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Crozet Pizza tops in Virginia, says USA Today
Congratulations to Crozet Pizza for being named one of the 51 greatest pizza parlors in the country by USAToday. It's an honor well-deserved, as the iconic pizza place in downtown Crozet has become the pizza dough of legend, but not surprising for a place that Muhammad Ali called "the greatest" and National Geographic dubbed the best in the world.
Indeed, it was Crozet Pizza, which opened in 1977, that seemed to put Crozet on the map, that lured us out that way and sent us back home telling stories about the fabulous hand-made pies prepared right before your eyes. It used to be you had to order days in advance because Bob and Karen Crum's pizzas were so sought after.
Of course, Crozet Pizza's current success has been about successfully maintaining and building on that reputation all these years, which is exactly what the Crum's daughter, Colleen, and her husband, Mike Alexander, have done since they took over in 2004.
Here's what USA Today had to say: "Homemade dough, a perfect combination of sauce and spices, and a near endless list of toppings make Crozet Pizza in Crozet a destination for pie lovers. The appetizing ambiance of the cozy shop is enhanced by a wood stove, a screen door that gently slaps closed with the arrival of each customer and the majestic backdrop of the Blue Ridge Mountains."
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Crozet Pizza is awful. Last time I went I got a burnt pizza. Try Dr Ho's Humble Pie in North Garden for cheaper and fresher pizza!!!!!!!!!
Virginia wouldn't know a good grease wheel if one landed here with a sign on it.....unless it was imported from New Yawk or Joisey.


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Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels told the Baltimore Development Corp. board Thursday that the academic powerhouse has a moral obligation to "share our bounty" with the city.
Daniels said that he sees Hopkins students, faculty and staff as privileged and that each has a responsibility to help revitalize Baltimore by addressing homelessness, preparing children for good jobs, ending violence and reversing significant health problems.
"You can't sequester our institutions from the community," Daniels told the development board at its monthly meeting. "All of these things impact very directly the survival of our institutions. The reality is that we have billions of dollars invested in Baltimore City and we cannot, like some other institutions that have left the city, we cannot willy-nilly leave the city. We are here."
Daniels spoke briefly about the East Baltimore Development Inc. urban redevelopment project in the area north of Johns Hopkins' medical campus, saying the project — which will include retail space, a community school, a hotel and grocery stores — was moving from concept to reality.
The board, a quasi-governmental economic arm of the city, also heard about development of Lexington Square, the west-side "Superblock" redevelopment project that calls for 296 apartments, more than 217,000 square feet of retail space and 650 parking spots.
M.J. "Jay" Brodie, president of the BDC, said the board voted unanimously in executive session to make a recommendation on a proposed payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement on the residential and parking portions of the Lexington Square project.
Brodie would not discuss details about the proposed agreement, including the price or price range, or a time frame. He said the recommendation would be sent to the mayor's office, where it would be reviewed. If approved, the matter would eventually go to the City Council.
The developer, Lexington Square Partners LLC, is also seeking a tax break on the retail portion of the project, but Brodie said the board was not prepared to make a recommendation on that.
Representatives of the advocacy group Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development also attended the meeting to ask the board to coordinate a campaign to raise $10 million a year over a decade from corporate donors for the city's schools.
Arnold Williams, chairman of the board, agreed to meet with BUILD members, possibly within a week.

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Romney's lazy mendacity on Obama, trade agreements
This line, from Mitt Romney's foreign policy speech this morning, just amazes me.
"I will champion free trade and restore it as a critical element of our strategy, both in the Middle East and across the world. The president has not signed one new free trade agreement in the past four years. I will reverse that failure."
When pressed on this lie on the past, the Romney campaign has said the trade agreements under Obama were largely negotiated before the president took office. That's not a bad defense and there's a way to word the attack carefully so that it's at least technically accurate, albeit misleading.
But today, Romney, reading a prepared text from a teleprompter, didn't bother with the pretense. He said President Obama "has not signed one new free trade agreement," despite the fact that's blatantly, demonstrably untrue.
In reality, Obama has signed three trade agreements – with Panama, Colombia, and South Korea – despite the wishes of some of his own allies. This happened less than a year ago, so it's not as if the Republican candidate (or those who write his speeches for him) can claim to have forgotten. There were even pictures of the agreements' signing, one of which I've included above.
It appears, then, that Romney isn't just telling a lie; he's telling a lazy lie that's easy to refute. The Republican just doesn't seem to care whether he gets caught or not – he's "not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers" – in effect thumbing his nose at those who care about reality.
And in all likelihood, Romney will pay no price for this blatant dishonesty, which is why he tells these falsehoods in the first place.


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Glenn Maxwell and Mitchell Marsh both fell agonisingly short of centuries but still helped Australia to a record one-day international tally at the Harare Sports Club as they crushed Zimbabwe by 198 runs on Monday.
Australia's 350 for six off 50 overs beat by 10 runs the highest total for any team at the venue in an ODI and marked a satisfying start to preparations for the World Cup they co-host with New Zealand early next year.
Zimbabwe could only muster 152 in reply, bowled out with more than 10 overs left in the opening match of the triangular series in Zimbabwe's capital.
The 25-year-old Maxwell hit a rapid-fire 93 off 46 balls before being caught in the deep as he swung lustily trying to hit a third successive six. He had been on course to break team mate James Faulkner's 57-ball record for the fastest Australian ODI hundred.
Marsh was out for 89 off 83 balls but the century partnership between the pair contributed to a blistering 147 runs off the last 10 overs.
Maxwell included an outrageous display of ambidextrous shot making in his innings, hitting nine fours and clearing the boundary five times.
But the most powerful shot of the innings came from Mitchell Johnson whose six off Tinashe Panyangara in the penultimate over struck the window of the television commentary box, shattering the glass and cutting commentator Mpumelelo Mbangwa, the former Zimbabwe test bowler. He was not seriously hurt.
Aaron Finch helped Australia get off to good start but was caught down the leg side for 67 while fellow opener Brad Haddin was first out for 46 just before Australia reached three figures in the 18th over.
