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Council Resolution on the contribution of civil society in finding missing or sexually exploited children.
The European Union feels that combating the disappearance of children is a priority. In recent years, the Union has adopted a number of measures to combat this phenomenon, in particular:
- Council Joint Action 97/154/JHA concerning action to combat trafficking in human beings and sexual exploitation of children;
- Council Decision to combat child pornography on the Internet;
- Commission proposal for a framework decision on combating the sexual exploitation of children and child pornography.
This Resolution concerns the following:
- Disappearance and abduction;
- Sexual exploitation (trafficking, prostitution and pornography);
- Non-organised sexual abuse outside the family.
In addition, the European Union feels that civil society can provide efficient support for the competent authorities in the search for missing children. To that end, it calls on the Member States to encourage cooperation between the civil society and the competent authorities, in particular by:
- Providing a free 24-hour hot-line to collect information on missing or sexually abused children;
- Making available volunteers for organised searches of missing children;
- Providing support for missing children.
Member States are invited to extend the exchange of information in order to ascertain the extent of the phenomenon and analyse its trends.
Moreover, the Commission is invited to analyse the actual extent of the phenomenon of missing children and to study the role of civil society organisations which actively support the search for missing children.
The Commission will present a report to the Council on the results of the study and the Council will determine what measures should be taken at European Union level.
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|Deadline for transposition in the Member States
|Official Journal
|Council Resolution on the contribution of civil society in finding missing or sexually exploited children
|OJ C 283 of 09.10.2001
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MACON, Ga. – The championship games of the 2012 Atlantic Sun Conference Baseball and Softball Championships will receive well-deserved national coverage with an agreement in place to deliver the championship Saturday action for both events on ESPN3.
"Atlantic Sun baseball has a tradition of national excellence, in the national polls and in the NCAA Tournament," said A-Sun Commissioner Ted Gumbart. "With multiple schools having a national impact in baseball, showcasing our championship contests this way is a great match between the achievement of our student-athletes and ESPN's multi-screen network, ESPN3.
"A-Sun softball continues to build the same national reputation, as our programs continue to post impact wins, rise in the polls and we expect to have multiple teams competing for postseason opportunities this year; the timing is perfect foradding ESPN3 coverage to A-Sun softball. We are very proud to expand the national schedule for the A-Sun and look forward to continued growth in the strength of our programs and our relationship with ESPN."
The A-Sun Softball Championship is scheduled for Sat., May 9-12, at USC Upstate in Spartanburg, SC. Action in Saturday's championship round begins at noon, with the "if necessary" game to follow. All of Saturday's action will be carried on ESPN3.
The A-Sun's Baseball Championship is scheduled for May 23-26, at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida. The first pitch on championship Saturday is set for 1:00 p.m. ET. ESPN3 will also carry the "if necessary" game should the bracket call for a second game on championship Saturday.
The A-Sun and ESPN teamed up to deliver exclusive basketball content this season on its signature multi-screen sports network ESPN3. A total of 20 live league basketball games were distributed in 2011-12, in addition to all 14 men's and women's games in the General Shale Brick A-Sun Basketball Championship. The addition of games on ESPN3 expanded ESPN's current five-year deal with the Atlantic Sun, which continues through the 2013-14 season.
The Atlantic Sun Conference is an NCAA Division I league with 10 member institutions committed to Building Winners for Life. The A-Sun meets the challenge of maintaining the highest standards in academic and athletic achievement with a true balance between student and athlete. Headquartered in Macon, Ga., the A-Sun boasts six of the top eight media markets in the Southeast. The A-Sunincludes a blend of the most prestigious and dynamic private and public institutions in the region: Belmont University, East Tennessee State University, Florida Gulf Coast University, Jacksonville University, Kennesaw State University, Lipscomb University, Mercer University, University of North Florida, University of South Carolina Upstate and Stetson University. Northern Kentucky becomes the A-Sun's newest member on July 1, 2012.
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It looks like the special forces will be featured in a couple of new TV shows this fall.? This has always been a popular type of thriller whether it is seen on TV, film or in books.? I have recently completed three military/Tier One/Black Ops thrillers each of which will appeal to a big segment of the thriller audience.
The oldest of these is "Tier One" by Brian Andrews and Jeffrey Wilson, published in 2016 by Thomas Mercer.? Wilson and Andrews are both U.S. Navy vets and it is clear they know the weaponry and the lingo.? "Tier One" is about a former Navy SEAL in one of the Tier One, "black" units who's team mates are killed as the result of an Iranian mole within their tactical operation center in Djibouti.? He is given a new identity and becomes part of an even blacker operation with even fewer checks and balances on their actions as they go after the ones responsible for the mole operation and stave off another major attack on New York City.? "Tier One" makes one look at certain ethical questions surrounding black operations encompased in a quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower that appears at the beginning of Part III: "'The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defent from without.'"? Good question.
A new "Steve Stilwell Thriller" called "Sapphire Pavilion" by David E Grogan is perhaps my favorite of the three.? "Sapphire Pavilion" was the name given a highly classified mission in Vietnam in 1968.? While this is fictional, it reads as total plausible.? The operation starts out with a C-130 cargo plane, its crew and a mysterious passenger which is torpedoed out of the sky over Vietnam in January 1968.? The plane and the bodies were MIA until 30 years later when the son of the pilot took a trip to Vietnam with a retired Navy JAG advisor to look for the wreckage.? They found graves for the crew, but were sabbotaged in Ho Chi Minh City when they returned from the bush.? The son of the pilot was found dead in his hotel room with a prostitute waiting for the return of the former Navy attorney and luggage full of heroin.? The authorities hold the former JAG officer, Ric Stokes, for murder and drug trafficking, capital offenses.? The officer's wife asks Steve Stilwell, an attorney in Williamsburg, VA and former Navy JAG officer, to take the case.? At times the case looks hopeless, but with good legal support from Steve's new assistant attorney, Casey Pantel, they discover who at the State Department can unlock the mystery behind "Sapphire Pavilion" that will lead to Ric's freedom.? This book is a page-turner and hard to put down until the very end.
The third book is to be published Sept. 5, "Into a Dark Frontier" by John Mangan.? Like the other authors, Mangan has military experience having retired as a decorated combat rescue pilot. This book has an interesting dystopian premise that most of the African continent has fallen into chaos because of the blockage of ports, closure of refineries, and loss of power.? The governments have disintegrated and roaming bands of brigands, despots and soldiers of fortune rule and make existence impossible for natives as well as would-be pioneers from other parts of the world.? Millions have been brutally killed.? "Into a Dark Frontier" is extremely graphic as it tells the story of a disgraced former Navy SEAL named Slade Crawford who joins up as security advisor for a Christian cult called the Judeans who set off from the U.S. to South Africa with a vision of resettling in Malawi.? All the Judeans follow the fate of the members of several other settlements and are either skewered alive on stakes, burned to death or taken into Nairobi to serve as sex slaves.? The real villains of "Into a Dark Frontier" are the "One World" proponents, according to the author, who seems to believe that organizations like the UN and NATO are out to remove individual freedoms.? I find it hard to be as cynical as the author or his protagonist, Crawford.? Still, I give it at least a one thumb up because this book will appeal to a certain segment of the population who deeply suspect government and feel pessimistic about the retention of our civil liberties as we have them today (or think we have them.)
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My golf book is pretty much done. Now I have to figure out what to do with it.
It's about the Poland Spring Caddy Camp and the eight summers I spent there from age 13 to 20, a formative time indeed.
Caddy Camp — cute name but not a cute place. We drew a firm distinction between our camp and the fun camps, which surrounded us in central Maine. Ours was a residential work camp, 10 weeks from mid-June to late August (but we had some fun too).


