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Recorded: Wednesday, January 12, 2011
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New Directions for Peace and Security
Recorded: Tuesday, November 6, 2007
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For more than a century U.S. foreign policywhether conducted by Democrats or Republicanshas been based on the assumption that Americans interests are served best by intervening abroad to secure markets, fight potential enemies far from American shores, or engage in democratic nation building. But, what is the record of such policies, including now in Iraq?
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| User:Kirby Phelps (PK)
Welcome to the Twilight Saga Wiki, and thank you for your edit to the User:Kirby Phelps (PK) page!
There's a lot to do around here, so I hope you'll stay with us and make many more improvements.
Recent changes
Questions? You can ask at the Help desk or on the "discussion" page associated with each article, or post a message on my talk page!
Need help? The Community Portal has an outline of the site, and pages to help you learn how to edit.
I'm really happy to have you here, and look forward to working with you!
-- Fingernails (Talk) 04:56, July 16, 2010
Hi wats up?
Hi. Who's this? Kirby Phelps (PK) 05:54, August 10, 2010 (UTC)
This is TeamEdward97. I was wondering if u wanna be friends? =)
Hmm...I don't know if I should be friends with someone from Team Edward. LOL j/k :P
But sure, I guess. Kirby Phelps (PK) 00:18, August 11, 2010 (UTC)
Kewl but im a little team jacob too but mostly team edward if that helps lol :)
You don't like Bella & Edward
What I love about the Twilightsaga is the unconditional and irrevocable ♥love♥ between Bella and Edward.
But if you don't like the romantic story of Bella and Edward, what do you like of the saga?
It's like you like Romeo and Juliet and doesn't like Lovestories.
I know there are beautiful parts, which are not about the ♥love♥ between Bella and Edward, but I think they are secondary.
My favorite parts of the books are the romantic quotes of Bella and Edward.
This shouldn't be a critic, I just can't understand what you like about twilight, if you don't like the romantic part.
Bella selfish?
Reasons why Bella is selfless
- Gina Dalfonzo, in an article posted on the National Review website, calls Bella "self-deprecating" ... (Bella#Criticism)
- She drove to Forks, that Renée can be happy, also she hates the cold and wet thing (Twilight)
Reasons why Bella is selfish
The only thing, where she is selfish:
- Edward
- That Edward doesn't get hurt
- That she can be with Edward together.
But I think it's not selfish, she is just unconditional and irrevocable ♥love♥, so that every thing else is unimportant.
possible Reasons why we think different
If you really think Bella is selfish,
- i misunderstood the book, or
- you don't believe in ♥true♥love♥
@User:Kirby_Phelps_(PK):"I've read all four..."
I would write: "I've read the important four..."
I have read those Books of Stephenie Meyer:
Twilight, Midnight Sun, The graphic novel,
New Moon,
Eclipse, The second short life of Bree Tanner,
Breaking Dawn
and the Host
I'm reading:
Twilight: The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion
At Superfans you can read, who read which book how often.
More Books:
-- [user ♥ talk] 17:42, August 28, 2010 (UTC)
Why I'm on Team Switzerland
Team Neutral
You are right, that I'm more on Template:User Team Edward than on Template:User Team Jacob, cause I would choose love before friendship.
But I would say that I am on Template:User Team Switzerland, cause
- I like Bella more than Edward or Jacob
- My most favorite actor is Kristen Stewart (also the actor hasn't got something to do with the story)
- I think if you(Bella) are(is) unconditionally and irrevocably in love with someone(Edward) than you need a friend(Jacob), that you don't get "crazy". (As Edward left Bella, Bella had nightmares and she wasn't able to see any sense in her live anymore, and ignored all her friends)
Although I'm still not 100% sure what being on a team means
You are right, being on team doesn't make any sense.
I wrote on my page:
I'm Team Switzerland, cause I think it's not important if you like Edward or Jacob.
What i love about twilight is that Twilight Saga is a so ♥romantic♥ story.
- Here is the explantation of the teams: Teams
- canged — Johannes Kalliauer (talk)♥ 12:41, September 1, 2010 (UTC)
ask me something?
No I'm not!
but why would it matter you?
I love a ♥girl♥ unconditionally and irrevocably, that's why I love the twilightsaga, because it's not like every lovestory, it is so intense, so unconditional and so irrevocably love like in no other story.
- Edward loves Bella more than his own life.
- Bella gets totally depressed, without Edward, she already had to go to the psychiatrist.
- Bella thinks Edward is to good for her
- Edward wants her to be happy
- There are soo beautiful quotes like:
- "Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars—points of light and reason… and then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn't see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason for anything."
- ―Edward Cullen to Bella[src]
— Johannes Kalliauer (talk)♥ 08:39, August 31, 2010 (UTC)
Alternate Ending: If Bella and Jacob kissed in New Moon
I just read it very quickly, so there are maybe parts I didn't noticed.
The main difference is that she decides for Jacob not Edward, but were is the real difference??
Where is the difference if she decide for Jacob or Edward?
The Twilight Saga is about a Girl who loves two men in a different way, and it doesn't really matter if she decides for the shape-shifter or the vampire.
It is a romantic story, so I can't see the big difference.
You just wrote the content, so there no character.
The main difference is that is only a summary, that means
- no beautiful Quotes
- no declarations how strong the love is
- no definitions about the characters
Jacob can't get imprinted on Bella, cause that would have happen when he first saw her.
You should structure it in some paragraphs, and maybe add an introduction, that you know after reading the introduction, if you like to read it or not.
— Johannes Kalliauer (talk)♥ 10:00, September 3, 2010 (UTC)
Twilight Meets Pokemon
- I read Twilight Meets Pokemon quickly, but I don't like it very:
- I don't like reading English
- I'm not a great reader, so I don't like reading at all, except the Twilight Saga.
- -->so if you would like some feedback you should ask someone else.
- Books I which I voluntary/unsolicitous/ex gratia (I don't know the right word):
- Twilight (German)
- New Moon(German)
- Eclipse(German)
- Breaking Dawn(German)
- The Host(German)
- Midnight Sun(English)
- Vampire Diaries (all 6?, German, wouldn't do that again)
- Graphic Novel
- The second short life of Bree Tanner (German, won't read it again)
- Midnight Sun(Audiobook, German)
- Twilight: The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion (reading now (Sep10), German)
- I don't have Photoshop, and I'm not very good in creating pics, also your example isn't very difficult, but I never did something like that (creating pics) before, also I would like to learn it (f.e. on Youtube,manuals,...), but I don't have the experience and the time, so I can't help you.
- I can't recommend/suggest you someone, cause I don't know anyone, but maybe User:Fingernails can help you, she (I think she is a girl.) made some sign-Pics (I think with Gimp), which were not as difficult as your example.
- — Johannes Kalliauer (talk)♥ 09:12, September 20, 2010 (UTC)
I gave you the awards you requested. With your picture there it kinds of messes it up. I didn't want to mess with it since it's your page, but I'd move it. Congrats by the way. :) LuckyTimothy 21:08, September 4, 2010 (UTC)
Thank You Kirby Phelps (PK) 05:39, September 5, 2010 (UTC)
RE:Holy crap
How I got so many points:
I added Pics to Galleries,
I improved Pages especially Eclipse-Film-pages,
I had much luck I got 4 Dreamcathers with about 1350 edits, (I try to calculate the likelihood, to get 4 Dreamchaters for 1300 edits
(If you make 325 (=1300/4) edits the change of getting at least one is 27,8%)
I commented blogs,
But I think it is more important to improve the pages, than being on top of the Leatherbord, also I took much time to get onto the top.
I'm waiting to get the next in 3days I will get 30days online.
— Johannes Kalliauer (talk)♥ 07:17, September 13, 2010 (UTC)
Re:Custom Signatures
Here are some examples of Signs: User:JoKalliauer/Beautiful_Templates#Signatures
In the Special:Preferences you can edit your sign ~~~ how you like it.
