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/ Monday, April 12, 2010 / 9 Comments / Seafood , Thai
Steamed Fish With Garlic, Lime, and Chilies
Thai style Steamed Fish With Garlic, Lime, and Chilies is one of my favorite ways to steam fresh fish. This is a "must order" dish for me when I dine at any of my favorite Thai food restaurants that has it in their menu. The fish is usually served whole; but, here I have opted to use Barramundi fillets instead. This is a quick dish to prepare, it will take less than 20 minutes from prep, cook, to serve! Just make sure you have some steamed rice to go with it. Enjoy.
Steamed Fish With Garlic, Lime, and Chilies
(Printable Recipe)
2 Barramundi Fillets (230-250 g)
3 Cloves Garlic, chopped
3 Tbsp Freshly Squeeze Lime Juice
5 to 8 Thai Bird's Eye Chilies, chopped
¼ Cup Chicken Stock or Water
1 Tbsp Fish Sauce
1 tsp Sugar
Scallions, for garnish
Coriander, for garnish
Lime Slices, for garnish
In a small bowl, mix the garlic, lime juice, chilies, stock or water, fish sauce, and sugar.
Arrange the fish in an oven or stovetop proof plate and pour the garlic mixture over the fish.
Steam the fish on high heat for about 8 to 10 minutes, or until the fish is fully cook.
Serve the fish immediately with the garnishes.
Serves 4
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That looks amazing, I love the colors ~ so fresh! I am growing those chilis in my garden right now, I can't wait. Saving this for later. Great post, thank you ~LeslieMicheleReplyDelete
Really, really beautiful, and I really, really mean it! GREGReplyDelete
Oh my that looks delicious. I made something very similar last week. I never thought to add lime. I will next time. Thank you.ReplyDelete
I love this type of steam fish and just the title is making my mouth water. I would add shredded lime leaves and thinly sliced lemongrass with my version.ReplyDelete
I'm only just starting to play around with different ways to prepare fish, so I'll be giving this one a try soon enough. The thought of using Bird's Eye Chilies is what sold me on this recipe. love the heat.ReplyDelete
I really love this recipe! I'm definitely going to try it tonight! :)ReplyDelete
It is surely yummy n healthy!ReplyDelete
hellow.. just wondering u said fish sauce rite what king of fish sause to use cause i want to buy it in supermarket later..ReplyDelete
@fenteh: Hah! I just had the steamed fish for dinner. Anyway, the fish sauce brand is Squid from Thailand.ReplyDelete


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Despite widespread acknowledgment of the healing power of breast milk, there are no milk banks in New England. The last one in the area closed in 2001. Newton resident Naomi Bar-Yam wants to change that.
Renae Brown felt helpless in her daughter's battle to live.
Because her newborn baby Summer was born four months premature, Renae's body wasn't making the milk her daughter needed to survive. Formulas wouldn't provide the nourishment she required and, despite two shots in the stomach a day, Renae couldn't make milk.
Her hospital ordered milk from a bank in the Carolinas. And, thanks in part to the milk, Summer is a healthy 16-month old.
Calling milk from banks "liquid gold," Renae said, "With breast milk, newborn babies don't get as many colds and they have a better chance at surviving. Breast milk is the best thing for babies, especially premature ones. Now, knowing about milk banks, I wouldn't have done it any differently."
Despite widespread acknowledgment of the healing power of breast milk, there are no milk banks in New England. The last one in the area closed in 2001.Newton resident Naomi Bar-Yam wants to change that.
She is converting a second floor in the Carr School, empty except for an oversized freezer and a few posters, into a milk dispensary.
The starkly dressed room, heavy with heat during a recent summer afternoon, is all that's needed to form the roots of a grocery store for newborns.
In a few weeks, the freezer will be stacked with jelly jars of human milk, and new mothers will be squeezing in a stop between other errands.
At least that's the plan for Naomi Bar-Yam, who has rallied support behind a milk dispensary after the last one in the area closed.
Banked human milk is widely recognized as the best alternative to mothers' milk in situations in which a child is born prematurely, according to Bar-Yam. Because many women are having children later in life, more children are born prematurely, resulting in an increased need for donated breast milk, Bar Yam said. But the milk would also be provided to babies whose mothers are too sick or physically unable to nurse or newborns who are adopted.
"For all the research out there, we have not and cannot reproduce human milk," Newton resident Bar-Yam said. "Human babies were not meant to consume cow milk. Their systems aren't meant to digest it. Milk is species specific."
But human milk is not always widely available. Mothers looking to provide such milk to their newborns, and who are themselves unable to nurse, must special-order milk from Ohio.
The Newtonville milk bank would provide mothers with a site closer to home to get milk for their newborns. And, in the next year, Bar-Yam said they may be able to accept donations.
While milk-sharing has always been a facet of human history, the first established milk bank was opened in Vienna in 1909, according to research Bar-Yam has done. A year later, the first bank in the United States opened in Boston.
Milk banks took a big hit during the AIDS scare in the 1980s and the Human Milk Banking Association of North America introduced more rigid screening. Yet, in 40 years of modern milk banking, there has never been a documented case of an infant being harmed by donor milk, Bar-Yam said, adding "We know we are dealing with a population that's very vulnerable."
Bar-Yam, executive director of the nonprofit, became involved with milk sharing when she was pregnant with her third son in Israel. She donated her milk to a baby born premature, whose mother was unable to nurse.
Years later, she used stored milk to ease her father's illness, believing in the healing powers of the substance.
"I knew that human milk has anecdotally been known to shrink tumors," she said. "And I wanted to give [my father] more than I had [stored]. That's when I discovered there was no milk bank in New England."
In 2006, she gathered friends and neighbors in her Newton Centre living room to lay the foundations of what would become the Mothers Milk Bank of New England.
Marcia Marker Feld was at some of the first meetings of the group. The professor of city planning, who now works as treasurer for the nonprofit, wants to expand access to natural feeding. Feld had children in the time when women were discouraged from natural childbirth and nursing babies.
"I wanted to breastfeed," she said. "But doctors were united against doing any such thing. They believed it would hurt the child's immune system." She got involved with the group to give mothers the option as to how they feed their child.
"There is an educational component to what the milk bank is doing," she said. "We want to raise the awareness of women to know that they have these choices."
Generally, mothers of premature babies have a more difficult time producing milk, and rely on milk bank programs to provide their children the nutrients they need to survive, Bar-Yam said.
In 2006, about 350 babies were treated in the NICU at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, among them several very low birth weight (less than 3.5 pounds) and very preterm (before 32 weeks gestation) babies, Bar-Yam said.
"The effort involved in making safe banked milk available to our most vulnerable babies is a testament to the importance of human milk for all babies," Bar-Yam said.
Asked why milk banks have been absent from New England, Ilene Fabisch, a lactation consultant, responded that there is not enough research to prove the benefit of human milk to developing babies.
Fabisch said that those communities that have established milk banks have recognized the advantage of natural milk.
"The benefits that breast milk provides can't be matched by animals," said Fabisch, who serves as clinical director to the milk bank in Newton. "Babies were biologically devised to receive human milk. It benefits the immune system tremendously."
Recognizing a need in the area, Bar-Yam approached Mayor David Cohen to inquire about a temporary space she could launch the bank. She had researched hospitals, but learned that many were short on space and not as accessible as other locations. Cohen immediately suggested the Carr School, which will have space available through August 2009.
"This is not a permanent space," Bar-Yam said, looking around her at the empty classroom. "We don't know the fate of this school." She added, "But, we are an important community resource, and I am excited to start here in Newton."
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Paul S. Lee is a National Managing Director of Bernstein Global Wealth Management, a position he assumed in 2006; he is also a member of the firm's Wealth Management Group, which he rejoined in 2008. Previously, he had been a managing director in the London and New York offices. Prior to joining the firm in 2000 as a Wealth Management Group director, he was a partner in the Atlanta-based law firm of Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP. Lee received a BA, cum laude, in English and a BA in chemistry from Cornell University, and a JD, with honors, from Emory University School of Law, where he was notes and comments editor of the Emory Law Journal; he also received an LLM in taxation from Emory University. Lee was the recipient of the Georgia Federal Tax Conference Award for Outstanding Tax Student and the Ernst & Young Award for Tax and Accounting. A frequent lecturer and panelist on investment planning and tax and estate planning, Lee has spoken at the Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, the ACTEC National Meeting, the ABA Tax-RPTE Joint National CLE Conference, the Southern Federal Tax Institute, the USC Institute on Federal Taxation and the Notre Dame Tax and Estate Planning Institute. His articles have been published by The ACTEC Law Journal; BNA Tax Management Estates, Gifts and Trusts Journal; BNA Tax Management Memorandum; The Practical Tax Lawyer; Major Tax Planning; Trusts & Estates; and the Emory Law Journal.


