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"7.5 million students will take out a subsidized Stafford student loans this fall to help pay for college. With interest rates on those loans set to double in 16 days, Congress has yet to take action. Time has almost run out – millions of student will incur $1,000 of extra debt if Congress keeps hitting the snooze button.
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THUNG PHRA, Thailand, Mar 22, 2010 (IPS) – Once a stronghold of Thailand's banned communist party, this north-east rural outpost has been drawing a different kind of people railing against the political order set in the capital Bangkok.
Women like Vitchunai Silasi are among the residents from nine villages close to Thung Phra who have gathered here since July last year to set up a protest village amid a eucalyptus plantation. They are here to fight for their land rights.
She appears in no hurry to uproot what they have built: a temporary row of Thai-style rural houses with wood and bamboo frames and thatched roofs that are open to the elements. Men and women relax in them when not working in the nearby fields.
"We want to protest against the impact commercial forests have had on our right to own our land," said the 36-year-old mother, echoing the sentiments of some 160 families who are supporting this protest village in the north- east province of Chaiya Phum. "This is a way of showing that this land belongs to us."
Taking over a slice of land and holding on to it for months is far more effective than holding a protest rally outside a government office, adds Ruchan Chinviti, a tapioca farmer. "We tried a march and got little attention. But the protest village has got our message across."
Faded messages printed on cloth banners displayed at the entrance to this unique village amplify the rationale for such brazen encroachment. "Bring the land back to the people," added one. "This land is our property," announced another.
It is a setting that has attracted men from the provincial forestry authority. From beyond a bamboo pole that serves as the entrance to this occupied site, four men dressed in dark blue and military-style jackets keep a close watch on the goings on in the protest village
This scene, however, is far from an isolated one. It is, in fact, an accepted style of protesting in rural Thailand that has taken root over the years.
Besides here in the north-east, similar protest villages have sprung up in the north and the south of this South-east Asian country. This is because the struggle for land rights by poor rural communities affects over six million people, according to one estimate.
Villages impacted by dam construction projects have also turned to this innovative protest strategy of occupation, which can last for months if not years, as was the case of a protest village built near a controversial dam in north-eastern Ubon Rachathani province.
That village near the Pak Mun Dam became a symbol of defiance from 1999 till 2002, when the disaffected villagers were attacked by thugs and the protest site was burnt down.
Occupation is also a strategy endorsed by the Assembly of the Poor, a leading network of grassroots non-governmental organisations championing the cause of rural and urban poor. In the early 1990s, the assembly gave the cosmopolitan citizens of the Thai capital their first taste of rural-style protest when they camped outside the prime minister's office in Bangkok for 99 days to make their demands heard.
"Holding on to such protest site for a long time is a negotiating strategy," said Prawat 'Sompop' Bunnag, a senior adviser of the Assembly of the Poor in the north-east. "To be there on a site you have claimed for your cause is to remind the government that they have to negotiate with you. It gives you strength to make your demands."
"It is a very effective method," he added during an interview in the city of Khon Kaen. "A protest march only has symbolic value. After you finish and go home, the authorities will forget your issues."
Temporary occupation is also underway now, on a march larger scale and with higher political stakes, by the anti-government red-shirt protesters in Bangkok. The tens of thousands of supporters of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) have taken over a wide boulevard in a historic part of the capital and have occupied it since Mar. 13 as part of their push to force the government to dissolve parliament and call for an early election.
"This is how we protest outside Bangkok, in the rural areas," said Buchum Wongngo, a supporter of the red shirts from the north-east, where many of the UDD supporters camped at the protest site in the capital come from. In the last two consecutive weekends, the UDD's crowds had swelled to over 120,000, and they appeared in no rush to disband and head home.
The red shirts, whose political patron is the fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, are not the first to use this style of protest in taking on the government on pivotal national issues.
They were preceded in 2008 by a yellow-shirt wearing protest movement drawn from the capital's affluent middle class and entrenched elite, who rallied to drive from power an administration of Thaksin's allies.
In a nod to a rural form of civil disobedience, the yellow shirts began their protest with the occupation of a road close to where the UDD have now taken control. They then raised the ante by storming into the compound of the prime minister's office and occupied it for three months, conducting round- the-clock rallies.
Today, this protest culture with roots from rural Thailand has come a long way since 1992, when activists say it was used with major results.
"We organised a march to Pak Chong and blocked a major road for five days to force the government to negotiate about the eviction of villagers," recalls Deja Premrudelert, former chairman of the NGO Coordinating Committee for Development in the North-East.
