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doublesix Games Senior Designer, Ollie Barder just sent us an update detailing an upcoming Burn Zombie Burn patch. The patch version 1.02 fixes a few bugs, including scoreboard issues. The patch also brings some new features…
After downloading the patch, Burn Zombie Burn will feature Youtube recording and uploading support, as well as custom in-game music. The patch is available for download now in EU territories, and will be available either later today or tomorrow in North America.
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The Villa is furnished in Scandinavian chic style. Perfectly located on the Riviera Isles within walking distance from the beach and to Las Olas Boulevard with restaurants and shopping area. Gated neighborhood.
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Mr Ferguson has also urged state governments to take advantage of a forecast plateau in electricity prices to deregulate household tariffs.
The Coalition has pledged to review the renewable energy target (RET) next year. Investment in the sector has ground to a halt pending the outcome of that review.
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In an address to the Energy Retailers Association of Australia in Sydney on Wednesday, Mr Ferguson, the former Labor minister for resources and energy, was set to say the current RET policy – to reach 41,000 gigawatt hours by 2020 – "is pretty much heading towards 30 per cent [of total power supply] by 2020, something that none of us signed up to back in 2009".
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But he will say the Coalition's 2014 Energy White Paper process "affords an excellent opportunity for industry to unite on a position" and has strongly urged the industry to lobby on the issue.
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Capability Brown's 300th Anniversary Prompts Commemorations at Great English Estates
Who was Capability Brown? We today know his work from watching the excellent BBC Series, "Downton Abbey", filmed at an English estate Highclere, designed by the great landscape gardener.
Newport's many grand houses and beautiful grounds reflect and honor the great tradition of English estates. It's understandable that glorious vistas of undulating fields and wispy woodlands mirrored in glassy lakes,fit the definition of a natural, untouched purely English landscape.
Belvoir Castle
In truth however, more than 250 of England's sweeping tableaux were actually contrived by one man - the iconic visionary Lancelot "Capability" Brown, whose tercentenary anniversary is being celebrated in every corner of England this year.
As summer winds down and noisy throngs disappear, the legendary estates where Brown toiled, return to normalcy. Their empty paths offer leisurely strolling venues to appreciate Brown's unsullied beauty in golden light that distinguishes this time of year.
Burghley House - View across the Lion Bridge
Often referred to as England's greatest gardener, Capability Brown was born in the Northumberland village of Kirkharle in 1716. Happily, his formative years coincided with boom times, when enormous wealth and changing tastes drove land owners to transform their estates from fussy, often French-influenced schemes of parterres, topiaries, and border-enclosed sculptures, into pastoral parklands and pleasure grounds.
In the whoosh of this exciting phenomenon, Brown left school at 14 to become a gardener a Kirkharle Hall, the grandest house in his village. With rudimentary skills in place, he subsequently graduated to Stowe House in Buckinghamshire where he worked in the kitchen garden under the tutelage of revered designer William Kent. As assistant to the genius who became his mentor, he worked on the transformation of Stowe's Baroque park into one of the first English landscape gardens.
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During this design revolution, Brown's hands-on apprenticeships broadened his exposure and grounded his knowledge in the rapidly changing world of landscape design. It also inculcated necessary skills, such as surveying, hydraulic engineering, draftsmanship and architecture. Soon, the lowly apprentice became acclaimed maestro everyone clamored to hire.
To that end, he referred to his particular profession as "place-making," and defined himself as an "improver" who was able to envision how beautiful each estate was "capable" of becoming with his assistance. Thus his name "Capability" evolved, and is what he is off-handedly called today.
John Phibbs, scholar, landscape consultant and editor of the brownadvisor.com, says "Brown was stunningly gifted and had a complete grasp of the physical, visual landscape." If hIs straightforward principles seemed devoid of complicated philosophy, he once wrote that success of a scheme "should supply all the elegance and all the comforts which Mankind wants in the Country, and I will add. if right, be exactly fit for the owner, the Poet and the Painter."
As an improver, he boldly asessed nature's foibles, then eradicated or camouflaged those blemishes, by moving mountains of earth, and relocating roads and entire villages. "When he smoothed out awkward or abrupt accidents of nature, he massaged them into flawless visions of beauty," Phibbs says, "You might say, his best work was indistinguishable from nature."
Explaining that Brown had no serious rivals for over 30 years, and often worked on dozens of projects simultaneously, Phibbs says: "England's great estate-building prosperity in the second half of the 18th century allowed him to leave an indelible imprint on man-made landscapes of more than a half-million acres across England and Wales. Today there are still around 200 of his landscapes worth seeing, and millions of devotees visit the 140 that are at least occasionally open," says Phibbs. "Within the mix, no landscape attributed to Brown should be excluded."
Among the more well-known estates that bear his unmistakable mark, Blenheim, Burghley, Stowe, Highclere (real life setting for the popular television series, Downton Abbey), and Belvoir are certainly worth a visit.
Burghley House, situated at the edge of Stamford in Hertfordshire, is a palatial Elizabethan building of 100 plus rooms, once described as a 'Sumptuous Structure' and the indulgence of a 'Luxuriant fancy.' The grand house which was often mistaken for a town, is distinguished by rambling wings, chimneys, cupolas, soaring ramparts and obelisk clock tower dated 1585. As one of England's most remarkable places,it was commissioned by William Cecil, the lst Baron Burghley, Lord High Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I, in 1554, its actual construction took 30 years.
Today, the massive house, which was a featured location in the 2005 film version of 'Pride and Prejudice,' is the family home of Cecil's great-great (x12) granddaughter Miranda and her husband Orlando Rock, who is Chairman of Christie's UK. The family of a son and three daughters, reside in the spacious family quarters, where toys and sports equipment happily coexist with the priceless treasures. As elected director of Burghley House Trust, MIranda Rock manages the estate.
The Capability Brown landscape of 1,300 acres, done between 1756 and 1779, includes a stable courtyard, 22-acre lake, graceful Lion Bridge and Orangery, that is still a popular place for lunch. Don't miss the Sculpture Garden, with its riveting display of contemporary sculpture tucked around. Families with bathing-suit-clad children should head to the Garden of Surprises, a water park that keep little ones enchanted (and cool) for hours.
Elsewhere, Stowe House, which is now home to the prestigious Stowe School, is a property that Brown loved, and toiled in for 25 years. Its immense landscape dotted with Greek temples, follies and a semi-subterranean grotto dedicated to Venus, all feel like an ode to his work. The fact that the famous property is now overseen by the National Trust insures its longevity.
Highclere (Downton Abbey) owned by the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon offers another look at Brown's work feted by a plethora of special Autumnal Capability Brown events. Some showcase the 1771 gardens and parkland; others feature tours of the State Rooms and Bedrooms. All are sure to magnetize Downton's habituees.
