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By Martin Fletcher (THE TIMES, 23/08/08):
In the magnificent new stadiums of their capital, in front of their fanatical compatriots, China's Olympians have walloped their American counterparts this past fortnight, capturing 16 more gold medals and ending the global supremacy that US athletes have enjoyed since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
It is an outcome that will only deepen the United States' present funk, with pundits sure to compare China's inexorable rise with America's decline, asking when the lines will cross.
The answer is not for a long time – if ever. By almost any measure the US remains in a different league. Its gross domestic product was $13.8trillion last year, dwarfing China's $3.2 trillion. GDP per capita was $46,000 to China's $5,300. Of the world's 30 largest companies, 11 are American and 3 Chinese, according to Fortune magazine.
But what is striking to casual visitors to China, however, is the extent to which its people have adopted the attitudes that made America great – the optimism, dynamism and patriotism, the can-do spirit, the determination to leave the next generation better off than one's own. In three weeks travelling around China last month, I found a country oozing with confidence.
The converse is also true. For now, at least, an America afflicted by economic recession, plunging house prices, collapsing banks, disastrous foreign ventures and dire political leadership is sunk in malaise.
How would the US have responded to an earthquake like the one that devastated Sichuan province in May? To judge by its response to Hurricane Katrina, not with the spirit, energy and self-reliance of the Chinese.
Throughout the stricken zone I found soldiers, contractors and volunteers clearing rubble, restoring services and erecting vast tracts of temporary housing with astonishing speed. Even more striking were the victims. Far from succumbing to self-pity or despair, or waiting for government assistance, they were striving to rebuild and recover as fast as possible, setting up makeshift shops, restaurants, surgeries and even mini-factories in the rubble of their homes. "The dead are dead. You don't want to die with them," said Huoyong Bin, 40, who has lost his wife and father but has reopened his barber shop beneath an awning in what remains of the marketplace of Jiulong village.
In Henan province, in the tiny rural village of Zhoutan, I met the embodiment of what was once called the American Dream but might now be renamed the Chinese Dream.
His name was Zhou Shouheng, 27. He is one of tens of millions of uneducated peasants who have flocked to China's cities to secure better futures for their families. He works on building sites in Beijing, ten hours a day, seven days a week, returning home twice a year. He makes this sacrifice so that one day he can send his two children to university and they can share in China's new prosperity.
"I hope they can design great buildings, not just build them like me," he said, adding that when he sees the fancy apartments and swish cars of wealthy Beijingers it merely inspires him to work still harder.
I also met young Americans who also see China as today's land of opportunity and had opened start-up businesses there. A 23-year-old Oklahoman has opened a simple pizza restaurant in a town in Gansu province, while a Texan tours Shanghai department stores with a video camera, offering a live feed and bargaining services to wealthy Americans sitting at home in their living rooms.
"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country," President Kennedy proclaimed at his inauguration in 1961. JFK would have approved of today's Chinese.
Zhou Shousheng was back in his village because the building sites in Beijing had been closed to clean the air for the Olympic Games. In the city of Yiwu, the world's largest market for Christmas decorations and countless other cheap goods, traders were suffering grievously because the pre-Olympic visa crackdown has kept foreign buyers away. None complained. They were happy to sacrifice for the greater good – a notion instilled from birth.
"It's the big wish of the 1.3 billion Chinese to have the Olympics," one said. "If the West has fewer Father Christmases this year, it's worth it."
For sheer dynamism the Beijing Iron and Steel Company takes some beating. For 89 years its giant plant has blanketed the capital with smoke and sulphur dioxide. The Olympics forced its closure, so the company is building a giant, state-of-the-art plant at Caofeidian, on the coast of Hebei province. About 40,000 labourers began work in March last year. Production will start in October – 20 months later.
The plant is surrounded by 140 square miles of tidal flats that are being reclaimed from the sea and will soon be covered in new petrochemical plants, power stations and other heavy industry. This is not unusual. Everywhere you go in China there are new highways, bridges, airports, railway stations – whole cities that did not exist two decades ago. While much of America's infrastructure is deteriorating because its people prefer tax cuts, China is investing heavily in the future.
Such achievements are much easier, of course, for an authoritarian Government that stifles dissent, tramples on human rights and has several hundred million dirt-cheap labourers at its disposal.
The Chinese are not "free", but outside Tibet – and with a few other high-profile exceptions – they wear their oppression lightly. I detected no great clamour for democracy at this stage in the country's development. Security and prosperity come higher on most people's wish list. On that score the regime has delivered spectacularly, with 400 million Chinese lifted from poverty in the past 30 years and consistent double-digit growth rates.
The Chinese can travel abroad, but how many abscond? Many local officials are corrupt and reviled, but if China's communist leaders stood in free elections they would probably romp home. A recent survey for the Pew Research Centre showed that an astonishing 86 per cent of Chinese are satisfied with their country's direction, putting China 25 points ahead of second-placed Australia in the global contentment rankings.
The US came 20th out of the 24 countries surveyed, with only 23percent satisfied. Nigerians, Pakistanis, Mexicans and Tanzanians were all happier.
None of this is immediately apparent from the Western media's Olympic coverage. It has, rightly, reported on the crushing of protests and internet censorship. It has decried the pollution (conveniently forgetting that we have shipped most of our dirty industries to China so that we can buy the end products more cheaply). It had a field day with the digitally enhanced fireworks, the pretty young "singer" who mimed her words, and the other little tricks the Chinese used to stage the most sensational opening ceremony ever seen. None of this criticism is wrong, but it is hardly a rounded picture.


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Researchers at Imperial College London claim to have developed technology that would enable the creation of three-dimensional microchips, which will dramatically increase their memory capacity. According to their press release: "by using nanotechnology it is possible to reproduce the key functions of semiconductor electronics in microchips using only the 'spin' of electrons, which is responsible for magnetism, rather than the more conventional 'charge' that traditional microchips use."
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Is this stuff more like ram or flash?
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Particularly, does it hold it's memory reliably without power? And how does it compare speed-wise to current day ram?
It would be kind of interesting if the fastest storage space available was also the cheapest and didn't need power. You'd be looking at a fundamental change in the storage hierarchy of computers! I'm probably over-imagining things here though


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Like every major US defense contractor panning the domestic budget landscape and seeing few opportunities for the kind of growth that keeps shareholders happy, Lockheed Martin is positioning itself for work overseas.
The world's largest defense contractor announced Monday in London that it was forming a new organization to consolidate its international offices and teams. The new group, to be called Lockheed Martin International, will have dual-headquarters in Virginia and London, and will be run by Patrick Dewar. Dewar has been serving as senior vice president of corporate strategy and business development for Lockheed.
"We're launching a new organization that will accelerate our international partnerships, and provide new opportunities for our global customers, for our suppliers, and for our employees around the world," company CEO Marillyn Hewson said during a press conference. "We recognize that it takes a keen understanding of our customers' goals, their challenges, and their vision for how they protect and serve their citizens, and gaining that understanding and more importantly building that relationship."