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Elizabeth Warren, establishment critic, showing restraint as she prepares for clubby Senate
Warren looking for the 'little cracks that are windows of opportunity'
Elizabeth Warren is resigning the tenured post at Harvard Law School that took her 30 years to achieve. She has met privately with her former opponent, Scott Brown, who addressed her as professor instead of senator-elect. And she has spoken half a dozen times with majority leader Harry Reid about her new role in the Senate.
But during her first extensive interview since her victory last month, Warren said she had no bills or initiatives ready to propose when she becomes senator next month. Instead, she said, she is studying the ways of the Senate, looking into issues that others have proposed, and seeking out alliances.
The conciliatory approach may surprise those who expected the self-proclaimed rock-thrower to arrive with a slingshot, and play the role of constant critic, forever dishing with Jon Stewart and Rachel Maddow.
Warren, who once promised to throw her body in front of bad bills if she won office, acknowledged that in the Senate, with its tradition of deference to senior members, the road to power often requires discretion.
"Here's how I see this,'' Warren said. "My job is to be effective on behalf of Massachusetts, and so what I'm trying to parse through is the difference between how much of this is about your own initiative, how much it's about finding other bills that are really what you'd like to see get done and offering to be helpful, [and] how much it's looking for the little cracks that are windows of opportunity.''
Certainly, Warren is not promising a retreat. She said she will continue to be an outspoken voice on her priorities, which she described as filibuster reform, lowering college debt, financial regulation, and public infrastructure and clean energy investment, all of which she said will help the middle class. She said she wants to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, which the Supreme Court also announced on Friday that it would review.
"I'm not patient,'' she said, as if to assure supporters she won't be tamed. "I'm not patient.''
But she said she will choose her tactics carefully, keeping quiet when it suits her objective and making noise when she sees the need.
"I don't think those are inconsistent,'' she said. "I want to use every tool in the tool box because I want to help get things done. And sometimes the best way to do that is quietly, let everyone else take credit and, sometimes, it's to be willing to stand outside and call everyone out over it. I'm open to any part of that.''
She described her crowning policy achievement, the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that raised her national profile, as one of those cracks of opportunity, a once far-fetched notion that became possible after the bank bailouts infuriated much of the nation.
"I knew they were going to have to rewrite the financial rules,'' she said. "And if they're going to have to rewrite the financial rules, that's going to create an opening to rethink consumer finance.''
During an hourlong interview in the office of her campaign adviser, Doug Rubin, Warren looked as if she had regained much of the energy that had been sapped in the aftermath of a yearlong campaign. She tapped her fingers on the table to underscore points, went off on spirited tangents about the need for medical research spending, and joked that she is losing job security by giving up lifetime tenure for a mere six-year term in the Senate.
Warren's victory on Nov. 6 elated Democrats around the country, and vanquished Brown, a rising star in the Republican Party. Their contentious battle was the nation's most expensive Senate race, with about $80 million spent between the candidates. Early in the race, Warren introduced herself to the Democratic base as an uncompromising fighter for the middle class and a liberal counterweight to the Tea Party.
In her interview last week, Warren showed a caution that has developed over the last year, as she evolved from a watchdog working outside the power structure into a political player entering its inner sanctum.
On one of the most pressing issues knotting Washington, the fiscal cliff, Warren avoided drawing bright lines. She declined to describe specific tax rates and spending cuts she would endorse as part of a deal to avert the mandatory tax hikes and spending cuts that will take effect at month's end unless Washington reaches a deal.
"I don't know how to answer the question,'' she said. "Let's see what they've got.''
Warren will be sworn in Jan. 3, when it's possible a deal could already be in place.
She reiterated that she wants the Bush tax cuts to expire for the top 2 percent of taxpayers and said she would reduce spending by eliminating tax benefits for oil companies and agriculture subsidies, and reducing military spending. Those were all issues she talked about on the campaign trail.
She said she would oppose cuts to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, but is open to "technocratic'' changes to Medicare that she declined to specify.
In a nod to Senate protocol, she declined to name the committees she wants to serve on, or even to confirm published reports that she has already secured a position on the Senate banking committee.
And if there are scores to settle after a brutal campaign — over how she was attacked as a wealthy creature of the Ivy League who unfairly benefited from her declaration that she is part Native American — Warren isn't settling them in public.
"You know, it's over,'' Warren said, shaking her head and flatly refusing to talk about the campaign. "Come on. What's in the rearview mirror doesn't matter. What matters is what happens now.''
Warren said she has rested little during the past month, aside from a Thanksgiving trip to see her grandchildren in California. Instead, she has made "about a kazillion'' calls to thank supporters, seek advice from friends and adversaries, and make pitches for committee assignments.
She has been to Washington a few times for orientation and an unsuccessful hunt for an apartment. And she has been shutting down her campaign operation and interviewing staff for what will be a smaller apparatus than her $42 million campaign, which had 130 employees.
She said she wants an apartment within walking distance of her Senate office, which, owing to her freshman status, will be in a basement building.
Bruce Mann, Warren's husband, will continue to teach at Harvard Law School and remain in the couple's Cambridge home, which will also be her primary residence.
Warren said she would have some regret about leaving the nation's most prestigious university, but added, without a trace of irony, that her new job may also prove interesting.
"I remind myself that I'm going to be happy in the United States Senate,'' she said. "I'm going to find things I love to do.''
In a meeting potentially fraught with raw feelings, Warren said she visited with Brown for 30 minutes in his Senate office in Washington last month, when she was in town for orientation. She said she doesn't recall any talk of the campaign.
"I thought it went well,'' Warren said. "I asked him a lot about the Senate, about what he did, about what advice he had, what surprised him most.''
With a slight chuckle, she said Brown continued to address her as "professor,'' a title he seemed to use at every turn during the campaign and that rankled some of Warren's supporters who saw it as a veiled charge of elitism.
Marcie Kinzel, a Brown spokeswoman, confirmed the meeting was cordial and focused in part on ensuring that constituent services are not interrupted during the transition. She declined to discuss other aspects of the meeting.
Warren said Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has not called or introduced himself, although she heard him speak at a dinner for Senate freshmen.
Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, whom she has known for years through her work on banking issues, has been one of the nicest Republicans, Warren said.
Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, who supported Brown, also called her after the election, an act she called particularly gracious.
The man who will be Warren's senior colleague, John F. Kerry, would make "an extraordinary secretary of state,'' Warren said. But she would not say whether she thinks the president should nominate him or Ambassador Susan E. Rice, who is said to be Obama's first choice for the job.
Warren refused to speculate on whether Democrats could hold Kerry's Senate seat if he leaves, a scenario that could create an opening for a Brown comeback.
"I'm not in the pundit business,'' Warren said.
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Gary, in war situation or something like now between two Korea's ,what's the logic for Gold to go down? I disagree here.ReplyDelete
Gold is late enough in the intermediate cycle that it could begin the move down into the intermediate cycle low. Presumably it would use the dollar strength as an excuse to begin the move.ReplyDelete
Just be careful with leverage here. If this is the beginning of an intermediate correction then this is how gold traps the dip buyers.
Thank you!. Really very tricky situation and I will listen to you to be carefull with levarage . I will be convinced if Dolar broke old high at 79.46,other way its still not clear.ReplyDelete
Gary, think we may see the metals rise here, counterintuitvely to dollar. Interesting week! Not selling.ReplyDelete
Dollar is up == gold is up == and silver is down.ReplyDelete
Silver formed a swing high today. Do you think that silver may be leading the precious metals into an correction?
Most of the time swings are meaningless. I wouldn't read anything into silver. Right now I'm watching the dollar. It's not doing what it's suppoosed to do. Gold can certainly rally along with a rising dollar but I don't think we will see a large parabolic spike higher if the dollar is rising.ReplyDelete
Gary,I exit my huge possitions in Silver and Gold today. I only left half of my core possition in Gold. Maybe Gold has another 30 - 50 pips up,maybe not but considering your advice yesterday it's really too late and too risky to stay with big possition long at the end of intermediate bull rally.ReplyDelete
Thank you for the advice once again!
Apreciate your work!