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Syrian official calls U.S.-Russia chemical weapons deal a victory for Assad
A U.S.-Russian agreement for Syria to turn over its chemical weapons stockpiles and avoid American air strikes is a 'victory' for President Bashar Assad, the Syrian official in charge of reaching out to the government's opponents declared Sunday.
Ali Haidar, the minister for national reconciliation, told the Russian news agency Ria Novosti that the accord, which calls for the destruction of Syria's ability to produce and use its weapons by November and the elimination by the middle of next year of all materials that might be used to make chemical weapons, is a victory for the Syrian people over American hegemony.
"We welcome these agreements," Haidar said. "On one hand, it helps the Syrians emerge from the crisis and on the other it has allowed for averting war against Syria."
"It's a victory for Syria that was achieved thanks to our Russian friends," Haidar said.
Haidar's comments were the first by a Syrian official since U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced the deal in Geneva on Saturday. The deal calls for Syria to reveal what kinds of chemical weapons stores it has and where they are kept by the end of next week, with elimination of its ability to use the weapons coming by November.
The assumption is that, because the deal was reached with Russia, Syria would be likely to meet its terms; Russia is the source of most of the Syrian government's weaponry as it fights a bitter civil war with rebels.
But the Syrian government has not explicitly said that it had agreed to the timetable and Assad has offered no comment. In interviews with Russian television last week, Assad said his country would reveal the details a month after it formally signed the Chemical Weapons Convention, which bans the toxic weapons. The United Nations said Syria's accession to the convention will be official Oct. 14.
The agreement announced by Russia and the United States on Saturday said, however, that Syria had agreed to put the convention into effect even before its membership was official and that inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons should be allowed to begin their work in that country immediately.
With the subject of chemical weapons seemingly on the way to resolution, both Haidar and the anti-Assad rebels began campaigning to expand it to include other contentious issues in Syria's civil war.
Haidar said he believed the agreement also should include a ban on military and logistical support for the rebels while spokesmen for the rebels said it should also prohibit Assad from using missiles and air power on urban areas.
The conventional war has claimed more than 100,000 lives from both sides of the conflict, far more than the hundreds killed in the Aug. 21 alleged chemical weapons attack in the suburbs east of Damascus that sparked the round of diplomacy that led to Saturday's agreement.
The war is generally described as a stalemate, and most analysts believe the fighting will continue unabated. Rebels and their supporters have expressed bitter disappointment that the chemical weapons agreement appears to have stalled for now any possibility that the United States will launch an attack on Assad military sites.
An official statement from the Syrian National Coalition – the umbrella opposition organization that the United States recognizes as the sole legitimate representative of the Syrian people, called not only for banning the use of airplanes and ballistic missiles against rebellious urban areas but also demanded that regime officials face war crime charges for the Aug. 21 attack.
"The Syrian National Coalition insists that the prohibition of chemical weapons, the use of which has left more than 1,400 civilians dead, be extended to the use of ballistic missiles and aircraft against urban areas," the statement said. "Securing the regime's chemical weapons must be accompanied by a search for justice with the perpetrators of the chemical weapons attacks brought before the International Criminal Court."
The statement did not criticize the agreement, but several officials from the Syrian Military Council, the U.S.-backed amalgam of rebel groups, have.
Meanwhile, the head of al Qaida, Ayman al Zawahiri, has urged rebels to refuse to work with the United States and its Gulf Arab allies and to focus on establishing an Islamic State in Syria. Two of the anti-Assad movement's most effective organizations, the Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, are al Qaida affiliates.
"I warn my brothers and people in the Syria of unity and jihad against coming close to any of these groups," he said in an audio statement that was posted on the Internet last week. A translation by an al Qaida monitoring group was released Sunday.
Zawahiri also warned his followers not to attack civilians and warned that the group would act against those that do. Residents in areas controlled by Nusra and the Islamic State have complained that the groups have meted out brutal punishments on Syrians they deem insufficiently religious.
"All who shed the forbidden blood of a Muslim or non-Muslim, we are innocent of this act, and if they are from us then we will seek to hold them accountable," Zawahiri said.


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On the heels of an intensive campaign to prevent soldiers from committing suicide, the Minnesota National Guard is hoping to continue reaching at-risk veterans.
Senior National Guard leaders have traveled throughout Minnesota since September, teaching Guard members how to recognize the symptoms that indicate colleagues might to try to take their own lives. To meet the growing demand for services, veterans advocates hope more funding will come from the Legislature to fund the Case Management, Outreach, Referral and Education program, or CORE program.
Minnesota is home to more than 380,000 veterans. According to data from Veterans Administration facilities, 126 veterans served by V.A. hospitals, clinics and other sites in Minneapolis; St Cloud, Minn.; and Fargo and Sioux Falls, N.D., committed suicide in the last decade. But Veterans Administration officials say that could be an undercount, since many veterans do not receive services at the VA.
Eight-year Marine Corps veteran Jason Christiansen, 35, of St. Paul, is among those veterans who have come close to taking his life. When the financial crisis hit in 2008, he lost his job as a technician at an auto dealer.
"When I got laid off my bills all piled up," he said. "I couldn't pay anything, so everything I had: my credit cards, my car loan, everything all went into debt collection."
Christiansen finally found a similar job, but for less than half his old pay. His financial situation quickly spiraled out of control. To avoid calls from debt collectors he stopped answering his phone. He became depressed, suffered from anxiety and was distraught over losing his job and his financial difficulties.
His identity as a Marine made being unemployed unbearable because he felt worthless and a drain on society.
"At one point, I was sitting there with a gun in my mouth," he said.
But at that moment, an instant message from a sick friend popped up on his computer screen and Christiansen didn't go through with his plan to kill himself. His girlfriend pushed him to seek help.
That's how he found the CORE program.
"It was instantaneous; it was like this giant weight lifted off my shoulders," he said. "I felt like I had a chance. Before, it felt like I had no chance at all, and without it I can honestly tell you I have no idea what I was going to do."
Now that he has a better job, he and his girlfriend plan to marry.
The CORE program was started by Veterans Affairs and Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota to help military personnel, veterans and their families with medical care and mental health, substance abuse, financial and job counseling — whatever they need to make it in civilian life. Services are free.
CORE aims to address the kinds of serious issues that can lead to even worse problems down the road, like suicide. While many of the veterans it serves are eligible for services through the VA, the system is complicated. People often don't know what they're eligible for or how to find the help they need.
Mary Beth Galey, director of counseling for Lutheran Social Services, said the CORE program is especially valuable for outstate military members, who may live miles from a VA facility.
"This offers a greater catchment for a bigger group of people than a traditional military service would offer and I think that is what has actually made it so popular," she said. "It offers services to a wider net of people, the veteran feels like there is a bigger opportunity to get support."
Galey said most clients need help with depression or other mental health issues. But counselors often help them with other problems. The program has served about 5,000 people since 2008, and services are available at non-military facilities.
The Minnesota National Guard keeps its own data on suicide. Officials report that 22 members of the guard have killed themselves since 2007, when the force began keeping complete statistics. Prior to that, a suicide was counted only if it happened while a guardsman was training. So far this year, there have been four suicides. A fifth is under investigation.
In recent years the Minnesota National Guard has been battling the stigma associated with seeking help for mental health problems. The guard has launched a host of programs to help troops be more resilient during and after deployment.
Still, Lt. Col. John Morris, State Chaplain for the Minnesota Army National Guard, acknowledges that suicide remains a challenge. He said the Minnesota National Guard's suicide profile is young and male.
"For a host of reasons they lose hope and in our case the profile of a person who loses hope is a male under the age of 25, wrestling with relationship issues, sometimes alcohol, sometimes finance on top of that and the despair leads to the tragic solution of taking their lives," he said.
Morris said more needs to be done to connect these young veterans with help, and with good civilian jobs. The need will be critical as thousands of Minnesota soldiers complete deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan and return home to a dismal job market.
