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Just a few metres from the sea at the foot of Mont Boron and near the Cap de Nice, you'll find a tiny patch of greenery - the Théodore de Banville garden. This is a very beautiful part of the city, a less built up area with a slightly village feel to it. The garden fits perfectly into these surroundings. A couple of rather large trees provide some welcome shade during the summer months and from one of the benches in the garden, visitors can gaze out over the sea. A beautiful sculpture adds even more charm to this neat little park, which is an ideal place for a picnic of delicious 'pan-bagnats' - the region's own special spin on the traditional sandwich.
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Needs of gas-based projects ignored by allocation of gas to merchant plants
Hefty electricity bills received by power consumers every month is being attributed to a "mistake" committed by the Union Petroleum Ministry in allocating gas to two merchants plants in the State -- Lanco II (370 MW) and GMR II barge-mounted (220 MW) -- ignoring the needs of gas-based projects in the State grid.
The deep crisis in the power sector is such that AP Transco/the four distribution companies are forced to buy power from these plants at about Rs.5.5 per unit, an extra of Rs.2.40 per unit compared to Rs.3.10 per unit paid to State grid gas-based projects, said a top official involved in grid operation.
These are the second projects owned by Lanco and GMR developers, as Lanco I (350 MW) and GMR I or Vemagiri (370 MW) are already run by them in the State grid and covered by the Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) signed by the power utilities. Under the PPAs, the power from them is being sold for Rs.3.10 per unit to the utilities.
Citing the guidelines issued recently by the ministry which, in a way, questioned its own allocation of gas to merchants plants, AP Transco proposed to the developers of these two merchants plants to divert their gas to the State grid plants so that some relief could be offered to consumers.
One guideline provided for the diversion of gas from one of the two plants owned by single management to any other more efficiently operated State grid project.
The developers, however, rejected the proposal outright and continued the status quo. Now, AP Transco is preparing to launch a battle with the Petroleum Ministry asking why it had allocated gas to merchant plants in the first place and then issued different guidelines. It is taking up the matter with the State government.
Although the State has an installed capacity of about 5,000 MW under gas-based projects, only 2,770 MW is in the purview of State grid covered by PPAs. Owing to inadequate gas supply, they are being operated at 15 per cent capacity.


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About the 2000–2010 Academic Centers of Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention Centers
The National Academic Centers for Excellence (ACEs) on Youth Violence Prevention use a unique multidisciplinary approach to violence prevention. The centers research youth violence prevention approaches, collect and analyze surveillance data, and foster relationships with local community partners to help develop, implement, and evaluate promising prevention efforts. This collaboration between research universities and local communities and community-based organizations results in empowered communities that are mobilized to address the problem of youth violence.
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One way to explore other dimensional realms is via lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming refers to the ability to "awaken within a dream" and once you are consciously aware that you are in a dream environment, be able to exercise control over the elements of whatever might be happening. I think of this considered skill as "storyline editing on the fly."
So, for instance, you can decide—within the dream—that you'd prefer the action to continue in another setting, such as on a beach instead of in a city bus. Or you could physically alter or swap out various characters or animals in the plot line, or (this is a lucid dreamer's favorite) – you can fly at will.
The article I'm sharing here is from the World of Lucid Dreaming website, the impressive brainchild of an accomplished lucid dreamer named Rebecca. It's so in-depth and loaded with graphics that support her explanations, I'm providing only the beginning of it here. You can click over to her site to continue reading if you wish.
Rebecca also offers a free lucid dreaming course that might interest you to opt-in for. Meanwhile, if exploring the 5th dimension is your cup of tea, I think you'll enjoy what follows. I have not seen Interstellar (tho now I'm interested!), but this didn't detract from my appreciation of her illuminating post.
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Outside the crowded venue of Chief Minister's mass contact programme, Balan and Bindu, siblings from a small village near Balussery, sat eagerly for their turn. Unlike many other complainants, they had no feet to walk to Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and their decaying hands could not even hold a petition.
The duo, who belonged to a seven-member family, was on their last attempt to beseech something to keep them alive and carry on treatment for acro-dystrophica and osteodystrophy, a condition in which the patient experiences defective bone development and decaying of organs.
"We had knocked all possible doors in our area, in vain," said Balan and Bindu.
Their feeble voice echoed the anxiety over their worsening condition and its irreversible impacts already appearing on the body.
On Saturday, the siblings started at 4 a.m. from their village home. A few relatives and residents helped them reach the city headquarters and meet the Chief Minister.
"We are badly in need of a new house so that we can shift from the hilly area and continue the treatment. And live as long as possible," they said.
M.M. Rajani, their sister who was present at the programme, said the treatment continued to be a dilemma for the entire family.
"They cannot be taken to hospital by a vehicle as the road condition is poor in the hilly area. In emergency situations, we carry them on shoulders to reach the distant hospital," she said.
The siblings were granted Rs.50,000 each for immediate treatment at the mass contact programme. Considering their plea, direction was also issued to the district administration to find out a convenient spot for the family near Balussery and construct a new house.


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The road to the white house is strewn with broken promises, many caucuses, super delegates and nasty electorates. Its all too weary for the poor delegates, maybe its just time for them to put on their dancing shoes and do the dance, the poll dance. WARNING- This game is a parody and regardless of what candidates might claim, their dancing skills are largely untested.
Tonight there will be held a famous skating dance in the center of the city. Lots of famous stars have been invited to join in this gorgeous skating dance. Cara is a girl who loves skating very much. So she decides to dress up beautifully to attend the mystery skating dance. You need to dress up her well for the dance by selecting one perfect outfit that she likes best and the best skating shoes for her. Moreover, you can also choose one mysterious mask for her. Show us your fashion talent and have fun in this brand new girl dress up game.
