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First: the story of how U.S. Special Forces infiltrated the ISI and set up a spy network to parallel the CIA's.. right when Pakistan's tribal regions began to see a resurgence of al Qaeda activity. From the Atlantic:
A JSOC intelligence team slipped in alongside the CIA. The team had several goals. One was prosaic: team members were to develop rings of informants to gather targeting information about al-Qaeda terrorists. Other goals were extremely sensitive: JSOC needed better intelligence about how Pakistan transported its nuclear weapons and wanted to penetrate the ISI. Under a secret program code-named SCREEN HUNTER, JSOC, augmented by the Defense Intelligence Agency and contract personnel, was authorized to shadow and identify members of the ISI suspected of being sympathetic to al-Qaeda. It is not clear whether JSOC units used lethal force against these ISI officers; one official said that the goal of the program was to track terrorists through the ISI by using disinformation and psychological warfare. (The program, by then known under a different name, was curtailed by the Obama administration when Pakistan's anxiety about a covert U.S. presence inside the country was most intense.
Chapter 17 of Deep State is a comprehensive history of the National Security Agency's expanded surveillance authorities after 9/11. The code name for the set of programs is RAGTIME. From Washingtonian:
Ragtime, which appears in official reports by the abbreviation RT, consists of four parts.
Ragtime-A involves US-based interception of all foreign-to-foreign counterterrorism-related data;
Ragtime-B deals with data from foreign governments that transits through the US;
Ragtime-C deals with counterproliferation actvities;
and then there's Ragtime-P, which will probably be of greatest interest to those who continue to demand more information from the NSA about what it does in the United States.
Ragtime-P stands for Patriot Act. Ragtime-P is the remnant of the original President's Surveillance Program, the name given to so-called "warrantless wiretapping" activities after 9/11, in which one end of a phone call or an e-mail terminated inside the United States. That collection has since been brought under law, but civil liberties groups, journalists, and legal scholars continue to seek more information about what it entailed, who was targeted, and what authorities exist today for domestic intelligence-gathering..
Finally, a report on ForeignPolicy.com about how the NSA is trying to balance secrecy with a need to counter the threat from China's instatiable cyber-warriors.
Marc Ambinder is TheWeek.com's editor-at-large, and writes The Compass blog. He is the author, with D.B. Grady, of The Command and Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry. Marc is also a contributing editor for The Atlantic and GQ. Formerly, he served as White House correspondent for National Journal, chief political consultant for CBS News, and politics editor at The Atlantic. Marc is a 2001 graduate of Harvard. He is married to Michael Park, a corporate strategy consultant, and lives in Los Angeles.
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U.S. High Skilled Immigration: Problems, Misconceptions, and Solutions – Feb. 19
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Ron Hira is Associate Professor and Acting Chair of the Department of Public Policy at Rochester Institute of Technology. He specializes in policy issues on technological innovation, offshoring, high-skill immigration, and the American engineering workforce. Ron is also a Research Associate with the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, DC.
As a world-renowned expert on international relations and comparative politics, Gourevitch specializes in corporate governance systems in a globalizing world economy, comparing differences in the way countries structure companies and their relationship to shareholders. His work includes a particular focus on national responses to pressures arising from international trade and economic globalization, trade disputes among countries, and international trade negotiations. Recently he has been working on corporate social responsibility and the relationship between NGO's, regulation and international institutionsHis books include Politics in Hard Times: Comparative Responses to International Crises (Cornell, 1986) and Political Power and Corporate Control : The New Global Politics of Corporate Control (Princeton, 2005). Other publications focus on U.S.-Japan relations after the Cold War and international economic relations. From 1996 to 2001 he co-edited, with David Lake, International Organization, a leading scholarly journal on international relations.
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CCIS Fall Seminar – American Values: Migrants, Money and Meaning
Seminar to be held on Wednesday, December 4th in ERC 115. Event begins at 12:00PM.
Author Meets Critics: Join David Pedersen, Beatriz Cortez and David Gutierrez as they discuss Mr. Pedersen's book American Value: Migrants, Money and Meaning in El Salvador and the United States.
