeing up its oil and gas resources for export.
Growing sex trade
Only democracy can free women from slavery
Donna M. Hughes
July 15, 2004
Last week, I participated in two events commemorating the July 1999 student uprising in Iran. In Washington, D.C., on July 7, the Committee in Support of Referendum in Iran sponsored a panel discussion in the U.S. Senate, and in Toronto, Canada, on July 8, the Canadian Committee for Democracy in Iran held an outdoor rally. Attached is the text of my speech.
A measure of Islamic fundamentalists' success in controlling society is the depth and totality with which they suppress the freedom and rights of women.
Earlier this year, with the assistance of Iranian democracy activists I gathered information about prostitution and the trafficking of women and girls out of Iran for sexual slavery.
It is impossible to know how many victims there are, but all sources indicate an exponential growth in prostitution in Iran. The sex trade is also international, as thousands of Iranian women and girls have been sold into sexual slavery abroad.
This criminal activity is often conducted with the knowledge and participation of the ruling mullahs. Government officials themselves are involved in trading and sexually abusing women and girls.
Many of the girls come from impoverished rural areas. Drug addiction is epidemic throughout Iran, and some addicted parents sell their children to support their habits. High unemployment - 28 percent for youth 15-29 years of age and 43 percent for women 15-20 years of age - is a serious factor in driving restless youth to accept risky offers for work.
The most popular destinations for victims of trafficking from Iran are the Arab countries in the Persian Gulf. In local newspapers in Iran, a number of cases have been documented.
Police have uncovered a number of prostitution and slavery rings operating from Tehran that sent girls to France, Britain, and Turkey.
In the northeastern Iranian province of Khorasan, local police report that girls are being sold to Pakistani men as sex-slaves. The Pakistani men marry the girls, ranging in age from 12 to 20, and then sell them to brothels in Pakistan. In the southeastern border province of Sistan Baluchestan, thousands of Iranian girls reportedly have been sold to Afghani men. Their whereabouts are unknown.
One factor contributing to the increase in prostitution and the sex slave trade is the number of teen girls who are running away from home. The girls are rebelling against fundamentalist imposed restrictions on their freedom, domestic abuse, and parental drug addictions. Unfortunately, in their flight to freedom, the girls find more abuse and exploitation. Ninety percent of girls who run away from home will end up in prostitution.
In cities, shelters have been set-up to provide assistance for runaways. But there have been documented cases of corrupt officials running these shelters using the girls in their prostitution rings.
Some may think a sex slave trade and clerics acting as pimps are contradictions in a country founded and ruled by religious fundamentalists. In fact, these are not such contradictions. First, exploitation and repression are closely associated with each other and complement each other. Both exist where women, individually or collectively, are denied freedom and rights. Second, the Islamic fundamentalists in Iran are not simply conservative Muslims. Since the 1979 revolution, Iran has been a totalitarian terrorist state. Trafficking of women and girls is just another profitable criminal activity of corrupt officials.
Today, the two greatest threats to rights and well being of women in the world are Islamic fundamentalism and the growing sex trade. The fundamentalists in Iran are the chief sponsors of first of these threats, and leading practitioners of second.
Since I wrote an article about prostitution and the trade in women and girls in Iran, a number of people have written to me asking what can be done to stop this trade and assist the victims.
The answer is that only freedom and democracy in Iran can end slavery. Only the overthrow of the mullahs and the defeat of their theocracy will liberate women from a system based on contempt and hatred for women. Only the installation of democracy based on rule of law will rid Iran of the corruption and mafia-like control of Iran. Only individual liberty and equality between men and women will guarantee freedom for women and girls. And only courts of justice will punish the criminal perpetrators for their violence and exploitation.
Of course, we are here today to commemorate the pro-democracy student movement that has courageously demonstrated for just those values and principles. They have heroically stood up to the vicious tyranny in Iran, and many have paid an enormous price for their bravery. Many of those activists have been and are women.
Supporting the bold resistance of these women to the mullahs is the only way to defeat the slave traders and the terrorists. Their voices and lives are essential for establishing a post-terrorist democratic society. Their courage, compassion, and intellect will be needed to help lead a country out of slavery, fear, and corruption.
Those of us with freedom of speech and freedom of association, which are denied to activists in Iran, must use them to support the freedom fighters in Iran. We must work together and lobby our governmental representatives to take positions against the fascist Iranian regime and in support of democracy and freedom. We must tell them that there are no moderate, reformist mullahs in Iran, but there are millions of people who want to be free.
Washington DC Freepers!!!! Alert!!!
We need your help next Monday!!!
Meet at the "Washington Club"
located at 15 Dupont Circle, N.W. Washington DC 20036,
On July 19th from 08:30 till 11:30 AM.
More information below:
Denounce "Council on Foreign Relations" meeting in WDC
SMCCDI (Urgent Action)
Jul 16, 2004
Dear Freedom Lovers,
Once again, the pro-Islamic republic's lobby group in the US and few immoral former US officials, are organizing events in order to buy time for the bankrupt and collapsing theocratic regime with the desire to influence the US policy in reference to Iran. This money oriented group which is totally disregarding the Iranians' aspiration for a "Democratic Regime Change in Iran" and Americans' sacrifices in the "War Against Terror & Tyranny", is hoping to legitimize the barbaric Mullahcracy and is targeting resumption of US-Islamic republic ties in case of the election of Senator J. Kerry as a next US President.
Indeed, Dark forces that have been dreaming of George Bushs defeat are now poised to decide Iran's fate and negotiate Iranians destiny without their presence and consent. They are about to make the kinds of deals that have in the past resulted in tortures and deaths of thousands of Iranians who rose in the name of Freedom, Self Determination, and Independence of Iran.
In this line, a so-called "Iran Task Force" has been created and a launch meeting has been scheduled, in Washington DC, on Monday July 19, 2004, from 08:30 AM till 11:30 AM.
