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Originally from Seligenstadt in Hessen, Germany. Memling spent the last thirty years of his life in the prosperous Burgundian city of Bruges, registering as a burgher there in 1465. The duty clerk wrote 'Jan van Mimnelinghe' for a name which must previously have been 'Henne Mömmeling'. Earlier Memling had probably worked for a while in the Brussels studio of Rogier van der Weyden, who had a great influence on him. In Bruges 'Master Hans' acquired international fame. His work was in great demand, particularly in the 1480s. By that time Memling had his own studio with assistants and he was a man of means. Most of his clients, including several Italians, were rich burghers or held ecclesiastical office.

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Rumors have surfaced over the past week that the Knicks will be interested in signing current Oklahoma City backup point guard Derek Fisher when he hits free agency after the NBA Finals. Yes, this is the same Derek Fisher that was traded mid-season for a first round pick and a bag of poop, also known as Jordan Hill (remember him, Knicks fans?). Yes, this is the same Derek Fisher that was drafted in 1996. The same Fisher who is 37 years old, shot 32% from outside the arc and who got absolutely toasted by Jeremy Lin at Madison Square Garden earlier this season. Folks, Derek Fisher is beyond washed up.
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As horrible as Fisher was this past season, the Knicks actually had point guards that were worse. Toney Douglas had arguably the worst season in the league, while Mike Bibby and Baron Davis posted similar statistical seasons to Fisher. There can be a feasible argument made that based on this past season's production, Fisher would actually be an upgrade over Douglas, Bibby and Davis. However, this is not the way for New York to go. Replacing washed up point guards with slightly more productive washed up point guards is not the way to win a championship. Ask last year's Miami Heat team that lost in the finals largely in part to their not-so-dynamic veteran point guard trio of Mike Bibby, Carlos Arroyo, and Eddie House. This is not an Andre Miller situation, where Miller is still a productive point guard. Fisher is old and washed up. There is no upside to signing Fisher as Jeremy Lin's backup. Don't even get me started about the argument about "veteran leadership". Ask the Wizards how having Mo Evans and Roger Mason for "veteran leadership" purposes worked out. "Veteran leadership" does not trump talent and production. The Knicks tried "veteran leadership" with Mike Bibby and Baron Davis this year and that was a disaster. They need a playmaking backup point guard who can create his own shot, get others involved and defend at a high level. Fisher can no longer do any of those things.
The Knicks can do better than Fisher. Not to say they're going to get a great backup point guard, but they can find one who is better than Fisher. There is a decent market of backup point guards. Guys like Gary Neal from San Antonio, CJ Watson from Chicago, Bassy Telfair from Phoenix and Beno Udrih from Milwaukee are all better options for the Knicks than a guy who was born 3 years after the Bubonic Plague swept through Europe. The Knicks also have a second round selection in this year's draft in which they could snag a guy like Iona's Scott Machado. There have also been reports the Knicks have been shopping Landry Fields and Toney Douglas to potentially move into the first round of the draft.
My point is this: the Knicks can do better than Derek Fisher and have multiple ways to acquire better talent. Between the draft and free agency, there is no reason the Knicks cannot snag a backup point guard better than Derek Fisher. Once a great champion, Fisher has fallen far from what he used to be. He is now a washed up defensive liability whose offensive specialty is shooting spot up three pointers at 33%. Every dog has their day and Fisher had his day many years ago. Sure, he has had a decent postseason, but the statistics presented above demonstrate that this decent level of play is no longer sustainable for Fisher. Not to mention that he'll be another year older next season. He will never be a contributing rotation player again and the Knicks would be making a huge mistake by bringing him in to backup Jeremy Lin. They can do much better. Given that it is the Knicks, they probably won't.
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Johannesburg, December 17, 2010 – Greenpeace has today received and verified reports that since December 11th, more than 200,000 litres of radioactive sludge from three cracked waste pools has leaked into the environment at the SOMAIR uranium mine in Niger, operated by French energy company AREVA [1].
Almoustapha Alhacen who carried out an inspection of the spill for NGO Aghir in'Man confirmed to Greenpeace that two hectares have been contaminated by the spill since December 11th. [UPDATE: You can see some pictures of the spill here.]
"This new leakage shows that the bad practices at the AREVA uranium mines in Niger continue to threaten the health and safety of people and the environment", said Rianne Teule, energy campaigner for Greenpeace Africa. "In contrast to AREVA's statements claiming their operations comply with international health, safety and environmental standards, this new information shows that AREVA has not sufficiently acted to protect the Nigerien population".
In May 2010, a Greenpeace report, "Left in the Dust" [2] revealed dangerous contamination levels in the air, water and soil around the AREVA uranium mines in Niger. The report detailed how the people of the mining towns Arlit and Akokan are surrounded by poisoned air, contaminated soil and polluted water. Greenpeace called for a full independent study around the mines and mining towns in Niger followed by a thorough clean up and decontamination.
We will bring you further updates as we get them.
[1] Uranium mining creates large volumes of radioactive and industrial wastes. Leakage of for example the radioactive tailings into the environment can cause serious contamination of the ground water and local wells. When the local water supply gets contaminated with radioactive and other materials, this poses serious health risks for the local population.
The sludge that remains after removal of the uranium from the ore, known as tailings, contains 85% of the initial radioactivity of the ore. Also the chemical agents used in the leaching process, as well as heavy metals and other contaminants like arsenic, are left behind in the tailings. In the uranium mines in Niger, these mining wastes are stored in huge piles, exposed to the open air.
