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Kelso: The Underachieving Boston Red Sox & Chicago Cubs
Submitted by Kelso Sturgeon on Monday, May 15, 2017 at 8:00 PM
The Chicago Cubs and the Boston Red Sox have several things in common—they're big-market teams, they have passionate fan bases and both had high expectations coming into the 2017 baseball season. As of mid-May, they have something else in common—both are underachieving between the lines.
The Red Sox are 19-18 with the Cubs at 18-19, the very definition of mediocrity. It's not what was expected from a Chicago team that was a top-heavy favorite to win another World Series and Boston, priced as a co-favorite with Cleveland in the American League.
Market belief in both teams is unshaken. The Cubs remain the 5-1 betting favorite to win it all in October, even as they need to look up at the Milwaukee Brewers and Cincinnati Reds—to say nothing of the St. Louis Cardinals—in a tight NL Central. The Red Sox still have odds of a short 8-1 to capture their fourth title since 2004. And while the Yankees are now a slight favorite to win the AL East, the Red Sox are only available at 21-20 in that race—not exactly a value bet in a battle that will include the Baltimore Orioles.
So if you want to cut against the grain with either team, it's necessary to believe that they were overrated and to move into a "go against mode" on both before the market catches up. Thus, we must ask—why are the Cubs and Red Sox playing so far below expectations and are these things likely to correct themselves over the course of a long season?
The answers to questions like these is always filled with nuance and my final decisions are proprietary for clients. I can, however, share with you some factors to consider…
Cubs: The offense is lacking, ranking seventh in the National League in runs scored. Anthony Rizzo is the only player you can circle as being highly likely to pick it up. The other players whose lack of production is most notable are Ben Zobrist, Kyle Schwarber, Javier Baez and Addison Russell. Zobrist is 36-years-old. The other three players have good reputations and every chance to get their bats going—but also lack a sustained track record.
Jake Arrieta will pitch better than his current 5.44 ERA. But the staff overall ranks fourth in the NL in ERA and it's tough to see how much higher they'll go.
Red Sox: Another offense that ranks seventh in its league is a culprit here after the retirement of David Ortiz. Production from Jackie Bradley Jr. and Sandy Leon has tapered off from last season with neither having a long track record that makes a revival seem imminent.
The Sox pitching is also seventh in the AL and will certainly benefit if David Price returns from the disabled list in June. But it is worth noting that as good as Chris Sale is, his ERA almost surely ends the year being higher than its current 2.15. And Eduardo Rodriguez, with a 2.80 ERA, may see a slip as well.
It's a long season and by no means should any underachieving team hit the panic button. We've also got nearly forty games to evaluate and no baseball bettor can ignore what's going on—particularly when the market seems to be doing just that.


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Budget negotiations continue at City Hall
All week Eight Forty-Eight looked at some of the proposals in Mayor Rahm Emanuel's 2012 budget, such as its potential impact on libraries and the city's water system. Next week, the City Council will vote on the budget. Emanuel already amended some items after pushback from aldermen and the public. Eight Forty-Eight was joined by Dan Mihalopoulos, the Chicago News Cooperative's City Hall bureau chief, to see how budget talks were progressing overall.
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At Parsonage Farm Nursery and Infant School we adhere to the National Curriculum statutory guidance, with children following programmes of study in accordance with their age, stage and ability. Pupils in Nursery and Reception follow the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).
At Parsonage Farm we have carefully designed the curriculum to ensure children are engaged, they have opportunities to express themselves and to ensure maximum learning and progress is achieved. We use a combination of discrete subject teaching and also a cross curricular approach, through our year group termly topics.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's FARC rebels on Thursday freed three oil contractors kidnapped a day earlier, military sources said, though the guerrillas killed four soldiers in the south as they step up pressure during peace talks.
The kidnappings and other violent incidents came days after the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, made clear during peace negotiations in Cuba that it would continue to capture armed forces, possibly hampering the talks.
The FARC released the workers, who were contracted as engineers by Canada's Gran Tierra Energy and were laboring in southern Colombia when they were seized on Wednesday, according to military sources.
There have been several kidnappings of civilians in recent months that are suspected to have been at the hands of the FARC, but the group has never claimed responsibility.
Last year, Gran Tierra quarterly profit fell nearly 59 percent in the second quarter as oil production was hit by pipeline disruptions. The FARC regularly attack oil lines.
President Juan Manuel Santos' government and Marxist rebels have been engaged in peace talks in Havana since November, trying to reach an end to a decades-long war that has killed tens of thousands and defied all past attempts for resolution.
In the southwestern Narino department, a key drug route to the Pacific Ocean, FARC rebels killed four soldiers on Wednesday in combat in the municipality of Policarpa.
Narino department is representative in many ways of the major security challenges facing Colombia - rebel groups and drug gangs sometimes fight or collude to move shipments of cocaine where the government's presence is weak.
At the start of talks in November, the FARC declared a two-month unilateral ceasefire, which ended on January 20 with the rebels attacking oil and mining facilities, including two pipelines and a coal-carrying rail line.
The government refused to join the ceasefire, calling it a sham by the FARC to gain international attention. The army kept attacking the group and carried out several aerial raids that killed at least 34 rebels.
The FARC, the biggest armed group in Latin America, seized two policemen in the southwest last weekend, the government said, in the first kidnapping of security forces since April, when rebels released all officials under their control.
In the first specific rebel response to the two policemen, chief FARC negotiator Ivan Marquez, one of the group's seven leaders, said on Thursday that: "Right now we don't have any official report on that incident, if it was or wasn't the FARC."
While the FARC has said it would halt kidnapping to fund its war against the government, it never said it would stop taking members of the armed forces as "prisoners of war."
The government asked rebels on Wednesday to make it clear they are not wasting time at peace talks in Cuba and genuinely want to end the five-decade conflict.
An escalation of hostilities could affect the progress of the peace discussions. Santos has said he wants to achieve an agreement within a year.
"We're willing to stay at the table until we find a path that leads us to peace. That's why we said that we will not get up from the table until the desire of the people in Colombia is fulfilled," Marquez told journalists in Havana.
The rebels took up arms in 1964 as a Marxist agrarian group fighting against social inequality and the concentration of land among a wealthy elite. But they later turned to drug-trafficking and kidnapping to finance their activities.
Santos is credited with some of the harshest blows against the FARC, first as defense minister and then as president, including killing the group's leader, Alfonso Cano, in 2011.
Over the years, the FARC has held dozens of politicians, police officers and soldiers in remote jungle hide-outs. Hundreds of FARC members are in Colombian prisons.
