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Near the end of his insider's account of the Bush administration's efforts to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace, author Elliott Abrams cautions about temptations in Washington to put "daylight" between America and the Jewish state. Whatever the circumstances, he writes, the result is that Israel always feels less secure and is thus less likely "to take risks for peace."
The passage is part of a riveting chronicle of the last administration, but also serves as a not-so-subtle slap at the current one. With Barack Obama preparing for Tuesday's trip to Israel and the West Bank, his first as president, Abrams offers a timely warning that Obama won't achieve anything if he repeats the mistakes of the past, including his own.
The absence of serious peace talks during the last four years is largely a product of his misguided bid to tilt away from Israel and toward the Arabs. It was a policy Obama revealed in Cairo in 2009, pursued throughout his first term and, by making Israel nemesis Chuck Hagel defense secretary, continues in his second.
That fundamental error of "daylight" was compounded by another one, the full embrace of "linkage," which holds that breaking the Israeli-Palestinian deadlock would be an elixir for the entire Mideast. It never made a whit of sense, and has been totally discredited by the Arab Spring turned Arab Nightmare. To insist otherwise is also to claim the mad mullahs of Iran want the bomb and Syria's Assad is slaughtering his own people because the Palestinians don't have a state.
Abrams, who served under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, including as the Middle East point man, deftly demolishes these and other myths. His book, "Tested by Zion," opens with a bang — he recounts a meeting between Bill Clinton and Bush in the White House on the day Bush was inaugurated in 2001.
"That son of a bitch [Yasser] Arafat — don't, can't trust him," a witness said of Clinton's tirade against the late, double-dealing Palestinian. "The biggest mistake I made in my presidency."
Monica Lewinsky notwithstanding, Clinton's sense of betrayal sets the stage for a fresh approach, one locked into place by 9/11. After that horror, Bush understood and shared Israel's determination not to yield to terror or reward it with concessions, although he was also the first president to make the creation of a Palestinian state official American policy.
Abrams, despite his fondness for Bush, faults him and especially his two secretaries of state, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, for repeating Clinton's mistake of succumbing to the lure of the "peace process," even before the Palestinians have rejected terrorism.
Daily-life improvements for ordinary Palestinians and Israelis are the key to progress, Abrams argues. He approvingly quotes former British Prime Minister Tony Blair as telling Bush not to "put all our eggs into the basket of diplomacy," and that "reality on the ground will shape an agreement, not vice versa."
Ironically, because of his first-term failures, Obama now gets something of a clean slate — there is no "peace process." Moreover, the Iran situation, a takeover of Egypt by the Muslim Brotherhood, combined with Hezbollah's domination of southern Lebanon and the stranglehold of Hamas on Gaza, makes war more likely than even a cold peace.
The West Bank, the other half of Palestinian territory, has a better economy and some individual rights, though President Mahmoud Abbas is in the ninth year of a four-year term.
Against that backdrop, expectations are low that Obama's visit will make a difference. One observer called it a "maintenance trip" and Abrams believes that, given doubts about Obama's resolve on Iran, it will be "very difficult for him to persuade Israelis that he really understands their situation and will act."
"Most won't now believe him — too much water over the dam," Abrams told me in an e-mail.
But we should not underestimate the Obama team's skill at substituting spectacle for substance. Rejecting a speech to the Knesset, it scheduled a campaign-style event in a Jerusalem convention center, no doubt hoping the Obama "citizen of the world" schtick will numb the brains and stir the hearts of young Israeli dreamers. A similar gathering is planned with Abbas at a youth center in the West Bank.
So a peddler selling visions of hope and change will come to the Mideast. If its citizens are lucky, he will leave without making things worse.
A bogus excuse to riot
Say this for the critics of the New York Police Department: They never let facts get in the way of an excuse to riot.
The police shooting of gun-wielding Kimani Gray in East Flatbush fits all the stereotypes of trigger-happy cops — if you ignore the truth. Three witnesses said two officers repeatedly told the 16-year-old to drop the gun he had pulled from his waistband, but he refused and they fired.
If they had waited until he shot them, we'd call them heroes. Maybe dead heroes.
Gray's death was tragedy enough for his family, but the thugs who "protested" by demolishing stores and rampaging visited suffering on truly innocent New Yorkers.
Fortunately, the rioters missed their sell-by date by about 40 years. With even Gray's mother urging calm, universal outrage sparked by charges of "police brutality" is about as fashionable as hula hoops and the Black Panthers.
The numbers tell the tale: The 80 percent murder-rate decline in New York over the last 20 years has been nearly matched by the decline in police shootings. Cops intentionally shot 90 people in 1994, but only 28 in 2012.
By comparison, Chicago has one third of New York's population, but its police shot 60 people last year.
That doesn't guarantee every shooting is by the books, but recent history demands that cops get the benefit of the doubt. They risk their lives to protect ours and they at least deserve the same presumption as the rest of us: innocent until proven guilty.
Insanity is taking its toll
Here's the doomsday thought for the day: Sam Schwartz, a k a Gridlock Sam, notes the latest round of toll increases on some bridges and tunnels, and writes: "The MTA has another toll hike programmed for 2015. By 2020 my analysis shows a cash round-trip toll of $25 at the Triborough, Throgs Neck and Whitestone among others; by 2030 it will be $50. We need a better way."
Playing mayoral-race card
Supporters of Bill Thompson don't believe his terrible poll numbers in the mayoral race, especially one showing Council Speaker Chris Quinn beating him 3-1 among black voters.
"That just means a lot of black voters don't know he's black. They'll come around," one Thompson backer said hopefully.
Perhaps. But that doesn't explain the bottom line of the Quinnipiac poll, which showed Thompson pulling only 11 percent among all voters.
Keep it low, Joe
So Vice President Joe Biden is leading the American delegation to Rome for the installation ceremony of Pope Francis.
Biden does know he has to be quiet, right?


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For the next two weeks in PE we will be doing our hockey unit. For the first week we will be working on skill development through hockey stations.
1. Goalie shoot-out
2. Hot potato passing
3. Hockey bowling (shooting)
4. Forehand/ backhand passing
5. Dribbling
These stations are designed to give maximum activity and practice time before our modified games next week. My biggest emphasis will be on safety and keeping the stick below their knees. I will also be stressing proper grip and practicing puck control.
During week two we will play some small sided hockey games such as battleship hockey, and horse hockey. Older kids may get to play sideline hockey if their skill level permits other wise small sided games will be repeated. During these two weeks in PE I will be looking to meet NM State PE standard # 1. All students will be assessed on proper grip and dribbling control.
