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Chait notes the circular nature of green lantern arguments as media accounts rush to blame the eminently predictable failure of Congress to pass gun control legislation on the White House:
Would the threat of canceling the trip have caused Begich (and six fellow senators) to reconsider, as the story implies?
Obviously, we can't go back and re-run history and find out. We can, however, find a reasonably close approximation. During Bill Clinton's first two terms, a Democratic senator from a red state (Richard Shelby of Alabama) defected on key votes. Clinton tried the "ruthless" approach of punishing Shelby by denying him these sorts of discretionary executive branch perks — first limiting his tickets to a ceremony honoring the Alabama football team, then threatening to move some NASA jobs out of his state. The tactic was universally seen to have backfired.
Did it really backfire? Probably not. Shelby voted the way he did because he assessed his own beliefs and interests. But that is the beauty of ignoring structural factors for stories about people: You can always tell a new one. If the president was nice, he should have been mean. If he was mean, he should have been nice. (Unless he prevailed, in which case his shrewd politicking saved the day!)
Presidential hero stories have two archetypes. One is Lyndon Johnson arm-twisting. The Times today hauls out LBJ biographer Robert Dallek to contrast Johnson's ruthless arm-twisting with Obama's stand-offishness. Of course, LBJ enjoyed huge majorities in both houses, along with a majority-rule Senate. When Johnson's majority shrank following the 1966 midterms, his domestic agenda shriveled away, too, despite his presumably undiminished grasp of arm-twisting and legendarily threatening body language.
And it's not just that LBJ had huge majorities to work with before 1967; he also had something arguably even more valuable, liberal Republicans who supported (or weren't strongly opposed to) his agenda during a time of weak party discipline. As Drum notes, it's not clear what more Obama could have done to get Snowe's vote for the PPACA, and there's nothing that Lyndon Johnson could have done about that either.
Indeed, arguments about Obama's excessive faith in bipartisanship — which have a great deal of truth in themselves — are often assimilated into green lantern critiques. Specific attempts to explain how Obama could have gotten sufficient Democratic votes for a public option are so embarrassing that most people making them just end up mumbling about FDR or assume the can opener in some other way. But it certainly is true that Obama and the Democratic leadership did spend a lot of time on a doomed effort to get Republican votes, and I suppose that's something that could have been done differently. The problem is, though, that there's a reason that the Democratic leadership placed too much hope on getting some Republican votes: if there's no possibility of any crossover, the leverage that the leadership has over conservative Democrats is vastly reduced. If Snowe and Grassley supported the PPACA, you could tell Lieberman to cram it with walnuts when he pulled the Medicare buy-in double-cross. But when every possible vote for the bill is also necessary, the median Democratic votes call the shots. A lot of LBJ's successful deal-making was based on everybody's knowledge that if he couldn't get what he wanted from A he may well be able to get it from B. With modern norms of strict party discipline, the possibility of cutting deals is greatly reduced.
And, of course, the argument collapses on itself, because (as with the argument that he could have gotten a much bigger surplus) the argument that Obama screwed up relies on an excessive faith in the possibility of bipartisanship. Because passing minor gun control legislation wasn't a longstanding administration priority, I can't say to an absolute certainty that Obama and Reid couldn't have found some way to get every Democratic vote. I don't really understand what leverage Obama is supposed to have over Heidi Heitkamp, given that he lost her home state by 20 points and won't be in office the next time she runs, but who knows, maybe he could have found something. But given that 1)this wouldn't have been enough to get the legislation through the Senate, and 2)even in the extremely unlikely event that you could get more Republican votes in the Senate, there's no chance the House would pass any gun control legislation worth passing, I have no idea what the point of doing so would be. You don't pull out all the stops to get legislators to pass symbolic votes.


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Baku, April 28 – Many commentators have focused on the efforts of Russian cities to restrict the influx of non-Russian Gastarbeiters, but far fewer have explored the ways in which non-Russian republics within the Russian Federation are restricting access of outsiders to economic activities there.
But according to an article in an Omsk newspaper, that has been given new prominence by being posted on a major Moscow news portal, such restrictions, which are the product of «clan-based nationalism and feudal localism" is "a bomb" that threatens to undermine the unity of the country (www.i-r-p.ru/page/stream-trends/index-19655.html).
Six weeks ago, Omsk's Novoye obozreniye carried an extensive article about the ways in which three non-Russian republics – North Ossetia, Tuva, and Bashkortostan – have limited opportunities for ethnic Russians, both longtime residents and new arrivals in ways that violate both the Russian Constitution and the requirements of economic life.
That article would likely have passed unnoticed has it not been posted this week on the Moscow's Institute for Religion and Politics site, a development that reflects mounting Russian anger at non-Russian criticism of the restrictions Russian cities have imposed and that may point to new Moscow moves against the non-Russian republics.
In North Ossetia, the three Omsk journalists said, people still like to refer to their republic as "the advance post of Russia" in the Caucasus, but now many of them "not without bitter irony" typically add "A Russian advance post – only without Russians," a reflection of the declining numbers and status of Russians there.
In 1979, ethnic Russians formed 49 percent of the urban population; now, they are only 20 percent. "And among administrators, [ethnic] Russians there represent 11 percent today as against 40 percent at the end of the 1970s," declines which are even more striking if one considers the "Russian-speaking" nationalities as a whole, the journalists noted.
What there has been in North Ossetia is the wholesale "Ossetinization " of the economy and the government, a process that reflects both conscious government policy of pushing Ossetins forward and the collapse of major defense industries in which ethnic Russians and others once worked.
For the jobs that remain, ethnic Russian activists there say, only Ossetins who can exploit family ties have much of a chance to be hired and advance. "Slavs who do not have such traditional clan support are in a much more complicated situation." And as a result, those who can often decide to leave a place that has long been their homeland.
"We were taught," one Russian said, "that is was possible to jump from feudalism to socialism, thus bypassing an entire social-economic formation. But it turns out, that this is not the case." When socialist industry disappeared, so did socialism. And feudal values resumed their dominant position.
According to the Omsk reporters, "the [ethnic] Russian population of North Ossetia is gradually being marginalized," and as a result, in a few years, "Vladikavkaz will really be an advance post of Russia but just as was the case some 200 years ago, it will be an exclusively military one."
A local FSB official said "unofficially" that everything depends on whether Moscow will rebuild the industry that will hold the Slavic population there. If it does, he said, then the Ossetin population will continue to serve "not only as a special kind of buffer between local nationalities and clans but also the bearer of what is called Russian culture."
In Tuva, the situation for Russians may be even worse, the Omsk journalists said. At the end of the 1980s, there were some of the worst national clashes in the USSR. More than 80 people were killed, and some 30,000 ethnic Russians left immediately. Their departure has been added to as a result of the systematic "Tuvanization" of the government apparatus there.
Indeed, the departure of the Russians as a result of the closure of major plants means that some of the parts of the republic "recall the streets of Grozny," although "there was never any bombing there." Instead, the plant closed, and its employees and their families, many of them Russians left. Of the 2500 Russians in one district, fewer than 500 remain.
Although pressure against Russians has eased in recent years, there is only one non-Tuvin in the upper reaches of the government – Economics Minister Sergei Ten – and he is an ethnic Korean rather than a Russian. Seeing they have no chance to move up, Russians continue to leave, but so too do many more educated Tuvans.
The schools, even where instruction is in Russian, are increasingly dominated by Tuvans, something that dictates what gets taught and who advances. And as a result of all this, the Omsk reporters continued, "Russians in Tuva now, beyond any doubt, feel themselves to be a [despised] national minority."
And such economic, political and cultural pressure on Russians is now so great, they said, that Russians in Tuva would complain about what is going on only after they were assured anonymity, lest they or members of their community face retribution from the Tuvans who now dominate the scene.
This change disturbs some Tuvans. Irina Madr-ool, a pediatrician who is the daughter of a Russian nobleman and a Tuvan diplomat, said "Earlier in Soviet times, I looked around and all the chiefs were Russian. And I was ashamed. Now I look around and all the chiefs are Tuvans. And I am again ashamed."
Hostility between the two groups is not going to go away soon, the journalists concluded, with each side saying that the other consisted of entirely "normal" people except when they drink – and then each described the other as becoming beast-like. That raises the question, the Omsk writers said, of whether the best way to fight nationalism might be to fight alcoholism.
