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If you have a pet cockatiel, Cockatiel.com is the perfect site for you! We are the preferred site for those who love their cockatiels and want the very best advice regarding training, nutrition and healthcare. You will also find interesting articles regarding cockatiel care and fun cockatiel videos.
The Cockatiel was first discovered in Australia in 1770. It did not become popular until the Australian gold rush in the nineteen hundreds.
The fumes emitted from cookware coated with Teflon can kill your Cockatiel.
Cockatiel seeds, how do you know if they are good and nutritious? Sprout them! If less than 70% of the seeds sprout, they have died and also its nutritional value. Place some cockatiel seeds on a container covered with a paper towel. Soak the seeds with water. Make sure you keep the seed moist for the next few days by just spraying them, they should sprout in about 4 to 5 days. You can wash them and can give them to your tiel, they are very good and nutritious.
Do you know what a Galatiel is? Is when a cockatiel and an Australian bird named Gallah have chicks together.
"Cockatiels don't necessarily make good pets for very young children because they startle easily, and may bite if frightened by sudden hand movements; they can make good pets for well-behaved older children."
In the wild, you'll see immense flocks of cockatiels circling the sky in search of large bodies of water where they can rest, breed, and escape from the Australian heat.
Cockatiels are very sociable birds and will get depressed if they are left alone for long periods of time. They may hit their heads against cages, pull their feathers, refuse to eat, or become angry. It's best to get a pair of cockatiels if you know you'll be out of your house for long periods of time.
Male cockatiels are better are talking and whistling than female cockatiels. In the wild the male cockatiel use sounds to attract females.
Cockatiels can be considered as the most widely kept parrot other than parakeet or budgie.
Hand fed cockatiels are more likely to talk than the parent fed ones.
If having a talking bird is your prime goal you might consider a larger parrot before getting a cockatiel. It's easier for a cockatiel to whistle than to talk.
The cockatiel life span can reach up to 25 years, though the standard is 15 years. This life span is based on proper care, nutrition and environment where your cockatiel lives.
Drafty areas in your house can be very bad for your cockatiel, it can even kill yout bird by making your it very sick. Don't place the cage where there might be a direct or indirect draft like air conditioning vents. If you want to find out if there is a draft you are not aware of, place a candle in the area you are thinking of placing the cage. It if flickers, there's a draft there, so find another area for your cage.
It's best to have your cockatiel check annually by an avian vet. Make sure you allocate one before getting a cockatiel. Would you get a car if you did not know who could fix it for you? Not all vets are created equal. Birds are very different in anatomy and physiology to dogs and cats, so avian vets must seek out coursework and residencies that are beyond the scope of a standard veterinary school. For an Avian vet in your area you can Google your location or do a search from the Association of Avian Veterinarians.


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Here's the whole spread - Polenta with Butternut Squash and Fresh Corn, Fat Free Vegan's Pineapple Coffee Cake, FFV's mini crustless tofu quiches, a big bowl of strawberries, raisin nut rye bread from our local bakery, homemade crepes with jam or maple syrup, fresh apple slices, OJ & sparkling water. YUM! What a feast.
Here are the mini quiches. Oh YUM. They're so good. I also added some rehydrated sundried tomatoes. You can see that there is one missing already - I think my grandma snagged one before I could take the pick! I had all the food put out - and ready to photograph - when my batteries died. Ugh. So, Musty grabbed me his little camera, which did the trick (even if the photos are a bit dark and uninspired). It's hard to take nice pictures when the whole family is holding their plates and breathing down your camera lens! ha ha.
I really like this dish, I've blogged about it once, long before... (there's a recipe there too) It's polenta with butternut squash puree, sauteed onions with a little Marsala wine, and fresh corn kernals. Mmmm. It's a nice combination of flavors.
Here's a substandard photo of an amazing recipe: Susan V's Pineapple Coffee Cake. Back when she very first blogged this recipe, it caught my eye & I haven't forgotten it. I finally got around to making it - and I definitely won't wait so long again. It's really an easy and delicious treat.
Here's my plate (at least the first time around- hee hee) - a crepe filled with apricot jam, a couple of mini quiches, a slice of bread, some polenta and berries.
I think the crepes were the big hit of the party, although everything was polished off! I basically use Isa's Savory Crepe recipe from VWAV, except I've taken it down from 1 tsp of salt to 1/4 tsp. Everyone at the party loved these babies & many people had seconds! They're easy to make ahead and keep warm in a big stack. I love crepes so much, it is a bit weird. Even my dad, who was originally overcome with fear at the mere mention of vegan food, loved these babies and asked for seconds. YEAH - a vegan victory!
Here's everyone, chowing down! It was an exceptionally beautiful and sunny day - which made the brunch feel all the more perfect. My mom had a bit of a cold, but I think she had a great birthday party. I love you Mom! :)
For dinner that night, I had some leftover of the polenta, with beans & salsa, a big mess of steamed spinach, and leftover slice of bell pepper. mmmm.

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I see I didn't miss much with the Mets during the Phillies series. A lot of pre-series talk about getting back to .500 and making a statement went by the boards. It's time to climb out of the hole again.
Tonight it is the Pirates, but on this day in 1964, the Mets played an unforgettable doubleheader against the San Francisco Giants at Shea Stadium. The Giants swept, winning the first game, 5-3, but needing 23 amazing innings to prevail in the nightcap, 8-6.
"I wanted it to go a little longer,'' said Ed Kranepool, who played in all 32 innings. "That way I could say I played in a game that started in May and ended in June.''
The Mets tied it in the seventh inning on a three-run homer by Joe Christopher off Bob Bolin and even turned a triple play in the 14th inning. The game lasted 7:23.
It's always fascinating looking at the box scores for games like this. Eight different players, including Willie Mays for the Giants and Kranepool for the Mets had 10 at-bats. Galen Cisco for the Mets pitched nine innings of relief and took the loss, while Gaylord Perry worked ten innings in relief for the Giants and earned the win.
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During the second presidential debate, Mitt Romney touted his efforts to hire women as governor of Massachusetts.
"We took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet.
"I went to a number of women's groups and said, 'Can you help us find folks,' and they brought us whole binders full of women."
Romney, however, did not have a history of appointing women to high-level positions in the private sector. Romney did not have any women partners as CEO of Bain Capital during the 1980s and 1990s.
The investment banking field was male-dominated, to be sure, especially during Romney's time. Women started to break into the upper echelons of the firm after it started a hedge fund, called Brookside in 1996.
Today, 4 of out of 49 of the firm's managing directors in the buyout area are women.
Romney's record on hiring women as a governor was much better. In February 2004, 10 of the 20 top positions in Romney's administration were filled by women, including lieutenant governor Kerry Healey.


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The Christie's Postwar and Contemporary art auction is set for next Tuesday, but WSJ video was given an exclusive tour of the showroom. On the auction block is a rare Francis Bacon triptych that could be the most expensive painting ever auctioned.
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Any suggestions? Controlling barking
I am moving in a few weeks, from a house, into a condo. I have two Dachshunds, and they do bark....a lot! I am looking for ways to help with the barking. I am tired of yelling "stop barking!" at them. Someone suggested having a newspaper handy and swatting their butts, however, I have never raised a hand to these pups nor shall they every know what it is to be swatted with a hand or anything else. I have a spray bottle with water in it which I use when they bark, it works but one of them is getting use to it and does not mind the water. I know its normal for dogs to bark, and here at the house, I don't mind a bit but when I move I am sure no one wants to hear them that often. They mainly bark when someone is at the door, which most dogs too. I just need help in training them not to bark if someone is at the door. I think they feel they need to protect me. Please don't suggest those terrible collars that spray something into their faces, not an option. Any suggestions?
My Yorkie does this as well. Even if she hears a door bell or knocking on the tv! I've tried having her sit and be quiet and if she isn't i spray her with water and say quiet! then if she does it I give her a treat. It's a work in progress. I'm also open to any suggestions.
There's some really good info at Dog Star Daily on how to deal with excessive barking: http://www.dogstardaily.com/training/excessive-barking
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Hmm maybe some people with additional training skills can weigh in but I think it's more realistic to allow your dogs to bark a couple of times when someone is at the door - but not incessantly.
They are hardwired to protect you by barking just as you are hardwired to fight or flee when something scares you. Changing something that is hardwired in dogs (or people) is very difficult.
Just try to get a terrier to stop digging for example.
If I were you I'd work on getting them to bark just a couple of times but to be quiet when you tell them to. Just my opinion tho.
