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"DARK OF THE SUN" is a kind of cross between "The Dirty Dozen" and "The Comedians," which stars Jim Brown and Rod Taylor in a kind of "I Spy" duet. The movie, which was filmed in Jamaic, is about mercenaries in the Congo who go by train to rescue some diamonds, refugees and Yvette Mimieux from the rebel Simba. It did not seem to me very plausible. There is a lot of carnage on every side, in contexts that will probably infuriate anyone who scrutinizes movies for their politics. (There is none of the liberal idealization of people who, through lack of technology, kill more personally and less efficiently than we do; on the other hand, there were signs of sympathy with colonial aspirations and pacific longings for nonviolence.) The end of the film is a little stroke of plotting lunacy, which seems to reflect the movie's standoff ambiguity about what it thinks.But the direction, by Jack Cardiff, who did "Sons and Lovers," is sporadically interesting. There are scenes—of a black, cigar-chomping engineer starting a train at dawn, of warfare, of the refugees at the mercy of the rebels—that don't look like anybody else's scenes. They might be at some point of comedy and menace where "Heart of Darkness" and "Scoop" converge. Jim Brown, of football and "The Dirty Dozen," is quite good in short speeches, but when he has long lines that are silly or hard to take—as when he has to explain that for him being a mercenary in the Congo is like Bunker Hill—he begins to sound embarrassed and artificial.Rod Taylor clearly has a fine time as a tough, nononsense guy who finally reveals his gentle heart by running amok, slaughtering a German murderer to avenge Brown and then, and this is the plot stroke, turning himself in for court martial. Yvette Mimieux, who mostly pine about for him, is O.K. and Calvin Lockhart has a serene and deadly walk-on as the Congolese president. The film is basically low grade. It seems to have more than its quota of violence about the head (heads held under advancing engine wheels and so on) and yet, at moments, it rises far above itself and becomes worth seeing and almost fine. It opened yesterday at Loew's 83d Street and other neighborhood theaters.
DARK OF THE SUN, screenplay by Quentin Werty and Adrian Spies, based on the novel "Last Train to Katanga" by Wilbur A. Smith; directed by Jack Cardiff and produced by George Englund; a George Englund Production presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. At neighborhood theaters. Running time: 101 minutes.Capt. Bruce Curry . . . . . Rod TaylorClaire . . . . . Yvette MimieuxRuffo . . . . . Jim BrownDr. Reid . . . . . Kenneth MoreHenlein . . . . . Peter CarstenSurrier . . . . . Olivier DespaxBussier . . . . . Andre MorrellDelage . . . . . Guy Deghy


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Following John Kerry's support for a Syrian No Fly Zone, Hamish De Bretton Gordon OBE repeats his yearlong plea to implement it – now.
"The intensified bombing campaign in eastern Aleppo by the Russians and Syrians since the Russians destroyed the UN aid convoy is nothing short of Armageddon.
It appears that every weapon is being used; from cluster munitions, incendiary devices, barrel bombs, which are illegal under international law, to bunker busting bombs and high explosives, again with a particular emphasis on the few hospitals remaining and women and children. There appears to be a scorched earth policy with absolutely no regard for human life with the aim being to raze eastern Aleppo to the ground until everybody is dead or has fled.
The story is reminiscent of Stalingrad in WW2, and the Russians would do well to consider the 'shock' of Stalingrad on the Russian character, as they enable the Syrian Regime to repeat this in Aleppo. The International Syria Support Group (ISSG) plans to meet in Geneva next week. It must consider the US call for a No Fly Zone.
An NFZ and an aircraft tracking system, which the UK could lead, could then at the least 'Name and Shame' those bombing hospitals and aid convoys. It is the only hope to stop the genocide unfolding in front of our eyes in Aleppo. The UK and US should also seriously consider air drops of medical supplies and food basics like milk powder to try and save those who are not being blown apart.
Would Russia have bombed the aid convoy if it knew that there was a mechanism in place to Name and Shame those attacking hospitals, aid convoys and innocent women and children? I am sure the self-perceived global statesman in Putin would not like to be exposed as the perpetrator of such evil? Axiomatically, this type of system would have prevented the misguided attack on the Syrian Army positions near Deir Ezzor over the weekend. The Russian observer at the 'Tracking Centre' would no doubt have pointed this out?
The technicalities of tracking are already in place with Coalition and Russian airspace control commands, which currently prevents jets flying into each other over Syria as they allegedly jointly attack ISIS. Unilaterally, the UK, if minded, could run such a system with AWACS (aircraft control planes) and naval based radar in the region. There is no need for any 'boots on the ground'.
Over 400,000 civilians have died in Syria in the 5 years of fighting, the vast majority from illegal and indiscriminate barrel bombs. These are large barrels full of high explosives, chemical weapons or napalm which are casually pushed out of aircraft at around 3000ft and fall where they fall. I was at our UOSSM, main hospital in Bab Al Hawa in Oct 2014 when 5 ambulances arrived from Aleppo with 27 children. A high explosive barrel bomb landed in their school playground – they all died. There is no reason for Syrian Army helicopters to fly over civilian areas, they only do this to drop barrel bombs. A No Fly Zone for helicopters over civilian areas would stop this..dead. It is relatively easy to track slow moving helicopters and either warn them off if they approach controlled areas or destroy them in the air, or on the ground, if they subsequently drop barrel bombs.
No meaningful aid is getting to any rebel areas and there are 17 besieged towns with around 1 million starving. In Madaya, allegedly, 75 people died from malnutrition this summer, in Daraya 15 teenagers have committed suicide due to hunger and the bombings. The head Psychologist at UOSSM recently stated that 75% of children between 7-13 years old in rebel held areas suffer from PTSD, and 50% of them are incontinent because of this – what a desperate legacy we are collectively building for the children of Syria. It is evident that trucks full of aid are not the current solution and we must try aircraft full of aid instead. A C17 jet can drop 60 tonnes of aid each run, and the RAF base in Cyprus is only a 30 minute hop to Aleppo. Some of the aid may fall into the wrong hands..so what? There are still town councils on the ground in most Syrian towns and cities who are ready and willing to distribute this aid, and to the most needy first.
However, desperate and intractable things might seem at the moment, there are some lateral options, which don't necessarily mean more killing, which the ISSG meeting in Geneva next could put in place forthwith. It looks like John Kerry is advocating to the idea of a No Fly Zone, and if Britain is want, we have the assets and expertise in the Region today to put these measures in place ourselves; I gauge, I hope, we have the steel in the new Prime Minister and the lateral mind of the new Foreign Secretary to make this happen."
Hamish De Bretton Gordon is helping and advising civilians in Syria on chemical weapons matters on behalf of a number of NGOs and has deployed to the region several times since the conflict began.


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Eddie and Phillip are Sworn Enemies
Eddie Huang (Hudson Yang) was elated when he found out that he would not be the only chinese kid at his Orlando school. Eddie is assigned to show the new chinese kid, Philip Goldstein (Albert Tsai), around school. However, Eddie and Phillip realize they have nothing in common shortly after meeting. Since they're the only two chinese kids, they can't be placed apart from one another and grow to hate each other. Watch their bitter battle play out below. From Season 1, Episode 8 of Fresh Off the Boat, "Phillip Goldstein."
Principal Hunter calls Eddie into his office to show the new kid around. Eddie is able to figure out that he was only asked because of the fact that they're both asian.
Shortly after showing the new kid, Philip Goldstein (Albert Tsai), around the school, Eddie finds out they don't have anything in common.
Although Eddie and Phillip can't stand one another, they both agree to help each other out in attending a musical and a concert. Eddie holds up to his end of the bargin by attending the musical but Phillip decided to ditch Eddie and go home. After Eddie and Jessica look all over for Phillip, they go to the Goldstein's home to break the bad news. Upon arrival, Phillip is opens the door. Check out the tounge lashing Jessica dishes out on Phillip.
Principal Hunter believes they'll be the best of friends when he first introduces Eddie and Phillip to one another.
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Wednesday, 27 February 2013
A shawl for Blossom!
Hello! I'm Annie from
, and I've been knitting lace for almost as long as I've been knitting anything (if not always intentionally in the beginning ... it is way too easy to make holes where you don't want then when you're starting out!). I've never designed and knitted beaded lace on such a small scale as Blossom's shawl before though. But when I was asked to contribute something warm and woolly to the Red Nose Day Doll's wardrobes I knew that at least one of those little ladies deserved something a tad more exciting than a scarf. Being possessed of far more yarn than I can probably ever hope to knit* it was a certainty I'd find something suitable in my stash, and this lovely raspberry pink alpaca/wool blend, a fine laceweight, was surely the perfect choice. Finding matching miniature glass beads proved a bit more of a challenge however, and my miniscule 0.5mm crochet hook - essential for adding tiny beads to tiny knitting - was adrift somewhere in the mess that is my studio mid revamp. Much hunting through boxes ensued but
eventually I was ready
, and with a cuppa ever to hand and Radio 4 and my five lovely whippets for company - they like to lie on my feet when I'm knitting which is soooo warming in cold weather - my needles clicked away for a whole long afternoon, and then another, and then Blossom had a shawl**. And d'ya know, it made my heart sing! Being involved in a project that has brought so many talented designer/makers together in support of such an awesome cause has been a privilege from start to finish. Now all we need is for everyone who reads this to spread the word. Perhaps you could
about the dolls, link to
their facebook page
, or share a link to
Mac's video
or this blog. Anything to alert folks to the fact that one of these little people and his/her belongings could be theirs. Bidding begins on eBay on March 7th ... go on, you know you want to!
