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Aghion, Philippe and Boulanger, Julian and Cohen, Elie. (2011) Rethinking industrial policy. Bruegel Policy Brief 2011/04, June 2011. [Policy Paper]
Allin, Dana H. and Emerson, Michael and Bigo, Didier and Brookes, Peter and Clawson, Patrick and Federov, Andrei and Heisbourg, François and Kobrinskaya, Irina and Rumer, Eugene B. and Rupnik, Jacques and Sazhin, Vladimir. and Serwer, Daniel and Shapiro, Jeremy and Shmelev, Boris and Tertrais, Bruno and Voskressenski, Alexei D. (2005) Readings in European Security, Volume 3. CEPS Paperback. November 2005. Series > Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels) > CEPS Paperbacks . Centre for European Policy Studies; International Institute for Security Studies. ISBN 9290795905
Amstad, Marlene and Huan, Ye and Ma, Guonan (2014) Developing an underlying inflation gauge for China. Bruegel Working Paper 2014/11, 9 October 2014. [Working Paper]
Andersen, Thomas Barnebeck and Barslund, Mikkel and Hansen, Casper Worm and Harr, Thomas and Jensen, Peter Sandholt (2013) How much did China's WTO accession increase economic growth in resource-rich countries? CEPS Working Document No. 384, 3 October 2013. [Working Paper]
Balducci, Giuseppe. (2008) Inside Normative Power Europe: Actors and Processes in the European Promotion of Human Rights in China. College of Europe EU Diplomacy Paper 8/2008, November 2008. [Working Paper]
Baltensperger, Michael (2019) The Belt and Road turns five. Bruegel Policy Contribution Issue n˚1 | January 2019. [Policy Paper]
Banse, M. and Rothe, A. and Tabeau, A. and van Meijl, H. and Woltjer, G. (2013) Will improved access to capital dampen the need for more agricultural land? A CGE analysis of agricultural capital markets and world-wide biofuel policies. Factor Markets Working Paper No. 48, May 2013. [Working Paper]
Barslund, Mikkel and Alcidi, Cinzia. (2015) China's slowdown: When the dragon catches the flu, Europe sneezes. CEPS Commentary, 25 September 2015. [Policy Paper]
Bartsch, Bernhard (2015) China's Confidence Issue: Hard or Smart Landing - What Can We Expect? Asia Policy Brief 2015/03, November 2015. [Policy Paper]
Bartsch, Bernhard (2016) The End of Panda Politics. Asia Policy Brief 07/2016. [Policy Paper]
Bartsch, Bernhard and Hellkötter, Katja and Menant, Magali (2015) More than a market: How German companies are growing roots in Chinese society. Bertelsmann Studies. UNSPECIFIED.
Benassi-Query, Agnes and Pisani-Perrry, Jean and Yongding, Yu. (2011) Reform of the international monetary system: some concrete steps. Bruegel Policy Contribution 2011/03, 8 March 2011. [Policy Paper]
Berkofsky, Axel (2013) Japan and China: Bitter Rivals and Close Partners. Asia Policy Brief 2013/03, June 2013. [Policy Paper]
Berton, Beatrice and Ekman, Alice and Schmidt, Juliane and Selleslaghs, Joren and Stang, Gerald and Van Langenhove, Luk (2016) The EU Global Strategy: going beyond effective multilateralism? EPC Discussion Paper, June 2016. [Discussion Paper]
Biscop, Sven (2019) The EU, the US and China: a middle way to approach the Middle Kingdom. Egmont Commentary, 15 March 2019. [Policy Paper]
Biscop, Sven (2019) Europe must not choose sides in a conflict between the United States and China. Egmont Commentary, 6 May 2019. [Policy Paper]
Biscop, Sven. (2017) Europe and the great powers: playing our Trump cards. Egmont Security Policy Brief No. 84, April 2017. [Policy Paper]
Biscop, Sven. (2017) The great powers have their ways. Egmont Security Policy Brief No. 93 December 2017. [Policy Paper]
Blockmans, Steven and Hu, Weinian (2019) Systemic rivalry and balancing interests: Chinese investment meets EU law on the Belt and Road. CEPS Policy Insight No 2019-04 /21 March 2019. [Policy Paper]
Blockmans, Steven. and Hu, Weinian (2019) Systemic rivalry and balancing interests: Chinese investment meets EU law on the Belt and Road. CEPS Policy Insights No 2019-04 /21 March 2019. [Policy Paper]
Borreschmidt, Nikolaj (2014) The EU's Human Rights Promotion in China and Myanmar: Trading Rights for Might? EU Diplomacy Paper No. 5, October 2014. [Working Paper]
Brown, Scott A.W. (2011) The EU as an International Actor: Lessons from the China Arms Embargo Debate. [Conference Proceedings]
Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès and Pisani-Ferry, Jean. (2011) What international monetary system for a fast-changing world economy? Bruegel Working Paper 2011/06, April 2011. [Working Paper]
Calleo, David and Grand, Camille and Safranchuk, Ivan and Dingli, Shen. (2009) Obama's Foreign Policy: Is this change we can believe in? ESF Working Paper No. 32, 4 August 2009. [Working Paper]
Cardiff, EDC (2016) Information Guide: Information on the European Union from Chinese sources. UNSPECIFIED.
Daemers, Julien (2012) The European Union in the Arctic: A Pole Position? Bruges Regional Integration & Global Governance Papers 4/2012, December 2012. [Working Paper]
Dassù, Marta (2011) Europe's false alibi in the G2. EuropEos Commentary No. 9, 13 May 2011. [Policy Paper]
Di Cosmo, Valeria and Hyland, Marie (2013) Decomposing patterns of emission intensity in the EU and China: how much does trade matter?. ESRI WP462. July 2013. [Working Paper]
Egawa, Akio (2013) Will income inequality cause a middle-income trap in Asia? Bruegel Working Paper 2013/06, 10 October 2013. [Working Paper]
Emerson, Michael (2012) De the BRICS make a bloc? CEPS Commentary, 30 April 2012. [Policy Paper]
Emerson, Michael and Boonstra, Jos and Hasanova, Nafisa and Laruelle, Marlene and Peyrouse, Sebastien (2010) Into EurAsia – Monitoring the EU's Central Asia Strategy. Report of the EUCAM Project. CEPS Paperbacks. February 2010. Series > Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels) > CEPS Paperbacks . UNSPECIFIED. ISBN 9789290799665
Emerson, Michael and Heisbourg, François (2010) Readings in European Security, Volume 6. CEPS Paperbacks. November 2010. Series > Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels) > CEPS Paperbacks . UNSPECIFIED. ISBN 9789461380593
Emerson, Michael and Heisbourg, François (2009) Readings in European Security. Volume 5. CEPS Paperbacks. June 2009. Series > Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels) > CEPS Paperbacks . UNSPECIFIED. ISBN 9789290798286
Emerson, Michael and Vinokurov, Evgeny. (2009) Optimisation of Central Asian and Eurasian Trans-Continental Land Transport Corridors. EUCAM Working Paper No. 7, 17 December 2009. [Working Paper]
Emerson, Michael and Youngs, Richard and Setser, Brad and Lukyanov, Fyodor and Xiang, Lanxin and Mortensen, Jorgen. (2009) The Strategic Consequences of the Global Financial and Economic Crisis. ESF Working Paper No. 31, 18 March 2009. [Working Paper]
Emerson, Michael. (2009) From Central Asian Strategy into EurAsian Strategy. CEPS Commentaries, 4 November 2009. [Policy Paper]
Emerson, Michael. (2005) What values for Europe? The Ten Commandments. CEPS Policy Briefs No.65, 1 February 2005. [Policy Paper]
Ernst, Maximilian (2017) The Tolstoy-Dolan Mission and the Establishment of US-Tibetan Relations: An investigation into the events that unfolded after the first visit of American representatives to Lhasa in 1943. Seoul National University Journal of International Affairs, 2 (1). pp. 3-13.
