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DETROIT -- What began as a casual, joking conversation between New York Yankees president Randy Levine and Miami Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria about the possibility of Alex Rodriguez playing for the Marlins may develop into serious trade talks this offseason, according to a source with knowledge of the conversation.
According to the source, Levine and Loria discussed the possibility of A-Rod playing in Miami, his hometown, but characterized it as a joke between old friends.
The conversation between the Yankees and Marlins initially was reported by Keith Olbermann on his MLB.com "Nerd Blog." Variety also reported the news.
However, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said he has had no trade talks regarding Rodriguez with anyone and described the first report as "false."
"I have had no discussions whatsoever with the (Miami) Marlins," Cashman said. "Certainly would never have any trade discussions under the circumstances. I certainly have not had any discussions with any GMs other than the pregame meetings with Dan Duquette with the Orioles, with the umpires and then with Dave Dombrowski (of the Tigers). But I've had no trade discussions, so false. One hundred percent false."
According to the source, Loria said in his conversation about A-Rod with Levine, "Alex is Mr. Miami; it would be great if he played here for us."
To which Levine is said to have replied, "You can have him."
A second source with knowledge of Rodriguez's thinking said the likely only place Rodriguez eventually would accept a trade to is Miami. Rodriguez has five years and $114 million remaining on his contract, not including milestone home run bonuses.
"I love the Yankees. I love this organization," Rodriguez said. "My focus right now is to help this team come together and win a game. Do not allow all this negativity and questions and gossip stuff or this crap or that crap, let's just focus on winning a game and go from there ... What I will tell you is I hope nothing is going on like that at this point because our only focus, from top to bottom, is to win a baseball game right now."
Levine refused to directly comment on the conversation with Loria or what it would take to trade Rodriguez.
Appearing Sunday on Ian O'Connor's show on ESPN New York 98.7 FM, Levine told O'Connor the following regarding A-Rod's future as a Yankee:
"That's like one of those questions: Where's the stock market going to be in 2017? Who's going to be president on Nov. 15?. If I had a crystal ball to predict all of that stuff, I'd be a lot smarter than I am. I'm not going to go there."
Rodriguez has been marginalized in the Yankees' lineup this postseason. He entered Wednesday night 3 for 23, including 0 for 18 with 12 strikeouts against right-handers, and repeatedly has been benched and pinch hit for in the playoffs.
He was not in the starting lineup for Game 4 of the AL Championship Series on Wednesday night before it was postponed because of the threat of rain.
"For all our fan base: Let's root for Alex, the contract is what it is, and he's there, and we hope he gets hot," Levine told O'Connor. "It's part of what we deal with all the time, just like any other contract."
It isn't unprecedented for Levine, along with ownership, to lead a deal. Two winters ago, the Yankees signed Rafael Soriano after Cashman had ruled out the possibility. Levine, with the backing of owner Hal Steinbrenner, brokered a deal for the right-hander.
The question that still needs to be answered is how much of the contract the Yankees would be willing to eat. The Marlins may want the Yankees to take reliever Heath Bell, who is owed $18 million over the next two years, plus has a team option for $9 million for 2015. He could have some use for the Yankees because Soriano may opt out of his contract after this season.
Bell could provide insurance for Mariano Rivera's return as the team's closer. If Rivera is fine, Bell could team with David Robertson to set up Rivera.


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Wednesday, 10 June 2009
new skills
a little top i made her from an ottobre pattern. i cheated and used the front of a country road shirt i picked up at the lancefield op shop that morning so it has these lovely pintucks and i didn't have to do extra hemming plus buttons!
two little skirts using a basic skirt shape from ottobre (the pattern in the book had extra bits and embellishment that i didn't use). these were so simple and fun to make, i foresee LOTS of skirts in mae's future.
a reversible pinafore made of lecien cotton/linen with vintage floral trim and pale blue/grey polka dotted cotton on reverse. pattern from this japanese craft book, borrowed from ellen.
and a pair of jersey pj pants and some super cute bloomers that i haven't had a chance to photograph yet. i love this clothes sewing thing. it's been a goal of mine for so long now, seriously YEARS, and it's completely satisfying to finally feel like i can make things that are tidy, pretty and actually fit.
i also finished off a new quilt for our couch to sit on and under. this one has been planned for months now and, after about 8 - 10 hours of quilting, i was supremely happy to sew the binding on and then throw it into the washer and dryer when i got home.
it was hard to photograph but hopefully you can see the good randomness of it. i used a bunch of cotton and linen that i had dyed grey and blue a couple of years ago and added the odd accent cotton pattern and a bit of linen that i gocco printed ages ago.
i quilted it more heavily than anything i've done in the past (LOVE the cushy, wrinkliness of it) and it's backed with dark grey kona cotton. happy with this one : )
34 comments:
Isn't ottobre fantastic!? So long as you remember to add seams in.ReplyDelete
Sorry to read your words for left you. Hope it is short lived, really enjoy your lovely little blog, xox
Love the skirts and tunic! So pretty! Quilting looks amazing on your quilt.ReplyDelete
Lots of lovely finished worked - brilliant work! I love that quilt, I am glad you showed the close up photo, as it gives me a better idea of what it is like.ReplyDelete
do you guys sleep when you went away, or just sew!?ReplyDelete
love the quilt & the clothes for mae, i need to get into gear & sew willow some skirts too
Wow, that reversible pinnie is gorgeous! Sewing clothes is heaps of fun. Will be checking out Ottobre myself now, thank you!ReplyDelete
Glad to see the finished reversable pinafore: that was still a WIP when I left. Lovely to meet you. Mae looks adorable in her new clothes. I bet you were glad to see each other again.ReplyDelete
love the little clothes you made maeReplyDelete
it is such a good feeling to accomplish something you wanted for so long.
i too have so much done that i have yet to blog. so much but i agree the words and time are harder to come by
leslie - i absolutely love that reversible pinafore.. so clever!ReplyDelete
I think Sewjourn must have some magic sewing-energy thing going on, because I cannot believe how prolific everyone is when they go there!ReplyDelete
I *heart* Ottobre as well. Fabulous kids' clothing - I just need to find more time (or go to Sewjourn, obviously!)
your quilt looks so beautiful! and all those clothes for Mae - also fabulous. It was lovely watching you make them!ReplyDelete
no wonder you can't blog, after making all of that beautiful stuff you must be exhausted!!ReplyDelete
I love that quilt, can see something similar in my home . gorgeous.
That Ottobre looks amazing. I might just have to try and find myself a copy. Love all the clothes you made for Mae. So cute!ReplyDelete
Wow. So inspired by the clothing - and the 'fittingness' of it all. It is also becoming clangingly obvious that Ottobre is an essential tool in any crafty mama's library...ReplyDelete
Ohmygodlookatmaeshe's socute!!!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
It was so lovely to get to know you!!!
Your daughter looks so cute in those clothes that you made for her. I love the quilt too and it is just perfect for this cold weather we are having right now.ReplyDelete
the clothes are all so lovely. making clothes is a goal of mine too - although it is quite far off i think! but one day.ReplyDelete
the quilt is great too, i love the muted colours.
Yay for you! I've been wanting to make more clothes for me and the girls - it's so good to see what you have been able to sew up for Mae. Lots of inspiration there and I can't wait to see what you've sewn up for yourself. I have heard lots of good things about Ottobre - just wondering if you subscribed or were you able to buy a copy here in Melbourne?ReplyDelete
P.S. Quilt is stunning (as usual :-))
I thought I left a comment, altho maybe it was on flickr instead now I think on it. I was saying how lovely it is to see that little top on her!ReplyDelete
Also, the quilt is great. It was very inspiring to me to see quilt being made, close up. I think a quilt is in my future ...
