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July 1, 2010
Greg Baxter: A Preparation for Death
Here, out of a Jiffy bag sent on spec, is one of the best books I've read this year. I'm coming out and saying that at the top because I fear that otherwise, people might drift away from reading a long review of a book they don't know by an author nobody's heard of. I almost ignored it myself, this being one of those books that arrive unsolicited, few of which appeal and hardly any of which I finish. But something made me sample the preface, and once I did, I knew I was trapped until the end.
A Preparation for Death is a memoir of a few years in Greg Baxter's life: let's say the mid-2000s, though it's hard to follow the chronology precisely, and anyway he swoops back into previous generations now and then. It's an account of the years that led to and from the breakdown of his marriage and the breakdown of his ambition to be a novelist; when "no thought I had was quiet. Everything was a military march."
Baxter, living in Ireland, came there from his US birthplace, and is of Austrian descent. The book doubles as a travelogue of his life and times: the ancestral homeland, the new hope:
No city in the world transforms in rain like Dublin. In the sunshine it is hard-edged and ugly and rank. In the rain it softens like a sponge, swelling, and all the open spaces narrow.
He teaches literature to make ends meet as an unpublished writer. "I come home and write for nobody, for an audience of zero." He is deteriorating physically ("my face had turned a shade or two greyer – I looked like a jar of old rainwater") and is self-lacerating about his own compromises.
But I am like anyone else – fear and apprehension rule many of my hours. And addiction to the dispensable. Because it is more agreeable to be in bondage to the superficial, and have a thing or two in common with the man sitting beside you on the bus – whose acts are repetitions, whose memories are souvenirs, whose entertainment is palatable – than to become incomprehensible.
So: Baxter takes himself seriously. But if he doesn't, who will? He is not at pains to come across as affable, and as a result I liked him all the more. Or do I mean I liked his book all the more? This is a book with no About the Author page; the entire book is about the author. One might say that that is true of any book, and that Baxter is just more honest about it.
Honesty is one of the book's selling points, according to the blurb, and it's true that nobody would invent some of the things Baxter admits to thinking. But what impresses most is the concrete prose, the defining solidity of almost everything he says: no ambiguity here, no fine writing, just aesthetic delight throughout at what he says and how he says it, which borders on physical pleasure.
My former housemate Elísabet – who is something of a sensation in her country, and only dates men half her age – writes very beautifully about sex because she is not afraid of what people will think. She says an orgasm is like a hand that reaches up inside her, grasps her by the spine, and shakes her like a rattle, an inch away from the death of one self and the rebirth of another. I have no capacity to write beautifully about sex. Often I am battling through the swamp of a dozen pints, the smoke of twenty cigarettes, and no sleep for days. The exercise is nauseating, and I feel like the young Orwell working in a small, hot, Paris kitchen.
Well, he may not write beautifully about sex, but he writes a lot about it. "I often feel one drink away," Baxter says, "from whatever makes a dog hump women's legs." More often still he seems to be no drinks away, and seems to have the knack of finding women who want to let him hump their legs, and plenty more besides. There is – you can view this as come-on or turn-off as you will – a good deal of explicit sex between these covers.
What really drives Baxter, however, is the self-love of language and literature. He has a novelist's touch for the deft pen portrait ("She walked two miles a day with a fat dog that couldn't keep up with her") and has no qualms about splicing in other writers to no loss of effect. "I used to measure my writing by its charisma – such was the way in which at that time I loved my fellow-man; according to the standards of other men [Augustine] – but now I measure it by its character." A Preparation for Death reports on Baxter's struggles to match his own high ideals. "All the books I admire are ogres – flawed, imbalanced, savage. They enhance me. Everything else reduces me." He names names – Maupassant, Kafka, Schulz, Cioran, Bunin, Mansfield, Kharms, and on, and on – and reminds us that "whatever society degrades, a genius ennobles; whatever society embraces, a genius obliterates. It makes my heart clamour now just to think of them." What reader cannot identify with that? (As I was writing this post, flicking back through the book for relevant passages, my own heart swelled and thrilled plenty.)
Baxter's conscience is tortured, but his prose is clear. "I spent many years trying to interpret existence, when I ought to have been squandering it." Now he is trying to intepret it again, he runs up against the same wall as every writer who ever tried hard enough. How to reduce to writing those ineffable moments, the sharing of which in language is the writer's simple, but impossible, ambition?
By the time you have named it, you have forgotten it. The imposition of a word is the act of forgetting. A man who wishes to transfer his experience to the page might as well try to throw a typewriter at the moon.
A Preparation for Death is an account of the frustrations and consolations of literature. In struggling to do it justice, or at least explain its seduction (how it had its easy way with me, as I blushed and giggled like a teenager), I am reduced to impersonating Martin Amis on Saul Bellow, and just quoting paragraph after paragraph.
There are too many days in the week. Too many weeks in the year. Too much space to fill. I would like to have lived for an afternoon only, born at the age of twenty, dead eight hours later, experienced life, all by myself, in a corner apartment with a high view of a busy junction, an ambulance route, a metro entrance, the back of a restaurant, warring neighbours in the corridors, a broken television, an empty bookshelf, and learned only sensitivity, because I would have missed nothing, gained the same experience of life, and would not have grown so addicted to existence that the thought of not existing gives me indigestion and bad dreams.
This passionate ambivalence is all through the book, yet we keep getting trills of warning toward the end that it all might be altering forever. Baxter, we learn, is to become a father. That is why, on the penultimate page, "I plan to separate the self that I shall leave here from the self that will return: to cast the author of this book into a condition of permanent aimlessness," for fear that otherwise "he will forget the perfection of inexistence. He will grow out of the despair that he worships." This is the only indication we get of the tsunamic changes parenthood painfully brings. This is not a book about redemption or epiphany. There is light at the end, but it is still around a corner. The book is not about a triumph from disaster; the book is the triumph.
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Not to mention ****** **** and *** ******.
I'll order one too.
I think I may have spelt it wrong, actually.
A great review John. It's curious that I can agree with or recognise everything you say and yet have had a very different experience reading the book myself. I'll publish my thoughts on the blog next week but I basically found the intense focus on himself to be rather suffocating. Just the repetition of the word 'I' began to grate after a while, a bit like being forced to listen to someone you don't like very much talk about themselves all night. When the book opened out slightly and involved other people I became more interested and I found him more bearable nearer the end too. I didn't get as much from the writing as you did, a failure on my part I'm sure, which I acknowledge in my review. I certainly don't regret reading it though.
Great review, John – yet another book (and author) I might never have discovered if it weren't for your blog. I'll definitely have to pick this one up at some point.
I received a copy of this unsolicited, too, and put it in the probably-won't-read-this pile. I think I will extract it now. Thanks for the great review.
I am going to sell a copy to Roland.
Very thorough review.
But love of language is self-love?
