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I love checkerboard cookies!
And Im going to Emerson College in the fall and everyones telling me how Boston is an amazing place to go to college. Hope you have fun whereever youre going!
nummyyy cookies
my friend loves that kind of checkered stuffs
she'll be happy
Your posts, your talent, inspire me. To cook more. To write again. To realize dreams I'd put away.
Don't contain your excitment about this "next big step", there will be no other time in your life that feels this way. Embrace it, lounge in it, it's part of the experince.
These cookies look beautiful, but I don't think they would look that pretty if I made them. Congrats!
I left something for you on my blog…again..because when I get an award, you're always the first one in my mind to get it from me. :D
I've subscribed to your blog for a while now… and this is my first time commenting. It caught my eye that you'll be attending university in Boston!
First off, congratulations :) And secondly… I'm studying there too! Maybe we can bake together! hehe
I'm sorry if this weirded you out but I don't have many friends who enjoy baking…
In any case, congratulations and gear up on your winter clothing because it gets super cold in Boston!
too cute!!!!
my mom used to make these cookies around the holidays. The only difference was that she roll out the dough separately, lay one on top of the other, roll the dough, and slice them…she called them pinwheel cookies and the pattern was a spiral one.
Elissa, it's been awhile since I've written a comment. But I've read your blog. The cookies are spectacular but, of course, you made them. :) I love your descriptions. Your descriptions of the blues made me happy. You've captured something near and dear to my heart, the different hues of blue. Summer break time soon, within days, will be here. Oh, my gosh, so much to get through. You are magnificent. I don't know how you do it all. But, soon, college will be at hand. I am looking forward to reading all about college life from the eyes of a young, vibrant writer. How exciting!!!!!!!! I will relive my youth through your adventures. Thank you and take care, much love.
I finally made checkerboard cookies for the first time a few months ago, and they turned out fine, but yours are the absolute picture of PERFECTION! I can only hope(in my wildest dreams)that on my fourth time out they turn out half as beautiful as yours! :)
Stunning cookies and definitely eye catching! Congrats on your college selection!
First, ahem…honking at winking boys!!! LOL, strange how you didn't clue me in on that Saturday. :)
And second, most scrap metal heaps are cleaner than your room, mom could do nothing to the gardena and most days it will be neater than your room!!
OK folks, Elissa is great, smart, talented, compassionate, beautiful inside and out, but she is still a regular teenager. I trip over her backpack most days I walk in the front door and as long as there is a path from her bedroom door to somewhere inside the room I don't say much.
She makes me laugh, she makes me angry but she never fails to make me proud. I wish you all could experience a few days of Elissa, I am lucky I had years….
dear elissa's dad,
how fortunate elissa is to:
have you as her father…
& have such a great mom…
& important…to be a normal teenager…normal is healthy…
judging from elissa's posts…her inner beauty & compassion is truly remarkable…you & your wife are blessed…
& we (elissa's) virtual family of friends are lucky to share her incredible & insightful writing & truly delicious recipes….
kudos to the college in boston…
I absolutely love the way you write about life. The little things that make each day important, the little things that make us feel good inside. (Like sunshine, music…and winking cute boys!) Keeping track of your journey as you prepare for college…a journey I will (nervously!) soon begin. I look forward to every one of your posts, excited to read each new story, look at the beautiful photographs, and see what you've made to accompany it, and sometimes, jump to re-create it in my own kitchen. Thank you Elissa!
My husband races cars as a hobby and since racing is connected with the checkered flag, I made these for race day. I used Martha's recipe and while they were good, I'm loking forward to trying out this one.
Hi Elissa!
I came across your blog a few weeks ago and started at the very beginning and have been reading since. Today I finished reading all your posts and was so happy to see a brand new one!
I would like to tell you that I love, love, love your blog and all of your recipes. I am very excited to try out some the recipes you have posted but I especially cannot wait to make the lemon-scented pull-apart coffee cake…I am literally dying to try it. :)
I hope you have a wonderful summer and a great first year in college. Keep up the good work. And thank you for all your wonderful posts!
-A fellow teen baker in Portland, OR
Amazing cookies – you have done a great job!
what nifty cookies! i've never seen anything quite like them–bravo! incidentally, those egg rolls sound fantastic–what'll it take to get a post about them? :)
Wow! This totally reminds me of battenburg cake… not sure if you have it in America, but its quite popular in England. These look amazing though. I bet you're very excited about college, it's an amazing experience!
they look worth gasping for. great post and i hope you enjoy the rest of the summer to the fullest, before leaving for college. (:
You MUST get tired of reading me saying how much I LOVE your writing! Certain phrases just make me shake my head in wonder at the way your brain works. As much as I love your recipes and your photos, your writing is what makes your blog one of the best things I read all week. What will we do when you go away to college and won't have time for us every week?
You'll love Boston, it's a beautiful city. I'm headed to Georgia Tech next year, myself. Good luck!
these are gorgeous! (and that strawberry salad sounds delicious as well.)
You'll definitely have some lovely rainy days in Boston. And from a still-very-new Bostonian, feel free to holler if you'd like advice, restaurant suggestions… anything really. I know how much I appreciate the people who did the same for me and my husband, and we'd love to pass that along.
What an absolutely lovely post! You definitely have a way with words… and with a camera lens. I love reading your blog, and I'm excited that you are going to continue it at college. Looking forward to reading more! And enjoy this summer… completely. Life will likely never be as carefree for you as it is now!
i was so happy to see your new post today. i love your writing. it makes me feel as if i am right there experiencing everything. i can totally relate to the cold spell in Spring as we are experiencing the same thing right now is SW Pennsylvania. I love your description of your house being as cold as a carton of milk! so clever! my kids will love this cookie. i will make it for them very soon!
Hey there,
Found your blog through my classmate and your cousin Michael. Wonderful blog, and I'm enjoying reading it!
Wow… Elissa, you never cease to amaze me. Despite being a 17-year-old baker myself (well, you're technically not… but still), I don't think I'd be able to pull these off XD Nevertheless, I'm incredibly eager to give them a go! Thankyou for being such an inspiration.
oooh. pretty pretty cookies =)
it must feel kinda surreal to graduate. hopefully you'll be able to continue ur cooking adventures and take us along for the ride (as usual) w/ dorm life and all.
have a wonderful summer before college!
These are beautiful cookies! :) It's 10:30pm, and I'm trying to decide what to bake to share tomorrow. Your blog's always the perfect resource!
amazing cookies! and as usual incredible writing.
congrats on the school! btw, i live in boston, although i'm moving to the west coast at the same time you're moving here (grad school and such), please let me know if you'd like a list of good bakeries/coffee places in boston! i've had time to explore a bunch of them and the 'famous' ones are not necessarily the best!
I love your writing
Those cookies look really amazing! They sort of remind me of "Alice in Wonderland" too.
They look absolutely delicious! I'm going to try baking them, they look irresistible! :)
i'm so excited for you and your next step to college. unfortunately, i imagine it'll be harder to bake in a college dorm, but please… just blog about anything! sometimes, i check your blog twice a day to see if you've updated and when you do, i savor your words.
congratulations again! boston is a great city with many, many great schools.
I found your site a couple of weeks ago, and haven't stopped checking it every single day. Okay, it's more like twice a day, but who's keeping track? I can't get enough of your beautiful pictures!
Lately things have not been going that well for me, so I have been baking a lot more than normal. Last night, when I was browsing your site, I found your post for the peppermint meringue cookies with chocolate ganache. And I could TOTALLY connect with how you also find your center when you're baking. It's a wonderful, relaxing feeling, yes?
So happy for you that you are beginning a new stage in your life. Secretly I am excited because I live about 40 minutes from Boston. *ahem* Not stalking or anything, I just love your writing style, your photography, and most of all, how delicious your baked goods look! Such talent! I am totally impressed.
Thank you for all the wonderful reads so far, and I greatly look forward to more in the future! Best of luck!
