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Mandela's legacy: The freefall of South Africa
Rapes, murders, disease, corruption, poverty, communism rampant – and maybe genocide
The horror stories about life in South Africa under apartheid are endless, of course, and the fall of that morally repugnant political system is universally hailed as a triumph.
But two decades after the white-led government relinquished power, and especially in the afterglow of worldwide praise for the nation's former president Nelson Mandela after his passing at age 95, an objective look at South Africa today is very disturbing.
In fact, even among the harshest critics of apartheid and racial oppression, there is an acknowledgement that in many ways the "rainbow nation," under African National Congress and South African Communist Party rule, is heading downhill.
"What I said during my several visits to South Africa, during the era of apartheid, is that blacks weren't for personal liberty; they mostly wanted to change the color of the dictator," George Mason University Economics Professor Walter Williams, who studied the apartheid system, told WND.
Mandela's recent death prompted analysts immediately to opine that South Africa is facing a fork in the road that will define it for generations to come: an acceleration of the ongoing shift toward tyranny, or not.
"This is the first time I have felt anxious about the future," admitted Leon Louw, a prominent anti-apartheid activist and executive director of the South Africa-based Free Market Foundation. He told WND that throughout all of the turmoil in South Africa in recent decades, "We never felt pessimistic, we felt optimistic all along, but now, I feel worried for the first time."
Today, he said, "most government positions, most of the cabinet are … the ultra-left, socialists and communists."
That some things are better than under apartheid is not disputed. Many more blacks are in the middle and upper classes and the standard of living has improved for millions since the revolutionary 1994 events.
But still, unemployment, poverty, AIDS, murder, corruption and crime all have surged, and South Africa now regularly tops the charts worldwide in terms of rape and murder as average life expectancy has plummeted. Also troubling to broad swaths of the public, as well as many analysts and economists, is the direction government and society itself are heading.
President Jacob Zuma, for example, still regularly sings "struggle" songs advocating the mass-murder of European-descent South Africans. And genocide experts even say planning and preparations to exterminate and drive out certain minorities in South Africa are well under way while vicious hate crimes escalate, as WND has reported.
What, then, is the status of South Africa as its leftist leaders move ahead in a world without the influence of Mandela for the first time in generations?
Officially, about 25 percent of South Africans are out of work, double that from 1994. If one counts "discouraged workers," the real rate is closer to 40 percent.
Experts who spoke with WND pointed out that official figures do not tell the whole picture because large numbers of South Africans work outside the formal economy, at least partly due to burdensome government labor-market regulations.
However, there is little doubt that the nation has a massive and chronic unemployment problem affecting all races, and especially blacks, despite intensifying "black economic empowerment" schemes.
Since the end of apartheid in 1994, on the surface at least, it would appear economic conditions in South Africa have improved substantially. The real Gross Domestic Product, for instance, has risen by more than 30 percent over the last 20 years.
But the fact that the real GDP-per-capita growth for other emerging markets during that time was 115 percent sheds light on South Africa's deficiencies.
Shortly after the fall of apartheid, South Africa did see some moderate economic growth, at least compared with the previous decade of civil turmoil and punishing foreign sanctions.
The growth phenomenon was largely attributed by economists to an influx of foreign investment, relaxation of draconian race-based economic restrictions imposed under white rule and an end to harsh foreign sanctions aimed at the apartheid government.
"To my mind, the main reason for the improvement in South Africa's growth performance after 1994 lies in the lifting of economic sanctions and the subsequent reintegration of the South African economy with the global economy," says Jac Laubscher, group economist for the South African financial company Sanlam.
Competing views
Louw, the Free Market Foundation chief, argues there is no debate: The vast majority is now better off, despite some individually troubling scenarios.
He said the South African government is "very peculiar" in that it constantly harps on how bad things are in its nation, noting, "All of that is an excuse for more power, more intervention, more patronage, more racial, race-based policies."
He called the sometimes-government-propagated insinuations that life for blacks was better under apartheid "implausible" and "extremely bizarre."
One of the most important measurements in analyzing the question, he said, was the proportion of blacks with incomes above the white average, which he said "certainly tells a very different story."
In 1994, Louw explained, about 200,000 blacks had incomes higher than the average whites. Now, that figure is closer to three million, even though white incomes have gone up drastically in real terms, too, he said.
The other side
But other indicators suggest something else.
Between 1995 and 2000, for example, the respected U.S.-based National Bureau of Economic Research found a dramatic decline in real income among South Africans.
"Average incomes of South African men and women fell by about 40 percent between 1995 and 2000, and … there has been little improvement since then," concluded the NBER study, released in 2005. "The brunt of the income decline appears to have been shouldered by the young and the non-white."
"South Africans are worse off than they were before the end of apartheid, at least as measured by real incomes," the researchers argued at the time, noting the poor were hit hardest.
Meanwhile, statistics cited by other experts suggest that by 2006, the number of people in South Africa living on less than $1 per day had doubled over the 1994 rate.
And in 2008, the United Nations reported that a quarter of South Africans were still living on less than $1.25 a day, with more than 40 percent living on less than $2 per day.
Quality of life
Ironically, perhaps, considering the oversized influence of communism on the political scene, South Africa now has among the most unequal distributions of wealth in the world.
Mandela, the first president of the "rainbow nation," was a Central Committee member of the South African Communist Party, which remains a formal ANC alliance partner in ruling South Africa today.
While many experts and especially economists warn that measures of income equality are counterproductive, the dramatic and growing disparities are trumpeted by Marxists and big-government proponents within and outside of South Africa calling for even more drastic state control over the economy.
The U.N. Human Development Index, or HDI, reveals a bleak picture in terms of where South Africa has gone over the last two decades.
Prior to 1994, despite apartheid, South Africa's HDI ranking was steadily climbing upward, and the nation was ranked well above most of Asia and the Arab world, and far ahead the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa. It was also higher than the world average.
But by 2001, South Africa's HDI score had fallen below the 1975 level.
Today, the ranking – which takes into account life expectancy, health, education, income, poverty, economy, equality and more – is 121 out of 187 countries, and significantly below the world average.
Under ANC-Communist Party rule, South Africa has fallen more than 50 places on the index, despite the added emphasis the ruling establishment placed on the metric. Officials still blame apartheid for the embarrassing numbers.
While access to decent housing, electricity and running water has expanded significantly since 1994, huge swaths of the population still live in shanty towns, and progress toward relieving poverty has largely slowed over the last decade.
There are positive indicators, with anecdotal evidence of prosperity, including having among the highest levels of active cell phones in the world. On the other hand, metrics such as life expectancy and health paint a darker picture.
Between 1960 and 1990, overall life expectancy in South Africa went from 51 to 61. While whites were still far better off, historian and apartheid critic Hermann Giliomee explained that racial gaps had started to narrow.
In 1994, average life expectancy in South Africa was generally accepted to be around 64, comparable to Europe.
By 2009, according to The Lancet journal, average life expectancy had plummeted back to 54. Today, the U.N. puts it at 53.4.
The global average, by contrast, was 70 in 2011, according to the World Health Organization.
Part of the spectacular decline is attributed to the fact that South Africa in 2013 suffers from among the worst rates of AIDS on earth, too; often being dubbed the "AIDS capital of the world."
Other diseases also pose problems.
How bad is it really?
Louw said both the left and right have an agenda in making South Africa appear worse off than it is.
Forces on the right, he said, want to make the current regime and leftists in general look bad, and some also have a "racial agenda – blacks can't govern, that sort of thing."
"The agenda on the left is toward more socialism, bigger government, more nationalization, more retribution against whites, and so on," Louw said. "It is interesting to see the right and the left have this very bizarre, unusual common interest in simply falsifying data."