And in Bashkortostan, the dominance of the Bashkirs is tangible, even though they rank third in size behind the ethnic Russians and the Tatars. The government insists on that both through its appointments and via pressure on voters, according to Il'dar Gabdrafikov, an ethnographer at the Ufa Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Pressure against Russians in the educational system is so great that ethnic Russians have to offer a bribe of 90,000 rubles (375 U.S. dollars) for admission to a university, while Bashkirs need give only half as much. And the Omsk journal said this is "completely public" knowledge in the republic.
Businessmen are also pressed to have only Bashkirs in public positions, even if they are not competent and their Russian deputies have to do all the work. That offends many Russians who say that education and competence, not nationality, should define things. But at the same time, one of the Russians told the Omsk reporters that "thank God, I have a Russian boss."
While "no one has yet changed his family name in order to ensure a more comfortable life," the paper reported, many have begun talking about that possibility," given that everything Russian – names, cultural heroes, holidays, ways of life – is despised, while everything Bashkir is celebrated.
As a result, many Russians and even other non-Bashkirs now say, "there is Russia and there is Bashkortostan. These are not one and the same thing. Bashkortostan [for non-Bashkirs] is simply a temporary place of residence." Their real homes are elsewhere. And "between [the two] there is an invisible but impassable border."
Monday, April 28, 2008
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In 2017, BC Wood organized the Canadian pavilion on behalf of the Canadian wood industry at the Housing Brand Fair in Seoul. B.C. companies were able to generate $7 million in sales during the event.
In response to South Korea's evolving energy and sustainability standards, Canada Wood Korea re-positioned its advanced builder training courses in 2015 to align with the policy changes.
In 2016/17, Canada Wood Korea provided technical support for a unique six-storey demonstration project that uses Canadian SPF lumber and OSB.
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When stricter standards for pressure treated wood products were implemented in 2012, it forced many treaters to switch from Canadian species to those from the US, Europe and New Zealand. Fortunately, an ongoing field stake test has yielded positive results for two of the most common Canadian wood species, white spruce and hemlock.
On August 3, 2015, the Korea Wood Construction Association (KWCA) marked the 100th application for 5 Star accreditation, a voluntary wood construction quality certification program established in 2009 with support from Canada Wood.
Thirty-eight builders, designers, engineers, material manufactures, distributors and students participated the 2015 Advanced Technology Construction Training program delivered by Canada Wood Korea and COFI from February 4-13, 2015.
Wood Pellet Association of Canada staff, with support from B.C. and Canadian federal government officials, were able to negotiate a resolution with senior South Korean government representatives.
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Sometimes seeing is believing. In Korea, the Canada Wood Group team works closely with architecture associations to put on displays and exhibitions that show how innovative architecture can be when using wood frame construction systems.
After several years of Canada Wood Group programs to promote multi-family wood frame construction systems, Korean developers are starting to incorporate them into their projects.
Canada Wood Group, funded by FII, Natural Resources Canada and industry, is providing technical assistance and on-site quality assurance to the largest public sector driven wood-frame residential construction project in Korea.
A success arising out of Canada Wood Group's program to encourage wood frame construction in Korea has been the "Peanut" house concept. Introduced in 2011/12, the "peanut house" is essentially a duplex (two family units on one lot) that evokes connotations of a peanut (two nuts in one shell).


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Orkney secured the top spot for the third consecutive year by scoring highly in categories including health, employment, low crime rates and good weather. It also boasted a low population density.
Top 10 Scottish areas
- Orkney Islands
- Shetland Islands
- Western Isles
- Aberdeenshire
- East Renfrewshire
- Scottish Borders
- East Dunbartonshire
- Moray
- Perth and Kinross
- Aberdeen
The survey reported that Orkney had the highest employment rate in Scotland, with 86.3% of adult residents being in work, ahead of Aberdeenshire (81.7%) and Shetland (80.9%).
These were above the Scotland average of 73.8% and the UK average of 72.9%.
So why not apply for our Rural Track Program with rotations based in each of the top three in the survey? We have rotations based in Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles, with hospital aspects of the rotations based in our rural general hospitals and the general practice aspect being based in the local training practices. Our rural general hospitals get extremely positive feedback from our trainees with lots of hands on experience that is very appropriate for GP training all closely supported by the local consultants.
If the rural track is not for you then take a look at our Grampian Program with Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire both figuring in the top 10 of the survey.


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And then what, exactly? I don't even know. I wrote that paragraph as if it were leading to a turning point (a volta, in sonnet speak), but the fact is that I can't remember how I first developed my lust for NYX Liquid Suede in Amethyst. A chance hashtag search on Instagram, probably. The "turbid ebb and flow" (apologies to Matthew Arnold) of online consumerism. I just know that at some point during the academic conference I attended last week, my curiosity about the intense blue-purple of Amethyst sharpened into desire. (Not every conference paper can hold the attention of every listener, I'm afraid.) What most attracted me, I think, was the challenge: could I work it into a wearable look? Could I muster the confidence to wear it outside the house? Armed with a $2 CVS coupon, I bought Amethyst last week and dared it to do its worst. CVS was having a buy one, get one 50% off sale on NYX, but I valiantly resisted leaving the store with more than one item.
I was gratified to find that Amethyst came sealed with a plastic sleeve, which was, alas, as difficult for me to remove as every other lipstick sleeve:
And, you guys? I LOVE IT.
Damn it, this is why I can't quit NYX. Every time I tell myself that I've developed real adult standards and will no longer settle for trendy mediocrity, they lure me back in with something like Amethyst. LOOK AT IT.
The Liquid Suede formula is unscented (save for a very slight chemical smell that vanishes quickly). In terms of application, Amethyst's formula isn't perfect, but it's a lot better than I was expecting; it just takes a bit of work. For whatever reason, it's almost impossible to find a dark purple lipstick in an opaque formula. One coat of Amethyst looks very streaky, and even two will give you this if you're not careful (in Amethyst's defense, this was an unusually hasty application):
The method I've figured out after a few uses is finicky and not for the impatient, but it does work. First I use my finger to stain both lips with a thin coat of Amethyst. After that, I apply a thicker coat with the doefoot, wait about a minute for it to dry, then fill in any lighter patches if I need to (which I often don't). This process gives me a much better result:
As for the finish, my sense is that some Liquid Suedes are more matte than others. Someone I follow on Instagram has Sway, the aforementioned bright lavender, and reports that it transfers all over the place and never seems to dry down. With Amethyst, I get an all-but-matte finish and no transfer whatsoever. It feels a bit tacky if I press my lips together, but it's on until I eat a full meal (and I like to remove my lipstick before meals anyway). It doesn't come off on my coffee cup, or on my partner if I kiss him on the cheek. And it's not drying! It feels comfortable and moves naturally with the lips, instead of sitting on top like a coat of tempera paint, as matte liquid lipsticks often do. Well done, NYX—now I'm regretting not taking advantage of that BOGO deal.
Amethyst is a very blue-toned purple that looks straight-up cobalt in particularly cool light. (It makes my teeth look so white!) I don't have anything like it, and the closest color dupe I've seen (is it a "dupe" if it's significantly more expensive?) is MAC Matte Royal. Here's Amethyst with some of my other purples, L-R: Bite custom lipstick (close to MAC Heroine), Amethyst, & Other Stories Droguet Purple, Maybelline Brazen Berry.
Full disclosure: I still haven't worn Amethyst out and about (except to do the laundry in the building next door, which hardly counts). But I think it suits my coloring quite well:
I mean, yeah, it's a Look, but it's a Look that I think I can pull off. I'm having a hard time coming up with a cultural reference point for this lipstick, which is bothering me more than it should. The color certainly looks very sci-fi or Effie-Trinket-esque; let's live with that for now until we find something better. My other color makeup here is NYX Jumbo Pencil in Iced Mocha and theBalm Sleek on my eyes, and Illamasqua Zygomatic blush and ColourPop Lunch Money highlighter on my cheeks.
Update, 4/10: Purple face: theBalm lavender-taupe eyeshadow with ColourPop Eye Candy in the inner corners, and a few layers of ColourPop Rain blush. Not as adventurous as it could be, but I can't bring myself to do a bold eye with this lipstick. I just can't.