Since a 2002 U.S.-backed offensive, security has vastly improved in Latin America's fourth-largest oil producer, attracting billions of dollars in investment as explorers pushed into ever remoter areas in search of crude.
But the FARC stepped up attacks last year on oil and energy infrastructure. Its bombings of pipelines shot up nearly three fold in the January-October period to 142, but attacks against power transmission towers fell by nearly half in the same period to 35.
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Dan Larimer vs the Rothschilds
EOS's URI and Bitcoin as Universal Basic Income
It's an idea that, in the English-speaking world, has been explored and supported by people as diverse as…
Martin Luther King Jr., Thomas Payne, Bill Gates, Sir Thomas More, Elon Musk, Ron Paul, Hillary Clinton, John Stuart Mill, Mark Zuckerberg, and Republican Richard Nixon and his Democratic opponent George McGovern.
When Nixon and McGovern's "negative income tax" experiments, which hilariously involved Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, found that their form of UBI seemed to increase divorce rates, they were cut short. That all but ended the discussion for a generation.
But the discussion has returned. For many centuries, Universal Basic Income has been often proposed as a solution to a number of social problems.
Some people are against UBI because people shouldn't get rewarded for doing nothing. And guess what? Some people support UBI because people shouldn't get rewarded for doing nothing.
Regardless of your initial reaction, as one blockchain creator puts it:
The concept is something that everyone should carefully consider after setting aside preconceived notions about the nature of property rights, socialism, and capitalism.
Join me as we explore the pros and cons of UBI, the experiments and studies around the world, EOS's Universal Resource Inheritance, and how Bitcoin already has some properties of a UBI.
I'm Peter Keay, and this is Bitgenstein's Table.
As always, I recommend you listen to this episode, a combination of narrative and music, instead of reading.
It's a staple of the mindset and media of the 1950s and 1960s: the teenager at the fast food place, working evenings and summers to raise money for college.
After all, the American dream is that you can do something like flip burgers and work hard and get to a place of opportunity.
Nowadays, only about ⅓ of fast food workers are teenagers. The rest are middle-aged. They have families to feed and even some college under their belts, but they have to flip burgers.
And the jobs they hold have been getting worse. Algorithmic job scheduling means they get unpredictable hours on short notice, which is terrible for family life. Automated productivity makes work quite boring.
Perhaps these are part of why mortality is increasing for this segment of society, in ways that experts argue is related to the pathology of older people who are struggling and suffering.
1769. Mayer Amschel Rothschild enters the business of selling rare coins.
He gains the patronage of Crown Prince Wilhelm of Hesse and many other wealthy nobles, and eventually expands to banking.
Fast-forward to the end of the 19th century, and the Rothschilds are the richest family in the world, partly because of Nathan Rothschild's backing of military forces in the Napoleonic Wars and a remarkably well-timed sell of bonds.
Though their wealth has since been reduced — conspiracy theorists will argue that the Rothschilds have merely diversified into institutions such as nearly every central bank in the world — the family remains one of the richest and most powerful. Other great families like the Rockefellers continue to wield power, and the advent of tech billionaires has created new families who will hold power and wealth for an unknown number of generations into the future.
Family dynasties have been known to make or break countries and currencies and companies and causes.
But what is a system where grandchildren and great-grandchildren are unassailably powerful because of the good business sense, luck, or even the illegal activity of their grandparents or great-grandparents?
Isn't that the definition of nobility? A noble class?
This recreation of nobility — a return to monarchy, almost, brought about by creating super-powerful, super-rich dynasties that can last for generations — is part of why some libertarians are on board with the idea of Universal Basic Income.
It's explicitly the reason why the creator of Steemit, Bitshares, and eosio, Daniel Larimer, has proposed a variant of UBI called "Universal Resource Inheritance."
Universal Resource Inheritance
I finally stumbled upon a rational, logically consistent, theory of property rights that provided both the moral…
We don't want to create a new nobility to crush the promise of opportunity.
People can make their fortunes, and give fortunes to their children, yes, but perhaps it shouldn't be so easy for them to turn fortunes into dynasties where their heirs, be they benevolent or malevolent, can do as they please.
Larimer begins his article on URI with what he calls "a fundamental question: 'How do we allocate the natural resources of the universe fairly across all generations?'"
There are a number of philosophical bases people use to understand property rights. But one of the prevailing views, a "first come, first served" view, is easy to reduce to absurdity.
"Who owns the moon, the ocean, the land, and the air? Is each new generation bound to recognize the property rights allocated by the prior generation? Is 'first come, first served' a proper basis for assigning initial ownership to unowned property? Does this generation have the right to consume all the oil and rainforests? Does this generation have the right to allocate all of the mineral rights for all of eternity?"
He has a point. Why should the generations of the future abide by the rules of past generations, people from a different time, long since dead, who set up long-lasting dynasties over them?
Larimer continues (emphasis mine):
"While some people naturally respect other people's property and contracts, other people choose to follow the might-makes-right approach to property. This is the law of the jungle and is what has largely governed how property is allocated via wars and taxation.
"In practice, most property rights are driven by respecting the status quo. What was yours yesterday is yours today. If you can maintain control over property for long enough, then people forget how you obtained it and it becomes yours.
"But I find all of the above systems to be logically inconsistent … Force, fraud, theft, and extortion are not valid means to acquire property. Systems set up by one generation should not be binding on subsequent generations. Contracts are only valid if the parties have the ability to consent and are negotiating as equals.
"It is clear that in practice, property is allocated by the law of the jungle. The strongest parties conquer the weaker. The victors write the history books and redefine property rights. Property rights are enforced by violence or the threat thereof. Any new system of property rights must account for this natural tendency of mankind and should gradually correct for misconduct rather than compound it."
Larimer proceeds to recommend a variant of Universal Basic Income that he calls "Universal Resource Inheritance."
Many libertarians favor variants of UBI. On the surface, that might seem like it doesn't make sense. Why would a political position centered on individual liberty give money from some people to other people?
Universal basic income schemes are not at their core about taking money away — in fact they are arguably much better than current programs.
Trillions of dollars go to current welfare programs, but the complex administrative structures, many of them expensive ways to determine how to administer aid and to whom, gobble up a large portion of this aid spending as overhead.
How many billions disappear into pits of red tape and corruption each year We don't really know.
Meanwhile, the most cunning corporations take incredible advantage of these government welfare programs. In some cases, it is said they train their own employees how to collect welfare checks. These companies shrewdly increase the value of their own stock by using tax dollars to supplement their employees' income.
Against the backdrop of such an inscrutable labyrinth of social aid, UBI might be a simpler, more straightforward solution that may just offer freedom and opportunity once again to people who lack it.
