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Interview with Juan Cole by Ricky Martínez
(These are the English notes of the interview rearranged in pyramid form; they were translated and published in a different sequence in Spanish at La Prensa of Panama City). Many thanks to Mr. Martinez for a wide-ranging conversation!
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">RM: You were speaking about the importance of international law. Do you really think it's possible to control the anarchy that exists at a supranational level?
JC: Historians who study the development of international of law and international treaties are not typically cynical. They find that even when there's reluctance to abide by international law, that its claims are often consequential. Even though governments routinely disregard it or break it, international law still has a lot of weight in world affairs, and you can tell this because even the governments that do contravene it, deny that they have done so, they're embarrassed about it, they get pressured… I'm not entirely sure that without international pressure, without the weight of international law, that the apartheid regime in South Africa could have been made to fall. And I think that the fact that George W. Bush went to Iraq without international law on his side meant that a lot of countries –France and Germany— were unwilling to help him, and he lost a lot of international support, and that was one of the reasons why he failed.
I understand why there would be cynicism about international law because it is often disregarded. But I think it often also has weight, and over time forms a point of pressure that does have consequences.
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">RM: You wrote in Engaging the Muslim World that the world is facing the twin crisis of energy scarcity and climate change. How do you see the world reacting to them?
JC: As I suggested several years ago, solar energy is the only real, ultimate solution to these two crisis. The world is still growing population-wise, more and more people in Africa and Asia and the rest of the world are aspiring to a modern life rather than a village, agricultural one, and all of this makes the demand for more energy burgeon. Hydrocarbons simply could not possibly provide the kind of energy that is going to be demanded even over the next 50 years. Moreover, hydrocarbons cause very dangerous climate change which could destabilize our climate and our world.
My policy prescription would be to have a global massive program of solar installations. Solar panels have now come down in price to where they are competitive with hydrocarbons. They can be supplemented by wind and geothermal. But my frustration is that I see this change over to solar energy as urgent, as something we should try to do over the next 10 years, and most governments that pay any attention to the issue talk about having 50% renewable energy by 2050. To prevent debilitating climate change that's way too late.
I have to say one of the reasons for which governments and the public are dragging their feet on this issue is that so much of our economy and our lives are wrought up with hydrocarbons that those companies employ a lot of people and have a lot of political clout, so they obfuscate the issue, they try to cast doubts on the by now quite solid findings of the climate scientists, or they try to drag their feet with regard to the policy, but if more governments in the world put in feed-in- tariffs and gave incentives for the installation of solar panels, and made it a priority to get this change over to renewable energy as quickly as possible we could avoid the worst outcomes that are facing us. If we go on like we are, we will have probably a 3-4 foot sea level rise in this century. Countries like Egypt and Bangladesh could be flooded. Storms in the Caribbean could become more frequent and more powerful –warm water feeds these hurricanes. You could have long storms and not short ones…
We're playing with fire here, we really are in danger of inflicting massive damage on our world. And as I said, I'm frustrated that this danger, which is undebatable scientifically, is not being given the urgency that is requisite by most countries of the world.
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"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">RM: So connecting the dots, the mass movements against neoliberalism, plus the power of corporations, and now these revelations about the capacity of the state to store or record all communications, are you afraid this could be the beginning of a kind of Orwellian world?
JC: Well, the thing we have to remember about Orwell is that he was not in fact predicting the future… he was describing governmental practices that he saw around him in the 1940s. It was an allegory for his own lived reality, not a prediction about what will happen in the future.
I think the dangers that he drew our attention to are there: of government surveillance and abuse, and, I think the over-concentration of capital in too few hands, are very real and that's a problem that has accelerated in the last 30 years. I think the problem of police states and brutality are also burgeoning, but I just want to signal that actually corporations and governments are a small part of the world, and the vast masses of people far outweigh them. And it is always possible for the people to resist. And, you know, Tunisian and Egyptian governments had entire departments of cyberpolice to try to track and destroy internet activists. But they were overwhelmed… when a certain number of people joined these movements it was just no longer possible to track them or to do anything about them.
I think we shouldn't underestimate the continuing power and salience of people power. Cumulatively the seven billion people on Earth, each and every individual, together they outweigh the power of the governments and the corporations. And if they organized, if they unite for particular purposes they can often prevail.
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">RM: Do you think context is dangerous to the powerful?
JC: I think that where officials attempt to avoid context they're probably engaged in propaganda. So yeah, I think it can be uncomfortable for the powerful. I think history as contemporary historians practice it, this idea of putting things in context and attending to change over time, is subversive. Because the establishment would like you to think that the contemporary order of things has always been like that, that the good society is the one we have. And interrogating this establishment, and how it got to be where it is, and whether it is in fact traditional, and attending to how it's changed and what the implications of those changes are… all of those things, I think, are subversive in effect, if not in intent.
So, something like the fact that in the US the finance sector has become a much larger part of the economy over the past thirty years that it had typically been before, and what implications that has for the position bankers in society, does it help to explain why no prosecutions were pursued after the 2008 financial crisis? Do we have a new aristocracy? Are we going back to the days of the Medici? So, those are all the questions a historian might ask and they're very different than the ones that would be asked by disciplines closer to power.
