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For a grown-up take on this childhood favorite, we dropped the traditional pastry crust in favor of a no-fuss biscuit topping, then added cremini mushrooms and fresh thyme to the filling for a little earthiness. Prep and Cook Time: 1 hour, 45 minutes. Notes: One standard-size rotisserie chicken supplies just enough meat for the pies. You will need six or seven 8- to 10-oz. ovenproof containers for this recipe.
How to Make It
In a medium saucepan over high heat, bring chicken stock to a boil. Add carrots, potatoes, and celery. Lower heat to medium and cook until vegetables are tender, 5 to 7 minutes. Drain vegetables, reserving stock; set both aside separately.
In a large, heavy-bottomed saucepan, melt salted butter over medium heat. Add onion and cook until golden, 6 to 8 minutes. Add mushrooms and cook 5 minutes. Add fresh thyme and 5 tbsp. flour and cook 2 minutes. Slowly add milk, whisking constantly, until combined, then add stock and cook, stirring often, until mixture thickens, 8 to 10 minutes. Season with nutmeg, 1 tsp. salt, and pepper to taste. Add parsley, chicken, cooked vegetables, and peas and divide filling evenly among 6 or 7 ovenproof containers (8 to 10 oz. each), leaving the top 1/4 in. unfilled.
Preheat oven to 425°. To make biscuit topping, sift remaining 2 cups flour with baking powder, baking soda, and remaining 1 tsp. salt. Using your fingers or a pastry cutter, work in unsalted butter to form a coarse meal, working quickly to keep the butter from warming up and melting into the dough. Stir in cheese and sage. In a separate bowl, whisk together egg and buttermilk and add to the flour mixture, stirring gently until a shaggy dough forms.
Lightly flour a counter, a rolling pin, and your hands. Divide dough into 2 balls. Roll out first ball to a 1/4-in. thickness, then use a 2 1/2-in. biscuit cutter to cut into rounds, scraping and rerolling dough as needed. Repeat with second ball.
Place 3 rounds of dough on each potpie, overlapping as necessary (any unused rounds can be baked on their own as biscuits). Brush dough with egg wash, put potpies on a cookie sheet lined with aluminum foil, and bake until crust is golden brown and filling is bubbling, 17 to 22 minutes.
Note: Nutritional analysis is per serving.


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Tourist Spot Renuka, Sirmaor
Renuka is famous for Renuka Lake. Renuka is the largest natural lake in Himachal Pradesh.
Renuka Lake
Renuka lake is situated at an altitude of 670 meters. Renuka is about 125kms from Parwanoo, 40kms from Nahan and about 50kms from Ponta Sahib.
The Lake
Ranuka lake is the largest natural lake of Himachal Pradesh. The circumference of the lake is 3214 meters. The shape of the Renuksa lake is like the profile of a reclining women. The shape of Renuka is regarded as the embodiment of the Goddess Renuka.
On the feet of the lake another holy lake is there and is associated with her son the sage Parshurama.
The Temples
There are temples of both Goddess Renuka and her renowned son Parshurama. The main temple dedicated to Goddess Renuka is believed to be built in 18th century.
The View
The lake is situated in a long valley and is surrounded by thick forest. There are many colourful and beautiful fishes and other aquatic animals in the lake. A wild life sanctuary is also situated near the lake. The lake is also surrounded by some other temples. Boating facility is also available in the lake.
HPTDC is running a hotel named Renuka Ji along side the lake. Dadahu a small town about 2kms from the lake has some good hotels and rest houses of PWD and Forest Department. The accommodation here is very economical.
How to reach
The place is well connected by road. Visitors can board busses from Parwanoo, Nahan, Solan, Shimla and Ponta Sahib. Visitors can also hire a taxi from these places.


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17 Mar 2013
CYPRUS CRISIS: Markets predicting huge euro sell-off
Cyprus is a tiny island at the centre of a three-dimensional chess game
'[Cypus Finance Minister] Michael Sarris said the Cypriot Parliament would adopt the taxes over the weekend and the money would be extracted from accounts before banks take up business Tuesday. Monday is a public holiday.'
(Market-Ticker on the Cyriot bank bailout)
'….as FX markets open, it appears EURJPY is getting hammered (from 124.47 close to 121.6) implying S&P futures will open down around 30 points…..'
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The burglars came at dead of night/ Seven percent they stole, no right/ to steal one day to stop the run/ and give the wolf gang lots more fun
The Slog
It looks like those the Gods wish to destroy have rendered them mad. But don't be too hasty in deciding: I still believe that there is some method in this particular case of madness. The pernicious EU persuasion machine is still working at full tilt. Take the latest burst of salted media stories over the last 36 hours in relation to Beppo Grillo's Five Star movement that resulted in 136 new Italian Deputies under his banner after the last election.
The "Cyprus Fiasco" Bound To Occur In The United States! + The End Of Sovereign America
Submitted by Tyler Durden: As has been assiduously explained by members of the European statist oligarchy, the reason for the deposit tax levy, (aka bankster theft) in addition to the broader unsecured debt "bail-in" bailout of Cyprus, was due to the unique funding structure of Cypriot banks, in which the bulk of funding was actually in the form of deposits (whether Russian or domestic), leaving a tiny €2 billion in the form of junior bonds. Since the bailout would require realigning the balance sheet to a new, sustainable "fresh start" in which assets were remarked to a realistic value, it would mean impairing liabilities all the way down the capital structure. Naturally, politics played a big part in the decision to impair what Germany primarily saw as a Russian money-laundering haven, while local depositors were merely "collateral damage."
Cyprus Parliament Delays Bailout Vote, Bank Holiday Extended to Tues, President's Good News, Banks Will Finally Collapse When Not Passed + The Cyprus Deal is Already Under Threat (Of Course)
The Doc: In his interview with The Doc last week, Jim Willie stated that THE COLLAPSE IS ON OUR DOORSTEP! and made the case that the great financial reset will begin with a small trigger in Europe. The Cypriot depositor haircut to bailout the Cypriot banking system is beginning to look like it could be just that trigger, as the situation has turned from bad to worse.
With the general public in an uproar, the ratification vote by the Cypriot Parliament on the depositor haircut/ daylight robbery has been delayed until 4pm local time Monday as the vote reportedly had lost sufficient support to pass! Ahead of today's scheduled vote, the plan was 9 votes short in a 56 seat legislature!
In response, Cypriot Bankster Shill President Nicos Anastasiades threatened that if the depositor haircut is not passed, the entire Cypriot banking system will collapse, and former Central Bankster President Afxentis Afxentiou fear-mongered that if the bill is not passed, Cyprus opens the road to chaos, and that Cyprus will turn into Libya!
As Bloomberg reports, the Cypriot depositor haircut plan is at least 9 votes short in a 56 seat legislature!
With the general public in an uproar, the ratification vote by the Cypriot Parliament on the depositor haircut/ daylight robbery has been delayed until 4pm local time Monday as the vote reportedly had lost sufficient support to pass! Ahead of today's scheduled vote, the plan was 9 votes short in a 56 seat legislature!