Zimbabwe lost their first wicket after eight balls when Tino Mawoyo was trapped leg before by Mitchell Starc but Hamilton Masakadza and the Pakistan-born Sikandar Raza put on 63 for the second wicket as the home side displayed some fighting spirit.
But after Raza was caught, Masakadza watched a procession of partners come and go at regular intervals before he was seventh man out, stumped for 70.
Johnson conceded only seven runs in the six overs he bowled, taking one wicket.
Australia next play South Africa at the same venue on Wednesday in the second game of the tri-series in which each country will play each other twice with a final to follow on Sept. 6.
Australia, without captain Michael Clarke who missed the game because of a hamstring strain, were playing their first ODI since beating England in Adelaide in late January.
They have a minimum of 15 ODIs planned before the World Cup starts next February.


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They are not keeping us active and alert and in shape. Therein lies the problem. Part of the economic apartheid in Scotland (and every country has its own form of economic apartheid, not just Scotland) is that in affluent areas you can buy fresh fruit and vegetables, raw unprocessed ingredients to make your own food with. In poor areas you quite often cannot, and if you can find them then the price is so high due to lack of competition that processed foods and carry-out foods are actually cheaper to buy than the ingredients to make them in the first place.Arkaeon wrote:If deep-fried foods keep you active and alert and in shape, that's fabulous.
This has resulted in areas of the country where people know next to nothing about cooking their own food, let alone planning a balanced and healthy diet. They don't know about vitamins and minerals, they don't know about fats and proteins, and if they do cook something it is usually straight in the frying pan because they don't know how to roast, steam or poach. Some of them can use a microwave oven. Many of them cannot.
Average life expectancies in some of these areas are 20 years less than in more affluent areas only a couple of miles away. More salient to your point about quality of life, there is much higher prevalence of long-term health conditions like coronary heart disease, diabetes, stroke, COPD, asthma; and these all have a debilitating effect on the quality of people's lives. Let's not even get started on the smoking and drinking and taking drugs...
Scotland is now a post-industrial country. We are no longer the workshop of the world, all the steam trains and ships we used to build have stopped, the last Singer sewing machine has long since rolled off the production line. In fact the old Singer factory is now a retail park: that pretty much tells you what you need to know about Scotland's new economy. We are not doing so much physical work any more, and for the most part our diet has changed to reflect that. But in poorer areas (which, coincidentally, were hit hardest by the transformation to a post-industrial economy as it was unskilled labour that bore the brunt) that transformation of diet and lifestyle has not taken place. There are no fruit and veg shops, no gymnasiums, far too many fish-n-chip shops, far too many pubs, and shops that sell cheap and nasty booze at cut-throat prices, and make their profits on tobacco (by sourcing it tax-free through the black market? I couldn't possibly comment).
Bearing in mind that I am a socialist, and I consider it my place in society to look out for my fellow man, to safeguard their health through a free-at-the-point-of-access National Health Service, and to elect a government that is going to shape health policy to improve the quality of everyone's lives, especially those nearest the bottom of the pile, this is a very real problem that requires a very real solution.
Or a flippant thread on a forum about a pasta-based deity. Whatever.


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C&O takeover: Tracking changes on December 20
For many locals, "C&O" means fine dining, but for train buffs, it's a historic rail line that slices east to west through Charlottesville– and one that's undergoing a changing of the guard.
As reported in various media, including the Hook's May 13 cover story ["Shorting the C&O: Is this any way to run a railroad?"], a tiny Dillwyn-based railroad is set to begin operation of the 200-mile C&O, which it has leased from rail behemoth CSX Corp. The line stretches from Clifton Forge to the outskirts of Richmond.
"We expect to close on Monday, December 20 and begin operation on Tuesday, December 21," says Bob Bryant, president of the Buckingham Branch, in a mid-month interview (this year-end edition of the Hook went to press earlier than usual).
Bryant plans to work the line with four freight engines plying different sections of the tracks every weekday. With Staunton serving as one base and Doswell as the other, Charlottesville track-watchers can expect to see gray and red engines cruising through town twice a day, running parallel to the Downtown Mall and snaking through UVA grounds.
In a May filing with the federal Surface Transportation Board, the Branch revealed that it will pay $140,000 a year for the lease. A subsequent report in early November revealed that that figure is dwarfed by the amount CSX will pay the Branch to continue running its empty coal and grain hoppers: about $2 million a year.
That money may help the Branch allay some union safety concerns. The report also cited charges by the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees that the lease is "improper and deceptive," and that the C&O line already suffers maintenance problems.
The federal Board, however, found that the Branch "convincingly demonstrated" that it is prepared to fulfill its safety responsibilities.
Amtrak, which zips six "Cardinal" passenger trains per week across part of the line at speeds of up to 60 miles per hour, joined the union in attempting to place conditions on the lease.
In spite of the protests, the Board approved the lease and demanded only some labor-protecting concessions. The lone dissent came from a board member concerned that the deal would restrain competition by Norfolk-Southern and other carriers.
CSX has claimed that the C&O line was a perennial money loser. The only freight traffic, other than the frequent westbound empties, occurred just two or three times a week, according to Bryant. (Full loads ride the flatter James River line down to Tidewater ports.)
Under the lease, Bryant's business must pay real estate taxes and repair the tracks. Federal filings indicate that the Branch intends to move nearly 12,000 carloads on the line annually, while CSX empties– about 156,000 per year– will continue to provide the bulk of the traffic.
Bryant says that boosting the Branch's employment rolls from 15 to 40 has meant hiring several CSX veterans and has turned Dillwyn– where the newbies are being trained– into a rail hotbed.
"We still have a few positions open," says Bryant. And while he's not prepared to announce that any new customers have located near the line in the wake of the takeover announcement, he's optimistic that business will follow the tracks.
"We've got sales and marketing work to do," he says. "We just have to prove ourselves first."
As for local track-watchers?
"They will notice Buckingham Branch locomotives. They will notice daily service," he promises. "Hopefully, they'll notice a friendly railroad."


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The new programmes, launching in 2014, are:
Explore – a Museum programme for adults with learning disabilities
Working in partnership with London-based community groups, this programme will facilitate interactions between the participants and the Museum's curators, educators and objects. It will provide a museum course for two groups of participants per year, drawing on a diverse range of learning methods including object handling, storytelling, discussion and creative exploration.
