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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Harry Carey Jr., a character actor who starred in such Westerns as "3 Godfathers" and "Wagon Master," has died. He was 91.
His daughter, Melinda Carey, said he died Thursday of natural causes surrounded by family at a hospice facility in Santa Barbara, Calif.
"He went out as gracefully as he came in," she said Friday.
Carey's career spanned more than 50 years and included such John Ford classics as "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon," ''The Searchers" and "The Long Gray Line." Later in life, he appeared in the movies "Gremlins" and "Back to the Future Part III."
His memoir, "Company of Heroes: My Life as an Actor in the John Ford Stock Company," was published in 1994.
While he lacked the leading-man stature of longtime friend and co-star John Wayne, Carey's boyish looks and horse-riding skills earned him roles in many of Ford's films.
He and fellow character Ben Johnson famously learned to stand simultaneously on two galloping horses — a trick known as roman riding — for the 1950 film "Rio Grande" starring Wayne.
"My journey has been that of a character actor," he wrote in his memoir. "I've worked with the great and the not-so-great. But mostly I've worked with men and women who loved their profession, and who like me, had kids to raise and houses to pay for."
Carey was the son of silent-film Western star Harry Carey Sr. and actress Olive Carey. He was born on May 16, 1921, on his family's ranch and graduated from Hollywood's Black-Foxe Military Institute.
During World War II, he served in the Navy and worked with Ford on films for the Navy.
He is survived by his wife, a son, two daughters, three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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EUREKA (AP) — It was a perfect day for surfing. Except for the shark.
Jay Scrivner, a 45-year-old college English teacher, was waiting for waves off the Northern California coast near his hometown of Eureka on Sunday morning after surfing for about two hours when a great white he estimated at about 8-to-9 feet long bit his thigh and board.
"Sometimes you have a feeling that the water is weird," Scrivner told The Associated Press in a phone interview from his room at Eureka's St. Joseph Hospital on Monday afternoon. "But everyone was just so happy. I was lying on my board, paddling around just waiting for a wave set."
Scrivner regularly surfs at the spot near Humboldt Bay known as the Samoa Peninsula. He was aware that another surfer, Scott Stephens, survived a shark attack in the same area last year.
Scriver said that "out of nowhere" he saw the shark's teeth and nose. After he was bitten, he took a swing at the great white and let out what a friend nearby described as a primordial yell.
"I couldn't believe it happened," Scrivner said. "When I turned away from the shark, I said, 'Did I really get bit?' Your mind doesn't believe it."
Scrivner said he did a quick inventory of his body parts and found everything was intact. A friend encouraged him to keep paddling toward the beach.
Once there, friends and fellow surfers applied pressure on the wound and tied a T-shirt to stop the bleeding.
"What's strange about it was how amazing the morning was, how everyone was having a good time, and then the dichotomy," he said.
Scrivner was alert and conscious on shore when rescue crews got to the scene around 8:45 a.m., Samoa Peninsula Fire District Chief Dale Unea said.
Scrivner, an English lecturer at College of the Redwoods who is married with two young children, said the bite wound on his left thigh did not sever an artery or damage any tendons. There was some muscle tissue damage that required about 30 stitches, but he was expected to fully recover.
He said he thinks he was spared from more damage by his old surf board, which is thicker than many modern boards.
"If you're going to get bitten by a shark, I had the best scenario," he said.
Scrivner said he will "definitely surf again," but with trepidation, and said he's already had an anxiety dream where something was tugging on his surfboard leash.
"There's just a power in the ocean," Scrivner said. "When you see a shark or get bitten by a shark, you're just made critically aware of that power."

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Perhaps one of the most iconic images to come out of the Vietnam War this photo depicts a uniformed South Vietnamese officer shooting a prisoner in the head. When you look into it, however, there is much more to this photograph than first meets the eye. There is an undeniable brutality to this photo, but even Eddie Adams – who won a Pulitzer Prize for capturing this shot – later admitted that it didn't tell the whole story and he stated that he wished he hadn't taken it at all.
Looking at this image out of context, it appears as though an officer is gunning down an innocent prisoner, perhaps even a civilian. You are apparently witnessing a savage war crime. That is the reason this image was adopted by anti-war protesters as an indictment against the Vietnam War. Without understanding the background, there is no reason to think that is not the case. It seems like yet another image showing someone acting horrifically and immorally during war time. But, when you learn the story behind the man who is being executed in this photo, the image and the reasoning behind the execution becomes a little bit clearer.
This man's name was Nguyen Van Lem, but he was also known as Captain Bay Lop. Lem was no civilian; he was a member of the Viet Cong. Not just any member, either, he was an assassin and the leader of a Viet Cong death squad who had been targeting and killing South Vietnamese National Police officers and their families.
Lem's team was attempting to take down a number of South Vietnamese officials. They may have even been plotting to kill the shooter himself, Major General Nguyen Ngoc Loan. It is said that Lem had recently been responsible for the murder of one of Loan's most senior officers, as well as the murder of the officer's family.
According to accounts at the time, when South Vietnamese officers captured Lem, he was more or less caught in the act, at the site of a mass grave. This grave contained the bodies of no less than seven South Vietnamese police officers, as well as their families, around 34 bound and shot bodies in total. Eddie Adams, the photojournalist who took the shot, backs up this story. Lem's widow also confirmed that her husband was a member of the National Liberation Front (Viet Cong), and that he disappeared before the beginning of the Tet Offensive.
After being captured with the bodies during the Tet Offensive, Nguyen Van Lem was taken to Major General Ngoc Loan. In a street in Saigon, Loan executed Lem with his .38 caliber Smith & Wesson.
The photographer, Eddie Adams, had this to say of capturing the photo:
I just followed the three of them as they walked towards us, making an occasional picture. When they were close – maybe five feet away – the soldiers stopped and backed away. I saw a man walk into my camera viewfinder from the left. He took a pistol out of his holster and raised it. I had no idea he would shoot. It was common to hold a pistol to the head of prisoners during questioning. So I prepared to make that picture – the threat, the interrogation. But it didn't happen. The man just pulled a pistol out of his holster, raised it to the VC's head and shot him in the temple. I made a picture at the same time…
The General then walked up to Adams and said, "They killed many of my people, and yours, too," then walked away.
Was this the right thing to do? As with so many things connected to war, the answer to that question is murky at best. Military lawyers have not yet decided with complete certainty whether or not Loan's actions violated the Geneva Conventions relating to the treatment of prisoners of war, so there is no official decision on the matter. From Loan's perspective, the man before him was a cold blooded killer who not only killed some of his friends and colleagues, but their families and other innocent people. This was a dangerous man, who in the name of patriotism nonetheless believed his political stance justified his actions, as presumably did General Loan himself concerning the execution. The question is- how would you have reacted, on both sides of the coin?
This may have been the end of Lem's life, but it was not the end of the story. The image of Lem's execution, and public reaction to it, played a small role in bringing the Vietnam War to an end. Although that is no bad thing, it also demonized General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, which was something Eddie Adams was extremely sorry for. He was quoted as saying,
The General killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them; but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths. What the photograph didn't say was, "What would you do if you were the General at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American soldiers?"