Lockheed, which currently earns 17 percent of its revenue from international customers, is hoping to push that number past 20 in the "next few years," Hewson said.
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★ Summary ★
Word7 is a point-scoring puzzle. Spell words from the list of letters. The longer the word, the more points. All letters are colored - use more same color for your word to score more points.
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A new type word puzzle game is coming!!
"Word7" is a simple and dynamic English word puzzle game for everybody.
If you are confident of English word building , then "Word7" is the best word puzzle game for you.
★ How to play ★
1. You can have Alphabet block by tapping from the "alphabet pool" to the "word slot".
2. Put the Alphabet blocks together and make 3 to 7 letter perfect word.
3. When you have a perfect word, 'Swipe' to the right in order to receive points.
★ Game mode ★
# FREE PLAY : You can enjoy the game without time limit. (Training mode)
# TIME ATTACK : Play with 100 seconds time limit, you can get game points and game coins. (Ranking mode)
★ Rule ★
# The longer a word is, the higher points you could get.
# The more same color blocks are, the higher points you could get.
# All vowel alphabets(A, E, I, O, U) are always supplied in the 'alphabet pool'.
# If you make a same word more than two times in a game, the points would be half of previous points you got.
# Points would multiply as much as "Multiple" in the upper left-hand corner. The number, "Multiple", will rise when you get over some points or submit 7 letter perfect word.
# If you submit a perfect word when time limit is on the last 10 seconds in the "TIME ATTACK" mode, the bonus time will add as the proportional to the length of the word.
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# Double-tap quickly on a blank would remove all blank area.
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Delaney of Potomac Receives Clarkson University's Top Alumni Honor
Potsdam, N.Y. -- Lawrence J. Delaney of Potomac, Md., retired Titan Corporation executive vice president and advanced systems development sector president, has received the Golden Knight Award from his alma mater, Clarkson University. Presented each year during Reunion Weekend, Clarkson's most prestigious alumni award is given to alumni who have distinguished themselves either by service to Clarkson through Alumni Association activities or have demonstrated outstanding career achievement, bringing distinction to themselves and to Clarkson.
Delaney is a senior executive with more than 40 years of international experience in high technology program acquisition, management and engineering. Prior to joining Titan, Delaney was chairman of the board, CEO and president of Arete Associates.
Delaney has also served as acting secretary, assistant secretary for acquisition and chief information officer of the U.S. Air Force, completing his public service in 2001 as acting undersecretary of the Air Force.
Previously, Delaney was president of Delaney Group Inc., a technical and business consulting firm he founded in 1997. Additionally, Delaney, who is fluent in German, was managing director, BDM Europe, the European holding company for BDM International Inc., where he was corporate vice president. He was also senior vice president and group manager at IABG.
Earlier in his career, Delaney was managing partner, member of the board of directors, and director, Washington Operations of Montgomery & Associates. He also served as a group senior vice president at SAIC, as well as a deputy sector manager of the SAIC Military Sciences/Information Systems Sector. Delaney has directed programs for the Chief of Naval Operations, the Defense Nuclear Agency and the U.S. Army.
Delaney also serves as chairman of the board of Engility Corporations, as a member of the board of SET Corporation, and on the advisory boards of the Analysis Group and Magnetic Torque International. In addition, he serves on the plant and facilities committee of the Basilica of the National Shrine in Washington.
Delaney has been a member of the Clarkson University Board of Trustees since 2005, chairing the research committee and serving on the academic affairs committee.
He lives in Potomac, Md., with his wife, Antoinette. They have five grown children: Lawrence Jr., Joe, John, Gene and Chris.
Clarkson University, located in Potsdam, N.Y., is a private, nationally ranked university with a reputation for developing innovative leaders in engineering, business, the sciences, health sciences and the humanities. At Clarkson, 3,000 high-ability students excel in an environment where learning is not only positive, friendly and supportive, but spans the boundaries of traditional disciplines and knowledge. Faculty achieves international recognition for their research and scholarship and connects students to their leadership potential in the marketplace through dynamic, real-world problem solving.


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We all know what else makes me happy: making treats that people love.
I made this little dish this week for the group of folks I work with. I think it was a hit. I'll show you how I did it and add in a couple of ideas to tweak it a little. I think you'll like it, what says "October" like snickers and apples in the same dish?
Snicker Apple Salad: Full recipe below
Here is what you will need. It can't get much easier!
How did I get those perfect cubes from a snicker bar?? Well, I used my handy ulu knife. It did the trick flawlessly!
Regular knife for the apples. Don't worry about peeling the apples, the skin gives the dish color and character! I used Red Delicious apples. They are very sweet on top of the sweetness from the other ingredients. For a little kick, use Granny Smith or Pink Lady apples.
Mix and stir.
Drizzle the caramel
Snicker Apple Salad:
6 Regular Snicker Bars
6 Apples
1 Pack Instant Vanilla Pudding Mix (dry)
1/2 Cup Milk
12-16 oz. Whipped Topping
Caramel or Chocolate Ice Cream Topping
Chop apples and snickers into cubes; set aside. Whisk together pudding mix, milk, and cool whip until creamy and with no clumps. Stir in apples and snickers. I suggest leaving a small handful of snicker cubes out to sprinkle on top. Lastly, drizzle the caramel topping over the entire salad. Serve and Enjoy!


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Talking about most anticipated show at Paris Fashion Week , it is undoubtedly Alexander McQueen Spring 2011 Fashion Show. It is iconic designer Alexander Mcqueen's successor and right-hand woman Sarah Burton's debut Spring Collection.
Sarah Burton's first Spring Collection for Alexander McQueen opened with model stepping on runway donning tail coat with unfinished edges and peaked shoulders teamed with pants.
Unlike Alexander McQueen's dramatic and dark stage presentation, Sarah went for a nurturing atmosphere with runway of floorboards with grass emerging from between them.
Plain white canvas, embroidery, butterfly print, feather adorned skirts, gowns and looks likegown of pleated organza, gown with a breastplate of gilded cornstalks, regal dresses with trains of pheasant feathers, silk ivy coated in black were amazing. Models' braided hairstyle was also adding to beauty of show.
Tops looks of Alexander McQueen Spring 2011 collection included Bandaged chiffon dresses, dramatic sleeveless cream waistcoats adorned with manes of horsehair swinging down the back, gold brocade suits with dressage fringing at the neck and hems, white military frock coats, white broderie anglais dresses featuring beautiful sculpted corset belts of stiff golden leaves and lots more.
With Alexander McQueen Spring 2011 Paris Fashion Week Collection, Sarah Burton paid homage to late designer Alexander McQueen and proved to be worthy successor to a genuine fashion genius.
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This morning, Janet Jackson shared a lyric sheet for a new song, "The Great Forever," along with a brief preview of the track.
"Not too pleased with what you're diggin' I'm just busy living my life," read the lyrics from the first verse. "Sources say but where ya gettin' it. Don't create the truth you like."
Janet reveals that the track is produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, and also writes that it's from Unbreakable – which seems to confirm that her first album in seven years will take that title, just as her world tour.
