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Feeling Sketchy - #113 and Simon Says Stamps - It's a Guy Thing!!
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Great card Marg. Love reading your techniques. Good luck with your challenges.ReplyDelete
Great card and have to say, love that globe chippie, - it makes for a great vocal point. (At first I thought it was a Tim Holtz die cut ). Love how you have layered it all up! Good luck with the challenge!ReplyDelete
Oh this is just gorgeous! Love the knotted string, and that globe is utterly gorgeous! Must try and get my hands on such! Love this card.ReplyDelete
Wishing you luck! And it's a great idea entering challenges....as you know, I'm hopelessly hooked!!! LOOOVe how you've fussied up that globe...looks wonderful. Great masculine card:))ReplyDelete
That is a wonderful card Marg,, this one is another stunner.. love the inside and the outside of it!! And enjoy the challenges ! They get addictive you know....!! hehe!! Have a great day!ReplyDelete
Wonderful masculine card! Love how you have treated that gorgeous chippie!ReplyDelete
perfect guy card! loving all the textures!! i'm a little late in my commenting but wanted to thank you for playing along with us at simon says stamp!ReplyDelete
Well I am just delighted that you decided to join us at Feeling Sketchy Margy. Such a beautiful card too - love the background and so nice to see some masculine cards. You are right - challenges do take you way out of your comfort zone sometimes and it is a good thing too. I do hope that you will play along with us again. <3ReplyDelete
Great male card. Thank you for joining the challenge at Feeling Sketchy. Hope to see you again next time.ReplyDelete
Wonderful masculine card!! Love the distressed look and the globe is awesome!! Thanks for playing along with us at the Feeling Sketchy blog!! :)ReplyDelete
What an awesome card. So much detail on the card which looks FANTASTIC. Thanks for joining ~ Michelle FS DTReplyDelete
yes you are the queen of cards ... beautiful work margy xReplyDelete
I have said it before & I'll say it again, you do the BEST male cards ever & this one is certainly no exception. Love what you have done with the little chippie globe too. LOVE it.oxReplyDelete
Oh what a gorgeous masculine card, Marg!! I adore how you tied and knotted the cording. I may just have to try this!!ReplyDelete
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Since so many personal and corporate users are still on [Windows XP], Microsoft announced that it would provide [Extended Support until 2014]. A ComputerWorld article back in 2007 offered tips on [How to make Windows XP last for the next seven years]. From May 2009 to April 2014, all support is fee-based and non-security hotfixes are produced only for corporate customers.
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I always think of the Oriental Poppy as the aunts you were fascinated by but slightly ashamed of in your youth, extroverts, daringly dressed, wearing bright red lipstick. These have flourished and multiplied in the garden and make a great show at this time of year, their strident colour a great contrast with the more restrained tones around them. "It's summer" they seem to say "What the hell!" Each bloom lasts a very short time but there are many more to replace them. A real star of the summer garden.
A poem The Poppy here by Francis Thompson of The Hound of Heaven fame.
Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare,
And left the flushed print in a poppy there:
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The Red Poppy here by American poet Louise Gluck.
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The Mercer County Sheriff says 23-year-old Michael Graham even wrote a letter confessing to the crime.
Investigators say he simply took advantage of the church after its members offered to help him pay a water bill.
Sheriff Chris Kehrt says Graham stole the identity of the Abundant Life Church.
The church apparently wrote a check to Graham to help him pay a water bill. But the sheriff says Graham had other ideas.
"This is a new thing, taking checking and routing numbers off a valid account, and using it to call 1-900 numbers of the sexual nature," Kehrt said.
Kehrt said the bill for the calls was close to $800. He also says Graham has been staying at the Rainbow House, a place for people with mental disabilities. But Kehrt said Graham also has an uncanny ability to remember numbers.
"He can memorize the check and routing numbers and then use it for his sex call sessions," Kehrt said. "And the church was notified they'd been overdrawn and it was traced back to him."
In a written letter to police, Graham confessed to the crime, writing, "I used their checking account to call the sex lines for my pleasure. I did it but I know I shouldn't have done it. I'm very sorry and I know I have to go to jail."
The sheriff says it's likely Graham will undergo a mental evaluation.
Investigators say Graham may also be linked to a similar crime at a local store, in which the account and routing numbers were memorized from a check, then used for phone sex.
Graham has been indicted on 11 felony counts for the misuse of electronic information.
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There are MANY reasons I keep a pantry inventory list:
- it helps me easily meal plan – something I highly recommend. We'll talk about that more in a later post – stay tuned!
- it keeps me from running out of staple ingredients I like to keep on hand;
- conversely, it keeps me from stockpiling items I don't need, spending money I don't need to (you know, those buy 10 "deals" the market usually has running); and
- it ensures that we eat the food we already have on hand before it expires.
So ultimately, this bad boy saves me TIME and MONEY, yo.
Where should I put this list?
It's really up to you. Many people use a household organizing binder to keep their systems in place, but I'm not big on having papers to flip through – I'm all about Marie Kondo-ing the crud out of everything right now, so the less paper/folders/et cetera, the better. 😉
Our pantry is super tiny, so I just printed one copy of this bad-boy, laminated it, and taped it to the inside of my pantry door. That way, I cut down on paper waste and I can see what's in the pantry and what ingredients I'm getting low on right when I open the door.