Gangnam Style is striking the world now. Let's shake our bodies together with Psy! Follow dance steps with the arrow and letter keys. Try to improve the precision by hitting the key when it comes into the required place so that you can achieve high scores. Nobody will refuse happy steps. What are you waiting for? Show us your awesome dance now!
After school, baby Hazel goes home to change into her pink leotard and frilly tutu before heading over to ballet class. Baby Hazel has been practicing a new routine all week, and she can't wait to perform her new dance for her family and friends. But, first, she has a few moves to perfect before she's ready to take center stage. Help baby Hazel get ready for ballet class, then teach her a thing or two about ballet so that she can show off her cool new dance moves at her upcoming recital in this fun baby Hazel game.


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As it happens, At This Time won't start any fires under Cindy Sheehan's ass. "Where are the dreams that we once knew?" Bacharach wonders in the opener, "Please Explain," flashing back to that imagined utopia as if he hasn't been here all along. Later, Elvis Costello wonders, "Who are these people that keep telling us lies?"pretty weak Bush bait, compared to Kanye West's or System of a Down's. Of course, there's a reason Hal David (supplanted here by Tonio K.) was born; Bacharach secured his pension by plucking heartstrings with melody and tickling brains with harmony. As pure sound, At This Time is engaging, arresting even: "Please Explain" layers shoop-shoop backing vox over Mike Elizondo's pimp-stroll bass; "Fade Away" has lush Stephen Sondheim strings; "Is Love Enough?" soups up fireside guitar plucking with Dre's G-ride menace.
Diamond's Dr. Dre is Rick Rubin, who a decade ago served as Johnny Cash's Mike Elizondo (or something). In the liners to 12 Songs, an American Recordingsstyle roots retrenchment, Diamond writes of "coaxing scared CNN viewers away from their TVs . . . to enjoy some live music." Again we're in Hollywood-liberal territory, though Diamond's dissatisfaction resounds more clearly than Bacharach's; as with Burt, it's truth Neil is after, a thirst Rubin reflects with good ol' showbiz razzmatazz. (No one with an honest desire to make a stripped-down acoustic record hires Beck's pal Smokey Hormel or a dude proficient on the Chamberlin.)
The most badass cut on a record full of 'em is "I'm On to You," where Diamond warns his subject to "lie no more" atop film-noir horns arranged by Beck's dad. And if I like to hear "Man of God" as a devilish Dubya satire? Hey, I'm 27; I've earned it.
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The Community Kitchen is a life skills and food service training program for those with barriers to employment. Students gain the skills to get jobs offering livable wages, benefits, and opportunities for advancement through hands-on food service training as well as classroom studies. During the past decade, the Community Kitchen has provided thousands of meals to those in need, while transforming the lives of countless participants and families. New sessions start every first Monday of the month. In addition to training, each student receives job-placement assistance and support following graduation.
All candidates that are interested in the Community Kitchen program must meet the eligibility requirements. All candidates must meet the following criteria: Program Eligibility
The following steps have been put into place to ease the admissions process of applying to Community Kitchen. We select individuals to begin on the first Monday of every month. If you cannot commit to program requirements currently, please do not apply until you can. With classes starting every month there are multiple opportunities and flexibility for arranging life schedules.
Step one: To be considered for an upcoming class please download the application to print. Your downloaded application may be faxed to 480.287.8728, mailed or hand delivered to Community Kitchen 2831 N. 31st Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 85009. Please include a copy of a valid state issued identification card or bring to our location along with your application and a copy will be made for you. Only fully completed applications will be considered. Download Application
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Once the above steps have been completed we will: Accept: Accepted candidates will be notified in writing regarding their enrollment date, orientation information, and next steps. Wait List: If no openings are available for the next upcoming class accepted candidates will be placed on a wait list. Decline: Declined candidates will be notified in writing if they were not selected for the program and will be provided with other community resources.
For more information or assistance with your application please contact Community Kitchen at firstname.lastname@example.com or call (602) 343-3183.
Why does this program exist? To empower disadvantaged adults to achieve self-sufficiency through job training, personal development and employment in the foodservice industry.
What skill level do students have after completing the program? Students receive a 16-week condensed program with a combination of classroom studies and practical learning. When students fully participate and practice the skills they learn, they will be qualified for a dishwasher, prep or line cook position.
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What is the average class size? Class size is 20 students per sessions with new sessions starting every first Monday of the month.
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In the wilds of Usenet, corporate flaming exists, even though the corporations attached to the newsgroup don't control the venue. The corporate heads of White Wolf Publishing, which makes role-playing games, can't banish their testy fans, but employees and freelancers can wage flame wars and protect the corporate image. After several people complained about a recent rewrite of a game, longtime White Wolf writer Deird'Re M. Brooks singled out a customer and flamed him on alt.games.whitewolf. She mocked the guy, saying he'd made it his "life's mission to tell us all how evil" the new rules and story line were. Brooks dismissed his complaints as "egotistical" and "worthless." She tried to make the fan sound hysterical, saying he wanted the game's latest edition "EXPUNGED FROM THE EARTH." Brooks, who didn't return Voice e-mails, wasn't speaking as a corporate representative, but she was clearly expressing a sentiment shared by her superiors.
Public relations used to mean dealing with a distant consumer base as a mass. Now it means dealing with individuals, some of whom will be downright vicious. Recitations of press releases won't do it anymore. Corporations are very protective of their public images, and many have already unleashed their watchdogs to prowl the Web, looking for anticorporate flames to snuff out. Professional flamers will only become more common. We were here before you were, when ".edu" and ".gov" anchored most e-mail addresses, and when the Web was but a dream.
