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It's funny what gets you going when you really like gardening. My Master Gardener buddy, Gregory, swears by manure for his gardens. I've never seen his gardens, but he told me that three of the pictures in the Local Food, Farms & Jobs: Growing the Illinois Economy report that was presented to the Illinois General Assembly and later passed were of some of his community gardens.
A couple of days ago he called me to remind me of a meeting that was scheduled (which I had forgot about). It was held at one of the neighborhood arts centers. They have free art classes for the kiddies, which is really nice. I thought the meeting went well. It always makes me feel good to talk garden.
One of the ladies was giving an update on her garden. She said they had the low tunnel all constructed and they were just waiting for the manure. As I understand it, a low tunnel (in this case it can be called a hot bed too) is where you dig a hole in the ground where you want to plant. You put in X amount of inches of fresh manure. I think she mentioned 18 inches. On top of that you put a layer of soil. Then you can plant into the soil. The heat generated from the decomposing horse manure rises and gives bottom heat to the growing area.
Near the end of the meeting Gregory mentioned he had a source for the manure but he needed a truck. Another one of the ladies said she had a Suburban and she'd help, she just wanted reimbursement for gas. Gregory jumped on the opportunity. Networking at its finest.
Now, I'm thinking horse manure, free composting worms, free worm casts, free organic garden fertilizer. So, I ask if I can follow them to the farm. Between the meeting ending, changing clothes and getting to the farm the sun had gone down. So, here we are five folks on a farm shoveling sh*t in the beam of headlights and talking garden. It was surreal.
To justify my obsessive avid pursuit of all things gardening, manure is a useful commodity.
- Farmers have been using it for centuries as an organic fertilizer
- Manure is being used as an alternative energy source
- There are plans in the works in the Netherlands to run a biomass power plant using only the methane gas given off by poultry poo
- Cow poo is being used to produce natural gas in California
- You can use chicken poo to run your car
- You can use manure to make 10 cent per gallon gasoline
Methane gas (which is produced as the manure decomposes) is a leading cause of global warming. We gardeners can do our part one Bag-O-Sh*t at a time.
Happy Gardening!!!!
p.s.: Not trying to beat anybody to the punch, but here's a picture for you, Granny, of my borage. It's still pretty small.
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To help you determine who to elect in the upcoming election for the 74th Assembly District, here is a quiz titled, "Who said it: Assemblyman Allan Mansoor or Newport Beach Councilwoman Leslie Daigle?"
Answers appear at the end of the quiz.
1.) "I invite you to join my campaign to begin the process of returning both courage and imagination to our disgraceful state Legislature."
2.) "When the highest-taxed state in the country cannot fund education, there is a spending problem."
3.) "Voters can't understand how our public education system — once the best in the nation — is a disgrace, despite having the highest-paid teachers in the country and education getting more than half of our general fund budget."


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PHOTOS - The Man Behind the Famous Photos - John Hinde - Gallery Slideshow
Red heads, donkeys, creel carts and freshly cut turf - there's only one place on earth you could be, Ireland.
This week tributes are being paid in Connemara to the man known as Paddy 'Red' Lydon, the red headed boy immortalized forever in an iconic John Hinde postcard taken in the west of Ireland in the early 1960's.
According to the Irish Times, Lydon, who was photographed collecting turf with his younger sister Mary and a donkey and cart half a century ago, died in Galway this week aged 65.
Millions of visitors have reportedly been drawn to Ireland from the strength of Hinde's 1960's depictions of everyday peasantry working an unspoiled landscape.
Hinde went on to sell millions of his 'Views of Ireland' which were printed in his factory in Cabinteely, County Dublin. But Paddy Lydon often joked to friends that he was paid just half a crown for his modeling work.
The Somerset-born photographer was often accused of contriving images, many of which were later critically dismissed as the 'apogee of kitsch.'
But Lydon's family recalls that a genuine scene was captured. Both Lydon and his sister Mary were out collecting turf to fill their donkey's creels when Hinde came across them.
'All he asked them to do was to go home and change their clothes,' first cousin Pat Lydon told The Irish Times 'Paddy would joke that his father, Christy, had cut the turf and had made everything in it – the kids, the creels – except for the ass!'
Although the card became world famous, the red-haired boy, one of five siblings, stayed at home and never married. His sister Mary moved to England. Their mother was reportedly fatally injured in a road incident in the mid-1970's, and their father died in 1979.
Paddy was a 'quiet man,' with 'close friends,' who would be missed in the locality, one local said.
Hinde sold his postcard business in 1972 and in 1993 his artistic reputation was 'rehabilitated' when an exhibition of his imagery was staged by the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
Interviewed by The Irish Times, Hinde rejected the patronizing 'kitsch' label.
'I photographed donkeys and cottages simply because you can't imagine a Connemara bog without a donkey walking across with panniers filled with peat,' he said.
'It's part, of the landscape the same way the Irish cottage is like a living thing which grew out of the ground. It's true that in some cases my images were doctored and distorted, but if you photographed a beautiful scene off the west coast of Ireland, it would come out as practically monochrome, so we set out to create visually the impression you'd thought you'd had.'
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It is the silk slip from Knitting Lingerie Style! I finished it a long time ago and finally got the pictures too. actually made two since.
It's a great way to use your last shin of leftover yarn! The cleavage is kind of revealing and I didn't follow through all the instructions in the pattern, really had to make the cups larger (maybe because of the yarn), also one should be careful with the lace placement, those holes in the knit might end up where you don't want them. So instead of knitting 4 repeats of the lace pattern, I've only made 3 but after knitting some more simple lines. I also used a how to from BurdaStyle for sewing the darts: http://www.burdastyle.com/howtos/show/867
I've made a narrow rolled hem at the bottom and it has hooks and eyes in the back slit for closure.
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Sep 11, 2008, 07.21 AMby celinaj
OMG! I knitted that pattern too this summer! I'm just searching for the matching fabric to finish the slip! Great choice of colours. I agree totally, this pattern is a wonderful way to use leftover yarn, I had will of knitting two or three with different yarns…
Sep 11, 2008, 12.20 AMby ghainskom
Beautifully sexy!
Sep 10, 2008, 01.27 PMby mirela
Thanks Roberta! I love the fabric!
Sep 10, 2008, 01.26 PMby droberta
Mirela, I am so happy you did something nice from this fabric Very cute!
Sep 10, 2008, 01.13 PMby smvphotography
the shirt looks perfect! i love the combination of the yarn and the fabric and the print and the lace. great job!
Sep 10, 2008, 12.58 PMby marinahan
Adorable and I love the print!!!!
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The ampersand is such a sweet symbol of togetherness and unity. This Mar Vista wedding by Flory Photo incorporated it so nicely into their design and decor from the awesome, modern ceremony programs to the fun, quirky centerpieces. The little playful touches bring an element of whimsy to this country club affair. Click here to see the entire event in the full gallery!
We also have this really sweet video of these two lovebirds from Grey Speck!
Click here to see the entire image gallery!
From the Bride... Our wedding was inspired by US. I wanted people to walk away and remember our day not just as something pretty, but something that was beautifully and uniquely us, Sam & Jensine, which is where I fell madly in love with the Ampersand. This symbol of togetherness really inspired me to represent our relationship in a way where our family and friends would have a great time. We used wire ampersands designed by Michaela at L'alfabeto on Etsy as centerpieces, and you could see traces of the ampersand on our card boxes, programs, and even the photobooth! I had been intensely studying wedding and decorating blogs for years before I even started dating, so I already had lots of ideas, color schemes, and inspiration boards floating in my head. It was all a matter of putting in the love and making it come alive!