Amethyst certainly isn't a lipstick I'm going to wear every week, but I don't think there's anything wrong with having a few just-for-fun lipsticks in weird colors for those days when I'm feeling especially futuristic. $5.50 well spent, I think. Life is short; paint your mouth indigo. That said, I've decided to go on a lip-color no-buy for at least a month. Oh, and did you notice that I didn't use the word "blurple" in this post until just now? That was on purpose.


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A word of warning. If you are new to Google Adwords then spend some time getting familiar with the system and ensure that the keyword that you bid for are specific enough to bring you valuable traffic to your website. If you just want any traffic then this is not an issue but for those looking for targeted marketing then the free Google Adwords credit can be better put to use making sure you get visitors who are actually looking for your specific website content. After all with PPC you are being charged every time someone clicks on the link so you should make it count.
How to get Free Google Adwords Credit
- Go to the Google Adwords Advertising Credit Offer page.
- Enter your email address in the text entry box on the right-hand side of the page.
- Click the "Get My Code" button
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- Click the "Submit" button and your account will be credited with $75 free extra Google AdWords credit after you credit $25 to your account.*
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Dr. Ketmani Kouanchao recently posted on "Halloween and Lao Learning" at the Twin Cities Daily Planet and she briefly touched on the issue of what Lao Americans wear for costumes during this season. Very rarely have we seen traditional monsters or heroes and heroines presented. But what are some ideas we could consider?
Of course, there's everyone's favorite, the Monkey Warrior King Hanoumane, drawn from the classic Lao drama Phra Lak Phra Lam, a variation of the Ramayana. You could certainly go with a traditional (and complicated) interpretation but consider an update instead. Using what's available at your local costume shop's selection for gorillas, chimpanzees, or discounted Planet of the Apes merchandise, there are certainly some interesting options.
Other classic figures you could try include a green-skinned Nyak. Just grab some tusks and remember that that they're shape-shifters, so you could combine it with anything else you really want to be. Of course, I'd root for a steampunk Nyak just to see what it looks like, but overall, you have many options and it's relatively easy to do with available materials in a mainstream costume shop.
Instead of a winged fairy, you could also go with a Kinnaly. The half-women, half-birds are classic figures of Lao folklore, and most would agree that it's a question of getting the wings right. You would also debate whether you want to go all of the way and make the bird legs for yourself. The downside is that if you include the tail, it will be very hard to sit down and you may wind up whacking many people with it before the night is done. Zombie Kinnaly would certainly get a few interesting responses.
Lao legends are also filled with stories of the man-tigers, or weretigers, especially in the highlands. This is always a classic and very easy to do. There are many ways to do this effectively. Of course, there are also ways to do it badly, too:
For some reason, research doesn't turn up many results for a phi pob or phi krasue costume, but if you wanted to go for something really scary, I'd certainly put those on the table. But what are some your favorite ideas for Lao-inspired Halloween costumes?


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And just how did that happen so quickly? It is mid-October . . . our school year is well underway and Daniel's 5th birthday is just around the corner. We spent Saturdy morning working together cleaning up our backyard (raking leaves, gathering the last of our tomatoes, cleaning summer's debris out of our yard before winter comes). The boys are enjoying soccer at the local rec center and Emily is back in gymnastics for the fall (along with one of her best friends!) Kevin made it home from Brazil with many stories to tell. We are VERY glad to have him home!
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Or roast pork and pasta, or roast chicken and pasta, or any old cold meat that is available, in fact. This is a good way of using up left-overs – if you actually have such a thing – and is besides a quick and easy meal.
2 cups macaroni.
A little olive oil.
1 medium onion, peeled and chopped.
2 cups diced cold roast beef [or whatever].
2 tblsp tomato paste.
½ cup marsala [or madeira or sherry].
1 ½ cups cheese sauce.
Preheat the oven to 180°C. Bring a pot of salted water to the boil and place the macaroni in it. Cook to your taste according to the recommendations on the packet. Meanwhile, heat a little olive oil in a sauté pan over a hot flame. Sauté the onion until soft and add the diced meat. Stir together, then add the tomato paste and the marsala. Bring to the boil and simmer, stirring frequently, until the liquor has reduced by half. Pour the mixture into a small baking dish, smoothing with a spatula to ensure that it is evenly spread.
Prepare the cheese sauce [if you do not know how, see under 'sauces' below]. Drain the pasta and stir into the cheese sauce, mixing thoroughly. Spoon over the meat mixture, again smoothing to ensure that it is evenly spread, and place in the oven. Bake for 30 minutes and serve with a green salad.
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Taking The Loneliness Out of Distance Learning
Online and distance learning can be an isolating experience. Without frequent face-to-face interaction with other students, online learners often feel that they are alone and have nowhere to turn if they run into difficulties with their studies. Although tutors will often be available for help and support, the absence of in-person communication and interaction can make online learning feel overwhelming lonely. How can you make online learning a less isolating experience?
Seek out other students
On some distance learning courses, you may have the opportunity to exchange contact details with students who studying the same course as you. While geographical location may prevent you from meeting your fellow students on a face-to-face basis, having the opportunity to email other students or speak to them on the telephone can be a great opportunity to discuss problematic aspects of the course material. If nothing else, having a chance to communicate with your fellow students can help to counteract the loneliness that often plagues online learners.
If this opportunity is not present for your course, there are still ways to seek out other online learners. For example, you can search the Internet for forums that are related to online and distance learning. It is highly unlikely that the students who are participating in these types of online discussions will be studying the same course as you or even the same subject matter, but many online and distance learners find it beneficial to get involved in forums and online message boards as a way of interacting with people who are experiencing a similar situation to themselves.
Leave the house often
Many online learners increase their isolation by confining themselves to the house until assignments have been submitted or examinations have been revised for. This may seem like the best course of action to increase your chances of success, but it also makes it more likely that you will feel overwhelmed and can lead to 'burning out' as a result. To avoid this possibility, you need to strike a balance between studying and making time for yourself. Spending time with friends and family is a good way to counteract the loneliness of online learning as it provides a chance to inject some socializing into your life.
If there are any opportunities to meet up with fellow students, take advantage of these as they are an ideal way to temporarily kill the isolation of online and distance learning. This may involve the occasional face-to-face tutorial and residential school, or it may be the result of students making their own arrangements to get together. Either way, arranging to meet fellow students can also be a chance to get to grips with course material through in-person discussions. This can offer a different perspective on the course material, which can then help with your studies. If nothing else, many online learners feel that they would benefit from spending time with like-minded individuals who understand what they are going through.
Look into part-time work
Online and distance learning courses tend to be flexible in structure to reflect the fact that many students have work and family commitments outside of the course. Because of this, taking an online course makes it easier to fit part-time employment around your studies. As well as giving you the opportunity to earn some extra money while you are a student, taking a part-time job gets you out of the house and breaks the isolation of online learning. If you choose a job that will require you to interact with other people (for example, if you seek part-time employment in a shop or other environment in which you would have to serve the general public), you have the chance to break up the monotony of distance learning.


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I had been patiently waiting to see Takers for a while, having seen an early preview a couple of months ago, and was disappointed, noticing the release date as August 28th. I finally got to see it this past weekend. To my utter dismay, it was far from what I expected.
At about 15 minutes in, I had to tell myself not to panic, that it would get better, and that it just started. I waited for it to get better. When the credits rolled at the end, I realized, it was over, and that the moment I had waited for never came. You would think with Michael Ealy, Idris Elba, Hayden Christensen, Paul Walker, Jay Hernandez, Matt Dillon, Chris Brown and T.I. (okay maybe not Chris Brown and T.I. in terms of acting, but you never know, it could happen) that we had a movie. Not so. Not so at all.
I read somewhere that if you liked Ocean's 11, you'll love Takers. Did that person see Takers? I can only imagine that this person only saw the trailer and was as misguided as I was, because if they saw the movie there is no way such a comparison could have been made. And I can't just blame the writers for lack of a compelling story, because the acting was bad too. It was almost as if this was an hour and forty-seven minute amateur film and that these actors had just graduated from the academy. Idris Elba, for example, who naturally has a British accent, kept switching back and forth between his British accent and the American accent that he typically uses when playing in films. Did Idris Elba forget what role he was playing? Did the director not notice this? Or did he just figure no one else would notice? Because I did, and I'm sure I was not the only one.
