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We've learned to finish wrapping drop handlebars with tape, but there are alternatives — Velcro and pull ties.
After a while, especially in hot weather, tape loosens and then you have a sticky mess. The tape may also tear the bar wrap if you have to remove it.
Velcro and pull or zip ties keep your bar wrap from unraveling as well as tape.Pull ties need to be cut, which leaves a sharp edge. File this down. I positioned the cinch at the top of the bar, which is less desirable visually, but it keeps it away from my thumb and fingers.
Velcro costs about $5 for four feet at a fabric store, while pull or zip ties cost about 10 cents each. Most Velcro is black, but you may find white. Zip ties come in a variety of colors.
Tape still has its place, but the alternatives have some advantages, especially Velcro, which can be removed and used again. I did not see any unraveling on a long ride.


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BERLIN- The Beach Lacrosse program will receive an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) tomorrow morning for use at its home fields at the Northern Worcester County Athletic Complex in Berlin donated by the Matthew Krug Foundation.
Last April, nine-year-old Sierra Hall, now a Worcester Prep fourth grader, went into cardiac arrest at the Worcester County athletic complex in Berlin during a Beach Lacrosse practice. After an arduous rehab, Hall has fully recovered.
Tomorrow morning, the Matthew Krug Foundation will donate an AED to Beach Lacrosse for future use at its fields in Berlin. The AED will be available to all of the program's CPR and AED-certified coaches during practices and games. The donation will take place tomorrow, March 31, at the County Athletic Complex in Berlin at 8:30 a.m.

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|Blooming lilac and crabapple in my garden today.
Donna of Garden Walk Garden Talk asked a similar question in her recent Earth Day posting. My place on Planet Earth has changed over the years. Today, I am many things, not least of which is a gardener.
I am also a garden blogger, finding inspiration from other bloggers. It was my good fortune to meet two of them recently: Carolyn of Carolyn's Shade Garden and Julie who blogs at Wife, Mother, Gardener. It was Julie's idea for Pennsylvania garden bloggers to get-together. It was a wonderful weekend.
|From left to right: Carolyn, me, and Julie in Carolyn's garden.
Carolyn's beautiful garden is a true inspiration. One of my favorite spots there is the woodland garden where all sorts of hostas, ferns and native plants can be found. It is how I wish my Woodland Walk looked, but until we eradicate the invasive plants and build a deer fence, I'm afraid it will never happen.
|Carolyn's woodland garden.
|Arisaema triphyllum Jack-in-the-Pulpit
|Aquilega Canadensis Wild Columbine
I placed the planter next to the swing in my shade garden, where I can admire them when I sit there.
With Julie and Carolyn, HH and I visited Chanticleer, a forty acre garden near Philadelphia. Carolyn gave us a tour ...
|Chanticleer is the name given to a rooster, especially in fairy tales.
|One of the romantic winding paths at Chanicleer.
|Part of an unusual seating group at Chanticleer
I loved the plant groupings at Chanticleer. Obviously a great deal of thought is given to the pairings.
|Yellow tulip with yellow-edged hosta.
|The fountain garden at Longwood
|The conservatory
|Delphinium 'Astolat' Pacific Giant Group
|Delphinium 'Astolat' Pacific Giant Group
|Weeping Redbud 'Lavender Twist'
In this posting I am not only linking with Sage Butterfly's Earth Day Reading Project meme, but also Donna's Word4Wednesday at Garden Walk Garden Talk. I haven't forgotten Holley at Roses and Other Gardening Joys whose meme 'Monthly Garden Book Review' I missed this month, but I do encourage you to go over there and get some great reading inspiration. Also, do visit Carolyn's Shade Garden, both the blog and the place if possible; and you will love Julie's Wife, Mother, Gardener blog which is sure to inspire you.
Happy reading, happy blogging, and happy gardening!
Pamela x
|With HH at Chanticleer (photo by Julie)


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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
I have a Wester Digital 1 TB Ethernet connected drive on my network. When I plug it into the network I can get an IP from my Cisco Router and/or my Cisco 3560G switch. But when I try to put it on the same network as my LinuxMCE, it receives an IP, but you can't ping it. Linuxmce DHCP shows it handing out a lease to the proper MAC, but it's the "actual" mac. I noticed, Cisco puts a 01 at the beginning and it works fine.Any reason my WD1TB does not Linuxmce as it's dhcp server?


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People Story - Rebecca Hamilton
At SAP, we believe that when you bring everything you are, you can become everything you want.
I once heard that the average amount of hours one will work in their lifetime is over 90,000 hours. Yes, you read that correctly – 90,000! That total comes from an average of 40 hours per week. At a time when the clock had yet to start on my career, I was coming out of college as a business education major who had just finished up student teaching at a New Jersey (USA) public high school. Naturally, I was contemplating my first job following graduation. After encouragement from my cousin, who is a long-time SAP employee of 22 years, I applied for an internship for the summer of 2007, with every intention to intern for the summer and then pursue a career in teaching. That fateful summer, I learned how quickly plans do indeed change. This past May, I celebrated my 10th year at SAP. I often get asked the questions: Why SAP? Why have you stayed so long? And in one way or another the answer always seems to boil down to one word: opportunity.
SAP continuously provides countless opportunities to myself and my fellow colleagues. I have friends at SAP that have participated in Africa Code Week, working with a foundation that encourages young girls to say no to the cycle of enforced marriages. I have heard stories from the family of a colleague on the autism spectrum as they described what it meant to them to have their child move out on their own for the first time thanks to the Autism@Work program. I watched the journey of a colleague as they pursued a new-found career they are passionate about thanks to the support of their mentor from the SAP mentoring program. I have witnessed countless SAP volunteers, as mentors, stand by the side of their mentees after months of working together just as proud as parents would be. And I have seen colleagues who have received opportunities to work for SAP in a country they dreamed of living in one day.
Watching those around me in my workplace go out and discover their own opportunities at SAP has been a highlight of my career. There is no shortage of support to help us get to where we are headed even when we may not know exactly where that might be. There are opportunities for career growth and shaping the leaders of tomorrow through such programs and trainings as LEAP, Aspiring Leaders, Mastering C-level, and resume reviews with Talent Delivery (all of which I highly recommend). Then, there are those opportunities that often do not apply back to our goals in SuccessMaps or those that are often difficult to provide metrics on. These are the opportunities that, coming into my career, I had no idea existed, but have helped to shape me both professionally and personally. I have helped to mentor over 100 high school students as part of SAP's Junior Achievement Company Program, gained more friends than I can count as a mentor of the Autism@Work program, traveled to Manila, Philippines working with a non-profit dedicated to empowering the lowest performing and poorest children to believe in themselves through SAP's Corporate Social Responsibility Global Social Sabbatical program, organized volunteer events for hundreds of SAP volunteers dedicating their time to beautification of a preschool for children with disabilities or teaching financial literacy to classrooms of 2nd graders. With each of these comes the strengthening of old and new friendships and a discovery of my passion for youth education.