The "No Sleeep" singer's Unbreakable World Tour kicks off August 31 in Vancouver.
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When Matt and I first started noodling around the idea of pets (12 years ago! Gasp!) he was dead set on having a pug. I thought they were the ugliest dogs ever. I wanted a big, protective dog. I wanted something to run with or go on adventures with us and this fluffy, wrinkly dog didn't fit that bill.
Since I am typing this with a pug crawling all over me, you can gather that I've since changed my mind about pugs.
Over the years though, we have realized that pugs as a breed in general need a little more attention to detail. Those precious little wrinkles need to be cleaned and checked for bites and infections. Their ears need to be cleaned and de-gunked. And with George we have also discovered a litany of skin issues. Vito very rarely scratches, and if he does, it's his ears. But not George! He has scratched himself raw so many times. At first we thought it was allergies, so we tried hot spot sprays and oatmeal baths. But it wasn't really effective as a long term solution.
Our vet then recommended that we try a grain free diet. I reached out to the Facebook world and asked for suggestions, and settled on a brand that would be easy to find in town. We followed the protocol for switching food and yet, the itching continued. Then, Vito started throwing up. It stressed me out because Vito is old and I was afraid if he continued to have intestinal issues, it could usher in the end of his life sooner than we want. As the final straw, we discovered George was munching on poop. POOP! And the vet said, he's not getting proper nutrition, we've got to get him on fresh food.
I had looked at making my own dog food over the years and while I always thought it was a great idea, I never did it because, you know… time. But when it came down to it, I was desperate enough to make the time. It's been a few months now and I wanted to share what we do!
I have tried quite a few recipes that involved a few different fruits and veggies mixed with different meats. They've been pretty excited to try new things, but I will tell you that turkey, applesauce and butternut squash was not accepted. Let me tell you, I have rarely seen my dogs turn their noses up at food, but that one? Nope.
Basic Dog Food Recipe:
- 3 pounds ground meat
- 1 bag frozen peas and carrots
- 1 large sweet potato, diced
Put the meat in a crockpot. Just dump it in! Pour the veggies over the top. Cover it up, turn the crock pot on high for three hours. Break up the meat about an hour or so in so that it cooks through. Keep it in the fridge for a week or freeze in daily packages. The dogs get about 3/4 of a cup each twice a day. So I freeze in 3 cup amounts and thaw a bag at night before I go to bed.
Tiny note here: the dog food looks like chili. Matt now asks if he's allowed to eat something 🙂
In the last few months, we have not had any digestive issues with either dog. George has stopped eating poop (there are not words, people, no words) and Vito's wrinkles are doing great. George's skin suddenly flared up, but I take blame for that since I had experimented with adding rice into their diet. So, rice is definitely off the menu now!


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A J Caley of Norwich was a leading British chocolate manufacturer.
Albert Jarman Caley (1829 – 1895), the son of a silk mercer, opened a chemist shop on High Street, Windsor in 1853. He relocated to London Street, Norwich, where his brother already lived, in 1857.
From 1862 Caley began to manufacture soft drinks. By 1881 soft drinks manufacturing was Caley's largest branch of trade.
Due to the seasonal nature of the soft drinks trade Caley began to produce drinking chocolate from 1883, followed by eating chocolate in 1886.
A J Caley died in 1895 and his estate was valued at £22,000.
The firm was converted into a limited liability company, A J Caley & Son, in 1898, with capital of £120,000.
From 1898 Christmas cracker production commenced.
700 workers were employed by 1904.
The Caley works in Norwich were built after the First World War at a cost of over £500,000, and employed 1,000 people.
A J Caley was acquired by the Lever Brothers-controlled United Africa Company in 1919. Capital was increased from £120,000 to £1 million. In 1920 four new factories were completed at a cost of around £500,000 which allowed production capacity to treble.
The company was perhaps best known for its Easter Egg production by this period.
By the early 1930s A J Caley was loss-making, and the factory was about to be closed.
In 1932 John Mackintosh & Sons of Halifax stepped in, and acquired A J Caley & Son for £138,000. Caley mostly manufactured chocolate, but also Christmas crackers and soft drinks.
Mackintosh was motivated by the opportunity to increase its productive capacity, which had outgrown their own Halifax site. In the first year of acquisition the Caley works was greatly expanded.
In order to make A J Caley profitable, hundreds of product lines and several departments were discontinued, and some employee redundancies had to be made. However by 1935 there were nearly 1,500 employees at Norwich, more than ever before.
Caley's expertise in chocolate manufacture allowed Mackintosh to introduce new product lines such as Rolo and Quality Street.
Caley initially operated under independent management, but in 1939 control was brought under the Mackintosh umbrella.
The Caley factory had to be rebuilt after it was destroyed by bombs during World War Two.
The Caley's brand name was phased out in the early 1960s.
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This map of where nurses work does not necessarily reflect where they were trained. Medical staff may train in poorer territories and migrate to where there is better payment for their work. Often they send funds home.
The United States, China and the Russian Federation are where the largest number of nurses work. However, the highest numbers of nurses per person can be found in Western European territories such as Finland and Norway. The fewest nurses working per person in the population are in Haiti, Bangladesh and Bhutan; territories where there is much more need for nurses than is found in many other places.
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Author : Thibaut Bernard
You are the visitor No
Update: Thursday 16 August 2001.
Alphaquark author's Note :
This page is a translation of Euro with the help of Altavista translation.
I hope this translation is good, but if there are any errors, you can write me.
If this translation is successful, perhaps I will try to translate another document of Alphaquark.
Construction of the symbol
Installation and configuration
Use of the Euro character
Use without the Euro character
Download the Euro symbol
Conversion Franc at Euro
Construction of the symbol
Source : http://www.euro.gouv.fr
See the chapter on the downloading of the Euro symbol
Installation and configuration
Various patchs is downloadable at :
Microsoft and the euro
Patch of Microsoft for the euro
Once the patch installed, the symbol euro has the ASCII code 128. Windows (and software) is in general configured for to obtain the symbol with the keys alt gr + E.
The symbol is correctly displayed but not inevitably printed ; Why ? In order to optimize the printing, the software under Windows send at the printer the ASCII codes characters but not their pictures. The internal fonts of the printer are used. Result, the ASCII code 128 (lately allotted to the symbol euro) corresponds at another character on the printer. For that, it is thus necessary to carry out this handling :
Select the icon "My computer"
Icon "printers"
Menu "file, properties"
Select the page "Fonts" tab
In the part "Fonts truetype", to choose the option "Always use TT fonts"
and click "OK".
That obliges Windows to send at the printer the image of each character and not the code ASCII. The counterpart is that the impression is slower.
Use of the character euro
Whatever the software used, we normally obtains the character with the keys alt gr. E.
We must to have a column reserved for the values in Euro. Thus let us select the column or the cells concerned.
Then by small "the format, cell", page "number", category "personalized", select the following format :
# ## 0,00\ " "; - # ## 0,00\ " "
We have to the monetary formats running but by using it .
By putting a value in one of these cells, there will be for example 1 234,12 .
In the page table, to open the table containing the field devoted to the values in euro.