In response, Cypriot Bankster Shill President Nicos Anastasiades threatened that if the depositor haircut is not passed, the entire Cypriot banking system will collapse, and former Central Bankster President Afxentis Afxentiou fear-mongered that if the bill is not passed, Cyprus opens the road to chaos, and that Cyprus will turn into Libya!
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By Eileen Dublin: "I can confirm that the water supply used to make Guinness, as with most of south Dublin, is the public water supply coming from the Poulaphouca reservoir and we do not further filter this water. There is a regulation (EC) No 1925/2006 on the addition of vitamins and minerals to foods which, among other things, prohibits addition of vitamins and minerals (such as fluoride) to alcoholic beverages. The authorities are aware that most food producers in this country use the public water supply which is required by law to be fluoridated thus many food products will have fluoride from the water. This does not amount to the addition of the mineral to the food." Said traitor shill Jen Gordon Diageo of Consumer Relations. Adding of flouride to water supplies has been banned throughout most EU jurisdictions.The industrial grade chemical added to our water supply , known as Hydrofluorosilicic acid, contains not just the requisite fluoride ion, but also varying quantities of mercury, lead, arsenic, cadmium, aluminium and beryllium. The Irish public have never once been informed of the side effects of fluoride. The Department of Health have admitted that over-exposure to fluoride causes dental fluorosis; a sign that the body has become saturated with fluoride. If fluoride can do this to teeth, it raises serious concerns as to what it is doing to the rest of the body.
The Great Cyprus Bank Robbery by Financial Terrorists + EU Steals Nations Private Bank Accounts: Starts EU Wide Bank Runs
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Cyprus Parliament To Delay "Rescue" Vote Due To Lack Of Support, Despite ECB Pressure For Pre-Trade Open Decision
Submitted by Tyler Durden: The painfully shortsighted Cyprus bail-out, pardon bail-in (also known as wealth tax to those who are actually doing the in-bailing), plan is going from bad to worse. Because in addition to all the previously discussed macro-implications, all of which are adverse and have the full potential of destabilizing the Eurozone once more and lead to bank runs across not only the periphery but the core as well, especially by offshore (read Russian) depositors, there is now a risk that the entire hurriedly-cobbled together "plan" may be on the verge of failure as it may not get a majority vote in domestic ratification.Today, at 4pm local (2pm GMT) the Cypriot parliament was scheduled to meet to vote through and ratify the tax levy plan, presented as a fait accompli at least by the Eurozone FinMins. A few hours ago, this meeting was delayed until 4 pm local on Monday "after signs lawmakers could block the surprise move.... (aka shock theft) If [parliament fails to ratify the bail-in], President Nicos Anastasiades has warned, Cyprus's two largest banks will collapse." And so the late hour scramble to procure enough vote to pass the depositor impairment begins as the alternative is simply "or else."
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In-the-know whistle-blower gives The Slog some grisly details
IDS…."there are two chances of this scheme working…"Twelve days ago, the Department of Work & Pensions issued a release on its website explaining how the 'Troubled Families' initiative would work. It all sounded terribly positive and correct, and the intentions socially honourable. On the same day, The Slog posted this piece suggesting that the results to date of the initiative were spin and wind.
Now a whistle-blower within the DWP has given The Slog details of things the Department is not talking about in the media. Subsequent enquiries made by me among private supplier contacts and participants suggest that my DWP mole's allegations are, in all the detail given here, accurate.
After what is claimed to be a high level of success in trials, the DWP under Iain Duncan-Smith is rolling out an initiative to work with 120,000 families whose lives are 'blighted by joblessness, single parents, crime and truancy' nationally. The DWP site alleges that 'ahead of expectations, local authorities reported in January [2013] that they had successfully turned around the lives of 1,675 troubled families after just nine months of the three year programme, meaning that the children in those families are regularly in school and not committing crime or adults are in work.'
Note the use of the word 'or' at the end there – not 'and'. A 50% improvement is clearly being used as the criterion for 'success'. We are also given no details of what the work/school/crime ratio was before the scheme began. But think of that merely as my innate cynicism: what I will outline below will make such nit-picking pale into significance.
For Everyone Shocked By What Just Happened... And Why This Is Just The Beginning
Submitted by Tyler Durden: Today, lots of people woke up in shock and horror to what happened in Cyprus: a forced capital reallocation mandated by political elites under the guise of an "equity investment" in insolvent banks, which is really code for a "coercive, mandatory wealth tax." If less concerned about political correctness, one could say that what just happened was daylight robbery from savers to banks and the status quo. These same people may be even more shocked to learn that today's Cypriot "resolution" is merely the first of many such coercive interventions into personal wealth, first in Europe, and then everywhere else.For the benefit of those people, we wish to point them to our article from September 2011, "The "Muddle Through" Has Failed: BCG Says "There May Be Only Painful Ways Out Of The Crisis", which predicted and explained all of this and much more. What else did the September BCG study conclude? Simply that such mandatory, coercive wealth tax is merely the beginning for a world in which there was some $21 trillion in excess debt as of 2009, a number which has since ballooned to over $30 trillion. And with inflation woefully late in appearing and "inflating away" said debt overhang, Europe first is finally moving to Plan B, and is using Cypriots as its Guinea Pigs.
Saxo Bank CEO: "This Is Full-Blown Socialism And I Still Can't Believe It Happened"
Authored by Lars Seier Christensen, CEO Saxo Bank: It is difficult to describe the weekendI heard rumours about this when I visited Limassol last week, but dismissed them as completely outlandish. And yet, here we are. The consequences are unpredictable, but we are clearly looking at a significant paradigm shift.
bailout debt package to dumped on Cyprus in
any other way. The confiscation theft of 6.75 percent of small depositors'
money and 9.9 percent of big depositors' funds is without precedence
that I can think of in a supposedly civilised and democratic society. But maybe the European Union (EU) is no longer a civilised democracy?
This is a breach of fundamental property rights, dictated to a small country by foreign powers and it must make every bank depositor in Europe shiver.
One Of The Most Important Events In History & Gold - Jim Sinclair
"The wire reports on the Cyprus situation are working overtime to try to make the case that 80% of the deposits belong to the people of Cyprus, and only 20% of the deposits belong to the Russians. That's absolutely false. After 1985, when the 'Robber Barrons' of Russia took over the general economics of Russia, that was the transformation from the KGB to private business. The primary place for exported Russian funds was Cyprus.
Now, there is one leader in the world that would be very dangerous to challenge and that is Putin of Russia....
