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Date(s) - July 22, 2014 - July 23, 2014
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
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Buzzards Bay
Patient Update
Learn the stories of the marine animal patients currently in our care from a member of our Animal Care Team. View our current patients via live, closed-circuit TV and meet our small turtles in person. Program lasts approximately 15-20 minutes.
FREE, donations welcome. All donations help care for our marine wildlife patients.
When: Mondays through Saturdays, Jun 23-Jul26, 2014, 2pm – 2:30pm
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17-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Tuesday, January 7, 1913: This weather is simply dreadful. I've been hunting my report card this evening. Don't know where in the world I put it.
Her middle-aged granddaughter's comments 100 years later:
How—or maybe the question is "Why"— did Grandma misplace her report card? Could she have misplaced it because she was unhappy with the grades—and was trying to delay showing it to her parents for as long as possible?
Grandma's New Year's resolution was to study harder in 1913—and her diary entries on January 2 and 3 indicated that she was studying very hard—but nothing has been mentioned about studying since then so maybe the resolution fell by the wayside. . . or it was too late in the grading period to bring the grades up.


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From a post on the Regina Public Library blog, comes this news -
Readers are invited to submit an article about any aspect of Saskatchewan's history for possible inclusion in the Spring-Summer 2014 issue of Saskatchewan History, a publication from the Saskatchewan Archives Board.
The deadline for submission of articles for our Spring-Summer 2014 issue is December 13, 2013.
At this time, we seek submissions including: scholarly papers that may be peer-reviewed; feature articles of varying lengths; photo essays; and book reviews about literature related to the history of Saskatchewan and the prairie provinces.
A copy of the magazine's submission guidelines can be viewed on our website at www.saskarchives.com.
Submissions can be forwarded electronically to firstname.lastname@example.com.
For more information, contact Nadine Charabin, Publication Coordinator, by phone at 306-933-5832, or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.


text: WILTON -- Ken Sawyer remembers the Lake George area as being virtually undeveloped when he was growing up there. With all the development in these areas in recent years, Sawyer, a New York state licensed Wildlife Control Agent, said it's no wonder occurrences of wild animals approaching residences and businesses seem to have increased radically. "These fields and woods were home to these so-called nuisance animals; they're still trying to find their niche after all this development," Sawyer said. Sawyer, also known as "The ADK Animal Guy," is an expert in wildlife capture and removal. His background in trapping and construction that he learned from his electrician father and carpenter grandfather, have helped him pinpoint the path of destruction caused by an animals seeking shelter. Sawyer said that recently a neighbor who found a mother coyote and her puppies in her backyard called him. "There are five documented steps to a coyote attack," Sawyer said. "This neighbor had small dogs. When people take their dogs out on walks and encounter a coyote, it's the dog they're after. I teach people how to discourage and distract animals from coming close." His method of capture is different from his colleagues' in the same line of work. "The whack-and-stack guys put out killer traps and leave the entry hole in the homeowner's house. I will make the house animal proof by excluding them." He said he does battle with flying squirrels and bats by sealing up every point of entry. "We need to think the way they do and find the weak spot." Squirrels like to chew wires and can be very destructive in an attic, Sawyer said. He warned that people who use the "Have A Heart" traps for catching and then releasing an animal at a remote location is illegal. Some situations call for bringing in a professional, and that other situations require little more than common sense, he said. "Don't leave pet food outside and move the bird feeder farther from the house and clean up after them. Whether it's coyotes in someone's backyard or squirrels stuck in the attic, the Animal Guy sees the situation from both the animal's and the human's eyes. "We're the real nuisance; people are arrogant. The balance with nature was disturbed," he said. "This is break-in season. I'm like a cop. I deal with the offending animal. Somebody is always breaking in and destroying property. Your porch and attic is a dry, safe tree trunk to muskrats, raccoons, woodchucks and skunks. It's like the Northway, and your house is a rest stop. If an animal senses warmth coming from a house, they want in." Ken Sawyer works on a consulting basis. For more information, go towww.adkanimalguy.com


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Machine-to-Machine Technology
How far can big data go? What is next for big data analytics? According to GCN, the next horizon for big data may be machine-to-machine (M2M) technology. As coding of big data advances, Oracle is now considering big data "an ecosystem of solutions" that will incorporate embedded devices to do real-time analysis of events and information coming in from the "Internet of Things," according to the Dr. Dobbs website. There is so much data that is being generated by all of the sensors and scanners we have today. All of this data is useless unless taken in context with other sparse data. Each strand of data may only be a few kilobytes in size but when put together with other sensors readings, they can create a much fuller picture. Applications are needed to not only enable devices to talk with others using M2M, but also to collect all the data and make sense of it.
The future of sparse data could even include what some consider Thin Data. Thin data could include simple sensors and threshold monitors built into the furniture and ancillary office equipment. When viewing all the sensors on the floor over time it might show the impact of changing temperature in the space, or moving the coffee machine. You could look at the actual usage data of fixtures like doors and lavatories. There is a huge potential for inferential data mining. And to even take thin data to the next level, include reproducing nano technology that is embedded in plant seeds. The nana agent would become part of the plant and relay state information as the plant grows. This would allow massive crop harvesters to know if and when the plants are in distress. Other areas of interest for thin data include monitoring traffic on bridges and roadways, or in a variety of weather monitors or tsunami prediction systems.
Machina Research, a trade group for mobile device makers, predicts that within the next eight years, the number of connected devices using M2M will top 50 billion worldwide. The connected-device population will include everything from power and gas meters that automatically report usage data, to wearable heart monitors that automatically tell a doctor when a patient needs to come in for a checkup, to traffic monitors and cars that will by 2014 automatically report their position and condition to authorities in the event of an accident. One of the most popular M2M setups has been to create a central hub that can be used by wireless and wired signals. The sensors in the field would record an event of significance, be it a temperature change, inventory leaving a specific area or even doors opening. The central hub would then send that information to a central location where an operator might turn down the AC, order more toner cartridges or tell security about suspicious activity. The future model for M2M, would eliminate the central hub or human interaction. The devices would communicate with each other and work out the problems on their own. This smart technology would decrease the logistics downtime associated with replacing an ink cartridge on a printer. Once the toner reached a low threshold, the printer would send a request/acquisition to the toner supplier and a replacement would immediately be shipped. Once the toner was received, it could be replaced. This turn-around time would be drastically better than having the printer fail because of low toner levels, then ordering it, having to wait on shipping, and then replacing the toner.
Humans won't be completely removed from the equation. They will still need to be in the chain to oversee the different processes, but they will be more of a second pair of eyes and less of a direct supervisor. Humans will let the machines do they work, and will only get involved when the machine reports a problem, like a communications failure. More Applications software development will be needed in the future to connect those 50 billion devices. Another location to learn more about M2M development is the Eclipse Foundation.


