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WASHINGTON (AP) — Uncertainty over how many U.S. troops might remain in Afghanistan beyond this year has trickled down to American diplomats and aid workers, whose efforts to develop the still mostly primitive country face a drawdown of their own because of security fears.
In boosting security forces, educating young girls, launching mobile phone technology and providing other aid, the U.S. has allocated nearly $100 billion since 2002 to build Afghanistan after generations of war and isolation.
But the State Department's ability to continue aid programs, or start new ones, hinges largely on Afghanistan's security — and whether officials can travel to project sites to make sure the money is being spent wisely. A long-delayed decision on whether as many as 10,000 American forces will remain in Afghanistan after the war ends this year will determine whether how deeply the aid will be cut.
It's an all-too-familiar pattern of anxiety for diplomats who saw years of development projects in Iraq wither away after U.S. troops withdrew in 2011 because of reduced resources and increased security threats.
"It was not ... particularly pleasant to have to take a very large program down to a very small program in a very short period of time," said Assistant Secretary of State William Brownfield, who oversaw a gutting of State Department aid to Iraqi police forces two years ago. Violence in Iraq has surged ever since.
Brownfield told reporters last week he is already anticipating fewer personnel and fewer funds for local legal programs in Afghanistan, including fighting drug traffic and helping prosecutions and prison systems. But he's waiting to see how many security forces might remain before he can predict how deep the cuts will be.
"My intent is to have established a policy and a strategy that can adjust to these realities without having to do the savage surgery that I was required to do in Iraq in 2012," Brownfield said.
He said Congress already is seeking to cut all foreign assistance to Afghanistan by half.
U.S. lawmakers are all too aware of the tough balance between inevitable budget cuts and trying to keep a U.S. foothold in Afghanistan after more than 12 years of war.
"There's a credibility question," said Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., who until last summer chaired a panel on south and central Asia on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "We have plenty of reasons to make sure when the military engagement ends that we really maintain both a diplomatic presence and strategy."
However, he said, "it's very hard for most taxpayers to support" keeping a large military presence in Afghanistan.
Negotiations over whether foreign military forces should remain in Afghanistan after the combat mission ends in December have snarled over Afghan President Hamid Karzai's refusal to sign a security agreement with the United States. Without a U.S. security agreement, allies have said NATO forces will not remain in Afghanistan.
On Monday, the U.S. Agency for International Development announced a $300 million package of aid to bolster Afghan agriculture projects and provide administrative degree programs at universities. It also will build on Afghan trade and tax programs to ultimately help Kabul gain accession to the World Trade Organization.
Larry Sampler, who heads USAID operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan, said in an interview that if the new programs are unable to be properly monitored "we'll pull the plug." But he said USAID has years of experience working in "pretty dodgy places," and described a number of ways to make sure the money is properly spent even if American officials are unable to personally visit project sites due to security threats.
"We're not dependent on international military forces anywhere in the world like we have been in Afghanistan," Sampler said. "And as international military forces leave, Afghanistan will more closely begin resembling a normal operating environment for USAID."
USAID has spent just over $13 billion on Afghan development since 2001. That money has opened schools to girls, provided health care across the country, and created a cell phone alert system for Afghans to get immediate access to everything from market prices for their crops to their government paychecks.
In all, the U.S. has allocated $96 billion to build up Afghanistan — more than half of it to train and equip the nation's estimated 344,000 security forces. Continued support for the Afghan troops, which are expected to grow by another 8,000, will be a key predictor to the country's stability after 2014.
"While there are still American troops in the field, you get funding for the troops. If American troops aren't there, the administration's ability to sustain funding for the (Afghan national security forces) gets a lot more problematic," said Stephen Biddle, a national security and defense expert at the Council on Foreign Relations.
"And if that goes away, the whole show collapses," Biddle said. "It's very hard to imagine road projects, wells, schools, clinics — the kinds of things we've been sinking into money into — surviving in that kind of environment."
By 2015, officials predict that American aid workers, investigators, auditors and other non-specified U.S. employees will be able to get to only 21 percent of Afghanistan — down from nearly 50 percent in 2009. The special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction said the new limits were the result of the drawdown of U.S. troops.
When American forces left Iraq at the end of 2011, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad found itself with neither the resources that the military had nor the ability to travel much of the country. It also lost what former Ambassador James F. Jeffrey in an interview called a "buy-in" from the Iraqi government to continue on its own the programs that the U.S. troops had begun.
"Based on my experience in Iraq, we risk failure in Afghanistan if we do not have a continued U.S. military presence and have to rely on only an embassy to continue comprehensive nation building, security assistance and counter-terrorism," Jeffrey said.
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The Central Connecticut women's golf team placed tied for third in heavy wind and rain conditions at the Columbia University Roar-EE Invitational Friday. Only one round of the tournament was played as the second and final round scheduled for Friday afternoon was cancelled due to inclimate weather.
Columbia University hosted the event which was held at Spook Rock Golf course in Suffern, NY. The par-72 course played 6,008 yards in the single-round tournament.
Boston University (338) finished at the top of the team leader board after today's round, winning the tournament by two strokes over runner up Siena (340). Central (341) and host Columbia (341) finished up knotted for third while LIU-Brooklyn (342) and Pennsylvania (342) tied for fifth and rounded out the field's top-five.
Central Connecticut senior Anna Ausanio (42/40/82) claimed seventh place overall on the individual leader board. Ausanio's seventh place finish gives her four top-ten's so far this season, she leads the team in the category.
Sophomore Albrianna Farnum (40/45/85) placed tied for 13th place overall. In her first round since November 2012, senior Stephanie Bednar (43/43/86) proved consistent on both sides of the course shooting back-to-back 43's.
Senior Katie Reid (45/43/88) finished tied for 27th overall while freshman Sarah Boden (43/47/90) placed tied for 39th.
Up next for the women's golf team will be the Mount St. Mary's Invitational starting on Monday, April 15th and concluding on Tuesday, April, 16th. The two-day, three-round tournament will be hosted at Quail Valley Golf Course in Littlestown, PA.


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National Hospice Month
During the month of November, the medical profession recognizes National Hospice and Palliative Care Month. Iowa Hospice, serving Dickinson County and the surrounding area, would like to take this opportunity to salute the very special people who work in this field.
Hospice provides a unique blend of clinical, social and spiritual support services for patients and their families. This care adds quality and dignity to the lives of patients facing end-of-life illnesses. The support provided to families allows them to focus on spending quality time with their loved one rather than on care-giving details during this difficult time. Hospice is also there to support the family after their loss.
On behalf of Iowa Hospice, a Harden Healthcare company, we would like to say thank you to hospice caregivers for the important work that they do each and every day.
Chris Roussos
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LONDON — Andrei Kirilenko and Aleksey Shved powered Russia past China 73-54 in the first game of the day at the Olympic Basketball Stadium.
Kirilenko led the way with 16 points on 7-for-12 shooting from the floor, 7-for-10 from inside the 3-point line. Shed had 14 and six assists. Yi Jianlian led China with 16 points and was the only player from China to score in double digits.


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Obamacare supporters tend to give credit to the law where credit is not due. In the latest attempt, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray (D–WA) tried to link lower projections for Medicare and Medicaid spending to the Affordable Care Act.
During today's hearing on the recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report, Chairman Murray said:
As I was reading through the report, one section really got my attention …which was the discussion of the change in health spending in recent years. In fact, I stopped and underlined one statistic because I found it so surprising. The statistic is that CBO has lowered its estimate of federal spending for Medicare and Medicaid to such a degree that spending for 2020—one year is now $200 billion lower than CBO thought back in 2010, an improvement of 15 percent.
And let's be clear, that improvement has occurred since enactment of the Affordable Care Act.
It is unfortunate that Chairman Murray didn't keep reading because the very next paragraph of the report states:
Spending projections also have been affected by legislative action—most notably as a result of the Affordable Care Act…. From 2010 to the present, those other types of revisions boosted the estimates of outlays for Medicare and Medicaid in 2020 by $72 billion, or about 5 percent. (The Affordable Care Act also created new subsidies for some people to purchase health insurance through exchanges, adding $115 billion to the estimate for federal outlays for health care programs in 2020, according to CBO's current projections.)