El Salvador has transformed dramatically over the past half-century. Historically reliant on cash crops like coffee and cotton, the country emerged from a civil war in 1992 to find much of its national wealth coming from money sent home by a massive emigrant workforce in the United States. In American Value, David Pedersen examines this new way of life across two places: Intipucá in El Salvador and Washington, DC in the USA. Drawing on Charles S. Pierce to craft a highly innovative semiotic of value, he critically explains how the apparent worthiness of migrants and their money is shaping a transnational moral world with implications well beyond El Salvador and the USA.
Associate Professor of Anthropology – UCSD
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The Price of Rights: Regulating International Labor Migration
Seminar to be held on Wednesday, October 23rd at 12:00 pm in ERC 115.
Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries. At the same time, human rights organizations and migrant rights advocates demand more equal rights for migrant workers. Martin Ruhs' The Price of Rights shows why you cannot always have both.
Martin Ruhs analyzes how high-income countries restrict the rights of migrant workers as part of their labor immigration policies and discusses the implications for global debates about regulating labor migration and protecting migrants. His book comprehensively looks at the tensions between human rights and citizenship rights, the agency and interests of migrants and states, and the determinants and ethics of labor immigration policy.
Assistant Professor in Political Economy
Oxford University
Member, UK Migration Advisory Committee (MAC)
Undocumented No More: A Nationwide Analysis of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
Seminar to be held on Wednesday, October 2nd at 12:00 pm
On June 15, 2012, the White House introduced the program of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). DACA represents a major shift in the Obama administration's immigration enforcement priorities, as it provides an estimated 1.76 million undocumented youth with relief from deportation and two-year renewable work permits. In the first of its kind, this study analyzes over 450,000 individual DACA applications submitted to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
We obtained individual-level records via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Using these data, we provide a comprehensive account of DACA applicants with an eye towards whether any particular racial/ethnic or national origins group is systematically under-represented in the pool of DACA applications. We then present a preliminary analysis of the determinants of DACA applications. What explains the patterns of DACA applications that we observe by race/ethnicity, national origins group, and region?
Tom K. Wong
Assistant Professor of Political Science
University of California, San Diego
Angela García
Ph.D. Candidate
University of California, San Diego
Elizabeth Aguilera
Senior Reporter for Immigration
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Vanesa Ribas – The Meanings of "Moyo": Shop Floor Racial Talk as Symbolic Boundary-Making among Latina/o Migrant and African American Workers in the American South
Seminar to be held on Monday, June 3rd in ERC 115 at 12:00 pm.
This presentation draws on ethnographic research primarily conducted while I was employed as a regular production worker in a North Carolina meatpacking plant for sixteen months between 2009 and 2010. As part of a larger project that attempts to explain the character of social relations between Latina/o migrants and their chief counterparts in the workplace – African Americans – I trace the categories and meanings of shop floor racial talk with parallel attention to the diverse ethnoracial panoramas in Latina/o migrants' origin countries. How are the terms moyo, negro, and moreno used at work? What does this suggest about how Latinos view African Americans as a group? And how does this language relate to pre-migration ideas about blacks and blackness? I find that the use of ethnoracial forms of identification is much more prevalent among Latina/os towards African Americans than the converse, and I examine the features of one particularly salient designation of African Americans as moyos, a term whose valence is indefinite and situational, but frequently acquires pejorative significance. I trace the transnational origins of this identification, finding that its adaptation and propagation occurs within the transnational spaces that Latina/o migrants occupy. Ultimately, I argue that Latinos' deployment of bold symbolic boundaries expresses racialized resentment, reflecting and reinforcing their perception that they are the most oppressively exploited workers and that African Americans occupy a privileged position in the workplace.
Vanesa Ribas received her Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2012. Her research has appeared in the American Sociological Review (with Neal Caren and Raj Ghoshal), Social Science and Medicine (with Janette Dill and Philip Cohen), Teaching Sociology (with Raj Ghoshal et al.), and is forthcoming in Sociological Perspectives. She is working on a book based on her study of Latina/o migration to the American South, labor exploitation, and race relations in a large meatpacking plant.
James F. Hollifield – Immigration and the 'Republican' Model in France
Seminar to be held on Wednesday, May 22nd in ERC 115 at 12:00 pm.