Tipp: activate "Signature treat as wikitext (without automatic link)", that you don't get a [[ and a ]] to much
Look how User:Fingernails explained it to User:Ashath.
If you want to know more look: Help:Signature
If you need help ask
If you want someone to create a sign for you I think fingernails or I ( — Johannes Kalliauer (talk)♥ ) will be willing to help you creating one.
I don't know if Fingernails creates Signs any more, you have to ask him.
I don't know all created Signs
fingernails created:
— Johannes Kalliauer (talk)♥ created:
- JoKalliauer
- [user • talk]
- [user ♥ talk]
- JoKalliauer(talk)irtn o C butions)
- Johannes Kalliauer(talk) ♥.
- ♥CullenLoverForever17 ☆ [user ♥ talk]
If you want that I create it
I'm not very creative, so I would like a suggestion, or an example:
- Please choose your front: (Tell me the name)
- Please choose your color: (don't forget to zoom in and tell me the code)
- Tell me the text I should write
- Tell me where I should link the text
For example ♥CullenLoverForever17 ☆ [user ♥ talk]:
- font-family:Edwardian Script; font-size:130%
- color:#00FF00; color:#FF0099; color:yellow
- I wrote: "♥CullenLoverForever17 *"
- I linked the text to User:CullenLoverForever17
If you say you want a sign like someone's else's Sign, please ask him or her first.
— Johannes Kalliauer (talk)♥ 08:15, September 14, 2010 (UTC)
of course, you can
- send me the font to j.kalliauer [at]
gmx.at, or
- post the link how to get it, or
- if it is not public you can give it on a web-space (Cloud Computing); f.e. This is mine (Microsoft Sky space), or
- do it yourself with someone's help.
two possibilities to create a sign:
- as text-->caus' it is a font only you have only at your computer it will displayed in the right font.
- as picture-->like Twilight fonts
If you want it as a picture, I can do it for you, but User:Fingernails has more expirence in creating fonts-text-pics.
User:Fingernails created 7 font-Pics on Twilight fonts.
I saw that there is one font (the second) missing and added it.
If you want that I make a picture,
1)I would like to know how big it should get:
is 30px*100px with the gray border
2)Which color would you like for the Background?
If you want it transparent Background User:Fingernails has more experice with transparent Background, also I can create it.
3)Which color would you like for the Text?
— Johannes Kalliauer (talk)♥ 16:50, September 14, 2010 (UTC)
RE: Signatures
It's been so long since I made mine, I've almost forgotten. To get my sort of color change I used this site:
The box you put your signature in the preference tab isn't huge. So it can only hold so many characters. Mines pretty basic. Fingernails is really good at making them. You should ask him to make one for you. LuckyTimothy 22:13, September 14, 2010 (UTC)
- Well, it looks like you got some help, lol. I guess should've check the recent activity and would've seen the picture. LuckyTimothy 22:17, September 14, 2010 (UTC)
50-edits-on-Eclipse-filmpages Award
The Admins normally don't like it if you make much changes without changing much, like you did on Eclipse movie quotes
— Johannes Kalliauer (talk)♥ 07:42, September 21, 2010 (UTC)
- I think you can't remove an award, and you can't do the count undone.
- I'm not an Admin, so I just wanted to tell you, but maybe an Admin will warn you with a Warning Template that you could get blocked if you would do that again, but I don't think so.
- — Johannes Kalliauer (talk)♥ 16:07, September 21, 2010 (UTC)
New Wiki Look
I see that you don't have the new wiki look so lemme show you, you go to more, then click on preferences, then there's a whole lot of buttons and it says skins then click on "New Wikia Look", and save it and viola heres the new wiki [user • talk] 22:56, September 22, 2010 (UTC)
- Here you can see a expample how it should look like: File:Twilight Saga Wiki-New Look – Twilight Saga Wiki 1285183810677.png(black/gray/red), or go to Twilight_Saga_Wiki_talk:New_Look#22.Sep.10_19:30
- — Johannes Kalliauer (talk)♥ 06:29, September 23, 2010 (UTC)


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Most Americans consider Abraham Lincoln to be the greatest president in history. His legend as the Great Emancipator has grown to mythic proportions as hundreds of books, a national holiday, and a monument in Washington, D.C., extol his heroism and martyrdom. But what if most everything you knew about Lincoln were false? What if, instead of an American hero who sought to free the slaves, Lincoln were in fact a calculating politician who waged the bloodiest war in american history in order to build an empire that rivaled Great Britain's? In The Real Lincoln, author Thomas J. DiLorenzo uncovers a side of Lincoln not told in many history books and overshadowed by the immense Lincoln legend.
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I suppose you were cool with Germany rolling through Poland to protect East Prussia.
My independence
To fear anyones telling of a story prevents knowledge and growth
No thanks! The movie was screened at the White House, before it was shown to the public. That there was enough to keep me away from seeing the flick. I'll stick to the history books. But if you want to get an idea about what is happening in America under BHO I suggest you read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. That book pretty much describes what is happening here in the Democratic Socialist Fatherland formerly referred to as The United States of America
We went to war over money
its based off doris kearns book fwiw.
I have heard its really good.
The Real Lincoln
Saw this thing Sunday. Treats Lincoln like a freedom loving abolitionist who revered the constitution. Had to giggle on my way out for popcorn
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It's an historic night for Maine's biggest city: Portland's first popularly-elected Mayor in nearly 90 years, Michael Brennan, is shortly due to deliver the first State of the City address. The speech is expected to include a summary of the first year of his term and his vision for the city's future. Brennan won election in 2011 in a race that included 15 candidates. Previously, the mayoral post rotated among City Council members. As part of our new series - in which we talk with mayors around the state about what's going on in their communities - Maine Things Considered host Tom Porter spoke with Mayor Brennan earlier today. He asked the mayor how he would characterize his first year in office.
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(a) In General.— Except when providing transportation for charitable purposes without charge, a carrier subject to jurisdiction under chapter 135 may provide transportation or service that is—
(1) in noncontiguous domestic trade, except with regard to bulk cargo, forest products, recycled metal scrap, waste paper, and paper waste; or
only if the rate for such transportation or service is contained in a tariff that is in effect under this section. The carrier may not charge or receive a different compensation for the transportation or service than the rate specified in the tariff, whether by returning a part of that rate to a person, giving a person a privilege, allowing the use of a facility that affects the value of that transportation or service, or another device. A rate contained in a tariff shall be stated in money of the United States.
(b) Tariff Requirements for Noncontiguous Domestic Trade.—
(1) Filing.— A carrier providing transportation or service described in subsection (a)(1) shall publish and file with the Board tariffs containing the rates established for such transportation or service. The carriers shall keep such tariffs available for public inspection. The Board shall prescribe the form and manner of publishing, filing, and keeping tariffs available for public inspection under this subsection.
(2) Contents.— The Board may prescribe any specific information and charges to be identified in a tariff, but at a minimum tariffs must identify plainly—
(C) terminal charges if a carrier provides transportation or service subject to jurisdiction under subchapter III of chapter 135;
(3) Inland divisions.— A carrier providing transportation or service described in subsection (a)(1) under a joint rate for a through movement shall not be required to state separately or otherwise reveal in tariff filings the inland divisions of that through rate.
(4) Time-volume rates.— Rates in tariffs filed under this subsection may vary with the volume of cargo offered over a specified period of time.
(5) Changes.— The Board may permit carriers to change rates, classifications, rules, and practices without filing complete tariffs under this subsection that cover matter that is not being changed when the Board finds that action to be consistent with the public interest. Those carriers may either—
(c) Tariff Requirements for Household Goods Carriers.—
(1) In general.— A carrier providing transportation described in subsection (a)(2) shall maintain rates and related rules and practices in a published tariff. The tariff must be available for inspection by the Board and be made available for inspection by shippers upon reasonable request.
(2) Notice of availability.— A carrier that maintains a tariff under this subsection may not enforce the provisions of the tariff unless the carrier has given notice that the tariff is available for inspection in its bill of lading or by other actual notice to individuals whose shipments are subject to the tariff.