You could also print multiple copies, put them in a clipboard and hang the clipboard inside your pantry with a pen attached for easy updating. Do what works best for you!
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Shelley on February 26, 2017 at 7:14 pm
thanks….great idea
Diana on March 12, 2017 at 5:01 pm
This is a great idea! I printed out three as I have three pantries, one for spices and seldom used items (molasses and corn starch etc.), one for all my extra canned and bottled items and one for pastas, flours and sugars. And yes I do stock a veriety o each as I have no idea what I will be in the mood to make! haha. (It all depends on how much clean up I am able to do.)
Diana on March 12, 2017 at 5:06 pm
PS: We just did a clean out of our freezers and have more pork than any sane family needs! I would love a list for freezer foods so I can take it shopping with me (that's what I plan to do with the pantry lists too!). Thanks!
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Investors are anxiously awaiting the Snapchat IPO, but new competition could make Snapchat stock less appealing before its potential Q1 2017 IPO.
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Facebook Collections could mean less revenue for Snapchat, which could make investing in Snapchat stock less profitable.
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One caution, however. As is often the case with articles written for mainstream magazines, the columns don't always go beyond a surface critique; sometimes the authors seem more concerned with cleverness than with hard-hitting analysis.
The book is organized around seven thematically based chapters, such as: "The Violent Birth of Corporations," "Trademarks: What's in a Name?" and "Primitive Accumulation: Brazilwood."
The chapter on "The Economic Culture of Drugs" has been particularly successful in my classroom. I usually begin by reading the chapter's introduction, which explores how and under what social conditions a plant or its pharmacological effects are deemed socially acceptable or unacceptable. It also examines how "drugs" were the first commodities in the modern global trading system.
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Ryerson is changing the way money can be loaded on to OneCards.
Instead of machines, there will be a website to deposit funds.
"Ryerson is looking to create an online deposit application that would eventually eliminate the need for machines on campus," Darcy Flynn, manager of Ryerson's OneCard Office, said.
The new system would function similar to Starbucks cards.
Students will be able to add funds to their OneCard account and check past transactions.
There is also a feature for students' parents to have access to their OneCard account, to add funds.
The current process to add funds to a OneCard is by phoning the OneCard office, going into the office or using cash at one of the 12 machines across campus.
The machines, however, do not accept credit or debit cards.
Kate Kassem, a first-year public health student, tells the Ryersonian she's frustrated with the OneCard machines on campus.
Kassem and her friend tried to print a document at the library, but were unable to do so because of the OneCard machine.
"It's just more difficult than it needs to be," Kassem said.
"There are machines at the library, but we only had coins and the machine only takes bills. It was just such a hassle trying to figure out a way to add credit — and all I needed was just to print a couple pages, which is a couple cents."
Kassem ended up going to the printing centre in the students' centre to bypass the OneCard machines.
Currently, McGill University and Wilfrid Laurier allow students to add funds digitally to their OneCard account.
The move for Ryerson to go digital will be a lengthy process to ensure Ryerson meets the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
According to Flynn, to comply with the PCI DSS, all transaction companies must be certified, personal information must be limited and the network security must follow Ryerson standards to minimize risk of information breach.
During the process of creating a digital platform for OneCard, current machines will be altered to accept cards.
"As the online application would be new to campus, we would still have machines, but they would be phased out over time … We hope to have a select number of machines to have the ability to accept cards during the transitionary period," Flynn said.
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Before we start, if you want to see the trailer, you can find it here:
Directed by Joram Lürsen
Starring Tygo Gernandt, Marwan Kenzari and Sarah Cronis
"Two ex-cons kidnap a millionaire's daughter and hold her for ransom, only to see their scheme go awry when she proves herself to be more cunning than expected."
To start off, I'm really impressed that this was inspired by the 2009 movie The Disappearance of Alice Creed. It's really nice to see a take on it from The Netherlands and I was really impressed with the outcome. I will warn you – there may be some small spoilers.
Straight away the cinematography and camera work set the scene well and keep an uneasy tone with the viewpoints. Some really good camera work going on and there were some really cool shots throughout that kept me awe-ing at the work that had gone into setting the scene for this movie. The music as well was really well placed and subtly aided the tension and unease of some scenes. I really found that this combination really had me hanging on to the edge of my seat as it really amped up the overall atmosphere. A huge shout out to Merlijn Snitker for the music we hear in the movie and also to Jasper Wolf for the really fantastic cinematography.
Right off the bat Victor (Tygo) and Rico (Marwan) have a strong on screen connection. The two of them successfully bond not only with dialogue and skill but with body language. They both give off a threatening vibe and play on each other's strengths. They work together as partners throughout and really work as a criminal team. The beginning of the movie has very little dialogue so their body language has to show a great deal of threat and fierceness. They had me successfully feeling uneasy as their plan was so meticulously set out that it all seemed too easy for them, so smooth and problem free. Instantly, I had questions I wanted answered. The way they calmly went about their business and spoke about an unidentified other character, I wanted to know who it was and why things were happening. They successfully had me guessing and wondering about their scheme that I was transfixed to the movie – glued onto the story that was unravelling before me. Laura (Sarah) was fantastic and was incredible at playing a tough, smart female lead. I really enjoyed the way we were introduced to her cunning ways as she eagerly tried to get out of her situation. Her reactions, emotions and body language all tied in really well and had me routing for her all the way through.
