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The technology-focused extension of the Pangaea geology field course, Pangaea-X, is in full swing this week on Lanzarote, part of the Canary Islands. The test campaign combines geology and space exploration with high-tech equipment to prepare humans for extra-terrestrial terrains.
Over the course of the week ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer, scientists, operations experts and engineers will work side-by-side on eight experiments and technology demonstrations to advance European know-how of human and robotic mission operations.
Known as the island of a thousand volcanoes, Lanzarote was chosen because of its geological similarity with Mars such as a volcanic origin, mild sedimentary processes owing to a dry climate, little vegetation and a well-preserved landscape. It is the perfect setting to test the best way for astronauts to take rock samples of the terrain.
Communications delays that are as much a part of space missions as sampling and scientific objectives will also be included in the campaign. Astronauts operating rovers on the surface of the Moon, for example, must contend with low-quality links and delays in space.
One of the experiments taking place this week is called Analog-1 and will test the science, operations and communications aspects of an exploratory mission.
From Lanzarote Matthias will drive a rover located at ESA's main technology centre in The Netherlands.
A team of scientists will advise Matthias on the most interesting samples from a scientific point of view. He will use a tool that integrates real-time positioning, data sharing, voice chat and much more. This Electronic Field Book is an all-in-one, easy-to-use and plug-and-play device 'made in ESA'.
The dry-run is a precursor to the same experiment that ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano will carry out next year but this time from the International Space Station, taking Moon-targeted operations out into space. Humankinds's only orbital outpost in space is an excellent stand-in for orbital platforms around the Moon, allowing humans to test the waters for future exploration.
The International Space Station has a long history of being used as a test-bed for exploration techniques and technology. ESA has been running experiments controlling robots on Earth from space for over five years and 20 November 2018 marks 20 years of collaboration on this greatest international project of all time. In celebration, take a look back at 20 of our most memorable moments on the International Space Station. Eager to take part in celebrations online? Share your most memorable Space Station moments, photos or footage using hashtag #SpaceStation20th.


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I know this isn't a study guide post. I promise to continue as I get time but this one is a short and sweet one for future reference to myself and hopefully anyone else who needs it.
Each morning I wake up and before I get started with my day I tend to check my email on my phone. Typically it's filled with event messages about jobs that ran over the night or the occasional disk space warning message. However I was greeted with a nice AutoSupport message to the tune of:
That sucks. This filer resides at my other datacenter. A quick login to the console and this is what I find:
FILER1> vol status -f Broken disks RAID Disk Device HA SHELF BAY CHAN Pool Type RPM Used (MB/blks) Phys (MB/blks) --------- ------ ------------- ---- ---- ---- ----- -------------- -------------- not responding 0a.10.7 0a 10 7 SA:A 0 SAS 10000 560000/1146880000 572325/1172123568
Looks like a failed drive. Double check and make sure that the spare has taken over and is reconstructing:
FILER1> sysconfig -r data 0a.10.3 0a 10 3 SA:A 0 SAS 10000 560000/1146880000 572325/1172123568 (reconstruction 8% completed)
Looks like the filer is doing everything it's supposed to do just fine. Since there's nothing I can really do, I notify our sysadmin in that office and I go ahead with my morning routine and head into the office. The beautiful thing about AutoSupport is that it goes ahead and creates a ticket with NetApp support and I just wait for the phone call from the technician concerning my 4-hour response replacement.
When I arrived at the office, our sysadmin tells me that he can't locate the broken drive as it's not blinking in the chassis. This seems strange.
This is easily fixable. From the CLI there's an option to blink the LED on any drive in the array. Since we know that 0a.10.7 is the failed drive, I go ahead and set the drive LED to blink for our sysadmin so he's completely sure he's replacing the correct drive.
FILER1> priv set advanced Warning: These advanced commands are potentially dangerous; use them only when directed to do so by NetApp personnel. FILER1*> blink_on 0a.10.7 <drive is now blinking and is then replaced by sysadmin> FILER1*> Mon Apr 8 12:03:00 EDT [FILER1:monitor.globalStatus.ok:info]: The system's global status is normal. FILER1*> blink_off 0a.10.7 FILER1*> priv set FILER1> disk show –n DISK OWNER POOL SERIAL NUMBER HOME ------------ ------------- ----- ------------- ------------- 0a.10.7 Not Owned NONE PPWSDPRD FILER1> disk assign 0a.10.7 Mon Apr 8 12:04:57 EDT [FILER1:diskown.changingOwner:info]: changing ownership for disk 0a.10.7 (S/N PPWSDPRD) from unowned (ID 4294967295) to FILER1 (ID XXXXXXXXXX)
And that takes care of that. A pretty easy thing to fix, especially if you're not on-site and you have to direct someone on which drive to change out remotely.

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sooooo I made my mommy a Danica scarf out of paton's sws.
took my 5 days of class knitting and skipping out on smoking breaks.
it's done, pretty, and itchy.
what do you suggest for softening it?
honestly, i usually knit for dirty hipsters, so blocking and weaving in ends is something they don't want (they want it to look hand knit, maaaaan (ugh)).
ANYWAYS, thanks for the advice fellow craftsters.


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She was born in a small town, but a desire to see the world gave her a nursing career and a front row seat to World War II.
Mary Elizabeth Ullrich Lee, known to friends and family as "Betty," was the youngest in a family of eight kids. Born in 1922, she finished high school and went on to pursue higher education in a time when such a thing was rare for young women, especially those raised in the country.
"Some of her other siblings had quit school to work because times were so hard," said Barbara Sessa, the town clerk and Mrs. Lee's niece.
Mrs. Lee died Wednesday at age 90. She had been healthy most of her life, but over the past couple of years had begun having medical problems.
"She was so friendly," said her nephew, Paul Hermann, who recalled dinners of home-cooked vegetables grown at the farm owned by Mrs. Lee and her husband, Ralph. "She would wait until we got there and pick the corn and then take it to him and he'd saute it in a pan. It was the best corn you ever had."
The daughter of German immigrants who settled in San Antonio, Mrs. Lee grew up in a poor farming family. Once, while driving to Pennsylvania for her brother's wedding, her father accidentally hit a chicken in the road. Not wanting to waste food, they checked into a tourist court and cooked the bird.
She went to nursing school in Gadsden, Ala. and earned a degree as a registered nurse in 1943. A yearning to see what lay beyond her hometown prompted her to join the Army. After training in several locations, she was sent to Moji, Japan, just after the United States had bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.
Half a world away from home, she found herself caring for a patient from Dade City, though she had not known him growing up. Ralph Lee suffered from pneumonia for three months.
They struck up a friendship. After he was released, he became the mess sergeant for the hospital. She was an officer, and he was enlisted, so fraternization was forbidden. The two had to sneak off to the city and or to quiet hillside cemeteries, where they discovered their mutual interest in gardening. They fell in love and began planning a future in Florida.
Later Betty would joke about their courtship, saying "I met Ralph in bed and didn't see him with clothes on for three months."
The couple married shortly after they left the Army and returned to Pasco County.
"She wasn't a clown, but she was always witty," Sessa said.