(3) Requirements.— A carrier that maintains a tariff under this subsection is bound by the tariff except as otherwise provided in this part. A tariff that does not comply with this subsection may not be enforced against any individual shipper.
(4) Incorporation by reference.— A carrier may incorporate by reference the rates, terms, and other conditions of a tariff in agreements covering the transportation of household goods.
Source(Added Pub. L. 104–88, title I, § 103,Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 868.)
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Every year teams consisting of a designer, hair stylist, make up artist, photographer, and a model get together to take one epic picture. I think the Mash Up teams are one of the coolest ways to showcase all the awesome Austin talent.
This year a team let me play model for a day....and we had so much fun!
Shout out to everyone on team Silueta.
And PLEASE vote for the team here.
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Here is a great video about her debut line!
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Kagerou is still going, but slowly. turns out starting writing text stories again after ten years and suddenly getting lots of practice all at once really changes how you see storytelling. like a bunch of muscles i haven't flexed in forever suddenly bulking up. it's pretty cool.
so many ideas for how to get awesomer as an artist and writer, you don't even know.
(come see me on tumblr, y'all! It's a homestuck fanblog but you can still talk kagerou at me).
so yeah um.
- i will be updating kagerou this sunday, and the sunday after that, for certain. By next sunday I should know if i'm ready to jump back in the 2-pages-per-week game or not. if it's a yes, then i'll lift the hiatus officially.
my work ethic makes me kinda proud--i pulled off the kind of hiatus where you still update. not at my usual 40 hours a week pace, but STILL.
- chapter 50 is ultimately gonna squeak through at a bit under 30 pages, i think. i had to jettison about 15 pages of pencils from the times i tried to force myself back into the routine during the seemingly interminable spazzrocket ascension this past year.
do not pine for these lost pages, because they were lousy. i saved the good art bits for later, and junked the rest.
- redoing chapter 4 for print is going to be off the table for a while--much as i want to de-horrible-ify the stuff from 11 years ago so you fine people will pay me more cashmoney for print copies, i want to keep going forward with the current story way more.
- when i do get back to 4, however: i'll be creating something like 5 or 6 pages for the expanded remix edition that will not be going up on the site.
because greed.
- Listening to: Catching Fire
- Playing: sBURB
In which Tonbo finally expresses her opinion on Kano's childhood.
- Listening to: Catching Fire
- Playing: sBURB
- Listening to: A Dance With Dragons
- Playing: with my purrbeast
Offering commissions is yes! $20 for a character, $25 for two characters, $30 for
orgy porgy three characters. Sketchy style with colors, limited or no BG, like this:
or this:
I'll need any reference art or descriptions for the character(s) sent in an attachment or linked with the request. If it's an OC, some info on the person I'm drawing is much appreciated so I can capture their personality better.
I can do chibi, full on uguu like in your animes, or my usual style (as above). I will draw non-humans with varying results. I will draw anthro. I will not draw realism because I never liked reality much. I will most certainly draw your sassy lesbian kickboxer.
my email is firstname.lastname@example.com, and once your commission idea is written out and you have references ready, no need to wait on paying, just put the info in the payment comment/remark box, OR you can email me separately with the details, or even note me here on Tumblr.
Also: I still have 2 jobs in my queue, so the wait will be slightly longer than before. If it's not done within a month I will gleefully refund and feel shamed.
Also also: this isn't part of Operation Lesbisnatch, I just have bills and an empty bank account.
And I feel like drawing porn.
- Listening to: A Dance With Dragons
- Playing: with my purrbeast
Thanks everybody who offered me computery stuff, i can't believe I lucked out D: Seebs is awesome and you are awesome.
- Listening to: ready player one
- Playing: with my purrbeast
I've gotten lots of input on ways to make this work without infecting my computer with windows again, but there is pretty much no getting around the painter compatibility issue, so my quest can proceed no further. So that leaves getting a new copy of Windows, then running both OS dual boot style, which suits me just fine because who wears just one boot??? It'll be Windows for the comic and various linux-hating games, and then Mint for the everything else because I'm quite fond of its failure to suck spectacularly despite a high monetary and emotional investment.
Whiiiich brings me to the next problem: finding a new copy of windows Vista or higher in my price range. Anybody getting rid of a no-longer-running licensed copy who's willing to hook a brother up? Microsoft swears you can call them to confirm that you are using the only living copy, which means you probably can't do that at all, but there are Ways and Means around this if you are an honest person who is sadly bound by red tape. Or just a cheater i guess.
Please note that as I type these words, I have a very tiny and very fuzzy orange and white tabby kitten perching on my shoulder, and he will not stop purring for love nor money. I will provide ADORABLE CATNIP PHOTOS of said beast to whoever can help me out on this.
And kill you in the comic, if you want >
- Listening to: ready player one
- Playing: with my purrbeast
Offering sketch commissions is go! $20 for a character, sketchy style with colors, limited or no BG, about like you see in these pieces:
I'll need any reference art or descriptions for the character linked with the request. If it's an OC, a bit about the personality would not go amiss, since I like to get a feel for who I'm drawing. Plus who doesn't love to talk about their OC?
More than 1 character MIGHT be ok depending on the job, ping me if you want to hash something out. The main goal here is to keep the job to one sitting, so my autistic brain don't vapor lock.
Also: if you are waiting on art from previous commissionry, please let me know because it is officially AWOL as of now. I have them all marked as done, but I am paranoid because I am a scatterbrain and PayPal records are nigh-impenetrable without a specific email address to search for.
my email is email@example.com, if your commission request is 1 character and you have references ready, no need to wait on paying, just put the info in the payment comment/remark box, OR you can email me separately with the details.
The first 3 or so commissions are pretty certain to be finished before X-mas, if it looks like this is wrong I will let you know ahead of time, since sometimes people buy these as presents and I'd hate to be a deadbeat santa.
- Listening to: mc chris
i am the best hacker. it's me.
expect an artdump soon.
- Listening to: mc chris
Fifteen bucks for the first character, twenty for a pairing, various levels of color on the sketch depending on how much I can throw onto the piece and still justifiably call it a 'sketch'. Two characters is all I've got headspace for at the moment--anything more complex, anything that takes more than one sitting, and my broken brain vapor locks.
Also, the previously stated lack of dignity is still a thing that is happening. Being broke and on the verge of eviction has a weird way of making a person rethink their squicks. Also porn is fun.
If you want to hire me: paypal to email@example.com and use the little comment box at checkout to describe what you want/link to the reference material. If the box doesn't appear, send me a Note. Easy peasy!
- Listening to: mc chris
2 New Pages!
Pages 11-12 of Chapter 50 are posted, FINALLY.
Believe me when I say I was not enjoying the downtime. First my gallbladder exploded with gangrene (GANGRENE WTF) and had to be surgically removed, THEN I reacted badly to the anaesthetic and was passing out/asphyxiating in the recovery room and had to be admitted overnight until I could breathe on my own again, THEN I went home and spent a month recovering from the operation and waking up from the pain medication while my digestive system slowly figured out how to work again.
I'm down to scars from the operation and bad heartburn now, so that's something to celebrate. And sometime in the middle of the recovery process, while I was still turning white and almost fainting, I find out I'm being evicted from my flat. So that's where I've been, more or less, instead of updating. God did I wish I were having a nice boring July.
Seriously it's been one catastrophe after another since March. Oh well, fuck it. Let's see those pages, shall we? Quick, before something else goes wrong!
- Listening to: mc chris
See guys I am so committed to this comic I'm posting an update during a medical emergency. STRIPES EARNED, MOTHERFUCKS.
Speaking of which, back in a few weeks. Turns out we don't need gallbladders to live though so it's all good.
- Listening to: mc chris


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Gilbert Sanchez was sentenced Friday for a DUI crash that killed three teen girls in April 2012.