Congratulations on your college acceptance and upcoming move! You will have a great time in Boston – I went to college there, too. It's a wonderful city.
Also, these cookies are adorable! These would be great for a poker night or a Vegas-themed party. Very creative!
Just found your blog and I am adding to my favorites – you will make a wonderful professional writer – because you are great right now.
I have daughters and one has a blog – http://www.byrdsbeadsonline.com/blog
Take care and good luck in college
The cookies are beautiful. Wrapping them in a border makes them exceptional. And you, little lady, are exceptional. You are gifted beyond your years, this coming from a 60ish mom. You are a gift to your parents.
You are the cutest and most delightful young woman! I wished you lived next door to me and we could share recipes and treats! You are always doing the sharing. Thanks. I have made many delightful new recipes, thanks to you! You are amazing at such a young age. You have tremendous talent. I wish you well as you head out on your new journey. I will be anxiously waiting to hear all about it. Your parents must be bursting with pride. I would be if you were mine. Your parents will miss you and all the fun you bring into their lives. You are awesome!
Beautiful writing as always.
Congrats on this next step in your life! As I always say, "Writers can't help but write." That's like telling a human to quit breathing. :)
hey these looks so god.
need a lot of time and patience to make these well.. so pretty
Looks yummy. :) Although I'm not sure if I wanna bake anything just yet, because I just finished my first paid baking gig and really haven't done anything else over the last week and a half besides prepare and bake for that. Haha.
Congrats on the school decision! Boston is a sweet city. My brother goes to school there and since it's the closest major city to me, I sometimes just go down for funsies, especially since I'm going to school relatively close to there. But you'll have a great college experience, I'm sure. (Here's a bit of unasked-for advice about college: Join things. Get out and do things. I was sort of a hermit when I started school. I didn't join a single club or socialize that much and if I could do it over again, that's what I would change. Not that you have to go crazy and join everything and go to crazy parties all the time, but it's good to meet people at your school.)
Ok, I'm done rambling. But good luck on the east coast! (It's a lovely coast, if you ask me.) :D
i recently started reading your blog and it's absolutely wonderful. congratulations on your choice of college. boston is a fantastic city. you have an amazing journey ahead.
Every morning whilst eating my hot bowl of oatmeal I check all my favourite blogging sites and to my surprise today you had created a new post.
Constantly loving your aspects and life and food, your writing continues to entrance me with its lovely sentences and adjectives. I too shall soon be leaving highschool and it is comforting to read about someone who is going through the same situations.
I wish to study exactly what you do and I look foreward to reading about your life out of home.
Never stop updating this blog as like you, this blog is one of the simpliest moments that makes life seem almost perfect. Good luck with your finals and I look foreward to reading more of your blog.
P.S Sorry for this long comment. You must recieve a lot per day and this may or may not be read.
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I'm unhappy to learn that 40 cents of every one of my 2013 federal tax dollars went to fund current and past wars, according to the Quaker advocacy group the Friends Committee on National Legislation.
We have some critical needs as a country – how to respond to the effects of climate change, how to repair our crumbling bridges and roadways, how to bridge the growing divide between rich and poor. I want to see more of my tax dollars going to these priorities rather than to the Pentagon.
I hope that my senators, will work to make this happen in the coming year. They can start by eliminating the more than $100 billion of documented waste, fraud and abuse found in the Pentagon's budget every year. We might disagree about the need to invest in the tools for war, but surely we can agree on the need to spend our tax dollars responsibly.
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At a time when the housing industry needs an infusion of hope, the demographic gods are poised to unleash what some Realtors, lenders and builders say will be the industry's salvation: Waves of young Hispanic workers and families hungry for houses of their own.
For the moment, however, holding back that salvation are such factors as tight credit and a big, new trend toward converting unsold houses to rental properties, plus a real estate industry largely unfamiliar with the Hispanic market.
Sheer numbers — the U.S. Hispanic population is expected to grow 167 percent by 2050 with a corresponding U.S. population growth of only 42 percent — promise that a swelling percentage of home sales eventually will go to Hispanic buyers. Sixty percent of U.S. Latinos are younger than 35, and the Hispanic population's median age is 28, the cusp of the prime home-buying time of life.
Indeed, before the housing collapse, Hispanics were among the beneficiaries of relaxed mortgage-lending standards prompted by U.S. policies designed to help minorities acquire homes.
From 2000 through 2006, Hispanic home ownership grew at a record rate.
But according to the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals, much of that growth was given back, as Hispanics suffered disproportionate losses from foreclosures. Hispanics living in the United States lost two-thirds of their household wealth from 2005 to 2009, according to the Pew Research Center, while the median level of home equity held by Hispanic homeowners declined by half. The home ownership rate among Hispanic households fell from 51 percent to 47 percent.
NAHREP, however, foresees a revival.
Because prices for low- and moderately priced homes seem to have hit bottom, owners will again start listing such homes, said Alejandro Becerra, a housing consultant who authored a lengthy report for NAHREP titled "State of Hispanic Homeownership."
"That's the virtue of the Latino community being young," Becerra said. "That's where the sales are occurring."
Hispanics got more than 60 percent of the more than 2.3 million jobs that hit the market last year, said Gerard Ascenscio, NAHREP's president and a real estate broker based in the heavily Hispanic Los Angeles suburb of San Fernando.
"So it's a burgeoning demographic with more clout, more purchasing power — and sheer numbers."
Financing hard to find
According to the NAHREP report, Hispanics are "beginning to drive growth in housing demand" with a small, 0.6 percent uptick in the percentage of Hispanic homeownership during the third quarter of 2011, the lastest period for which census figures are available.
But the difficulty young Hispanics are having in finding financing is suppressing the market, NAHREP officials said.
Gary Acosta, co-founder of NAHREP and owner of New Vista Asset Management, said the Hispanic market includes many "first-time home buyers whose access to capital is limited and (who) haven't had time to acquire a lot of wealth and may not have family members who can loan them money for a down payment."
Acosta and NAHREP are concerned about tight lending. They acknowledge that looser standards contributed to the housing
bubble, but they say the government's insistence on stricter standards is hurting potential minority homebuyers.
"The pendulum has swung too far the other way," Acosta said. "There is almost no money for less than 10 percent down.
The FHA loans work in many cases, but in a lot of cases (they don't)."
Acosta said more stringent income documentation requirements work against Hispanic would-be buyers who take on second jobs such as housecleaning to earn down payments.
"It's difficult to document that income in a traditional way," Acosta said. Being paid in unreported cash, as is common with domestic work, is illegal even though it is a widespread practice.
Low- and no-documentation loans were popular before the crash, even though they carried higher interest rates. In an essay on his website, Becerra cited a Credit Suisse report that loans with low to no documentation rose from 30 percent in 2001 to 60 percent in 2006.
Even when they can get financing, all prospective homebuyers are running into a problem finding entry-level homes, Ascenscio said.
"Out on the open market," he said, "there is a scarcity of inventory with most houses getting multiple bids, so a lot of my customers can't seem to land an accepted offer."
Part of the scarcity is because of the fact that underwater homeowners are holding on to their homes, hoping the market improves before they put them up for sale. The problem seems to be worse in areas that were hardest-hit by the downturn, such as Southern California, Las Vegas and Phoenix, where logic dictates that plenty of unwanted properties should be on the market.
Rents rising
With rents rising faster than purchase prices, entry-level buyers also are finding competition from investors who seek to turn lower-priced homes into rental properties. Institutional investors are buying thousands of conversion-to-rental homes, nearly 65 percent more in 2011 than in 2010, according to the National Association of Realtors. Banks are also renting out some of these homes.
Banks favor some investors because they offer cash, at times accepting a lower cash bid for a foreclosed home over a higher, financed offer in order to get the undervalued asset off their books. Investors are also willing to buy damaged homes and make them rentable by doing repairs.