Mrs. Lee worked for two San Antonio doctors. During that time, she had two sons and juggled a career and motherhood before that became the norm.
"I don't know how she did all that she did raising her kids, helping Uncle Ralph, and working as a nurse at the same time," her niece, Margaret Beaumont, wrote in the funeral home guest book.
Mrs. Lee was well known in the community as there were few doctors in the area.
"Everybody went to those doctors," Sessa said.
In the mid-1960s they moved to Homosassa, where Ralph Lee had a job at the Crystal River power plant.
When she wasn't working, Mrs. Lee loved to garden. She also was eager to share anything she learned, whether it was how to freeze strawberries more efficiently or process tomatoes.
"She wanted everybody to benefit from her awareness," Sessa said.
After her husband died in 1993, she spent time traveling, and cruised to Hawaii, the Panama Canal and Alaska.
Family members said she never lost her ability to make others feel special.
"You could tell her anything, and she always kept it in confidence," recalled Sessa. "She was never preachy or judgmental. She would listen and gently guide you."
The family gathered for a huge 90th birthday bash during the summer. They read Mrs. Lee's life story and showed photos on a big screen. Everyone took home a CD of snapshots.
Nephew Paul Hermann talked with Mrs. Lee in her last days.
"They held the phone up to her ear," he said. "I told her when she got up there (to heaven) to think about us and pray for us down here.
"I promised her I was not going to cry. But I didn't make it."
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A memorial for a much-loved teacher and historian at Rydal Penrhos has been unveiled.
Rob Tickner, who passed away last year aged 62, was a huge figure at the school and a special bench has been made in his honour thanks to the fundraising efforts of staff and pupils.
Mr Tickner had been part of the Rydal Penrhos community for 32 years, and a huge number of pupils and staff gathered in the Memorial Quad for the unveiling on Friday, March 10.
Also in attendance were his wife Birgitta and three of their children: Emily, Paul and Dominica.
Rev'd Nick Sissons conducted the brief service during morning break, while poems were read out by pupils and memories shared by staff.
Funds for the bench were raised from last year's Wesley House Day and Modern Foreign Languages Week.
Mr Tickner was a key contributor to both the house and department and was extremely passionate about both.
The memorial will now be placed on New Field, where you would see the teacher often during rugby or cricket matches.
Rev'd Sissons, said: "Rob was such a cherished member of the school and it was very fitting that we were able to unveil this bench on a day he held dear as a proud member of Wesley House.
"He contributed so much to Rydal Penrhos throughout the years, and those are memories that each of us who knew him will take with us wherever we go.
"Seeing so many pupils and staff turn up for the service just shows how respected and loved he was by all of us, and he is still greatly missed."


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I love Ferraris, especially those from the early days of the marque. There's a lot of excitement today in car circles over the official launch of LaFerrari, the ultimate Ferrari driving machine.
The statistics are amazing. Top Gear says that, 'with a total combined output of 950bhp, LaFerrari will get from 0-62mph in 2.9 seconds, hit 124mph four seconds later, and top out 'in excess' of 218 miles an hour'. NINE HUNDRED AND FIFTY BHP….And it's got KERS in that.
A direct rival for the McLaren P1 and Porsche 918, LaFerrari is designed and largely built in-house at Maranello. Looks are a bit 'meh' (it's not got no Pininfarina styling at all) but apparently it's so fast that it 'warps scenery' and is 'violent, visceral, synapse snapping, and utterly, utterly addictive'.
Yours for over 1 million pounds (should you be one of the lucky 499 owners selected by Ferrari). Listen to the noise of the V12 on the video.


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Fare thee well, my honey
When love is gone now, I think,
Was it worth it, or not, who can tell,
In these cries and woes, I slowly sink,
When my wings burnt, where I fell,
Where I dwell now, in a small town,
Shattered pieces, of my heart broken,
In these cries and wors, I slowly drown,
Would that it be a dream, I'd be woken,
When joy is gone now, my laughs are fake,
I am a shell now, of my former glory,
In these cries and woes, I slowly break,
Who'd know my tragic tale, my sad story,
How life is a mess now, absent dream,
Absent ambition, absent aim, absent fire,
In these cries and woes, I slowly scream,
When you were gone, I lost desire,
This mind singing, this pen and paper,
How I am broke now, I have no money,
My passing life, in smoke and vapor,
In these cries and woes, I 'fare thee well oh honey'.
Black Sheep
In a bar of sheep black,
The discussion among our wolf pack,
Different opinions, strong views,
The passion in words, the valid argument they use,
A country divided, who is right,
Poor are suffering, rich have the might,
Every region has a story, crisis around,
Every country suffering, ego on the ground,
Shall we sit and discuss or start a revolution,
Is it time to take actions, it is time to find the solution,
The discussion is never ending,
The people involved just keep pretending,
To know it all, but fact of life,
Is complex and complicated, the strife,
The effort never ends, people in power lie,
But in the end we all die,
We want to help the people in need,
Provide shelter for them and feed them, and do a good deed,
Egoism brings us nowhere, in giving is the true joy,
Life is a precious gift, it is not a toy,
Individuals cannot save the world, we must gather the troops,
In company of like minded people, helping others in groups,
Rise rise rise and take what is yours,
Take the control, take the reigns, the power is yours.
Just Enough
May i have enough to get by,
To smoke herb and get high,
To visit other dimensions and fly,
To rise up, rebel and defy,
These people in power who deny,
These people with suit and tie,
Who make us suffer and cry,
Now their end is nigh,
Time for them to suffer and die,
A freedom you cannot buy,
No matter how hard you try,
They will never understand you and I,
I am anything but an ordinary guy,
I had dreams which were shattered and broken,
But I finally broke my silence and have spoken,
I listened to my mind and was free,
I appear to you here but I live in Bree,
Or some other fantacy land,
Dgenxali is my identity, my brand,
I am the singer, the guitarist, the drummer, the whole fucking band,
No matter how many times you throw me down, I always rise up and stand,
Dont be fooled by my greetings and smiles,
I have lived hundred lives and ran thousand miles,
I just want enough to take care,
Of my parents who have always been there,
And of my brother who studies hard,
Whose hard work will have a reward,
I just want enough to serve my country and make it proud,
To shine light on it and it's talented crowd,
Punjab, the land of five rivers is my mother,
The Sindhi, Balochi, Pakhtoon is my brother,
I just want enough to make this world a happy place,
To make it a paradise for people of every race,
To fight and make extinct the racism,
The nationalism, the nazism, the fascism,
I just want enough to look in God's face,
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Racist Brits awaiting free speech verdict in California
Amongst the many wabs, a couple of chinitos, and I'm sure more than a couple of gabachos currently in custody at the Santa Ana Jail are British nationals Simon Sheppard and Stephen Whittle. They haven't committed any crime in the United States but have nevertheless languished under the watchful eye of SanTana immigration guards for almost two years in a fascinating case involving free speech, international jurisdiction, Holocaust denial, and an American media that just doesn't give a damn about those topics.
