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The Team Go or Goes? Collective Singulars
I get really annoyed when I read TV show summaries that say things like "The team go out to Hoboken…" Not that Hoboken is a common destination on TV dramas, but the point is that the verb does not agree with the noun. Yes, more than one person is going out there, but team is singular. Or more specifically, it's a collective singular. So for the verb to agree, is must be singular, also. "The teams goes out to Hoboken…"
Here are some other common collective singular nouns: class, cast, entourage, couple, trio, Senate. So, while I hope my following gets the point, I hope my followers get the point. And really, can't these publishing companies afford to hire people who know basic grammar?


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Beautiful and delicious custom designer cookies. Created and iced by hand in a health-board approved kitchen, pick-up in Bradford, Ontario. #sweethandmadecookies
Thursday, November 21, 2013
60th Birthday Cookies
Ann invited friends over for dinner to celebrate her friend Judy's 60th birthday. In addition to a cookie at each place setting, Ann asked me to create a few cookies for Judy to take home. Happy 60th birthday Judy!
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Here you can give a name to the role, described. When creating a new role, you need to chose the type of role and also if you want copy permissions from the existing roles.
Once your role is created you can go to permissions and filter your newly created role.
Now if you select on each permissions, you can see the option to add or remove your new role from that permission.
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A mess of clattering silverware doesn't have to be the norm in your kitchen. The Drawer Organizer Set is the perfect drawer organizer.That make it possible for you to maintain a neat. Orderly and organized chest of drawers. Never struggle to find something in a messy drawer again. Keep your pencils separated from your scissors and Post it Notes with a customizable desk organizer. Antonetti suggests reserving the most convenient drawer for everything you and your husband if you share the space need first thing in the a.m. and right before bed. Use interlocking trays to separate toothbrushes, toothpaste, floss, moisturizers, hairbrushes, and combs.
Add as many of the modular units as you need to contain the clutter and fit your space. It's a great way to add color to your desktop. If you remember my last article, I wrote about my #1 most favorite nail design (plain gold). Today I'm coming with another one and this time it's gonna be in some of the most popular barbie colors out there. If you guessed pink, yes, you were right. Although it may seem as not very original, it actually is somehow different, especially thanks to the narrow cut, which still gives us a triangular shape of the nail. The crown molding in this extravagant walk-in closet is a delicate touch that gives the space a high-end feel.
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Mandatory reporting of female genital mutilation (FGM) commences from 31 October 2015. This is a new legal requirement in provision 75 'Duty to notify police of FGM' in the Serious Crime Act 2015.
The Home Office has published a report to help health and social care professionals to understand their duties.
RCOG members and trainees should be aware that it is the duty of all healthcare professionals to notify the police if a girl under 18 years of age discloses to them that they have had FGM or doctors/midwives have visual confirmation that the girl has had FGM.
The number to call to make the report is 101, the police non-emergency crime number.
Key points from the procedural guidance:
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Please note that failure to comply with the duty will result in referral of the doctor to the GMC.
Members should be aware that mandatory reporting is different to the mandatory recording of FGM. All trusts should have systems in place to record data about FGM.
The Department of Health has published materials for healthcare professionals to support the roll-out of this duty, including:
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This blog is being set up for us both to document our planning for our holidays, and to talk about our days out. It will be a place where we share as much as possible, in hope of helping others with their planning or/and decision making. Not only will we talk about what we have planned, but also how we have planned it and how it played out. This blog will be used to express our honest opinion of things, and will reflect just how organised we both like to be.
"Organising is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up"
– A. A. Milne
We are a couple (Kate and Martin) who enjoy going to new places, we love having random days out to places across the UK as well as holidays abroad.
This blog is intended to give honest opinions, and hopefully some helpful advice for other people. It will also be used to give advice and our opinions about traveling in general, even if it just through our day trips out. By no means are we saying that we are experts but with any luck this blog will help others with their decision-making, and if anyone has any comments or wants to contact us then please feel free.
Happy Travels!
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Adam has over 20 years' experience of complex project and service delivery to both enterprise and start-up organisations across all sectors including Finance, Insurance, Telco and Manufacturing. During this time Adam has ensured that his customer first approach has been underpinned by a commitment to delivery excellence.
Currently Adam uses his knowledge built around Cloud technologies over the last 6 years, to help KCOM identify solutions to meet customer challenges in markets which are rapidly changing and where complex customer requirements means that organisations have to find innovative outcomes. Specifically Adam is focused on helping organisations drive even more benefits from their cloud adoption strategy including cloud native innovation and managing multi-cloud services.LinkedIn
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mCherry is a fluorophore (a fluorescent protein) used in biotechnology as a tracer to follow the flow of fluids, as a marker when tagged to molecules and cell components. mCherry and the majority of red fluorescent proteins derive from a protein isolated from Discosoma sp., while other fluorescent proteins in the green range are often variants of GFP from Aequorea victoria. mCherry is sometimes preferred to other fluorophores due to its colour, as well as its photostability compared to other monomeric fluorophores.
Anti-mCherry Tag Mouse Monoclonal Antibody (9D3) was affinity-purified from mouse ascites by affinity-chromatography using specific immunogen. This antibody has been routinely tested with WB application. And Abbkine suggested starting dilution is as follows: WB 1:5000.
The mCherry Tag Antibody can identify recombinant protein marked by mCherry that have alread been expressed, including those in the amino acid and the carboxyl terminal. Anti-mCherry Tag Mouse Monoclonal Antibody (9D3) worked very well. I am satisfied with the results of the experiment.


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Content/TW: sex mention, death mention, discussion of inspiration porn, cursing
On the surface, it seems a bit weird to be discussing this topic on an anti-stigma blog, because it's about NTs actually having what they think is a positive outlook on mental illness. But at the root of stigma is NTs seeing mentally ill people as Other, not like them, not entirely human, etc. And inspiration porn? Yeah, that's seeing mentally ill people as Other.
You may be asking: Mara, what the hell is inspiration porn? My girlfriend says (half-jokingly) that that phrase inspires her to have sex with me. (I did mention I'm a lesbian, right? I think so. If I didn't, yeah, I'm gay. I was also, like. Next-level gay for Carrie.) Anyway, what is inspiration porn? Inspiration porn, as coined by disabled activist Stella Young (RIP), is the phrase for what happens when people who are privileged by their ability level feel "inspired" by something a disabled person does because they're doing a thing while being disabled, oh my fucking god, would you look at that!?. That isn't the only kind of inspiration porn, though; sometimes it takes the form of a disabled person being treated decently and the abled person being decent is canonized. An example that absolutely made my Autistic blood boil occurred recently when this basketball player sat with an Autistic boy at lunch because the boy was sitting alone. (When I sit alone, I usually want it that way. Leave me be, allistics. And maybe ask the person sitting alone if they want company?) Allistic people fell all over each other awww-ing over this crap. They saw what they perceived as a famous person treating an Autistic boy more nicely than the boy's peers did, i.e., like a human being. I, personally, think that we Auties should be treated as humans all the time.