"What's just happened is the IMF has backed up, lauded, supported, and publicized, as if it were a victory, the taking of 10% of what really turns out to be 80% of Russian 'black money.' Russian 'black money' is KGB money, now in business. The leader of Russia (Putin) was a former KGB official. Whose money do you think they have taken? This is the biggest mistake the IMF could possibly have ever made." Full story KWN
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During the long twentieth century, displacement affected the musical, theatrical and literary output of artists and activists in myriad ways. Many works were thought to have been lost or have, until recently, languished in obscurity. Performing the Jewish Archive responds to the challenge of discovering/recovering and engaging anew with these creative artefacts, as well as stimulating the creation of new works to re-animate and extend existing archival collections. By treating archival objects as components of a non-hierarchical, non-linear system, the intention is to destabilise the relationship between past, present and future, origin and diaspora.
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I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.
Passion and Plunder
A desperate Scottish lady
Lydia Farnsworth—the sole surviving heir to the Laird of Tornbury Fortress—has lost nearly everyone she loves. Now her father lies on his deathbed. And as if this isn't dire enough, he's invited men from the surrounding area to a warrior's contest—the winner to claim Lydia as his bride.
A Scotsman dueling with his past
Alasdair McTavish, son of Craiglocky Keep's war chief, is a seasoned warrior in his own right. So when he's sent to Tornbury to train the Farnsworth soldiers, he's more than equal to the task.
A danger unseen
When a dangerous adversary makes a move against Lydia, a dastardly scheme comes to light, and Alasdair realizes only he can protect Lydia.
Passion and Plunder by Collette Cameron is a pleasant sweet read full of family drama and heartache. And I do mean a lot of heartache.
I really don't know how much heartache a character can take. Lydia seems to have suffered through everything. Being dumped by the man she supposedly loved, the loss of her mother, her two brothers, and has an ailing father. Not to mention a sniveling useless uncle. But more on him later.
Might have seemed a bit overkill, but there's a sense of suspense because it just seemed too coincidental that all those events took place one after another. The whole warrior's contest to win Lydia's hand in marriage was a good premise and I kind of wished there was more to that.
Alastair, I loved. Hands down or should I say swords down? 🙂 Kind of romantic, who has a huge crush on Lydia, and has a MAJOR secret. Reading about this secret, I was led to believe the worst with my own prejudices about the character, kind of sneaky of the author. It's what happens later on in the story that really made me tear up. Forget about the romance between Alastair and Lydia, that little sidestory about Alastair and his "problem" really made the story for me. Well, maybe I was hasty about the romance part. There were some swoon worthy quotes from Alastair that really gave me the feels.
"Och, every part of me from me bones to the air I breathe, cries out fer ye, and even though I ken I dinna deserve ye, dinna deserve yer love, I'd forsake everythin' from now until eternity to make ye mine. I love ye, Lydia, have fer months, passionately, wildly, and unendingly."
"I'd not only win the contest and claim ye as my wife, but I'd plunder yer sweet body from dusk to dawn."
Now, back to the snake in the grass uncle. It was pretty obvious about his character, there were was subterfuge, and he was all out jealous and conniving. Perfect villain. Lydia couldn't see it right away, even with some telling signs. Thank goodness for Alastair, seriously Lydia how can you pass that hunk up? Oh wait, yes, the SECRET. Which later on comes out in the open and then causes Lydia to hem and haw. But it wouldn't be a historical romance with that kind of drama, now would it?
Overall, this was an entertaining read. The romance was sweet, just kissing and only hints of making love. A little surprises thrown here and there, and just a smidgen of danger. This can be read as a standalone.


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Recently I am working on a drawing i needed more pencils so I can achieve the form of realism which i want. I obtained a pack of Kimberly Graphite Pencils from Micheals arts and crafts store. Within the package I obtained 10 different grades of pencils giving us a good variety of light and dark. art pencils
Exactly what do you understand graphite pencils? This was my frist time using graphite pencils and many types of I knew was that there were pencils which could get really dark, almost black, and incredibly light. I additionally knew them to be called soft and hard pencils however couldn't know that had been the hard pencils and that have been the soft. The package in my pencils explained some stuff so I'll inform you a few things i know about them.
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8B – considered the "softest" pencils. It gets really dark and yes it smudges well. You'll be able to erase it fairly well but because it's so dark, it leaves some residue so you have to place some effort when you get it all gone.
The "H" means "hardness", "B" means "blackness, and "F" means "fine point". Combined with lettered scale, where B is the soft pencils and H will be the hard pencils, there's also a numbered scale, that is where the term number 2 pencils originate from. art pencils


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The original plan for last night's concert by the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (PBO), conducted by Waverley Fund Music Director Nicholas McGegan, was to call the program Haydn & Mozart with Isabelle Faust. However, Faust had to cancel her engagement and was replaced by PBO violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock, serving as soloist in the A major ("Turkish") violin concerto by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (K. 219), which had been planned for the program. Furthermore, while the original idea was to situate this concerto between two of Joseph Haydn's symphonies, the opening selection was replaced by the third symphony (in F major) from the Opus 6 publication of six symphonies by Adalbert Gyrowetz. None of this dampened the spirit of the occasion, which turned out to be a delightful evening of discovery and wit.
Blumenstock frequently serves as PBO concertmaster. However, her skills as a soloist are well known to those who follow early music performances in the Bay Area, including some delightful sharing of the spotlight with violinist Rachel Podger when she led PBO in March of 2013. On that occasion the repertoire was the Italian Baroque; so those who know the repertoire would have expected that a Mozart concerto would be "something completely different." Structurally, this was definitely the case, not only because of the Classical period but also because Mozart sought out any number of fascinating twists to foil the expectations of those who thought they "knew concertos."
Blumenstock responded to all of these departures from convention as if they were the most natural things in the world. Indeed, there was a fresh spontaneity in her approach that evoked that same spirit of invention that was expected when Mozart took the keyboard for one of his own piano concertos. The result was an exciting in-the-moment account that left the attentive listener on the edge of his/her seat wondering what would come next, not only in the cadenzas but throughout the diverse phrasings of all of the solo passages. All of this was delivered with a stage presence that was positively joyous (but probably not quite as bratty as Mozart himself was often reputed to have been). For his part McGegan clearly understood the paths that Blumenstock chose to forge, and he made sure that PBO was with her every step of the way with just as much confidence and spontaneous energy.
That spirit of thwarting all of the "usual suspects" expectations was just as evident in the opening Gyrowetz selection. Throughout his richly productive career as a musician,Gyrowetz was a promoter of Haydn's music. What is more important is that the master's capacity for wit seems to have rubbed off on him. This was clear from the very beginning in which the first movement of his symphony is in triple metre, more in the spirit of a charming serenade than a precursor of the waltz. Rhythmic patterns again defy expectations during the Minuet movement. As is so often the case with Haydn, this formal dance is the last thing on the composer's mind; and Gyrowetz' mash-up of triple and duple metre was as delightful as it was confounding. McGegan was clearly delighted to have encountered this symphony, and he could not have done a better job of sharing his delight with the audience.
The second half of the program was devoted entirely to Haydn's Hoboken I/91 symphony in E-flat major, as had originally been planned. The master was clearly up to his usual tricks, all of which were dispatched with McGegan's characteristic panache. Nevertheless, so much of the unexpected had unfolded during the first half of the evening that it also felt as if Haydn was being upstaged. Thus, for all of this symphony's many virtues, the evening ended with a bit of a feeling that, taken as a whole, the program ran the risk of being too much of too many good things.