Thanks for coming and helping make it so special.
wow you were busy. i love all you sewed at the quilt is great.ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for your time and patience with me over the weekend, I just love your style of quilting, the randon look really appeals to me; I always wanted to make a quilt but never looked forward to the symmetrical patterns thing - it's all a bit Amish really. The clothes you made are gorgeous, I didn't even see the pinafore, I absolutely LOVE IT, and the tops you made for yourself, which I can't wait to see once you shoot them! Thanks again, you are a gem xReplyDelete
love it all leslie!ReplyDelete
did you do all that quilting on a regular or long-arm machine? i have a first quilt in the making and i wanna know if i am actually going to be able to quilt it!
This is outrageous!!! All of these items are lovely and amazing, and of course, you do have one of the cutest little models around. It's exciting to see you enjoying making clothes. I remember my Mom always used to make me and my brothers homemade stuff (dresses, PJ's, shirts, etc.) and it's something I still consider to be very special. I still have some of those pieces, and treasure them. I'm sending you an e-mail about quilts, too, because I have wayyy too much to say here! Admirable skills, Les!ReplyDelete
that quilt is STUNNING! it's all wonderful, but i'm in love, madly, with the quilt.ReplyDelete
wow. you have been BUSY! The clothes are just too cute. Mae is one well dressed little miss. xxReplyDelete
The clothes look beautiful, Mae is going to be a very well dressed baby. You achieved an awful lot over the weekend and I can see it is just the start of it.ReplyDelete
Beautiful quilt too.
I seem to recall you questioning your ability to sew clothes - obviously you werre greatly mistaken as these are gorgeous!ReplyDelete
LOVE the clothes! I have also made a couple of versions of that blouse that my daughter wore a lot. I'm a huge fan of Ottobre and making clothes for kids is so quick and there aren't fitting issues usually. Can't wait to see what else you whip up.ReplyDelete
Oooh, I like that website with the kids patterns, I saw some pants you made for Mae on flickr and was wondering where you got your patterns from.. as I was looking in all the standard pattern books in spotlight the other day and could not find anything that was as cool as the stuff you've been making- it's really all quite daggy...ReplyDelete
& where the heck do you find all this time to make all this stuff!? Do you have a nanny!?
You are so prolific! :)
I love to hear your thoughts, thanks so much for taking the time to comment! If you have a question to ask, I will answer it here (and by email as well, if I can track down your email address). I would love to reply to every single comment but until Blogger makes it easier to reply by email, please know that I am so happy you stopped by : )

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Thunder 87, Trail Blazers 83
Kevin Durant had 33 points and the Oklahoma City Thunder snapped Portland's nine-game winning streak at the Rose Garden with an 87-83 victory over the Trail Blazers on Sunday night.
Russell Westbrook added 18 points and nine assists for the Thunder, who played without starters Serge Ibaka and Thabo Sefolosha because of injuries.
LaMarcus Aldridge had 33 points and 11 rebounds for the Blazers, who trailed by 11 points but pulled within one point with less than a minute left.
Westbrook's 3-pointer made it 84-74 with 3:35 left but the Blazers closed to 84-80 after Nicolas Batum's putback with 1:57 to go. Batum added a 3-pointer with 21.9 seconds left to make it 84-83.
Kendrick Perkins missed the first of two free throws and after a timeout Aldridge missed a tough fade-away jumper from about 20 feet out with 1.7 seconds left. Westbrook made a pair of foul shots for the final margin.
The Blazers extended their Rose Garden winning streak to nine after rallying for a 92-90 win over Miami on Thursday night. But Portland fell 103-97 at Golden State on Friday to stop a four-game overall winning streak.
Ibaka missed the game because of chest contusion he sustained in the third quarter of the Thunders' 116-101 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night. It was the first time Ibaka missed a game this season. The 6-foot-10 forward is averaging 14.3 points and 8.4 rebounds.
Ibaka was replaced by Nick Collison in Oklahoma City's starting lineup.
Sefolosha, who was held back with a sore neck, has also started in all of the Thunder's games this season, averaging 7.5 points and four rebounds. He was replaced by DeAndre Liggins, who made his first career start.
The Blazers trailed by eight points early, but pulled to 18-17 on Aldridge's layup and free throw late in the first quarter. Portland couldn't get any closer and Collison's reverse layup midway through the second quarter gave the Thunder a 33-27 lead.
The Blazers responded with a 12-2 run, pulling ahead on a trio of free throws and a 3-pointer from Batum that put Portland ahead 39-25.
Durant was whistled for three fouls and went to the bench but the Thunder kept up the pressure and the Blazers hung onto only a 43-42 lead at the break.
The Thunder pulled back in front, 52-48, after Westbrook's finger-roll layup and Collison's hook shot. Durant made a 3-pointer over Batum to make it 57-50.
Liggins hit a 3 that stretched Oklahoma City's lead to 63-52.
Aldridge and Batum had back-to-back dunks to pull Portland to 72-67 with 8:04 left.
NOTES: There were lots of fans wearing Seattle SuperSonics gear at the Rose Garden, as there always are when Oklahoma City comes to town. But NBA fans from Seattle may not be lamenting the loss of a hometown team much longer. Reports emerged last week that the owners of the Sacramento Kings may be in talks with a group in Seattle that would relocate the team. The Sonics left for Oklahoma City in 2008. A fan in the stands at the Rose Garden held a sign that read ''Bring Back the Rivalry!''


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The first written reference to growing of grapevines and the production of wine in the surroundings of Velké Žernoseky comes from the middle of the 11th century. This almost one thousand-year old tradition is the evidence of the favourable natural conditions surrounding Porta Bohemica for growing of grapevines. The south-facing slopes near the River Labe in the České Středohoří hills, good soils and a favourable microclimate have produced a unique combination of conditions suitable for growing white wine varieties.
Nowadays the company Žernosecké vinařství s.r.o. (founded in 1995) owns 31 hectares of vineyards.
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The European Parliament has added its voice to those criticizing the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the United States criticizing the use of domain name seizures by U.S. authorities on copyright 'infringing' websites.
On Friday the parliament adopted, by a large majority, a resolution that "stresses the need to protect the integrity of the global Internet and freedom of communication by refraining from unilateral measures to revoke IP addresses or domain names."
The move comes after more than 60 civil and human rights organizations wrote a letter to Congress on Tuesday calling for the rejection of SOPA. The letter argues that the act "is as unacceptable to the international community as it would be if a foreign country were to impose similar measures on the United States".
SOPA would enable the U.S. government to block access to websites internationally. This not only includes the .com domain, but also .net and .org, domain names which are used by millions of organizations outside the legal jurisdiction of the United States. But civil liberties groups say that the definitions in SOPA are so broad that it could be interpreted so that no online resource anywhere in the world would be outside U.S. jurisdiction.
"In recent years, the United States has been increasingly using the fact that much of the Internet's infrastructure and key businesses are under U.S. jurisdiction in order to impose sanctions on companies and individuals outside its jurisdiction. This started two years ago when the domain names of a Spanish company owned by a British businessman were removed by a U.S.-based registrar. The company was never accused of breaking Spanish law," said digital civil liberties group EDRi in a statement.
The European Parliament's resolution will now be forwarded to the European Commission, the leaders of the European Union member states and the U.S. Congress ahead of the E.U.-U.S. Summit on Nov 28.