To put itself in creation mode (menu "display, creation").
To select the field devoted to the values in euro.
To put the size of the field in simple real (or double).
To put the format :
# ## 0,00\ " "; - # ## 0,00\ " "
The number of decimal must be to 2 (the monetary format containing only the centimes).
To close again the table by recording it obviously.
Use without the character euro
At the installation of the character, with certain type of printer, there isn't the page font tab". See the installation and configuration of the euro. The result is that the character is correctly displayed with the screen but isn't printed.
As one inevitably will not buy a new printer only for the symbol , then here some tips.
The tip consists in using the field equation which makes it possible to superimpose two characters. Here one will superimpose the equal sign (=) and the letter C capital letter.
Menu "Insertion, field".
Category "Equations and formulas".
Field eq.
To take the option \o.
The generated field is thus { EQ \O(=; C) }. Result:
Should well be paid attention to put space before C If not C would be to stick too on the left on the equal sign.
For all the cells which must be with the monetary format Euro, to simulate the format euro it is necessary to put this mask :
For 1 500,34 euros, that will display :
The principle is the same one as for the use with the symbol with the difference close will put it the following format :
Downloading of the Euro symbol
To have the character with the impression when one does not have the possibility of having the option "To print truetype as graphs" (see the installation and configuration), there is nevertheless an tip. It is enough to create a express font for this character , this font not being used by the printers, the image of the character (and not its code ASCII) will be sent to the printer.
I thus come, with Corel Draw 6 to create this named font Alphasymb and I propose to you to download it. Good, I benefitted from it to include some other symbols. This font is free and free of right.
Download the symbol euro and its construction. The file euro.zip (45 KB) contains the files according to :
file :
construction of the symbol to the format Corel Draw 6
symbol with the format postscript Illustrator Adobe
symbol with the format Metafile Windows
construction with the format postscript Illustrator Adobe
construction with the format Metafile Windows
organizes truetype comprising the Euro symbol
For other formats (gif, jpeg, tiff, bmp...), contact
If format bitmap, specify the size in pixel and the colors desired.
The Alphasymb font comprising the character obviously, but also some other symbols:
If you have other ideas of reasons, don't hesitate with me to subject them. Why not a font of symbols with smiley or other ?
Installation and use of the Alphasymb font
Under Windows :
Icon "My computer"
Icon "Control panel"
Icon "Fonts"
Menu "To install the new font"
And to follow as usual the instructions, think of the folder where you extract the file euro.zip.
On the level codes ASCII, the symbols are mainly placed on the letters. It is thus enough to type for example the E capital letter and to put it in the Alphasymb font.
Selection of the symbols :
Menu "Insertion", "Characters special"
Organizes alphasymb
One can benefit from it to allot to the symbols a combination keys (button "Shortcut keys"); Example : alt gr E.
Several possibilities are offered to us.
1) To type a value and the letter E Exemple: 1 500,34 E
Then to select the E to be put in Alphasymb.
The advantage is that one has the number in the desired font and our symbol .
The problem is that one finds oneself with a character string and not the numerical value 1 500,34. That would oblige us to juggle with the formulas of conversion text to numerical to make calculations on the values.
2) To put only the value in a cell (with like masks display # ## 0,00; - # ## 0,00),
and to devote the adjacent cell to the only character
The advantage are: one has our and the value in the desired font, and the possibility of putting formulas instead of a value.
The disadvantage is that one has two cells to recopy (the value is that of ).
3) To put only the value in a cell (with like masks display
to select the cell to be put in Alphasymb.
The advantage is that one has that a cell to be recopied (case interesting of a formula to be recopied for conversions into euro for example).
The disadvantage is that in our Alphasymb font, the figures are characters stick (as the arial). Therefore not of choice of fonts for the number. If not it would be necessary to create as many fonts than necessary; it would also be necessary to take account of the attributes like the italic and the fat. What would quite simply complicate the situation for the character .
But what interesting here is to use the Alphasymb font in a state.
For that, once that the state is created, it is necessary to put
(with with dimensions field devoted to the values in euro) a
heading comprising the letter E capital letter.
Using the properties, to put this heading organizes Alphasymb of it. It will be necessary that this heading is preferably of the same size of character as the field adequate; If not one will be able obviously to choose his color and the other attributes (fatty, Italic, etc).
Field containing the value in euro
It is necessary to put format # ##0,00;-# ##0,00
With the impression there will be our symbol with dimensioned value (12,50 for example).
On the other hand, for the impression direct of the tables, I acknowledge that I did not find the trick for mixer several character fonts in a cell (as in Excel). It is thus necessary in the table to use the format (as indicated in the use part without the Euro character) :
Conversion Franc at Euro
Note of the author of Alphaquark : The original page (Euro) was created for the french. It's why we speak here of the conversion Franc at Euro. But for another money, the main thing is the same for a conversion in another money. You must just to inquire about the value of conversion (example 6,55957 for the Franc at Euro).
For conversion euro in Franc, the principle is the same one with the difference that one multiplies (instead of dividing) by 6,55957.
The formula is :
It is supposed here that our value in Franc is in A1. One thus divides by our constant 6,55957 that one rounded with two decimals.
In a table, that we will name Testeuro for the example, there is a field in franc. But with the passing of years one accumulated hundreds (see thousands) of values in franc. One wants to see, as an indication what that goes given in euro. Here the request :
SELECT Testeuro.valeur, 100*CDbl(CCur(CCur(franc/6.55957)/100)) AS euro
FROM Testeuro;
Comment :
Function CCur converted a reality into money value but with 4 decimals ;
Whereas what interests us is to have the value with 2 decimals.
It is thus necessary to divide the value converted CCur(FRANC/6.55957) by 100 to reconvert it in money value CCur(CCur(franc/6.55957)/100). There are always four decimals, but the tip consists of the division by 100 which obliges to lose the two last decimals.
By converting it into a real number and multiplying it the result by 100, one obtains a real number with two decimals.
Concerning the display and the impression, to refer to the preceding chapters.


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Tighter security will remain in place for the 101st running of San Francisco's Zazzle Bay to Breakers race this Sunday morning, as police on Tuesday pledged to "enforce fun."
The 12-kilometer costumed scamper across The City had devolved in past years, at least among some, into a festival of sloppy drunkenness and public urination, prompting race organizers last year to adopt a zero-tolerance policy on alcohol. That and a ban on floats will remain in place this year as an estimated 40,000 to 50,000 celebrants take to the race course.
"We want to urge participants and spectators alike to follow the rules on race day," said race director Angela Fang. She said those rules include, "Have a great time" and, "Respect The City, respect the neighborhoods through which this race runs, and respect the race itself."
More than 360 officers will be deployed along the race route to help "limit behaviors that detract from the positiveness of the event," such as public intoxication, rowdy house parties that spill onto the race course and public urination, police Deputy Chief Denise Schmitt said.
Other officers will patrol surrounding neighborhoods. Police also are cautioning local businesses not to serve alcohol to overly intoxicated celebrants. The race takes place from 7 a.m. to noon, though Schmitt said there will be an increased police presence into the evening.