* Knitters call this SABLE, or stash acquisition beyond life expectancy, and it is the most pleasant affliction, just so long as you never see a moth! ** And Mac had a manly scarf, which should have had woolly 'red nose' pompoms on the ends, but didn't - you can read about that little disaster
- and Poppy had her very own knitting bag, complete with needles, wool, and a teeny card of itsy bitsy buttons. Oh, and Maisie had a wee wooden dolly of her own (because I don't just knit), with shiny black painted on hair and shiny black painted on boots, and long spotty pantaloons, and a flowery dress with a ribbon bow at the back, and blow me if I didn't forget to take a photo of her before posting her to HQ so I'm hoping Ros might arrange a little photo shoot (pretty please Ros :) )
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A former top Qatari football official reportedly paid $5m to get support for the emirate's campaign to host the 2022 World Cup.
The Sunday Times said it had obtained millions of emails and other documents relating to alleged payments made by Mohamed bin Hammam, the then Fifa executive member for Qatar.
It alleged that Bin Hammam, also the former Asian Football Confederation (AFC) president, used slush funds to pay out the cash to top football officials to win a "groundswell" of support for Qatar's World Cup bid.
Bin Hammam, who launched an abortive challenge against incumbent Fifa president Sepp Blatter, resigned from his Fifa and AFC posts in 2012, shortly before he was banned for life from football administration by the global governing body's ethics committee.
The newspaper said Bin Hammam had made payments of up to $200,000 into accounts controlled by the presidents of 30 African football associations, and hosted hospitality events in Africa at which he handed out further funds, to get backing for Qatar's bid.
Bin Hammam also paid $1.6m into bank accounts controlled by the Trinidadian Jack Warner, also a former vice-president of Fifa, $450,000 of which was before the vote for the World Cup, the Sunday Times said.
Warner was one of the 22 people who in 2010 decided to award Russia the 2018 World Cup and Qatar the 2022 tournament. He stood down in 2011.
Two months ago the Daily Telegraph alleged that a company owned by Hammam had paid money to Warner.
Bin Hammam did not respond to questions and his son declined to comment on his behalf, the Sunday Times said.
It quoted the Qatari committee behind the World Cup bid as denying that Bin Hammam played any secret role in its campaign, or had any knowledge of the alleged payments.
The decision to give the World Cup to Qatar, a country with little football history, provoked widespread condemnation particularly over health concerns for players forced to play in the desert nation's stifling summer heat.
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Punto Banco, Baccarat Banque, and Chemin de Fer are three major baccarat variants. These are baccarat variants that you might have seen before but were unable to immediately recognize. There are some observable differences in these variations but the overall game play will be quite similar among the three.
Punto Banco: Punto Banco is one of the major baccarat variants. This game is traditionally played on an oval shaped table. You'll usually find six up to eight decks in use for this game. Only the croupier and the dealers can shuffle the deck. Cards are first dealt to players in the variant and then cards will be dealt to the banker.
In this baccarat variant, everyone will be dealt an initial hand consisting of a pair of cards, which means the banker also gets two cards for himself. The sum of your hand value will be called by the croupier as the game goes along. This baccarat variant also uses the same standard rules to determine if a third card is required to be added to any hand.
Chemin de Fer: This kind of baccarat game uses six decks per game. One distinguishing item for this game is the little basket you'll find in the middle of the table. All the used cards in Chemin de Fer go into this basket. The croupier is the first to shuffle the deck; however, players get the opportunity to do this in the succeeding rounds.
After the cards are shuffled, they are laid in front of everyone on the baccarat table. One of the players on the table will act as the banker and the other players become the punters. The role of banker switches from one player to another. The banker in Chemin de Fer is given a bunch of cards by the croupier to deal. Punters have the option to play against the banker and say 'banco' for them to do so.
Baccarat Banque: Baccarat Banque is our third baccarat variant. The role of banker in this variant will not switch from player to another for the duration of an entire shoe. Only three decks will be in use in the game of Baccarat Banque.
The banker will be risking a bigger amount of money than all the other players and will continue to do so until all the cards in the shoe are dealt. The only time that a new banker is called will be when the current banker retires or loses. The new banker takes up the amount of the wager where the previous banker left off.
You'll find these baccarat variants played in many casinos worldwide. The general rules of play apply to all these baccarat variants in spite of distinct differences in game play.


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Town in the interior of Morocco, about 35 miles west-southwest of Fez. It contains about 6,000 Jews in a total population of 50,000. But very little is known concerning the Jews there. The town was founded about 940
Mequinez has nineteen synagogues, the oldest of which dates back 150 years. Each of these is named after its founder or else after the family which supports it (e.g., the Synagogue of Mordecai Loubaton). The Alliance Israélite founded two schools (attendance 61 boys and 36 girls respectively) at Mequinez in 1901. There are also ten small Talmud Torahs, having about 800 pupils and known by the names of the teachers in charge of them. The custom of placing epitaphs upon graves is not general in Mequinez, except in the case of those who die without leaving male issue. In Mequinez, as in almost all the Jewish communities of Morocco, it is not customary to invest any one with the title of chief rabbi. Religious matters are placed in the hands of a triumvirate of dayyanim, the president of the present (1904) triumvirate being R. Salomon Verdugo. These three rabbis are assisted in the discharge of their duties by a "ma'amad," or council of notables; in case of necessity these constitute also a court of justice.
The revenues of the Jewish communal administration are raised by means of a tax of one "dours" (about 60 cents) per head for large cattle and one "peseta" (about 46¾ cents) per head for small cattle, and by contributions made by the wealthy families on the approach of the important holy days. These sources of revenue enable the communal administration to contribute to the schools of the Alliance Israélite, support the rabbis and the poor of the city, provide for funerals, pay the poll-tax, make gifts to the royal court and to the local authorities on the occasion of great Arabian fêtes, and purchase the privilege of using the public roads.
There are two societies in this populous community—the ḥebra ḳaddisha, which has charge of funerals, and the foundation of which dates back to ancient times, and the "ḥilluḳ," or the society charged with the weekly distribution of money and produce to the needy. The occupations of the Jewish population embrace all classes of mechanical labor and commerce. Some Jews are even employed as kitchen gardeners in the outskirts of the town. The Jews of Mequinez occupy the Mellah, a walled ghetto containing 250 houses, all belonging to Jews. The streets are wide, but are not paved.
From the standpoint of literature, Mequinez is the most fruitful community of Morocco. It has had at least thirteen rabbinical writers of note, of whom the following belonged to the family of Verdugo, the dates of death in each case being given in parentheses: Mordecai (1773); Moses (1783); Judah (1803); Mimun (1812); Raphael (1820); Pethahiah (1842); Jacob (1843); Joseph (1852). Of the Toledano family there may be mentioned Ḥayyim (1782); Jacob (1802); Moses Ḥabib (middle of the 19th cent.). David Hessin lived there toward the end of the eighteenth century.
The 'Isawites, members of a fanatical Arab sect, make annual pilgrimages to Mequinez to visit the tomb of Abu 'Isa, the founder of the sect. On the day of their arrival the gates of the Mellah are shut, and the government of the town places a guard there to prevent the pilgrims from pillaging and massacring its inhabitants. See Morocco.
- Colonies Juives dans l'Afrique Romaine, in R. E. J. 1902, No. 87;
- Bulletins of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, 1861-1901;
- Hazan, Ha-Ma'alot li-Shelomoh, pp. 32, 81, 90.


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The Continental Indoor Football League has changed its playoff format, eliminating the first round of the postseason and placing the Saginaw Sting and the Dayton Silverbacks automatically into the league title game.
The Sting and Silverbacks will play tonight in Saginaw, 7:30 p.m. at The Dow Event Center in a regular-season game. The winner of that game will host the league title game Saturday June 2, Sting co-owner Rob Licht said.
The Sting were originally scheduled to visit Evansville next week in their regular season finale. That game has been changed to Chicago at Evansville, giving both Saginaw and Dayton two weeks off before the title game.
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The shortened playoff format means Port Huron and Evansville will both be finished after the regular season, after already locking up the third and fourth playoff seeds.
Licht said the decision was made during an owners conference call Wednesday night, and that the decision was unanimous. Ownership from Port Huron and Evansville did not take part in the call.
Licht said the league owners had previously discussed changing the playoff format, and that a two-team playoff format is common in six-team leagues like the CIFL.