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Premier League: Fernando Torres' Chelsea record rated 'so-so' by Jose Mourinho
Jose Mourinho has admitted that more could have been expected of Fernando Torres during his time so far at Chelsea.
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The Spanish striker earned a £50million switch from Liverpool in January 2011 but at Stamford Bridge he has struggled to replicate the form from his earlier career.
Torres has been linked with a move away from the club this summer but has made it clear that he remains committed to seeing out his contract and wants to impress Mourinho.
But the Portuguese boss says his record at Chelsea is only mediocre and is convinced that owner Roman Abramovich will let him rule on whether the player stays.
Mourinho insists that Abramovich has never interfered in his managerial business and did not force him to buy Andriy Shevchenko during his first spell at the club.
"Torres so far is so-so," said Mourinho. "Somebody could expect more because of his potential, because of what he did before. But not so bad as people sometimes try to say.
"There is a balance. Normally, the tendency is to say it was a big mistake. It was a big mistake because it didn't work.
"Shevchenko? It's not true the owner forced him on me.
"Never, never during my time did the owner interfere in the basic things of the manager - training sessions, team selection, the profile of player I want to bring."
Not possible
Mourinho added: "Do you want to know the truth about Shevchenko? I hope the board is not upset with me. We wanted to buy Samuel Eto'o, he was our target. We wanted Eto'o and the owner was more than ready to do everything to bring Eto'o here.
"He was the player I wanted. Why? Because Eto'o was the only player I could play with Didier Drogba, changing the system for two strikers.
"But he was also ready to play with Drogba with the system we had at the time, with three attacking players with Eto'o coming from the sides. I did the same with him at Inter Milan. We wanted Eto'o and the boss did everything to bring Eto'o and Peter Kenyon did everything.
"In the end, Barcelona said, 'We don't sell, forget it, forget it. Not any price'. The owner did everything to get him, but it was not possible.
"After that, we went to other options and got to Shevchenko. I was happy with him."


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Costco (NASDAQ:COST) revealed weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter sales on Thursday as robust demand in August could not wholly offset slowness recorded earlier in the summer.
The Issaquah, Wash.-based wholesale giant reported sales of $31.8 billion, up 1% from $31.5 billion a year ago, missing average analyst estimates of $33.1 billion.
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However, sales at stores open longer than a year, a key growth metric known as same-store sales, grew by 5%, helping to send shares of Costco up about 1.3% to $113 in pre-market trade.
For the four weeks ended Sept. 1, Costco said sales increased by 7% year-over-year to $7.44 billion, though the company in July posted a disappointing 4% rise in monthly sales that helped to offset some of the late-quarter gains.
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Hercules Clusters
One of the goals of modern astronomy is to see as far back in time as possible -- to see the universe as it existed shortly after the Big Bang, more than 13 billion years ago.
Yet you don't have to look across great distances to see remnants of that ancient era. In fact, you can see two of them tonight in the constellation Hercules. They're not billions of light-years away, but thousands -- on the fringes of our own galaxy.
These remnants are known as globular clusters. They're families of hundreds of thousands of stars packed into a ball that's only a few dozen light-years across.
The stars in these clusters are among the oldest in the universe.
Astronomers know the ages of these stars in part because of their composition. The stars contain very few "heavy" elements, which are manufactured in the hearts of stars. When stars die, they spew these elements into space, where they can be incorporated into new stars. Each generation of stars has more of these heavier elements, so stars with almost none of them must be very old.
Most models of this process say the stars in globular clusters are around 13 billion years old, which means they formed less than a billion years after the Big Bang.
Hercules is in the eastern sky by mid-evening, marked by a faint pattern of four stars called the Keystone. One of the globulars is near the top left corner of the Keystone, while the other is to the left of this pattern.
More about these clusters tomorrow.
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Let's get this clear, I am not a bad person
Need to get this off my chest. I find it hard to express my point of view on debate threads because it is not what the majority on here feel. I will get flamed because what I say is not the general consensus. It is like I am being bullied because of what I believe in. I especially feel this way when the moderators slam down ones point of view. But that is a debate and I should be able to withstand opposition and voice my opinions without reverence.
On another note, I like throwing out opposing opinions to generate discussion. You can not have a discussion with everyone playing the same tune.
On another note, I like throwing out opposing opinions to generate discussion. You can not have a discussion with everyone playing the same tune.
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Posted August 6th, 2012 at 8:55 PM by Sydian
PC has the problem with saying things that aren't nice. I've heard a few times it's better to keep quiet than say something that's not nice. I disagree with that. The true is that people get mad if you say something not matching their point of view, but what Sydian said is true also.
Look at your "flamy" posts and try to think how would you feel reading this. It can be helpful.
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Posted August 7th, 2012 at 3:54 AM by Kura
Posted August 7th, 2012 at 1:13 PM by Elite Overlord LeSabre™
Everyone can get a little heated over controversial things. I hope if anyone's made you feel like you were being bullied you let them know and had a chance to talk it out.
But as for having trouble speaking your mind, well, it's just hard to do that when you're in the minority. You have to do your best to present yourself as best you can and hope people can see and respect that you want to have a discussion instead of an argument.
Posted August 7th, 2012 at 2:08 PM by Esper
Sometimes it depends what the opinion is. If it's to do with something that varies greatly like what LeSabre mentioned about character preferences, people shouldn't bully you over that.
If your opinion is likely to offend someone or you worded it badly then some of the users here may become irritated, be it a moderator, administrator or just a regular user. That's just the way it is.
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This headband is super cute, chic and comfy. The tied bow gives it retro look. Made in sizes Newborn to Adult! Available in 1, 2 and 3 inch band widths. The bow is removable, enabling you to mix and match headbands and bows. Bows not your thing? Our headbands are now available in Turban style with a 3 inch width and a square "knot" instead of a bow. See the last photo for a side by side comparison.
Made from a great cotton spandex blend in lime and teal 3/8" stripes. This headband has awesome stretch and recovery and will not stretch out on ya!
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Actors for Autism is a theater education program specifically aimed at increasing social awareness and understanding of people on the autism spectrum. the Autism Education Project will create original material that will be performed by adults with ASDS in public elementary schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Through these performances, Actors for Autism will create a mutually beneficial open dialogue of understanding, empathy, and tolerance between individuals with ASDS and their communities. Through carefully guided instruction and creative rapport, the actors will help design, develop and initiate shows that engage children, teachers, administrators and parents. While developing their own significant body of work, the performers will receive payment for their performances, while helping to dispel fears about interacting with people with ASDS.