But UBI and similar projects often meet with objections.
- Wouldn't people mis-spend their income?
- Wouldn't UBI cause people to work less?
- Shouldn't UBI have conditions attached?
- And finally, we shouldn't give people money for doing nothing, right?
Let's consider these one at a time.
First up, wouldn't people mis-spend the income?
Let's head back to Larimer's article. He's not the primary source of information on UBI — several books on UBI came across my desk as I researched the topic — but he is one of the more outspoken advocates in the cryptocurrency space.
He says, "While it is true that a certain percentage of the population will squander their resources, it is equally true that the wealthy also squander resources."
He goes on to question the wisdom of libertarians who suggest that others will squander resources. "Economic efficiency," Larimer points out, "is a biased argument used to justify a biased status quo. It presupposes that certain goals are higher than other goals. It assumes that some people do not have a right to participate in influencing which goods and services are provided."
In other words, it assumes we have the right to tell everyone else what's important in their lives.
"All of a sudden," Larimer suggests, "the libertarians who are arguing for the status-quo property-rights system start sounding like central planning statists who know better how to run the economy."
More importantly, UBI experiments done so far do not suggest that people spend much of their additional income on "vices," on liquor and sex and drugs.
So what do the experiments say about the next big objection?
Wouldn't people stop working?
The country of Iran, of all places, instituted a sort of UBI, and worried that their plans of cash transfers to people equal to 29% of Iran's median income would "foster beggars." To the contrary. A serious study by two economists discovered they the Iranian programs had slashed poverty and inequality and even encouraged some people to work more — these people apparently used the cash to invest in their small businesses.
Iran tried its own basic income scheme - and people didn't give up working
One of the biggest criticisms of basic income, a system of giving people modest salaries just for being alive, is that…
The University of Pennsylvania conducted a survey of all unconditional cash transfer pilots in North America and concluded that "the evidence does not suggest an average worker will drop out of the labor force when provided with unconditional cash, even when the transfer is large."
It's worth noting that some experiments such as the Negative Income Tax experiments I mentioned, conducted in the Johnson and Nixon years, did reduce employment rates — but this reduction was arguably because the Negative Income Tax was conditional, which created incentive for people to work less. Or to under-report income so that they would receive more.
That touches on our third question.
Shouldn't UBI be conditional?
Here's Larimer again:
"From the lesser of two evils department, a URI system could replace complex, impossible to understand or follow, privacy destroying income tax systems. It would replace our corrupt unemployment, welfare, child support, and social security systems. In effect, half of the population is already receiving cash-payouts.
"The current system punishes those who increase their income and tells people that they qualify for money based upon their 'need.' This need-based distribution is far more harmful to the mental wellbeing of those who accept it than an inheritance-based distribution."
One of the must-read modern books on UBI is Give People Money, by Annie Lowrey.
As she discusses Aadhaar, the Indian cash transfer assistance program, at length, she brings up another good point that expands on how conditional support programs can be "privacy destroying."
UBI with ID or info allows governments to cut cash to minorities, activists, and so on. It gives governments an avenue of control and power that unconditional payments don't.
One of the biggest sentiments against Universal Basic Income is also one of the reasons many libertarians support it.
People shouldn't make gobs of money for doing nothing, right?
Let's set aside the fact that no Universal Basic Income proposal is "gobs of money." But still, people shouldn't make money for doing nothing, right?
Actually, that's exactly what dynasties do.
Dynasties are Daniel Larimer's primary concern with the current setup of capitalist society.
In his proposal for Universal Resource Inheritance, he suggests a 5% URI rate, which "would redistribute 99.5% of initial wealth over 100 years. Those who do not use their assets productively (by earning more than 5%) will slowly lose them to the next generation over the course of their life."
Those who do not use their assets productively will slowly lose them.
You see, in our current system, people who inherit lots of wealth earned through whatever means in the generations before them can live in permanent power and luxury while doing nothing.
People born into dynasties can live ruling on high or on beds of roses based on nothing more than their birth.
That's not democracy. That's nobility.
For much of history, the divine right of kings — lines of rulers in systems of monarchy — dominated the world. One good king might garner the favor of the people through military valor, or by revolutionizing quality of life or justice. But what about that king's great-grandson? History has proven time and time again that systems built on bloodlines of rulers fall apart before long.
In the modern world, we value equal opportunity. We do not value nobles, or dynasties, or generations of "trust fund kids" sitting on wealth and doing nothing with it.
In its best form, the American dream is about equal opportunity.
It is not about family dynasties.
It is not about corporate dynasties.
It is not about bureaucratic dynasties.
It is not about small groups being successfully able with minimal effort to hoard massive amounts of wealth and to sap the results of massive increases in productivity in society for 100 years or more.
It is about equal opportunity.
And as much as people who have through hard work and ingenuity made a lot of money show survivorship bias and say that anyone has opportunity and anyone can do the same thing, it's not true. People usually do not have the same opportunities the ultra-successful have.
A universal resource inheritance or other form of universal basic income may be our best way to prevent to rebirth of monopolies and monarchies.
After all, monopoly and monarchy are not parts of the American dream nor of its sister ideas in other cultures around the world.
Speaking of Monopoly…
It's Larimer's best analogy, I think.
"One analogy which I have found helps people understand the concept is a modification of the game of Monopoly. With the simple rule of reallocating 1% of the wealth of the players evenly after each roll, the game can go on forever. Players that exercise good trading skill and a bit of luck can still get ahead, but they never bankrupt the other players.
"Modern capitalist systems are like a game of monopoly where the owners of the means of production see compounding gains due to efficiencies of economies of scale. The more you win, the faster you win. The rich get richer simply by virtue of being rich. Ask a poor man with a shovel to compete in the market for ditch digging against a rich man with a backhoe. It doesn't matter how 'smart' or 'hardworking' the poor man is, his labor is worthless unless it can be mixed with the capital represented by the backhoe.
"The move toward increasingly automated production of goods and services is like giving the rich capital holder the equivalent of a backhoe in every industry. In many cases, they purchased that backhoe with stolen goods and government favors.
"The compounding nature of wealth naturally centralizes. URI is needed to keep a sustainable decentralization of power required to secure our life, liberty, and property."
"The compounding nature of wealth naturally centralizes."
A common argument, mentioned here by Dan and used by many modern proponents of Universal Basic Income, is the rise of AI and robots.
Artificial intelligence and robotics are taking over factories and will soon displace drivers — and even "brainier" jobs like doctors to some extent.
At the same time, cryptocurrency might end up displacing a large portion of the accounting and banking sectors, and maybe even the legal sector.
Won't this cause masses of unemployed men and women roaming the streets, unable to afford the basics of life?
