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New World Disorder
A World Transformed
Although the Clinton administration certainly doesn't want to admit it, 1999 will mark the eleventh year of the Bush administration—at least as far as foreign policy is concerned. Bush, James Baker, and Brent Scowcroft at first proclaimed that post-Reagan and post-cold war foreign policy would bring about, under US leadership, an alliance of the great powers of the UN Security Council to establish order and prevent aggression. But under Bush the hope of a US-led alliance started to give way to the current intermittent American effort to assume the role of international sheriff.
This was not the declared intention of the Bush administration. When Bush took power in 1989, he was eager to sweep aside much of the legacy of the Reagan years. He wanted to abandon America's obsession with a Communist takeover in Central America, downplay the delusive search for American invulnerability exemplified by Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (so-called Star Wars), reject what he saw as Reagan's foolishness in suggesting, at the Reykjavik summit, the elimination of all nuclear weapons from the earth. Above all, he wanted to deflect America's allies from embracing Mikhail Gorbachev's call for a "common European home," which was intended to exclude the United States from the continent while preserving the two systems in place in Eastern and Western Europe.1 In the first year of the administration, Bush's foreign policy was aptly labeled by his national security spokesmen as "status quo plus."
Bush, Baker, and the national security adviser, Brent Scowcroft, were cautious men in office during a decade of vast change—the collapse of the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe, the unification of Europe, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and a triumphal war in the Persian Gulf. The United States found itself for the first time in its history a dominant power without any significant threat to its security. What was good for America, it seemed, was good for the world. But the Bush administration also be-queathed to the Clinton policymakers conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and in Somalia, and in their joint account of the foreign policy of the Bush years, the President and his national secu-rity adviser, astonishingly, do not mention the US record of failure in either country.
They deal solely with the great powers—the collapse of the Soviet empire; the unification of Germany; the massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989; and the unexpectedly easy American-led victory over Iraq in the Gulf War. Even when stated in modest tones their claims are triumphalist. The reality is more clouded; the legacy more troublesome. Still, Bush, Baker, and Scowcroft avoided disaster in bringing the cold war to an end—except for their failure to deal with the conflict in Bosnia before it degenerated into mass murder. In unwittingly following Talleyrand's famous advice to foreign diplomatists, " Surtout, pas de zèle," they left America more powerful than ever before amid the ruins of the new world order they believed was in the making.
A World Transformed is surprisingly readable (which may be thanks to James McCall, who is profusely thanked in the acknowledgments for his editorial work). It takes the form of alternating commentaries by Bush and Scowcroft, with flatly presented connective material to provide background. This seems clumsy at first but the voices of the two men come through and we see how different they are. Reading Bush's contributions, especially the excerpts he gives from his diary, reminds one of the Candide-like air of naiveté of the former president, while Scowcroft presents himself as the prudent manager who more often than not has to rein in his impulsive master.
Throughout, Bush emphasizes his personal relationship with world leaders. For a self-styled realist, he fails to make the classic distinction between relations among persons and those among states, which Dean Acheson once warned was "more likely than not to be misleading if applied to the relations of one society to another." Henry Kissinger argued with Bush that establishing personal relationships with foreign leaders should not be confused with protecting national interests. As Bush writes, Kissinger "pointed out that the leader of one country is not going to change a policy because he likes another leader." But for Bush, "personal diplomacy and leadership went hand in hand."
This point of view served Gorbachev very well; until the American and Soviet leaders met in ships on the stormy waters off Malta in December 1989, Bush was wary of Gorbachev's sincerity. After that encounter, he supported Gorbachev wholeheartedly, but with little or no cash. The irony of the Bush years was the inability of the administration to find the financial means to advance its foreign policy objectives; Reagan's crushing budget deficits left Bush little room to offer support to Russian and East European reformers.
In any case, in the first two years of Bush's administration, US foreign policy was largely conceived as a response to the actions of Gorbachev and West German chancellor Helmut Kohl. The Soviet leader, anxious to save the Union by reforming socialism, consistently upstaged Bush by announcing dramatic arms cuts. For example, with no advance warning, Gorbachev, with Secretary of State James Baker at his side in Moscow, announced on May 11, 1989, a planned withdrawal of five hundred short-range nuclear warheads from Eastern Europe, even though Washington wanted to delay negotiations on nuclear forces until the issue of the overall balance of conventional forces was addressed. When Bush met with NATO secretary Manfred Wörner, on April 12, 1989, he was told by Wörner that "Gorbachev is driving history."
As Gorbachev and Kohl moved forward, following each other's wishes, Bush writes, he constantly consulted then British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and French president François Mitterrand. Thatcher hectored Bush not to give in to Kohl's plans for détente with Gorbachev, whereas Mitterrand's advice, at least as reflected in Bush's account, was consistently wise and helpful (even when the Quai d'Orsay was not). At a NATO summit in May 1989, after Bush put forward a plan for measured reduction of US and Soviet forces on the continent to a maximum of 275,000 each, Thatcher lectured Bush at dinner over German proposals to move quickly on cutting back short-range nuclear forces as well. "You're not going to give in, are you?" she said. Bush did not.
The British prime minister in her memoirs is candid in recalling her distrust of Bush and Baker. She thought Bush was sometimes "exasperated" by her habit of talking about issues nonstop, believing that he ought to have been leading the discussion. Eventually, she learned "to defer to him in conversation and not to stint the praise." More serious was her dislike of James Baker, whom she saw as primarily a political fixer and whose approach was "to put the relationship with Germany—rather than the 'special relationship' with Britain—at the centre." She also believed, with some justification, that the State Department had "swallowed" the French argument that only a "united Europe," which she opposed, could keep German power in check.2
In the meantime, while arms reductions were being discussed in Washington and Moscow, events were moving fast in Eastern Europe. Gorbachev had made it clear by June 1989 that he would not follow the Brezhnev Doctrine, which threatened Soviet intervention in Eastern Europe if the Soviet satellites should go too far in asserting their independence. By now, Poland and Hungary were moving to get rid of the vestiges of Communist rule, and Bush knew that both countries needed American economic aid to help them carry out reform and move toward a market economy. But there was painfully little money available, and Bush's Treasury Department was reluctant to provide cash before the reforms were in place.
