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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Jonathan Safran Foer's "Eating Animals" has received a massive amount of publicity. Here's my review of it, done for the San Francisco Chronicle. If I'd known it was going to be such a media sensation, I suspect I might have been a bit harder on it.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Reviewed by Geoff Nicholson
In World War Two Jonathan Safran Foer's Jewish grandmother crossed Europe, barefoot and starving, one step ahead of the Nazis. A Russian farmer took pity on her and offered her a piece of pork. She wouldn't eat it even to save her life, her reasoning being, "If nothing matters, there's nothing to save."
With stories like this told around the dinner table, it's hardly surprising that Foer has some deep and complex feelings about the role of food in culture and family. Once a wishy-washy vegetarian, now a fully committed one, he dates the origins of this book, and his concern with the morality of eating meat, to the birth of his son. He spent three years immersed in "animal agriculture," visiting farms, talking to activisits, farmers, scientists, and in one case a vegan builder of slaughterhouses, all the time asking "what are the economic, social and environmental effects of eating animals?"
Much of the book describes and condemns factory farms, which Foer tells us produce all but one per cent of American meat. It won't come as news that terrible things happen in these places, but Foer reports that things are worse than most of us ever imagined.
For example he describes how slaughtered chickens, some of them diseased, "leaking yellow pus, stained by green feces." are dropped together into a massive tank of refrigerated water. The liquid in these tanks is known as "fecal soup." Once in the tank, the chickens soak up the liquid, getting heavier and therefore adding to their value (or at least price). Many of us have balked at paying extra for chickens plumped up with water: the fact is we're paying extra for fecal soup.
I wish this were the worst, most revolting fact that Foer receals. It isn't, by many means. Much of the book is a catalogue of the horrors factory farmed animals endure, and also of the casual sadism of many who work in the industry. On grounds of basic decency this would be objectionable enough, but the process harms humans as well as animals. Factory farms create pollution, are partly responsible for global warming, and play a huge role in the spread of mutant pathogens, as well as multiple diseases including swine flu. This, Foer suggests, is a very high price to pay for cheap meat.
In his novels Foer is a witty and ironic writer, and Eating Animals contains a few nice literary touches. He describes modern fishing methods that scoop up vast quantities of unwanted fish, which are then discarded. He writes, "Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. The plate might have to be five feet across."
Before long however, the sheer horror of his subject makes wit and irony unsustainable. There are extensive passages in this book that some people are not going to be able to stomach.
Set against factory farming are "ethical farmers" such as Nicolette and Bill Niman (once but no longer owners of Niman Ranch) and Frank Reese of Good Shepherd Poultry. These are certainly the "good guys" when it comes to raising meat, and many of us see this as a way forward. But for Foer it isn't enough.
His book is ultimately a work of moral philosophy. Having made us long for humane farming methods, he then concludes that ethically there's no such thing. Even the most humane farmers still castrate, brand or remove the tails of animals. All farmers are ultimately involved in killing. If I understand Foer correctly, he believes all that is immoral, and considers vegetarianism the only ethical option. Since we don't have to kill animals to survive, then we simply shouldn't.
Clearly the majority of us aren't going to agree with him on this, and he doesn't expect us to. However, the fact that he makes me wonder whether I'm being, at best, a hypocrite every time I eat a piece of beef, suggests he's completely successful in at least one his ambitions. He writes, "We need a way that brings meat to the center of public discussion in the same way it is often at the center of our plates." After reading this book, it's hard to disagree.
Incidentally a brace of cornish game hens from Good Shepherd Poultry will cost you $94, but that does include postage.
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- By Angie Federico
- Review
- 3 years ago
The Killers won the battle of dates to Muse, something that I am glad enough after having listened to Battle Born. September 17, 2012 was the day initially chosen by the English band to release their sixth album, but finally delayed it two weeks. Many tracks have been dropping over the last few weeks, to the point that much of this tracklist had gone through more hands than a fake coin.
If there is anything to be fooled about as you begin to hear Battle Born is its first cut, "Flesh And Bone". Especially after having previously heard songs filtered or recorded by fans in live concerts. `Runaways` and company made us squeeze our toes, thinking that they had returned to pick up rock from small stories and big publics from its beginnings, but the beginning of the album, with electronic cut arrangements and synthesizer with shoehorn is, At least, disconcerting.
But that`s the end of it. Any reminiscence of its mainstream searches of Day & Age stays in those first thirty seconds of "Flesh And Bone", that breaks in the refrain reminding us what the killers can become The Killers with themes like this live. And the sixty-second moment of the second half of the cut is Satisfying. How do you get this theme based on listening, always forgetting those first few seconds to which I do not see any relationship with the rest of the song.
True ball stadiums, crowded public and giant screens, punches on the face in the front row, people, summer festival. That`s Battle Born, magnificent, epic at times, You can guess the big moments in a tracklist that grows with the next track, "Runaways", or the one that raises the foot from the accelerator to get into a full nostalgic part time like is the Way It Was, touching one of the great moles Of the album, loss, missing, looking at the other person without recognizing it.
If I go on with you by my side
Can it be the way it was?
When did you forget about those golden eyes?
While the lyrics the entire album virtually are spun with the simplicity of honesty, with that way Brandon Flowers has to tell common stories, past recognizable by all and anxieties and concerns that touch us when night falls on a Tuesday And the bed becomes huge, in `Here With Me` has one of those lapidary phrases and the worst thing is that it sticks.
"Don't want to picture you on my cellphone
I want you here with me".
However, it`s clear that he`s going to be one of those power-ballads that pets him before big audiences, with arms raised and guaranteed hugs under.
The Killers have not stopped looking in Battle Born. They simply have looked in a better place. In the place that took them up, in which you no longer need to worry about making a breakthrough, but to take care of your sound, take care of your image and not be bruised to reach the top. They do not need it. Battle Born grows, is coherent, leaves, pursues you, flows right inside your head, you see yourself into it. It is thought for that, to take back the small to the bigger, to tell everyday stories in a wide instrumental, tremendously focused and with vocation to shake.
And so one of the biggest cuts of the album, "A Matter Of Time" arrives, a real peak in the middle of those who raise the average, with an epic chorus included, Wild drums and Flowers giving it all. What a voice this man has, a little like Meat Loaf on some of the lyrics.
The return to action is progressive, do not force the machine, goes up again little by little, this time pulling a very brucespringsten-ish rock in "The Rising Tide", and they take a moment of intimacy, of blushing confidence in "Heart Of A Girl", of understanding, of commending ourselves to something superior while observing the injustices of the daily world, without needing to go to great disasters, but remaining in small cities, towns, small tragedies to remove and put with those that we fight on everyday.
The American-country moment puts it "From Here On Out", which sounds like a degreaser and helps the second half of the tracklist not to stay in the depths. The rhythmic descent is considerable, and perhaps if the first part had not been so sticky, so adhesive, the difference would not be so wide.
However, it is in these moments where Brandon Flowers blooms--do not hit me. In "Be Still" he leaves his skin that's why is the best ballad of the album, although this is a field in which they have not yet managed to complete as they did with "Runaways". Even so, the moment is very airy, with dyes of the ballads of commercial pop from the eighties.
The "indie" is more fashionable than ever. A genre that until recently was considered as alternative has become over time a real wave of public and fans who have proven to be perfect fighters for the survival of quality music rhythms against the increasingly outdated mainstream genre. Even so, we have reached to a point where even the "indie" is "mainstream", but analyzing this event would get us into a battlefield that does not suit us.
If today there is a flagship in this genre is without a doubt The Killers. The band has been able to take advantage of the passage of time to gain support and become thanks to its almost-intact quality in a true reference within music. The Killers is no longer known only to music experts and fans in this style, but they have been able to gain worldwide approval thanks to their previous album "Day & Age". Now, after a short break (and a solo album), The Killers returns to quench their expectant audience.