We're immensely blessed to be surrounded and loved by the dearest people who are not only the funniest, craziest, most loving friends & fams on the planet but they are ridiculously and awesomely talented. While Sam & I planned the majority of the wedding, we handed off the love child to my dear friend, Jamie, for day-of coordination. Sam & I designed, printed, and assembled all the paper goods with particular love to friend and photographer, Nathan Kwok, for help with the invitation photos. The bouquets and boutonnieres were crafted by a wonderful local florist especially close to our hearts. Jean from 4th St. Flowers in Berkeley has been helping Sam create beautifully unique bouquets for me during our college years. Grace at Seko's Chair Covers was extremely helpful in helping us get chair covers. They are the best deal around! And we owe the biggest, warmest thank you to our musically gifted friends who made my dreams a reality. I told them what I wanted, and they arranged and coordinated everything. The girls walked down to Coldplay's "Fix You," while I walked down to Bruno Mars' "Just The Way You Are." It was so special! And how can I forget Daniel Chae of Grey Speck for the amazingly gorgeous video of our special day. Words won't do it justice. I fall in love all over again!
We DIY'd anything we could get our hands on. Everything from the save the date, invitations, and website to the programs, place cards, seating chart corkboards, guest book, ceremony decor, family boutonnieres and rose centerpieces, everything had a little piece of us, which is exactly the way we wanted it. For example, while we were "just friends," we went bowling almost every week; and I wanted guests to remember that, so I designed guest cards using a bowling score sheet template for guests to sign in. And we also used old root beer bottles on the guestbook table to look like bowling pins. The seating chart corkboards also had mini movie posters of movies and tv shows we watched together, all the way from friendship, dating, to engagement.
My favorite moment was definitely the biggest surprise to me. I originally had the idea to walk down the aisle to an a capella version of "Just The Way You Are" by Bruno Mars sung by our friends, but Sam surprised me by busting out a mic of his own and singing to me as I came down the aisle. I was ready to burst into tears! It was just really wonderful seeing all of our friends and family together, and the night ended perfectly with a nonstop dance party, just the way we like it. It was awesome. I randomly burst out in laughter when I remember that night. Thank you to everyone who got up on their feet and down on the dance floor!
To other brides swamped with decisions, decisions, decisions, remember that this is one day to start many, many more days of happiness, growth, and love. And even though this is the BIG day, the day you've been dreaming of for forever, don't forget to take time to love those around you and be loved. You will love your wedding day no matter what!
The biggest and deepest thank you I could possibly muster goes out to Joel and Cara. Thank you for capturing this day for us so that we could remember it forever. And thank you for helping us throughout the day, keeping us calm, and helping us carry on! THANK YOU!
Wedding Photography: Flory Photo / Wedding Ceremony Location: Skyline Church / Wedding Reception Location: Mira Vista Golf & Country Club / Wedding Gown: Nicole Miller / Bride's Shoes: Steve Madden / Groom & Groomsmen Attire: Selix / Bridesmaid Dresses & Hair Accessories: J.Crew / Event Design & Coordination: The Bride & Groom / Day of Coordination: Jamie, Friend of the Bride / Wedding Invitations & Paper Goods: The Bride & Groom (Design) + Nathan Kwok (Photos) / Bouquets & Boutonnieres: Jean of 4th Street Flowers, Berkeley, CA / Chair Covers: Grace at Seko's Chair Covers / Music: Friends of the Bride & Groom / Cinematography: Daniel Chae of Grey Speck / Wire Ampersands: Michaela of L'Alfabeto


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I took two of the three AAA batteries from the EOS yesterday to use in an appliance remote control I had just brought back from the dead. I bought replacement batteries today and when I was about to install them I was utterly horrified to see the lone AAA inside shrouded in white greenish ectoplasm. I quickly removed and threw it away. Cleaned the battery case with tissue and used isopropanol soaked Q-tips to remove the gunk from the nooks. Installed fresh batteries. The headlamp immediately lit up as I put the last battery in. That shouldn't happen and was the first omen that not everything is well. Then when I switched off the lamp it magically switched back on again at full brightness a couple of seconds later. Oh no! It's possessed! And it kept turning back on whenever I switched it. And so exorcism was called for.
To my my initial consternation I discovered that the battery case was held down not by what I thought were torx screws but by heat stakes. I actually tried to carve the heads of the stakes off using the torx screwdriver. No dice. Had to go to the drill press and drill them out, which turned out to be painless--for me that is.
I could see that the chemical spill had reached the circuit board, particularly the ground (negative power supply) solder joint. I proceeded to clean the board with cotton and alcohol. After I was satisfied I installed the batteries. Uh oh. The lamp turned on automatically again. And after switching it off, it switched itself back on.
I suspected that the battery goo must have shorted out some of the vias and/or solder joints on the other side of the board. And I now had no choice--other than resigning myself to removing the batteries every time I'm done with the lamp--but to uncouple the board from the battery case. That meant desoldering the two battery terminals and gouging the four heat stakes locking the board to the case.
I actually thought there were only two heat stakes--yes, my eyesight is really that poor. And that's the reason I had a hard time prying the board off the case. Good thing I didn't inadvertently snap the board or break any tracks.
Turning the board over I immediately noticed that part of the solder mask on the ground trace had been eaten away. Alkaline battery chemical is really nasty stuff! I lost no time and quickly cleaned the board with alcohol.
To test the board I used the 3.3V output of my ATX power supply. Homemade cables with banana plugs on one end and alligator clips on the other conveniently routed power to the board without having to solder any wires. Moment of truth. I switched on the power supply. The lamp didn't turn on! Good sign. I then turned the lamp on and then off. 2 seconds ... 3 sec .. 4 ... 5 ... The headlamp's no longer possessed! You should've heard me singing and doing a jig.
With anxiety level and blood pressure back to normal it was then that I started taking pictures. So all the photos below are after the clean up. I now kind of regret I don't have shots of the ectoplasm-covered battery while it was still in the battery case. Would've been a great pièce de résistance for this horror story.
That's an Opulent Rebel Star 1-watt white LED
on its own star pcb. Green board contains all the drive circuitry.
Round black cylinder on the left is an inductor. Black square glob on
the right is the microcontroller.
White rectangular thing on the top right is the momentary contact switch.
Solder mask partially dissolved by the
horrible stuff that leaked out of the alkaline AAA battery. The gold
flashing surely prevented the copper from being attacked. The offending battery chemical spill bridged
the cluster of three vias and the ground throughhole solder
Another angle of the same. All that glitters is gold.
Who's Azoteq?
The holes snapped into four studs on the battery case
The heat stakes are on the four crosses. The LED lens sits on the four studs close to the center.


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Sergio "Yeyo" Thompson (29-3, 26KOs), fresh from his win over Ricardo Alvarez for the WBC International lightweight title on March 8th, will return on August 2 in Chetumal against Adones Aguelo (21-9-2, 13KOs) in a WBC super featherweight eliminator for the right to face full World Boxing Council (WBC) champion Takashi Miura of Japan. Cancun Boxing will promote the card.
In the co-feature, former WBC super bantamweight champion Victor "Viking" Terrazas (37-3-1, 21 KO's) will face Jesus "Chito" Rios (29-5-1, 23 KO's) in a ten round contest. And Silverio "Chamaco" Ortiz (30-14-0, 14 KO's) takes on Fernando "Hurricane" Castaneda (21-8-0, 14 KO's).


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Total Defense is a global leader in malware detection and anti-crimeware solutions. Over 50,000 businesses across a wide spectrum of industries have deployed the Company's solutions, including some of the most sophisticated buyers of security technology worldwide, and over four million consumers worldwide use Total Defense's products.