To me, the 90,000+ hours I will spend working in my career will always be complemented by programs, tools, and events that our own colleagues have created to make our experience at SAP a brighter one. Working for a company that fully operates on its mission to help the world run better and improve people's lives is truly something remarkable. I am just one of the many SAP employees privileged enough to share in these experiences. What makes SAP special is that they continue to offer these opportunities to every employee who is searching for a way to reach out and leave a mark on the world.
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Morenci city council is whole again with a vacant seat filled.
Council members voted unanimously Monday night to appoint former planning commission member Greg Braun to fill the unexpired term of Jason Bryant.
Braun will serve until the November election. At that time he can seek voter approval for another year in office until the end of Bryant's term in November 2009.
Mayor Doug Erskin praised Braun's work on the planning commission when Erskin served as chairperson.
Sandy Wheeler was appointed to fill a vacancy on the zoning board of review. Wheeler works as a real estate agent.
City clerk/administrator Renée Schroeder told council the state's prison labor program was reinstated, but at a large increase in costs.
The program was halted last year due to the state's financial situation.
"I think they met with a lot of opposition when they canceled the program," Schroeder said.
To help pay for the program, the rate was nearly doubled to $30 a prisoner for an eight-hour work day. Mileage is also paid.
City supervisor Lonnie Vanderpool pointed out that prison work crews from the county are still available at a much lower cost.
The city has hired prison crews in the past to help with miscellaneous maintenance projects.
EXEMPTION—Council passed a resolution establishing guidelines for granting poverty exemptions from property tax.
Exemptions are based on federal poverty guidelines. The current poverty threshold for a single person is $10,210 and $20,650 for a family of four.
Applicants must file a request with the board of review. Exemptions may be granted for only one year at a time.


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Rishan's school is now closed for Easter and I am looking forward to trying something healthy and include as much as fruits and vegetables into his diet. He is not a picky eater, but when he goes to school, he is quite concerned about what he carries in his lunch box - No Indian Food, no cold food and but only couple of sandwiches that he loves. So, it's not always possible to make his diet wholesome and healthy.
Here is a one of our favourite muffin recipes that I made quite a few times and he carries in his lunch box once in a while. These are great whilst warm and are packed with fruits, seeds and carrot without any pronounced taste of any. The seeds give a bite to the muffins which could easily be omitted if you dislike. These cup cakes are moist, healthy and simply delectable. As the muffin uses oil instead of butter, it stays soft and moist without going tough unlike many butter based cakes. The spices nutmeg and cinnamon works very well with carrot and apple and make a perfect combination. These are delicious plain and you wouldn't want to laden yourself with calories by frosting it. You may use cream cheese frosting if need be. The recipe is adapted from the Gulf News cookery book that I possess so fondly. It was gifted to me by my dear uncle about 15 years back.
Spiced up Carrot and Apple Muffins
Serves 6-12
preparation time: 15-20 mins
Bake time: 20-25 minutes
75 g (1/2 cup -1 tablespoon) Plain flour
½ tsp baking powder
¼ tsp ground cinnamon-
¼ tsp freshly grated nutmeg
¼ tsp ground cinnamon-
¼ tsp freshly grated nutmeg
Pinch of salt
1 large organic egg
1 large organic egg
40ml, 4 tbsp olive oil/sunflower oil
70g caster sugar
½ tsp vanilla essence
½ tsp vanilla essence
55g- ½ cup grated carrot
50g grated apple, unpeeled
50g grated apple, unpeeled
1 tbsp milk
25g raisins
25g raisins
25g sunflower seeds
For 12 muffins:
150g all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg (freshly grated if possible)
Pinch of salt
2 large organic eggs
Pinch of salt
2 large organic eggs
80ml sunflower oil (I used olive oil)
140g castor sugar
140g castor sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
110g grated carrot
100g grated apple, unpeeled
1 Tbsp milk
50g raisins
50g sunflower seeds
1.Set oven to 175°C and preheat for 10 minutes. Line the muffin tin with individual muffin cases.
2. Sift the dry ingredients into a large bowl.
3. Beat together eggs, oil, vanilla and castor sugar, and then mix in the grated carrot, grated apple, raisins and seeds.
4. Make a well in the middle of the flour mixture and pour in the liquid. Using a large spoon, stir just enough to moisten the mixture.
5. Don't worry about lumps, these will bake in and are part of the muffin texture.
6. Spoon about 2/3rd full into each muffin cases, and bake for 20-25 minutes or until the skewers/toothpick inserted in the middle of muffins comes out clean without being sticky.
Notes: You can add little chopped walnuts if you need that extra bite. You can also omit seeds ans raisins.


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About the Backup Email Add-on
It happens. People delete emails, and computers can break down. But if you use the GoDaddy Office 365 Backup Email Add-on, you'll never really lose anything. You can use the Backup Dashboard to search, find and restore the lost data.
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November 2014: About Microsoft's patent licence for .NET core
Sitemap • Countries • Why abolish? • Law proposals • Studies • Case law • Patent office case law • Lawsuits
Raising examination standards wouldn't fix much
What this article documents is not a solution.
For information of the risks of putting too much work into these, see duds and non-solutions. See also: Abolition is the only solution.
Raising examination standards would reduce the total number of software patents granted, but given that most patent problems involve multiple patents, and given that one patent is enough to block development, a reduction would not solve many problems.
[edit] Standards example: MPEG
MPEG LA represents a pool of over 1,000 patents which it claims are essential for an implementation of the H.264 video format.[1] Many of these are duplicates (one for each country), so maybe there are 100 patents (each with around 20 claims).
If the numbers of these patents are reduced by 10%, 50%, or even 95%, it will allow free formats to adopt the features claimed in these patents. But there will still be no change to the fact that implementing the original format requires permission from MPEG LA.
A format like MPEG that is covered by a large number of interlocking patents is a worst case scenario. Some other formats are covered by only one or a few patents, and busting those patents would allow the format to be used freely.
[edit] Slight benefit
The result would be to reduce the number of software patents granted. This should reduce the problems caused by patent trolls.
When encouraging the raising of patent examination standards, it's very important that your work is not misunderstood as showing support for "high quality" software patents. Always phrase your support like: "Raising standards may reduce a small part of the problem, so it's not a negative change, but even 'high quality' software patents are harmful to society. The right thing to do is get rid of software patents entirely".
[edit] What effects do the USPTO's 2010 KSR guidelines have?
In September 2010, the USPTO published a 2010 KSR Guidelines Update.[2] There is disagreement over what effects these guidelines have.
One disagreement is over whether they have any effect at all. Patently-O's Dennis Crouch comments:[3]
The 18–page guidelines do not have the force of law, but will impact how examiners judge obviousness in practice.
The second disagreement is about what effects they will have. On one hand, there's Intellectual Property Expert Group (ipeg), which published an article about how these guidelines make the obviousness tests easier to pass.[4] On the other hand, there was broad disagreement with this claim when the story was discussed on Slashdot.[5]
Ipeg's article described the change thusly:
According to the 2007 Guidelines, however, in addition to TSM there came into being with KSR six other tests for obviousness. These tests gave the examiners six new ways to reject claims and so help achieve the reduction in the patent allowance rate which was such an important goal for the PTO under its then-Director, Jon Dudas.