Blenheim Palace
Blenheim Palace, the stunning Oxfordshire seat of the Dukes of Marlborough, is the only great house with a "palace" moniker, that is not a royal domicile. The magnificent pile, where Winston Churchill was born (it was his grandparents' home at the time), is within a stone's throw of the pretty, walkable village of Woodstock, about two-hours from London. Built on land gifted from grateful Queen Anne to John Churchill, who became the lst Duke of Marlborough, it is a constant reminder of the Crown's gratitude to Churchill for leading the victorious Battle of Blenheim in August 1704, against the French. Today, the grand residence, and vast 2,000 acre Capability Brown Park is home to the 12th Duke and his young family; and is also a World Heritage Site that offers tours, exhibits, a gift shop and restaurant, amenities and gardens.
The "Upstairs and Downstairs" tour is one of the Blenheim's most popular, offering glimpses of lower level passages and rooms "where the work of the palace takes place." This includes "fortified rooms" for storage of silver and candles; the China Room where hundreds of porcelain patterns, including those no longer in use, are displayed. The white tile laundry was and is home, to washers and ironers, and the Cold Room houses all the flowers being readied for upstairs. Kitchens feature interesting blackboard menus offering: "Beluga Caviar, Cheese Souffle, Black truffles and Chateaubriand, finished with a Strawberry Tart!"
The Kings's Room, Belvoir Castle
Not surprisingly, upstairs, is dramatically different with opulent chambers filled with collections that range from tapestries to silver. The Churchill Rooms are a must-see for anyone interested in the Prime Minister and the World Wars, but the exhibition also features emotional vestiges of Winston Churchill' s boyhood visits to his beloved grandparents, during which he learned to ride a pony and cavorted with his cousins. Particularly touching are his childish, hand-written scrolls from boarding school.
But Americans are invariably riveted by Blenheim's later ties to the Vanderbilts of New York and Newport, who incredulously fell into the "Title Trap" that was so common at the time. This upper crust phenomenon occurred frequently as ultra-wealthy American families bartered daughters and dowries in exchange for a noble title. So it was with 18-year old Consuelo Vanderbilt, and her unwilling betrothal to the 9th Duke of Marlborough. Her nightmare, became a dream-come-true for the 23-year old Duke whose massive house was in desperate need of an infusion of funds. On their 1895 wedding day, at St. Thomas Church in Manhattan, national and international newspapers breathlessly reported every intimate detail including the fact that the bride's train stretched15-feet and her underwear was secured with solid gold hooks. The press missed the fact that she was weeping behind her face veil.
However, after an opulent honeymoon,and subsequent production of "an heir and a spare," Consuelo remained supremely unhappy. Her lavish $2.5 million dowry had paid for Blenheim's sorely-needed lighting and heating upgrades, as well as a new roof and telephone lines. Nevertheless, the young family's prosperity was recorded by famous portraitists, including John Singer Sargent's 1905 larger than life painting on the first floor. In it the Duke appears sanguine in his ermine-trimmed robes, while the ravishing Duchess and little sons are captivating. But happy portraits don't always reveal the whole story, as the couple separated a year later and divorced in 1921.
The Duchess of Rutland at Belvoir Castle
A little farther afield in Leicestershire, Belvoir Castle creates its own allure. Home to the 11th Duke and Duchess of Rutland, Belvoir (pronounced Bee-ver) which means "beautiful view," is sited on thousands of acres of ancient land gifted by William the Conqueror in 1066. The 4th Duke commissioned Brown to create plans to alter Belvoir's landscape, but intervening circumstances precluded their enactment, and the plans were eventually lost for more than 225 years. Amazingly, they were found in one of the towers, about 10 years ago.
"I can still remember chills running down my spine when we saw the 1780 drawings we now call "The Lost Plans for the Lost Garden," the Duchess says. Now a 10-year plan prepared by Phibbs is in full swing. Thousand of trees have been planted and three new lakes create more than a mile and a half of water. " The 300th anniversary is the perfect venue to show them off for the first time," says the Duchess. "We hope visitors will come to England for this important celebration."
Roses at Blenheim Palace
Information: If you go: During the year-long festivities, there are talks, walks, carriage rides and scholarly lectures; house tours and assorted events at many estates that are not usually open to the public. For overall information visit www.capabilitybrown.org or websites for individual properties. email@example.com is a great resource for Capability tripping as well as arranging house parties and shooting weekends at some of the houses.
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I just started a thread on the music board and now it's vanished.
It definitely posted because I saw it with my eyes. I went to the social board for a bit, then back to music and my thread was no more.
It was called 'subtle musical changes that reflect what is happening lyrically' if you happen to find it lying around.
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The Bible tells us that as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. This means that how you see yourself determines your physical health.
So how do you see yourself in the midst of your symptoms, or after hearing your doctor's negative report?
Beloved, the truth is that through Jesus' finished work at the cross, you are completely righteous and completely redeemed from every curse of sickness. You are God's beloved child for whom Jesus did a complete work to save, heal and deliver.
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Saturday, February 03, 2007
Going Through Bruen Withdrawal at Left Coast Crime
Otherwise, I'd be tucked under the covers for at least another 45 minutes. Or running around, stressing, because my panel is this morning. But I don't have the energy to run or stress, and I can't sleep between the coughing.
Since I was up anyway I thought it was a good time to phone Ken and check in on the folks at Love is Murder in Chicago. Sounds like he's keeping super-busy, and from what I gleaned they're having a great time in Chicago.
Despite feeling like death warmed over I have been having a good time. As I mentioned before, I attended the 4MA dinner on Wednesday night. I don't think my brief post emphasized just how much fun that was. We even got to see Colin Campbell's legs.
I had actually been feeling better on Wednesday... See, the bug goes back to the week before, when I did my school event. Which seemed to go well, by the way. After that, I got sick. I thought I'd be over it by LCC, and my body seemed to be cooperating with the plan.
I even went to bed early, no bar, Wednesday night. Good girl.
Woke up feeling like crap. I had a horrid headache all day Thursday. This was not helped by the fact that it was standing room only at the Thursday panels. I managed one, had to escape for air and then went back to the third to see Toni McGee Causey's panel. You know how it is, when you feel like everything's pressing in on you and you can't handle being around people? That's how I felt by the end of the panel - I had to get out of that room.
Where Toni and I were sitting for the first panel was perfect, though. We could see everyone coming in and thus found Gregg Olsen and Sean Chercover.
Between panels I had a great talk with fellow Canadian author Alex Brett. I also got to meet Linda L. Richards.
I met with my panelists Thursday afternoon and was delighted by the group. After that meeting it was the "con tradition" - dinner with Robert Fate and Bill Cameron. We've been trying to persuade Bill to come to Murder in the Grove so that we can go out again. They're such great guys, I love hanging out with them.
After that it was back to the hotel for me. No bar, again. Just bed. In fact, Toni was shocked to discover me already asleep when she came in. I had a really rough night, tossing and turning after that, feeling as though I was burning up. I don't know if I was, but that's how I felt.