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NARS Summer 2012: Never Say Never Velvet Matte Lip Pencil
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- AnonymousApril 17, 2012 at 5:54 PM
OH I LIKEY this one lots!!! You look great in it Chiseled Cheeks!ReplyDelete
I haven't commented on your blog forever, soulmate! *breaks own in tears* I miss you and your gorgeous face.ReplyDelete
Anyhow - have been loving your NARS and Dior coverage over the past little while; this post in particular! And I'm still smitten with your polka-dot tipped mani ^.^
& just before I go back to frantic last-minute studying: *flails*
It's SUCH a great shade on you, Xiao! I'm just a little surprised the wear isn't impressive as my one and only NARS lip pencil so far (Mexican Rose). Is it because it's a velvet lip pencil or is it very much a Mexican Rose thing? Hmm.ReplyDelete
Tracy- :) (my favorite nickname ever!)ReplyDelete
Rae- *whips* I miss you too :( Good luck with finals!
Sunny- It might just be me. Temptalia reported a 6 hour wear :/ Mexican Rose is a Velvet Gloss and decidedly brighter, so maybe that's it?
i want it all!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 17, 2012 at 9:58 PM
Ohh, I adore this shade! It looks absolutely perfect on you Xiao! You're killing me with this NARS collection!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 17, 2012 at 11:46 PM
What a gorgeous pink berry--- the color does seem to have the right balance to be worn year round :)ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousApril 19, 2012 at 10:05 PM
This is a very pretty color on you; probably the prettiest I've ever seen you wear! I also appreciate the precise application: the corners look nice and sharp, which makes the overall look polished.ReplyDelete
Never Say Never is a definite keeper for you...I just might have to check it out for myself now. ;)
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- AnonymousSeptember 6, 2012 at 8:48 AM
I recently bought this color. I really like it a lot! Its actually the first pinkish color I have ever bought that I have no returned .Although it looks lighter on me (probably because I am a lot darker than you)..did you use a lip pencil to darken this color up a little? If so which one?ReplyDelete
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Recipe by: K. Allrich
3 medium zucchini, washed, shredded
2 crisp apples, washed, cored, diced
1/3 cup golden raisins or dried cranberries
Fresh lime juice from 1 large lime
Drizzle of brown rice syrup, to taste
Pinch of ground cumin, to taste
Pinch of curry powder, to taste
Pinch of cinnamon, to taste
Fresh mesclun greens for serving
In a bowl combine the zucchini, apples, raisins, lime juice, brown rice syrup, and spices. Toss well. Taste for seasoning adjustments.
Serve on mesclun spring greens as a refreshing side dish.
Optional garnish: Pumpkin seeds
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administration had opted for a declare victory and leave approach. But
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more total victory.
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the slogan, Who knows? We might get lucky.
Grim and Grimmer
But, as the Iraq news grows grim and grimmer, the
U.S. occupation of Iraq shows no sign of getting lucky.
Sectarian strife between Sunnis and Shiites
continues to inflict widespread bloodshed, while some U.S. troops have
been fingered as trigger-happy participants in the slaughter of Iraqis.
It also doesnt help that the Bush administration
by lowering standards to meet U.S. military recruitment goals has been
sending unfit soldiers and even sociopaths into the baking-hot tinderbox
that is todays Iraq.
In 2004, many military strategists shook their
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Graner in positions of authority over detainees inside Abu Ghraib
prison. But now the U.S. military is grappling with even worse scandals,
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complained about advances from U.S. soldiers at local checkpoints.
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the Army over an unspecified personality disorder.
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comes on the heels of an alleged massacre of 24 Iraqi men, women and
children at Haditha and a spate of other accusations against U.S.
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pressure to relax enlistment standards has opened the door to the U.S.
military for white supremacists, skinheads, neo-Nazis and a variety of
other misfits.
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an eye on violent right-wing extremists, said military recruiters and
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ranks, often look the other way as white supremacists enter the
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hostilities between Shiites and Sunnis.
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Moktada al-Sadr. On July 7, Iraqi government and U.S. forces captured
two Mahdi Army leaders and launched a raid on a militia bastions on July
8. [NYT, July 10, 2006]
The arc of recent events is clearly pointing in a
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Yet, while the Iraq military situation seems to be
swirling into a downward spiral, U.S. policymakers in Washington appear
relatively safe from the consequences. Republicans even believe they can
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challenge to Bushs authority in Election 2006.
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Republican political strategists also believe they
have succeeded in stabilizing Bushs political decline by sharpening the
rhetoric against Democrats, the New York Times and other critics of the
Both Democratic and Republican strategists have
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brightening, largely because the Democrats have failed to offer a
coherent alternative on Iraq and the Republicans have swung onto the
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floundering and what they should do on Iraq.
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blamed Democratic leaders for demoralizing their base with mealy-mouthed
positions on Bushs abuse of constitutional power at home and the Iraq
War abroad.
In official Washington, the notion of an Iraq
withdrawal is still not supported by many policymakers or
opinion-leaders. The exceptions are mostly Democrats, such as Rep. John
Murtha of Pennsylvania and Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
But Republicans and their right-wing allies remain
eager to pound anyone who advocates an Iraq pullout. Meanwhile, most
centrist Democrats and many mainstream pundits argue that while the
invasion may have been a mistake, the U.S. now has a moral obligation to
stay in Iraq until the violence settles down.
Theres also the question of the United States
losing face if a withdrawal is seen around the world as a defeat. Bush
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invasion, we cited ominous signs from tougher-than-expected Iraqi
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arguments for a prompt U.S. military withdrawal [Iraq
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situation, with Bush supporters simply saying stay the course and
former war critics intoning we must get it right.
But, the article stated, there is a case to be
made for U.S. withdrawal as the best option for both resolving the
conflict and neutralizing the foreign Islamic extremists in Iraq. A
corollary of this thinking holds that the continued U.S. military
presence does more harm than good.
Basically, the logic behind withdrawal was that the
removal of U.S. troops would undercut the al-Qaeda-connected foreign
jihadists who represent a small but violent part of the Iraqi
insurgency. An American pullout would remove the incentive for many
young Muslims to go to Iraq and for those already there to stay.
Meanwhile, the Sunni resistance might lose any
tolerance for the outside extremists. With the U.S. occupation ended,
the usefulness of the jihadists would be diminished. Plus, many Iraqi
Sunnis, like Iraqi Shiites, are deeply offended by the horrific
brutality of the al-Qaeda faction.
So, rather than Iraq becoming an al-Qaeda base if
U.S. forces withdrew, there is an argument for the exact opposite and
for the belief that the longer U.S. troops stay in Iraq, the more likely
al-Qaeda operatives will put down roots and will be harder to weed out.
There is also recent evidence that al-Qaeda shares
that analysis. The terrorist group sees its goals advanced by Bushs
interventionist strategies and threatened by a prompt U.S. withdrawal
from Iraq.
As far back as summer 2001, U.S. intelligence knew
that al-Qaeda was disappointed by the restrained U.S. reaction to its
bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 and was determined that the next attack
the one on Sept. 11, 2001 would compel a much more aggressive U.S.
response. If it were clumsy enough, that would help al-Qaeda.
This al-Qaeda strategy was revealed by New York
Times reporter Judith Miller in a 2006 interview with
Alternet. Miller said a well-placed
CIA official briefed her on an al-Qaeda intercept over the July Fourth
holiday in 2001.
The person told me that there was some concern
about an intercept that had been picked up, Miller said. The incident
that had gotten everyones attention was a conversation between two
members of al-Qaeda. And they had been talking to one another,
supposedly expressing disappointment that the United States had not
chosen to retaliate more seriously against what had happened to the
[destroyer USS] Cole [which was bombed on Oct. 12, 2000].
