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Favorite part of new Harry Potter trailer?
|The romantic good vs. evil swan dive
519 (15%)
|The "mother" of all duels
1244 (36%)
|The Knights of Hogwarts
515 (15%)
|Dropped Dead Fred
588 (17%)
|Something else!
531 (15%)
|3397 votes in total
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IRONSOS, does this mean you won't be disappearing for a few days, as long as this new one shows up before the old one dies? Or are you going to have to go offline completely to transition to the new one?
By the way, IRONSOS, I've always meant to ask this and for some reason I never have. If we were to say your screen name out loud is it like "Iron a shirt + SOS" or "I" "RON" "SOS"? This is the sort of thing I think about when I am awake at night and not worrying about something else.
FELIPE, I won't repeat everything JEN and LEMON said about the dinner other than they did say they had dinner seating for everyone now. Please come.
MM, Please, Oh Please!!!! come for whatever time you can. The park is going to be at 10 PM to 1:30 AM so there will be no standing around in the sun.
BY THE WAY…I HAVE NEVER CANCELLED MY RESERVATIONS AT THE CROWNE PLAZA which is one of the conference hotels. I need to do so but I wonder if I could transfer my reservations to someone else?
I have to change my name and my daugher's name on our registration.
I registered with my commonly used first and last name but it says it has to match your ID. My driver's license has my first name, part of my middle name and my maiden name hyphenated with my married name. So, not even my driver's license has my full legal name on it. I guess I'll have them change my registration to what is on my driver's license.
I registered my daughter with her middle name she uses and our last name. So, now I need to have her registration name changed to her first, middle and last name.
I'm going to try for another full face photo of her. I just took the other one a few days ago to make sure there was a full face photo on the registration page but I'm not thrilled with it. We have until the 15th to change them again.
LEMON, couldn't you just zoom the photo you have and just frame it on your face? I bet your DS could do that instead of going to all the trouble to take another one. Your face is not in costume. Heck, I've seen that photo. Your neck and shoulders are not in costume either.
DEANIE, aren't you meant to be heading this way really soon?
The daughter is having the first of her three days of State Testing. The school makes this into a long intense and tense week. Friday they have a field trip to a bowling alley. My daughter wants me to go but if I do I am not bowling. The last time I was in the place three years ago my DS and I barely crawled out, my with my back pulled out and him with a snapped hamstring. So, I don't know what the point is in me attending except to check her out early. They are going in a morning group and an afternoon group. So, if she is in the afternoon group there is no point at all.
Hello Everyone
I did post that I wouldn't be on for a few days but I guess it disappeared. I am in MO visiting my other daughter for a few weeks. I finally got around to loading the program so that I could use her air card to get online. I brought my laptop with me because she said I would be able to use her air card. This is much better than having to use her computer.
I had a great Mother's day. Jennifer surprised me by coming in for the weekend. Bridgette is in heat again and she wants to breed with my Harley dog. This will be the last time they let Bridgette have puppies so it was important that they be Harley's puppies. Things didn't happen between them over the weekend so I came back home with her so Harley would be with Bridgette when she was ready.
The bad news is my phone has no signal here. We have to go into the next town before I get a signal. So I will not be calling anyone for awhile. It's a good thing I can get online so I can at least send emails.
Lady Hawke I am pretty sure that Ironsos pronounces it like the metal iron or as in ironman, but with his "sos" from his last name thacked on.
We will be in your neck of the woods the second and third week of August. ;)
Dental appointment this afternoon so this will probably be my only check in until tonight, or tomorrow. ;)
COOLG, I'm glad to hear from you. I guess I missed that you were going to MO. Can you get an aircard for yourself so you can use your laptop in a comfortable place?
DEANIE, I went looking at my calendar, thinking I had written in your visit and couldn't find it. Now I know what happened. I remembered you were coming in some relation to the beginning or end of the school year so I was thinking it was soon. Instead you are coming as the school year starts. I suspect you are literally penciled in on my August calendar.
Deanie's right about how to pronounce the name.
Back later to flurk some more.
Good evening!
My DS is having a bit of an eventful week. After on and off toothache in one of his Wisdom teeth for a couple of months, for which the dentist could see no apparant reason, the pain was so bad at the weekend he made himself an emergency appointment yesterday. On X raying his tooth, they found that while it looked fine, there was a big area of decay under the gum. So, they took it out there and then. He spent last night bleeding periodically and feeling a bit nauseous.
Today, I get one of THOSE phone calls……….. "Please don't panic, but I'm in A and E……….." He was working on a faulty photocopier, and got a pretty huge electric shock. He didn't lose consciousness, but was thrown across the room. Fortunately the machine was in a college, so there were plenty of First Aiders to look after him. It took some time, but his colleagues eventually persuaded him to go to hospital. He was surprised and a bit alarmed when they didn't make him wait at A and E all, but took him straight in, ahead of everyone else. They wired him up to a heart moniter, but eventually let him go, with instructions to dial 999 if he even thinks he's having chest pains. Gulp.
The poor man came home with all the sticky pads still stuck to his body, and son has been teasing him unmercifully because the hospital had to shave some of his chest hair……..
I'm hoping he has a quieter day tomorrow.
CoolG it is good to see you, and to know that you're ok.
Ironsos, my failsafe "fix it" technique is to turn whatever it is off and on again. If that fails, then I start thumping it. I'm glad you've solved your computer problem so quickly. I miss you when you go quiet!
ASTI, O.o, WOW! What a scary, scary, day. I can't believe it threw him across the room and he didn't break something. I'm so glad he tested out okay with the heart monitor. The tooth is not good news either but it fades in comparison to being thrown across the room by electricity. Has he gone off to bed yet? Is he meant to work tomorrow or can he stay at home and see how he feels?
I done laundry all day today and I've cooked a load of cauliflower I had picked up and needed attention.
I've emailed the name changes for LeakyCon back to the help desk person.
My daughter and I are heading to Celtic Woman tonight so I've prepared a big dinner salad and a plate of veggies for my DS. He intends to come home and work in his veggie garden so he can eat whenever he is ready.
I've already dressed for tonight and I have a selection of dresses ready for my daughter to wear. I'm not sure what she is planning to wear tonight.
I think we might run and get pizza on the way downtown. Either that or I'm running to Kroger to get something at the deli or in the freezer section I don't have to cook. I didn't have enough salad ingredients for me, just my DS. Now, I don't want to have to come up with anything else.
It was a fight but I finally got the laptop to boot up.
Lady Hawke: iron/sos is correct.
New laptop has been shipped. Expect it to arrive thurs/fri. The set up will only take a couple hours so
should be no delay.
Asti: The turn on/off technique is actually the best way to do it.
The above sentence does not sound right for some reason?
Asti: Hope your DS feels better quickly.