"There were 20,000 people who blocked the highway," he told IPS of that event in the north-east province of Nakhon Ratchasima. "We didn't know when we turned the highway into a protest site what will happen and how it will end."
The same uncertainty prevails in the Thung Phra protest village. In Bangkok, where its much larger parallel has taken root, UDD leaders appear to have few answers too about what lies in the days ahead as they demand to talk to no less than Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.
But for now, red shirt supporters like Laksamon Wachirasirikul want to give Bangkok a taste of how rural communities have learned to exert their rights in Khon Kaen, where she comes from. "The longer we stay at the protest site in Bangkok, the government cannot ignore us and our demands," says the 45-year-old. "I will stay at the red shirt rally for days."


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Game No. 6 – Raptors 92, Cavaliers 77
The Raptors picked up their first home win of the season, put together their first string of back-to-back wins and moved back to .500, at 3-3, with a dominating 15-point victory over the lowly Cavs.
Here are six thoughts on the game.
1- I tweeted after the game that over the last couple of contests, Andrea Bargnani, Jose Calderon and DeMar DeRozan have been making it difficult to pick a clear cut Raptors Player of the Game for these recap posts. I'll have a thought on each of them for this post. First, on Andrea. Bargnani has had good scoring stretches over his six-year NBA career, but never has he played at a level worthy of his "Il Mago" nickname like he is right now. The guy is playing absolutely lights out from an offensive standpoint. He's hitting his open threes and being more selective with when he takes them. He's dominating other big men on the elbows and the high post, and most encouraging, he's blowing by guys and finishing strong in the low post. Right now, Andrea looks almost unguardable, and in addition to his improved defence and extra effort on the boards, he's been showing off his impressive court vision with some dazzling passes. Am I convinced he can keep this up for four months and 66 games? Not yet, but if he's still playing like this a month from now, we'll be watching him on All Star weekend in Orlando.
2- The reason I had a hard time picking between Bargnani and Calderon for player of the game is because while Andrea was lighting it up from every spot on the floor, a lot of it had to do with getting some ridiculously open looks after great finds from Jose. Similar to what I wrote about Bargnani, this is one of the most impressive stretches of Calderon's career. Another double-double in the books for Jose, and another night where you were looking up at the scoreboard thinking he had a legitimate chance at a triple-double. While Bargnani has surprised me with his passing ability through five games, Calderon has impressed me with his jump and effort on the boards. For an older, 6-3 guard who has never averaged more than three rebounds per game, Jose has an impressive 25 boards through six games (just over four per game). And I'm not just seeing the usual rebounds that simply fall to point guards sometimes, Jose is actually going up in crowds and coming out with the ball.
3- DeMar DeRozan continues to prove that his early three-point shooting success is no fluke. We had seen glimpses of an improved stroke from distance in DeMar's first five games this season, but Wednesday night might have been his coming out party from behind the arc. After the worst three-point shooting display in NBA history last season, the 22-year-old claimed to have worked his tail off on extending his shooting range during the extended off-season. He started the new season going five-of-eight from downtown in five games, while never attempting more than two in any one of those games. Against the Cavs on Wednesday alone, DeRozan made as many threes as he had in the previous five games combined, and as many as he converted all of last season. Think about that for a second. I'm officially convinced DeMar has an added weapon in his offensive arsenal. As long as he doesn't start camping out on the arc thinking he's a three-point specialist, he'll be fine. Though I don't think we have to worry about that.
4- After the last game against the Knicks, I mentioned that Ed Davis was really struggling and wasn't getting nearly the amount of minutes I assumed he would get coming into the season. Some commenters believed Davis simply needed to play better, others thought Dwane Casey simply needed to give the young big man more time. It's really a "Chicken and egg" thing, but on Wednesday, I think we saw the beginning of the end of Davis' early season slump. Ed started the game against the Cavs the same way he had started the last few games, hesitant and rusty looking on offence, not quite as sharp as usual on defence. But in the second half, you could see Davis get a little more comfortable with each possession. He was getting into great defensive positions and contesting shots, he was getting his hands on rebounds, and on the offensive end, he was setting some solid screens and rolling hard to the basket. The numbers weren't there yet (at the time, I believe he had two points and one rebound), but Casey rewarded the effort by letting Davis play the majority of the fourth quarter. Ed responded with his best quarter of basketball since opening night, and finished the game with a very respectable eight points and seven rebounds in 23 minutes.
