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Home Editor Jennifer Kopf shares her picks for the best kitchens of Southern Living.
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[BLANK_AUDIO] Hi I'm Jennifer Kopf home editor at Southern Living. At Southern Living we get to see the best of the best when it comes to kitchen design. Here are some of our favorites. Colorful accents and a mix of old and new make for a happy and inviting kitchen. The wall of mosaic tile sets the pallet of soft yellow and blue. You can't help but smile when you see the 1953 refurbished chambers oven or the bright orange free standing pantry. Further illustrating the combination of old and new the home owner hung punched tin cabinet door fronts that came from the house she grew up in and also used poured concrete for her counter tops. [MUSIC] Incorporating modern elements is an easy way to update a classic kitchen. This kitchen has updated country styling that feels fresh and inviting. Blue appliances add a fun unexpected design detail. The color complements the gray patina of the cabinets perfectly. The marble counter tops and back splash give the kitchen a clean sophistication. An over sized island is hard working when equipped with a cook top and lots of extra storage. Industrial metal stools complete the look. With this functional kitchen it's all in the detail The large central island is stocked with shelving underneath, that accommodates large trays and serving pieces. The cabinet area near the refrigerator includes vented produce bins for non refrigerated items, and decorative shelves above for pretty glassware and accessories. The stainless steel tile backsplash covers the stove wall. Because of it's expense it was used in small dose for a big impact. Berlap drum shades, woven stool seats, and a cherry island top provide warm texture. Mixture. The best of old world charm in today's amenities blend in this timeless recently renovated kitchen. Blush mounted cabinet doors hung with exposed unlacquered brass hinges, replicate the look on 1920s cabinetry. The real star is a set of leaded glass windows above the sink that were specially crafted for the kitchen. Adding to the nostalgia is a restored 1948 enameled gas stove. The tile work includes an arched recess and is topped with a wood shelf. [MUSIC] A combination of hidden storage, sleek finishes, and a functional island to make this Maryland kitchen a favorite. The banks of ebony stained cabinetry have a modern streamlined look. Sleek bifold cabinet doors can seal recesses for small counter top appliances. [INAUDIBLE] Beveled glass panels in some of the upper cabinetry and frosted glass tiles keep the kitchen from looking to heavy. Castors allow the table to be easily nestled into the island or pulled out when needed. For more great kitchen ideas, pick up a copy of Southern Living and visit SouthernLiving.com.


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Impatiens occidentalis
Herb latin name: Impatiens occidentalis
Family: Balsaminaceae (Touch-me-not Family)
Medicinal use of Impatiens occidentalis:Antidote, parasiticide. Used in the treatment of warts, ringworm, nettle stings, poison ivy rash etc.
Description of the plant:
Habitat of the herb:Moist woods.
Edible parts of Impatiens occidentalis:Young shoots - cooked in one change of water. See the notes above on toxicity. Seed - raw or cooked. They are tedious to collect in quantity, mainly because of their exploding seed capsules which scatter the ripe seed at the slightest touch.
Other uses of the herb:A yellow dye is obtained from the plant. No more details are given. Used as a hair rinse for itchy scalps. No more details are given. A fungicide is obtained from the plant. No more details are given, but it is likely to be the juice of the plant that is used.
Propagation of Impatiens occidentalis:Seed - sow spring in a greenhouse. When they are large enough to handle, prick the seedlings out into individual pots and plant them out in the summer.
Cultivation of the herb:Moist woods.
Known hazards of Impatiens occidentalis:Regular ingestion of large quantities of these plants can be dangerous due to their high mineral content. This report, which seems nonsensical, might refer to calcium oxalate. This mineral is found in I. capensis and so is probably also in other members of the genus. It can be harmful raw but is destroyed by thoroughly cooking or drying the plant. People with a tendency to rheumatism, arthritis, gout, kidney stones and hyperacidity should take especial caution if including this plant in their diet.
Plant information taken from the Plants For A Future.

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House Committee Chairman on Information, Ben Ngutyo, explained that the security measure is to forestall any criminal act, especially in the face of insecurity in the state.
The security men, including men of the Department of State Services (DSS), carried out a thorough search of persons and vehicles going into the Assembly complex.
Policemen, acting on the instruction of the Speaker, Terkimbir Ikyange, went round offices chasing out whoever had no business in the complex.
While this was on, the lawmakers were in an executive session for over three hours, with the suspended Kester Kyenge in attendance.
Ngutyo said they officially communicated the suspension to Kester, maintaining that their action would serve as a deterrent to other members.
He accused Kester of acting a script, adding that "we have to tame him and prove that we are in-charge of the house".


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In a radio address Saturday, Senator McCain took Barack Obama to task over his unwillingness to defend the life of children born alive after abortion attempts. Key quotes from the address follow:
The week began with a debate of sorts between Senator Obama and me at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California. In case you missed it, the discussion yielded the line of the week, and maybe even of the campaign, when Pastor Rick Warren asked my opponent a very serious question. He wanted to know at what point, in my opponent's view, does a baby have human rights? Senator Obama thought about it for a moment, and came back with the reply that the question was, quote, "above my pay grade."
Here was a candidate for the presidency of the United States, asked for his position on one of the central moral and legal questions of our time, and this was the best he could offer: It's above his pay grade. He went on to assure his interviewer that there is a, quote, "moral and ethical element to this issue." Americans expect more of their leaders.
Listening to my opponent at Saddleback, you would never know that this is a politician who long since left behind any middle ground on the abortion issue. He is against parental notification laws, and against restrictions on taxpayer funding for abortions. In the Illinois Senate, a bipartisan majority passed legislation to prevent the horrific practice of partial-birth abortion. Senator Obama opposed that bill, voting against it in committee and voting "present" on the Senate floor.
In 2002, Congress unanimously passed a federal law to require medical care for babies who survive abortions - living, breathing babies whom Senator Obama described as, quote, "previable." This merciful law was called the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. Illinois had a version of the same law, and Barack Obama voted against it.
At Saddleback, he assured a reporter that he'd have voted "yes" on that bill if it had contained language similar to the federal version of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. Even though the language of both the state and federal bills was identical, Senator Obama said people were, quote, "lying" about his record. When that record was later produced, he dropped the subject but didn't withdraw the slander. And now even Senator Obama's campaign has conceded that his claims and accusations were false.
I can assure you that if I am president, advancing the cause of life will not be above my pay grade.
Lights Out on Liberty
By Mark Steyn
On August 3, 1914, on the eve of the First World War, British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey stood at the window of his office in the summer dusk and observed, "The lamps are going out all over Europe." Today, the lights are going out on liberty all over the Western world, but in a more subtle and profound way.
Much of the West is far too comfortable with state regulation of speech and expression, which puts freedom itself at risk. Let me cite some examples: The response of the European Union Commissioner for Justice, Freedom, and Security to the crisis over the Danish cartoons that sparked Muslim violence was to propose that newspapers exercise "prudence" on certain controversial subjects involving religions beginning with the letter "I." At the end of her life, the Italian writer Oriana Fallaci-after writing of the contradiction between Islam and the Western tradition of liberty-was being sued in France, Italy, Switzerland, and most other European jurisdictions by groups who believed her opinions were not merely offensive, but criminal. In France, author Michel Houellebecq was sued by Muslim and other "anti-racist groups" who believed the opinions of a fictional character in one of his novels were likewise criminal.
In Canada, the official complaint about my own so-called "flagrant Islamophobia"-filed by the Canadian Islamic Congress-attributes to me the following "assertions":
America will be an Islamic Republic by 2040. There will be a break for Muslim prayers during the Super Bowl. There will be a religious police enforcing Islamic norms. The USS Ronald Reagan will be renamed after Osama bin Laden. Females will not be allowed to be cheerleaders. Popular American radio and TV hosts will be replaced by Imams.In fact, I didn't "assert" any of these things. They are plot twists I cited in my review of Robert Ferrigno's novel, Prayers for the Assassin. It's customary in reviewing novels to cite aspects of the plot. For example, a review of Moby Dick will usually mention the whale. These days, apparently, the Canadian Islamic Congress and the government's human rights investigators (who have taken up the case) believe that describing the plot of a novel should be illegal.
You may recall that Margaret Atwood, some years back, wrote a novel about her own dystopian theocratic fantasy, in which America was a Christian tyranny named the Republic of Gilead. What's to stop a Christian group from dragging a doting reviewer of Margaret Atwood's book in front of a Canadian human rights court? As it happens, Christian groups tend not to do that, which is just as well, because otherwise there wouldn't be a lot to write about.
These are small parts of a very big picture. After the London Tube bombings and the French riots a few years back, commentators lined up behind the idea that Western Muslims are insufficiently assimilated. But in their mastery of legalisms and the language of victimology, they're superbly assimilated. Since these are the principal means of discourse in multicultural societies, they've mastered all they need to know. Every day of the week, somewhere in the West, a Muslim lobbying group is engaging in an action similar to what I'm facing in Canada. Meanwhile, in London, masked men marched through the streets with signs reading "Behead the Enemies of Islam" and promising another 9/11 and another Holocaust, all while being protected by a phalanx of London policemen.
