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[OS] GERMANY/ECON - Merkel Takes Debt Crisis to Home-State Campaign in Taste of 2013
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By Tony Czuczka
Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened her party's
campaign for Sept. 4 elections in her home state with a theme that
transcended local issues: the sovereign debt storm battering Europe and
global markets.
Merkel's electoral gambit reflects hardening battle lines between her
coalition and the opposition over how to quell the turmoil that has spread
from Greece. By turning the vote into a referendum on her push for deficit
cuts and rejection of joint debt guarantees, she may be honing a message
for her re-election bid in 2013, said Carsten Brzeski, an economist at ING
The debt crisis "is something that polarizes," Brzeski said by phone from
Brussels. "It helps to distinguish her from the Social Democrats, who
support euro bonds. It's also directed at her own coalition in Berlin, a
clear message to her own party and also to the Liberals to close ranks."
In nine campaign stops over 18 days, including two today and a final rally
tomorrow, Merkel is taking her call directly to voters in
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the eastern state on the Baltic Sea where
she has her electoral district.
"You know very well how things work here, how local government has to
save, that one can't afford everything -- and naturally that applies to
all of Europe," Merkel told an Aug. 18 rally in Parchim, a rural county
seat of half-timbered houses about 140 kilometers (90 miles) northwest of
Berlin, where supporters filled benches on the Shoe Market square.
Countries must also boost growth, and "there is dispute about the concept
of how we do this," she said. "When you go to vote on Sept. 4, you can
help decide."
Election Defeats
Merkel's coalition has been defeated or lost votes in all five German
state elections so far this year as voters resisted her bid to prevent a
euro-region breakup by putting more taxpayer money on the line for
sovereign rescues. Merkel blamed her party's May 2010 defeat in North
Rhine-Westphalia, the country's most populous state, on the first Greek
bailout, a result that cost her a majority in parliament's upper house.
In Mecklenburg, polls suggest Merkel's tack has failed to stop the Social
Democratic Party's advance, with support for her Christian Democratic
Union holding steady around the level of the last election in 2006. That
points to a repeat of the SPD- led coalition with Merkel's party that has
run the regional administration in Schwerin for the past five years.
Hanseatic Merchants
In Stralsund, the port city at the heart of Merkel's electoral district,
CDU Mayor Alexander Badrow sits in his office four blocks from the sea in
the red-brick city hall that dates back to the 13th century. Merkel took
President George W. Bush there during the Group of Eight summit she hosted
in 2007.
Emblems of Hanseatic cities decorate the building's gable, an indication
of the money made by Stralsund's merchant traders in past centuries, while
young people on laptops sip lattes at a cafe across the cobbled Old Market
Badrow, 38, said the debt turmoil that threatens the global economic
recovery has reached the Baltic Sea coastal state, registering with voters
more used to discussing local issues and who now express concern at "how
we'll get it under control."
"People ask me: `Is helping other countries the right thing to do, because
these are basically funds that we have to do without?'" Badrow said in an
interview, surrounded by oil paintings of former city leaders and sailing
ships in bottles. "We have to save and we have all kinds of constraints,
so is it right to do this to avert something even worse?"
Opposition Stance
The Social Democrats, the main opposition party nationally, support joint
euro bonds, restocking the European rescue fund and forcing investors to
take losses of as much as 50 percent to help Greece recover, proposals
that feed into early jostling for the 2013 national vote.
Backers include Peer Steinbrueck, Merkel's finance minister in her first
term and the nation's most popular politician in a ZDF television poll
published Aug. 12 that ranked Merkel fifth. The best-selling Bild
newspaper said yesterday that Steinbrueck should be the SPD's candidate to
run against Merkel in 2013. Former SPD Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has
also backed Steinbrueck as his party's chancellor candidate.
Merkel is taking her message of rejection to one of Germany's economically
weakest areas. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, which shares a border with
Poland, is a largely rural state reliant on low-paid seasonal work in
tourism or farming. Otto von Bismark, Germany's first chancellor, once
said that if the world ever came to an end he'd move to Mecklenburg,
"because everything happens 50 years later there."
Slowest Growth
Today, it has the lowest population density of Germany's 16 regions and
the smallest gross domestic product per person. Of the 30 companies in the
benchmark DAX index, not one is based there. The local economy grew 0.3
percent last year, the least of any state, even as national GDP expanded
3.6 percent, according to the Federal Statistical Office. Unemployment, at
11.5 percent in August, was the nation's third-highest.
With tax revenue forecast to drop as the population dwindles, all the main
parties have committed to fiscal discipline: The state hasn't run a budget
deficit since 2005, slashing costs by reducing government services.
Even so, backing for the state's ruling Social Democrats was at 35
percent, up from 30.2 percent in 2006, while Merkel's CDU was at 28
percent after 28.8 percent, an FG Wahlen poll for ZDF showed Aug. 26. With
the anti-capitalist Left Party little changed at 16.5 percent, the SPD may
be able to choose between Merkel's party or the Left as junior partner.
Merkel is already lowering expectations. Asked by the Bild am Sonntag
newspaper what her election goal is, she said that her party had ensured
"a successful grand coalition" with the Social Democrats in
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The aim now is "for the CDU to be as strong
as possible and to get back into government," she said in the interview
published Aug. 28.
For all her budget-cutting mantra plays to voters in the state, Merkel's
party alone can't claim the mantle of fiscal stewardship, said Nikolaus
Werz, a political scientist at Rostock University.
"My gut feeling tells me you can't score a lot of points with the euro
issue," Werz said in Aug. 26 telephone interview. "I can see that Merkel
would want to raise the issue. But I'm very skeptical that she can score
with it in a big way."


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Election Results Sadden All Three Michigan Candidates
November 10, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Adil James, TMO
Farmington–November 9–Yesterday's election tallies are in and unfortunately the three local Muslim candidates all lost their elections.
The three were Ahmar Iqbal, running for the Ann Arbor School Board, Amin Hashmi, running for the Troy City Council, and Abdul Latif Muhiuddin, running for the Plymouth-Canton School Board.
The three Muslim candidates were in widely divergent districts, with sparse voter turnout in an election which had no national or statewide elections–an election which determined the face of Michigan's local politics but did not affect the exciting higher levels.
The minimal voter turnout meant that Burton's Paula Zelenko would secure her seat as mayor in a hotly contested race with a well-known city councilman–and she would do so winning only 2,500 votes. The mayor of Burton earns approximately $70,000 annually.
The same race saw a Flint mayor who won an election with only 9,000 votes. The salary of the Flint mayor is about $91,000.
Iqbal won about 3,500 votes, earning fifth place out of six. Muhiuddin won about 2,900 votes, placing 10th out of 15. Amin Hashmi won about 1,400 votes, placing last in his election bid.
Iqbal wrote a very gracious concession letter which expressed his belief that 3,000 voters had chosen him "on merit," because he only shook hands with 500 voters and he won 3,500 votes.