Saginaw and Dayton are both undefeated at a combined 15-0. The other four teams in the league are a combined 8-22.
Saginaw has won its games by an average of 43 points, and Dayton has won its by an average of 26 points per game.
Port Huron owner and coach Dave Kinsman told the Times-Herald he is "very, very disappointed" by the decision. He added that the CIFL will have new ownership next year.


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No time for a full entry! Look at this pretty picture!
From left to right: an Epic comic still in progress, the first Epic comic I ever drew, the Rejuvelac comic, two drawings illustrating my feelings during my initial stint on Station 2.
I doodle a lot. So much, in fact, that I created an art wall of staff caricatures by the locker room. Then I was told that Corporate wanted me to take it down. So I did. I still don't really know who "Corporate" consists of, but if Nameless Higher-Ups tell you to do something via your awesome manager (Liz), then you should probably heed the warning.
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This mod corrects the UV mapping of Telvanni exterior meshes in order to make them seamless and not appear distorted. While the mod itself works fine in OpenMW, it brought up another issue which I want to document here -- in case anyone encounters the same problem.
I'm talking about the "tx_wood" bug. It occurs when you install Bloodmoon: The add-on introduces a new ingredient, "Heartwood", which can be obtained from dead Spriggans. The ingredient's model uses the "tx_wood.tga" texture, whereas the vanilla Telvanni models make use of the "tx_wood.dds" texture. Since Morrowind does not distinguish between texture file types but rather looks at the files' names only, "tx_wood.tga" replaces the .dds file. This leads to the weird observations I erroneously thought to be the result of wrong behaviour on OpenMW's side: OpenMW: Differences in handling UV maps compared to vanilla Morrowind.
To cut a long story short: If you want to use the correct textures on your Telvanni exterior models, you have to extract the original tx_wood.dds file from your Morrowind.bsa -- e.g., by using the BSA Unpacker MW -- and place it in your Data Files\Textures directory. The downside of this solution is that the Heartwood model will look different now (see below). To fully solve the issue you'd have to extract the .dds file, rename it, and apply the renamed texture to the Telvanni .nif files (you could do the same with the .tga file instead but keep in mind that you'd have to extract the .dds file to your Textures directory anyway.)
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I think you've mixed the images. The heartwood should look like wood (like in Bloodmoon), while Telvanni exteriors should have that green cover (which they lack after Bloodmoon).
There actually was a proper fix to the bug.
There actually was a proper fix to the bug.
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Thanks, definitely time to get some sleep.
And, yes, players may simply use the mod you've mentioned. Thanks again.
And, yes, players may simply use the mod you've mentioned. Thanks again.
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Therinfal Redoubt is a fortress in Ferelden which formerly served as a training facility for the Seekers of Truth, but was abandoned due to lack of finances.
Background Edit
Therinfal Redoubt was utilized as a training ground for the Seekers where they could practice and hone their skills without any possibility of distraction or temptation. It was in use since at least the Storm Age before the Seekers were finally forced to abandon the fortress in 8:99 Blessed for financial reasons.
Involvement Edit
When the Inquisitor arrives in Val Royeaux to address the clerics, Revered Mother Hevara spots Lord Seeker Lucius Corin and his templars approaching the stage and assumes they were returning to the Chantry to put an end to the Inquisition. But that was not the case, as she is punched unceremoniously to the ground. Lucius takes contempt in the revered mother's claim of authority and is equally insulted that the Inquisitor did not seek the templars' aid. Declaring the Chantry unworthy of the Order's protection, Lucius takes his templars and leaves. The templars withdraw and billet themselves at Therinfal Redoubt.
Inquisitor recruits the Templars: Should the Inquisitor take Lucius up on his 'offer' of an alliance, it is revealed that the entire meeting was a elaborate trap: to purge the order of the Templars not affected by the Red Lyrium and to kill and replace the Inquisitor. A pitched battle erupts between the Templars and Red templars as the Envy demon whom has been posing as Lord Seeker Lucius begins gathering information on the Inquisitor by sending its subordinates to their deaths against them in order to gather information on their leadership style.
Eventually the Envy demon is slain by the combined forces of the Inquisition's party, the Templars and a Spirit known as Cole and the Red Templars at Therinfal are defeated. The remaining Templars may ally with or be conscripted into the Inquisition.
Inquisitor recruits the Mages:Once the templars of Therinfal Redoubt's corruption was complete, General Samson takes over as leader of the Red Templars. The facility is subsequently abandoned, and the Inquisition can dispatch Bull's Chargers to Investigate Therinfal Redoubt.
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Armor: 19–24–29–32
Armor: 4 Metal
Defense: 7 Cloth
Defense: 3 Metal
Masterwork: 1 Masterwork – In a chest in Knight-Captain Denam's quarters. Masterwork Enchanter ArmorMasterwork Enchanter Armor
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Requires: Level 8
Armor: 122-124
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Abilities cost 5% less mana/stamina – In the jail, on the Upper Barracks side of the Great Hall. You must break some crates in front of the cell to gain access. The Sunless StaffThe Sunless Staff
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Supposedly crafted in the dread Sunless Lands south of the Korcari Wilds, this staff was wielded by the shaman to the Avvar warlord Balak, who swept into the Fereldan valley at the height of the Steel Age. Balak was defeated, but the shaman vanished during the final battle in the southern Hinterlands.
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This pair of daggers belonged to the Nevarran rogue Emilio Antagne, or "the Velvet Dreamer" (a nickname he chose). Though he spent more time promoting himself than actually fighting, he never lost a duel. He was found in the city of Treviso after the New Exalted Marches, left mindless by Qunari subjugation techniques.
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Principal's Corner
Ms. Laura E. Gutierrez
Dear Clifford Community,
It is my honor to be your principal. With over 18 years of educational experience, I am proud to be leading such a distinguished school. Like you, I am also a magnet parent, with both my sons attending different LAUSD magnet schools.
My career began as an elementary school teacher in the community of El Sereno, where I became an educator at the school I once attended as a child. I have served as a Categorical Program Advisor, Instructional Specialist, and most recently, an Assistant Principal. Throughout those experiences I have focused on improving children's academic achievement levels by ensuring that students have access to rigorous instruction. I have always put the needs of students first. I have made it a point to make connections with the school communities that I have served by making myself visible and accessible to all stakeholders, including parents, faculty, staff and students.


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Letter #5757Alfonso de VALDÉS to Ioannes DANTISCUS
s.l., [1529-04-18 — 1529-06-20?]
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Valdés informs Dantiscus that after sending off Pratensis [Lodewijk van Praet] he finally has a moment's rest. He was very amused with the epigram about Valdés transforming into Lalemand, sent by Dantiscus through Stach(?). He received it with the letter while sitting at dinner with the chancellor [Mercurino Gattinara]. Valdés sends Dantiscus the emperor's letter. The other letter, on the matter of Bari (or maybe to the archbishop of Bari?) hasn't been signed yet.
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Real dogs of Rolda -not the dogs shown on her website
LATEST UPDATE: 2013 : Dana Costin herself is supposedly appalled by the conditions of the animals below, but rather than accept responsibility for their suffering and abuse, Ms Costin herself states we should get in touch with the abusive shelter and publicly force them into treating the dogs properly without the starvation and abuse as can be clearly seen in the photos below. Why is she now saying this? Because she is laughably denying these photos were taken at her shelters.
The following quote is from a discussion that appeared on the page of Dave Dillon on Facebook:
Dana Costin, 2013: "To be on ROLDA side, not necessarily as a donor but in terms of boycotting the people that over the years, and especially thanks to the loose policy on how social networks like Facebook function, virally spread attacks and lies from the most atrocious, against ROLDA. They reached the lowest level, when they promote photos that don't even belong to ROLDA, to hurt us….instead of protesting against those from where actually the photos were taken"
The fact that the photos (below) are in fact from the ROLDA shelter is undeniable. On Rolda websites and newsletters Ms Costin herself has posted hundreds of photos of the small adoption centre and the large shelter under her management. It is painfully clear that the photos below were taken from the Rolda shelter, there is no other shelter in Romania that has the same layout or architectural construction. We will be adding comparisons for our site visitors shortly.
This is probably one of the rarest times we agree wholly with Dana Costin, as Ms Costin herself states we should be protesting against the shelter where these photos were taken. We are, hence the construction of this site.
Dana Costin top left as usual posing for the camera with a very healthy looking dog. It is in fact her own pet dog, not the common skinny, starving specimens that gauntly haunt the shelters Dana Costin manages. As you can see here, her personal preference is full breeds, unlike the poor mixed variety she funds her lifestyle upon.