Adams felt that, by taking the photo, he had ruined Loan's life. He felt Loan was a good man, in a bad situation, and he deeply regretted the negative impact that the photo had on him. In fact, Major General Loan later moved to the United States. When he arrived, the Immigration and Nationalization Services wanted to deport him partially because of the photo taken by Adams. They approached Adams to testify against Loan, but Adams instead testified in his favor and Loan was allowed to stay. When Loan died of cancer in 1998, Adams stated, "The guy was a hero. America should be crying. I just hate to see him go this way, without people knowing anything about him."
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A few months after the execution picture was taken, Loan was seriously wounded by machine gun fire that led to the amputation of his leg. Following the war, he was reviled where ever he went. After an Australian hospital refused to treat him, he was transferred to the United States, where he was met with a massive (though unsuccessful) campaign to deport him. In 1975, the former General, Nguyen Loan, opened a pizza parlor, which he ran until 1991, when his identity was discovered and he was forced to retire after receiving many threats.
Loan and his wife at the pizza restaurant they opened in the D.C. suburb of Burke, Virginia at Rolling Valley Mall called "Les Trois Continents."
Widow Nguyen Thi Lop holding mementos of VC husband identified in picture
Nguyen Van Lem's secret Viet Cong name, Captain Bay Lop, came from his wife, whose first name was Lop. Nguyen Thi Lop knew her husband, Van Lem, was a Viet Cong officer. But until she picked up a newspaper in February 1968, she didn't know he had been arrested—or that he was dead, until she saw Eddie Adams' photo of her 36-year-old husband being executed three days before by Saigon's police chief, Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan.
Newly pregnant and fearful of the South Vietnamese authorities, Lop took her two daughters, then 13 and 3, from their house near Saigon's airport and moved in with relatives nearby. She struggled, working a multitude of odd jobs, until the war ended. After the war she was given a monthly pension, a "gratitude house" and a scholarship for her son who was born eight months after his father's death.
Verification that the above story is true can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Ng%E1%BB%8Dc_Loan#cite_note-6
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Are you OK, New Girl fans? Because we're almost too excited for words!
On Tuesday'sepisode Jess (Zooey Deschanel) and Nick (Jake Johnson) were locked in a room and forced to kiss -- but only because of the rules of Strip True American! But because Nick didn't want their first kiss to go down like that, he waited for the right moment later that night to pull Jess in for the smooch of a lifetime (Can someone please send us a .gif?!)
New Girl: Will Jess and Nick finally admit their feelings for one another?
But what does it mean? Will Nick and Jess finally begin their long-awaited relationship? Will the rest of the roommates find out? And what does this mean for Jess' relationship with Sam (David Walton) - and Jess' upcoming love interest in Shameless' Steve Howey! To get the scoop, TVGuide.com caught up with series creator Liz Meriwether to grill her on what's in store for one of our favorite TV couples.
Nick and Jess finally kissed!
Liz Meriwether: It's crazy, right? We were really nervous. We decided to do the kiss and we didn't know what it was going to be like. They did it, and we were all freaking out. I showed it to some girls on staff and all of us just started screaming a little bit, middle school style. The first time they kissed on set, the whole crew applauded.
Are New Girl's Nick and Jess the new Ross and Rachel?
Have you been waiting for this moment from the beginning?
Meriwether: We didn't have a plan, as we usually do on this show. [Laughs] We were just going along with the season and it just felt like the right time. The first draft of the episode was that they actually didn't kiss at the end. We felt like it was just time. It was an unexpected twist that felt like it was organic to where they were in their friendship because they've spent the whole season getting closer and closer. I just really wanted it to happen, to be totally honest.
How does this moment change their relationship?
Meriwether: There was worry that somehow if we brought them together some of the air was going to go out of the show. We're about to shoot Episode 19, so we're four episodes past this one, and it's the opposite. It's actually really helped us focus the show. It's just made it really exciting because there's this extra layer of subtext to everything they do. It's not just them jumping into a relationship. There are a lot of obstacles to that. But now it feels like Pandora's Box has been opened, in a good way. ... There are external obstacles, like she has a boyfriend and they live together, but there are a lot of internal obstacles for them. They're oil and water a little bit. They don't have a peaceful, happy relationship. They're always fighting and at each other's throats, so a lot of that is actually stirred up by the kiss. For the rest of the season, they're going to be dealing with a lot of those obstacles inside them, and also the fact that they're roommates.
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Where does the next episode pick up?
Meriwether: It's that night, so it's almost a continuation of that night.
Will other people find out about this kiss, because they're putting the whole roommate dynamic in danger?
Meriwether: Yeah, that's definitely the feeling.I don't think Schmidt (Max Greenfield) and Winston (Lamorne Morris) are super psyched about it.
Jess is going to have another love interest in Steve Howey's Jax. Will Nick get any new love interests?
Meriwether: Yes, we haven't cast the girl yet.
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What's the purpose of these other love interests? Is it to keep them apart longer, or are there feelings they need to deal with first?
Meriwether: I think they have a lot to sort out. They're trying to run away from each other pretty hard after it happens and part of Steve Howey coming on is Jess trying to get away from Nick. We're going to take that through the end of the season. They'll run away and come back, run away and come back. They're definitely not together. That didn't actually feel organic. I don't think they're ready to be together. I think there's too much stuff that they'd have to work through.
So is that where the season is heading? A finale where they decide whether or not to be together?
Meriwether: We're actually figuring that out right now in the writers' room. Yes, I feel like that's obviously a huge question going to the end of the season.
Do you want to see Nick and Jess get together? Are you happy they finally kissed? Hit the comments!
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Well, it's been almost 6 years since the first prototype YouTube video and 4 major design revisions, but I finally sold the last light yesterday. Congrats to Barry on the being the last buyer! And thanks again to all my great customers! Couldn't have done it without you. It's time for me to shift some priorities and drop back into a support-only role with DesignShine. Although no new lights are being produced, I love hearing your experiences with them, so drop me an
Hey Guys! Well, it's been a fantastic 5 years of meeting lots of great folks and trying to "push the envelope" of bike lighting technology, but the time has come for me to take a break and hang up the DesignShine(TM) project in order to invest that precious "free time" in the family as the kids are growing so fast! I'm getting down to the last 40 or so taillights at this point, so I just wanted to put this information out there, that if you've been considering one of these
Updated 1/4/2016
Happy new year to all!
Ok, so the headlights did not last very long! Down to just 3 left, and potentially 1 or 2 of those are spoken for already. Doubtful that any of these will be listed on the store. Sad to see these go... They really are very versatile lights with a lot of performance in a tiny little package. BUT, moving on to the taillights, 3 uploaded to the store today, with 20 more coming this week. Received the second iteration of the new seat rail mount
Some of you probably know about this, but we've been in South Korea for the last two months completing an adoption, which is now final! Hooray! I haven't been selling any lights during this time, but will try to have the store reopened on the 31st. I'll have a decent stock of taillights, but headlights won't be available until later in the fall. It's been a VERY interesting experience in Korea to say the least. In our day-to-day commuting and while being out and about, I've being trying to
And this is why you NEED a very high power and WIDE angle daytime-use headlight. Note how the crossing vehicle was coming out of a brightly lit area into the shade. Fortunately it looks like the rider wasn't seriously injured.
