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As I said in the last Ravens Q&A earlier this season, the best thing about facing the Ravens is having an excuse to talk football with Aaron Wilson. He covers the Baltimore Ravens for the Carroll County Times and the Annapolis Capital, and the NFL for Scout and FOX Sports. His previews are always worth a read, and if you don't follow him on Twitter yet, you should @RavensInsider.
He answered the following questions this week heading into Sunday's AFC divisional round playoff game against the Texans at M&T Bank Stadium. If you like football, you will like this:
Compared to your early season discussion of the Ravens, what key things have changed and what has remained the same?
The Ravens, specifically offensive coordinator Cam Cameron, have accepted that they're not a passing outfit and that the offense needs to run through Pro Bowl running back Ray Rice, not occasionally inconsistent quarterback Joe Flacco. The Ravens lack the pass blockers and enough downfield threats to throw as often as Cameron would prefer. And Rice has had a dynamic season, piling up 2,068 total yards from scrimmage to lead the league. In the Ravens' four losses, he was barely involved as the Ravens fell behind and abandoned the run.
Any key injuries worth discussing? Other than not having to get a wild card win, do you think the bye week helps or hurts them?
The Ravens' key injuries aren't listed on their official injury report. All-Pro middle linebacker Ray Lewis has been slowed by a right toe injury in his right foot that sidelined him for four games. Lewis tore a piece of the plantar plate near the small toe of his foot. The former NFL Defensive Player of the Year has been vulnerable in pass coverage and his tackling hasn't been as impactful as it was in the past.
Meanwhile, Pro Bowl free safety Ed Reed is playing through a painful shoulder injury and a nerve impingement that has affected his tackling. Reed has missed a tackle in each of the past four games, including a touchdown run by Bengals running back Bernard Scott in the regular-season finale where Scott busted through an arm tackle attempt.
The Ravens are undefeated at home. Any particular thoughts on why they play better at home but have had some quirky, bad performances in some of their road games?
When the Ravens have lost games, they've all been on the road. And there's been a common trait to each setback: falling behind early, committing turnovers and not getting Ray Rice enough touches. Whenever their run-pass ratio has lost balance, the offense has struggled and become predictable. The Ravens have also overlooked opponents, playing down to the level of their competition against the Tennessee Titans, Jacksonville Jaguars and the Seattle Seahawks. They were simply outmanned against the San Diego Chargers and couldn't match up with their receivers and quarterback Philip Rivers.
How do think the Ravens will defense the Texans offense, particularly rookie QB TJ Yates?
They will try to stack the line of scrimmage to account for Arian Foster, attempting to keep their shoulders square to the line of scrimmage and not get reach-blocked to stonewall their trademark zone-blocking scheme. As far as Yates, they won't completely dare him to throw. That said, they will attempt to rattle him with extra blitzes and try to disguise coverages to confuse him as much as possible. He's young, but he's good and they will show him some respect. I would expect the Ravens to flip-flop Pro Bowl outside linebacker Terrell Suggs away from Duane Brown to try to generate pressure. Suggs leads the Ravens with 14 sacks and seven forced fumbles.
What do you think the formula is for beating the Ravens?
Creating turnovers plus a lead and field position through the kicking game typically equals a victory against the Ravens. It's hardly E=MC Squared, but it works.
Who are some players for the Ravens that Texans fans may not know about who could impact the game in either a positive or a negative way?
Keep an eye on situation pass rushers Pernell McPhee and Paul Kruger, two underrated young defensive ends who combined for 11 1/2 sacks while playing almost entirely on third downs. Cornerback Lardarius Webb is one of the more underrated defensive backs in the AFC and probably should have at least garnered Pro Bowl alternate status. Tight ends Ed Dickson and Dennis Pitta aren't big names, but combined for 94 receptions for 933 yards and eight touchdowns as the replacements for former Pro Bowl tight end Todd Heap.
Thanks to Aaron for providing this preview during such a busy week.
Sometimes I think Aaron has a clone he does so much work.
Here's some of the better previews I have seen for the game in general:
AFC Divisional Round Preview – Football Outsiders, Aaron Schatz and Rivers McCown
It is a very good read. Read the whole thing. Of greatest interest to Texans fans:
Many a night I've spent this week trying to find the Rosetta Stone that tells us why Joe Flacco is so inconsistent. He makes a few killer throws every week, but his deep ball comes and goes. Out of his sixteen games this season, he has had a DVOA above 20% eight times, and he's had a negative DVOA rating seven times. I had two working theories on Flacco's diverse range of effectiveness: one was that perhaps, like some quarterbacks, he didn't respond well under pressure. The other was that due to the importance of the deep play-action pass in Cam Cameron's system, maybe his effectiveness depended solely on how often he hit those deep balls,
Turns out, neither of those things really matter. Flacco had four games where he was knocked down (via quarterback hit or sack) seven or more times. In three of them, including Week 6 against Houston, he posted a DVOA above 30%. How about the deep passes? While that correlated a little better, he had five passes of 20 or more yards against Arizona in Week 8 and wound up with a -12.2% DVOA for that game. Against the Texans in Week 6, he completed just two passes of that length, and wound up with a 37.6% DVOA, and against the 49ers in Week 12, he completed just one, yet had a 84.1% DVOA. Some players just won't fit into a neat little box. Such is this year's vintage of Flacco — we're not sure if we're getting a great quarterback or a below-average quarterback, but it's definitely one of them.
Smarter Stats: Houston Texans at Baltimore Ravens, Yahoo Sports' Shutdown Corner, Doug Farrar
Also, read all of this. It is very good. I think Texans fans will find this of particular interest:
If you're looking for signs of encouragement regarding Texans backup quarterback T.J. Yates, there are some to be found. He's one of the best quarterbacks through the 2011 season in sets with two wide receivers on the field, and we don't have to worry too much about sample size alerts because the Texans go with two backs and multiple tight end/H-back looks so often. Out of that particular personnel package, Yates has a passer rating of 112.2 — only Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees and Matthew Stafford were better in the regular season. Yates is comfortable with Houston's base passing concepts — boot action out of run-blocking, and short passes to a series of "joker" receivers out of the backfield and tight on the formation.
At this point, you may have decided you are sick of reading about this game. I would not blame you one bit. It is ready to be Sunday.
For Texans fans going to Baltimore, a number of fans are wearing their Battle Red gear. Here's the basic meetup info from the previous post: The Battle Red Plan: A guide for Texans fans going to Baltimore
That will be updated until Saturday afternoon. After that, updates will be on my Twitter @StephStradley where I will be wandering about in Baltimore, and once in a while I'll stop and take pictures or say stuff about things I'm seeing. Not really a substitute for being there, but it is the best I can do.
And for those who want to know more about the images in this picture, the top one is the "Come and Take It" flag and the one below is "Dimmit's Goliad Flag." Both are symbols of Texas independence, defiance and fight. Compared to that, the Ravens game should be pretty easy.


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beat (one's) head against a/the wall
To attempt continuously and fruitlessly to accomplish some task or achieve some goal that is or seems ultimately hopeless. Some people are never going to agree with you on this, so it's no use beating your head against a wall trying to convince everyone. I feel like I've been beating my head against the wall trying to understand this math equation.
beat one's head against the walland bang one's head against a brick wall
Fig. to waste one's time trying hard to accomplish something that is completely hopeless. You're wasting your time trying to figure this puzzle out. You're just beating your head against the wall. You're banging your head against a brick wall trying to get that dog to behave properly.
beat one's head against the wall
Also, bang or run one's head against or into a brick wall . Waste one's time in a hopeless enterprise, as in I have tried many times to convince him to stop smoking, but I'm beating my head against a brick wall . The metaphoric phrase alludes to a physical expression of frustration. [Late 1500s] Also see beat the air.

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The National High School Finals Rodeo probably won't be bringing any more bucks to the state capital — broncos or greenbacks.
The National High School Finals Rodeo probably won't be bringing any more bucks to the state capital — broncos or greenbacks.
