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This week witnessed the serendipitous alignment of three events. First, my shady real estate company decided that the building immediately adjacent to my deck has been sufficiently torn down to allow the dust to finally settle for a couple of days. Second, temperatures reached a record high, allowing me to finally utilize the dusty deck. And third, I had ground beef on the mind.
Ok, ok. So the third is not quite an event per se—more like a constant state—but this week, I had a very particular form of ground beef on the mind. It comes large, juicy, and grilled, topped with creamy, salty Roquefort cheese, sandwiched in a bun that straddles the line between Wonderbread and Briôche (admittedly quite a thick line), and is served with a mound of crisp rosemary-garlic shoestrings and a two and a half hour wait.
Yes, I'm talking about this beauty:
"it's a burger that snuck up on me from out of nowhere, took me by surprise, and practically forced me to fall in love with it"
On paper, April Bloomfield's burger at The Spotted Pig is the near antithesis of my ideal burger. I like them griddled. Hers is grilled. I like mine small. Hers is a whopping half pound. I like my buns soft, squishy, and mass-produced. She bakes her own. I like American cheese. She goes for stinky Roquefort. Yet, as anyone who remembers my Burger Bender knows (way back when I was still just plain Kenji Alt), it's a burger that snuck up on me from out of nowhere, took me by surprise, and practically forced me to fall in love with it (kind of like my wife, except most of the time, she's not covered in blue cheese).
Despite the fantastic atmosphere at the Pig (especially at the little window seats by the bar), there have been countless times that I wished I could get my hands on their burger without having to trek to the West Village and prepare myself for an entire evening of waiting. So this week, I decided to put the Pig's burger through the Burger Lab treatment, deconstructing it and analyzing it so that we can all enjoy its grandeur in our own backyards.
The Bun
The original bun is a four-inch wide, 2-inch tall round of what at first appears to be glossy brioche, and is described as such by numerous sources. But careful tasting and analysis reveals a slightly different verdict. This bread is entirely too soft and giving to be brioche, lacks its characteristic sweetness, and much of its richness. I find brioche to be too cottony for burgers. This bun, however, is spot on.
To crack the formula, I made several batches of brioche buns, before finally arriving at a version in which I drastically reduced the amount of butter and milk (instead replacing it with water), and used softer all-purpose flour in lieu of stronger, high-protein bread flour.
To achieve the ultra-gloss finish, I tried various iterations of egg washes—whites alone, yolks alone, whole eggs. None of them worked until I struck on treating the buns much like I'd treat a wall. I applied an initial coating of wash just before it went in the oven, then followed it up with a second coat seven minutes later, after the first coat had fully dried. The result? A perfectly smooth, lacquered and shiny crust.
The Meat
April Bloomfield herself has supposedly provided a recipe for the Spotted Pig's burgers in the Telegraph, calling for two parts ground brisket, and one part each rump (aka sirloin) and chuck. But something was awry. This blend produced patties that were sorely lacking in richness, while the burgers at the real Pig are fatty umami-bombs. Perhaps April wasn't coming completely clean?
Some more hard-core snooping was in order. My normal protocol is to overwhelm the waitstaff with my natural charm—one of the few things with which I have been bountifully endowed. But on this occasion, I knew for a fact that the recipe for the burger mix—which comes from master burger blender Pat LaFrieda—is locked behind tightly sealed lips.
"But how could I possibly get a raw Spotted Pig burger home?"
In order to replicate the mix at home, I'd have to get my hands on some of the raw burger meat. Without it, it'd be nearly impossible to disentangle and analyze the flavors of the pure meat from the deep, charred, smoky flavors provided by the grill. But how could I possibly get a raw Spotted Pig burger home?
I sat there sipping my Old Speckled Hen, contemplating a number of courses of action—putting on chef's whites and slipping into the kitchen. Intercepting a delivery truck. Perhaps calling in a favor from fellow burger-man Nick Solares, who's tight with the boys over at LaFrieda. Then a much more elegant solution revealed itself to me:
Me: "Could I order one more burger, this time to go?"
Cute bartender: "Sure—how would you like that cooked?
Me: "I'd like it as rare as possible please."
CB: "Like black and blue?"
Me: "Yeah, except more so. I'm bringing it home to my wife, who happens to be Mia Farrow from Rosemary's Baby."
CB: "Gotcha. Nice classic movie reference."
Me: "Thanks. I try to work at least one into every post."
One subway ride later, I was safely at home with one nearly raw burger on my board, happily discovering that peeling a burger is very much like peeling a grapefruit, only mushier. I soon had a core sample in hand for investigation.
With fresh, raw burger meat to work with, I fried up a few batches and tasted.
That's it. There's got to be short rib in here—nothing else has the richness and sheer umami-factor. An article in New York Magazine seemed to confirm this suspicion. Pat LaFrieda himself is quoted:
Like with the Spotted Pig? We must've come up with 25 different blends before she chose one. Twenty-five! First she wants more short rib, then less, then more.
A mix of equal parts short rib, sirloin, and brisket (a mix not vastly dissimilar to our Blue Label burger blend) was almost spot on—particularly when I included a good portion of the fat cap on each short rib.
The last bit of the puzzle fell into place, this time coming from a source via The Food Lab's Facebook page. Apparently, in a moment of drunken bliss, a Spotted Pig cook (who shall remain unnamed) accidentally revealed to my source the burger mix's secret ingredient: beef suet.
No wonder the darn things are so tasty—there's straight-up beef fat ground in with them! The extra fat pumped my burgers up to close to the 25 percent fat range—a bit more than even the fattiest cuts available at a regular supermarket.
The Assembly
The final ingredient is cheese, which must be Roquefort. No other blue cheese has quite the same soft, spreadable texture, essential for melting over the top of the burger. Being a sheep's milk cheese, it also has a distinct tang that plays nicely off the richness of the beef.
To shape the buns, I made sure to make raw patties that overhang the buns by a good half inch to account for shrinkage. I shaped them with a slight well in the center to compensate for the edges shrinking more than the middle during cooking, delivering a perfectly flat patty post-cooking. Mercilessly seasoning the beef with salt and pepper was also absolutely essential to deliver full-flavor. I used at least a full teaspoon of kosher salt on the exterior of each patty.
Yeah, it seems like a lot, but trust me. It's worth it.
A one inch-thick half pound patty can be a little challenging to cook on the grill. It's a balance between getting great grill marks (a key feature on the Pig's burger), and hitting just the right temperature in the center.
By building a fire under just one side of the grill and preheating the grill grates for a full five minutes after the coals were fully ignited, I was able to get great grill marks in just a minute or two on each side of the patty before transferring them to the cooler side of the grill and covering in order to finish cooking through at a more gentle pace. They hit that perfect medium-rare (as checked by a thermometer, of course) in just a few minutes.
After topping the patties with Roquefort while they rested, putting the signature grill marks on the bun, and assembling, my work was complete.
One Spotted Pig Burger, minus the wait and the bill. True, no cute bartenders or Old Speckled Hens, but my wife and a tall boy of PBR will do just fine, thank you.
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People who say Stanley Kubrick couldn't deal with sexuality in his work are wrong. He dealt with it — just not in ways that Americans are usually comfortable with. Like the tech wonk he was, he liked to take sex apart to see how it worked, and in this low-key riff on Nabokov — the first of many Kubrickian attempts to confound audience expectations — Humbert Humbert's lust for Lolita is almost incidental to Kubrick's total view of people as poseurs. Sue Lyon's Lolita is calculatedly deadpan, shrugging off the helpless adoration of James Mason's respectable-seeming professor Humbert; Shelley Winters' Charlotte Haze (she's excellent in this) needs to be loved just as much as she needs to seem sophisticated. Kubrick adored working with Peter Sellers, who arguably did his best work for Kubrick. A case could be made that the real Kubrickian hero of the piece is Sellers' Clare Quilty — detached, hip, somewhat dorky, obsessive. Pauline Kael described him as "Humbert's walking paranoia, the madness that chases Humbert and is chased by him." Essentially, Kubrick uses Nabokov's story, and sexual fixation in general, for a meditation on people driven mad by what they can't have; the movie is funny, but there's also considerable pain in it — perhaps Kubrick's last film to be truly emotionally accessible.
