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Moscow and Washington are in all-out damage control mode to save President Obama's "reset" policy with Russia – a policy which is hailed as his great diplomatic accomplishment.
But after the US Department of Justice arrested 10 of the 11 alleged Russian spies this week, that "reset" looks a little battered. The discovery of the spy network indicates that the current Russian leadership is still living in the past. To them, the US is still an intelligence target, not a partner.
While not yet charged with espionage, these individuals walked like spies and talked like spies – so they must be spies, right? The FBI apparently has videos to prove it.
But these were not the usual suspects acting under diplomatic cover, trying to recruit Americans at cocktail parties. The 10 seem to be long-term, deep-cover agents (termed nelegaly, or "illegals" in Russian).
The arrests came shortly after the Obama-Medvedev "Cheeseburger Summit" last week in Washington.
Though the White House and the State Department have said that relations with Russia will not suffer, soft-pedaling espionage is wrong: if not rebuffed, it will breed only more spying – especially since Russia, instead of apologizing, is blaming the US. Moscow experts, the Foreign Ministry, and politicians criticized the arrests. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, himself a former intelligence officer, remarked that he hoped "that all the positive gains that have been achieved in our relationship will not be damaged by the recent event."
This criticism is totally misplaced.
The long-term penetration started in the 1990s, when Russia was benefiting from tens of billions of dollars of US and Western aid. Today, espionage – not catching foreign spies – may thwart Mr. Obama's "reset" policy. Furthermore, this fiasco raises the question of whether the Russian services were undermining their own rulers.
That Russia is continuing to spy on the US, just as other countries viewing America as a threat do, is not surprising. As early as 2007, it was widely reported that Russian (and Chinese) spy operations were "back at cold-war levels" in the US.
According to John Negroponte, then director of national intelligence, in the 2007 Annual Threat Assessment to the US, China, and Russia are "among the most aggressive in collecting [intelligence] against sensitive and protected US targets." The 2010 assessment highlights Russia's ongoing efforts. Unfortunately, with the Middle East and Afghanistan-Pakistan dominating the intelligence agenda, the US collection on Russia and China is slipping.
According to the complaint filed by the Department of Justice as part of this week's arrest, the Russian foreign intelligence agency, SVR, utilized both modern and old (and sloppy) tradecraft. Some of it looks like a parody of an old spy novel.
This included dead drops, coded communications, burying information in "microdots" on websites, known as steganography; 27-character Web passwords; and some tweaked laptops, courtesy of Moscow Center's tech mavens. Unfortunately for the agents, their laptop crashed repeatedly.
The Russian agents were easily tracked by FBI counterintelligence, although their handlers failed to spot it. This has led some old-timers from the intelligence community to speculate that the network is a decoy to mask a much more sophisticated espionage operation in the US
Such deception is plausible. And if there is one cell, there are bound to be more. Oleg Gordievsky, a famous cold-war defector and former chief of the London KGB station, said recently that Russia may have as many as 50 deep-cover couples spying inside the US.
Moreover, this raises a sensitive question: What are other Russian intelligence agencies such as GRU (military intelligence) doing in the US, and what are the successes of the Russian (and Chinese) online spying, which is executed by a different agency altogether?
The operation was more than a decade-long effort to exploit the weaknesses of an open society. However, it looks as if the Russians used a lot of 20th century tradecraft for 21st century America. Unlike the 1930-1950s, today Moscow provides no ideological attraction. Russia's "brand" is shot, while bickering between agents and their control over expenses, including mortgages in the New Jersey suburbs, suggests that the center's pockets were not as deep as Russia's newfound oil wealth may suggest.
It is also unclear why Moscow tolerated a network that seemed to produce so little. A prominent Moscow policy expert told me that "the bosses" value tidbits picked up by agents much more than what could be gleaned by sophisticated civilian analysts reading journals, talking to colleagues, or going to conferences. This reflects an ingrained cult of intelligence, which outlived its Soviet roots.
"Reset" or not, the discovery of the spy network in America indicates that the current Russian leadership is still living in the past, and continues to view America with fear and suspicion. Moscow still sees the US as an intelligence target, not a "partner," as the Obama administration posits. The White House should recognize that much.
And it will take more than cheeseburgers, fries, and ketchup to change that.
Ariel Cohen, PhD, is a senior research fellow in Russian and Eurasian studies and international energy policy at The Heritage Foundation. The author thanks Owen Graham, research assistant at the Heritage's Allison Center, for his help.