State officials will not bid to host the rodeo at the Illinois State Fairgrounds for a fifth time, agriculture department spokesman Jeff Squibb said Friday.
However, Springfield tourism and city officials will try to change the minds of the state agriculture director and fair manager in a meeting scheduled for next Friday, said Tim Farley, executive director of the Springfield Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Bids to host the event in 2012 and 2013 must be submitted in January.
"The decision has been made not to bid to bring the rodeo back," said Squibb. "The main reason is just simply the proximity of the rodeo to the start of the Illinois State Fair."
Both attractions were successful, "but it's an extremely difficult task to put on two events of that magnitude. The grounds staff of the department would no sooner have to take down the rodeo than they would have to turn around and put up the Illinois State Fair," Squibb said.
"It just created quite a bit of stress on everyone involved."
This year, fairgrounds crews began tearing down the rodeo fixtures on July 30, Squibb said. The state fair preview day was Aug. 9.
The national high school rodeo has been held in Springfield in 2000, 2001, 2006 and 2007.
Despite the agricultural officials' decision, "we're not out of the game yet," Farley said. Representatives of the tourism bureau, city government and other groups plan to talk to Illinois Agriculture Director Charles Hartke and fair manager Amy Bliefnick next Friday.
The rodeo has an estimated annual economic impact of $6 million to $7 million, Farley said. About 1,500 contestants visit the city for 10 days, along with their families and other observers.
The event creates "significant business for the city of Springfield," Farley said, as well as for other places the contestants visit or travel through on their way to and from the rodeo from all across the nation.
In the recent past, the rodeo has been scheduled in two-year blocks in Springfield, Farmington, N.M., and Gillette, Wyo. Bids must be submitted by the third week of January to host the 2012 and 2013 events, said Kent Sturman, executive director of the National High School Rodeo Association, which is based in Denver.
The rodeo finals will be in Farmington in 2008-2009 and Gillette in 2010-2011.
Squibb said Illinois' decision not to bid on the rodeo was based solely on the difficulty of staging the two events so closely together, not on staff or budget cuts or other financial reasons.
Sturman confirmed that state officials told him about the scheduling problems, but said they also indicated there might be financial problems.
"We're disappointed," Sturman said. "We enjoyed Springfield. It's a great facility and a great community and very supportive of the event.
"We'd like to come back."
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Robert Pattinson, 26, stars as a Wall Street banker in David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis, shot primarily in the back of his character's giant white limousine — where Pattinson's banker has a tryst with 48-year-old French actress Juliette Binoche. Pattinson then does Efron one better.
"There's a scene where I'm seducing (another woman) naked, while having a prostate exam in the back of a limousine. People don't really see that very often in movies," Pattinson says with a laugh. "You do what you can to surprise people."
The red carpet lineup also will feature Twilight's golden couple, Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. This time they are going head-to-head, with Stewart starring in the competition film On the Road.
"I'm already making excuses," Pattinson jokes about their friendly festival competition.
But for these two weeks, it's not all about winning the contest, but enjoying the glitz in the South of France.
"There is really something glamorous about Cannes," Pattinson says. "It's the bow ties and the way the festival holds onto the glamour. People really make an effort."
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Being inept campers we're both enthralled and appalled to be sleeping in a teepee.
First of all, if we're going to overnight in what is essentially a cool-shaped tent it might as well be the instantly recognizable Aboriginal teepee.
But our family is not camping people.
So my 11-year-old daughter Grace and I have shown up at Tuckkwiowhum Village beside the thundering Fraser River near Boston Bar with meagre camping equipment.
There's a flimsy sleeping bag Grace uses for sleepovers, a couple of fleecy blankets (one has graphics of puppies on it) and a pair of nearly flat pillows.
My wife, who declined to accompany us in favour of electricity and home comforts, didn't want us taking the good (read: fluffy) pillows camping.
To say teepee camping is rustic is an understatement.
All that is between us and the Fraser Canyon wilderness (black bears and bobcats come to mind) is a flimsy white piece of canvas stretched over leaning sticks in that unmistakable teepee shape.
Inside the five-metre tall, five-metre diameter structure is a patch of lawn where we're expected to turn our measly supplies into bedding.
So we set up and all of a sudden feel special and at one with nature.
When it does come time for lights out (or flashlights out in this case) we have an incredible eight-and-a-half hours of shut eye.
As Tuckkwiowhum general manager Richard McIntrye says: "People love the sleep in the teepee."
The roughing it only goes so far because there are indoor washrooms and hot showers.
And there's dinner — we didn't bring any food with us.
Our camping skills certainly do not extend to preparing a meal over an open fire, or even a barbecue for that matter.
So lucky for us that at Tuckkwiowhum's small on-site restaurant, jack-of-all-trades McIntrye is rustling up an authentic Aboriginal feast for us.
There's salad with local greens; beef barley soup; roasted potatoes, onions and beets grown in soil just up the road; pan-fried Sockeye salmon caught by a member of the Boston Bar First Nation; and a dessert of Saskatoon berries picked on the mountains we can see out the window.
By the way, the main course salmon pairs nicely with a chilled glass of Peller Estates pinot grigio from the Okanagan.
Over dinner McIntrye, who has a Scottish last name, but is from the nearby Lytton First Nation, adds to the information he first started to give us on an earlier tour of the village.
Tuckkwiowhum (pronounced Tuck-we-ohm) means "great berry picking place" in the Nlaka'pamux language.
There's been an Aboriginal settlement on this prime site along the Fraser River for up to 3,000 years and the Boston Bar First Nation wanted to highlight that with a tourist attraction.
The replica village is a step back in time with a centre-piece pithouse, summer lodges, a salmon processing station, drying racks, earth ovens, a smoke house, summer and winter food caches, a sweat lodge, a carving shed and pictographs.
The other half of the site is a new longhouse that doubles as a community hall, and the campground with 16 teepees that sleep four people each.
And this is where the shock comes in.
Teepees are the traditional home of Indian bands on the Prairies where buffalo skins were plentiful to create the unique-shaped all-weather tent.
The Nlaka'pamux people, who are B.C. Interior Salish, favoured the earthen pithouse for winter and cedar-stripped summer lodges that are shaped somewhat like a teepee.
"Teepees are what everyone associates with Aboriginals," said McIntyre, who's also the marketing manager.
"It's what tourists expect, so we put them up and explain later."
Same goes for the totem poles scattered about the property.
They are traditionally affiliated with Coastal Salish, but have popped up at Tuckkwiowhum because it's what tourists are seeking.
Creating such a unique experience means the tourists are coming mostly from the Fraser Valley, Vancouver and Okanagan, but also from Germany and Switzerland, where people are even more fascinated by Aboriginal culture.
Corporate groups are also booking for the brag-worthy overnights in a teepee and teambuilding activities from salmon smoking and talking stick circles to pow wows and relaxation in the sweat house.
Referrals also come through group marketing efforts from other attractions in the Fraser Canyon such as Hell's Gate Airtram, Fraser River Raft Expeditions, Kumsheen Rafting and the Lytton Visitors' Centre.
Tuckkwiowhum Village is located beside the Boston Bar First Nation-owned Anderson Creek RV Park and Campground for regular tent camping, and water and power hook ups for RVs.
Overnight rates for a teepee are $65 and dinner is $13.
Check out Tuckkwiowhum.com or call 604-860-9610.


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If you're not living in or touring India, chances are you are drinking a powdered version of this spiced milk tea, or even a bastardized chai/coffee hybrid. For instance, I just discovered that a dirty chai doesn't involve extra olive juice, but a shot of espresso. Uh...
But it's not just the chai itself. It's the knobs who drink it. Somehow sipping on this strange brew, these exotic creatures feel enlightened and superior, much like I imagine Tom Cruise and his Scientology cronies feel after a good L. Ron Hubbard jamboree. Doctoring up their chai with a dollop of soy milk and a soupçon of cardamom, these wannabe Siddharthas eat, pray, and love throwing the stinkeye at my mocha choca latte and silently judging, all the while saying crap like "namaste, my friend" to my face while reaching for their heart center.