TEXTBOOK KUBRICK MOMENT: The opening sequence, which begins the story at the end; it features some wonderfully suggestive ping-pong business, and finishes with a justly celebrated image of a painting.


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Gardens of the World by Studio Daniel Libeskind
On February 4, rebuilding officials narrowed the nine plans for the World Trade Center site down to two.
The committee chose architect Daniel Libeskind, whose plan exposes the Twin Towers' original foundations and leaves the hole at Ground Zero for a memorial, and the THINK team of architects led by Rafael Vinoly and Frederic Schwartz. Their World Cultural Center plan includes two open steel latticework towers with a museum, an amphitheater and other cultural spaces at different heights.
In a four-hour meeting the night before, a selection committee with representatives from the city, the state, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and the Port Authority selected the finalists.
Lower Manhattan Development Corporation head planner Alex Garvin said the two plans were chosen because they create inspiring places for the memorial and a cultural district. Both designs also re-connect streets through the site in keeping with Mayor Michael Bloomberg's vision for lower Manhattan. And they both, said Garvin, create spaces that work well for private development.
During the next three weeks, the two design teams will modify their plans based on discussions with rebuilding officials and other key players -- including World Trade Center lease-holder Larry Silverstein, who has said that he doesn't approve of the designs. Officials will then select one finalist. "These plans must be adjusted to reality," said Garvin. "We understand that and so do the designers."
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Click to viewUniversal Music's decision to deliver DRM-free tracks to pretty much everybody but iTunes in its "test"—Amazon, Google, RealNetworks, Wal-Mart and other smaller stores—continues its wary, passive-aggressive stance toward Apple. Officially, a Universal rep told us in an email that it's "a scientifically designed research study over the next six months" that's using iTunes (their "Apple sales") "as a standard control group" to serve "as the baseline for comparison." But, what's really being tested is the viability of non-iTunes online sales.
The thing is, iTunes is kind of a crappy "control" in this little experiment if the only variable being tested is the presence of DRM, because its sales dwarf every other store in the test. Moreover, Universal's buying AdWords to drive traffic to the DRM-free downloads, throwing in yet another variable. It doesn't line up very well with the scientific method I was taught in high school.
Reading between the lines, it seems clear that what's really being tested isn't DRM-free downloads, it's the non-iTunes market—is it possible to really move digital music without the iTunes/iPod machine?—and Universal's ability to flex its atrophying muscles.
EMI's move to DRM-free tracks months ago was dismissed by some as a risky and desperate play, a sign of its weakness as the smallest label of the Big Four—its shareholders recently approved its sale to a private equity firm. Universal, on the other hand, is the biggest label in the world.
That doesn't mean it's not a sign of weakness. iTunes isn't the only store that's not a part of the test: None of the participating outlets have hardware linked to it. If iTunes was the only control here, why isn't Zune a part of the game? Where's eMusic for that matter? Universal looks like its angling to promiscuitize the digital music market—make the same music easily available from many sources that will play on any device—in order to make labels still matter, and stave off its own impending irrelevance.
The broader, more positive take on the move—which isn't necessarily divorced from the other one—is that the industry is beginning to realize they don't have a choice: DRM-free is the only way to really spur the digital music market, and ultimately for them to even hope to generate the kind of revenue they used to. This rosier outlook would include, in our opinion, Universal selling DRM-free music on iTunes at some point in the future.
Will the two remaining Big Four labels follow suit and explore DRM-free downloads? Undoubtedly, this as much of a test for Warner and Sony BMG as it is for Universal. If Universal pulls the plug in January (and Sony and Warner will know before we do), probably not, unless they're looking for an edge against the competition. If this test becomes policy, it seems safe to say that left with little choice, the others will fall in line in short order.
From there, the real question is the iTunes question: What are the labels going to do about it?
Universal's full press release:
New York, New York...Universal Music Group (UMG), the world's leading music company, today announced that it is continuing the testing of digital sales of tracks and albums without digital rights management (DRM) by making thousands of its albums and tracks available from its digital repertoire in MP3 form without DRM enabling, for a limited time.
"Universal Music Group is committed to exploring new ways to expand the availability of our artists' music online, while offering consumers the most choice in how and where they purchase and enjoy our music," stated Doug Morris, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of UMG. "This test, which is a continuation of a series of tests that UMG began conducting earlier in the year, will provide valuable insights into the implications of selling our music in an open format."
As UMG's most comprehensive and extensive testing to date, the experiment will run from August to January and analyze such factors as consumer demand, price sensitivity and piracy in regards to the availability of open MP3s.
MP3s can be played on a full range of devices including dedicated MP3 players, mobile phones and the iPod. Regardless of the outcome of these tests, UMG will continue to support innovative digital models such as subscription and ad-supported services which rely on DRM as an enabling technology.
Albums and tracks that will be available during this test run the gamut from artists such as Amy Winehouse, Fall Out Boy, 50 Cent, Black Eyed Peas, Daddy Yankee, Mika, The Pussycat Dolls, Gwen Stefani, Maroon 5, Dr. Dre, Don Omar, Sting, Sugarland, Diana Krall, Paulina Rubio, Shania Twain, Nelly and Prince, to Bing Crosby, Elvis Costello, Reba McEntire, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Stevie Wonder, Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline, among many others.
Participants including Google, Wal-Mart, Best Buy Digital Music Store, Rhapsody, Transworld, Passalong Networks, Amazon.com and Puretracks, will offer downloads to consumers in the DRM-free audio format of their choice in a variety of bit rates. For the most part, the DRM free downloads will be offered at standard wholesale prices.
As part of this test, Universal will also be driving traffic to DRM-free downloads using Google's AdWords(tm) advertising program. Google ads will connect consumers directly to digital retailer gBox, Inc. (www.gbox.com) download store making the search and buying process as simple as possible. Because many consumers are searching for music and music related news and information online, Google is a powerful way to drive consumers to this test.
In addition, DRM-free downloads will also be available through artist and label-branded websites, including will.i.am.com, sum41.com, evefans.com, www.common-music.com, ryan-adams.com, blaqkaudio.com, dianakrall.com, sectionquartet.com, as well as defjam.com, islandrecords.com and classicsandjazz.co.uk, among many others.


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EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — Police plan to expand their search Sunday for possibly more victims after three bodies were found wrapped in plastic bags in a Cleveland suburb.
The bodies, believed to be female, were found about 100 to 200 yards apart, and a 35-year-old man was arrested and is a suspect in all three deaths, though he has not yet been charged, East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton said Saturday.
The suspect is a registered sex offender and has served prison time, the mayor said. In police interviews, the man led them to believe he might have been influenced by convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell, Norton told The Associated Press.
"He said some things that led us to believe that in some way, shape, or form, Sowell might be an influence," the mayor said.
Sowell was found guilty in 2011 of killing 11 women and hiding their remains around his Cleveland home from June 2007 to July 2009. Police found their mostly nude bodies throughout the house after a woman escaped and said she had been raped in there.
Sowell's victims ranged in age from 24 to 52, all were recovering or current drug addicts and most died of strangulation; some had been decapitated, and others were so badly decomposed that coroners couldn't say with certainty how they died.
Prosecutors described him in court papers as "the worst offender in the history of Cuyahoga County and arguably the State of Ohio." He was sentenced to death.
On Saturday, Police Commander Mike Cardilli announced that a woman's body had been found Friday in a garage and two other bodies were found a day later — one in a backyard and the other in the basement of a vacant house.
All three people are believed to have been killed in the last six to 10 days.
Police did not know the identities of the three victims. Norton said police believe the three were female, although the bodies had not yet been examined by the medical examiner.
Norton said the bodies were each in the fetal position, wrapped in several layers of trash bags. He said detectives continue to interview the suspect, who used his mother's address in Cleveland in registering as a sex offender, the mayor said.