I keep putting off writing a review of this book. I read it a month or so ago and really didn't like it, because I found the main character just too self-indulgent, even obnoxious. The book is written reasonably well, but for me it lacked any message and was completely charmless. I didn't find Baxter's conscience tortured either! Tortured perhaps in the manner of a guilt dilettante who likes to feel his badness without doing anything about it. Sorry – I don't mean to go on, and am fascinated by your review which as a similar discussion on Pechorin's journal suggests – we all read the same book differently. Incidentally I have just read Tim Park's book which I thought was rather good – but tortured in a different way!
When I read this quote:
Because it is more agreeable to be in bondage to the superficial, and have a thing or two in common with the man sitting beside you on the bus – whose acts are repetitions, whose memories are souvenirs, whose entertainment is palatable – than to become incomprehensible.
it was like being thumped very hard in the chest. I felt both the relief and depression of recognition.
I will have to read this book (and the Slinkachu-esque cover is superb).
Roland wasn't convinced. He's not buying.
I'll consider myself very lucky if I ever find a copy of this book. Thanks, John, for this amazing review, which I must say is a triumph as well.
John – thanks for your response. I don't know why that book causes such a reaction in my – possibly over-reaction. Yes, had it been classed as fiction it may have helped a little, but I do feel that we have something of the "unreliable narrator" here anyway. I am not so bothered about the lack of message as such, just this one was a little too nihilistic, even self-indulgent for my taste. As I said, possibly I am over-reacting, and nothing I have written should be taken as detracting from your excellent review.
The cover of Baxter's book is laden with imagery, and I wonder what it all means. Who get's things like these and arranges them in such a fashion and places them on the cover of an Author's first published work? You don't exactly find them knocking around the average house.
In it, a small plastic man in a work outfit and cap is washing what he thinks is a window. Do we have to Guess if Zeus has been toppled, or is it just a watch on a desk. And what about the ladder? The tale of Jacob's Ladder is a central theme, signaling mans assent to the Godhead, by virtue of reason, and is understood to be a futile attempt by some. Still there are others who wish to put man, in place of God. The process of "liberation" of man, according to them, is a lengthy one that cannot be considered in context of what we would call time. It is a work of eternity – hence the saying "There is no time". Does the fallen clock allude to this? The film also comes to mind; dark images of demon's, women contorting, snakes travelling through them, an enigmatic, eccentric postman's dream as he prepares for death.
And what of the plastic blue man? He looks like a communist revolutionary, except the uniform is blue. He has red hair, which is strange for a figurine. The Gael is the traditional copper-top, so could he be Irish? The significance of a Gael in a workman's blue suit seems timely considering the revolution underway, their passing of a European Constitution with no reference to a spiritual heritage anywhere in its pages. Has Ireland been Sovietized without the populace even being aware of it? Could it be otherwise? We have Garrets granddaughters proudly leading the way of progress under the banner of 'Generation Yes!'.
The worker lives in a world of giants, oblivious of his predicament, the significance of his actions or the scene he acts out. Blue reminds me of the European Soviet, which signifies the death of Old Europe and Ireland as a distinct nation. The 'Beast of Rome' has been finally caged and his seminaries dried up like prunes never to secret their poison again. Great Work Lemass, nice one bro. Had you told your armed comrades that this was your dream you would have been gutted on the spot. Three cheers for Professor Laffan; wipe away your crocodile tears for us – the show is over. We await the dawn.
Is Baxter aware of the import of these symbols, whatever they may mean? Could it be a mocking symbol of the Irish, that they work for their own destruction? Who knows, stage directors don't talk. We should appreciate art for what it is.
The bucket? I have no clue. Don't window washers generally use them? The leather desk? Is it the desk of a managing director who knows the design when the profane don't? What is in the background, top left? Is it a camera for a computer? – can't be sure.
Whatever of my references to the philosophical roots of moral relativism embodied in our new country, the reality is that we are now 'legally' citizens of an entity superior and antecedent to Irish citizenship, achieved by fraud. Such portents are normally glossed over as inconsequential. Look at our new shiny identity. At last all European's are one happy family. It is telling that it costs €2 billion a year to try to convince them of this, an expense Coca Cola would choke on.
What is certain, is that the pieces mean something, and that something is not explained in words and neither is the photographer's intention. However the photographer is French. The 21st century is the century of moral relativistic hegemony and what some call "enlightenment". The French modernists are particularly hostile to Europe's spiritual foundations. They despise religion with such a passion that cannot be fathomed by an impartial witness. If he chose a red haired man, for an Irish book, and is a moral relativist, could it be a gesture of mockery?
Does Baxter thinks of such things or is he used to swell the ranks of literary revolutionaries, unaware of what he lends his talents and energies to. Who chose the title? The overall impression I get is of a Great Work of world materialism.
The world republic, neo-Platonism on steroids, seems underpinned by the principles of relativity and equality which has been described before. It is not out of place to discuss religion with reference to Baxter. His work is pregnant with it, but in my view without an historical context barring Milton. An Irish man once described it in this way:
"Yet too great stress cannot be laid on the words of Pope Bennidict XV concerning the present day movement for a World-Republic. Unwary Catholics may be made the instruments of schemes of which they have no suspicion, and the success of which they would view with horror when too late". In his Motu Proprio "Bonum Sane" July 25th 1920, on occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration, by Pius IX, of St Joseph as patron of the Universal Church, Pope Bennidict XV, after having spoken of "Naturalism, that awful pest of our epoch" went on to say "The advent of a Universal Republic, which is longed for by all the worst elements of disorder, and confidently expected by them, is an idea now ripe for execution. From this Republic, based on principles of absolute equality and community of possessions, would be banished all national distinctions, nor in it would the authority of the father over his children, or of the public power over its citizens, or of God over human society, be any longer acknowledged. If these ideas are put into practice, there will inevitably follow a reign of unheard of terror. Already, even now, a large portion of Europe is going through that doleful experience and we see that it is sought to extend that awful state of affairs to other regions". Lenin wrote in No.40 of the Russian organ, the Social Democrat, in 1915:"The United States of the World (and not only of Europe), that is the State formula of the union…until the day when the complete victory of communism will bring about the definite disappearance of every state, even purely democratic". To proclaim that to follow Lenin's principles is to work for the independence of Ireland is in reality a flagrant attempt to deceive innocent people. Lenin was consciously working, not for the independence of Ireland, but for the disappearance of Ireland as an independent state".
It's not until the frenetic liberal equality agitators are put to the wall and shot or dragged off to the camps by those they called ideological brothers, that their quills run dry. This is now a standard occurrence in every revolution since the French one.
The concept of time as an irrelevance comes strongly through the cover design and the book itself. Alexander Kojeve, the marxist economic planner and primary author of the modern pan-european socialist union 'project', of which we are enmeshed, was a Hegelian adherent. In his masterpiece, "An introduction to the reading of Hegel" he discusses in "A note on eternity, time and concept" the difference between the Platonic belief that "eternity can only be outside time", whereas Aristotle, "discovers eternity in time". The duality of the concept of time is its importance and irrelevance. Baxter had nothing but contempt for his time yet was driven by its relevance to him. If time truly meant nothing to him the author would likely never have written a book.
Baxter says, "I used to measure my writing by its charisma -"Such was the way in which at that time I loved my fellow-men, according to the standards of other men" [Augustine] – but now I judge it by its character". (P132).
