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Bit Salesman Job In The Oil Exploration Industry
When oil and gas wells are being drilled very expensive drill bits are used. When new oil well drilling bits are needed a bit salesman will call on the company man at the rig location to try and make the sale. Drill bits that are used in oil and gas drilling can cost from a couple thousand dollars up to well over fifty thousand dollars. High end PDC bits, which use polycrystalline diamond compact cutters, are some of the most expensive.
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Oilfield bit salesmen may work on a combination of commission and salary, but it is from sales that they make the most money.
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Modern Manners Monday: What Would You Do?
You are a working mom to eight year old twins.
Your next door neighbor has a daughter in their class. You've been paying for aftercare and are OK with doing so. One day, your neighbor approaches you and offers to let your kids get off of the bus at her house. After all, she's a stay-at-home mom and will be there when they get home. It seems like a great idea. You've known their family for a few years and couldn't be more comfortable.
After staying there a couple of weeks, your children approach you with trepidation in their eyes and spill it: your neighbor is usually reeking of alcohol when they arrive and eventually passes out after she serves Ants On A Log.
What would YOU do?
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Ummmm k... I would immediately snatch mine up and put them back in the aftercare program. If I have managed not to succumb to being a raging alchy raising twins... it wouldnt be fair to subject my babies to such bafoonery. Besides, it's totally unsafe, they may as well be staying home by themselves!
ReplyDeleteUmm someone offering to watch my kids instead of sending them to an afterschool program would make me curious to start off. Most stay at home moms wouldn't do this for nothing. So I would wonder why would she offer. Sounds a bit suspicious to me. What's her motive? Is this for a fee for one, or is she doing this for company for her own kid. If I took her up on the offer I and found out later what was going on I would remove my children from her care and return them to the after school program. Period.
Be Encouraged!Wow..this one hit close to home. A good friend (we met at church) slowly started to show signs of severe alcohol abuse. I spoke to her gently about getting help ... but to no avail. I don't let my kids go to her house any more and the friendship has been idle. A very sad story. Unfortunately, with substance abuse, the person has to want to get help.
ReplyDelete- AnonymousFebruary 7, 2011 at 7:09 PM
I'm worried not just for your children (who have a loving and protective mother with the means to provide for a safe environment), but that woman's child also. That child needs help and has no one to watch out for her safety. I can't suggest how to do this politely, but you may want to think of it as more than just "you can't watch my children." Considering this woman had you fooled, I can't imagine how isolated that child is in her misery.


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Hmmm. Each time the OP appears, (has to be asked), and the response is so low-key and dismissive, la petite mort goes a little deeper; spreads a little further; lasts a little longer.I think I agree with you. However, this makes me glad because I don't think the responses are dismissive or low-key. Also, I remember a time when it was oft asked if C++ would replace C and clearly both of those languages today enjoy vibrant lives and even a mild form of cultural symbiosis. I expect that 10 or 15 years from now it will be similar for Perl 5 and Perl 6.
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I made a Christmas stocking for Drew, and now I'm really into knitting again. I'm buying yarn (I'm cheap, so basically I just stalk this place for deals), pinteresting, searching Ravelry. I'm also trying to find knitting blogs to follow, which is funny since the first blogs I read were knitting ones, back in the early 2000s. I followed a ton back then, but these days I only know of a couple, so if you know of (or have) a good knitting blog let me know!
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I've played through VN and I loved it very much. I'm sure it's worth to watch this series to the end.
But I don't know why some knowing people try to write VN spoiler in anime thread. If you know the story of future episodes, you should write nothing about it. Well, I'm enjoying anime version, whether I know the story, though. |
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Another great episode. Love this show, despite a few flaws here and there (still find the characters a bit uneven - especially the Makise + Okarin interactions).
Loved the whole scene where Makise is reading off the mission reports. Made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Very creepy and well done. 'Human is dead. Mis-match'... brrrr..... Somehow have still managed to avoid all spoilers! It's been so long since I have watched a show like this where I have no friggin' idea what's going on! It's great! Thanks to the admins for ruthlessly stamping out all spoilers! I love you! Quote:
... not sure what I think of her rolling around on Daru's shirt though.... Lab coats FTW! ~Duturu! |
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Episode 5 was awesome once again. I wonder what she has against Kurisu... |
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However it's spelled, I wonder if that line would be as effective if it wasn't KanaHana playing Nessa Shiro Kuroneko Shiemi Charlotte Noir Yuki Shiori Mayuri. When she gets the right role she can really knock it out of the park.
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I love when this show crosses into the ridiculous and insane. Episode 5 glorified Okarin as the craziest guy on Earth wearing a lab coat. Now he's drawn Kurisu into his madness - "Let's stand with our hands in our coat pockets!!!!!" Meanwhile, Moeyuri and Kyuristina got it on. Plenty of material for all the Darus watching out there. But I forget to talk about crouching tiger, hidden Suzuka. "KURISU....!!!!"
Steins;Gate: Such a guilty pleasure. Episode 6 Rating: 8.5/10 |
2011-05-05, 07:54 | Link #818 |
What can I say, those sad puppy eyes, her トゥットゥルー as my new ringtone (thanks again to the dude that ripped that soundbite), okeariNYAsaimase, oh! and her bye-bye in ep.2, which sounded like pai-pa*. Damn it, she even displaced Feyris, who gathers all (save glasses) from my fetishes
And that's the thing with steins;gate, the Mayushii-overload always happens a couple of days after the creepy and mind-boggling moments that the show offers... Ah! I hope P4 and F/Z will be adequate replacements in autumn |
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Twenty years after his death, Roald Dahl is enjoying blockbuster success with recent film adaptations of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Fantastic Mr Fox. In the past couple of years Matilda, The BFG and George's Marvellous Medicine have all been adapted for the theatre. Maybe directors are finally realising the dramatic potential of Dahl's stories, or maybe it's just that the generation who grew up reading them in the 1970s and 1980s is now having children of their own.
Latest to hit the UK stage is an operatic interpretation of Fantastic Mr Fox by US composer Tobias Picker. In truth, it's over a decade since it premiered at Los Angeles Opera but the work is enjoying a renaissance: last summer an abridged, open air production played at Opera Holland Park and now a full-length orchestral version is about to receive its UK premiere with English Touring Opera. This latest production is tied to an ambitious education scheme that involves a different chorus of children and fox cub roles at each of the 10 scheduled venues round the country.
Part of the opera's appeal lies in its adaptability: "There are three full-length versions," Picker explains, "then I made this one for small orchestra, then a seven-instrument version, and then an abridged seven-instrument version for Holland Park."
Throughout his early career in the 1980s Picker was regarded primarily as an orchestral composer and best known for his tone poem "Old and Lost Rivers". In 1996, however, his first opera, an adaptation of Judith Rossner's novel Emmeline, premiered at Santa Fe Opera to great acclaim and soon afterwards Donald Sturrock, artistic director of the Roald Dahl Foundation, and Dahl's widow, Liccy, approached him with their idea for Fantastic Mr Fox.
