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The National Park Service last week approved the city of Port St. Joe�s application for conveyance of the Cape San Blas Lighthouse to the city.
A similar application from the Board of County Commissioners was turned down.
In a letter to Port St. Joe Mayor Mel Magidson, John R. Barrett, program manager of the Federal Lands to Parks program with the Department of the Interior National Park Service, wrote that �it is a pleasure to inform you that the application has been approved pursuant to the requirements of the Federal Lands to Parks program.
�The next step in the acquisition process involves requesting assignment of the property from the General Services Administration for subsequent transfer.�
The city�s goal is to create a public park and recreation area, currently called BayPark, along the coast of St. Joseph Bay as part of George Core Park (see related story A1).
�They had actually sent the letter Dec. 21 but our servers were down so we didn�t get it until (Dec. 27), so it really was a great Christmas present,� Magidson said. �I feel great because a lot people have worked on this, (the Historical Society, the Port St. Joe Redevelopment Agency), a lot of credit goes to them.
�I just think between the two submissions, which was unfortunate, they saw more merit for ours where we wanted to place it and the historic and recreational uses we intended. My hope is the people who wanted it to stay on the cape will see that in the long run this is something that is going to benefit the entire county.�
The Cape San Blas Lighthouse rose on the radar after Hurricane Isaac earlier this year took away another 24-30 feet of coastline near the lighthouse grounds. That area of the coast, owned by the U.S. Air Force, has been steadily and at times rapidly eroding for years.
At one time the grounds served for walking eagle tours during an annual festival and a row of barracks once sat adjacent to the lighthouse grounds. The U.S. Air Force tested rockets near the site as recently as the early 1990s.
But all that land has been swallowed by the ocean and Air Force officials out of Eglin, the home base for the land, contacted Magidson to gauge the city�s interest in taking possession of the lighthouse and ancillary buildings.
Subsequent the city�s expressing interest and a fundraising campaign was launched to the fund the relocation, the BOCC also expressed an interest in acquiring the lighthouse and moving it to Salinas Park on Cape San Blas.
The PSJRA created the tentative design for BayPark and provided much of the material for the application to gain possession of the lighthouse.
�We have our work cut out for us,� Magidson said. �We have to raise a lot of money. We have big plans, but for something like this, I think you need to think big.�
The organization most invested in the lighthouse, the St. Joseph Bay Historical Society, had voted unanimously among members at its last meeting to support a move of the lighthouse to the city.
The Historical Society began working to restore the lighthouse and grounds some 22 years ago.
Over the years, the organization has secured more than $800,000 in grant funding to restore one of two keepers� quarters � the other had been renovated by the U.S. Air Force � and to provide lead abatement for the tower, to facilitate visitors climbing the tower.
The Society established and operated a gift shop on the grounds and was the liaison in a lease agreement between the BOCC and the U.S. Air Force on a lease for the lighthouse and grounds.
�We at the St. Joseph Bay Historical Society are elated that the city�s application was accepted,� said Historical Society president Charlotte Pierce. �We are excited, look forward to it and are honored at the trust placed in us to preserve this piece of our heritage and history.�
The Historical Society has been on a fundraising campaign since summer to secure funding for relocation of the lighthouse and associated buildings.
An estimated $300,000 will be needed for the relocation but fundraising efforts have been complicated by the competing interest and application from the BOCC.
�When you realize that we started all this back in 1990, it has been a learning experience,� Pierce said. �We asked for volunteers but we decided that we were just going to have to put our shoulder to the wheel and get it done.
�We learned a lot, we prayed a lot and we are elated that we have gotten it. This is something very dear to our hearts.�


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Kerry Clasby has made a name for herself by supplying America's greatest chefs with some of America's greatest (and rarest and occasionally weirdest) produce. We go behind the scenes with the passionate and secretive forager to see how she does it.
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IT'S NOT UNTIL I'M LYING FLAT on my stomach on a steep, muddy hill off a four-lane road somewhere outside Los Angeles that I recognize the lengths to which Kerry Clasby will go for watercress.
Minutes before, we pulled the car over, clambered past a guardrail and descended a precipitous 50-foot slope stubbled with sticker bushes. At the bottom was a stream, which offered uneasy crossing via a crooked path of slippery rocks. On the other side: a scattered handful of wild watercress and celery plants. Clasby happened upon this patch years ago while out on a hike. Wild watercress is uniquely delicious and nutrient-rich, but doesn't last long after it's cut, she says—meaning serious cooks will pay a small fortune for it. (One condition of her showing the patch to me was that I not reveal the location.)
Produce in hand, Clasby started nimbly back up the hill. I immediately fell behind. "Think of the leaves on the ground as steps and you'll get right up," she said. I lumbered awkwardly and, with just a few more steps to go, went right down. "Grab a tree trunk!" she yelled from the top as I floundered helplessly in the dirt.
All this, I think, for a bit of watercress.
I first met 53-year-old Kerry Clasby last year, though I didn't know who she was at the time. Not many outside the culinary realm do. It was at a Manhattan dinner party hosted by chef Kris Morningstar, whose restaurant inside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Ray's and Stark Bar, is widely lauded as one of L.A.'s best; the party was to introduce New Yorkers to his cooking. I sat next to Clasby, a slender and energetic woman with silvery shoulder-length hair, an easy laugh and, as it happened, five avocados in her purse.
They were Surprise avocados, she announced, before slicing one open and divvying out pieces among us. Though we'd all eaten our share of avocados, this was like nothing any of us had encountered. The skin, a perfect shade of dark green, felt as thin as parchment. The fruit itself had a creamy consistency. Spread across a hunk of baguette, it tasted as rich as French butter. As good as avocados are, I never knew they could be this good. This was a special avocado. This was an avocado that ruined all other avocados for you.