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Remarks by Martin J. Gruenberg, FDIC Acting Chairman for the Quarterly Banking Profile, Fourth Quarter of 2011
February 28, 2012
Good morning, and welcome to our release of fourth quarter and full year 2011 results for the banking industry.
2011 represented the second full year of improving performance by the banking system. Banks reported higher positive aggregate earnings, the numbers of problem banks and failures declined, and loan balances increased in the final three quarters of the year.
Full year earnings surpassed 100 billion dollars for the first time since before the crisis.
You can see in this chart that insured institutions of all sizes continued to make substantial progress in improving their profitability.
The next chart shows that earnings continued to improve on a year-over-year basis through the final quarter of 2011. Although there was a seasonal drop-off in fourth quarter earnings compared with the first three quarters of the year, the 26.3 billion dollars in net income reported for the fourth quarter represented a 23 percent increase over the same period in 2010.
Earnings improvement continues to be driven by reductions in loan-loss provisions. Fourth quarter loss provisions were 13.1 billion dollars less than a year ago.
Also, more institutions are sharing in earnings improvement.
This chart shows that the share of banks that are reporting growth in their earnings continues to rise, while the share reporting net losses continues to diminish on a year-over-year basis.
The positive trend in earnings performance stems from steady improvement in the health of bank loan portfolios.
This next chart illustrates the improvement in asset quality that has been underway for about two years. This improvement has been achieved at a high cost. The industry has charged off more than 100 billion dollars in bad loans in each of the last four years. During that time, banks have set aside more than 660 billion dollars in provisions for loan losses.
The trend in loan performance is encouraging. But the chart also shows the distance that still remains before asset quality indicators return to more normal levels. While the noncurrent rate has fallen in each of the last seven quarters, it is still higher than it was at any time in the banking crisis of the late 80s and early 90s. This high level of noncurrent loans reflects the continued weakness in real estate markets. Real estate loans now account for 87 percent of all noncurrent loans, which is an all-time high.
Despite the generally positive developments in 2011, bank revenues have been flat in an environment of low interest rates and slack loan demand.
This chart demonstrates the point. Noninterest income has been declining, as market-sensitive revenues have fallen at many of the largest banks. Net interest income has also been under pressure due to the low level of current asset yields and sluggish growth in interest-earning assets. You can also see in this chart that, while loss provisions are still declining on a year-over-year basis, the trend has been leveling off.
The recent resumption in loan growth, illustrated in this chart, has helped to limit the erosion in net operating revenue. In the current environment of low short-term interest rates and a relatively flat yield curve, prudent loan growth offers the best hope for increasing net interest income.
The loan growth that has occurred so far has been led by lending to commercial borrowers. Loans to medium and large commercial and industrial borrowers have increased in each of the last six quarters. In the fourth quarter, we saw growth in small C&I loans as well. We began collecting quarterly data on small loans to businesses with the March 2010 Call Report; since that time, this is the first quarterly increase in small C&I loans.
As you can see in this next chart, the recent trend of very strong deposit growth continued in the fourth quarter, as deposits in domestic offices increased by almost a quarter of a trillion dollars. About three-quarters of this growth consisted of large noninterest-bearing transaction accounts that have temporary unlimited insurance coverage until the end of 2012. The 10 largest institutions accounted for over 73 percent of the growth in these balances.
The number of institutions on the Problem List fell for a third consecutive quarter, declining from 844 to 813. Total assets of problem institutions also fell from 339 billion dollars to 319 billion.
A total of 18 banks failed in the fourth quarter. For all of 2011, there were 92 bank failures, down from the 2010 total of 157. So far in 2012, 11 banks have failed.
Although the trend in troubled institutions has been improving, numbers of both failures and problem institutions remain high by historical standards.
The Deposit Insurance Fund rose to 9.2 billion dollars at year-end, up from 7.8 billion dollars at the end of September. This eighth consecutive quarterly increase in the DIF balance results from assessment income and fewer expected bank failures.
The reserve ratio the DIF balance as a percentage of estimated insured deposits stood at 0.13 percent at year-end, up slightly from 0.12 percent at September 30. A year ago, the ratio stood at negative 0.12 percent. The FDIC has until the year 2020 to raise the reserve ratio to the statutory minimum of 1.35 percent.
During the past two years, the banking industry has undergone a difficult process of balance sheet strengthening. Capital has been increased, asset quality has improved, and banks have bolstered their liquidity. The industry is now in a much better position to support the economy through expanded lending. However, levels of troubled assets and problem banks are still high. And while the economy is showing signs of improvement, downside risks remain a concern.
Most of the improvement in earnings over the last two years has been the result of lower loan-loss provisions. But future earnings gains will have to be based to a greater extent on increased lending, consistent with sound underwriting. Prudent loan growth is a necessary condition for a stronger economy. That is why we view the fourth quarter growth in the industrys loan portfolio as a hopeful sign.
Before concluding, Id like to recognize a milestone. This is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Quarterly Banking Profile. In 1986, FDIC Chairman Bill Seidman asked the research division to create what he called a report card on the health of the banking industry. He felt that providing complete and accurate data and analysis on banks was one important way that the FDIC could fulfill its mission of promoting confidence in the financial system. We are proud that the Quarterly Banking Profile has stood the test of time as the authoritative source of information on industry conditions.
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#TBT, er something. Are we doing it right? Is this thing on?
Today's fabulous throwback video comes via Mike Voyack, who must've unearthed this gem of a highlight reel from Mike Pollio's secret vault inside the bowels of the Richmond Coliseum. Short shorts! Whitney Houston! The frustrating dearth of lower third graphics! It's terrific. If you can't get excited about basketball highlights woven through the masterpiece of musical tapestry that is the Fabulous Thunderbirds' "Tuff Enuff", then there's not much I can do for you.
As much as I enjoy needling the 80s elements that haven't necessarily held up over time, it should not be overlooked what this team had to endure. Midway through the season, junior Mike Brown (not to be confused with Michael Brown, who starred at VCU from 1982-86) collapsed during a practice at Franklin Street and died. He was later found to have a previously undetected heart ailment. When the Rams finally returned to the court a week later, they won three straight.
Led by dynamic players like Chris Cheeks (23.8 ppg), Lionel Bacon (14.8 ppg) and Martin Henlan (9.8 ppg, 9.0 rpg), the Rams finished 13-15.


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I seem to be sharing my strawberries with not just the usual garden birds, but also a stunning Jay bird in the garden. The number of strawberries I've picked that have a sharp razor beak mark in them, made me smile. I am not resenting the birds in my garden at all - there are plenty of strawberries for them and for me (its the slugs I resent).As well as enjoying them fresh, I've made loads of recipes with them. However the one I am about to share had been a bit of a fail. These strawberry slices tasted good, but were rather floppy, lacking body. Perhaps some almonds scattered over the top or a jam layer beneath the strawberries would have made them more substantial. If your (still) interested in trying them for yourself or even just curious to see the recipe, then follow this link for the recipe, its adapted from my Rhubarb Streusel Crumblee slices.
I am sharing these fresh big and juicy Strawberries with Daphne's Dandelions for Harvest Mondays.


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REAL ID, the Race Card
I testified in Congress yesterday, at a hearing on the REAL ID Act in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee's Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia. My testimony is here.
An issue that I sought to highlight comes from studying the REAL ID regulations carefully: The standard that the Department of Homeland Security selected for the 2D bar code that would go on REAL ID compliant cards includes race/ethnicity as one of the data elements.
DHS does not specifically require inclusion of this information, but states are likely to adopt the entire standard. Thus, starting in May 2008, many Americans may be carrying nationally uniform cards that include race or ethnicity in machine‐readable formats – available for scanning and collection by anyone with a bar code reader. Government agencies and corporations may affiliate racial and ethnic data more closely than ever with information about our travels through the economy and society.
This was not intended by the authors of the REAL ID Act, nor was it intended by the regulation writers at the Department of Homeland Security. The Belgian colonial government in 1930s Rwanda had no intention to facilitate the 1994 genocide in that country either, but its inclusion of group identity in ID cards had that result all the same.
The woman in the image below, believed to be a genocide victim, is categorized as a Tutsi just below her photograph. Her name is not seen, as it appears on the first page of this folio‐style ID document. The names of her four children, though, are written in on the page opposite the photo.
The lessons of history are available to us. The chance of something like this happening in the United States is blessedly small, but it is worth taking every possible step to avoid this risk, given an always‐uncertain future. In a society that strives for a color‐blind ideal, the federal government should have no part in creating a system that could be used to track people based on race.