Reckless had me, however, seeing the story through each character's eyes, so I felt that I had the choice in who to take pity on which gave this film a really unique concept. I felt that the subtle links between the three pushed the subplot further and really gave the characters a more three dimensional view – there were ties to each side of the plan and it felt like the ending could have been a 50/50 chance between Vic and Laura. The individual twists and turns as well as the heart felt sub plot really had me going for the nail biting experience. There were so many moments in which I was gripping my seat, clenching my fists and getting real stuck in. The movie was fantastic at getting me involved and eager for a resolve.
The whole movie had so much going on to keep you entertained and entwined I really would recommend this movie to anyone. I had a lot of fun watching this and I'm sure you will, too! So check out the links below to find out where you can get a copy of Reckless on Tuesday! Overall, I'm happy to give Reckless 5 skulls out of 5 (☠☠☠☠☠).
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That will be the right-wing stategy to save Bush's derriere.
Great words of wisdom by Ken. LS
John Yoo, the Berkeley law professor who has invented the legal justification for many of Bush's most dictatorial actions, is now coming under the spotlight, mainly because he supplied Bush with the legal arguments that they are using to back their claim that it was okay to spy on Americans without warrants.
With even the Wall Street Journal lining up against Bush on this one, you have to know that one of the coming right-wing talk points will be "Bush's lawyer said it was okay. It's the lawyer's fault Bush did this. He was just listening to his lawyer's advice."
Clearly Presidents are so powerful that they can easily find a lawyer who will justify ANYTHING they want to do, making it important for the president and his people to let their advisors, both legal and intelligence, feel comfortable about telling them the truth. A friend of mine pointed out that for every Supreme Court case there is a very well written brief on each side, including the losing side. Right-wing ideologues do not want truth, they want a good excuse.
The best thing that can develop from this case would not be impeachment, because that would only bring us President Cheney (and not just the current virtual version). The best thing would be endless hearings, crippling Bush from carrying out as much of his terrible agenda as possible. (I couldn't agree more. Cheney would be even worse than Bush, if that is possible. LS)
Beyond that it'll hopefully scare other ambitious attorneys from being as zealously ready to encourage a president's worst instincts, as John Yoo has. He is profiled below. -K
December 23, 2005
The Advocate
A Junior Aide Had a Big Role in Terror Policy
By TIM GOLDEN
NY Times
Moments after planes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, lawyers in the Justice Department's elite Office of Legal Counsel began crowding into the office of one of the agency's newest deputies, John C. Yoo, to watch the horror unfold on his television set.
"We all stood around watching this event, and he just seemed very calm, like he wasn't going to let these terrorists stop him from doing his work," recalled Robert J. Delahunty, a friend of Mr. Yoo's who worked in the office.
Fearful of another attack and told that all "nonessential personnel" should evacuate, Mr. Delahunty and others streamed out of the department's headquarters and walked home. Mr. Yoo, then a 34-year-old former law professor whose academic work had focused on foreign affairs and war-powers issues, was asked to stay behind, and he quickly found himself in the department's command center, on the phone to lawyers at the White House.
Within weeks, Mr. Yoo had begun to establish himself as a critical player in the Bush administration's legal response to the terrorist threat, and an influential advocate for the expansive claims of presidential authority that have been a hallmark of that response.
While a mere deputy assistant attorney general in the legal counsel office, Mr. Yoo was a primary author of a series of legal opinions on the fight against terrorism, including one that said the Geneva Conventions did not apply and at least two others that countenanced the use of highly coercive interrogation techniques on terror suspects. Recently, current and former officials said he also wrote a still-secret 2002 memorandum that gave legal backing to the administration's secret program to eavesdrop on the international communications of Americans and others inside the United States without federal warrants.
A genial, soft-spoken man with what friends say is a fiercely competitive streak, Mr. Yoo built particularly strong working relationships with several key legal officials in the White House and the Pentagon. Some current and former government officials contend that those relationships were in fact so close that Mr. Yoo was able to operate with a degree of autonomy that rankled senior Justice Department officials, including John Ashcroft, then the attorney general.
More than two years after Mr. Yoo returned to teaching, controversy over some of the legal positions he staked out for the administration in his two years in government has only continued to grow. Last year, an opinion he wrote on interrogations with the head of the legal counsel office, Jay S. Bybee, was publicly disavowed by the White House, a highly unusual step. Now, the revelation of the eavesdropping program has renewed the criticism.
In the uproar, Mr. Yoo has stood fast and even smiled cheerfully. Despite occasional campus protests and calls for his resignation, he has remained - somewhat incongruously but, he says, quite happily - on the law faculty at the liberal University of California, Berkeley. He keeps a busy schedule of speeches and debates at colleges and universities around the country. He is promoting a new book, and appears frequently on television to take on legal and policy issues that many former officials will discuss only under cloak of anonymity.