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">RM: Is there a relation between some religions and economic development?
JC: I don't think that religion is very much tied to economic development. I don't think economic development can be typically explained by religion. This is a thesis that Max Weber held and it's been put forward… it was a way of looking at history in which modern capitalism developed in northern European protestant countries, so what was wrong with the southern European Catholics, that they couldn't get their act together?
But, in fact, contemporary historians have shut down this theory… they've shown ways in which Italy, for instance, was precocious, and had a kind of workshop industrial revolution very early on… those old XIX century ideas about the superiority of the northern protestants haven't survived close scrutiny.
Of course, things change over time, so there have been moments in which Catholic or Muslim countries have experienced a good deal of growth, and the poor Protestants have been stagnant, so no, I don't think that religion, or religious civilization or culture, usually explain very much about material life. They can have an impact here and there, but economic development has to do with material culture, with growth and productivity, with the relation between population growth and economic growth, and so forth. Religion usually isn't much implicated in all of that.
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">RM: How is it possible that after so many centuries of interaction, especially in the Mediterranean area, we still have so much mutual ignorance between Islam and the West?
JC: Well, people don't exchange intimate information very easily. And information typically has been either conserved or excluded. I witnessed this in Lebanon, I found that often the Christian and the Muslim Lebanese didn't know very much about each other's religion. I think they deliberately don't find out about it. So most Muslims don't really understand the Trinity or basic Christian beliefs, and likewise the Christians didn't know very much about Islamic history or Islamic norms and values… it's not a universal ignorance but it was quite widespread. I was taken aback, that here are neighbors in the same building, one goes off to the mosque on Friday and the other goes off to church on Sunday and they're really ignorant about each other's beliefs and rituals and values.
So, I think people hide from other belief systems partly because playing with another belief system intimately is uncomfortable, if you have a view of the world which is strongly grounded you don't wanna hear another narrative about it, it would be a challenge.
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">RM: You're one of the most respected alternative voices out there. What has been the price you've paid for your views?
JC: I don't consider myself to have suffered in any significant way. Certainly compared to the brave youth in Egypt or Tunisia who went to jail, some of them were tortured, shot… I haven't suffered anything like that. It may be that I wasn't offered a job in the Ivy League, or I wasn't given a position in the American government, but I'm not personally so interested in those things anyway.
The ways in which one is punished for speaking out as an academic in the US is just that certain limits are put on one's advancement. But most of us who speak out are old hippies and we have a horror of social advancement anyway, so it's not so serious.
Biographical note: "Only great minds", wrote Stendhal, "can afford a simple style." The French writer's reflection comes to mind when speaking to Juan Cole. From his home at Ann Arbor, Michigan, he talks to us on the phone for more than an hour. His tone is calm, and he takes his time to put his thoughts in order. At the end of the interview, he tells us he'd love to visit Panama, and the conversation goes on for a little longer, touching on more mundane but equally enjoyable topics. It would seem he's got nothing else to do.
And yet, Cole is one of the United States' most important intellectuals. Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1952, his father's military career forced him to move to France when he was only two years old. He would spend seven years there, and end up going to twelve different schools in the same amount of years. His life's instability and its consequences –"traveling so much you keep losing people", he says—made him seek solace in reading, the first of his great passions.
But it was the 18 months his father spent at Kagnew Station (Asmara, modern Eritrea) that opened him the doors of the civilization he's devoted his professional life to. "Eritrea is on the fringes of the Middle East, is a mixed Muslim and Christian society, so that's where I really first encountered the Middle East and the Muslim world", he explains.
His passion for the Middle East solidified in Beirut, where he spent some time with his family –"rest and recreation" in the military jargon—at the end of his father's Asmara tour. "I really liked Beirut, I fell in love with it.", he remembers. Later, while studying his Bachelor's Degree, he went back for six months to Beirut to conduct a research project. He would return after graduation in 1975, but the country's Civil War forced him to move to Cairo, where he completed, three years later, a Master's Degree in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies.
After another year in Beirut, where he worked as a translator at a newspaper, Cole went back to the US, completing his Ph.D. in Islamic Studies in 1984. Since then, his professional life has been attached to the University of Michigan, fist as an Assistant Professor and now as Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History.
Currently, Juan Cole is one of the world's most respected minds in Middle Easter and Islamic affairs. He's written several books on these topics –the latest, Engaging the Muslim World, was published in 2009—and authored dozens of essays for academic journals. Furthermore, his command of languages –he speaks Arabic, Urdu, Farsi, French, German and Spanish—has allowed him to translate into English some of the work of great authors like Persian poet Omar Khayyam and Lebanese-American novelist Khalil Gibran. He is routinely interviewed by media from all over the world –from CNN to Russia Today—and he's written articles and op-eds in some of the most prestigious publications in the planet. He's even testified before the American Congress, as his testimony was required to better understand the situation in Iraq.
But the medium through which he channels his tremendous intellectual output –he writes almost every day—is his blog, Informed Comment, which has been active since 2002, and has earned several awards and recognitions. It has even been listed among the 100 most widely read blogs on the Internet.
