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LET'S recap. Five minutes ago I blundered into a herd of wild boar and seriously scared myself. That's history, but if you're interested you can read the account here. Now the clock is ticking. It's 7.20am and a whole day lies ahead. My original excursion disrupted, I opt for Plan B – a long, hot trudge to the ancient mines of Sierra de Lújar, in the south of Spain. It turns out to be a Plan B with knobs on. And more wild animals . . .
Ancient and modern is a more appropriate description. Worked since Phoenician times for galena (the ore of lead), silver, and an assortment of associated minerals, and comprising about 145 kilometres of tunnels on a multitude of horizons, the mines of Sierra de Lújar closed in 1989 and were in a state of dereliction at the time of my first visit, back in 2009.
But the following year the mines reopened for the exploitation of fluorspar for use in the Basque steel industry. The highest productive workings lie at an altitude of 1,255 metres – 895 metres above the main road between Orgiva and the Andalucian coast. This presents the prospect of a hot and dusty ascent of just under 3,000ft.
It's the equivalent of climbing Scafell Pike from Wasdale Head by the steepest route and repeating the last bit for good measure, while carrying three litres of water because Lújar is a dry mountain in a very dry environment. I've been caught out on the water front before and vowed never to be caught again, so three litres is a belt and braces quantity.
By the way, did you see what I did with the measurements? I'm using a mixture of metric and imperial. I'm ahead of the game here, in full anticipation of post-EU Britain reintroducing rods, perches, poles, chains, ells, palms and peppercorns. You people need to get your heads round all this stuff. And when the Tories re-adopt the Julian calendar that's really going to mess up your holiday arrangements. Be prepared.
Plan B isn't merely a visit to known places. Several months ago, through binoculars from the comfort of my house roof, I spotted a flat ledge in the centre of Lújar's northern crags. It looks manmade and worth exploring. Also, things have changed since 2009. New tunnels have been blasted into the mountain, new roads carved and old tracks widened. But what I expect more than anything is that mighty Lújar remains a rocky wilderness separating the Sierra Nevada – Spain's highest mountain range – from the Mediterranean, a wilderness rich in wildlife and peaceful, scented places. (Click pics for high-res versions)
I follow the rough, steep and at times indistinct miners' path up the front of the mountain. This ancient track, which is waymarked in places, is reputed to have been the original route to the mines. Phoenicians, Romans, Moors and mediaeval Christians trod this dust. Soon I am gazing down at the neighbouring ridge and the remote farmstead that was to have been my destination for today – before the wild boar played havoc with my plans. Another breathless slog up a few fathoms of steep ground and across several cubits of patchy scrubland and I'm standing on the modern mine road.
Soon I find a vague track that leads across the crags to the flat ledge I spied through binoculars. And yes, indeed, it is manmade – it's a stone-built terrace leading to a tunnel, now long-abandoned. What a fantastic place to work. What an incredible, panoramic prospect from this lofty location. Did the workers appreciate their exceptionally wonderful circumstances? Perhaps the novelty wears off if you have to climb the mountain every day in blinding heat and winter squalls.
Returning to the road, I pass tunnel after tunnel, all gated to bar the public from the mountain's innards. Ruined buildings from previous eras stand open to the elements, shutters hanging on rusty hinges, wild mint and butterflies among the rubble. I have seen scenes like these before, among the slate quarries of northern Wales and the lead mines of the north Pennines; places where wealth has been won – by the few – while the many have been obliged to pack their goods and move on when fortune changes. It's the same the whole world over.
Slogging higher, beyond the upper reaches of the modern workings, I cross one the great shoulders of Sierra de Lújar to gaze down into the head of the neighbouring valley. More ancient mine-workings cling to its slopes – and on a scale I did not expect to see. This remote location, it appears, was once a thriving place. But it lies beyond the limits of today's expedition. It's mid-afternoon and I've only one litre of water left. That's about seven gills, incidentally.
I follow the mine road down the mountain, passing the main office and workshop complex (an excitable mechanic prevents me entering) and a lorry being loaded with crushed mineral for its hair-raising journey to the main road. I watch with admiration as the driver embarks on his descent in a very low gear, the lorry's suspension grating noisily.
Me, I'm content to walk in its wake, plodding through the almost-liquid dust and around the many hairpin bends in the afternoon sun, listening to birds singing and watching ibex flit among the shadows. Among the debris of industry the wildlife is thriving.
It's been a strange day. Wild boar, dark forests, altered plans; glaring sunshine and cool airs issuing from deep underground; new horizons and unexpected sights; ancient history colliding with the demands of modern metal markets; choking dust, dancing butterflies and the scents of wild herbs.
And Lújar has lived up to all my expectations. It remains a wilderness despite man's tamperings. Tonight I'll sit on my roof and raise a glass to its toweringly majestic bulk.