Experiencing the Museum – for children with special educational needs
This programme will enable students with SEN to experience the British Museum through stimulating the senses. They will engage with ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Britain and other cultures and periods through sight, sound, smell and touch. These taught, object-based activities aim to raise the confidence of students and build on their knowledge of the world around them, at the same time allowing the Museum to pilot new educational approaches.
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The cake recipe is one that came from Heath's Nana and is a delicious no-fail cake that's made with the season's best apple, Jonathan. It's usually made as a sheet cake with a cream cheese frosting, but I have been wanting to make my own version. I just loved the idea of an apple cake with caramel frosting. Apples and caramel have been the perfect fall pairing for as long as hayrides and festivals have been around. So, I just though why not put them together in a cake that's so sinfully good it would satisfy any one's sweet tooth!
Caramel Apple Cake would be perfect for an autumn birthday or even a new tradition at the Thanksgiving dessert table! Try it, and I have no doubt you will agree it will be a recipe to share!
Caramel Apple Cake
3 c. apples, chopped fine
1 1/2 c. sugar (Sprinkle over apples, set 15 minutes.)
1 1/2 c. all purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 c. butter (1 stick), melted
3 eggs, beaten
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. allspice
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 c. toasted pecans
Mix all ingredients together by hand. Pour into 2 8 in. plans that have been greased and floured. Bake at 350 degrees for 26-30 minutes. Allow the cakes to cool and frost with homemade caramel frosting. Decorate with toasted pecans.
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1/2 c. butter, (1 stick)
1 c. packed dark brown sugar
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1/2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat and stir in brown sugar and cream. Bring to a boil and then transfer to a large mixing bowl. Add sugar and vanilla. Beat with a mixer until everything is creamed together well. If the frosting is to thick, just add a bit of cream. This frosting is very thick and rich, and once spread on the cake will actually smooth itself out for an beautiful finish. Ice the cake once the frosting is cooled about 15-20 minutes, and re stir it before putting on the cake.


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The Office of the Indiana Attorney General is fighting Wednesday's decision that overturned the state's marriage law.
Chief Judge Richard Young, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, issued a ruling that Indiana's law prohibiting marriage violated the due process and equal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment. Shortly after the decision was rendered, Attorney General Greg Zoeller indicated his office would appeal.
Late Wednesday, the attorney general's office announced it had filed an emergency motion for stay in the U.S. District Court pending appeal. The motion asked Young to postpone the implementation of his order.
"The motion for stay is intended to prevent confusion and inconsistency between county clerk's offices regarding license issuance, while the appeal is pending," said Bryan Corbin, spokesman for the AG's office.
The U.S. District Court has not ruled yet on the state's motion to stay.
In addition, the AG's office, along with Boone and Hamilton county clerks, filed a notice of appeal formally notifying the U.S. District Court that the defendants will appeal Young's order to the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Once Young issued his ruling, county clerk's office around the state began fielding requests from same-sex couples for marriage licenses. Some clerk's issued the licenses but others did not, saying they were awaiting guidance from the attorney general.
According to Corbin, the AG's office advised the five county clerks named in lawsuits (Hamilton, Allen, Boone, Porter and Lake) that they must comply with the U.S. District Court's ruling or they would be subject to contempt of court.
"Other county clerks in the remaining counties are not under direct jurisdiction of the order," Corbin said, "but as an officer of the court, the Attorney General's Office must encourage everyone to show respect for the judge and the orders that are issued."


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The View From 1776
§ American Traditions
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§ Decline of Western Civilization: a Snapshot
§ Books to Read
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Is The New York Times on Al Queda's Payroll?
Describing the Times editorial board strains the vocabulary of condemnation.
City Journal's article by Victor Davis Hanson exposes the naive and dangerous fatuity of the Times's editorial writers, along with their hypocritical inconsistency.
A monument to defeatism on the editorial page.
Victor Davis Hanson
12 July 2007
On July 8, the New York Times ran an historic editorial entitled ?The Road Home,? demanding an immediate American withdrawal from Iraq. It is rare that an editorial gets almost everything wrong, but ?The Road Home? pulls it off. Consider, point by point, its confused?and immoral?defeatism.
1. It is time for the United States to leave Iraq, without any more delay than the Pentagon needs to organize an orderly exit.
Rarely in military history has an ?orderly? withdrawal followed a theater-sized defeat and the flight of several divisions. Abruptly leaving Iraq would be a logistical and humanitarian catastrophe. And when scenes of carnage begin appearing on TV screens here about latte time, will the Times then call for ?humanitarian? action?
2. Like many Americans, we have put off that conclusion, waiting for a sign that President Bush was seriously trying to dig the United States out of the disaster he created by invading Iraq without sufficient cause, in the face of global opposition, and without a plan to stabilize the country afterward.
We?ll get to the war?s ?sufficient cause,? but first let?s address the other two charges that the Times levels here against President Bush. Both houses of Congress voted for 23 writs authorizing the war with Iraq?a post-9/11 confirmation of the official policy of regime change in Iraq that President Clinton originated. Supporters of the war included 70 percent of the American public in April 2003; the majority of NATO members; a coalition with more participants than the United Nations alliance had in the Korean War; and a host of politicians and pundits as diverse as Joe Biden, William F. Buckley, Wesley Clark, Hillary Clinton, Francis Fukuyama, Kenneth Pollack, Harry Reid, Andrew Sullivan, Thomas Friedman, and George Will.
And there was a Pentagon postwar plan to stabilize the country, but it assumed a decisive defeat and elimination of enemy forces, not a three-week war in which the majority of Baathists and their terrorist allies fled into the shadows to await a more opportune time to reemerge, under quite different rules of engagement.
3. While Mr. Bush scorns deadlines, he kept promising breakthroughs?after elections, after a constitution, after sending in thousands more troops. But those milestones came and went without any progress toward a stable, democratic Iraq or a path for withdrawal. It is frighteningly clear that Mr. Bush?s plan is to stay the course as long as he is president and dump the mess on his successor. Whatever his cause was, it is lost.