I think this is all a profound example of how gold and silver are outperforming the dollar into these dollar rallies. This silly dollar / euro relationship is such a joke. Neither currency is linked or anchored to anything other than some computers at the NY Fed and the Bank of England along with their beard operations in the club. Gold isn't buying any of this sophomoric nonsense. I think gold rallies or stays very stable and this time it comes from erosion of the Eurozone, a wild experiment of the new world order's faithful puppetmaster followers.ReplyDelete
I would like to get your take on the $GOLD:$USD ratio.
There appears to be a water fall decline and then consolidation (crawl) along the 50 MA. This crawl is typically a continuation pattern.
That would suggest a larger sell off gold - just in time for an intermediate decline in gold...?
I'm not sure why you are trying to divide gold by the dollar. Gold is already priced in dollars.ReplyDelete
On top of that haven't we all learned our lesson many times in the past that past price behavior doesn't guarantee future price behavior. It's the reason most people never make any money by only looking at charts.
Charts are nothing more than a record of history, and history isn't the future.
Just stick with cycles, sentiment & the big picture fundamentals and you will make money.
Get side tracked by charts and you will probably manage to lose money in a bull market.
You say charts will get you into trouble and just follow the cycles? What is to say the cycles wont get you into trouble either. I dont think I have ever seen a good call made by an elliot waver and thats what these cycles are arent they? Maybe I am mistaken. The real use of technical analysis is not as a prediction tool but as a quick reaction one. Where as I guess your cycle theories are based on prediction, also they are based on what has happened in the past, something you say to be wary of.
Since I have followed your blog you have made some good calls, but I am not convinced with cycles. Please explain what theory backs up the fact the market does a certain thing every 24 days or whatever according to a cycle. Do the big boys say - 'heh lets all buy together to make a cycle every three weeks'
As a technician I have done quite Ok out of using charts as have lots of others. Granted I am not a fan of chart patterns but there are certain things on charts that definetly are relevant.
Hey big coach, do you have any comments on the head and shoulder pattern on Gold?ReplyDelete
What to do now, buy, sell, hold or do nothing?
Cycles are not EW. EW IMO is completely worthless.
We have a very good plan in place to prevent us from riding an intermediate correction. So I suspect most everyone is just following the plan.
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Don't worry. Be happy. Gold is going higher. Way higher. Just be glad you have it. Back in April I got an epiphany that this move would happen and here we are. Up and away we go, soon. Best to buy while it's still affordable. There may come a day when none of us can afford it. I think doubting is the biggest enemy right now. Now is the time to have faith. These uncertain times are exactly why we bought gold... And uncertainty is at peak levels right now. I didn't worry about gold at all today. Granted it's been volatile, but is there anything else out there to own? Nope!ReplyDelete
Gary, What correction?ReplyDelete
Days like this are what put us die hard gold bugs in the driver's seat. Today was a "freebee" for us. The metals rallied with the dollar, we're outperforming everything, and we're sittin pretty puttin on weight. Looks like we've got a good 20% upside from here at least. I'm thinking 25% - 30% is more like it. When this dollar rally starts rolling over, it'll be time to "Release the hounds!" Get ready!ReplyDelete
There is an intermediate degree correction coming. We certainly aren't going to get 20-30% before that correction unfolds.
Right now we are on the 9th day of the current daily cycle. The trough usually comes around day 20-25. Once we get that minor correction in the next week or two then we can expect gold to quickly roll over into an intermediate decline before a final leg up in the spring.
That's when we will see the next big 30% move.
Ok Toby thanks have fun at that great beach hopefully you'll see some other great scenery at that beach too! If you do get a chance to snap some pictures at that beach.... Please do me and all of your wonderful followers here the favor of posting those beautiful PG - 13 pictures right here on the site!ReplyDelete


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PIANY applauds NYSID's new online producer licensing search
GLENMONT, N.Y.-The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. is praising the New York State Insurance Department on the newest feature on its website, which will allow consumers and insurance industry professionals to determine if insurance agents and brokers are licensed in New York state.
PIANY participated in a joint industry-department working group, established to identify efficiencies and simplify the process of working with the department. The group discussed plans to implement this and other online tools. PIA-member agents have long told the association that verification of licensing status would benefit both consumers and the industry.
"PIA members are licensed experts, who want every measure taken to ensure our industrys integrity and professionalism are preserved," said PIANY President Donna Chiapperino. "We applaud the NYSID for its effort to encourage consumers to protect themselves while simplifying the process by which they can do so."
The NYSID encourages consumers and industry professionals with questions to call the Insurance Departments Consumer Services Bureau from 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday through Friday toll-free at (800) 342-3736, or e-mail or write the department using the address information that can be found on the departments website, here .
PIA members also have access to the associations member-exclusive Industry Resource Center, which helps agents and brokers with questions about licensing, as well as all of their other business, regulatory and insurance needs, at (800) 424-42444, or online at www.pia.org/IRC.
PIANY is a trade association representing professional, independent insurance agencies, brokerages and their employees throughout the state.


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KIRIBATI'S partially state-owned fisheries company Kiribati Fish Ltd, which is controlled by Shanghai Fisheries General Corporation (Group), announced late last year it will supply fish certified as sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). Under the partnership with Pacifical, which markets MSC tuna caught in PNA waters, Kiribati Fish is expected to process MSC-certified yellowfin tuna steaks and loins bound for the EU and US.
The supply begins this month. Kiribati Fish has already spent around $10million in its processing factory in Tarawa, said managing director, Xue Jun Du. Kiribati Fish was formed in 2010 as a partnership between the government of Kiribati (40 per cent), Golden Ocean Fish of Fiji (40 pc), and Shanghai Fisheries. Golden Ocean Fish is also owned by Shanghai Fisheries, meaning the Chinese firm controls 60 pc of Kiribati Fish.
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JOSEPH Parker became the Pacific's first world boxing champion after beat - ing Mexico's Andy Ruiz in Auckland, New Zealand for the vacant WBO title. Now honoured as a matai, the New Zealand-born Luoesoliai Laauliaalemalietoa Joseph Parker has been feted in his motherland of Samoa by local dignitaries.
He is also the first New Zealand born world champion. Fijian Alipate Kororovou held the Commonwealth Middleweight title in the 1970s but no Pacific islander has ever been world champion untiol now. Samoan Prime Minister, Tuilaepa Lupesoliai Neioti Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi, was instrumental in ensuring his country paid $USD100,000 for promotional rights during the fight.
The money went towards promoting Samoa as a tourist destination as it ramps up hotel construction and airport refurbishment projects.
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THE Solomon Islands has introduced online registration for business applicants at the Business Registry. Launched last week with a new look, Company Haus website caters to online applications for foreign investment licenses and business name registrations. The launch was made possible by the joint efforts of the Ministry of Commerce, Industries, Labour & Immigration (MCILI) and the Asia Development Bank (ADB) with support from the Australian and New Zealand governments as co-financers of ADB's Pacific Private Sector Development Initiative (PSDI). The online service is a huge boost and will save business applicants the usual time and travel constraints.
Solomon Islands Chamber of Commerce and Industry Chair Jay Bartlett said the achievement was a very important milestone for the growth and enhancement of the business sector. Bartlett applauded the online services' accessible reach for sole traders or SMEs who wanted to join the formal economy. "We encourage our local men and women to explore this exciting new opportunity," Bartlett said. "As a chamber we are continuingly looking for ways to better support new and small businesses that can create employment and jobs for our future." Hunter Masuguria, the MCILI Acting Permanent Secretary, launched the website upgrade.
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Bishops speak on Papua CATHOLIC bishops from across the Pacific region have declared support for West Papua to have a greater international voice. Dignity for West Papuans was a focus issue for the executive committee of the Federation of Catholic Bishops' Conferences of Oceania in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Pacific Islands meeting in Port Moresby. Toowoomba Bishop Robert McGuckin and Parramatta Bishop Vincent Long represented Australia. "They (West Papuans) seek what every family and culture seeks: respect of personal and communal dignity, free expression of one's aspirations, and good neighbourly relations," the Catholic bishops said in a statement. "Political boundaries can never contain or control ethnic relationships and so we urge governments to support the West Papuan people's desire to participate fully in the Melanesian Spearhead Group."
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The Uto Ni Yalo sails from Fiji to Vanuatu and then to Bougainville where it will load cocoa beans for New Zealand.