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Sunday, March 11, 2012
For McQuarrie
Jawa Mining Camp, done today in Photoshop. All painting, no photo mashing. I always thought this would be a cool scenario, and probably happened many times across Tattooine. McQuarrie inspired...
Last weekend we lost one of the great artists that helped shape the star wars universe. Ralph McQuarries work was an inspiration to countless artists, fans, and general population. He , as well as other great artists, worked for years developing the iconic imagery that lives on in all our imaginations. He will live forever through his work, and the legacy of all the entertainment projects he worked on (especially star wars, but he worked on so many movies and shows its ridiculous how far his artistic reach was).
Unfortunatly this past week we lost the great French comic book/surrealist Moebius as well..
RIP Ralph McQuarrie (1929-2012)
RIP Jean Giraud-Moebius (1938-2012)
Let us all draw in tribute to them, and all the inspiration they have given us!
Carlo Arellano has done a piece in support of both Ralph and Moebius!
Darren Quach has a sweet Star Wars themed tribute!
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- Carlo Arellano said...
- March 12, 2012 at 10:32 AM
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Line a heavy large baking sheet with parchment paper. Mix the flour, cocoa powder, sugar, orange peel, and salt in a food processor. Add the butter. Blend until clumps form. Add 2 tablespoons of ice water and blend. Add more ice water, 1 tablespoon at a time, until the dough forms. Turn the dough out onto a work surface and knead briefly to form a smooth dough. Gather the dough into a ball then divide the dough into 8 equal pieces. Flatten each piece into a disk.
Press 1 dough piece on the prepared baking sheet into a 4 1/2-inch round. Spoon 1 generous tablespoon of the marmalade into the center of the round. Fold the dough border in to form a 3-inch round and allow the center of the crostata to remain uncovered. Pleat loosely and pinch the dough to seal any cracks. Repeat with the remaining dough pieces and marmalade, spacing the crostatas evenly apart. Cover and refrigerate the crostatas until they are cold, at least 45 minutes and up to 4 hours.
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
Bake the crostatas until the crusts are set, about 18 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes. Slide a metal spatula under the crusts to free the crostatas from the baking sheet. Garnish with the candied orange peel and serve warm.
Using a vegetable peeler, cut the orange part of the peel from the stem end of the orange down to the navel end, forming long 3/4 to 1-inch-wide strips. Bring a heavy small saucepan of water to a boil. Add the peels and cook for 1 minute. Drain and then rinse the peels under cold water. Repeat cooking the peels in the saucepan with fresh boiling water and rinsing under cold water.
Stir the sugar and 1/2 cup of fresh water in a heavy small saucepan over medium-high heat until the sugar dissolves. Bring to a boil. Add the orange peels and simmer over medium-low heat until tender, about 15 minutes. Using tongs, transfer the peels to a sheet of parchment paper to dry slightly, about 1 hour.
Line a small baking sheet with parchment paper. Stir the chocolate in a small bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water until melted and smooth. Dip 1 1/2-inches of each candied orange peel into the chocolate then place them on the prepared baking sheet and refrigerate until the chocolate is set, about 15 minutes.


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Fairly well done but some of the issues they allude to aren't relevant and so are like a dishonest assertion where the audience can't point out the fallacy.
I give thumbs up to both Ms. Streep and Mr. Hanks for their work on this Movie not because of their political views and or prior political statements but because they are great actress, and actor. The other actresses and actors performed equally well in this Movie. In this Movie I view the media's place in American society and its rights only in the context of the times not in the context of today. I give thumbs up to the movie's message(s) not because of any point of view I might have of the U.S. media but because of what that Supreme Court at that time in American History held, interpreted, is the protection the U.S. Constitution provides under the First Amendment. We citizens have protections under that Amendment as well. It is the media's right to express themselves though I agree news reporting should be honest (truthful), objective (fair-unbiased) and not used to influence political decisions. On the other hand, it is our responsibility, each person, to decided what we should believe that we hear on news reports, especially in today's times. I am very careful how I interpret or construe the things that I read and or hear on the news. This was a good movie.
Same old bias liberal trash !!
What a waste of time. Save your hard earned money. I think this was produced by the Democratic National Committee. More extremely left wing brain washing rather than entertainment
No doubt the corrupt, bias liberal media is falling all over itself to laud this film as it endorses some of its ideology. Freedom of the press and journalistic integrity are the most important aspects of a healthy democracy but it has been severely compromised for over a decade now. We can appreciate the performances of Hanks, Streep and the story but do we really need the implied disapproval one expects in partisan politics.
A masterpiece! See this movie!