Afternoon all!
MM, I really hope you'll decide to come to LeakyCon! Like Lemon said, it's tough to answer what days would be best for day passes. I'm sure there will be great stuff going on no matter what days you decide to go. Here's the tentative schedule Lemon mentioned: http://www.leakycon.com/blog/tentative-subject-to-change-and-did-we-say-tentative. But it's tough to even try to make a decision based on that, since the day passes don't include special events, the welcoming or leaving activities, or the ball, and the regular programming hasn't been announced yet. They've said in the past, though, that if a special event doesn't sell out, they may open tickets to day pass holders. And they did just post a quick message this morning to say that the StarKid event was being moved to Saturday and that they will likely open to day pass holders soon…so Saturday might be a good day to consider. :)
Lemon, I think your author pic will be fine. If it's cropped so it looks like the little square that shows up with FB posts, no one will even be able to tell you're in costume. I think they probably put that just to prevent pictures with masks or heavy makeup or even costume-y wigs. You can definitely tell it's you in that pic.
I have apparently been pronouncing ironsos's name incorrectly in my head…I always pictured it as i – ron – sos, with the stress on the second syllable. :)
LH, I hope your daughter's testing went well today. Have fun tonight!
Yikes, asti, that is scary! I'm glad your husband is okay!
Bookworm Jen: considering this is a site where "Ron" is ever present your take on it
is quite logical.
Evening all! I have done a bit of gardening and some laundry but I needed to use the vacuum cleaner, but thinking about it was as far as I got.
Ironsos I also pronounced your name the same way as BWJen, lol.
Asti Your poor DS! Please give him a hug from me as a small compensation for his outburst of trauma. My tee shirt arrived today and I love it. I think BigD will approve. I should receive Ursula, under this week. The garden is looking much better following the rain we have had.
Lady Hawke Do I take it that your daughter's symptoms did not turn out to be anything dreadful?
CoolG Great to hear from you. Have fun staying with your other daughter for a bit.
I do find it difficult to adjust when the weather patterns arrive in an unaccustomed order. I can bear rain, wind, hail and constant showers in March and April knowing that the crops are getting the benefit of a good start to the growing season, when April behaves like May, and May has April weather I am inclined to feel grumpy. On the plus side, however, I don't think we would have achieved as much in the garden.
Time for bed.
Hi, everyone!
Oh, my goodness, Asti! That's horrible, your poor DS! I hope he's feeling okay. What an experience, all around. {{{{{{HUGS}}}}} to you both!
LOL on my author pic, LH! No, my neck and shoulders are not in costume, either! LOLOLOL I do think it will be okay, but it gives me something to worry about, as if I need something else. ;) I hope you and Jen are correct. I asked on the FB page, too, under someone else, and they answered that person (who had sunglasses on in their pic) but not me.
Have fun at Celtic Woman, LH, I love listening to them.
CoolG I'm glad you had a good Mother's Day and are enjoying your visit at your daughter's. :)
I haven't gotten any exercise in yet today and it's 11:30 PM. My heels are absolutely killing me, and now my bad knee is acting up as well. I don't know what to do. I tried to power through the walk last night and only got 1 1/2 miles. I'm afraid I have re-aggravated the plantar fasciitis, and I do NOT have time to mess with that. I may shift my exercise focus to just the bike for a few days and see if it heals up, but I have to get back to walking quickly. I've ordered some new orthotics and downloaded a few exercises to help stretch it out. Hopefully that's enough.
Hope you all have a great night!
Aloha! ;)
Just running through while justifying my jobs existance. ;)
Asti That is a very frightening two days! My DS once was thrown a good 10 feet by the central air conditioner and it melted part of the blade of the screwdriver he was holding. He was about 36 and refused to go to the emergency room.
My wisdom teeth played that game, too. Except mine had never come in. They were tucked in the gum and I lost both the lower wisdom tooth and the tooth beside it. First on the left side and 18 months later on the right side. So I lost two active teeth and two impacted wisdom teeth and each time there was a pocket of infection inside the gum. It ain't fun! The first one was less than a week before the annual family reunion. ;)
LemonFaerie Take care of yourself and make haste a bit more slowly so you don't do real damage to yourself. ;)
My daughter and I had a great time at Celtic Woman last night. There were standing ovations throughout the performance and we were popping up and down constantly. The show did not let out until 10 PM and we had to find our way home without going our normal route which was literally part of the Mississippi River. So, where it would normally have taken about 15 to 20 minutes to have arrived home if I had been able to turn out of the theatre and taken Riverside Dr. directly to the expressway I had to find another interstate access, resulting in a trip home which lasted over half an hour. The river has invaded the downtown street at the foot of the hill on the street where the theatre sits.
It was a difficult morning here, trying to get everyone in gear. My daughter stayed in bed until the last possible moment and just put on clothes and walked our the door.
We trial ran some makeup for her last night, an experimentation in what a full face of makeup does to her appearance. We used some eyeliner pencil last night and Oh My Goodness!!!… I have to go and get an eyeliner pencil for myself. I use mascara but have dropped off wearing eyeliner. That is a bit mistake. My daughter and I have the same eyes but I have blond lashes and she has black ones which makes her look as if she is wearing mascara all the time but the liner made her eyes pop dramatically. I sat in the theatre and watched her, realizing how close I was to seeing what she would look like as a grown woman. I can't let her get away with looking more sophisticated than me again. So, the next time we go out I am going to have to have eye liner too.
Thank goodness whatever my daughter had ran its course and she is back and full of energy.
Must go get ready for a day of shopping. My Birkenstocks are in at the store so I'm to pick them up today.
Lurk break!
Thanks for the advice everyone! And thanks a lot for the link to the tentative schedule Jen!
It's too bad that it all has to come down to money… Darn money…
Anyways, BBL! Have a great day everyone!
Oh and PS: asti you need to prepare a big batch of Felix Felicis for your DS! That was scary to read… Glad he's ok!
Felipe you reminded me of a favorite part of the movie "Meet Me in St. Louis". Judy Garland's character Esther says, "Money! I hate, loathe, abominate and despise money!" To which Leon Ames as her father replies, "You also spend it." ;)
Too bad we can't just barter for everything, but some suppliers still insist on using money. ;)
Just before lunch lurk! ;)
LOL Deanie! I wish we could just barter for everything! Let's go back to the middle ages! haha!
Morning All
I almost left without posting again. Probably because I don't have anything to say. I must start taking notes again.
Asti That was very scary about your DS. Good thing he was ok.
Lady Hawke I think about you every time I see Memphis on the news which is every day because of the flooding. Now they are saying the increase in gas is because of the Memphis Flooding. Strange but I think gas was going up before the flooding in Memphis.
