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Florida City Combines Good Training with Good Equipment to Keep Incident Rate at Zero
Less than six months after he took over the City of Bunnell's solid waste department, Perry Mitrano was subbing for one of his drivers and came within inches of killing someone. It was an anguished, unforgettable moment. And it reaffirmed to Mitrano, his department, and the residents of Bunnell that their modest investment in a PRECO Electronics PreView® Radar System was worth much more than the cost of the equipment itself.
Despite OSHA regulations calling for back-up alarms on large commercial vehicles, people continue to be injured and, tragically killed when trucks are being driven in reverse. For Perry Mitrano, Director of Solid Waste for the City of Bunnell, Florida, this is not an abstract observation. While backing up his trash truck in a condominium parking lot one day, he nearly ran over an elderly man who had knelt down behind the truck's massive rear wheels to retrieve his car keys.
It Can Take More Than Being a Good Driver to be a Safe Driver
Mitrano has been around large commercial vehicles most of his life. In fact, in 2012 he out-performed 450 other drivers to take first place in the Mack Truck Driving Skills contest at the annual WasteExpo conference. He knows his way around trucks. Even so, he says, if it wasn't for the PRECO radar system on his truck, the outcome in the parking lot that day could have been very different.
Beware the Back-end "Bubble"
"Backup cameras are wonderful. We use them and they help us avoid a lot of incidents," Mitrano says. "But there is a zone between the bottom of the cameras and the ICC bar that I call the 'bubble.' It's a blind spot where any objects that are lower than the bar don't show up on your monitor. That's where this gentleman was when the PRECO system picked him up and starting going off."
Mitrano says that he and his team had previously tested the PreView Radar system by rolling car tires past the back of the truck to see if the radar picked them up. It did every time.
"It might sound like a silly test. But we're out in the community all day long and we want to make sure we know instantly if anything lower than the bar passes behind us. That could be a kid on a tricycle or a dog or who knows what. We navigate our vehicles around a lot of people, cars and objects every day, so we need to stay very alert."
"We navigate our vehicles around a lot of people, cars and objects every day, so we need to stay very alert." -Perry Mitrano
"If your radar picks them up, then you've got time to put your foot on the brake. And a stopped truck is a safe truck. Plain and simple."
"The PRECO alert is what reminds my drivers that they need to stop, get out and look for themselves."
When It Comes to Safety, Pedestrians Can Become Creatures of Habit
In his career and as director of the city's Solid Waste Department, Mitrano says he has learned a few things. He knows that his drivers spend more than a third of their average working day driving in reverse. And he knows that most people pay little attention to the beeping sound of a large truck backing up. In fact, research published years ago by NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) concluded that people get used to the sound of alarms, not taking them as seriously as they should. Mitrano says his drivers see proof of this every day.
"Sometimes you see people in your rear view mirror. They hear you backing up. They're waiting to give you the right of way. You're waiting to let them go by. Finally you decide you're going to move the truck—just as they decide to try and beat you across the street. You look back again and they're gone. Maybe you spot them on your monitor screen, maybe not. But if your radar picks them up, then you've got time to put your foot on the brake. And a stopped truck is a safe truck. Plain and simple."
At the End of the Day, It's Up to Drivers to Take Safety Very Seriously
Situations like this point to another conclusion from the NIOSH report: Drivers who rely on backup beepers for safety can "lose the perception of responsibility for vigilant behavior." Mitrano says it's not unusual for some drivers to get lulled into complacency thinking that as long as their beeper is going off, people will get out of the way. The in-cab audible and visual alerts of the PRECO radar system make sure that complacency doesn't set in.
Good Drivers + Good Equipment = Good Safety
Mitrano is proud of the fact that his department has gone more than six years now without an accident. He attributes this in part to the training he passes on to his drivers, and in part to the investment his department has made in safety equipment.
"I'm 58 years old, so I'm not an old guy. But I'm an old school driver. I was taught by a guy who said, 'if you can't see behind you, get out and look.' That's a pretty simple idea, right? The PRECO alert is what reminds my drivers that they need to stop, get out and look for themselves."


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Some encouraging words from the Disgruntled Bear have given me new hope for Duality (you know, once I get the beginning settled; oh and all subsequent revisions after that...). So we'll see. I'm hoping that it finds a home.
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Isaac Hopper
Isaac Tatem Hopper
|December 3rd, 1771
|May 7th, 1852 (aged 80)
|Philanthropist, Children's Village co-founder[1]
|Sarah Tatum Hopper
Isaac Tatem Hopper (born Deptford, New Jersey, December 3, 1771, died New York City, May 7, 1852) was an American abolitionist who was active in Philadelphia in the anti-slavery movement and protecting fugitive slaves and free blacks from slave kidnappers. He was also co-founder of Children's Village with 23 others.[1]
He moved to New York City in 1829 to run a Quaker bookstore. From 1841-1845 he served as treasurer and book agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. In 1845 he became active in prison reform and devoted the rest of his life to the Prison Association of New York.
Life and career[edit]
Isaac Tatem Hopper was born into a Quaker family in Deptford, New Jersey in 1771. He married Sarah Tatum Hopper in 1795 and together they had ten children, including notable abolitionist Abigail Hopper Gibbons.[2]
He became a Hicksite Quaker – a follower of Elias Hicks – although he lived in Philadelphia, while many Hicksites lived in rural areas.
Following the American Revolutionary War, Pennsylvania had abolished slavery before the end of the eighteenth century. The state, and especially the major port city of Philadelphia, became a destination and byway for fugitive slaves escaping the South. In the years before the American Civil War, Philadelphia was frequented by slave kidnappers, who often would capture free black children to sell into slavery, as well as hunt fugitive slaves to return to their owners for reward.
Hopper became an active and leading member of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, whose members frequently worked to protect the rights of African Americans, as well as to seek the end of slavery in the United States. In time, Hopper became known in Philadelphia as a friend and adviser to blacks in all emergencies.
Hopper was an overseer of the Negro School for Children in Philadelphia, which was founded by the early abolitionist Anthony Benezet before the Revolutionary War, and operated through the nineteenth century. Hopper also served as a volunteer teacher in a free school for African-American adults.
He was one of the founders and the secretary of a society for the employment of the poor; a volunteer prison inspector; member of a fire company, and guardian of abused apprentices. Married and with a large family, he and his wife often extended their limited resources to take in more impoverished Quakers. Their children learned early to care for others. He also transacted much business for the Society of Friends.
In 1829 Hopper moved his family to New York in order to run a bookstore established by the Hicksite Quakers. In the autumn of 1830, being called to Ireland on business connected with his wife's estate, he visited England. In both countries he was at first treated somewhat cavalierly by the orthodox Quakers, and was pointed out as the one "who has given Friends so much trouble in America."[citation needed] His amiable personality changed their unfavorable impressions.[citation needed]
By the spring of 1841, the demand for Hicksite books had greatly diminished. Hopper became the treasurer and book agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society in New York.[citation needed]
Prison reform advocacy[edit]
In 1845 he gave up his offices with the Anti-Slavery Society, and devoted the rest of his life to the Prison Association of New York, which sought reform in prisons and the justice system. His married daughter, Abigail Hopper Gibbons, by then also in New York, founded the Women's Prison Association, to work for prison reform. She also founded an asylum for women prisoners who had been released, to help with their re-entry to society, which she named for her father as the "Isaac T. Hopper Home."
Hopper frequently visited the state capital of Albany, New York, to represent the association and to address the legislature. Judge Edmonds says of one of these occasions: "His eloquence was simple and direct, but most effective. If he was humorous, his audience were full of laughter; if solemn, a death-like stillness reigned; if pathetic, tears flowed all around him."[citation needed] He often pleaded for the pardon of prisoners. Governor John Young of New York, once said to him: "Friend Hopper, I will pardon any convict whom you say you conscientiously believe I ought to pardon."[citation needed]
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- ^ a b "OUR CITY CHARITIES--NO. II.; The New-York Juvenile Asylum". New York Times. January 31, 1860. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
- ^ http://web.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/speccoll/quakersandslavery/commentary/people/hopper.php
- Claus Bernet (2010). "Isaac Hopper". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). 31. Nordhausen: Bautz. cols. 657–659. ISBN 978-3-88309-544-8.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1891). "Isaac Hopper". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
Further reading[edit]
- Bacon, Margaret Hope, Lamb's Warrior: The Life of Isaac T. Hopper, 1970
- Child, Lydia Maria. Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life, 1859, Project Gutenberg
External links[edit]
- Narrative of the Life of Thomas Cooper New York: Published by Isaak T. Hopper, 1832.