Hanks & especially Streep are no longer relevant or actors they once were. Used to look forward to all Hanks movies but that time has passed. This is nothing but California fluff!!!
Hollywood self-righteously loves to lecture the rest of us on politics, ethics and morals yet possesses no integrity itself. Meryl Streep, the poster girl for hypocrisy and one of the leading actresses of her time, who called Harvey Weinstein her agent and God while accepting a Golden Globe award in 2012 couldn't possibly have not known about his improprieties. When asked, her answer was to attack the first lady, behavior one would expect from the guilty. The Post, like some other notable shows I won't name is as much a propaganda piece as a movie and as such loses it's appeal, except for the true believers.
I remember Nixon debating Kennedy, and I lived through those tumultuous times. Why the upheaval, there were so many young kids that society lost all control and SHTF. The Post was filled with kids at the time, and they were all edging to take down the man. It was symbol of their"resistance". The Post implied and lied like they still do very well to this day. The witch hunt was a coup, not about facts. Pass on this fabrication of the real history, and head down to the library for a real education.
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My favourite thing about the city though was just watching the busy daily life buzz around you, markets lining every street, the tiny cramped shops of china town, women selling flowers on the pavements, zipping up and down the river on water taxis and of course the continuous buzz of scooters and tuk tuks that I have come to associate with Asia!
After 4 days in Bangkok we caught the night train to Chiang Mai. We loved this city, both the city itself as well as the stunning surrounding area. The old walled city was beautiful and had a lovely small town feel about it, with great night markets and hundreds of temples. Mike won't forgive me if I don't mention breakfast world (the highlight of his holiday!) a breakfast restaurant set in a pretty little garden serving over 65 different breakfasts, we even got given cheesecake with our morning croissants and fruit, amazing but enough food for a whole day!
The second day we hired a scooter and drove up to the mountains into the Doi Suthep-Pui national park. The views of the city from the mountain were stunning and there were several waterfalls along the way that we stopped to hike around and even have a little waterfall shower! We continued on up the mountain to the hill tribe villages, where many different tribes live rural and traditional lives.
The next day we kept the scooter and visited a local lake where we could chill out on the lake in a tube, go for a swim and relax in the lake side huts. Although I did discover my vegetarian cucumber salad was full of tiny fish heads after I took a few huge mouthfuls!
We also got close up to some amazing animals whilst in Chiang Mai. We spent a day at a local elephant park learning the skills of an elephant handler, including feeding, cleaning and riding... It's much easier getting our puppy to sit than a few ton elephant!! Washing them was my favourite part of the day as the elephants seemed to love it just as much as us, and seemed to delight in spraying us with their trunks!
I also visited the baby tigers at tiger kingdom, which was amazing. I had done a lot of research trying to find a park where the animals are well treated, both with the elephant and tiger park. It was great to see how well the elephants were cared for and the relationships they had with their trainers. The baby tigers also seemed very happy and healthy, had an adequate amount of space and were very lively. They obviously were treated well by their keepers as they repeatedly went to the keepers for cuddles and fuss. Both parks claimed that the animals were all rescued from poachers and poor conditions, and that any babies born were kept as part of their breeding program or sold to zoos around the world for breeding. I really hope that this was the case, It does seem a little exploitative to allow people in to pet them, but without the tourists money they couldn't afford to feed them and keep them, so it's a bit of a catch 22. And I have to say I did enjoy the experience!
We spent a total of ten days in northern Thailand, with the plan of spending a similar amount of time in the south at the end of our trip before flying home. From Chiang Mai we traveled to Chang Khong to get a boat across the border to Laos.


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A guide to enjoying Ireland despite having Food Allergies and/or Intolerances
February 20, 2012
Gluten & Dairy Free Galette Crêpes from Heaven! - Fafie's
Myself and F. headed to Fafíe's last Friday night to celebrate a belated birthday with our friend A. My sister and her boyfriend K. joined us too during their flying visit to Dublin which made for an interesting party seeing as my sister and I are both Dairy Free, A. (the birthday girl) is Gluten Free and F. is Vegetarian - only K. was free from Dietary restriction! But, it all turned out trumps and what a celebration it was!
The menu is crazy to read with all sorts of Oceanic Goat-related titles which makes for some fun reading and some of the final products are spectacular to see, especially the sweet items which include ice cream (sadly not Dairy Free) or the savoury items which include organic eggs.
Wishing you a Happy Galette/Crêpe-filled Pancake Tuesday!!
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- Natali said...