2011 – 2012 of the real Rolda dogs Costin doesn want you to see, what your donations are paying for, to keep these dogs in such horrific conditions. These dogs sadly make up the majority of the animals under Rolda's "care"
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Terrible…. just terrible! 🙁
Pozele sunt cutremuratoare. Nu vad nici o diferenta intre acesti caini si cei de pe strada…sunt la fel de bolnavi, ignorati si tristi. Macar pe strada poate mai gaseau ceva de mancare. Un adapost ar trebui sa le ofere o viata mai usoara,sa fie un refugiu pana cand isi vor gasi pe cineva care sa ii iubeasca. Trist. Sper sa se gaseasca o solutie pentru ei.
this is disgusting,dana you are a mega f@@@@ bitch and about time you are stopped,why dont you help the dogs?you get enough funding to help them??????????im ashamed to be dutch with one of many profiteurs like you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!you are lower than a bloody puppy mill and cockroach which is an insult to a cockroach,nancy and everyone is right,I SAY LIFE AND THROW AWAY THE KEY,OOPS MAAR DAN WEL IN VUGHT PSYCHIATRIC UNIT TBS LIFE WITHOPUR PAROLE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dana is just for all the wrong reasons,the image of a B.P. CEO; cares only about money,doesn,t care what damage she does to get it!
My husband and I visited this shelter before her new kennels were built and funded by the Mittell Stell group and it hoped that this kennels would soon be closed and the new one built I have sent loads and loads of plastic beds blankets dog food medication and fundraised a huge amount of money to read this today I am sp[eechless and as from now I will no longer put anything on my group nor will I have any further connection My husband and I are animal lovers we worked a lifetime with them and we also did what we possibly could for all matters concerning animal.
Both my husaband I were animal rights who went domonstrating agains animal abuse at various labs and breeding centres for the trade of animal experiments. there is little more to be said but please keep me;posted Veronica Titchener UK
not pretty pictures, but honestly, reality is much worse. I was there in May and saw this place with my own eyes. The fear in their eyes, the horrible sounds, the apathy, the desperate hunger … the photos show very little
Problem is when people see photos of dogs that are suffering they want to step in and be the kind rescuer, not realizing that when they keep adopting from Rolda they also support Dana in doing what she is doing and continuing in treating dogs this horribly, except those few lucky ones that actually are adopted. She will keep doing this as long as there are people supporting her. The majority of the dogs here will never be adopted, they will rot in this prison for the rest of their miserable existence, don't people care about them. It is beyond my comprehension how proclaimed animal lovers only care about their own dog – the one whose picture shows the world what kind and generous animal lovers they are. It's really beyond my comprehension – have to do some thinking in order to try and understand this …
I too did a lot of FBing the shelter and had it as my birthday cause and donated to ROLDA personally. I am horrified to see and read about the conditions. I even suggested ROLDA to someone looking for an animal shelter to volunteer at. I never heard anything bad back but will have to now go and get in touch to find out how she got on there
Your day is coming trash!! Taking money from dogs who need help and ripping off loving people who want to help!!
JESUS CHRIST!! I had a feeling there was something crooked going on. I was corresponding with Dana last year in trying to get financial help with a freight box shipment of supplies from the USA to ROLDA and during this Dana was going on vacation and was unavailable due to travel or being away. I had recommended to Dana's connection Shannon McCabe here in the USA (that said she had been the ROLDA)to incorporate a Wish list pamphlet of needed supplies at a yearly Halloween Ball Event she put on. The donor's could go online to UPCO.com an animal supply site that ships to Romania and DIRECTLY send ROLDA what was needed. No follow through or interest was shown. I am seeing Cash donations were the only interest. There was no one stepping up to truly commit here in Los Angeles California with helping me possibly getting a costly shipment off to Romania. I was also under the assumption that the dogs in her care lived in groups in large fenced areas NOT in FILTHY PRISONS GETTING THEIR HEADS STUCK IN THE HOG WIRE FENCING WHILE SICK AND SCARED, TRAPPED WITH NO STIMULATION!!! DANA is clearly a HEARTLESS, SHALLOW, SELF INDULGED BITCH.! Most of the dogs in her shelter will have no chance of adoption. This is a sad raw truth. She is using these tortured dogs and locking them in prisons to rack in money and not supplying the dogs with a happy life at the shelter that will FOREVER BE THEIR FINAL DESTINATION. I have been networking ROLDA for 2 years now and now I am sick with sharing the disgusting news of yet another rescue gone bad. CONNIVING BITCH !!
Shannon McCabe has never been to the ROLDA shelter Sara.
dana, you filthy disgusting bitch!!!!! hundreds of dogs suffer cause you are mentally disturbed, you scum! mark my words: one day, you'll pray for mercy, one day you'll be sorry for everything you've done! and that day is coming……how the f**k is this possible???????? you deserve to be left in one of those kennels to rott, without food, in your own filth…
In 2010 I helped to co ordinate the sending of plastic pallets to be sent to Dana for the dogs, there were real concerns that the dogs were constantly lying on wet, dirty floors so there was an offer to send out loads of beds, Dana's answer to this offer was a firm 'NO' she said the workers would not clean around the beds, so the pallets were seen as a solution… at least they could raise themselves off the floor.. at the cost of a great deal of money to RAA the pallets were purchased and sent…. Dana has never put them in for the dogs, they continue to sleep in their own faeces & urine. I have had a few 'run ins' with Dana.. she is extremely aggressive and threatening if ever you dare to challenge the conditions in her shelter or the welfare of the dogs. She is nothing more than a prison guard for these poor creatures.. she boasts that she 'saves' the street dogs… she doesn't save them, she sentences them to a life of misery!
este foarte trista situatia! nu imi vine sa cred ca poate sa fie atat de indiferenta la suferinta lor,cand ea supravietuieste de pe urma acestora! chiar nu se putea sa ii ingrijeasca,sa le ofere hrana macar?
urat! sa ii fie rusine!!!
This is So sad……Why can a person like her continue to do what she do? How can she be the queen of the shelter? Why is it not possible to get another shelter manager, with the heart in the right place – for the animal. I'm so sad for the dogs that they can't even get the plastik pallets and get of the concrete floor. But maybe she just sold them?? Poor poor dogs – yes, this is indeed a jail for dogs. Sooooo sad…
Where is the law in Romania????????
Dana, Do you really think you will never suffer the consequences of your lies and deception?
What can be done to stop her – quickly ??
Why not post pictures and warnings about this terrible matter on Facebook. That would reach many thousand persons.
In 2008 I adopted a ROLDA dog. When he arrived his long coat was matted and dirty which disguised the fact that he was a bag of bones. I didn't dare take him to be trimmed in case someone reported me to the RSPCA for neglect. Everyone who saw him thought that he was an old dog. He was 18 months old. I had to take him to the vet anyway because he couldn't use his back right leg and the vet was horrified at how thin he was. I'd queried the limp with Dana and she said that he must have banged his leg on the journey over. The xray showed it was an old injury and a lot of his femur was dead. Luckily because he was young the vet was able to cut away the dead bone and anyone who didn't know him wouldn't notice that his right leg is shorter than the left.
The second ROLDA dog I adopted was dirty and smelly, but not particularly thin. At that point another poor shelter had contacted ROLDA for help and she put their appeal on her web site. I contacted a UK dog magazine and asked them to put an article in about this shelter, which they did. The shelter set up a paypal account but the magazine went to print with the story earlier than we expected and used Dana's paypal address. She told us that no donations were raised for this shelter. I regret now not making a donation myself through her account and seeing if she was being truthful. To be fair to her, she did give them some money later. I will never know if this was part of the money donated by the readers of the magazine or not.Dana took some dogs from this shelter to ROLDA to be advertised for adoption in the UK. They were supposed to be getting a rabies injection straight away but six months later, when a neighbour of mine decided to adopt one of the dogs, they still hadn't had their vaccination. The Romanian lady who had initially rescued this dog went to ROLDA to visit it and took some photos of it and another dog. When she sent me their photos I was horrified at how thin they had got. She hadn't said anything because she was scared of Dana. The first dog is big and weighed about 45kg when she arrived at ROLDA. She was 20kg when she left and very food aggressive. As it happens she is with me now and very laid back about food so her aggression must have been caused by hunger. When I questioned Dana about how thin the dogs were I didn't get a straight answer and she went on the attack immediately. The dog was also filthy when she arrived in the UK. These dogs were the lucky ones. They were in the small shelter and advertised for adoption.
These were the 'lucky' dogs being advertised for adoption. I had sent ROLDA a lot of money over the years but stopped once we got the last of 'our' dogs out. I didn't dare stop before in case Dana did something spiteful to the last dog, a real sweetie who is now the very much loved pet of a Dutch family.