So spending is estimated to decrease for Medicare and Medicaid in 2020 by $200 billion but Obamacare spends an extra $187 billion more than would have been spent in the absence of the law. Thus, whatever "savings" were projected have been gobbled up by Obamacare and its massive new spending.
And don't let the CBO's estimate distract from the major issue of health spending. As Heritage pointed out last week, in just two years, "[s]pending on Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare subsidies, and the Children's Health Insurance Program will be greater than all other spending—including Social Security and defense spending." Obamacare alone contributes $1.6 trillion over the next 10 years towards this huge problem.
Furthermore, a future decrease in Medicare spending is contingent upon the continuation of Obamacare's $716 billion in Medicare cuts—which is unlikely. In 2020 alone, payments to Part A providers are estimated by the CBO to be reduced by $75 billion. Lowering provider reimbursement rates to Obamacare's levels will have severe impacts on seniors' ability to access care, which is already being seen. Congress is likely to override these cuts to protect Medicare beneficiaries, much like they do with Medicare physician payment rates each year.
The bottom line is that Obamacare does not decrease spending on health care, no matter which pieces of information Chairman Murray leaves out.
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Teenager injured in Go-Kart crash
It's happened again. A 13-year-old girl was airlifted to Riley Children's Hospital in Indianapolis Sunday afternoon, after she crashed her Go-Kart into a tree.
13-year-old Lindsey White of Lafayette, was driving the Go-Kart with her stepfather, 36-year-old Benjamin Irby, when the crash happened near Hershey Elementary school in Tippecanoe County.
Dad told police he had just given the girl control of the steering wheel, when she swerved to miss friends and hit the tree.
Irby was uninjured in the crash.
White was taken to IU Health Arnett Hospital, and then immediately airlifted to Riley. Deputies said Lindsey White sustained serious head and chest injuries.
Neither White nor Irby were wearing helmets.


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Music Gearheads Tech Talk / Re: Help?! My new Lexicon PCM 81« on: July 12, 2012, 09:17:42 AM »
No worries Loren, I just thought it was funny. I now have three Lexicons including the PCM 81. I have a LXP-1 and a Reflex as well. Love them all. Thanks Loren, I will have to look into the cards. Mike, I do remember the Vortex. I haven't had the pleasure of working with one, but David Helpling has one and seems to like it. Like you said, not high end, but I know of very few units that morph from one effect to another! I may have to look into the dedicated reverbs like the PCM 91. I have been looking into the early high end units like the 224 and 480 as an option as well, but they are still expensive. Thanks for all of the advice! I will let you all know what I discover with this new unit. Maybe I can help some people that have similar questions about the unit by posting my findings. Thanks guys, take care!
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Computers do not understand text themselves. Instead, every character is represented by a number. Traditionally, each set of numbers used to represent alphabets and characters (known as a coding system, encoding or character set) was limited in size due to limitations in computer hardware.
The most common (or at least the most widely accepted) character set is ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange). It is widely held that ASCII is the most successful software standard ever. Modern ASCII was standardised in 1986 (ANSI X3.4, RFC 20, ISO/IEC 646:1991, ECMA-6) by the American National Standards Institute.
ASCII is strictly seven-bit, meaning that it uses bit patterns representable with seven binary digits, which provides a range of 0 to 127 in decimal. These include 32 non-visible control characters, most between 0 and 31, with the final control character, DEL or delete at 127. Characters 32 to 126 are visible characters: a space, punctuation marks, Latin letters and numbers.
The eighth bit in ASCII was originally used as a parity bit for error checking. If this is not desired, it is left as 0. This means that, with ASCII, each character is represented by a single byte.
Although ASCII was enough for communication in modern English, in other European languages that include accented characters, things were not so easy. The ISO 8859 standards were developed to meet these needs. They were backwards compatible with ASCII, but instead of leaving the eighth bit blank, they used it to allow another 127 characters in each encoding. ISO 8859's limitations soon came to light, and there are currently 15 variants of the ISO 8859 standard (8859-1 through to 8859-15). Outside of the ASCII-compatible byte range of these character sets, there is often conflict between the letters represented by each byte. To complicate interoperability between character encodings further, Windows-1252 is used in some versions of Microsoft Windows instead for Western European languages. This is a superset of ISO 8859-1, however it is different in several ways. These sets do all retain ASCII compatibility, however.
The necessary development of completely different single-byte encodings for non-Latin alphabets, such as EUC (Extended Unix Coding) which is used for Japanese and Korean (and to a lesser extent Chinese) created more confusion, while other operating systems still used different character sets for the same languages, for example, Shift-JIS and ISO-2022-JP. Users wishing to view cyrillic glyphs had to choose between KOI8-R for Russian and Bulgarian or KOI8-U for Ukrainian, as well as all the other cyrillic encodings such as the unsuccessful ISO 8859-5, and the common Windows-1251 set. All of these character sets broke most compatibility with ASCII (although KOI8 encodings place cyrillic characters in Latin order, so in case the eighth bit is stripped, text is still decipherable on an ASCII terminal through case-reversed transliteration.)
This has led to confusion, and also to an almost total inability for multilingual communication, especially across different alphabets. Enter Unicode.
Unicode throws away the traditional single-byte limit of character sets. It uses 17 "planes" of 65,536 code points to describe a maximum of 1,114,112 characters. As the first plane, aka. "Basic Multilingual Plane" or BMP, contains almost everything you will ever use, many have made the wrong assumption that Unicode was a 16-bit character set.
Unicode has been mapped in many different ways, but the two most common are UTF (Unicode Transformation Format) and UCS (Universal Character Set). A number after UTF indicates the number of bits in one unit, while the number after UCS indicates the number of bytes. UTF-8 has become the most widespread means for the interchange of Unicode text as a result of its eight-bit clean nature, and it is the subject of this document.
UTF-8 is a variable-length character encoding, which in this instance means that it uses 1 to 4 bytes per symbol. So, the first UTF-8 byte is used for encoding ASCII, giving the character set full backwards compatibility with ASCII. UTF-8 means that ASCII and Latin characters are interchangeable with little increase in the size of the data, because only the first bit is used. Users of Eastern alphabets such as Japanese, who have been assigned a higher byte range are unhappy, as this results in as much as a 50% redundancy in their data.
UTF-8 allows you to work in a standards-compliant and internationally accepted
multilingual environment, with a comparatively low data redundancy. UTF-8 is
the preferred way for transmitting non-ASCII characters over the Internet,
through Email, IRC or almost any other medium. Despite this, many people regard
UTF-8 in online communication as abusive. It is always best to be aware of the
attitude towards UTF-8 in a specific channel, mailing list or Usenet group
before using
Now that you understand the principles behind Unicode, you're ready to start using UTF-8 with your system.
The preliminary requirement for UTF-8 is to have a version of glibc installed
that has national language support. The recommend means to do this is the
Next, we'll need to decide whether a UTF-8 locale is already available for our language, or whether we need to create one.
(Replace "en_GB" with your desired locale setting)# locale -a | grep 'en_GB' en_GB en_GB.UTF-8
From the output of this command line, we need to take the result with a suffix
similar to
(Replace "en_GB" with your desired locale setting)# localedef -i en_GB -f UTF-8 en_GB.UTF-8
Another way to include a UTF-8 locale is to add it to the
There is one environment variable that needs to be set in order to use
our new UTF-8 locales:
Others prefer to set the locale globally. One specific circumstance where
the author particularly recommends doing this is when
Setting the locale globally should be done using
(As always, change "en_GB.UTF-8" to your locale)LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8"
Next, the environment must be updated with the change.
# env-update >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... * Caching service dependencies ... # source /etc/profile
Now, run
# locale LANG= LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8
That's everything. You are now using UTF-8 locales, and the next hurdle is the configuration of the applications you use from day to day.
When Unicode first started gaining momentum in the software world, multibyte character sets were not well suited to languages like C, in which many of the day-to-day programs people use are written. Even today, some programs are not able to handle UTF-8 properly. Fortunately, most are!
