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Frank and Diane planted an amazing 'little' garden on their farm. Turns out…it produced A LOT and they want to share the veggies of their labor with you. We are offering a new adventure for you and your family at the orchard this year…a pick your own vegetable garden! If you wish to do this, stop in the store when you arrive to get some bags and a marker so you can keep the varieties separate for your own taste tests. We would love to hear what you think we should grow next year.
We have a variety of vegetables growing in the garden including Brussels sprouts, cabbage, broccoli, eggplant, giant kohlrabi, zucchini, summer squash, tomatoes (wide variety: Agriset (Grape), Amish Paste, Bi Beef Beefsteak, Legend Red Meaty, New Yorker, Opalka, Supersteak, ultimate opener, Wayahead) talk more about those later), and peppers! A wide variety of peppers are growing and Diane did a really nice job of labeling each variety out in the garden for you. Painted stakes with the name of the pepper variety envelope the area in which those peppers are growing. I have a few pictures shown but you'll understand better once you're out there.
Here's a little guide to the peppers you can find (I didn't know this when I first read the veggie guide, but Scoville Units = Units of hotness…the higher the number, the hotter the pepper):
Variety: Big Chili
Hotness: Moderate (1,000 to 5,000 Scoville Units)
Uses: Fresh for salsa's or salads, frying, drying, pickling
Variety: Gentle Giant Goliath
Hotness: Sweet (0 Scoville Units)
Uses: grilling, frying, or stuffing
Variety: Mucho Nacho
Hotness: HOT (5,000 to 30,000 Scoville Units)
Uses: fresh (salsa, salads), stuffing, drying, pickling
Variety: Banana Bill
Hotness: Sweet (0 Scoville Units)
Uses: fresh (salsa, salads), frying, roasting, pickling
Bell Boy – Sweet (0 Scoville Units), fresh (salsa, salads), stuffing, pickling
Variety: Fooled You (looks just like a jalapeño but doesn't have the same bite)
Hotness: Mild (1 to 1,000 Scoville Units)
Uses: fresh (salsa, salads), stuffing, pickling
Hotness: Extremely Hot (above 30,000 Scoville Units)
Uses: fresh (salsa, salads), drying, pickling
On a side note: One time a little girl grabbed a habanero from a our veggie table and bit into it like an apple…not good. She was fine after she ate an apple to calm the hotness down. Since that time, we have moved our pre-picked peppers to a higher shelf.
Variety: Sweet Havana
Hotness: Mild (1 to 1,000 Scoville Units)
Uses: fresh (salsa, salads) frying, stuffing, roasting
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Served all over Europe and the Middle East, flan is the ultimate dairy comfort dessert food that is traditionally baked in a rich caramel sauce. In Mexico and Spain it is titled Flan, and in France it sounds much more gourmet as Creme Caramel. To see the French technique of making Creme Brûlée, just watch the video above by French chef Mark Bauer.
Just remember that there are 2 necessary steps to making the perfect flan:
1- Caramelizing the sugar (below)
2-Hot water bath (below)
Three Dairy Recipes for Flan:
First Step- Caramel as the base for your Flan:
- To make caramel: Melt 3/4 to 1 cup sugar directly in "flan" pan over medium heat, stirring constantly to melt evenly until lit liquefies and turns golden. Don't let it get too dark watch it without taking your eyes off the pan!
- Turn pan to spread caramel over bottom and sides to about 1 inch from top edge. Set aside to cool while preparing "flan".
Hot Water Bath:
Set your flan pan inside a larger pan and pour water into the pan into the larger pan until the water level comes to 1/2 inch to the top of the cake pan. Remove your cake pan and place water bath into a preheating 350 degree oven while you mix your flan. Pan should be in the exact center of the oven. Remove all extra oven racks in the oven. When flan is mixed and poured into ramekins or your pan, place gently into the water bath and bake.
Decorate your flan with sugar corkscrews- check out the video HERE.
Flan Recipe 1:
- Boil and scald 1 quart of milk cool. Add 1 tbsp. of vanilla.
- Beat 6 eggs very lightly and add ¾ cup of sugar. Add milk.
- Pour over caramelized pan and cook in oven 350 over a baking tray filled with water for about 1 hour.
Flan Recipe 2:
- 2 cans of evaporated milk- add 1 tbsp. of vanilla
- 6 eggs
- ¾ cup of sugar
- Beat lightly
- Pour over into a caramelized pan and bake as above in a 350 degree oven for one hour.
Flan Recipe 3:
- 1 ½ qts. regular milk- Boil and cool. Add 2 tbsp. vanilla
- 2 cans evaporated milk 12 oz.
- 1 can of condensed milk 14 oz.
- 10 eggs
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- Beat and pour in a caramelized pan.
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Your Piedmont Physicians office is implementing a new computer system in his or her office. The new system, Epic, was named the #1 Overall Software Vendor for 2012 by KLAS, so we are very excited about this change.
With the change to Epic, Piedmont patients have access to a new patient portal that offers them more access and more control over their healthcare – MyChart. MyChart is secure web access for patients to their physician office.
As always, if you have an immediate medical need, please call your physician office. Do not rely on the patient portal to communicate immediate medical needs. Also, MyChart is not intended to substitute patient / physician communication that should occur during your regular appointment or office visit.
At your next physician appointment you will receive information about MyChart including instructions for signing up and a unique access code you'll use to create an account. If you need access before your next appointment, you can call the physician office to receive instructions.
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As your physician's office implements Epic, your current patient portal will go away, and MyChart will be your new secure access to your physician office. Also, some of the information that is currently in your patient portal, like correspondence from your physician, will not transfer to MyChart. So, if there is information there you would like to keep, you should download it for your records.
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QUÉBEC CITY, Oct. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Aeterna Zentaris Inc. (NASDAQ: AEZS) (TSX: AEZ) (the "Company") today announced that George R. Merriam, MD, Director of the Clinical Study Unit at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System, and Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington, Seattle and Tacoma, WA, will give an oral presentation on AEZS-130, Aeterna Zentaris' ghrelin agonist, at the 6th International Congress of the Growth Hormone Research (GRS) and Insulin-like Growth Factor (IGF) Society, which will be held in Munich, Germany, October 17-20, 2012.
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AEZS-130, a ghrelin agonist, is a novel orally-active small molecule that stimulates the secretion of growth hormone. The Company has completed a Phase 3 trial for use as an oral diagnostic test for AGHD. AEZS-130 has been granted orphan drug designation by the FDA for use in this indication. Aeterna Zentaris owns the worldwide rights to AEZS-130.