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Here is one link , I bet you could find them for less money. I have seen an ad on TV for stop barking devices . Only pets will be able to hear the sound. People can't hear as good as dogs.
Teach them a place command. Set up a bed big enough for both of them and teach them that every time some one comes to the door they are to run to their place and sit there quietly, for which they get treats.
Barking at a perceived intruder is normal, barking obsessively can be a learned behaviour.
Why are you against collars but ok with a device on a wall that works based on the exact same principal as a bark collar except that it is on a wall where it is actually less effective?
Gotcha - must have misunderstood.
I like Choochi's idea.
I have also seen a sharp sound used a few years ago (I think maybe on a cesar show) that immediately got some dogs to stop barking.
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I am against it because sadly Theo has seizures and I do not want anything around his neck. I was really referring to the collars that spray citronella into their faces. Before I purchase any device, I will certainly do my research. I do like the idea of teaching them to go to their "place" when someone comes to the door as I said I don't mind some barking, it is what dogs, its the excessive barking I need help with.
I like the idea as well. I am going to try that, I think its better than any collar or device. I really don't want to stop them from doing what comes naturally, I just want them to know they don't need to continue barking after the person has come into the house, which they do, its crazy.
It seems that at this point the door bell or knocking is a trigger to their barking and then they feed off of each others energy and continue barking.
They are alerting the pack there is a potential intruder AND trying to scare off the intruder. Not their job. A bark or two would be okay if they stopped when you said so, but that will be tough to control when you aren't around.
This is often a symptom of their over all relationship with you, and with each other. If they aren't listening to you in general then they aren't convinced you are the leader/decision maker of the house and they are taking charge.
It is important to make a shift in your relationship in everything you do, so they start to look to you for guidance and advice instead of just independently reacting to each other and the door.
Engage them as much as you can with lots of direction throughout the day. Even the basics are handy when thats all you've got. But try to build a new vocabulary and introduce as many new skills as you can. This gives you lots of opportunities to communicate in addition to changing their minds about who is in charge of the house. The more you engage your dogs through out the day the better leader/teacher you become and the better student/followers they become.
As mentioned earlier - you can teach them to go to a spot when they hear someone at the door and that can work great. But can be challenging when you aren't around.
Another piece of the puzzle is to desensitize them to the knocking at the door. You need to have them on leashes attached to someone so the person can direct/correct the dogs when they begin to bark. But then you need to have someone repeatedly knock or ring the bell. First do it in a slow rhythm - slow rhythm is easier to adjust to. Then change up the rhythm as the dogs stop reacting to the slow rhythm and get them adjusted to a new rhythm. If they bark then you should step/stomp towards them quickly and say 'no bark' in a firm, abrupt tone, then turn away. The forward movement towards them is pressure and the turning away is release. If they don't bark you could treat them or offer calm praise. Don't over do it. Too much praise can get them right back to an energized state.
You should also randomly knock when they are eating, when you are watching TV, before you go out the door, when you come back in, etc. Remove the idea that a knocking sound always means an intruder. Make it random and exhausting to the point where they don't have the desire to bark at knocking anymore. Bore the heck out of the whole thing, for example, dogs raised in a vacuum cleaner store don't have issues with vacuums.
Are they crate trained? Sometimes dogs prefer to be in a small environment and will stay calmer over all in a crate. Less responsibility.
Put a note on the door asking people to be patient while you get your dogs under control. This takes the pressure off of you and will give you a chance to gain control before opening the door. The big mistake people make is they shuffle the dogs back from the door (as they keep yapping), and then let the person in. Failure on all levels. We must always repeat, repeat and repeat until we reach success. Even a little success is a teaching moment.
You should ask friends to come over to practice and ask them to come to the door and knock, practice having the dogs go to their spot and be quiet, open the door and greet your friends, but always be ready to correct the dogs and put them back in their spot. Or just back them down the hallway and claim your space, then open the door - always be aware of the dogs and ready to back them away from the door (leash is handy for this). Until they can remain calm while the person comes in. Oh, and be sure to have the visitor ignore the dogs until they are calm and relaxed.
Dogs will challenge you 3-5 times before they change. However if you have taught them that challenging works they will challenge you even more. So be patient and stick to your guns. Do not quit!
Because this is bigger than just barking - you have more work to do than just stopping the barking. But the more you can create structure in your everyday living the easier it will be to deal with this issue.
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some times we get sucked into trying to teach a dog what not to do i.e. stop obsessive barking by trying to stop the behaviour, bark collars, shake cans, yelling... but we don't think to teach them what TO do. It's some times much more effective to stop a nuisance behaviour by offering an alternate acceptable behaviour. Teach your dog what you expect of them, don't' just keep telling what you don't want without offering alternatives expecting them to figure that out.
Tenderfoot - Thank you for taking the time to give me all this information. I agree with everything you said and its all so helpful. I have a big job ahead of me.
Help with barking.
Good morning, I've read through a number of posts and have a couple of suggestions that may be helpful in your situation. I am a trainer and specialize in behaviour issues. The first suggestion is to think about what you want rather than what you don't want, for example, I want my dog to have some self control , instead of thinking I want my dog to stop barking.
Now that you know what you want, you can work towards achieving that. To do this start by ignoring the barking, don't look at them, don't talk to them, don't join in. When they stop say to them, good job thank you and reward* them for being quiet. If the barking happens at a window you can get between them and the window and block their access. Again, no sound, when they stop barking, reward, when they move away from the window reward. For a few days, reward randomly but often anytime they are being quiet and relaxed. After a few days spread out the rewards.
As it gets easier, delay the reward until they learn to ignore the window or noises for a few seconds, then when that's easy wait for 5-10 seconds before rewarding.
*A reward is a piece of food that is of higher value to the dogs then the distraction, noise, people, other dogs..... If the reward isn't good enough it isn't a reward.
Good Luck!!
had barked some more to get another treat. This would had never worked with him.
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I just love this style. When I think of what makes the Fleischers unique it's this kind of look. It's more like the comic strips than what was becoming known as "animation style" in Hollywood.
Some particular animators seem to stand out: Dick Heumer , Grim Natwick, Willard Bowsky, Al Eugster and some others whose styles I recognize but aren't sure of the names that go with them. I like Shamus Culhane's early Fleischer stuff though he disparaged this whole school of animation when we met. So did Myron Waldman.I think this is their best stuff!


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LODOLA, German. Popular protest and clientelar nets in Argentina: federal distribution of "plan trabajar" [emergency employment program] (1996-2001).Translated byMarta Ines Merajver. Desarro. econ. (B. Aires) [online]. 2006, vol.1Selected edition, pp. 0-0. ISSN 0046-001X.
This paper presents a statistical analysis of the determinants that ruled the federal allocation of the Argentinean Plan Trabajar for the period 1996-2001. The overall results indicate that this emergency employment program was created as a mechanism to deal with increasing unemployment. However, the federal distribution of resources was later associated to the frequency of popular protest and the parallel evolution of the so-called "picket movement". The political variables included in the model suggest that the Peronist Party succeeded in making a better political use of federal allocation of funds than did the Unión Cívica Radical/Alianza.
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In the movie "Fiddler on the Roof," the villagers of the Jewish enclave Anatevka, which is being overrun by Orthodox Christians, strive to maintain the traditions of their forebears, which have shaped their lives and given meaning to their society. But the new culture is too aggressive, too sophisticated to be ignored or resisted by the ingrained traditions of Anatevka. In the end, the existence of the Jews is "balanced as precariously as a fiddler on the roof."
The protagonist, Tevye, is a man of two cultures. The movie is a classic representation of the tension in the meeting of two very different cultures, in this case a brand of the influential Western civilization and the Jewish culture entrenched in Anatevka.
For years now, the Annang (my ethnic group in Nigeria) and the wider African cultures have been invaded by Western norms and values. For good or ill, Africa has been "discovered," and things will not be the same again. My generation was born into this "new" Africa. I am a product, not of the pure Annang or African tradition nor of the Western culture, but of their collision.
I was born in the early 1970' s in the small southeastern Nigerian village of Ikot Akpan Eda. My parents ensured that I went to school. I grew up learning to be a proper Annang boy. I drank in the different Annang norms--learning the Ekong dance, accepting the male role of working outdoors, learning the native proverbs, using two hands to shake my elders' hands when greeting them and not looking them in the eye when I was admonished. But I also lapped up the rules of propriety and decorum of an English lad (Nigeria was colonized by the British). For example, I would attend Sunday Masses spruced up in suit and tie, and a siesta always followed lunch. At some point, to increase my proficiency, English became the language of my home, something for which I'm still very thankful to Mom. On some holidays, Mom baked and iced cakes; on others, she pounded and fried akara, the local bean-cake.