5- One thing I've noticed in two home games this season that I didn't see much of in the last few seasons was intense, vocal coaching coming from the Raptors bench. And I'm not just talking about Dwane Casey himself. At various points in the games against the Pacers and Cavs, I could see four Raptors coaches either standing up and hollering something at their players or gesturing instructions. The only times I saw guys doing that last season, Reggie Evans or P.J. Carlesimo were doing it. Does it automatically mean that the coaching this year is better? No, but from a fan's vantage point, it definitely looks like the entire coaching staff is more into the game.
6- In a recent conversation with RaptorBlog founder and editor Scott Carefoot, we discussed the somewhat easy stretch of the schedule the Raptors are in right now, and how if they could take advantage of it, we might have to start taking this team more seriously. After their win against Cleveland, the Raptors now continue a stretch of very winnable games against the Nets, 76ers, Timberwolves, Wizards and Kings, with three of those five games coming at home. The only team on that list I'm convinced is better than the Raptors is Philadelphia, who I predicted would take the eighth and final playoff spot in the East. I'm not going to debate whether winning those winnable games or finding a way to lose them is better for this franchise, and I'm not even going to predict how many the Raptors will win of the five, but I will say this, with the way this team is playing right now, they should be taken seriously. Not as a contender (don't make me laugh) or even a playoff team yet, but as a scrappy young team that might be able to beat any team on any given night. To put it in perspective, in the last three games (a total of 144 minutes of basketball), the Raptors have trailed for a grand total of just 10-15 minutes, with two of those games coming against legitimate playoff teams in the East.
Raptors Player of the Game: Andrea Bargnani – 34 Min, 31 Pts, 11-16 FG, 3-7 3Pt, 6-7 FT, 7 Reb, 3 Ast, 1 Blk, 2 TO
Cavaliers Player of the Game: Antawn Jamison – 32 Min, 19 Pts, 8-19 FG, 1-5 3Pt, 2-4 FT, 6 Reb, 1 Blk, 2 TO


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CLARK FREEPORT -- The Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Foundation Incorporated has set the 18th hot air balloon festival on February 21 to 24, 2013.
A memorandum of agreement (MOA) was recently forged by the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA), Clark Development Corporation (CDC), Clark International Airport Corporation (CIAC), PIHABF, and Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA).
Officials present during the agreement signing at the MIAA board room were President and acting CDC President Arnel Paciano Casanova; CIAC President and Chief Executive Officer Victor Jose Luciano and PIHABF President Captain Joy Roa.
The upcoming 18th Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta titled "A Weekend of Everything that Flies" will be held at the Omni Aviation Complex in the Clark Freeport.
CDC Tourism Promotions Manager Noemi Garcia, MIAA General Manager Jose Angel Honrado, CDC Executive Vice-President Philip Panlilio, CIAC Executive Vice-President and COO Bienvenido Manga and CDC Assistant Vice-President Bernie Angeles were also present during the MOA signing.
In 2012, some 26 balloons, including six specially shaped balloons with shapes of a car, birthday cake, ice cream, Sunkist, and a Kiwi mascot, were flown.
Published in the Sun.Star Pampanga newspaper on December 11, 2012.
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We dive into uncharted territory with Sony Playstation.
This week we were cordially invited by Playstation Middle East to attend an Iftar at Wild Peeta. If you don't know what Wild Peeta is, you should know that you IP has been logged and you will be banned from this site in 4 minutes. Okay just kidding. Wild Peeta is the uber-cool fusion shawarma place next to Dubai World Trade Centre, and is a regular haunt for me (and is probably the only reason I ride the metro!). I sauntered through the doors this evening to be greeted by the familiar faces of fellow gamers and Tweeps. The venue was sporting a demo station for Resistance 3, as well as a very cool Uncharted 3 art piece inspired by the artwork at Wild Peeta. Not to mention Nathan Drake stickers on our servings of tea!
After tucking into our gracefully wrapped shawarmas, May El Husseiny and Lina Chaaban from Sony Playstation Middle East stepped forward to give us the scoop on what they had in store for us in the coming months. First off was an update on GAMES11 – this year it's being held at The Dubai Mall Ice Rink, from Sept 22nd to 24th and promises to be even better than last year. There were around 50,000 attendees at GAMES10, and it's going to be an easy task to surpass that this year. We will of course be bringing you all the coverage from the show, so make sure you check back with us and on the official GAMES11 website.