He was probably focused on the truck, crossing from the left, so the car coming from the right at an angle was a real surprise. The rider got on the brakes hard and started to turn, but not quite enough time.


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Test Drive: 2017 Lincoln MKC
Entry Price: $32,880
Price as tested: $47,605
This week, we're driving the 2017 Lincoln MKC, available in four distinct trim lines of Premier, Select, Reserve and Black Label. MKC is Lincoln's compact five-passenger luxury SUV, sharing showroom space with larger SUV cousins Lincoln MKX, Lincoln MKT and Lincoln Navigator.
Not surprisingly, you'll appreciate the attention to detail Lincoln is noted for. Today's modern day Lincolns are far and away some of the best ever built, with emphasis on luxury and outstanding comfort mixed with a good dose of performance and cornering abilities.
Our MKC featured Reserve trim with AWD and features the noted Lincoln plush interior and a push-button SelectShift six-speed automatic transmission with paddle shift abilities. Along with a bevy of safety and luxury amenities, the MKC is an attractive five passenger SUV available in front drive or AWD. The Reserve front drive starts at $39,645 while the AWD starts at $43,120. The entry Premiere starts at $32,880, while Select starts at $35,880. Top line Black Label comes in at a base price of $45,635.
New for 2017 is the addition of Apple CarPlay and Android Auto smartphone to the Sync3 infotainment system. A power liftgate is also now standard, as is an automatic brake hold (hill assist) feature.
Our MKC Reserve is a beautiful rendition of what a modern crossover should be, and then some. Thanks to a bevy of standard features and two engines to choose from, the MKC is a fine choice in this now overly crowded luxury compact class. We especially like the quiet interior that each and every MKC features.
Two EcoBoost turbocharged engines are available, including the standard 2.0 turbo that delivers 240-horses and 270 lb. ft. of torque while a 2.3 turbo ($1,140 more) ups output to 285 horses and 305 lb. ft. of torque. All Wheel Drive MKC's come standard with the larger 2.3 turbo engine.
Our MKC delivered decent acceleration and the turbo advantage made easy the task of merging onto a four lane highway or making a quick pass on secondary two lane roads. EPA fuel mileage for the more powerful 2.3 EcoBoost AWD is 18 city and 25 highway while front-drive MKCs deliver 21 and 28, respectively, with the standard 2.0 EcoBoost engine.
One of the major options our MKC featured is a recommended $2,295 Technology Package that adds active park assist, adaptive cruise control with collision warning, forward sensing system and lane keep assist. This is a fair price for the upgrades you'll receive in this day of high tech vehicle safety.
Some of the countless standard features include a power vista roof with power shade, 18-inch polished aluminum wheels, voice-activated navigation system, heated and cooled front seats, cross traffic alert, embedded modem, voice-activated Navigation and much more. Our tester added some extra zing thanks to 20-inch all-season tires on polished aluminum wheels that add $1,145 to the final tally. A Climate Package for $605 and floor mats for $90 brought the final tally to $47,605 with $925 included for destination. There are current dealer incentives available that lower the price so check with your local Lincoln dealer.
With its small SUV classification by the EPA, Lincoln MKC will impress driver and passengers with its "larger SUV" feel. The Lincoln Sync3 system, which debuted in 2016, is easy to operate and offers a smaller learning curve than the Lincoln "My Lincoln Touch" system previously offered.
From a strict visual standpoint, all Lincolns share a special exterior look that is "Lincoln distinct" and there are several new models for 2017 that we hope to drive soon, including the all-new upscale Lincoln Continental and sibling MKZ sedan, both available now at your Lincoln dealer.
Modern day tech items are standard and include everything from a rear camera with reverse sensing to an automatic rear cargo hatch with hands free abilities. All the air bags and numerous other safety features are standard as Lincoln MKC earns four and five star government safety ratings across the board. Your Lincoln dealer will gladly explain in detail all features when you visit the showroom.
The independent suspension and four-wheel ABS discs with traction control make for steady handling while the fully automatic 4WD adds to the driving security. The rear passengers, albeit tight if three adults try to snuggle in, will appreciate the extra legroom available.
Important numbers include a wheelbase of 105.9 inches, 3,952 lb. curb weight, from 25.2 to 53.1 cu. ft. of cargo space, 15.5 gal. fuel tank and 3,000 lb. maximum tow capacity.
Lincoln MKC in any dress is a statement of good taste and an excellent selection in this crammed market. You'll also appreciate Lincoln amenities like the small A-pillar vent windows that won't hide sight of traffic on the left or right from your view to Lincoln entry door illumination.
The 2017 Lincoln MKC is a worthy competitor for the consumer dollar, so test drive one if shopping the luxury compact SUV/Crossover market.
Likes: EcoBoost engines, luxurious cabin, good looker, quiet interior.
Dislikes: Less cargo capacity than competitors, tight rear seat for three adults.
— Greg Zyla writes weekly for More Content Now and other GateHouse Media publications. He welcomes reader questions at email@example.com.


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Whenever I need a chocolate fix, I either turn to a fine chocolatier's products (here and here) or to Jacqueline Bellefontaine's What's Cooking Chocolate (here, here and here), or François Payard's Chocolate Epiphany (here and here) and others, for an incredible recipe featuring that delicacy as a main ingredient.
Last evening I made another of Pâtissier Payard's recipes, from his Chocolate Epiphany and, as expected, it was superb… From page 136
Chocolate Meringue Tart
Makes one 9-inch tart; serves 8-10
I created this tart with one of my childhood favorites in mind: lemon meringue tart. They obviously share technique rather than flavor; both are made with a buttery dough and a thick , fluffy meringue. The filling is simple, to allow the dark chocolate flavor to come through. In addition to the two methods for covering the filling with meringue described below, you can pipe it in nickel-size mounds, pulling the pastry bag straight up to form small peaks, as pictured.
Chocolate Filling
- 10 ounces 60% chocolate, chopped
- 1 1/2 cups heavy cream
- 3 tablespoons (1 1/2 ounces), unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
Swiss Meringue
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 4 large egg whites
Tart Shell
- One 9-inch tart shell made from Sweet Tart Dough***, fully baked and cooled
Make the filling: Put the chocolate in a medium bowl. Bring the heavy cream to a boil in a small saucepan over medium-high heat. Pourr the hot cream over the chocolater, and mix until smooth. Add the butter and stir until it has completely incorporated.
Make the meringue: Fill a medium pot one-third full of water and bring it to a gentle simmer over medium heat.
Whisk together the sugar and egg whites in the bowl of an electric mixer. Reduce the heat to low and place the bowl over the pot, making sure that it is not touching the water. Whisk continuously until the mixture is hot and the sugar has dissolved. Remove from the heat, place the bowl in the mixer, and fit it with the whisk attachment. Whisk on medium-high speed until the whites hold stiff peaks and are cool.