Thus we see that today's multicultural societies tolerate the explicitly intolerant and avowedly unicultural, while refusing to tolerate anyone pointing out that intolerance. It's been that way for 20 years now, ever since Valentine's Day 1989, when the Ayatollah Khomeini issued his fatwa against the novelist Salman Rushdie, a British subject, and shortly thereafter large numbers of British Muslims marched through English cities openly calling for Rushdie to be killed. A reader in Bradford wrote to me recalling asking a West Yorkshire policeman on the street that day why the various "Muslim community leaders" weren't being arrested for incitement to murder. The officer said they'd been told to "play it cool." The calls for blood got more raucous. My correspondent asked his question again. The policeman told him to "Push off" (he expressed the sentiment rather more Anglo-Saxonly, but let that pass) "or I'll arrest you." Mr. Rushdie was infuriated when the then Archbishop of Canterbury lapsed into root-cause mode. "I well understand the devout Muslims' reaction, wounded by what they hold most dear and would themselves die for," said His Grace. Rushdie replied tersely: "There is only one person around here who is in any danger of dying."
And that's the way it's gone ever since. For all the talk about rampant "Islamophobia," it's usually only the other party who is "in any danger of dying."
War on the Homefront
I wrote my book America Alone because I wanted to reframe how we thought about the War on Terror-an insufficient and evasive designation that has long since outlasted whatever usefulness it may once have had. It remains true that we are good at military campaigns, such as those in Iraq and Afghanistan. Our tanks and ships are better, and our bombs and soldiers are smarter. But these are not ultimately the most important battlefronts. We do indeed face what the strategists call asymmetric warfare, but it is not in the Sunni triangle or the Hindu Kush. We face it right here in the Western world.
Norman Podhoretz, among others, has argued that we are engaged in a second Cold War. But it might be truer to call it a Cold Civil War, by which I mean a war within the West, a war waged in our major cities. We now have Muslim "honor killings," for instance, not just in tribal Pakistan and Yemen, but in Germany and the Netherlands, in Toronto and Dallas. And even if there were no battles in Iraq and Afghanistan, and if no one was flying planes into tall buildings in New York City or blowing up trains, buses, and nightclubs in Madrid, London, and Bali, we would still be in danger of losing this war without a shot being fired.
The British government recently announced that it would be issuing Sharia-compliant Islamic bonds-that is, bonds compliant with Islamic law and practice as prescribed in the Koran. This is another reason to be in favor of small government: The bigger government gets, the more it must look for funding in some pretty unusual places-in this case wealthy Saudis. As The Mail on Sunday put it, this innovation marks "one of the most significant economic advances of Sharia law in the non-Muslim world."
At about the same time, The Times of London reported that "Knorbert the piglet has been dropped as the mascot of Fortis Bank, after it decided to stop giving piggy banks to children for fear of offending Muslims." Now, I'm no Islamic scholar, but Mohammed expressed no view regarding Knorbert the piglet. There's not a single sura about it. The Koran, an otherwise exhaustive text, is silent on the matter of anthropomorphic porcine representation.
I started keeping a file on pig controversies a couple of years ago, and you would be surprised at how routine they have become. Recently, for instance, a local government council prohibited its workers from having knickknacks on their desks representing Winnie the Pooh's sidekick Piglet. As Pastor Martin Niemoller might have said, "First they came for Piglet and I did not speak out because I was not a Disney character, and if I was, I'd be more of an Eeyore. Then they came for the Three Little Pigs and Babe, and by the time I realized the Western world had turned into a 24/7 Looney Tunes, it was too late, because there was no Porky Pig to stammer, `Th-th-th-that's all folks!', and bring the nightmare to an end."
What all these stories have in common is excessive deference to-and in fact fear of-Islam. If the story of the Three Little Pigs is forbidden when Muslims still comprise less than ten percent of Europe's population, what else will be on the black list when they comprise 20 percent? In small but telling ways, non-Muslim communities are being persuaded that a kind of uber-Islamic law now applies to all. And if you don't remember the Three Little Pigs, by the way, one builds a house of straw, another of sticks, and both get blown down by the Big Bad Wolf. Western Civilization is a mighty house of bricks, but you don't need a Big Bad Wolf when the pig is so eager to demolish the house himself.
I would argue that these incremental concessions to Islam are ultimately a bigger threat than terrorism. What matters is not what the lads in the Afghan cave-the "extremists"-believe, but what the non-extremists believe, what people who are for the most part law-abiding taxpayers of functioning democracies believe. For example, a recent poll found that 36 percent of Muslims between the ages of 16 and 24 believe that those who convert to another religion should be punished by death. That's not 36 percent of young Muslims in Waziristan or Yemen or Sudan, but 36 percent of young Muslims in the United Kingdom. Forty percent of British Muslims would like to live under Sharia-in Britain. Twenty percent have sympathy for the July 7 Tube bombers. And, given that Islam is the principal source of population growth in every city down the spine of England from Manchester to Sheffield to Birmingham to London, and in every major Western European city, these statistics are not without significance for the future.
Because I discussed these facts in print, my publisher is now being sued before three Canadian human rights commissions. The plaintiff in my case is Dr. Mohamed Elmasry, a man who announced on Canadian TV that he approves of the murder of all Israeli civilians over the age of 18. He is thus an objective supporter of terrorism. I don't begrudge him the right to his opinions, but I wish he felt the same about mine. Far from that, posing as a leader of the "anti-hate" movement in Canada, he is using the squeamishness of a politically correct society to squash freedom.
As the famous saying goes, the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. What the Canadian Islamic Congress and similar groups in the West are trying to do is criminalize vigilance. They want to use the legal system to circumscribe debate on one of the great questions of the age: the relationship between Islam and the West and the increasing Islamization of much of the Western world, in what the United Nations itself calls the fastest population transformation in history.
Slippery Slope
Our democratic governments today preside over multicultural societies that have less and less glue holding them together. They've grown comfortable with the idea of the state as the mediator between interest groups. And confronted by growing and restive Muslim populations, they're increasingly at ease with the idea of regulating freedom in the interests of social harmony.
It's a different situation in America, which has the First Amendment and a social consensus that increasingly does not exist in Europe. Europe's consensus seems to be that Danish cartoonists should be able to draw what they like, but not if it sparks Islamic violence. It is certainly odd that the requirement of self-restraint should only apply to one party.
Last month, in a characteristically clotted speech followed by a rather more careless BBC interview, the Archbishop of Canterbury said that it was dangerous to have one law for everyone and that the introduction of Sharia to the United Kingdom was "inevitable." Within days of His Grace's remarks, the British and Ontario governments both confirmed that thousands of polygamous men in their jurisdictions are receiving welfare payments for each of their wives. Kipling wrote that East is East and West is West, and ne'er the twain shall meet. But when the twain do meet, you often wind up with the worst of both worlds. Say what you like about a polygamist in Waziristan or Somalia, but he has to do it on his own dime. To collect a welfare check for each spouse, he has to move to London or Toronto. Government-subsidized polygamy is an innovation of the Western world.
If you need another reason to be opposed to socialized health care, one reason is because it fosters the insouciant attitude to basic hygiene procedures that has led to the rise of deadly "superbugs." I see British Muslim nurses in public hospitals riddled with C. difficile are refusing to comply with hygiene procedures on the grounds that scrubbing requires them to bare their arms, which is un-Islamic. Which is a thought to ponder just before you go under the anaesthetic. I mentioned to some of Hillsdale's students in class that gay-bashing is on the rise in the most famously "tolerant" cities in Europe. As Der Spiegel reported, "With the number of homophobic attacks rising in the Dutch metropolis, Amsterdam officials are commissioning a study to determine why Moroccan men are targeting the city's gays."
Gee, whiz. That's a toughie. Wonder what the reason could be. But don't worry, the brain trust at the University of Amsterdam is on top of things: "Half of the crimes were committed by men of Moroccan origin and researchers believe they felt stigmatized by society and responded by attacking people they felt were lower on the social ladder. Another working theory is that the attackers may be struggling with their own sexual identity."
Bingo! Telling young Moroccan men they're closeted homosexuals seems certain to lessen tensions in the city! While you're at it, a lot of those Turks seem a bit light in their loafers, don't you think?
Our Suicidal Urge
So don't worry, nothing's happening. Just a few gay Muslims frustrated at the lack of gay Muslim nightclubs. Sharia in Britain? Taxpayer-subsidized polygamy in Toronto? Yawn. Nothing to see here. True, if you'd suggested such things on September 10, 2001, most Britons and Canadians would have said you were nuts. But a few years on and it doesn't seem such a big deal, nor will the next concession, or the one after that.
The assumption that you can hop on the Sharia Express and just ride a couple of stops is one almighty leap of faith. More to the point, who are you relying on to "hold the line"? Influential figures like the Archbishop of Canterbury? The politically correct bureaucrats at Canada's Human Rights Commissions? The geniuses who run Harvard, and who've just introduced gender-segregated swimming and gym sessions at the behest of Harvard's Islamic Society? (Would they have done that for Amish or Mennonite students?) The Western world is not run by fellows noted for their line-holding: Look at what they're conceding now and then try to figure out what they'll be conceding in five years' time. The idea that the West's multicultural establishment can hold the line would be more plausible if it was clear they had any idea where the line is, or even gave any indication of believing in one.