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December 12, 2013
With immigration reform off the table in 2013, activists are planning to converge on Washington one last time to pressure lawmakers for action – and assure them they'll be back next year.
Advocates of a reform bill that want to see a pathway to citizenship for the roughly 11 million immigrants living illegally in the United States have gotten more aggressive in their efforts to convince the House Republican leadership to put a bill to a vote, stopping by their homes, offices and even breakfast spots, uninvited, to visit and pray. They've even heckled President Obama, who shares many of their objectives, asking him to unilaterally halt deportations.
On Thursday, they will gather for one last press conference in the U.S. Capitol and a visit with other activists who have been fasting to protest the lack of a vote in the House and have drawn visits from both President Obama and other congressional leaders. The Campaign for Citizenship is pledging that lawmakers will get "a taste of the 2014 campaign" if there is no reform bill put on the floor next year.
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Why is Ethnic Violence Erupting Between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in Southern Kyrgyzstan?
As we watched the horrible news of violent chaos that overtook Southern Kyrgyzstan over the last week, the first question that came to mind was – why? Why would people who have been neighbors for decades be drawn into such senseless violence? Is it related to the overthrow of Bakiyev's government, or are we witnessing something completely unrelated? While information coming out of Osh and Jalalabad remains spotty, there is plenty reason to believe that the triggers of the unrest are related to the political instability in the country.
As the interim government claims, pro-Bakiyev supporters, and especially his infamous brothers, may have incited this violence. Witnesses have reported some evidence of such a provocation, but their claims remain unverifiable. Regardless, the fragile nature of the Kyrgyz state coupled with the frustration of Kyrgyz citizens over their country's continual instability has exacerbated the situation as even the interim government admits it has lost control. It is also likely that criminal elements are somehow involved as regime change in the country once again opens up the criminal underworld to turf battles. But, these various issues do not tell us the whole story. There is still the question of why this violence is taking an ethnic character when Uzbek-Kyrgyz relations are hardly at the center of the present political crisis that may have triggered the unrest.
Most stories in the media have downplayed the ethnic character of this unrest, but those that have attempted to describe the ethnic background have generally gotten things mostly wrong. Such stories tend to focus on a history of Uzbek-Kyrgyz tension that comes from the drawing of borders in the Ferghana Valley in 1924. While the strange borders of the Ferghana Valley certainly help to aggravate ethnic relations in the region, they are not the cause of ethnic animosity. Furthermore, contrary to popular belief, the 1924 borders did not "create" the ethnic groups of Central Asia out of thin air in order to divide a united pan-Turkic population. The borders only explain why Osh and Jalalabad are part of Kyrgyzstan when they were traditionally Uzbek cities. Furthermore, it should be noted that, despite the continual political instability in Kyrgyzstan, few Uzbeks in the country would like to see their cities annexed to Uzbekistan where there is extensive political repression and arguably even more economic pressures.
So, what is the cause of ethnic animosity between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks? I would argue that it is not founded on ethnicity, the manipulation of nation-states, or an evil conspiracy masterminded by Stalin. Instead, this tension emerges from a cultural cleavage specific to Central Asia that is not limited to Uzbeks and Kyrgyz, but is founded on the region's history of nomadic-settled interaction. Historically, the lines between nomads and settled people are somewhat blurred in Central Asia, and today there are virtually no real nomadic people left in the region. Nonetheless, the delineation between nomadic and settled people continues to be real in the minds of Central Asians and represents the primary cultural fault-line in the region.
While occasionally Central Asians will evoke this cultural fissure directly when Uzbeks or Uyghurs refer to Kazakhs or Kyrgyz as nomads without culture or when Kyrgyz and Kazakhs call Uyghurs and Uzbeks "Sarts" (a derogatory name for the settled people of the region that has pre-revolutionary origins). Usually, however, this cleavage is expressed through ethnic prejudices. These prejudices can be found throughout Central Asia, even in large cities where the idea of a settled-nomadic divide seems ridiculous, but they are most intense in the locations where the descendents of nomads and agriculturalists live in close proximity to each other. Southern Kyrgyzstan is one such place, but it is not the only one. In fact, if you had similar triggers for conflict in the other Central Asian countries, it would not be that surprising if violence erupted between Uzbeks and Kazakhs in southern Kazakhstan, between Turkmen and Uzbeks in the Dashagouz or Mari regions, between Uyghurs and Kyrgyz in the Chu Valley, or between Uyghurs and Kazakhs in the Ili Valley.
The tension between former nomads and settled people in Central Asia is not like that between ethnic groups in the Balkans or even in the Caucasus. It usually is not expressed outwardly, instead manifesting itself in the prejudices of daily interactions, business transactions, etc. It is only when these interactions are put under intense pressure from other factors does it seem to flare into violent conflict. But, when that happens, history has shown that the violence becomes intense and personal. Prior to this past week, the most recent example of this viciousness was the violence that erupted in the area of Osh in 1990. As Russian ethnographer Valery Tishkov has shown us in his meticulous and often "stomach-churning" descriptions of the violence at that time, the boundaries of civility were thrown to the wind as sexual violence, physical mutilation, and brutal murder using rudimentary farm tools spread throughout the region.
At the heart of this tension between former nomadic and settled peoples in the region is a fundamental distrust that likely harks back to a time when the nomads were cheated by traders at bazaars when they came to settled regions to sell their livestock and when nomads would ambush trading caravans that came through their herding regions. To this day, the stereotypes that each group uses for the other corresponds to such experiences. Former nomads (Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Turkmen) suggest that the settled peoples are "sneaky," "cheap," and not to be trusted. Descendents of the settled peoples of the region (Uzbeks, Uyghurs, and Tajiks to a lesser extent since they have less interaction with former nomads), in turn, claim that the former nomads are "lazy," "corrupt," and "uncultured."
I feel that these prejudices are important to understand because they indeed run deep in Central Asia. That, in of itself, does not suggest that such violence is inevitable. It merely means that there is a deep cultural cleavage that can be exploited by those who wish to foster instability. Obviously, whoever provoked the recent unrest in southern Kyrgyzstan understood this all too well. Unfortunately, the international community seems not to understand it and appears to remain dumbfounded at the violence of the last week.
It is hard to predict the fallout from this violence, but it is likely to have a long legacy. The primary "wildcard" in the foreseeable future remains the response of Uzbekistan, which has reportedly thus far accepted about 100,000 Uzbek refugees from Osh and Jalalabad. Will these people return to their homes? If their property is taken over by Kyrgyz, how will the Uzbek government respond? These are the types of factors that could create a much more deadly long-term conflict in the region. Although Kyrgyzstan's interim government will likely work to prevent such an escalation of conflict, it is unclear if they have the capacity to prevent it. As for Uzbekistan, the intentions of Tashkent remain unclear, but there is a situation open for the Uzbek government to exploit. Let's hope cooler heads prevail.