ORGANICALLY-grown cocoa beans from Bougainville will be shipped to New Zealand using ancient Pacific seafaring traditions. One tonne of beans will be sun-dried on the deck of the Fiji-flagged Uto Ni Yalo – which sailed more than halfway across the world using only the wind, waves and the stars for navigation – on the way to the Wellington Chocolate Factory. The voyage, which started from Suva on July 28, was made possible with philanthropic donations of 449 people who pledged more than $NZ37,000 on the crowdfunding network Kickstarter. "This is a chance for us to show that we, the people of the Pacific, can export our produce using sustainable shipping methods," said Uto Ni Yalo captain, Angelo Smith. Funds raised will go towards a cocoa farming community in Bougainville.
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Luc Greggain necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 18 diseños de 5 diseñadores freelance.
Simply Natural, PuraLean
We are a health supplement company that makes natural supplements with no stimulants. PuraLean is an incredible weight loss cleanse supplement and I have never been more existed about brining a product to market.
The most important ingredent in PuraLean is called LuraLean and it can absorb up to 200 times is weight in water creating a viscous fiber in your stumack and telling your brain that you are full.
My target audience is a female ages 40 to 70, typically over weight and looking to slim down.
I am looking for a creative label design for my new product PuraLean.
Attached you will find:
- Labels for my other products(CLA Ultimate and Pure CoQ10), please stick to similar colours.
- Label Report from lawyer, This is instructions from the lawyer about what to put on the label
-PuraLean SF- this is the supplements facts panel for the label in a word doc.
For now focus on the primary display... Specifically the name PuralLean. This panel should read:
PuraLean TM
Weight Loss and Detox Supplement
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This project is supported by The Central Qld Coast Landcare Network through funding from the Australian Government's Caring for our Country
Whitsunday Catchment Landcare is supported by Whitsunday Regional Council and Reef Catchments (Mackay Whitsunday Isaac) Limited
provision of the nursery site, irrigation water and mulch for revegetation projects
in kind donation of administrative support
Who is Whitsunday Catchment Landcare?
WCL is a community organisation comprised of various stakeholders including agriculture, community and business as well as individual community members
Whitsunday Catchment Landcare Inc. is:
As an incorporated association, WCL is guided by an elected management committee. The current management committee members are:
WCL currently has four part-time staff members.
Objects of the Association.
Like all incorporated associations, WCL is guided by Rules of Association lodged with the Office of Fair Trading. These rules include the Objects of the Association. WCL's Objects are:
To promote the planned and sustainable management of the O'Connell, Andromache, Proserpine and Gregory River catchments in a constructive and balanced way in order to protect and enhance the natural environment by actions such as:
1. Fostering coordination between landholder, community actions groups and government agencies in their land, water and vegetation management activities.
2. Promotion of community and government understanding of the interactions between land usage, waters, soils, vegetation and wildlife of the catchment.
3. Promotion of the value of a coordinated catchment wide approach for managing these resources.
4. Identification and prioritisation of interrelated land and water resource issues in the catchment.
5. Promotion of solutions and actions through public and government participation as part of catchment management strategies.
6. Provision of a forum for community and government discussions on catchment management issues for resolving conflicting demands on natural resources.
7. To encourage the conservation of native flora and fauna by integrating nature conservation practices with rural and residential land uses for the benefit of the countryside and the community.
8. To establish and maintain a public fund to be called the "Whitsunday Catchment Landcare Fund" for the specific purpose of supporting the environmental objects/purposes of Whitsunday Catchment Landcare Inc. The fund is established to receive all gifts of money or property for this purpose and any money received because of such gifts must be credited to its bank account. The fund must not receive any other money or property into its account and it must comply with subdivision 30-E of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997.


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Andreasu necesitaba un nuevo diseño de botón o icono y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 18 diseños de 4 diseñadores freelance.
Blueconomics Business Solutions, Switzerland
We are a team of young entrepreneurs building a unique software service to support sales teams to win by applying social sales maps and analysis to complex B2B enterprise sales.
Business users in sales, marketing and services. The design needs to be very simple and intuitive. Any idea on how can we manage to have it look innovative but still reflect the seriousness of a business application?
We need a 4-directional panning control for map navigation, similar to google maps control (see map.png attached):
Technically, we need 6 separate Files:
- 4 arrow images, each pointing in another direction, with transparent background,
- one central image to reset the zoom, also with transparent background (no hand symbol, please, be innovative ;-)),
- one background image, that represents the circle around the 4 arrows
This will allow us to:
put all these images together in a UI flex-object
- apply a "glow" effect to the arrows for mouse-over
Attention: Please use 100% the look and feel (grescale, transparency etc) of the sample icons provided (company or zoom control). PLease be innovative on the form factor instead. Prio: The more self-explaining the control, the better....


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Google, the word not the company, has become such a common word for anyone who uses a computer (other than the yahoos who still use Yahoo, I guess) that it's surprising to learn that other languages have a different word for it. Like Italians say Googlare. Or that the Portugese say Googlar. It gets weirder.
The Atlantic Wire explains that the phrase "to Google" has become translated to other languages and listed some examples:
- Spanish: googlear and guglear
- Italian: googlare
- Portuguese: googlar or guglar
- German: googeln and googlen
- French: googler
- Swedish: att googla
- Hebrew: l'gagel
- Slovenian: proguglati or poguglati
- Polish – googlować
- Finnish: googlata
- Czech: vygooglit
That doesn't even include Russian (гуглить/gugleet or googleet) or Greek (γκουγκλίζω/googlizo). Check out the full list at the Atlantic Wire.
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Welcome to the Jericho Cafe, your friendly neighbourhood licensed bistro,
minutes from the city centre yet tucked away in fashionable, bustling Jericho,
with delicious home-made food served by friendly people from early 'till late.
Whether it's excellent coffee you want, a full English breakfast, light healthy lunch,
tea and a (large!) slice of home-made cake, or a full evening meal after a film
at the independent cinema across the street- we've got it covered at the Jericho Cafe.
'The Jericho Cafe, Oxford. A real buzzy, neighbourhood cafe that does great food at good prices.
The breakfasts are large and there is a good vegetarian option, or you could opt for a melt -
maybe the Cumberland sausage, caramelised red onion and Brie. What's not to like?'
Did you know, we offer free and superfast wifi!!!


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Got thoughts about mortality? Death Café Corvallis is simply in order to listen and talk about death.
Death Café Corvallis is not a support group, therapeutic agenda, debate society, social action group, religious or anti-religious organization, political committee, or sales pitch.
Our welcoming, friendly and intelligent café is open to everyone who participates in a welcoming, friendly and open manner. Our guiding principles are respect, openess, and confidentiality.
If you accept those principles, come drink coffee, eat cake, and discuss death with interesting people.
About Jon Louis Dorbolo
Look for the guy in the black tie. That's Jon, who attends the death Cafe Corvallis as a participant. It is the participants as a whole who bring life to this conversation about death. Come talk truth to mortality.
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Service Plus - A Commitment to Quality
NEC have built a world-renowned reputation developing Display Solutions that offer the ultimate in quality, performance and longevity. We have become recognised for professional performance and our product philosophy has enabled NEC to become a leading name in the Finance, Transportation, Colour, Corporate, Healthcare, Retail, Education and Cinema sectors.
NEC Service Plus takes that philosophy further for the entire sales cycle from pre-sales through to the replacement phase. We take the guessing out of installing and managing a Display Solution inventory over a standard or extended lifecycle. Our customers can concentrate on their business activities, confident that their IT infrastructure is underwritten by the Service Plus promise.
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Perversion for Profit is a 1965 propaganda film financed by Charles Keating and narrated by news reporter George Putnam. A vehement diatribe against pornography, the film argues that sexually explicit materials corrupt young viewers and readers, leading to acts of violence and "perverted" attitudes regarding sex—including inclination toward homosexuality. Although Perversion for Profit is quite serious in its suggestion that pornography could erode the integrity of American culture, Peter L. Stein of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote in a 2003 review that it was "shrill and sometimes comical".
Today, Perversion for Profit is in the public domain, and due largely to its unintentional humor value, it has become popular on the Prelinger Archives website and on YouTube. As Peter L. Stein observes in an article for the San Francisco Chronicle, however, the film also has considerable historical significance, serving as a sort of time capsule of pornography from the era as well as an example of historical concerns regarding media influence:
…as the parade of girlie magazine covers, men's physique pictorials and campy S&M leaflets continues, the film betrays a kind of prurience the filmmakers could hardly have intended. What results is a remarkable visual record of midcentury underground literature and sexual appetites, and a gloss on the values of the society that condemned them.