To what extent is the French republican model still viable in debates over immigration and integration in France today? Viewed from the perspective of the last thirty years, which saw the rise of a powerful anti-immigrant political movement, the Front National, one might conclude that immigration in postwar France has been raging out of control. Yet despite the remarkable showing of the Front National in recent presidential elections, France has remained a relatively open immigration country, a tradition which dates from the middle of the nineteenth century. Annual levels of immigration have not fallen much below 100,000 since the early 1950s, the right to asylum has been respected by every postwar government, and France has maintained what is arguably the most liberal naturalization policy in Western Europe. How can we explain this continuity in the midst of crisis? I argue that the continuity in the principles and outcomes of French immigration policy is closely linked to the power of the republican model and to the limits of control that are a function of rights-based politics.
James F. Hollifield is Ora Nixon Arnold Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of Political Science and Director of the Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University (SMU). He received his PhD in political science from Duke University in 1985. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he has worked as a consultant for a variety of governmental and intergovernmental organizations, and has published widely on international political and economic issues, including Immigrants, Markets, and States (Harvard UP, 1992), L'immigration et l'Etat Nation (L'Harmattan, 1997), Controlling Immigration (Stanford UP, 2nd Edition, 2004), Migration Theory: Talking Across Disciplines (Routledge, 2nd Edition, 2008), and International Political Economy: History, Theory and Policy (Cambridge UP, forthcoming) along with numerous other books and scientific articles. Hollifield has been the recipient of grants from private corporations and foundations as well as government agencies, including the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Social Science Research Council, the Sloan Foundation, the Raytheon Company, and the National Science Foundation. His current research looks at the rapidly evolving relationship between trade, migration, and development with a special focus on human capital and how states use migration for strategic gains. He sits on several boards and is currently Chairman of the Owens Foundation and the Dallas County Historical Foundation, the governing body of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.
Tom K. Wong – Will Comprehensive Immigration Reform Pass? Predicting Legislative Support and Opposition to CIR
Seminar to be held on Monday, April 29th in ERC 115 at 12:00 pm.
Will comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) pass in 2013? The momentum that has been building towards CIR, which accelerated with last November's presidential election and has since grown even more with the recent introduction of the Senate 'gang of 8′s" bill, has shown no signs of slowing down. As a matter of politics, the key question is whether there are enough votes in Congress? While there are no crystal balls to tell us how legislators will ultimately vote, the recent history of immigration politics in the U.S. provides sufficient information to make informed predictions, not only about how current members of Congress are likely to vote on the final passage of CIR, but also about how they are likely to vote on the various amendments that will be introduced. By modeling voting behavior on all recent immigration – related legislation – which provides some 6,000 observations in the Senate and over 10,000 observations in the House – I provide estimates for all 535 current members of Congress of the number of yes and no votes on the final passage of CIR, as well as estimates for a number of key amendments that, if passed, could fundamentally alter the bill.
Tom K. Wong is assistant professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. Professor Wong's research focuses on the politics of immigration, citizenship, and migrant illegality. As these issues have far-reaching implications, his work also explores the links between immigration, race and ethnicity, and the politics of identity. He is completing a book manuscript, which analyzes the determinants of immigration control policy across twenty-five Western immigrant-receiving democracies. He is also working on a project that creates a typology of the mobility regimes of immigrant-sending countries in order to explain patterns of contemporary international migration, as well as a project on the politics of migrant illegality. His work has been published as a book chapter with Stanford University Press and in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Tomás Jiménez – When White is Just Alright: How Immigrants Redefine Achievement and Reconfigure the Ethnoracial Hierarchy
Seminar to be held on Wednesday, April 17th in ERC 115 at 12:00 pm.
Research on immigration, educational achievement, and ethnoraciality has followed the lead of racialization and assimilation theories by focusing empirical attention on the immigrant-origin population (immigrants and their children) and effectively ignoring the third-plus generation (those who are US-born of US-born parents). We depart from this orthodox approach by placing third-plus-generation individuals at center stage to examine how they adjust to norms that the immigrant-origin population defines. We draw on fieldwork in Cupertino, California, a high-skilled immigrant gateway, where an Asian immigrant-origin population has established and enforces an amplified version of high-achievement norms. The resulting ethnoracial encoding of academic achievement constructs whiteness as having "lesser-than" status. Whiteness has come to represent low-achievement, laziness, and academic mediocrity; Asianness, by comparison, stands for high-achievement, hard work, and success. We argue that immigrants can serve as a foil against which the meaning and status of an ethnoracial category become recast, upending how the category is normally deployed in daily life. Our findings call into question the largely taken-for-granted analytical position that treats the third-plus generation, and especially whites, as the benchmark population that sets achievement norms and to which all other populations must adjust.