Ironsos Funny I know your name is Iron/S0S but I can't pronounce that easily so I always say Ironside in my mind. You know the dedective on TV played by Raymond Burr. Have you got your new laptop working yet?
Cool G: New laptop has not arrived yet. I am hoping it gets here tomorrow or Friday.
Afternoon all!
Going to be leaving shortly to pick up my nephew from school, and I think I'll surprise him with a trip to Chuck E Cheese (a kid's arcade). I've had tokens from when we last went (probably over a year ago), but since I've usually been babysitting on Saturdays lately, I've avoided going because it's always mobbed on weekend. When my sister asked if I could do today so she could pick up an extra shift, I figured this would be a good opportunity; he'll be quite excited – he asks about it all the time, remembering that I've still got the tokens. :)
MM and Felipe, I haven't seen an official announcement yet, but LeakyCon did answer a FB question to say that they've opened the ball to day pass holders for $10. So, it's looking like Saturday will be a great day to come if you're doing a day pass, especially if they do end up opening the StarKid tickets to day passers as well. :D And Lemon, did you see the post from the girl asking if her pic was okay? She's in what could be considered costume-ish clothing (or, at least an HP tie and the glasses look like Harry's) and LeakyCon replied that it was great. So that makes me even more certain that yours will be acceptable…you aren't even wearing glasses that could be considered to obstruct your face!
Good evening!
I'm very happy to report that my DS got through today unscathed, lol! He's feeling fine, from both the shock and the tooth. I read out all the messages…..he says "thankyou!" And thanks from me too. xx
Lady Hawke, I believe it was today the water was supposed to rech it's peak? How's it looking for you and your parents? I hope hope hope all will be ok. I'm just sorry so many people have already been flooded out.
This site is a must for everyone. Just launched.
Evening all! I have been heavily side-tracked today by the arrival of Ursula under, a very unusual book full of unexpected detail of life long ago and far away from its initial setting in 2003 in the US. I have to report that the description of this secondhand book as "very good" with regard to its condition does not impress me with its accuracy. Fortunately it cost very little, but my lip curls slightly every time I pick it up.
I have a doctor's visit tomorrow to discuss Simvastatin and blood pressure.
The Mississippi River crested here the during the night in the early morning hours of Tuesday morning. So when we went downtown to see Celtic Woman last night we were seeing it on the first evening of the full crest. I do not believe anyone I know will be affected at all. The residential area of town that is flooding is about as far from me as one can get.
There are people losing their homes, loosing their trailers. It is tragic but not altogether unexpected. These homes and trailers were in flood plain. It is called flood plain for a reason. It has flooded in the past and is at risk to flood again. The big surprise were the beautiful places that flooded on Mud Island. That is a very desirable, exclusive area of upscale homes built out on an island in the river, the same one with the water park I have made pictures of. They thought the island was high enough not to flood. Most of it did okay but some area did take on water.
My father says he does remember the Flood of 1937, the one that was just larger than this one. At the time the levees were not what they are now and the city was not as well prepared. He says his aunt talked about seeing those who had lost their homes just lying on the banks of the river with nowhere to go.


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Key points: Jack Straw's career in politics
Here is a breakdown of Jack Straw's career in politics:
- He was NUS president from 1969-71 and worked briefly in journalism and the law before becoming a protege of prominent Labour veteran Barbara Castle, whose Blackburn seat he inherited.
- He entered Parliament in 1979, joining Neil Kinnock's shadow cabinet in 1987 and served as spokesman on education and environment before taking over Tony Blair's role as Shadow Home Secretary when he became leader in 1994.
- He was appointed as Home Secretary in 1997.
- He moved to Foreign Secretary after Labour's election victory in 2001.
- Straw served in two of the great offices of state and was one of only three people to hold Cabinet office throughout the Labour governments of 1997-2010.

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(June 12, 2009) – Taking place over the same weekend as the ACGM was the National Coaches' Conference and the Best of the Best CanSkate Coaches' Program (BOB). Ten coaches from across the country were present to participate in a two-day training in fundamental areas of CanSkate with Monica Lockie, Skate Canada Advisory Coaching Committee Chair. The BOB's created a 45 minute CanSkate session from scratch. They developed their own circuits and choreographed the warm-up and cool-down activities. The BOB's were recognized in front of their peers at the coaches' reception which took place on Wednesday evening. A special video montage that included clips from each BOB submission video was shown and appreciated by all in attendance. They were awarded with a recognition certificate signed by Skate Canada President, Benoit Lavoie. The BOB's also attended the President's Reception prior to the awards banquet where they received a gift from Artistry and were once again recognized by all who attended.
Jacoba Dodge 2009 Best of the Best CanSkate Coach Program participant shared her defining moment of the week, "My defining moment was......when Brian Orser, Lee Barkell and Joannie Rochette's (Mannon Perron) coach gave us a standing ovation after all of the BOB's got their awards. All of us were very touched!"
For more information on the Best of the Best CanSkate Coach Program please click here.
Jan and Cynthia Ullmark hosted the Coaches Reception at the National Coaches' Conference, which ran from Wednesday to Friday. Thursday began with a CPC presentation by Scott Davis on technical changes followed by Dr. Jodi Abbott who did a thorough review of the program components complete with video highlights. After lunch, the on-ice sessions began with spins by Edmonton's own Lise-Lotte Kinding and Manon Perron; stroking, steps, turns with Brian Orser; and jumps with Scott Davis and Manon Perron.
Skate Canada world team members Joannie Rochette and Vaughn Chipeur were on hand to take part in demonstrations along with some local competitive skaters. The day concluded with a session which covered mental skills and different approach to training these skills, presented by Doug Swanson from Red Deer, Alberta.
On Friday all coaches and delegates witnessed CanSkate LIVE, part of which included a live on-ice CanSkate demonstration which was presented by the BOB's. They also attended sessions including CanSkate marketing and administration. The afternoon sessions included a Long-Term Athlete Development (LTAD) update presentation with presenters Monica Lockie and Skate Canada Coaching and Skating Programs Director Jeff Partrick.
The conference wrapped up with a Q&A with Canada's top coaches and their athletes. Scott Davis and Vaughn Chipeur discussed their training changes from last season to this season; Joannie Rochette and Manon Perron discussed their year-by-year plan since the 2006 Olympics; and Lee Barkell and Jeff Buttle talked about their support of the LTAD principles and how they applied them on their journey to becoming World Champion.
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Recently a friend who works as a reference librarian
dredged up on my behalf a copy of an April 1984 Americas
Watch report, Human Rights in Nicaragua. Juan E. Mendez,
then the director of Americas Watch's Washington office, and
Aryeh Neier, one of Human Rights Watch's (née the U.S. Helsinki
Watch Committee) founding members, were the principal authors.