[2] The Greenpeace report: Left in the dust, AREVA's radioactive legacy in the desert towns of Niger is available for download in English and French.
Justin McKeating has been blogging the meltdown of the nuclear industry for Greenpeace International since 2008. He is based in Brighton, UK.
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I think it is time to start finding a better way to mine uranium, insutu leaching might be better, but it involves pumping acid underground. Mine tai...
I think it is time to start finding a better way to mine uranium, insutu leaching might be better, but it involves pumping acid underground. Mine tailings might not be so bad if the thorium, radium and lead were removed since the rest of the elements in the decauy series have half-lives that are measured in minutes or days. But nuclear power is still way better than coal and more relaiable and less habitat damageing than any form of renewable energy.
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French document, but some Aghir In Man picture can be seen here on CRIIRAD's web site: http://www.criirad.org/actualites/dossier2010/niger/accident-ar...
French document, but some Aghir In Man picture can be seen here on CRIIRAD's web site: http://www.criirad.org/actualites/dossier2010/niger/accident-arlit.html
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This problem needs to be fixed, not just temporaily but permanitly.
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There is no answer to the nuclear waste.Its not bio-degradable.The radiation hazards will remain for ever and hence any mining of this sort or any nuc...
There is no answer to the nuclear waste.Its not bio-degradable.The radiation hazards will remain for ever and hence any mining of this sort or any nuclear plants should be banned world wide,having complete morotorium.
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U.S. and French troops have moved from Mali to Niger a week ago to impose this well-below-market-rate, horribly polluting uranium factory on the impo...
U.S. and French troops have moved from Mali to Niger a week ago to impose this well-below-market-rate, horribly polluting uranium factory on the impoverished Mali people.
France has forced this plant and stolen at very low rates the uranium for decades. Now, when the Mali people and government have held bids for other companies from other countries to come in a counter-bid, NOW France and the U.S. HAVE to intervene.
There is no al-Queda in Niger. France gets 70% of her power from these two sister mines in Niger. France pays practically nothing. The Mali people have candlelight and lots of cancer, their land and their father's/miners are incredibly ill. Birth defects are endemic. The French and U.S. troops are blocking Greepeace and independent investigators from getting in an helping since before this report.
France and U.S. out of Niger! Avena (largest nuclear power company in world) cannot have its profits secured by French and U.S. troops. African land and resources for African people!
Thank you, Greenpeace, please more reporting!
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Steve Walsh has been criticised for his display during England's clash with Wales © Getty Images
I can already hear the 'One-eyed Welshman' taunts from some England fans but, sorry, I would like to applaud referee, Steve Walsh, for the best refereeing performance of the Six Nations.
Of course England are whingeing but the reality is that they were stuffed up front and at the breakdown. Crucially, Walsh allowed both to develop whenever possible and for that he deserves enormous credit. The result? A proper game of rugby instead of the stop-start penalty and free-kick dominated nonsense we had to watch for most of the Six Nations.
Although the prospect of a winner-take-all decider made the build-up to last Saturday exciting I was in deep despair. This year's Championship had been about as bad as I can remember - in the end there were 97 penalties against a measly 36 tries - 15 of which were scored on the first weekend of the tournament - an all-time low for the Six Nations and nine fewer than last year when the previous record was set. In each of the first three seasons 75 tries were scored!
I have no doubts that the blame lies fairly and squarely with the referees under orders from the International Rugby Board. They have ruined rugby this season and with European rugby being more set-piece based than the game in the southern hemisphere we have really suffered. The argument that the players must be culpable as well simply does not wash - with trigger-happy officials penalising before a scrum has properly engaged there is no chance to adapt.
The Scotland/Wales game was a farce. Craig Joubert, awarded 28 penalties, 18 of which resulted in kicks at goal - another record we could have done without. A huge number of them occurred at scrums yet Joubert never once tried to sort things out. Instead he just blew and blew, oblivious to the fact that he was emasculating a game of rugby.
I watched Joubert develop over several seasons on the IRB Sevens circuit along with most of the current crop of international referees and it is fascinating - if depressing - to see how they have changed. He was one of the most tolerant, patient and sympathetic. Now he has changed completely - zero tolerance is his maxim - and one must assume that comes from an IRB edict because he is the man who refereed the World Cup Final. In other words he was their top rated official in 2011.
I was never a fan of Walsh. Quite apart from the well documented histrionics for which he was infamous he always struck me as a poser, far too self important and narcissistic. But to have survived the disowning by the NZRU and then making it back on to the elite international panel shows real tenacity. Last year he was voted top referee in his adopted Australia and on Saturday I saw why.
He is still his own man and has a feel for the game that comes through in the way he tries to allow it to develop. It is so refreshing to see a referee reflect what anybody and everybody in the crowd can see. Adam Jones gave Joe Marler such a pummelling that he was pulled off after 44 minutes - Stuart Lancaster knew the score exactly. This was not the Welsh forwards being more savvy, they just won the all-important battle up front.
For once the scrum penalties were given against the side trundling backwards and going down or up to try to stop it. Walsh was confident enough to allow the scrum to develop and I would guess we had more scrums that ended without penalties than in any other match.
It was also great to see Walsh give a couple of free-kicks against Ben Youngs for refusing to put the ball in when the scrum was set. This is a really bad trait in the English game and you see it week in week out in the Aviva Premiership. If the opposing forwards look as if they are going to dominate most scrum halves delay the put-in and hope they will con the ref into believing the other side pushed too early. In contrast, Mike Phillips wasted no time at all and we even saw Toby Faletau able to go forward from the base of the scrum - almost unheard of these days.