- Celia Caust-Ellenbogen, "Isaac T. Hopper", Quakers and Slavery project, Bryn Mawr College


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Back at Season 26 I predicted Cochran would win after episode one. I have not been right since, but I have come close. In season 27 I heard spoilers, so I do not count it. For season 28 I predicted Woo (2nd place) over L.J. (9th place) and Spencer (4th place). In season 29 I picked Josh (11th place). For season 30 I picked Jenn (9th place) over Tyler (7th place) and Mike (almost picked the winner). In Season 31 I picked Spencer (tied for 2nd), and last season I picked Neal (11th place) over the eventual winner. Based on the edit the Gen X tribe is doomed, butt he person with the best chance is Jessica. She seems to have good awareness, and she does not come off as threatening.
From the intro I thought Zeke was doomed, but he quickly grew on me. He made fire, became friends but not too close with everyone), and he seems to be able to join either alliance. He is my pick to win it all.


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Church of Canada releases theology report on Anglican Covenant
The Rev. Alan Perry, Executive Archdeacon in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada comments on the recently released theological analysis of the Anglican Covenant:
… The report begins by saying, perhaps by way of excuse, that the anonymous group of authors "found it impossible to achieve consensus on what [the implications of adoption or non-adoption] might be." They go on to say that "this is not a matter of interpreting the document itself differently, but rather due to the divergent perceptions of the context in which the text of the Covenant came to exist and is now being read."
So, if I understand correctly, the committee had no trouble interpreting the text of the Covenant, and in fact agreed on that interpretation. But they couldn't agree on what it means due to "divergent contexts". Huh?
The bottom line seems to be that after a two and a half year wait for a serious theological analysis of the Anglican Covenant, in order to come to some kind of informed decision as to its adoption, we have been presented with a slap-dash all-nighter reflecting the most superficial reading of the Covenant, virtually no engagement with or quotation of the actual text, and nothing that looks like theology to me in the whole document. We really do have some theologians in the Anglican Church of Canada, but you'd never guess that from this document. No wonder the authors left their names off it.
So, we are left with six months before the General Synod meets. We have a very fine study guide from the Canadian Church (which was produced in time to allow it actually to be used), and we have an equally fine legal analysis (also provided with plenty of lead time). Theological analysis? Not so much. But we can only work with what we have and what we have suggests, albeit without stating it in those terms, that we shouldn't touch the Covenant with a barge pole.
General Synod will meet in July, presumably to make a decision on the proposed Covenant, without the benefit of the theological analysis it asked for. But the legal analysis should be enough to decide that the only rational vote on the Covenant will be "no."
The report is found beginning on page 11 of this document
Well, it looks like Episcopal Cafe has scooped the Anglcian Journal (The offical ACofC National Newspaper) on this story. The report from "Faith, Worship, Ministry" Committee has been very much under the radar. In fact, the Covenant itself has been very much under the radar in Canada throughout. Many of us, study guide notwithstnading, have heard little or nothing about it.
Alan Perry's concerns, about an anonymous group not providing the the theological reflection they were asked to, are well placed.
It vey much looks like the General Synod 2013 will be asked to contend with the Covenant wihout any real theological reflection having been accomplsihed beforehad.
But it gets worse. The allocation of time for major decsions has now become controvesial as well--something you can indeed read about in the "Anglcian Journal".


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The last concert in the club's 64th season took place in the Tower Mill auditorium on Saturday evening, when Harris Playfair and Heather Cattanach took centre stage playing on two pianos.
They opened their ambitious programme with the Prelude and Fugue in E minor, otherwise known as 'The Wedge' because of the ever-widening intervals of the notes of the theme, in the manner of a wedge. Originally written for organ, this demanding piece, arranged for two pianos by Max Reger, was played with great precision.
This was followed by Harris' own arrangement of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett's Noctuary – 'a diary of the events of the night' – variations on 'Solace', a theme of Scott Joplin. Beginning and ending in recognisable Joplin style, succeeding variations showed a large mix of 20th-century styles and influences, including Ravel, Scriabin, Gershwin, and, latterly, Pierre Boulez, with whom Bennett studied in Paris.
The second half opened in lively style with Darius Milhaud's ever-popular and engaging Scaramouche. Taking its name from the Theatre Scaramouche, which specialised in productions aimed at children, this lively iconic clown-like character is depicted brilliantly in different moods and was played with enormous enthusiasm.
The last two items, both of which were compositions by these talented performers, were firstly 4:2:1 – four hands, two people, one piano – an amalgamation of attractive tunes with, the audience was told, esoteric meanings and included two birthday pieces.
The concluding item, Celtic Shenanigans, written at Celtic Courses in Shetland and Aberdeen, raised many a smile when the players changed places at the piano several times during the performance without ever interrupting the flow of the many melodies.
This was without doubt a thoroughly enjoyable concert given by two extremely gifted musicians equally at home in the musical worlds of classical, jazz and folk. It concluded a successful series of concerts promoted by the club which now looks forward to its 65th season while hoping to welcome new members and visitors in September.


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Monday, 22 October, 2001, 14:34 GMT 15:34 UK
Animal lovers save moor ponies
Animal lovers have saved Dartmoor ponies from a threatened cull by buying them up at an auction.
But others may still die unless their gesture is repeated at future sales.
The season's first bidding for the free-roaming ponies took place at Chagford, Devon, on Monday.
Animal lovers came from across England to buy animals after national reports that the RSPCA and the Dartmoor Commoners Association were planning a mercy-cull.
The RSPCA said slaughtering a possible 500 ponies was better than allowing them to starve on the high moors in winter.
Those that survived a winter on the moors could add to an over-breeding problem, threatening the integrity of the ancient blood line.
About 200 ponies were sold at Chagford by 1200 BST.
Joanne Cutts travelled from Lincoln to buy one.
She said: "We have ponies at home and we love them, and we think it's a shame that healthy animals could be culled."
Georgina Andrews, from Hampshire, bought two.
Best animals
She said: "You can't save them all but you just want to do your little bit."
Rendells auctioneers had asked farmers to bring only their best animals.
Maureen Rolls, one of the Dartmoor commoners, said: "It's fantastic.
In the past, well-meaning people have bought without realising the commitment involved in keeping an animal that can live for 35 years.
Some have even been found abandoned by their new owners in Plymouth city centre.
Inspector Len Rankin of the RSPCA said the animals appeared to be going to good buyers.
But he also said the crisis had highlighted a growing problem over the number of ponies being kept on the moor.
Unwanted colts
"It's been going on for many years," he said.
"The farmers have got to a watershed now and they realise there is a problem.
"It's been brought home by foot-and-mouth and the problems they have had getting feed in for their farms, let alone for the ponies."
He said many farmers might now decide not to keep colts.
"Any they don't want will almost certainly be culled on the farms."
Only half the usual number of sales have been planned for the autumn - meaning some healthy adult ponies may still have to be slaughtered.
See also:
09 Oct 01 | England
Dartmoor ponies face cull
06 Sep 01 | UK
Wild pony round-up beats ban
29 Aug 01 | UK
Bleak winter for moor ponies
05 Mar 01 | UK
Foot-and-mouth threat to Dartmoor
13 Jul 00 | Wales
Concern at 'ponies for �1'
05 Nov 99 | Sci/Tech
Conservationists rely on pony power
02 Oct 98 | UK
Dartmoor ponies under threat
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December 22, 2010, by Annie Zaleski .
Last week, former Escape The Fate vocalist RONNIE RADKE got out of prison, after spending nearly two-and-a-half-years there. In January 2008, the 27-year-old was convicted of battery with substantial bodily harm for his role in a high-profile May 2006 fight in his hometown of Las Vegas that left 18-year-old Michael Cook dead. Radke originally avoided jail time, but after violating terms of his probation, he was sent to prison in August 2008.