"I didn't go into these subjects looking for a brawl," Mr. Yoo said in an interview. Of his work at the Justice Department he added: "I had this job, and I had these questions to answer. I think it's my responsibility to explain how I thought them through."
Mr. Yoo is often identified as the most aggressive among a group of conservative legal scholars who have challenged the importance of international law in the American legal system. But his signature contributions to the policies of the Bush administration have had more to do with his forceful assertion of wide presidential powers in wartime.
While Mr. Yoo has become almost famous for some of his writings - the refutation of both his academic and government work has become almost a cottage industry among more liberal legal scholars and human rights lawyers - much less is known about how he came to wield the remarkable influence he had after Sept. 11 on issues related to terrorism.
That Washington tale began about a decade before Mr. Yoo joined the administration in July 2001, when he finished at Yale Law School and won a clerkship with Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, a keen spotter of young legal talent and a patriarch of the network of conservative lawyers who have occupied key positions throughout the Bush administration.
By then, Mr. Yoo already thought of himself as solidly conservative. He had grown up with anticommunist parents who left their native South Korea for Philadelphia shortly after Mr. Yoo was born in 1967, and had honed his political views while an undergraduate at Harvard.
From the chambers of Judge Silberman, Mr. Yoo moved on to a clerkship with Justice Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court, stopping briefly at Berkeley. Justice Thomas helped place him with Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, as general counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Along the way, Mr. Yoo passed up a chance to work in the Washington office of the law firm Jones Day, where he caught the eye of a senior partner, Timothy E. Flanigan. After five years that Mr. Yoo spent at Berkeley, writing on legal aspects of foreign affairs, war powers and presidential authority, the two men met up again when Mr. Yoo joined the Bush campaign's legal team, where Mr. Flanigan was a key lieutenant.
Mr. Flanigan became the deputy White House counsel under Alberto R. Gonzales. Mr. Yoo ended up as a deputy in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, or the O.L.C., a small unit of lawyers that advises the executive branch on constitutional questions and on the legality of complex or disputed policy issues.
After the attacks of Sept. 11, Mr. Yoo - the only deputy with much expertise on foreign policy and war powers - began dealing with the White House and other agencies more directly than he might have otherwise.
Mr. Flanigan, who had led the legal counsel office himself at the end of the first Bush administration, was acutely aware of its role in providing a legal grounding for the kinds of policy decisions the White House faced. He called over for advice soon after the World Trade Center towers fell.
"John Yoo, given his academic background and interests, was sort of the go-to guy on foreign affairs and military power issues," Mr. Flanigan said in an interview, referring to the legal counsel office staff. "He was the one that Gonzales and I went to to get advice on those issues on 9/11, and it just continued."
The torrent of opinions that Mr. Yoo churned out in the months that followed was striking, notwithstanding the research and writing assistance he had from lawyers on the office staff. Although only a portion of those documents have become public, copies of some still-confidential memorandums reviewed by The New York Times give a flavor of their sweeping language.
On Sept. 20, Mr. Yoo wrote to Mr. Flanigan about the president's constitutional authority to conduct military operations against terrorists and nations that support them. He noted that two Congressional resolutions recognized the president's authority to use force in such circumstances.
"Neither, however, can place any limits on the president's determinations as to any terrorist threat, the amount of military force to be used in response, or the method, timing and nature of the response," he wrote. Similar language concludes a memo written by Mr. Yoo on Sept. 25, only a week after Congress authorized President Bush to use military force against Al Qaeda and its supporters.
"One concern that people have raised is that John had a lot of these views going into the government and was perhaps overeager to write them," said Curtis A. Bradley, a law professor at Duke University who, like Mr. Yoo, has written skeptically about the import of international law. "In terms of war powers, you won't find a tremendous number of scholars who will go as far as he does."
Mr. Yoo's belief in the wide inherent powers of the president as commander in chief was strongly shared by one of the most influential legal voices in the administration's policy debates on terrorism, David S. Addington, then the counsel to Vice President Dick Cheney. Documents and interviews suggest that those views have been part of the legal arguments underpinning not only coercive interrogation and the prosecution of terrorism suspects before military tribunals but also the eavesdropping program.
Some current and former officials said the urgency of events after Sept. 11 and the close ties that Mr. Yoo developed with Mr. Addington (who is now Mr. Cheney's chief of staff), Mr. Gonzales, Mr. Flanigan and the general counsel of the Defense Department, William J. Haynes II, had sometimes led him to bypass the elaborate clearance process to which opinions from the legal counsel office were normally subjected.
Mr. Yoo's January 2002 conclusions that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to the conflict in Afghanistan and that the conventions' minimum standards did not cover terrorists touched off a long, hard-fought battle within the administration, in which lawyers for the State Department and the military services strongly disputed his views. Thereafter, several senior officials said, those lawyers were sometimes excluded from the drafting of more delicate opinions.
For example, they said, Mr. Yoo's much-criticized 2002 memorandum with Mr. Bybee on interrogations - which said that United States law prohibited only methods that would cause "lasting psychological harm" or pain "akin to that which accompanies serious physical injury such as death or organ failure" - was not shared with either State Department or military lawyers, despite its implications for their agencies.
