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Friday, February 20, 2009
Thai Tofu Cakes/Cutlets
1 14 oz pack extra firm tofu, drained and crumbled
1 tsp red curry paste
1 egg, beaten
1 tsp brown sugar
1 tbsp cornstarch
1/2 cup green beans, chopped fine
1 tbsp chopped fresh cilantro
salt to taste
4 tbsp oil for frying
Mix all the ingredients, except oil. Transfer to a bowl and chill for 30 minutes. Roll the mixture into balls, then flatten to make cakes/cutlets.
Heat oil in a skillet over a medium heat and cook the cutlets in batches, for about 3 minutes on each side or until golden brown & cooked through.
Garnish with lime wedges and serve on a bed of salad.
23 comments:
- indosungod said...
Perfect anytime snack. Tofu has to be hidden for me to enjoy them and this would be a great way to have them.
- February 20, 2009 at 3:56:00 PM EST
- Asha said...
Story of all foodies, cut and clip whenever you see a recipe! :D
I left behind bound magazine recipe clips, about 6 huge books when I moved out of India 1989, don't know whether my mom still has them.
Trisha loves Tofu, cutlets looks yum. Like Indo, if you hide it in spicy cutlets, I could eat those. Trish likes cubes like Paneer Makhani.
Happy Shiva Ratri if you have it. I started cooking already! :)
- February 20, 2009 at 4:17:00 PM EST
- Madhu said...
I like new tofu recipes..I have tub of tofu. I'll try it out.
Nice recipe Vani.
- February 20, 2009 at 4:43:00 PM EST
- Cham said...
Wow Vani tofu cutlet, that sound perfect for anyone!
- February 20, 2009 at 6:39:00 PM EST
- Sukanya Ramkumar said...
Tofu cutlet looks so good. Nice recipe. Sounds to be a healthy snack....YUM!
- February 20, 2009 at 7:38:00 PM EST
- Mangala Bhat said...
wow ! nice recipe Vani :) will give it a try :)this weekend :)
- February 20, 2009 at 7:51:00 PM EST
- Usha said...
This really sounds intriguing, would love to give it a try...looks yum !
- February 20, 2009 at 8:56:00 PM EST
- Maya said...
That's a very interesting recipe with tofu Vani!..It looks delicious and so nicely laid out.
- February 20, 2009 at 10:35:00 PM EST
- Dershana said...
That sounds easy and yummy enough for a try!
- February 21, 2009 at 12:53:00 AM EST
- Smitha said...
Perfect with the evening tea!
- February 21, 2009 at 8:17:00 AM EST
- DEESHA said...
looks delicious .. I have sooo many recipes from here N there & i barely try them
- February 22, 2009 at 7:57:00 AM EST
- Sandeepa(Bong Mom's CookBook/DesiMomzClub) said...
This I am going to make, yeah, yeah , yeah...looks terrific
- February 23, 2009 at 9:24:00 AM EST
- Vani said...
Thanks, all, for taking time to comment! :)
- February 24, 2009 at 9:15:00 AM EST
- Priya said...
The cutlets look scrumptious! Its immediately getting into my must try list :) And you are definitely not crazy cos I do the same too :D
- February 24, 2009 at 11:03:00 AM EST
- Vani said...
Priya- thanks! do let m eknow if you try. And good to know I have company with the recipe-no-cook collection :)
- February 27, 2009 at 10:11:00 AM EST
- Jaya said...
the cutlets look delicious and so is the cauliflower stir/fry ...
thanks for sharing ...
hugs and smiles
- February 27, 2009 at 6:35:00 PM EST
- Jaya said...
the cutlets look delicious and so is the cauliflower stir/fry ...
thanks for sharing ...
hugs and smiles
- February 27, 2009 at 6:35:00 PM EST
- Ankita said...
Tofu cutlet looks yummy.Health and easy dish for snacking.
- February 27, 2009 at 10:44:00 PM EST
- Vani said...
Jaya - thanks on both counts :)
Ankita- thank you for stopping by and for your lovely comment :)
- March 1, 2009 at 11:19:00 PM EST
- Anonymous said...
I have never liked tofu but they were always little cubes that were tasteless. Shredded tofu with spices and fried, might just be the way to get me to eat tofu. I will surely try this sometime.
- March 3, 2009 at 5:19:00 PM EST
- Anonymous said...
I have never liked tofu but they were always little cubes that were tasteless. Shredded tofu with spices and fried, might just be the way to get me to eat tofu. I will surely try this sometime.
- March 3, 2009 at 5:19:00 PM EST
- Gayathri said...
I love tofus, but i wonder where i can get them in US. i have never seen in any store. If u have any ideas let me know
The dish is so tempting that i should buy tofu and try it once.
I am really happy to invite you to participate in the contest that is getting launced on Feb 20 2009 - check out this link for details - http://justurs.blogspot.com/2009/02/magnificent-click-contest-2009.html contest.
- March 3, 2009 at 6:37:00 PM EST
- Vani said...
Suhas - yeah me too. Not too fond of tofu blocks in gravies or rice. But shredded and spiced totally hides the flavor.
Gayathri - thanks for stopping by! Will participatein your event. Tofu is available in regular grocery stores like ShopRite, Wegmans etc. Left you a comment as well.
- March 5, 2009 at 10:58:00 AM EST


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Wednesday, June 12, 2013
It's June and officially summer.
Yes, I know the summer solstice isn't until the 21st, but it's officially summer and hurricane season because the first tropical storm of the season hit South Carolina. It's not officially summer until we get a hurricane.
I watched as tropical storm force winds eclipsed 4.5 mph. I stood ready to man the emergency storm center as a light drizzle fell from the sky. At 2:30 a.m. I went outside expecting to see driving winds and pouring rain as the eye of the storm approached.
Instead, I saw stars. For a tropical storm, Andrea was a big flop.
I hate weather.
It's hot outside and it's 90 degrees and I know this is mild compared to what's coming in July. I say here often when the heat index hits 115 degrees the clothes are coming off.
The temperatures hit 90 today and instead the pants came off. It was too hot today for pants. So I wore shorts instead.
Still, I know what's coming. I remember last July 1 we had a heat index of 114 degrees.
What am I supposed to do with a 114-degree heat index?
I don't even know what that means.
The weather vixens on the Weather Channel say the heat index is the temperature the body feels when heat and humidity are combined.
The Vixen of the Month tried to tell me how you calculate the heat index, combining actual temperature, relative humidity and dew point temperature, but that's too much math for this fried egg of a brain to comprehend in this heat.