I spent most of the time asking myself three questions: How long have I been here? What do I have to do later? And, when is this over? There's always one sure-fire way to tell if you're enjoying yourself or not. If you ever have to ask yourself what time it is, you're not, especially in a movie. In a movie you're supposed to get lost in the story and you're supposed to be on their time, following the characters every move, going where they go and forgetting that you're seated in a theater amongst 600 others. When you watch a good movie and you feel like it might be ending soon, you might find yourself getting sad because you're soon going to have to say goodbye to these people that you have come to know and go back to your own reality. It is very hard to do if your mind won't let you rest because it is so concerned with the time. And when you become unsure of whether you are watching a comedy because everyone seated around you is laughing, at what I'm sure was not supposed to be funny, or T.I.'s incredibly annoying voice which will make you want to claw your eyeballs out. At that point, you'll wish this was a joke and that you could get your money back.


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It is so easy to spot a newbie on the trail – brand new clothes, backpack, shining shoes and, most importantly, an utter lack of knowledge about the importance of socks.
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Stacy Lewis's 65 was the low round of the day on Thursday at the Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia, but she stalled Friday and a million players (it seemed) blew by her, led by Ayako Uehara's 63 and 64s by Lydia Ko and Jodi Ewart Shadoff. But your leader at the halfway point is So Yeon Ryu, who went 66-65 to become the 1st player to get to double digits under par in the field. Ryu has been so dialed in, each of her 4 bogeys came as quite a shock. Let's see if she can handle the lead on the weekend better than Lewis did last week.
I was sick yesterday and catching up today, but I did get to see most of the tv coverage and really enjoyed seeing so many good rounds. But it would have been nice to see more of Azahara Munoz's 65 or find out that Sandra Gal matched it and Paula Creamer was only 1 shot worse, tied with Chella Choi. I'm excited to see a lot of Uehara today and will be rooting for Danielle Kang and Na Yeon Choi to get it going and Jenny Shin and Shanshan Feng to move into serious contention.


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A Thanksgiving Tale
It's a collection of essays by famous chefs about occasions when things went terribly wrong in their kitchens and restaurants. Many of the stories end happily with the chef pulling off a victory of which they're justifiably proud.
I'm reading it because there's a story idea about a food critic percolating in the back of my brain that I need to feed, but as I'm reading, I realize that I have my own near-disaster culinary story that I thought I'd share with you. And Thanksgiving being just past, it's the right time of year.
When I was 19, I wanted to get out into that wide world, but I wasn't brave enough back then to just pack up and go someplace new without a job waiting for me so, much to my mother's dismay, I joined the Army. (In retrospect, this was the best decision of my life.) To my dismay at the time, as soon as I finished training, I got orders sending me to Europe. (I wanted to experience the world but I wasn't sure I was ready to go that far afield.) Again, in retrospect, this was a great adventure and built my confidence beyond anything else I can imagine doing.
I was stationed in the small berg of Baumholder, Germany. I say "small" because if it weren't for the military base, that's what it would have been--a little German town--but it was also one of the largest U.S. troop concentrations in Europe. I have no doubt that Americans troops and their dependents easily outnumbered the German residents. Just as the single men outnumbered the single women there by an insane ratio. I arrived there in May. By October, my boyfriend and I had moved out of the barracks and into an apartment onto "the economy." (Also, on our dimes.) With Thanksgiving coming up, we decided to invite several of the single guys from his artillery unit who had no place special to go for dinner.
Now I have to tell you that as far as my culinary skills went, every meal was a first for me. The first meal I made for my boyfriend and me was chili, and I made enough to feed the entire 8th Army. We ate chili for a couple week, and bless his heart, he never complained. He also never figured out what a guinea pig he was.
As you've guessed by now, I had never cooked a turkey in my life, but it looked easy. Unfortunately, I waited too long to buy it. With no turkeys left on base, I had to buy our sacrificial bird in a German store. The weight was in kilos. (I don't remember how many kilos, but the bird was HUGE.) My cookbook was in pounds. My oven was centigrade. My cookbook was in Fahrenheit. Everything was a guessing game.
Thanksgiving morning, I got up at 6 am, stuffed the bird, put it in the oven, and went back to bed. A couple of hours later I got up to check on it only to discover I'd forgotten to turn on the oven.
Oy vey!
It's true. God takes care of children and fools. Never since have I made a more perfect turkey. The skin was beautifully browned and crisp. It was still huge, however, and when the six of us were kicking back and surreptitiously unbuttoning our jeans, you could turn the cut side of the bird away and it looked like it hadn't been touched.
And yes, my boyfriend and I were eating Thanksgiving leftovers for weeks.
And God bless him, he didn't complain about that either.
Hope everyone had a fantastic Turkey Day, and I'd love to hear about any culinary disasters (or near-disasters) you've had.
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- AnonymousNovember 27, 2012 at 7:29 PM
I was going to make a treat for the family and make homemade cinnamon rolls. I rolled out the dough and put the cinnamon, sugar and butter on the dough and rolled it up. They looked beautiful. I waited for them to raise, and waited, and waited. Finally I went ahead and backed them. They were like pretty little rocks. I finally figured out I had the warm milk too hot for the yeast and basically killed the yeast. My kids still give me a hard time about them. EllaReplyDelete
Yeast is touchy like that. My biggest problem is that my mind sometimes wanders. I made a pineapple pie once and forgot to put the pineapple in.ReplyDelete
I broke out laughing with the confusion of kilograms and pounds.ReplyDelete
Weeks of turkey leftovers... oh boy!
It was an adventure. Young and stupid are sometimes synonymous.ReplyDelete


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Confronting Colorism in America's Diverse Families
By Lori L. Tharps
203 pp. Beacon Press. $25.95.
In Danzy Senna's 1998 novel "Caucasia," two sisters — Cole and Birdie — share a bond so intimate that they create a language only they can understand. Engulfed in the racial chaos of Boston in the mid-70s, the sisters nestle themselves away in the cozy world they have created in their attic bedroom. Their lives are forever changed when their mother, a liberal white New Englander, and their father, a black man with radical political leanings, decide to divorce. The sisters are divided: Birdie lives with her mother and essentially passes for white, while Cole, who looks black, moves in with her father and his black girlfriend. In a city as racially divided and explosive as Boston in the 1970s, this separation by skin color strikes the reader as a chillingly rational decision.
Forty years later, America is no longer the bipolar racial regime of black and white that set Birdie and Cole on such different paths. Not only have personal attitudes changed, but the Hart-Celler Act of 1965 — which upended American immigration policy by abolishing the quota system based on national origins — has also transformed the country's demographic character. The landmark Loving v. Virginia case of 1967 prohibited legal restrictions on interracial marriages. Federal racial classifications now recognize mixed-race identities. But neither Cole nor Birdie would have been widely understood as mixed-race in the 1970s. As Danzy Senna, who is mixed-race, has written of her own experiences during that tumultuous decade: "Mixed wasn't an option. . . . No halvsies. No in between."
Lori L. Tharps's new book, "Same Family, Different Colors: Confronting Colorism in America's Diverse Families," is an urgent and honest unveiling of how generations of American families have lived with these changes. Tharps focuses on "colorism," which she notes is not an official word, but has been defined by Alice Walker as "prejudicial or preferential treatment of same-race people based solely on their color." Most of the book discusses the preferential treatment that has been reserved for light-skinned African-Americans, but Tharps, a journalist, also includes chapters on Latino and Asian-American families. She makes the claim that treating lighter-skinned people more favorably is a worldwide problem, not just one that was developed in the United States. To solve it, everyone must recognize his or her part in perpetuating it. As Tharps writes, "For every African-American girl hiding from the sun under her mother's strict orders, there is a Korean-American girl playing in the shadows as well."
With great sensitivity and unapologetic boldness, Tharps skillfully weaves the rich historical context of the United States, the Americas and Asia with wrenching contemporary first-person accounts to investigate how color operates in the most intimate spaces of American families. Relying on numerous interviews of parents and children with a wide range of skin colors, Tharps proves the quotation by the social scientist Frank Sulloway to be painfully true: "No social injustice is felt more deeply than that suffered within one's own family."