La semaine dernière, l'ex chanteur du groupe Escape The Fate, Ronnie Radke est sorti de prison après y avoir été incarcéré pendant environ 2ans et demi. En janvier 2008 le jeune homme a été condamné pour coups et blessures agravés sur Michael Cook en mai 2006 dans sa ville natale de Las Vegas.
Radke ne devait pas aller en prison mais suite à une violation de sa liberté conditionnel il fut incarcéré en août 2008.
While incarcerated, Radke started a new band, From Behind These Walls, which is now known as FALLING IN REVERSE.
The band are planning to leave next week for Orlando, Florida, to record their debut with producer Elvis Baskette. Earlier this week, Radke opened up exclusively to Altpress about FIR's forthcoming music, what jail was like, being sober, how he's changed and how he feels toward toward Escape The Fate and his replacement, Craig Mabbitt.
Durant son incarcération, Radke a fondé un nouveau groupe, From Behind These Walls, qui porte à présent le nom de Falling In Reverse.
Le groupe à l'intention de se rendre en Floride, à Orlando pour enregistrer son premier album avec le producteur Elvis Baskette.En début de semaine, Radke à révélé en exclusivité à Altpress quelques informations sur FIR.
La prison lui a entre autre permis de se sevrer (alcool/tabac/drogue). Radke nous explique ici en quoi il a changé, son opinion sur ETF ainsi que sur son remplaçant, Craig Mabbitt.
How was your first weekend free?
It was a lot of anxiety. I can't be around too many people, and I'm nervous and shaky. Today was a lot easier. I went to the mall for the first time, and there were people trying to film me to put on YouTube. I ducked and I covered my face. Getting back to reality, you know?
Comment s'est passé votre premier week-end en liberté ?
C'était très stressant. Je ne supporte pas d'être entouré de trop de gens, je suis nerveux et instable. Aujourd'hui c'était plus simple. Je suis allé au centre commercial pour la première fois, les gens essayaient de me filmer pour ensuite poster les vidéos sur youtube. Je les ai évité et couvert mon visage. C'est un retour à la réalité, vous voyez ?
That's intense.
It is. I'm the same person, but a lot has changed, though. [I'm] sober now and sticking to it. All I want to do is work—work on my record and my career. That's the main focus.
C'est intense.
Ça l'est. Je suis toujours le même, mais beaucoup de chose ont changé malgré tout. A présent je suis sobre et je compte le rester. Tout ce que je désire est travailler, travailler sur mon album et ma carrière. C'est le principal.
So far, what's the biggest change for you being out of prison?
The biggest change is trying to adapt to my surroundings. It's harder for me, because I'm more famous than before I went to prison. Like, way more. I didn't realize how famous I got since I went to prison. I got fan letters, but I didn't realize it blew up like that. I get out, and everywhere I go, it seems like people know either about it or are a big fan. I don't know, I got a lot more eyes on me than a normal prisoner would, right? It's hard to get used to, but I'm doing it, though. I'm doing pretty good.
What are you doing to make things easier for yourself?
Trying to stay busy. I'll force myself to do things I don't want to do. Like, "Let's go to Walmart" or, "All right, dude, I don't want to do this, but we have to." If I don't do it now, it's going to get worse. So I'm gonna walk into the Walmart, right? The little things like holding money? It's so foreign to me now. It's crazy to hold money or drink out of a water bottle. I'll [turn on the sink and] walk away forgetting that I have to turn it off because in prison, the sinks turn off by themselves. It's just crazy. Eating food? Oh, my God. It's like an orgasm in my mouth, eating food that's not prison food.
Describe people what it's like [being in prison]. Did you have your phone?
No way, no way. It's so locked down. It's, like, the worst thing that could ever happen to anybody, besides living in a third-world country. When your freedom's taken away from you, a lot of people don't really think about it. But when it happens to you, it changes everything forever. I'll never be the same. I have a lot more respect for myself and people around me. I'm not disrespectful, I try to be polite. I'm more polite than I used to be. Inside prison, there's a lot of stuff you have to follow, or you can literally get killed over stuff so stupid—for bumping into somebody and not saying sorry.
Wow. That's frightening. People don't realize that you can't mess up there. It's a lot of pressure.
I did pretty good for a long time. As you go through the prison experience, it gets easier to do the things...I don't know, it's hard to explain. It's so violent, right? It's full of hatred. There's so much hatred in prison. It's Nazi skinheads, Black Panthers, bloods, crips... Where do I stand in all that? I never joined any of those gangs or anything because I don't believe in that stuff, but it seems like there's no love. It's literally all hatred, all the time.
What did you do to protect yourself?
I did a lot of push-ups. I got some muscles now—a little bit of muscle. I had to protect myself a couple of times. One misconception [about prison] is [that people get raped]. People don't get raped in prison anymore. And if they do, it doesn't happen really often. That was a plus. That's only in the movies. That's one thing people don't know.
Were you allowed to have visitors?
Yeah. I had to choose my visitors. The only person I chose to come visit me was my friend Nason [Schoeffler, bassist in Falling in Reverse]. There were a lot of people that wanted to come visit me, but I didn't want to. I didn't want to talk to anybody. I wanted to start new. I just wanted to have a new life. I don't want to deal with all the drama anymore, I want to save it for the record.
That makes sense. There are a lot of people around you in the past who didn't have your best interests at heart and were bad influences. To get clean and stay clean, you almost have to cut people out.
It's almost impossible when the dudes in your old band were doing drugs with you. When the ball drops, when everything starts crumbling, there's only one person to blame after that. That's when you figure out who your real friends are, if you know what I'm saying. It's like all of a sudden, it's all my fault. [Escape The Fate bassist] Max Green used to help me get drugs. He used to help me steal money. He used to drive me around 'cause I never had a license, so he was the one that was driving the van. We'd stop at places and we'd sell our merch to get drugs. And it was him driving. [A representative for Green, who is currently in rehab, declined to comment at this time. —ed.]
I remember Brett Gurewitz from Epitaph Records—I had just got out of jail for these traffic tickets, and he's like, "You gotta go to rehab." And he's like, "Max, I'm trusting you to pick him up and take him straight to rehab." [Green was] like, "Yeah, man, I got it." No one knew Max was a drug addict then. He kept it on the down-low. Right when I got out, Max was like, "We gotta go to rehab. But do you want to stop at the drug dealer's house first?" I was like, "Yeah." Seven days later, I finally went to rehab.
When was that?
That was the only time I ever went to rehab, it was before [2006's] Dying Is Your Latest Fashion came out. I always thought [Green] was a good friend, and I didn't know what a good friend was. I don't think a friend would do that to you, and then stab you in the back. Not to mention, I've known [the members of Escape The Fate] for so long, then [they talked] all this shit while I was in prison for something I didn't do. I really didn't do it. Everybody knows it. You can read the discovery—the legal part, what really happened—and you can see that I didn't do it. I'm the only one that went to prison. I didn't shoot anybody. I didn't punch anybody. I was what they call the face of everything.
Have you talked to Green lately? When's the last time you've talked to him?
He's never written me one letter, no. All [Escape The Fate] do is talk shit about me.
So you haven't talked to anyone in the band?
No, they've never written me any letters. Not even one.
Do you miss them?
No. Well, at first, when I first went in, it was so fresh, I would miss them. Then it just started getting like, "Oh, he got caught with heroin." They'd start making up lies. "He's addicted to heroin, in prison. He got caught with heroin. Fuck him. Go suck his dick," to, like, 13-year-old children while onstage. They're telling these kids, you know, "Fuck the old singer. He just got caught with heroin, he's going to be in there for a long-ass time. This next song's called 'Situations,'" and then go sing my song. It's just like, I don't know. I don't want to talk to [Green]. We're not friends. We'll never be friends after that. How could you be friends with somebody that would do that to you? Plus for knowing you for so long, too. That's, like, heartless, you know?
How did you hear about this stuff in prison?
Nason would just tell me everything that was going on. I didn't believe most of what Nason said when it came to, like, how bad the Escape The Fate records are now and how shitty of a singer Craig [Mabbitt] is and how Auto-Tuned his voice is. I went on the [ETF] Facebook, and almost every comment is like a "Fuck you." I have such loyal fans, man. I didn't realize that it was like this. I thought I would just fade out. I didn't realize how big it's going to be.