The official responsibles of this illegitimate entity and guest speakers at the meeting are "Zbignew Brzezinski", the National Security Advisor to Jimmy Carter, and "Robert M. Gates, the former CIA Director (1991-93) and current President of Texas A&M University. Maybe It's necessary to remind the lack of intelligence, lucidity and competence of these two individuals who were involved in the two last Democratic administrations of the US and the disastrous consequences of their ill-policies which lead to the rise of Islamism and increase of Terrorism.
The plight of enslaved Iranians and oppressed Middle Easterners in general notwithstanding, how many more 9/11 types of tragedies would it take to fully realize and accept that far from deserving to be romanced, the terror masters' rule must end?
Would an "Allah u Akbar" chanting suicide bombers nuclear blast in middle of Manhattan be convincing enough?
Under these Circumstances,
More than ever, you are OBLIGATED to intervene and to denounce such actions at a time that Iranians are subject to the Islamic regime's persistent repressive measures; And that America's sons and daughters have become the daily targets of its militiamen sent to Iraq as "pilgrims".
There are several ways you can help in making the world hear the cry of freedom of millions of Iranians, who're calling for liberty and their legitimate and violated rights:
1) By demonstrating in order to protest against such meeting in front of the "Washington Club" located at 15 Dupont Circle, N.W. Washington DC 20036, On July 19th from 08:30 till 11:30 AM.
2) By contacting the "Council on Foreign Relations" which is organizing the meeting and protesting against such planning: firstname.lastname@example.com or (212) 434-9716
3) By contacting the US policymakers and officials in order to protest against any support of the Islamic regime and resumption of ties with the Mullahs regime.
They MUST UNDERSTAND the Islamic republic regime is not representative of the Iranian Nation and that it's an Evil regime.
They MUST UNDERSTAND that the only way of establishing a relation between the US and Iran is to back its repressed people and to support them in their quest for SECULARITY and DEMOCRACY....
They MUST UNDERSTAND that supporting the Islamic regime's lobby groups is equal to supporting the "Mother of All Terrorists" and trying to make forget the memories of all those killed in terrorist attacks...
It is YOUR conscientious DUTY to ACT.
Acting TODAY is to help the creation of the Free Iran of Tomorrow and a safer World for all.
July 16, 2004
The "Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran" (SMCCDI)
Seems like SMCCDI are pretty upset about that meeting.
BREAKING NEWS!!!! -- DoctorZin
US sets sights on toppling Iran regime
The Times
July 17, 2004
Michael Binyon and Bronwen Maddox
Re-elected Bush would act to foment revolt, says senior official
THE US will mount a concerted attempt to overturn the regime in Iran if President Bush is elected for a second term.
It would work strenuously to foment a revolt against the ruling theocracy by Irans hugely dissatisfied population, a senior official has told The Times.
The United States would not use military force, as in Iraq, but if Bush is re-elected there will be much more intervention in the internal affairs of Iran, declared the official, who is determined that there should be no let-up in the Administrations War on Terror.
To what extent the official, known to be hawkish, was speaking for the White House was unclear, but his remarks are nevertheless likely to cause alarm in Europe. He hinted at a possible military strike against Irans nuclear facilities, saying that there was a window of opportunity for destroying Irans main nuclear complex at Bushehr next year that would close if Russia delivered crucial fuel rods. To destroy Bushehr after the delivery would cause huge environmental damage. The rods would allow the Iranians to obtain enough plutonium for many dozens of nuclear weapons, he said.
The official also stepped up the pressure on Britain, France and Germany to take a tougher line on Iran, voicing the disdain within the Administration for the Europeans attempt to defuse the Iranian nuclear threat through diplomacy. Britain had joined the effort in order to demonstrate its European credentials, he said. France and Germany had teamed up with Britain because they realised that the pair of them could no longer run Europe alone.
Washington believes that the trio has been embarrassed by Irans failure to hold good to a deal it struck with the Iranian regime last October. Iran pledged to give UN inspectors the freedom to make snap inspections, and also to suspend uranium enrichment.
Since then, some members of the Administration have begun referring in private to Britain, France and Germany as the Tehran three, and to Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, as Jack of Tehran.
If the Europeans fail to get Iran to back down at a meeting this month, the US wants to close the gap between the rival diplomatic approaches and refer Iran to the United Nations Security Council.
Russia is due to deliver the first shipment of nuclear fuel to Iran early next year for insertion into the reactor at Bushehr before the end of the year.
Despite that, the official believes that it is not impossible to get Russia to see it our way and back a UN resolution that would raise the international saliency of Irans nuclear ambitions. He is convinced that Iran is afraid of a conveyor belt that would lead inexorably to sanctions and even military action.
Iran is one of the three members of President Bushs axis of evil and has further angered Washington with its covert interference in Iraq since the end of last years war to topple Saddam Hussein.
The official dismissed suggestions that Washington would hesitate to seek regime change in Iran, given the problems it has encountered in Iraq, and Colin Powell, a restraining influence as Secretary of State, will not be serving a second term. It is less clear how the Administration could foment a revolution without uniting Iranians against the Great Satan.
The official claimed that more than its dislike of the mullahs, the Iranian population was dissatisfied with an economy that did not have jobs for the young: 60 per cent of the population is under 24.
There is little organised opposition inside the country and financing it directly or through front organisations would probably play into the hands of the mullahs anyway.
At present the US relies on about a dozen Farsi satellite television and radio channels in the San Fernando Valley, California. They beam pirate broadcasts to the estimated seven million Iranians with illegal satellite dishes.
Last year Washington also set up a Persian-language Voice of America programme that is broacast into Iraq. The internet offers another channel for US propaganda, but efforts to impose stiff sanctions or fund anti-Government exile groups have been frustrated by a Republican split over the relative merits of confrontation or engagement.
