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Thursday, October 30, 2008
The Skinny on Fats and Oils
Did you know that saturated fats:
• Make up at least 50 percent of our cell membranes, providing essential rigidity and strength
• Enhance the immune system
• Help incorporate calcium into our bones
• Some have antimicrobial properties that protect us against harmful microorganisms in our digestive tracts
And cholesterol:
• Contributes to cell membrane rigidity and strength, just as saturated fats do
• Is used to make hormones that help us deal with stress, as well to make sex hormones
• Is converted to vitamin D, essential for proper growth, healthy bones, a healthy nervous system, muscle tone, and proper immune system function
• Is used to make bile, needed for digestion of fat in our foods
• Acts as an antioxidant, actually protecting us against cellular damage that leads to heart disease and cancer
• Helps protect against autoimmune disease by maintaining a healthy intestinal lining.
As you can see, saturated fat and cholesterol are needed for many vital processes. It's when we eat damaged fats and cholesterol from foods like hydrogenated oils, pasteurized and powdered dairy products, and fried meats that injury to the walls of our blood vessels and plaque build occur – leading to cardiovascular and other diseases. Stick with foods concentrated with sources of healthy fats and/or cholesterol like avocadoes, nuts, seeds, cold pressed virgin olive oil, virgin coconut oil, red palm oil, organic eggs, chicken, and grass-fed beef. That way, you'll do your body good and keep those pipes flowing like they should.
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- blessed, grateful said...
In comparison to your last post this one seems quite mellow. Your last post woke up the sleeping idiot in me that has an insane talent for ignoring whats right to continue doing what is wrong. I liked it. I'm probably going to print it and hanh it on my fridge, my pantry, and my office. For those moments I may be acting without thinking it will be a welcome slap in the face. While this post is good stuff your previous post has the threads lighting up with chatter, it is you raw and exposed. You are tough Tony, but your heart and passion are fully exposed in that post. Thank you for loving us enough to say everything you said.
- Tai Chi Monkey Girl said...
Hi Tony,
Thank you for the info on Fats and Oils. I'm learning more and more each day through your guidance as I take the P90X journey with you and everyone here.
Your previous post "Chat Room Throw Down" has also gave me a kick toward the right path. I am grateful that you have the heart to take time in reaching out and inspiring us to seek out a better path of life.
- nick said...
Great and important points made with this blog! How do we keep those pipes flowing free and yet at the same time satisfy our hunger for fats and protein? I personally believe that portion control combined with healthy, fresh cooking methods--as you so eloquently outlined here--is the key to success for this particular issue. Also, I was doing some research and discovered an interesting fact about meats and fats:
All fats and oils are made up of a mixture of saturated, mono and polyunsaturated fatty acids. Calling animal fats "saturated fats" is very misleading, as many animal fats are actually more than 50% unsaturated, and chicken fat is actually 70% unsaturated. If a fat were completely saturated it would be very solid with the consistency of hard wax. For example, beef fat or tallow is made up of about 50% saturated fatty acids (25% palmitic acid, 22% stearic acid and others), 40% monounsaturated fatty acids (oleic acid, the main fatty acid in olive oil), and the balance polyunsaturated fatty acids (linoleic and linolenic, the ratio depending on the diet of the cattle).
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I never really finished my local-flavor MxMo post last week. Gunning up to the deadline, writing when I was already exhausted, and laughing at a night's inebriation are all fine, but I slammed into a wall that told me it was time to hit the sack.
Had I continued, I'd have written about this wonderful thing:
It's an heirloom martini, inspired by a drink of the same name that Jen ordered at Gracie's restaurant, here in Providence. We've been to a number of restaurants and bars in Providence, and we've learned it's hard to get a really great cocktail here. There's some damn fine cuisine in Providence, but the bar programs are lagging behind the kitchens. You just see a lot of the same vodka-based craptails from place to place. I don't know whether it's the bar managers or the patrons who are so uninspired, but it's disappointing.
I do want to talk about the exceptions, though, and Gracie's is one. I arrived early to our dinner at Gracie's on Thursday, the Seventh of August, so I took a seat at the bar to wait for Jen. Anter, the newly installed bar manager, was working the stick, and we got to talking. I started off by asking about rye. He had Sazerac, which he stirred for me into a Manhattan. He usually keeps Old Overholt and, when he can get it, Rittenhouse, but he doesn't sell enough rye cocktails to go deeper than those three.
That branched out into a good discussion of spirits and cocktails in general. There's little in cocktail-geekery that's more fun than getting to know a good bartender who's both smart and creative behind the bar. (As an aside, long-time readers might remember me talking about Jim, one of the bar guys at Dressler, in Brooklyn. I ran into Jim down at Tales of the Cocktail and was able to chat for a few minutes. The guy remembered Jen and me even though we hadn't been in there since a couple of months before the move. He's still got a damn good memory. We'll have to get back there soon.)
Back to the business of that drink, though. While I was waiting for Jen, another man came in, approached the bar, and starting talking to Anter. He asked whether Anter still had "that heirloom martini" on the menu, and Anter said, "Yes, we do." I looked for it immediately when Jen came in and we were seated and handed menus. Gin (or vodka), heirloom tomato water, and pickled tomatoes for garnish. That's it. He may have used a touch of vermouth, too, but I didn't taste any.
So that was pretty easy to re-create last weekend. Jen took an heirloom tomato, chunked it, wrapped it in cheesecloth, and suspended it in a mesh strainer over a bowl. She squeezed it from time to time, but mostly let the liquid drain out. I took a small amount, about half an ounce, and stirred it with cracked ice and 5-1/2 ounces of gin in a chilled mixing glass. Jen had previously pickled some small tomatoes, and we used them for garnish.

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Please don't feel this way, you did not fail her. It seems like mast cell is becomming way to common now. Get the links that Sharon is mentioning, lots of good info in them. Lots of hugs and good thoughts coming to you and Rain.


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And make one wonder about the real life of the original mysterious French woman. Perhaps I should go back with my carte d'identite/passport and find out what the Chanel exhibit is really about non?
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And make one wonder about the real life of the original mysterious French woman. Perhaps I should go back with my carte d'identite/passport and find out what the Chanel exhibit is really about non?
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One thing I really admire is your courage at taking photos..When a friend lived across the street we discovered we both liked taking photos.. too late in our friendship malheureusement as it only gave us a few occasions for outings to shoot..(She has moved..)..but I found I was so much braver to stop on a road..get out of a car..approach a farm..or a field..etc..with someone..I never do alone..ReplyDelete
You are so good at this!
Do you find Coco looks like Catherine Deneuve IN the mirror?
I know they look nothing alike but that mirror shot?
Love your silhouettes..gosh you're good!
- Anonymous8:22 AM
Chanel - the Queen of mysteryReplyDelete
And forgiven everything for beauty's sake..
You Chanel sketches reflect an immediacy missing from the photos!ReplyDelete
I like best the last photograph of her, an interesting study in attitude.
Carol, please do return to the Chanel exhibit with that required card. Perhaps Coco did not like the looks of her teeth or perhaps she just preferred to keep that composed appearance as her signature.ReplyDelete
Your prior post about going to the cinema was very informative...what a great opportunity to see lots of movies. I also used to see many French films with the idea of improving my understanding of the beautiful language. My memory might be faulty, but I also think I saw Chariots of Fire in Cannes with French dubbed in and no English subtitles. Long ago, and not at the actual festival!