Any interview that was done with you or that other people did about you, the comment response was insane. Why do you think that is?
I think it's just the reality of... I wear my heart on my sleeve, and I'm honest with everything I do. I would never not be honest in my lyrics and in my songwriting. When that was gone [from Escape The Fate], they're looking at each other, like, "Well, what do we do now? We'll just let the producer write everything." When a producer writes everything, it's not really from the heart anymore. It's not from [the band's] heart, at least. You can't take a singer out of a band that's already established and put another singer in and dress him up the exact same way and try to pull the veil over these fans' eyes. It doesn't work like that. Kids can see through that, I believe.
What was drug rehab like in jail? Was it different than regular drug rehab?
The whole prison experience was drug rehab. That was another reason I got so angry that they were saying I got caught with heroin. If I would have got caught with heroin, I would still be in prison. I'd be in there for another four years, you know? Obviously it's not true. Drug rehab... I don't know. It's not all love or anything, it's still like rehab on the outside. You live and you learn in there. Exercising every day started slowly getting the chemicals in my brain back to normal to where I'm like, "I don't even want to look at a pill or even think about going and getting anything." I'm so strong now, it's ridiculous.
In an October 2008 interview, you said you had an album's worth of songs and were going out to record with Omar [Espinosa, ex-ETF]. Is that similar to what is happening now? Is it some of the same songs?
It's not Omar. It's the same producer [Elvis Baskette] who did Dying Is Your Latest Fashion. Back then, I was supposed to go record with Omar. And I'm glad I didn't, cause I don't think I would have been at my prime, and my lyrics are so beyond anything I've ever written. People don't even know. My lyrics are freaking ridiculous now.
In what way?
The metaphors, how the words are formed together. You're already professional at what you do, right? And someone sticks you in solitary confinement. For two-and-a-half years, every single day you come up with new ways to do things, and you have no outside influence by any type of other music—cause there's no other music. It's just you and yourself and all you have to do is write, write, write, write, literally for two-and-a-half years. I came up with some of the most genius things... I don't think anybody's even going to come close to this for a long time.
How many songs did you end up writing?
About 25 songs that are done, and 30 miscellaneous.
What are the themes you're coming up with?
A lot about my mother, a couple songs about prison, about getting out of prison and going to jail for something I didn't do, and how corrupt Vegas is. Songs about Max and Craig and what big douchebags they are now. It's a lot about... just real stuff, you know? I've had a really hard life, so I don't really write songs about love.
You haven't had room for that, in a way.
Yeah. I only write how I feel. And I'm not going to lie to myself and try to write songs on how much I love somebody. I do have love, but... there will be a lot of songs about just what I've been through. What I'm going through and what I'm going to do.
How did Falling In Reverse come together?
The band came together because of Nason. I was like, "I'm going to give up singing, man. I'm just going to work a job." I remember Nason looked at me—I was coming down off of pills—and he's like, "Dude. You can't do anything else, man. You were born for this." I'll never forget that. That was right when I was wanted on the news, I was at his house. The [U.S. Marshals] came and got me the next day. I was like, "Hey, Nason, do you want to be in my band?" And he's like, "Yeah, dude." A month later, he just started a MySpace page and started building and building and building. We changed the name From Behind These Walls to Falling in Reverse, because Falling in Reverse means so much more, right?
It just started building and building. Then he met a guy named Jacky [Vincent]. He has a degree in music and there's nobody in this industry, in our genres of music, that's better than him. He is seriously the best. [Search for him on] YouTube. He's like a Steve Vai. He's that good. And he's 21 years old. He's like [Avenged Sevenfold guitarist] Synyster Gates, he's really good. Then we got this guy named Derek [Jones], he played in the Agony Scene. He also played in this band called A Smile From The Trenches. We've been going through drummers. A couple drummers didn't work out because there were some drugs involved, and I don't want to be around anybody that does drugs. We're just going to have somebody fill in for the drums on the album. We'll find a drummer, though. We're supposed to drive [on] the 27th to go record this album.
With Elvis Baskette, right?
Yeah, we were going to fly, but I can't get my ID.
Is that because you have a felony?
No, no, no. It's because they kicked me out of prison, and then they took my prison ID and I don't have a birth certificate, blah blah blah. I gotta wait for this. Elvis wants me to come out as soon as possible, so I said, "Fuck it, we'll just drive." We're going to be out there for three months. He wanted to rent a rental car and fly me, and I said, "Instead of that, we'll just drive and use the van, so it saves you thousands of dollars."
What do you like about Elvis as a producer? Why was he the right choice?
He's like my best friend. I've known that guy since I was 18 years old. There's a song called "Listen Up" on Falling in Reverse's [MySpace] page. And then "Not Good Enough For Truth in Cliché" off the Dying Is Your Latest Fashionalbum. There's another one called "Make Up" and there's another one called "As You're Falling Down." That was the four-song demo that Escape The Fate didn't write. I actually wrote that with Elvis. Those songs aren't even original Escape The Fate songs. They were put on the album because they were so good. Brett Gurewitz really liked them, so he put 'em on there. But me and Elvis are like two peas in a pod when it comes to writing songs. The dude's a genius, he really is. I don't know if he's under the radar or anything, but the guy knows what he's doing.
And he works well with vocalists, that's what I always notice about the stuff he does.
He's a vocalist guy. That's why me and him get along so well. One of his favorite bands is Van Halen, and he said I remind him of David Lee Roth. That's like the biggest compliment in the world.
It seems like Nason really stood by you. What did it mean to you that he believed in you?
I was coming out of the prison gates, and the road—I'm getting chills to even think about it—driving down in shackles coming back to be released to the public. It was insane. On the ride, I started crying, tears coming down my face. [It was] the first time I cried in two-and-a-half years. I didn't cry at my sentencing, I didn't cry in prison. It was impossible. I just felt like the weight was been lifted off. And I was thinking of Nason the whole time. Motherfucker stood by me through everything. I've known him almost as long as I've known Max. I've known Max three years longer. For a friend to do that, the loyalty, it's ridiculous.
When did you guys first meet?
I've known him since around 18, 19 years old, when my first demo came out. We weren't best friends hanging out every day, but we were friends, we would hang out.
Musically, what are the new songs sounding like?
I can't even explain them. You know what's crazy? To dress up like '80s hair metal bands, back when I was doing it in 2007, nobody did that, okay? Nobody did that. And if they did, it was not how we were doing it. I get out, and there are bands that look exactly like [Escape The Fate], and it's like, I'm so proud. I feel honored, man. That's so cool. That made me very happy to see that, that people would actually do that.
On Dying Is Your Latest Fashion, it was an accident putting songs like "The Guillotine" with breakdowns. Then the next song on the album is called "Reverse This Curse," and it's like a Blink-182, poppy song. That was just an accident, I just did that because that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to do something different. Now everybody's doing that: breakdowns, breakdowns and then poppy songs next, then breakdowns. Nobody was doing that kind of stuff before, it was either breakdowns the whole time, like heavy bands screaming, or pop.
Now everybody's doing the breakdown/poppy thing. I'm trying to keep it 50/50, though, with the breakdowns and the pop. Some of the songs got breakdowns like I would normally do, and most of them are like... dark. Dark chords. Heavy shredding, ridiculous shredding. Double-bass. Jacky makes a lot of guitar players look like amateurs, he's really freaking good, man.
Do you have a label in mind yet?
We have a couple of labels in mind, three or four have hit me up. I might stay with Epitaph, I think that's what I'm going to do. We're still in the midst of figuring everything out. I got some stuff locked in for sure, I'm just not allowed to talk about it.
You're going to be in Orlando for three months. Are you going to record all 25 songs you wrote?
I want to keep that a secret, on the down-low... I can't really say, I can imply that it will be a shocker, right? People are going to be shocked, like, "What?" when they hear what we're doing with the album.
Some secrecy is good, though. So much of your life has been such an open book—having some things for yourself is good.
Just for now, I wanted to keep it on the down-low...okay, I'll just say it. We wanted to do two albums, one really heavy and one all pop songs, and release it on the same day.
Really? That's awesome.
No one does that.
No. Or they'll do one and then do another one four months later, if that does well.
I think kids' heads will explode if that happens, right? [Laughs.]