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This year's retreat started with the drive up to Vermont with my friend Katie Davis--a fun, five-plus hour drive up with nonstop chatter that helped me kick off the retreat, but also made me realize that I had done absolutely none of the recommended reading for the weekend. But Katie got me caught up with summaries of the books, and told me about two of her good friends who would be attending for the first time, Laura Ruby and Patricia McMahon.
Arriving at the Inn at Essex we immediately ran into the latter as well as Leda Schubert and National Book Award finalist Nancy Werlin. Ran into a group who had just flown in from NY, including editor Harold Underdown and Class of 2K7 member Rebecca Stead who I saw at a kid's lit drinks gathering a few months ago. On to the cocktail hour where I was greeted by Tanya Lee Stone and Marnie Brooks, ran into Susannah Reich and her husband Gary Golio who I signed up for a picture book biography of Bob Dylan last year. Yolanda Leroy (who I interned under at Charlesbridge--along with Harold) was there for the editor strand, and I said hi to my buddy Donna Freitas who I had met for the first time at Kindling Words last year when we bonded on our love of desserts. We've hung out with for many yummy sweets in New York throughout the year, including a trip to Magnolia bakery, and then Max Brenner: Chocolate by the Bald Man a few weeks ago. Co-founder Alison James, Janie Bynum, Elise Broach, Ashley Wolff, Gregory Maguire, Ellen Wittlinger, Janni Lee Simner, Diane Mayr (whose hilarious Run, Turkey Run is finally coming out this Fall with Walker), Anik McGrory... the name-dropping can go on and on and on, and there were about seventy-five attendees, so I'll stop now.
Part of what I love about Kindling Words is that everyone there is published (or at least under contract), and yet although the level of perceived "success" varies--some are just starting their children's book careers, some are more established, some old, some young, mostly women (but more men this year than ever before, including Mark Shulman--who gave me a tip on where to find the best mac and cheese in NY--and speaker Tim Wynne-Jones), the overall environment is friendly and supportive and warm, and everyone learns from one another.
I was fairly "good" this year and made myself wake up at 6:30 am both Friday and Saturday mornings to work out before breakfast, which allowed me to stuff myself silly all weekend without too much guilt. The inn is the home of the Vermont Culinary Institute, so the food was fantastic and I had dessert for both lunch and dinner every day.
Tim's author strand was fascinating, as he talked about "objective correlative" or OC, a term I had never heard of before, although the concept itself wasn't foreign. Basically, he talked about how to avoid the "f-word" (feel) and instead show what a character is feeling using the setting and the objects around her.
Caldecott-Honor winning illustrator Marjorie Priceman led the illustrator strand, and it was a pleasure to see the proof from her upcoming book. I didn't attend the illustrator strand after the first day, because the editors chose to meet for extra sessions instead, but it was great to finally meet her in person. Her book Froggie Went A-Courting had come out with my company right around when I started as an editorial assistant, and we had corresponded here and there about her book. She also now lives down the street from our former associate art director Billy Kelly in PA, and we talked about his music and his beautiful family.
Unfortunately, I ended up taking a nap after dinner and oversleeping, missing most of Virginia Euwer Wolff's keynote speech on point of view, but managed to come in for the last bit and listened in on the lively discussion at the end.
The editor strand was the best-attended it has ever been, with seven editors attending, including Harold, Yolanda, me, co-founder Mary Lee Donovan and speaker Deb Noyes Wayshak from Candlewick, Julie Romeis from Bloomsbury, and Arianne Lewin and Margaret Cardillo from Hyperion. Everyone was excited to have the opportunity to talk to fellow editors at different stages of their career and at differently-run companies. Some of the topics we tackled were salaries (using an anonymous technique that Mary Lee had learned, we discovered that our average salary was $50,500. This includes the salary of an editorial director, an executive editor, two senior editor, two editors, one associate editor, and one assistant editor), author-editor relationships, negotiating with agents, our editorial process, how to balance work and life, how to prevent burnout, what makes a good boss/assistant, and more. The editor strand is the only closed session at the conference, but we did have an editor roundtable that everyone sat in on where we discussed publicly some of these issues.
Saturday night was the traditional candlelight reading where twenty authors read five minutes from a work-in-progress or not-yet-published book. The readings as always were varied and wonderful--humorous picture books, poignant YA novels, historical fiction, chapter books, fantasy, etc. And then it was on to the bonfire where we drank hot chocolate, toasted marshmallows, sang songs, and burned pieces of paper where we wrote something we either wanted to get rid of, or a wish for the year. I wrote down one bad thing and three good things. And when we got too cold, we retired to the hospitality suite for wine, cheese, and conversations ranging from everything from what we thought of the recent ALA award-winners, certain agents, works-in-progress, and even drugs (whether it's okay to mention them in a Middle Grade book, that is).


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From my personal experience, what I remember is when you are on Vicodin, you feel relaxed, calm and very patient; these are the psychological effects you need in order to heal from your operation, from your injury or current condition. Like all drugs, this drug too has side effects, some of them are the usual drowsiness, having difficulties in breathing, vomiting, loss of appetite, some variations of constipation or diarrhea and maybe even lack of energy.
As we all know, more and more people get addicted to various drugs. This drug is also on the top 10 list of addictions. You may wonder what kind of addictions I am talking about. Some people get physically addicted while some get psychologically addicted. Several weeks of continuous usage can make the chance of you getting addicted somewhat higher. I have also experienced these addictions and trust me, it is very powerful! There are times that it even exceeds my cravings for water! Despite more and more problems to your personal life, medical life and even career, you will find it shocking how you would like to increase the intake dosages of this drug. Indeed, it will eat your life up and swallow you!
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The main reason why this drug is so addictive is because of hydrocodone which is one of the main components of this drug. Like heroin, the addiction symptoms of Vicodin are similar because these two drugs are both opioids.


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I feel confident that DMS serves our interests as a customer in relation to telecommunication solution costs and value without sacrificing the flexibility of managing this on my own."
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Philips Arena will soon be buzzing with the powerful vocals of the pop diva Adele. Out with her record breaking album "25", the phenomenal crooner has shown a lot of maturity presenting herself as a more introspective and reflective composer. While there are still traces of elements that made up her sophomore album "21" but the 27-year old Adele is all about exploring and learning how to fight for her love. The album highlights her personal and musical journey, closing with the track "Sweetest Devotion", dedicated to her partner Simon Konecki and their son Angelo. Her massive North American tour will kick off in July and performances are planned till November. Adele's itinerary includes two shows in Atlanta – Adele Atlanta tickets for October 28 & 29 are now available.
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Adele met the extremely high expectations set for her third album "25". Featuring chartbusters like "Hello" and "Million Years Ago", she has a struck a chord with her countless fans who were desperate for new music from the soulful artist. Here are some interesting tidbits about "25".
- Even before the album released Adele started breaking records with the song "Hello". It became the fastest selling track in 18 years, breaking the record previously held by Elton John's "Candle in the Wind".