Sheppard runs The Heretical Press, an online repository of far-right essays, photos, and just plain bizarre entries (don't they realize R. Crumb is being satirical when he publishes a comic titled "When the Niggers Take Over America"?), to which Whittle contributes. According to British reports, authorities raided Sheppard's flat in 2004 after a copy of his Tales of the Holohoax were found inside a synagogue. After discovering the contents of The Heretical, they arrested Sheppard and Whittle for distributing hate speech online.
If that's not Orwellian enough for you, refry this: Sheppard and Whittle claimed that British courts had no jurisdiction over The Heretical and its materials since its servers hum along in Torrance. But the Brits don't care.
Prosecutors didn't agree with their excuse, and convicted the two in January for publishing racist material online--the first conviction of its kind in the history of the United Kingdom. "People in this country are entitled to be racist and they are entitled to hold unpleasant points of view, but what they are not entitled to do is publish or distribute written material which is insulting, threatening or abusive and is intended to stir up racial hatred or is likely to do so," a prosecutor told the Yorkshire Post. "If this sort of material is made generally available on the internet or by pushing it through people's doors indiscriminately, it is likely that racial hatred will be stirred up in some people who are exposed to it - the young, the impressionable, the gullible, and so on."
British courts had to convict Sheppard and Whittle in absentia, however. In July 2007, the two skipped bail and made their way to LAX, where they promptly turned themselves over to authorities and asked for political asylum, claiming the British government was harrassing them for their "satire." Immigration officials hauled them to the Santa Ana Jail, which has a contract to help out the government with immigrant detainees. Read their case for asylum here.
"This is a test case for the US on whether the American court will protect anti-semites and those that incite the hate that leads to anti-Jewish or anti-Muslim violence, or whether it respects a British court decision and sends these people back for sentence," a Parliament member told the Post.
The fates of the Heretical Two is in the hands of Immigration Judge Rose Collantes Peters, who has a past of thumbing her nose at British courts. In 2004, she went against the wishes of the American government and ruled that la migra couldn't deport Sean O'Cealleagh, a bartender at O'Malley's in Seal Beach, for having been convicted in England for his role in the murder of two British soldiers during a 1988 Irish Republican Army funeral. This past Tuesday, Peters heard final arguments in the case of the Heretical Two, with Sheppard and Whittle acting as their own attorneys because the attorney originally recommended to them by Mark Weber of the Holocaust-denying Newport Beach-based Institute for Historical Review dropped out after not getting paid enough cash (according to The Heretical Press home page). Peters is expected to deliver her verdict within 30 days.
The saga of Sheppard and Whittle has drawn nary a press report in the United States, even though it involves all sorts of free-speech questions. But the Heretical Two have become far-right cause célebres, earning support from the aforementioned IHR, David Duke, and other types of trash.
Then again, supporters of the Heretical Two make this interesting point:
The question is not whether you like Sheppard and Whittle, or agree with their writings, or the other material posted on the Heretical site. It is, quite simply, whether you are prepared to help ensure the effective representation of two men seeking to set a vital precedent for genuine asylum seekers from oppressive, liberticidal regimes, seeking refuge in the world's last true free speech zone.
"Moderate Islam, Radical Islam", and in Between
A year ago the first case of "bulldozer terrorism" unfolded in Jerusalem. This atrocity was carried out by a young Palestinian Muslim of East Jerusalem. He worked in Israel, lived there comfortably with his family and had no apparent quarrel with authorities. Thus, he would have been considered representative of "moderate Islam". When this young Palestinian suddenly went on a rampage with his bulldozer, overturning buses hitting cars and passers-by, and as a consequence was gunned down by police and alert civilians, the media rushed to describe him as a representative of "radical Islam". The use of a bulldozer as a weapon of terror was repeated twice more over the past year, with observers wondering what had turned Muslim quietism into Muslim terrorism. After three similar events, the families of these new terrorists set up large sheds sporting Hamas and Hizbullah banners outside their homes. This was in order to accommodate the large Muslim crowds who came, not with "condolences" but rather with "congratulations" for the "martyrdom" of their sons, Outpourings of jubilation in the Palestinian street for this carnage reflected the attitudes which had triggered it in the first place.
It is often claimed that the strict interpretation of Islam with its concomitant abuses, is only the purvey of "fanatic", "radical", "fundamentalist", or "Islamist" Muslims. This is quantified at some 15% of the 1.5 billion world Muslims, as if it is a different faith, embracing different principles from those followed by the majority of rank-and-file Muslims.
In fact, we are talking about the same creed upholding Shari'a law to various degrees. Those who do not follow it to the letter, are not in fact, adepts of an alternative "moderate Islam", the one described as the "religion of peace", to distinguish it from the faith of aggressive "extremists". The truth of the matter is that there is no moderate Islam though there are certainly many truly moderate Muslims who have broken away from the bloody road of Islamic Shari'a. These are usually the Muslims who have conveniently moved to the West, able from a safe distance, to criticise the phenomenon of the Islamikaze" bombers of Westerners and Israelis, the culture of death cultivated in many Islamic lands and indeed the unbridled anti-Semitic calumnies that are rife in their own culture. But they have yet to produce an alternate doctrine and worldview to rival official Islam or posit a creed and a set of rules to attract Muslims to relinquish Shari'a and embrace another way. If they did, they would no longer be Muslims according to Islam.
Moderate Muslims often accuse the radicals, of having "hijacked" Islam or "distorted or misinterpreted its "real" meaning. On the contrary, these radicals are, in fact, Muslims behaving in strict accordance with Shari'a, . The standards of the radicals, like the Jihad war or the strict implementation of the shar'ia, are those that prevail in the Islamic world. There are no accepted yardsticks for "moderate" Islam. One only has to watch the mass demonstrations in the streets of Gaza, Quetta, Casablanca, Durban and Jakarta, or in the Muslim neighborhoods of Paris, London, Marseille, Amsterdam, Sydney and Toronto, to realise how alive, universal and popular are the Muslim slogans and rampages, among Muslim masses of men, women, children, including lay leaders and clerics. Are they all "Islamists"? No, they are simply Muslims, and the common denominator which unites them in their hatred of the West and the Jews, is Islam, standard Islam, as justified by the Shari'a, as promoted by their Imams.
There will always be moderate and courageous Muslim individuals trying to save the honor of Islam, by raising their voices against the abuses perpetrated in the name of their faith. However the mainstream world of Islam, including westernized and modern professionals and intellectuals, will also always be there to glorify the killings of westerners and Jews, to write or broadcast, with exhilaration, about the Islamikaze, and to distribute sweets in the streets to "celebrate" the death of Americans or Israelis.
The non Muslim champions arguing for the spurious distinction between the so-called "islamist" minority and the "peaceful" Muslim majority, have become trapped by their reluctance to condemn Islam lest they be accused of Islamophobia or racism (as if Islam were a race). They explain to us that Islam has never been anti-Semitic, proof of their ignorance of Islamic sources, arguing that the current dislike of Jews is no more than a case of Judeophobia. It is a Judeophobia which has no historical roots, being rather a modern, circumstantial and fleeting phenomenon which does not warrant anxiety. If anti-Semitism is reduced to Judeophobia, it becomes a junior counterpart of Islamophobia, and a lesser evil than anti-Semitism, and therefore less objectionable. It is thus more "acceptable", on par with "Islamophobia", as a modern phenomenon in Western society. Generally speaking, they simplistically argue: "how can Muslims, or at least Arabs, themselves Semites, be Anti-Semitic?