What does "Battle Born" contain inside? Will it satisfy the great mass of the audience? Why is this album so crucial?
Keep reading.
The Review
01Flesh And Bone
A start as spectacular as disconcerting. In "Flesh And Bone" we attended, although we did not expect it, to a continuation of the sound of the band created in their previous disc; A theme made for the masses and the radio-formulas that may not win the approval of all. Although it is undeniable that the letter, a kind of ode dedicated to the fight spirit of human nature and people as chosen to do something in this world during our passage through it, maintains the quality of the band.
We quickly reached the first official single and stepped on the accelerator towards greatness. This theme is an immediate hymn, a song that could be generational and a real acoustic orgasm when it sounds at concerts. "Runaways" is energetically intense, as much as its content. Who has not been young and has made madness for love? Who has not rushed on events as if it were our last day on earth and then repents? Such an everyday letter and a history almost so obligatory in our lives that only make the theme so great.
03The Way It Was
After the grandiloquence of the previous theme we go to a much more desolate field. "The Way It Was" is one of those great pieces in danger of extinction, a song made to suffer without anesthesia, a story of a love dried up by the passage of time, moments that will not return and dreams Which are not met. One last breath for trying something you want but that is not supported anywhere. A truth so wonderfully cruel that it is injected into the ear as a song.
04Here With Me
The story that is being told to us throughout the disc continues its course until an inevitable and sad end. The Killers abandons the grandiloquence of the first songs to engage in an intimate ballad whose fragility is so palpable that it is almost impossible not to empathize with it. "Here With Me" is a sad rock ballad that sings to the inability to recover someone we have loved, and does it with a letter full of everydayness which is impossible to forget. That is the greatness of the band, telling stories that at some point in our lives we have all lived.
05A Matter Of Time
After so much melancholy tracks destined for failures and disappointments comes the moment to put the turbo and squeeze the accelerator towards one of the brightest subjects of this album full of jewels. "A Matter Of Time" is pure and hard power, where The Killers remind us of their beginnings and a mainstream rock almost extinct today. It is a song to listen with the volume to the maximum, to give everything and to fall yielded to the ground with the last chords. After all, in this race to time trial that is the whole life is a matter of time.
06Deadlines & Commitments
After the energetic torrent of "A Matter Of Time" we now move to quieter lands where the band adopts a different sound to everything we have heard now with a predominance of percussions. In the lyrics, we can see a demonstration of friendship or unconditional love intoned by the highs of Brandon giving people carte blanche to try to get what they want and, if they fail, return to their side where he will take care of them.
07Miss Atomic Bomb
After this title so conducive to a good string of pop divas, The Killers relegates us again to a more commercial court theme so that the band`s early fans do not feel cheated with this record. That may be why Miss Atomic Bomb looks like the distant cousin of "Human." The problem is that this song lowers a little the rhythm of everything that we had listened until now, making it appear to be an unnecessary fill in "Battle Born".
08The Rising Tide
After a few slightly experimental subjects or something below the expected level, the band returns to power in this theme that sounds classic rock mixed with the group`s own personality. In "The Rising Tide" we witness a kind of mordant but elegant criticism to that abstemious personality group that can become a dangerous tide of which it is very easy to enter but unlikely to leave without any internal bruising. Real as life itself.
09Heart Of A Girl
We return to calm and tiny intimate chords to witness a quiet and thoughtful subject that contains an almost global story. "Heart Of A Girl" is not especially a ballad, but anyone stops looking for their labels to hear what they are trying to tell us, that story where through a couple of people channel the uncertainty of the future or the meaning of life Of humanity to the fullest. What are we doing here? Where we go? We only have the consolation to listen to each other and keep going looking for our place.
10From Here On Out
Although the second part of the album is decaying a lot in comparison to the impressive first cuts, this theme manages to revitalize the flight a bit, achieving a kind of unusual sound. We return to a sad story, to a sour maturity brought about by a selfish youth. What is sown always ends up collecting, and "From Here On Out" describes it with comfortable success.
11Be Still
If there is a field in which The Killers has not emphasized too much throughout its trajectory and nevertheless it is developing quite well in this disc is in the one of the ballads. From the pair of themes of this genre that we can hear in "Battle Born", it is certainly "Be Still" that stands out. As if it were a book of self-help, the subject encourages us to continue on our steps, not to lose the north and be ourselves and fight for it despite any impediment or obstacle that lies ahead. You have to live and work until the work is finished. Perfect for moments of personal reflection.
12Battle Born
And without hardly realizing we arrive at the last track of the album, a theme that is well shown in the title sums up in its not very rare 5 minutes, all the philosophy and sound that The Killers have wanted to impregnate in this disc . We mix calm with rumbling, intimacy with grandiloquence and dejection with constant struggle to stand. That is "Battle Born", a battlefield that is constantly transformed and not always won, although the goal is never to lose the war.
Criticized by many and praised by many others, "Battle Born" is not an easy album, just like any other of The Killers has never been. We do not know for sure if this record is the best they have ever created, but we do know that it is "Must listen" album. The band moves between the most personal melodies to songs that come to be called as new hymns. It is a record of descents and ascents, of nostalgia and joy, of victory and of defeat, of life and death; But it is not an album that you can undo in one listen. "Battle Born" wins over time, their melodies and lyrics become more tangible as you hear them again, and that`s when you get the satisfaction of seeing that the band totally forgets to wanting to transcend beyond their borders and Prefers to be faithful to their style and their peculiarities, to those talents that have elevated them as a musical reference of the present time; A model to imitate and that not only has been able to maintain itself, but to each album that launches, it consolidates its credibility and their position as a mythical band that many will remember with longing in a few decades.

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Huawei might still not be a household name but they have decent hardware and are getting better with each release. The hugely popular original Ascend was available on Cricket Wireless and recently they launched the Ascend II with Android 2.3 Gingerbread and a 3.5″ display. This same awesome budget device is headed to US Cellular for those looking for an alternative to those other carriers in the mid-west.
The Huawei Ascend II features Android 2.3 Gingerbread with a few minor changes and Huawei's launcher. Powered by a 600 Mhz processor so it wont be winning any speed or benchmark contests but this is the perfect budget device. It comes equipped with a 3.5″ display, a 5 megapixel rear camera with 720p video recording and should hit US Cellular absolutely free — although with a $100 mail in rebate.
It might not be their best offering but will appeal to the budget crowd. They have included a 2GB micro-SD for extra storage with support for 32GB sd cards and the Ascend II comes pre-installed with the popular 3rd party keyboard Swype that I'm sure you've seen before and wish you had.
US Cellular informed us this new Gingerbread smartphone would be available early this week at uscellular.com and from the image above you can see its already live on their site. It should get the green light and be available to purchase any day now for those interested.


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Admittedly I'm talking about SOA here as a business concept rather than a technology concept, but that said I think the two go rather well together in fact. Thinking about defining services and then categorising them for delivery might mean that a Web 2.0 with AJAX, monkey nuts and side trimmings of agile could be the right way to deliver a particular service. I've used a 3D grid to try and explain to people that different services require different delivery approaches and to try and break the "one ring to bind them all" approach to project management that often exists.
Equally if one of the services is a package solution that needs almost no configuration and for which the requirements are already known and fixed by the package then you probably don't want to go down the XP route. And if its a business process centric solution like "employee take on" or something with big compliance concerns then again you probably want to pick a more formal method (but naturally one that has iterations).
One size doesn't fit all, and taking an architectural and particularly a business view of SOA helps you pick the right delivery approach for each service rather than trying to shoe-horn one method onto everything.
Its not SOA v Web 2.0, its about understanding the wider problems and understanding what works best where. SOA v Web 2.0 is like arguing Linux v VI, it doesn't make sense. Unless of course its the one that's "vendor bulls***" (how does Tim Bray talk with *s? Must be an XML guru thing) then there might be more of a point, but that is to concede that SOA must be defined solely by marketing hype and never by an actual Service Oriented Approach which is a shame.