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After a little more than a month of careful consideration, systems and application performance management software maker Compuware has told Paul Singer, who runs the Elliott Management hedge fund, that he can keep his $2.3bn and that Compuware is not for sale.
Well, not at that price, anyway. Every public company is always for sale by definition, and for a high enough price most private ones are, too.
Back on December 17, just days after Compuware had filed a confidential draft registration with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to spin off its Covisint division in an initial public offering, Singer's Elliott Management, which made an unsuccessful run at commercial operating system and groupware maker Novell a few years back and which just acquired a chunk of Emulex as 2012 came to a close, offered $11 per share to take all of Compuware, including Covisint, private.
At the time the deal was announced on December 17, the $11 per share offer, for $2.3bn, represented about a 15 per cent premium over the market capitalization of Compuware prior to when the news of the deal hit the street. As El Reg pointed out back then, Compuware is not sitting on buckets of cash like Novell was, but as its revenues have dropped during and in the aftermath of the Great Recession, the company has been able to boost its profits.
Last week, Compuware reported its financial results for the fiscal 2013 third quarter ended in December, which showed modest improvements on the revenue and profit fronts. In the quarter, overall sales were up 1.9 per cent to $257.9m, with a mix of ups and downs across product categories. Software license fees were up 13.5 per cent to $64.8m; maintenance fees were down 4.2 per cent to $102.3m; subscriptions fees (mostly for cloudy products) were up 4.3 per cent to $20.8m; professional services were down 9 per cent to $46m; and application service fees (all of it the Covisint products) rose 28.3 per cent to $23.9m. Compuware's Application Performance Management products had $85.1m in sales, its Changepoint line had $10.6m in revenues, and its mainframe performance monitoring and management products brought in $92.5m; the Uniface application modernization tools had $12.7m in sales. Add it all up and take out the costs of doing business, and net income in the quarter rose 17.4 per cent to $25.3m. The company's cash at the end of the quarter was $64.9m and it had $70m in long-term debt.
On Friday, after announcing rejection of the all-cash offer from Elliott, Compuware's CEO Bob Paul said that one of board's reasons for the rejection of the offer was that the Elliott deal did not adequately take into account of the potential growth of the APM and Covisint lines. He added that these particular lines had grown 17 and 27 per cent sequentially in the third fiscal quarter, respectively, and that these ranges' longer-term growth prospects would be sustained at between 20 and 30 per cent. Now that IBM is revving up its System z12 mainframes, Compuware is also seeing a bump, with its mainframe software sales up 17 per cent sequentially as well.
A cynic would say that Elliott might have guessed as much and offered to buy the company at $11 a share because Wall Street was not valuing these two businesses properly and soon would. And in fact, with Compuware trading at $11.57 per share when the market closed on Friday, it is now clear that Elliot is going to have to pony up more money if it wants to buy Compuware.
"As we told Elliott this morning," Paul said in a call explaining the rebuffing of the all-cash offer, "we took the proposal very seriously and spent considerable time analyzing it and reviewing the company's alternatives. We left no stone unturned in our review and analysis of the options to create shareholder value."
And in the final analysis, Compuware's board said the deal was inadequate, but that the company had its own plan for boosting sales, profits, and the share price of Compuware, making a takeover unnecessary.
The plan calls for Compuware to spin off 20 per cent of the shares in Covisint, which Compuware acquired in February 2004, in an initial public offering with a date that has not yet been divulged. Rather than retain the other 80 per cent of the shares (as EMC has done with server virtualization juggernaut VMware), Compuware plans to give the remaining Covisint shares to Compuware shareholders. There are too many unknowns right now to figure out what Covisint might be worth and how its value will impact the value of Compuware once this math is done. The division sells application integration, collaboration, and other cloudy tools tuned specifically for healthcare, manufacturing, and energy companies.
Paul said that the distribution of Covisint shares to Compuware shareholders would be done within 12 months after the IPO.
In addition, Compuware is going to do some cost-cutting and thinks it can remove $20m in costs in fiscal 2014 and at least $60m over the next three fiscal years. Additionally, it will be ponying up 50 cents per share as an annual dividend to give shareholders a little cash to keep them sweet. The dividend will not be funded from the Covisint IPO, since all of the money that is raised in the IPO will stay with Covisint. The company will also work to pay down its debt and continue to do share buybacks, but the CEO conceded in the call that debt payoffs and share buybacks may not continue at the same rate while the dividend is being paid out as well.
Paul added that the firm was working on a standard NDA agreement with Elliott so that the hedge fund could see some more internal financials and thus appreciate why the proposed acquisition offer was rejected. He wrapped up by saying the company was open to better deals.
"The board will carefully review and evaluate any credible offer received, including from Elliott, that delivers full value to our shareholders," Paul said. "We have spoken to Elliott throughout this process and will maintain an open door for dialogue with them."
Being spurned is part of the game, and Elliott is still interested.
"This is a good outcome," said Jesse Cohn, the portfolio manager who is running the deal to try to take over the systems management software company, in an emailed statement to El Reg. "Compuware has granted our request for access to diligence to confirm an offer for the Company. We will immediately reach out to negotiate an appropriate non-disclosure agreement and look forward to moving quickly to engage in diligence with the help of our legal and financial advisors. We remain very interested in the company." ®


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Spaces of Migration, just published by Pavement Books returns me to the suggestion on this blog some time ago, and no doubt elsewhere, that the discussion of borders has a too easy conception of space. Borders can be aural, temporal, conceptual, and proliferating right here. Where? He-re.
The policy pronouncements of the border authority replicates authoritarianism across the body politic. The compliance of some with G4s or other privatised border tools makes border agents of us all.
Abject humanity subjected to austerity and its justifications, proliferation of pollutants met only with fake environmentalist concern, the persistence, and indeed global extension of workplace 'alienation' viewed as nostalgia, deskilling/desktop killing for everyone, not just the ruling class – all this seems to generalise a lumpen character.
Maintain the reserve army and keep us all in fatigues seems the only strategy capital has in this crisis. Besides scrambling for a cut of course, and a crazy generous cut at that. Snouts in the trough, but keeping us all in the sty. Some are more in the mud than others, some are bacon, most are fed on swill – oink oink. The uniformed ones collaborate with the omnipresent butcher. Some are tagged with an RFID chip on their ear. Higgledy po.


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Six months ago, Fronteras reporter Jill Replogle reported on an Iraqi refugee family and their struggle to get safely to the U.S. Their son, who was an interpreter for U.S. troops, was killed in combat. Since that time the family has resettled in San Diego County.
From the Fronteras Desk, Jill Replogle reports on how they're adjusting to life in the U.S. and how they're coping with the death of their son.
On a recent, muggy afternoon in the city of El Cajon, I hugged Maladh Mohammed Ali in the parking lot of her drab apartment building next to a school.
I hadn't seen her since we first met, shortly after she stepped off the airplane for the first time in San Diego. She was exhausted then after a multi-day journey from her home in Baghdad.
The Mohammed Ali family arrived in San Diego as refugees five years after Maladh's son, Mohammed, was killed along with six American soldiers in an explosion in 2008. He had been working as an interpreter for the U.S. military, and had endeared himself to the troops.
Now, six months after arriving in the U.S., Maladh smiled warmly. She looked well in a pale headscarf and stylish, thick-frame sunglasses. Her English was better, though still rough.
But as we walked through the parking lot of her apartment complex, it became clear that things were not going well.
"I hate everything here, really," she said.
Her apartment has rats and cockroaches, she said. Her husband is too sick to work. And there have been delays in the insurance payments she's supposed to get from the U.S. government for her son's death.
"There's no future," she said.
We got into her niece Sama's car, with Sama at the wheel. Maladh doesn't drive, which, she's discovering, is a serious handicap in sprawling Southern California.
Maladh had just gotten her first job ever — cleaning rooms at a resort on Mission Bay — but the commute on public transportation proved to be too much.
At best, it was an hour-and-a-half commute each way, the women told me as we drove west on Interstate 8. After four frustrating days, missed busses and tears shed, Maladh gave up.
Now, we were going to pick up her check.
"And I, I'm not young," Maladh said. "I'm 50. So it's hard, to me, maybe."
Most refugees are all too familiar with such false starts.
"I think when refugees first arrive there's a sense of euphoria," said Bob Montgomery, executive director of the International Rescue Committee in San Diego. "They're safe, their families are safe."
The IRC helps refugees from all over the world resettle here.
"After the initial euphoria fades away, there's a period of time where, I don't want to say it's depression, it's not clinical depression, but clearly it's people being confronted with the realities of how difficult life here in the United States can be," Montgomery said.
Maladh and her husband share their two-bedroom apartment with their 12-year-old daughter Sukaina; Maladh's sister, who came from Iraq about a month ago; and Maladh's niece, Sama, and her two young children.
Back at the Mohammed Ali family's apartment in El Cajon, Arabic pop music floated up the stairwell.
Maladh's 22-year-old son has gone to live with his cousin in El Paso, Texas, where he has a temp job working for the U.S. military.
The kids seem to be adjusting better then their parents. Sukaina said she liked her new school and she's getting good grades.
Maladh and I sat on her couch and talked about the things she misses in Iraq, like drinking coffee with neighbors at noon. Her sister brought out tiny cups of strong, sweet coffee spiked with cardamom.
Maladh's mood seemed to lift as the afternoon went on. She joked and played with the young children of the household.
I asked her niece, Sama, about her experience arriving in the U.S. from Iraq three and a half years ago.
"Was it really hard for you at first?" I asked.
"Yes, but it's more hard for her (Maladh) because she lost her son," Sama said, referring to Mohammed, the one who was killed in Iraq.
"She didn't want to come here," Sama said.
Adding to the family's trials, Maladh's husband, Amer can hardly walk. His diabetes and blood pressure got worse after Mohammed's death, the family said.
But Sama thinks Maladh and her family will be OK with time. She said she's going to start teaching Maladh to drive and get her into English classes.
Sama told me in the family, Maladh has always been the one people confide in and trust. And Maladh's strength and confidence are obvious even as she says she's miserable.
But behind her — behind all refugees — is a backdrop of immense sadness. Her son is dead and she may never go back to her home country. At least the rest of her family is finally safe.
"I miss Iraq and I'm sad because I see the situation is bad," Maladh said. "I see blood everywhere. No food, no jobs. So, and I say, 'I'm good. My children is good.' I say, 'Thanks, God.'"
With the help of her family and the community, Maladh said tomorrow, she'll make another go at this new life she never wanted.