Why did you guys want to do that, then?
I just came up with the idea. I think my creativity slowly came back and I became a ball of creativity—walking creativity, glowing, producing creativity. You know, I'm 100 percent sober, I'm healthy, I'm cut up a little bit. My mind's right, my creativity's through the roof. The way the songs are sung, [nobody]... is doing it how I'm doing it right now. What we're about to do.
Isn't it weird, that when you're on drugs, you think, "This is great." And once your mind is clear, you're like, "What was I thinking?"
Exactly. And I believe that Escape The Fate, on their new album, they were rushed into something, and they were forced to write songs quickly. I'll be honest with you, I'm trying to not be biased, but I don't like it. I don't like how they went with it. That's just my opinion, though, and obviously everybody's going to say, "Go figure." But of all singers, they could have got somebody that's better than Craig, man. I think I'm a much better singer than Craig. For him to act like me and dress like me and even talk [and use] mannerisms, like me is just pathetic. They should have reinvented themselves or changed their name or did something when This War Is Ours came out. That's what I believe.
Have you talked to Craig before you went to jail?
We were friends. I remember [Blessthefall and Escape The Fate] were on the [2007] Black On Black tour and he came out of the green room at the end of tour crying, saying someone stole, like, his laptop and all of his money. He has to buy diapers for his daughter. I remember, like, the last time I saw him literally before I got into the bus, I pulled out $300 and I said, "Dude here's my last three hundred. Buy your kids some diapers, man." He gave me a hug. That's the last time I saw him.
It still seems like you have a lot of anger toward him and the band.
Yeah. It's expected. The anger will be directed into the album. There will be no hostility if I ever see them or anything. I'm a better person than that now. But to talk so much shit for two-and-a-half years, knowing I can't defend myself? That's the lowest of lows, man. And then to try to write us and act like we're friends or something—he's like trying to write my [new] band...
Who is?
Craig was trying to write my band trying to get them to come over to hang out. He was doing that to get to me. They want to break me down and keep breaking me down, but it's never going to happen. Especially with how crappy [Escape The Fate] are now.
Is there anything that could mend the relationship you guys once had?
No. Never. The only thing I could do is forgive. I will forgive everybody for what they did. I'm not perfect; I did some bad stuff, too. But friends are supposed to be there for friends. There's a lot of stuff that Max did and I forgave him for in the past, and he knows it. He knows it. It did some pretty bad stuff to me. I don't expect him to be [like], "Oh, we gotta wait around for him to get out of prison." But they didn't have to kick me out, talk shit about me, lie and say I get caught with heroin, and stuff like that. They could have been supportive.
That's such a hard situation all around. What strikes me during this conversation is that you sound so confident, I guess. I don't think you've ever lacked for confidence—and you sound very clear and focused in your voice, the way you're talking.
Well, thank you. I've become so much more polite. We went to the mall today, and I got in somebody's way and I'm like, "Oh, I'm sorry." Or if I bump into somebody, I apologize. I forgot that if people bump into people, and they won't say sorry, that's usually what happens. But in prison, you can't do that. I don't know. It's crazy.
Now that you've been in jail, do you regret having to go there?
I would never change it. I would never change it, because I am such a better person now. I'm so different, so focused and just have newfound respect for life.
Not a lot of people get that second chance. How many stories do you know where people go to jail, and it doesn't change them, they don't learn from it. They get out and continue doing the same old things.
Exactly. Or, like, I heard a lot of stuff like, the reason why prisoners go back to drugs immediately—they don't want to—but the anxiety level of trying to deal with people is so high. It's ridiculous. If I could show you for a glimpse of how I have to deal with people again, it's so ridiculous. People go back because they can't deal with reality.
I've heard that before, and it makes a lot of sense. You're used to rigid schedules, and to be thrown out into chaos, and it's the week of Christmas. So it's even more insane.
Yeah, dude. Oh, my God, I went to the mall, it was crazy.
I don't even want to go near the mall. If you can do that, I think you're well on your way...
I'm scared of girls, I'm kind of bashful. It's crazy. Before I went to prison, I was like, "Whatever. I could have any girl I want." I wasn't scared of any girls. I could just go up and talk to any girl. Now it's like, I can't talk. I'm, like, embarrassed, I blush a lot.
It's like you're 13 again or something.
Yeah, I'm like a virgin again. I haven't had sex yet, still. I've had a couple offers, and I turned them down. I'll get to it, though, eventually.
What else do you want people to know?
I want to apologize to all of my fans for letting them down. I want to thank all my fans that stood by my side through everything, because two-and-a-half years is a long time. and people forget. I can't believe that they wouldn't forget. And I want to thank all the fans, the 100,000 [letters of] fan mail I got. These fan letters, they'd be like, "Thank you. You saved my life. If it wasn't for you, I would've committed suicide." It's crazy that my lyrics would actually help somebody to that degree.
That's a lot of pressure.
I feel like I have a lot of pressure to make this album. I know it's going to come out amazing. But it is a lot of pressure.
But it sounds like you have a support system—who know you and have stood by you.
Everybody around me is sober. No one is addicted to drugs. [No] creeps or anything like that. That's the biggest deal for me.
If you go on tour again, it sucks that there are people in the world who would want to see you fail and would want to give you drugs.
My mentality now is, I would want to punch somebody in the face if they offered me drugs right now. That would be so disrespectful; are you kidding me? I feel stronger than I ever have.


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Justice Habeeb Abiru of a Lagos High Court, Ikeja has fixed November 27 for the trial of Keystone Bank (formerly Bank PHB), three officials, an Indian and his company, Nulec Industries Limited alleged to have defrauded a businessman, Sir Daniel Chukwudozie of N855 million.
They were arraigned on a two-count charge of conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretence by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The defendants are Anayo Nwosu; Olajide Oshodi, Sunny Obazee, Bank PHB, Ashok Isran, an Indian who also has a Swiss citizenship, his company, Nulec Industries.
According to the EFCC, the six defendants allegedly defrauded Chukwudozie of Dozzy Oil of N855 million.
In his petition to the EFCC dated 1st March, 2012, signed on his behalf by his counsel, Mr P.I.N. Ikwueto, now before the court, Chukwudozie said he invested the huge sum in Nulec Industries Limited based on the assurances given by officials of the bank that the shares of the company will be listed on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, one month after private placement and at a price not below N5.
Chukwudozie said he later found that the private placement offer price was N2.85k and not N5 as claimed by the defendants.
He also alleged that he was actually hoodwinked into parting with the large sum of money.
He claimed that no Memorandum of Investment or any other information about the company was given to him when the transaction was made.
"On the strength of the assurances by the bank, our client invited and persuaded his associates and close family members to also invest in the private placement aforesaid."
He said himself and other investors enlisted by him bought as much as 300 million units of shares valued at N855 million in Nulec.
Chukwudozie alleged that further investigations revealed that Nulec was indebted to the defunct Bank PHB to the tune of N130 million.
He said Nulec was similarly indebted to other banks, including FCMB, UBA, GTB, to the tune of N300 million.
According to him, the volume of indebtedness of Nulec was not disclosed to him at the commencement of the transaction.
He also alleged that the money raised from the public offer was wired overseas after Bank PHB deducted Nuclec's indebtedness to the bank.
Chukwudozie said visits to the headquarters of Nulec were on a number occasions rebuffed by its officials.
Counsel to the 3rd defendant, Mr Uche Obi objected to the presence of a colleague, Mr Ugwunzor Adindu, saying he was not a counsel on record in the matter and that he should not be making comments as he lacked the standing to do so.
But Adindu in his submission claimed to be the counsel to the MD of Dozzy Oil, the businessman who was allegedly duped by the bank and some of its officials.


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There always has to be one team that defies belief, and the Dayton Flyers are the ones doing it this year, carrying on their improbable march towards the Elite Eight with a 82-72 win over Stanford, showing once more just how valuable it is to have no stars but simply 12 players who do what they're told and can contribute at any given time. More
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A communication or conversation between young people or in a group of people, called teen chats. Sometimes this conversation could be particular or casual about something. Or this could also be in the form of text messages/ SMS, or in the form of synchronous conferencing which is an online chat form. In a simple definition, chat can be defined as "transmission of messages/text messages/SMS over the internet between people. There might be more than two people involved in this conversation. Generally, these messages kept short to get a quick response.