My book, supposedly Islamaphobic, isn't even really about Islam. The single most important line in it is the profound observation, by historian Arnold Toynbee, that "Civilizations die from suicide, not murder." One manifestation of that suicidal urge is illiberal notions harnessed in the cause of liberalism. In calling for the introduction of Sharia, the Archbishop of Canterbury joins a long list of Western appeasers, including a Dutch cabinet minister who said if the country were to vote to introduce Islamic law that would be fine by him, and the Swedish cabinet minister who said we should be nice to Muslims now so that Muslims will be nice to us when they're in the majority.
Ultimately, our crisis is not about Islam. It's not about fire-breathing Imams or polygamists whooping it up on welfare. It's not about them. It's about us. And by us I mean the culture that shaped the modern world, and established the global networks, legal systems, and trading relationships on which the planet depends. To reprise Sir Edward Grey, the lamps are going out all over the world, and an awful lot of the map will look an awful lot darker by the time many Americans realize the scale of this struggle.
Iraqi Billionaire Threatens Reporters Investigating Rezko Affair
U.S. media outlets are historically strong defenders of press freedoms. But there has been near-total silence about the UK-based legal threats to public discussion of the Rezko affair. Why aren't the American media investigating the role of British billionaire businessman Nadhmi Auchi in supplying loans to Barack Obama fundraiser Tony Rezko? Some point to media bias, but there is another factor. Working for Auchi, who was born in Iraq, attorneys from London law firm Carter-Ruck have for several months been flooding American and British newspapers and websites with letters demanding removal of material they deem "defamatory" to their client.
In its June 28 edition, British satirical magazine Private Eye explains: "Until Carter-Ruck and Partners and England's stifling libel laws got to work, the few American journalists not caught up in Obama-mania were turning to the archives of the British press to answer an intriguing question: who is Nadhmi Auchi?"
What is so "stifling" about English libel law? In the U.K., as Carter-Ruck explains on its own website, "A libel claimant does not have to prove that the words are false or to prove that he has in fact suffered any loss. Damage is presumed."
The Obama campaign recently issued a non-denial denial in response to claims that Obama met with Auchi?contained in Jerome Corsi's bestseller, The Obama Nation. They cited only two references. One is, "Mr. Auchi's lawyer" who told the February 27, 2008 London Evening Standard, "As far as he can remember he has had no direct contact with Mr. Obama." Another is, "A lawyer for Auchi, Alasdair Pepper" who says, according to the April 16, 2008 Washington Post, "Auchi Had `No Recollection' Of Meeting Obama or Michelle." Alasdair Pepper is the attorney whose name appears on the Carter-Ruck demand letters.
The Secret Loan
A secret $3.5 million loan from an Auchi company to key early-money Barack Obama fundraiser Antoin Rezko was exposed while Rezko was awaiting trial on fraud and money-laundering charges earlier this year. Rezko's bail was revoked and police showed up banging on the doors of his Wilmette Chicago mansion to drag him off to jail early in the morning of January 28th. Auchi's loan to Rezko had come on May 23, 2005 but had not been disclosed to the Court as required in his bail agreement. Three weeks later, on June 15, 2005, Rezko's wife assisted the Obamas in the purchase of their South Chicago mansion by purchasing a next-door undeveloped lot being sold with the house.
According to the Times of London, "Mr. Rezko's lawyer said his client had `longstanding indebtedness' to Mr. Auchi's General Mediterranean Holding (GMH). By June 2007 he owed it $27.9 million. Under a Loan Forgiveness Agreement described in court, M. Auchi lent Mr. Rezko $3.5 million in April 2005 and $11 million in September 2005, as well as $3.5 million transferred in April 2007. That agreement provided for the outstanding loans to be `forgiven' in return for a stake in the 62-acre Riverside Park development."
Rezko's relationship with Barack Obama goes back to at least 1990, when Obama's law firm did work relating to thousands of now-decaying Rezko apartment units in South Chicago. Rezko was a key early-money fundraiser in Obama's state Senate campaigns and his failed run at the U.S. Congress.
According to The Times of London, "Mr. Auchi first met Mr. Rezko after the 2003 Iraq war and they have a business relationship." At the time Auchi was facing the possibility of extradition to France. The Times of London explains: "Mr Auchi was convicted of corruption, given a suspended sentence and fined o1.4 million in France in 2003 for his part in the Elf affair, described as the biggest political and corporate scandal in post-war Europe. He, in a statement from his media lawyers, claims he is appealing against the sentence."
In 2003, Nick Cohen of the UK Guardian wrote: "Allow me to introduce you to Nadhmi Auchi. He was charged in the 1950s with being an accomplice of Saddam Hussein, when the future tyrant was acquiring his taste for blood. He was investigated in the 1980s for his part in alleged bribes to the fabulously corrupt leaders of post-war Italy. In the 1990s, the Belgium Ambassador to Luxembourg claimed that Auchi's bank held money Saddam and Colonel Gadaffi had stolen from their luckless peoples. In 2002, officers from the Serious Fraud Squad raided the offices of one of Auchi's drug companies as part of an investigation of what is alleged to be the biggest swindle ever of the (British National Health Service). With allegations, albeit unproven, like these hanging over him, wouldn't you think that British MPs would have the sense to stay away?"
But after threats from Carter-Ruck, Cohen's "defamatory" article became one of six Guardian and Observer articles scrubbed from the Internet this April. Blogger "A Jacksonian" received a similar demand on or before June 24. His article is still up. It details much of the information contained in the six deleted Guardian/Observer articles.
Auchi in 1967 began an Iraq Oil Ministry career eventually rising to be Director of Planning and Development under the Baathist dictatorship. He formed GMH in 1979 and then left Iraq. A key source of weapons procurement for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, GMH became the largest single private shareholder of Banque Nationale du Paris (BNP) which later merged with Paribas to form BNP-Paribas. BNP and BNP-Paribas, at Saddam Hussein's insistence, handled all Oil-for-Food transactions until 2001 when the incoming administration of George W. Bush demanded change.
Investigative journalist Bill Gertz explains: "A 2004 Pentagon report obtained by The Washington Times identified Auchi as a global arms dealer and Iraqi billionaire `who, behind the facade of legitimate business, served as Saddam Hussein's principle (sic) international financial manipulator and bag man.'
"The report to the Pentagon inspector general stated that . `significant and credible evidence has been developed that Nadhmi Auchi has engaged in unlawful activities working closely with Iraqi intelligence operatives to, Bribe foreign governments and individuals prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom to turn opinion against the American-led mission to remove Saddam Hussein.'"
The web scrubbing did not stop with the six Guardian/Observer articles. New Statesman writer Martin Bright reports that Auchi lawyers "have written to ask us to remove the names of the articles concerned." Removed, the six titles are now available for reading only in difficult-to-find independent web archives.....
U.S. media outlets are historically strong defenders of press freedoms. But there has been near-total silence about the UK-based legal threats to public discussion of the Rezko affair. While Auchi's interference may explain part of the media's lack of interest, the attitude of the New York Times and New York Review of Books goes a long way towards explaining the rest.
If elected President, Obama will be required to swear to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Will Senator Obama now join in co-sponsoring S-2977, the Free Speech Protection Act of 2008, and call upon his fellow Democrats to bring the bill to the floor of the Senate for a vote? If not will Obama explain why the Free Speech Protection Act is not necessary to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution?"
Will reporters covering the campaign ask Obama whether, if elected, he would approve a request for U.S. residency from Auchi? Are the media now cooperating in their own silencing? The attitude of the New York Times does not bode well.
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Australia's centre/Leftists are pretty conservative on welfare
HOW very un-Laborlike, said one Labor MP in response to the Rudd Government's proposal to introduce legislation this week that would tie welfare payments to the responsibility of parents to ensure their children attend school. Not all Labor MPs are on side, it seems. The Rudd Government is about to discover that tough love is a tough policy. Nay-sayers wedded to the failed idea that compassion comes in the form of unconditional welfare will be out in force to kill off Labor's embrace of mutual responsibility.
Where, one must ask, have these Labor MPs been? Welfare reform that matches rights with responsibilities was endorsed long ago by the Centre-Left in the US under Democratic president Bill Clinton and in Britain under Labour prime minister Tony Blair. They proved that linking rights to responsibilities was not some nasty conservative agenda to punish those most in need. It is an idea that crosses the political divide for the simple reason that it works, whereas past policies of passive welfare have failed.
So credit where it's due. Kevin Rudd is right to point out that an education revolution depends on children attending school. Education Minister Julia Gillard says there could be up to 20,000 Australian children who are not at school, with Families Minister Jenny Macklin suggesting that at least 2000 children are not enrolled at school within the Northern Territory.
Though it's a case of Labor-come-lately for some in the ALP, the Rudd Government's plan to tackle the problem of truancy by setting up trials in six NT communities and in Western Australia before a national roll-out deserves unequivocal praise.