"Now, you might ask yourself 'Why this sudden concern? Pornography and sex deviation have always been with mankind.' This is true. But, now, consider another fact: never in the history of the world have the merchants of obscenity, the teachers of unnatural sex acts, had available to them the modern facilities for disseminating this filth. High-speed presses, rapid transportation, mass distribution: all have combined to put the vilest obscenity within reach of every man, woman, and child in the country."—George Putnam, narrator.
"This same type of rot and decay caused sixteen of the nineteen major civilizations to vanish from the Earth. Magnificent Egypt, classical Greece, imperial Rome, all crumbled away not because of the strength of the aggressor, but because of moral decay from within. But we are in a unique position to cure our own ills: our Constitution was written by men who put their trust in God and founded a government based in His laws. These laws are on our side. We have a constitutional guarantee of protection against obscenity. And, in this day especially, we must seek to deliver ourselves from this twisting, torturing evil. We must save our nation from decay and deliver our children from the horrors of perversion. We must make our land, 'the land of the free', a safe home. Oh, God, deliver us, Americans, from evil."—George Putnam, narrator (closing words).
"This moral decay weakens our resistance to the onslaught of the communist masters of deceit." —George Putnam, narrator.
File under Culture, History of Pornography, Horror, SeMeN SPeRmS BLArRrG, SeMeN SPeRmS ViDeO CLuB, Sex
Conjured by o~ SeMeN SPeRmS ~o on June 9, 2014


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The Super Bowl brings intense media attention for the players and coaches. One of the players plans to take advantage of that attention to promote a concept about which he feels strongly.
Linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo, according to the New York Times, plans to use the intense media coverage to promote his support for same-sex marriage.
"It's one of those times when you're really passionate and in your zone," Ayanbadejo said. "And I got to thinking about all kinds of things, and I thought: 'How can we get our message out there?'"
Ayanbadejo's agenda could dust off a disagreement with the message from center Matt Birk, who opposes same-sex marriage. Ayanbadejo has said that their differing views will have no impact on their relationship as teammates.
His theory could be tested on Tuesday, when both players could be grilled about their respective positions for an hour, simultaneously, at the Superdome.


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Jury sees more text messages from Bobby Ferguson, Kilpatrick
Ferguson text: 'I don't push the percentage issue I turn budgets numbers for site work'
DETROIT – Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick had a full day of court appearances on his planner.
Kilpatrick's corruption trial in federal court resumed Wednesday after a one-day break.
Read Blog: Kilpatrick on Trial: Day 39
In court the jury saw more text messages from Bobby Ferguson and Kilpatrick showing how city insiders were scheming to find ways to let Ferguson in on deals in the city.
In one text Ferguson wrote "I meet with them. I cool you know I don't cry for sh** that don't help both of us. I don't push the percentage issue. I turn budget numbers for site work. What we need to talk about is f*** Soave."
Kilpatrick replied back, "Yeah I'll holla later about that."
The text is a reference to businessman Tony Soave who the feds say was forced to give Ferguson $40 million for contract awards in the city.
The defense augured test messages can easily be misinterpreted.
Next up the government may be presenting new evidence not in the original charge.
They involve the Hillman Recreational Facility which was given an $8 million face life during the Kilpatrick years.
The contractor on that job, Bobby Ferguson.
~Tony Soave leaving court~
In the afternoon, Kilpatrick was in front of Judge David Groner at Wayne County Circuit Court.
Read: Kilpatrick's restitution hearing moved to March 12th.
Groner is the judge who sent Kilpatrick to prison for violating probation in a case that forced him out of office.
Kilpatrick still owes the city of Detroit more than $800,000 for obstructing justice in a civil lawsuit.
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V4.5 Skill Points Guide
Eve_Requiem posted a topic in Tamagotchi Tips and TricksWhat are skill points? Skill Points are the points shown in the third screen of the tamagotchi's information (the first choice, represented by a little scale). They directly influence what character your tamagotchi will grow up to be. The three skill points are Social (the first symbol, represented by a little smiley face), Intelligence (the second type of skill, represented by a star/sparkle type thing), and Strength (the last skill, represented by a fist). These points are often called different things depending on where you look, but I will continue to call them the names stated above. Games The games you play give you more skill points in certain areas. The skill points are as followed: Climb, the game available for a tamagotchi at its baby stage, will give you a random amount of any skill point. Tug-of-War, available to children, will also distribute random points. At the teen stage, three more games are unlocked, named Apples, Shapes, and Man-Hole. Apples will give a set amount of Social skill points, Shapes will give a set amount of Intelligence skill points, and Man-Hole will give a set amount of Strength skill points. There are no more games available past the teen stage. Teachers Once a tamagotchi reaches the teen stage, three selections of teachers are available. Each teacher gives different skill points when a game is completed. Mr. Turtlepedia, a turtle with a moustache, gives Intelligence points. Mrs. Flower, a potted flower, gives Social points. Mr. Canvas, a canvas with a face on it and a cape, gives Strenght points. Hope this helps!


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User friendly operating software
Every machine in the Voortman delivery program is equipped with the VACAM Operating Software. As a result, all machines have the same "look-and-feel" which significantly reduces the learning curve for the end user.
The VACAM operating software is a Voortman development and is completely developed in house. It is the result of decades of experience in steel machinery and is continuously optimized by adding new technologies. Because VACAM is an open platform, an API can be used to easily exchange production data between VACAM and ERP or MRP packages. It allows the user to monitor production in real-time. This information can also be used to compare estimates made during the quote stage of a bid with real production times.
Direct DSTV import
Product data of DSTV-format which for example is exported from 3D modelling software can be imported directly into VACAM in a clear and structured way without any adding or editing of the data in between.
VACAM Office Edition
The VACAM Office Edition is developed in the same style, and works in a similar way as the VACAM Machine Edition. It can be installed at the office to create products and monitor the production process in real-time. The VACAM Office Edition has a reduced user interface, because it is not used for machine control.
VACAD Editor
VACAD Editor is a flexible drawing tool, integrated in VACAM. It can be used to create and modify contours, holes, imprints, marks etc. for drilling, cutting and layout marking processes. The VACAD module shows the actual dimensions and is a pleasant tool to work with. Created contours can be saved in templates, which can also be inserted in other products.


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For six or seven months, I've been loving fish cooked in vegetables or with vegetables or as a part of a salad. Maybe longer. Just think of it. Simple white (any color, really) fish that absorbs the flavor of vegetables, is a complete dish (or almost) when it comes out of the pan, and lets you eat your carbs at the other meals. Or not. To say nothing of getting your however many servings of vegetables. Right there. Right then.
I've done fish "tacos" this way, fish salads with proscuitto, snapper in tomatoes, onions and olives, etc. I even put sole in a spicy broth and felt naughty. After all, sole is supposed to be...
Well, what is sole supposed to be? I always think of meuniere when I think of sole. And I make that fairly often. Especially for just me. What's easier? While I link to Ina's recipe for it, really you can make it without a recipe, I'd think. Very lightly flour, salt and pepper up your sole, saute it in butter for a couple of minutes, take it out of the pan onto a heated plate. Add another tablespoon of butter into the pan, melt, and squeeze in a lemon. Pour that over the fish on the plate and scatter some chopped parsley on top. I like another dusting of salt and pepper. If you have some greens on your plate, the sole and lemon butter will create your dressing. Et voila, dinner is served in... how many minutes? And how much sole do you need? How hungry are you? 1/4 of a pound is ample. If you buy a half pound, cook it all and eat the rest cold the next day with some green beans or tomatoes.
This sole, however, was a dream before I cooked it. Fish cooked on leeks and just a smidge of garlic. Nestled in some greens and a little tomato and yellow pepper for color. No dressing that's made ahead per se, but a dressing is definitely made, once again, by lemon and olive oil. Quick and healthy and lovely for a hot night. Add a little Sauvignon Blanc, maybe a bite of bread and butter or cheese, and there you are!
Sole on Leeks with Salad serves 2
1t butter
2T olive oil, divided
6 leeks, whites and light green only, trimmed, washed very well, and sliced thinly
1 garlic clove, minced finely
1/4 c fresh parsley, divided
2T fresh chives, chopped, divided
Kosher salt and fresh ground pepper
1/2 # sliced fresh Dover sole
1 lemon, halved
1/4 c white wine or chicken stock
3c salad greens
1 tomato, chopped finely
1/4 yellow sweet pepper, chopped medium
In a large skillet, heat butter and 1T of the olive oil over medium heat. Add leeks and cook about 10 minutes, stirring often. Add garlic, 2T of the parsley and 1T of the chives. Sprinkle liberally with salt and pepper. Cook another minute or so until vegetables are very wilted and beginning to brown.