According to KKTV ( http://tinyurl.com/a5n3phk), the three teenagers from Alamosa were driving home from a church event when Gilbert's car crashed into theirs. Prosecutors said he was drunk and driving faster than 100 mph.
Two teenagers were riding in the bed of Sanchez' Dodge truck at the time of the crash. They were ejected from the vehicle and seriously injured.
Gilbert originally faced 15 charges including child abuse and endangerment and reckless driving. He pleaded guilty to five charges in a March plea deal.
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Slight of Hand: Egoism and the Tragedy of the Commons
Ty Barnes, Green River Community College
Students are introduced to a theory in the Normative Ethics of Behavior (NEB) known as Hedonic Ethical Egoism. They will learn to present and explain the "Invisible Hand Argument for Hedonic Ethical Egoism" shown to depend on the following assumption: that the community as a whole is better off if everyone acts selfishly. This assumption is false as the "Tragedy of the Commons" will show.
Bioregion Topical Vocabulary: Ethics & Values, Human Impact & Footprint, Social & Environmental Justice, Sustainability Concepts & Practices
Virtues and Climate Change
Stephan Beck, The Evergreen State College
Students create an essay to respond to the question: "What virtues does our society need to foster in people in order for us to be able to respond appropriately to climate change?"
Bioregion Topical Vocabulary: Ethics & Values, Climate Change
Extending "The Land Ethic" and The Golden Rule to the Whole Biotic Community
Don Foran, The Evergreen State College and Centralia College
A component of an Introduction to Ethics course involving research and reporting on a specific sustainability issue. The class presentation will help the student think about extending Leopold's "Land Ethic" and "The Golden Rule" to the whole biotic community.
Bioregion Scale: Global
Bioregion Topical Vocabulary: Ecosystem Health, Human Impact & Footprint, Ethics & Values, Social & Environmental Justice, Promising Pedagogies:Reflective & Contemplative Practice
Ethics, Gender, and Climate Change
Sandra Johanson, Green River Community College
The purpose of the assignment is twofold: first, to expose students to what is sometimes called a "feminist" or "care" perspective in ethics. The second is for students to apply these abstract ideas in ethics to the very real and complex issues relating to climate change in environmental ethics.
Bioregion Scale: Global
Bioregion Topical Vocabulary: Cultures & Religions, Climate Change, Ethics & Values
We're Screwed!
Michael C. Kalton, University of Washington
This course is designed to address the interlocked problems of unwillingness to confront the dimensions of the environmental crisis and the feelings of helplessness and despair that often accompany perceiving the gravity of the situation.
Bioregion Scale: Campus
Bioregion Topical Vocabulary: Ethics & Values, Climate Change, Promising Pedagogies:Reflective & Contemplative Practice, Lifestyles & Consumption, Social & Environmental Justice, Sustainability Concepts & Practices, Ecosystem Health
Human Rights and the Environment
Tom Kerns, North Seattle Community College
Selecting one environmental situation students will learn about some basic human rights norms and then analyze that environmental situation in terms of those human rights norms.
Bioregion Topical Vocabulary: Cultures & Religions, Civil Society & Governance, Promising Pedagogies:Case Studies, Social & Environmental Justice, Ethics & Values, Ecosystem Health
Community Questions, Global Answers, and the Ethics of Environmental Responsibility
Amos Nascimento, University of Washington Tacoma
This submission is both a course and an activity using the bioregion as a resource for environmental ethics. The first part of the course is devoted to questions (fact gathering) related to the bioregion. The second part is reflecting and focused on global answers.
Bioregion Scale: Local Community/Watershed, Regional
Bioregion Topical Vocabulary: Social & Environmental Justice, Ethics & Values, Promising Pedagogies:Reflective & Contemplative Practice, Civil Society & Governance, Sense of Place


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Maw: Sophie's Choice / Rattle/Royal Opera, Kirchschlager, Gietz, Gilfry [2 DVD]
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Performers: Duesing, Dale; Gietz, Gordon; Gilfry, Rodney; Kirchschlager, Angelika
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Ensemble: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House; Royal Opera House Covent Garden Chorus
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Tanzania, like many African countries blessed with minerals and other natural resources, is poor not because of God's order, but due to the poor management of its resources caused by both external and internal factors.
In researching these articles, I came across various researches which strongly confirm this school of thought beyond any reasonable doubt.
From Dar es Salaam to Lagos, Accra to Angola, Cape Town to Cairo, Africa is still struggling with massive poverty, though it is surrounded by massive wealth, because it has chosen the path either unknowingly or for being pushed into it by the Masters of the universe.
There are those who argue that Africa's minerals, oil and gas are beneath the surface and therefore they are not really wealth, which the nation can rely on or boast of because, being poor as we are, we can't even afford to mine them.
Ironically, all foreign mining firms in this country borrowed huge amount of billions of dollars from the International Finance Corporation, a lending arm of the World Bank, by marketing what was beneath the surface and documented only on papers.
This line of argument is being pushed by those I described in the past four installments of this series as pimps of Western capitalists, who believe that they are more business-oriented than those who question the rush to mine Tanzania's natural resources at the expense of the majority of its people.
Brainwashed abroad and taught to speak English in an American inflection, they see those who try to question some local policies which blindly favour foreign investors at the expense of Tanzanians as anti-business or anti-investment.
But, while they so often dream of the country having having flyovers, modern schools, modern health centres, modern airports and a strong economy, they don't stop to wonder why, fifty years after independence, our infrastructure is akin to that of the 19th century.
When they fly to Johannesburg they admire world-class infrastructure, and when in America or Europe they cast the devil who hindered their motherland's development. When in the United Arab Emirates they kiss the air in admiration of its world-class development.
What they don't understand is that all the modern infrastructure they see and admire abroad didn't spring out of nowhere. It was built by men and women who used their natural resources effectively for the benefit of their people. South Africa's Gauteng Province in which both Johannesburg and Pretoria are situated, was built by minerals, mainly gold and diamonds from Kimberly, during the apartheid regime.
Dubai and Abu Dhabi were built in the early 1980s and 1990s by the oil billions. Don't forget that in 1970s, the Dubai of the Middle East was Beirut, before it was bombed by the Israelis. It was where the whites from Europe and America used to enjoy modern beaches and living the same way they do today in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and elsewhere.
Therefore, the pimps of Western capitalists and the self-proclaimed pro-investor group in this country should understand that what they admire abroad as modern development could actually be achieved here if there was equitable sharing of resources.
For instance, to decongest Dar es Salaam city, which is home to an estimated 5 million people, about $3.5 billion is needed, according to the city's new master plan. If we utilized our resources properly, including minerals and gas, and collected all due taxes, shunned corruption and made the Dar es Salaam port an import and export hub in the Great Lakes region, we could get more than $3.5 billion in a short period.
To revive the central railway line needs something like $500 million, which is over 60 percent the total amount of money allocated for allowances in the 2011/12 national budget. In the 2011/12 budget, the government allocated $800 (Sh1.28 trillion) as allowances, while the very government went abroad begging for mosquito nets to control malaria.
Dar es Salaam port can easily be turned into a regional export and import hub for eastern and southern Africa, a situation that could give Tanzania billions of dollars in revenue. Originally, Julius Nyerere and his team had this dream. Even the colonialists had a similar dream.
But it seems that our current leaders have chosen to make Dar es Salaam port, the central railway line and the Tanzania-Zambia Railway (Tazara) a venue to experiment failed policies.
According to a report of the Controller and Auditor general (CAG) for fiscal year 2010/2011, total tax exemptions reached Sh1 trillion, which is equal to the total amount of money needed by the Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) to end the power crisis in the country. Ironically, due to a lack of funds, Tanesco has been forced to borrow Sh 480 billion from a consortium of local banks.
The cost of one Toyota Landcruiser VX-V8 is $120,000 (Sh 192 million), which can buy six tractors. The cost of 55 such vehicles to be used by 55 cabinet ministers and their deputies is Sh 10.2 billion, which could easily buy 330 tractors. A cabinet that consumes 330 tractors in two years in a poor country like Tanzania is an insult and a betrayal of the people.