So what's wrong with inspiration porn? The fact that disabled people do not exist to ~inspire abled people. When abled people coo over disabled people existing while disabled, it's Othering as hell. (If I wasn't clear in the first paragraph about what it means to "Other" someone, it means to treat them as Not Like You in a big kind of way, often in a way that paints the Other as subhuman.) We're just trying to live our lives. And now I'm going to bring this back to the idea of strength, because a common form of inspiration porn is mentally healthy people calling mentally ill people "strong" just for existing. And we're sick of it.
Remember when I said that NT definitions of "strength" when it comes to mental illness are "garbage"? I stand by that. Unfortunately, I forgot to talk about the garbage definition that is "you're so strong for dealing with mental illness every second of your life!!!1!!111!!!one!!". UGH. I'm strong because I have done martial arts for much of my life and like weightlifting, Dave*, not because I'm mentally ill. It's hard for me to articulate why this attitude pisses me off so much. Because as I mentioned in my last entry, some MI people do derive strength from how much our brains have put us through, and the fact that we survived it. But then again, some of us don't survive it. Others are so damn tired of being "strong" and long to exist without struggling constantly. Many hate being reminded that we're "strong" because we know we have no other choice, but NTs seem to think we do. I guess the "you're so strong" attitude makes my skin crawl because the NTs who ascribe to it are sort of…acting like mentally ill people are here for them to judge and consume. And that's creepy to me. It involves a mental chasm or fence that NTs are placing between them and us, sort of like we're animals in a zoo. When an NT tells me that I'm "so strong" because my neurotransmitters like to misbehave, I feel like I'm a tiger in a cage being gawked at. And I want to unsheathe my giant claws.
The "you're so strong" narrative is also really patronizing. Remember that mental chasm I mentioned that NTs are placing between themselves and mentally ill people when they ascribe to that narrative? That chasm often makes me feel as if I'm on one side, feeling small and childlike (and pissed), while the NT reaches over to pat me on the head. It's infantilizing. It places NTs in a position to be the one judging because they're NT. Not being mentally ill gives them the authority to judge. Even though the trait these NTs are ascribing to us is supposedly good, the reason they are making that judgment is rooted in Othering us. I might go so far as to say the "you're so strong" narrative is dehumanizing, turning mentally ill people into a feel-good movie for their consumption. Ew.
While some NTs genuinely (and foolishly) think they're helping when they call a MI person "strong", I have also noticed that there's also a self-congratulatory element that I have noticed inherent in NTs invoking the "you're so strong" narrative. When they croon "you're so strong for dealing with your mental illness", they picture themselves canonized for being what they think is nice and supportive; they see themselves as the basketball player who decided to join an Autistic boy for lunch. They think of how the basketball player was praised, not of how he didn't ask the boy if he even wanted company. And they pat themselves on the back for what is really an act of Othering. They haven't thought about the implications of the word "strong" when applied to mental illness (as I blathered about in my last entry), because in order to think about how another person might react to something, you have to first see them as a person. It's inconvenient for an NT to consider someone a person when their goal is to use that Poor Widdow Mentally Ill Soul to make themselves feel good.
So, yeah, the "you're so strong for dealing with your mental illness" crap is inspiration porn, it's saneist, and it's gross. On the surface, it might seem positive, but the idea of "strength" when it comes to mental illness is incredibly complicated. Not to mention that the fact that NTs feel like they get to make that call about us being "strong" is coming from a messed-up place of willful ignorance, smugness, privilege, and just…ugh. It's messed up, okay? If you're NT and call a mentally ill person "strong", you had better be agreeing with them when they call themselves such, doing so with their permission because they've told you it helps, or referring to how much they bench. Want to actually help mentally ill people? That's another entry for another day, and it's one that I really hope many NTs will read.
Carrie quote of the day: "One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering stigma with regards to mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder. In my opinion, living with manic depression takes a tremendous amount of balls." Well said, Carrie.
* "Dave" is an all-purpose name for some saneist dipwad and is not a reference to a real person.


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Sometimes it feels as though Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are reading from the same script.
Hours after a widely criticized news conference with the U.S. president, Russia's leader gave an interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace, during which he was asked why so many people who opposed his government "end up dead or close to it."
Specifically, Wallace cited the nerve agent poisoning of Russian defector Sergei Skripal in England in March, the 2015 killing of Boris Nemtsov, who was shot near the Kremlin and the 2006 murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya in Moscow.
"Well, first of all, all of us have plenty of political rivals," Putin responded. "I'm pretty sure President Trump has plenty of political rivals."
Wallace noted that "they don't end up dead."
Vladimir Putin, asked why his political opponents often end up dead, cites the assassinations of Kennedy and MLK, saying it happens in America too pic.twitter.com/T2xLfifTJY
— Axios (@axios) July 16, 2018
"Well, not always— well, haven't presidents been killed in the United States?" Putin responded. "Have you forgotten about — well, has Kennedy been killed in Russia or in the United States? Or Mr. King? What — and what happens to the clashes between police and, well, civil society, and some — several ethnic groups? Well, that's something that happens on the U.S. soil. All of us have our own set of domestic problems."
Putin added that British authorities have refused to give his government the evidence they have amassed in the Skripal case to reach their conclusion that the Kremlin targeted him with a rare nerve agent.
What's striking about Putin's response, however, is how similar it is to comments made by Trump in an 2017 interview with former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly.
After Trump complimented the Russian leader, O'Reilly called out Putin.
"But he's a killer," O'Reilly told Trump.
"There are a lot of killers," Trump responded. "You think our country's so innocent?"
In his comments in the aftermath of a white supremacist riot in Charlottesville, Va., and the assertion today that he holds "both countries responsible" for the poor state of Russian-U.S. relations, Trump has deflected criticism with moral relativism, the tactic popularly known as "whataboutism." Evidently, his Russian counterpart shares that tendency.
Read more from Yahoo News:
- Justice Dept. lays out case against 12 Russian officers
- Trump whiplash: From Supreme Court euphoria to foreign turbulence
- Expert: Putin can hack our midterm elections
- Brett Kavanaugh's ex-boss: It's 'preposterous' to demand his recusal from Mueller cases
- Photos: Trump meets Putin in Helsinki


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Socialist had 50,000 members in 1914. in 1919 it grew to 200,000
this is iinked to high inflation and unemployment which is why they persuade people eto join them (soliarity)
by the end of 1919 they had 2.5 millions members
It was a secret pact between the Triple Entente and Italy. Its intent was to gain the alliances of Italy against its former allies .
Caporetto was a huge fail and loss for Italy.( they had old strategies from older war. And they did not know why they were failing
The socialist in 1917 called for an overthrown of the government and a new socialist state (they made demand and union, drop war and rebel) Its a faliure
Socialist trade unions had 2.5 million members by the
end of 1919 as compared to 250.000 at the beginning of
the year
In the north
Local government groups
Land occupation
Strikes- trade unions
The ruling liberal party faced many political issues,
opposition from Nationalsits, establishments of a catholic
party in 1919, the socialist party
March on Rome - oct, 22
Balbo said he will march on Rome with or without Mussolini.
- October 22, march on Rome
- Not allowed to bring armies south of the river Rubicon
but Mussolini did
-Local action squads to be organized into a militia. Take
control of civil fuctions central / northern Italy
ESTABLISHES THE GRAND COUNCIL IN december
Mussolini appoints concul members
He institue the grand council where he can choose his own concul
16/11 - Mussolini speak in parliament for emergency power
he talk about the situation in Italy ( economy and politics) and how he can solve them and save Rome. To do this he need emergency power .
initial success
Facta resigns as prime minister (he ask the king to use the militariy against the fascism but the king refuses.)
