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The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution will host a 2008 black-tie benefit Gala in Washington, D.C., to celebrate the opening of Muraqqa': Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin.
April 30, 2008 commences a two-year celebration of the arts and culture of India at the Freer and Sackler Galleries with the opening of Muraqqa - an exhibition of one of the world's greatest collections of 17th-century Mughal empire album paintings. Under the patronage of The Honorable Ronen Sen, Ambassador of India to the United States, and special guest, His Highness Gaj Singh II the Maharaja of Marwar-Jodhpur, this evening will feature magnificent expressions of the cosmopolitan vision depicted in these albums.
In the grand tradition of the Maharajas, the evening begins with a lively reception accented by Indian musicians and dancers at 6:30 p.m. in the Smithsonian's Haupt Garden and Sackler Pavilion. The festivities continue with a tented al fresco dinner outside on the north side of the Freer Gallery. To conclude, guests will enjoy dessert and dancing in the magnificent Freer Courtyard.
We hope you will join us for this exciting celebration! Individual tickets for $1,500 can be purchased beginning March 16th. A portion of your contribution is tax-deductible.
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Tiger Woods' closest challengers were left scratching their heads in disbelief after the world No. 1 took control of the Northwestern Mutual World Challenge with a 10-under-par 62.
Five-time champion Woods played near-flawless golf on Friday in the second round of the tournament he hosts, equaling the course record he set at Sherwood Country Club in 2007 to end the day two shots clear.
His stunning 10-birdie 62 was five strokes better than the next-best score in an elite field of 18, Northern Ireland's defending champion Graeme McDowell and England's Ian Poulter both having carded 67s.
"Amazing what Tiger did out there," American Matt Kuchar told reporters after shooting a second successive 68 to sit three strokes off the pace in third spot at eight-under. "It's just some incredible golf. The rest of us, my four-under score is kind of a good barometer. That's some good quality playing. Ten-under is an amazing round of golf, but I'd certainly take two more rounds of four-under par."
Kuchar expressed sympathy for twice World Challenge champion McDowell, who was paired with Woods for the second round, but lost ground despite firing a five-birdie 67.
"I kind of felt sorry for Graeme," said Kuchar, a double winner on the PGA Tour this year. "I saw he posted a five-under-par round, and it must have felt like it was two or three-over. It's tough when you're paired with a guy like that. It makes you feel like you're not doing much. But the rest of us just go about our business."
McDowell, who clinched the World Challenge for the first time with a playoff victory over Woods in 2010, was full of admiration after having a ringside seat on Friday for the American's 62.
"It was a clinic," the Northern Irishman said. "It was cool to see that kind of golf. He was under control. He hit it down the middle of every fairway."
First-round leader Zach Johnson birdied his final hole for a bogey-free 68 to secure outright second place and was largely satisfied with his round.
"I had opportunities," said Johnson, who had opened with a 67. "I had some putts on the back nine, opportunities where I could have got up and down for birdie and a couple of those par-fives that I didn't. Other than that, it was a pretty solid day. No complaints. I mean, you finish with a birdie on 18, especially after yesterday when I bogeyed it, so I'll take it."
The average score on Friday was 70.78, almost nine strokes worse than the 62 posted by Woods, who is seeking a record sixth victory at the event and his sixth tournament win this year.


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United Artists Tower's sale complicated by suit
Music Row's United Artists Tower is the subject of a lawsuit connected to the latest effort to sell the vacant nine-story building.
The lawsuit pits the two family trusts that own the ninth-floor condos against the building's majority owner. It involves issues related to the creation of the condo association in 2006 when the building was converted to condos.
The Bryant family behind the trusts says that because of an error in the original documents, they and the owner of another condo in the building couldn't obtain title insurance necessary to sell their units to Titan Real Estate Group LLC.
In addition to contracts with the trusts and Dr. John Proctor, who owns the condo that takes up half of the sixth floor, Titan had a contract that expired at year's end to buy the rest of the tower from United Artists Tower's majority owner, Box Seat Properties LLC.
John Gifford, a broker at Colliers International involved with the deal, understands that Box Seat, unlike the trusts and Proctor, chose not to extend its contract because it wasn't confident in Titan's financial ability to close.
Gifford said the error in the document was discovered two days before contracts between Titan, whose Principal Brandon Liggett is also president of commercial roofing firm TitanRoof, and the trusts and Proctor were set to close Jan. 24. 'We're working right now to resolve the lawsuit," Gifford said. "There's conversation going on."
Titan's deals with the trusts and Proctor are set to close by March 26.
In addition to Box Seat, named defendants in the suit include the entity's majority equity owner, Dickson banker Anthony T. Moore; its lender First State Bank; the building's 50 Music Square West Condominium Association; and its officers and directors, C. Kerry Pruett, Fay Neblett, Andy Thompson and Proctor.
Box Seat, formerly Square Mile Properties, bought the building at 50 Music Square West, excluding the units owned by the Bryant trusts and Proctor, 2½ years ago with plans for a multimillion-dollar facelift. It planned to market about 60,000 square foot of office space. But last fall, plans changed to converting the space to apartments.
The lawsuit — filed on behalf of the Joe F. Bryant Tennessee Trust and the Patsy O. Bryant Living Trust — claims Box Seat and Moore have "failed and refused" to sign an amendment to the document to correct the error. The suit claims that Moore told Liggett he would do so only if Titan agreed to certain contractual demands that aren't related to the agreements the trusts and Proctor have to sell. It asks the court to amend the document as requested and also seeks $2.5 million or more in compensatory damages from the defendants, as well as attorneys fees and court costs.
Box Seat's lawyer Harlan Dodson said his client was surprised by the filing and has no legal requirement to sign off on the amendment. "It clearly changes the legal relationships of the parties and structure of the condo ownership," he said.
The suit also accuses the condo association of failing to maintain the tower, rendering the building uninhabitable. The roof has leaked and the HVAC systems are inoperable, the suit says, also alleging severe damage to the trusts' units.
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CBS's SUMMER HIT "BIG BROTHER" RETURNS ON MULTIPLE PLATFORMS, PREMIERING THURSDAY, JULY 9
"BIG BROTHER" Premieres Thursday, July 9,
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"Inside Dish with Ross Mathews" will Launch His Weekly "BIG BROTHER" Segments at TheInsider.com beginning Friday, July 10
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CBS and Showtime Partner Again to Bring Viewers Three Hours of Live Nightly Action from Inside the "BIG BROTHER" House
The 11th season of BIG BROTHER gets underway with an expanded multi-platform presence which will include presentations of the series on-air (CBS Television), online (RealNetworks, a redesigned CBS.com, the CBS Audience Network, Twitter and "Inside Dish with Ross Mathews at TheInsider.com), on the phone (CBS Mobile) and on cable (SHOWTIME), when BIG BROTHER premieres Thursday, July 9 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT).
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�BIG BROTHER returns for its 11th installment on Thursday, July 9 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT), on the CBS Television Network. Following the premiere, BIG BROTHER will be broadcast three nights weekly, beginning Sunday, July 12 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT), Tuesday, July 14 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) and the LIVE eviction show, hosted by Julie Chen, beginning Thursday, July 16 (8:00-9:00 PM, live ET/delayed PT).
�For the first time, CBS has launched a Twitter� experience to keep BIG BROTHER fans and viewers "in the know" with daily updates from a production insider. "BigBrotherScoop" (www.Twitter.com/BigBrotherScoop) will provide exclusive updates as things happen in real time.
�On Friday, July 10, a second Twitter page will serve as a perk for each week's Head Of Household. "BigBrotherHoH" (www.Twitter.com/BigBrotherHoH) will give that week's Head Of Household the opportunity to tweet daily messages directly to viewers and fans. To obtain instant updates for all your favorite CBS Stars, go to www.CBS.com/Twitter.
�On Friday, July 10, "Inside Dish with Ross Mathews" will launch with weekly BIG BROTHER segments at http://www.theinsider.com/. Ross Mathews will also conduct weekly chats with the latest evicted House Guest beginning Friday, July 24.
�Official BIG BROTHER Web site redesigned and relaunched on CBS.com (www.cbs.com/bigbrother) to include:
�More videos and photos than ever before where fans can catch up on prior episodes and be primed for upcoming shows.
�The new video player is 30% bigger and loads 50% faster and includes an innovative thumbnail navigation for easy access to prior episodes and clips.
�New Interact section where fans can go to find the latest community conversations, participate in the most recent polls, watch and vote for their favorite moments of the season and connect with other BIG BROTHER fans.