The Demand Institute, a think tank jointly operated by The Conference Board and the Nielsen Co., has forecast that the housing recovery will follow the pattern Ascenscio is concerned about: Investors, meeting the demand for rental properties, gobble up inexpensive homes while "a wide swath of Americans … delay, scale back or put off entirely their dreams of home ownership," the institute's chief research officer, Louise Keely said.
But Hispanics have a passion for the family home, Ascenscio said. They "want houses, not apartments," said Robert Alaniz, a public-affairs marketer based in Los Angeles. "People savvy to that are going to start targeting that market now."
Hispanics increasingly are an upwardly mobile, educated and flexible population who are willing to spread beyond the traditional Latino geographic enclaves, Ascenscio said.
"They're going where there's a higher demand for the labor force," he said, "and better housing opportunities."
Understanding the market
It is easy to find Realtors who understand the Hispanic market in regions where those of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Colombian and Central American heritage settled decades ago, such as Southern California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Florida, New York and New Jersey. Realtors in those markets often come from the Latino community or have worked within that community for so long that they have adapted their practices to the culture, Ascenscio said.
But Hispanics are moving to states such as Alabama, Louisiana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin, where they represent a fraction of the overall population.
"Hispanics alone drove the population growth of Phoenix, Philadelphia, Indianapolis, Omaha and Atlanta," according to NAHREP, over the past decade. Of those, only Phoenix is known as a Hispanic locale.
Such migration means local Realtors who want to tap into a new source of clients need to learn if not the language, some features of the culture, NAHREP executives agreed.
"When I opened San Fernando Realty, from the bottom up, I gave this office the look and feel to make (Latinos) feel comfortable," said Ascenscio, a native of Mexico. "If you walk into my office, you see big exposed wood beams, faux wood beams, Spanish style décor, a big mural of the missions of Alta California. Outside you have arches, a tower in the front, clay tiles. I don't have chairs, I have old church benches."
All of his staff members are bilingual.
Carmen Mercado, a national recruiter for Century 21 and a native of Puerto Rico, is based in Long Island, N.Y. She said an investment of a Realtor's time into learning the Hispanic customer's needs and preferences is worthwhile.
"Anyone in the real estate community who is committed to ethically and responsibly serving the Hispanic community can do so," Mercado said. "You don't have to be Latino or speak the language to do that."
Mercado said speaking Spanish, or hiring someone who does, would help, but it isn't a necessity. A Realtor who does business only in English can nonetheless pursue Hispanic customers.
"If you develop the tools to serve that market, to give them a comfort level and earn their trust, they will become customers for life," she added.
Mercado also recommended that Realtors refer Hispanic clients to community resources, such as housing counseling agencies, which are in every state. Such agencies can provide advice on buying a home, renting, defaults, foreclosures and credit issues.
During her years as a Realtor in Long Island, Mercado connected many of her Hispanic clients with housing counselors she trusted. Many such agencies provide services to Spanish speakers. HUD lists housing counseling services on its website by way of an interactive map of the United States.
"The counselor will do discovery with them, helping them figure out if they are ready," Mercado said. "If they are ready, have good credit, know the dos and don'ts, they'll come back to" the real estate agent who referred them.
Over time, Acosta said, the wave of Hispanic buyers will influence not just Realtors, but also the entire housing industry.
When construction starts up again, he speculated that the designs for new homes would start to reflect — subtly — the particular desires of the biggest and fastest-growing minority, with larger living rooms for family gatherings, and more bedrooms to accommodate extended families.
The slow economy and rental boom temporarily have obscured a dramatic transformation of the housing stock of America — not yet the buildings, but who occupies them.
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With his radical new simple toilet design, Alejandro Bona has single-handedly made pooping outdoors cool again.
Consisting of little more than a toilet paper dispenser attached to a shovel, this all but destined for a Hammacher Schlemmer catalog design allows you to:
- 1. Go outside
- 2. Dig a hole
- 3. Poop
- 4. Wipe
- 5. Bury
- 6. Win
And no longer will dogs have all the fun when it comes to defecating on someone's lawn. However, the portable toilet paper caddy seen in the pic is, well, pretty worthless. Unless you're in the habit of wandering campsites distributing TP to those in need like some kind of potty medic. Then it works. [FDeco via Crib Candy]


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Arthur Gilligan
Born in London, December 23, 1894
Born in London, December 23, 1894
Died at Pulborough, September 5, 1976
ARTHUR EDWARD ROBERT GILLIGAN who died at his home at Pulborough, aged 81, was one of the most popular and inspiring captains that England or Sussex ever had. Those whose memories go back that far will always feel that his tour of Australia in 1924-25, although England won only one Test, was the moment when we first had cause to hope that the dark days were ending, that soon we would be once more competing with Australia on level terms. In two or three seasons by his insistence on fielding and on attacking cricket and by his own superb example he raised Sussex from being nothing in particular to one of the biggest draws in England.
For all too short a span, before injury reduced his effectiveness, he was himself an exciting cricketer--the best really fast bowler we had produced for many years--though even then we did not quite put him among the great, a batsman of whom one might say that, however low he went in, no match was irredeemably lost until he was out for the second time, and one of the finest mid-offs anyone could remember.
But even at the height of his career his services to cricket did not stop there. Unless he was touring abroad in the winter, he was touring Sussex, speaking at dinners, lecturing and doing all he could to spread the enthusiasm for the game that he himself felt; and this continued for years after his retirement. His first-class career ended in 1932--indeed he played little cricket of any kind afterwards--but he went on working tirelessly for Sussex cricket and, when opportunity offered, for England.
He had been Chairman of Sussex and in 1967 was President of the M.C.C. He remained fit and active to the end. Throughout the summer of 1976 he might be found watching at Hove or Lord's or Arundel, as clear in mind and alert as ever, endlessly appreciative of good cricket and showing the utmost kindness and encouragement to the young, but equally uncompromising in his condemnation of anything which savoured of sharp practice or ill temper. In between he was still playing golf regularly at Pulborough, where he had gone round in under his age, and in the winter he was off to follow an England side in Australia or the West Indies, or to ski on the continent.
At Dulwich, where he also distinguished himself as a runner and a hurdler, he was four years in the XI and Captain in the last two, 1913 and 1914, in both of which seasons he played for Surrey II in the holidays. The war stopped his cricket till 1919, when he got his blue at Cambridge and in the second innings against Oxford took six for 52. This was widely acclaimed as the best fast bowling seen in the match for many years. For Cambridge against Sussex that year he created some sensation by making 101 going in last; he and J. H. Naumann, who like himself later played for Sussex, put on 177 in sixty-five minutes. However it must be admitted that Sussex had, as not infrequently at this time, a very weak bowling side.
Later Gilligan played three matches for Surrey, but in 1920, after again playing for Cambridge, he transferred to Sussex, for whom he continued to play till 1932, captaining them from 1922 to 1929. At first he was only a useful county player, but in 1922 he jumped right to the front, taking 135 wickets with an average of 18.75 and playing for the first time for the Gentlemen. That winter he went with the M.C.C. to South Africa and next summer for the only time did the double.
In 1924 he was picked to captain England and in the first Test at Edgbaston he and Tate bowled out South Africa on a good wicket for 30, Gilligan's share being six for 7; in the follow-on he took five for 83. There can be no doubt that just at that period these two were the most formidable combination in the world. A week or two earlier in consecutive matches for Sussex they had bowled out two of the strongest batting sides in England, Surrey for 53 at the Oval and Middlesex for 41 at Lord's, Gilligan on this occasion taking eight for 25. At the end of June that year he had taken seventy-four wickets at fifteen runs each.
At the beginning of July, batting for Gentlemen v. Players at The Oval, he was struck over the heart by a rising ball from Pearson of Worcestershire, a medium pace off-spinner and a man universally liked and respected. It was clear that he was badly hurt, but no one guessed how badly. He undoubtedly increased the damage by insisting on going on playing and even more by scoring 112 in the second innings in an hour and a half and adding 134 for the last wicket with Michael Falcon. As he himself wrote some years later, That was probably the worst thing I ever did. He was never able to bowl really fast again and indeed was never more than a change bowler. When he captained England in Australia that winter, his ten wickets in the Test cost him 51.90 runs each and his highest score was 31. Except for his brilliant fielding and inspiring captaincy he was a passenger. In 1926 he was a Selector and the following winter made his last tour abroad, captaining the M.C.C. in India, not then a Test-playing country.