In Kenya, a country with a stronger economy than ours, ministers and senior government officials are now having to do with cheaper vehicles, each of which costs Sh50 million after then Finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta abolished the use of luxurious fuel guzzlers in the country's 2010/2011 budget. Rwanda initiated the move seven years ago and no one died because the government had abolished the use of the fuel guzzlers.
Development is about making choices, mainly appropriate and tough choices, which, in the short run, hurt, but in the long run bring prosperity to the nation. It's about making unpopular choices which may not please some groups of people, but in the long run bring development which everyone enjoys.
In the 1960s, the economies of South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Tanzania and Ghana were more or less at par, but fifty years down the lane Tanzania and Ghana have actually become poorer than they then were while Malaysia, South Korea and Singapore have stunned the world by their rapid development. Their development was neither an accident nor a gift from the donors, but a result of tough choices made by their leaders fifty years ago.
When God created this world in six days and rested on the seventh, according to the Christians' holy book, the Bible, he distributed wealth fairly. He gave the Arabs a desert full of oil and gas and Europe chaotic weather but land full of natural resources and good for farming. He gave Africans a vast, land twice the size of China, and filled it with numerous natural resources and blessed it for agriculture. All the six continents got their share accordingly.
Tanzania is not very late; it still has the opportunity to reform. We erred in our Mining Act of 1998, which was a result of a flawed minerals policy of 1997, which, in turn, was masterminded by the Britton Woods institutions on behalf of foreign investors.
What happened in the mining industry should be taken as a lesson to write a new chapter as we expect to start producing natural gas and, probably, oil. We still have many mineral reserves which are yet to be mined, such as uranium and nickel. There is now some positive development in the mining industry like creating jobs for locals and payment of some taxes, which is a good indication; but this is not enough.
We are told that the mining sector spends about $148 million annually on salaries, and that the majority of employees who get this money are Tanzanians.
That's fine, but how much does a Tanzanian graduate who works in the sector earn compared to a foreigner with equivalent qualifications? The truth is that if salaries in the industry, especially for the locals, were dished out fairly according to world standards, the amount would be close to $200 million annually.
We are also told that the mining sector contributes a lot to the economy in terms of procurement. If this is the case, then that's fine. However, statistics might give a contradicting picture of the reality on the ground. Therefore, at the end of the day the people want tangible results, not numbers.
In 2010 when South Africa hosted the World Cup, one of the provinces which hosted the tournament was Rusternburg, or the Platinum Province, home to Africa's richest tribe.
Located about 180km west of Johannesburg and bordering Botswana, the Royal Bafokeng tribe's success story is by all standards a model that should be considered by Tanzania, especially in the area of minerals.
I have personally visited the Royal Bafokeng, interviewed some policymakers there as well as the locals in my efforts to learn how Tanzania, as well as Africa, could benefit from its rich mineral resources. The most stunning fact is that the Royal Bafokeng's success story is not a brainchild of the Britton Woods institutions - the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Like Tanzania, the Royal Bafokeng also started with a tough, humble beginning, before they bounced back, turning their past mistakes into opportunities. Apart from the Royal Bafokeng success story, globally Tanzania can also borrow a leaf from Qatar, a country that produces gas.
According to the Oil & Gas Journal of January 1, 2011, Qatar's proven natural gas reserves stand at approximately 896 trillion cubic feet (25.4 trillion cubic metres). That is almost 14 per cent of all known natural gas reserves in the world and the third largest behind Russia and Iran.
Though the path taken by the Royal Bafokeng to acquire rights in the mining sector might not work a hundred per cent in Tanzanian case, the fact that the government can own shares in the lucrative mineral industry and use the funds accruing from it to develop the people is a credible lesson to this country.
The Royal Bafokeng story
The Royal Bafokeng's journey from the Central African plateaus to South Africa began in earnest in search for arable land and grazing areas for their animals, but little did they know that they had stumbled upon one of the world's most mineral-rich zones. Like many other native tribes in Africa, their major economic activities were cattle rearing and subsistence farming, and they depended largely on outdated and poor technology.
From these humbled beginnings, however, the Royal Bafokeng bounced back with a takeover strategy to buy their alienated land from the Boer feudalists, offering an inspiring lesson of perseverance and business acumen.
According to oral tradition, the Bafokeng settled in what is now known as Rustenberg, about 112km north-west of Johannesburg at the foot of the Magliesberg. As the valleys amongst the hills in the area captured heavy overnight dew, the people realised it was fertile and the community would prosper there. In honour of the occasion, the tribe took the name 'Bafokeng,' literally meaning 'people of the dew'.
The Bafokeng are in some ways as remarkable for what they are not known for as for what they are. They are not known for stealing from public coffers or robbing their fellow citizens. Nor did they get involved in shoddy deals or suspicious contracts.
They never squandered their resources, but rather ensured that what came out of their land would materialize in the form of taxes, royalties or dividends, and that those profits would go towards people's development. Today, their courage has paid off, making them the richest tribe in Africa. When I first visited this province in 2006 as a tourist and as a researcher on how locals can partner with investors to bring development, I couldn't believe what I saw.
From modern infrastructure to a well-planned residential area, from sophisticated mining plants to international hotels like Sun City, from a crime-free zone to modern schools and hospitals, Rustenburg stands out as an example of how well-exploited and equitably shared resources can change lives in Tanzania and the rest of Africa.
Rustenburg is the third oldest town of the former Transvaal Province and offers numerous places of interest. Its jacaranda tree-lined streets are the hub of a thriving agricultural and mining industry. Rustenburg has a population of about 1 million people.
When the Boers arrived in South Africa, they posed new challenges to the Bafokeng. Ownership of land meant purchase, and purchase meant money. The Boers recruited Bafokeng to work on their farms, but only in return for food, clothing and accommodation.
The recently discovered diamond mines in Kimberley provided the answer and Chief Mokgatle of the Bafokeng sent his young men to work there. They went on foot (a considerably long journey) and worked on contract for six months to a year. At the end they returned home and surrendered their earnings to a tribal 'kitty'. This provided some of the capital to legally buy back their lands.
With the help of the missionaries who were active in the area and the efforts of Chief Mokgatle to build good relations with the missionaries, the Bafokeng's ancestral lands were bought back. Little did they know what treasures lay hidden beneath the surface!
Unknown to the Bafokeng until 1925, the farms bought both by the tribe and individuals were located on the Merensky Reef - the outcrop rich in numerous minerals, ranging from asbestos to vanadium, the most important of which is platinum.
After discovering that their arable land held huge minerals reserves, the Bafokeng introduced a policy known as 'use it or lose it', which, among other things, required mining companies to pay royalties directly to the community's coffers.
Under this programme, mining companies could utilise the underground rights of the land, but the surface rights belonged to the Bafokeng. The miners had to pay royalties to the tribe and provide job opportunities. The policy has been maintained ever since and has stood the tribe in good stead.
In 1998, the Bafokeng, using taxpayers money, bought one million Implats shares worth about $70 million¬ - a move that allowed them a seat on Implats' board, which is currently occupied by the new king, Kgosi Leruo Molotlegi. The Bafokeng have formed Royal Bafokeng Resources Holdings (RBH) to manage mining-related interests of their communities.
The Bafokeng have used their income from mining to build schools, roads, clinics and other infrastructure such as a sports complex incorporating a soccer stadium with an athletics track, an Olympic-size swimming pool, tennis courts, basketball courts and a gymnasium. Almost all the infrastructure has been planned, designed and funded by the Royal Bafokeng.
For decades, mining royalties and dividends were invested in community development through a single agency: the Royal Bafokeng Administration (RBA), which was responsible for developing and maintaining infrastructure and delivering social services.
RBH is leveraging its new partnerships to produce additional benefits, not only for the Bafokeng community, but also for neighbouring communities in North-West Province.