Now it's evident that there's plenty of build-up leading to the release of Uncharted 3, and Sony were eager to get our tongues wagging with an epic announcement known as Uncharted: Treasure Hunter. While I would love to sit and spill all of the glorious details, I'm going to wait a bit longer for a dedicated post, but all I can say is that if you ever thought you could pull off adventure the way Nathan Drake does, your chance will be coming up sooner than you think.
We wrapped up the evening with a quick lucky draw, where the winner would walk away with a canvas print of the Uncharted artwork that was hanging on the wall. The lucky winner was Khalid (@KhalidAKH) who quite happily showed off his trophy.
With GAMES11 around the corner and some great games being released in the months to come, it's going to be a busy month for Sony, so make sure you watch this space for all the news and updates.
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Former hairdressers converted into a cosy cafe bar and set in a small lane close to the splendid St Mary le Tower (14th cent. church). Nicely decorated with exposed beams.
On the evidence of the ancient-looking and very hefty sign-hanger on the corner, this must have been a pub in the distant past as well, but we have no details.
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Via Greg Sargent, this should scare the piss out of every Democrat.
I'd like you to compare your financial situation to what it was four years ago, during the last presidential election when George W. Bush was still president. Would you say that you are financially better off now than you were four years ago, or are you financially worse off?
Better off: 47
Worse off: 41
Only a six point margin from the crappy Bush years when we suffered from two different recessions, one of them being the deepest since the Great Depression. This is phenomenally bad news if it bears out in other "are you better off?" polls. Though I'd like to remind everyone of something I wrote this week. To repeat:
GDP is growing steadily. Jobs are being added every month. Unemployment is slowly declining (with a few blips along the trendline). The deficit is shrinking. Middle and working class taxes are lower. Inflation is nearly an entire percentage point below the average that began in the middle 1920s (long term average is 3.43%, while our current rate is 2.3% and dropping). The price of oil dropped below $90 last week and stockpiles are huge — the highest level in 22 years. New home sales are up by 10 percent over a year ago. Moody's Analytics is calling this a "genuine rebound" in housing and mortgage rates remain tantalizingly low. Consumer debt is declining and corporate profits — despite the president's false reputation as a profit-hating commie — are nearly double what they were in the boom times of 1999. 9.75 percent at the end of 2011, compared with 5.7 percent in the final quarter of 1999. The Dow has doubled since the deepest, darkest days of the Great Recession and some analysts suggest that the DJIA should be around 20,000, not 13,000, given all of these positive indicators.
Are the American people better off? They should be. And if they're not, they ought to look at the party they elected to run Congress in 2010 — the party that's filibustered or blocked every job creation measure. Every single one.


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she wears the thing around her neck to hide her "adam's apple"
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Does anyone know this lady's name?
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she should wear the collar in the right way .... lol
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i like so much
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she a sexy girl
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I am 100 % sure that "she" is a he that has had A LOT of surguries. (thats a man with a pussy, boob implants, lip injections, and hormone therapy.) i work in the field... LOL
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Its a guy lol
delicious June 24, 2010
this "mature woman" is a man!! ahahaa
herpaderp November 28, 2010
100% a dude, look at those arms
mya December 1, 2010
even if its a he i would hit that
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ok, kann bei mir weiter machen.....
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She did a good job.
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its true it is a man
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vanessa bella was born in 1948 thats why she has so much surgery. She is no man.
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Man, she makes me wicked hard!!
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You cant tell it bie the face that its a man.Yuck Good thing i stope'd jerking off in time xd
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even it is a man, im down
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- the recommendation of the Board of Finance to approve a transfer in an amount not to exceed $50,000 from the Capital Non-Recurring Reserve Fund to the Fire Marshal Capital Improvement budget for the purpose of purchasing a vehicle for the Fire Marshal.
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I first saw it in a container at Conesium Gardens in Washington. It was in a large container without a hole, in a wet condition. Like conditions that Bald Cypress would grow. In my PA Garden it grows quite fast.Mine is about 6 x3. I started in about 1-2 gal about 10 yrs ago. I would not prune it. Find a location that allows it to grow, If you need good information on how to grow conifers take a drive to Sandy Oregon http://www.porterhowse.com/ |
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January 24, 2008, 6:51 AM
By Nick Flynn
(2007) I had a dream about this room before I found myself here. In the dream the room was the size of a barn, with six spaces divided by hastily built half-walls. In each room there was a shackle screwed into the floor, nothing more than a large eyebolt, really, and I worried that this eyebolt wasn't strong enough -- it needed to be strong enough to hold a man. It needed to be like the shackles I had seen in the photographs, cemented into the floors. The rooms were dark, empty, the prisoners hadn't been brought in yet. I thought to leave a candle, and a lighter, but then I thought the man would use the lighter to set fire to his shackles, or to himself, or to the whole barn. I ended up leaving the candle and lighter in a corner, and if the man could reach it, if he knew to look, then come what may.