The IRB say they want to encourage a contest for the ball at the breakdown and, again, Walsh allowed it. Everybody seems to accept that Justin Tipuric and Sam Warburton comprehensively outplayed their opposite numbers, almost always getting to the ball first, but refuse to accept that they were then odds on to win it. Even my good mate Brian Moore, who normally knows when a pack is taking a stuffing, felt compelled use the word 'streetwise' about the Welsh forward play. I beg to disagree - on this occasion they were just plainly superior so England were punished as they desperately tried to get the ball - that is what happens when your opponents have 63% of the possession.
Walsh must have been doing something right. We had a cracking contest decided by two tries, the second of which was the try of the tournament for me. Faletau bashing off two or three tackles before finding Warburton, a marvellous burst down the middle and then, for once, the ball recycled and moved precisely and accurately with another flanker giving the scoring pass. Proper rugby!
So, a huge vote of thanks from me, Mr Walsh - you restored my faith in the beautiful game and rescued a dismal season.
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Muddy fields and water logged pastures are keeping farmers from normal activities, but some Marion County farmers and ranchers are finding other ways to spend their time.
Jeanie Bartel and her husband, Steve, own a family farm near Lehigh. She said Steve was doing maintenance on equipment, unplugging ditches, and checking crop conditions.
"He occasionally took time to go out to lunch or a movie with the kids and me," Jeanie said.
Cattle rancher Nick Kraus of rural Marion said he has been busy building fence.
Eric Carlson, who farms east of Lincolnville, said he, his dad, and his brother have been doing repairs around the farm and performing maintenance work on machinery.
"When we can get into fields we should have everything ready to go," he said.
There was enough of a break in the rain last week for Carlson to move cattle, he said.
"We have a bunch we need to move but at this point we can't get into the pasture because it's too wet," he said. "Usually this would be very bad, but with all the rain we've had it shouldn't hurt the grass at all."
Carlson is one of many area farmers who are ready to get back into rain soaked fields.
"I've had a lot of people say they are anxious to get into fields and get some work done," Ricky Roberts, Marion County extension agent, said. "Hay needs moved and weeds and volunteer wheat are growing quickly in wheat fields. Farmers need to get into those areas to spray."
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Santa Claus Whiskers CookiesI have the tried and true favorites that I like to make every Christmas, but sometimes I like to add something new to the cookie tray and this was one that I kept running into when browsing my cookbook collection. It's a slice and bake log cookie, so it needs an overnight rest once you roll it up, but it comes together easy enough.
The dough is a standard butter cookie, with the addition of chopped candied cherries and pecans. Candied cherries are mostly seen this time of year because they are used to make homemade fruitcake, fruitcake cookies and other favorite Christmas treats.
The name of this cookied comes from rolling the cookie log in coconut before cooking, so that the sliced cookies have just a touch of toasted coconut around the edges when they cook. It's a nice cookie and fun to make with the kids.
The recipe makes enough dough for two rolls and is sticky and tender before refrigerating. Separate it in half and pile each half on a big strip of plastic wrap, then roll them each up to shape in a log form. Refrigerate for 20 minutes.
Remove and unwrap the dough and roll in coconut. Re-wrap and return to the refrigerator overnight.
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- 1 cup (2 sticks) of butter, softened at room temperature
- 1 cup of granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons of half and half or milk
- 1 teaspoon of pure almond extract
- 2-1/2 cups of all purpose flour
- 3/4 cup of chopped candied cherries
- 1/2 cup of chopped pecans
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Historia vol.55 no.2 Durban Nov. 2010
An extremely problematic account
Mohamed Adhikari
University of Cape Town
Steve Farrah, Not Black, Not White: The Politics of Apartheid in South Africa
New World African Press, Northridge, California, 2007
vi + 194 pp
The sub-title of this book is misleading in that it does not deal with the politics of apartheid in any systematic way but is rather a memoir recounting the experiences of the author, which are contextualised within a description of the apartheid system. His classification as coloured under the Population Registration Act explains the "Not Black, Not White" in the naming of the book. Farrah, who was born in the mid 1920s and lived in Johannesburg for most of his life, entered the teaching profession as a young man. He taught at Alexandra Primary School from 1946 to 1956 and upon gaining his masters degree was transferred to Coronationville High School, where he eventually became principal in 1968. He was extensively involved in coloured teacher organisations, serving for more than a decade as general secretary of the Transvaal Association of Teachers and became vice-president of the South African Federation of Teachers' Associations in the early 1970s. Farrah emigrated to the United States in 1979 where he became an American citizen in 1986. He has been living in Phoenix, Arizona and taught English at secondary school level until his retirement in 1997.
The book begins inauspiciously with the first two of its eighteen chapters devoted to a self-serving justification for his decision to emigrate, venting anger at the apartheid system, and providing a fitful and rather dated review of three and a half centuries of South African history. The historical overview is shot through with all sorts of inaccuracies and repeats many of the shibboleths of white supremacist South Africa. Thus, for example, the San are described as "stone-age relics" (p 6) who "gorged themselves after a kill, storing food in their oversized rumps and traveled (sic) for days without eating" (p 10). Regarding the origins of the coloured identity he repeats the old racist slur often served up as a joke: "The first colored child was born nine months after the Dutch landed in 1652" (p 7).