Ewert, Insa (2016) The EU-China Bilateral Investment Agreement: Between High Hopes and Real Challenges. Security Policy Brief No. 68, February 2016. [Policy Paper]
Ewert , Insa (2016) The EU–China Bilateral Investment Agreement: Between high hopes and real challenges. Security Policy Briefs No. 68, February 2016. [Policy Paper]
Fischer, Doris (2012) The Importance of Being Earnest: The green economy and sustainable development in China. Asia Policy Brief 2012/02, November 2012. [Policy Paper]
Garcia Herroro, Alicia and Xu, Jianwei (2016) China's Belt and Road initiative: can Europe expect trade gains? Bruegel Working Paper ISSUE 5/2016. [Working Paper]
García-Herrero, Alicia (2019) Europe in the midst of China-US strategic competition: What are the European Union's options? Bruegel Working Paper Issue 03, April 2019. [Working Paper]
García-Herrero, Alicia and Xu, Jianwei (2016) The China-Russia trade relationship and its impact on Europe. Breugel Working Paper Issue 4, 2016. [Working Paper]
García-Herrero, Alicia and Xu, Jianwei (2019) Countries' perceptions of China's Belt and Road Initiative: A big data analysis. Bruegel Working Paper Issue 01, 6 February 2019. [Working Paper]
García-Herrero, Alicia and Xu, Jianwei (2018) How big is China's digital economy? Bruegel Working Paper issue 04 / 17 May 2018. [Working Paper]
García-Herrero, Alicia and Xu, Jianwei (2017) How to handle state-owned enterprises in EU-China investment talks. Bruegel Policy Contribution Issue n˚18 | June 2017. [Policy Paper]
García-Herrero, Alicia and Xu, Jianwei (2016) What consequences would a post-Brexit China-UK trade deal have for the EU? Bruegel Policy Contribution Issue n˚18 | 2016. [Policy Paper]
García-Herrero, Alicia and Xu, Jianwei and Marbach, Thibault (2018) European and Chinese trade competition in third markets: the case of Latin America. Bruegel Working Paper/Issue 06/7 June 2018. [Working Paper]
Geeraerts, Gustaaf (2018) The EU and China: Modest signs of convergence? Egmont Security Policy Brief No. 101. [Policy Paper]
Geeraerts , Gustaaf (2017) The US and China between dependence and rivalry. Egmont Commentary, 10 April 2017. [Policy Paper]
Gehrke, Tobias (2019) Redefining the EU China economic partnership: beyond reciprocity lies strategy. Egmont Security Policy Brief No. 104. [Policy Paper]
Gippner, Olivia (2016) China as an Investment Power in Europe. College of Europe Policy Brief #19.16, December 2016. [Policy Paper]
Gnath, Katharina and Schmucker, Claudia (2011) The Role of the Emerging Countries in the G20: Agenda-setter, Veto Player or Spectator? Bruges Regional Integration & Global Governance Paper 2/2011. [Working Paper]
Gonzalez, Anabel and Veron, Nicolas (2019) EU TRADE POLICY AMID THE CHINA-US CLASH: CAUGHT IN THE CROSS-FIRE? BRUEGEL WORKING PAPER | ISSUE 07 | SEPTEMBER 2019. [Working Paper]
Gonzalez, Anabel and Véron, Nicolas (2019) EU trade policy amid the China-US clash: caught in the crossfire? WORKING PAPER | ISSUE 07 | 16 SEPTMBER 2019. Bruegel. [Working Paper]
Gros, Daniel and Womack, Brantly and Voskressenski, Alexei D. (2009) The Rise of China: Policies of the EU, Russia and the US. ESF Working Paper No. 30, 9 February 2009. [Working Paper]
Gros, Daniel. (2008) "China and India: Implications for the EU Economy." CEPS Working Document No. 280, January 2008. [Working Paper]
Gros, Daniel. (2011) China's assistance could do more harm than good in the eurozone. CEPS Commentary, 3 November 2011. [Policy Paper]
Gros, Daniel. (2013) Germany as Scapegoat. CEPS Commentary, 10 December 2013. [Policy Paper]
Gros, Daniel. (2010) How to level the capital playing field. CEPS Commentary, 23 September 2010. [Policy Paper]
Gros, Daniel. (2015) Monetary policy and the over-investment cycle: China as an extreme case. CEPS Commentary, 27 August 2015. [Policy Paper]
Gros, Daniel. (2014) What direction for reforms in China? CEPS Commentary, 9 January 2014. [Policy Paper]
Gros, Daniel. (2008) The logic of leaving oil in the ground. CEPS Commentaries, 10 July 2008. [Policy Paper]
Hansen, Camilla. (2010) Non-Governmental Organisations and the European Union's Promotion of Human Rights in China: NGO Influence or NO Influence? College of Europe EU Diplomacy Papers, 4/2010. [Working Paper]
Heilmann, Sebastian (2013) China's new Government: Priorities, Programs, Reform Signals. Asia Policy Brief 2013/02, May 2013. [Policy Paper]
Heisbourg, Francois and Tocci, Nathalie and Hamilton, Daniel and Makarychev, Andrey and Xiang, Lanxin and Kumar, Radha. (2008) What prospects for normative foreign policy in a multipolar world? ESF Working Paper No. 29, 3 July 2008. [Working Paper]
Herrero, Alicia Garcia (2015) Internationalising the currency while leveraging massively: the case of China. Bruegel Working Paper 2015/12, October 2015. [Working Paper]
Hu, Kun (2015) Innovations of the European Central Bank in the Context of Financial and Monetary Integration: A Chinese Assessment. ZEI Discussion Paper C229, 2015. [Discussion Paper]
Hu, Weinian (2018) Reciprocity and Mutual Benefits: EU-China cooperation on and protection of geographical indications. CEPS Research Reports No. 2018/04, June 2018. UNSPECIFIED.
Hu, Weinian and Pelkmans, Jacques. (2017) EU-China Leadership in Trade Policy: Feasible? Desirable? CEPS Commentary, 20 March 2017. [Policy Paper]
Hu , Weinian and Pelkmans, Jacques (2017) China-EU Leadership in Globalisation: Ambition and capacity. CEPS Policy Insight No 2017/18, May 2017. [Policy Paper]
International Study Group on Exports and Productivity, The. (2008) Exports and productivity – comparable evidence for 14 countries. NBB Working Papers No. 128, 13 February 2008. [Working Paper]
Iwanski, Tadeusz (2012) Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova and the Chinese economic expansion in Eastern Europe. OSW Commentary No. 79, 2012-05-28. [Policy Paper]
Jacob, Jabin T. (2016) What Economic Slowdown? Asia Looks at China. Asia Policy Brief April 2016. [Policy Paper]
Jakóbowski, Jakub (2015) China's foreign direct investments within the '16+1' cooperation formula: strategy, institutions, results. OSW Commentary Number 191|27.11.2015. [Policy Paper]
Jakóbowski, Jakub (2016) Green economy or coal 'counter-revolution'? Challenges to China's economic reform process. OSW COMMENTARY NUMBER 220 | 29.07.2016. [Policy Paper]
Jakóbowski, Jakub (2018) The US–China trade dispute: phase two. OSW Commentary NUMBER 277 | 04.07.2018. [Policy Paper]
Jakóbowski, Jakub (2016) The debt, the stock market and the state-owned enterprises. The sources of chaos on the Chinese financial markets. OSW Commentary NUMBER 201/16.03.2016. [Policy Paper]
Jakóbowski, Jakub (2017) The drifting of China's reforms. Economic policy during Xi Jinping's first term. OSW Point of View 63 April 2017. UNSPECIFIED.
Jakóbowski, Jakub (2015) A partial success of trade cooperation within the '16+1' formula: the case of food exports to China. OSW COMMENTARY #189, 2015-10-29. [Policy Paper]
Jakóbowski, Jakub and Bogusz, Michał (2019) A stalemate in the US–China trade negotiations: the tariff war and technology sanctions. OSW Commentary Number 303, 28 May 2019. [Policy Paper]
Jakóbowski, Jakub and Kaczmarski, Marcin (2016) The EU on granting China market economy status: a compromise or a dodge? OSW COMMENTARY NUMBER 221 | 2016-08-05. [Policy Paper]
Jakóbowski, Jakub and Marszewsk, Mariusz (2018) Crisis in Turkmenistan. A test for China's policy in the region. OSW Commentary NUMBER 284 | 31.08.201. [Policy Paper]
Jakóbowski, Jakub and Poplawski, Konrad (2018) China's offer to the EU: tough negotiations or a coalition against Trump? OSW Commentary, August 23, 2018. [Policy Paper]
Jakóbowski, Jakub and Popławski, Konrad and Kaczmarski, Marcin (2018) The Silk Railroad. The EU-China rail connections: background, actors, interests. OSW Studies Number 72, February 2018. UNSPECIFIED.
Jakóbowski, Jakub and Bogusz, Michał (2018) High on the party, low on the state. A quantum leap in the process of China's reconstruction. OSW Commentary NUMBER 265 | 18.04.2018. [Policy Paper]
Jarosiewicz, Aleksandra and Strachota, Krzysztof and Wolowska, Anna and Matusiak, Marek (2013) China vs. Central Asia. The achievements of the past two decades. OSW Study 45/2013. UNSPECIFIED.
Jungbluth, Cora F. and Hauschild, Helmut (2012) Don't Go Protectionist! Trade and Investment Relations between the EU and China. Asia Policy Brief 2012/1, June 2012. [Policy Paper]
Kaczmarski, Marcin (2015) China on Central-Eastern Europe: '16+1' as seen from Beijing. OSW COMMENTARY NUMBER 166/15.04.2015. [Policy Paper]
Kaczmarski, Marcin (2015) China on Russia's intervention in Syria. OSW Commentary Number 193|19.01.2016. [Policy Paper]
Kaczmarski, Marcin (2015) The New Silk Road: a versatile instrument in China's policy. OSW Commentary No. 161, February 10 2015. [Policy Paper]
Kaczmarski, Marcin (2016) Silk globalisation. China's vision of international order. OSW POINT OF VIEW 60 2016-10-10. UNSPECIFIED.
Kaczmarski, Marcin (2013) The bear watches the dragon. The Russian debate on China. OSW Point of View Number 31, February 2013. UNSPECIFIED, Warsaw.