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When I was younger, I worked for gangsters for a few years, mostly they just smuggled drugs. In my mind I was being groomed to make a run, to take a boat down to Colombia, sail it back full of marijuana, and it is very likely this was true. It was simple -- I'd grown up broke, my mother was still broke, and this was a way to get some money. Fast money, real money. Years later, when I first moved to New York, I lived in Brooklyn with an artist who would become one of my closest friends. He'd grown up with money, and after a few years, when I told him about my misspent youth, about my plan of making a run, he had a hard time processing it, especially the part where I knew I was putting myself in a position where I might have needed to carry a gun, which meant I might have needed to use it. No way, he said, you'd never do that, and I tried to explain that it wasn't something I was proud of, it wasn't something I would have wanted to have done, but at that time, when I was eighteen, nineteen, I was willing to put myself in the position where it might happen.
What I was trying to say, maybe, is that I don't know what it is I'm capable of transforming into. When I was nineteen, I knew the consequences of getting onto a boat laden with drugs, I knew the consequences of carrying a gun, and part of me was willing to do it anyway, or at least to consider doing it. But maybe it's more accurate to say what John Lennon said, in a fictionalized version of his life -- the film Backbeat -- when asked why he was so angry. I'm not angry, he answered -- Just fucken desperate.
(2007) It is likely you have seen Achmad before -- he is the naked man being dragged by a leash out of a cell by a girl named England. This is the third time the lawyers have met with Achmad. The first time was in Amman, Jordan, where he told about his years in Abu Ghraib. The second time was in Istanbul, when a doctor examined him, to corroborate his scars. This time is for him to look through the binders of the now-famous photographs, to identify who and what he can.
Achmad was a businessman awaiting a shipment of air conditioners from Iran when the CIA broke into his hotel room and arrested him. He was in his late twenties then. When we get to the photograph of him being dragged by the leash, we stop. I remember that night, he says, I remember everything. And then he tells us the story. The lawyer never takes her eyes off his face as he speaks, softly repeating, And then what happened, and then what, as he tells of his body being dragged from room to room, cell to cell.
It is only a year since Achmad was released from prison. The soldiers called the day of his release "the happy bus day." Tomorrow you will get to ride on the happy bus, they told him. Today, a year later, Achmad shakes his head as he looks at the photographs of himself from that time -- I cannot recognize myself as that man, he says. Can you?
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I have a packet of photographs from when my grandparents were first married, before they had children, or maybe they simply left the kids at home. The photographs are of a road trip to Mexico, clearly from a time before everything fell apart. In each of the photographs, they are smiling -- maybe it was after my grandfather got back from the war, or else it was just before. It could have been in the thirties, they had money in the Depression, they could have afforded a road trip. These few photographs reveal more about their early life together than anything either one of them ever told me. In one blurry photograph my grandfather is flat on his back on a hotel bed, a bottle of what I imagine to be tequila rising straight up from his mouth to the ceiling, as if a flower is growing from his mouth, as if he is going to finally fill himself completely. I imagine my grandmother took this shot, and I imagine her laughing gleefully as she did, having just taken a pull herself.
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[See here for my original introduction to MSH]
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You know what I want for Christmas? Markup Barbie. You pull a string and she says "XML is tough".
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http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/07/06/toughUpdate: great to see that a print edition of Mark's Dive Into Python book is now available.
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Originally published Monday, March 12, 2012 at 8:22 PM
Massacre of Afghans latest blow to U.S. plans
Sunday's killing spree by an Army staff sergeant and other recent incidents are undermining U.S. efforts to reach an understanding with the Afghan government and to push the Taliban into peace talks.
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WASHINGTON — Pentagon officials insisted Monday that the weekend's Afghanistan killing spree was an "isolated incident" and said a 38-year-old Joint Base Lewis-McChord Army staff sergeant soon would be charged in connection with the deaths of 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, en route to Kyrgyzstan, said Monday night that the soldier could face execution.
