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Re: 100km? Or 100m?
It did indeed grip the camera by its husk.
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It did indeed grip the camera by its husk.
Happy Thanksgiving, folks in the US enjoy your stuffed Turkey. And don't think about how that hollow region was made...
Good news, everyone! Someone finally invented a real Smelloscope...
Back in the day at my school, biochemical engineering was abbreviated BICH, and pronounced like the word with the 't' in the middle. Somehow it fits...
RR already did that. .50 cal vs. bulletproof iPhone case.
Photon torpedoes, of course. Oh wait, that's Star Trek. Wrong universe, my bad.
It was not that long ago that I was reading articles about Loscher, and how he took the reins of a scandal-riddled bribery-corrupted Siemens corporation and was looking to turn things around in a positive way. He swept through senior management and began to right many wrongs. Now a few years later.... there he goes, under the bus. One reason why CEO pay is high... when the times are good, they're good. When they go bad - it's the bus wheels for you, my boy.
The big news here isn't that 61% launched a TIFKAM app less than once per day... but that it implies that 39% launched a TIFKAM app once or more a day. To a marketdroid, that's a number that will be on the upswing. Just wait until we have 45%! 50%! wOOT wOOT! The glass isn't 61% empty... it's 39% full.
No really, I don't live on another planet.
Maybe now I can work on my pick up lines for Lursa and B'Etor. Rowwr.
I'm the one with the cloak..ing device.
Last single platter drive I worked with was an RL02. I find this new fangled stuff quite scarily fragile looking.
You scraped that from Wikipedia, didn't you?
It's called Pon farr. Blood fever, violent, sex-crazed mania. Battle to the death.
With great music in the background...
Hey now, we electrical engineers are just keepin' it real...
As a "tablet" though, movies come to mind. It doesn't take long to fill up 23GB with movies if you're not fond of heavy pixellation. The movies on my tablet are 1-2 GB per.
Never heard of a computer killing their operator. Or getting your hair caught in a computer ending up in a video on Youtube. Lathes, on the other hand, can be quite vindictive if mistreated...
I have two... An old South Bend, and a newer Grizzly. So I suppose my shop is a proper "workshop", but I don't do as much work as I'd like out there these days. Oddly enough, my shop has no IT kit in it, but I'm working on that (about to put up a tower to pass a network connection via radios from the house to the shop).
Saw an article that mentioned that Pinterest is something like 94% (or 97%?) female users. I know my wife, and a number of her friends, are users, but I don't know any guys that are. They pin pictures for one another, my wife gets artsy-craftsy ideas from there (the loft bed I built for my daughter came from a picture my wife saw on Pinterest). No real use for guys though.
I'm here for the beer...
Our Wii is still used just about every day. Once or twice a month for games, every day for the rest of the month for Netflix. I'll admit, it's got a good Netflix interface (for the SD TV in the kids' playroom, of course). My kids are masters of Netflix on Wii these days.
My wife has been happily using Office '97 for many years (still using it today). While Powerpoint feels a bit long in the tooth, and she doesn't use Access or Excel, Word 97 does all she needs to do - unless she needs to open a .docx or convert to PDF, and then she'll lean on conversion programs.
Not very pleasant, especially for the good looking princesses who probably get chatted up at least 20 times a day by dorks like me. Jasmine and Kim Possible were quite cute last time I went to WDW... Wife doesn't appreciate that either, BTW.
Duh, with $40M worth of waffles. Can't sell dry waffles. Oh the humanity! I was eyeing the Belgians for this job.
In the books (post-ROTJ), there was a clone Emperor...
We have the chairs issue at work... any chair labeled a "Manager's Chair" on the box is unacceptable for normal workers.
We also have a phones issue at work. Majority of employees are only allowed an analog handset with a LED voice mail light. Digital phones (with displays) are reserved for managers and above. Caller ID is not available at all (company does not subscribe to it from the telco).
Coffee is free, but I've heard rumors that may change in the future.
Desks with overhangs are reserved for higher-ups as well.
We weren't a rich family, so we couldn't afford a C64. I did talk the parents in to buying me a Vic-20 though. That's how I worked on my programming skills... guess that $99 investment back in 1984 or so did pay off eventually. I still have the VIC-20, tried to power it up last year. Alas, the power supply was completely dead (and epoxy filled, so no troubleshooting available), and after figuring out an alternative, the video did not come up. Poor thing...
I agree, Glocks are ugly guns, but my 27 is about the biggest gun my smallish frame can conceal. I lust after an elegantly machined full sized 1911 in .45 cal, but think "what practicality is it? I can't carry that monster.". My G27 isn't anything I want to show off (like said 1911 would be)... but for cost, reliability, simplicity, weight, and available aftermarket accessories... it's hard to beat an ugly Glock.
I had a PPK at one time (traded it away)... it tended to jam a lot, but that may have been the ammo I was feeding it.
Seeing all this US vs UK gun argument...
I'm currently reading Churchill's book series on WWII (fascinating read, I'm on book 4 of 6). Seems that in the late 1930s / early 1940s, GB was begging for every firearm they could get their hands on, because of the seemingly imminent German invasion (which, fortunately, never happened, because of the Air Force superiority). Part of me wonders - what happened to those millions of firearms that were shipped to GB in the 1940s and distributed to protect against invasion? Were they collected up? (I somehow doubt the answer is in book 6.)
Black helicopters, because we have plenty of those around here too...
"She takes up 25 square feet of space"
Or the ITV article: "The machine, which measures 20ft by 22ft,"
I have room in my cubicle for the first...
Not so much for the second...
MythTV? I was a heavy MythTV user until earlier this year... Would the layering of the software upon a standard PC hardware platform exempt it from the steamroller, or would its features encumber it and make an open source project a target? I used an Athlon 3200 with a Happauge tuner card.
Yes, and the 22 oz is a 'bomber'. So, bomber > pint.
Now, how about the forty? That's fine livin' right there. Grip & sip.
A 2x4 is actually 1-5/8" x 3.5" - err, 41.28mm x 88.9 mm.
And the last 4x8 x 20mm sheet of MDF I bought wasn't 48" wide either. I don't recall the exact width, but I do believe it was slightly larger.
No, accountants are useless for plenty of other reasons. :)
{But I'll lay palm leaves at the feet of my CPA around tax time, thanks...}
Glad to be a beef-eating 'merican, our cows aren't shrinking. You Brits might lose some weight due to your shrinking fishies, but we won't be. Whew.
Fishy, fishy, fishy, fish, that went wherever I did go...
My Sprint Galaxy S2 running ICS popped up with the IMEI number. So I s'pose I ought to surf carefully... though the Sprint network is so slow, surfing is nearly worthless anyway...
Facebook already has a patent on this, and now California Court Hilarity will ensue.
So, if the Republicans can't have their convention while a storm is going on, what should they be doing? Hanging around Louisiana in a bucket brigade? News flash, life goes on, even during natural disasters. Life is not all about Louisiana. Not everyone can join in the fun and try to "help" those who are stuck on their roofs in a flood (aka "not having enough common sense to realize that they built their house in a flood zone and should have GTFO while they had the chance"). Honestly, at this point I have little sympathy for anyone who was unprepared for this. You live in southern Louisiana, possibly even below sea level. You KNOW what is going to happen. It WILL happen again.
Life goes on. Mod me down, I don't care, but the world will keep spinning.
Since we're talking Apple in the same sentence...
"There can be only one".
Con or Mcloud... you decide!
AKA Torchwood?
My son's of this minecraft generation. He'd play for days straight if we let him. The saving grace of that game (for me) is that it allows you to run your own server. I set up a VM on my machine, taught him how to do remote desktop, poked a port in the router, and said "there ya go". He's now admin of his 'own server' for him and a few buddies, and he's got it running pretty well. So he's not just playing a game, he's learning how to run a box. Little steps...
Of course, now he wants me to move it to a real box with lots of RAM... Thankfully I don't have any nearby elevator shafts, large safes, or raised floor rooms... he's a bit of a PFY right now, but one day...
So why not combine the two... Haggis ranchero? Kinda like a Haggis quesadilla. That's generally how we eat leftovers at home. Darn near anything tastes good in a tortilla with cheese & fresh salsa.
