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Beatlemania returns to the streets of Dublin this November in various venues across the city centre.
A four day celebration to mark the 50th anniversary of the only time The Beatles ever played in Dublin. In 1963 The Beatles played two performances in the Adelphi on Abbey Street with an audience of 5,200 and thousands of estatic fans thronging the streets, a sight never brefore seen in the city.
In celebration of The Gathering, the Dublin Beatles Festival is shouting out for those who attended the 1963 gigs to come to Dublin and attend Festival events. Many well-known Irish people were there in '63 including a 12 year old Bob Geldof.
Opening Ceremony
Date: Thursday 7th Nov
Venue: The Gresham Hotel
Time: 6pm
The Opening Ceremony will take place at the Gresham Hotel, where The Beatles stayed on Thursday, November 7th, 1963!, with the cast of the hit show GET BACK – THE STORY OF THE BEATLES playing the original set of songs that The Beatles played at the Adelphi Cinema. There will also be a performance of Beatle songs from VYVIENNE LONG and JON WARD.
The Grand Social
Date: Friday 8th November
Venue: The Grand Social
There will be two live stages and a third area for Beatle art and /memorabilia. There will be 1960's fancy dress and a DJ set from JACQUI CARROLL (Ready, Steady, Go!). The line-up also includes: Revolver, The Beatelles, Beatles for Sale, The Gandhis, The Rockets.
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Date: Saturday 9th November
Venue: The Grand Social
There will be two live stages and a third area for Beatle art and Beatle memorabilia. There will be 1960's fancy dress and a DJ set from ROB SMITH (Hot Press Magazine). The line-up also includes: John Lennon's Quarrymen, The Choking Smokers, Johnny & The Moondogs, O Emperor, The Louisiana 6.
There are also quizzes, public interviews, Beatles Art and more happening over the 4 days. See www.dublinbeatlesfestival.com for more information.
Click here to download the Dublin Beatles Festival Brochure
Tickets are now on sale at www.entertainment.ie/dublinbeatlesfestival
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best birthday cakes in Los Angeles area?
My mon is turning 90 and I want to go all out and get her a birthday cake she'll never forget? Any suggestions?
I really like Leda's: http://www.ledasbakeshop.com
Citrus flavors, passion fruit, and carrot cake, in particular, are excellent.
What does "all out" mean to you and your mom? Do you want something that looks completely wacky and will give her a good laugh, or something impossibly elegant for a 90 year old lady? Or is she more picky about how it tastes and prefers particular flavors?
Best cake I've tasted in recent history is the pear filled white cake at Amandine on Wilshire. Very simple and frosted with a perfectly smooth surface of white whipped cream with just a few berries for decoration, but moist and airy and too easy to eat too much of.
To me an unforgettable birthday cake is so darned subjective, especially since I know nothing about your mom. Personally, unforgetable is simple as I am not one for lots of sugar, frosting and fuss but for my husband the frosting freak, well, enough said.
I like the cakes at Michel Ricard on Robertson near Third. They have some lovely tortes and they make a very cool, impressive and tasty croquembuche---the French tower of cream puffs covered with caramelized sugar.
My husband, on the other hand, favors the princess torte at Thee's Bakery in the Farmer's market---green marzipane covering cake, rasberry jam, whipped cream in a half ball shape.
And the older pup wavers between the Princess torte at Thee's and the Tres Leches cake at Continental Bakery at Third and Normandie---lots of fruit, very light and whipped cream frosting.
One last thought based on my experience with older relatives and friends: how are your mom's taste buds doing? Many older people experience a decline in their taste buds so that more subtle cakes aren't appreciated because they can't taste anything. You might want to just consider what her favorite cake flavor is and then have someone do fancy icing or whathave you on it.
re: Pei
Princess torte is my favorite cake, & Thee's is very, very good. Skip Benes - the quality has gone way down.
I was not impressed with Jamaica's Cakes.
If your mom likes old-fashioned cakes, I recommend (for the millionth time) Buttercake Bakery in WLA. Most especially the coconut cake - but everything there is great. They do not decorate, tho' - so if you want flowers & such, go elsewhere.
And there is always Hansen's - reliable & pretty.
re: Pei
We've been getting it at Thees for about 7 years now. My husband, who lived in Sweden for seven years, and my stepdaughter [swedish american] say that the Thees version is perfect. The marzipan is very soft and thin. I find that the marzipane alone can be too sweet--like around the bottom edge where it sort of doubles up is too much for a mouthful for me--but altogether, I like the cake and it goes very fast in our house. And its not too expensive, I might add--I think the last one we got was about $25. You can try a piece instead of buying the whole cake--they sell by the slice for about $3.
I have tried the Benes version and found it to be more sweet and generally less tasty.
I found the Thee's cake back when I was first dating my husband and learned it was is favorite cake. I wanted to make it for him but couldn't find a recipe despite looking at every scandinavian cookbook at the Cook's Library. I guess it is not something one makes at home [though the Svenska Skolan LA does sell the marzipan at times]. Anyrate, when I saw it at Thee's I was so excited. It made for a great surprise as he hadn't had it in about 6 years.
re: jenn
Respectfully disagree with you guys on Thee's princess cake, which I've found tastes like it's made from very poor ingredients, dry cake, and overall lacks finesse. I'll take Viktor Benes' sweet marzipan but decently prepared interior any time. Don't get me started on Thee's kolache-dreadful.
As part Swedish-American, I've played around making princess cake at home, but yeah, it takes a lot of work and skill to get the layers just right, esp. the whipped cream dome.