And that kind of response—the upending of expectations, the forcible redefining of every preexisting idea of what food can be—is what's made Kerry Clasby, professional forager, a stealth weapon for many of the top chefs in America.
A FEW MONTHS AND SEVERAL PHONE CALLS LATER, I'm sitting in the passenger seat of a convertible with Clasby at the wheel, zipping along California blacktop. She has agreed to give me a glimpse into the secret world of rare, ultra-high-end produce. Our first stop is McGrath Family Farm, in the town of Camarillo. Clasby comes here for greens, dandelions, baby kale, purple curly mustard and wrinkly Thumbelina carrots. The farmers greet her with hugs and, of course, things to taste. "I give them a lot of business," she whispers, then pops a perfect strawberry into her mouth.
Her life wasn't always lived so close to the land. The daughter of a venture capitalist who helped finance the early days of high tech, Clasby married a successful hotel developer in 1985 and seemed destined for a life of private planes and haute cuisine. The marriage didn't last, however, and in 1999 Clasby was on her own, a single mother of two boys in L.A.
When one of her sons contracted E. coli, Clasby vowed to feed her family only organic food. "I grew tomatoes biodynamically in my backyard and started going to farmers' markets in the area," she says. "Eventually I had too many tomatoes, and began selling them at the markets." She started to obsessively seek out the finest produce in the state, and developed relationships with the small farmers she met. "There's something about men and women who are willing to go against the grain, not make huge money, and do the right thing," Clasby says. "I love those guys."
In time, some chefs got wind of her relationships with the farmers and began asking Clasby to find fruits and vegetables for their restaurants. Fortunate to have good taste and great timing, she forged important alliances quickly. She brought Michael Mina buckets of rare, rose-scented geraniums for baking—just when he decided he needed them. For Shawn McClain at Sage in Las Vegas she procured 20 cases of Little Gem lettuces from the one farmer who was still growing them after the season had seemingly ended. When Matthew Accarrino at SPQR in San Francisco put in a request for scallop gonads (yes, those are a thing), Clasby tapped an old friend in New England to produce the goods. Mario Batali is so enamored with a pear of hers that he serves it unadorned as a dessert. L.A. chef David Myers still recalls a specific peach that he tasted when Clasby first pitched him her services. "It was a peach as the most perfect specimen," he sighs. "It was the very definition of a peach."
I'D SAY I'M MERELY EATING FRUIT IN THE CAR, but that would be an understatement. I'm devouring it. Sweet Rainier cherries; Harry's Berries strawberries as juicy as the ripest of peaches; fat blueberries from Ventura; Blenheim apricots, which have a high sugar content because the farmers deprive the roots of water—all gathered from our previous couple of stops. I'm eating with such abandon I initially fail to notice that we're approaching an avocado ranch. Actually, the avocado ranch, the one that more or less got me interested in Clasby and her bounty in the first place.
Collecting myself, I put a key question to my guide: What's the secret? Hard work and good taste are important to a person in her job, but then there are many discriminating people who work hard. There must be something else.
"It's a sixth sense," says Clasby. She calls herself "the intuitive forager," meaning she believes in thinking in nonlinear ways. "I've always had it, but it took me a while to trust it," she says. "For example, there's an incredible apple called the Pink Pearl. It's rare and only grows in the summer. I deal with 200 farmers, and two years ago I saw one at an obscure market selling Pink Pearls. At the end of this summer, it dawned on me to buy those apples. Morningstar was all over them. That's an intuitive hit."
So was her decision to make a first impression on Myers with the unforgettable peach, to bring Mina the rose-scented geraniums, and even to hand me that life-changing avocado. It's a sense of knowing what someone wants even before they do. Kim Canteenwalla, chef and managing partner of Society Café at Encore Las Vegas, has seen this firsthand. "It shows in what she gets," he says, adding that his forthcoming Vegas restaurant, Honey Salt, will build a retail operation around Clasby's goods.
From a distance, the avocado ranch looks like any other. It's about 300 acres, and most of that space is devoted to Hass avocados, the kind you typically find in the supermarket. But on top of a hill, around a little house, there are a dozen trees: some small and gnarled, some tall and majestic, and all bearing Surprise avocados. Despite the fruit's superior quality, Clasby says, it's not widely known because big companies don't want it. Surprise avocados are fragile, oversize and difficult to ship. Until she came along, this crop was grown mostly for the enjoyment of family and friends.
As she shows me around, Clasby reminds me that I am forbidden, per the terms of our tour, to name the ranch. It's understandable—the last thing she wants is to have competitors buying up the avocados that have become synonymous with the name Clasby.
But there's more. This is the mother lode. One of the men charged with managing the land here has been given a small parcel on which to cultivate whatever he pleases. He's chosen to grow stuff from special seeds that Clasby gives him. Where they come from, she won't say. This man is a burly sort (and nameless, per Clasby), with enormous hands and an agriculture degree from California Polytechnic State University. He makes his living growing big-money produce for his bosses, but his passion is evident in this little piece of farmland where the yield is all rare, heirloom, expensive, delicious and grown specifically for Clasby. There are chef José Andrés' beloved caviar limes, sugar-bomb Golden Nugget tangerines that would never make it to the supermarket shelves, and baby savoy cabbage that's so veiny it looks like psychedelic art. Clasby and the farmer enjoy some easy banter before doing a quick inventory on what he'll be harvesting over the next couple of weeks.
Clasby and I end the day at the State Street farmers' market in Santa Barbara. Musicians busk along the sidewalk and civilian foodies pick and sniff through the produce. Clasby, who uses the market as a weekly opportunity to connect with several of her farmers in one place, asks what I'm in the mood for. I say a peach, and she hands me one that feels as hard as a rock. I'm dubious, but I buy the thing and bite into it. And I am struck dumb. How can this be?
"It's a particular kind of peach he grows: hard on the outside and juicy and sugary on the inside," Clasby explains, gesturing to a bearded farmer behind a table overflowing with stone fruit. "But that's the point. You need to know the grower and you need to know his fruit."