"Donald had already written the libretto so I said 'Send it to me'," Picker explains. "I didn't expect much because usually unsolicited things are amateur but this was brilliant and I fell in love with it."
Already familiar with Dahl's short stories, Picker quickly saw musical promise in the knockabout tale of foxes tricking a trio of nasty farmers. And having agreed to the project he was invited to Great Missenden, the village in Buckinghamshire where Dahl lived, to "soak up local colour and see where the fox that inspired him to write the book used to gambol".
Throughout history, few children's operas have entered the popular repertoire; young audiences seem to present challenges of their own. For Fantastic Mr Fox, Picker blended a range of musical influences – a foxtrot, inevitably, hints of jazz and a strong percussion element – into his own style. Above all, he sought to engage a wide range of ages. "It's not a children's opera, it's a family opera," he says.
"There are many dark things that the kids can get but then there are darker things still that only the adults can get. I was keen to explore all the different layers of meaning."
Many of Dahl's adult stories, and indeed elements of his children's fiction (just think of Bruce Bogtrotter, Veruca Salt and Willy Wonka), display a dark, at times grotesque, sense of humour. And certainly his love of rhythm, word play and onomatopoeia is a gift to any librettist. In Fantastic Mr Fox there is even an in-built chorus about the farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean. Sturrock's libretto preserves Dahl's wit, while adding an element of dramatic humour: one of the stage directions requires Bunce to goose-step up and down while rhapsodising about the pleasures of goose meat.
Far from being hamstrung by the book, Sturrock used it as springboard for new ideas, introducing a handful of new characters and narrative threads. As well as the original cast of foxes we have Miss Hedgehog, a spin(e)ster who falls for a Mr Porcupine, a pair of malevolent machines, Mavis the Tractor and Agnes the Digger, and a rat named Rita. "Donald had originally envisaged Rita as a sort of ageing hippy," Picker says, "but I added more layers than that and I made her Jewish by giving her klezmer music."
And – a first for Dahl – there's the introduction of a gay subtext. "So there's a suggestion of romantic interest between Badger and Mole, and then the other same-sex couple are Mavis and Agnes, who happen to be lesbian farm equipment," Picker explains with delight. "I think it's in keeping with updating Dahl's sensibility."
According to Tim Yealland, director of the ETO production, contemporary relevance was important. "There's an element of time travel for us but we've gone for a world that young people can read as being now rather than a Roald Dahl past." Unlike the original production, which featured stunning but very stylised costumes and sets based on designs by Gerald Scarfe, the ETO production focuses more on character. Yealland says his Mr Fox is "a sort of raffish, rakish, Russell Brand type" and describes the "luscious" coat of spines worn by Miss Hedgehog.
Picker has enjoyed increasing exposure this side of the Atlantic. A new dance work entitled Awakenings, commissioned by Ballet Rambert, is touring the UK and there are plans for Fantastic Mr Fox to become an annual fixture at Holland Park. Picker is also hopeful that the opera will receive its German premiere in the near future, and says that a number of US companies are interested.
As artistic director of a new opera company to be based at the $200m performing arts centre being built in San Antonio, Texas, he admits that Fantastic Mr Fox is likely to feature there too. The opera house is not due to open to the public until 2013 but he has already given the programming some thought.
"You know the Fox News slogan, Fair and Balanced? Well my programme will be fair and balanced," he laughs. "I'll have to be careful not to over-programme myself. I want to do American premieres but it won't be exclusively new work – my favourite composer is Puccini – and it will be designed to offer a balanced diet."
'Fantastic Mr Fox', Hackney Empire, London, on March 10 and tours the UK until May 26 www.englishtouringopera.org.uk


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The Worm: Safeway responds! New mini carts arrive
Has anyone noticed the new fleet of mini, black shopping carts that arrived about a week ago at the Wenatchee Safeway?
It's true. A way-home-from-work visit to the store last week revealed dozens of the new carts prowling the aisles, each pushed by an overjoyed-and-thankful-looking customer.
Now, this could be purely coincidence, but these new grocery movers appeared on the scene less than a month after your Worm expounded in print on the scarsity and deplorable condition of the existing mini carts — and the unique challenge faced by that store of keeping the carts on the premises.
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Onwards and upwards with Brando—is there any other way? Now in it's 162nd iteration, their handy SATA hard disk dock has speakers. Excelsior!
A two-port USB hub is also included (duh!), and it appears that the speakers can play MP3s directly from your USB devices or hard disks. Me? I'm holding out for the one that also integrates a bottle opener and personal massager. This one's $59. [Brando]
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- Built in 2-Port USB Hub
- Built in Stereo Speaker - speaker output power is 3W
- Built in USB Audio Sound Card
- Line-in function - Let the HDD dock be a standalone speaker system
- Microphone in and Speaker output function - Let you connect it with
a headset and therefore access easily to the VOIP applications, such
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- Support Window 2000/XP/Vista, Mac OS 9.X or higher
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Joss Whedon Gossip
Joss Whedon gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Wonder Woman doesn't quit
The second trailer for Wonder Woman has been released, and building off the stellar first trailer it's more great action and Wonder Woman kicking men in the head. I really love how these trailers are looking, despite the Zack Snyder Grimdark Aesthetic, and I LOVE that music theme. We get to see more of Chris Pine as Steve Trevor, and Lucy Davis is outrageously charming as Etta Candy, and we also get to see a little bit of Wonder Woman in action with her golden lasso. Full Story
Joss Whedon's celebrity friends want you to vote
Joss Whedon founded a Super PAC (America's campaigning rules are Byzantine and insane) called Save The Day and announced it today with a PSA filled with his celebrity friends. Full Story
Joss Whedon quits Twitter, world implodes
On Monday, Joss Whedon quit Twitter. I assumed it was because with Avengers: Age of Ultron open in all the theaters everywhere, he was finally done promoting it and so he deleted his Twitter page, which was started two years ago to promote a movie. I didn't think much of it at first, but by the end of the day the internet was going nuts, saying that Whedon didn't quit, he was run out of electrical town on rails by a horde of rage-feminists who were mad at him for something about the Black Widow. Full Story
Joss Whedon wants out of the superhero boys' club
After The Avengers became the third-highest grossing film in modern cinema in 2012, Marvel handed him a bag of money and the gig directing the sequel, Avengers: Age of Ultron. Now, approaching the release of Ultron and probably also the end of his tenure at Marvel, Whedon sounds more than ready to go. Full Story
Superhero Clubhouse!