Despite the US threats one of Irans top ruling clerics vowed yesterday that the Islamic republic would continue to pursue its controversial nuclear programme. We are resolute. It is worth achieving it at any cost, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, head of the Guardians Council, said.
BREAKING NEWS!!!! -- DoctorZin
US sets sights on toppling Iran regime
The Times
July 17, 2004
Michael Binyon and Bronwen Maddox
Wow. I sure wouldn't want to be one of the mullah's.
But this sounds like there may be some real tensions with Great Britain right now.
I don't like to hear that sort of stuff.
The tension has been there for quite a while.
Yes, thanks to all of your work, I do know that.
I hadn't seem such a direct "threat" to them before though.
I'm glad that the writer mentioned the fact that there is a parliamentarian of that faith-a single seat set aside for him-in the Iranian legislative body.
However, like the seat reserved for a token Jew-representing, I suppose, the tens of thousands of Jews living around Tehran-and the sprinkling of seats delegated to the large Kurdish community, the Zoroastrian legislator is merely a symbol of this regime's intolerance for any sort of difference, be it of a political, economic or cultural nature.
Anyone who does not adhere to the apocalyptic, morbid vision of the theocratic megalomaniacs currently in charge of Iran's foreign and domestic policy is consigned to political oblivion, if not imprisonment, torture or even death.
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In this post we'll discuss how to deploy a project consisting of two services to Mesosphere, or more specifically a running Marathon instance.
One service will be a web application that outputs simple JSON, and the other will be a router application that will direct traffic to the correct hosts (more on that later). We'll explain how to setup an automated workflow that will allow you to easily update, replace and scale your applications on Mesosphere using wercker.
You can watch the screencast for this tutorial here:
Mesosphere is an Operating System for Datacenters. It allows you to easily deploy, run and scale your apps while providing a single interface to do so. This makes it a perfect deploy target for wercker!
It uses the open-source Marathon, a cluster-wide init and control system for services in cgroups or Docker containers, to manage and launch apps.
You can read more about Mesosphere here.
Wercker is an open platform and toolchain for developing, building and deploying containerized applications in an automated fashion. Wercker uses Docker as its underlying container technology.
Sign up and read more about wercker here
Let's get started!
- A clone of the wercker-mesosphere repository
- A clone of the router repository
- An account on wercker and wercker repositories for each abovementioned project
- A running mesosphere cluster
Before we start, let's take a look at how our Mesosphere setup looks like.
If you followed the mesosphere tutorial for AWS, this is how your infrastructure should look like. For this demo, we're primarily interested in the public and theprivate worker nodes depicted above.
The app that we will be deploying is a simple web application that outputs json and is run inside a Docker container. This app will be run on one or more private nodes. These private nodes, as their name implies, are not accessible from the Internet. This is where a second application, the edgerouter application comes into play. The edgerouter is in charge of routing any incoming traffic to containers on any of the private slaves.
This means that our application consists of two components: the router and the web application itself.
Configuring AWS EC2 Security Groups
In order to to successfully deploy applications with wercker, we have to whitelist some of wercker's IP addresses. This can be done by editing the Security Groups (SGs) found under the Network & Security tab in EC2.
You'll have to look for something similar to "MesoAdminSecurityGroup" SG and then edit the inbound ruleset so that it contains the following IP ranges as specified in this GitHub issue.
note: Don't forget to add
/32 at the end of every IP to indicate the range.
Setting up the web application
The first step is to get our web application deployed. In the
wercker-mesosphereproject directory, open
main.go in your favourite editor and add a new city the JSON array.
data := []byte(`{"cities":{"cities":"San Francisco, Amsterdam, Berlin, New York, Tokyo, Warsaw, London"}`)
Once you've done that, we can take a look at the wercker.yml to see what wercker is going to do for us:
box: golang # Build definition build: # The steps that will be executed on build steps: # Build the project - script: name: go build ./... code: go build ./... - script: name: copy binary code: | cp source $WERCKER_OUTPUT_DIR/app cp template.sh $WERCKER_OUTPUT_DIR
The build pipeline is nothing special. It builds our app and then copies the binary and the template (we'll get to that later) to the
$WERCKER_OUTPUT_DIR which makes it available to the deploy pipeline. What's more interesting is our deploy pipeline, which we'll define now.
Defining the deploy pipeline
Open up your wercker.yml and just below the build pipeline, add the following:
deploy: dockerhub: - internal/docker-push: username: $DOCKER_USERNAME password: $DOCKER_PASSWORD repository: $APP_IMAGE cmd: "/pipeline/source/app" ports: "$CONTAINER_PORT" marathon: - script: name: generate json code: chmod +x template.sh && ./template.sh - wercker/marathon-deploy: marathon-url: $MARATHON_ENDPOINT app-name: $APP_NAME app-json-file: $APP_NAME.json instances: "$INSTANCES"
The first important thing to note is that our deploy pipeline consists of two deploy targets:
dockerhub and
Because our app is going to live inside a container, every time we make any changes to the sourcecode, we need to push it to a registry (in this case DockerHub).
To deploy apps to Mesosphere, it requires json files that describe the app and the config needed to run it. This config is generated by the
script step in our
marathon deploy target. If you open the
template.sh script in your project directory, you'll see that all it does is interpolates the necessary environment variables and outputs the result in
In short, our deploy process will consist of two steps: first we need to push our app to DockerHub and then we must deploy our json configuration to Mesosphere.
Setting up the deploy targets
First, if you have not already done so, you need to create a new app on wercker. Use your forked / cloned
wercker-mesosphere project as repository.
Next, we need to add the two deploy targets we'll be working with, corresponding with the deploy targets we specified in our wercker.yml earlier. Head over to your application settings and go to Deploy targets. Click on Add deploy target and selectcustom. Name your deploy target dockerhub and click save.