The Company's solutions include anti-malware, anti-virus, parental controls, intrusion prevention, mobile security, online back-up and PC optimization. Total Defense is a former business of CA Technologies, one of the largest software companies in the world, and has operations in New York, California, Europe and Asia.
Info Security PG: What are the incentives for enterprises to migrate to a cloud-based security solution? And how can you police your data if you don't know where it's stored?
Bradley Anstis: There are many reasons that organizations should consider moving to cloud-based security solutions, here we will consider three. The first is a security best practice, detect the incoming threat as early as possible, in this case up in the cloud before it gets even to your network perimeter, and doing this with Web traffic (responsible for over 90% of all malware infections) as well as Email covers the vast majority of inbound threats. The next consideration is a straight TCO calculation where cloud-based security services are easily demonstrating 30-50% TCO savings, not only upfront but also over an extended period of time, coupled with superior ROI savings these equate well into any budget. Finally we have the advantage of a cloud based platform being able to offer fully consolidated sets of security solutions, in the case of Total Defense for Business, we offer Web, Email and Endpoint security through a single platform, single console, single policy engine, single reporting engine. The coverage of these three services covers all the threat vectors capable of being used to infect an organization with malware. Offering these three together in the same platform eliminates the security gaps between point products that attackers routinely use, also dramatically reduces administration time and sets the organization up for a future correlated security strategy.
In terms of policing your data and the concerns around data security, the cloud security providers are well experienced at not only being highly secure but also allowing for different organizations policy and regional legislation requirements, this is typically the biggest concern of organizations.
About Bradley Anstis
Bradley is a leading authority on the topic of SaaS delivered security solutions as well as Internet threats and cybercrime; he speaks at numerous security conferences around the world and is extensively covered in the press. He is a 20 year veteran of the IT industry. Previously Bradley ran technical strategy at M86 Security, was VP of Products at Marshal and also held various technical management positions with Protocom Development Systems and Citrix in Asia Pacific.
Info Security PG: Why are traditional approaches to security no longer adequate for organizations?
Bradley Anstis: The traditional approach to security was architected around defending the perimeter where all your users and data to be protected where within the corporate network, which you then defended at the perimeter from external attack. Today with the growth and adoption of cloud computing that results in more and more corporate data living outside the organization as well as the growing mobility of the work force is causing network de-perimeterization where initially the on-premise gateway controls are complimented but eventually replaced by cloud-based solutions that are able to provide every user 100% of the protection no matter their location.
Info Security PG: Why has it taken the industry so long to create a solution that integrates endpoint, web and email security?
Bradley Anstis: This is a good question, and in our case it was the merging of a cloud-based Web & Email service with an Endpoint AV company that triggered this new product development. There are other Vendors offering all three services but they are still essentially completely separate point solutions and so miss out on all the security and TCO advantages of a fully integrated platform.
Info Security PG: How can CSOs overcome the security concerns around adopting cloud computing?
Bradley Anstis: CSO's should very carefully consider the security concerns when looking to adopt cloud based computing in any form not just cloud-based security services. With security services, especially Web & Email services you are relying on those service to provide a clean feed of web & email traffic, stopping all the attacks in the cloud before they get to your perimeter. But to function those services will need corporate information around users and the groups they belong to, they will hold usage or logging data from which they will create reports, retain quarantined email for a period of time and also possibly store email for longer periods of time in an email archive.
CSO's need to fully understand the extent of the data being stored, how it is being stored and the controls put in place to secure that data. They then need to consider how valuable that data is and what is the risk to the organization should that data be compromised in some way. For organizations operating in more than one legal jurisdiction you could also have the added complication of meeting the different legal requirements each jurisdiction requires, not only for data storage but also possibly the processing of data, for example some countries mandate that email needs to be scanning and processed within country.
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Torchlight shining light over a neglected genreDecember 27, 2009 at 08:52 | Posted in games, indie, RPG, software, Steam | Leave a comment
Since everyone and their dog seems to have been talking about Torchlight at some point or another, I finally caved in to the peer pressure and managed to snag it when Steam put it up on their holiday sale.
If this game's attention somehow has eluded you, let me give you a short introduction: Torchlight is a point-and-click RPG action game where you explore endless dungeons, kill monsters and get loot. Make no mistake, this is about as close to Diablo you can get without getting sued for copyright infringement. It's quite understandable, seeing how several of the senior staff from said Blizzard franchise have moved over to Runic Games to create this.
I'm not going into too detail about this game as many already have already put up various reviews and thoughts on this game and how it plays, so I'll just post some thoughts that have struck me personally as I've played through the game.
The first one is of course how easy on the eyes the game is. The vibrant colour doesn't exactly instil the gloomy setting Diablo is known for if that's your thing, but it does make the hacking and slashing more light-hearted and fun. Fun in the way only gratuitous amounts of vibrantly coloured blood after destroying several of your weaker enemies can imbue.
There's no real plot to speak of though. There's the mention of ember several time, the mysterious material known both for it harmful energies as well as it's potent properties, and the very reason for building a small mining village on top of the dungeon. But this game doesn't really need a story other than to give you a reason to slay a ridiculous amount of monsters.
One of my favourite parts about this game is how easy it is to pick up, play for a short while and then put down again. When you log back on to your character you'll be exactly where you left, making this game ideal for when you need a quick fix. The streamlined experience of the game also makes sure that you'll feel as if you've accomplished something during this short while, and not just spent 10 minutes trekking to the place where you can find all the monsters.
The game's netbook mode looks interesting as well, even though I've yet to do any deeper studies or tests of it. It's basicly a single option that seems configured to preserve power for your laptop of choice. It's a handy feature for those who wants to get mobile with the game but doesn't have the resources to pay for a top-of-the-line computer.
One of my favourite parts of the game is also it's moddability. There's at least two different modding sites out there dedicated for the game, and being a huge fan of game customization I've been delving through the archives and found a few gems. What I found interesting is the fact that not only does the game ship with an editor, but there's also achievements tied to installing and using mods on the Steam version. An interesting way to put people's attention on the mod community.
On a final note I'll mention the plans for Torchlight to become something bigger. The idea with this game is to get the brand name out there as well as finance making a MMO later on. So seeing how well recieved this game has been I wouldn't be surprised to find a Torchlight MMO within next two coming years.
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Filmmaker Amy Scott reached her $25,000 fund-raising goal for her "Oyler" School documentary Tuesday night, a week before her deadline on Kickstarter.com.
She collected the final $5,000 to fund her independent movie since Thursday, when she filmed the last scenes here about the innovative Lower Price Hill school.
By Wednesday afternoon, 284 backers had donated $25,952. She gets the money on Aug. 20.
"It's been a pretty amazing 24 hours. We made our goal last night," Scott said by email.
The Baltimore-based education reporter began shooting the one-hour independent film while doing her 10-part series for public radio's "Marketplace" show (6:30 p.m. weekdays on WVXU-FM) during the 2012-13 school year here.
Scott first visited the Oyler Community Learning Center in February 2012 while researching a series about education and poverty for American Public Media's "Marketplace" program.
The Enquirer has written many stories about Oyler principal Craig Hockenberry transforming the school into a community hub providing meals, mentoring and health, dental, vision and social services. Oyler has become a national model for districts around the country.
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We can learn things about crime and punishment by looking across national boundaries. For despite many important similarities in how Western nations respond to crime, and in the values that underlie those responses, sentencing and punishment policies vary greatly. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis observed, in New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann, 285 U.S. 262, 311 (1932), that "it is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single, courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory and try social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." Countries likewise can learn from one another's experiments if they will.