Aliens, because some of the best Tex-Mex is made by...
Bit of a Futurama-esque activity, eh? http://fchangeplaces.ytmnd.com/
A Slashdot poster did some digging on "Pegasus Holdings", seems it's 1 guy that's dreaming big. Interesting reading.
Reeks of "monorail-syndrome" / money wasting boondoggle to me.
One morning, as I was taking my Galaxy S2 off the charger, it was quite warm and the battery was at 10% - after charging overnight! How could it be that I purchased a complete piece of junk like this? How dare it get hot, and how dare the battery not charge on a 2 month old phone?
Well, as it turns out, I'd left my security camera software running, and it had been streaming video (behind the locked screen) all night (on WiFi). Streaming video chewed through the battery and caused the CPU to warm up.
I have a feeling that a lot of these are growing pain problems; getting used to how the apps are handled on the devices. Leave a CPU intensive program running, and duh... it's going to get warm.
The Board of Directors for the company I work for was issued iPads to "cut down on paperwork".
3 months later they were back to distributing binders for board meetings. Seems the directors couldn't be bothered to figure out how their shiny-shinies really could work for them in meetings. So the company purchased 30 iPads for naught, but the directors got new toys.
Double tsunami, man. Double tsunami, look at that. Wow, man. The colors are so beautiful...
My son's birthday is tomorrow, he's getting Skyrim (PC version) - and a new video card. Is the PC version OK to patch, or should we hold off on patching it?
Yellow fizzy drink, because he's also getting an 8-pack of Mountain Dew for his video gaming marathon tomorrow night.
"They could always talk to Microsoft to make sure SQLServer is up to the job for Itanium."
Somehow, I think that Windows isn't the primary platform we're talking about here. We've purchased a number of Itanium boxes running VMS. They can run UNIX as well. Oracle has databases for both OS's. How much effort would it take to port SQL Server to VMS? Probably more than MS would want to exert.
For the Hyperspace Bypass. I, for one, welcome our new Vogon overlords. Can I interest anyone in some poetry?
I bought my daughter a charger and an A/V cable for her iPod Touch - both non-Apple variants. With the charger, she gets an annoying message on her Touch, and the A/V cable doesn't work at all with the newer firmware. Like you, I'm done with Apple products. I'm not paying $50 for an A/V cable so we can watch videos from her iPod on the big screen. $5 I would, yes, $50, no.
My Archos 43 (Android) is quite promiscuous, it'll take and work with any old plug. It's not picky at all.
For a movie that tries to be a story about a war, it requires the viewer to suspend all belief in reality in order to watch it. Unfortunately, "the best" war movies are somewhat realistic (see Band of Brothers). The things done by actors in this movie simply aren't done in the field. I'd love to see a solitary bomb disposal person heft and move six 100+ lb artillery shells with a few pairs of 14 gauge wire - like they did in this movie.


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Spicy Chopped Broccoli
This recipe for spicy chopped broccoli provides a tasty twist to a common side dish. This was originally featured in Everyday Food.
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Source: Martha Stewart Living Television
- 1 head broccoli (1 1/4 pounds), stem trimmed and peeled
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 well-rinsed anchovies (or 2 teaspoons anchovy paste)
- 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon red-pepper flakes
- Coarse salt and ground pepper
Starting with flower end of broccoli, cut crosswise into 1/2-inch pieces.
Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-low heat. Add anchovies and red-pepper flakes. Cook, mashing anchovies with a wooden spoon, about 1 minute.
Raise heat to medium. Add broccoli; season with salt and ground pepper. Cook, stirring often, until broccoli is crisp-tender, about 2 minutes. Add 1/2 cup water. Simmer, covered, until broccoli is tender, 4 to 5 minutes more.

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Jenny McCarthy Slams Shia LaBeouf for His Comment on Jim Carrey's Parenting SkillJanuary 15, 2014 10:01:57
McCarthy, who dated Carrey for five years, defends the 'Ace Ventura' actor on 'The View', saying that he is 'a great father' who loves his daughter 'more than anything in the world.'
Zach Braff Reacts to Shia LaBeouf's Retirement AnnouncementJanuary 11, 2014 01:01:22
In a hilarious mocking response to Labeouf's retirement plan, the 'Scrubs' actor tells the 'Charlie Countryman' star to 'Stop. Don't. come back.'
Shia LaBeouf Declares Retirement After Plagiarism AttackJanuary 11, 2014 07:01:49
The actor tweeted that his artistic work has been under attacks, therefore the decision is to quit public life.
Shia LaBeouf Sent Penis Pictures to Secure 'Nymphomaniac' RoleJanuary 08, 2014 11:01:33
To show the producers that he's fearless enough to go full frontal, the Jerome depicter agreed to send them snapshots of his package.
Lena Dunham and Shia LaBeouf Get Into Twitter Fight Over His Skywriting ApologyJanuary 06, 2014 11:01:49
The 'Girls' actress trashes the 'Nymphomaniac' star over his cloudy apology, and he reacts by deliberately ripping off her apology over a Halloween costume joke.
Shia LaBeouf Ripped by Fellow Stars Following His Skywriting ApologyJanuary 03, 2014 10:01:18
Actors Seth Rogen and Patton Oswalt as well as 'Saturday Night Live' writer Chris Kelly trash the 'Charlie Countryman' star as they weigh in on his plagiarism scandal.
Shia LaBeouf Apologizes via Skywriting for PlagiarismJanuary 02, 2014 10:01:26
The 'Charlie Countryman' actor has commissioned an 'I am sorry Daniel Clowes' message in the Los Angeles sky.
Shia LaBeouf Posts New Apology as More Evidences of His Plagiarism Scandal EmergeDecember 21, 2013 12:12:22
The 'Nymphomaniac' actor channels Tiger Woods' apology as new reports claim he has been ripping off poems, comics and apologies.
Daniel Clowes Reacts to Shia LaBeouf's Apology, Plans Legal ActionDecember 18, 2013 10:12:07
With a legal battle looming over LaBeouf, it didn't help that his apology which was posted on Twitter was also rumored to be a copy of a four-year-old Yahoo! Answer entry.
Shia LaBeouf Apologizes for Ripping Off Daniel Clowes for His New Short FilmDecember 17, 2013 03:12:59
The former 'Transformers' actor expresses his remorse and says he's 'f**ked up' for failing to credit Daniel Clowes in 'HowardCantour.com'.
Shia LaBeouf Accused of Plagiarism Over His New Short FilmDecember 17, 2013 01:12:48
The film about online film critic Howard Cantour has been made unavailable shortly after being released online following the plagiarism accusation.
Shia LaBeouf Posts His Nude Picture From 'Charlie Countryman'October 22, 2013 08:10:52
The 'Nymphomaniac' actor is pictured wearing nothing but his birthday suit as he's sitting alone with his head down.
Shia LaBeouf Punched and Kicked in LondonOctober 12, 2013 12:10:25
The actor was attacked by a bystander after he wouldn't stop filming a woman throwing up on the street.
Shia LaBeouf, Uma Thurman and More in 'Nymphomaniac' Orgasmic PostersOctober 11, 2013 08:10:40
Others captured in their most intimate moments include Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jamie Bell, Christian Slater, Mia Goth, and Willem Dafoe.
'Charlie Countryman' First Trailer: Shia LaBeouf Dangerously in Love With Mob Boss' WifeOctober 09, 2013 10:10:58
Playing the titular character, the 'Lawless' actor finds himself in a serious trouble with a ruthless Romanian crime boss for trying to woo his woman.