Viktor Benes' cake:
re: petradish
Sadly, the marzipan on the Benes cake is already turning me off to it. Is the Thee's version thinner and paler?
re: petradish
hmm, don't know--maybe you hit Thees on a bad day or we hit Benes on a bad day. I definitely don't think the Thees cake is either tasteless or dry--not sure what you mean by "finesse" with regard to the cake. Perhaps we need a taste off!
That said, from looking at the photo, the marzipan on the Benes cake is much thicker than the Thee's version. In that heavy marzipan doesn't work for me, perhaps that is why I like the Thees version better.
Don't know about the kolache--haven't had that since I left Cleveland so doubt my review would have merit.
I ordered a cake 2 weeks ago from Susina Bakery at Beverley Drive. It was the Berry cake. They layer it with frest fruits and berries inside..hmm...so good. Most cakes turn out too sweet with all the icing.
This one wasn't too sweet and it was light, fluffy and perfect for the summer. My guest havent stopped raving about it since then.
re: George
Yep that's the berry blossom -- vanilla sponge brushed with orange liqueur and layered with fresh berries & white chocolate mousse (which is way less dense than the usual buttercream frosting). And everyone praised it :)
I can't remember the name of the shop (actually it just came to me...Mossimo I think). It's near Glencoe and Washington Blvd. in Marina del Rey.
I'm not a fan of chocolate, but this thing was awesome. It was this chocolate cake with this icing on top that you could literally peel off. Very good. Anyone else ever have anything from there?
Massimos Delectables. There's also one on Abbot Kinney but I've only gone to the one on Washington Blvd. The rock the cake right!! Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeelish! Cookies are for the most part good - will let you try before buying. But the cakes...oh those cakes....
The only bakey you need to know for a birthday cake you will never forget is Rosebud. It is on Robertson. I was given a cake from Rosebud as a surprise for my birthday and it was not only delicious, but visually it was the most stunning food creation I have ever seen. Yes, they are expensive. Yes, your mom will love it.
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Yummy looking website! Do you remember how much a cupcake or mini cupcake costs? http://www.buttercakebakery.com/
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Its at Walgrove (across the street from Taco Bell). The entrance is actually on Walgrove - look for the yellow awning - think its behind the Vans store.
re: TOgirl
Is it Walgrove or Redwood? But yes, it's across from Taco Bell right behind the Vans Store. And it's delicious. I have no idea what that chocolate cake was called, but it was damn good. It was covered with chocolate, with pieces of chocolate on top.
If you happen to be near Southbay, Lido Bakery in Manhattan Beach has cakes that both look and taste amazing.
order a RED VELVET cake from The Bright Spot in Echo Park. it is the best cake ever. hands down. i had one at my birthday party 2 years ago and people still talk about how amazing it is. and it looks neat, bright red with white frosting. it's amazing.
Red Velvet cake from Bluebirds! So moist and delicious and that great cream cheese frosting.
Plusko's in Canoga park makes really nice whipped cream cakes, but I wouldn't call them an "all-out affair" choice. For that I would second the Leda's. The cakes are beautiful and exquisitely flavored. Really special. Viktor Benes' Princess Cake (above) is my choice for Princess cakes, although I haven't had one in probably a year and I read above that the quality may have declined. Too bad.
i was really over sweet lady jane's cakes but the last two birthday's i attended served cake from there. the berry cake and a vanilla layer cake with chocolate frosting. i must say that they were both really nice in presentation. i also hear that they're not as expensive as other places.
re: cadyellow
Glad you liked (which one did you order?) -- and do report back on any other great cakes you get for those just-because occasions ;)
Suisina is very good, but Sweet Lady Jane is exceptional every time, and therefore always the best bet for a truly important occasion.
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Down Sunny! A faux paw at the White House
While, as you can see above, the First Lady quickly seized control of the situation, the Second Dog got in a little trouble yesterday at a White House Christmas party.
Sunny Obama, the second Portuguese water dog the Obamas adopted, was part of a minor incident in which, by most reports, the one-year-old dog's over-friendliness caused a party guest, 2-year-old Ashtyn Gardner, to fall over.
Sunny, adopted in August, jumped up on the toddler during the 2013 White House Holiday Press Preview.
The moment – not the worst violation of etiquette to ever take place in the White House, but maybe the cutest — was captured by Associated Press photographer Charles Dharapak.
Michelle Obama hosts the party every year, unveiling the White House's holiday decorations with families of military service members.
Ashtyn, both of whose parents are in the Navy, was attending the party with her father, John Gardner, who later said that Ashtyn was fine.
Sunny reportedly apologized right after the incident by licking Ashtyn's face, and both Sunny and Bo, the Obama's first Portuguese water dog, were allowed to remain in the room afterward.
The Washington Post said Sunny "bounded into a State Dining Room full of children dressed in sparkly shoes and lacy dresses and headed right for little Ashtyn Gardner, 2, from Mobile, Ala. All of a sudden the blond girl with ringlet curls … was down on the rug. …
"Are you okay?" said a concerned Obama, mom-in-chief, tugging back on Sunny's leash. But there was no need for damage control. Before Ashtyn could answer, she was back on her feet and Sunny was licking her face. All seemed well again, and the kids from military families could get back to frosting cookies and making paper poinsettia flowers with the first lady, crafty projects that have become a part of the Obama holiday traditions.
The Associated Press also avoided saying Sunny made contact with the girl, reporting Ashtyn "lost her balance and dropped to the carpet when Michelle Obama led the leashed puppy (a separate handler held Bo) into the State Dining Room…"
The dogs, in addition to attending the fest, also are a large part of its theme. Two life-sized replicas of the Portuguese water dogs, made from black satin ribbon, are on display, and miniature versions of them, made of chocolate, are part of the annual gingerbread White House display.