Iqbal expressed that he had learned many lessons through the campaign, and had learned strategies, local politics, and about his own identity, and other important measurements of his own strength as required for a political campaign.
"The best is yet to come for all of us," said Mr. Iqbal.
"Again, thank you for standing by me and I look forward to growing our relationship especially for important community causes."
Houstonian Corner (V11-I52)
December 17, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Parker & Green Win in Low Turn-Out Elections
Only 17% of the registered voters, i.e. 155,312 voted, in a population of over 2 million, in the City of Houston Mayoral Run-Off Elections, to elect the termed-out City Controller Annise D. Parker, as the 61st Mayor of the Third Largest Metropolis of USA. Her victory by 8,638 votes over her opponent Gene Locke, became headlines of various worldwide news agencies and national newspapers across the globe, because she will be the first openly gay Mayor of one of the largest cities of USA, when sworn in January 2010.
In another race for the second most powerful position in the City of Houston after Mayor, the Controller race was won by the termed out City Councilman Ronald Green, who was 4,271 ahead of termed out City Councilman Masur Javed Khan. Interestedly total number of voters in Controller Elections was 144,253, which is 11,059 voters less than the Mayoral Race, meaning a little over 11 thousand voters did not bother to vote in the Controller Election. In mail-in ballots and actual voting day, M. J. Khan got more votes than Ronald Green, while the winner Ron Green got most of the votes during actual early voting at various stations.
After the victory, the first openly gay Mayor of Houston, Annise Parker said: "The voters of Houston have opened the door to history…I know what this win means to many of us who never thought we could achieve high office…But now, from this moment, let us join as one community. We are united in one goal in making this city the city that it can be, should be, might be, will be…I promise to give to citizens an administration of honesty, integrity and transparency…The only special interest will be the public. We are in this together. We rise or fall together."
Parker will face a $130 million budget deficit when her term as mayor begins in early January. Mayor-Elect Parker was opposed by conservative religious groups and anti-gay activists. However, gay and lesbian political organizations all over the nation rallied to support Parker by raising funds for her campaign and making calls to urge people to vote.
Here are the various results in the Run-Off Elections:
Mayor of Houston
Annise D. Parker 81,975 (53%) — Gene Locke73,337 (47%)
City of Houston Controller
Ronald Green 74,262 (51%) — M. J. Khan 69,991 (49%)
Houston City Council District A
Brenda Stardig 9,258 (57%) — Lane Lewis 7,103 (43%)
Houston City Council District F
AL Hoang 4,681 (53%) — Mike Laster 4,180 (47%)
Houston City Council At Large Pos 1
Stephen Costello 67,842 (52%) — Karen Derr 62,249 (48%)
Houston City Council At Large Pos 2
Sue Lovell 68,676 (54%) — Andrew C. Burks, Jr. 58,317 (46%)
Houston City Council At Large Pos 5
Jolanda "Jo" Jones 69,763 (51%) — Jack Christie 68,080 (49%)
Bellaire City Council Pos 3
Corbett Daniel Parker 1,296 (72%_ — Roseann Rogers 511 (28%)
Bellaire City Council Pos 5
Andrew Friedberg 971 (53%) — James B. Jameson 869 (47%)
Houston ISD Trustee District I
Anna Eastman 4,959 (51%) — Alma Lara 4,766 (49%)
Houston ISD Trustee District IX
Lawrence "Larry" Marshall 6,295 (51%) — Adrian Collins 6,012 (49%)
MJ Khan in Houston Controller Run-Off
November 7, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Ilyas Hasan Choudry, MMNS
Houston—November 4–"It is a distinct honor for the Muslim, Pakistani and South Asian Communities that a competent person with right credentials, has qualified through Houstonians Votes, to the run-off elections of December 12th, 209 for the Controller Position of the fourth largest metropolis of USA."
These were the sentiments of those gathered at the Campaign Headquarter of the termed-out City Councilman M. J. Khan located along Richmond Avenue just east of Hillcroft, as they celebrated the strong showing by M. J. on the actual voting day to come from behind into the second position behind the termed-out City Councilperson Ron Green and qualifying for the run-off on Saturday, December 12th, 2009. Early voting for Run-Offs is tentatively expected to be between November 30th and December 08th, 2009. M. J. Khan's wife and son were also present on the occasion.
Khalid Khan, who was vying to replace M. J. Khan on the City Council Position "F", came in a strong third place in a race of seven candidates. On the voting day of Tuesday, November 03, 2009, Khalid Khan was number two in the number of votes received, but Al Hoang got majority of his votes in the Early Voting.
When the early vote count came in around 7:00pm., M. J. Khan was third in the pack of three candidates for the Controller position, trailing the second place Pam Holm by about 1,300 votes. By the end of the evening, M. J. Khan had about 2,000 votes more than Pam Holm, who called into M. J. Khan Campaign Office to congratulate him for qualifying for the run-off.
In fact on the voting day of Tuesday, November 03, 2009, M. J. Khan received the most number of votes, as compared to Ron Green and Pam Holm, which according to analysts show that voters learned about M. J. Khan's credentials late in the race through his TV advertisements and once the voters knew about his strong financial background, he got many votes. The same thing of educating voters through electronic media can help him win on December 12th, 2009 and for that M. J. will need good sum of donations from well-wishers and Houstonians.
This Controller race became most heated, when in the last few weeks to the elections, Ron Green admitted certain issues with liens on his properties by IRS and that these problems were much highlighted by his opponent Palm Holm, while M. J. Campaign stayed out from any negative comments.
M. J. Khan has created history by becoming the first ever Muslim, Pakistani and South Asian Candidate to be running in the run-off elections for the second biggest position of Controller of the 4th largest city of USA .
"I feel most humble that with the support of my community and right choice of the voters to elect a person with right credentials, I will be contesting in December 12th run-off. City of Houston is the best place to live and after having served the City for the past six years, I feel my qualifications are the most appropriate for the Controller position, so that I can contribute more towards the well-being of all Houstonians. I am grateful to each and everyone, who has voted for me and expect more voters to come out in the run-off and elect him to be the next City of Houston Controller because I have the right background and expertise to run the finances of this great city in the most amicable manner," said M. J. Khan, as final results came in late around 11:45pm.
In other races, it will be mayoral election run-off as well. Here again all political pundits were proven wrong, when City Councilperson Peter Brown, even after spending more than $2-Million of his own and wife's money, came in third. Since none of the candidates got 50%+, there will be run-off between top position Annise Parker and Gene Locke.