Need help? Any veteran or family member can call (888) 881-8261, or (612) 879-5320 in the Twin Cities metropolitan area, and be directed to services nearest their location. Help is also available online via the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs and Lutheran Social Services.


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February 10, 2012
Raising portfolio quality
Stocks discussed in this post are for educational purpose only and not recommendations to buy or sell. Please read disclaimer at the bottom of blog.
10 comments:
- Abhi said...
Would you not buy more of the same ( once you already hold) when market goes down? Maybe you add 2-3 more of ideas you really like, but would you not think of loading up on ideas you already own when market goes down like the in 2008 or in recent times?
- February 10, 2012
Thanks Rohit for the post. I am trying to follow a similar strategy. Many times the best stock to buy is the one that you already hold. Any new idea has to be at the cost of the existing one. I am trying to limit to around 20-25.
- February 10, 2012
Great post Rohit.
Looking forwared to the ranking post. Its going to be interesting to say the list. How much weightage to give to a factor will be the most difficult/imp part I guess. I know its subjective but, sometimes I feel the more mechanical you try to make the investing process, the less value it adds.
- February 10, 2012
- Dhwanil Desai said...
Hi Rohit,
You have touched upon a very interesting topic as almost every investor faces this dilema over one's investment tenure.
For me, I like the approach that Peter Lynch has suggested whereby you have 80% of your investment portfolio in 15-20 stocks (your best bets) while create smaller positions in other interesting ideas. This approach will help one keep track of interesting opportunities without making large commitemetnts. On the other hand it gives ample time to analyze these ideas from all aspects and successfully fight the "itch" to invest once the investment starts to look promising, prima facie.
- February 11, 2012
- Rohit Chauhan said...
Hi abhi
you are right ..i would load up on some of the same idea. but a lot of time once i have a full position, i will not exceed that in interest of controlling risk. there is always an upper limit on the amount i will bet on a single stock
- February 14, 2012
- Rohit Chauhan said...
Hi lalit
same here ..except i try to also keep a limit on the position size. try not to exceed that ..it is always easy to get carried away by what you own
- February 14, 2012
- Rohit Chauhan said...
Hi dhwanil
I also track quite a few stocks ..but i dont actually own them ..just keep them on a spreadsheet to see what is happening with them
in the end comes down to the same point
- February 14, 2012
I have a question. You say you have a limit of exposure to any stock is it based on % of portfolio or a amount limit.
I have a 18 stock portfolio but i am not expert like people here i have mostly bought on instinct and by reading research articles like you people. My question is i am a salaried guy who like to put in a fixed amount to my equity investment every month. how should i manage the investment then? keep the amount as cash until i see a opportunity or invest them in the stock i have made position already?
- February 14, 2012
- Rohit Chauhan said...
Hi anon
I am in the boat as you ...salaried guy and not some hot shot fund manager.
my personal approach is to figure how much money i can allocate to equity. lets say 10 lacs...then typical position will be 5% or 50000 for me. if i like something a lot then max it will be 1lacs
begining of each year i roughly know how much i will save and based on that i know how much cash i will have. as the money comes in, i let it idle till a good idea comes up and an exisiting idea becomes cheaper and then i put my funds to use.
- February 18, 2012
- Tips_Commodity said...
Hi Rohit ...
Since I am new to this field of investment, I really liked the way you have described which stocks are good, and give good returns. Looking forward to more of your posts !!!
- March 13, 2012


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Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town
Beacon Press, 1993 - Social Science - 378 pages
Recounts the history of Cherry Grove, from the 1930s to the present, including interviews with residents who describe the struggles, the partying, and the perseverance. By the author of Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. – The No. 18 Georgia College women's tennis team (7-7) took on the No. 35 IUP Crimson Hawks (3-5) in a neutral site game at Augusta, Ga. Monday afternoon. The Bobcats jumped to an early lead and held off the Hawks for the 5-4 win.
Kayla Barksdale (Augusta, Ga.) and Katie Krupp (Evans, Ga.) cruised to an easy 8-1 victory over Erika Schnaas and Katie Eaton.
The other two doubles matches would end with the score 9-8, with each team coming out on top of one match. May Johnson (Sydney, Australia) and Ivana Marevic (Rottweil, Germany) came up just short against Tanya Timko and Emilia Osbourne while Michelle Lingner (Dunwoody, Ga.) and Sarah Murray (Alpharetta, Ga.) defeated Abby McCormick and Alanna McFail.
The loss for Johnson and Marevic was the first for the duo since being teamed together Saturday, March 2 against the University of Montevallo. Their season record now stands at 7-1.
Barksdale and Krupp continued their respective hot streaks in singles play, with Barksdale taking down McCormick 6-0, 6-1 and Krupp defeating Osbourne 6-3, 6-0. The two wins pushed the score to 4-1 in favor of the Bobcats. Barksdale increased her personal winning streak to eight games.
Murray took on Ranvita Mahto in the No. 6 slot. The Bobcat freshman pushed the match to three sets, but eventually lost 6-1, 2-6, 6-4. Marevic also lost a close match, taking on Eaton in the No. 1 slot. Marevic pushed Eaton to the limit in each set, but lost 7-5, 6-3.
Playing in the No. 2 slot, Johnson downed Timko 6-1, 6-1 to secure the victory for the Bobcats.
Lingner took on Schnaas in the No. 5 slot. The Bobcat senior played close despite dropping the match 6-3, 6-3.
The Bobcats will be back in action Wednesday, March 20 when they travel to Morrow, Ga. to take on No. 50 Clayton State University.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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SWANSBORO � The Town of Swansboro is proceeding with efforts to acquire the Nancy Lee Fishing Center to develop a public park with water access.
SWANSBORO � The Town of Swansboro is proceeding with efforts to acquire the Nancy Lee Fishing Center to develop a public park with water access.
The Board of Commissioners adopted a resolution Tuesday night approving the submission of a final grant application to the N.C. Division of Coastal Management for the proposed project, being called Sunset Park.
The town entered an agreement in July with property owners Lee and Nancy Manning to purchase the 0.62 acres and is seeking two primary grants to help fund the acquisition.
The town submitted a pre-application to Coastal Management�s N.C. Public Beach and Coastal Waterfront Access program and was invited to turn in a final application for consideration.
But as the town moves forward with its efforts, there were questions raised by one resident.
�Why do you want to take valuable commercial property out of the public section?� asked Lawrence Settle.
Settle was the only person to speak during the public hearing on the grant application and said he�d like more discussion of the costs involved in the project, such as long-term costs that follow the use of grant funding for the acquisition.
�The reality is when you acquire funding with soft money like grant funding, that funding disappears; but you still have a commitment to this and it has to be honored and that means tax dollars,� Settle said.
The property is located on N.C. 24 and adjacent to the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway at the White Oak River. The total cost of the purchase of $900,000 and the town has put down $10,000 in earnest money.
The agreement comes with a number of contingencies, including the town�s ability to secure the grant funding for the purchase.
The town has until Jan. 31 to determine if the property is satisfactory. Commissioners see an opportunity to enhance public water access in the town, benefiting tourism and business activity.
And while the plans would include water activities for activities such as fishing, boating and kayaking, Commissioner Gery Boucher also sees the opportunity to preserve a bit of the working waterfront,
�It can be a place to access the water and also meet and interact with fishermen,� he said.
Commissioners said it�s still early in the process and there will be additional details as the efforts to purchase the property and develop the water access park proceed.
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The Ryan paradox: Rand & Hayek?
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has been done a great disservice.
He is painted as a crazy ideologue, who channels dangerous ideas of foreign thinkers like the Austrian economists Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises and the anti-communist, Russian cultist Ayn Rand to revolutionize the way the United States is run. He is labeled a conservative and a libertarian firebrand, ready to launch an ideological barrage against Romney administration foot-draggers. Including the man in the Oval Office.