�More content, including summaries of all the events that happen during each televised broadcast; descriptions of the week's challenges; voting history pages; photo galleries; and House Guest section with complete profiles.
�New this season is the BIG BROTHER Fantasy League (http://www.cbs.com/bbfantasy), an online contest that lets fans compete for the chance to win the grand prize of $1,000 while they follow the on-air broadcast to see which BIG BROTHER contestant will make it to the end. Each week, BIG BROTHER fans choose two active BIG BROTHER contestants to be on their team. Players accrue points based on their ability to predict their team members' actions and outcome of events.
�"HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD BLOG AND PHOTO GALLERY" returns for its fourth season, in which fans will be able to hear straight from the Head of Household about life in the BIG BROTHER house, what it's like to be under the constant gaze of dozens of cameras and watched live on the Internet 24/7. www.CBS.com/bigbrother will also feature photos taken inside the house by the weekly HOH (Head of Household).
Additional BIG BROTHER online elements include:
�� Full-length episodes, highlight clips and other content from BIG BROTHER will be available across the vast CBS Audience Network, allowing a community of fans to watch the programs online and incorporate clips into their blogs, wikis, widgets and interact and discuss BIG BROTHER on message boards. The CBS Audience Network consists of dozens of distribution partners including AOL, MSN, Yahoo, Fancast, Joost, Bebo, Sling Media, Windows Media Center, IMDb, Sony Bravia, TVGuide and Veoh, as well as websites from CBS's 29 owned television, 144 radio and up to 183 affiliated stations.
�CBS and RealNetworks�, Inc., join forces for the ninth straight cycle to provide exclusive All Access live streaming video from inside the BIG BROTHER house. The webcast coverage debuts immediately following the Thursday, July 9 premiere and will be accessible through the official BIG BROTHER Web site at CBS.com and through Real's SuperPass subscription service at www.real.com/bigbrother.
�The entire three-month live All Access Internet feed of BIG BROTHER will be available through SuperPass. Subscribers to the All Access video stream can watch any one of four live camera feeds from inside the BIG BROTHER house or catch all of the action at once with a new, enhanced quad-cam view which allows fans to see four different video feeds simultaneously. Subscribers will also have access to an exclusive, subscribers-only webchat that will allow fans from across the country to converse about what they see live on the feeds. And, for the first time, subscribers will have full access to the feed archives so they can go back and watch any moment they may have missed. (As in past years, to preserve the drama for BIG BROTHER television viewers, CBS may block or delay the webcast for a limited number of real-time and other events that transpire in the house.)
�BIG BROTHER episodes will be simulcast on the CBS Mobile Channel, presented on FloTV's mobile TV service.
�Viewers will be able to interact and influence the show through SMS text messaging via their mobile phones.
�All-new element this season is BIG BROTHER Mobile Game, which consumers can download and play a simulation game where they compete in the BIG BROTHER house as one of the past houseguests, playing various mini games for Head of Household, Power of Veto and for food.
�CBS will provide BIG BROTHER video clips and photo galleries from the BIG BROTHER show page of the CBS Mobile Web site (www.cbs.com), TV.com application and on major carriers.
"BIG BROTHER" on CABLE:
�CBS and Showtime will partner again to present "BIG BROTHER: After Dark," a live look inside the Big Brother house during the late-night hours. "BIG BROTHER: After Dark" will feature a feed from the BIG BROTHER house for three hours (12:00-3:00 AM, live ET/delayed PT), seven days a week, on the cable network's "SHO2" channel beginning Thursday, July 9 .
BIG BROTHER follows a group of people living together in a house outfitted with over 52 cameras and microphones, recording their every move, 24 hours-a-day. Each week, the House Guests will vote someone out of the house. At the end, the last remaining House Guest will receive the grand prize of $500,000.
For this installment, we ask the question, "What group did you fit into in high school?" That is the question 12 strangers will face on the season premiere. 12 strangers will move into the BIG BROTHER house and learn that they'll be 'kickin it old school' this summer - high school to be exact. The House Guests will be shocked to learn that they will be playing the game in one of four familiar high school cliques - popular, athletes, brainiacs and off-beats. They will compete for food, safety from eviction and luxury prizes as part of their clique.
They will also be surprised to discover that a mystery 13th House Guest is coming to BIG BROTHER to join the game and give an advantage to one of the cliques.
In addition, the BIG BROTHER House Guests will live and compete in a house that has been transformed into a mean, green, eco-friendly living machine. For the first time, the House Guests will be made fully aware of the amount of waste they create, and will be required to sort, recycle and place all food items in an outdoor manual compost center, as well as an indoor automatic composter.
BIG BROTHER is executive produced by Emmy Award winner Allison Grodner, Rich Meehan and Scott Einziger in association with Endemol U.S.A.


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The singer-songwriter quit music two years ago. But his new album, 'Ashes & Fire,' symbolizes his rebirth.
By August Brown, Los Angeles Times
October 9, 2011
Ménière's disease is an inflammation of the inner ear. Specifically, a swelling in the tubes of the ear canal that control the body's balance. No one knows its cause, but stress, exhaustion and substance abuse are among the factors thought to contribute. Its symptoms include nausea, physical disorientation and occasionally debilitating bouts of tinnitus and the loss of hearing at certain frequencies. There is no known treatment.
For an average person, Ménière's is irritating. For musicians, it can be the end of a livelihood, even a loss of their identity. Sounds actually disappear.
For the singer-songwriter Ryan Adams, who was diagnosed with the condition five years ago and crested during the final tours with his former backing band the Cardinals in 2009, it was a literal threat to his career. His new solo album "Ashes & Fire," out Tuesday, is proof he beat it, and his Oct. 10 show at Hollywood Forever Cemetery sold out in minutes. But at the time, the illness was a metaphor for the many ways he was losing balance.
After a run in the mid- to late-2000s when the famously productive yet erratic singer got sober, formed a steady band and made some of the most respected albums of a long career, everything unwound.
"You can go on steroids, painkillers or speed to treat the symptoms," Adams said, smirking at his own loose-cannon reputation (he's been drug- and booze-free since late 2005). "I tried one of those."
In 2009 he found himself without an outside record deal, and would soon be heartbroken from the death of a close grandmother and his band's bassist, with a hole in his hearing that wouldn't go away. He announced he was quitting music, which for a 36-year-old singer with 16 full-length records to his name, was akin to retiring from dinners.
But "Ashes & Fire," released on his own Pax AM label in partnership with Capitol, is a valediction for the time when he was one of the most famous screw-ups in music. It's an intimate, emotionally nuanced exploration of what it means to have a career seem to dissolve in self-abuse and self-doubt, and the humbling shock of finding a verdant home in Los Angeles in spite of it.
His new album is perhaps his sonically gentlest yet most emotionally strafed since his solo debut "Heartbreaker." Produced by veteran Glyn Johns, who worked with artists like the Rolling Stones, the Who and the Eagles, "Ashes & Fire" is a return to the powerfully intimate delivery style that made his reputation. It was all recorded live with few overdubs, with virtuoso low-key guests takes from Norah Jones and keyboardist Benmont Tench, of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
A walk around Adams' Hollywood recording studio is clear proof. Adams, notoriously irascible to journalists, greets guests amiably, dressed in red plaid and exquisitely mussed bangs. He bounds downstairs to show off the small rooms packed with vintage analog recording gear — a tape machine sourced from Motown's manufacturing unit; Fairchild compressors made famous by the Beatles and the studio reference monitors that recorded Metallica's "Master of Puppets" and Dokken's "Under Lock & Key," two of his many, many favorite records.
"He's older now, he's in a good place," said Jones, who sings on "Ashes" and has been a frequent Adams collaborator since 2005's "Jacksonville City Nights." "All these songs are very live and warm, and he's a never-ending well of ideas."
Its first single "Lucky Now" starts with one of his finest melodies to date atop a modest, perfectly recorded acoustic guitar. A lament for lost youth — and a quiet, subtle ode to his friend, Cardinals' bassist Chris Feinstein, who died in 2009 — it eventually inverts into a grateful message for the chance to feel anything deeply: "The night will break your heart, but only if you're lucky now."
Some tracks, like album leadoff "Dirty Rain," have a plain-spoken eloquence worthy of his hero and onetime collaborator Willie Nelson; others like "Invisible Riverside" have a gentle L.A. canyon-country psychedelia.
"These were real, complete songs — lyrics that surprise you, strong melodies, and great performances centered around a voice and guitar," Tench said. Playing together was "an immersion process. If a song's about loss or loneliness, his melodies will call that forth from you."