Surprisingly, I was up early yesterday and feeling better. And so I was off, grabbed breakfast at the pharmacy (they sell fruit cups there, I discovered) and went to Tim Maleeny's panel in the morning. Tim is one of those wonderful people I met at Bouchercon and have kept in touch with a bit over the months, and we keep having these "in passing" conversations. Tonight, I believe we're having dinner with a few other friends.
I did go to an incredibly fun panel yesterday, in the small room, on swearing. This is a panel topic I'd suggested and really wanted to be on this panel. Alas, Bill Cameron, Brett Battles and Rob Gregory Browne got the privilege, but what a great atmosphere. There was a lot of audience participation and discussion and it was lively and engaging to the very end. The room was pretty packed as well.
And not one of us there will look at Bruce Cook the same way again, as he dropped the "@!#*fucker" bomb on us all. He was talking about the evolution of language and how things that used to be offensive aren't now and suggested maybe @!#*fucker would be the next really offensive term. Judging from the reaction from even the potty mouths on the panel, I'd say that's a possibility.
Of course, what can you expect from someone who had the nickname Juicy Brucey? See, that's why you come early and go to the 4MA dinners. You learn things you can mention on your blog. It is public knowledge.
Bruce is going to be at Murder in the Grove as well. It's so nice reconnecting with friends at these things.
After that I did go to the bar with Rick Mofina. We were having a great chat, so I persauded him to tag along to the St. Martin's party with me, where Rick and Parnell Hall and myself had an interesting conversation about stalkers and reverse stalking.
Next I did make an appearance at the LCC schmoozing thing at the convention hotel. My reservations about going abated when I ran into Cornelia Read right off. Ultimately I went for dinner with her and a great small group, which is what I needed.
And it's at this point I realize I forgot to mention lunch with Alexandra Sokoloff, Toni, Phil Hawley, Rob, Brett, Boyd and Paul Guyot.
Paul loves Canadians.
Oh, and great lobby moment when Rick Mofina held up his nametag to see if we could spot what was wrong with it. Three Americans, one with dual citizenship and one Canadian. Sean and I were the only ones who laughed, because Ottawa was spelled wrong on his card.
Now, this is where I'll take a detour to pet peeve land. Why does where we're from have to be printed is huge lettering on our convention ID cards? I ripped mine off. Kevin flipped when he saw the Bouchercon one, and the town was actually put in small lettering. But he has a valid point, in our case, about me living in a village with only 800 people and being uncomfortable with that being widespread public knowledge. Sure 99.9% of the people at these things are wonderful, but when you start getting 500+ people at a con - or 1200 in the case of B'con - one shady character might slip in.
Normally I'm up and blogging and giving detailed reports if I can at these things. But, suffice it to say that with how I've been feeling I've had an okay time, but haven't been as with it as usual. Thing is, I knew I was getting sick two weeks ago, but was fighting it. This bug is stubborn.
I am looking forward to my panel this morning. I'm looking forward to my panel being done! I'm also looking forward to The Liar's Panel this afternoon, where I will be the Crime Fiction Vanna, keeping score.
I feel as though I'm only skimming the surface of the convention, both in my post and in my experience of it. Yes, I'm not all there. Or here. I may have made it to a bar with Rick yesterday, but it was 4 pm and I didn't drink. If I do make the late-night schmooze it will be tonight only. Otherwise, it's been to bed by 9:30.
Boy do I feel old.
Toni's computer has pop-up blocker. Two versions of it. As a result, I can't disable it and send emails. And as a result of that some people are really wondering where the heck I've disappeared to. I'll do my best to start digging out middle of the week, but tomorrow is another busy day, driving to Portland with Bill and Sean, doing a signing there and then flying home. My flight gets in at 1 am or something ludicrous, so don't expect anything from me Monday.
My general sense of the con is that people are having a good time. However, this is definitely one of those times that someone else will have a more insightful analysis of the event, because I'm not all here.
I look forward to surfing next week and catching up a bit. Oh, Mindy, I haven't met your friend yet. I have met some lovely people, though the names are a big foggy at the moment.
I leave you now, in search of drugs.
8 comments:
- M.G. Tarquini said...
heh heh. I had one breathless email from my friend about the con and Seattle and OMG! she was having fun, then...nothing. She'll resurface.
- 11:53 a.m.
- angie said...
Hope your search for drugs is successful - doing a con while sick is pretty nasty. Actually, doing just about anything while sick is a drag. Feel better - time to sleep soon!
- 4:19 p.m.
- Gabriele C. said...
Poor Sandra, get better soon. Do you have Silomat in Canada? Helps like a spell with my coughs. Honeyed coltstfood juice isn't bad, either. If your cough is bad enough, you even start liking the taste. *grin*
- 4:55 p.m.
- Gregg Olsen said...
I was totally a fish out of water, and Sandra made me feel so welcome at my first mystery convention. Plus she's gorgeous.
- 11:54 p.m.
- Judy said...
I'm so sorry you are under the weather, but glad you are having a great time. Hopefully next year I can meet you there.... sigh. Not if I don't get off my duff, stop bloghopping and get to writing, though!
- 9:42 a.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
Mindy, I still haven't met your friend!
Angie, I am SO looking forward to sleep.
Gabriele, I don't know about Silomat. We have Buckley's, and their marketing slogan is "It tastes awful and it works." And it's true, but I'm currently in the US.
Awwwww Gregg, you're so sweet.
Judy, I'd love to meet you at a future con, so stop reading my blog and get to it girl!!! Okay, that probably doesn't sound right somehow...
- 10:29 a.m.
- M. G. Tarquini said...
I think she ended up in a bar somewhere. Not sure.
- 11:54 a.m.
- Stephen Blackmoore said...
Oh. Oh, that's not good.
Hope you're feeling better soon.
- 1:12 p.m.


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Philip Butler ready to serve London with no preconceived notions
His mother is a Cork woman, his father a second-generationer, with parents from Cork and Wicklow. But he's an Englishman, have no doubt on that score
Every London footballer has a story. Lives left behind, new ones built forward. On a certain level, though, they all meld into the same yarn – work or college calling them to the city, the phone dinging one day with a manager on the other end saying he heard they play a bit of ball. For it to all come to a head in a Connacht final is a chapter none of them really saw coming but at least it's one they're familiar with.
Philip Butler's story is different. The 20-year-old corner back is one of three native Londoners in the squad and the only one in the team. He grew up in Greenford, a couple of stops on the Central line south east of Ruislip. His mother is a Cork woman, his father a second-generationer, with parents from Cork and Wicklow.
But he's an Englishman, have no doubt on that score. Sometimes just to tweak the tails of his team-mates, he'll wear an England top to training.
A serious rugby fan, the biggest day in his sporting year is any time Saracens beat Leciester. Or at least it was until a month ago. He might have to revise that opinion somewhat given where he'll be at two o'clock on Sunday afternoon.