text: Call for Participation ====================== 14th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL 2012) http://research.microsoft.com/~crusso/padl12 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, January 23-24, 2012 Co-located with ACM POPL'12 You are cordially invited to PADL'12. PADL is a forum for researchers and practitioners to present original work emphasizing novel applications and implementation techniques for all forms of declarative concepts, including functional, logic and constraints. PADL'12 is sponsored by Association for Logic Programming with cooperation of ACM SIGPLAN and support by Microsoft Research. Registration ============ To register for PADL'12, please follow the instructions at: https://regmaster3.com/2012conf/POPL12/register.php The early registration deadline is December 24, 2011. The registration fee will cover a copy of the symposium proceedings, refreshments, and an informal dinner. Hotel Information ================= PADL will be co-located with POPL at the Sheraton Society Hill Hotel in Philadelphia. Please visit POPL's web site to make reservations at the special conference rate. Program ======= The symposium will include invited talks by Boon Thau Loo and Don Stewart, and 19 technical papers selected from 41 submissions. The preliminary program is as follows: Invited Talk (9:00-10:00) * Boon Thau Loo Recent Advances in Declarative Networking Break (10:00-10:30) Session 1: Applications (10:30-12:00) * Mayer Goldberg and Guy Wiener A Declarative Approach for Software Modeling * Sergio Antoy and Michael Hanus Contracts and Specifications for Functional Logic Programming * Pedro M. Martins, Julie A. McCann and Susan Eisenbach The Environment as an Argument Lunch (not provided) (12:00-13:30) Session 2: Logic Programming (13:30-15:30) * Yuliya Lierler, Shaden Smith, Mirek Truszczynski and Alex Westlund Weighted-Sequence Problem: ASP vs CASP and Declarative vs Problem-Oriented Solving * Marcello Balduccini and Yuliya Lierler Practical and Methodological Aspects of the Use of Cutting-Edge ASP Tools * Christian Theil Have and Henning Christiansen Efficient tabling of structured data using indexing and program transformation * Dario Campagna, Beata Sarna-Starosta and Tom Schrijvers Optimizing Inequality Joins in Datalog with Approximated Constraint Propagation Break (15:30-16:00) Session 3: Parallelism and Concurrency (16:00-17:30) * Elvira Albert, Puri Arenas and Miguel Gomez-Zamalloa Symbolic Execution of Concurrent Objects in CLP * Pablo Chico De Guzmán, Amadeo Casas, Manuel Carro and Manuel Hermenegildo A Segment-Swapping Approach for Executing Trapped Computations * Michael Lesniak Palovca: Describing and Executing Graph Algorithms in Haskell Informal PADL Dinner (Place: TBA) Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Breakfast (8:00-9:00) Invited Talk (9:00-10:00) * Don Stewart Make Things Now! Pragmatic Functional Programming in Haskell Break (10:00-10:30) Session 4: Domain Specific Languages I (10:30-12:00) * Kenny Zhu, Kathleen Fisher and David Walker LearnPADS++: Incremental Inference of Ad Hoc Data Formats * Jeroen Bransen, Arie Middelkoop, Atze Dijkstra and S. Doaitse Swierstra The Kennedy-Warren algorithm revisited: ordering Attribute Grammars * Nicholas Coleman Distributed Policy Specification and Interpretation with Classified Advertisements Lunch (not provided) (12:00-13:30) Session 5: Domain Specific Languages II (13:30-15:30) * Andy Gill and Bowe Neuenschwander Handshaking in Kansas Lava using Patch Logic * Daniel Winograd-Cort, Hai Liu and Paul Hudak Virtualizing Real-World Objects in FRP * Edwin Brady and Kevin Hammond Resource-safe Systems Programming with Embedded Domain Specific Languages * David Broman and Henrik Nilsson Node-Based Connection Semantics for Equation-Based Object-Oriented Modeling Languages Break (15:30-16:00) Session 6: Numerics (16:00-17:00) * Paul Tarau A Declarative Specification of Tree-based Symbolic Arithmetic Computations * Vincent St-Amour, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Matthew Flatt and Matthias Felleisen Typing the Numeric Tower

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Michael Ferguson, center, and Seth Anderson, right, of Salt Lake City, were the first gay-male couple to legally marry in the "Christo"fascist state of Utah, on December 20. This unexpected, incredibly ironic historical event more than makes up for this pathetic shit:
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So A&E cravenly has caved in and decided to keep "Duck Dynasty" intact. Here is the "patriarch" of the "reality" show — who won't be missing from a single episode — spewing forth racist, homophobic and generally stupid-white-male-bigoted venom and bile*, yet the shameless corporate weasels (redundant…) of A&E assure us that "A&E Networks' core values are centered around creativity, inclusion and mutual respect."
Yes, so much so that Papa Duck (a.k.a. Phil Robertson) got only a slap on the wrist, if even that, and that from now on it will be business as usual. (Oh, but as a parting gift, a consolation prize, much like Rice-a-Roni, the San Francisco treat, A&E has promised, "We will also use this moment to launch a national public service campaign [public service announcements] promoting unity, tolerance and acceptance among all people, a message that supports our core values as a company and the values found in Duck Dynasty. [!] These PSAs will air across our entire portfolio."
When I was earning my journalism degree, my cohorts and I thought of those who actually were going for a public relations [PR] degree at our university as PRostitutes. We remain correct.)
I had figured that the highly-lucrative-among-white-trash "Duck Dynasty" would live on, albeit at a more appropriate venue, such as FOX. No doubt, there remains a captive audience for the stupid white man's hate speech. (If they see and hear it on the tay-vay, then it must be the truth!)
Oh, well. I have added A&E to homophobic operations that I steadfastly boycott, including Chick-fil-A (there is one nearby that I've never stepped foot in), Cracker Barrel (OK, so I don't think that we have even one of those restaurants here in Northern California, but I'd never step foot in one, anywhere, ever), and a local ice cream restaurant named Leatherby's that I haven't stepped foot in ever since I learned that its "Christo"fascist owner gave $20,000 toward the passage of Proposition H8 (true, the restaurant always struck me as at least a bit dirty and nasty anyway, so that wasn't exactly a difficult boycott).
But recently there was another addition to another list, a list that is much more important than is my own personal boycott list: the list of states where same-sex marriage is in effect.
To that list we have added Utah. Yes, Utah — to a large degree the home of the now-overturned anti-same-sex-marriage Proposition H8, which wouldn't have passed here in California in November 2008 if the Utah-based Mormon cult hadn't aided and abetted the hateful effort (how do they keep their tax-exempt status?) — now has same-sex marriage.
That wonderful irony blows the pathetic Papa Duck right out of the water.
Lest you believe for a nanosecond that the "Christo"fascists of Utah have had a sudden change of heart, that they actually have taken to heart the actual teachings of Jesus Christ (to love others and to not be a fucking asshole), know that in this case, change had to come from without: It was a federal district court judge, not the voters of Utah or the state's legislature or the state's highest court, who ruled, correctly, that Utah's ban on same-sex marriage has violated the equal, human and civil rights guaranteed to all Americans by the U.S. Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, and which no one, not even the grand wizards of the Mormon cult in Salt Lake City, is above.
And know that of course the bigoted state of Utah, which is owned and operated by the Mormon cult, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene and to stop same-sex marriages in Utah, which recently have been going on at a record pace. (Reports The Washington Post:
Salt Lake City — In the week since a federal judge overturned Utah's ban on same-sex marriage, the number of weddings in the state has skyrocketed, shattering records and accruing thousands of dollars for Utah's 29 counties.
As of close of business Thursday [December 26], more than 1,225 marriage licenses had been issued in Utah since last Friday [December 20]. Of those, at least 74 percent, or 905 licenses, were issued to gay and lesbian couples. …
Salt Lake County shattered a previously held record of 85 marriages in a given day, by handing out 353 on Monday [December 23] — the first full day of issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. …)
This! Unbridled! Happiness! MUST! STOP! NOW!