Kaczmarski, Marcin (2016) An essential partner in the background. Europe in China's policy during the rule of Xi Jinping. OSW STUDIES 56 2016. UNSPECIFIED.
Kaczmarski, Marcin and Jakóbowski, Jakub (2017) Beijing's mistaken offer: the '16+1' and China's policy towards the European Union. OSW COMMENTARY NUMBER 250 | 15.09.2017. [Policy Paper]
Kaczmarski, Marcin and Kardas, Szymon (2016) 'The oil friendship': the state of and prospects for Russian-Chinese energy cooperation. OSW Commentary NUMBER 197|17.02.2016. [Policy Paper]
Kaczmarski, Marcin and Rodkiewicz, Witold (2016) Russia's Greater Eurasia and China's New Silk Road: adaptation instead of competition. OSW Commentary NUMBER 219 | 21.07.2016. [Policy Paper]
Kardas, Szymon (2014) The eastern 'partnership' of gas. Gazprom and CNPC strike a deal on gas supplies to China. OSW COMMENTARY No. 139, 2014-06-16. [Policy Paper]
Kefferputz, Roderick. (2010) Unearthing China's Rare Earths Strategy. CEPS Policy Brief No. 218/November 2010. [Policy Paper]
Keukeleire, Stephan and Fonck, Daan and Keuleers, Floor (2015) The study of the EU as an international actor: Bringing the outside back in. Examples from EU-China relations. [Conference Proceedings] (Submitted)
Klose, Stephan and Pepermans, Astrid and Wang, Leia (2017) An uphill struggle? Towards coordinated EU engagement with China's Belt and Road Initiative. EPC Policy Brief No. 48 November 2017. [Policy Paper]
Kremer, Jan-Frederik and Below, Katharina (2012) Innovative Capabilities and Market Performance: The European Union in International Comparison. Jean Monnet/Robert Schuman Paper Series Vol. 12, No. 7, September 2012. [Working Paper]
Kumar, Radha. (2008) India as a Foreign Policy Actor – Normative Redux. CEPS Working Document No. 285, February 2008. [Working Paper]
Kwiatkowska-Drozdz, Anna (2011) The natural resources deficit: the implications for German politics. OSW Commentary No. 46, 2011-02-08. [Policy Paper]
Kühnhardt, Ludger (2018) The New Silk Road: The European Union, China and Lessons Learned. ZEI Discussion Paper C 245/2018. [Discussion Paper]
Lagneaux, Frédéric and Vivet, David. (2009) The Belgian iron and steel industry in the international context. NBB Working Papers. No. 160, 11 March 2009. [Working Paper]
Lang, Bertram (2015) Taiwanese Lobbying in the European Union: 'Workable Diplomacy' and its Limitations. EU Diplomacy Paper 8/2015. [Working Paper]
Liu, Weiyu. (1997) "China-EU: The economic complementarity in the next century". In: UNSPECIFIED, Seattle, WA. (Unpublished)
Ma, Guonan and McCauley, Robert N. (2014) Financial openness of China and India: Implications for capital account liberalisation. Bruegel Working Paper 2014/05, May 15 2014. [Working Paper]
Mamedov, Eldar and Paul, Amanda (2015) EU-Iran relations post-Vienna: the way forward. EPC Commentary, 16 July 2015. [Policy Paper]
Marcu, Andrei (2015) China's ETS: A vote of confidence in carbon markets ahead of Paris. CEPS Commentary, 12 October 2015. [Policy Paper]
Marcu, Andrei (2014) The US-China Joint Announcement on Climate Change: Can the G2 make a difference? CEPS Commentary, 26 November 2014. [Policy Paper]
Mariniello, Mario (2013) The Dragon awakes: Is Chinese competition policy a cause for concern? Bruegel Policy Contribution 2013/14, 22 October 2013. [Policy Paper]
Marszewski, Mariusz (2018) Thaw in Uzbekistan. Reforms by President Mirziyoyev. OSW Commentary NUMBER 278 | 16.07.2018. [Policy Paper]
Mavroidis, Petros C. and Sapir, André (2019) CHINA AND THE WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION: TOWARDS A BETTER FIT. WORKING PAPER | ISSUE 06 | 11 JUNE 2019. Bruegel. [Working Paper]
Mayer, Thomas and Ubide, Angel and Gros, Daniel and Perotti, Roberto (2004) Breaking the Reform Deadlock. 6th Annual Report of the CEPS Macroeconomic Policy Group. CEPS Paperback. July 2004. Series > Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels) > CEPS Paperbacks . UNSPECIFIED. ISBN 9290795034
Men, Jing. (2008) EU-China Relations: Problems and Promises. Jean Monnet/Robert Schuman Paper Series Vol. 8, No. 13, June 2008. [Working Paper]
Men, Jing. (2008) EU-China Relations: from Engagement to Marriage? College of Europe EU Diplomacy Paper 7/2008, November 2008. [Working Paper]
Men, Jing. (2007) "The EU-China Strategic Partnership: Achievements and Challenges". European Policy Paper #12, November 2007. [Policy Paper]
Menon, Anand. (2009) From settled paths to Chines whispers: Institutions, instability, and EU defence policy. In: UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)
Metivier, Jeanne and Di Salvo, Mattia and Pelkmans, Jacques (2017) Transatlantic Divergences in Globalisation and the China Factor. CEPS Policy Insight No 2017/19, May 2017. [Policy Paper]
Montesano, Francesco Saverio (2017) Global Politics and the Evolving EU-US-China Triangle: An Opportunity for EU Leadership? College of Europe Policy Brief #10.17, November 2017. [Policy Paper]
Moran, James (2017) No longer a new kid on the block - China in the Middle East. CEPS Commentary, 29 November 2017. [Policy Paper]
Morehouse, Christal and Busse, Mathias (2014) How to keep a competitive edge in the talent game: Lessons for the EU from China and the US. CEPS Task Force Report, 13 June 2014. UNSPECIFIED.
Noguera., Mireia Paulo (2011) The EU-China strategic partnership in climate change: the biodiversity programme. EU Diplomacy Paper 02/2011, March 2011. [Working Paper]
Oh, Yonghyup. (2010) Lessons from the Asian Monetary Fund for the European Monetary Fund. CEPS Policy Brief No. 208, 16 April 2010. [Policy Paper]
Okano-Heijmans, Maike and van der Putten, Frans-Paul. (2009) China's Rise and the Changing Rules of the Game in the International Order. CEPS Commentaries, 6 July 2009. [Policy Paper]
Padoan, Pier-Carlo. (2008) Europe and Global Economic Governance. College of Europe EU Diplomacy Paper 2/2008, February 2008. [Working Paper]
Pape, Wolfgang (2014) Is the 'American lake' drying up in the China Sea? CEPS Commentary, 31 July 2014. [Policy Paper]
Pei, Minxin (2014) Going Global, Going West! Chinese Direct Investment in Germany. Asia Policy Brief 2014/03, May 2014. [Policy Paper]
Pei, Minxin (2012) Neue Führung, alte Probleme –der Generationswechsel an Chinas politischer Spitze/New management, old problems - Generational change in China. Asia Policy Brief 2012/03, December 2012. [Policy Paper]
Pei, Minxin (2014) Xi's Real Test: Delivering on Reform and Maintaining Stability in 2014. Asia Policy Brief 2014/02, February 2014. [Policy Paper]
Pelkmans, Jacques. and Hu, Weinian and Mustilli, Federica and Di Salvo, Mattia and Francois, Joseph and Bekkers, Eddy and Manchin, Miriam. and Tomberger, Patrick (2016) Tomorrow's silk road: Assessing an EU-China Free Trade Agreement. Series > Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels) > CEPS Paperbacks . UNSPECIFIED. ISBN 978-94-6138-518-5
Pelkmans, Jacques. and Hu, Weinian and Mustilli, Federica and Di Salvo, Mattia and Francois, Joseph and Bekkers, Eddy and Manchin, Miriam. and Tomberger, Patrick (2016) Tomorrow's Silk Road: Assessing an EU-China Free Trade Agreement. Series > Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels) > CEPS Paperbacks . UNSPECIFIED.
Pelzman, Josehp (2007) Comparison of PRC and Vietnam's Responses to the Elimination of U.S. Textile and Apparel Quotas: Economic and Cultural Perspectives. ACES Working Paper No. 1, 2007. [Working Paper]
Peyrouse, Sebastien. (2009) Central Asia's growing partnership with China. EUCAM Working Paper No. 4, 09 October 2009. [Working Paper]
Pisani-Ferry, Jean and Sapir, Andre. (2008) Eight potential roadblocks to smooth EU-China economic relations. Bruegel Third-party Papers, January 2008. [Policy Paper]
Pisani-Ferry, Jean. (2005) Can Multilateralism Survive the Rise of the BRICs? Bruegel Third-Party Papers, July 2005. [Policy Paper]
Pisani-Ferry, Jean. (2010) China and the world economy: a European perspective. Bruegel Policy Contribution 2010/03, March 2010. [Policy Paper]
Pisani-Ferry, Jean. (2008) The End of Europe's longstanding indifference to the Renminbi. Bruegel Policy Contribution, 15 January 2008. [Policy Paper]
Poplawski, Konrad (2017) Capital does have nationality: Germany's fears of Chinese investments. OSW COMMENTARY NUMBER 230 | 25.01.2017. [Policy Paper]
Poplawski, Konrad (2013) Chasing globalisation: Germany's economic relations with the BRIC countries. OSW Report, November 2013. UNSPECIFIED.