A physiotherapy student at the University of Hertfordshire, his life as a Gaelic footballer is one he has difficulty explaining to his friends and classmates. On the one hand, they get that it's important to him. On the other, it all seems a bit lacking in sense. He's in the final of what now?
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"I don't think my friends really know how big it is," he says. "They don't understand it. They don't really get why I can't have a drink with them when we go out. I think they're getting there a bit with it now. I think it's starting to make them realise that it's a big deal. But they still don't really know what I do."
He first came across the game on summer holidays back home with his folks. The games were on TV each Sunday and various relatives sat him down to explain the ins and outs. It would be stretching matters to say that he was transfixed from the start but he did cast half an eye whenever it was on.
Back home, he joined up with Tír Chonaill Gaels as a teenager and was part of the Gaels side that won three London under-16 titles in a row. A minor title followed in 2011 and it was his displays for the Gaels junior team – made up entirely of native English players – that caught the eye of Paul Coggins. He actually played for the London senior team before ever lacing a boot for the Gaels seniors.
"I enjoy the tackling part of it," he says. "It's quite physical so I enjoy that. I probably don't quite have all the skills of the boys who grew up with the game but I think I get away with it. I'm not too bad."
He didn't play in the win over Sligo but an injury to that day's corner back Kevin Lynam opened up a slot for him when it came to the Leitrim game. Although it very nearly didn't happen either.
"The week of the game," he explains, "Paul told me to make sure I had my passport ready. I went home and looked for it but I hadn't had it for a few months. I was afraid I wasn't going to make it and I would miss the game. But I eventually found it in the loft at home. It was only the next day that Paul told me I was going to start the game. So I got away with it."
Butler is fairly laid back about what lies ahead come Sunday. He's never been to a Connacht final, never even watched one on TV. Where the rest of his team come into the game with varying preconceptions of what Mayo will have to offer, his mind is clear.
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Insurgents Make Afghans Focus of Attacks
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FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan, June 26, 2009 – Insurgents operating in eastern Afghanistan increasingly are focusing their attacks away from coalition forces and on local residents, military officials here said.
The rate of civilians killed by improvised explosive devices in eastern Afghanistan has risen 117 percent in the last year, while coalition forces deaths from IEDs have decreased by 70 percent, they said.
Army Col. Michael Howard, commander of the 25th Infantry Division's 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), which controls the battle space of Paktika, Paktia and Khost provinces, explained that anyone who possesses the courage to speak out against the Taliban becomes a target.
Contractors who work with the coalition, Afghan government officials, police, Afghan troops, moderate mullahs, elders and innocent civilians who support their government are all receiving threats and becoming targets, he said.
According to Howard, the insurgents emplace command wire IEDs to attempt to maim or kill selected residents, but through the use of pressure-plate IEDs, they devastate the first innocent person to drive down the road.
"They are targeting civilians," he said. "IEDs that go off with a command wire are not an accident. Someone pulled a trigger.
"They also are using force in an indiscriminate and irresponsible way," he continued. "When they put a pressure-plate IED in the road, when there is 10 times more civilian traffic than military traffic, it puts all civilians at risk. This happens all the time."
Naimatullah Haqmal, a Khost City resident and doctor at the Salerno Hospital, said there has been such an increase in civilian attacks that he is relocating his family to a safer area in Afghanistan, as many other residents are doing.
"The enemy targets civilian people now," Haqmal said. "They kill all those people who have knowledge, who are educated. They want to hold the people in the dark. They think if the people have knowledge, they will terminate the fighting. Anyone that has sympathy with the government, they will kill."
The rise in civilian attacks is alarming, but more detrimental is the effect the attacks have on their livelihood.
"When civilians here get injured, it is much more devastating. Things that are not fatal in the U.S. are fatal here," said Air Force Col. (Dr.) Scott Russi, the trauma chief and lead general surgeon at the Salerno Hospital. "A local national with a 50 percent body surface burn is fatal, where in the U.S. they have an 80-plus percent survival rate.
"Even if they survive here, they become a burden to their family and the majority do not return to functional lives."
Nazifullah Karimi, from Khost province, said Afghans are angry, and that everyone has been affected by the attacks. At least one member of each extended family has been targeted, threatened or intimidated by the insurgents, he said.
"They don't march in the streets, but that doesn't mean that they are not furious," Howard concurred. "There is such intimidation from the Taliban that they cannot vocalize how disgusted they are. The Afghans that we work with, that we become friends with, tell us there is outrage."
A resident of the Mandozai district of Gharanai told of his brother, a journalist at a radio station in Khost City, who was targeted by insurgents and killed with an IED.
"We are all being affected by the [insurgent] activities, as I lost my brother. I do not know why they must kill my brother. The IEDs kill or injure too many innocent people," he said.
Every Afghan here has a story to tell, just like Gharanai's, said Karimi, and through vehicle-borne IEDs, many people share the same story from a single event.
This spring, two separate vehicle explosions killed 14 Afghans and seriously injured 61.
The attacks create intense fear that runs rampant through the villages. Residents who cannot send their families to a safer place have taken refuge in their own houses, keeping their children home from school and travelling as little as possible, said Rasool Habibi, a local surgeon and scholar who works at the Salerno Hospital and teaches at Khost University.
"It doesn't matter who -- children, teachers, doctors -- they kill everyone. Everybody is scared," Habibi said. "I see my family once a week because from here to there, there is no security, and there is great possibility of assassination."
The terror that has become prominent in the daily lives of Afghans has evolved into revulsion, as well as a foundation in an adamant quest for answers, and solutions.
"This is an insurgency, so it's a very weak military organization that has decided to take on a very strong military organization," Howard said. "They can't do that going nose to nose, so they have to use insurgent tactics. One tactic is intimidation.
"We hope to show the population that the Afghanistan government is the way of the future: they will provide security, they will provide elected leadership, they will provide roads, hospitals and education," he said. "The Taliban can't do any of that, so they have to control the population in another way: through intimidation."
While the insurgents attempt to send a message of intimidation, Howard illustrated how their ultimate motive goes beyond that message.
"An insurgent beats a counterinsurgent by fighting the war to a stalemate. They make it last 15 years," he explained. "That's the insurgent's strategy. They want to take over Afghanistan, and they want to take over by making us quit. I don't think they are just making a statement, they actually want political power."
The Afghanistan National Security Forces are determined to protect their country from the insurgents rising to power. They work diligently to inform the population of preventive measures, as well as providing avenues to report enemy activity anonymously, military officials said.
"The governor responded immediately to an attack this morning," Howard said. "He condemned it, he sent medical care to the wounded, and he sent his soldiers to chase after the bad guys. They got them."
Afghan and coalition forces encourage the locals to evaluate the activities of both the insurgents and their government, to arrive at an educated conclusion in order to gather the courage to unite and defend their families, communities and country.
"Look around and see," Howard said. "Every time there is a fight between your army and the Taliban, who wins and who loses? How many schools and roads and mosques have been built by the army, and then compare that to the Taliban. Look at your government: is it progressing, is it getting bigger, is it getting stronger? Are resources flowing from it? Are they providing some basic services like health care and education? Then look at the Taliban, and see how much of that they are doing.