DockerHub deploy target
For our
dockerhub deploy target, we're going to setup two environment variables to make our deployment easier:
$DOCKER_USERNAME and
$DOCKER_PASSWORD. These should container your DockerHub username and password, respectively. Make sure these environment variables coincide with the wercker.yml snippets you use throughout the blogpost and that your
$DOCKER_PASSWORD is set to protected, so that it won't show up in any logs.
Mesosphere Deploy target
Once you're done with the
dockerhub deploy target, hit save and again set up a new deploy target. This time, call it
mesosphere and hit save once more.
For this deploy target, we'll setup three environment variables:
$INSTANCES and
$MARATHON_ENDPOINT should contain the URL where your marathon instance lives. If you have your mesosphere cluster setup on AWS, it should look something like this:
$INSTANCES should specify how many instances of your webapp you want to deploy. For this tutorial, we'll set this value to 3. Lastly,
$APP_NAME should contain the name of the app that marathon will use. For this tutorial, let's call it
General environment variables
There are two environment variables,
$APP_IMAGE and
$CONTAINER_PORT that are shared between the two deploy targets. Since they're shared, we can specify them as project-wide environment variables.
To do this, head over to the
Environment variables tab and create a new env var. The
$APP_IMAGE should contain the
repository/image you will be pushing the container to. Set this value to whatever DockerHub repository you will be pushing to. The
$CONTAINER_PORT value should specify which port the application will be running on. This will be port
Deploying the web application
Now that we've setup our web application, we can commit our changes and see our wercker build run!
git commit -am 'added deploy pipeline' git push
Head over to your project page on wercker and see the build run. Once it successfully finishes, hit the deploy to button and select dockerhub.
This will trigger a deploy that will push our image to DockerHub, as we described in our wercker.yml. Once this deploy finishes, head back to your build page and hit thedeploy to button again, but this time select mesosphere.
Once the pipeline completes, you should see that Marathon is now deploying our new app!
Setting up the router
Our app is now tucked away in a container on one or more of our private worker nodes. To be able to use our application, we'll need to setup a router which will route traffic coming from the Internet to correct destination.
To setup our router, we need to follow the same steps as we did for our web application. That means we need to create a project on wercker, using your forked / cloned app as target repository.
For the
marathon target, create:
$INSTANCES and
$APP_NAME. For the
$APP_NAME env var, we need to specify the name of our webapp that Marathon will work with, because our router needs to know to which Marathon app it needs to communicate with. In our case, this should be
$INSTANCES env var describes how many instances of the app you want to launch. Since we only require 1 instance of the router, you can optionally exclude this env var as the default is 1 instance anyway. For clarity, we'll explicitly define it here.
Finally, we need three more env var that will be shared between the two deploy targets, so head to the Environment Variables settings and add the
$DOCKER_USERNAME and
$DOCKER_PASSWORD environment variables.
$APP_IMAGEwill hold the image name of our router; you can use your
DockerHubUsername/repository here. We're specifying our Docker credentials as general environment variables, because we're not going to have a
dockerhub deploy target this time. Instead, our
docker-push will take place in our build pipeline.
Setting up the build pipeline
Now that we've setup our env vars, we can take a look at our actual pipeline. This is the complete build pipeline for the router app:
box: debian:jessie build: steps: - install-packages: packages: wget build-essential libreadline-dev libncurses5-dev - script: name: install ngx code: | wget http://openresty.org/download/ngx_openresty-18.104.22.168.ta && tar xvfz ngx_openresty-184.108.40.206.tar.gz \ && cd ngx_openresty-220.127.116.11 \ && ./configure --with-luajit --with-http_gzip_static_modul && make \ && make install \ && rm -rf /ngx_openresty* - script: name: mkdir code: mkdir -p mkdir /usr/local/openresty/nginx/conf - script: name: cp template.sh code: cp template.sh $WERCKER_OUTPUT_DIR - script: name: cp config & chmod code: cp nginx.conf app.lua /usr/local/openresty/nginx/conf/ & - internal/docker-push: username: $DOCKER_USERNAME password: $DOCKER_PASSWORD repository: $APP_IMAGE cmd: "/usr/local/openresty/nginx/sbin/nginx" ports: "8080"
Our router is essentially a
nginx container with some custom LUA configuration files that allow the traffic to be forwarded accordingly (this is where the
$APP_NAMEenv var gets used). You can open up the
app.lua file in the router project directory to see how it works exactly.
We're specifying our
docker-push here, because we need the
nginx installation included in our image.
Now that we've discussed the build pipeline, it's time to add the deploy pipeline to our wercker.yml:
deploy: steps: - install-packages: packages: curl - script: name: generate json code: chmod +x template.sh && ./template.sh - wercker/marathon-deploy: marathon-url: $MARATHON_ENDPOINT app-name: "edgerouter" app-json-file: "router.json"
There's only one deploy target for our router, so there is no need to give a name.
The other difference with the web app is the json that gets generated and the env vars that get passed in. Your generated
router.json will look similar to this:
{ "id": "/edgerouter", "cpus": 1, "mem": 256, "instances": 1, "constraints": [["hostname", "UNIQUE"]], "acceptedResourceRoles": ["slave_public"], "container": { "type": "DOCKER", "docker": { "image": "wercker/mesosphere-router", "network": "BRIDGE", "forcePullImage": true, "portMappings": [ { "containerPort": 8080, "hostPort": 80, "protocol": "tcp" } ] } }, "healthChecks": [{ "protocol": "TCP", "gracePeriodSeconds": 600, "intervalSeconds": 30, "portIndex": 0, "timeoutSeconds": 10, "maxConsecutiveFailures": 2 }], "env": {"APP_NAME": "meso-demo"} }
Note the
env section at the last line of the generated json. This env var will get injected into the container by marathon and will be used by nginx to determine which app it should route traffic to.