I'm not so sure.
The hypothesis that machines would replace workers has been repeated at least since the writings of Karl Marx, but revolutions in technology have generally created jobs. When the percentage of agricultural jobs dropped from 40% to 4% thanks to technology, it didn't result in 36% of people being newly unemployed.
But perhaps this revolution of AI and robots is so sweeping and will replace so many jobs — even though the efficiency gains are currently stagnating — that we really should be concerned.
Again, for centuries, people have said technology would replace jobs, and it always ends up making new jobs, too. But if this time massive numbers of workers will truly be displaced, we will at last have the opportunity to expand the humanities fields that machines won't be taking over anytime soon: things like art, music, philosophy, poetry, literature, and so on.
As the popular Twitter account The Stoic Emperor hopes, after centuries of learning to become machines, we will learn to become human again.
Businessman and investor Mark Cuban suggests that AIs will learn to code, to create new machines, even to repair machines, and that fields that require humans will become premium skills once again.
Perhaps the Journalism and French Lit majors out there will have the last laugh, after all. People might even start searching for good crypto philosophy podcasts.
Mark Cuban says studying philosophy may soon be worth more than computer science-here's why
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And perhaps society will be forced to implement something like UBI out of necessity.
We don't need to look to EOS and intentional cryptocurrency UBI programs to see a future including something like UBI, though.
Bitcoin's ultimate deflationary model will already function as a sort of UBI.
Poor people currently hold cash, so their savings and their wages are both hurt by inflation over time.
Some argue that if a deflationary currency were to become a dominant form of money, cash savings would go up in value over time — a phenomenon that has some similarities to a Universal Basic Income.
No longer would we be stealth-taxing the poor to give to the rich with inflation, reducing the value of cash to increase the value of other assets. Instead, the value of people's savings and even wages would increase over time.
Now, is Universal Basic Income or URI a key to mass adoption? Perhaps.
PayPal gave people money to open new accounts. Many banks and other companies do the same.
Imagine if all you had to do was open a new wallet to start collecting some money. No matter how small the incentive, people would flock to the system. Perhaps UBI or URI will be one of the keys that unlocks the future cryptocurrency advocates dream of.
But as always, we need to think very carefully about the future we want to build.
We haven't seen enough large-scale projects to know all the details of how UBI or URI plans would work, and I'm sure there would be unanticipated hiccups and even models that fail completely.
UBI schemes are, at core, focused on upholding the values of liberty, justice, opportunity, and equality. Will they actually uphold those values? We don't know yet.
They are not worth knee-jerk reactions, nor are they yet worth unqualified devotion. But they are certainly worth further study and analysis.
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Twitter is a great marketing tool that can help you reach many more people on the internet. However, the hardest part is to get people to actually follow you and get feeds. This is assuming that you are not anyone famous or in power. If you are the president of the US who uses twitter, you will automatically get millions of followers. However, for the normal people like you and I, we need to be more creative in getting followers for our twitter accounts.
Below I will go over some common tips on getting followers on Twitter:
1. People Usually Follow You Back
Most of the time when you follow people, people follow you back, I find the ratio to be about 30% to 50%. So to get more followers, follow more people whenever you can do so. You will get about half of those followers back.
2. People Usually Follow Another with Common Interests
Follow people who have similar interests, and you will bound to receive more followers. For example, if you are an enthusiastic gamer, follow all the gaming companies, websits, as well as other gaming fanatics. You will most likely receive those people with common interests. Usually these people are also followed and the ball just get bigger.
3. People Follow Useful or Trusted Websites
If you own a website or forum, post your own twitter account on those places. You will be able to get some followers who visit your website. By converting them to follow your twitter account, you will have more ability to ensure that you posts reach out to them.
4. People Follow Who they Know
This may sound dumb, but people who use twitter will most likely follow who they know about. Make your presence known in the internet circle is one sure way to get people to follow you. Become an active member on the public forums, write a couple articles and post them to various sources. Make yourself known so that when people are presented the option of following you, they will more than likely to do so. You are in a ways marketing yourself in the internet world.


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The most satisfying food pairing since meat and potatoes, wine and cheese, or shrimp and grits can make its way to your table with the new cookbook Energy Cuisine: Two Chefs. Four Countries. One Extraordinary Friendship. Chefs David Denis of Le Mistral and Jani Lehtinen of Pori, Finland, cross their cultural roots and share their culinary successes in this gastronomic guide featuring over 100 recipes.
Winning the tastebuds of executives within their respective Energy Corridors, the two chefs support the stomachs of the individuals within the oil and gas industry. It was exactly these executives who decided that David must eat at Jani's restaurant and Jani at David's. Energy Cuisine translates their journeys across the globe, infusing the people, places, and ingredients that truly make their dishes spectacular.
Returning to the cuisine of his childhood spent in France, Chef David Denis has found that even restaurant success is bigger in Texas. His French restaurant, Le Mistral, was named the Best Food In Houston 2010 by Zagat Survey. Meanwhile, Chef Jani Lehtinen remembers the warm and rich cuisine of his numerous trips to Italy and serves up hearty Italian masterpieces at his acclaimed restaurant, Bucco, in Finland. Sharing a language of food, David and Jani, along with veteran author John DeMers and professional photographer Shannon O'Hara, create this book as a testament to the power of food to energize people, transporting both authors and readers to Finland, Provence, and Shiner, TX.
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In light of the FUD over the Unity Shopping Lens package that has landed in Quantal there were also some legitimate security and privacy concerns surrounding this new innovative feature that I think will be very useful to many Ubuntu Users.
I had an opportunity to exchange a e-mail with Mark Shuttleworth late last night who put me in touch with Canonical's Legal Team who is now looking into what changes they will need to introduce to cover how search data is collected and handled when it reaches http://productsearch.ubuntu.com (ultimately SSL will land soon).
I do honestly think that shopping results will be a great feature but I do not think the work is done and this lens needs polishing which it will surely get from the Unity Team. Think how much time can be saved if you could search for products relevant to you and compare prices from a number of online retailers and find the best price all while supporting Ubuntu?
There has been a lot of concern since this conversation started over the weekend and much of it is sensational at best but I think the real important and productive discussion is occurring on Ubuntu IRC and our mailing lists where the Community, Developers and Canonical are working hard to make sure users have great Quetzal in the coming weeks. If for whatever reason you do not want the Unity Shopping Lens you can remove it by running "sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping" in Terminal.
Remember you can be a partner in the discussion and development of Ubuntu by joining the Community.
Stay Calm and Download Ubuntu!