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BROUSSARD, LA – It hasn't been a great year for railroad accidents. There has been a huge increase in both serious injuries and death resulting from trying to 'beat the train' – which has never been advisable, considering that trains aren't getting any smaller or any slower.
But authorities in the the Acadia Parish and Iberia Parish are now planning to combat the increase in railroad crossing-related accidents through the installation of stunt jump ramps.
The ramps, which will allow the daredevils to express themselves without the danger of being hit by an oncoming train, will start to be installed later this year. Scott Pfeiffer, of the Louisiana Department of Railroad Safety (LDRS) said this is all long overdue.
"We're delighted to see that positive steps have been made to ensure that drivers can safely cross railroads", he said, "We strongly encourage drivers to put the pedal to the metal and take the jumps at a minimum of 50mph. This is to ensure that trains will be completely bypassed, and the fact that it looks cool as hell. Real Dukes of Hazzard stuff."
He also said that the flashing crossing lights will be replaced with speakers, that will play a range of songs to let you know when a train is approaching.
"We felt that the whole light thing was a little outdated", he explained, "So we'll be installing loud-speakers that will play a range of songs such as 'Folsom Prison Blues' by Johnny Cash, 'Born To Be Wild' by Steppenwolf, and a few Motörhead songs in order to get drivers in the zone. It also doubles as a safeguard to let them know when a train is coming."
And Pfeiffer even hinted at the possibility of turning the whole experience into "a little competition" further down the line.
"We're also considering installing cameras at each crossing", he said,"From this we may allow people to challenge each other to see who can do the best stunt jump. Kind of like the whole stunt jump reward feature on Grand Theft Auto. We'd watch these via the cameras, give each one a score, and send the best driver each month something like – I don't know – a gift card or something. The main thing is that we'll be minimizing the whole 'car meet train' thing. That's our priority."


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People charged with a criminal offence are required by the Identification of Criminals Act to have their fingerprints and photograph taken prior to trial. These fingerprints assist in identifying an individual before their court appearance. If you are found "not guilty," you or your legal representative can request that your fingerprints and photograph be destroyed.
If you are convicted of an offence, you can be ordered to provide a DNA sample for the National DNA Databank. For certain offences, including murder, manslaughter and sexual assault, offenders are required to provide a sample. For others, including impaired driving, assault and robbery, it's up to a judge's discretion to order a sample be taken.
What happens during fingerprinting?
The fingerprint process takes approximately ten minutes.
What happens during DNA collection?
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What do I need to bring with me in order to obtain finger printing?
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For questions/concerns related to fingerprinting or DNA collection, please contact the Criminal Identification Unit at 403-428-2064.
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the holy grail is said to be a stone from Lucifer's crown
crown = Hebrew "keter" -- numerical value 620 coinciding the 620 letters with which the first set of tablets of stone were inscribed, tablets that were smashed by Moses. The 620th letter said to be the stone on the crown. 620th letter is last letter of last (172nd) word "reacha" of last commandment You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, his manservant, his maidservant, his ox, his donkey, or whatever belongs to your neighbor."
or whatever belongs to your neighbor. וְכֹל אֲשֶׁר לְרֵעֶךָ
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Rulers of Baroda – Early Pioneer Motorists
A peek into the Maharajas' stunning collection of over thirty bespoke Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars befitting their great wealth and taste.
The rulers of the State of Baroda, India were early pioneer motorists and in the early 20th Century took an increasing interest in the motor car products of Rolls-Royce. The Maharajas amassed a stunning collection of over thirty bespoke Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars befitting their great wealth and taste. This article demonstrates their bourgeoisie and the Rolls-Royce motor cars enjoyed by H.H. the Maharaja Sir Sayajirao III of Baroda and his Grandson and heir, Major General H.H. The 'Maharaja Sir Pratapsinhrao Gaekwad of Baroda.
His Highness Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III was one of the early pioneer motorists. In the records of Messrs. Turner, Hoare & Co., engineers of Bombay, they exhibited Renault and Peugeot cars at the 1903 Delhi Durbar (the occasion to celebrate the Coronation of King Edward VII). Many native princes purchased cars from them including H.H. the Gaekwad of Baroda.
Montague Grahame-White aptly recounts in The Car of 25 February 1903, "One instance of the number of carriages arriving by train at Delhi Station, which will give the reader some idea of the magnitude of the traffic, when the Maharaja of Baroda brought with him 117 carriages and three times the number of horses, two huge elephant carts, a LiFu Steam Wagonette, and two small motor cars. By no means is this a solitary example of the conveyances brought by each maharaja attending the Durbar."
When the Motor Union of Western India proposed to hold reliability trials in 1904, His Highness offered a handsome silver trophy known as 'The Gaekwar's Cup'. This prize was for the car which undertook the trials with the least number of voluntary stops over a distance of 880 miles between Delhi and Bombay from 26-December 1904 through 2-January-1905. It is interesting to note that S F Edge sent out to India a 20 hp Napier that was driven in these trials by Basil Johnson, the brother of Claude Johnson, who was to play a major role in the formative years of the Rolls-Royce Company.
Records are scanty as to other makes acquired by the Baroda State Garages and sent to India or retained in Europe but they included at least two French De Dietrich cars and a 191045-50 hp Mercedes Landaulette by Brainsby & Sons. The following list of opulent and prolific cars owned by the Gaekwad's, is a testament to their insatiable zeal:
- 1911 Silver Ghost (Chassis 1721) Barker "Whitmore" Landaulette in dark blue with cloth upholstery with ivory interior handles. This is most likely the car rebodied as a Tourer by the French Motor Car Co. of Bombay in 1916 for Prince Dhairyashilrao.
- 1914 Silver Ghost (1AB) Hooper open-drive Landaulette in dark blue with grey silk brocaded upholstery. Nickel fittings. Reg: R-1959.
- 1914 Silver Ghost (60LB) Colonial L to E, H J Mulliner Open-Drive Landaulette in maroon with fawn cloth upholstery Nickel fittings. Reg: R-2349 (Formerly owned and restored by the author, now surviving in America).
- 1919 Silver Ghost (36LW) Rothschild Open¬ Drive Landaulette with nickel fittings.
- 1920 Silver Ghost (55CW) Barker Tourer finished in French grey with dark green lines with dark green leather. For Prince Jaisinhrao.
- 1921 Silver Ghost (109LG) Hooper Side-Light Cabriolet in dark blue.
- 1924 Silver Ghost (106EM) Barker enclosed limousine in dark blue with dark green silk cloth upholstery for Prince Dhairyashilrao.
- 1925 Silver Ghost (30EU) Barker Pullman limousine fitted with Dunlop steel artillery wheels, nickel fittings for H.H. The Maharaja.
- 1927 Phantom I (71 RF) A Mulliner Enclosed¬ Drive Landaulette.
- 1928 Phantom I (75EH) A Mulliner Landaulette de Ville.
- 1929 Phantom II (70WJ) Barker Tourer finished in ivory and blue with blue leather upholstery. India Trials Car. Reg: X-6551 sold to Prince Pratapsinhrao. Recess for revolver in off side front door. Nacrolaque instrument board. Accessorized with two Alvis nickel plated Lucas wing lamps.
- 1929 Phantom II (101WJ) Kellner Cabriolet de Ville for H.H. the Maharani.
- 1930 Phantom II (101 GY) A Mulliner Landaulette exhibited at the October 1930 Motor Show and sold to Prince Pratapsinhrao.
- 1933 20/25 (GTZ27) Thrupp & Maberly Landaulette sold new to Mrs M Herbertson Dawson, Kent. Subsequently, it was re sold to Prince Pratapsinharao.
- 1934 Phantom II (30SK) Windovers Drop Head Coupe for Prince Pratapsinhrao.