Primova, Radostina and van Vrede, Johanna (2012) The Role of Civil Society Dialogue in the EU-China Cooperation on Renewable Energy. IES Policy Brief Issue 2012/05/December 2012. [Policy Paper]
Renard, Thomas (2015) Aggressive, assertive and approximative: how Russia, China and Europe adapt to the changing global order. Egmont Commentary, 12 November 2015. [Policy Paper]
Renard, Thomas (2015) The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB): China's new multilateralism and the erosion of the West. Security Policy Brief No. 63, April 2015. [Policy Paper]
Renard, Thomas (2015) BRICS: An alternative order in construction (Summit takeaways). Egmont Commentary, 15 July 2015. [Policy Paper]
Renard, Thomas (2015) To join or not to join: The AIIB and the EU's dilemma. Egmont Commentary, 10 April 2015. [Policy Paper]
Renard, Thomas (2015) US-China cybersecurity agreement: a good case of cyber diplomacy. Egmont Commentary, 1 October 2015. [Policy Paper]
Renard, Thomas. (2009) A BRIC in the world: Emerging powers, Europe and the coming order. Egmont Paper No. 31, October 2009. [Policy Paper]
Renard, Thomas. (2011) Libya and the post-American world: implications for the EU. Egmont Security Policy Brief No. 20, April 2011. [Policy Paper]
Renard, Thomas. (2011) The treachery of strategies: a call for true EU strategic partnerships. Egmont Paper No. 45, April 2011. [Policy Paper]
Renda, Andrea. (2019) Europe's big tech contradiction. CEPS Commentary, 2 April 2019. [Policy Paper]
Resmini, Laura and Siedschlag, Iulia (2012) The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment to China on Foreign Direct Investment to Other Countries. ESRI Research Bulletin 2012/4/3. UNSPECIFIED.
Resmini, Laura and Siedschlag, Iulia (2008) Is FDI into China Crowding Out the FDI into the European Union?. ESRI WP231. March 2008. [Working Paper]
Rodkiewicz, Witold (2018) China's Junior Partner: Russia's Korean policy. OSW Point of View Number 72, December 2018. UNSPECIFIED.
Roth, Felix and Thum, Anna E. (2010) The Key Role of Education in the Europe 2020 Strategy. CEPS Working Document No. 338/October 2010. [Working Paper]
Roth, Felix and Thum, Anna-Elisabeth. (2010) The key role of education in the Europe 2020 strategy. CEPS Working Document No. 338/October 2010. [Working Paper]
Rudakowska, Anna (2013) Lessons for the EU from the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Crisis. IES Policy Brief Issue 2013/01 • February 2013. [Policy Paper]
Ryan, John (2017) Geopolitical influences on the future of Renminbi. Egmont Security Policy Brief No. 82, March 2017. [Policy Paper]
Schilling, Eva (2012) When the rising dragon sees fading stars: China's view of the European Union. CEPS Special Report No. 73, 29 November 2012. UNSPECIFIED.
Shenglin Ben, Shenglin Ben and Romain Bosc, Romain Bosc and Jinpu Jiao, Jinpu Jiao and Wenwei Li , Wenwei Li and Felice Simonelli , Felice Simonelli and Ruidong Zhang , Ruidong Zhang (2017) Digital Infrastructure: Overcoming the digital divide in China and the European Union. CEPS Research Report, November 2017. UNSPECIFIED.
Silasi, Grigore and Pirtea, Marilen Gabriel and Simina, Ovidiu Laurian. (2010) From the "Strawberry Jam" to the "Sushi-Bar": Romanian Migration in the Context of Asia's Increasing Economic Role. In: UNSPECIFIED, Beijing, China. (Unpublished)
Stefan, Marco (2017) Migration versus Mobility in EU External Action towards Asia: A closer look at EU relations with China, India, the Philippines and Thailand. CEPS Research Report No. 2017/01, 27 January 2017. UNSPECIFIED.
Steinbock, Dan (2011) The Eurozone debt crisis and the role of China. EU Centre Policy Brief Number 3, November 2011. [Policy Paper]
Tan, Bryan and Hwee, Yeo Lay (2019) Engaging China – Reflections from the EU's and ASEAN's Responses. EU Centre Background Brief, 3rd January 2019. [Policy Paper]
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Following Gullible's thread on this subject, I decided I'd see what this was all about. So I started by playing two simultaneous audio streams, and found I could hear them both - without any changes to any config files etc. I figured that was alsa 1.0.9, with dmix active by default, until it was suggested that I might actually have a sound server running, like arts or esd. Well, arts is not on my system. esd is, as a dependency, but it does not show as running in
ps aux
So where does that leave me? Is my dmix OK, or is there some unseen esd trickery going on?
Your dmix is working, I'd say.
That's what I reckoned too - thanks.
So does anyone know how to change the mix with dmix i.e. control the inidividual volumes of the various sound streams? I haven't come across anything on that yet, and so far I've found that I can only alter the volume of the overall mix.
Software mixer?
You'd think, alright, but which one? alsamixer doesn't know anything about dmix, it seems. The way I think it should work is by providing a volume control for each sound-producing app, but my alsamixer display is the same regardless of how many streams are playing. The only other one I have is the xfce mixer, but it's just a GUIfied version of alsamixer - same controls, but prettier.
No, not alsamixer - software mixing. For the program you want to adjust the volume of, change the settings so that volume is "software mixer" instead of "Master" or "PCM". For MPD, for example, you'd use
mixer_type "software"
XMMS has that in its preferences somewhere. So does BMP, but BMP's didn't work last I checked. All the GNOME (and IIRC KDE) multimedia apps use software volume control by default, AFAIK.
Thanks again. I've barely scratched the surface when it comes to multimedia - I guess it shows.
I found the Software Mixer option for mplayer alright, and it works as expected. I can't find one for xfmedia, so I'll see what the developer says.
At least I know what I'm looking for now.
Go to a dir with mp3 files for example.
s="song name.mp3"; p=2;
(mplayer -ao alsa "$s" &) && (sleep $p) &&
(mplayer -ao alsa "$s" &) && (sleep $p) &&
(mplayer -ao alsa "$s" &) && sleep 10 &&
killall mplayer
This should allow you to check the mixing capabilities of your alsa setup, with 3 tracks (not sure how many dmix supports). On my computer (P4 3GHz Presscot, the CPU usage was unnoticeable).
s="song name.mp3"
p=2 is the time in sec until a new concurent mplayer is started.
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Thanks Ice. Actually, I'm happy enough with my setup now, thanks to Gullible. I ran mplayer and xine concurrently, with both of them set to use software mixing, and it worked exactly as expected. Now I just have to figure out how to configure other sound-enabled apps for software mixing, xfmedia for example. Also, things like the Firefox flash plug-in - does it even have a volume control?
Firefox flash plugin? Nope, just adjust the Master volume.
(Why both Xine and MPlayer? :-? )
It should be enough to make all your audio applications output on alsa.
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Right, either I'm not making myself clear here, or else I've misunderstood what dmix is supposed to be able to do. I'm thinking that if you can play multiple sound streams, then you should also be able to adjust each stream's volume individually. Before setting mplayer to use Software Mixer, its volume control acted on all active streams - after changing the setting, it affected mplayer sound only. xfmedia's volume control still affects all streams, because as far as I can see, it doesn't have a software mixing option. I've raised it as an enhancement request on xfce's bugzilla.
Firefox flash plugin? Nope, just adjust the Master volume.
But that will affect all streams.
(Why both Xine and MPlayer? :-? )
Because xfmedia is a frontend to xine-lib.
It should be enough to make all your audio applications output on alsa.
That's what I thought too - but with xfmedia, it's not. And to get back to that flash plugin, where would I look to make sure it's set for alsa output?
There's no software mixer for Flash, unless you're viewing a flash applet(?) that has its own volume control.

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Throwing the flag at big time college sports
Last Saturday, a giant C-5 military cargo plane flew over Gillette Stadium to herald the new "Big Time" football program at UMass.
The plane also raised a lot of eyebrows in Norfolk County neighborhoods where residents wondered what the fuss was all about. That's an excellent question on many levels.
UMass, and I'm talking all the campuses not just Amherst, is a vital part of the higher education system in Massachusetts. At a time when many cash-strapped students and parents are asking, "Is a college education even worth it?", UMass answers with a resounding "Yes."
UMass proves you don't have to fork over $50,000 a year to get a quality education.
Back to sports.
UMass roles out the balloons and ballyhoo for joining the top division in college football. The fact that home games are now played two hours from the campus is viewed as a minor inconvenience.
Seriously? That sounds like a big, honking inconvenience to me.
Why is it that money can be scraped up for sports, yet some academic buildings fall into disrepair?