Indeed, despite claims and anecdotal evidence to the contrary, Louw said it is an "objective fact" and "not debatable" that blacks as a whole are better off, even economically, now than under apartheid.
Crime, corruption, racism
One of the worst plagues to wreak havoc in 2013 South Africa is violent crime, with the nation now widely lambasted as the rape and murder capital of the world.
"The objective data all points to a massive rise in crime," said Louw. "The anecdotal data does the same; people are nervous, people don't walk around the streets at night, and everybody knows somebody who has been carjacked, or robbed, or brutalized, or even killed.
"This is a simple manifestation of the breakdown of the state," he said. "Government is just appallingly bad at everything it does: education, healthcare, infrastructure, security, everything that is a government function is in shambles."
He told the story of a man who was found dead in his car. Everyone at the scene "spontaneously started grabbing his valuables and putting them in the trunk of the nearest car," Louw explained.
"Everybody assumed that a complete stranger was safer than the police for this person's valuables," Louw said, noting that he returned the items to the man's grateful family later.
"The police are inefficient, they are corrupt, they run the roadblocks that are kind of the modern version of highway robbery – collecting what I call 'formal' and 'informal' fines," he added.
Official estimates suggest that between 15,000 and 20,000 people are murdered each year in South Africa, about 50 murders per day, or around 31 per 100,000 individuals over the year.
In reality, international organizations such as Interpol have argued that the real murder rates are likely twice as high as South African authorities admit.
Anecdotal evidence, especially when it comes to murders of Afrikaner farmers, also very strongly suggests that officials are dramatically understating the extent of the killings.
South African-born Ilana Mercer, author of "Into the Cannibal's Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa," noted that Mandela's presidency led to a society where "more people are murdered in one week under African rule than died under the detention of the Afrikaner government over the course of roughly four decades."
Ironically, depending on whose figures can be believed, South Africa, with its strict gun-control regime, has a murder rate in the neighborhood of 1,000 percent higher than in the United States.
Rape numbers also drastically underestimate the real prevalence, experts say, and show that South Africa recorded more than 132.4 rapes per 100,000 people in 2010 – the worst in the world. The official U.S. rate is less than 27 per 100,000, according to the FBI.
Other evidence indicates the true figures for South Africa are far higher.
A study conducted by the Medical Research Council, for example, found that more than one in four South African men – 27.5 percent – admitted to having raped at least one woman or girl. Almost half of those said they had raped multiple victims.
Another survey by the same organization later found that 37.4 percent of men admitted to perpetrating a rape, with more than one in four women saying they had been raped.
"Most people don't bother to report crimes," said Louw. "This is a manifestation of the failure of government, and that is basically true of everything the government does."
Widely cited estimates suggest some 500,000 rapes occur in South Africa every year.
But few perpetrators are convicted. Indeed, on corruption, South Africa ranks at 72nd place worldwide on the Transparency International index, earning a 42 out of a possible 100 (with 100 being the cleanest).
The police force, packed with actual convicted criminals, is viewed as the most corrupted institution.
Despite the dream of a "rainbow nation," polls and surveys suggest that racism and de facto segregation remain widespread in South Africa, which experts say is driven in large part by government and politics.
Critics of the ANC-SACP regime say racial tensions are certainly not eased when Zuma and other top officials publicly sing "struggle" songs at political rallies about massacring whites with machine guns – especially considering the many thousands of European-descent farmers and family members brutally slaughtered by blacks since 1994.
Dr. Gregory Stanton, head of Genocide Watch and a man who personally fought against the apartheid system, warned last year that South Africa was at Stage 6 out of 8 on the road to genocide: the planning and preparation phase.
"There is thus strong circumstantial evidence of government support for the campaign of forced displacement and atrocities against white farmers and their families," said Stanton, after a fact-finding mission to South Africa last year. "There is direct evidence of government incitement to genocide."
The end goal is to impose communist tyranny on South Africa, Stanton argued.
While blacks suffered under official racism during apartheid, the reverse is now true, many experts and Afrikaners say, with whites and mixed-race individuals being targeted by race-based so-called "black empowerment" legislation in everything from employment and business to welfare and charity.
Think "affirmative action" for the majority – on steroids.
Some 90 percent or more of government workers are black, well above their ratio in the population, and virtually all of the welfare and housing grants go to blacks as well, critics point out. So, the racial quotas go only in one direction.
A poll taken last year, almost two decades after apartheid, showed that more than 80 percent of blacks still believe blacks in South Africa are poor because of the former regime.
Public sentiment
Incredibly, polls taken about a decade after the fall of apartheid showed that some 60 percent of South Africans felt the country was better managed under the previous, white-led regime.
"It's not that they want to return to apartheid, but in retrospect it was a time when trains ran on time," poll director Robert Mattes was quoted as saying in 2002 media reports from South Africa. "It was a harsh, repressive, but seemingly efficient government."
It was not clear whether more recent polls had been conducted on the subject, but the results of the 2002 survey sent shock waves around the world.
Still today, despite the ANC and SACP stranglehold on power, some of the most prominent figures in South Africa publicly acknowledge it.
"This government, our government, is worse than the apartheid government, because at least you were expecting it with the apartheid government," claimed Bishop Desmond Tutu after the ANC-SACP government, under pressure from communist China, refused to grant a visa to the Dalai Lama.
In recent months, one of the most extreme figures in South African politics, Marxist and virulent racist Julius Malema, the former ANC youth leader, also claimed that the current regime was worse than apartheid.
"Our people did not die for a house that will not last for three months," he argued, suggesting that government ought to be building houses, in line with his new political party's plan for full-blown socialist rule and nationalization. "There is nothing dignified about the houses."
Malema, also known as "Juju," ended his speech by singing the infamous "struggle" song advocating the slaughter of white farmers, a common theme among his new "Economic Freedom Fighters" party, widely viewed as an ANC spinoff.
"Robert Mugabe is a great example of what you must do, with some lessons of course," Malema was quoted as saying recently.
Marxist despot Mugabe in Zimbabwe, of course, tortured, murdered and butchered his opponents, including white farmers, who were driven out of the country or killed. While it used to export food, Zimbabwe now is dependent on food aid.
Today, virtually nobody in South Africa or abroad seriously believes a return to often-brutal racial segregation and apartheid rule is feasible, much less desirable.
However, discontent over South Africa's current trajectory is intensifying, as illustrated recently when South Africans loudly booed their president on the world stage at Mandela's memorial service.
A widely reprinted letter that originally appeared in the Business Day newspaper also highlighted the feelings of despair.
"South Africa is in a serious moral crisis. We are a violent society disintegrating by the day. Ghastly murders are committed daily," wrote Farouk Araie from Johannesburg. "We have become delusional. Forgetting that life is absolutely intrinsic and inviolable, our country is awash with demonic monsters in human garb, savages fit only for the wild, and satanic beasts ill-equipped for civil society.
"One child raped every three minutes, three children murdered each day," Araie added. "We are sliding towards the edge of the abyss and our people are crying out for sanity to prevail."
Experts and commentators are divided on why "democracy" did not instantly bring the widely anticipated super-boom in prosperity and societal harmony.
But with white supremacists claiming blacks are to blame and black supremacists claiming whites are to blame, there appears to be little middle ground on which to build.
Many economists, though, say government policies explain the situation.
"The benefits of liberty and protected private property rights are often lost in discussions of how our blessings can be extended to the world's poor nations," explained Walter Williams, the celebrated George Mason University Economics Professor and syndicated columnist. He authored the 1989 book "South Africa's War on Capitalism," arguing that the apartheid system represented socialistic forces.
"We often hear suggestions that it is natural resources, right population size, or geographic location that explains human betterment," Williams noted.