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"Heather" came knocking on a noble mission: "She said she was a soccer player at Iowa State University and her team was collecting money to buy books for children in need," recalls Harriett Summa.
The young woman who appeared at her door in May was well dressed, articulate and helpful. She asked if she could do any chores for Summa, and then changed a light bulb in the garage. Summa, 86, who lives near Des Moines, immediately got her checkbook.
Then Heather got pushy. "I first offered $20, but she said, 'Couldn't you make it $40? I have a quota I need to make,' " Summa says. "I figured I could afford it, so I wrote the check for $40."
Two nights later, the local TV news reported on a rash of door-to-door scams across central Iowa, all by a young woman falsely claiming she was an ISU soccer player seeking charitable donations—and duping dozens of people out of $5 to $120 a visit.
"I was furious," Summa says. She got even angrier when she realized that Heather had given her a "donation receipt"—backdated to 2005—from Quality Subscriptions Inc., of Buford, Ga. Her donation was in fact for magazines she'd never ordered—and Heather had never even mentioned magazines. Quality Subscriptions is part of United Family Circulation, which has drawn more than 80 complaints nationwide to the Better Business Bureau (BBB) for falsely selling magazines door to door.
With a backdated receipt, Summa had no way to get a refund because federal law allows only three days to cancel a purchase from a door-to-door solicitor. (By law a salesperson must inform you of your right to cancel.) But Summa was able to freeze her $40 check and change her bank accounts to avoid identity theft.
Complaints about United Family and its subsidiaries say their pitchmen misrepresent themselves as neighbors or students raising money for charities or scholarships. The company says it doesn't condone or teach this approach in its training.
Consumer advocates say the salespeople are typically teens and young adults who themselves are sometimes victims of unscrupulous companies that lure them with false promises of money and travel but pay them little.
Magazines are often marked up 300 percent, and "the odds are you'll never get them, especially if you pay in cash," says Phil Ellenbecker, an electrical engineer in Wisconsin who tracks door-to-door crimes on his website, www.travelingsalescrews.info.
Besides scamming people, Ellenbecker says, crews pushing magazines and other products have committed at least 280 felonies in recent years. Older people are most vulnerable. They invite salespeople in, he says, and when "the resident's in the kitchen getting them a glass of water, the solicitor is stealing their medication, checkbooks and wallets."
After a magazine salesman killed a 77-year-old New Jersey woman in 2004, her town adopted a law requiring criminal background checks for door-to-door solicitors. Such laws are being considered elsewhere, including Wisconsin. "Very little protection is afforded to individuals," says state Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D. "My advice: Just say no from inside your locked door."
If you have suspicions about a salesperson, contact the police and file a complaint with your local BBB or state attorney general's office. To learn more, go to the AARP.org door-to-door scams protection page or the Federal Trade Commission and search "Magazine Subscription Scams."
Sid Kirchheimer is the author of AARP/Sterling'sScam-Proof Your Life.
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Just when TLC decided to dump Jon Gosselin, too, the TV dad says he wants to "put the brakes" on his pending divorce from Kate.
Gosselin, who has been going through women like a rock star since he split with the mother of his eight kids, told In Touch Weekly he filed papers to stall the divorce for 90 days to give him time to "regain control over the future of our family."
"I regret my conduct since Kate and I separated," he said. "I used poor judgment in publicly socializing with other women so soon."
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There's no telling whether Jon's effort had anything to do with the network announcing plans to downsize his role on "Jon & Kate Plus 8," which will soon be simply "Kate Plus Eight." The rechristened show, which begins Nov. 2, will follow single mom Kate Gosselin as she struggles to raise her 5-year-old sextuplets and 8-year-old twins.
"It's not a huge shift, but it's reflective of where the show was already going," said Eileen O'Neill, TLC's president and general manager.
"Jon's going to be involved in the show," she said, adding that he will be seen less often than before. TLC retains an exclusive arrangement with him, as well as the rest of the family, O'Neill said.
Jon reportedly was warned by the cable network to curb his booze-fueled bachelorhood-embracing antics when he was pictured carousing with a bevy of blondes and sipping suds preceding the announcement of his divorce -- and in the months after.
Gosselin may have gotten the message. His lawyer, Mark Jay Heller, tells In Touch that his client "woke up one morning, looked in the mirror and didn't like the reflection."
The couple made their separation official on a "Jon & Kate" episode that aired in June and was seen by 10.6 million viewers. Since then, the couple has barely spoken amid reports of his constant womanizing. They've traded barbs in the press and police even had to go to ther Wernersville, Pa., home when Kate showed up unexpectedly during Jon's sceduled visitation this summer.
"We hope for the sake of the family that things are more manageable," O'Neill said. "I don't think anyone asked for that amount of attention."
Although the audience for recent "Jon & Kate" airings has dropped below two million viewers, the current season has averaged a robust 3.2 million, which represents an increase of 300,000 viewers over last season.
Discussions are under way with Kate Gosselin for another series that might debut in 2010, O'Neill said.
"I think there's an opportunity for Kate beyond her role as a supermom to explore her other interests," O'Neill said.
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The drug contains female hormones that prevent ovulation and also causes changes in the cervical mucus and uterine lining, which makes it harder for sperm to reach the uterus and for a fertilized egg to attach to the uterus.
The company Warner Chilcott Company, LLC manufactures Lo Loestrin Fe. They claim that it provides the lowest daily dose of estrogen available in a birth control pill, with only 10 micrograms of daily estrogen. Lo Loestrin Fe was approved by the FDA in 2010.
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John Scalzi on cover art here. (Including an interesting comment from Tor's awesome paperback designer Pablo Defendini, daydreaming about future book design.)
Thursday, March 27, 2008
3 comments:
- Carl V. Anderson said...
I like PD's comments in there. I found the other comments quite interesting too. I was surprised that I seemed to be the lone wolf in regards to preferring the John Harris covers on Scalzi's books. Art is certainly a to each his own thing though.
- colin said...
I preferred Harris' cover, but only slightly.
PD's comments are interesting, and hopeful (one could even hope for larger formats of the cover art than are possible with normal paper books), but I think they may be a bit over-optimistic. By the same logic, internet distribution of music could also lead to a boom in beautiful album (or single) art, or art and videos could have been distributed on CDs. It doesn't seem to have happened. There have been experiments, but mostly the art accompanying music has been trimmed down since the heyday of album art.
Possibly this was a mistake on the part of music companies, but I think it has to do with the way music is sold once it enters the digital realm. People don't browse, looking at album covers, they search, for names they know, or possibly they listen at sites like pandora or last.fm. The album cover is no longer as important to capture the browser's eye and help encourage a sale. Unfortunately, I can see the same thing happening for books, although I think we might have more time yet, because paper books are still the best platform for text (while music has graduated from big black disks, or even little silver ones). When we eventually see a real alternative to paper come around, it may mean, if not the end, at least the end of the golden age for book cover art.
I wouldn't be happy to see that happen, and I'd love to see PD's vision come true, but I worry, because I'm a worrier.
- Pablo Defendini said...
Wow, thanks for the feedback, guys!
Colin, it is indeed a shame what's happened to album cover art, but I think that things may be a bit different with e-books, due to how the user interacts with the digital file. While with music you usually set the file to play and relegate your player to the background of your computing activities, with books you're directly interfacing with the file as you're reading it, so there may be more possibilities regarding added content.
Carl, I'm with ya, I also prefer Harris' covers for Scalzi's books! Harris is one of those artists who I discovered after starting at Tor, and it took me a second to warm up to his style. Now that I have, I enjoy him a whole lot.