Recording the album was, in a way, Adams' test of faith in his own talents. "Long distance runners, they just do that, they prepare but they have to go on a journey with no control," Adams said. "I just keep running. I don't play golf, I don't have a pastime. Music is golf."
Its best moments are when Johns puts Adams close to a microphone and lets his voice — defiant yet chastened, like a seasoned punk rocker begging for quarters — do the heavy lifting. Album-closer "I Love You but I Don't Know What to Say" feels like a statement of devotion to his wife, the actress and singer Mandy Moore, a vow to protect their L.A. home together — and a sad prayer to his grandmother's death from stomach cancer — where "the night is silent and we seem so far away."
But this stable musical home base seemed impossibly distant just a few years ago.
After first earning attention in the proto-alt-country band Whiskeytown, Adams vaulted into international fame with two solo albums of bourbon-sodden, bummed-out folk-rock — 2000's "Heartbreaker" and 2001's "Gold" — that cemented his promise as one of country-rock's finest new voices. He was sideswiped by fame, taking on celebrity girlfriends, a publicized drug habit and a reactionary rock album, 2003's "Rock N Roll," written as a middle finger to his label, Lost Highway, which claimed that he was getting morbid and needed an editor (2002's odds-and-sods album "Demolition" was compiled from several label-rejected album sessions).
He confounded critics with several jokey rap and heavy-metal mix tapes released online, which toyed with the press' assumptions that he was a humorless, "authentic" alt-country troubadour. "I'm into clairvoyance and UFOs and ghosts. I'm a huge dork," he said. (In 2010, he released a sprawling full-length sci-fi-metal album "Orion.")
But leading up to 2005's "Cold Roses," he assembled the Cardinals, a band of session aces that would carry him through five albums worth of material often inspired by the Grateful Dead's rustic explorations. He even jammed on-stage with Phil Lesh.
The band gave him his most consistent group of collaborators and won him back many critics and fans. But tensions rose within the Cardinals on tours, leading to the departure of Adams' close friend, bassist Catherine Popper in 2006. The band dissolved after a 2009 show in Atlanta on bad terms.
"I'd make a suggestion, and they'd say I was complaining," Adams said. "We started playing with in-ear monitors and it just wasn't the same. Our friendships were [ruined], and I realized I didn't have to do this. After that last show, I just exhaled."
After the breakup, Cardinals' drummer Brad Pemberton told the website Stereokill that "you can't fix the engine while the car is speeding down the road, ya' know? Everyone was a bit fried, so it was the right time to step back for a minute. I encouraged Ryan to go and get married, and have a life and find some peace."
Adams now tours alone, with just an acoustic guitar for two-hour sets from his deep catalog. Meanwhile, Adams wrapped up his deal with Lost Highway, which famously shelved (and bisected into EPs) the tracks that became his 2004 album "Love Is Hell" as too commercially difficult. The relationship remains a raw spot for him.
"I'd had such a long spell of negative press," he said, leaning deep into a rolling chair. "[The label] were spineless losers. They abandoned me when the press did."
In a statement to The Times, Luke Lewis, the chairman of UMG Nashville and Lost Highway, said, "Ryan was with us for almost 10 years, and after fulfilling his contractual obligations to the label he decided to move on. I have many fond memories of those years and will always think of Ryan as an amazing artist who I am happy and proud to have known and been associated with. We continue to wish him the best and look forward to hearing more of his great work."
Suddenly Adams was in the same position as when his career started. Adams writes songs at a rate unseen since the Brill Building (he cut three full-lengths, including a double-album, in 2005 alone). After years in New York, he moved to Los Angeles in late 2008. Quitting music was a kind of detox session for a creative setting that he felt left him physically and psychically ill.
He availed himself of Los Angeles' myriad alternative medicines — including one therapy that will shock those who still mistakenly imagine him cracking a bottle of Maker's Mark, writing a couple of albums by breakfast and not seeing sunshine for a week — hiking in L.A.'s mountain vistas.
"I did a lot of alternative therapies, acupuncture and hypnosis," Adams said. "I'd walk the trails up to Dante's Peak in Griffith Park. I quit smoking, started taking vitamin D. California healed me up."
It seemed to work for him, and the Ménière's subsided. But writing still refused to come easily. Songs started and halted; others followed clichéd paths. He wondered if his particularly generous muse had finally changed the locks on him, and his streak of self-loathing renewed.
But on a couch in his studio's mixing room, he cited a new source for inspiration — the sense he'd been one-upped. This time, by the young English singer-songwriter Laura Marling, whose 2010 album "I Speak Because I Can" left him reeling.
"I did feel competitive with Laura and the seriousness of her writing," Adams said. "I had the pieces but no puzzle, and had to get back to an earlier truth."
Still, the time off and the insecurity of his new solo setting left him uncertain about recording new songs. It took Johns — father of producer Ethan Johns, who recorded Adams' first solo albums and 2005's "29" — to talk him back into recording.
"He performs from the heart and believes everything he's written," Glyn Johns said. But "he's a very complex character, one of the funniest people I've ever met and always a consummate gentleman. On one hand, as a producer, personal lives are none of your business, but it's all about presenting an artist in the best light, and should you be invited to do so, that sometimes falls in your jurisdiction."
In a way, "Ashes & Fire" is an album of L.A. domesticity — "I Love You But" is the closest he'll come to writing an "Oh Yoko!" The album's title and lyrics are rife with images of Los Angeles and its perpetual habit of rebirth by fire — a subject Adams knows well.
In 2001, around the time of "Gold," his city of possibility and potential was New York — he shot his video for the song "New York, New York" mere days before 9/11, just as his turn in the mainstream spotlight was beginning. But on "Ashes," L.A. is a stand-in for the better place he's found himself, both musically and physically. The album follows an arc that ends with him finally accepting that, in spite of everything and for reasons he doesn't fully understand, he's loved.
But it's also the one thing Adams won't talk about. In the middle of a conversation, he checks his phone and frantically texts back to Moore. "It's the what-time-are-you-going-to-be-home-for-dinner text," he says, sounding like any husband in America.
But when asked about how he values his home life amid a musical reinvention, it's the one topic — unlike black metal, narcotics or vintage compressors — that he still keeps a protective edge over.
He demurs, and briefly raises those old hackles of suspicion — "I feel like you're trying to answer that question for me" — before giving an answer both obvious and yet humbly insightful at once.
It's as if the possibility of a life in a real home is a frequency he's just now learned to hear.
"When a young man or a woman are wise, they find a balance early on," Adams said. "I was not one of those people. But I'm learning."


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Host Marcia Franklin talks about the past, present and future of wilderness with four guests. This program is a companion discussion to an Outdoor Idaho documentary, "Wilderness in the 21st Century."
Franklin's guests include Liz Close of the United States Forest Service, John McCarthy of the Wilderness Society, Sandra Mitchell of the Idaho Recreation Council, and Rick Johnson of the Idaho Conservation League.
Franklin and her guests will talk about whether new wilderness is needed in Idaho, what kinds of compromises it takes to get new wilderness areas approved, and how wilderness values are managed for a variety of uses, some of which seem to conflict with each other.
In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Wilderness Act, designating 9.1 million acres in the United States as wilderness, including the 1.2 million acre Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness in Idaho. Over the years, Congress has designated six additional wilderness areas in Idaho, including the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness, the Sawtooth Wilderness, and the recently designated Owyhee River Wilderness. With 4,522,779 total acres of wilderness, Idaho has the fourth largest amount of wilderness among the 50 states.
If Congress passes legislation to designate parts of the Boulder-White Clouds area as wilderness, Idaho would rank #3 in amount of wilderness among the states. However, that legislation is currently stalled.


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WASHINGTON — The long-awaited release Thursday of four Bush-era memos lays out in clinical detail many of the controversial interrogation methods secretly authorized by the Bush administration — from waterboarding to trapping prisoners in boxes with insects — while former President George W. Bush was publicly condemning the use of torture.
The memos were made public by the Justice Department with assurances from President Barack Obama that the intelligence officials who followed their guidance won't be prosecuted. However, the president's assurances don't apply to the former administration officials who crafted the legal justification for the interrogation program.
The newly released memos offer the public the most unvarnished and explicit look yet at once-top secret efforts to psychologically break high-level terrorism suspects.
Despite the graphic description of the techniques, the memos at the time concluded that the tactics didn't constitute "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment," even as Congress was moving to ban such treatment.