Deploying the router
Now that everything is set up, let's trigger a new pipeline by committing our changes:
git commit -am 'added deploy pipeline' git push origin master
Once the build pipeline completes, it will have deployed to DockerHub, so we're ready to deploy it to Marathon next. As before, hit the deploy to button and select
Once everything is deployed, head over to your Marathon dashboard and verify everything is being deployed. When the router is deployed, it will still take a while to propegate the changes. Head over to the public worker's URL and then keep hitting that refresh button until our JSON appears.
Once it's there, you will have successfully deployed your first app(s) to Mesosphere!
If you want to scale the amount of instances for your web application up or down, you can just modify the env var in your wercker configuration and redeploy to marathon. Nice 'n easy.
Wrapping up
Following this tutorial you spun up your first app on mesosphere. While that's pretty awesome, the app itself is pretty simple. That's why we're going to follow up with a part two of this tutorial, where we'll show you how to deploy an application with multiple moving parts, so stay tuned!
As always, if you want to stay in the loop, be sure to follow us at @wercker and tweet us your green #wercker builds so we can send you some swag!


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Payday loans cost the U.S. economy nearly $1 billion and thousands of jobs in 2011, according to a report from the Insight Center for Community Economic Development.
The study says that the burden of repaying the loans resulted in $774 million in lost consumer spending and 14,000 job losses. Bankruptcies related to payday loans numbered 56,230, taking an additional $169 million out of the economy.
"Payday loans are an ongoing problem and an economic drain," said Tim Lohrentz, the center's program manager and author of the report. "The amount is not huge in the big picture of the total economy, but it's big enough."
Designed to meet the need for emergency cash, the short-term loans are essentially advances on wages and meant to be repaid on the next payday—usually within two weeks. Borrowers secure the loans by providing a postdated check or electronic access to their bank account.
But the loans, which have been around for nearly 20 years, carry onerous interest rates, ranging from 200 percent to 500 percent.
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Data collected by Pew Charitable Trust show that the average payday borrower takes out eight loans a year. On an average loan size of $375, borrowers pay about $520 in interest. According to Pew, the average payday borrower can repay only $100 a month.
Though most payday lenders are storefront or Web operations, major banks also have been players, even if indirectly.
Bank of America, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase have allowed payday lenders to withdraw funds owed by borrowers who are bank customers, including in states such as New York, where payday loans are banned.
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"The practice is terrible," JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said at an investor meeting in February.
Some, including U.S. Bank, Fifth Third Bank and Wells Fargo, offer payday loans under names such as Ready Advance, Fast Loan and Early Access, according to the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL). They can carry interest rates averaging between 225 and 300 percent, CRL said.
Over a third of bank customers took out more than 20 payday-type loans in 2011, and those borrowers are two times as likely as other bank customers to incur overdraft fees, CRL said. Over a quarter of bank payday borrowers were Social Security recipients, it noted.
"What's really insidious about this is that people keep taking out loans to pay off the old loans," Lohrentz said. "Fees from high interest rates and bank overdrafts become more costly than the actual value of the loans."
Payday loans have been under close government scrutiny, particular because of their interest rates.
Thirty-three states allow payday lending, but fifteen have banned them. No state has authorized them since 2005, and Congress in 2007 restricted such lenders from targeting members of the armed services.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently accused payday lenders of "trapping borrowers in a cycle of debt" and said it may reform rules for short-term loans. Proposals include requiring banks to assess borrowers' repayment ability and a "cooling off" period between loans.
Meanwhile, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and several other Democrats have offered a bill to set an interest rate and fee limit of 36 percent on all open- and closed-end consumer credit transactions.
States that permit payday lending are also taking a harder look. Arkansas, Arizona, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon and Montana and Texas have enacted reforms to cap interest rates or are considering such measures.
"The situation seems to be getting better, and I think the increased spotlight on the issue is helping," Lohrentz said. "But more has to be done."
To escape the spotlight and regulations, many payday lenders have moved offshore, to places such as Belize and Malta, and going online.
Three million Americans obtained an Internet payday loan in 2010, according to Pew. By 2016, online payday loans will account for 60 percent of the loans, according to analyst John Hecht of investment bank Stephens Inc.
Even with the high interest rates, the loans are popular. Some 12 million Americans use a storefront or online payday loan each year, according to Pew.
Lohrentz suggested a more traditional way of getting needed cash.
"Some of the desire for them has to do with the slow economy and the need for immediate gratification," Lohrenetz said. "But it might be best for people to go back to borrowing from family or friends instead of payday loans. It's probably embarrassing to ask, but you would save yourself a lot of money."


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Marketing Failure: analyze reasons give for for it
Conduct independent research on the Internet to find an example of a major marketing/advertising failure. In the format of a case study to be contributed to a textbook on marketing, describe the failure and list and analyze reasons given for it. Add your own hypotheses for additional reasons for the failure based on your initial understanding of consumer behavior and the concepts from the textbook readings and other research© BrainMass Inc. brainmass.com August 21, 2018, 6:07 pm ad1c9bdddf
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In my opinion, a famous marketing failure was new coke.
Here is the background.
April 23, 1985 Coke launched a new formulation of their famous beverage called New Coke. The product was described as being better tasting then the original. The new formula was developed over 2 years, and was extensively tested. In blind taste tests people preferred the taste of the new product over the old Coke and even over Pepsi. So in theory, this product should have been a huge success.
However, in reality, it could be seen as the biggest marketing failure of its time.
The failure could be linked to the fact that Americans saw Coke as their national drink - it was as American as apple pie. When Coke changed the formula, people saw it as bad as someone burning the American Flag. People felt betrayed, hurt, and that they could not identify ...