You're going to need us socially crippled flamers. We'll spread like brush fires. As Dostoyevsky might say today, we are developing a taste for it. Soon we shall contrive to be born somehow from an idea, an idea that needs to be beaten into the heads of every one of you. But enough; I don't want to write more from the underground.
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AP IMPACT: Some 9/11 charities failed miserably
Jones estimated that at least $800,000 was spent by the charity for the Mississippi projects. Jones helped oversee rebuilding and renovations to more than 100 homes, which he said cost between $7,000 and $12,000 each.
Keyes said he knows his charity has not filed all the required disclosures. "We're not very good at that," he said.
But he said he hoped the nonprofit's efforts in response to 9/11 and Katrina wouldn't be tainted by his lack of accounting.
"You're going to beat me up in an article because we're bad managers?" Keyes said.
At first glance, the Flag of Honor/Flag of Heroes Project looks like any other charity doing philanthropy in the name of 9/11. But people who have bought one of its flags might be surprised to learn that nearly all the proceeds have gone to the charity founder's for-profit flag company, not 9/11 victims.
IRS rules generally prohibit the resources of a nonprofit group from being used to promote a for-profit product.
John Michelotti of Greenwich, Conn., the charity's founder, said one of his goals was to give a framed copy of his flag, which bears the names of all the dead emblazoned on the Stars and Stripes to every family that lost someone in the attacks. He also designed a "Flag of Heroes" with only the names of fallen firefighters and law enforcement personnel.
"The more the flags are out there, the more these people live, the more they are remembered," he said.
Documents filed with the state of Connecticut explain that part of the fund's mission is to create "a national people's memorial" by urging corporations "to hang the Flag of Honor artwork prominently in all of their business locations." In some IRS filings, the charity said its purpose was to sell the memorial flag.
During the last nine years, Michelotti said, he has sold or given away almost 300,000 banners and posters of the Flag of Honor. The project's website lists 10 nonprofit groups as beneficiaries of the flag sales, including the Boy Scouts, a food bank in Oregon and a Manhattan church that narrowly escaped being destroyed in the attacks.
But in an AP interview, Michelotti acknowledged that his for-profit business, BIE LLC, has donated no more than $15,000 to 9/11 charities.
Most of the charities listed as beneficiaries were actually BIE customers that purchased flags to resell during their own fundraising efforts.
For example, Michelotti imported flags from China for about $5 each, he said. The Exchange Group chapter in Salem, Ore., bought about 4,000 flags from his for-profit company to use in a patriotic display for about $7 each, then sold them for $25. About $75,000 was raised for several causes, including the Oregon National Guard Emergency Relief Fund, but none of the money came out of Michelotti's cut.
Michelotti's charity collected $139,332 in donations and other revenue from 2003 to 2009, but it only gave away framed copies of the flag to the families of between 200 and 350 victims of the terror attacks.


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What unites the Democrats? A cartoonish view of Republicans.
Jan 20, 2003, Vol. 8, No. 18 • By NOEMIE EMERY
THE DEPICTION of the Republicans as Closet Confederates is based on some dubious claims: That nothing has changed since 1964 in the Republican party; that nothing has changed since 1964 in the South; and that everything has changed in the definition of racism, the content of which expands daily. The Goldwater campaign in 1964 was the first time that the Republicans cracked the once-solid South, winning five southern states on a platform that promised resistance to the civil rights measures then being pushed through Congress. This was truly a segregationist exodus, and had the Democrats' profile stayed as it was, the claims of today's liberals that their courage on the civil rights issue consigned them to minority status might be more credible. But four years later, the party started its crackup, and by 1972 the South and its issues were all but drowned out in the thundering din of other ex-Democrats fleeing their party for other reasons. Union members and blue-collar voters departed over cultural issues (summarized by Hunter S. Thompson as "acid, amnesty, and abortion"). Scoop Jackson Democrats left over defense. By 1980, the Republican party had become a grand coalition much as the Democrats had been in mid-century--a party with racists in it, but their presence was swamped by others who were indifferent to race-tinged issues, or wholly opposed. The party reformed itself around race-neutral issues: a strong defense, an assertive approach to world leadership, entrepreneurship, and devotion to the ideal of a common culture transcending race. If modern Republicans are not eager to recall what occurred in 1964 (or the Nixon years, for that matter), Democrats seem unable to recall what came after, or to admit that it mattered. It did.
The idea of a Republican party anxious to make racist appeals supposes an audience eager to hear them, a market that may not exist. It is now 40 years since Bull Connor turned his hoses and dogs on civil rights marchers. Most voters--most Republicans--are too young to imagine a world before integration and have no longing to see one. The Clintons and friends may pretend the backroads are teeming with bigots, but rational people know better. "The decisive voters of the future are not nostalgic, Dixie-whistling former Democrats," noted David Von Drehle and Dan Balz in the Washington Post. "They are generic, migratory moderates." In a similar vein, the Los Angeles Times's Ronald Brownstein observed that the "ties that bind Republicans to most whites in the region are conservative views on taxes, national defense and social issues such as guns and abortion, not nostalgia for Jim Crow." There are still white racists in the South and outside it who will vote for Republicans, as there are black anti-Semites who will vote for the Democrats, but these are fringe elements in what is becoming a post-ethnic country, in which Colin Powell and Joe Lieberman are both seen as possible presidents. The Republicans and the South have come a long way since the mid-1960s. Only the left is still living in the past.