For too long, welfare has been seen as an unfettered right, without any attendant responsibilities. The rights-based culture that emerged in the 1960s and `70s failed, in particular, an entire generation of indigenous people. Many of them are lost. Uneducated and untrained, relegated to the dysfunctional fringes, they will never have a chance of entering mainstream society. Now, the children of that generation risk being lost too unless policies encourage parents to accept responsibility for their children. Accordingly, Labor's belated acknowledgment of past policy failures is to be applauded.
But let's also pay tribute to those who got us to the point where a Labor government in Australia is ready to instil responsibilities into the welfare equation. Howard haters, shut your eyes and stick your fingers in your ears. Here it is. By tackling the old orthodoxy of no-responsibility welfare, John Howard fundamentally realigned our thinking on this issue.
Sure, we watched welfare reform unfold in the US and Britain. But in Australia the Rudd Government is proposing to link welfare to parental responsibility after a decade of conservative rule that did the hard yards on welfare reform.
Encouraged by The Australian, which provided an early and continuing platform for genuine debate about these critical issues, what was once the accepted left-wing orthodoxy has been challenged and found wanting by a more questioning mindset. Not so long ago, if you raised questions about welfare you would be labelled as mean-spirited. If you raised those questions about welfare in relation to indigenous people, you were mean-spirited and racist. Back then, orthodox thinking was framed around the virtues of Aboriginal welfarism, apologies, treaties and separatism.
By tackling that PC-infected entrenched orthodoxy, the Howard government legacy is one that has paved the way for Labor's present policy. Under Howard, the first steps to address indigenous disadvantage were premised on practical reconciliation: on outcomes, not politics. Symbolism was eschewed as demonstrably counterproductive to solving disadvantage and passive welfare uncovered as poison. When critics shouted about racism, Howard did not flinch. His government challenged mindless policies such as the Community Development Employment Program, which allowed able-bodied indigenous people to work for a few hours a week in return for full welfare.
As a reminder of that fundamental shift, it's worth remembering that Noel Pearson once derided the Howard government as "racist scum" and said Howard was "totally useless to the nation". That was before Pearson's epiphany that greater individual responsibility, not indigenous victimhood, was the way to address disadvantage and dysfunction within indigenous communities.
Today, indigenous leaders such as Pearson and former ALP federal president Warren Mundine are daily pushing the frontiers for more sensible indigenous policies that promote education, training and work as the solution to Aboriginal dysfunction. They recognise that welfare reform must escape the shackles of left-right labels. After all, as The Australian said last Friday in an editorial, Ben Chifley's vision of a Labor light on the hill did not involve "putting an extra sixpence in somebody's pocket". Chifley's 1949 call was about empowering people.
Rudd is on that path. His proposal for a 13-week suspension of welfare as a last resort for parents who do not ensure their children attend school is premised on the state providing the right signals to encourage parents to do the right thing by their children. As Gillard said, a child who misses large slabs of schooling is set up for failure for the rest of their lives.
Sadly, so many on the Left remain cemented to past policies predicated on the role of the state rather than the power of individuals. Critics immediately labelled Rudd's plan as a "blunt instrument". They prefer to point the finger of blame at anyone except parents. Blame the system. Blame the schools, they say. Australian Greens senator Rachel Siewert described Labor's policy as "crazy thinking in the 21st century from a government that's supposed to be committed to social inclusion".
Yet genuine social inclusion must mean encouraging people to take responsibility for their own lives. Those who view individual responsibility with suspicion necessarily view human potential with equal suspicion. Their paternalism is based on an inherently defeatist view of human ability and aspiration. It entrenches social exclusion and human misery, and ensures the only outcome of their paternalism is the continued existence of their own handout-premised industries.
The importance of the Rudd Government finally confronting the unprogressive consequences of the so-called progressive mindset cannot be underestimated. The Howard government was always going to be attacked by so-called progressives as launching a right-wing ideological crusade in its efforts to encourage greater personal responsibility.
The Rudd Labor Government can, depending on the strength of its conviction, bring many of these critics to a quiet halt by following Howard and showing courageous leadership aimed at moving the national conversation on disadvantage in more sensible directions.
The fear is that this will be some will-o'-the-wisp Labor policy that flickers with hope but can never be realised, either because Labor is not serious about the policy or because it falls victim to old Labor types still wedded to the past.
Political correctness is most pervasive in universities and colleges but I rarely report the incidents concerned here as I have a separate blog for educational matters.
American "liberals" often deny being Leftists and say that they are very different from the Communist rulers of other countries. The only real difference, however, is how much power they have. In America, their power is limited by democracy. To see what they WOULD be like with more power, look at where they ARE already very powerful: in America's educational system -- particularly in the universities and colleges. They show there the same respect for free-speech and political diversity that Stalin did: None. So look to the colleges to see what the whole country would be like if "liberals" had their way. It would be a dictatorship.
For more postings from me, see TONGUE-TIED, GREENIE WATCH, EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL, FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC, GUN WATCH, SOCIALIZED MEDICINE, AUSTRALIAN POLITICS, DISSECTING LEFTISM, IMMIGRATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL and EYE ON BRITAIN. My Home Pages are here or here or here. Email me (John Ray) here. For times when blogger.com is playing up, there are mirrors of this site here and here.


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These days it seems as though social media has completely swarmed the world of eCommerce. To a lot of store owners, this is an amazing thing, as they now have a free medium to advertise and interact with their audience, something unprecedented to the world of marketing. However, running an eCommerce store's social media can be a tough task, especially when considering how to stay fresh and on top of things. Not to worry though, as that's why I'm going to bring you a few tips to using social media to drive sales. Check them out below:
1. Have A Solid Brand
First and foremost, if you're going to be trying to gain a following, then you're going to need a brand that resonates with your audience. This is more than just your logo, but the entire personality and mission of your company. Imagine this like a person, someone with a past, present, and future that all work simultaneously together to make them what they are. Quite simply, you have to know the impact you're trying to create in the world, and why others will care. That's the essence of your voice on social media, which can be harder to come up with than you might think.
Coming up with your brand is going to require a lot of difficult talks with yourself, as well as knowing why you're in existence in the first place. However, once you find that, it's important to take a step back from the amount of investment you've put into this. After all, people want somewhat of a human perspective that's both serious, but at the same time doesn't take itself too seriously. All-in-all, this going to be one of the most challenging aspects of your outreach efforts, but also one of the most rewarding.
2. Utilize Travel
If you haven't already started, then utilizing the travels you're on is an excellent strategy to upping your social media following. Whether it be for conferences, vacations, or even just a day trip to the next town over, taking advantage of the scenery and everything you explore along the way will be great content. As I stated above, people want to experience a human angle to your brand, and one of the best ways to do that is by showing real-life things that you or your team does. Additionally, it showcases a certain sense of authenticity, as these posts show a certain amount of personality you wouldn't get just showing the average day-to-day. Try to come up with a schedule of when you or your peers are traveling and get them to send a few photos.
3. Don't Forget Engagement
While you've probably heard about engagement before as a marketing term used to describe interaction, the actual execution of that on social media is much more complex than that. Yes, beyond just posting regularly or commenting on other's posts, the real trick to engagement is making meaningful customer experiences.
The goal here isn't to have someone buying something right away or just "like" something, but rather have an approach that is about striking up a conversation. Honestly, you may go back and forth with someone who may never buy your product, but if others see that you genuinely care about making a response to them, they're much more likely to care about what you have going on.
4. Have A Call To Action
One of the golden standards to marketing is having a Call-To-Action, or something for a customer or user to do that's a quantifiable item to track. For example, having something like "click the link in our bio to read" or "sign up now" are common uses of a CTA on social media. And although some people think this sounds 'salesy', it's actually a strategy noted to work incredibly well. According to data collected by Protocol 80, a CTA to a Facebook post alone raises click through rates by 285%, which is a pretty surprising figure when you consider how simple it is to implement. Try to have an actionable item in your posts, as it will not only give you the ability to track success, but increase the odds of completing a transaction.
Read: How to Create Content that Converts
5. Make It Human
While it's been a general theme of a few of these tips, remembering to stay human while using your brand's social media will take you a long way. In fact, even having your employees post about your company can provide tremendous benefit. As noted in a study by Nielsen, people are 78% more likely to trust the recommendation of a friend, which is much higher than any other form of advertising. Remember, your business is made of people who hopefully want to see it grow. Let them have the opportunity to do so.
With social media playing such a prevalent role in eCommerce, what are some strategies you've considered implementing? Comment with your answers below!


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HonorHealth Foundation proudly announces that Daniel D. Von Hoff, MD, chief scientific officer of the HonorHealth Research Institute, has been named the Virginia G. Piper distinguished chair in innovative cancer research.
The honor represents the first-ever endowed chair at HonorHealth. It was made possible by a $3 million grant from the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust, a longtime supporter of HonorHealth.
"HonorHealth serves our community with exemplary expertise and innovation in healthcare and medical research which has the potential to inform and advance health outcomes. We are fortunate to have this caliber of scientific discovery and treatment in Maricopa County," says Susan M. Pepin, MD, MPH, president and CEO of Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust.