There are several NLS options in the Linux kernel configuration menu, but it is important to not become confused! For the most part, the only thing you need to do is to build UTF-8 NLS support into your kernel, and change the default NLS option to utf8.
File Systems --> Native Language Support --> (utf8) Default NLS Option <*> NLS UTF8
(Also <*> other character sets that are in use in your FAT filesystems or Joilet CD-ROMs.)
If you plan on mounting NTFS partitions, you may need to specify an
For changing the encoding of filenames,
# emerge --ask app-text/convmv # convmv -f current-encoding -t utf-8 filename
For changing the
(substitute iso-8859-1 with the charset you are converting from) (Check the output is sane)# iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 filename (Convert a file, you must create another file)# iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 filename > newfile
To enable UTF-8 on the console, you should edit
(Change "uk" to your local layout)KEYMAP="-u uk"
It is wise to add
(We avoid putting these libraries in our world file with --oneshot)# emerge --oneshot sys-libs/ncurses sys-libs/slang
We also need to rebuild packages that link to these, now the USE changes have
been applied. The tool we use (
# revdep-rebuild --soname libncurses.so.5 # revdep-rebuild --soname libslang.so.1
All of the major desktop environments have full Unicode support, and will require no further setup than what has already been covered in this guide. This is because the underlying graphical toolkits (Qt or GTK+2) are UTF-8 aware. Subsequently, all applications running on top of these toolkits should be UTF-8-aware out of the box.
The exceptions to this rule come in Xlib and GTK+1. GTK+1 requires a
iso-10646-1 FontSpec in the ~/.gtkrc, for example
style "user-font" { fontset="-misc-fixed-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1" } widget_class "*" style "user-font"
If an application has support for both a Qt and GTK+2 GUI, the GTK+2 GUI will generally give better results with Unicode.
TrueType fonts have support for Unicode, and most of the fonts that ship with
Xorg have impressive character support, although, obviously, not every single
glyph available in Unicode has been created for that font. To build fonts
(including the Bitstream Vera set) with support for East Asian letters with X,
make sure you have the
Also, several font packages in Portage are Unicode aware.
# emerge terminus-font intlfonts freefonts cronyx-fonts corefonts
Window managers not built on GTK or Qt generally have very good Unicode support, as they often use the Xft library for handling fonts. If your window manager does not use Xft for fonts, you can still use the FontSpec mentioned in the previous section as a Unicode font.
Terminal emulators that use Xft and support Unicode are harder to come by.
Aside from Konsole and gnome-terminal, the best options in Portage are
defutf8 on
Vim, Emacs and Xemacs provide full UTF-8 support, and also have builtin
detection of UTF-8 files. For further information in Vim, use
Nano currently does not provide support for UTF-8, although it has been planned for a long time. With luck, this will change in future. At the time of writing, UTF-8 support is in Nano's CVS, and should be included in the next release.
The C shell,
Since 0.8.10, Irssi has complete UTF-8 support, although it does require a user to set an option.
/set term_charset UTF-8
For channels where non-ASCII characters are often exchanged in non-UTF-8
charsets, the
The Mutt mail user agent has very good Unicode support. To use UTF-8 with Mutt,
put the following in your
set send_charset="utf8"
(outgoing character set)set charset="utf8" (display character set)
Further information is available from the
We all use a lot of
Man pages are an integral part of any Linux machine. To ensure that any
unicode in your man pages render correctly, edit
(This is the old line)NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -Tascii -c -mandoc (Replace the one above with this)NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc -c
These are commonly used text-based browsers, and we shall see how we can enable
UTF-8 support on them. On
(For elinks, edit /etc/elinks/elinks.conf or ~/.elinks/elinks.conf and add the following line)set terminal.linux.utf_8_io = 1 (For links, edit ~/.links/links.cfg and add the following line)terminal "xterm" 0 1 0 us-ascii utf-8
There are numerous UTF-8 test websites around.
When using one of the text-only web browsers, make absolutely sure you are using a Unicode-aware terminal.
If you see certain characters displayed as boxes with letters or numbers inside, this means that your font does not have a character for the symbol or glyph that the UTF-8 wants. Instead, it displays a box with the hex code of the UTF-8 symbol.
To enable dead keys in X, you need a layout that supports it. Most European
layouts already have dead keys with the default variant. However, this is not
true of North American layouts. Although there is a degree of inconsistency
between layouts, the easiest solution seems to be to use a layout in the form
"en_US" rather than "us", for example. The layout is set in
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbLayout" "en_US"
# Rather than just "us" (Other Xkb options here)EndSection
This change will come into effect when your X server is restarted. To apply the
change now, use the
It is probably easiest to describe dead keys with examples. Although the results are locale dependent, the concepts should remain the same regardless of locale. The examples contain UTF-8, so to view them you need to either tell your browser to view the page as UTF-8, or have a UTF-8 locale already configured.
When I press AltGr and [ at once, release them, and then press a, 'ä' is produced. When I press AltGr and [ at once, and then press e, 'ë' is produced. When I press AltGr and ; at once, 'á' is produced, and when I press AltGr and ; at once, release them, and then press e, 'é' is produced.
By pressing AltGr, Shift and [ at once, releasing them, and then pressing a, a
Scandinavian 'å' is produced. Similarly, when I press AltGr, Shift and [ at
once, release
AltGr can be used with alphabetical keys alone. For example, AltGr and m, a Greek lower-case letter mu is produced: 'µ'. AltGr and s produce a scharfes s or esszet: 'ß'. As many European users would expect (because it is marked on their keyboard), AltGr and 4 produces a Euro sign, '€'.


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"Foodhist Temple" by Peter Anton at Unix Gallery
Photos by G. Art by Peter Anton.
Namaste! Welcome to the temple! Artist Peter Anton has created a very tantalizing new exhibit at Unix Gallery in New York entitled "Foodhist Temple" and you will not want to miss it. At the entrance to the gallery, which has been completely covered in red carpeting with the walls painted red, you are asked to take your shoes off.
As you walk inside the shrine, instead of seeing your typical religious fare, you see life-like (but larger than life) sculptures of what Americans really worship these days – FOOD! Bacon, donuts, pizza, hamburgers, chocolates as well as cake are on display. For those who want to have a "foodhist religious experience" (so to speak), pillows have been laid out across the gallery/temple floor, so the viewer can spend time worshiping these objects.
As you can see in this picture, the sculptures are enormous, and yet look life like. Peter Anton used resin, metal, wood, clay and acrylic for the works in this show.
Again, to show you the perspective of how big these sculptures are, here's a picture of Gail Worley worshiping at the altar of bacon. This is definitely the Bacon Thing of the Day.
"Foodhist Temple" by Peter Anton is on display until May 9, 2015 at Unix Gallery (located at 532 West 24th Street) in Manhattan.


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On The Sunny Side Of The Street
by Eddie Heywood
Jan 1, 1944
On The Sunny Side Of The Street Lyrics
Song Meaning
Verse 1
Walked with no one and talked with no one
And I had nothing but shadows
Then one morning you passed
And I brightened at last
Now I greet the day and complete the day
With the sun in my heart
All my worry blew away
When you taught me how to say
Verse 2
Grab your coat and get your hat
Leave your worry on the doorstep
Just direct your feet
To the sunny side of the street
Can't you hear a pitter-pat?
And that happy tune is your step
Life can be so sweet
On the sunny side of the street
Verse 3
I used to walk in the shade
With those blues on parade
But I'm not afraid
This Rover crossed over
Verse 4
If I never have a cent
I'd be rich as Rockefeller
Gold dust at my feet
On the sunny side of the street
Grab your street
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Welcoming the winter cycle
Rugged riders undeterred by season's harsh turns
The temperature was 6 degrees Wednesday morning and a fresh layer of snow pitched much of Eastern Massachusetts into bunker mode, so naturally Greg Ralich decided it was no day to ride his bicycle to work.
His regular bicycle, that is.
Instead, Ralich mounted his "fat bike," a sort of snowmobile on wheels that allows him to barrel along icy surfaces on beefy, low-pressure tires some 4 inches thick that deliver added traction for his trek from his Dorchester apartment to his job at a Somerville startup.
"It's just more fun than driving," Ralich said. "Who wants to sit in Boston traffic in the winter?"