KRIS MORNINGSTAR IS BUZZING around the kitchen of Ray's and Stark Bar, his West Hollywood eatery. He's agreed to cook a meal with whatever Clasby turns up over the course of our day of foraging. She and I have made ourselves comfortable on a counter across from the wood-burning oven, with a perfect view of Morningstar in action. He whips up dishes like wild celery soup (made with our hard-earned roadside celery) with goat cheese-topped croutons, and wild fennel with mussels, and a salad topped with big hunks of Surprise avocado.
Between frothing and slicing, Morn-ingstar sings Clasby's praises. "I have one day off per week and I used to spend it at the farmers' market," he says. "Now I don't need to because Kerry gets me better stuff than I can get on my own. She finds mulberries, the best sorrel, peas pulled from different resources. It's amazing. We don't even pre-order. We get in [Clasby's] truck and pick out what we like."
And he's not alone. Of all the fans of Clasby's wares, she herself might be the most devoted—the aforementioned delivery truck is, in fact, her personal fridge. "My stuff is almost all I eat." She takes another bite of the salad. "You would too."
MICHAEL KAPLAN has become disenchanted with his local supermarket.
Celebrity chef Mario Batali is one of Kerry Clasby's best customers. At Batali's three Las Vegas restaurants—B&B Ristorante, Otto and Carnevino, all inside the Venetian and Palazzo casino resorts—culinary director Jason Neve is a big fan of her produce. Here are his top five.
CANDY-STRIPE FIGS: "You don't see a lot of striped figs. And these are bright red on the inside! They taste great and look good on the plate."
EMERALD BUTTER LETTUCE: "Small and dense, with a concentrated flavor."
SAN MARZANO TOMATOES: "These are the real thing and almost impossible to find fresh outside Italy. Kerry started growing these specifically for us."
MIXED PEPPERS: "Kerry gets us a distinctively flavored assortment of peppers, in colors that range from deep purple to orange to brick."
SCARLET RUNNER BEANS: "Rather than serving dry beans, we get these in season and freeze them for the rest of the year. They're black with purple streaks, and about as big as a nickel."
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Recreational park trailer manufacturer members of RVIA are now fully integrated members of the organization with all the same rights, benefits and responsibilities as manufacturers of any other RV type.
As a result, the first RVIA standards plant inspection of a recreational park trailer manufacturing plant took place on July 3 as RVIA inspectors fanned out across the country to inspect park trailer manufacturers to the ANSI A119.5 standard, which in turn allows RVIA park trailer members to affix the new RVIA A119.5 seal to the units they produce.
Park trailer members are served within RVIA by a full-time dedicated executive director, Matt Wald, who spent the last eight years in the RVIA government affairs department. "It has taken a lot of work over the past three months to integrate our new park trailer members into RVIA. But that effort was just the beginning. Next up will be strategic planning, where we will map out the priorities and opportunities for the park trailer segment of the RV industry. And once we've planned the work, we will work that plan," said Wald.
According to RVIA President Richard Coon, "This is a classic win-win. RVIA is made stronger with the inclusion of park trailer manufacturers, and the park trailer OEMs will be very well served by RVIA."


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"BUCK" My rating: B+ (Opens wide on July 1)
88 minutes | MPAA rating: PG
Heroes are hard to come by in this day and age. But I think we've got a new one.
Buck Brannaman trains horses. He is, in fact, one of the men on whom the title character of "The Horse Whisperer" was based.
His ability to read these animals, to commune with them telepathically (one good old boy rancher calls it "voodoo"), to meld minds so that no sooner does Brannaman think it than the horse responds, would be enough to make him a world-class curiosity.
But as the new documentary "Buck" illustrates, what makes Brannaman truly heroic is not his skill with horses (more…)


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Laura Sellmansberger | KF19 | Uganda
Roughly 1.6 billion people in the world do not have access to reliable electricity. Lack of power is a complex issue that results in countless other problems, and it is both a cause and an effect of unremitting poverty. Without light, children are unable to do their homework and study. Midwives must perform deliveries in the dark. Children, especially girls, often spend hours a day collecting firewood to be used for light and heat instead of going to school. Mothers are forced to cook with kerosene, which is expensive, toxic to the lungs, and a major cause of fires in the home.
Solar Sister, Kiva's newest partner in Uganda, is a social enterprise committed to tackling energy poverty as well as creating economic opportunity for women. Using an Avon-style distribution system, Solar Sister sells solar lamps through local women in remote parts of Uganda. These entrepreneurs are provided with training and marketing support, and use their own networks of friends and family to distribute solar lighting products throughout their villages, providing their communities with clean energy, empowering themselves, and providing their families with additional income.
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to accompany Solar Sister on a trip to the villages of Central Uganda, where we met two Solar Sister Entrepreneurs and their customers.
Meet Florence, Solar Sister Entrepreneur
Florence is 38 years old. She has four children under her care (two biological children and two whom she adopted after their own mother passed away). She runs a small computer center in the town of Buwama where she teaches computer literacy courses and also provides typing services. Since becoming a Solar Sister Entrepreneur, she has enjoyed brining light to others in her community.
Meet Agnes, Florence's Customer
As a small-holder farmer, Agnes grows vegetables and raises cows. She is also community nurse and runs a small health clinic in her home. Her biggest challenge as a nurse has been lack of light. Without electricity, she is unable to work after dark – even though health emergencies do not become any less common after nightfall.
Agnes purchased a simple solar light system from Florence and now has light in a few rooms in her house. Since she installed the lights, she has been able to begin seeing patients at night.
Agnes understands the dangers of kerosene more than most people. A few years ago, her teenage daughter was studying in bed by the light of a kerosene lantern. Her mosquito net caught fire, causing severe burns to most of her body. She feels very lucky that her daughter survived, and she is glad that her children can now read at night without having to worry about potential accidents.