"We seem to get tested almost every other day with challenges that test our leadership and our commitment to the mission that we're involved in," Panetta said. "War is hell."
Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, a premeditated-murder conviction could carry the death penalty.
Regardless of the charges, defense and security experts worried Monday that the fallout from Sunday's massacre in southern Kandahar province will be anything but isolated.
In the perception of Afghans, the experts said, the rampage merely adds to previous nightmares: the recent burning of Qurans by U.S. soldiers, eight children killed in February by NATO bombs, a video of Marines urinating on corpses, and others. Each incident separately posed problems for the Obama administration's plans for an orderly end to the U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan, but the question now is whether, taken together, the incidents have made the U.S. presence there untenable.
"The cumulative effect of these events makes it harder to climb what was already a very steep hill," said John Nagl, an expert on military counterinsurgency strategy and a professor at the U.S. Naval Academy.
The pillars of the Obama administration's plans to wind down the decadelong Afghan war seem increasingly shaky. As news of the killings sparked outrage in Afghanistan — prompting U.S. forces to beef up security precautions — it seemed increasingly unclear whether the United States could reach an agreement with the Afghan government for a long-term role for the American military, which U.S. officials are seeking to ensure that al-Qaida and Taliban extremists don't regain a safe haven there.
The incident also undermined U.S. efforts to push Taliban leaders into peace talks with the Afghan government, analysts said. As calls grow for U.S. forces to exit Afghanistan, a growing number of Afghans believe the Taliban are content to wait out the end of the U.S. presence.
"Our strategy is based on building trust and goodwill," Nagl said. "That trust takes a long time to build and can be destroyed by events like this very quickly."
In Afghanistan, the killings fed into a narrative, promoted by the Taliban, that the U.S.-led international coalition frequently kills civilians. Afghan lawmakers condemned the shooting spree, saying "Afghans have run out of patience with arbitrary acts of foreign forces," according to a statement by the lower house of Parliament, which canceled its session Monday in protest over the killings.
The Taliban wasted little time taking advantage of the situation, issuing a statement blasting the "sick-minded American savages."
President Obama told WFTV in Orlando, Fla., that the killings were "in no way ... representative of the enormous sacrifices that our men and women have made in Afghanistan." But he added, "It does signal the importance of us transitioning in accordance with my plans that Afghans are taking more of the initiative in security."
White House press secretary Jay Carney said the shootings would not impact the timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops.
"We will continue to pursue our strategic objective in Afghanistan, which (is) about the U.S. national-security interest and the protection of the United States, our personnel and our allies," Carney said.
Carney did say NATO ministers would discuss the withdrawal timetable when they meet in May. But he stressed the rampage would not shift the course of those talks.
"I do not believe that this incident will change the timetable of a strategy that was designed and is being implemented in a way to allow for the withdrawal of U.S. forces, to allow for the transfer of lead security authority over to the Afghans, a process that will be completed no later than the end of 2014," Carney said.
Anthony Cordesman, a defense expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the massacre points to the need for a new Afghanistan strategy. He criticized the Obama administration for sticking with a withdrawal plan that he says is failing and argued that it's time to accept that the mission has failed and bring U.S. troops home, or to construct "a real transition strategy based on credible goals, credible resources, and doing things the Afghan way."
"We need to face the fact that (the massacre) only highlights the growing problem the United States faces in creating any kind of strategy for Afghanistan that can survive engagement with reality," Cordesman said.
Steven Thomma of the McClatchy Washington bureau and special correspondent Ali Safi in Kabul contributed to this report.


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LOS ANGELES - September 25, 2013 - Horror has a new home! Fandango, the nation's leading moviegoer destination, announced today the launch of "House of Screams" (http://www.fandango.com/houseofscreams), its first-ever video and digital content destination dedicated to Hollywood's scariest movie moments and upcoming horror films. "House of Screams" also provides moviegoers access to advance ticketing at more than 22,000 screens nationwide.
Slash, Rock & Roll Hall of Famer and now film producer, will provide exclusive and original video content to Fandango's "House of Screams." Slash will co-host with Fandango correspondent Tiffany Smith a special video mini-series, "Slash's Screamings," highlighting the season's new horror films -- from the Chloe Grace Moretz remake of Stephen King's "Carrie" to the Amber Heard thriller, "All the Boys Love Mandy Lane." "House of Screams" will also showcase an exclusive 6-minute excerpt from Anchor Bay and Slasher Films' upcoming horror film, "Nothing Left to Fear," starring Anne Heche, James Tupper and Clancy Brown, as well as footage from the movie's star-studded Hollywood screening. "Nothing Left to Fear," which opens on October 4, features original music produced by Slash.