Over the next ten chapters the book becomes a great deal more interesting and informative because Farrah writes about his own life and the communities in which he lived and worked, interspersed with asides about the iniquities of apartheid. He provides a spasmodic narrative of his personal, educational, intellectual and political development that is unfortunately marred by undue conceit regarding his achievements. Farrah is particularly proud of the masters degree in English which he obtained from the University of South Africa in 1956, and endlessly congratulates himself for this accomplishment, at one point likening himself to a "conquering hero" (p 67). The book is at his most interesting when describing coloured working class life in places such as Vrededorp, where the author lived until 1963 when his family was forcibly evicted under the Group Areas Act; the small coloured section of Alexandra township, where he taught between 1946 and 1956; and the more prestigious Coronationville, where he lived from the mid 1960s while teaching at the local secondary school. The volume offers a number of vignettes of the daily struggles of ordinary people - their hardships as well as their responses, resistance to, and small victories over, apartheid. These pages are populated by an array of colourful characters ranging from cut-throat gangsters and feisty, female shebeen owners to backyard body-builders and hard-drinking teachers. The book includes quite a bit of discussion on the author's first-hand experience of violence and gang culture of Johannesburg's coloured neighbourhoods. He expands at some length on liqour having been "the opiate of the coloured people" (p 100). Farrah is open about his own indulgences in this regard and is quite proud of his ability to down copious amounts of beer. Nor does he shy away from discussing coloured racism toward Africans and the servility of many towards whites. It is a pity though, that the anecdotes tend to be rather clipped, leaving the reader with many unanswered questions. The value of the book as a whole lies in this middle section that provides useful insight into coloured working class life in Johannesburg, a theme neglected in studies of coloured identity and society which tend to focus almost exclusively on Cape Town and the Western Cape.
The last six chapters of the volume are almost entirely devoted to a description of the apartheid system. There is a return to angry denunciation of white racism and the author's justification for emigrating. The description of apartheid policies and their impact on victims make for tedious reading. It has little new to offer anyone who has basic knowledge of the subject and is, in addition, desultory, repetitious and prone to error. Lest I be misunderstood, let me say that I have no objection to angry denunciations of apartheid, but for it to be done in such an inane and self-serving way is self-defeating.
The overall tone of the book, especially when discussing the political context and the day-to-day hardships and humiliations stemming from apartheid, is one of deep anger at the racist system that blighted the greater part of his life and eventually caused him to leave his homeland. Farrah makes it clear in his foreword that giving vent to his anger was a major motive for writing this book: "What I have attempted to put in these pages are bottled-up feelings that have been simmering in me for so long now" (p vi). He pulls few punches in expressing his animus toward racist whites, especially Afrikaners, declaring at one point that it would be "an understatement to say that we hated the Afrikaners" (p 123). The intensity of the resentment he still feels towards bigoted whites comes through clearly when he refers to the Afrikaner, presumably racist, female attendant at the airport counter who insisted on charging him for his overweight baggage as a "snotty bitch" (p 194). It seems that the writing of this book was in part a cathartic exercise, a conscious attempt at releasing pent-up anger.1
It would also appear that the book, perhaps less consciously in this case, provided a means for Farrah to work through feelings of guilt over having taken what he refers to as the "chicken run" (p 187). Oft repeated denials - on one occasion very clearly stated: "I have not been plagued by feelings of guilt or cowardice because I have paid my dues" (p 187) - ring hollow. Also, Farrah's frequent assertions of having risked career, incarceration, and perhaps even his life in opposing apartheid, and of having suffered serious victimisation for this stance, need to be taken with more than a pinch of salt. He supported the collaborationist Labour Party (p 130) that was sanctioned by the South African government because it was prepared to work within apartheid structures. The party was thus denounced within liberatory circles for working with the machinery of its own oppression and can hardly be described as drawing its support from "the younger, progressive and educated sector of the community" (p 131). If anything, the Labour Party and its opportunistic leadership were vilified within this constituency. The Transvaal Association of Teachers, which he served as an executive member for many years, was allowed to operate precisely because of its tepid opposition to apartheid schooling, whereas organisations such as the Teachers' League of South Africa, which were outspoken in their opposition to Christian National Education, were suppressed.
There are times when the book descends into the ludicrous. Farrah's sycophantic observation toward the end: "Since living in the United States, I have come to realise that it is simply the inherent kindness of Americans to help those less fortunate" (p 189) betrays both poor judgement and a desire to milk the book for whatever advantage it might offer. No less absurd is the claim on the back cover that Farrah in this book "gives voice" to the coloured youth.
While I have raised a number of criticisms of this book, I want to stress that it is not without some merit. It is at its most interesting and edifying when Farrah desists from overt pursuit of the ideological, self-laudatory and vindicatory agendas behind its publication and writes candidly about his experiences and the communities in which he lived.
1. Readers interested in coloured middle class harangues against white racism are referred to Roy du Pre's Separate but Unequal: The Coloured People of South Africa - A Political History (Jonathan Ball, Johannesburg, 1994) which is one long, even more fatuous, rant against apartheid. For an example of coloured working class denunciation of apartheid, at the height of the apartheid period and for which the main author, James Matthews, paid a heavy price, see J. Matthews and G. Thomas, Cry Rage (Spro-cas Publications, Johannesburg, 1972).


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Kerry's leverage diplomacy
John Kerry's official visit to Muscat, Oman in May was public. So was his bilateral meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif during the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September.