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The 1999 NFL season was a year of transformation for the Tennessee Titans. First, the name was new, as the club had played the previous two seasons as the Tennessee Oilers after moving from Houston. Second, the team had a permanent home at the new Adelphia Coliseum in Nashville – prior to that, the franchise had played at different venues, including the Liberty Bowl in Memphis, and often before small crowds. During the period of transition, including the final season in Houston, the team had put together three straight 8-8 records. In '99, Head Coach Jeff Fisher's team broke out to a 13-3 record, which still wasn't enough to win the AFC Central (Jacksonville finished at 14-2) but more than enough to grab a Wild Card spot in the playoffs. On January 8, 2000 the Titans faced the Buffalo Bills in their first postseason game at their new home.
The Bills, coached for the second year by Wade Phillips, were in the playoffs for the tenth time in twelve seasons as they finished second in the AFC East with an 11-5 record. While several of the players who had been key performers during that stretch, such as DE Bruce Smith, WR Andre Reed, and RB Thurman Thomas, were reaching the end of the trail, younger performers like RB Antowain Smith, WR Eric Moulds, LB Sam Cowart, and CB Antoine Winfield made significant contributions. 37-year-old QB Doug Flutie, undersized but popular and typically productive, had held off the challenge of 26-year-old Rob Johnson, but in a controversial move, Coach Phillips chose to bench Flutie in favor of Johnson for the playoff game at Tennessee.
With 66,672 fans in attendance at the Adelphia Coliseum, the defenses took control early and the first quarter was scoreless. It was a defensive play in the second quarter that put the first points on the board when Tennessee's star rookie DE Jevon Kearse (pictured below) sacked Johnson in the end zone for a safety.
The ensuing free kick was returned 42 yards by WR Derrick Mason to give the Titans excellent field position at the Buffalo 28. They made the most of it as, five plays later, QB Steve McNair ran around end for a one-yard touchdown. With the successful extra point, the home team was ahead by 9-0.
After the Bills punted, the Titans again advanced into scoring territory. It looked like they would come up dry when, with time running out in the first half, Al Del Greco missed a 45-yard field goal attempt. However, a holding penalty on the Bills gave Del Greco another shot from five yards closer and this time he was successful. Tennessee went into halftime with a 12-0 lead. The Bills gained just 64 total yards and managed only three first downs in the first half as Johnson had struggled.
It quickly became a different story in the second half when, on the opening play from scrimmage of the third quarter, Antowain Smith ran for 44 yards. It set up his four-yard touchdown carry that capped a 62-yard drive and got the Bills back in the game.
Later in the third quarter, safety Kurt Schulz deflected a McNair pass that was intercepted by Antoine Winfield. The Bills got another big play when Johnson threw to Eric Moulds, who got ahead of CB Denard Walker down the left sideline, for a 37-yard gain. Kearse was penalized for a roughing the passer penalty to help move the series along and Smith scored another TD, this time from a yard out. The try for a two-point conversion failed but Buffalo was in front by 13-12 with just over eleven minutes remaining in the game.
That was it for the offensive output until, with 6:15 remaining, WR Isaac Byrd returned a punt 16 yards to give the Titans possession at the Buffalo 45. Tennessee moved methodically down the field with Eddie George carrying the ball five straight times and Del Greco kicking a 36-yard field goal. The Titans were ahead by 15-13 with 1:48 to go.
However, Buffalo got a 33-yard kickoff return from WR Kevin Williams and proceeded to drive 38 yards in six plays. With the clock now down to 16 seconds, Christie was successful on a 41-yard field goal try that put the Bills back on top at 16-15.
The Bills kicked off, with Christie booting it short but high to try and hinder a return. The Titans were anticipating a squib kick and had lined up for a desperation return play called Home Run Throwback. RB Lorenzo Neal caught the ball and handed off to TE Frank Wycheck, who then threw a lateral down the 25 yard line to WR Kevin Dyson. The plan was to gain enough yards to get into field goal range, but Dyson made the catch of the low-thrown ball and, led by a convoy of blockers, he proceeded to run 75 yards for a touchdown (pictured at top). It was the first time the Titans had ever run the play and Dyson, who was filling in for the injured Mason, had never practiced it.
The Bills furiously argued that the throw from Wycheck (pictured at right) to Dyson was an illegal forward pass, but the play was reviewed by referee Phil Luckett and the call stood – much to the delight of the ecstatic home crowd and the consternation of the shocked Bills players and coaches. Thanks to the touchdown on what came to be referred to as "the Music City Miracle", Tennessee advanced by a final score of 22-16.
"The line judge's initial ruling was that it was not a forward pass," explained Luckett. "Taking from where the pass left the passer's right hand on that (the 25) yard line, the receiver catches it right there on that yard line. It did not appear to be a forward pass, therefore there is not a foul."
"I think it was a forward lateral," said Buffalo's owner Ralph Wilson, who spoke for many (but by no means all) who observed the play. "I also think there was no way the guy was going to overturn it."
The Bills led in total yards (219 to 194) although Tennessee had more first downs (16 to 13). Neither team gained much through the air, with Buffalo leading in net passing yards (96 to 55). But the Titans sacked Johnson six times (two by Jevon Kearse) as opposed to Buffalo getting to McNair three times (2.5 by Bruce Smith). The Bills also were penalized ten times, while the home team was flagged twice. Each team turned the ball over on two occasions.
Steve McNair completed 13 of 24 passes for just 76 yards with one intercepted, although he ran six times for 19 yards and a TD. Eddie George rushed for 106 yards on 26 carries. Frank Wycheck and TE Jackie Harris each caught four passes, with Wycheck gaining 29 yards to 20 for Harris.
For the Bills, Rob Johnson, who had difficulty against the strong Tennessee pass rush but came on in the fourth quarter, was successful on 10 of 22 throws for 131 yards with no touchdowns or interceptions. Antowain Smith paced the ground attack with 79 yards on 14 carries that included two for scores. WR Peerless Price had 5 pass receptions for 62 yards and Eric Moulds also gained 62 yards on his three catches.
The Titans went on to win the AFC title and lost a close contest to the St. Louis Rams in the Super Bowl. They went 13-3 again in 2000, although did not advance as far in the postseason. As for the Bills, the loss to Tennessee signaled the beginning of a long playoff drought. They dropped to 8-8 in 2000 and were over .500 just once in the course of the next 13 years (and counting).