In the 2010 Guidelines, however, only two of the new tests for obviousness appear to survive.[6]
The article concludes that these new guidelines are in line with making the tests easier to pass:
This is in line with the general trend of the PTO under Director Kappos to [...] and give applicants greater opportunities to obtain allowance of claims.
[edit] Related pages on en.swpat.org
- Duds and non-solutions
- Quality of software patents is particularly bad
- Patent standards here are higher than in the USA - a myth for most countries
- Patent review by the public
- RSA patent
- (USA) The Patent Reform Act
- Applicants paying for patent review
[edit] External links
- Patent Reform Is Not Enough, gnu.org
[edit] References
- ↑ http://lwn.net/Articles/371751/
- ↑ http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-21646.pdf
- ↑ http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2010/09/uspto-guidelines-for-determining-obviousness.html
- ↑ http://www.ipeg.eu/blog/?p=1742
- ↑ http://yro.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/11/07/1248226
- ↑ http://www.ipeg.eu/blog/?p=1742
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Bits from our gig at BITS on Oct 19. An enormous show of strength by the elements delayed the gig by aeons, but left us enough time to pull off a 40-minute set and put up a cracker of a show. BlackStratBlues played a super set before us. And in the end it was an awesome night.
Thanks to the excellent people at BITS — fabulous festival, great hospitality and a fantastic venue. You guys are the real rock stars!


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BOOKMOBILE is a monthly YA online book club with an assigned book, a dedicated discussion comments thread and, at the end of the month, a super-duper special live chat with the author of the book!
We are thrilled to implement this new activity on YA Highway and hope you're eager to read and chat about some great books along with us!
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1) The Book of the Month will be announced the first Monday of each month. Sometimes we will have books already lined up for subsequent months, while other times we will include a poll at the end of the book announcement post with choices for you, our readers, to vote on future months' books. Often, these books will be new (or newer) releases. Other times, we will have a theme month and include books that fit the theme in the poll, regardless of release date. Since we're published and about-to-be published writers ourselves, we hope you understand that our own books are priority selections during our release months.
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text: Sometimes a faucet leak can be stopped by replacing the rubber washer at the end of a faucet stem or cartridge. This is a more common repair on older fixtures when things were built to last and designed to be able to be maintained. Other times the whole stem or cartridge needs replacement or the bibb seat deeper back into the fixture needs replacement. That leads to matching up the right components and often times making a trip to the hardware store or plumbing supply house necessary due to the many varieties, makes and models of faucets. My advice is to make sure your Plumber has faucet repair kit on their truck before having them come out to assess the issue.


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On the right is the "new Soft-Touch Giant Pteranodon" by Everything Dinosaur. It is reportedly, "very easy to carry around" and is "soft and squeezy". On the left is an apparent pteranodon depiction made by eyewitnesses. At least we assume that the makers of this mask topped by the "pteranodon creature" actually looked like–or got his hands on somebody's modern "dinosaur" book.
Pteranodon was thought by some to have gone extinct millions of years before man even "evolved". This artist was savvy enough to know that pteranodon had no teeth and ate fish. The artist has made the eyes bulge in this representation in a way most modern conceptions of the creature do not.
The mask is antique, and comes from the Dan people who inhabited the Ivory Coast beginning in the eighth century. This piece is owned by a collector.
The Gallery identifies the "bird-like creature" atop the mask as "zoomorphic".
Note that the beaks are extremely similar–depicted as "shiny" in both the mask and the toy. . His wings are tucked somewhat behind him. The two figures agree as to body shape, head spike, beak, legs and feet.
This mask is from the Ashione gallery.


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Redoubt is not a fun talent at all. All it does it make Shield Spec worth 8 points instead of 3. Remember that there are no crushing blows in wrath so your whole reasoning for taking it is moot. This is the definition of bloat. If you really like it don't make it mandatory for tanks to take it for shield spec. Alternatively make it worth one talent point or something. Prot forums have been whining about this for ages.
I think a lot of paladins are looking at Redoubt through the lens of TBC, and not WotLK. In TBC, because we had to reach uncrushable, paladins piled on lots and lots of Avoidance. This greatly reduced--and eventually obsoleted--the value of Redoubt.
WotLK looks to be different. There seems to be a lot less Avoidance gear. There's even a rumor that dodge and parry rating will see non-linear scaling, like Armor. If you have a lot less Avoidance, then Redoubt still does a lot for you, increasing your block rating significantly. As well, with the new focus on Strength, and the fact that 2 Str = 1 Block Value, we have the potential to mitigate significant amounts of damage through blocking.
Now, I don't know how useful Redoubt will be. It might turn out to be useless. It all depends on how much Avoidance is available in raid content. If Sunwell is any guide--remember that Blizzard had to introduce Sunwell Radiance to keep Avoidance in check--Blizzard will be looking to significantly reduce the amount of Avoidance raid tanks possess.


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Ashley Talbott of Iliff and Marc Bolt of Pueblo were married June 21, 2012, in Lafayette at the Lionsgate Center.
The bride is the daughter of Bob and Ruth Talbott. The groom is the son of Elaine Bolt (Dave Rael) and Bill Bolt (Joanne Bolt).
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The summer travel season is almost here and digital marketing intelligence provider AdGooroo (www.adgooroo.com) knows where Americans will be going. Namely, Las Vegas and Disney. In an analysis of nearly 1,000 travel-related keywords searched an estimated 2.4 billion times on Google during January and February 2012, AdGooroo found Disney accounted for 7.3 percent of all travel-related searches followed by Las Vegas at 6.3 percent, placing these two vacation destinations ahead of all others explored by online searchers, followed by Florida (5.7 percent), the Caribbean (3.2 percent), Mexico (2.1 percent) and Hawaii (1.1 percent).
The study was conducted using AdGooroo's Industry Insight search marketing dashboard, which measures search data for more than 160 industries as well as virtually any advertiser.
"Travel is one of the most keyword-competitive industries"
The overall most popular travel topic searched was not destinations, however, but transportation (airlines, trains, auto rentals) at 33.6 percent of all searches, and lodging/hotels at 21.3 percent, suggesting Americans may already have a good idea where they are going this summer but need to find out how they will get there and where they will stay. The next most popular travel topics were destinations (17.7 percent), ticketed attractions (10.8 percent), cruises (9.1 percent), booking sites (3.6 percent) and travel packages (3.1 percent).
Among all travel topics, keywords focused on travel packages recorded the highest clickthrough rate, 9.8 percent. Keyword searches related to booking sites such as Orbitz, Expedia and Travelocity generated the lowest clickthrough rate at 2.7 percent.
As evidence of a still-sluggish economy, the study found significant bargain-hunting activity, with 13.3 percent of total travel-related searches containing words such as coupon, discount, cheap, low-price and deal.
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A list of book releases compiled by Dr. Dobb's to keep you up-to-date on parallel programming and multicore technology.
CUDA by Example: An Introduction to General-Purpose GPU Programming
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Now available in paperback, this book, written by two senior members of the CUDA software platform team, shows programmers how to employ this technology. CUDA is a computing architecture designed to facilitate the development of parallel programs. In conjunction with a comprehensive software platform, the CUDA Architecture enables programmers to draw on the immense power of GPUs when building high-performance applications. GPUs, of course, have long been available for demanding graphics and game applications. CUDA brings this valuable resource to programmers working on applications in other domains, including science, engineering, and finance. No knowledge of graphics programming is required–just the ability to program in a modestly extended version of C.