Add sole in a single layer over the leek mixture. Add a little more parsley and chives, along with a pinch of salt and pepper. Add wine carefully. Squeeze lemon over all and cover. Cook for 3-4 minutes until fish is opaque, but still quite tender.
Meantime, on a large platter, scatter salad greens and top with chopped tomatoes and peppers. Season with salt and pepper. When fish is done, slowly, using a large flat spatula, remove vegetables and fish onto or in the middle of the greens. Season with the remaining tablespoon of olive oil, drizzled over the fish and salad. Squeeze the other lemon half over the entire platter. Finally, dust with a last pouf of fresh ground pepper.
Serve with a little seeded bread and salted butter, as well as a few slices of cheese. A light white wine, particularly Sauvignon Blanc, would be the perfect accompaniment. But I said that already.
Bon appetit!
Note: the herbs are all from my garden... Quite fun to wander around outside, hoping nothing burning on the stove, while I decide which herbs go in which part of what dish. Some things I just love about summer.
Two-Dog Kitchen and Around the 'Hood
Thursday night dinner guests: Froncie, Julie and Teresa for Grilled Chicken Caprese (another post.)
Froncie is an old college friend; Julie and Teresa are her sisters. Wow. What an evening outdoors.
How cool to see an old friend....
We babysit Moss.
He likes it.
Sunbird for brunch.
Someone else cooked!
Why I have goldens.
Summer in the front garden.
Russian sage...bees love it...
Still waiting...
What's on my counter and in the frig?
Sweet potatoes for a frittata
Fresh mint in a small watering can--for tea
Big gladiolas
New potatoes
Sea salt
new Le Creuset pan; Dave burned up my old 3 qt one:):(
Big hunk of Gouda
Goat's Cheese
Lemons and Limes
Side of salmon (friends for dinner)
Chuck steak (testing chili for Cooks' Illustrated)
Oregon chardonnay
Blueberries (making blueberry frozen yogurt)
3 qts of iced tea
Sing a new song; cook some fish,


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Hovey apologizes for Giffords criticism
State lawmaker: Hovey apologizes for post on Facebook to former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords
NEWTOWN -- State Rep. DebraLee Hovey issued an apology Monday for controversial remarks she made on her Facebook page telling former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to "stay out of my towns!"
Hovey, a Republican, in comments on her Facebook page over the weekend, said Giffords' visit to Newtown on Friday was politically motivated. The lawmaker also appeared to be upset that she wasn't told about the visit in advance.
" ... All political types KNOW it is courteous to let sitting Reps (representatives) know when another political is in their District," Hovey posted on her Facebook page.
While Hovey's Facebook page has since been placed on private, the Hartford Courant reported that Hovey, who represents Newtown and Monroe, posted a message saying, "Gabby Gifford (sic) stay out of my towns!!"
Hovey's Facebook posting has received broad coverage in state political blogs, drawing dozens of angry comments from readers.
When told about the comments Monday, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said, "I don't own the state or the city I live in, and nobody has the right to say that type of thing."
The message was sent from Hovey's mobile device from Florida, days after Giffords met First Selectman Pat Llodra, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman during a planned meeting at the Newtown Municipal Center on Friday.
While Wyman and Blumenthal are Democrats, Llodra is a Republican.
Hovey said Monday she was in Florida attending a board meeting for the Women in Government organization when she sent the messages.
Friday's meeting in Newtown, which was closed to the press, was held shortly before Giffords met with relatives of those slain during the Sandy Hook massacre on Dec. 14 that took the lives of 20 children and six educators.
State Rep. Chris Lyddy, D-Newtown, who also wasn't invited to the meeting Friday with Giffords, said Hovey's comments were certainly "insensitive."
"Newtown is experiencing an outpouring of support from people throughout the country," he said. "Right now is a time to focus on what we can do to support the families affected by this tragedy."
Llodra said she has yet to speak with Hovey about her remarks but didn't want to rush to judgment about what the lawmaker said on the social media website.
"We are all operating at an emotional level that is unchartered territory for us," she said. "So many of us are dealing with emotions and pressures we haven't had to experience before."
She added that the meeting was organized by several town residents who had professional, and not political, ties to Giffords.
Newtown United, a group that formed shortly after the massacre to provide support to the community and helped to organize Giffords' visit, posted on its website that "for the avoidance of doubt, this is not a partisan or political issue. This is about turning the tide on gun violence."
Hovey issued a statement Monday calling her comments "insensitive" and apologized "if I offended anyone."
"My comments were meant to be protective of the privacy of the families and our community as we work to move on, and were in no way intended as an insult to Congresswoman Giffords personally," she said.
Blumenthal declined to comment on Hovey's remarks, but said Giffords' visit with family members on Friday was both "very inspiring and uplifting."
He adding that the former congresswoman spoke individually with the family members who were present.
"I was impressed by the strength, courage and caring of everyone who attended," he said.
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James Earl Ray
From the viewpoint of a man who served time with Ray in prison, then went on to become a journalist, and continued to follow the case, with some emphasis on Ray's mentality, how he escaped from prison, and why there is reason to believe white supremacists may have been behind King's murder.
The first time I saw James Earl Ray, he had just arrived at the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City. Charley McCracken, a friend from the St. Louis City Jail, pointed him out to me in H-Hall, where the newly arriving convicts at the maximum-security penitentiary were oriented.
The first year and a half I paid little or no attention to Ray. He was a loner. Most of my friends were people I'd known in reform school, or people I'd met through them. Although Ray had been sentenced from St. Louis, he was not part of the St. Louis "crowd."
In September 1961, I tried to escape and pulled six months in E-Hall, a 100-year-old building whose third floor was for solitary confinement.
About two months later, Ray tried to escape, and he came to E-Hall. We had no contact, however, since he was on the other side of the building.
But, having tried to escape from the maximum-security prison, we both had joined a small list of convicts who would be watched at all times by the guards. Of the 2,500 men in the prison, fewer than 20 had ever tried to escape from inside the walls. The greatest sin a convict can commit in prison is to escape. It endangers the premise of the place. Wardens and guards know that an escape artist is a threat to their livelihood; more guards and wardens have lost their jobs because of escapes than for any other reason.
I served my six months, got out and was put right back in for using amphetamine.
I spent virtually all of 1962 in solitary. When I got out the third time, I worked in the Tag Plant. By that time I was classified as incorrigible. At the Tag Plant I met Jerry Ward Davis, an Oklahoman who'd been shot in 1959 after kidnapping several guards (along with Rollie Laster and Ronnie Westberg) during an attempted escape that involved the use of zip-guns. Davis and Laster were both shot during that attempt.
Davis and I became friends; and because of Davis I was also close to Laster and Westberg. Westberg, in turn, liked James Earl Ray. Westberg once described Ray to me as, "Kind of countryfied, but he's okay." Although Westberg liked Ray, he never brought him around us. He knew we viewed Ray as a not-too-bright hillbilly.
Jerry was returned to solitary in 1963 for making zip-guns, and a few days later I was put in B-Basement on suspicion of stabbing an inmate who'd volunteered to help the guards search the Tag Plant for the rest of the zip-guns, which were never found.
Because of the 1959 incident, Jerry had so much heat on him that if the guards lost sight of him for even a few minutes, they panicked.
In that atmosphere, escape became almost impossible. We got involved in several schemes, but our lack of mobility made it difficult to function. At the same time I was getting more involved in art, and my thoughts were turning away from escape and toward trying to make parole. Jerry began to follow my lead, and that became a source of friction among me, Laster and Westberg.
During this period James Earl Ray was most noticeable as a guy who rented out magazines on the yard. Different convicts had different hustles to make money. For example, if you worked in the laundry you could charge people to starch and iron their clothes.
There were half a dozen guys who rented magazines, and they hawked their wares by the yard shack (a small rock building where the guards stayed). I occasionally rented magazines from Ray, but other inmates usually had a larger selection, and better quality magazines.
He might have eked out enough money to meet his basic needs (he didn't smoke), but not much more than that.
One thing never mentioned about Ray's time in Jefferson City is the fact he had a nearly exemplary conduct record, with the exception of the two escape attempts. Just once, he was caught with three packs of cigarettes, a pound of coffee and a ballpoint pen. The coffee was contraband. If it hadn't been for the two escape attempts, Ray would almost certainly have been paroled by the time he actually did escape.