"Same Family, Different Colors" begins with Tharps's story of marrying a man from the south of Spain whom she met during her junior year of college, while she was studying near Madrid. Tharps describes her husband as having a "milky-white complexion" and describes herself as having medium-brown skin that easily darkens in the sun. Their three children represent a broad range in skin color, from, borrowing Tharps's descriptions, "the color of cinnamon" to "beige" to "warm almond," yet two could pass for white. While Tharps and her husband were not concerned with these differences, they found that people all around them were noticing that there was something unusual about their family — the neighborhood dry cleaner, a 5-year-old playing an innocent game of "I Spy" ("I spy something white!" the girl exclaimed, pointing to Tharps's daughter), the Brooklynites who assumed that Tharps was her son's nanny. Tharps soon faced the reality that our identities are rarely our own. She was constantly seeing herself, her husband and her children through the eyes of others.
Mixed-race families like Tharps's often find themselves open to public scrutiny. The lack of phenotypical uniformity that many people expect to be clearly visible led to stares, whispers and uncomfortable questions, including one about whether her son was adopted. Onlookers seemed to question the coherence of her family and to wonder whether they were a family at all. As Tharps writes: "Most of the time I try to ignore other people's issues with my children's skin color, but sometimes it really bothers me. And sometimes it just hurts."
It may come as a surprise that often those who can be the most unkind are one's own family members. Tharps delicately but honestly presents the recollections of many people who were insulted — indeed, wounded — by family members mocking their darker skin. She also tells the stories of light-skinned individuals who felt isolated from their own families and communities because their skin color made them feel as though they did not fit in. Some parents prized their lightest child's beauty, while others paid more attention to their darker children, worried about the emotional consequences of societal beauty norms that would ignore or denigrate them. Some parents did not talk about color at all. The range of experiences that Tharps presents is wide and rich. In all but a few cases, skin color exerted considerable pressure on those of nonwhite backgrounds and played a profound role in shaping self-understanding and sense of personal value.
Tharps reminds us that this problem is found not only in the United States: Latin America, East and South Asia, the Caribbean and Africa all grapple with colorism. It is an interracial and an intraracial problem.
Studies have shown that white Americans often demonstrate preferential treatment of lighter-skinned blacks that leads to disparities in employment and hiring practices and in socioeconomic mobility. In Latin American countries, popular telenovelas focus on white-skinned Latinos and Latinas, correlating lighter skin with higher social class and casting darker-skinned actors to portray the roles of lower-class characters, including maids, gardeners and even criminals. In East and South Asian countries, the legacy of colonialism has led to the reverence of white skin and European features. The Bollywood movie industry in India prizes lighter-skinned actresses, sometimes even importing white actors to play Indian people.
These ideas, planted in one's home country, become even more insidious in the United States. Observing that African-Americans were situated and largely stuck on the lowest rungs of the social, economic and political ladders, immigrants learned upon arriving in the United States that to succeed, one had to distance oneself as far as possible from blacks — despite the common oppression and common economic disadvantages that nonwhite groups shared.
Progress on this front, given the long histories and the worldwide phenomenon of colorism, seems to occur only at a glacial pace. But we are already seeing the diversification of the black-white American racial binary, as well as cracks in the edifice of the "one-drop rule." Tharps ends on a hopeful note: Beliefs that parents with mixed-race children do not "match" are giving way to new ideas about the irrelevance of skin color to the composition of a loving family. We are on the front lines of a new racial order that has been a long time coming.
People of all races and backgrounds deal with race each and every day in a multiplicity of ways. This thoughtful, honest, historically textured and valuable book offers a detailed and current syllabus of work on the social and cultural meanings of colorism around the world and brings colorism "out of the closet," as Tharps writes. Most important, "Same Family, Different Colors" makes clear that we are all implicated in how just and inclusive that new order will be.


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scene 1
the girl says you have been in coma for five years and now you don't remember anything. The girl comes with something. She says till the day you were in coma i had to manage this all. She hands over tara the keys. She says now its all yours i was just the care taker. Tara throws away the keys and says i'm not sia. I'm tara shikhawat. The servant tries to stop her she says don't even dare to stop me. I'm tara i'm not sacred of anyone. I know you're all with kala. Listen you can't keep me here. I'll get you all out of my way. Tara is about to go the servant stops her and says madam.. Tara stares at her and goes upstairs. She feels little headache. She sees her picture on the wall with someone else. She is dazed and says how is this possible.
tara looks at her pic with some guy, its exactly same girl like tara, she is shocked to see herself with someone else, she says I cant be with someone else, its a lie, she takes out the painting and throws it on ground. There is some man at a temple. Exactly the same as in the picture.
The man comes out of the temple. The guru ji there says him all your problems will be solved. Sia will be fine. She will be okay. You help other God will help you. On stairs a poor man comes to him and says I have heard about you a lot. I am in trouble please help me. My wife will be bind if she doesn't get operated. His PA says you can come to Omkar hospital. His hospital is open for all the people be it poor or rich.
When Omakr is about to sit in the car and makes him wear a garland. His PA throws the man away and takes the garland off his neck. He is about to throw it. Omakr stops him and takes the garland. He asks the man to sit with him. On the way the poor man says you are such a nice man you let me sit with you. Omakr makes him wear the garland and suffocates him. He says stay in your limits next time. The car stops
and he throws the poor man out. He calls hia PA and says there should be no news about it. He says okay I get it.
He gets a call and is shocked to listen something.
tara says I will cut you if you come near me, she says bhabhi what are you doing, tara says I know you are with kala and want to scare me but I have to go to my pari, I don't know where is she, she says bhabhi please, tara says don't call me bhabhi, I am tara shikhawat, I want to go to my mj. Tara recalls when kala broke in the house and took the child and shot everyone. She say how would they all be?
some guy is shown running behind some other guy, face is revealed and it mj running behind man.
servant tries to take tara to room but tara escapes and says I want to go to mj, she runs from there, glass pieces pins in her feet but she runs calling out for mj. mj grabs then man and the person running from mj was fahim chacha, mj shows him knife, fahim says why you want to kill me, don't you remember tara. fahim says why are you looking at me, what happened to you, fahim runs, mj runs behind.
tara is going, she opens the gate and is about to fall but some guy holds her before she falls, tara falls unconscious, guy takes her in arms and goes in house.
fahim is running from mj, he hides and see mj, mj is searching fro him, fahim tries to leave but mj sees him and throws rod at him which hits fahim's leg, he falls on ground, mj comes to fahim and takes out knife, mj says like there is nerve in neck of a man, if I cut it man will go upward. mj says tell should I cut you, fahim says what happened to you, cant you recall tara.
in house, doctor checks tara and says she will be fine but be careful about her, girl says what about violet attacks of her, doctor says I will give her injection, tara says no I don't need your any injection, girl and servant grabs tara while the new guy looks on, doctor gives him injection, tara falls unconscious.
fahim says to mj that how cant you remember me, your fahim chacha, don't you remember adi, meethi, jairaj and most importantly tara, mj looks on and is in thoughts, he drops the knife listening tara's name, fahim runs from there.
PRECAP- some dancer is dancing between men(doing mujra), she dances on anarkali disco chali and has veil on her face,
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Collabora Online Development Edition 4.2
Last update CODE 4.2.5: July 2, 2020
Get your own online Office Suite up and running at home with CODE!
Getting set up the Collabora Online Development Edition
The easiest way to install CODE for a quick tryout is to download it as a virtual appliance from the Univention App Center.This appliance contains the Collabora Online Development Edition, and the additional software you need to get you up and running in minutes. You can choose between two types of integration, CODE + Nextcloud or CODE + ownCloud. Each appliance is available in four formats: KVM, VirtualBox, VMware Workstation and VMware ESXi.
The collabora/code Docker image can be installed to any x86-64 host (e.g. on Linux and Windows 10), and it is fully configurable. For more information about setup and configuration for deployment, please read the CODE Docker page. If you want to try it out quickly, you can set up CODE docker image with file sharing integration in less than 5 minutes in a very basic way, following these instructions: quick tryout with ownCloud or quick tryout with Nextcloud.