- 1934 Phantom II (104SK) Kellner Enclosed¬-Drive Landaulette with a white finish to the instruments with black figures. Exhaust cut-out fitted. Lalique mascot mounted on the scuttle. Exhibited on the Kellner stand at the Paris Salon and supplied to Her Highness The Maharani.
- 1934 20/25 (GAE3) Kellner Enclosed-Drive limousine exhibited on the Kellner stand at the Paris Salon for the Prince of Baroda.
- 1934 20/25 (GAE45) Hooper Sports Saloon for H.H. the Maharani.
- 1935 20/25 (GBJ71) Thrupp & Maberly Landaulette finished in grey and black with West of England cloth interior for H. H. The Maharaja.
- 1936 Phantom III (3-AX-201) Enclosed limousine by Hooper with sun roof finished in blue and black with red line and blue brocade upholstery. Front seat black leather. Gold plated fittings. Bracket for flagstaff at base of kneeling lady mascot. Heraldry: Crown and sword emblazoned on waist rail. CD plate at rear.
- 1937 Phantom III (3-BU-106) Kellner Enclosed-Drive limousine fitted with Marchal headlamps, ivory white equipment including steering wheel, change gear and brake lever handles; white dials with black figures; 6 Ace wheel discs with chrome plate ribs. For H.H. The Maharani.
- 1937 Phantom III (3-CP-112) Windovers Saloon finished in 'Wilcolac' emerald green throughout. Trimming: Leopard skin, supplied by client; carpets front and rear in leopard skin; ivory finish to facia board, steering wheel and control knobs. Note: Heater, Rolls-Royce mascot, spare wheel covers, sunshine roof - not required. To the order of Prince Pratapsinhrao Gaekwad.
- 1938 Phantom III (3-DL-96) Park Ward Tourer originally supplied to the Yuvaraja Saheb Mallendra Sinhji of Morvi. Second owner: The Prince of Baroda.
- 1938 Wraith (WXA3 7) Park Ward Saloon used as a trials car. Reg: EYX 362 and featured in The Autocar 22 September 1939. Sold in January 1940 to H.H. The Maharani.
- 1938 Wraith (WRB20) Binder Saloon for Princess Poniatowska, Paris. Sold second hand to H.H. the Maharaja of Baroda, The Dorchester Hotel, London, June 1945 - February 1946.
- 1946 Bentley Mk VI (B8AK) Vanden Plas Saloon in silver and blue grey for H.H. The Maharaja. Shipped to Bombay per S.S.'Nirvana' on 25 January 1947.
- 1946 Bentley Mk VI (B30AK) H J Mulliner Saloon in two shades of blue and grey, Perspex panel and sliding roof in rear. For H.H. the Maharani.
- 1946 Bentley Mk VI (B42AK) H J Mulliner Drop-Head Coupe in 'Belco' grey. Car handed over to H.H,'s chauffeur on 8 August 1947 for H,H. the Maharaja.
- 1946 Bentley Mk VI (B194AK) Bentley Motors Saloon in pearl grey and sold via Dadajee Dhackjee & Co., Bombay, for H.H. The Maharaja of Baroda.
- 1948 Bentley Mk VI (B273BG) H J Mulliner Drophead Coupe in red and black for H.H. The Maharani.
- 1951 Silver Wraith (ALW2) H J Milliner limousine with beige tapestry upholstery and gold fittings for H.H. The Dowager Maharani Chimnabai.
- 1956 Silver Wraith (LELW97) H J Mulliner Touring Limousine for H.H. The Maharani Sita Devi of Baroda and used in France.
- 1963 Phantom V (5-LPA-69) James Young touring limousine for H.H. The Maharani Sita Devi of Baroda and used in France.


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WASHINGTON - Parties and other organizations are launching a last push to sign up voters this weekend before Tuesday's deadline to register to vote for the Nov. 7 general election.
The election features tight races for U.S. Senate and governor and both parties are working hard to identify and turn out their voters.
More than 3.1 million voters were registered to vote in the primary election last month, 1.7 of them with the Democratic Party and around 900,000 with the Republican Party, according to Maryland State Board of Elections Web site.
In the 2002 general election, more than 2.7 million people registered to vote, and the turnout was 1.7 million voters, almost 62 percent of those registered. Maryland has a population of 5.4 million, with 74 percent of them older than 18, the minimum age eligible to vote, according to the U.S. Census Bureau Web site.
Registrations have increased during the past years, said Ross Goldstein, deputy state administrator of the Maryland State Board of Elections, and they are expected to continue rising for the general election.
"Our role is to make registration as accessible as possible for people," said Goldstein. Other organizations, parties and campaigns organize rallies to persuade people to register to vote, he added.
Democrats and Republicans have been working hard toward that goal recently, as Maryland is facing several contested races.
"We have been stressing the Oct. 17 deadline and we will continue to stress that deadline in all of our meetings, all of our festivals," said Audra Miller, director of communications of the Maryland Republican Party.
"Everywhere where the party has a presence we have voter registration forms available and we inform people about the importance of their vote, this year's election and the deadline," she said. "We do expect registration numbers to be up. This is a very competitive election, and we want everyone voting and every voter informed."
Voters will select Maryland's next governor—either Republican Gov. Robert Ehrlich or Democrat Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley—and its next U.S. senator to replace Paul Sarbanes, who is retiring this year. Democrat Rep. Ben Cardin, Republican Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, and tri-party candidate Kevin Zeese are vying for the Senate seat. Marylanders will choose a new comptroller, attorney general and House representative in the 3rd District.
"Everything that we do, everything that we encourage our candidates to do, involves delivering that message" that every vote is needed, said David Paulson, spokesman for the Maryland Democratic Party.
Paulson said the party has been sending reminders to Democratic supporters about the deadline—and they will do it again this weekend.
Parties are not the only ones working to register voters. Casa de Maryland will register voters at Metro stations and churches, said Francisco Cartagena, community organizer. They already have signed up 600 new voters since before the primary election, he said.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, with headquarters in Baltimore, has launched a campaign called "Arrive with 5" to increase voter registration and participation. The organization has been asking participants to identify five friends or family members to register and vote.
"Our goal is to increase the overall African-American voter turnout by 5 percent more than the 2002 African American turnout," said the NAACP's Web site.
In order to vote, the person must be at least 18 years old, a U.S. citizen and a resident of Maryland. Citizens are ineligible if they've been convicted more than once of a violent or infamous crime and have not been pardoned.
Voter registration can be completed in person in several places: the local board of elections; the State Board of Elections; the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; the Department of Social Services; the Motor Vehicle Administration; Offices on Aging; the MTA Paratransit Certification Office; all public institutions of higher education; recruitment offices of the U.S armed forces; marriage license offices, and offices for students with disabilities at all Maryland colleges and universities.
Maryland residents may also print an application from the State Board of Elections Web site and send it by mail postmarked by Tuesday.
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Of Norms, Nuclear Non-proliferation Regime and Outliers
By Saima Aman Sial
Feb 06, 2015
The Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has lately been criticized for its ineffectiveness in containing proliferation and fulfilling it grand bargain promise. These challenges to the NPT are both from within the treaty and from that of the outliers. One can argue that both challenges are interrelated. The existing challenges within the treaty are a reflection of how the treaty has remained ineffective in addressing the regional security issues and proliferation in turn. The outliers have remained a challenge for governing the efficacy of the treaty by creating discontent for a large number of member states of the treaty, who feel that the treaty has failed to fulfil its end of the bargain, enshrined in Article IV of the NPT, i.e., the inalienable right of states to peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Countries like Iran and North Korea that wish to acquire or have acquired nuclear weapons are as strong a challenge to regional stability and non-proliferation as to the NPT's reputation as being at the cornerstone of global Nuclear Non-proliferation Regime (NNPR). Further compounding the challenge is the inability of P-5 to facilitate a Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Free Zone Conference in the Middle East.