It is a war of words, which has been engineered to obfuscate the substance and increase the currency of Muslim terminology, while at the same time depriving the Jews and their supporters of their traditional arsenal in the battle against anti-Semitism. Can anyone explain how the Qur'anic condemnation of Jews as "descendants of pigs and monkeys", preached universally and routinely to Muslims (not Islamists) by their clerics in both the Islamic world and Europe, is "Judeophobic" and not "anti-Semitic"? Is this hallowed Qur'anic reference, eternal as the Word of Allah, a circumstantial and fleeting pronouncement? To say so would be a blasphemy. It is taught by Muslim clerics, as a matter of course, in such "moderate" and "pro-Western" countries as Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, as a continuation of the traditional way of demonizing and de-humanizing the Jews in order to facilitate their annihilation. What further evidence is needed to prove that it is a blatant expression of anti-Semitism?
Words were created to transmit conventionally agreed upon meanings. If each actor chose to lend to his words a different significance or accuse others of "distorting" their meaning, then we would no longer be able to call a spade a spade or communicate at all. Anti-Semitism is the millennial irrational hatred of the Jews, and it has been so called since modern research first focused on this sinister issue in the 19th Century. No amount of masking, manipulation of words and creation of parallels to dilute this terminology, can succeed, exactly as no coupling of the unique term "Holocaust" with the Armenian or Darfurian genocides (incidentally both perpetrated by Muslims), can blunt the poignancy of the Jewish Holocaust or rob it of its uniqueness.
No wonder, then, that the most frequent manifestation of anti-Semitism in Europe, these days, and among Muslims and their anti-Semitic allies everywhere , is Holocaust denial. The devaluation of the meaning of the word "Holocaust" by its deniers has been further distorted through its generic use to describe all sorts of massacres. Appallingly, in today's world, the hated Jew cannot even claim to have acceded to the "honor" of being one of its victims.
Surviving in a post-American world
By Caroline B. Glick
Like it or not, the United States of America is no longer the world's policeman. This was the message of Barack Obama's presidential journey to Britain, France, the Czech Republic, Turkey and Iraq this past week.
Somewhere between apologizing for American history — both distant and recent; genuflecting before the unelected, bigoted king of Saudi Arabia; announcing that he will slash the US's nuclear arsenal, scrap much of America's missile defense programs and emasculate the US Navy; leaving Japan to face North Korea and China alone; telling the Czechs, Poles and their fellow former Soviet colonies, "Don't worry, be happy," as he leaves them to Moscow's tender mercies; humiliating Iraq's leaders while kowtowing to Iran; preparing for an open confrontation with Israel; and thanking Islam for its great contribution to American history, President Obama made clear to the world's aggressors that America will not be confronting them for the foreseeable future.
Whether they are aggressors like Russia, proliferators like North Korea, terror exporters like nuclear-armed Pakistan or would-be genocidal-terror-supporting nuclear states like Iran, today, under the new administration, none of them has any reason to fear Washington.
This news is music to the ears of the American Left and their friends in Europe. Obama's supporters like billionaire George Soros couldn't be more excited at the self-induced demise of the American superpower. CNN's former (anti-)Israel bureau chief Walter Rodgers wrote ecstatically in the Christian Science Monitor on Wednesday, "America's... superpower status, is being downgraded as rapidly as its economy."
The pro-Obama US and European media are so pleased with America's abdication of power that they took the rare step of applauding Obama at his press conference in London. Indeed, the media's enthusiasm for Obama appeared to grow with each presidential statement of contrition for America's past uses of force, each savage attack he leveled against his predecessor George W. Bush, each swipe he took at Israel, and each statement of gratitude for the blessings of Islam he uttered.
But while the media couldn't get enough of the new US leader, America's most stable allies worldwide began a desperate search for a reset button that would cause the administration to take back its abandonment of America's role as the protector of the free world.
Tokyo was distraught by the administration's reaction to North Korea's three-stage ballistic missile test. Japan recognized the betrayal inherent in Defense Secretary Robert Gates's announcement ahead Pyongyang's newest provocation that the US would only shoot the missile down if it targeted US territory. In one sentence, uttered not in secret consultations, but declared to the world on CNN, Gates abrogated America's strategic commitment to Japan's defense.
India, for its part, is concerned by Obama's repeated assertions that its refusal to transfer control over the disputed Jammu and Kashmir provinces to Pakistan inspires Pakistani terror against India. It is equally distressed at the Obama administration's refusal to make ending Pakistan's support for jihadist terror groups attacking India a central component of its strategy for contending with Pakistan and Afghanistan. In general, Indian officials have expressed deep concern over the Obama administration's apparent lack of regard for India as an ally and a significant strategic counterweight to China.
Then there is Iraq. During his brief visit to Baghdad on Tuesday afternoon, Obama didn't even pretend that he would ensure that Iraqi democracy and freedom is secured before US forces are withdrawn next year. The most supportive statement he could muster came during his conversation with Turkish students in Istanbul earlier in the day. There he said, "I have a responsibility to make sure that as we bring troops out, that we do so in a careful enough way that we don't see a complete collapse into violence."
Hearing Obama's statements, and watching him and his advisers make daily declarations of friendship to Iran's mullahs, Iraqi leaders are considering their options for surviving the rapidly approaching storm.
Then there is Europe. Although Obama received enthusiastic applause from his audience in Prague when he announced his intention to destroy the US's nuclear arsenal, drastically scale back its missile defense programs and forge a new alliance with Russia, his words were anything but music to the ears of the leaders of former Soviet satellites threatened by Russia. The Czech, Polish, Georgian and Ukrainian governments were quick to recognize that Obama's strong desire to curry favor with the Kremlin and weaken his own country will imperil their ability to withstand Russian aggression.
It is not a coincidence, for instance, that the day Obama returned to Washington, Georgia's Moscow-sponsored opposition announced its plan to launch massive protests in Tblisi to force the ouster of pro-Western, anti-Russian Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. And as for Russia, like Iran, which responded to Obama's latest ode to the mullahs by opening a nuclear fuel plant and announcing it has 7,000 advanced centrifuges in operation, so Moscow reacted to Obama's fig leaf with a machine gun, announcing its refusal to support sanctions against North Korea and repeating its false claim that Iran's nuclear program is nonaggressive.
Finally there is Israel. If Obama's assertions that Israel must support the immediate establishment of a Palestinian state, his declarations of support for the so-called Saudi "peace plan," which requires Israel to commit national suicide in exchange for "peace" with the Arab world, and his continuous and increasingly frantic appeals for Iran to "engage" his administration weren't enough to show Israel that Obama is sacrificing the US's alliance with the Jewish state in a bid to appease the Arabs and Iran, on Tuesday Vice President Joseph Biden made this policy explicit.
When Biden told CNN that Israel would be "ill-advised" to attack Iran's nuclear installations, he made clear that from the administration's perspective, an Israeli strike that prevents Iran from becoming a nuclear power is less acceptable than a nuclear-armed Iran. That is, the Obama administration prefers to see Iran become a nuclear power than to see Israel secure its very existence.