Laster made several more desperate attempts to escape, including one attempt to saw out of death row (during which a guard captain was blinded). Westberg was involved in several more escape plots, but he had so much heat on him he could never personally use the routes he discovered.
Each day the prison's bakery would bake enough bread to feed not only the 2,300 men at Jeff City, but also the convicts housed at Church Farm and Renz Farm (two satellite honor farms, where most of the prison's food was grown and raised).
Tray after tray of bread would be stacked into a large box, and then the box would be loaded onto a pickup truck and hauled to the farms. The bread box would have to pass through the truck tunnel, where all incoming and outgoing vehicles were searched. But Westberg had been told that the guard did not open the bread box.
For years convicts had dreamed of escaping in the bread box, but everyone assumed it was searched in the truck tunnel (that they would poke steel rods through the garbage, for example). Westberg was the first to learn that the bread box wasn't searched.
So Westberg, who was assigned to work in the kitchen at that time, figured a man could get in the bread box, have a tray of bread placed on top of him, and pass right out of the prison (the box also had a lid over the top tray of bread).
He was right, but he would never be that man. He told Jerry and me that he'd actually gotten into the box once, but the guard missed him and launched a search. Westberg was warned, and hurriedly got out of the box, which was then filled with bread. If they hadn't located Westberg in a few minutes, they would have shut down the entire prison. No vehicle traffic would have been allowed in or out until he was found.
In the meantime James Earl Ray had also heard about the bread box, probably through Westberg. Although Ray had two attempted escapes on his record, he did not have nearly as much heat on him as Westberg.
There were those who joked about Ray, because of the nature of his attempted escapes. On the first one he'd fallen and stunned himself; on the second he'd hidden in a ceiling. It was even rumored that on the second attempt he'd gotten tired of hiding out, and had deliberately set off an alarm so he could get caught and get something to eat.
In any event, the prison officials never placed him in the same category as Davis, Laster and Westberg, who would unhesitatingly use weapons while escaping.
Those of us who had been involved in escape attempts did not consider Ray a joke. We knew that anytime you try to escape from a maximum-security prison you run the risk of being shot.
There was, however, some question in our minds about Ray's coordination. Once, while pulling a robbery, the victims refused to give Ray the money, and he fell out of a window and damned near killed himself.
When the day came, Ray walked up to the bread box, got in, and asked a guy named Don to cover him. Don told me later he was stunned; but he knew if he hesitated too long, a guard would catch Ray. Then other inmates would blame Don for Ray's capture.
The box was picked up, and Ray successfully escaped on April 23, 1967. Because Ray had previously tried to escape by hiding out inside the prison, the officials assumed this was another bungled attempt, and they began a meticulous search of the prison, which covered 47 acres. After several days, the prison officials concluded that Ray had actually escaped, and they put out an alarm.
It would later be learned that Ray's classification card contained erroneous fingerprints, which were initially distributed nationally. After Ray was arrested for the assassination of Martin Luther King, it was widely believed that those erroneous prints were proof that the King conspiracy began in Jefferson City, and that someone employed at the prison was involved.
The explanation is much simpler. There were always convict clerks assigned to the reception area, and the fingerprints could have been switched--either because Ray had paid someone to do it, or, just as likely, because some convict wanted to help Ray beat the system.
Since Ray's arrest for the assassination, he has become mythified. Some of the books written about the assassination describe him as a major drug dealer in Jefferson City, which is ludicrous. From 1961 through 1965 I used a substantial amount of amphetamine, and so did many of the people I associated with, and I never bought any from James Earl Ray. No one else I knew did either.
Although it is possible to live in the same prison with someone for 10 years and never speak to him, it is still an intimate atmosphere. You tend to know a great deal about people you've never met. The day after a stabbing, for example, virtually everyone in the prison who is considered "solid" would know who had done the stabbing. You would also know who had just gotten a shipment of dope.
So, even if I conceded the possibility that Ray had sold drugs, it would have been in small quantities, and for a brief period of time. Certainly not enough to finance his travels to Mexico, Canada, England, etc., after his escape.
And, although the FBI later claimed to have interviewed every convict in Jefferson City who had served time with Ray, they never tried to interview me, or Davis, or Laster, or Westberg or anyone I knew. I know they interviewed some inmates, but they did not interview the people most likely to know something (and also the most likely to tell them to go to hell).
I've always had trouble accepting Ray as an assassin. In prison I knew men who would stab you to death over a carton of cigarettes, or for even a slight insult. Ray was never that type. Guys told me he would hound you relentlessly if you owed him a quarter, but he wouldn't threaten you with violence. He simply hounded you (not that Ray was a coward, or afraid to fight, but he wasn't the type to start the fight).
That is why he could never have been a major drug dealer. In order to hang onto your drugs, people had to know that you would kill them without hesitation. (In the period 1963-64, there were 550 serious assaults inside Jefferson City, including hundreds of stabbings, which is why Time magazine called it the "bloodiest 47 acres in America." The scandal was so bad it led to the downfall of Warden Nash, who then shot himself.)
As a loner, it would be impossible for Ray to deal large quantities of drugs, because one of the cliques would simply rob him, and there wouldn't be much he could do, alone, against a clique with a dozen members. I've seen it happen again and again.
I've been amazed over the years at the naiveté of authors who have written about Ray's activities in Jeff City; the things they put forth as facts just simply couldn't be true.
An egregious example of shoddy workmanship is the book The Making of an Assassin by George McMillan. McMillan is the primary source for the widespread belief that Ray was a major drug dealer in Jeff City; that he smuggled large sums of money out of prison; that he used that money to finance his travels after his escape.
McMillan's false scenarios portray Ray as a rabid racist in prison. On January 26, 1976, Time magazine devoted four pages to the King assassination, drawing heavily on material from McMillan's book, which was scheduled for publication later that year:
In 1963 and 1964 Martin Luther King was on TV almost every day, talking defiantly about how black people were going to get their rights, insisting that they would accept with nonviolence all the terrible violence that white people were inflicting on them, until the day of victory arrived, until they did overcome.
Ray watched it all on the cell-block TV at Jeff City. He reacted as if King's remarks were directed at him personally. He boiled when King came on the tube. He began to call him Martin "Lucifer" King and Martin Luther "Coon." It got so that the very sight of King would galvanize Ray.
"Somebody's gotta get him," Ray would say, his face drawn with tension, his fists clenched. "Somebody's gotta get him."
Unfortunately, the scene described by McMillan could not have happened. There were no cellblock TVs in Jefferson City in 1963 and 1964. It wasn't until November 9, 1970--years after Ray escaped from Jefferson City--that inmates were allowed to purchase small black-and-white television sets, which they could keep in their cells.
McMillan, and through him Time magazine, are also the primary sources for the general belief that Ray financed his after-escape activities with money earned in Jeff City. That caused the Reverend Emanuel Cleaver, then executive director of the Kansas City Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (and now Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri) to send a request to Missouri Gov. Christopher S. Bond (now U.S. Senator) that an investigation be conducted into the allegations.
George M. Camp, head of the Missouri prison system, wrote to Cleaver, saying:
My findings are that there is nothing whatsoever to substantiate any conclusion that James Earl Ray financed either his escape or his activities after his escape through any means while he was an inmate at the Missouri State Penitentiary. During the six years that James Earl Ray was an inmate at the Missouri State Penitentiary, he kept primarily to himself and, other than for the fact that he attempted to escape on more than one occasion, he had only one conduct violation during that entire time and that was for the possession of three packages of cigarettes, a ball point pen and one pound of coffee...In addition, you might be interested to know that prior to the Governor's receiving your Mailgram, I personally discussed the allegations and conclusions in the Time magazine article with the author himself, Mr. George McMillan. In the course of our conversation, I pressed him for details regarding drug sales or any other illegal activities in which staff and/or inmates might have been involved. He was unable to give me any specifics but just responded that "it was common knowledge."
Shortly after Ray pled guilty to the King murder, Clay Blair's book The Strange Case of James Earl Ray was published. Thorpe Menn, then book editor of The Star, sent it to me to review. When I tried to mail my review to The Star, the prison officials refused to allow it to leave the prison.
My review took issue with many assumptions in the book, such as those centering on Ray's involvement with drugs in prison, and how he escaped from Jefferson City.
The prison officials knew that Ray's escape, and involvement in the King assassination, would forever blemish their professional records as penologists. They were not going to have me, or any other convict, expounding on the subject of Ray. The only thing publicity could do was further humiliate them. This is why I believe they steered FBI investigators toward convicts who really didn't know anything.