As the NPT, owing to the changed global realities, cannot control or regulate the behaviour of outliers, with significant nuclear capabilities and technological advancements in nuclear field; one can argue that in the twenty first century with its whole range of global challenges to the efficacy of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime (NNPR), new layers of arrangements need to supplement the NPT. Some measures, already in place, that carry credence in this regard include the multilateral export control regimes, United Nation Security Council Resolution 1540 and initiatives like Global Initiative to Counter Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT), Nuclear Security Summit (NSS), etc. However, lately, owing to geopolitical and economic exigencies, these institutions have contributed to undermine the norms of (NPR), i.e., accentuating regional security complexes through exemptions undermining behaviour governed by NNPR norms.
Strategic partnership agreements of U.S. and other Western states with India and commitments to bring it, as an exception, into the fold of NNPR are a case in point. If the credibility of deterrence lies in the adversary's perception of the threat, then one can state that Pakistan's perception of Indian deterrence vis-à-vis itself, in wake of the agreements for fissile material production and technology access, have accentuated the threat for Pakistan and undermined its perceived notion of deterrence. This argument cannot be wished away, simply because countries operating in regional security complexes with adversarial relationship and geographically contiguous cannot overlook developments that undermine their perceived notions of deterrence and strategic stability. The concern here does not solely relate to nuclear weapons capability and undermining of defence-offence balance through introduction of deterrence stabilizers like Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) systems or Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicles (MIRVs). But, a politically hostile neighbour bent upon belligerence against Pakistan (recent working boundary escalation by India is a case in point), on behest of the global confidence bestowed to it by the world community through subjective notions of a "good non-proliferation record". By implication, this means that a confident India is a more belligerent regional actor that wishes to solve disputes in accordance with its own inclinations.
Putting this notion of India being streamlined in a "twenty-first century version of NPT" (Hilary Clinton, the then U.S. Secretary of State stated in USIP October 21, 2009), it becomes important to consider the future course of action for another regional actor, i.e., Pakistan. Recently, there has been a debate about Pakistan being brought into the NNPR, based on norms. There are several questions that come to mind, when one undertakes this proposition.
First, do the norms govern the global nuclear non-proliferation regime or the geo-political realities dictate the norms? The Indo-U.S. strategic partnership, as a case in point, unveils the harsh reality that geo-political exigencies take precedence over norms. The norms can be subjectively twisted to cite the good non-proliferation record of an outlier state, which proliferated under no regional threat scenario, to streamline it in the non-proliferation regime. That being the case, one could argue what is the stake of international community in mainstreaming nuclear Pakistan under the global NNPR? If Pakistan's growing stockpiles of weapons material, which it is producing under an enhanced regional threat scenario, is a global concern, incentivizing the state can lead to changing its behaviour. Opening up the advanced dual-use technological access for nuclear Pakistan could help mainstream it.
Membership of multilateral export control regimes should be based on a criterion that governs prospective candidates' entry. Subjective and political notions of good non-proliferation record and political stability unnecessarily complicate the efforts for strengthening the non-proliferation regime. Pakistan has been effectively contributing to global non-proliferation efforts through multilateral instruments like UNSCR 1540, Convention on Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (CPPNM); global initiatives like Nuclear Security Summit (NSS), Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT); alongside participating and observing Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), Container Security Initiative (CSI) and Mega Port Initiative (MPI). Pakistan has declared on several occasions its adherence to guidelines of Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) and Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR). This makes it a strong candidate for any prospective membership of the export control regimes as well as a responsible nuclear weapon power with advanced nuclear technology.
The second issue that demands attention is, would the mainstreaming of nuclear Pakistan be an incentive for it to change its behaviour or a reward for a changed behaviour? However, the latter question brings a significant issue to light, i.e., what can change the behaviour of a state operating in a regional security environment inimical to its survival and regional stability and living under constant threat of war? States operating in regionally hostile environment can change their behaviour only if they find that either the threat has been taken out or an overarching incentive is there to make them change their behaviour.
Finally, to realize the changed realities of the twenty-first century, there is a need to supplement the global nuclear non-proliferation regime through measures that neither accentuate regional security complexes nor promote additional layers of discrimination and, therefore, nuclear Pakistan should be considered as essentially a member of "the twenty-first century of NPT" or NNPR as any other state. By promoting exceptionalism, the goal of universalizing non-proliferation norms has been seriously undermined and further discrimination may lead members to be disgruntled and outliers to change their behaviour negatively.
Ms. Saima Sial is currently working as a Research Coordinator in Centre for Pakistan and Gulf Studies. The views expressed in this article are author's own and do not necessarily present the position of the Centre.


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5 a.m. Thursday: Three things to know as the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation enters day 41. Follow the latest developments in this story here.
11:52 p.m. Ammon Bundy's attorney Mike Arnold of Arnold Law in Eugene said he was surprised when the FBI called him and told him Cliven Bundy had been arrested.
"I'm wondering who's in charge," Arnold said. "I'm sort of in frustrated disbelief right now that there's someone in the federal government right now who thought it was a good idea to arrest Cliven Bundy while (Nevada State Rep.) Michele Fiore was negotiating for the stand down at the refuge."
Arnold went on to say that there's a possible silver lining.
"If Cliven Bundy can get arrested peacefully without force or violence, then the four remaining at the refuge can feel confident they can walk out unharmed," he said.
Follow all of our Armed Occupation In Eastern Oregon Coverage. Follow live updates from all of our reporters covering the story. The situation is ongoing we'll update as it develops.
11:04 p.m. Cliven D. Bundy is in police custody at the Multnomah County Jail. Bundy is detained under a U.S. Marshal hold and is facing federal charges.
Bundy traveled to Oregon after militants still occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge said they would surrender.
9:23 p.m. Occupier Sean Anderson told Nevada state Rep. Michele Fiore the remaining four occupiers will turn themselves in to the FBI Thursday morning.
The possible resolution to the 40-day occupation came after a night of often tense negotiations between militants, the FBI, Nevada state Rep. Michele Fiore and others.
.@VoteFiore is now back on the live stream. Sean Anderson says they're going to turn themselves in tomorrow morning. #Oregonstandoff— Ryan Haas (@ryanjhaas) February 11, 2016
7:18 p.m. Nevada Rancher Cliven Bundy, father of occupation leaders Ammon and Ryan Bundy, says on his Facebook page that he is heading down to Burns. He is calling for "patriots" and "militia" to join him.
WAKE UP AMERICA!WAKE UP WE THE PEOPLE!WAKE UP PATRIOTS!WAKE UP MILITA!IT'S TIME!!!!!CLIVEN BUNDY IS HEADING TO THE HARNEY COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER IN BURNS OREGON.Posted by Bundy Ranch on Wednesday, February 10, 2016
7:13 p.m. Reporter Amanda Peacher is at the Narrows around five miles from the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. She learned from a neighbor nearby that the FBI told them to stay in their home.
She is updating as the situation unfolds.
7:02 p.m An individual identifying as Burns mayor Craig LaFollette is talking over the phone with the occupants. He says they are sending a "specialist" negotiator out to the standoff.
Not much is visible from the blockade except the lights from the FBI base. There's a dense fog hovering over the valley. Spooky.— Amanda Peacher (@amandapeacher) February 11, 2016
6:33 p.m. The FBI confirmed it has moved to contain occupiers still inside the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. FBI officials said it has placed agents at barricades near the area where the militants are located. Negotiations continue between law enforcement and the occupiers, and no shots have been fired. Greg Bretzing, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in Oregon said the following in a press release:
"It has never been the FBI's desire to engage these armed occupiers in any way other than through dialogue, and to that end, the FBI has negotiated with patience and restraint in an effort to resolve the situation peacefully. However, we reached a point where it became necessary to take action in a way that best ensured the safety of those on the refuge, the law enforcement officers who are on scene, and the people of Harney County who live and work in this area."