(Photo: Charles Dharapak / Associated Press)
Posted by John Woestendiek December 5th, 2013 under Muttsblog.
Tags: animals, ashtyn gardner, associated press, bo, bo obama, Charles Dharapak, christmas, decorations, dogs, etiquette, first dog, first lady, girl, jumped, michelle, michelle obama, navy, obama, party, pets, photo, photographer, portuguese water dogs, president, second dog, sunny, sunny obama, white house
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Dog in Thailand saves baby left at dump site
A dog in Thailand is being credited with saving the life of a newborn girl.
Pui, a Thai Bankaew, found a plastic bag in a trash bin, carried it with his mouth back to his owner's house, dropped it on the ground and barked.
The owner's 12-year-old niece opened the bag and found the baby inside, according to the Bangkok Post.
Pui, who authorities said regularly wanders around town, found the bag at dump site in tambon Sala Loi in Tha Rua district and toted it back to the home of his master, Gumnerd Thongmak. After his 12-year-old niece, Sudarat, opened the bag, the baby was transported to nearby Phranakhon Sri Ayutthaya Hospital.
The newborn, who doctors say was born nearly two months prematurely, weighed only 4 pounds. Authorities are searching for her mother.
Pui was awarded a leather collar and a medal from the Tha Rua district Red Cross chapter for his heroic actions, and his master received 10,000 baht reward from The Miracle of Life Foundation.
(Photo: Sunthorn Pongpao / Bangkok Post)
Posted by John Woestendiek June 10th, 2013 under Muttsblog.
Tags: animals, bag, bankaew, dog, dogs, dump, dumpster, girl, infant, newborn, pets, premature, pui, rescues, saves, thai, thailand
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Crated daughter leads to charges
The parents of a 10-year-old girl have been charged with endangering the welfare of a child after holiday travelers spotted the girl riding in a crate with the family dog.
Authorities received multiple calls about the girl Monday evening after she was seen in the crate, in the back of a pick-up truck on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
When the couple was tracked down near their home in Millvale, they told police their daughter had requested to be with the dog (pictured at left).
The girl did not appear harmed, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Abbey Carlson, 29, and Thomas Fishinger, 30, were arraigned Tuesday morning and released on their own recognizance. They are due in court June 6 for a preliminary hearing.
An eastbound motorist on the turnpike in Beaver County called state police at 7:01 p.m. to report seeing a girl in a dog cage in the bed of the pickup, troopers said. Troopers received a second call a few minutes later from another motorist near the Butler County line.
Motorists provide a license number of the pickup, state troopers said. They traced the registration and alerted officers in Millvale, where the family lives. The truck was pulled over near their home. The couple told police they were driving home from his mother's house in Beaver County.
According to The Smoking Gun, Fishinger was arrested less than a week ago on charges of identity theft and access device fraud, but released from jail after making bail.
(Top photo, an obscured image of the girl in the crate, taken by another motorist and posted on Reddit; bottom photo, Facebook)
Posted by John Woestendiek May 29th, 2013 under Muttsblog.
Tags: animals, caged, charged, child, crate, crated, daughter, dogs, endangering, endangerment, girl, highway, kennel, memorial day, parents, pennsylvania turnpike, pets, photos, pickup truck, transportation, travel, travelers, welfare
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Pit bull slurs lead to boycott of 98 Rock
More than 1,000 pit bull lovers in Baltimore have joined in a boycott of 98 Rock after morning show co-host Mickey Cucchiella issued a call for pit bulls to be banned, kicked and executed.
To hear his rant, go to my Facebook page.
To support the boycott, go to its Facebook page.
Cucchiella, the abrasive and often sophmoric co-host of the morning show on WIYY (97.9 on your FM dial), made the remarks after a 7-year-old girl was attacked in Dundalk by two dogs, initially identified as pit bulls.
Later, Baltimore County issued a correction, stating the dogs were not pit bulls, but American bulldogs. Both dogs were euthanized with their owner's consent. The girl remains hospitalized with serious facial injuries that will require multiple surgeries.
"Here's what flips me out," Cucchiella says in the broadcast. "A little girl's face was eaten and you hear like 'Oh, that's terrible.' Michael Vick killed these idiot dogs that were people killers. That's what he was doing, he was making them fight each other … The whole world's in an outrage… 'Look what Michael Vick did it's horrible.'
"But one of the idiot f-in dogs that were bred to kill bites a little girl's face and and people go 'Oh, I hope she's ok."
"… These stupid f-in dogs need to go … they should be banned from everywhere, they're dumb, vicious dogs.
"I don't want to hear from you idiot dog owners … 'My little Choo Choo is a great dog.' I'm sure one member of al-Qaeda is probably a decent guy and a little misguided. That doesn't mean you don't want to kill al-Qaeda, because most of them are bad …
"I think any dog should be able to be airborne after you kick it."
Later, Cucchiella insists — contrary to several studies — that pit bulls have the most powerful bite of any dog. "I can grab a border collie's bite and pry it apart, you can't do that with a pit bull." Read more »
Posted by John Woestendiek March 17th, 2011 under Muttsblog.
Tags: 98 rock, animal control, animals, attack, audio, baltimore, baltimore county, ban, boycott, dogs, dundalk, facebook, girl, michael vick, mickey, mickey and amelia, mickey cucchiella, pets, pit bulls, pitbulls, remarks, slurs, wiyy
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Attacking dogs weren't pit bulls, after all
After its news reports blamed two pit bulls for the mauling Saturday of a 7-year-old girl, ABC2 News in Baltimore took steps to correct the error.
But take a look at the news report (above) and see if you agree with me – that they only compounded it in this story touted as "the real truth about dangerous dogs."