Like every great intellectual, Cole has also been involved in controversies. In 2006, he was nominated to teach at Yale University. His candidacy was approved by the Departments of History and Sociology, but later rejected by the Senior Appointments Committee. Several Yale historians mentioned the "controversial nature" of his blog and his ideas as the main motive.
Five years later, a New York Times journalist reported that a former CIA agent had told him that, during the administration of George W. Bush, the White House had twice ordered the CIA to gather sensitive information on Cole in order to "discredit him." Surprisingly, Cole gives little importance to these matters. "I only know what was written in the Times", he says.
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If you've ever trained for a marathon before, it's highly likely that you had some races during your training cycle that you considered to be "training" races. Completing a race is a really nice way to get a long-run done: You've got crowds of people encouraging you, a medal as a reward when you get done, etc.
I find it to be extremely difficult to complete my long-runs when they get above 10 miles. It would work wonderfully if I had friends to do all my long runs with, but I don't have any running friends in Tacoma. (Sad, sad, I know). For this reason, races become somewhat important training tools to help me finish those long runs. As I've planned out my training schedule, I've tried to find races that coincide with my 20-miler weekends. One weekend in particular has me questioning something:
Should I sign up for a marathon to use as a training run?
In some ways, that sounds absolutely crazy, right? The whole reason that most training plans have a maximum distance of 20 miles is because the belief is that the way that our bodies start breaking down after 20 miles means that it's actually counter-productive to run farther than 20 miles during a training run. Beyond that, 26.2 miles is just plan HARD, so maybe it's best to just stick with 20 miles.
However, trying to fit races with my 20-mile runs is tough in that 20-mile races rarely exist. Mostly I'll have to run half marathons and either fit 7 miles in beforehand, or 7 miles in afterwards. And that is why maybe just going for 26.2 makes sense. See….I'm not as tough as many of my friends. I know that waking up to run 7 miles before a race would be VERY hard for me. I also know that finishing a race and then running 7 miles afterwards will be incredibly difficult. Because of this, I do wonder if going for 26.2 might make sense. I'd truly use it as a training run…running 20 miles, and then walking, crawling, piggy-backing the last 6.2.
I really am clueless here!
What are your thoughts? Would you ever use a marathon as a training run for another marathon? If your answer is "no," how have you gotten additional miles in before or after a half marathon?

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In an interview with Pocket Gamer, Littleloud's head of games, Simon Parkin, explained that Sweatshop HD was removed on the grounds that "it was uncomfortable selling a game based around the theme of running a sweatshop."
"Apple specifically cited references in the game to clothing factory managers 'blocking fire escapes', 'increasing work hours for labour', and issues around the child labour as reasons why the game was unsuitable for sale."
Obviously, Littleloud put out the game as social commentary and to raise awareness "about the origin of the clothes we buy." An admirable goal for a games developer to have.
Apple pulled the game based off of the App Store developer guidelines, which state "we view apps different [sic] than books or songs, which we do not curate… if you want to criticise a religion, write a book. If you want to describe sex, write a book or a song, or create a medical app."
Littleloud and Sweatshop HD aren't alone. Apple's set a precedent by removing other games like Smuggle Truck and Endgame: Syria.
Apparently, to Apple, games on the app store simply cannot be deep or meaningful, lest they offend buyers of any sort.
You can still play Sweatshop as a Flash game, here.
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So playing game about sweatshop on the device where is really come from is not cool huh.
To close to home, Apple ? :-)
Um, can you say irony?
and how about removing ties to that RL sweatshop?
21DarkSable , March 21, 2013 10:26 PMRight. Because blocking a fire escape is REALLY how apple has to worry about offending us.
14poohbear2005 , March 21, 2013 10:26 PMWTF? Thats stupid! If anyone finds it offensive they can simply not buy it.
21tokencode , March 21, 2013 10:37 PMRemember, when you buy an Apple device, you only get the world according to Apple. Next you find out that safari is blocking websites with "unsuitable content". Thanks for protecting us from... whatever you don't approve of apple... but you're probably right, if I'm dumb enough to buy your product after this, I'm probably too dumb to make any decisions for myself.
9phatboe , March 21, 2013 10:52 PMIf owned an Apple device I would care but since I don't like wasting my money on crappy iDevices I don't care at all.
18madjimms , March 21, 2013 11:02 PMThey should just start putting "Made in Sweatshop" on the back of Apple products.
9razor512 , March 21, 2013 11:18 PMI bet apple would keep it in the app store if they made the game about building iphones and ipads instead
7bemused_fred , March 21, 2013 11:46 PMfreggoTo close to home, Apple ? :-)
Damn, I was going to say that! Curse you, Mr. Ninja!
3mrmez , March 22, 2013 12:13 AMDamn, sounds like a good game. Now i want it.
-7Novulux , March 22, 2013 12:17 AMphatboeIf owned an Apple device I would care but since I don't like wasting my money on crappy iDevices I don't care at all.
Probably most electronics you own are made in the same place.