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|1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid
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|Pub: Konami
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|Release: Oct. 6, 2009
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If it's Halloween, it's SAW. Or at least it has been since Jigsaw made his bloody debut five years ago. Five continually worse sequels later and Jigsaw has finally found his way to the gaming world. The films are known for clever traps, suspense, and myriad plot twists, all of which should translate extremely well to the virtual world. However, as a game based off a not-so-good, torture-porn movie franchise, SAW has a few hurdles to overcome. So how does SAW fare as a video game? Find out in my review.
Like any good horror game, SAW provides us with a very creepy world to explore. In it you play as a police officer from the SAW films, David Tapp, who has to traverse through the trap-laden Whitehurst Insane Asylum. The asylum's dark past of medieval tactics and patient abuse plays a big role in the game's creepy atmosphere, and there's a constant feeling of being watched, because you are in fact being monitored by Amanda Young (Tapp's apprentice). The asylum provides a decent variety of areas to explore, including a morgue, crematorium, theaters, libraries, offices, and a handful of other areas that all have an eroded, abandoned look, since the asylum hasn't been active for some time.
There aren't very many characters to interact with; other than Jigsaw and Amanda, there are six other characters Tapp must save throughout the game. Unsurprisingly, each character has a reason for why they've been placed in one of Jigsaw's traps, ranging from a corrupt CSI who framed an innocent person for a hit and run he committed to the journalist who coined the name "Jigsaw Killer" and framed Tapp for the murders. The story feels held down by the fact that you're stuck in one area, with limited characters, each of which provides some back-story. Unfortunately, the character models are uninspired, making them more than a little difficult to care about, and this is a problem since you're tasked with saving them from Jigsaw's traps.
Generic character models aside, the environments look really creepy. It would've been nice to be less confined since the game is completely linear. I'm not saying the game needs to let us explore every nook and cranny like Batman: Arkham Asylum, but being able to explore a bit would've helped make it feel less claustrophobic. Since there are very few characters in the game there's always a feeling of being alone and studied, like a rat in a maze, which is perfect for this type of game.
The environments are really the only things that shine in the total mess that is this game, especially when you have to fight. This feature was obviously tacked on as a poor way to break up the puzzle/trap gameplay, but it never succeeds as anything more than a nuisance because of the unpolished, frustrating controls. Besides the fact that SAW isn't the type of game that works well as a brawler, the button layout is dreadful. For example, to fire a weapon you have to hold down the left trigger on the game's controller and use one of the face buttons to fire. Who decided that was fun? In the end it doesn't really matter; when you discover that the game's idiotic AI can't fight back against a couple punches, it forces literally every weapon in the game into irrelevance.


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Gantetsu, Isetan & Hui Lau Shan
>> Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Venue: 1 Utama Shopping Centre
Occasion: Birthday
Overall comment: I didn't really enjoy the food at Gantetsu. I found my bowl of ramen not very flavourful (no "kick") & very costly as well. As for desserts at Hui Lau Shan, it's generally not too bad. I kinda liked it cos it's not too sweet, but for those who prefer their desserts to be sweeeeeeet, this may not appeal to you. You've gotta try the desserts at least once cos it's a very famous dessert chain in Hong Kong itself!
Halal: Gantetsu - No, Hui Lau Shan - Unsure
I finally had the discipline & time to blog again *hurray!*
Isetan opened at 1 Utama not too long ago & their little food corner called Eat Paradise, offering an array of Japanese delights just began business early this month. One of the non-halal restaurants at Eat Paradise is Gantetsu.
A couple of friends & myself were at Gantetsu to try out what this new restaurant has to offer. The place was kinda small & quite stuffy/humid (ventilation wasn't great!), so we had a quick meal & left before we continued 'steaming' at the restaurant.
Note: Photos below may not represent the actual size of the food.
Here are some of the dishes ordered:
After dinner, we headed for some dessert. Hui Lau Shan is one of the new players at 1 Utama (Old Wing) & is said to be a very famous dessert player in Hong Kong. Many said that it offers one of the best HK desserts as well! Since it was on our way out to our car, we stopped by to give this place a try.
1 Utama is just loaded with food outlets - old & new...mostly offering good stuff! One could spend the whole day shopping & dining there...shop & eat 'til you drop!
Special thanks to AP, James, Evie, & MT for the birthday treat!!


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I bet if I sat on your shoulder and watched your daily routine, I would be able to identify at least five areas where you could make simple changes that effortlessly help you lose unwanted pounds.
Because the truth is that real fat loss comes with lasting, healthy lifestyle changes. You'll get to your goals quicker when you stop making these five lifestyle mistakes:
• Lack of Sleep. To put this simply, you need to sleep more. Most adults need an average of eight hours of sleep each night, and I know you aren't getting that much. When you don't get adequate amounts of rest, you're more likely to be hungry, overeat, and gain weight.
How does this work? If you're tired, you won't feel like cooking a healthy meal, and you'll opt for fast (fattening) food instead. This very same lack of energy will also likely cause you to skip the gym.
On top of that, sleep deprivation causes your metabolism to slow down, and if you've not heard, that is not something you want when trying to shed a few pounds.
• Too Much TV: Many people are in the habit of sitting in front of the television for hours on end after a stressful day at work. Yes, you may be worn out and need a break, but sitting on the couch zoning out is not the way to lose inches.
If you must watch the evening news or see your favorite show, use the time to burn a few calories. Keep some hand weights next to the couch and work your biceps and triceps. Stand up and do some squats or lunges to work your legs and buttocks. Get on the floor and do some sit-ups to tone your abs or push-ups to tone your arms.
• Skipping Breakfast. Want to know a secret to successful weight loss? Eat breakfast! Try cutting calories by skipping breakfast, and you'll be excessively hungry by mid-morning. As a result, the healthy calories you would have eaten at breakfast are replaced with calorie-filled snacks and an oversized lunch.
Once again, fitting breakfast into your busy schedule may mean dramatic lifestyle changes, but research shows that the habit of eating a healthy breakfast is key to losing weight and keeping pounds off. Get to bed 30 minutes earlier than usual and set your alarm 10 minutes earlier to give yourself time to eat breakfast.
• Drinking Too Much Sugar. Lasting fat loss is about changes. Unfortunately, some of the changes one must make are difficult. If you're one of the millions hooked on soda, alcohol, or other sweetened beverages, then your fitness goals may remain out of reach until you replace these drinks with water. You should also know that your brain often confuses thirst with hunger.
So at the first sign of hunger, don't grab a snack or calorie-filled drinks, instead grab a glass of water.
• Not Doing the Right Physical Activity. Weight loss is about burning more calories than you consume. Therefore, it should make sense to you that dieting and exercise must go hand in hand. If you want to speed up weight loss and keep the weight away, add or increase the amount and intensity of physical activity in your daily life.
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Baylor down early, rallies for win over BYU
WACO, Texas (AP) -- Pierre Jackson had 16 points and nine assists, and all five Baylor starters finished with double-figure scoring, two of them also with at least 10 rebounds, as the Bears rallied for a 79-64 victory over BYU on Friday night.