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If you've ever shopped for clothes online before, then you already know by now that pictures lie. What looked so good online (and on the model) looks pretty much like crap when it comes in the mail. And if you happened to shop at a site with an equally crappy return policy, then you're stuck with an unwearable piece of clothing and a burning hole in your wallet.
Retailers know this. They're well-aware of the fact that pictures sell, and that the more appealing the photos look, the better. Those product images might not look like they've been tinkered with, but most shots that do end up online have probably been processed and edited a number of times. Sometimes it works and sells more stuff; other times, it makes consumers and critics wonder what the heck they were thinking when they decided to publish awkward and badly-Photoshopped images like the one you see above. It's an absolute disgrace.
But hey, if you happen to be 7-feet tall and need some red, low-waist pants, then you know where to go.
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Color Trend Spotting: Two-Tone Walls
Torn between two (vastly different) colors for your room? Why decide?
I find myself drawn to these images, where homeowners have created a beautiful, visually arresting look by pairing two dissimilar colors on the same wall. Besides just adding interest, you can use this effect to play with the proportions of a room. Painting the top few feet of the wall the same color as the ceiling will visually shorten a room, making a large room feel cozier; painting the top of the wall in a contrasting color will draw the eye upward.
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Zack Wheeler needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 85 designs submitted by 22 freelance designers.
Just some basic guidelines for the creation and the rest are up to you! Colors, twists, blurs - what ever you think fits the description. This is your chance to create and show your skills! Need something that will be consistent on business cards, website and marketing materials including business cards.
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The target audience for this company is 30-50 year old professionals and families. I want something that presents itself as elegant and professional. The company will diversify to many types of occasions, weddings, modeling, family events and possibly corporate/business functions. With that in mind I do not want to over commit to any type of a color scheme that may be overly wedding orientated. Maybe something on the conservative/old world/modern colors or formats. You show me.
I would like to start by using 2 different fonts. MW (uppercase) in a Bickham Script Pro font (or something similar/custom) and the word photography (lowercase) in a Zapfino font (or something similar). MW should be taller than photography by 25-40%. File should be delivered in vector format - photoshop or AI.
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This was the last main battle that my BrikWars group had. It lasted about 15 hours over two days and we still didn't quite finish it. Here is an Overwatch from the end of the battle to give you the flavor.
As you can see, the scale is larger than most BrikWars battles, and there is some variation in the level of building skill/effort. Since I was so busy playing the game I didn't take very many pictures (or worry about taking good ones), I'll try to fill in the gaps enough to prevent it from being completely confusing, but since it was last August I don't remember everything.
A few notes on rules: Each army was 1000 CP, plus squads, which were distributed by snake draft. We use our own movement cost rules, which I'll probably post sometime soon, and also have several other things that we have added over the years such as shields (which I recently found out is very similar to the new official energy shields), hero teams (basically a themed group of heroes who ignore the crankiness penalty), and cloaking devices. The green masking tape running down the middle marks out the river and shallow crossing points.
Overviews of the armies, moving clockwise around the tables. (Since not everyone has developed a faction, I'll refer to the different armies by their owners initials.)
This was my army, composed primarily of the Macrofig (38" tall) armed with a sack of size 19 grenades. (The Macrofig was a concept I had wanted to explore for a while, and finally got around to do it.) I gave him multi-tasking, which proved to be the best 39 CP I ever spent.
He is happy to be a part of the battle.
This was BF's army. The battle-cruiser cost so much he only had enough CP for 2 inches of move, so you won't see this moving much this battle.
This was GA's army, minus a couple squads he hadn't picked yet. It looks small compared to the other armies, primarily because both of his vehicles have cloaks.
ZW's army.
JW's army.
BA's army. His ship also had underwater movement.
CB's army.
Jesse Porter and Fiona Glenanne (part of my Burn Notice hero team) infiltrate the Battle-Cruiser (successful heroic feat).
I move first and send my squads toward BF's Battle-Cruiser. The Persian cavalry are slaughtered by return fire. As I recall the Macrofig also tossed a couple grenades, but his arms acting as make-shift 19" launchers were too inaccurate to be effective.
GA also moves toward the Battle-Cruiser.
The brotherly attraction proves too strong for ZW to resist and he moves all his forces toward his brother.
I don't remember exactly why I took this picture. I think it was just a cool perspective.
More of an Overwatch shot. Here you can see that JW has moved his mech to engage BA and the Battle-Cruiser has turned one of its turrets toward GA and destroyed a squad.
Another minifig perspective shot.
CB's forces move up and attack BA's ship. As you can see from the stack of damage pips on the stern it took it was heavily damaged.
Since throwing grenades proved very ineffective, I changed tactics. Since my Macrofig had two actions, he sprinted over to ZW's forces and set a grenade right in the middle of them.
As I recall, return fire and damage from my own grenade took out my entire first shield, but the awesomeness and damage dealt were worth it.
Another minifig perspective shot.
My squads continue their charge...
...and continue to die gloriously.
BA's helo is swatted down by JW's mech.
I don't remember exactly what happened here. I think ZW's minifig mower shredded a couple of JW's squads.
I don't have a picture, but soon after this picture was taken the Macrofig dropped a grenade by JW's mech.
Then CB hit it with his long ranged units and it went down. Here you see JW's and BA's squads clashing over the wreck.
JW is hard-pressed already with only squads left and BA and ZW pushing in from both sides.
GA fired his launchers and I think he damaged one of the Battle-Cruiser's turrets.
GA's squads have almost reached the Battle-Cruiser.
As have my squads.
Overwatch of this side of the battlefield.
One of the Battle-Cruiser's turrets is attacked by the Hulk, Thor, and others, but get's a great armor roll and survives with only being damaged.
The Macrofig then sprints over to CB's army, to face down the mech.
I don't remember if I smashed his drop-ship or if his drop-ship ran into the Macrofig.
But one way or another the drop-ship was destroyed. As you can see I have also laid a grenade at the mech's feet.
Then I backed up a little to let the grenade go off. The mech's shield was destroyed and it took a few pips of general damage and most of the squads were blown up.
On the other side of the map, squads continue to contend over the smoking wreck that was JW's mech.