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Leading conservatives are impressed by Ryan's erudition. The Weekly Standard dubbed him "the Republican Party's intellectual leader." Ryan was Rupert Murdoch's first choice for veep and editors at his Wall Street Journal and Fox News duly lobbied for Ryan's appointment. Mitt Romney, threatened by the wrath of Murdoch's media empire, duly made brain-box Ryan his sidekick.
With Ryan's devotion to the ideas of Hayek and Rand on full display, the Republican rank and file were relieved they at last had a true believer to follow. In the words of conservatism's excitable high priest, Rush Limbaugh, "We now have somebody on the ticket who's us."
Democrats were appalled. Conceding that the appointment had "thrilled the base of the Republican Party," David Axelrod, the strategist who steered Obama into the White House in 2008, branded Ryan "a certifiable right-wing ideologue." President Barack Obama confirmed that Ryan was the "ideological leader" of Republicans in Congress. But what sort of ideology are we talking about?
When it comes to Ryan's ambitious intellectual quest, he spreads his net far beyond Hayek and Rand. In the introduction to his 2010 budget-slashing "Roadmap" the congressman sought to display intellectual depth by citing a rarified conservative cocktail — including the Founding Fathers, Émile Durkheim, Niall Ferguson, John Locke, Charles Murray, Adam Smith, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Georges-Eugène Sorel, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Max Weber, as well as Hayek and Milton Friedman. Ryan's scatter-shot approach to conservative thought, however, tells us little about what he really thinks.
Consider, to bring new staffers up to speed, Ryan gives them copies of Hayek's classic "Road to Serfdom" and Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" — books he says inspires his political philosophy.
But Hayek and Rand were violently opposed to each other's ideas. It is virtually impossible to hold them in the same brain. When the termagant Rand met Hayek, she screamed across the room, "Compromiser!" and reviled him as an "abysmal fool," an "ass" and a "totally, complete, vicious bastard."


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Roozbeh Farahanipour the Best Candidate for United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation on human rights in Iran0 comments - published on Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Mr. Farahanipour is a well known pro-democracy and human rights activist who founded and became the Chairman of the Marze Por Gohar resistance movement as well as founding the National Society of Journalists in Iran. As an outspoken Islamic Regime opponent he was imprisoned by the Regime three times the final time being in 1999 and was forced to escape from Iran. In 2000 Mr. Farahanipour received political asylum in the United States where he continues his lifelong passion of advocating for human rights and democracy in Iran.
Since his arrival in the United States, Mr. Farahanipour has demonstrated his dedication to civic engagement by becoming involved with the Westwood Village Rotary Club. As the International Chair of the Club he has worked to build connections with other members of the worldwide organization in an effort to mobilize resources for the purpose of advancing international understanding of good will and peace.
In the past 15 years Mr. Farahanipour has continued his activism by advising government officials both in Washington D.C. and California, and has spoken in countless universities across the United States. He has also received numerous Certificates of Recognition from the City of Los Angeles, the California State Assembly, the California State Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
The untimely removal of Mr. Ahmed Shaheed has been welcomed by high officials in the Islamic Republic of Iran, as reported by numerous media sources in that country. Mr. Shaheed has issued numerous reports about systematic human rights violations in Iran, focusing international attention on the persecution of women, children, ethnic and religious minorities as well as political opposition.
The Islamic Regime in Iran now seeks to have someone appointed who will not be critical of Regime's brutal and systematic human rights violations in order to allow them to continue ruling through fear and oppression. It is crucial for the United Nations to take a strong stand and make it clear that they are committed to upholding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The United Nations aims to uphold and protect the rights and freedoms listed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through various measures including multilateral treaties, courts and tribunals and Roozbeh Farahanipour's leadership and expertise qualify him as an excellent candidate for appointment as the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran.
Book Review: The Lafayette Campaign: A Tale of Deception and Elections0 comments - published on Thursday, August 25, 2016
Andrew Updegrove does a brilliant job of creating likeable characters one can relate to, while weaving a gripping story with constant twists and turns you never see coming. The story moves at a very fast pace, but it's easy to follow, enjoyable and impossible to put down.
This is one the best and most entertaining books I have read this year, and I would highly recommend it not only to "cyber geeks" and anyone interested in cyber security issues, but also to anyone with any interest in politics, elections, or anyone who is simply looking to read a fun yet technically accurate book with unforgettable characters you can't stop thinking about long after you have finished the novel.
I loved how Andrew Updegrove was able to make such a technical subject so fun and entertaining, and can't wait for "Frank's" next adventure!
I was provided with a copy of this novel for review.
The author Jeffrey Crowther gives the reader an in depth insider view of the lengthy and difficult process of developing a sustainable justice system in the Uruzgar Region of Afghanistan.
In my opinion one of the most fascinating aspects of this book is the detailed discussion about the opium trade in Afghanistan and its role and integration within the Justice System. It appears everyone of consequence in Afghanistan has a hand in the opium trade and controlling the opium trade brings power, prestige and money, all things necessary when developing a sustainable justice system in a country with verity of cultural tribes competing for power.
I also enjoyed reading about the integration of Rule of Law, Sharia and the Afghan culture in the development of the Justice system.
What I would have enjoyed reading about a bit further would have been any role played by the Afghan women within the justice system, sadly the lack of this discussion may have more to do with the fact tha twomen currently have very little if any role within the Afghan Justice system.
Overall an informative must read for anyone interested in the human rights issues in the Middle East especially with a special interest in Afghanistan.
Canada must condemn the Recent Wave of Political Executions in Iran0 comments - published on Friday, August 05, 2016
The Islamic Regime in Iran is known for their lack of due process especially with respect to political prisoners. Often political prisoners are subjected to 10 minute mock trials, behind closed doors and without a jury, and more often then not without access to a lawyer.
The use of forced confessions obtained under torture is widespread and it's often the only piece of "evidence" used to convict political prisoners of crimes they have not committed. The Islamic Regime in Iran is one of the world's top executioners with at least 230 people having been executed so far this year. It is crucial to note that the number of actual executions might be much higher as many executions are also carried out behind the closed doors of prisons and are not reported.
While many of those executed are political prisoners who have not had a fair trial, the Regime in Iran does not discriminate when it comes to executions. Amnesty International recently reported the execution of a homosexual juvenile offender Hassan Afshar (19) who was convicted of "forced male to male anal intercourse." By executing juvenile offenders the Islamic Regime in Iran has show that they have zero regard or respect for international conventions protecting the rights of juvenile offenders.
Canada must condemn the recent wave of political and non-political executions and hold the Islamic Regime in Iran accountable for their systematic lack of due process and legal procedure for detainees who have been charged with both political and non political offences.
Canada cannot turn a blind eye to the Islamic Regime's serious and systematic human rights violations while considering renewing its political relationship with the Regime, until and unless the issues of human rights and mass executions are properly addressed.
Sayeh Hassan is an Iranian-Canadian lawyer, blogger and pro-democracy activists
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In a rather surprising move the New York Jets released DE Marcus Dixon, who was with the team since 2010. The Gang Green also released TE Derick Epps, S Antonio Allen (7th round pick) and claimed WR Clyde Gates, NT Isaako Aaitui, and TE Konrad Reuland. The first two players are former Miami Dolphins, while Reuland was in camp with the 49ers. Reuland also attended Mission Viejo High School in California, where he was teammates with QB Mark Sanchez. So, the Gang Green have cut 4 out of their 8 this year's draft picks.


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If you are a total layperson as far as home improvement is concerned, then you should hire help or enlist friends if you're tackling areas where it does make a difference how you get the job done. Simple home improvement projects like painting can be attempted by everyone as the worst you can do is a patchy job that can be painted over.
Have Realistic Time, Money and Expertise Expectations – If you want to replicate a room that you have seen on Trading Spaces or Design on a Dime, get the inspiration but keep your expectations in check.