I never donated to Chrissy (Phillips of Romania Animal Aid as Dana Costin is claiming now). I sent the money straight to Dana, £100 a month for years. When I got Archie in 2008 I didn't even know Chrissy and she sent him over with Robert Smith. The only money I sent to Chrissy was when I paid for her to bring my second dog across and I also paid £500 towards the travel for Zuzu, Tata and another dog. I ended up with Zuzu though she was elsewhere for 3 months and Tata stayed in Holland. I don't count paying for transport as a donation.
by Gill, Rescueme Romania
Vanessa Slack
September 30, 2011 at 8:04 PM
I am Vanessa (NessaMae)and you've used my TravelBlog on my volunteering experience at ROLDA. I just want to say that when I wrote the blog, I really cleaned it up and left a lot of stuff out. I was not ignorant or happy about what was going on, I cringed about the conditions every day; I just wrote it in a very good optimistic light because I have family following my blogs, I didn't want to slander Dana without knowing the facts, and I really wanted to help the dogs. Now seeing that I am not alone with my suspicions while volunteering there and there is proof by others the dogs aren't cared for, I am glad there are people who noticed this and started to act on it. I did find the conditions horrible and many horror stories on the way the dogs were treated and lots of things Dana said that just didn't make sense. I am really a bit ashamed when I see my own blog at how naive I sound and I'm glad that through the good-lightened way I presented the facts that they can still be used to show the truth as the horrible death camp it was. I really had to grit my teeth and leave a lot of details out despite my better judgement. If me or my ROLDA volunteer companion "Step" can be of any help in any way, please please do not hesitate to contact me.
What an evil bitch. She should be linched, what a wicked world we live in, people like this lowlife make it so much harder for the people who really care to raise money for animals. I hope this evil little scumbag rots in hell
When I rescued my dog from Rolda, she arrived lame and 'tagged' by Dana at the ast last minute 'aggressive'. This poor mite was just plain scared of humans. She loves dogs but was petrified of humans. Her leg had been broken and not treated and had set wrong, hence she arrived lame and walking on just 3 legs. Our vet x-rayed her and said, because of where the break was, that in her opinion, the leg had been snapped by a human. I don't know when or how it happened. We took our dog to hydrotherapy and now, thankfully, she walks on all 4 legs but does sit the same as other dogs do. She is now a very happy girl who loves her siblings here and I love her to bits.
after all this and picture why cant any thing be done to get this bitch out of there
This is disgusting, surely something can be done to help those poor dogs.
Dana Costin, you have to stop being so selfish, so ignorant and so bad! These animals dont need your "care". Not this kind of "good care" anyway. If youre not going to change your attitude about animals, you better make a god choise and LEAVE! Although… you might have one more chance. Open your eyes and heart, if you have something like this and you better get to work there!
This is disgraceful.She should be punished!!!
Ich wünsche mir das diese Leute bestraft werden, wenn es schon nicht die Gesetze machen, dann sollen sie wenigstens irgendwelche bösartigen krankheiten bekommen.
I wonder about the law there too. Exploitation of animals sickens me & I just can't figure how she is still able to operate when there is such overwhelming evidence against her. All I can do is constantly warn against donations to this evil person.
Are there any decent Romanian charities out there, as i really want to help the situation?
Completely sickening!
Anyone that allows animals to suffer like this while stealing the money needs hung!
I would appreciate it if you would let me know when these photographs were taken. Is it the newer large shelter ?
Thank you.
…and what if these dogs were left stray instead – would they have been any luckier? Is there the slightest possibility that these wounds, bad coats, etc., originate from a life in the streets..? No dog is treated overnight.
can someone tell me whether it is okay to send money to the shelter now? has it been fixed up and are the dogs being treated properly? if not, how do we change this as just to stop giving donations is not going to help them. Also if ArcelorMittal are paying all the expenses do they even need donations? Should i be giving my money to someone else? Does anyone have any answers yet? And how can we find out the truth and if Ms Costin is indeed a part of this cruelty, how do we ensure that someone else takes over and she is punished? Is anyone in contact with ArcelorMittal who i am sure don't want to be giving money to somewhere that is clearly failing on many levels. I am very happy to assist with any of this if someone wants to work with me? Sorry for so many questions but i really want to help.
How is this possible ?!? How any of the people who was deceived for years didnt saw that something is wrong there ?!? For God sake,thiis place look even worse then Pozega kill station in my country ! And this is suppoused to be Rescue centre !?!? Shame on you , greedy bastard ! And did this woman still doing what she did so far,I dont understand,how any of those poor dogs can be for adoption,scared,starved,probably never so the vet,this is the nightmare for any future adopters… I am really in shock ….
OMG,I really wanted to adopt a dog called Pepsi from Rolda. Despite numerous emails never got any responses and led to me believing they did not want that to happen – my emails began on 26th December 2014.
I am heartbroken to read this, I too was hopeful of rescuing Pepsi, Zina or Agnes but now I see why there has been no response to my emails. Those poor dogs.
this is so f…..g disgusting, i have just seen these pictures of these poor poor dogs. as like most people i thought dana was helping these poor dogs and giving them the food care and love that they so much need. i think she should be starved and beaten. i have also given quite a bit of money to rolda thinking i was making a small difference to these dogs lives thinking that they would get good food vet care and love. i would love to get my hands on her the bitch.i am a very big animal lover and these pictures sicken me and upset me very much. i will not give that cow another penny. these dogs are in no better place than they were. how can anyone treat these dogs like that, they have been through enough and now are still suffering and being abused in the hands of rolda, something should be done to stop dana and rolda. these pictures are nothing like what they have put on their f…..g website. so very upset and angry to see these dogs in such a terrible state
I adopted my Archie from there in 2008 and he was a bag of bones. My vet was horrified at his state when I took him in because he was unable to put his back left leg down. Dana said he must have banged it on the transport. He had an old injury which he would have had at ROLDA. I ended up with another dog – Zuzu – who had gone in weighing 40kg and left a year later weighing 18kg. Dana said her vet told her not to overfeed the dogs!


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May has been happily productive, and I am, as the title suggests, just plugging away at my next book.
The Mothers will be the last book in my Paper Duchess series, and it's coming along quite nicely. It's got some great twists and turns plotted out, but as I write, the characters are throwing in some more curve balls, which is great. Even though the book is fully plotted out, they're still making their own decisions and surprising me with them.
But there's not much more to report than that, just steady progress behind the scenes. Long may my writing mojo remain!
How's your month been? If you want to visit the other blogs in this blog hop, or fancy signing up yourself, check out the linky list here: sylmion.blogspot.co.uk/p/do-you-have-goal.html


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When it came time for the Mayor and the DPW to name a committee to set fees to fund the new stormwater enterprise, they picked a committee that looked to be broad-based and inclusive, in line with the "Best Practices" credo. But it wasn't. The fix was in. To read the full article, click here.
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Very sickening. Nothing more to say.
I'm really upset that Emory Ford didn't loudly and publicly express the concerns you quote him on in the last two paragraphs of your article. If he did, maybe he could have saved the day. It's really too bad and I'm mystified why he caved.
But he's at least on the side of the angels. Ultimately, the worst actors are our elected representatives who were all asleep at the switch. By voting for perhaps one of the worst, most unfair, most costly, and least progressive pieces of legislation to cross their desks, they've brought shame on themselves and their office.
Emory didn't know about the hidden agendas; didn't know about the Chamber's committee.
Are you saying Paul Spector appointed a secret second member of the Chamber of Commerce's special storm water sub- committee to sit on the City Task Force? posing as a regular citizen? And he was the Vice Chair? How is that right? Wasn't Reckman supposed to be the Chamber rep? Holy crap.
None of these councilors are truly interested in anything but hearing themselves talk and rubbing shoulders with other politicians. At least LaBarge was asking about the ethics thing. northampton city councilors are "celebrities" that walk kids to school. talk about drones… sheesh. someone should get in trouble for this.
I truly don't understand the role of this group of people on the Council. On one hand, you'll occasionally hear one of them publicly chafe in the media about their limited role, but then they punt when it comes to exercising the few real powers they DO have. And far too many votes end up unanimous, implying that opinions of their constituents are similarly unanimous. Nonsensse.
The vote on the stormwater fee was a clear instance of them failing to do their due diligence and advocating for the residents. Too many of them seem too passive or distracted. With a few notable exceptions, they don't appear engaged and ask hard or uncomfortable questions at their meetings.
Maybe it's the fault of many of the people in this city for not demanding more of the Council. We have too many old hands here who advocate for issues (like the drones and crosswalks) near and dear to them and their friends, and they are really good at commanding the ear of the Council. Strangely, they seem not to be moved much for the pocketbook issues like the storm fee that matter a lot to working people. Why is that? They define elitism in the worst sense.
The Council has been talking a lot recently about the need for "disruption" on out streets because that's what a healthy town requires.Lots of uncomfortable ideas in the public sphere, they say, is critical to a city's survival. I couldn't agree more. So may I suggest that the Council lead by example and introduce a little "disruption" to their own meetings? They need to honestly examine why they are sitting there and speak up for residents, even if that leads to some hurt feelings. A little disruption right now is exactly what we all need.
What a joke this city has become. Ethredge, Beck, Reckman, Teece and the rest of the morons should be run outta this town. And each politician who had any hand or role in this joke of a process should be impeached and/or resign immediately. Every single household should also appeal their assessed bill. Disgusting.
How can they (businesses) end up paying so little of the fee(22%?), if everyone is measured the same? And why didn't the CDM recommendation work? How willthe city council look at what Mr. Ford said, if it's true. … Is anyone looking into this? I wish more people read this before now.