What wasn't known was how the two trips tied together: in Oman, he was there to deliver the message that the administration was still interested in the secret negotiations with Tehran that had been going on for two years, but on hold while waiting to see if the Iranian elections would produce a government interested in continuing, according to a person close to the talks. The meeting with Zarif led to two phone calls that jump-started the talks that produced the agreement in Geneva.
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For the White House, the Iran agreement is the first truly tangible sign that Kerry's confidence in himself and his ability to leverage decades of relationships around the world wasn't just eye-roll inspiring, but might actually produce results.
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They've been surprised — pleasantly, but surprised — people in both the White House and State Department acknowledge. President Barack Obama and his aides picked Kerry in part because he knew all the foreign leaders. They weren't convinced of how many actually liked him — or what difference it would make for him as secretary of state.
But Kerry's eagerness to gamble and press his connections around the world in service of Obama's interest in transforming the Iranian relationship are a big part of why he got the job — and why the president at a fundraiser on Monday praised "the agreement that John Kerry, who is doing a great job as secretary of state, was able to construct."
Now comes the test that will define what becomes of Kerry in his dream job: whether he can bring home a final agreement on Iran that all the parties agree to and doesn't get overthrown by Congress, whether he can continue the Twister game of Middle East deals without everything collapsing, and whether he can do so without sacrificing his dream of being the man who finally does the impossible and gets the Israelis and Palestinians to sign a final, two-state peace.
( Also on POLITICO: Short-term political price for Iran deal)
"Powerful people on the Arabian Peninsula and in the Gulf have deep misgivings about particularly Iran, and Secretary Kerry has not tiptoed around that — he's gone and sat down with them," said Strobe Talbott, a former deputy secretary of state in the Clinton administration who's now president of the Brookings Institution and chairman of the Foreign Affairs Policy Board, and has known the secretary since their days together at Yale. "The fact that the person talking to them is somebody that they know and have known for many administrations — he is a walking, talking, familiar reminder of the underlying consistency in U.S. policy."
There's a number of factors that make people in the administration more confident about realizing the kind of things that usually just make for dreams and convoluted "Homeland" plots: Obama is in his second term, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is weakened by his own tight reelection, Palestinians who were prepared to make a new statehood push at the U.N. and needed to be headed off, a new president in Iran, revived international interest in the Syrian civil war.
But the process that led to last weekend's agreement predates all of them. It started in November 2011, while Kerry was still the senior senator from Massachusetts. He was involved throughout.
The White House turned to Kerry because of his success in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the perceived closeness to the administration that made the White House feel he would be confidently seen as speaking for it, according to a person close to the talks. They turned to the Omanis because of their consistent back-channel role in the region, including the two American hikers who'd been kept in Iranian jail for two years but freed that September.
Amid meetings with White House officials, Kerry hosted Omani officials in his private Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting room in the Capitol — giving him a chance to warm them up by showing off the brass nameplates on the chairs where Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and President John F. Kennedy once sat, the person involved said.
( WATCH: Mike Rogers: Hill left in dark on Iran deal)
The trip to Muscat was planned. Kerry met with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to tell him he was working on a secret project with the White House, and work out a voting schedule that would minimize the attention to his absence.
Then he met for hours with Omani officials and the sultan himself. They talked Sunni-Shia relations, nuclear weapons, arts and architecture — Kerry brought him an antique book about the Emerald Necklace chain of parks in Boston, and talked about his wife's work on behalf of the arts in Pittsburgh, the person close to the talks said.
His Oman Air flight left Dec. 8, 2011. He was back in Boston just after midnight on his 68th birthday on Dec. 11. Back in Washington, he helped arrange the ongoing Oman meetings that Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns, Obama adviser and National Security Council staff member Puneet Talwar and Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan had with the Iranians.
Kerry and Hillary Clinton both ran for president, and both came into the administration without a great personal rapport with Obama. But while Obama pursued Clinton to be his secretary of state, Kerry's pursuit of the job was too well-known to even count as an open secret. Obama took pains to be seen as close to Clinton, making sure her inclusion in decision-making was well-known. That hasn't been true of Kerry.


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Mark Webber says it will be "a very difficult moment" when he contemplates retiring from Formula One.
With Michael Schumacher retiring and Pedro de la Rosa without a drive after HRT closed its doors, Webber is now the oldest driver on the grid at 36 years old. The next oldest is Kimi Raikkonen - three years Webber's junior - and while Webber insists he is not thinking about retiring yet, he does admit that he is concerned about getting the timing right.
"I haven't been there yet but it is going to be a very difficult moment, no question about it," Webber told GP International magazine. "I suppose it's just about getting the timing right - not pulling the plug too early, knowing you have more to give of yourself, or going too long and not being quick enough or struggling to do the things you used to be able to do. That can become an issue as well."
2013 will be Webber's 12th season in Formula One - and seventh with Red Bull - as he continues to drive on one-year contracts.