At his best, Gilligan was a genuinely fast bowler, who bowled at the stumps or for catches in the slips. His action may have been slightly low, but he was accurate and regarded it as a cardinal sin to bowl short. He was an attacking batsman, who believed especially that fast bowlers needed hitting. His twelve centuries in first-class cricket must have been scored at an average rate of over a run a minute. Nearly all of them he made going in late, when runs were desperately wanted. Moreover, they were usually against strong sides--two against Lancashire, two against Kent, one each against Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Surrey and the Players. At mid-off he has had few rivals.
As a captain, he may not have been in the top rank of tacticians, but no one excelled him in getting the best out of his side and inspiring them in the field. From every point of view he was a cricketer with whom England could well do now.
After he retired from active cricket he became a popular radio commentator on Test matches and will be especially remembered for his partnership with another much loved cricketer, Victor Richardson. Gilligan was, as may be imagined, a master of the diplomatic comment if any tiresome incident occurred.
He was prominent too in the golfing world, being President of the English Golf Union in 1959 and also, up to the time of his death, of the County Cricketers' Golfing Society. His two brothers were only less distinguished as cricketers than himself. F. W., the eldest, who played against him in his two 'Varsity matches, captained Oxford and kept wicket for Essex for many years in the holidays, while the youngest, A. H. H., succeeded him as Captain of Sussex and took an M.C.C. side to Australia and New Zealand in 1929; his daughter married Peter May.
The three brothers were in the Dulwich XI together in 1913. Well might a newspaper of that day say, The Gilligans of Dulwich seem destined to become as famous in sport as the Fords of Repton, the Lytteltons of Eton and the Fosters of Malvern. Indeed their only rivals among their contemporaries were the Ashtons of Winchester and the Bryans.


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Su'od (Komikka, 2001)
Ogie Urvil Attahriq is part of the Indonesian comics collective Karpet Biru. The studio was formed in 1997, and consists of Ogie, Roel, Ardie and Epiet, all campus friends from the Pancasila University in Jakarta. Ogie and his friends have self-published their manga-inspired comics in comic books like Komik Karpet Biru. Ogie's comic 'Su'od' was also featured in the tabloid-sized comic magazine Komikka in 2001.


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GateHouse News Service New England Budget • August 25, 2008
Here are the top New England regional stories coming today from GateHouse News Service. Stories are available at gatehousenewsservice.com. Please submit stories below no later than 6 p.m. local time, unless you have breaking news that is changing significantly. Questions?
Contact: Chris Biondi, (508) 626-4343, firstname.lastname@example.com
SHRINE ROBBERY - A Fatima Shrine priest is robbed of collection box on Sunday.
MetroWest, Miller, 6 p.m.
With photos possible
IN THE BUFF AT LUSH - Employees of new cosmetics store LUSH at Natick Collection plan to go naked - wearing only aprons - outside the mall Wednesday to urge customers to buy products with little or no packaging.
MetroWest, 6 p.m.
POSTMAN IS A PREACHER ON SUNDAYS - A West Bridgewater, Mass., mailman is delivering a lot more than mail these days – he has added sermons to his resume.
CNC, Donnelly, on wire now
With photos
FARMERS, LOW-INCOME RESIDENTS BENEFIT FROM COUPONS FOR FRESH PRODUCE - Now in its 22nd year, the Farmers Market Coupon Program connects low-income residents and seniors with locally grown produce. The program, administered by the state's Department of Agricultural Resources, has two branches: WIC, for low-income women and children, and senior.
Ledger, Hoffman and Santos, on wire now
With photos and sidebars
VIDEO: IRISH SEA MOSSERS RECALL 40 YEARS OF CAMARADERIE AT REUNION - Tanned and toned, they lived their summer days by low tide: rising hours before sunrise in order to be in their skiffs and on the water by dawn
Ledger, Keane, on wire now
With video and photos and info box
NEW VIDEO RAISES AWARENESS OF STATEWIDE HUNGER PROBLEM - Through an one-hour television special, the Massachusetts Medical Society is hoping to raise awareness of the state's hunger problem.
Daily News Tribune, Gilbride, on wire now
FIRST-TIME HOME BUYERS LEARN THE ROPES - Workshops teach first-time buyers the language, the process and the results.
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Apple announced a slew of new and upcoming products during Wednesday's "Back to the Mac" event: iLife '11, FaceTime for Mac, new MacBook Air models, and Mac OS X Lion. But while these are all great additions to the Mac ecosystem, I think the announcement of the Mac App Store—available for Snow Leopard, according to Apple, within the next 90 days—will turn out to be the biggest news for the typical Mac user.
Don't get me wrong: This is a huge deal for developers. Like the iOS App Store, it gives third-party developers a way to get their software in front of every Mac user, and makes it easier than ever for Mac users to buy and install that software. (It also raises some of the same concerns about Apple's role in, and control of, the third-party software market.) But—and also just like the App Store—for the typical Mac user, these concerns will likely be far outweighed by the benefits provided.
Let's face it: installing and updating software is the worst part of the Mac OS X experience. If you hear about a program you like, you need to find the developer's Website, locate a download link, and download it. If the download is an installer package, you must first unzip the package, then double-click the installer, then go through the installer's steps. If the download is an OS X disk image, the installation process is even more tedious—and, for many users, even more confusing. (Issues relating to installing software from a disk image still dominate inexperienced-user questions in online Mac forums.)
In either case, you also have to hope what you've downloaded is a legitimate piece of software, rather than malware. (This isn't as much of an issue on the Mac as it is for Windows, but it's still a valid concern.)
What about updating software? The Mac platform has made some progress over the past few years thanks to Sparkle, a framework developers can include in their software to make it easier for users to update. Sadly, too few developers actually use it, which means users are left to update many programs the old fashioned way: Manually check for a new version, download it, quit the current version, and then install the update—which, as with the original install, could entail a zipped archive, a disk image, or a new installer package.
Over the years, a number of Websites, such as VersionTracker and MacUpdate, have attempted to make finding and downloading Mac software easier, even offering "premium" versions that included utilities that watched specifically for new versions of installed software and then let you download (and, in the case of MacUpdate, automatically install) those updates. But now that we've been using iOS devices for a while, these services and utilities feel like kludges—workarounds for features that should be built into the OS.
Is it any wonder then, that of all the "normal" (read: non-techie) Mac users I know, only a few regularly update their software, or even install new software?
Yet when it comes to their iPhones and iPads, those same people regularly—you might even say obsessively—download new apps and update their installed apps. Why? Because iOS makes it dead-simple. There's a convenient place to search for—and read reviews of—hundreds of thousands of apps. You purchase and install an app with a single click. The entire process is easy and automatic. You can check for updates for all your installed apps at once, and automatically download and install all those updates, again, with a single click. And you can be pretty confident that whatever you get from the App Store is safe.
Imagine if finding, installing, and updating Mac software was just as easy: You read about a cool new program, so you fire up the Mac App Store, type in the program's name, browse some user reviews, and then click the button to purchase the software. The program is automatically downloaded and installed, without you having to lift another finger. Once a week or so, OS X automatically checks to see if new versions of any of your App Store-purchased software are available; if so, a single click of the Update All button and you're current. It would seem so…amazing—if it weren't for the fact that our iPhones have been doing it for a couple years now.
And here's some further food for thought: What if the Mac App Store also makes it as easy to uninstall software on the Mac as it is on the iPhone? Click a delete button and the program and all its supporting files are gone. That would be a huge step forward for Mac OS X usability.