Besides, nothing that complicated should ever come out of a face that pretty.
I keep my weather simple. I'm like Little Red Riding Hood. I like things "just right."
I moved here because I didn't like the cold. My first day here, January 2, 2008, the temperature was 19 degrees outside with a wind chill factor of four degrees above zero.
And I'm looking at palm trees. Frozen palm trees, but palm trees.
Last summer was too hot. The summer before that was too hot.
I'm reminded it's just June and this isn't hot yet. I heard on Memorial Day it was 47 degrees in Chicago. I'm of an age where I don't mind brisk anymore. I even promised to no longer complain about it being too cold even though I did lament the 19 degree temperatures on my first working here.
I hate weather because weather forecasters never get it right.
Two days before Andrea hit there was a tornado warning sounding out the "End is Here!" cry of 70 mph winds, torrential rain, baseball-sized hail and enough funnel clouds to make the Wicked Witch of the West nervous.
I even made the phone call that my work associates should get ready for a really bad cloud.
It didn't happen. The system fizzled out like a blown birthday candle.
So there were no tornadoes, no hurricane, just some hot weather and by our standards this weekend was tepid.
I saw what happened in Oklahoma last month, and what happened in Alabama last year. I'm not wishing that kind of apocalyptic death and destruction on anybody.
I just want it to cool off.
And yes, I know, come July I'll be happy to see 90 degrees. I might even break out a sweater.
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Dude, I finally gave a random girl the spit-teaser last night. Boy, was she mad!
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State Sen. Ellen Roberts, R-Durango, wrote in her weekly column (Herald, Feb. 20) that her preference would be for the Legislature to drop the four gun-control bills passed by the House on Monday and instead refer the question of how to improve public safety to the bipartisan Colorado Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice.
That is legislator-speak meaning: Let�s kick this can down the road rather than deal with it.
Calling for further study is an old trick for not addressing a difficult issue. It is used at all levels of government and by members of both parties. It is not in itself disreputable, and at times can even be the best response. But it should be seen for what it is � a dodge.
The Colorado Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice is pretty much what its name suggests. Its mission, according to the state�s website, is �to ensure justice, and to ensure protection of the rights of victims� and to �focus on evidence-based recidivism reduction initiatives and the cost-effective expenditure of limited criminal justice funds.�
The commission does employ researchers and no doubt has considerable expertise with statistics and analysis. But its focus is the justice system, not law enforcement or public health.
And it is in that last regard that research into gun violence has been conducted � and now is resuming. For about a decade, the Center for Disease Control did research into gun violence. The best-known of those efforts was a 1993 study supported by grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and published in the New England Journal of Medicine. It found that, �Rather than confer protection, guns kept in the home are associated with an increase in the risk of homicide by a family member or intimate acquaintance� and �the link between guns and homicide in the home was present among women as well as men, blacks as well as whites, and younger as well as older people.�
Not surprisingly that study offended the gun lobby, and in 1996, Congress forbade the use of federal money �to advocate or promote gun control.� That deterred the CDC from gun-related research.
Last month, however, President Barack Obama directed the CDC to research the �causes and prevention of gun violence.�
This country�s approximate 30,000 gun-related deaths per year has to qualify as a public-health problem. And studying things that affect public health is what the CDC is all about. There is no reason for Colorado to try to duplicate that effort.
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The Stetson men's tennis team dropped a tightly contested match on Friday afternoon at the Mandy Stoll Tennis Center. Ranked 68th in the nation, Georgia State defeated the Hatters by a score of 4-3.
"This was a great college tennis match, with the outcome being decided on the last court," Stetson associate head coach Christophe Noblet said. "I am proud of the way we competed today. The fight was outstanding, especially in doubles. Even though we lost, this is the most complete match we have played so far."
Sophomore Laurynas Antropikas and junior Chester Espie won 8-2 at number two doubles to get the Hatters off to a good start. Georgia State then won the other two doubles matches to earn the first point and take a 1-0 lead.
Antropikas then lost to Jannis Koeke 6-3, 6-1 at number two singles, which gave the Panthers a 2-0 lead in the match. Junior Nathan Debut put Stetson on the board with a 6-4, 6-4 win at number one singles.
Felipe Jaworski topped senior Hans Adrien Riseng 6-2, 7-5 at number six to give Georgia State a commanding 3-1 lead, before Stetson earned another two wins to tie the match at 3-3.
Freshman Graham Ball won 6-3, 4-6, 6-1 at number five singles, and sophomore Cahit Kapukiran earned a 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (7-3) at the number three position to tie the match.
Sofiane Chevallier won 1-6, 7-6, 6-3 at number four over Espie to give the nationally ranked Panthers the 4-3 win over the Hatters.
"The focus is now on to the next match," Noblet said. "We have a great week of tennis coming up, and we need to prepare appropriately for it."
Stetson will next host Niagara on Monday. The match is scheduled for 11:00 a.m. in DeLand.


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Three people were arrested for aggravated driving while intoxicated – for having a blood-alcohol level of at least 0.18 percent – in separate incidents on Western New York roadways Sunday.
Erie County sheriff's deputies made two of the arrests, while the State Police made the other.
The first occurred at about 1:10 p.m., when Trooper Jeffrey Curtis of the State Police at Jamestown charged Raymond Westbrook, 43, of Pittsburgh, with aggravated DWI and two counts of Leandra's Law. Westbrook was accused of recording a 0.19 percent blood-alcohol level and having his two minor children in the vehicle. Westbrook was stopped when State Police said he drove through a road check on Waite Corners Road in Sherman.
Erie County Sheriff's Deputy Jonathan Hanna made the second arrest, after responding to a citizen complaint of a vehicle driving erratically southbound on Route 219 in the Town of Concord at about 7:20 p.m. Hanna, with the help of two other deputies, charged Jennifer Buckley, 48, of Grand Island, with aggravated DWI for registering a 0.26 percent blood-alcohol level.
Then shortly after 10 p.m., Sheriff's Deputy Gene Nati responded to a vehicle in a ditch on Salt Road at Clarence Center Road in the Town of Clarence. Deputies, working with State Police, charged Kurt Meyers, 38, of Clarence, with aggravated DWI, accusing him of having a blood-alcohol level of 0.20 percent.
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INWOOD - Joseph Edward Casper, 89, said he enlisted in the Army on May 10, 1942 - the day of his 21st birthday.
"My mother wasn't very happy that day because she knew what I was going to do, and after we celebrated my birthday, I went down to Whitehall Street in New York and signed up," Casper said.