Lovely post Carol. You do get to see the best exhibits in Paris! (How very Parisian of you!) I am a big fan of Coco Chanel's, even though I am certain it would have been difficult to be her friend (come to think of it, after reading several Chanel biographies, I don't know if she had actual friends, especially female ones...) I mostly admire her self-confidence (yes, I see narcissism in there as well,) and the way she played her cards so well in a society that was still men-oriented. Nothing cheers me up these days like a Chanel quote about men and women relationships. "Mademoiselle" is always "on the dot!" :-) I showcase a couple of my blog's homepage... Veronique (French Girl in Seattle)ReplyDelete
- François11:04 AM
About his love affair with a german officer, i want just say :ReplyDelete
all the german was not nazi
all the nazi was not german
A best seller novel was write about this kind of relation ; le silence de la mer
You can find this story in a post war movie and a recent very fine TV movie.
- Anonymous11:51 AM
One of my dearest friends is the playwright, Bill Luce, who wrote the 'Belle of Amherst' and 'Barrymore' among many other plays. He is now putting the finishing touches on a rewrite of 'Coco', a one woman play about Miss Chanel. It is going to be produced in Paris and Leslie caron wants to play the role. Please be on the lookout for it.
Such a knack for making the most of what she had! YEs, go back with your carte!ReplyDelete
Love love love!! The sketch is beautiful and I'm jealous.. I so would like to go!ReplyDelete
Have enjoyed all the different films/books that have come out recently!
Interesting observations about the person behind the persona, Carol. May be worth a return visit to learn more... x KatieReplyDelete
- Patricia2:38 PM
Please write a book! We love your witty comments and hidden peeps of Paris. Illustrate it with your whimsical paintings. Please! And please include a whole chapter (if not more) on ONLY FABULOUS DESSERTS.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3:58 PM
Loved everything today.Look for Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's.....can't wait to see it...ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for the recommendation Carol! I'll be in Paris a few times this year and will definitely stop by!ReplyDelete
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I love the Chanel piece. "The persuasive narcissism of her portraits.." seems that she was always creating a live set, a painting. I wonder if we will ever know who she truly was. But I agree, an icon unmatched.ReplyDelete


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To most people, the thought of training Hollywood superstars to ride fixed gear bikes convincingly in just seven weeks would be pretty daunting. But to Nate Loyal, a professional bike-fitter, rider and coach, it's all in a day's work. He spoke to BikeRadar about how he got the call from Sony Pictures to work with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Dania Ramirez for cycling thriller Premium Rush…
Rather than belonging to a particular riding tribe, Loyal has experience across multiple disciplines. After starting out in BMX as a youngster he turned to the world of triathlon, eventually going pro before taking part in cross-country and downhill mountain biking and trying his hand at elite road racing. He can also add track state championship events to his bow, giving him a well-rounded CV.
Loyal is based in Santa Monica, California, where he also works as a bike-fitter, and Premium Rush isn't the first blockbuster he's worked on. He got that gig through one of his regular clients, an exec at Sony, but had previously trained the likes of Tobey Maguire, in preparation for the Spider-Man franchise (starting in 2002) and Brothers (2009).
For the latter film, Maguire needed the gaunt physique of a returning prisoner of war, so the pair would go for gruelling fasted rides, something Loyal said "is the worst thing you can do as a coach, because it's not healthy".
Written by John Kamps and Mission: Impossible scribe David Koepp, Premium Rush is a fast-paced action movie that follows a pair of New York bike couriers, played by Gordon-Levitt and Ramirez. Equipped with only their fixies, they become embroiled in a high-speed chase across the city involving a crazed cop (Michael Shannon) and a rather valuable package.
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It's not surprising that many of the sequences – including the frequent crashes, trials tricks and more deft bike maneuvers – were performed by stunt or pro riders. But director Koepp still wanted the actors to be able to play convincing NYC couriers, meaning it really is Ramirez and Gordon-Levitt you see in the saddle for many of the scenes.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt in action on New York's streets
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As Loyal explained, both actors had been on bikes before filming, but in the sense of riding beach cruisers and staying balanced. His task was to get them used to tackling Los Angeles traffic at high speeds, while riding fixed gear and pulling off realistic skid braking, trackstands, kerb jumps and on-the-go dismounts, all in the two months before the stars relocated to New York for shooting.
"If you look at it as seven or eight weeks of training, it seems like that's a fair amount of time, but it really isn't – a lot of it was just getting them on traditional road bikes, getting their fitness up," Loyal explained. The fixed gear bikes were also introduced from day one.
"Joseph needed the fitness to be constantly riding, constantly shooting. They couldn't just shut down the project because he was tired, so even though they'd be doing a scene of maybe a few seconds, they might do it 20 times with all the takes."
"In the very beginning we were doing an hour-and-a-half or two-hour ride a day, following up with an hour or hour-and-a-half of skill work, and that was just in the first week or week-and-a-half. Then we bumped it up to three or four hours of riding with another two to three hours of skill work. We had the script and I would always review it to understand what would be going on in some of the scenes."
Watching the film it's hard not to be impressed with Gordon-Levitt's apparent fitness and speed. "We definitely worked on cadence, both on the fixie and the geared bike," explained Loyal. "With either bike we'd be going out in the low 20mph range. Sometimes we'd do hard, hard efforts and be up in the upper 20s, sometimes we'd be backing off and doing much more endurance work in the high teens."
Both actors were enthusiastic about the physical challenge, meaning not much was needed in terms of psychological preparation or confidence boosts, just the odd five-minute break here and there. That didn't mean injury precaution took a back seat, though, with Loyal kitting Gordon-Levitt and Ramirez up in full downhill body armour along the way.
"It was a little bit of a trial by fire!" Loyal said. "Dania acutally had to do a Maxim cover shoot during our training, and she showed up and had all these bruises on her from our training! They got beat up pretty good."
As for knowing whether his trainees were ready for action, Loyal said he constructed a final test for Gordon-Levitt. "We met at a local bike shop in Santa Monica, and I was like, 'Alright, it's 5 o'clock, on a Friday afternoon, and we've got to go to Venice Beach, have a bite and then ride back, and he has to keep up, and that's it – just don't die, just stay with me, and I'll see you there!' He did phenomenally well, going pretty hard through traffic, in the full getup, with the messenger bag and everything."
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Loyal's role didn't stop with on-the-bike help, either. While he wasn't too in-depth about what the actors should be eating outside of training, he did prescribe dietary advice to be followed before, during and after the rides.
The same went for basic maintenance skills – in the movie there are several sequences in which the actors need to look as though they know how to mend bashed-up bikes, the realism aided by Loyal's lessons. "That's something I do with all my clients," he explained. "We'd be on a training ride and if there was a mechanical or somebody got a flat, even if it was on my bike, I'd make them fix it. I'd talk them through it, but I'd make them do the work."
Although Loyal stayed in LA once the cast and crew had set up in New York, his involvement with the project continued from afar. For example, his experience as a fitter meant he was easily able to advise on bikes that could be used for filming.
"That was actually a long process," he said. "The production company were phenomenal – they really did their homework. They got a list of bikes, both New York-based and East Coast-based, in the Boston area, and they would come back to me and say, 'Hey, what do you think of these for the different actors?'
"Actually, I just went to the North American Handmade Bicycle Show and I met up with the Geekhouse Bikes company, and finally met Marty, who runs it. It was great; we were talking about their bikes that were in the movie."
As for the film's ongoing war between carbon road bike and steel fixie aficionados, as well as the argument over whether going brakeless is actually safer, Loyal says he would come down on the side of the steel fixie, but with a brake, if he were a cycle courier: "There's a limit. I know some guys who do ride with no brakes, but I'm always stunned and amazed!"