The Bears (8-3) trailed by as many as 11 points in the first 7 minutes of the game but took control with a 21-2 run over the final 7 minutes of the first half.
Baylor took the lead for good on Gary Franklin's 3-pointer, breaking a 31-31 tie with 2:05 left in the first half. Another Franklin 3-pointer just before halftime made it 40-31.
Brandon Davies had 26 points and 17 rebounds for BYU (8-4).
Isaiah Austin, a 7-foot freshman, had 14 points and 10 rebounds, while Cory Jefferson had 13 points and 16 rebounds.


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Grahamwood Elementary's CLUE class visited the Brooks on Wednesday, November 20th for a day of art-making and viewing related to Greek mythology. Their itinerary included stops at the Greco-Roman Torso of Pan, 1st century B.C.E. - C.E. 2nd century; The Slaying of Medusa, ca. 1680 and The Massacre of the Children of Niobe, ca. 1680, both by Luca Giordano; and several "everyday" items from the Greco-Roman world, such as Mirror, with Scene of Venus Victrix, 2nd c. A.D. and Finger Ring Depicting Poseidon, 1st c. B.C. - 1st c. A.D..
In the studio, the students created their own mythological creatures with additional inspiration provided by author and illustrator Eric Carle. His book, Dragons and Dragons, is full of mythological creatures with accompanying poems. Using markers, collage materials and everything they had learned, here is what they came up with:


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|On February 5th, 2015, the partners and some special guests of the DO-HEALTH project met at the Waid City Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland. The purpose of the meeting was to present status reports of the project locally and as a whole. All of the centers have recruited the target amount of...
|At the 2014 annual ASBMR meeting held in Houston, Texas, the International Osteoporosis Foundation held a press event to update the progress of the project. The project chair professor Kristina Åkesson of Malmö University Hospital in Sweden was interviewed to give a status update while running...
|Highlights from the 2014 World Congress on Osteoporosis held in Seville, Spain. Professor Roger Fielding gives and overview of sarcopenia and the increased importance of muscle at the WCO. Professor Maria-Luisa Brandi gives an introduction to skeletal rare disorders and why osteoporosis...
|The 4th Asia-Pacific Osteoporosis Meeting took place in Hong Kong from December 12-15, 2013. Over 800 delegates assembled at the Hong Kong Convention Centre to learn and discuss bone health....
|This edition of the IOF Worldwide Conference of Osteoporosis Patient Societies was held at the Congress Paasitorni in Helsinki, Finland. The event gathered together over 140 patient societies from around the world for a 3 day conference and work session to further their skills and better help their...
|On February 25th, 2013, the partners and some special guests of the DO-HEALTH project met at the Waid City Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland. The purpose of the meeting was to present status reports of the project locally and as a whole.
|Professor Ego Seeman and Professor Cyrus Cooper endorse the World Osteoporosis Day 2012 thematic report, 'Capture the Fracture', while floating in the Dead Sea in Jordan.
|From September 27-October 1, 2012, IOF held the IOF Regionals Jordan '12 2nd Middle East & Africa Osteoporosis Meeting in collaboration with the 6th Pan Arab Osteoporosis Congress PAOC'6 at the Dead Sea in Jordan. Dr Basel Masri, Dr Elias Saba and Prof Ego Seeman discuss some of the highlights...
|IOF held a press conference in São Paulo, Brazil, to launch the IOF Latin America Regional Audit, the first ever study of its kind in the region. The audit lead author is Professor José Zanchetta.
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|Love Your Bones • Real People • Real Stories Since 1994, Maria Grazia has been living with osteoporosis. She fractures quite easily and has had a few complications due to fractures, but has used her experience to help others through her local osteoporosis patient society. Images/editing:...
|Love Your Bones • Real People • Real Stories In 2008, Gerry was lucky enough to have been diagnosed during a screening by his doctor due to secondary risk factors. Since then, he has managed his osteoporosis to just osteopenia and has steered clear of fractures. Although his life hasn't changed...
|Love Your Bones • Real People • Real Stories Despite having grown up on a dairy farm and a lack of osteoporosis in the family, Nancy was diagnosed with osteoporosis in 2011. She was lucky to have had it spotted during a routine bone density exam before fracturing. She now volunteers for...
|Love Your Bones • Real People • Real Stories Antoine suffered with osteoporosis for over a decade before he was finally diagnosed. Despite having to give up some sports for risk of fracture, he has picked up less intense and risky sports to keep fit. Listen to his story. Images/editing: Gilberto...
|Real People • Real Stories Maria Filomena has been suffering with osteoporosis and fractures for a few years. Living in the hilly city of Coimbra in Portugal, she is faced with mobility difficulties everyday. Listen to her story. Images/editing: Gilberto Lontro
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|¡Incorporar los nutrientes necesarios para fortalecer sus #huesos puede ser mas fácil de lo piensas! Los lácteos son una fuente clave de calcio y proteína. Los pescados son la fuente principal de proteína y vitamina D. Algunas frutas y vegetales contienen calcio y otros nutrientes que hacen feliz a...
|World Osteoporosis Day 2015 • www.worldosteoporosisday.org Getting the right nutrients to build and strengthen your bones may be easier than you think!Dairy is a key source of calcium and protein. Fish is a great source of protein and vitamin D. Some fruits and vegetables contain calcium and other...
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|Men get osteoporosis too! The 2014 World Osteoporosis Day campaign focuses on osteoporosis in men, addressing the misconception that men don't get osteoporosis. This European launch was held at the University of Ghent in Belgium where Professor Jean-Marc Kaufman presented the issue (having...
|Mary Honeyball, Member of European Parliament, speaks about bone health in light of World Osteoporosis Day 2013. She urges women to stand together and stay strong, as they are the pillars of our families and communities. Wearing white, she invites people to do the same and show solidarity and...
|World Osteoporosis Day 2013 • www.worldosteoporosisday.org Bone health is especially important in post-menopausal women, as they are most affected after an osteoporotic fracture. Everyone knows a family member or friend who has suffered an osteoporotic fracture; whether a 55-year-old sister who has...
|A joint event of IOF and FIRMO World Osteoporosis Day Europe Media Launch of 'Capture the Fracture' report Radio Vaticana, Thursday October 18, 2012 - 10:00-12:30 The event was moderated by Prof Maria Luisa Brandi, president of FIRMO. SPEAKERS Perché siamo qui - Impatto dell'OsteoporosiSE Monsignor...
|2012 World Osteoporosis Day campaign video Could your broken wrist be good for you?A broken wrist is not the problemInsist on testing! Stop At One: Make your first break your last
|A joint event of IOF, NOF, Osteoporosis Canada and the NBHA World Osteoporosis Day North American Media Launch of 'Capture the Fracture' report Minneapolis, Thursday October 11, 2012 -- 10:00-11:30 The event was moderated by Diana Pierce, co-anchor of KARE 11, Today Show and KARE 11 News@4,...
|2012 World Osteoporosis Day campaign video in Spanish produced by IOF Latin America. A special thanks to Irma Bravo, Helena Ibarra and Noris Aguirre.
|SNF-Professor Heike Bischoff-Ferrari, director Centre on Aging and Mobility at the University of Zurich and City Hospital Waid, talks about the IOF report 'Three Steps to Unbreakable Bones' for World Osteoporosis Day. Filmed and edited by Gilberto Lontro.