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The Freemason's Daughter
Saying good-bye to Scotland is the hardest thing that Jenna MacDuff has had to do--until she met Lord Pembroke. Jenna's small clan has risked their lives traveling the countryside as masons, secretly drumming up support and arms at every stop for the exiled King James Stuart so that he may retake the British throne. But their next job brings them into enemy territory: England.
Jenna's father repeatedly warns her to trust no one, but when the Duke of Keswick hires the clan to build a garrison on his estate, it seems she cannot hide her capable mind from the duke's inquisitive son, Lord Alex Pembroke--nor mask her growing attraction to him.
But there's a covert plan behind the building of the garrison--a secret that cannot be revealed. Will Jenna hide her family's mutinous plot and assist her clan's cause, or protect the life of the young noble she's falling for?
In Shelley Sackier's lush, vivid historical debut, someone will pay a deadly price no matter what Jenna chooses.


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You'll answer all these questions during the brainstorming stage, then move those ideas through the planning stage, where you start to flesh out characters, plot, and your storyworld as you prepare to start writing.
There are some decisions you need to make before you start writing. You'll need to choose one or more point of view characters and a narrative mode. You'll also want to figure out how to write a scene, how to come up with enough scenes to fill a whole book, and what to do when you're stuck or have holes in your story.
Once you have a plan of attack, you're ready to start writing. It can seem daunting to try and complete an entire novel, but you can do it. Give yourself permission to stink and finish that first draft. You can fix it later.
As you write, you'll discover things about your characters and story that you didn't see coming. That's okay. Practice will help you learn when to follow the muse and when to stick to your plans.
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This is so true.
The magic happens during the editing and rewrite stages. This is when you get to plant details and descriptions, tweak dialogue, tighten your prose, choose concrete words over vague ones, and make your chapter and scene beginnings and endings just right so that your readers won't be able to put down your book.
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|I was wearing a batik skirt for the outing. Batik is a traditional Indonesian fabric, made by hand, either hand0-stamped or hand-painted by local craftmens.
As Michael grew into a toddler, I started to notice similar theme on my friends' social media: pictures of them as parents, with their toddler children, visiting places of interest of our childhood.
You see, when we were little, our senses were much more atuned. Any new spectacle, smell and sound will hold us enthralled and mesmerized. The color of a new toy, the cheerful songs of a circus, the feel of petting a neighbor's dog, those all excited us and gave us joy. As we got older, everthing felt much more mundane and even what we used to think as spectacular became ordinary.
Logically speaking, I know that an otter who can count and a parrot who can spell are extraordinary, but having seen them a lot in the circus and numerous shows growing up, they no longer hold excitement for me. I no longer experience the same excitement as I used to as a child.
For that matter, theme parks, circus, and dolphin shows are less interest to me now compared to experiences that I have not had before, such as new Broadway shows and art museums. You know, boring, grown up attractions. Oh yeah, and traveling and occasionally - don't judge, it's just a woman thing - shopping.
A while back, both Hubby and I took a day off and took Michael to watch dolphin and sea lion shows at Seaworld. The venue is only twenty-minutes drive away, and there's no way we would take Michael on a weekend because the place turned into a zoo with throngs of people from all over Jakarta as well as tourists from other towns.
It was a successful family outings, and there were so many things I was grateful for. Very much.
Seeing Michael enjoying the shows.
Poker face. That's what Michael is. He rarely shows emotions nor excitements, well, except when he plays, of course. When he likes something, he will just say with a blank expression, "I like it, Mommy." No jump-up-and-down-excited thing from this child. However, during the sea lion show, his serious face lighted up, he cracked into a wide grin, laughed merrily, and exclaimed in cheerful glee, "Look, Mommy! The sea lion is so cute! I want to come here again one day!" That, generates a warm feeling and glow from deep inside my heart.
A husband who has grown into a better and better, more involved father.
It might be a simple gesture. It might be a small thing to some. But not to me. For me, there is nothing sexier than a man who is patiently and willingly take care of his toddler with such tenderness and manliness at the same time. From teaching his son to punch another boy who tried to bully him during the show (I'm a big believer that anyone is entitled to stand up for him/herself from bullying), to taking him to the male bathroom instead of having to go to the female bathroom with Mommy!
|Michael was borrowing his father's sunglasses, striking a "cool" pose.
That we can really, really afford to go there again, and "take it for granted" should we have to.
This might lead some of the readers to critize me, and I have no intention whatsoever to boast. I am fully aware of how blessed and fortunate I am to be born in a relatively well-off family and married to a man who is a very good provider for the family. Not to mention that I myself also have a relatively good career with lots of perks, benefits, and flexibility.
Here's a background. Indonesia is not a developed country. It means, you will find very very very wealthy people here, and lots, lots and lots VERY poor people. The venue that we went to, is considered expensive for most Indonesian people, and a lot of parents will save and treat an outing to the place as a big excursion. Which means, quite often, it's like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to spend such money, which will warrant the toddlers and parents to take in as much shows and attractions as they could squeeze into in one day. To go in, you need a pass that will cover all the shows, and if you don't have much money, you have been saving for a long time to enjoy the venue, not to mention that you are from out of town and most likely if you will not visit the capital again you won't get the chance to go, you have to take as much advantage of the day, as possible. So even if you are tired, and your children are tired, and in the tropics it could be as hot as a furnace, you will drag your family from show to show to get most of the money. Because you have been saving a lot for the occassion, and most likely, it would be many many years before you get the opportunity ever again.
For our family, it doesn't have to be that way. Because thanks to the income that my dear husband brought in every month, and my income, and the fact that we don't live far from the park, we could well afford to visit again should we want to.
Though it was not a holiday, the park was jam packed. We started early in the morning, and at noon, Michael was tired already from only watching two shows, there was a lot of queing and walking going on. He didn't complain, but we noticed. Afterall, he is only three years old, and it was summertime in the tropics, in an outdoor venue. Seeing the excited faces of the children and parents around us, but also noting the worn, overheated, and tired expression on them, yet the determined look that they will keep going until the last show of the day, Hubby and I looked at each other and silently sent a little prayer of thanks to the Lord.
"Michael, are you tired already? Do you want to eat here and watch the dolphin show later or just leave to the mall to eat something?" Hubby asked our son.
"Will you take me back here one day to watch the dolphins?" Michael asked.
"Of course, when Mommy and Daddy have a day off and if you want to, we can."
"Then let's leave and have lunch, Daddy. I'm tired."
So that's it. We blew three full-priced tickets that could have lasted us for one full day, and left. We could go back after lunch, but Michael fell asleep already, so we headed home and tucked him in for his usual nap.