And one al-Qaeda operative was overheard saying to
the other, Dont worry; were planning something so big now that the
U.S. will have to respond.
In the Alternet interview, published in May 2006
after Miller resigned from the Times, the reporter expressed regret that
she had not been able to nail down enough details about the intercept to
get the story into the newspaper.
But the significance of her recollection is that
more than two months before the 9/11 attacks, the CIA knew that al-Qaeda
was planning a major attack with the intent of provoking a U.S. military
reaction or overreaction.
The CIA tried to warn Bush about the threat on Aug.
6, 2001, with the hope that presidential action could energize
government agencies and head off the attack. The CIA sent analysts to
his ranch in Crawford, Texas, to brief him and deliver a report entitled
Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US.
Bush was not pleased by the intrusion. He glared at
the CIA briefer and snapped, All right, youve covered your ass,
according to Ron Suskinds new book, The One Percent Doctrine.
Bush then returned to a vacation of fishing, clearing brush and working
on a speech about stem-cell research.
The 9/11 Attacks
When the 9/11 attacks occurred, the United States
did hit back against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. But after Osama bin-Laden
and other leaders escaped, Bush quickly turned the U.S. militarys
attention to the Iraq invasion, which followed in March 2003.
After the U.S.-led invasion ousted Saddam Hussein
in April 2003, al-Qaeda operatives, including Jordanian terrorist Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi, flooded into central Iraq bringing along a generation
of new recruits. Soon, the groups signature suicide-bombings were
killing Iraqis and Americans alike.
Though al-Qaedas brand of terrorism appeared to be
making a comeback in Iraq, bin-Laden apparently saw a danger in fall
2004 the potential defeat of George W. Bush and the possible start of
U.S. withdrawal under John Kerry.
So, according to CIA analysts, bin-Laden timed his
release of a videotape denouncing Bush to the Friday before the Nov. 2,
2004, election. CIA analysts concluded that bin-Ladens tirade had the
desired effect, giving the Bush campaign a last-minute boost and
ensuring the continuation of Bushs policies. [As reported in Ron
Suskinds The One Percent Doctrine, or see Consortiumnews.coms CIA:
Osama Helped Bush in 04.]
By summer 2005, despite Bushs victory over Kerry,
al-Qaeda leaders were still fretting about the dangers of a prompt U.S.
withdrawal from Iraq. A 6,000-word letter purportedly written by bin-Ladens
deputy Ayman Zawahiri on July 9, 2005, to Zarqawi suggested tactics for
keeping the jihadists from quitting if the U.S. forces did pull out.
The mujahedeen must not have their mission end
with the expulsion of the Americans from Iraq, and then lay down their
weapons, and silence the fighting zeal, the Zawahiri letter said.
[See Consortiumnews.coms Al-Qaeda
Letter Belies Bushs Iraq Claims.]
Another argument for American withdrawal is that it
could push the Shiites and their Kurdish allies into compromising with
the Sunni minority on an overall settlement and rewriting the
constitution to grant the Sunnis a larger share of the oil revenues.
Throughout the U.S. occupation, the Shiites and
Kurds have had little reason to make significant concessions to the
Sunnis because the American military tilted the power balance in favor
of the Shiite-Kurdish side.
As for the issue of whether a U.S. withdrawal would
strengthen American enemies, Bush has argued that a U.S. pullout from
Iraq would open the way to Islamic extremists controlling a vast empire
from Spain to Indonesia.
The claims are reminiscent of the Vietnam War, when
U.S. policymakers warned of a domino effect of country after country
falling to communism and when Richard Nixon said the United States would
be viewed as a pitiful, helpless giant if it caved on Vietnam. In
reality, the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam did not have the dire
consequences that were predicted.
With an Iraq withdrawal, Washington also might be
able to capitalize on a resurgence of Muslim good will, especially if a
pullout is followed by a renewed commitment to seek a fair resolution of
the Israeli-Palestinian dispute and to support political reform in
repressive Arab states.
On a more tactical level, a U.S. withdrawal also
would free up Special Forces to concentrate on tracking down and
eliminating al-Qaedas leadership, an operation that was disrupted by
Bushs hasty decision to focus on Iraq in 2002.
Without doubt, there are serious risks from
whatever course of action the United States follows in Iraq. A bloody
civil war could occur whether the U.S. military is present or not; U.S.
enemies might be emboldened whether the United States is bogged down in
Iraq or has repositioned its troops outside the country.
One reading of the intransigence from Iran and
North Korea is that those other axis of evil countries learned a
lesson from Iraq, which stopped developing WMD and trusted that the U.N.
could fend off a U.S. invasion. Husseins defeat demonstrated that only
fearsome weapons could give pause to Bushs preemptive war strategies.
Neither Iran nor North Korea senses any great
benefit from compromising on matters of their own national security.
Plus, with U.S. forces tied down in Iraq, Washingtons ability to
enforce any ultimatums is much weaker than it normally would be.
Iran knows, too, that it can retaliate against any
U.S. attack simply by unleashing its Iraqi Shiite allies against
vulnerable U.S. troops in Iraq.
So, there remains a compelling logic for
withdrawal. But it is a complicated argument to make, while the other
side can simply yell, cut and run.
Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra
stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek. His latest book, Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from
Watergate to Iraq, can be ordered at
secrecyandprivilege.com. It's also available at
Amazon.com, as is his 1999 book, Lost History: Contras, Cocaine,
the Press & 'Project Truth.'
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'Jeopardy!' Host Alex Trebek Faces Backlash For Humiliating Kid Contestant on TV
Alex Trebek is in a bit of social media jeopardy.
The longtime host of "Jeopardy!" is facing backlash from Facebook and Twitter users over his treatment of a 12-year-old's spelling error on a special kids edition of the game show last week.
Thomas Hurley III, an 8th grader from Newtown, Conn., says he was cheated out of $3,000 after he misspelled "Emancipation Proclamation" during the Final Jeopardy round.
The answer had been, "Abraham Lincoln called this document, which took effect in 1863, 'a fit and necessary war measure.'"
[Related: The 10 Best Celebrity Game Show Freak-Outs]
Hurley spelled the word "emanciptation" (with an extra "T"), and Trebek said he "misspelled it badly" and said the judges ruled his response incorrect. The boy hung his head, and seemed to mouth the word "what?" Then, the host noted that winner Skyler Hornback's response was spelled correctly. The decision did not affect the game's outcome; Hornback had an insurmountable lead.
Still, Hurley is upset that he lost $3,000 over an extra letter. "I was pretty upset that I was cheated out of the final 'Jeopardy!' question. It was just a spelling error," he told the Danbury News-Times.
His father is angrier, saying Trebek "basically humiliated" his son on television.
"Alex Trebek was really sort of callous and smug, kind of condescending towards my son," he told radio host Fran Schneidau.
The response from "Jeopardy!" fans was heated, with people falling on both sides. Some praised the show and Trebek for adhering to the rules, but many others blasted the host for his "smug" attitude.
[Related: Who's Replacing Alex Trebek on 'Jeopardy!'?]
"The kid wouldn't have won either way — but that's not the point," Katie Wanta wrote on the "Jeopardy!" Facebook page. "The way Alex handled the situation was the issue, imo. He didn't need to go beyond 'it was spelled wrong and ruled incorrect, sorry' he didn't need to make a dig that the winner spelled things correctly and embarrass the poor kid for his mistake."
Another viewer, Aymee Harvey Combs, chimed in, "I understand that rules are rules and with that being said.......I thought the way Alex handle the situation was terrible........He appeared as a pretentious SNOB stating the word was misspelled badly.........they are kids for goodness sakes!!!!!!"