Of course there were breakthroughs: most notably, millions of Iraqis? risking their lives to vote. An elected government remains in power, under a constitution far more liberal than any other in the Arab Middle East. In the region at large, Libya, following the war, gave up its advanced arsenal of weapons of mass destruction; Syria fled Lebanon; A.Q. Khan?s nuclear ring was shut down. And despite the efforts of Iran, Syria, and Sunni extremists in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, a plurality of Iraqis still prefer the chaotic and dangerous present to the sure methodical slaughter of their recent Saddamite past.
The Times wonders what Bush?s cause was. Easy to explain, if not easy to achieve: to help foster a constitutional government in the place of a genocidal regime that had engaged in a de facto war with the United States since 1991, and harbored or subsidized terrorists like Abu Nidal, Abu Abbas, at least one plotter of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaida affiliates in Kurdistan, and suicide bombers in Gaza and the West Bank. It was a bold attempt to break with the West?s previous practices, both liberal (appeasement of terrorists) and conservative (doing business with Saddam, selling arms to Iran, and overlooking the House of Saud?s funding of terrorists).
Is that cause in fact ?lost?? The vast majority of 160,000 troops in harm?s way don?t think so?despite a home front where U.S. senators have publicly compared them with Nazis, Stalinists, Pol Pot?s Khmer Rouge, and Saddam Hussein?s jailers, and where the media?s Iraqi narrative has focused obsessively on Abu Ghraib, Guant?namo, and serial leaks of classified information, with little interest in the horrific nature of the Islamists in Iraq or the courageous efforts of many Iraqis to stop them.
4. Continuing to sacrifice the lives and limbs of American soldiers is wrong. The war is sapping the strength of the nation?s alliances and its military forces. It is a dangerous diversion from the life-and-death struggle against terrorists. It is an increasing burden on American taxpayers, and it is a betrayal of a world that needs the wise application of American power and principles.
The military is stretched, but hardly broken, despite having tens of thousands of troops stationed in Japan, Korea, the Balkans, Germany, and Italy, years?and decades?after we removed dictatorships by force and began efforts to establish democracies in those once-frightening places. As for whether Iraq is a diversion from the war on terror: al-Qaida bigwig Ayman al-Zawahiri, like George W. Bush, has said that Iraq is the primary front in his efforts to attack the United States and its interests?and he often despairs about the progress of jihad there. Our enemies, like al-Qaida, Iran, and Syria, as well as opportunistic neutrals like China and Russia, are watching closely to see whether America will betray its principles in Iraq.
5. Americans must be clear that Iraq, and the region around it, could be even bloodier and more chaotic after Americans leave. There could be reprisals against those who worked with American forces, further ethnic cleansing, even genocide. Potentially destabilizing refugee flows could hit Jordan and Syria. Iran and Turkey could be tempted to make power grabs.
The Times should abandon the subjunctive mood. The catastrophes that it matter-of-factly suggests have ample precedents in Vietnam. Apparently, we should abandon millions of Iraqis to the jihadists (whether Wahhabis or Khomeinites), expect mass murders in the wake of our flight??even genocide??and then chalk up the slaughter to Bush?s folly. And if that seems crazy, consider what follows, an Orwellian account of the mechanics of our flight:
6. The main road south to Kuwait is notoriously vulnerable to roadside bomb attacks. Soldiers, weapons and vehicles will need to be deployed to secure bases while airlift and sealift operations are organized. Withdrawal routes will have to be guarded. The exit must be everything the invasion was not: based on reality and backed by adequate resources.
The United States should explore using Kurdish territory in the north of Iraq as a secure staging area. Being able to use bases and ports in Turkey would also make withdrawal faster and safer. Turkey has been an inconsistent ally in this war, but like other nations, it should realize that shouldering part of the burden of the aftermath is in its own interest.
This insistence on planned defeat, following incessant criticism of potential victory, is lunatic. The Times?s frustration with Turkey and other ?inconsistent? allies won?t end with our withdrawal and defeat. Like everyone in the region, the Turks want to ally with winners and distance themselves from losers?and care little about sermons from the likes of the Times editors. The ideas about Kurdish territory and Turkey are simply cover for the likely consequences of defeat: once we are gone and a federated Iraq is finished, Kurdistan?s democratic success is fair game for Turkey, which?with the assent of opportunistic allies?will move to end it by crushing our Kurdish friends.
7. Despite President Bush?s repeated claims, Al Qaeda had no significant foothold in Iraq before the invasion, which gave it new base camps, new recruits and new prestige.
This war diverted Pentagon resources from Afghanistan, where the military had a real chance to hunt down Al Qaeda?s leaders. It alienated essential allies in the war against terrorism. It drained the strength and readiness of American troops.
The Times raises the old charge that if we weren?t in Iraq, neither would be al-Qaida?more of whose members we have killed in Iraq than anywhere else. In 1944, Japan had relatively few soldiers in Okinawa; when the Japanese learned that we planned to invade in 1945, they increased their forces there. Did the subsequent carnage?four times the number of U.S. dead as in Iraq, by the way, in one-sixteenth the time?prove our actions ill considered? Likewise, no Soviets were in Eastern Europe until we moved to attack and destroy Hitler, who had kept communists out. Did the resulting Iron Curtain mean that it was a mistake to deter German aggression?
And if the Times sees the war in Afghanistan as so important, why didn?t it support an all-out war against the Taliban and al-Qaida, as it apparently does now, when we were solely in Afghanistan?
8. Iraq may fragment into separate Kurdish, Sunni and Shiite republics, and American troops are not going to stop that from happening. . . . To start, Washington must turn to the United Nations, which Mr. Bush spurned and ridiculed as a preface to war.
But Bush did go to the United Nations, which, had it enforced its own resolutions, might have prevented the war. In fact, the Bush administration?s engagement with the UN contrasts sharply with President Clinton?s snub of that organization during the U.S.-led bombing of the Balkans?unleashed, unlike Iraq, without Congressional approval. The Times also neglects to mention that the UN was knee-deep in the mess of its cash cow Iraq, from its appeasement of the genocidal Hussein regime to its graft-ridden, $50 billion oil-for-food scandal, reaching the highest echelons of Kofi Annan?s UN administration.