By 1979 Uncle George had installed an electric generator and bought a black-and-white television set. The Yamaha generator would roar into life in the late evenings, and all the children in our neighborhood, like moths, would fly into Uncle George's parlor to see the wonders of the tube. Abbot and Costello, BBC's "Mind Your Language" and their local equivalent, "The New Masquerade," were some of the prime time entertainments. At school, along with "Arise, O Compatriots" (the Nigerian national anthem), we sang "Mississippi," and "Aristotle, the Great Teacher Who Taught Alexander." Most of our schools were parochial, and our main diocesan nursery school attracted teachers from India, England, Ireland and, of course, Nigeria.
In our generation, the identity and expectations of a Nigerian had changed. In retrospect, if my parents and grandparents dreaded this shift in sociocultural paradigms, my generation had no problems with this integration of cultures—at least, not then. This collision of two cultures made the elders' lives more complicated, forcing them to push the boundaries of their worlds out to include the new reality, for, as Rosemary Haughton has written in The Transformation of Man, "no relationship can stand still and the only way to avoid a clearer definition would be to withdraw from each other, a course which neither could bear to consider." The real struggle of accepting or integrating the English or Irish way was already being transmitted to us in stories, jokes and proverbs. And my grandpa, Tete, bested everybody in telling these stories. Literature concerning this cultural dash and its attendant difficulties and consequences, e.g., Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease, was already sedimenting into a canon .
As children, our chief task was to learn these cross-bred values. We were born into them. This was the only world, the only reality we knew because, "for the children, the parentally transmitted world is not fully transparent. Since they had no part in shaping it, it confronts them as a given reality that, like nature, is opaque in places at least" (Peter L. Berger and Thomas Ludemann, Social Construction of Reality). The socialization and expectations of my generation had been objectified and prodded by school, church and family. It was "natural," and we "had no part in shaping it." The family-school-church triangle wielded irresistible influence and sometimes raw force.
The parents, teachers, priests and catechists forged a strong and broad collaboratory front that legitimized the new paradigm and discouraged deviance and truancy. These three groups of people accepted and mastered their roles as best they could. To us, they were not just Father Okoro, or Catechist Adamu, or Headmaster Etimudo or Mom or Uncle George. They were always more than individual persons. Through their roles, they tapped into some objective cultural power. These objectifications took hold of our personal identities, and our biographies became individualized versions of these abstractions. We were beginning to participate in the dialectics of our society, simultaneously externalizing our personhood and internalizing the objective reality.
I remember opening my high school entrance examination essay with, "I am a Nigerian Roman Catholic boy from St. Anne's Primary School. I come from Ikot Akpan Eda, and I am fluent in English and Annang." This objectified reality was inescapable, and growing up in my part of Nigeria in the early 1970's simply meant some form of sociocultural cross-breeding.
This symbolic world was a powerful insulator, or so I thought. Looking back now, it seems to me that my Annang modus operandi yielded rather easily to the English or Irish. In religion, this bond was so strong that we could accept the Europeans more readily than we would accept some other Nigerians, like the Muslim Hausas. Religion was the defining factor here.
I remember that we were cued into seeing the Hausas as outsiders, if not enemies. After all, they were predominantly Muslim. All the good people I knew were always hammering on the "evils" of this northern Nigerian ethnic group. If we accept these Muslims with a "strange" religion, what would happen to our already diluted identity? This was an anxiety-producing question, and nobody wanted anything to do with it. This intruding reality, the Islamic element, was not compatible with our "nature." So we claimed not to understand the Muslims, believing it was not worth trying. We assigned this other symbolic construction, Islam, a negative ontological status.
But the realization that there existed another set of religious beliefs, for which its adherents were ready to die, kept this question alive. Chaos was already knocking on the door, and the definers and guards of our symbolic world bolted and secured it from the inside. Some Christian sects did not ignore the world of Islam. They sought to break into it and convert its inhabitants to Christian salvation. After all, Christ is the only way. This assertiveness might have been successful in a few cases, but a lot of the time it resulted in very heated and sometimes bloody religious conflicts.
This was our first major awakening to another kind of symbolic universe. Catholicism had cemented our families, church and schools together, with Christ as the savior. The Muslims, simply put, were a nuisance to our "nature." And we thanked God that the predominantly Muslim ethnic groups were not close to our comfortable but delicate bubble!
Probably I could have happily continued living in that bubble, resisting risks and changes. But that protective world was again threatened in 1990 when I began interviewing for the Jesuits. The American Jesuits spoke "weird" English. Father Robert Somebody, my interviewer, sounded very different from Father Paul Forrester, my Irish parish priest. Father Somebody, who (hard for me to believe) preferred to be called Bob, kept calling "schedule" skedyule. Obviously, I thought, these were two men divided by the same tongue.
In the novitiate, "inculturation" and "religious dialogue" gained ground. One Jesuit, a professor of Islamic studies, even came to give a one-week seminar on Islam. I began to accept these Muslims. For me, religious changes are the hardest to accept. Once I get comfortable with one idea, I hold on to it for dear life.
All these difficulties, however, were nothing compared to what coming to America three years ago did to and for my symbolic universe. I gripped the handles of my seat in a silent, tearful prayer as my flight took off into strong winds. What new beating would my symbolic world have to take in my new mission, studies in America? As my plane wrestled and fought its way to stable air that August night, I wondered what was awaiting me. I held God fully responsible. What was he up to this time? What will I need to become in order to find God fully in this new environment? What will I outgrow to enter fully into God in this new world? How will I come into God to get fully out of myself? And at what cost?
My mind tangled itself in this intricate net of questions. Belted to my seat, I felt like a fly caught in a spider's web. I wanted distraction--any distraction--but I couldn't distract myself much. All efforts to break loose failed. The more I pulled, the more it hurt. I once saw a dragonfly fight to free itself from a spider's web. It fought and flapped so hard its wings cracked, then snagged in defeat. The spider quickly wound its silver thread around the unlucky insect. In the next seconds, the poor thing was twisting its limbs in submission to the thickening silver cocoon. The quarry thus disarmed and handcuffed, the spider closed in and brained it. The dragonfly staged a last feeble struggle, stretched and hung still in its new plastered capsule. Carefully the predator reached out and tapped the corpse and, when nothing moved, it ran a quick frisk over it. I saw it maneuver its powerful mandibles, and I couldn't tell whether this was a triumphant smile or its regular warm-up. I wasn't around to witness the slow dismembering of the carcass as the spider settled into a happy dinner.
Will I snag a wing? Will I lose my head to these questions? Worse still, my giant spider, fear, was closing in. Very soon, I knew, it would fret and frisk my body, finding me guilty. As my people say, "A fly is never innocent in the spider's web." I should have fought as bravely as that dragonfly; I shouldn't have gone off to sleep. But I did. And that was a miracle! I hope the dragon-fly feels that way when it wakes in its afterlife.
My flight landed at J.F.K. International Airport on Aug. 11, 1993. Since then, I have lived in New York, studied in Omaha and Spokane and worked with gangs in Chicago. No amount of literature and no amount of stories from American Jesuits in Nigeria did the trick. The old cliche still holds true: Seeing is believing.
Let's forget things like the sun setting at 8: 15 P.M. in the Bronx, when I had been used to 6:00 P.M. in Nigeria. Let's flip over the hundreds of 24-hour television channels, when I had been used to two or three that shut down at midnight. Let's also not talk about the efficiency of the phone and the Internet. And I'd rather not chill you with stories of the big, unrelenting gales that roll off the Nebraska plains and sweep the Omaha landscapes in the winter. I won't bore you with my fumbles in a new culture and with what my friends had to put up with. I prefer not to scare you with my experiences with the gangs in Chicago's Cabrini Green.
The pace of life worried me. It made me feel I was always being left behind, miles behind. On the streets, everybody moved very fast, in pursuit of the evasive quarry called time. Deadlines bothered me. Sometimes, in those days, I would search for time all day-and far into the night-without catching up. If there was a time in my life when I imagined a 30- or 35-hour day, it was in the fall of 1993.