The formal similarities are great. Among the Western countries, at least, there is widespread commitment to democratic values and Enlightenment ideals, and the institutions of criminal justice are everywhere much the same. These include professional police, public prosecutors' offices, an independent judiciary, and reliance on imprisonment as the primary sanction for very serious crimes and chronic criminals and on various community penalties for others. There is much more similarity than difference in the content of criminal law doctrine, rules of evidence, and procedural safeguards.
Nonetheless, and despite broad similarity in most countries in crime trends over the past thirty years, sentencing and punishment policies and patterns vary enormously. In the United States, England, and the Netherlands and many other western European countries, crime rates rose rapidly from the mid-1960s until the late 1980s or early 1990s and have been declining since (see, e.g., Downes and Morgan 1997; van Dijk 1997; Mirrlees-Black et al. 1998; Pfeiffer 1998; Bureau of Justice Statistics 1999b). Similarity in crime trends, however, has not been paralleled by similarity in policy or institutional responses. At least four areas for comparison stand out.
First, prevailing beliefs vary greatly among policymakers about the causes of crime and the capacity of criminal justice policy changes to affect crime rates. In


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Facts about Kibra
Kibra is a village on the outskirt of Nairobi, (capital city of Kenya), about six kilometers from the city center. It is a home for the Nubian community whose forefathers were settled there by the then British colonial government after conscription from the army, the Kings African Rifles (KAR). Nubians originated from the northern Sudan.
Kibra Nubian village as it is known, came into being early last century, after the area was designated a military reserve for the demobilized KAR soldiers.
Kibra was already there when Nairobi was made a city in 1902. Kibra was registered in 1917/18, and survey map reproduced in 1934.
The official original area of Kibra was 1497.5 acres. This area has however been reduced to its current 600 or so acres by the successive governments employing the policy of marginalization, and land grabbing by corrupt government authorities and influential rich people.
Kibra Problems
Kibra lost its origin soon after independence. These problems were started by selfish politicians who wanted to keep control over their voters. The first change we saw in Kibra was the change of the name from Kibra to Kibera, the corrupted name adapted soon after independence. This was intentionally done to distort the history of the area.
Kibra is now a home to more than 500,000 people, a figure released by the civil society organizations. The national census done in the year 2009 put the figure at 250,000, this latter figure is largely believed to be a distorted figure.
Majority of the population are people who invaded the area for political or economic reasons. Cheap and affordable housing in the area made it attractive to people who earn low salaries, and at the same time politicians invited their supporters to gain voting power.
This great influx of people in Kibra made it to be the largest slum on Africa.
Challenges facing the Kenya Government.
Among the challenges facing the government and those who want to resolve the land question in Kibra are:
1. Competing rights between the Nubians, who settled in Kibra more than 100 years ago, even before Nairobi became a city, and migrants who have continuously been settling there since after independence.
2. Political competition between major tribes like the Luos and the Kikuyus. Each one trying to outnumber the other.
3. Economical interest of those who believe they have a right to the piece of land they have invaded: owning a land in Kibra is a bog deal, and they will use any means available to protect their interests.
Challenges facing the Nubian Community
1. Uncertainty about the government giving back the Kibra land to the Nubian community. This issue of Kibra land has been internationalized through media, Human Right bodies, and the African Court. But the government s still quiet.
2. The community has to continue keeping the government under pressure claiming their rights and internationalize the issue. Use international organizations and international law. Tickle the mind of decision makers.
3. The community must always remain united, unity is critical to delivering a clear message to the government.
4. Community must be organized.
5. The community must be sensitive to the unfulfilled promises given by the successive governments about the Kibra land. On the contrary, tensions were created between the Nubians and other communities, while the politicians from the major tribes incited their followers to violence.
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A city police officer suffered a gunshot wound to his thigh after what police described as an accidental discharge of his handgun.The officer, Juan Santiago, was taken to St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport with non-life threatening injuries, police told the Hartford Courant.The shooting occurred about 8:40 a.m. at the Bagel King restaurant at 3550 Main St. The firearm Santiago accidentally fired was not his police-issued handgun, police said.
Rick @ 12/19/2013 3:21 PM
No such thing as a accidental discharge; it's a negligent discharge, because it could have been prevented.
Boston @ 12/19/2013 4:40 PM
Rick, An AD is standard nomenclature to the best of my knowledge. This guy will get ragged by fellow LEO's with plastic pistols. I recall when I served in the National Guard they handed out wood, yes wood .45 cal. pistols for our holster.I guess they didn't want any legal matters when throwing the Hippies off the Boston Commons.
Regular Guy @ 12/19/2013 6:11 PM
Accidental Discharge (AD) refers to someone with no formalized weapon training. Negligent Discharge (ND) refers to a trained and competent person who should have know better, e.g. weapon safety rule #2 never let you muzzle cover anything you're not willing to shoot or destroy. With that said, it still sucks for the Officer. At least it was at the Bagel King instead of the Donut King.
Capt. Crunch @ 12/19/2013 6:56 PM
Nobody is perfect shit happens to the best of us.
Ima Leprechaun @ 12/19/2013 7:10 PM
It's an accidental discharge and it can happen to anyone. Our Range Officer had one in his cruiser, a patrolman let one fly in the duty room and a detective bounced one around his office. All three were lucky not to hit themselves or anybody else. But accidents do happen. The only way it is not an AD is if they meant to fire their weapon and given each situation none intended to fire their weapon. It's frequent for jail deputies removing an ankle pistol prior to jail entry to let one fly and I am guessing that's why the room they secure their weapons in is concrete. I even knew of a fire fighter that accidentally shot himself in the crotch, I would guess he had no intention of shooting himself there either. Even in an actual shooting with bad guys officers have shot up their own dashboard and windshield and never remembered doing it. These things just happen from time to time because we are only human.
Jim B. @ 12/20/2013 6:11 AM
Why does this kind of incident always go to an argument about accidental discharge vs negligent discharge, unintended discharge, etc?Does it really matter? It's semantics. Do you think it really matters whether we call it an AD or a ND or a UD? Is calling it one thing verses the other going to keep it from happening. The fact is, the weapon was fired when the shooter didn't purposefully mean for it to happen. It was an accident! It was also unintentional. And yes, there was probably some negligence involved. Congratulations, everyone is right. Can we just agree that the terms are interchangeable and move on?Sheesh!
Rev. Baker @ 12/20/2013 6:48 AM
Jim is right! What you should be looking more into is the fact that it was his personal weapon, NOT his police issued side arm. If he can neglect his own weapon like that, how do you think he treats the one he was issued??? Also, how exactly did the weapon go off??? It's not like it just went off by it's self! I understand that this is just a little blurp about what happened, but hopefully, more information will be available soon.
b @ 12/20/2013 10:27 AM
Why was his weapon removed from his holster?
Lenny @ 12/20/2013 2:38 PM
What an utter bafoon. The best part is that it was called in as "officer down" and 12 police cars showed up ready to go to war. I shudder to think what might have happened if this exact same scenario had occurred with a citizen.Had he lived through the day I'm sure a long list of charges would have awaited him. And to those who say we're all human and shit happens, maybe you could remember that. Do all police have their personal weapons with them when they are on patrol?
Capt. Crunch @ 12/20/2013 7:32 PM
@Lenny, baby AKA the Tool, the only bafoon here is you. If you carry a weapon on duty then yes this can happen to you. I cannot speak for other officers but when I was on duty I carried a back up firearm. I found this a lot faster then reloading. P.S. do you eat the water can or oil can tuna?
lenny would you please go annoy someone else from your mommy's basement. You're a complete moron, and don't understand jack. Go out and find a girlfriend or boyfriend, if that's possible, no one cares just leave...