"They were not getting enough critical feedback from within O.L.C., or from within the Justice Department, or from other agencies," one former official said of Mr. Yoo's opinions. Officials said senior aides to Attorney General Ashcroft also complained that they were not adequately informed about some of the Mr. Yoo's frequent discussions with the White House.
Mr. Yoo said he had always duly notified Justice Department officials or other agencies about the opinions he provided except when "I was told by people very high in the government not to for classification reasons."
Yesterday, with controversy brewing again about some of the policies on which Mr. Yoo worked, he said he was unmoved.
"If you're being criticized for what you did and you believe that what you did was right, you shouldn't take it lying down," he said. "You should go out and defend yourself."
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Interview With Pervez Musharraf
Aired February 15, 2010 - 16:47:00 ET
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) MAX FOSTER, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR (voice-over): In his own words, he was a general before a politician. But that didn't stop Pervez Musharraf from serving Pakistan as head of the government for nearly nine years, seven of them as president. Considered an ally to the U.S. in the war on terror, Musharraf had a controversial reign. Opponents within the country accused him of censorship and of being a dictator. In 2008, he eventually stepped down amid calls to impeach him. The post was eventually filled by current President Asif Zardari. In his latest incarnation, Musharraf is an Internet sensation. Currently, the former president has tens of thousands of fans on his Facebook page where he regularly answers questions and writes status updates. From wartime leader to Facebook friend, Pervez Musharraf is our "Connector of the Day." (END VIDEOTAPE) FOSTER: And Mr. Musharraf has over 127,000 fans on one social- networking site, so we knew he'd be a hit online. Hundreds of you sent in your questions for him on our Web page, CNN.com/connect. My colleague Becky caught up with the former Pakistani president here in London and began by asking him about the response he's getting on Facebook (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, FORMER PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN: First of all, let me say that analyzing the outcome of the Facebook, I knew I had a lot of support, but this support was all dispersed all over the world. I always thought that dispersed support is weak support; collective support is strong support. So it is the medium of the Facebook which provided the connectivity to collectivize all the support. I mean, that is how I take it. So therefore, I am very grateful to the Facebook for collectivizing all the support that the -- that I have now. BECKY ANDERSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: On Facebook itself, you have said that you're a strong believer in freedom of the print and electronic media, and yet, at least the end of your tenure, your time in power was defined by sort of the clamp down -- of the clamp down on the media. So when did you have the change in heart, as it were? MUSHARRAF: No, I've never -- there's no change of heart at all. I always believe in the freedom of the media. I believe that while they should be free, they should be independent, they should be accountable also. Too, they must show responsibility. ANDERSON: All right, well, we've got lots of questions from viewers. Waqas represents what dozens of people have asked on our website, the "CONNECT WORLD" website, is that many of your supporters want your -- to return to Pakistani politics. Do you have any plans to return? MUSHARRAF: If Pakistan is not doing well, every Pakistani, every patriotic Pakistani feels it in his heart. And I also do, that at this moment, Pakistan is not doing too well. So if I can contribute anything to the -- to the country and if the people of Pakistan want me to contribute, I certainly would like to look into that. ANDERSON: Would you create your own political party? That's a question from Safi, one of our viewers. MUSHARRAF: I don't know as of yet. One has to address all of these issues. But one thing is sure, I believe very strongly in a military maxim, never reinforce failure. I wouldn't like to reinforce failure. ANDERSON: Do you think Pakistan is failing at the moment? MUSHARRAF: Politically, yes. We haven't succeeded. The politics in Pakistan, democracy in Pakistan has not really ever been very successful. And I mean successful, we expect democratically-elected governments to perform for the country, that the country should be moving forward progressing and the welfare and the well-being of the people being addressed. If that is not being done, I think we need to look into the -- look into ourselves. What is it lacking in the democratic political dispensation in Pakistan? ANDERSON: How have you thought about using Facebook to better the lives of ordinary Pakistanis, as it were? MUSHARRAF: Well, I think the only way I mean I could contribute is because of the number of people who have become my fans, and if this number keeps increasing and because they come from all over the world, I could contribute towards their better understanding of issues confronting Pakistan. ANDERSON: Derrick Chapman asks, can the Afghan strategy of appealing to moderate Taliban succeed, for example? MUSHARRAF: I have always believed that we have to follow a triple strategy of military, political and socioeconomic. On the political side, right from 2003 -- 2002 and 2003, I've been saying that we need to win away the population, especially of the pashtuns from the al Qaeda and Taliban. We must not all treat all pashtuns to be Taliban, although all Taliban were pashtuns. So I've been saying -- I've been talking off the majority of pashtuns to be weaned away and these (ph) to be struck with these senior elements in the pashtun who may be have -- don't have any ideological connections with the Taliban. Now, what they really mean by moderate Taliban, I really don't know. So we need to look into the pashtun, which is 50 percent of Afghanistan, to draw the pashtuns form the -- from militancy. ANDERSON: Couple more of the questions coming into the CONNECT THE WORLD site. "What would you give up for an India-Pakistan peace process?" MUSHARRAF: I think it's the most critical thing. India-Pakistan peace is required from international point of view because internationally we are considered a nuclear flashpoint. It is considered -- it is very important from regional point of view because SAR (ph), the regional organization, is important because of the Indo-Pakistan conflict. And it is important from bilateral point of view. There is so much to gain bilaterally by both India and Pakistan through peace, and so much that we are losing because of this confrontationist approach. ANDERSON: Last one of our viewer questions. Sulav says, what were you better at being, a diplomat or an army chief? MUSHARRAF: Well, I would like to believe an army chief. I'm a fighter and I love my uniform and I love leading my men. I love them. ANDERSON: Do you miss the diplomacy at all? MUSHARRAF: Diplomacy doesn't come very naturally to me. I'm too straight -- I'm a very straight talker and diplomats, I think -- maybe they ought to be talking straight. I'm not cut for diplomacy, I think. (END VIDEOTAPE) FOSTER: A frank Pervez Musharraf speaking to Becky there. END


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The following information has been posted by one Mekaal Hassan on the journalists' mailing group PressPakistan. We cannot verify it but it does seem to have more credible citations than the numerous allegations usually found on the list. Can anyone authenticate or rebut this information?