Kirby, this little expose raises more questions than it answers. Does the gazette ever read this or have someone investigating?
Crowley's too busy with the daily ordinary. I agree with you. Someone needs to spends some time with the rates as they have been reworked by DPW staff. Maybe they ended up being fairly assessed. I thought I would focus on the public process, and how it worked, which is not too well. It's the Northampton version of the bum's rush, jam measures through, late at night.
There is little hope for the ordinary citizen in this backwater. We get screwed and our giddy councilors hug each other. It's embarrassing (western mass, you're the hillbillies of the commonwealth don't you know?), The grown ups in town, meanwhile, get real busy while the 'elite' celebrate an empty suit for mayor and a high school dropout for council president who is nothing more than a big bloated ox, a locally worshiped pontificating ass of a radio host as our best leader, this is what we get. Lazy self congratulatory pseudo progressives. That is the Northampton City Council. Hope all your chamber friends are happy.
You said it, Anonymous. I would laugh if I weren't crying so much.
My question is, what are we going to do in Northampton to raise concern and greater awareness among the voters in this town to demand more from our politicians? Does anyone have any ideas?
someone suggested a slate of candidates. a few brave souls willing to be shunned by the in crowd. capable people willing to disrupt the job security money party. i would vote for any loud and menacing new comer.
I'm completely in favor of a slate of opposition candidates. But we had a couple of brave people recently who ran for seats, including a couple of challengers to Spector. But they were both handily defeated, which was somewhat of a shock to me. Was there anything about their candidacies that turned people off?
Uh Hello??!! The 'best practices' never passed anything. all that was a bunch of gobblygook to distract from the same old same old. Until we start auditing these depts (Read: Planning, fire, police… ) we are just a bunch of rubes getting yanked around by the bourgeois, the petty bourgeois, and the ambitious political 'celebrities' that are so full of themselves. sickening. Feiden, Duggan. Seinkawitz . should all be gone. Fat Chance with this wimp of mayor. Hell, I'm thinking seriously about getting out of this twisted town because of crap like this storm fee formula.
Not dealing with the exploding department budgets, and simply covering them up with tax increases, has been the mayor's biggest failure. The other was the big lie he told during a hearing on the override when he promised that he would meet with the new president of Smith to negotiate a new PILOT agreement. He probably assumed voters would forget about his promise and not hold him accountable. I haven't.
This is WHY I tell everyone in town that the Council desperately needs replacing on this year's ballot – and yet the only opposed positions (so far) are for City Clerk and Mayor! Unanimous votes DO NOT represent all voices in this city, and is a literal slap in the face to families who have lived here for years, if not generations. The city needs CHANGE, not the same tricks and lies they pull on citizens year after year.
I've been a fan/reader for many years. I hope to see more coverage of the Stormwater variety, and the fact that we were told that the attempt to repeal it via citizen initiative, was unlawful due to being outside of the initial 21-day installation of the fee.
We have far, far too many lazy "Hillary"-esque voters in this city — privileged, overly deferential and paper "liberals" who kind of look down on those who rock the boat and raise their voices on the economic inequality issues. Sure, you can yell, demonstrate and scream about the war in Afghanistan or drones or refugees, because that's completely in their template of what it means to be the activist liberal. But when it comes to demanding economic fairness and justice for regular working and middle income people, they melt away. It's just not in them to give a crap about these issues. I think that's why you don't see people challenging incumbents. Your ideas will just not get welcomed on the Council. Until we can change minds in this city and demand that the many voters here confront their blatant disregard for those of us at the lower ends of the income spectrum, and not just those poor souls that have come here from Libya or Syria in a rubber raft, nothing will change.
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Should the US Use "Clean Coal" as an Energy Source?
PRO (yes)
The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity stated the following in its article "Commitment to Clean," available at its website (accessed Mar. 13, 2009):
"Thanks to an abundance of coal, combined with American ingenuity and advanced technologies, we don't have to choose between affordable energy and improved air quality.
That's right – electricity from coal is getting even cleaner everyday.
There has never been an environmental challenge facing the coal-based electricity sector for which technology has not provided the ultimate solution. Even as the use of coal for generating electricity has nearly tripled over the past 30 years, emissions from coal-based power plants have been dramatically reduced through the use of advanced technologies. Today's coal-based electricity generating fleet is 70% cleaner than it was in 1970 (based upon emissions per unit of energy produced)…
The industry has committed itself to even further emissions reductions to eliminate virtually all emissions of pollutants regulated under federal and state clean air laws.
The key environmental question facing the coal-based electricity sector is whether coal can remain a viable part of our energy future even as the U.S. and the world implement programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the energy sector. Technology experts agree, that we'll meet this challenge, and that coal will remain a low-cost energy option in the future even considering the cost of new technologies to capture and store CO2 – a common greenhouse gas."Mar. 13, 2009 - American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity
The United States Department of Energy Office of Clean Coal stated the following in its Sep. 2006 publication "Office of Clean Coal Strategic Plan: Moving America Towards an Affordable 'Zero Emissions' Coal Energy Option," available at its website:
"Imagine a future in which power from our most abundant and lowest cost energy resource is pollution-free. Imagine a future in which we no longer have concerns about the effects power and fuels production will have on the global climate of our children or their children. Imagine a future in which America's energy security is strengthened by replacing increasing amounts of imported oil with clean-burning, affordable fuels made from plentiful resources within our borders.
The Department of Energy's (DOE) Clean Coal Program is working to make this future possible. For the first time in the long history of fossil fuel use, we now see emerging from our laboratories and test sites the tools and technologies that can make the concept of a virtually zero-emission ('zero' emissions), coal based energy plant a viable reality – not 50 or 100 years into the future – but within the coming decade.
The aim of 'zero' emissions coal is to remove all the environmental concerns (including carbon emissions) over the use of coal."Sep. 2006 - United States Department of Energy (DOE)
H. Sterling Burnett, PhD, Senior Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), stated the following in his Jan. 2008 article "Power for the Future: The Debate Over New Coal-Fired Power Plants in Texas," available at the Texas Public Policy Foundation website:
"Only one fuel presently meets the United State's and Texas' increasing demand for energy independence, low cost, reliability, and the ability to meed increasing demand in the short-time frame needed: coal… the U.S. has 27 percent of the world's coal reserves, enough domestic reserves to meet demand for more than 250 years…
Fortunately, building new coal-fired power plants does not mean dirtier air and increased health risks…
The pace of technological improvement and change, combined with existing and increasingly stringent federal air pollution requirements, ensure that air pollution will substantially decrease in the next two decades – even as energy use in general and coal generated electricity in particular continue to increase…
How has the nation's air quality improved despite the increasing use of coal to generate electricity? The short answer is older coal-fired power plants emitted 90 percent more pollution than new state-of-the-art plants."Jan. 2008 - H. Sterling Burnett, PhD
Bryan J. Hannegan, PhD, Vice President of Environment and Generation at the Electric Power Research Institute, stated the following in his Mar. 22, 2007 testimony, "Future of Coal," for the US Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources:
"Coal currently provides over half of the electricity used in the United States, and most forecasts of future energy use in the United States show that coal will continue to have a dominant share in our electric power generation for the foreseeable future. Coal is a stably priced, affordable, domestic fuel that can be used in an environmentally responsible manner. Through development of advanced pollution control technologies and sensible regulatory programs, emissions of criteria air pollutants from new coal-fired power plants have been reduced by more than 90% over the past three decades. And by displacing otherwise needed imports of natural gas or fuel oil, coal helps address America's energy security and reduces our trade deficit with respect to energy."Mar. 22, 2007 - Bryan J. Hannegan, PhD
Robert Byrd, US Senator (D-WV), stated the following in a Jan. 27, 2009 press release titled "Byrd Announces Billions for Coal in Senate Stimulus Bill," available at his website:
"Clean, carbon-neutral coal can be a 'green' energy… As Congress strives to develop a national energy policy that will break our dependence on foreign oil, it is crucial to ensure that coal, burned in cleaner more efficient ways, is part of our nation's diverse energy mix for the future. These investments [$4.6 billion for coal projects] will help to bolster West Virginia's economic future…
As I have said time and time again, the nation must invest in energy resources here at home. Today I was proud to support this stimulus legislation that will help to ensure employment for the hard-working men and women in the coal fields."Jan. 27, 2009 - Robert C. Byrd, JD
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Frances Beinecke, MA, President of the Natural Resources Defense Council, stated the following in her Feb. 27, 2009 article "Debunking the Myth of Clean Coal," available at the onEarth website:
"Following the example of Big Tobacco, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, an industry-funded group, is spending $45 million on advertising in an attempt to convince the American public that coal power is good for the environment. But no matter how much the industry spends on PR wizardry, it can't turn myth into reality. Saying coal is clean is like talking about healthy cigarettes. There is no such thing as clean coal…
Every single step in the coal-power cycle is dirty, beginning with extraction. The method of mountaintop-removal mining involves literally blowing off the tops of mountains and dumping the debris into valleys below. More than 700 miles of Appalachian mountain streams have been buried under the resultant waste. Meanwhile, communities must endure continuous explosions, damaged water supplies, and mine operations as close as 300 feet from homes and schools. Pollution from coal-fired plants is not only the biggest contributor to global warming, but it also contributes to 24,000 deaths a year in the United States. Even after it's burned, coal leaves a hazardous legacy. In December the nation witnessed just how dangerous coal ash waste can be when a massive spill at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant in Tennessee flooded more than 400 acres with 1 billion gallons of cancer-causing sludge. There are 1,300 similar coal ash dumps in the country, and not one of them is regulated by the federal government."Feb. 27, 2009 - Frances Beinecke, MA
Van Jones, JD, Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality and Founding President of Green For All, stated the following during a Jan. 7, 2009 radio interview by Tim Einenkel on Air America titled "A Green Economy: Van Jones," available at the Air America website:
"Clean coal is a fantasy fuel. It does not exist. Right now, coal-fired power plants can remove some of the sulphur from the pollution that the plants spew out of their smokestacks. But the carbon – which is our number one enemy, which is the pollutant that is literally cooking the planet – cannot be effectively captured when power plants burn carbon. The technology simply does not exist.