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Chanced across 'Gobar Times' while I was trying to find the link to the post on 'Disgustingly Cool Books for Kids' (On a side note : I was looking for this link because one of our Twitter friends asked us if we could recommend activity books for kids between the age groups of 12-14years. Do you know of any books we could recommend to our friend? Please leave a comment at the end of this post. Thank you!)
So, the hunt for one link led to the discovery of 'Gobar Times'. Gobar Times magazine is a children's magazine on the environment and is brought out by the Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment.
Via CSE
Gobar Times, is a monthly magazine for those who know 'environment' envelopes the entire planet and everything that lives and breathes on it, but are impatient to know more. It is for those inquistive explorers who are adventurous enough to dig below the surface and end up with a gold mine...of stories, games, posters and much much else..
Though primarily targeted at students, of course even adults love reading GT as it not only provides a fresh perspective and new ways of looking at environmental issues, but does so in an engaging, attractive and humorous way.
Visit the Gobar Times website to read their latest issue.


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Achievement in the world of sports is not something Indians can be very proud of. Cricket has to be left out of the discussion because only a handful of countries play the game, which does not demand a great deal of athleticism. In football or field events, India does not feature anywhere. In other sports, only a few individuals have been good enough to at least participate in major tournaments. This is why the achievements of the young golfer, Anirban Lahiri, are worthy of note. Not that he has won a tournament. But what he has accomplished is important. In the British Open, he was ranked 31st in a field of 84 and this on a course that most golfers consider tough. What is remarkable is that this is Mr Lahiris first Major tournament. Mr Lahiri, in fact, had a dream debut because his performance included in the third round a hole in one in the three par ninth hole. Most golfers would argue that a hole in one is often a matter of luck. But what is also true is that this particular dream of golfers when it occurs in a Major tournament is evidence of a players driving prowess, accuracy and nerve. Mr Lahiri can be proud of what he has achieved and so can all Indians who love sports.
Mr Lahiri is obviously a talented and committed golfer who works hard at his game. He clearly knows that to have promise is not enough. This has enabled him to make the transition from the Asian circuit (he has two wins on the Asian tour) to a player to be noted in the British Open. It remains to be seen if Mr Lahiri will be able to break the voodoo that prevents Indians from becoming top-class sportsmen. In golf, one can think of Jeev Milkha Singh and Arjun Atwal; and in tennis, Sania Mirza. (Mahesh Bhupathi was ranked 31st in a field of 84 has not been good enough to play singles in a Grand Slam tournament.) This failure on the part of Indian sportsmen continues to baffle most observers. Is it to do with the climate, or diet, or lack of hard work? It is difficult to pinpoint an answer. It is equally difficult to believe that a country of Indias demographic size is so profoundly devoid of sporting talents. This familiar talent is the context for celebrating Mr Lahiris participation with some credit at the highest level. He has just teed off, and all his well-wishers will hope that from participation he will move on to winning. The best, all Indians will console themselves, is yet to be.


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Special equipment: a 16-ounce mason jar
For Eddie's salad dressing: Put the parsley, olive oil, vinegar, honey, basil, oregano, tarragon, garlic and some salt and pepper in a food processor and puree until smooth.
For the mason jar salad: Start by placing 1 to 2 tablespoons of the salad dressing (or any amount you desire) in the bottom of a 16-ounce mason jar. Next, build the salad by placing the proteins--the chicken and garbanzo beans--in the jar first. After that, layer the remaining ingredients in the jar (try color coordinating for presentation): the red onion, zucchini, carrot, cucumber, bell pepper, pumpkin seeds and feta. Finish by packing the lettuce and kale on top. Seal and refrigerate.
To serve, flip over on a bowl or plate, mix everything together and dig in.
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Design Process: Facet
Today's post is brought to you by Angela Hahn, designer of the gorgeous peekaboo yoked top Facet from our newest issue. You can also find this post on Angela's blog, here, and find my styling post about Facet here. Angela has designed a number of lovely things for us here at Twist, including this gorgeous vest and this super cozy shawl.
The Facet Pullover just came out in the Spring/Summer 2014 issue of Twist Collective! Often my most recently released design becomes my new favorite, but I'm especially fond of the Facet Pullover because it's playful and unusual. And I really enjoyed the process of designing it and working out the challenges of that unique perforated yoke.
When I first submitted the idea for this pullover, I was thinking I would keep the open diamonds to the front and back only, placing groups of three between the raglan seams (hence the working name, "Three of Diamonds"). But when the editors at Twist Collective suggested placing the diamonds all around the yoke, I liked the idea a lot, so I agreed to change the shaping from raglan to a round yoke, so that decreases could be placed between the open areas.
With that attention-getting yoke, I knew that I wanted the rest of the pullover to be simple, so I used rolled edges for the hem and cuffs and just added gentle waist shaping. I used 3/4-length sleeves to take advantage of mild spring weather, and to show off wrist accessories. I did have to rip back the first couple of inches of the body, after I realized that there was enough color variation between skeins of the O-Wool Balance yarn that the transition from one skein to the next was very obvious. So I had to alternate skeins every few rounds (which is not unusual when using hand-painted yarn), which is why there is a visible striping effect (which I did not originally plan, but grew to like!).
Everything then went smoothly until the yoke, where I had to figure out how many stitches were needed for each size before starting the diamonds. This would normally be straightforward, but in this case, as soon as the first cable cross round is completed, the circumference of the yoke is decreased dramatically by all those crossed stitches, so I had to make sure I didn't start out with too few stitches, and end up with a too-tight yoke.
Then came the diamonds! Each section between the diamonds is worked flat, one at a time, with the cable crosses at the halfway point pulling the fabric sideways to create the diamond-shaped negative spaces. There are a lot of sections, but working them actually went faster than I expected (although I was still happy to join them and return to working in the round, once the diamonds were completed). I did end up incorporating the yoke decreases into the cabled sections, where they blended quite nicely into the lines of the cables (see below).