For more information on Nate Loyal's coaching and bike-fitting programmes, see loyalcoaching.com. And for a taste of the kind of action Premium Rush serves up, this time with trials star Andrei Burton and in London, check out the video below:
Premium Rush is out now on DVD and Blu-ray. To celebrate, we've got 10 copies of the film to give away as part of our March Commuter Challenge – all you need to do is log at least 20 trips to work and back on BikeRadar Training by the end of March, so get pedalling!


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unplug and plug the wires, remove the memories just in case this is what's causing but still it did not boot.
the tech grabbed a generic 500w psu and plug the cables and the mobo BOOT! so i got damn worried!
the tech's analysis is its because of the corsair's 950w power that the mobo can't boot alone (without the gtx570). they dont also have any vcard they can test with a minimum power requirement of 500w.
what's worst is iv read some threads that tx950 has incompatibilities with some asus boards!
but wat do you guys think? need help!
another question is do i need to buy a higher watt avr for the psu? i have a ups but its only 500va. here in philippines we usually have power flux and brownouts.


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Did you know that moss has the ability to grow without seeds?
Unlike other plants, moss commonly grows in damp and shady places and doesn't need seeds or much sunshine. When rain falls and collects on top of rocks, moss takes advantage of the supplied water and begins growing along the pathway of water flow, sometimes causing moss to resemble a waterfall! It can grow in long vertical arrangements stretching up and down, often creating cascading formations along rocks.
Moss aids in the weathering of rocks. The plant holds moisture to the rock, keeping it wet and turning the water acidic. Over time, the surface of the rock breaks down.
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MONTREAL — Who doesn't love a good cup of coffee?
Whether it's a regular cup of Joe from the local Tim Hortons or a designer brand from Starbucks, you just have to look at the early-morning lineups at coffee joints all over the country to realize it's an essential part of most people's daily routine.
Plenty of coffee drinkers claim to like not just the taste, but also how coffee makes them feel. The jolt of energy and wakefulness that it provides allows most of us to better face the challenges of the day, whether it's getting the family out the door in the morning or dealing with a tight deadline at work.
And then there are those who use coffee to ward off drowsiness and improve concentration, like students and shift workers who need ammunition against fatigue.
Of course, it's not the coffee itself that we've come to rely on. It's the caffeine that provides the pick-me-up we all crave. Classified as a stimulant, caffeine acts on the central nervous system, bolstering mood, energy levels, alertness and reaction time. It can also be found in many other fluids, foods and supplements, including soft drinks, energy drinks, gels, chocolate and in pill form.
Combine the availability of caffeine with its energy-boosting effect, and it's only natural that athletes are keen to mine its benefits. In fact, athletes have been using caffeine for years in hopes that it can improve performance on the playing field. Turns out it does.
Study after study has shown that ingesting caffeine both before and during exercise extends the time before fatigue — and not just marginally. Cyclists, runners, cross-country skiers and triathletes have shown performance improvements as high as 10 per cent to 15 per cent compared with a placebo.
Simply put, the reason caffeine boosts performance is that it masks the perception of fatigue and recruits more motor units within the body's muscles. Also advantageous is the fact that caffeine's effects are fairly long-lasting. Caffeine consumed in the morning will still benefit a workout done later in the day.
This well-known effect resulted in the temporary inclusion of caffeine on the list of banned performance-enhancing substances. From 1984 to 2004, a threshold was established by international athletic associations beyond which caffeine would be considered doping.
The problem is, the performance-enhancing benefits of caffeine are felt with relatively low levels of ingestion, which made it hard to distinguish between coffee addicts and those who consumed caffeine solely to improve performance. Hence the decision by the World Anti-Doping Agency in 2004 to remove caffeine from its list of banned substances.
How much caffeine is needed to give athletes the kind of boost they're looking for? Researchers have noted performance improvements with as little as one to three milligrams of caffeine per kilogram of body weight. For someone who weighs 150 pounds (68 kilograms), that's 68 to 200 milligrams of caffeine, well within the 400-milligram-a-day limit health experts suggest is safe.
Does that mean athletes should start their day with a supersized mug of coffee? That may indeed be part of their strategy, but a more efficient way to get their fix is through concentrated products with a measured amount of caffeine designed to accommodate athletes on the run — literally.
In fact, makers of sports nutrition products have jumped on the opportunity to provide caffeine-laced supplements like drinks, gels and pills designed for the athletic community.
That said, not all athletes benefit to the same extent from a shot of caffeine. There are high responders and low responders, with some suggestion that coffee lovers may get less of a boost than those who rarely consume caffeine.
Also worth noting is that caffeine works best in endurance athletes versus sprinters or those whose activity involves repeated short bursts of energy. And there's a shortage of data regarding whether caffeine improves performance in the weight room.
So before you go out and buy one of those giant cans of energy drinks in hopes that it will produce huge results, keep in mind that doses of caffeine beyond the recommended three milligrams per kilogram of body weight provide no extra benefit. In fact, too much caffeine has been linked to adverse side effects like jitters, increased heart rate and impaired performance. Last month, The New York Times reported that 18 deaths have been linked to energy drinks containing high levels of caffeine.
The idea isn't to over-consume caffeine in the hope that it will give you a competitive edge. Rather, the strategy is to deliver moderate doses of caffeine before, and in some cases during, endurance events as a pick-me-up when performance is lagging.
This kind of strategy is for adults only. There are no studies linking caffeine to improved performance in children or youth. In fact, health experts are worried about the amount of caffeine kids are ingesting in the form of energy drinks, which are sold freely to children of all ages. Children 10 to 12 years of age should limit caffeine consumption to 85 milligrams a day.
When it comes to caffeine, a little goes a long way. So go ahead and grab a cup of coffee in the morning, then head to the gym and see if you can find that higher gear when you need it.
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I knew that it was some time in September, because I'd only been playing a month when Deftig suggested that we start a blog, but I'd not realized our first post was at the end of September.
Deftig did a lot of the heavy lifting to get the site ready. He'd selected Blogger over other options --my lone advice was to make it easy to modify-- and had prepped the site for publication. We selected the name Parallel Context over the course of an afternoon whereas he and I would trade name ideas and he'd go out and see if it was available. We ended up with Parallel Context simply because it was the first blog name that was free, not due to any clever desire to have our initials as PC.
Even though he hasn't posted in a while, the site still bears Deftig's fingerprints in layout and format. I've done some mild tweaking over the years, but I've not felt the need to change things very much.*
Our first full year had a lot more posts than subsequent years. Part of that was two --occasionally three-- people posting, but part of that was that I could post that much: the kids were smaller and we weren't involved with (what often seems like) 50 million after school activities. As time has gone on and my life has gotten busier, my posting has dropped to a more sustainable 1-2 times a week.
What has changed the most over the years, however, is the MMO blogging landscape.
When I read Righteous Orbs, the Pink Pigtail Inn, or Welcome to Spinksville!, I felt like I was at the watering hole for a lot of MMO bloggers. All three posted often and engendered lively discussion, and the first two had enormous blogrolls.*** When Tam of Righteous Orbs dropped by and commented on a post of mine, it felt like a rock star saying hello. And when Larisa of PPI added our blog to her blogroll, I felt that we'd finally arrived.
But the voices have gone silent.
Righteous Orbs and PPI closed up shop a few years ago, and Spinks has slowed her output tremendously over the past year. (As of this writing, she hasn't posted in over two months.) While the gigantic blogroll lives on with Rades' Orcish Army Knife, even the MMO Melting Pot is scaling back operations while Hugh takes a detour into his love of filmmaking.
Things have changed, yet people are still out there, writing away. And so are we.
I don't see PC going away any time soon, and given my tendency to poke my nose into just about any MMO that strikes me as interesting, I'll have plenty of topics to write about.