Even with single-digit temperatures and icy streets, a hardy corps of local cyclists such as Ralich maintain a postal worker's dedication to their routes: Neither snow, nor sleet, nor cold of winter deters them.
"'Hardy' is the kind way to put it," said Michael Taylor, president of Forum Biopharma Advisors in Lexington, who often bikes to meetings in Cambridge — a 26-mile round trip. "Another word might be 'crazy.'"
Hardy or crazy, there are more of them. Cycling in Boston has skyrocketed 78 percent since 2007, according to the city's annual count of bike trips; in 2013 the city estimated there were nearly 70,000 daily bicycle trips in Boston.
And while many of those riders hang up their bikes during the cold months, on any given winter day cyclists are taking as many as 14,000 trips around Boston, according to estimates by Nicole Freedman, Boston's director of bicycle programs.
Hubway, the bike-sharing service, has decided to keep its racks of rentable bicycles running during the winter in Cambridge this year and has seen a jump in those two-wheeled winter warriors.
Since the end of November, the average daily ridership in Cambridge has been 237: a fifth of normal traffic during warmer months. On a few days last week, Hubway users in Cambridge took more than 400 bike trips.
Whichever bike they ride, winter cyclists run the gamut, from typical college students, to youngsters at Kendall Square startups, to health care workers in the Longwood Medical Area. What they share is an uncommon ability to find fun in a slog that the rest of us would call miserable.
"It's like skiing — you prepare for the cold, and it's a blast," Ralich said.
Public officials said they are pleased to see the uptick in green transportation.
But urban biking does present risks, especially in Boston with its narrow streets and aggressive drivers. In 2012, five cyclists were killed in accidents — though none in winter.
A subsequent report by the city of Boston determined that its Emergency Medical Services department responded to more than 1,400 cycling incidents between 2010 and 2012.
The risks increase during winter, when black ice threatens to transform every turn into an uncontrolled slide and snow banks make bike lanes narrower than usual, pushing riders closer to passing automobiles.
"I've come close to being doored a couple times," Taylor said, referring to the hazard of a driver opening a door into the path of a cyclist.
What's worse, some cyclists admit they are less likely to wear helmets during winter because they often don warm hats instead.
So why bother?
"I know this is going to sound kind of silly, but I would just love to live my life outdoors," said Peter Parker, who spends much of his time inside a science laboratory as president of BioInnovation, an investment and consulting firm in Cambridge. "Just standing in the sunlight, even on a cold day, is so invigorating."
Parker is among those making the Hubway winter pilot a success. He often rents a pair of wheels to cruise from meeting to meeting in Cambridge and Boston.
If the roads are too icy, then he'll fall back to his four-wheel option. But in the main, Parker contends biking in winter is more comfortable than in a summer heat wave.
"When it's 90, you'll arrive a sweaty mess and then you're not really ready for a meeting," Parker said.
Not surprisingly Boston's technology community seems particularly enamored of riding during winter, if only because it gives biking aficionados a whole new set of toys to try.
Taylor, for example, had a custom bike built for him by Seven Cycles of Watertown: a titanium frame, studded tires, and carbon-fiber gear belt that resists corrosion from road salt.
Working mostly out of his house for now, Taylor isn't riding his fancy bike as much. But he recalls the routine of gearing up before his previous commute 13 miles each way along the Minuteman Trail to Cambridge: layering up from head to toe in thermal, waterproof apparel.
Often, he would have to shower and change into new clothes before starting work.
"It's a problem to be solved: How do I stay upright and warm and get to work?" Taylor said. "And I think that appeals to people in tech. There's kind of an engineering challenge to it."
For others, biking through a New England winter is a point of pride, or a way to ward off holiday weight gain. "You don't have to pay for a gym membership when you bike 14 miles a day," quipped Shane Jordan, who runs the website BostonBiker.org.
Whatever the reason, the most committed bike commuters scoff when friends see a frigid forecast — such as the one for Friday when the wind-chill is supposed to make it feel like 9 below in the morning — and question whether they'll keep cycling.
"People are like, 'You're seriously going to ride in this kind of weather?'" Ralich said. "And I'm like, 'Yeah. No problem.'"
David Filipov of the Globe staff contributed to this report. Callum Borchers can be reached at callum. firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @callumborchers.


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OKLAHOMA CITY – For all the talk about young legs, it didn't hurt for the Thunder to have an old head and ancient beating heart in their midst coming down the stretch of Game 6.
Look at the lineup employed by OKC coach Scott Brooks in the biggest quarter in Thunder history: 23-year-old Kevin Durant and 23-year-old Russell Westbrook played all 12 minutes of the final period.
So did 37-year-old Derek Fisher.
This is why the Thunder signed him as a free agent when he cleared waivers on March 21. This is why Fisher chose to hitch up with OKC instead of remaining in Houston following the trade deadline-day deal. He can still fish for championships instead of fishing on vacation.
For all their talent, the Thunder needed a Yoda. And make no mistake about it, even in his 16th NBA season, Yoda can still hit the clutch jumper.
Fisher finished the night with nine points and five of them came in the fourth quarter. After the Spurs cut OKC's lead to two points with 4:51 left in the game, Fisher took a feed from James Harden and stuck in a dagger 3-pointer from out of the left corner. After Tony Parker drove through the lane for a reverse that brought San Antonio to within 101-97 with 2:17 to go, Fisher gathered in another dish from Harden and dropped in a running banker from the right side.
Of course, Fisher has been doing this kind of stuff since way back in the days when Durant and Westbrook were of the age that matches the kiddie wardrobes they now prefer. When he won the first of his five championships with the Lakers back in 2000, Durant and Westbrook were both 11.
"It is hard to stop and reflect, to be honest," Fisher said. "I am just thankful for my opportunity to play and be a part of this game. At the appropriate time I will be able to look back and reflect on this special time, but we still have some unfinished business to complete, but we took a big step closer tonight in accomplishing our goal."
The Spurs have seen Fisher take those big steps before, most notably his running shot with 0.4 seconds left in Game 5 of the 2004 Western Conference semifinals, when the Lakers also rallied from an 0-2 hole to complete a four-game reverse sweep of San Antonio.
There was Fisher hitting big shots when the Lakers beat the Magic in the 2010 NBA Finals. Still motoring on near the end of his fourth decade, he comes up almost consistently clutch in the playoffs as his former teammate, Robert Horry.
The Thunder wanted him for his experience and for his wisdom. But they also wanted him because they knew he could still delivered when things got tight and the biggest unspoken statement about that was Brooks leaving Fisher out on the court for every second of that fourth quarter.
"I really wasn't thinking a lot about it when I was playing," Fisher said. "I was just fully engaged and engrossed in the action. If coach pulled me, I would have fully supported whatever player came in. But I believe the energy and the momentum in the game began to turn for us after a great third quarter. I think coach Brooks just trusted the group on the floor at the time."
It seems Ol' Man River is still too young to go fishing.


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All of New York City is a shopper's paradise, but no district manages to mix luxury and bargains, hip and classic, vintage and modern quite as well as SoHo does. Many large chains, small boutiques and countless designer shops are housed in industrial warehouses with typical New York fire escapes on the outer walls.
SoHo stands for South of Houston. The district is bordered by Canal Street to the south, Lafayette Street to the east, 6th Avenue to the west and Houston Street to the north. SoHo was once the beating heart of New York's art scene but with almost all the galleries having since moved to Chelsea, most people now visit SoHo to shop and appreciate the amazing architecture.
"SoHo is one of New York City's most characteristic neighbourhoods"
Walking around SoHo is certainly no chore. Thanks to its architecture, the district once formed a part of the historic Cast Iron District in which cast iron plays a prominent role. The longest row of cast iron buildings is situated on Greene Street, in the block between Canal Street and Grand Street. Even the streetlights here date back to the beginning of the 19th century. Most of SoHo's buildings have always had a commercial function, mainly in the textile industry which was spread throughout the district. Much of it remains the same to this day.
One of the district's best loved shops is What Goes Around Comes Around. Stylists and celebrities flock to this vintage store on West Broadway, looking for a particular Chanel necklace from the 1980s or that 1998 Chloé handbag. The shop also has its own collection, based on its vintage finds.