And it wasn't only time that moved faster than I could. I was also being left behind in understanding jokes. The provinciality of humor weighed heavily on me. Sometimes people would be laughing, reacting to a supposedly funny line, but it would mean nothing to me. And sometimes I would say things that would be funny somewhere on the coast of West Africa, but people here would not understand. Worse still, sometimes it would have another connotation. It was no laughing matter. This was painful stuff. I remembered what my grandfather used to say. "When this thing gets past your humor, guard your life!" This thing had already broken the barriers of my humor and was seriously disturbing my life. "Language originates in and has its primary reference to everyday life," Berger and Luckmann say. I was still struggling to break into that everyday life.
In the beginning, I was confused by the word "stuff." My friends used it all the time. A very handy word. Anything that had unnecessary details or was too complicated to explain was neatly stuffed into "stuff," as in "We're eating macaroni and stuff," "I went to sleep and stuff," 'The class was boring and stuff," "We're preparing turkey and stuffing and stuff."
I swallowed my pride in some instances, slowed down the conversation and forced them to unpack "stuff' so I could know the content for the first time. Most of the time, they did. And once I caught on, I liked the all-purpose word. So I hope you'll understand when I say there's too much stuff in my experience in America to tell you here.
Another expression I've come to like is "or something." "Are you an African or something?" a man asked me once in a bar after noticing my accent. "Or something?" I silently repeated to myself. First, it was annoying. What else could I be? Then my mind pondered the immense possibilities that dwell in each soul, the great unknown lurking behind every person that is never exhausted by a single definition. We actualize one or just a bunch of these potentials at a time. And sometimes we even move on to assume a new identity or become new things. All of this unknown stuff is nicely wired around by the phrase "or something," I thought. We could be all we are--and know how to be--and there would still be something we could become.
Before I could reply to him, he turned to my Jesuit companion, whom he had met before, and asked, "Is he also a Jesuit or something?" At this point, I just began to laugh. And when I explained to our friend why I laughed, he also began to laugh. At the end of the evening, as he pumped my hand, he smiled, slowly shook his head and said, "You're really something!" We all laughed again.
In the subway, in spite of the crowdedness, everyone avoided everyone else's eyes. Once in the train, I forgot this rule and said to my neighbor, "Good morning!" "Y-e-a-h?" He responded with the most suspicious pair of eyes I'd ever seen. He became very uncomfortable, and the next moment, he was fumbling in his bag for a book to read. I felt awful. I wouldn't intentionally frighten anybody, much less an old man.
This was a far richer society--good roads, great facilities and immense accessibility. The malls were crowded most of the time with shoppers and window shoppers. Father Bill Wood [of the Jesuit province staff in New York] took me and other Nigerians shopping once. It wasn't a holiday. And I couldn't resist the temptation to ask why there were so many people in the mall. "Are these people undergoing their first winter, as we are?" "Welcome to America!" Father Wood chuckled.
I had culture shock but denied it. I lived the confusion, anger, disappointment, excitement, discouragement of coming to a new culture. Too much new stuff was coming at me at the same time. At one point, I felt like the Algerian Mohammed Dip: "I was then still sustained by some kind of hope, but hope so enclosed in inaccessible places that I now hesitate to call it hope. A stone had been dropped into an abyss and I listened to its interminable fall. I was that stone, and the hope I clung to was that it would never reach the bottom." As much as my mind wanted to carry on, to pretend that I had it all under control, all was not O.K. This was not Nigeria. I was in a free fall, flailing my hands and hoping I wouldn't hit the bottom. My cultural frontiers were being pushed, and pushed hard.
One day I got into a conversation with a certain Rob. He told me his grandparents were institutionalized. I asked whether they were sick. He said they were O.K. When he saw my puzzled face, he tried to explain to me how they got there. He kept mentioning culture and how their being there was good for everybody. This worried me. But I tried on an understanding look and it fitted his gaze. So we went into other things. I couldn't fathom why the old would have to move away into an institution. I had heard of orphanages. But I had never heard of old people's homes, while their children were still alive.
The two cultures were tearing me apart. Sometimes I felt I was irretrievably sunk in a whirlpool where two rivers meet. But I learned a lot. Someone had cranked open my mind and heart to other ways.
Before I realized it, I was making friends, many friends. This development eased the tension. Deep down inside, I knew these Americans were working through human motivations, passions, desires, wholeness and brokenness similar to those of my people back in Nigeria. What took time to comprehend was why they reacted so differently compared with my people. I can't remember what else helped me begin to appreciate America apart from fellow Jesuits, friends and a desire to beat my deadlines.
It takes time to know or understand what realities and histories have shaped a people. I've adjusted a great deal. But I'm still struggling. I may never fully understand. And that's O.K. But I remain very thankful to Americans and to God for showing me that my way isn't the only way, even though that knowledge sometimes has come with humiliation .
While living here, I've thought about home. A lot. And it's not just homesickness. Sometimes, people need to be in a new situation to reflect on and celebrate their usual world. New experiences can forcefully trigger this reflection and celebration. I hope this experience will help me do more than tolerate other cultures in the future.
It is my hope that I will reconcile my African and Western inheritance, my histories. This, for a while, may require my perching on the precarious angle where these two traditions meet, like the fiddler on the roof. But I hope time and experience and God's grace will soften that angle. Otherwise, with a poor balance, my fiddle will sound horrible or, worse still, I could fall off completely. I hope to remain an African who is steeped in other traditions, if only to be in harmony with my world--my diverse world.
In the movie "Fiddler on the Roof," the villagers of the Jewish enclave Anatevka, which is being overrun by Orthodox Christians, strive to maintain the traditions of their forebears, which have shaped their lives and given meaning to their society. But the new culture is too aggressive, too sophisticated to be ignored or resisted by the ingrained traditions of Anatevka. In the end, the existence of the Jews is "balanced as precariously as a fiddler on the roof."


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Health Care Reform Is More Corporate Welfare
By Ron Paul
Published 09/19/09
Last Wednesday the nation was riveted to the President's speech on healthcare reform before Congress. While the President's concern for the uninsured is no doubt sincere, his plan amounts to a magnanimous gift to the health insurance industry, despite any implications to the contrary.
For decades the insurance industry has been lobbying for mandated coverage for everyone. Imagine if the cell phone industry or the cable TV industry received such a gift from government? If government were to fine individuals simply for not buying a corporation's product, it would be an incredible and completely unfair boon to that industry, at the expense of freedom and the free market. Yet this is what the current healthcare reform plans intend to do for the very powerful health insurance industry.
The stipulation that pre-existing conditions would have to be covered seems a small price to pay for increasing their client pool to 100 of the American people. A big red flag, however, is that they would also have immunity from lawsuits, should they fail to actually cover what they are supposedly required to cover, so these requirements on them are probably meaningless. Mandates on all citizens to be customers of theirs, however, are enforceable with fines and taxes.
Insurance providers seem to have successfully equated health insurance with health care but this is a relatively new concept. There were doctors and medicine long before there was health insurance. Health insurance is not a bad thing, but it is not the only conceivable way to get health care. Instead, we seem to still rely on the creativity and competence of politicians to solve problems, which always somehow seem to be tied in with which lobby is the strongest in Washington.
It is sad to think of the many creative, free market solutions that government prohibits with all its interference. What if instead of joining a health insurance plan, you could buy a membership directly from a hospital or doctor? What if a doctor wanted to have a cash-only practice, or make house calls, or determine his or her own patient load, or otherwise practice medicine outside the constraints of the current bureaucratic system? Alternative healthcare delivery models will be at an even stronger competitive disadvantage if families are forced to buy into the insurance model. And yet, the reforms are sold to us as increasing competition.
What if just once Washington got out of the way and allowed the ingenuity of the American people to come up with a whole spectrum of alternatives to our broken system? Then the free market, not lobbyists and politicians, would decide which models work and which did not.
Unfortunately, the most broken aspect of our system is that Washington sees the need to act on every problem in society, rather than staying out of the way, or getting out of the way. The only tools the government has are force and favors. These are tools that many unscrupulous and lazy corporations would like to wield to their own advantage, rather than simply providing a better product that people will willingly buy. It seems the health insurance industry will get more of those.
Campaign For Liberty — Health Care Reform Is More Corporate Welfare
Sorry Ron Paul, hands off approach is not going to work this time. What about the many who will never be able to afford health care, or at best be underinsured? That's my age group; people in my age range tend to be at risk of this the most.
I believe that everyone in America should have access to health care. But this is not the same as health insurance.