Hi Aurea,
greetings from Germany. A very nice blog you created there! Unfortunately I live in the wrong country: I don't think we have something like Pancake Tuesday... poor me, I love pancakes!
Looking forward to your next posts,
- February 21, 2012 at 11:38 AM
Wow - I walk past Fafies nearly ever day and have never been in. I'm going to try it over the next few days. Your blog is fantastic - it's such a good resource. Thanks!
- February 21, 2012 at 1:18 PM
- Aurea@Survival Guide said...
Hi Natali! that causes shock and horror in me! You should lead Germany to the glory of Pancake Tuesday starting now! ;)
Thanks for reading! so glad that you like it!
- February 21, 2012 at 2:56 PM
- Aurea@Survival Guide said...
Thanks Loving Low Carb! and I know!! Fafies has been quietly flipping galettes since 2005! I couldn't believe that I had never tried them before now... Can't wait for you to check them out! -let us know what you think :D
- February 21, 2012 at 2:58 PM
- Natali said...
Hi Aurea, I'll do my best as an ambassador for Pancake Tuesday in my country... ;)
- February 22, 2012 at 4:13 PM


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Sunday, April 27, 2008
Comic 416: Zealous Autoconfig
Here's my guess for what's happening (a real guess) - He's trying to steal someone's internet, and he can't get the password, so he somehow manages to kidnap their children, I guess to exchange it for the internet. I don't know how he does that without leaving his seat if he has no internet access, but again, I don't know much about wifi. Maybe there is a 'kidnap' function but who knows? I guess I should check the xkcd message board but that's like kissass central so I dunno.
Oh by the way - if there is ever a time when the first say, 10 posts on the xkcd thread for an individual comic say it sucks, my job will be done and I'll end this blog.
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I think the idea is that autoconfig is so miraculous that if you want to connect to a wi-fi network autoconfig will do WHATEVER IT TAKES to get you online.ReplyDelete
And I think the idea is not funny. Not, of course, mutually exclusive with your idea.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2009 at 10:47 AM
"I don't know how he does that without leaving his seat if he has no internet access"ReplyDelete
The Wireless autoconfig connected to his bluetooth phone and called people to do the kidnap and negoitate settle passwroda!!!!
- AnonymousMarch 30, 2009 at 11:56 AM
CTRL + C aborts a command. So it's doing more than he wants.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Autoconfig is a tool that connects you to a wi-fi network. Your entire critique of this comic is based on your own ignorance.ReplyDelete
If there's anything that proves that you're hating on xkcd just for the sake of hating it, it's this post.
Heh. Really? All the posts out there and this one is your iconic one? Maybe you should go have a liedown.ReplyDelete
I dunno, I think I guessed pretty well. I can add some more critique if you want: This comic is dumb, even now that you have explained it and I learned I was right the first time.ReplyDelete
Can you explain what is happening in the comic?
Um what is happening in the comic is that he attempts to connect; it fails, and then the computer continues to try (kidnapping, etc) while the user is baffled and tries to regain control (cntrl c). (an 'autoconfig' that is exceptionally zealous; thus the title)ReplyDelete
It is sad that your entire critique has nothing to do with the comic, as you (admittedly) don't understand it.
I also find it odd that you call it "like reading a user manual" as a CRITIQUE when the demographic the comic is aimed at (me among others) finds this understandable and amusing...
Just as a critique of my own, anyone who spends this much of their life calling someone else a fool (whether or not they are) needs to seriously re-assess their goals in life...
What Quill said +1ReplyDelete
don't make me take away all your points, both of you.ReplyDelete
I thought I was pretty upfront about passing on this comic 'cause I didn't get what was happening - a rare thing for me, but I do it when needed.


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We made these bags last year and it was fun to get them out again. I told the kids that if this bag gets full it's time to come home and let mom go through all of it to remove the candy that might be poisoned. I usually find a pretty good handful, or two, of suspicious looking KitKat's every year. It feels good to save the lives of my children; such a sacrifice.
I've already eaten 2 bags of candy I bought early so I had to buy more today. Typical. Our neighborhood is CRAZY on Halloween. Literally hundreds of kids and never enough candy! There's a house on the main drag that has a live band play on their porch, and a house at the front of the subdivision that sets up a real live haunted lawn every kid is scared of, but they hand out big treat bags so they go anyways. Freaky house.
We told Dani she was too old to Trick or Treat this year and she has chosen to show her disappointment by shaking uncontrollably on the floor and holding her breath till she turns purple. I'm not convinced.