AMERICA'S BETRAYAL of its democratic allies makes each of them more vulnerable to aggression at the hands of their enemies — enemies the Obama administration is now actively attempting to appease. And as the US strengthens their adversaries at their expense, these spurned democracies must consider their options for surviving as free societies in this new, threatening, post-American environment.
For the most part, America's scorned allies lack the ability to defeat their enemies on their own. India cannot easily defeat nuclear-armed Pakistan, which itself is fragmenting into disparate anti-Indian nuclear-wielding Islamist and Islamist-supporting factions.
Japan today cannot face North Korea — which acts as a Chinese proxy — on its own without risking a confrontation with China. Russia's invasion of Georgia last August showed clearly that its former republics and satellites have no way of escaping Moscow's grip alone. This week's Arab League conference at Doha demonstrated to Iraq's leaders that their Arab brethren are incapable and unwilling to confront Iran.
And the Obama administration's intense efforts to woo Iran coupled with its plan to slash the US's missile defense programs — including those in which Israel participates — and reportedly pressure Israel to dismantle its own purported nuclear arsenal — make clear that Israel today stands alone against Iran.
THE RISKS that the newly inaugurated post-American world pose for America's threatened friends are clear. But viable opportunities for survival do exist, and Israel can and must play a central role in developing them. Specifically, Israel must move swiftly to develop active strategic alliances with Japan, Iraq, Poland, and the Czech Republic and it must expand its alliance with India.
With Israel's technological capabilities, its intelligence and military expertise, it can play a vital role in shoring up these countries' capacities to contain the rogue states that threaten them. And by containing the likes of Russia, North Korea and Pakistan, they will make it easier for Israel to contain Iran even in the face of US support for the mullahs.
The possibilities for strategic cooperation between and among all of these states and Israel run the gamut from intelligence sharing to military training, to missile defense, naval development, satellite collaboration, to nuclear cooperation. In addition, of course, expanded economic ties between and among these states can aid each of them in the struggle to stay afloat during the current global economic crisis.
Although far from risk free, these opportunities are realistic because they are founded on stable, shared interests. This is the case despite the fact that none of these potential alliances will likely amount to increased support for Israel in international forums. Dependent as they are on Arab oil, these potential allies cannot be expected to vote with Israel in the UN General Assembly. But this should not concern Jerusalem.
The only thing that should concern Jerusalem today is how to weaken Iran both directly by attacking its nuclear installations, and indirectly by weakening its international partners in Moscow, Pyongyang, Islamabad and beyond in the absence of US support. If Japan is able to contain North Korea and so limit Pyongyang's freedom to proliferate its nuclear weapons and missiles to Iran and Syria and beyond, Israel is better off. So, too, Israel is better off if Russia is contained by democratic governments in Eastern and Central Europe. These nations in turn are better off if Iran is contained and prevented from threatening them both directly and indirectly through its strategic partners in North Korea, Syria and Russia, and its terror affiliates in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan. For the past 16 years, successive Israeli governments have wrongly believed that politics trump strategic interests. The notion that informed Israel's decision-makers — not unlike the notion that now informs the Obama administration — was that Israel's strategic interests would be secured as a consequence of its efforts to appease its enemies by weakening itself. Appreciative of Israel's sacrifices for peace, the nations of the world — and particularly the US, the Arabs and Europe — would come to Israel's defense in its hour of need. Now that the hour of need has arrived, Israel's political strategy for securing itself has been exposed as a complete fiasco.
The good news is that no doubt sooner rather than later, Obama's similarly disastrous bid to denude the US of its military power under the naive assumption that it will be able to use its new stature as a morally pure strategic weakling to win its enemies over to its side will fail spectacularly and America's foreign policy will revert to strategic rationality.
But to survive the current period of American strategic madness, Israel and the US's other unwanted allies must build alliances with one another — covertly if need be — to contain their adversaries in the absence of America. If they do so successfully, then the damage to global security induced by Obama's emasculation of his country will be limited. If on the other hand, they fail, then America's eventual return to its senses will likely come too late for its allies — if not for America itself.
Australian Federal government wants under-fives taught to be politically correct
BABIES, toddlers and preschoolers across the country are set to become political activists under controversial new Federal Government guidelines. The April 2009 draft Early Years Learning Framework wants teachers to make under-fives:
* Contribute in a meaningful way to reconciliation, including flying the Aboriginal flag and inviting elders to give talks.
* Use "social inclusion puppets" and "persona dolls" to explore exclusion and ethical issues.
* Challenge and resist bias and discrimination.
* Take action in unfair situations and learn to act when injustice occurs.
* Assess and act on power dynamics as they get older.
The political emphasis of the guidelines has divided early learning experts. Some, such as leading Melbourne educational consultant Kathy Walker, have questioned the merits of such issues being "rammed down the throats" of two, three and four-year olds. "Although I welcome the emphasis on play-based learning, there is an air of political correctness about the document overall," she said.
Others, such as Kindergarten Parents Victoria CEO Meredith Carter, believe it is merely an attempt to "include and welcome all families to join in preschool and kinder". "It's not as if children will be harmed for life by this focus on difference and commonality," she said.
Under the $700,000 new approach to early childhood education, the goal will be to "promote children's civic participation and nurture socially responsible citizens for a future world," a Federal Government February 2009 briefing paper states. "The early childhood years are a time when children are developing understandings of community and citizenship and learning about democracy and the rights and responsibilities of citizens," it says.
There is also a strong emphasis on caring for the environment and reconciliation. The briefing paper notes that "such a society values Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures as a core part of the nation's history, present and future" and stresses this as a key tenet of early childhood education.
Less controversially, the guidelines also focus strongly on play-based learning, the importance of communication and language, the role of the family in children's lives, and social and emotional development.
But psychologist, author and speaker Evelyn Field questioned the need for role modelling using puppets and dolls, instead preferring teachers "keep it simple through encouraging children to play together".
Melbourne clinical psychologist Andrew Fuller agreed the emphasis should be on children playing and learning through play. "If we overwhelm children with a sense of broader issues, we could make them anxious and confused," he said.
Welcoming the guidelines, Association for Children with a Disability CEO Elizabeth McGarry said the key was not to highlight negative differences between children, but positively promote diversity.
Community Childcare executive director Barbara Romeril also welcomed the focus on equity and getting children to challenge discrimination and disadvantage. "Children are already dealing with these issues," she said.
If adopted, the Department of Education guidelines would cover all kinders, childcare centres and other early childhood settings, and would provide the basis for the education and care of all Australian preschoolers.
The guidelines have just been tested in 29 settings, including a range of childcare centres. Online consultation is still taking place. They are due to be implemented in July.
Political correctness is most pervasive in universities and colleges but I rarely report the incidents concerned here as I have a separate blog for educational matters.
American "liberals" often deny being Leftists and say that they are very different from the Communist rulers of other countries. The only real difference, however, is how much power they have. In America, their power is limited by democracy. To see what they WOULD be like with more power, look at where they ARE already very powerful: in America's educational system -- particularly in the universities and colleges. They show there the same respect for free-speech and political diversity that Stalin did: None. So look to the colleges to see what the whole country would be like if "liberals" had their way. It would be a dictatorship.