9. Washington also has to mend fences with allies. There are new governments in Britain, France and Germany that did not participate in the fight over starting this war and are eager to get beyond it. But that will still require a measure of humility and a commitment to multilateral action that this administration has never shown. And, however angry they were with President Bush for creating this mess, those nations should see that they cannot walk away from the consequences.
New governments in France and Germany are more pro-American than those of the past that tried to thwart us in Iraq. The Times surely knows of the Chirac administration?s lucrative relationships with Saddam Hussein, and of the German contracts to supply sophisticated tools and expertise that enabled the Baathist nightmare. Tony Blair will enjoy a far more principled and reputable retirement than will Jacques Chirac or Gerhard Schroeder, who did their best to destroy the Atlantic Alliance for cheap partisan advantage at home and global benefit abroad.
Nations like France and Germany won?t ?walk away? from Iraq, since they were never there in the first place. They never involve themselves in such dangerous situations?just look at the rules of engagement of French and German troops in Afghanistan. Their foreign policy centers instead on commerce, suitably dressed up with fashionable elite outrage against the United States.
10. For this effort to have any remote chance, Mr. Bush must drop his resistance to talking with both Iran and Syria. Britain, France, Russia, China and other nations with influence have a responsibility to help. Civil war in Iraq is a threat to everyone, especially if it spills across Iraq?s borders.
China and Russia, seeing only oil and petrodollars, will take no responsibility to help. Both will welcome a U.S. retreat. Yes, ?civil war? will spill over the borders, but not until the U.S. precipitously withdraws. Iran and Syria?serial assassins of democrats from Lebanon to Iraq?are hoping for realization of the Times?s scenario, and would be willing to talk with us only to facilitate our flight, with the expectation that Iraq would become wide open for their ambitions. In their view, a U.S. that fails in Iraq surely cannot thwart an Iranian bomb, the Syrian reabsorption of Lebanese democracy, attacks on Israel, or increased funding and sanctuary for global terrorism.
11. President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have used demagoguery and fear to quell Americans? demands for an end to this war. They say withdrawing will create bloodshed and chaos and encourage terrorists. Actually, all of that has already happened?the result of this unnecessary invasion and the incompetent management of this war.
But as the Times itself acknowledges, what has happened in the past only previews what is in store if we precipitously withdraw. And this will prove the case not only in Iraq, but elsewhere in the Persian Gulf, the Middle East, Taiwan, and Korea. Once the U.S. demonstrates that it cannot honor its commitments, those dependent upon it must make the necessary adjustments. Ironically, while the Times urges acceptance of defeat, Sunni tribesmen at last are coming forward to fight terrorists, and regional neighbors are gradually accepting the truth that their opportunistic assistance to jihadists is only threatening their own regimes.
We promised General Petraeus a hearing in September; it would be the height of folly to preempt that agreement by giving in to our summer of panic and despair. Critics called for the resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, a change in command in Iraq and at Centcom, new strategies, and more troops. But now that we have a new secretary, a new command in Iraq and at Centcom, new strategies, and more troops, suddenly we have a renewed demand for withdrawal before the agreed-upon September accounting?suggesting that the only constant in such harping was the assumption that Iraq was either hopeless or not worth the effort.
The truth is that Iraq has upped the ante in the war against terrorists. Our enemies? worst nightmare is a constitutional government in the heart of the ancient caliphate, surrounded by consensual rule in Afghanistan, Lebanon, and Turkey; ours is a new terror heaven, but with oil, a strategic location, and the zeal born of a humiliating defeat of the United States on a theater scale. The Islamists believe we can?t win; so does the New York Times. But it falls to the American people to decide the issue.
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Quote from: weihen on March 17, 2012, 09:25:29 AMWe believe race will start in 3 weeks is there any tips on how we track and stalk the crews?!? (obviously other than facebook - maybe with ren-ren but I can't read chinese.. )
We believe race will start in 3 weeks
Quote from: ZouLy on March 18, 2012, 03:15:54 AMQuote from: weihen on March 17, 2012, 09:25:29 AMWe believe race will start in 3 weeks is there any tips on how we track and stalk the crews?!? (obviously other than facebook - maybe with ren-ren but I can't read chinese.. )Facebook and Renren have no updates at all. The latest Renren page hasn't mentioned the finale of S2 yet. Contestants from S2 are still in the race according to the page. The only place that has updates is Sina Weibo.com.
Quote from: SuperTux on March 28, 2012, 11:29:56 PMQuote from: ZouLy on March 18, 2012, 03:15:54 AMQuote from: weihen on March 17, 2012, 09:25:29 AMWe believe race will start in 3 weeks is there any tips on how we track and stalk the crews?!? (obviously other than facebook - maybe with ren-ren but I can't read chinese.. )Facebook and Renren have no updates at all. The latest Renren page hasn't mentioned the finale of S2 yet. Contestants from S2 are still in the race according to the page. The only place that has updates is Sina Weibo.com.This season's spoiler will be hard since all members in production have been asked to close weibo...
Do we have a start date yet?
Don't know if this is the right place to post this:Season 3 of TAR: CR will be the last season produced by ICS. It doesn't preclude the possibility that other TV stations may pick it up someday, but I truly doubt it.The premiere will be at 23:50 on Aug 23rd on Dragon TV, and at 20:00 on Aug 26th on ICS.