(On a side note, does anyone actually watch ARY these days?)
(On a side note, does anyone actually watch ARY these days?)
"The private Pakistani satellite television channel, ARY Digital is in deep financial trouble. The company behind the brand recently slid into administration, leaving employees (journalists and technical staff) helpless and aghast.
ARY Digital TV, broadcasts 3 Asian satellite television channels using Sky television platform in England, ARY News, QTV, and ARY Digital. The company (ARY Digital UK Limited) commenced trading on 9th April 1999 (company registered number 03749889). By July 2011, it owed over 3,500,000.00 (GBP) to various creditors including some well known industry names.
What appears really odd is that the company, now in administration, terminated arrangements with its employees, but later (unbeknown to them) those same employees were hired by a similarly sounding company: ARY Network Limited.
This new company was incorporated on 1st December 2010 (company registered no. 07456134). Administrators were appointed to deal with the affairs of ARY Digital UK Limited due to the disastrous financial situation the company found itself in. Matters were dealt with at the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, London and the company was placed into administration on the 19th May 2011, (case number No 4172 of 2011).
It is surprising that the assets of ARY Digital UK Limited were sold by private treaty to ARY Network Limited on the 31st May 2011. It is noteworthy that two of the directors of the two companies are brothers.
One of the directors of ARY Network Limited, Mr Muhammed Yaqoob Iqbal is the father of Salman Iqbal, a director of ARY Digital UK Limited. It appears that company assets have simply been passed between family members whilst countless creditors and employees are unaware of this private arrangement.
The employees at ARY s media station are completely outraged as they feel they have been cheated and denied basic employment rights as they did not even know of the changes being made by management. Some salaries have not been paid for almost a year.
The dire financial mismanagement came to light a few months ago when the ARY engaged in a costly advertising campaign to launch a weekly newspaper called The Bridge . Despite the allegedly huge costs incurred, no publication was ever released and it appears that the newspaper s editorial team have now been forced from office. No explanation has ever been given.
The company had promised to launch the newspaper in Pakistan and the UK but failed on both attempts. It is unclear what strategy was at work and why one company was forced to incur exorbitant marketing/advertising costs given there has not been a single publication to date.
Reliable sources within the channel have cited unrest and anger among the employees who find themselves now being employed by the new company. According to a senior insider, professional trade unions are now set to step in and a legal battle will ensue by those wanting to protect themselves from the adventures of the owners.
It seems however if the old ARY has been put in to administration and the employees have suddenly found that the label has been changed and a new ARY has taken over (albeit under the control of the brother) the staff may have to ask the authorities to investigate matters further.
When the company was set up, the first directors were Jawaid Pasha, Yasir Pasha and Zain Pasha who (for reasons unknown) all resigned abruptly on 13th October 2000. It was on that date, Mr Muhammed Yaqoob Iqbal and Salman Iqbal were appointed as directors. Even Mr Asif Iqbal (the former cricketer) was a director at one point as was Barbara Kahan although their positions have since been terminated.
Records at Companies House (the government agency for all companies in England and Wales) makes it clear that the principal activity of the company to June 2006 was to produce and broadcast television programmes for the Asian community in the UK and Europe. It cites, the company having suffered material losses whilst carrying out this activity .
Those losses were financed and underwritten by its shareholders as well as loans from sponsors. It goes on to state: Due to heavy trading losses 5 years ago, the company entered into an agreement with one of its (family) associated company s . Therefore, its current activity is that of sales and marketing for 3 satellite television stations for the Asian market in the UK and Europe. " The Company suffered bad debts on a regular basis which created cash flow problems
The papers submitted by the ARY owners, state the company directors felt the company may not be able to trade through the difficult financial period. Rather than risk whatever little assets the company owned and further expose itself to trade creditors they felt the company should be placed in to administration to protect its position and therein its assets."