By late summer the Hungarians had opened the frontier with Austria and "vacationing" East Germans saw an opportunity to slip across the border to that country and then travel by train to the Federal Republic. When thousands did so, it became clear that a historical turning point was at hand. If the East German regime collapsed, that would mean a very real possibility of German reunification—which no government in the West expected, or much wanted. At Bush's vacation retreat in Maine, in May 1989, Mitterrand had told Bush, "As long as the Soviet Union is strong, [reunification] will never happen."
On November 9, 1989, however, the Berlin Wall fell. Keeping in mind a possible Soviet crackdown, Bush was cautious at expressing too much elation over the breach in the Iron Curtain. Asked by a reporter his reaction to the opening of the Wall, Bush said, "I am not an emotional kind of guy." "Well," said the reporter, "how elated are you?" "I'm very pleased," Bush said evenly. That kind of remark did not make Bush sound like a forceful leader, but Gorbachev was warning him not to react in a triumphant way. Bush kept insisting in his diary that reunification was "a matter for the German people." And that was certainly how Kohl—and even Mitterrand—saw it.
At the December summit meeting of Bush and Gorbachev at Malta, Gorbachev outlined a comprehensive geopolitical view of the world's future. He hoped for a five-power global balance among an integrated Europe, a strong Japan and China, and the Soviet Union and the United States. Gorbachev also proposed, in effect, a new era of Soviet-American cooperation—one that would go far beyond the détente of the Nixon-Brezhnev years—when he suggested that both NATO and the Warsaw Pact should have more of a political than a military character. The Malta summit prefigured an understanding on the evolution of Eastern Europe and the two Germanies. Although Gorbachev was not ready to endorse German reunification, or—the unthinkable—the incorporation of a united Germany in NATO, it was clear from the meeting that the United States would neither oppose German unification nor speak openly to encourage it.
The Malta summit was less successful when it came to the future of the Baltic states. Bush was fearful, he writes, that the Soviets would use force to prevent Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia from trying to becoming independent; Gorbachev was equally fearful that Baltic independence could lead to the further dissolution of the Soviet Union. During the next few months the pressures for independence, especially from Lithuania, impeded Bush, because of domestic political pressures, from seeking aid for the Soviets.
All the Eastern European nations, including Romania, then seized the moment to free themselves from the Soviet Union's imperial control, but, as Scowcroft admits, the Bush administration's Eastern European policy had not been "among the catalysts of the changes." Short of armed Soviet intervention, however, there was little that could halt the pace of events. What might have affected the character of political change over the longer run, on the other hand, was the shortage of American funds for economic aid. Scowcroft acknowledges that had the US been able to provide the reformers with the means to demonstrate to their people that these new changes would improve the material conditions of their lives,
See Robert L. Hutchings, American Diplomacy and the End of the Cold War: An Insider's Account of US Policy in Europe, 1989-1992 (Woodrow Wilson Center Press/Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), pp. 10-11.↩
Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years (HarperCollins, 1993), p. 783.↩


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{Perfect One-Dish Dinners} Mini Parmesan Muffins with Prosciutto and BasilMonday, October 25, 2010
Thanks to my husband's lovely work schedule, we rarely sit down to enjoy a meal together since he's usually at work whenever I return home from the office. Sundays on the other hand, is the one day of the week when we get to spend the entire morning, afternoon and evening together. We love looking forward to this day of the week because we always have something exciting and fun planned.
Recently, we had the cutest and sweetest couple over for a Sunday dinner and I really wanted to make something extra special. Included in my swag bag from the Big Summer Potluck was Pam Anderson's new cookbook, Perfect One-Dish Dinners: All You Need for Easy Get-Togethers.
This cookbook, filled with mouth-watering recipes and photos, is one of the most unique cookbooks I have in my very large collection. Pam Anderson makes cooking for get-togethers a breeze by providing the main entrée recipe, as well as an appetizer, salad, dessert and even a suggested beverage pairing for the entire meal. Another great feature of the cookbook is that the recipes are broken down into easy-to-follow steps. As Ree Drummond perfectly stated, "Pam makes you feel like you can cook anything, and with her help -- you can!"
Leading up to the dinner, I swear I flipped through the book at least once every night for about a week. I would flip through page after page trying to determine what would be the perfect dish...the only problem was that they were all perfect dishes. After about the tenth time of flipping through the book, I noticed that I kept stopping at the recipe for Coq au Vin Blanc. The photo was so beautiful and the dish looked absolutely delicious. After hearing rave reviews on the dish from other BSPers who prepared the recipe since receiving the book, I knew I had to make this for our dinner guests.
The Coq au Vin Blanc with Spring Vegetables was a French chicken stew that was light and incredibly fast to prepare. The combination of chicken, artichokes, white wine, new potatoes, pearl onions, mushrooms and prosciutto resulted in an intense flavor that kept all of us going back for more. Pam included the perfect shortcuts that made this dish easy to prepare all while making the end result taste out-of-this-world amazing.
To accompany the main entree, I also prepared these Cheddar and Parsley Biscuits, a goat cheese and beet salad and a delicious dessert which was Pecan Pie Sundaes, another favorite of mine from Pam Anderson's book. As Pam stated, they "have all the lusciousness of pecan pie -- without all the baking time and effort."