(That is, after, all, the central teaching of Jesus Christ!)
I'll live with the fact that a "reality" show about a white-trash family (again, I think of them and their kind as the American Taliban) that I've never watched and never will watch continues on.
And that battle isn't over. Thus far, the weasels of A&E have done the math — the accounting, more accurately — and have calculated that it was safe for them to rescind their indefinite suspension of Papa Duck from his family's "reality" show before it even had gone into effect.
We'll see if there is any blowback over this — again, A&E is a venture of Disney and the Hearst Corp. — and if so, whether this blowback makes the assholes of A&E change their minds on Papa Duck and his "reality" show once again.
In the meantime, I expect the U.S. Supreme Court to refuse to intervene in same-sex marriage in Utah, leaving same-sex marriage intact there, which is, after all of the Proposition H8 drama, incredibly fucking funny. (Not that equal human and civil rights for everyone is a joke — it is not — but still!)
What would be even funnier still would be if the U.S. Supreme Court does get involved in the issue of same-sex marriage in Utah, at the state of Utah's request — only to rule in favor of same-sex marriage in all 50 states.
Unlikely, perhaps, but not impossible, and that ruling will come from the U.S. Supreme Court in the not-too-distant future — with or without A&E's PSAs "promoting unity, tolerance and acceptance among all people."
*In addition to the quotes widely publicized from Papa Duck's interview in next month's edition of GQ, in recent years he also said these things (click that link [to the Los Angeles Times' website] to see the links to the YouTube videos that are videorecorded evidence of these quotations):
- "Look, [if] you wait 'til they get to be about 20 years old, the only picking that's going to take place is your pocket. You gotta marry these girls when they're 15 or 16; they'll pick your ducks."
- "Why do they murder and why do they hate us? Because all of them … 80 years of history, they all want to conquer the world, they all rejected Jesus and they're all famous for murder. Nazis, Shintoists, Communists and the Mohammedists. Every one of them the same way."
- "Women with women. Men with men. They committed indecent acts with one another. And they received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. They're full of murder, envy, strife, hatred. They are insolent, arrogant God haters. They are heartless. They are faithless. They are senseless. They are ruthless. They invent ways of doing evil."
As Andrew Sullivan has pointed out, this rhetoric is chillingly reminiscent of the anti-Semitic rhetoric of Nazi Germany, where the Jews were blamed for all evil. Sullivan wrote, in response to Papa Duck's remark to GQ that when it comes to "sin," you simply "Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there":
… [To] posit gay people as the true source of all moral corruption is to use eliminationist rhetoric and demonizing logic to soften up a small minority of people for exclusion, marginalization and, at some point, violence.
If you think I'm hyperventilating, ask yourself what the response would be if in talking about sin, Phil Robertson had said, "Start with Jewish behavior…" The argument would be totally recognizable, once very widespread, and deeply disturbing. What we're seeing here – and it's very much worth debating – is how fundamentalist religion seizes on recognizable, ["]immoral["] minorities to shore up its own sense of righteousness. You can gussy it up – but it's right there in front of our nose. …
This is the type of speech that A&E attempts to excuse, as though some fucking PSAs are going to make it all A-OK.


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Bantamweights Ken Stone (9-3 MMA, 0-1 UFC) and Donny Walker (15-7 MMA, 0-1 UFC) will meet in New Orleans.
UFC officials today announced the addition to September's UFC Fight Night 25 event.
Featuring a welterweight matchup between Jake Shields and Jake Ellenberger, "UFC Fight Night 25: Shields vs. Ellenberger" takes place Sept. 17 at New Orleans' Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.
The evening's main card airs on Spike TV. Stone vs. Walker is expected to take place on the night's preliminary portion.
Stone liekly finds himself in a must-win situation after suffering back-to-back knockout losses – one to Scott Jorgensen in the UFC's octagon and another to Eddie Wineland in the WEC's final fight card.
In fact, after opening his career, Stone is just 1-3 in his past three contests and will certainly be looking to get back on the winning track.
Meanwhile, Walker also seeks his first octagon win after dropping a decision to Jeff Hougland at this past week's UFC 132 event. The short-notice fight ended a seven-fight win streak for "Eagle Eye."
For more on "UFC Fight Night 25," stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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The artist Jess Riva Cooper's Viral Series imagines the human body overtaken by malevolent plant life; like the bodies of the dead, her ceramic women busts are infected with ivy, flowers, and insects. Inspired by the Hebrew figures of the golem and the dybbuk, the viral females occupy a space between life and death; like golem, they are anthropomorphic beings brought to life by human (as opposed to divine) hands, but they are also seemingly suffocated by roots that harken back to the cleavage of the ominous dybbuk, a departed soul that fixes itself to the body of a living person. The word "dybbuk," in fact, arrises from the Hebrew verb for "sticking from the root."
Unlike the figures of Yiddish folklore, Cooper's busts are female, modeled after the seductive sculpted faces of Classical Greece. Closing resembling the great alluring forms like Praxiteles' Aphrodite of Cnidus, these figures abandon the feminine piety in favor of an ecstatic sexuality; serpentine vines crawl across their tender cheeks, and their mouths open wide to give birth to lush roses or to allow passage to fertile swarms of scarab beetles. Their eyes appear to roll back in sensual pleasure; their teeth gnaw on thick roots.
Cooper's series seems to draw on ancient and Judeo-Christian mythology to construct a cohesive and elaborate narrative of female creative power; these women represent death and birth in equal measure. As the bodies of the dead are consumed by insects, they ultimately give rise to blossoming flora. This strange and natural cycle of rebirth serves as a metaphor for the artist's beloved Detroit, where buildings and homes succumb to financial ruin and are eventually overgrown with feral plant life. Take a look. (via Colossal and HiFructose)
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Halfway through November… This month has been SO busy for us. The first half of the month was filled with parties (our Halloween one and a surprise party for my mother-in-law!) and the second half will be lots of travel. Whew!
Also- happy birthday to my bro-in-law, Josh!
On October 31st at 11:59pm Erin's 9.0 Book Challenge came to an end
To say I'm thrilled and proud of myself and ecstatic would be an understatement. I started doing book challenges when I began blogging. In my very first challenge I read ONE book. I'm so glad I finished this one!