Rather than clear the name of pit bulls, they besmirch that of American bulldogs, lumping them in with pit bulls and saying they share the same "aggressive" traits and legendary jaw power – or "muscles of mastication" as one vet calls it.
"They have muscles of mastication. They have muscles in their jaws that are so strong they have 500 pounds of pressure. They can snap a broom just like that," Dr. Kim Hammond, of Falls Road Animal Hospital, says in the report. "They're a predator if you're lower on the food chain and they're good at their job, and they're going to win."
Those remarks – inaccurate and irresponsible as they might be in reference to pit bulls or American bulldogs – were apparently being made about pit bulls, which he also compared to "a loaded gun."
My guess is that ABC2 sent a reporter out to do the knee-jerk, misconception-spreading, how dangerous-pit-bulls-are story, then learned it was two American bulldogs that were actually involved in the attack on Amanda Mitchell, who remains hospitalized with severe facial injuries.
For the sake of expediency, it appears, the report portrays pit bulls and Ameridcan bulldogs as peas in a pod, which wouldn't be so bad if the pod wasn't 99 percent wrongful stereotype and 1 percent fact.
Mitchell was playing outside when the dogs escaped from a neighbor's yard in Dundalk Saturday. Both dogs were later seized by Baltimore County Animal Control and, with the consent of their owner, euthanized.
On Monday, the Baltimore County Health Department issued a correction – identifying the dogs involved as American bulldogs – and, after more than a few complaints from vigilant Internet commenters, ABC2 corrected the story, pointing out that police had provided the misinformation.
In all fairness, the breed of the dogs was also misreported by other media outlets, including the Baltimore Sun.
Even though most news outlets have corrected their reports, the misinformation remains – not just in the public consciousness, but on Google, where search result summaries of news reports since corrected still describe the dogs as pit bulls.
Tragic as it is, the story goes a long way in helping to understand how pit bulls have gotten, and continue to get, a bad rap – based largely on police mistakenly identifying dogs, "experts" who may not know what they're talking about and the news media's dutiful reporting of such misinformation.
What gets lost amid all the assumptions and jumping to conclusions is this: Any breed or type of dog has members who can turn violent or aggressive – be it pit bull, bulldog or Chihuahua.
Posted by John Woestendiek March 15th, 2011 under Muttsblog.
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Were pups thrown in river saved downstream?
A grandmother in Bosnia is claiming she saved the six newborn puppies that a young woman tossed into a fast flowing river — an act that was captured on video and has outraged dog lovers internationally.
The Daily Mail is reporting that Ruza Pavlovic, a 75-year-old woman who lives in Bugojno, Bosnia, says she saw the pups struggling in the river and fished them out.
The Mail article points out that it hasn't been confirmed that the puppies are the same ones that a woman in a red hooded sweatshirt was videotaped throwing one by one into the river.
The "saved" puppies seem to have a brownish coloring not seen on those in the video. And the "savior" is making it known that she is too poor to provide them with food. "They are healthy and happy," they quote her as saying. "My problem is that they need at least three litres of milk a day and I live only on my small pension, but I do not have the heart to abandon them."
Police, the Mail article reports, have tracked down the girl they believe threw the animals into the river and are set to interview her. The name of the girl, also from Bugojno, has not been published to protect her safety.
The video was posted on Facebook, and appeared on YouTube and LiveLeaks, enraging animal lovers at least as much as last year's video of a man in Lithuania throwing a dog off a bridge.
Another animal rights group – SOS, which is based in Sarajevo – also claimed to have information confirming the location of the girl, who was reportedly filmed by her brother.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has offered a $2,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the young woman.
Meanwhile, several Facebook groups have formed, seeking to bring her to justice as well.
Posted by John Woestendiek September 5th, 2010 under Muttsblog, videos.
Tags: abuse, animal, animal rights, animal welfare, animals, bosnia, bosnian, cruelty, dogs, drown, girl, liveleaks, news, ohmidog!, pets, puppies, pups, reports, rescued, river, saved, throw, thrown, throws, tossed, tosses, video, viral, woman
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Dumped: The story of Amy and X-Man
That X-Man was rescued from a trash can as a puppy didn't make him all that unusual. It happens way too often.
That X-Man was rescued from a trash can by a girl who — as an infant — was herself rescued from the garbage makes his story, and her's, a bit more out of the ordinary.
X-Man died last month after a long and happy life he owed, in large part, to Amy Louise Annelle, who in 1983, at only 4 or 5 hours old, was stuffed in a cereal box and dumped in a large trash bin on Nova Road in Daytona Beach.
When Amy was rescued from a garbage truck's trash compactor by trash collectors, Pat Patten-Carlen followed the news accounts. She was looking for a baby girl to adopt after her daughter died. When "Amy Nova" — the name hospital nurses had given the baby found in the garbage — turned four months old, Patten-Carlen adopted her.
Thirteen years later, Amy came home from school and told Patten-Carlen she'd discovered a puppy in a trash can.
"She said, "It's in a garbage can like me,' " Patten-Carlen told the Daytona Beach News Journal.
After Amy found X-Man, she took him to a shelter. But when no one would adopt him, she and Patten-Carlen came to the rescue again. They got their close friend Carson Allison to bring him home. X-Man lived with Allison until the dog's death last month.
"We had a special connection," Amy said. "Up until two weeks ago when he was put down because he was too sick and in pain, I kept close to X-Man."
A small memorial service for X-Man was held Saturday in DeLand.
Amy, whose birth mother was never found, is now a CVS store manager, married and the mother of a 4-year-old girl, Autumn. She's expecting another baby, a boy, in four or five weeks.
Posted by John Woestendiek April 7th, 2010 under Muttsblog.