Tomás Jiménez is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. His research and writing focus on immigration, assimilation, social mobility, and ethnic and racial identity. His book, Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity (University of California Press, 2010) was recently awarded the American Sociological Association's Sociology of Latinos/as Section 2011 Distinguished Book Award. He is currently working on three projects. The first examines how host-society individuals (US-born of US-born parents) participate in the assimilation process by drawing on in-depth interviews with host-society individuals and observations in three distinct sub-regions in the Silicon Valley: East Palo Alto, Cupertino, and Berryessa. A second project (with Stanford PhD Candidate, Lorena Castro) looks at how immigration becomes part of American national identity. A third project (with social psychologist John Dovidio (Yale), political scientist Deborah Schildkraut (Tufts), and social psychologist Yuen Ho (UCLA), examines how contextual factors shape the sense of belonging and related intergroup attitudes, behaviors, and support for immigration policies among immigrants and host-society members in the United States. Professor Jiménez has taught at the University of California, San Diego. He has also been an Irvine Fellow at the New America Foundation. Before that, he was the American Sociological Association Congressional Fellow in the office of Rep. Michael Honda (CA-15). His writing on policy has appeared in reports for the Immigration Policy Center, and he has written opinion-editorials on the topic of immigrant assimilation in several major news outlets, including the Los Angeles Times, CNN.com, and the San Diego Union-Tribune. He holds a B.S. in sociology from Santa Clara University and A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from Harvard University.
Audrey Singer – Immigrant Workers, Human Capital Investment and Strengthening Regional Economies
Seminar to be held on Monday, March 4th in ERC 115 at 12:00 pm.
Coming out of the Great Recession, slow economic recovery has U.S. communities seeking strategies that will grow jobs in the short term and improve standards of living over the long term. This talk focuses on immigrants in the labor force and their skills, an especially relevant topic given that debates about immigration policy reform have started. How geographic regions can invest in the human capital and economic advancement of immigrants who are already living in their jurisdictions, to help boost short- and long-term U.S. economic growth, will be discussed.
Audrey Singer is a senior fellow at the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program. Her areas of expertise include demography, international migration, U.S. immigration policy, and urban and metropolitan change. She has written extensively on U.S. immigration trends, including immigrant integration, undocumented migration, naturalization and citizenship, and the changing racial and ethnic composition of the United States. Her co-edited book, Twenty-First Century Gateways: Immigrant Incorporation in Suburban America, focuses on the fastest growing immigrant populations among second-tier metropolitan areas including Washington, DC, Atlanta, Dallas, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Sacramento, and Charlotte. Other Brookings publications include, "The Geography of Immigrant Skills," "State of Metropolitan America: on the Front Lines of Demographic Transformation," "Immigrants, Politics, and Local Response in Suburban Washington," "The Rise of New Immigrant Gateways," and "From 'Here' to 'There:' Refugee Resettlement in Metropolitan America." Her articles have appeared in academic journals such as International Migration Review, Demography, Urban Geography, Geographical Review, and Ethnic and Racial Studies and her commentary has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN.com, Baltimore Sun, Christian Science Monitor, Seattle Times and Vanguardia Dossier. Prior to joining Brookings, Singer was an associate in the International Migration Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Prior to Carnegie, she held a faculty position in the Department of Demography at Georgetown University, and was a demographic analyst at the U.S. Department of Labor. She was chair of the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association in 2010. Singer earned a Ph.D. in sociology, with a specialization in demography, from the University of Texas at Austin. She has an M.A. in sociology also from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.A. in sociology from Temple University. She conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago.