Alex Trebek really did come across as an ass to that kid. "Misspelled badly"? Really? He should see my spelling skills. #Jeopardy
— Adam Powers (@adampowers22) August 5, 2013
@RobinMeade Why are people surprised how smug Trebek was to the kid who spelled the word wrong. Have people never watched the show?
— Steve LeVine (@steve6884) August 5, 2013
Trebek hasn't spoken out about Hurley's treatment, but "Jeopardy!" producers defended their decision in an email to media.
"If 'Jeopardy!' were to give credit for an incorrect response (however minor), the show would effectively penalize the other players," they wrote. "We love presenting young people as contestants on our show and make every effort to be fair and consistent in their treatment."


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The Vampire Diaries 4.22 "The Walking Dead" TV REVIEW
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Episode 4.22
Writers: Brian Young, Caroline Dries
Director: Rob Hardy
THE ONE WHERE Bonnie drops the veil and Elena tries to kill Katherine.
VERDICT Let's get the major disappointment out of the way quickly so we can concentrate instead on the good things about the episode, because there are quite a few of them.
Right, so who like Damon was expecting, "Ghostapalooza" when the veil came down? But what do we get? Eight formerly dead supernaturals. Just… eight . Alaric gives some feeble explanation about, "Well not every ghost has a reason to come back to Mystic Falls." But come on – a darn sight more than eight would. And do they even need a reason? If you've been hanging around in ghost limbo and this place called Mystic Falls suddenly becomes somewhere you can cross back over into the real world – albeit probably temporarily – wouldn't that act like a huge great flashing neon sign saying PARTY TIME!
And why do some of the ones who do come back drag their feet so long? Jeremy comes over all Roger Rabbit, only appearing when at a moment of maximum dramatic impact. Everything we know about Jeremy suggests he'd be first in queue for a passport back to Elena-ville. Ah well.
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This major flaw aside, "The Walking Dead" is one of the better episodes of a patchy season four. Obsessed, monomaniacal Elena is a fun alternative to the mopey Elena we may have expected, and her catfight with Katherine is wonderfully brutal and sadistic. Silas's ploy of compelling Caroline into trying to cut her own hands off is uncommonly nasty and blackly humorous for this show. There's even a genuinely sweet scene with Matt, when he tells Rebekah, why he's resistant to accepting vampiric healing after Kol bottles his shoulder ("I'd like to graduate high school as a human.") It was great to have Lexi back (see below), there was a plentiful supply of great one liners, and the power Caroline manages to get into the "BITCH!" she aims at Rebekah feels like some kind of primal force.
Once again director Rob Hardy – who did such a stylish job with "Memorial" earlier in the season – gives the episode a polished sheen, with some gorgeously composed shots and an extreme use of deep focus that throws foreground characters into sharp relief. The Vampire Diaries is no stranger to deep focus, but usually it's only truly noticeable during night scenes, when blurred background lights can look pretty. Here it's used in many daylight scenes, giving them a slightly edgy, unnatural, dark fairytale feel.
Then there's the twist with Bonnie, which was certainly an unexpected development. Is she really dead? If she is, will she be resurrected? Or is Silas still "deep in her mind" as he puts it? You have to assume that Silas isn't dead, as Bonnie's victory over him here seems too neat and quick. If he is dead, then next week's finale will be… erm, interesting. In an "interesting to see how they fell 45 minutes" kinda way. Let's hope one of the ways isn't Galen Vaughn mumbling incomprehensibly for scene after scene.
"The Walking Dead" is a fun, shocking, surprising and decent enough episode's worth of entertainment, but it doesn't feel like the lead in to a season finale. Now, "Ghostapalooza"… that would have been the kind of cliffhanger we were expecting.
LET'S TWIST AGAIN Anybody else convinced that whoever's draining blood at the hospital is nothing to do with Silas, but the first signs of season five's new baddie?
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PUPPET ON A STRING Nina Dobrev's acting as Katherine while she was tethered to Bonnie was highly amusing; she walked like Captain Jack Sparrow and had an expression like a cat that's just about to choke up a fur ball.
GHOST WATCH Here are all the dead supernaturals (whom we saw at least) who took advantage of veil-dropping day in Mystic Falls:
(To be honest, we're not entirely convinced about "Grams" Bennett, though… we'll know in a few days time, but we reckon that Silas wasn't lying when he said to Bonnie that he was always one step ahead, and that Grams was actually him in disguise again, tricking Bonnie into keeping the veil drawn.)
WELCOME TO THE… ERM CENTRE OF THE TRIANGLE Anybody else think, "Hellmouth!" when Mystic Falls High was revealed as the centre of the Expression Triangle?
CRUEL GAG OF THE WEEK Sorry, but we can't resist…
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Bonnie only seems mildly perturbed when she discovers she's dead.
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QUICK FIX For a show that regularly ODs on exposition and wordy soul-searching, 'Ric's solution for proving to Damon that he really was 'Ric and not Silas was a witty and concise piece of scripting. "Who else would know about locker 42?" he says, pulling out a secretly-stashed bottle of whiskey. (And it's also another great example of the random use of 42 in telefantasy.) If this had been Elena proving to Bonnie that she wasn't Silas, it would have taken 10 minutes and a swimming pool's worth of tears.
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SMUG STEFAN When Stefan tells Elena, "You're transferring your rage onto me. That's good," he's so insufferably equanimous, magnanimous and downright wet, if Elena hadn't slapped him she's have deserved the Nobel Peace Prize for restraint.
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BEST MOMENT Sorry, but all the big "emotional" scenes with Elena breaking down by Jeremy's grave, then getting the chance to say goodbye with him, fell rather flat, while the simple moment when Lexi turns up to say, "Hi" to Stefan leaves you with a big cheesy grin. "There was someone that I thought I would see today, and, uh, I didn't. That's all," says Stefan glumly to Caroline. "You'd better mean me," says a voice behind . Stefan turns and breaks into a broad, joyful smile we don't ever recall him giving Elena. And then she teases him about the slap Elena gave him ("Take a hint!"). Go girl!
Bonnie: "This is the site where 12 witches were killed."
Katherine: "13 if you don't get to the point."
Rebekah: "Look Caroline, you're graduating and Uncle Bob and Aunt Mary really want you to graduate with both your hands."
Stefan: "You've been back, what, five minutes, and already you're laughing at me?"
Lexi: "I've been laughing at you for a while, you just haven't been able to see me."
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Make: television and ShareBrained Technology and are excited to feature the Make: television Vending Machine at Maker Faire, May 30 and 31. Bring your USB drive (over 512mb) and download episodes Make: television using a handmade custom user interface.
Jared Boone of ShareBrained Technology along with fellow makers at Dorkbot PDX are creating an awesome jukebox-style vending machine where Maker Faire visitors can bring any USB drive (over 512mb) and choose between HD or iPod versions of ANY EPISODE of Make: television. We're super excited that Jared and the crew have taken this awesome and sometimes challenging project.
It took a while to design the user interface (big push buttons!), design a control circuit board, and set up a little Linux computer to run it all. Last weekend, we finally got to the step of building the cabinet. It doesn't look like much yet, but just wait…
Jared and the crew also asked if anyone would be willing to contribute some time or resources to the design of the machine. Anyone out with a keen eye for design who's willing to help Jared should send a note to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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This is a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week. Graphic by Jim Cooke.
When last we met, Linsanity was trending downward, but still breaking records. What would this week bring?