Let me tell you, Friends. I don't believe that money is evil. The love of money is. Money is only a tool. It cannot do anything. We can put it to good use, or bad use, either way.
And reality bites, I am thankful that eventhough we are not wealthy family, we lack nothing and God provides for us abundantly.
Now, there is an example of how we could put the money that the Lord entrusted to us in a good way.
Now, there is an example of how we could put the money that the Lord entrusted to us in a good way.
|We had fish and chips, New York style, at Fish&Co. I'm not a big fan of spending a lot on mineral water, but they only sell overpriced Equil, so we had no choice for Michael. Tap water is not drinkable in Indonesia, by the way.
Instead of spending money on Easter basket, Egg hunts, or Easter party, some coworkers from Catholic & Christian Community at my office joint forces together to visit an orphanage, as well as donating money and groceries. We deliberately picked an orphanage that is not well known, because the more "popular" ones have no difficulty getting donation.
At first, it seems like we could not collect enough money to make a sigificant contribution among ourselves. I suggested that they also spread the words to other coworkers outside the community. "Kindness has no religious border, " I tried to convinced them. "In my previous office I spread the words about donating feminine pads for an all girls' Catholic orphanage, and everyone, from any religion, gave something that my car was overflowed. I am sure that many many people want to donate should there is a possibility, it's just that they don't always know the way, where to send the donation to, or basically just too lazy to visit the orphanage themselves."
On the D-day, the money collected for donation was three times from our initial target.
It's so good to know that despite everything, there is still a good amount of kindness and love all around us. We just need to seek it and reach out.
And yes, a little bit of money won't hurt. ^__^


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When it comes to sparkling things, like most girls, you've at least got our attention. Such is the case with Native Union's latest POP phones which they have covered in crystals. The new Crystal POP Phone is a sparkling handset that has been adorned in hundreds of Swarovski crystals. In particular this handset features a retro rotary style handset design. But besides for looking retro chic, what benefits does this handset have you ask? Supposedly it protects users from cell phone radiation by as much as 99%.
"The Crystal POP phone is a truly lavish accessory for the user who wants to feel like a star," said John Brunner, managing director, Native Union. "Users will experience luxury and glamour during each conversation, as well as a more convenient and comfortable talking experience, all while making a statement about their personal style."
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Here are just a few anecdotes from the last month of my life in France as I try to navigate where I come from and where I live now. I love living in France, but sometimes you'll have to allow me a little rant.
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Here are just a few anecdotes from the last month of my life in France as I try to navigate where I come from and where I live now. I love living in France, but sometimes you'll have to allow me a little rant.
This is an article on Wondrworld website where you can discover experiences of people that have traveled all around the world.
I first fell in love with Europe when I spent a year in Florence, Italy when I was 19. I loved the culture, food, and history. It was during this year that I met my British man who is a complete Francophile. After returning back to Montreal, Canada I had 4 years of university to get used to the fact that I would be moving to this continent one day. We picked Provence for the weather and the possibility of finding jobs in the tourism industry. We've since discovered the stunning landscape and I've become completely enamoured with the daily Provencal markets. After 2 years, we've finally settled here and have bought our first house that we will be renovating throughout the next 6 months in a beautiful village called Maussane-les-Alpilles.
One of the great joys of living in Provence is that you can get into a car and drive to the ocean, the alps and all other types of landscapes. On weekends, we enjoy exploring little villages in the various regions and discovering gastronomic delights that change from village to village.
Although using the railway is very easy in Europe, we always drive. We have a classic Austin mini that is full of character and fun to drive. I've seen the best landscapes and have eaten the best meals in Italy and France in the middle of seemingly nowhere. When you drive on the back roads, you really start to understand the essence of a place. Hiking is also a very popular past time here in France and it's a great way to see the country.
Moving to another country certainly isn't easy. Finding work, sorting out paperwork, learning a new language, cultural faux-pas and being away from everything familiar can be difficult. I've learned the hard way that you really need to talk to as many people as you can. No matter how uneasy you are with your new language skills. The more people you talk to, especially in small towns and villages, the more available opportunities. Also, when I first moved here I didn't want to make friends with expats; I wanted to assimilate into French culture. What I didn't realize is that expats can be your gateway into that culture. If they have been living in that place for some time they can often give you just as many insights and advice as locals. I must admit it's also comforting to sometimes speak with people who know where you're coming from.
Some time ago I went to the market in Eygalières which is a beautiful Provencal village. After wandering around I sat at the café which is located right behind the fish stand. I ordered a coffee; it was about 11 am. All of a sudden, I hear the fishermen yelling at me in French: what are you doing drinking coffee at this time of day??!! Before I knew it, my chair had been pulled up to their wonky metal table and a glass of rosé wine had been plonked down in front of me.
The rosé wine was considered as practically nonalcoholic since everyone else was drinking Pastis and had been doing so since 9 am! For the first time, I ate raw clams, shrimp, and sardines that had been caught that morning in Marseille. It was surprisingly delicious! Whenever I go to that market now, I can barely say hello before a chair is pulled up for me.
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The "New York Times" is a paper that prides itself on being careful and authoritative. On page two of the paper each day there is a column devoted to errata, in which it diligently corrects any mistakes that may have been made in terms of photos, names, data, times, places and quotes.
Correcting mistakes as soon as they are discovered is a normal thing to do. Nobody is likely to be so incensed about a mistake that they decide to lay siege to the New York Times offices or demand that the paper's director apologize or resign.
A campaign advertisement published by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) recently used the term "astringent persimmon" when referring to the price of persimmons being NT$2 per jin (600g). However, the picture used was of the non-astringent variety, which sells for a much higher price. The price of persimmons is something that can easily be verified and there is no way that the people working on the DPP's campaign materials would have been so stupid as to intentionally use an incorrect picture to mislead voters.
As soon as the error was discovered, the DPP immediately explained that the picture of non-astringent persimmons had been used incorrectly.
In contrast, President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) could not care less about the livelihood of our farmers and knows only how to conduct political battles. He also cannot be bothered to find out the truth about things, preferring instead to use his status as president to conduct smear campaigns.
Ma scolded the DPP for its persimmon mix-up in an attempt to take the attention away from his own shortcomings. The Ministry of National Defense even ordered soldiers to eat as many persimmons as possible so as to absorb some of the surplus and save face for Ma. Unfortunately they got things wrong, and the soldiers ended up eating the more expensive kind of persimmon, not the astringent kind that are selling for pennies because of the glut.
It is instructive to compare how the DPP handled the persimmon issue with the way Ma dealt with rice wine prices some time ago. They responded to these incidents very differently, and those differences highlight the contrasting characters of the two parties' leaders and reveal much about their approach to leadership.