text: 15 May 2014 18:30 Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, received two prestigious accolades for its employee training and development initiatives at the 2014 MENA HR Excellence Awards. Wissam Hachem, Etihad Airways Vice President of Learning and Development, accepted the Distinction in Learning and Development award during a gala ceremony in Dubai today. The airline also won a certification of excellence in the Best Nationalisation Initiative category. The MENA HR Excellence awards, now in their sixth year, celebrate human resource excellence within the Middle East and North Africa. An independent panel of judges was impressed by Etihad Airways' "clear focus on employee skill enhancement, career progression and performance management as part of its world-class learning and development strategy". Etihad Airways has more than 19,000 employees across the world, with nearly 1,700 new members of staff welcomed in 2014 to date. The results of the airline's Employee Opinion Survey have shown that 93 per cent of staff are proud to work for the airline, with 92 per cent willing to go beyond their normal job requirements in order to help the company succeed. Etihad Airways invests in developing UAE nationals into future aviation leaders through its highly successful two-to-three year Graduate Management Program, which is underpinned by internationally accredited qualifications and integrates classroom education with on-the-job training, both in the UAE and across the network. UAE nationals are now the number one nationality group within the managers' level. In addition, all levels of staff participate in training and induction sessions, with attendance from 2,822 core employees and graduate managers in Abu Dhabi during the first quarter of 2014. The airline's first Management Effectiveness Program was also launched last year, training over 1,200 people managers in over 20 countries on Etihad Airways' management practices. In preparation for future growth, a new Corporate Academy opened this year and offers an increased capacity of 275 people per day. The academy encourages interactive and creative learning, with wireless technology, state-of-the-art audio-video facilities, and practical airline-related environments, such as mock check-in and contact centre desks. It will also provide virtual classrooms that allow staff to attend training sessions from any computer in the network. Commenting on the awards, Mr Hachem said: "We are delighted to receive these awards, which recognises our commitment to driving the airline's continued success through its people. "Through our learning and development strategy, we have built a performance-driven culture that supports Etihad Airways' fast-paced growth and evolution. Shaped around the airline's needs, it ensures our people receive the best possible learning and development opportunities, and provides meaningful rewards for those who excel, including career progression. During the first quarter of 2014, approximately 30 per cent of our vacancies were filled internally, which highlights the dynamic environment that we provide for employees to develop their careers." Contact met Etihad Als wereldwijd opererende luchtvaartmaatschappij hebben wij natuurlijk overal ter wereld vestigingen. Lees hoe u contact kunt opnemen met uw dichtstbijzijnde Etihad-kantoor. Bekijk onze contactgegevens Feedback Als u een opmerking, compliment of klacht wilt doorgeven, of een vraag wilt stellen, klik dan hier Vind ons leuk Bezoek onze Facebookpagina! Bekijk ons Bekijk ons YouTube-kanaal! Volg ons Etihad Airways | Etihad Aanbiedingen | Etihad Help | Etihad Rewards


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BOSTON (MarketWatch) — On July's stage, there are ways to benefit from what remains a difficult, but not an impossible market. But before I compose my recommended trades, it's important to note that the markets are playing the same old song and dance.
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China isn't the global growth engine it once was. Jeff Shen, head of the Asia-Pacific and emerging-market equity group at BlackRock tells MarketWatch's Jonathan Burton what he sees as the biggest threat to China's economy.
Euro-zone issues haven't changed for the better in any measurable form and may be worsening. We continue to defend slow growth against the toll of that zone's no growth, but can't do so indefinitely. It's in politicians' best interests there and here to create at least an optical illusion of and for a solution.
What's more, our Federal Reserve remains steadfast in its easing plans, which is good news save for the obvious need for such plans. Overseas, it is much the same thing: with Germany succumbing to pressure to enable euro zone nations to buy sovereign debt of their more troubled brethren. (One of the silent stalkers of the euro zone's prospects of recovery is that individual nations, often the weakest ones have been the biggest buyers at their own bond auctions — hardly a tenable solution.)
And while liquidity, like a political prop, is not in itself a solution, it can make intractable economic conditions more flexible or appear to be. Even just the belief in liquidity's ability to free up commerce, rather than any actual evidence of it, can get the wheels turning enough to move markets forward rather than stall them in their tracks where, to be honest, we still need to remind ourselves that the light at the end of the tunnel may not be a sunnier day but the headlight of an oncoming train.
In June we saw the threat of derailment return. July is on track for much the same. Interestingly, that was last July's song, too, and while a few notes may have changed, no major chords have.
My proprietary beta weighted seasonality charts (that look at how the markets have performed in any given week or month over the past five or more years) are one screen I tend to use for current trades. The fact that the current economic and market song remains unchanged, makes looking at what the seasonality charts suggest as optimal trades this July through the lens of which of them worked best last July a smart money move.
This month's charts are suggesting emerging market stocks and bonds as the best broad market play, with several sector sleeves holding out more promise than merely blowing in the wind. Of the sectors that have a positive seasonality track record for July's past, I took only those that outperformed the S&P 500 SPX, -2.59% last July.
The S&P 500 lost 2.03% last July; but that's not the benchmark I want to beat this go round. Instead, I opted in only those investments that delivered positive returns during July 2011. And where an actively managed no-load fund outperformed the passively managed ETF, I opted for the former — and vice versa. The list provides a diversified mix of instruments, allocations, markets and sectors. Here it is.
SPDR Technology XLK, -3.31% : Apple Inc. AAPL, -4.62% is 18% of this ETF's assets, so this ETF's performance won't fall far from that tree, IBM IBM, -3.54% and Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -3.19% are 8% each. (Think battle ship balance sheets.)
SPDR Gold GLD, +1.96% : I am not a gold bug nor bear, but even the trader in me wants to put this warning label on GLD: on the worst days of June gold didn't soar, it swooned.
iShares Barclays Aggregate AGG, +0.41% : Fidelity Spartan US Bond beat it fractionally, but has a $10,000 minimum. Fidelity High Income SPHIX, -0.11% : Fidelity's actively managed moderately risky junk bond fund is a great chicken-hearted way to hedge stock related volatility and any whisper of interest rate sensitivity. It has a 90-day redemption fee which means you need to think through the fall if you want to opt for this fund instead of the iShares iBoxx High Yield HYG, -0.46% which, by the way, trailed SPHIX by about 200 basis points last July and didn't break into positive territory that month.