The people behind the work in such shows are experts; professionals in their field with years of experience. They can do things faster and better than an average person and if things go wrong, they also know how to make them right. When planning home improvement projects, keep your expectations real as far as budget and time considerations go as well.
The designers on the show often get great discounts from others in the business as they need the promotion on popular television shows. Plus, they often accessorize rooms with flea market finds and things picked up at garage sales. You could strike gold too, but it doesn't happen very often.
Home improvement shows boast of the latest faux paint techniques and the hottest colors for the season. However, the green you like for your master bedroom may not appeal to prospective homeowners. If you do have hot pink bedroom walls for your daughter, tone them down or make them neutral as well. This is because new owners may not have a daughter who will use that room and they may want to move in to something that requires minimum effort.
The designers on the show are experts themselves plus they have a lot of help from back up crew and the like so they can delegate tasks and get more done in less time.
What You Can Do On Your Own – There are things shown on home improvement shows that you can easily replicate like rearranging your furniture, de-cluttering and even painting so don't give up a home improvement project just because you can't compete with the pros. However, assess your strengths and keep a plan B in mind. For instance, while you are redoing your kitchen, factor in the cost of eating out for all the days that the floor is ripped out and the appliances unusable.
Go through the entire home and toss, donate or store anything you do not need immediately. This will free up walking space, wall space, counter space and the like and prospective owners will feel they are getting more footage for their dollar. If there are pieces you can not part with, hold them in a separate storage area not your garage or basement. Then if you still feel they are important, bring them back in your new home.


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At home in the middle of the day Wednesday, it turned out that Natasha Bates was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Relatives say Bates, 40, was killed when a gunman opened fire on her brother, 34-year-old Dwayne Robinson Webb, at about noon while he was visiting her home in the unit block of N. Fulton Ave. in West Baltimore.
Since the death of their mother, Bates, who recently was diagnosed with cancer, had looked out for Webb and their other siblings. On Thursday, relatives were putting together funeral plans and had set up a table under a brightly-colored umbrella to display framed pictures next to a lit candle.
"You would never think [violence] would come to your house, it's sad to say, because of someone else — even a blood relative," said niece Takiara Taylor, 21. "She was a good person, who really didn't deserve it."
Webb had been shot just two blocks away in the 1800 block of W. Lexington St. on June 2, 2012 while waiting for his child and the child's mother to come out of a corner store. In that case, Webb identified his shooter through a photo lineup — his initials barely legible because his injuries limited the use of his right arm, according to documents in the public court file.
Grameco Redd, 32, was soon charged with attempted first-degree murder, and on June 12 pleaded guilty to second-degree attempted murder. Redd's plea agreement resulted in a sentence of 20 years, 15 suspended. State records show Redd is being held at the Baltimore City Detention Center.
Asked Thursday whether Webb may have been targeted this week as a result of his role in the investigation of the earlier shooting, Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts said it would be irresponsible to speculate.
"It scares other people [from cooperating], and we don't know if that's actually what took place," Batts told reporters.
Mark Cheshire, a spokesman for the state's attorney's office, said Webb had stopped cooperating with prosecutors, and a second witness recanted. "We made, as you might imagine, repeated attempts to get him to participate in the prosecution, but we weren't successful," Cheshire said. "Given those circumstances, we sought the plea agreement."
In the double homicide, Batts said police "have a pretty good detailed story of what we think took place out there, so we're working on that." He said residents have been "telling us a lot" and encouraged more come forward and help police solve cases.
Bates' fiancee, Robert Harrison, was home and in the basement when Wednesday's shooting occurred. He ran upstairs and saw Webb face-down on the living room floor. Bates was in the bathroom. Harrison thinks the gunman shot at Webb as he stood in the front doorway, and Bates was somewhere behind him.
"Everybody knows Natasha," said Harrison, 42, pleading for people to come forward with information. "They know how she is, that she would give them her clothes off her back or a place to stay."
As for Webb, the relatives said they believe he had turned a corner and was trying to do the right things. "He turned his life over to God. He was reading books, becoming a father to his child," said Taylor, his niece.
As police pulled over a car in front of his home, Harrison said he wouldn't be deterred from staying in his neighborhood but said he wished police were more of a presence before crimes occur. Bates' sister Tickacha Camper, 35, said people who are born and raised in the neighborhood are numb to the gun violence.
A motive for 2012 shooting was not spelled out in charging documents. Webb was standing outside of a liquor store to make a purchase when police said Redd — who also goes by the name Anthony Jones — approached and started firing, striking him in the head and body, records show.
Court records show that Webb met the next day with police at the Western District station and identified Redd in a lineup.
Medical records included in the court file show Webb suffered a scapula fracture and had no range of motion in his shoulder. He complained of neck and shoulder pain, as well as headaches, and could not obtain medications or attend physical therapy because his health insurance had expired.
Records show Redd, whose name is spelled several different ways in court records, had been previously convicted of gun-related crimes. In 2010, he was convicted of carrying a handgun and received two years in prison, with all but six months suspended.
He had received five years for a drug conviction in 2009, and in early 2011 was sentenced to three years for a probation violation. Before that, he had several drug cases dropped by prosecutors.
Anyone with information on the killings was asked to call homicide detectives at 410-396-2100.


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August 30, 2005-DBYC Man Overboard Race
Neal & Andrea Nowosad's Vagabond 47, after winning the DBYC MOB Race.
Why Are These People Laughing?
Well, why wouldn't we be?
Andy: Yeah, Why?
When you are on the way home to Discovery Bay after another super day on the water what else can you do but smile?
On Sunday our local yacht club had one of their unique races, an 18 mile team event around several of the local islands; with man-overboard training thrown in for good measure, followed up by one heck of great beach party, and it couldn't have come off better. We had a sunny day, blue sky, perfect wind, and plenty of beer and BBQ delights.
No, WINGS didn't win, the boat at the top of the page, EPIC, sailed by Neal and Andrea, her son Drew, and John Barnes, took the top trophy, but we got second, along with our team mate Wizard, the other half of team "W".
Fred, wearing the Toilet Seat
And we had wonderful sailing. There were just four of us, sweet Judy (helm), Kiwi's Andy (forward hand and main trimmer, now there is a combination of jobs!) and Nita, (jib trim, runners, etc) and Captain Fred, (primary grunt). But it was enough to hold off all comers for most all of the day. And the last beat up and around Kau Yi Chau was one to remember: Wings never pointed higher or sailed faster. (Oops, there goes our rating.) We even hit the lay line perfectly (Judy called it) and tacked when an anchored ship hid us from view so our competition didn't see us go. Hah! Then there was the max hull speed broad reach under kite to the finish. Perfect, what a way to sail your house!
I'll be the first to admit I wasn't keen on the format; all the entries were formed into two boat teams and each team had to return to the starting area twice during the race and complete a man-overboard drill each time before continuing the race. I thought this was going to be a drag, but I couldn't have been more wrong: it was fun and educational too. In fact every participant thought it was a great event, and the people on the beach had fun watching the sailboats spinning around like America's Cup yachts as we tried to get back to pick up our MOB dummies as quick as possible so we could race off towards the next mark.
Of course the 15-18 knots of breeze and flat water didn't hurt.
After Wings led the fleet back to the finish, we anchored off the beach where our dingy was waiting, packed our eskies and beach chairs to shore and got on with some serious beer drinking and sausage eating. Between mouthfuls and swigs we traded sea stories with the other contestants, or cooled off with a little swim.
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Oh, the toilet seat? Well, that was awarded to Captain Fred for the goof up of the day. I left the club's power dive setup sitting out in Wizard's cockpit and for a while we thought it had gotten stolen.
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- Written by Tom Berg, Windermere
RISKY ENDEAVOURS: Sometimes in life we take chances – calculated risks.
I try to weigh my odds and decide what's the worst that can happen and can I live with that outcome. I live my life this way and it carries over to my classic car purchases.