Total time: 477.25 minutes
Time (minus commercials): 364
College basketball: 95.5 minutes (26.2%) (last week 17.4%)
NBA: 82.75 (22.7%) (last week 40.5%)
SportsCenter staples (things like the "Top 10," "Encore," "What 2 Watch 4," etc.): 74 (20.3%) (last week 16.8%)
NFL: 34.25 (9.4%) (last week 3%)
MLB: 23.25 (6.4%) (last week 9.3%)
NASCAR: 22 (6%) (last week 4.1%)
Golf: 13.25 (3.6%) (last week 4.7%)
NHL: 9.75 (2.7%) (last week 2.8 %)
Other sports: 9.25 (2.5%) (last week 1.1%)
College football: 0 (0%) (last week 0.4%)
Kansas Jayhawks (college basketball): 10.75 minutes (3%)
St. Louis Rams (NFL): 7.5 (2.1%)
Milwaukee Brewers (MLB): 7.25 (2%)
New York Knicks (NBA): 6 (1.6%)
New York Rangers (NHL): 3.5 (1.4%)
Rather than break down the amount of time a specific sports figure was covered, we counted how frequently names were mentioned in the transcripts from the week. The 15 most-mentioned sports people for Feb. 24-Mar. 1:
Kobe Bryant: 71 mentions
Kevin Durant: 60
Jeremy Lin: 49
Blake Griffin: 41
LeBron James: 35
Dwight Howard: 32
Dwyane Wade: 32
Peyton Manning: 26
Robert Griffin III: 22
Juan Pablo Montoya: 20
Rajon Rondo: 20
Russell Westbrook: 20
Ryan Braun: 17
Tiger Woods: 17
Danica Patrick: 16
Total time: 3578 minutes
Time (minus commercials): 2696.75
NFL: 663 minutes (24.6%)
College basketball: 477.5 (17.7%)
SportsCenter staples: 389.75 (13.5%)
Other: 182 (6.5%)
College football: 102 (3.8%)
Monday's SportsCenter was all over the Daytona 500 hellfire: ESPN's handling of the Juan Montoya crash in the rescheduled Daytona 500 was fascinating to watch, and not just because it looked as if the apocalypse had arrived down by the Halifax River lagoon . Because of the two-hour-plus delay, race coverage spilled over into the 11 p.m. SportsCenter. Scott Van Pelt and Stuart Scott had to give viewers live updates on the delay as they were coming in. The two also conducted a phone interview with NASCAR analyst Marty Smith for 5.25 minutes to get some perspective on what the drivers were doing during the pause and whether they would be able to finish the race that night.
The result? Montoya was one of the week's most-name-checked athletes, and Danica Patrick was the first woman to crack the Bristolmetrics most-mentioned list. Also, the terms "jet dryer" and "jet fuel" were used a total of 24 times on Monday.
Jeremy Lin has a quiet week: Lin was mentioned "only" 49 times this week, and the Knicks were on SportsCenter for just six minutes, down from 69 minutes of coverage the previous week. Of course, the Knicks played only once during this week's tally.
The Red Sox chicken and beer saga continues, somehow: It's the story that just won't die. This week, 2.25 of the 2.5 minutes of airtime given to the Boston Red Sox was related to the moronic "revelations" out of Boston's clubhouse that players ate chicken and drank beer. SportsCenter was all over it, frantically blowing on the story's dying embers: interviews with players saying they wanted to move on from the story; the team announcing it would now ban beer; former manager and current ESPN analyst Terry Francona saying the ban was nothing more than a PR move.
Current Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine made news this week by saying Derek Jeter was out of position when he threw out Jeremy Giambi at the plate in the 2001 ALDS. That story took up 1.25 minutes this week. The best part was that ESPN actually followed up with Jeter and got his response on camera. For a play that took place a decade ago. The Yankees and the Red Sox always bring out the worst in the Worldwide Leader.


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About illness, insurance and cats
The insurance company Petsecure (www.petsecure.com) has published, notably, a list of interesting facts pet owners should know about dog and cat diseases..
Three times more serious illnesses than accidents
According to Petsecure, pets are three times more likely to contract a serious disease than have an accident. Here are a few other statistics on health problems in pets:
- 80% of dogs and 70% of cats have dental problems starting at age 3.
- Hip dysplasia is the most common hereditary orthopedic disease in large and giant dog breeds.
- Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in dogs.
- Dogs are 34 times more likely to develop skin cancer than humans.
- Cancer is the cause of at least half of all deaths in pets over 10 years of age. - From 25 to 40% of dogs suffer from obesity.
- The most common disorders affecting dogs are ear infections, allergies, skin infections, cancer and urinary infections.
- The most common disorders affecting cats are idiopathic cystitis, urinary infections, urinary blockages, respiratory viruses and hairballs.
What do our pets suffer from?
Below is a list of the ten most frequently diagnosed conditions in dogs and cats based on the statistics of the VPI pet insurance company (www.petinsurance.com). These conditions are the chief reasons for consulting a veterinarian.
Cats: top 10 claims
- Urinary tract diseases
- Gastritis/vomiting
- Pyoderma/hot spots
- Diarrhea and enteritis
- Skin allergies
- Diabetes mellitus
- Colitis and constipation
- Ear infections
- Feline upper respiratory viruses
- Hyperthyroidism
Source: Dre Annie Ross, Journal de Montréal, Friday, November 18, 2011


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Luiken, Jan (1649-1712)
Jan Luiken (Luiken, Luycken): famous engraver and poet, especially of devotional poems, born 16 April 1649, at Amsterdam, died there 5 April 1712. He became an apprentice in the atelier of Martinus Saeghmolen, and moved in a frivolous anti-church society. This is the period of his bombastic book of poems, Duytse Lier (1671), and his acquaintance with Maria de Oudens (1646-82), whom he married in 1672. Four of his five children died young. The oldest son, Caspar Luiken (1672-1708), was also trained as an engraver by his father, and supported his father during his last years. His work was chiefly in illustrating books. Of Caspar's work 1,187 pieces were extant in the 1950s.
In 1673 Jan Luiken was baptized in the Lamist Mennonite Church at Amsterdam, and shortly after joined the Mennonite congregation at Beverwijk, about 16 miles northwest of Amsterdam, though he was probably attracted by the Collegiant views of Paulus Bastiaensz of Beverwijk, where he stayed for a time. But the great change in his life came at a later period. The book Kort Verhaal van het Godvrugtig leven en Zalig Afsterven van Joannes Luiken (1712) reports, "In the twenty-sixth year of his life the Lord appeared in his heart in a powerful manner" (1675), whereupon, "afire with the love of God, he forsook his old bad company," to join the God-fearing. These were the followers of Jakob Böhme. There was at that time a colony of Böhme's disciples, under the leadership of Coenraad van Beuningen, a noted statesman, Professor Allardt de Raedt, and especially Johann Georg Gichtel, a lawyer who had been expelled from Regensburg. Galenus Abrahamsz, Mennonite preacher and physician, must have had some influence upon Luiken's conversion.
After his conversion Luiken withdrew from the church. In solitude he continued his etching and his contemplation; closely attached to a few kindred spirits, he wrote mystical poems tinged with pantheism. In the course of time these poems were considered orthodox and were held in high esteem in pietistic circles in the first half of the 19th century. With the publication of Hylkema's book Reformateurs (1900-1902) a new light was shed on these devotional poems, revealing their anti-church and heterodox character. Since then these poems have been even more admired.