Fidelity Inflation Protected Bond FINPX : behaves like a 20-year Treasury and will take the sting out any selling bee. iShares Emerging Markets EEM, -1.49% and Fidelity New Markets Income FNMIX, +0.07% both outperformed the benchmark and delivered positive returns, but the latter has a redemption fee of 90 days. You could opt in the iShares Emerging Market Bond EMB, +0.04%, but it trailed FNMIX by over 200 basis points and did not break positive last July. My preference would be to stay long the emerging markets and opt for a fund that launched after last July (in November 2011), and one that combines Fidelity's emerging market stock and bond expertise in a tactically sophisticated balanced emerging market fund: Fidelity Total Emerging Markets FTEMX, -1.23% . It has a 90 day redemption fee, too — but I like it for 90 months or more let alone 90 days.
I'd bring this list of growth-oriented and storm-inclined investments to July 2012's picnic which, if past is prologue, will be no picnic.


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The regular season schedule has also been announed. - Link
I'm definitely going to try and get to the October 18th Rangers/Devils game, as I try to get to at least one Rangers/Devils game a year. The second one at MSG might be tricky because it's on a Monday night.
I'm thinking I might try to hit up a game where the Flyers or Islanders are at MSG, though. Those would be fun.
Let's go Rangers!


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Much as I hate to poke fun at the brave men and women who constitute our nation's armed forces, Max Impact — a self-described combination of "today's hip-hop, pop and urban sounds-and everything in between" — might be the first entry in a genre I like to call, "Bands That Can Form The Basis For A Future Earles & Jensen Phone Call". From the M.I. bio (link swiped from Wired)
Max Impact answers the call to motivate and inspire the newest generation of professional Airmen. To achieve maximum results Max Impact stays on the leading edge of the ever-changing pop music scene while projecting the highest standards of Air Force professionalism. Optimal delivery is the name of Max Impact's game when it comes to serving its audience. With innovative style and boundless energy, Max Impact commands the stage encouraging every Airman to embrace the spirit and join the fun.


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Storyville, the short story app that delivers a story a week to your iPhone, announced Monday the creation of a new award for an unpublished short story: The Sidney. The Sidney comes with a $1,000 prize and publication in Storyville.
The innovative literary journal publishes the gamut of great fiction, from new work by major award winners including Jennifer Egan and Yiyun Li to classics from Katherine Mansfield and Edgar Allan Poe. Launched in 2010, it was the first to create a subscription-based app to deliver short stories to mobile devices. In a release about the new prize, founding publisher Paul Vidich said, "While at TimeWarner, I helped to pioneer the .99 cent single concept for iTunes, that helped bring songs to a whole generation of iPod owners. We hope to do the same for the literary short story."
Storyville is available for iPhone and iPad for $4.99 for six months of stories; it will soon be available on the Kindle for a monthly subscription of $1.49. The Sidney Prize is open only to Storyville subscribers.
It is not unusual for a literary journal to require a submission fee in connection with a literary prize, but it isn't common to ask for the submitter to subscribe. Yet the Storyville subscription price is lower than the submission fees asked by some others. Narrative Magazine, which awards a $4,000 prize, requires $20 reading fee per submission; it costs $25 to enter the $1,000 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize, awarded by the North Carolina Writers Network.
Submissions for Storyville's Sidney Prize are open from now until Feb. 15. Stories must be original and no more than 6,000 words long. The judge will be Richard Nash, former publisher of Soft Skull Press. The winner will be announced March 15 and published in April 2012.
Storyville takes its name from the former red light district of New Orleans (who knew?) and the Sidney is named for the district's architect (again, who knew?).


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Saturday, August 13, 2011
Fun With Nature and New Work
This week found me playing around with the possibilities of spinning dead leaves. Yes, dead leaves! (Dead Day Lilly leaves to be exact.) It all began when I was drooling over the beautiful yarns at Habu Textiles, admiring some of the unusual fibers used, and wondering, "what if?..." as I am prone to do.
Now, I am no expert in spinning, (I only tried it once briefly, twenty years ago in an attempt to spin wool) and I imagine my dead leaf string may appear pitiful to a true spinner, but in my novice and humble opinion, I think the results are lovely!
The spinning was done on a drop spindle, which I bought for under six bucks all those years ago for that one brief attempt that ended in total confusion, as I had no idea how a drop spindle worked. Ah, but now we have the internet, and information on anything and everything is only a click away. After a few google searches and you-tube videos on paper spinning, (yes, you can spin paper how about that?!) I felt ready to give my leaf experiment a try.
And here are the results. The con's to my attempts were that the leaves broke easily, and I was never able to get more then a satisfactory yard or so. The pro's to my attempts was that it was fun, expanded my creativity, and increased my curiosity! Along with those benefits, I now have some unique, jute like string which I can use for decoration, weaving, stitching... who knows. For now I just like how it looks wrapped around the rock and shells!
And on another note...
I am happy to report that I am staying on task with my "Rimmed in Red" series. (And that's a big YAY! for my generally ADD self.)
This one is the 6th in the series, and numbers 7 and 8 are just waiting to be mounted and photographed.
If interested in learning more about this work, please see here.