You can't give everyone in America health insurance, because by definition, insurance is something that you pay for. Not everyone in America can pay for health insurance. Then, if you subsidize health insurance to some, but not others, then you are discriminating insurance availability based on income or class. You will also end up forcing people to buy levels of insurance that they don't want to keep everything equal. Americans will NEVER approve of this.
The only *simple* way to give everyone health care, is also something that Americans will NEVER approve of. That is to eliminate the private health insurance concept and give everyone free health care, paid for by a large tax increase. (Like many countries do) This would probably work from an administrative standpoint, but I personally don't like it for this reason:
I don't have as much of a problem with higher taxes, or the Federal government regulating or providing health insurance. But I have a HUGE problem with the Federal government providing health care. One of the basic principals of humanity is never give a central government power to provide something that you wouldn't want them to have the power to withhold.
Even though the American form of ferderalist republic government is more highly resistant to abuse of powers than any other system in the world, that principle should still hold.
I personally believe that health insurance policy should be provided on a state level, with the federal government regulating states to ensure that they are insuring all of their residents. Medicaid and Medicare should be eliminated completely. Each state should have a plan to collect taxes and offer coverage to every resident regardless of age or income, they should be able to regulate in-state private insurers and offer competing plans. Each state should regulate (with Federal oversight) medical malpractice laws for doctors practicing in their state.
This does several things:
- Gives 50 "testing grounds" for differing health insurance legislative policies, allowing us to see which systems work the best. The states that come up with better systems can be copied by other states.
- Introduces competition between states. States that have more attractive health insurance legistlation will attract more doctors, business, and residents. This will be more than enough incentive for states to keep their policy efficient.
- Lower Federal costs by raising state costs. State taxes will increase while Federal taxes should decrease. Distributes the incredible overall burden of reform to more manageable chunks.
- Reduces the burden of legislation at the Federal level, but allows them input by setting minimum standards for regulation.
However, I can't see this happening in a million years either, because states are so deep in debt right now, that few if any could possible take on this big of an undertaking, nor could they afford it if they wanted to. I also can't see Congress or the President letting go of this issue, because the outcome is so politically important to the careers of these people. I also don't think most Americans will go for it, because they seem to trust the federal government more than state governments.
The point is: I don't see anything good happening anytime soon, because nobody is willing to make the sacrifices necessary for long term, effective reform.
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VMware requires you to combine the licenses for multiple processors. Refer to the licensing procedures for your VMware software at http://www.vmware.com/support/licensing/ before you install VMware.
Thanks for this information. James Arias is looking into this process and we will provide this information once he gives us the go-ahead. -- Chittal
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I have been lazy but have been drinking my beers and taking my pics. Day 9 of the Beer Advent is the Avery Brewing Company White Rascal White Ale. Duncan opened this beer with his eyes.
When I poured this, I judged it first by the color, since it was a white beer and all. The taste was slightly sweet and light. Overall I liked this a lot and plan to get more of it. Even after days of other beers, this one keeps coming back as one I want to drink more.
When it comes right down to it, unfiltered wheat is usually a favorite of mine. I like the process that goes into swirling the bottle and getting every last bit of the wheat out of the bottle. And the fruit that some people add to wheat beer to give it the citrus flavor is already part of the flavor of this brew.
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Sunday, November 10, 2013
Guests, guests, and more guests
Now that my parents' wedding ceremony was over, it was time to party! And it looks like there were a lot of people to participate.
Actually, it doesn't look like this crowd was too into partying – this group looks pretty reserved. And with all the people in this photo, there is only one person that I recognize and that is my grandmother, Clara Fitzgerald Martin Hunter. You have to look really closely – she's the lady underneath the canopy with the fun hat on. It is almost like she is just standing there surveying the crowd. And probably breathing a sign of relief that the stress was behind her.
And here is another crowd shot with Mom throwing the bouquet – looks like bridesmaid Patricia O'Farrell is ready to make the grab.
There's only a few familiar faces in this photo – my dad's brother, Robert Levy, is in the center of this photo (with white tux jacket) and to his left, I believe, is his future wife, Patricia Davis. And it also looks like some of the guests are enjoying that lovely cake.
And how fun that I have a list of the guests who attended, and in their own handwriting! Notable guests noted below each page.
Mr. & Mrs. I.T. Thurber – Mrs. Thurber was Dorris Feuerstein, daughter of my grandmother's sister, Viola Fitzgerald.
Nell Martin – older sister of my grandfather.
Mamie Burks (nee Anderson) – the half sister to my great grandmother, Frances Brooks Martin. Frances' father, William J. Brooks, was killed at the Battle of Fredericksburg and her mother married John Hayward Anderson in 1868.
Earle Martin and his family – Earle was my mother's father, Verda was his second wife, Michael was their son, and Paul and Pat were Verda's children whom Earle adopted.
Ethel and Gertrude Stubblefield – these sisters lived next door to my grandparents, Sig and Loraine Levy, as long as I can remember. One of them was one of my father's elementary school teachers. Neither one of them every married.
Clara Dick (nee McAboy) – Clara was an older sister of my great grandmother, Mabel McAboy Fitzgerald.
Mr. & Mrs. A.K. Sherwin – Mrs. Sherwin was Irene Gunzendorfer. Her father, Jacob Gunzendorfer, was the younger brother of my great grandfather, Abraham Gunzendorfer.
Lois and Marshall Peal – Lois was Al and Irene Sherwin's daughter.
Jessie Hamilton – I know she is important but I just can't remember how. My mom talked about her as we were discussing genealogy but, sadly, I didn't take notes related to Jessie. Add that to my to-do list.
Mrs. and Mrs. E.A. Hamilton are both on this page. I wonder if they are in some way related to Jessie Hamilton.
Winifred (nee Dick) and John Hoey – Winifred was the daughter of Clara McAboy and Alexander Dick.
Malcom Bell – Malcom was married to Elizabeth Sronce, who was the daughter of Anna (Fitzgerald) and Robert Sronce. My mother lived with Anna and Robert for several years while her parents were going through their divorce.
Helen Schwartz – I'm not sure but it seems like she could be important since her last name is Schwartz and my great grandmother's maiden name was Schwartz.
Robt. Sronce – there he is. I wonder if Elizabeth Bell and Anna Sronce signed the book.
Ed Fitzgerald – my great grandfather. His daughter was my mother's mother, Clara Fitzgerald Martin Hunter.
Mabel (nee McAboy) Fitzgerald – my great grandmother. These were the only two great grandparents I ever knew.
Mrs. Fred Levy - hmmmm, who is this? Is she related in some way?
Mr. & Mrs. Clarence Follett – Mrs. Follett was Loraine Feuerstein, whose mother was my grandmother's sister, Viola Fitzgerald.
Keith Miller – a childhood friend of my dad's. I believe he lived on an adjoining street and was friend's with my dad throughout their lifetimes.
Gilda Levy – my dad's cousin. Her father was Benjamin Levy, youngest brother of my grandfather, Sig Levy.
Patricia Davis – future wife of my uncle, Robert Levy.
Sandra Dick – flower girl and my mom's second cousin.
Hazel & Alan Dick – Alan was the son of Clara (McAboy) and Alexander Dick and they were the hosts of the event.
Betty Ann Bell – there she is! Betty was the daughter of Anna (Fitzgerald) and Robert Sronce.
What a treat to be able to see not just who attended the wedding but to be able to see their signatures, too!
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First the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences disqualified a song. Now it could be facing the music.
For the first time in its history, the academy this week revoked an Oscar nomination on ethical grounds, citing improper campaigning by the composer of "Alone Yet Not Alone," which would have been one of the five contenders for original song at this year's
But the action has prompted criticism that the academy has cracked down on a small movie that can't compete with big-budget Oscar campaigns mounted by studios. "Alone Yet Not Alone," from a film of the same name about 18th century Colonists in the Ohio Valley, is a low-budget, faith-based movie that features an iconic quadriplegic pastor.
"If the academy is just hoping they can keep quiet and this story will go away, they need to find a different strategy," said Daniel Diermeier, a professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of
"It's a David-and-Goliath story, and in those stories people always side with the little guy," Diermeier continued. "And then you add a faith-based culture-war dimension that plays into how some parts of the population see Hollywood. There are incentives all over the place to keep the story alive."
An Oscar nomination can be a major financial boost for a film, even if it has little chance of winning. Small films especially can benefit from the exposure that comes from one of television's most-watched nights.