The DPP got the price of persimmons right, but used the wrong photo. After the incident, the party not only corrected the error, but also apologized. The mistake was an honest one.
Ma, in contrast, was disingenuous. He boasted about his supposed political achievement in reducing the price of "rice wine" when in fact only rice wine used for cooking became more affordable, not the kind that people drink. Ma knows full well that the prices of these two types of rice wine are different, but he still talks about them as if they were the same thing. This is not an honest mistake; it is deliberate deception.
After being in power for more than three years, Ma's team has come up with misdirected policies that have done little if anything to address the root causes of a series problems. All they have done is lie and engage in smear campaigns. They will not apologize for their misleading behavior because in their view any lie is acceptable as long as it helps them get votes.
Persimmons and rice wine may not be earth-shaking issues. However, the attitudes with which the two sides have handled these issues do point to a larger truth. Where Tsai has been honest, serious and responsible, Ma has been mischievous, hypocritical and deceitful.


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After a great cruise on the water, probably about 20mins or so, we caught sight of this!
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We saw a blue screen being built, not usually there when we have passed on other occasions, this is most likely being constructed for the VoftheDT.


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Collision coverage, if purchased as part of your policy, is a type of insurance policy that protects your vehicle in the event of a car accident regardless of whose fault it is. If you caused the accident, then your only option will have to use your collision protection and your rates may (and probably will) go up as a result. But if the other driver caused the accident, then you will not be penalized for using your collision coverage as insurance rates are determined based on fault. You may need to use your collision even if you were not at fault, for example, if the other driver was driving without valid car insurance.
Who Is Covered?
The policy holder, all listed vehicle operators or named insureds (persons named on the policy as an insured person, whether as a vehicle operator or otherwise), and permissive users provided they are not excluded under the policy provision (for example, people who live with you and are not added to your policy).
In addition, with respect to an insured vehicle, the following may be included as insured/covered persons under the collision coverage provisions of an automobile insurance policy: (a) blood relative, (b) relatives through marriage (many policies have an additional requirement that the relative be living with the insured).
Permissive User
A permissive user of your car means someone who you gave permission to drive your car. For example, if you let your friend (who does not live with you) drive your car to the store, or drive home from the movies, your collision coverage will be in force and pay for damages to your vehicle in the event of a car accident.
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Under most California car insurance policies, residents of your household are automatically excluded unless they are specifically named as vehicle operators on in your policy declarations.
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There is one other option. Some California insurance policies offer uninsured motorist property damage protection, which works similarly to collision coverage. However, unlike collision coverage, California uninsured motorist property damage protection usually has a very small limit of coverage, usually no more than $3,500.00. So if the damages to your vehicle are very small and you have this type of protection, you may not need to use your collision coverage in an uninsured motorist scenario.


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'I don't think I can forgive anymore' I sobbed as my friend 'gently insisted' I go home from work. I had crumpled at my desk overwhelmed with pain and distress. It was about 8 weeks since my friends suicide and and I had just discovered another huge disappointment in my life. Try as I might I could not 'pull myself together' to function. My coping facade had truly slipped.
I went to see the doctor. She said I was depressed and offered me anti-depressants. I refused, I was not able to accept her diagnosis 'I'm just sad because of bad things in my life'. ' I will feel better if I can sleep and get rid of this constant headache'. I accepted some non-addictive sleeping meds and pain killers. I got home and sat looking at the meds wondering if they were enough to stop it all. This thought stirred…
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I thought I'd get a quick update posted. I've got a little more work done on the face. After the hole cut for the Matrix Orbital LCD, I thought I'd go ahead and get the holes cut for the Dakota Digital gauges. I used a hole saw for the initial cut, which you can … Read the full entry »
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If this abomination does come to pass then, were Mayor Bloomberg or indeed Obama to walk up to the spot where the towers fell, unzip their flies and urinate into the earth where the victims dies, they would not commit a greater act of deliberate contempt for the memory of the dead and for their families. I do not know enough about Bloomberg to comment on his motives, but I suspect as far as Obama is concerned, the offense it will cause is the point, it is certainly what is motivating those behind this sickening plan.
I would like to recommend the comments of two separate gentleman on this subject first the excellent Pat Condell, I missed this brilliant commentary when it was first posted in June, and I am grateful to TVJ for drawing it to my attention, you can either watch the video at this blog, or even better click here to watch it and rate it at Youtube
Both these brave patriots make their points very tellingly, we are at the eleventh hour but there may still be time to change some minds before this terrible mistake is made. Hence I urge readers to circulate foth of the above as widely as possible.


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KANO, Nigeria — With anger swelling over corruption, inequality and a devastating Islamist insurgency in the nation's north, Nigerians by a wide margin chose an austere former general who once ruled with an iron hand to be their next president, according to election results on Tuesday.
The election was the most competitive presidential race ever in Nigeria, one of the largest democracies in the world. Now, if power is handed over peacefully, it will be a major shift for the nation — the first transfer between civilians of different parties in a country that has spent much of its post-colonial history shaken by military coups.
With results from all of Nigeria's 36 states counted, the former military ruler, Muhammadu Buhari, delivered a crushing defeat to President Goodluck Jonathan, getting nearly 55 percent of the vote to Mr. Jonathan's 45 percent.
Since the end of military rule in 1999, Nigeria has been governed by a single, dominant party — Mr. Jonathan's Peoples Democratic Party.
But on Tuesday, Mr. Buhari's campaign said that the president had called the challenger at 5:15 p.m. to acknowledge defeat — an act many Nigerians considered a big step forward after previous elections marred by fraud and incumbents clinging to office.
"We knew that we had the numbers last night, but dealing with the type of government we have, we have never really felt we are out of the woods," said Garba Shehu, a spokesman for Mr. Buhari's party, the All Progressives Congress. "Clearly we have won it."
Later on Tuesday, Mr. Jonathan publicly thanked Nigerians for "the great opportunity I was given to lead this country," congratulated Mr. Buhari and said he had kept his word to deliver "free and fair elections."
"Nobody's ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian," Mr. Jonathan said. "The unity, stability and progress of our dear country is more important than anything else."
Analysts said that the election could mean the beginning of a competitive two-party system in Nigeria, Africa's biggest economy and most populous nation with about 180 million people.
"It is very significant in our democratic growth, in grounding democracy and consolidating it," said Ebere Onwudiwe, a political scientist with the Ken Nnamani Center for Leadership and Development. "We can't have a one-party democracy. We're setting a very great example for the rest of the smaller states in Africa."
Others noted that the peaceful handover of power from one party to another was a relative rarity on a continent where strongmen or dominant parties rule in many countries.