I've driven cars back from San Juan Island, Bellingham (in the snow), Pullman (ran out of gas), Port Townsend and Portland (broke a fan belt and spent the night in Chehalis) so I figure why not Ogden, Utah! The worst that could happen is it breaks down and gets towed back and I have a repair bill so I figured I could live with that and decided to buy a real nice 1964 Studebaker Gran Tourisimo Hawk. It's a sleek looking 2-door hardtop with a Studebaker 289 c.i.d. V-8, 2 barrel, automatic. Studebaker only made 1400 of these 1964s and actually ceased production in December of 1963. In the pictures the seller sent it looked great but I, of course, had the option of not buying it after my personal inspection in Utah which means I would have had to get back to the airport and see if I could catch a plane back home. Not a great option but I figured I could live with that if it wasn't as nice as the pictures.
On Friday morning I took two days off from selling homes and I caught the 7 a.m. flight to Salt Lake City (had to get up at 4 a.m. – Ugh).
It's only 1 hour, 25 minutes air time but of course 14 hours – plus a hotel – by car to get back to Woodinville. With the help of a friendly local I managed to catch the light rail into town and a commuter rail out to Ogden where the seller picked me up. Upon reaching their home I quickly checked out the car and it looked great. It's totally stock except for an older re-paint, and the interior is especially nice – looks brand new but it's 50 years old.
I took a short demonstration drive, paid up, did some paperwork and was off by 12:45. It was cold and there was snow in the foothills right next to town but the sky was clearing and I figured I'd make it 330 miles to Boise.
The weather cooperated, the car ran great and I made Boise by just after dark and checked into the first place I could find.
As I woke up in Boise I saw that they had just gotten their first snowfall of the year, but the freeway was clear so off I went to cover the 500 miles home by dark. I did come upon some light snow flurries and lots of wind but made good time to Baker, Pendleton then Yakima and the Hawk was running great. My Karma must have caught up with me because as I headed up the hill out of Yakima I heard a ticking sound and noticed my oil pressure was right around zero. I quickly pulled over and saw no oil on a very hot dipstick. I walked back to the gas station I had just passed (next building north of any kind was about 30 miles), bought some oil, walked back and filled up the crankcase. The car started but still had that ticking sound and low oil pressure so I backed up on the freeway to the gas station and called my buddies at AAA. I am one of their better customers.
A driver came all the way from Ellensburg to haul me and my new Studie 132 miles back to Woodinville, the Studie to Mike's Repair and me to my home. I did make the entire trip in two days, just not quite how I planned it.
I didn't wreck the car, or catch it on fire, or break down many hundreds of miles from home so it certainly could have been worse. I may even end up with a newly re-built engine (for a few thousand dollars) but I'm going to own another really cool car. Keep an eye out for the dark green, low slung studie in my #1 parking spot next to the street at Windermere Real Estate.


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The Kinect may be a lost cause for proper games, but there's still hope for it to live on as a party trick. Which is exactly what the sequel to Double-Fine's Happy Action theatre is trying to do.
And it looks to be succeeding.
This clip, taken from Giant Bomb's Quick Look of the game, gets interesting at around 19:00. Which is when you see a game mode appear that lets you beat yourself up. Or make out with yourself. Right on your big screen TV.
Sure, it's basic stuff to the jaded and sober eye. But throw 10 people and enough booze into the mix and suddenly this is the best game ever.
Quick Look EX: Double Fine Happy Action theatre Sequel [Giant Bomb]


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Screening tests and vaccines are an important part of managing your child's health. A screening test is done to find possible disorders or diseases in people who don't have any symptoms. The goal is to find a disease early so lifestyle changes can be made and you can be watched more closely to reduce the risk of disease, or to detect it early enough to treat it most effectively. Screening tests are not considered diagnostic, but are used to determine if more testing is needed. Below are guidelines for these, for children and teens from ages 2 to 18. Talk with your child's healthcare provider to make sure your child is up to date on what he or she needs.
Who needs it
How often
Chlamydia and gonorrhea infections
Sexually active females up to age 24 years
Once a year
High lead level
Children who are 6 years of age and younger
Questions to determine risk or blood tests may be done once a year
Children in this age group at risk for infection; talk with your child's healthcare provider
At routine exams
Assessment of obesity risk for all patients
Tooth decay and other dental problems
All children in this age group
Dental exams every 6 months; fluoride supplements from age 6 months to 16 years for those with low fluoride levels in their water; fluoride varnish should be applied every 3 to 6 months; fluoride rinses may be used in children age 6 years or older, if they are able to rinse and spit
Type 2 diabetes or prediabetes
Children age 10 or over who are overweight or obese and have 2 or more additional diabetes risk factors
Every 3 years
Blood pressure
All children 3 years of age and older
Annual well child visit
Vision problems
Screening once between ages 3 and 5 years
DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis)
All children under age 7 years
Booster between ages 4 and 6 years
Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria, acellular pertussis)
All children age 7 years or older
Booster between ages 11 and 12 years
Chickenpox (varicella)
Children who have not had chickenpox
Booster between ages 4 and 6 years
Hepatitis A
Children at risk (talk with your child's healthcare provider) or those who didn't have the vaccine at an earlier age
Should be fully vaccinated by age 2; if not, can have vaccine at routine visits, with second dose given at least 6 months after first dose
Hepatitis B
Children who didn't have the vaccine at an earlier age
3-dose series: The second dose is given 4 weeks after the first dose, and the final dose is given 16 weeks after the first dose2-dose series: For children ages 11 to 15, 2 doses are given at least 4 months apart
Human papillomavirus (HPV)
Children age 11 or 12 years, but may be given beginning at age 9 years through age 26
2-dose series: Ages 9 to 14 years, with second dose 6 to 12 months after the first
3-dose series: Ages 15 to 26, with the second dose given 2 months after the first dose, and the third dose given 6 months after the first dose
Inactivated poliovirus
All children
A final dose between ages 4 and 6 years
Influenza (flu)
Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR)
Second dose between ages 4 and 6 years
Meningococcal (conjugate)
1 dose between ages 11 and 12, and a booster at age 16, or by age 18 if not vaccinated before; only 1 dose is needed if the first dose is given at age 16 years or older; high-risk children should receive a vaccine series before age 2 years
Pneumococcal conjugate (PCV13) and pneumococcal polysaccharide (PPSV23)
Healthy children between ages 18 months and 5 years may get PCV13 if not received at a younger age; high-risk children may receive PCV13 starting at age 5 years and PPSV23 starting at age 2 years
PCV13 is given before PPSV23; The timing and number of doses varies
Children between ages 12 and 18 years
Prevention of sexually transmitted infections
Children in this age group who are sexually active
Prevention of skin cancer
Fair-skinned children starting at age 10 years
Increased physical activity
Children with diabetes or prediabetes
1 American Academy of Pediatrics
2 Those who are not up-to-date on their childhood immunizations, should receive all appropriate catch-up vaccines recommended by the CDC.
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The Blasket Islands - Na Blascaodaí
In the 1920s and 1930s the Blasket Island writers produced books which are deemed classics in the world of literature. They wrote of Island people living on the very edge of Europe, and brought to life the topography, life and times of their Island. They wrote all of their stories in the Irish language.
Sadly, the Blasket Island community declined as a result of the persistent emigration of its young people, until eventually the Island was abandoned in 1953 when only 22 inhabitants remained.
More about the History and Heritage of the Blasket Islands
The Great Blasket Island remains uninhabited today, but visitors can travel by ferry over to this remote and wildly beautiful place and spend several hours or all day marvelling at its natural beauty and what remains of years of human endeavour.
The Blasket Centre / Ionad an Bhlascaoid Mhóir in Dún Chaoin celebrates the story of the Blasket Islanders, the unique literary achievements of the island writers and their native language, culture and tradition.Situated on the tip of the Dingle Peninsula it is a fascinating heritage centre/museum honouring the unique community who lived on the remote Blasket Islands until their evacuation in 1953.