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Horror Power Ranking List – June 23, 2008
I'd like to take a moment to talk about the biggest story this week: The passing of Stan Winston. As shocking as his sudden passing was, it's even more shocking to me how few people knew who he was. Sure, they knew his creations — the Alien, Predator, the dinosaurs from Jurassic Park — but Stan Winston's name should be as well known as Jim Henson's. I would have hoped such recognition would have come in life, but if he becomes a household name now, so be it. If you do one thing this week, tell everyone you know who Stan Winston was, and what he did.
Okay, after the number one slot, back to the snark:
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|Horror Power Rankings
|Movie (or Comic, etc.)
|Stan Winston
Words can not do justice to how great this man was, and how deeply his passing will be felt not just by the film industry, but also by anyone who enjoys film. Which, let's be fair, is everyone. Read more about it here.
|The Happening
Yeah, I liked it. What up, people? If it wasn't for the above item, M. Night Shyamalan's horror flick would still be sticking it out at number one. Shyamalan is a masterful horror director, the film looks great, and it did well at the B.O. So there.
The Kiefer Sutherland flick has been routinely hated on, at least on the Internet. But every new still, every new poster, every trailer makes this look like a spooky fun time, and personally, I can't wait.
The trailer for this Liam Neeson kidnapping thriller just popped up on the 'nets, and on my radar. Though there's been a fair share of "father goes after the kidnappers" thrillers, Neeson's monologue kicks arse, and the movie looks frightening.
|The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
This is turning into movie trailer week on the Power Rankings, but a new look at The Mummy 3 over at Papa Johns (Really? Really.) reminded me just how much fun the undead action series is. And also that Brendan Fraser can be awesome.
|The Strangers
Though The Strangers is slowly fading out of theaters, and our minds, there's been talk of a sequel. Honestly, I hope [*spoilers on*] Liv Tyler's character goes all Ripley on the Strangers' alien nest. [*spoilers off*] That would be rad.
Ali Lohan, Lindsay Lohan's little sister, and creator of the most hilariously titled album ever (A Lohan Family Christmas) is up for a role in the Troll remake. A Troll remake? Starring a tiny Lohan? Must. Stop. Laughing.
|Friday the 13th
So here's a question: With torture porn ruling at the B.O., The Strangers a huge hit, and Jason almost 30 years old, how relevant is the slasher series to horror?
|Rosemary's Baby
It seems like no one else was really upset about the Rosemary's Baby remake (Reminder: I think the original is boring), so yay to Platinum Dunes. Though, the fact that no one is really buzzing about this at all isn't a good sign.
And now, a song: Oh where, oh were has my Twilight gone. Oh where, oh where can it be? With it's hot young cast, and it's youth appeal, oh where, oh where can it be? Seriously, what's the haps, Twilight? You gonna give me any news, or what?


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Coca-Cola Case Could Set Precedent on Secret Ingredients
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Anybody who advises companies on how to walk the line between trade secret and full ingredient disclosure knows that the threat of a lawsuit weighs as much or more than the regulations in any decision made. Protecting recipes -- whether for beverages, household chemicals, or industrial formulations -- provides a moat against competition. But it deprives the users of information they may want or need to protect their health, or make choices based on their moral values. A lawsuit recently filed against Coca-cola could test the limits of when "secret ingredients" infringe the "independent choices of the individual."According to the Israeli news outlet Globes, an unidentified Muslim man in Israel is suing Coca-Cola's Israeli franchisee, The Central Bottling Company Group Ltd. It all started when ThisAmericanLife published what they claim is an early recipe, possibly the original recipe, for Coca-Cola. The recipe indicates that the secret flavouring, code-named "7X", uses alcohol as a solvent.
The Plaintiff has sued on behalf of every muslim in Israel, claiming 1000NIS for every muslim on the grounds that Coca-cola has been "misleading consumers, infringing the independent choices of the individual, and causing huge mental anguish." With 1.2 million muslims covered by the class action, Coke could be on the line for a third of a billion dollars.
ThisAmericanLife notes that the recipe is definitely not that used for Coke which is currently available for sale, so the first question any lawsuit will face is whether there are grounds: i.e. is alcohol still used in the modern coke recipe? And hopefully Coca-cola is globally sensitive enough that this "secret ingredient" has long since been replaced or it would not have kept the secret.
But it is not the purpose of this writer to evauate the legitimacy or potential for this lawsuit to succeed, rather to highlight the value of this lawsuit to all consumers. This case puts the question of what consumers deserve to know back squarely in the limelight.
Often, when the question of government regulation to protect the consumer arises, a hue and cry to let the free market regulate the situation arises. Unfortunately, a free market only operates efficiently when it is a well-informed market. The line between secrecy and disclosure will remain a hotly contended battleground; but where companies decide to keep secrets, they also take the obligation not to mislead, infringe on our personal choices, or cause huge mental anguish. It is a big responsibility; let's hope the secrecy is worth it.
More on Coca-cola:
Coke and Pepsi Banned in Parts of India Amidst Pesticide Claims
Homemade Soda Recipe: DIY Carbonated Drinks (Video)
Using Coke Distribution Networks to Get Medicine to Rural Villages


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The moment every parent of a toddler dreads came on a Sunday night: Archie discovered he can climb out of his crib. What made this discovery...