I want to punch these nirvana in a coffee cup-seeking sultans of swill in their third eye, until they're blind.
(I must admit that I do love this DIY chai recipe, if only for the illustration).
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Florida prescription drug deaths drop in 2011
Prescription drug deaths drop 6.37 percent
A new report shows prescription drug deaths dropped 6.37 percent in Florida last year although overall drug deaths increased slightly.
Gov. Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi said Wednesday that the annual medical examiners' report shows Florida is succeeding in its crackdown on pill mills, which sell to drug dealers and addicts.
Deaths from oxycodone fell dramatically by 17.7 percent although the prescription pain killer remained Florida's second-leading cause of drug deaths in 2011.
The leading cause - a class of depressants that includes sleeping pills and anti-anxiety drugs - increased by 13 percent. These benzodiazepines caused 1,950 drug deaths out of a total of 9,135.
The total is up by 134 from the previous year. Oxycodone caused 1,247 deaths followed by methadone, 691 deaths, and cocaine, 604 deaths.


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(CNN) – Groups who support and oppose abortion rights highlighted Monday's guilty verdicts in the trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, who was convicted on three counts of first-degree murder.
Gosnell, an abortion provider, was accused of killing babies by using scissors to cut their spinal cords. Authorities alleged that some of the infants were born alive and viable during the sixth, seventh and eighth months of pregnancy.
Anti-abortion groups said the ruling underscored a blight of immoral procedures taking place at facilities providing abortions around the nation, but groups supporting abortion rights countered the details of the Gosnell case would become more widespread should abortion be prohibited.
"The Gosnell case serves to highlight two major problems with the abortion industry in this country – its callous disregard for the health and safety of women and the inhumanity of abortion, especially late-term abortion," said Anna Higgins, the director of the Center for Human Dignity at the conservative Family Research Council.
"The lack of concern for both unborn babies and babies that survive an abortion is not an attitude isolated to Kermit Gosnell," Higgins continued. "More recent reports show other abortionists have no respect for human life and are willing to kill babies very late-term or even let babies who are born alive die."
The notion that Gosnell represents a broader force of unscrupulous abortion providers was echoed Monday by Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, a major anti-abortion advocacy group.
"The greatest tragedy is that Kermit Gosnell is not alone," Dannenfelser said. "Exploitation of women and complete disregard for their health and well-being are problems endemic to the entire abortion industry."
A different take was offered by groups who support abortion rights.
"Justice was served to Kermit Gosnell today and he will pay the price for the atrocities he committed," said Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America. "We hope that the lessons of the trial do not fade with the verdict. Anti-choice politicians, and their unrelenting efforts to deny women access to safe and legal abortion care, will only drive more women to back-alley butchers like Kermit Gosnell."
"Until we reject the politicization of women's medical care and leave these decisions where they belong – between a woman and her family and her doctor – women will never be safe," Hogue continued.
"Until we reject the politicization of women's medical care and leave these decisions where they belong – between a woman and her family and her doctor – women will never be safe," Hogue continued.- Right, the fewer who know about the death of the child, the better.... that's how Gosnell went on so long.... we understand your logic now.
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Kirsten Powers – "Even liberal Europe gets this. In France, Germany, Italy, and Norway, abortion is illegal after 12 weeks. In addition to the life-of-mother exception, they provide narrow health exceptions that require approval from multiple doctors or in some cases going before a board. In the U.S., if you suggest such stringent regulation and oversight of later-term abortions, you are tarred within seconds by the abortion rights movement as a misogynist who doesn't "trust women."
"This is no back alley abortion; Ms. Hogue, don't falsify the facts."
Wow. Analogy comprehension fail. She didn't say it was. It was a licensed practitioner operating in violation of all the regulations and standards of medical care. Point is though, if abortion is made widely illegal or unavailable from professionals who do obey the rules and do perform in strict compliance with medical standards, which is by far and wide the normal situation, then women will be forced to once again retreat to obtaining abortions from people like Gosnell because there will be no standards of care, of cleanliness, etc. You're either super dense not to understand the point she was making or you were just being obtuse on purpose.
At Boo..... Are we so responsible that we can legally stop a women from aborting our child.
In my view, the abortion debate should center around limiting late-term abortions. I personally support a women's right to choose through the first trimester; 3 months is long enough for a woman to determine if she wants to be a biological mother. Within the first three months the fetus is so undeveloped it can't possibly survive on it's own. I am adamantly opposed to the idea that, from the very moment of conception, the rights of a fetus supersedes a woman's right to choose.
What I don't support are abortions beyond the first trimester–excepting those cases when the unborn child has some irreparable defect, i.e. missing a brain, or a spine, or some other life-ending condition.
"Ilyse Hogue (NARAL) implies that Gosnell is more to be lauded than scorned. Sort of like saying that, if it weren't for the Jews, there wouldn't be a need for Mengele or the Wannsee Conference."
That's a gross misrepresentation of what she said AND yet another proof of Godwin's Law. You guys just can't help trying to retreat to the Hitler/Nazi stuff, eh?


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Bones Review: The Soul TranscendsChristine Orlando at .
Miranda had to take the night off and asked if I could step in this week and review Bones. "The Ghost in the Machine" made me grateful for the opportunity.
It's unusual for Bones to make me tear up. The sheer gore of the corpse scenes tends to make me cringe or turn away, but it's never brought me to tears. With the show's 150th episode, it went beyond the blood, bone, and science of death and explored the heart and soul.
The entire episode was told from the viewpoint of a deceased 14 year old boy and although it's a gimmick I generally don't enjoy, it worked here. From the view of the crow flying over the top of the greenhouse to Booth offering his battlefield prayer, I enjoyed the alternative perspective this format offered.
The fact that the victim was a kid shook everyone, moreso now that some of them have children of their own. Even the unshakable Brennan felt the need to hold her daughter.
Avalon, Angela's psychic friend played by Cyndi Lauper came back to visit as she spoke with Colin's spirit that just wouldn't leave. I've always liked Avalon and was happy to have her make a return appearance here.
The most compelling part of the episode was Brennan's willingness to discuss the possibility of a soul as she explained to Angela in this Bones quote…
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She still pointed out that there was no evidence of an afterlife but that didn't stop her from talking to Colin's remains as though he could hear her.
Colin's death was a horrible, stupid accident. He was a 14 year old daredevil looking to impress his friends. As a parent, the random reality of it made my stomach turn.
When Avalon told them that dying wasn't was made Colin sad, it seemed obvious what did. When a teenage boy goes through the trouble of making a mix tape for a girl, all he wants in the world is for her to listen to it.
But the best scene was at the end. Watching Booth and Brennan dance to their song with their daughter was just perfect.
I've always found that Bones can run hot and cold but this was definitely one of my two favorite episodes of the season. The other being "The Patriot in the Purgatory." If only every Bones could be as good as these two it could be one of my favorite shows once again.
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Add to the default set of privileges, understanding that such changes might allow processes in one zone to affect processes in other zones by being able to control a global resource.
Remove from the default set of privileges, understanding that such changes might prevent some processes from operating correctly if they require those privileges to run.
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Tenant advocates today proposed a sweeping set of legislative proposals to address what they're calling the "eviction epidemic" that has hit San Francisco, seeking to slow the rapid displacement of tenants by real estate speculators with changes to land use, building, rent control, and other city codes.
"In essence, it's a comprehensive agenda to restrict the speculation on rental units," Chinatown Community Development Center Policy Director Gen Fujioka told the Guardian. "We can't directly regulate the Ellis Act [the state law allowing property owners to evict tenants and take their apartments off the rental market], but we're asking the city to do everything but that."
The package was announced this morning on the steps of City Hall by representatives of CCDC, San Francisco Tenants Union, Housing Rights Committee of SF, Causa Justa-Just Cause, Tenderloin Housing Clinic, UNITE HERE Local 2, Community Tenants Association, and Asian Americans Advancing Justice.