"I am very honored," says Dr. Von Hoff. "The endowed chair enables us to continue the innovative research that brings the finest cancer care to our patients and community."
Having an endowed chair—which is universally recognized as one of the highest tributes that can be bestowed on an accomplished physician-scientist—helps to:
- Attract future leaders and top medical talent in cancer research.
- Advance medical knowledge and the discovery of new treatments that can save lives.
- Build and attract collaborations with leading academic institutions.
- Create the next generation of drug developers and cancer investigators.
"We are so grateful to the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust. They have not only honored Dr. Von Hoff, whose work has improved, extended and saved the lives of countless patients, but also paved the way for future cancer visionaries who will follow in his footsteps. Establishing this endowed chair further solidifies HonorHealth as a leader in cancer research, where leading-edge discoveries are made to benefit patients in our community and beyond," says HonorHealth CEO Todd LaPorte.
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Q: Summer Break is upon us! What would be the perfect vacation spot for you to catch up on your reading & relax?
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You may have started to notice square, barcode-like boxes scattered throughout adverts, magazines and so forth. These are QR Codes, and they are only going to get more popular. Here's what QR Codes are, and how to use them.
What are QR Codes?
If you've not encountered them before, all you need to know is that QR Codes are quick links. Point your smartphone or tablet's camera at a box and it will scan the graphic and show you a web link where you can find out further information about the product. Or sometimes it's a means of entering a competition, or enjoying a special offer.
In the case of app reviews in our recently published The Complete Guide To Google Android magazine, for instance, we used QR Codes to take readers to the App Market. This code, for example, takes you to a free QR Code reader called QuickMark.
Some handset makers of all mobile OSs install a QR code reader right on to the device, so you have everything you need straight out of the box. Launch this and point the camera at the QR code. You may not even need to press the camera icon to take the shot – some apps produce a haptic 'shudder' to indicate recognition. Next, press to see the web address the code relates to, then click on the browser icon to continue to the site.
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MWC 15 Special
in time with the
public launch of its commercial HSPA+ network in Munich,
Telefónica O2 Germany hosted a press event at its HQ in Munich. Here,
O2 Germany
demonstrated today's available development of HSPA+, together with Huawei, which
builds O2 Germany's wireless core network and is also the vendor of the first
available HSPA+ dongles.
During the press event, O2 Germany also unveiled that it will shut-down the
national roaming with T-Mobile Germany, which provided for the past 10 years the
coverage in areas where O2 wasn't present so far. However, in the past years, O2
Germany invested around 3.5 billion Euro into its infrastructure that the
carrier plans to provide 90 % indoor / 99.9 % outdoor 2G and 63 - 70 % UMTS/HSPA
coverage from January 2010.
However, in addition to its existing GSM/GPRS/EDGE and UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA
networks, O2 Germany today also launched HSPA+ commercially which will be
initially available in parts of Munich only.
Based on Huawei's RAN11.0 technology, using either 64QAM or MIMO modulation,
O2's HSPA+ network is able to provide download rates between 21 Mbps (64QAM -
mainly used indoor) up to 28 Mbps (MIMO - mainly used outdoor) and upload rates
of up to 5.76 Mbps. In a later development to Huawei's RAN12.0, which
combines 64QAM and MIMO, download rates of up to 42 Mbps are possible.
While the official HSPA+ was today, a nationwide roll-out isn't planned for
the next 6 - 12 months and HSPA+ isn't yet buyable but O2 Germany contacted
contemplable existing customers. These customers will receive the required HSPA+
Huawei E182E dongle from O2 as well as a flat-rate data pack, which can be used
until end of this year - free of charge. However, it should be noticed, that the
currently covered area is roughly 50 Km² only with a strong focus on Munich's
northern-western part:
(Above the HSPA+ Nobe-Bs, not the actual HSPA+ coverage)
O2 Germany hasn't given an outlook to a possible HSPA+ pricing today but this
public trial should show how HSPA+ is used under real world terms. O2 hopes to
get hints how HSPA+ is used. Furthermore, and that's quite interesting, O2
Germany noticed, that a HSPA+ roll-out profile is possibly completely different
from a voice network roll-out. While for vice, the inner-cities are quite
interesting, with rural areas to follow, for HSPA+ inner-cities are the second
important area only. More important might be commercial and industrial areas.
Therefore, the Frankfurter Römer might be equipped after Bürostadt Niederrad or
Aschheim might be equipped before München Schwabing; where O2 can have a much
stronger focus on business customers than on consumer customers.
In any case, the results during the press workshop looked quite promising;
I'm definitely looking forward a broader roll-out across the borders of Munich!
Cheers ~ Arne
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'I'm so glad it's all in order now': Catherine shares her experiences for Dying Matters Week
"I want to wear colourful clothing at my funeral and for my ashes to be scattered in the river at Appleby; that's where my heart is." Catherine Nelson is opening up about her end-of-life wishes after gaining the confidence to speak out whilst attending a programme at St Catherine's Hospice.
Talking about her end-of-life wishes and funeral arrangements was difficult for Catherine Nelson when she was first diagnosed with COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) in 2002. Over the years, she's gradually come to terms with her condition both practically and emotionally. She is learning to adapt her lifestyle to cope with the side effects of her medication, and is now more comfortable about opening up to her family about her experiences and wishes.
Catherine, a 70-year-old grandmother-of-six, gained more confidence and started to understand more about her condition after attending a dedicated 10-week respiratory programme at St Catherine's Hospice in Lostock Hall. This week, she is speaking out about the importance of having discussions with loved ones and healthcare professionals about her personal end-of-life plans, in support of Dying Matters Week. Living with a life-shortening, incurable condition like COPD, Catherine knows all too well how difficult it can be to make such significant decisions.
"I went through about six months of anger, wondering why something like this had happened to me," she recalls. "I've been through all the stages, and sometimes I still feel angry, but I can control it now. I've come to terms with my condition. It was hard at first, especially planning for the future and talking about things like making a will and funerals. It was quite painful to do and I kept saying 'I'll do it tomorrow' – it felt like a huge obstacle. But it gets easier once you make a start, and you begin to think about things like music at your funeral and what you want to wear. I'm so glad that's all in order now."
She explains: "I've been going to Appleby for years for the gypsy fairs, and I've told my partner Michael that I want my ashes scattered in the river there. We've visited it together and he knows I want to wear gypsy clothes and make-up – that's just me. It's good to know that my wishes will be granted, and it eases the pressure on him and my children as well; they know they're doing what I want and they don't have to make those kind of difficult decisions themselves when the time comes."
COPD causes breathlessness and fatigue as the lungs' airways are narrowed, which has had a detrimental effect on Catherine's busy lifestyle.
"The worse thing about it is the fatigue," she says. "People really don't realise how much it can affect you. You can be ok one day and feel good, and the next day you suddenly go down-hill.I was a very active person so it's hit me hard. It's difficult to plan ahead, especially things like trips away and holidays, because you just have to take each day as it comes. Things which you normally do without thinking can sometimes be a real struggle or impossible; sometimes I can't pick my three-year-old granddaughter Abigail up for a cuddle, and that really upsets me. I can see how people could easily get depressed, it's very frustrating, but you've got to fight it and stay strong. It's a constant battle, but I try to stay positive and try to keep looking my best, so that my family doesn't notice as much of a difference in me."
Attending the programme at St Catherine's was helpful for Catherine, not only because she learnt about new ways of managing her symptoms, but because it also gave her the opportunity to speak with people living with similar respiratory conditions, as well as the charity's specialist doctors and nurses.
"It felt good to off-load," she says. "It's different speaking to someone who isn't personally attached to you; you can't always have those conversations with your family, or be as honest about how you're feeling and have a good cry, because it's upsetting for them as well.
"People might think that they don't need that kind of professional and peer support, but it's invaluable. It's emotional support and practical advice, and you can share your thoughts and ideas with others. t's helped me understand things about my condition which I wish I'd known years ago – there were educational talks from dieticians, consultants, and physiotherapists, who talked about lung conditions and fatigue, and how to manage it.
"St Catherine's is a sanctuary and gave me reason to think that my life isn't over."
Catherine, who lives in Tarleton, was referred to the programme at the hospice by her doctor at Royal Preston Hospital, after explaining that she wanted more support to manage her condition, and to discuss the restrictions it has on her life.
A former smoker, she has suffered with chest infections all of her life, and thought it was just her asthma getting worse, shortly before she was diagnosed with COPD.
She takes antibiotics to combat the chest infections, and steroids to help with her breathing, but each have side effects such as hair loss and fatigue. She also uses a nebuliser and inhaler.
"I don't know how anyone can ever really accept an incurable condition like this," she admits. "But you learn to come to terms with it and adapt. I've only really started to come to terms with it over these last three years, from working with doctors and the hospice. You really have to take all the help and support which is available to you."
She adds: "I don't feel sorry for myself, and I'm determined to live my life to the full. You do have to know your limits though and accept when you need to rest. You can't wish to feel good all the time, but you need to make the most of your good spells."
The mum-of-four has had a busy life and career, having owned her own hairdressing business and worked as a driving instructor, as well as caring for people at the end-of-life in the community, and being a qualified aromatherapist.