The Amazing Race: China Rush Season 3 Press Conference and Premiere Shanghai,Aug.15,2012 - Following the success of the first two seasons of The Amazing Race: China Rush, ICS and Dragon TV have once again teamed up this year to launch 12 all-new heart-racing episodes for their third season.Disney's internationally-renown reality showThe Amazing Racehas won 8 Primetime Emmy Awards, making it one of the most successful reality television shows of all time. The first two seasons of China Rush, China's only official version of the award-winning format, spawned a tidal-wave of new fans from audiences both home and abroad. Furthermore, China Rush Season One recently won a Highly Commended Award for BEST ADAPTATION OF AN EXISTING FORMAT at the Asian Television Awards.In addition to the same high-energy blend of travel, culture and dramatic challenges that the first two seasons offered, China Rush Season 3 has added an even more eye-catching line-up of locations and characters.This season has extended its race itinerary to include some of China's most unique and intriguing locations; including Taiwan, Jilin Province, Heilongjiang,Guizhou Province and many more. Teams will be racing in some of the most extreme climates and terrine that this vast nation has to offer.Season 3 also features 11 highly competitive teams of two hailing from across China and the world, racing for a trip around the world. This season's Chinese contestants, which make up more than half of the cast, are as diverse in personality as they are in the areas they come from. For example, one team of Liaoning Province cousins and street-side barbeque skewer salesmen used their one-of-a-kind style of singing and dancing while cooking to gain national fame on the second season of China's Got Talent. Now they've brought their unique talents to a different kind of reality competition to prove they are more than justBBQ Boys. A team of professional models from Taipei may look frail, but are full of surprises as they face their fears. Then there is the dating couple from Dalian, on a quest to show their parents and all of China that they have what it takes to bring their relationship to the next level.Like the Chinese teams, this season's foreign contestants are diverse, memorable and extremely determined. International contestants come from as far as Sweden, Malaysia, Australia, Canada, Scotland and the United States. One pair of former Harvard University roommates seem to be the full package, presenting themselves as the epitome of education, culture and athletics. Plus, a pair of fraternal twins from Penang, Malaysia make China Rush history as the first foreign team to use Mandarin as their primary language on the race. The brother and sister hope the adventure will be an opportunity to discover China and their Chinese roots for the first time; that is, if they can overcome their vastly different personalities.As with Season 2, China Rush Season 3 features two versions, a Chinese-language version and English-language version. The English version will broadcast with both Chinese and English subtitles at 20:00 every Sunday on ICS, starting August 26th; while the Chinese-language version will broadcast at 16:00 every Saturday on Dragon TV, starting September 1st. Both versions will once again be hosted by Chinese-American TV personality Allan Wu.In addition to government support on the local and national level, production of China Rush Season 3 is also supported by several international brands, such as Toyota and Hilton.For more details on The Amazing Race: China Rush please go to the official website www.chinarush.cn or weibo http://weibo.com/chinarush.
'The Amazing Race:' Travel the 'real China' in 576 minutesThe third season of the China edition covers a wider range of regions than ever. So wide not even the Chinese participants know where they are.The Amazing Race" is not just another game show in China. The Chinese consider it an ingenious means to show the "real China" to the outside world."The show is not only promoting the local culture and customs but also the urban development achievement," said Ge Xiaowei (葛晓纬), one of the producers of the program's China edition, The Amazing Race: China Rush ("China Rush" in short).A copyright cooperation between Disney ABC and the International Channel of Shanghai (ICS), China Rush has just wrapped up production of the third season and is set to air from this month.The China even the Chinese dont know aboutAccording to the shows production company ICS, season three covers a wider geographic range than the previous two seasons, spanning from the China-Russia border in the north to Yunnan Province in the south.Lei Sheng (雷声), a contestant hailing from Xian, said even the Chinese contenders had no clue where they were most of the time while on the road.Being Chinese doesnt give us any advantages, said Lei, a 40-year-old outdoor experience trainer.I have never been to most of the places featured on the show. Ive never even heard of them before. [The show] goes to the second-tier, third-tier cities, off-the-radar towns and rural villages.In this season, 22 contestants (in 11 teams) from seven countries sweep through 11 cities all over China in 12 episodes, each lasting 48 minutes.The grand prize: a free round-the-world tour for two.An offbeat guide to ChinaThe upcoming show was dubbed a multi-million renminbi production. But ICS didnt disclose the exact production cost. It is also keeping its lips tight on the value of the champions prize.The entire season is produced in two versions. Each hosted in one of the two languages -- Mandarin and English -- by American-Chinese Allan Wu (吴振天), who has hosted all three seasons of' The Amazing Race Asia and the first two seasons of China Rush.Ge Xiaowei said the program is a great offbeat tour guide to China.For example, we have dedicated staff on the team to study the transportations between sites and cities, which are reflected in the show, said Ge. These are not random arrangements, but practical information for tourists -- whether one should take the bus, train or fly between these two places.Ge added that the show does not follow clichéd tourist routes in China; instead, it selects exotic destinations with most distinctive culture symbols.Having traveled with the team for one month to shoot the show, Ge said her most impressive destinations included Suifenhe (绥芬河), a city of 160,000 in Heilongjiang on the China-Russia border.Suifenhe is a very unique city in China due to its geographic location, Ge explained. Even the local street vendors can speak fluent Russian.Tasks in Suifenhe? Contestants were asked to complete a challenge involving traditional Russian dolls, revealed Ge.Based on the trailer, the new season also headed to places like the Miao ethnic group in Guizhou and Chinas Korean autonomous prefecture Yanbian in Jilin Province.Reality TV shows: great way to travel the countryThis was a good chance to see a completely different side of a country that I havent seen before, said contestant Nick Black.Black, 30, is a Shanghai-based sales executive from Scotland whose previous China travel experiences were limited to major Chinese cities.His most memorable moment of the show was walking off the plane in Heilongjiang at 2 a.m., frozen to death on an April day (the temperature was like minus 3 or 4 C).Rachel Chen, one half of the champion team in the first season, agrees that China Rush provides a unique way to travel the massive nation.The 27-year-old American-Chinese, who joined the show in 2010, said because the program worked with local tourism bureaus around the country, contestants could access places and take part in activities that normal travelers wouldnt be able to.Nick Black noted that hes come to find fun in traveling to an unknown place after the intense trip.For some [travelers], before they come [to China], theyre not quite sure what the situation is. For example, if its gonna be safe, said Nick.Just come and check out, added Black. Its actually really fun not knowing whats gonna happen.The English version of The Amazing Race: China Rush season three will premiere on August 26 on ICS at 8 p.m. (Beijing time). The Mandarin version will start screening on September 1 on international satellite channel Dragon TV at 4 p.m. Both versions air weekly.Or follow China Rush on its official website.
One team will be eliminated at starting line
Quote from: weihen on August 24, 2012, 04:48:46 AMOne team will be eliminated at starting line OMG WHY
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Then I saw Ballard Designs drying rack.