Assemble the tart: Pour the warm chocolate filling into the tart shell, stopping about 1/8 inch from the top. Refrigerate the tart until the chocolate is set, 15 to 30 30 minutes.
With a spatula, spread the meringue over the ganache , creating a slight mound. For a fancier finish, fill a pastry bag or a resealable plastic bag with the meringue. Cut a 1/2-inch opening in the tip or corner, and pipe the meringue in a spiral over the top of the filling.
Brown the top of the meringue with a small blowtorch, or by placing the tart in a preheated 500 F oven for 1 to 2 minutes.
***Sweet Tart Dough
This dough is also known as pâte sucree. It works with most tarts, since there are few things thatcan't be complemented by its rich, buttery taste. Freeze it, tightly wrapped in plastic wrap., for up to one month, and thaw it out in the refrigerator. You can also place it in a tart shell, wrap it and freeze it in the tart shell. Make individual tarts by using small fluted tart pans (four-inch molds are perfect).
- 4 sticks (1 pound), unsalted butter (or unsalted margarine, for a parve version), at room temperature
- 1 cup, and 2 tablespoons sugar
- 3 large egg yolks
- 1 large egg
- 6 1/2 cups all purpose flour
Make the dough: Combine the butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix on medium speed until they are fully combined.
With the motor running, incorporate the egg yolks and the egg one at a time. Do not add an egg until the previous one is completely incorporated. Add the flou, and mix until everything is incorporated and the dough is smooth.
Remove the dough from the bowl, wrap it in plastic wrap, and refrigerate until it is completely chilled, at least 1 to 2 hours, preferably overnight.
Prepare a tart shell: Brush the sides and bottom of a fluted 9-inch tart pan with removable bottom, with butter.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough in all directions until it forms a circle about 1/4 inch thick and 12 inches in diameter. Drape the dough over the rolling pan, and unroll it over the the pan. Gently press the dough into the pan, making sure it fits snugly. Roll the the pin over the top of the pan to remove the excess dough. Dock (prick)_ the dough with a fork. Place the pan in the refrigerator for 30 minutes, to let the dough rest.
Partially bake the tart shell: Place a rack in the center of the oven, and preheat the oven to 375 F.
Place a circle of parchment paper over the dough and fill with pie weights or dried beans. Bake the for 12 minutes, until the tart turns slightly golden and is about three quarters of the way done. Let it cool in the pan in a wire cooling rack.
Fully bake the tart shell: Place a rack in the center of the oven, and preheat the oven to 375 F.
Place a circle of parchment paper over the dough and fill with pie weights or dried beans.
Bake for 13 to 15 minutes, remove the paper and the weights and continue baking for another 8 to 10 minutes, until golden brown. Let it cool in the pan on a wire cooling rack.
Enjoy, gentle reader, enjoy!


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[In 2007, I wrote the following on my other blog, I will re-post here some excerpts which best describe my feelings on Chanukah, our people and the millenia of Jewish struggle. CS]
Bayamim ha'em – in those days…
Roughly about 2100 years ago a ragtag army of Jews who refused to follow the fashionable Hellenistic ideas and culture, Jews who clung to their anachronistic religion and customs, decided to revolt against the Greek (Syriac) Seleucid Emperor Antiochus IV. Anyone with some practical sense or conventional wisdom could have easily predicted the revolt would end disastrously… but he would have been very wrong!!! This ragtag assembly of Jews faced overwhelming numbers of superior and superbly equipped Seleucid warriors (100 Greek soldiers for every Jewish one) destroying them, leaving the few remaining Seleucids fleeing in fright.
What was the motivation of this group, what made them fight with their every fiber of body and soul? The Hellenists unlike other conquerors of the Holy Land did not intend – originally – to exterminate the Jews, they meant no bodily harm… all they sought was for the Jews to abandon their old religious beliefs and become a part of the enlightened NOW of that time, to abandon their outdated, out of fashion creed and embrace the Hellenist enlightenment. They wanted the Jews to become immersed in Greek culture with its literature, its philosophy, its emphasis on physical prowess as practiced in the gymnasiums. They wanted the Jews to lose their spirituality and thereby their distinct identity. Many were seduced by those ideas so in vogue in the enlightened world and gave up their Judaism. Many went so far as to wear a special cup that would mask the mark of their circumcision. Many… but not all!
When Antiochus decreed that henceforth anyone who had their sons circumcised would be killed together with the new baby, most men gave up the ritual, many ceased procreating in fear of the death threat against themselves and their potential offspring. The men were ready to give up… but not their women! Many a woman would, in direct violation of the law, circumcise her son and rather than quietly await death at the hands of the Seleucid Greeks would jump from a mountain top and rob the hated oppressor of the pleasure of killing a Jew… The Nation of Israel was often roused from its slumber, from its complacency, from its hopelessness, by its courageous women… Examples abound!
Soon the rebellion spread and many who had already despaired suddenly found new strength, new hope, new reasons to stand up to the tyrants. As the women set the courageous example of resisting the oppressor, the men soon followed suit refusing to comply and taking up arms instead. The little flame that is forever lit in each and every Jew's heart suddenly ignited and burned brilliantly. The terrible anger, humiliation and pain they experienced at the loss of their wives, their daughters, their mothers, the fury against an unjust oppressor who wanted to trample their religion and replace it with false gods, kindled within them new fires, new resolution, renewed faith.
Matityahu the Priest and his sons never wavered in their beliefs. They suddenly amassed many recruits, renewed cohesively with sense of faith and purpose, and succeeded against the best and fiercest army of the day. The Temple in Jerusalem was soon restored, cleansed of the Greek impurities and the Holy faith of the Jews again shone brightly within its walls. The wonder of finding one small vial of sanctified oil meant to burn one day and miraculously burning for eight (thus giving the Israelites enough time to prepare more of the consecrated oil) was a Divine message that their sacrifices, their faith and their refusal to give up their belief in Him had been acknowledged!
Since our earliest history as a people, the strongest empires, the mightiest armies, have conquered Israel. They scattered us throughout the world. Through harassment, persecution, rape and murder, they sought to break our spirit. Many broke and left the fold! Neither the ancient Egyptians, the Greeks, the Persians, the Babylonians, nor the Romans fully succeeded… nor are they, themselves, still around. The spark of Judaism that shines in every Jewish heart, can never be extinguished… it takes very little to reignite it, to bring it back to its full power.
The medieval blood libels, the Spanish (and Portuguese) Inquisition, the murderous Ukrainian Cossacks of Bogdan Chmielnicky, or Hitler and his willing accomplices, etc., etc., decimated us tremendously throughout our history. Many a European village, filled with Jews, was razed to the ground with its soil forever soaked in our blood. But the stiff necked, stubborn Jew, though numerically crippled every time, survived it all and improved.