Cardilli said the man was arrested after a standoff with police Friday. Police did not immediately release the suspect's name. He was jailed in East Cleveland, the mayor said.
"The person in custody, some of the things he said to investigators made us go back today," the mayor said.
Police searched vacant houses over about three blocks in the neighborhood Saturday and planned to expand their search Sunday, Norton said.
The police, FBI, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department went through yards and abandoned houses and used dogs trained to find cadavers.
The neighborhood in East Cleveland, which has some 17,000 residents, has many abandoned houses and authorities want to be thorough, the mayor said.
"Hopefully, we pray to God, this is it," he said.
The Cleveland area has had its share of gruesome news in recent years. In May, three women who separately vanished a decade ago were found captive in a run-down house. Ariel Castro, a former school bus driver, has been charged with nearly 1,000 counts of kidnap, rape and other crimes.
Castro is accused of repeatedly restraining the women, sometimes chaining them to a pole in a basement, to a bedroom heater or inside a van. The charges say one of the women tried to escape and he assaulted her with a vacuum cord around her neck. He also fathered a daughter with one captive, authorities said.
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Varney, the Vampyre audiobook
Thomas Peckett PREST (1810 – 1859)
Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vampyre is a forerunner to vampire stories such as Dracula, which it heavily influenced.
Flora Bannersworth is attacked in her own room in the middle of the night, and although her attacker is seemingly shot dead, the body is nowhere to be found. The discovery of two small bite marks on Flora's neck leads Mr Marchdale, an old friend of the family, to the conclusion that she was bitten by a vampire. While Flora recovers, her brother Henry and Mr Marchdale begin their hunt for the vampire. Their suspicions soon fall on the mysterious Sir Francis Varney, who has just bought an old abbey near Bannersworth Hall, and who bears an uncanny resemblance to Marmaduke Bannersworth, a long-dead ancestor of the family. (Summary by Annika Feilbach)
Note that the original text had no chapters numbered 124 or 125. This project has preserved the original chapter numbers.
Genre(s): General Fiction, Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Detective Fiction
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Aybar close to untouchable
For the record, the Angels say nobody on their roster is untouchable. But Erick Aybar is about as close as it gets.
Staying healthy and in the lineup after missing chunks of the past two seasons with hand and hamstring injuries, the 25-year-old shortstop from Bani, Dominican Republic is emerging as one of the game's most exciting young talents.
Aybar grew up wanting to be like Rafael Furcal, and he is getting there in a hurry by combining superb and consistent defense with a sizzling bat and blazing speed on the basepaths.
With extraordinary range and only five errors in 79 games, Aybar's .986 fielding percentage is surpassed by only three regular Major League shortstops. He's batting .316 overall and in the clutch, with a .355 on-base percentage that represents huge improvement over his .298 figure coming into the season.
As Angels general manager Tony Reagins engages in dialogue with other clubs as the non-waiver Trade Deadline approaches on Friday, Aybar is a popular topic.
You can ask for him, but that doesn't mean you'll get him.
Toronto apparently found that out when it demanded Aybar as part of a multi-player package in exchange for Roy Halladay. The Angels are believed to be maneuvering for the Indians' Cliff Lee, but Aybar again could be a deal-breaker.
"It doesn't affect me," Aybar said on Tuesday night through Jose Mota's translation. "I have a job to do. I can't worry about my name being out there. It's flattering teams want me, but it also makes me sad."
He loves the team he's with and the style it plays, which is perfectly suited to his skills. Manager Mike Scioscia realizes that there are few athletes in the game on Aybar's level, having repeatedly expressed the view that Erick has star potential once he settles in and shows consistency with the bat and in the field.
Coming into Tuesday night's game against the Indians, Aybar was leading Angels regulars with his .316 average, ahead of Bobby Abreu (.314), Juan Rivera (.311), Chone Figgins (.309), Torii Hunter (.305) and Maicer Izturis (.300).
It's a deep and formidable lineup, and when Aybar is linked with Figgins on the bases, it can be a show. You'd be hard-pressed to find two quicker, swifter baserunners in the same lineup. It calls to mind the St. Louis days when Vince Coleman, Ozzie Smith and Willie McGee ran circles around teams.
"I feel confident," Aybar said. "One thing I don't feel is complacent. It feels good to be playing at this level. It's a lot of fun."
With an embarrassment of middle-infield riches – Aybar, Izturis, Howard Kendrick, Brandon Wood, Sean Rodriguez – along with other assets, the Angels could swing a deal by the deadline for a big-time starter or veteran setup man in front of Brian Fuentes.
Just don't expect Aybar to be part of it.


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DreamVision is a French projector manufacturer of some repute. The Dreamy is its new entry level DLP model. The particular optical chip at its core is the latest generation DarkChip 2, which is a native widescreen processor with 854 x 480 (480p) pixel resolution, which means that even DVD (PAL 576p) requires scaling down to fit the resolving ability of the chip.
The construction of the DarkChip 2 is optimised for maximum contrast, which at a claimed 2,400:1 is impressive at this price level. The Dreamy is also home to Texas Instruments' latest integrated control processor - the DDP2000 - which interfaces tightly with the optical DMD (Digital Mirror Device) and provides its own scaling, deinterlacing, and 3:2 and 2:2 pulldown, along with such tasks as keystone and handling of onscreen menus and other housekeeping tasks. The benefit is to reduce the complexity and cost of nailing a projector together.
Compact and discreet
The Dreamy is a compact design supplied with a soft carry case and a useful range of adaptors and connectors. As often happens with compacts, the ventilation system has to work overtime to keep the projector running at a safe temperature, and this means an optical assembly with significant light spill. Happily, fan noise levels, and more importantly the character of the noise from the cooling system, are benign, even at full brightness.
The model is equipped with a range of analogue inputs, including component and a D15 RGB computer interface. There is also a DVI input with HDCP support which means the Dreamy will work with DVD players sporting DVI or HDMI outputs, as well as Sky's forthcoming HD set-top box.
The problem is that the limited resolution of this PJ's chipset means that although you'll see a picture, you won't benefit from HD broadcast's extra resolution. The control system is easy to operate, the only obvious gotcha being the auto source feature, which searches for a new input if the current one is switched off. You can lock an input selection, but this presents problems when legitimately changing the selected source.
Optimising performance
Out of the box my Dreamy sample came with a peculiar adjustment: whites were reproduced as yellow, and there was a gamma curve that needed extensive tweaking to produce an acceptably balanced result.
However, once optimised, its performance rates well. The Dreamy's principal strength is that it is unusually bright and contrasty, and as a result it is useable in rooms with subdued lighting, such as typical daylight use with the curtains drawn. The whites, once the colour temperature has been properly set, are pure and intense, though it was quite easy to 'burn out' shades of near white if the settings were overcooked. Black levels are even more impressive, with contrast level and shadow detail the equal of typical DLP projectors introduced two years ago, and costing two or three times as much.
Where the Dreamy is less impressive is in its handling of moving images. Significant levels of 'staircasing' of diagonal picture elements were obvious. Although this was usually less of an issue with normal programme material, the Dreamy lacked the fluid ease of the best projectors in the sub-£2,000 class, and there was a hint of milkiness from the lens. By contrast, video noise is well suppressed, and text handling is good.
Onscreen resolution is typical of many budget projectors, and better than many LCD models, while brightness is high, alongside the best comparable LCDs. Contrast is outstanding at this price level. Dynamically, the picture is less impressive, and it is disappointing that the new highly integrated approach that TI has rolled out in the DDP2000 to support its low cost DLP chips is inferior to well implemented versions of the Faroudja DCDi (the industry standard) used on equivalent models from other marques. Although unsuitable for HD sources, the Dreamy's performance with standard DVB digital TV and DVD is pleasing.