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So I showed a picture of these awesome drying racks to Mr. Genius, and he was all... I can make that.
I was like, ok lets do it.
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See the butterfly frame from last week.
Here's the deal.
I plan on making another drying rack...by myself. EEEEK!
Why would I do such a crazy thing?
Sawdust and Paperscraps is having a Buildhers party.
I thought I should use that party to put my big girl panties on and just build something.
Now wait...what does that have anything to do with the butterfly picture frame?
Well Ms. Picky pants, I plan on hanging it up between the two drying racks and would like to make sure it is centered. Plus knowing me when I hang the other drying rack up I may decide to put something else between them.
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The winner is chosen by the one with the most votes.
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To the Editor: The XVII International AIDS Conference was held on 3 - 8 August 2008 in Mexico City, with 24 000 implementers, activists, persons living with HIV, researchers and politicians from 194 nations discussing the conference theme: Universal action now!
One of the main messages stressed throughout the conference was that a focus on antiretroviral (ARV) treatment alone has not and will not win the battle against HIV transmission. While increased access to treatment for the millions who need it should be supported and expanded, 2 - 3 persons are newly infected with HIV for each person placed on treatment. And while ARVs alone cannot prevent HIV transmission, neither can a single prevention strategy. UNAIDS director Dr Peter Piot emphasised the need to study the regional context of every HIV epidemic carefully so as to apply the most appropriate combination of strategies for prevention and treatment for the local population. Piot and others stressed the need for 'combination prevention' - an evidence-based mix of context- and epidemic-appropriate prevention strategies applied together to enhance the effectiveness of prevention efforts.
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Powers et al.'s2 literature review found that the risk of transmission among the heterosexual population may exceed 1 per 1 000 coital acts, depending on genital ulcers and the presence of circumcision.
Attia et al.3 presented a literature review that found no strong correlation between exposure to ARVs and reduction in transmission between discordant couples, owing to limited data and the unclear effect of other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
Heneine (on behalf of Parikh et al.4) presented a case-control experimental trial of 6 monkeys exposed to SHIV via a tenofovir-based vaginal gel. None of the study group seroconverted, while 86% of a control group that did not receive ARVs seroconverted. In addition to this and other research, there was a resounding call to use HIV funding to support health systems as well as to urgently address human rights violations, gender inequality and stigmatisation, to further support the successful continued scale-up of treatment and combination prevention efforts.
1. Ross D, White R. Using surrogate outcomes for HIV incidence: handle with care. XVII International AIDS Conference, 3 - 8 August 2008, Mexico City. http://www.aids2008.org/Pag/Abstracts.aspx?SID=250&AID=5111 (accessed 19 August 2008). [ Links ]
2. Powers KA, Poole C, Pettifor AE, Cohen MS. Rethinking the heterosexual infectivity of HIV-1: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Infect Dis 2008; 8(9): 553-563. [ Links ]
3. Attia S, Egger M, Low N. Can unsafe sex be safe? Review of sexual transmissibility of HIV-1 according to viral load, HAART, and sexually transmitted infections. XVII International AIDS Conference, 3 - 8 August 2008, Mexico City. http://www.aids2008.org/Pag/Abstracts.aspx?SID=288&AID=15935 (accessed 19 August 2008). [ Links ]
4. Parikh U, Sharma S, Cong M-E, et al. Complete protection against repeated vaginal SHIV exposures in macaques by a combination emtricitabine and tenofovir topical gel. XVII International AIDS Conference, 3 - 8 August 2008, Mexico City. http://www.aids2008.org/Pag/Abstracts.aspx?SID=288&AID=15936 (accessed 19 August 2008). [ Links ]


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If I was to give a codename for it, it would be "auto l10n" tool
Last week we were looking into doing an en-CA localization of Firefox, but we found out through Axel that it would be more productive for the Mozilla community to create an automated localization build tool. I will explain why:
Differences between en-US and en-GB are little (check Bug 345039) and they don't want us to "fork" en-GB to make an en-CA localization.
This tool in mind, that is not decided the language or how to do it (e.g. perl, python, makefiles, ...) has been discussed during the week between the three of us (Rueen, Vince, myself), our OS professor David Humphrey, Axel, Mic, Chris Tyler (OS professor at Seneca), shaver, dynamis (from Japan), Chris Hofman, Kohei Yoshino (from Japan), John O'Duinn, Pascal Chevrel (Axel CCed for different reasons)
It seems that Dynamis has been working on something that Axel thinks that he: "sees a chance for code-reuse here with the merge-l10n work you're working on". TODO find out what is Dynamis working on
Axel wrote this (I've added the bolding and the (??) symbols):
Variants of existing localizations shouldHe wrote few pages of technical information that I still have to diggest and by this weekend I should be able to talk about our 0.1 milestone for the project
- make it easy to share bug-fixes between the variants, in particular,
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- assist in a joint support infrastructure, think SUMO(??). For all users of
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- consist of a minimal set of information describing the changes
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You can use any standard text editor to edit this file, such as KWrite, nano, vi, etc.
You can even use the convenient kdesrc-build-setup Script which asks some question and puts your answers into the configuration file.
Once you open the file, you will see that it starts with some comments (on lines beginning with #), and then the world "global". This starts the global configuration for the kdesrc-buildrc, which is used to specify options which are common to all of the modules.
Each option in the global section is specified in the following form:
Many options are already listed, with default values, and comments about the option on top. Some options have more than one sample value listed. In this situation, all but one of these will have comments. If you want to use a different sample option, simply uncomment the line by deleting the '#' at the beginning, and commenting or deleting the other lines with the same option name.
Here's a short listing of some of the important global options:
|As you can see, there are three different major directories, source, build, and install. The build directory is used to keep the source directory clean and to hold intermediate files that don't get installed
|You can use ~/ in these options to represent your home directory
|qt-copy is a module specifically for building Nokia's Qt toolkit. See #qt-copy below for information about what is special.
If this is the case for you, you can use this option (either globally, or for each module) to run make install using sudo, or su, etc.
After the global options are all done, you'll see the line "end global", which lets kdesrc-build know that all of the global options have been read.