We have the costumes all worked out, but there are always last minute changes so we'll see what we end up with tonight. The Pretty Skeleton Girl came home from school a little crabby so we may end up with a Pretty Grumpy Witch Ready for Bed.
And in other news...my Holiday Mint M&M's are now in stores! Time to decorate the tree. Merry Christmas.
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- ShEiLa said...
I have eaten two mini-Baby Ruth bars... but I plan to have a couple Twix as well. My hubby and I have an agreement. He takes whatever candy is left after midnight to work tomorrow so I won't eat it all. *Ü* It is tough being a chocoholic.
Hugs Miss Cally! Have a 'spooktacular' Halloween.
- October 31, 2012 at 8:14 PM
- mandi said...
hahaha! All of your sacrificing- for the sake of the children!
I want to see pics of costumes!!!
- November 1, 2012 at 10:35 AM
- wendy said...
Matthew's wife...Rena...buys off candy from her kids. She does NOT like them having all that candy. So they negotiate a pay off system.
We get no trick or treaters where we live...it is out in the country and down a 1/4 mile road just to get to our house, in the dark....nope, no one comes here.
I miss the little kids and their cute costumes.
- November 1, 2012 at 7:06 PM
- ~adelle said...
Your posts always make me smile.
- November 7, 2012 at 11:06 AM


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When going back to replay classic games I played as a kid to mine them for knowledge, I always fear that any games from the NES era or earlier are too old to learn much from.
I tend to assume that many elements of modern design will be missing: no training, bad difficulty ramping, haphazard level design, and so forth. Before writing this article, I was under the impression that many "good design principles" I've come to know and love were invented during the SNES era and iterated on from there.
The NES was the Wild West of game development, I thought, lawless and free.
So when I went back on Link's 25th anniversary to play the first Zelda game and maybe write an article about it, I was a bit gun-shy.
As it turns out, I was totally wrong! Instead of finding something outdated with a ton of nostalgia value, I found an excellent primer in the fundamentals of non-linear game design.
In an interview, creator Shigeru Miyamoto once said that with The Legend of Zelda, he wanted to evoke the feelings associated with exploration in the player:
"When I was a child," Miyamoto said, "I went hiking and found a lake. It was quite a surprise for me to stumble upon it. When I traveled around the country without a map, trying to find my way, stumbling on amazing things as I went, I realized how it felt to go on an adventure like this." – via Wikipedia
To achieve this feeling, Miyamoto and company invented a number of really clever tricks to create non-linear levels that are still useful today.
I can still hear the music in my dreams... MY DREAMS!
While going through The Legend of Zelda, I played each level and then did an in-depth analysis of the level on paper. This kind of analysis is pretty standard fare; I do it all the time on colleagues' level designs. There are a few things I'm always looking for:
In this article, I'll apply the same methodology to the first level from the original Legend of Zelda. Fortunately, this is made easier by the fact that top-down maps of the level designs are easily and readily available. I'm only going to cover the first dungeon in this article, but the principles apply to all of them.
If you'd like to check them out yourself, you can find the maps I used here: Mike's RPG Center. (By the way, Mike is awesome and gave me permission to use his maps in this article. Thanks, Mike.)
Based on my memories of the game, one of my assumptions going into this experiment was that the rooms in the dungeons were laid out haphazardly. I always remember getting the feeling that I was navigating my way through the rooms almost randomly, spitting in the designers' faces and getting to the end only because of my mighty gaming talents!
After analyzing the flow of the dungeons, I quickly abandoned this notion. As it turns out, the dungeon layouts are very carefully planned and the flow is very cleverly executed.
First, I analyzed the critical path. The critical path is the shortest path through a level without using secrets, shortcuts, or cheats. Basically, it's the path the designer intends the player to take through the level unless she gets really clever.
It's worth noting that the critical path often doesn't require a player to complete 100 percent of a level; it just requires her to complete the mandatory objectives within the level.
For each of the dungeons, the critical path is almost always linear. There are very few instances where the player is required to re-traverse ground she's already seen. The only exception to the linearity rule tends to be two or three rooms at the beginning of the dungeons that allow you to choose between a small subset of rooms.
The player begins in Room 1 and can choose to go to Room 2 or Room 3. Rooms off the critical path are faded (click for full size).
Optional rooms (and sometimes entire paths) branch off from the critical path and reward the player with bonuses. The levels are also full of shortcuts that cut across the critical path. If the player has bombs, for example, she can skip from Room 5 to Room 8 in the above diagram.