Insisting the present is just like the past is one way to attack Republicans. Another is defining racism down. Among the evidence recently adduced to prove the racism of Republicans has been the fact that Bill Frist made political hay in the early 1990s mocking the ties of his Democratic opponent to the famously corrupt ex-mayor of Washington, D.C., Marion Barry, who had recently been caught by undercover cops lighting a crack pipe. Should Barry rather have been off limits from criticism because of the color of his skin? Similarly put forth as an occasion of Republican sin was Jeb Bush's reference to the big guns deployed last fall in the Democrats' fruitless effort to defeat his reelection as governor of Florida. "Bill Clinton is in the state. Al Gore is in the state. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are in the state," said Jeb. Again, it is hard to see anything resembling racism here (unless it is the implication of Bush's critics that one should not lump Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton together with Clinton and Gore). And when all else fails, there is always the charge that one is "insensitive," a charge whose beauty is that it is utterly indefinable and can be deployed at will.
The need for such inventive tactics becomes all the more pressing as the Republicans move further away from the past. The more the party changes, and is seen to be changing, the greater the need to insist that these changes are an elaborate and diabolical charade. But after a time, as the disguise tends to outweigh the supposed bad intentions, common sense suggests that the "disguises" may be the reality--and that Republicans may really mean what they say.
"With one stupid and thoughtless attempt at humor, Lott stripped away the carefully constructed façade the Bush team erected at the GOP convention . . . and revealed the party's true colors," said Eleanor Clift. "When Lott stepped out of the polite way of speakingabout racehe exposed the GOP's double game: the lip service the party gives to reaching out to blacks and the winks and nods to whites assuring them that nothing fundamental will change." That nothing will change? The nation's foreign policy is in the capable hands of two black members of the president's cabinet. You could call that a change. Much is made by the left of Bush's trip in 2000 to Bob Jones University, which at the time still had a ban on cross-racial dating. Much less is made of the fact that several icons of the modern conservative movement are in cross-racial marriages to the apparent discomfort of no one. Everyone knew at the time that the Republicans' diversity display at their 2000 convention did not reflect the party as it was at that moment. It was a sign, as a disgruntled Pat Buchanan noted, of where the party intended to go. What George W. Bush has in mind is a party of compassionate conservatives like himself. They can be argued with but not labeled or libeled or demonized. And as such, they scare Democrats sick.
So look for the left to keep whistling Dixie, insisting that people are not what they look and act like, but are really like people who 40 and 60 and 140 years ago said and did terrible things. As Elizabeth Dole and Lindsey Graham replace Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond as the face of the South in the Senate, they have to insist the white South still is regressive and menacing. The more Bush transforms his party, the more desperately they have to insist that it's all a charade, that Bush is Trent Lott. But of course he is different, as sane people know. "Lott and Bush symbolize the two wings of the southern GOP," write Balz and Von Drehle, "the first emerging from the segregationist past, the second the son of a Yankee migrant who moved to the Sunbelt to make his fortune, and stayed to build a Republican party." As Earl Black, who with his brother Merle is the country's premier historian of southern electoral politics, told U.S. News & World Report, "President Bush is leading a Republican party that does not have any stake in the racial politics of the '60s and '70s....He may get Republicans a second look among middle-class and conservative blacks." This is exactly what frightens the Democrats. Knock just 10 points off their staggering 9-to-1 lead among blacks, and they are a party in very deep trouble. Knock another five points off that, and they may cease to function on a national level. And so they must crank up the fear.
And so we see things like Bill and Hillary Clinton coming out with the theory that modern Republicans surround themselves now and then with black people, only to hide their dark hearts. "I think what they are really upset about is that he [Lott] made public their strategy," said our most former ex-president. "They try to suppress black voting, they ran on the Confederate flag, . . . and from top to bottom the Republicans supported it. . . . He just embarrassed them by saying in Washington what they do on the back roads everyday." This is really hot stuff on that part of the left that still believes Bush is a moron who stole the election. "Now that Lott has bathed them in their own filth, the rage of the non-southern right-wingers is boundless," raved Harold Meyerson in the Los Angeles Times. And what a conspiracy! For a generation, thousands of conservative pundits, essayists, activists, and elected officials, not to mention 49 million Republican voters, have toiled day and night to hide from the rest of the country and from each other the fact that under a glossy veneer they are all really a collection of church-bombing bigots. How very exhausting, and utterly pointless. If they are all like this and so are the voters, then why bother dissembling at all?
Actually the Trent Lott affair blew up at just the right moment to save the left from a serious case of the blues. For the first time in years, it had no great causes to get its juices flowing, no terrible wrongs to avenge. In 1998 there had been the impeachment embarrassment, and the need to defend our first "black president" from being lynched by the vast right-wing menace. Then came the Florida recount, with its own set of villains: Jeb Bush, Katherine Harris, the five conservative members of the United States Supreme Court. But impeachment had ended in sort of a draw, and the Florida mess in a belated Republican victory: Jeb Bush is safe for another four years, Katherine Harris is now in Congress, and no one, it turns out, was mad. So the same pundits and people who were beating the drums in 1998 and 2000 are now defending the country from Jefferson Davis. Here are the Nation, the American Prospect, the New York Times, and most of their columnists. Here is Sean Wilentz, veteran of a thousand public letters, calling Strom Thurmond the "father of the modern Republican party," and weaving together Thurmond, Barry Goldwater, George Wallace (a Democrat!), Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush (for opposing the 1964 Civil Rights Act), and George W. Bush (a neo-Confederate by virtue of having campaigned at Bob Jones University) in a giant cabal to uphold Confederate values, at the center of which is Trent Lott.
Memo to Wilentz: (1) Albert Gore Sr. voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. (2) In 1967, George H.W. Bush put his House seat at risk by voting for fair housing measures. (3) The father of the modern Republican party is not Strom Thurmond but Ronald Reagan, who when Thurmond ran for president was a union leader and liberal activist. He decidedly did not think Thurmond should have been elected in 1948.