Besides, show me a clean process for strip-mining, or for mountain-top removal. Coal is not just dirty to burn. It is dirty to mine. The reason we hear all this chatter about clean coal is that the coal industry is dumping millions of dollars into a PR campaign. Clean coal does represent a breakthrough – in the marketing of coal. But it does not represent a breakthrough in the burning of coal.
If we are going to call for clean coal, we may as well promote other fantasy fuels, too. Why not? For instance, let's propose that unicorns pull our cars for us. Let's propose that the tooth fairy bring us our energy at night and leave it under our pillow. All three of those ideas – clean coal, cars pulled by unicorn and the tooth fairy bringing us energy – are equally fanciful and ludicrous."Jan. 7, 2009 - Van Jones, JD
Rainforest Action Network, an environmental non-profit organization, stated the following in a fact sheet on its website titled "The Dirty Truth About Clean Coal," available at www.ran.org (accessed Mar. 12, 2009):
"All fossil fuels, including coal, are running out. The longer we keep relying on them, the worse off our environment, climate and society will be.
The fact is, coal will never be sustainable or clean, so don't let the coal industry con you with slick slogans and marketing…
Currently, the term 'clean coal' covers everything from scrubbers on conventional coal plants to marginally more efficient burning processes to futuristic 'near-zero emission' technologies that may never be technologically, economically or socially viable…
What the coal industry conveniently omits from its sales pitch is the fact that the entire life cycle of coal is dirty. Before it is burned, coal must be mined, transported and refined. Coal extraction leads to entire mountain ranges destroyed by strip mining; rising rates of asthma and lung disease; water pollution; and the creation of massive amounts of toxic wastes. Coal enthusiasts never mention what it takes to get coal out of the ground in the first place."Mar. 12, 2009 - Rainforest Action Network
William L. Chameides, PhD, Dean of the Nicholas School of Earth & Ocean Sciences at Duke University, stated the following in his Feb. 4, 2009 article "Clean Coal's Dirty Secret – When 'Clean' Isn't Clean," available at the Nicholas School of the Environment website:
"Coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel. Burning it produces a myriad of noxious air pollutants. That's a problem. Clean coal technology supposedly scrubs those pollutants before they get into the atmosphere. Problem gone, right? Not quite…
Since 2002 coal-fired power plants in the United States have produced an average of more than 120 million short tons of coal waste each year. In 2007 the United States produced more than 131 million short tons of coal waste. Only about 40 percent of that is recycled, and the rest is dumped into landfills and containment ponds…
There is also the serious problem of air pollutants: these include sulfur oxides (SOX), nitrogen oxides (NOX) and particulate matter (PM), which contribute to acid rain and smog, and a plethora of toxic metals such as mercury…
In the case of air pollution from coal-fired power plants… we've developed and implemented technologies that remove the air pollutants from the flue gas and convert them into solid materials…
Once all these solid products are 'caught,' they are thrown into the solid waste stream building up around the country in containment ponds and landfills."Feb. 4, 2009 - William L. Chameides, PhD
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., LLM, Chief Prosecuting Attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper and Chairman of the Waterkeeper Alliance, stated the following in his Nov. 29, 2007 article "Coal's True Cost," available at the Huffington Post website:
"There is no such thing as 'clean coal.' And coal is only 'cheap' if one ignores its calamitous externalized costs. In addition to global warming, these include dead forests and sterilized lakes from acid rain, poisoned fisheries in 49 states and children with damaged brains and crippled health from mercury emissions, millions of asthma attacks and lost work days and thousands dead annually from ozone and particulates. Coal's most catastrophic and permanent impacts are from mountaintop removal mining. If the American people could see what I have seen from the air and ground during my many trips to the coalfields of Kentucky and West Virginia: leveled mountains, devastated communities, wrecked economies and ruined lives, there would be a revolution in this country."Nov. 29, 2007 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., LLM


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- 500g black-eye-peas
- 1/2 medium onion
- salt and pepper to taste
- 2 litres vegetable oil
- 1 cup Dende (Palm Oil)
For the sauce:
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 medium onion, finely diced
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1.5 cups canned chopped tomatos
- 1/2 cup fresh coriander, finely chopped
- 1 cup of small cooked shrimp
- 1/2 cup of dried shrimp
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 2 green chillies (optional)
- In a large bowl soak the black-eye-peas overnight. Drain and add to a food processor. Pulse a couple of times to break the beans. Transfer them back into the bowl and cover with water. Using your hands, squeeze, grind and still the beans to release the skins. Let the skins float to the top and tip the bowl to pour some of the water with all the floating skins. Repeat until all skins are gone. Drain.
- Working in batches, pureé de beans and the 1/2 onion until you achieve a homogeneous paste similar in consistency to humous. Add salt and pepper to taste and stir. Set aside.
- Heat the olive oil in a medium pan. Add the onion and fry until translucent the add the garlic, the dried shrimp and the chilly (if using). Fry for another 2 0r 3 minutes. Then add the tomatos and season to taste. Simmer for 5 minutes .
- Heat the vegetable oil to 170c and add the palm oil.
- Using 2 spoons, scoop some of the bean pureé and make as big a quenelle as you can manage. Gently slide it into the oil. Let it fry for a couple of minutes on one side then tun them over with a slotted spoon. Keep frying until they reach a deep golden brown colour. Drain them and sit on a plate lined with kitchen town to absorb any excess oil.
- Serve hot with the shrimp sauce, some hot pepper sauce and a few wedges of lime.


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Interview with Pastor Kevin DeYoung about taking God at His Word (Hoping to post a full review of this book in the next few weeks)
Interview with Dr. Alex Chediak on preparing your teens for college
Top Ten Christian Books (Plus One) For Graduates (in case you missed it last week)
Three on the Trinity:
How Does the Trinity Apply Practically to My Life
Trinity as Foundational for Family Ministry
How Does the Trinity Apply Practically to Your Life Today
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text: Alberto Turco, an authority on Gregorian chant, became director of the musical establishment of Verona Cathedral in 1965. He is a lecturer in Gregorian chant in the Ambrosian Pontifical College of Sacred Music in Milan and teaches liturgical musicology at the San Zeno Theological Institute in Verona, as well as serving as a guest lecturer of the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome and at various international congresses. Alberto Turco is the author of various studies on Gregorian and Ambrosian chant and is the editor of hitherto unpublished works by earlier Veronese composers. He has directed a number of recording and in 1981 became the artistic director of the Nova Schola Gregoriana, assuming direction of the women's Gregorian schola, In Dulci Jubilo, in 1988.


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'The spy story can vary enormously. It can be at one low pole, if you like, Ian Fleming, writing to get himself readers and get himself money. I'm sorry to say it, but that's true. And at the other extreme is Len Deighton, using the spy story to say things about people and about the world in just the way that Graham Greene used the spy story for that. In Conrad – very happy to use the spy story to penetrate into people and their motives and why they do extraordinary and absurd things and Len is with them all along.'Now, I have no doubt that what Keating is saying about Deighton is completely accurate. Deighton does not write mere 'kiss kiss bang bang' spy thrillers, but I think he is being a little unfair in his assessment of Ian Fleming, who always seems to be so undervalued as a 'popular' spy novelist.