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Water Filtration :: Why You Should InvestOne of the best investments that your restaurant business can make is buying proper water filtration for your commercial ice machine. The importance of an adequate filtration system is one of the biggest understatements in the foodservice industry. Understanding how water filtration can help, by ensuring longer running times and a healthier, longer life for your machine, makes this purchase a no brainer. Water filters can be used with other pieces of equipment dealing with water, like steamers, but for the purpose of this post, we are focusing on its importance when used with commercial ice equipment. Perhaps the best way to begin is by reiterating the fact that ice is food and it should be treated as such, with proper food safety practices and precautions. At Mission Restaurant Supply we strongly believe in the importance of water filtration and below we will tell you why: As time wears on, so does the water within your ice machine that is frozen to make ice. Water, in its natural form, carries with it impurities and minerals that will build-up within your machine in the form of lime and scale. (Find out more about that here!) This build-up creates a blockage, much like cholesterol does within an artery, and it makes it harder for the water to pass through. This inherently makes the machine have to work harder and it raises the operating temperatures of the unit which can do irreversible damage to the machine. By investing in a water filtration system, the impurities within the incoming water can be captured and sifted out before the water runs through the interior of the machine. Thus, no lime, no scale, and better operation all around. Without this water filtration system, the ice formed with the unfiltered water will eventually have a a foul smell and a discolored appearance. Talk about leaving a bad taste in you customer's mouth! For your customer (and yourself) this is an undeniable turn off and an obvious indication that maintenance is not being adhered to. Investing in one of our Water Filters will do the following:
How Inviting Is Your Dining Room?What makes a dining experience memorable for you? The question is subjective to every diner- it could be a great waiter or waitress, attention to the minute details, a fantastic dish, delicious wine- but one thing that almost always is consistent is lighting. As a restaurateur, having a warm glow and soft light on your diners' tables is a great way to leave a lasting memory in the minds of your customers. It sets the tone, enhances the ambiance, and creates a relaxed, romantic mood that will better the dining experience. At Mission Restaurant Supply we have a huge selection of votives, tea lights and candle lights by Hollowick, a company that has been creating beautiful lighting for the foodservice industry since 1971! The product selection is reminiscent of a large treasure trove of jewel-colored votives and lamps that will bring your tables to life. There are a number of options and choosing can oftentimes be overwhelming, which is why we've broken down the different finishes along with some of the top-selling styles so that you will have a clear idea of the different designs available. Which will you choose? Shop through the extensive selection of Candles and Votives by Hollowick at Mission Restaurant Supply and achieve a warm, inviting ambiance at your dining establishment. Want to spruce up the dining room at home? These candles are also a best-seller for our fans outside of the foodservice industry!
The Importance of Gas Connection SafetyIn the foodservice industry the importance of safety when using gas-operated equipment is paramount. Having a heavy-duty gas connection hose that will not only meet code but withstand the rigors of commercial use is therefore an essential part of your kitchen safety and should be a conscious part of your design considerations. (Unfortunately, this small- yet very important detail- is a specification people often forget about until the site inspector comes to your facility.)
At Mission Restaurant Supply, we carry Dormont Gas Connection Hoses which comply with the latest standards in the industry. Recently, flexible commercial gas connection hoses have come to be "the norm" and regarded as the best option for your gas equipment, as opposed to the traditional hard, rigid connections of the past. There are a few key reasons for this:Why Use A Flexible Gas Connection Hose?
- The flexibility of the design makes hooking up your gas-operated appliances from the rear connection to the gas piping much easier, not to mention much closer to the wall. With a rigid hose, there is not as much maneuverability and equipment is restricted from getting close to the wall.
- Dormont's Flexible Gas Connection Hoses are certified by NSF International where as Rigid Hoses are not.
- Cleanability is essential throughout your foodservice facility and this couldn't be more true than in greasy, flammable areas (i.e. by your gas-operated cooking equipment.) With a flexible gas connection hose, a range or gas- powered unit on casters can be mobile for thorough cleaning and maintenance underneath and around the unit.
- Dormont's Flexible Gas Hoses meet updated codes, including ANSI Z21.69/CSA 6.16: Connectors for Moveable Gas Appliances and CAN/CSA B149.1: Natural Gas and Propane Installation
Testing Agencies In FoodserviceIn the foodservice industry, product safety is a key component of day-to-day business. Ensuring that your restaurant or commercial kitchen is equipped with tools that will do their job safely and with maximum efficiency is an important consideration for anyone buying foodservice equipment. Fortunately, there are testing and certification agencies in place that identify the most safe and efficient options out there for you. These agencies test product after product, running them through their stringent testing procedures to uncover not only the best performers in operator safety but food safety, santitation and overall energy efficiency. Below are some of the largest foodservice agencies to know of with their corresponding product certification marks to look for when making your next investment. NSF International :: The Public Health and Safety Company,™
"NSF", which stands for National Sanitation Foundation, is an agency that is dedicated to protecting the environment and public health safety across a wide range of industries and products. In the foodservice industry specifically, the NSF approval means a few things in the mind of the customer. First, this listing reassures that equipment has met health standards and has undergone rigorous inspection testing which in turn instills confidence in the end user's purchasing decision. Second, having this stamp of safety on your equipment tells your health authorities that you have made a sound decision by investing in equipment that is constructed with proper sanitation principles in mind. Below are a few of the different NSF "Standards" that have been created to meet various equipment types:
- ANSI/NSF Standard 3: Commercial Spray-Type Dishmachines
- ANSI/NSF Standard 4: Commercial Cooking Equipment, Rethermailization & Hot Food Holding & Transportation Equipment
- ANSI/NSF Standard 7: Commercial Refrigerators and Freezers
- ANSI/NSF Standard 12: Automatic Ice Machine Equipment
- ANSI/NSF Standard 18: Food & Beverage Dispensing Equipment
Since 1894, UL has been one of the leading agencies in safety certification with 75 years of experience in the foodservice industry dealing with cooking equipment, refrigeration, food processing equipment and food preparation for manufacturers of gas and electric equipment. Equipment can be tested for a UL listing for Electrical Safety, Gas Safety and Sanitation. This non-profit, independent agency has nearly 20 different UL safety standards just for the commercial foodservice industry. Energy Star®:
When people see the blue Energy Star sticker on a piece of equipment, there is a level of confidence that is added to the user experience. Energy Star was introduced by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Department of Energy as an initiative to help the end-user find products that not only saved energy (and energy costs) but also helped the environment. Originally, this program was solely dedicated to the residential sector, ranging from home heating to home appliances, but in 2001 that all changed. At this time the EPA expanded the Energy Star® effort to the commercial refrigeration equipment sector. Later they rolled out the program to steamers, fryers, holding cabinets and other cooking equipment, and they continue to add this seal of energy efficiency to other categories in foodservice.
Crown Verity Portable BBQ GrillsIf you or someone you know is a grilling enthusiast, chances are you've heard of Crown Verity and their commercial-grade outdoor grilling equipment. (If you haven't yet then you are in for a real treat.) Crown Verity is a brand that's made their name by manufacturing state-of-the-art Outdoor Grills and Charbroilers but they also have a number of other types of equipment, from steamers to fryers and patio heaters- Check out the whole product line here! Crown Verity's line of professional series portable BBQ grills is the focal point of this discussion and they are designed for the most discerning grill enthusiast. Convenience, durability, mobility and quick fire up times are just a few of the things that make them different from the competition, bringing a "stainless reputation" and a whole new level of performance to the user experience. Plus, by making commercial chefs a central piece of the puzzle throughout the design process, Crown Verity is able to deliver a product that not only solves day-to-day challenges but also conveniently creates opportunities that are unparalleled in the industry. Why Choose A Crown Verity Professional BBQ Grill?
- Crown Verity Gas Grills are constructed of high quality 300 series stainless steel throughout, from the legs to the water pans, the bolts and connector pins to the lighter tubes. Even the cooking grates are made of #304 stainless steel as opposed to competitors' grills which are made of 400 series stainless steel, cast iron, chrome/nickel plated or porcelain coated grates-all of which will rust over time. These fine materials will simply make your grill last the longest amount of time possible while making for easy cleaning.
- Crown Verity Grills are shipped on a wooden crate fully assembled and ready to go. That means no tools required- simply unpack, connect to gas and start grilling!
- Independent s/s burners, each at 15,000 btu take the grill to its fullest cooking potential in under six minutes!
- Want to customize your grill? Not a problem. Crown Verity has numerous accessory components , from the roll tops to vinyl covers and shelves, upgrading the experience and usability of the grill.
- Movability is a huge selling point with Crown Verity Grills thanks to the large, lockable casters for simple portability.
- All water pans are removable which makes for easy cleaning while eliminating flare ups caused by dripping grease and fat.