Democrats could get by without this hysteria if they were able to draw more white voters, something Lyndon Johnson had no trouble doing in the last presidential election before his party took leave of its senses. Democrats then stood for an assertive defense and a great pride in the nation. Nixon's narrative was that he wasn't a Democrat, and was not George McGovern; Jimmy Carter's was that he was not Richard Nixon; Ronald Reagan restored the grand themes to his party, and carried it through three landslides, until the victory in the Cold War robbed the elder Bush of his raison d'être. In this themeless world, Clinton was able to win on charm and small issues. But September 11 gave George W. Bush his chance to frame his own narrative around a national mission that the Democrats were too splintered to share in completely.
So almost four decades after the mid-'60s disruptions, the Republicans have done better at exorcising their demons than the Democrats have done with theirs. The last vestiges of racism are leaching out of the South and of the Republican party. But the nihilism that seeped into the Democrats is still hanging in there, the small rock-hard core at the heart of the party that time has not softened. Yes, there is a reason the Democrats keep losing elections, but it isn't "code words" or Jim Crow. Democrats delude themselves if they believe the Confederate flag played a key role in the 2002 defeat of Roy Barnes and Max Cleland in Georgia, by turning out a huge white vote in exurban areas. The trouble with this theory is that the voting patterns in Georgia tracked exactly the patterns elsewhere in the country, where massive white turnout fueled the Senate wins of Norm Coleman in Minnesota, Jim Talent in Missouri, and Wayne Allard in Colorado, along with Bob Ehrlich's big win of the statehouse in Maryland. Does nostalgia for the days of Jefferson Davis run high in those states, too?
There was one big wedge issue that did work in Georgia, and perhaps in some other states. In late September, three Democratic House members (including Jim McDermott and outgoing whip David Bonior) took a trip to Iraq, where they criticized Bush and blamed the United States for killing small children. It was then that the numbers for Roy Barnes and Max Cleland started tanking in Georgia. For weeks, the Baghdad Democrats were all over the airwaves. No chagrined fellow Democrats stood up to say "this isn't our party," as Bush and some others did about Lott. The nostalgia for segregation of politicians like Lott may have been the reason the South first moved into the Republican column, but the bitter leftism of Democrats like McDermott and Bonior is high on the list of reasons it stays there. It is the reason many Democrats are running a seemingly permanent deficit among non-minority voters, a deficit that makes race-baiting essential, even as they run out of racists to criticize. They have seen the enemy, and it is Stonewall Jackson. Too bad he's still dead.
Noemie Emery is a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard.


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Boudicca Cruise Review by notsointrepidtraveller: First cruise experiance
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We booked on-line after seeing an offer. We were attracted by the price.
We booked a superior outside cabin and were allocated cabin number 5045 on the 'main deck' (deck 5) We travelled from 5th-19th January 2012.
The catalogue price was in excess of ã1500 per person. We paid ã899. I like to think we got a bargain, but I couldn't bring myself to ask other passengers what they had paid.
The destinations included Madeira, La Gomera, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Agadir, and Lisbon. Most of which we had visited previously.
This was mostly a trip to find out whether we liked cruising.
The first 4 nights and 3 days were spent travelling to Madeira, across the bay of Biscay. We thought the crossing was quite rough, with the ship bobbing around so much that it was almost impossible to walk with holding on tightly to what was fixed down. I don't know what we would have done without travel sickness pills.
The rest of the More cruise went fairly smoothly.
The good points were numerous.
Boarding and eventual disembarkation went very smoothly.
The staff were all friendly, smiling, and helpful. Making us feel very welcome.
The food was varied and of excellent quality.
The evening entertainment, though of quite good quality, was definitely aimed at the older age groups.
My wife and I are in our 60's and were amongst the youngest passengers.
A few days in there was a minor outbreak of some sort of stomach upset, with some passengers being confined to cabin for several days. They crew appeared to cope very well with this and the only way in which passengers were affected was by the suspension of all self service breakfast and lunchtime buffet meals. We had to wait to be served by staff members wearing blue plastic gloves.
Despite the extra work load, the staff continued to serve us with a smile. Nothing was too much trouble.
A few of the passengers complained about the restrictions (perhaps they would have preferred to catch the bug?) Most of us appreciated the efforts of the staff and just took it it our stride.
We had one problem with our cabin, 5045, the shower temperature was 'erratic'. One could be having a lovely warm shower when, suddenly, the water flow dropped, and so did the water temperature. We became friends with the couple in 5043 and found that they were having the same problem. The only way to avoid this was to shower 'off peak'.
Did we enjoy the experience? YES.
Would we cruise again? Definitely YES.
Would we go to Morocco? NO.
I've not reviewed the ports of call because I don't know what say say about them. We've been previously several times to each of the Canary Islands, and to Madeira. They are quite convenient for a short winter break from the UK weather. We didn't like Agadir. It has no character.
Outside of the tourist area we were Harassed by people wanting us to give them money in exchange taking a picture of their camel.
In the Souk every time we stopped moving the sellers would be waving their goods at us, trying to harass us into buying something. Had they left us alone to browse, we would almost certainly have bought some souvenirs. As it was we left with nothing. Less
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Russian billionaire Usmanov tops Britain's rich list
LONDON—Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov has topped an annual "rich list" compiled by Britain's Sunday Times newspaper, with a fortune of £13.3 billion ($20.3 billion).
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Queen Elizabeth II was ranked top in the list's first year when her wealth was valued at £5.2 billion and included all the Crown Estates and the royal art collection. After 1993 she fell from that spot as she was valued only on her personal wealth.