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Turning our attention to Li-Young Lee's poem "The Gift," I began with the obvious but important fact that Lee's poem establishes as we come to it from the work of Plath and Dove, namely, that men share with women this intense need to remember their fathers clearly, to 'get back' at them or to them, to understand them and love them, perhaps to forgive them, perhaps to get past them. "Do you recall from the introduction what distinctions Lee's father achieved?" I wondered. Several voices responded with "physician to Chairman Mao" and "political prisoner in Sukarno's Indonesian jail." "Right," I said, "and our editors also credit Lee with using the same techniques that Dove used in resurrecting her remorseful but menacing father, relying on multi-sensory appeals to recreate his father and to remember him faithfully and accurately."
Noting that the word "gift" never appears in the poem, except in the title, I asked, "What is it?" Arlind responded with "his 'stories,'" Dafina with "his 'tenderness' and 'discipline.'" Praising both answers, I asked how Lee uses sensory imagery to reveal that tenderness and firmness. We then explored Lee's use of synecdoche and metaphor, the "voice" that sounds like "a well of dark water," the "hands" that embrace Lee's young face but also raise "flames of discipline" over his head (ll. 1-13). We then noticed the long-term effect of these remembered images, as Lee sees himself, years later, lifting a splinter from his wife's hand with the same healing gentleness that his father had 'planted' in his hand decades before. "And how does Lee express his gratitude for these gifts?" I asked. Edita responded by citing "what a child does….I kissed my father" (ll. 33, 35).
"When you juxtapose Lee's poem to Plath's "Daddy," or even to Miller's play Death of a Salesman, what do you realize about the American family and about the need of grown children to look back and understand their parents?" I asked. This prompt led to some interesting comments on the need of children to reconstruct family narratives of justice and love as well as stories of injustice and abuse. "What do adult children receive, other than some joy and lots of pain, from remembering such stories?" I wondered. "Is it just about assigning blame, condemning mom or dad for what we have become? Or about kissing the parent who loved you well?" Wisely, Merita responded, "It's more about the adult child making a choice, saying 'you had the wrong dream,' or 'I'm through,' or 'I choose to pass on your love to my family.'"
Applauding this perceptive insight, I asked the class where Louise Glück's poem "Appearances" stands on spectrum of remembering family narratives and choosing what the next chapter will be. After Laureta read the poem aloud, I reminded the class of the introductory comments on Glück's "complex family relations," her psychoanalysis to deal with the resulting pain (3000), and then asked where they saw pain and coping mechanisms in the poem. We quickly caught the reference to being "analyzed" but also the humor, the reference to portraits of her and her sister hung "over the mantel,/ where we couldn't fight" (ll. 2-3). When I asked what she remembers about her mother, we reviewed key descriptors of the "strong," 'controlling' woman who valued "order," who grieved always over another daughter who died, who "ministered to" her living sister and, in so doing, "damaged the other" (ll. 28-36). "So what does the adult child now realize about the consequences of her mother's unequal love?" I asked. Besa rose to the challenge: "She understands that because she always wanted to be "child enough" for her mother, she became "too obedient," too ready to be shaped—"If you want me to be a nun, I'll be a nun"—to earn her mother's approval (ll. 26, 43-44).
"Yes," I responded, "and such realizations can liberate the adult, as we saw in Biff at the end of Salesman. Isn't it interesting that when adult children take a different route than the parents took, they usually do not try to 'kill' the parent, as did Plath; on the contrary, they try to preserve the parent, as did Biff." I then asked if they could recall where Yusef Komunyakaa got his name and how that naming might relate to the instinct to preserve the parent. No one remembered, so we scanned the introduction for this sentence: Komunyakaa "adopted the lost surname of a Trinidadian grandfather who came to the United States as a child" (3075).
Noting, too, the statement that Komunyakaa devoted his poetry to restoring black faces—from rural Louisiana, from Bourbon Street, and from Vietnam—that have been 'erased' from cultural memory (3075), we sought to discover how he remembers his father in "My Father's Love Letters." After Fidan read the poem aloud, we spoke of this illiterate alcoholic mill worker, who asked his son to write his love letters to his wife, "promising to never beat her/Again" (ll. 6-7). "But what else does Komunyakaa refuse to erase?" I asked. Arben answered, listing the tools of his trade, the "carpenter's apron," the "gleam of a five-pound wedge" that "pulled a sunset/Through the doorway of his toolshed" (ll. 12, 22, 24-25). "Right," I said, "and he also remembers that his father could look at a blueprint and instantly know 'how many bricks/Formed each wall'" (ll. 30-31). Asked for his conclusion, Arben added that the drunken brute also seems to be a true craftsman, an artist "almost redeemed by what he tried to say" in his letters (ll. 35-36).
Thanking all for their patient, insightful readings, I asked for volunteers to read from their journals about their parents. Bajram responded with a full-page tribute to his mother, the "goddess" who never failed him as he grew from childhood to adolescence and manhood. Though he had not attempted poetry, we all praised the poetic quality of his prose, poetic in the sense that it relied on imagery from her kitchen table, site for buttering home-made bread and learning letters, and from his bedside to stress her nurturing tenderness, and from the war—school doors closed, soldiers ruling the streets—to stress her dignity and courage in a time when ethnic cleansings made it difficult to sustain either quality. Thoroughly impressed by Bajram's tribute, I thanked him for celebrating the 'gifts' his mother provided, much as Li-Young Lee had done in his poem about his father.


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In 1942, the completion of Grand Coulee Dam was hailed as the "Eighth Wonder of the World." Seventy years later, most of us aren't aware of what that dam or the others on the Columbia River continue to do for us.
To commemorate Grand Coulee's completion, the Bonneville Power Administration commissioned legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie to write songs praising the dam that harnessed the mighty Columbia River.
Guthrie toured the region from the Bonneville Dam to Grand Coulee, and within a month he had written 26 songs, the most famous of which is Roll On Columbia.
"And on up the river is Grand Coulee Dam, the mightiest thing ever built by a man, to run these great factories and water the land, it's roll on, Columbia, roll on."