With Warner Brothers electing to save Batman vs. Superman for next summer's Comic-Con, this summer's convention belongs squarely to the other superhero orgy in our lives, The Avengers: Age of Ultron. To that end, Entertainment Weekly is featuring a first look at Ultron on the cover of its Comic-Con preview issue, and it is very, very cool. Full Story
Blonde Obsession
Sarah's probably mad at me that I called this article because I'm sure there are all kinds of nerdy details in these photos from the Aosta set of Avengers: Age Of Ultron that she could be pointing out but …this post isn't about comic book movies. Joss Whedon is there, of course, because he did the best job of the first movie but also Jeremy Renner's Hawkeye and Elisabeth Olsen as the Scarlet Witch. Full Story
Joss Whedon: Crushing it
This week was the premiere of Marvel and ABC's joint venture, Agents of SHIELD, the small-screen spin-off of Marvel's cinematic universe, starring Clark Gregg as Agent Coulson. It led the fall season as the most hyped new show, and the one carrying almost unbearable expectations thanks to the success of The Avengers. Full Story
Marvel rocks Comic-Con 2013: Saturday edition
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On Saturday, Marvel held their annual nerd rock concert in Hall H and totally buried Warner Brothers/DC's announcement that the Man of Steel sequel will be a Superman/Batman match-up. That got a lot of screams earlier in the day but by the end of the night, all anyone was talking about was Marvel's upcoming films, especially Guardians of the Galaxy. Full Story
Marvel rocks Comic-Con 2013: Friday edition
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Is it any surprise? It's their second home. Marvel made an impressive showing on Friday in both Hall H for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and in Ballroom 20 for their TV venture, Agents of SHIELD. First up, the Agents of SHIELD panel in Ballroom 20. Agent Coulson himself, Clark Gregg, got a standing ovation when he was introduced—by far the biggest reaction for any Marvel actor except for Tom Hiddleston, and even then it was pretty close. Full Story
RDJ & Joss Whedon
Look, any time there are new Robert Downey Jr photos, I will always try to post them, even if there's nothing to say beyond...I love him so much. Today, though, there are new RDJ photos AND there's something new to say. Or, rather, it's what Joss Whedon has to say. Whedon is working on The Avengers 2. Full Story
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Gus Bailey earned All-Western Athletic Conference and NABC All-District honors twice (1973-74) during his tenure at UTEP. In 76 games with the Miners, Bailey averaged 12.3 points and 5.8 rebounds, shooting 51.1 percent from the field. He totaled 973 points in only three seasons and recorded 12 double-double (points/rebounds) games. Bailey participated in the 1974 World Games. He was chosen in the second round of the 1974 NBA Draft by the Houston Rockets and played five seasons in the league.
Gloria Estrada played on the first team in UTEP women's basketball history (1974-75 season). She made an immediate impact as a sophomore as coach Carol Ammerman worked much of the offense around her. Estrada teamed with Shirley Acosta to give UTEP a prolific scoring tandem. She had a versatile offensive repertoire in an era before the installation of the three-point shot. She led the Miners in scoring as both a junior and senior and is tied for second in school history for most field goals made in a game (14 versus NM State on Jan. 29, 1977).
Harry Flournoy was the leading rebounder and a team captain on the 1966 national championship squad. He played in 83 games for Texas Western, averaging 6.8 points and 10.1 rebounds. He had 221 rebounds as a sophomore, 306 as a junior and 309 as a senior. He joins Jim Barnes as the only Miners to register 300 rebounds in two separate seasons. He ranks fourth in school history with 836 rebounds. His career rebounding average is third in school annals.
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Ordering plants online and how to acclimate new plants Hi all, I can never seem to find the plants I want at my local fish supply store. Does anyone (in the United States) have any idea where a reputable place to order plants would be? And when they arrive, do you rinse them or something before adding them to your aquarium? How does one acclimate new plants? I think I've read to limit the lighting for the first few days? Any help appreciated : ) |
I've ordered plants online a number of times and my favorite place to order by far is: www.aquariumplants.com I take them at their word that their plants come from "plant only" tanks and are "snail free". The plants arrive and they go directly into my tank(s), after I've pruned off any damaged or unsightly looking leaves. A few of the anubias I've ordered have come with some massively long root systems and I usually cut those back before securing them onto whatever it is I want them to grow on. HTH PS. Limiting the light is something you wouldn't want to do. Plants require light to live and they've been shipped "in the dark". The sooner they receive light the better, IMHO. |
Agree with kymmie on the process. And I've always bought from local stores, so no experience with online but if kymmie says they're good, fine with me. Plants should be put in their new (permanent) environment as soon as possible and not kept in temporary or holding tanks. This is because a change in water parameters can affect them, but not like it does fish. A plant will adjust to different parameters frequently by shedding existing leaves (there are a couple reasons for this I won't get into here) and new leaves will (or should) immediately appear, but if this starts and then the parameters are changed yet again, it can set the plants back further. Of course, some plants adapt better than others to varying pH, hardness, temperature and light. But there is no need to stress them further than necessary. Byron. |
When I get plants via mail, I first set them in the house for a lil while in their little bags to avoid shock between being outdoors cool and in comparison very warm tank water. Then I hang the bags inside the tank, add 1/2 cup water or so every so often and then depending on how much time I got on hand a few hrs after they arrived I plant them. That's for empty non stocked tanks. If I have any stocked tanks and order from a 'unknown' place then I do the same process, just I put tank water in my large buckets and have them sitting in their for at least half day and then I kinda "rinse" them out in there. Don't know really if that has any benefit, apart from the fact I once put a plant (from the strore) strait in my shrimp tank, by the time 2 shrimp instantly died I ripped it out and took my shrimp inot the back up tank (over- fertilized plants I'd think). |
I have also found aquariumplants.com to be a good place to order. Plants were in good shape, mine however were not snail free. Snails don't really bother me though, they would of gotten in there one way or another. There substitutions did bother me. I had a couple substitutions that I don't think were equal in my eyes. I ordered some kinda fancy sword and they substituted a weird anubias for it. I got some H. corybosa from them too which came in its emersed form. It takes a while for plants to switch over and they tend to shed their leaves. aquabid.com is also a good place to order. Maybe cheaper too. |
I have a new order due to arrive today from aquariumplants.com and I hope I don't get sent any substitutions! Mikaila31, did you make any inquiry about it to them or just let it go?? A *weird* anubias instead of a fancy sword? I wouldn't have been happy with that either! |
be careful ordering from people you dont know like on ebay and such i got some in for my wife and they infested her tank with anchor worm and it has been a struggle to get rid of it since... |
i ordered some plants from AquariumPlants.com Largest online sales / service site for the live aquarium plants & aquarium products community. and they were completly dead. they were all way past dead and they came dried out, it looked like they put them in there already dead. i will never recommend this sight and will never go their again. if you do order online i would recomend ordering from http://www.aquariumplantsandsupplies.com/ i ordered some moss from them and it came great, all green. even though they ship from japan (at least they ship moss from their) it came perfect. i did wait for about 3 weeks for it to come but as i said it just sprung back up. |
[quote=teddyzaper;275581]i ordered some plants from AquariumPlants.com Largest online sales / service site for the live aquarium plants & aquarium products community. and they were completly dead. they were all way past dead and they came dried out, it looked like they put them in there already dead. i will never recommend this sight and will never go their again.quote] Wow, I'm surprized. I just received my latest order from this same site (second time I've ordered from them) and the plants arrived in great condition. Did you contact the company and ask for a full refund/replacement?? |
I ordered valisneria and 4-leaf clover from aquariumplants.com and the plants weren't dry but in a bag with a little water. I actually got 4 extra by the time I sorted out all the val runners and etc. The runners on the plants were going rotten and they just broke off. I think if they had been in transit for a day or 2 more they might have been in really bad shape. I used the 2 day cheepo shipping. |
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Is there a general value equivalent for swimming as related to running? Example: Does 600m in the pool roughly equal 1 mile on the road or is it too arbitrary of a item to assign a general value?