- Comprehensive exhibition including major artworks
- Documentary Film, 'Blasket Heritage', in 7 languages
- Interactive touchscreens, information panels and videos
- Exhibitions on traditional fishing & farming methods, daily life and Blasket literature
- The American Room dedicated to the Blasket emigrants who settled in America
- Detailed information on the Irish language
- Guided tours and local information available from our highly trained & friendly staff
- Well-stocked bookshop operated by 'An Caife Liteartha'
- Restaurant overlooking the Blasket Islands
Opening Times
Oscailte/Open ó/from:
end March - end October
Open daily from 10.00 hrs to 18.00 hrs. (last admission at 5.15pm)
Sunday 11am - 6pm


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Anime DAYS episode 18
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Synopsis :
The series is about two boys named Tsukushi and Jin. Tsukushi is a boy with no special talent or traits while Jin is considered a soccer genius. On one stormy night, Jin meets Tsukushi, and they get dragged into the world of soccer.
(Source: MAL News)
SDays follows the struggles of Tsukushi Tsukamoto, a shy, clumsy and bullied teenager about to start high school. He decides to get in Seiseki High School so he can be with his neighbor and childhood friend Sayuri Tachibaba, who is one year his senior. Just as he is bullied after visiting Sayuri at her work, Tsukushi is saved by Jin Kazama, who scares away the bullies by attacking them with nunchucks, and declares himself to be a vagrant and lost in town. Jin then asks Tsukushi if he likes soccer and asks him to join him the same night for a futsal match as his team is one player short. Tsukushi surprises Jin by showing up after running almost ten miles under the heavy rain and without one shoe, after another run-in with his bullies. Short, young and clumsy, Tsukushi plays incredibly bad but keeps running throughout the whole match despite having injured his foot, showing such an effort that it motivates his other teammates. After a final sprint, Tsukushi manages to score the decisive goal, smashing his head against the pole by doing it.
He finds out later that Jin will also be a freshman at Seiseki, and decides to join the soccer club to play with him, unknowing that the soccer club in Seiseki is nationwide famous and looked after by students from all the country. He manages to make it to the team despite being incredibly frail, weak and clumsy thanks to his continuous efforts and amazing perseverance, and further he shows incredible ability in motivating the rest of the team to work as hard as possible.
Information :
Japanese: DAYS
Type: TV
Episodes: Unknown
Status: Currently Airing
Aired: Jul 3, 2016 to ?
Premiered: Summer 2016
Broadcast: Sundays at 02:58 (JST)
Producers: Pony Canyon
Licensors: None found, add some
Studios: MAPPA
Source: Manga
Genres: School, Shounen, Sports
Duration: Unknown
Anime DAYS episode 18
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File Info :
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The perfect alternative to taxidermy, not only animal friendly but also handmade by myself at home in England. Decorative wacky 3D trophy wall hanging to add character and charm to any wall you choose. Appeals to both adults and children.All my wall mounted animal heads are handmade by myself using various materials, and as with all handmade goods, slight variations can occur, no one product is exactly the same, but is always to the highest of standards. Predominantly made using a paper mache technique to create the animals anatomy of the head which is then mounted on a solid wooden hessian covered plaque with hook ready to hang. Various fabrics are used to bring the animal to life and finally finished with eyes and eyelashes. Item will be sent with a bow unless requested not to.
Please add note on order if you prefer your stag head not to have a bow. The item "Handmade faux taxidermy stag olive and green tweed deer wall mounted animal head" is in sale since Monday, November 26, 2018. This item is in the category "Home, Furniture & DIY\Home Decor\Wall Hangings".
The seller is "lavendonmade" and is located in Olney. This item can be shipped to United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Australia, United States, Canada, Brazil, Japan, New Zealand, China, Israel, Hong Kong, Norway, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Chile.


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Monday, 8 November 2010
What's Hot on Ravelry? Issue # 10
14 comments:
- kyrie said...
Wow, how lucky I am to be in such great company. These are all so beautiful! Thank you for featuring my Acorn Cap!
xo, Kyrie
- 8 November 2010 at 21:12
- Maryse said...
So much gorgeousness! Nice to read my first WSHOR "live" since I discovered your blog!!! Good work!
- 8 November 2010 at 22:04
- Allison said...
I'm a new follower and so excited to find your blog. LOVE all of the designs you just posted above. Great minds think alike. ;)
Side note: I will be visiting Montreal for the first time this Friday. I'm there for a conference and so excited! Looking forward to seeking out some LYS in between work!
- 9 November 2010 at 01:47
- Marianne said...
I love this feature - though my Ravelry queue is now insanely long!
- 9 November 2010 at 05:49
- rainbowdarling said...
Some of the links go to the images instead of the patterns, FYI! I love this feature you do. It helps me add yet more favorites to my list.
- 9 November 2010 at 06:14
- Gudrun Johnston said...
Thanks for including me!
- 9 November 2010 at 06:55
- Ariane said...
Thanks for letting me know! Problem fixed!
- 9 November 2010 at 10:00
- Where the nodding violets grow said...
Excellent list again. I have already pre-ordered the shetland trader book. So exciting. My queue now is massive.
- 9 November 2010 at 10:59
- vivian said...
Wow, you've mixed me in with such illustrious company, thank you so much!
- 9 November 2010 at 17:38
- Loulek said...
Le souci sur Ravelry c'est qu'il y a trop de jolis modèles à tricoter :)
- 10 November 2010 at 06:16
After finding a link that pointed me here, I couldn't believe I hadn't discovered your blog sooner! I've just gone through the entire series (as well as lots of other posts) and added about 20 things to my favourites on Ravelry! And some went directly to my queue! I'll be following closely from now on... :)
- 13 November 2010 at 05:26
- Jodi said...
Wow! I love this idea! One of my favorite places on Ravelry is the new pattern section.
- 17 November 2010 at 12:36
I love WHOR!! Thanks for doing this.
- 17 November 2010 at 18:57
oh how I love your posts! Even if they do set off my "startitis"!
- 20 November 2010 at 04:07


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An efficient defense, a red-hot senior guard and proficiency from the 3-point line helped the Ashbrook High boys basketball team hand Shelby its first loss, 62-47, on Thursday night at Lloyd Little Gymnasium.
An efficient defense, a red-hot senior guard and proficiency from the 3-point line helped the Ashbrook High boys basketball team hand Shelby its first loss, 62-47, on Thursday night at Lloyd Little Gymnasium.
Antonio Blalock led the Green Wave with 26 points, including four of Ashbrook�s nine 3-pointers. Fellow guard Trey Dellinger added 13 points, with three treys.
The Ashbrook guards also used their penetration to set up teammates for baskets.
Ashbrook coach Chad Duncan said Blalock has a knack for big performances at Shelby, including on JV and a year ago on varsity.
Duncan noted the importance of his team�s 1-3-1 defense, which it had been working on leading up to the contest. The Green Wave regularly made steals and turned them into fast-break points.
�The guys listened to a game plan, and they executed it,� said Duncan, whose team led 18-10 through a quarter, 28-23 at the half and 46-32 through three quarters. �It didn�t hurt that we hit some early 3s to build some cushion.�
Shelby coach Aubrey Hollifield said the outcome came down to a simple formula.
�They came out and played harder than us,� Hollifield said.
The best thing for the Golden Lions may be their quick turnaround, as they face Aquinas (Ga.) in Augusta, Ga., on Friday.
�At least we get to play again (Friday) night,� Hollifield said. �I think they�ll play more inspired.�
Donte Falls led Shelby (6-1) with 16 points, with Gabe DeVoe adding 15.
The Golden Lions could never draw closer than an 11-point margin in the final quarter.