"San Francisco is falling into one of the deepest and most severe eviction crises in 40 years," SFTU Director Ted Gullicksen said. "It is bad now and is going to get worse unless the city acts."
The package includes: require those converting rental units into tenancies-in-common to get a conditional use permit and bring the building into compliance with current codes (to discourage speculation and flipping buildings); regulate TIC agreements to discourage Ellis Act abuse; increase required payments to evicted tenants and improve city assistance to those displaced by eviction; require more reporting on the status of units cleared with the Ellis Act by their owners; investigate and prosecute Ellis Act fraud (units are often secretly re-rented at market rates after supposedly being removed from the market); increase inspections of construction on buildings with tenants (to prevent landlords from pressuring them to move); prohibit the demolition, mergers, or conversions of rental units that have been cleared of tenants using no-fault evictions in the last 10 years (Sup. John Avalos has already introduced this legislation).
"The evidence is clear. We are facing not only an eviction crisis but also a crisis associated with the loss of affordable rental housing across the city. Speculative investments in housing has resulted in the loss of thousands affordable apartments through conversions and demolitions. And the trend points to the situation becoming much worse," the coalition wrote in a public statement proposing the reforms.
Evictions have reached their high level since the height of the last dot-com boom in 1999-2000, with 1,934 evictions filed in San Francisco in fiscal year 2012-13, and the rate has picked up since then. The Sheriff's Department sometimes does three evictions per day, last year carrying out 998 court-ordered evictions, Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi told us, arguing for an expansion of city services to the displaced.
At "Housing for Whom?" a community forum the Guardian hosted last night in the LGBT Center, panelists and audience member talked about the urgent need to protect and expand affordable housing in the city. They say the current eviction epidemic is being compounded by buyouts, demolitions, and the failure of developers to build below-market-rate units.
"We're bleeding affordable housing units now," Fred Sherburn-Zimmer of Housing Right Committee said last night, noting the steadily declining percentage of housing in the city that is affordable to current city residents since rent control was approved by voters in 1979. "We took out more housing than we've built since then."
Peter Cohen of the Council of Community Housing Organizations actually quantified the problem, citing studies showing that only 15 percent of San Franciscans can afford the rents and home prices of new housing units coming online. He said the housing isn't being built for current city residents: "It's a demand derived from a market calculation."
Cohen said the city's inclusionary housing laws that he helped write more than a decade ago were intended to encourage developers to actually build below-market-rate units in their projects, but almost all of them choose to pay the in-lieu fee instead, letting the city find ways to build the housing and thereby delaying construction by years.
"It was not about writing checks," Cohen said. "It was about building affordable units."
Last night's discussion began with a debate about the waterfront luxury condo project proposed for 8 Washington Street, which either Props. B or C would allow the developer to build. Project opponent Jon Golinger squared off against proponent Tim Colen, who argued that the $11 million that the developer is contributing to the city's afforable housing fund is an acceptable tradeoff.
But Sherburn-Zimmer said the developer should be held to a far higher standard given the obscence profits that he'll be making from waterfront property that includes a city-owned seawall lot. "Public land needs to be used for the public good."
Longtime progressive activist Ernestine Weiss sat in the front row during the forum, blasting Colen and his Prop. B as a deceptive land grab and arguing that San Francisco's much ballyhooed rent control law was a loophole-ridden compromise that should be strengthened to prevent rents from jumping to market rate when a master tenant moves out, and to limit rent increases that exceed wage increases (rent can now rise 1.9 percent annually on rent controlled apartment.
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After Rob Zombie's Halloween 2 was defeated in its opening weekend by The Final Destination in 3-D, the producers of the new Halloween announced that Halloween 3 will actually be Halloween 3-D. While unsurprising, given the resurgence in 3-D's popularity, this particular 3-D-ification is a sly homage to the early 1980s, when it seemed like the third installment of a horror franchise -- Jaws 3-D, Amityville 3-D, Friday the 13th Part III -- was legally required to be watched through cardboard glasses. (The original Halloween 3, ironically, passed on the gimmick.) And that got us thinking -- what if all third installments of movies had to be released in 3-D? Some would be awesome, and some just plain ridiculous. Here's some quick takes.
Back to the Future Part III
While the futuristic second entry in the series would have been a better fit for 3-D, the third BTTF still has the flying DeLorean and hoverboard, as well as a runaway train and a whole bunch of Native Americans on horseback, firing arrows at Michael J. Fox. We'll take it!
Rocky III
The only way Sylvester Stallone fighting Hulk Hogan and Mr. T could be any more awesome would be if it happened in the majesty of three dimensions. We'd love to see Rocky's punches, Thunderlips' mustache and Clubber Lang's mohawk leaping off the screen at us.
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The Godfather III
Okay, papal banking scandals don't sound that appealing in 3-D, but what about a guy getting stabbed in the throat with his own glasses? Gore-tastic.
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Young Spock's face stretching could be a cool 3-D effect, if done right, but we'd be more interested in the William Shatner-Christopher Lloyd fight on the surface of the crumbling planet Genesis. Also? Exploding Enterprise. We want those Klingon bodies to land in our laps!
Mission: Impossible III
Tom Cruise running in 3-D for two hours straight could prop up the global economy for several decades.
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
If rendered in 3-D, the opening armada battle sequence alone would cause projectors to melt and brains to explode. But if we survived that, the climactic lightsaber duel in a lava field would be pretty darn neat, as would Yoda and Palpatine's Senatorial seat-throwing fight.
Superman III
Clark Kent vs. Superman in a junkyard? Visually awesome. Richard Pryor skiing off of a skyscraper? Not so awesome.
The Karate Kid Part III
A lot of training montages may not do much for us, but a mid-movie rappelling sequence could add some much-needed vertigo to an otherwise lackluster 3-D movie.
Beethoven's 3rd
Dude, it'd be like there's a real St. Bernard there in the theater with you! The additional use of Smell-O-Vision would also do wonders.
Saw III
Why haven't they done this series in 3-D yet? A victim's-eye view of any of of Jigsaw's death traps would be a terrifying experience, and the sight of a ribcage getting torn open in 3-D sounds like a hoot. Ah, well -- maybe for Saw VII.
Beverly Hills Cop III
Maybe some 3-D footage of amusement park rides would have made up for this being a terrible, terrible film.
Transporter 3
While it would probably look awesome in 3-D, it might be cheaper to simply have Jason Statham drive an Audi through the back wall of every theater showing the movie. He was probably going to do that anyway.
Alien 3
Is that what this movie needed to make David Fincher's institutionalized vision really pop? 3-D? Because I'm picturing the multi-tiered prison and all of the bald domes and especially the final scene, and I'm thinking it was originally supposed to be in 3-D. Maybe we should go through and add 3-D to all of Fincher's films, just to see what happens.
Richard III
Granted, a filmed version of the stage play could only be improved by 3-D, but if the process was applied to 1995's alternate-reality version, set in fascist 1930s England and starring Mr. Gandalf P. Magneto as a wartime Richard, that would possibly be the coolest Shakespeare movie ever.
What threequel would you like to see as a 3-D movie?
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Access to Care: Overcoming the Rural Physician Shortage
by Fred D. Baldwin
Appalachia has made substantial progress in health care in recent decades, but one problem—a chronic shortage of medical professionals in rural areas—still remains. Rural residents must often travel hours to consult specialists, and many rural communities lack even primary care physicians (physicians certified in family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology, and psychiatry). In fact, rural Appalachia still labors under a double burden, according to Lyle Snider, research director in the University of Kentucky Center for Rural Health's Division of Community Programs, Research, and Health Policy: the fewest primary care doctors and the most severe health problems. These situations are related: having too few doctors means that dangerous conditions go undiagnosed too long.