Also debuting in Fandango's "House of Screams" is a "Behind the Screams" video mini-series, hosted by Tiffany Smith, featuring an insider's look at Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights. Featured segments will highlight Universal's Eyegore Awards, horror movie premieres, and the secrets behind gory special effects make-up.
"For tons of moviegoers and fear fanatics, Halloween is their favorite time of year," said Tiffany Smith, Fandango correspondent. "When they visit Fandango's House of Screams, they'll be able to quickly find everything there is to know about upcoming horror flicks, along with all 'the fright stuff' they love!"
To help kick off "House of Screams," Fandango is launching the "Fear Face-Off: 13 Days of Psychos" Facebook application, which pits "Psycho's" Norman Bates against the likes of Freddy, Jason, Leatherface, and other masters of menace in a social tug-of-war for big-screen bad guy dominance at http://facebook.com/fandango.
In addition, "House of Screams" will offer special editorial features including "When Animals Attack" Movies, 10 Unlikely Horror Movie Debuts, Great Horror Comedies, The Best and Worst Slasher Villains, and more.
"House of Screams" is the latest example of how Fandango is offering premium video and editorial content along with advance ticketing opportunities to help movie fans perfect their moviegoing experience. Earlier this year, Fandango launched "Weekend Ticket," a weekly movie recommendation show hosted by chief correspondent Dave Karger, to help moviegoers pick the right film for them, followed by audience-based content hubs including "The Family Room" and "Summer of Action."
About Fandango
Fandango, the nation's leading moviegoer destination and an NBCUniversal company, sells tickets to more than 22,000 screens nationwide. Fandango entertains and informs consumers with reviews, commentary, celebrity interviews and trailers, and offers the ability to quickly select a film, plan where and when to see it, and conveniently buy tickets in advance. For many theaters, fans can print their tickets at home or receive them as a paperless Mobile Ticket on their smartphones. Fandango's top-ranking movie ticketing apps, with 37 million downloads, are available on the iPhone and iPad, Android, and many other platforms. Fandango is enjoyed by more than 30 million online and mobile visitors each month, according to comScore. Film fans also find Fandango on Facebook at www.facebook.com/fandango and on Twitter @Fandango.
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Anchor Bay Films is a division of Anchor Bay Entertainment and provides quality distribution with operations in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and offers distribution capabilities in other key territories. Anchor Bay Films uniquely offers the creative community a fully integrated distribution capability on all platforms and an international solution extending beyond the United States. The company focuses on a platform release strategy for its films with an eye toward maximizing their potential across all ancillary distribution platforms. Upcoming theatrical releases include Billy Bob Thornton's Jayne Mansfield's Car starring Robert Duvall, John Hurt, Kevin Bacon and Ray Stevenson and Nothing Left to Fear, the first release from iconic rocker Slash's production company Slasher Films. Films in its library include the recent theatrical release of Rob Zombie's The Lords of Salem starring Sheri Moon Zombie, Bruce Davison and genre favorite Ken Foree, 10 Years starring Channing Tatum and Rosario Dawson, the critically-acclaimed comedy City Island starring Andy Garcia and Solitary Man starring Michael Douglas as well as Kill the Irishman starring Ray Stevenson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Val Kilmer and Christopher Walken, Toronto Film Festival award-winner Beautiful Boy with Maria Bello and Michael Sheen and Cannes 2011 premiere Corman's World. Anchor Bay Entertainment (www.anchorbayentertainment.com) is a Starz (NASDAQ: STRZA, STRZB) business, www.starz.com.
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Birch Hill Catering has a barn, not sure how much it is though. Good luck and congrats!
We are looking for the perfect barn too and we looked into them and will most likely be using them for catering (since they do off-site catering as well).Birch Hill Catering has a barn, not sure how much it is though. Good luck and congrats! http://www.birchhillcatering.com/stablegate.htm
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Full Moon http://www.fullmoonresort.com/barn-weddings-gallery.html = beutiful area! Lots of nature with a creek, large grounds, on site lodging. The barn has been expanded and doesn't look a whole lot like a traditional barn but they have really good food and are very easy to work with!