The memos reveal that by May 2005 various "enhanced" techniques were used on 28 detainees. Three high-level al Qaida operatives — Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah and Abd al Rahim al Nashiri — were subject to waterboarding, a procedure that simulates drowning and is widely regarded as torture.
Obama said Thursday that the U.S. won't prosecute CIA officials who used the techniques and ordered the memos rescinded. The CIA interrogators, some of whom were contractors, weren't identified in the partially censored documents.
"This is a time for reflection, not retribution," Obama said. "In releasing these memos, it is our intention to assure those who carried out their duties relying in good faith upon legal advice from the Department of Justice that they will not be subject to prosecution."
While civil-rights groups applauded Obama for releasing the memos, some expressed frustration with his promises of immunity for those who followed the memos' guidance — and predicted that it would amount to blanket cover for all former Bush administration officials.
Obama's exemption also appears to contradict a prime tenet of the Nuremberg prosecutions of former top Nazis after World War II. The Nuremberg Principle IV says: "The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him."
For years, the Bush administration had refused to release the memos that provided the legal underpinning for harsh interrogations, eavesdropping without warrants and secret prisons, citing national security, attorney-client privilege and the need to protect the government's deliberative process.
Critics of the Bush administration see the release of the documents as necessary to determine whether former administration officials should be held accountable for legal opinions that justified various measures, including the use of waterboarding.
Human-rights advocates differed Thursday on whether Obama's pledge meant that the architects of the interrogation program were in the clear.
"The Department of Justice appears to be offering a get-out-of-jail-free card to individuals who, by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's own estimation, were involved in acts of torture," said Larry Cox, Amnesty International's executive director.
However, Jameel Jaffer, the director of the American Civil Liberties Union's national security project, said he thought the Obama administration left open the possibility of prosecutions.
"There's a remarkable amount of detail in the memos that makes clear that people at the very top of the Bush administration knew exactly what was going on," he said. "President Obama doesn't say anything about the architects of the program. To the extent that it offers anything like immunity, it offers immunity only to CIA interrogators who relied in good faith on legal advice."
CIA Director Leon Panetta told agency employees in a memo Thursday that despite Obama's assurances, "This is not the end of the road on these issues," and agency officials should expect more pressure from the Congress, the public and the courts to release more information.
At the same time, he said, it was important to understand the "context" of the memos, coming soon after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. In fact, a newly released Aug. 1, 2002, memo explains the level of concern about another attack, saying that CIA intelligence "indicates that there is a currently a level of 'chatter' equal to that which preceded the September 11 attacks."
Panetta said: "The fact remains that CIA's detention and interrogation effort was authorized and approved by our government. For that reason, as I have continued to make clear, I will strongly oppose any effort to investigate or punish those who followed the guidance of the Department of Justice." Panetta also said the CIA would provide legal representation to any officers investigated for their actions.
The Obama administration was compelled to release the memos, one written in 2002 and three in 2005, to the American Civil Liberties Union under a federal court-imposed deadline in an open-records lawsuit filed by the group.
The Aug. 1, 2002, memo to the CIA's acting general counsel, John Rizzo, signed by Assistant Attorney General Jay S. Bybee, detailed 10 techniques that were approved for use on high-level al Qaida detainee Abu Zubaydah.
The techniques were: waterboarding; placement inside a confinement box with a nonlethal insect; cramped confinement; sleep deprivation; placement in stress positions; "wall standing," in which the detainee's fingertips would have to support his full body weight as he leaned into a wall; facial slapping; facial holds to keep the head immobile; "walling" or pushing his shoulder blades against a wall constructed in a way that makes loud noises; and the "attention grasp," in which an interrogator pulls the detainee toward him.
A newly released May 10, 2005, memo gave the green light for additional methods for other detainees, including substituting normal meals with bland or liquid diets and forcing detainees to stand nude for periods of time.
Another memo on the same day, written by then-OLC head Steven Bradbury, described "prototypical interrogation." These techniques could be authorized for up to a month at a time, during which a detainee is stripped, shackled and hooded with a collar attached to his neck. As soon as the detainee does anything "inconsistent" with the interrogators' instructions, the interrogators use an "insult slap or abdominal slap."
The techniques Bradbury approved included "walling," sleep deprivation, liquid diets and forced nudity except for an adult diaper. If medical personnel approved, repeated sessions could be initiated. Interrogators also were permitted to use a water hose to douse a detainee for several minutes.
In one memo, Bradbury signed off on a long list of limits on interrogation — including setting a maximum of 180 hours for sleep deprivation and allowing for no more than 12 minutes of waterboarding daily. Overall, no detainee could be waterboarded for more than a month.
Bradbury also discussed in detail the legal questions raised by using the various techniques.
"Our conclusion is straightforward with respect to all but two of the techniques . . . " Bradbury wrote, adding that the use of sleep deprivation and waterboarding "involve more substantial questions, with the waterboard presenting the most substantial question."
Bradbury noted that Congress' prohibitions, written to meet U.S. obligations under international law, referred to actions constituting torture must be "specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering.
His memo went on to say, "drawing distinctions among gradations of pain is obviously not an easy task."
Basing his opinion partly on specialized military training, Bradbury urged "great caution" in the use of waterboarding and sleep deprivation, but concluded the methods as described by the CIA in specific instances didn't constitute torture.
Guantanamo: Beyond the Law _ a McClatchy investigation
Did Bush officials commit war crimes? Maybe, but trials aren't likely
In waning days, Bush officials backpedaled on terror memos
Is Obama following Bush's lead on official secrecy?


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Atlanta Public Library: Exciting times, growth in services
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[January 23, 2013]
Cruising through Atlanta, Ill., on Old Route 66, you will come to an
unusual eight-sided building at the corner of SW Arch (Route 66) and
SE Race streets. This architectural gem is the Atlanta Public
Library, a historic building that was constructed in 1908 and is now
listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Only one other
example like this exists, the public library in El Paso, Ill.
Cathy Maciariello was recently appointed director of community
programs for the library in Atlanta and has been ramping up the
program menu from a modest beginning in 2011 to a wide variety of
offerings today, some of them unique to the library district, such
as the Behind the Scenes programs.
One of the success stories is the children's programming, which
began with an outdoor summer reading program on the library lawn.
Other offerings during the year are a homework and reading lab,
kids' crafts, a summer creative writing class, and preschool reading
One measure of success is the number of area children
participating, from an initial 12-15 to a count of almost 30 kids at
a recent event.
The dramatic increase in participating children has created a
happy problem for the library. Currently, one section of the
octagonal building is dedicated to children's reading material and
events. The small area is now at the maximum capacity, and more
space is rapidly becoming a necessity.
Toward that end, plans are being made to convert the basement of
the library into a new area for children's books and activities. The
basement has at least double the space of the current area. After
the relocation of the children's area to the basement, the upstairs
space will be converted into an adult fiction area and reading room.
Initial plans are being developed to upgrade the infrastructure
of the basement with a new ceiling, lighting, heating and a
dehumidifier before the children's books and activities are
relocated there.
As with all remodeling, the new children's area will require
funding to proceed with these ambitious plans. Toward that end, the
Atlanta Library will have a fundraiser on Feb. 16 called "Bowling
for Books."
Bowling for Books will take place at the Red Wing Bowl, just
across the railroad tracks from the library. Twenty-four teams of
four bowlers each will compete for prizes, with bowling times at
3:30, 6:30 and 9 p.m. In addition to bowling, a Chinese auction will
take place for items donated by area businesses.
The prime sponsor for Bowling for Books is Mattingly Automotive,
with additional help from Kitty Cat Crafts. So far, response has
been very positive, with many teams already signed up.
The library hopes to raise at least $4,000 to begin the basement
renovation process.
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"The momentum of community involvement in the library is
increasing," says Maciariello. "The fundraiser is providing an
exciting way for members of the Atlanta community to participate in
their library's improvement."
Sign-up forms for Bowling for Books are available at the library
and on the library website.
Maciariello sees the library as a magnet for area residents to
come together and participate in fascinating events, as well as use
the traditional library services.
In addition to the Feb. 16 fundraiser, another important date for
the library is rapidly approaching. Randy Brooks, president of the
Atlanta Public Library District, announced that a referendum will
appear on the April ballot, requesting an increase in the library
district's assessment.
The assessment has not been changed in decades.