Fascists reach Rome 30/10(become a myth for all fascists )
Mussolini become prime minister through legal means
4 seats were only available for fascists
29/10 Salandra advice the king to appoint Mussolini as the prime Minister
Greee do not pay what Italy wants so Italy invades.
Propaganda Success!
April election
fascist press the opposition, voting rigged, votes fir dead people, stolen ballot boxes, stolen boxes.
Fascist + right wing liberals won 63% . Out of 535 seats, the fascist won 375.
Press Laws
- Closing anti fascist publications (punishable by jail)
-1925 all journalists registered with the fascist party
- August 1925, Local government replaced by fascist officials (RAS, local control)
-3/9 1925, Meeting of opposiotion parties banned
- December 1925, Mussolini head of government
Mussolini gives himself power to issue decrees without parlimentarys concent
- managed to make fascist a majority, changed political power structure
- Assasination attemtps against Mussolini results in a ban on all other political parties
- trade unions outlawed
- Special counts for political offences
- Emergency power
Secret police to repress political opponents was founded
Elections, men aged 21 or older / members of fascist groups could vote for any political party
Fear of fascist violence
King power over the country reduces dramatically
RI (Istituto per la Ricostruzione Indusriale) allows the government to control all economic sectors.
Italy wants to invade
Mussolini is overthrown but then reinstalled in Northern Italy by Germany.
Mussolini is executed during the last days of WWII by a group of Italian Communists in Giulino di Mezzegra, Italy.


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From Strawberry to Legendberry. Such is the case with this pure expression of creamy strawberry frozen Greek yogurt.
Nonfat Milk, Greek Yogurt (Nonfat Milk, Yogurt Cultures), Sugar, Strawberry Swirl [Strawberry Puree, Sugar, Water, Natural Flavor, Pectin, Citric Acid, Fruit and Vegetable Juice Concentrate (Color), Locust Bean Gum], Milk Protein Concentrate, Maltodextrin, Cream, Strawberry Juice Concentrate, Red Beet Juice (For Color), Natural Flavor, Locust Bean Gum, Guar Gum, Citric Acid.
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Watch Soulja Boy On The Breakfast Club
Soulja Boy stopped by The Breakfast Club for an interview with Angela Yee, DJ Envy and Charlamagne Tha God. He talked about Tyga, Drake, Kanye West, his video game and much more. His Young Drako album is out now. Watch the video above.


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Hi Yuri,
Thanks again for your previous help.
We were wondering if it is necessary to post every question we have to the NXP forum or can we send them directly to you or another NXP engineer?
We have been designing with Microprocessors for 30 years (10 with NXP MCUs) and are used to dealing with dedicated pins. We usually can figure out the design of a new Microprocessor with little or no help from the MCU engineering support team. However, we are a little confused by the amount of muxed and shared pins on the new crossover processors. For example, SEMC_ADDR8 –> CS5 is used to chip select the 256Mb NOR flash as you explained below. However, it will also be used as address line A8 when we address our SDRAM with the SEMC controller. Doesn't that mean that the flash will get chip selected sometimes when we are accessing the SDRAM and ADDR8 is used? Do we need to qualify the Flash CS5 chip select somehow?
Also, we are booting off of the parallel NOR Flash. Section 8.6 in the reference manual (see below) states that when booting off the NOR flash, chip select CS0 is used. We are using CS5. Do we need to gate them together? Wii it will use CS0 initially and then change to using CS5 after configuration? We have found that the LPC3240 User Manual explains things in greater detail and more clearly than the RT1050 Reference Manual does even though it is 2000 less pages. Is there any new documentation being planned?
8.6 Boot devices (internal boot)
The chip supports these boot flash devices:
• Serial NOR flash via FlexSPI Interface
• Serial NAND Flash via FlexSPI Interface
• Parallel NOR flash with the Smart External Memory Controller (SEMC), located on CS0, 16-bit bus width.
i.MX RT1050 Processor Reference Manual, Rev. 1, 03/2018
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Friday, October 30, 2009
New Photos
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7 comments:
- Amy Nicole said...
I like the set in the middle. All very clear, and I like the shaded part in the background. Really all the pictures look great!
- October 30, 2009 at 1:04 PM
- Ashley said...
The only thing bugging me about that one is that the image on the left is larger in scale than the rest. I could rephotograph that one though.
- October 30, 2009 at 1:07 PM
that's a really hard choice!
But initially i was going to say the last set. but looking closer i pick the first set - it's balanced for color, how the eye flows, the styles and such. it is a shame to not have all 6 photos though :) I thing they're all important pieces - to capture your distinct styles and 'lines' or work. the colorbursts in both bracelets is important, as is the multi stone (gemstone) piece. I want to see them all!
- October 30, 2009 at 1:09 PM
i commented on flickr, but on second look i do think the last one may be the best. have you thought of reversing the second and third images? it may help with the overall color balance. just a thought.
- October 30, 2009 at 1:40 PM
- Ashley said...
Angela, you are the third person to suggest that so I think I will try it. Thanks for your opinions!
- October 30, 2009 at 2:10 PM
- Alice Istanbul said...
Beautiful photography, and beautiful pieces. I think I like the first one the best. It's colorful and I like the order they're in. It's like your eye follows the curve (know what I mean?).
- October 30, 2009 at 2:41 PM
- StarrKidsMom said...
Hey Ashley- I think the set in the middle because they are pretty much all in line and the one that is not is not distracting at all. I LOVE your work and your website is GREAT!
I am proud of you!
- November 3, 2009 at 8:53 PM


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The Soviet Armed Forces, also known as the Red Army, is the national army of the Soviet Union. At first, they were known as the Red Guards, the revolutionary communist forces during the Russian Civil War. They were credited for defeating 80% of German forces; the Wehrmacht, and of course, the Waffen-SS.
After the war, they were renamed into the "Soviet Armed Forces". They engaged the U.S. military in some of the Cold War's proxy wars, such as the Korean War and the Vietnam War. In Vietnam, the only Soviet soldiers participating were 3000 soldiers under the guise of being advisors. Following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the 1991 coup d'etat it ceased to exist as the Soviet Union dissolves.
In Downfall Parodies
Almost all characters in the Stalin Parodies were generals in the Red Army. Chuikov and his 2 adjutants (not including Georgy Zhukov or Matvey Blanter) were the only important Red Army characters in Downfall Parodies. Throughout Downfall they're commonly referred to as "the Russians", although they were made up of diverse ethnicities.


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Nyesha Samuel, Publisher/Master Loctician for healthylocsblog.com
The 2012 edition of the Guinness Book of Records has been published, after 56 years charting the world's fastest, longest, tallest, widest and every other conceivable type of record available.
The book includes the person who is now the record holder for the world's largest Afro hairstyle which is one of the most popular of natural hair styles.
The BBC recently did an interview with Aevin Dugas, who is the new holder of the 2011 natural hair style record. During the BBC's interview they also talked with Craig Glenday, the book's editor in chief.
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40 Best Free Fonts for Logo Designing
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4 Tips to Limit Sugar This Halloween
You can still enjoy your favorite candy holiday, just keep these tips in mind to limit your daily sugar intake.