Bazman hazeh – at this time…
British historian Arnold J. Toynbee, in his monumental A Study of History (on the rise and fall of civilizations), referred to the Jews as "the fossil of history." Logically, we should have disappeared long ago. Logically, we should have barely made it, as a small footnote, in some forgotten history tome, but… we Jews are still here. The learned Professor Toynbee was grievously wrong! The Jews are not a fossil, a fossil has no life. A fossil is merely a bone, a fragment, a reminder, a remnant, of what once was very alive. Toynbee was wrong, the Jew LIVES! And… unfortunately, for the learned professor… WE RUINED HIS THEORY!!!
The Jew today is a vibrant force in whatever country he/she may reside, whether in the sciences, in the professions, in technology, in business, in education, in the arts, in literature, in every facet of modern life. Jews come in every hue of the political spectrum, we differ as much from one another as any other people or more. Yet, through it all, whether we follow Ashkenazi or Sephardi traditions, whether we are chassidim or litwisch whether we come from Uruguay, the US, Iraq, India, Poland, or Italy, or any place on this planet, every single one of us carries a small spark of that Hanuka oil burning in our hearts. That is the reason why no conqueror, no oppressors could destroy us, that is why we are still Jews today… and will still be Jews when those very oppressors and haters have themselves been relegated to the dustbin of history.
Enough of my ranting! Chanukka is a time of joy and renewal, so here is a very simple, delicious, heimische latke recipe. Enjoy it with your family as you sing, play dreidel, or just… enjoy!
Potato Latkes
10 large grated Idaho potatoes (hand grater preferred!)
5 tablespoon grated onion
8 eggs, beaten
6 teaspoons salt
Cover pan with oil, until 1/2″ heigh.
Put the potatoes in a cheesecloth and wring, getting rid of as much moisture as possible. In a bowl, mix all ingredients thoroughly. In a large pan,over medium-high heat, heat up the oil until hot. Place large spoonfuls of the mix into the hot oil, press down on them to form 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick patties. Brown on one side, turn and brown on the other. Let drain on paper towels. serve it hot. Makes 12 generous servings. When you are ready to eat you may put apple sauce on top or, if you are having it with dairy, add some sour cream, or just have them as they are. Enjoy!
May the lights of Chanukka forever burn brightly in every heart!
A freilachn


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For celiacs, Chinese restaurants are big caution zones, since soy sauce is brewed with wheat. Also, most egg noodles, oyster sauce, hoisin sauce, imitation crab and mock meat substitutes (like mock duck) contain gluten.
Some accommodating Chinese restaurants will prepare entrees without soy sauce, or they may agree to cook with gluten-free soy sauce that you bring in. But cross-contamination is still an issue, so make sure to ask the staff to prepare your food in a clean pan with clean utensils. Dining cards from Triumph Dining, written in Chinese (and other languages) and tailored to specific cuisines, provide an extra measure of safety.
Luckily, some gluten-free soy sauce substitutes are available. San-J wheat-free tamari, certified gluten-free, is the choice in our house. La Choy soy sauce is also gluten-free, though it does contain more processed ingredients.
In our old neighborhood, we were fortunate to find a Chinese restaurant that prepared food without soy sauce for us. We'd routinely order cashew chicken (cooked with a little chicken broth and salt) and corn egg-drop soup.
When we moved, I wanted to make gluten-free corn egg-drop soup that we could enjoy at home. I was surprised at how easy it was. Cream-style corn (which is non-dairy, despite the "cream" in its name) gives the soup body, and whole kernels of corn add to the texture. Silky threads of egg stream through the soup like ribbons. The result: a velvety egg drop soup, enhanced by sweet nuggets of corn, just like in our favorite Chinese restaurant.
Chinese Corn Egg-Drop Soup
(gluten-free, dairy-free)
By Gluten-Free Nosh
printable recipe
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 medium onion, diced
4 cups vegetable broth
1 (14.75 ounce) can cream-style corn
1/2 cup whole corn kernels, either fresh, frozen or canned
2 tablespoons corn starch
1 cup cold water
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon white pepper
2 eggs
1 green onion, chopped
- 1. In a large pot, heat olive oil briefly over medium heat, add onion and cook until onion is translucent and tender, about 5 minutes.
2. Add broth, cream-style corn and drained whole-kernel corn to pot. Bring the mixture to a gentle boil and then reduce to a simmer.
3. Place cornstarch in a small bowl, add cold water and whisk with a fork to combine, getting rid of any lumps. Add cornstarch mix to the simmering broth and stir well.
4. Stir in ginger, salt and white pepper.
5. With a fork, whisk the eggs in a separate bowl. Slowly stir the soup in a circular motion, and slowly pour the egg into the moving soup. Using a fork, stir the egg lightly through the soup to produce egg strands.
6. Allow the soup to thicken slightly for 3 or 4 minutes before turning off the heat. Ladle into serving bowls and garnish with chopped green onion.
Yield: 6 to 8 servings


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Jeffrey Sachs on Our Situation – Part IV
Posted by The Situationist Staff on October 19, 2008
This is Part IV of a loose, unofficial transcript of Dr. Jeffrey Sachs's remarkable lecture "Representing the Voiceless: The Poor, The Excluded, and the Future." He delivered this lecture on September 11, 2008 at Harvard Law School. You can link to Part I here, Part II here, and Part III here.
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What I've argued in my most recent two books, The End of Poverty, and Common Wealth, is that the essential problem, maybe just trying to put myself out of a job. The essential problem that we face is not the resource problem. It's not the cost of solutions. It's not the lack of alternatives. It's not the hopelessness of these deep, dark forces which compel us to go over the cliff because it's either that or turning out the lights on our civilization.
There is a view, a dark view which says well this has a great party of the last two hundred years. We've reached peak oil. It's really the end of that era of the fossil fuel age, and will necessarily, no matter what we do and how we scramble, revert to a situation of vastly lower material conditions because that's just the budget constraint for the world. So that is one view on the environmental far extreme. On the religious far extreme is the view basically shares the same outlook that the world's coming to an end. But for other reasons, and I regard that view as also no joke because it informs foreign policy actually – an apocalyptic thinking and also inability to discuss issues of the next 50 years or 100 hundred years because it's a mystical view that all of these events are out our control.
Now what I mean by resources not being the basic constraint is that when you actually try to decompose the problems that we face, like the CFC problem which a very interesting one, where you had aerosols and refrigerants that were threatening life on the planet, it turned out it was almost costless to substitute new chemicals in the refrigerators and in the aerosol cans. It was resisted by industry for many years. Junk science – this is garbage. No proof.
All the things that corporate public affairs departments and legal departments do, do not go this way. Let someone else do that. That is unworthy of your talents.
By that's the major initial reaction. And then, we can't do it. It's going to break the bank. And then it turns out it's almost costless actually to address a problem that would have profound risk to the whole plant. My understanding of the challenges that we face is that they're more of that character than the character of insoluble problems of the world that is overshot the caring capacity of the earth.
The argument that I've been trying to make is that if we act consciously, "collectively" — a word that is very unpopular — consciously and collectively in a shared way harness our scientific and technical knowledge to direct at specific problems through government even. Even a bigger no no in my profession. To address problems of hunger, disease control, fertility reduction, voluntary fertility reduction, deforestation, draught, vulnerability and the rest.