Meet Jane-Francis, Solar Sister Entrepreneur
Jane-Francis is 48 years old. She has eight children. She primarily earns the income with which she supports her family through farming. Jane-Francis became a Solar Sister in order to earn extra money that she puts towards school fees for her children.
Meet Jane, Jane-Francis' customer
Jane is a mother and smallholder farmer. She is also a village nurse. Since purchasing a lamp from Jane-Francis, she has been able to continue seeing patients after dark. She also says that having light at night helps her stay awake for her favorite radio show, which she likes to listen to on her battery-powered radio every evening at 10:00 pm. She is currently saving money to buy another lamp for her home.
Lend to a Solar Sister Entrepreneur today on Kiva.org, and help her not only to increase her own income, but also to bring light, hope and opportunity to her community.
Laura Sellmansberger is a member of the 19th class of Kiva Fellows, working at Solar Sister and Grameen Foundation AppLab in Kampala, Uganda.


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MONROVIA, California – April 2, 2012 -- Tanner EDA, the catalyst for innovation for the design, layout and verification of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) and MEMS devices, and SoftMEMS, which provides the CAD design environment used for the development and test of MEMS products, will hold a webinar on eliminating bottlenecks in MEMS-IC co-design on April 10th.
Systems incorporating MEMS devices are growing in their level of integration and complexity, often including multiple MEMS sensors/actuators, analog and digital circuitry, micro-controllers, sensor fusion software and custom packaging. Many of the delays in bringing MEMS-based systems to market stem from errors made in integrating the MEMS with the electronics, causing costly re-designs and missed market windows. Co-design tools enable designers to catch composition errors early and also to optimize the entire system, trading off requirements between the MEMS and electronics. The result is shortened time-to-market, higher product performance and lower manufacturing costs.
What: This webinar will present how MEMS CAD tools from SoftMEMS coupled with standard analog and digital design tools from Tanner EDA may be used for the co-design of MEMS devices, their associated electronics and packaging in commercial MEMS systems. Examples will be given of important co-design issues such as how to visualize MEMS devices in 3D from mask layout and fabrication step descriptions, how to co-simulate electronics and MEMS to calculate system timing, and how to model and evaluate the thermal, mechanical and electrical performance of new packaging concepts.
Attendees will see:
- Creation of 3D models of devices from Tanner EDA's L-Edit layout for virtual prototyping
- Creation of MEMS-specific layouts using SoftMEMS extensions to L-Edit
- Links to 3D FEM/BEM simulators – such as ANSYS, COMSOL, Oefelie
- Simulation of MEMS/electronics using T-Spice with SPICE, Verilog-A and C-code
- Modeling of packaging effects on MEMS sensors
- MEMS-specific design rule checking
A live Q&A session will be offered following the presentation and demonstration.
When: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 8:30am Pacific/ 11:30am Eastern
Registration: Register at http://www.tannereda.com/dm2/memscodesign
About SoftMEMS
SoftMEMS CAD Design Environment is used for the development and test of MEMS products. The tools are open-platform software products that support leading electronic design automation (EDA) environments used for integrated circuit (IC) development. Their tools allow data sharing among system designers, IC designers, process engineers and MEMS experts, permitting early and consistent design checks among multidisciplinary teams and allowing designers to easily develop new MEMS designs, integrate existing designs (intellectual property) into systems, and couple them with electronics. SoftMEMS design tools include MEMS Xplorer (for UNIX and HP platforms) and MEMS Pro (for the PC platform).
About Tanner EDA
Tanner EDA provides a complete line of software solutions that drive innovation for the design, layout and verification of analog and mixed-signal (A/MS) integrated circuits (ICs) and MEMS. Customers are creating breakthrough applications in areas such as power management, displays and imaging, automotive, consumer electronics, life sciences, and RF devices. A low learning curve, high interoperability, and a powerful user interface improve design team productivity and enable a low total cost of ownership (TCO). Capability and performance are matched by low support requirements and high support capability as well as an ecosystem of partners that bring advanced capabilities to A/MS designs.
Founded in 1988, Tanner EDA solutions deliver just the right mixture of features, functionality and usability. The company has shipped over 33,000 licenses of its software to more than 5,000 customers in 67 countries.


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Nixon is best known for its designer watches. And while the company's audio gear shares the same design sensibilities that go into its fashionable timepieces, we've found they don't actually sound that great. Which is unfortunate, because this TPS speaker is lovely.
Back in November we pitted Nixon's Apollo ear goggles against other budget headphones, and while they looked snazzy, in terms of sound quality they were the worst of the bunch. So we're hoping that Nixon has gotten its audio act together with its new TPS compact speakers. Their external housing features a simple perforated grill design with a generously-sized sliding power button on top.
For £65 we would have liked them to come with some kind of wireless functionality, but even with a 6 hour rechargeable battery you'll still need to tether the speaker to an audio source with a 3.5mm headphone cable. And while you can daisy chain two of the speakers together for true stereo sound, that's still not enough to sway us from other solutions that include Bluetooth functionality for the same price.


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DAMATURU/MAIDUGURI Nigeria (Reuters) - Boko Haram militants have driven more than 26,000 people from the northeastern town of Bama amid fierce fighting, witnesses and security sources said on Wednesday, as the Islamists focus more on taking and holding territory.
The government of Borno state, where Bama is located, said it still controlled the town. Local sources had earlier said the Boko Haram, which began its assault on Monday, had won control of much of Bama by Tuesday.
As that fighting wore on, news came that the insurgency scored another victory on Tuesday by taking the smaller town of Bara, to the southwest roughly halfway between Maiduguri and the national capital Abuja, without firing a shot.
Boko Haram's attacks appear to have shifted focus in recent weeks away from creating mayhem to taking ground and holding it, a strategy analysts say could be inspired by the Islamic State's example of declaring a caliphate in Syria and Iraq.