Have a happy weekend, everyone!
13 comments:
- Sarah said...
I love the rimmed in red works :-)
- August 13, 2011 at 12:35 PM
- novembergrass said...
This dead leaf spinning is beautiful... what a wonderful idea.
- August 13, 2011 at 1:08 PM
- Kim said...
Your hand made twine would look beautiful woven through your hand made paper. It's fun to watch your
exploration of textiles.
Lovely work Victoria :0)
Happy sewing
- August 13, 2011 at 1:11 PM
- deanna7trees said...
i've just attempted using a drop spindle and haven't been too successful. i'm going to a 2 hour spin express class on saturday and am very excited. have you seen the book 'Intertwined by Lexi Boeger'. it is magnificent if you like the chunky, colorful, yarns with all kinds of embellishments added in. i got it at the library this morning and after seeing it i had to order it.
i love what you did with the paper and the rock. great idea.
- August 13, 2011 at 2:16 PM
- faun, firstname.lastname@example.com said...
maybe you needed to soak the dried leaves in water to make them more malleable? then squeegee a leaf with your finger before spinning. you put the tiny tip into the fat end to "splice" the next bit in. but you did get the spinning part just right,
- August 13, 2011 at 3:47 PM
- Filamental said...
This is such a wonderful post. I just had to comment.
I really love the rocks wrapped in the fiber. What a great idea.
You know, I love Habu Textiles and when I visit the store in NYC I feel as if I had died and gone to heaven. I surely do hope it is.
The Rimmed in Red series is such a natural transition work. Love it.
Are you doing the sketchbook project?
- August 13, 2011 at 4:28 PM
- Victoria said...
Thanks to each of you!
Deanna, no I have not seen the book, but will keep an eye out for it. :0
Faun, what a wonderful idea! Thank you for the tip, I will try that.
Filamental, I haven't yet had a chance to go in person, but it does sound like a slice of heaven! And no, I am not doing the sketchbook project, as I am horrible at keeping one!
- August 13, 2011 at 6:57 PM
- Diane J. Evans said...
You do so many things with such flourish, Victoria -- what discoveries you make along your journeys. And you gain so much from working in a series -- each one is still its own personality. Lovely!
- August 13, 2011 at 10:02 PM
- Esch House Quilts said...
What a great idea! I never would have thought you could spin dead leaves. The texture of the result is amazing!
- August 14, 2011 at 9:45 AM
- Clare Wassermann said...
I love this stitching xx
- August 15, 2011 at 6:33 AM
- Victoria Bennett Beyer said...
Victoria, what a neat idea to spin the leaves - the results are so beautiful.
- August 15, 2011 at 10:43 AM
- Nifty Quilts said...
I love the way you always push into new creative areas. Your ropes are beautiful, and your red series is stunning.
- August 16, 2011 at 10:57 AM
- Jovita said...
I'm afraid I've been a bit of a lurked, but I just had to comment this tome ... Wow! Spinning dead leaves, it's Amazing. You inspire me and I love how your mind works.
- August 30, 2011 at 11:43 PM


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MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Debby formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, interfering with oil and gas production and putting officials on alert for flooding and strong winds from Texas to Florida.
At least one tornado linked to the storm touched down in southwest Florida, but no injuries were reported. The storm's outer rain bands were pounding parts of the state.
Debby was about 220 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi River, with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph.
The center of Debby was expected to linger over the northern Gulf during the next few days with no landfall in the immediate forecast.
While the storm's track is far from certain, the National Hurricane Center has Debby skirting the Louisiana coast and heading west toward Texas. Some strengthening is expected over the next couple of days.
Forecasters warned of up to 6 inches of rain along the coast, with isolated amounts of 10 inches.
It was the first time four tropical storms have been recorded before July 1 during the Atlantic hurricane season since record keeping began in 1851.
Debby forced the suspension of 8 percent of the region's oil and gas production.
The government reported that nine production platforms and one drilling rig were evacuated. The suspended crude production amounts to about 2 percent of U.S. production and about 0.1 percent of global production. The reduced production is not expected to impact oil prices unless the storm strengthens and forces more production platforms to close.
A tropical storm warning was issued for part of the southeast Louisiana coast. Officials there have been monitoring the weather closely for the last several days. Some low-lying areas close to the coast flood easily in rough weather.
"We've already seen higher tides than usual," said Angela Rains, manager of the Terrebonne Levee District.
Near the mouth of the Mississippi southeast of New Orleans, Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser said officials were making preparations to protect the main highway from tidal flooding.
A tornado touched down in Collier County in southwest Florida and forecasters warned other twisters were possible.
Several homes were damaged and tree limbs were down, The Naples Daily News reported.
"This is quite common with this type of storm," senior hurricane specialist Stacy Stewart with the National Hurricane Center said of the twisters. "They tend to not be very large or long-lived, which can be difficult to detect on radar. So people need to keep an eye on the sky."
Out in the Gulf, Anadarko Petroleum removed all non-essential personnel and expected to close four facilities in the central and eastern Gulf.
Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell and Marathon Oil said non-essential personnel were being removed but production was not being affected. ExxonMobil reported that its operations were unaffected.
Alberto was the first storm this year. It formed off the South Carolina coast on May 19, almost two weeks before the hurricane season officially began June 1.


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The chubby-cheeked 24-year-old offers up a cooking lesson and then, in his main online act, devours a dish like kimchi pork stew in a wild, comic performance meant to make clear how much he enjoys a good meal.
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