We have some great possibilities at hand, some technologies that already exist — that simply by applying them, could save millions of lives and be transformative in human well-being. My favorite example is the anti-malaria bed net. Five bucks lasts five years – good for 2 children. Fifty cents a child per year would save just that maybe half a million lives every year. But if combined with medicine, which are 80 cents a dose, could save a million lives per year and break transmission of malaria in many places.
And we don't do it because the people that are on the receiving line of that are utterly impoverished, and blind to us as a result of their utter impoverishment.
And when they're blind to us they're also blind to the market because they can't buy these things. They don't have the money to buy these things. And they're blind to us politically, and they're blind to the market and the result is that they die and these problems don't get addressed.
But there are many, many other technologies like that. And if we think systematically about the challenges for instances, low-carbon energy and what we know about solar power for example, starting with the fact that incoming solar radiation, several thousand times our use of energy. And so if we harness even modest amounts of solar radiation in the great deserts of the world, the Mohave, the Atacama, or the Sahara, or the Gobi, one could, with transmission lines carry clean electricity, at rather low cost to very large populations in ample quantity, and good to last least another billion years, and probably about five billion years.
After that I have no solutions, by the way.
But, I'm working on the next hundred years. So we have many solutions. We know with automobiles the technology is already at hand. If harnessed to a clean power grid could reduce by to ¼ or 1/5 of the current emissions even with the same miles driven through plug-in hybrids and other technologies that it would end up being cheaper in present value terms than the ones we have now. It wouldn't even be a net cost to society.
So my argument has been that the economics of this are pretty good. The fear factor could really come down. It's not really true we have to break our civilization to address these problems. But we have to look up from our stupidity. And our fear, our resentments, our short-sightedness, and we also have to understand that what we teach across the parking lot about the wonders of the market is approximately half the story.
And the other half of the story is why markets don't work in many key cases. They don't work when the people on the receiving line are so poor that they don't have a market demand. That's the first place that they don't work. They don't work when the object is the global commons, the air, the water, the climate. They don't work when the problem is demographic choice. We have some serious areas where self-organizing market-based systems will not solve these problems, even if the technologies and the costs look pretty good actually. And those are the reasons why politics matters in the end. Because self-organization is absolutely tremendous.
Markets are great when people really can just look after themselves and they can make their choices when that kind of decentralized self-organizing process works. By all means, let's do it. Because it's the easiest kind of organization to let people have their own freedom of choice and to do what they want. But a lot good economics is about the conditions in which such self-organization does not lead to the shared wellbeing of this society. That's really what a whole field of public economics is about. But we don't even let that into our ideological toolkit.
Fortunately, it's a large part of your toolkit. Questions of zoning and eminent domain and regulation are really about areas where markets can't do their job. But we've not harnessed that kind of knowledge to a political understanding, and a willingness to address these issues. And we have a relentless disdain for the poor, and a relentless ignorance and neglect of our commons, whether within our country or globally. And those are precisely the areas where the self-organization is not going to work. And our political system right now is completely broken – not completely broken, and I admit I could feel a lot better on election day than I do right now. Maybe you could say the political system is in good shape in a certain way that it could bring forward a former president of the Harvard Law Review. But he better whop the former mayor of Wasilla, or this thing is really, really in bad shape.
If we can't bring forward confidence and knowledge reliably, and with a public understanding that that's important for our survival, and we have no such understanding right now. We're in a very dangerous situation. And that's partly where your voices are really urgently needed right now. The rampant anti-intellectualism of our time, the grossness of these attacks on elitism, and all of this bastardazition of democratic politics is very dangerous for us. This is not a game. I repeat, this is real life and I believe survival actually.
And so the political system doesn't do it. Now what are some of the things that we'll need to solve these problems?
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Part V of this series will pick up there. To watch the 90-minute video of Professor Sachs's remarks, click here.


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Paul Jannace: Sad day for baseball
Try as it might, baseball will never dig itself out of the steroid era.
The 2013 Hall of Fame vote is exhibit A that steroids tarnished the game forever, and a taint that nobody could ever remove. All the testing in the world cannot remove the stench steroids left on the sport.
It's sad because it will keep some of the greatest players out of the Hall of Fame. There is a very good chance we will have a Baseball Hall of Fame without the all-time home run leader and seven-time MVP, a seven-time Cy Young award winner, and at least two 600 home run hitters.
There's no reason to feel sympathy for Barry Bonds or Roger Clemens. If those suspected — or proven — steroid users are kept out of the Hall of Fame, it's their own fault. The sympathy should lie with the fans of the game and those who love the history of the world's most beautiful sport.
The history of baseball reads like an epic poem. It seemingly goes on forever with so many interesting nuances to it. Baseball documentaries are among the best around and the Hall of Fame itself is a true wonder of the world.
Hall of Fame voters on the other hand, they're a totally different story. The Baseball Writers' Association of America is filled with men and women who have outdated rules for them to take out grudges and make moral stands.
Not voting a single player into the Hall of Fame in 2013 is the least of what is wrong with the process. Any BBWAA voters who says personal feelings about a player or how he treated the media during his playing days doesn't factor into many votes is either lying or in denial.
Another pet peeve is determining the "level" of a certain Hall of Famer. Some players are not worthy of being a "first-ballot"?Hall of Famer, so many don't vote for a certain player on their first year of eligibility, but will do so on their second or third time through.
The fact that there has never been a unanimous vote into the Hall of Fame is ridiculous. About five percent of the voters did not vote for Babe Ruth and even more did not vote for Ted Williams, Willie Mays, or Hank Aaron on their first time on the ballot. Sure, they all got in on the first ballot, but this notion that certain writers vote for players one year, but not the next is absurd.
That's what makes this 2013 vote all the more frustrating. Writers are allowed to vote up to 10 players into the Hall of Fame, but rarely, if ever, are there 10 worthy players to discuss.
Are Bonds and Clemens and Mike Piazza just being punished with an extra waiting period or will they really never get in? Personally, it'd be far less egregious if it were the latter. If a writer simply refuses to vote for a known or suspected steroid user, then that's their perogative. To make that guy wait for five years because you "think" he may have done something is a high horse statement that needs to be taken out of the process.
Then you have the writers who submitted blank ballots. They were better off abstaining from the vote if they didn't want to vote for someone. By submitting a blank ballot, that means it takes more votes to get to the required 75 percent for enshrinement.
Of course, the most stunning outrage from this vote may have been from the fact that Aaron Sele received one vote for the Hall of Fame. That's right, Sele, a guy who went 148-112 with a 4.61 ERA for his career was deemed Hall of Fame worthy by one writer.
Sele was a terrible postseason pitcher, only once even cracked the top 20 in the Cy Young voting and was an All-Star twice in 15 seasons. The person who voted for Sele should have his or her vote taken away.
What will be very interesting to see is if Bud Selig, the commissioner who oversaw the steroid era and was powerless or unwilling to do something about it since it helped him make so much money, ever gets into the Hall of Fame.