In the Introduction, we read (pp. 5-7):
Obviously, the human rights situation cannot be considered without reference to the effort by insurgent groups sponsored by the United States to overthrow the government of Nicaragua. Though the Americas Watch takes no position on the military conflict as such, we condemn the human rights violations committed by the insurgents as we condemn those committed by the government. In addition, we believe that the United States deserves some of the blame for the abuses by the government of Nicaragua because the activities sponsored by the U.S. lead to such measures as the forcible relocation of the Miskitos. At the same time, we do not believe that the Nicaraguan government is entitled to escape blame for abuses it commits because of the U.S. sponsored effort to overthrow it. Regardless of the threats it faces, disappearances cannot be justified; censorship of information about human rights abuses cannot be justified; and so on.
Just as it is disingenuous for the government of Nicaragua or its apologists to explain away abuses of human rights by citing the U.S. effort to overthrow the Sandinistas, similarly it is disingenuous for the United States to cite abuses of human rights as justification for what it is doing to Nicaragua. Yet this is what the Reagan Administration is doing….
As should be obvious, a human rights rationale for trying to overthrow the Sandinistas hardly squares with efforts by the Reagan Administration to shore up the government of El Salvador, which has a horrendous record on human rights, or with efforts to secure military and economic assistance to Guatemala, which has one of the worst human rights records in the world. Such insincere use of a human rights rationale does grave damage to the prospect of improving the human rights situation in Nicaragua and elsewhere.
Take it for what it's worth: This was the strongest criticism leveled against the Washington regime's policy toward the government in Managua that Human Rights in Nicaragua mustered. El Salvador had a "horrendous record on human rights." And Guatemala "one of the worst human rights records in the world." But the United States was "insincere" in its use of the "human rights rationale." Besides, this U.S. lack of sincerity "does grave damage to the prospect of improving the human rights situation in Nicaragua and elsewhere."
Even more striking is the second sentence in the first of the paragraphs reproduced above: "Americas Watch takes no position on the military conflict as such, we condemn the human rights violations committed by the insurgents as we condemn those committed by the government."
Words are (at least they ought to be) unnecessary.
Near the end of this 50-page report, Americas Watch devoted approx. 6 pages to what it called "Human Rights Violations by Opposition Groups" (pp. 43-48). Here the "insurgents" were given their due—meaning, of course, various contra alliances: The Frente Democratico Nicaraguense (FDN) and the Alianza Revolucionaria Democratica (ARDE) and two Miskito groups (the Misura and the Misurasata).
"Nicaragua's government is under attack by several forces conducting guerrilla warfare and aerial attacks designed to cause its violent overthrow," this section opens (p. 43). The 1983 kidnapping, torture, and execution of the U.S. citizen John Hunter is recounted (pp. 47-48). But not much else.
Except, that is, for this monument to selective, even strategic neutrality (p. 48):
In March 1984, the insurgents mined Nicaragua's ports in Corinto, El Bluff and Puerto Sandino. As reported by the Washington Post ("C.I.A. Helped to Mine Ports in Nicaragua," April 7, 1984), the United States participated in the mining with direct knowledge of President Reagan. We pass no judgment on the military legitimacy of these attacks, nor on their relationship to free navigation and trade, just as we have no comment on economic targets in other conflicts. We are concerned, however, with the potential for serious injury to civilian noncombatants that these actions entail, and we note that some civilians have already been injured. In this respect, these actions are also human rights violations and we call on the U.S. to end them.
If, in retrospect, you are underwhelmed by these brief examples of Human Rights Watch's early monitoring of compliance with the Helsinki Accords (a fable in its own right), and your impression jibes with mine that, even way back then, this squad was training its "human rights" binoculars at the Sandinistas far more earnestly than at the foreign power seeking their overthrow by sponsoring armed guerrilla and terrorist campaigns against them—then you might also be interested in this:
Human Rights Watch in Service to the War Party, ZNet, February 25, 2007


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Flipping the TV channels this Sunday morning, I passed over something on the FOX News Network that, not surprisingly, was billed as "race and presidential politics." Even less surprisingly, the segment focused on race and the Democratic Party. Least surprising of all, it was unscrupulous.
But first — a little context.
As everyone knows, the Democratic Party's presidential candidate and Illinois State Senator Barack Obama has been attacked for a series of comments made by the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who recently retired as pastor at the Trinity United Church of Christ in
I won't rehearse here any of the mythic biography that has been crafted about Candidate Obama and his relationship with the Rev. Wright. (Instead, see "Obama's Audacious Deference," Paul Street, ZCom, January 24, 2007.)
Nevertheless. Until this past Friday, March 14, the Rev. Wright held the title of chairperson on the Obama campaign's African-American Leadership Committee. Then, in a statement announcing the Reverend's departure from the Obama campaign, Obama himself asserted ("On My Faith and My Church," Huffington Post):
All of the [Rev. Wright's] statements that have been the subject of controversy are ones that I vehemently condemn. They in no way reflect my attitudes and directly contradict my profound love for this country.
The statements that "have been the subject of controversy" were first placed in wide circulation on ABC TV's Good Morning
Assuming that these are the statements that people find controversial (though who knows what else is in circulation), here's exactly how ABC News thrust them into the limelight on Thursday, March 13:
BRIAN ROSS (ABC NEWS) (Voiceover) And he often uses the Gospel to affirm his strong political views, as in this 2003 sermon damning the
REVEREND JEREMIAH WRIGHT (TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST) The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing "God bless America"? No, no, no. Not God bless
BRIAN ROSS (ABC NEWS) (Voiceover) It's not known if Senator Obama was in the church that day, but he has sought to play down Reverend Wright's overall approach.
SENATOR BARACK OBAMA (DEMOCRAT) I don't think that my church is actually particularly controversial.
BRIAN ROSS (ABC NEWS) (Voiceover) During the campaign the Senator has defended what he calls Reverend Wright's social gospel.
SENATOR BARACK OBAMA (DEMOCRAT) So he was one of the leaders in calling for divestment from
BRIAN ROSS (ABC NEWS) (Voiceover) But an ABC News review of more than a dozen sermons, which are offered for sale by the church, found Reverend Wright going far beyond issues of Africa. He refers to the
REVEREND JEREMIAH WRIGHT (TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST) And they will not only attack you, if you try to point out what's going on in white America, US of KKKA….
BRIAN ROSS (ABC NEWS) (Voiceover) He regularly mocks black Republicans as sellouts.
REVEREND JEREMIAH WRIGHT (TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST) They live below the "C" level. They live below the level of Clarence, Colin, and Con-damn-nesia.
BRIAN ROSS (ABC NEWS) (Voiceover) In his first sermon after September 11th, 2001, Reverend Wright said the US had brought on the attacks with its own terrorism.