Last month, the insurgents captured the remote farming town of Gwoza, along the Cameroon border, during heavy fighting. Their leader Abubakar Shekau declared in a video that the town was now "Muslim territory".
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in Borno state said on Wednesday that 26,391 displaced had so far been registered from the town. "The number is growing by the hour," its spokesman Abdulkadir Ibrahim said.
The Borno state government and local vigilante groups said Bama remained under government control, a message confirmed by military spokesman Major General Chris Olukolade in Abuja.
Capturing Bama would bring the rebels closer to the Borno state capital Maiduguri, 70 km to the northwest, which is the birthplace of the Boko Haram movement.
Fears that Maiduguri could be the next target led the government to extend an overnight curfew there. It now runs from 7 p.m. (1800 GMT) until 6 a.m., after previously staring only at 10 p.m.
"The attack on Bama town ... was very unfortunate, but I want to reassure our people that government is on top of the situation," Borno state deputy governor Zanna Mustapha said in a statement. "Our security forces are engaging the insurgents in a fierce battle."
Boko Haram, a Sunni jihadist movement whose name means "western education is forbidden", has killed thousands since launching an uprising in 2009 to establish an Islamic state in religiously mixed Nigeria. They are by far the main security threat to Africa's biggest economy.
Nobody was harmed when they took the town of Bara on Tuesday, said a trader who fled when they came. While some northeastern towns have army protection, Bara was unguarded.
"They went preaching in the whole town, asking people to leave government work and join them to do the work of Allah," said Musa Abdullahi, who left Bara for Yobe state west of Borno.
"People were afraid, but they said that they did not come to kill anybody but to preach," he said.
More than 700,000 people have been displaced externally and internally by the conflict, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR says.
Ministers from Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria met in the Nigerian capital on Wednesday to discuss the Boko Haram menace. They "called for greater cooperation of the international community" in fighting the "transfer of arms and ammunitions" to Boko Haram, a statement said.
Additional reporting by Lanre Ola in Maiduguri; Writing by Tim Cocks; Editing by Tom Heneghan


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Someone asked about game development in C++. I have made some text-based games in C/C++ and found that due to the complexity of (or lack thereof) my games I didn;t use many of the features from C++, so I could have written it in C. I personally prefer C/C++ over other languages (I abhor Java). That said language preference is a personal issue (to some people it's pretty much a religion), and as time has gone on you can do anything with almost any language. For example Java and VB (among others) have C bindings to be able to use C libraries, or do low-level things the language wasn't designed for.
So for game development, just pick a language that has features you want to use, and learn it. You can always change or use a mix later.
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We recently noticed that all of the French records had disappeared from the FamilySearch.org Historical Record Collections (look under the Search link on the new startup page). This may be old news, but it was new to me. The links to the Historical Records Collection in the Research Wiki explain the missing records as follows:
The online records for France are currently not available at FamilySearch. Publication of French records is authorized by the French Commission for Informatics and Liberties (CNIL). FamilySearch is negotiating with CNIL for approval to film and publish French records. Original images can be ordered or viewed through the following mediums:
- Microfilms and microfiche are available for viewing at the nearest FamilySearch Center. For information see: Ordering Microfilm or Microfiche.
- You may request a digital copy of items found in the Family History Library Catalog. For information: https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Photoduplication_Services
- The archives of France are available at: http:/fr.geneawiki.com/index.php/Archives_en_ligne
Information regarding French records can also be found on the FamilySearch Blog:I have no idea why this has occurred, but I can guess that it has something to do with the monetization of genealogy records worldwide. Because the large commercial genealogical record websites are in essence in a bidding war for obtaining records, political jurisdictions realize that their records can be a revenue source and they are unwilling to "give" the records to FamilySearch so that they can be viewed for free online, thereby denying the politicos their revenue. This is just a fact of life. There is however a valid question as to whether or not the benefit derived by the political jurisdictions is worth the loss of access and preservation of the records.
Additionally, there may well be either cultural or social reasons why the political jurisdictions do not want to deal with an organization sponsored by a Church. Especially, if that Church believes things contrary to the state religion in any particular jurisdiction.
There may, of course, be some entirely different and perfectly valid reason for removing the records.
In any event, whatever the reason, all of the French records in the Historical Record Collections have vanished from FamilySearch.org.


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You should budget around 45%-50% of your overall wedding budget on catering. No matter what type of wedding you have or what time of day it's held at, guests will expect food and beverages. Most couples opt for a 3-course sit down meal but I've also seen buffets, stand up cocktail receptions, and more informal versions of the sit down meal. Most couples are now offering canapes, a main meal, and an evening buffet so this can really blow the budget if you're trying to spend wisely. Catering is not cheap so see my 10 tips on saving catering fees below.
Top 10
1. Save your meat for the main dish and serve vegetarian canapes and starters. Try risotto served in shot glasses, vegetarian rice rolls, or a trio of asparagus
2. Cut out the starter course by offering more canapes during the drinks reception and this will save on crockery, cutlery, equipment, and staff.
3. Unless you and your guests are champagne connoisseurs, opt for cava, prosecco, or English sparkling wine to add a bit of luxury without the price tag. Most guests won't know the difference. I personally prefer cava over the other two (when champagne isn't offered, of course!).
4. Replace the first course with a selection of breads and dipping oils
5. Serve wedding cake as your dessert. You will save so much money doing this, and guests will actually eat your cake! If you serve a dessert and then offer wedding cake, you will have a lot of leftovers.
6. Serve your food "family style" meaning 3-4 dishes come out for the starter in which guests serve themselves, then you see the same for the main course. This allows for a formal seated dinner with an informal service and cheaper price tag.
7. If you're having an evening buffet, you don't need to cater to all your guests as only a small percentage will eat at that time. I normally see less than half of guests touch the evening buffet.