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A teen chat is a conversation between teenagers, over the internet. This conversation might be offline as well. Multiple chat options are there over the internet to make the chat private and secure. Also, there are a lot of teen chat apps; which you can use as a chat option. Teen chat rooms are made for the teens of age 13 to 19 years, where they can freely chat with other teenagers. Apart from this, teen chat rooms are also available where boy and girls of teenage meet online and have great time and fun. Sharing/ chatting/ talking with people of the same age is what teenagers like most to do. Being a teenager, the best thing is to do is having an awesome time with the people of same age. There are multiple websites created for young people, where the teenage users share their stories and videos and have fun. A chat room entry is very simple. You just need to enter the chat room and select a webcam option for teenagers to have a video chat in groups or with an individual.
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This week's challenge is "Use Kraft Paper" on your cards/projects, so I colored on kraft paper. =)
The lovely Mostly Naomi and Until Olive are stamped on PTI's kraft cardstock and colored with Prismacolor colored pencils.
I used Japanese washi tapes to help decorating the card and the sentiment is cut using Paper Smooches' Thanks So Much die.
That's all for now. Don't forget to find out what the other design team members and participants created for this week's challenge and see all the challenge details over on the Stamping Bella Blog!
Have a fabulous day and thanks for stopping by!
Affiliate links are used in some cases! =)
cardstock: (kraft) Papertrey Ink
rubber stamps: (Mostly Naomi, Until Olive) Stamping Bella
hybrid ink: (Chocolate Brown) My Favorite Things
color medium: (colored pencils) Prismacolor
accents: (Kaleidoscope, Purely Peppermint sequins) Lucy's Cards
stickers: (purple, teal polka dots Japanese washi tapes) MARK'S, (pink textured polka dots Japanese washi tape) mt Kamoi
die: (Thanks So Much Die) Paper Smooches
tool: (die-cut machine) Provo Craft
other: (foam tape) 3M
card size: 3 3/8" x 5 1/8"


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Méchoui of Lamb or Goat with Berber Spices
Steven Raichlen
Planet Barbecue!
Published by Workman
Call him Mr. Mayor. Almost everyone else in Marrakech and Fez does if they are even remotely involved with the food or hospitality business. I'm talking about Rafih Benjelloun, the Fez-born chef with a bigger than life personality who runs the Imperial Fez and Ibiza restaurants in Atlanta, Georgia. Rafih was my go-to guy when I planned my research trip to Morocco, and if you read about Moroccan "sliders," chicken kebabs in the style of Fez, or the Marrakech grill master, Haj Brik, well, Rafih was the guy who made sure I visited the right place at the right time. So when it comes to the big kahuna, the pièce de résistance of Moroccan grilling, barbecued lamb, I can think of no better guide than Rafih. In keeping with his Fez roots, he takes a two-step approach, studding the lamb with onion, garlic, and ginger then basting it with what he calls the "mother of all Moroccan sauces": a sort of garlic, cumin, and cilantro vinaigrette called charmoula. Here's how Rafih prepares lamb at his farm outside Marrakech. There, of course, he'd probably roast a whole lamb.
NotesWhere: Morocco
What: Leg of lamb or goat studded with ginger, garlic, and onion and basted with charmoula (a Moroccan garlic spice sauce)
How: Indirect grilling or spit roasting
Just the Facts: In Morocco, me?choui would be roasted on a vertical spit in a clay barbecue pit similar to (and probably descended from) an Indian tandoor. The easiest way to achieve a similar effect here is by indirect grilling or spit roasting. The optional wood chips or chunks give you a little of the smoke flavor you'd get in a wood-burning oven. In Marrakech and Fez, this dish would be made with lamb; in the countryside and among the Berbers in the Atlas Mountains it would be made with goat. Whichever you use, choose a leg covered with a thick layer of fat.
Serves8 to 10
Cooking Methodgrilling
Total Timehalf-day
OccasionCasual Dinner Party
Recipe Coursemain course
Dietary Considerationegg-free, gluten-free, lactose-free, low carb, peanut free, soy free, tree nut free
Equipmentfood processor, grill, mortar and pestle
Taste and Texturemeaty, savory, spiced
- 1 bone-in leg of lamb or young goat (4 to 5 pounds)
- 1 medium-size white onion, cut in half crosswise, each half into 3 wedges
- 4 cloves garlic, peeled and cut lengthwise into 4 or 5 slices
- 1 piece (1 inch) fresh ginger, peeled and cut crosswise into thin slices, each slice cut in half
- Coarse salt (kosher or sea) and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 medium-size onion, coarsely chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, coarsely chopped
- 1 piece (2 inches) fresh ginger, peeled and coarsely chopped
- ½ cup finely chopped fresh cilantro or flat-leaf parsley
- 3 tablespoons sweet or smoked paprika
- 2 teaspoons coarse salt (kosher or sea), or more to taste
- 2 teaspoons ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, or more to taste
- 1 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 cups oak chips or chunks (optional), soaked for 1 hour in water to cover, then drained
Prepare the leg of lamb: Using a sharp chef 's knife, deeply score the leg of lamb on all sides in a crosshatch pattern. The cuts should be about 1 inch deep and 2 inches apart. Break the onion wedges into individual layers. Insert the pieces of onion and the slices of garlic and ginger into the cuts made by the scoring, pushing each in as deeply as possible. Generously season the leg of lamb on all sides with salt and pepper.
Make the charmoula: Place the chopped onion, garlic, and ginger in a heavy mortar and pound them to a paste with a pestle. Add the cilantro, paprika, salt, cumin, and pepper and pound them into a paste. Work in the olive oil and enough water to obtain a thick but pourable sauce (about 1 ½ cups). If you don't have a mortar and pestle, puree the onion, garlic, and ginger in a food processor, followed by the cilantro, paprika, salt, cumin, and pepper, then work in the olive oil and water. Taste the charmoula for seasoning, adding more salt and/or pepper as necessary; it should be highly seasoned. Transfer the charmoula to a saucepan and let it simmer over medium heat until richly flavored, about 5 minutes.
To grill: If you are grilling using the indirect method, set up the grill for indirect grilling, place a large drip pan in the center, and preheat the grill to medium. When ready to cook, if you are using wood chips or chunks, toss them on the coals of a charcoal grill or, if you are using a gas grill, add the chips or chunks to the smoker box or place them in a smoker pouch under the grate. Place the leg of lamb, fat side up, in the center of the grate over the drip pan and away from the heat. Cover the grill and cook the lamb until it is sizzling and dark golden brown, depending upon the grill and the size of the leg of lamb, 1 ½ to 2 ¼ hours.
If you are using a rotisserie, set up the grill for spit roasting, following the manufacturer's instructions, and preheat the grill to medium-high. Place a large drip pan under the spit. Starting at the fatter end, thread the leg of lamb lengthwise on the rotisserie spit, parallel to the leg bone, using the forked prongs of the spit to hold it in place. When ready to cook, attach the spit to the grill and turn on the motor. Spit roast the lamb until it is sizzling and dark golden brown, depending on the grill and the size of the leg of lamb, 1 ¼ to 2 hours.
Use an instant-read meat thermometer to test for doneness, inserting it into the thickest part of the leg but not touching the bone or the spit, if any. When cooked to well-done the internal temperature should be 190° to 195°F. (Moroccans prefer their lamb well-done.) After 30 minutes, start basting the lamb all over with the charmoula, basting it every 20 minutes. If you are using a charcoal grill, you'll need to add fresh coals after the lamb has grilled for an hour.
Transfer the grilled lamb to a platter. Loosely tent the leg with aluminum foil and let it rest for 5 to 10 minutes. Strain the lamb drippings into what remains of the charmoula sauce. Bring the charmoula to a boil and let boil until slightly thickened and richly flavored, 3 to 5 minutes.
Carve the lamb so that each person gets pieces with both meat and the outside crust. Spoon the charmoula on top and serve at once.
2010 Steven Raichlen


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Q100027: How to install a floating license
This article illustrates how you can install and use floating RLM and FLEXlm licences from the Foundry. This covers both how to install and run the licences on the server machine and how to connect the other machines on your network to the license server so they can use the licenses. Note that these other machines are referred to as "client machines" in licensing terminology.