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Dr. Tessarollo received his Ph.D. in biological sciences from the University of Padua, Italy, in 1987. He carried out postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Chieco-Bianchi at the Institute of Oncology, Padua to study retroviral-induced tumorigenesis in rodents. In 1990 he joined Dr. Parada's laboratory at the ABL-Basic Research Program, NCI-Frederick where he learned and applied gene targeting to study neurotrophic factors function in vivo. In 1994, Dr. Tessarollo established the Special Program in Germline Mutation and, in 1996, he formed the Neural Development Group. In 1997, while continuing his research effort, he established a mouse gene targeting program for the National Cancer Institute. In 1999, he joined the Center for Cancer Research, NCI where he continues to direct the Neural Development Section and the Gene Targeting Facility. In 2006, Dr. Tessarollo was appointed Deputy Director of the Mouse Cancer Genetics Program (MCGP) and in 2013 he was named Director of the Program.Research
Neurotrophins are a highly homologous family of secreted growth factors that have been extensively studied for their roles in the proliferation, survival, and differentiation of various cell populations in the mammalian nervous system. Each neurotrophin interacts with the p75 receptor and a specific member of the trk tyrosine kinase receptor family. Trk receptors, in addition to the tyrosine kinase isoforms, include receptors which lack kinase activity.
Over the last two decades many laboratories have contributed to the dissection of signaling pathways and the biological responses activated by neurotrophins in a variety of cell types. Most of this information was generated with the use of in vitro systems. Thus, many of these activities were caused by pharmacological rather than physiological activation of neurotrophin signaling. My laboratory is using the mouse as a genetically amenable in vivo tool to address some of the many still unresolved issues in neurotrophin biology. Specifically, we are interested in the role of neurotrophins in the mature nervous system and in non-neuronal organs such as the immune system. Furthermore, we are interested in the contribution of specific receptor isoforms and signaling pathways in mediating defined neurotrophin activities. In this respect we have generated a variety of mouse models that have helped us to dissect specific roles of neurotrophins in mouse development.
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The study of neurotrophins functions not only in the mature nervous system but also in non-neuronal tissues should contribute to our understanding of the complex nature of ligand-receptor family interactions in the maintenance of higher organisms, and may lead to a better understanding of pharmacological neurotrophin activities in vivo.
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Johnson said the number of dying counties is rising not only because of fewer births but also increasing mortality as 70 million baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964 move into their older years. "I expect natural decrease to remain high in the future," he said.
Among the 20 fastest-growing large metropolitan areas last year, 16 grew faster than in 2011 and most of them are located in previously growing parts of the Sun Belt or Mountain West. Among the slowest growing or declining metropolitan areas, most are now doing worse than in 2011 and they are all located in the Northeast and Midwest.
New York ranks tops in new immigrants among large metro areas, but also ranks at the top for young residents moving away.
In contrast, the Texas metropolitan areas of Dallas, Houston and Austin continued to be big draws for young adults, ranking first, second and fourth among large metro areas in domestic migration due to diversified economies that include oil and gas production. Phoenix, Las Vegas and Orlando also saw gains.
By region, growth in the Northeast slowed last year to 0.3 percent, the lowest since 2007; in the Midwest, growth dipped to 0.25 percent, the lowest in at least a decade. In the South and West, growth rates ticked up to 1.1 percent and 1.04 percent, respectively.
"The brakes that were put on migration during the Great Recession appear to be easing up," said William H. Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution who analyzed the migration data. "Native migrants are becoming more 'footloose'-following the geographic ups and downs of the labor market-than are immigrants, who have tended to locate in established ethnic communities in big cities."
"Immigration levels are not where they were a decade ago, but their recent uptick demonstrates the important safety valve they can be for areas with stagnating populations," he said.
Mark Mather, an associate vice president at the Population Reference Bureau, noted that political efforts to downsize government and reduce federal spending could also have a significant impact on future population winners and losers.
Since 2010, many of the fastest-growing U.S. metro areas have also been those that historically received a lot of federal dollars, including Fort Stewart, Ga., Jacksonville, N.C., Crestview, Fla., and Charleston-North Charleston, S.C., all home to military bases. Per-capita federal spending rose from about $5,300 among the fastest-growing metros from 2000 to 2010, to about $8,200 among the fastest-growing metros from 2011 to 2012.
"Federal funding has helped many cities weather the decline in private sector jobs," Mather said.