Here is how the final outcome of various campaigns was:
Houston Mayor – Annise Parker 54,193 (30.5%); Gene Locke 45,954 (25.90%); Peter Brown 39,904 (22.4%); Roy Morales 35925 (20.20%) (Run-Off);
Houston Controller – Number Of Votes Are For Harris County Only – Ronald C. Green 53,993 (36.3%); M. J. Khan 49,424 (32.5%); Pam Holm 47,701 (31.2%) (Run-Off);
City Council At-Large Pos. 1 – Stephen Costello 24.1%; Karen Derr 19.6% (Run-Off)
City Council At-Large Pos. 2 – Sue Lovell 48.8%; Andrew C. Burks Jr. 21.4% (Run-Off);
City Council At-Large Pos. 4 – C. O. Bradford Won 52.3%; Noel Freeman 21.1%;
City Council At-Large Pos. 5 – Jolanda "Jo" Jones (I) 42.1%; Jack Christie 36.4% (Run-Off);
City Council Dist. A – Brenda Stardig 31.9%; Lane Lewis 21.8% (Run-Off);
City Council Dist. B – Jarvis Johnson (I) Won 82.0%; Roger Bowden 18.0%;
City Council Dist. C – Anne Clutterbuck (I) Won 81.8%; Randolph Locke 17.5%;
City Council Dist. D – Wanda Adams Won 76.2%; Larry McKinzie 11.0%;
City Council Dist. E – Mike Sullivan (I) Won 74.1%; Wayne Garrison 25.9%;
City Council Dist. F – Mike Laster 2,436 (25.5%); Al Hoang 2,351 (24.6%); Khalid Khan 1,859 (19.5%) (Run-Off);
City Council Dist. G – Oliver Pennington Won 59.1%; Mills Worsham 17.8%.
Imam El-Amin Upbeat After Loss in Detroit City Council Primary
August 6, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Adil James, Muslim Media News Service (MMNS)
Detroit City Council frontrunner, Fox 2 news reporter Charles Pugh. |
Detroit–August 5–Imam El-Amin of the Muslim Unity Center appears largely unfazed by the setback of not winning the primary for the Detroit City Council.
Speaking with TMO this morning, Imam El-Amin explained that he had not won; however he explained that his next column for TMO would be about accepting Allah's will, which is an important and sometimes difficult decision to make, as here, when things have not gone the way we intended.
While many who engage in politics immediately lose their moral compass once they smell the possibility of success and a fat government paycheck, not so Imam El-Amin.
He explained to me on the eve of the election that "I'm not worried about [the notable people in the election] because we don't know who's going to be running, and actually it doesn't matter–because I just want people to vote for me. I'm not running against them, I'm running for me."
The imam met with early success in his bid for the city council spot, collecting 800 signatures–in a weekend–for a petition that required 458 to qualify to run.
In fact, he explained that he only ran after having been asked to run for the office by a group of Muslims and non-Muslims.
The imam had a core group of approximately 10 volunteers and a larger group of "about 50 or 60" altogether, who worked hard to help him meet people, knock on doors, and pass out flyers. He was able to build an election budget of over $10,000 with minimal time–in the space of less than three months of campaigning.
He received the endorsement of Reverend Nicholas Hood, a former city councilman, who is in Detroit a relative political heavyweight although he did lose in his mayoral campaign to both Ken Cockrell Jr. and Dave Bing.
The campaign was destined to be difficult, as a few minutes' analysis before the primary could have told you. Approximately seven incumbent city councilmen intended to hold their seats, and outside of that group there were about 9 very serious contenders for the city council spots from among the former mayoral candidates who had already lost in the mayoral election–of those, all of the politically connected and experienced candidates unclouded by legal action passed the initial 18-person threshold. There were several other serious political contenders with their irons in the Detroit fire on Tuesday, and it looked like a tough race.
Detroit has a unique political structure, in that it is perhaps the only major city in the nation that chooses nine "at-large" councilmen who are elected by the entire city, without leaving any seats apportioned by district. The city is not divided into polling districts in order to elect councilmen. The top vote-getter serves as president of the council, and the second vote getter serves as president pro tempore.
If the poll numbers from the primaries hold true through the November election, those two spots will be held by, respectively, Charles Pugh and Ken Cockrel Jr. After the 2005 poll, Cockrel was the president and Joann Watson was the president pro tempore.
The field of candidates in August 2009 was approximately 167 people vying for the city council positions. Former Fox 2 reporter Charles Pugh was the top finisher with 9% or 59,560 votes. The formerly dominant Ken Cockrel Jr. was in second place, followed by former Detroit Deputy Police Chief Gary Brown (who helped set in motion the downfall and disgrace of former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick via text-messaging fiasco).
The eighteenth out of those vying for one of the nine seats was John K. Bennett, who won 8,164, or about 1%, out of the total 84,000 voters who cast ballots (because each voter can vote for nine people). There was approximately a 15% voter turnout.
John Bennett expressed some dismay as to his eighteenth place finish, tempered with the sweetness of passing this first threshold- "It's kind of bittersweet, I'm happy to be 18," he said. "But some of those people ahead of me have not campaigned at all. I've been out here busting my tail for 23 months."
Two incumbents, under fire for ethics allegations, lost the primary, Monica Conyers and Martha Reeves.
Detroit city councilmen earn approximately $81,000 per year as compensation for the four-year post–on a par with Michigan state legislators, who are among the highest paid state legislators in the nation.
The mayoral election, absent any major revelations or missteps, appears to be a nearly sure thing for Dave Bing, who is still fresh from his most recent contest with Ken Cockrel Jr. for the seat vacated by Kwame Kilpatrick.
TX Muslim Candidate!
By ILyas Hasan Choudry, MMNS
Houston, Texas: I attended a fundraiser for M. J. Khan way back in 2003. This was the first time he was vying to become the City of Houston Councilperson. Many including myself doubted and did all kinds of analysis that M J has little chance to win the elections in the 4th largest city of USA (Houston). Due to the blessing of prayers of hundreds; his personal hard work; his family's absolute support; the funds he received from his friends and community persons; and team of shrewd advisors, he surprised several pessimists.
M J Khan will be termed out as the City Councilman in December 2009. Before that in November 2009, elections to various offices will be held in Houston. M J Khan, who in 2007 got the "Outstanding American by Choice Award from the USCIS-U.S. Department of State", has again shown his courageous character, by confidently entering into citywide election race to become the Controller of the 4th largest city of USA (Houston). The distinction for the Controller of Houston is that it is an independent position and his or her decisions are not influenced by the Mayor or City Council. The City of Houston has strong Mayoral Form of Government. On behalf of the citizens of Houston, the City Controller is the person that brings the much needed check-&-balance to the Mayor and City Council (the executive and legislative branches) of City government.
The position of Controller of the City of Houston has a rich history of about 106 years. The Controller is the Chief Financial Officer of the 4th largest City of USA, making decisions that affect each and every citizen and businesses of the city. He or she is responsible for ensuring that the assets of the City are properly accounted for and expended in a manner consistent with applicable laws, policies, plans and procedures. To achieve this, the Controller conducts audits of different departments of the City. Controller processes and monitors more than $2.5-Billion Annual Budget.
As such a M J Khan win in November 2009 elections, will not be merely a personal triumph, but a landmark occasion for all the smaller communities of Houston, where they will proudly see someone most competent from diverse communes, making tough decisions for the betterment of all the Houstonians.