Let us not forget that it was HRF Keating himself who acted as the go-between for Glidrose in 1980 when John Gardner was asked to be the continuation James Bond author. From John Gardner's site:
'In the autumn of 1980 I was living in the Republic of Ireland: about two miles outside Wicklow town. There, on a glorious morning when the leaves were turning to red and gold, I received a letter from HRF Keating, the author of those wonderful Inspector Ghote books. In fact I did not recognise his handwriting so I put it into the pile I usually held back until my lunch break: the letters I thought were either love or hate mail. When I finally opened the envelope – Basildon Bond notepaper – I found that Harry Keating was acting as a go-between for Glidrose, the literary copyright holders in the James Bond books. They were sounding me out: would I consider writing a continuation James Bond novel?'Perhaps some of Keating's view of Fleming's Bond novels comes from the article Ian Fleming wrote in 1962 entitled How To Write A Thriller,
'I am not an angry young, or even middle-aged, man. My books are not "engaged". I have no message for suffering humanity and, though I was bullied at school and lost my virginity like so many of us used to do in the old days, I have never been tempted to foist these and other harrowing personal experiences on the public. My opuscula do not aim at changing people or making them go out and do something. They are written for warm-blooded heterosexuals in railway trains, aeroplanes or beds.'Fleming continues he once asked an 'angry young' writer 'of renown' 'how he described himself on his passport':
"I bet you call yourself an Author," I said. He agreed, with a shade of reluctance, perhaps because he scented sarcasm on the way. "Just so," I said. "Well, I describe myself as a Writer. There are authors and artists and then again there are writers and painters."Perhaps Fleming here is being a little too modest, polite and admirably unpretentious, as Kingsley Amis in The James Bond Dossier (1965) points out in pages 140-1 in the 1966 Pan paperback version:
This rather spiteful jibe, which forced him, most unwillingly, into the ranks of the Establishment, while stealing for myself the halo of a simple craftsman from the people, made the angry young man angrier than ever and I don't now see him as often as I used to. But the point I wish to make is that if you decide to become a professional writer, you must, broadly speaking, decide whether you wish to write for fame, for pleasure or for money. I write, unashamedly, for pleasure and money.
I also feel that, while thrillers may not be Literature with a capital L, it is possible to write what I can best describe as "Thrillers designed to be read as literature", the practitioners of which have included such as Edgar Allan Poe, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Eric Ambler and Graham Greene. I see nothing shameful in aiming as high as these.'
If Mr. Fleming had wanted the Bond books to be read as literature (a big 'if', I would bet), he certainly went about it the wrong way. To begin with, he shouldn't have behaved as unpretentiously, even flippantly, as he did when interviewed.
'My books tremble on the brink of corn.'
'I have a rule of never looking back. Otherwise I'd wonder, "How could I write such piffle?"'
'[I am concerned in] the business of getting intelligent, uninhabited adolescents of all ages, in trains, aeroplanes and beds, to turn over the page.'
That's no way to go on. Mr Fleming seemed never to have heard of the most elementary maxim of the writer's trade, People take you at your own valuation. If you tell them you're a genius, or a mere entertainer, they'll tell one another you're a genius or a mere entertainer. The remedy was plain to see and not onerous. A few public statements with every other sentence beginning, 'As a writer I…,' a couple of articles explaining that the lot of 007 allegorized the lot of Western man, the Secret Service symbolized the contemporary consciousness, and critical esteem would have gone shooting up.'And at p. 142 Amis continues,
'That huge virtue of never stooping to pretentiousness, of never going in for any kind of arty or symbolic flannel, has cost Mr Fleming a formidable amount of critical acclaim, but it's done as much as anything to bring him readers. Whatever the rights and wrongs of using literature as escape from life, there's a lot to be said for using one kind of literature as escape from others.'
TBB Article No. 18
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The Masquerade module is useful to those users who wants to temporarily switch to another user account. It also provide option to switch back to the original account.
We can use this module for Individual users as well as specific to User Role
Steps to use Masquerade module in Drupal 7
- Download Masquerade module and place it to sites/all/modules folder.
- Install that module from Admin , Modules
- Set "Masquerade" block from Admin, Structure, Block.
- Set permission. We can configure "Masquerade" module in two ways
When we specify any other user in textbox and press Go button block appear as follows
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Hi friends! Today I have a fun and relaxing oil painting tutorial that would be a good project for someone who would like to try out oil painting for the first time.
I am using water mixable oils which behave exactly like traditional oils (slow drying, rich color, buttery consistency) without the need of stinky solvents. You can simply use water to rinse your brushes and thin your paint. The misconception is that oil paints are stinky and fumey but that's not quite true, it is the solvents that can be stinky and harmful. As with any paint though you should respect it and work with it as it is intended in a safe manner. I'll share safety tips at the end of the post 🙂
This tutorial is sponsored by Jerry's Artarama! Use coupon code: frugal20FS49 for 20% off $49 + Free Shipping (Excludes: Sale, Super Sale, Egift Cards, Buy It Try It's and Vendor restricted items. Look for the green coupon eligible icon on the product listing.
- Berlin Water Mixable Oils (set of 10)
- Creative Mark Mimik (faux) Hog Brushes (I have the 17 piece set)
- 9″x12″ canvas panel
- Masters Brush soap
- Reference photo
Studio safety tips!
- Don't eat your paint! I know this sounds silly but it is important to keep food out of your studio and to wash your hands properly before eating and drinking. I have dipped my paintbrush in my coffee before and luckily I noticed it before I took a sip! 🙂 If you do want to have a drink handy use a covered water bottle or travel mug. This will also save you from spilling your drink on your art! Also if you use a cup for paint water or a dish as a palette don't use them again for food.
- Get the gloves! If you are worried about absorbing chemicals into your skin you can wear surgical gloves. I prefer to use a barrier hand cream but I am not too worried about absorption because I don't get that much paint on me and I don't often use the toxic stuff. I know the chalky feeling of pastels give some people the "oogies" so gloves would be a great solution to this!
- Say it, don't spray it! Watch how you apply your paint. Many paints (especially expensive quality artist ones) are not meant to be spray applied due to hazardous chemicals in the pigments. Read the labels before you airbrush or spatter your inks and paints and never blow your pastel dust. Instead tap the paper into your trash so the dust falls down and doesn't get kicked up into the air where you might breathe it in.
- You gotta keep it ventilated! Our paints, sealers, fixatives and adhesives can emit fumes. Even the odorless products are not great to breathe so you need to make sure you have air circulating. Cracking a window and using a fan is great or wait til the end of the day to use the worst offenders and then let your studio air out overnight. Listen to your body, if you start to feel light-headed or get stuffed up open a window and take a break. Some people are more sensitive than others so when possible take a whiff of a potential product at the store before buying to make sure you can tolerate the smell.
- Protect the pets! Dump out rinse water (or cover it) at the end of the day so curious cats won't imbibe your delicious paint water. Also store wet paintings up on a high shelf or easel so they are not walked on or rubbed against….don't ask me how I came up with this tip…
- Watch the young'uns! Your art materials are perfectly safe if used as intended. The labels will tell you if there are hazardous materials and often how they should be handled and whether they are safe for children. And "safe for children" also means if used for their intended purposes. Obviously you don't let your kids drink glue or eat crayons. Still, the best way to keep your kids safe in the art room is to always supervise them. If you can't, then, an inexpensive latch on the door too high for them to reach is cheap insurance. If you can't block the kids away from your supplies as they are in a shared space use containers that the little ones can't open. This is one reasons I don't particularly like odor free products like Gamsol. It looks and smells like water even though it is a powerful solvent. It makes me nervous because small children or pets might not know the difference so always I keep it in its original safety capped container. *Gamsol is a great product for dissolving colored pencils and I use it but the fact that is has no odor freaks me out!
I hope these safety tips made you aware of potential dangers without scaring you. There is no need to be afraid, just be aware of what you are using and how it should be used and you will be fine. Thanks for stopping by and til next time happy crafting!
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Organizing your own group ride or bicycling event is a great way to make an immediate, positive impact on your community. It provides an opportunity for people newer to bicycling and old friends to explore our cities in a new way, socialize and increase awareness of bicycling on our roads.
It may seem like a lot of work, but promoting your next ride is easy with help from dedicated blogs like TheMiamiBikeScene.com, facebook event listings and pages like ours, meetup groups (EMERGE and South Florida Bike Club), twitter pages like @BikeMIA and newer social media outlets like What Miami and What Lauderdale or Yelp.
If your ride or event is expecting hundreds of people, one group that is equally important and too often overlooked is the police. Let the police know what you are doing. You have a right to use the road and should not be asked for a permit unless you actually plan to physically block the entire public space or deny anyone else's access to it. (Yes, in this case, going to the police has its drawbacks. Please, call us and we'll help you through it) Anytime you have that many people in one place, the law of averages suggests someone may call out to Police or Fire/Rescue at some point. It is a simple courtesy to give them a heads up. That way, if some irate motorist calls claiming cyclists are taking over, the po-po can simply say, 'Yes, we know. Thanks for your call and have a nice day." Think about it- if your responsibility was to know what was going on in an area, wouldn't you appreciate a heads-up? A little civic engagement goes a long way.
More to come soon….


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This gorgeous necklace is inspired by the beautiful bird, the dove. A symbol of peace and freedom, we love the meaning behind this necklace.
The pendant measures width 30mm, height including bale 40mm and depth 1mm. All measurements are approximate and measured at widest/longest point.
This pendant is crafted in sterling silver and is completed with an 18″ rolo chain.
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