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In a report published Friday, Goldman Sachs analyst Taposh Bari downgraded Foot Locker (NYSE: FL) from Conviction List Buy to Neutral, and lowered the price target from $41.00 to $37.00.
In the report, Goldman Sachs noted, "We downgrade FL to Neutral. We are incrementally less bullish on FL, as we think attractive valuation and basketball momentum are no longer enough reason to buy the stock. FL has become a share donor to not only vendors' direct operations, particularly at Nike, but more recently to non-athletic retailers. This, combined with slowing sales across many athletic brands, lessens our conviction in a SSS pickup, which we see as a necessary catalyst for the stock to re-rate. Since added to the Buy List on 11/27/12, FL is +3.5% vs. the S&P 500 +21.3%. TTM, FL is +3.0% vs. the S&P 500 +20.7%. Our call underperformed because the multiple failed to re-rate, as detailed below."
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This bromance with rapid-fire quips, however, is undermined by unoriginal scenarios and a long, drawn-out chase scene. show more
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Everyone told me that this was a \"cute\" movie - even my wife. So, I Neflixed it for her. This is not an adorable cute movie by even the most liberal standards. Using the \"flusher\" rating system - with 5 flushes being the worst, this movie deserves a 5 flusher!
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If you are a fan of Seth MacFarlane entertainment, then you will absolutely love this movie. The tone of the jokes and overall movie does not differ much from that of Family Guy. Although funny, the jokes are not very original. But they do demand laugh after laugh. A great pick for a smoky evening.
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These delectable gluten-free blueberry muffins from Gluten-Free Girl and The Chef are a sweet way to begin the morning. A blend of white sorghum flour, white rice flour, and tapioca flour create a muffin that is light and airy. The addition of yogurt adds moisture and a hint of tang that makes these blueberry muffins so incredibly delicious. You can use fresh or frozen blueberries for this dish. I like to toss them in some flour before adding them to the batter so that they are suspended evenly throughout the muffin instead of sinking to the bottom. Serve your homemade gluten-free blueberry muffins with a hot mug of coffee and plenty of butter.
10 tablespoons unsalted, soft butter
1 cup white sugar
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons lemon zest
1 cup sweet white sorghum flour
1 cup white rice flour
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1 ½ teaspoons baking powder (or ½ teaspoon cream of tartar, ½ teaspoon baking soda, ½ teaspoon cornstarch)
½ teaspoon baking soda (if combining above, add another ½ teaspoon to mix)
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Plushenko starts comeback strong at Rostelecom Cup
Pang and Tong's program was distinguished by a soaring triple twist, but they were significantly out of synch on their opening triple toe loop and ended the day less than pleased.
"Unfortunately, it wasn't our best today," Pang said. "It wasn't too good and we had a mistake on the side-by-side jump."
The Russians and Americans were much happier. The two pairs are separated by less than three-tenths of a point heading into the free skate.
"A little slow, a little shaky, but overall a good way to start," Brubaker said.
Especially since it was their first competition with new coach John Nicks. McLaughlin and Brubaker, winners of the last two U.S. titles, made the switch after a disappointing showing at worlds in March.
Kavaguti fell on the opening triple toe loop, but Smirnov took it all in stride.
"We got to show our new choreography, our new music. A little bit didn't succeed," he said.
In ice dance, American champions Meryl Davis and Charlie White have commanding lead after winning both the compulsory and original dances. Davis and White have 100.08 points going into Saturday's free dance, almost 15 ahead of Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte of Italy. Ekaterina Rubleva and Ivan Shefer of Russia are third.
The Rostelecom Cup, previously known as Cup of Russia, is the second of six events in the International Skating Union's Grand Prix series.


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A study of 13,000 British women found that the 2,800 who had suffered a miscarriage or stillbirth were much more likely to be anxious or depressed during their next pregnancy, and after the birth. This state of mind persisted for nearly three years after they gave birth to a healthy baby, researchers found. Jean Golding, one of the authors of the report, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, said, "This study is important to the families of women who have lost a baby, since it is so often assumed that they get over the event quickly, yet as shown here, many do not." Lead researcher Emma Robertson Blackmore, of Rochester University in the U.S., pointed out, "This finding is important because, when assessing if a women is at risk of antenatal or postnatal depression, previous pregnancy loss is usually not taken into account in the same way as other risk factors such as a family history of depression, stressful life events or a lack of social support." [The Telegraph, March 2011] Read More
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vsync doesn't work, ever
I'm using a notebook with an external display and (currently) the 302.11 beta drivers. Vsync never worked properly for me, not with this monitor, not with the one I had before, not with older drivers. There's always a screen region where bad, very noticeable tearing happens, no matter if it's in Firefox or a game. I'm actually quite convinced that it's on but not in sync with the display for some reason.
I've messed with TwinView on and off, doesn't help. Forced X to only recognize the external display, no dice. My current relevant configuration:
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Made an nvidia file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
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Disable TripleBuffer - for me, TripleBuffer stops vsync from being on.
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Turned it off, now the tearing happens in another screen region, but it's still there.
EDIT: Looks like it works when I turn off display compositing in XFCE. Shame. Oh well.
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Only gl compositor ; no compositor means tearing too.
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Probably you're talking about an opengl app or an XV video inside a window or in fullscreen.
I was referring to the whole desktop (a browser scrolling a webpage, a window moving and so on.)
An opengl compositor that syncs to vblank wil fix tearing everywhere; (as a side note it seems to steal some cpu cycles too.)