One way the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) is working to improve—at least temporarily—primary health care in areas with few, if any, doctors is by taking advantage of the J-1 Visa Waiver Program. This national program waives a requirement that foreign medical graduates who have come to the United States for residency training return to their home countries for at least two years after receiving the training. Instead, the physicians are allowed to remain in the United States, provided they agree to work in medically underserved areas. ARC's J-1 program, which requires the physicians to spend at least three years in one of the Region's Health Professional Shortage Areas (a U.S. Bureau of Primary Health Care designation based on physician-to-population ratios and household income), has placed more than a thousand physicians in over 200 Appalachian communities since 1994, giving tens of thousands of patients in remote communities better access to health care. But the J-1 Visa Waiver Program is generally seen as a temporary solution to a long-term problem.
This article describes three state-initiated programs that have taken on the challenge of providing access to health care for Appalachia's rural residents. The first is a traveling pediatric diabetes clinic that saves children's lives by bringing specialists into rural areas to monitor patients' conditions; the second is a telemedicine program that appeals to patients, doctors, and accountants alike; and the third is a new medical school dedicated to training doctors for rural primary care practice.
Going Where the Need Is
"The day Jason turned two years old," says Donna Hurley, "I cried all day. I was thankful that he'd lived to two."
Jason, her son, is 17 years old today and will be a high school senior this fall. At the age of 15 months he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, which typically strikes children and teenagers. Every three months he and his mother visit a health department clinic in Pikeville, Kentucky, for consultation with specialists from the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in Lexington. For almost 20 years, its staff has conducted a traveling clinic to help families in eastern Kentucky and nearby rural areas to manage a once-fatal disease.
Type 1 diabetes affects about one in 600 children and teenagers nationwide, according to the American Diabetes Association. Although no cure is known, the disease is manageable through careful attention to diet and regular injections of insulin. Before the discovery of insulin, diabetes was fatal; even now it remains the leading cause of blindness and kidney failure in adults.
Diabetes management is a demanding and never-ending process. Patients must check blood sugar levels several times per day. High or low levels are associated with everything from sluggishness (which affects school performance) to potentially fatal seizures. Hurley recalls many incidents like this in Jason's childhood.
"I'd be walking in the yard," she says, "and he'd be holding my hand and smiling. The next thing, he'd be passed out."
On the advice of her local physician, she made the four-hour drive to Lexington to consult with C. Charlton Mabry, M.D., at the University of Kentucky. As it happened, Mabry had already taken the lead in addressing the human and monetary costs of inadequate care for young diabetic patients.
"By the late 1970s," he recalls, "there were always one or two children in the [university] hospital with diabetes. They were almost always coming from eastern Kentucky. We'd treat them and send them back to their primary care doctors. But they were bouncing back. Someone needed to see them more frequently."
In 1982, with financial support from private foundations, the university established traveling clinics to visit eastern Kentucky counties using local facilities operated by the Kentucky Department for Public Health. Currently, the traveling doctors make quarterly visits to Pikeville and Barbourville, seeing about 100 patients at the sites. The university also operates a call-in service for patients three days a week during early morning hours, and twice a week in late afternoon.
ARC provided financial support during the 1989–1990 fiscal year. It did so again in 1997 with grants for specialized testing equipment and for providing clinics with computers and software to enhance the ability of patients to analyze self-collected data on their own blood sugar levels, an important element in diabetes management. The ARC funds also enabled the development of an extensive continuing medical education course on the pediatric management of type 1 diabetes. Some 150 doctors and other health care professionals participated, making it the best attended of the university's outreach programs.
The university's original program goals were to produce measurable improvement in the clinical indicators of the disease, to reduce sick days and school absences, and to reduce the need for homebound schooling. The first goal was the key to the others, and meeting it depended on impressing patients with the absolute necessity of careful self-monitoring.
After the first year of operation, Mabry recalls, the Department of Pediatrics checked the hospital admission records of roughly 100 children participating in the traveling clinic program. Fifty of the children were hospitalized for treatment the year before the clinic began; only two were hospitalized the year after.
"I remember those numbers so vividly," Mabry says, "and then thinking, 'We've got to keep doing this!' "
That's harder and harder financially every year. Kathryn Thrailkill, M.D., chief of pediatric endocrinology and the current director of the traveling clinic, keeps handy "for the insurance companies" a folder of journal articles citing clinical data demonstrating that patients' blood sugar levels are far more likely to remain within an acceptable range when they get help four times a year, compared with only once or twice a year. This in turn can reduce the incidence of complications, meaning kidney failure or severe vision problems, by 50 to 70 percent.
"What's involved isn't a lot of high-tech," says Thrailkill, "but education."
In the last year she kept records, Donna Hurley spent about $8,600 of her own money on Jason's treatment, so she understands medical economics. She also has no doubt that the education she and Jason have received through the traveling clinics has been, and remains, a matter of life-and-death for him. His father died from diabetes complications about two years ago. With a catch in her voice, Hurley recalls how Mabry sought out Jason, then age 15, and told him in no uncertain terms, "This isn't going to happen to you!"
Telemedicine in Eastern Tennessee
When it's too costly or otherwise impossible for health professionals and patients to meet in the same examining room, the next-best option may be telemedicine. Often, say patients who've participated in the University of Tennessee (UT) Telemedicine Network, a program operated out of the University of Tennessee Medical Center at Knoxville, telemedicine isn't just next best; it's actually better than a visit to a doctor's office.
The program, which began in September 1995, currently has top-quality connections to hospitals in four counties.
Samuel G. Burgiss, who holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and has an industry background, is manager of the UT Telemedicine Network, which is funded by the university, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Commerce. "One of the things we did from the beginning," he says, "was to put medicine first. We start with what the patient needs and what the care provider needs. And then we get to the technology. A lot of it isn't even technology, but technique. When a physician comes in, we make it as nearly as possible like his or her own office."
The examining rooms at the medical center in Knoxville and the rural hospital room have three cameras each. One provides a panoramic view; another transmits documents, X rays, and slides. The third, a carefully placed small camera about the size of a penlight, is positioned to give the patient perfect eye contact with the examining physician or nurse. At the patient's end, a handheld camera can be focused for close-ups of skin, eyes, and so on.
Among physicians, Burgiss says, initial skepticism is changing to support. "Physicians have been coming to us," he says. "It's shifting from us pushing to their pulling." Teledermatology, a specialty often based on visual examination, accounts for most cases. However, Burgiss points out, "Almost any specialty has something that can be done by telemedicine."
The medical center also sponsors a pilot home care telemedicine program called Home Touch for eight homes in Grainger County. The homebound patients have low incomes, and most are elderly. The interactive television connection reduces the number of home visits required by health professionals for services like heart problem and diabetes management, and even hospice care. The equipment permits not only observation and communication but tests for indicators like blood pressure, blood sugar, and heart sounds.
The Home Touch program uses a small monitor at the patients' end and transmits voice and images over ordinary phone lines. The technical quality of the visual signal is impressive: "We can see every mark on a syringe," says administrative and medical assistant Bertha Jarnagin, "and determine if the patient is filling it properly. We can see the medications and look into the pill box to see if they are being taken."
Family Touch and Baby Touch, also run by the center, are hospital-based programs that enable family members who can't visit relatives in intensive care to visit via interactive television.
Teresa Welsh, a graduate teaching associate in the university's School of Information Sciences who's helping to evaluate the program, notes that cost savings for Home Touch occur in several ways. There's the obvious benefit of permitting more frequent patient contact while reducing the number of physical visits. And there's the benefit of education (often a function of frequency of contact). One man in his 40s told staff that before the telemedicine program, he'd been in the hospital for up to ten days "every couple of months" because he'd mixed doses on a wide range of medications. Now, during a year of close video interaction with Home Touch nurses, he's been hospitalized only once, and that for only one day.
"Homegrown" Doctors for Eastern Kentucky
"We want to be the premier medical school in the country for producing doctors who'll practice in rural areas," says John Strosnider, D.O. "I can point out 10 to 15 members of the first class who can already tell you the addresses they're going to have in Harlan, Grundy, or Louisa [Kentucky]."