After testing two recipes from the book, I immediately realized that I had to have this book handy at all times when it comes to planning a menu for a get-together...or even just a simple Sunday dinner...or any night of the week for the matter.
Here's a sneak peek at a delicious appetizer recipe from Pam Anderson's book that I recently prepared to accompany a hearty chili. These muffins are perfect to serve in mini-size if you're looking for a simple appetizer. They're also perfect to prepare in regular-size to serve in place of a roll, especially if you're serving a soup, chili or stew this time of year.
Mini Parmesan Muffins with Prosciutto and Basil
- 3 cups bleached all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup finely grated Parmesan cheese (about 3 ounces)
- 1/2 cup minced prosciutto (about 2 ounces)
- 1 tablespoon dried basil
- 1 1/4 sticks (10 tablespoons) unsalted butter, softened
- 2 teaspoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 2 large eggs
- 1 1/2 cups plain low-fat yogurt
- Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and heat oven to 450 degrees.
- Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, Parmesan cheese, prosciutto and basil in a medium bowl.
- Beat butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy.
- Whisk mustard and eggs together, then beat into butter mixture until it forms pea-size lumps.
- Add dry ingredients and yogurt into the butter mixture, alternating between dry ingredients and yogurt one third at a time. Beat until smooth.
- Spray four 12-cup mini muffin tins with vegetable oil-spray (I used a regular size muffin tin and buttered the tin instead of using the spray).
- Divide batter evenly among muffin cups.
- Bake until golden brown, about 12 minutes.
- Cook pans on a wire rack, remove muffins and continue to cool or serve.
*Disclosure: This is not a sponsored post. I was given a copy of Pam Anderson's cookbook as a parting gift after the Big Summer Potluck.
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YUMMY! Loving all of Pam's recipes today!ReplyDelete
Great recipe! I am loving Pam's latest book!ReplyDelete
Thank you for participating, Jen! You done these muffins proud :) They look so good. Glad you are enjoying the book.ReplyDelete
These recipes are killing me today!! I have got to get that book.ReplyDelete
Jen, what a delicious photo!!! I have made these since the BSP as well, I am a sucker for biscuits and these do not disappoint!!ReplyDelete
I second you on the perfectness of Pam's newest book!
Just found your blog. Beautiful pictures and recipes. Yummy for the muffins, what a wonderful combination!ReplyDelete
Stunning photos! The savory muffins sound so good!ReplyDelete
These look amazing! I love Pam's book!!ReplyDelete
Prosciutto & Basil, swoon! These muffins look incredible! They are on my list {who am I kidding everything in the book is on my list ; )}ReplyDelete
Mmmmmm, beautiful! AND I can smell them from here...nicely done! Pam is one smart lady.ReplyDelete
I agree! I tested a few recipes just to have one to write about but loved them all... and now I have more I want to try. I guess it's a keeper.ReplyDelete
So beautiful! I love all the flavors in this recipe. I can't wait to give it a try. I'll just add it to my mile long list of recipes to try...Pam's book is killing me!ReplyDelete
I can't resist anything with Parmesan, prosciutto and basil! LOVE these muffins!ReplyDelete
These sound and look like the perfect compliment to a nice dinner. And so much better than the standard dinner roll.ReplyDelete
This may need to be the next recipe to go gluten-free. The flavors are calling to me.ReplyDelete
I could eat these for breakfast. And for lunch. And for a snack. And for dinner. And for another snack...ReplyDelete
Bread, parmesan...sold!! That little muffins is just begging to be eaten. Gorgeous darlin'!!ReplyDelete
Jen, great looking muffins. I need to go bookmark that page in Pam's book.ReplyDelete
I keep getting drawn back to the coq au vin as well. It's time to make it. These muffins are amazing!ReplyDelete
I have seen so many great eats from this book over the last few weeks and I think this one is my favorite. I could easily devour 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of these beauties at once.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 15, 2010 at 1:30 PM
Can these be made a day or two ahead? Are they best at room temp or reheated?ReplyDelete

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I am going to need some time to adjust to the fact my weight loss is going to take longer than I want it to.
On reflection it took me three years to pack on the emotional weight, and I maintained it plus or minus 25 pounds for an additional three.
So....I wish Sparkpeople had a half pound a week goal to make my loss more in tandem with reality. The more I learn about biology and the body's desire to hold onto every calorie, especially for those of us with long term obesity and/or being older....the more I recognize it's not willpower in many ways. It's freakin BIOLOGY. Can't fight nature on this no matter how fast I want to lose or how 'good' or 'bad' I am.
In fact- I'm ridding myself of the entire good and bad. No food is good or bad. I am neither good nor bad.
But I know when I learn something, I do know when I'm consciously NOT learning from my mistakes or intentionally disregarding what I know in my heart and/or intellect to be true.
I will be patient and loving. But I won't ignore facts anymore. Denial...you're fired.
I had a cheese quesadilla at Denny's thinking- oh, it's appetizer sized, probably better than a full breakfast, when going out this AM with friends and landing there for coffee talk.
That teeny tiny two dollar menu thing?
Holy cannoli. That is HORRIBLE. I had NO IDEA there was that much fat in there....it really seemed like an impossibly small amount of cheese.
Wow. Color me educated. I'm going to stick with a plate of fruit next time. JEEZ.
Lesson learned. That's the nice thing about learning self love and patience....I don't know these things sometimes. I'll make mistakes. Sometimes I make mistakes KNOWING they are a mistake.
But what I want to do DIFFERENT THIS TIME is LEARN FROM THE MISTAKES. Not ignore their lesson.