Baxter is struggling, fighting, raging – "If literature is a street brawl between the courageous and the banal – that's the way I teach it, anyway – I bring the toughest gang I know: the pure killers, the insane.". How far away from this imagery the cover picture's sentiment appears. There is a sense of oppressive futility in it, of a grand design operating beyond the conceptualization of our Irish window cleaner.
What is most striking in Hegelian materialism is not just its dialectic, but its eventual denial of transcendence. Getting there drove Hegel bonkers, and I am still wondering if he ever recovered. The onslaught of materialism on the human soul, the symbiosis of masters and slaves, eventually reaches a zero point where time appears to stop and eternity begins. Time becomes irrelevant. In today's progressive world, all of the seasons appear to blur, the holidays and festivals of old, devoid of colour or meaning, the great soup of materialism darkening men's hearts. The Christmas tree lights no longer come down from the streets, their messages lost, acts of charity become obscene and embarrassing, the truth a dangerous lie.
It is not surprising that Baxter uses the Bible as a point and counter point. Treading the path, one inevitably comes up to the bars to rattle the cage.
Baxter mentions Augustine a few times. Augustine's eventual conversion and his mothers delight may be different to Baxter's experience. The question of what God was doing before he made heaven and earth in Augustine's "Confessions" finds a parallel in both the cover, the subsequent initiation, the book proper and its meaning. Is Baxter preparing revolutionaries in his seminary?
Baxter also writes a book of "Confessions". Augustine was an intellectually convinced Christian but was prevented from accepting the faith by weakness in dealing with sexual desire. After his conversion, time is explored in Book XI:
"O Lord, since you are outside time in eternity,
are you aware of the things that I tell you?
Or do you see in time the things that occur in it?
If you see them, why do I lay this lengthy record before you?
Certainly it is not through me that you hear these things.
But by setting them down I fire my own heart,
and the hearts of my readers with love of you, so that we all may ask:
Can any praise be worthy of the Lords majesty?
I have said before, and I shall say again,
that I write this book for love of your love."
Satan is a conscious figure in Baxter's life, and this to me is his bravest act, his most honest admission. His brutal honesty climaxes in the culmination of the chapter. He proscribes the symbolism of "the indomitable victory Christ over sin and death" coming through his own victory unscathed, the ensuing eulogy suiting crowning the chapter's end:
"Since I see no bliss in heaven, let me live in hell,
and eat ash out of a tree like that which grows in Paradise,
and writhe my jaw on soot and cinder. Grant me strength and daring,
that amongst men the adversarial in me is most conspicuous;
make fire blaze from my shoulders; urge me to the middle of the fight,
where most men are struggling, and I shall writhe a little,
and in that writhing, discover." (130)
Baxter and Augustine appear on similar paths, akin to travelling through Dublin airport, as you glance through bullet proof glass from your moving platform at a man's face who moves in the opposite direction. Your glance is of recognition of the journey, you both move, it is relatively the same thing you are doing, the destination being the determining factor.
Baxter and Augustine confess, both desire to inspire their readers, both desire indomitable will's of steel for the task, both are willing to fight, to suffer, both praise the majesty of their confessor, both request assistance.
The imagery of the book cover suggests the Creator lives outside of time, he has cast off his watch, created only for the Plastic Paddy for him to believe he is doing something worthwhile. Will Paddy attempt the ladder, will he circumvent time only to find another reality?
Augustine was a devotee of Manichee, yet converted. Is Baxter a modern day equivalent, as his opening quotation suggests. Yet if no conversion, what are we to make of his next work? Would it get published?
"What sit we then projecting peace and war? War hath determined us…" (122).
I met a man outside a pub once. He seemed confounded by what I had casually said about the world economy. He asked me my age. I said 36. I was asked by his giggling companion to ask him his age, as if this was some sort of game. It all seemed rather pointless to me, then. It still does.
To rave about Baxter's obvious ability to write, his witticism, his punchy change of pace, the base and the banal in sequence, raising and lowering the passions, the chaotic chronology, the Biblical climacteric chapter, followed by the reptilian slide to the end through Walters degenerative illness, would seem to me to miss the point about his life and the story he is telling of it. He covers more ground than Holden. The pain and the reaction reverberate in similar tones.
Many of us all have talents, desires, admirable qualities, base lust. I am sure Jack the Ripper was a good surgeon at one time. He just decided to become an artist.
I was in the Royal Hibernian Academy only recently, looking for a work a 69yr old bar buddy of mine had done, just to see if he was full if shit. I was pleased to see he was not and was impressed by his talent, although I never told him so. There was another work in the gallery that grabbed me. The female artist has pasted the pages of a book called 'The History of Philosophy' or something like that, into a glass frame. The pages started at the top left and moved chronologically to the bottom right. The pages had been burnt with little singe holes, progressively becoming more numerous as time advances, blotting out the words as they approached modern times. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle stood out clearly. There was a monstrous jump in time to the 15th Century, the trail of Philosophy being picked up then until today. It signified to me the degeneration of thought over time coupled with the disappearance of the page altogether by the time we reached our modern era. Buried within this message there was a gap of 1500 years or so, as if man had been on a philosophical holiday, only to revitalize after the reformation. The 'Dark Ages', I hear it called today.
"Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." Isaiah 5:20
I wonder how far into Time Baxter will go and if that journey will influence his next work. Will Time give up its secrets to Greg?
Darragh: crikey bob, man! Did you by any chance have an extra helping of Ready Brek this morning? I salute you!
Cheers Lee. For all of Baxters claims not to be interested in Politics, not one of them ultimately rings true. All books are political, because politics is just ethics in action. Ethics are based on philosophy and that on religion. Baxter mixes into his work philosophy, ethics and religion, but claims retreat from politics. He perspective is a by product of political and ethical history. His book lays bare what he has learnt about his life to date.
The cover I found interesting and reflective of the book. But my comments, while lenghty, possibly obscure, are only so in inverse proportion to the rather banal, fence walking, navel gazing, torpid comments I have read so far. I find that dissatisfying.
Did you find an ethical, moral or philosophical context to the book, or no? If so, I would be interested to read what they are, not comments on my comments. Put aside Baxters writing ability for a moment. Is he saying anything about life? I would think that a persons interpretation of life informs and shapes his abilities as a writer as much as his skill in rheoric. I dont acknowledge that annullment.
And no, just a greasy fry in Dun Laoghaire.
[…] John Self Few books this year have had me launch into such trills of praise as Greg Baxter's A Preparation for Death. It is a vigorous, painful, bright-eyed wonder. Not everyone agrees: Will Rycroft found it […]
[…] to say: 'I am not a man. I am dynamite'?") . . . Speaking of Baxter's book, John Self offers it a great deal of thoughtful praise, and he's giving away five copies on his blog (you can sign up for the drawing until Saturday […]
[…] memoir published with Penguin Ireland. Here's an interview with the Irish Times about it and praise for it […]
As it was part of the deal in winning A Preparation for Death, I've returned with my opinion, and I enjoyed the book, of which I've written here: http://descriptedlines.com/a-preparation-for-death. And I quote myself (!), "But I have always admired those who rip their guts out as a spectacle in elegant language." Thanks again John for hosting the contest!