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Bioinformatics: High Performance Parallel Computer Architectures
edited by Bertil Schmidt
Presenting key information about how to make optimal use of parallel architectures, this book:
- Describes algorithms and tools including pairwise sequence alignment, multiple sequence alignment, BLAST, motif finding, pattern matching, sequence assembly, hidden Markov models, proteomics, and evolutionary tree reconstruction
- Addresses GPGPU technology and the associated massively threaded CUDA programming model
- Reviews FPGA architecture and programming
- Presents several parallel algorithms for computing alignments on the Cell/BE architecture, including linear-space pairwise alignment, syntenic alignment, and spliced alignment
- Covers several effective techniques to fully exploit the computing capability of many-core CUDA-enabled GPUs to accelerate protein sequence database searching, multiple sequence alignment, and motif finding
- Explains a parallel CUDA-based method for correcting sequencing base-pair errors in HTSR data
Because the amount of publicly available sequence data is growing faster than single processor core performance speed, modern bioinformatics tools need to take advantage of parallel computer architectures. Beneficial to anyone actively involved in research and applications, this book helps you to get the most out of these tools and create optimal HPC solutions for bioinformatics.


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In 2011, the 20th anniversary of the community, a series of global-regional meetings of National Coordinators will take place.
The meetings give the opportunity for coordinators and their leadership teams to share their work in the community, initiatives and challenges, discuss translations and other aspects of the Community's life such as meditation with children, inter-faith dialogue, bringing meditation to the poor and marginalised.
The National Co-ordinators' meetings are scheduled:
- March 11-13, N.Europe meeting London;
- April 1-3 Central and S Europe meeting Geneva
- May 15-16 Latin American Meeting, Caracas
- October 14-16 East European Meeting, Poland
- October 28-30 N and Central America and Caribbean Meeting,Jacksonville Florida
- November Latin American Meeting, Brazil
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Anatomy of Injustice: The Unsolved Killings of Journalists in Russia
Paul Klebnikov
"The Golden Hundred: Russia's Richest People of 2004"
By Paul Klebnikov and Kirill Vishnepolsky
Forbes Russia (Originally published in Forbes Russia on May 13, 2004; translated and republished by Forbes.com on July 22, 2004)
While Russian capitalism may be highly dynamic, it can
hardly be called well developed—one symptom of that is the extraordinary
concentration of capital. The combined net worth of Forbes
Russia's "Golden Hundred" is $136.9 billion. In the autumn of 1996, [tycoon
Boris] Berezovsky declared to the Financial Times that he
and six other individuals controlled 50 percent of
While Russian capitalism may be highly dynamic, it can
hardly be called well developed—one symptom of that is the extraordinary
concentration of capital. The combined net worth of Forbes
Russia's "Golden Hundred" is $136.9 billion. In the autumn of 1996, [tycoon
Boris] Berezovsky declared to the Financial Times that he
and six other individuals controlled 50 percent of
When Forbes published its most recent list of the
world's billionaires, in February of this year, the
Inherited wealth
When we calculate the fortunes of the wealthiest Americans—those
included on the "Forbes 400"
list—we consider whether the bulk of an individual's fortune is inherited or
not. The fact that inherited fortunes account for just 20 percent of the "Forbes 400" speaks of the ability of the
Naturally, since
Finally, the members of Forbes
Russia's "Golden Hundred" list are remarkably similar in terms of biography
and personal characteristics. The average member of our list is a 47-year-old
male who was born outside
(Reprinted with permission of Forbes
Anna Politkovskaya
"Designated Terrorists: The Anti-Terrorist Policy of Torture in the
Every day, there are tens of folders in front of me. These are copies of materials from criminal cases against people who are being investigated or have already been jailed for "terrorism."
Why is the word "terrorism" in quotation marks here? Because the overwhelming majority of these people are designated terrorists. By 2006, the practice of designating people as terrorists has not only displaced any and all real anti-terrorist efforts, but has actually started to generate revenge-seekers—potential real terrorists. When prosecutors and courts do not work to carry out the law and punish the guilty but, rather, to fulfill political orders and achieve anti-terrorist statistics pleasing to the Kremlin, such criminal cases turn out like hot cakes from an oven.
The conveyor belt of "organizing full confessions" excels at
providing good statistics on "fighting terrorism" in the
Here is what the mothers of a group of young convicted Chechens wrote to me: "In effect, these penitentiaries have turned into concentration camps for Chechen convicts. They are subjected to ethnic discrimination. They are not allowed out of one-person cells or punitive solitary confinement. The majority, or almost all of them, have been convicted on fabricated charges, with no material evidence. Held in brutal conditions, subjected to humiliation, they are developing a hatred for everything. This is a whole army of young men who will return to us with their lives ruined, their outlooks distorted. …"
To be honest, I fear their hatred. I fear it
because it's like a river that will overflow its banks sooner or later. And it
will be taken out on everyone—not just the investigators who tortured them. The
"designated terrorist" cases are the arena where there's a head-on clash
between two ideological approaches to what is happening in the zone of the
"counter-terrorist operation in the
(Reprinted with permission of Novaya Gazeta and Johnson's Russia List.)
Eduard Markevich
(Originally published in Novy Reft on January 12, 2000; translated for CPJ by Ekaterina Lysova)
I decided to write this article after learning about a search in the apartment of [Alevtina Nikolaevna] Urusova, a sports instructor at the [Reftinsky] town administration.
I had to meet with a lot of people in order to carefully investigate this case and be able to give you an adequate account of what had happened. What I learned has changed my perception of things I have ignored in the past.
One evening the police broke into A.N. Urusova's apartment without a warrant, turned everything in the apartment on its head, and confiscated sports equipment she kept at home. ... A.N. Urusova was called for an interrogation. The interrogation lasted for eight hours, and was accompanied by threats, tears, loss of consciousness, and the arrival of an ambulance.
It turned out that the police were not very interested in A.N. Urusova herself. … And all that ostentatious strictness of the "siloviki" [law enforcement and security agents], and their zealous intent to fight against "those who steal social property," was nothing more than a sham. All that was needed from the sports instructor was to name the names of the persons and list the quantities of the bribes they allegedly passed through her to the head of the town administration, M. Shantarin. They also wanted her to name the places and the dates those alleged transactions took place. Moreover, they demanded that she sign some papers compromising to Shantarin.
To her credit, Alevtina Nikolaevna [Urusova] withstood the pressure and did not succumb to threats (of the "I'll put you in jail!" type) or to the temptation of saving herself from police harassment by confirming false accusations against an innocent man.
According to unofficial sources, the police have been blackmailing M. Shantarin by threatening to put his son in prison on fabricated charges. This is an alarming fact: The police are becoming interested in politics. And not just in Reftinsky. The recent expansion of the "siloviki" into the federal government is noticeable: First, Russians, exhausted by failed reforms, were forced to vote for the political party Unity, headed by [army general] Sergei Shoigu; then, the tendency continued at the executive level when V. Putin—a "silovik" to the bone—became president.