Why must students sometimes battle to get into classes or miss out on courses because not all programs are can meet the student demand?
I truly believe that sports play an important role in the college experience, but proper perspective is often lost these days.
The senseless, preventable horrors at Penn State; the hockey, sex scandal at Boston University. Now we've got Harvard basketball players allegedly cheating on exams.
The flag has to be thrown at these abuses. If colleges are going to shower athletes with scholarships, they have an obligation to give every student a level playing field.
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Magpie joy: Collingwood players sing the song. Photo: Wayne TaylorDefeating Essendon on Anzac Day after coming from so far behind – and the way they did it – made the win more worthy than Collingwood's other three wins of the season, Magpies coach Nathan Buckley said.
He said he felt the team had improved on last year, in particular defensively at either end of the ground.
The win came at a cost for Collingwood, with Alex Fasolo injuring a big toe and needing to be substituted. When he finished the game in a moon boot, there were concerns he had re-injured the navicular bone that kept him out for most of last season, but scans were expected to reveal a toe injury.
Clinton Young finished with a corked thigh in a heavy collision with Bomber forward Paul Chapman that left the former Geelong premiership player assessed for concussion.
Before a crowd of 91,731, the Magpies came from 37 points down early in the second quarter to boot nine unanswered goals and eventually win by 23 points. They withstood a mini-Essendon comeback in the last quarter to win by 23 points, despite being down a man on the bench.
"It was an excellent win … the pride in the performance, the belief in what we're doing at the moment … it's a massive step forward for us," Buckley said.
"Today was probably as encouraging as any of our wins so far. We were on the back foot early, but we were able to hold our line and maintain the belief in the way we went about it. The onfield leadership of the players to maintain that communication and positivity when things were heading south, what we were able to execute over four quarters was the biggest win for us."
Collingwood had 11 fewer forward entires than Essendon but also laid an impressive 97 tackles. Essendon put on 81 in a fiercely contested game.
"We won a different way … Essendon came out from the bell, punched us in the nose, we had watery eyes and it took us a little while to get our bearings," Buckley said.
"It was all the more meritorious with the youth in our side and our senior leaders out there, to be able to keep everything on track and stick to the task. That doesn't mean we are going to come back and win it, but the fact that we were able to is a fairly big feather in the cap.
"Last year, if we were to give up that many inside-50s, we would have been scored [against] really heavily."
Buckley said the team was starting to better implement minor changes to the game plan made after last season when it was exploited defensively at either end of the ground.
"We were a top-four side defensively and offensively through the middle last year in transition, in contested ball and clearances, but at either end we had some work to do. We made some modifications, we are adjusting that.
"We are not putting a cap on what we are capable of. We are still finding our best balance, we are still finding out what we are capable of, and we look forward to challenges we have to come."
Buckley said key-position swingman Ben Reid would likely return to the side in after the bye, and following the Carlton game next Friday night.
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2 winners were selected from 91 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
I am looking for a unique logo design that portrays a smart decision, secure, and representsggood health. Web site should be easy to navigate ideally with a picture of continents that can allow selecting where a person might want to travel for medical procedures.
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This site is a medical tourism site. Medical tourism is the term for people that seek medical procedures or plastic surgery outside the United States.  I would like this site to look much higher class than all competitors.  I envision the continents as the navigation place to select where to to travel for procedures and would like this to be the focal point of the center of the site. Â
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Hello! I am looking for social/political histories of 4 neighborhoods in Brooklyn from the 1960s forward; the neighborhoods are Brownsville, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Kensington and Flatlands. Any information that can help me towards creating activism timelines in these areas is great! Also, I'm looking for information on the 1968 New York Teacher's Strike centered in Brownsville and Ocean Hill, and the Beth-El Hospital Workers Strike, which I believe was in 1962.
This project will eventually be focused on existing vacant lots in these neighborhoods so any tips on/histories of/ information on vacant lots in brooklyn or these specific neighborhoods would be great!


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The snow was definitely coming down - it's a small little place but it was pretty much empty this night.
Lots of memorabilia around the place as well - go Reds!
Giminetti Bakery and were really great - so much better than a grocery store hamburger bun! They were big but still soft...one of the best buns I've had. The burgers were loaded up with brown mustard, onion, mayonnaise, lettuce, catsup, tomato*, and pickle. It's a hand-made patty for sure and that was really good.
All in all - I thought it was a great burger - but the toppings helped - that brown mustard added a ZING! Larry still likes Gordo's better. My one issue was that there were 4 customers there - 2 of which were Larry and I. We ordered the burgers - one with no mayo and one with no cheese. We mentioned it twice - very clearly - the server/bartender acknowledged that he heard us (he was also cooking the burgers). When we got our burgers...both had cheese, both had mayo. I peeled the cheese and gave it to Larry - he took my mayo-free bun half. We were too hungry to bother to complain. Still - pretty annoying especially knowing we were really the only customers in there!
Why Should You Go? I think it is a good burger and really enjoyed it. It's affordable - I think less than $6. And the view is spectacular. Just don't be picky with your order...Would I go out of the way to drive here for the burger again? No - but if I'm in Mt. Adams it's a good option. And again - the view - well that's worth going to Mt. Adams for any day!


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A UNIVERSITY CHEMIST, engineer, and botanist have joined forces in a groundbreaking study to see if placing solar panels on an ecoroof can help each run more efficiently.
Professors Carl Wamser, David Sailor, and Todd Rosenstiel have installed 720-square-feet of ecoroof—soil, sedums, and other plants—partially shaded by 16, 175-watt solar panels on the south roof of Science Building 2.
Combining ecoroofs and solar panels has traditionally been an either/or decision, says Wamser. "It just doesn't occur to people to do multiple things with their roof, nor that plants and panels can be mutually beneficial."
In addition to reducing stormwater runoff, insulating a building, and creating wildlife habitat, ecoroofs cool ambient air, which is a plus for solar panels, explains Wamser. The silicon in photovoltaic cells transmits electricity more efficiently at cooler temperatures resulting in higher output. Electricity from the panels is being used in Science Building 2, which is undergoing an extensive remodel scheduled for completion in March.
The benefits roll the other way, too. The solar panels may provide an ideal, shaded environment for ecoroof vegetation. Sedums are often chosen because they can handle summer's lack of rain. With shade, sedums and other plants might better thrive and provide superior cooling.
The scientists will make available video of the plants and compile statistics on electricity output and soil and air temperature into a database. Both will be available online for anyone willing to consider creating a roof that does it all.


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A Post!Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
Tags: Bubble Pullover, Future Knitting Plans, In Progress, Orangina, Story of my Life
Hi there, folks who still read my blog. I imagine there are a few who haven't culled their feed readers in a while. And for that, I thank you!
I have been in a knitting and blogging funk (mostly Farmville-related), but I think my belly is developing a small fire for knitting that I sense will erupt soon enough. I have been looking at the Knitpicks catalogues that still come to my door every month, and I have a feeling my knitting bag will be going back into my backpack tomorrow morning. I removed it a few months ago (regretfully), because I hadn't used it in months and it was bulking up the bag. But it's going back. It has Bubble in it.
Also, I seamed Greenzo. I never seam ANYTHING. I specifically seek out sweaters that I don't have to seam, so that I don't have to seam them. But I seamed this shirt one day a little while ago, and it was moderately pain-free. I think this is a good sign.
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If Jefferson had accepted the legacy, as much as half of it would have gone not to Jefferson but, in effect, to his slaves—to the purchase price for land, livestock, equipment and transportation to establish them in a place such as Illinois or Ohio. Moreover, the slaves most suited for immediate emancipation—smiths, coopers, carpenters, the most skilled farmers—were the very ones whom Jefferson most valued. He also shrank from any public identification with the cause of emancipation.
It had long been accepted that slaves were assets that could be seized for debt, but Jefferson turned this around when he used slaves as collateral for a very large loan he had taken out in 1796 from a Dutch banking house in order to rebuild Monticello. He pioneered the monetizing of slaves, just as he pioneered the industrialization and diversification of slavery.
Before his refusal of Kosciuszko's legacy, as Jefferson mulled over whether to accept the bequest, he had written to one of his plantation managers: "A child raised every 2. years is of more profit then the crop of the best laboring man. in this, as in all other cases, providence has made our duties and our interests coincide perfectly.... [W]ith respect therefore to our women & their children I must pray you to inculcate upon the overseers that it is not their labor, but their increase which is the first consideration with us."
In the 1790s, as Jefferson was mortgaging his slaves to build Monticello, George Washington was trying to scrape together financing for an emancipation at Mount Vernon, which he finally ordered in his will. He proved that emancipation was not only possible, but practical, and he overturned all the Jeffersonian rationalizations. Jefferson insisted that a multiracial society with free black people was impossible, but Washington did not think so. Never did Washington suggest that blacks were inferior or that they should be exiled.
It is curious that we accept Jefferson as the moral standard of the founders' era, not Washington. Perhaps it is because the Father of his Country left a somewhat troubling legacy: His emancipation of his slaves stands as not a tribute but a rebuke to his era, and to the prevaricators and profiteers of the future, and declares that if you claim to have principles, you must live by them.