More information on his campaign (Theme: "Fiscal Responsibility for a Stronger Houston"), can be received by regularly visiting www.MJKhan.Com Contributions can be made to his campaign at the website by Citizens and Permanent Residents from anywhere in USA.
M J Campaign for Controller is Viable
Saturday, June 27, 2009, saw the Gala Fundraising Dinner of M J Khan for Controller Campaign at the impressive Westin Galleria Hotel. Reasonable numbers of people attended the fundraiser. Prominent among them were all the close members of M J Khan's extended family; Former City of Houston Councilperson Gordon Quan and his wife; Counsel General of Pakistan in Houston Aqil Nadeem and his wife; Director of Harris County Houston Sports Authority Board Haroon Shaikh; President of Pakistani-American Association of Greater Houston (PAGH) Khalid Khan; Former President of PAGH Ghulam Bombaywala; President of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Dr. Tariq Hussein; President of Shifa Foundation Dr. Moien Butt; Chairman Executive Board of Ibna Sina Foundation Nasruddin Rupani; Attorney Noaman Hussain; Attorney Neiyar Izfar; Former Houston President of the Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent of North America (APPNA) Dr. Asaf Qadeer; Entrepreneurial Zakaria Family; Media and Campaign Coordinators Ghulam Chisti and Azam Akhtar; and several representatives of community media.
Program started with heart wrenching recitation of Quran by young Hafiz Anis-ul-Haq, who recited verses about unity among the community and importance of calling people towards all that is good, while advising people to avoid doing evil. Following Hafiz Anis-ul-Haq recital, Dr. Attiya Khan, wife of M J Khan thanked everyone for coming and requested to support M J Khan for Controller Campaign.
Dr. Neelofur Ahmad was emcee on the occasion, while Ghulam Bombaywala, Dr. Asaf Qadeer, Dr. Abdul Kader Fustok; Attorney Noaman Hussain; Dr. Moien Butt; Dr. Mubashir Chaudhry; Faisal Ameen; and others helped with the fundraiser. It was informed that at the first fundraiser in 2003 for the City Council Election, M J Khan raised $250,000 from our community and six years later, several communities living in District "F" of M J received many dollars in grants to improve the living standards of people: As such the funds of our community, used in the election of the right person to the office of City Council, resulted in the betterment of whole of Houston. This positive investment also brought more than $5-Million to the Pakistani, Muslim and South-Asian Communities in the fields of health and social wellbeing.
It was further informed that the name of M J is not only restricted to Houston, but his name is heard in the Congressional Hallways in Washington, D.C. and Legislative Corridors in Austin, Texas.
More than $103,000 was received at this fundraiser in cash and pledges. M J Khan Camping for Controller already had more than $300,000 in the coffers before the fundraiser. It is projected that it will cost each candidate $1-Million to run for this position. With over $400,000 raised five months before the election, M J Campaign is in a strong position.
Before that, the former city councilman Gordon Quan, while introducing Councilman M J Khan also talked about the challenges he is going to face: "This is a city and not federal government, where one can print millions of dollars to come out of financial crisis. Here one has to balance the budget, show fiscal responsibility and take tough decisions for the future of this great city of Houston, which we and our children proudly call home. M J came up with the catchphrase that District F is the forgotten district and that after getting elected; he will make it the known and best district. With his persistence and hard work, he has brought several positive improvements to District F and we all need to applaud him for the excellent work he has done. With these six years experiences, his strong academic background having done MBA from the prestigious Rice University and having run a business, M J is one of the strongest and most capable candidates for this position. He will be a pride for all communities in these trying economic times."
M J Khan in his presentation thanked his Sister Yasmin Khan, Wife Dr. Attiya Khan, all extended family members, friends and well-wishers and said his earlier win with Blessing of God due to sincere supplications by everyone in the community and requested for continuing prayers. He said in 2003, people did not give him much chance to win: That motivated him to persistently work and he did not win once, but three times due to the Grace of God. He said putting sincere and complete efforts with clean heart is what is needed; results are in the hand of God.
"I have worked diligently to serve all Houstonians including our community as the City Councilman and will work even more meticulously, if given chance by all Houstonians, to serve them as their proficient Controller:" Said M J Khan.


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I had the opportunity to put the DSO-2250 up against an HP/Agilent 54645A oscilloscope this evening, comparing them on a variety of signals up to 75 MHz.
It'll probably come as no surprise that the HP ran circles around the DSO at the higher end of their range but below 25 MHz the $200 DSO held its own quite respectably. From 30 to 50 MHz, the DSO's displayed trace became increasingly unsteady and amplitude measurements became less accurate.
Above 50 MHz, I wouldn't trust the DSO any further than I could spit a mouthful of fish hooks.
Here's a chart of readings at various freqs for both oscopes. Signals were generated with Gigatronics 2420M which has a bottom end of 10 MHz so freqs lower than that were not possible.
Note that as frequency increased, the DSO's values for both voltage and waveform period had to be expressed as a range rather than a fixed, steady value. At 30 MHz and below, ths DSO was rock steady and agreed with both the sig gen and HP scope in terms of frequency/time.
Voltage readings of the DSO varied more than I would have liked. At 20 MHz, the difference between the DSO and the HP begins to exceed 10%. This may or may not be significant though as oscopes are typically used for signal tracing, not for alignment to specific voltages (although that's not always the case).
I was happily surprised at the close correlation in freq/time between the two oscopes. My main interest in the DSO is for HF ham radio. From 28 MHz on down, freq accuracy of the scope is very accurate. I should mention here that the voltage and period values were obtained via direct alpha-numeric readout that the DSO's software provides. As far as I can tell, there doesn't appear to be an option in the software to display two simultaneous cursors that can be placed on the waveform to measure delta – there's only one for time and one for amplitude.
There are a good number of options selectable for alpha-numric read-out including pk-pk, rms, minimum/maximum voltage and period, freq, rise time, fall time, pulse width and duty cycle.
Dave AA7EE mentioned the jittery appearance of the trace in my previous posting about this oscope. Under the Aquire>Acquisition menu there is an option to enable an averaging function for the displayed trace. As can be seen, this smoothed out things quite a bit. A value of 0 to 128 can be inserted for averaging – too high a value will result in unacceptable delay of the trace's response to a given change in input signal but it was easy enough to find a range of values that resulted in a smooth trace with hardly any delay.
Two things I want to test still are the rise/fall time accuracy and the FFT/spectrum analyzer function.
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Posted on February 2, 2011
Hey Guys,
First let me say a huge thanks for all of you that shared your 2010 highlights with me.
I really enjoyed reading and replying to the comments, and mostly getting to know you a little more!
I thought I would create a little personal video of me doing the draw for the winner, I thought it would be more exciting
You'll have to watch the video to find out if you were the winner, don't worry, it's only 3 minutes long!