RBH, Astrapak and investment banker JP Morgan have pooled resources and supported the South African Institute of Entrepreneurs to train 700 teachers to take classes in basic business and economic skills in 80 North-West Province schools, hopefully placing pupils in a better position to become entrepreneurs in a world where opportunities in formal employment are diminishing.
Kgosi Leruo sees his role in particularly ambitious terms. He is of the view that in order to become prosperous, a community must produce one 'world clas'" entrepreneur from every 20 of its members. With 300,000 Bafokeng living in South Africa and half of them in the Bafokeng area this means the community must strive to produce no fewer than 15,000 entrepreneurs.
RBEB offers would-be entrepreneurs coaching, advisory services, mentoring, on-the-job training, and formal, in-class training. It has also facilitated the consolidation of numerous micro-enterprises into a few sizeable companies, enabling them to compete for contracts in the Bafokeng area and further afield.
The development of enterprises has in part been spurred by the South African government's black economic empowerment policy. Thus, local entrepreneurs have formed joint ventures with established companies to supply mines in the Bafokeng area.
This has led to the establishment of locally based companies specializing in such enterprises as drilling operations, manufacturing of overalls, and engineering. Thus, Kgosi Leruo Molotlegi is consolidating the gains his people have made over the centuries, establishing a broad base for them to grow and realise the goals of Vision 2020 and beyond.
Interestingly, they funded the construction of a state-of-the-art soccer stadium that was used in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace will host matches in the tournament, and the 42,000-seat stadium is named after the Bafokeng people who live in the area.
North-West Province has a definite comparative advantage in mining. Known as the Platinum Province, it is responsible for 94 per cent of South Africa's platinum, 46 per cent of granite and 25 per cent of gold produced in the country.
Mining is responsible for more than a third of the province's gross domestic product. Platinum comes from the Rustenburg and Brits districts, which produce more platinum than any single platinum-production plant in the world. Diamonds are mined at Lichtenburg, Koster, Christiana and Bloemhof. Fluorspar is exploited at Zeerust. Granite and marble are also mined, while copper's and nickel's by-products yield substantial earnings annually.
Why not Tanzania?
If the Royal Bafokeng tribe turned their past mistakes into opportunities, why can't Tanzania? The problem with the Tanzanian government, like many African governments, is that it has more political than business skills. Policymakers and politicians think politically about everything. In every deal they sign on behalf of the nation, they first think of financing their election as well as their fancy living.
For instance when African Barrick Gold listed its share on the London Stock Exchange, we tried unsuccessfully to convince former Finance minister Mustafa Mkulo to ensure that the government, through different proxy companies, purchased about 10 percent of the 25 percent shares which were floated.
However, since there wouldn't be any political gain or any ten percent cut from the deal, no one from the Treasury as well as the Kikwete regime saw this as an opportunity to buy back what we had sold freely to the foreign investors. ABG's Senior Vice-President Deo Mwanyika tried in vain to convince the government, saying it should even lend ten local businesspeople so they could buy a stake in the company, but his advice fell on deaf ears.
Neither the Treasury nor the central bank saw this as an opportunity. One of the best ways to benefit from the lucrative minerals we have as a country is by ensuring that there's local ownership through the government or local businesspeople. If a Tanzanian businessman like Bakhresa or Reginald Mengi makes billions in this sector, he will build this country in various ways, contrary to the case where foreigners make their super profits which they later normally repatriate abroad.
In mining, gas and oil, it's more than just being paid some taxes, accompanied by some corporate social responsibility projects. This is why the Royal Bafokeng opted to acquire stakes in mining companies by using the very same tax monies they were paid by the investors. In a situation where the locals can't possibly afford it, it's the responsibility of the state to lend them low interest billions for the purpose of acquiring stakes in the mining, gas and oil sector.
The state should aim at creating local entrepreneurs in the mining sector. The Royal Bafokeng king wants to produce one 'world class' entrepreneur from every 20 of his people, which means that with 300,000 Bafokeng living in South Africa — and half of them in the Bafokeng area — the community must strive to produce no fewer than 15,000 entrepreneurs!
Now if President Kikwete and his government aimed to produce one 'world class' entrepreneur in every 20 Tanzanians in the mining sector, it means in a few years the country could be awash with world class entrepreneurs. In the mining industry alone we have more than 300,000 small-scale miners dealing in gold, tanzanite, diamonds and other minerals. If we took the ratio of the Royal Bafokeng, it means Tanzania could produce 15,000 mining entrepreneurs to reckon with.


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In this talk from the the Los Angeles Founder Institute, Stephen Meade emphasizes the importance of effective leadership. He says a founder's goal is to convince others to come on the journey with them, and to ultimately see adopt the vision as their own.
Stephen Meade is a serial entrepreneur who currently acts as chairman for Big Bamboo LLC, a holding company that incubates start-up companies from innovative idea to market-ready. In addition to his position at Big Bamboo, Stephen serves as a mentor for the Los Angeles Founder Institute, which is currently accepting applications for the Spring Semester.
Along with persistence and a clear vision of what you want to accomplish, Stephen says starting a company like climbing a mountain. Having a vision of your end goal (the peak of the mountain), you will have a much greater chance of success. Without your goal in sight, you are far more likely to give up.
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Ten ridiculously expensive hotels
SLIDESHOW: Got $28,000 burning a hole in your pocket? This is where you should go and stay.
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Al Maha Desert Resort, a luxurious hotel modeled after a Bedouin camp, was developed by Emirates Airlines in 1999 for a reported $13.6 million. The architecture recalls the traditional style of buildings around dry riverbeds or oases.
The resort consists of 40 tented suites decorated with antiquities, hand-crafted furniture, rugs and carpets – and each has a private pool. There are also activities such as falconry, camel-riding and archery.
The catch? The cheapest room – the Bedouin Suite – will set you back around $1,500 a night during April. And the 530sqm Presidential Suite, which has three bedrooms and spacious lounge, is a cool $9,673 a night.
Minimalist style meets with maximum prices at this beautiful hotel in Oman. Flanked by azure ocean waters, the hotel has 156 rooms and suites, plus a spa and specially packaged sightseeing tours.
Chedi 'suites' are currently available for around $1,267 – but cheaper rooms go for under $500 a night.
The Shangri-La Barr Al Jissah Resort and Spa complex is located on the bay at Barr Al Jissah in Oman. It consists of three hotels: Al Waha, the most family oriented of the three; the more luxurious Al Bandar; and the even more luxurious Al Husn.
Al Waha superior rooms are currently available for $400 – but if you want to book a one-bedroom suite in the latter, it would set you back $1,300.
Emirates Palace, the landmark building in the UAE capital, cost $3 billion to build. It has 302 superior rooms and 92 suites, each with appropriate dollops of bling. While you can snap up a standard room for around $400 per night, the Palace Grand Suite (at 7,319 square feet) is the most expensive, at up to $11,500 per night.
'Sammy' the whale shark may have been released, but there are plenty of other fishy goings on at Atlantis The Palm, located at the crescent of one of Dubai's artificial islands. There's the Aquaventure theme park and Dolphin Bay, where guests can swim and interact with dolphins.
A standard room booked for later this month costs around $430 a night. But the Neptune Suite, which stretches over three floors with its own elevator and staircase, will set you back $8000 a night.
The Ritz-Carlton features more than 350 meters of white sandy beach, 138 seafront rooms and 13 suites. It was recognized by Tatler magazine for being one of the best resorts in the world.
Deluxe rooms start at around $500 per night, but the Emirates Suite is around $1225.
Desert Islands Resort & Spa, on an island in Abu Dhabi planted with three million trees, boasts the unique Arabian Wildlife Park, where you can see once-indigenous animals such as the Arabian oryx and striped hyena.
Sir Bani Yas island will have an alternative energy plant supplying all its energy needs, making it one of the most eco-friendly tourism projects in the region.
A junior suite at the Desert Islands Resort & Spa will set you back $600 a night, but the Royal Villa costs $3,185.