A native of Yonkers, N.Y., Casper said he had been working for Westin Electric at the time World War II broke out.
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Veteran Joseph 'Joe' Casper of Inwood holds up some of the awards he received from his service in the Army Air Corp from 1942 until 1945.
"I knew the United States would go to war," he said. "I remember I was leaving the YMCA in Pittsburgh, Pa., where I was working at the time and I went to see a movie. Well, when I came out of the movie, I saw the headline about the attack on Pearl Harbor. I think everybody expected war at the time, but not the suddenness of it, the nastiness of it."
Casper enlisted to go into the Infantry, but was instead put into the Army Air Corp.
"After weeks of processing at Fort Dix, they sent me to Miami Beach, Fla., where they asked for volunteers for tail gunners, so I volunteered," he said. "Though I don't think anyone who volunteered knew what they were for volunteering for."
Just two months after enlisting, Casper was promoted to sergeant after going through gunnery school.
"I didn't have much training, honestly. After I volunteered, they treated me like a king almost. They didn't want to lose any volunteers," he said.
In MacDill Field, Fla., bomb groups were formed and Casper was assigned to a crew whose pilot was a West Point graduate.
He went through training in Myrtle Beach, S.C., and then went on to torpedo bombing school in Florida before ending up in Fort Wayne, Ind., to pick up the planes that his group would later fly on overseas.
Casper's crew flew on a Pan American Flying Clipper boat from Miami to Trinidad to Brazil, landing in the estuary of the Amazon River, and then to Liberia.
"They took us off the clipper and stuck us on a C-46. There were five of us and a load of 50-caliber machine guns," he said.
From Morocco, his crew landed in Land's End, England.
Finally they went to the base where he would later fly his first 32 missions out of, in Earls Colne, England, he said.
"We were torpedo-trained so we were supposed to fly missions trying to sink German ships in the North Sea, but the bomb groups ahead of us were destroyed after they went on two low-level missions," Casper said. "So we had to up the altitude between 8,000 and 10,000 feet, even though we were without oxygen and heated suits. I remember a time when we were in 36-below-zero temperatures."
In June 1943, Casper's crew flew its first combat mission in Ghent, Belgium.
"It was very exciting, but you never get used to the flak - anti-aircraft warfare. As long as you could see the flak, you were alright," he said. "There was nothing really you could do about it."
Casper said that he remained with his crew from May 1943 until August 1944.
"We had a very fortunate crew, you have to say 'fortunate' because there's no such thing as luck, they say," he said. "Our plane was shot up many times - many, many times. The worst day we had we counted 250 holes in the plane, all flak."
Casper noted that the most dangerous mission that he remembers is one where his crew was in Schipohl Airport, in Amsterdam.
"We went there three times but we survived all missions," he said. "We lost a couple of wingmen, we lost a couple people behind us and you could see people all over, but we always made it back."
In his 63 missions, Casper said he only saw one German fighter.
"They never attacked us ... the B-26 was a funny airplane. It killed more people in the United States than it did in combat," he said. "This is partly because it had a 62-foot wing span and a 58-foot body, it was like a bumblebee. Landing it was very dangerous, you had to land it at 125 miles per hour. But, it had the best combat record of any airplane they made."
Casper says his crew mainly bombed bridges, airfields and coke ovens (used to produce steel works) throughout France, Belgium and Holland.
"I saw planes blasted apart. You see a plane and then you just see a big black (mass)," he said. "I used to pray a lot, believe it or not. Even though it was wartime, and you were supposed to be a hero."
Casper said that remembering every mission is difficult to do, though he vividly recalls certain "close calls."
"I remember the closest time we ever got to being shot was when we were hit by 12 search lights all at once, after we dropped our flares," he said. "Nobody shot us down, because we got out of the lights and we got home."
For his service in the military, Casper earned a Distinguished Flying Cross, a Good Conduct Medal, an Air Medal with 11 oak leaf clusters, a European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with three battle stars, a WWII Victory Medal, the Presidential Unit Citation and more.
"I still think about (the war) every once in a while, it's not that easy to forget," he said.
Casper met his future wife, Betty, in 1950 and today, the couple reside in Inwood.
"She loves to fly. I don't like to so much. I think there's only so many times you can fly without something happening, you know," he said, with a laugh.
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Model City of the Old South
Perhaps because of the need to rely on unpublished primary source material, the technological advances made in the Old South are seldom the subject of modern published research. Dr. Scott believes that what is often considered obsolete material should be preserved in the hope of spawning new ideas. In this monograph, he devotes attention to four key services as they developed in antebellum Natchez: fire protection, gas lighting, sanitation, and streets.


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Enough Tanks: Political spending is hurting military needs
April 30, 2013
No nation on earth has an armored vehicle capable of standing up to the U.S. Abrams tank. On conventional battlefields, it is virtually unbeatable....
China will bring is down thru cyber attacks which will affect everything we have come to rely on. Then occupy us with 3 billion screaming Chinese soldiers. If they can't occupy the U.S., they will nuke us into the Stone Age. Einstein is right about the assembly line not falling into decay and this cost is certainly pennies in comparison to one F-35 Strike Fighter which is also needed to replace 25 - 30 year old F-16's, F-18's and Harriers. There is a price to pay for sustaining freedom, deterrence from aggression and overall readiness. I would like to see more weighted input from the branch Generals/Admirals in lieu of politicians who only have their constituency in their sights. They simply don't care about parts, future readiness, etc. maybe a handful consider this critical variable, but certainly not many.
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400 million is chicken feed. Some of these tanks are being sold to other countries. If we shut down this plant and the supply chain it will be lost forever. What will we do when the next generation of tanks need to be built in a few years, buy them from Russia? I would rather spend the money and have some extra tanks.
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The only Abrams plant is in Ohio. These three Congressional representatives have been screaming about Obama's spending spree. Well when it is their chance to make a difference what do they do. Just like in Texas where the representatives voted against aide to victims of Hurricane Sandy but are supporting disaster assistance for a fertilizer plant blowing up because Texas refuses to regulate it's job creators.
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Excuse me, "war".
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Bingo! Ding ding ding! This is why we will NEVER end these perpetual wars. Boeing has too much to lose and whoever ends the war will be saddled with the "job killer" title.
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Why? Because producing tanks provides jobs and some lawmakers don't want to have to explain closed armaments factories to their constituents." no kidding... life's hard, isn't it...make the hard choices, that's what you're paid to do. NOT play Drama Queen for the public. Perfect example of a system's failure.ANOTHER example, I should say.