Perhaps the greatest slap in the face to the history of baseball would be if Selig is in the Hall of Fame, but Bonds, Clemens, and Piazza, among others, are not.
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Are you backing up your AIX systems over Virtual Ethernet adapters? Of course you are, who isnt right? Are your backup server and clients on the same physical POWER system? You are most likely backing up over Virtual Ethernet to another AIX LPAR that is running your enterprise backup software, such as TSM or Legato Networker for example. And you probably have a dedicated private virtual network (and adapters) on both the clients and the server to handle the traffic for the nightly backups. The next question is, have you tuned your Virtual Ethernet adapters?
There are several tips available for tuning your Virtual Ethernet adapters for better performance on AIX. These tips include changing settings such as MTU size, TCP window sizes, enabling largesend, etc. I highly recommend the following blog posts from Anthony English and Nigel Griffiths on this subject:
OK, so you got everything humming along nicely, your backups are flying over the virtual network (across the POWER hypervisor) and everybody is happy. After a period of time, you notice that the backups have started to slow down. They are taking longer to finish. The overall throughput of a backup drops. Some backups start in the evening around 9pm and are still running the next morning at 7am! In some cases you need to kill the backups or even reboot the backup server LPAR for things to return to normal.
What is going on!? You cry.
Well, there are a number of reasons why this could be happening. For example, your shared processor pool may be overwhelmed during the backup window. As we know, Virtual Ethernet adapters require CPU to do their work. If the CPU pool is running low on available CPU resources, this could contribute to the problem. And of course there could be tuning issues with the Virtual Ethernet adapters or the AIX OS in general. Or there may be issues with other pieces of the infrastructure, like network and SAN switches, adapters, etc. Perhaps theres an issue with the applications and/or databases on the AIX systems? They often have their own mechanisms/tools for backing up their data to your enterprise backup software. Is the backup server sized to cope with the load i.e. CPU, memory, disk layout and I/O, sufficient tape drives, disk storage pools, etc?
So assuming youve checked all of the above (and more), then perhaps youve hit a problem that I encountered recently. In my particular case, backups over the hypervisor were slowing down, without any discernible cause. Initially the backups would be very fast but after a month or so, things would start to slow down dramatically.
We noticed that there were very large (and increasing) values for Packets Dropped, Hypervisor Send/Receive Failures and No Resource Errors in the output from the netstat v command.
ETHERNET STATISTICS (ent1) :
Device Type: Virtual I/O Ethernet Adapter (l-lan)
Hardware Address: 41:ba:13:e7:25:0b
Elapsed Time: 42 days 4 hours 3 minutes 34 seconds
Transmit Statistics: Receive Statistics:
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Packets: 5978589961 Packets: 26139832411
Bytes: 779465989202 Bytes: 711051516630458
Interrupts: 0 Interrupts: 6804561727
Transmit Errors: 0 Receive Errors: 0
Packets Dropped: 0 Packets Dropped: 86012309
Max Collision Errors: 0 No Resource Errors: 46113807
Hypervisor Send Failures: 0
Receiver Failures: 0
Send Errors: 0
Hypervisor Receive Failures: 46113807
After some discussion with IBM AIX support, we discovered that would should increase some of the buffer sizes for our Virtual Ethernet adapter (the entX device). This would alleviate the no resource issues wed been experiencing. Looking at the output from the netstat -v command, we also noticed that the Medium, Large and Huge buffers had all reached their maximum values in the past.
Receive Information
Receive Buffers
Buffer Type Tiny Small Medium Large Huge
Min Buffers 512 512 128 24 24
Max Buffers 2048 2048 256 64 64
Allocated 513 535 148 28 64
Registered 512 510 127 24 13
Max Allocated 576 951 256 64 64
Lowest Registered 502 502 64 12 11
The advice from IBM support was to increase these buffers using the chdev command (they also advised that we should reboot for the changes to take effect):
# chdev -l ent1 -a min_buf_medium=512 -a max_buf_medium=1024 a min_buf_large=96 -a max_buf_large=256 -a min_buf_huge=96 a max_buf_huge=128 -P
# shutdown -Fr
Since implementing this tuning change (to the adapter on the backup server), we have not had a repeat of the problem. We will continue to monitor the performance and Ill be sure to let everyone know if we have further issues.


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Biz Bits: How to conduct a 'confidential' job search
Tip of the Week
Although few job-holders want to admit they're looking for work - at least at the workplace - a study notes that job-seekers spend anywhere from five to 20 hours a week looking for work (mostly online). How can you conduct a "confidential" job search - one where your anonymity is secure and there's little chance your boss will find out you're looking for new opportunities?
It's easier than ever, especially using online job search tools. For instance, most online job boards allow job hunters to post their resume confidentially. Some can block your resume from being sent to certain companies - including your own. Other steps you can take to guarantee your search won't come to the attention of the wrong people:
- Be careful using social networking sites. Social networking websites such as LinkedIn can be a valuable tool, but be careful. Employers can use LinkedIn, too, and they may catch on if you're following too many companies or if you're requesting a slew of professional recommendations (under the "profile" tab).
- Keep your search out of the workplace. Never use your employer's laptops, computers, email or telephone (even a cellphone) for a job search. A survey of 2,000 companies by the EPolicy Institute says 25 percent of companies have terminated an employee over misusing email. Your current employee won't appreciate your using company tools on your job search, and any potential employee may wonder about your loyalty if they see correspondence with your company's logo.
- Use "limited view" resumes. Most job search websites let you control who can and cannot see your resume. Monster.com, for example, offers a "visible and limited" resume option, which hides your contact data.
- Don't list your company's name on a resume or cover letter. Take the confidentiality step further by not naming your company on any correspondence with a potential employee. Instead, replace your firm's name with a generic term, such as "high-profile medical supply company" or "Fortune 500 manufacturing firm."
- Be honest with targeted employers. If you're reaching out to a new firm with a resume or cover letter, make a point about your desire for confidentiality using simple language such as "I would appreciate your keep our correspondence confidential."
- Don't dress up on the job. If you have a job interview and want to wear a suit, go ahead. But if you usually dress in "business casual" and show up at your current employer wearing a suit, that's going to raise some eyebrows. Better to change after you leave your workplace.
- No tweeting about your job search. Don't publicize your job search on Facebook or Twitter. Your manager may not follow you on a social networking site, but people who know your manager may follow you and will let him or her know about it.
- The Street
BBB Watch
Consumers are familiar with malware that attacks their computers and understand the measures necessary to protect against it, but there is new malware that targets smartphones with Android operating systems. The Better Business Bureau is warning the owners of these devices about the need to take precautions. The BBB advises that mobile device users follow these steps:
- Understand how malware works. Be aware of the different ways that the malware passes into the Android operating system. Do not open emails or text messages that look questionable.
- Do not open messages from unknown senders. Do not click on any links or reply to messages that are from a network or email that is not secure or trustworthy. Make sure to completely delete the message from your inbox.
- Update your software. It is important to make sure that the applications are up to date so that they can better protect the phone. Run a full virus scan immediately on your phone if you click on any questionable links.