Now, of course, some of the same concerns users and developers have about the iOS App Store—as well as a number of new concerns—will apply to a Mac App Store. Though unlike with iOS, the Mac App Store won't be the only place to get Mac software. In fact, the same developer will be able to offer some software through the Mac App Store and some the old-fashioned way. (In this respect, the Mac App Store is essentially what many developers have asked Apple to do with the iOS App Store: let them sell "approved" apps through Apple, and other software—including, say, programs that may violate Apple's guidelines—outside the store. And it brings up some interesting possibilities: For example, what if you could configure OS X's Parental Controls so your child could install free Mac App Store apps rated 4+? Or configure the Macs in an office to allow installation of only Mac App Store software on an approved list?) Still, the Mac App Store won't be a panacea for all the challenges Mac developers face.
But despite such concerns, when it comes to the everyday experience of your typical Mac user, the announcement of the Mac App Store—and the fact that it will be available in the next 90 days—just may be the biggest Mac news in quite a while.
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SAP Concur's travel and expense management solutions (SAP Concur solutions) in scope for this SOC 1 Audit are:
- Concur Standard/Professional/Premium Editions, including Travel, Expense, and Invoice
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- Concur Supporting Services (Imaging, Analytics and ConcurPay)
These applications consist of services and software for automating the travel and expense management processes. The products are primarily sold as a subscription service. SAP Concur markets and sells Concur Standard/Professional/Premium (including Travel, Expense, and Invoice), Concur Small Business, and Concurs Mobile App solutions worldwide through a direct sales organization and indirect distribution channels such as strategic resellers. SAP Concur has deployed in co-locations Lynnwood, WA (USA) and Paris (EMEA). SAP Concur's travel and expense management solutions, and supporting services such as Imaging, Analytics, and Concur Pay, automate each step of the travel and expense management process, from travel booking and expense report preparation and approval to business policy compliance, reimbursement, and data analysis.
Concur Standard/Professional/Premium are solutions that include Travel, Expense, and Invoice functions in one which help to reduce errors and improve policy compliance and automatically populates expense reports with key information such as transaction date, type, vendor, location, method of payment, amount, and currency conversion.
Concur Standard/Professional/Premium Travel enables organizations to provide online corporate travel booking capabilities to their employees, tailored specifically to travel policies and preferred vendors.
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megalithic monument
megalithic monument mĕgəlĭth´ĭk [key] [Gr.,=large stone], in archaeology, a construction involving one or several roughly hewn stone slabs of great size; it is usually of prehistoric antiquity. These monuments are found in various parts of the world, but the best known and most numerous are the some 35,000 concentrated in Western Europe, including Brittany, the British Isles, Iberia, S France, S Scandinavia, and N Germany. Aside from the standing stones and stone heaps that are still raised occasionally as boundary marks or memorials of personal and public events, most megalithic monuments seem to have been erected for funerary and religious purposes. The Western European megaliths were constructed during the Neolithic and the Bronze Age and are believed to range in date from c.4800 BC to 1100 BC Most megalithic tombs have been dated to the 5th and 4th millennium BC, and the stone circles generally date somewhat later. Megalithic monuments may be divided into four categories: tombs; the single standing stone, or menhir; the stone row; and the stone circle. Tomb structures include portal tombs, or dolmens; passage graves, or passage tombs; and gallery graves; these were usually covered with earth mounds, forming a barrow. Menhirs sometimes stood alone near the entrance of a tomb or on top of the mound. Sometimes they were set in long rows called alignments, as at Carnac in Brittany; in other places they were arranged in a circle, the most elaborate of which is Stonehenge in England (these are known as cromlechs outside Britain). The individual stone slabs may reach 65 ft (20 m) in length and 100 tons (90 metric tons) in weight. Such massive structures testify to the engineering feats possible with the concerted efforts of relatively ill-equipped peoples.
See G. Daniel, The Megalith Builders of Western Europe (1958); A. Thom, Megalithic Sites in Britain (1967) and Megalithic Lunar Observations (1973); C. Renfrew, Before Civilization (1973); J. Mitchell, Megalithomania (1982); R. Joussaume, Dolmens for the Dead (tr. by A. and C. Chippendale, 1988).
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Relax, Rachel Zoe is not judging your outfit
NEW YORK (AP) — If you happen to spot celebrity stylist and designer Rachel Zoe out and about, do not worry. She's not judging you.
The woman responsible for dressing the likes of Jennifer Lawrence, Sofia Vergara and Jennifer Garner swears when she's "off the clock" so to speak, she's not a fashion cop.
"It's funny because I think what people don't understand is that I actually am not judging them and I don't usually notice what people are wearing," said Zoe in a recent interview.
She does, however, get polled by strangers "all the time" looking for a quick style assessment.
"I do get asked sort of, 'What do you think of this dress? Is this jacket OK? Wait, I'm so embarrassed I don't want to meet you right now because of what I'm wearing.' and I'm like, 'Don't be.' Style is the best form of self-expression."
Zoe may not be critiquing but she would like to help people live a more stylish life, in how they dress, entertain or decorate their home. She's compiled a book of tips, information and photos called "Living in Style: Inspiration and Advice for Everyday Glamour" (Grand Central Publishing), which is now in stores.
More than anything, 42-year-old Zoe says she wants to inspire moms to put themselves higher on their to-do lists by taking "five, 10, 15 minutes, however much time you can allow" to "throw some lipstick on, put on a cute jacket, take off your sweatpants."
She is quick to clarify that she's not saying the average woman needs to be dressed to the nines or red carpet-ready to face the world each day.
"I'm not saying put on a cocktail dress to go pick up your kids — you know?"
Zoe is a mom to two sons, 3-year-old Skyler and Kaius, born in December.
She understands moms often don't feel they have the time or energy to primp or put thought into their clothing. "It's a very easy trap to fall into. Trust me, I understand it. I remember when I first had Skyler and I looked at (husband) Rodger and said, 'I totally get it now. I'm so tired I can't even imagine that I have to put on makeup and put clothes on right now.' It is a lot to think about because you do put yourself last."
By putting a little effort in, Zoe believes you'll feel better.
"It's not hard and it's not what you think it is. Don't be afraid of it and it doesn't take two hours. It takes five minutes. When you take that extra time you will feel better. You'll want to smile. You'll have more confidence...When you look better you feel better."
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Travel: Mobile full of historic houses
MOBILE, Alabama — In this 300-year-old Gulf Coast city, home is where the heart (of history) is.
Visitors to Mobile's pretty, oak-shaded streets can see the best of the city's past at five different historic house museums. Four are classic antebellum structures. The other is a 1930s riverfront beauty that's surrounded by a huge public garden.
Here are some highlights from each:
Conde-Charlotte House
First built in the 1820s as the town jail, the Conde-Charlotte House in downtown Mobile is one of the oldest structures remaining in the city.
The building was converted to a house in the 1850s, although cell doors can still be seen in an old wall.
Today, the structure is operated as a museum by the Alabama chapter of the women's group Colonial Dames of America. The organization has furnished the restored house in a unique and interesting way, with individual rooms decorated in period styles reflecting Mobile's heritage under five different flags.
A tour through the house is like a quick jaunt through the city's history.
Mobile was founded as the capital of colonial French Louisiana; one sitting room represents Napoleonic France.
The British took over in 1763 after the Seven Years War. To commemorate that era, another room of the house is furnished as a British army officer's study.
During the American Revolution, the Spanish captured the area from the British, and the house's pretty courtyard re-creates a walled, Spanish-style garden of the late 18th century.
Mobile became part of the United States in 1813, represented by the American Federal-style dining room.
And the home's two parlors are decorated and furnished in the style of typical Southern homes during the Civil War, when the city was part of the Confederacy.
For a deeper look at city history, visitors can also walk about two blocks from the Conde-Charlotte House to the History Museum of Mobile. The museum is located in the historic 1857 Southern Market building, which also once served as Mobile City Hall.