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Inverness Shopping Park opening times
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Getting here
Inverness Shopping Park is located on Eastfield Way off Aberdeen Road (A96) on the outskirts of the city of Inverness. The centre is six miles from the city centre and the best access route is from Millburn Road. If accessing from Raigmore Interchange it is on the other side of the road when coming from the south.
Inverness railway station is located near the city centre at Academy Street, visit National Rail to plan your journey. Tickets can be purchased via the Train Line.
If travelling to Inverness Shopping Park by bus, please visit Stagecoach to plan your journey. There are regular local services to the Centre including lines 5, 11, 26, 108 and 310 (Fridays only).
We have over 1,000 FREE parking spaces.
We are proud that our car park has been issued the Park Mark, an award given by the Police to car parks that have achieved the standards of the Safer Parking Scheme, designed to reduce crime in car parks.
We are also delighted to announce that our car park has been issued a Disabled Parking Accreditation, awarded by Disabled Parking UK.
There are cash machines located at Tesco Extra and outside Boots.
Toilets can be found in most of the restaurants and cafes at Inverness Shopping Park. Baby changing facilities can be found in most toilets in the area.
A number of stores within Inverness Shopping Park offer a Click & Collect service - please see individual store pages under the 'Shops' tab for more information.
If you have lost something while visiting Inverness Shopping Park, then please get in touch with the relevant shop where you believe the item may have been misplaced.


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NormanD wrote:
I remember when "The Clapping Song" was a radio hit in the UK, it brought back other kids' playground songs (with the usual vulgarity) such as "Once upon a time / The bird shit the line / The monkey chewed tobacco...." I just googled this line and I came up with http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/archive ... 55029.html which isn't my home town, but provides a regional example of similar kids' rhymes and songs. And ever a great read is "The Lore And Language of Schoolchildren" by Peter and Iona Opie http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lore-Language-S ... 0940322692 Hours of fun with this book.
One can certainly get a feel of a region by the children's songs and I am certain others have been as amused or even shocked as I have been to hear different regional versions of rhymes they sang in their childhood or even to how they have changed over the years. Norman's link above certainly tells me a bit about the culture, the weather...
Here's one we used to sing (region - Northern California above S.F. 1950's/60's).
"There's a place in France where the ladies wear no pants
and people stand in line to see them wiggle their behind..."
to this melody:
I just found this site with an interesting history of the melody, the song, and snippets of other versions of the children's lyrics at the end of the page.


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Three Professors Granted Tenureby Jim Amidon • December 17, 2010 Share:
Wabash President Pat White has announced that three members of the faculty have been granted tenure. Classicist Jeremy Hartnett, education professor Michele Pittard, and mathematics professor Chad Westphal have received tenure and will be promoted to the rank of associate professor.
"In granting tenure to Professors Hartnett, Pittard, and Westphal, Wabash recognizes their individual achievements and their excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service to the students and the College," said President White. "We also signify our excitement about the future contributions each will make to the vitality of the College as they continue to make a difference in leading Wabash to new heights."
With tenure, the three teachers receive promotions to associate professor. Each has undergone bi-annual reviews by colleagues, department chairs, division chairs, and the dean. Each was carefully critiqued on their teaching, scholarship, and community involvement.
Dr. Hartnett says the receiving tenure is a humbling experience. "So many different people have a say in a tenure decision here: alumni and current students are asked to write letters or are interviewed about a faculty member's teaching; Wabash colleagues weigh in on college citizenship; and senior professors from other institutions evaluate a tenure candidate's scholarship," explained the 1996 Wabash graduate. "So, a successful tenure case is, in some senses, an affirmation from the multiple communities who have put my work under the microscope."
"I am very proud of and impressed by our three newly tenured faculty colleagues," said Dean of the College Gary A. Phillips, who led the reviews. "Jeremy, Chad and Michele bring excellence to the classroom, to the curriculum, and to our shared life as a community. Our students, present and future, are the real beneficiaries."
Dr. Hartnett is an honors graduate of Wabash, who earned his master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Since his return to Wabash in 2004 as a faculty member, he has been a leader of international immersion learning programs for Wabash students. His research has focused on the ancient Roman city of Pompeii.
Dean Phillips said Professor Hartnett's boundless energy and passion are hallmarks of his teaching.
"Infectious passion for the ancient world and a critical imagination that brings the past to life mark Jeremy Hartnett's teaching and scholarship," said Dean Phillips. "Whether in his introductory Latin class or on an immersion trip in Rome, Jeremy shows how careful attention to language, architecture, literature, and image shapes a discerning eye and an empathetic intelligence. His focus on the concrete street life of Pompeii sends the message to students that liberal arts learning not only makes the past sensible, but also equips them with the means to live humanely in the present. Jeremy's is a model of interdisciplinary teaching and research and compelling evidence of the vital role Classics plays in the Wabash mission."