Here you can see my fatal error. I had put the sack of grenades behind my leg to prevent it from being destroyed. I had however, forgotten about BA's damaged ship (which is currently submerged).
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Sponsors: K2, Quiksilver, Active, Dakine.
The dusty outer limits of San Diego County don't usually cultivate top-shelf snowboarders like Fox. This regional handicap didn't stand in Bryan's way, it just made him want it that much more. Everyone has to earn their turns, some just have to wake up earlier and drive a bit farther. A simple man, Bryan likes good metal, the color black, and he loves snowboarding with a passion. Scotty Wittlake expounds, "Just as there is more to life than snowboarding, there is more to_ snowboarding than the tricks in those five-second clips or single _framed photographs you see in videos and magazines, there is the act of _just going snowboarding. The way somebody views the activity that they have a _passion for says a great deal about them as a person. When after sponsors, money, media_ coverage, etc., they still don't forget to at least sometimes find the simple _pleasure in doing something just for the pure sake of doing it, without the_ motives of some sort of payback or possible recognition. Bryan Fox is one of_ those people who truly does find his pleasure in simply riding his_ snowboard."-E.L.
How did you make it to where you are now?
I worked at an Active in high school and got super into snowboarding. Once I graduated I moved to Mt. Hood with (Josh) Mills and we lived in my car and snowboarded every day. All we cared about was snowboarding, learning tricks, and being dirt-bag bums. Then I started riding with Scotty and Louie (Fountain) and they both helped me out a bunch. Louie got me on K2, and Scotty talked to Justin and Pierre at Neoproto about me filming for the movie. They'd never seen me snowboard or anything, it was all off Scotty's word. That definitely opened doors for me, just being friends with them and snowboarding with them-they made it happen for me.
What scares you?
I'm scared that kids aren't gonna have the opportunity to love snowboarding as much as I did when I was fifteen. Kids are gonna think that the X Games is snowboarding, and it's not. F-k the X Games and the energy-drink sponsors. It seems like it might not be an outlet anymore, it might be one of those things like baseball or soccer, something that people do but don't really care about. For me it was an escape from all that.
What's more important-contests or filming?
Filming a part for sure, obviously I'm going to say that. I've never cared about contests at all. I couldn't tell you who won anything two years ago, but I could list off tricks in someone's video part from '98. I feel like contests are the opposite of why I snowboard. Someone told me once that only people who don't do well in contests don't like contests, so I guess she meant I was a loser. I don't have anything to prove to three random judges about whether my 1080 was better than Joe Schmo's-I just don't really care.
What's your idea of a successful snowboard career?
Just having a career in snowboarding is a success in itself, because there's so many people who want to do it. Scotty, Mikey LeBlanc, Gigi Rà…f, Jeremy Jones-those dudes have done it right. Producing good, entertaining parts year after year.
What direction do you think snowboarding is headed in?
Down the tubes. Hopefully not, but that's the way its looking right now. I probably care too much about it. I just love snowboarding so much, it's given me a lot.
What has snowboarding taught you?
In snowboarding there are lots of opportunities to do shit that you're going to regret. It's taught me to think about your moves 'cause they matter. Think about who you ride for, what you're doing, and what image you're portraying. I'm not anti-capitalism, there's just a line that needs to be drawn. Promoting shit that's irrelevant to snowboarding solely for a paycheck is pretty f-ked in my eyes.
What is the "job" (GH1)part of your job?
When I'm snowboarding it's just snowboarding, I'm not thinking that I hhave to do this because it's my job. The job part is dealing with contracts. I don't have an agent, so I deal with my all my sponsors. And it's a job because you have to produce, but that's not what I care about. I'd be doing this if I were getting paid or not. I would probably be snowboarding more if it wasn't my job.
Is snowboarding professionally what you thought it would be?
No it's not. There are a lot of people who are really fake-ass D-bags. There's a lot of shit that I just don't think is that cool, and it seems like people don't care enough about the actual snowboarding part of stuff.
What's next for you in snowboarding?
Probably just the X Games and an energy drink sponsor. Maybe a phone sponsor and a watch sponsor too, maybe a sponsor for car audio stuff or some other shit that has nothing to do with snowboarding-Target here I come! No, for me it's just the same shit-just snowboarding.


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It's the name of a French mathematician.
I would like to get an approximate pronunciation. (e.g. je t'aime~zh tam, or zhe tehm).
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It's the name of a French mathematician.
I would like to get an approximate pronunciation. (e.g. je t'aime~zh tam, or zhe tehm).
As in Australia.
With the famous non-English ü, close front rounded vowel [y].
As French matin, or teint.
As in Saint-Louis (Missouri), without pronouncing the final s.
As in co-op.
As the english word she.
For anglophones who need to pronounce foreign names while speaking English, I highly recommend the following website (written by a topologist colleague back when he was a radio announcer for a classical music station): http://www.pronunciationguide.info/
I emphasize "while speaking English" because, if you are speaking English, you need to approximate the real pronunciation of the name with English phonemes. If you pronounce "Louis-Augustin Cauchy" absolutely correctly in English, a fair number of English speakers will only hear the foreignness of the sounds, and not the actual sounds themselves. (More extreme examples of this difficulty come from Chinese or Slavic names.)
Similarly, if you are speaking French, you will need to approximate English names with French phonemes. There is a possible exception if you are in an area like Montreal where a lot of franglais is spoken, but a fair number of bilingual French (or bilingual Americans) are at least occasionally confused by mixing phonemes from the two languages they speak in the same sentence.
Since Boris can't be bothered to post his own answer: forvo has a sound sample.
Now if you don't have a sound card, if you can't play the sound or if you are reading this on paper, here's a description:
Wikipédia says [ogystɛ̃ lwi koʃi]. I guess it must be something like
oh-güs-tĩ loo-ee coh-shee
with two non-English sounds: ü, close front rounded vowel [y] and ĩ, the open mid front unrounded nasal vowel ɛ̃ (which has an interesting tutorial on Youtube). Keep in mind that ee is short in French, too.
Google is your friend, or better say it's text-to-speech companion : http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=fr&q=Augustin-Louis%20Cauchy
Like Koshi. Koshi is a Malayalee name. Cauchy is pronounced Ko shi / KO SHE.


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man on the wall
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Posted 11 May 2004 - 06:55 PM
in utica ny at proctor park there is a shodow of a man on the wall the legend has is a long time ago a man was burried in his car and people built a wall on top of it and at night if u shine a light on the wall u will see his shadow he has a womans head in one arm and a knife in the other arm . They say that if you go to the park at knight and his shadow is not on the wall u better hual BAD_WORD out of the park , that is only if you cant see ur own shadow .