After Jefferson's death in 1826, the families of Jefferson's most devoted servants were split apart. Onto the auction block went Caroline Hughes, the 9-year-old daughter of Jefferson's gardener Wormley Hughes. One family was divided up among eight different buyers, another family among seven buyers.
Joseph Fossett, a Monticello blacksmith, was among the handful of slaves freed in Jefferson's will, but Jefferson left Fossett's family enslaved. In the six months between Jefferson's death and the auction of his property, Fossett tried to strike bargains with families in Charlottesville to purchase his wife and six of his seven children. His oldest child (born, ironically, in the White House itself) had already been given to Jefferson's grandson. Fossett found sympathetic buyers for his wife, his son Peter and two other children, but he watched the auction of three young daughters to different buyers. One of them, 17-year-old Patsy, immediately escaped from her new master, a University of Virginia official.
Joseph Fossett spent ten years at his anvil and forge earning the money to buy back his wife and children. By the late 1830s he had cash in hand to reclaim Peter, then about 21, but the owner reneged on the deal. Compelled to leave Peter in slavery and having lost three daughters, Joseph and Edith Fossett departed Charlottesville for Ohio around 1840. Years later, speaking as a free man in Ohio in 1898, Peter, who was 83, would recount that he had never forgotten the moment when he was "put up on the auction block and sold like a horse."


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SANFORD — The Goodall Mansion is scheduled to go up for auction next month.
The 29-room home — sometimes called "the jewel of Sanford" — will be sold at auction on Jan. 17, 2013, according to a legal notice that appeared recently in a daily newspaper, unless something happens to change that course of events.
"I think it's our last chance to get the mansion and to save it," Sanford resident Joe Doiron said last week.
Doiron is part of a small group of local residents who are trying to do something to save the historic building, not only because it is historically and architecturally significant, but also because it is an important part of Sanford's heritage.
"I think the Goodall family has done a lot of positive things for Sanford, (and) this would be a way of giving back to the family," Doiron said in a Dec. 20 interview with the Sanford News.
The mansion, built on Main Street in 1871, was the home of Sanford industrialist and philanthropist Thomas Goodall and his descendants for nearly 130 years. The Goodall family's contributions to the town and the people of Sanford gives the house a significant place in Sanford's history and in the hearts of many who grew up here.
Thomas Goodall arrived in Sanford in 1867 and built textile mills here that transformed the town into one of the most important textile centers in the country. When he died in 1910, Sanford's population had grown from 2,400 residents to 9,000, a third of whom were employed at the Goodall Mills.
Thomas Goodall, his sons and their descendants were not just employers; they were also generous philanthropists. They built Sanford's first library, established two banks here, and brought in a trolley system. In the early 1900s, the family built Goodall Park and Bauneg Beg Country Club and contributed 60 percent of the cost of building a new town hall. Their legacy also includes the hospital, the town's current library and the parish hall of the Sanford Unitarian Universalist Church.
Although the Goodall textile mills closed more than 50 years ago, the family's legacy lives on.
In 1975, the Goodall Mansion was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1995, Ruth Goodall Pitstick (the last Goodall descendant to be born with the Goodall name) and her husband Virgil gave the mansion to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
The house is described as a "significant example of second empire/colonial revival architecture in Maine," by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The house was remodeled in the colonial revival style in 1909; much of the exterior trim was removed from the house's facade and a porch was added. Thomas's son Ernest inherited the mansion in 1910. A photograph taken around 1915 shows the mansion much as it appears today.
The house has eight bedrooms, a grand stairway, detailed woodwork, built-in cupboards and cabinets, and historic kitchen and bathroom features. The 2.8-acre property includes a garage and a caretaker's house and is in the heart of downtown Sanford. There are protective easements in place through the National Trust that ensure the house's historic and architectural integrity will be preserved.
A local builder purchased the mansion in 2001, and he and his partner began to renovate it, but in April of 2009 foreclosure proceedings on the property began.
"It has to be saved this time around," Doiron said. "Now is the time to do it."
Doiron put together a group of people a few years ago when it became apparent that the mansion was beginning to fall into disrepair. They talked about how the mansion and its grounds could be used by the community, envisioning its future as a cultural center and performance place.
Doiron said he would like to see it as a place where preservationists and craftsmen could pass on their skills and expertise to others while restoring the mansion. Once it has been restored, it could continue to be used as a teaching resource as well as a cultural center and meeting space and could also be rented for weddings and other small functions, he said.
The cost is a stumbling block. Doiron said he had an estimate three years ago of about $110,000 just to stabilize the building.
"We're looking at about $500,000 to get it ready and operational," he said.
Doiron said he plans to hold a meeting in the next two weeks to determine if there is enough interest in the community to try to purchase the mansion.
"I think people will jump in," he said. "This is an opportunity that can't be passed up."


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Already scrambling to steady a struggling campaign, Republican Mitt Romney confronted a new headache Monday after a video surfaced showing him telling wealthy donors that almost half of all Americans "believe they are victims" entitled to extensive government support. He added that as a candidate for the White House, "my job is not to worry about those people."
At a hastily called news conference late Monday, Romney conceded the comments weren't "elegantly stated" and that they were spoken "off the cuff."
President Barack Obama's campaign quickly seized on the video, obtained by the magazine Mother Jones and made public on a day that Romney's campaign conceded it needed a change in campaign strategy to gain momentum in the presidential race.
"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what," Romney is shown saying in a video posted online by the magazine. "There are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it."
"Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax," Romney said.
Romney said his role "is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
Romney's campaign did not dispute the authenticity of the video, instead releasing a statement seeking to clarify his remarks. "Mitt Romney wants to help all Americans struggling in the Obama economy," spokeswoman Gail Gitcho said. "He is concerned about the growing number of people who are dependent on the federal government."
About 46 percent of Americans owed no federal income tax in 2011, although many of them paid other forms of taxes. More than 16 million elderly Americans avoid federal income taxes solely because of tax breaks that apply only to seniors, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.
Obama's campaign called the video "shocking"
"It's hard to serve as president for all Americans when you've disdainfully written off half the nation," Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said in a statement.
An Obama adviser said the Democratic campaign might use Romney's comments from the fundraising video in television advertisements. The official wasn't authorized to discuss campaign strategy publicly and requested anonymity.
Romney's 2010 federal tax returns show he paid a tax rate of about 15 percent on an annual income of $21 million. The vast majority of his income came from investments, which are taxed at a lower rate than wages. His wealth has been estimated as high as $250 million.
Democrats have tried to make an issue of what Romney pays in taxes and what he is willing to divulge about his taxes and investments. While he has released his 2010 tax returns and a summary of his 2011 returns, he has rejected calls for releasing as many as 10 years of tax returns. His campaign has pledged to release his complete 2011 returns before the election Nov. 6.
The private remarks are the latest in a string of comments from the multimillionaire Republican businessman whom Democrats have criticized as out of touch. During the primary campaign, Romney insisted that he was "not concerned" about the very poor, said he knew what it felt like to worry about being "pink-slipped," and said that his wife drove a "couple of Cadillacs." Aides to Obama's campaign said the latest video would help them continue to make the case that Romney doesn't understand the concerns of average Americans.
Voters say they believe Obama has a better understanding of their problems and concerns than Romney does. A CBS/New York Times poll showed 60 percent of likely voters said Obama understands the needs and problems of people like them, while 37 percent said he did not. For Romney, the same question found that 46 percent felt he did understand people's needs, 48 percent said he didn't.
The remarks came at a closed-door fundraiser that Mother Jones reported occurred after Romney had clinched the GOP nomination. To protect the identity of the person who provided the remarks, Mother Jones blurred out the video and did not provide the date or location of the fundraiser. Romney formally clinched the nomination May 29 and formally accepted it last month at the Republican convention in Tampa.
Many of the Americans who owe no income tax are reprieved because basic exemptions — such as the "standard deduction" — took their taxable income below the cutoff levels. The other half rely mainly on a variety of tax breaks, such as the credit that helps offset child care costs.
These Americans range from the very poor to solidly middle-class families with jobs, homes, cars and vacations. The Tax Policy Center says "relatively few nontaxable households" have incomes exceeding $100,000; families that make between $50,000 and $100,000 often owe no income tax because of breaks for their kids and for education.
Americans who pay no federal income tax still often pay an array of other taxes. They include payroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare, sales taxes, property taxes and state and local taxes.
A handful of extremely wealthy families do not pay federal income taxes. This summer the Internal Revenue Service reported that six of the 400 highest-earning households in America owed no federal income tax in 2009.
Still, many are low-income Americans. According to the August 2010 AP-GfK poll, a majority of Americans who make less than $30,000 a year are Democrats. But 27 percent identify as Republicans, and 15 percent say they're independents. About 57 percent say they will vote for Obama, while 38 percent back Romney. About 43 percent identify themselves as conservatives.
Obama faced a similar moment in the 2008 campaign, when he told donors that many Americans who are angry about their struggles "cling to their guns or religion."
Romney's running mate, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, made reference to that remark Monday at a campaign event in Des Moines, Iowa.