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Meet your world-renowned instructor, Paul Bradford, as he previews this amazing cake and the materials you'll need to build it. Then jump right in and start building this chocolate wrap cake.
Get your cake ready for its white chocolate wrap as you carve and then crumb coat your dense chocolate cakes in thick and creamy ganache.
Wrap your cake in white chocolate waves as you shape, texture, ruffle and luster modeling chocolate. Learn how to speed through this daunting task by breaking it down into its smaller steps.
Discover Paul's ingenious way of making white chocolate coral, then make glistening fondant sand to scatter on the floor of your undersea creation.
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Your sugar flower education dives off the deep end as you learn to make exotic sea urchins with flowing tentacles in fiery colors.
Make three different species of fish by hand, then learn how to paint a vibrant tropical fish with an airbrush and add color to an adorable clown fish by hand.
It's time to complete your adventure as you learn the best practices for attaching items large and small -- coral, shells and fish -- to your cake. Paul leads a discussion on design and where to place your colorful decorations on the cake to maximize their impact. Finally, Paul shares what he would charge for this cake and how you can calculate your own price.
"I was so excited when I got the email announcement that there was a new class � I dashed home and sat here, rapt, watching this wonderful class.
Now I'm dying to have a reason to make a giant cake for people so that I can wrap it in chocolate and create a masterpiece!
Paul is funny and a great teacher! I'm so glad that I purchased this class � you will be, too!"
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I put some melted butter on my wife last night.
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She's just like melted butter, spreads easy.
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Get what you paid for with open source
The other day I heard the phrase every open source educator hates to hear: "Well, you get what you pay for..." So, this time in my talk to the group, instead of explaining that 'free' means 'free as in freedom' not 'free of cost', I changed it up. I replied, "You're right you do."
What did I mean? How could I agree with this person? Well, with open source you can always pay to get new features written, but you also can pay with your time to improve the product. If 'free' can mean multiple things, so can 'pay'. When it comes to open source, you have the freedom to improve the product and that means you can pay with your time (reporting bugs, suggesting features, writing documentation, etc), your skills (writing code, debugging software, etc), or your money, to improve the product at any time. If however you just download the product and use it for free, then you don't have the right to complain when it doesn't do what you want.
A great example of this happened on a Thursday. I got a report from one of our partner libraries that they wanted Koha to function a specific way. I explained that that would be a new feature, and I'd recommend it to the community. I reported an enhancement request in the afternoon. On Friday, when I logged in to our IRC channel, I had a message waiting for me from a developer saying that they had fixed the issue I reported! I went in to Bugzilla, checked out the patch, and tested it. I was able to get the patch to work perfectly, so I gave it my sign off and by Tuesday the following week it has passed quality assurance and was ready for our release manager to review it.
That right there is the beauty of open source and the benefit of 'paying' with your time. We get so used to software that forces us to just deal with the menus and settings they provide that we don't think to suggest new features when we switch to open source, but if you do you might just get what you'd paid for.
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Thank you for dealing with that old cliche so efficiently.
What a fantastic little article. It seems so simple when you say it like that, yet I feel many of us can forget that kind of train of thought too often.
Go Open Source!
Thanks for the great article.
Excellent illustration of the actual flow of value in a collaborative network. In particular, how in-kind contributions can make the bulk of the economic transactions in an open environment.
I'll make sure to use this example, and your perspective, the next time I'm explaining open source economics.
Of course, the phrase in question dates to far before free software was available, and fails to take into account any but commercial products. Of course, even then, with many a commercial product what was really being paid for was best described by another term of the era, "snake oil".
I would challenge anybody that says "you get what you pay for" to repeat the phrase in front of:
* volunteer soup kitchen
* red cross
* salvation army
* doctors without borders
* the peace corp members
Well, in this case you were able to come up with a favourable answer to the classical observation "you get what you pay for".
I want to emphasise however that this favourable outcome materialised only because someone else was able and willing to implement the new feature. Which is of course a central characteristic of what Open Source is all about.
The outcome *can* be a lot less favourable however, and in many cases it is. Less favourable conditions set in whenever:
(a) the feature requested isn't considered "interesting" by the developers who basically want to spend the time they put in (their own time !) on stuff they think is interesting (think: KDE Desktop's galloping featuritis; also many of the Kxxxx applications that are half-baked, buggy, and second-rate)
(b) the number of developers of the community surrounding a piece of OSS is small compared to the difficulty of the codebase and the complexity of the feature requests (think the OSS statistics package "R", the OSS version of which has lousy debugging support, can't take advantage of multiple processors, and is weak when it comes to file-based processing, whereas its commercialised fork is quite strong in those areas. In this case you pay people to do nasty, exhausting, complex, and boring work ... that is totally worth the money when you need it)
(c) the coders feel that the requested feature isn't worthwhile, or even desirable (think Gnome project, support for dated hardware in Linux, )
Community support of OSS _may_ work fabulously, and then again it _may_ be absolutely lousy. You can't tell what it's going to be until you gain some experience with that particular community.
So err ... the observation "you get what you pay for" can be totally wrong, or completely on the mark. Lets not be too dogmatic here.
"I want to emphasise however that this favourable outcome materialised only because someone else was able and willing to implement the new feature...
The outcome *can* be a lot less favourable however, and in many cases it is. Less favourable conditions set in whenever: "
"(a) the feature requested isn't considered "interesting" by the developers..."
"(b) the number of developers ... is small compared to the difficulty of the codebase..."
"(c) the coders feel that the requested feature isn't worthwhile, or even desirable..."
In other words, no different than commercial software in these respects.
@Bernardo Verda
Yes and (in ways that matter) No.
The mechanism is similar but the criteria that make a feature "interesting" for developers are radically different.
As in: with commercial software developers and hobbyists have no say. It's management that decides, and they go by things like profitability and whether or not a feature is relevant for a product.
Take e.g. MS Visio. There is no FOSS tool that even comes close to its quality.
Take MS Visual C++. For all its warts, there's no FOSS tool that offers comparable debugging facilities (and certainly not GDB or KDEVELOP).
Take the Wolfram / Maple symbolic maths and Matlab numeric math packages. They beat Sage, Scilab, and Octave hands down.
Take Esri's Mapinfo GIS package. It's horribly expensive, but there's no comparable FOSS package because it's too hard to develop and there just aren't enough people able and willing to do it.
Take Total Commander for Windows ... it's so much better than any FOSS two-pane file manager, and has been for years. But there are no takers to keep 'mc' up to speed.