Tags: abandoned, abandonment, adopt, adopted, amy louise annelle, amy nova, animals, baby, daytona beach, discarded, dog, dogs, dumped, florida, garbage, girl, infant, news, ohmidog!, pets, puppy, rescue, trash, X-man
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Tonight on Velocity, follow Dempsey's quest for Le Mans
A racer first, an actor second.
By August 28, 2013 / Photos by Velocity
Le Mans is the pinnacle of motorsport, and every driver dreams of blasting down the Mulsanne Straight. Patrick Dempsey is one such man, and is using his acting talents to fund a racing career. Starting tonight on Velocity, you can follow Dempsey in his quest for Le Mans glory in a four-part mini series.
To provide a bit of background on Dempsey and his need to follow in the shoes of the great actor/racers like Paul Newman and Steve McQueen, Velocity has given us a few teaser videos. Sit down and turn up the volume. There's plenty of flat-six baritone in the videos below.
The first episode of Patrick Dempsey: Racing Le Mans airs tonight at 10 PM EST on Velocity.


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Attacks on the Press 2000: Yugoslavia
PROSPECTS FOR PRESS FREEDOM IN YUGOSLAVIA BRIGHTENED when President Slobodan Milosevic finally accepted election results and resigned on October 6. The elected dictator's all-out war on the independent media was a thing of the past, but official habits of intimidating the press did not disappear, and the difficulty of reforming Serbia's state-run media became evident. In the Republic of Montenegro, threats to independent journalists subsided significantly. The threat remained intense in the embattled province of Kosovo, still under international control as this volume went to press.


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The Defense Base Realignment and Closure Act of 1990, as amended, required the Department of Defense (DOD) to address several base realignment and closure (BRAC) issues in 2004 for the 2005 BRAC round to proceed. The requirements included reporting on a 20-year force structure plan, an inventory of military installations, and separately adopting selection criteria for the upcoming round. The legislation also required DOD to certify whether an additional BRAC round was needed, and, if so, that annual net savings would be realized not later than fiscal year 2011. If the certifications were provided, GAO was required to evaluate DOD's submissions and report to Congress. DOD reported on March 23, 2004, and provided the certifications. In this report GAO evaluates (1) DOD's responsiveness to legislative requirements; (2) the force structure plan, infrastructure inventory, and selection criteria; (3) other key issues included in DOD's report; and (4) DOD's certification regarding the need for an additional BRAC round.
DOD's report to Congress generally addressed all legislative reporting requirements in section 2912 of the Defense Base Realignment and Closure Act of 1990, as amended, and separately complied with requirements under Section 2913 in adopting selection criteria to guide BRAC decision making. The degree of coverage on some reporting requirements was limited to avoid prejudging the ongoing analytical process for the 2005 round. As directed, GAO analyzed DOD's worldwide installation inventory, force structure plan, and selection criteria. While all three are important in setting a framework for the BRAC process, the latter two figure prominently in guiding DOD's analyses for the 2005 round. The unclassified portion of the 20-year force structure plan, extending through 2009, provides a macro-level focus (e.g., number of Army divisions), and reflects limited changes across the military services, even though the services have initiatives under way that could affect future force structure and infrastructure requirements. Today's security environment is evolving, as are force structure requirements along with technology advancements, and defense transformation efforts. The department must consider these factors in its BRAC analyses with appropriate allowances for future uncertainties. DOD's selection criteria closely parallel criteria used in previous rounds, while incorporating the provisions required by legislation authorizing the 2005 round. The analytical sufficiency of the criteria will best be assessed through their application in the ongoing BRAC process. GAO addressed other BRAC-related issues such as excess defense infrastructure capacity and BRAC savings because of their importance to DOD's certification of need for the 2005 BRAC round. DOD's excess capacity analysis, completed for the 2004 report, has some limitations that could result in either overstating or understating excess capacity across various functional areas, and make it difficult to project a total amount of excess capacity across DOD. While the analysis gives some indications of excess capacity within the department, the issue warrants a more complete assessment in the BRAC process. That process will also consider joint base use with the potential for better identifying excess capacity. DOD's historical financial data suggest that, assuming conditions similar to those in the 1993 and 1995 rounds, each of the military departments could achieve annual net savings by 2011, as stipulated by the mandate. While the potential exists for substantial savings from the upcoming round, it is difficult to conclusively project the expected magnitude of the savings because there are too many unknowns at this time. Additionally, improvements are needed in DOD's accounting for savings after BRAC decisions are made. GAO found no basis to question DOD's certification of the need for an additional BRAC round. While clear limitations exist in DOD's assessment of excess capacity, it does point to some areas that warrant additional analysis-and the current BRAC process is an appropriate forum for doing so.
Matter for Congressional Consideration
Status: Closed - Not Implemented
Comments: Congress has not required the Department of Defense or the military services to certify that actions have been taken to implement planned improvements to track and update BRAC savings in either the fiscal year 2007 or 2008 budget submissions. Thus, we are closing the recommendation.
Matter: To ensure that the Department of Defense and the military services improve their tracking and updating of BRAC savings estimates associated with implementing closure and realignment decisions for the upcoming BRAC round, Congress may wish to consider requiring DOD and the military services to provide certification that actions have been taken to implement previously planned improvements for tracking and updating its BRAC savings estimates. This certification should be submitted with its fiscal year 2006 budget request documentation.
Recommendation for Executive Action
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: The Department of Defense's May 2005 report to the Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) identified the military department major service force units and projected end strengths needed to meet probable threats through 2025. In addition, the report noted that each military department and joint cross-service group determined the surge capacities needed to support the force structure plan, evaluated the capability of installations and facilities to surge, and incorporated these capabilities into their capacity assessments.