3 people have came up missing and the all where stabbed to death.
3 people have came up missing and the all where stabbed to death.
Posted 11 May 2004 - 08:55 PM
hhmmm........could it be a story propogated by some random killers?
anyways, Welcome to GV kmitchell, and enjoy the stay!
anyways, Welcome to GV kmitchell, and enjoy the stay!
Take my hand and we'll go riding through the sunshine from above
Posted 13 May 2004 - 10:13 AM
i'm so glad i'm nowhere near utica!!!...lol
but anyways that's kind of freaky
but anyways that's kind of freaky
Posted 14 May 2004 - 11:22 PM
yeah, same here! lol Talk about creepy! So when you can't see the shadow it means it's coming after you? lol
Posted 11 June 2004 - 01:36 PM
how can something dead kill you?
Posted 15 June 2004 - 03:10 PM
how can something dead kill you?
Either physically or mentally.
Most on this board would readily accept that spirits can interact with the physical realm. We've heard of objects moving "by themselves", so why couldn't a spirit control a knife or gun?
Spirits might possess a body and control it to kill itself.
Or how about scaring someone, so they run off a cliff (or do something else that might hurt or kill them)?
I didn't lose my mind - I have it backed up on a disk ... somewhere
Posted 16 June 2004 - 02:04 AM
yes, the possession is how many a things happens bad.
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In response to the Guest Post is by Theodore Kruczek (Black Belt vs. Teacher), my good friend Jim Alexander (of Belleville, Illinois) wrote:
For one to be a senior in the dojo, does not always mean in age, sometimes it is years in knowledge and training. Often a student from another discipline would make their way into our dojo and by virtue of their experience they would have much to contribute, though if they decided to stay in our dojo out of respect they would remove their rank and become a white belt again. (Initially we started out with colored belts, but wore them only for world meetings, otherwise we had white and black only) it was my belief that one's ability should project one's rank and not the other way around, thus eliminating any source contradiction to the naked eye.
I agree with Mr. Parker, regarding the last line and would add, when the student is ready (open to learning) the teacher will appear remains true.
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Holland Backup 1.0.10 Available
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We are pleased to announce the release of Holland 1.0.10. This version squashes a number of bugs and also offers up a few new features, which include:
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Purge on demand is a new option that, if set, causes Holland to purge old backups in order to make space for a new backup as opposed to failing due to lack of space.
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The new version is available as both a tarball and via the OpenSUSE repositories:
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hollandbackup.org is now in the Rackspace Cloud!
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Entertaining: New Year's Eve Dinner
Ring in the new year with an elegant dinner
Recipes in this Story
Niçoise Olives with Fennel Seeds and Thyme
Baby Potatoes with Crème Fraîche and Caviar
Arugula and Pear Salad
Squid Ink Fettuccine with Clams
Black and White Pot de Crème
Plenty of things went right for Mary McDonald in 2010. She secured a spot on an upcoming design show and finished her first book, Mary McDonald Interiors: The Allure of Style (Rizzoli, 2010), a compendium of the bold and glamorous interiors that demonstrate her aesthetic soul. So when it came time to sign off on 2010, she shed the idea of a party in a swanky hotel or trendy restaurant and decided to pay tribute to the year by hosting an elegant dinner in a dining room that she designed for friends and featured in her book. .
Using the chic icy-blue-and-tangerine room as the stage for her intimate dinner, Mary emphasized the clean and contemporary sensibilities with a black, white, and silver table scheme that mixes expensive antiques with simple wares from big-box stores.
"Black and white always connotes the famous Capote black-and-white ball to me," says Mary. "It's convivial, festive, and full of great expectations. The combination also varies from clean and modern to the most traditional applications, all expressing a certain amount of theater. In a way, black and white are the tuxedo for the table, and who doesn't look good in a tuxedo?"
Mary interrupted the dark espresso finish of the sleek, modern table by laying a vintage remnant textile end to end. The quilted matelassé fabric with the slightest tint of blue served as a runway for Mary's fashionable centerpieces of silver objects holding whimsical items.
In the middle of the runner, a footed glass bowl held a sumptuous arrangement of white tulips and black calla lilies. Next in line were two silver compotes, each held aloft by a base of tall, architecturally styled silver columns. In the compotes, frosted white Christmas balls from the tree were paired with feathers and repurposed as table decor before being stored until next year's holiday season.
At the table ends, silver champagne buckets served as befitting receptacles for the buoyant and feathery plumes symbolizing the hoped-for highs of the coming year.
Simple white plates showcased the entree of squid ink fettuccine with clams, and Mary discovered vintage glass salad plates and stemware with silver bands that glamorized the dinnerware ensemble.
"New Year's is really a chance to be grateful for your blessings and to leave the past burdens behind," says Mary. "After all, everyone needs a clean slate."
Photography: Luca Trovato
Interior designer and hostess of this dinner, Mary McDonald.
Mary with guests.
Resolve to entertain with ease and elegance in the coming year with these simple tips.
Think Drinks
There's no need to stock a full bar for an intimate, at-home gathering. Introduce your guests to interesting wines, or create a signature cocktail to simplify the event.
Vintage Dorothy Thorpe glassware and plates are from Dragonette (310/855-9091). .
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The same is true for the menu. Create a custom recipe for one course-such as this salad-that will make the cuisine memorable.
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Most of the recipes for Mary McDonald's Black and White New Year's Eve dinner were developed by her good friend, Julia Turshen, a New York City-based food writer who has co-authored Spain: A Culinary Road Trip with Mario Batali and Gwyneth Paltrow.
The recipes are simple to prepare; their success depends on purchasing the best quality ingredients: good olives, caviar, chocolate, vanilla. We've added a luscious white and dark chocolate pot de creme recipe for dessert. Black licorice adds a touch of whimsy to the menu.
New Year's Eve begs for plenty of sparkle and shine. Gather silver elements such as vases, bowls, and trays, and use them to tie the color scheme together.
A chic arrangement of three varieties of black-and-white feathers was displayed in an antique silver container from Mary's personal collection.
Nicoise Olives with Fennel Seeds and Thyme
Baby Potatoes with Creme Fraiche and Caviar
Arugula and Pear Salad
Squid Ink Fettuccine with Clams
Black and White Pot de Creme
Shopping List
A grocery list follows to make shopping for this festive dinner easier for you. Package sizes are included so you have enough for duplicated recipe ingredients.