8w8gaming , March 22, 2013 12:32 AMThis is exactly the same censorship attitude adopted by Apple ecosystem that turns me away from buying Apple products. No, it is not about me like the idea of a sweatshop or porno game. It is more about everybody who owns the device should be given a choice of what we want to use on our device. We do not need someone acting like big brother that forbides us to do this or that. For all we know, Apple might one day decided mkv video is evil and pull all apps that can play that format because it violates Apple guideline. Or you cannot run a calculator app because it is essentially an emulator to the actual calculator, and Apple forbides emulator.
6Cons29 , March 22, 2013 12:40 AMso they don't want something that will remind buyers about the sweat shop in which the device was made? i cant say that im surprised
5NuclearShadow , March 22, 2013 1:58 AMThis is not going to go well most here especially those who own Apple products but..
We all know where these products come from and under what conditions. While this game focused on clothing rather than electronics clearly those who buy a iPad, iPhone, or iPod simply don't care. The message the game tries to send was already lost when it targeted that audience and it's no surprise Apple took it down. The consumer is just as guilty as the company if they choose to support a company that does immoral practices.
We have adopted a out of sight, out of mind train of thought when it comes to human suffering that we are directly influencing. We all know it's going on but we place our greed on things we can easily live without before the well being of other human beings. We have not only become consumer wh*res but we've become monsters as well.
4halcyon , March 22, 2013 2:12 AMI must be sick. ...cause I read this and LOL'd.
1unksol , March 22, 2013 2:35 AMmy first impression was apple was trying to look ok by dodging sweat shops they support... Then I find out apple wants to block people knowing they use and support sweat shops....
2das_stig , March 22, 2013 3:15 AMMust be too close to the truth on how Foxconn mistreat their employees.
0Vorador2 , March 22, 2013 4:34 AMIt hit a little too close to home for Apple's tastes.
2corvak , March 22, 2013 5:16 AMDid the game have overworked Foxconn employees jumping to their deaths?
Though in getting rid of the app, Apple's links to sweatshops will get mentioned on tech sites like this one.


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The John Calvin Stevens-John Howard Stevens Architects drawing of the proposed Maine State Sanatorium for treatment of people with tuberculosis.
The privately operated facility, which opened in 1904, was located on Greenwood Mountain in Hebron. Its founder, Dr. Estes Nichols believed in fresh air, including for sleeping, rest, and a nutritious diet for treatment of the disease.
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- Title: Architectural drawing of proposed sanatorium, Hebron, 1903
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The last two events that occurred in the science and technology sector closed the year 2012 with a gloomy bye bye. The events were dramas of sort. They played out between staffers of the ministry of science and technology and the minister, Professor Ita Ewa on the one part, and some director generals and a World Bank official on the other.
On December 13, a mild drama played out in Abuja when some Director Generals openly denied that they received grants from World Bank Step-B project for research and development.
A World Bank representative at the workshop on the validation of the implementation framework for the revised science, technology and innovation (ST &I) policy has, while reeling out the financial institution's charitable works in the country, said most of the agencies and departments under the ministry of science and technology had benefitted immensely from the bank's grants.
Mr. Ben Nwanze, who represented the National Coordinator of the project, Professor Michael Adikwu said that the STEP-B project has been on for close to five years and would be concluded in 2013, saying that "the project has impacted positively in all 104 unity schools and tertiary institutions as well as research institutes under the Ministry of Science and Technology across the country."
But when it was their turn to give goodwill messages, some of the DGs in the ministry's agencies disagreed with Prof Adikwu, saying World Bank has not given them any grant for research purpose.
Professor Idris Bugaje, the DG of Nigerian Institute of Chemical Research and Technology, Zaria, said the bank did not support his institute on research and development but that it only got loan from the bank through the Federal Government.
Professor Bugaje said there was need for the bank to review its grants policy if it actually meant well for the country.
He said instead of sponsoring non research institute, the World Bank should rather concentrate on institute that do research and development.
Also, the Director General of National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM) Professor Willie Siyanbola said though the World Bank Step B project was meant to improve the well being of Nigerians, the country had benefitted little from it.
"Out of all the country in Africa, Nigeria and Mozambique have not benefitted as much as other African countries in the project. Whereas the grants Ghana gets from the project is about 40 percent, Nigeria only gets about 0.5 percent from the project", he said.
In the same vein, the DG of Nigerian Institute of Leather Technology, Dr Isuwa Adamu said his institute even applied for grants but did not get any.
However, the ministry Perm Sec, Hajia Rabi Jimeta said it would be unfair to say the World Bank Step B Project has not done enough for the ministry and its agencies.
She said the ministry had benefited greatly from the Step-B project and that hundreds of projects have been done by the Bank.
As if that drama was not enough, another one played out on December 18 at the Federal Secretariat in Abuja when the protesting staffs of ministry of science and technology locked up the minister, Professor Ita Ewa in his office for three hours.
The staffs, who were protesting over unpaid salary and 'welfare', barricaded the entrance to the minister's office at the fourth floor, second phase of the secretariat complex, preventing the minister from either going out or his visitors from entering the office.
From about 11am up until about 2:30pm when the minister was eventually allowed to come out to address them, the protesting workers were banging doors, windows and tables, singing solidarity songs and abusing the minister.