Recommendation: The Secretary of Defense should include in his May 2005 report on recommendations for base closures and realignments a full discussion of relevant assumptions, and allowances made for potential future force structure requirements and changes, including the potential for future surge requirements.
Agency Affected: Department of Defense
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Why an integrated system of models?
Whereas climate change is a growing concern for decision-makers, information on the impacts of climate change is often lacking or incomplete. In agriculture in particular, crop production will be affected by a combination of factors (effects of changes in temperature and precipitation regime on plant physiology, changes on growing season onset and length, CO2 fertilization effect, technological improvements, water availability for irrigation etc.) of which interactions are rather complicated. In this context, combining different models in a single modelling system offer a large number of advantages:
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Great Wall decoration. Reminds us of our stay in Tuscany.
Very nice addition to my dining room
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Over the last few years, we've had a flurry of new techniques beyond the conventional ways — tables, histograms, pie charts and bar graphs — to display data. Smashing Magazine points us to some of the most interesting modern approaches to data visualization along with related articles, resources and tools.
Have you been able to use any of these visualizations in your workplace? Please share
Many of the graphs presented in that article are quite appealing in their design and unorthodox ways of presenting data. I find most of them, however, hard to read, and I am not so sure they meet the first rule of data visulaization, i.e. clearly presenting data so that action can be taken.
I confess being influenced a lot by the likes of Edward Tufte, and especially Stephen Few. True, efficient graphs and dashboards often lack sexiness, an obvious quality of the graphs in the article. It's actually not a small problem: too many managers, and particularly in marketing, easily fall for the "good looking" stuff, and the visual intelligence business is feeding them a lot of that.
The "keep it simple and clear" principle should always be the driving force, and more so the more complex the data. It's really hard to do…
I agree completely with you, but we must keep a very important fact in mind; know your audience (Persona). Sometimes you can get a lot farther with slick than clear depending on who the data is being presented to. My personal preference is for clarity.
Those interested in search visualization could find searchCrystal – http://www.searchcrystal.com – of interest, since it lets you search and visually compare multiple engines in one place. You compare, remix and share results from web, image, video, blog, tagging, news engines as well as Flickr images or RSS feeds.
searchCrystal lets you see the big picture and find highly relevant results (the more engines that find a result and the more highly they rank it, the better the result), see the quality of the results provided (the more agreement between the engines, the higher the quality) and it can also be used for SEO (where do search engines place my site for a specific query).
I completely agree with Jacques on this one (probably because I'm also a huge Tufte and Stephen Few fan). I think we're too often seduced by style over substance. Bryan, I agree that with the importance of knowing the audience, but in addition to knowing the audience I think we should also "protect" them, so to speak. Protect them from being confused by something that looks cool but doesn't convey the message clearly.
I think the goal should be to do both — come up with a visualization that is not only clear, but also looks great in a way that is not distracting, and lets the content shine through.
I think we agree and we're all on the same page here, just wanted to add my voice to the choir
A really nice job of collecting beautiful examples, but I'm going to echo Jacques and Rian. Admittedly in the Tufte and Few camp, I find that a handful of getpivots, indirects, and an off-the-shelf sparkline utility (in grayscale no less) communicate more effectively in my organization. Less is (still) more.


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Restrictions: Not valid with other offers or discounts. Must mention at time of booking; cannot be applied to prior reservations and cannot be applied upon check-in. Must book by phone. Good only for trips departing from the Echo Canyon office; Echo Canyon does reserve trips/activities that depart from our vendor partners' offices. Only one gift card per reservation; multiple reservations will not be combined on the same raft. Subject to availability. Offer expires September 1st, 2014.
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I applied in-person – interviewed at Clearlink.Interview Details
I was hired for this position as a sales rep. My performance and education made me a candidate in the eyes of a concerned and intelligent boss and the interview was more of a conversation and discussion than a grilling. Once in a management position, opportunities were presented for additional responsibilities based off of the needs for the business rather than specific positions coming availableInterview Questions
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I applied online. The process took 4+ weeks – interviewed at Clearlink in October 2014.Interview Details
I was called by the VP of Talent Acquisition after I had sent in my resume and applied for a marketing position. She set up a date and time for an interview with her. She would call me at the appointed time. The call never came.
I called and left a message on her phone after waiting for about twenty minutes. I also sent an email asking what happened. Later that day she emailed me back saying she had mistakenly put the appointment on her calendar for the next week. We made another appointment for a few days later.
The interview was about 45 minutes, appropriate questions, and was a pleasant experience. The VP of Talent Acquisition said she would set up a phone interview with the CMO, which she did.
The CMO called at the agreed upon day and time, informed me that he was driving, that he did not have my resume in front of him, and "what position are you applying for?" The call disconnected three times during the 45 minute interview. Apparently he couldn't be bothered to take the time to interview candidates in his office or home. I believe at one point I finally knew when he reached home because I could hear him disarming his home alarm system.Interview Questions
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- Most questions had nothing to do with what was actually listed in the job description, and seemed to be pet projects or loves of the CMO. View Answer
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I applied online. The process took 4+ weeks – interviewed at Clearlink in July 2014.Interview Details
I submitted my resume online and two weeks later I received an email requesting a telephone interview. On the agreed day and time, Clearlink did not call. After emailing asking if they wanted to reschedule, another day and time was set, only to not receive a phone call, again.
Clearlink apologized profusely thru an email and set another day/time for the phone interview. This time they called. The interview was fairly basic and most of the questions were about my marketing background and the results of various marketing strategies.
Following that interview, I was told Clearlink would arrange for me speak to another senior company executive. Like the first interview, various days and times were set and no phone call was received.