So I'm going to love when I can tell you the next time I went to Dennys I had the fruit plate. :) And was happy with it.
690 calories.
Holy moly.
Those I have known who have successfully lost and kept weight off all have the same key in common: They changed how they lived, and how they relate to food, permanently. They weren't perfect at it, and in most cases it took well over a year or two to transform themselves.
I also read recently that the only way you can avoid the horrible metabolism slowdown when losing a lot of weight is to lose it SO SLOWLY YOUR BODY DOES NOT NOTICE. This makes sense biologically to me. And I have seen it time and again- both in myself and in others. When the weight comes out fast- as in 20 or more pounds in a year...the weight creeps back on in the following two years unless the person (or me) continues to eat the same low number of calories I/they did when losing weight. This is unsustainable.
So...Wow. I need to give myself A LONG TIME to lose this weight...as in, 20 pounds a year is a rational goal. SH#$balls. This means it will concievablly take me well into next summer to get out of the 200 club, and another two and a half years to get to my healthy BMI...so we're talking this process, if I want to optimize its permanency, is going to take me into..hmm...2016-2017.
Wow. Well lets compare. It took me 4 years to sprout from 185 to my max of 245 between 2005-2008. Went down at divorce time to 230 in 2008-9, stayed in the 220s/230s from 2009-2010. Lost 25 pounds in 2011 (all in 8 months on Jenny Craig), and gained it all back by year end 2012.
So...in sum I've been over 200 pounds for SEVEN YEARS. My body has had SEVEN YEARS to factor in this extra weight, consider it necessary for surival, and compensate. If I lose it all fast I'll repeat what happened before- went way down in 2011, then sprang back up in 2012.
I WANT TO PREPARE FOR SUCCESS. And this is going to require frickin' patience and GRADUAL change. WITHOUT QUITTING.
So here is what I commit to TODAY...and THROUGH 2013, to support A REALISTIC GOAL. I cannot lose fast. I can challenge myself, but I have to look at the BIOLOGICAL REALITY MY BODY DOES NOT WANT ME TO LOSE WEIGHT. Because doing so puts it into a natural defense state of wanting to hang onto every calorie for the next famine. Our bodies are protective that way.
1. 8 glasses of water a day (purpose: overall health and wellbeing)
2. No diet drinks (purpose: eliminate the negative impact of aspartame...for me this includes fat retention, sweet cravings, headaches, and general dis-ease)
3. BREAKFAST EVERY MORNING ... as in, within an hour of waking, even if it's just a protein bar on the go (purpose: metabolism booster, overall health)
4. GROCERY SHOPPING WEEKLY (purpose: full stock of veg, fruit, and healthy options to take on the road to support.....
5. NO FAST FOOD DRIVE THRU ANYMORE. (purpose: crux of calorie/fat bombs from 2007-present that made me gain and retain these 200 Club numbers the last seven years).
6. LOG MY FOOD AND LEARN. I target 1500-1650 net calories a day. Sometimes under, sometimes over, but the way I can learn is by logging.
I have GOT to get on the stick and introduce LIFESTYLE CHANGE that includes regular physical exercise. I ran with my dog when he was younger. He got older, I got fatter, we got slower, and that pattern of aerobics was lost. And I have NEVER EVER had a strength training program.
It is really hard for me right now to commit to a physical exercise lifestyle change. I have not yet committed. I still struggle with days on end of sitting on my arse. Even though I know it's exactly what I need to do. But I'm always coming up with some excuse...and when I do manage to get a few good weeks in, the first emotional upset gets me back into my no-exercise-just-mope mode.
So..I have 6 Nutritional Commitments above...and I have no doubt in my ability to achieve them. What is going to be 7....something small but regular, something I can do daily and automatically, something just to break the ice....another sparker commented on a 10 minute a day video challenge here. I think I'll check it out. I can't rely on my old standby 'walk my dog every day' anymore. At his advanced age and health problems, on some days he has a tough time just making it up and down the stairs. That kills me emotionally, which makes me just sit and home and pet him....I have to change my standby to match reality.
When I am ready to make that exercise commitment as surely as I've made the 7 above, I will make it. I'm being a stubborn heiny about it right now so I'm not listing anything. But when I do, there's no takebacks. So I'll get there...maybe start by trying that 10 minute thing. Or attempting another round of gym swimming....I really do enjoy it but my mind can play any number of tricks on me between my couch and my car keys and I end up not going.
So..I do commit to these, repeating them again so I commit them to memory. These are changes that WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE RIGHT NOW. So progress...focusing on the positive...
1. WATER- and lots of it. 8 glasses a day.
5. NO FAST FOOD (yucko)
Yup. I can do that. I can definitely do that.
It took a full week to recover from the emotional whirlwind of knowing my 13 year old dog and best friend has kidney disease. We lost our walking time together (he also had a minor local surgery which put in on rest and in The Cone of Shame for a week), and coming to terms with the fact my time with him is short took its toll.
I'm still emotional but starting two days ago I began to come out of the morass and take good self care. We got to go for a 1.6 mile walk yesterday, and although I cannot take him out, I'm about to go swimming after writing this post before I hit my Saturday night regular hangout with friends (which, thankfully does not revolve around food).
My home is filled back up wtih fruit, vegetables, low fat dairy, and fresh drinking water. I have had three days in a row of healthy breakfasts and today I started back up on the No Fast Food thing.
I learned something today from a health article. Having just 1 Triple Whopper Meal a week will result in a 30 pound gain in a YEAR! Now, granted I didn't eat triple whoppers...BUT, I was eating fast food dinners (full fat/full size things, yes with Diet Coke...but still...aspartame is AWFUL for weight loss and health so it may well have been full sugar stuff) at least 3-5 times a week so there you go- I covered the calories. If I simply eliminate all fast food from my diet for a year....that alone could result in a 15 pound loss (cutting it in half as I'm still sure a good dinner will have half the calories of what I ate at fast food).