The chairman of the workers union, comrade Shehu Yahaya, told journalists that they were protesting on behalf of about 103 of their colleagues whose salaries and allowances have not been paid since January.
They have been working since January yet the minister failed to approve their salary, he said.
Comrade Yahaya also said the since the minister was appointed about one and half year ago he has been junketing around the world and across the country, adding that he has failed to meet one on one with the staff over their welfare since he came into the ministry as minister.
The minister does not take low level and middle level staff welfare seriously but the senior management staffs are the ones enjoining all benefits, Yahaya said.
But the minister denied that the ministry owes worker any salary as the 'workers' who claimed they have not been paid were not employed properly into the civil service.
According to the minister, the ministry is working to iron out the issue and the result of the verification exercise done would soon be out.
He said any worker whose appointment is verified to be in accordance with civil service rule would be absorbed while those whose appointments fail verification would not be absorbed.
On the allegation that he junkets the world and across the country, the minister said he had to do that because the nature of science and technology demands that he synergies with companies and agencies across the world to make ensure the development of science and technology in the country.
At this appoint, the minister was booed and jeered by the protesting workers. He got angry and said: "I am 60 years old. I have my first degree in 1970. Let's respect age I am older than most of you here."
The ministry's Permanent Secretary, Hajia Rabi Jimeta later calmed the workers and promised that a meeting would be held between the management and the representatives of the workers to iron out the issue of welfare and also resolve the unpaid salary issue.
She said "though the ministry would look into the grievances of the workers, no worker whose education qualification does not meet up with civil service standard" would not be absorbed.
However, one of the affected staffs told journalists that they were employed after a 'proper' interview in 2011 and that all of them have requisite education qualification.
He said since they were employed about two years ago they have been collecting salaries but the minister only ordered that their salary be stopped in January.
The staff, who pleaded anonymity, said "the minister deliberately wanted to frustrate them out of service so he could employ his political loyalists."
But apart from these gloomy events, the ministry and by extension the science and technology sector fared fairly well in 2012.
The ministry started the year with the promise of partnership between it and the Korean government in February. Prof Ita Ewa said Nigeria has a lot to gain from Korea and that the Asian country would also benefit from collaborating with Nigeria. But nothing has been heard concerning the partnership since then.
In March, President Goodluck Jonathan directed all MDAs to connect to Nigeria satellite launched in December 2011 by Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT)
The directive followed the formal handing over of the Nigcomsat-1R satellite by the China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) to the government of Nigeria.
President Jonathan, who was represented at the handing over ceremony by the chairman of Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited governing board, Prof Turner Isoun, urged all ministries, departments and agencies to hook on the new technology to quicken activities of government in the country.
He allayed the fears of existing and potential customers that there was nothing to worry about as government has set in motion machinery to acquire Nigcomsat-2 and 3 as backups to Nigcomsat-1, in case of any unforeseen situation as it happened in the past.
The president, who recalled that one of the cardinal objectives of his administration is the need to improve the living conditions of Nigerians by empowering them through ICT, said the satellite would surely benefits the poor in many ways.
He said China has been one "of our bigger trade partners with whom we have had very robust bilateral relationship. That this satellite was replaced at no cost to Nigeria testifies to the faith and confidence that the country has in Nigeria".
Also in March, three post-incubation entrepreneurs of the National Board for Technology Incubation (NBTI)'s Kano centre won the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)'s N900,000 prize for aspiring small and medium entrepreneurs in the country.
NBTI is a federal government agency in charge of training aspiring technology based entrepreneurs in the country.
The apex bank gave the budding entrepreneurs the money for their various contributions to boosting small/medium enterprises sector of the country's economy.
Aside from these major events, most of the ministry's activities were centered on taking the results of Research and Development (R&D) from the shelves to the markets. And the minister, Professor Ewa promised to take this campaign to the next level in 2013. Will the angry staff of the ministry believe him?


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The first edition, Book #1 was published in May 2006 and included over 75 contributions, some including Josephine Foster, Devendra Banhart, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Xiu Xiu, Marissa Nadler, Hawnay Troof, artist Mel Kadel, Residual Echoes, Kentucky band Warmer Milks, Ariel Pink, Women & Children, Richard Swift, XBXRX, The American Analog Set, R.L. Crutchfield (Dark Day, DNA) and features cover art by underground Los Angeles artist Jason Yates of the Fast Friends Inc. project.
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Nissan GT-R Spec V vs Conti SS
Already weighty performers, now the honed Spec V and SS versions are about to throw stones at each other
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Only GT-R trainspotters will register the Spec V's visual differences, though. The paint scheme - called Ultimate Opal Black - is unique, and more purple than black in the right light. There's a titanium exhaust, with reprofiled outlets. The moulding under the chin spoiler has grown a couple of new air inlets to cool the brakes, and the front grille and rear wing are made of carbon fibre. The lightweight alloy wheels are from Nissan's ace Nismo race and tuning arm, and if you peer hard enough you'll see the carbon-ceramic discs and silver calipers of Brembo's finest stopping equipment underneath. About 35 grand's worth of stopping equipment, apparently.