After that, my only design decision was how many decreases to add before binding off the stitches around the neck opening. I've found from past experience that going by a stitch gauge obtained from measuring a swatch lying on a flat surface will often yield a neck opening that is larger and looser than desired: the weight of the garment and the shape of the shoulders will tend to stretch the neckband stitches. So I used a "slightly stretched" gauge to calculate my expected neck circumference, decreased more than I originally thought would be necessary, and ended up with the neckline sitting just where I wanted. On the second try. (On the first try, the neckband was still too loose.)
I'm now thinking about wearing Facet when the sample is returned! I dislike strapless bras, but I dislike exposed bra straps even more. So I think I may baste a layer of flesh-colored batiste or other semi-sheer fabric to the wrong side of the yoke, so I don't have to wear Facet over another layer. Can't wait!
Twist Style Friday: Megunticook
Every Friday we feature one of the garments from the magazine in a post about styling. We suggest different ways to wear the garment in question using mock-ups from Polyvore. We encourage readers to tell us what they think about these outfits via our Facebook page or Twitter, and if folks want to make their own outfits, please tweet them at us with the hashtag #twiststyle. You can find all of the Style Friday posts here.
Happy Friday Twistfans, and welcome to another installment of Style Fridays. Marnie stepped in for me last weekend with a post about our newest pattern Conservatory, and she did such a stunning job!! I'm happy to be back in the saddle though, now that my move is done! I have a new home folks! I spent a *long* time today unpacking and organizing my stash and unfinished projects; I may be developing a medium sized collection of extremely beautiful single socks, including the in-progress first of my newest love, Barolo. I am kind of in love with these socks. Or maybe I should say "this sock" as history tells me I may only make the one.
I had been in housing limbo for a little while, staying with friends until I could find a place I was excited to move into, so I'd been living out of a suitcase and with a limited quantity of my shoes, lipsticks, and clothes. I can't tell you how happy I was to fill my (BIG) new closet with all of my dresses. If you follow Style Fridays, you know that I have a strong (basically exclusive) fondness for dresses. While unpacking I made the somewhat questionable decision to count them all. Folks, I have 87. I could wear a different dress every day for nearly three months without repetition.
This is awesome. You know what else is awesome? This sweater. Check out Megunticook:
Things I like about this sweater include: the little pleat at the sleeve; the low neckline; simple shaping; the textured edges and tie; the easy fit; how it just seems like the perfect thing to wear over just about anything.
Take a look from another angle, would you?
I would like to wear this to the potluck picnic I am going to tomorrow afternoon. Ideally with gingham and maryjane flats.
That idea pretty much inspired the set below.
I thought I might also try something a little dressier, but still kind of breezy and cool.
I think this top could take you all sorts of places. How will you wear Megunticook?
Every Friday we feature one of the garments from the magazine in a post about styling. We suggest different ways to wear the garment in question using mock-ups from Polyvore. We encourage readers to tell us what they think about these outfits via our Facebook page or Twitter, and if folks want to make their own outfits, please tweet them at us with the hashtag #twiststyle. You can find all of the Style Friday posts here.
Marnie here, filling in for Carly, on another Style Friday. This week, I'm featuring a brand new design, released about a week ago. Conservatory, by Kate Gilbert, is a stunner of a stole. Long vines of paired eyelets evolve into a shower of leaves at each end. And the yarn, Tanis Fiber Arts Purple Label Cashmere Sock, features cashmere and nylon in this merino blend, making it durable and elegant. You can pair it with your most formal outfits, or wear it like a scarf for casual, work or outerwear. And being so light, you can pack it away in your bag, if it gets too warm. This is really an all-seasons piece, and would really compliment almost any wardrobe.
While we don't normally style accessories, on Style Friday, I thought I'd show you some outfits that would pair just wonderfully with Conservatory.
Stoles are incredibly versatile. A little online sleuthing will lead you to a variety of ways to tie a scarf, and many would work just as well with a knitted stole, and of course, you can unfurl it at any time to wrap it gracefully around your shoulders.
While Kate and I were meeting, we even joked about pairing it with silver hot pants. I don't know, I almost think it could work.
How would you wear Conservatory?
Twist Style Friday: Demeter
Every Friday we feature one of the garments from the magazine in a post about styling. We suggest different ways to wear the garment in question using mock-ups from Polyvore. We encourage readers to tell us what they think about these outfits via our Facebook page or Twitter, and if folks want to make their own outfits, please tweet them at us with the hashtag #twiststyle. You can find all of the Style Friday posts here.
Happy Friday everyone!! We sailed right past a landmark day, folks. We have done over a hundred Style Friday blog posts!! Can you believe it? Sometimes I get nerdy about numbers, so here is some amusing fashion column math (Jewish readers- this is totally a nod to that part in the Passover Seder when you go through all that funny biblical math about the number of plagues).
105 is how many Style posts we have created, including this one;
117 is how many Twist Collective patterns we have styled in these posts;
151 is how many "sets" of outfits we have created on Polyvore;
465 is the total number of outfits we have suggested as possible ways to wear those 117 garments;
128 of those (28%) were outfits based on pants or shorts (versus skirts or dresses);
30 is the number of pairs of red shoes I used in those sets (shockingly low, I think!);
17 is the number of items in those sets that are leopard print (my favorite color)!
Was that fun? Did I just make math fun? If I knew how to use fancy computer programs, I would tell you funnier things too, like how many of the shoes I recommended were wildly impractical, or how many of the purses retail for more than $1000USD. Ooh, now I want to make some of these things into graphs! Pie charts! Hmm, now I just want to eat pie.
I'm in a funny mood today, can you tell?
Let's get to today's garment. If you read the blog regularly, it should be super fresh in your mind, because we just ran Alison's post about her design, the lovely Demeter skirt.