The FBI has moved to contain the remaining occupiers by placing agents at barricades ahead & behind the area where they are camping.— FBI Portland (@FBIPortland) February 11, 2016
6:22 p.m. Nevada State Assemblywoman Michele Fiore called in to the militants from the Portland airport. She said she would be willing to travel to Burns to help negotiate an end to the standoff.
.@OPB has confirmed the stream from the camp is accurate. pic.twitter.com/KwveRxkyYx— John Sepulvado (@JohnLGC) February 11, 2016
6:00 p.m. The FBI moved in on the remaining occupants at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
A live-stream from Gaven Seim, a media personality who frequently posts videos in support of the occupation, is capturing mounting tension among the four occupiers inside the refuge. At times a fifth voice is heard on a loudspeaker over the stream. That person appears to be an FBI negotiator. He addressed occupation members David Fry and Sean Anderson by name. Jeff Banta, the other militant inside the refuge, did not speak on the recording.
"Put your weapon down and come forward," the voice said. "I want to hear what you have to say."
Seim said he received a call from Fry and began streaming it online.
The occupiers are calling for politicians to intervene and protect them and are asking for Assemblywoman Michele Fiore.
Listen live below.
Live updates from all of our reporters covering the ongoing occupation.
Tweets from https://twitter.com/OPB/lists/malheur-refuge-occupation


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Yesterday's keyword, Valley, turned out to be harder than I anticipated. I never know exactly how it will play out because you guys always think of songs 1) I've never heard, or 2) I forget about until you post them. The wonderful thing about this entire A to Z experience is seeing how varied all of our musical taste is. Anyway, here are the songs you thought of with Valley in the title:
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The right order for calling in a beverage is usually the order of the boxes printed on the side of the cup. And that's how to order at Starbucks. ;)
Caffeine Status: it is caffeinated if you do not say decaf
Hot or iced: it is hot if you don't say iced
Cup size: tall, short, grande, venti,
Shots: if there is any kind of difference, whether it is more or less from what is originally contained in the drink
Syrup: any syrup that is not included in the drink and not related to that type of drink (that is do not say anything like chocolate if you are placing an order for a mocha).Milk: whole, skim, soy, 2%
Custom: it is assumed whip is included unless you say no whip (though we would always ask if it was said rightly or wrongly). No room will be assumed unless you say room, other relevant things included here are specific temperature (Do not forget that soy is always served at 140 degrees Celsius, except when stated otherwise, milk is often served at 160 degrees Celsius unless stated otherwise), or whatever someone may say that does not agree with what has always been known as part of the usual drink formulation.
Drink: i.e. Latte, White Mocha, Mocha, Cappucino, Americano, Expresso, Expresso Con Panna, Frappuccino.
Long Example:
Decaf iced venti one shot vanilla soy without whip stirred up white mocha
And that is how to order at Starbucks!
What makes the ordering process of Starbuck complicated is their habit of using coded terms for describing each drink size, which most people are not conversant with. The terms they use for these drink sizes are, ranging from the largest to the smallest: Trenta, Venti, Grande, and Tall, though they will still understand what you want if you use more conventional terms like extra-large, large, medium or small drink.
Placing Order for Basic Coffee
When placing your order for basic coffee, apart from being specific about your preferred size, you have to let the server know what you want-decaffeinated or regular coffee. They might presume you need regular coffee except you say decaf. If you wish to add some milk or cream to the coffee you requested for, you simply say you would love some cream, or just say "with some room for cream". Most servers normally leave room; say no room if you need a full mug. The basic served coffee is an average roast coffee known as Pike Place, though other varieties are equally offered by Starbucks. Take some time and read the whole catalog of roasts over the counter beforehand, because they sometimes won't ask to know which one you prefer. Lastly, if you wish to be sure of how fresh your coffee is, always ask before ordering to know when the coffee was brewed. If the brewing has been long, they may make you a fresh batch of coffee; but the new coffee will take some minutes to be ready.
Let the servers know the size of coffee you want before you give the server the name, and lastly include the special instruction.
Can I get a tall decaffeinated coffee with some room?
Placing Special Order for Hot Coffee Beverages
A number of special hot coffee beverages are served at Starbucks, such as espressos, cappuccinos, macchiato, and lattes. The final three can be grouped in the order of the amount of fat contained in the milk they contain and the quantity of espresso added, and if they have caffeine or not. You can be more specific about the concentration of fat in the added milk by telling them, "2% low fat or skinny nonfat". Customize the quantity of espresso added to the coffee by requesting for single, double, triple or more shots. Usually, tall drinks contain single shot, and venti and grande sizes are typically prepared with 2 shots. Consequently, when you request for single or double drinks with no specifications, you will likely get a drink that contains full milk, and the usual quantity of caffeine with espresso.
Can I get a tall skinny latte with a double shot?
Placing Order for Frappuccino
Starbucks has a variety of very unique blends of chilled coffee beverages, known as Frappuccino. Every of their special flavored drinks are easily customizable like the way the special hot coffee blends are customized. However, you should be aware of the fact that Starbucks will always include the expression, light to the chilled drinks produced with nonfat milk. Example Frappuccino Caramel Light. You can see on top the serving tables for a catalog of the different blends on offer.
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April 11, 1965: An outbreak of 47 separate tornadoes in a 24-hour period kills 271 people. The Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak does most of its damage in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.
April 11, 1991: The Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) M/T Haven explodes and sinks off the coast of Genoa, Italy. The ship spilled an estimated 45 million gallons, some of which reached beaches on the Italian and French rivieras for the next 12 years. The M/T Haven was the identical sister ship to the Amoco Cadiz, which ran aground in a storm and spilled its entire cargo off Normandy, France, in 1978.
April 11, 2006: The Chicago Tribune begins an investigative series on the restaurant sushi trade. The paper traces much of the global sushi business, including the increasing focus on endangered bluefin tuna, to a firm called True World Foods, which is controlled by Rev. Sun Myung Moon (at right) and the Unification Church.
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The 24 year-old Muslim owner of "Discount Mats", the Milwaukee company in the news this week for their outrageous reply to American soldiers in Iraq looking for flooring…
We do not ship to APO addresses, and even if we did, we would NEVER ship to Iraq. If you were sensible, you and your troops would pull out of Iraq.
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…Is also is connected to several other businesses run from a home in Milwaukee.
Miss Underestimated has the FOX News report on the "Bargain Mats" story.
Faisal Khetani, an American Muslim of Pakistani descent, and friends Sajid Nasir and Ahmed Bushra own and operate the following diverse websites:
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* Building Muscle-Burning Fat
* Chicago Plumbing Guide.org
* Plumbing Chicago
* Basketball Drills and Plays
* My Kitchen Backsplash
* Yoga Advice.org
* Quality Discount Scooters
* Jewelry Spot
Faisal has also written articles on Muscle-Building, Fat Burning and Killer Offensive Basketball Formation.
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And, that is not all!
Euphoric Reality reports that the websites are all:
1. Owned by Muslim men in their mid-20s, who live in the Milwaukee area.
2. Inter-connected and inter-linked to one another.
3. Four sites share a Paypal account under the name "Bargain Suppliers" (WLWR, BDP, QDS, DM)
4. Share same website template.
5. Identical configuration.
— generic junk content
— junk resources and links
— basic contact form (email address and message only – for discreet online communication?)
— email subscription form
— many empty pages/dead links
— set-up and abandoned blog sites
6. Jan 24 07: All sites changed WhoIS registry to anonymous registrant (with the exception of Discount-Mats and Quality-Discount-Scooters
There are no businesses with the name Discount Mats or Bargain Suppliers (or any variation thereof) registered in the state of Wisconsin. A search of the worker's compensation database shows no company by those names either. It is not a legitimate business, nor does it have employees. Faisal Khetani is not telling the truth – that makes him suspect.
This is an amazing story!
You must read it all at Euphoric Reality.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported more on the story but does not investigate the story much further than the initial reports.