The Dreamy is an interesting addition to the affordable end of the projector market, although it's no class leader. A quick comparison with the ScreenPlay 7200 shows superior onscreen resolution (720p) from the latter, and better deinterlacing from its Faroudja processor, but the Dreamy has a more punchy image, with better black levels, and more subtlety in the mid colours - flesh tones, for example. I guess, you pays your money and takes your choices...


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A civilisation torn to pieces.
By Robert Fisk
Baghdad, reports Robert Fisk, is a city at war with itself, at the mercy of thieves and gunmen. And, in the city's most important museum, something truly terrible has taken place
They lie across the floor in tens of thousands of pieces, the priceless antiquities of Iraq's history. The looters had gone from shelf to shelf, systematically pulling the statues and pots and amphorae of the Assyrians and the Babylonians, the Sumerians, the Medes, the Persians and the Greeks and hurling them down on to the concrete. Our feet crunched on the wreckage of 5,000-year-old marble plinths and stone statuary and pots that had endured every siege of Baghdad, every invasion of Iraq throughout history only to be destroyed when America came to "liberate" the city.
The Iraqis did it. They did it to their own history, physically destroying the evidence of their own nation's thousands of years of civilisation.
Not since the Taliban embarked on their orgy of destruction against the Buddhas of Bamiyan and the statues in the museum of Kabul -- perhaps not since the Second World War or earlier -- have so many archaeological treasures been wantonly and systematically smashed to pieces.
"This is what our own people did to their history," the man in the grey gown said as we flicked our torches yesterday across the piles of once perfect Sumerian pots and Greek statues, now headless, armless, in the storeroom of Iraq's National Archaeological Museum. "We need the American soldiers to guard what we have left. We need the Americans here. We need policemen." But all that the museum guard, Abdul-Settar Abdul-Jaber, experienced yesterday was gun battles between looters and local residents, the bullets hissing over our heads outside the museum and skittering up the walls of neighbouring apartment blocks. "Look at this," he said, picking up a massive hunk of pottery, its delicate patterns and beautifully decorated lips coming to a sudden end where the jar -- perhaps 2ft high in its original form -- had been smashed into four pieces. "This was Assyrian." The Assyrians ruled almost 2,000 years before Christ.
And what were the Americans doing as the new rulers of Baghdad? Why, yesterday morning they were recruiting Saddam Hussein's hated former policemen to restore law and order on their behalf. The last army to do anything like this was Mountbatten's force in South-east Asia, which employed the defeated Japanese army to control the streets of Saigon - with their bayonets fixed -- after the recapture of Indo-China in 1945.
A queue of respectably dressed Baghdad ex-cops formed a queue outside the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad after they heard a radio broadcast calling for them to resume their "duties" on the streets. In the late afternoon, at least eight former and very portly senior police officers, all wearing green uniforms -- the same colour as the uniforms of the Iraqi Baath party -- turned up to offer their services to the Americans, accompanied by a US Marine. But there was no sign that any of them would be sent down to the Museum of Antiquity.
But "liberation" has already turned into occupation. Faced by a crowd of angry Iraqis in Firdos Square demanding a new Iraqi government "for our protection and security and peace", US Marines, who should have been providing that protection, stood shoulder to shoulder facing them, guns at the ready. The reality, which the Americans -- and, of course, Mr Rumsfeld -- fail to understand is that under Saddam Hussein, the poor and deprived were always the Shia Muslims, the middle classes always the Sunnis, just as Saddam himself was a Sunni. So it is the Sunnis who are now suffering plunder at the hands of the Shia.
And so the gun-fighting that broke out yesterday between property owners and looters was, in effect, a conflict between Sunni and Shia Muslims. By failing to end this violence -- by stoking ethnic hatred through their inactivity -- the Americans are now provoking a civil war in Baghdad.
Yesterday evening, I drove through the city for more than an hour. Hundreds of streets are now barricaded off with breeze blocks, burnt cars and tree trunks, watched over by armed men who are ready to kill strangers who threaten their homes or shops. Which is just how the civil war began in Beirut in 1975.
A few US Marine patrols did dare to venture into the suburbs yesterday - positioning themselves next to hospitals which had already been looted - but fires burned across the city at dusk for the third consecutive day. The municipality building was blazing away last night, and on the horizon other great fires were sending columns of smoke miles high into the air.
Too little, too late. Yesterday, a group of chemical engineers and water purification workers turned up at the US Marine headquarters, pleading for protection so they could return to their jobs. Electrical supply workers came along, too. But Baghdad is already a city at war with itself, at the mercy of gunmen and thieves.
There is no electricity in Baghdad -- as there is no water and no law and no order -- and so we stumbled in the darkness of the museum basement, tripping over toppled statues and stumbling into broken winged bulls. When I shone my torch over one far shelf, I drew in my breath. Every pot and jar -- "3,500 BC" it said on one shelf corner -- had been bashed to pieces.
Why? How could they do this? Why, when the city was already burning, when anarchy had been let loose -- and less than three months after US archaeologists and Pentagon officials met to discuss the country's treasures and put the Baghdad Archaeological Museum on a military data-base -- did the Americans allow the mobs to destroy the priceless heritage of ancient Mesopotamia? And all this happened while US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld was sneering at the press for claiming that anarchy had broken out in Baghdad.
For well over 200 years, Western and local archaeologists have gathered up the remnants of this centre of early civilisation from palaces, ziggurats and 3,000-year-old graves. Their tens of thousands of handwritten card index files often in English and in graceful 19th-century handwriting - now lie strewn amid the broken statuary. I picked up a tiny shard. "Late 2nd century, no. 1680" was written in pencil on the inside.
To reach the storeroom, the mobs had broken through massive steel doors, entering from a back courtyard and heaving statues and treasures to cars and trucks.
The looters had left only a few hours before I arrived and no one -- not even the museum guard in the grey gown -- had any idea how much they had taken. A glass case that had once held 40,000-year-old stone and flint objects had been smashed open. It lay empty. No one knows what happened to the Assyrian reliefs from the royal palace of Khorsabad, nor the 5,000-year-old seals nor the 4,500-year-old gold leaf earrings once buried with Sumerian princesses. It will take decades to sort through what they have left, the broken stone torsos, the tomb treasures, the bits of jewellery glinting amid the piles of smashed pots. The mobs who came here -- Shia Muslims, for the most part, from the hovels of Saddam City -- probably had no idea of the value of the pots or statues. Their destruction appears to have been the result of ignorance as much as fury. In the vast museum library, only a few books -- mostly mid-19th-century archaeological works -- appeared to have been stolen or destroyed. Looters set little value in books.
I found a complete set of the Geographical Journal from 1893 to 1936 The looters had left only a few hours before I arrived and no one -- not even the museum guard in the grey gown -- had any idea how much they had taken. A glass case that had once held 40,000-year-old stone and flint objects had been smashed open. It lay empty. No one knows what happened to the Assyrian reliefs from the royal palace of Khorsabad, nor the 5,000-year-old seals nor the 4,500-year-old gold leaf earrings once buried with Sumerian princesses. It will take decades to sort through what they have left, the broken stone torsos, the tomb treasures, the bits of jewellery glinting amid the piles of smashed pots. The mobs who came here -- Shia Muslims, for the most part, from the hovels of Saddam City -- probably had no idea of the value of the pots or statues. Their destruction appears to have been the result of ignorance as much as fury. In the vast museum library, only a few books -- mostly mid-19th-century archaeological works -- appeared to have been stolen or destroyed. Looters set little value in books.
I found a complete set of the Geographical Journal from 1893 to 1936 still intact -- lying next to them was a paperback entitled Baghdad, The City of Peace -- but thousands of card index sheets had been flung from their boxes over stairwells and banisters.
British, French and German archaeologists played a leading role in the discovery of some of Iraq's finest treasures. The great British Arabist, diplomatic schemer and spy Gertrude Bell, the "uncrowned queen of Iraq" whose tomb lies not far away from the museum, was an enthusiastic
supporter of their work. The Germans built the modern-day museum beside the Tigris river and only in 2000 was it reopened to the public after nine years of closure following the first Gulf War.