A number of volumes of these lyrics, with artistic steel etchings, appeared in the course of time: Jesus en de Ziel (1678), Voncken der Liefde Jesu (1687), De Spiegel van het Menselijk bedrijf (1694), Zedelijke en Stichtelijke Gezangen (1704), Besehouwing der Wereld (1708), De Bykorf des Gemoeds (1709), Het Leersaam Huisraad (1709), De onwaardige Wereld (1710). After Luiken's death there appeared: Schriftuurlijke Geschiedenissen en Gelijkenissen (1712), Des menschen Begin, Midden en Linde (1712), Geestelijke Brieven (1714), Verzameling van Geestelijke Brieven (1741), Het Overvloeiend Herte (1767). A number of his poems are found in former Dutch hymnbooks, and even in the Doopsgezinde Bundel.
Ten years after Luiken's death the widow of Barend Visscher published a collection of ninety-two Luiken engravings, professedly among his best, illustrating events from early church history. Beneath each plate is a verse of six lines by Claas Bruin (1671-1732), who was a member of Luiken's circle of devotional poets. Opposite each plate is a poem by Pieter Langendijk (1683-1756).
Jan Luiken was a very important, versatile, and creative Dutch engraver and etcher in the period after Rembrandt; 3,275 works are known to be his. His favorite field was the illustration of books. In addition to travel literature and historical works he used many Biblical subjects. He made his own preliminary sketches; many of them can be seen in Amsterdam (Prentenkabinet and Museum Fodor); Haarlem (Teyler Museum), and Rotterdam, as well as in London (British Museum) and Vienna.
His work is distinguished for its clarity, especially in group studies. His best illustrations are found in his own books of poems. For the second edition (1685) of van Braght's Martyrs' Mirror he furnished 104 copper etchings, illustrating the martyrdom of Anabaptists and Mennonites of the 16th century. These plates with eleven additional plates from J. L. Gottfried, Historische Kronyck (Leyden, 1698), were reprinted at Leiden without van Braght's text, with French and German captions, and called Theatre des Martyrs. A Dutch edition was published in 1738 by Marten Schagen at Alkmaar. They also appeared in the 1780 edition of the Martyrs' Mirror printed at Pirmasens, and in 20th century North American editions. After the printing of the Pirmasens edition the plates were supposedly lost; in 1925 they reappeared in South Germany in private possession.
Bibliographie del Martyrologes II: 417-28.
Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1890): 71; (1900): 90 f.; (1902): 99 f.
Hege, Chr. "Ein kurpfälzische Bücherverbot." in Mennonitische Geschichtsblatter (1936): 26.
Henkel, M. D. "Jan and Caspar Luyken." In Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, ed. Hans Vollmer. Leipzig, 1929: 488-89.
Hylkema, C. B. De Gids XIV (1904): 28.
Kalif, G. Geschiedenis der Nederl. Letterkunde IV. Groningen, 1910: 467, 522-37, 543-47.
Luiken, Jan. The Drama of the Martyrs: From the Death of Jesus Christ up to the Recent Times. Lancaster, Pa. : Mennonite Historical Associates, 1975.
Luycken, J. Tafereelen der eerste Christenen. Amsterdam, 1722.
van der Does, J. C. Nieuwe Taalgids (1929), No. 197; (1930), No. 245).
van der Does, J. C. Stemmen des Tijds (1928), Nos. 137 and 264; (1929), Nos. 147 and 508; (1931), No. 621).
van Eeghen, P. Het Werk van Jan en Casper Luycken. Amsterdam, 1905.
A complete bibliography on Luycken (1712-1889) is found in Dr. Maurits Sabbe, Joan Luykens Duytse Lier (Zutphen).
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KABUL — A figure equal to twice the Afghan government's domestic revenue — $3.9 billion — was gouged from the country by public sector corruption last year, a U.N. report said on Thursday.
This amount is also roughly equal to the annual aid pledged to Afghanistan until 2015 by the international community at last year's Tokyo Conference.
The report, by the U.N.'s Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), will lead to concerns about the mismanagement of those donor funds by Afghan officials in a country which has been consistently ranked as one of the world's most corrupt.
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U.S. lawmakers freeze $700 million to Pakistan, ties strained
Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:50pm GMT
By Qasim Nauman and Augustine Anthony
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A U.S. Congressional panel has frozen $700 million
(450 million pounds) in aid to Pakistan until it gives assurances it is
helping fight the spread of homemade bombs in the region, a move one
Pakistani senator called unwise and likely to strain ties further.
Pakistan is one of the largest recipients of U.S. foreign aid and the
cutback announced is only a small proportion of the billions in civil and
military assistance it gets each year.
But it could presage even greater cuts. The aid freeze targets funds used to
fight Taliban insurgents.
Calls are growing in the United States to penalise Islamabad for failing to
act against militant groups and, at worst, helping them, after the secret
U.S. raid on a Pakistan garrison town in which al Qaeda leader Osama bin
Laden was killed in May.
Salim Saifullah, chairman of Pakistan's Senate foreign relations committee,
warned that relations, which are already at a low point, could worsen
further following the decision by the U.S. House-Senate panel.
"I don't think this is a wise move. It could hurt ties. There should instead
be efforts to increase cooperation. I don't see any good coming out of
this," Saifullah told Reuters.
Homemade bombs, or improvised explosive devices (IEDs), are among militants'
most effective weapons against U.S. and coalition troops in Afghanistan as
they struggle to fight a resurgent Taliban insurgency.
Many are made using ammonium nitrate, a common fertiliser smuggled across
the border from Pakistan.
The freeze on U.S. aid was agreed as part of a defence bill that is expected
to be passed this week.
The United States wants "assurances that Pakistan is countering improvised
explosive devices in their country that are targeting our coalition forces",
Representative Howard McKeon, a House Republican, told reporters.
The United States has allocated some $20 billion in security and economic
aid to Pakistan since 2001, much of it in the form of reimbursements for
assistance in fighting militants.
But U.S. lawmakers have expressed increasing frustration with Pakistan's
efforts in the war.
There have been many proposals to make U.S. aid to Pakistan conditional on
more cooperation in fighting militants such as the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani
network, which Washington believes operates out of Pakistan and battles U.S.
troops in Afghanistan.
But Pakistan's civilian leaders have in the past warned against aid cuts,
saying it would only harden public opinion against the United States.
Pakistan says it is doing all it can to fight al Qaeda and the Taliban and
has lost thousands of soldiers since it joined the U.S.-led war in 2001,
some of them at the hands of coalition troops.
Islamabad has accused NATO of deliberately killing 24 Pakistani soldiers in
an air strike near the Afghan border last month and shut down supplies for
foreign troops in Afghanistan in anger.
"I must say that the aerial attacks on our army border posts on November 26,
2011, constituted a huge setback to the prospects of much needed cooperation
between all important stakeholders," Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani told a
gathering of Pakistani ambassadors to other countries.
The decision to freeze aid could prompt Pakistan to harden its stance
towards Washington.
"I think the Pakistan side will understand the type of signal that is
coming, which shows it's not only a question of aid," former general and
security analyst Talat Masood said.
"The whole attitude of the U.S. and the relationship will be affected by
these measures because they know Pakistan will not be in a position to
control the smuggling."
Pakistan's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Abdul Basit, also suggested pressure
from the United States would hurt ties, saying Islamabad believes "in
cooperative approaches".
U.S. lawmakers said many Afghan bombs are made with fertiliser smuggled by
militants across the border from Pakistan into Afghanistan.
"The vast majority of the material used to make improvised explosive devices
used against U.S. forces in Afghanistan originates from two fertiliser
factories inside Pakistan," Republican Senator John McCain said in the
Senate last week.
A Congressional Research Service report in October said the Pakistani
factories, owned by one of the country's biggest companies, Pakarab, have
been producing over 300,000 metric tonnes of ammonium nitrate per year since
The United States has urged Pakistan to regulate the distribution of
ammonium nitrate to Afghanistan strictly. So far, Pakistan has only produced
draft legislation on the issue.