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Program aims to help kids at risk of obesity
Dave & Mary Alper Jewish Community Center's 'Team Fit of Children' begins
MIAMI – A new program at the Dave & Mary Alper Jewish Community Center aims to put kids at risk of obesity on the right track with diet and exercise.
The JCC's "Team Fit for Children" program began Monday. It targets children ages 8 through 12 who have a high body mass index (BMI).
"The younger the better. If you have a problem when they're eight and you don't address it till they're thirteen, it's only a larger issue at that point," said director Meg McCarthy.
"You learn about how much to serve yourself when you eat and you learn how to exercise more," added Galia Dircie.
Classes meet three times a week. Participants receive nutritional counseling and try different sports.
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Linda Ikeji shows off her cute son Jayce as she spends time with family in London
Popular Nigerian blogger, Linda Ikeji, has proven time and again that she is a family woman going by how she celebrates and showcases them on social media from time to time.
Just recently, Linda traveled to London with her whole family which includes her parents, her sisters and brother, with their children.
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"I can't live like this, the object of an unending X-file."
REVIEW: The mysteries surrounding Scully's baby seem to multiply in this episode. What is its sex? Who's the father? Why did Krycek want to kill it? Who are all those creepy doctors interested in it? And is it an alien baby or something else? We get answers to a number of these, hurray! Nothing on the paternity, of course, though Mulder seems to play coy with what he knows. There is a twist though. Though everything seemed to point to her baby being an alien hybrid like the women we met in Per Manum, the truth is quite the opposite. Her baby is apparently a super-human, possibly resistant to alien viruses (so black oil control and replicant replacement), possibly even to such things as toxic hybrid blood, who knows? So Krycek wanted it aborted before the aliens found out and accelerated their plans, and the creepy doctors (with their ridiculous wall of light-up deformed fetuses, come on now), while they HAD experimented with alien DNA, believe her child to be what they only hoped to create in the lab, going so far as planting one of their own among Scully's mom's friends to keep tabs on her (but what were the pills for?).
But the aliens HAVE found out and they've sent replicant Billy Miles (one of Mulder's fellow abductees, now a killer alien duplicate) to murder the whole team of doctors who apparently stand in the way of invasion. They research and expertise must be destroyed lest they reproduce the miracle that is Scully's baby. Cue effective action to get Scully to safety, though that's in doubt given the participation of Doggett's FBI friend who turns out to be a replicant himself. Or some kind of alien, the type with the strange spine, which given the various aliens we've seen, doesn't HAVE to be the same group as Billy Miles', but is definitely the same group as Knowle's, whose allegiance is still ambiguous. We're in deep paranoia territory here, aren't we? Speaking of which, Denise Crosby is back, AGAIN with a smattering of lines, and she's Scully's new trusted doctor? I smell complications!
Very close to the season finale now, we again get the sense that Mulder and Scully are making their farewells. And so, Mulder leaves Doggett some kind of legacy, i.e. tips on how to stir the pot to get answers AKA pissing people off. Reyes is called in, and something tells me her presence will stick, this time. Another good bit is Krycek's slimy smile when Skinner cuts him out of the loop. Boy, he must really be sick of having to ally with the guy who's got his finger on his death button.
REWATCHABILITY: High - Very plotty, but doesn't skimp on the revelations for once. We do seem to be heading for some kind of ending.
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Finding linen at the fabric store is such a treat; I *will* buy it. Got this dark teal linen this summer and as soon as we got home from taking Clara to college I sewed it up for her and mailed it. You can take my baby away but you can't stop me sewing for her! Or whatever.
It's vintage McCall's 3643 and it's awesome because the bodice and sleeves are two pieces total, and some binding.
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- Karen @ Pieces of Contentment said...
Beautiful photo and a gorgeous dress.
- 11:36 PM, June 19, 2013
- Unknown said...
Just lovely Anna.
- 4:43 AM, June 20, 2013
- Julian said...
Such a beautiful dress on a beautiful young lady.
- 6:25 AM, June 20, 2013
- Lisa said...
Looks like you made the neckline a little lower than the yellow twill one - it's just beautiful! The color suits her very well. Looking at the pattern cover, I realize I have to get over "believing" that it's going to be as full-skirted as those covers indicate. You've made so many that look very different from the covers, and look a lot nicer, too! I love it.
- 8:34 AM, June 20, 2013
- Lisa said...
No, it isn't a lower neckline, is it? It definitely has a different look, though. I love it.
- 10:20 AM, June 20, 2013
- Melissa said...
Love your "monster" fern!
- 7:26 AM, June 21, 2013
- Rose said...
The dark blue is lovely on Clara.
- 1:42 AM, June 22, 2013
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What's that you say? You actually don't want the big ol' wedding involving three days of catered meals, bagpipers on parade, engraved nameplates to mark which boutonniere goes on which groomsman? You're not alone.
Plenty of folks opt for a smaller, simpler wedding. There are many reasons why—and cost is only the most obvious. Fewer details mean less stress. Not everyone has the time or desire to plan an elaborate affair. And some might feel that focusing on people—the one you're marrying and a small number of beloved witnesses—makes for a sweeter experience.
"There are lots of simpler ways to do it," says local wedding planner Barb Lundgren. Her company, Barb Wired Events, has planned low-key receptions for couples who are getting married for the second time as well as for couples who have eloped.
The low-key ceremony
Everybody knows you can get married at City Hall—and in Charlottesville, that costs $50 (plus $30 for the marriage license). Not everybody realizes, though, that the city's officiant can also travel to nearby Justice Park or even an entirely different location. Captain William Marshall, who officiates weddings for the Sheriff's Office, says that if you give him a heads-up a week or two in advance, he'll venture to the spot of your choice and will charge only a small travel fee based on mileage.
That includes evenings and weekends—and the ceremony might be more personal than you'd imagine. Marshall says he loves marrying couples. "It is their moment, and I want to be a part of it," he says.
Whoever your officiant, having fewer guests makes you more nimble when choosing a ceremony site. Get creat ive: An overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway? A moving trolley? One of UVA's Pavilion gardens?
The small reception
A smaller crowd means you can keep your reception costs down, too. Even a shelter at a city or county park, though it's not glamorous, can be perfectly pleasant and very affordable ($50-80 for a city shelter, $60 for one at an Albemarle County park). Just be sure to reserve in advance so you don't have to fight the softball team for your spot.
Lundgren says lots of couples assume that if they hold their wedding at home, they'll save money—but it isn't always so. "It can be just as expensive" as renting a venue, she says, "if you have to put up tents, tables, chairs, generators."
One way to simplify is to choose the type of venue that provides food and drink, so you're not making a second choice about a caterer. For a dinner of fewer than 50 people, Lundgren says C&O Restaurant is a popular choice. "They have great value," she says—and the place is, of course, a pillar of the local food scene. Two different event spaces can seat up to 30 or 40 guests, respectively. Each costs $250 to rent, and prix-fixe menus usually cost around $80-90 per person, including alcohol, tax and gratuity.