Finally take MS WIndows. It's innards are admittedly appalling, but its user interface is polished and it very very rarely malfunctions when you're just running desktop applications. Compare that with KDE which has diverted enormous resources into producing a fancy "rethinking the desktop" experience that nobody asked them for and added a raft of redundant and second-rate "mee-too" applications, and still hasn't got all the basic stuff working because it wants to try something new every so often.
In all these cases, if your time is worth money (which admittedly excludes hobbyists) the commercial variant is more than worth its price. Simply because there aren't enough developers to really polish the software ... or they have more interesting things to do.
In the early days of the PC, WordPerfect functioned magnificently: they had free, toll-free tech support that 1) took bug reports and fixed them and sent you new disks to check it out; 2) took feature suggestions and very often incorporated them (at least the ones I suggested) and again, sent new disks to check out; they were sensitive particularly to unexpected results or complaints about awkward access to commands or poorly worded command choices. I must have received 20 or so updated versions due to my tech support calls and they were proud to state that free tech support was a tool for them to improve the software. Such strong and responsive customer support is not just possible in open source--it was once a major part of a business plan of a for-profit company. Unfortunately, the closed nature of Windows allowed MS to create obstructions in the Windows API for competing software and made the transition to Windows slow for WP. I still use it, albeit in WinXP in a VirtualBox VM.
Brilliant article! I agree wholeheartedly on this matter! I am glad that I do indeed GET what I PAY for!....(Bug reporting and feedback!)
Compare that to payed software... Your request and all your effort would be roughly the same (or even more). On the suppliers side there would be a lot more actions.
If you think about the tree-swing cartoon, I bet the effort on all sides would be much more resulting in a more expensive solution with less satisfaction.
I discovered a mapping Application called QlandkarteGT and needed to contact the developer for a bit of hand holding in the setup, (try that with MS) not only did I get some help in making my version the most current but Oliver asked me to send him a couple of maps from my SouthernHemisphere location. I up loaded my maps and sent him the link. He discovered that some changes needed to be made to his program to make it work for me, in Australia, (Southern Hemisphere). Then he said he had made my maps contiguous and built in some accelerators as well. The resulting file was a GeoTiff of 4Gb in size which works amazingly fast in my netbook with 2Gb RAM. Outstanding value. How do you put a price on the generous spirit of OpenSource?


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Pastor John Odom spoke more about the event with WFMY News 2's Faith Abubey. Click on the video to watch the interview.
The event will take place on Saturday, Nov. 17 from 2-5 p.m. at their 3501 West Market Street location.
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Ryan Galloway scored early for Lowcountry off a passed ball in the top of the first inning. Coastal responded with three runs in the bottom frame and another three in the second inning. White drove a two-run double into right field with two outs in the second inning to open a 6-1 Coastal advantage.
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Well, I guess that's it, then. The rebuild is upon us.
I can't say I'm happy with it, but it is what it is.
I'm extremely frustrated with Holland's choice to stand pat, but I can also begin to understand. He wants to build this team again. We entered the twilight of this franchise's success in 2009 and now it's finally over.
We're committed to youth. Our farm system is extremely boom-or-bust, but it's all we have. Or are we? We still employ the likes of Cleary, Bertuzzi, and Samuelsson. Three contracts that could be used on young talent. But no.
So, what do we do going forward? I'll start with right this second and go into the beginning of next season. I'll touch slightly on the draft and free agency. I don't know what the market will look like come "Opening Day" and I'm not in-tune enough with the world of hockey prospects to really make a sensible draft list.
I'm doing this operating under the assumption that we make the playoffs. Missing the playoffs wouldn't change much as far as core needs and tasks, anyways.
Well, here we go.
- Begin contract talks with Filpulla. DO NOT go in with a "sign-or-let-walk" attitude. If his demands are unreasonable (I would consider pretty much what he's making now to be reasonable, given his production), be prepared to move his rights at the Draft.
- Finish Howard's extension. While he is prone to inconsistency and lets in soft goals on occasion, he's the best we have. He's probably worth around 4-5 million a season. He's playing well right now and seems to have put last year's injury behind him.
- Go into the playoffs and do what you're going to do. Allow our current rookies to show what they can do in the playoffs.
- When all is said and done, go to work. It's time to trim the fat. Use cap-compliance buyouts on Samuelsson and Bertuzzi. Try and move Colaiacovo at the Draft, if possible.
- This is the big one: dangle Franzen at the Draft. By no means am I saying to absolutely move him for whatever someone shoves under your nose. I'm saying to dangle him. See what you can get. If you find an offer that you can't refuse, take it. He's aging, inconsistent, soft, and doesn't use his size. He's not a player that will perform well in the East.
- As far as draft strategy, size and scoring need to be the focus. The East is a totally different monster from the West. We're going to get eaten alive in the first couple of seasons. Find a sniping power-forward who plays with an edge and a big, strong, right-handed defenseman early on. Fill out the draft with some good two-way guys. We need all the effort at both ends of the rink we can get.
- After the Draft and everything settles down until the re-sign period, sit down and have a REAL heart-to-heart with Datsyuk. I don't care what BS the media spews about him wanting to leave after this contract. I want to hear it from his mouth. If he does indeed intend to leave, be prepared to make him available at the deadline and move him. Losing Datsyuk for nothing is absolutely unacceptable.
- Seriously re-evaluate your position on Brendan Smith. Let's be honest with ourselves. He hasn't been very good since his first few games after being called up. He's been invisible far too often. He makes a ton of mistakes and, quite frankly, isn't contributing offensively. This should affect your demands from him contractually when it's time to re-sign him. If he doesn't like it...tough.
- Now comes the re-sign period. Brunner needs to be the top priority. He shows a desire to go to the dirty scoring areas, and that translates to the East. While he is undersized, totally un-physical and hard to watch defensively, he scores goals. We can't afford to let that go. Get him for a reasonable raise (3 million should be fine, at the very most). Next, Kindl and Smith need new contracts. Neither realistically command a significant raise. 2.5-3 million each should be just fine. If not, I wouldn't go beyond 4 for either.
-Free-agency comes next. Waive bye-bye to Cleary and White. Completely unnecessary plugs who aren't much use anymore. Make Gustavsson available, and take whatever you can get for him. In what little we ask of him to do, he has been downright awful. Mrazek needs the experience. He deserves a chance to prove he can hold down the backup role. See if Miller can be re-signed for about what he's making now. If not, it's not a catastrophe to let him walk.
- Same strategy should apply to free agency as was applied to the draft. We won't have a whole lot of money to spend, so we're probably not going to be very active. We're screwed cap-wise with so many free agents. I'm going to do the rest of this assuming we aren't active.