Strosnider is dean of the Pikeville College School of Osteopathic Medicine (PCSOM), a new school located in Pikeville, Kentucky, that enrolled its first class of 60 students in September 1997. Sixty more followed in 1998, and this year's class of 60 will begin its studies this September. The first class had 380 applicants for its 60 slots; its third class, 1,769 applicants. This demand, Strosnider notes, occurred in a period when medical school applications were down nationwide. PCSOM was created to address a chronic problem underlying virtually every symptom of rural Appalachia's health access problems: the shortage of primary care physicians. For example, in 1995, Kentucky's urban areas had one primary care physician for every 1,452 people. In rural Kentucky the same ratio was 1 to 2,251.
PCSOM grew out of a campaign led by a Paintsville attorney, Chad Perry III, who had often represented coal miners on occupational health issues. Wishing to make a long-term contribution to area health needs, Perry generated support for an area medical school from other community leaders, corporations, foundations, and government agencies. ARC grants were used to build and equip a state-of-the-art anatomy laboratory and to add a new floor to an existing building.
At most medical schools, Strosnider says, fewer than 20 percent of graduates go into primary care after graduation, even for a few years, "and not half of those in a rural area." He expects about 80 percent of PCSOM graduates to practice primary care and most to stay in rural areas. In addition to capitalizing on Appalachian residents' strong love of home, PCSOM focuses its curriculum on primary care and is establishing primary care residency opportunities in eastern Kentucky.
The school's academic admission requirements are similar to those at other medical schools. But preference is given to applicants from eastern Kentucky, rural Appalachia, and other rural areas—in that order.
Strosnider notes that an emphasis on primary care is part of the osteopathic tradition. Physicians whose diplomas read "Doctor of Osteopathy" (D.O.), like those whose diplomas read "Doctor of Medicine" (M.D.), are physicians licensed to administer medication and perform surgery.
They must complete four years of basic medical training, pass state exams, and complete residency programs of at least three years. Osteopathic physicians differ from their M.D. counterparts, however, in their emphasis on the musculoskeletal system as a key to long-term health. They are specifically trained to consider "whole patient" issues—for example, family and community problems.
The PCSOM curriculum includes courses on community medicine and on the business aspects of setting up a small-town solo practice. There's emphasis on overcoming the physical isolation of small communities. All primary care clerkships (short-term assignments during students' first and second years) and 60 percent of the clinical rotations (during the students' third and fourth years) will be with primary-care practitioners. Strosnider has worked closely with Kentucky's Area Health Education Centers, which have arranged off-campus clinical training for the Pikeville students through six sites, in Ashland, Hazard, London, Norton, Paintsville, and Pikeville-Prestonsburg, all within 90 minutes of Pikeville.
Sarah Hughes, director of the Southeast Kentucky Area Health Education Center at Hazard, says that one initial worry—that M.D.s might be reluctant to accept osteopathic students—has proven groundless. Out of 60 doctors contacted, only two have expressed reservations based on degree-related issues. According to Hughes, "They say, 'They're local students, and we need them here.' "
PCSOM does not require a commitment to practice in a rural area. However, more than half of its students are receiving osteopathic scholarships created by the Kentucky legislature for state residents who agree to perform primary care in Kentucky.
William Betz, D.O., who chairs PCSOM's department of family medicine, says that his present students, like others he's taught elsewhere, are bright, competitive, and eager to become doctors. But they differ in one respect. "These folks," Betz says, "really are interested in taking care of their own. They want to stay in the area to take care of their family and friends. They really do want to take care of people in the hills and the hollows."
Talks with three students from eastern Kentucky confirm that. Scott Harrison, of Pikeville, did his undergraduate work at Western Kentucky University, across the state from his Appalachian home. Admitted to another medical school, he chose to come back to Pikeville to study. "I'll probably stay in Kentucky," he says. "Most likely it'll be in this region. I grew up here and know the people."
Beth Carlisle, from Carrollton, says: "I plan to practice in Kentucky—maybe home, maybe not, but definitely in a rural area."
Jody Brown is from Coal Run, Kentucky—"a suburb of Pikeville," he says with a grin. He'll be a third-year student this fall and is near the top of his class. After he completes his residency, he should be able to practice pretty much where he chooses. Any chance that'll be in Pike County?
"Of course," he says.
Taking the Long View
Health is such a complex matter that no single program could ever serve as a magic pill that would somehow take care of every problem. ARC is taking the long view by creating an Appalachian Health Policy Advisory Council (AHPAC) to determine if there are health policy issues that ARC should address. The University of Kentucky Center for Rural Health will provide staff support.
AHPAC will be a 15-member panel, with one member from each Appalachian state, one from the federal co-chairman's office, and one at-large member. Besides identifying new ways to increase the number of physicians in Appalachia, the advisory council will seek to review and clarify other important health issues, such as the impact of managed care on Appalachian health care systems and access to care for the indigent and uninsured. AHPAC will seek to use ARC's unique partnerships with federal, state, and local leaders to leverage entitlement funds and grant investment funds in support of health care efforts in the Appalachian Region.
In the meantime, the University of Kentucky's traveling diabetes clinic and the University of Tennessee's telemedicine program are addressing immediate needs and providing demonstrably effective models for providing specialist services to rural areas unable to support specialists. Finally, the PCSOM strategy—developing doctors for Appalachia from within Appalachia—promises to supply more and more of the primary care physicians so badly needed for the long-term health of the Region's residents.
Fred D. Baldwin is a freelance writer based in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.


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Likewise in Nepal, the Sikkimese peasants also began to raise their voices against the forced labors which had exploited its peasantry a lot. Unlike an open rebellion in Nepal, the peasants here began to ask for their rights through various associations founded by different leaders in the Kingdom. In the words of Howard Zinn-"The uneasiness grows and grows and the citizenry gathers in resistance in larger and larger numbers, which becomes too many to control; one day the top heavy empire collapses." He further writes- "Change in public consciousness starts from low level discontent, at first vague, with no connection being made between the discontent and the policies of the government. And the dots begin to connect, indignation increases, and people began to speak out, organize and act". Similar to the ideas of Howard Zinn, the small gatherings of uneducated and Bustiwallas in far flung Sikkim organized themselves and founded the first ever political party of Sikkimese Kingdom at Gangtok on 7th December 1947. They named it as SIKKIM STATE CONGRESS which was greatly inspired from its Indian counterpart the Indian National Congress. Interestingly, the flag of the said party also had a tri-color similar to that of the Party Flag of the Indian National Congress.
|Kashiraj Pradhan The Vice President
To continue their united resistance through a political banner, the Sikkim State Congress had even made a constitution. It was meant for the execution of a member's duties in some far off places of Sikkim. It basically deals with the code and conduct of the party members. The picture posted here is of the few pages of the said Party Constitution. Details have been provided by the document about the powers and functions of its President and other Executives. Further, the paper also offers some new ideas to understand the basic purposes of this political organization. The interesting part of the document is that a block level committee in every block was founded after the formation of the Party. To reach at the doorsteps of the peasants those blocks were further sub-divided into villages. Every member of Sikkim State Congress had to get a membership card at the cost of Rs. 1. Adults of 18 years and above were given the general membership (who wanted to join the Party). The Constitution of Sikkim State Congress had all together 12 Articles supported with many other clauses. It has given much emphasis on the discipline of the cadres and Annual Meetings.
I am greatly indebted to Mr. B. B. Lhorung Rai of Kazi Tar Namchi for sharing this piece of information with me. The document is to a great extent helpful for the study of political development in the erstwhile Himalayan Kingdom of Sikkim.


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Holding elections in a postwar country with few roads, dense jungles, a weak judiciary, deep ethnic divisions, and roving bands of armed militants might seem like a daunting task. Add in the politicians – 19,000 of them, running for 500 parliamentary seats and nearly a dozen candidates for president – and the Democratic Republic of Congo's Nov. 28 elections take on a complexity that staggers the mind.