"The United States and Canada are population scarce and have a rich endowment of natural resources and are wealthy," he added. "However, if natural resources and population scarcity were adequate explanations of wealth, then one would expect that the resource rich and some of the population scarce countries on the continents of Africa and South America to be wealthy. Instead, Africa and South America are home to the world's poorest and most miserable people.
"A far better explanation of wealth has to do with cultural values that support liberty," the internationally respected economist explained.
"People in countries with larger amounts of economic freedom, such as the United States, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan are far richer and have greater human rights protections than people in countries with limited free markets such as Russia, Albania, China and most countries in Africa and South America," Williams concluded.
Leon Louw, who leads one of the most influential think tanks in Africa, echoed those sentiments, saying what South Africa really needs is economic freedom and the rule of law.
"Democracy, in and of itself, is no solution," he told WND in an extended interview. "What is important is checks and balances, separation of powers, which has virtually vanished in South Africa. We now have basically the executive doing everything – writing the law and adjudicating. The legislature and the judiciary have been rendered increasingly redundant. And we don't have real law … we have discretionary power, which is the main reason why we have this corruption."


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The U.S. Senate today failed to pass an amendment, proposed by Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), that would have extended biofuel tax incentives. This includes the Cellulosic Biofuels Producer Tax Credit (PTC); the Accelerated Depreciation Allowance for Cellulosic Biofuel Plant Property; the Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Tax Credit available to blender pumps and other ethanol fueling infrastructure; as well as the biodiesel tax credit.
The final vote was 49-49.
"Unfortunately, the Senate missed an opportunity to put to bed the pressing need to extend expiring tax incentives for cellulosic biofuels and other sources of domestically produced clean energy," said Advanced Ethanol Council Executive Director Brooke Coleman. "We appreciate Senator Stabenow's effort to advance this piece of must-pass cellulosic biofuels policy, and we look forward to getting these provisions extended as soon as possible."
"Increasing volumes of renewable fuels like ethanol have the potential to further reduce America's foreign oil tab if investments in infrastructure offering higher level blends are encouraged," added Bob Dinneen, president and CEO, Renewable Fuels Association. "In the face of record gas prices for this time of year and the very real possibility for $5 gas, I urge Congress to move swiftly to pass extensions of these tax incentives and accelerate America's break with foreign oil."
Anne Steckel, vice president of federal affairs, National Biodiesel Board (NBB), said, "We urge Congress to break this partisan gridlock and find a way to enact policies like the biodiesel tax credit that have strong bipartisan support."
Congress allowed the $1-per-gallon biodiesel tax incentive to expire on Dec. 31, 2011, despite the fact that the incentive helped the biodiesel industry achieve record production last year of nearly 1.1 billion gallons, supporting more than 39,000 jobs, the NBB added.

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A North Carolina teachers union and fellow defenders of the government's near-monopoly over education filed a lawsuit against the state's school voucher program for low-income students, joining half a dozen other lawsuits against educational choice programs around the country. Plaintiffs made the same, tired, factually-inaccurate arguments against letting low-income parents choose where to send their children to school that we've come to expect. For example:
"Vouchers are bad public policy," said Mike Ward, former state school superintendent and one of the plaintiffs. "They tear away millions of dollars that are badly needed by the public schools."
Apparently no one told Mr. Ward that 22 of 23 studies found that public schools improved their performance in response to the competition that school choice programs generate. The last study found no statistically significant impact. NC's government-run school system is in dire need of competition. As Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina point out, the latest report card from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction reveals that "nearly 70 percent of low income students in North Carolina failed to meet proficiency standards."
The lawsuit argues that the voucher program violates Article IX, Section 6 of the North Carolina Constitution, which requires that "all moneys, stocks, bonds, and other property belonging to the State for purposes of public education…and not otherwise appropriated by the State… shall be faithfully appropriated and used exclusively for establishing and maintaining a uniform system of free public schools."


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Hi Andy,
I tried as below:
1. remove two Ram chips, turn on the power, beeps like "-,---,---,-";
2, Insert one of them in the up-slot, turn on the power, sounds "-,---,---,-", and then "1 long and 2 short" beeps;
3. Insert one of them in the down-slot, turn on the power, sounds same as both in the slots, sounds one long and 2 short beeps.
So, what else should I do?
Thanks a lot!
That's not good news. It leaves two options, either the display or main board and I guess you don't have a spare of either lying around to test.
Have you considered contacting service to ask if they can help, even if it costs something? I'm sure the repair costs would be lower than the value of the system.
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I turned off my T61p last night with no sign of any impending problem. When I turned it in this morning, nothing happens.
To be exact, something does happen and it may even be quite meaningful for an expert. Here is what that little something is:
I press the power button and the lights go on, as expected, just for 1 or 2 seconds. Then, the HD light flashes for a fraction of a second and then disappears with three beeps, the first one longer than the second and the third, which sound for a noticeably shorter period of time.
And this is it. It takes much longer to describe than for the whole thing to have start and finish. What remains? Just the wireless sign, the power connection light and the battery light.
When I press the power button again to shut it off, another beep sounds, but this one, I think, is the one that is produced when the machine shuts off.
I made a few Google searches for those three beeps and encountered a site that refers the meaning of those beeps as related to problems with:
1 - System board
2 - LCD assembly
My extended warranty expires this coming October and these seem like potentially very expensive repairs, so I think I will definitely have to call Lenovo.
What's going on? Are the Lenovo machines keeping the old famed reputation of Big Blue or what?
Getting a little frustrating...
Hi I purchased my t61p in october of 2007 and did not purchase a warrenty on top of the 1 year warrenty, would i still be able to purchase a new extension of my warranty? thanks for any help
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Hi I purchased my t61p in october of 2007 and did not purchase a warrenty on top of the 1 year warrenty, would i still be able to purchase a new extension of my warranty? thanks for any help
you can still purchase the out of warranty warranty extension from Lenovo. You would have to call Lenovo customer service.
hello again
would this be under this information? i tried calling earlier but they wouldn't refer me to another because i did not have a warrenty in place already.
United States English 1-800-426-7378
give it a try, i am not too sure.
Please see my PM response to you.
03-21-2010 07:16 PM - edited 03-21-2010 07:39 PM
I have a dead lenovo T61 bought on January 2008 with only 1 year warranty.
Today it happenned to me, 1 long beep and 2 short beeps and no boot.
I am extremely disapointed with this laptop.
I have never tought that after 2 years and 2 months, it would die.
I am going to contact lenovo to check what my options are, but without any hopes.
My first reaction was I would not buy again a lenovo.
It was the laptop with the perfect configuration to me.
So, the new one should have similar specs, but does it make any sense to buy another Lenovo?
This is my main question.
Take care,
I have contacted Lenovo, but because it is out of warranty, no help.
What it really bothers me is that like most of you I depend a lot on this laptop to work.


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Believe it if you will, but the long-delayed new bridge over Slocum Creek is scheduled to open on Monday.
Believe it if you will, but the long-delayed new bridge over Slocum Creek is scheduled to open on Monday.
The bridge had been set to open on Friday with an official ribbon-cutting ceremony but Wednesday�s rain delayed work on the bridge.
�The weather has kind of pushed us back,� said Brad McMannen, engineer with the N.C. Department of Transportation. �We can�t pave with the road wet.�
McMannen said the contractor would likely spend all day Friday pouring the final coat of asphalt.
Built by Palmetto Construction, a South Carolina firm, the 325-foot bridge is part of a $2.8 million contract that included demolition of the old Church Road Bridge and reconfiguration of a portion of the road. The project was originally supposed to be finished in May, but a late start, weather delays and subcontractor issues have caused seven months in delays. According to NCDOT, Palmetto Construction has been assessed $98,400 in fines that will be subtracted from the contractor�s original bid price.
In the last week, workers have been paving, installing guardrail, smoothing slopes, installing road striping and going through a list in preparation for final inspection.