Ok, on to the books… Linking up with Steph & Jana obvi for Show Us Your Books!
Roomies by Christina Lauren
When a marriage of convenience brings Holland closer to her crush of 6 months AND helps both him and her Uncle Robert out, she's determined to make it happen. But a lot can go wrong when love & citizenship are on the line.
This romance was one of convenience. (I think I might enjoy the hate to love/gruff male character stories the best- this was not that.) I loved Holland's name and I loved that she often thought of others. Her best friend was an ass and I was sad to see that play out like it did, but her uncles were wonderful. Her brother was, too. I love when the main (female) lead has a good tribe. The romance itself was ok. Fast and slow, then fast and slow again. I didn't mind that- it was different. I kind of enjoyed the theater/musical aspect, too. I'm not a huge fan of the self-conscious protagonist. I get it, but still not a fan.
Also, Calvin was Irish and I constantly found myself repeating his words aloud to try to say them with an accent. I also laughed out loud MANY times. It was a funny book.
Should you read it? If you enjoy contemporary romance, yes.
The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman
A twisted fairytale about a brave queen, an evil sorceress, and the curses & choices we're dealt.
I really loved this little fairytale- it was definitely a little dark and twisty, though quite surface level and quick to get through. The illustrations were 100% necessary and I think fantasy-loving teens would cruise through this book & fully enjoy it. There aren't any names assigned to anyone, but the Snow White-based queen was blunt and badass, and I really liked her "just do it" attitude. The twist on the Sleeping Beauty story caught me off guard and I ate that up, too. It was a pretty cut and dry fairytale with no backstory (although you could piece in traditional information from the original fairytales), and I'd have loved to know more about the queen's thoughts, but it was very enjoyable for what it was.
Should you read it? If you like fairytales, yes!
*Thanks to Alexandra for this recommendation!
84, Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff
A (true) collection of letter between writer & book lover Helen and the staff at a small English bookstore located along Charing Road, spanning from 1949 to 1969.
(If you loved The Guernsey Lit & PPP Society request this book from your library now.) This collection of letters between Helen Hanff, Frank Doel, and all the characters at the bookshop (and beyond) creates the most witty, humorous, heartwarming story of long distance friendship and generosity. The fact that these were real people writing letters 50+ years ago during war and recontruction and elections and Beatlemania is so strange to think about! And Helen's real life wit and sarcasm was THE best. I loved how quickly and smartly she formed a friendship with Frank. And her generosity through the years of (UK) rations, as well as her love for the books she received, was so contagious and endearing. I started this short nonfiction one night and finished it the next day. It was wonderful.
Should you read it? Yes, it was quick and witty and heartwarming.
*Thanks to Michelle for this recommendation!
After Alice by Gregory Maguire
A tale of post-Alice, both in England and in Wonderland. Alice's sister Lydia, her friend Ada, & Ada's governess are all directly affected by Alice's sudden and alarming disappearance.
Hot damn, I hated this book. I should've quit it but it's an AiW retelling and I felt like I needed to swallow it whole since I'm a diehard fan of the OG. I think Maguire and I just aren't meant to be friends. (I've tried and failed to read Wicked three times.) The majority of GoodReads agrees with me on this particular novel. The story was boring and uninspired, the writing was pretentious and wordy, the characters were completely unlikable (except Siam). How can Lewis Carroll write a book in 1865 that is so whimsical and easy to understand and get lost in… and then Maguire write something in 2015 that is wordy and uppity and too "proper" for its own good?! He totally ruined the retelling. It could've been cool, but it wasn't.
Should you read it? NOPE.
Hansel & Gretel by Neil Gaiman
Gaiman's retelling of the old tale, complete with spooky sketches.
I didn't realize this was going to be kid-book-short. It's a very quick read. It's spooky and dark, though, so I don't know that kids under 8 or 10 should be exposed. (I'm not a parent- I honestly have no clue.) I loved the illustrations and I like the small changes Gaiman made. I really, really enjoyed the background information on the tried and true tale of Hansel and Gretel. I read this the day before Halloween and it was perfect timing!
Should you read it? Sure. It's very short and a nice little read for fairy tale lovers.
How to Be a Perfect Christian by The Babylon Bee
Similar to The Onion, this satirical how-to guide helps one to see the fault in their ways and fully come to understand how to be the perfect church-goer and Child of God.
Mmm… this book really wasn't my cup of tea. I know lots of Christians love it but this was a good for you, not for me kind of read.
Should you read it? I don't know. Check out the reviews on GR and decide.
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Freebie: Roomies by Christina Lauren*
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Starts with the letter N: Nine Women, One Dress by Jane L. Rosen
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Has a mostly orange color: A Tyranny of Petticoats by various authors
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A book with an unlikable character: An Act of Villainy by Ashley Weaver
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From 100 books PBS calls "The Great American Read"– HP & the Prisoner of Azkaban(illustrated version) by J.K. Rowling
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Related to water in the title: On A Cold Dark Sea by Elizabeth Blackwell
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Owned/TBR the longest (GoodReads): The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel
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An emotion word in the title: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
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Each word in the title begins with the same letter: After Alice by Gregory Maguire
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A book featuring a character who shares your profession or similar one (i.e. does the same kind of thing as you do day to day): The Wall of Winnipeg and Me by Mariana Zapata
I'm so happy! 200 out of 200 points!!
*Formerly One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake
So tell me what you read this month! Have you ever participated in a book challenge? Are you a fan of Gregory Maguire's writing?


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Infantry: Modernisation of the infantry soldier is aimed at enhancing lethality and providing individual protection. Procurement of modern Assault Rifles, Carbines and LMGs alongwith Bullet Proof Jackets and Ballistic Helmets is underway.
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You know all that food, grease trap and other municipal waste that gets responsibly disposed of by yours truly?
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Along the way, it reduces methane gas (a greenhouse gas that is 21 times more detrimental to the environment than carbon dioxide), reduces air emissions (since the electric company now needs to produce less power), and reduces odor.
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If you've got decent soldering skills, a soft spot for dated 1950s technology, and $150 burning a hole in your pocket, this DIY Nixie desk clock kit will let you experience what gadget lust was like for your grandparents.
Before LEDs, Nixie tubes were used as numeric electronic readouts on everything from lab equipment, to calculators, to watches. But these days, they really only serve as a way for us to nostalgically look back at the gadgets of yesteryear. And more importantly, to remind us to be very thankful for the LED and LCD display technology we now have access to.