Please feel free to reply and I'll personally get back to you.
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CMI also introduced 2-pound bags of Petite Pick pears in all its varieties, said Bob Mast, vice president of marketing for the Wenatchee, Wash.-based marketer.
Also new are retail QR codes for Kiku, Kanzi and Ambrosia apples, he said.
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Crystal Valley Foods, Miami, a longtime supplier of Miami-based Coosemans Worldwide Inc., is introducing a packaged retail line.
Crystal Valley offers 8-ounce bags of asparagus tips, snow peas, sugar snap peas, shucked English peas, baby green zucchini, baby carrots and French beans. The French beans also come in 16-ounce bags, and Crystal Valley offers 5-pound foodservice bags of snipped and unsnipped green beans.
Rick Durkin, Crystal Valley's director of business development, said the company recently installed a green bean packing line for bulk and packaged Guatemalan snipped green beans.
The company decided to increase repacking after Florida winter freezes cut supplies, Durkin said.
Originally focusing the bags on the winter window, Crystal Valley began packing cut beans throughout the year because of customer requests, Durkin said.
Crystal Valley also recently purchased a farm in Peru, he said.
Amelia FriedlineTony Freytag, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Crunch Pak, shows off Princess Foodies.Crunch Pak
Cashmere, Wash.-based Crunch Pak LLC added two products to its line of Foodles snack packs for kids, and its DipperZ low-calorie single-serve snacks received a lot of attention on the exhibition floor.
"We've had very good reception in the first hour," Tony Freytag, senior vice president of sales and marketing, said of the DipperZ.
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Rachael Ray buys her husband's name and 28 more interesting domain purchases
29 end user domain sales including some big names.
Memo to Rachael Ray's husband: she owns you.
This week's end user domain sales report includes Rachael Ray buying her husband's (domain) name, Hubspot, Taser, and more.
Better Bathrooms UK Limited paid $3,388 for BetterLights.com.
Animal Finders, a new service designed to help connect lost animals with their owners, bought PetsReunited.com for $1,600. It operates in the UK at AnimalFinders.co.uk; I wonder if they tried to buy the .com of that name and found PetsReunited.com to be cheaper.
Online marketing company Hubspot bought FaceSpot.com for $2,800. For Facebook marketing tools? If so, it should be wary of Facebook, which likes to claim trademark infringement on such domains.
Smoothie bar operated Booster Juice owns BoosterJuice.com, but wisely bought JuiceBooster.com for $1,977.
Furniture company HomeLife shelled out $14,500 for GardenBenches.com.
TASER International zapped TaserTube.com for $1,795. (Sorry, I couldn't help it.)
Expressions of Time, a clock store that owns ClockShoppes.com, smartly purchased ClockShops.com for $5,500.
Sony Pictures bought MoreThanMovies.com for $1,188.
QMI SAI Canada Ltd, which does quality control and ISO certification, bought SAIDirect.com for $1,488.
The house trimming/molding company that owns HomeTrimwork.com shortened its web address to Trimwork.com for $2,600.
Millennium Dental Technologies paid $1,552 for FightGumDisease.com
Event production company All Phases Event Group shortened its URL from AllPhasesEG.com to Allphases.com for $4,500.
Automated Voice Data Solutions owns AVDS.com and bought AVDS.net for $1,988.
Retina Institute in California bought CaliforniaClinics.com for $1,195 and CaliforniaClinic.com for $2,888.
Here's an interesting one. Rachael Ray's parent company Watch Entertainment bought her husband's name JohnCusimano.com for $4,077.
Blue Diamond Consulting and Training bought BlueDiamondConsulting.com for $1,195.
The owners of TalkLive.com (which appears to be affiliated with National A-1) bought TalkLive.co.uk for $1,000.
Cambria Consulting Limited in the UK bought Cambria.co.uk for 999 GBP.
Quintessential Finance Group paid 3,000 GBP for PensionReview.co.uk.
NEWDOM Limited, the same company that bought BitCoin.us for $17,500 last week, returned to buy Bitcoin.be for 1,500 EUR.
The owner of g2Play.net upgraded to g2Play.com for $800.
Rock memorabilia site WolfgangsVault.com paid $50,000 for Wolfgangs.com.
Upscale store Marka VIP bought KidsVIP.com for $1,600.
PC Pitstop, which runs a site offering computer scans and cleaning, bought PCMinder.com for $800.
MailChimp picked up MailMonkey.com for $11,000. It recently bought MonkeyMail.com for $10,500.
Kindred Healthcare, Inc. bought Kindred.info for 775 EUR.
App company Echoboom Apps bought Echoboom.com for $4,500. It forwards it to is existing web address, Echoboom.se.
The owner of GameTop.com, a site for free online, PC, and Android games, bought TopApps.com for $25,000. That's a great domain.
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'top apps' is also a high search term for apps. 'best apps' gets even more searches. They probably bought TopApps.com because it partly matches their company name though.
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I'm still working on my backsplash - had a million other things to do in the meantime. I'm trying to finish up around the kitchen window. I'm using an indirect method for this part. Some parts of this method are perfect for me - most, actually, but it needs some fine tuning. I have tried different kinds of paper for the transfer, but am tired of how much time it takes to get all the paper bits scraped off once it is up. I am thinking about using contact paper instead. Is that something other people use? I think it would save me so much time and mess. no waiting for glue to dry.
Are youall laughing at me for not having used contact paper all along?? I hear sniggers out there somewhere ;)... AND, I have discovered I reeeeeeaallllyyyy do not like seeing the thinset between the tiles AT ALL. I am tinting it, but still. I end up spending hours scraping the most visible thinset smooshiness out with a pick, like I'm being a dental assitant. SO I am thinking about doing the rest of this section by painting the wall (all primed greenboard) in my colors, and using a dot of silicone on the back of each tile once it is stuck to contact paper and flipped over. Any thoughts?? |
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- Posted by katishooked (My Page) on Mon, Apr 20, 09 at 6:57
No idea you brave soul. This is one project I haven't tried, so others will have to chirp in. Sure would love to see what you have done tho. Kat |
- Posted by slowmedown (My Page) on Mon, Apr 20, 09 at 8:49
So you're going for an ungrouted project w/your green wall showing through? If so, I'm all for the grout showing, and highly recommend that you grout, but your plan should work as long as you don't have so many dots to do so that the first ones dry out b/f you apply the last dot and get it flipped over. |
I seriously don't think its a good idea for long term stability, Betty. there won't be anything "marrying" the individual pieces into one. I still stick with thinset as my recommendation and suggest you apply less in a thinner application so that you get less smoosh through. |
- Posted by bettycbowen (My Page) on Mon, Apr 20, 09 at 9:46
Thanks guys. No I wasn't going to let raw wall show through, I'd paint it in good colors like anna fietta (link below). I visited her smalti shop in Ravenna a few years ago, and I think her work is gorgeous. My backsplash is smalti, there is very little space between any of the tiles at all, they are usually touching or nearly so. OK, so what about the contact paper? I just spent two or three hours scraping elmers glue and butcher paper of the section that I had up. grrrrrr. bits of paper trapped between tiles. I've tried parchment (not supportive enough in the put-up process) and even waxed paper. I'm thinking either muslin or contact paper next time. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Anna Fietta Smalti Studio
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The tips are all eaten away, doesn't seem like there is any flower left inside....thank goodness this is not happening to all of them..I don't seen any insect or evidence of one. Has this happened to any of you? What should I use? Thanks alot. |
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Spanish and Latin American Studies program overview
The Spanish and Latin American Studies Program offers a major that can be included in many degrees offered at the University of Sydney. Depending on your year of enrolment the requirements for completing the major may be different. Select from the options below to see the requirements relevant to you.