Havelock Commissioner Danny Walsh said planning for removal of the old bridge and construction of a new span next to U.S. 70 goes back to the 1970s when he was a member of the Havelock Planning Board.
�I waited over 40 years for this moment,� said Walsh. �I�ll probably be the proudest papa of a baby in this town.
�Just the bridge by itself is fantastic but the fact that we were able to tie it to the waterfront park is a bonus. It will bring a lot of traffic for a lot of the businesses that are there. The original concept was to get the people off 70 using the access roads that we already have available.�
The new bridge will be an important connector for businesses on either side of the creek, Havelock Mayor Jimmy Sanders said..
�It�s a win, win, win as far as I�m concerned,� he said. �The businesses along that road have suffered long enough, and hopefully they will benefit from this increased traffic.�
JJ�s Texas BBQ, located on the service road just a few hundred yards from the bridge, opened in the spring when the span was supposed to be open. Co-owner John Price said he had been looking forward to the new bridge.
�I think it�s going to be great for business. I think it�s going to be fantastic,� he said. �I think having traffic flow from that side of town, instead of having people get off, and have to go around on the highway will be an improvement. I think having the service road open from one end of the town will make for easy access, not just for my business but for all the businesses.�
Havelock City Planner Katrina Marshall called the bridge�s opening a �good thing.�
�It�s going to open up that service road to businesses along there and make it safer for drivers who won�t have to go back onto the main road,� she said.
The now-demolished Church Road Bridge was built in 1924. Built when the majority of cars on the road were Ford Model Ts, it was narrow and was the second oldest of 101 bridges in Craven County. It had been on the state�s Transportation Improvement Plan for replacement in 2015, but Havelock leaders, with the help of area congressional legislators, worked to persuade DOT officials to move up the project.
The sticking point was that the span was a federal bridge being replaced with state funds.
�Everybody was trying to complete the same project,� Walsh said. �In the end, it didn�t matter who got credit. It got done. It�s a good thing for everybody.�


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I grow fuki (Japanese Butterbur) and have been hunting for recipes that don't call for it canned. I have found a few sites that explain how to prepare it for cooking - salting, boiling, peeling the stalks, etc. - but very few recipes, and no fresh tsukemono/pickle recipes for the stalks, the leaves, or the flower buds/stalks. Do you have, or know where I can find, any?
It is just starting to poke up through the snow so I should have some of the flower stalks soon, with leaf stalks and leaves shortly after that. I planted one root a couple of years ago, and this is the first year there will be enough to harvest.
Thank you so much for two great sites, a great book, and your assistance!
You are very lucky to have butterbur available. I haven't had it ages, but the standard ways to prepare it are either to deep fry it as tempura, which is delicious, or to blanch it and then either cook it in the standard dashi/mirin or sake/soy sauce/sugar liquid. Another way it's often used is blanched, squeezed out, chopped up and mixed with other things in miso. My negimiso recipe can be adapted for this. Fuki needs to be blanched before processing further because as-is it can be quite bitter. Tempura does seem to counteract the bitterness a bit.
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I have a question, I just bought some fuki from the supermarket (stems only), and I was wondering if it is ok to eat them raw. I thought it was, because it looked like celery, but I wanted to make sure, so I checked the internet. This was one of the sites I stumbled upon. I'm a little surprised to learn that fuki can be very damaging if consumed raw. I'm a little confused now, so I thought I'd ask here to be sure.
Raw fuki stems are very bitter and practically inedible (try nibbling on a tiny bit to find out!) I am not sure about damaging, but it could be bad for your digestion. Not to mention your palate.
Raw fuki stems are very bitter and practically inedible (try nibbling on a tiny bit to find out!) I am not sure about damaging, but it could be bad for your digestion. Not to mention your palate.
Hi, and thanks for answering.
Gee, just my luck. While doing grocery shopping today, I said to myself I'm going to try something new, and then I end up buying something I can't eat raw. Typical~
I have tons of fuki in my garden and it is NEVER eaten raw. We even saw somewhere online that it can be cancer causing! I cut off the leaves and peel it BEFORE cooking. I used to live in Hokkaido where it grows everywhere and my dear friend in Sapporo said that peeling it raw (rather than after boiling) is so much easier....and she's right! I boil the 2" cut stalks for 8 ish minutes and then saute them gently in any good oil NEVER use olive oil in Asian cuisine. Then I add a bit of water, USUKUCHI SHOYU (very important as regular shoyu is NEVER to be used in cooking), mirin, salt and a bit of honey. Also add strips of USU AGE (thin strip of fried tofu). All of these items can be easily found in an Asian market. The finished product can be stored for day in a Tupperware in the fridge. Yum!
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"Pee on the roller coaster? That's disgusting, Mom!"
"Besides, I like this bathroom. Moaning Myrtle is in this bathroom," I said, indicating the restroom in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios where my kids and I have annual passes. Yep, that's me - the woman who can tell you where all the best bathrooms are wherever we go.
So I used the bathroom, chatted with Moaning Myrtle, and got in line for the Dragon Challenge roller coaster. After the ride, my kids and I walked toward The Incredible Hulk roller coaster.
"Hang on, guys. Let me just go to the bathroom before we get in line."
"I don't get it. I can go all day without peeing, Mom."
"I've had SIX kids. I pee when I sneeze," I retorted.
"Wow. TMI, Mom. WAY too much information."
"Besides I just chugged down a beer to mellow out when those tourists were being annoying in line by us, remember? That liquid has to go somewhere and I'd rather it not be on the ride."
So maybe my kids roll their eyes when I stop at the bathroom before every roller coaster. But I know there are other moms out there who are nodding their heads in agreement. It's just one of those things no one ever tells you when you're thinking about getting pregnant - you'll lose all bladder control. You'll have to stop at the bathroom between every roller coaster at the park, and forget about ever jumping on a trampoline again. It just happens.
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You are currently browsing the tag archive for the 'bharateeya' tag.
Nithya adharma
Rajasekara had sex with young women. Nothing wrong with that as such.
The crux of the matter is that Rajasekara claimed to be a brahmachari, that too, a 'realized master'. Further, he had sex with disciples.
Four things emerge from this act.
One, Rajasekara was not a brahmachari as he claimed.
Second, he was not a 'realized master', who overcame carnal desires.
Third, he had sex with disciples. guru-shishya relationship should not have been sullied in this manner.
Fourth, he did his act wearing the color of renunciation- kAvi.
These facts reveal the following-
1. Rajasekara was a liar, in claiming to be brahmachari and realized master. That he carried out this charade for many years means that he is a habitual liar. That using this charade he hoodwinked thousands of people for many years means that he had developed duplicity as a character trait.
2. This person, despite knowing the symbolic value of kAvi as representing sublimation of desires in the fire of spiritual enquiry, wore that while he indulged himself in carnal pleasures, while he enjoyed food, while he engrossed himself in television. Rajasekara was disrespectful towards the kAvi, its symbolic meaning and the tradition that values it.
3. This person had no qualms in exploiting trust. The disciple in the video sincerely served this person in the belief that this person is a realized master and that serving such an enlightened person is correct. Rajasekara exploited that trust and encouraged the misconception of the disciple. This reveals Rajasekara to be a conscience-less selfish individual who will betray trust without compunction.
Yet, despite these revelations, many people still considers it appropriate to refer to this charlatan as 'swami'. Sample-
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This tendency reveals three things: –
1. Inability to discern dharma.
2. Mis-identification with the so-called religion 'hinduism' that prompts extending support or consideration to one who has betrayed the values and ethos of bharatiya samskriti.
3. Rajiv Malhotra rushed to offer support to this charlatan. Similar to how Bhisma, who should have known better, fought for unrighteous Duryodhana in the field of Kurukshetra.