Staying true to my Midwestern roots, I'm not going to turn PC into something it's not. We're not exactly a backwater, but we're not trendy, either. And that suits me fine.
/raises coffee
Here's to another four years!
*If I ever can get my WoW screenshot to work properly I'll get the title pic updated, however. We're a bit behind the times.
**Yeah, like that never stopped me before.
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Fourth annual ComicCONN gets hero's welcome
When Michelle Sabados was young, she was "wicked into comics."
So when the Stratford resident heard that the fourth annual ComiCONN convention would take place Saturday at the Trumbull Marriott, she knew it was an outing for the whole family.
"Where else are you going to run into Mr. T and the Little Mermaid and take a picture of them together," she said, laughing. "It's that kind of kumbaya, bringing people together (event). It's a lot of fun."
Unlike Macdaniel Macleod, who wore camouflage and gold chains to play the part of B.A. Baracus from the television and movie "The A-Team," Sabados didn't dress up.
She left that to her kids, Veronika, who threw a dark purple blanket over her head and donned black face paint to portray Raven, a character from the "Teen Titans" comics and TV show, and Michael, who was the same shade of green as a character named Beast Boy.
"It's awesome," Veronika said, as Michael showed off the Archie comic he had just gotten signed at one of the 180 tables of comics, artwork, toys and collectibles.
Minutes later, Rich Feldstein, owner of the Bagel Bar, a superhero-themed deli in Milford, walked by -- cackling loudly and wearing clown makeup and the infamous purple coat worn by the Joker, from "Batman."
From costumed characters of all shapes, sizes and ages to cartoon bigwigs like the creator of "Ren & Stimpy," the ComiCONN event drew thousands of people to the area, just weeks after ConnecticutCon, a similar convention in Hartford.
Billed as "a show by the fans, for the fans," ComiCONN had plenty of opportunities for adults and children to meet comic book and cartoon heroes.
The event is the brainchild of lifelong comic and genre fans Mitch Hallock and his friends Erik Yacko and Joe Stintson, owners of Alternative Universe in Milford and New Haven, and writer Jay Claus.
Among the big-name faces at this year's event were Bob Camp, a Brookfield resident and the creator of "Ren & Stimpy;" cast members from the AMC show "Comic Book Men"; and Larry Kenney, a New Canaan resident who starred on "ThunderCats."
"It's just a great atmosphere," said Jason Thigpen, a New Haven resident wearing a purple T-shirt with the original "Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers." "It's kind of like nerd kingdom."
His friend, Marcus Miller, said nerds get a bad reputation, but at events like ComiCONN being a nerd is completely acceptable.
Minutes before after the event, Thigpen, 26, lamented that he had not donned the Blade vampire-hunter superhero costume that he often wears to events.
For many people, the chance to dress up and become a comic hero for a day was one of the allures of the event.
"It gives me another excuse to put this costume on," said Nick Wolfe, 22, holding his heavy, custom-ordered Cliff Secord mask.
Secord is a stunt pilot-turned hero in "The Rocketeer" comics and movie set in the 1930s.
So, it was fitting that Wolfe's friend, Christilynne Botti, a fellow Shelton resident, was dressed as pinup girl Bettie Page.
"I love cosplaying," said Botti, using the abbreviated term for costume playing. "It's my favorite thing. I love just talking to people in general about cosplaying."
The couple try to go to all major conventions in the area. "I love dressing up as a character," Wolfe said.
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ussoccer.com: You've been working very hard to get yourself into the mix for the WNT. What are the key factors for a young player to make rosters, get into games, and get minutes?
Kelley O'Hara: "If I knew that, I might have a few more caps! Just kidding, I think the main thing for me over the past year or so has been becoming comfortable with the team and getting confident with myself at this level, which I think I lacked at the beginning. Now, I'm starting to feel comfortable and confident and I think that allows me to play up to my abilities. There are other factors of course, being fit, being a professional, and knowing that this is a full-time job, not just showing up to camp and expecting to do well."
ussoccer.com: Your feats on the USA's fitness tests are fast becoming legendary. You currently hold the U.S. WNT record in the beep test. What are you thinking when you are getting to the end of those final few painful sprints?
KO: "Well, besides thinking that I might just collapse, I am thinking about Finding Nemo: Just keep moving, just keep moving, just keep moving, moving, moving. Actually, I just get into a groove at the end and I know when I'm at the point of being done, I just tell myself to do three more. And even if I could do more, if I've done that last three, I'm done."
ussoccer.com: What parts of your game do you most want to improve?
KO: "I want to improve on reading the game and decision-making, basically whatever Pia tells me to do. I also want to improve my technique and I want to be able to hit crosses to the point where they are almost perfect every time. I want to become super consistent and accurate because as a flank midfielder, your effectiveness on crossing is a key to being productive."
ussoccer.com: What were the main ways that playing for the WPS champion FC Gold Pride last season helped your development?
KO: "I think that being around players like Marta and Christine Sinclair and Shannon Boxx allowed me to watch and observe these high level players in the way that they trained, in the way that they hold the ball and shoot to score. You learn a lot just being in that environment. Having to show up to work every day and perform really teaches you a lot about being a professional player."
ussoccer.com: You are a Stanford graduate. Does anyone make jokes that you graduated from Stanford to get a job…playing soccer?
KO: "No, no one makes fun of me, but a lot of my Stanford friends do think it's cool that I play soccer as a job. I feel very privileged to be able to do this and also have a Stanford degree. Most of friends are doing the 9-to-5 thing working for non-profits or clean energy companies or Teach for America, which is all fantastic work, but this is what I am passionate about so I feel lucky to be able to have a job that I love."
ussoccer.com: You are from Georgia, but you don't like sweet tea or have a hint of a southern accent. What gives?
KO: "Well, both my parents are from Pittsburgh and I've just never liked sweet tea. But even though I love Georgia dearly, I do think that I might fit better in California. But don't forget that I love college football, Chick-fil-A and Vineyard Vines!"
Editor's Note: Vineyard Vines is a southern brand of preppy clothes.
ussoccer.com: What's your philosophy on coping with the amount of time the U.S. WNT players have to spend on the road and away from home?
KO: "I just really enjoy the time when I'm back at home. Mostly I go home to the Bay Area, but that does feel like home to me because I've lived there for five years. I just have a group of great friends there and people at Stanford and I've just come to really love that area, so I try to enjoy it as much as I can when I'm back. It reenergizes me and gets me ready for the next camp."
ussoccer.com: What would it mean to you to score your first international goal here at the Algarve Cup?
KO: "It would be awesome! I hope it happens and hopefully I can keep it going from there."
ussoccer.com: If you got an invitation to the Royal Wedding, would you go?
KO: "Absolutely. But not only to see the amazing pomp and circumstance, I think Prince Harry is a very attractive fellow and I would chat him up at the wedding and see if I could get his BBM Pin or Skype name. We are going to England in a few weeks, so who knows? Magic might happen."
Editor's Note: Princess Kelley? Sounds pretty good to us.
ussoccer.com: What's your outlook on this season with your new club, the Boston Breakers?
KO: "I'm very excited to be a part of the Boston Breakers and to go into my second season in WPS. I'm hoping to have another great year and hopefully be a help to the team, do my part and maybe win another championship. We have a lot of national team players and I'm really excited to play with them on the club level and to get to know my new teammates as well."
ussoccer.com: Even though you are from Georgia, you have taken a liking to surfing. What's the biggest wave you've ever stood up on?