Setting up a reverse proxy and SSL
It is highly recommended to set up a reverse proxy in front of CODE, either you run CODE from Docker, or you use native packages. It is easy, and this way CODE can be reached on standard HTTP or HTTPS ports. We provide sample configuration files for Apache2 and Nginx. If you want SSL, we recommend certificates from Let's Encrypt.
https://collabora.example.com as the WOPI URL in your preferred File Sync and Share solution. See below for specific examples.
- Nextcloud Setup Instructions (Apache & Nginx)
- ownCloud
What next ?
That's it – once you've integrated CODE with your preferred File Sync and Share (FSS), or started up your VM you should be setup to share and collaborate on your own documents, with friends, from the comfort of your own home.
So now you're all happy and secure, why not participate in the project?
Participate in the project
Checking out the source code to build it yourself is easy; http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/online has the latest commits, and build instructions. After compiling 'online' just do a $make run and follow the link to tweak things live. The API is visible here: https://www.collaboraoffice.com/collabora-online-editor-api-reference/ and LibreOffice Online API.To send patches, and collaborate with other developers working on the code please do join in at #libreoffice-dev on irc.freenode.org, or join the Mailing List. If you want to help update the documentation please do help out in the Wiki, to file bugs please head to Bugzilla and as you file a bug – please do take the time to confirm at least one other un-confirmed bug if there are any. Help fixing bugs, and patches that arrive via gerrit are most easy for us to merge.
What is CODE, LibreOffice Online, Collabora Online & snapshot?
- CODE is perfect for home users that want to start to run their own online Office Suite, but will warn you when it starts to look like it is being used in an enterprise – ie. more than twenty documents or ten users.
- CODE builds on the other hand, are released on average once a month and announced on this website. For certain periods in development, we might also release daily snapshots.
- If you are looking for a scalable, commercially supported version with Long Term Support, signed security updates and a SLA, your best bet is to check out our Collabora Online page.
For more details on enterprise support from various partner solutions please see: Nextcloud, ownCloud, Kolab, VNC Lagoon, Arawa, FileCloud, AG-I Solutions, SecuredStore, Alinto, Studio Storti, Rono IT, equipe, New Access, United Hoster, Urberri, Webo.hosting, Artistanbul, PC HELP, Retention Range, Workman.net.au, DAASI International GmbHCheck out the page Understanding the differences between LibreOffice Online, CODE and Collabora Online for more details about the differences or download the white paper "8 Million Reasons to Choose Collabora Online"
Download the White Paper
"8 Million Reasons to Choose Collabora Online"
Partners and clients get access to the partner portal. How does it look like and what do you get?
With links to tickets, preferences,…
See what Collabora is doing and at what upcoming events we'll be present.
Add and manage your customers. You can add customer companies, and users for those customer companies. You can also report issues on
behalf of your customers, if you sell L3 support packages to them.
Visible to Collabora Online partners and customers. All relevant documents that you need to set up Collabora Online. Partner can find extra documents here, to help them market and sell Collabora Online.
Visible to Collabora Office resellers and customers. All relevant Collabora Office documents and the complete list of downloads.
Become a partner and add Collabora Online to your product portfolio
Contact sales if you want to use Collabora Online in your business or organization
Where can I find out more about the technical architecture?
Clearly the code provides the canonical version of everything. However – here is some basic overview. The code splits into four pieces:
This is the API that allows the re-use of the bulk of the existing LibreOffice code. It exposes a simple abstract API to allow loading, saving, and rendering documents to image tiles, and also exposes an event based editing core. This piece lives in the main core.git module of LibreOffice.
Web Services daemon
This manages incoming session traffic, services cached document tiles, and spawns LibreOfficeKit client instances, setting up heavily locked down chroot jails for them. The code for this piece lives in loolwsd/ inside online.git.
JavaScript / NodeJS
This code is built on leaflet and provides the front-end, toolbars, and rendering of the document contents as it runs in the web client, it lives in the loleaflet directory in online.git.
FSS integration
Clearly on its own CODE is not terribly useful – so make sure you integrate it with your preferred FSS cf. above. The FSS implements a protocol such as WOPI to serve your document data, and integrate with its existing authentication mechanism.
So is this a new Office Suite written in Javascript?
Why didn't you fix my bug yet for free?
Please feel free to join our efforts in making this the best Online Office Suite. We're working hard to make CODE better, but more help is always welcome. Learn more in "Participate in the project".
Is this all Free Software / Open Source?
Yes, of course. That was easy wasn't it: Open First.
Where is the roadmap?
The development edition, aimed at home users, contains the latest and greatest developments and things are moving fast, but there is no published roadmap. If you want features delivered to your schedule then you're looking for the commercial edition of Collabora Online.
Can I re-use your screenshots & content for my blog / article?
Yes naturally, please use this page's content under some CC0 license / Public Domain as long as you respect our trademark, we love to get the message out.
Who did the work?
CODE is built on top of a huge volume of work from both LibreOffice (credits), however the Online functionality was created primarily by Collabora (as announced in 2015) – read more about the story of that here. And thanks to Lukas Reschke for help with the docker image.
The first integration for ownCloud (and later for Nextcloud) was built on top of Documents plugin (based on work of Frank Karlitschek and Victor Dubiniuk) that was renamed to RichDocuments. Currently we have many more integrations written by either by Collabora or by Collabora Partners.
What are the latest updates?
The Packages, VM and Docker Image are regularly updated. Keep an eye out on our blog or twitter feed for news of changes.
Latest updates
Releases of version: 4.2
- July 2, 2020 – CODE 4.2.5 released with SharePoint integration.
- June 11, 2020 – CODE 4.2.4 released
- May 14, 2020 – Collabora Online 4.2.3 and CODE 4.2.3-2 released
- April 16, 2020 – CODE 4.2.2-2 released with various improvements and bugfixes
- April 10, 2020 – CODE 4.2.2-1 released with various improvements and bugfixes
- March 30, 2020 – Collabora Online 4.2.1 and CODE 4.2.1 released
- March 5, 2020 – CODE 4.2.0-5 released with bugfixes
- February 7, 2020 – CODE 4.2.0-4 released with bugfixes
- January 11, 2020 – CODE 4.2.0-3 released with bugfixes
- December 16, 2019 – CODE 4.2.0 released
- fresh user interface, clean look, feature rich side bar, and much more
Releases of version 4.0
- November 28, 2019 – Collabora Online 4.0.9 and CODE 4.0.9 released
- October 23, 2019 – Collabora Online 4.0.8 and CODE 4.0.8 released
- September 13, 2019 – Collabora Online 4.0.7 and CODE 4.0.7 released
- August 29, 2019 – Collabora Online 4.0.6 and CODE 4.0.6 released
- July 13, 2019 – Collabora Online 4.0.5 and CODE 4.0.5 released
- May 9, 2019 – Collabora Online 4.0.4 and CODE 4.0.4 released
- March 25, 2019 – Collabora Online 4.0.3 and CODE 4.0.3 released
- March 14, 2019 – Collabora Online 4.0.2 and CODE 4.0.2 released
- February 28, 2019 – Collabora Online 4.0.1 and CODE 4.0.1 released
- February 14, 2019 – Collabora Online 4.0 and CODE 4.0 released
- December 21, 2018 – CODE 4.0 RC2 released
- New capability: hasMobileSupport true/false
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- Vereign toolbar: adapt to new API, and small UI fixes
- Package dependency problem on Debian 9 fixed
- New capability: hasMobileSupport true/false
- December 18, 2018 – CODE 4.0 RC1 released
- October 10, 2018 – Collabora Online and CODE 3.4 released
- July 6, 2018 – Collabora Online and CODE 3.3.1 released
- June 29, 2018 – Collabora Online and CODE 3.3 released
- April 19, 2018 – Collabora Online and CODE 3.2 released
- March 2, 2018 – Collabora Online and CODE 3.1 released
- December 21, 2017 – Collabora Online Development Edition 3.0 released
- November 15, 2017 – Collabora Online 2.1.5 and CODE 2.1.5 released
- October 9, 2017 – Collabora Online 2.1.4 and CODE 2.1.4 released
- August 22, 2017 – Collabora Online 2.1.3 and CODE 2.1.3 released
- June 21, 2017 – Collabora Online 2.1.2 and CODE 2.1.2 released
- May 23, 2017 – Collabora Online 2.1.1 and CODE 2.1.1 released
- May 4, 2017 – Collabora Online 2.1 and CODE 2.1 released
- March 10, 2017 – Minimized UI for readonly documents, reconnect silently, updated translations and stability fixes
- February 10, 2017 – Pivot Table refresh, Fixed cell alignment commands, updated translations and improved performance
- January 25, 2017 – Responsive design, updated translations, UI and stability fixes
- January 5, 2017 – Insert Special Characters, Initial support for IME (allowing to type in, for example, Chinese), API updates and many stability and bug fixes.