Recently, I drove most of Guthrie's route and saw eight of the 11 dams now operating on the Columbia in Washington. Most had their floodgates open, spilling water to move young salmon to the ocean. At Grand Coulee, flood control was the concern as operators dropped its massive reservoir to handle spring runoff from the mountains of Montana, Idaho and British Columbia.
When I arrived home in Vancouver, the Columbia was at its high water mark as it often is this time of year, but it wasn't flooding. That's in stark contrast to the scene on May 30, 1948 when a levee on the flood-swollen Columbia River ruptured, sending a 10-foot high wall of water crashing into Vanport (North Portland). Sixteen people died and Vanport — at the time, Oregon's second largest city — disappeared forever.
President Harry Truman flew west to see the devastation. Speaking to an audience in Portland, Truman said the flooding could have been averted if a network of dams along the Columbia, Snake and Willamette rivers was in place. He scolded Congress and told them to get off the dime and fund the Bureau of Reclamation to complete its flood control projects.
Over the next 20 years, the McNary, The Dalles and John Day dams were completed on the lower Columbia and the Ice Harbor, Lower Monumental, Little Goose and Lower Granite dams were completed on the lower Snake, adding flood control capacity, creating a 465-mile water transportation network, and generating much-needed hydropower.
One verse of Guthrie's song talks about the electricity generated by the dams as "turning our darkness to dawn."
Washington's Columbia River dams produce enough power each year to provide electricity for nearly seven million homes. In fact, the Grand Coulee Dam is the largest producer of electricity in the United States.
The electricity from those dams made it possible for the aluminum industry to locate in the Northwest and for Boeing to build B-17s and B-29s during World War II. Boeing became the world's premier aircraft manufacturer due largely to affordable and reliable electricity.
Grand Coulee alone transformed 671,000 acres of desert into some of the world's most fertile farmlands. According to the federal Bureau of Reclamation, the Columbia River Basin Project produces $630 million worth of irrigated crops, $950 million in power production, $20 million in flood damage prevention, and $50 million in recreation income.
For most of us, the dams have always been here. We never knew a time without them, when electricity was scarce, when we struggled to grow crops on barren land and lived in fear of raging floodwaters.
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MANCHESTER, England - Juan Mata is on the brink of becoming the most expensive player in Manchester United's history after the Premier League champions announced Friday they have reached an agreement with Chelsea over the transfer of the Spain midfielder.
United released a statement saying Mata will move for a club-record fee "subject to a medical and the agreement of personal terms."
Although United didn't give any further details, the club this week made a bid of 37 million pounds ($61 million) for Mata, which would eclipse the 30.7 million pounds that United paid to sign striker Dimitar Berbatov from Tottenham in 2008.
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho said Mata had requested to leave Stamford Bridge after losing his place in the London club's starting lineup.
"I asked him (Mata), 'Are you really happy to go?'" Mourinho said. "He said, 'Yes, I'm really happy to go.'
"We hope he does well," Mourinho added in a news conference. "We are convinced he is going to do well. If Man United pays their record for a player, it's because they know exactly what they want from him. And they know exactly what he can give them."
The 25-year-old Mata was Chelsea's player of the year for the last two seasons but has been marginalized at the London club this campaign following the return of Mourinho as manager.
He has largely been on the bench, with Mourinho preferring Eden Hazard, Willian and Oscar as his playmakers.
"If he cannot be fully happy here because he is not playing 100 per cent like he was the last two years, if he has a big club that wants him — even if it's a rival club and in England — the club decided, and I was on the club's side for this feeling, that you cannot stop people to be happy," Mourinho said.
United refused to negotiate with Chelsea in the off-season when Mourinho lodged two bids for Wayne Rooney, who was pushing for a transfer after losing his regular place in United's team.
Mourinho said that hadn't been a factor in dealing with Mata.
"Would Chelsea supporters be happy if we stop a fantastic person, that they all like, from being happy, if we say you only can go to Russia, China, to France or to Portugal, not England?" Mourinho asked.
"To say now, 'You cannot go, Juan, to United because United refused in the summer to sell us Wayne Rooney,' I don't think it's fair to Juan. So if they decide not to sell (Rooney, it's) their decision."
United will hope the arrival of Mata, who is likely to be in Spain's squad for the World Cup in Brazil, proves to be a turning point in its so-far lacklustre season under new manager David Moyes.
The team is languishing in seventh place in the Premier League — 14 points behind leader Arsenal — and facing a fight to secure one of the four Champions League places.
United exited the FA Cup at the first hurdle and the League Cup in the semifinals.
The bright spot is still remaining in Champions League title contention going into the round of 16 against Olympiakos next month.
Chelsea, meanwhile, has already found a replacement for Mata in Mohamed Salah after striking a deal with Swiss team Basel for the pacey Egypt winger.
Salah still needs to agree personal terms and pass a medical with Chelsea.
Mourinho laughed off criticism by Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, who said Thursday that Chelsea had timed the sale of Mata specifically to hurt its Premier League rivals.
United has already played Chelsea twice — most recently on Sunday — but still has to play Manchester City and Wenger's Arsenal in the run-in.
"Wenger complaining is normal, because he always does. It's something that we know," Mourinho said. "We don't do the market, we don't do the rules."
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Tour de France champion sets himself the tough task of winning the Giro d'Italia and defending his Tour title next year.
Bradley Wiggins has targeted winning the Giro d'Italia and defending his Tour de France crown back to back next year.
Britain's first Tour de France winner was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year on Sunday and immediately set his sights on emulating an incredible 12 months which also saw him romp to gold in the time trial at the London Olympics.
"I've always wanted to win a second Tour," Wiggins was quoted as saying in the Guardian on Monday.
"I'm the defending champion. I want to try and win the Giro d'Italia and win the Tour de France behind it. People say it can't be done, winning two Tours. So let's have a go at it."
Tough feat
Very few riders have managed to win both the Giro and the Tour de France in the same year with the late Marco Pantani last achieving the feat in 1998.
Before him Spanish great Miguel Indurain managed the double in 1992 and 1993.
Next year's Giro starts in Naples on May 4 and will cover 3,405km until the finish on May 26 while the Tour de France starts its 100th edition on June 29.
Wiggins' Sky team mate Chris Froome, runner-up last year, is being tipped to win next year's Tour as he is more suited to the extra mountain stages, but team boss Dave Brailsford did not rule out Wiggins going for victory in both.
"I was thrilled that (Wiggins has) got his appetite back. He's hungry and he wants it again," Brailsford told the BBC after being named Coach of the Year on Sunday.
"It's a problem I relish and we'll assess it as we get closer.
"Chris is focusing on the Tour and if Bradley does ride the Giro, we'll have to see how he comes out of that, and assess the situation as you get close to the actual event," he added.
"At the end of the day, the legs will do the talking."


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Bloc Festival Review or why you shouldn't try to have a good festival in a paranoid London devoid of all common sense.
Hello Good People who might read this blog….