Growing up, it seems we were told we couldn't eat all our Halloween candy in one gleeful night because it would give us a stomach ache or cavities. While both of those things might be true, we sometimes forget that watching our sugar intake is just as important for an adult as it is for a child.
Related: Squash Your Doubts about These Nutrient-Dense Fall Veggies
Sugar is unusual because unlike other foods, it doesn't add value to your diet. People try to lower fat intake—which is not a bad thing—but some fats are necessary for your body to function. This isn't true of added sugar; your body doesn't need it.
In fact, sugar can be detrimental to your health. According to Harvard Health, a 15-year study revealed those who consumed 25% of their daily calories from sugar were more than twice as likely to die from heart disease than those who had 10% or less of their calories come from sugar, even if they were skinny.
How much should you have?
According to the American Heart Association, women should be getting no more than 100 calories of sugar—that's 6 teaspoons or 20 grams—per day. Men shouldn't have more than 150 calories, which is about 9 teaspoons or 36 grams.
That sounds like a lot, but you're likely eating a lot more sugar than you realize, because it's added to everything. Let's put this in perspective.
How much sugar is in your food?
Look at the nutrition facts of your packaged food. Chances are, it has sugar even if it's a savory food. To calculate the sugar, look at the grams. There are four calories per gram. You can count the grams, or you can calculate the calories.
In one can of soda, there are about 33 grams of sugar, or 136 calories. In those 12 ounces alone, you are going over your daily recommended intake if you're a woman, and nearly maxing out if you're a man.
Or how about foods you don't think have any sugar at all? On average, a flour tortilla has 5 grams of sugar. Because the savory foods you're eating have sneaky hidden sugar, it becomes extra important to monitor how much sugar you're eating every day.
Related: Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
Tips to limiting sugar
Going cold turkey and eliminating sugar is hard. It's addictive, and it's possible your body will have withdrawals from quitting. But if you want to stop eating sugar all together, it is possible. You will just need a lot of self-control and likely someone to hold you accountable.
Or if you're looking for a more gradual control over sugar, try these suggestions:
1. Learn to love natural dessert
Instead of reaching for a cookie after your meal, train your body to eat a piece of fruit instead. The natural sugars in fruit are healthier and could still satisfy your sweet tooth.
2. Give yourself a cheat day
If you know you won't be able to skip sugar altogether, or if you're afraid it will eventually lead to binge habits, try to avoid sugar during the week, but allow yourself something on the weekend.
3. Limit yourself to one treat a day
If you're used to snacking on small sugary things in between meals, this suggestion might be just the thing for you. Tell yourself you can only have one sugary thing a day. Sure, you're still having sugar, but you'll be more mindful of your decisions throughout the day (and more likely savor the treat you eat).
4. Swap out white sugar for more natural sugars
Instead of using refined sugars, learn to substitute real honey, agave, or maple syrup. It's still sugar, so be aware of your portions. Honey has quite a few calories—more than sugar, but because it's sweeter than sugar, you can use less of it to sweeten things.
With small steps toward lowering your sugar intake, you're one step closer to a healthier you.
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The City of Gdańsk's Jan Heweliusz Award for Scholarship for Prof. Marek Żukowski
Prof. Marek Żukowski from the University of Gdańsk, one of the world's leading scientists in the field of quantum physics, has been awarded the 2015 City of Gdańsk's Jan Heweliusz Award for Scholarship in the category of natural and exact sciences. The highest award in Pomerania was presented to the professor for formulating the theoretical bases of the experimental multiphoton interferometry of entangled states and the research into the consequences of phenomena non-classic to our understanding of the basics of quantum theory and the possibility to use these phenomena in quantum communication.
The winner of this year's prize in the social science and humanities category was Prof. Danuta Popinigis from the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk.
The City of Gdańsk's Jan Heweliusz Award for Scholarship, also known as the Pomeranian Nobel, has been awarded since 1987 to members of the Gdańsk academic world for outstanding academic achievement. The prize-giving ceremony, with Paweł Adamowicz, Mayor of the City of Gdańsk, was held on 28 January at 12 p.m. in the Main Town Hall in Długa 46/47 in Gdańsk.
Professor Marek Żukowski is a world leader in the field of quantum physics. He has been investigating the bases of quantum mechanics and quantum information since 1987. He has written over 150 academic works, twenty-seven of which have been published in the leading American academic journal Physical Review Letters, while two articles and two commentaries have appeared in Nature. This series of works has been cited approximately 5000 times. He has received many important awards for research in the area of quantum physics. These include: the Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science, Maria Skłodowska-Curie Award of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the COPERNICUS International Polish-German Academic Award, which he received along with Professor Harald Weinfurter from the University of Munich. He has also won a host of awards from the Ministry of Science. He has received grants from the National Centre for Research and Development and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, as well as from the Foundation for Polish Science, including TEAM, and he had previously received the prestigious Foundation for Polish Science grant-award, currently known as the 'Mistrz/Master'. He lead a team of Polish scientists awarded grants from the EU's 6th and 7th Framework Programme. He is director of the University of Gdańsk's Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics. He is also a member of the Council of the National Science Centre. Since 1st January, he has been editor of the journal of the American Physical Society Physical Review A.
Professor Żukowski's greatest achievements are a method to observe multiphoton interference and a range of works related to the interpretation and structure of the laws governing the world of atoms and particles. In practical terms, this means, amongst other things, research into quantum communication in its broadest sense and devising the most secure codes.
The city and the University of Gdańsk have for many years been world leaders in the field of quantum physics. It was here that the concepts and solutions used world-wide were first developed, and the results of academic papers have been cited in thousands of works by other authors and used in dozens of laboratories. This led to the establishment in 2007 of the National Centre for Quantum Information, which is an important link in European research into the area of quantum information. The centre is headed by Professor Ryszard Horodecki. University of Gdańsk scientists are carrying out research into quantum cryptography, entangled states, quantum memory, the cloning and deletion of quantum information and quantum interferometry. World pioneers in quantum information, Professor Charles H. Bennett from the USA and Anton Zeilinger from Austria, have received honorary doctorates from the University of Gdańsk.
The City of Gdańsk's Jan Heweliusz Award for Scholarship has been awarded to academics from the University of Gdańsk since its inception in 1987. In the field of natural and exact sciences, it has been presented to Prof. Dr hab. Maciej Żylicz (1992), Prof. Dr hab. Karol Taylor (1995), Prof. Dr hab. Zbigniew Grzonka (1999), Prof. Dr hab. Grzegorz Węgrzyn (2003), Prof. Dr hab. Marcin Pliński (2007), Prof. Dr hab. Ryszard Horodecki (2008) and Prof. Jerzy Błażejowski (2012), and for the humanities Prof. Dr hab. Roman Wapiński (2001), Prof. Dr hab. Edmund Kotarski (2002), Prof. Dr hab. Józef Bachórz (2003), Prof. Dr hab. Bohdan Dziemidok (2004), Prof. Dr hab. Józef Borzyszkowski (2005), Prof. Dr hab. Jerzy Limon (2006), Prof. Dr hab. Małgorzata Czermińska-Książek (2007), Prof. Dr hab. Zdzisław Brodecki (2009), Prof. Dr hab. Jan Burnewicz (2010), Prof. Dr hab. Mirosław Szreder (2011), Prof. Brunon Synak (2012), Prof. Stefan Chwin (2013) and Prof. Mieczysław Nurek (2014).