- Available to you in a number of sizes: 28'' wide, 34'' wide, 46'' wide, 58'' wide and 70'' wide in both natural and LP gas. That's a size everyone from serious home chefs to volume feeders like resorts and country clubs can take advantage of.
For the Love of FlatwareWhen designing a restaurant, every little detail counts- particularly when thinking about your customers' experience. Picking the best tabletop supplies for your front of house is a prime example. One of the most widely used and commonly reordered tabletop items in the restaurant business is Flatware. Needed in just about every dining application, flatware ranges in style, weight, quality and aesthetic to fit your needs. It is also one of the most commonly reordered items for restaurateurs given its high usage and high turnover, making it important to find a flatware selection that is both reasonable in price and aesthetically pleasing. Here are the top considerations for you to take in when investing in flatware: APPEARANCE: Does it fit the decor of your establishment and compliment your tabletop? At Mission we stock a large assortment of flatware from the most basic designs to elaborate patterns. COST: Is the cost justifiable for not only the initial purchase but replacement purchases down the line? WEIGHT: Since the weight of flatware is a true sign of its quality, are you purchasing flatware that will make a good impression in the mind of your customer? DURABILITY: Will the flatware you choose weather the test of time with heavy commercial use? Stainless steel flatware is the most popular kind in the foodservice industry and it comes in many varieties for you, the most common being 18/0 and 18/8 or 18/10. The numbers represent the amount of chromium and nickel that are in the steel alloy. Chromium in effect is what gives the stainless its "hardness" and luster while nickel is what is adhered to the base metal to resist corrosion. Chromium also plays a major role in resisting corrosion. Here is the basic break down: 18/0 stainless: 18/0 stainless is the best economical option for the price-conscious customer. Here are some features of 18/0 stainless steel:
- 18% chromium 0% nickel
- Subject to staining
- Soft Shine
- Light Weight
- Cost-Effective
- Durable
- Brilliant Luster
- Rust-Resistant
- Easy to maintain
- Ok in chemical sanitizing dishmachines
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What's In a CamSquare?In every foodservice facility, there is a need for safe, adequate and reliable food storage containers. Cambro is a master at manufacturing just that and they are pushing the boundaries, creating containers like the CamSquare® that will bring more to your business, including 33% more space than your traditional round containers! Purchasing Food Storage Containers is an inevitable investment which is why we hope you'll weigh out the various options available to you. Take a look at the CamSquare® food storage containers by Cambro that have been newly-added to the site and save on our specially-marked pricing!
The Mystery of the MicrowaveThe microwave oven is one of the most widely used items in all kitchens, both commercial and residential, yet interestingly, its' performance is one of the most misunderstood. So how does it actually work? In a nutshell, a microwave oven takes electricity and converts it into invisible electromagnetic waves which move at the speed of light. These energetic microwaves then penetrate food (from 0.5 to 0.75 inches deep) and are absorbed by the fat and water molecules in your food. This causes the molecules to vibrate rapidly which in turn creates friction and heat. This heat is what warms or cooks your food. Pretty cool, right? Here are some interesting facts and interesting microwave mythbusters:
- Electricity is converted into microwaves by magnetron tubes, which were designed specifically for this purpose.
- Metal reflects energy which is why the interior sides of a microwave oven cavity are made of metal
- Contrary to popular belief, microwave ovens cook from the outside in- NOT the inside out.
- So why do they cook so much faster than a conventional oven? Microwave ovens cook faster than conventional ovens because when the microwaves penetrate food (0.5''-0.75'' deep), there is more heat created in the outside portion of the food which then moves more quickly to warm/cook the inside.
- Metal plates and aluminum foil should never be used with food in a microwave because the waves will deflect off preventing cooking. This could also result in potential overheating of the magnetron.
- Standard microwave ovens don't have the ability to brown food. To solve this issue, manufacturers have introduced combination convection/microwave ovens which utilize dry heat and air plus speed to produce cook times up to 80% faster than a traditional convection oven.
Food Cooling: What You Need To Know To Stay SafeMany times in our industry, food is cooked ahead of time, hours before it is ready to be served. To ensure food safety is adhered to, it is imperative that this hot, freshly-cooked food is cooled in a timely manner. As some of you may (or may not) know, taking cooked food to a safe temperature is a 2-step cooling process:
- The first step requires you to take food from 135°F to 70°F within 2 hours. If this doesn't happen food must be thrown away as it has already been exposed to "The Danger Zone" for a harmful period of time.
- The second step is to take the food from 70°F to 41°F or lower in the next 4 hours.
The storage container: To achieve quicker cooling, try storing food in small, shallow pans 2'' -2/5'' deep, which allow the heat to disperse more quickly. Dividing up large containers of food will ensure that every square inch of your food product is achieving a quick cool down.
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All of those snowbirds have the right idea: There is a time to be somewhere in this great country of ours, but is has to be the right time. One of the prettiest sites is the Valley of the Sun area of Phoenix, but not at the height of summer. That's why the Goodguys hold their Southwest Nationals in November (19-21, 2010, to be exact) at the gigantic WestWorld complex in Scottsdale, Arizona. It's one Phoenix-area show that we always hit.This year, the show is celebrating its 13th year, and if the huge turnout of cars and spectators is any indication, the event will be held for many years to come. As is becoming the custom, the weekend began with a TGIF party at Hot Rods by Dean, which kicked off the festivities in grand style.
Another highlight is that Goodguys reps will pull vehicles they think are the best and put them into a separate display area so that spectators are able to see the best without having to troop all over the huge WestWorld complex. They have the Terrific 12, Ya Gotta Drive 'em, Homebuilt Heaven, Mighty Muscle (1955-72), Goodguys Builder's Choice and the Trick Truck Corral. There is also a large area where cars for sale are grouped as well as a killer swap meet where a huge slew of parts are on display. One nice thing about buying parts at this show is that chances are they are "Arizona parts," and as such are in better shape. The lack of rain in the state keeps parts, especially body parts, nicer longer.
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You will need Doc clearance to fly that late in pregnancy. You also may be required to show documents to the airlines that delares you cleared to fly, however if they feel it is unsafe they may refuse you boarding (which is their right, but they will be cautious because of the PR). Speaking as a former Flight Attendant and Commerical Pilot you DO NOT want to have a medical emergency while enroute. There is almost always a Doc on board, however experiencing any medical proceedure while sprawled out in the isle normally next to the lavs while other passengers attempt to be nosy is no Mamas dream experience. I think a beach trip may be too far out of reach for you based on the time line, but maybe a drive to Vegas where you can at least lay by the pool or something might work.
Michelle married to Jay since 7/11/98
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However, since you are considering a road trip to FL I can help. I live in Orlando now but I grew up in Southwest Florida. I definetly recommend the beaches of Sanibel or Ft Myers.
Are you able to travel any earlier? You may be pretty uncomfortable in a long car ride at 35 weeks.
i wouldnt fly, but a road trip to florida sounds good. my mom lives there and she is always texting me when she knows its crazy cold here in MO "how is the weather there, 10 degrees and snowing, well you should come live with our momma its 70 and beautiful sunny here... i think i will go to the beach." lol...
i googled pretty backgrounds for Chicago just to give you any idea there... its not very pretty, unless i am not looking in the right place. but i think a 8 month pregnant women in a pretty sweater against some snow would look beautiful.
whatever you decide post the pics afterward. :)
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Richard III: Displaying Richard's remains not ruled out as decision rests with University of Leicester
Posted: February 13, 2013|
The University of Leicester has not ruled out the possibility that the remains of Richard III will be put on public display.
According to the Ministry of Justice, the skeleton, which was uncovered in August, is in the care of the university.
It is expected to be reinterred at Leicester Cathedral next spring.
However, before the official re-burial, the remains are being kept at the university, which said it had not made a decision on whether or not to allow the public to see them.
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Richard Taylor, deputy registrar and director of corporate affairs, said: "We need to balance legitimate public interest with a requirement to protect dignity."
A spokeswoman for Leicester Cathedral said it was up to the university, but the church would not take part in any public showings.
She said: "Scientists may have a reason for seeing them, but that is different from public display in the cathedral."