In revoking the nomination for "Alone Yet Not Alone," the academy said that the song's music writer, Bruce Broughton, a longtime academy member who serves on the music branch's executive committee, improperly emailed members of the branch during the voting period. The song was co-written by lyricist Dennis Spiegel and sung in the film by Agoura Hills pastor Joni Eareckson Tada.
Broughton sent an email to about 70 of the branch's 239 members whose addresses, he said, came from his own Rolodex, not an academy database.
"I'm dropping you a line to boldly direct your attention to entry #57," he wrote, alluding to the track's number on a CD of contending music. "I'm sending this note only because it is extremely unlikely that this small, independent, faith-based film will be seen by any music branch member; it's the only way I can think of to have anyone be aware of the song."
He concluded that he hoped the song would "get noticed and be remembered among the many worthy songs from more highly visible films."
The academy's board of governors concluded Tuesday night that Broughton's actions violated the bylaw that campaigning must be conducted "in a fair and ethical manner."
Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs said in a statement, "[U]sing one's position as a former governor and current executive committee member to personally promote one's own Oscar submission creates the appearance of an unfair advantage."
But Broughton has cried foul, saying he was simply trying to draw attention to his independent movie, as many in Hollywood do during awards season.
"They had previews and parties and huge promotion," Broughton said of the studio campaigns for Oscar-nominated songs from other films, which include box-office hits such as Disney's "Frozen" and Universal Pictures'
After sending out its statement Wednesday, the academy offered no further comment on Thursday. But already the story had gained traction, with "CBS This Morning" bringing Broughton on the air and conservative-leaning outlets such as the Drudge Report and the Washington Times setting up a Hollywood vs. Middle America battle.
"Christian Film Stripped of Oscar Nomination," a headline blared on Drudge.
Even some in Hollywood thought that Broughton, a music personality, longtime head of the music branch and a USC professor, had been given a raw deal.
Veteran awards consultant Cynthia Swartz says she doesn't understand how Broughton's email was different from any number of other things that the academy allows during campaigning for Oscar nominations. Producers and studio executives, she notes, routinely send email invitations to friends for screenings of their movies, events that also include refreshments.
"The punishment doesn't seem to fit the crime," says Swartz, president of Strategy PR, one of the industry's leading Oscar consultancies, adding that she believes his actions were "innocuous."
During awards seasons, studios spend millions of dollars in a bid at a nomination, throwing glittery parties and taking out reams of newspaper advertising. The academy has spent years making sporadically successful bids to tone down these efforts. (The latest has involved the limiting of splashy catered affairs for contenders, a move that has yielded mixed results.)
The group has never, however, taken such a drastic step. It is the first time an Oscar nomination has been revoked for a scripted U.S. feature (the previous four times were for documentaries, shorts and foreign films). When a producer on best picture nominee
In an interview, pastor Eareckson Tada said she was unsure what to make of the academy's decision.
"If it was for reasons connected with a faith-based message, it shouldn't surprise us that Hollywood would shun Jesus," she said. "Jesus has been shunned by much weedier characters."
But she said she was keeping an even keel. "It's been a 13-day roller coaster [since the nomination] and now it's over, which I'm just fine with. There had been no invitation and I hadn't gone out and gotten my nails done," she said, laughing. "And the rescinding of the nomination doesn't detract from song's beauty or message. I hope it brings more attention to it."
(The film is set for a wider release from the San Antonio-based Enthuse Entertainment in June.)
Broughton, however, was less sanguine. "It does feel like they're trying to make an example of me here," he said. "They wouldn't do this to


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The global market for electronics contract manufacturing (ECM) was valued at $410 billion in 2011, and is projected to reach $435 billion in 2013 and $670 billion in 2018, a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9% from 2013-2018.
The total ECM market in North America is projected to reach $38.8 billion in 2012 and $41.5 billion in 2013. This market is expected to reach $59 billion in 2018, a CAGR of 7.3%.
The United States market is projected to reach $20.3 billion in 2012 and $20.8 billion in 2013. This region is expected to reach $28.3 billion in 2018, a CAGR of 6.4%.
This report points out the increasing importance of electronics contract manufacturing in the global economy and how contract manufacturing has influenced the cost structure of various electronic products. The report analyzes different aspects of electronics contract manufacturing, the companies involved in contract manufacturing, and identifies the areas where growth and improvement are needed.
For any company to succeed in a competitive market, opportunities must be identified from the viewpoint of the company's strengths. For this, it is necessary to understand the size and growth rate of any opportunity and the competitive atmosphere in which the company exists. This report presents the ideal medium to understand the various exciting and growing opportunities in the field of electronics contract manufacturing, both for buyers and providers of these contract manufacturing services. This report also focuses on the available opportunities in this vast area of ever-growing business and how to utilize these opportunities to acquire additional profitable business.
This report will help purchase managers of major original equipment manufacturers to look for suppliers with a view to reducing the total cost of the manufacturing process. This report is also intended to help marketing managers identify newer market opportunities and develop targeted promotion plans in the identified fields of the electronics contract manufacturing business. It will also help business development executives understand the dynamics of the electronics contract manufacturing market and identify possible new market segments. Information and research center librarians will be able to provide market researchers and brand and product managers with the information they need to do their jobs more effectively.
The report has been prepared in a simple format that can be easily understood with a number of tables and charts/figures. The scope of the report includes a detailed study of global and regional markets for various segments of the electronics contract manufacturing business, with reasons given for variations in the growth of the industry in certain regions.
Both primary and secondary research methods were used in this study. Primary information sources for this market research include individuals within companies, various research organizations, governmental agencies and trade associations. Secondary research sources include databases, trade literature, specialized journals and government statistics.
To read report in detail : Electronics Contract Manufacturing and Design Services: The Global Market – Focus on North America


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ROP v2.2 Released
After months of anticipation from both you and us, we now present to you ROP v2.2, our first version to use the praised -mod switch! Apart from the -mod switch, features to be noted are the 4tpy mod, our own governments system, new temples for all factions, new campaign map textures and not to be forgotten: Makedon and the mighty Median Empire are now playable! For a full list of changes, check further down this post
The Rise of Persia Mod is set in the 6th century BC, a most fascinating era of mankind's history. It was the time of four grand empires having divided the known world from the Mediterranean Sea to the River Oxus in the east among themselves after the seemingly invincible Assyrian might had been broken. All of them had ventured through great struggles in their past for becoming the dominant superpower deciding the fate of all mankind.
In the east lay the vast dominion of the Median lords, the undisputed masters of the Iranian Plateau, ruling territory from Asia Minor to the most distant places of east Iran. These dreaded Iranian warriors had overcome the mighty Assyrians, the Kimmerians and the Skythians, they had forged an empire by the means of war that nobody could match in size or power. Yet their wise kings had now been avoiding open conflict on all fronts, making alliances with the Babylonian heir of the Assyrian realm.
Babylon, located deep in the cradle of civilization, had finally revolted successfully against the Assyrian murderers and flattened their seat of power, utterly destroying their capital Niniveh in retaliation. Babylon's Great Kings took most of their territory including that of the rebellious Judah kingdom in the Levant. Brute force had made them submit, but clemency – and captivity – ensured their loyalty. Babylon and Media had been friends since the Assyrian Downfall, but there was enough space left to conquer.
The shadow of the Assyrians was long and their final end had also freed the time-honoured Kingdom of Egypt. The 26th Dynasty had successfully reclaimed its inherent place among the super powers again. Although their great Pharaohs had to face severe problems due to growing mercenary influence and also from the threats posed by Libyans, Greeks and Babylon, they were able to prevail over all these.
An ally of Egypt was Lydia, the most powerful Nation of Asia Minor. Their war-mongering kings of the Mermnads' Dynasty hold sway with an iron fist over the lands between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. Nobody had ever defeated them and their lance-wielding cavalry is as feared as Iranian archers or Greek hoplites. Even the gargantuan Medes could not defeat them and the Greeks of Ionia suffered the same fate as the rest of Asia Minor.
These four super powers came to terms of trade and co-existed more or less peacefully, despite some grim tensions between them regarding their bellicose past. Now was also the time when the Greek city states grew to a potentially serious contender for these powers. If an ambitious city state managed to master all of Hellas then a new and dangerous power would threaten to unbalance the tense equilibrium of the four empires. But while the colony of Kyrene in north Africa could hold their own even against the Pharaoh, the Ionian Greeks were in submission. However, the true reason of their rise was not war, but trade making them rich.