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I have read Elin Hilderbrand's other bestselling books, "Barefoot" and "A Summer Affair" so I was beyond excited to pick up a copy of her latest "The Castaways" !!!!!!
We are back on Nantucket (where our author lives with her family, no wonder she knows so much about it eh?), the summer season is about to begin with a very interesting group of friends, couples actually, the Wheelers, the Drakes, the Kapenashes and the MacAvoys. Each and every one of these married folks has their issues, but the most obvious were Greg and Tess MacAvoy's. Of course before things get really interesting with this couples secrets, they mysteriously drown. Leaving the others to discover the missing pieces. Each of these characters have their own chapters, so step my step we all figure out the mystery together. You are not going to love every one of these complex characters, but you will definitely love this book!
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GULP NT (Growing and Using Local Produce) was the outcome of a group of local Darwin residents wanting to encourage the Darwin community to embrace local Tropical produce through community events and workshops and networking people and places together.
The "GULP" project formalised these get togethers and threw them open to the wider community hosting workshops and food shares in public spaces in association with other community groups. Thanks to funding in 2013 and 2014 from The Community Benefit fund (Department of business NT Government) and City of Darwin Environment grants we were able to host workshops free of charge for the Darwin community.
The project works with many other community organisations in Darwin including community gardens, school kitchen gardens, Darwin Community Arts, multicultural groups, market stall holders, backyard growers and interested individuals.
So far workshop and ingredient topics have included – cooking okra, wet season greens, preparing coconuts to make coconut milk and oil, growing Asian wet season beans and crops and cooking cassava roots into sweet and savoury dishes, multicultural uses of Banana, bitter melon and taro, eggplant dishes and more recently the use of native bush tucker.
We aim to include anyone new to Darwin, the Tropics and its produce as well as those already passionate and knowledgeable. These connections to food through community are essential due to the remote location of Darwin and its reliance on trucked in food supplies and creating community is important in a vibrant, multicultural city.


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Farm to You Market at 5025 Old Highway 100.
The place is an old factory refashioned into a grocery store, with aisles and freezers and checkout lanes and all. Terri and I rolled our carts once-around-the-store to check it all out, and talked with the owner. The farm we'd first seen, with the tumbledown stand, was his. This store was way different! Two young women staffed the deli; it was impossible not to order the "Peppered Pig" sandwich (peppered pork salami, jalapeno cheese) and the fruit salad as a side, and oh the delight when it arrived on marbled rye bread, my favorite. Terri had the turkey sandwich. There was indeed a cafe. I'd also grabbed a one-serving-sized bottle of local peach wine.
So I bought sausage, two reasonably-priced Porterhouse steaks from grass-fed beef, honey, horseradish mustard, an acorn squash, some peaches, and Terri bought among other things some fresh butter churned at the store (and later shared it). The most awesome items I saw were the many goat cheeses and huge bags of shelled pecans. I even sampled the homemade bologna. I asked the farmer/owner (he has a beard) if he would one day please stock fresh-milled wheat flour, because the St. Louis area has none; the nearest mill I could locate is in Louisville, KY. He said the buyer would look into it.
In the meantime this will be my source of organic beef and pork, and will have another Peppered Pig sandwich for sure. They will also cook you breakfast. Check it out.
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- Anonymous said...
Highway 100 going west from St. Louis (well, west of the western suburbs) really slices through a nice stretch of Americana!
- August 10, 2016 at 5:22 AM
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As friction increases between China and Vietnam over the South China Sea, an important question is how Vietnam's military, famed decades ago for its resilience and guerrilla warfare, measures up. For the last two months, Chinese and Vietnamese Coast Guard vessels have been jostling each other around a billion-dollar Chinese oil rig that Vietnam says was unilaterally placed in its waters by Beijing. (Beijing says the waters are Chinese.) Warships from both countries lurk in the distance, and from time to time, the Chinese send air force fighters into the rig's vicinity to show they mean business.
Prof. Lyle J. Goldstein, associate professor at the China Maritime Studies Institute at the Naval War College in Rhode Island, is well qualified to examine the capacities of the Chinese and Vietnamese militaries. The two armies worked together in Vietnam to topple the French in the 1950s, and to defeat the Americans in the Vietnam War. In 1979, the Chinese invaded Vietnam — to teach its neighbor a lesson for invading Cambodia, said Deng Xiaoping — and the Chinese retreated with stunning casualties in less than a month. That humbling experience was an impetus for the Chinese to begin the modernization of their armed forces.
Professor Goldstein, who is fluent in Chinese and Russian, has an M.A. in strategic studies from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. During his PhD studies at Princeton he specialized in Chinese and spent time at Beijing City College. He joined the Naval War College in 2001 and helped establish the China Maritime Studies Institute in 2006, serving as its first director until 2011. The institute was founded specifically to conduct research for the United States Navy on China's rapidly expanding navy. In 2012, Professor Goldstein, an avid reader of China's military periodicals, worked on a project called "Research on Chinese Military Assessments of Selected East Asian Regional Powers." He found that the Chinese had a certain disdain for the Vietnamese Navy but considerable respect for its air force.
Vietnam seems to want to strike a path that maintains a degree of independence from China, and from the United States. How does that play out in the military sphere?
Vietnam is a country with a strong military tradition. Undoubtedly, Hanoi's contemporary diplomacy and military strategy are strongly influenced by Vietnam's modern history as a "giant killer." The Vietnamese succeeded in ejecting the French colonizers during the 1950s, then defeating the Americans (1965-73) and finally in standing up to China in a short but bloody border war (1979). This history seems to have imbued Vietnam with a confidence to develop a rather independent approach to foreign policy. It likely has also encouraged Vietnam to invest heavily in defense — turning chiefly to its traditional partner Russia in that endeavor. Unlike certain other countries in Southeast Asia (e.g., the Philippines), Vietnam is not inclined to neglect defense. On the other hand, Vietnam's most promising strategy versus China is the hope that it might have sufficient forces for deterrence, while simultaneously pursuing diplomacy to resolve disputes.
You have done some research on how the Chinese view Vietnam and its military. Do the Chinese have respect for the Vietnamese military? Do they harbor bad memories of the 1979 war against Vietnam? What does China, now so much more powerful, think now of Vietnam's defense capacity?
The Chinese have monitored Vietnam's growing defense capacity extremely closely. Interestingly, both Beijing and Hanoi have relied to some extent on Russian arms — submarines, destroyers and frigates, as well as aircraft — to accelerate their defense modernization efforts. This common experience more than likely informs China's overall assessment of Vietnam's military abilities. There is some irony in the fact that the very same weapons and tactics that China might hypothetically deploy against Japan or the U.S. in any possible armed conflict could also be deployed by Vietnam against China.
On the other hand, China also understands that importing weaponry from Russia is not necessarily an ideal situation, because it may inevitably lead to serious and even endemic training and maintenance lapses. The recent major submarine accident in India, involving a Kilo-class diesel submarine imported from Russia, well illustrates the risks involved. At this point, Vietnam is much more dependent on weapons and military expertise from Russia than is China, which can rely on much more indigenous military capacity.