Ashbrook (4-3) hosts Crest on Friday in its Big South 3A Conference opener.
Girls: Ashbrook girls 56, Shelby 43 � The Lady Golden Lions led 24-21 early in the third quarter after a pair of Taylor Little baskets, but the Lady Green Wave surged down the stretch.
Brooke Moore�s 26 points paced Ashbrook, which coach Juan Smith said got a boost when Alexis Wallace came off the bench to score nine points. Wallace had missed a practice and one game with flu-like symptoms.
Little led Shelby (0-7) with 17 points, followed by Rondrea Coleman with 11.
Smith said it�s the first time in a long time he can remember the Ashbrook girls being 6-1, as they begin conference play by hosting Crest on Friday.
�We�re real pleased with that,� Smith said. �We�ll try to carry momentum into conference.�
Meanwhile, Golden Lion coach Cal Pass said his team � which features six freshmen, four sophomores and three juniors � lost focus in the fourth quarter. Transition points allowed Ashbrook to gain the upper hand.
Shelby starts South Mountain Athletic 2A/3A Conference action when it welcomes Freedom on Tuesday night.
�We�re getting a little better every game,� Pass said.


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Growing Influence of the Hezbollah
Judging from its main street, the town of Batman could be a prosperous, dynamic city in western Turkey. The wide boulevard, named after the late Turkish president Turgut Özal, is lined with modern glass and steel structures and expensive shopping malls.
Shiny limousines and jeeps crowd the parking lot in front of the fashionable Mado-Café, a favorite daytime hangout for young people, including women in short skirts and skin-tight jeans. Music is played late into the night in the parks along the boulevards.
Activism in the ghettos
But Batman is not a city in western Turkey. It is located in the remote southeastern part of the country, not far from the Iraqi and Syrian border.
The appearance of the Turgut Özal Boulevard is deceiving, says Mayor Hüseyin Kalkan straight away during an interview. He says that Batman, once a sleepy little town, has taken in tides of refugees during the civil war between Turkish security forces and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), and rapidly swelled to a city of nearly 400,000 in just two decades.
Mayor Kalkan explains that the Turgut Özal Boulevard does not reveal the true character of his city. To see the real Batman you have to travel to the ghettos on the outskirts of town where refugees live on the edge of starvation. Nearly 16,000 people have to be regularly supplied with food from the community.
Hüseyin Kalkan is a member of the pro-Kurdish DTP party. During the last local elections, his party received 74 percent of the vote. Nevertheless, the DTP could soon be overshadowed by a new political force in the ghettos.
The "arrogance of the Europeans"
Islamist groups are gaining influence among the poor with incredible speed, according to Arif Arslan, publisher of the largest regional newspaper, Batman Cagdas. He says that the most influential group in Batman, the Umut dernegi, distributes financial aid to the needy and ensures that children from destitute families receive an education. Modeled after the Palestinian Hamas movement and the Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Umut dernegi are primarily active in schools and hospitals.
Reports are emerging from nearly every corner of Southern Anatolia of a resurgence of Kurdish Islamism and the Hezbollah. When a Danish newspaper published the controversial Mohammed caricatures, approximately 100,000 people took to they streets of the Kurdish city Diyarbakir to protest against the "arrogance of the Europeans" and this "blasphemy against Islam." The Diyarbakir demonstration drew considerably more people than similar rallies elsewhere in Turkey.
A reign of terror
Yet the Hezbollah in Diyarbakir and Batman is closely linked to an extremely dark page in history. Turkey's Hezbollah was founded in 1983 and, aside from its name, the organization had nothing in common with Hezbollah in Lebanon. It was not until 1991 that the Hezbollah gained importance in the war-torn Kurdish region of southeastern Turkey.
In Diyarbakir the Hezbollah was divided into the Ilim and the Menzil groups. The Ilim group was ideologically close to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and did not hesitate to use violence. In the early 1990s, the Ilim group in Diyarbakir attacked the rival Menzil group. During weeks of bloody fighting, the Menzil group, which had distanced itself from the use of violence, was destroyed.
At the time, the founder of the Turkish Hezbollah, Hüseyin Velioglu, settled in Batman. His bearded fighters staged heavily armed demonstrations on the city's main street, which had not yet been named Turgut Özal. They ordered all women to wear veils and punished teenage girls when they dared to speak to male schoolmates on the street.
Fighting the "PKK atheists"
This reign of terror was not only tolerated by the government in Ankara, it was actively supported. Velioglu was a convenient ally against Kurdish nationalists. He fiercely fought the PKK who he viewed as atheists.
Former Turkish police chief Teoman Koman praised Velioglu at the time as "an individual with deep religious convictions who is endeavoring to resist the PKK." Police intelligence chief Hanefi Avci later admitted in front of a parliamentary investigative committee that the Hezbollah stood under the protection of the police intelligence service in the early 1990s.
Hezbollah has been blamed for the murder of dozens of Kurdish activists. Even the Kurdish member of parliament Mehmet Sincar was assassinated by the organization in the heart of Batman.
Velioglu fell out of favor in the late 1990s when his organization began extorting money from businessmen, even in western Turkey, and murdered those who refused to pay. A total of 52 people were brutally murdered before Velioglu was killed in a police raid in the Istanbul district of Beykoz in 2000. Thereafter roughly 6,000 Hezbollah members were arrested and their widely feared organization retreated from Batman.
Influential brotherhoods
Meanwhile, the memory of Velioglu's Hezbollah has faded in the ghettos. The young generation of refugees holds the PKK Kurdish nationalists responsible for the loss of their ancestral home – and the Turkish state for their current hopelessness and lack of opportunities.
They are now inspired by the struggle of the Palestinian Hamas. With virtually no place else to turn, they seek refuge in the Islamist brotherhoods that have always been an important element of Kurdish identity. In Batman the Naksibendi brotherhood is particularly influential. The mosques filled up when the Syrian-born Naksibendi Sheik Hiznavi visited Batman, says a young journalist.
According to political analyst Önder Aytac, the new head of the Turkish Hezbollah is Isa Altsoy, a Kurd who lives in Germany. Under his leadership, the Hezbollah recruits new members, even in the Kurdish diaspora, publishes books and magazines, and has its own bookstore in Diyarbakir, just like the Ilim and the Menzil groups did a decade ago.
Islamist NGOs
In contrast to his predecessor, Altsoy rejects the idea of a centrally controlled organization in favour of smaller associations and non-governmental organizations that can be quickly deployed.
One example of this is the non-governmental organization Mustazaflar that is currently in the news for its activities in Diyarbakir. The new Hezbollah also differs from the old in that it rejects the Turkish state and pursues Kurdish nationalist objectives.
Batman's mayor Hüseyin Kalkan makes no secret of his displeasure over the recent developments in his city. He says that if the current trend continues, the Kurdish Islamists could prove to be more dangerous than Hamas. Then the PKK, which is so bitterly opposed by the state, would not be "a danger, but rather an opportunity" to preserve the secular Turkish Republic.
Amalia van Gent
© NZZ/Qantara.de 2006
Translated from the German by Paul Cohen
This article was previously published in the Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
Kurdish Conflict Flares Up Once More
The "Freedom Falcons of Kurdistan" Thwart the Ceasefire
Only a few days after the PKK offered a ceasefire agreement to the Turkish state, the "Freedom Falcons of Kurdistan" carried out a number of terrorist attacks. Ömer Erzeren believes that they were a sign the Kurdish movement doesn't know which direction it's going in
Nationalism over Reason
Turkey Fails Again on the Kurdish Issue
In response to the latest clashes between Kurds and police, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan poured oil on the fire when he gave security forces permission to act against Kurdish women and children. A commentary by Baha Güngör
Islamism is generally considered to be a religious ideology that aims at influencing the political sphere and at ultimately implementing sharia laws. In this dossier we take a look at the different facets of Islamism in various regions of the world