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A press preview of the exhibition "The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention" will be held in room LJ 119 of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E., on Monday, May 17, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Speakers will include Irene Chambers, director, Interpretive Programs Office; Alexander Von Vegesack, director of the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany; and members of the Eames family.
This exhibition, which is the first posthumous retrospective of the work of this influential husband-and-wife design team, will include more than 500 items drawn from three major sources: photographs, drawings, and documents from the Library's collection of more than 1 million items donated by Ray Eames in 1988; furniture from the collections of the Vitra Design Museum; and personal items on temporary loan from Lucia Eames, daughter of Charles, and from the Eameses' Office, which continues today under the direction of Charles's grandson, Eames Demetrios.


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—A note from Jessica's Coach, Austin
I'm so excited to share Jessica's journey with you. Her story with us began a little over a year ago as she walked through our doors determined to reclaim the life and the body she had before life events caused her to put her health and fitness on hold.
Jessica was open and honest about her feelings about returning to exercise – it was a mental hurdle that had become larger as time passed. But her desire to fall in love with exercise and get back in shape was stronger than the mountain before her.
Jessica was happy to take things slowly and trust in the plan I had created for her. She knew that every time she showed up to train, she was setting an incredible example for her daughter and taking back control of her life… One rep at a time.
Every month, Jessica embraced exercise a little bit more and began hitting major milestones along the way. Now, she seeks opportunities to be active every day, she looks forward to pushing herself during her sessions, and she has transformed a fear of exercise into a love that encourages her to keep making progress every day.
You put in a ton of work to get to where you are today, Jessica, and I feel fortunate to have been a part of this journey with you. Keep saying YES, keep pushing your comfort zone, and keep chasing your dreams!
What made you decide you wanted/needed to start a program?
I met Benjamin at a networking group and he presented on what Lean Strong is all about and I knew it was exactly what I had been looking for.
Health and fitness used to be my life but then I had a baby and my marriage broke up and I felt like I had lost my way and fitness felt overwhelming and scary. Benjamin presented an opportunity to come back to fitness on my terms and in my own way and it felt safe and doable.
I wanted to workout again but truly didn't know how or where to start and Benjamin and Lean Strong definitely provided a safe place to do so.
What was your life like prior to starting at Lean Strong Fitness?
I was not active at all. I would definitely say I was depressed, unhappy with my body and my life.
I avoided being seen and doing things that required me to be in public because I was ashamed of where I was and didn't want to run into people I knew.
What were your most important goals when you started? Why were these important to you?
My #1 goal was to learn to like working out again.
Prior to having my daughter, fitness was an integral part of my life and then I gained a crazy amount of weight in pregnancy and a lot of it stuck around and I didn't know how to get rid of it because I felt like it was something outside of me…pregnancy was hard and my body changed so much it didn't feel like I had control anymore or like I had the ability to get back to where I once was.
Working out felt foreign and scary since it had been almost 4 years since I had worked out regularly. I wanted to WANT to be active, to want to move my body and build strength. I also had a goal to fit in to my pre-pregnancy jeans.
Describe any reservations that you had before we started working together? Why did you have these reservations?
I was scared to see how far I had let myself go. I was scared to see how hard it was going to be to get back in shape.
Explain how we were able to help you with your reservations. What were some specifics we were able to help you with?
Hearing Benjamin speak opened the door to workout again and becoming fit but Austin provided the safety, care, respect and camaraderie to actually make it happen.
Austin met me where I was every session and never made me feel bad if I came in and didn't have the energy to work out or only worked half assed. Austin really heard me when I said the biggest accomplishment was coming to the gym no matter what and each time he met me where I was he made it safe to move forward.
Austin encouraged and supported me to grow, strengthen and challenge myself
What results have you achieved since starting your program? What are your proudest accomplishments so far?
I am back in my pre-pregnancy jeans!
I look for opportunities to be active, I take the stairs, I park far away, I walk to the bank. I love being challenged and working hard and stretching outside of what is comfortable.
I am proud of how far I have come, how much my body has changed and how much I LOVE being active and working out.
How is your life better now that you have achieved these results?
Every part of my life is better because of Lean Strong Fitness.
I am a more involved parent, I am a more confident person, I am a better business owner and I am more content and present in my life then I have ever been. There is not one part of my life that isn't better because of the changes I have been able to make with LSF.
I go out more, I say yes more, and I am way more happy then I have been in a very long time.
What do you want to accomplish next?
Austin and I are working on 10 Pull ups…it will happen but man does it hurt trying to get there lol
What do you like best about our program and how would you tell your friends about us and what we do?
I speak so highly about LSF and Austin. I tell everyone how this is so much more than a work out…that finding LSF has given me my life back.
I think LSF is so much more than fitness, its life giving, dream making and one of the best things you can do just for you.


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text: voila! fresh hen eggs, i still can't believe it! i don't know why i'm so surprised, this is what they do after all. i'm pretty sure it is the red hen laying them now. i'm sure the other 2 will start laying them soon, they're all about the same age, 5 months old. i made a delicious scramble for lunch of them with arugula from the garden, an irish cheese, sea salt and cracked pepper. this morning i went down to the coop and sure enough the red hen was in there laying another egg! (i know, CALM DOWN already). i brought that one up this morning and made my daughter a dainty little poached egg with wonder bread toast and marmalade. after i get my wholesale orders shipped off this morning i plan on tidying up the coop and stringing christmas lights across the top. can't wait to gaze down at this from the window ..


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Lent is upon us, friends. Part of our sacrifice is abstaining from meat on Fridays. In the long run, it's a small price to pay for the price paid for us.
My husband is not the biggest fish-eater, and by fish, I'm referring to it in a form that is not beer-battered and dipped in Tartar sauce, stuffed and sauced in a taco, slapped on a sandwich and covered in cheese. For those of you with non-fish friendly households, I wanted to provide some DELICIOUS options for consideration outside of fish.
The first three recipes are from Allrecipes.com, and have all been tested by yours truly. The last two recipes were from my Mom's personal collection, and as such, are stellar!
1) Cheese & Onion Enchiladas: I grew up on my Grandma's enchiladas, with a sauce (for dipping the corn tortillas in) that was made with chili powder, flour, and water — then stuffed with chopped onions and Muenster cheese. I have since discovered a new recipe with lots of flavor that we both really like, 10 Minute Enchilada Sauce. Look how rich in color that sauce appears? View Recipe>>
Recipe Tips: I added approx 1 Tbsp Caldo de Pollo to the recipe (or Chicken broth instead of water to add flavor). I used a clove of fresh garlic (crushed) instead of garlic powder, and increased the ground cumin and onion salt at least to 1/2 tsp – perhaps even to 3/4 tsp each. This makes a thick, rich sauce.