Feeling the support of the federal government, our detectives have raised their heads, striving for power and influence in the local administration.
A police officer does not have much of a
chance of being elected to office—people do not like the police, and that's
that. Particularly here in the Urals—a region for ages used by
No one is allowed to destroy the foundations of democracy in our country, even in a small town, even in the name of some good cause. Those in uniform have always used raw force as their main argument.
But we are not going to stand by, doing nothing, while the police are trampling one of the most valuable achievements of our country—our democracy—before our eyes.
(Reprinted with permission of Novy Reft.)
Yuri Shchekochikhin
"The Three Whales [Furniture Store] Case:
A Judge Threatened, a Prosecutor Dismissed, a Witness Murdered"
(Originally published in Novaya Gazeta on June 2, 2003; translated for CPJ by Ekaterina Lysova)
This is not a story about tables and chairs; this is a different, a completely different story, which points directly to Russia's place in the world, to the kind of country we live in, to the history we are currently writing, to our elected president and parliament, and to our politically appointed government officials.
The Three Whales case is symbolic of our
time! Symbolic for the parliament—its Security Committee dedicated an entire
session to the affair, and the State Duma sent dozens of letters to the Prosecutor
General's Office. Symbolic for
It sounds like a joke! The independent presidential prosecutor
Loskutov has strangely not received a letter from Frank Helmut, the German
criminal police representative in
He doesn't have this letter; it has not arrived, or it has been lost, or it has just disappeared in the corridors of the Prosecutor General's Office. I can give him a copy of the letter, but will it make any difference? And this is not the point! The question is: What is really in the power of our elected president to do? To provide some senior citizen with a telephone line? To utter some pretty sentence in German? To take off in a fighter jet [as a photo op]?
"Who is he, Mr. Putin?" I hardly remember how many times I have heard this question from my foreign colleagues when he suddenly appeared at the top of Russian political power. Three years have elapsed since then. And I still haven't found a clear answer to this question.
Twice I have appealed to the president with personal inquiries
regarding, believe me, important state issues. Twice I have had to repeat the
same phrase: "I understand your desire to create a working team, but it seems
to me not a team but a pack of wolves has been circling around you. And
(Reprinted with permission of Novaya Gazeta.)
Ivan Safronov
"The Bulava Missile Failed"
By Ivan Safronov and Elina Bilevskaya
(Originally published in Kommersant on December 26, 2006; translated for CPJ by Ekaterina Lysova)
Kommersant has learned that the test of the modern intercontinental ballistic missile Bulava, which was launched on Sunday from the Dmitry Donskoi nuclear submarine, was unsuccessful. This is Bulava's third consecutive crash. The problems associated with launching Bulava cast doubts on future plans to supply the nuclear navy with this kind of missile. Bulava was expected to become the main striking force of the Russian navy's strategic nuclear forces in the next decade.
According to Kommersant's
sources, at the end of last week, the Dmitry Donskoi submarine went to sea in
order to launch Bulava. Yesterday, the submarine came back to the base in
Yesterday, Igor Panarin, the press secretary of the Federal Space Agency (responsible for the creation of Bulava), neither confirmed nor denied information about the failed missile launch. He promised Kommersant that "the agency would comment right after the Defense Ministry issues its official statement." However, the Defense Ministry was mute until yesterday evening. The head of the communications department of the Defense Ministry, Sergei Rybakov, told Kommersant then that he "is not commenting on the situation" with Bulava's launch. According to Second Rank Captain Igor Babenko, the deputy head of the Northern Fleet's press service, the responsibility for everything that takes place around the Bulava missile launch lies entirely on the developer—the Moscow Institute of Combustion Engineering. "The military does not have a right to comment on anything related to the tests of this missile until the missile is transferred to the fleet for service," Babenko told Kommersant.
After the failed Bulava launches in September and October 2006,
the testing program was changed. While both tests in the fall were carried out
with the Donskoi submarine under water in the
We will remind you that after three failed attempts to launch the navy's modernized nuclear missile Bark in 1997, the Russian Security Council decided to terminate its development by the Makeev assembly plant. It was decided that work would be transferred to the Moscow Institute of Combustion Engineering, which would have to develop a modern nuclear missile that would then be produced by the Votkin factory in Udmurtiya. The Moscow Institute of Combustion Engineering had previously developed land-based ballistic missiles for the strategic-missile military force.
According to a Kommersant source in the Defense Ministry, an intergovernmental commission was to start an investigation today into the Bulava launch failure. In addition, the source did not deny the possibility that the results of the work of the commission could be examined at a special meeting of the military-industrial commission led by Vice Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov. "The failure casts doubts on carrying out the state military program to equip the Russian navy with the Bulava missile starting in 2007," the source explained.
(Reprinted with permission of Kommersant.)
Maksim Maksimov
"They Beat Their Own and Fear No One"
(Originally published in Gorod on April 5, 2004; translated for CPJ by Ekaterina Lysova)
In the period of one week, the apartment of an investigator with
the Main Department of Investigations [in the St. Petersburg Interior Ministry]
was broken into twice, in both cases by police officers. Strange that this may
be, in both cases, the
Colleagues and bandits
Here is N's account of the events. On February 19, 2004, about half an hour after midnight, unknown men smashed the front door and broke into her apartment. One of them, in response to her question, "What's going on?" aimed a pistol at her stomach and ordered her to "shut up." This event reminded her of an armed assault. Only after a uniformed police officer came through her door did investigator N realize that the men were not criminals, but her colleagues.
N showed her police identification, introduced herself, and asked her uninvited guests to do the same; she also asked them to explain the reason why they broke into her home. But, in response, all she received was a torrent of vulgarities. No one showed her any documents. One of the men said that "the deputy of the Regional Department of Internal Affairs Solovykh is working here," and if she kept complaining, she would be taken to police station No. 76. The investigator once again asked that the men leave her apartment. When they were leaving, one of them kicked her in the stomach.
N then saw the police officers break into a neighboring apartment, which was rented by a Chechen-Azerbaijani family, take the people out on the street—without allowing them to even put their jackets on—and drive them away. The investigator dialed 02 [the emergency phone number] right away. The police team that arrived refused to take down her account of the break-in and only filled out some form.
The same day, N filed an appeal with the city prosecutor, asking him to open a criminal investigation against the police team headed by Solovykh on the charge of illegally breaking into her apartment. But while she was waiting for the appeal's result, the story unfolded in an unexpected way.
Six days later, on February 25, after coming back home from work at 9:30 p.m., the investigator noticed that the lock of her apartment door was broken, the door itself was open, and the lights were on. N found out from a neighbor that this time around, it was a drunken local police officer by the name of Shapovalov who had broken into her home, just an hour before. According to N's neighbors, the officer was looking for something in her apartment, and when he found a file full of documents, he left with them. For some reason, he also took the neighbor's sister and niece away with him.
The investigator dialed 02 again, where she was told that a team from police station No. 76 would soon be dispatched. When N objected, explaining that the officers who first broke into her home worked at none other than police station No.76, the 02 operator on duty rejected her request to send a different police team. Had N not been an investigator, she would have had to make many more calls and explain her story time and again. But since she was one, she first reported what happened directly to the head of her department, and then contacted other appropriate officials in the [Interior Ministry's] Main Department of Investigations.