- November 11, 2016 – Inclusion of Noto font family, improved Writer format menu, page size and orientation, WOPI updates and bugfixes.
- November 2, 2016 – CODE 2.0 released
- October 27, 2016 – Several improvements and CODE in Pydio.
- October 13, 2016 – UI improvements: see who is viewing the document, new menu items and bugfixes.
- September 15, 2016 – Resizeable rows and columns by mouse in Calc and SSL termination support for reverse proxies.
- July 19, 2016 – New docker image, Collabora Online 5.1, Status bar features.
- July 4, 2016 – 'Help' in the menu, Translations, first revision history sidebar.
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- April 25, 2016 – Admin Control Panel, Spreadsheets improvements and more.
- February 25, 2016 – Spreadsheet improvements, Usability and other improvements.
- January 26, 2016 – Shared Editing, Transitions and animations presentations and other improvements.
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FixFrame is the first all-glass system for a frameless fixed glazing in harmonious coordination with all other installation parts. For an unlimited transition between inside and outside.
With the new window- and sliding door series and the interior door ONE, the Austrian premium manufacturer Josko launched a world novelty in January. Slim, symmetrical, individual – ONE convinces architects and design-lovers. Plus: ONE can be harmoniously combined with existing Josko product series – like the FixFrame all-glass system and flush-mounted MET interior doors.
A particularly beautiful combination of avant-garde ONE elements and the FixFrame all-glass system as well as Platin Classic wood/aluminium windows was realised at a refurbished family villa in Upper Austria. The design-goal was well-defined: the family desired a light and spacious interior design combined with the cosiness of their original home. Large glass elements let the light in and create a transition between inside and outside.


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WASHINGTON (CNN) - There's nothing funny about the Colombia free trade agreement, a hotly contested issue on the 2008 election campaign trail and throughout the halls of Congress. But the White House is now sticking up for the beleaguered pact in the funny pages - and Democrats are counterattacking via cartoon.
"This past Sunday, in the comics section of papers nationwide (including the Post), was an insert called the Mini Page that explained trade at a children's level," Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Sean Spicer said in an e-mail sent to reporters Wednesday, adding that the fourth page of the insert included "an explanation of why the Colombia trade agreement is in the best interest of American workers."
President Bush has been a staunch supporter of trade with Colombia.
"Colombia is one of our strongest allies in the Western Hemisphere. They are led by a very strong and courageous leader, President Uribe. He's taken courageous stands to defend our shared democratic values," he said last month.
Joe Shoemaker, communications director for Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, responded by pointing to another example of policy education through pictures: the "Schoolhouse Rock!" series.
"Thank you for your helpful (if somewhat condescending) explanation of trade 'at a children's level,'" he wrote in an e-mail.
"I wanted to bring to your attention a series known as Schoolhouse Rock! Between 1973 and 1986 a series of fifty-two educational short films featuring songs about schoolhouse topics" – adding that the cartoon short "I'm Just a Bill" had "dealt extensively with the legislative process - at a children's level."
"If you find 'I'm Just a Bill' helpful, you may also want to check out 'Three Ring Government' which explains the three co-equal branches of the federal government and discusses the concept of separation of powers," wrote Shoemaker.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said she would not bring the Columbia free trade legislation up for a vote.
(CNN) - John McCain needs to cool his rhetoric attacking Barack Obama over foreign policy, one of the Arizona senator's good friends in the Senate said.
According to a report on Huffingtonpost.com, Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Republican and long time friend of McCain, said Tuesday he is "very upset" with some of the things the party's presumptive presidential nominee has been saying as he campaigns for the White House.
"We know from past campaigns that presidential candidates will say many things," Hagel reportedly said. "But once they have the responsibility to govern the country and lead the world, that difference between what they said and what responsibilities they have to fulfill are vastly different."
"I'm very upset with John with some of the things he's been saying," Hagel added. "And I can't get into the psychoanalysis of it. But I believe that John is smarter than some of the things he is saying. He is, he understands it more. John is a man who reads a lot, he's been around the world. I want him to get above that and maybe when he gets into the general election, and becomes the general election candidate he will have a higher-level discourse on these things."
Hagel, who is not running for reelection in November, has become an outspoken critic of the War in Iraq and he said in April he is open to the possibility of endorsing Obama's candidacy.
(CNN) - Barack Obama is on the hunt for cash. The likely Democratic presidential nominee is slated to hold three high-dollar fundraising events in Florida later Wednesday and Thursday.
CNN's Jessica Yellin has the details of the fundraisers after the jump.
BOSTON (CNN) - Sen. Edward Kennedy, who was hospitalized Saturday after suffering a seizure at his home in Hyannisport, will be released from the hospital this morning about 10, his doctors said.
NEW YORK (CNN) - Hillary Clinton won a landslide victory in Kentucky Tuesday, but momentum - and a growing sense of inevitability - is now firmly on Barack Obama's side.
He took Oregon last night, but it was his symbolic victory with pledged delegates that was the storyline.
The one-time long shot for the Democratic nomination has a majority of pledged delegates to the Democratic Convention and is now about 70 delegates shy of the finish line.
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (CNN) - Tuesday may end up a big night for Barack Obama, giving him a majority of all possible pledged delegates in the Democratic race for the White House. But exit polling in Kentucky - where CNN is projecting rival Sen. Hillary Clinton will win by a wide margin - suggests that he still has big problems in states with a large majority of older, white and blue-collar voters.
Nearly half of Democratic voters in Kentucky polled Tuesday said they would either vote for Republican Sen. John McCain or not vote at all in November if Obama is the Democratic nominee. Among 1,278 people polled, 33 percent said they would pick McCain over Obama, and 16 percent said they would not vote at all.
By comparison, 76 percent said they would choose Clinton over McCain, with only 17 percent supporting the Republican and 6 percent not voting.
(CNN) - Even in a state Hillary Clinton appears to have won by 35 points, a majority of Kentucky voters say the New York senator attacked Barack Obama unfairly.
According to the exit polls, 54 percent of voters said Clinton launched unfair attacks on Obama, though that didn't seem to deter voters there from supporting Clinton - 55 percent of those who said Clinton attacked unfairly still voted for the New York senator.
Clinton faced a similar statistic in West Virginia last week. There she won by 41 points, but nearly 60 percent of voters said she made unfair attacks against the Illinois senator.
Compiled by Mary Grace Lucas, CNN Washington Bureau
Obama Takes Delegate Majority
Sen. Barack Obama crossed another threshold last night in his march toward the Democratic presidential nomination, splitting a pair of primaries with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and claiming a majority of the pledged delegates at stake in the long nomination battle.
WSJ: Clinton Keeps Up Fight
Heading into twin Democratic primaries Tuesday in Kentucky and Oregon - which the two candidates are expected to split - Sen. Hillary Clinton is vowing to stay in the race to the end, even as her staff and supporters show further signs of fraying. In an interview in Bowling Green, Ky., on Sunday where she was campaigning ahead of Tuesday's vote, Sen. Clinton said, "I'm still here because I think I would be the best president."
Youngest Kennedy Brother Enhanced Legacy, and Built His Own
For millions of Americans, the announcement that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has brain cancer was at least the fourth chapter of a tragic epic that began on Nov. 22, 1963, with the assassination of John F. Kennedy. It continued through the death of his brother Robert in 1968, then of John Jr. in a plane crash in 1999. And yesterday it was the sudden reminder of the mortality of the last surviving son of Joseph P. Kennedy, the patriarch who created this family of strivers and doers.