Police will "enforce fun, and restrict the stuff that detracts from the fun," Schmitt said.
One change involves the post-race celebration, which will be held closer to the finish line after some complained of having to walk a long way after completing the race.
Jarie Bolander of the North of Panhandle Neighborhood Association said the atmosphere of last year's race had more of a community-oriented feel, with fewer violent confrontations or disrespect for neighbors.
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America's epidemic of gun violence is no laughing matter, but comedian Jay Leno—former host of the "Tonight Show"—has nevertheless agreed to perform at the 2015 Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show on behalf of the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the gun industry. Leno is scheduled to speak at the NSSF's "State of the Industry" dinner on January 20, 2015 at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The group's website claims that tickets for the event are "going fast."
Ironically, the NSSF is headquartered in Newtown, Connecticut, only three miles from Sandy Hook Elementary School, where six adults and 20 first-grade children were killed in a mass shooting in December 2012.
Leno, who hosted the late-night program for 22 seasons, has never previously voiced public support for the NSSF or the gun lobby. In fact, during a November 2013 "Tonight Show" interview with conservative Senator Ted Cruz, Leno questioned the Texas politician about his opposition to stricter gun-control policies. "Why is increased background checks not a good thing?" Leno asked. "No one is saying you can't have guns; you just have to pass a background check. Why is that bad?" He told Cruz that without stronger laws, "a complete psychopath can go to a gun show and buy half a dozen guns."
The Newtown Action Alliance, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, and the Campaign to Unload are circulating an online petition asking Leno to cancel his SHOT Show appearance.
"Mr. Leno should not be acting as a pitchman for an industry that has disrespected gun violence survivors and stonewalled attempts to prevent future shooting tragedies," said Josh Horwitz, executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. "We're asking him to reconsider his promotion of the remorseless gun lobby."
Po Murray, chair of the Newtown Action Alliance, which was formed after the Sandy Hook shooting, said she was "shocked" to learn that Leno was speaking at the SHOT Show. "I figured he didn't know what they stand for," said Murray, who lives in the same Newtown neighborhood where Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook shooter, once lived; her four children previously attended the school. "We hope our petition will convince Mr. Leno to be reasonable and cancel his speech."
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Do ordinary people still register for fine china? Crystal glassware? And silver flatware?
As I have become an adult and been a guest at many weddings, and actually been faced with the reality of planning my wedding and forming a household…The idea of asking people for expensive gifts seems a bit silly. But, my sister and my mother have insisted that its really important to create the registry. And my sister has sent out the bridal shower invitations…so now the registry is out there…
I had always imagined that I would register for a set of fine china, matching serving pieces, and nice glassware and flatware (maybe not real silver)…but, while putting together my registry, it just doesn't seem to be a good idea.
Mostly, I'm concerned about the cost…I actually doubt that many of my guests will be spending more than $150 on a gift for my wedding. In fact, I certainly hope they don't! My fiance and I are paying for the bulk of the wedding ourselves, and it's not going to be what has become the traditional all-night steak-and-open bar extravaganza…it's going to be small and modest. Even the least expensive 'fine china' place settings I've looked at start at $75 per place setting. And most of those I don't really like at all. I would say $100 per place setting is pretty standard. Most people are going to spend $100 max on a gift…I doubt that they'll want to get one place setting as their only gift…but what if one or two people do decide just to give one place setting as a gift? Then I will have one or two lone place settings…and I certainly won't be able to spend the $500+ to copmlete the set any time soon…
At the same time, I do appreciate the somewhat romantic idea of establishing your household with a beautiful set of fine china that will become a family heirloom…bringing it out at every holiday and special occaision, and passing it onto my children/grandchildren. It's seems like a more dignified gift than a blender or a set of bath towels. I could go buy those things myself any day of the week…I don't need fine china…but then again…I don't really NEED anything on the registry….


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"STROPHIA NEGLECTA Novo.
Neglected Strophia.
FIG. 47, A, front view, B, side view of type.
Sr. CH. Size medium. Shell, heavy. Striations, present.
Whirls, nine.
Form of shell, rather oval, the first and second whirls being
about equal in diameter. Then the shell slopes to a quite acute point, forming an angle of sixty-two degrees. The striations are few, fifteen to the first whirl, are very irregular, and not arranged in lines; those on the first whirl are many of them straight, but some are inclined from right to left; on the remaining whirls all are inclined, but some more than others, hence the striations present a peculiarly broken appearance; they are partly rounded, and although not furrowed, are broken and roughened in many places. They are narrow, not one half as wide as the interspaces between them.
Aperture, not large, well arched above, and very slightly contracted at the entrance. Lower tooth, not very prominent, about .02 high, and about twice as long as high, width about equaling height; its position is about central, and slightly elevated. Upper tooth, placed quite high, considerably above the top of the lower tooth, is about one half as large as the lower.
Margin not produced forward quite as far as the diameter of the shell, is placed a little to the right of the center of the shell, and is very slightly inclined to the right; it is about twice as thick as the shell behind it, with the edge beveled and produced into a sharpened edge, which is, however, not rolled backward. The frontal bar is not well developed, not protruding beyond the striations, but completely interrupts them.
Color of shell, externally, ashy throughout, striations and all; internally, pale brown, becoming paler on teeth and margin.
Size of type, .92 by .45. Largest specimen. 1.03 by .40: smallest, .77 by .40. Greatest diameter, .50; smallest, .40. Longest specimen, 1.00; shortest, .77.
Individual variation is toward a larger shell, with a thicker
margin and with more striations, but not in any marked degree, on one hand, and toward a smaller form with a thinner margin and fewer striations.
This singular Strophia may be at once distinguished from any other by the peculiar ashy color, which in many specimens has a decidedly bluish cast, but more particularly by the wide apart, irregular striations, which, being inclined in different degrees, give the shell a singularly rough appearance, in-so-much so, that I know of no shell of this genns that approaches it in these particulars.
This species often occurs in collections labeleld as S. glans, but the glans of Kuster, as figured by him, as cited, under that head, further on in this monograph, is a white shell, with rather numerous, quite regular, striations, and does not at all resemble S. neglecta, excepting possibly in being of an oval form.
In January, 1884, I found the Neglected Strophia on the borders of a deserted plantation on New Providence about a mile west of
Nine years later in March, 1893, I visited the spot and found the plantation recultivated. The bushes were uprooted, and the entire locality changed into sisal hemp fields. On these plants, a long in being covered; thus it was that I found so many dead shells on the surface.
Why the species did not retreat to the rocks on either side can be explained by supposing that the shrubbery there was not of the proper kind for their sustenance, for it is a fact that the species of Strophia live by preference upon particular trees, shrubs or herbiage, as I have shown in several cases, and seen in several others.
One other fact remains to be mentioned before closing this brief history of the Ivory Strophia, and that is that I discovered a single specimen of what I must at present consider as this species (although it is too stout, lacks the upper tooth, and differs somewhat otherwise to be quite typical) on a key that lies about a half mile north of U Key, which I have called Pimlico Key, on account of the abundance of the Pimlico, or Audobon's Shearwater which inhabit it. I did not find a single specimen, besides this, of any form of Strophia, either living or dead, on the key, therefore conclude that this must have been drifted there by ocean currents."