Thanks for the compliments John, I'm honored! I've been an admirer of your well-thought and written book reviews for awhile. About my site, I'm extremely lucky to have a web-designer boyfriend–it's almost like cheating!
[…] Greg Baxter: A Preparation for Death I like to think this book would have impressed and delighted me just as much even if I hadn't approached it with no expectations. I think it probably would have, not least because it understands and articulates that in the world "it is more agreeable to be in bondage to the superficial […] than to become imcomprehensible," and is also aware of its own – of every piece of writing's – fatal limitations. "A man who wishes to transfer his experience to the page might as well try to throw a typewriter at the moon." […]
[…] Baxter's book A Preparation for Death was one of my reading highlights of last year. It's just been released in what it pleases me […]
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[…] Greg Baxter: A Preparation for Death I like to think this book would have impressed and delighted me just as much even if I hadn't approached it with no expectations. I believe it probably would have, not least because it understands and articulates that in the world "it is more agreeable to be in bondage to the superficial […] than to become imcomprehensible," and is also aware of its own – of every piece of writing's – fatal limitations. "A man who wishes to transfer his experience to the page might as well try to throw a typewriter at the moon." […]


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This morning Facebook officially announced Facebook Live, a new service that provides deeper insight into what's taking place behind the company. While Facebook has already used the service for a number of things, including the recent Facebook technology talk, the service is being announced today by America Ferrera, the actress in the new movie "The Dry Land". The service is simply a way for users of Facebook to interact with Facebook employees and guests in real-time.
According to Facebook, the service will be used mostly for the following occasions:
- When special guests stop by Facebook, you can interact with them and experience the excitement
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Sri Lankan transparency -- akin to flying in zero visibility
(This is an article I submitted to a Sri Lankan E-publication, The Sri Lanka Guardian)
A recent report in the Sri Lankan press about the favouritism shown to Namal Rajapakse speaks volumes on the arrogance of the ruling regime and the fawning kowtowing of the Law College authorities. As a member of Sri Lanka's first family it was incumbent on Namal to show Sri Lanka and the world at large that he was prepared to 'play the game'; to get through his daily and personal life without any advantages being granted to him due to his being the son of the President. Instead, he accepted a private room in which to sit his exam, he was allowed to retain his mobile phone and he even had internet access. Will it come as a surprise to anyone if he passes with honours?
The excuse given by the authorities of the Law College was that the examination hall was full and this in turn raised several questions. Why did they allow the hall to be overbooked in the first place? They are ultimate authority when it comes to the examinations, how could they provide fewer seats than were needed? Do they not have a list of all the students taking the exam? I cannot believe this to be the case so, how could they justify putting Namal in a private room? Surely he was not the only student to be inconvenienced by the overcrowding? And to maintain at least an air of transparency, why was he not accompanied by an invigilator to ensure that he did not cheat?
Cheat? That is a terrible word and one that casts aspersions on the young man himself. However, Namal Rajapakse, the authorities of the Law College and President Rajapakse have all conspired to cast aspersions on the young man. With the current degree of transparency shown by the government in general and the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission in particular, whose commissioners have never explained the newspaper reports that ordinary people were chased away from testifying by police officers stationed outside the hall where the hearings were taking place, did the President honestly think that no questions would be raised concerning Namal's exam.
More recently questions have been raised about the President granting single tender contracts to the Chinese and as usual no explanations have been forthcoming.
It is indeed simply arrogance that allows the Rajapakse regime to ignore the doubts and concerns raised by the citizens of Sri Lanka and the international community. Might makes right, it ensures sycophantic followers who are only concerned with lining their own pockets and it also ensures that anyone that dares to raise his or her doubts in public are ostracized and intimidated to the point where they have to go into hiding, like the young student who raised the issue of the examination papers being revealed days before the exam was to be held. Instead of acting sensibly on the accusation all that happened was the student was threatened to withdraw his complaint and shut up.
People going through their daily lives in Sri Lanka have to be able to see where they are going. Airline pilots are trained to fly in zero visibility but only at great and terrible risk to themselves and their passengers. The citizens of Sri Lanka have a right to question the actions of their government, the government has a duty to address these concerns, and they have no right to put up a smokescreen that forces people to fly in zero visibility.


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I love fall cleaning. In the springtime I just want to be in the yard.
- September 20, 2010 at 1:03 PM
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WHEN do we get to see more?????
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I want to see more you silly girl!
But they sure look lovely from the tiny peak you are allowing us.
I don't love to clean. In fact, I am supposed to be doing it right now, so I can get back to sewing. Sigh.....
I had better get back to cleaning so I can sew.
I hope your designs do fabulously well at Market!!!
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I'm more inspired to clean in the Fall...it feels like spring cleaning is required, which makes me NOT want to do it :P Those fabrics look great! I really like the top one.
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I'm anxious for the Big Reveal. I know it is going to be very pretty indeed.
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And here's video of comedienne Wanda Sykes performing at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
And here's video of comedienne Wanda Sykes performing at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
Wanda KILLED.
Was that supposed to be funny? The absolute hatred displayed by the far left once again is laughed off.
God Bless America and the double standard in politics.
I totally agree with you, Capitalist. That event, nor any other event, should be subjected to that bile.
Cap and Berry I just called a wahmbulance for you, they should be there soon.
Rush Limbaugh, Racist.
"Hugo, Cesar — whatever. A Chavez is a Chavez. We've always had problems with them. " — (26 March 2004)
"Imagine if a comedian "joked" that Obama was a terrorist who was guilty of treason and should be tortured and allowed to die. There would justifiably be an outcry.
But when the "joke" comes from a liberal, Obama-supporting comedienne and the target is a right-winger then the likes of Hilary Rosen and Donna Brazile are on CNN saying it's just comedy and Limbaugh is "fair game"."
Floydianslip, it is obvious that Rush Limbaugh owns you. If anyone ever wished death upon you messiah in Barack Obama you would have a heart attack and urge for the person to be executed.
Both the Pres. and Wanda had some good standup.
Dick Cheney was a most dangerous vp..an evil man in many ways.
Obama's line that Cheney could not attend because he is writing his book titled, "How to shoot friends and interrogate people" was good, but soft.
Wanda's line was very good, and uses humor to get to Cheney's inner evil: "I tell my children if two cars pass, and one has Cheney in it, and one has a stranger, get in the stranger's car."
Rush Limbaugh is a dangerous charlaton. He needs to be brought down. Obama's line to Michael Steele, GOP RNC chair, that "Rush is not a toxic asset" was good, but also too soft.
Wanda's lines re Rush were good, funny, and zeroed in on El Rushmo's absurdity and dangerousness…"Rush was really the 20th 10/11 terrorist highjacker, but he missed his flight because he was strung out on octodontin (sp)" and "Rush wants the Pres. and the country to fail. We should hope that Rush's kidneys fail"
When Joe McCarthy went after the Army, Pres. Ike decided he had to brought down. Ike used his hidden-hand strategy to force the Senate to censure Ol' Joe. Ike's fingerprints could not be found on McCarthy's political corpse.