The swirling vines and leaves are striking details, but minimal enough that the skirt isn't at all busy. The picot hem is just cute enough, but if you wanted something a tiny bit sleeker or more formal, you could leave that off. The shape is swingy and easy and would look super cute on lots of different kinds of bodies. I want one. Actually, I want three: charcoal grey, deep red, and something bright and a little silly, like chartreuse or orange.
I bet you want to see it from another angle or two.
This one is made in a clever cotton/wool blend (Classic Elite Chesapeake) so it's got some shape-holding bounce but won't make you a sweatball when the sun shines. I think it would also be totally lovely in linen on hemp, or another plant based blend with a bit of wool in it.
I know what you really want to know though; how will you wear this darling skirt?? I have ideas. Given the mood I am in today, and how hot it is finally getting here in Toronto, consider yourselves lucky that this set only includes ONE crop top. You're welcome.
How will you wear Demeter?
Designer Post: Demeter
Alison Stewart-Guinee is the designer of Demeter, the lovely swingy skirt from our most recent issue. This is her first contribution to Twist! You can also find this post on her blog, here.
At last! We are in the throes of spring! I love winter, don't get me wrong. And to be perfectly honest, I have truly loved the snowy days and deep freeze that this winter brought us. Most people look at me like I'm a little touched when I say that, but it's true. I love snow, I love to cozy up inside with knitting on my lap and I love to bake (and eat) hearty winter meals. But even I am overjoyed that we are officially into spring. This last gasp of winter hasn't been able to fool anyone. It's as if it just popped into say, "Don't forget me." And we won't, but move over winter because spring is here to stay. It's time to wash those woolens, pack them away for next year, and break out the cotton, linen and strappy sandals.
And just as if on cue, my newest design was released. Aaaand...wait for it…in Twist Collective's Spring/Summer issue! I am beyond thrilled. I've long been an admirer of this publication. It's always full of gorgeous designs, informative articles and just tons of fashion forward yet classic garments that I want to wear and knit. It's been a secret goal of mine to find myself in their pages. And so this fall I screwed up my courage and sent them a proposal. I am not a trained designer and I am definitely not a trained fashion drawer, so sending out proposals always takes a bit of just closing my eyes and jumping. And then the forgetting game...you know the one where you convince yourself that nothing is going to come of it so you should just put it out of your mind, but really you're holding your breath every time you check your email. Do you know that game? Anyway, that's how it goes around here. And then the email came and then yarn and then this...Demeter...
A flirty spring and summer skirt, that's knit in the round from the top down. Demeter is a prettified mash up of my all time favorite summer skirts. The first: gored in eyelet fabric, sewn on the bias~the one that is so tired and bleach stained that I've taken a sharpie to it rather than retire it. And second: my go-to wear-everyday jersey knit skirts.
These shots are from Twist Collective. I really do just adore them. Isn't the model just gorgeous?!
I liked making this skirt so much that I actually made a second sample of Demeter…one just for me.
I love how it can be dressed up or down and how comfortable it is to wear. I see myself pairing it with a tee shirt and sandals as well as dressing up with a blouse and heels. This pattern was worked in Chesapeake by Classic Elite Yarns. Let me tell you this yarn was made for skirt knitting. It's drapey, without being limp and lifeless, and it has memory. It holds it's shape wonderfully. These pictures were taken after a very busy day in which I had been wearing the skirt all day, drove for several hours and then ran errands and went to the yarn shop and sat around knitting for several hours more. And not a hint of sagginess in sight. Love!
I'm kind of in love with knitted skirts right now—with knitting them and with wearing them. This construction is my favorite—top down, seamless and in the round. It allows for lots of try-ons along the way, making it incredibly easy to customize—a little longer, a tad shorter, straighter, fuller…easy peasy. As someone who changes her mind a thousand times in the course of knitting a project, I like that kind of flexibility.
You can purchase the pattern for Demeter by following the link on Ravelry or by going right to the Twist Collective shop.
Happy spring all! I'm off to...you guessed right...knit...OUTSIDE !!!!
Twist Collective Blog Article Count: 297
The Twist Team Article Count: 4
Behind the scenes Article Count: 3
Knitting for Ourselves Article Count: 4
Style Fridays Article Count: 271
Five for Five Article Count: 15
5 year giveaways Article Count: 33
Quick Dispatch Article Count: 36
Design Process Article Count: 102
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TITANIC-TITANIC.com | Titanic Engineering Crew - Fitzpatrick, Mr. Hugh J.
- Age: 27
- Date of Birth (D.O.B.): 1885
- Place of Residence: Belfast, Ireland
- Embarked at: Belfast, Ireland
- Occupation: Junior Boilermaker
- Department: Titanic Engineering Crew
- Survived: No ( List )
- Died: 15th April, 1912 at sea
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Hugh J. Fitzpatrick boarded the Titanic at Belfast, Ireland.
Hugh J. Fitzpatrick was the Junior Boilermaker aboard the Titanic, and was part of the Engineering Crew.
Hugh J. Fitzpatrick lived at 106, Nelson Street, Belfast, Ireland, United Kingdom.
Hugh J. Fitzpatrick was lost in the sinking of the Titanic, and his body was not recovered and identified.
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Distance from Gasburg, VA to Schuyler, VA
Driving distance between Gasburg, VA and Schuyler, VA is 131.12 miles (or 211.01 kilometers). If you drove an average car (using about 3.6 gallons of gas per mile), the gas would cost you around $, since you would need about gallons of fuel.
Leaving from Gasburg, VA you would reach Schuyler, VA in about 3 hours 23 mins if you keep an average speed of miles per hour, assuming you don't make any breaks or get stuck in traffic.


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Former councillor Brian Vesce says he's running and that he is going to run hard in Ward 3 for the seat held by Arthur Guinnasso. "I'm going for it. I'm excited to be getting back into the thick of the political life of the city," he told us Friday
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