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At this point I think that is not your most important problem.
It's a 5k. It hurt like hell...then I tried to pick it up. The end.
Too arbitrary. But, I find that 1500 yards swimming is similar to a 5k race in terms of effort and time.
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I am guessing 500-600m of lap swimming is a rough equivalent to 1 mile of running as far as cross-training is concerned. Thanks for your opinion. Others with stupid responses please don't bother.
Except that it isn't.
You can't really equate them. That was the actual point of the responses you consider "stupid".
Just because one person says that x yards "feels like" a 5k doesn't really mean much. Form is everything when it comes to swimming. And the wee matter of HOW HARD YOU SWAM. Lap swimming is only going to feel like a 5k to me if I swim hard.
Does anyone know the answer to this one? I've already sharpened my axe and I'm planning on some early christmas shopping.
When it's all said and done, will you have said more than you've done?
It doesn't work that way. Multiple iPads go into each tree, but you can't get the iPads back out of the tree.
Is the tree hollow?
Inhabited by master baker elves?
I am both a runner and swimmer and this is what i think based on time and effort:
Swim Run
50 meters = 200 meters
100 meters = 400 meters
200 meters = 800 meters
500 meters = 1600 meters/mile
1000 meters = 3200 meters/2 mile
mile = 5000 meters/5k
Is the tree hollow? Inhabited by master baker elves?
They used to be master baker elves until they got their iPads. That's why you can't get iPads out of a tree.
And once they started dinking around with their ipads, the cookies went to shit too.
I am guessing 500-600m of lap swimming is a rough equivalent to 1 mile of running as far as cross-training is concerned. Thanks for your opinion.
I will add that the 1500yd : 5k comparison is for me and my effort. I think the key point would be "my" and "I". However, I notice that the ratio for you and for "Sean" were also about the same. I'm guessing that both you, Sean, and I are all swimming enough to have a good feel for the proper ratio.
Now, I understand that some of the others who don't swim or swim downhill would have different ratios, and I think that's what some of the other responses refer to. I remember my first outing swimming laps, I would have thought that about 300 yards was about the same effort as a 5k, but that's because I was swimming like a sunken dutch windmill.


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COLOSSEUM The Complete Reunion Concert Cologne 1994 DVD
…the concert is more than competently filmed, and the documentary contains priceless archive footage…Colosseum: grizzled but great.
Michael Heatley, Classic Rock (March 2003)
This well-filmed, good-sounding release from the Angel Air label captures the best line-up the band ever had…A must for all Colosseum fans.
Tony Shevlin, East Anglian Times (January 2003)
This is one of those DVDs where everything comes together in a perfect package…As a unit the band are incredibly tight, and produce music that is extremely complex with enough time changes and note density to please even the most unconvinced prog head. Add to that the power and presence of Chris Farlowe, who proves that he is still a vocalistto be reckoned with, and this concert is a joy from start to finish.
But if that wasn't enough, there is a 90 minute documentary detailing the complete history of the band, which is jam packed with interviews and relevant footage and photos…If you are a proghead, yet have never heard Colosseum before…then this is a wonderful introduction.
Kevin Rowland, ghostland.com (June 2003)
There's a 90 minute 'Story of Colosseum' which is fine stuff. The music – well if you liked Colosseum then you'll love this and you'll want it in your collection. That whole thing about Those About To Die Salute You and Valentyne Suite was a superb period of music, evolution and development for so many great names and bands that it must not be ignored. The aforementioned albums are and remain classics of their time and in many ways timeless pieces too. Here we have the classic line-up and Chris Farlowe in a rousing Stormy Monday. Each player takes his turn at soloing and it is good to watch
Caleb, Blues Matters (July 2003)
The concert is great, one of the best live DVDs of recent years. But the real meat in this package is delivered by the bonus feature, a 90 minute Story Of Colosseum documentary that itself serves up both fascinating footage and a treasure-trove of memories.
Jo-Ann Greene, Goldmine (August 2004)
Imagine taking Blood, Sweat & Tears or the original Chicago, then add more Classical influence, more Blues and make them very British. Also consider taking Jethro Tull and adding more Blues and Rock. Either way, you would then begin to get the idea of Colosseum, which one member may rightly claim is the first such band of its kind.
Any inspiration by or influence either of or on Van Morrison is a separate essay, but Colosseum Live – Colosseum Lives – The Complete Reunion Concert – Cologne 1994 is a solid new DVD that gives a fine overview of the band then and now.
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Begun in the 1960s, the guys in Colosseum burned out rather quickly and disbanded in 1971. This DVD features the band's reunion concert…23 years later (!)…in Cologne. Colosseum is/was Jon Hiseman, Chris Farlowe, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Clem Clempson, Mark Clarke, and Dave Greenslade.
Colosseum truly was the perfect merging of blues with progressive rock. The rhythm section is dense and thick…while the heady guitars and keyboards drive the music forward.
In addition to the concert, this DVD includes a 90 minute documentary entitled "The Story of Colosseum." This is recommended for fans of the band as well as anyone interested in progressive rock bands from the twentieth century. Good entertainment value here. (Rating: 4++++)
Babysue (January 2006)
COLOSSEUM is yet another legendary UK band from the 1970s of whom now a reunion DVD is available. The reunion took place in 1994 in Germany, so 10 years went by before it was captured on DVD, but in 2004 the DVD was released of his historic event.
I have to say that I don't think COLOSSEUM was one of the better bands in the British Rockscene from the 1970s, but still I guess the true fans of the band will be happy with this DVD release, because it contains the full concert from 1994 and a 90 minutes counting documentary on the band. The total playing time of the DVD is more than 3 hours, so you definitely get value for your money. (Points: 8.0 out of 10)
Gabor Kleinbloesem, Strutter'Zine (January 2006)
The individual skills of each member goes without saying but seeing them here together again after so many years, playing better than ever…is a joy to watch…
The documentary is a must see for long-time fans of the band…an indispensible addition to every Colosseum and 70s music lovers DVD library.