And while there are lots of Nixie tube clock options for you to spend your money on, this one is particularly appealing with its lovely exposed circuit boards—not to mention there's the satisfaction of knowing you built it yourself. [ThinkGeek]


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Prospect Park to dedicate first phase of `Lakeside'
The first phase of Prospect Park's Lakeside restoration project – a new "Music Island" to replace the one destroyed in 1960 for the construction of the former Wollman Skating Rink – will be dedicated on Friday, Oct. 19.
Also dedicated will be an esplanade, to be known as the Shelby White and Leon Levy Esplanade. Music Island is being named in honor of Chaim Baier, Ms. White's father. The first phase was funded principally by a $10 million grant from the Leon Levy Foundation, a private, not-for-profit foundation created from the estate of Leon Levy, an investor with a longstanding commitment to philanthropy. His wife, Ms. White, is the founding trustee of the foundation.
Recent stories in the media quoted many neighborhood residents and others who complained that the Lakeside's long-awaited new skating rinks will not be opening for the winter, and in fact may not be ready until the fall of 2013.
In fact, however, the Prospect Park Alliance, the park's fund-raising arm, announced as early as March that "Prospect Park will not offer ice skating on site from Janaury to March 2013, as had been previously announced."
At the time, the Alliance apologized for people's disappointment, and said the reason for the delay was to speed construction on other elements of the Lakeside project and to save $500,000 in temporary costs (for a temporary rink, according to reports).
The Daily News quoted several disappointed skaters, such as Alexandra Gronua, who is visiting Brooklyn for several months with her family.
"We wanted to try it but we are very disappointed. Now we have to find other rinks," she is quoted as saying.
Another skater, Martine Channon, who learned how to skate at the Prospect Park rink, was quoted as saying, "I'm amazed that it's not opening this year."
Brooklynites who wish to go ice skating still have the opportunity to go to the Abe Stark rink at West 19th Street and the Coney Island Boardwalk, also administered by the Parks Department.
The original Music Island was part of Olmsted and Vaux' 19th century design for Prospect Park. It only hosted music concerts for several years, before park-goers realized that it was too far from the rest of the park for the music to be heard.
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I tend to have years that are either "off" or "on" in terms of heavy travel. One year we'll travel a lot and neglect the house (which is a 1928 colonial in perpetual decline). The next, we'll stay home and put money into our crumbling domicile. 2009 was an "on" year for travel. Next year will be mostly "off." But that doesn't preclude some travel for a spring marathon. I would like to limit it to a long weekend and keep it close enough that it can be driven to in a day (10 hours is the max I can tolerate) or easily flown to from NYC area airports. I accept that we'll probably need to change planes along the way.
I've been researching and I've narrowed things down to a few races that look good in terms of location, size, weather/course and reputation/reviews. Since I like cooler weather races I'm looking for mid-to-late May as the outside date. But I'm not averse to doing something earlier, such as in mid-to-late March or April. The ones I'm researching are listed below in the poll.
Note that I haven't included the Long Branch New Jersey marathon because the weather can be so unpredictable. But I may keep it around as a backup race. Weather considerations are the biggest reason that I've not included a lot of New England races that would normally be on my radar.
So, where should I run? If not one of these, what races do you like that are accessible from New England, and why do you recommend them?
Edited: I didn't think I'd have to be this pedantic, but if you voted "Other" can you please offer a brief comment on which "other" race you have in mind and why?


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Facebook has revealed what it believes is the most popular games of the year on its website, with Playdom's Gardens of Time hitting the top spot.
This is despite Zynga's Cityville being the most popular Facebook game, regularly clocking in 100 million active users – something TechCrunch has pointed out to the social network.
According to Facebook, though, the list of the most popular games was compiled in a way which didn't actually take into account how many visits the games had.
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"This list was compiled by looking at the top games on Facebook with more than 100,000 monthly active users and giving priority to those games with the highest user satisfaction scores," explained Facebook.
"The result is a list of the games that received the most user recommendations in 2011."
While we will let others grumble over the fact that Facebook should have named the list 'The most satisfactory games in 2011', the list does show just how popular social gaming has become and how game developers are breaking out of Silicon Valley, with games created by devs from Seattle, Santa Monica, Canada, Germany, Japan, Serbia, and Prague littering the most popular list.
The full list of the most popular / should really be satisfactory games of the year for Facebook is as follows:
Gardens of Time (By Playdom)
The Sims Social (By EA)
Cityville (By Zynga)
DoubleDown Casino (by DoubleDown Interactive)
Indiana Jones Adventure World (By Zynga)
Words With Friends (By Zynga)
Bingo Blitz (By Buffalo Studios)
Empires & Allies (By Zynga)
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James Dimon is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of JP Morgan Chase.
James (Jamie) Dimon became Chairman of the Board of JP Morgan Chase on December 31, 2006, after serving as CEO and President since December 31, 2005. Mr. Dimon had been the President and Chief Operating Officer since the bank's merger with Bank One, in July of 2004. At Bank One, he served as Chairman and CEO since March of 2000. Prior to Bank One, he held various senior executive positions at Citigroup Inc., its subsidiary, Salomon Smith Barney, and its predecessor company, Travelers Group, Inc.
Mr. Dimon is a graduate of Tufts University and received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard University Business School. He is a director of the College Fund/UNCF and serves on the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the National Institutes of Health Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, Catalyst and Harvard Business School. He is also on the Board of Trustees of New York University School of Medicine.[1] Mr. Dimon serves on the BOD for the Partnership for New York City and previously served on the BOD for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
- Director, Federal Reserve Bank of New York [2]
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- JP Morgan Chase
- JP Morgan Chase coal issues
- JP Morgan Chase financial crisis
- Testimony of Jamie Dimon Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
- ↑ James Dimon, JP Morgan Chase, accessed September 25, 2008.
- ↑ Federal Reserve Bank of New York Board, organizational web page, accessed August 1, 2012.