Feeding the Cuckoo
This episode reveals that otherwise right thinking people are allowing themselves be blindfolded with the label of 'hinduism', a cuckoo in the nest, placed by mleccha westerners.
The cuckoo child is growing and displacing the original progeny of this land, starving it and stifling it. Originally it looked similar to bharatiya samskriti, now it is starting to resemble its parent.
bharateeyas, blinded to consider it as the original progeny of this land, are striving hard to feed this imposter, while it cries voraciously for more and more.
Rajasekara and others mlecchas like him benefit from such efforts of the blindfolded bharateeyas.
Unfortunately this misplaced support and sympathy may further encourage such charlatans towards more duplicity. Duryodhana would not have gone to war but for the support from Bhisma, Drona, Kripa and Karna.
The final nail in the coffin of bharatiya sampada, so to speak, maybe hit not by westerners, or even their desi sepoys, but by the bharateeya who is unable to discern dharma and blindly feeds the mleccha cuckoo's child.
"Who's a good Hindu ?" asks realitycheck
More relevant question is "Who is a Hindu" in the first place.
Is there any spiritual text that lays down who is a hindu and who is not ?
Did Sri Rama, Sri Krishna, Adi Shankaracharya, etc., consider themselves 'hindu' ?
Why this affinity to this word that is not even a derivative of samskritam nor of this samskriti ?
If you want to identify yourself, identify yourself as bharateeya. Or maybe travel the path of ancient rishis who realized themselves as brahma.
Accepting a word given by people who were considered mleccha by the bharateeyas of the past is a sure indication of depravity that pervades this land at present.


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What a great thread. I've learned much from this thread, had a great time watching all the video clips (as well as other clips that were on those sites). I hope all of my fellow old guys truly appreciate what we now have at our fingertips. We didn't have youtube/internet/forums thirty years ago. We didn't have the luxury of discussions with other experienced Martial Artists from the comfort of our homes - especially when they were hundreds of miles away. What a great world we all live in now!
I'm retired LEO. As such, you get used to certain aspects of violence and get used to surprises. I've also worked in the bouncer industry in night clubs, some of which were before I started Martial Arts, I've worked in juvey lockups, worked in Boston Schools during forced busing (got in more fights on a weekly basis than our fighting dojo ever saw) I worked as a stunt man in the entertainment industry, and I've been married forever to a crazed tom boy Martial Artist who's half Sicilian, half Irish/Scottish. She doesn't even need a second person in the room to start an argument. I competed in fighting for 27 years and have been beat up more than anyone I know. I also grew up in the projects as a wee lad.
I'm sure all of that has helped me prepare for reality in some way. But it's not even close to what the important things were/are. Every one of the important things came from the dojo. Even BEFORE I actually trained. As I've said here before, my first exposure to the arts were watching classes at Mattson Academy. I remember, quite clearly, thinking "Oh, my God, these people are nuts. But, man oh man, that's what I want to do!"
I also remember thinking "They're big, strong men." Then I saw a class of young people, some of whom were smaller than me. That really blew my mind.
I know things are different for everybody. But, for me, it was the discipline of Karate training that trained me for reality. NOT the fighting techniques, it was the process. It was where I learned exactly what the human body and mind could accomplish. It was where I learned the difference between what I was and what I was becoming. It was walking to the dojo in a blizzard when my car was broken. Then walking home all sweaty and sore and thinking of every single moment of class time as I waded through slush and drifts, my feet all numb. I would have bought new boots that week, but I had to buy that new fangled safe-T kick stuff that had just come out. The boots would have to wait. It was training in a horse stance when your legs were bruised and your feet blistered, and not letting your mind wander to "when the hell is class going to end?" It was wrapping that bad wrist with duct tape so you could at least TRY to do the pushups. It was going to class when you just didn't want to. And again. And again.
I've been in situations I didn't want to be in. It wasn't my firearm or my knife that made it easier. They probably had guns and knives, too. It wasn't that I was used to fighting, which I was - heck, I'm sure they were used to fighting as well. And while my awareness, tactics and experience were probably better than theirs - those things didn't tip the scales in my favor. The process of Martial Training did.
Yes, we all need tactical instruction and practice, we all need to take our lumps while getting them. But, in my opinion, what we all go through in the dojo, day in and day out, shouldn't be discounted when it comes to the subject of preparing for reality.


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Now in Telcel's holiday catalog, the elusive device is shown in full, making this a bonafide Windows Phone that is on its way to Mexico...
The deets on the Lumia 505 are in line with what we've been expecting: a 3.7" Super AMOLED display (800x480), 8MP rear camera, 4GB internal memory and yes, it will come with Windows Phone 7.8 out the gate.
The phone will arrive in Black, Red and Magenta for color selection.
There's no word on pricing or exact availability, but the Lumia 505 is listed under "Coming soon" meaning it shouldn't be too long before folks can get this handsome device in their hands.
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13f securities filings revealing how storied investors have placed their bets will become available Thursday.
Did George Soros stick by General Motors as shares skidded 16% lower in this year's first quarter amid its recall woes?
Did Carl Icahn continue to pare back his position in Netflix Inc. , given that higher-growth tech stocks started to tumble in early March?
Answers to those questions will become public as the deadline hits for first-quarter 13F filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday. These documents must be filed within 45 days of a quarter's end by any institutional investment manager with a stock portfolio of $100 million or more.
The filings come as fund managers face plenty of skepticism.
"Investors of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your fund managers' fees," wrote The Economist earlier this month in an article detailing the merits of low-cost index mutual funds and ETFs.
A basket divided 60%-40% between stocks and bonds would have beaten the aggregate hedge-fund performance every year since 2003. That's what Simon Lack, author of "The Hedge Fund Mirage," told MarketWatch's Bill Watts in an interview.
Even if you believe in a fund manager's consistent skillfulness, other caveats are in order when it comes to 13Fs. The filings won't show exactly when in the first quarter shares were bought or sold, and given the 45-day lag, you can't know if managers added to their positions or dumped them in April or May. Plus, it's sometimes hard to tell whether a position is a massive bearish bet or just a hedge, as a Tell post noted in February.
In the last round of 13Fs, one theme was that fund managers indulged their inner auto enthusiast in 2013's fourth quarter by snapping up GM shares. Soros, Third Point's Dan Loeb, Leon Cooperman of Omega Advisors, Kyle Bass's Hayman Capital, and Barry Rosenstein of Jana Partners all took or increased stakes in the auto maker, MarketWatch reported in February.
Soros Fund Management also doubled its bearish bet on the main S&P 500 ETF to the tune of $1.3 billion, though that position could have been a hedge.
The filings in February indicated that Icahn cut his stake in Netflix, selling nearly 2.9 million shares to leave him with about 2.7 million. In addition, they showed Icahn boosting his stake in Apple to 4.7 million shares -- not a surprise given his crusade to get Apple to return more cash to shareholders.
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Chris Hemsworth Doesn't Look Like This Anymore!
When we say Chris Hemsworth, this is the image that probably springs to mind.
Or perhaps this.
Maybe even this.
The point is, when we say Chris Hemsworth, we're guessing this isn't what you'd expect.
Woah. Muscles much?!
Our favourite Aussie export has taken to Instagram, along with the rest of the Bulldog's fans, to share his excitement about the upcoming AFL Grand Final.
However, we almost missed who it was when the snap first popped up in our feeds.
Showing off an impressive display of muscle, Chris is definitely looking every part the superhero right now.
On par with the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Thor star's absolutely ripped as we're sure his muscles, on top of muscles, on top of muscles can attest!
This is one Bulldogs fan you don't want to be messing with!