8. Serve the expensive drinks (bubbly, specialty cocktails) early in the day so guests can remember them and enjoy the taste. Towards the end of the evening I always see half full glasses being left around the room which always go to waste. Guests leave their glass on a table then forget which one is theirs, or they set it down to use the loo then a waiter picks it up before they return. To avoid waste on expensive items, serve these early on.
9. Add a bit of luxury to your presentation by dropping raspberries into your bubbly, or adding small slices of cucumber and orange into each water glass. Presentation is everything and a small touch makes a major impact.
10. Serve cold canapes and a cold starter. Hot dishes require more equipment which means more cost. Also, if you're running behind on time, you don't need to worry about food coming out cold. Win/win!
Happy planning!
Erika xo
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*Reading this, some of you will go "I note the collapse didn't happen." And that's true. We're in the early stages of the collapse. Doctors are leaving and retiring. Part of the issue with my thyroid and other things is that for two years now, I'm lucky to see a Nurse Practitioner. And no, they don't have the same training. There are things I know more than they do about simply because I grew up around doctors.
There is a lot of ruin in a nation, particularly this nation, because we're good at doing, at making do, and at inventing new ways to do things around the crazy regulations.
But we still can't afford socialism. No one can. Venezuela has far more natural wealth than we do (remember I know, I have family there) and even they couldn't afford socialism.
We might have got a respite — maybe — I'm still "cautiously optimistic" on the coming administration with the emphasis on "cautious." But in the end if we don't fight back, if we don't fight for the minds of the young, they and us are lost, and there will be no more liberty, only a nation like others, where we subsist at the whim of those who rule us.
Don't let government by the people perish from this Earth. The responsibility is yours.*
Sweet Liberty – a blast from the past post from November 2014
Let's suppose you were born with an inheritance, something that accrues to you by virtue of being born and being human.
It's something you can spend, but not directly, like a lot of cash. But you can trade for it. Let's say it is a beautiful, rare, exquisitely cut diamond. You can wear it, but it's not quite suited for display. It's just something you've always had, more precious than anything else you have except life. And if you keep it, lifelong, your kids will be given equal ones when they're born, and then your grandkids too.
How would you go about safeguarding such a jewel?
Would you keep it always under your control, where you are the only one who has a say on whether it's kept or taken away? Or would you trust politicians – politicians who btw are telling you they can keep your jewel for you by taking other people's jewel away and trading it to keep yours safe – to safeguard that jewel by putting yourself, your life and everything you own in their power?
I'm very afraid for a number of people the answer is the second. And that the answer is the second for even one person scares me beyond reason.
I was watching Bill Whittles's excellent video Cannibals, which details our fiscal and cultural troubles. I wanted to leave a comment (ended up not doing it because youtube drives me nuts on registering to do so) so I looked at the comments.
Comment after comment, with names like "proudfree American" said things like "I voted for Obama because I don't want to have to bear a rapist's child. My body is mine and no one else can make decisions about it."
(A friend pointed out these are pathetic comments both in search of approval of like minded people, and sticking one in the eye of what they imagine to be the opposition. Let that stand for a moment. I'll come back to it in the end.)
Abortion is, of course, one of those complex things. It is not a natural right. It can't be a natural right because a human woman in a state of nature who tries to abort will more often than not end up offing herself along with the child. You could say infanticide is a natural right, as it has been practiced by most civilizations throughout the ages, less so in Judeo Christian lands, but impossible to stamp out just like murder is impossible to stamp out. Of course it violates another person's natural right to life, but in the case of infants that is always iffy as "natural" as they require someone else to defend them. So, it is a very complex thing, not from a moral but from a NATURAL point of view.
Let's leave aside for a moment that no one in this election – not even Todd Akin – ever said a woman BY LAW should bear a rapist's child. What Akin (who is an idiot for the way he expressed himself and for walking into the matter at all) and the other guy said was based on their own moral judgment, involving "if it happened to someone I love." Let's leave aside, also, that my answer would be rather similar to theirs, and it's more germane, since I CAN get pregnant. (In theory. Well, it happened once naturally.) "If I got pregnant by rape, it's impossible to know what I would do, but it would be hard to get over the fact that the child DIDN'T commit the rape, and that what causes a man to become a rapist is not necessarily genetic otherwise every man and woman born would be a rapist, because we're all descended from rapists several times over. Though I can't say for sure what my state of mind would be, there's a good chance I'd decide the moral thing is to keep the child. Because I like children, because it would still be mine, and because it's not the child's fault."
That is not important. It's also not important that while Mitt Romney made noises about abortion, the MOST he could do – and he wouldn't, any more than he would abolish the department of education. That's not how DC works – is sent the matter back to the states. And he NEVER said anything about outlawing abortion in cases of rape or incest.
Let's instead assume that it is right and just, always, for a woman to abort a rapist's child. This right to "not carry a rapist's child in MY body" is not only NOT a natural right – it is one that depends on an advanced enough technology, a functioning economy, and no one being able to regulate what kind of medicine is practiced upon you.
There is an English proverb "He who pays the piper calls the tune." Same thing. Updated "you buy your CDs, you buy whatever music you want." However, if the government is giving you free music, then you will listen to whatever they want you to listen to. And it can change.
So, let's suppose that for these young women the most important thing in the world, truly is that if they should get pregnant from rape – unless you extend rape to "changed my mind afterwards" a small enough chance – they should be allowed to abort the child.
Very well.
To secure this non-natural (because it requires functioning high tech) right they voted for the man who promised them this AND contraceptives for free. I.e. they voted for someone who said he'd pay for what these women consider a need, so that the women can "control their own bodies." Further, to secure this, this man – this party – is trying to make people against whose conscience it is to pay for such things… pay for them. That is, they are willfully violating what is a natural right of other people: the right to not pay/endorse things that violate their conscience.