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Students may take European Studies units in addition to completing a Spanish Studies major to provide breadth in their major sequence. This applies particularly to students in the senior levels of the Beginners stream.
Students who have completed first-year language studies in advanced streams may be able to commence learning a second language alongside their major from second year onward. Mid-year entry students may need to exceed the junior credit point limit of their course in order to commence a language in their second year, in which case special permission will be needed. If you are not sure, consult with the Student Advisers in the Faculty office.
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The units of study for the major can be found in the Table A unit of study table for Spanish and Latin American Studies. The table shows units of study on offer in the current handbook year. You may find information regarding a full list of units of study available to the major on the departmental website
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Eelke Kleijn's Untold Stories Album Review + Interview
Mar 17 2011 01:25 PM EST | JoshuaAnthony in House
To the best of my knowledge Eelkle Kleijn (EK), created the first ever "mixed" artist album and 16 cuts deep at that.
A sound engineer by heart, EK masterfully produces sonic blends of liquid moves and deep grooves. His album, Untold Stories, isn't club tempo, instead its a compilation of "other" tempo, making this album truly ahead of its time.
The production work in Untold Stores, is tip top and it doesn't stop. Track one - Ortni, is magical, plentiful and followed by Violintermezzo, which hooks you right in. I had a few moments of ahh hah! My first was for Nu Gaat Het Los, track seven. Sad But No, track eight melts into, what is easily one of the best and well thought out tracks of the entire album, Theme For Spliffy, a teasing emotional ride that draws one inward and flows insurmountable. We continue right into track 10, Gevoelsplaat, a melodic-mind-bender. We're now in the meat of the album with Theme for Spliffy, chords galore and spliffs roar.
The last two, ahh hah moments occured with, Survival of the Fattest, with its uber catchy chords and wild electro-funk-rhythms. The last ahh hah was the sequence of Flavour Saver, a tonal emotional tornado into Will I Love ft. Niels Geuzebroek, a listers well earned vocal masterpiece - A true dance music cross over that I can still be proud of at the end of the day.
Interview with EK
This is a very non traditional artist album for a couple of reasons. One, there are 16 original productions and two, it is mixed. What was your reasoning behind this? Do you feel that this will be a new trend in artist albums?
Well mostly I just wanted to do something different. I didn't really like that my last album had pauses in between tracks. While listening to it that seemed to interrupt the flow. Also I wasn't fond of the 'mixable' intro on each track. Of course that makes it suitable for the club but it doesn't really work on an album for me. Neither do radio edits for that matter. So I tried something radically different. I hope it will be a trend, for me personally it makes listening to albums much more interesting!
What kind of ideas did you put into your album?
The album was an experiment, sort of. I wanted to do something completely different. I thought of a DJ set but just with my own material. And I didn't want it to be just dance music. So I just tarted producing and this is what came out, that's the best way to put it I guess. I was inspired by bands like Massive Attack, Editors and Unkle while doing a lot of the album stuff, so it might have come out a little bit more downtempo than I originally intended. But looking back on it I am really happy. I've learned a lot in the past 2 years from doing this album and I still feel it is a really great collection of music just to chill to. It wasn't meant as a club CD, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't work as a club CD. It's just music to listen and 'get into'. I sometimes call it an emotional trip, that's what it feels like to me.
At this stage in your career, has your outlook on music changed and if so, how?
Yes it definitely has. I used to be mainly interested in electronic music. Wasn't really a fan of guitars and didn't follow pop music in general. Nowadays I also write a lot of music for stuff like animations, and I've really had to reinvent myself musically. I'm a lot more open to other influences, I think the last album really shows that.
When your on stage how do you connect with the crowd? Do you have a method or is it organic?
It has to come naturally I think. The thing with me and the crowd is, if I get some really good feedback like people clapping, cheering, etc, that is what makes me get more into my set and interact with the people. I mean, you can put up your hands at any moment of course but for me it's only natural to do that when it feels right. You can't force it. So the sets that I play in front on a really energetic crowd, those are the best for me. That reflects in my interaction with the people.
What producer or DJ has inspired you as of late?
I've been a big fan of some of the new guys I recently signed to my label, for instance DAVI and Alessandro Diga. DAVI is from the USA and I have been extremely impressed with his output. Alessandro is a Dutch guy and his sound is really unique, it reminds me of Gui Boratto a little bit.
Have your been inspired by any US music? If so, who?
Yes mostly by pop coming from the US I would say. Although you don't really hear it in my music, I'm a big fan of Timbaland. Love his beats work, but I guess everyone does right? Also some new indie bands like Class Actress are amazing. Generally though I don't really connect country and music. If it's good music I will listen. If it's not good, I will not
A memorable experience behind the decks?
Moonpark Buenos Aires, first time ever I played for 8000 people. I did warmup and usually when you warm up you're playing for yourself + friends. But here within half an hour the place was really packed!
Favorite club?
Warung Club in Brazil, the energy there is just insane.
Best connection with a crowd?
Probably Full House club in Pristina. There's a recording of this set in my podcast on my website, the crowd really goes mental.
Your music seems to be appropriate for any time of the day, is this a balance of music that you intentionally select, or just the nature of your sound?
I think it's just in my sound. I don't really think about these things when I am producing music.
I've heard that your going to make a debut in the states this year, any cities your particularly wanting to play?
Yes actually I've been trying to do that for a couple of years but right now it seems like it is getting close. I've had quite a few requests and bookings from the USA in the past 2 years. But for me as a European artist it's almost impossible to take a single booking because of all the costs involved. So it has to be in the form of a tour. The main problem just always seemed to be getting all the heads together and organise one. I can't say much about cities yet, but as soon as I know more it will be all over my website and twitter of course.


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November 1, 1999, 12:00 AM
By Tom Carson
Americans hate politics, the truism goes, and few things prove it like our movies. As another campaign year looms, our disgust is already on view at the multiplex, both openly and in disguise. Traditionally, Hollywood's treatments of the subject pile hysteria--whether cynical or sappy--on top of ignorance, staying fixated on political corruption to avoid political debate. One of the most renowned is openly unconcerned with politics as such; steadfastly ignorant of the period's pervasive turmoil, All the President's Men makes the most sense as a medical drama, in which two dedicated dermatologists--Drs. Woodward and Bernstein--snip off a nasty mole.