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There's much more than equines to look forward to next weekend at the second annual Hermitage Classic. From dinner parties to a scenic course walk, Terrier and Dachshund races and a sparkling champagne brunch, every age, gender and personality will find something to enjoy at the world-class combined driving competition in Goshen in Oldham County.
Taking place Sept. 21-23, the action-packed Hermitage Classic held on the historic, breathtaking 700-acre Hermitage Farm is sure to please any Kentucky Derby lover, horse enthusiast or even the casual observer looking for something new and unique to experience in the Bluegrass State.
Entrepreneur and co-founder of 21c Museum Hotels, Steve Wilson, helped establish the exhilarating affair in Goshen after he and wife, Laura Lee Brown, purchased Hermitage Farm in 2010. The 2012 installment of the classic will be the first to offer a three-day combined driving competition, a test of athletic endurance, mental stamina and precision for both the horse and driver, whether tackling challenging obstacles at high speed, or demonstrating the obedience, grace and movement of the stunning equine during dressage. The Hermitage Classic course will include dressage and cones arenas located in a lovely flat field, while the marathon course will twist and turn throughout the historic farm land.
Attendees will have a chance to tour the impressive course on the first day of the classic. "The guided spectator course walk on Friday afternoon will be an opportunity for those who want to learn more about Saturday's Cross Country Marathon portion of the competition,†said Director of Marketing & Special Events for Hermitage Farm, Lindsey LeMaster. "The walk will not cover the entire 10 kilometers (approximate), but will cover the six obstacles, built to test the fitness, stamina and obedience of the horses and the judgment and capability of the driver. Spectators can get a close view of these unique obstacles, and learn more about the competition.â€
Aside from the picturesque course walk and the excitement of the driving competition, a number of other special activities are planned for the weekend, making the Hermitage Classic all the more memorable, spellbinding and special for those who attend. During the competition, unique merchant booths and food vendors will be stationed throughout the farm, and on Friday evening, the Original Makers Club will host "The Dark Woods Affair†as a kick off to the Classic, featuring a menu by Wiltshire Pantry including Kentucky Bison crostini, Stonecross Farms pork loin with Bourbon-glazed peaches, toasted Farro pilaf with kale and feta, local tomato and green bean salad, fresh local green salad with Bernheim Forest honey vinaigrette, radishes and citrus, grilled local baby vegetables with smoked paprika aioli, housemade artisan breads and mixed berry and stone fruit shortcake on sweet almond biscuits.
The following day, Original Makers Club and Garden and Gun will offer a VIP Lounge. "The Original Makers Club + Garden & Gun VIP Lounge will include catering by RYE strategically placed to view one of the most exciting hazards in the Marathon portion of the Hermitage Classic,†LeMaster explained. "VIP Lounge guests will have the opportunity to flow in and out of this 'southern lifestyle experience' throughout Saturday's competition.â€
Perhaps the most adorable aspect of the Hermitage Classic will take place on Saturday, Sept. 22, at noon, with the newly-added Terrier and Dachshund races organized by the Bluegrass Working Terrier Association, which participates in the High Hope Steeplechase in Lexington, among other events. Cuddly canines will compete in flat and hurdle racing, with classes such as "puppies under one year of age,†"wee bits under 10 (inches)†and "clueless novices.â€
On the final day of the driving competition, The Voice-Tribune will host a Korbel Champagne Brunch catered by Wiltshire Pantry with Huevos Rancheros casserole, Stonecross Farms breakfast sausage, smoked cheddar and roasted garlic cheese grits and housemade breakfast pastries on the menu. The elegant dining experience will top off the success of the classic as spectators witness the rousing cones competition and the Hermitage Classic awards ceremony.
"(Wiltshire Pantry is) thrilled to be involved with this world-class equestrian event being held at Hermitage Farm,†said Susan Hershberg, owner of Wiltshire Pantry. "Our menus will feature all of the wonderful fall bounty that is coming from our local growers and producers.â€
From the decadent dinner party to the final toast on Sunday, and all the horses, ponies and tiny pooches racing toward the finish line, the Hermitage Classic is an event that won't soon be forgotten. It'll also help expose and continue the tradition of beauty in Goshen, with proceeds from the classic benefiting Oldham Ahead, a non-profit community group committed to preserving farmland in Oldham County.
Next weekend, jump out of your horse racing comfort zone at the traditional track, and head to a magnificent facility, hosting the next new equine competition in town. "There are a number of activities that will appeal to all ages,†LeMaster said. "Whether you're an avid horse show competitor or a first time spectator, there will be something for everyone to enjoy.â€
Admission to the Original Makers Club Dinner is $200; Original Makers Club + Garden & Gun Marathon VIP Lounge is $95 (includes general admission); and The Voice-Tribune Brunch is $45 (includes general admission). A bundled ticket featuring the Original Makers Club + Garden & Gun Marathon VIP Lounge and The Voice-Tribune Sunday Brunch is $120; or the Original Makers Club Dinner and The Voice-Tribune Sunday Brunch is $225. Regular classic admission is free on Sept. 21 and $5 on Sept. 22 and 23.Â
For more information on the Hermitage Classic and to purchase tickets, visit www.hermitageitc.com.
Schedule of Events
Friday, Sept. 21 -Â Driven Dressage
8:30 a.m.: Gates Open – Free Admission
9 a.m.: Dressage Competition
4 p.m.: Guided Spectator Course Walk For
Saturday Marathon
7 p.m.: Original Makers Club Party
Saturday, Sept. 22 -Â Cross-Country Marathon
8 a.m.: Gates Open – $5 General Admission At The Door (Ages 12 And Under Free)
9 a.m.: Original Makers Club + Garden & Gun Vip Lounge Opens
9 a.m.: Marathon Competition
Noon: Terrier and Dachshund Race
Sunday, Sept. 23 – Cones Competition
9:30 a.m.: Gates Open – $5 General Admission At The Door (Ages 12 And Under Free)
10 a.m.: Cones Competition
10:30 a.m.: Awards Ceremony
11 a.m. The Voice-Tribune Brunch


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Aurorae is a theme engine for KWin window decorations. It uses SVG to render the decoration and buttons and there is a simple config file for configuring the theme details.
This theme engine uses Plasma technology to render the window decoration. Every detail can be themed by the usage of SVG. The theme engine uses Plasma's FrameSvg for the window borders. This is described in more detail in Plasma's Theme description.
The theme consists of one folder containing svgz files for decoration and buttons, one KConfig file for the theme details and one metadata.desktop file which is used for theme name, author information, etc.
The engine supports ARGB decoration which is enabled by default, so that the theme can draw its own shadows. Nevertheless the themes should take care of the case that no desktop effects are used.
With Aurorae Designer there exists a special tool to design Aurorae themes. It is recommended to designers to use this tool. It helps to identify common pitfalls and provides an easy way to change settings and test if the theme contains all required elements.
The code of Aurorae Designer is developed in parallel to Aurorae, so Aurorae Designer might contain features which will be present in a future release of Aurorae, which is bound to the release schedule of the Software Compilation
The window decoration has to be provided in file decoration.svgz. This svg has to contain all the elements required for a Plasma theme background. The decoration has to use the element prefix decoration.
A different style for inactive windows can be provided in the same svg. The inactive elements must have the element prefix decoration-inactive. The theme engine tests for this prefix and if not provided inactive windows will be rendered with the same style as active windows.
A special decoration for opaque mode, that is when compositing is not active, has to be provided. This opaque decoration is used for generating the window mask. The element prefix is decoration-opaque for active and decoration-opaque-inactive for inactive windows. The mask is generated from the frame svg for active window only.
To summarize the following elements are supported:
In order to better support maximized windows there exists a special frame svg called decoration-maximized. In the same way as for the general decoration a version for inactive, opaque and inactive-opaque can be specified. This results in the following names:
In all cases only the center element will be used. There is no need to specify borders. Please note that in case of a window with translucent widgets the center element will be stretched to the size of the complete window.