Leicester City Council's Richard III museum, which will be built at the former Leicester Grammar School, near the Greyfriars site, would be an obvious place for the remains, mayor Sir Peter Soulsby said.
However, he said he understood the need for a respectful reinterment.
Following the press conference announcing the remains were of Richard III, members of the media were allowed to view the skeleton in small groups, in silence, under the gaze of a member of the clergy.
Sir Peter said: "I think the arrangements made for the press to see the remains were a model of how to do it effectively, but with dignity.
"If they are going to be displayed then the university would want to take a similar approach.
"The public interest in this project has been phenomenal, but I don't think politicians have a place in this sort of decision."
Sir Peter said the centrepiece of the museum display would be a replica skeleton, created using CT scans and three-dimensional printing techniques at Loughborough University.
Professor Russell Harris, from the university, said: "There are a lot of different and exciting opportunities we could pursue regarding the remains.
"We've recreated the skull and the next obvious thing is a replica skeleton.
"We have the tools at the university so once a final decision about the project has been made, it should be pretty straightforward."
Prof Harris said he would discuss the matter today with Dr Jo Appleby, from the University of Leicester.
The recreated skeleton would join the University of Dundee's facial reconstruction model, which is expected to be on permanent loan when the permanent museum opens next year.


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Though we use the Admin UI heavily, it is often the case we also need the translation as part of other scripted actions, so I wanted to share these two common techniques:
From hostname to application name or application idThis entire sequence can be performed using the CloudFoundry CLI and assumes you have enough privileges to access all organizations and spaces involved in the request.
- Locate the applications associated with the hostname. Notice that there can be more than one application sharing the same route:
cf curl /v2/routes?q="host:hostname"
cf curl /v2/routes?q="host:dnastacio2-java"
"resources": [
"metadata": {
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"entity": {
"host": "dnastacio2-java",
- Now you have the URL for all applications associated with the route, so you can get the details for each application.
If you only need the application identifier, it will be next to the "url" field for each match.
If you also needed the organization and space for the application, hold on to the entire "url" field for each match and move to the next section.
cf curl /v2/routes/2b55b629-dd7c-4376-bf2e-831d9a2f03d2/apps
"apps_url": "/v2/routes/2b55b629-dd7c-4376-bf2e-831d9a2f03d2/apps" ...
"metadata": {
"guid": "ff95e504-a057-4861-8023-327cf83e8908",
"url": "/v2/apps/ff95e504-a057-4861-8023-327cf83e8908", ...
"entity": {
"name": "dnastacio2-java",
From application name or application id to organization and spaceOnce again, this entire sequence can be performed using the Cloud Foundry CLI and assumes you have enough privileges to access the organization and space:
- Identify the application id (if you don't already have it) and the owning space.
If you already have the application identifier, you can use this command:
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Negative - State Electricity Commission, Blackwood (?), Victoria, 1961 Reg. No: MM 048777
- Summary:
- Part of a large photographic collection of glass plate and film negatives, photographic prints and photo albums, relating to the development of the electric power supply industry in Victoria, operated by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV) from 1919 to 1993 and various predecessor private and municipal power supply enterprises dating back to the late 1880s.
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Good article. I feel Nintendo lost its way starting (at least) with the Wii. The 3DS and Wii U were both bungled products in terms of design. Gimmicks are forced into every product the make these days, ruining their hardware. I'm fairly certain that Iwata will resign this month, once the poor financials are reported for the end of their fiscal year. But I don't see any easy way out of this mess for Nintendo. The Wii U is set in stone; they can't just improve the weak hardware and go forward.
There's a tacit admission among other companies that the dualshock 2 and nice graphics are not selling enough.
-3D games for ps3 and pc (sterescopic, anaglyph)
-vita's front and back touchscreen
-ps4's tiny touchscreen
-motion controllers/kinect for pc
-using vita as ps3 controller
-subscriptions like xbox live and ps+
-multiplayer tacked on to everything from uncharted to ninja gaiden
Gimmicks are here to stay


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Kampala — This is the third instalment in our four-part serialisation of the African Stakes of the Congo War, a book that shows why several countries got involved in the Congo war. This installment, by Timothy Longman, digs into the complex reasons for Rwanda's engagement in the DR Congo: -
When war broke out in Eastern Congo in August 1998, many observers noted the similarities between the new rebellion and the war that had toppled the regime of Mobutu Sese Seko only fourteen months earlier.
Like the first war, the second began with ethnic Congolese Tutsi taking up arms to defend themselves against scapegoating and attacks by government supporters. Both wars began along the Congolese border with Rwanda, in Uvira, Bukavu, and Goma, and quickly spread along two fronts - up the Congo River and along Congo's northern border and to the south into the mineral-rich provinces of Katanga and Kasai.
In both wars, after initially denying involvement in the fighting, the Rwandan government eventually admitted to participation, justifying its intervention on humanitarian and defensive grounds, and, as before, Uganda threw its support behind the rebellion as well.
Yet if highlighting the similarities between the two rebellions was meant to imply that the Rassemblement Congolaise pour la Democratic (Rally for Congolese Democracy - RCD) would follow the example of the Alliance des Forces Democratique pour La Liberation du Congo/Zaire (Alliance for the Democratic Liberation of the Congo-Zaire - ADFL) to quick victory - as the organizers of the second rebellion apparently intended - the contrasts between the two rebellions soon proved the limits of the comparison. While many Congolese discontented with the Mobutu regime welcomed the ADFL advance across the country, few Congolese, even among Kabila's enemies, embraced the RCD. Instead, they denounced the rebellion as an invention of foreign governments hostile to the interests of the Congolese population.
The reaction of the international community was also markedly different. While the world's major powers (especially the United States and Britain) had been sympathetic to Rwanda's security concerns and professed humanitarian intent in the wake of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, continuing human rights abuses in Rwanda and a less clear security threat dampened international support for the second rebellion. More significantly, other African states were not united in their opposition to Kabila as they had been to Mobutu.
The intervention of Angola, Namibia, and Zimbabwe on Kabila's behalf put a halt to the RCD's rapid advance. The lack of a persuasive justification for intervention ultimately contributed to divisions within the RCD and a breakdown of the alliance between Rwanda and Uganda...
Rwanda's leaders seem to have been motivated by a wide range of objectives that have shifted over time. Their stated justifications for intervention - to eliminate continuing threats to Rwandan security posed by Hutu rebels based in Congo, to protect Congolese Tutsi, and to promote democracy - did play a role, but the war seems also to have been inspired by other motives less defensible in international circles: the need to quell domestic unrest, opportunities for personal and national enrichment, and the desire to be a regional power...
Humanitarian Interests and Ethnic Solidarity
Rwandan troops were involved in the fighting in Congo from the beginning, as news agencies reported their presence in Bukavu and elsewhere, but as in the first Congolese war, the government of Rwanda initially denied any involvement in the second war. For several weeks after the fighting began in Eastern Congo on 2 August 1998, Rwanda's leaders claimed that the war was an internal Congolese dispute...
Rwandan leaders apparently felt that they could not admit an extraterritorial intervention so clearly in violation of international law until they had prepared the international community to accept it. Hence, during the first weeks of the war, Rwandan officials denied involvement yet affirmed the RCD's justifications for taking up arms. The RCD's perspective is well expressed by Jacques Depelchin, one of several prominent academics who joined the RCD. In a speech given at Columbia University in September 1998, he gave two basic reasons for the rebellion: Kabila's corrupt and authoritarian tendencies and his move toward genocide, the same reasons used to justify war against Mobutu.
According to Depelchin, "The war is a continuation of the first war because the objectives for which we were fighting, Kabila turned his back on them. We wanted to move away from all of Mobutu's practices: using the bank like his personal kitty, concentration of power in the hands of one ethnic group, corruption, refusing to open the democratic process, refusing to allow other political forces to participate. All those things for which we had fought for were not happening."