Yet the importance of these elections, which began in polling stations across Congo today, cannot be overstated. Credible elections that are accepted by the public and by politicians are the first step toward stability and self-determination, a huge issue for a country that is rich in resources but unable to channel those resources toward development. Disputed elections would continue to leave Congo weak, conflict-prone, and able to be manipulated by its smaller, stronger neighbors.
Some observers say the risk of failure in this election is a return to civil war. An invasion by Rwanda and other countries to topple the previous president, Mobutu Sese Seko, in 1996 started a 10-year conflict that killed up to 5 million.
"It's easy to fall into the 'Congo is just a disaster' or the 'Heart of Darkness' mentality," says David Pottie, associate director of the democracy program at the Carter Center in Atlanta and an international election observer now in Kinshasa. "The importance of these elections is that they need to meet some reasonable degree of credibility in order to maintain the momentum for establishing some fundamental democratic practices and the institutions to keep it going. Also, if you have credible elections, that serves as a brake on the tensions that we find in country after country in which two-term presidents attempt to overturn term limits and cling to power."
Given Congo's strategic location – bordering the oil-producing Gulf of Guinea to the west, the volatile new nation of South Sudan, and the vibrant trading economies of the Great Lakes region in the east – and its own rich resources of gold, diamonds, copper, tin, and coltan, Congo is rich with possibilities. But weak governance has kept Congo from mastering its future and channeling its resources toward national interests.
Congo's riches have long attracted foreign occupiers. Belgium's King Leopold carved out a colony following the drainage of the vast Congo River Basin to profit from ivory and rubber. Now foreign investors – and militias – are after minerals. Congo has 80 percent of the world's known reserves of coltan – the heavy metal used in the circuitry of cellphones and video games – as well as 60 percent of the world's cobalt. Congo is also the world's largest supplier of industrial diamonds. Demand for tin, copper, and other minerals in India and China is so strong that mining companies fly out planeloads of unrefined rocks to have the minerals extracted elsewhere.
Great mineral wealth, great poverty
All this wealth means little to the Congolese people. Seventy-one percent of Congo's 68 million people live on less than $1 a day; food prices are rising at more than 23 percent per year. Lack of a stable government has meant lack of schooling and lack of medical care. Congo has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world, at 81 deaths per 1,000 live births.
Politicians talk of creating strong national institutions that can funnel mineral wealth toward a richer, healthier, safer country. But as Congo moves toward only its second free election since independence in 1960, there is little evidence of those promises being put into action.
"The Congo has been without proper infrastructure for decades under Mobutu, but the Congolese have never felt any poorer and unsafe than they do now," says Nicolas-Patience Basabose, a Congolese political editor for Le Congo Hebdo, a weekly magazine based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Many Congolese blame Mr. Mobutu for having used Congo's riches as his personal bank account, Mr. Basabose says, but at least Mobutu had a political network of supporters and a broad-based organization. "That alone, in the eyes of many Congolese, is far more than [President Joseph] Kabila has offered so far."
Many Congolese doubt the credibility of the coming election, Basabose says, because the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) is behind schedule in registering voters, arranging polling stations, and ferrying voting materials to the farthest districts. Besides that, the CENI was largely handpicked by Mr. Kabila. But Basabose says that Kabila is "deeply unpopular," and political observers say his victory is far from certain.
Can anyone unseat Kabila?
Only two candidates are seen as having a chance to unseat Kabila, and the stronger of the two is perennial opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi.
Mr. Tshisekedi, from the south-central Kasai region, appears to be winning supporters simply by being everything Kabila is not. His experience, both as a Mobutu adviser and as a man who publicly called Mobutu a dictator, puts him in a good light compared with Kabila, who spent much of his youth outside Congo in the shadow of his father, whom he succeeded in 2001 when President Laurent Kabila was assassinated. But Tshisekedi's violent rhetoric has raised concerns, particularly his recent televised interview in which he claimed to be Congo's de facto leader, and urged party sup-porters to stage prison breaks and teach Kabila's police "a lesson in front of their families."
On Saturday, Congolese police blocked Tshisekedi and his followers from holding a banned rally in Kinshasa. Police shot tear gas and live ammunition to disperse Tshisekedi's supporters, killing at least three. Gunmen in the copper-belt city of Lubumbashi, attacked campaign vehicles and set them ablaze.
Inflammatory rhetoric on the rise
The biggest sign that Congo is entering an election season is not so much posters and slogans but the incitement of political violence. Reports by the International Crisis Group, the United Nations, and Human Rights Watch (HRW) have documented both the threats and the actual incidents of violence, in which several party supporters were killed and more than 30 opposition activists arrested.
In southern Katanga Province, one prominent Kabila supporter, a state parliamentarian named Gabriel Kyungu, has made veiled threats against Tshisekedi's Kasai ethnic group. According to an HRW report, Mr. Kyungu referred to Kasai as "mosquitoes," saying, "There are too many mosquitoes in the living room. Now is the time to apply insecticide."
"Everyone, from all parties, is attempting to whip up support with inflammatory speech," says Anneke Van Woudenberg, a senior Africa researcher for HRW in London. It's important for the international community – not just the UN and Western observers, but also the African Union and the Southern African Development Community – to speak out strongly against hate speech and to ensure that these elections are safe and credible, she adds.
"It was good to see strong condemnations by the international donors, but now we're seeing the temperature being raised, and we're in the final campaign phase," Ms. Van Woudenberg says. "How the African observers call this election will be crucial. We have a boiling situation where the credibility of these elections may be in question, and if Tshisekedi contests the results, he'll get thousands on the streets. If that happens, I can imagine a brutal crackdown by police. So the reaction of international observers will be crucial."


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Amazon S3 Plugin
compile "org.grails.plugins:amazon-s3:0.8.2"
Amazon S3 Grails PluginThis plugin is written for the Grails web application framework, and intends to make it relatively easy to host files such as images, Flash, movies and audio all on the Amazon Web Services Simple Storage Service (S3). The goals of this plugin are as follows:
- Host and manage file assets on Amazon S3 for storage and performance advantages
- Provide easy mechanisms to reference S3-hosted assets in Grails applications
- Make most efficient and cost-effective use of S3 hosting resources
FeaturesThe initial revision of the plugin focuses on managing user uploaded content. As such it provides these features:
- Grails Service artifact that provides synchronous and asynchronous (background) upload of assets to S3
- Utilizes the jets3t Java S3 library for efficient upload to S3
RequirementsThis plugin depends on Quartz
InstallationLatest released version depends on Quartz and will run on Grails 1.1 and above. To install:
grails install-plugin quartz grails install-plugin amazon-s3
ContributingLatest development version can be found at:http://svn.codehaus.org/grails-plugins/grails-amazon-s3/trunkGrails plugin component in JIRA can be found here:http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRAILSPLUGINS/component/13788
UsageThe plugin makes use of whatever datasource the application has defined for database access, as all assets entered into the system are managed using a domain class called S3Asset.You can use the various fields on S3Asset to override the defaults e.g. key and bucket.The options map provides additional configuration:
|upload this asset asynchronously
|delete this asset asynchronously
|delete the local file once uploaded
|delete the local file after deleting from S3
|the access key to use when uploading
|the secret key to use when uploading (encrypted when stored in db)
|the S3 ACL to apply to the asset. Use one of the constants from org.jets3t.service.acl.AccessControlList
Since version 0.6.3, you are able to specify the access keys and bucket on a per asset basis
aws { domain="s3.amazonaws.com" accessKey="0123456789ABCDEFG" secretKey="0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS" bucketName="files" }
You can also specify the S3 ACL (access control list) to apply to the file. It is a string matching one of the constants from the AccessControlList that is provided by the jets3t library
def a = new S3Asset()
a.options.accessKey = <somekey>
a.options.secretKey = <somekey>
a.bucket = <some custom bucket>
def a = new S3Asset(file, [acl: 'REST_CANNED_PRIVATE'])
You can also specify whether or not you want uploading/deleting in synchronous or asynchronous (background) mode
def a = new S3Asset() a.options.acl = "REST_CANNED_PRIVATE" a.optionList << new S3AssetOption(name: "acl", value: "REST_CANNED_PRIVATE", asset: a)
def a = new S3Asset() a.options.addAsync = 'false' //Sets the uploading of assets to S3 in synchronous mode a.options.deleteAsync = 'false //Sets the deletion of resources in S3 in synchronous mode
ConfigurationA description of each of the configuration elements is given below:
|The domain from which Amazon S3 assets will be served. This by default will be s3.amazonaws.com, unless you've created a DNS CNAME to provide a different domain for your Amazon S3 assets
|Your public API access key for AWS. This will be used is an asset specific key is not provided via the options map.