- As we enter training camp, we now have 7 defenseman (Kronwall, Lashoff, Quincey, Smith, DeKeyser, Kindl and Ericsson), so there aren't many open spots. None of our defense prospects are close to being ready. I can see Lashoff being the 7th defenseman during the season.
- Forward is a little trickier. Put Abdelkader in the bottom-6 where he belongs and keep him there. He is not, and never will be, a goal-scorer. There are three openings now that Cleary, Bertuzzi, and Samuelsson are gone. Tatar should be brought up full-time. No one else is really NHL-ready. Try to find two young forwards with size and decent offensive skill on the market. I can see us going with a lineup looking like this:
Filpulla - Datsyuk - Franzen
Tatar - Zetterberg - Brunner
Nyquist - Helm - Abdelkader
Miller - Andersson - Tootoo
Extras: Emmerton/Eaves
Kronwall - Ericsson
Smith - DeKeyser
Kindl - Quincey
- Be prepared to call-up Jarnkrok, Pulkinnen and Sproul during the season if injuries hit. They aren"t ready for full-time duty, but could hold down a spot for us.
And that's about it right through the start of the season. Essentially, it's about cleaning up the mess from last offseason and getting serious about installing a youth movement to me.
I do NOT want to go the way of Calgary, Buffalo, and Dallas. Middling in the middle while you try to rebuild on the fly DOES NOT WORK. We can get back on the road to winning consistently if we cut the over-loyal BS and start managing in the 21st century.
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In a contentious meeting of finger-pointing and rattled egos, Charleston County Aviation Authority voted 8-5 Thursday to hire state Sen. Paul Campbell as the new director of airports.
How they voted
Voting to hire Campbell: Attorney and board Chairman Andy Savage, North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey, Charleston Mayor Joe Riley, Mount Pleasant Mayor Billy Swails, Charleston County Council Chairman Teddie Pryor, North Charleston police spokesman Spencer Pryor, businessman Michael Stavrinakis and attorney and former lawmaker Ben Hagood, who changed his vote from July 30.
Voting against hiring Campbell: Former judge and lawmaker Larry Richter, former U.S. Rep. Tommy Hartnett, retired businessman Pat Waters, businessman Mallory Factor and accountant Ellie Thomas.
After the nearly two-hour rant with board members sometimes talking on top of one another and the chairman rapping the gavel several times to restore order, Campbell, a Goose Creek Republican, signed a three-year contract.
He will earn $192,000 a year and officially starts working Saturday. He also will get a $1,000-a-month car allowance, medical insurance, travel expenses and be eligible for state retirement benefits separate from those already earned through his service in the Legislature.
Campbell, 67, steps in to fill the position left vacant when seven-year Airports Director Sue Stevens abruptly stepped down July 23, citing "intolerable" working conditions under the present 13-member board's makeup. She is on paid leave through Sept. 30.
Stevens was earning $211,140 a year when she decided to resign. She worked for the agency 26 years.
A week after Stevens stepped down, the board voted 7-6 to negotiate a contract with Campbell as the new director of airports.
Campbell, a former Alcoa executive, said he is confident he can do both jobs without resigning his Senate seat.
"I'm convinced I can do both jobs," he told the board as they fired questions at him. "I'm confident I can do both jobs well."
When questioned about being in Columbia from January to June when the Legislature is in session, Campbell said the General Assembly meets 55 days and he considers it a part-time job that will not interfere in running the airport.
"I don't think of this (the airport job) as a part-time undertaking," he said, adding that the Aviation Authority staff is competent and can take care of things in his absence.
Aviation board member and former U.S. Rep. Tommy Hartnett took issue with Campbell's position.
"To me, it just doesn't show a total dedication to the job," Hartnett said.
Campbell responded that the agency, in turmoil since Stevens left, needs some stability. "I would like to get started now."
Campbell's hiring came after attorney and former lawmaker Ben Hagood, a member of the airport board, moved to delay the hiring process 30 days and find two more candidates to join Campbell as finalists for the job.
"There is no evidence of an emergency before this board," Hagood said.
"It is an emergency," countered board member Charleston Mayor Joe Riley, pointing to the $189 million overhaul of the terminal at Charleston International Airport that is underway and the pending deal to sell 320 wooded acres owned by the Aviation Authority to Boeing for possible future expansion.
"The organization needs to move forward with a permanent director," Riley said. "The organization has been injured in large part by members of this board."
He said Campbell would bring stability and order back to the agency.
Hagood's motion failed on a 7-6 vote, along the same lines of the July 30 vote allowing the chairman to negotiate a contract with Campbell.
Board member Mallory Factor called the method of hiring Campbell "a dramatic departure" from the way other directors of the airports have been hired.
Chairman Andy Savage said Campbell requested a one-year contract, but Savage insisted on at least three years for Campbell to head the county's three airports to provide job security during terminal expansion and renovation.
"The previous director quit because of the way she was treated by certain members of this board," Savage said. "She didn't have a contract. She had no security."
North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey, who has served on the Aviation Authority for 22 years, said he was never more embarrassed to serve on a board than during the past year when certain remarks were made to Stevens by certain board members.
"We fell into a trap," he said. "We need to establish policy and give somebody legs to run (the Aviation Authority). We overstepped those bounds. We need to get our act together."
Mount Pleasant Mayor Billy Swails, who also sits on the board, said they could not have landed a more qualified candidate.
"We need this guy more than he needs us," he said.
At one point, board member Larry Richter tore into Campbell about contributors to his campaign, saying the board needed to know who he had ties to before they could vote on hiring him.
Campbell responded that it was all public information and not relevant to his job as airports director.
"If you don't like me, you don't hire me," he said. "I'm comfortable with whatever the board decides."
Hartnett offered an amendment that required Campbell to resign his Senate seat to accept the job of airports director. That motion was tabled.
The board also voted unanimously to bump up the salary of interim Airports Director Bill New by 20 percent to $211,000, the same amount his predecessor was earning before she left in July. New plans to retire Dec. 31. His was earning $175,839.
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1. Stay home. Bills defensive tackles Marcell Dareus and Kyle Williams are at their best when they're penetrating through the line and making plays in the backfield. That can sometimes work against the Bills, though. If Williams or Dareus are overly aggressive, they can leave big holes in the middle of the defense. The evidence is in the numbers. The Bills have allowed 4.1 yards per rush before contact this season. If opposing running backs didn't gain a single yard after contact, the Bills still wouldn't be in the top 10 in rushing yards allowed. In the first matchup against the Patriots, New England gained 200 of its 247 rushing yards between the tackles. Williams and Dareus have to do a better job of sealing the interior of the line.