When I finally did have the telephone interview, it was obvious the person was reading from a list of prepared questions and never seemed interested in what my plan would be to run the marketing department.
After that interview, I was told I would interview with a member of the executive team and I would get an email with a day/time. After one week, I sent an email asking about the status. I did not receive an answer for four days. Then I was told it was the busy season and there would be a delay, but I would get the meeting info in the next three days. After five days I sent another email. Again, no response.
Finally, after another request for a status update I was told they would talk to the executive team and get a day/time. The next day I get a generic "thank you for your time, but we've decided to pursue other candidates" email.
Overall the interview process was unprofessional. Appointments were not respected and Clearlink did not respond when they said they would.Interview Questions
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Group interview format. Two company / HR reps and small group (4-5) interviewees. Pretty casual / comfortable. Format: introductions made around the room; company / position overview provided; followed by questions thrown out to the group with expectation that all interviewees would have something to contribute.Interview Questions
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took a day – interviewed at Clearlink.Interview Details
They just asked about previous work experience and asked me to start on Monday. Not very professional and not very in-depth. My case was somewhat extraordinary though, because I showed up unannounced and they made time for me because they were hiring so aggressively at the time.Interview Questions
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks – interviewed at Clearlink in December 2013.Interview Details
Current employee gave my info to appropriate party for the position. Then HR coordinated a phone interview that lasted about a half hour to an hour on a Thursday. Set up 2nd interview for the following Monday where I met one on one with the director, then one on one with another manager, then went into another room and met with 2 fellow designers that I would be working with. Then on that Friday was offered the position.Interview Questions
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|Eduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano
3 September 1940
Montevideo, Uruguay
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|Helena Villagra
Eduardo Hughes Galeano (born 3 September 1940) is a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist. His best-known works are Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America, 1971) and Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire Trilogy, 1982–6), which have both been translated into 20 languages and transcend orthodox genres: combining journalism, political analysis, and history. The author himself has proclaimed his obsession as a writer saying, "I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia."[1]
Galeano was born in Montevideo, Uruguay.
He started his career as a journalist in the early 1960s as editor of Marcha, an influential weekly journal which had such contributors as Mario Vargas Llosa, Mario Benedetti, Manuel Maldonado Denis and Roberto Fernández Retamar. For two years he edited the daily Época and worked as editor-in-chief of the University Press. In 1962, having divorced, he remarried to Graciela Berro.
In 1973, a military coup took power in Uruguay; Galeano was imprisoned and later was forced to flee. His book Open Veins of Latin America was banned by the right-wing military government, not only in Uruguay, but also in Chile and Argentina.[2] He settled in Argentina where he founded the cultural magazine, Crisis. In 1976 he married for the third time to Helena Villagra; however, in the same year, the Videla regime took power in Argentina in a bloody military coup and his name was added to the lists of those condemned by the death squads. He fled again, this time to Spain, where he wrote his famous trilogy: Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire).
At the beginning of 1985 Galeano returned to Montevideo, where he continues to live. Following the victory of Tabaré Vázquez and the Broad Front alliance in the 2004 Uruguayan elections marking the first left-wing government in Uruguayan history Galeano wrote a piece for The Progressive titled "Where the People Voted Against Fear" in which Galeano showed support for the new government and concluded that the Uruguayan populace used "common sense" and were "tired of being cheated" by the traditional Colorado and Blanco parties.[3] Following the creation of TeleSUR, a pan-Latin American television station based in Caracas, Venezuela, in 2005 Galeano along with other left-wing intellectuals such as Tariq Ali and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel joined the network's 36 member advisory committee.[4]
In 2006, Galeano signed a petition in support of the independence of Puerto Rico from the United States of America.
On 10 February 2007, Galeano underwent a successful operation to treat lung cancer.[5] During an interview with journalist Amy Goodman following Barack Obama's election as President of the United States in November 2008, Galeano said, "The White House will be Barack Obama's house in the time coming, but this White House was built by black slaves. And I'd like, I hope, that he never, never forgets this".[6] At the 17 April 2009, opening session of the 5th Summit of the Americas held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave a copy of Galeano's Open Veins of Latin America to U.S. President Barack Obama, who was making his first diplomatic visit to the region.[7] This made the English language edition of the book go to No. 2 position and the Spanish version to No. 11 on the Amazon.com bestseller list.
In a May 2009 interview he spoke about his past and recent works, some of which deal with the relationships between freedom and slavery, and democracies and dictatorships: "not only the United States, also some European countries, have spread military dictatorships all over the world. And they feel as if they are able to teach democracy". He also talked about how and why he has changed his writing style, and his recent rise in popularity.[8]
In April 2014 Galeano gave an interview at the II Bienal Brasil do Livro e da Leitura in which he regretted some aspects of writing Las Venas Abiertas de América Latina, saying "Time has passed, I've begun to try other things, to bring myself closer to human reality in general and to political economy specifically. 'The Open Veins' tried to be a political economy book, but I simply didn't have the necessary education. I do not regret writing it, but it is a stage that I have since passed."[9] This interview was picked up by many critics of Galeano's work in which they used the statement to reinforce their own criticisms.However, in a interview with Jorge Majfud he said " The book, written ages ago, is still alive and kicking. I am simply honest enough to admit that at this point in my life the old writing style seems rather stodgy, and that it's hard for me to recognize myself in it since I now prefer to be increasingly brief and untrammeled [The] voices that have been raised against me and against The Open Veins of Latin America are seriously ill with bad faith." [10]
"Fleas dream of buying themselves a dog, and nobodies dream of escaping poverty: that, one magical day, good luck will suddenly rain down on them – will rain down in buckets. But good luck doesn't rain down, yesterday, today, tomorrow or ever. Good luck doesn't even fall in a fine drizzle, no matter how hard the nobodies summon it, even if their left hand is tickling, or if they begin the new day on their right foot, or start the new year with a change of brooms. The nobodies: nobody's children, owners of nothing. The nobodies: the no-ones, the nobodied, running like rabbits, dying through life, screwed every which way. Who are not, but could be. Who don't speak languages, but dialects. Who don't have religions, but superstitions. Who don't create art, but handicrafts. Who don't have culture, but folklore. Who are not human beings, but human resources. Who do not have faces, but arms. Who do not have names, but numbers. Who do not appear in the history of the world, but in the crime reports of the local paper. The nobodies, who are not worth the bullet that kills them."