Obama should do the same with Rush.
I can't recall the last time I saw a politically correct stand-up comedy routine. Would have been a different story if Sykes was, let's say, a member of Obama's cabinet.
Great stuff!! ….. Only offended the offensive, perfect aim Wanda!!
What's really laughable is the reaction of those on the left. Wanda Sykes is a entertainer and is sometimes very funny. Like all comedians who stretch the envelope, every now and then she goes a little too far. Nothing unusual, really not a big deal.
Unfortunately, the zealots on the left don't seem able to recognize Rush Limbaugh as an entertainer, whose particular sthick is politics. He can often be very insightful, but like anyone else who strives to stretch the envelope, he sometimes goes too far. The part the Left has so much trouble with is that, when he does it, it's not unusual, nor really a big deal either, unless and until they blow it up into a big deal, which plays right into his entertainer's hands.
Suggesting, "Rush Limbaugh is a dangerous charlaton. He needs to be brought down", is a perfect example of how ridiculous some on the left can get themselves all worked up about the musings of an entertainer. Is, "We should hope that Rush's kidneys fail", the thoughts of a civil or rational mind?
Ms Sykes comment about the "20th hijacker" simply wasn't that good a joke, and referencing his past personal problems with pain killers, was a gratuitus "cheap shot" to get a laugh to salvage it. Not a really big deal, but not something a good comic would need to resort to.
In a country where religious zealots condemn entire cities and states to Hell for not following THEIR particular word of God – and where people of different races, religions and sexual orientations are still being beaten and killed on the streets out of intolerance and ignorance – this is hardly a big deal.
It's comedy, folks. In the last administration, had they been able to find a conservative with a sense of humor AND the ability to deliver a punchline, you can bet there would have been some nasty things said about the left.
Everyone just needs to put on their big boy pants and move on.
Now Albert, I agree that attributing to Rush such importance to call him dangerous and a target to take down is ridiculous.
However, if I am not mistaken, I believe Mr Limbaugh is expecting your phone call apologizing for referring to him as an entertainer…
Esxcuse me Kingstonian, but exactly where in what country are you talking about, "where religious zealots condemn entire cities and states to Hell for not following THEIR particular word of God – and where people of different races, religions and sexual orientations are still being beaten and killed on the streets out of intolerance and ignorance", or could that place be just a figment of an overworked imagination?


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You think you've got me figured out
and that is something i highly doubt.
You think you know who I really am.
You think I have some type of plan.
Everything I do, I do to make you proud
but it seems that you dont care
No matter how much i shout out loud.
All the time you peg me
as some ridiculed slut.
What is it you want from me?
because my mind is stuck in a rut.
I try to be perfect the way you want me to be
and i never really can be myself, me.
I know i havent been always been
the best person to know
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Im not trying to be someone else
I dont want to change what I am
I am the lone book on the shelf
Never changing is my real plan.
I only want to make you proud
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Ko zimba rese iro varume nderei in an impoverished country? Africa Africa you never cease to amaze me
Ko kungotuma maunemployed youths to pull her out anoswera atiza ega.
Same like Mugabe with those two state properties he is not even using them.
Unladylike for one who is supposed to have been a First lady
Hey Azeb Mesfin, who do you think you are? Please move out of the presidential palace or else!
Jimalo mukadzi uyu was a former rebel fighter, saka arikuita zvechirabhera. Arikutoita zveginyabvu, kuto dirikuda kuona anondtokonya, Chimu War Vet saka lady like behaviour doesn't exist in her vocabularly. Arikutoda zvedhudhu kikikiki.
Your husbands died, the parties over GET OUT NOW.
Agree with u. Mai T. maybe in future those who intend to occupy high offices should have their future spouses vetted for suitability to be called ' first ladies' or 'first gentlemen' nekuti zvimwe zvinozonyadzisa nyika...or that it should be made a requirement to groom such people on how to conduct themselves with diginity, gait and deportment....including oh the very office holders...the problem with this our system is that it does not always guarrantee that the best person with the best qualities get into public office...vamwe they just get there coz they have courage to bulldoze others or that they do have the gift to speak loudly pamabhawa or are vicuous hwindis as we have seen lately...l think the system and procedures for qualification to public offices should be revisited sooner than later..nekuti zvimwe zvaakungoregrerwa zvichipinda muma public office haaaaa zvakaoma..tinosvikepi hazvina kusiyana nevamwe vatinoona pano paforum who just say and write what should be unprintable stuff abusing other pple..zvaiitwa kumombe back in the villages...very uncouth and they ve not outgrown such stuff...
The line between government and party should always be defined. We have the same situation in Zim where Matibili refused the PM to move into the house across from state house. Reason, Matibili has some of his things stored there. For a country which is virtually bankrupt, millions are splashed to built the PM a new house which is now mired in corruption allegations.
The security forces should move in and evict this Ethiopian ex first lady. It is interesting that there is also some problem between Mtharika's kids and the surviving wife. Politics, African style.
Where is the Army?
Just shoot her and get over it.........
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The following account of the skirmish at Las Quasimas, Cuba appeared in Tarrytown New York's Tarrytown Argus on Saturday, July 2, 1898. The account refers to the trail crossroads at which the skirmish occurred as "La Quasina."
The initial skirmish of Colonel [Leonard] Wood's Rough Riders and the troops of the 1st and 10th Regular Cavalry, which will be known in history as the fight of La Quasina, did not end in the slaughter of the Americans. This was not due to any miscalculation in the plans of the Spaniards, for as perfect an ambuscadeas was ever formed in the brain of the Apache Indian was prepared, and Colonel Wood and Lieutenant Colonel [Theodore] Roosevelt and their men walked squarely into it.
For an hour and a half, they held their ground under a near perfect storm of bullets from the front and the sides, and then Colonel Wood, to the right, and Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt to the left, led a charge which turned the tide of battle and sent the enemy flying over the hills toward Santiago.
One dusky warrior of the 10th Cavalry, with a ragged wound in his thigh, coolly knelt behind a rock, loading and firing, and when told by one of his comrades that he was wounded, said: "Oh, that's all right. That's been there for some time!"
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NEW ORLEANS, September 30, 2012—Week 3 of the 2012 NFL season is now in the books.
The replacement referees have been replaced, and the regular referees returned to a standing ovation that will not last long.
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The point spreads are in and included in the link about the replacement refs.
Here are the Week 4 games liveblogged throughout the day and recapped until all of them are done.
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A massive Arizona wildfire spread over 400,000 acres of land, including a portion of the Coronado National Forest. The fire destroyed 29 homes, and at one point, 10, 000 people were evacuated from the area.
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After lying dormant for more than 50 years, Chile's Puyehue volcano erupted in June. Thick ash covered homes and this restaurant. Thousands of residents were evacuated.