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Cambrian Stage 5
Stage 5 of the Cambrian is the first stage of the 3rd series of the Cambrian (or Middle Cambrian). Its lower boundary has not been formally defined by the ICS yet. The most promising definition is the first appearance of either the trilobite species Oryctocephalus indicus or Ovatoryctocara granulata which is currently estimated to be around ~509 million years ago.[1] The end of Cambrian Stage 5 and the beginning of the Drumian stage is marked by the first appearance of the trilobite Ptychagnostus atavus around ~504.5 million years ago.[2]
The International Commission on Stratigraphy has not officially named the 5th stage of the Cambrian. A likely candidate for the name is "Molodian", named after the river Molodo in Bulunsky District, Sakha Republic, Russia.[3]
Three sections are currently discussed as GSSP candidates: the Wuliu-Zengjiayan section near Balang in Guizhou province (China), a section on Split Mountain in Nevada (USA)[2] and the "Molodo river section" along the Molodo river.[3] The Wuliu-Zengjiayan section is an outcrop of the Kaili Formation in the Wuliu quarry. The first candidate for the beginning of Stage 5 is the trilobite Oryctocephalus indicus, the second candidate is the trilobite Ovatoryctocara granulata. [4]
- ^ Gozalo, Rodolfo; Álvarez, María Eugenia Dies; Vintaned, José Antonio Gámez; Zhuravlev, Andrey Yu.; Bauluz, Blanca; Subías, Ignacio; Chirivella Martorell, Juan B.; Mayoral, Eduardo; Gursky, Hans-Jürgen; Andrés, José Antonio; Liñán, Eladio (1 December 2011). "Proposal of a reference section and point for the Cambrian Series 2-3 boundary in the Mediterranean subprovince in Murero (NE Spain) and its intercontinental correlation". Geological Journal: n/a–n/a. doi:10.1002/gj.1330.
- ^ a b "GSSP Table - Paleozoic Era". Retrieved 15 November 2012.
- ^ a b "The 13th International Field Conference of the Cambrian Stage Subdivision Working Group" (PDF). Episodes 31 (4): 440–441.
- ^ Sundberg, F.A.; Zhao, Y.L.; Yuan, J.L.; Lin, J.P. (22 September 2011). "Detailed trilobite biostratigraphy across the proposed GSSP for Stage 5 ("Middle Cambrian" boundary) at the Wuliu-Zengjiayan section, Guizhou, China". Bulletin of Geosciences: 423–464. doi:10.3140/bull.geosci.1211.
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Judge: Jolie didn't plagiarize 'Blood and Honey'
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LOS ANGELES — A federal judge says actress Angelina Jolie didn't steal the story for her movie "In the Land of Blood and Honey" from a Croatian author.
City News Service reports Friday's tentative ruling in Los Angeles will quash the lawsuit accusing Jolie of copyright infringement.
In 2011, author James Braddock sued Jolie and the film company that made the film, saying it was partly based on his book "The Soul Shattering."
U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee wrote in a tentative ruling that the plots, characters and themes in the two works were not "substantially" similar, though both centered on war romances.
Jolie wrote, directed and co-produced the film.
Braddock has been ordered to tell the court why his complaint should not be dismissed with prejudice.
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KOLKATA: Commercial production of Tata Motors' 'Nano' automobile is expected to begin in October to be preceded by trial production of the car in June-July, Ravi Kant, Managing Director, Tata Motors, said after a visit to the project site at Singur in West Bengal's Hooghly district on Wednesday.
"We have always maintained that we will launch the vehicle in the second half of the next financial year 2008-09," Mr. Kant said. He was looking at "around the Durga Puja time" in October for commercial production to begin.
Mr. Kant expressed satisfaction with the progress of work after his three-hour visit to the site and said: "We hope that things go on barring very unforeseen circumstances like the rains.
"There are certainly lots of challenges but we — the Shapporji Pallonji Group, Tata Motors and the West Bengal government — are working together and putting an action plan to ensure that the start of production is not hampered."
He inspected the press shop, paint shop, assembly and engine shops which he described later as "priority areas." He also pointed out that "it was a low-lying area and we require a lot of lifting of the floor, lot of earth filling and dredging of the canal which have to be done."
"A lot of work has been done… we will try to finish everything before the trial production which we expect to be in June-July this year," Mr. Kant said.
"Everything takes time to sort out — the whole flow has to come right from the press shop, all the vendors' materials have to come and test tracks built. So it will be a very coordinated activity."
The leadership of the Trinamool Congress, which has been opposing the project, has reiterated that its movement would continue till peasants were returned the land "forcibly acquired" for the project.
Tata Motors had initiated preliminary steps for construction at the site in January 2007.
'Nano', its Rs.1 lakh "people's car," was unveiled by Ratan Tata, Chairman, Tata Groups, in New Delhi on January 10.


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Jorge Posada's Apology to A-Rod Wasn't Necessary
Former New York Yankees catcher Jorge Posada has an issued an apology following comments he made in an interview on CBS This Morning yesterday in which he said his former teammate Alex Rodriguez should be denied entry into the Baseball Hall of Fame due to his history with PEDs. Posada claims he was "cornered" into making that statement. Posada is promoting his memoir, The Journey Home: My Life in Pinstripes.
Posada took a lot of heat for these comments. It's interesting to see the media come to A-Rod's defense. Could this have to do with the fact that he's playing well and the Yankees are back in first place? It's amazing how nice people are when they see you as a winner again.


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I agree with you and I chuckle when I think back to 1974 when a noted yacht designer writing an article in YACHTING wrote that the Valiant was "too light to be considered a serious offshore boat".