"I'm honored to join this faculty because I hold it in such high esteem," said Hartnett. "This is especially true of my departmental colleagues, who first inspired me to pursue this field as a Wabash undergrad and who have provided ceaseless support and encouragement since I've come back to campus. I'm looking forward to the formidable challenge of carrying on the legacy of Leslie and Joe Day, David Kubiak, and John Fischer."
Michele Pittard came to Wabash in the teacher education department in 2002 after earning her undergraduate degree from Butler University and her master's degree and Ph.D. from Purdue University.
"To be rewarded tenure and to be among such talented colleagues, who are both teachers and scholars at an institution like Wabash is, quite frankly, my proudest professional moment," Pittard said. "Personally, as a teacher of teachers, it is especially gratifying to be recognized for the work I do with students in the classroom!"
Dr. Pittard has been known for traveling with her teacher education students to Chicago public schools and to rural outposts in Ecuador to provide them with a wide range of experiences and prepare them to be leaders in their schools.
"No Wabash faculty member has a more direct hand in improving the quality of public and private high school teaching than Michele Pittard," said Dean Phillips. "Her expert management of the Teacher Education program and shepherding of students through the rigorous certification process, her classroom based research program with its outreach to area high school teachers, and her transforming impact on students inside and outside the classroom signals Wabash at its best. A resolute voice for faculty self-reflection and improvement, Michele practices what she teaches, and in so doing insures that the quality of Wabash teacher education as a vibrant liberal art remains high."
Chad Westphal came to Wabash in 2004 as an assistant professor of mathematics. He earned his bachelor's degree from Oral Roberts University, his master's degree from Tulsa, and his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado.
Westphal has been engaged in all aspects of the community, teaching in Wabash's advanced summer algebra institute; spearheading the College's development of a dual degree program in engineering with Purdue University; and serving as general contractor for the new Milligan Park Skate Park.
That level of engagement has impressed Dean Phillips.
"Evidence of Chad's significant engagement with and impact upon the College is visible everywhere: as nationally recognized teacher/scholar in the Mathematics/Computer Science department; as advocate for shared student/faculty research; as key negotiator forging the new engineering partnership with Purdue; as the driving force behind Crawfordsville's new skate park, to name but a few," said Phillips. "Chad demonstrates the ability to make the complicated accessible and the seemingly impossible doable whether working with mathematical proofs, institutional agreements, or city officials. Chad gets good things done; he elevates the standard of excellence for Wabash students and his faculty colleagues."
"Having tenure allows me to think long term in a way I never have before," said Dr. Westphal. I am very fortunate to be at a school that shares my outlook on higher education and one that values my contributions and pushes me to excellence in my career. Wabash has always given me the flexibility and support to be creative and daring in my teaching and research, and having tenure is both an endorsement of my work so far as well as an invitation to plant deep roots here."
While the process of tenure focuses largely on past teaching, research, and scholarship, all three of Wabash's new associate professors agree that it's the future that is most exciting.
Harnett explains: "As much as the process of trying to get tenure requires looking back at one's work, receiving tenure makes it fun to think about the future: plotting ways to take Wallies to my favorite overseas destinations, digging into new and more adventurous research projects, and anticipating the rewards of working closely with our diligent, talented, and funny students."
The tenure for all three professors is effective immediately; the promotion to associate professor is effective July 1.


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The "If You See Something, Say Something" campaign was designed to help law enforcement and homeland security forces gather intelligence which could prevent terrorist attacks. It's meant to literally raise awareness … of your surroundings! The world we live in has changed so much in the years since the September 11th attacks. Now we are subjected to Orwellian messaging while we shop at Walmart and attend public events. "If You See Something, Say Something" has The Drudge Report calling Janet, 'Big Sis' as we are asked to watch each other for suspicious behavior.
So what does all this have to do with drunk driving? We are being asked to be proactive toward terrorism. After all, lives are at stake. By watching out for objects in strange places and people doing odd things, and by acting on what we see, we can potentially avert deadly attacks. In essence, it's a nation-wide Neighborhood Watch campaign. Let's consider a primary purpose of the "If You See Something, Say Something" campaign to be saving American lives. Now consider the lives lost to drunk driving every year.
Here is a simple chart with simple statistics comparing the fatalities of the 9/11 attacks to fatalities from the Iraq War to the fatalities from drunk driving.