External articles
- Simon Johnson, "Jamie Dimon: The Most Dangerous Man In America", Huffington Post, April 3, 2010
- "Jamie Dimon's Swat Team", Fortune Magazine, September 2, 2008
External resources
- Jamie Dimon "Letter to shareholders", JP Morgan Chase Annual Report, 2009
- Simon Johnson, James Kwak 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown, Pantheon, March 2010, ISBN 0307379051, ISBN 978-0307379054
- Gillian Tett Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe, Free Press, May 2009, ISBN 141659857X, ISBN 978-1416598572


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WikiLeaks Makes Cache Of Diplomatic Cables Public
Earlier today, WikiLeaks made public 5,523 diplomatic cables. While WikiLeaks claimed on its that the cables were "new," they've actually been in the hands of news organizations like The New York Times and The Guardian since November.
This is, however, the first time WikiLeaks has made them public. WikiLeaks also asked the public to pore over the documents and tag them #wlfind on Twitter and while some things have already been reported, people are finding some interesting things.
We've been monitoring , but it's expectedly too much to keep up with. Here are a few cables that have jumped out at us. They may not be particularly newsy, but they do provide unique insight into geopolitical relationships and sometimes they're just curious:
-- A Two Hour Meeting With Saddam Hussein: Hussein complains to a U.S. ambassador about the West's attempt at keeping oil prices low. The ambassador wrote that Saddam's "manner was cordial, reasonable and even warm throughout the ensuing two hours." The cable is dated July of 1990.
-- John McCain's Meeting With Gadhafi: This cable provides background information preceding the senator's visit to the country. What's interesting is that it shows that the United Sates was very much interested in normalizing relationships with the Gadhafi regime. The cable is dated August of 2009.
-- Israel Strikes UN, Red Cross: "On January 8, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) decided to suspend movements inside Gaza following several security incidents involving IDF strikes on UN and ICRC staff, vehicles, and facilities." This cable is dated January of 2009.
-- Turkey: Americans, Homosexuals And Bikinis Not Welcome Here: That's the title of a 2009 cable based on a face-to-face survey of 1,714 Turks.
We'll keep watching Twitter and add more noteworthy cables if we find them. Meanwhile, if you find interesting things post them in the comments.
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1. Foreign Policy traces the history of behavioral economics with this timeline in the latest issue.
2. One hundred and twenty six of the richest 300 colleges (based on endowment size) have curtailed cafeteria tray use. According to the group rating the environmental policies of colleges, the University of Chicago's dining practices earn an A.
Dining Services purchases 20 percent of its food from local suppliers and contracts with a local dairy. The university is currently changing its dining hall format so that all meals will be served on reusable dishware. The university also offers reusable cups, mugs, and shopping bags.
3. A Mac application, Freedom, that disables networking on an computer for up to eight hours at a time, freeing you from the "distractions of the internet" and allowing you to do something better with your time.
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Bruno Mars slays at pre-Super Bowl concert in Houston
HOUSTON (AP) — The Super Bowl halftime show is on Sunday. Someone maybe ought to tell Bruno Mars that.
The pop singer was in grade A form at a pre-Super Bowl show on Friday night, performing a top notch concert that matched the energy he showed when he hit the stage at halftime last year and in 2014.
He worked Club Nomadic in Houston like a veteran: He danced slickly on one song, sang impressively on another, and played guitar throughout his 90-minute set.
Mars kicked off with the anthemic "24K Magic," hitting the stage with his remarkable eight-piece band that worked the room like a powerhouse ensemble.
"Houston we here ... we're trying to have some fun tonight," he yelled near the top of his show for Pepsi's LIFEWTR. "I wanna see everyone moving. I wanna see everyone dancing."
He wove classic R&B records into his set — including Michael Jackson's "Rock With You," Ginuwine's "Pony" and Soul for Real's "Candy Rain" — and also performed a number of his well-known hits, from "Treasure" to "Just the Way You Are" to "Locked Out of Heaven," which featured gold confetti bursting from the side of the stage.
Mars, 31, danced sensually and slowly — enticing the crowd — during "Show Me" and "Our First Time." He earned a rousing applause for his jaw-dropping vocals during "When I Was Your Man." And he echoed James Brown during the energetic "Runaway Baby" — though he didn't have a cape, his curly bangs worked as an accessory.
His band was part of the magic: Seven of the eight members danced collectively onstage, including Philip Lawrence, Mars' longtime co-writer and co-producer; guitarist and pianist Phredley Brown; bassist Jamareo Artis; saxophonist Dwayne R. Dugger; trombone player Kameron T. Whalum; trumpet player James King; and keyboardist John Fossitt.
The only member to sit in place throughout the night was Mars' brother, drummer Eric Hernandez.
Mars, and most of his bandmates, sported Houston Astros shirts at the show. Lady Gaga will headline Sunday's halftime show in Houston — a stage Mars performed at last year alongside Beyonce and Coldplay, and was the headliner in 2014.
"We can't leave yet," Mars said, as he and his band imitated a football team by huddling up before the last song, "Uptown Funk."
The crowd of 9,000 — which included John Legend, Michael Strahan and CeeLo Green — danced the hardest during the Grammy-winning funk track, becoming frenzied as Mars lit up the stage. It seemed only fitting when a pair of "firefighters" appeared to spray him down as Mars closed the show.
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Today's post is all about various shades of nude color staples, starting from beige, cream, brown and everything in between.
Lots of people think that nude colors are boring, but I say no. I love nude colors because I can play around with all different shades of nude colors
Nude colors are quite a massive trend in today's fashion. And how you are able to play with those different shades of nudes, beige, cream, brown, etc. It's all depends on you.


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THEOSOPHY teaches the progressive development of everything, "worlds as well as atoms," according to The Secret Doctrine.
This "stupendous development," say these ancient sages, "has neither conceivable beginning nor imaginable end.
To them, our 'Universe' is "only one of an infinite number of Universes, all links in the great Cosmic chain of Universes."
In this view, each individual cosmos, or single human life, is the effect of its predecessor, under karmic law, and "a cause as regards its successor."
If these lifetimes and universes are like schools, then the classrooms are stages of consciousness, urging us to greater self-awareness and spiritual development, if we are wise enough to choose that path.
Thus our lives are complex creations, a series of "progressive awakenings," drop by drop, of individual, family, racial, national karma.


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Comedian: Rich Guy's Giving Me a Million Dollars Just Because I Asked
Craig Rowin is a Brooklyn comedian who writes for The Onion. Last November, he posted this Youtube video that simply asked for some rich person to give him a million dollars. Now he says: someone is. Really, Craig Rowin? Really?