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The census estimates are based on local records of births and deaths, Internal Revenue Service records of people moving within the United States and census statistics on immigrants.
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Crestwood Assistant Fire Chief David Oliveri replaces Mark Menning, who was promoted to Fire Chief at the beginning of the month. Former Fire Chief Karl Kestler, who's still sitting in at Crestwood meetings as acting city administrator, retired from his position at the fire department on Jan. 1.
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Michael Brown, 27, of Rifle and Swayde Jones, 35, of Delta are being held in the Montrose County Jail after traffic stops netted suspected methamphetamine and illegal weapons.
On March 23, Delta County Sheriff Deputy Dravecky contacted Michael Brown during a routine traffic stop in the 3500 block of Highway 133 near Paonia.
Brown was driving a vehicle that was allegedly weaving in and out of the proper lane. Deputy Dravecky noticed that Brown appeared to be intoxicated and, when asked, Brown failed to perform roadside maneuvers as a sober person would. He was placed under arrest. Subsequent to his arrest a large amount of methamphetamine was found in the vehicle. Brown is charged with possession and distribution of a class two substance (methamphetamine), driving under the influence of drugs, and failure to operate vehicle in single lane. He posted bond of $25,000, but was arrested again March 26.
On that day, at the request of the 7th Judicial District Drug Task Force, Montrose County Sheriff's deputies performed a traffic stop on a vehicle being driven by Swayde Jones on Highway 50 near Olathe. During the course of that traffic stop, several items of drug paraphernalia and approximately 16 grams of suspected methamphetamine were eventually seized, as well as 11 firearms that were found inside the vehicle. Two of the firearms were determined to have been previously reported as being stolen from another jurisdiction.
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We all know what can happen when you take a trip home as a grown-up, how things you used to take for granted suddenly strike you differently. When Thea Bregazzi visited her family in the Isle of Man—a little-known tax haven off the northwest coast of England—it was her grandmother's china that caught her eye. "She has all these blue-and-white teacups, stacked up, which look incredible," she says, laughing. "And the other thing," adds Bregazzi's partner, Justin Thornton, "is that Thea's dad rides motorcycles, so a bit of biker crept into our thinking, too." Result: The china-patterned prints on silk dresses and shirts, and the ribbed, padded shoulders, elbow patches, sexy leather pencil skirts, and shaggy Mongolian lapels, which bookend Preen's pre-fall line.
The knack is the way the designers succeed in joining such disparate influences together without jarring. They've reached a point in their career where nothing looks forced or contrived—a kind of modern-minded maturity focused on giving the appearance of a lot of surface design-value, while ensuring that every piece has a wearable logic. Like so many London designers, they use digital print as a "specializing" vehicle. Here, they've played with blues in various ways beyond the blown-up Wedgwood pattern—also creating "denim" printed silk and turtlenecks photo-printed with denim-yarn cable-knit. The actual cableknit appears in a giant cardigan with a zip-off suede and Mongolian fur biker collar. "That's so you could wear it as a summer cover-up when you buy it in May, and then winterize it later," observes Thornton, "because pre-fall arrives at such a strange time of year."
The adaptable cardi-biker is just one example of the couple's practical thinking around the problems of climate and utility exhibited in their spectrum of options spanning everything from semi-casual trompe l'oeil twinsets and sweaters, which fuse knit with silk inserts, to their classic office-appropriate "power dress" to pantsuits and lace-covered party dresses. "This inter-season has become so big now, it takes as much work as the runway collection," says Thornton. "And there's so little time to do it all in," groans Bregazzi, as the designers return to the cutting-table in their Notting Hill studio, readying themselves for their fall show in New York. Five weeks to go.
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Caroline Lewis is a Portland, Oregon, urban gardener whose company, Verdura Culinary Gardens, is dedicated to helping gardeners be more successful at raising their own organic vegetables. A licensed landscape contractor, Verdura installs raised bed gardens including trellises and drip irrigation systems, creates custom year-round planting plans, and offers vegetable garden coaching and maintenance programs. Caroline welcomes your comments and can be reached at caroline [at] verduragardens.com.