Lenny @ 12/23/2013 3:08 PM
@S.S.I understand far more than you ever will. And don't you ever bring my Mother into your tirades of hate, she died 35 years ago after a long battle with cancer you piece of garbage. I should imagine with your arrogance is very prevalent in the way you treat everyone out there. S.S., interesting considering how much Neo Nazis have taken hold in the military and law enforcement. I'm sure you're one of those shaved head, wrap around glasses, f*@k you up gloves, and as many guns as you can possibly carry. And I'll bet you probably can't wait until you can ride around in one of those new tanks you people seem to need to feel safe, and grease a few people whose skin colour just doesn't match yours. Maybe you can strap some female down on a table and insert things into every orrifice and then send her a bill like your brothers in Texas? Or throw a woman into a concrete bench, or shoot a man in his own yard @ 2am and then blame poor lighting.Or hang someone in their cell like in Ohio.
lenny I don't care. Stay off the sight if you don't want to hear it. All of us LEO do not care for your stupid and idiotic rants. You are a complete ASS. And you have no business here. AT ALL. So as long as you continue. So will I. A lot of the bullshit that you talk, a lot of us have lived through. You seem to make light of the situation thinking that what you are doing is funny. It's not!!! This sight is for LEO, and those who respect it. So F**K YOU. You wanna keep it up. So will I. I don't think your mother would like it very much that she raised a complete douchebag. MERRY XMAS!!!
Once again lenny you got it all wrong. I am a minority dumbass. I'm glad to say so. I am a highly decorated officer one of them being Office of the Yearwith my police dept. not to mention I belong to the safest city in the U.S. So that should blow away your so-called theory. You are just a pittiful excuse of a human being. Who talks out of his A** every chance he gets. I should only hope one day that you grow up. Im sure your mother raised you better than that. If you keep on then so will I. STAY OFF THE SIGHT.
Lenny @ 12/30/2013 11:14 PM
@S.S.I'm still here, I was just away visiting family for the holidays.Unlike you I follow the rules of the site and don't attack or insult peoplesimply because I don't agree with their opinions. Oh and as far as you being highly decorated and "officer of the year", when I'm asleep I'm a viking. Cool, right. There were 2 things that you pointed out that I definately agree with you are " a minority dumbass and you "don't care" that would look good on the side of your ride. That and I feared for my life. Also this sight is for anyone if you bothered to read the rules, not just those who agree with you. Perhaps you could try defending that incredible document(The Constitution), instead of wiping your butts with it when dealing withe public. There are literally thousands of examples I could cite. You should seek some help to deal with your anger issues. And in closing regarding you order for me to STAY OFF THE SIGHT, (it's site sweetheart) NO! I refuse to comply!
lenny is weak and is a cowardly p.o.s. The things that you're accusing me of is kinda weird. Especially the part of sticking things in other people's orfices. Yikes!!! That sounds like a fantasy of yours. I have this weird picture of you, and what you are really like. Did you ever see Silence of the Lambs? The character Buffalo Bill. That's who you remind me of and throw in a lil bit of Norman Bates. I can totally picture you dressing up in womens skin and dancing around like some kind of FREAK. Not to mention the whole thing of you living in your mommy's basement. I just thought that I'd throw that out there. Til next time lenny the coward.


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Saturday, May 21, 2011
Arab Spring
2011 has brought unprecedented change to the Middle East and North Africa. People in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, West Bank/Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Oman, Bahrain and Iran have demonstrated for governmental and economic reform, regime change, civil rights and human rights. They've protested police torture, corruption and other abuses of power. They have broken the barrier of fear that has kept the unjust status quo for so long. They have taken their future into their own hands, and, for once, their leaders and the world are starting to listen.
It has been intense and incredible to observe. Sometimes I still can't believe what I have seen and heard. I have covered just three of the Arab World's uprisings--it has felt like three lifetimes. I will try to deconstruct what I've seen and experienced here.
My only question: Where to begin?
3 comments:
- WASVL said...
Yay you're back. Missed your posts.
- May 21, 2011 at 8:50 PM
- Seth A. Dahl said...
What a powerful photo that sums up the unrest in the Middle East. I'm glad to see some new posts.
- May 25, 2011 at 6:19 PM
- Marc said...
this is absolutely amazing work, kudos
- June 8, 2011 at 6:37 AM
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DmC Devil May Cry Vergil's Downfall DLC slated for release in early March
Since DmC Devil May Cry released in January featuring half-Demon half-Angel brothers Dante and Vergil fans have been wondering when they'll be able to play Vergil's Downfall, a DLC announced before the games release.
It focuses on Vergil during events after the games conclusion, which I won't speak about due to spoilers, as he fights his way through Limbo, slashing through those who stand in his way.
The DLC is said to contain several hours of gameplay with 4 difficulty levels as well as including a new move-list for Vergil. Also unique to Vergil's Downfall are new enemies and areas not seen during Dante's adventure.
The official trailer can be viewed below:
It will be priced at £7.29/€8.99/$8.99 on PSN but will be free to those who pre-ordered the game at participating retailers. Whilst you wait for this DLC, why don't you play the recent free update that added the infamous Bloody Palace to DmC and see if you're ready to tackle more Demons?
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Kathleen stood in the waiting room uncomfortably. She was alone; she hadn't been alone in years. Not since she'd been kidnapped and become part of the SPARTAN program. Their last mission had been an utter failure, or so she'd been told. A technician had reported to hear that due to an error all of her fellow trainees had died. She'd been told it was a wonder that she had survived. She had never had reason to question what her superiors told her, but something didn't sit right. The area she was in was unfamiliar. For some reason she had been sent to the main offices of the marines. A door opened at one end of the waiting room and a man walked out. He was in his 30s and dressed in a crisp uniform. Kathleen noticed the Gunnery Sergeant insignia and snapped a crisp salute. The man walked up to her and looked her over. "As you were." He ordered and Kathleen's arm fell. He motioned for her to follow him into the office. She followed him into the office and stood before the desk as the Sergeant took a seat. "You are soldier-113?" He asked.
"Yes sir." Kathleen said glancing around the room. It was not overly messy but it wasn't as tidy as she had expected. His desk was littered with documents, files, and what looked to be letters. The chairs were in an odd pattern and from the floor it looked as though they were moved often. The couch had a pillow and blanket on it that was just randomly placed on it and she didn't doubt that he'd slept on it recently.
The marine looked at Kathleen and crossed his arms. "I am Gunnery Sergeant Bill Saran. After the miss handling of the SPARTAN program you are being removed from the care of ONI and placed in the care of the marine corps. The program is being scrapped seeing as it failed. You'll be taking part in the new ODSS program," The Gunnery Sergeant explained. "From now on you are under my command. You will report to the obstacle course to the west of the training grounds at 1400 hours. You will continue your normal morning exercises unless told other wise. Am I clear?"
"Yes sir," Kathleen replied. "Sir, where are my new barracks?" She asked realizing that she wouldn't be in the same area as before.
"You'll be housed in alpha barracks with the other soldiers that will be part of project ODSS," Saran answered.
"Other soldiers, sir? I thought the others died after the procedures." Kathleen was surprised by information.
"They are not the same soldiers you were working with before. These are marines, as you will be. They will be your teammates, so try not to make them hate you to much."
"Yes sir," Kathleen said, before saluting him and leaving the room.