While the 1979 war is not a major topic of open discussion and research in China, there does seem to be ample respect in China for Vietnam's overall fighting prowess. Nevertheless, Chinese military researchers have pointed out various weaknesses in Vietnam's evolving military strategy. Specifically, it has been noted that submarines may be a major thrust of Vietnam's efforts, but Chinese analysts assess that Vietnam is fundamentally lacking in major experience in operating these incredibly complex weapons systems. Another possible weakness in Vietnam's defense capability identified by Chinese analysts concerns surveillance, targeting and battle management. There seems to be a general sense that China could prevail in any armed clash, following what is referred to in Chinese military circles as the "3.14 model," which refers to the 14 March 1988 clash in the Spratlys in which a small Chinese naval flotilla sank a couple of Vietnamese ships in a small but decisive engagement.
Vietnam has bought six Kilo-class submarines from the Russians. Why did they choose those subs? Will the Vietnamese have crew well enough trained to run the subs? Are the subs well suited to Vietnam's needs?
Many naval analysts contend that the submarine is the capital ship of any modern navy. While surface ships have become increasingly vulnerable to long-range detection and precision strike, submarines remain quite survivable because of the inherent difficulties of hunting submarines. They can operate quite independently, but still deliver lethal blows with either torpedoes or antiship cruise missiles (ASCM).
The Kilo-class Russian diesel submarine has been a popular export around the world, including to the navies of both India and China. The submarine is respected as a formidable opponent in U.S. Navy circles, not only because it is rated to have a low acoustic signature, making detection extremely difficult, but also because of the effectiveness of its associated weapons systems, for example the Klub-S ASCM, which has impressive range, supersonic speed and terminal maneuvering. Undoubtedly, these weapons add very substantially to Vietnam's defense capabilities. After all, Vietnam has long demonstrated an ability to wield ground forces effectively, but its abilities in the air, and particularly at sea have been quite limited, at least up to the present.
Moreover, naval analysts have long considered that China is particularly weak in antisubmarine warfare. Thus, it can perhaps be said that Hanoi has found a weakness in the Chinese armor that it is seeking to exploit. However, it should be said that the Chinese Navy has been aware of this weakness now for some years and is engaged in a broad front effort to try to improve its antisubmarine warfare capabilities by deploying, for example, new and capable light frigates in large numbers for the last two years.
As noted above, there are major concerns with respect to both training and maintenance related to the submarine purchase. It is perhaps true that modern fire control systems may allow relatively inexperienced crews to achieve certain combat results. But there should be no doubt that submarine forces are among the most complex of any military forces to operate, so that building a truly reliable and proficient force is likely to take not years, but decades.
If there was a military conflict between China and Vietnam today, who would prevail?
China would likely prevail in almost any conceivable scenario. Vietnam has made some wise investments as described above and could almost certainly inflict losses against the Chinese Navy and Air Force. Yet China has been engaged in a process of intense military modernization now for two decades and is reaping the dividends. In preparing for various conflict scenarios that potentially involve the United States and/or Japan, China has built forces that are well equipped and highly trained. In the critical areas of submarines, surface combatants and fast attack craft, China also may count on a very considerable numerical advantage that would likely allow China to prevail despite taking losses.
To be sure, there are some dimensions of a military contest that could play in Hanoi's favor. For example, China is not particularly strong in the domain of aerial refueling, so that Vietnam could potentially contest for air superiority, particularly in the areas of the South China Sea more distant from Chinese airfields. In a desperate situation, moreover, Hanoi may even consider escalating a clash at sea into a larger land border conflict, since its land forces might be more equally matched against Chinese land forces. However, this would be a risky gambit, particularly since Hanoi is relatively close to the Chinese border. Moreover, China also has certain capabilities it could employ to escalate. For example, China could make crippling air and missile strikes against Vietnamese naval and air bases.
In general, it should be said that forecasting military outcomes is notoriously difficult and the world has not witnessed a genuine modern naval war since the 1982 conflict in the Falklands. Therefore, the above short analysis needs to be treated with due caution.
The next ambassador to Vietnam, Ted Osius, is awaiting confirmation in the Senate. He said at his hearing that now may be the time for the U.S. to lift the arms embargo. Is the "may be" very polite, and in fact is the Pentagon ready to sell to Vietnam? What do you think the U.S. should sell to Vietnam, if the embargo is lifted?
In my opinion, the U.S. should be cautious about selling weapons to Vietnam. While such sales could have some minor and symbolic deterrent value, such benefits could quite easily be outweighed by the potential to further escalate tensions between China and Vietnam. In the same way that Americans would react extremely negatively to Chinese arms sales in Latin America, for example to Cuba or Venezuela, so these sales would be understood in Beijing as part of an attempt by Washington to further "contain China." As such, they would not only likely further inflame Vietnam-China tensions, but could be quite detrimental to U.S.-China relations, which are already rather strained.
Whereas with alliance partners, such as Japan or the Philippines, the U.S. has long-running defense agreements that have involved arms purchases and joint training exercises that go back over decades, such relationships with Vietnam would be starting from scratch. It is possible that certain platforms, such as maritime surveillance, could potentially be quite useful to the Vietnam armed forces. However, Hanoi would then face the difficult challenge of trying to integrate American systems together with the already substantial arsenal that it has purchased from Russia. That could present a major technical challenge.
Secretary of State John Kerry announced $18 million for Vietnam in maritime security last December. What will that be used for?
It remains somewhat unclear, but available information suggests that these funds may be employed to purchase light patrol vessels of the type that have been contesting China in the "Paracels crisis" since May. It is noteworthy that Vietnam has been engaged in an aggressive building program to try to match China's extensive coast guard forces, so these funds may assist in that effort. Japan also seems to be playing a role in this effort to upgrade Vietnam's coast guard forces.
Such funds may be used to upgrade weaker elements in Vietnam's equipment, for example with respect to radars or communications equipment. However, these small sums may be seen to be rather symbolic in nature. For example, a single prototype of the current U.S. Coast Guard medium-sized cutter (e.g., Sentinel-class) of 141 feet may cost in excess of $80 million per vessel, so this amount of aid will hardly be decisive in the maritime contest between Hanoi and Beijing.
How do you think in the coming few years Vietnam will manage China, its age-old foe and sometime friend?
Vietnam and China have relations across a very wide spectrum of issues, as might be expected among large neighbors. The economic and sociocultural advantages of deeper integration among the two states are amply evident. Indeed, the intensity of these interactions, whether at a cultural level or among senior party cadres, has likely been underreported in the West. Nevertheless, it is amply clear that there remains an inclination for brinkmanship in both Hanoi and Beijing on some of the most sensitive issues, regrettably.
The potential for this fraught diplomacy to spiral out of control was powerfully demonstrated to both sides during the May riots in Vietnam. These riots have hurt both sides and will hopefully serve to remind leaders in both countries of the imperative to reach compromises on the sensitive issues that divide them in the South China Sea. In that regard, Washington needs to guard its own broader interests, which are invariably more closely tied to a stable U.S.-China relationship overall. In its dealings with Hanoi, Washington must avoid the trap of "bad friend syndrome," in which it inadvertently goads Hanoi into an ever more intense confrontation with Beijing that Hanoi cannot hope to win. Indeed, Hanoi would do well to consider the recent fate of Ukraine in somewhat analogous circumstances.