Check your pantry for these necessary items before shopping:
- Sea salt
- Ground black pepper
- Sugar (need 6 tablespoons)
- Vanilla extract (need 1 teaspoon)
- Olive oil (need about 1/2 cup)
- Honey
- Butter (need 2 tablespoons)
- Eggs (need 4)
Specialty Grocery Store
- 8 ounces pitted Nicoise olives
- 2 to 3 ounces caviar
- 3 12-ounce packages dried squid ink fettuccine (need 2 pounds)
- 3 ounces 60- to 70 percent dark or bittersweet chocolate
- 3-1/2 ounces white chocolate
- 1 bunch fresh thyme
- 1 bunch fresh dill
- 1 bunch chive
- 1 head garlic
- 1-1/2 pounds tiny new potatoes
- 1 lemon (for lemon juice)
- 2 medium pears
- 2 5-ounce packages organic arugula (need 8 cups)
- Red wine vinegar
- Mayonnaise
- Black licorice
Baking aisle
- Fennel seeds
- Poppy seeds
- Crushed red pepper
- Grapeseed or canola oil
Fsh counter
- 4 pounds clams
- 1 8-ounce container creme fraiche or sour cream (need 1/2 cup)
- 2 half-pint containers whipping cream (need 2 cups)
- 1 bottle dry white wine (need 1 cup)
Niçoise Olives with Fennel Seeds and Thyme
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 teaspoons fennel seeds
• 4 to 5 sprigs fresh thyme
• 1 cup good quality Niçoise olives, pitted
In small saucepan combine olive oil, fennel seeds, and thyme; stir in olives. Heat over medium heat until oil bubbles and is fragrant. Cook 2 minutes more. Remove from heat. Serve warm or at room temperature. Makes 8 servings.
Baby Potatoes with Crème Fraîche and Caviar
You'll need at least 2 to 3 ounces of caviar for this hors d'oeuvre. However, recipe developer Julia Turshen says, "Use as much as you like."
• 1-1/2 pounds tiny new potatoes or baby Dutch yellow potatoes (about 16 potatoes)
• 1/2 cup crème fraîche or sour cream
• Caviar
• Fresh dill, snipped into small fronds
Wash potatoes. In medium saucepan, cook potatoes, covered, in small amount of boiling salted water 12 to 15 minutes or until tender. Drain; let stand until cool enough to handle.
When potatoes are cool, cut in half lengthwise. If necessary, cut thin slice from bottom to keep potato upright. Top each half with crème fraîche, caviar, and dill frond. Makes 8 servings.
Arugula and Pear Salad
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
• 1 tablespoon honey
•1/3 cup grapeseed or canola oil
• 1 tablespoon mayonnaise
• 1 tablespoon poppy seeds
• 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
• 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 8 cups baby arugula
• 2 medium pears, cored and thinly sliced
In large bowl whisk together lemon juice, vinegar and honey. Slowly whisk in oil, then mayonnaise and poppy seeds. Whisk in salt and pepper. Reserve 2 tablespoons vinaigrette; set aside. Add arugula to remaining dressing in bowl. Gently toss to coat arugula with dressing.
Transfer dressed arugula to serving platter or to individual serving plates. Add pears to bowl and toss with reserved dressing. Top salad with pears. Serve immediately. Makes 8 servings.
Squid Ink Fettuccine with Clams
Find squid ink pasta at a specialty grocer or online at amazon.com. It's slightly salty, briny flavor complements seafood recipes. For another twist on black and white, use 1 pound of squid ink fettuccine and 1 pound plain semolina fettuccine.
• 4 pounds clams, cleaned*
• 2 pounds dried squid ink fettuccine
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 4 cloves garlic, finely minced
• 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
• 1 cup dry white wine
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1/4 cup finely chopped fresh chives
• Crushed red pepper
Soak and clean clams.
Cook pasta according to package directions; drain well. Return to hot pan; cover and keep warm.
In heavy 12-inch skillet, heat olive oil over medium-high heat. Add garlic and 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper. Cook and stir 30 seconds or until fragrant. Add clams; gently stir to coat with oil. Carefully add wine. Bring to boiling; reduce heat. Cover; cook about 5 minutes or until clams open (discard any unopened clams). Use slotted spoon to transfer clams to bowl. Add butter to sauce in pan. Stir to melt butter. Add cooked pasta to sauce; toss to coat with sauce.
Spoon pasta into individual serving bowls. Top with clams; sprinkle with chives and additional crushed red pepper. Serve immediately. Makes 8 servings.
*To clean live clams, scrub shells under cold running water. In 8-quart Dutch oven combine 4 quarts cold water and 1/3 cup salt; add clams. Soak 15 minutes; drain and rinse. Discard water. Repeat soaking, draining, and rinsing twice.
Black and White Pot de Crème
Bring eggs to room temperature and separate them as you use them. Milk chocolate may be substituted for white chocolate or dark chocolate layer.
• 2 cups whipping cream, divided
• 3 ounces 60- to 70-percent dark chocolate or bittersweet chocolate, chopped
• 6 tablespoons sugar, divided
• 4 egg yolks, divided
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, divided
• 3 ounces white chocolate, chopped
• White chocolate shavings (optional)
For dark chocolate layer, in small heavy saucepan combine 1 cup cream, dark chocolate, and 3 tablespoons sugar. Cook and stir over medium heat about 5 minutes or until mixture comes to full boil and thickens. Remove from heat. In medium bowl lightly beat 2 egg yolks with fork. Gradually stir about half of the hot mixture into egg yolks. Return egg yolk mixture to saucepan. Cook and stir 2 minutes. Stir in 1/2 teaspoon vanilla; cool slightly..
Divide dark chocolate mixture evenly among eight 2- to 3-ounce glasses or pot de crème cups. Cover; chill 2 hours or until firm.
For white chocolate layer, in another small heavy saucepan repeat directions for dark chocolate using remaining cream, the white chocolate, and remaining sugar, egg yolks, and vanilla. Spoon cooled white chocolate mixture over chilled dark chocolate mixture. Cover; chill about 4 hours or until firm. Garnish with white chocolate shavings before serving. Makes 8 servings.
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The University of Delaware has formally launched a nationwide search for a new dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
The new dean will replace Robin Morgan, who announced in September that she will be stepping down effective at the end of the 2011-12 academic year, when she completes her second five-year term as dean. Morgan will return to the CANR faculty.