— Eduardo Galeano, "The Nobodies"[11]
Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America) is arguably Galeano's best-known work. In this book, he analyzes the history of Latin America as a whole from the time period of European contact with the New World to contemporary Latin America arguing against the European and later U.S. economic exploitation and political dominance over the region. It was the first of his many books to be translated by Cedric Belfrage into English. It is a classic among scholars of Latin American history. The book gained popularity in the English-speaking world after the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave it as a gift to U.S. President Barack Obama.
Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire) is a three-volume narrative of the history of America, North and South. The characters are historical figures; generals, artists, revolutionaries, workers, conquerors and the conquered, who are portrayed in brief episodes which reflect the colonial history of the continent. It starts with pre-Columbian creation myths and ends in the 1980s. It highlights not only the colonial oppression that the continent underwent but particularly the long history of resistance, from individual acts of heroism to mass revolutionary movements.
Memoria del fuego is widely praised by reviewers. Galeano was compared to John Dos Passos and Gabriel García Márquez. Ronald Wright wrote in the Times Literary Supplement: "Great writers...dissolve old genres and found new ones. This trilogy by one of South America's most daring and accomplished authors is impossible to classify."
In New York Times Book Review Jay Parini praised as perhaps his most daring work The Book of Embraces (El libro de los abrazos), a collection of short, often lyrical stories presenting Galeano's views on emotion, art, politics, and values, as well as offering a scathing critique of modern capitalistic society and views on an ideal society and mindset. (The Book of Embraces was the last book Cedric Belfrage translated before he died in 1991.)
Galeano is also an avid soccer fan; in his childhood, Galeano had the dream of becoming a soccer player and this desire is the subject of some of his writings, among them Soccer in Sun and Shadow (1995), a review of the history of the game. Galeano compares it with a theater performance and with war; he criticizes its unholy alliance with global corporations but attacks leftist intellectuals who reject the game and its attraction to the broad masses for ideological reasons.
Galeano's Espejos (Mirrors) is Galeano's most expansive work since Memory of Fire. Galeano offers a broad mosaic of history told through the voices of the unseen, unheard, and forgotten. Recalling the lives of artists, writers, gods and visionaries, Galeano's makes "lore out of the mass of history and stories that make this world, and make us human." (Rick Simonson) Mirrors was published in the United States in English by Nation Books in June 2009.
Galeano is a regular contributor to The Progressive and the New Internationalist, and has also been published in the Monthly Review and The Nation.
Awards and honors[edit]
- 2006: International Human Rights Award by Global Exchange
- 2010: Stig Dagerman Prize[12][13]
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|Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World (2000, ISBN 0-8050-6375-7)
|I Am Rich Potosi: The Mountain That Eats Men photographs by Stephen Ferry, text by Ferry and Galeano
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See also[edit]
- ^ Mark your calendars...... Octopus Books
- ^ Fresh Off Worldwide Attention for Joining Obama's Book Collection, Uruguayan Author Eduardo Galeano Returns with "Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone".
- ^ Eduardo Galeano, "Where the People Voted Against Fear" January 2005 The Progressive
- ^ Alfonso Daniels, "'Chavez TV' beams into South America" 26 July 2005 The Guardian
- ^ Eduardo Galeano se recupera de operación El Universal, 11 February 2007 (Spanish)
- ^ Interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!, 5 November 2008 (video, audio, and print transcript)
- ^ The Washington Times
- ^ Audio and transcript of interview, May 2009
- ^ Sounds and Colours
- ^ The Open Veins of Eduardo Galeano, Monthly Review, 11.06.14
- ^ Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor, by Paul Farmer, University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-24326-9, pg 1
- ^ "Stig Dagermanpriset till Eduardo Galeano". sverigesradio.se (in Swedish). 12 September 2010. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
- ^ "I år går Stig Dagermanpriset till författaren Eduardo Galeano". webfinanser.com (in Swedish). 18 August 2010. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
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- Sandra Cisneros reads "Los Nadies/The Nobodies" by Eduardo Galeano from Book of Embraces, El libro de los abrazos (1989) "[1]".
- "'Voices of Time': Legendary Uruguayan Writer Eduardo Galeano on Immigration, Latin America, Iraq, Writing – and Soccer," Democracy Now! 19 May 2006
- "Reflections from Eduardo Galeano," The Leonard Lopate Show, 19 May 2006.
- "Writer Without Borders"—interview by Scott Widmer on In These Times
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- The Guardian: Chávez creates overnight bestseller with book gift to Obama
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:( Please can you help? I first noticed this last October, i started to get aching limbs, especially my arms, to the point where it aches so much to hold them up or use them This would last for a few days and then go but would return within a a couple of weeks,alongside i would feel very tiered and energyless.
I visited the doctor who could not work out what it was, however i have not had this for a few months now and it has suddenly returned!
Does anyone know waht this could be? I do have Polocystic Ovaries and Endometreosis and wondered if there is any link?
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