Postscript July 10th 2012: When I wrote this post, it was from a confused punter's perspective, I'd just experienced the festival ,left early and the next day was trying to make sense of it ( and also review the music in my own daft way). I start off blaming health and safety rules being over the top then get very worried as I leave, due to angry crowds outside and people being cramped and prevented from going where they wanted inside . Since then I heard a totally different story from the festival crew, which I wrote on July 7th. I now feel totally differently about the whole thing. If the information which was told to me was correct, then I think that some people were neglectful of public safety to different degrees and maybe when large sums of money and major investments are involved, we really do need health and safety rules.
It's been a long time, sorry about that, I did start writing this blog under my real name but it didn't really work, so here I am back briefly as Born2rant, to write about a festival I went to yesterday that could have been great, but which I decided to leave before it all went to pieces.
This will only be a review of my limited experiences. I guess I arrived at the Bloc festival site at London's Pleasure Gardens around 4.30pm by 10pm I decided it was sensible to leave but had a lot of difficulty getting out.
I was due to hang out on the ship MS Stubnitz, which has successfully been sailing around Germany as a mobile art installation and general chilling out party place for some time. It takes coming to crazy Britain for the Germans to realise they are far better off back home where things are more liberal, the state has less control, and the general public has not lost its ability to make individual sensible decisions without external legislation. Forget gloating about how great and wonderful the British are when I was trying to leave the Bloc festival, it was like trying to escape from a "psychedelic concentration camp" and that was entirely due to Great Union-Jack waving, right Royal Diamond Jubilee, aren't we proud to be having the Olympics in London, paranoid British madness.
I arrived at Pontoon Dock around 4.15pm. There seemed to be a lot of stressed out people in orange jackets obstructing the oyster card bleeping machines, so people got confused where to "touch out". They ushered me to a bridge to cross over the road and immediately my bag was searched, then further on more people in orange jackets asking me for a ticket. Other punters were clutching tickets printed out from the internet, I thought that strange to start with, it might be OK for using a budget airline, but without computers, scanners, ID and a whole big security system how can you tell if a computer print-out is genuine? I asked where the guest entrance was after some confusion I was directed to a gate a few minutes walk away.
At the guest entrance I had my bag searched again, then a sniffer dog climbed up the back of my legs, then my bag was searched AGAIN!!!! I complained politely but complied. They couldn't find my name on the guest list but gave me a wristband anyway because I was saying all the right names. I had to put the wristband on myself, also a bit strange.
It took me a few minutes to chill out after all the security measures, and dealing with stressed out people, lots of security guards on the site, and mobile CCTV units, but the security man I spoke to was friendly enough and to be fair all the police people I spoke to during the course of the day were polite, but then all the paying public I met at the festival were also extremely patient and polite considering we were treated like dangerous animals throughout the festival, and the people who payed £125 per weekend ticket must have been peeved.
At first I went on the ship, the MS Stubnitz where I had a great time. In Germany they do not have many health and safety regulations, and do not scream announcements to passengers on the tube to say that due to a little drizzle that people are bound to fall over and kill themselves on the potentially slippery floor. Therefore I think the general public were probably quite shocked to be on an actual fishing ship with many steps, some damp from rain, and bits of metal to step over, no warning signs and generally to be in a place where you actually had to take responsibility for yourself and keep yourself sober enough to watch what you did. Also there was a big central hole leading from one deck to another, this had some fencing and chains around it to stop people falling in. From the all dancing deck below, I could see many punters going to the edge of the hole and testing to see if the fence was secure. I felt like saying "You are at a festival, you are free to enjoy yourselves now, so forget the fences, forget health and security rules and just enjoy the lack of them for once". I feel that the British public and especially Londoners, are brainwashed at all times to seek fences and rules in order to feel safe. Of course bad things could and do happen, but life is dangerous, you can't control everything, get over it and try to enjoy life!
People on the ship were having a good time, somehow in spite of sniffer dogs and CCTV everywhere, the odd person was skinning up on the top deck, most sat drinking beer, smiling beneath the warm sun bouncing off their sunglasses. Below many moved to the music whilst taking copious pictures of the ship on their phones. Downstairs there were at least two bars and padded "seating bars" around tables where they used to freeze and chop fish. The ship was an awesome place to have different party rooms, the angular industrial music bounced off the ship's hull in a suitably sheet metal way.
My only gripe about the ship was the music, I would have preferred dancing to Led Zep's Immigrant Song, that would have been perfect or some kind of heavy metal version of the Ride of the Valkyries would have been great.Here is some Led Zeppelin with The Song Remains the Same just for effect,old fart I am!
But the DJ I heard on the Stubnitz was mixing French café style accordion music with deafening heart-stopping bass and drum music, note I did not write "drum 'n' bass". I am too old and psychedelic to know what type of dance music I was listening to but it was experi and mental. I left the relaxed atmosphere of the MS Stubnitz to go and see Steve Reich around 6pm.
This was another "odd thing" , I noticed that they put some of the biggest crowd-pullers on early on both evenings even though the music ended at 6 a.m. Gary Numan was due to be on at 6pm the following day (today). I started to realise that maybe there were "problems" with the festival. Well to be fair all festivals have problems, they are always a headache to run for the organisers but some are worse than others. You really need to know what you are doing when you run a festival, especially if you plan to run it in a dock full of water and then place barriers so people can't get out.
I found the hugest biggest queue zigzagging its way round a small bit of the site, but people were patient and well-behaved, I hardly saw anyone attempt to push in. I must have queued for over 20 minutes, everyone was saying they'd never seen anything like this and we could hear Mr. Reich playing from outside, we could not understand why security did not seem to be letting anyone in.
Once we got in the tent was only a third full and yet he had been playing for over 30 minutes. The sound quality was not good, the audience was pretty thin, so this did not help the general feel of the gig. Many people were waiting for their friends to be allowed in.
While watching Steve Reich there were times when I wanted to sit down or leave, but both options were difficult from where I was standing, once people were allowed in from their long queuing they tended to head into the crowd and stand and the only way out I could see was through the entrance with hundreds and hundreds of people blocking the way. I looked around and saw there was a zip in the side of the tent, if I'd been feeling trapped I thought I could always use it to get the hell out.
As people slowly and steadily dribbled into the tent, while many left, the music livened up a bit. This was when a full rock band ensemble in the form of Bang on a Can, complete with sheet music, started to play. It was enjoyable but stilted at first. They sounded like 'Yes' doing a version of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, in fact I was beginning to wonder if Steve Reich had been listening to the final few minutes of Tubular Bells when he wrote it. I'm sure others must have thought the same as me! But then I decided that perhaps Steve Reich wrote it first and Mike Oldfield and Yes who copied his style. Playing repeated patterns in unusual time signatures is the link. Steve Reich must be far more influential than I realised and I must listen to more of his stuff.