The Space is a newer Downtown venue where longtime local restaurateurs Tim Burgess and Vincent Derquenne create custom menus for private parties. While The Space can seat up to 150, Burgess says they've hosted groups well below 50, and charge roughly $100 per guest, all-inclusive, for a dinner reception. "The shape of The Space allows for us to keep intimacy for these smaller groups," he says. Make planning simple: Keep your decorating to a minimum, and let the exposed brick walls and artful food speak for themselves.
The slightly bigger reception
Inviting more than 50 people? Blue Mountain Brewery, in Afton, can seat up to 64 in its private event space. Meals start at $20 per person (tax, tip and beverages are separate), and there's a venue fee that ranges from $200 to $2,500 depending on when you're celebrating. Note that the brewery isn't available on Saturdays.
Lundgren likes the atmosphere at Michie Tavern, where period-costumed servers help set the mood for 50 to 100 dinner guests. "What a memorable experience that is," she says. The cost of a Michie meal starts at $27 per person (not including tax, tip or alcohol), and there is no venue fee.
If your budget is bigger, but you want to streamline the planning, here's a final suggestion: Old Metropolitan Hall ranges in cost from $1,950 to $3,950. You have options for catering, but can simplify by using the in-house caterer, Brasserie Saison.
OMH's Sarah Beasley says that the space works well for ceremonies, too—perhaps even with guests seated right at their dinner tables—and needs little to no enhancement if you're not inclined to decorate. "It's pretty beautiful as it is," she says. Now that sounds easy.
Danielle and Ryan were married at Raven's Roost Outlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway with less than 10 people present.


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Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, international standards and innovation capabilities have always been strong drivers and catalysts for human and societal development. International standards as well as increased innovation capabilities will continue to play even more important roles in the world of digitalization, globalization, fast change and extreme planetary and human challenges that we face today!
Good for all of us then, that the International standardization organization, ISO, is developing new international standards for Innovation Management as we speak!
The ongoing ISO/TC 279 work may very well be one of the most important standardization efforts since the ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 standards was published back in the eighties. One important difference though is that the ISO9001/ISO14001 standards are so called "certification standards" but the upcoming standards for Innovation Management will be "guidance standards", i.e. there will not be any formal certifications on the Innovation Management standards.
I just participated in the ISO/TC 279 workgroup meetings in Madrid. It gathered 50+ attendees from 48 countries all over the world, an impressive demonstration of global collaboration at its best! And also a fruitful mix between global innovation practitioners (such as myself) and academia which I take as a guarantee for that the upcoming standard will be applicable and relevant for innovation practitioners all over the world.
The ongoing work is driven by four different workgroups: WG1 for Innovation Management System in general, WG2 for terminology, terms and definitions, WG3 for Tools and Methods (with an initial focus on IP protection and innovation partnerships) and WG4 for Innovation Management Assessment.
I am a member ("Innovation Expert") of WG4 where we spent three full days in creating a first draft of the Innovation Management Assessment section of the standard. I also participated one day in WG1 to learn and understand the larger scope of the upcoming standard. My understanding after the Madrid meeting is that the upcoming ISO standard will be very much in line with the already published European standard on Innovation management, CEN 16555.
As we at Innovation360 group are developing methods and tools for Innovation assessment (InnoSurvey) as well as Ideation and project selection (Ideation360) for the global marketplace, being standards compliant is mandatory for our business.
We therefore claim and communicate that our methods and tools are compliant with the published CEN 16555 standards, and that we are committed to ensure compliance also with the upcoming ISO standard when it gets published late 2018!
In the end, this means that there will be a global, common baseline and understanding of Innovation Management and what it takes to become a world class innovator! A very good foundation for both tools and service providers and innovation practitioners all over the world. And as I said in the beginning "a necessary development in the world of digitalization, globalization, fast change and extreme planetary and human challenges that we face today!"
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Maybe I'm the last to notice, but a slew of fantastic 5ish minute interviews has been posted to Netflix with the cast of OITNB talking about their characters and favorite scenes, etc. They're all fabulous and illuminating, but Laverne Cox's discussion of Sophia is particularly poignant. Of the interesting tidbits I picked up, the fact that her identical twin brother played Sophia pre-transition was probably my favorite. I'd been wondering what kind of movie magic they used there, and now I know it's the magic of genetics! Anyway, they're all terrific. Highly recommend if you have a few moments to kill and need to get your fill until the premiere June 6th.
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The Asian Law Caucus (ALC) receives over twenty complaints from Northern California residents reporting excessive and repeated screenings by US Customs and Border Protection agents upon their entering the country. The residents say they have been interrogated about their families, religious practices, volunteer activities, political beliefs, and political associations when they returned from traveling abroad, regardless of their First Amendment rights. The residents say their books, business cards, handwritten notes, personal photos, laptop computer files, and cell phone directories were examined and sometimes copied. When they complained, some of them were told, according to the ALC, "This is the border, and you have no rights." [Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2/7/2008; Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2/7/2008] Interrogation at the Border - Nabila Mango, a US citizen from San Francisco, returns from a trip to Jordan in December 2007. She will say she is told by customs officials at San Francisco International Airport to list every person she met and every place she slept. Her Arabic music books, business cards, and cell phone are examined, and she believes some of her documents are copied. [Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2/7/2008] Her daughter tries repeatedly to call her on her cell phone during the interrogation, but Mango finds that customs officials erased the records of her calls. [Washington Post, 2/7/2008] "In my 40 years in this country, I have never felt as vulnerable as I did during that interrogation," Mango will say. "I want to find out whether my government is keeping files on me and other Americans based on our associations and ideas." A California citizen, Amir Khan, will also say he is stopped and interrogated every time he returns to the country. He has his laptop, cell phone, and personal notebooks searched. He is never told why he is being singled out. "One customs officer even told me that no matter what I do, nothing would improve," he will say. "Why do I have to part with my civil liberties each time I return home?" [Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2/7/2008] Software engineer Kamran Habib, a permanent US resident, has his laptop and cell phone searched three times in 2007. Now, Habib says, "every time I travel, I basically clean out my phone. It's better for me to keep my colleagues and friends safe than to get them on the list as well." Search and Seizure - Maria Udy, a marketing executive in Bethesda, Maryland, will say her company laptop is seized by a federal agent as she attempts to fly from Washington's Dulles International Airport to London. Udy, a British citizen, is told by the agent that he has "a security concern" with her. "I was basically given the option of handing over my laptop or not getting on that flight," she will recall. Udy is told that it is standard procedure to keep the computer for 10 to 15 days; over a year later, her laptop will not have been returned, and she will not be given any explanation. A tech engineer who wishes to remain anonymous will say he has a similar experience in the same airport months earlier. The engineer, a US citizen, says a federal agent requires him to open up his laptop and type in his password. "This laptop doesn't belong to me," he protests. "It belongs to my company." He has little choice; he logs on, and the agent copies down every Web site he had visited on the laptop. The Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE)'s Susan Gurley will say her organization has filed its own FOIA request to find out what happened to seized laptops and other electronic devices. "Is it destroyed right then and there if the person is in fact just a regular business traveler?" she asks. "People are quite concerned. They don't want proprietary business information floating, not knowing where it has landed or where it is going. It increases the anxiety level." The ALC's Shiran Sinnar says that by examining the websites people visit and the phone numbers they store, "the government is going well beyond its traditional role of looking for contraband and really is looking into the content of people's thoughts and ideas and their lawful political activities." Legal experts say that if conducted inside the country, such searches would require a warrant and probable cause. The government insists that a laptop is legally the same as a suitcase, and can be opened and examined essentially at will. Law professor David Cole disagrees: "It's one thing to say it's reasonable for government agents to open your luggage. It's another thing to say it's reasonable for them to read your mind and everything you have thought over the last year. What a laptop records is as personal as a diary but much more extensive. It records every website you have searched. Every email you have sent. It's as if you're crossing the border with your home in your suitcase." [Washington Post, 2/7/2008]
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"The rise of craft beer is a response to plain, insipid, mass-produced beer. Our objective is to support the local craft-beer scene, and bring more and more people to craft beer," says Dave Phillips, owner and chief tour dude of Dave's Brewery Tours.