If you are (or aspire to be) a vegetable gardener, you have likely heard about raised-bed gardening. Its benefits are many:
Maintaining an optimal soil blend requires a regular schedule of amendments and care. A disadvantage of raised beds is their tendency to leach out nutrients over time, particularly nitrogen, which is water-soluble and gradually becomes depleted as water runs through the soil. After the fall cleanup and final harvest, gardens can become particularly depleted over the rainy and snowy winter months.
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Have you ever noticed how old married couples sometimes start to look like each other? Or that ardent dog lovers possess a startling resemblance to their bassett hounds? Crazy as it sounds, I fear that I am beginning to look like my airplane.
The 1980 Cheyenne I that my wife, Cathy, and I own is not necessarily a bad doppelgänger to have at my age, but the parallels are beginning to take on a certain eerie quality. Though I am more than twice as old as the 32-year-old turboprop, we're at about the same spot in our respective life expectancies. If we use the rule of "dog years," I'd say the airplane and I are at identical points in the trajectory of our lives. In a sense, we're both old and not worth much, but still running well and somewhat oblivious to the actuarial facts of life.
We both require a certain amount of maintenance. For me, the issues have revolved around an old eye injury (a risk for glaucoma), another ophthalmologic thing called "vitreous detachment" (sounds vaguely risqué to me) and more frequent visits to the gym. For the airplane this year, it has boiled down to a "hot section."
A hot section involves inspection and replacement or repair of the bits that are exposed to the highest temperatures in the PT6 engines that adorn the Cheyenne. The compressor turbine disc, compressor turbine blades (pricey as we will see), shroud housing and combustion liner, among other parts, comprise the hot section inspection.
There was great discussion with Bill Turley and Mike Naab of Aircraft Engineering in Bartow, Florida, about "what to do with the engines." Since ours are closing in on TBO, we had some serious decisions to make. As our hull value has decreased in this down market, engine overhauls have become problematic. How can I possibly explain to Cathy that we need to invest at least $150,000 per engine when the airplane itself isn't worth that kind of money? Then there are the horror stories of engines taken apart for overhaul and "additional items are identified," making the cost even higher. With the parts scattered on the shop floor, it is hard to turn back, much like when the plumber has taken apart the toilet and tells you the price has just gone up.
We all agreed, however, that a hot section inspection was a reasonable intermediate thing to do on the left engine. The right engine had enjoyed a hot section a few years ago. It was during this time that I learned about the expensive little things inside those engines. Bill joked that I should make a necklace out of the turbine blades, as they were as valuable as diamonds.
Bill Ahern at Southeast Turbines came to Bartow, where the left engine was "split" at the "C" flange. A special hoist held the front part of the engine and the propeller in midair while the hot section was inspected. Soon came the word: The guide vanes had burned through (see photo), and that fact mandated all new turbine blades. These little babies roll out of the factory at $265 apiece. Good thing there are only 58 of them.


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Flames stand up to run game in the endSeptember 27, 2013, 11:25 pm by Mark Goodson The Faith Academy Flames survived their toughest test of the season Friday night and came away with a 28-21 win over previously unbeaten John Paul II of Schertz at Converse Judsons Junior High Field. The Flames (5-0) put up a solid effort against a run-oriented team and were able to stave off the John Paul II team. Faith Academy was able to take a 21-7 lead early in the second quarter and were ahead 28-14 at halftime, but the Flames were unable to muster any second half points. "It was two undefeated teams going at it and nobody wanted to give up, Faith Academy coach Russell Roberts said. "They dont waste many plays, they run its for three, three and then eight and move the football. They didnt throw much and we were able to either sack them or force incomplete passes. But they ran it. Faith Academy got its points from its usual steady hands in Austin Ellis, Royale Brown and Asa Oritz. John Paul II (4-1) converted an onside kick to open the second half and drove down inside the 20 before Faith Academys defense held on. "We just kind of stood there and watched, Roberts said. "When things like that happen and you survive it, you learn from it. I think we learned some things tonight. In the end, the Flames defense was able to withstand the power sweep and won its closest contest of the season. The Flames play St. Gerards next week at Marble Falls.
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There is in the world of nature a phenomenon known as the "Adversity Principle" which means that difficulties and hard times can actually be more beneficial to plants and animals than continual easy living. As strange as it seems, habitual well-being can be disadvantageous to a species.