Like Depelchin and other RCD leaders, Rwandan officials mentioned their concern over Kabila's corruption and hostility to democracy, but their main justification for "possible" intervention (in reality an explanation for the intervention they had already undertaken) was the threat of genocide against Congolese Tutsi... Many foreign observers, as well as some Rwandans, accept the Rwandan Patriotic Army's (RPA) claims of humanitarian motives. This perspective is founded on a specific understanding of the RPA's relationship to the 1990-94 war in Rwanda and particularly to the 1994 genocide there. According to this understanding, the RPA invaded Rwanda in 1990 on purely - or primarily - humanitarian grounds, and they began fighting again in April 1994 to put a halt to the genocide of their Tutsi relatives. This view perceives the Tutsi in the RPA as having a strong sense of ethnic connection to Tutsi elsewhere and as having been deeply touched by the cold-blooded murder of their parents, brothers, and sisters in the genocide.
If they have occasionally stepped outside the bounds of international law, as in their treatment of Rwanda's Hutu population or, in this case, their extraterritorial intervention in Congo, it is understandable, because of the terrible tragedy they have experienced.
The humanitarian defense of Rwanda's misbehavior is generally accompanied by a reminder of the international community's failure to intervene in the 1994 genocide, implying that the RPA has a right to assume that no one else will defend the Tutsi population and that extraordinary circumstances justify extraordinary measures...
Given the Rwandan Patriotic Front's (RPF) own authoritarian rule in Rwanda, few people take seriously its professed concern for democracy in Congo, and even those who do doubt that the current war can succeed at bringing about democracy. As Mahmood Mamdani writes, "Foreign invasion cannot give us democracy as a turnkey project. This was true of Uganda in 1979 and of Congo in 1997. And it remains true of Congo in I998." Another author suggests that the real goal of the Rwandans was less to bring about democracy than merely to topple Kabila and replace him with a more compliant puppet...
While Rwanda's interest in democracy is questionable, the concern for Congo's Tutsi was real, and the interest in defending Congo's Tutsi was probably, at least initially, more than a mere "pretext" or "fig leaf" to justify intervention. Many in the RPA have strong connections to the Tutsi community in Congo. The RPA's leadership is comprised almost entirely of Tutsi who grew up as refugees outside Rwanda, and while the most powerful RPA officials come from Uganda, the Tutsi refugee community in Congo was large and contributed many troops to the RPA.
The problem with the humanitarian justification for intervention in Congo is the same problem posed by the RPA's relationship to the genocide in Rwanda: Attacking a country increases the vulnerability of scapegoated groups and makes genocide more likely. While this in no way justifies genocide, nor makes it less heinous a crime against humanity, the knowledge that the context of war is a major causal factor in explaining genocide does place a burden of caution on those who would wage war.
The ideology of genocide generally portrays the dominant group as vulnerable, so that genocide becomes a defensive action in the minds of its perpetrators. Attacking a country with a well-developed genocidal ideology lends credence to the argument that the dominant group is in fact threatened and needs to defend itself by eliminating internal enemies.
It should not be surprising, thus, that violence against ethnic Albanians increased after NATO began bombing Serbia, since the war augmented the Serbian sense of vulnerability. Similarly, some observers of the Rwandan genocide have pointed out the paradoxical nature of the RPA's intervention in Rwanda. On the one hand, the RPA put a halt to the genocide of Tutsi in regions they captured, but on the other, their invasion of Rwanda was a primary reason why genocide was possible, because it made the Hutu population feel vulnerable.
While the RPA invasion of Eastern Congo has certainly prevented massacres of Congolese Tutsi for the time being, research that I conducted in Goma and Bukavu in March 2000 made it abundantly clear that in the long term, the second war has heightened the vulnerability of Congolese Tutsi. The war is massively unpopular with the population of North and South Kivu, which deeply resents the RPA presence.
Although Congolese from many ethnic groups are involved in the RCD administration, most people see Tutsi both Congolese and Rwandan, as the primary powers in the RCD... Now, according to Congolese perceptions, Congolese Tutsi have invited a foreign army to occupy their country... While the presence of RPA troops protects the Tutsi for the moment, Tutsi will clearly be vulnerable in Congo if the RPA troops depart...
Hence, the RPA's presence poses a paradox from the perspective of protection of Tutsi. The RPA clearly does prevent anti-Tutsi violence. Yet their own actions, particularly attacks on civilians and other human rights abuses, increase public resentment and hatred of Tutsi, thus heightening the need for protection of Tutsi. The RPA, thus, is simultaneously increasing the threat to Tutsi and offering them protection.
Security Threats from Congo
The second motive for involvement in Congo that Rwandan officials will publicly admit is the continuing threat to security in Rwanda posed by elements of the former Rwandan army and the Interahamwe militia operating out of Congo. When RPF leader Paul Kagame ultimately admitted RPF involvement in the first Congo war, he justified it primarily as a defensive action... Given the security threat posed for Rwanda by the Interahamwe and ex-FAR present in the camps [in Congo], many diplomats, journalists, and scholars regarded the RPF's decision to intervene as understandable.
Many were also willing to overlook the fact that the RPF attacked Hutu without discriminating between combatants and unarmed civilians, in clear violation of international humanitarian law. The idea that Rwanda had a legitimate defensive interest in intervening in Congo legitimated their involvement in the war long after they had closed the refugee camps and routed the remnants of the Hutu army, as Mobutu himself was ultimately defined as a security threat.
Given the diplomatic success of the defensive justification for intervention in the first war, it should not be surprising that the RPF turned to security concerns to justify its intervention in the second war. An escalation of attacks in Rwanda by armed Hutu elements in late 1997 and early 1998 raised clear concerns within the RPF over its ability to maintain control over the majority Hutu population in Rwanda. The most serious attacks occurred in the northwestern prefectures of Gisenyi and Ruhengeri on the border with Congo, where attacks by Hutu militia and counter-attacks by the RPA escalated into a virtual civil war by early 1998. Numerous killings of genocide survivors were reported, as well as attacks on camps of Congolese Tutsi refugees, and attacks reached even into the heartland of the country, Gitarama, where a December 1997 raid on the Gitarama prison freed 500 Hutu accused of involvement in the genocide. A new organization, the Rwanda Liberation Army, took credit for the attacks and gained a degree of international attention in 1998.
The Rwandan government did, thus, have legitimate security concerns, and its claim that the insurgents were using Congo as a base of operations seems to have been well founded... Following the RPA's intervention in Congo in 1998, violence within Rwanda dropped off precipitously.
There are, however, some clear difficulties with security as a justification. First, while controlling Hutu rebel activity could justify invasion of North and South Kivu, it cannot explain why the RPF carried the rebellion into Katanga, Kasai, and Orientale, where there was no evidence of Hutu militia activity.
While moving beyond Eastern Congo was justified in the first war by the perception that security would not be established in the region until Mobutu was removed, no similar consensus about Kabila as a security threat existed, as demonstrated by the willingness of Angola and other African states to intervene on his behalf.
Second, as with the humanitarian justification, Rwanda's continuing presence in Eastern Congo and in particular its violent treatment of the Congolese population has exacerbated anti- Rwandan and anti-Tutsi sentiments in Congo.
Local militias, now known almost universally as Mai-Mai, were allies with the Banyamulenge and RPA in the first war, but they broke with Kabila's government because of their frustration at the continuing RPA presence in Eastern Congo and the disproportionate power of Banyamulenge and other Congolese Tutsi.
Kabila's attempt to reach out to the ethnic groups they represented was a major source of conflict with Rwanda, and when the second war began, Mai-Mai groups fled into the forests, from which they have since mounted resistance. As the war has continued, more and more Congolese have joined Mai-Mai groups, and in some cases, they have allied themselves with Hutu militia groups (now generally called Interahamwe). Thus, rather than wiping out Congo-based militia as a threat to Rwanda, the RPF may have increased both popular support for militia and the numbers of militia members...
Domestic Security Concerns
The idea that nothing serves to unify a divided country like an external threat - and nothing so well as a war - is so widely repeated as to have become a truism. Yet Rwanda's intervention in Congo seems an unlikely candidate for rallying patriotic unity. The vast majority of Rwanda's population is Hutu, while the minority Tutsi ethnic group is widely perceived to dominate the government. Since the RPF took power in July 1994, the government has been comprised of diverse political parties and Hutu have served in prominent positions, but the RPF has been the real power behind the scenes.