And these women think giving this group of people the right to pay for/decide what is done to them gives the women control of their own bodies.
It never occurs to them apparently that those who give them contraceptives/free abortions today can also deny them tomorrow. Or that the fiscal mess Bill Whittle is talking about in the video means a diminishing level of wealth and therefore of tech.
What I mean is even if the government isn't lying to you – and frankly, after Benghazi how can ANYONE believe these people won't lie to you and with a straight face – their policies are almost guaranteed to make doctors flee the country in droves, or go into retirement. They are also guaranteed to add a layer of bureaucracy that will delay everything.
The end result might be that you did in fact get raped – I understand in countries where law breaks down completely this is a risk women run from eight to eighty – and you got pregnant. (Or you had a night of sex with your boyfriend and didn't take precautions, so you're being "punished with a baby.") You have a right to your free abortion. Great.
Only the nearest hospital is chock a block with more urgent cases and the nurse practitioner who could have done it is full up for six months. In six months it will be a high-risk abortion, and gee, we just don't have the equipment. Maybe if you go to Mexico? I hear they can do these same day, for ten thousand dollars.
Think this is unlikely? This is almost guaranteed.
Other nightmare scenarios include the government running out of contraceptives. (No? When something is free, people get it. And when it's free there's no incentive for companies to research better stuff OR to make it cheaper or more abundant.) I once heard an – hilarious, because it wasn't me, and because these people had escaped – interesting story by a group of Russians, at the end of the USSR, discussing how this group of ten men shared a condom which they washed after sex and which, btw, the one of them who worked in a rubber plant patched more than once. If you think that can't happen here, you have missed the fiscal mess we're in to which we're adding an unimaginable amount of debt for an "entitlement" that can't be secured without enslaving doctors and other health professionals to serve at the pleasure of the government.
So, suppose you run out of contraceptives and your ONLY contraception is abortion. But the birth rate is going through the floor and our lords and masters become aware they won't have enough of a next generation to bear the massive burden of debt. Think they won't forbid abortion? Or they can't decide you're from a non-favored group and they don't want you reproducing at all, so they mandate that you be sterilized and your existing children killed. Think it won't happen? It's happening in China. Google "dying rooms" China and children, and I hope you have a strong stomach.
You think it won't happen here?
Why do you think that? Show your work. Is your body any more sacred than other people's convictions? Why? Why should a government that has the power of life and death over you, a government that can literally decide that you're too expensive to keep alive and send you home with palliative care (no? It happens practically everywhere the state runs medicine. Maybe everywhere. Reporting on these things is iffy) NOT make you bear a child because it suits the state's needs?
You were born with this special, priceless jewel: Liberty.
You can keep it – that includes covering the costs of it, both monetary and in informed citizenry – and get to decide what to do with it, and in which circumstances to apply it. OR you can entrust it to people who lie and whose very nature is predicated on having power over you.
Whether the liberty is freedom of religion, of assembly, the right to bear arms – no matter what those rights are, entrusting them to the government is a bad idea. All the more so when those "rights" require a complex, functioning civilization to be effective. (For instance, I would not vote for a government that promised me free weapons, because I know how bureaucracies work and in the end I'd have the right to a chipped bit of flint.)
No, you do not have a right to your own body. No one does. You can't say "I won't bear this child" any more than you can say "I won't die from this cancer." Both of them involve a complex civilization and other people's skill and knowledge to avoid. And neither can be granted to you by a tyrannical government who HAS to control other people's work, intelligence and freedom of thought to grant you this.
You do have a right to your own mind, and that so many people have chosen to give up their natural right to inform themselves and make informed decisions makes me seethe.
My friend was right, on the people who commented on that video being special snow flakes in search of social approval. Of course why they think that idiotic statement makes them sound "correct" is why we must speak out. For too long we've let the idiots own the air waves and the soundbites, because we didn't want to rock the boat. And what we've created is sort of a state religion, in which young people repeat platitudes that don't make sense, in the sure certainty of social approval.
It's time to start taking back their minds. And then maybe they'll understand how to keep control of their bodies. And maybe they'll understand the meaning of liberty.
You can't enslave a free man.
Only person can do that to a man is himself.
No, sir—you can't enslave a free man.
The most you can do is kill him. Free Men by Robert A. Heinlein


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Rockies sign INF Justin Morneau to a two-year deal
Four-time All-Star and 2006 American League MVP makes Colorado his third Major League team
DENVER - The Colorado Rockies announced today that the club has signed infielder Justin Morneau to a two-year Major League contract, with a mutual option for 2016. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, per club policy.
Morneau, 32, is a veteran of 11 Major League seasons and owns a career batting line of .277 (1338-for-4826) with 293 doubles, 16 triples, 221 home runs, 863 RBI and 675 runs in 1,303 games. A four-time All-Star from 2007-2010, Morneau was the American League Most Valuable Player during the 2006 season after batting .321 (190-for-592) with 37 doubles, 1 triple, 34 home runs, 130 RBI and 97 runs, while helping the Twins win their fourth division title in five years. The native of New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada finished runner-up for MVP in 2008 and won two Silver Slugger Awards (2006 and 2008) as well as the 2008 Home Run Derby. Colorado will be his third Major League team having been drafted by the Minnesota Twins (1999-2013) and he most recently was a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates (2013) following a mid-season trade.
Over his career, Morneau has played strictly first base, where he has compiled a career fielding percentage of .996 (43 errors/10321 chances) over 1,124 games. Since the beginning of 2003, no other infielder with more than 1,000 games has committed fewer errors than Morneau (Todd Helton has the second-fewest with 47). His fielding percentage ranks second only to Todd Helton's .997 over that same span.
The Rockies currently have a full 40-man roster.


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Our county library system had a few copies of this book and I recently received my hold. It's been well worth the wait.