REVEREND JEREMIAH WRIGHT (TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST) We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yard. America's chickens are coming home to roost.
By my reading, these excerpts show the Rev. Wright making roughly seven claims:
(1) A claim about the U.S. Government's history of involvement in various drug manufacture and trafficking schemes.
(2) A claim about rates of incarceration in the United States, and the racially-real, markedly differential rates of incarceration between white and non-white Americans.
(3) A claim about the role of ideology in persuading people to accept the injustices alleged in points (1) and (2).
(4) A claim about how points (1) through (3) run contrary to the kind of values God would prefer humanity to uphold.
(5) A claim that I don't quite understand, so I'll simply repeat it again: "they will not only attack you, if you try to point out what's going on in white America, US of KKKA…."
(6) A claim about how various black Americans — such as Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice — serve as a kind of benchmark for the evaluation of class, race, and power relations in the United States, so that anybody whose public life is like theirs, or worse than theirs, ought to be regarded as the enemies of most black Americans.
(7) A claim about how the al-Qaeda-organized hijacker bombings of September 11, 2001, were a case of "America's chickens…coming home to roost" — that is to say, a case of the long, violent and bloody history of U.S. atrocities against other persons around the world eventuating in some violent and bloody atrocities perpetrated against targets in the United States.
As best I can tell: Claim (1) is arguable, and whether or not this claim has any validity, it depends on what the Rev. Wright had in mind. — For example, we might ask whether the U.S. wars in Southeast Asia and Afghanistan served to decrease or to increase the global supply of poppy and the heroin trade? Claims (2) and (3) are rock solid. One-out-of-every-100 Americans now lives behind bars. But whereas this is true of one-in-twenty black men, it is also true of less than one-in-100 white men. Claim (4) is without merit — though only because it turns on belief in the existence of God, not because any decent society of persons would disagree with the more basic moral point the Reverend makes in Claims (2) and (3), about this most heavily-incarcerated society on earth. Claim (5) simply is too tough to call. (Though I should add that I don't trust Brian Ross's glosses for one second.) But I believe that everybody should be willing to discuss it further — and err on the side of openness, not on the side of the strict enforcement of ideological discipline. (See below.) Claim (6) repeats the familiar "Uncle Tom" refrain from U.S. history — does anyone suppose that Frederick Douglass was more sparing? — and, in all honesty, Claim (6) extrapolates quite well across all of the phenomena that make up the human world. The basic point is that the human world is replete with lures and traps to compromise one's better self, to sell-out the principles that one truly believes for some other set of principles that one doesn't, and to fall for the prizes that the world dangles before one's nose. — For what does a man gain by winning the prizes of the whole world, at the cost of his true self? Claim (7) is so dead-on that it requires a devout faith in a counterfactual realm where the City on the Hill remains untouched by anything that it does, no matter how bloody and brutal, for people not to immediately recognize how right the claim is. – This is simply the Reverend's version of blowback, to use the popular phrase. Their just desserts, in the metaphysically more satisfying language of a moral world order.
For the record: Let me state in no uncertain terms that I agree with most of the seven or so "controversial" claims by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright which ABC News's Brian Ross placed into circulation in his March 13 segment on Good Morning America.
But, also on the record, it is for making claims such as these that the Obama Campaign has officially dissociated itself from the Reverend. More important yet, it is Claims (1) through (7) that Candidate Obama "vehemently condemn[s]," on grounds that they "in no way reflect [Candidate Obama's] attitudes and directly contradict [Candidate Obama's] profound love for this country."
What a crock.
Now. To return to where I began: This morning's FOX News Sunday program, hosted by Chris Wallace, opened with a segment that devoted roughly 2300 words to a discussion of the same material that I've just discussed, but with two long-serving Democratic senators, Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and Charles Schumer of New York.
In not one fragment of one utterance by these three gentlemen is there a hint that they recognize, in what the Rev. Jeremiah Wright has been quoted as saying these past several days, there is anything other than the fulminations of a mad man.
Thus, FOX News Sunday's Chris Wallace baits the perfectly willing Christopher Dodd:
WALLACE: Senator Dodd, let's start with Barack Obama's long-time pastor, Jeremiah Wright, and some of the things he has said from the pulpit. Here's part of his sermon from the first Sunday after 9/11. Let's watch.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) JEREMIAH WRIGHT: Now we are indignant because of stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yard! America's chickens are coming home to roost.
WALLACE: Senator, over the years, Reverend Wright has said that the U.S. government created the AIDS virus to kill African Americans. He has said instead of singing "God Bless America," we — blacks should sing "God Damn America." How would you characterize Reverend Wright's remarks?
DODD: Well, I'd use the words of Barack Obama. He's totally rejected this as quickly as anything. He was not there when these statements were made. They're outrageous statements….
I will reproduce this segment from FOX News Sunday in its entirety below. — But in case anyone is still paying attention, it is clear from the few excerpts that I've seen from the sermons of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright that the Rev. Wright wears a hell of a lot fewer ideological blinders than do the people who are denouncing and distancing themselves from him because of his remarks. What is more, it is clear that in the United States of America today, strict ideological discipline is to be enforced on any question of substance that turns on the nature of life in this country, its history, the government's relations with other peoples and countries, and so on. Precisely this is what the Jeremiah Wright flare-up over the past week teaches us. It is why somebody prompted ABC News to look into the Rev. Wright's sermons. It is why the Obama Campaign was forced to denounce and to sever its ties with the Rev. Wright within 24 hours of his sermons entering mass circulation. And it is why FOX News Sunday's Chris Wallace had such a jolly old time grilling the two Democratic Senators over the existence of the Rev. Wright's remarks.
So. On this Sunday in the middle of March 2008, we find the United States of America in the ultimate year of a presidential election, with a little less than eight months to go before the voters are asked to pull the trigger. And yet, nobody can raise any issues about class, race, war, peace, injustice, you name it, of the kind highlighted by the excerpts from the Rev. Jeremiah Wight's sermons that we now witness denounced. Like the near-totalitarian system to which the American political class aspires.
Excerpted from FOX News Sunday, March 16, 2008:
CHRIS WALLACE: Race and presidential politics — as Democrats fight for the nomination, is the debate over race hurting the party's chances in November? We'll ask two key advisers, Senator Chris Dodd, who supports Obama, and Senator Charles Schumer, who backs
WALLACE: [W]ill the words of Barack Obama's pastor…
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) JEREMIAH WRIGHT: Not God bless
WALLACE: … hurt his candidacy?… And hello again from Fox News in
DODD: Good to be with you, Chris.
SCHUMER: Good morning.
WALLACE: Senator Dodd, let's start with Barack Obama's long-time pastor, Jeremiah Wright, and some of the things he has said from the pulpit. Here's part of his sermon from the first Sunday after 9/11. Let's watch.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) WRIGHT: Now we are indignant because of stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yard!