2) Homemade Veggie Pizza: You know you're a homemade pizza-lover when your Bridal Registry includes a pizza stone! Yes, that's us. Homemade pizza can be easy as picking up a pre-made crust (my Mom used to make it with white bread dough from the freezer section) and canned sauce, to pulling out all the stops with homemade dough and sauce. Since we try and eat healthy here, I make a multigrain crust with some wheat flour in it, and make my own tomato sauce if time allows (the extra sauce I'll pop in the fridge to use later with pasta, extra pizza dough in freezer). I topped this yummy pizza with a 4 Italian Cheese blend, pepperoncinis, sliced mushrooms, green pepper on 1/2, and then sprinkle it later with freshly ground Italian Herb blend and Red Pepper Flakes. I'm getting hungry as I type this, sheesh!
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3) Eggplant Parmesan: If you want a pretty quick recipe, and like Italian Food, here's a good option. If you used a jar of Spaghetti sauce, the prep is less than 30 minutes, and bake time is about 35 min, so within an hour, dinner's ready. You can serve the eggplant over noodles, or serve them on the side – drizzled with olive oil, topped with parmesan & Italian Seasoning – easy, quick, delicious.
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4) Shuler's Swiss Onion Soup
Shuler's was a very popular restaurant back in Michigan. Their Win Schuler's cheese spread would still be one of my all time favorite snack foods if I knew where to find it! This soup takes some time, but if you can spare it, you will be so glad you did, because it is divine.
Shuler's Swiss Onion Soup Servings: 12
1/2 cup butter
2 lbs onions, peeled, thinly sliced
1 1/2 teaspoons Hungarian paprika
6 cups beef stock or 6 cups canned beef broth, reduced
1/2 cup vegetable oil
3/4 cup flour
3/4 teaspoon celery salt
12 slices French bread
1/2 cup parmesan cheese, grated
1 cup (8 ounces) dark beer
salt and pepper, to taste
12 slices mozzarella or gruyere cheese
- In large stock pot over medium-hugh heat melt butter. Add onions and cook 'til brown, stirring regularly, about 30 minutes.
- Sprinkle in paprika, then add beef stock and bring to a boil.
- While onions are browning make a roux by whisking oil and flour in a saucepan. Cook over medium heat, while whisking constantly, until mixture is browned. Watch that it doesn't burn!
- When roux is done, stir enough into stock pot to thicken soup, then add celery salt, cover and simmer at least 2 hours.
- Shortly before serving sprinkle bread slices with Parmesan and toast them in the oven. Remove and set aside.
- Add beer to soup and return to serving temperature. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Ladle soup into (oven-proof) bowls or serving crocks, top with a toasted bread slice and a slice of Mozzarella or Gruyere.
- Place bowls under the broiler for a minute and watch carefully 'til cheese is melted, bubbly and slightly brown.
5) Crockpot Vegetable Chili
I love using our Crockpot. It's like gifting myself a hot and ready dinner upon arriving home after a hard day's work. Here's a delicious recipe, sans meat. There's quite a bit of chopping/slicing involved with this veggie prep, so if you have a food processor, that will speed things along. Fire up your crockpot, pop in the veggies, grab you some Cornbread, and enjoy. This is my favorite kind of boxed Cornbread.
Crockpot Vegetable Chili
40 oz can Kidney beans (drained)
1 onion, chopped
4 oz can green chilies
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/3 c. chili powder
1 Tbsp. dried oregano
2 tsp. cumin
1 c. mushrooms, sliced
2 zucchinis, sliced
2 carrots, thinly sliced
1 red bell pepper, sliced
28 oz. can diced tomatoes
1 tsp. salt
1. Saute onion and garlic until soft.
2. Combine all ingredients in crock pot.
3. Cook on low in Crockpot for 6-8 hours, or 4 hours on high.
I hope you and your families will enjoy these delicious meatless meals. I wish a blessed Lent to all of you. Leave reviews or suggestions in the comments, please and thank you!


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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A Clendenin man whom police had been seeking for a week was shot in the head and critically wounded by a state trooper as the man drove his car toward the officer.
Troopers late Monday saw the man sitting in a vehicle in a parking lot near the intersection of Ambler Ridge Road and U.S. 119 near Walton in Roane County, according to a press release from Sgt. Ken McCord.
They said they recognized the man as a suspect for whom they had obtained arrest warrants related to an incident last week.
Troopers pulled into the lot and asked the man to exit his vehicle, McCord said.
The suspect ignored the request and began to pull his vehicle out of the parking lot, striking the cruiser and driving toward one of the troopers, according to the press release.
"The officer used his service weapon and fired at least one shot to stop the suspect from coming any closer," McCord said. "One of the shots struck the suspect in the head."
The man, who was not identified in the news release, was pulled from the vehicle by troopers, who began to perform first aid and called for an ambulance, the release said.
He was taken by helicopter to Charleston Area Medical Center's General Hospital, where he was in critical condition today, police said.
No troopers were injured during the incident.
The warrants had been obtained after a man fled into the woods after being stopped by troopers last Wednesday.
Troopers had received a report of an SUV driving erratically when they spotted the vehicle and followed it to Kieffer Fork Road in Clendenin. They began following the vehicle and tried to pull it over. The driver, whom they later identified as Stephen Krein, 19, of Clendenin, refused to stop and nearly hit two troopers while trying to get away.
Troopers said Krein stopped only after a shot had been fired at the SUV's tire and he then fled into the woods on foot. Three passengers in the SUV also tried to flee but were apprehended and arrested.
State Police said they wouldn't release the name of the suspect who was shot until his family members had been notified.
However, Stephen Krein was listed in critical condition this morning at CAMC General.
The suspect's vehicle was towed to the State Police lab Monday night for processing, and the scene was investigated by the crime response team.
Another shooting of a suspect by WVSP, this time in Roane County.
A thorough investigation of news stories from various mainstream sources about this shooting reveals an awful lot of cutting and pasting going on. Most news articles refer to the "spokesperson", who is a police officer. So, all the media is reporting so far is the story as told by the State Police.
This area is already plagued with police corruption and only a year ago another man was shot and killed by officers in what can only be described as an execution cover-up in Roane County.


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BRIAN SCIARETTA - Thursday, April 11, 2013
After being told he would be offered a professional contract from Huddersfield Town, American midfielder Duane Holmes is looking forward to breaking into the first team soon.
Holmes, 18, has been with Huddersfield Town ever since the Under-9 level and has continuously progressed through each level of the academy. Despite playing in a withdrawn midfield role, he led the club's U-18 team in scoring and began to earn significant minutes with the U-21 team.
Being offered a contract was not a surprise for the Georgia native but now he knows the significance of the challenges ahead.
"I wouldn't I was surprised because I thought I did enough to get an offer," Holmes told YA. "It was just a big relief when I was actually offered one. It was a bit of a relief because I've worked so hard ever since I was so young. I'm excited because my next step is to try to break into the first team. It's a challenge but I'm looking forward to it."
Holmes' accomplishments did not go unnoticed. Last month he was nominated by the Football League for Apprentice of the Year along with Nottingham Forest goalkeeper Dimitar Evtimar and Watford's Bernard Mensah. Evtimar ended up winning the award but Holmes was very excited to be part of the process.
"Obviously I was a bit disappointed not to win but it was fantastic to be nominated," Holmes said. "It was great to go down to London because I've never been to London before. It's a different world completely."