So even with no other changes, I'm on the right path.
...I started logging my food again and had a successful food target- got enough water, ate a low fat healthy breakfast, small healthy meals throughout the day. I did break my fast food ban though...but it wasn't a complete disaster. I got a mcdonalds cheeseburger happy meal- that's a 100 calorie wee fry package! and it came with apples. Had I not been back on track that trip would have been a big mac large fry and a filet o fish chaser...so I'm glad it didn't devolve into that. Still disappointed in my choice. But it is what it is.
Tomorrow I'll be able to take my dog for a real walk and keep the cone off of him. He will be much happier as will I.
I know my next move is to integrate more exercise into my day. I really sloughed off this past week even though exercise would have been precisely the kind of stress relief agent that could have helped.
Why do I protest at doing the one healthy thing I know makes me feel BETTER? Why do I turn into a slug in emotional upheaval? Still working on that one....


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Saturday, May 19, 2012
Blessy - M∆N¥W∆¥Z•EP
Some of the most interesting releases of 2012 thus far have been "scraps" albums: bits and pieces rescued from the depths of producers' bogged down hard drives, uploaded and shared with the world rather than permanently sent to binary oblivion (e.g. Ta-ku's Dusty series and Boombaptist's Lost Files, among others).
Today it's time for the Palermo protagonist Blessy to enter into the mix this fine May weekend with his M∆N¥W∆¥Z•EP, brief but tasty little morsel of hidden goodness that seeks to venture out from cyberspace and find its own little corner of your HDD, free of charge.
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The first track, it's starts off sounding like something completely different and transforms into something I didn't think it would be! Very awesome stuff.ReplyDelete
Nice to have new things to listen to. I swear, I'm going to become an expert! ;-)... (yeah, right!)ReplyDelete
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Walgreens To Expand Solar Energy Installations To More Than 200 Stores
Walgreens (NYSE: WAG) (Nasdaq: WAG), the nation's largest drugstore chain, together with Chicago-based solar developer SoCore Energy, today said they will build more than 200 new solar installations at Walgreens drugstores throughout California, Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York. This latest expansion will bring the number of completed solar installations at Walgreens stores to more than 350, making the company the leading retailer in number of solar powered stores.
"We are committed to reducing our carbon footprint and leading the retail industry in use of green technology," said Thomas Connolly, Walgreens vice president of facilities development. "Because we operate more than 8,000 stores, we believe our implementation of sustainable energy technology can have a significant positive impact on the nation's environment while also creating jobs."
The upcoming rollout will produce an estimated 13.5 million kilowatt hours annually, the equivalent of offsetting the CO2 emissions from the electricity use of more than 1,400 homes for one year. Included in the rollout is the Walgreens net-zero energy, LEED Platinum store in Evanston, Ill., which will feature more than 850 roof-top solar panels.
Walgreens will host the solar arrays, and SoCore Energy will own, operate, and maintain them. This model has proven to be successful for the two Illinois-based companies since 2011, when the two collaborated on a 53-store rollout across the state of Ohio."SoCore is proud to be developing one of the most important and sizeable distributed solar platforms ever constructed in the United States," said President and CEO of SoCore Energy Pete Kadens. "We love working with companies that strive to be leaders, and after we are done here, Walgreens will have more solar locations than any other company in the US. This is a remarkable accomplishment for both Walgreens and the team at SoCore." "I commend Walgreens and SoCore on this innovative partnership and the strong commitment shown by these two Chicago companies to renewable energy," said Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. "These companies are demonstrating what we in Chicago know to be true – that environmentally friendly business is good business and that there are real economic opportunities associated with the new technologies and advances that are associated with the greening of our cities."
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Full Video of The Independent Institutes 25th Anniversary Gala for Liberty
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Full Video of The Independent Institutes 2011 25th Anniversary Gala for Liberty held November 15, 2011.
Part 1: Introductory Remarks and Tribute to Robert Higgs
Part 2: Tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa
Part 3: History of The Independent Institute and Fund for the Future
Part 4: Tribute to Lech Walesa
Part 5: Special Tributes, Sponsors, and Credits
Experts: Leszek Balcerowicz, Price V. Fishback, Robert Higgs, Ron Paul, Jorge Quiroga, David J. Theroux, Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, Mario Vargas Llosa, Lech Wałęsa, Yuri Yarim-AgaevType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Business, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Defense and Foreign Policy, Democracy, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Government Power, History (International), History (U.S), Latin America, Nationalism, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Politics, Privatization, Property Rights, Terrorism and National Crises
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I used to use the regular K-pak shampoo and loved it, so I was hoping the color therapy version would be as good. And it is. My hair is fine, naturally wavy and frizzy, and I recently had it coloured (semi-permanent). This shampoo is very rich and creamy, it lathers beautifully and leaves my hair feeling nice. I have a tricky scalp which reacts badly to many shampoos (e.g. just about everything by Kerastase, most drugstore shampoos) it may be I have a touch of seb derm or scalp psoriasis; however this shampoo does not aggravate it at all. A little goes a long way, you don't need to use much at all. Excellent product.
This shampoo is the bomb!! Cleans my hair without drying it. Smells like plants??? Really earthy. I use this in conjunction with the color therapy conditioner. Definitely would repurchase!
This might be the best shampoo I have ever tried. EVER. And I've tried a lot of shampoos. :)
My hair is really fine and thin with waves/curls. My hair also gets oily really fast, I guess 24 hours after last shower, which means I wash my hair every day. This stuff doesn't make my hair greasy faster than usual, which is a big plus for me. It lathers really well and it's cleansing my hair 100%. My hair is dyed black and brown with highlights, and this stuff makes my hair colour glow and shine. It doesn't wash out my hair colour. Love it!