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Hurricane Irene's powerful 85-mph winds cause major damage in the Caribbean and on the East Coast, including North Carolina, where several roads were completely washed away, stranding travelers.
A 7.1 magnitude earthquake wreaks havoc in Van, Turkey on October 30, 2011. More than 600 people were killed and at least 11,232 buildings sustained some damage. On November 9, a 5.7 magnitude earthquake hits Van again, causing 40 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
Tropical Storm Lee hits the US Gulf Coast on September 1, 2011, causing major storms and heavy rainfall in south Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and the Florida panhandle. Rains caused significant flooding and damage in these areas.
A major dust storm sweeps through the southern portion of the southwest Arizona, including Phoenix, on July 5, 2011. Triggered by thunderstorms and high winds, the storm causes flight delays and sparks numerous reports of power outages.
In July, floods strike Thailand, killing nearly 400 people and disrupts the lives of more the 2 million people. This photo, taken in November, shows residents using boats, make-shift rafts or traveling by foot, through flood waters in northern Bangkok.
A few unexplained events happened this year, including thousands of blackbirds that fell out of the sky in Beebe, Arkansas. Stress from New Year's Eve fireworks may have caused the deaths of up to 5,000 birds.


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There have been many arguments that the artificial sweeteners in diet soda do, in fact, cause cancer. Again, the alleged cancer-causing ingredient is aspartame, better known as NutraSweet®. A commenter on an article titled Is Diet Coke Bad for You? lays out the "aspartame causes cancer" argument as follows:
"Aspartame/Nutrasweet®'s breakdown products attack the bodies tissues and create Formaldehyde which builds up in the tissues forever. Remember the smelly, eye watering fumes from the frogs you dissected in school? They were preserved with Formaldehyde! Formaldehyde is thought to cause cancer. Aspartame/Nutrasweet® also breaks down to diketopiperazine [DKP] which is proven to cause Brain Tumors! Brain Tumors used to be rare. Several of the rats in the original study formed brain tumors during their Aspartame/Nutrasweet® exposure. The researchers surgically removed the tumors and returned the rats to the study and discounted the tumors."
Another web article titled Aspartame Study Reveals What Mainstream Media Don't Tell You: The Deadly Truth about Sweeteners condemns aspartame on similar grounds:
"A new study of the Cesare Maltoni Cancer Research Center of the European Ramazzini Foundation has not only confirmed but further reinforced the results of an earlier study by the same research institute that found the artificial sweetener Aspartame to cause cancers and leukemia in rats.
The earlier study was condescendingly dismissed by industry and by the European Food Safety Agency as well as US FDA, but evidence of the damage done by the sweetener does not seem to be going away. If anything, the scientific findings overwhelmingly suggest that there are real problems that can no longer be brushed under the carpet.
The new Italian study finds that Aspartame, in doses similar to those found in a modern diet, when given over the whole life span of rats, causes an increased incidence of cancers."
Similar websites and articles can be found all over the Internet. The basic position being argued in them is believed by many ordinary citizens as well, from casual soda drinkers to doctors and nutritionists. However, there are a growing number of people who believe that diet soda may not be as harmful or cancer-causing as some claim.
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Until recently, studies investigating the cancer-causing properties of aspartame were conducted on rats. While this is commonplace in research science, the conclusions of experiments on rats are always subject to revision based on comparable tests of human beings. That's the position being argued by a new federal study which concludes, interestingly, that people who drink lots of diet soda are not more likely to get cancer.
According to MSNBC, the study was praised by consumer groups and carried out by reputable researchers independent of any funding or ties to industry groups. In the study, 340,045 men and 226,945 women were surveyed from 1995-1996, of which 2,106 developed blood-related cancers and 376 developed brain tumors. These numbers were not inordinately high given how many people were surveyed, and no link between aspartame and the cancers was found by the survey.
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Acer Iconia Tab 7 A1-713CompareThe Acer Iconia Tab 7 A1-713 is a 7 inch Android tablet with phone functionality. Its display features 600 x 1024 pixels resolution. The processor is quad-core accompanied with 1 GB RAM and 16 GB of internal storage. The tablet has 2 megapixels rear camera and supports Wi-Fi, 3G and Bluetooth.+ View Specs
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BLU Studio 5.0 LTECompareThe BLU Studio 5.0 LTE is equipped with a 5 inch IPS screen with resolution of 540 x 960, which works out to a pixel density of 220ppi. Under the hood is a quad-core 1.4GHz Snapdragon 400 CPU with the Adreno 305 GPU handling graphics. 1GB of RAM is inside with 4GB of native storage included. If more storage is required, a 64GB capacity microSD slot is available. An 8MP snapper with AF and LED flash will capture video in 1080p at 30fps. There is also a 1.6MP front-facing shooter for selfies.+ View Specs
BLU Studio 5.0 LTE
LG L80CompareLike all other L Series handsets, the LG L80 is supposed to be an affordable device. Even so, its large 5-inch display has a resolution of only 480 x 800 pixels - which translates into a very low 187 ppi density. At least the smartphone runs Android 4.4 KitKat, and comes with the new Knock Code screen unlocking feature. The L80 also offers dual SIM capabilities (with a dedicated key to switch between SIM cards), a dual-core 1.2GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, 4GB of internal memory, microSD card support, and a 2,540 mAh battery.+ View Specs
Samsung Galaxy K zoomCompare8 reviewThe Samsung Galaxy K zoom has drawn inspiration from the Galaxy S5 as it features the flagship's distinct perforated pattern and shimmering finish. What's new, however, is the dedicated camera button on the side, which is a must-have for any camera-centric handset.The screen on the Samsung Galaxy K zoom measures 4.8 inches in diagonal. It is Super AMOLED with resolution of 720 by 1280 pixels. Under the hood of the Samsung Galaxy K zoom beats a hexa-core SoC – an Exynos 5 model featuring a 1.3 GHz quad-core Cortex-A7 setup handling lighter tasks and a 1.7 GHz dual-core Cortex-A15 CPU which kicks in when extra power is needed. Two gigs of RAM have also been thrown in for good measure. On-board storage capacity is limited to only 8 gigs, but a microSD card slot allows that to be expanded with cards of at least 64 gigabytes. As for the most exciting part of the equation – the device's camera – Samsung has chosen to go with a 20.7MP BSI CMOS camera sensor that is 1/2.3" in size. Furthermore, the Galaxy K zoom packs a powerful xenon flash accompanied by an assistive LED light, just like its predecessor.+ View Specs