Another vintage pearl is Legacy on Thompson Street. This boutique was established in 1978 and stocks all the high-end brands, from Hermès to Prada. The Hat Shop is situated on the same street, from which owner Linda Pagan sells her own designs as well as hats from many well-known labels and as yet undiscovered talents. Prince Street is a short walk away, where the bright pink building of Café Borgia immediately catches the eye. This is a good place to stop for lunch or a rejuvenating cup of coffee. In fine weather, it's nice to sit under the canopy on the pavement terrace.
Even though most artists have left the district, SoHo's artistic character can still be seen in its many designer shops. Anyone who enjoys adorning their home with unusual and interesting accessories will be in their element here. Kiosk on Spring Street stocks items from all over the world, ranging from German bottle openers to Japanese lamps. The shop has a bit of a street market feel to it and invites you to buy: you might not need anything but you'll want it all!


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Nicki Minaj Joins the Wardrobe Malfunction Club With a Nip Slip on 'Good Morning America'
During an energetic performance on Friday's 'Good Morning America,' colorful rap and R&B star Nicki Minaj revealed a little too much to her fans — and to the cameras — when she bounced out of her tiny top, giving audiences a very good morning indeed.
To her credit, she covered herself back up and soldiered on, later tweeting, "LIFE. U guys just gave me LIFE. I love u Team Minaj! Words could never do this love justice! Thank u @Gma!!!!! Honored."
A spokesman for 'GMA' network ABC apologized for the unintended peep-show, telling TMZ the live feed "regrettably included certain fleeting images of the performer that were taken out of later feeds of the broadcast in other time zones."
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Dr. Aaron Best of the Hope College biology faculty contributed to an article published in "Science" that studies the genetic make-up of a common intestinal parasite in the hope of leading to better treatments for the disease it causes and even to better understanding of how human life functions.
The parasite, Giardia lamblia, is found in water systems throughout the world, including in the U.S. It can cause diarrhea, stomach aches and nausea, and in chronic cases leads to malnutrition and poor development in children.
Giardia lamblia changes forms when it goes from being outside the body to residing within a human or animal host. Best's research focused on analyzing the genome sequence for the organism, identifying the genes and proteins that are involved with how it turns its genes on and off - a process called transcription - to change.
Best explained that transcription is a critical function of any organism. He noted that the proteins involved in transcription in Giardia lamblia are different than those used by other life forms such as humans, animals and plants. Understanding the parasite, he said, can offer insights into the way transcription works in humans, and just may provide a better way of battling the disease it causes.
"Looking at the proteins that are involved in this process in Giardia gives us insights into how the complexities of the transcription systems in humans came about," Best said. "I believe that the uniqueness of the transcription system in Giardia also offers novel drug targets for treatment of the disease. Since some of the parts are unique, the drugs that could target these parts could potentially have no effect on the person taking the drug."
The article, "Genomic Minimalism in the Early Diverging Intestinal Parasite Giardia lamblia," was published in the Sept. 28 edition of "Science." Its contributors included researchers from throughout the U.S. as well as Sweden and Switzerland. The lead author is Dr. Hilary G. Morrison of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass.
Best and his team of Hope student researchers are continuing to work on the project, using the information uncovered by the genome sequence to better understand the transcription system.
Best has been a member of the Hope faculty since 2004. He is an assistant professor of biology and Towsley Research Scholar at Hope.


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The West Virginia Big Buck Certification Program was established in 1964 to recognize sportsmen who bag extraordinarily big antlered bucks. The contest is co-sponsored by the Division of Natural Resources, the Izaak Walton League of West Virginia, the West Virginia Bowhunter's Association, the West Virginia Muzzleloader's Association, the Physically Challenged Advisory Board, and Toyota.
The Boone and Crockett or Pope and Young Club scoring systems are used to score bucks depending upon method of kill. Guidelines for the annual contest are as follows:
A review committee was established, by the Director of the Division of Natural Resources, to consider all deer entries to the Big Buck Contest. The committee has the power to make judgements as to the legitimacy of each entry and to accept or reject any entry in question. The West Virginia Big Buck Contest Review Committee consists of representatives from the Izaak Walton League of West Virginia, the West Virginia Bowhunter's Association, the West Virginia Muzzleloader's Association, the WVDNR's Wildlife Resources Section and the Law Enforcement Section, and the West Virginia Physically Challenged Advisory Board.
In 2011, 242 hunters had their deer antlers scored at one of the six WVDNR District Offices, Field Offices, or the West Virginia Hunting and Fishing Show in Charleston (sponsored by the West Virginia Trophy Hunter's Association). There were nineteen WVDNR Wildlife Biologists and Wildlife Managers distributed throughout the state that are certified by the Boone and Crockett and Pope and Young Clubs as official scorers. In the 2011 Big Buck Contest hunters took 106 big bucks (Table 1) with gun, muzzleloader (none this year), bow, or crossbow that met the score minimums, the requirements concerning Game Check Tags and Fair Chase Statements, and were not excluded for cause by the Big Buck Contest Review Committee. An additional 11 bucks from former years were scored that met the requirements for a Big Buck Certificate.
It is noteworthy that an additional thirteen score-sheets that met the minimum score requirements did not have the Game Check Tag verified, or did not have a signed Fair Chase Statement attached. These are the common reasons why hunter's bucks are excluded from the contest list and do not receive a Big Buck Certificate. A good practice is to staple the Game Check Tag to the back of a mounted head so that it is not misplaced. A hunter may only take their rack to be scored by one Official Scorer. Score shopping is prohibited by the WV Big Buck Contest and will be dealt with according to Boone & Crockett and Pope & Young guidelines. It is the hunter's responsibility to work with their official scorer to make sure that all documentation is completed (by the contest deadline of March 15) and sent to the Big Buck Contest Review Committee Chairman.
Twenty-eight bucks killed by gun hunters scored above 140 points typical or 165 points non-typical. In the Typical-Gun category, the winner was Jonah Adkins from Branchland, WV with an 11-point buck killed in Lincoln County that scored 163 1/8. The winner this year in the Non-typical Gun category was Brandon Dishner from Athens, WV with a big 19-point buck from Mercer County that scored 165 4/8.
Two muzzleloader hunters killed bucks that scored above 140 points typical or 165 points non-typical. William Fry of Loudonville, OH took a 12-point Ritchie County buck that scored 149 5/8 that was the top of the list in the Typical-Muzzleloader category. There was no Non-typical buck taken with the muzzleloader this year that met the minimum score; therefore that category has no winner this year.
Bowhunters killed 73 deer that scored above 125 points typical or 155 points non-typical. The winner of the Typical-Bow category was David Miller of Hurricane, WV with a whopper 12-point buck from Mingo County that scored 171 6/8. David's buck took over the #4 position for Typical Bow kills in the list that ranks the top five buck scores for all time in West Virginia (Table 2). The Non-typical Bow category winner was Charles Daniel from Hurricane, WV with a big 15-point buck from Cabell County that scored 169 1/8.
Two bucks were killed by physically challenged crossbow hunters that scored above 125 points typical or 155 points non-typical. The Typical-Crossbow category winner was Freddie Houchins of Pineville, WV with a 10-point Wyoming County buck that scored 151 1/8. There was no non-typical buck taken with the crossbow this year that met the minimum score; therefore, the Non-typical Crossbow category has no winner this year.
The 2011 West Virginia Big Buck Contest had less deer brought in to be scored than last year, however the number of bucks killed in 2011 that qualified for Big Buck Citations was way up from 2010. The muzzleloader and bow trophies were up significantly, but the gun kill in 2011 that made the Big Buck list especially stands out with a total that is almost triple the number brought in last year. It is obvious that more and more bucks are living into older age classes in all of West Virginia's Counties, which is reflected in larger antler size. The WV Big Buck Contest Committee would like to congratulate all the hunters that took bucks that qualified for this year's contest. Thank you to all hunters who participated and had antlers scored this past year!