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I chose to interpret this as a Christian song, where I represents Jesus. I know I'll catch a lot of flak for that, but so be it. It's called artistic license. If anyone else wants to interpret it differently, fine, make your own video. Anyway, regardless of what this song is really about, the fact is that, yes, Jesus *will* stand by us, no matter what. He promised us that. In fact, his last words on this earth (until He returns) were in Matthew 28:20 - I am with you always, even to the end of the age. (BTW, the title slide says this song is from the movie "Lion King", but I think I am mistaken there. Sorry.)
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text: Delicious Summer Recipes 10 Dishes You Must Make This Summer by Katie Sweeney 6/28/12 5 Reactions 18 Shares Print 1 11 6 0 0 Long hot days require cool salads, refreshing cocktails, and plenty of dishes that can be enjoyed under the sun, or the stars. To get excited for grilling and sangria season, we've selected my 10 favorite Summer recipes. Start bookmarking, because you won't want to let the next three months pass without making these fabulous recipes. Ginger and Honey Baby Back Ribs What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Upgrade the classic barbecue ribs with this exotic recipe for ginger and honey glazed ribs. The Cambodian-inspired marinade consists of fish and soy sauces, fresh ginger, and sweet honey. 1 / 10 Grilled Citrus Chicken Under a Brick What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 It's not hard to butterfly a bird at home, and cooking a citrus marinated chicken under a brick produces a wonderfully scrumptious chicken with crispy caramelized skin and a succulent juicy interior. 2 / 10 Homemade Condiments What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Looking for a way to transform store-bought hot dogs and hamburgers? Make your own ketchup and mustard. 3 / 10 Cherry Pie What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 For the ultimate dessert, consider this divine cherry pie. The fruit's sweetness is enhanced with vanilla, and the pie's crust is buttery and flakey. 4 / 10 Caprese Salad What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 When the tomatoes are ripe and the basil is plentiful, enjoy this traditional caprese salad with fresh bufala mozzarella. 6 / 10 Strawberry Ginger Caipirosca What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 What do you get when you combine muddled strawberries with mint, ginger, and vodka? An amazing Summer cocktail. 6 / 10 Grilled Sardines What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Take a tip from Spain and throw some sardines (which are incredibly sustainable!) on the barbie. Seasoned with coarse salt and a drizzle of olive oil, these grilled fish are absolutely delicious. 7 / 10 Fruit Salad What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 A simple fruit salad is an excellent addition to any warm weather breakfast, lunch, or dinner. A generous sprinkling of chopped mint provides a bright freshness to the fruit. 8 / 10 Grilled Provolone What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 The next time you need a super quick appetizer, throw a slab of provolone cheese on the grill. Cook until its gooey and melted and serve with grilled bread rubbed with garlic. 9 / 10 Beer Can Chicken What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 One way to ensure a perfectly moist grilled chicken is to cook it on an open beer can. Then, brush it liberally with a homemade barbecue sauce, and you've got a meal that's finger-licking good! 11 / 10 1 11 6 0 0 Back to Homepage Read More SummerRecipes summer What to Skip, What to Sip: Starbucks Creamy, Icy Drinks 2 weeks ago A Tasty Tour of McDonald's International Menu Options 2/05 Dress Up Your Ice Cubes With Fruit and Flowers 1/20 How to Make a Next-Level Fruit Salad 1/15 A Sophisticated Take on Taco Salad — No Cooking Required 1/13 High-Fiber Munchies to Keep Things Moving While on the Road 12/21/13 Get a Personalized Living Newsletter! Help us customize your newsletter by selecting your interests (optional): Summer Recipes Food Home nikkisoda 1 year Homemade condiments are the best! I have some homemade bbq sauce in my fridge. I swear every meal I think, "But can I eat this with BBQ Sauce?". ShaynaLeah 3 years These sound delicious... especially the 'grilled cheese'! Link Love DIY cookie butter recipes — Delish 8 things you didn't know about Spam — HuffPost Taste Give oatmeal the risotto treatment — Food52 Notable chefs discuss "what it means to be a chef" — Eater Flavored Scotch: is nothing sacred? — Grub Street This phone app lets you pay your restaurant check — OpenTable