LA Times: McCain, in Miami, promises to continue isolating Cuba
Sen. John McCain on Tuesday laid out his plans for strengthening democracy and U.S. influence in Latin America, vowing to extend free-trade pacts throughout the region and to continue isolating Cuba until the communist-ruled island frees political prisoners
Compiled by Mary Grace Lucas, CNN Washington Bureau
* Sen. Hillary Clinton campaigns in Florida, holding "Solutions for America" events in Boca Raton, Sunrise, and Coral Gables.
* Sen. John McCain has no public events.
* Sen. Barack Obama is also in Florida today, holding a rally in Tampa at noon and then heads to a town hall meeting in Kissimmee.


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Equity Coaching and Consulting
We work with teams to identify and create equitable policies, systems, practices, and behaviors throughout organizations. We work one-on-one with leaders and/or small groups to ensure that equity is embedded in all aspects of projects and/or systems. We coach leaders on developing skills to recognize and work through issues of inequity in current, ongoing, and future projects. We work with all educational stakeholders, including, but not limited to, administrators, educators, students, parents, and community members.
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A combined team of security agencies in Lagos arrested 251 suspected aliens, following a raid on the Gatankowa Market in Abule-Egba, just before midnight on Tuesday.
DSP Ngozi Braide, the Lagos State Police Command's spokesperson, who confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday, said that the raid was jointly carried out by men of the Nigerian Army, Navy, Police and the State Security Service.
According to her, those arrested were being screened.
Braide said that the aim was to rid Lagos of aliens who had no justification to be there, as part of efforts to boost security in the state.
The spokesperson could, however, not confirm whether arms were recovered during the raid.
Braide denied allegations that the operatives were in the habit of forcefully seizing valuables and money from aliens during such raids.
She said that such raids would continue across the state and urged those who were carrying out their legitimate businesses not to panic. (NAN)


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Our small groups here at FFC are called CONNECT GROUPS and each one is individually designed around an interest, hobby, spiritual focus, and more. No matter your age or background, there is a Connect Group waiting for you!
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Cathedral Ledge in New Hampshire's White Mountains
November 6, 2008 by mrgrosky
My son and I took a father-son 3-day weekend in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. On the final day, we learned about this place, Cathedral Ledge. It was absolutely gorgeous, and only a 200-yard hike after climbing 5-10 minutes with our car.
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on May 7, 2013 at 11:15 am | firstname.lastname@example.com
wow really nice amezing pic.
on June 20, 2011 at 6:31 pm | Patrice
I am trying to find a print of Cathedral Ledge for a wedding present. Our friend got engaged there. Do you sell your print?
on January 21, 2009 at 2:08 pm | Rick
love the cathedral ledge photo..go there 2-3 times per year with the family and always take a family photo there…the kids always get excited thinking that they have climbed a mountain, even though we take the car up and walk the 200 yards.!
What a beautiful shot. I really must visit North Conway next fall.


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The Center for Applied Policy Research was founded in 1995 to coordinate the independently funded practice-oriented research under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Werner Weidenfeld. Work is organized around four research groups and the Academy of Leadership & Competence which all share a common applied policy research approach. As an independent think tank, the C•A•P strives to foster a practice-based focus as the necessary supplement to basic research. Based on the results of its work, the C•A•P provides advice to decision makers from politics, economy, science and mass media and formulates suggestions and recommendations to improve their work.
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Houston, TX
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Posted: May 20, 2020
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I have spent over 20 years working in performance improvement and instructional design, helping clients to improve performance through business-focused solutions. In my role as Chief Learning Officer for PSI, I am responsible for overseeing the firm's learning strategy and ensuring our solutions align to the current needs of learners.
My understanding of adult learning theories and experience in project management ensures that I meet the needs of my clients using effective instructional design methodologies and approaches. I combine my ability to understand what drives human performance and behavior with my knowledge of instructional design, technology and performance consulting to create effective solutions for my clients.
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Over the years I have worked with many clients including:
- Financial Services Firms – American Express, Bank of America, Citi, GE Capital, JPMorganChase, KeyCorp and Wachovia (now Wells Fargo)
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Prior to joining PSI, I was the Managing Partner of Training and Development for Kenexa, Inc. (now part of IBM).
I also have an M.S. in Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation from Syracuse University, and a B.A. in Telecommunications with an emphasis in Information Systems Management from Michigan State University.
I love spending time with my family, practicing yoga and experimenting in the kitchen (with varying levels of success)!
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I have spent almost 25 years in the training consulting business serving professional services firms, financial institutions and technology organizations. My main responsibilities include working with clients to provide specialized industry-focused solutions intended to improve professionals' business, financial and industry-specific knowledge and skills.
In the classroom, I specialize in improving participant's knowledge of complex business and financial services topics and take pride in making those issues easy to understand and learn. I am also one of PSI's lead simulation instructors.
I have served many clients including:
- Financial Services Firms – ABN Amro, Ally Financial, BankBoston, Bank of America, Bankers Trust, CIBC, Citi, Fleet, Goldman Sachs, KeyCorp, Knight Securities, JPMorganChase, Lehmann Brothers, Prudential, SunTrust, Texas Commerce Bank, Wachovia (now Wells Fargo), Wells Fargo
- Regulators and Associations – American Bankers Association, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, Bank Negara Malaysia, Bank of Thailand, Community Bankers Association and Office of Supervision of Financial Institutions (OSFI – Canada)
- Professional Services Firms – Deloitte LLP, Deloitte Consulting, Ernst & Young, KPMG LLP and PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Information Technology Firms – AT&T, Avaya, Compaq, Diebold, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and Unisys
Prior to co-founding PSI, I was a Principal at a training consulting firm called Enhanced Communications Inc. (later acquired by Kenexa, Inc.) where I developed the firm's successful Professional Services and Financial Services practices.
I also spent six years with Coopers & Lybrand, two years as a manager in their National Professional Education (NPE) Directorate and four years as a manager on the audit staff specializing in financial services clients. I also wrote and contributed to a number of international publications for Coopers & Lybrand.
I am a C.P.A. and graduate of Seton Hall University. I am also a member of the American Society of Training and Development, American Institute of CPA's, N.J. Society of CPA's, Seton Hall Alumni Association, and life member of the Cedar Grove Rescue Squad.
I love having the whole family together and enjoy playing golf, cooking, chilling on the beach and attending sporting events (Go SHU Pirates, NY Giants, Clemson Tigers).
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I have been involved in industry training, sales performance programs and research for over 30 years. My current responsibilities include new business development and working with clients to define and achieve their industry related performance objectives.
Focused on performance improvement for solution providers, I have worked with most leading technology providers, some of which include:
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Prior to co-founding PSI, my industry roots and sales enablement experience were established as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing and co-founder of Mentis Corporation, a leading research, training and consulting firm. At Mentis, I managed all business development, marketing and sales channels. Prior to Mentis, I developed the solution provider market for TransData Corporation, a leading research and consulting firm.
I am a graduate from Long Island University with a B.S. in Business Marketing.
I enjoy spending time with my wife, three children and two dogs. On weekends we can all be found at the kids' sporting events or sailing in the Gulf of Mexico.
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I have been involved in industry training and consulting for over 25 years. My current responsibilities include the development, delivery and on-going management of PSI's training programs and sales enablement services.
My solutions have been delivered across the full spectrum of media, including interactive workshops, computer-based business simulations, on-line training, sales enablement tools and industry Wikis.
My project work has covered a variety of topics, including:
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- Communications – covering topics such as advertising, broadcasting, cloud computing, the film industry, fixed lines telecommunications, the internet industry, mobile telecommunications, the music industry, pay-television, publishing, the video game industry and wholesale telecommunications
- Health Care – covering topics such as health care IT, health care payers, health care systems, health insurance, industry trends, industry regulations, life sciences and medical technology
- Insurance – covering topics such as commercial insurance, general (P&C) insurance, health insurance, information technology, investment management, life insurance, operations, regulatory compliance and strategy
- Cross-Industry Courseware – covering topics such as business acumen, business strategy, financial acumen, information security, product training, sales mastery and systems training
Prior to co-founding PSI, I was a Principal at a training consulting firm called Enhanced Communications Inc. (later acquired by Kenexa, Inc.) where I designed and developed training solutions for a variety of clients.
I am a graduate from Rutgers University and a member of the American Society of Training and Development.
When I'm not working, I can be found hanging out with my family, downhill skiing or enjoying the beautiful beaches of North Carolina.