On the server side, you will need to install the Foundry License Tools (FLT) on your server machine and install the license keys using the Foundry License Utility (FLU). On the client side, you can install the license using the FLU or the Product License Dialog.
This article is relevant for Nuke, Mari, Hiero, Ocula, Collectives and RLM Modo licenses as part of a Collective.
NOTE: Instructions on how to activate login-based licenses for Modo 11 (Modo Subscription or Modo with Maintenance) can be found in Q100283: How to activate a Login-based or Subscription License
NOTE: If you purchased Modo 10 series or earlier on its own then please see Q100139: How to Install a Legacy MODO License
OSX and Windows
- Download and install the Foundry License Tools (FLT)
- Run the FoundryLicenseUtility as an admin user.
- On OSX this will be installed to Applications > The Foundry > Licensing Tools 7.1.
- On Windows, from the Start menu, navigate to All Programs > The Foundry > FLT 7.1v1 then right click on the "Foundry License Utility" and select "Run As Administrator".
- Either drag and drop the license file or copy and paste the full license key text in to the 'License Install' tab of the FLU. The FLU should report that the license was successfully installed and list the location(s) where it is saved.
- The FLU will ask if you wish to start or restart the RLM/FLEXlm server. Please click Yes.
- Download the Foundry License Tools (FLT)
- Unzip the download and run the install.sh script in unzippped FLT directory, this will install the tools on the machine.
- Open a terminal and run the following commands as a Root user or with sudo to install the license file on disk:
cd /usr/local/foundry/LicensingTools7.1/
./FoundryLicenseUtility -l /path/to/foundry.lic
(Where /path/to/foundry.lic is the full path to where you've downloaded your floating licence file)
- The FLU will ask if you wish to start or restart the RLM/FLEXlm server. Please enter Yes and hit return.
1. Download the product installer for your platform and install it.
2. Launch the product.
NOTE: On Windows please launch the product as administrator by using the right click context menu option 'Run as administrator' to install your license to the correct directory.
3. The licensing dialog will appear when the program fails to find a license. Select 'Install License' then select 'Use Server'.
5. Click Launch to launch the product
The Foundry License Utility (FLU) will verify a license for you and install it to the correct location(s) on your machine.
OSX and Windows
1. Download the Foundry License Utility (FLU)
2. Run the FLU as Administrator or as a Root user.
NOTE: On Windows you can run the FLU as administrator by using the right click context menu option 'Run as administrator'.
3. Run the FLU on the client machine and paste the following line into the License Install tab:
HOST <server name> any 4101
replacing <server name> with the hostname of your server, e.g.
HOST red any 4101
1. Download and unzip the Foundry License Utility (FLU)
2. Open a terminal and browser to the directory location where you unzipped the FLU download.
3. Run the following command as a Root user:
./FoundryLicenseUtility -c 4101@<server_name>
replacing <server_name> with the hostname of your licence server, e.g.
./FoundryLicenseUtility -c 4101@red
The FLU will create both an RLM and FLEXlm client licence
This will install a client licence file on disk enabling the machine to get a licence from the server.
Using an environment variable
As an alternative to creating a client license file you can set an environment variable called "foundry_LICENSE" to point toward the server. For example, if your licenses are running on port 4101 on a server machine called "red" then you would set
For help with setting environment variables please see Q100015: How To Set Environment Variables
More information
Please refer to the Foundry Licensing Tools User Guide for instructions on how to run the Foundry license tools and float licenses on your network.
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A dream comes true - Sarajevo cable car runs again after 26 years6 April 2018 - Edmond Offermann's dream turned to reality after 20 years on Friday when the landmark Sarajevo cable car, destroyed early in Bosnia's 1990s war, resumed services up Mount Trebevic above the capital. The brand new gondola brought joy to young and old alike and not least to Offermann, a wealthy Dutch-born American businessman and philanthropist who was a driving force behind the restoration project. The cable car first went into operation nearly 60 years ago, ranking Sarajevo among the few cities where one could reach pine forests in just 10 minutes from an urban city center. (more)
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Turkey's Galata Lokum to invest 2 mln euro in organic farming in Bosnia's Federation25 April 2017 - Turkish company Galata Lokum plans to invest 4 million marka ($2.2 million/2 million euro) in an organic farming project in Bosnia's Federation, where it will employ 150 people, the entity's government has said. The project, named Galata Garden, will be focused on greenhouse organic production of lettuce, cherry tomatoes, and strawberries, which will be exported to the region and the EU. 'Organic production is a very promising sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which has comparative advantages such as fertile land and water wealth,' the Federation's agriculture minister Semsudin Dedic explained. 'There will always be a demand for these products on the EU market.' (more)
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Dubai firm to build luxury resort in Bosnia4 February 2015 - A Dubai-based construction company plans to build a luxury resort worth 2.3 billion euro ($2.6 billion) on a mountain near Sarajevo -- a ski resort where three decades ago the Winter Olympics were held. The project would be the biggest foreign investment of this type in Bosnia. The country has hardly any industry and is eager to develop tourism. (more)
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Bosnia opens library to house ancient manuscripts15 January 2014 - During Bosnia's 1992-95 war and the siege of Sarajevo, residents moved a collection of ancient books and manuscripts to eight different locations to save them from destruction. On Wednesday, thanks to a $9 million donation from Qatar, Bosnia's President and a Qatar minister opened a new library in the heart of the Ottoman-era Old Town section of Sarajevo to house those books and more than 100,000 manuscripts. The oldest is a handwritten Islamic encyclopedia that was written in Arabic in 1105. (more)
Bosnian musician to help poor Roma study music10 December 2013 - Bosnia's most popular musician -- a man whose international career has been built on music inspired by Balkan and Gypsy tunes -- is searching for talented Roma children to help them get an education in music. Goran Bregovic's new foundation will provide scholarships to Roma kids who wish to study music but can't afford to. 'Roma are very talented in music but most have no education,' Bregovic said. He added that many European composers -- from Beethoven to Liszt -- had been influenced by Gypsy music. He urged others to also help Roma walk a path to a better life. (more)
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Documentary screening in Sarajevo has live 'Q and A' with David Lynch3 November 2012 - After the recent screening of David Lynch's new documentary, 'Meditation, Creativity, Peace' in Sarajevo, the audience was expecting to have a 'Q and A' (question and answer) session with Bob Roth, executive director of the David Lynch Foundation. 'But what we kept as a big surprise,' said local organizer Haris Bilalovic, 'was that David Lynch agreed to join us for a Skype Q and A. There was this momentum--on the big screen we saw Skype calling David Lynch' and a few seconds afterward he appeared on the screen. 'That resulted in a major standing ovation that really made David happy and ready to talk to the audience'. (more)
Very full theatre in Sarajevo welcomes debut of new David Lynch documentary3 November 2012 - The first premiere of David Lynch's new documentary, 'Meditation, Creativity, Peace' in the Balkan region of Europe debuted to a packed theatre in downtown Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina recently. According to Haris Bilalovic, a renowned TV and radio host at the Bosnian Public Broadcasting Company, the theatre, which normally seats 100, was completely full. Inspired by the film, a group of young people in Sarajevo contacted the Transcendental Meditation centre and requested to learn the technique. (more)
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Bosnia and Herzegovina: School director introduces Consciousness-Based Education11 April 2010 - In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the young founder and director of a private school has sponsored the teachers in her school to learn Transcendental Meditation. She also arranged a recent presentation on Consciousness-Based Education to 140 educators and parents, many of whom expressed great interest in learning Transcendental Meditation themselves. (more)
School in Bosnia and Herzegovina pursues interest in Consciousness-Based Education24 January 2010 - A Consciousness-Based Education programme is on the horizon for a school in Bosnia and Herzegovina, among other new developments for the programmes of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in the country. (more)
Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark find rising interest in Transcendental Meditation, Consciousness-Based Education22 January 2010 - Interest in Consciousness-Based Education and the Transcendental Meditation Programme is rising rapidly among the people of many countries, including Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Denmark. (more)