|Your private API access key for AWS. This is used with the above access key.
|The name of the default bucket where all files should reside. The bucket can be set on an individual asset via the bucket property. Note that the plugin prefixes any given bucket name with the access key in order to avoid naming clashes (a bucket name must be unique across all S3 users)
|A directory that the util controller will store it's uploads in
|the timeout of the quartz jobs used to upload/delete resources (see quartz plugin doc for an explanation). Default is 5 seconds. Jobs will not run concurrently
|the startDelay of the quartz jobs used to upload/delete resources (see quartz plugin doc for an explanation). Default is 60 seconds
|when set to true (the default) the connection to S3 will not be initiated until first used. This stops the connection being made during every application start
|the pluging utilised jets3t S3Multi object to upload/delete using multiple threads. This setting controls how many assets are parsed to the service at once. Default is 10
|when using multiple access keys, the plugin will cache a client for each one. This option sets the maxium number to cache in case of memory issues. Default is 10.
|If a per-asset key pair is given, the secret key is encrypted in the database using this password. If not provided, a default one will be used. Be careful changing this as it will make it impossible to remove existing assets that have been encrypted using the old password.
|a boolean option to enable/disable automatic prefixing of the bucket name with your access key too ensure it is unique


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We had a lot of requests for a this classic piece of dungeon furniture. Now it's available. The bottom is locked into the spreader bar with ankle cuffs (which are locked to the spreader bar d-rings with a small padlock). With legs spread 24 inches apart the adjustable anal impaler can be inserted in the anus or vagina. It can adjust from 18 to 32 inches. Deep enough for most. The sub will be forced to stand or hobble around with this humiliating device penetrating them.
To be used more sadisticly, bolt or fix the spreader bar to the floor. Make them get all the way on their tip toes and then raised the dildo and insert as far as possible. If they now attempt to put their heel down to rest, the dildo will further penetrate them if they have room. If not they will be forced to remain on their tip toes totally impaled.
Note: Ankle restraints and dildo are sold separately. Those items can be viewed below. Any flared based dildo, less than 1.75 inches in diameter will work with the rod.
The anal impaler can be unscrewed to use spreader bar seperately. A nice option.


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President People wrote:loch |läk; lä kh |
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olmec lake.
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Police detectives investigate a shooting incident involving a blue Toyota Tacoma pickup truck in Torrance, Calif. Police opened fire on the vehicle in a case of mistaken identity while searching for former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner.
Updated at 5:59 p.m. ET: A mother and daughter who were mistakenly shot by Los Angeles police hunting for rampage suspect Christopher Dorner had no warning before bullets started whizzing through their newspaper-delivery truck, their lawyer said Friday.
"No command, no instruction, no warning. They just opened fire on them," said Glen Jonas, who is representing Emma Hernandez, 71, and Margie Carranza, 47, in possible legal action against the Los Angeles Police Department.
"They had no idea what was going on. They're huddling, covering up and praying and hoping they're not going to die."
Both women survived. Hernandez, shot in the back, was in good condition Friday. Her daughter suffered a hand injury and is physically fine but emotionally scarred, Jonas said.
The LAPD admits the predawn Thursday shooting was a case of mistaken identity that unfolded while police were guarding the Torrance home of someone named in a manifesto that ex-cop Dorner posted online about his twisted plans to avenge his firing.
Chief Charlie Beck said the officers saw a vehicle that matched the description of Dorner's, driving through the dark streets with no headlights —and a "police-involved shooting" ensued.
Jonas said the women's blue Toyota Tacoma looked nothing like Dorner's dark-gray Nissan Titan, but that even if it had been a match, the police should not have fired on it.
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Officers investigate a burned truck that is believed to belong to Christopher Jordan Dorner at the base of Bear Mountain Ski Resort in Big Bear Lake, Calif., on Thursday, Feb. 7.
"They still have to give the guy an opportunity to surrender. You can't just execute him," the lawyer said. "It's in these high-stress situations where you follow your training and they violated every piece of training they ever received."
The LAPD had no comment on Jonas' claims, but it told NBC News the six cops who opened fire had been put on paid administrative leave — standard operating procedure for any officer-involved shooting.
Jonas said he expects the city will offer his clients a substantial payout; if not, he plans to file a federal civil rights lawsuit.
"Thank God they didn't die. It's a miracle they didn't," he said. "If it was a movie, you wouldn't believe it."


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The latest bump given by Sony to its Walkman line-up of digital audio players was announced in Tokyo this morning, with a lot of cosmetic changes and minor tweaks adding up to a very attractive alternative to some of the more popular flash-memory DAPs.
Three new 29g E-Series USB-stick-type Walkmen will be available in Japan from April 21 and in Europe and the US soon after. They range from the 1GB NW-E013, through the 2GB NW-E015 to the 4GB NW-E016 - prices are ¥11,000 (£47), ¥14,000 (£60) and ¥20,000 (£85) respectively.
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Victoria Secret had a fragrant, sultry room set up.
Here you were able to choose from a variety of fragrances to create your personal scent. The only retail store that allows for this amenity is in NYC, Lexinton Ave store.
These ice vases made a spectacular presentation by Okamoto Studio
Beautiful Blooms from various florists and Tablescapes from Classic Party Rentals
Who knew Saran wrap inside of a vase can look so good.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
The Wedding party continued...
Victoria Secret had a fragrant, sultry room set up.
4 comments:
- Sweet Soirees said...
I love the Victoria's Secret room! It actually resembles my bathroom.
Great Pics!
- January 27, 2009 at 8:24 PM
- Eliana@BYSE said...
Just beautiful!
- January 28, 2009 at 3:54 PM
- Le'Trice: LEPENN|DESIGNS said...
This event was spectacular! Wish I could have been there!
- January 28, 2009 at 10:41 PM
- My Dream Ring said...
Those centerpieces are AMAZING!!!!
- January 31, 2009 at 11:04 AM
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Location, Location, Location!
Day 5: Where do you like to indulge in your craft?
Anyone who knows me knows I love my dogs. LOVE. Because of this, my absolute favorite place to knit or crochet is at my desk. The lighting is atrocious and ventilation non-existent, but there is enough room behind me for the two of them to hang out and keep me company.
It also helps that my TV, yarn stash, and books are within arm's reach! My desk is pretty large so a lot of my WIP's and tools are sitting there (my granny squares, lace and cable socks, hooks, needles, etc…). Notes I've made on patterns are usually put on a sticky note and when I'm done I stick them on my shelves. It's just a really crafty area!
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April 30, 2010 2:57 am
I like to have all my knit stuff within easy reach too. But somehow the one thing I need always seems to be on the other side of the room 🙂
Love your dogs by the way!
April 30, 2010 7:14 am
Your dogs are adorable!
I love to put things on the small table next to my chair, but alas, there's usually a cat snoozing there.
April 30, 2010 12:29 pm
I so wish I had a big enough desk to have everything I need right there within reach.
April 30, 2010 12:39 pm
AWWWW. I want to give your puppies a hug. Your desk looks awfully cozy.
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Hello Kitty and teddy bears are marks of great crafters -smiles-


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