Meanwhile, William Bradford Huie, gathering information for his book, They Slew The Dreamer, had taken an interest in George Ben Edmondson.
I first met Benny Edmondson at the Algoa Reformatory in 1956, where he was teaching typing at the school. Benny taught me how to type. He was about five years older than me. He was a skinny guy with sandy hair and a cultured, slightly arrogant manner. I got to know him better when he came to Jeff City with a sentence for robbery. Benny was fascinated with the idea of escaping, although he never actually tried while inside the walls.
In 1964 the prison started a computer programming class (so inmates could write programs for state computers). Benny and I studied programming together, and in 1966 we worked in the programming office together.
Then Benny was transferred to L-Hall, an honor unit just outside the walls of the main penitentiary. Each day he would go to the state capital to work as a programmer.
One day he walked away, and it was rumored he took $5,000 of state money with him. Benny was eventually placed on the FBI's 10-Most-Wanted list and was captured in Canada, where he was posing as an engineer and had married a school teacher. It was then learned he'd been the site engineer for the West German Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal. (Benny had taken two years of civil engineering in college.)
James Earl Ray had traveled to Montreal while on the run, and claimed that he'd met a man named "Raoul" in Montreal, and that Raoul had furnished him with money, and eventually masterminded the King assassination—-using Ray as the fall-guy.
Benny Edmondson thought it was hilarious that William Bradford Huie thought he was "Raoul." The massive publicity surrounding Benny's capture caused Gold Medal Books to contact him and ask him to write 20,000 words of autobiographical data, so they could bring out an "instant" paperback book about him.
Warden Swenson of the Jeff City prison immediately issued an edict that convicts could no longer correspond with editors. Although Benny was eventually released from prison and returned to work for the engineering firm he'd been employed by at the time of his arrest in Canada, interest in him by then had died out, and the book was never published.
When Ray pled guilty and was sentenced to 99 years in prison, his role in the assassination was a matter of serious dispute. The murder of Lee Harvey Oswald had closed the door to an open trial that might have answered the question of whether Oswald acted alone, or was part of a conspiracy. Almost everyone felt sure the government would want to avoid a never-ending search for conspirators in the King case, and would accomplish that by presenting its evidence at Ray's trial.
When, without warning, Ray was allowed to plead guilty and was sentenced to 99 years, without a public trial, millions of people suspected a cover-up.
Over the years, as book after book has been published on the King case, numerous conspiracy theories have been advanced: that the FBI was involved; that the CIA feared King would come out in opposition to the Vietnam War; that rival black leaders felt King's non-violent approach was a hindrance to black progress; that white supremacists wanted him out of the way for obvious reasons.
It seems clear to me that there was a conspiracy to murder King, and that James Earl Ray was involved. However, immediately following King's killing, U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark announced that the killing was the work of a lone assassin. It was important for the government to have a lone killer-—since blacks across the nation were rioting, and proof of a white conspiracy to kill the black civil-rights leader would have caused a racial explosion.
Long before Ray was captured-—before anyone could have known the details of what had happened in Memphis--the U.S. government had committed itself to the lone assassin theory; to such an extent, I was told later by white extremists in the South, that they were surprised by the government's failure to question even such notable racists as J.B. Stoner or leading figures in the Ku Klux Klan.
Ray, whose previous history as a criminal was notable only for its ineptness, fled to Canada after the killing, assumed a new identity complete with credentials, then fled to England where he was arrested trying to fly out to another country.
Among the first to rear his head in Ray's defense was J.B. Stoner, a lawyer who was also head of the National State's Rights Party (and who would later be charged with the bombing of a Birmingham church in which several children died). Stoner had trouble getting into the case, however, because no mainstream lawyer wanted anything to do with him.
For years after Ray's capture there was a close association between Stoner and Jerry Ray, James Earl Ray's brother. It is known that, after escaping from Jeff City, James Earl Ray went to Chicago, where Jerry Ray was living.
Moreover, Jerry Ray and James Earl Ray are close. When James Earl Ray bought the rifle that killed King, he mentioned that he was going hunting with his brother. Just before Ray's escape from Jeff City he was visited by his brother. Just before Ray escaped from prison in Tennessee he was visited by his brother. Jerry Ray told me in the 1970s he had taken pictures of the countryside around the prison and had sent them into James Earl Ray.
Jerry Ray was J.B. Stoner's campaign manager when Stoner ran for Governor of Georgia against Jimmy Carter. Jerry Ray had moved in with Stoner, and shot an intruder who broke into Stoner's office which was in the same building as the living quarters. Ray was also Stoner's bodyguard and chauffeur.
In 1977, New Times magazine suggested that Jerry Ray and "Raoul" were one and the same. It's a seductive thought. After the King shooting, one person living at the rooming house where the shot was fired described the assassin as heavy set with receding hair. That description comes closer to Jerry Ray than to James Earl Ray. The New Times article also asserted that Jerry Ray, if he were involved, might have been duped himself—-might have thought he was setting up something other than an assassination.
The Ray brothers, however, are too unsophisticated to have pulled off the assassination of King, and Ray's subsequent escape to England. (Several authors have said it was "common knowledge" in Jeff City that you could go to England and acquire an ID the way Ray did. In my many discussions with people such as Laster, Westberg and Davis on the subject of escape--and how to avoid capture afterward--no one mentioned that method.)
J.B. Stoner, however, would certainly have had the know-how for both, plus the white-supremacist background to explain why he would do it. Stoner certainly wasn't the only radical white supremacist running around, however—-just the best known.
In the 1960s John Larry Ray (another brother) owned a tavern in St. Louis, and that tavern was an unofficial headquarters for the Wallace for President campaign. The Rays would have had many opportunities to meet racists.
Ray, although not personally motivated by racism, comes from a rural background where blacks are not highly regarded. Also, after he moved to St. Louis he lived in south St. Louis, an area known for its racism. Stoner's hatred of blacks would not have been offensive to him Ray; he might have viewed it as a little extreme, but he would have admired Stoner for being a rebel and for having a network of trusted associates.
Stoner is one of the most investigated people in America. In my interviews with him, I've found him to be eerily unflappable. James Earl Ray could easily have placed complete faith in Stoner.
One of the most intriguing aspects of the New Times article on James Earl Ray/Jerry Ray/J.B. Stoner is the following:
Over the years, state and federal authorities have come to suspect that Stoner's violent rhetoric cannot be dismissed merely as fascist ravings. This should have been driven home years ago when a surreptitious tape recording was made of J.A. Milteer, a Stoner associate, as he discussed NSRP plans with a Miami police informer. The date was November 9, 1963.
Milteer told the informant that a scheme was in the works to kill President Kennedy. The President, Milteer said, would be shot "from an office building with a high-powered rifle," and a patsy would be picked up within hours . . . "just to throw the public off."
The Miami police were sufficiently impressed with Milteer's seriousness that the Secret Service was alerted, and an imminent presidential motorcade into the city was canceled. Two weeks later, after Kennedy had been slain in Dallas, Milteer told the same informant, "everything ran true to form," and the right wing was in the clear because Lee Harvey Oswald . . . "doesn't know anything."
During the original taped conversation, Milteer also revealed a plot against Martin Luther King, one that involved an NSRP hit man named Brown.
Weeks before Kennedy was killed an informant quoted an NSRP member saying it would happen, and providing details that coincide with what did happen in Dallas. The same NSRP member said there were plans to kill Martin Luther King.


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Immersive audiovisual performance
"In the fields of science and technique that have built the Western world, We have only conceived machines dedicated to increasing speed. The person who would invent a slowing down apparatus would be regarded as an absurd man." Paul Virilio
Artist duo Maotik and Fraction take over the Satosphère for the entire duration of the festival to present their live immersive performance Dromos, result of the conceptualisation of the work of French thinker Paul Virilio.
Several years ago, after noticing the impact of speed in the organisation of our societies, French philosopher and architect Paul Virilio develops the concept of dromology (the science of speed in human society).
He sets the grounds for a new paradigm around new technologies, the way we interact with them and he starts questioning our future.
The artists take these innovative ideas on board to create Dromos, a technical and metaphorical allegory of an audio visual universe where the so called "mediatic" speed is the main factor of interaction between media.
They immerge the audience in a sensorial landscape undergoing constant construction and deconstruction leading to aesthetics accidents, mutant movements and poetical moments.
Thrown in the midst of this organism fighting against its own temporality, the audience experiences each part (aspect/moment) of the show through the flow of granular textures, broken (unstructured) beats and generative visuals.
A real time immersive performance specially made for the satosphère.


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