Yes, really, according to Craig Rowin:
"It still hasn't sunk in yet," the 27-year-old funnyman told the Daily News. "Do I deserve it? I have no idea. Maybe not. But there's so much wealth. Let me have a chunk."
Aha. So a comedian—a writer for The Onion, no less—puts on a tuxedo and makes a video (at the bottom of this post) in which he plays a voicemail from a mysterious millionaire named "Benjamin," and then waves what he says is a notarized letter from Benjamin's attorney agreeing to give him one million dollars, live on stage at the UCB theater on February 2.
Okay... bullshit. Clearly identifiable bullshit. He did get the Daily News and a bunch of other places like us to do stories on him, though, so at least this exercise has paid off in some free PR. Craig Rowin, if you actually get one million dollars (to keep) on February 2, we'll have our wealthy boss give you another million dollars*. Because things that magical don't happen in this cold world. But please, feel free to convince us otherwise.
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Sundance 2014 review: Last Days in Vietnam
Given the fact Vietnam was the first war televised in almost-real time, one might think there is nothing new to be discovered about the conflict that still haunts American citizens and policy-makers nearly 40 years after the last helicopters took off from Saigon.
Director Rory Kennedy illustrates otherwise with this dive into the last days at the U.S. embassy, showing the moral dilemma Americans faced as they received orders from Washington D.C. to evacuate the country, and leave their allies from the South Vietnamese army and citizenry behind.
Kennedy lets the voices of her interview subjects tell the story of the frantic final stand in 1975, as the North Vietnamese army swept through the country and surrounded Saigon, and her sources are wide-ranging. Kennedy talks to plenty of people who were on the ground at the scene, from CIA agents and U.S. soldiers stationed at the embassy to South Vietnamese soldiers trying to get their families out of the country and Vietnamese citizens ultimately left behind at the embassy grounds. Also on hand for interviews–Henry Kissinger and other D.C. power players still trying to explain away their mistakes from decades ago.
Drawing on remarkable footage of the scene on the ground, Kennedy tells the story of an obstinate ambassador in charge who refuses to consider the U.S. forces would need an evacuation plan, as well as the underlings with a better grasp on reality who went about setting up a secret evacuation for both U.S. forces and South Vietnamese assets they'd worked with on the ground for years.
Finding positives in America's experience in Vietnam is a rare thing, but seeing Americans risk their own lives for the sake of thousands of Vietnamese allies rather than simply taking care of the Americans–and seeing the pain caused by the fact they couldn't save all the people who descended on the embassy in these final days–shows that there were some honorable men representing the U.S. in the country, right to the bitter end.
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Al-Qaida group releases tape of French hostages
DAKAR, Senegal – A tape released Thursday on a jihadist forum shows the first images of a group of hostages including five French citizens since they were seized two weeks ago in Niger by an al-Qaida offshoot and taken into the desert.
The four-minute tape shows still images of the hostages sitting cross-legged in the sand with a gently sloping dune behind them. French officials believe the seven hostages are now in the bordering West African nation of Mali.
The hostages were grabbed in the middle of the night on Sept. 16 from their guarded villas in the uranium mining town of Arlit in Niger where they were working for French nuclear giant Areva.
The French Foreign Ministry said the tape was encouraging because its images show the hostages alive.
"Even if we don't know what date it was taken, it constitutes an encouraging sign in the sense that it shows all the hostages alive," a ministry statement said, adding that France "is doing everything to obtain their liberation."
The tape's release came as top officials from Areva began a visit to Niger, and Areva's president said she was deeply moved by the pictures and also considered them encouraging.
"They moved all of us because we are all a little bit hostages with them and at the same time I believe that this is an encouraging sign, very encouraging," Anne Lauvergeon told reporters in the Niger capital, Niamey. French TV carried her comments.
If the company or the governments of Niger or France had known something ahead of time, "everyone would have acted," she said. "We don't play with the lives of our employees."
The tape was an audio recording accompanied by still images. Standing behind the hostages are men brandishing automatic weapons who are wearing the face-covering turbans typical of the Tuaregs, a nomadic people who live in the Sahara desert and who are believed to be working with al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb.
During the recording, the hostages are questioned about their names, ages and marital status, according to the translation provided to reporters by U.S.-based SITE Intelligence Group.
Five of the hostages are French citizens; the other two are from Togo and Madagascar. They are also asked if they know who their kidnappers are, and acknowledge the kidnappers are al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM.
The terror group has its roots in an extremist Islamic group in Algeria that brokered an alliance with al-Qaida in 2006.
Since then, AQIM has kidnapped more than a dozen Europeans including tourists and aid workers. The group is believed to be using the ransom payments to bankroll their operations and with each kidnapping their tactics have become more bold.
The attack on the Areva compound in Niger is their most daring to date. The heavily armed gunmen were able to get past the town's security cordon which includes 350 of Niger's troops as well as 150 security guards hired by Areva.
In the tape produced by AQIM's media arm, al-Andalus Media Foundation, they explain that the kidnapping came in the "context of retaliation." It is a reference to a joint French-Mauritanian raid on an AQIM base in Mali earlier this summer that killed at least six members of the terror cell.
Soon after the raid in July, AQIM announced they had assassinated French hostage Michel Germaneau, a 78-year-old aid worker who had been seized in Niger in April. The tape warns that the French — who have sent a regiment of soldiers to Niger — should not attempt another rescue mission as they had done for Germaneau.
The French defense minister had said that France was willing and interested in talking to the terror group.
The al-Qaida-linked group has invaded large swaths of the desert region spanning portions of Mauritania, Mali, Niger and Algeria. Famous tourists spots like Timbuktu are now on the no-go list of numerous foreign embassies, including the U.S. and France.
Experts say the group has made inroads by creating strategic alliances with disenfranchised groups that inhabit these remote desert areas — like the Tuareg who have taken up arms against the governments of Mali and Niger over claims they were not receiving an equal share of the countries' resources including profits from uranium mining in Niger.


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As Congress' lame duck session gets underway, the nation is watching to see if the Democrats will attempt to capitalize on their last few weeks of hegemony before a huge shift in power occurs. Foremost on the agenda are the soon-to-expire Bush tax cuts. Happily for the middle class, there appears to be universal agreement that those cuts should be extended. The real contention lies with the question of whether or not to extend tax cuts to those Americans earning over $250,000 a year.