~Next Day~
Things had not gone the way Kathleen had hoped the day before. There had only been one other girl in the group and the men didn't seem to like it. Kathleen had been fine with ignoring their comments but the same thing couldn't be said for the other girl. After about two hours of the comments from the boys the other girl, Emily, had had enough. She walked over to the boys and punched one of them in the face. She'd managed to knock him out and the other boys shut up. Kathleen felt a bit of respect for the other girl's actions but it seemed to have created a divide between the girls and boys. This meant that she hadn't learned anything about them. If she was supposed to work with them, it would be harder then she had thought for this team to work.
She was glad that he didn't have to do the same exercises as them. She figured that it would have only distracted her from her task. Now she stood at the start of the obstacle course as she had been ordered.
A warthog rolled up and Kathleen spotted the Gunnery Sergeant in the passenger seat. Kathleen stood at attention and saluted.
Saran looked to the single solder. "At ease," He said as he jumped out of the warthog. "Your mission is simple. Get to the other end of the obstacle course and ring the bell. You have to stay on the course. There is no time limit; you can take all day if you want," The Sergeant instructed. "Now get moving, soldier."
"Sir, yes sir," Kathleen replied before turning to the obstacle course. She had never seen anything like it. The first stage of the course as a series of crossing ropes, all of them covered in barbed wire. Kathleen started through the ropes having studied them and found the least dangerous path. There wasn't really a safe path. Even at her smallest on the safest path she still wouldn't get though without some scratches. The going was harder then she'd expected. After the augmentation she had had to relearn how to move. Her body felt like it wasn't hers. It ached most of the time and she'd become clumsy. She was readjusting quickly though, at as speed that seemed to have surprised the medics. At first she had feared that she wouldn't be able to fight again but after a little trial and error she managed to figure out how to maneuver almost as good as she could before the procedure, though she still lacked precision. She felt as she did when she first started training, like she wasn't as good as she should be, as she needed to be. It took Kathleen about 15 minutes to get through the ropes and she came out with scratches all along her arms.
The second part of the course was ten yards of gravel that had a series of bamboo poles sticking up. Kathleen looked it over carefully. She spotted a few thin wires hanging between the poles. The area must have been booby trapped by the instructors. She slowly moved forward and made her way though the area being even more careful then she had been before. It was more likely that there would be stun grenades. She managed to get though the area in pretty good time and without hitting anything.
Kathleen came to the final part of the course. It was a simple sprint across a field but something told her it wasn't that easy. She caught movement out of the corner of her eye. She spotted a auto machine gun, a pair of them. She didn't doubt that there was another pair on the other side of the field. She would have to waste any time and took off. She had never run this fast before, and it almost surprised her enough to trip her up. She managed to keep going, staying barley ahead of the bullets as they cut through the air behind her. She reached the bell and rang it three times and the gun fire stopped. The field fell silent, void of anything but Kathleen's deep breathing.
A warthog bounced over the grass and Kathleen turned toward it. "Get in the back," The Gunnery Sergeant ordered. Kathleen jumped in and the warthog took off. About 15 minutes later Kathleen found herself once more standing in the Gunner Sergeant's office. She was starting to feel like this would be a regular thing. "I hope you enjoyed how relaxed today was. Tomorrow you begin your real training." The Sergeant shifted around a few documents, moving them out of the way. He leaned forward against his desk, locking gaze with Kathleen. "From here on out you are to be the squad leader for the ODSS program. You will create a daily exercise regiment for yourself and the other solders. What you do is completely being left to you to decide. I will give you orders and you will hand the down. It will be up to you to make those other soldiers as good as you. They will be your team, your family, so train them well. That is all. Return to your barracks." The Sergeant motioned for her to leave.
Kathleen quickly saluted and left the office. As she made her way back to the barracks she thought over the new information. She had to make the other soldiers as good as her but that seemed impossible. She was a Spartan and they weren't. That was her task though, make them Spartans. She didn't know how she was going to do it. Once she hadn't even been a Spartan, but now she was and she would do the same for the others. First, though, she'd have to find a way to get them to listen to her.
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DATA CENTER COMPANIES have become a hot commodity on Wall Street, thanks largely to cloud computing and e-commerce. The servers and storage powering the cloud are resource hungry, and they require large buildings tailored for their heavy bandwidth, energy and cooling needs.
At a Glance
Cincinnati Bell (ticker: CBB)
|52-Week Range
|Market Value
|$760 million
|2011 Revenue
|$1.46 billion
|2011 Net Income
|$41 million
|Est. 2012 EPS
|Est. 2012 P/E
|Dividend Yield
|Data as of
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The cloud's rapid growth has created an entirely new category of REITs, led by data center companies Digital Realty (ticker: DLR) and DuPont Fabros (DFT). Equinix (EQIX), another leader in data centers, has said it's evaluating a REIT conversion, thanks to the tax advantages it affords. All of those names fetch hefty valuations, from 11 to 16 times Ebitda (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization).
Investors can find a better value in Cincinnati Bell (CBB), a small regional telecom that's quickly becoming a data-center play. At Tuesday's close of $3.86, shares trade at 6.4 times Ebitda.
Cincinnati Bell has been building data centers for the last decade, becoming the largest player in the Midwest. In 2010, it bolstered the operation by acquiring Texas-based CyrusOne for $525 million. Data center profits jumped 35% in 2011; the combined unit, now labeled CyrusOne, is roughly 20% of Cincinnati Bell's operating income.
But because CyrusOne is buried inside of Cincinnati Bell, it has yet to receive its due from investors. That's about to change. Last week, the company announced it was planning a public offering of its CyrusOne unit as early as the fourth quarter. The spinoff is likely to unlock significant value. At 11 times Ebitda, CyrusOne would be worth $1.3 billion, according to Clayton Moran, who covers Cincinnati Bell for The Benchmark Company. Assuming that the rest of Cincinnati Bell's business fetches a standard telecom multiple of 5.5, Moran values the stock at $5, 30% above yesterday's price.
We first flagged Cincinnati Bell's stock in October, citing not only the data center component but the possible takeout value of Cincinnati Bell's 650,000 residential landlines in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. The business, while declining, generates impressive free cash flow; as much as $100 million is forecast for next year. Shares are up 27% since our Alert, versus 15% for the DJ U.S. Total Stock Market index.
At January's Barron's Roundtable, Mario Gabelli called Cincinnati Bell a possible "three-bagger." At the time, shares fetched $3.18. Gabelli said of CyrusOne: "If the market doesn't recognize the value of the business, management should split the company to surface value."
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Dale Carnegie, known as 'the arch-priest of the art of making friends', pioneered the development of personal business skills, self-confidence and motivational techniques. His books - most notably How to Win Friends and Influence People - have sold tens of millions worldwide and, even in today's changing climate, they remain as popular as ever.
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Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
Deemed to be one of the biggest bestsellers on finance across the globe, Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That The Poor And Middle Class Do Not! attempts to significantly change the manner in which individuals view financial conceptions of appreciable money and investing.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'
A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl.
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
In his doctoral thesis, the author, Stephen. R. Covey, found a contrast in the self-help literature existing through generations. While the books from 1920s onwards focused on personality traits, the older books stressed on character development. The author believes that a balance must exist between the two, but he also maintains that character development is more fundamental in natureli
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Half Girlfriend
Once upon a time, there was a Bihari boy called Madhav. He fell in love with girl called Riya. Madhav didn't speak English well. Riya did. Madhav wanted a relationship. Riya didn't. Riya just wanted friendship. Madhav didn't. Riya suggested a compromise. She agreed to be his half-girlfriend. From the author of the blockbuster novels Five Point Someone, One Night @ the Call Center, The 3 Mistakes of My Life, 2 States and Revolution 2020 comes a simple and beautiful love story that will touch your heart and inspire you to chase your dreams.