Early this year (stop me if I told you this already) we raced my buddie's Baba 35, pilot house model, in the Race Your House race in Seattle. It's a race for only liveaboards. It was a very varied fleet with Catalinas, Hallberg Rassy's Ingrids, Cape George cutters and other cruising type boats. We had a good breeze with gusts up over 20 knots at times. We got second in class and sailed boat for boat upwind and down with many fin keel boats and did manage to beat a lot of them boat for boat. It was a testimony to what a good, full keel boat could do. We did not point as well as the fin keelers but we only gave up about 4 degrees of AWA to them. It was a kick in the ass to watch the faces of the competitors as we hung in there with them. "What are yoiu doing here?"
I try not to generalize about boat types.
Some of my very best designs are the Tashiba series 31, 36 and 40 full keel boats.
They can surprise you with their performance. The tall rig Baba/ Tashiba 40 AIRLOOM is a regular race winner on Puget Sound.
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MALCOLM GILLIS, THE PRESIDENT of Rice University, likes to tell the story of the football player who was being recruited by Rice and another Texas university of, shall we say, less intellectual rigor. The coach of the other school asked the prospect about his scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. "Fifteen-fifty" was the answer—a breathtakingly high score that is close to the maximum score of 1600. There was a moment of stunned silence, and then the coach said, "Hell, son, you could get into school here twice for that."
I went to see Gillis in early July because he is a distinguished economist, and I wanted to discuss with him a most unlikely variant of the law of supply and demand: Two weeks earlier, the Rice baseball team had supplied enough hitting and pitching prowess at the College World Series to meet the demand of its fans for the university's first national championship in any sport. Next to the fall of the Berlin Wall and my children learning to get themselves up in the morning without vigorous parental prompting, nothing I have encountered in life has come as a greater surprise. I say this not only as a Rice alumnus but also as a former sports editor of the unfortunately named Rice Thresher.
During the sixties, when I was at Rice, success in athletics eluded the university with great regularity, particularly in baseball. As I recall, the rivalry between the Owls and the Texas Longhorns at the time of my tenure on the Thresher stood at something like 117 wins for Texas, 13 wins for Rice. Rice played its home games at a ballpark whose main feature was a sinkhole in right center field, so that when opposing batters smote the ball in that direction, only the head and shoulders of our outfielders remained in view as they gave chase. Attendance was sparse, except on the roof of a nearby residence hall, where engineering students used a coat hanger and surgical tubing to fashion a slingshot that propelled water balloons toward the pitcher's mound in the hope of disconcerting the enemy hurler as he warmed up. I hadn't thought of these things in decades, but as I watched Rice extend its lead over Stanford in the 2003 championship game to the final score of 14-2, I savored the memories. In the eighth and ninth innings, my phone rang again and again, bringing voices I hadn't heard in thirty years.
I met Gillis at his summer retreat, ten acres of pines, ponds, and pasture north of Durham, North Carolina, where he served as provost at Duke University before taking over the presidency of Rice in 1993. (He will step down in June 2004.) But I did not make the trip just to reminisce about the humble origins of Rice's baseball success. Gillis has been an outspoken critic of the direction in which college athletics is headed—toward more and more professionalization of the major revenue sports, football and men's basketball, which in turn leads to the recruiting of players who don't really belong in college and the frantic pursuit of more and more revenue. As I flew eastward, newspaper headlines bore testimony to his concerns. The Atlantic Coast Conference was raiding the not-so-Big East for Miami and Virginia Tech, and closer to home, the Baylor basketball program was under scrutiny following the disappearance of one its players, who is presumed to have been murdered, possibly by one of his teammates. Perhaps in Rice's success lay some lessons from which the rest of college athletics could learn.
When I drove onto his property, Gillis was wielding a farm implement I hope never to know the name of, tearing out dead pampas grass near a fence line. He looked anything but academic in sweatpants and a blue T-shirt whose sleeves had been cut off. I followed him onto a screened porch, and we sat down at a table. A wasp crawled lazily across its surface. Bang! His left fist smashed down upon it, bringing its life to an instantaneous conclusion.
Gillis believes that the big football powers are crushing the athletic aspirations of schools like Rice, with no more effort than it took him to dispatch the wasp, by denying them the financial benefits of megaconferences enjoyed by other private schools with high academic standards, such as Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, and Vanderbilt. At least Rice is a reasonable-sized fish in its smaller pond, the Western Athletic Conference ( WAC), which is an improvement over the way things were when I was in school. "From 1966 to 1994," Gillis told me, "Rice went twenty-eight years without winning a conference championship in any sport. Then we won the Southwest Conference track championship. The next year we won the last Southwest Conference baseball tournament. We're SWC champions forever. Altogether we've won twenty-three conference championships and a national championship since '94. And we've done it while raising our admissions standards for athletes."
Following the demise of the Southwest Conference in the mid-nineties, caused by the exodus of Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, and Baylor to the Big Twelve, Rice joined the WAC. The new league took the bold step of becoming a megaconference of sixteen teams, but when the bigger, richer conferences paid no attention, it broke up into two unrelated eight-team leagues, the Mountain West Conference being the other. The exclusion of conferences like the WAC from the major bowl games and fair representation in the NCAA basketball tournament is an example of what Gillis calls "the cartelization of revenue" by the big conferences. They make the TV deals and they allocate the money to themselves. Still, as an economist, Gillis of all people must know that the Golden Rule is in effect in intercollegiate athletics: He who has the gold rules.
Some members of the Rice community—including a certain sports editor of the Thresher, in his final column—have questioned whether intercollegiate athletics has a place at the university. Gillis, however, is not one of the doubters. "I'm


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Students transferring from another Texas public college or university who have completed that institution's core requirements are assured that Richland College will accept the completion of that core in lieu of its own toward the requirements for the Associate in Arts, Associate in Sciences or Associate of Arts in Teaching degree.
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