The following fallback strategy is used: if inactive is not present it falls back to the active. If opaque is not present it falls back to the translucent. If none of the maximized elements are present the center element of the decoration is used!
In order to support Fitts' Law all TitleEdge Settings are set to 0. So the buttons will be directly next to the screen edges.
The support for maximized windows exists since KDE SC 4.5.
Aurorae supports KWin's window tabs for all themes by default. The theme has the possibility to influence the look of the tabs in the decoration by providing additional elements. If the theme does not provide these elements Aurorae paints a line between the tabs with the text color of an unfocused tab.
The following FrameSvg elements are added for tabs:
A theme has to provide both focused and unfocused elements. The elements for inactive windows are optional. The elements for active windows are used if the inactive are not present. If the inactive are present both focused and unfocused elements are required. All elements may have full border supports.
The support for window tabs exists since KDE SC 4.5.
Aurorae supports inner borders, that is a border at the margin to the window. While it would be possible to add inner borders directly in the decoration element, the inner borders are to be preferred as those support the configurable border sizes.
For inner borders the decoration svg file can include two additional FrameSvgs: innerborder and innerborder-inactive. If the inactive element is not present the active element is used for inactive windows.
These frames must include the border elements. Only the border elements will be visible, the center element is not visible. For performance reasons the center element should be a simple rect and for support of decoration behind windows it should be completely translucent.
Inner borders are not shown for maximized windows. If a maximized window should show an inner border it is recommeded to directly add it to the maximized element.
|Maximized windows and inner borders
The support for inner borders exists since KDE SC 4.5.
An Aurorae decoration may include elements to be painted behind the button groups. This is intended for cases when the buttons share a common background. it should be preferred over custom editing of each button as this will result in a bad visual experience for explicit spacers or if the user changes the order of buttons.
The following elements are supported:
If the inactive element is not provided, the element for active is used for the inactive decoration, too. Left and right are independent and there is no fallback to the other element. For decorations on left or right window side the meaning becomes top and bottom.
A svgz file has to be provided for each button. If the theme does not provide a file for a button type the engine will not include that button, so the decoration will miss it. There is no fallback to a default theme. The buttons are rendered using Plasma's FrameSvg just like the decoration. Each button has to provide the "center" element. Borders are not supported
The following buttons are supported:
Each button can have different states. So a button could be hovered, pressed, deactivated and the theme might want to provide different styles for active and inactive windows. The following element prefixes can be used to provide styles for the buttons:
At least the active element has to be provided. All other elements are optional and the active element is always used as a fallback. If the theme provides the inactive element, this is used as a fallback for the inactive states. That is, if the theme provides a hover element, but none for inactive, the inactive window will not have a hover effect. Same is true for pressed and deactivated.
The buttons alldesktops, keepabove, keepbelow and shade are toggle buttons. When clicking on them they will stay in state pressed(-inactive). By clicking them again they will change back to (in)active.
All of those elements have to be put into one svgz file for a button type. The name of the file is the one listed above. E.g. the svg file for the close button has to be named: close.svgz.
The configuration file is a normal KConfig file. You have to give it the name of your decoration with suffix "rc". So if your theme has the name "deco", your config file will be named "decorc". The following section shows the possible options with their default values.
The layout is based on the layout metric used by KCommonDecoration. The following diagrams illustrate which configuration value influences which part of the decoration. The available configuration options and their default values are listed below.
___________________________________________________________________ | PaddingTop | | _______________________________________________________________ | | | TitleEdgeTop | | | |_______________________________________________________________| | | | TitleEdgeLeft | [title] | TitleEdgeRight | | | |_______________|______________________________|________________| | | | TitleEdgeBottom | | | |_______________________________________________________________| | | | | | | | |PaddingLeft PaddingRight| | | | | | | | |BorderLeft BorderRight| | | |_|___________________________________________________________|_| | | | BorderBottom | | | |_______________________________________________________________| | | PaddingBottom | |___________________________________________________________________|
__________________________________________________________________________ | ButtonMarginTop | | ButtonMarginTop | |_____________________________| |______________________________| | [Buttons] | TitleBorderLeft | TitleHeight | TitleBorderRight | [Buttons] | |___________|_________________|_____________|__________________|___________|
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ | button | spacing | button | spacing | explicit spacer | spacing | ... | spacing | button | |________|_________|________|_________|_________________|_________|________|_________|________|
The user can change border and button sizes in the settings dialog. The defaults are the settings specified in the configuration file. The configurable border size influences the right, left and bottom borders, the button size influences both the size of all buttons and the title height.
It is important to remember that the buttons have to be scalable to correctly support this feature and that the borders may extend into the center element if the border size is changed.
|Notes on Border and Button sizes
Aurorae can put the decoration handles, that is the title bar including caption and buttons, on any side of the window. By default it is placed at the top of the window. To change this behaviour the setting DecorationPosition in General settings and BorderTop in Layout settings have to be specified. Some of the layout options change their meaning. E.g. ButtonMarginTop becomes a "ButtonMarginLeft", in general layout settings were only a top exists are changed, if all exists like TitleEdge the meaning is unchanged.
A shaded window will always have the decoration on the top. So the layout is transformed to be painted on the top again.
|Window shading
The theme must contain a file metadata.desktop for additional information like name, author, licence, etc. Those data is shown in the about dialog of the theme. The file is mandatory as the engine uses it to locate the theme. The format follows the Desktop Entry Specification and the following entries are read by Aurorae:
All theme files (decoration, buttons, metadata.desktop and configuration file) have to be stored in one directory with the name of the theme (this has to be identical to the one used for the config file). You have to create a tar.gz archive from that directory. This archive is the theme, which can be installed in the kcm for window decorations.


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The mission of Oklahoma Christian University's Study Abroad program is to deepen and broaden students' intellectual, social, spiritual, and aesthetic awareness as they study, travel, and serve in other cultures.
Watch this short video to see what noted travel author Rick Steves said about OC's Study Abroad programs when he visited our campus.
Experiential learning at its best - history, religion, philosophy, art, and literature come alive as students link their study with their experience. Just because you are out of the classroom doesn't mean you can't study!
The world is the classroom: hike the Great Wall, snorkel the Great Barrier Reef, visit ancient ruins, explore the Coliseum in Rome and many other magnificent historical sites as you ignite your passion for learning.
Students' faith is stretched and strengthened through service and mission opportunities with churches, shelters, and communities around the world. The powerful and simple message of Jesus comes alive!


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This week we start something a little bit different. We thought it might be an interesting idea to create a new cocktail, however the ingredients will be chosen by you!! Yes, you! The kind reader of this blog.
We want you to write to us, either over email, comment on the blog, facebook, twitter, whichever is easiest for you, and tell us what you think. The cocktail will be built as below........
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Ideally we'd like to get one suggestion for each from you, however all ideas are welcome! The ingredients that are suggested most often for each section of the drink will be used in the final cocktail.
We will piece the cocktail together, however crazy or whatever general mish mash of ingredients we have, and make it work!
Once finished, the cocktail will be available over the bar at 69 Colebrooke Row.


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The Ohio Flags of Honor traveling memorial will return to Grove City for the third year in a row.
The Ohio Flags of Honor traveling memorial will return to Grove City for the third year in a row.
The display, consisting of more than 400 U.S. flags to commemorate each Ohio service member who has died in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, will be open to the public beginning at 3 p.m. June 21, and be available for viewing until 3 p.m. June 23, in Grove City's Henceroth Park, 2075 Mallow Lane.
The park will be open for 24-hour viewing during those dates.
Boy Scouts of Troop 136 will be camping in the park to attend the flags during the weekend and provide assistance if need.