- Be cautious with unknown servers. Be wary about connecting to unknown wireless servers. These could pass malware onto your device.
For more tips, visit www.bbb.org.
The List
According to The Street, here are the top five industries for starting a business:
1. Home health care
2. Home repair and remodeling
3. Event planning
4. Marketing
5. Interpreters and translators
Tech Talk
Barnes & Noble recently reported that hackers stole credit card information from 63 bookstores around the country. Affected customers are advised to change their PINs and watch for any suspicious account activity.
GateHouse News Service


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Peggy Hollinger and Chris Bryant of the Financial Times put their fingers on what's behind the current uproar over Europe's Roma population: the group is "an easy target for politicians seeking to distract attention from problems at home by playing on fears over security." That strategy was stage center in early August when France's conservative government shipped several hundred Roma back to Romania and French President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged he would bulldoze 300 Roma camps over the next several weeks.
Europe is certainly in need of distraction these days. Sarkozy's poll numbers are dismal and his administration is plagued by scandals. The economic crisis has seen France's debt soar, and European governments have instituted savage austerity programs that are filling the jobless rolls from Dublin to Athens. Since most politicians would rather not examine the cause of the economic crisis roiling the continent—many were complicit in dismantling the checks and balances that eventually led to the current recession—"criminal gypsies" come in very handy.
France's crackdown was sparked by an angry demonstration in Saint-Aignan following the death of a young "traveler" at the hands of police. Sarkozy never saw a riot he couldn't turn to his advantage. On July 29 his office declared it would dismantle Roma camps because they are "sources of illegal trafficking, profoundly shocking living standards, exploitation of children for begging, prostitution and crime."
Living conditions in Roma camps are, indeed, sub-standard, but in large part because local French authorities refuse to follow a law requiring that towns with a population of over 5,000 establish electrical and water hookups for such camps. And because countries like Germany, France, Italy and Britain refuse to use any of the $22 billion that the European Commission has made available for alleviating the conditions that the Roma and other minorities exist under.
As for the "crime" and "drug trafficking" charge, research by the European Union (EU) suggests there is no difference between crime rates among the Roma than in "the population at large."
"Indeed there are Roma who are in charge of trafficking networks, but they represent less than one percent of this population, the rest are victims," David Mark, head of the Civic Alliance of Roma in Romania, a coalition of over 20 Roma non-governmental organizations, told IPS News.
Mark went on to point out that "Because that one percent commits crimes and the authorities are not able to stop them, all Roma are being criminalized." The expulsions and demolitions, he charged, are "based on criminalization of an entire ethnic group, when criminality should be judged on a case by case basis in courts of law."
In some cases the level of hysteria would be almost laughable were it not resulting in the most widespread roundup of an ethnic minority since World War II. Italy declared a "Gypsy emergency," in spite of the fact that Italy, which has a population of 57.6 million people, has only 60,000 non-Italian Roma.
Estimates are that there are between 10 and 12 million Roma in Europe, making the group the continent's largest minority.
For several weeks, the EU's executive body, the European Commission, played hot potato with the issue. The EC insisted that it was doing everything it could to help the Roma and pointed to the $22 billion pot that remains pretty much untapped. But it also kept silent on charges by human rights organizations that countries like Germany, Italy and France were violating EU law guaranteeing freedom of movement.
These nations—primarily France—argue that since the Roma are from Romania and Bulgaria, and both countries are newly minted EU members, the freedom of movement clause doesn't kick in until 2014. And, in any case, French officials charge that the Roma can't show they are gainfully employed and self-supporting.
On this latter point, rights organizations point out that Roma are discriminated against in employment. "It's somewhat hypocritical to complain about people not having money to subsist in France when you don't offer access to the labor market at the same time," says Bob Kushen, managing director of the European Roma Rights Center in Budapest.
With the exception of Spain and Finland, most EU members have the same restrictions on staying in a country more than three months without a regular job.
France is certainly not alone in singling out the Roma. Germany is preparing to deport 12,000 to Kosovo, a destination that may well put the deportees in danger, because Kosovo Albanians accuse the Roma of siding with the Serbs during the 1999 Yugoslav War. From the Roma's point of view Serbia had long guaranteed their communities a certain level of employment and educational opportunities, while the Albanians had always repressed them.
Other countries singling out the Roma include Britain, Sweden, Denmark and Belgium. The Swedes deported some 50 Roma for "begging," even though begging is not a crime in Sweden.
But France has instituted the most aggressive anti-Roma campaign, which also includes its own "gens du voyage," all of whom are French citizens and theoretically guaranteed encampment facilities. France is estimated to have between 300,000 and 500,000 of these "travelers."
The French campaign, however, has sparked a backlash.
Romania's Foreign Minister, Teodor Basconschi, blasted France for "criminalizing ethnic groups" and warned of "the risks of populist provocation and creating xenophobic reactions at a time of economic crisis." Basconschi called for a joint Romanian-French approach "devoid of artificial election fever."
The Vatican's secretary of the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People Commission said, "The mass expulsion of Roma are against European norms."
The growing chorus of protest by human rights groups, the United Nations, the Vatican, and Romania finally moved the EU to inject itself into the controversy.
"Recent developments in several European countries, most recently eviction of Roma camps in France and expulsions of Roma from France and Germany, are certainly not the right measures to improve the situation of this vulnerable minority. On the contrary, they are likely to lead to an increase in racist and xenophobic feelings in Europe," said Meviut Cavusogiu, president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
Cavusogiu cited Protocol No. 4 of the European Convention of Human Rights that prohibits "the collective expulsions of aliens," as well as the right to freedom of movement for all EU citizens.
However, France was sticking by its guns, claiming that it was not "deporting" anyone: the Roma were leaving voluntarily for a nominal payment of $386 for adults, and $129 for children. But some members of Sarkozy's party, the Union for a Popular Movement, were using the word "deport," and even the more explosive term "rafles." That was the term used to describe the rounding up of French Jews during WW II, most of whom died in the death camps.
Roma suffered a similar fate at the hands of the Nazis. It is estimated that between 200,000 and 1.5 million Roma perished in the concentration camps.
Scapegoating the Roma is an old European tradition, almost as old as the initial migration of the Romany people out of Rajasthan, India in the 11th century. Most of those Roma settled in Moldavia and Wallachia—today's Romania—where they were quickly enslaved. Those Romany who did not escape enslavement by taking up the nomadic life remained slaves until 1856.
According to Maria Ochoa-Lido of the Council of Europe, those centuries of slavery essentially sentenced the Roma to poverty-stricken lives on the margins, with life expectancy considerably lower than other populations in the EU.
A lack of access to education, social services, education and the legal system for Romania's 2.5 million Roma still drives many of them to take to the road. As bad as conditions for the Roma are in countries like France and Germany, they are better than those in poverty-stricken Romania.
The attacks on the Roma could well be a prelude to similar campaigns against other European minorities: Turks in Germany, Pakistanis in England, Moroccans and Algerians in Spain and Italy, and Africans scattered throughout the continent. Xenophobia in a time of economic crisis rarely restricts itself to a single target.
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