It is "a giant leap for democracy in Nigeria and Africa, particularly at a time when many incumbents are trying to change their constitution to extend their legal term in office," said Pierre Englebert, an African politics specialist at Pomona College.
On Tuesday night, jubilant crowds lined overpasses, bridges and streets here, the major city in Mr. Buhari's stronghold in the north. The mood was celebratory as motorists honked their horns; the former general has been very popular here for years.
There have been frequent attacks in Kano by the Boko Haram militant group, which has killed thousands of civilians in this country, and people spoke of a yearning for them to end.
"I am very, very happy," said Salu Saleh Mohammed, 19, a student. "I love Buhari. He is good government and national security. He will draw Nigeria from bad government to government."
On Mr. Jonathan's watch, Nigeria has been pummeled by Boko Haram, its economic fortunes have plunged with falling oil prices, inequality is rampant, and corruption scandals have tarnished the president's image.
Mr. Buhari, while short on specifics for fixing a budget hemorrhaging revenue because of the fall in oil prices, has promised to tackle corruption vigorously, as he did when he was the country's authoritarian military ruler two decades ago.
That in itself would help an economy that, by one estimate, has lost some $400 billion because of corruption since independence.
Voters here spoke frequently of corruption when explaining why they cast their ballots for Mr. Buhari. But he also swept competitive states in the country's southwest. He took swing states in the center, and he crushed the incumbent in his northern strongholds, particularly in this ancient Muslim metropolis, Nigeria's second-largest city.
As the results were being counted, there were fears — voiced notably on Monday by top British and American diplomats — that the government would interfere to block Mr. Buhari's victory. The military had already intervened at least once in the election, when the country's top security officers forced the electoral commission to delay the vote for six weeks.
Those extra six weeks of campaigning and spending gave Mr. Jonathan time to mount a last-minute offensive against Boko Haram, with the deployment of South African mercenaries. The offensive reclaimed, for now, much of the territory Boko Haram had held in the northeast.
Help came from neighboring countries like Chad, though the Nigerian military has claimed credit for the offensive. Still, a crucial question in the election's immediate aftermath had been whether security forces would allow power to pass to Mr. Buhari.
Mr. Buhari won in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital and major city. His supporters appear to have been more strongly motivated than those of a president whose reputation had suffered from repeated corruption scandals.
Last year, after the governor of the country's central bank repeatedly asserted that billions of dollars in oil revenue owed to the treasury was missing from public coffers, he was removed from his post.
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Maps showing the violent rise of the Islamist militant group that is waging a campaign of terror in Nigeria.
The missing funds could amount to "$10.8 billion or $12 billion or $19 billion or $21 billion — we do not know at this point," the bank governor wrote to the Nigerian Senate before his dismissal, adding that the problem "has been going on for a long time" and could "bring the entire economy to its knees."
An audit commissioned by the government has yet to be released.
Questions have also swirled about the way the government allocates crude oil to middlemen who then make huge profits from reselling it. Beyond that, some corrupt officials have been pardoned; others suspected of abusing the public trust have been excused.
Mr. Jonathan's handling of the Boko Haram insurgency, which has lasted nearly six years, has also stirred deep resentment. In New York, a senior United Nations official told the Security Council on Monday that Boko Haram had killed more than 7,300 civilians in three states in northern Nigeria since the beginning of 2014 alone, and 1.5 million people had been displaced in Nigeria and neighboring countries, according to the United Nations.
The government's military campaign against the group has often been brutal as well, with officials and witnesses in the north describing mass killings of civilians by Nigerian soldiers, harrowing detentions of residents, and often little effort to distinguish militants from the innocent.
"We need change; people have been tired for a very long time," said Ibrahim Sanusi, 24, a civil servant who had joined the crowds outside the Emir's Palace here Tuesday night. "People need to feel safer. After that, corruption and jobs. We need peace of mind. That is what the government must provide."
"Yesterday, he was a soldier," Mr. Sanusi said, dismissing Mr. Buhari's authoritarian past, which occurred before he was born. "And now, we have elected him."


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As the calendar turns to 2014, and as I launch my new website and blog, I find myself thinking about new beginnings and my plans for the coming year. One of my big plans is to release my debut novel, The Damnable Legacy of A Minister's Wife. Set largely against Alaska's unforgiving landscape and narrated from beyond the grave, it's a story about attachment, faith, hope, redemption, and survival.
The release of a first novel is an exciting, frightening adventure, and a lot of uncertainty lies ahead. Of course there will be moments of joy and celebration, but I'm not a fool. I also know there will be mistakes made, disappointments to face, lessons to learn. There are times I worry about the F-word (failure) and consider closing down my screen and giving up on writing altogether. But I know that nothing great comes from quitting. So I've made a commitment to myself, and my readers, to move ahead.
This mixture of excitement and apprehension on the eve of a new year reminds me of the characters in my novel, as a matter of fact. If we were to look in on them on the New Year's Eve that precedes the story, here's what we'd find.
- Lynn Van Swol curled up with a book, but not really reading. She'd be distracted by the images hanging on her walls, the journals on her bookshelves, and the silence from Greg's recent departure. She'd be drawn to reflections of her life, and she'd be thinking about goals unmet and decisions regretted. She'd be remembering how her first lover, Farid, had said this was only the beginning, that climbing would change her life forever, and she'd be nodding in wonder at how right he'd been all those long years ago. She'd also be looking toward the new year and her upcoming plans with both trepidation and determination, taking it all in through the sour lens of uncertainty and from the distasteful perspective of irreversible aging.
- Beth and Ryan Mahoney would likely be at home on New Year's Eve, sipping champagne on their deck while bundled in blankets beneath the High Desert stars. On the surface, they'd appear to be blissfully celebrating their return to the West and their loving commitment to one another. But beneath the smiles and joy, they'd each be silently suppressing their disappointments of infertility, their fears of returning illness, and the grief that accompanies lost faith.
- Frankie Rizzoni would be in her bedroom, trying not to hear the sounds of her mother's raucous acquaintances and dreading the mess she'd be forced to clean up the next day. She'd be lying on her mattress and inventing a new life, full of promise, safety, and freedom, only to be interrupted time and again by the slamming of a door, the breaking of bottles, or the rattling of her locked doorknob.
Crossing into another new year is a bit like reading another new novel: it gives each of us an opportunity to reflect on the past, anticipate the future, and recognize that life will never be quite the same again. I hope when you read The Damnable Legacy of A Minister's Wife, you'll find that your life won't ever be quite the same again, either. Until then, please check back with my blog and sign up for my newsletter.
"For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice."
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