The smell is a bit strong but I got used to it (after using sweet scented shampoos for years haha) and I really like it now. The conditioner is really good aswell.. Will buy this stuff over and over again, probably forever, it's amazing. :)
I really wanted to love this product, but I found it to be just okay. Joico makes my HG shampoo (Moisture Recovery) but I was curious to try their K-Pak Color Therapy just to see if I'd like it as much. Turns out I don't.
It's a perfectly fine shampoo that lathers up nicely, rinses out cleanly, has a lovely scent. But it leaves my hair a tad dry. Not quite as easily manageable and when I use Joico's MR. Also, my hair color actually seems to have faded since I switched over to this shampoo, which I wasn't expecting at all.
When it comes to shampoo, I feel like you don't need to spend a ton of money unless it's for a product that delivers really excellent results. I don't think this one does. This is better than most drugstore shampoos and yet I don't love it enough to buy it again.
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I've tried almost everything on the market and I always find myself going back to Joico. I have never had such healthy hair using anything else. My hair is shoulder-length, highlighted, and naturally curly (frequent drying and straightening). I alternate the K-Pak Color Therapy shampoo & conditioner with the Moisture Recovery shampoo & conditioner. I won't ever make the mistake of buying anything else again!
This is the only shampoo and conditioner I use on my hair - it's so worth it.
I have dual-process salon colored hair - red highlights and "my brunette but better" - this shampoo keeps the color vibrant and gorgeous, and keeps my fine but thick, straight hair under control. No greasiness or issues with manageability, either.
My husband uses this, too (since it's in the same shower, lol) and he says it's great - not drying to his scalp and a little goes a long way.
Ok, so i hadn't really given salon shampoos a shot. I tried them here n there but didn't find anything too special about them. I figured that drug store shampoo and conditioner worked just as well. Well, I found a new favorite. I tried the Joico K-Pak Color Therapy shamp/cond. and loved them. My hair feels so clean and the 'feel' seems to last a couple of days. My hair feels lightweight but well conditioned. I will definitely keep buying.
I have been using this for a week now and my previously bleached wavy hair is so much softer and not as frizzy. I bought this since it was on sale so cheap; a liter of this from ULTA for $15.99! Luckily I only bought one set (shampoo and conditioner) since after reading the reviews here on MUA about these bottles going bad after 8 months due to the breakdown of the proteins. After I finish these bottles if there is another sale at ULTA I will definitely repurchase since I love the smell, the way my hair feels clean, and the high lathering properties of this shampoo which are the most important qualities I look for in a shampoo.
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When I first tried this shampoo I was disappointed and put it away at the back of my vanity. I decided to give it another go because I just really couldn't believe it wasn't any good.
I put my glasses on and read the tiny print on the back of the bottle which said " Apply to wet hair and lather. Rinse. REPEAT."
Maybe that's what I had been doing wrong, only shampooing once. I didn't think that could be it because my hair was dry and frizzy, so washing it twice made no sense. But I thought I would use exactly as directed and see what would happen.
Well, believe it or not it made a huge difference to shampoo twice and then use the matching conditioner. My hair was beautifully soft and manageable. I only used a little curl cream on ends of hair and that was it. Perfect.
So if you have this shampoo and it didn't quite perform as would have liked, try washing with it twice. It made a huge difference on my frizzy hair.
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Thankfully I only bought this shampoo in a sample size, along with the conditioner and treatment oil. My hair is a bit dry from colouring but not very bad. This shampoo did no better than a bottle of 2 euro shampoo from the supermarket. It was alright but definitely does not justify the price. For the price of this stuff I would expect to get a 'wow' result, it only gives a 'meh'. Will not be buying the full size bottle. If only I could find somewhere that sells Colet products, best shampoo ever but I can't find it any more.
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I'm one of the slowest open water swimmers that I know. I want to get faster. For many reasons. I want to maximize my travel distance in open water, be home faster for my wife, and to just be able to compete a bit in open water swims, as well as triathlons.
This article, called "Developing World Class Open Water Swim Mechanics", gave me the following to work on:
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2. Balance: Balance is an issues if I can't swim 50 yards, pretty easily, without using my legs.
3. Missed catch: Make sure that you actually have a catch.
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When Kevin Kennelly attended White Sox games, he always paid close attention to relief pitchers warming up in the team's bullpen.
Kevin, 17, was a relief pitcher for the Mount Carmel High School baseball team. He learned the nuances of pitching by watching professional pitchers prepare to enter a game.
"Our season-tickets seats are in Row 2 on the aisle, immediately beside the White Sox bullpen. He used to love watching the pitchers warm up from those seats. It gave him a lot of perspective on the pitcher's motion," said Loretta Kennelly, Kevin's aunt.
Kevin died July 6 of blunt force trauma to the head two days after he was involved in a fight on a beach in Indiana. A Chicago man has been charged with involuntary manslaughter, aggravated battery and battery in Kevin's death, police said.
Kevin's classmates, friends and family will gather at U.S Cellular Field Aug. 16 to remember him and raise money for the scholarship fund created in his memory.
The While Sox play the Cleveland Indians. The game begins at 7:10 p.m. Tickets are $40.
"We really wanted to do this for the kids before they went back to school," Loretta Kennelly said. "It's tough to do so soon (after Kevin's death), but the community has been so incredible."
The Kennelly family have not decided on the specific details of the scholarship, but funds will benefit students from Mount Carmel and St. Barnabas schools, Loretta Kennelly said.