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The morning after Viet Minh forces under Ho Chi Minh launched a night revolt in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi, French colonial troops crack down on the communist rebels. Ho and his soldiers immediately fled the city to regroup in the countryside. That evening, the communist leader issued a proclamation that read: "All the Vietnamese must stand up to fight the French colonials to save the fatherland. Those who have rifles will use their rifles; those who have swords will use their swords; those who have no swords will use spades, hoes, or sticks. Everyone must endeavor to oppose the colonialists and save his country. Even if we have to endure hardship in the resistance war, with the determination to make sacrifices, victory will surely be ours." The First Indochina War had begun.
Born in Hoang Tru, Vietnam, in 1890, Ho Chi Minh left his homeland in 1911 as a cook on a French steamer. After several years as a seaman, he lived in London and then moved to France, where he became a founding member of the French Communist Party in 1920. He later traveled to the Soviet Union, where he studied revolutionary tactics and took an active role in the Communist International. In 1924, he went to China, where he set about organizing exiled Vietnamese communists. Expelled by China in 1927, he traveled extensively before returning to Vietnam in 1941.
There, he organized a Vietnamese guerrilla organization–the Viet Minh–to fight for Vietnamese independence. Japan occupied French Indochina in 1940 and collaborated with French officials loyal to France's Vichy regime. Ho, meanwhile, made contact with the Allies and aided operations against the Japanese in South China. In early 1945, Japan ousted the French administration in Vietnam and executed numerous French officials.
When Japan surrendered to the Allies on September 2, 1945, Ho Chi Minh felt emboldened enough to declare the independence of Vietnam from France. French forces seized southern Vietnam and opened talks with the Vietnamese communists in the north. Negotiations collapsed in November 1946, and French warships bombarded the northern Vietnamese city of Haiphong, killing thousands. In response, the Viet Minh launched an attack against the French in Hanoi in December 1946. The French quickly struck back, and Ho and his followers found refuge in a remote area of northern Vietnam. The Viet Minh, undefeated and widely supported by the Vietnamese people, waged an increasingly effective guerrilla war against the French.
The conflict stretched on for eight years, with Mao Zedong's Chinese communists supporting the Viet Minh, and the United States aiding the French and anti-communist Vietnamese forces. In 1954, the French suffered a major defeat at Dien Bien Phu, in northwest Vietnam, prompting peace negotiations and the division of Vietnam along the 17th parallel at a conference in Geneva. Vietnam was divided into northern and southern regions, with Ho in command of North Vietnam and Emperor Bao Dai in control of South Vietnam.
In the late 1950s, Ho Chi Minh organized a communist guerrilla movement in the South, called the Viet Cong. North Vietnam and the Viet Cong successfully opposed a series of ineffectual U.S.-backed South Vietnam regimes and beginning in 1964 withstood a decade-long military intervention by the United States, known as the Vietnam War in America but also called the Second Indochina War.
Ho Chi Minh died on September 2, 1969, 25 years after declaring Vietnam's independence from France and nearly six years before his forces succeeded in reuniting North and South Vietnam under communist rule. Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, was renamed Ho Chi Minh City after it came under the control of the communists in 1975.


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Fisheries: Entry into force of new system to better control fisheries and fight against illegal fishing
On 1 January 2010, a set of new, strong rules will enter into force to bolster the control system of the European Union's Common Fisheries Policy. T hese rules will give the EU and its Member States new and powerful tools not only to protect the resources of our seas and oceans from unscrupulous operators, but also to protect the livelihoods of honest fishermen who would otherwise be exposed to unfair competition. With no preferential treatment from one country to another and no real temptation to cheat, because offenders will not be allowed to get away scot-free, the new system will enable fishermen to ply their trade under the same conditions, thus promoting a culture of compliance throughout the fisheries sector.
The new framework comprises three separate, yet interlinked Regulations: A R egulation to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU Regulation) 1 , a Regulation on fishing authorisations for the EU fleet operating outside EU waters 2 , and a Regulation establishing a control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy (Control Regulation) 3 .
Welcoming the entry into force of the new rules, European Commissioner for Fisheries Joe Borg said: "There was a time when an unprincipled minority of fishermen found that they could persistently bend the rules – or just break them outright – and get away with it. This new fisheries control framework puts a stop to that".
The effectiveness of any policy depends to a large extent on the way it is enforced. In the case of the Common Fisheries Policy, the enforcement system has so far been inefficient, expensive, complex, and ineffectual.
At the same time, illegal fishing practices are worth approximately 10 billion euros a year globally, making IUU fishing the second largest source of fishery products in the world. The EU is an attractive market for IUU operators, where demand for upscale products is high and IUU catches can be easily laundered, for example through processing, because of a conspicuous lack of mechanisms to track products and identify fishing vessels.
To respond to these challenges, the Commission proposed, in 2007/2008, to totally overhaul the control system in EU fisheries and introduce rules to curb IUU fishing worldwide.
Fight against Illegal Fishing
The new IUU Regulation will put a stop to products from illicit activities entering the EU market, because all marine fishery products traded with the EU will be certified and their origin will be traceable. A comprehensive catch certification scheme will make sure that the fish caught, landed, brought to market and sold can be tracked at any stage of the process – from net to plate.
To effectively combat infringements, the Regulation also introduces a harmonised system of proportionate and deterrent sanctions. Moreover, the accountability of EU nationals has been extended so that they may be prosecuted at home, regardless of where they operate around the world.
In October, the Commission laid down detailed implementing rules 4 that should make it easier for the parties to move to the new system. Since 2008 the Commission has been holding seminars and information sessions to help non-EU countries adapt to the new requirements.
Responsible Fishing outside the EU
The fishing authorisations Regulation, in force since October 2008, establishes a single, coherent framework for EU vessels fishing outside EU waters under fisheries partnership agreements, conventions signed within Regional Fisheries Organisations or private agreements with third countries. With this, the EU is setting a good example of sound management at international level and showing that it is serious about protecting seas and oceans throughout the world.
Stronger, more efficient fisheries controls
The new Control Regulation backs up the traceability system introduced by the IUU regulation and uses modern technologies to track fisheries products through every step of the market chain. This simpler, fairer, more effective and less costly control system will ultimately benefit all concerned, from government administrations to operators and consumers.
Hitherto, punishment for breaking the rules differed from one country to the next, leaving the fisheries sector devoid of a level playing field and allowing operators to take advantage of different penalty systems. But from now the same offence will be subject to the same sanction, wherever it takes place and whatever the fisherman's nationality or flag. Moreover, the new Regulation introduces a point system for serious infringements which can ultimately result in wrongdoers losing their licence to fish.
More information:
Council Regulation (EC) No 1005/2008 of 29 September 2008 establishing a Community system to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
C ouncil Regulation (EC) No 1006/2008 of 29 September 2008 concerning authorisations for fishing activities of Community fishing vessels outside Community waters and the access of third country vessels to Community waters, amending Regulations (EEC) No 2847/93 and (EC) No 1627/94 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 3317/9
Council Regulation establishing a Community control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy, amending Regulations (EC) No 847/96, (EC) No 2371/2002, (EC) No 811/2004, (EC) No 768/2005, (EC) No 2115/2005, (EC) No 2166/2005, (EC) No 388/2006, (EC) No 509/2007, (EC) No 676/2007, (EC) No 1098/2007, (EC) No 1300/2008, (EC) No 1342/2008 and repealing Regulations (EEC) No 2847/93, (EC) No 1627/94 and (EC) No 1966/2006
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1010/2009 of 22 October 2009 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 1005/2008 establishing a Community system to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
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100 Wars
In less time than it takes a pop star to go from fresh faced to train wrecked, Saif Gaddafi went from the toast of European academics to a mass murderer, Gaddafi's opposition went from Al Qaeda terrorists to brave rebels, then the brave rebels, many of whom were actually Iraqis, Tunisians and Jordanians, shot up an American diplomatic mission, hooked up with some of Gaddafi's Tuaregs to take over Northern Mali, shot them up and began carving out their own Islamist Emirate.
In barely two years, Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood president of Egypt, went from screaming that Egyptian children "must feed on hatred" to the toast of foreign diplomatic circles as the same geniuses behind the invasion of Libya try to make the best of handing over the most powerful country in the region into the hands of a terrorist organization.