WALLACE: Senator, over the years, Reverend Wright has said that the
How would you characterize Reverend Wright's remarks?
DODD: Well, I'd use the words of Barack Obama. He's totally rejected this as quickly as anything. He was not there when these statements were made. They're outrageous statements. I don't know how much more clear Barack Obama could have been on all of this. Obviously, these things come up. We've seen a lot of invective being used over the last number of weeks in the campaign. It doesn't help, obviously. But guilt by association is not typically American. We've all been around in places where people have given speeches or said things that we've thoroughly objected to, totally objected to. The fact that he was as quick as he was — I thought his comments yesterday, Barack Obama's comments yesterday, in Indianapolis recalling the words of Robert Kennedy with the death of Dr. Martin Luther King — talking about we're never going to accomplish anything in this nation of ours as a divided people. I think one of the qualities that Barack Obama's bringing to this candidacy is that ability to bring us back together again. President Bush talked about it six, seven years ago. We never came close to it. The country wants that very, very much. And I don't think we helped that cause necessarily by focusing exclusively on these kind of comments that he has totally rejected.
WALLACE: Well, you say he is quick to condemn them. Even if you believe that Obama was unaware of all these comments, this is one statement that Reverend Wright said. These are statements that go back. And the one that you just saw goes back to September of 2001, six years ago. Even if he says that he's unaware of that, he admits that he became aware of these statements last year. And yet just last month, here is what Obama had to say about Reverend Wright's statements, "He is like an old uncle who sometimes will say things that I don't agree with, and I suspect there are some of the people in this room who have heard relatives say some things that they don't agree with." An old uncle, he says. Senator, he only rejected these statements after these tapes became public.
DODD: Well, Chris, again, we can spend all morning talking about this. The American public are watching their foreclosure rates climb. Oil prices are going up.
WALLACE: Well, sir, you're changing the subject. I'm asking you…
DODD: Well, the question is — well, this is subject matter…
WALLACE: You don't think it's relevant that this man was a member of this church for two decades and this fellow…
DODD: No, you made it relevant here for the last four or five days on this network. But the fact of the matter is…
WALLACE: It's not just this network, sir.
DODD: I know. But the fact of the matter is people would like to move on to other things. I've answered your question. Barack Obama has rejected this.
WALLACE: Well, no, I don't think you have answered it, because you said that he answered it — that he rejected it very quickly.
DODD: Well, I don't think he's…
WALLACE: He didn't reject it quickly. The fact is last month, when he's known about it, he said he's a crazy old uncle.
DODD: Well, going back and reviewing at what point who said what to whom — we can dwell on that. He's rejected it. He said he no — he doesn't have any association with it. He finds these comments outrageous. I don't know how much more clear he could be on the subject matter.
WALLACE: But he didn't find him outrageous and condemn them last month…
DODD: Well, I'm not sure he…
WALLACE: … when we didn't have the videotapes.
DODD: Well, I'm not even sure he necessarily was aware of them until they became public. I can't say…
WALLACE: That's not true. He says that he was aware of them when he started running for president in 2007.
DODD: He has rejected them here. Whether he did it a month ago or a week ago, he's rejected them. I think that's the important point. And again, guilt by association here is something we've got to stay away from in this country. Anyone involved in public life, Chris, has been places, have been with people who have said and done things we totally reject. Running for president, obviously, revives a lot of this. But I think it's implement about what he has said. What position has he taken? What sort of a campaign has he run? What is he calling upon Americans to be doing in this country? These are not the words of Barack Obama.
WALLACE: But, Senator, it isn't…
DODD: So we can dwell on that, but I think we ought to move on. He's rejected it.
WALLACE: Senator, it isn't a question of guilt by association.
DODD: Sure it is.
WALLACE: Forgive me. If you read Barack Obama's book, "Dreams For My Father," he talks about what a huge role Reverend Wright played in his deciding his affirmation of his identity as an African American. He's been a member of this church for two — forgive me, for two decades. He was married by this reverend. His children were baptized in this church. It is not that he happened to walk into a room and Reverend Wright was there. He has been a member of this church, a member of Reverend Wright's flock, for 20 years.
DODD: Well, again, Chris, look. A member of a church and a parish where you may have a pastor, a minister or a rabbi who says and do things you totally disagree with — you don't necessarily walk away from your church.
WALLACE: You would stay in a church that had a…
DODD: Well, I would — no. I would certainly disagree with this individual. We've all been in situations like that. But the idea somehow that this is deeply involved and ingrained, that this is — this is really who Barack Obama is — what you're suggesting, or those who are making these accusations, is this is really who Barack Obama is. Anyone who knows this man, who has worked with him, who has spent time with him, would say this is totally unlike him. It's not him at all. And so the suggestion somehow that this is really who this candidate is I think it is an unfair accusation.
WALLACE: Senator Schumer, are you troubled that Obama would belong to a church, be married by a minister, have his children baptized by a minister, who says these kinds of things?
SCHUMER: No. I agree with Chris here. Look, each campaign is wide- ranging. Supporters are all over the place. And you will find in every campaign — you have Senator McCain endorsed by a reverend who said very anti-Catholic things. You've had the problems our campaign had with certain statements that Geraldine Ferraro made. If you are going to ascribe what every supporter says, every word they say, to the candidate themselves, you know, you're going to just be in an – – we have major issues facing us in America, whether it's the war, the economy, and I do believe — you know, past elections have had too much emphasis on these things. This election won't, Chris. And the reason is people are worried about the future of the country, and they want a real discussion on issues.
WALLACE: Well, let me just ask you, if I may, for just a moment. This isn't just a supporter. This is a man who was the head of his church for 20 years. Are you telling me — because I'm a little surprised at this, Senator. You're not troubled that Barack Obama belonged to a church which had a reverend, Reverend Wright, who said that the
SCHUMER: Look, I know Barack's views on
WALLACE: Well, let me ask you, Senator Schumer, about something that someone in the
SCHUMER: OK. How come that doesn't surprise me?
WALLACE: Well, there's a pattern here, Senator. Geraldine Ferraro, former vice presidential Democratic candidate, also a big fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton, made her own controversial comments this week. Let's take a look at them. "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman of any color, he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is." Senator, this isn't just one isolated comment. There's a long list of comments like this. Why do members of the
SCHUMER: Well, first, Geraldine Ferraro said she said those completely on her own. I know Geraldine. I've known her for 20 years. She says what she thinks. These comments were wrong. They were condemned by Hillary Clinton. Geraldine Ferraro is no longer part of the campaign. She had the grace to step aside on her own because she didn't want to make these an issue, and that's that.