Even as the Americans encircled Baghdad, Saddam's soldiers showed almost the same contempt for its treasures as the looters. Their slit trenches and empty artillery positions are still clearly visible in the museum lawns, one of them dug beside a huge stone statue of a winged bull.
Only a few weeks ago, Jabir Khalil Ibrahim, the director of Iraq's State Board of Antiquities, referred to the museum's contents as "the heritage of the nation". They were, he said, "not just things to see and enjoy - we get strength from them to look to the future. They represent the glory of Iraq".
Mr Ibrahim has vanished, like so many government employees in Baghdad, and Mr Abdul-Jaber and his colleagues are now trying to defend what is left of the country's history with a collection of Kalashnikov rifles. "We don't want to have guns, but everyone must have them now," he told me. "We have to defend ourselves because the Americans have let this happen. They made a war against one man -- so why do they abandon us to this war and these criminals?" Half an hour later, I contacted the civil affairs unit of the US Marines in Saadun Street and gave them the exact location of the museum and the condition of its contents. A captain told me that "we're probably
going to get down there". Too late. Iraq's history had already been trashed by the looters whom the Americans unleashed on the city during their "liberation".
"You are American!" a woman shouted at me in English yesterday morning, wrongly assuming I was from the US. "Go back to your country. Get out of here. You are not wanted here. We hated Saddam and now we are hating Bush because he is destroying our city." It was a mercy she could not visit the Museum of Antiquity to see for herself that the very heritage of her country -- as well as her city -- has been destroyed.
[Source: The Independent (London), 13 April 2003]
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Get your hard drives ready, because Mountain Lion is on the verge of arrival. Apple released the golden master (GM) of Mountain Lion on Monday afternoon through its developer portal, signaling that the company is close to the final release of the next version of OS X.
The GM is limited to registered developers until the final version is unleashed upon the Mac App Store later this month. Apple has not formally announced a release date for Mountain Lion just yet, but did say it would happen sometime this month when it previewed Mountain Lion at WWDC in June. Still, we have a couple of theories about when the release might hit the tubes. Apple has scheduled its third quarter earnings call for Tuesday, July 24th, and the company has a tendency to release products immediately following those calls. Specifically, last year's release of 10.7 Lion came the day after the third quarter earnings call, leading us to believe that Mountain Lion might come down the line on the 25th.
Even if it's not exactly on the 25th, we have heard that Apple is preparing for release within the next couple weeks, so it's somewhat of a relief to see the GM show up at this time. Assuming Apple's developer network doesn't find significant bugs in this release, Apple will be on track to ship the iOS-like OS X update—maybe even alongside some iMac hardware? (Dreamers gonna dream.)


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sa.global updates professional services project management software resource center
Seattle, Washington: December 7, 2010
sa.global, a Microsoft Gold Certified Dynamics AX Partner, announced today the unveiling of a new online resource center dedicated to Professional Services Automation software and industry solutions. The resource center contains on-demand video demos and webcast presentations, industry research, and project management software solution information.
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The Resource Center will provide these organizations with a free portal for important industry content.
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Pope Francis Calls For A Shake Up In The Church During Visit To Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO – Urging young Catholics to make a "mess" in their dioceses and break out of their spiritual cages, Pope Francis won him acclaim as a renegade leader of the world's biggest church. But it also left many of his followers with their own interpretations of the pontiff's words about the need to shake up the church.
Some said they thought Francis wanted them to object more forcefully when taught ideas that clash with church doctrine. Others said it meant hitting the streets and pushing for social change.
"If in my biology class they speak about abortion, I should raise my hand and say I don't believe in that," said Maria Alejandrina de Dicindio, a 54-year-old Argentine catechism teacher who had traveled to Rio to see her pope, a fellow Argentine. "The youth should open their mouths when it's their turn."
For Mexican pilgrim Gilberto Amado Hernández, the pope's message meant he should start showing the world Jesus Christ's message of love.
I want to see the church get closer to the people...I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, this closing ourselves off within ourselves, in our parishes, schools or structures, because these need to get out.
"It's difficult to meet young people who want to get close to Christ," Amado said. "We have to show them that faith is something beautiful."
Francis himself didn't specify what to do, but he has displayed his own mold-breaking ways throughout this week's visit to Rio de Janeiro and rural Sao Paulo state, his first overseas trip as pope.
The first pontiff from the Americas worried security officials by riding through massive crowds atop an open-sided popemobile rather than the fully enclosed, bulletproof vehicle his last two predecessors used. He's also ventured straight up to well-wishers to kiss babies and bless children and met privately Friday with juvenile offenders.
While speaking to his fellow Argentines Thursday, Francis said Catholics should make a concerted effort to get outside their own worlds.
"I want to see the church get closer to the people," he told them. "I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, this closing ourselves off within ourselves, in our parishes, schools or structures, because these need to get out."
His final message: "Don't forget: make trouble."
In his own way, he lived those words as the archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, before being selected as pope in March.
Then known as Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the future pope largely abandoned the kinds of luxuries favored by other high-ranking church officials. He rented out the archbishop's luxurious suburban mansion, living instead in a spartan room in a downtown church office building. He also rode subways and buses around town rather than keep a chauffeur.
Francis' visit to a Rio slum on Thursday wasn't his first such venture. He made regular unescorted trips to dangerous slums as archbishop and saw to it that every major "misery village" in Buenos Aires had a chapel and a priest to spread the Lord's word.
He also encouraged young people and the laity to take on leadership roles in parishes that were previously held by priests, so that church members would have much more say in what happens in their communities. Though the Catholic Church openly supported Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship, Francis later approved sainthood investigations for priests who were killed by the military government.
Yet biographer Sergio Rubin said Francis the archbishop also had a very keen sense of politics and took care to act prudently, choosing his battles and avoiding challenging superiors in ways that would backfire.
He wasn't so gleeful and devoted to the crowd, seemingly mindful that he didn't yet have the power to make a big splash in the church, according to an Argentine Catholic official who asked not to be identified because he wasn't authorized to talk publicly about church politics.
Instead, Francis molded the church in Argentina in quieter ways by recruiting and promoting a new generation of outgoing priests in his own model, and not only fellow Jesuits used to living among lay people.
His replacement as archbishop, Mario Poli, had impressed Bergoglio by earning a degree in social work from the public University of Buenos Aires. In a book of dialogues with a friendly rabbi, Francis said, "This is a much better situation, because in the (university) you become acquainted with real life, the different points of view there are about it, the different scientific aspects, cosmopolitanism. . It's a way of having your feet well planted in the earth."
The shake-up message is also one he's applying as pope to the Vatican's staid and dysfunctional bureaucracy. Francis has made clear that big change is on the way, naming commissions of inquiry to investigate the scandals at the Vatican bank and propose an overarching reform of the entire central governance of the Catholic Church.
The pontiff has dived into crowds that have greeted him at the Vatican and in Brazil.
During two raucous rides down Copacabana beach, he's waved, smiled and stopped repeatedly to accept gifts thrown at him from the crowd. At one point, Francis gave away his own white skullcap and put on another one tossed in from the street.
For Argentine student Ana Paula Garrote, Francis was showing Catholics they needed to live that type of spirit.
"For me, the pope wanted to say that we should go out into the streets, not stay in the parishes, and not be ashamed of talking about God," Garrote said.
Based on reporting by The Associated Press.
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Jessi and Barry Love to eat
We love food & drinks. We love restaurant and pub culture. One of our first dates was a charity event that featured fifty of the best restaurants in Atlanta. It was the start of a fantastic marriage.
Jessi is an amazing cook with a crush on butter and cheese.
Barry enjoys eating whatever his wife cooks. He likes to cook a bit himself- usually whatever he has shot or caught.
We moved back to Tallahassee, Barry's home town, and have been on a constant search for great food.
This blog is to share our favorite places, discoveries, dives and disappointments on our search for a great meal.


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Truckee Police Logs, Jan. 14-Feb. 3
TRUCKEE, Calif. – Below are select incidents from the Truckee Police Department's press log for Jan. 14 through Feb. 3, along with previously unreported incidents.