"We can't do 2013 work at the library with 1950s money," said
He stressed that when the assessment was last changed, all the
library had to offer was books. Now, in the digital age, libraries
are called upon to offer many more services. In addition to checking
out physical books, library patrons are requesting access to digital
reading material that they can download to their iPads, Kindles and
Money from an increased assessment will go directly into updating
the services and programs the library can offer its patrons, as well
as maintaining and updating the library's physical structure, a
historic building that needs lots of care.
Brooks said: "I can't stress enough how important a modern
library is to a thriving community like Atlanta, especially with the
increase in tourists coming to town for the Route 66 experience. A
modern library enriches the community."
Brooks and Maciariello are excited about the future of their town
and the Atlanta Public Library, and their enthusiasm is shared by
members of the Atlanta community.
For a complete list of the Atlanta Public Library programs and
special events such as Bowling for Books, go to the library website
or call the library.
[By CURT FOX]
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No One Is Illegal: Why We're Signing the I-Word Pledge
YES! Magazine is joining ColorLines, The Nation, and others in pledging not to use the term "illegals" to refer to people.
Actually, this isn't a change for YES!. We have never used a term that suggests some people's very existence is to be questioned. Whatever your view of immigration policy, all human beings are entitled to respect.
Name calling is a familiar way to dehumanize a group of people. It's used during wars to make it easier to kill people. It's used to sharpen political divides. Immigrants, especially, are often targeted as scapegoats during times when jobs are scarce—that strategy serves some interests much better than an honest examination of the structural causes of a stalled economy. This strategy has often worked to keep poor and working people divided.
We do need a rational immigration policy. It might start with rethinking NAFTA and other race-to-the-bottom policies that have dislocated farmers and up-ended livelihoods for people in the Global South. And it might restrain unscrupulous U.S. employers, who have taken the opportunity to drive down costs by hiring people who can't risk reporting substandard working conditions or forming a union.
America: The Remix
Our crises are too big and too immediate to let race continue to divide us. YES! Magazine's special issue about embracing our multiracial nation.
Migration could become even more pressing as climate change makes some areas uninhabitable. We are likely to see an increasing number of climate refugees, including people from within our own borders, like those who were forced to leave their homes on the Gulf Coast following the hurricanes.
There are no easy answers to human dislocation. But one thing is clear: We will have a much degraded society, and we'll all suffer, if we allow the mean-spirited scapegoating of immigrants to divide us. It may be a small thing, but one way we at YES! Magazine can contribute is to choose language of respect to refer to all people, regardless of the status of their documents.
Thanks to ColorLines for launching this pledge.
Despite the hype, states are finding lots of reasons not to follow in Arizona's footsteps.
Barack Obama's election didn't launch a post-racial era. But a racially just, inclusive, and even loving society is still possible, says a YES! Magazine panel of visionaries.
There are ways to keep even the heated immigration debate civil and productive.


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Replaced the airbag switch with one that works, BUT I still have the airbag light on in the dash.. I can't figure out why its on now.
Replaced the airbag switch with one that works, BUT I still have the airbag light on in the dash.. I can't figure out why its on now.
We used to have problems at Rover with some tech taking a cluster or an ECU out of a car on the floor to try in a car they were working on to see if it would fix it. On LandRovers, Mileage is stored in both the ECU and Cluster, whichever has the highest mileage updates the other. So Blammo! A car in stock with only 5 or so miles on it would instantly become a car with 56K miles! At that point, the only thing you could do is put both parts in the car to get it back to zero and sell it as the new vehicle it was. Many a tech has taken a raping in the wallet for their perfidy!
HelpmyZ, that whole line of trucks are electrical garbage, from first gen to yours. I have a '91 S10 that had a lot of problems, all electrical. Basically, if you have a problem other than a vibration or weird noise, it's electrical.
Jeep: Building Hummers since 2007!
Bringing this back, even after I swapped out the cluster the aibag light was on. I finally took it in to meineke for them to read the codes for me (which they did for free) and its throwing these codes:
B1024 - Driver loop short to ground and B1071 Internal SDM (Sensing Diagnostic Module) Problem Detected.
A quick google search pointed me to someone that replaced the SDM and it cured all issues.. Anyone have any experience on how to test these things? I have the carpet partway out, and am going to finish getting the seats and all the carpet out (hopefully tonight) so that I can start looking closer at things.
Anyone have any helpful tips/pointers/answers when it comes to that SDM? or either of these codes? I've got a whole extra truck to rob parts off of, as soon as I know what to replace..


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The Holy Communion
The Holy Communion is an act of worship and thanksgiving that should be participated in and done by churches, gatherings and families in accordance to Christ's word (Luke 22:19) "To do this (the Holy Communion) in remembrance of Him" in order to thank God for sending His Son, thank Jesus for giving His life and to show our unity (oneness) with God... but why?
Is listening to secular music bad?
- Is all secular music bad?
- Am I saying that secular musicians are not talented?
- What about secular musicians that are believers?
- But secular music is better than Christian music
- Why music... why not tv, games, etc?
The Bible says to not be equally yoked with unbelievers (2 Corinthians 6:14)... and listening to secular music makes you...
Why didn't you tell them about Jesus?
Hell is real. It is your responsibility (as well as mine) to tell those who do not know about where people without Christ are headed. We will be held responsible for not sharing our faith... for being disobedient. Your salvation is not meant to be mysterious; Everyone should know. Not fulfilling the Great Commission is disobedience to...
Worshiping God is more than lifting y...
Worshiping God, being in the Spirit, feeling God's presence is much much more than lifting your hands up. Some do so because they think it is the right thing to do in God's Presence, others because they see people doing so, and others, for many more wrong reasons: Pride, hypocrisy, etc, or the right ones: adoration, joy, etc. When should you lift your hands up though?
Do not take God's glory
Don't take God's glory. Never do. God gives you gifts, skills and talents, so the world can see, be amazed and through your giving Him glory, lead people back to Him. This is a reminder, one that I've needed to remind myself over and over again... Do not take God's glory or He will take it back...
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Health Law Thrust Into Fiscal Fights
House GOP Votes to Strip Money for Insurance Overhaul as Oct. 1 Shutdown Deadline Approaches
House Republicans on Friday thrust President Barack Obama's health law into the middle of two looming fiscal battles, a strategy that roils Congress's efforts to keep the government solvent this fall and avoid a partial government shutdown in less than two weeks.
The House on Friday passed a Republican bill to keep the government funded starting Oct. 1. That measure, however, also eliminates money for the health-care law. It was a triumph for a wing of the Republican Party that has campaigned for months to convince GOP leaders...


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When the Denver Broncos allowed Eric Decker to hit the open market in March, it was with the understanding that salary cap space would be needed to extend the contracts of Demaryius Thomas and Julius Thomas.
Three months later, the Broncos have opened contract talks with both nucleus players.
"We've already talked to them to see if we can do something before the beginning of the year," general manager John Elway said Monday, per The Denver Post. "We'd like to get something done before the beginning of camp. We don't want to do anything once training camp starts. They're both in their last years and we'd like for them to stay and be Broncos for a long time."
Decker has conceded that Demaryius Thomas is on a completely different level as a top-five NFL receiver. Outside of Peyton Manning, Thomas is the most valuable member of the Broncos' record-breaking offense.
As we discussed on the "Around The League Podcast," Thomas is part of a stacked wide-receiver class entering contract years. Julio Jones, A.J. Green, Dez Bryant, Jordy Nelson, Randall Cobb, Torrey Smith and Roddy White are all in the market for lucrative long-term deals.
Thomas, Green and Jones will be looking to surpass Mike Wallace's five-year, $60 million contract.
Julius Thomas' value will be trickier. Similar to Jimmy Graham, he's as much of a receiver as a tight end. We suspect his annual average will come in around $7 million.
If Manning makes it through the end of his five-year contract in Denver, he will be throwing passes to Thomas and Thomas for the next three seasons.
The latest "Around The League Podcast" picks the best receiver group in the NFL, and goes deep previewing the season with Bucky Brooks.


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J. Larkin necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 188 diseños de 45 diseñadores freelance.
We decided to start a wine club after the seeing our cafe and wine bar grow significantly over the past year. We will be delivering quarterly shipments of either 3 or 6 bottles of great wine to each member of the club. We love to drink wine, and have a good time! We are very serious about our wine, but we don't take ourselves too seriously. That's why we came up with the name Snobby Ass Wine Club. We also decided on our name because we like to stand out. When everyone else zigs, we like to zag! Wine is generally thought to be the domain of connoisseurs and snobs, but we know that's not true. Wine is one of the oldest spirits made, enjoyed by millions around the world, a tremendous social lubricant, and deserving of little tongue in cheek humor. Since our name is a bit unconventional we think it does the talking. We just want our logo to be nice and clean.