Aside from the obvious political implications of using the lame duck session to ram through a tax increase that would undoubtedly fail if put forward under the new Congress, there are two key issues at the heart of this debate. They represent different sides of the same coin: Taxing and Spending. When it comes to taxation, the real issue is how the federal government views the earnings of the American people. With regard to those earnings, does the government have an entitlement mentality? The second involves the American people's view of government programs. Concerning such programs, do the American people have an entitlement mentality?
In discussing his opposition to an across-the-board extension of the Bush tax cuts, President Obama has repeatedly insisted that the government "can't afford to borrow and spend another $700 billion on permanent tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires." Nancy Pelosi echoed the President's position in an interview with NPR: "It's too costly. It's $700 billion. . . . That's a lot of money to give a tax cut at the high end. And I remind you that those tax cuts have been in effect for a very long time, they did not create jobs."
It's probably worth pointing out to the President that earning $250,000 a year doesn't make one a "millionaire" – or a "billionaire" for that matter – and Nancy Pelosi's implication that tax cuts are somehow responsible for the nation's current economic woes is just plain silly. More importantly however, in making their arguments against tax cuts for America's top earners the President and Ms. Pelosi reveal an attitude of entitlement that pervades the government at virtually every level. To say that the government "can't afford" a tax cut is to say that the government has already laid claim to the $700 billion in question. As far as the politicians are concerned, that money does not belong to those individuals who will get up and go to work every day for the next year in order to earn it; it belongs to the government. In other words, if a politician decides that you make more money than he thinks you need, that extra money isn't really yours, it's his – his to appropriate, his to redistribute, his to use to "stimulate" the economy.
How can we trust our representatives to lift us out of the economic chasm we are in when, deep down, they don't really believe that we are entitled to keep the money we earn and they are not good stewards of the money they take from us through taxation?
On the flip side of the coin, if the American people reject tax hikes, then they must be willing to embrace significant cuts in spending, which will translate to cuts in government benefits and services. History shows, however, that people do not respond well when their government "entitlements" are threatened. When we talk about cutting spending, it's inevitably the "other guy's" benefits and programs we want cut, never our own. We love our Social Security, our Medicare, our government pensions, our government-backed mortgages, and the like.
The time has come for discipline and decisiveness. Our government stands at fork in the road, and it will be the American people who ultimately decide which direction we will travel. If we are unwilling to make the sacrifices necessary to rein in government spending and regain fiscal solvency, then we better get used to high taxes, high unemployment, and greater government intrusion into our everyday lives.
We can have fiscal discipline backed by self-denial and self-reliance, or we can have fiscal decadence backed by insolvency and dependency. Which vision is truer to America's Founding vision? Which one can we afford? Which road will take us back to prosperity and independence? Do the politicians and the people have the will for what it will really take to get us back on track? Only time will tell.


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This is a Greek dish, a prime example of healthy, natural, Mediterranean cuisine:
Briami – Vegetable Casserole
Serves 6
- 2 pounds zucchini
- 1 pound potatoes
- 2 sweet green peppers
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- 2 cups chopped peeled tomatoes
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 2 onions, sliced
- salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons chopped parsley
- 2 teaspoons fennel
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- fennel, for garnishing
- Cut zucchini and potatoes into 1/2 inch slices. Remove seeds and white membranes from peppers and slice. Mix together crushed garlic, tomatoes and sugar.
- Oil an oven dish and arrange some sliced onion on the bottom. Add a layer of zucchini, potatoes and peppers combined and top with part of the tomato mixture. Season with salt and pepper to taste, sprinkle on some of the herbs and oil. Repeat until all ingredients are used, about 3 to 4 layers depending on the size of the dish, finish with herbs and oil.
- Cover and put in a preheated 350 F. oven for 90 minutes, until vegetables become tender. Remove cover for the last 15 minutes.
- Garnish with additional chopped herbs and serve immediately.
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- Duration: 20 hours
How to Get a Utah Mortgage Loan Originator (MLO) License
License Requirements
- Must be at least 18 years of age or older
- Have a high school diploma or equivalent
- Possess a social security number
- Have established credit in the U.S.
Activities Authorized Under This License
This license authorizes the following activities:
- First & Second Mortgage Brokering
- Foreclosure Consulting/Foreclosure Rescue
- Home Equity Lending/Lines of Credit
- Reverse Mortgage Activities o High Cost Home Loans
- Third Party Mortgage Loan Processing (1099 Employees Only)
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- Mortgage Loan Modifications
Step 1: Obtain an NMLS Unique Identifier
Go to statemortgageregistry.com and click on "Request an Account" at the bottom. To get the NMLS number is simple, and at no cost. They issued the number instantly, but be sure not to display it until you are properly licensed.
Step 2: Criminal Background Check
An applicant is required to authorize a Federal (FBI) criminal background check (CBC) through NMLS. Each state also requires a criminal history background check.
The applicant may request a State criminal background check and pay for any applicable fees at the time the Federal (FBI) criminal background check is scheduled through NMLS.
Step 3: Pre-License Education Requirements
New state-licensed MLOs are required to complete 20 hours of NMLS-approved education. NMLS approved education must include 3 hours of Federal law, 3 hours of ethics (which shall include fraud, consumer protection, and fair lending issues), 2 hours of non-traditional mortgage lending, plus 12 hours of undefined education (referred to as electives). Number of hours is 3/3/2/12 = 20 NOTE: UT-DRE also has an additional requirement of 15 hours of UT-DRE approved instruction which is not reported into NMLS.
Step 4. Pass Your Exams
You are required to take and pass the SAFE Act National Test with Uniform State Test (UST). Our recommendation is to take the test within 10 after you've completed the 20 hour pre-licensing course. A score of 75% or better is required to pass the SAFE Act test.
- TEST ENROLLMENT: First you must create a TEST ENROLLMENT on the NMLS website. You will pay $110 (fee may vary) for the National Test with Uniform State Test (UST) upon the enrollment. Creating the enrollment is what will give you permission to schedule the test.
How To Pay For A Test Enrollment
- SCHEDULE YOUR TESTS: **You must pay for the tests in the step above BEFORE you can schedule a test date.** The tests are given by Prometric Testing Centers, and they have centers located throughout the state and across the country.
- If you fail the exam: You must wait 30 days to retake the exam. If you fail 3 times, then you must wait at least 180 days (6 months) to retake the exam.
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