January 11
• Officers took a report of a prior collision that occurred on Brockway Road at Highway 267. Property damage collision report was taken for information purposes.
January 13
• A vehicle was vandalized in a parking lot. The case was closed due to lack of suspect leads.
January 14
• A wallet was stolen from a local business on Donner Pass Road. Subjects attempted to use a credit card from the wallet in Reno.
• Officers documented a verbal argument between husband and wife with children involved. The husband had been drinking. There was no crime.
January 15
• A single vehicle was found overturned and creating a hazard on a Town of Truckee maintained roadway. The area was searched. The driver or the involved party was not located near or around the scene. The vehicle was towed.
• A subject was provided a prescription for a controlled substance by a doctor. The subject then changed/altered the prescription form in an attempt to be given more of the substance then they were prescribed. The subject was arrested.
• A female abandoned two cats on Riverview Drive after she was advised of jurisdiction issues. The case was forwarded to the District Attorney's office.
January 16
• A subject reported that an unknown suspect used her name and date of birth after they were arrested.
January 17
• Officers received a report of child abuse. The child was contacted at school and interviews were conducted with the child, her sister and mother. The abuse was unfound. A report for information only was taken.
January 18
• A vehicle deemed to be blocking the roadway on Northwoods Boulevard at Lausanne Way and creating a hazard. The vehicle was towed and stored.
• A driver was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol on Deerfield Drive at Highway 89 South.
• Male subject reported a theft of construction tools taken from his vehicle that he left unsecured at the Beacon Gas Station.
January 20
• Officers stopped a vehicle for vehicle code violation on Highway 267 at Brockway Road. The driver was found to have a suspended license. The driver was cited and released. The vehicle was retrieved by licensed driver.
January 22
• Truckee resident located a firearm at his deceased mother's house and turned it into law enforcement for destruction.
January 23
• The registered owner of a shotgun provided the shotgun to the Truckee Police Department for destruction.
• Officers took a report of a female adult and male adult, who have a child in common, who were involved in domestic dispute.
• Officers took a report of faint scratch marks on hood of a vehicle. The reporting party believed her vehicle was vandalized. Vandalism report was taken.
January 24
• A victim did not arrive at work which caused her employer concern. A coworker responded to victim's home and found her deceased in the bedroom. Nevada County Coroner responded.
January 25
• A counter report was taken for found property on Donner Pass Road.
• Officers reported an injury accident at the intersection of West River Road and McIver Crossing.
• Officers documented a one vehicle, non injury collision with property damage on Washoe Road at Salmon Street.
January 26
• Officers took a report of numerous subjects entering occupied apartment on Estate Drive and stealing approximately $2,100 worth of jewelry and electronics.
• The reporting party called in DUI Driver on Highway 89 at Deerfield Drive. Officers located the vehicle; the driver was found to be under the influence of alcohol and was arrested for DUI. The driver was booked at Nevada County Sheriff's Office.
• A vehicle was found unoccupied and high centered onto a snow bank creating traffic hazard on South Shore Drive at Tamarack Road.
January 27
• Officers reported a two vehicle, non injury collision involving a town sand truck on Lausanne Way.
• A decedent was found by a family member while checking on the house on Davos Drive.
January 25
• An unknown suspect used victim's credit card number to purchase items over the internet without knowledge or consent of the victim.
January 28
• A subject pushed his way into a residence on Snowshoe Circle. Officers arrested the subject for being under the influence of narcotics, trespassing and battery.
• A driver was stopped for equipment violation. The passenger had two local warrants. He was cited and released.
January 29
• Detectives contacted a female driver during an investigation who was determined to be under the influence of methamphetamine while driving. The investigation revealed the driver was DUI. The driver was subsequently arrested.
• A reporting party requested an informational report regarding a domestic dispute with her live-in boyfriend.
January 31
• Officers took a report of traffic collision that occurred on Donner Pass Road within the town limits. A vehicle rolled over on its side; there were no injuries reported.
February 2
• A loss prevention officer witnessed a suspect shoplift a skin care product and attempted to leave the store without paying for the item. The suspect was detained and later cited and released for shoplifting. The case was forwarded to the District Attorney's office.
• Officers took a report of solo vehicle DUI related collision on Glenshire Drive. The subject was arrested and booked into Nevada County Sheriff's office in Truckee.
• Outside agency assisted for a Child Protective Services Suspect Child Abuse Report. An investigation determined the allegations were unfound. A report was taken for information only.
February 3
• Two subjects with past dating relationship had physical altercation on Donner Pass Road. One of the party was arrested.
• Officers took a report of missing possible suicidal subject on Pine Avenue. The subject was later located at a residence and was transported to mental health hospital.
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The 1-Year Eurodollar LIBOR Rate Edged Lower Today
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A Eurodollar is a U.S. dollar deposited in any bank outside the United States.
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Frances Kissling, writing for RH Reality Check, made excellent points about why it's not up to President Obama to determine which definition of "Catholic" is more valid than another by writing health care regulations around what the Catholic bishops claim to be the final authority on what Catholics believe while ignoring what the vast majority of Catholics actually do, which is use contraception. I want to add to her points and say that having the same regulations for every employer requiring insurance to fully cover birth control is a matter of religious freedom at its most basic. When Catholic organizations use their employees' economic dependence as leverage to force pregnancy on them, no matter how unwilling they are to be pregnant, they deprive those women of their basic right to believe what they wish on matters of faith. Religious freedom is primarily an individual right. When an organization's beliefs come in conflict with individual beliefs, the individual right to freedom of religion must triumph over organizational claims. Doing otherwise is allowing organizations to create a government-supported authority to discriminate and control on the basis of religion, depriving individuals of basic religious rights.
This argument isn't unprecedented. After all, I can't open a business and refuse to serve people because they have differing religious beliefs than I do. This is recognized as a violation of their basic freedom of religion. And that's just a matter of serving sandwiches and fixing tires for people. It's much, much easier to go to a different sandwich shop or car mechanic than it is to get another job or go to another school. Formal religious discrimination against those who don't believe contraception is a sin has serious ramifications for those who are discriminated against in such a way. Anyone who truly supports religious freedom should therefore understand that women's reproductive rights and equal treatment by their employers is part and parcel of religious freedom.
So how is it that a handful of religious zealots have managed to drape their belief that they should force others to live by their dogma in the mantle of "religious freedom?" How have they done so with enough success that Obama seems likely to give them wide powers to attempt to force pregnancy on the unwilling as if that was a protected constitutional right?
Because, believe me, that's how this argument is playing out, as if forcing others to live under your religious rules is a form of religious "freedom"—that the freedom of institutions relies on depriving people, specifically women, of their individual freedoms. That's because those who oppose women's rights are dropping the phrase "religious freedom" all over the place, trying to redefine it as the right to take away someone else's right of conscience through discrimination and economic pressure. It's not an unusual tactic. During the civil rights era, those who wished to discriminate on the basis of race would often claim that their right to push black people out of their businesses and neighborhoods trumped black people's right not be discriminated against. Now they're trying the same tactic, arguing that the greater freedom is not the right to individual conscience, but to bully women who don't agree with them into living by their religious dogma.
Feminists have somewhat let this happen by not talking up religious freedom enough. For some reason, we feel more comfortable discussing reproductive rights in terms of women's rights and health care (after all, women who have ready access to contraception have better health, as do their children) than as a matter of religious rights. Unfortunately, by doing so, we allow those with anti-woman ends to lay claim, facetiously, to the language of religious freedom. That language actually belongs to pro-choicers, who want to secure women's individual right to determine her religious beliefs and have the right to live by them. The vast majority of American women believe that contraception is moral, and attempts to prevent them from living out that belief are unadorned religious persecution.