When it opens later this year, the Armani Hotel in the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, will be just as luxurious as the rest. Accessed through its own grand entrance, the hotel occupies eleven floors of the tower, "each one reflecting the essential values of pure elegance and sophisticated comfort that define the Armani style", according to the blurb.
But it comes at a price. The cheapest room available for pre-booking is around $762 – and you'll pay $2450 a night for the 'Armani Signature' suite.
The Al Sahari Tented Pool villa at this upmarket resort in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, will set you back $1160 a night.
Lastly, the best-known – and most expensive – hotel in the Gulf. The so-called 'seven star' Burj al-Arab is consistently voted the world's most luxurious hotel, and it's got more bling than it knows what to do with. The interior of the hotel, which cost $650 million to build, has more than 9,000 square meters of gold leaf, marble, granite and crystal.
The cost of staying in a suite begins at $2,000 per night; the Royal Suite is the most expensive, starting at $28,000 per night.
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• Marlboro Race Track Road (Upper Marlboro) - closed at MD 725 opened from Equestrian Center Service Road to MNCPPC facility (Early Voting location) and Prince George's County Soil Conservation Office. (Detour signs posted)
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Celebrate July 4th Near Portland Skamania Style
Come to Skamania Lodge, just 45 minutes outside of Portland, OR this 4th of July Holiday weekend and enjoy an exciting array of recreational programs and adventures. Get to the Gorge, the Pacific Northwest's playground, to kickoff the Summer season.
July 4th
-Music by Mo Dixon 6:30PM-9PM
-Children's Events Throughout the Day (potato sack race, water balloon battles, watermelon eating contests, lawn games and more…
-Special 4th of July BBQ on our Front Lawn (hot dogs, hamburgers, popcorn and such…)
-FIREWORKS at dusk!!!
July 5th
-Wine Tasting
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-Dave Cooley Band playing 6:30-8:30
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July 6th
-Falconry demonstrations
-Wine tasting
-Skamania Lodge's newly enhanced Celebration of Wine (one of our most popular events of the year). 12 wineries to be on-hand. Culinary offerings to enhance your tasting experience. Event is from 5P-7P. 12 Wineries to be in attendace.
We look forward to seeing you the 4th of July Holiday weekend in Washington State. Call 800-221-7117 for more information.
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Rosa Guaman, Executive Director of Jambi Kiwa, an association of small medicinal herb producers in Ecuador, speaking at the Third International Gathering of the SPP
Small Farmers Big ChangeNovember 21, 2013
Rosa Guaman, Executive Director of Jambi Kiwa, an association of small medicinal herb producers in Ecuador, speaking at the Third International Gathering of the SPP
Ashley CheukNovember 14, 2013
I just got back from a weeklong visit to the Dominican Republic, where a group of us--a mix of Equal Exchange staff, food co-op managers, and Interfaith liaisons--visited cacao-growing communities that belong to CONACADO Co-op, an umbrella organization of about 10,000 cacao farmers.
Small Farmers Big ChangeOctober 31, 2013
By Carly Kadlec, Equal Exchange Coffee Purchaser
Over the past several weeks I have been in Central America, visiting our producer partner groups. At every stop along the way, I get gems of knowledge dropped on me at totally unexpected moments. Sometimes this is as straight forward as a farmer explaining a new organic practice that I have never seen before. However, more often than not, producers shatter my worldview with their incredibly refined and pointed observations of the world in which we live.
Jessica Jones-HughesOctober 25, 2013
With the holidays approaching, I always get questions about how to avoid packing on the pounds when our offices, homes, parties and stores are full of tempting, delectable treats. I, for one, am a huge sucker for my grandma's fresh-baked rolls and chocolate chip cookies made with our new Equal Exchange chocolate chips.
Ashley CheukOctober 23, 2013
Last week, we hosted two managers from cacao co-ops we work with in Peru to source chocolate for our new Organic Chocolate Chips and for our line of Organic Candy Bars. Hildebrando Cárdenas Salazar from Oro Verde co-op and David Contreras from ACOPAGRO co-op visited our headquarters in Massachusetts to learn more about Equal Exchange, meet some of our store accounts, and work on 2014 planning for our USAID grant project with the two co-ops.
Ashley CheukOctober 23, 2013
From well-loved products to brand new ones, we've got plenty of gift options that will be sure to put smiles on the faces of your friends and family this holiday season. And, you can feel good knowing your gift choices support small-scale farmers and their communities.
Small Farmers Big ChangeOctober 6, 2013
Ten years ago, Equal Exchange brought a group of food co-op and natural food store representatives to visit CEPICAFE, one of our small farmer coffee co-op partners in northern Peru. We stayed four days and nights living and working along side the coffee farmers, "helping" them with the harvest. One of my most fond memories was during lunch following that first full morning (ie 4 hours) picking coffee. We had had a lot of fun, laughing, singing, and telling jokes with the farmers, while they tried to teach us their techniques. But truth be told, the work is back-breaking, the hike to the farms was exhausting, and the sun was hot.
Small Farmers Big ChangeOctober 6, 2013
Reblogged from Somos Estrellas - 31 ways you can support co-ops throughout the month of October.
Ashley CheukOctober 4, 2013
Help us plant 10,000 cacao trees at CONACADO Co-op in the Dominican Republic! Each time a tree is virtually planted at equalexchange.coop/asfg, we'll plant a real one!
Small Farmers Big ChangeOctober 2, 2013
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David A. Pickler, President of the National School Boards Association (NSBA) and member of Tennessee's Shelby County Board of Education, was featured in The Washington Post's Answer Sheet today discussing the failures of school voucher schemes and the impact of the recent Louisiana Supreme Court ruling deeming their state's school voucher program unconstitutional.
Pickler noted:
Imagine a state outsourcing the education of its disadvantaged children to dozens of private entities, asking for only minimal updates on the students' learning and their financial management of taxpayers' dollars.
This happened in Louisiana last year, when Gov. Bobby Jindal and his allies in the state legislature rammed through a school voucher bill that diminished communities' schools and their students by siphoning off public funds to private, parochial, and for-profit enterprises.
But the Louisiana Supreme Court recently took a strong stand for public education across the country when it deemed the funding for that plan unconstitutional in a 6-1 ruling.
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Today I am hosting A Giveaway Gala.....A Features Fete, whatever you want to call it....please read on as I have a fabulous giveaway for you!
I have known about this press for several months now, and since the new Summer issue of Romantic Country Magazine is now out I want to share a bit of lovely news with you.
As you may (or may not!) know I have a website shop (shabbyfufu.com) and we've been on the internet for over 12 years now.....hard to believe how the time has flown by! We offer products both new and old, commercial and handmade by several artisan friends (and moi). One of the artists who sells her beautiful work exclusively on Shabbyfufu is my dear friend Farnaz Farzad, who has been with us for quite a few years. She is a true artist who specializes in porcelain painting, not to mention a beautiful person both inside and out. I'm so thrilled that Farnaz is featured with a 2 page spread in this issue of RC!
The photos were taken at her home and studio in Los Angeles by the talented stylist and photographer Sunday Hendrickson.
The entire issue of Romantic Country is just GORGEOUS, and it's bittersweet that we recently learned it will be the last issue edited by the Fabulous Fifi O'Neill. If you don't subscribe (you should!) it's now out on the newsstands......


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Are Some College Trustees Abusing Their Trust for Profit?
Ever wonder why college is so expensive, or why schools' big endowments aren't bearing more of the burden? Well, past of the problem may be that the trustees investing those endowment funds are taking better care of themselves than they are of their schools' money.


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Refex wrote:thats stupid though, you are essentially disabling a large fraction of the cards in alteil.
streategy is streategy, you dont ever want one card to completely render another obsolete.
Return is a pain but dont even attempt to say its OP because as much as i hate it being used on me, i find it to be the most balanced card in the game.