Sea of Tranquility (January 2006)
It's spectacular…the musicianship is undeniably stunning…
A deserving re-release for a wonderful postscript to the history of a great band


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Men should dress with a sense of fun on Christmas day and not take themselves too seriously. Put on that jumper your granny has spent months knitting you. You might feel like a total idiot at the time but it will make her so happy. The smile on her face will be worth the years of embarrassing photographs.
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The novelty wear that some men think comes hand in hand with the Christmas season is questionable: reindeer antlers, Santa hats and tinsel around the neck – it's often a bit too much and the wrong side of quirky. Instead, I don't think you can go wrong with a festive Fair Isle knit, it's all about choosing the colour carefully – navy, black, cherry red, ivy green are all perfect for the holiday season, and layering up with chunky knit scarves brings it all together. For me, Christmas is a time to unwind and spend with my loved ones, so I gravitate towards cosy comfortable outfits but it's also a time where you can have a little more fun with your wardrobe choices – a black tux with plaid shirt for instance – it's about mixing it up but getting the balance between classic and quirky right.
Barry Tulip, Design director, Gieves & Hawkes
The Christmas clichés are back with a vengeance this winter – primarily thanks to the recent retro-resurgence we've seen in London's trendy East End, where hipsters worship at a post-ironic altar of crass Rudolph jumpers, holly and ivy hats and tatty, glittery waistcoats come December. It's always been part of London's street style scene to experiment with clothes that look "wrong" or "uncool" and the obsession with cringeworthy Christmas knits, previously the domain of Colin Firth or a dodgy great uncle, is a perfect example.
I'm not much of a fan of the trend myself: but I can definitely see the merits of a smart pair of tartan trousers, with elegant connotations of a refined Balmoral Christmas. Worn correctly, they are an amazing statement buy for the festive season.
I personally prefer a more understated wardrobe during Christmas, It's a time for family and relaxation, not a fashion parade. Men should be allowed to indulge themselves in gorgeous luxury items that they love wearing rather than playing for laughs from the crowd. Cashmere knitwear in rich bright colours is always a wonderful treat, matched with a simple shirt and a pair of lightly brushed grey or navy wool trousers. Ultimately, for all the decorations and seasonal clichés, Christmas is about feeling comfortable in what you wear and around those you love. You might find that a little difficult when wearing a vile Frosty the Snowman knit.
Alex Bilmes, Editor, British Esquire
Lots of the big fashion houses have done what one might regard as a Christmas jumper in that they are chunky, have seasonal patterns and are in Christmassy colours. Actually, they look really smart and they feel right for now, they are upbeat and funny and slightly – but not too – ironic. Just wear them with quite conservative jeans or cords and a plain blazer, rather than a wacky bow tie, say, or you will look like you are in a Hollywood comedy about a rubbish elf.
Ed Burstell, Managing director, Liberty
I think you should get dressed up at Christmas because there are fewer and fewer times to do so due to the casualisation of the workplace and fewer special occasions. You want to be relaxed but it needs to be age appropriate. From around 30 onwards, I think an ironic sweater with candy canes on it is over. I would probably wear a velvet jacket from, say, Lanvin, Paul Smith, Tom Ford or Joseph, and if you really want some colour on that, you could pop it with an amazing pocket square. A a cosy knitted tie could also work well.
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Historical revisionism
""Interpretations of the past are subject to change in response to new evidence, new questions asked of the evidence, new perspectives gained by the passage of time. [...] The unending quest of historians for understanding the past — that is, "revisionism" — is what makes history vital and meaningful.
—James M. McPherson[1] |
Historical revisionism is a practice in historiography in which a historian reinterprets traditional views of causes and effects, decisions, and evidence. It is said that "history is written by the winners." Thus, it is essential that we look at history with a critical eye. As such, it is an accepted and important part of historical endeavor for it serves the dual purpose of constantly re-examining the past while also improving our understanding of it. Indeed, if one accepts that history attempts to help us better understand today by better understanding how we got here, revisionism is essential. Only idiots take history wholeheartedly as indisputable facts.
Issues arise, however, when a historian presents a revisionist thesis, such as "America was founded by a radical Zionist cabal" or "Communism had its origins in Picasso's Blue Period," and do not back it up with anything resembling credible facts. They may even deny the credibility of those facts (see the section on denialists below) or ignore contradictory evidence (it was the Rose Period that was plastered with anti-capitalist messages, not the Blue). This is exceedingly rare, but when it happens it usually has much more publicity than the "boring" academic revisionism.
"Historical revisionism" is often used as a snarl word, implying that the practice is inherently bad or equating it with negationism.
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[edit] Origin of term
Following World War I, "revisionism" first came into use to denote those who wanted to revise the Treaty of Versailles as unfair to Germany given the new evidence emerging. This movement was primarily among progressive sociologists and historians associated with the New Republic, The Nation and the Christian Century, to debunk wartime propaganda especially as it related to drawing the United States into the war and the question of sole German guilt for starting the war. Groups with other views on the Treaty of Versailles, the so-called "Salvagers" and "Bitterenders" wanted to keep the treaty as-was.
After the rise of Hitler, this became a moot point, the other terms were forgotten, and revisionism acquired its current meaning applicable to any subject. For a while in the middle 20th century, the term suffered from redundant overuse (Pearl Harbor "revisionism," "revisionism" about the Joe Hill and Sacco/Vanzetti cases, etc.). The distasteful connotations of the term appear to date from around 1979 when negationists such as Willis Carto appropriated the term and began calling themselves "Holocaust revisionists." Henceforth, historical revisionism has sometimes been used as a snarl word and accusing someone of peddling revisionist history a cheap way of brushing them off by implying they are of the same ilk as the Holocaust deniers. This is unfortunate given that historians are always discovering new facts and revising historical narratives, making revisionism a legitimate practice and a continuous process: in a sense, saying "revisionist history" is redundant to just calling it "history."
[edit] Types of revisionists
A majority of revisionist historians do very legitimate work; however, just as science will always have to deal with pseudoscience and economics will always have to deal with Ayn Rand and Murray Rothbard, historiography must deal with its share of denialists, negationists, and fringe authors.
[edit] Legitimate types
[edit] Group-oriented
Much of historical revisionism is the re-examination of historical periods and events from the point of view of a specific group, like women, blacks, Native Americans, the working class, etc. These revisionists feel that the traditional views have ignored or downplayed the role a particular group played in the event— early Reconstruction historiography largely ignored the economic and social gains of freedmen, focusing on the "plight" of the Southern whites. Some examples of this type of revisionism:
- Robert Harvey, former assistant editor of the The Economist, author of A Few Bloody Noses, a British-based interpretation of the American Revolution, which stresses the oppression of Native Americans in the conflict.