"I feel proud of everything I've achieved," she says. "I even got a certificate for attending the St Catherine's course which made me feel really good. I didn't think I would be able to achieve anything else at this stage, but it just goes to show that it's never too late."
Lynn Kelly is director of knowledge exchange services at St Catherine's Hospice where she heads up the team tasked with sharing the organisation's specialist skills with others, and raising awareness about end-of-life issues in the community.
She is grateful to Catherine for speaking out and sharing her experiences this Dying Matters Week.
Lynn said: "Catherine is a fantastic example of what can be achieved when people open up to their loved ones about their wishes. We completely understand that these conversations can be difficult and emotional – but what we hear time and again from people is that they, and their loved ones, feel so much better when things are out in the open.
"St Catherine's is proud to be part of this important awareness week which provides a national talking point around issues such as funeral planning and making a will – topics which can still be seen as a taboo. We hope people will be inspired by Catherine and her family and use this week as an opportunity to take some time to talk to their nearest and dearest about what is important to them. And once arrangements are in place, people can focus on spending their precious time with their loved ones, making meaningful memories."
Lynn Kelly, director of knowledge exchange services at St Catherine's Hospice.
St Catherine's Hospice is going on a roadtrip!
Nurses, educators, advisors, counsellors and befrienders from St Catherine's Hospice are going on a mini roadtrip this Dying Matters Awareness Week.
They've commandeered a vintage Fishwick's double-decker bus and will be taking to the streets of Leyland this Friday, May 12, to speak to members of the community about a variety of issues.
They'll be joined by local solicitors, neighbourhood officers and district nurses.
Hop on-board for refreshments and a chat about the issues important to you at any of the following locations:
9am – St Catherine's Hospice
10am – Leyland Market
11am – Tesco Extra, Leyland
1pm – Leyland Leisure Centre
2pm – South Ribble Borough Council Civic Centre
3pm – Worden Park
Dying Matters is led by Hospice UK
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John Nisbet (1627–1685) was a Scottish covenanter who was executed for participating in the rebellion at Bothwell Brig.[1] The son of an Ayrshire tenant farmer, Nisbet traveled to mainland Europe as a professional soldier. He attended the 1650 coronation of Charles II at Scone, where he subscribed the covenant, swearing his allegiance to 'all the acts of reformation attained to in Scotland from 1638 to 1649'.[2] After returning to the family home at Hardhill, near Loudoun, he married Margaret Law....
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Liquid Chromatography Detectors - Dispersion in Detector Sensors > Dispersion in the Detector Sensor Volume > Dispersion in Detector Sensors Resulting from Newtonian Flow > Page 12
Figure 6 The Design of a Modern Absorption Cell
The Newtonian flow is distorted by the manner in which the inlet and outlet conduits are connected to and from the cell. Mobile phase enters the cell at an angle that is directed at the cell window. It follows, that the mobile phase flow has to virtually reverse its direction to pass through the cell producing a swirling action which introduces strong radial flow and disrupts the Newtonian flow. The effect also occurs at the exit end of the cell. The flow along the axis of the cell now must reverse its direction to pass out of the port which is accomplished by attaching the exit conduit at an angle to the axis of the cell. Employing this type of entry and exit connections eliminates dispersion resulting from viscous flow.


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The world around ten-year-old Sunni Brown is crumbling. War, disease and crushing poverty are everyday realities. For a while, she counts herself amongst the lucky. But will she survive when she's forced to live in an abandoned parking structure?
This is a scary future; but there are no werewolves, vampires or zombies…in this future, human beings are the scariest creatures of all.
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SunHi Mistwalker is an award-winning writer of dystopian and speculative fiction. She enjoys exploring the themes of poverty, class and the collapse of societies.
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Project case histories illustrating Benring's resin systems expertise
A diverse and, we hope, interesting selection of project case histories demonstrating our extensive experience of supplying and applying our own formulated resin based repair and protection systems. With a lifetime of experience and a wealth of knowledge Tony Grimes and his Benring operatives have worked on an incredible range of projects and provided resin-based solutions to many problems encountered within the building and construction industries, repair, conservation and restoration of buildings and fine artefacts.
Conserving the Mathematical Bridge at Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton
As far as we can gather, there are just three of these amazing bridges in Britain, in Cambridge, Oxford(ish) and Wolverhampton, with the latter being the one retaining most of its original timber.
Benring was given the task of repairing quite a few rot-spots on these timbers by judicious use of Bencon epoxy resin products - camouflaging the repairs was necessary in order to present as perfect a structure as possible to the onlooker.
Bencon 39 epoxy resin helps conserve the National Trust's Upton House Mirror Pool
It had been discovered that the 1930s constructed lining of the Mirror Pool in the gardens of Upton House was leaking: the pond has a "puddled" clay lining to the bottom and there's a small dam to one end which seems built of stone and with a cementitious screed to the inner face, this to make quite sure the whole is watertight. The pond is fed from a small stream / spring at one end and spills through at the other courtesy of a drainpipe set in order to make sure the right level of water is maintained.
Bencon 20 Epoxy Resin used to repair fine 19th century Italian violin
Matthew Wing is a professional restorer of violins and other string instruments based in Walthamstow. This can be an incredibly delicate task and instruments are often very old and of high value, so you've got to get it right! We were fascinated to learn how Matthew uses our Bencon 20 product to fill worm tracks within the body of the instruments that he restores, and the incredible care taken to get it right.
Sedan Chair poles repaired using Bencon 20 Epoxy Resin
Stephen Loft-Simpson is a European Sedan Chair Specialist based in Bristol. He has provided consultancy and loaned a sedan chair for the BBC series "How we Built Britain" presented by David Dimbleby and also appeared with Tony Robinson as part of Channel 4's first series "Worst Jobs in History".
Stephen used our products for a repair on the original poles of one of his historic sedan chairs and although successful sought further advice, which we were very pleased to give.
Restored Windmill at Polegate uses Bencon 22 Epoxy Wood
Polegate Windmill was built in 1817 for Joseph Seymour. It continued to be operated by wind until 1943, when the fan-staging became unsafe. The mill was then powered by electricity until 1965 when it ceased operating commercially.
Earlier in 1952 Polegate Windmill was listed as a Grade II* building of historic interest. Concerns about its fate and other buildings like it during the early 1960s resulted in the formation of the Eastbourne and District Preservation Society.
The windmill was purchased and restored by the Eastbourne and District Preservation Trust in the late 1960s. They continue to maintain and operate it as a museum showcasing what is now the oldest working Tower Mill in the South East.
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Book Review of "Lee Miller: A Life," by Carolyn Burke: The Poughkeepsie girl who became a model, a muse and a photographer in her own right.
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This is an article I wrote for The Japan Times. In May, 1999, I revisited my childhood home in Yokohama. Many things have changed since I left in 1961.
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During my journalism career at The Washington Post, I wrote a commemorative piece reflecting on my years at Book World.
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'Driving is a difficult genre right now.'
In spite of all odds, DriveClub became a success- Evolution Studios' PlayStation 4 exclusive racing game overcame its troubled launch, poor worth of mouth, and toxic reception at launch to go on to become one of the most loved racing games of the generation, and also one of the most successful, with 2 million copies sold worldwide.
And yet it may not get a sequel. In an interview with Eurogamer, Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida was asked about the prospect of DriveClub continuing as a series, and his answer was not exactly the most encouraging in the world.
"The driving genre's a very difficult market right now," he told Eurogamer. "The team, we need to find a great angle for the racing to continue, to come up with a new racing game, if we're to look at another racing title. Creative ideas come when things are tough, so that lightbulb moment, I'm looking forward to."
I'm not sure I agree with him- DriveClub was a success, Forza Horizon 2 and Forza Motorsport 5 were successes, and Nintendo's Mario Kart 8 is one of the most successful games of this generation- then again, maybe DriveClub's initial middling response did more damage than Yoshida wants to admit. Maybe that is why we got this non answer.
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Selbyville to be a hot spot for all this weekend
To complete the photo-op Triple Crown this Saturday, Mayor Clifton Murray must find only a baby to kiss. After inaugurating Selbyville's new railroad museum in the morning, Murray will award a six-foot Mayor's Choice trophy to the owner of his favorite auto in the Old Timers' Day car show.
Between automobiles, motorcycles, trucks and tractors, the main event of the town's 49th annual celebration could feature upwards of 100 vintage vehicles (all showpieces must predate 1973), according to Selbyville dignitaries. The car show last year, conversely, comprised less than 20 contestants.
"There are a lot of nice cars around here," said Selbyville Police Sgt. Robert Reed, one of the competition's three judges. "Most of the people will be from within 100 miles."
Registration for the show is free and runs from 9 a.m. to noon. The evaluation phase will follow from noon to 1 p.m., and the awards ceremony will commence an hour later.
The auto exposition's increased entrant pool should also boost spectator turnout from the 1,000 people who attended Old Timers' Day in 2004, according to Amy Tingle, events coordinator and executive assistant for the Bethany-Fenwick Area Chamber of Commerce. The Bethany-Fenwick Area Chamber of Commerce is promoting Old Timers' for the second consecutive year after absorbing the Selbyville Chamber in 2003.