There were nearly 11,000 drunk driving fatalities last year. This is lower than the average considering we are coming off of years of 12,000 and 13,000 deaths per year.
American casualties in the Iraq War total almost 4,300 since 2003. If the Iraq War went on for another 16 years, we'd have about as many fatalities as in one year from drunk driving.
9/11 casualties were just under 3,000. If there were three 9/11-style attacks in our country every year, it would not equal the deaths from drunk driving.
So how can "If You See Something, Say Something" impact drunk driving deaths? Over the past several years, I have googled news stories on a daily basis for the terms DUI, DWI, and OWI. I read many drunk driving news articles every day and there are several things I look for. One of them led me to a statistic we state on our Home page. I take note of whether a news story tells what the drunk driver was doing before getting into the car. In particular, I look for whether they were alone, or with other people. I kept track and after reading hundreds of news stories, it turns out that only 10% of drunk drivers are drinking in solitude before driving. 90% of all drunk driving happens after hanging, dining, or going out with friends, family, or coworkers. There is almost always somebody there who could prevent each instance of drunk driving.
But how, just by being there, can we prevent somebody from driving drunk? Well, we can't. We can't stop a terrorist at Walmart just by being there either. That's why we are asked through the "If You See Something, Say Something" campaign to be vigilant, to know what others around us are doing, and to know what's going on. We should know what is 'normal' so we can notice something 'out of place'.
Applying the same concept to drunk driving means learning how alcohol interacts with the body, and how to properly wait after drinking before driving (even if you don't drink). When you are with people who are drinking, try to take note of how much they are having and how much time passes before they leave. When you see drunk driving about to happen, step in and say something! Start a conversation and prevent that person from leaving. Don't sit by and allow people, even strangers, to stagger away from you to get in their cars. Intervene.
By being observant and proactive, we can prevent acts of terrorism. By applying the same principle, we can dramatically reduce the deaths attributed to drunk driving. Now all we need is a DHS video campaign in places where people congregate to drink …
"If You See Drunk Driving About To Happen, Say Something"


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Liverpool announced the signing of Simon Mignolet from Sunderland for a reported fee of £9m on Tuesday, while the gossip columns have been packed with rumours linking Pepe Reina with a move away from Anfield in recent months.
Barcelona goalkeeper Victor Valdes has declared he won't sign a contract extension at FC Barcelona and would like to experience fresh challenges with another club. However, Valdes's performances for Barcelona have deteriorated in recent seasons.
Barcelona are, subsequently, in the market looking for a direct replacement. They have been linked with many of the top keepers including David de Gea at Manchester United and Liverpool's Reina.
Recent reports suggest they had a bid rejected by Galatasaray for their Uruguayan keeper, Fernando Muslera. Fans in Spain won't mind seeing the back of Valdes and would like to see Reina donning the Barcelona colours.
But Liverpool have maintained their stance that Reina is not for sale - and want the Spaniard to stay and compete with Mignolet for a first-team place.
Mignolet had an excellent last season at Sunderland and is excited about the prospect of playing for a top club like Liverpool.
Reina, on the other hand, has had several up and downs in his Liverpool career, where he has come up with brilliant performances and committedsome infamous blunders.
Last season can't be counted as his best, but he has ultimately been able to retain the number one spot for his club over the years. Now he is in a completely different scenario altogether. Mignolet will give him tough competition every week.
Rather than being shunned by Liverpool, it would be best both for the player and the club to part ways, meaning Brendan Rodgers should sanction a move back to Spain.
Reina is still a Spanish international and would want to play every week rather than be seen keeping the bench warm.
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Chapter 21 - Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers by Victor Appleton
Chapter 21: Flashing Gems. Book number 7 in the Tom Swift series. First published in 1911. Children's VideoBook with synchronized text, interactive transcript, and closed captions in multiple languages. Read by Mike Vendetti: goo.gl/4nrYv Playlist for: Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers by Victor Appleton: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL70FC4CC030C535BE


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mike carbery needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 95 designs submitted by 26 freelance designers.
logo needed for new Irish landscape gardening business
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I need a logo for use on my companies pending web site, for stationary and van signage.
Mike Carbery Landscapes offer garden design, construction and maintenance to the private/domestic market.
It is solely run by myself, and my work has a strong emphasis on design as my background is in the arts.
The logo should be graphic, reflecting me, artistry, horticulture, and good design.
- colour should contrast navy (colour of van)
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- May include business name 'Mike Carbery Landscapes'
- Contemporary feel
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