As Reyntjens observes, although fourteen of twenty-seven cabinet ministers in 1999 were Hutu, in all but two cases, the general secretary of their ministries was a Tutsi from the RPF. At the top level, the greatest power lay not with the Hutu president, Pasteur Bizimungu, but with Paul Kagame, the vice president and minister of defense.
This impression was confirmed when Bizimungu resigned in 2000 and Kagame became the new president. Most Hutu perceive the government as a "Tutsi" government, and they see the human rights abuses carried out by the RPA and police since 1994 as in part ethnically motivated. Many Hutu complain that the RPF acts more like a colonizing force than a legitimate government. Hence, a war in Congo initiated by the RPF in order to ensure its own security against a perceived threat from Hutu rebels is not likely to appeal to the Hutu masses.
Nevertheless, the war in Congo could help to create internal Rwandan unity in several ways. Most importantly, it could unify a divided Tutsi population. An important division exists between the survivors of the genocide and the Tutsi who have returned to Rwanda from exile.
The RPF is composed predominantly of returned exiles, while survivors, many of whom are women and orphans, have little representation in the government and very little power. As early as 1995, I heard survivors complain about their relative marginalization within the RPF. Resentments of the RPF have increased among survivors, "who find that the current government fails to satisfy their demands for justice and assistance. These Tutsi deplore the lack of progress in prosecutions for genocide as well as the prosperity of government officials grown rich from corruption while many survivors... struggle in abject poverty."
Some of these survivors have thrown their support behind a multiethnic movement calling for the return to Rwanda of King Kigeli V Ndahindurwa, who was driven into exile in 1961 by a Hutu uprising.
Although the monarchy had lost popular legitimacy among the Hutu by the end of the colonial era, the king was historically believed to represent all Rwandans, regardless of their ethnicity. The revival of the idea of the monarch as a figure who could unite Rwandans across ethnic lines has created support for the return of the king, even among Hutu in regions that once strongly supported the 1959 revolution.
Further, since the king cannot be tainted by association with the genocide, he could challenge the RPF in a way that Hutu leaders could not. The RPF clearly views this multiethnic monarchist movement as a major threat, and RPF leaders may have hoped that the engagement in Congo would regain Tutsi support around the common Hutu threat and serve to divide Hutu and Tutsi united in the monarchist movement.
Important divisions also exist within the RPF and the community of returned exiles between exiles from the francophone countries of Burundi and Congo and those from Uganda and other anglophone countries. Power within the RPF is clearly dominated by Tutsi, who, like Kagame, were exiles in Uganda. While some Tutsi returned from Burundi and Congo are in prominent government positions, the most powerful positions are held almost entirely by Ugandan returnees. Within the civilian community, Tutsi returned from Uganda have enjoyed the greatest economic opportunities while other returnees have been left behind. Hence, some francophone returnees have also been attracted to the monarchist movement. Some RPF leaders may have hoped that the invasion of Congo would appeal to returnees from Congo, since it was justified as a defense of Congolese Tutsi.
Finally, the war has offered at least some opportunities to enlist the support of Hutu. Immediately after taking power, the RPF began to arrest Hutu that they suspected of participation in the genocide, but the number of suspects far exceeded the capacity of the Rwandan legal system to evaluate the validity of accusations, press formal charges, and hold trials. With the closure of refugee camps in Congo driving Hutu back into Rwanda in 1996, thousands more suspects were arrested, creating a prison population of over 120,000 people... With the war in Congo creating a need for additional soldiers, the RPF has turned to the prisons as a source of recruits. Captured members of the Hutu militia groups or Hutu accused of lesser offenses have apparently been offered an opportunity to join the RPF in Congo rather than wait indefinitely in prison...
Economic Interests
Although humanitarian and security concerns may have been important initial motivations for Rwandan involvement in the second war, these concerns do not fully explain Rwanda's continued engagement in Congo. Instead, other, less internationally acceptable reasons appear to have had a strong influence, despite denials by the RPF. The most obvious of these is the opportunity for both national and personal enrichment.
Rwanda is a small, overpopulated country with almost no natural resources. In contrast, Congo is extremely rich in natural resources and has abundant land. Congo exports diamonds, gold, uranium, copper, and other minerals, as well as coffee, tea, and other export crops. Congo's wealth helped to prop up the Mobutu regime long after it had lost public support. Kabila was able to support the ADFL as it advanced across Congo in the 1996-97 war, in part through giving concessions of Congo's minerals to international corporations.
Strong evidence suggests that Rwanda has profited substantially from its involvement in Congo. Rwanda and Uganda have both become transit points for diamonds and other minerals extracted from Congo and generally smuggled out of the country illegally...
Witnesses from Walikale, a region where Mai-Mai militias have been active, reported that in some communities the population had been driven into regroupment camps where they were required to mine coltan, a mineral used in microchips and cellular phones and traded at a very high price on international markets. According to one report, Rwanda has been exporting as much as U.S.$20 million of coltan per month. Rwanda's diamond exports increased from 166 carats in 1998 to 30,500 carats in 2000. The fighting that broke out between Rwandan and Ugandan troops in Kisangani in mid-1999 was apparently fueled in large part by competition over the diamonds that are transported through this major commercial center.
According to people whom I interviewed from various parts of North and South Kivu, the plunder of Congo is not limited to extraction of mineral wealth but includes looting goods... The exact extent to which Rwanda is profiting from its intervention in Congo is difficult to determine, but the evidence of the economic benefits taken from Congo is clearly visible in the current level of prosperity in Kigali. Economic activity in Rwanda today goes far beyond what either the Rwandan economy alone or the current level of international investment could support.
Political Triumphalism and the Myth of a "Tutsi Conspiracy" The final motivation for military engagement in Congo is a bit more subtle, but it ranks among the most important explanations for why Rwanda has remained engaged in Congo: political triumphalism. The RPF has been an extremely successful movement, and this success has bred a sense of entitlement among RPF leaders.
Fred Rwigyema and Paul Kagame, subsequently founders of the RPF, were Rwandan Tutsi refugees who were among the original members of the National Resistance Army (NRA), a rebel movement led by current Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni. The NRA's successful conquest of Uganda against great odds helped convince the many Tutsi in the NRA that the conquest of Rwanda could be possible as well.
Like the NRA, the RPF began as a bush rebellion, but it too gradually expanded, captured land and ultimately swept to power in Kigali. The odds of the RPF's victory were even longer, since unlike the NRA, which had a substantial base of support among several large ethnic groups in Southern Uganda, the RPF's base of support, the Tutsi, constituted less than 15 percent of Rwanda's population.
Hence, the RPF came to power with a degree of triumphalism, with a sense that they were a victorious army that could not be defeated. (In fact, the Kinyarwanda nickname that RPF soldiers took for themselves was inkotanyi, "the indefatigable ones.") The RPF's perception of themselves as having put an end to the genocide of their people also shapes their perspective, imparting a sense of moral rectitude. The failure of the international community to stop the genocide and later to confront the security problems posed by armed Hutu groups in the refugee camps in Congo and the spread of violence to Congolese Tutsi convinced the RPF that no one else was willing to defend the interests of the Tutsi people.
The RPF's sense of responsibility, feeling of moral certainty, and confidence - verging on arrogance - in its own military capacity all influenced its intervention in the first Congo war. The fact that it and its Ugandan allies were able to create a rebel force that was able to surprise the world by sweeping to victory across the vast country of Congo in only eight months contributed to the RPF's sense of invincibility.
These attitudes of moral entitlement and military dominance shaped Rwandan relations with the Kabila regime. While Kabila had been a longtime opponent of Mobutu, he had disappeared entirely from public view when Kagame and Museveni brought him in as head of the ADFL several weeks into the rebellion. They continued to regard Kabila as a junior partner, even after he became president of a country much larger and wealthier than theirs... As the ADFL advanced across Congo, the RPF sought to exercise its influence in captured territories much as it had in Rwanda, by installing Congolese from diverse ethnic groups in titular positions but placing real power in the hands of Banyamulenge and RPF officers in nominally inferior positions.
While RPF dominance was possible in Rwanda, where Tutsi constitute over 10 percent of the population and the RPF had justified claims to Rwandan citizenship, Tutsi constitute far less than 1 percent of Congo's population. Although many Congolese were thankful for the assistance that they received from neighboring countries in ousting Mobutu, they deeply resented Rwanda's attempt to wield power in their country after the war, particularly given the strong anti-Tutsi sentiment within Congo.