Olde Tater Barn http://www.theoldetaterbarn.com/ = great barn, beautiful new floor, he even said he was going to renovate it a little to have a better outdoor space for people to be during the reception. You can get married on the grounds around the barn which are pretty and he can even do the cerimony if you would like. They have a nice bar and attached kitchen where they or someone else can do the cooking. John is very easy to work with and really knows his stuff. No lodging on site so you would have to get a bus for your guests.
MKJ Farms https://www.facebook.com/mkjfarm = their website is not helpful but the barn is great!! He is sort of new to the barn wedding sceen and is willing to work with any idea you have. The barn is HUGE!! and the bar inside is a beautiful piece of woodwork. Cerimonies on site are encoraged but the place to do them is sort of awkwardly on a hill.
Springdale Farms http://www.springdalefarmbb.com/events.html = we have not been to this one but the website makes it look gorgeous. The reason we have not looked into this further is because they kick you out at 10 or 11 because of noise codes.
Frog Pond B&B http://www.frogpondbandb.com/ = Gorgeous for a small wedding!!! You can get married by the pond and have the reception in an old carriage barn that has a ton of character!! And there are even a couple rooms on site. It is tucked away a little and a hidden jem!
The Barn http://www.thebarnparty.com/ = This barn is great! Absolutely beautiful inside! It has very well manicured landscaping, it is rustic, well kept, and even smells great! :-D. As others have said, it is very clost to the road and the owner is difficult to get ahold of.
The Red Barn http://www.margaretville.net/catskills-attractions/attractions-listing_.php?id=183 = closed
Stone Tavern http://www.stonetavernfarm.com/WEDDINGS.html = GREAT PLACE! Was our number one choice until we realized that we could not afford it. They do a full weekend weddings there and you get the run of the place. Barn, gazeebo, pond, horses, ATVs, fire pits, paintball if you want! And they have a beautiful site on a hill that overlooks the catskills for your cerimony!
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Hi, I have an1890's style barn and farm about 30 mi. SE of Syracuse that has been in my family since the early 1900's. We have hosted family reunions and weddings here for the past 15 years and are just now opening it up to outside weddings. I realize that you may well have already locked in a venue but if not, you can go to our just-created website barnesbarn.net, or call me at (315) 941-5875. Thanks, Mike BarnesHi all! I am recently engaged and very early in the process of planning my wedding! We're looking at Summer 2013 and would love to do something that begins outside in the afternoon and incorporates a barn setting and/or beautiful scenery. I'm thinking of it as a "fun but exciting and beautiful BBQ". I've looked at the Pruyn House online - does anyone have any experience with the barn there? If anyone has any ideas or experience with any interesting locations, please let me know! We're still determining our budget but we're trying to keep costs as low as we can and we're open to any and all ideas! I grew up in the Albany area but moved away for a few years, so any tips are much appreciated!
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Contact: Michael Elbe - firstname.lastname@example.com / (845) 795-1310 -This is a very modern meets country type of wedding venue. There is a barn on the property that they rent out for events. The barn is $3,000. There are bathrooms inside and that includes all of your tables, chairs, plates, silverware, glasses etc. They have an onsite caterer that you work through with fairly reasonable prices. The barn is very nice, functional space but it is definitely not your old, barn fell. When we walked inside, it had the scent of fresh lumber because of the addition they just added to it. This nice thing about it is that there is a spa and rooms right on the property so you get the barn feel in a more traditional wedding setting. We found that it was not for us but definiely something to look into. |


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I also have a Vriesea Foseriana (I think) it is the one on the top right of the forum page. It has variegated leaves, this will be my first birth with this plant. I am a new collector, and so enjoying these beautiful blooms. Do we still water in the centre while they are blooming ? and is there a need to fertilise ? and what with if so?? |
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Hi Junek, Welcome to the forum!! The plant in the top right of the forum page is actually aechmea fasciata. If you want to check on the fcbs website the link is below- http://fcbs.org/pictures.htm When you are there look to the left and click on aechmea then "F" then click on fasciata and see if that looks like yours. Keep watering when it is flowering but i do not see the need to fertilze as it is near the end of it's life. Some people do to produce more pups. We all love broms here, it's called "the brom bug" dooley. |
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Hi dooleybugs, Thanks for your reply. I shall be interested to see how this big bloom turns out. Then I shall do the searching as you suggested. I have notice when looking, certain TV shows, mainly in UK that Bromeliads are used as indoor plants, especially in a show Grumpy Old Women. junek |
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