On the other end of the known worlds were the Indians, not yet involved in any of the others' business. The heavy incursions of the northern nomads, which had devastated Asia and Europe in the past were over, nevertheless everyone needed to watch them carefully. In the south, Nubians and Arabians were in danger of being conquered by the expanding powers, who had decided not to engage each other.
Nothing seemed to stop their tetrarchy, but the world changed forever, when one man stood up against the Medes. His name was Kuruš and he was the leader of the ignominious Persian tribe. He vanquished the Medes, crushed the Lydians and conquered Babylon. He created the Persian Empire, one of the most splendid the world has ever seen. However, at the beginning of our mod he is just a tribal leader, alone against the super powers.
The year is 559 BC and the Rise of Persia is about to begin!
Guide: Download and Installation
We are now using the -mod:mymod switch to make ROP more user friendly, by preventing the overwriting of original game files. ROP still requires the RTW folder to which it is installed to be unmodded (not on top of old versions of ROP!), and of course it should be RTW v1.5. Due to the many new and changed features, old saved games are not compatible with v2.2.
As using BitTorrent networks saves significantly in bandwith [Installer is 178 MB], and also is much faster once a couple of people are seeding, it would be better for the servers it if you download and seed ROP v2.2 this way. Alternatively, we have http download links.
Dropbox ROPv22_final_b
Dropbox ROP2_22b patch
Install Instructions-Download ROP v2.2
-Install ROPv22_final.exe to the root of an unmodded installation of RTW v1.5. Vista users should install ROP using Administrator Mode (right click, execute as administrator)
-Download and install the ROP v2.22 patch to the same root of RTW 1.5 folder (check this thread for changelog)
-Play ROP by clicking the "Rise of Persia" shortcut on your desktop.
Gameplay Guide: 4tpy mod
We have implemented the 4tpy mod into our campaign, to stretch the number of turns available to build your empire, which is now more or less comparable to vanilla RTW rather than half the turns. There are three summer seasons, representing spring, summer and autumn respectively, and the winter season. As in any other mod, 4tpy has to be activated when starting a campaign or loading a save game.
On campaig start, the popup shown below will appear automatically. When clicking the Show-me-how button, the script is loaded.
When loading a save game though, you will have to click on a settement owned by your faction, and then open the advisor and click the show-me-how button, as is shown in the screenshot.
ROP v2.2 Full Changelog
Thanks to:Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Campaign Map - Gameplay Features:-4tpy-mod implemented
-Added Governments: Monarchy, Oligarchy, Democracy. See special topic on this, will be posted tomorrow
-Rewritten units code so:
-There are no weird duplicates of the same unit in camp mode anymore, which couldn't be retrained.
-The barracks buildings don't have the innecessary double trees anymore. Doesn't really affect gameplay, but does make the code better
-Added most Temple descriptions (more to follow)
-Rewrote temples code to suit ROP deities lists
-Added Median and Makedonian units properly to the campaign and battle modes
-Pirate Spawn level decreased - less pirates
-Victory Conditions redone
-Strategy map models/textures implemented for all factions
Campaign Map - Map Features:-Wonders: Pyramids and Hanging Gardens addedBattle Map:
-Added rebels in the Balkan area
-Connected Halikarnassos, Miletos and Phokaia by adding fords in the rivers between them - better for Ionia-Lydia relationships
-Gave Mytelene port at gamestart, stops Ionians getting stuck in case the Asia Minor settlements are taken
-Terrain and Climates hugely revamped by Uranos
-Lots of new and/or improved rivers by Uranos
-New campaign map textures by Uranos
-Changed Illyria to Autariatia - new starting position, edited family tree
-Faction colours on camp map edited so borders and regions are now the same colour
-Fixed CTD bug with Lydian family member outside family tree
-Sinope port now buildable
-Sparta really can't build walls now
-Rewritten victory conditions
-Chariots no longer recruitable without necessary AOR resource
-Much more starting armies, for all factions at least one outside city now - will make the first few turns significantly more interesting
-Larger garrisons for many settlements, rebel and non-rebel
-Assur region is now Babylonian
-Tushpa region is now Median-Battle CTDs fixedMisc:
-Quick battle CTD fixed
-21 new custom battle locations
-Various fixes to textures/models/skeleton definitions
-Highly improved Hoplite warfare - much more orderly and realistic now - thank you TW community
-Night battles enabled
-Bloody routing unit banners
-Median units implemented
-Makedonian units implemented (Big thanks to Hegemonia CS)
-Rebalanced all units to make battles last longer and more realisticly-Using the -mod:mymod command now; ROP is now contained within its own folder and doesn't overwrite vanilla files anymore
-New Intro Video by SeleukosART
-New Unit Cards for all units
-Thrace/Sparta settlement icon mixup fixed
-English names for Kemet units added, putting the native names in brackets
-Fixed various typos in the quotes and other areas
-Improved loading screen faction icons, edges are better
-Added new barracks descriptions
-New loading screens
-New faction maps for Makedon and Media, as they're playable now
Current/Previous Team members:Nero666 - Lead Developer
Rez - Lead Historian, Texts
FliegerAD - All round Historian
Zenith Darksea - Greek historian
Spurius - Jack of all trades
Celtic Man - Musician
Roofie - 3D artist
SeleukosART - Movie Maker
Reloader-1 - Text Writer
Vikrant1986 - 3D artist
Kallikratis - 3D Artist
Goscinio - Lead 3D artist
Swampthing - For his stats balancing system
King Louise Assurbanipal - For skins/Models
Alxcruel - For Skins/Models
TheLordskinner - For original Forums
Julius caesar - For coding
Irish Lord - For Skins
Bananafish - For research
Swordfish - For early Website development and Music
Darkragnar - For Indian Music
Mr Jones - For research
VandalCarthage - Historian
wipeout140 - For coding
Antiochus Epiphanes - For skinning
Lentonius - For skin/model
Special thanks:CA - for making the marvel that RTW is
Faeghi - Creator of Rise of Persia
Hegemonia - for the Makedonian army
Rome Total Realism - for allowing the use of several models
Europa Barbarorum - For their animations pack
Professor420 - for his work on the Median King model
Halie Satanus - for his work on the Median army
Uranos - for his work on the campaign and the camp. map textures
Xfire - for his camp. map textures
Malrubius and the TTO - for creating the GAFH (Genetics, Aging, Family and Health) mod
Fourth Age TW - for their double horse model (four-horsed chariot)
Dark Fenrir - For several models and skins
Lupus_Gr - For several faction Icons
Pinarius - for his horse models
Conditions of use:
This mod is for personal use only, anyone who wishes to use parts of our mod in a non-ROP modification of their own must obtain the express permission of the Rise of Persia team first.
Contact Information
Website: http://www.riseofpersia.com
Dev Forums: http://www.riseofpersia.com/forums
Forums at TWCenter: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=65


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Summer Holiday Hawiian shirt
Added Apr 20, 2011
by ladyshape
Edinburgh, Unite...
I made this shirt using a self-drafted pattern based on the design of a bowling shirt. It has a bowling shirt collar, a mock jetted pocket with pink jets on the front and a back yoke with pink piping. It has short sleeves which I turned up and tacked in place.
Material Notes
Linen with cotton for piping and pocket jets.
- Season
- Spring, Summer
- For
- Unisex
- Garment Type
- Shirts
- Style
- Beach, Casual, Geek, Preppy, Romantic, Vintage
- Material
- Cotton, Linen
- Photographers
Steven Oates and Sarah Morgan
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Apr 25, 2011, 05.01 PMby FashionSewingBlog
The blouse is exquisite and beautifully put together with the right style of skirt. Well styled, excellent poses and backdrop subtle but to the point. In my opinion your photo shoot could grace the pages of any fashion magazine.
Colleen G Leahttp://www.fashionsewingblog.com
Apr 25, 2011, 10.01 AMby midget
Holy shmolly… Colour, print, shape…. You've brought them together perfectly.
Apr 25, 2011, 01.14 AMby Olivia Anne
Apr 24, 2011, 12.35 PMby hannnc
Love the whole outfit. What an amazing skirt!
Apr 23, 2011, 02.35 PMby lizajane09
Gorgeous with the skirt and shoes.
Apr 23, 2011, 02.32 PMby nikkishell
You look fabulous! Great shirt, great colours!
Apr 23, 2011, 11.41 AMby Veronica Darling
So sweet and well drafted!
Apr 22, 2011, 06.28 PMby aleahI love the shape of the shirt! The pattern looks great on you, not exactly my style though.