Our target audience consists of people who love to smell wine, sip wine, discuss wine, and most importantly DRINK wine. Some customers may know a great deal about wine, and others may know much less. Either way, we will delivering super yummy, very difficult to find wine from small producers primarily in California. Our customers are people who may not have all the money in the world but who do appreciate the good things in their life. This is an established market but we want to capitalize on 100,000+ customers that visit our cafe every year.
We need a logo that represents our wine club-Snobby Ass Wine Club
-The words "Snobby Ass Wine Club" should be included.
-Wine is in the name. Wine glasses and wine bottles do not need to be part of the graphic. In fact, we prefer that wine bottles and glasses not be included.
-Feel free to be creative and use images that might not be associated with wine.
-No Cartoons
-Colors: preferably no more than 2
-easily and affordably reproduced for t-shirts, brochures, etc.
-"Snobby Ass" implies tongue in cheek, so the logo does not have to reflect that.
-Simplicity is a plus. We prefer a clean logo.
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The World Turned Out in Seattle
It seems like yesterday when I joined tens of thousands of others at what has come to be known as the Battle in Seattle. Thousands came from all over the country to show solidarity and outrage, and more importantly, to make change. They circled the Kingdome, demanding annulment of the Third World debt, while thousands blocked intersections, hotels, and the Washington State Convention and Trade Center. They were teachers, students, faith-based people, farmers, Longshore workers, moms and dads—and even turtles—who came from all over the country to express their disgust with corporate greed and its devastating consequences on working families, the environment, and life itself. They were tear-gassed and pepper-sprayed, but they stayed firm in the midst of it all till the front page of national papers cried out, "Talks Collapse." The world felt the tremor of this courage and witnessed a new face of the United States.
Events from November 26 to December 6, 1999, culminating in the shutdown of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial and the collapse of the trade talks, have been described many times over, been a subject of several documentaries, and even the focus of a full length feature film. To understand what transpired in Seattle, the Pentagon commissioned the Rand Corporation to produce a study, in which the movement was described as "the NGO swarm," difficult for governments to deal with because it has no leadership or command structure and "can sting a victim to death." Corporate public relations consultants Burson Marsteller published a "Guide to the Seattle Meltdown" to help clients like Monsanto "defend" themselves.
The Battle in Seattle has come to hold a special place in political movements of the twenty-first century. Ten years later, efforts continue to explain and understand its true meaning. There are several factors that contributed to its unique place in history.
To me, as an activist of Indian origin, the significance of Seattle first and foremost lies in the fact that in the United States of America, a nation that is an unabashed apologist for unrestrained capitalism, young activists, trade unionists, farmers, environmentalists, and opponents of poverty, hunger, and homelessness faced off—using puppets and street theater—against corporate and government leaders and their armies of bureaucrats. Before Seattle, communities around the world had been organizing, marching, and rising up—be it the people of Madhya Pradesh fighting to hold Union Carbide accountable for the poisonous gas leaked from its factory in Bhopal, the ski-masked Mayan Indians that emerged in Chiapas to make the world listen, or the residents of shanty towns in South Africa who protested prepaid water meters as an attack on their human right to water. The mass mobilization that brought the WTO to its knees was carefully nurtured through cross-border alliances, but it was "Made in the USA."
More reflections on the 10th anniversary of Seattle WTO protests:
Walden Bello
Sarah van Gelder
Fran Korten
Rebecca Solnit
David Korten
David Solnit
Dispatches from the 1999 event:
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Secondly, Seattle is an example of what strategic, determined, and disciplined cross-border organizing can accomplish. Its strength came from the diversity of civil society groups, and its unity from the diverse strategies they employed. The reasons that brought people to Seattle during the WTO week were myriad, but the tens of thousands of people on the streets represented the collective force of justice, democracy, and plain decency. What has been termed as the student-turtle-Teamster-policy wonk-tree hugger-partnership made the other WTO possible—the World Turned Out in Seattle.
And lastly, the WTO has had a difficult time recovering from the blow it received in Seattle. Once described as the "jewel in the crown of multilateralism," the WTO has come close to its demise several times since Seattle. Trade talks have stuttered and stalled and failed to move forward despite arm-twisting and blackmailing. It was only through the imposition of "war on terror" tactics following the 9/11 attacks in the US that the Doha Round of the WTO was moved; it has still to be concluded.
Doha was followed by the collapse of talks in Cancún. There, Kenyan delegates walked out of the ministerial, followed by representatives of South Korea and India. Civil society mourned Lee Kyung Hae, a South Korean farmer who took his own life to protest the WTO's devastation of the Korean countryside. He stabbed himself at the barricades built to keep poor farmers and other protestors out of the talks. Hong Kong joined the exodus, and the WTO had to satisfy itself with a minimum package that, at best, functioned as a life support system. Since then, scared by massive mobilizations and protests and the growing confluence between delegates of the developing world and civil society, the WTO has been reduced to having mini ministerials with the hopes of hammering out a deal with a handful of its members. Its credibility as a multilateral institution has been reduced to tatters.
Reclaiming Corn and Culture
In communities throughout Mexico, farmers are replacing NAFTA's disastrous "free trade" policies with working models of "fair trade."
The plight caused by the 2008 food-price crisis was exploited by international financial institutions, with the backing of rich nations, in order to boost free-trade agendas and move the WTO talks further. However, efforts to promote the WTO as a solution to growing hunger were thwarted, and even the Economist magazine held the food crisis as the biggest threat to globalization.
In Seattle and soon after, those who heralded the end of the WTO and its free trade agenda were labeled as "anti" globalization, and called protectionists and even globophobes. The events since Seattle have proven that the international civil society that united in Seattle is for democracy, for livelihoods, for environment, and for human rights. And that's what has made it a force to reckon with—even hailed by the New York Times, on the eve of the 2003 US war on Iraq, as the world's other super power.
As the free trade agenda has shattered amidst the ruins of the global capitalist economy, Seattle has gained new significance. Seattle was a call to action for ordinary working people to stand up and take back their streets and their nation. It was a call to ensure that democracy is wrenched free from corporations and that it remains of the people, by the people, and for the people. Ten years later, civil society's vigilance and mobilization efforts remain essential to ensuring that responses to the current global financial crisis promote and protect the human right of all to live in dignity and to provide social and economic justice for all.


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Pizza Verde
- Yield: 8 servings
- Prep: 30 minutes
- Cook: 20 to 25 minutes
- 1-- Prepared Pizza Dough
- -- Filling:
- 5pounds Swiss Chard
- 3 tbsp.-- extra virginolive oil
- 8-- cloves garlic chopped
- 1/4 cup-- flat leaf parsley, chopped
- 4 oz.-- pepperoni, chopped
- 1/4 to 1/2cup pimento stuffed Spanish olives, sliced
- 1/4 to 1/2cup brined-cured black olives, pitted and sliced
- 1/2cup Parmiagiano-Reggiano, grated
- 4pieces anchovie fillets, coarsely chopped
- 1teaspoon capers, rinsed and drained
- 1teaspoon Fresh ground pepper
- -- Pizza Dough:
- 1/4ounce package yeast
- 1 1/2cups warm water
- 3cups unbleached flour
- 2tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 2tablespoons honey
- 1teaspoon salt
- 1tablespoon extra virgin olive oil for brushing
Make the Dough: Dissolve the yeast in 1 cup lukewarm water and let stand for 5 minutes, or until it has begun to ferment. In a food processor bowl with a steel blade, add the flour, olive oil, honey, salt, yeast mixture, and remaining water. Process until the dough forms a ball, about 20 seconds. Place the dough onto a smooth surface and knead for a couple of minutes, adding more flour if the dough is too sticky. Put the dough in a large floured mixing bowl. Cover with a damp cloth or plastic wrap and let it rise for 2 hours in a warm place until doubled in size.