8Samsung Galaxy K zoom
Huawei Ascend P7 miniCompareThe Huawei Ascend P7 mini features a 4.5 inch in-cell TFT display. The in-cell technology allows for a thinner device. The resolution on the screen is 540 x 960 (qHD). Under the hood is a quad-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon 400 CPU with the Adreno 305 GPU. 1GB of RAM is on board along with 8GB of native memory. There is a 32GB capacity microSD slot included. Back and front-facing cameras weigh in at 8MP and 5MP respectively. Android 4.3 is installed out of the box, and there is a 2000mAh battery keeping the lights on.+ View Specs
Huawei Ascend P7 mini
Samsung Galaxy Core 2CompareThe Samsung Galaxy Core 2 will run Android 4.4 KitKat at launch, sporting a not-so-great 4.5-inch display with 480 x 800 pixels. It will further offer HSPA+ connectivity, dual SIM capabilities, a VGA front-facing camera, 5MP rear camera, a quad-core 1.2GHz processor, only 768MB of RAM, 4GB of expandable internal memory, and a 2,000 mAh battery.+ View Specs
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Samsung Galaxy Beam 2CompareThe Galaxy Beam 2 weighs 165 grams, measures 134.5 x 70 x 11.64 mm, and features: a 4.66-inch display with 480 x 800 pixels, a 1.2GHz quad-core processor, 5MP rear camera with Flash, microSD card support, and a 2,600 mAh battery. The smartphone runs Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. The built-in mini-projector that's found at the top of the device supports WVGA resolutions, and Samsung included several apps that are specifically made for it.+ View Specs
Samsung Galaxy Beam 2
Celkon AR 45CompareThe dual SIM Celkon AR 45 is powered by Android 4.2.2. The innards include a 1.2 GHz dual core CPU, 512 MB RAM, 4 GB ROM, and microSD slot. The 4.5" display has a resolution of 854 x 960 pixels.+ View Specs
Celkon AR 45
Celkon A15CompareThe Celkon A15 is a low-end Android 4.2.2 smartphone. Its specifications are pretty basic - 3.5" display, 1 GHz dual core CPU, 256 MB RAM / 512 MB ROM, microSD card slot, as well as a 3.2 MP camera. The phone supports two SIM cards.+ View Specs
Celkon A15
OnePlus OneCompare8.6 reviewThe OnePlus One sports the most powerful bin of Qualcomm's quad-core Snapdragon 801 (MSM8974-AC), clocked at 2.5GHz, 3GB of LPDDR3 RAM, and a 3100 mAh cell. Connectivity options include 4G LTE, 2.4G/5G Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 4.0. Wrapped within a magnesium chassis, the One is a relatively compact 5.5-incher, measuring 152.9 x 75.9 x 8.9 mm, and weighing just 162 grams. The 1080x1920 pixel resolution screen is literally slapped on top of the chassis, so the top and bottom bezels are actually recessed. At the back we have a 13-megapixel Sony IMX214 sensor with 6 lenses and a wide, f/2.0 aperture. Lastly, the OnePlus One is powered by a customized version of CyanogenMod OS, which has been redesigned with a minimal, completely flat UI.+ View Specs
8.6OnePlus One
Celkon A64CompareThe Celkon A64 is a dual SIM Android phone with version 4.2.2 of the platform. Its humble specs include 4" display with the lowly resolution of 320 x 480 px, 2 MP rear and 0.3 MP front cameras. 1 GHz dual core CPU, 256 MB RAM, 512 MB of storage, and microSD slot.+ View Specs
Celkon A64
Celkon A66CompareCelkon A66 is a 4.5-incher, running version 4.1.2 of Android. Under the hood there are 1.2 GHz processor, 512 MB RAM, 4 GB ROM, microSD slot for extra space. There are 2 cameras - 3.2 MP on the back, and 0.3 MP on the front.+ View Specs
Celkon A66
Celkon AR 40CompareThe Celkon AR 40 runs on Android 4.2.2. It is a 4-incher with modest specs - 3.2 MP rear camera, front-facing camera, 1.2 GHz dual core CPU, 512 MB RAM, 4 GB of storage, and microSD slot.+ View Specs
Celkon AR 40
Celkon AR 50CompareThe Celkon AR 50 is a smartphone, based on Android 4.2.2. It comes with average specs - 5" display, 5 MP rear camera and a front-facing one, 1.2 GHz dual core processor coupled with 512 MB RAM, 4 storage and microSD card slot. Dual SIM card support is on board.+ View Specs
Celkon AR 50
Celkon A40CompareThe Celkon A40 is a low-end Android phone, running version 4.2.2 of the OS. Hardware offers a 4" display, 5 MP rear camera, a front-facing cam, 1.3 GHz CPU, 512 MB RAM, 4 GB ROM, microSD card slot, and 2 SIM card slots.+ View Specs
Celkon A40
Celkon S1CompareThe Celkon S1 is a powerful dual SIM Android 4.2.1-based smartphone. Its specs include a 5" display, 1.5 GHz quad core processor, 1 gig of RAM, 16 GB storage, microSD card slot, 13 MP rear camera, and a 8 MP front-facing snapper.+ View Specs
Celkon S1
LG Lucid 3Compare7.5 reviewThe LG Lucid 3 runs Android 4.4.2 KitKat and that aside, the handset isn't particularly interesting. Even so, here's what the smartphone offers: a 4.7-inch qHD (540 x 960) display, LTE connectivity, quad-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon 400 processor, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of internal memory, 5MP rear camera, and a 2,440 mAh battery. The Lucid 3 is Verizon's first handset to come with Knock Code.+ View Specs
7.5LG Lucid 3
Huawei Ascend Y330CompareThe Ascend Y330 sports 4-inch screen with 480 x 854 resolution, dual-core 1.3 GHz processor and 3-megapixels camera on the back.+ View Specs
Huawei Ascend Y330
Celkon A125CompareThe Celkon A125 is a mid-range Android 4.2.2-flaunting device. It comes with a 4.5" display, 5 MP main camera, 1.3 MP front-facing cam, 512 MB RAM, 4 GB storage and a 1.3 GHz dual core CPU. It also offers dual SIM card support .+ View Specs
Celkon A125
OPPO Find 7aCompare9 reviewThe Find 7a is a high-end device to consider, if you don't mind buying your smartphone from a China-based company. The 7a features Color OS (based on Android Jelly Bean), a 5.5-inch display with 1080 x 1920 pixels, LTE, quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor clocked at 2.3GHz, 13MP rear camera, 5MP front-facing camera, 2GB of RAM, and a 2,800 mAh Li-Po battery.+ View Specs
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LG Optimus Zone 2CompareThe Optimus Zone 2 is an entry level smartphone available for Verizon Wireless that sports 3.5-inch display, a 3-megapixel camera, 4GB of storage and is powered by a 1.2-GHz dual-core processor and 512MB of RAM.+ View Specs
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HTC Desire 616CompareThe HTC Desire 616 is a decent handset for its price. It sports a 5-inch 720p display, while also featuring BoomSound speakers, 1GB of RAM, 4GB of internal memory, and an 8MP rear camera with LED flash.+ View Specs
HTC Desire 616
Verykool s351 BERYL 3GCompareThe Verykool s351 BERYL 3G is a low-end phone with Android 4.1.2. It features a 3.5" display, 1 GHz dual core CPU, 512 MB RAM & 512 MB ROM, and microSD slot. There are also two cameras - 2 MP on the back and 1.3 MP front snapper.+ View Specs
Verykool s351 BERYL 3G
Yezz ANDY AZ4.5CompareThe Yezz ANDY AZ4.5 comes with Android 4.2 out of the box. It offers a 4.5" display, 5 MP camera on the back, 1.3 MP one on the front, 1.2 GHz CPU, 512 MB RAM, 4 GB built-in storage, and microSD card slot.+ View Specs