"It's just a really nice, fun family festival," Tingle said. "Kids are just getting out of school, so it's a good way to blow off steam."
Activities for kids include an appearance by Lollipop the Clown, face painting, games and a moon bounce. The Children's Area is sponsored by Friends of the Selbyville Public Library and Mediacom.
For the adults, Michael Tracy White will perform his brand of pop music from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Country and rock band Cherry Bud will follow White on the Mountaire Farms Main Stage, in the parking lot of the Mercantile Peninsula Bank, from noon to 3 p.m. Hastings Funeral Home, the primary sponsor of Old Timers' Day, will hold a 50/50 raffle, with tickets available at the Town of Selbyville and at the Bethany-Fenwick Area Chamber of Commerce. And Selbyville merchants will hold sidewalk sales along Church Street, starting at the corner of Church and Main streets.
"It just draws people to the town to see some of the past history," said Susan Lewis, general manager of Doyle's Restaurant, which will provide food for Old Timers' Day along with The Georgia House, The Pit and Southeast Sussex Rotary, among others. "It just creates more interest in a small town."
Old Timer's Day started in the 1960s as a merchant's event spanning several days, according to Tingle. Local business owners would adorn the costumes of bygone eras and peddle their merchandise on Selbyville's sidewalks. The celebration has since evolved into more of a single-afternoon festival, with the period outfits now obsolete.


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Saturday, 9 June 2012
Boy And The Catalogue Of Hilarious Errors
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DIY hair salons were the way of our household, too. I was never brave enough to shave a head - although I had often wanted to. My son recently solved my grandson's tangle problem - while Mom was out of the house!ReplyDelete
How do our kids survive? It's these lovely stories that are carefully layered into the family history box.
Interesting, funny and warm. Nice to meet you.ReplyDelete
That was pretty funny yet a beautiful story.ReplyDelete
I'm a bit late but can I wish him "Happy Birthday" ?
Thank you Petro- from me and Boy :-)ReplyDelete
Lol! Happy belated to Boy.ReplyDelete
We had an incident like yours with my " the boy" but he looked like a five year old skinhead. I was horrified. The neighbors didn't like me much after that!
Mainly for economic reasons, I still cut my own hair. Sometimes I find it liberating, sometimes I wear a hat. Hey ho! Thank you all for the lovely comments, Boy feels quite special now :-)ReplyDelete


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Education Minister Jet Bussemaker (Labour, of course) on women choosing to raise a family (NL) and not work full time. What a hideous creature she turns out to be.
[10 – 4] On FrontPage Mag: Academics or Agitprop Artists?
Mr. Enebakk and too many others like him in this manner take the partisan ideological statements of decidedly left-wing organizations at face value and treat them as the Gospel Truth. At the same time, they casually dismiss conservative viewpoints simply as unfounded and irrational "hate." Enebakk has done virtually nothing to check if some of the statements made by these "Islamophobes" are actually correct, a behavior that violates the most fundamental principles of genuine research and critical investigation.
What we see here is classic agitprop, or agitation propaganda directed against ideological opponents. This kind of aggressive character assassination unfortunately has long traditions among left-wing activists, dating back at least to the Bolsheviks and the Soviet Union.
[ 8 – 4] On Gates of Vienna: Two Terrorists and a Double Standard.
Breivik's sister and other family members were horrified by his terror attacks, which they had nothing to do with. Mohammed Merah's sister is on the record as praising her brother for his mass murder, and one of his brothers has been charged with actively aiding these murderous attacks. Except for some extremely marginal figures, no one on the "right wing" in Europe has supported Breivik's terror attacks. Mohammed Merah has become a hero for an alarming number of young Muslims in Europe because of his terror attacks.
Immediately after his identity became known, many Western mass media claimed that Breivik's terror attacks were ideologically motivated by anti-Islamic writings. Immediately after his identity became known, many Western mass media claimed that Merah's terror attacks were not ideologically motivated and had nothing whatsoever to do with Islam or Islamic writings. In other words: Terrorism has nothing to do with being Islamic, but a great deal to do with being anti-Islamic.
After his attacks, the media indicated that while Breivik may have carried out his attacks alone, he was sane and came from a big flock of supporters. The same people indicated that Merah was a lone wolf and possibly insane. Yet years later, the police have found to trace of Breivik's alleged "flock," whereas Merah probably did come from a flock of supporters, and may have been aided by others in an organized manner prior to his attacks.
The very different treatments these two terrorists have received reveal a sometimes staggering double standard in the mass media and academia, not just in one nation but in multiple Western countries on both sides of the Atlantic.
[ 2 – 4] On FrontPage Mag: Importing Islamic Nightmares — While Denying Them
Gang rapes and certain other types of violent crime were exceedingly rare in the Nordic countries a few decades ago, but are currently in the process of becoming routine. In Trondheim, Norway, on the 28th of May 2011, a young girl named Eva Helgetun took her own life. She was just 14 years old, and had been gang-raped by immigrants a few weeks before. Too many others share her fate.
In the 1960s when the so-called Second Wave of Feminism began, often with strong Marxist inspirations, Western women were relatively safe compared to women in other parts of the world. Half a century later, Western women have never had more Feminism, yet they and their children have also never been less safe.
Perhaps pointing out this fact constitutes "hate" in the eyes of some people, but that doesn't make it any less true.
Academics or Agitprop Artists?
Two Terrorists and a Double Standard
Importing Islamic Nightmares — While Denying Them
Is Anders Behring Breivik the Nordic Che Guevara?
Irrational Fear of Islam?
Muslim 'Offenses' Are About Power, Not Words
Why Islam Does Not Belong in the Western World
Inside the Brussels Conference on Free Speech and Human Rights
The Price of European Immigration
The Bias and Dishonesty of Wikipedia
More Fjordman Files here.
From Die Deutsche Wirtschaft Nachrichten we get this cheerful news: EU wants to regulate cultivation of fruit and vegetables in gardens
The European Commission wants to impose on farmers and gardeners in the future the use of unit seed. Old and rare species have little chance of an approval, its cultivation is punishable by law – even if it takes place in the private garden.
The European Commission is working on a revision of the European seed market in the form of a regulation. Thus, a decision of the European Court is legalized in July 2012: Farmers are allowed to sell only officially authorized seed. So far, old and rare seed varieties were excluded that were grown in long standing economic and exchange traded, usually in small quantities. If it goes to the Commission's plans, small farmers or individuals may not even give away their homegrown seeds in the future. (…)
Beneficiaries of the normalization are the just those food-companies that already split the bulk of the seed market among themselves. For years, the lobby of the agricultural industry in Brussels has been working for a further step in the direction of [a] seed cartel. Objective is to control the entire food production by a few large corporations. Already, smaller competitors are forced by Monsanto and Co to exclusively buy their seed. In the future, they would also face administrative penalties. (…)
If Parliament were to wave through the regulation, even private citizens can no longer distribute their fruit and vegetable products, if they do not meet
the Wishes of MonsantoEU standards.
The article notes rather testily that 'It is indicative of the lack of democratic legitimacy of the EU that such fundamental decisions are taken, without the citizens being given notice on any of it'. Once the Regulation is adopted, food companies like Monsanto are in the right and citizens are on the defensive and will have the greatest difficulty in undoing the legal regulations.
Actually, calling this regulation an indication of 'lack of democratic legitimacy' is a rather weak indictment, methinks. This is malignant corporatist lunacy. But we mustn't call the EUnion a tyranny in the making. That would be, you know, extreme…
Can we leave now?
(The translation above contains some 'augmentations' of the rather clunky google-translation of the original item)
[UPDATE001] I asked the good Dr. North about this and he pointed me to this.
[T]he Commission is currently concluding the review of the EU legislation on marketing seed and plant propagating material, including rules on conservation and amateur vegetable varieties. The review acknowledges the room for improving the legislation as regards these varieties. This legislation is distinct from Directive 98/44/EC on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions(1), which sets rules regarding the patentability of biological material, not the marketing thereof.
Taken at face value this makes the DWN story sound a tad hysterical. Still, we've seen obfuscation by the EUnonistas before, haven't we? I'll keep an eye on this one.
For those of you who prefer more pre-emptive actions here are two links for you: Seedforall.org and Monsanto vs. Mother Earth.
Just coming out of my hole in the ground to point out a quote that should be obvious now, but nevertheless needs spreading far and wide. This is what the Euro-Cyprus brouhaha is telling us:
The EU has managed to make it quite clear to every European that the 'technocrats' are quite willing to seize people's money whenever they think it 'best'. Best for whom of course is another question.
They have made it clear there is no law that restrains them. Technocrats rule. Not govern, rule.
Remember this: No matter what the MSM is trying to tell you, this is not about Russian 'dirty' money. This is not about banks. This is about your government, the one in Brussels, signalling to you it considers your money their money, to be used as they see fit. The mask has finally dropped on the totalitarian scum that presume to lord over us.
As of this week the deposit guarantee so touted by the EUnion and local governments, is dead. Just dead. All good advice about putting your money in a mattress being ill-considered not-withstanding, I've made arrangements to get my money out of the system. Shame about the interest, but that doesn't even cover inflation anyways. I'm done. I'm not playing along anymore.