Apr 22, 2011, 04.53 PMby juebejue
love love love!!! its perfect with the skirt, which looks like a burda pattern! :)
Apr 22, 2011, 03.44 PMby margaretchandler
Good lord, lady, I love everything about this! I'm not one for pink or hawaiian print, but you have really made something fabulous and flattering. And one million bonus points for the Pashley Princess; I pine!
Apr 22, 2011, 02.15 PMby FabricUiPhoneApp
I love the details on this blouse…the colors definitely flatter your skintone and hair. Friends, that pocket isn't hard. Think of it as a giant buttonhole. Practice on scrap first before you do it on your blouse Now all this blouse needs is a pink cocktail hat and matching gloves and off to the Kentucky Derby you go!
Apr 22, 2011, 11.19 AMby charlotteauzou
It looks great with the skirt ! I love both !
Apr 20, 2011, 12.14 PMby LindyMop
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March 17, 2006
Solid pitching, near perfect fielding and timely hitting are a hard combination to beat.
On a cold, gray day at Greer Stadium the Bisons shut out rival Belmont 4-0 in Atlantic Sun competition. The three-game series continues Saturday and Sunday with single games at 1 p.m. each day.
Right-hander Matt Schnelly, 2-1, 2.36 earned run average, will start Saturday for Lipscomb against Belmont righty Josh Moffit who is 1-0 with a 1.48 ERA. On Sunday right-hander Josh Smith, 2-2, 5.06 ERA, will start for Lipscomb against left-hander Carlo Testa with a 2-1 record and an identical 5.06 ERA.
Left-hander Paul Piennette and right-hander Charles Williams combined for the shutout. Piennette evened his worksheet at 2-2, pitching 5.1 innings. He gave up four hits, struck out seven and walked two.
"Paul was ahead of every batter, except two," said Lipscomb coach Wynn Fletcher. "When you are getting the first strike on hitters it is hard to go wrong. They were giving him the corner, and he went with it. When he gets zeroed in with his changeup he can pitch like this."
Williams pitched 3.2 innings to earn the save. He allowed one hit and struck out two, closing out the ninth inning with two fly balls and a called third strike.
"Williams has done a pretty good job his last three times out," said Fletcher. "A lot of pitchers don't want that role. But once you have some success in that role you start enjoying it.
"Both Charles and Brandon McClurg have shown they can throw on a short amount of rest. They are both pitchers who can keep you in a game. They are freshmen, but they compete very hard."
The Bisons committed one error and turned a pair of double plays. He points to shortstop Tadd Brewer and second baseman Whit Reed as the defensive anchors.
"Those two guys in the middle can turn some double plays," said Fletcher. "And double plays are momentum killers.
"The ball really carries in Greer, but our outfielders were in the right spots. And they were backing up the plays."
While it is a short road trip, the victory kept the Bisons undefeated on the road with a 5-0 record.
The Bisons scored one run in the third inning, one in the sixth and two in the ninth.
In the third Brewer reached base on an error by Belmont's third baseman. Patrick O'Rourke singled to right field moving Brewer to second. Nathan Sensing singled to center field, scoring Brewer.
Ryan Mitchell opened the sixth inning with a single to center field. Zac Miller singled down the left field line. Jeff Baumgartner walked to load the based. Reed reached on a fielder's choice that allowed Mitchell to score.
In the ninth Reed opened with double to left center. He moved to third on a wild pitch. Brewer brought Reed home with a sacrifice fly to center field.
"Tadd had fouled off four or five pitches before hitting the ball to center field," said Fletcher. "That was a big play for us."
O'Rourke walked. Sensing singled to right field. Sensing was caught stealing at first base which allowed O'Rourke to score from third.
Miller led the Bisons nine-hit attack with three hits, including one double. The Bisons improved to 9-8 overall, 2-2 in the A-Sun. Belmont is 9-9, 1-3 in the conference.


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Tests Prove Young Female in Yorkshire was Shot
Hawk and Owl Trust vice president David Cobham has condemned the illegal shooting of a young female hen harrier in the Yorkshire Dales. The bird was part of a scientific study.
Detailed laboratory tests have just confirmed that one of the endangered and rapidly dwindling population of English breeding hen harriers died from shot gun wounds in the summer. The bird had been fitted with a satellite tracking device as a chick to monitor her movements.
Her carcass was recovered after researchers realised the signal had been stationary for too long. She was not killed instantly and may have flown some distance after her injury to the point where she was retrieved.
"Anyone who owns a grouse moor appears to have an idea that they are above the law. These birds must be left alone, and then solutions must be found to ensure hen harriers and grouse shoots can live side by side without conflict," David Cobham said.
David, a wildlife film maker, hopes the death will prompt government action. "They keep talking about conflict with grouse moors. Well, now there's only one pair of hen harriers breeding in England. That's no conflict."
Our President Chris Packham is spearheading our Campaign Against Persecution which is driving this species to national extinction.
More information on Hen Harriers in the UK
Full report of the 'Death of Bowland Beth'


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A few months ago I received a request from Rebecca to DIY some Burberry Prorsum beaded heels, and here is my version of the beaded goodness. I wasn't very inspired to do them back in the fall as it's not like you can wear open toe shoes here after October, but as it's getting warmer I'm back to being inspired.
Here are the steps:
1. You can either buy the colored beads or paint your own. I chose to paint my own because I had faux pearls from the Dollar Store lying around.
2. Paint the heel orange. You can either paint multiple orange layers on, or paint the heel with a base coat of white paint first.
3. Strand the beads with jewelry wire. Make make two strands for every length for each shoe.
4. String the beads from longest to shortest and attach them to a jump ring on each side. Sew the jump rings onto the shoe.
I love these so much more than the original. And orange just makes it pop, don't you think?! By the way, don't hesitate to e mail me if you got any DIY requests, questions, or if you want to gnaw at your bad dream... And if I can't help I'll compensate to act like this when I read them.


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Ms. Rope: "Hey, do they have to tie me down to do the MRI?"
Dr. Grumpy: "No, not at all."
Ms. Rope: "That's too bad. I'm into that sort of thing."
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
So was it an S&M R I?
Lol at s&mri
MRI images were 50 shades of gray long before the book...
Ha ha ha! Thanks. I needed a laugh after our election results were in. OBummer....
And you can't bring your own handcuffs into the MRI, either!
Instead of handcuffs, how about thick cable ties?
I do believe the hospital issue soft restraints would be S&MRI friendly...
"But it's getting harder and harder to get my insurance company to pay for it."
Nursing Dx ~
Severe case of TMI...
Is she single?
I agree with the nursing Dx!!!!!!
ROFL ... don't patients realise there are some things you really don't need to know! Oops, silly me ...
Sounds like an interesting niche market... go for it, Dr. Grumpy!
Do you ever have moments when the circuits in the control tower just sort of overload or short out or something?
50 Shades of Grumpy
Little Calf Creamery. Delicious homemade ice cream and food in Thousand Oaks!


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|Pepper Pike, Ohio
|High School:
|Hathaway Brown
2013-14: Three-year letterwinner for the Generals.
2012-13: Teamed up with Meghan Buell to earn First Team All-ODAC honors at No. 2 doubles … went 6-0 in the conference, including going undefeated at No. 1 doubles … suffered only one loss at No. 2 doubles (9-1) ... named ITA All-Academic.
2011-12: Finished the season with a 4-0 record in singles and 18-2 mark in doubles play … teamed up with Patricia Kirkland to collect First Team All-ODAC accolades at No. 2 doubles … went a perfect 4-0 in singles action in the spring and dropped just one match in doubles to claim a 14-1 record.
2010-11: Missed the spring season of her rookie campaign with an injury ... posted a 1-1 doubles mark during the fall season.
High School: Earned four letters in tennis and one in lacrosse at Hathaway Brown ... claimed a state doubles championship in 2007 ... also finished as the state doubles championship runner-up in 2006 ... member of a high school squad that captured the 2007 Ohio State Championship ... also a member of the lacrosse squad that went to the state Final Four in 2007.
Personal: Sister, Lauren '10, attended and played tennis at W&L ... father, Sean, played football and baseball at Cornell ... active member of LIFE and the Student Arts League ... serves as a W&L campus tour guide ... spent the summer as an intern at the Cleveland Museum of Art and travelled to China through the Ju Fellowship ... W&L Scholar Athlete and ODAC All-Academic ... art history major.