"We're still formulating exactly what it's going to be," she said.
The family also is selling T-shirts that resemble Kevin's Mount Carmel baseball jersey. The suggested donation for a T-shirt is $20.
Requests for T-shirts have come from Mount Carmel alumni across the country, including Hawaii, Loretta Kennelly said.
For information or to buy tickets or T-shirts, contact Loretta Kennelly at (773) 881-8237 or Meg Kennelly Carr at (773) 677-7187.
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Over the past two decades a digital juggernaut has run through the cultural landscape, leaving the old analog ruling class trampled in its wake. In the 1980s word processors took the place of typewriters, and CDs replaced LP records. In the 1990s personal computers took over offices, even home offices, and e-mail all but relegated letter writing to history. Television went digital too—in theory, at least—as the Federal Communications Commission rolled out a timetable for the conversion of U.S. television to digital by 2006. Most people still watch analog TV, but there seems to be little doubt that it will soon go the way of the typewriter and the LP.
More surprising than the pertinacity of sixty-year-old television technology a decade after the development of digital TV is the endurance of film photography. Converting the country to digital television requires a multibillion-dollar effort on the part of broadcasters, manufacturers, and viewers, roughly simultaneously. Digital cameras, though, have flooded the market, work beautifully, and pay for themselves, because you no longer have to keep buying film and getting it developed. Many people wanting to make the switch have been waiting until the resolution offered by digital cameras is equal to that of film. This year, if it hadn't already, the digital greyhound finally caught the rabbit.
Digital images, like other computer files, are simply information. The more information your camera captures, the better the resolution you get. Resolution is measured in pixels—"picture elements," the tiny dots that make up any digital image—or, usually, megapixels (millions of pixels). This year the major digital-camera manufacturers brought out consumer models that cost less than $1,000 and produce images of roughly four megapixels—more precisely, from 3.3 to 4.2. "Three-point-three megapixels basically means you can print out a good eight-by-ten photo," David Brommer, a digital specialist at B&H Photo Video, in New York City, told me. "But how many people print eight-by-tens, even with film? Most people print for their album; for that, as well as for e-mailing photos or uploading to Web pages, a three-hundred-dollar two-megapixel camera is great."
Indeed, digital cameras allow you to do much more than fill a photo album. You can send photos over the Internet; post them on Web pages; give "slide" shows on a computer, a TV set, or a digital projector; and use your computer to incorporate photos into greeting cards (printed or e-mailed) and other documents. Many models now also allow you to make short video clips, which add a remarkably pleasing touch to a slide show.
The Nikon Coolpix 995, the Olympus C-3040Z, and the Canon PowerShot G2 are among the top four-megapixel cameras costing $800 to $900, according to Brommer. Each features a liquid-crystal display for immediate viewing of photos, a zoom lens, a fairly wide aperture range, high ISO speeds, and shutter speeds up to at least 1/800 of a second. For less money there are many two-to-three-megapixel cameras to choose from. For analyses and comparisons of digital cameras, see dpreview.com, consumersearch.com, or consumerreports.org.
When I visited Studio Two, a graphic-design business in Lenox, Massachusetts, I saw what six megapixels can do. Kevin Sprague, a co-founder of Studio Two, converted to digital two years ago, when Nikon came out with the D1, a $5,000 three-megapixel professional single-lens-reflex camera that looks and operates very much like Nikon's popular F series of regular SLR cameras, and even uses the same line of lenses. Now Sprague shoots with the D1X, the D1's six-megapixel successor. A Coriolanus poster for the theater group Shakespeare & Company; a shot of Rolf Smedvig playing his trumpet in a summer garden for a CD cover; a lineup of whiskey bottles for a restaurant ad: you could never guess the digital origin of Studio Two's work.
"Students learning photography today should buy digital cameras and never look back," Sprague told me. "By the time they're out of school, no one will be shooting film commercially." Richard J. Linke, a professor of art at Skidmore College, went ahead and converted the school's entire photography studio to digital two years ago. "I thought it would be irresponsible not to," he told me recently. "I had to decide whether to retire an old fogy or learn the way of the future, and it's been a real, revolutionary thrill."
Many experts, however, told me they didn't think the average consumer was ready for digital. "I don't think I'd recommend a digital camera for the soccer mom," Brommer said. "If you like to make prints and put them in an album, at this point you're better off buying a roll of film, getting it developed, and you have your four-by-sixes." Sprague said, "My wife complains when I bring my D1 on family trips. She knows she'll never see the pictures. They're all here on my hard drive in the office."
I was surprised to hear such objections. Nudged into the twenty-first century by a holiday gift, I have been shooting exclusively digitally since January of 2000. And though I am far from a computer maven, and pack only 2.5 megapixels, I have found digital photography to be a great boon. I'm guessing it will soon become as vital a parenting tool as the VCR.
For those who want prints to paste into an album, Epson offers the Stylus Photo 785EPX ink-jet printer ($249), which can print high-quality 4x6 photos directly from most cameras' storage disks, without even using a computer. Other such printers are sure to follow. But I prefer to present my photos in slide shows on my computer or by e-mail. My shots already look far more impressive on my twenty-one-inch screen than they do on paper, and they'll look even better as computer monitors grow larger and flatter and eventually merge with digital TV. Albums of 4x6s will come more and more to look like relics of a bygone age.
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The Hollywood Reporter held its first ever documentary directors roundtable which included Alex Gibney ("The Armstrong Lie"), Errol Morris ("The Unknown Known"), Morgan Neville ("20 Feet From Stardom"), Teller (" Tim's Vermeer"), James Toback ("Seduced and Abandoned"), and Lucy Walker ("The Crash Re...Read More »
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Their season ticket sales have more than doubled over last season to about 11,000, a dramatic increase in a city still recovering from Hurricane Katrina.