Here is Bang on a Can playing Steve Reich's 2x 5 (2008)
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But although Steve Reich is no doubt a genius and influenced Yes,
I'm afraid I much prefer the following clip which sounds remarkably similar,
compare the two introductions!
Perpetual Change by Yes (1971)
OK I digress but it's my blog so I can, and hopefully not bore the pants off you
After Steve Reich I couldn't get back onto the ship because by now there were long queues and barriers preventing people from going on board, this made good sense to me because it was quite crowded and there was only one way on or off, unless you jumped into the water, but I still think that if people were left to their own devices that they could have managed to see it was too crowded before boarding instead of being restrained like stupid sheep.
I went for a walk about but there wasn't a whole lot else going on, the cheapest Amber Leaf rolling tobacco on site was a staggering £7, so I decided to go to the local shop. I couldn't find the way out as described on the map, so I went to the main way in. There were by now already hundreds of people stuck outside the entrance, and the security process was slow and they were clearly not in a hurry to let anyone in, I have never seen anything like it before, they allowed just a handful of people in then would let them wait a few minutes before letting in another few people, meanwhile crowds were building up outside.
I asked one security guard if I could go out and come back in again. He said "NO" sternly. I explained that I had a weekend ticket. He just said "You can't leave till later and when you do leave, you can't come back in again". Since there were no camping facilities, I decided he was stressed out and uninformed and I continued to look for the exit but couldn't find one, I asked another security guard but he didn't seem to know anything.
Then I looked for the queue to go and watch Amon Tobin on the main stage. Another very long queue, at one point that queue got muddled into the ship queue and no one knew what they were queuing for or where the queues ended. After queuing for 20 minutes in the crowded area outside, I found the main tent almost empty once I got in.
It made no bloody sense at all.
This was a joke, why was everyone queuing outside virtually empty tents in a limited area surrounded by deep water, since the whole festival was in fact at an old dock?
Amon Tobin came on. The 3D projections were fantastic. They had a big installation of a kind of cube shaped wall, I'd seen similar things at multi-media art installations, but this was huge and exciting to start with. Amon Tobin was inside one of the cubes which was see-through, it was a bit "Spinal Tap" but I'd rather have seen Spinal Tap. I was bored, maybe if the sound had been better I would have enjoyed it. Like so much music in 2012, the visual element seems to be more creative and interesting than the sound itself. Maybe you disagree, here is a clip, it sounds better than I remember , it was visually stunning but after a while it was repetitive ( sorry Amon,I'm sure you are a nice guy, it's just not my kind of thing)
While I was watching the show, all around me a load of very drunk vertically challenged girls wearing too much fake tan, too much make-up, with silly hats and no clothing but a few bits of white fur and denim, were hugging each other violently and squealing. They took millions of photos of each other to put online, they disregarded the music which was very loud and hard to ignore. On the side of the stage there was a guy pointing a camera on the audience in a type of steering-wheel shaped frame, which I thought might be a CCTV camera scanning the few people that were allowed in. I decided it was not worth sacrificing my hearing for this, and being sober and not having a set of friends to hug, I decided to go outside to look for something else to do.
By this time there were a lot more people just hanging around outside trying to get into the various venues, queues here and queues there, it was ridiculous. Then when I walked past the main gate even more people were even more tightly packed and waiting to get in and being processed at a snail's pace as if they didn't actually want to let them in. Those waiting outside seemed remarkably patient, I am sure some of them had maybe shelled out £55 just to see Amon Tobin , the festival was sold out, but they were unable to get in, others may have paid £125 for the two days and the last DLR train back home would not leave that late. I felt very sorry for these people waiting, thinking that they might not get in for more than a hour or two before they'd have to go home again. I went for a walk around the dock like others who got fed up with the queues. Thirty minutes later the crowds trying to get in were chanting and then someone let off a flare, the exiled crowd cheered, I wandered off for a bit enjoying the sunset and beautiful clouds, the weather was fantastic and there were some nice walks around the dock away from everyone.
But when I came back to the entrance the people waiting to get in had disappeared, something had happened. Inside the festival the crowds were growing a bit and all this queuing was taking up a lot of space, although walking around was no problem, but it was a pain to queue up all the time, I decided since it was dark to go home and come back the following afternoon. I still could not find the exit and a security guard suggested I went out through the main gate. Since there were no crowds left on the other side of the main gate, I thought that maybe they had all got in, but I could hear "booing" not far away. There were many metal barriers, in my way and I had to climb and crawl here and there, there were many security people thinking of not letting me out, and then telling me it was OK to leave, none of them directed me to the proper exit, if indeed there was one.
I got to stairs that led into the main road and then I was quite surprised at what I saw. A double police line at the top of the stairs, plus many more security guards and on the steps a huge crowd, well-behaved, but angry and a few shouting. Well wouldn't you be, if two of the main acts had already been on, and you'd paid £125 for a ticket to get in?
The police were very calm at that point, some stood with their arms crossed smiling, they seemed surprised that I wanted to leave, they also could not tell me of another exit and they were very polite, and helped me to get out. As I went down the steps some man grabbed me and asked me a question and I pulled away and ignored him, then this other woman shouted to me and asked me if there was trouble inside, if it was safe to go in. I said "Yes it's fine. It's great!" but afterwards I thought maybe I should have told her about the amount of pointless queuing you had to do to get to see any act.
After I crossed the road to get into the station I turned around and then I realised that things were seriously wrong. I hadn't realised just how many people were queuing to get in, there were in my rough estimation at least two thousand, booing. It occurred to me then that either they had sold far too many tickets and had hoped to stagger the crowds by putting the main acts on at 6pm, or perhaps that having a computer print-out had allowed a lot of people to forge tickets. What I couldn't believe is that there were ticket touts still trying to buy tickets off the queuing punters, it was clearly a nightmare situation by the large crowds unable to get in.
I worried then for my son who was working there and for all the people there because if everyone had got on the site and they continued to deny people access to all the stages, then it would be overcrowded and tempers would flare especially by 6 a.m. The thing is, the tickets were expensive, most people who were going there were well-dressed, calm, extremely patient and mostly seemed sober and compliant with the law, but we were treated like we were criminals before we even got in. It was a disgrace. It was like being kettled and herded the whole time but at a paying gig. We were not going to a riot, it wasn't a political demo, in fact there were no politics in evidence of any kind, not even an Amnesty International stall.
After an anxious night I got a call from my son this morning to say he was fine.
It did get overcrowded and they had to get all the stages and DJs to shut down the music at midnight, then the police cleared the whole area. There was another big stand-off with the police and a bit of trouble, nothing major that he knew of, none at all on the ship where the good vibe remained throughout.