"You will see that one side has done a lot of good, and one has done a lot of evil," he said. "You will see an imbalance. Look, and then decide for yourselves how many of these things came from the government and how many came from the Taliban."
More and more villages are banding together and taking a stand, turning the insurgents' intimidation into newfound strength and determination.
"The [insurgents] try to control our country. They want to impose their will on us. They want us to live under their harsh rules, but we do not want that to happen," Gharanai said. "Our village will be safe, because we are uniting."
(Army Pfc. Andrya Hill serves with the 25th Infantry Division's 4th Brigade Combat Team public affairs office.)
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I have recruited before for staff to join my business, Panthera Accounting, but not for a qualified individual to work with my clients. I was a little concerned about how to handle the whole process.
My team mean a lot to me and we have a great working relationship, so bringing anyone into a qualified role, needed to be something that was handled well. Anyone joining our team was going to have to be a real fit in every sense, not just someone who was qualified to do the accounts . Anyone joining us needed to have the same values and ethos as the rest of us. Because of this, I fully expected to interview quite a few candidates before we got it right.
Jayne Johnson at Better People Ltd, came to speak to me in my office about the vacancy. We talked through the job description, she talked to me about the existing team, and our working practices, she asked me questions about every aspect of the role. Then she talked me through her process, how she was going to attract the right sort of people, her double interview process – once on the phone and once in person, and how she would present those candidates to me with interview notes and essential facts about the individual with recent earnings, what they were looking for, her observations about their attitude and personality etc.
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Among the results of one of the most lethal bomb blasts in the history of Northern Ireland:
* Near-total condemnation across Britain of the tactics of terror used by Irish republican forces.
* Calls for increased security by Protestants in Ulster, some of whom claim that the British policy of gradually turning over more security work to the Ulster police and away from the Army should now be reversed.
* New determination by the Thatcher govenment in London to defy the terrorists by keeping British troops in place.
* Intense pressure from Tory and Labour members of Parliament alike on the leader of the Greater London Council (GLC), Ken Livingstone, to cancel an invitation to two Sinn Fein members of the new Ulster assembly to visit London Dec. 14. (The Provisional Sinn Fein Party, which openly advocates violence to drive out British troops and create a ''Democratic Socialist Republic of Ireland ,'' now has five seats in the new 78-seat assembly in Belfast.)
* A dilemma for London police. It is their responsibility, under a law for the prevention of terrorism, to recommend to the Home Secretary William Whitelaw , whether the visit should be stopped.
At this writing, the police had not acted but Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher herself and other senior government officials made it clear that they thought Mr. Livingstone should withdraw the invitation.
But Mr. Livingstone has said the visit would go ahead as scheduled. ''It is because of the bombing, because this has gone on for 13 years with one horrifying bombing or murder after another, that I believe it is time to start to try and get some dialogue going,'' he said Dec. 7.
Many here suspect that one Livingstone motive was to embarrass the government and Labour leader Michael Foot. As a prominent member of Labour's far left wing, Mr. Livingstone makes no secret of his own view that British troops must leave and Ireland be united.
Mr. Foot quickly moved to condemn IRA terror, but in a letter before the bomb explosion, failed to demand that the visit be canceled.
The bomb changed matters. Coming after Republican bomb attacks on the Household Cavalry in London, and after a huge find of explosives by police in the south, the visit was loudly condemned by Roman Catholic clergy and Tories and Labourites alike.
The bomb and its political fallout still dominated British newspaper frontpages, television screens, and radio broadcasts two days after it exploded.
It came at a time when hopes had been slowly rising that the Protestant and Roman Catholic communities in Northern Ireland might be more ready to listen to the pleas for peace being heard on all sides.
The very community in which the bomb detonated - Ballykelly, not far from the Catholic city of Londonderry, was considered a model of sectarian cooperation. Residents of Ballykelly claimed that the terrorists were encouraged to choose their town as a target because the Army recently dismantled permanent roadblocks.
The immediate effect of the bomb, which killed 16 people and wounded 66 late Dec. 6, was to heighten Protestant fears and strengthen Mrs. Thatcher's policy of using troops to maintain security.
The response in London was not to send more troops but rather to confine the 10,000 off-duty British soldiers to barracks except on well-organized sporting and other recreation outings.
The bomb blast was condemned in the strongest terms by the Prime Minister and by James Prior, the secretary of state for Northern Ireland. Mr. Prior called it ''massacre without mercy.''
Responsibility has been claimed by the extreme left-wing Irish National Liberation Army.


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EDMONTON, Alberta – The Washington Stealth struggled to score in first and never really got their legs as Edmonton and rookie Mark Matthews ran away with a 15-10 NLL decision before 5,627, Friday at Rexall Place in Edmonton.
The loss dropped the Stealth to 4-4 while Edmonton, now 2-4 with both wins coming against the Stealth, notched their first home win this season.
"We knew exactly what was coming and we let it happen to us," said Stealth Coach Chris Hall. "We got behind the eight ball early. We just let them smother us right away."
Playing without the services of defenders Bill Hostrawser, Jeff Moleski and Tim Henderson, Washington was outshot 61-35 and on offense was never able to challenge an Edmonton squad hungry for their first home win of the season.
Although Edmonton landed the first two goals of the game on scores by Ryan Ward and Matthews, Washington came back with a Brett Bucktooth power play goal at 5:06 and a score by Rhys Duch at 3:44 to knot the game at 2-2.
But after three Edmonton goals followed, two closing out the first and Matthews' opening score in the second, the Stealth were down 5-2 and had managed just five shots – four coming on a power play attempt early in the first.
After the Rush extended their lead to 7-3 at the half, Hall implored his team to stick to its fundamentals in the second.
"At the half I told them 'we've got to stick with the game plan. We've got to make a better effort'," said Hall. "We've got to be playing smarter with the ball and getting away from the pressure."
The result brought the Stealth out charging in the second with Duch's second of four goals on the night at 14:20 and a power play shot by Lewis Ratcliff at 13:53 to bring the game within two at 7-5.
For Duch, his four goals marked a season high and was the right-handed forward's sixth hat trick of the season and second three-goal effort against the Rush.
But that was as close as the Stealth would get as Edmonton's Matthews netted his fourth of the night at 12:06 of the third to launch five of the next seven goals and extend the Rush lead to 12-7 by the end of the quarter.
"We became stagnant and comfortable," said Stealth defender and team captain Kyle Sorensen. "The mental preparation wasn't there. We turned the ball over too much. We made mistakes all over the floor. We didn't get stops when we needed them."
With 10:25 to go in the third, Sorensen seized a rare opportunity for a defender, grabbing a loose ball and sprinting the length of the floor throwing the ball past Rush goaltender Aaron Bold at point blank range. But the apparent score was waved off after Sorensen was ruled to have stepped in the crease.