UD will begin advertising for the position, and a review of applications will begin Feb. 15 and will continue until the position is filled. The proposed start date for the successful candidate is July 1, 2012.
"We look forward to an inclusive, nationwide search to identify the next dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, a person whose dynamic and entrepreneurial leadership will continue to strengthen and expand the research, teaching and extension work of the college," said Charles G. Riordan, UD vice provost for graduate and professional education and chair of the search committee.
The search committee was convened by Provost Tom Apple.
In addition to Riordan, committee members are: Mohsen Badiey, deputy dean of the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment and professor of marine science and policy; Kelebogile Setiloane, associate professor of behavioral health and nutrition; Blake Meyers, Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor and chair of the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences; Calvin Keeler, professor of animal and food sciences; Joshua Duke, professor of food and resource economics; Judy Hough-Goldstein, professor of entomology and wildlife ecology; James Glancey, associate professor of bioresources engineering; Pam Green, Crawford H. Greenewalt Chair of Plant and Soil Sciences; Susan Garey, Cooperative Extension agent; Carissa Wickens, assistant professor of animal and food sciences; Mark Isaacs, assistant professor of plant and soil sciences; and James C. Borel, DuPont executive vice president and a member of the UD Board of Trustees.
Information is available at the CANR dean search website, and a copy of the dean search advertisement is available in PDF format.


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Each lesson or activity in this toolkit is related to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). The toolkit is designed so that each lesson can be done independently, or combined and taught in a sequence. The Teacher Implementation Guide provides... (View More) recommendations for combining the lessons into three main strands: 1) Lunar Exploration - These lessons provide a basic introduction to Moon exploration. Note that this strand is also appropriate for use in social studies classes. 2) Mapping the Moon - These lessons provide a more in-depth understanding of Moon exploration through the use of scientific data and student inquiry. The lessons also include many connections to Earth science and geology. 3) Tools of Investigation - These higher-level lessons examine the role of technology, engineering and physics in collecting and analyzing data. (View Less)
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This module focuses on ultraviolet radiation on Earth and in space and how it affects life. Learners will construct their own "martian" using craft materials and UV beads. They will explore how UV radiation from the Sun can affect living things,... (View More) comparing conditions on Earth and Mars, and then discuss ways in which organisms may protect themselves from UV radiation. They will then take part in a Mars Creature Challenge, where they will change their creature to help it survive harsh UV conditions — like on Mars. They will then test their Mars creatures by subjecting them to different environmental conditions to see how well they "survive" in a martian environment. This investigation will explore shelter and protection as one of life's requirements and how Earth's atmosphere protects life from harmful UV radiation. It also includes specific tips for effectively engaging girls in STEM. This is activity 5 in Explore: Life on Mars? that was developed specifically for use in libraries. (View Less)
Learners will model ancient lunar impacts using water balloons. By measuring the diameter of the crater area, they discover that the Moon's largest impact basins were created by huge asteroids. The huge basins formed on the young Moon, but through... (View More) processes investigated in Moon Ooze, they later became filled in by the dark maria now visible on the Moon. This activity is part of Explore! Marvel Moon, a series of activities developed specifically for use in libraries. (View Less)
The 9-session NASA Family Science Night program emables middle school children and their families to discover the wide variety of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics being performed at NASA and in everyday life. Family Science Night... (View More) programs explore various themes on the Sun, the Moon, the Stars, and the Universe through fun, hands-on activities, including at-home experiments. Instructions for obtaining the facilitator's guide are available on the Family Science Night site. (View Less)
This is an activity about modeling the apparent motion of the Sun as seen from Earth. Learners will use a flashlight, toothpick, and styrofoam model Sun to mimic the relative shadow motion produced by a sundial. The activity will help learners... (View More) understand that because the Earth rotates from West to East, the Sun appears to rise in the East and set in the West. This is Activity 6 of the Sun As a Star afterschool curriculum. (View Less)
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- A database of authors and titles, including readers' comments. It also includes a number of links to forums, lists and other web sites.
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- Reviews, news, and discussions on historical novels.
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- Over 500 historical novels listed by time and place, including more than 300 book reviews.
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For the second time this year, the East Hampton Zoning Board of Appeals on Nov. 13 began deliberating on an application from Christine Lemieux and Joshua Young to build a stone revetment to protect their bayfront property on Mulford Lane on Lazy Point.
The two bought the house on Gardiner's Bay in 2010, despite the obvious danger to the property from the eroding coastline — 20 yards from their house is an eerie abandoned house, standing on pilings in the water. It was once a beachfront house.
In February, Ms. Lemieux and Mr. Young came before the board, requesting a series of variances to allow them to tear down the house and rebuild on their property, farther from the water, while also protecting it with a 150-foot-long stone revetment.
The board approved almost all the variances requested, but not those needed for the revetment.
Revetments are not permitted in that particular area of Napeague, the fear being the unintended consequences of such a structure, with tidal flow water being forced around the revetment, damaging adjacent shoreline and properties. According to a review of the couple's latest proposal written in September by Brian Frank, the Town Planning Department's chief environmental analyst, "bulkheads and revetments frequently have unanticipated environmental impacts. These impacts frequently extend beyond the footprint of the stricture, causing erosion and diminishing the quality of the natural resources on adjacent properties, as well."
The vote against permitting the revetment was 4-1, with Don Cirillo being the lone dissenter. He argued, then, that the other variances were meaningless without the revetment, and that the board should not stand in the way of a homeowner who is willing to spend money on such a structure in order to protect their property.
Mr. Young and Ms. Lemieux apparently agreed with Mr. Cirillo's assessment, holding off on construction while reconfiguring their plans for the revetment under the guidance of Laurie Wiltshire of Land Planning Services.
Ms. Wiltshire brought in D.B. Bennett, a consulting engineer, who reconfigured the revetment into a U-shape.
Mr. Bennett told the board at the Oct. 2 hearing for the new proposal, that the problem the couple was confronting had its roots in the dredging of the Napeague Harbor Inlet.
"According to town record 440,000 cubic yards of sand has been dredged out. It is our belief that taking that quantity of sand is causing these beaches [to lose sand, from east to west]," Mr. Bennett said.
"Over the last 57 years Mulford Lane has lost several houses," he said, adding that the coastline erodes about 10 feet per year.
"It will take decades for the government to correct that. We're not here for a short-term solution."
Mr. Frank countered that the situation had not changed since the board's earlier determination and that the town's coastline was one of its most valuable assets.