Tuesday will be the 20th anniversary since the team debuted in the NBA as the Charlotte Hornets, marking the city's entrance into major league sports. Then, owner George Shinn was considered a hero for overcoming long odds to land the franchise .
Now, Shinn says the team would likely still be in Charlotte had he acted differently when his personal life became the center of a controversy that engulfed the once-beloved team, leading to a move to New Orleans in 2002.
"If you embrace the city, the city will embrace you," Shinn told the Observer in an interview. "It happened in Charlotte.
"I had my issues there. One of the biggest mistakes I made, and this is hindsight, I quit. I was so humiliated and taken back by the bad judgment I made in my life… I was so embarrassed."
The New Orleans Hornets will visit the Charlotte Bobcats Friday in Time Warner Cable Arena, their only game here this season. Shinn has not attended a Bobcats game in Charlotte and is not expected to attend Friday night.
After being hugely popular in Charlotte when the Hornets came into existence, so popular he was approached to run for governor, Shinn fell out of favor a decade later after being sued in a sexual assault case.
A jury rejected the sexual assault claim in December 1999, but he admitted in court to having two sexual relationships outside his marriage. The trial was broadcast nationwide on Court TV and drew some of the cable network's highest ratings at the time. Shinn later divorced and has since remarried.
The fallout from the sexual assault issue was immense, and Shinn withdrew from the public.
"I had been making speeches all over, and I never charged a dime. I quit doing it. I quit talking to the press. It was the stupidest thing I could have done," Shinn said.
"People (in Charlotte) love basketball … Had I wised up early and gotten out in the community like now, we'd probably still be there."
When Charlotte-area voters rejected a new arena proposal, Shinn and former ownership partner Ray Wooldridge moved the team to New Orleans. Wooldridge sold his stake in the franchise several years ago.
There were questions about whether New Orleans had the economic foundation to support an NBA franchise. The challenge was made more difficult after Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the city and forced the Hornets to play two seasons in Oklahoma City.
Shinn said he expected the move to Oklahoma City would force him to sell the franchise and he was "devastated."
Instead, the Hornets were a hit in Oklahoma City. After two years away, the Hornets returned to New Orleans amid serious questions as to whether the franchise could survive in a region largely destroyed by storm.
"When it came time to leave (Oklahoma City) and come back here, I was getting all kind of criticism. One story somebody referred to me as being stupid. I've been called worse," Shinn said.
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"The majority of my people didn't want to come back here. They'd read about certain areas of the city that didn't have power. The roads were horrible. There was crime. There was the issue of education. Nobody wanted to come back."
It is not certain whether the NBA would have allowed Shinn to keep the Hornets in Oklahoma City had he sought to do so. The Seattle franchise ultimately moved to Oklahoma City.
"We prayed about this thing and decided we have to do what's right," Shinn said. "I'm 67 now. I've made some mistakes in my life, and I understand that. The fact I had a better chance to make money in Oklahoma was not what I needed. I needed to do what was right. What's right was to help this city. I have a home here. We knew how this city was suffering.
"I'd attend functions. People were depressed. They were tearing down their own city. It had to stop."
Shinn said he makes regular public speaking appearances around New Orleans, offering encouragement for the area. In a region traditionally tied to the NFL's New Orleans Saints, Shinn said he's been gratified to see the number of Hornets' flags now decorating the area's homes and businesses.
"I've made enough mistakes in my life. I'm not going to make one here. This city needs us here. We're going to make this (New Orleans) thing work."
Shinn said the spirit reminds him of Charlotte during the team's early years, calling the franchise's early days "incredible."
Aware of the Bobcats' struggles now in Charlotte, he said he doesn't know enough about the situation to offer advice.
"I would hope that things will work," Shinn said. "It's a great market, a great community."
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NEW YORK ( The Deal) -- U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly set Nov. 25 as the date to begin the trial over the Department of Justice's challenge to U.S. Airways' (LCC) acquisition of American Airlines.
The November date is a victory for the airlines, which said the DOJ's request to start the trial on March 3 would needlessly delay resolution of their merger plans and the related bankruptcy reorganization of American's parent, AMR (AAMRQ).
Kollar-Kotelly sided with the air carriers. "March 3, I think, is too far off. It needs to be a tighter, expedited schedule," she said during a court hearing Friday, Aug. 30, over the upcoming trial's schedule.
The Justice Department said it needed until March to prepare adequately for the case, while the airlines said it would put unwarranted strain on them to hold their deal together until March. The Justice Department filed its lawsuit to block the deal on Aug. 13. The $11 billion merger would create the world's biggest air carrier.In a joint statement the airlines praised Kollar-Kotelly's decision. "We are confident in our case and eager to get to court. We are pleased to have a trial date that will enable us to resolve this litigation in a reasonable timeframe." The airlines had asked for a Nov. 12 start date, so trial will start two weeks later than their request. The Justice Department took the judge's decision in stride. "We appreciate the court's careful consideration of the scheduling issues and will be ready to present our case on Nov. 25," DOJ spokesman Peter Carr said. The hearing also took up the issue of the scope of depositions Kollar-Kotelly will allow. Mark Ryan, director of litigation for the Justice Department, said the DOJ's lawyers will focus on four major areas in their search for information about the deal's impact on air travelers: integration of routes, marketing to corporate customers, pricing transparency and whether American could stand alone after emerging from bankruptcy court protection. Richard Parker, the O'Melveny & Myers LLP partner leading the airlines' litigation team, asked Kollar-Kotelly to reduce the number of depositions, witnesses and submissions from what the DOJ is seeking "This case is not that complicated," Parker said.
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