On the change of possession, the Rush's Jarrett Davis took the ball up the floor and scored just 11 seconds later to extend the Edmonton lead to 10-5.
It was a two-goal swing that could have gone the other way.
"We needed to bear down there," said Sorensen. "It turned a potential three-goal game into a five-goal game pretty quick."
The final quarter started as the third left off with Matthews, the first overall pick in the NLL Entry Draft, tallying his fifth and sixth scores of the night by the 7:02 mark.
Washington attempted a late rally with Duch netting two of the next three to make it 14-9 at 4:53 and Athan Iannucci getting his second just 51 seconds later to make it 15-10. But Zach Greer added insurance for the Rush at 2:11 with the final goal of the contest.
"We've got to look at it," said Hall. "We've played two great games defensively (allowing just 13 total goals in a narrow road loss to Rochester and last weekend's home win against Colorado). Tonight we got away from the things that we needed to do."
For the Stealth, Duch led all scorers with four goals and four assists for eight points, while Iannucci had two goals and two assists for four points. Brett Bucktooth finished with a goal and two assists.
Matthews led the way for the Rush with six goals and an assist for seven points, while Ryan Ward finished with two goals and four assists for six points.
The Stealth return home Saturday, Feb. 23 for a 6:45 p.m. home matchup with West Division rival Calgary Roughnecks. Game time at Everett's Comcast Arena is 6:45 p.m. PST. Tickets are available at www.StealthLAX.com .
Scoring 1 2 3 4 F
Washington 2 1 4 3 10
Edmonton 4 3 5 3 15
NLL Week 7
Around the NLL (Games for Friday, Feb. 15, 2013)
Calgary 12
Toronto 17
Around the NLL (Games for Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013)
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Buffalo at Rochester
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We're working on contacting the church and seeing what we can do to support them at this difficult time. For now, all we know is from this article from Cali's El País newspaper:
A pastor was killed last night in the church sanctuary as he was saying goodbye to his parishioners that had attended the service at the International Charismatic Mission Church in the San Bosco neighborhood in downtown Cali.
Around 8:30 p.m. 45-year-old Francisco Valencia, 10 year co-pastor of the evangelical church that meets in the old Alameda Theater, had just finished the service when a short man approached and shot him repeatedly without saying a word.
Church members ran out of the building allowing the shooter to escape. Police later detained the alleged attacker.
"He is a 16-year-old minor. We found a .38 caliber revolver on him," said Colonel Jairo Gutiérrez of the [Cali] Metropolitan Police.
The pastor was taken to the Valle University Hospital where he passed away.


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The Small Mammal Sequence from the c. 76 – 72 ka Still Bay Levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa – Taphonomic and Palaeoecological Implications for Human Behaviour (PLOS, 2016-08-10)The Still Bay, c. 76–72 ka, a prominent techno-tradition during the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa, has yielded innovative technologies, symbolic material culture, and shows evidence of expansion of hunting techniques ...Journal article
Gemstones and Mineral Products in the Red Sea / Indian Ocean Trade of the First Millennium (Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2017)This article addresses the role of minerals and mineral products in general and gemstones in particular in Red Sea and Western Indian .cean trade in the frst millennium. It is argued that texts from the early part of the ...Chapter
The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: A Network Approach (The Asian Association of World Historians, 2016)The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea is a Roman period guide to trade and navigation in the Indian Ocean. Justly famous for offering a contemporary and descriptive account of early Indian Ocean trade, the work has been subject ...Journal article
Frå individuell aggresjon til sosiale prosessar: Mobbeforskingas etablering og utvikling i skjeringspunktet mellom vitskap og politikk (The University of Bergen, 2016-12-09)In 1969 the Swedish school physician Peter-Paul Heinemann published an article in a Swedish journal about a certain behaviour he had observed in the schoolyard where he worked. He named the behaviour 'mobbing' from ...Doctoral thesis
Meteorologi på reise: Veivalg og impulser i Arnt Eliassen og Ragnar Fjørtofts forskerkarrierer (The University of Bergen, 2017-01-13)This dissertation examines the scientific careers of the Norwegian meteorologists Arnt Eliassen (1915–2000) and Ragnar Fjørtoft (1913–1998). Through six chapters, different stages in their careers are ...Doctoral thesis
Bærekraftig stedsutvikling - To planlagte økosamfunn i vestlandske kommuner (Universitetet i Bergen (UiB), 2016-11-22)This thesis is about sustainable place-development, focusing on two planned ecovillages in two municipalities in 'Vestlandet'; which in this thesis is seen as a cultural identity region on the west coast of Norway. Sustainable ...Master thesis
Intra-Site Variability in the Still Bay Fauna at Blombos Cave: Implications for Explanatory Models of the Middle Stone Age Cultural and Technological Evolution (PLOS, 2015-12-14)To explain cultural and technological innovations in the Middle Stone Age (MSA) of southern Africa, scholars invoke several factors. A major question in this research theme is whether MSA technocomplexes are adapted to a ...Journal article
Tilpasning til klimaendringer i Hardanger-regionen (The University of Bergen, 2016-08-31)Verdens klima er i endring og samfunnet må tilpasses disse endringene. Det er stor usikkerhet knyttet til hva som blir konsekvensene av klimaendringene. Klimaframskrivninger for Norge varsler om en stigning i årlig ...Master thesis
Ladepunkt for elbil i Bergensregionen - muligheter og utfordringer med utbyggingsprosessen (The University of Bergen, 2016-05-18)Verden står overfor store utfordringer knyttet til klima og miljø. Den globale temperaturen stiger stadig, noe som fører med seg negative konsekvenser. For å kunne unngå å la denne negative utviklingen gå for langt har ...Master thesis
Endringer i interkommunale samarbeidsformer - regionråd for fall? - En historisk komparativ casestudie av to regionråd i Rogaland (1950-2015) (The University of Bergen, 2016-05-18)In this thesis, by using a comparative case analysis of regional councils Jærrådet and Dalanerådet, I have looked at how the historical development of the two regions may explain why Dalanerådet gradually phased ...Master thesis
Bergensregionen som arbeidsmarked for innvandrere. En studie av arbeidsintegrering blant russisktalende innvandrere i Bergensregionen (The University of Bergen, 2016-02-01)In recent years, Norway has experienced a historical high influx of immigrants. Statistics show that individuals with immigrant backgrounds have a lower participatient rate in the labor market, and experience a higher risk ...Master thesis


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- Concussions
- Feeding Your Child Athlete
- Competitive Sports: Helping Kids Play it Cool
- Sports Physicals
- Preventing Children's Sports Injuries
- Strength Training
- A to Z: Fracture, Radius
- A to Z: Fracture, Fibula
- A to Z: Fracture, Clavicle
- A to Z: Fracture, Distal Radius and Ulna
- A to Z: Fracture, Elbow
- Concussions Special Needs Factsheet
- Medial Collateral Ligament (MCL) Injuries
- Jumper's Knee (Patellar Tendonitis)
- Asthma: Exercise-Induced Asthma Special Needs Factsheet
- Asthma and Sports Special Needs Factsheet
- A to Z: Lumbago
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Diabetes and Sports Special Needs Factsheet
What Teachers and Coaches Should Know
Diabetes affects how the body uses glucose, the main type of sugar in the blood. Glucose — an important source of energy for the body's cells — comes from the foods we eat. Glucose is carried to the cells through the bloodstream. Several hormones, including insulin, control glucose levels in the blood. When a person has diabetes, the body either can't make or can't respond to insulin properly.