KO: "Probably like five or six feet. I never go out if the waves are dangerous at all, but I must say I've taken a few beatings out there. At first, I used to get really freaked out when I got caught under a wave, but I've come to get more comfortable and just wait for it to end. I'm not good at it by any means, but I just enjoy being out in the water. It's an active sport and so peaceful, but energizing even though your body is so tired when you get out of the water."


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Since Congress passed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 as a means to "combat our growing energy problems" and "reduce our independence on oil", the debate over how safe ethanol additives really are has raged on.
As you may know, the Act lead the introduction of E10 (gasoline with 10% ethanol), which vehicle owners have been claiming causes serious damage to engines, such as damaged catalytic converters, improper combustion, and component deterioration.
While proponents of ethanol claim that it is a cleaner burning, higher octane fuel source that is renewable, opponents feel that the mixture of gasoline and ethanol is causing more problems than it is solving. This week marks a victory for the latter camp, as the EPA has now publicly confirmed that ethanol does cause serious damage the engines.


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GIRLS BASKETBALL: New Knoxville to face Marion Local, Minster gets Fort Recovery on Saturday
COLDWATER — The four teams left in the Division IV girls sectional bracket at Coldwater have a combined record of 64-18, and all four teams received votes at some point this season in the Associated Press' state poll.
That makes for a fun Saturday night at The Palace.
New Knoxville jumped out to an early lead against New Bremen and maintained a double-digit distance in a 51-32 victory in the second game on Tuesday night.
The Rangers (18-3) move on to play top-seeded Marion Local (17-3) on Saturday in the second game at Coldwater in a game that will match up teams with 17 or more wins.
Fort Recovery survived a 49-48 game against St. Henry in the opening contest to set up a meeting with second-seeded Minster (14-6) on Saturday night at 6:15 p.m.
New Knoxville's Tiana Heidt scored a team-high 13 points and Paige Lehman added 12 points for a Ranger squad that eclipsed its win total from a season ago with its 18th victory.
The Rangers opened the game on a 10-2 run and never trailed against their Auglaize County foes.
New Knoxville head coach Tim Hegemier said his team all season has played well early in games.
"They're ready to go and they're on their toes," Hegemier said. "Once they get that 10-12 point lead they relax a little bit, but give Bremen credit because every open shot we gave them, they put it in.
New Bremen bowed out of the tournament at 7-14 despite shooting 45 percent from the floor.
"Every time we left them open, they put it in," Hegemier said. "New Bremen played a good game."
Meagan Brandt led New Bremen with nine points on a 3-for-6 performance from three-point range. Hannah Holdren added eight points.
New Bremen head coach Randy Eckert liked his team's fight despite playing without its top scorer Kyla Otting and facing a New Knoxville team that had a considerable size advantage inside.
"Despite losing by 19 points and I'm disappointed the season is over, but I was happy with the way we played," Eckert said. "They don't give up. We were out-manned height-wise and everything like that. The rotation was off."
New Knoxville now plays Marion Local, a Flyer team that swept through the MAC season at 9-0.
The Flyers defeated New Knoxville 38-28 in the first meeting between the teams.
In the opening game on Tuesday, Fort Recovery held off a feisty St. Henry team that stayed with the Indians step-for-step until the end.
Janelle Schwieterman banked in a three-pointer for Fort Recovery with 2:35 left in the game to give the Indians the lead for good at 43-42.
St. Henry's Kelly Siefring's lay-up with 7.5 seconds left cut the Fort Recovery lead to 49-48, but St. Henry couldn't get an Indian fouled for six seconds. Fort Recovery's Kelly Nietfeld missed both free throws, but St. Henry couldn't get off a shot after securing the rebound with just a second left.
Nietfeld led Fort Recovery with 14 points in the game.
St. Henry ended the season on a six-game losing streak and finished the season 8-13. The Redskins lost six games this season by five or fewer points.
Stacy Lange paced the Redskins with 13 points.
Fort Recovery improved to 15-6 and will now face Minster.
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Jacksonville rookie offensive tackle Luke Joeckel, a former standout at Arlington High School and Texas A&M, will miss the rest of the season because of a broken right ankle.
Joeckel was injured in the first quarter of a 34-20 loss to the Rams on Sunday. He was taken off the field on a cart.
Joeckel got his leg rolled up as he was blocking on a running play. He was selected by the Jaguars with the second pick in this year's draft.
"I saw it happen and it's unfortunate," said quarterback Blaine Gabbert, who also left the game with an injury. "It wasn't pretty."
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Last week, Jacksonville traded veteran left tackle Eugene Monroe to the Baltimore Ravens in exchange for multiple draft picks.
"You know what? Luke's a good player, but guys will step up," coach Gus Bradley said.
Gabbert strained his left hamstring in the third quarter. Playing in his hometown, he was 9 of 19 for 181 yards with one touchdown and two interceptions before leaving.
Jaguars tight end Allen Reisner left the game in the third quarter with a knee sprain.


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Why The 9-to-5 Job is a Thing of the Past
Today's employees are being freed from a 9-to-5 job thanks to smartphones, mobile apps and the cloud. As a result of technology that's allowing employees to do many things outside the office, many bosses aren't looking at the time clock that closely any more.
The results of a study from 1,000 U.S. and European workers and employers found that 73% of bosses have turned their eye on clock watching because they trust employees are doing some work before getting in to the office. So, coming in a half-hour late doesn't really bother some employers.
Additionally, around three-fourths of the employers have given their staffs some sort of mobile device to do work on the fly. Although, most can't access everything needed to complete their job so they're all required to come in to the office to do work, but with anything there is room for improvement!
It appears the old 9-to-5 job is a bit old school, because the survey also found that on average we're checking work email each weekday at around 7:42 a.m. and get in around the office around 8:18 a.m. We're leaving later, too, around 5:48 p.m., but continue to work until about 7:19 p.m.


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SALEM, Ore. – Midway through the 61st annual NAIA Men's Golf National Championships presented by FORE! Salem at Creekside Golf Club, defending national champions and No. 2-ranked Oklahoma Christian holds a six-stroke lead with 36 holes remaining.
The Eagles posted a team score in the second round of even-par 288 and are a combined 9-over 585 (297-288) after 36 holes. Oklahoma Christian is six strokes ahead of Our Lady of the Lake (Texas), who posted the lowest score of the day with a combined team total of 4-under 284 and the Saints (307-284=591) are one-stroke ahead of Johnson & Wales (Fla.) with a combined 16-over 592 (298-294) for the Wildcats. Our Lady of the Lake made the biggest move on the leader board on the second day, as the Saints moved up seven spots with the only under-par score by any of the competitors.
"I feel fantastic about how we played," said David Lynn, Oklahoma Christian head coach. "Our goal coming out this week was to have five guys in the mix. I thought the guys came out great. To see each other playing well, it really lifts up their spirits. I'm real proud of how they came out and played, as we are in the position that we wanted to be coming in here. We wanted to be near the top of the leader board coming into the final two days, so to be on top is great."
Rounding out the Top 5 teams are British Columbia (299-295=594) and the NAIA's No. 1-ranked Oklahoma City (297-298=595), who are separated by a single stroke heading into "Moving Day."
Individually, Johnson & Wales' Brandon Meltzer put on a golfing clinic thanks to a tournament-low 7-under par 65. The junior from Boca Raton, Fla., came within one stroke of breaking the course record that is held by former PGA professional and course designer Peter Jacobsen. After posting an opening round of 1-over 73 that had his tied for sixth overall, Meltzer caught fire with two straight birdies to open his round before dropping a stroke on the par-3 14th hole.