"I remember that one time when he was talking to a bunch of donors in San Francisco and he said people like us, people from the Midwest like to cling to their guns and religion," Ryan said.
Ryan went on: "And I've got to tell you this Catholic deer hunter is guilty as charged and proud to say so. That's just weird. Who says things like that? That's just strange."
Associated Press deputy polling director Jennifer Agiesta in Washington and Associated Press writers Ken Thomas in Los Angeles, David Pitt in Des Moines, Iowa, and Charles Babington, Philip Elliott and Julie Pace in Washington contributed to this report.


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Near the Grand Gallery, see portraits from the 1860s of Rochester mill owner Gideon Burbank, who endowed a philosophy chair at the new University of Rochester, and his wife, Mary. Painted by William Cogswell, the two portraits (at left)—along with Kathleen McEnery Cunningham's painting Colette (which hangs nearby) and portraits of the Hiram Dixon family—are among works recently conserved under a Henry Luce Foundation grant.
Works taken off view in August 2011.


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Maybe it is Not all About the Attendance?
It is kind of funny that the city of St. Petersburg, Florida is complaining about a $ 1.25 million dollar 2010 deficit after providing Rays fans with an envelope of protection, direction and the general upkeep needed for the Tampa Bay Rays remain tenants at Tropicana Field. Could the city have finally realized what the Rays have been complaining about and be asking for their own dose of empathy right now.
Suddenly the city of St. Petersburg staff was awoken by the Trop's operational costs skyrocketing upward even as the Rays revenues did not drop into the red. But the city's outlined contractual agreements providing police assistance pre and post-game has elevated along with another source that could not have been estimated or foreseen back in 1995 when the first agreement was signed by then Rays Team President Vince Namoli and the city of St. Petersburg.
Could the city's officials premature optimistic thinking back in 1995 prior to their initial stadium agreement with the Rays that the team would/could draw up to 3 million fans a season been a forecast for the present financial disaster besetting the city? Current St. Petersburg Mayor David Foster was right in the center of the action back in 1995, and was one of the city staff members beaming at the potential windfall of seeing 3 million fans attend baseball games, and an additional figure up to 300,000 of fans traveling through this great city for concerts, football and non-baseball events each year.
The reality today is that only a handful of concerts or events take place between the last Rays game of the season and the beginning of Spring Training within Tropicana Field..
If this 1995 scenario had actually worked out, the city would have received an estimated $ 4000,000 windfall ( with 3 million fans ) during the Rays first full season in 1998. Back in 1995, there was the enthusiastic promise and monetary pledges of 32,000 local citizens showing their early support for the Major League Baseball squad. And the excitement piggybacked on the optimistic forecast that the Rays also could bring in 3 million plus fans like their MLB brethren the Florida Marlins did during their first MLB season. Supporting Major League Baseball looked like a sure fire bet for both communities in Florida at that time.
The scenario then began change drastically for the city when the recession began to take hold of this Tampa Bay community just as the Rays began to establish a winning tradition. With their new found winning ways, the city banked on the fact that the Rays would eventually transform from a break even or losing investment to a slightly profitable arrangement for the city. But they did not play into the mix a huge increase in day-to-day costs of providing the services and insurance needs of supporting the hometown Rays.
With deeper budget cuts and fiscal downscaling still on the horizon, the city knows that the Rays and City of St. Petersburg contractual agreement in regards to Tropicana Field is the one program that can not take a budgetary hit, or it could turn further sour for the city. There is no way anyone could have even envisioned this a fiscal fiasco 15 odd years ago in connection with the Rays playing in the city. Optimism reigned supreme in 1995 and even with a hint of impending darkness, the light at the end of the tunnel shown bright like the Rays post-2007 logo.
Could this once sleepy town known more for it's green benches and Spring baseball downtown have bitten off more than it could chew? Could the sound of the fife and drum calling for everyone to get behind this team back in 1995 blindsided the city to leave some of its municipal common sense at the doorstep. Could another factor not even a pending issue in 1995 provide the lubrication for the eventual fiscal slide by the city towards this deficit. Did the rippling effects of the September 11th terrorist attacks filter down to play a part in the city's troubles today?
According to a St. Petersburg Times article, the city of St. Petersburg paid about $ 160,000 a year in property insurance premiums back during the early years of the Rays playing at Tropicana Field. After those horrendous attacks on September 11th, the city's insurance premiums instantly quadrupled to around $ 760,000 annually. Add in a few devastating Hurricanes that destroyed and pummeled communities around and near Tampa Bay and the city of St. Petersburg's property insurance premium suddenly ballooned to around $ 2.2 million. Even with a slight reprieve in 2010 of the premiums scaling back to $ 1.7 million , the fiscal damage had already been done.
There was a thought briefly that the Rays partnership offshoot of the forming of the Sunburst Entertainment group within Tropicana Field might help bring in additional concerts and events to Tropicana Field and boost the probable revenue stream a bit for the city. But those events have not yet materialized and combined with the Rays management selling their shares of a regional United Football League (Orlando) franchise, it appears the St. Petersburg Bowl held during mid-December will be the only substantial non-baseball event to be held at Tropicana Field besides the yearly trade shows before the Spring.
The city of St. Petersburg currently nets only .66 cents for every ticket scanned at Tropicana Field. In 1998, the Rays first season, the city took in only a $33,000 windfall even after 2.5 million fans graced the Trop's seating areas. Much less than the estimated revenues forecasted in 1995, but still a profit. Even with 1.9 Rays fans attending games in 2010, the city only garnered $ 984,000 dollars in revenues from ticket sales. Quickly the dome's property insurance premiums ate the figure up providing no financial relief for the city.
Back in 1995 the local St. Petersburg vibe was alive with the Tampa Bay Storm winning Arena Football League Championships, and the Tampa Bay Lightning making their first postseason NHL appearance at Tropicana Field when 28,103 fans tucked into the domed stadium for a playoff series against the Philadelphia Flyers. Since then the concerts have disappeared from Tropicana Field accept during the Rays Saturday Night Concert Series, and the Lightning and Storm vacated the Trop for a new arena built on the channel in Tampa.
With the Rays ownership constantly looking eastbound to the other side of the bay for a possible stadium site, it is due time for the city of St. Petersburg to become increasingly proactive to not only insure, but assure that the Rays can play their baseball within the city limits of St. Petersburg for a long, long time. But that side of the bay is also crying municipal deficits that might hinder stadium discussions right now.
Either the Trop has to become a more feasibly functioning business asset or the loss column will only grow bigger for the city of St. Petersburg. Something has to give in this fiscal tug of war. Hopefully it will not end up with the city finding itself sprawled out on the ground with the Rays taking their balls and bats and leaving for another home. But sooner more than later, something has to give.
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Sounds like a perfect storm of problems for St Pete and the Rays: the economy, the Trop itself and the budget cuts. Not an easy solution from what you describe.
Baseball right now is the top attraction for this region during the last year because so many of the usual out of town tourists who flock here in the summertime think our beaches were covered in small tar balls or a oil film.
Tourism dollars were lost and in conjunction with a small baseball revenue, 1 +1 = a loss.
Every city is counting their pennies, just seems that with the Rays wanting to build a new stadium people forget that the localo governments have to have a little coinage first.
Rays Renegade
Man, I hope your Rays don't leave you just when they are starting to become relevant. I'm worried about my Minnesota Vikings, too, as a new football stadium isn't an easy sell here in Minny, either.
I knew Florida was hit harder in the recession than pretty much any place else in the country but I hadn't really thought about continuing recovery from the hurricanes and such on top of everything else. Yikes. I hope St. Petersberg and the Trop can find a way to make things work to their mutual benefit.
Since most of the stadium bonds will be paid off by 2015, that could be the earliest the Rays could even consider talking about another site outside the city.
But then again, the City of St. Petersburg will make them honor or pay a huge settlement to even attempt to leave or go elsewhere.
Not trying to put the cart before the horse here, but it is a long shot right now to even think about the issue until the Rays open their mouths first.
Rays Renegade
I've been to Tampa and St. Pete quite a few times. In my opinion, the best location for the Rays to have a stadium was already taken by the Yankees spring training facility on Dale Mabry highway. Either way, I don't like the idea of the Rays moving now or in the future.
I just hope they find an answer soon. Longo & Co. deserve an audience!
Always seems like it is something here in the last few years. Recession,Hurricanes or even the thought of tar balls on the clear green waters.
But it is something this community has lived with since it was just a patch or orange groves and called Hillsborough Point.
It will rebuild,reorganize and rise again, the problem is to what extent will the damage be to the Rays/St. Petersburg arrangement.
Rays Renegade
Funny you mention that site.
It is one of the reasons that a Rays stadium in Tampa might have to be privately financed. In recent years the city of Tampa spent a lot of $$$ in bond allocations to spruce up George Steinbrenner Field and keep the Yankees happy in the Spring Training home.
That bond is one of the reasons that any future bond consideration before possibly 2015 could cripple that region fiscal coffers and lead to possible ruin.
Going to be fun to see how the Chess match is played over the next 2 years.