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Ajit Pai was nominated to the Federal Communications Commission by President Barack Obama and on May 7, 2012 was confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate.
Commissioner Pai's focus is on creating a regulatory environment in which competition and innovation will flourish, thus benefitting American consumers. He believes that it is vital for the FCC to adopt policies that will give private firms the strongest incentive to raise and invest capital; to develop new products and services; and to compete in established and new markets. Specifically, Commissioner Pai is working to remove uncertainty that can deter businesses and investors from taking risks, to revisit outdated regulations, and to set clear, modernized rules for the road. These steps will result in consumers enjoying better products at lower prices and the communications industry contributing to faster economic growth and more job creation.
Commissioner Pai also believes that the FCC must act with dispatch to reflect the pace of change in today's marketplace. Faced with an industry as vibrant and dynamic as today's communications sector, the Commission must be careful not to cling to twentieth century approaches in addressing the technological landscape of the twenty-first century. Thus, for example, it is a priority of Commissioner Pai to increase promptly the availability of spectrum for high-value uses.
Commissioner Pai's regulatory approach has been shaped by his decade and a half of experience in communications, law, and policy.
Between 2007 and 2011, Commissioner Pai held several positions in the FCC's Office of General Counsel, serving most prominently as Deputy General Counsel. In this role, he had supervisory responsibility over several dozen lawyers in the Administrative Law Division and worked on a wide variety of regulatory and transactional matters involving the wireless, wireline, cable, Internet, media, and satellite industries.
Commissioner Pai's career outside of the FCC has spanned the private and public sectors. With respect to the private sector, Pai worked in the Washington, DC office of Jenner & Block LLP, where he was a Partner in the Communications Practice until being sworn in as a Commissioner. Years earlier, he served as Associate General Counsel at Verizon Communications Inc., where he handled competition matters, regulatory issues, and counseling of business units on broadband initiatives.
Commissioner Pai also has served in all three branches of the federal government. After moving to Washington, DC in 1998, his first post was with the United States Department of Justice's Antitrust Division as an Honors Program trial attorney on the Telecommunications Task Force. There, he worked on proposed mergers and acquisitions and on novel requests for regulatory relief following the enactment of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. He later returned to the Department of Justice to serve as Senior Counsel in the Office of Legal Policy. Pai has worked on Capitol Hill as well, first as Deputy Chief Counsel to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts, and later as Chief Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Property Rights. Immediately following law school, he clerked for the Honorable Martin L.C. Feldman of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
Commissioner Pai received a B.A. with honors from Harvard University in 1994 and a J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1997, where he was an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review and won the Thomas J. Mulroy Prize. In 2010, Pai was one of 55 individuals nationwide chosen for the 2011 Marshall Memorial Fellowship, a leadership development initiative of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
The son of immigrants from India, Commissioner Pai grew up in Parsons, Kansas. He now lives in Arlington, Virginia, with his wife, Janine, son, Alexander and daughter, Annabelle.


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Out of Philadelphia comes a news story so bass-ackwards that it belongs in The Onion. Dimitri Rotov has the details over at Civil War Memory.
The Olympia, veteran vessel of the Spanish-American and First World Wars and the oldest steel warship still sitting on top of the water anywhere in the world, is at the Independence Seaport Museum. The Olympia was Dewey's flagship at Manila Bay; he was standing on her decks when he gave the order, "You may fire when ready, Gridley." She also happens to be the ship that brought home the remains of America's WWI unknown soldier.
Now, the ideal culmination of any effort to locate and preserve some historic vessel is to raise the wreck, conserve it in a lab, and then put in on display where you can interpret it for the public. Olympia never went to the bottom of the ocean. She sailed home to acclaim and ended up as a museum. No sinking, no salvage. So far so good.
The problem is that the Independence Seaport Museum can't afford the upkeep anymore, so they're looking to dispose of her. Here's the money quote: "'Another option would be scrapping Olympia,' said James McLane, interim president of the museum, which owns the ship and is adjacent to it at Penn's Landing. 'But the Navy has told us that 'reefing' is better because it would allow divers to go down on it and would preserve Olympia.'"
"Reefing" basically means towing it out to sea and then sending it down to Davy Jones's locker, where it would be inaccessible to everybody except for scuba divers and fish, subject to the very same kind of deterioration that's causing the Monitor and the Titanic to crumble to pieces.
I'm not trying to criticize the museum. Lots of museums are in a bind. If they don't have the funds, then they don't have the funds, and scrapping the ship wouldn't do anybody any more benefit than reefing it. But the irony here is just absolutely sickening. We spend millions of dollars and thousands of hours trying to raise historic ships from the bottom of the sea, get them afloat, and turn them into exhibits, and now here we have a historic ship that's already afloat and on exhibit, and it might end up at the bottom of the sea. Unbelievable.
There is, fortunately, a group of people dedicated to keeping Olympia afloat, and I urge you to visit their website. Please consider a donation to this organization, or at least sign their online petition.


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Hi guys, I have been working on my film(s) so I have NOT seen episodes in awhile. This show is unfortunately not as high on my watch list as some others but I haven't totally given up yet.
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My review of "Surprise": I love seeing Dylan younger. What a cutie! I also like how much effort Maya puts into Dylan's parties, because it shows she puts effort into letting all the kids know they are loved. That scene in the shoe store about the terms had me ROLF! Too funny! That was exactly what I was trying to explain in a speech last week LOL. I thought it was so sweet how Dylan said she did not want to share her mom. I also liked JJ's comment about being the big brother. JJ being able to get to the mall without Kenneth or anyone else there doesn't make much sense at all given what the rest of the series suggests about his physical abilities but at least it shows JJ being clever.
My review of "Ding" : The "License for that thing" line happens to me when I use my scooter. Good to see what Kenneth has another job when he's not with JJ. I like how JJ handled that guy who touched/pushed his wheelchair! The plot with Maya dinging a car and the whole red soda plot was dumb and a bit boring to me, but the ending with Kenneth was nice. Now we know Kenneth is likely paid by the parents privately, not by the school.
All in all these last 2 episodes were better than the "Oscars" episode.


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Seven balls are shaken. You win if the two blue balls end up touching. What is the probability of winning?
Imagine flipping a coin a number of times. Can you work out the probability you will get a head on at least one of the flips?
Alison and Charlie are playing a game. Charlie wants to go first so Alison lets him. Was that such a good idea?
Newspapers said that eating a bacon sandwich every day raises the risk of bowel cancer by 20%. Should you be concerned?
Your partner chooses two beads and places them side by side behind a screen. What is the minimum number of guesses you would need to be sure of guessing the two beads and their positions?


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Uigurs, Uighurs, or Uygurs (all: wē´gŏŏrz), Turkic-speaking people of Asia who live mainly in W China. They were the Yue-che of ancient Chinese records and first rose to prominence in the 7th cent. when they supported the T'ang Chinese in central Asia. In 744 the Uigurs seized control of Mongolia and established their capital on the Orkhon River, near the site of later Karakorum. Ousted (840) from Mongolia by the Kyrgyz, they moved to Turpan, in Xinjiang, where they founded an empire that lasted until the Mongol onslaught of the 13th cent. Unlike other peoples of central Asia, the Uigurs were not exclusively nomadic but practiced some agriculture and trade. They were converted to Manichaeism but later became Sunni Muslims. The Uigurs transmitted their script to the Mongols.
A movement promoting Uigur independence has existed for many years, and there were attempts to establish an East Turkestan Republic in Xinjiang in the 1930s and 40s. Since the Chinese Communist victory in 1949 there have been sporadic antigovernment protests and violence and government antiseparatist crackdowns; in 1954 there was a Uigur uprising in Hotan. In 2009, in the worst recent incident, there was deadly street fighting between Uigurs and Chinese in Ürümqi. Uigur unrest has been aggravated in recent years by resentment over the increasing number of Han Chinese in Xinjiang and government restrictions on Islamic practices. Today half of the population of Xinjiang (reorganized as the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in 1955) is of Uigur descent; there they number about 8 million. Another 1 million Uigurs live in Central Asia and elsewhere.
See C. Mackerras, ed., The Uighur Empire (1968, repr. 1973).