Rather than preparing for armed conflict, Vietnam needs to employ energetic diplomacy to find its own modus vivendi with the emerging superpower to the north. This will be a difficult and dangerous process, to be sure, but will best ensure Vietnam's prosperity and security for the long term in a tough neighborhood.


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(Havelock, NC) Hi 74 Lo 66 -- Let's hear it for the St. Louis Cardinals, Jim's favorite sports team. They beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4 games to 2 to win the National League pennant and will be in the World Series next week for the 4th time in the last 10 years, and the 19th time overall (winning 11 times).
Looks like I'll be a "baseball widow" for another couple of weeks. :)
It rained off and on all night, just enough to wake us up. It continued to rain today, but Judy and I went grocery shopping in between rain showers.
It was a kick back day. We watched the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race this afternoon, and I read a few blogs to catch up. I noticed there are a lot of people headed to Florida this winter. We may be doing a lot of visiting this year, which will be great! Jim read and played with the new Nexus7 tablet. They've come a long with those tablets. Our wi-fi has been stronger since they did some maintenance on the tower yesterday.
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The word on the street is that the many U2 fans Ticketmaster left ticketless can now resolve their issue with the ticket seller. Sort of. The international superstars filmed two of their four scheduled nights in Chicago, all to be transferred to DVD for your home viewing pleasure.
Director Hamish Hamilton will be behind the as-yet-untitled release; he's also responsible for the last two U2 DVDs,
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"this one time, at writing camp…"
I have an issue with challenges. I take them on (as long as they don't include jumping off bridges or parachuting) with a zeal and determination so strong I'm often looked at as being crazy.
Translation: I'm stubborn and driven.
In November 2011 I joined Nanowrimo and, after several sleepless nights, brain fatigue, and–according to staff–a car that continued to roll as I jumped out each morning (I ALWAYS managed to make it to the clock on time. Well, almost always), I completed a draft. My first, somewhat flawed novel!
2012 found me struggling to make it pass 3,000 words. If you're familiar with Nano, you know that the goal for National Writing Month is more like 50K. I forced my way through a couple of chapters, wrapped my hands in ace bandages and splints, and eventually listened to that other voice in my head, the voice of reason.
Now it is 2013 and, after receiving an email about CAMP Nanowrimo, I'm in the trenches again. Well, not really the trenches. More like…a retreat? That's what the web page says.
So, as I pack up and head to the cabin, I hope that my cabin mates are as eager as I am, that they don't snore, that we don't get eaten by bears, and that we all reach our writing goals.
Happy camping.
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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — It was about 7:30 p.m. when the meeting began on the fourth floor of the Splendid Hotel here on Jan. 15 in this capital city. Fourteen people were gathered to discuss the launching of a humanitarian association, with a Burkina government minister present. Phones were put in silent mode. While the minister was standing and talking, detonations from outside immediately interrupted him, and the room hushed for fear of being targeted.
"I quickly understood it was not a military coup because they would have targeted the national TV and radio and not a hotel," said Al Assane Baguian, 33, a survivor of the jihadist attack in Ouagadougou that occurred less than a month ago, killing 30 people of many different nationalities, including Burkinabé. Al Assane Baguian, an American who lives in Burkina Faso, suffers from a gunshot wound to his leg and has since returned to the United States for surgery. His reference to a possible coup harks back to a failed attempt at one by military personnel last fall in Burkina Faso.
Al Assane Baguian recently provided details of the jihadist assault, which lasted at least eight hours, that Friday night in a central part of the city, not far from the international airport and Ouagadougou's Roman Catholic cathedral. The mayhem that disrupted a typically relaxed evening is still vivid in the minds of everyone who lives here. Why the counterassault took so long to get underway reveals the stunning security gaps in the government, even though French and American military units are stationed in the capital or right outside it.
Until now, Burkina Faso, situated in West Africa, has been spared from large-scale terrorist attacks, but the one in January was the first major death assault claimed by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, in the country. The attack targeted the heart of the capital, where the majority of people were killed in Cafe Cappuccino, mostly frequented by foreigners and upper-class Burkinabé.
Minor raids along Burkina Faso's border with Mali have been registered in the last few months, but the attack in Ouagadougou is the second such siege in a hotel in the region by the Al Qaeda affiliate and another group led by the international terrorist Mokhtar Belmokhtar.
These groups struck a hotel in Bamako, the capital of Mali, in November, gunning down 20 people over 12 hours, all of which reflects how some countries in West Africa do not have strong-enough security systems in place to counter armed terrorists. The attacks in Mali and Burkina Faso within two months also reveal how much these countries depend on outsiders — French and US commandos in both instances — to fend off such aggressive assaults. The United Nations had also sent first-responders from its peacekeeping mission in Mali to the Bamako hotel, where the two killers died in the counteroffensive.
Back in Ouagadougou on the night of Jan. 15, everyone in the hotel meeting room, Al Assane Baguian said, fell to the ground and crawled on the floor toward an outside corridor, searching for exits before deciding to go back to the room, where everyone huddled under a table while awaiting rescue. Fifteen minutes after the first shots had been fired from outside, close to Cafe Cappuccino, across the street from the hotel on Avenue Kwame Nkrumah, Al Assane Baguian managed to call his wife, a Burkina military officer, to inform her about the situation and to ask for help.
Ten minutes later, at around 8 p.m., he and another Burkinabé, also an American national, reached the American embassy in the capital on their cellphones. At the same time, a few more shots rang out, and "they were now shooting inside the hotel," Al Assane Baguian recalled, referring to the assailants.
"I returned to lock the door," he said, of the meeting room, and "that is when they shot at the glass door and shot and wounded me in my leg. My brother, who came to rescue me, had been wounded above the eye. I saw two attackers. They stayed in the corridor and shot from there in our direction, wounding five persons. Then they entered the meeting room and remained there half an hour. One of them took a bottle of water and drank it, while the other was illuminating us with a flashlight. At around 8:30 p.m., they left the room, shooting a last round in the corridor. Why did they not kill us while they had the opportunity?"
The reason the attackers did not kill everyone in the room suggests that their main focus, some people in the capital say, was to annihilate people in Cafe Cappuccino, a known stomping ground for expatriates in Ouagadougou. Meanwhile, the counterassault by the Burkina police and military got off to a weak start as they waited for American and French military support.
At around 10:30 p.m., three hours after the first signs of an attack, Al Assane Baguian received a message from an American official telling him they were nearby, with other Burkina and French forces, and that rescue was arriving. But Al Assane Baguian and the people hunkered down in the meeting room were not released by American and French forces until about 2:30 a.m., seven hours after the jihadists initially struck.
Why did the Burkina Faso police wait for the American and French military to retake the hotel?
"A special Burkinabé gendarmerie unit with some 15 individuals were out there 30 minutes after the attack to evaluate the situation," said a national security force official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, given the sensitivity of the information. "We were ready to counterattack at around 10 p.m., but we received the order to wait because some hostages from the Splendid Hotel said they had seen 10 or more attackers, whereas our men had seen three shooters. At that time, the authorities decided to coordinate our forces with American and French troops."