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Life is What You Make it
Ankita Sharma has the world in her palms. She is young, smart and heads turn at every corner she walks by. Born into a conservative middle class household - this defines the chronicle of her life. Set in a time when Doordarshan was the prime source of entertainment and writing love letters was the general fad, every youngster dreams of the thrills of college life. And so, her admission into an MBA institute in Mumbai follows.
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Word Power Made Easy
Do you Always Use the Right Words? Can you Pronounce it-and Spell it-Correctly? Do you Know How to Avoid Illiterate Expressions? Do you speak Grammatically, without Embarrassing Mistakes?If the answer to any of these questions is NO, you need Word Power Made Easy. Now thoroughly revised to eliminate outmoded references and to reflect current idioms, it remains the best and quickest means to better vocabulary in the English language.Each chapter ends with review.
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General Knowledge 2017
In-depth knowledge about the varied sections covered under the subject of General Knowledge is mandatory for the candidates aspiring to appear for various competitive and recruitment examinations like SSC, Bank Clerk & PO, Railway Recruitment, etc. as the same is asked in almost each and every recruitment examination.
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The Old Man and the Sea
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here, in a perfectly crafted story, is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements in which he lives.
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Our Impossible Love
Life teaches us what 'love' truly is And love gives definition to 'life'
Aisha, a bit of a late bloomer, has to figure out what it means to be a woman and to be desired. Danish feels time is running out for him and he's going to end up as a nobody, as opposed to his overachieving, determined younger brother.
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Durham Regional Police Service celebrated their PRIDE at the annual Toronto Pride Parade to show its continual support for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) community.
Leading the contingent was DRP's rainbow-decaled cruiser and Chief Mike Ewles was joined by DRPS members, Region of Durham personnel and Youth In Policing staff along the parade route, handing out candies, pens and key chains to spectators. Cst. Keith Richards, DRPS Diversity Coordinator, was proud of the turnout from Durham Regional Police and the opportunity to celebrate social tolerance with the parade's more than 1.3 million attendees.
"Pride is always one of my favourite community events," said Cst. Richards. "It's always such a positive, upbeat atmosphere and it's a great opportunity to show support for the LGBTQ community."
DRP also had officers manning a recruiting booth on Saturday and Sunday to educate those attending the festivities about the opportunities Durham has to offer.
Durham Regional Police was joined by several police services across southern Ontario including the Toronto Police Service, RCMP, OPP, Niagara Regional Police and Waterloo Regional Police. While Toronto's first Pride Parade in 1981 was largely an anti-police protest, Toronto Pride has since become the largest platform for police services like DRPS to advocate acceptance and understanding in their communities.
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Palestinian journalist Mamdouh Hamamrah, who was sentenced by an appeals court in the West Bank on 28 March 2013 to one year in prison for insulting President Mahmoud Abbas, has been pardoned.
Hamamrah is the Bethlehem correspondent of the Palestinian satellite TV station Al-Quds. Intelligence officials arrested him on 19 October 2012 because a composite image that compared Abbas to an evil character from a Syrian historical television drama was posted with a comment on his personal Facebook page, prompting a complaint from the public prosecutor's office.
In a statement condemning the sentence, the Palestinian Centre for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) explained that Hamamrah did not post the picture, share the picture, or post any comments on it.
In spite of the pardon, Hamamrah had spent 53 days in a Bethlehem prison, so his case prompted rights groups to highlight the need for legislative reform.
"We welcome this pardon but the fact remains that it depended on the president's will," Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said. "A Palestinian citizen can still be jailed for insulting President Abbas. We call for reform of the law so that news providers and ordinary citizens can no longer be sentenced to imprisonment on charges of this kind."
MADA's lawyer Sana A'rinke stated that even if Hamamrah had posted the image, the original sentence of one year in prison would have been illegal and unfair. The judgement was made under Jordanian Penal Code of 1960, which is enforced in the West Bank but does not include an article relating to online publishing restrictions, and, more importantly, specifies a prohibition against any citizen offending the king – not a president.
Hamamrah was first arrested by the Palestinian security forces shortly after the photo appeared on Facebook in 2010. He was freed on bail until he was re-arrested on 28 March 2013 following the court's decision, which was widely criticized by Palestinian journalists. According to RSF, protest sit-ins were staged that day in Ramallah and Gaza in reaction to the appeal court's decision to impose an actual jail sentence, rather than a suspended one.
Shortly thereafter, Abbas's office issued a statement saying the president had been "disturbed" when he learned about the court ruling. Abbas's advisor, Hassan al-Ouri, added that the public prosecutor was in charge of the complaint against Hamamrah, and that Abbas had not been involved.
The general director of MADA, Mousa Rimawi, welcomed the pardon but seized the opportunity to call on the president "to issue a presidential decree that would cancel articles relating to the imprisonment of journalists under the Jordanian Penal Code enforced in the West Bank, and to replace the imprisonment of journalists when prosecuted on issues of free expression with a fine instead."


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Cambridgeshire Fire Service has hit headlines with reports that another senior fire officer has been offered the opportunity to retire from the service and pick up a sizable pension windfall before being rehired back into the service just weeks later.
Only three weeks after I wrote to Sir Peter Brown, Chairman of Cambridgeshire Fire Authority to request details of the decision to the re-engage Fire Chief Graham Stagg, who had previously been paid a salary and pension package of around £200,000, we learn that his assistant fire chief Neil Newberry has been handed the option of a similar 'retirement' plan.
This news comes on top of a letter I received from Sir Peter Brown this morning confirming that a total of 7 officers, ranging from Fire-Fighter to Station Commander status have benefited from this 're-engagement' programme at an undisclosed cost to the taxpayer.
The Fire Brigades Union has described this revolving door system as a "double-pay pension pay-off" and is right to raise questions about the value for money implications
The issue here is not just officers receiving generous 'golden parachute' payouts only to be reinstated weeks later. The lack of transparency surrounding Graham Stagg's return to his post also led Fire Minister Brandon Lewis to question why he was paid a basic salary of £168,702 last year, which is well above the recommended minimum £94,638 for Officers of his rank (Link to Minister's letter 13-11-07 – BL to Sir Peter Brown)
That figure is even more eyebrow-raising when you consider that Mr Stagg is the fifth highest paid Chief Fire officer in the country when he is in charge of the twenty-fifth largest force. To put that in context, the incoming chief of the NHS is expected to receive a salary of £189,000 when he assumes general oversight of a workforce of 1.4 million.
There is clearly wild discrepancy in pay scales here, and Cambridgeshire taxpayers would be well within their rights to ask for an across the board review of salary and benefits paid out to Fire Service personnel, especially regarding the take-home of senior officers.
I have repeatedly highlighted Cambridgeshire Fire Authority's cavalier approach to public money; just last year I was baffled to discover that the authority employed 6 full time press officers and a fleet of 43 cars for staff use (see my previous blog entry on fire service efficiency here).
This latest episode serves to underline the risk that the Fire Services in Cambridgeshire have lost touch with the public they serve. Senior officers appear able to play the system for their own benefit, at the direct expense of those they are charged with protecting.
It is clear that the current governance of Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service is not working. It needs to change and I will write again on this issue shortly. In the meantime, all members of the Fire Authority should reflect on why they are paying so much to those managing what is a small rural fire and rescue service.


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Israel's tech boom has indeed made them a leader in technology development. Investors worldwide are pouring money into this no-longer-emerging market. In terms of raw resources, however, they are far behind China. And in terms of human resources, there is simply no way a nation of slightly more than eight million people, with a strong shekel driving moderately-high wages, can compete with the 1.35-billion strong population in a nation where well-educated people work for very low salaries.