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G6800 GS, nFORCE4 and AMD64 2x
Hello to everybody,
I'll have my new box with the following items
AMD 64 3.8 2x
Asus A8N-E nFORCE4 chipset
nVidia G6800 GS pcx
and try to install a Linux on it
I'm almost a newbie, just started with Knoppix.
Does anyone of you guys can give me some advise whether Debian would be
the right one? I mean in terms of supported HW and like.
thanks anyway
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I recommend Ubuntu/Kubuntu. They have a great forum where you can get support.
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The nvidia X driver should work fine under most popular Linux distributions, including (but not limited to) Debian, SuSE, Slackware, and Redhat.
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Date published: February 1, 2012
The argument about Fernet Branca-the strange and popular Italian bitter and aperitif-came up over and over this past week. Does it really help a bellyache? Can it really cure your hangover? The biggest argument: Should it be pronounced like the French do, "Fer-nay" like "toupee" or singer "Sade"? Or should it be like the Italians say it, "Fer-net" like "baguette"?
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It is no secret that Netanyahu and Obama have never been close, but now is the time for the two leaders to find common ground over the Iranian nuclear issue. The U.S. and Israel clearly differ in where their red lines lie. The U.S. has put the focus on Iran actually gaining a nuclear weapon, while Israel – more vulnerable to Iranian missiles due to its geographic proximity – views the threshold as the Iranian regime's acquisition of enough low-enriched uranium to build a bomb, pending a political decision to convert it to weapons-grade fuel.
The other set of differences has to do with how long the U.S. and Israel are willing to wait before judging the international sanctions of Iran to be a success or failure. Israeli officials fear they might not have the time to wait and see whether the sanctions halt Iran's nuclear program peacefully.
Israeli considerations of a strike are rooted not in their ethos of self-reliance, but in the fear that the U.S. will ultimately fail to strike, even if sanctions fail. The U.S. and Israel need to come to a more precise understanding of U.S. thresholds for the Iranian nuclear program and American responses should they be breached, as well as an agreement on a timetable for giving up on sanctions. The writer is the Ziegler distinguished fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
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We've since learned that he's all fluff and no claws.Well, for the most part. "Dad" came home after five days away. Rocco gave him the cold shoulder and the silent treatment for four days! Even after that, he hasn't been quick to show affection to his person. He's holding onto his grudge as long as possible.
Luckily for my hubby, no attempts at murder or even partial maiming have we noticed thus far. For those four days after the man returned, he wouldn't look at or show any notice that his person was in the room. He seems to be slowly coming around, but it could be a while before he's forgiven completely. And we are headed out of town this weekend. Will this push Rocco over the edge? What do you think?


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Whether you need to restock your fishing tackle box or you want to make sure you have a good supply of fishing hooks available at all times, we have the best selection of fishing tackle for you to choose from right here. Our wide selection of fish hooks and lures will allow you to always get the most out of your fishing expeditions, so you can be sure you constantly have a fantastic time when out fishing.
Our sea fishing hooks come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes as well, so no matter what it is youre hoping to catch, we can help. To ensure your fish hooks last as long as possible, the ones we have available have been chemically sharpened. This not only means that the hooks are much sharper, but it also allows them to be more effective when in use.
We only stock the very best fishing hooks, from a number of manufacturers, including those such as Sakuma and Cox & Rawle. If you have a preferred manufacturer, you can guarantee youll be able to find it right here at Ocean Tackle Store, where we put our customers first to ensure we can help you as much as possible. Whatever your needs are when it comes to fishing tackle, you can guarantee the Ocean Tackle Store will be able to help you.
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Once you get to 0, hook sizes then increase like so 1/0, 2/0, 3/0, all the way up to 12/0. Our range of Gummimakk hooks, Assist hooks and Jig hooks is very comprehensive, so check out our current stock to find the right fish hook for your trip.
The system for hook sizes can seem thoroughly confusing at first, but its really much easier to understand than youd expect. Whats important is that you remember that not all manufacturers follow the same size guidelines, so a size that youre used to from one company may not translate to the same size by another. This is why it can pay to experiment to find the manufacturer you like the most - youll often find that fishing enthusiasts always have a favourite!
Hook Points - There are a total of nine hook points that you can choose from, and each one offers up a different use.
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A jig hook features a bend on the shank, which is placed before the eye and has a 60 to 90 degree angle. The angle that each jig hook has will determine where the eye is placed and how the jig will actually float in the water.
As well as this, the length of the shank is also important, as it will let you know what the jig hook can actually be used for. For instance, short shank jig hooks can be used to bait with live minnows, while a longer shank will be better suited to the use of soft-plastic grubs or lizard bodies.
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The tip of Gummimakk fishing hooks have a natural quivering motion that attracts fish, and which is made from real latex. You can buy Gummimakk hooks in a range of colours, as well as in packs of hooks with various colours, to ensure you use the right one every time.
Treble Hooks - These fishing hooks are an excellent piece of kit that you should absolutely make sure is available in your tackle box. This hook is ideal for larger fish that you want to hook first time, thanks to the increased number of hooks on them. If youre using larger pieces of bait, or larger artificial bait, a treble hook can be the perfect option.