For the rest of the season, Holmes hopes to progress at Huddersfield and perhaps catch the eye of US U-20 head coach Tab Ramos as he has yet to represent the United States internationally. He is not yet part of the first team for Huddersfield but he is well aware of the importance of their games the rest of the season.
Huddersfield is currently in 21st place in the Championship and is just one point clear of the relegation zone. As Holmes begins to establish himself as a professional player, he would rather do so in the Championship than in League One. He is optimistic, however, that the club will survive dropping this season.
"There in a bit of a bad place now but I don't think we'll go down," Holmes concluded. "We've got good enough players and I think we'll avoid relegation."


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Artists-in-Residence (AIR) Program Fall 2019 Yukiyo Kawano
Portland, OR
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Yukiyo Kawano is a third-generation hibakusha (atomic bomb survivor) who grew up decades after the bombing of Hiroshima. Her work is personal, reflecting lasting attitudes toward the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Kawano received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Art in 2012. Since then, Kawano has exhibited her work in the US, Japan, and Australia. Kawano has given lectures at Aspen Institute in Tokyo; Portland State University, Portland, OR; Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA; Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME; among many other venues. She has appeared on radio shows such as OPB Radio, Portland, OR, and 3CR Community Radio, Melbourne, Australia. Kawano has received numerous grants, including the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant in 2012; a Regional Arts and Culture Council grant in 2016; and The Oregon Arts Commission in 2017. Since 2016, Kawano's project Suspended Moment has been selected by New York Foundation of the Arts' fiscal sponsorship program. She will be an Artist-in-Residence at Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI) in February/March 2019. Kawano currently lives in Portland, OR.
"My work is a direct response to the tragedy of the past, but the past I depict wants to remember the present. People say my work is like a dream; it is not meant to deliver certainties. It asks us to remain in the present, so that we can develop a new relationship of mind and body, confront the ongoing deceptive rhetoric that surrounds us, reject violence, and save ourselves from our own extinction."
FatMan (after Matsuo Basho), 2016, kimono, foam, wood, hair, ink, fermented persimmons dye, metal wire, 13 1/2 x 8 x 8 feet. The actual size of Fat Man, A-bomb, dropped on Nagasaki in August 9th, 1945. The piece hangs from the stand using a rope. All the pieces are sewn with hair. As installed in Suspended Moment at REACH Museum (Hanford-Tri-City), 2016.
Column of The Floating Lanterns, 2016, paper, ink, stones, thread, 8 feet x 7.5 inches x 7.5 inches. A paper lantern that was used in From Hiroshima To Hope memorial event (Green Lake, Seattle). These lanterns are the symbols of the souls once floated (letting go by the participants of the event) on the lake and brought back by the volunteer members on the same night. As installed in Suspended Moment at Littmen, Portland State University, Portland, OR, 2016.
Little Boy (folded), 2011, kimono, bamboo, ash, hair, ink, baisen mordant dye, 8 feet x 24.5 inches x 24.5 inches. A construction/fiber sculpture forms the shape of Little Boy, A-bomb dropped on Hiroshima on Aug. 6th, 1945. All the pieces are sewn with hair. As installed in Suspended Moment at Littmen, Portland State University, Portland, OR, 2016.
FatMan (after Matsuo Basho), 2016, kimono, foam, wood, hair, ink, fermented persimmons dye, metal wire, 10 x 5 x 5 feet. Fat Man (after Matsuo Basho) is completely covered in excerpts from "Narrow Road to The Deep North." 奥の細道 —the journal written by the Haiku Master Basho in 1689. Basho's trip to the "Narrow Road to The Deep North" included modern day Fukushima, Japan. As installed in Suspended Moment at Littmen, Portland State University, Portland, OR, 2016.
All works are copyright of the artist or artist's estate.


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Ken Cousino knows exactly when the move to legalize chicken farming in Houston took off. Isabella, a nearby nine-year-old, had been a steady customer at Cousino's Quality Feed and Garden, picking up fodder for her few pet chickens. One day, she entered in tears.
The city had arrived, she said. Told her she had to get rid of her chickens. Told her to forget her babies. Citing a city ordinance proscribing chickens from scuffling within 100 feet of a property line -- and pointing out a complaint from one of Isabella's neighbors -- the city had enforced a regulation that almost every major metropolis across the nation has trashed, or reduced substantially. Isabella found friends outside of town, and dropped the hens off. And then she turned to the city -- eyes less rheumy, a desire to reclaim her property sharpened by an experience on butt-end of an outdated ordinance. She started a petition. She wanted her chickens back.
"We had customers start signing her petition, meeting with neighborhood associations, garnering support for hens," Cousino said. "I've been about a year heavily involved. We had a seminar last November at our store, teaching people about backyard chicken raising, introducing new organic chicken food, looking for certified organic eggs. There was tons of enthusiasm, lots of interest."
At the same time Isabella was beginning her movement to reclaim her pets, Claire Krebs, a recent Rice graduate and recent returnee to Houston, realized that she'd come back to a city lacking what almost every other major metropolis offers. San Francisco has urban chicken farms. New York, all concrete and soot, allows them. New Orleans even provides 'Coop Tours,' taking tourists through Taj Mahal-esque abodes for local chickens. Hell, Bellaire even maintains a brief island of chicken legalization.
"I spoke to an animal control operator who works in Bellaire," Krebs said on Wednesday. "He said he's had one complaint about the chickens in six years."
And yet, here stands Houston, all but chicken-free, and here stood Krebs, confused by the situation. As both a Millennial and a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Krebs was, naturally, unemployed. Ample opportunity to ask around about this lack of coops, and to form Hens for Houston, and to generate a bit of interest in both adjusting the 100-foot restrictions and legalizing chicken waste as fertilizer. Abundant time to garner support from the Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care, and to assure neighborhood associations that her organization wouldn't change any additional localized measures. Plenty of time to assure any potential detractors that roosters - unnecessary for laying any eggs, as both Cousino and Krebs noted - would still be barred. "These eggs they're layin' don't need any roosters," Cousino said. "They're just periods. And these birds have periods every day."
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Just look at San Antonio and Dallas, Krebs said. The former doesn't have a "setback" - the 100-foot demarcation Houston enforces - while the latter has shrunk it to 20 feet. And both have far fewer complaints per capita, almost none of which are related to the distance allocations.
"We looked at the actual numbers of these complaints, and they're almost always because of the smell and the mess and the animals running at large," Krebs noted. "We're not trying to change that - we believe no pet should be a nuisance, be it a chicken or a barking dog or a feral cat. And we're really trying to be good neighbors, which is why I think we haven't had any strong opposition."
Krebs pointed out that Mayor Annise Parker is already on-board with the measure, and would like to see language presented to the city council before the end of March lifting or amending this ordinance. "Things have really started moving quickly since we got back from the holidays," Krebs said. "We're going to be meeting with BARC next week to go over our proposal, and we're going to open it up to other stakeholders come Feb. 15."
Whatever the outcome of the forthcoming debate, there's one little girl watching the deliberation closer than others. And Isabella, according to Cousino, is eagerly awaiting the day she can go pick up her former hens, and bring them back home.