In that same period, Syria's Assad went from the pages of Vogue and meetings with John Kerry to being the most reviled man in the world. But two years from now, if he survives the worst that the Syrian rebels, most of whom are Al Qaeda or wish they were, you might well find him meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry while his family gets another four pages in Vogue Magazine.
In two years, the evil ruthless dictators who kill and torture their own people have been replaced by ruthless democratically elected dictators who kill and torture their own people. In Egypt and Tunisia things are worse now than they were under the "dictators" and unsurprisingly the one thing that they can all agree on is that it's America's fault.
The press can't be expected to pay much attention to these events. The media will provide the obligatory coverage of Muslim Brotherhood torture chambers in Egypt and the labor riots in Tunisia. But it would really like to spend its time lamenting Israel's fall to the far right by covering the rise of a political party which holds the shocking and outrageous position that the twenty year old peace process has failed and should be wrapped up and put away.
It seemed like only a few weeks ago that the cognoscenti were enthusiastically predicting a new Middle East, sending reporters in droves to be kidnapped and molested at the celebrations of freedom and democracy. And now the new Middle East looks a lot like the old Middle East.
Columnists still pen the occasional column urging patience. Rome wasn't burned down in a day, they say, all revolutions take time. Look how long it took Germany, Russia and Japan to stop killing millions of people and get down to the business of making engines, accidents and wristwatches. They stop by Doha, take in the stores packed full of the finest French and Italian luxury goods, the terrified Filipino maids and the surly Thai workers and proclaim that the Middle East is just like Europe.
Arab Spring fever got the UK and the US, both of whose leaders had replaced unpopular predecessors associated with unpopular Middle Eastern wars, and France, which had been the poster brat for not going into Iraq, so fired up that they decided to bomb Gaddafi in the name of democracy.
Since the UN wasn't about to approve their regime change operation, the Libya liberators bombed the country's air force and then its armored vehicles in the name of protecting civilians. France got so caught in the excitement of protecting civilians, that it began airdropping assault rifles, RPGs and anti-tank missiles, despite the arms embargo. When asked about it, their spokesman explained that the French government was just helping civilians protect themselves. And an anti-tank missile certainly packs a lot of protection.
Now the civilians of Mali are about to come under the protection of some of those civilians and their toys. Between Somalia and Nigeria, Al Qaeda already has far too much of a presence in Africa. But Mali is its biggest footprint yet.
There's no telling what all this will mutate into, but our brief history here suggests that it will be ugly and fast.
Chaos breeds conflict in the region that eventually resolves into tyranny. And then an empire or two falls into the dust and the whole cycle begins again. The Ottoman Empire collapsed, the British Empire faded away like a sad song and the Soviet Union called it quits. Each of those events unleashed a new wave of violence and chaos, nationalistic movements and terrorist groups rushing to take advantage of the new opportunities.
The Arab Spring coincided with the collapse of the fourth empire. The Pax Americana. Hardest hit were the countries closest to the United States. Of the Middle Eastern countries who are close to the United States and aren't oil giants, only Israel and Jordan survived the spring intact. And Jordan isn't out of the woods yet.
The fall of the British Empire destroyed many of the region's monarchies. The fall of the USSR and the US marked the end of the Arab Socialists. And that just leaves the Islamists as the only game in town. But if Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait go under, then a fifth empire will collapse and take them with it. Oil made it possible for backward countries ruled by fat sheiks to become players on a global and regional level. It even made it possible for them to set their sights on colonizing the West. But if the energy revolution finally kicks in and the rest of the world stops crawling to OPEC, then a new wave of chaos will begin again.
The fifth empire, that jumble of slave-built skyscrapers and foreigner-tended oil industries, that mass of overpopulated cities and straggling countrysides, the clutter of minarets and billboards, palm trees and satellite dishes, is writhing in its own chaos, its own madness and violence, but surging out to colonize America and Europe.
While French soldiers battle Salafists in Mali, there are Salafists in the basements of Paris who are planning to do to France what they have done to Mali. And the demographics are on their side. America tried to fix Somalia and now there's a Somali on trial for plotting to bomb a Christmas tree lighting ceremony. America tried to fix Iraq and there are plenty of Iraqis locked up in American jails. To say nothing of the United Kingdom and Pakistan.
Those wars occupy our attention, but they are symptoms, not causes. The conflicts that we have seen are all the outcome of a prolonged process of political decay in the West. They are flares warning that power abhors a vacuum and fills it with bullets and bombs, with small wars that get bigger and bigger until they become the war. The big war whose battles will decide who rules and who is ruled.
The war hasn't gotten that far yet. For now we watch from afar while Salafist terrorists take apart the Western and Soviet trained and equipped armies of regional dictators. And then we watch while they fight our armies on their territory. It does not occur to most of those flipping through the channels, watching men in black masks riding Toyota pickups, shooting into the air and beheading their enemies that what is now Aleppo and Timbuktu may one day be London and Paris.
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- lemon lime moon said...
Another huge mess in the making.
- 16/1/13
- Anonymous said...
Arab Spring or Arab Sting?
- 16/1/13
- Ex-Dissident said...
Damn these spammers. Daniel, maybe you should create a registered group of followers of this blog and only allow them to make comments.
- 16/1/13
- ASG said...
Over a decade ago people on the right argued that the Islamists were determined to end our way of life and that fighting them was inevitable and we were better off fighting them in their own backyard. Due to the Left's sickening resistance, lack of common sense, and sympathies for our enemy, we did not fight them properly. Afghanistan and Iraq could have set an example for that entire region to stay out of the West. But instead through outrageous rules of engagement and an over hypersensitivity of the local populations, we failed. Any of us that were there, or that are paying particular attention to that region of the world over the last decade realized this long ago. Now, there is a difficult to explain feeling. I believe this feeling to be the anticipation of the fight coming to our backyards. And the enemy will not be as concerned with the lives of our civilians. Their rockets are not guided by complex computers (unless we supplied them with those too). The enemy we face celebrates the death of defenseless civilians. And to make matters worse, as our governments supply our enemies, they are currently systematically disarming us leaving us just a bunch of defenseless Dhimmis.
- 16/1/13
- Anonymous said...
Fun stuff, but it is worth remembering that the Libyan "revolution" was in fact a counter-coup mobilized from Cyrenaica NOT by Islamists or al-Qaida, but by very moderate Sanussiyah Muslims who merely demanded the return of the 1951 Constitution. This counter-coup (against the 1969 coup by Qadhafi, overthrowing the beautifully crafted Constitution which the UN and all the Libyan tribes approved) was then hijacked by the US, which fed Islamists (including al-Qaida related groups) into Libya, and armed them. Yes, this arrogant and stupid Western policy is coming back to bite the US and the West. But the Libyans tried to take back their birthright, only to have it hijacked by Waashington.
- 16/1/13
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
Blogger catches most of the spam, though not all of it. I could limit comments to registered users, but that would wipe out 70 percent of the comments, many of them by people who use Anonymous.
- 16/1/13
- ASG said...
Anonymous- You are wrong. al Qaeda was involved with the overthrow of Ghaddafi from day one. The western media hid that fact from the people because they didn't want to admit that Obama stabbed every recent combat veteran in the back with a rusty knife by bombing on behalf of al Qaeda after a decade of US troops dieing at the hands of the same exact people.
- 16/1/13
- mushroom said...
In two years, the evil ruthless dictators who kill and torture their own people have been replaced by ruthless democratically elected dictators who kill and torture their own people.
The joys of the Arab Spring. The wonders of Democracy!
See Revolution!
"In the Reign of Terror, Terror reigns."
Coming soon to a theater nearer you.
- 16/1/13
- Anonymous said...
About terrorists deplaning in Western cities: as a returning high-school student jetting back-and-forth from Saudi Arabia to the US three times a year, I enjoyed Swiss Air's Dhahran/Zurich/Chicago flights most of all.
The drinks were free, the transit times tolerable, and Zurich's airport is a great place to be laid-over for a few hours. You can stretch your legs, visit the mall, buy a good book or take a hot shower.