DODD: And I agree with that as well. I've known Geraldine Ferraro as long as Chuck has. And I disagree with her comments here, but again, it's the same kind of thing. We can spend our time talking about Geraldine Ferraro and Jeremiah Wright, but the issues are — is where does Barack Obama stand. What are these major issues we face in the country? That's what people are really worried about. We've got a major, major problem in our nation. We need to get back on track again. And that's what people, I hope, are going to cast their ballots on come this November, not about whether or not you agree with Jeremiah Wright or Geraldine Ferraro. That should not be the subject — central point in the debate.
SCHUMER: And by the way, just one point, Chris. I think this election will be much more on the issues. The dramatic differences between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and John McCain are not only large, but they're right at the center of what's worrying people. When people are basically content, these kinds of minor issues — unimportant issues, in my opinion — play a major role. But when people are worried about the future of this country, as they are now, we're going to see a very interesting campaign where the differences on
WALLACE: Well, I am going to move on to the economy. But I would disagree with you to this extent, Senator Schumer. We don't know a lot about Barack Obama, and he does not have as long a record in public life as Senator McCain or Senator Clinton. And when, I think, a lot of us find out and are somewhat shocked to find out what his minister said over the last two decades, I actually think that's a very legitimate question in judging the character of a candidate.
But let's move on to the economy…. [#####]
"Obama's Pastor: God damn America, U.S. to blame for 9/11," Brian Ross and Rehab El-Buri, ABC News, March 13, 2008
"On My Faith and My Church," Barack Obama, Huffington Post, March 14, 2008
"Pastor's hellfire sermons put Obama's campaign in hot water," Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian, March 14, 2008
"Obama renounces pastor's remarks," Scott Martelle, Los Angeles Times, March 15, 2008
"With friends like these," Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times, March 15, 2008
"ObamaDenounces Statements of His Pastor as 'Inflammatory'," Jodi Kantor, New York Times, March 15, 2008
"Barack Obamadistances himself from pastor who denounced racist U.S.," Tim Baldwin, The Times, March 15, 2008
"Outspoken Minister Out Of Obama Campaign," Peter Slevin, Washington Post, March 15, 2008
"Pastor Creates 'Guilt by Association' Problem for Obama," FOX News, March 16, 2008
"Transcript: Senators Dodd, Schumer on 'FOX News Sunday'," March 16, 2008
"A More Perfect Union," Barack Obama,


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2009-10 Men's Soccer
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At A Glance
Graduates as the program's leader in minutes played (6206), games started (69) and games played (70), as well as in the top 10 in five other statistical categories …finished collegiate career with seven goals, one assist and three game-winning goals … contributed to 23 shutouts over four-year career … landed the program its first Atlantic Sun Conference regular season championship following a perfect 9-0 A-Sun record, outscoring opponents 26-2 … raised the program to the national level, ranking as high as No. 19 by Soccer America … earned 2010 FGCU Co-Defensive Player of the Year award … a two-time A-Sun All-Conference performer, including a first team selection in 2010 .. a three-time A-Sun All-Academic honoree … became the program's first four-year student-athlete.
As A Senior (2010)
Named to the Atlantic Sun All-Conference first team ... earned FGCU Co-Defensive Player of the Year award … started all 18 matches on the year … finished with one game-winning goal with one shot on the year … part of a defensive unit the recorded a program-best nine shutouts on the year, which ranked first in the conference … defense also topped the league in goals allowed (11) and goals against average (0.58) … opened the season with a 2-1 win over No. 13 USF (Sept. 1) and later shutout No. 5 Ohio State (Sept. 18) … scored the game-winner against Virginia Commonwealth (Sept. 4) on a 60-yard free-kick in the 109th minute of OT … helped the squad to a program-best eight-game winning streak that included a stretch of four-consecutive shutouts over A-Sun foes … earned the A-Sun Defensive Player of the Week award … led FGCU to an overall record of 13-3-2 and a perfect 9-0 A-Sun mark, outscoring league opposition 26-2 … instrumental in securing FGCU's first A-Sun conference regular season championship … led the Eagles to their first national ranking, landing as high as No. 19 and ending the year No. 20 according to Soccer America … earned A-Sun All-Academic honors.
As A Junior (2009)
Earned A-Sun All-Conference second team honors ... started in all 16 matches and played all 1483 minutes ... led a defense that finished first in the A-Sun in shutouts and second in goals against average (1.21) … headed the defensive unit that held six opponents scoreless ... recorded at least one shot against UNLV (Sept. 20), Lipscomb (Oct. 11), and ETSU (Oct. 16) … assisted a defensive wall in ending Campbell's 18-game conference unbeaten streak with a 4-0 victory (Oct. 24) ... guided the team to the first winning-season in program history, holding an 8-7-1 record and a 6-3-0 conference record.
As A Sophomore (2008)
Appeared in 18 games while starting 17 contests … finished with four points off of two goals… accumulated 19 shots and 12 shots on goal ... had two or more shots in seven contests … took two shots and scored the game-winning goal against Penn State (Aug. 31) ... tallied four shots with two shots on goal during the 0-0 draw at Hartwick (Sept. 5) ... netted a goal off three shots in a 3-1 win over Fairfield (Sept. 21).
As A Freshman (2007)
Started in 18 games ... finished with four goals, one assist, 13 shots and seven shots on goal ... scored goals in back-to-back contests, netting his first collegiate goal in the 2-1 victory over UNLV (Sept. 7) and his second in the 2-1 win over Georgia State (Sept. 14) ... recorded first career assist in a 3-0 victory Florida Atlantic (Oct. 4) ... led the way with two goals on five shots in a 2-0 win over Howard in the season finale (Nov. 4) ... earned A-Sun All-Academic team honors.
High School
Named second team All-District (2004-05) ... named first team All-District (2006-07) ... All-North Suncoast (2006-07) ... 2004 Virginia ODP State team ... 2004 U-15 Virginia State Cup Finalist (Beach FC Outlaws) ... 2004 U-15 Champions of Virginia Club Champions League (Beach FC Outlaws) ... 2005 U-16 Virginia State Cup Finalist (Beach FC Outlaws) ... 2005 U-16 Champions of Virginia Club Champions League (Beach FC Outlaws) ... 2005 Virginia ODP State team ... 2005 Virginia ODP European Tournament team ... 2005 U-17 Champions of Club Directors League (Clearwater Chargers) ... captain of the 2006 U-17 Florida State Cup Champions (Clearwater Chargers).
Born March 4, 1989 … criminal justice major ... son of Pat and Bette Jo O'Shaughnessy ... has three younger brothers; Ryan, Patrick and Michael
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2nd floor renovations of Times building nearly ready to house City Hall employees
Updated On: Feb 07 2013 06:45:21 PM CST
The second floor of the El Paso Times building is just about ready for City Hall employees to move in.