Dave's Brewery Tours launched earlier this year after Phillips returned to Sydney following many years working in Bangkok. A love of craft beer, a gap in the market and a desire to do something different led him to the idea for the business. "I want to help people understand brewers and brewing, and at the same time help the industry. The tours are about education and enlightenment, and experiencing good things that are local," he says.
Dave's Brewery Tours has started with the Hipsters and Hops tour, which visits microbreweries and pubs such as Young Henrys in Newtown, The Henson and Batch Brewing Co in Marrickville, Rocks Brewing Co in Alexandria and the Royal Albert in Surry Hills. Tour-goers are picked up at Central at 11am and then bussed around to the breweries and pubs until 6pm. Phillips and his brother-in-law, Ben Cooper, run the tours.
Once there, the brewers give an overview of their operation, provide some background into the brewery's history, and explain how and why they make their beer. Phillips acts as the go-between. "We want to bring people closer to the toil and strife of what it takes to produce fine craft beer," he says.
Ten tokens, which can be redeemed for beers at the pubs and breweries visited – one token for a small beer and two for a tasting paddle, are included in the price of the tour. And if you think that sounds like a lot of beer, it is spread out over seven hours, and a hearty lunch at the Henson is included. "Of all the tours we've done, only one guy got really drunk – and it turns out he was buying 'in-betweeners,'" says Phillips.
Dave's Brewery Tours hopes to expand in the coming months. The planned Northern Exposure route will visit breweries north of the harbour such as 4 Pines, and the Wild West tour will stop by Riverside Brewing Co in Parramatta and the Australian Hotel Brewery at Rouse Hill. Phillips is investigating bespoke itineraries for corporate clients and possibly even running longer jaunts to breweries on the South Coast and in the Hunter.
Phillips also has further plans in the craft-beer market, and is looking to introduce a hop-on, hop-off bus service which will link notable craft-beer spots. The idea is that a couple of buses will travel between venues on a Saturday, making it easy to visit multiple pubs and breweries. The idea comes from Phillips' time overseas. "When I lived in Bangkok, it was so easy to get around. You could go out for a night without worrying about taxis. When I got back to Sydney, I realised how spread out everything was, and how much harder it was to go from place to place."
For now though, the focus remains on building his start-up tour business, and spreading the word about Sydney's ever-evolving craft-beer scene. Phillips is constantly seeking out new and exciting craft-beer makers, all with the goal of sharing his love of locally made beer with a wider audience. "Ideally, at the end of a tour, people will say, 'that was really fun, and I learned something.'"


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We have said it many times before, but for anyone new to the page, suction is something we rely on HEAVILY!!! That being said, we have backups and backup backups, etc. We have some that run on batteries to use when we are out of the house, or moving around the house, and then stationary units that run a little (very little) quieter to use while Casey sleeps.
Our preferred suction machine is called a Clario. The company that sells these no longer sells them in the US. A few years ago we had 1 that we loved and we decided to buy 2 more from Canada. These are our main machines. When one's battery dies we go to the next and plug in the now dead to charge. This made it so there was 1 in use, 1 charging, and 1 ready to go (most of the time). When Casey's little friend Guili passed away in July they had a new model of a machine offered here in the US that they gave us to try out. We really hoped it would be as good or better than the Clario so we could move over to it. It worked, better than the previous model by the same company, but it's suction was not as consistent as our Clario so it was our backup that we often kept in the car and had handy away from the house. We also had an old model from that company that we had for emergencies, but really never use. It is so LOUD and Casey gets really angry when we turn it on. Then we have the stationary unit in her room.
A couple of weeks ago 2 out of the 3 Clario's broke. Since they are not offered in the US, we had to ship them to Canada for repairs (ouch!). We still had 1 Clario and the one from Guili to use as well as our older portable backup so we didn't worry too much. We were using the remaining Clario and when we went to use the backups neither was holding a charge. They both still worked plugged in, but as soon as we removed the charger they failed. This has happened before with this brand. If you don't use the battery often they just stop charging. We were a little freaked out having only 1 portable, but the other units were out for repairs and we hoped they would return quickly. We kept the remaining unit charged as much as possible and carried plugs with us everywhere we went (we always have the plug- just in case).
Last weekend our only remaining portable stopped charging!!! Oh my goodness, we have been on edge. If the power went out our only option would be to take Casey to the car to power the unit until we could get to power. We couldn't go to any appointments because we had no suction from the car to where ever we were headed. We cancelled everything out of the house this week.
Of course, Casey is sick this week. She has been trying to get over a cold and just kept getting worse. I called her doctor to tell her and see if she wanted us to go in for xrays, or to see her when all of a sudden I realized- WE CAN'T LEAVE THE HOUSE!!! We were hostages unable to leave a plug.
The company sent back the repaired units and we watched tracking more than TV over the past few days. Yesterday it was out for delivery. We waited eagerly all day for FedEx to knock on the door. Just before 7 the status changed to "delivered- left at door". Tim went outside and said no package, no truck. He walked up and down to see if FedEx maybe left a box at a neighbors house- nope. Of all the packages to get lost in shipping, not this one!!!! I was freaking out and Tim called FedEx right away. Luckily he was able to figure out what had happened. The company billed our current address for the repairs, they had our current address as the return address, but for some reason they shipped the package to old house. Tim threw on his shoes and rushed over. The package was there and he was able to get it back home as I was getting Casey to bed.
Talk about a stressful week. You would think with all of the backups we have in place we would be able to avoid this kind of drama. We planned to take Casey to get an xray this morning and then possibly to see her doctor, but now that we CAN leave the house again, she seems to be feeling much better. I can breathe again knowing that we CAN leave if we need/want to. Today has been great having the portable units back in rotation.


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