Prepare the Filling: Wash the swiss chard thoroughly to remove all sand and grit. Drain for a couple of minutes then strip the stems from the chard. Chop the chard leaves coarsely and set aside. Chop the chard stems coarsely and set aside separately. Heat the olive oil in a large, heavy skillet over medium heat. Add the garlic, anchovie fillets, capers, fresh ground pepper, and chopped chard stems and sauté, stirring occasionally, for a couple of minutes. Carefully add in as many of the wet chard leaves that will fit into the pan and cook, stirring, until the leaves Begin to wilt. Continue adding more chard, a handful at a time, until all the chard is in the pan. Add the parsley and lower the heat to medium- low and cover the skillet. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the chard is tender, about 8 to 10 minutes. If the water evaporates and the greens begin to stick to the pan, sprinkle a couple of tablespoons of water over them. Allow the greens to cool. When cooled, add the pepperoni, green and black olives, and cheese. Stir until well combined and set aside.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Remove the dough from the bowl to a floured board and punch down. Cut the dough in half. Roll out one half of the dough on the floured board and put on a baking stone. Spread the swiss chard filling over the crust leaving a half inch around the edges. Roll out the remaining dough on the floured board to fit on top of the filling and bottom crust. Press the edges to seal. Prick the top with a fork and brush with the 1 tbsp. olive oil. Bake in the center of the oven for 20 to 25 minutes until the crust is golden brown. Remove from the oven to cool for 10 minutes, and cut and serve warm or at room temperature.


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Joanne77 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 156 diseños de 40 diseñadores freelance.
Pooch or Pooch Pet Boutique
We already offer a pet sitting service with dog walks, potty breaks and doggy washes. Our store will be online and linked to our pet sitting website http://www.petsitmypooch.cl, but we don't want to limit ourselves to that, a store in a mall could be on the horizon as well (a dream of ours) The designs for our accessories and clothes shout.. trendy, hip and original!! We are showing South America how its done in Europe and the rest of the world, the pet market in Chile is in its growing stages how America and Europe was many many light years ago. We want to create an impact and impression now with our logo, to prevent any revamping later down the line. All our products are of high quality, they are not your typical sparkling bling Paris Hilton products
Our market will be 20/30's something's who are perhaps single perhaps in a relationship who love pets and don't mind forking out a bit of cash on cool pet products. We also appeal to those pets in families who take 1st place. Market?? What market, this one is growing, we're here for the long run which makes it even more important to give it something special. We want a creative, urban, fresh design that can be used online, on a storefront, on flyers, cards, packaging and all promo gear. Our logo will be the face for our products which are designed by ourselves and will carry the logo. We want to stand out
We already have a simple logo for our pet sitting service, don't forget to check out our website for ideas. Ideally in the real world it should be one logo for both service and product, however this is open to interpretation, you can incorporate the name "Pooch" using some of our features from our logo that already exists on our website, or give us something completely new. We'd really like to see a bit of both. We like bones, with the name Pooch boutique or with Pooch pet boutique written inside. I also like a little dog face on top of a kennel. Keep colors to a minimum of 2-4/two toning A big no no is cartoon characters and graffiti writing this logo needs to be sassy, classy, funky and fresh
I'm excited to see what you've got!! Good Luck!
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All Creative Memories products have been extensively tested to be photo-safe, ensuring your photos are protected to live on for generations to come. You can make an album for your children or grandchildren. It is a great way to show them how much you love them and how special they are. You can even create a heritage album on your family tree and include stories of your parents and grandparents. You can create albums on any topic, holidays, anniversaries or even create your own stunning wedding album.
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I have a Lenovo W500 4062-5YG... O/S: Win 7 Pro
My sound device is a Conexant 20561 SmartAudio HD.
The problem is, that the internal speakers have stopped working all of a sudden... I think it is a hardware problem since when I hookup external speakers or headphones they produce sound... but I am no expert!
I have done the following to try and fix it:
None of these actions have worked.
I actually thought I could perform a hardware test on the speakers in the "Lenovo Solution Center"... but it doesn't seem like it:-(
Any help is appreciated.
Hello Philip,
As mentioned in your post, you have performed all the major troubleshooting steps to resolve the issue. I suggest you to update your BIOS also in order to resolve your issue. You can download and update the BIOS update utility from the below mentioned web link.
Kindly click on Quick path and put your 7 Digit TYPE-Model number(40625YG) in the box and then click on the Find My Product. Please click on BIOS and then download the BIOS update utility according to your Operating System. It might resolve your issue. If it will also not work then it seem to be an issue with hardware. Kindly get in touch with the support centre they will assist you and try to resolve the issue.
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03-06-2012 05:52 AM - edited 03-06-2012 05:53 AM
I might sometimes have the same problem on my new w520.
speakers just make "tok" instead of playing the sound, then silence.
i have sound out of the jack though.
if i plug and unplug headphones the speakers sometimes start to work again for a couple of days. sometimes the dont.
today i reinstalled older sound-drivers from 2010 and it started working again after reboot.
so this might not be a hardware problem.
03-06-2012 06:00 AM - edited 03-06-2012 06:07 AM
Hi, guys,
This has been covered in detail on another thread. Like many other W520 owners, I had this problem too. It has to do with the way the speakers are wired.This appears to be a design flaw. Perhaps the moderator should make this thread "sticky", based on the prevalence of this problem.
If you want to diagnose it, boot a factory image and see if you still have the problem.
A great solution for the handy who don't want to part with their machine was generously provided by @DavidU86:
Fix for speaker wiring problem
Best, ZZ
hm, why would the speakers start to work again after unplugging from the headphone jack? sometimes sound comes back for a second, sometimes ongoing. if the wire is broken its broken, isnt't it? I will open the laptop tomorrow though to have a look at the wires.
Hi, Bass,
It is possible that you have some other problem. I will say that I had similar symptoms. I would press on the bezel, then the sound came back for a while, etc. After I took of my keyboard and started jiggling the wire, I realized the source of the issue.
Good luck. Let us know what you find out.
03-06-2012 07:03 AM - edited 03-14-2012 09:33 AM
I had the same issue on my w500.
I unpluged the speaker's wire, which goes to motherboard( placed under palmrest) and pluged it back. The problem gone for 4 months so far
03-09-2012 05:30 AM - edited 03-15-2012 02:25 AM
well, i just opened up my w520 to see if i could find a broken cable. unfortunately the audio cables are covered with shrink cable nearly completely. couldn't see anything.
but now i'm sure its not a software issue, because as i move the thinkpad speakers stop working and start working after shaking etc. its definately a slack joint.
as i dont want to (or am not able to ) replace the cable myself, i will bring it to the nearest thinkpad store before my next holiday and have it done since it falls into warranty. I need it at work everyday.


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When it was time for Wichita State to show the country what it was made of, it was freshman guard Fred VanVleet that the Shockers looked to.
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When it was time for Wichita State to show the country what it was made of, it was freshman guard Fred VanVleet that the Shockers looked to.
"I was fine with that. I wanted it," VanVleet said in a telephone interview Wednesday night. "I want the ball in my hands, to make a play for my team, when it's time for a big play. I have that confidence in myself."
And he produced.
Now he has helped back-to-back teams reach elite status in the postseason. Tonight he looks to help keep it alive for his new team, the Shockers. Last year, though they fell one win shy of their ultimate goal, VanVleet was a key cog to Auburn's third-place run in the IHSA state tournament.
One year later, he provided the spark that lifted Wichita State to its first Sweet 16 berth since 2006.
"Everything I went through at Auburn, fighting to get to where we got to, I've used here, and in this tournament," VanVleet said. "My run last year in high school was one for the books. And then, last weekend, in the biggest game of my college career, I had the confidence to take the shots, to make the plays. I was ready."
It's the fifth time Wichita State has advanced to the Sweet 16, and it needed every bit of VanVleet's 13 points to do it. He scored seven of the team's final nine points, made four free throws in the final 40 seconds of a tight ballgame, and he drained the biggest bucket of them all, a 3-pointer with under two minutes left that turned a two-point deficit into a mad scramble for Gonzaga.
"That was just the task at hand," he said. "The guys expect that out of me; they understand the player I am."
Growing up battling his two older brothers -- Darnell VanVleet (who played junior college ball) and J.D. Danforth (currently playing at Kentucky Wesleyan) -- on the playground sure helped, he admitted. And Fred played on his brother's teams throughout much of his youth, which meant he was taking on boys two or three years his elder.
It never slowed him down then — and it's not now.
"Once you get into this point in the season, and get this far into the tournament, everybody, even your first-year guys like Fred, are no longer a novice," Wichita State head coach Gregg Marshall said, "They know what it's going to take. They know it's win or go home."
"Along with red-shirt freshman Ron Baker, VanVleet gave the Shockers a pair of first-year collegiate players on the floor at crunch time of one of the biggest wins in program history.
Baker tied for the team-lead with 16 points, while VanVleet, all 5-foot-11 of him, was the biggest Shocker on the floor when it counted.