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3. Exploit New England's weakness. The flip side to the Patriots' run defense is the job they've done against the pass. The Patriots have allowed 281 yards per game and 17 touchdowns through the air. If the Bills can establish Jackson and Spiller, quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick has shown an ability to make plays against New England. He's thrown for at least 300 yards in the last three games against the Patriots. New England has allowed an NFL-high 42 pass plays of 20-plus yards. That includes seven in Week Four against the Bills, four of which went to the end zone. The Patriots have gotten inconsistent play from cornerback Kyle Arrington and safeties Steve Gregory and Patrick Chung. The key for Fitzpatrick, as it seems to be every week, is to not turn the ball over. He's thrown 10 interceptions in the last three meetings with New England.
4. Try something new. Working against slot cornerback Justin Rogers in Week Four, Patriots receiver Wes Welker was targeted 10 times and made nine catches in Week Four. The Bills are allowing nearly 80 percent of passes intended for receivers lined up in the slot to be completed this season. If Rogers can't handle Welker, a good bet considering the receiver's history against the Bills, Buffalo should make a switch to rookie Ron Brooks. The LSU product was active for his first game last week against Houston, but did not see any defensive snaps. With the Bills down to four healthy cornerbacks, not including Crezdon Butler, who was signed Wednesday, it's a chance to see what Brooks can do.
5. Make a statement. There's no denying it. Gillette Stadium is probably the worst place for the Bills to be with their backs to the wall. They've never won there, after all. But if it's a signature win this team needs to save its season, then there's no better place to be. "What do you want to be viewed as?" Kyle Williams asked of his teammates this week. A win today would go a long way toward shaping that view.
Outlook: A shootout seems like the only chance Buffalo's got. Bad news when the guy throwing the passes for the other team is Tom Brady. Count on it being another long day for the Buffalo defense. Prediction: Patriots 37, Bills 23


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Afghan Women Fear Rights Will Erode as U.S. Leaves
HERAT, Afghanistan—Rokhshana, a 14-year-girl, has been behind bars here since March. She is serving a yearlong adultery sentence after what she describes as rape by her adult cousin, who remains a free man.
"I love my country, but there's no justice here," says Rokhshana at Herat's juvenile prison, her arms bearing the signs of beatings.
Eleven years after the U.S. ousted the Taliban regime, citing its abuses against women as one of the reasons for the invasion, Afghan women—as well as girls—remain subjected to some of the world's most draconian laws. The U.S.-funded Afghan government of President Hamid Karzai routinely imprisons wives fleeing domestic abuse and puts raped children like Rokhshana in jail.
In part because of international pressure, Afghan women have made some progress in recent years: They can hold office, study in university or walk the streets of big cities without a traditional burqa covering. But, with the U.S.-led coalition withdrawing its troops by 2014, women's activists worry that even those fragile achievements will be sacrificed by Mr. Karzai's administration as he seeks a peace settlement with the Taliban.
"It's a men's country," says Hawa Alam Nuristani, one of a handful of female members on the High Peace Council, the government body appointed by Mr. Karzai to reach out to the insurgency. "Our only support is from the international community. What is the guarantee that we won't be faced with a similar regime as the Taliban when the Americans withdraw?"
The U.S. says women's rights will remain an important issue after the withdrawal, even though American officials acknowledge the limits of their waning influence. "Afghanistan is run by Afghans; we are significant partners," says Melanne Verveer, the U.S. Ambassador at large for global women's issues. "We will continue to ensure that women's rights are pivotal because of our partnership and because it is critical to the future."
Such promises fail to allay international observers like Heather Barr, Human Rights Watch's Afghanistan researcher. "We've seen Karzai repeatedly do violent zigzags on women's rights," she says. "The explanation is that he's getting pressure from opposite directions—the international community and conservative elements of Afghan society. But…if that political pressure [from the West] stops, the government's already weak support for women's rights will drop away even more."
In March, the Ulema Council, Afghanistan's government-funded supreme religious authority, decreed that Afghan husbands were allowed to beat their wives if they showed disobedience. Mr. Karzai publicly backed the Council's code of conduct. The Ulema Council declined repeated requests for comment.
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Presidential spokesman Aimal Faizi said "today's Afghanistan is no more [the] Afghanistan of 10 years back. We do not think that Afghan women are facing more violations of their rights than before. It is the opposite."
Girls like Rokhshana, who uses only one name, are the faces of the present reality. Raised in a village outside Herat, western Afghanistan's main city, which is considered one of the country's most liberal, Rokhshana ended up living with her cousin Abdullah, now aged 38, after the death of her father.
At the Herat detention center, surrounded by bars, Rokhshana displays an arm with dark blue capillaries under the skin—the hallmarks of beatings by Abdullah, she says. The cousin, who is married with two children, forced her to smoke opium and then regularly raped her since she was 12, she recounts.
"I would smoke and I wouldn't know what was happening around me. Life seemed so far away and that's when my cousin would take me," she says, her hennaed hand nervously clutching her veil whenever she spoke.
She finally escaped the village in March, fleeing to a nearby police station where she explained her story. Instead of arresting Abdullah, the police locked up Rokhshana herself. Her offense: leaving home unescorted by a male relative. Such conduct is considered a crime by many judges in Afghanistan, who often apply Shariah, or Islamic laws, differently across the country.
Weeks later, her complaints of rape and abuse were turned into charges of leaving home and adultery—even though she is unmarried. "When the judge sentenced me he said 'I know you've been forced to have sexual relations but because you're now impure and escaped from home, you need to go to jail,' " she recalled, sitting on a prison bed.
The judge in the case, Humayoon Aseel, said he sentenced Rokhshana because she "committed adultery by her consent and repeatedly."
Under Afghan law, men committing adultery should also be imprisoned. Mr. Aseel said he also issued a warrant for Abdullah's arrest. Rokhshana says, however, that her cousin has bribed the police to avoid being detained and is now back in the village.
Noor Khan Nikzad, the spokesman for Herat police, says the police haven't received any warrant to arrest Abdullah. The police deny any allegations of bribery. The cousin couldn't be reached for comment.
Once she is freed from prison, Rokhshana says she hopes to be able to help women like herself find justice. "If I could ask one thing of President Karzai, I'd ask him to let me become a police officer," she says.
Abuses against women are also widespread these days in the rural areas controlled by the Taliban insurgents. There have been several cases of women stoned for adultery there in recent years—a punishment that government courts don't impose.