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April 18-25 is Historic Garden Week in Virginia, and while these tulips in Crozet are not on the official tour, thanks to the magic of snap o' the day, you get to see them anyway. PHOTO BY MARY JANE GORE
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Brian O'Connor and Jeff Clark are both in the same boat. Neither has a chance.
As a Dem, I sure hope one of the kooks besides Hurt and Boyd win the GOP primary. What a bunch of weirdos, and none of them seem like smart politicos -- not a one even pulled George W's brilliant ploy of naming Jesus Christ as their favorite political leader. Doing that would have locked up 40% of the vote, as W proved in 2000 to the dismay of the other Republicans running against him back then. I hope Tom hits the wackos who say drug laws should be up to states -- by their logic, any state that is crazy enough to legalize dope must be allowed to, no matter what the impact on others. What kind of Virginia Congressman would idly sit by and say okey dokey if NC, TN, WVa, Md and DC all legalize, leaving us surreounded by dope fiends?
The question was about pot, not all drugs,but thats beside the point. Funny how those who want government to leave people alone never can say they support medical marijuana.
I would not vote for anyone who spouts off the "traditional family values" BS for dogcatcher!Likewise anyone so ignorant as to call Obama a "socialist."
Come to think of it maybe we do need a Che Guevara, to see Rush Limbaugh strangled to death with the entrails of Glenn Beck.(Just kiddin'-maybe).
Lloyd seems not to have done much homework on these candidates. After Periello's remark- "You'll have to tie our hands to stop us from spending", it was Verga who walked into Periello's office with a pair of handcuffs to suggest that we do just that- tie his hands. That shows more 'fire in the belly' than any of the other candidates have expressed.
We need someone in Congress who understands business and money. These career politicians have no concept of either. As a business owner, I believe that Laurence Verga is the best candidate for Congress.
Hurt has voted for several tax increases, not just one as he claims. He contradicts his voting record almost every time he speaks.
i have feared all along that the republicans are going to beat the current congessman if and ita big if they dont critizeeach other and unite behind the winner..the current representative voted for the health care bill and is in step with obama,,that alone would get me to vote agaist the present congressman,,thank you.
Verga is the zombie candidate in this race. He can't win,has no base, and won't clear single digits on June 8th. Feda Morton is finished and Ferrin is a ghost. This race is down to just 4, Boyd, McKelvey, McPadden, and Hurt
Boyd could probably be leading this if he put $200,000 of his own money in this race. He sounds the most like a congressman but in this current climate, where having no experience is a virtue, may hurt him. The knock on him seems to come from TEA party folks who confuse volume of voice with passion of beliefs
McKelvey is a hot head with a fist full of cash and a shrink wrapped RV who thinks he can cut the federal budget in his 1st year as a freshman congressman by 50% (if he tries it the 5th district will get nothing from Congress, if he doesn't he's a liar) Mark Lloyd has endorsed him and you need to know that when you read Mr. Lloyd comments in this story
McPadden wants to be the constitutional warrior, who seems to believe he's the only one who can bring us back to founders vision. Then he starts talking about the gold standard and how we should go back to it. This shows me he has no idea how modern economics work. Anyone who heard him spout his constitutional thoughts knows he some how believes he knows better than the Supreme Court and believes things that would make Scalia scratch his head in puzzlement. Passion over reason, to be sure. TEA party people think he's a genius but repeating what you heard on Fox News can be done by a parrot as well.
This should have been Hurt's race from the beginning but other than the folks he currently represents seems to be stalled. He seems like a Ken doll who speaks softly but carries no rhetorical stick. He may win this thing but it won't be impressive. Perriello could beat him every arena except a basketball court.
Verga is the only one willing to stand up to his own party. He cares about conservative principles of smaller government and lower taxes, not about getting re-elected.
Hurt is laughable on those points. He has raised taxes and his #1 claim on the job is he has been re-elected often.NO THANKS
Boyd has let the AC budget grow out of control.
Verga is the only one? Don't make me laugh. Anyone who is running against Hurt is running against the party elder's wishes. Verga is all talk, a wanna be congressman who didn't live here till 5 years ago and couldn't be bothered to vote here until he wanted to run. His business record seems to only be valid because he says it is- I have never seen any proof of it. His health problems could lead him to be unable to campaign for some time (his only 2 weeks time frame for a transplant is wildly optimistic). The Mayo Clinic calls for 3 to 4 weeks of close monitoring if everything goes flawlessly (which I pray it does).
Conan it's bald face lie that Boyd let the budget grow out of control. For the last two years the total Albemarle budget has fallen. In case you missed the public hearing had public schools parents waving checks and saying "raise MY taxes". Boyd and others stayed strong and kept the rate the same and this meant most folks saw their property taxes drop. Further without Boyd there wouldn't be a republican majority on the BOS. If you're not in the majority you can't make the budget smaller- just ask Rob Schilling.
Verga said that we Americans who voted our President into office are the biggest threat to national security. Verga said that the act of electing our current President "was political correctness gone awry".
McKelvey is just like his out of control manager. No chance in the primary. Poor campaign in fact.
Verga thinks Roe vs Wade are alternate methods for crossing the Potomac.
Not sure it really matters who wins- they are P O L I T I C I A N S.....it is in the water.
We need to elect citizens who are real people, who, when they are done for the session (which should be real short) go back home and farm their fields, or work in their stores or sell their merchandize- but NO...they have to make a "big deal" about being a politician and have us all feel that they are the saviors of the world.
The old story is this- you can't get quality people in Congress without paying them quality money- or only the very rich and elite can "afford" to be in Congress- BS. The quality people are the ones with their feet on the ground- unfortunately, we have lost the ability to attract those types because money and BS talk, and the average citizen suffers because of that.
My dog would be an improvement over Perriello, but she's not interested in running, except after deer. After Tommy Boy's defeat, it will be nice having a representative who actually represents the wishes of the majority of his constituents, something Little Tommy doesn't give a rat's rump about. He represents the wishes of Obama and Pelosi, as evidenced by his vote on ObamaCare. He and his ilk rammed it down the throats of the majority of Americans (or was it in the form of a suppository?). He's toast come November.
Tommy Boy Detractor, Maybe you can give us some statistics on these so called majorities that TP isn't representing. Or are you just mad and listen to other mad people, and just assume it means everyone must be mad?
Voting for the reform package does not mean one is following the wishes of Pelosi or Obama. Plenty of people in the 5th wanted that reform. Sorry that displeases you, but that's the way the cookie crumbles.
I was actually against the package as it was, because it is the fraudulent non-competitive system we have had all along, with a few additional people getting picked up, and little being done for supply. In short, it doesn't go nearly far enough.
The majority (note that doesn't mean "everyone" nor "plenty") of Americans and 5th District residents WERE and ARE against Obama Care. Why do you think they had to use all those underhanded tactics get it passed? If the libs haven't learned from the elections in VA, NJ and MA, they are not educable. But I think they do realize and figure it was worth going against the wishes of most voters. After all, we're too dumb to know what's best for us. But we do know what's best, something many libs will find out, much to their dismay, on 11/2/10 and again on 11/6/12. Count on it!
I love how all of them continue the old saw on how the 'average' American citizen is overtaxed. By their state and local governments, that might be true. But we have one of the lowest tax levels of any 1st world country. All it takes is a little research to verify that. Not to mention, we also get the least from the taxes we pay.
I continue to laugh when I hear how our President and the gov't in general have taken away our rights and are destroying the country. How? By offering a way to actually cover some 40 million people under health insurance? By putting regulations back in place to keep banks and investment houses from destroying the economy again? By actually working for the average American, instead of completely for the special interests and corporations?
And TommyBoy, I'll believe it when I see it. Many people (including the Tea Party) seem to feel that not only will the Republican candidate win the seat, but that their will be a revolution like in '94. Somehow, I really doubt that will come to pass. The only thing that a Republican candidate has gong for them is that many parts of 5th district have leaned their way, and this is a mid-term election.
And it's laughable to say that the elections in those 3 states are an upset. Many states elect from the opposing party. In VA the other candidate ran a shoddy campaign, and the new representative in MA has voted with the Dems on many issues(I guess that makes him a RINO in your book?) As far as NJ, you might want to actually read some of the news sites for NJ to see just how much people are regretting their decision to vote for Christie.
And to add on to my last paragraph, I meant to say that many states elect from the opposing party *from the one in the White House at the time*.
Are you kidding re the MA election not being an upset? Heck, Brown took "The Swimmer's" seat! If that's not an upset, nothing is. Re NJ, don't believe what the Star Ledger, or other members of the Obama Cheering Squad MSM write. Funny how each time the Dems go down to defeat, the libs say "no big deal" and come up with a laundry list of excuses why it happened. The bottom line is that the majority of Americans aren't buying what the libs are selling, plain and simple. Whistle past the graveyard all you want, but the November Judgement Day for the Democratic Party is fast approaching and it won't be pretty.
No, MA really was not an upset. It was clear to political observers that Brown was going to win when the Democrat candidate (Coakley?) was running no campaign at all until the last moment. It was a disastrously run, managed and executed campaign by the MA Dems, and it showed in the results.
My name is John Giuliano and I ask you to write in John Walton Giuliano for Congressman of the 5th Congressional District of Virginia. If elected, I'll do all that I can to stop the New World Order in it's tracks and send all of the senior members of the NWO crime syndicate straight back to Hell! My experience includes listening to the Alex Jones show almost every single day for five years straight! I know the NWO's tricks, I know their modus operandi, I know what makes them tick, maybe not as well as Alex Jones, but he's not running for Congressman of the 5th District, is he? Sorry folks, but at the current time, I'm the best this area has to offer as far as anti-New World Order candidates go, like it or not. Vote for me!
"Then he starts talking about the gold standard and how we should go back to it. This shows me he has no idea how modern economics work."
On the contrary he actually understands 'modern economics' quite well in that a fiat monetary system creates a hidden tax called inflation. And if you have tracked the purchasing power of the dollar since we got the most recent incarnation of a central bank back in 1913, then the case for a better system is not difficult to make. Now a gold standard may, or may not be the answer or solution, but a monetary system that can create money out of thin air and charge you interest on it is not the answer either.
Mike will do the people's business when he goes to Washington and he has my vote.
The jets Mike makes his living flying have been spraying chem-trails on us in plain view for years! For the love of God, I don't understand why you would vote for someone who is spraying chemicals, nanobots, viruses and bacteria on you from 30,000 feet! Switch over to the Giuliano camp now - I promise that if I'm elected, I'll call for the Virginia Air National Guard to shoot down any plane whose contrail doesn't disappear within one minute, and that includes those with Mike McPadden in the cockpit!
Mike will do the bait and switch the moment his CIA bosses offer him the million dollar bribe! Could his military experience be proof that he doesn't work for "the people", but rather "the military"? Don't wait to find out!
Why is this thread the only non-picture-of-the-week thread that I can comment on without being put in moderation-awaiting limbo? BOTH THE HOOK AND C-VILLE WEEKLY ARE GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED AND GOVERNMENT-CONTROLLED MAINSTREAM PROPAGANDA RAGS. BOYCOTT ANY BUSINESS THAT ADVERTISES WITH THEM, BUT DON'T WAIT FOR THEM TO GO OUT OF BUSINESS BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT WILL TAKE A FINANCIAL LOSS IF THE PROPAGANDA YIELDS RESULTS.