Like he did numerous times for Auburn during last year's run to third place in the IHSA state tourney, VanVleet drained key late jump-shots, made pressure-filled free-throws, and as a presence on the floor that his coaches felt that the team could not do without.
Senior guard Malcolm Armstead called both VanVleet and Baker "very mature,"
"All of it, everything, it's been a dream come true," VanVleet said. "The only way to make it any better is to keep it going.
"We've got to stay hungry. We're not national champs yet."
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Profile: Fred VanVleet
Size, year, position: 5-foot-11, freshman, guard
College: Wichita State
Stats: Has played in all 36 games, but has not started; averaging 15.7 minutes, 4.0 points and 1.9 rebounds with 82 assists and 42 turnovers; is shooting 43 percent (18-for-42) from 3-point range and 70 percent (23-for-33) from the free-throw line.
West Regional
Who: No. 9 Wichita State (28-8) vs. No. 13 LaSalle (24-9)
When: 9:17 p.m. today
Where: Staples Center, Los Angeles


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Thursday, 15 December 2011
Three turtle doves
I am a self-confessed Bah Humbug. Usually I spend all of Christmas bagging out Sister B for all of her festivenss, meanwhile putting off my Christmas shopping and refusing to 'catch up for Christmas' with people.
But things seemed to change for me last year, and I am now embracing Christmas with enthusiasm. Except the 'turtle' doves.
The home-made sock-style Advent calendar has been the centre-piece for Christmas cheer. I wrote little activities for each day and tucked them in the socks. We have been busily singing carols, visiting the Christmas lights, baking Christmas treats and making Christmas crafts.
Today's activity was writing Christmas cards and we used one of our Christmas crafts as the starting point.
The kids have been loving it. Each day they get out of bed bursting to open the sock. They have to wait for everyone to be up and Nugget proudly reads out the task. It sure beats dosing them with chocolate every morning and I have to say that this Christmas celebration thing has been lots of fun.
Tomorrow we have a knock-knock joke.
Knock Knock
Who's there?
Hanna who?
Hanna partridge in a pear tree!
I crack myself up. Have you got any good knock knock jokes? How is Christmas rolling for you this year?
12 comments:
- Naturally Carol said...
Christmas is stressing me out, quite frankly. For the past few years i have felt relatively organised, this year I'm a complete shambles! Oh, well, there's always next year to prove I'm not entirely a Christmas failure.
- 15 December 2011 at 22:36
- ClaireyHewitt said...
Knock knock
Who's there
Lettuce who?
Lettuce in please!
Or the fav in this house
Knock knock
Who's there?
I did up
I did up who?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha you did a poooooooo
- 15 December 2011 at 22:46
- Coal Valley View said...
You crack me up too! I don't know how you do it, your festivities are impressive. And I'm right there with you on the toilet front, just 1 delinquent twin struggling to do the poo thing. So close though, maybe I'll get my Christmas wish after all.:-D
- 15 December 2011 at 23:02
- Mum on the Run said...
I'm taken with your advent calendar.
She's a beauty - and a great way to drive a bit of Christmas spirit.
- 15 December 2011 at 23:03
- Diminishing Lucy said...
♥♥♥ the Christmas Advent sock thingo!
I am resigning from cake stall lady duties. Because I want to relish in next Christmas, not screech at the kids through a cloud of icing sugar.
- 16 December 2011 at 00:40
- Mama of 2 boys said...
Loving your sock calendar, super cool! And the inventive side is SO much better than a chocolate hit. Right on Multiple Mum :o)
Had to laugh at the tommy turtle part, that is pretty cute. The things we do for our children, eh!? xo
- 16 December 2011 at 00:44
- Photographer Mum said...
What a fab idea! Holidays next week so i need some more idea's to keep small people entertained. We are going to make our own Christmas bon bons with our own jokes this year as well as a few other things.
I made some chocolate brownie santa hats that your Sister A posted about a few days/weeks ago. They look awesome and are very easy!!
Hope you have a good Christmas if I don't see you before then :)
- 16 December 2011 at 07:30
Great advent calendar!! Oh that turtle hopefully will move off soon.
Knock knock
Who's there
Boo who
as good as my jokes get!!
- 16 December 2011 at 08:45
- Seana Smith said...
The sock advent calendar is sheer genius, what a fab idea.... I'm immediately thinking of stealing it... my kids would be amazed... well, the wee twins.
I like Christmas but jeez, it's too busy for us mums.
- 16 December 2011 at 20:54
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- 16 December 2011 at 20:54
- Maxabella said...
Who ARE you!?!?!?!?!?!?!? x
- 18 December 2011 at 16:38
- Glen said...
I quite like that idea - might have to steal it for next year...
ClaireyHewitt nicked my favorite Knock Knock, so I'll see what I can come up with instead...
Knock Knock
Who's there?
Hatch who?
....Bless you....
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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
Is the hope to have the pi as a media director, or qorbiter-only type setup (so it can be connected to an in-wall touch panel). Or both?
I know the rule around here is normally "he who writes the code writes the rules" but I don't see any need for two codebases. If I did I would have done that from the start and not #ifdef'd the codebase to work on both versions of Qt. Qt have forced our hand with the changes, maybe its too early to try and work with Qt5.0, its barely alpha at this point, potentially still a moving target I know the documentation certainly is!As qOrbiter matures having two bases with bug fixes and having to patch either stream with new features becomes a nightmare.golgoj4 if you still want to split Qt4 and Qt5 verions apart, an svn branch might be a middle ground, at least then a merge could bring either branch up to date.I agree with possy here but as I consider this golgoj4's baby I will work with whatever is chosen.Discussion welcome.-Coley.
make clean and re-run qmake between buildsqt 4.8.1 - for_desktop gcc(x86) qOrbiter compiled successfully.qt 5.0 - for_desktop gcc(ARM) bcm cross-compiler, qOrbiter compiled successfully.any more info you need from my env?-Coley.
Yep, that's going to work okay. That's the end result of the macro.That check was what I was using before discovering the other macro in Qt sources.Magic numbers never good - have been steered away from them from an early age -Coley.


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Have you ever had Chinese-style baked stuffed mushrooms? When I was growing up, it was a popular appetizer at Chinese and tiki restaurants my family frequented. Usually filled with a sesame-accented pork filling that became caramelized in the oven, these bite-sized morsels were hard to resist.
With February designated as National Snack Food month, I decided to create a similar dish using Soy Vay® Veri Veri Teriyaki sauce, a thick flavorful sauce with plenty of sesame oil and sesame seeds. (I started my partnership with Soy Vay last month and have been experimenting with a few of their sauces.) Instead of pork, I decided to use ground chicken as a mushroom filling. For the flavoring, I just added minced ginger, scallions, and the Veri Veri Teriyaki sauce. You simply mix together the filling, fill up the mushroom caps, brush on a little olive oil, and sprinkle extra sesame seeds on top. Then the stuffed mushrooms bake in the oven for just 20 minutes.
The mushrooms make for tasty hor d'oeuvres for parties or just a side dish at dinner. You can also mix the filling and stuff the mushrooms ahead of time, and just pop them in the oven before serving. To test the seasoning of the meat mixture, just sauté a small bit of the filling in a skillet, and adjust accordingly with salt and pepper.
What are some of your favorite snacks or appetizers that use teriyaki sauce?
Teriyaki Chicken Stuffed Mushrooms
Serves 4 as an appetizer
- 3/4 pound ground chicken
- 2 teaspoons minced ginger
- 2 scallions, thinly sliced
- 3 tablespoons Soy Vay® Veri Veri Teriyaki sauce
- 1 pound cremini or white button mushrooms
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 teaspoons white sesame seeds
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Make the filling: In a small bowl, combine the ground chicken, ginger, scallions, and teriyaki sauce . Mix thoroughly; the filling should resemble a thick paste. Set aside.
- Remove and discard the stems from the mushrooms and wipe the caps with a damp towel. Fill the mushroom caps with about 1 tablespoon of filling. Pack tightly so that top of filling is rounded like a miniature dome. Place the stuffed mushrooms on the prepared baking sheet, cap side down. With a pastry brush, brush the top of the filling with olive oil. Sprinkle the sesame seeds on top.
- Bake for 20 minutes, until the meat is cooked through, the top of the chicken has browned, and the mushrooms are softened. (If you're using large cremini or white button mushrooms and used more filling, it's safer to bake for 25 minutes.)
- Remove from the oven and allow the mushrooms to cool for at least 5 minutes before serving. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Disclosure: I am a Soy Vay® Ambassador and Soy Vay® products were provided to me by Soy Vay®.