Overdracht nieuwe bevoegdheden aan EU
mag niet zonder referendum!
In 2005 stemde ruim 61% van de Nederlandse bevolking tegen de Europese Grondwet. Toch is de macht van de EU sindsdien sterk toegenomen. Ook de eurocrisis leidt weer tot ingrijpende machtsoverdracht van Nederland aan de EU, onder meer op het gebied van begroting en budget.
Op nationaal niveau blijft steeds minder politieke zeggenschap over. De democratie raakt steeds verder uitgehold.
Dit kan niet zonder uitdrukkelijke instemming van de bevolking.
In de krachtigste bewoordingen roepen wij Parlement en Regering op om gehoor te geven aan onze wens,
The lack of updates may have given my readers (all three of you) a clue, but this makes it official: KV is over. Recent events, most notably the re-election of the Obama, have convinced me the world is moving in a direction where my blogging is of no use.
That is not to say blogging in general is useless. Far from it. There is a plethora of blogs out there (see the right-side column), that provide anyone looking for it with news that matters, news the EUro MSM will not touch, news that will make one infinitely better informed than your average euro-serf.
I am, however, not one of those quality members. I have not the time or the attention, as matters in my personal life demand my energies.
It has been fun, but this is where it ends. Thank you all for the feedback and encouragement. Don't give up the good fight. I won't. I may stop blogging, but there are other means at ones disposal. Down in the underground, as one D. Bowie would have it.
Cheers all. See you on the other side.
KV out.


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The study revealed more than 60% of Australian second generation immigrants believe 'most people can be trusted', while only 41% of the US immigrants do.
Researchers Dr Domenico Tabasso and Dr Julie Moschion argue there are several reasons for the divide.
"Low levels of crime, high rates of employment, income equality and an absence cultural segregation account for the high levels of trust found in Australia," according to Dr Tabasso .
"On the flipside, the perception of racial inequality contributes to lower levels of trust in the United States," he said.
Previous academic studies have underlined the central role trust plays in a strong economy, as it facilitates cooperation and exchanges among individuals.
The research — published by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research — found the way migrant groups pass values, beliefs and social preferences to their children also plays a crucial role.
"We found a strong link between the level of trust among second generation immigrants and the trust levels found in their parents' countries of origin," Dr Tabasso said.
"This is especially the case in the United States, while in Australia the socio-economic environment appears to more significantly influence a person's level of trust."
The research uses data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) study and the Unites States' General Social Survey (GSS).
'Trust of Second Generation Immigrants: Intergenerational Transmission or Cultural Assimilation?' by Domenico Tabasso and Julie Moschion is available online.
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The Andreas sisters are all coming home, converging on their past and escaping their present. Rose, Bean, and Cordy grew up in a small Ohio college town with a Shakespearean scholar for a father who frequently communicated through the Bard's words, verses, and couplets. Each of the girls is having trouble and have chosen to make the news that their mother is fighting breast cancer the catalyst for coming home again, not expecting their siblings to also come home. Like the witches' portion in King Lear, the novel is narrated by the sisters as one omniscient entity, a method not often seen in literature. And this unique narration works so well because even when the story is focused on one sister or another and her secrets, no one besides sisters can know each other so intimately as to unmask and lay bare the truth so thoroughly without malice.
Rose has convinced herself that she has come home from Columbus where she is a well-respected math professor, to help and organize her parents, who clearly need to be parented themselves. What she isn't acknowledging is that she is terrified to leave the comforting idea of home and venture into the wider world with her fiance, who has taken a position over in England for the year. Bean, who couldn't wait to shake the dust of the provincial town from her feet has spent years in New York but she has never found what she so desperately seeks, devouring men and shopping beyond her means to the point that she resorts to embezzlement to fund her binges. Discovered and without any other recourse, she has come home to the place she once so longed to escape. Cordy also fled Barnwell, the pampered youngest who never had to face the consequences for any of her actions, coddled and humored. She has been drifting aimlessly since she left home, afraid to be successful. Only now she's discovered that she is pregnant and she turns to the people and place that have always offered her a soft and forgiving place to land: family and home.
With all three sisters home again, they quickly revert to their expected roles in the family while resenting the others for assuming theirs. It is clear that the sisters care for each other very deeply, even when they are angry or frustrated with each other. They each keep secrets and don't want to expose their mistakes or uncertainties to each other, wanting to maintain the persona with which they have long been labeled. To expose themselves so clearly would change the dynamic between them for sure. And yet they already know each others' weaknesses and faults as well as they know their own. These characters are so real and appealing that even when they are making the wrong choices and sniping at each other, it is easy to like them. All three of the sisters learn, grow and change throughout the course of the story. And they learn the value of family love and support as they become the people they were meant to be, both within and without the confines of the family.
I loved the bookishness of the sisters. Their reliance on Shakespeare to communicate with each other was a quirky and fun family trait. The sisters were very distinct characters and even the secondary characters were unique and differentiated, contributing much to the story. The love/hate relationship Rose, Bean, and Cordy had with each other was completely true to life. No one can frustrate you faster than a sister but no one will step up to bat for you faster either. Brown managed to tell the story with wit and humor. Having gone to school in a small Ohio college town and married someone raised in yet another one, I can say with confidence that Brown has captured the aura of the place beautifully, the ambivalence and/or reverence of the faculty kids towards the local school, and the quaintness of some liberal arts faculty (dare I say especially English faculty?). I highly recommend this novel of family and books and finally growing up
Thanks to the publisher for sening me a copy of the book for review.


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Anna Page is a senior architect at Atelier Zumthor
After working in the office since 2008, Anna Page was promoted in 2012 to senior architect at Atelier Zumthor, following her successful delivery of the Serpentine Pavilion from construction to completion. She is the lead architect for Atelier Zumthor's House on a Hill for Living Architecture. Page is also working on a refurbishment of her own Swiss home, collaborating with local craftsmen and ceramicists.
Why did you become an architect?
Because I wanted to be qualified to design anything.
What is your design ethos?
Make your work personal. Don't propose something that you don't personally really like and relate to. Don't justify yourself too much.
Which women architects inspire you?
Lina Bo Bardi, because she made very personal work, responding differently to different contexts. She also always understood the community around her projects and used this as a starting point for her response. As a consequence she could make bold, strong architecture and also small, 'hand made'-style houses with tiny attention to detail.
What is your advice to aspiring female architects?
Know that your voice as a female is valid and interesting.
Why do you think women leave the profession?
Because the process of finding one's own voice as a female designer is at odds with the social and economic structures which govern most offices.
What do you think would make them stay?
More senior women in architecture offices and client bodies.
What do you think is the best defence against sexism?
A total inability to recognise its premise.
Do you have any advice or thoughts about having children and being a successful architect?
No, but I would love to hear some if anyone else has any.
Place of study The University of Liverpool and London Metropolitan University
Current projects House on a Hill, Devon; a residence in Brentwood, Los Angeles
Clients Living Architecture; a well-known Hollywood actor
Readers' comments (1)
For all of us whom have had the pleasure of meeting and knowing Anna Page (the name she now resides by) in depth. We would highly recommend that she is not selected as an 'Emerging Woman Architect' as this would do a great injustice to us 'Women Architects' whom actually do know something about architecture and do have real talent.
We do not feel that merely being a strong speaker and being able to manipulate co workers or male superiors with our feminine assets as being cause for being rewarded within our profession, quite frankly this is simply not what our profession is about and our younger generation need to shine based on their aptitude and sheer talent.
We should not be rewarding sure contenders, in fact they should not be contenders to begin with.
This should also reflect on the offices that choose to employ such people, we know that they are incapable of making projects without major assistance and these cut throat gals will stop at nothing to get to the top... let's choose to look for REAL talent.
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Reblog of the day
In keeping with the spirit of pacifist co-existence and tolerance of every abomination, every fanaticism and every attempt to undermine or destroy Christian values that is proving so beneficial to all of us, this Andrew Klavan video helps us to reach towards the more lively among our Muslim friends; through a series of easy-to-understand steps we are guided to embrace their different values and cultural climate and are therefore effectively helped to be better prepared for a peaceful outcome of our small disagreements.
Isn't this beautiful?
Take this as Mundabor's little contribution to the cause of peace in this days of Holy Week 2011.
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I have to admit to being a little surprised at how much interest a new pickup truck attracted on just-auto this week. OK, a new segment for the automaker, Fiat, a little ingenuity in the barn-door, flexible configuration tailgate but, initially, only for South America. Perhaps the fact the name Chrysler is also appended to the word Fiat these days? And, given that South America is from where VW lobs the Amarok to the world, and the Renault-Nissan-Mercedes-anyone else want a rebadged LCV-alliance is working on several variations of the Japanese partner's Navara/Frontier truck for the globe, with some production in Argentina, I'd not be suprised to see this new Toro on sale, also in RHD, pretty much worldwide at some point. Fiat Brazil has exported light commercials widely before, including neatly packaged van and pick-up versions of the Uno it kept in production for decades.
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