(Reprinted with permission of Gorod.)
Magomed Yevloyev
"On the Situation in the
(Originally published on the Web site Ingushetiya.ru, on an unknown date, and republished on Ingushetia.org on February 25, 2009; translated for CPJ by Ekaterina Lysova)
The situation in the
Below, I have briefly laid out the salient points, characterizing the current state of affairs in the republic.
Because of the blundering policies of Ingushetia's administration; its insufficient attention to the problems of unemployment, the poor standard of living, and other issues the effect of which has been compounded by pervasive corruption among state officials; and because of the detachment of authorities from the needs of their constituents—the credibility of the local and federal government has dropped to its lowest.
Wahhabism—the radical movement in Islam—has gained popularity among young people, particularly those living in rural areas.
A lot of youths have been joining Wahhabi groups while the regional government passively stands by, doing nothing to prevent the trend. In fact, Wahhabi clubs have been freely and publicly propagating their theories—which are foreign to traditional Islam—in various parts of Ingushetia.
As a result, it has become possible for Chechen rebels to establish military bases and tent camps in the forests of Ingushetia, and be actively joined by Ingushetians who are attracted to the ideas of Wahhabism.
Those were the groups responsible for the attack on power structures and peaceful citizens on the night of June 22, 2004.
Ingushetia's president, Murat Zyazikov, has no authority among the population. The last traces of it—which had only lingered on due to President Vladimir Putin's support for him, a fact Zyazikov has missed no opportunity to point out—vanished following the June 22, 2004, events in Ingushetia, and the terrorist act committed on September 1 in Beslan.
During the armed attack of the rebels on the night of June 21-22, Murat Zyazikov, as the commander-in-chief of the republic, not only did not lead the actions of resisting the rebels, but disappeared somewhere. Most residents of Ingushetia are convinced that he was hiding in the basement of one of his relatives.
The population's discontent peaked with regards to Zyazikov's behavior during the terrorist act in Beslan. The elders heading Ingushetia's main clans—who wanted to go to Beslan—were looking for the president for three days and could not find him; he only reappeared after the school hostage crisis was over.
During his short tenure as
president, Murat Zyazikov has alienated almost all federal officials: the head
of the Supreme Court, the interior minister, the prosecutor of the republic,
the head of the security service, and representatives of the
(Reprinted with permission of Ingushetia.org.)
Natalya Skryl
"Ordinary Extraordinary Meeting"
(Originally published in Nashe Vremya on January 25, 2002; translated for CPJ by Ekaterina Lysova)
Scheduled for 8 a.m. on Sunday, January 20, the Tagmet shareholders' meeting went calmly, as was planned by the stock owners with a controlling share. Everyone but an Alfa-Eco representative, who did not consider the meeting legitimate, was allowed to speak. In addition, the general director, Sergei Bidash, exchanged remarks with the director of the Alfa-Eco metallurgical department, Vadim Kucharin, basically saying: "We respect you, but you don't respect us." The voting showed that the Alfa stake in the company has not increased: The previous power balance has remained in the new board of directors.
In the place of Vladimir Verba, who resigned a month ago, Nikolai Orlov, the general director of the public corporation Priasovsky, was approved as chairman of the board of directors. Thus, the meeting safely reached a "status quo." Only a beefed-up security presence at the entrance [to the plant] pointed to tensions. Since Friday afternoon, armed guards have not let anyone into the building where the meeting was supposed to take place. On Sunday morning, even a court officer who carried an order to cancel the meeting was not allowed into the building.
The main events that led to the resignation of the chairman of board of directors took place in December. It sounds like a detective story.
The first
meeting of the board of directors took place on December 21 on the initiative
of the company Dzhnou Properties Limited, which is considered to be a partner
of Alfa. The agenda of the day was to hold a shareholders' meeting to re-elect
the board of directors. The thing is that Mr. Kazakov, the Dzhnou
representative at Tagmet, resigned after his appointment as the Rostov Region
representative at the Federation Council, and his replacement had to be
approved at the meeting. In addition, Alfa demanded a report on the situation
around the plant. Directors were discussing when and where the next meeting
would be held—in
On that same day, December 21, the
According to Vadim Kucharin, everything that happened afterward falls within the "domain of speculation." On December 26, Vladimir Verba signs a document canceling the upcoming meeting of the board of the directors and then resigns. The minutes taken at the December 21 meeting are allegedly rewritten. Each side explains the reasons that led to the chairman's resignation in its own way.
It should be said that Vladimir Verba … owns about 16 percent of Tagmet's shares, so any of the parties involved cannot be uninterested in trying to draw him to their side. We can only guess what the methods of dealing with the former chairman have been.
(Reprinted with permission of Nashe Vremya.)
Vagif Kochetkov
"Protek: The Benefactor Forced Upon Us"
(Originally published in Molodoi Kommunar on June 17, 2005; translated for CPJ by Ekaterina Lysova)
Doctors advise that sick,
low-income people stock up on healing herbs for
self-medication.Well, the times are good for this. To rely on the state, which
is supposed to provide free medications, is not recommended to
"A protection racket" for a closed company
There is only one "benefactor" on
our market, which has been authorized to provide medication to those citizens
who have the right to get state social benefits: the closed joint-stock company
The Moscow-based Protek did not
appear in the
Complete losses
Here are the opinions of those directly dealing with the implementation of Law No. 122 on the ground. Among them are the doctors and heads of the pharmacies who "lucked out" to be Protek partners.
"We have borne total losses," says E. Koshar, head of the Bogoroditsk central district pharmacy. "The contract forced upon us by Protek does not benefit us. We provided [Protek] with offices as well as with our specialists who have done additional work without being paid. Protek hasn't even paid for what we have spent on them from our own budget."
Here I need
to clarify. As a matter of fact, according to Law No. 122, the prescriptions
for low-income patients are issued in a new way and in compliance with the
government-approved list of medications. This list contains 2,000 items and
each item has its own code. A company chosen by the government theoretically
should itself manage the process of prescribing medicines, providing services
in the pharmacy, and paying the Medical Insurance Fund. But in
"Workers are quitting their jobs," complains L. Kashirina, the director of the state-owned company Shchekinskaya. "Our pharmacy bears losses. Protek's leadership is confusing everybody. Until recently, we hoped for good relations with this company, but their contract hurts us. These so-called partners don't even want to hear us out."
(Reprinted with permission of Molodoi Kommunar.)
Valery Ivanov
(Under the pen name Gamlet Oganesyants)
"This Is How It Happened"
(Originally published in Tolyattinskoye Obozreniye, in April 2000; translated for CPJ by Ekaterina Lysova)
It might sound strange, but it is much more difficult to explain to members of the law enforcement agencies—rather than to the criminals—that freedom of speech is not just a declared right in the Constitution, but a reality for us who live in Togliatti. In order to prove this, we had to endure a criminal investigation, which the Federal Security Service (FSB) opened against us because of an article we published. The FSB charged us with an alleged disclosure of state secrets.