Ms. Pernoud was the national archivist in France during the mid to late 20th century and as a historian focused on medieval times. This book dispels some of the nastier rumors of the thousand year period commonly called the Middle Ages, and provides examples of the great works of literature, architecture, and law during the time. She also shows how the Enlightenment, due to a slavish devotion to recreating the classical era, actually removed some of the freedoms people had enjoyed.
A few caveats - it's a translation from the original French, so there are some awkward phrasings. It's also, despite the cutesy title, a very academic book. If you are interested in a serious history read, it's a good resource.
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Since the program began in 2009, Bush Blitz has discovered more than 650 new and undescribed species and has added detail to thousands of species that were already known – providing baseline scientific data that will help us protect our biodiversity for generations to come.
There are many plants and animals still to be discovered by science. There are an estimated 566,000 species in Australia – but three-quarters of this biodiversity is yet to be identified. Forty-five percent of continental Australia and more than 90 percent of our marine areas has never been comprehensively surveyed by scientists. The project is a unique effort to identify, map, and understand the biodiversity across an entire continent: Australia.
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The Davis Lisboa Mini-Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona
Davis Lisboa, "Musée d'Art Moderne, Département des Aigles #1", 2012, oil on canvas, 11,8 x 11,8 x 1,57 in (30 x 30 x 3,5 cm)
What inspired the work?
Conceptually, I was inspired by a documentary photograph that presents a small piano (toy for children?) within his "Section Cinéma", the seventh wing of the "Musée d'Art Moderne, Département des Aigles". The "Section Cinéma" was created in the space of a winery at Burgplatz 12 in Düsseldorf, Germany, and was held from January 1971 to October 1972.
Formally, I was inspired by the German painter Gerhard Richter, who began in 1960's to create his iconic photographic paintings. From a collection of photographs that he added throughout his life - from press clippings to family photos - Richter projected and drew the images on a canvas. In the process of recreating the photos, he erased the images, leaving the subjects unidentifiable.
What do you hope its viewers will think?
I hope that viewers understand that there is a narrative within the history of art that deals with the artists who created their own museums. This narrative is constructed through Marcel Duchamp (Boîte-en-valise, 1936-1941), Robert Filliou (La galerie légitime, 1962-1963) and Marcel Broodthaers (Musée d'Art Moderne, Département des Aigles, 1968-1972). Following this narrative, I decided to create the Davis Museum | The Davis Lisboa Mini-Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona (2009-ongoing), which is, simultaneously, a readymade sculpture, a non-profit collective art project, and at the same time, a cultural entity recognized by the Generalitat de Catalunya (an Autonomous Community in Spain).
Created symbolically in an electoral ballot box and disseminated mainly through Facebook, the Davis Museum is also the smallest contemporary art museum in the world.
This cultural entity has several sections and one of them is "The Paintings Section From Davis Museum". It is divided into portraits and still lifes. The portraits represent Marcel Duchamp, Robert Filliou and Marcel Broodthaers; while still lifes represent the "Boîte-en-valise" (Box in a suitcase), the "Galerie légitime" (Legitimate gallery) and the "Musée d'Art Moderne, Département des Aigles" (Museum of Modern Art, Department of Eagles).
Why did you choose the medium, the frame format and the color?
I chose oil on canvas because I am interested in painting not only because of its versatility as a medium but also because of its rich historical repository of images and ideas.
Only the best materials have been used for this work: linen canvas, oil paintings by Old Holland and medium by Blockx. As the Davis Museum is a cube, I chose the frame of the paintings to be square. And since the Davis Museum's brand color is blue, I chose the same color for all the paintings.
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Authors and Artists :: Carol Grace Anderson
To say that Carol has a colorful background is a huge understatement! As a young girl, she and her family lived in a tiny 18-foot trailer… surrounded by circus performers. Her very first job at age seven was selling boxed greeting cards door-to-door in the trailer park for one of her neighbors. Carol eventually returned to art in the form of painting. She hit the ground running and now creates greeting cards and gift books for Blue Mountain Arts.
After earning a master's degree from New York University, Carol taught Life Skills and English in a New York State men's prison for five years and was inspired to write her first book: Get Fired Up Without Burning Out! She also has an inspiriting story in the best seller Chicken Soup for the College Soul. She has shared her motivating thoughts and solutions by giving keynote speeches across the country.
Carol has a stellar music background as well. She has performed with such entertainment legends as Johnny Cash, Roy Clark, Jimmy Buffett, and Willie Nelson. And as an actress, she has had movie roles with Faye Dunaway and Sandra Bullock.
In spite of all her accomplishments, Carol would say that she learned more practical life lessons from her dog Cowgirl than from any college course. Her first book with Blue Mountain Arts, Pawprints of Wisdom is a reminder of those powerful lessons about love, laughter, loss, patience, and more that we can learn from our furry friends.
Examples of Blue Mountain Arts products by Carol Grace Anderson
And here is the introduction from the book, Pawprints of Wisdom:
Sometimes we don't find our new dog—she finds us. That's how I met my first fur baby, Cowgirl. After she had made several visits to my front door for a treat and a bowl of water, I got attached to this beautiful, muddy, matted stray. We searched for her family, but soon realized that now WE were family.
Cowgirl was not only a special gift—she also taught me some lessons about life that I'll treasure forever. I'm sure you can relate to what your angel with four paws has taught you. This little book is a reminder.
— Carol Grace Anderson
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- "This is a Jinx Block. Your Flipendo Knockback jinx will move it aside."
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A Jinx Block, also known as a Flipendo Block, is a box which can be hit by the Knockback Jinx, Flipendo. It is used to practise Charms, along with cushions. It is usually in first and second year, and if one moves it House points will be given. A tall Jinx Block can only be moved casting a charged Flipendo Jinx.[1]
Big and small blocks both are marked with a star in the sides where the Flipendo Jinx can be used on.
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