A life within a life
In 1955, my grandma found herself pregnant for the third time. She was a 26-year-old redhead, chasing two young boys and, unbeknownst to her, expecting her first daughter — my mom.
What blows my mind is this: I too started my life inside my grandma. The egg that eventually became me was originally contained inside my mother's ovaries when she was but a fetus inside her own pregnant mother.
So too, when my mom was expecting me in 1982 — a 26-year-old stay-at-home mom — the eggs that would eventually give life to my three precious children were contained in my ovaries, tucked deep within my pregnant mom.
I discovered this fertility tidbit when I was editing a medical pamphlet, and it gave me pause, conjuring an image of Russian nesting dolls and confirming the profound connection I've always felt among my grandma, mom and children.
There's something poetic about the idea of life within life within life. My Irish-Italian heritage makes me sentimental by nature, but motherhood has taken it to a new level, spurred by oxytocin, sleep deprivation and the Amazon Prime photo app showing images snapped on this date three years ago.
This story is a reminder that, for those of us parents fortunate enough to have our parents or even their parents still around, we must cherish it. What a shame it would be if busy schedules or long road trips kept us apart.
When I first became a mom, the lullabies that sprang to mind were the ones my grandma had taught me as a child — You Are My Sunshine, I'm Looking Over a Four-Leafed Clover, I See the Moon.
I could hear her voice as I rocked my newborn in the corner of her nursery, watching the shadows of an aspen flicker across the window.
Welcoming three children has felt not only like an expansion, but also a continuation of rites and rituals begun years ago — a line moving forward while also circling back in quiet, comforting ways.
Somehow we managed to capture that sensation through photography — the love that permeates from my grandma (our beloved, freckled matriarch) and the heady gratitude that overcomes me every time I get to be a link in that four-generation chain.
When I pitched the idea of a photoshoot at a sunflower field, my grandma was as good a sport as ever, undeterred by the hour-long road trip involved.
"I've always loved sunflowers," she said.
So one August evening last year, we piled into the Dodge Stow 'N Go, our freshly ironed dresses hanging in the back, and headed north on Highway 65 to Isanti, where Marissa Liljander, a photographer we'd never met before, would greet us with such warmth and understanding she seemed like a cousin.
We frolicked through the field — picking sunflowers, tickling the toddler, kissing the baby — as geese honked overhead and the sun set, casting a golden light that reflected our sheer delight in being together.
It felt like a thin place, in the sense of the Celtic concept that, in certain sacred spaces, heaven and earth come so close they nearly touch. I suppose that would make sense.
Maybe our little gathering at the sunflower field could've stirred something in my great-grandmother, who in 1929 carried not only my grandma but also my mom — and even further back in my great-great-grandmother, who in 1893 carried not only her daughter but also my grandma. And so on and so on.
I know how busy it is, how tired you are.
But take the time for the elders in your life. Get together. Snap the pictures. Tell the stories. Sing the songs. Preserve the chain.
Marissa Liljander does sunflower mini-sessions each August. Learn more at facebook.com/sweetrootsphoto. To read personal letters written as part of this four-generation project – from mother to daughter – visit mnparent.com/charmed.
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Prerequisite Language United States must required for 800xA SV6.0
One of the Prerequisite required for 800xA SV6.0 is Language English United States . In HP workstation Z440 language English (United States ) is selected & while installing its giving Language not met.
attached images . How to resolve this or if we go ahead with the installation any future
Seems like UK English is set somewhere. Try to figure out where.
I also have bad experience of HP OEM Windows version (bloatware, suspicious drivers, etc.) and fresh reload of Microsoft Windows from original Microsoft media has often been best option.


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"Master of None," the new Netflix comedy co-created by Aziz Ansari, is one of the most critically-acclaimed new shows on television. One of the show's standouts was the episode "Indians on TV," which is about trying to be an Indian actor without resorting to stereotypes.
Actor Ravi Patel guest-starred in the episode, and argues with fellow actor Dev (Ansari) about whether or not it's okay to do a stereotypical Indian accent while auditioning for roles. Patel thinks it's fine, while Dev refuses.
However, their real-life differences on the issue almost made Patel turn down the role. Despite saying he was flattered, Patel told INSIDER that he initially said no.
"When I read it I thought it was kind of condescending to the blue collar Indian actor," he explained. "He was talking a lot about how he doesn't do the accent. I felt it was condescending to guys who do do the accent. I'm one of those guys, and I'm also friends with all of those guys, and I just have a lot of sympathy for the inherent kind of s****y role exposure that you have to endure if you're a blue collar actor... just trying to work your way up to get to a place where you can say no..."
If you've seen the episode, this might sound familiar. Patel and Ansari talked it out in real life, and it was this disagreement that led Patel to being cast.
"He called back and he was like, 'Hey man, I can see why you think that but that's not at all what I want. In fact, that's why I want you to do this,'" Patel said. "I just thought it was a really mature response."
The entire first season of "Master of None" is now streaming on Netflix, and "Meet the Patels," a documentary that Patel co-directed with his sister, Geeta, is playing in select theaters.
Story by Ian Phillips and editing by Chelsea Pineda