- Eric Foner, author of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, arguing that while blacks did not attain full equality during Reconstruction, it represented a "foot in the door" of equality, and was the precursor to the civil rights movement a hundred years later.[2]
[edit] Cultural
All writers of history, and historians, are influenced by the historical zeitgeist, the "spirit of the times":
- Rampant racism in late 19th century America was the reason the then-contemporary Dunning school of Reconstruction (God, the name is perfect) historiography all but ignored blacks, for example. Thus, when cultural attitudes undergo dramatic shifts, historians also seek to re-examine history from the new cultural perspective.
- Carl Oglesby, whose The Yankee and Cowboy War frames 20th century U.S. politics as a power struggle between two competing aristocracies, one based in the north and east in banking, Wall Street, and prep and Ivy League social networks; the other in the south and west in oil, real estate, energy, and high tech.
- Philip Jenkins, left-wing historian, author of A History of the United States. Originally British, now claims American citizenship. Focuses on the influence of the far-right in his studies; tends to attribute wingnut conspiracy theories for much of the American social failures from 1950 onward.
[edit] Economic
Just like there are economic historians, there are revisionist economic historians, such as:
- Charles Beard's enormously influential (but now largely discredited) 1913 book An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States argued that the economic situations and interests of the Constitutional Convention attendees greatly influenced them.
- A Monetary History of the United States, by Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz, presented much of American history from a "monetarist" point of view.
[edit] Marxist
Marxist revisionists use social class, the social relations of production, and economic conditions as their main lens, and see these as the primary catalysts for social change throughout history, as Karl Marx himself did. Marxist historians are not necessarily communists, though most tend to be left-leaning. One major flaw of Marxist history is that its hypotheses are often not provable or falsifiable, since it asserts that historical figures and events were influenced by socio-economic factors which may not have been apparent at the time:
- Marxist historians of the Reformation and post-Reformation eras, particularly Christopher Hill, have argued that many of the grassroots Puritan movements emerging in this time, such as the proliferation of spontaneous religious sects during the English Civil War and Interregnum, were actually expressing social and economic frustrations. These movements' revolutionary criticisms and demands were couched in religious terms, since Christianity was the dominant worldview through which all ideas were expressed and, according to Marxist theory, the movements' leaders and members would have been unable to express their discontent in secular terms.
[edit] Then there is Howard Zinn
[edit] Unsavory types
These examples fall into two general genres. One is often referred to as "triumphalism," which is the attempt to use history to create a Passion Play-type morality tale to extol the virtues of an ideology or a group (such as American exceptionalism or Christianity). This is sometimes given the pejorative nickname "Whig history" or "Whiggishness" in reference to triumphalist histories pushed by British Whig[3] politicians in the early 20th century. The other is almost the polar opposite of triumphalism and could be called "depravitism" or ""degeneratism".[4] It seeks to blame any number of (current) ills on some historical bogeyman and uses fear mongering about a looming apocalypse to scare its adherents into line, typically with rosy nostalgic stories of the good old days. One example is the hatred of the Age of Enlightenment among some religious fundamentalists whose Passion Play version of history depicts it as a latterday parallel to original sin and the Middle Ages as a golden age.
[edit] Wingnuts
Fox News had a habit of saying "history will be the judge" of the administration of George W. Bush — an interesting way of deferring responsibility for current events to a hazy future.[5] Neocons have even begun to write the implied history favorable to the Bush White House, especially his main foreign policy faux pas. American conservatives and reactionaries have also long endeavored to rewrite history from the point of view of extremist exceptionalism and Americentrism. Here are some examples:
- William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, who is even now busily rewriting the history of the United States's glorious successes in the Iraq War.
- In a more recent (March 2010) example, illiterates won the vote to revise Texan history and social studies textbooks to promote American superiority,
laissez-fairethe "free enterprise" system,[6] and "Christian values." Considering Texas is the largest buyer of textbooks in United States, this will have a big impact on history classes in schools across the country, if only the "Texas version" is available to smaller school systems.[7][8] - B.G. Burkett, whose book Stolen Valor is a complete rewrite of the conventional wisdom about the Vietnam War. According to the book: Agent Orange, PTSD, homeless vets, and anti-war vets groups are all inventions of liberals trying to expand the welfare state, most of the popular nonfiction on the war is riddled with fraudulent testimonies, most atrocities attributed to U.S. troops never actually happened, and nobody is really a Vietnam vet, even if they really were in Vietnam, unless they hew to his noxious brand of neoconservatism. This late 1990s book swiftboated John Kerry in this way several years before swiftboating was even a word.[9]
- William Bennett, drug warrior, moral panic purveyor, and author of such works as America: the Last Best Hope, which attempts to tell the story of America from the perspective of strong American exceptionalism, and the pretentiously titled The Book of Virtues.
- The nonsense from wingnuts that a) Hitler was a lefty; b) The Confederacy they used to love so much was liberal all along; c) Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement were conservatives; and d) Bush kept us safe. No, seriously.
- The Japanese internment camps were justified and right! See Michelle Malkin and her book In Defense of Internment.
- Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism were right all along. See Ann Coulter.
- The New Deal destroyed the economy, which, as every historian/economist knows, would have picked up by itself much more quickly without FDR's help. Also, Herbert Hoover was a socialist disguised as a conservative.
- The New Left took over the Democratic Party and liberalism in general in the 1960s. A favorite for those who make this claim is that JFK lowered taxes, proving that he was more conservative than today's liberals, even though it was primarily a Keynesian demand-side cut, with the supply-side cut being considered secondary in importance.[10] Kennedy was also largely taking the advice of his economist when it came to taxes and he personally preferred to use government spending to stimulate the economy, and he was more liberal on other issues than many of today's Democrats.
- Obama caused the Great Recession, though it officially began a year before he took office and was over after his first six months. A variation: when it looked like Obama would win the presidency in 2008, the economy promptly tanked in response. This ignores the fact that John McCain was ahead up until the stock market took a nosedive; polls showed voters trusted Obama more to deal with the economy, and he pulled out in front to reflect this.
- The American Civil War wasn't about slavery, it was about states' rights… never mind that the Southern states at the time specifically named slavery as a primary motivation for seceding. See "Lost Cause of the South" for a fuller account of Civil War-related revisionism.
[edit] Moonbats
- The openly neo-Stalinist Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the second most popular political party in Russia as of today, argues that Stalin was a great man and only did what was necessary. Indeed, their website refers to the development of the USSR prior to World War II as "peaceful".[11] Like the GOP, they are very apologetic towards any wrongdoings their nation may have committed, especially while it was under the control of their revolutionary heroes.
- Attempts to downplay the brutality used against Muslims during the Bosnian War, such as claiming it doesn't really qualify as genocide or that it was a legitimate act of self-defense.
- While rare there are those who claim South Korea started the Korean War, or that North Korea had no choice but to declare war to protect itself from the South.