Despite the hiccup in his scorecard, Meltzer came back with an eagle on the par-5 16th hole before registering a birdie on the par-3 17th for a score of 4-under 32 on the back nine. As he made the turn, Meltzer dropped another shot on the opening hole with a bogey before recording birdies on the 4th, 6th, 8th, and 9th holes, respectively, for a 3-under opening nine.
Oklahoma Christian's Vilhelm Bogstrand sits four strokes back with 36 holes remaining, as the junior from Oslo, Norway, has put together back-to-back rounds of 1-under par 71 for a total of 2-under 142.
Rounding out the Top 5 individuals are Texas Wesleyan's Nathan Anderson (70-74), who was the leader after Day #1, with a two-day total of even-par 144 and a trio of players – British Columbia's Scott Secord (74-71), Cumberland's (Ky.) Alastair Tidcombe (75-70), and Victoria's (B.C.) Carson Kallis (74-71) – that sit at 1-over 145.
Tomorrow's third round will be the final chance for the teams and players to make the cut allowing them to play on the final day. Round No. 3 is scheduled to get under way at 7 a.m. on Hole No. 1 and 7:20 a.m. on Hole No. 10 with the bottom teams on the leader board going out first before the leading teams play against each other in the afternoon.


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1,000 Meter Run: 3:16.98
1,500 Meter Run: 4:48.36
One Mile Run: 5:08.45
3,000 Meter Run: 10:08.33
5,000 Meter Run: 17:04.56
10,000 Meter Run: 35:49.81
2013 Cross Country: Redshirted.
2013 Outdoor Track: Named NEC Track Performer of the Week on 4/16...Took third at the NEC Championships in the 10,000m run with an ECAC qualifying time of 36:41.71...Posted a sixth-place finish in the 5,000m at the NEC Championships, registering a mark of 17:33.39...Broke the CCSU record for the 10,000m at the Bucknell Bison Outdoor Classic with a time of 35:49.81...Set a CCSU record in the 5,000m at the Penn Relays where she crossed the finish line in 17:04.56...Posted a seventh-place finish of 54 runners in the 1,500m at the AIC Yellow Jacket Invitational with a career-best time of 4:48.36...Also competed at the IC4A/ECAC Championships where she placed seventh in the 10,000m, registering a time of 36:16.79.
2013 Indoor Track: Performed well at the NEC Championships, placing fourth in the 5,000m run and 6th in the 3,000m run with times of 17:45.66 and 10:15.49, respectively...Placed fifth in the 5,000m at the New England Championships with a CCSU record-breaking time of 17:20.26...Also broke the CCSU record in the 3,000m with a time of 10:08.33, good for eighth place at the Great Dane Classic on Jan. 18...Kicked off her season with a gold in the one mile run at the Army Crowell Open, crossing the finish line in a collegiate personal-best time of 5:20.15.
2012 Cross Country: Named All-Northeast Conference as a junior...Paced CCSU for a 13th-place finish out of 91 runners at the NEC Championships with her time 18:34.05...Was the first Blue Devil to cross the finish line at the NCAA Regionals, placing 95th of 253...Finished 15th out of 177 at the IC4A/ECAC Championships on Nov. 11 with her time of 18:58.60...Earned two top-10 finishes at the Nessaney Women's College 5K and the Ted Owen Invitational for fifth and eighth place, respectively...Also competed in the New England Championships in which she placed 52nd of 252 with her time of 18:24.98.
2012 Outdoor Track: Placed third in the 5,000 meter run with a time of 17:39.83 at the University of Connecticut Invitational...Finished fourth in the 10,000 meter run at the Northeast Conference Outdoor Championships with a time of 38:06.86...Placed seventh in the 5,000 meter run with a time of 17:57.26 at the NEC Outdoor Championships...Finished in 9th place in the 10,000 meter run at the Bison Outdoor Classic with a time of 35:58.82...Ran a 4:57.75 in the 1,500 meter run for 14th place at the University of New Hampshire Wildcat Invitational II.
2012 Indoor Track: Placed eighth in the 5,000 meter run with a time of 18:21.48 at the Northeast Conference Indoor Championships...Finished 11th in the 3,000 meter run at the NEC Championships with a time of 10:40.37...Placed 11th overall in the one mile run at the Giegengack invitational with a time of 5:25.40...Ran a 10:26.50 in the 3,000 meter run at the Great Dane Classic for 14th place.
2011 Cross Country: Participated in six out of eight meets for the Blue Devils…Named to the NEC All-Conference team her sophomore season…Finished 14th at the Blue Devil Invitational on Sept. 2 with a time of 19.04…Clocked a time of 18:58 for 56th place out of 269 participants at the 2011 New England Championships on Oct. 8…Finished 16th at the CCSU Mini Meet on Oct. 21…Recorded her season-best 13th place at the Northeast Conference Championships with a time of 19:31.40…Crossed the finish line 99th out of 243 at the 2011 NCAA Division I Northeast Regional Cross Country Championships on Nov. 12…Completed the season at the IC4A/ECAC Cross Country Championships in 40th place out of 215 with a time of 19:17...Also ran on the USA Junior Mountain team in 2011.
2011 Outdoor Track: Placed ninth in the 10,000 meter run at the New England Indoor Championships with a time of 38:44.22.
2011 Indoor Track: Placed 21st in the 3,000 meter run at the Northeast Conference Indoor Championships with a time of 11:01.42...Finished 26th overall in the one mile run at the Yale Collegiate Invitational with a time of 5:46.84.
2010 Cross Country: Finished 68th at NEC Championships Placed 135th at the ECAC Championship…Placed 34th at the CCSU Mini Meet…Finished 48th at the Ted Owen Invitational.


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Rationing became a way of life for people on the home front during World War II (WWII), from 1941-1945, affecting everything from the quantity and kind of food that people ate to the clothes they could wear. This is a sheet of fuel oil coupons, or stamps, from a ration book issued to Sheldon Howe of Deerfield, Massachusetts, by the Deerfield Ration Board. It entitled him to purchase 800 gallons of fuel oil for the year ending August 31, 1946. The ration book was issued on August 8, 1945. While Class 3A allowed an applicant to purchase 300 gallons for the year, Class 4B allowed an applicant to purchase more than 300 gallons. Mr. Howe was a Class 4B consumer. This coupon book indicates that each of the one-gallon coupons allows the bearer to purchase 10 gallons of fuel oil; however, amounts could be raised or lowered by the Office of Price Administration due to changes in the national fuel supply. Consumers were encouraged to budget for their winter heating needs.
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The European Commission will give Spain and France more time to cut their public deficits below the target limit of 3 percent of GDP, leading Spanish newspaper El Pais reported on Saturday.
Citing senior sources at the European Commission and in the Spanish government, the daily said France would be given an extra year until 2014 rather than 2013 to rein in its fiscal gap, while Spain would be given until 2015 or 2016 rather than 2014.
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The European Central Bank is keen to grant Spain one extra year while the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is pushing for two years more, the newspaper said.
Spain sought support from its European partners this year for its ailing banks, hit by a burst property bubble. Recession is also undermining government efforts to keep the public debt burden in check, and financial markets expect Madrid to seek sovereign aid sometime next year.
Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy might delay an aid request if the European Commission announced new fiscal targets for the country in a review due on February 15, the paper said.
According to El Pais, the Commission has agreed for Spain on a new deficit path of 7 percent of economic output in 2012 and 6 percent in 2013. That compares to current targets of 6.3 percent for 2012 and 4.5 percent for 2013.
The paper also said the Commission would require Spain in return to agree to new structural reforms, including a new pension reform.