No, Israel will not surpass China in electronics productions, because China is just too big of a country with far too many resources. Israel is small. Israel does a great job with the things that it does, but they do not have the manpower that China does. It is amazing what you can do with an unlimited supply of virtually slave labor.
Israel will not surpass China in tech production mainly due to the differences in population and resources. Although Israel has contributed greatly to development of technology and engineering, it does not have the wealth and workforce necessary to surpass asian countries such as China which produce the majority of the worlds technology.
To be completely honest one of the reasons that China has taken over so much of the electronics productions is because of their huge population that is willing to work for such low wages. The people of the world would rather have disposable than quality and unless that changes China will remain on the top of the electronics heap.


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text: Before I started watching porn with my husband, I thought the women in porn were being demoralized and degraded, desperate & needed money and runaways, junkies & more. After I started watching occasionally, I realized those women are having fun. I read the interviews, bios and anything I could get my hands on. Once I figured out that the porn industry isn't just a seedy, sleazy business but can be legitimate, pays stars very well and these women made choices to act in this industry and love doing it my attitude completely changed. I realized that a lot of the time, we are ingrained with ideas from society and ignorance and pass judgment based on ideals we know nothing about. I am now a huge porn watcher, with my husband. After I tried the cam experience, I also realized that it can be fun, builds up your self & sexual confidence and the occasional money is a fun bonus. Guess I had to walk in their shoes to get it, but at least I overcame my prejudice and gained a lot of knowledge and fun experiences from it!!!


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Frankly speaking, it looks more like a WordPress backend now, and navigation is much smoother and slicker than before. Monitoring your blog visitors is also much easier now with a built-in analytics report right on the dashboard itself.
I haven't had the time to explore much, but from my first few impressions, I'd give blogger a thumbs up (seriously, it's about time!) and inserting images seems to be just a matter of copy-pasting too.
However, there is one flaw I noticed immediately, and it's about the new post editor.
Again, this post is meant only for those few people (like me) who still like to write their post first on a Microsoft Word document before copy-pasting it to the post editor. I guess we prefer MS Word because we are too lazy and the auto-correct feature seems to solve a lot of problems for us. Lolz.
A year ago, I wrote about Five important blogging tips for those who use MS Word on blogger.com. Now that the interface and CMS editor have changed, I guess those tips don't mean much.
In this new blogger post editor, it is no longer possible to copy-paste your article from a Word doc to the "COMPOSE" or the "HTML" section. I mean, it is of course possible to do that, but if you do it, your entire formatting (paragraph, alignment, line breaks etc) will now go haywire.
In the previous blogger version, I advised you all not to paste your word document article in the HTML section and that you should paste it in the COMPOSE section only, right? And once you did that, you could click HTML and everything would still be formatted the way you wanted it.
In this new version, if you paste anything in the HTML section first, you will lose all paragraph and line breaks!
And if you paste it first in the COMPOSE section…
…and then click HTML to format your post, you will now unfortunately get this sh*t.
Yup, blogger apocalypse!
But don't get scared, I know a way to prevent this. I am familiar with this type of display result as Posterous is having this exact same CMS editor feature! Your entire post in posterous will go for a toss if you copy paste the content from a Word file.
One simple solution to this is – REMOVE MS Word formatting.
You can easily do this by using a TEXT document (.txt extension). Once you're done writing your blog article on an MS Word document, simply copy-paste the content into a text file, with the exact line break and paragraph spacing that you want. Once you do that, again copy the content from the text file and paste it now in the new blogger editor under COMPOSE section.
Thadaaa! Problem solved.
Your post will be formatted exactly the way you wanted it to be.
And even if you click HTML on the editor after pasting it in the COMPOSE section from the text document, you will get this -
See how clean the codes are now! All those unnecessary and irritating MS Word related codes are gone, and this section now consists of just the basic (and proper) HTML codes which you can easily edit if you are even a little bit html-savvy.
If you are really interested in seeing the difference between pasting your blog article from an MS Word directly, and from a text document directly, here are the two results of this very same post –
From MS Word document to COMPOSE section – eww!
From text document to COMPOSE section – wow!
Of course most people do write their blog posts directly on the blogger editor directly, so I guess this post will not mean anything to such people. But to all those who use MS Word docs to write your blog post, this is how you can easily solve your formatting problems with the new blogger interface.
I don't know about you, but me, I am kinda like an OCD patient when it comes to webpage layout and content uniformity. I die slowly every time I see an ugly blog with unequal and varying font sizes, spacings and colors randomly placed here and there (unless it is done purposely with an artistic direction).
Hope this helps. If you have a better solution to this or any other tips regarding the new blogger interface, please feel free to share here.


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Users of Google, the Web search engine, may have noticed the image of a birthday cake on its home page last week in place of the usual company logo. The pixilated cake was created by Pop Art icon Wayne Thiebaud, in recognition of the Internet giant's 12th birthday.
The cake is one of more than 300 decorative images, known as doodles, employed by a team of designers at Google to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of notable artists and scientists. Such displays of whimsy illustrate the playful, creative side of what has become, in little more than a decade, a $40 billion company.
Google's ambitions are anything but whimsical, however. From the outset, its stated goal was to organize and make accessible all of the world's information. Since then, the company has used its enormous revenues, generated primarily by use of targeted advertising, to expand into areas beyond its core search engine, including the digitizing of entire libraries, online video, desktop applications, mobile phones and data storage.


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I can't imagine a couple who wouldn't love to have a few photos like these with their sweetheart! Mustard Seed Photography shot an e-session with this (adorable!) couple on the soon-to-be groom's private ranch and the outcome was just perfect-carefree and sweet with a vintage flare! Be sure to take a peek at the beautiful film and the rest of the images in the gallery!
Click here for the FULL engagement session!
From Mustard Seed Photography... Our couple, Megan and Shea, will be tying the knot next March, and for their engagements, they put together the most beautiful setting! The backdrop for our photos was the groom's awesome private ranch in Huntsville, Texas, complete with a vineyard, creek and incredible fields! To add an extra little touch, the bride and groom rented some beautiful vintage props from Recollection Vintage in Houston. Between the bike, the couch, the creek and the gorgeous couple, we were swooning from the moment we arrived. :) We not only did photography for these two love birds, we also made an off-the-cuff engagement video. It highlights not only their playful attitudes, but also the gorgeous location!
From the Bride-to-Be... I wanted our photos to scream vintage and romantic glamour — I love anything vintage! To me, vintage has romance written all over it. :) I knew putting the two together would make for amazing pictures. And although I like the softness of vintage, I still like being a glamour girl and dressing up. And that's how our wedding will be: romantic and glamourous!
Photography + Cinematography: Mustard Seed Photography / Engagement Session Venue: Smokestone Farms in Huntsville, Texas / Flowers: Trader Joe's / Props: Recollection Vintage Rentals + Various Antique Stores / Bride's Attire: PacSun, Urban Outfitters + ALDO / Bride's Hair + Makeup: DIY


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The deadline for online signup is midnight Wednesday, January 10th, 2018. After that, entrants must sign up in person at the Masquerade Table. Entrants may change their information up until they finish their rehearsal timeslot. All entrants must check in at the table after getting their Arisia badges.
Arisia uses the skill division set up by the International Costumers' Guild. If you are unsure what division you should register in please check the Masquerade Rules at http://www.arisia.org/masqRules.
The Masquerade Table is on the Concourse level by the Grand Ballroom.


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