Luckily, some folks are starting to make these connections more directly. Students at Fordham University are standing up to the university's coercive anti-contraception practices of not only not allowing students to access contraception through the student health services, but charging an excessive fee if they go to a doctor off-campus to get a prescription for birth control. This means, at the end of the day, that both men and women are having sex, but only women are being punished for it. That makes it an incursion against women's rights. But it also means that while being sexual is legal and is, in the eyes of many free Americans, completely moral, students who disagree with Catholic dogma are being punished financially for exercising their freedom of conscience. I'm hard-pressed to see how enacting financial discrimination against people for having different religious beliefs is not religious discrimination.
As Frances notes, this isn't about Catholics vs. non-Catholics. Many Catholics believe that contraception is right and moral, and they have an absolute First Amendment right to do so. The government can't be in the position of telling people that their definition of the faith is more "right" than someone else's. The government simply has to step in if institutions are using discriminatory practices in order to coerce people away from their freedom of conscience. Financial coercion should certainly count. If the Catholic Church doesn't want women to use contraception, they are perfectly free to make their arguments, and if they're good enough, maybe they'll convince some women. That persuasion isn't working suggests something about the strength of the arguments. That their arguments can't hold up on their own doesn't mean that they should get special dispensation to introduce financial coercion into the equation.
These groups urge you to take action:
Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health
Re-published from RHrealitycheck.org under the Creative Commons License.
Related articles
- Gay Marriage: Catholic Bishops' Assault on Religious Freedom. (opentabernacle.wordpress.com)
- Pennsylvania bishops blast HHS contraception rule as indefensible (onecatholicnews.wordpress.com)


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Ooh fancy that, The Chatterjis Blog has been nominated Best Blog at this year's Asian Media Awards! In its third year of recognising and rooting for Asian talent in the mainstream and online media, the awards are backed by some of the British media industry's biggest players.
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Fibre optic cables are network cables that contain one or more transparent optical fibres that are used to carry light. The optical fibres are typically glass or plastic pipes contained in a protective tube suitable for long distance, very high performance data networking and telecommunications. A key advantage of fibre optic cables over metal conductor cables is superior performance in terms of bandwidth and data carrying performance. Fibre optic cables are in internet, phone and TV applications. They're also used in decorative lighting, for example you can get fibre optic Christmas trees. Their ability to save space means that they are used in the lighting and safety features of cars. They are used in the medical field, mechanical inspections and can be used as fibre optic sensors for electrical currents, sounds and chemicals.
Fibre optic cables carry communication signals using pulses of light generated by small lasers or light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The cable consists of one or more strands each approximately the thickness of a human hair. The centre of each strand is called the core, this core is the pathway for light to travel. The core is surrounded by a layer of glass that reflects light inward to avoid loss of signal and allow the light to pass through bends in the cable.
Optical fibres are classified according to their modal type and transmission speeds: OM1 – Multimode 62.5/125 μm & OM2 – Multimode 50/125 μm 1 Gbit.


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Good Deal: Boothbay Harbor Lobster Direct
The Place: Boothbay Harbor Lobster Direct, 1839 Hillview St., Sarasota, (941) 556-9039.
The Fare: Seafood market featuring Maine lobster airlifted in alive and sold at an excellent price ($6.99/lb. on a recent visit but varies), either steamed or ready to cook at home.
The Drill: I owe this discovery to my brother, Frank, who never met a crustacean he didn't want to see boiled, broiled or pan-roasted and who may singlehandedly have ensured this market's success in its early days. In addition to lobster, the shop purveys gorgeous fresh fish from cold waters well north of Florida as well as bounty from the Gulf of Mexico. On a recent foray we came away with two of the loveliest fresh tuna steaks we've ever marinated and run under a broiler, total weight three-quarters of a pound and deliciously priced at $11.54 with tax. Hours vary seasonally, so do call ahead.


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Bulls Fall To Sixers 89-82, Trail Series 3-1
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Spencer Hawes scored 22 points and Jrue Holiday had 20 to help the surprising Philadelphia 76ers beat the Chicago Bulls 89-82 on Sunday and take a 3-1 lead in their Eastern Conference playoff series.
Andre Iguodala had 14 points and 12 rebounds for the Sixers, who have won the last three games after losing Game 1.
Holiday stretched the lead with consecutive 3-pointers late in the game to put the Sixers one win away from joining the short list of eighth-seeded teams that have won a series against a No. 1 seed.
Game 5 is Tuesday in Chicago.
The top-seeded Bulls played without Derrick Rose (torn ACL) and Joakim Noah (sprained ankle). Rose is out for the season and Noah is day to day for the rest of the series.
In NBA postseason history, the eighth seed has won a first-round series against the No. 1 seed four times, including last season when Memphis eliminated San Antonio. Golden State (2007), New York (1999) and Denver (1994) also pulled off the rare feat.
The Sixers won three straight playoff games for the first time since Allen Iverson fueled their run to the 2001 NBA finals.
Holiday was sensational down the stretch after a rocky first 3½ quarters. He missed his first five 3-point attempts until he nailed one to make it 77-73. He hit another the next time down for a seven-point lead to the delight of a roaring sellout crowd.
The undermanned Bulls kept at it and refused to use playing without their two biggest impact players as an excuse. C.J. Watson, who scored 17 points, hit a step-back jumper to make it a two-point game.
In a whistle-happy game, Holiday went to the line with 51 seconds left and made both for an 84-80 lead.
Suddenly — and shockingly — the Sixers are a win away from taking a playoff series for the first time since 2003.
Carlos Boozer had 23 points and 11 rebounds for the Bulls. Taj Gibson chipped in 14 points and 12 rebounds.
Iguodala played through right Achilles' tendinitis to make so many impact plays for the Sixers.
Without a full roster, the Bulls barked at the refs, talked trash on the court and used every self-motivational tactic they knew to gain an edge on the Sixers.
Noah took charge on the bench as head cheerleader. Wearing a protective walking boot, he clapped, cheered and offered instruction in the timeout huddle. Noah was needed more on the court than as a de facto assistant coach.
Noah was injured midway through the third quarter of Game 3 when he stepped on Andre Iguodala's foot driving the lane and crashed to the court. Noah instantly grabbed his left ankle in pain. Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said Noah felt better Sunday.
Boozer actively did his best to keep the Bulls in the game. He played through foul trouble to score 18 points through three quarters (matching his combined total for the first two games) and he fought for some of the tough rebounds Noah would grab.
It wasn't enough.
Iguodala stopped a Bulls run in the third with a 3 for a 57-56 lead. Bad leg and all, he still soared for a thunderous dunk on the break in the first half for an eight-point lead. One of the worst fourth-quarter foul shooters in the NBA, Iguodala even made both with 26.6 seconds left.
Game 4 lacked the electric atmosphere early that accompanies a postseason game because the 10-mile Broad Street Run was routed in front of the sports complex. The Wells Fargo Center was barely half full by tip and the announced crowd of 20,142 needed time to warm up.
By the time Holiday hit his 3s, the arena was going wild.
His sharp shooting in clutch time came at the right time after a slow start.
Holiday and Evan Turner continue to befuddle coach Doug Collins with their inconsistency. The under-25 starting backcourt followed a solid Game 3 with a combined 3 for 22 for eight points in the first half. Lou Williams, perhaps the league's top reserve, failed to bail them out with a 1-for-6 effort in the half. Their struggles were a key reason the depleted Bulls kept the score tight even without their two stars.
The Sixers crashed the boards early without Noah in the lineup and had 15 second-chance points in the half to grab a 10-point lead.
Hawes hit the go-ahead 20-footer late in the fourth for the Game 3 winner and he continued his hot hand into Sunday. He had made seven of his first eight shots, including a 3-pointer right before the second quarter buzzer to send the Sixers into halftime with 44-42 lead.
Notes: Boxer Bernard Hopkins, former NBA great Dolph Schayes, former Sixers great Julius Erving and actor Bill Murray attended the game. ... Philadelphia last won a playoff series when it beat New Orleans in 2003. ... The Sixers hold a 3-1 lead in a best-of-seven series for the first time since the 1984 East semifinals.