That sums up the American take on the topic. Given our druthers, which is what popular culture is supposed to do, most of us view politics as an excrescence. Once the novelty wore off, audiences tired of Spike Lee's militance. Oliver Stone, our only other big-league filmmaker into polemic, is the William Castle of agitprop, best appreciated as a director of horror flicks. When Stone went meditative in Nixon, moviegoers stayed away as if they'd just heard popcorn was carcinogenic. And last spring, critics would have had to try bribery to get people to see Alexander Payne's dandy comedy Election, which gently suggests that our political mores aren't unrelated to our national character.
Election, which has just come out on video and DVD, is indeed a small gem. If anything, it's too carefully made; some more recklessness wouldn't hurt. But that's a minor failing in a satire that inveigles its viewers into siding with Matthew Broderick's sad-sack but decent teacher against Reese Witherspoon's go-getting high school pol before turning into caustic, rueful proof of the old Pogo line, "We have met the enemy, and he is us." Broderick's bitter final gesture vents the audience's own frustration with politics. But even he knows it's pathetic, and his disgust is also self-disgust--leaving no way out.
In Election, Payne broke an unwritten rule by not excluding the audience from his bleak view of politics. So long as we the people get a pass, movies that tell us our system is bankrupt aren't just welcome; paradoxically, they're often presented as reassuring proof of our idealism, not our alienation. I would hesitate to call this childish if the movies themselves weren't so hell-bent on treating naïveté as a solution. For instance, two of the dirtiest words in the American voter's lexicon are compromise and opportunism. Yet one is basic to democracy, and a fine example of the other is the Emancipation Proclamation.
Marking its sixtieth anniversary this year, the most beloved of all our political movies shows how deep these attitudes run. Reducing all issues to a duel between Innocence (James Stewart's idealistic newcomer) and Corruption (government itself), Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is as expressive of our craving to transcend the whole sordid business as The Wizard of Oz is of our desire to escape to home instead of from it. Still, you can rely on Capra to churn up darker stuff about America than Oliver Stone dreams of, only to find it innocuous and celebrate it. Despite provoking patriotism the way green corn causes diarrhea, Mr. Smith is a peculiar civics lesson, since the hero isn't elected, casts no votes, and saves himself by an undemocratic filibuster. In fact, in what we can only hope is a blissfully unwitting way, this ostensible ode to democracy is a hairbreadth away from turning into a favorable account of the rise of a dictator.
The most important modern variant on Capra's movie is Forrest Gump, aka Mr. Smith Becomes a World Power. Our conviction that ingenuousness equals virtue has never been so ringingly endorsed, since the maudlin story suggests that patriotism is literally for dimwits--and then champions the dimwits, while turning intelligence into a form of corruption. Unlike Mr. Smith, Gump isn't even about, um, gumption. It's about docility; the movie tells us that ours is not to reason why by giving us a hero who can't.
Sometimes, though, America's favorite political fairy tale rings true. You'll probably think I'm kidding when I say that Dick, Andrew Fleming's giddy, silly teenage comedy about our most notorious president, is a better Watergate movie than All the President's Men, but it is. So what if Fleming and cowriter Sheryl Longin's goofball plot treats history like a piñata? This frivolous-looking farce may be Hollywood's first depiction of the scandal to capture what Watergate meant, at least to the ordinary citizens who simply felt punched in the stomach by what Nixon had done. Sixty years after Mr. Smith, we're back at the crossroads of innocence and corruption; however, with (our) naïveté personified by two clueless, giggly teenage girls and corruption incarnated by Dan Hedaya's comic-horrible Tricky Dick himself, the confrontation is not only apt but simply, unexpectedly moving. The final scene, with Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams holding up their gleefully obscene sign while a maddened Nixon gives them the finger, can choke you up even while you're grinning, because Hedaya's grimace hints at genuine pain, and the girls' exhilaration is also the dawn of cynicism. And while the coda, with Dunst and Williams roller-skating to "Dancing Queen" around an empty Oval Office, practically hollers "soundtrack video," it's also beautiful--a surreal distillation of the moment when, with Nixon gone, the seventies became "the seventies."
Though less revisionist than antirevisionist, Dick also benefits from a quarter century of distance. One shudders at how a comedy of 2025 will size up Bill and Hillary; we don't know what to make of them now. The country's mixed feelings about Clinton crop up in the surprising number of nineties movies that feature imaginary presidents--which, under Reagan, might have struck viewers as lese-majeste or maybe just redundant. These range from the crude Executive Power, in which a Clintonish philanderer faces a murder rap, to movies about heroic commanders in chief whose valor serves as a fantasy correction of Clinton's draft dodging (Independence Day), if not an open rebuke (Air Force One). The flaccid Primary Colors aside, one valentine was Rob Reiner's The American President, which both copped to and rationalized Clinton's promiscuity by making his stand-in a widower before turning him, in Michael Douglas's final speech, into the fighting liberal he isn't. Any movie that downgrades Bob Dole into Richard Dreyfuss acting finky isn't exactly playing fair, but audiences probably enjoyed the romantic comedy without paying much heed to the plug for the ACLU.
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The [b]Cardiacs[/b] are preparing to go out on their first full UK tour since 2000 next month.
The art rock band who formed in 1977 are also preparing their first studio album of new material since 1999's 'Guns', which is due for release early next year.
The album's first taster will be a brand new single '[b]Ditzy Scene[/b]', backed with two other brand new tracks 'Gen' and 'Made All Up' - which is due for release just prior to the tour's start on November 5.
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This Saturday during PBS NewsHour Weekend we profile Ten Acre Organics, a sustainable urban farm in East Austin.
Friends Lloyd Minick and Michael Hanan founded the farm back in 2012 with the goal of creating a sustainable approach to agriculture in an urban environment. Now they've created a business, using composting, two aquaponics systems and naturally-ventilated greenhouses.
"We sell baskets of groceries and what we do is we try to sell ten of them in any week to neighbors and people that we work with, and then the food that's produced in the aquaponics system mostly herbs and greens we sell to local restaurants," Michael Hanan said.
You can find out more about Ten Acre Organics by watching an extended version of that story on the Central Texas Gardener blog.
On Sunday, we talk to Travis County officials to get a tally of how many people registered to vote before the midnight deadline on Monday, October 6th. Travis County Tax Registrar Bruce Elfant said they saw more people registering this year than in recent gubernatorial election cycles.
"It's not like a presidential cycle but it's higher than we typically see in a gubernatorial year," Elfant said. "We had locations at every Thundercloud Subs throughout Travis County. People could also register at any tax office location, or pick up cards at libraries or post offices. We believe we received as many as 10,000 cards on Monday."
We also spoke to some University of Texas students registering their classmates on campus.