The scouts will also be accepting worn flags for a flag retirement ceremony to be held in the afternoon of June 23.
Ohio Flags of Honor first came to Grove City in 2011 to mark the 10-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S., said Kim Conrad, Grove City Parks and Recreation director.
"It was such a moving event, we decided to make it an annual event," she said. "This year, we decided to change it up a bit."
This year, the program will feature a flag presentation by the combined honor guard of the Grove City Division of Police and Jackson Township Fire Department and a concert from 6 to 8 p.m. June 22. The band RMT will be performing Americana music.
Families are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and blankets for the concert.
In addition to the Boy Scouts, the memorial will receive support from Sunbelt Rentals, which is donating lights for the display, and the Grove City Noon Lions Club, which will be selling food and drinks Saturday evening.
Conrad said volunteers are needed to help set up and clean up the flags. Set-up begins at 9 a.m. June 21, and tear down is at 3 p.m. June 23.
"We invite the public to come out," Conrad said. "Anyone who wants to come out for any amount of time is more than welcome to help out."
June 22, the Henceroth Park parking lot will be restricted to handicapped parking. Conrad said golf carts will be on hand to help those who need assistance getting around.
General parking will be available at Jackson Middle and Buckeye Woods Elementary schools, 2271 Holton Road and 2525 Holton Road, respectively.
Ohio Flags of Honor originated from Gino and Lisa Zimmer, parents of U.S. Army Spc. Nicholaus E. Zimmer of Hilliard, who was killed in action in May 2004 in Iraq.
The Zimmers formed the Operation Iraqi Freedom Chopper Fund with the intent to tour with a special motorcycle to raise awareness for fallen veterans, and in 2005, the group evolved into Ohio Flags of Honor after an American Legion unit sponsored an avenue of flags at Rickenbacker International Airport to welcome home the U.S. Marine Corps Lima Company 3rd Battalion/25th Regiment, after the company had suffered heavy casualties in Iraq.
The memorial, according to the organization's website, is intended to "help facilitate fellowship for families, friends" and communities who want to pay tribute to Ohio's fallen soldiers ... (and) raise public awareness and support for Ohio's returning veterans."
Additional information about the event is available by calling 614-277-3050 or by visiting grovecityohio.gov.
For more information about Ohio Flags of Honor, visit ohioflagsofhonor.org.


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Cayo Santa Maria, Caibarien, Villa Clara
Posted by: Tammy on Jan 25, 2015
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Playa Cayo Santa María Located on the sea front of one of the Cuba's most stunning beaches, Cayo Santa Maria, an area renowned for its white sands and clear blue waters, beautiful beaches where nature is almost virgin and very well preserved, especially designed for the enjoyment of couples and families.
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Posted by: Tammy
on Jan 25, 2015 >
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Visited on: Jan, 2015 | Leisure | With Group
436 people found this review helpful
Resort was GREAT! perfect size and well laid out.. it took us approx 4-5 minutes to get from our room (near beach) to front lobby /buffet or anywhere!!
hotel had lots of bars!! Only saw 3 small lizards all week –didn't see any bugs really but I did get a few good bites at night... nothing major
Rooms were clean, up to date modern (with exception of needing converter in bathroom- which we had . however the table lamps had regular outlet to charge phone/camera etc...
I actually had hot water for my while shower.. with good water pressure!
Air conditioner worked well! rooms had lots of tv channels too!
Beach is absolutely beautiful – 2 beach bars – 1 beach buffet..and also a small snack hut on beach that had grilled sandwiches..
pools were great too (there were 4 large pool areas and a small kids pool area) – lots of chairs/ beds everywhere! ..looks like they had a great kids club ( for those with little kids)
Resort had lots of bars, a sit down snack bar with made to order food..
Food was as expected for Cuba.. I had fresh roasted chicken everyday – lots of fish/ seafood. Lobster was had a few times too.
Had cucumbers, fruit like bananas, pears, peaches. Each buffet had the several cook to order stations for meat,fish, pasta, omelettes..even a made to order personal pizza station..also had a station they made fresh donuts. They had a beer bar( even had bottles of beer there) and a nestle ice cream bar( had ice cream sandwiches and cones..
We actually did 3 a la cartes and they were great!!! (I don;t usually do those) we did Seafood For hubby's birthday they gave us a bottle of Champaign and a cake for us all to share.
We did full day catamaran trip( approx$120 canadian) (snorkelling / dolphin beach and dinner) always fun!! We also did the 4 hour deep sea fishing trip - expensive but was worth it – we had fun and hubby caught a barracuda and brotherinlaw caught a mackerel....
New Years Eve was fabulous!!!
Overall service was good.....nothing exceptional but no one was really rude.....The breakfast serving staff were the nicest (the ones who cleared tables brought you orange juice) We paid for ocean view room and on arrival did not get it and they just said " no rooms available" but after a couple trips to the front desk and talking to our Hola rep... we all had ocean view rooms by 3 pm the next day and a bottle of rum!! I would still go back this resort in a heart beat..
Ride to resort was 2 hours from airport but well worth it!
Cubana Airlines did not offer welcome cocktails, we didnt get this at the resort either.. Cubana plane did not have duty free and we had to buy all drinks including pop..they took cash which was good as most airlines only take credit cards now. But the price of the trip was right so these things didnt really matter
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"no doubt the best hotel"
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Visited on: Jul, 2014 | Leisure | Solo
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It is no doubt that this is the best all inclusive resort that they have in Cuba, it is one of the hotels I have had good experience in while visiting Cuba on my vacation. I stayed in one of their standard rooms but I have to say that the price is on the big side but I am not complaining because everything was provided. I had a nice week stay in paradise because that is how I see this hotel, everything you will need is in the room and the room is big. The king size bed they have in the rooms are quite good and comfortable, the sheets are clean and smelled nice, I want to lay on the bed all day long and not leave the room. The room has a contemporary bathroom with all the hair dryers and showers and all of that all are functional and the room itself have a working air condition that functions well as well. They have a few pools in the resort and they are all clean, they are warm enough for swimming and swim up pool bars around for drinks when you come out of the water. The lobby bar is open 24 hours a day and they serve very tasty drinks, other bars at the hotel are also nice. They have four a la caret restaurants on site that is a must if you are going to be staying at this hotel. I had a fabulous stay and will come back.
"magical island to visit"
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pedro on Jun 29, 2014 >
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Visited on: May, 2014 | Leisure | Family and Kids
502 people found this review helpful
I travelled with my family on our annual vacation to this place and it was great. We arranged with the hotel before coming and she was pretty helpful throughout the arrangements. I and my family stayed on the second floor and rooms with ocean view so it was amazing, I think the building was the number 5 one and it had adjoining room. The air condition and other amenities were in perfect working condition. The rooms are clean and not smelly like most hotels and the beds are soft and comfortable as well. The beach is very beautiful and the hotel grounds are clean. The staff around during our stay was really helpful and polite and strives to make sure you are comfortable. The food was good but my family complained of having the same meal, more like repetition of same food everyday and got bored of it so we had to eat out some of the time. The fruits and coffee in this hotel were great. We mostly loved the seafood restaurant, that was our best and also the Italian was great. Due to the location of the hotel, there are usually mosquitoes but it's no fault of the hotel because they try to spray insect replant often but it didn't really help. Entertainment here was great and the cleaning crew did their best to make sure the place was spotless. We spent just 8 days here and we will be coming back for more of the island magic soon.


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Nowadays we get the nicest videos about guys and their waveboards, strapped, strapless.
Most of the time, we see the nicest waveriding, schredding waves and different styles.
But....what I seem to miss, is how these wavers get through this massive surf, breaks, high waves.
This could also be interesting, to see how to etc...
Suggestions, links?