The one major difference that all sides agree upon between now and the time of the March determination is that Ms. Wiltshire has obtained a permit for the revetment from the State Department of Environmental Conservation, a point not lost on Alex Walter, the board's chairman.
"If you look at the pictures from [Hurricane] Sandy, and you saw where the water was, at the Young and Limeuix residence, it is a pretty frightening situation there. [This] is a better application, and has D.E.C. approval; it gives me pause," Mr. Walter said.
"Water now is on their property. The town objects. The town should either buy their land or take it under imminent domain," Mr. Cirillo said.
The recent storm, however, also created a counter-argument against the revetment which Mr. Walter brought up. "If that storm had come another 50 miles out, the revetment wouldn't have saved the house," he said.
He also pointed out that, during the storm, water had flooded the Mulford Lane area from the west. One of the fears expressed over this particular proposal is that it might exacerbate westward erosion and flooding.
Bryan Gosman, a board member, had visited the area after the storm, and recalled a conversation with a resident. She was adamant, he said, that until the dredging of the inlet is stopped, the erosion problems for the entire area will continue.
Lee White, a Z.B.A. member, explored the possibility of a solution that might have less of an environmental impact, such as canvas sand cubes, which break up over a period of years.
Mr. Walter was mindful that one board member, Sharon McCobb, was absent. "I know Sharon wants to weigh in here."
Mr. Walter brought up the concept of "buyer beware," an argument Ms. McCobb had made at the initial public hearing, early this year.
If you bought the house in 2010, he said, "you looked at the house out there on stilts, you'd say this is what's going to happen here."
Mr. Cirillo again argued that the town should either buy the land or allow owners to take appropriate measures to protect it.
"Our job is to get an application, consider the merits as it relates to the town code, and make a decision," Mr. Walter said. "If everybody had to go exactly by the code, we wouldn't have a job. We represent the Town of East Hampton to make the best decision for the town and the property owners."
The board to agree to adjourn the debate until the next time all the members will be present, on Tuesday.


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On a beautiful summer evening I took our children to their first outdoor family movie night. I was just noting how well-behaved they were, when an indignant bellow—"NO!"—interrupted the program. Uh-oh. I knew that big voice in a small person's body. Our 2-year-old daughter, in her footie pajamas, had marched herself up to the big screen and was facing down the film's celluloid villain.
In "Tangled," Disney's version of the Rapunzel story, the antagonist explains that the brutal world forced the villain to imprison Rapunzel for security reasons, to protect her because the world was a bad and cruel place. Our daughter was having none of it. "No! That's not true!" she cried. "The world is not bad. The world is...." She opened her arms wide and pointed at the peaceful tableau of families and friends sharing blankets, pillows, picnics and popcorn on the lawn. "The world has...." Her big emotions soon swamped her smaller vocabulary, and she abruptly concluded her impassioned soliloquy with "grass! Green grass!" She nodded and rested her case, secure in her conviction that a world thick with lush, green grass and people breaking bread together could only be a good and grace-filled place.
Which world do we see? Is life nasty, brutish and short, justifying or even requiring bad behavior in order to secure our own survival, or are peace, love and community possible?
It is not just an academic question. Lives depend on it. How can people build peace who have never known peace? At St. John's Seminary in Los Angeles, a young seminarian from the Democratic Republic of Congo told me he had known only conflict in the D.R.C. and had never experienced peace until he came to Los Angeles. He wanted to believe that peace was possible for his country, but he could not imagine it.
His comments mirrored those made by a Department of Defense official in Washington, D.C. We were discussing prospects for reconciliation in Afghanis-tan when he reeled in frustration, saying: "It is impossible. We ought to stop talking about it and instead focus on things that could possibly be achieved."
Peacebuilders know a key factor in constructing sustainable peace in communities seared by violence is moral imagination. The peacebuilding scholar and practitioner John Paul Lederach asks in his book Moral Imagination, "How do we transcend the cycles of violence that bewitch our human communities while still living in them? Transcending violence is forged by the capacity to generate, mobilize and build moral imagination...requiring the capacity to imagine ourselves in a web of relationships that includes our enemies."
The Catholic Church has many assets in peacebuilding, highlighted in a new book titled Peacebuilding: Catholic Theology, Ethics, and Praxis. Many of these themes were examined in a conference in Rome on June 30 on "The Future of Catholic Peacebuilding."
Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, emphasized the church's commitment to building peace, while representatives from Caritas Internationalis, Pax Christi, Catholic Relief Services, Sant'Egidio and the Catholic Peacebuilding Network spoke of the rich work of Catholic organizations in conflict areas. Operating for over 2,000 years, reaching into every country on earth, the church has a lot of "bandwidth." The practical, functional and institutional capacities the church can apply to building peace are important.
Yet underpinning all these practical assets are the church's greatest gifts: principles that nourish and sustain moral imagination and communities under siege and people who make those principles manifest. Too often our governments aim low in building peace, seeing in the world, like the Disney villain, only a set of bad choices among lesser evils. Catholic peacebuilders see a different world, where communion, peace and love are possible. In our sacraments of Communion and reconciliation, our beliefs in a relational, risen God and our institutional structures that seek to make real these relationships of local and global church, of the body of Christ, we regularly exercise moral muscles for a moral imagination the world needs. Imagining peace in war-torn areas is a challenging but crucial first step in realizing peace.


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Crysis 3: 7 Wonders of Crysis 3 – Newest Episode Shows Off the Big Guns
The last time we watched one of these 7 Wonders of Crysis 3 videos, we were treated to a look at Wall Street and Prophet's rampage around the area. This week, we've got the big, bad Typhoon gun.
There's a lot of gameplay featured in this episode. After a short description of the gun from Prophet, we see the Typhoon let loose 500 rounds per minute against a whole host of bad guys. It fires so many rounds out of its eight barrels that we could swear it sounds like a low frequency hum rather than a barrage of gunfire.
Once he's finished perforating the torsos of his enemies, Prophet picks up a flame thrower and starts heating things up before finding the Typhoon again. You can see the reflection of a Big Bad in his visors as he reloads the gun, ready for more action.
The game's looking beautiful and the firefights are smooth and acrobatic. If you have a rig that can play Crysis 3 with the graphics set to high, then we are very jealous.
Check out the new video below and feast your eyes on some of the new screenshots. Crysis 3 will be out come February 19th, 2013, so prepare yourselves accordingly (by which we mean upgrading the hell out of your computer)!