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Another point on sharpening hooks is that you must ensure you dont over-sharpen them, as the more you sharpen them, the more heat will be produced. This can lead to hooks bending and breaking off much more easily, which will mean youve wasted your money. We want to make sure you get the most use out of your fishing hooks as possible, and so recommend that you do not remove too much metal from your hooks.
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Finished the build of our "White Oven" and tested it.
Easily achieved 550F in the upper oven and cooked pizza's without burning.
The Pizza Oven was built to look original to some 120 year old ruins that a client was using in his landscaping.
The lower firebox has firebrick lined flues that envelope the upper oven and also heat a cast refractory smoke shelf that divides the two boxes.
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Looks beautiful
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Is it an optical or is it actually low?
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You did a great job with it.
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It is lower than originally planned. The landscapers brought the interlocking brick base one step - 6" higher than the original plan but the oven was already 70% complete.
We ended up 32" to the floor of the bake oven which works fine but the firebox would have been nicer a little higher. Oh, well that's what happens when plans change half way through a build!
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The doors really make it....were they custom made? Also, did you use a bagged refractory mix or your own design for the slab?
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Yes, the doors were made at a foundry in Merrickville. They had the form for woodstove doors and adapted it for the bake oven. Really nicely done, but old door off of an antique cook stone or woodstove could work as well.
I bought pre bagged castable refractory for the divider. Great stuff to work with and it will stand u to the extreme heat well.
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Beautiful brick and stone work, and I'm happy the customer is pleased, but it sure seems like a lot of work and expense for an oven that cannot perform on par with the cheapest economy kitchen stove. This guy must have a real issue with smoke, lol.
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If the customer is happy, no rationale is needed. It makes more sense to build what is wanted by the customer rather than what the contractor thinks should be built, even if the contractor is right.
I draw the line at shoddy work, but if someone is dead set on building a Rube Goldberg, that is their problem, not mine.
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Yeah, plus setting a Hotpoint stove into the stonework would look pretty stupid.
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Cedella, a daughter to reggae music icon Bob Marley may not be as famous as her father, or mother, or brothers. She does not have albums or Grammy to her name but her contribution to Jamaican culture is just as significant. Cedella is the fashion designer that developed creative concepts for the outfits worn by both Jamaican men and women's teams at the 2012 London Olympics, and the collection included uniforms, official ceremonies kits and everything for public appearances.
The designs were commissioned and approved by German sportswear giant, Puma, the official sponsors of the Jamaican athletics team.
What makes Cedella's contribution unique, at least to Zimbabweans is that such partnerships are extremely rare in developing countries. Just like the Jamaica Olympic Association, our very own Zimbabwe national team, the Warriors, has the Puma insignia on their uniforms. The only difference is that the Warriors have no deal with the Germans; there is no official endorsement of one by the other.
In short, Zimbabwean officials walk into a sports shop, buy two dozen yellow jerseys and find a printmaker or embroidery expert to add numbers to the back and a Zifa logo on the front.
In countries where national teams are sponsored by sports companies, every member of the team gets perfectly fitting outfits after careful planning, whereas in Zimbabwe, a diminutive player like Khama Billiat is most likely to don the same jersey size as that for big Carrington Nyadombo because everything is supposedly bought in bulk and outside the country. The strange arrangement means that either Billiat or Nyadombo or both are likely to feel uncomfortable while serving a national cause.
Under sponsorship deals and based on personal requirements, players have a big say in what they wear.
Bayern Munich and Dutch speedy star Arjen Robben's club and international uniforms stick closer to his body as a deterrent for shirt-pulling by the opposition.
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Several years ago, momentum was building towards the creation of a national dress. Many options were put forward and at that moment, it looked likely that fashion designers were finally taking the national issue seriously.
But some decade or so later, there is no national dress and the interest is that particular cause seems to have cooled.
Most of Zimbabwe's fashion designers appear to be interested more in making the "spectacular" and the "impossible", following trends in international circles where some work on designs that look good on the catwalk but are unlikely to function normally in any other environment. Such designs are only meant to stretch the imagination of the fashion designer but fell terribly short on functionality. The "impossible" and the "spectacular" are acceptable in developed countries only as an extension of the designs that work.
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Boris Johnson was in attendance at one raid in Peckham, although police apparently refused to allow him into the property thus denying its occupants a unique opportunity to be rudely awoken by the mayor of London. In a typically Boris-esque manner, the mayor remarked that the refusal 'may have been because of a scantily-clad lady' inside.
The raids, codenamed Operation Hawk were carried out by 4000 police officers and were based on intelligence from the local communities under the Safer Neighbourhoods scheme. Launching the operation today, the freshly-elected Met Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe said:
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One-day anti-crime sprees appear to be a favoured tactic of Hogan-Howe; last month a crackdown on uninsured drivers netted 500 cars and over 60 arrests.
Hogan-Howe has also been the subject of a bogus Tweeter, sadly now deleted.
To find out how to get in touch with your local Safer Neighbourhoods team, visit www.met.police.uk/saferneighbourhoods. In an emergency always dial 999.