Analysts say U.S. demands will be tough to meet because of rampant
corruption on both sides of the porous border that makes smuggling easy.
One businessman explained how easy it is to get through security.
"We pay a 1,200-rupee ($13) bribe to the Pakistani Frontiers Corps on the
border for every car carrying fertiliser," said Kamal Khan in the border
town of Chaman.
"Fertiliser is smuggled on trucks, pickup trucks, motorcycles, bicycles and
donkey carts."
Pakistan's fragile economy is heavily dependent on agriculture, so cutting
down on fertiliser output would hurt the sector.
The provision freezing $700 million in aid was agreed upon by leaders of the
armed services committees from both parties in the House and Senate,
including McCain. It is part of compromise legislation authorizing U.S.
defence programmes expected to be approved this week, McKeon said.
The bill would also require the Pentagon to deliver a strategy for improving
the effectiveness of U.S. aid to Pakistan, he said.
(Additional reporting by Saeed Ali Achakzai in CHAMAN and Susan Cornwell in
WASHINGTON; Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Paul Tait)
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Developing Web Applications using Java Servlets, JavaServer Pages, and other J2EE technologies is fun!
However, the more interesting your application becomes, the more complicated your build process.
In this article, I will sketch out a framework for how to use simple tools (like Ant and JUnit) and a simple directory structure to avoid many of the common growing pains of application development.
I hate articles that make you wade through mountains of verbosity before telling you what you need to know, so I'll summarize the main points of this article right up front:
- Use Ant (duh).
- Use a sensible directory.
- Keep your build directory totally separate from your source directory.
- Store all JAR files in a common lib directory, and copy or refer to them as needed.
- Plan for multiple web.xml files (they may need to change if you want to deploy on more than one server).
- Make an ant build target for Unit Testing, and use it as (or from) your default target.
Ant and Its Targets
Ant is a great open-source development tool from the Jakarta Project. If you haven't already, you should go download it from jakarta.apache.org, follow the install instructions for your platform, and look at the manual.
I strongly recommend putting the ant executable on your PATH, so you can just run "ant" from the command line.
Recent versions of ant make this as easy as setting a few environment variables.
By default, ant looks for a build file named build.xml in the current directory.
This build file follows a very simple structure. Each contains one or more s; each target can depend on zero or more other targets.
When you run ant, you specify which target you want ant to build; ant then runs all the targets that one depends on first, then runs the target you asked for.
In this article, I will discuss a basic structure for a project, which has evolved over several years of developing web applications.
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Since I hate canned examples, I will refer to the source for my latest small open-source project, the Instant Runoff Poll application.
Full source code, and a running installation, is available at the Web site purpletech.com. The build.xml file, excerpted throughout this article, is at purpletech.
Intellectual Properties
Properties (that is, variables) are a very important part of Ant. Generally, the important strings — directory names, file names, the classpath — are declared as elements.
This allows you to easily change their value later on, even if you refer to them in several places.
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The construct is usually used to include a file called build.properties.
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This means that build.properties should probably not be under version control (add it to .cvsignore under CVS).
Property precedence in Ant is a little upside down. The rule is, the first line that sets a property wins.
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(This means that, to be effective, build.properties must be included very early in the script.) To illustrate, the following ant script:
with the following content inside build.properties:
foo=from build.properties
bar=from build.properties
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foo=from build.xml bar=from build.properties
Note that you can declare elements directly as children of the (although I prefer to set them inside the "init" task). Also note that using tells ant to expand the file/directory names to absolute paths, which can help resolve some possible confusions. (Be careful to go back to for non-file properties!)
init Target
This is where it all starts. Here I prefer to set up all the properties used by other targets, as well as creating the build directory structure, so there are no surprises later on.
All other targets depend on "init," which means that "init" will always be run first. (See also the section "Intellectual Properties".)
Clean Target
This target removes all compiled files and starts fresh. It is very important to have a reliable clean target.
Often, a dirty build will succeed when a clean build would fail. Therefore, it is good practice to always run "ant clean" before committing changes into version control.
However, since its purpose is to delete files, you must be very careful not to make it too complicated — the more complicated, the greater chance that you will end up accidentally deleting important source files.
Compile Target
I prefer to have a separate target that runs (and sometimes, ANTLR or other pre-compilation tools).
This attitude — keep the targets as simple as possible — makes your build file more modular, which in turn makes it easier to create new targets.
Contrast this with a build script in which I had a single target that runs both javac and javadoc.
Then, if I wanted a "test" target that depends on this javac-and-javadoc target, it would take longer to run, since it would have to wait for the javadoc to complete.
Test Target
Unit Testing is the best thing to happen to software development since Emacs. While a full discussion of unit testing is beyond the scope of this article, I will say this: You should write a thorough set of unit tests, and you should run them every single time you compile.
This way, if you make a change that causes a test to fail, you find out immediately, while the change is still fresh in your mind. This greatly improves your chances of fixing the bug quickly and completely.
My technique for accomplishing this is to simply define a target called "test," and either make it the default target, and/or make most other targets depend on it.
In the current example, the default target "webapp" depends on "test," and "test" depends on "compile."
That means that when I run "ant" from the command line, it first compiles the source files, then tests them, then assembles them into a webapp.
Download JUnit to get started with Unit Testing. Once you include junit.jar in your project, you can either run your unit tests through the task (the easy way — see the "javatest" target), or through the optional task.
To enable the task, you must do a few steps:
- Download jakarta-ant-[version]-optional.jar from jakarta.apache.org, and put it into ANT_HOME/lib
- Also put junit.jar into ANT_HOME/lib
- In your build.xml file, if you want a failed test to stop the build, you must do a circuitous runaround involving the failureproperty attribute and a separate target whose only point is to fail, which is only failureproperty. (This last step should be unnecessary with the next release of Ant, which adds an if attribute to the fail task.)
Javadoc, Dist Target
Again, following the strategy of keeping targets simple, the javadoc target simply runs javadoc on the source tree, and the dist target simply creates the distribution tarball.
Webapp Target
In the webapp target we bring it all together. The Servlet and EJB Specs define a Web Application as a collection of related files; JARs, .class, HTML, JSP, and other file types must be placed together in precise relationships.
In executing this target, the ant tool will gather together all the various source, object, and documentation files and assemble them into a working Web application inside the build directory.
One advantage to having an expanded webapp directory on disk is that you can point to it from your local servlet container, providing an immediate testbed, especially with containers that support reloading.
This Means WAR
Once the Web Application has been built into the build/webapp, the war target — which uses the jar tool to zip up the webapp into a single archive file — is a one-liner.
Depending on your target servlet container, you may not even need to perform this step — some servers allow you to deploy a webapp directory directly.
Ant does have a task, which assembles the whole WAR file in one go. However, I prefer the two-step method (build webapp, build war).
Take A Breath
We've covered a lot of ground here. Make sure to peruse the build.xml file and play around with Ant properties. In the next section, we will discuss the directory structure in detail.
- Tomcat Application Developer's Guide by Craig McClanahan – jakarta apache org tomcat tomcat-4.0-doc appdev index
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How can I avoid running out of batteries?
It's easy. Keep at least a month's supply of hearing aid batteries on hand, about eight to 10, and stop in once you're down to four since they are included at no charge with the purchase of your hearing aids at Duncan-Nulphe Hearing Associates. Also consider trying rechargeable hearing aids.
Where should I store my hearing aid batteries?
But don't store hearing aid batteries in the refrigerator. Condensation and moisture can harm them. Avoid extremes in temperature, too. Hearing aid batteries like room temperature — just like you.
Are there rechargable hearing aids?
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