Workers are putting the finishing touches on the second floor before the mayor, city manager, city representatives, and legal department move in on a staggered schedule starting in early March.
Renovation work began on the building in December with up to 70 workers working sometimes 12 hour days to get the job done.
Renovations of the first floor of the El Paso Times building are not expected to begin until Times employees move out of the building this month.
Part 1: Renovating Times building for City Hall purposes - video Dec. 26, 2012
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The record books will always show Ben Henderson defeated Josh Thomson via split decision (48-47, 47-48, 49-46) in the main event of tonight's (Sat., Jan. 25, 2014) UFC on Fox 10: "Henderson vs. Thomson" network television broadcast from the United Center in Chicago, Illinois.
The Fight Metric report, however, disputes that.
Let's take a look at the cold, hard statistics, shall we?
First, the striking report:
Henderson was unquestionably the more active of the two fighters, though that likely had a lot to do with the fact that Thomson broke his thumb early in the contest. It's hard to throw punches when you can't even fully make a fist.
Still, "Smooth" was the man in this category.
Next, the grappling report:
While Henderson was successful on each of his takedown attempts, Thomson had four passes, including three to "Bendo's" back. This one is harder to quantify on paper because it ignores the control "Punk" exhibited while he had the former champion locked in a body triangle.
Finally, the performance report:
It should be noted that Fight Metric scored rounds 1, 2, and 4 for Thomson, round 3 for Henderson, and round 5 a draw. Henderson eked out a higher effectiveness score but under their methodology, there should not have been a winner, but under the 10-point must system Thomson should have taken the decision.
Agree or disagree?
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Forgotten Cooking Skills (And How To Get Them Back!)
April 6, 2010 at 9:14 am , by Tara Bench
Darina Allen has been called the Julia Child of Ireland. That's just one of countless compliments and attributions this award-winning author, teacher, chef, gardener, forager and food-ambassador has been given. She's also a darling to talk to—funny and sincere, I could listen to her Irish accent for hours.
Her new book (she's written 16) Forgotten Skills of Cooking, gives us a modern guide to traditional cooking skills—education and inspiration to teach a new generation where food comes from and how to use it. It's inspired by courses at Allen's Ballymaloe Cookery School in Shanagarry, Ireland. She founded the 100-acre organic farm and school to teach the crafts of cheese making and bee keeping, home butchery and seasonal baking.
Don't be intimidated (like I was!). I thought Forgotten Skills would be for the over-achieving farmer, telling me to live off the land and raise my own chickens. It is…but it's also a beautiful cookbook with useful everyday recipes I'll actually cook. Pleasantly scattered throughout are gems like butter-making, preserving and smoking your own bacon. Allen explains that you don't have to have a farm, you could simply start with salad greens in your apartment window box. (I would love to! I didn't tell her I have a very brown thumb).
What I truly love about this book—and about Allen, her friends Alice Waters and Jaime Oliver and all those who champion the Slow Food movement—is that she really just wants to make sure people know where their food comes from. With our processed foods and giant grocery stores, we've lost the knowledge of how to use the land to nourish our bodies and enjoy each season.
As Allen says, "If we realized how much depends on the food we eat, we would re-prioritize." Here's to you Allen, the skills you teach that give us independence and to all the knowledge you won't let be forgotten! Now take me to Ireland.
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When they wake up together, the very first thing Lexy Brooks and her boyfriend, Max Goldstein, both 22, do is check their smartphones for texts, Facebook notifications and sports scores.
And they certainly aren't alone — a recent Logitech survey shows that young adults' relationship with technology and human intimacy is, well, complicated. The intersection between the two has forged a love triangle unique to Millennials, who must balance one-on-one relationships with a craving for constant contact with the rest of their social network.
In the survey of 2,000 single adults, 18 and over, from four countries (500 from each the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and France), 43% of U.S. respondents said that breaking their iPad would be equally or more upsetting than breaking up with their significant others.
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"[Our relationship] becomes slightly less intimate, since we're always so connected to everyone else through technology," said Brooks, who, like Goldstein, is a senior at Brandeis University studying history. "Our generation's attention span is all over the place. Focusing on one person is hard for us."
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The celebration of the GOP's 106th Lincoln Day was absolutely the best ever. We had a crowd of over 250, which made for a successful evening. There are so many people we have to thank for this beautiful evening:
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La Concha II is located in the exclusive and gated Playacar area of Playa Del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Playacar has a 24 hour security controlled entrance for access to the community and is located adjacent to Playa Del Carmen. The La Concha II condo, Casa de Iguanita, is a third floor Penthouse end unit with vaulted bedroom ceilings, ceiling fans, air conditioning, and a private terrace which overlooks the pool and courtyard. It is tastefully decorated, light, bright and very comfortable. The condo has just been professionally painted, has all new bed covers, linens, towels, living room, bathroom and master bedroom curtains.
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Casa de Iguanita is a 2 bedroom 2 bath condo with ample closet space that comfortably sleeps up to 5 people . The master bedroom has a pillow top queen bed and private bath, the second bedroom has a double and single bunk bed set. There is also another double mattress if needed. The kitchen is fully-equipped for all your cooking needs with and everything from coffeemaker to microwave to blender for margaritas. Convenience stores are nearby for grocery shopping. A small store is located near the end of the block on the same side of the street as the condo. There are also 2 OXXO convenience stores a few minutes walking in either direction on Paseo Xaman Ha. There are also several very good locally owned restaurants located near the OXXO stores. There is a shopping center, Centro Maya, directly across the main highway with a variety of stores, banks and a major grocery store, Soriana. There are several other large grocery stores downtown, MEGA, Super Wal Mart and Chadraui in Playa del Carmen.
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Chichen-itza, Coba & Tulum (Mayan ruins)
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Shopping/Restaurants on 5th Avenue
Fantastic seafood
Great restaurants and night-life
And so much more!!!! So many tours and attractions close by!!! Great beaches to relax and soak up the Sun!!!
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Rental Rates include a beautiful pool with palapa, shower and restroom in the courtyard.
FREE ACCESS to Reef Club Resort pools and beach facilities. You
can also purchase the daily all inclusive (food & beverage) at the Reef Club Resort for a daily rate of about $45 USD adult / $25 USD children with the included VIP Resident Pass.
Weekly Rates:
Christmas, New Years, Thanksgiving and Easter weeks --$800/week
High Season -- Oct 1 - April 30 -- $650/week
Low Season -- May 1 - Sept 30 -- $550/week
Richard Micek 303-548-6309
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Prior to paying a reservation deposit, always verify payment instructions by calling the phone number displayed on this listing page. By contacting the owner directly and paying by an approved method - credit card, paypal, check or bank transfer - your reservation payment will be protected up to $1,000.Learn more in our Security Center
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- Ferry to Cozumel
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