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While various media have published news of an appeals court's ruling of four years in prison and 74 lashes for human rights activist Shiva Nazar Ahari, her lawyer, Mohammad Sharif has not yet been served with the ruling. "I have not yet been officially served with the verdict, and unfortunately, the news was publicized in the media without my knowledge. I learned about the ruling through the press, too," he said.
The Violence is Not our Culture Campaign (VNC) and Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) are deeply concerned over the continued denial of human rights in Iran in light of the Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani case. Lack of due process and the right to a fair trial, arbitrary detention, torture, and restrictions of freedom of information, of the press, and of association sadly constitute the status quo in the Islamic Republic.
Le Réseau international de solidarité Femmes sous lois musulmanes (WLUML) et la Campagne mondiale « Arrêtons de tuer et de lapider les femmes! » salue l'annonce récente de la libération de Shiva Nazar Ahari, survenue le dimanche 12 septembre 2010.
UPDATED 20/09/2010: An Iranian court has now jailed Shiva Nazar Ahari for six years after convicting her of "moharebeh" or "emnity with God" - usually punishable by death.
The Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) international solidarity network and the Global Campaign to Stop Killing and Stoning Women (SKSW campaign) welcome the news that Shiva Nazar Ahari was released from prison on Sunday 12 September 2010. Shiva Nazar Ahari is a 26-year-old human rights activist specializing in women's rights, children's rights, and the defense of political prisoners. She is a journalist and blogger, as well as actively involved with the Committee of Human Rights Reporters and the One Million Signatures Campaign. Formerly a civil engineering graduate student, Ahari was expelled from university as a result of her student activism. She had endured 266 consecutive days in Evin Prison, 100 of which were spent in solitary confinement, for participating in non-violent actions.
In a demonstration on 9 August, women activists in Iraq bravely take a stand against the injustices, absence of basic human rights and broken promises suffered by the women of Iraq. In this empowering video clip, the women of Iraq – many of whom live without electricity or housing – take a stand and demand a government which caters, understands and feels the miseries of all its people – regardless of gender, race of religion.
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1. برلمان لا يستطيع انتخاب الرئاسات السيادية الثلاثة لا يستحق تمثيل الشعب
2. خمسة أشهر أثبتم فشلكم في قيادة البلد ، من حقنا ان نطالب بإعادة الانتخابات مجدداً
3. نحملكم مسؤولية خرق الدستور وتقويض الأمن والعملية السياسية
4. خيبة أمل: استبدلتم مصلحة الناس والوطن ، بصراعكم من أجل الكراسي!
5. رواتب مالية ضخمة للنواب مقابل تأخير صرف مستحقات المشمولين بشبكة الحماية الاجتماعية
6. نطالب بإشراك النساء في المفاوضات السياسية بشكل جاد وحقيقي
The 'confession', done in an interview format, was broadcast on Wednesday 11th August on the '20:30' television program by Seda va Sima, the government broadcasting station. The 'confession', showed Sakineh implicating herself in the murder of her husband.
SKSW and WLUML are still gravely concerned about the fate of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani. On 4 August, Branch 9 of the Supreme Court in Iran began a review of Mohammadi Ashtiani's sentence and agreed to consider a judicial review of the case, submitted by her lawyer. The Supreme Court is expected to either accept or reject the judicial review on or around 15 August. The review appears aimed solely at reducing international pressure on the authorities, by deferring a decision on the method of execution and the stoning sentence remains in place.
Since our last update on the case of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, and her former attorney Mohammad Mostafaei, there have been a few important developments: Mostafaei, who had fled to Turkey after the arrest of his wife and brother in-law in Tehran, was arrested by the Turkish authorities and placed in a detention centre. He has been released, and is now in Norway seeking asylum. Although the brother in-law was released shortly after his arrest, Mostafaei's wife, Fereshteh Halimi, continued to be held at Evin prison. However, on Saturday 7 August, Halimi was also released from prison.
Mohammad Mostafaie, a human rights defender and lawyer of Sakineh Ashtiani, the woman whose sentence to death by stoning in Iran in June received worldwide public attention, has been arrested and detained by Turkish authorities. On 24 July 2010, his wife, Fereshteh Halimi and brother in law, Farhad Halimi, were arrested and are now detained at the infamous Evin Prison in Tehran. Prior to their arrest, Mostafaie was invited for interrogation and subsequently released by the police but was immediately ordered to be arrested again.


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"Another project?" Carol asked.
I paused to think. I replaced the section of siding that had deteriorated and painted it, which, by all rights, should have taken no more than a half hour. Of course, it didn't work out that way.
A search of the basement failed to turn up the 2 by 3 piece of plywood that I saved for the job. The paint was where I knew it would be, as was a brush and a stick to stir it.
I plugged in the charger for the cordless saw. I figured it would be sufficiently charged to handle the one or two cuts needed to fit the piece, if I could place my hands on the plywood.
Anyway, that search turned up two pumps, still in their boxes, that Carol bought in the wake of the Great Flood of 2010. Back then, when the basement was covered by 18 inches of water, you couldn't find a pump. We tried at Salk's, Home Deport and Lowe's. Everybody was cleaned out. Off handedly – more of sheer frustration than anything – I mentioned that to Sue Baker in the mayor's office.
She caught me by surprise.
"I've got one in the car, do you want it," I remember her saying.
Does a drowning man want a life ring? Well, maybe, that's a bit melodramatic, but you get the point. Sue's pump kept the water at bay and the basement tide ebbed to a couple of inches.
As soon as pumps were back on the shelves, Carol bought a giant one and then another, about the size Sue had loaned us. We were ready. They have yet to come out of the box – although I now know where they can be found, so the search for plywood had not been entirely futile.
Finally, I made a trip to Lowe's. To say they have plywood is an understatement. Sheets of the stuff stand in giant piles. To my surprise – perhaps a sign that the recovery is more than the wishful aberration of Washington bureaucrats – there were several young couples with carts piled with building materials. They weren't contractors and my guess would have been new homebuyers looking to make renovations themselves.
I found what I wanted, only it was about ten times the size I needed. I wrestled a sheet onto a cart and wheeled it to the cashier.
"Do you do cuts," I inquired.
She nodded and yelled to an assistant that a customer needed to have a section of plywood cut. She directed me to the back of the cavernous store where I was to wait. It wasn't too long before my giant sheet was two large sheets and I was headed to the parking lot. They were still too big. After another visit, I had four reasonably sized sheets and I was on my way.
My half-hour project had already consumed an hour and a half and I hadn't even as much as touched a saw blade to wood or picked up a hammer. Mentally, I went through the rest of the weekend list and figured if I was really short on time, changing the oil in the snow blower was the chore that could wait.
Indeed, this has been an odd winter so far. Here it was, the second weekend of the New Year and I was working on an outdoor project where, under normal circumstances, I'd be wearing gloves, a hat and not even thinking of painting. I even got to do some fiberglass work on one of the boats, although I question whether I was pushing it. Carol's hair dryer may have saved that one.
I even got to the snow blower; an acquisition that earned its reputation for dispatching huge drifts of snow last year. I went for full maintenance; pulling off panels to grease shafts and oil bearings. The only thing left unattended was changing the plug. I wasn't about to make another foray to get one. But she didn't seem to need a new one anyway.
On the first pull, she started right up. The controls vibrated in my hands. The engine settled into a steady beat. At that moment, I longed for the crunch of snow under foot, flakes flying from a dark sky and a plume from the front of the blower. Instead I was in a T-shirt doing some carpentry and paint touchups. This isn't winter.
But there was satisfaction in knowing the blower is ready. Like the set of pumps in the basement, the blower is there when the time comes. And I much prefer clearing snow to fighting floods.
There's a project I relish…at least once a winter.