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Dozens of Taliban militants armed with guns, grenades and bombs attacked a prison in northwest Pakistan, freeing more than 250 prisoners, including 25 "dangerous terrorists," officials said.
The militants killed six policemen, six Shiite Muslim prisoners and two civilians during Monday night's attack in the town of Dera Ismail Khan, said the town's commissioner, Mushtaq Jadoon. One of the Shiites was beheaded.
Fifteen policemen were wounded, said Jadoon.
Around 70 militants arrived at the prison by car and motorcycle at around 11:30 p.m. to begin the attack, which lasted for about four and a half hours until most of the fighters escaped, said intelligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
The attack began with a huge explosion that one resident, Sharafat Khan, said was so loud that "it rattled every house in the neighborhood."
The militants then detonated dozens of smaller bombs at different points along the prison walls, causing them to collapse, said Jadoon. They also fired rocket-propelled grenades and lobbed hand grenades during the attack, he said.
Security forces engaged the attackers, who were chanting "God is great" and "Long live the Taliban," intelligence officials said. At least eight attackers disguised in police uniforms entered the prison on motorcycles adorned with Taliban flags and used megaphones to call out the names of specific prisoners for whom they were looking.
The militants broke open the cells and freed 253 prisoners, including 25 "dangerous terrorists," said Jadoon.
Pakistani Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid claimed responsibility for the attack, saying 150 militants took part and around 300 prisoners were freed. Eight of the attackers wore suicide vests, and two detonated their explosives, Shahid told The Associated Press by telephone from an undisclosed location.
Authorities captured nine prisoners who escaped and were searching for the others, as well as the militants, said Jadoon. Army soldiers were called in as reinforcements.
A curfew has been imposed in Dera Ismail Khan and the nearby town of Tank while the search goes on, said Amir Khattak, Dera Ismail Khan's deputy commissioner. The town is located near Pakistan's semiautonomous tribal region, the main sanctuary for Taliban and al-Qaida militants in the country.
Officials received a letter threatening an attack on the prison, but they didn't expect it so soon, said Khalid Abbas, head of the prison department in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
In April 2012, Taliban militants armed with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades battled their way into a prison in the city of Bannu in northwest Pakistan, freeing close to 400 prisoners, including at least 20 described by police as "very dangerous" insurgents.
One of the militants freed in that attack, Adnan Rasheed, recently gained attention by writing a letter to teenage education activist Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban last year in an attempt to kill her. Rasheed said he wished the attack hadn't happened, but told Malala that she was targeted for speaking ill of the Taliban.


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A new counter-terrorism document published by the British home secretary Theresa May has revealed how terrorist organizations like the Al-Qaida are exploiting the internet. According to the 123-page counter-terror report, last year, a special unit – called the Tariq bin Ziyad Brigades for Electronic Jihad, was established to attack computers.
Besides attempting to invade Facebook and spreading propaganda through websites, terrorists are now taking advantage of the internet to plan and co-ordinate attacks. Google Earth and Street View are two tools that were singled out by the report. Back in 2005, India's then president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam had warned that Google Earth poses a security risk. Several other countries including South Korea and the Netherlands had also expressed concern. In fact, Indian security agencies believe that Google Earth was employed by the terrorists behind the shocking 26/11 Mumbai attacks in 2008.
Street View is a relatively new addition to Google's mapping tools, which provides highly detailed on-the-ground pictures of any location that has been mapped. It has already run into trouble the European Union and several countries including India, Australia, and Germany due to allegations of snooping and privacy violations. The latest revelations will probably strengthen the opposition against this controversial project.


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From cold curry sauce to garlic sweets, this summer sees the launch of weird and wonderful products aimed at beating the season's intense heat. Here are but a few:
Chilled Hiroshima okonomiyaki: This revolutionary product developed by the Tokugawa restaurant chain has been making waves on the web as Japanese get their heads round the mindboggling concept of cold okonomiyaki. Made in the Kansai style, it contains strips of meat and cabbage with a special ponzu-based sauce and dried bonito flakes on top. It has a lighter texture than your average stodgy okonomiyaki, making it easy summer eating. Because you don't need to use a microwave to make it, it also helps you do your bit for setsuden (power saving).
Chilled curry: This chilled sauce is designed to be poured on top of cold noodles. The concept of chilled curry sauce for noodles was introduced by Yamasa last year, so the fact that House Foods has jumped on the bandwagon this year proves that the concept has staying power.
Stamina candy: Containing plum, salt and garlic, we're guessing these candies are not for the faint of heart. However, the ingredients are purported to counteract the effects of heatstroke, so I suppose it's worth sucking on one of these when temps become unbearable. We love the picture of a burly builder on the front of black packaging that gives the product a macho vibe.
Ring Jelly: Released by Mister Donut in June, these doughnut-shaped jellies come in four refreshing flavors: strawberry, coffee, pineapple and grape. Alongside these wobbly treats, Mister Donut is also really pushing the chilled doughnut concept this season (normal doughnut stuck in a fridge), which we've seen gradually gathering momentum in Japanese donut outlets over the past few years.
Menthol Shock: Despite the fact that refreshing menthol products are trending right now, This Nihon Life gave this beverage a test run and came back with the verdict that the experience of drinking it is "akin to swallowing 350ml of carbonated Listerine." Have you given it a shot?


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