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At it's most simplistic, a scene is an action sequence that begins with a character trying to attain a goal, is further developed when someone or something tries to prevent the character from attaining the goal, and ends when either the goal is reached or disaster ensues. Either way, we should learn something new about the character by the end of the scene.
A novel is a seamless flow of story from scene to scene without interruption. At least it should appear that way. In actuality, time sometimes passes between one scene and the next, and it's the way the writer handles transitions that makes the story flow.
Authors used to write long pieces of narrative and exposition linking scenes, but that isn't necessary, and in today's fast-paced world is a serious drawback. Readers want to plunge immediately into a new scene without being distracted by boring discourses.
One of the easiest and perhaps most effective ways of making a scene transition is simply to skip a space and start the new scene. (Or rather, start in an interesting place in a new scene.) "I'm dead," Scott said. He lay in bed under the blue patchwork comforter Gracie had made him, his head turned toward the window.
Another easy way is to start with the grandmother of all scene transitions: Later. Just that one word. Or you can add a bit of time, A month later, Scott fell from a high beam.
Another good transition word is After. For example: After Scott had been pronounced dead, after he had been cleaned and shrouded in a white blanket, after he'd been hauled away in a purple body bag like so much garbage, the hospice nurse remained to comfort Gracie.
Or you can use seasons: In the spring, she buried Scott's ashes beneath the dead willow.
On Facebook, a writer asked if it was okay to jump forward six months in a novel. My response: 'It's perfectly acceptable to jump ahead, and in a lot of cases, it's the best thing for the book as long as you do the transition right. That way you keep hitting the high points of the story. If nothing significant happens in those six months (and you need the time to pass) then it's better to jump ahead rather than bore your readers to death with unimportant events and dialogue. It's easy enough to do — just start the chapter with "Six months have passed since such and such happened, and now, etc." Might not be elegant, but it gets the point across.'
Other authors disagreed with my transition suggestion, saying it was too much author intrusion, that it would pull people out of the story, but I do know it wouldn't pull people out of the story as much as six months worth of nothing happening.
This isn't the exact wording as my inelegant response, but it's basically the same thing: During the following spring, as the second anniversary of Scott's death drew near, Gracie realized . . . again . . . he would never come back. He was gone forever, and since grief hadn't killed her, much to her shock, she knew she'd have to do something to get her life back.
These are just a few ways I made the transition from scene to scene in a short story I recently wrote for an anthology that Second Wind Publishing will release this spring. Since my 2,100-word story spanned twenty-five years, I needed a lot of transitions. Without the transitions taking me from scene to scene, all I would have had is a long, boring narration of an uneventful marriage that ended in death.
So let's talk about scenes and transitions from scene to scene. How do you personally write scenes and make transitions?


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This post continues the list I started in Part 1, adding apps for managing contacts, collaborating, and accessing computer services from your Android phone (or, in the near future, other device). As before, I'm including links to the developers' homepage when available, but all of these apps can be downloaded from the Google Market on your Android phone. And all are free (or were when I accessed them). So here we go:
7. PrinterShare
PrinterShare lets you print over the Internet on your own printer at home or at the office. Sign up for a free account, install and configure the server software on the computer your printer is attached to, and then you can print from your Android phone from anywhere (so long as you have network access via 3G or wi-fi). The big drawback is that you're fairly limited to the type of content that's printable: contacts, photos, and webpages. However, with more and more work shifting to the Web, you can usually find a way to get your content into the web broswer to print it (e.g. sending email attachments to Google Docs and sharing as HTML).
8. RemoteDroid
RemoteDroid turns your Android phone into a remote touchpad and keyboard to control your PC. The screen becomes a touchpad just like you'd find on a laptop, with right-click and left-click buttons; the keyboard functions normally, except one of the alt keys becomes "CTRL" so you can do CTRL-keystroke combos like CTRL-V to paste.
RemoteDroid works over your home wi-fi network: you run the server on your PC and enter the IP address on the app to connect. If you're trying to think of why you'd do this, consider watching video content on your big monitor or through your TV; now, you can use your phone to control the computer from across the room to pause, adjust volume, skip to the next video, or whatever.
This app is for storing and sharing whiteboards – after a meeting or presentation, open Share Your Board and snap a picture of your whiteboard. Share Your Board automatically trims the image (saving just the marked-on part of the board), adjusts contrast and color, and adjusts the perspective of the image, producing a flat, legible image that can be shared with others and commented on. You can take multiple images over the course of a meeting to assemble a kind of slide-show, too. Images can be shared via MMS, email, or sent to programs like Twidroid (a Twitter client), PostBot (a WordPress client – see Part 1), Picasa, or PrinterShare.
The image in the screenshot above was captured in an unlit corner of my apartment; the only lamp is a three-bulb unit across the room which uses compact fluorescent bulbs (which give an awful yellow cast to photos); my whiteboard is surrounded on all sides with index cards and business cards I've tucked into the frame. As you can see, it's done a fairly good job of isolating the relevant stuff (there's an index card at the bottom) and making a very readable image of the keyboard shortcuts for my transcription software.
10. Upvise
Upvise is collaborative project management software comprised of several modular "applications": contacts, notebooks, projects, tasks, and so on. The Android app integrates with an online service (both free, though there is a paid "Premium" level that offers a few more features) so you're not limited to collaborating with other Android users. Projects and notes can be shared, tasks can be assigned out, and ideas can be voted on by anyone in your group. A sales application allows business users to track and follow-up leads. One nice thing: the contacts application will import all your Google contacts (although, as far as I can tell, it doesn't sync new contacts back to your Google address book).
11. StarContact
StarContact is a replacement for the default Dialer software, allowing you to search your contact list (using the T9-style keypad shown in the screenshot, a more compact version, or the regular keyboard). You can also search within non-name fields in your contact list (like address, company name, and notes) as well as by initials. Other than that, it looks and acts like the normal dialer, making it easy to adapt to if you're already used to using ANdroid's built-in software.
12. Wapedia
There are several Android apps for searching and displaying Wikipedia articles, and to be honest, they basically all do the same thing. Wapedia does it very quickly, with entries nicely formatted for the mobile screen and very good image rendering and scaling. You can also access specialized wiki sites, like the Muppet Wiki, Wookiepedia, WoWWiki (World of Warcraft), the Recipes Wiki, Wiktionary, and several others.
(Note: Wapedia is a site that can be accessed from any browser, but here I'm talking about the dedicated app that acts as a front-end to the website.
What are your favorite Android apps for keeping yourself engaged, informed, and productive on the go? Since it may not be too long before Android goes mainstream, let us know what we should look for when we crack open our next smartphone or netbook.


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How does health care reform affect coverage of pre-existing conditions?
Who is this for?
If you were denied health coverage in the past because you were sick or had a medical condition, this explains why health insurance companies can no longer do that.
If you're sick or dealing with an ongoing condition like diabetes, that's when you need health coverage the most. But what if you didn't have health coverage and tried to get it because you'd become ill? Or you wanted to change insurance companies? You could have been turned down because you had what's called a pre-existing condition.
Even before health care reform, we provided health coverage to anyone. It didn't matter if you had a pre-existing condition. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, all insurers must do the same. You can't be denied coverage based on your health. The law also prevents insurers from charging you more because of your health.


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Fresh Air Weekend: Danny Burstein, Michio Kaku
Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors, and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week:
Danny Burstein On Living Up To Sondheim's 'Follies' The actor has played a wide range of roles, from casino owner Lolly Steinman in HBO's Boardwalk Empire, to his current role as Buddy Plummer in the Broadway revival of Follies. He talks about his lengthy career on stage, screen and television.
'Physics Of The Future:' How We'll Live In 2100? Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku describes some of the inventions he thinks will appear in the coming century — including Internet-ready contact lenses, space elevators and driverless cars — in his book Physics of the Future.
Buck Owens: Finding His Voice In 'Bakersfield' Owens may be best known as the smiling country singer who co-hosted Hee Haw, but he also sang original tunes. A new collection, Buck Owens: Bound for Bakersfield, goes back to the days before Owens made it big.
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