I wonder now how people managed to get home from the middle of nowhere at Midnight or 1 a.m.. My son stayed there overnight. He seemed to think only one person got hurt with concussion but this whole queuing/kettling technique to deal with the crowds caused a lot of the trouble and people were very angry that they were not allowed to see the artists they had paid to go and see.
I hope there were no further injuries. The rest of the festival is cancelled. I wonder if they'd had no barriers at all, if just maybe people would be sensible enough to come and go as they pleased.
In less paranoid times, with an atmosphere of caring for one another and looking where you tread, could a few roadies and stewards, a St. John's Ambulance, a fire engine and maybe a few lifebuoys, be more than enough to keep this festival safe?
Will the police be kettling people all through the Olympic games for their own safety?
I need a musical interval, this next song was ringing through my head as I took the DLR home, very worried about my son and everyone left at the festival. In spite of my ranting about health and safety regulations, given the situation and the fact that people couldn't leave easily, I am glad they stopped everyone from getting in, it could have been a dangerous situation, due to the tensions building up over a number of hours as well as the size of the crowd outside.
The Clash – London Calling (1979)
They should just have removed the barriers so people could leave at least!
The festival was sold out, did they sell too many tickets ? I can't see that several thousand people would forge tickets.
If you were there and want to say something please leave a comment.
Gary Numan who was due to play today, Down In the Park
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Sousse Jewish cemetery vandalised
More than 68 gravestones were found ransacked and graves were looted at a Jewish cemetery in the coastal Tunisian town of Sousse, according to JTA (with thanks: JIMENA):
The Tunisian Shems FM radio station cited a Tunisian security official who said the graves were damaged over the last month. Claims on Facebook had said the graves were vandalized on Jan. 23.
According to the Shems FM report, Tunisian youths believing rumors that the Jews bury their dead with gold were responsible for the grave looting.
Only a few Jewish families now live in Sousse, which had a Jewish community of nearly 6,000 at the time of Tunisia's independence in 1956. One Jewish-owned fruit juice shop, Pascal, is located in the city.
According to TAP, the Tunisian state news agency, the office of Prime Minister Hammadi Jebali of the Islamist Ennahda party released a statement last Friday expressing "deep indignation at any criminal act undermining Tunisia's cultural and historical heritage," and said that efforts were under way to work with security forces and the judiciary to ensure that attacks on cemeteries and mausoleums stopped.
The Tunisian Ministry of Culture recently announced that 34 shrines of venerated Sufi Muslim saints have been attacked by religious extremists since the country's January 2011 revolution ousted former dictator Zine El Abddine Ben Ali.
Read article in full
According to this article, (French) the most recent vandalism came to light when a young Jew, David, was buried on 24 January. Efforts to keep vandals out of the cemetery since 2007 by building a high fence and reinforcing the entrance locks have been ineffectual. Jews from Sousse have demanded an official inquiry.
Save the Borgel cemetery in Tunis
Posted by bataween at Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Labels: Antisemitism, Jews of Tunisia
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descrst5I'll tell you something strange: when one is dead it does not matter to the person if they vanalise hia tomb. It's only the living that are shocked and that is why the fools who do this, do it!!!sultana latifa
- 2:50 pm, January 29, 2013
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2 more E. coli cases confirmed in Minnesota
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Department of Health says two more cases of E. coli infection have been confirmed in the state.
The department said Thursday it has been able to interview 14 of the 15 cases. Through the interviews, investigators confirmed that 12 of the ill people ate at an Applebee's restaurant in Minnesota between June 23 and June 29.
The updated list of Applebee's restaurants where ill people reported having eaten is now at nine — two locations in Blaine, and one each in Duluth, Roseville, Willmar, Woodbury, Monticello, Bemidji and New Hope.
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HOW AM I GOI G TO KILL ALMIGHT SETH he is op with his fireballs
HOW AM I GOI G TO KILL ALMIGHT SETH he is op with his fireballs
Use Hellfire, have tons of that potion thingy in your inventory (I recommend atleast 5) then don't use a bow, I prefer lightsword
Well i cant get near to him first i use the bow on him then slash slash bow.After that the firework thing which kills me!
Just never ever use a bow xD if u want to hit seth without gettin near him, use magic. (but you need to slash him with a sword sometimes too)
This game is so easy. My last playthrough was a little over 4 hours long (with all secrets found). I never upgraded attack (except for once in the very beginning) because you get enough of that with the newest weapons. I only upgraded defense and magic. If you have a high enough defense you have a chance to resist magic including seth's attacks. I was able to just slash him all the way till he died. I never even had to use one elixir in the game. Just make sure to explore everything to get all the upgrade potions.
Wait his name is really Almighty Seth?! Omg this game's villain is so evil he decided to plan his schemes in Growtopia too
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Keep your eyes on Democrat-run Illinois over the next couple of weeks, where legislative leaders have hammered out a scheme to address the crisis of the state's underfunded public employee pension system. The unfunded liability for the state's pension obligations is officially estimated somewhere around $100 billion over the next 30 years, but the actual figure is likely much higher as Illinois, like many self-serving public pension funds, still assumes very optimistic rates of return on assets going forward.
Forget the exact details of the fix, which includes some obvious reforms such as pushing back retirement age for public employees, reducing automatic cost-of-living adjustments, and lowering the salary formula for calculating baseline retirement payments. There's one big problem with the whole scheme: it hasn't passed the legislature yet, and public employee unions vow to fight the vote starting next week. (Some news accounts say the scheme is based on "a Republican plan," which will add to the fury of the public employee unions.) Expect some serious arm-breaking in Springfield over this. And if the reform plan does pass, unions will file a lawsuit to block it, based on provisions of the Illinois state constitution (and perhaps the U.S. Constitution's contracts clause) that supposedly guarantee pension obligations. No idea whether they might win such a suit, but if so, life will get really interesting in Illinois, which will become a fiscal system that will exist mostly to pay for lavish public employee retirements and interest on state debt. Good luck funding schools or anything else.
This prospective deal has happened in part because the bond market has turned up the heat on Illinois, giving it the lowest bond rating of the 50 states. Illinois finance officials have become so desperate as interest costs rise that they have taken to reminding potential buyers that debtholders are first in line for payments from the state, which must really be reassuring to asset managers. Any asset manager really want to rely on that guarantee if Illinois gets into a serious fiscal scrape that requires choosing between paying bond interest or keeping schools open? I can imagine a court following the "it's-an-emergency" logic of the infamous Home Building and Loan v. Blaisdell case and stiffing boldholders.
It is fun watching Democrat-run states have to turn on their own competing interest groups, but this pass has been predicted for a while now as the blue-state model hits the wall. It will happen on a rolling basis eventually in New York and California, too.
The really interesting question going forward is whether Congress will someday take up and pass a statute providing for the bankruptcy re-organization of states, which is what might be required to break some of the irresponsible public pension promises that can't be kept. But that's a subject for a sequel here on some future day.