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Balkan floods may have undone years of landmine detection20 May 2014 - Authorities are warning that many of the more than 100,000 remaining landmines dotted across Bosnia have been dislodged by heavy rain, floodwaters, and hundreds of landslides, shifting beyond the markers. Mine removal experts estimate that more than 120,000 landmines remain planted across Bosnia, the legacy of a war that killed 100,000 people and displaced more than a million. Bosnia's Mine Action Centre (MAC) has appealed for international help in getting more equipment and satellite screening to track the movement of mines after the heaviest rainfall in the Balkans since records began 120 years ago. MAC says that more than 600 people have been killed and more than 1,700 more have been wounded in landmine accidents since the war ended in 1995. MAC head Sasa Obradovic said four people had been killed and 12 wounded this year alone. He put the cost of ridding the country completely of landmines at 300 million euros ($412 million) by 2019. (more)
Bosnia rocked by spreading anti-government unrest7 February 2014 - Protesters across Bosnia set fire to government buildings and fought with riot police on Friday as long-simmering anger over lack of jobs and political inertia fuelled a third day of the worst civil unrest in Bosnia since a 1992-95 war. Protests remained largely contained to the Croat-Muslim Bosniak half of Bosnia but were gaining in intensity. Hours earlier, police in Sarajevo fired rubber bullets at several thousand protesters who set fire to the headquarters of the cantonal government and to a section of the country's presidency building. The cantonal building was still smouldering in the evening. 'This is so sad,' said a woman, who would give only her first name, Vildana, watching the government building still in flames. 'It took four years of war to destroy it and vandals now burned it in one day. This is just as in 1992.' (more)
Protesting schoolchildren face expulsion in Bosnian language row29 November 2013 - Several hundred children from the Serb-controlled part of Bosnia faced expulsion from school on Friday after camping out in Sarajevo for three months in protest at being denied lessons in their native Bosnian language. The protest has revived debate over Bosnia's highly devolved education system, split along ethnic lines between Serbs, Croats and Muslim Bosniaks since the end of the country's 1992-95 war. Muslim Bosniaks in two towns in Bosnia's autonomous Serb Republic withdrew their children from school in early September, demanding they be taught language, history, and geography classes in their own tongue. Bosniaks are a minority within the Serb Republic, one of two autonomous regions created under a 1995 peace deal that split power in Bosnia along ethnic lines. As such, they study according to the Serb curriculum but are entitled to Bosnian lessons in schools where they make up a certain proportion of the class. The protesting Bosniaks say this is unfair on their children, who do not qualify for the Bosnian classes because their numbers fall below the threshold. (more)
Bosnia still divided, 20 years since war began6 April 2012 - With lines of empty red chairs, one for each of the 11,541 victims of the siege of Sarajevo, Bosnia on Friday remembered when war broke out 20 years ago and the West dithered in the face of the worst atrocities in Europe since World War Two. The anniversary finds the Balkan country deeply divided, power shared uneasily between Serbs, Croats, and Muslims in an unwieldy state ruled by ethnic quotas, and languishing behind its ex-Yugoslav neighbours on the long road to the European Union. Underscoring the disunity, Bosnia's autonomous Serb Republic ignored Friday's solemn remembrance of the day shots fired on peace protesters in downtown Sarajevo marked the start of the 1992-95 war. Less than half of the 2 million driven from their homes have returned to the towns and villages they left. Once a vibrant blend of Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats, and Muslim Bosniaks, Sarajevo is now overwhelmingly Bosniak. (more)
Mostar - one family, three armies, a divided city2 April 2012 - Twenty years since the start of the war, ethnicity is still a deep dividing line -- no more so than in Mostar, where Croats hold the west bank, Muslim Bosniaks the east, in an uncomfortable co-existence that has resisted foreign efforts to promote reintegration. A town of 72,000 people, it has two electricity companies, two phone networks, two postal services, two utility services and two universities. Croat and Bosniak children go to separate classes, learning from different textbooks. Mirroring the rest of the country, Mostar's budget is creaking under the strain of duplicate institutions and ethnic politicking that has paralysed the city more than once. Ethnic divisions feed two systems of political patronage. Unite the two sides, and someone is out of a job. (more)
Bosnian farmers to lose lifeline to political paralysis22 December 2011 - Bosnia's farmers -- the mainstay of its economy -- face becoming the latest victims of the political paralysis that has gripped the country since an election in October 2010. Currently, sixteen per cent of Bosnia's total food exports and more than half of its milk and dairy exports go to its ex-Yugoslav neighbour, bringing in 200 million Bosnian marka ($133 million) in return. But a year from now, six months before it joins the EU on July 1, 2013, Croatia will start implementing EU market regulations, and imports of Bosnian animal products will stop. There's nothing wrong with their products, but Bosnia has no one to certify that to the satisfaction of the EU. (more)
Unusual drought triggers alarm across Balkans2 December 2011 - A lack of rain has triggered the worst drought in decades for this time of year, dropping water levels in the Danube to record lows and sounding an alarm in parts of central and eastern Europe. The waters of the mighty river are so low that dozens of cargo ships are stuck, stranded in ghostly fog or wedged into sand banks on what is normally one of eastern Europe's busiest transport routes. About 80 big cargo ships are stranded at the Serbia-Hungary border on the Danube, Europe's second largest river, which winds 2,860-kilometer (1,777-mile) from Germany, passing through eight countries before flowing into the Black Sea. Electricity supplies are also running low in Bosnia and Serbia because hydropower plants cannot produce enough power due to the low river water levels. If there is no rain in the next couple of days, hydroelectric plants will be shut down, said Bosnian Serb Energy Minister Zeljko Kovacevic. Environmentalists are also worried. A World Wildlife Fund report noted a sharp drop in bird populations along the lower stretch of the Danube because of the persistent drought. (more)
Echoes of Mladic's cruelty felt in wounded Bosnia26 May 2011 - The shadow Ratko Mladic cast over Bosnia persists nearly 20 years after he led Serb military forces in Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War II. Bosnia's Serbs revere him for his devotion to their failed cause, its Muslims are repulsed by his cruelty, and the soul of the capital they once shared peacefully has been scorched forever. Sarajevo and all of Bosnia are a sadder place -- dysfunctional, rent by hatreds sown during the war that will last for generations. Mladic, who was arrested Thursday after 16 years as a fugitive, has loomed large from the first artillery barrage his forces directed at Sarajevo's citizens from the hills above the city, on a sunny day in April 1992. Sarajevo's civilians huddled in basements to escape Mladic's artillery as he reveled in his power. 'Burn their brains,' he bellowed as his men targeted the nearly defenseless city from the hills above. At war's end three years later, Sarajevo was a burned-out shell. (more)
Police battle protesting Bosnian veterans21 April 2010 - Police fired tear gas and water cannon on Wednesday in a clash with thousands of veterans of Bosnia's 1992-95 war protesting at benefit cuts in the most violent protest in years in the troubled Balkan country. Former soldiers and their families converged from across Bosnia's Muslim-Croat federation to vent anger at a government decision to cut veterans' benefits as an austerity measure under an International Monetary Fund stand-by loan deal. Under the deal, the government of Bosnia's two regions, the Muslim-Croat federation and the Serb Republic, have to cut public spending, and especially the generous benefits granted to veterans as a pre-election sweetener in 2006. (more)
Bosnian Serb Prime Minister resigns18 December 2004 - On Friday, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Prime Minister of the Bosnian Serb-run half of the country resigned, a day after the US government and Bosnia's top international administrator sanctioned Bosnian Serbs for failing to arrest and hand over war crimes suspects to the UN tribunal. (more)


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Working beyond the state pension age
Working beyond the state pension age
There's no such thing as an official retirement age. In most cases, you have the right to work as long as you want to. You may have already reached the age when you can start claiming your workplace pension scheme, and it doesn't usually mean you need to stop work in order to start taking those benefits. You should check with your pension company to see if this applies to you.
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Should you delay taking your state pension?
When you reach state pension age, you need to decide whether to start claiming straight away or not. If you don't need the extra income at the time, you can delay taking your state pension:
- If you can afford not to claim at state pension age, the pension payments will be higher when you do eventually claim it
- You can take the amount you defer as a taxable lump sum (with interest), and then get the normal state pension later. You must put off a claim for at least five weeks to earn extra state pension – and at least 12 consecutive months to qualify for a lump-sum payment
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