- Denial of the Cambodian genocide and the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot, by Noam Chomsky and others on the far left. The logic here goes: American imperialists are doing bad things in Southeast Asia; the Khmer Rouge are anti-imperialist, therefore they must be the good guys! (To his credit, Chomsky later recanted and acknowledged the scale of the genocide that happened.)
[edit] Denialists
""Pretty decent guy if you got to know him, dude would give you the shirt off his back (well as long as you weren't Jewish). Adolf loved his dogs and wife, often times he around the holidays the family could be seen caroling and preforming other festive activities around Auschwitz day camp for the Jewish, unfortunately his plans for renovations to turn the camp to a water park were canceled due to his death too bad there would have been some sweet rides there
—Urban Dictionary on Adolf Hitler |
Legitimate historical revisionism acknowledges a certain body of irrefutable evidence that confirms that an event (like the Holocaust) did occur. Denialism, on the other hand, rejects the entire foundation of historical evidence, and is closely related to historical negationism. Here are a few examples:
- David Irving, historian and Holocaust denier.[12]
- Communists, Fascists, and other totalitarians. In the USSR, "history" was constantly edited to reflect the current Party line, while Nazi Germany had the Dolchstosslegende, the idea that Germany had lost World War I because Jews had stabbed the country in the back.
- During the early 2000s, the Japanese government approved several history textbooks that downplayed Japan's own war crimes prior to and during World War II. It's no surprise that the Chinese and the Koreans (from both North and South) reacted strongly to this.[13][14] (As Stephen Ambrose put it, "The Japanese presentation of the war to its children runs something like this: 'One day, for no reason we ever understood, the Americans started dropping atomic bombs on us.'")[15]
- But apparently, that doesn't stop the Chinese government from doing the very exact same thing when it comes to fessing up to their own atrocities.[16]
- Harry Elmer Barnes, a respected academic historian before World War II who did much to establish historical revisionism as a legitimate academic field… then lost his credibility and endorsed Holocaust denial.
- Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm glosses over and largely ignores abuses committed by the Soviet Union.
[edit] Special category: More supporters of the historically illiterate
During the run-up to the 2012 presidential campaigns, multiple GOP candidates made famous verbal gaffes. Rather than admit that they had made mistakes, these candidates continued to claim that their inaccuracies were factually correct. And their supporters — who would doubtlessly balk at any hint of "pinko commie" historical revisionism — realized that they could edit Wikipedia to support these alternate versions of history. And that's exactly what they did:
- On 2 June 2011, Sarah Palin said the following:
""He who warned, uh, the British that they weren't gonna be takin' away our arms, uh, by ringing those bells, and um, makin' sure as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be sure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed.[17]
- Of course, not a single bit of this description of Paul Revere's midnight ride is correct. (In fact, it doesn't even really match up with the heavily-romanticized version popularly taught to school children.) Still, this didn't stop Caribou Barbie's supporters from relentlessly revising Revere's page on Wikipedia. In response, Wikipedia was forced to lock the page to prevent any further
- Not to be outdone, on 28 June 2011, Michele Bachmann claimed that John Quincy Adams was one of the Founding Fathers. On 4 July 1776, he was one week shy of his ninth birthday. Perhaps she was confused by the similarity of his name to the name of his father John Adams (who really was one of the Founding Fathers). But then again, when pressed on this, Bachmann stated:
""Well, John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy but he was actively involved.[18]
As with Palin's backers, Bachmann's backers took their shots at editing the John Quincy Adams page on Wikipedia.[19]
[edit] Reasons
There are a number of reasons historical revisionism occurs and that the first perspective on a period or event does not remain the orthodoxy forever.
[edit] New evidence
As with many other disciplines, if new data become available, current conclusions must be reassessed. In history and historiography, the following may occur:
- Documents and objects are discovered.
- Governments release classified information to the public.
- As languages are deciphered, more sources become available. The most striking example of this is perhaps the 19th century decipherment of hieroglyphics, which changed how the world views Ancient Egypt forever
- Advances in science and technology make more data accessible, such as the ages and authenticity of artifacts like the Shroud of Turin.
[edit] Cultural shifts
As cultures develop and change, new perspectives arise, and with them new perspectives on history. See above.
[edit] Ideologies
Ideology can be a major motivating factor for revisionism. The previously mentioned "Texas textbook massacre" is an example of a reevaluation of America's founders from a far-right point of view— removing references to "democracy" and replacing it with "constitutional republic" (it's the same fucking thing) and removing mentions of Thomas Jefferson, for instance. Ideologically motivated revisionism is generally frowned upon, as it tends to lead to bad places.
[edit] In fiction
""He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
—George Orwell 1984 |
Use of historical revisionism plays a significant role to many of the more plausible dystopias seen in classical works of science fiction, such as Brave New World, 1984 and Fahrenheit 451. The role of historical revisionism and other misinformation within these works echoes their role in real life repressive and totalitarian regimes from the age in which these works were written, such as Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, where national myths and distorted accounts of history were used for propaganda purposes. Such practices continue in totalitarian regimes, such as North Korea which is sometimes likened to Orwell's dystopian vision in 1984.
[edit] See also
- Alternate historical chronology
- Burning the evidence
- Memory hole
- Herstory
- History
- Negationism
- Presentism
- Pseudohistory
- Nationalist pseudohistory
[edit] References
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. New York: Harper & Row. 1988. ISBN 0-06-015851-4.
- ↑ The predecessors of today's Liberal Democrats, making this a real world example of liberal bias.
- ↑ A historical example could be the fin de siècle style of history in the late 19th and early 20th century
- ↑ This is especially funny considering that the same people openly declare Barack Obama to be the worst president in U.S. history before his term is even over.
- ↑ Because, they explain, you can't very easily say, "You free enterprise system supporting pig!"
- ↑ The Texas Textbook Massacre
- ↑ NY Times Article
- ↑ On the other hand, he does expose a few deserving (and obvious) targets like David Duke.
- ↑ http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history_lesson/2004/01/tax_cuts_in_camelot.2.html
- ↑ http://cprf.ru/party-program/
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4733820.stm
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1257835.stm
- ↑ http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/04/10/china.japan.protest.media/index.html?iref=newssearch
- ↑ Stephen Ambrose, To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian, 112.
- ↑ Good luck trying to learn about the Tiananmen Square Protests and Chinese cultural/demographic oppression of the Tibetans in Chinese government-approved history textbooks, [2]yeah?
- ↑ Malcolm, Andrew. "Sarah Palin claims Paul Revere warned the British", Los Angeles Times blogs, posted 3 June 2011.
- ↑ Stephanopoulos, George. "John Quincy Adams a Founding Father? Michele Bachmann Says Yes", ABC News website blog George's Bottom Line, posted 28 June 2011.
- ↑ Somanader, Tanya. "John Quincy Adams Wikipedia Page Edited To Describe Him As A 'Founding Father'", Think Progress website, posted 28 June 2011.