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Samsung Galaxy S3 NeoCompareThe Galaxy S3 Neo is presented by Samsung as "the most premium dual SIM smartphone". The phone has a quad-core 1.2GHz processor, 1.5GB of RAM, dual band Wi-Fi and supports microSD card up to 64GB. The S3 Neo runs Android 4.3 Jelly Bean.+ View Specs
Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo
Yezz ANDY A5QPCompareThe Yezz ANDY A5QP is an Android-4.2 device. Hardware specs include a 5" display, 13.1 MP rear camera, 5 MP front camera, 1.7 GHz octa core CPU, 1 gig of RAM, 8 GB built-in storage with the option to expand it via microSD slot.+ View Specs
Yezz ANDY A5QP
Samsung Galaxy Ace StyleCompare5.5 reviewThe Galaxy Ace Style features 4-inch touchscreen display, a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 4GB of internal memory and supports microSD up to 64GB. A 5-megapixels autofocus camera is available on the back, as well as VGA front shooter. The phone runs Android 4.4 KitKat.+ View Specs
5.5Samsung Galaxy Ace Style
Lenovo Tab A7-50CompareThe A7-50 is a budget offering with a surprisingly nice set of specs - a 7-inch 720p HD display, a MTK8121 1.3GHz quad-core CPU, 1GB RAM, 16GB of expandable storage, a pair of 5MP rear and 2MP front fixed-focus cameras, and a hearty 3450mAh battery. It will be sold in Wi-Fi-only, and Wi-Fi & 3G-connected variants, and it will run Android 4.2 out of the box, while eligible for an upgrade to KitKat.+ View Specs
Lenovo Tab A7-50
Lenovo Tab A10CompareThe Lenovo A10 sports a 10-inch HD IPS display, a MTK8121 1.3GHz quad-core CPU, 1GB RAM, 16GB of expandable storage, a pair of 5MP rear and 2MP front fixed-focus cameras, and a 6340mAh battery.+ View Specs
Lenovo Tab A10
Lenovo Tab A8CompareThe Lenovo A8 features an 8-inch HD IPS display with 10-point multi-touch, two Dolby-enhanced front speakers, a MTK8121 1.3GHz quad-core CPU, 1GB RAM, 16GB of expandable storage, a pair of 5MP rear and 2MP front fixed-focus cameras, and a hearty 3450mAh battery. It will be sold in Wi-Fi-only, and Wi-Fi & 3G-connected variants, and it will run Android 4.2 out of the box, while eligible for an upgrade to KitKat and a 4200mAh battery.+ View Specs
Lenovo Tab A8
LG L65CompareThe LG L65 is a dual SIM smartphone featuring a 4.3-inch IPS display, 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, a 5-megapixel shooter and 4GB of storage.+ View Specs
Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 7.0Compare6 reviewThe Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 7.0 comes with a 7-inch (800 x 1280 resolution) display, quad-core SoC, running at 1.2GHz and 1.5GB of RAM. Other features include Andorid 4.4 KitKat, 8GB internal storage, microSD slot, 3-megapixels back camera and 1.3-megapixels front shooter.+ View Specs
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 8.0CompareThe Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 8.0 comes with a 8-inch (800 x 1280 resolution) display, quad-core SoC, running at 1.2GHz and 1.5GB of RAM. Other features include Andorid 4.4 KitKat, 16GB internal storage, microSD slot, 3-megapixels back camera, and a 4,450mAh battery.+ View Specs
Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 8.0
Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 10.1CompareThe Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 10.1 comes with a 10.1-inch (1280 x 800 resolution) display, quad-core SoC, running at 1.2GHz and 1.5GB of RAM. Other features include Andorid 4.4 KitKat, 16GB internal storage, microSD slot, 3-megapixels back camera, and a 6,800mAh battery.+ View Specs
Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 10.1
Huawei Ascend G630CompareThe Huawei Ascend G630 features a 5-inch 720p display, 1.2GHz quad-core processor, 1GB of RAM and 4GB of expandable storage. There is an 8 megapixels camera on the back and 1 megapixel front shooter. All this hardware is powered by 2000 mAh battery.+ View Specs
Huawei Ascend G630
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Taproot is a lovely thing—a magazine–about family life centered on relishing the natural world and time together in it. The magazine is about making things, growing things, and taking pleasure in words and images. If you're familiar with the blog soulemama, it won't surprise you that author and family blogger Amanda Soule is one of Taproot's founders/contributors.
You won't find glossy ads in the pages of Taproot. Instead you might find out how to cook with dandelion greens, a crop that even a two-year-old can harvest, about a woman's efforts to raise hens in her urban community, and what's important about dirt. If you, or someone on your knee, should ask, "What's dirt made of?," you'll learn what's in it and why it's precious. More: Taproot is laced with short poems and winsome photography. My favorite picture in the first issue, photographed by Meredith Winn, shows a seedling just starting to thrive–in dirt–in an egg shell planter held oh-so carefully in little hands.
As knitters, we know the pleasures of family knitting. Wrapping our needles around things meant for someone we love. It's a tangible way of wrapping arms around that person, a way to nurture both self and other. How often do we get to do that? So, it's only natural that Taproot includes a little knitting.
Carrie Hoge designed a set of family mittens (shown below in mom size) that appear in the current (third issue) of the magazine. They're easily knit, and quick.
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Ferris to annex land Red Oak claims is its ETJ
By 01/25/2007 00:00:00
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FERRIS - Two neighboring cities are in a tug of war regarding 260.624 acres of land sandwiched between Stainback Road and Farm to Market Road Road 664.
The City of Ferris began proceedings last month to official annex the land, which City Manager Gus Pappas said has been in the city's extraterritorial jurisdiction for more than 15 years. 'Red Oak says we can't annex it because it's in their ETJ,' Pappas said.
Red Oak City Manager Ken Pfeifer said he couldn't comment on the issue much because both cities attorneys were handling the issue.
'It did really surprise us that Ferris would encroach on our ETJ,' Pfeifer said.
Cities can annex property located in their extraterritorial jurisdiction, but just how far a city's ETJ extends depends on a city's population.
Shortly after the turn of the century, Red Oak began working to expand their city limits reaching further east into Ferris and Palmer.
This led many to request voluntary annexation into Ferris when Jimmie Bird-well served as mayor.
Ferris and Palmer sued Red Oak for annexing land located in Ferris and Palmer's ETJ.
Donald and Charlotte Deinhart own the disputed property. Pappas said after the Deinharts requested voluntary annexation into the City of Ferris' ETJ, city officials began taking the necessary steps required to acquire the land.
Last month members of Ferris' planning and zoning board approved recommending the city council should approve the annexation. Ferris officials scheduled two public hearings, Jan. 16 and Feb. 5, as required by law allowing citizens to give their opinions regarding the annexation.
'We are going to go ahead and annex it,' Pappas said. After the annexation was complete Ferris ETJ would be extended half a mile closer to the City of Red Oak's eastern border.