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SKYFALL – Bond's Back, and in Fine Form
SKYFALL's triumphs and its failings both lie in its desire to act as a celebratory checklist for Bond's 50th Anniversary. The film takes Daniel Craig's rebooted Bond to the next level in exploring what makes him tick. The exploration of his relationship with boss, Judi Dench's fantastic "M" was particularly done well. But as far as the film goes to explore what kind of past could create a chauvinistic killing machine, it also steps on its toes by falling back, every so often, into the camp and violence glorification that necessitated a reboot in the first place.
Don't get me wrong. SKYFALL is good. Maybe the best Bond film ever made. But let's just say I hope future entries spend more time reinvigorating the future of the character, than retreading his tired past.


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My way or His way
I love rambling thoughts that reveal truths, little God moments!!! I was thinking today about how many parents struggle to get their child on the right path in school. I know many parents are frustrated with their talented children who perform well below their ability. They tell their child he/she needs to study so they will be prepared for school and their grades will improve. The child is more interested in playing video games or texting friends than studying so their grades suffer. The parent tries various things to encourage the correct behavior to no avail. The child simply wants to do what feels good in the moment. Their grades continue to suffer and now the child is frustrated with school and says "I hate school". The parent says "you have a lot of talent that you are wasting" "all you need to do is put out a little effort studying and over time your grades will come up a lot" "we wouldn't ask you to do this if we didn't believe you can".
After a couple of years of being frustrated and angry the child decides to start studying, mainly because they are taking a science class they are interested in learning about. Their science grades are good so they start to study in other classes. In a matter of a few months the child is making B's in all their classes and an A in science. I am sure this is a familiar story and perhaps your own story.
This rambling thought reminded me about our spiritual relationship with God. We have frustrations in life with jobs, marriage, children, co-workers, money, in-laws and many other things. Many people fret over financial difficulties, worry about how to pay the bills or how to get out of excessive debt. God tells us to tithe 10% Malachi 3:10 "Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. The best part is God is the one who owns the storehouse!
Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it." I think most Americans would associate the "blessings" with possessions or more money. What if the only blessing God gave you was the removal of the worry and frustration you have about money. Would that be a good enough blessing? What if you have peace and hope in your heart while you are working yourself out of financial difficulties. Would that be enough of a blessing?
Another issue that really gets us trapped is resentment, bitterness and anger. We have plenty of reasons for how we feel. Yes it hurts deeply to be treated badly yet God tells us to Ephesians 4:26-27 ""In your anger do not sin": Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold." I imagine God says "you are 100% right about what they did and the way to release yourself is to follow what I said in Ephesians". How did we get where we are? We did not obey the word that was given to us. God is simply saying "stop holding things against people becoming judge, jury and executioner". What would happen if God treated us with resentment, bitterness and anger when we fail?
Our lack of obedience is the real culprit. We act more like the child in the school story. We try to solve things our way or in some cases we do nothing at all and simply let life pass by us. The answer has already been given to us.
Like the child in the story our life can turn around quickly if we simply obey what our parent (God) has already instructed us to do. I heard someone say one time "People often look for God to reveal some new marvelous thing to them when God is saying I can't reveal anything new until you do what I have already instructed you to do", "you do not need a new word you need to get the old word into your heart".
I know obedience is often difficult because it goes against our pride. I do know it is possible because Philippians 4:13 I can do everything through him who gives me strength. Maybe this verse needs to become your new mantra!!


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Though I may sometimes slip into the broken, college-student record about how boring day-to-day
life is, I actually get to do, and often experience, some interesting things. I will be posting about some of the things I've done that I haven't gotten around to writing about and attempt to keep up with them as they happen.
Starting with this past weekend. This past Thursday – Saturday, I was in Kansas City, Missouri attending the National Collegiate Honors Council Conference. As president of the UCF Honors Congress, I was fortunate to represent the university and the Burnett Honors College at this prestigious event. Along with myself, my fellow officers Brendan, Lauren and Robert were also in attendance. The four of us gave two presentations: "Incorporating Social Media into Honors" and "How Our Honors Program Makes a Positive Difference on the Freshmen Experience".
Enough of the serious stuff. I had NO expectations before I went to Kansas City, Missouri (KCMO). I half expected this conference to be taking place in a barn. I was wrong and very much happy to be so. Downtown Kansas City is gorgeous, with high-rise buildings, fountains everywhere [earning it the moniker
"The City of Fountains"]. Also dubbed the 'Heart of America', this city was filled with lovely diners, a hopping nightlife and great historical/cultural sites. There was something to do every moment we were out, whether it was enjoying walking around the city in a late night rendezvous, findingfabulous clothes at trendy boutiques or sampling the delicious Canadian-inspired fare of my new favorite diner, Fran's.
The conference itself was held in the Downtown Kansas City Marriott, which was a thing of beauty in itself. Without sounding like a broken record, it was a great hotel and perfect for this conference of about 500 people. I have 2 favorite parts about this entire trip:
- The Conference Gala: Taking place in the breathtakingly historic Midland Theater, the conference gala was part awards ceremony, part improv comedy show and part live blues music. The improv troupe, Tantrum, was hilarious, catering to the dorky, edgy humor one usually finds in a mass of honors college students/teachers. The musical performance by the Samantha Fish Blues Band was stunning.Samantha Fish, the 21 year-old singer and front-woman, had a soul-wrenching voice and could challenge many of the lead guitarists I have seen to date. Definitely check out her music if you get the chance.
- Meeting New People: I was truly thrilled with how many neat and interesting people I met in KCMO. From the citizens of the city itself to the hilarious bunch I met from the University of Nebraska-Omaha to eclectic mix from Eastern Kentucky University, there were so many new people and many connections made in the literally 2.5 days I was there. It continues to boggle my mind how much you can learn about literal strangers in such a short period of time, learning enough to now know about personal stances against the internet [Neil], future career goals and aspirations [Hamza] and even learn about what first impressions you give off yourself [Nicole]. This was my favorite part of the conference.
Maybe someday I will return to Kansas City; maybe not. Regardless, the city has left a lasting impression on me and Iam glad to have been able to experience it myself.


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I like Thanksgiving as a holiday, at least in concept and execution. Less enthused about the origin, but I have no problem with setting aside a day to eat pie and be momentarily relieved that things aren't worse. Why not?
I'm a little tempted to take the day off from blogging, on the grounds that few people in the U.S. will be making the blog rounds today, but then I think: what aboot the Canadians? (The rest of the world too, obviously. But thinking about the Canadians is the only thinking that earns me an "aboot" joke.) So here we are.
Fortunately, I have a borderline-appropriate photo for the occasion:
This is turkey-tail fungus, Trametes versicolor. Or at least it's a turkey-tail fungus: there are several, from the genera Trametes and Stereum. I'm not sure which one this is. T. versicolor looks to be the most common, though, and I didn't see anything on-line that makes me think I should rule out T. versicolor, so that's what I'm going with. If it's wrong, then it's wrong.
Whatever it may look like, fungi are not plants. In fact, this fungus has more in common with you, genetically, than it does with the stump on which it's growing. (It's not a huge overlap either way, but still.) It doesn't have much to do with turkeys, either, but supposedly the bands of color resemble the similar bands of color on the tails of male wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo; see a photo here).
They're also much bigger than they look: most of the mass of the fungus is inside the stump.
Trametes versicolor is technically edible (i.e., it's not poisonous), but it's too tough to be palatable unless very young. It is eaten by some squirrels, turtles, beetles, slugs, and fungus gnats. It has also been used to make green, blue, or brown dyes for wool, is able to absorb and detoxify some (some!) pollutants, and contains a protein which shows some (some!) effectiveness against certain cancers.
As with most potentially beneficial natural products, unscrupulous marketers have seized on these properties to try to sell you stuff. I found one ad for turkey tail fungus as a bodybuilding supplement, for example. The claim is that it supports the immune system, but I was unable to find anybody saying so who, one, wasn't trying to make money selling it, and two, had any actual evidence. Most of the studies I could find that indicated an immune system effect involved cancer patients, whose immune systems may well not be that typical to begin with. Plus you'll notice that "supporting" the immune system doesn't actually tell you anything about what it does, or how. Buyer beware.