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Tonight there is no food crisis. We start with a crisp white Zuani wine, from the Fruili region northeast of Venice. Ms. Sheeran orders a spinach salad and a hearty Roman staple called cacio e pepe, a fresh pasta topped with gooey pecorino (ewe's milk) cheese and pepper. I start with anchovies bathed in olive oil, followed by the tenderloin with a side of cicoria, a variety of dandelion common to the Italian cuisine. It's all exquisite.
Ms. Sheeran has just completed her third year of her four-year term at the WFP. The 57-year-old divorced mother of three was born in New Jersey and is the daughter of James Sheeran, the Second World War hero and paratrooper who was caught by the Germans after the D-Day landings, escaped and fought with the French resistance (his book, No Surrender, was just posthumously published).
Ms. Sheeran comes by her food career honestly. After the war, her father organized a drive to feed the hard-hit towns he had helped to liberate. That example of public service has stuck with her ever since, though she spent the early years of her career as a leading member of the Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, better known as "the Moonies." She rose to become managing editor of The Washington Times, the conservative daily launched by the church and, in 1992, became the first and only American journalist to interview North Korean dictator Kim Il-Sung.
She left the Unification empire in 1997 and has spent most of her time in public service since then. Her last job in Washington was undersecretary for economic, energy and agricultural affairs at the State Department, where she worked on Bush-era projects such as reconstruction in Afghanistan and aid to Lebanon after the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.
Favoured by the Republicans for her can-do attitude, she was heavily promoted by the White House in 2007 for the WFP directorship and beat several high-profile candidates, including Canadian diplomat Robert Fowler. Within a year of landing in Rome, she was on the front lines of a hunger crisis.
In some ways, Ms. Sheeran's job is easier than her predecessors' because she has more tools to keep the hungry from starving. Not so many years ago, the WFP relied entirely on donations in the form of sacks of grain - "tied aid" whose undisguised goal was to prop up farmers in rich countries like the United States. For the most part, the agency is now getting money (Canada was one of the first donors to "untie" its aid, that is, to provide cash instead of commodities).
Cash donations have transformed WFP from an agency that once moved surplus food around the world to one that can support agricultural development and allow hungry people to buy food in local markets. One such effort is P4P - Purchase for Progress - in which farmers in poor countries are nudged into the food supply chain.
It allows the farmers to contract directly with the WFP and has several novel features, including a warehouse that acts as a bank. They deposit their crops in the warehouse and receive receipts for 60 per cent of their value, which can be exchanged for cash. The balance is paid once the commodities are sold.
Cash also allows the WFP to fund what Ms. Sheeran calls "digital food" programs, using coded cards that look like credit cards. They are designed for regions where food is not scarce, but unaffordable. "In the food crisis, there was often food on the shelves but no money to buy it," she says. "You could see starvation in the face of food."
She whips out a blue card with "bon appetit" written in Arabic on it. The cards, ubiquitous in the Palestinian lands, are used in 25 countries. The credits can be used to buy food items in local shops, supporting businesses. "This card is credited with increasing the dairy industry by 20 per cent in the areas where it's used in Palestine," she says.
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Brewers' Jean Segura might play on final trip
The Brewers are still holding out hope that injured shortstop JeanSegura will be able to play on the final trip of the season to Atlanta and New York, even in a limited capacity.
Segura missed a fourth straight game Sunday night with a strained right hamstring suffered while scoring from second base on a single Wednesday against the Chicago Cubs. Much of Segura's game is dependent on his legs, from the many infield hits he has collected to his league-leading 44 stolen bases to his range in the field.
"It feels better," Segura said Sunday before the Brewers took the field to play their final home game against St. Louis. "They said they don't want to rush it. I hope I can play this week. It depends how it feels."
The last thing the Brewers want is for Segura — who only plays at one speed — to suffer a more serious hamstring injury before season's end. But manager RonRoenicke said he might be able to be used as a hitter off the bench in the Atlanta series.
"There's a chance he'll be available in the next series," said Roenicke. "That doesn't mean necessarily he'll be starting, but he'll be available. That's what we're hoping for.
"There's a lot of situations that come up and I look down at the end of the bench and I see Seggy sitting there and I think, 'Man, it would be great to have him go up there.' He wouldn't even have to run hard. Just swing the bat."
It would be difficult to tell Segura not to run hard if he sniffs an infield hit, though Roenicke said, "You can wrap him up so tight that when you're up there, you know there's something there and it reminds you (to be careful). If you just go on instincts, you probably run down there hard."
Segura has four more stolen bases than his only real challenger — New York's Eric Young Jr. And the Brewers and Mets finish the season with four games against each other. But at this point, it's difficult to imagine his hamstring improving enough to even think about trying to steal a base.
Bianchi moves around: In Segura's absence, utility infielder JeffBianchi has been starting at shortstop. Because Segura played almost every day before getting injured, Bianchi wasn't seeing much action at shortstop, his natural position.
"He's got good instincts," said Roenicke. "When you're used to Seggy and his range and arm strength, and all he can do, it's different when you have somebody else out there."
Roenicke never likes to pigeonhole a player into one role, but said Bianchi's future with the Brewers could be as a utility infielder. He has started 26 games at third base and 11 each at second base and short.
"I've used him to pinch hit and he's got some big hits for us," said Roenicke.
Bianchi, who was batting .240 with eight doubles and 23 RBI in 208 at-bats, has enjoyed playing short but not under these circumstances.
"You never want someone to get hurt, especially this time of the year," said Bianchi. "(Segura) is having a fantastic year. It would be nice to see him finish it out strong.
"Like I've been doing all year, I've got to be prepared to play every day. I'm not sure what his status is. My mind-set is to come here every day ready to play. That's the way I always approach it."
Nelson won't start: Roenicke had talked about giving newcomer JimmyNelson a start on the final trip but backed off that talk, indicating he will stay in the bullpen.
"I think we may have a hard time working him in there," said Roenicke. "We'll know a lot more in these next couple of days. What we kind of thought may happen probably won't, so we'll go in a different direction. It's still a possibility.
"I should know in a couple of days, maybe even by tomorrow. We want to get him some innings. Whether it's in the bullpen or starting a game, I would like to see him out there."
Lefties tough on Gennett: The Brewers will face two left-handed starters in Atlanta — MikeMinor on Monday and PaulMaholm on Wednesday. Roenicke didn't say whether second baseman ScooterGennett would start against either lefty.
The left-handed-hitting Gennett has struggled mightily against lefties (2 for 30, .067) but Roenicke said he isn't particularly concerned at this point about that trend.
"History, he's .240 (in the minors) or something like that against them (.257 at Class AAA Nashville this year)," said Roenicke. "If he can do that, we're fine. But he's got to have the opportunity to do that, too.
"When you have him in there against righties and they bring in a lefty, it's always that specialist who is really tough against lefties. That's usually his only at-bat against them."