Next in the kdesrc-buildrc are the module options. First off, modules are listed in the file, in the order they are to be built and installed. Each module is listed in the following format:
The module-name is how kdesrc-build refers to the module. It should match the name of the module you are downloading from the source repository. Base KDE modules are listed in WebSVN. Other modules are also available in WebSVN.
One exception is that modules downloaded from git can have any module name you'd like that isn't already used, as kdesrc-build determines their download location using a specific repository option.
For each module you can specify options, in the same fashion as for the global options. Most of the time, if you set an option for a module, it completely overrides the global option, if any.
However, the cmake-options for a module is added to the global cmake-options, instead of replacing it, which allows you to avoid having to give the same cmake-options for all of your modules.
|If you need to disable a global cmake-option, you can specify it again for the module you need to disable it for, and give it the opposite value. For instance, if you were using
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull globally but wanted Release mode for kdebindings, you could set cmake-options -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release for kdebindings.
|If you get the warning from kdesrc-build that a certain module is not listed in the kdesrc-buildrc, make sure that you've added it to the kdesrc-buildrc, even if you have no options for it. If it's already in the kdesrc-buildrc, make sure you spelled the module name right on the command line.
The qt-copy module is special in that it uses configure-options instead of cmake-options, and it never inherits compilation flags that are set globally, since Qt uses a different build system than KDE software does. The sample kdesrc-buildrc contains a useful set of default configure flags, but if you aren't using qt-copy, you can simply comment the entire qt-copy module out.
Since Nokia's Qt is developed using git instead of Subversion, you must specify the repository option for qt-copy to choose which version of Qt you will use:
|Edition to build
|Repository to use
|Official Nokia Qt
|Slightly modified Qt with KDE-specific patches and bugfixes (recommended if you're going to the trouble anyways)
Either way you should specify a branch of master to choose the default version.
If you choose kde-qt make sure to look at the README.kde-qt after kdesrc-build downloads the module for you as well!
kdesrc-build will search in several locations for your rc file.
When you make changes to values in your kdesrc-buildrc, they may not always be picked up immediately. For example, if you change cmake-options but kdesrc-build has no reason to run CMake again, then you'll still be building with your old cmake-options.
|This is only partially true -- kdesrc-build will be able to note that some values have changed and automatically re-run affected build portions as appropriate, but this advice still applies until this feature has been integrated for all options
The safest way to ensure that a change to your module's options is picked up is to use the --refresh-build option when rebuilding a module. This option causes kdesrc-build to completely rebuild the given module, which includes running cmake and clearing out the build directory.
Using --refresh-build takes the most time. Often, it is enough to use --reconfigure instead of --refresh-build, which runs CMake but does not clear out the build directory. But if --reconfigure doesn't work you'll end up doing --refresh-build anyways.
On the other hand, if you change the svn-server option to move where kdesrc-build is downloading from, you need to run kdesrc-build one time with the --svn-only option, so that kdesrc-build can perform the correct "svn switch" command.
The kdesrc-buildrc file is one of the major reasons to use kdesrc-build instead of building manually, as it will allow you to specify build settings to use all of the time instead of having to always remember to type in the correct command line settings and export the right environment variables. There are many more options than the ones covered here, which are mostly detailed at the kdesrc-build documentation. However, these options are enough to get you a working KDE installation.


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This March I taught a course on collections management at the University of Brasilia (UnB) in the capital of Brazil. The class included both undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Geology, Museology and Art, mainly at UnB. This is the third time that I have presented a similar course in Brazil with previous courses delivered at UnB and the Museu Goeldi in Belem.
After the course I asked the students 'what was the most important thing you learned?' To illustrate the course contents, a summary of their answers is included here. There is also a picture of some of the less friendly Brazilian inhabitants I encountered!
Me with some of the class in the display area of the Museum of Geosciences at the University of Brasilia.
The course draws on examples from my 20 years of experience in managing microfossil collections, but the principles covered are relevant to the management of a wide range of natural history collections. Previous classes have included entomologists, botanists and zoologists. This time many of the course participants were museology undergraduate students wanting to find out about managing scientific collections.
Just outside the Museum of Geosciences, University of Brasilia. This was my third visit to the university but it was the busiest and noisiest. It was Freshers Week so there were lots of noisy events including a student initiation just outside the window of the lecture theatre!
Rather than providing a dry summary of the course, I thought that I would precis/summarise some of the student feedback. I was also pleased to find that the students said I was understandable, delivered the course well and provided a good balance of lectures and practicals.
Some lessons learnt by the students:
- Big and small museums face the same issues.
- Curators must work hard to publicise and advocate their collections to maintain their relevance.
- How to plan before acquiring objects for your collection.
- Collections development and conservation plans are important.
- Why it is important to try to register everything in your collection.
- Thorough labelling and documentation is important because you don't know how a collection might be used in the future.
- Data standards are important to help organise and manage a collection.
- What the risks are for a collection and how they can be avoided.
The class discussing collections development ideas.
A trip to the UnB library to see the paper conservation unit.
A visit to the geology collections with Dr Maria-Julia Chelini. The students affectionately call this basement corridor The Dungeon!
As ever I was looked after amazingly well by my hosts, including Maria-Julia Chelini at the Museum of Geosciences and her husband Ricardo Pinto. While I was not lecturing I was a guest at the beautiful country house of my old friend Dermeval do Carmo. There were also some less than friendly inhabitants that helped to make it a very interesting visit:
My hosts called me to see this. I have tentatively identified it as a Brazilian wandering spider; aggressive and the world's most venomous spider according to Wikipedia. I am hoping someone will write and tell me I am wrong...
The amazing view from the country house of Dr Dermeval do Carmo who invited me to give the course and looked after me so well during my visit.
Finally I would like to quote directly from feedback of one of the students Anna Maria Amorim de Oliveira who neatly summarises the benefits of providing courses like this and makes reference to the fact that it wasn't just me talking all the time. We had some really great discussions too!
'For me the whole course was very relevant, because I think that any example of the Natural History Museum could be useful in another collection and it's always amazing to have an opportunity to know more about other countries' experience, especially at one of the most important museums in the world. But in my opinion the first exercise about how to improve our museum was exciting, because it raised a very interesting discussion!'