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The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth (CFSY) with various partners has recently produced a very effective infographic that they introduce with the following text: In light of the June 25, 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Miller v. Alabama that … Continue reading
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Sara Kruzan — Originally Sentenced to JLWOP — is Eligible for Parole
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Sweetheart Patagonia came to us when she was a kitten with her sister and mom. She was adopted with her sister right away and spent several years in their home. Unfortunately, when Patagonia's sister passed away, her adopter also became increasingly busy and was away from home a great deal. Patagonia became anxious without companionship and her adopter felt the best solution was to return her to us. Patagonia has been nervous to be back at Tree House, as the environment is so different than a home. We can see her sweetness come through, however, and are hopeful that an adopter will soon see this loving nature and scoop her up.
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You'd think, from reading this blog, that I'm cooking non-stop, all the time, 24/7. A pie here, a pizza there, and lots of pasta and salads in between. And it's true. I do love to cook. And photographing and writing about it comes easily.
But I have off days too. Like when I look up at the clock, realize it's 7:30 pm and "oh f#%k", it's dinner again? I have to cook another meal NOW?
This happened last week. I had an amazing day with two clients, taking them around Rome on a culinary tour. Or should I just go ahead and say it: a total Roman pig out. We started with cappuccino and then went on to: pizza bianca, Campo dei Fiori grazing, prosciutto, lard and salame, more pizza bianca, cheese, wine, more pizza bianca, pastries, 3 course lunch, caffee doppio con panna and finally gelato.
No wonder by the time 7:30 rolled around, the the last thing I wanted to think about was dinner. But I knew I'd get hungry eventually. And I really knew Domenico (who had also been working all day, but not my kind of 'working') would be expecting something that looked like dinner.
Sine my tummy was full – bordering on over full – I wanted something light, comforting yet somehow curative. I wandered over to the vegetable store and the big box of carrots looked just right. I've never thought much about carrots having a season, but right now they are super sweet and I've been munching on them raw all week long.
Once home I simply added a bit of onion and a ton of fresh ginger. The ginger part was playing the role of curative here, helping to settle my tummy. If my hunger had been bigger (or my stomach less tender) I would have added a bunch of Indian spices too, as well as garlic. But i wanted this soup to be sweet, slightly tangy and definitely not challenging on the cooking or taste front.
Prepping and cooking time took at the most 20 minutes. So even though I was exhausted by my day of 'work', I had dinner on the table like the good Italian housewife that I am. We ate the soup warm (with a salad that will show up later this week) but fyi I had leftovers the next day, chilled, and it was delicious with a dollop of yogurt swirled in.
Carrot Ginger Soup
1 kilo/2 pound of carrots
4 tablespoons olive oil
1 small onion
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3 cups light broth
2 cups water
1 cup fresh orange juice
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
orange and lemon peel, grated
Chop onions and add to soup pot with oil. Add about a tsp of salt, and heat until softened, about 8 minutes. Don't let brown.
Add chopped ginger, and cook for another 3 minutes. Add carrots, which you have peeled and chopped roughly. Stir.
Add broth and then just enough water to cover.
Raise heat and cook until carrots are quite soft. About 15 minutes.
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Introducing...Trevino & His Two The Nothing Special X fabric Promo Mixes
Despite being at the forefront of drum & bass for the main span of his long and illustrious career, it wasn't until 2011 that Marcus Intalex released his first long player, '21'. Really showing off his diversity as a producer it expressed his love and appreciation all across the board of possible electronic genres. Never tenuous, these diversions into new territories are always underpinned by a tenable warmth and the stylistic precision that has become something of his trademark.
Now, Marcus has adopted the Trevino handle to umbrella his bespoke four four productions and DJ sets which made its first appearance on Martyn's 3024 label with his track 'Chip'. Craig Richard's The Nothing Special imprint will be the next outlet for Trevino music, something he's marking with a visit to Room Two this Saturday to perform alongside Craig, Appleblim and Addison Groove.
As part of Marcus' techno journey he has produced these two mixes ahead of Saturday night where he looks back to his own early Chicago house roots and forward to today's current sounds. We also spoke to him on being ready to set the focus in this new direction for an old, open-hearted love.
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Would you say the first time after becoming known as a 'drum and bass' type your album 21 was the first time you've released music that spans multiple genres and beats?
Even though I had previously realesed a couple of house things in the past I have never really mixed up the genres... I think that's more of an LP thing rather than something you do on a 12. So, with 21 being my debut LP it's the only time I really have had the chance...
It's become a bit of a trend for drum and bass producers to now turn their hands to more four four music, why do you think this is happening?
Yah I don't really know... I can only speak for myself. I have for years tried to make house and techno that I have been happy with, it's always been a passion of mine but with d'n'b I guess being the day job, I never really spent enough time in studio to really concentrate on it. It wasn't really until after the album last year that I felt I could afford to really try and up my game with the non d'n'b stuff. I have probably been hard at it now for about 9 months and its only now that I feel like I am starting to make music that I am happy with in this genre. What is also happening is I find I'm enjoying making d'n'b far more. Also, it has kind of taken away the stresses of having to deliver and I just fell like I can do what I want with it...
Would you say in your experience of being involved in electronic music from day one that open-mindedness is a new thing?
Ha no absolutely not... open mindedness is what has always pushed things forward and progressed the sound of scene, it's that attitude that drives new genres/sub genres. These days though, it has to be said that there's is a lot less stigma attached to writing music across many styles than there used to be. It's an extra freedom that I enjoy immensely.
Across all of your production, what would you say underpins the 'Marcus Intalex' sound?
That's simple: a good honest dance groove with feeling and its own personality...
Why have you taken on the moniker Trevino now?
I just didn't want to turn up at gigs with people wondering if I was going to play house or D'n'B or techno or all three... it just allows me to separate the two sounds as I really don't think they go together in terms of a DJ set.
You're producing under this name as well as DJing – what kind of sound can we expect on your forthcoming Nothing Special record?
The Trevino sound is very much a sound in progress. I feel like I am starting by writing music that I have always wanted to make, music that was inspired by being in love with the early sounds of Chicago and Detroit. Backtracking and Jauntwofive are almost tribute records to the producers of that era.
Those very producers are the people most responsible for my love of dance music, I'm just trying to get it all out of my system; it's been shacked up inside me for over 20 years.
What sounds are inspiring you right now?
Too much at the moment... I can't keep up... I really like a bit of everything... good solid American sounding house and techno... a lot of Berlin sounding European techno bits of tech house... The post dub step UK guys... there's such a wealth of it.
You've provided two mixes here for us as you explore Trevino as a DJ's sound – can you talk us through the track selection and what ideas you wanted to get across in them?
Ha no I don't think I can... I can barely remember what I played, I think one is me going though some older and more housey stuff and the other one being newer material and a little harder edged in places. My main aim with them is to try and get the feel of the music for myself... try and build a story through the mix and basically just prepare myself for what should be an interesting two hours next Saturday...