Oakleigh House
Located in what was once the countryside at the edge of town is Oakleigh House, built in 1833. Today, the historic Greek Revival-style mansion is at the center of a lovely neighborhood that sprang up around it, the Oakleigh Garden Historic District.
Oakleigh was the pride of a wealthy cotton baron. It's a prototypical antebellum Southern mansion, or at least what I think of when I imagine such a structure, with white column-lined porches shaded by massive live oaks dripping with Spanish moss.
Visitors to Oakleigh will also see another important bit of Mobile history, a Union Army barracks built by Union troops during Reconstruction in 1867.
Bragg-Mitchell Mansion
Constructed in 1855 by a local judge and plantation owner, the Bragg-Mitchell Mansion is another Greek-Revival beauty, a 13,000-square-foot behemoth with two-story Doric columns dwarfed by the centuries-old live oaks on the lawn.
Bragg-Mitchell is probably the grandest of Mobile's old mansions and is remarkably well-preserved and maintained. The house was last privately owned by the wealthy Mitchell family, who bequeathed it to a foundation to be operated as a science museum.
In a win-win for fans of science and architectural history, the museum later moved downtown (it's now the large, modern Gulf Coast Exploreum), and the house was restored to its original antebellum grandeur.
Bellingrath Home and Garden
Surprisingly, my favorite among Mobile's house museums was actually the youngest, Bellingrath Home and Garden.
Bellingrath, located about 20 miles south of the city, was owned by wealthy Coca-Cola bottler Walter Bellingrath and his wife Bessie.
The 15-room Bellingrath house was finished in 1935, a melange of modern Gulf Coast architectural styles built using antique local brick and ornamented with antique iron galleries — a very pleasing effort that still feels quite modern. The home is outfitted with its original furniture and porcelain, silver and crystal collected by Mrs. Bellingrath, who had a fine eye for antiques.
Outshining the gorgeous house, though, is Bellingrath's 65-acre garden, an outstanding and well-known horticultural attraction that draws visitors from across the country.
Mr. Bellingrath bought the property on the Fowl River in 1917 as a fishing camp. The couple soon hired a landscape architect and began planning a vast country estate.
By 1932, before the house was even started, the couple was so proud of the grounds and gardens that they took out an ad in a local newspaper and invited the public for a tour, a tradition that now continues year-round. And Bellingrath claims that visitors can see beautiful blooms somewhere in the garden every day of the year.
Among the many features of the property are a conservatory, rose garden, camellia parterre, Asian-American garden, bayou boardwalk and rock garden.
Bessie Bellingrath died in 1943. When her husband died 12 years later, he bequeathed the property to a foundation to operate as a public memorial to Mrs. Bellingrath and to preserve the home and garden they loved so well.
Richards DAR House Museum
Another women's group, the Daughters of the American Revolution, maintains and presides at the Richards DAR House Museum just a few blocks from the center of town.
Built in 1860 by a well-to-do riverboat captain, the brick Italianate house is decorated with Victorian-era furniture of the period.
In later years, the Ideal Cement Company used the structure as offices and as a company guest house. The company updated the building with modern utilities, but, happily, preserved many of its historic features and donated it to the city in 1972.
Today, the house is still outfitted with original brass gasoliers, ruby Bohemian cut-glass skylights and Carrara marble mantle pieces. The most striking feature of the house, though, is the magnificently detailed and recently renovated exterior ironwork, one of the finest examples in a city filled with beautiful iron railings and fences.
One delightful tradition sets the Richards House apart from other house museums: After a tour, visitors are welcome to stop in the small office/gift shop for a complimentary cup of "spice tea" and cookies with their DAR tour guide. It's a homey touch, and a great way to finish a day touring historic houses in Mobile.
— Steve Stephens can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or on Twitter @SteveStephens.


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If there's a word that shrivels the heart, it's this.
Writes Natalie Angier, one of my favorite thinkers, in The New York Times:
If ma'am is meant as a verbal genuflection to power, the message is lost on many real-life powerful women, like Senator Barbara Boxer, who told a brigadier general to refer to her as "senator" rather than "ma'am" at a hearing last year. "I worked so hard to get that title," she said, "so I'd appreciate it, yes, thank you."
I put together a completely unscientific poll of my own, courtesy of the online service, SurveyMonkey, and asked some three-dozen professional women how they felt about the word "ma'am." The group included lawyers, writers, scientists, policymakers, business executives and artists, who ranged in age from 20 to 65. Of the 27 women who responded, only 2 said they liked being called ma'am, applauding the word as "polite" and "because it amuses me"; 10 were neutral; and the remaining 15 disliked it to varying pH levels of causticity. As Jill Soloway, a Los Angeles-based writer who worked on the HBO series "Six Feet Under," explained: "It makes me think I'm fat and old, like an elderly aunt."
There are other reasons to dislike the term ma'am — for its whiff of class distinctions, for being dismissive, stiff and drab. "If someone calls me ma'am, it's superficially a sign of respect, but it's also creating distance," Dr. Kroll said. "It's saying, I'm not going to have a serious conversation with you; I'm not going to engage with you."
Katha Pollitt, the columnist and poet, said, "It's part of those routine word packages that are forever flying by."
It's also deeply American, this automatic ma'aming thing. I grew up in Canada where people generally don't use that word. I'm not sure what they say, but they don't say ma'am.
I'm of an age that marks me as old to some and — because some people, even in bright light, still think I'm 10-15 years younger than I am — maybe not. I veer wildly between the charming "young lady" (not said sarcastically) and the dreaded ma'am.
You can call me almost anything.
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Maybe you've seen it. A message on your cell phone or tablet warning your device is infected by a virus.
We wanted to know whether the message we saw on an iPhone is legit. So we went to Sayed Ahmed, an Apple-certified technician and co-founder of ITechShark in Brentwood.
The message is ominous and specific, warning the phone is 28.1% infected by four different viruses. It claims the device's SIM card, contacts, photos, data and applications will be corrupted if you don't immediately download an app to remove the viruses. But our expert says don't worry.
"There's a virus and there's a pop-up and they're two different things" said Ahmed. "But the common issue that happens on a daily basis are the pop-ups and it's pretty common now. We get pretty much one customer a day with that issue.
Ahmed says the message is annoying, but otherwise harmless as long as you don't follow the instructions.
One dead giveaway the pop-up is a spoof, he says, are spelling and grammar mistakes, like forgetting to pluralize the word "virus."
"They make it look like the real deal, which it's not. And most of these are phishing sites and the scammers are running it."
Another telltale sign? Inconsistencies. The message warns your iPhone is infected, but tells you to download the app from the Google Play Store instead of the Apple App Store.
The good news? Ahmed says it's easy to avoid the pop-ups.
"You go to the settings icon on the homepage and you scroll a little bit down until you see the Safari icon. You click on Safari and you scroll down a little bit and you will see what says block pop ups. This is very important to check it and make sure it's on the green switch."
Ahmed says following the steps in messages like this could allow your personal information to fall into the hands of hackers. That information can include bank account and credit card numbers.


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Mauritius suing UK for marine park around US airbase
The Internet version of BBC News just released notice that the island nation of Mauritius is suing UK for legislating a Marine Protected Area around British islands close to Mauritius (1000 km). The reserve is named Chagos Marine Park, argued by then UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband to "double the global coverage of the world's oceans under protection" (in April 2010). With its 545 000 sq-km area the are includes some 220 coral species (half the recorded species of the Indian Ocean), and more than 1,000 species of reef fish. However, the islands was before the 1960's home to a local people that the British government forcefully removed to give space for a US military air base.
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The reserve is therefore hotly contested demonstrating with all clarity the multi-level politics of any natural resource management or biodiversity preservation project, and the various and contested ways by which human and nonhuman relations are being forged. Parsing from three BBC News articles from 2004-2010 (see here), and The Independent (here), a short story can be given on how geopolitics, national and international efforts of protecting biodiversity, overlap with 'local' dynamics, and the dignity of a people.