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How can Racecourse gates be improved? It's an age-old question, but in the third division, it is still as topical as ever. The Reds have now played 10 home games in the league in 2002-3, and Saturday's match against Hull City was watched by a crowd of 4,412 - the highest of the season.
Before that, Racecourse gates had been particularly average: in ascending order - 2,968 (Exeter), 3,105 (Bournemouth), 3,293 (Boston), 3,312 (Lincoln), 3,495 (Leyton Orient), 3,555 (Swansea), 3,591 (Oxford), 3,941 (Bury) and 4,340 (Rochdale).
So far, the average home gate is 3,601, which leaves Wrexham hovering in 13th place in the third division 'attendance league table' - a rather undistinguished position, it has got to be said.
The rest of the table makes interesting reading. As one would expect, big-city clubs Hull and Bristol Rovers are out in front (with average home gates of 9,323 and 6,684 respectively). The Pirates are currently 22nd in the 'real' table - so respect to their marketing men!
Three teams regularly play in front of 5,000+ gates - Bournemouth (average 5,361), Oxford (5,207) and Carlisle (5,024) - and three in front of 4,000+ crowds - Hartlepool (4,835), Cambridge (4,374) and Leyton Orient (4,358).
With Wrexham in the middling 3,000+ category are Swansea (3,992), Rushden and Diamonds (3,930), Southend (3,859), York (3,732), Exeter (3,562), Lincoln (3,428), Darlington (3,318), Shrewsbury (3,218), Scunthorpe (3,127), Torquay (3,067) and Boston (3,037).
The clubs with the biggest attendance-related problems are Bury (2,970), Rochdale (2,840), Kidderminster (2,708) and Macclesfield (2,068).
It is interesting that three out of the four worst supported clubs are ex-Conference outfits (league football is clearly not that much of an added attraction) and that Carlisle, 21st in the table, can still pull in over 5,000 per game (particularly impressive given that, for geographical reasons, Brunton Park is never going to attract that many away fans).
Wrexham is a small town, with lots of big clubs within easy reach on a Saturday afternoon, so in a way, an average gate of 3,601 is nothing to be ashamed of, especially when the team hasn't yet hit top form at home this year.
Nonetheless, I am constantly underwhelmed by the marketing efforts of the WFC commercial department.
Messrs Guterman, Wingrove and Sadler are excellent individuals to have at the helm of a football club, but unless I have missed something, there seems to be little of a concerted, pro-active nature going on in terms of attendance-raising initiatives.
In a recent interview, commercial manager Bill Wingrove said: "We want to attract more people to games, but we don't want to make false promises. I have heard that the "kid for a quid" scheme has been tried, tested and has been successful in the past, and I have seen other clubs doing it regularly. You can be certain that we will again be trying this before Christmas."
This is all fair enough, and the 'kid-a-quid' scheme will be tried again at the Kidderminster fixture on 21 December. But Wrexham's average home gate last year was 3,794, and this year it's 3,601. Granted, the figure hasn't nose-dived after relegation, but neither has it improved, as one might expect in a promotion-chasing year.
The message to the marketing people at WFC is simple: keep at it!


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Man complains to council after prostitute REFUSES to have sex with him
A MAN who was so angry at being turned down by a prostitute rung up his local council to make an official complaint.
The unnamed man visited a brothel in Harrow, north London, but was rejected by an eastern European sex worker, and he wasn't prepared to take the knock-back lying down.
Making a trip from a neighbouring borough, he felt like he had wasted his time and rung up Harrow council's Trading Standards to make his complaint.
A council source told Get West London: "The gentleman seemed very aggrieved.
"He told us he believed he had been refused and was angry about the fact.
"He told us he believed he had been refused and was angry about the fact"Council source
"He insisted that prostitutes shouldn't be able to behave like that.
"The man said he had travelled from a neighbouring borough in north London so was obviously a bit upset by his wasted trip.
"He filled in the form pretty seriously and gave us his contact details."
His complaint has had some success as the brothel in question has now been closed down.
Local Tory councillor Susan Hall said she hoped the experience hadn't put off the man from visiting the borough again - although not for seeking out a prostitute.
She said: "I would like the gentleman involved to visit Harrow again, but perhaps this time he could enjoy some of our more wholesome pursuits – like our wonderful open parks, leisure centres and historic churches."


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They Call it Uganda
Just the name "Uganda" should tell the educated observer that this country has internal security problems. "Uganda" is the Kiswahili name for the Kingdom of Buganda, which contains less than 20 percent of the Republic of Uganda's population. A native of Buganda is a muganda, a group of locals are baganda and their language is called Luganda,
Got that?
The Republic of Uganda is named for the homeland of one of its dozen or so ethnic groups translated into the language of one of the other ethnic groups. In any language, that is pronounced trouble.
If you're unfamiliar with African geography or history, think about it in European terms. Yugoslavia was a country with a Serb plurality with large helpings of other ethnic groups: Slovenes, Croats, Bosniaks, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Albanians and Hungarians. As you may recall, despite some periods of real prosperity, the federation did not end terribly well. The Serbs felt that they should be the dominant group to the consternation of the other nations. Now imagine that in order to soothe Serb demands the great powers had, at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, named the country Serbia. (It was actually called the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes). The other ethnic groups would have been furious. So suppose that in order to cushion the blow, Wilson, George and Clemenceau decided that the best option was to keep the name Serbia but to have the official name be in Albanian. Would these linguistic gymnastics have prevented the country's disintegration in World War II and again in the 1990s?
And yet this seems to have been exactly the plan for Uganda. The British named their protectorate after Buganda, whose people make up a bare plurality at around 17 percent of the population, but translated the name to Kiswahili, the speakers of which, are not even a plurality in Uganda and are much better represented in Uganda's giant neighbors Kenya and Tanzania. Of course, the whole exercise makes a great deal more sense when one considers that the British had no interest in promoting ethnic harmony. Divide and conquer is as British as black pudding.
Still, the British persisted in promoting the fantasy of Uganda as an organic whole. Winston Churchill called the Protectorate "The Pearl of Africa." For the master of metaphor, a man coined the highly accurate term "Iron Curtain," it was either a rare failure of imagination or a deliberate misrepresentation. A pearl is the smooth little moon of a jewel that emerges when a tiny irritant, perhaps a grain of sand, becomes lodged in an oyster's flesh. If Anglophone Africa has a pearl, even in Churchill's time it would not have been Uganda. A better choice would have been another former British protectorate, Botswana, where a scant population of three million, ethnic homogeneity and the lack of anything of particular value until diamonds were discovered after independence allowed it to emerge as one of the most progressive economies and functional societies on the continent. Uganda, by contrast, resembles what might happen if one crammed more than a dozen grains of sand into a single oyster. If it is a pearl, it is a misshapen one.