Exercise makes insulin work better in the body, which helps people with diabetes keep their blood sugar levels in a healthier range. But when kids with diabetes exercise, they can experience low blood sugar, called hypoglycemia, or high blood sugar, called hyperglycemia.
Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar levels) can occur during or after exercise, when the body has used up much of its stored sugar, especially if insulin levels in the body are still high after an insulin injection. Signs of hypoglycemia include extreme hunger, tremors, rapid heart rate, cold sweat, pale-gray skin color, headache, moodiness or irritability, drowsiness or dizziness, blurred or double vision, confusion, seizures, or loss of consciousness.
Hyperglycemia (high blood sugar levels) can occur during sports and exercise because the muscles need more energy and the body responds by releasing extra glucose into the bloodstream. If the body doesn't have enough insulin to use the glucose, then the sugar will stay in the blood, which can cause increased urination and dehydration. Other signs of hyperglycemia include excessive thirst, fatigue, weakness, and blurry vision.
Students with diabetes who play sports may:
- need to monitor blood sugar levels several times a day, as well as before and after playing sports or practicing
- take insulin injections or wear an insulin pump
- experience signs of hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia
- need to use the bathroom frequently
- need plenty of water and extra snacks before, during, and after exercise
- need to sit out of practice or games if their blood sugar is too low or too high
What Teachers and Coaches Can Do
Students with diabetes can play sports and exercise at the same level as anyone else. And just like most kids and teens, students with diabetes are healthier if they get plenty of exercise, which can help them manage the disease.
You may need to remind students with diabetes to check their blood sugar levels before, during, and after exercise, practice, and games. Also, make sure that:
- you and your student know the symptoms of hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia
- you keep extra snacks, juices, and emergency supplies in the classroom and on the playing field in case your student starts to have symptoms of hypoglycemia
- your student with diabetes has a diabetes management plan
- you know how to respond, in accordance with the plan, in case of an emergency
Students with diabetes may miss class time, practices, or games due to doctor visits or hospital stays. Teachers and coaches should give them special consideration regarding missed instruction, assignments, testing, and sports.
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|You just keep plugging away, haircut boy. Don't mind me.
|~ Faybelle Thorn
Faybelle Thorn is the daughter of the Dark Fairy and the secondary antagonist of Ever After High.
She is voiced by Haviland Stillwell.
Faybelle Thorn is a cheery girl who is looking forward towards her role as villain and is extremely competitive. She is distrustful of Raven Queen because of this, as it was the Evil Queen who stole the role of the villain in Sleeping Beauty from Faybelle's mother. Faybelle can tend to act snide, sassy, unkind or sarcastic when she's around most people, or the people she doesn't share much empathy with and goes to great lengths in order for things to go her way, especially if people exclude her or do not invite her to parties.
Faybelle regularly wears a cheerleading outfit. She has platinum hair with a teal and mint streak on her left side, which she prefers to wear in a high ponytail. She has a marking around one of her periwinkle gray eyes, grayish skin and small crystalline fairy wings.
Her mother is the Dark Fairy from Sleeping Beauty.
She considers Duchess Swan as her best friend. Faybelle hangs around Ginger Breadhouse a lot due to the fact that they were friends since childhood. Both their mothers were boastful of them and Faybelle herself was caught up with being better than Ginger. At this time, she often acts hostile at Ginger if she has beliefs that she isn't properly following her destiny. Faybelle also considers Briar Beauty a best frenemy and enjoys her company, as she's quite willing to follow her advice.
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Maldives offered the warmest welcome to participants of Miss France 2011, the organising committee said Thursday.
Special Envoy to the President Ibrahim Hussein Zaki, Tourism Minister Dr Mariam Zulfa, Sunland Hotel Directors and senior officials of Maldives Tourism Promotion Board (MTPB) welcomed the 33 participants on Thursday. Cultural activities were also held at Male International Airport.
Organising Committee General Manager Sylvie Celia told journalists that Maldives offered an extraordinary welcome.
"This is the best welcome we received in the past five years that we have been working with this company. The red carpet welcome, the small children there and Maldives is very beautiful," Celia, who won the Miss France title in 2002, said.
"The photos taken in Maldives will be published on a French magazine from today onwards. The event is very much supported by the French public."
Miss France 2010 Melaka Menard said she never expected such a welcome from Maldives.
"This is the first time I have been in the Maldives. I am very pleased to be here. Maldives offered us a very warm welcome. After the trip I will talk about Maldives in France," she said.
Miss France 2011 partner, Sunland Hotels, brought over 80 people along with the 33 contestants.
A Sunland Travels official said a fashion show would be held in Coco Palm Boduhithi where the candidates will be staying from November 11-18.
"Australian swimming wear and Maldivian designers' dresses will be shown at the fashion show," the official said.
According to Sunland Hotels, video and photo sessions and learning to cook Maldivian dishes will take place in Coco Palm.
The Miss France 2011 contest will be held on December 4 in Caen, France.
Maldives also hosted a Miss World event earlier.
Maldives offers warmest 'red carpet' welcome to Miss France contestants
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Maldives offered the warmest welcome to participants of Miss France 2011, the organising committee said Thursday.


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The Western Hemisphere is about to get a Christmas present. Guatemala, emerging from 35 years of civil war, has set itself on the road to peace. In five years of arduous negotiation, the government and the rebels, with United Nations mediation, have agreed on profound changes in the life of the country.
The parties were scheduled to meet in Oslo Dec. 4 to sign a definitive cease-fire. Norway is one of six nations known as the Group of Friends of the Guatemalan Peace Process. Its diplomats also fashioned the Middle East process, now in such trouble. But here the UN and the Group of Friends were dealing with adversaries who wanted equally to make peace. In fact, the war is already over. Guatemala's new president, Alvaro Arzu, ordered an end to offensive operations last March, and the rebel URNG (Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca) has avoided clashes.
On Dec. 7 another of the so-called operational agreements will be signed in Stockholm, on constitutional reforms and increased voter participation. This is much more than a formality. More than 60 percent of Guatemala's 10.5 million people are Mayan indians who have been excluded from political power and economic benefit since the Spaniards came nearly 500 years ago. Only recently has this begun to change. Mayans have become mayors. The 21 Mayan languages are accepted in court. Like the cease-fire, one of the basic agreements, the Accord on the Identity and Rights of Indigenous Peoples, has been taking effect. Discriminatory laws and decrees will be repealed, and this spectacularly beautiful land for the first time will be officially a "multiethnic, multicultural, and multilingual nation."