US air base and forced removal
|People of Chago protesting for the
right to return to their island.
In the 1960s the British island colony was leased to the US for an air base, which since then has been in use, not least during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In leasing the island the British government took actions that forcefully removed some 2000 people living on the island, and moved them to the neighboring nation Mauritius. The removal was accomplished through that the British government bought the only company employing people on the island, and then closing the company down leaving island people without an income. This was paired with blocking goods coming to the island, leaving people without income and food forcing them to move.
The forced removal of people has, it seems, been converted to an argument for the current high biodiversity and good state of the ecosystems observed at the islands. This in turn has of course been made into an argument for conservation. As reported by The Independent:
The absence of human habitation has been a key factor in the preservation of the pristine coral atolls, the unpolluted waters, rare bird colonies and burgeoning turtle populations that give the archipelago its international importance.
The removed island people, the Chagossians, have run a case before in the British courts to return to their island. In 2008, the British Law Lords voted 3 against 2 in favor of the British government, but islanders continue their case. Although some of the islanders express that they could – in the event of them returning – co-live with a nature reserve if only some fishing and use of the area was allowed, others mean that it "would effectively bar them from returning". This interpretation was enforced by the recent diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks, which also triggered the Mauritius government to sue the British government in the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg. In this cable, "[a] UK official is quoted as saying it should put an end to any possibility of the displaced islanders returning", according to BBC News.
Scaled networks of power
This intriguing example draws together different networks and scales of power that generate not only dynamic debates, but also intervenes – and tries to intervene – in a certain physical space and its social-ecological dynamics. A recent move in political ecology has traced such scaled networks, partly drawing on actor-network theory, see e.g. work by Erik Swyngedouw [2, 3] and Nik Heynen.
In Chagos these scaled networks seems to be mainly shaped through historical connections to colonial power and empire ambitions, cold war geopolitics, scientific community networks of fact-making, national sovereignty claims, and local identity and claim-making.
Whereas local residents were robbed of their homes, dwellings and resources, the British government could earn money on the strategic position of this old colony lying close to the Middle East by leasing it to the escalating military ambitions of post-war US. A side-effect of this, it seems, was to sustain well-working ecological functions in the seas around the islands, preserving species and habitats being lost elsewhere due to fishing and other exploitation activities.
Enter the international community of scientists, that by the time of 1990's had produced arguments and facts of why these types of protected areas are globally important for the protection of marine species on scales greater than just the islands. In confronting the many thousands of fishing vessels and distant fish markets that put global pressure on marine ecosystems, Marine Protected Areas are thought to function as havens and sources of species in networks of energy exchange and species interaction over greater spatial scales. A speculation is then that the quoted UK official, and Mr Milliband, could use the weight of these natural scientifically produced facts to effectively also put an end to the claims by the Chagossians, and come out as triumphant savers of the seas at the same time.
Similar cases of how scaled networks influence especially land-based protected areas are plenty in the literature, however, this is one of the most intriguing marine examples I have heard of. Furthermore, the current suing process by Mauritius, and the reason why Chago Archipelago again became news, is due to another novel network of power, namely WikiLeaks, whose activities continue to ripple through the interconnected world of media.
Note: The different articles from BBC News can be found here, here, here, and here. More on this news and the Chago Archipelago, see here.


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Oklahoma snaps losing skid against Notre Dame, 35-21
SOUTH BENDOklahoma finally found a way to beat Notre Dame again.
The 14th-ranked Sooners took advantage of three interceptions, two in the first 3 minutes as they jumped to a 14-0 lead, and Blake Bell passed for two touchdowns to lead the Sooners to a 35-21 victory over the 22nd-ranked Fighting Irish on Saturday.
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The win ended a seven-game losing streak to Notre Dame and was just the second in 11 meetings for the Sooners against the Irish, including ending an NCAA-record 47-game winning streak in 1957.
Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops, an Irish Catholic who grew up in Ohio and downplayed the history aspect all week, conceded the victory was especially gratifying.
"Now that it's happened this way, I'm pleased and I sure am glad for those older Oklahomans that have been through all those games Notre Dame had beaten us. We get some level of satisfaction winning this one," he said. "Who knows when we'll play again? So they can live it up and say, 'We got you' last until we go again."
The Sooners (4-0) took control with the two interceptions.
Rees didn't see Oklahoma linebacker Eric Striker blitzing and was hit from behind, popping the ball loose, and linebacker Corey Nelson caught it and returned it 24 yards for a TD.
On Notre Dame's next play from scrimmage, Rees' pass ricocheted off the arm of receiver TJ Jones and linebacker Frank Shannon bobbled it before returning it 17 yards to the Notre Dame 32. The Sooners scored another TD four plays later on an 11-yard run by Damien Williams.
Coach Brian Kelly was surprised by the slow start by Notre Dame (3-2).
"You never expect to not pick up the simplest of stunts and have your quarterback get the ball stripped. You never expect not to run the right route when you're supposed to," he said. "The turnovers for us were too much to overcome."
After Notre Dame played a nearly perfect game in beating the Sooners last season, with no turnovers and just one penalty for 5 yards, Oklahoma was the one that made the fewest mistakes Saturday . The Sooners, who managed just 15 yards rushing against the Irish last season, finished with 212 yards rushing.
The game was a stark contrast to last season, when the Irish dominated the lines of scrimmage and amassed 215 yards on the ground. The Sooners frequently went wide on both runs and passes to try to offset Notre Dame's size inside. The Irish managed to rush for a season-high 220 yards, with George Atkinson running for 148 yards on 14 carries.
Bell, making his second career start, wasn't as impressive as he was when he passed for 413 yards and four touchdowns in a 51-20 win over Tulsa, but he was good enough to lead the Sooners over the Irish. He was 22 of 30 passing for 232 yards and two touchdowns.
"He was really sharp. He put the ball where it needed to be, finding the right guys, going through his reads," Stoops said. "And give credit to the line to give them the opportunity to find those guys, so I thought he played great."
Bell, threw a 26-yard TD pass to Lacoltan Bester to cap an 88-yard drive after an interception by cornerback Julian Wilson late in the second quarter, said the victory was especially satisfying considering last season's loss.
"We felt like we left some stuff on the field last year. Obviously we didn't come up with a win last year so we really wanted this one bad, especially coming on the road," Bell said
Rees struggled for a second straight game. After three straight games of passing for more than 300 yards, he was 9 of 24 for a season-low 104 yards.
"Obviously, I'm disappointed with how I played, individually. I've got to be better. You can't turn the ball over and expect to win games against good teams like Oklahoma," Rees said.
Kelly said there was plenty of blame to go around.
"This is about 11 players. We don't execute on the offensive line in the first fumble, we don't run the right route. It's natural for everybody to go after the quarterback, but there's 11 players out there," Kelly said.
Kelly didn't want to talk about what the loss means big picture for the Irish, who entered the season with hopes of making it back to the BCS title game.
"That's for you guys to talk about. I've got a football team we're trying to work with and develop. You guys can have your own comments and decide what happens and put us in any bowl you want," he said.


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RIO DE JANEIRO – Josh Clopton may have to take his loss to Rani Yahya as a moral victory.
After a 20-month layoff that included surgery, Clopton had to take on one of the UFC's best jiu-jitsu practitioners, and do so in Brazil. He survived multiple Yahya submission attempts, but ultimately lost a unanimous decision with a trio of 29-28 scores.
The featherweight bout took place today at UFC 163 at Rio de Janeiro's HSBC Arena. It streamed on Facebook ahead of additional prelims on FX and the pay-per-view main card.
Yahya kicked early, then put together a good combination. Shortly after that, Yahya went hard after a takedown that Clopton worked just as hard to defend. He mostly did, but Yahya dropped down into guard and went after a heel hook. Clopton then landed a pair of good elbows from his backside, but Yahya transitioned to the top and looked to pass from half-guard. Yahya worked for over a minute from there and briefly got to full mount – but Clopton again recovered.