In July, a woman accused of adultery in an insurgent-dominated area of Parwan province neighboring Kabul was publicly executed by a gunman who shot her in the back of the head in front of a crowd of cheering villagers. The Afghan government accused the Taliban of staging the execution; the Taliban denied they were behind the killing.
Many Afghans worry that the Taliban will return to power once the majority of international troops withdraw in 2014, clawing back what tenuous achievements have been made under U.S. occupation. Like the Parwan execution, they are rattled by the October assassination attempt of Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old Pakistani girl shot in the head by a Taliban gunman for promoting girls' education. The Taliban has vowed to hunt down the badly wounded teen again.
Though the current Afghan government allows women to study and work, they must remain under the control of their male relatives. Those who flee an abusive home are unable to gain their independence. They usually live a cloistered, hidden life to protect themselves from kin seeking revenge for the dishonor of leaving the home and shaming the family.
Some have the option to stay at one of 14 women's shelters scattered across the country that are managed by women's groups with international support.
But these places have increasingly come under attack from conservative government officials. Earlier this year, Afghanistan's Justice Minister Habibullah Ghaleb wondered in a parliament speech: "What sort of immorality and prostitution are not happening at those places?" The remarks provoked outrage by European Union and United Nations officials, prompting Mr. Ghaleb to apologize.
Government regulations proposed by Afghanistan's women's affairs minister, Husn Banu Ghazanfar, last year would have required the women in the shelters to undergo virginity tests and to justify their stay to a government panel. The proposal was shelved after the United Nations pressured senior Afghan officials, and Western diplomats threatened funding cuts for some Afghan programs. Such intervention won't be as effective once the foreign forces and aid funds are gone after 2014.
In mid-September officials from Afghanistan's justice, interior and women's ministries issued a statement clarifying that the running away of women and girls from home isn't a criminal act. But local rights activists are doubtful that the government will release women detained for running away because courts often accuse these women of the intention to commit adultery.
"U.N. Women calls upon the government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to unconditionally release all women and girls currently detained for 'running away' and for 'attempted adultery' " said an October statement from U.N. Women.
Few women locked up under these charges have been released, according to rights activists.
Suraya Pakzad, who runs two women's shelters in Afghanistan, says prominent government officials already have repeatedly threatened her, demanding that she expel their female relatives from her safe houses to return home. "I've never had a single problem with the Taliban," she says. "Only these warlords who are in government."
Sharifa, a wiry 17-year-old from a small village in remote Daikundi province, spent two years in one of the two shelters run by Ms. Pakzad's organization, Voice of Women.
When Sharifa was just 11, her father married her off, in exchange for money, to an 18-year-old man who beat her when she refused his sexual advances and then raped her for the two years their marriage lasted, she says.
"I don't know how much I was sold for," Sharifa recalls in a whisper during a recent interview in the Herat shelter, rarely looking up from her teacup. Though child marriages like hers are technically illegal in Afghanistan, they account for some 40% of all weddings, according to the United Nations Children Fund.
The dowry the father received helped him manage his farm. When Sharifa's husband sent her back to live with her father, the father had to repay the dowry. He beat Sharifa with even more fury, she says.
The father declined to comment.
Finally, two years ago, at age 15, Sharifa fled the village, stealing her father's clothes and walking for 48 hours to a highway. There she stood and waited awkwardly with her freshly shorn hair, in the traditional men's clothes, the shalwar kameez, that were too large for her small body.
After hitching a ride to Herat, Sharifa found work in a brick kiln for two months. Sleeping and eating among the boys and men in the factory, she woke up one morning to find her secret had been discovered because her period arrived sooner than expected. One of the men asked Sharifa why she was bleeding. Terrified, she says she ran off. Her male colleagues chased after her until she outran them and found a police station.
Rather than lock her up, the sympathetic police took Sharifa to a shelter, where she lived for two years, learning embroidery and other skills.
"The few months I was a boy it was freedom. I realized how little freedom I had as a girl," she says.
Afghan women activists consider her case a success because Sharifa's family has agreed not to kill her to restore their honor. Her uncle Nazer Hussain, who lives in Herat, recently allowed her to live with him while her father, who remains in Daikundi, is arranging another marriage.
"Of course she wants to get married! This is what women want," Mr. Hussain said. He confirmed the story of her escape.
Marrying a man of her father's choosing is the only way Sharifa can avoid a lifetime in a shelter or time in jail. "I'm angry. My life is so hard and there's no way to make it better," she says in a whisper, half mournful, half defiant. "My family wants me to remarry. The only thing I hope for in life is not to remarry."
The plight of Afghan women jailed for so-called moral crimes such as escaping home or adultery began to attract international attention last year, when the European Union funded a documentary on an 18-year-old named Golnaz. She was imprisoned after reporting that her cousin had raped her two years earlier.
"What kind of government and justice is this? I'm not a suicide bomber. I'm not a drug addict. I'm a victim," Golnaz said in an interview in Kabul's women's prison at the time.
Fearing backlash from conservative Afghans, the EU blocked the release of the documentary—causing a flurry of protests by international activists that eventually prompted Mr. Karzai to pardon Golnaz a year ago. Government officials at the time made it clear she was expected to marry her rapist, who had impregnated her.
Recently, Golnaz and her daughter were living in a woman's shelter in Kabul and her mother and brothers were refusing to speak with her, questioning her morality after the case. She is learning how to read and write. But for Golnaz, the likelihood that she will ever leave the shelter or find work to sustain herself and her young daughter is slim.
"Women like Golnaz are still stuck with these misogynistic, old school ideas that rule their lives," says Kimberley Motley, a Kabul-based lawyer who represents Golnaz. "In the West, shelters are a half way house to get women on their feet. In Afghanistan, they are the end result."
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|Single car trains. Riders are arranged 4 across in a single row for a total of 4 riders per car.
|Owner / Operator:
|This roller coaster is owned by Dutch showmen J. de Vries – Wanningen and was hired by Plopsaland De Panne for it's 2009/2010 winter operations. This Spinning Coaster was originally owned by German showmen Gormanns & Söhne who first traveled the German fairs with it during the 2000 season. Gormanns & Söhne sold the Spinning Coaster to J. de Vries – Wanningen for the 2008 season.
|Operating schedule:
|This coaster returned for the 2010/2011 winter operation. It operated from December 26th to January 9th. It also returned for the for the 2011/2012 operating from December 24th to January 4th. Then again for 2012/2013 operating from December 22nd to January 6th.
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