A better metaphor for Uganda might be the costume jewelry of Africa. Each element is beautiful and unique. Perhaps Busoga is a feather, Buganda a rhinestone and Acholiland a clasp of gleaming brass. But thrown together they clash garishly, a mismatched trinket on the wrist of a continent that is already mixing polka dots with plaids. Its continuous existence is, as much as anything, based upon the insistence of its leaders and the Westphalian system that it must exist.
It is at this point that I should concede that after six weeks, I know almost nothing first hand about Uganda. Buganda, I more or less understand. I live and work here; I have traveled and relaxed here. While my understanding is flawed, it is about as good as it can be such a short stay. Buganda, however, is not Uganda.
This may come as news to the Baganda, who, due to the sophistication of their ancient civilization, have long dominated neighboring tribes. At the core of Baganda civilization was the kabaka, the absolute monarch. For generations, Buganda enjoyed competent, though not always compassionate, governance because of the nation's embrace of a strong monarch combined with its rejection of royal primogeniture. Whereas most dynasties pass the crown onto the monarch's first-born son, the Baganda explicitly forbade the first-born son from becoming kabaka. Instead, a council of advisors chose the next kabaka from among all of the other sons. The kabaka's polygamy gave advisors a large number of legitimate heirs from whom to choose, creating the likelihood of a truly talented prince taking the throne, instead of a mediocrity blessed only in birth order.
Buganda's preeminence was not lost on British imperialists who identified the Baganda as a people to be used as the protectorate's commercial and administrative class, though the Baganda would have a lesser role in the economy than Indians shipped in from their corner of the empire. However, in classic British fashion, the crown separated military power from economic power giving most opportunities in the armed forces to the Northerners who were largely shut out from commerce. The British used the relatively short stature of the Baganda to disqualify most of them from military service. In the long run, having shillings without guns proved disastrous for the Baganda.
Since independence, the Baganda have been stuck in the odd position of dominating commerce, culture and language without ever actually wielding political power. While Kabaka Mutesa II served as the ceremonial President of Uganda after independence, the real power lay with Prime Minister Milton Obote, a Protestant Lango. When the Kabaka and his largely Catholic people declared independence in 1966, Obote and his army chief of staff, a Muslim from the West Nile province named Idi Amin, shelled the Kabaka's palace, ultimately driving Mutesa II into exile in London. The Kabaka died soon after, perhaps as the result of poisoning, ending any hopes of Baganda sovereignty, much less hegemony, and solidifying Obote's position as the most hated man in Buganda.
When Amin overthrew Obote in 1971 he became, at least for a while, a hero to many Baganda by virtue of his outstanding quality of not being Obote. His key role in the attack on the kabaka's palace was largely forgotten. However, he was a homicidal lunatic, who killed 300,000 people, and deported the Indian population of 70,000 before being deposed by the Tanzanian army in 1979 after an ill-advised land grab.
Still, Amin, internationally reviled as one of history's great villains, is remembered more fondly in Buganda than in other areas of the south. Perhaps this is because Obote took another 100,000 lives, many of them Baganda, after returning to power in 1981 following a series of short-lived presidents.
One Muganda, who is too young to remember Amin, responded to a question about her opinion of the former dictator by pointing out "that guy, if you listen to his speeches, was so funny."
It is a peculiar choice of words. While there is a certain terrifying comedy to Amin's daft insistence that he was the rightful King of Scotland, his portrayal of Mussolini in two films, and his friendly advice to Richard Nixon that the best way to deal with Watergate would be to execute Dean, Woodward, Bernstein and friends, "funny" remains a painfully odd adjective. Somehow, it is difficult to image even a fellow Khmer Rouge describing Pol Pot's wonderful sense of humor, or even the most ardent of Serb nationalists talking about Slobodan Milosevic's gift for the pun.
Even when Obote's second reign finally ended and order prevailed, the Baganda did not win power. Instead, the Banyakole tribe from southwestern Uganda ascended. After placing poorly in the rigged 1981 election that returned Obote to power, Yoweri Musseveni, a Banyakole, and his National Revolutionary Movement took to the bush. By the time General Tito Okello deposed Obote in 1985, the NRM already controlled much of the western part of the country, and in 1986, they took Kampala.
The Baganda, have undoubtedly done better under Musseveni than under Obote. The NRM government even restored the monarchy, albeit as a purely ceremonial institution, in 1993. And yet the trend continues. In the country that bears their name, albeit in a foreign tongue, the Baganda remain politically impotent.
However, the dissatisfaction of the Baganda is the least of Uganda's problems today. Even with Musseveni's Banyakole tribesmen dominating politics and advancing in commerce, the Baganda are, at a minimum, free to do business, grow crops, tend cattle, and promulgate their ancient culture. If Buganda faces an alienating identity crisis, other regions face more tangible crises as ethnic conflict bloodily persists.
The most pressing security concern comes from across the border in Congo where Joseph Kony, a self-proclaimed "prophet of God," continues to lead the largely Acholi "Lord's Resistance Army," in rebellion. The LRA, a force peopled heavily by child soldiers and renowned for mutilating dissident Acholi and anyone else they can, has no political agenda save for the vague manifesto that Kony should rule all of Uganda in accordance with the ten commandments. In many ways, Kony is a grandiose madman in the tradition of Amin. For example, he recently invited Ramoush Hardinaj, the former prime minister of Kosovo and an indicted, though acquitted, war criminal to come to Uganda to mediate between the LRA and Musseveni. Hardinaj has no Africa experience. When it comes to statecraft, Metternich, Kony is not.
In the East, the Karamajong remain among the most traditional of Uganda's tribes, facing intense pressure to assimilate into the mainstream of Ugandan society, while at the same time continuing with traditions that are, at best, antisocial. The Karamajong believe that all of Uganda's cattle belong to them. If someone else has a cow, the only possible explanation is that the individual or his ancestors stole a cow from the Karamajong at some point in history. The Karamajong believe this gives them the right and responsibility to take cattle from anyone whenever possible, including fellow Ugandans and nearby Kenyans. Even in some cities, Karamajong carry spears, an ominous warning to anyone whose ancestors might have stolen a cow. Cattle rustling is sadly not a strong basis for economic growth or democratic governance, thus the Karamajong have remained a nation apart within Uganda.
While the Buganda's problems are not as pressing as the Acholi, the Karamajong or a handful of other tribes, the glittering gem on the costume jewelry that is Uganda remain a troubled people. The restoration of the monarchy and the omnipresent framed photos of the current kabaka hanging on walls throughout Buganda cannot hide Buganda's identity crisis.
The Baganda, the monarchy's restoration notwithstanding, appear to suffer from the same problem as many kingdoms and empires that have perished from the Earth. Just as the Austrians struggled mightily to figure out what their country was absent the Hapsburgs and the Serbs struggled to maintain preeminence when Tito's partisans ended the Karadjordjevic and Obrenevic dynasties' waltz with power, the Baganda seem to be struggling to determine their role in this hodgepodge of a country. Are they the rightful lords of Uganda or just another of its constituent pieces? Is their destiny their own, or is it tied forever to the future of people from the north with whom they share no language and no culture save that which the British crown imposed?