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Apologies to those of you who don't know what happened to the Laconia and are looking forward to the programme – this article might be a bit of a spoiler! But I wanted to share with you all why its of such interest to me and my family.
As you probably guess from my surname, the male line of my family came from Ireland. We believe that my great-great-grandfather came over from Ireland some time in the late 19th Century, no doubt due to lack of work and famines that blighted Ireland throughout the century. Unfortunately due to a lack of records (burnt during the Easter rising in 1916) we have no idea where Daniel Daly came from, but the surname itself is very populous in Country Cork.
My Great-Grandfather, Thomas Daly, was born in Birkenhead near Liverpool in 1895. In June 1914- at the age of 19 – he joined the Royal Navy (he had previously worked as an electro-plater). He served as a Stoker, onboard Battleships and then onboard the early ubmarines. He settled in Portsmouth, and married my great-grandmother Lillian Maud Ross at St Agathas Church in Portsmouth in 1917.
Their eldest Children – Janet and Thomas (known as Tommy) – were born in 1919, followed by Iris in 1923, Pat in 1927, Ken (My Grandad) in 1928 and Terry in 1934. Notice the long gaps in between some of their births – this was almost certainly down to my Great-Grandad being away at sea for years at a time.
Tommy worked at a Mattress Maker's before the war. He tried to join the Navy three times, but was each time rejected. When war broke out in 1939, h0wever, the Navy was desparate for men to crew re-activated ships, so he was accepted in early 1940. After a period of training ashore in Portsmouth he was drafted to the light cruiser HMS Enterprise as a stoker.
The work of a stoker was hard, dirty, smelly, noisy and hot. Originally tasked with shovelling coal into the ships boilers, in oil fuelled ships the stokers job was to maintain and keep the boilers operating. Most ships boilers had spray bars fitted that sprayed fuel oil into them.
HMS Enterprise was an Emerald class cruiser of 9,435 tons, built at the end of the First World War. There were only two ships in the class, HMS Enterprise and HMS Emerald. They were the fastest ships in the Navy at the time, with a top speed of 33 knots.
In June 1940, after the fall of France, HMS Enterprise was despatched to the Mediterranean as part of Force H. This naval task force was given the unpleasant but necessary task of ensuring that the French fleet did not fall into the hands of the Germans. HMS Enterprise took part in the destruction of the French ships at Mers-el-kebir in July.
HMS Enterprise was then sent south to Cape Town, mainly taking part in convoy escorts and interception duties. In December 1940 she unsuccessfully hunted for the German auxiliary cruiser Thor, which had been menacing merchant shipping in the South Atlantic.
In early 1941, she was sent to the Indian Ocean, where as part of a large fleet she took part in the search for the German cruiser Admiral Scheer. After the search was abandoned she then resumed escort duties, before going to Basra in May to support the suppressing of a pro-German revolt in Iraq.
In November HMS Enterprise was refitted in Colombo, Sri Lanka. This refit was finished by December, when war broke out with Japan. In April 1942 she rescued some of the survivors from sinking of HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire, which had been sunk by the Japanese on their Easter Sunday raid on Sri Lanka.
In December 1942, HMS Enterprise finally returned home to the Clyde after almost 18 months away from home. But my great-uncle was not onboard. Sometime before HMS Enterprise returned home, it appears that he had injured his hand onboard ship, and spent some time in the Naval Hospital in Colombo. It was either this, or the fact that he was promoted to Leading Stoker, that led to him being sent home onboard the SS Laconia, a Cunard Liner requisitioned as a troopship.
The Laconia sailed from Cape Town in August 1942, carrying Italian prisoners of war, serviceman returning home and civilians. Somewhere north of Ascencion Island in the South Atlantic, she was hit by torpedoes fired from U-156 at 8pm on 12 September. By 9.11pm the ship had sank, with many still onboard. Even those who survived faced grim prospects, as sharks were numerous in the tropical waters.
However, shortly after the Laconia sank, the U-Boat surfaced unexpectedly. Remarkably, the U-boat then attempted to rescue survivors, something that was not official German policy at the time. When Werner Hartenstein, the Commander of U-156, realised that POW's and civilians were onboard, he broadcast over the radio requesting assistance. Several more U-Boats arrived to assist in the rescue. Unfortunately a flight of US B-24 Liberator bombers was not aware of what was going on, and attacked the U-boats. The U-boats then dived, leading to more loss of life. In total, 3,254 people died. The commander of the German Navy, Admiral Karl Donitz, gave his infamous Laconia order, that in future U-boats were not to rescue survivors. This order was part of the case against Donitz at the Nuremberg war crime trials.
After spending some time in the water, my great-uncle Tommy was rescued, and eventually handed over by the Germans to the Vichy French, along with many other survivors. They were transported to the French territory in Morrocco, and interned at a prison camp at Mediouna. Although conditions in prisoner of war camps are rarely luxurious, this camp in particular seems to have been atrocious – the prisoners were given old foreign legion uniforms, and one cup of wine and a bowl of soup a day. Dysentery and lice were rife. Red Cross reports on conditions were damming.
Although they were liberated by the Allied Invasion of North Africa, Operation Torch, many of the men were seriously ill. My great-uncle was evacuated to the Naval Hospital in Gibraltar, and then home to the Military Hospital in Shenley, Hertfordshire. His condition must have been deteriorating, however. On 3 April 1943 a telegram was sent on behalf of the senior officer at the Hospital to my great-grandparents, informing them that their son Thomas Daly was seriously ill, and they were advised to visit him as soon as possible.
Sadly, however his condition did not improve, and he passed away in Hospital on 27 April 1943. His Death Certificate gave Toxaemia – blood poisoning – and ulceration of the throat as the cause of death, both likely caused by suffering from Dysentery and malnutrition. No doubt this wasn't helped by the trauma of being torpedoed in the South Atlantic and having to be rescued from the sea.
He was buried at home in Portsmouth's Kingston Cemetery. Its quite interesting really, we think of war graves as being something that we might see at Ypres, or Normandy. But in terms of the Second World War, more Portsmouth servicemen died in Britain than died abroad in action. If we think about it, the majority of men and also a lot of women were in uniform. For every man on a ship or on the front line, there were probably about the same number serving in the support services at home. And given the privations of the time, sadly its not surprising that many of them died. There were also a lot of older servicemen who were called up to train new recruits or to work in shore bases.
It's incredible to think that those dramatic events – that seem like a 'Second World War Titanic', happened when my 82-year-old Grandad was 15. And I have to say, it makes you think: how must it feel to lose your older brother when you're 15? Not just killed in the war, but dying at home of illness after such a traumatic experience.
So if you watch 'The Sinking of the Laconia', please remember – these are real events that happened to real people, and some people still live with the effects to this day.
Related Articles
- The Laconia Incident (neatorama.com)
- In from the cold: Alan Bleasdale on his return to television after a decade in the wilderness (independent.co.uk)


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Marcio.Andrade211 needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 9 designs submitted by 3 freelance designers.
HybridBusinessLine.com is a Lead Generation Website aimed at Business Owners looking for Capital to grow their Business. It is used to as a Lead Generation Template for our Affiliates to use to promote a specialty Business Finance Program called the Hybrid Business Line of Credit, which is an Unsecured Business Line of Credit with Great Rates and Terms, and a High Approval Rate.
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Links on the Bottom of the Home Page:
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2. "Money Magazine"
3. "Fast Company"
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Home Page Only - Please see PDF Drawing attached for what it should look like.
This is an extremely simple Website I created using Formstack. The Goal is to create a New Version of the Website so it has a much higher Conversion Rate than the current Version.