But lately, the availability of easy transit from Arabia to Chicago has occupied my thoughts. Obviously the demand for comfortable passenger-travel from terror-sponsoring nations to America's corruptible Northern cities would be enough to attract Swiss Air's route managers. And Daley's plans to enrich his city's airport by gaining another triple-A, international carrier at its gates abetted the formation of this pore. But I cannot help but think that others saw direct conduits to Chicago and Detroit, like Swiss Air's, as important, strategic beach-heads on America's "fruited plain."
We may look back on the eighties' promiscuous invitations to foreign carriers to hub at Democrat-machine's cities' airports, and our naive solicitation of foreign students from "difficult" regions to bunk at our colleges, and identify both as the methods by which the foxes gained entrance to our henhouse.
- 16/1/13
- Anonymous said...
Western foreign policy is pathological, like a patient with multiple psychological diagnoses: severe Borderline Personality disorder, sociopathic, codependent with multiple addictions.
- 16/1/13
- Anonymous said...
While the fighting goes on in the Middle East,the war the Muslim Brotherhood is fighting here in the U.S. goes unnoticed. Their civilizational war from within is wholely backed by our government. The Muslim Brotherhood,winning the control of Egypt, is winning control of the U.S. using the same tactics the Communists did except they are much better at that game because their commitment to world domination is greater.
While we concentrate on Eqypt, Libya, and Syria, the enemy within is systematically winning its war against us in our own backyard. The Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated powerful positions in our governments, federal, state and local. They have infiltrated our public policy-making institutes. They have infiltrated the schools, colleges and universities. They have filed hundreds of lawsuits in courts throughout the country against our Constitutional rights which do not comport with Shariah law. They have controlled the training manuals of our intelligence agencies.
We should be more concerned about the destruction of our Constitution, our liberties, and our future than that of Libya, Egypt or Syria which our own government, with the help of the Muslim Brotherhood, is doing.
- 16/1/13
- Anonymous said...
The power company sent a mailer the other day requesting a response as to which language I would like my bill/correspondence in. I don't even know what to say.
The water is getting warm....ribbit, ribbit.
- 16/1/13
- Ex-Dissident said...
Ask them to send the bill in gibberish. Then treat it accordingly.
- 16/1/13
- Anonymous said...
Daniel, congrats ! Another spot on and excellent article/blog post ! I love reading you and Mark Steyn. Elaine's post above is also accurate and yet nothing is being done about it. I got caught by the .223 ammo hoarding and can't get it anywhere (been to 8 gun stores in FL - no one has it - all waiting for the next factory truck loads). I am not a prepper or nut ball ( Military O-5 with two deployments to Afghanistan and Pakistan - three Masters Degrees - stint working in US House of Representatives) but I recommend those that can to cache their long rifles and ammo for the soon to come dark ages (make sure you hide them in metal plumbing pipes since US GOV has FOPEN and Ground Pentrating Remote Systems that can pick up yard buried guns)! Cling to Bible and guns! Join Oath Keepers!
- 17/1/13
- NormanF said...
The Middle East is sliding into chaos and barbarism and the UN and Western chancelleries are now hectoring Israel for not committing national suicide fast enough.
As Daniel Greenfield might well put it, the day Israel is consumed, then its the West's turn. Unlike during World II, they might never recover at the hands of a tough and determined enemy. Rome's DNA survived despite its fall. There's no chance the Western DNA will be any more than a lost and unloved memory under a global Islamic Caliphate.
It probably won't happen in our lifetime. Great civilizations rarely become extinct all at once. And then the great Cycle Of Life will begin all over again.
- 17/1/13
- Anonymous said...
"It does not occur to most of those flipping through the channels, watching men in black masks riding Toyota pickups, shooting into the air and beheading their enemies that what is now Aleppo and Timbuktu may one day be London and Paris."
That is exactly right. The lifestyle of the Western world seems eternal, the result of societal forward moving evolution, that one day all countries will become. But we all should remember Will Durant's words on the fragility of civilization:
""The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within."
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"The Immigrant," starring Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix and Jeremy Renner, is one of those prickly period pieces about hard times that gets under your skin and leaves you unsettled long after.
Though its story is far more about survival than love, there is a sense of seduction in director James Gray's new film, a wolf in sheep's clothing quality. Not unlike Bruno Weiss, the dandy who trolls Ellis Island for pretty girls in bad straits played so well by Phoenix.
Cotillard's Ewa Cybulska is one of those weary and desperate beauties, a world away from her edgy portrayal of Edith Piaf in 2007's "La Vie en Rose," which would win her an Oscar. Ewa and her sister, Belva (Dagmara Dominczyk), are just off the boat, still awaiting clearance to enter the country. It's a compelling opening scene, the endless lines, the empty faces, so many fates hanging in the balance, and opportunists like Bruno moving through the sea of humanity like sharks.
The sepia-saturated scene immediately evokes that vast influx of refugees in the '20s and '30s. The period detail achieved by production designer Happy Massee, costume designer Patricia Norris, and captured so beautifully by cinematographer Darius Khondji is outstanding. Composer Chris Spelman adds a bluesy jazz-age sound that is terrific — weeping when it needs to, carefree when that's called for later.
A bad cough that Belva can't stifle quickly separates the sisters and sets the conflict in motion. Belva's sent to the hospital ward and marked for deportation. Ewa is likely headed back to Poland as well unless someone steps in to sponsor her. All the while, Bruno is circling. His offer comes at a desperate time for Ewa, his help extended like a favor she is lucky to get. And so begins Ewa's life in this country — in debt to a stranger, the price of admission a high one, any promise of opportunity in America apparently not meant for her.
Written with Richard Menello, "The Immigrant" is Gray's most ambitious film. Despite rocky moments and a few ill-fitting pieces, it is intimate in its telling and more affecting for it. As with most of the filmmaker's work, if Gray has to choose sides, the have-nots will get his vote every time. He's a good guy to have in your corner. His collaboration with Phoenix — who's starred in all of Gray's films except the first, 1994's "Little Odessa" — continues to deepen, though 2008's "Two Lovers" remains my favorite.
The New York that Bruno brings Ewa into is a weird mix of the familial and the sinister. He has a troupe of girls who perform in his nudie revue. The house of entertainment is run by Rosie Hertz (Yelena Solovey), matronly toward the girls but shrewd when it comes to business. For a price, the patrons can buy private time. For Ewa, it is one more thing to resist until she can't.
The theme of compromise as the price of progress in this country is a compelling one. It's never more sharply drawn than when Bruno is trying to push Ewa into her first assignation. There is an intensity Cotillard brings to her resistance that is both defiant and broken. You can literally see reality etching itself on the actress' face. Not in great waves, rather the stiffening of her chin, the glare in her eyes, as hope is chipped away.
The actors overall do a very good job of scratching the underbelly of the immigrant experience. Phoenix takes on the mercurial Bruno like a challenge, and it is quite remarkable to watch him turn on a dime. Cotillard tamps down her emotions so deeply that she carries the look of an animal that's been stunned. It fits Ewa's situation, washed up on our shores penniless and paperless, soon at Bruno's mercy.
It makes watching the relationship between them fascinating — two great wills battling it out. Ewa's determination to get her sister off Ellis Island informs every choice she makes and drives the film. A moment in a church, confession at her darkest hour, crystallizes the cost.
Things brighten when Orlando the Magician (Renner) makes his appearance. Not just for Ewa but for the entire film, it's hard not to wish he'd shown up sooner and stayed longer. Renner is charming as the trickster, and it's a nice change of pace for an actor who usually goes dark, albeit impressively so, in dramas like "The Hurt Locker" and "The Town," which earned him Oscar nominations.
For all of Orlando's sleight of hand — on stage and off — he truly falls for Ewa. And she is enchanted by him. That Bruno is his cousin is a complication that changes the course of the film. It also becomes the catalyst for Ewa to try to alter her destiny.
Though the film is sometimes as fraught as the immigrant experience, in the end the ideas are so rich, the look so lovely, Ewa's journey so heartbreakingly real, even the flaws seem to suit it.
'The Immigrant'
MPAA rating: R for sexual content, nudity and some language
Running time: 1 hour, 57 minutes
Playing: At the Laemmle Royal, West L.A.