On Dec. 12 an agreement on the reintegration of the URNG into public life will be signed in Madrid. Then, on Dec. 29, the Agreement for a Firm and Lasting Peace, together with a binding timetable for implementation, will be signed in Guatemala City. This act will end Latin America's longest, bloodiest war. As many as 200,000 people - many innocent civilians - have been killed or have disappeared.
Perhaps the most dramatic part of the process has been the demotion of the armed forces, which have been the supreme power since an armed rebellion instigated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency overthrew a left-leaning government in 1954. The Army will be scaled down by one-third and its sharpest teeth pulled. It will be responsible only for national defense under strict civilian control. Semiofficial units, notorious for brutality and corruption, will be disbanded. Counterinsurgency is finished; a new police force takes over the Army's domestic security functions. Offenses by military personnel under civil law will be tried in civil, not military, courts.
Assurance that all this will really happen lies primarily with President Arzu. A conservative businessman and politician, scion of a wealthy family, Arzu was elected last January by the thinnest of margins. But with his party in control of the National Congress, the support of the business community, the church, and even of a large section of the Army, Arzu never looked back. Upon election, he expressed the hope for a final peace accord this year and then, in a move without precedent, went to Mexico to meet with the guerrilla leadership.
Within days of his inauguration, Arzu tore into the bloated, rotten military establishment, dismissing 11 of the Army's 23 generals and a batch of colonels (including two who were linked to the murder of two US citizens). In October, the president smashed a criminal organization involving top levels of the Army, police, and customs service. He had the backing of the Army's "institutionalists." Opposing the "Duros," hard-liners, they were ready to accept a more normal, professional role.
One major question still open is impunity. President Arzu forcefully opposes any general amnesty for the crimes committed, mainly by the Army, in the war. A truth commission will tell the story but has no power to prosecute or even name names. Many feel that peace will not be complete unless the guilty are punished.
The patience and resourcefulness of United Nations mediators throughout the last five years of negotiation have been indispensable in the process now nearing completion. A rising consciousness of human rights has helped materially. Award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Mayan leader Rigoberta Menchu was a signal event. Many religious and human rights groups have played a part. But none has been more effective than a human rights verification mission, MINUGUA. It has established a trusted presence throughout the country, registering human rights complaints and showing that it is safe to make them. Now it is to have broader responsibilities like verification of the cease-fire and resettlement of thousands of displaced persons and refugees - if the UN gives it the mandate and the money.
Money is an essential element in the reconstitution of Guatemala, the renovation of institutions, land reform, resettlement. Outside help is needed to anchor what is agreed. The people, aroused to great expectations, will demand some quick evidence of historic change. It is in everyone's interest to ensure that they are not disillusioned with democracy - and that its enemies do not return to power.
Richard C. Hottelet, a longtime foreign correspondent for CBS News, currently writes on world affairs.


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Dinner Meeting: November 15. Naturally Occurring Asbestos in Construction: More Complex Than You May Think!
Naturally Occurring Asbestos in Construction: More Complex Than You May Think!
The Kingfish Restaurant, 201 S. B Street, San Mateo
November 15, 2016. Registration at 5:30. Dinner at 6:30.
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Naturally Occurring Asbestos in Construction: More Complex Than You May Think!
Naturally Occurring Asbestos (NOA) is a subset of a class of potentially hazardous Elongate Mineral Particles (EMPs) that are becoming increasingly important to the field of Industrial Hygiene. The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) is a leader in the recognition, evaluation and control of ELPs on construction projects, and is contributing significantly to research in this field. This presentation will focus on developing and implementing a risk management strategy using SFPUC's Calaveras Dam Replacement Project (CDRP) as a case study.
Our Speakers:
Laura O'Heir, M.P.H, CIH, CSP, will begin with a summary of the current regulatory framework and standard of practice, and how state and Federal regulations could be expanded based on recent research. She will then discuss how the development and use of geologically based NOA potential maps allows for the early identification of NOA forming the basis for industrial hygiene and safety requirements.
Bradley Erskine, Ph.D., CEG, will present a case study on the CDRP, the largest NOA/EMP construction project currently undertaken in the United States. Dr. Erskine will focus on the perimeter and ambient monitoring program designed to assure that emissions of both regulated NOA and non-regulated ELPs remain below risk-based thresholds during the seven-year project. He will also discuss particle tracing by analyzing the chemical "fingerprint" of each mineral source allowing project management to differentiate project on-site emission sources from those generated from projects off-site.


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There's a lot at stake in a New York courtroom Monday as American Airlines asks a judge to toss out union labor contracts in a fight for financial survival.
Inside the federal courtroom, American's lawyers said they've received total resistance on almost everything and that the company's proposals are fair.
The Transport Workers Union head said what's happening in court is disgraceful. The head of the flight attendants add that they're not going down without a fight.
Union workers are making their voices heard both outside of the bankruptcy hearing in New York and in North Texas.
Flight attendants at DFW began protesting at 11 a.m. Monday outside of Terminal D. They expect the protest, combined with others across the country, to be the company's largest demonstration ever.
They're fighting American's bankruptcy plan to throw out union contracts and cut 13,000 jobs while freezing pensions, changing schedules and making workers pay more for medical benefits.
Employees said they've already made deep cuts to help the company.
"We're working paycheck to paycheck at this point, we've given back and sacrificed for our company to remain out of bankruptcy in 2003 and to date we haven't seen the higher echelon of our company do their part and maintain profitability, said APFA International Operations Chair Ted Bedwell.
"It's not our fault we're in this position. It's a result of bad management decisions," said Chris O'Kelley, APFA Domestic-based Chair.
American Airlines Spokesman Bruce Hicks said, "Our goal is to reach consensual agreements with all of our unions. We've also been very clear we must act with urgency and address our onerous and uncompetitive labor costs to get American back on the right track and quickly implement our business plan. That's why we will make our case on the 1113 motions in court this week. Prolonged delay and distractions are not only counterproductive, but risk jobs and livelihoods of thousands of employees. This is the tried and proven, court-supervised process that is specifically designed to guide fair and equitable changes to the collective bargaining agreements that are necessary for a successful reorganization. There are plenty of examples in the airline industry where the 1113 process has facilitated consensual agreements, and we remain ready to meet at any time to consider proposals from the unions that achieve the necessary labor savings and help American successfully emerge from Chapter 11 stronger and more competitive. We understand these are difficult times for everyone. That's why we want to exit restructuring as quickly as possible so we can concentrate on our future."
The flight attendants said they've halted negotiations for now. The Allied Pilots Association plans to continue talks after this week. TWU continues to negotiate with the airlines. All three unions are now supporting a potential merger with US Airways and believe a merger is the best way to save jobs.
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