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Dr. Laura Schlessinger has said a lot of hurtful and irresponsible things on the radio during her many years as a right-wing religious "therapist" and yenta. She mocks and humiliates her callers, some of whom have serious problems. She never misses a chance to bash feminists, working mothers, unmarried or divorced parents, women who have abortions, people who engage in nonmarital sex and anyone who hesitates to whip them through the streets. While she's not entirely a fraud--like "Dr." Henry Kissinger she has a PhD, but in the irrelevant field of physiology--when she ventures into therapeutic territory she's an ignorant meddler. A recent convert to Orthodox Judaism, she hectored one Jewish mother who had qualms about circumcising her son, insisting that there was "overwhelming medical evidence" of the benefits of circumcision, which is false, and that those who said otherwise were members of hate groups pushing anti-Semitic propaganda. She told another mother, who felt guilty about not including a disruptive autistic child in a special restaurant outing, that it was time to think about placing the child in an institution. Maybe so, but who asked her?
For years groups on the receiving end of Dr. Laura's tirades and black-and-white judgments about people she's never met and situations she knows nothing about have grumbled as her show's ratings soared: With 14.25 million weekly listeners, she's almost tied with Rush Limbaugh for the nation's most popular radio personality. Not bad for a woman whose naked photos--product of a youthful preconversion liaison with fellow radio host Bill Ballance--are plastered all over the Web. From time to time, a controversy surfaces: The American Library Association, for example, has strongly objected to her smear campaign against them for their opposition to Internet filtering. But it took gays and lesbians to make a fuss loud enough to make the news, and more power to them, I say. Antigay remarks have long been a Dr. Laura staple--the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) first tried to get a meeting with her in 1997, when she referred to homosexuality as a "biological faux pas"--but recently she's stepped up her attacks. Homosexuality is "deviant," a "biological disorder" or "biological error." Gays are sexual predators who do not deserve rights and should not be left alone with children: "How many letters have I read on the air from gay men who acknowledge that a huge portion of the male homosexual populace is predatory on young boys?" She advocates "reparative" therapy and uses the Family Research Council, Gary Bauer's outfit, as her main source of information on homosexuality.
With Viacom's Paramount unit preparing a Dr. Laura daytime TV show for September--more than 160 stations, reaching over 90 percent of the nation's households, have already signed up--enough was clearly enough. Gays have fought back with letters, ads in Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, a demonstration at Paramount's gates and a spiffy website, StopDrLaura.com, which claims 14 million hits. In response, Dr. Laura hired a "crisis management" firm, issued a weaselly "apology" ("words that I have used in a clinical [!] context have been perceived as judgment"), fired the crisis management team and relabeled the "apology" a "clarification."
Gay activists want the TV show canceled, which seems unlikely, despite the sympathy of David Lee, producer of Paramount's Frasier, who has said he's ashamed of his employer. Dr. Laura is not just the most successful woman in radio history (sigh), she's a multimedia franchise, with more than 3 million copies of her various books in print; her own foundation, which makes grants to groups that fight abortion and "teen sexuality"; a new magazine called Dr. Laura Perspective; and a website crowded with innumerable kitschy and self-promoting tie-ins, from books by others praising her show to teddy-bear tea-sets for children. But the gay protests are at least raising the right question: A major studio would never give a flagrant racist or open anti-Semite his own show, no matter how popular he was--Pat Buchanan, who came close, was always one pole of a debate--so why does Paramount find it more acceptable to promote antigay bigotry?
I used to think focusing on Dr. Laura was a waste of time for feminists. After a week of listening to her mad and prurient diatribes, I think we should take a leaf from gay activism and get busy. When Rush Limbaugh burst onto the national political scene, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting got right on his case, even publishing a clever paperback, The Way Things Aren't, dismantling his fake statistics and fractured anecdotes. Maybe it's time for a similar exposé of Dr. Laura, who says women who have abortions are murderers and that mothers always can--and always should--choose not to work, who falsely describes emergency contraception as "dumping out a pregnancy" and causing "disease," and who urges her callers not to help women leave bad marriages because it's all their own fault (see Noy Thrupkaew's article in the May Sojourner for a good introduction). Feminist pickets and protests and demands for equal time might not matter to Dr. Laura's core audience--half lost sheep, half graduates of the Taliban School of Female Deportment--but it would give Paramount another good reason to rethink the show.
New Yorkers can start by joining NOW at noon on May 3, in a demonstration in front of Barnes & Noble at 600 Fifth Avenue, where Dr. Laura will be signing copies of her latest book.
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Great news! With much help from generous Nation readers, the Bosnian Initiative Frankfurt, a German human rights group, has succeeded in buying a house to serve as a community center for displaced women and children around Tuzla. If you forgot to send in a check, don't worry--once again, the BIF is asking for donations for its upcoming summer camp for Bosnian refugee children. $150 makes you a "godparent" funding two weeks of vacation for one child, but gifts of any size will be warmly appreciated. Checks made out to Bosnian Initiative Frankfurt can be mailed to me at The Nation, and I will forward them.