This happened in the spring of 1999. By that time, we had become
pretty strong as a publication. People trusted us, and we had added an extra section to the paper called "Tolyattinskoye Obozreniye in Every Home." By
that time, we had become able to influence public opinion. Elections were
coming up. Because we were absolutely independent, many politicians viewed us
as a real threat. And this was because none of them could predict how we would
behave during the campaign. I believe that those fears were the reasons for the
launching of a criminal case against us. So, the story began when the
surveillance department of the
If we hadn't published the article about
the fires, no one would have known anything. Our publication led to several
inspections conducted by the Interior Ministry. Later we learned that the
Interior Minister, who had come for a visit to
Well, it looks like someone perceived his statement as a call to action. A criminal case for the alleged disclosure of state secrets was opened against us. Here, we were confronted with the FSB machine, and we came out of this confrontation with deep respect for this agency. Since the FSB has been in the shadows, we couldn't possibly imagine that it had managed to hold on to its former habits and skills so well. But when FSB agents began calling us in for interrogations, when we learned that almost all of us had been under a 24-hour surveillance (we should point out that the FSB did not even try to hide this, but, instead, was blatant about it), when the chance of being imprisoned became real, when we saw our sources being uncovered, when we were interrogated about our family relations dating almost back to the October Revolution, and when agents demanded that we identify our sources of information—we realized that the FSB had managed to preserve its professional skills.
Having said that, I think that low-ranking FSB members did not know that they were executing someone's political orders; they were simply working diligently. But why? If they were working to punish some criminals, we could just thank them for a job well done. But they were working against a newspaper that had committed no crime and was simply trying to honestly inform its readers about what was going on in their city.
Despite enormous pressure, none of us at Tolyattinskoye Obozreniye gave away our sources … We managed to attract the support of some members of parliament, as well as the attention of regional and federal media who became interested in our case and came to our aid. We also carried out our own investigation into the activities of FSB officials, the results of which could have led to a loud scandal. ...
As a result, the regional prosecutor's office admitted that we had committed no crime and closed the case against us. So, yet again, we defended our press freedom and the right of citizens to receive accurate information. Incidentally, we would have to do that many times over.
(Reprinted with permission of Tolyattinskoye Obozreniye.)
Aleksei Sidorov
"The Black Gold of the Criminals
and State Officials"
(Originally published in Tolyattinskoye Obozreniye, on December 20, 2001; translated for CPJ by Ekaterina Lysova)
Let us begin with the fact that in
Thus, during the first quarter of 2001, the biggest passenger transportation company in the city, ATP-1, would buy gasoline No. 76 for the price of 7 rubles and 30 kopeks. It means that ATP-1 would pay one ruble more for the same one liter of gasoline than the citizens would. As a result of this "generosity," ATP-1 lost 9.8 million rubles. But then a miracle happened right after a revision was executed by the financial department of the mayor's office. In particular—the cost of one liter of gasoline went down by two rubles. By the way, we should point out that the individual responsible for getting and distributing gasoline at ATP-1 is the son of the company's director. Dad buys and the son distributes. The revision uncovered a lot of violations in the regulations for storing and distributing gasoline. So many violations have been identified that dad even had to formally scold his son.
Are you paying the criminals every time you purchase a
bus ticket?
Are you paying the criminals every time you purchase a bus ticket?
Everyone knows that organized crime groups (OPG) control the "gasoline business" of municipal institutions. In theory, some ATP directors get to know the criminals in the following way: A contract is signed by companies controlled by the OPG; then if anyone else offers a better deal regarding gasoline or spare parts, the offer is rejected. In case an ATP director dares to break the "working" relationship with the criminals, he would find himself in a hospital very soon.
On February 8, 2000, ATP-2 director Nikolai Konyayev was attacked. Unidentified assailants beat him up with iron rods right in the entrance of his apartment building. According to investigators, Konyayev had refused to accept an offer from one of those groups to only receive gasoline and spares from them.
On November 22, 2001, Aleksandr Chursin, the head of the department responsible for the city's alternative means of transportation at the mayor's office, was attacked as well. Based on what we managed to find out about the investigation of this case, the attack was related to Chursin's professional activities. As a matter of fact, most of the means of alternative transportation in the city [mini-buses] have been controlled by organized crime groups. Not until recently did the mayor's office try to regulate these alternative means of transportation. Consequently, those who ran the mini-buses practically did not pay taxes or issue passengers tickets (that is, they pocketed the ticket money), so the local budget did not receive any money from them. While the routes worked by the alternative mini-buses are the busiest and, therefore, the most profitable, the number of municipal buses on those same routes has been declining. The mayor's office recently decided to get involved and put things back in order. Chursin was given the task. But soon after he started working on a reform, unidentified attackers came to him with iron rods.
These cases are not isolated.
(Reprinted with permission of Tolyattinskoye Obozreniye.)
Igor Domnikov
(Originally published in Novaya Gazeta on February 21, 2000; translated for CPJ by Ekaterina Lysova)
By the way, we have touched upon a
name among the servants of the Komsomol that is most unloved by me—Dorovskoi,
who is the deputy governor of economics. When you drive through the [
We should say that even the powerful Dorovskoi sometimes makes
childish mistakes. But no one either reprimands him or points this out to him.
For example, he authorized an ice cream factory, "as an exemption," to sell its
products from May to September on ice cream stands without cash registers "with
the goal of improving customer service." Even those who don't know a lot about
trade in
Those people may be even more outraged when they find out that this authorization is fake, issued under an invalid number. But we shall reassure the skeptics: Nothing bad will happen to Dorovskoi. Believe me, he has been in even thicker situations, made even bigger mistakes, but he still walks free.
I would very much like to make an upset face and demand that the
Prosecutor General help his
Unfortunately, my storytelling gift is insufficient to convey the scope with which this sort of barter is practiced in the region. All this inedible mash of figures, names, and orders—it is not appropriate for the newspaper.
The system in its essence is
simple. The businesses make money but do not pay taxes; they profit by pushing
either their own products on the market, or some farm produce they bought at
low prices. Sometimes things are head-on: The budget credits all debt, though
much of it stays unpaid. It is not that interesting to dig inside this mess. I
am just going to say that one-third of
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Relentless back pain almost sidelined the celebrity chef's career. That was until he lost 30 pounds and began turning "downfall dishes" like lasagna into a dieter's dream.
If you spend a day with Chef Rocco DiSpirito, you'd better wear running gear. At any moment, you might find him perfecting recipes for a new cookbook, filming segments for The Dr. Oz Show or Now Eat This! With Rocco DiSpirito, or volunteering to cook and deliver meals for charities like the Food Bank For New York City. And when he isn't putting his culinary skills to work, the Queens, NY, native can usually be found biking up to 40 miles around Manhattan's west side.
But there was a time when the 46-year-old chef struggled to simply get up in the morning. In his mid-30s, just as Rocco's career started sizzling—he had opened two acclaimed New York City restaurants and been voted "Most Exciting Young Chef" by Gourmet magazine—his on-and-off lower back pain intensified. Although Rocco was no stranger to back problems (he had been dealing with scoliosis for decades), this bout was nearly unbearable. It involved occasional spasms of "shocking, radiating, take-your-breath-away kind of pain where all you can do is crawl around."