Kabila's ties with Rwanda and the continuing presence of Rwandan officers in the army and government were, thus, a severe political liability for Congo's new president yet the RPF leadership proved incredibly insensitive to Kabila's predicament.
Kagame's July 1997 boast in a Washington Post interview that Rwanda had been key to the ADFL victory put Kabila in an awkward position and inspired his first attempts to move Rwandans and Banyamulenge out of key positions. The RPF treated Kabila's attempt to exercise independent power and his replacement of Tutsi in the government as the act of an anti-Tutsi extremist, tantamount to the genocidal behavior of the Rwandan Hutu leadership in the 1994 genocide.
Yet even at the beginning of the second rebellion, Tutsi held political power in Congo far out of proportion to their presence in the population, including positions as foreign minister and minister of state. The RPF leadership seemed to believe themselves entitled to wielding power in Congo in a way that the other sponsors of the ADFL did not, and they treated Kabila's attempts to act independently as a personal betrayal. Ultimately, the replacement in mid-July 1998 of James Kabareebe, a Rwandan Tutsi, as chief of staff of the FAC seems to have been the spark that drove Rwanda to act, despite the degree to which such a move was understandable within the context of Congolese politics.
In discussing the political arrogance of the RPF leadership, I do not mean in any way to support the idea of a "Tutsi conspiracy" that some critics of the Rwandan and Ugandan governments promote. According to this theory, Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni is actually a Tutsi, not a Muhima of the Banyankole, and he and the Tutsi leaders of the RPF have conspired over the past two decades to create a massive Tutsi kingdom in the Great Lakes region, beginning with Uganda, then spreading to Rwanda, Burundi, and, finally, into Congo. This theory is backed with racist depictions of the Tutsi as greedy, dishonest, and power-hungry and with claims that they are a Nilotic group with no right to live in a Bantu area, the same type of language used to justify the Rwandan genocide.
In fact, Rwandan actions in Congo have not been carefully planned out within a well-developed "conspiracy." Instead, the RPF leadership has been driven in a more haphazard fashion by a sense of entitlement and invincibility based more on its military might than its ethnic affiliation.
This triumphalism has blinded the RPF leadership to the impact that RPF actions have on how Tutsi are perceived. Tragically, actions motivated by RPF arrogance have exacerbated anti-Tutsi sentiments, creating a difficult situation for thousands of Congolese Tutsi - as well as for other Congolese who have supported the two rebellions. This arrogance of power also contributed to the eventual break between Rwanda and Uganda, as ultimately RPF leaders could not tolerate Uganda usurping the role of puppet master that they rightfully saw as their own.
Rwandan Strategies in the Second Congo War
Rwanda's intervention in Congo has been militarily quite successful but has faltered largely because of political constraints and miscalculations. The RPF sought to mimic its successes in the first Congo war by following the same patterns of assault.
Initial attacks began along the Rwandan and Burundian borders with combined RPF and Congolese forces - primarily Tutsi and Banyamulenge members of the RCD, but also some former soldiers from Mobutu's army who had previously been the targets of the RPF's attacks.
After quickly securing the border regions of North and South Kivu, the RPF and RCD forces moved west along two fronts, toward the mineral regions of Katanga in the south and Orientale in the north.
Capturing the diamond and gold mines in these two regions provided a revenue base to support the war while at the same time denying Kabila's government and the FAC sources of revenue they needed to defend themselves. This path of assault was exactly the path that the ADFL had taken two years earlier to great success.
The major departure from the military strategy used in the first Congo war was a daring assault on the strategic area at the mouth of the Congo River in the far western part of Congo. Just days after launching the attack along Rwanda's borders, the rebel soldiers hijacked a Congo Air jumbo jet and used it to fly Rwandan and RCD soldiers to an airbase at Kitona in the Bas-Congo region.
After quickly taking control of the airbase they began to ferry in hundreds of reinforcements, using large Russian-built troop transport planes. The Rwandan and RCD troops quickly captured the vital Atlantic ports of Boma and Matadi and the power plants and power lines along the Congo River, then began marching on the capital, Kinshasa. By the second week of August, RPF and RCD troops were less than twenty miles outside of Kinshasa.
The RPF and RCD assaults in both the east and west of Congo ultimately foundered not because of military failings but because of political miscalculations. In the first war, the RPF was highly successful at gaining popular support for its presence in Congo by creating the ADFL as an anti-Mobutu movement.
As the ADFL advanced across Congo, they received support not only from local residents, who believed that the rebels were freeing them from thirty-one years of authoritarian rule, but also from many of Mobutu's own troops, who switched sides because of their own frustrations with Mobutu and in hopes that the ADFL could bring about a better future for Congo.
In the second war, the Rwandans tried to repeat this strategy, creating a Congolese movement that could gain popular support from people disenchanted with Kabila, but the RCD was from the beginning an awkward coalition of former ADFL soldiers (particularly Banyamulenge), former Mobutu associates and Forces Armees Zairoises (Zairian Armed Forces - FAZ) soldiers driven out of power by Kabila; civil society activists, such as human rights activists Maitre Emungu and Joseph Mudumbi; and intellectuals such as Depelchin and Wamba dia Wamba.
The motivation for the rebellion clearly came from the Banyamulenge and from Rwanda, but Rwandan leaders were sufficiently conscious of the unpopularity of the Tutsi to realize that they needed to give an impression of broad popular support. It is not fully clear why prominent individuals like Mudumbi and Wamba would be drawn into the RCD, since Rwanda's avowed interest in democracy seems to have had little basis in action, but the RCD officials clearly failed to bring along a substantial constituency, as the RPF had apparently hoped. Most Congolese were quick to denounce RCD leaders as mere puppets seeking personal fortune, and indeed the humble, poorly guarded offices of RCD officials in Goma suggest immediately their limited real authority.
The divergent motivations of the RPF and its Congolese allies have led to conflicts and ultimately divisions in the RCD, as Rwanda has moved leaders in and out of power. Wamba dia Wamba received support from Uganda to form an alternate RCD branch after Rwanda pushed him out as chairman of the movement, and more recently, Rwanda orchestrated the replacement of Emile Ilunga as head of the RCD-Goma by Adolphe Onusumba. The regular rotation of leaders has done nothing to improve the image of the RCD-Goma as more than a mere front for Rwandan ambitions. In contrast to the Mouvement pour la Liberation du Congo (Movement for the Liberation of Congo - MLC), which controls much of Equateur province and is led by a leader who has a degree of local popular appeal, the RCD-Goma still almost entirely lacks popular support. Over time, even many Banyamulenge have become critical of the RCD, because its arrogance and abusive behavior have increased the precariousness of the Banyamulenge position within Congo.
The failure to gain popular support has been a major handicap for the RPF and the rebel movement it supported. Not only did this lack of popularity contribute to the fracturing of the rebels into three movements, but it inspired resistance from local populations...
Given this context, the invasion from the west of Kinshasa, although a brilliant military move, was a terrible political miscalculation. The airlift of troops into Kitona reinforced the impression from the beginning that the second war was not a rebellion but a foreign invasion. Given an apparent choice between a mediocre Congolese leader and a foreign Tutsi occupation, most Congolese were quick to choose Kabila over the RPF. Furthermore, the rapid move on Kinshasa, clearly against the popular will, inspired other African countries to intervene on Kabila's behalf.
Angola sent in troops that quickly crushed the invasion force approaching Kinshasa. Namibia and Zimbabwe also sent troops that were able to slow the advances in eastern Congo. Confronted with both the FAC and well-armed foreign troops along the front, a hostile population and armed militia attacks within the territory ostensibly under its control, a splintering of the rebel movement, and a break with its chief ally, Uganda, the RPF found itself in an uncomfortable position. For the first time in its history, the RPF found its sense of manifest destiny challenged.
* Next Sunday the book examines what it calls "Museveni's Adventure in the Congo War: Uganda's Vietnam?"
* The African Stakes of the Congo War is edited by John F. Clark and published by Fountain, 2003. It is available in all leading bookstores in the country


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