But it's a pretty cool fungus anyway.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Thanksgiving: Trametes versicolor (probably)
I like Thanksgiving as a holiday, at least in concept and execution. Less enthused about the origin, but I have no problem with setting aside a day to eat pie and be momentarily relieved that things aren't worse. Why not?
9 comments:
- photalgio said...
Thanks for thinking of your non-US-based readers. ;)
Happy Thanksgiving!
- November 25, 2010 at 2:36 AM
This is a inquiry for the webmaster/admin here at plantsarethestrangestpeople.blogspot.com.
Can I use some of the information from your blog post above if I provide a backlink back to your website?
- November 25, 2010 at 6:14 AM
I think I resent being compared to a fungus. ;)
Happy Thanksgiving from one of your U.S. readers! :)
- November 25, 2010 at 6:15 AM
- mr_subjunctive said...
Anonymous / Alex:
That's fine. Though most of it came from Wikipedia, so if you wanted to leave me out of it altogether you could just quote from them. Up to you.
- November 25, 2010 at 6:33 AM
- Steve Asbell said...
It IS a cool fungus anyway! Glad you decided to blog.
- November 25, 2010 at 6:51 AM
- Liza said...
I have a good Canada joke:
Me: How do you get 34 Canadians out of the swimming pool?
mr_s: How?
Me: You ask them to get out of the pool.
Hahahahahaha! It's funny because they are so darn nice!
- November 25, 2010 at 12:05 PM
I read more blogs on holidays because the news on TV is even more repetitious than other days.
I've actually a file called ''holding'' where I bookmark Plants are the Strangest People for reading on weekends and holidays.
- November 25, 2010 at 12:27 PM
- Plowing Through Life (Martha) said...
Happy Thanksgiving, Mr S; hope it was a good one.
- November 25, 2010 at 12:52 PM
Oh, well thanks for putting a name and some info on that fungus. I see it everywhere, and always thought it had wonderful colors, without never searching a name for it. You're doing all the work!
- November 25, 2010 at 3:38 PM


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Management :Trust
Year of Inception of College : 2009
Status : Recognized (Dr.MGR University)
Annual Intake:150
About Melmaruvathur Adiparasakthi Medical Sciences :
Melmaruvathur Adhiparasakthi Institute of Medical Sciences and Research is being run from the year 1986, started as a service provider to the poor, lower socioeconomic group of people of surrounding 750 villages, most of whom toil as agricultural labourers. The institution has slowly developed into a primary secondary and tertiary care provider as a 300 bedded multispeciality hospital with an average out patient strength of 1200 per day.Various departments like casualty, emergency Services, General Medicine, General Surgery, Anaesthesiology, O&G, paediatrics, Ophthalmology, ENT, Orthopedics, Radiology, Nephrology,Urology,Neurology,Neurosurgery,TB and chest. Medicine, Dermatology, Venereoleprology, Cardiology, Gastroenterology,Oncology, Plastic Surgery, Blood Bank various branches of dental Surgery and dental Medicine etc are providing the up-to-date, ultra modern services to the rural poor people as it is provided in urban multi speciality hospitals. Both the Outpatient Services and inpatient services are provided free of cost.
Melmaruvathur Adiparasakthi Medical Sciences Facilities:
|Infrastructural facilities
|Lecture Theatre (College Building)
|a) Number
|b) Capacity
|c) Type
|Hospital Building
|a) Number
|b) Capacity
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|Examination Hall
The central library had been built to national standards in the part of our institute building. Spreads over to two floors with an area of 2400 s.q.m it is centrally air-conditioned specialized collection of books, journals & non books materials are available in basic sciences, dental, nursing and physiotherapy etc.. the collection replete with 12923 volumes of books 789 CD/DVD s video cassettes the central library subscribes 100 national and international journals per year and it has EJ-server (electronic journal server), DELNET(Developing Library Network) and the member of association MALA (Madras Library Association) and SALIS (society for the advancement of library and information scienceCirculation Section, issue counter/return counter, library Office/Librarian cabin. Students reading hall, faculty reading hall, periodical section, audio visual, e- library com internet lab, server room, binding section, Photocopier room, , student support centre, and outside reading hall-girls. Deputy librarian cabin, acquisition section, Reference section, faculty reading hall, students out side reading hall-boys, etc..
Laboratory Facilities:
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|Eight(225 sq.ft -6)(90 sq.ft-2
|Central Laboratory [Hospital]
|Blood Bank
|Rural Health Training Centre
|Urban Health Training Centre
|Central Research Lab
|Rural Health Training Centre
|Urban Health Training Centre
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Hostel Facilities:
Melmaruvathur Adhiparasakthi Institute of Medical Sciences &Research provides separate modern and well-equipped hostels for boys and girls
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NEET UG 2019- Application Form, Exam Dates, Admit Card, Result Info
NEET UG 2018- National Eligibility cum Entrance Test is going to be conducted for aspirants looking to get admission into MBBS and BDS programmes. The exam is organized by the Central Board of Secondary Education. Interested aspirants may expect its application form availability in the month of December, 2017 and exam is most possible to be conducted in the month of May, 2018.
Eligibility Criteria – NEET UG 2019
Only Indian Nationals and Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) would be permitted to appear in the test.
Eligibility for All India Quota Seats
- Candidates should be at least 17 years old at admission time or completing the prescribed age on or before 31st December of the year of admission.
- The upper age limit prescribed for aspirants looking to get admission under 15% All India Quota Seats is 25 years as on 31st December of the year of admission.
- Relaxation in upper age limit would be provided to aspirants belonging to SC/ST/OBC category.
Minimum Eligibility for State Quota Seats
- Candidates should be minimum 17 years old or will be completing the mentioned age in or before 31st December of the year of admission.
- Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) will be permitted to get admission into medical or dental programmes as per the rules and regulations of Government of India and respective State Government.
Important Dates
In the table given below, candidates can check official NEET Exam dates:
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|Correction Window
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|Counselling begins
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NEET UG 2019 Exam Format
NEET UG 2018 exam Format:
- Candidates will find one questions paper consisting 180 objective type questions.
- Every question will carry four options consisting one right answer.
- Questions are to be asked from Physics, Chemistry and Biology (Botany & Zoology).
- Questions need to be answered on specially designed machine-gradable sheet by using Ball Point Pen only.
- The authority has specified the exam duration as 3 hours.
- Candidates have authority to choose language mode of the question paper that would be either English or Hindi.
- Aspirants who have either cleared or appearing class XII or its equivalent exam from state boards of Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and West Bengal and looking for admission under State quota seats can find the question paper in their respective regional languages i.e. Assamese, Telugu, Gujarati, Tamil, Marathi, and Bengali.
- Candidates need to bring Admit Card, Post Card Size Photograph, Card Board/Clip Board and good quality Ball Point Pens while coming to the examination centre.
- Candidates need to do all rough work on Test Booklet only.
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Admit Card
If you are among list of aspirants who have successfully submitted their application then only you are allowed to download your admit card. Admit card would be accessible from the official website of the respective authority. We will intimate you the actual date for obtaining your admit card however, you may expect your admit card in the month of April, 2018.
NEET UG 2019 Result
The Central Board of Secondary Education is liable to conduct NEET exam, evaluate answer sheet and declare its respective result. Result of aspirants will be declared by 1st week of June, 2018, however this is not the actual date. Actual dates will be updated to aspirants after release of its respective notification. The authority will not declare separate result list of SC/ST category aspirants.
Counselling Details
Counselling Details for Seats under 15% All India Quota
Online counselling procedure for 15% All India Quota would be organized by the Directorate General of Health Services and details regarding the same will be updated at its official website.
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