GonFreeces31 wrote:I really dislike hirume mikasha file doesn't flow well and is kinda weak with abundant counters.
iambad wrote:as long as grims are as powerful as they are(ala sweeping tidal, cyclone, BOF, deathmaker, ect) there needs to be an abundance of ways to deal with them. Sorry, you can say returns are balanced until you are blue in the face, it doesn't change the fact that something like LV2 Rush cept pixies needs go many grimbanes because a single grim can counter the entire deck.
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From the company Founder all the way to the warehouse shipping staff, Strider Sports Intl., Inc. is full of riding enthusiasts, most of whom are also parents of young Strider Balance Bike-riding children. Our team knows kids, knows riding, and knows how to make a learning bike that truly functions for young riders.
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Handmade to hold. Artists from Swaziland craft collective Gone Rural handweave these baskets using native lutindzi grass, repurposed fabric, colorful beads and spangles. Use one as a centerpiece at the table, or hang a few together on a wall.
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Inspired by Disney's Brave, our Princess Forest Costume for Women will have your daughter looking like a beautiful Scottish Princess. She will have all the confidence she needs in the Renaissance style green velvet dress. Light green lace up bodice is trimmed with braided brown fabric along with the waist. Puffed shoulders feature light and dark stripes, and the length of the sleeves are brown with green criss crossed ribbon. If she wants to dress like the confident princess Merida, she will need a curly red wig and a bow and arrow accessory, which can be found separately on our website. With a penchant for adventure, this Princess doesn't need a knight in shining armor to save the day; she is more than capable of taking care of business on her own.
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Current supply of dental providers inadequate to meet provisions of new healthcare law
Twelve years after issuing a landmark report that offered a framework for improving access to oral health, former Surgeon General David Satcher said that profound oral health problems still exist for large portions of the population. He issued a renewed call for action to expand access to oral health care, particularly in light of the millions of children expected to gain dental benefits through the Affordable Care Act in 2014. Speaking at a conference on unmet oral health needs sponsored by the Morehouse School of Medicine and the Sullivan Alliance to Transform America's Health Professions, Dr. Satcher addressed progress that has been made since his landmark report on the silent epidemic of tooth decay. He also detailed profound oral health problems that remain more than a decade later. "We now have an opportunity [with the ACA] to improve access to dental health services," said Satcher. Continue Reading →


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Anyone know whether this camera will automatically switch from screen to EVF when the screen is closed? I really rely on that for the G1 -- I keep the eye sensor turned off.
Also, how hard is it to toggle shutter AF on and off? The review makes it sound somewhat difficult. I like to shoot in low light, and sometimes I want AF off because it doesn't work.


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- Mar 13:
- Vestas plans 400-employee expansion in Windsor
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- Vestas Wind Systems to boost hiring at its Colorado factories
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- Vestas Colorado plants bolstered by new wind-turbine contract
- May 29:
- Vestas unveils longer turbine blade to boost power and sales
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- Vestas' Colorado factories to build components for Canadian project
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- Vestas Pueblo plant may be on sale list
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- Vestas cuts 110 Colorado jobs at Brighton, Windsor blade factories
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- Vestas cuts work week at three Colorado plants under work-share plan
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- Wind-energy tax credit extended for one year
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- Vestas cuts work week to 32 hours at two Colorado plants
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- Vestas to sell stake in company cut another 3,000 jobs
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- Failing wind market leads to job cuts at Vestas Pueblo factory
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- Colorado dodges brunt of Vestas job cuts
Vestas Wind Systems on Wednesday announced it will ramp up production at its Pueblo tower facility after striking an agreement to provide towers to other companies.
The tower-supply agreement could use up to 25 percent of the Pueblo factory's capacity and create more than 100 jobs by the end of March, the company said in a statement.
"Vestas is known for having industry-leading quality in our manufacturing processes and facilities, and it is satisfying that other companies recognize this by choosing to use our factories to produce components," chief operating officer Jean-Marc Lechêne said in a statement.
The name of the companies using the components was not disclosed.
Vestas has scheduled two job fairs for welders, painters and assemblers. One will be at Pueblo Community College, Pueblo campus, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday. The other will be held at the DoubleTree Hilton in Colorado Springs from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday.
In December, Vestas cut the workweek for Pueblo plant employees to 24 hours due to a slowdown in orders.
Vestas has reduced its workforce in Colorado from 1,800 to 1,100 as orders for new turbines fell when Congress failed to extend the wind-production tax credit — a key subsidy for the industry. That included 90 firings at the Pueblo plant.The tax credit was eventually extended by Congress for one year .
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Today my morning coffee was served to me by a non-Native American wearing a headband with feathers. Some employees at this coffee shop even donned headdresses, while others
wore bandanas around their necks and western-style plaid shirts. I
can't say I was surprised, as culturally insensitive Halloween costumes
have grown inexplicably popular, or at least become much more visible due to the Internet, in the last few years. So popular that a group of students at Ohio University have created two campaigns raising awareness about the issue.
This incident was all the more poignant, and timely, because I
recently watched Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian,
a 2009 documentary that traces portrayals of Native Americans in
Hollywood films, from the silent era to the present, and explores
the ways those portrayals shape non-Natives' understanding of
Native culture and history. The film features interviews with
actors, directors, and American Indian activists, including Sacheen
Littlefeather, John Trudell, and Russell Means. Some of the films
discussed include One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Dances WithWolves, Flags of Our Fathers, Smoke Signals, and The Fast Runner,
all of which are available at KPL.
This documentary is entertaining, informative, and breaks down common
assumptions and stereotypes. Those feather headdresses? They're worn for
ceremonial purposes, and only by American Indians of the Great Plains
It would be easy to get caught up in Sandra Bullock's role as Leigh Anne Tuohy, after all she did a fantastic job, for which she won an academy award for best actress. Since I'm very partial to Sandra Bullock, it would be effortless for me to lose sight of the fact that the movie was based on a true story. It's a story about real people. The Tuohy family showed compassion, courage and unconditional love to a total stranger and changed his life as well as their own. The Blind Side is a great feel-good, do-good story that shows us we make a difference.
It wasn't always so easy to catch movies that cleaned up at awards ceremonies – just as The Hurt Locker did during this year's awards season, capped by its Best Picture win at this week's Academy Awards presentation – if you'd missed them in the movie theater during their initial runs.
Becoming a serious film buff in the mid-'70's, I'd come away from awards show viewings making mental notes about films I'd missed so I'd remember to catch them in a second run (pre-video boom, award winners could clean up at the box office on return engagements), or perhaps when the film made its debut on network TV, which could take a while (pre-pay channel days, I waited two, perhaps three, years to see Annie Hall - somewhat cut and with commercials - on the small screen). Campus film group showings, or bottom billings on drive-in double features, might have been outside opportunities to view these films in a timely manner, but generally, if you missed them in the theater, you'd be waiting a while to see them again.
It's rare these days for any film studio to hold back a title from DVD release just based on awards nominations, at least when the films aren't end-of-year releases, to keep it on movie screens. What seems to be more common now is for studios to strategically plan DVD release dates just after awards season for maximum sales and rental impact. Precious and Up in the Air – both major awards season contenders and winners – just made their DVD debuts Tuesday, only two days after the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony. Both those titles, as well as The Hurt Locker and a slew of other awards season winners and nominees, are available for KPL patrons' viewing enjoyment – no need to wait too long to see them… check our holdings and borrow, or reserve, them today!
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Born on Sept. 15, 1946 in San Saba, TX, Jones was raised an only child by his father, Clyde, a ranch hand-turned-oil rigger, and mother, Lucille Marie, a beauty parlor owner. His father's job led the family from one West Texas oil town to another before finally settling in Midland. Despite a rough-and-tumble image, even as a child, Jones excelled both in both academics and athletics. He received an athletic scholarship to attend St. Mark's School of Texas - an elite all-boys prep school in Dallas - where he played both football and soccer. It was at St. Mark's that Jones' interest in performing on stage reached fruition - he watched a group of boys rehearsing for a production of "Mister Rob... Continue Bio >>
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