In light of all of these contradictions and conflicts, all of the division and diversion, it is unsurprising that I have seen fewer national flags in Uganda than in any other African country I have visited. The horizontal stripes of red, yellow and black fly above the government buildings in Kampala, appear in a few hip hop videos and that is about it. The crested crane, the national emblem, that perches in a white circle in the flag's center does little to unite the country. How can a nation of more than 32 million be represented by a bird that appears in just a tiny sliver of its territory?
Perhaps a better symbol would be the marabou stork, the huge, hideous bird that subsists on the garbage of major cities. It is not that the stork is a scavenger that makes it a fitting totem, but rather that it is a survivor. Despite being a vast and gangly mishmash of seemingly incompatible parts, two huge wings, long pencil legs, a dull red scalp and a yellow needle of a beak, it survives. Somehow this bird that looks as though it was assembled from spare parts holds together, somehow it finds food, somehow its disparate parts, which have nothing in common save a body, manage to do what must be done to live for the next day.
It is inelegant but hearty. It is awkward, but resilient. It is not Buganda, but perhaps it is Uganda.
Tuesday, June 30
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Pumpkin cheesecake looks like I just might be able to make it. Not one who likes cooking, but enjoy eating.
These no-bake pies can be made up to 2 weeks ahead and frozen until serving. We don't recommend using sugar-free pudding mix in this recipe, as it contains different fillers, which will result in a different consistency.
Beat cream cheese, 2 tablespoons milk, and sugar until creamy. Whisk in whipped dessert topping. Divide cream cheese mixture between two piecrusts.
Separately, combine pumpkin, 1 cup milk, pudding mix, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves. Spread half of pumpkin mixture onto each piecrust. Cover and refrigerate for 4 hours, or freeze.
If you freeze pies, thaw whole pie in refrigerator for 1 hour before serving.
Testers' notes: Mix the bottom layer of this pie just enough to blend; do not overmix. Also, you might try refrigerating or freezing the pie for 30 minutes after you add the first layer, but before you add the second. Lastly, do not make the top layer until you are ready to spread it, because the pudding mix will thicken as it sits.


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PEEKSKILL, N.Y. - Patricia Mary Badum, a resident of Peekskill, died April 11. She was 71.
Badum was born Oct. 11, 1942, and she was the daughter of James and Agnes (Rooney) Weichel. She was a member of the Society Hill II Condo Association Board.
Badum is survived by her husband, Rudolph Badum; sons, Jeffery, Rudolph, Ronald and Andrew Badum; 12 grandchildren; father, James Weichel; sister, Mary Jane Glander; and a nephew.
The family will hold a memorial service at a later date.
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While the NFL received its first "A" grade this past year for racial hiring practices by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, there is always still room for improvement.
According to the University of Central Florida-based group in their 2010 Racial and Gender Report Card, white and African-American players combined to make up 97 percent of the league. That left only three percent for any other races.
It seems the demographic of Asians (and Asian-Americans) isn't strongly pursued by the NFL, which is odd considering the size of the Asian market. Other leagues have had notable success on those fronts, such as the NBA with Yao Ming, its Chinese basketball ambassador. MLB also had the ability to bring already-famous players like Ichiro Suzuki and Daisuke Matsuzaka to their league and draw international fans of those athletes to follow their games. It's not just about marketing, either; that's a substantial demographic of potentially talented athletes the league doesn't seem to be fully tapping.
Out of the few Asian-Americans that compete in the NFL, the most prominent one is arguably Hines Ward. Ward was born in Seoul, South Korea to an African-American father and Korean mother. After his family moved to the United States, Ward lived in Georgia and played for the University of Georgia, being drafted by the Steelers in 1998.
Ward's career in Pittsburgh has placed him as one of the greatest wide receivers in Steelers history, holding records for receptions, receiving yards and receiving touchdowns, and winning the team's MVP award three times. Listed at an even 6'0″ tall, Ward possesses only average height for a wide receiver but uses his 205-pound build to set blocks that have made him notorious for his hard-hitting play within the NFL.
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Bam Morris, founder of Blitzburgh Blog, remembers watching Ward play quarterback at the 1995 Peach Bowl against Virginia. He wasn't sure what to expect from Ward when he was drafted by Pittsburgh, but Morris sees him now as one the greatest receivers in Steelers history who represents the city well with his personality and demeanor.
"He's been undersized and slow for nearly his whole career, yet nobody in the league is tougher," Morris said. "His work ethic is unmatched as well. Hines Ward is the city of Pittsburgh personified on the football field. He's the little, scrappy guy who has been told he's no good for his whole life, yet he takes tremendous pride in his work and character and has become something great."
Craig Gottschalk of Nice Pick, Cowher said the relatively low numbers of Asian-Americans in the NFL, may be due to the typical physiques professional teams look for. With the average football player being 6'0″ tall and 210 pounds, Gottschalk says that many (but not all) Asian-Americans are at a disadvantage. Beyond physical build, there's also a significant issue with their participation rates in the sport.
"You need to look at programs at an early age," Gottschalk said. "Are there youth who are of Asian-American races that are participating in football? I think a lifelong interest and pursuit of football as a career starts at a young age. If Asian-Americans aren't participating at that time, then it may be 'late' for them to gain interest or succeed in a program as they get older."
Virginia-born Ed Wang has only been in the NFL for one season, but he has already made history. When the offensive tackle was drafted out of Virginia Tech by the Buffalo Bills in the fifth round in 2010, he broke new boundaries by becoming the first fully Chinese player in the NFL.
Although Wang's first season with Buffalo didn't result in a lot of playing time, there is still a great opportunity for him in the future. Demetrius Bell has the starting left tackle job over Wang right now, but while although he has most of his football experience there, Wang has also played other positions. He started his career at Virginia Tech playing some sets at tight end and was also used as a right tackle for the Hokies, showing knowledge of both positions.
We'll have to see if Wang can make the most out of his career and be known as well as Norman Kwong. Kwong, the first Chinese-Canadian to play on a professional Canadian football team, had a legendary playing career at fullback with the Calgary Stampeders and Edmonton Eskimos in the 1940s and 1950s. He went on to be the Stampeders' president and general manager, was a part owner of the Calgary Flames and was lieutenant governor of Alberta from 2005 to 2010.
Could the NFL use more players like Wang and Ward with Asian heritage? Well, despite the league's efforts to promote their product in other countries, such as the International Series and sites for China, Japan and other areas, their massively popular sport isn't as dominant worldwide as it is in the U.S. Yes, this past Super Bowl broke records with an estimated 111 million people watching according to the Nielsen Co., but that only counts for American television viewing.
What about areas outside of the United States? The estimated total viewing for Super Bowl XLV was 162.9 million, so by doing the math, roughly 52 million out of the rest of the world tuned in for the big game. Considering the number of countries that broadcast this year's Super Bowl – including China, Australia, Germany, France and more – that number could be much greater. A more diverse population of players might not be the only way to increase the game's worldwide appeal, but it certainly wouldn't hurt.
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