Rays Renegade
I know personally at this moment the Rays will lose at least one member of the crowd. The economy will get better, and hopefully the upward pulse will flow back towards getting this region healthy soon.
Worst part of it is I have to write passages like this one and bring a hint of negativity to a team that has given us joy in this region in the last few years.
Rays Renegade


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redpalad needed a new coded website design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 7 designs submitted by 5 freelance designers.
Need a complete redesign of our website (and improvement of logo), a more modern, web 2.0 look. As you will see we have a lot of content available on redpaladin.com. Need to organize it in a smooth layout. Logo has to be same image and can be refreshed with more color /shadow effect or font.
Red Paladin Inc.
Desired Color Scheme:
Desired Style:
Web 2.0, simple navigation and graphics that portray services we offer.
Accepted File Formats:
We are an IT services company targeting Small Buisnesses to provide one stop solutions for all IT needs from Hardware, Software to Wiring and High End A/V solutions.
We have added a lot of cotent to the site over the years and this has mainly helped us to achieve good SEO. But as would see we are in great need of a new look, a fresh appealing layout.
* Logo has to be same image and can be refreshed with more color /shadow effect or font.
* Colors we are looking for are Red/ grey (but feel free to suggest) and easy to read font.
*6 pages required and one of them (contact) where user can submit enquiries.
Menus on website
1. Services
2. Client Login
3. Careers
4. Downloads
5. About
6. Contact Us
Home PAGE (very important): Our home page needs to be simple and provide the user a view of exactly what we do in 5-7 seconds after landing on the page.
IT Services: Helpdesk, Network Management, Web Marketing etc..Are the highlights of this page?
This page should also include some good pictures, portraying a professional look and communicating reliability.
Testimonials/Partners/Current Projects can be included too.GET SUPPORT NOW a small clickable image is required that will redirect users to a helpdesk support page.CLIENT LOGIN Upon login users will be redirected to their personalized support page.
Menus: Menus can be drop down to have sub menus. Services is the main menu that we want our users to go into and look into several subcategories of service that we offer (outlined below)
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SERVICES Brief description of what kind of services we offer
IT consulting IT services and projects
Strategic and Tactical IT Planning
IT Infrastructure Design
Technology Assessment Services
Managed Server Solutions
Database Systems and Design
Software as a Service (SAS)
Network and Security
Process Automation
Programming Services
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Database Design
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Software Development
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Network setup and maintenance
Cabling and Wiring, Servers
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Design and Setup high end A/V solutions.
Home Theatre Setups and Media Centers.
Cabling,Networks,Automated Home Solutions.
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This is a rough outline of the redesign and flow we are looking for. We chose Sitepoint to see the talent pool here and do not expect to get everything done in one go, but work together now and possibly on future projects.
Thanks for your time and good luck.


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Sunday, May 15, 2011
One Person Can Make A Difference
One person can make a difference. Nowhere is that more evident than with the story of the American Cancer Society Relay For Life, which began in Tacoma, Washington. In the mid-1980s, Dr. Gordy Klatt, a Tacoma surgeon, wanted to enhance the income of his local American Cancer Society office and to show support for all of his patients who had battled cancer. He decided to personally raise money for the fight by doing something he enjoyed – running marathons.
In May 1985, Dr. Klatt spent a grueling 24 hours circling the track at Baker Stadium at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma. He ran for more than 83 miles. That first year, nearly 300 of Dr. Klatt's friends, family, and patients watched as he ran and walked the course. Throughout the night, friends donated $25 to run or walk with Dr. Klatt for 30 minutes. His efforts raised $27,000 to fight cancer.
While circling the track those 24 hours, Dr. Klatt thought about how others could take part in his mission to fight cancer. He envisioned a 24-hour team relay event that could raise more money to fight cancer. Over the next few months, he pulled together a small committee to plan the first team relay event, known as the City of Destiny Classic 24-Hour Run Against Cancer.
In 1986, with the help of Pat Flynn – now known as the "Mother of Relay" – 19 teams took part in the first team Relay event on the track at the historic Stadium Bowl and raised $33,000. An indescribable spirit prevailed at the track and in the tents that dotted the infield.
Relay has developed into an overnight event where people bring tents and sleep out around the tracks. People of all ages come out to bring the community together to Celebrate those who have survived cancer, Remember those who cancer has taken from us and Fight Back by raising money to fight for a cure. Now, over 4 million people take part in Relay events in over 5,000 communities in the United States.
Just like Gordy Klatt, each person involved with the Polk County Relay For Life makes a difference in the fight against cancer. Since 2007 when the first Relay For Life event was held in Polk County well over a quarter of a million dollars has been raised to help fight cancer. You can make a difference by attending the Relay For Life event to be held May 20th at Janssen Park starting at 6:00 P.M.
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Hope Has No Curfew
Cancer Doesn't Sleep and Neither Will We
Sometimes people wonder why we Relay all night long and stay overnight.
The Relay For Life event symbolizes the journey of a cancer survivor.
RELAY FOR LIFE starts at dusk and ends the next morning. The light and darkness of the day and night parallel the physical effects, emotion, and mental state of a cancer patient while undergoing treatment.
Often times RELAY begins when the sun is setting, symbolizing the time a person has been diagnosed with cancer. Immediately there is a lot of support. People rally to lend a helping hand, much like the Opening Ceremony at Relay when everyone cheers that first lap for Survivors.
As Survivors start their cancer treatment, it's hard and taxing, just like when the light of day fades into darkness. As midnight comes, teams continue to walk the track, but it gets harder as the walking continues into the 6th and 7th hour and the night gets colder.
This time represents when a cancer patient becomes exhausted, sick, maybe not wanting to go on, possibly wanting to give up. As a Relay participant, you have been walking and feel much the same way. You are tired, want to sleep, you may even want to go home, but YOU CANNOT STOP or give up.
Around 4:00 to 5:00am symbolizes the coming of the end of treatment for the cancer patient. Things are beginning to look brighter, just like the break of dawn. A sense of HOPE emerges. The morning light brings on a new day full of life and new beginnings.
For the walkers who are making laps around the track, when the sun begins to peak, there is a strong sense of HOPE that they too can make it through.
As we make the final lap…… as a cancer survivor gets the final clearance from their doctor, we celebrate and we cross the finish line together.
It wasn't easy -- It took a team……. It took commitment……. It took Hope.
Posted by Richard Lawry at 9:09 PM 0 comments
Monday, May 9, 2011
Healthy Diet To Help Prevent Breast Cancer
Has it ever occurred to you that there could be a connection between breast cancer and your diet? Some researchers say that there are two key things in preventing cancer- estrogen regulation and immunity boosting. Dr. Kristi Funk, MD, says that while a genetic change is the root of all breast cancer, breast cancer is fed and fueled by estrogen. Dr Funk believes that if we can decrease estrogen in our bodies, we can remove some of that fuel that makes cancer cells multiply and divide. How do you do that? Here are 7 things, directly from a blog that Dr. Funk wrote, that help suppress estrogen.
1. Three cups of green tea a day can help prevent breast cancer because of its high EGCG antioxidant content. Squeeze a little lemon into your cup and increase the antioxidant power of your tea.
2. Garlic is a good immunity booster that also has anti-inflammatory properties.
3. Olive oil and flaxseed oil contain monounsaturated fat, which can help suppress breast cancer.
4. Turmeric helps decrease estrogen. As little as one teaspoon a day has been shown to reduce tumor growth. Get your daily dose by mixing it into salad dressings, rice or vegetable dishes.
5. Cruciferous vegetables, such as kale, bok choy and Swiss chard bind estrogen in your GI tract and reduce tumor stimulation. They also detoxify the liver, which helps reduce the toxins flowing through your body that can irritate cells and turn them into early cancers.
6. Seaweed/Kelp are high in iodine, this is another estrogen reducer.
7. A daily supplement of Vitamin D (2000 IU) can prevent tumor metastasis, reduce cancer cells and aid estrogen inhibitors. Calcium-rich foods, such as sardines, salmon, milk and cheese are also highly recommended. Or, 15-20 minutes of sunshine every day can help you in getting your daily dose of Vitamin D.
With or without cancer, clearly it's best to eat a diet that's as healthy as possible loaded with lots of vegetables.
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Fresh Figs With Prosciutto Recipe
Lynda Reeves' favourite party appetizers. Watch her demonstrate this recipe on Online TV.
12 fresh figs
12 fresh figs
Prosciutto, thinly sliced
Olive oil
Step 1: Preheat oven to 450°F.
Step 2: Slice each fig in half, either direction works.
Step 3: Layer each fig half with a few small squares of prosciutto.
Step 4: Brush the prosciutto with a bit of olive oil.
Step 5: Bake for 8-10 minutes. Serve.
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Originally Posted by CricinfoOriginally Posted by Cricinfo
Think Kumble's 5/84 (and maybe his 8/141), and Vettori's 6/87 are "better" than Swann's 5/91.
Missed the 6fers somehow; was the 5/91 I was looking at.
Still, decent nonetheless.
Kumble was absolutely sensational in 2003-04. Given the form and class of the Aussie batting lineup at the time, and the support (or the lack of it) that he had, it was an incredible effort.
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