As Rocco discovered, back pain is notoriously hard to treat, and for most of his life he was told to live with it. He was also advised to spend less time on his feet to take pressure off the spine. But with his career taking off, that was not an option for the ambitious chef. X-rays later revealed that Rocco had compressed disks in his lower back along with scoliosis. After some trial and error, Rocco found relief with chiropractic treatment. He also wore orthotics to balance his stance and began stretching, cycling and doing light resistance training.
Around the same time, Rocco's primary care doctor diagnosed him with high cholesterol and high blood pressure. "It just helped cement in my mind that now was the time to take it into high gear." After completing that first charity triathlon in 2006—where he proudly came in last!—Rocco continued training for other events. But as a food lover, Rocco refused to live on protein shakes, as many of his competitors did.
His solution: make his favorite dishes diet-friendly by pumping up the protein and "good carbs" (such as whole grains) while reducing the fat and "bad carbs" (such as white pasta).
The impressive result: Rocco shed over 30 pounds and 12% of his body fat, brought his cholesterol and blood pressure back to normal and competed in the Ironman 70.3 triathlon (that's 1.1 miles of swimming, 56 miles of cycling and 13.1 miles of running).
Today, Rocco is sharing a few recipe makeover tricks from his best-selling Now Eat This! series of cookbooks. Below is a sampling of Rocco's easy food swaps.
"My favorite food swaps"
Swap this: Sour cream
For that: A blend of fat-free cottage cheese and lemon juice
Save: 328 calories per cup
Swap this: Bread crumbs
For that: Puffed brown rice (in meatballs, meat loaf and burger mixes)
Save: 360 calories per cup
Swap this: Deep-frying flash frying
For that: First, cook your food—chicken, fish, veggies—in the microwave. Once this"heavy lifting" is done, simply bread as usual (see bread crumbs swap above) and flash fry for a few seconds to create a crispy outer coating
Save: 270 calories per portion


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From a broadcast Churchill made from the White House on his visit to FDR in December 1941 a few weeks after Pearl Harbor was attacked:
Let the children play and have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us, resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to live in a free and decent world.
And so, in God's mercy, a happy Christmas to you all.


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Merger Or Co-Op? That Is The Question (Part II)
We made an attempt at understanding the need for sports co-ops in some high schools in last week's column. The diminishing numbers of students and the loss of population in our smaller communities have made it necessary for towns to get together and discuss mergers or co-ops.
Just a few of the questions people from both communities would ask are:
Who pays for travel to and from practices? How will insurance coverage be obtained? How will gate receipts be divided? Where will home games be played.
Are the training rules for both schools comparable? Are academic standards the same? How is coaching staff hired and who pays them? Who pays referees?
These are just a few of the questions likely to be addressed at merger/co-op meetings. There are many more not listed here but are on the application for co-op form put out by the MHSA.
But now, moving on to the second most important (or so it seems to this writer) issue in a merger or co-op. The academic side of the program.
Let's just say that School A has a better science teacher than School B. Can that teacher then travel to School B to teach? Or let's say School B has a better world history teacher than school A. Can that history teacher travel to school A and teach?
I think this is a workable plan but needs to get the attention of someone far smarter that I to put it all together. It would most likely take until the beginning of next year's school session (2014) to iron out everything and reach an amicable agreement.
It will take a panel from both schools meeting at least twice a week. The school board from both schools would, necessarily, be involved as well as a couple parents from each town.
There would have to be a third party arbitrator (umpire) at every meeting.
There would have to be an attorney at every meeting.
Someone should be delegated to visit some of the other schools that have successfully co-oped or merged to see how they fared. What were the major stumbling blocks and how were they overcome? How is the best way to deal with state issues, rules and regulations?
Folks are afraid of losing their school because in most of these smaller communities the school is the major employer and if the school goes so does the community.
If two communities go into this thing with true dedication and with the best interests of the school children and young adults in mind, that's what it would take. It has been done elsewhere and could be done again here.
To use a trite "ism" of some sort, "it's a win- win situation." Schools stay open and there is just one sports program.
That's it for now folks. Thanks for listening.


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Campilongo After Dark
Jim Campilongo Trio feat. Chris Morrissey, Josh Dion (10:00), Luca Benedetti (9:00)
Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2
196 Allen St.
New York, NY, 10002
Doors 8:30 PM / Show 9:00 PM
This event is 21 and over
Jim Campilongo
Billboard Magazine has called Jim Campilongo "an American treasure" while The New Yorker raved that "few guitarists capture the nuances as well as Campilongo does." Those accolades have deservedly been earned over the course of a career that now sees Campilongo celebrating the release of his tenth album of original material, Dream Dictionary, on iTunes, Amazon and fine record stores everywhere on January 21, 2014.
The prolific Bammie-winner Campilongo has been a formidable presence as a guest on dozens of recordings by other artists as well, including a contribution to Cake's million-selling Prolonging the Magic to (most recently) providing lead guitar for Martha Wainwright, Teddy Thompson and the Little Willies, Campilongo's band with Norah Jones. He's performed or recorded alongside JJ Cale, Nels Cline, Pete Townsend, Bright Eyes, Burning Spear, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings and Peter Rowan to name a few.
Campilongo has also made repeat appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman, Conan, Jools Holland and Abbey Road Sessions (both BBC) and has been interviewed on many major radio shows.
Additionally, Campilongo is a published guitar teacher and contributing editor to Guitar Player Magazine. His virtuosity and originality has inspired a generation of guitar players and his songwriting, which draws from blues, country, jazz and rock, boasts a sensitivity and wit that has also earned him a broad fan base most instrumental guitarist never enjoy.
In 2012 Fender Guitars bestowed Jim the honor of the Campilongo Signature Telecaster, a high quality instrument made by Fender's elite Custom Shop.
General Admission || Please note, there is a one drink minimum for this show (standing and bar stools) and two drink minimum at tables. Limited seating is available on a first come first served basis.
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Portions of Becks Run Road to close to install new water main
July 26, 2011
Pennsylvania American Water is beginning a project that will install approximately 2,900 feet of new 42 inch main along Becks Run as part of its Becks Run Pumping Station and Hays Mine Treatment Plant improvement project.
The new main installation is among Pennsylvania American Water's approximately $101 million upgrades to its local water treatment facilities and will be done by the company's project partner, Kokosing Construction.
"We are asking motorists and customers to be patient as we continue to improve service and water quality for our greater Pittsburgh area customers," said Jay Lucas, Pennsylvania American Water project manager.
For the main installation project, several lanes of Becks Run Road will be closed to traffic between Carson Street (State Road 837) and Bajo Street began on Tuesday, July 26 at 7 a.m. Traffic on Becks Run Road has been reduced to a single alternating lane for motorists. Arrow boards and signs are in place throughout the work zone to alert motorists of the lane closures.
Law enforcement will be on hand to monitor traffic flow. The affected lanes are scheduled to reopen to motorists in late September 2011. To help ensure the safety of the construction workers as well as the traveling public, motorists should remain alert, reduce their speed and watch for stopped traffic while passing through the work zone.
Crews will be working around the clock Monday through Friday. The company expects to complete the water main upgrades, including final paving restoration, by late September, weather permitting.
For more information about the closures, or other portions of this project, customers can contact Kokosing's customer service at 1-877-856-3030.