Around midnight, the French reinforcements arrived all the way from northern Mali, in Gao, where they were taking part in a mission as part of Operation Barkhane, a counterterrorist network based in the Sahel region of Africa. Launched in 2014 by the French army, Barkhane, named after a type of sand dune, is grouped among five Sahelian countries, including Burkina Faso, to fight the armed Islamists extremists threaded throughout the area.
The other reason that the Burkina police and military forces waited for foreign reinforcements before beginning an assault was the significant lack of equipment and troops the Burkina troops had to lead a counterattack. The country recently voted in a new president, Roch Marc Kaboré, in its first democratic election in decades, having pushed out the former president and strongman, Blaise Compaoré, in a populist movement in 2014. A transition government was installed to ready the nation of 17 million for its presidential vote on Nov. 29, which went relatively well.
But some analysts and journalists who report on the region have suggested that the Qaeda attack took advantage of a vulnerable time for Burkina Faso, given that Kaboré took office in late December and most of the government ministries, including defense, were not filled by mid-January.
"When the hostages of the Splendid Hotel informed us near 10 p.m. they had seen several jihadists, we did not have the means to verify or react. We do not have the proper resources," said another member of the Burkina security forces. "We do not have glasses for night vision, for example, or even weapons for firearms and snipers."
While waiting for reinforcements about 200 yards from the hotel, the Burkina forces were desperately seeking information on the Internet about the layout of the hotel while a French military official was trying to find a bulletproof vest so he could accompany two armored vehicles and a fire truck approaching Cafe Cappuccino to rescue the survivors. There, a fire raged outside from car bombs ignited by the jihadists, choking the restaurant with smoke.
When the counterassault finally started at around 1:30 a.m. at the hotel, more than 10 armed Americans in military uniforms and many more French soldiers approached the building by walking behind it.
"The hotel is compartmentalized into two buildings," an official of the Burkina forces said. "The Americans went to one side, the French on the other." In addition, a drone was used for reconnaissance above the hotel before the intervention occurred.
At 2:35 a.m., Al Assane Baguian said of unfolding events at the time: "I heard a deafening noise. The security forces were detonating one of the walls of the room where we were sheltered. One of the American soldiers came up to me, saying, It is me you were on the phone with" in communications with Americans near the hotel hours earlier in the attack.
The long hours of waiting to be rescued were over. But how the assault was handled has raised questions about huge weaknesses in Burkina Faso security services, as the wounds of people who survived — a minimum of 71 people — linger.
Since the attack, President Kaboré has repeated that security would be a top priority of his government. The new Minister of Territorial Administration and Security, Simon Compaoré, is to present guidelines from his office. For Burkinabé, the challenge of security remains uppermost in their minds.
The Splendid Hotel and Taxi Brousse, another cafe on Avenue Kwame Nkrumah, where the three attackers were actually killed, have reopened. The scene is riddled with bullet marks.


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New Country Artists Curtis and Luckey Visit Abilene [VIDEO]
Country's newest duo 'Curtis and Luckey' stopped by KEAN 105 yesterday to visit with me and Pete during our morning show. As I always do, I tell our visitors, "whenever you're in the area, drop by and get on the air with us". I've only had a few of takers in my entire broadcast career. Past repeat visitors were Trick Pony, Mindy McCready and before that, Kenny Chesney. Well, add to the list 'Curtis and Luckey' and they came bearing gifts for our listeners.
Country's hot new duo whipped out their guitars and were singing their songs live on the radio in what seemed like a rushed interview. I learned that, they had to be in Weatherford Oklahoma in five hours for 'sound check' so they sang a couple of songs and I played two more off of their brand-new debut album. Much to my surprise, Brian Curtis says "I want all the KEAN listeners listening this morning to get a free copy of our new album. Just go to this website over the next couple of days you'll be able to download our new album free, just enter your email address". Wow, when was the last time I had an artist visit and then offer their entire album free for download to all our listeners? Never or at least as far back as I can think of.
It pays to listen to KEAN-105 all the time, because you never know when an artist drops in and offers up the whole album. Now, I've had an artist offer a song or two before, but never the entire album. Thank you Curtis and Luckey you guys are awesome.
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Veterans Admissions II
Posted by David Dudley Field '25 under Cappy Hill '76, Veterans Admissions at 7:52 am
This The New York Times article on special admissions programs for military veterans at elite colleges provides a good excuse for a four day review of the topic, one we have covered before at EphBlog. This is Day 2.
According to school administrators, there was one undergraduate veteran attending Princeton during the 2013-14 academic year, out of 5,244 undergraduates. Harvard had four among its roughly 6,700 undergraduates. Brown had 11 out of 6,182. Dartmouth, whose former president, James Wright, is an enlisted Marine Corps veteran who encourages veterans to continue their education during his visits to military hospitals, had 18 of 4,276.
Williams, I believe, has zero. (Corrections welcome!) Previous serious discussion of this topic five years ago.
Despite all the (deserved) grief that Wright used to take from our friends at Dartblog, I am still a fan, as I am of anyone who visits the wounded in our military hospitals.
But Wright/Dartmouth have been doing this for many years now. How well has the program worked? A dozen or more ex-military students have entered and then graduated from Dartmouth. Tell us about their experiences. How many failed to graduate? How many now think that the decision to go to Dartmouth was a mistake?
The fact that these schools don't produce and/or make public such a report makes me suspicious about how well (or poorly) the program has worked.
In response to those numbers, organizations like the Posse Foundation have turned their attention to bringing more veterans to the nation's colleges. The foundation was started in 1989 to help underrepresented students to enter top-tier schools. Two years ago, Catharine Bond Hill, the president of Vassar College, began working with the group to apply their model — which focuses on helping exceptional community college students gain admission to elite four-year colleges — to veterans.
EphBlog loves Cappy Hill '76, but is Vassar, as an institution, better off when its president uses college resources to support her personal (and idiosyncratic?) moral views? There are many, many groups of people who are underrepresented at Vassar. Why all the resources devoted to veterans? Why not, say, victims of domestic violence? Or orphans? Or survivors of childhood cancer? Each of these groups would benefit from the resources that Cappy Hill is devoting toward veterans. Each would add a true diversity of experience to Vassar.
A wiser president would spend her time and resources to make Vassar a better college by increasing the quality of the student body, mainly by convincing at least some of the hundreds of students who turn down Vassar each year (in order to go to higher ranked liberal arts colleges like Williams and Amherst) to choose Vassar instead.
The Posse Foundation mandates that every member of a class attend a monthlong training seminar designed to prepare them for the rigors of full-time scholarship and to promote camaraderie among the members. Additionally, members must begin as first-year students, regardless of how many community college credits they have accrued.
The Posse Foundation might be the world's most wonderful non-profit, but every institution is tempted to do things that are good for it, whether or not those things are good for its (purported) clients. How much "camaraderie" can there be among veterans who will soon attend a variety of colleges? I bet close to zero. But such a training program provides all sorts of empire-building possibilities for the Posse Foundation itself . . .
More importantly, would you advise a veteran who already had two years of college credits to start over again in Vassar instead of finishing up at his state university in just two years? Not me. At least, not until we had a thorough discussion about the costs and benefits of both choices.Print • Email
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frank uible says:
It is my highly speculative belief that my lot in life would have been improved had I taken a few years in the military before attending college. As it turned out, immaturity made my college experience 50% waste.
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