In the second, again Yahya went after a takedown and got it. And this time, he was able to trap Clopton's left arm behind his back to easily tee off for a few punches to the head. Shortly thereafter, Yahya again got to mount for a third time. And though the ground-and-pound wasn't devastating, it was enough to continue to wear Clopton down.
Clopton threw early in the third, knowing he had to get a finish to win. He managed to stay away from another Yahya takedown attempt, and 30 seconds in, he was able to get a nice switch on a takedown attempt, but that merely put him in Yahya's guard. From there, he wasn't able to do much damage. With three minutes left, Clopton went back to his feet where he'd have his best shot. There, he landed a knee to the body before Yahya clinched him up. Although Clopton was able to spend some time on top, he wasn't able to do a ton of damage and Yahya cruised his way to the decision.
"I worked a lot on wrestling – you have to for MMA nowadays," Yahya said. "The goal is to accept the challenge the UFC will put in front of me. I still have a lot to do to get better, but I'm going to be focused."
Yahya (19-7 MMA, 4-1 UFC) won for the third straight time. Clopton (6-2-1 MMA, 0-2 UFC), fighting for the first time since December 2011, dropped his second straight.
Up-to-the-minute UFC 163 results include:
- Rani Yahya def. Josh Clopton via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
- Francimar Barroso def. Ednaldo Oliveira via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28)
- Viscardi Andrade def. Bristol Marunde via TKO (strikes) – Round 1, 1:36
For more on UFC 163, stay tuned to the UFC Events section of the site.
John Morgan contributed to this report on-site in Rio de Janeiro.


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Here is a call for papers that may be of interest to FoodAnthropology readers:
Sugar and Beyond
Organizers: Christopher P. Iannini, Julie Chun Kim, K. Dian Kriz
The John Carter Brown Library seeks proposals for a conference entitled "Sugar and Beyond," to be held on October 25-26, 2013, and in conjunction with the Library's Fall 2013 exhibition on sugar in the early modern period, especially its bibliographical and visual legacies. The centrality of sugar to the development of the Atlantic world is now well known. Sugar was the 'green gold' that planters across the Americas staked their fortunes on, and it was the commodity that became linked in bittersweet fashion to the rise of the Atlantic slave trade. Producing unprecedented quantities of sugar through their enforced labor, Africans on plantations helped transform life not only in the colonies but also in Europe, where consumers incorporated the luxury commodity into their everyday rituals and routines.
"Sugar and Beyond" seeks to evaluate the current state of scholarship on sugar, as well as to move beyond it by considering related or alternative consumer cultures and economies. Given its importance, sugar as a topic still pervades scholarship on the Americas and has been treated in many recent works about the Caribbean, Brazil, and other regions. This conference thus aims to serve as an occasion where new directions in the study of sugar can be assessed. At the same time, the connection of sugar to such broader topics as the plantation system, slavery and abolition, consumption and production, food, commodity exchange, natural history, and ecology has pointed the way to related but distinct areas of inquiry. Although sugar was one of the most profitable crops of the tropical Americas, it was not the only plant being cultivated. Furthermore, although the plantation system dominated the lives of African and other enslaved peoples, they focused much of their efforts at resistance around the search for ways to mitigate or escape the regime of sugar planting. We thus welcome scholars from all disciplines and national traditions interested in exploring both the power and limits of sugar in the early Atlantic world.
Topics that papers might consider include but are not limited to the following:
- The development of sugar in comparative context
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Discovering Biblical Equality: Complimentarity without Hierarchy
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Yesterday I posted the final chapter summary from Discovering Biblical Equality: Complimentarity without Hierarchy. This was my second time working through the book from beginning to end, although some of the chapters have become dog-eared from my frequent reference to them. It truly is a remarkable volume.
I have found over the past several months that the book makes a wonderful topical reference for many of the hotly contested issues within the debate about gender roles and service in the church. Each article is written well and extensively footnoted. That has been invaluable for pursing other tangents. The reality is that many of the articles could easily be expanded into full length books. The book was written in response to the CBMW's Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood volume and it works well as such a response.
As is the case with any book, its greatest strength for one purpose means its weakness for another. This volume does not explicitly lay out a theology of complementarirty without hierarchy. That can be gleaned in the process of reading the book but it doesn't actually start with a thesis and build toward it. Personally, I have found other books like Women in the Church: A Biblical Theology of Women in Ministry by Stanely Grenz and Denise Muir Kjesbo to be more helpful in that regard.
There were topics that I found myself wanting to know more about. Historical context was one of them. More specifically, the nonhierarcial complimentarian position has only been around as a significant force for the past couple of centuries. The "equal in being, unequal in function" formula has not yet been around for thirty years. What were the positions and theological justifications of the church fathers for women being subordinate through the ages? Without this, there is no "baseline," if you will, from which to see how things have morphed to where we are today. Maybe it is just the sociologist in me, but I found myself craving more historical context.
Second, what was the status and participation of women in the life and ministry of the New Testament Church? Nowhere in more than 500 pages is there one mention of Mary! Other women are mentioned in essays but it seems to me that greater emphasis could have been made of Jesus interaction with women and with the women of the New Testament. Craig Hill, in his book In God's Time: The Bible and the Future, writes about the "but in Christ" factor. You have statements throughout the Bible that read along the formula of "You have heard it said…but in Christ…" There are many less explicit statements of this thinking made by actions taken rather than words spoken. When the context is understood and then Jesus' actions are viewed, many act as dramatic "but in Christ" statements. Paul has a number of these implied "but in Christ" statements as well. I think the "but in Christ" evidence in scripture is largely missing from the book and it is some of the most persuasive for me.
All that said, I again emphasize that no book can address every angle of an enormously complex issue like this. It does very well for its intended purpose. I highly recommend it and I have found it an invaluable reference tool. Don't trust my summaries for its merits. Read it for yourself. You won't be disappointed.


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When Gerard Gallant landed the head coaching job with the Florida Panthers, he left a major impression on the team's owner.
Panthers Vice Chairman Douglas Cifu spoke about the process with Jameson Olive of Fox Sports Florida and said the former Columbus Blue Jackets coach hit a home run in his interview with owner Vincent Viola.
"We asked Dale to screen a dozen or so candidates and send up to Virtu in New York the top 5-6 finalist," Cifu said. "Gerard was the first candidate to come for a visit. He spent 30 minutes with Vinnie and Vinnie said, 'He's the guy, don't need to see anyone else.'"
If you don't recall, the Panthers had a coaching wish-list that included five or six other men. Having Gallant hit it out of the park right away says a lot about him. Now the team hopes he can have as much of an instant impact on the players as he did on the owners.
Cifu said he was equally impressed by Gallant who left his position as an assistant coach with the Montreal Canadiens to join the Panthers. He was last a NHL head coach in 2006-07 with the Jackets.
Gallant had spent three seasons as the coach of the St. John Sea Dogs of the Quebec Major-Junior Hockey League from 2009-2012 where he coached Panthers forward Jonathan Huberdeau. The young star is excited about having the coach that led him to two Memorial Cups with him in Sunrise.


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We here at Asphalt & Rubber are big fans of the work that Bottpower is churning out, and whether your particular poison is the Bottpower M211 Moto2 race bike, the Bottpower BOTT 1000 Morlaco street bike, or Bottpower XR1 street tracker, the small Spanish company has a little something for everyone.
Next up for Bottpower is a cafe racer, which is based off the company's latest creation, the XR1 (track day porn: here). Though the first iteration is almost ready for a customer, so far Bottpower has only given us some renders of the rolling chassis for public consumption.
Like the XR1, a donor Buell XB is used for its engine, brakes, and suspension (the first XC1 will use only a Buell motor however), which makes this machine more of a do-it-yourself kit for the mechanically inclined.
If Bottpower's other work is any indication, we can't wait to see how this project comes out. Also, note the custom swingarm, in orange, that Bottpower is building as well. Tasty.
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