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Maybe it's because I come from a writing background, as opposed to a legal background, but there's almost nothing better about my job than reading legal opinions where a judge drops the usual formality and format. To my mind, judicial opinions are best when they include passion or empathy or even simple frustration.
And once in a wonderful blue moon, I stumble across something even better: an opinion that reads like a the product of too much whiskey and night terrors.
We have come across a recent Midwestern state court opinion that reads more like Hunter Thompson than Learned Hand. It doesn't hurt the metaphor that the defendant, convicted of multiple theft charges, is also a long-term abuser of methamphetamine, marijuana, and alcohol.
I would call this a benchslap, but that might be too nice a word…
Jessica Mikuchonis has spent way more than her fair share of time in court. The Nebraskan has been in trouble several times for drugs, including for shooting meth while pregnant. Most recently, she landed in Judge Gale Pokorny's Lancaster County courtroom, convicted of in shoplifting a sack "full of clothing" from Walmart and a down comforter from JCPenney's. She has a checkered background, to say the least, which Judge Pokorny explained in a chaotic, comma-less style that would make Hemingway proud:
Ms. Mikuchonis started drinking at 11, routinely drinking to intoxication by 16. She started to smoke mariijuana at 15 then crack cocaine. But her drug of choice became methamphetamine which she was smoking on a daily basis by 2006 and 20O7, injecting it twice a day. A very expensive form of recreation necessitating continuous large sums of cash.
To say Judge Pokorny was unsympathetic is like saying the state of Arizona has a slight preference for humans of Caucasian origin. The judge spends a large chunk of the February 2 opinion (PDF) railing on the fact that Mikuchonis has been in and out of rehab for several years:
Today, Ms. Mikuchonis presents yet another letter wherein her welfare worker(s) have lined her up with yet another program at Origins Behavioral Health that she expects the taxpayers to pay for.
That isn't going to happen.
As a sentencing judge, one wonders from time to time just what does the court system or the community or a citizen owe his fellow human being in terms of charity and rehabilitation. In difficult economic times when the community's taxpayers are having their own problems, how many times should we expect/ask decent people who want to do the right thing to dig into their pockets and pay again and again for rehabilitation services repeatedly squandered by Ms. Mikuchonis.
And there are always treatment facilities lining up at the courtroom door offering letters promising that their program will produce magical results regardless of a given participant's complete lack of motivation and a half dozen or more prior failed treatment experiences.
Judge Pokorny did not respond to our request for comment, but he has a history of punching defendants in the mouth with the hard truth.
In 2008, Pokorny told a man who secretly videotaped everyone who used his home bathroom, "The sheer depravity, sir, is just staggering."He sentenced the man to six months in jail.
In 2006, Pokorny sentenced a 21-year-old man to 30 days in jail for letting a house party get out of control. In his opinion he explained why, according to the Journal Star:
Reason #1. People can die at these parties…
Reason #2. People can die at these parties.
Holy hell, Pokorny gives new meaning to the term "no-nonsense judge."
The Mikuchonis ruling is peppered with footnotes, creative syntactical choices, and at least one reference to Peter Pan. Still, as our tipster points out, it's hard to top the very last line:
After waiting far too long here for Ms. Mikuchonis to do something for herself, this Judge concludes Ms. Mikuchonis has had her opportunities. Whether or not she chooses some day to take advantage of them or dies face down in her own vomit in some gutter somewhere… is a decision that ultimately only she can make. Her treatment providers are not the ones to claim they can make it for her.
So if anyone still believes America has gone soft because of West Coast lefties (like me, I guess), here's proof otherwise. Old-school justice still lives — with a goddamn vengeance — in Lancaster County, Nebraska.
The State of Nebraska v. Jessica Mikuchonis [County Court of Lancaster, Nebraska]
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My son wrote me a card that said this: "I loav you, Mom. You're the beast!" Nothing sums me up better. Welcome to the Beast Mom blog!
Monthly Archive for December, 2010
The Lies Have Their Reasons
I don't like it when I put out a lot of effort to make a fun evening for the family and the kids end it by bickering as they get ready for bed. It makes me feel angry so I then threaten to NEVER AGAIN PLAN A FUN NIGHT FOR THEM!!! [Read More]
Cleaned Out Of Christmas
I thought I was being Miss Speedy Shopper when I went out to look for clearance Christmas lights on the morning of Dec. 27th. It turns out I was too late. The stores I went to were totally cleaned out of most of their Christmas decor, including lights, except for a few stragglers – most of which had torn containers or were in the wrong colored boxes – yellow lights in blue light boxes for example. I guess people really go Christmas-clearance-crazy on the 26th. The stores had nothing good left by … [Read More]
Am I Being Psychotically Picky About A Bunch Of Old Paperbacks?
I have a near complete collection of books by a particular author that I love. I have already blogged about him before so I won't bore you by doing it again. His greatness as a writer is not the main point of this post anyway. The main point is my psychotic nature when it comes to my collection of his prolific writing. See, a couple years ago, I came across this person in Canada who was selling off a collection of used paperbacks by this author. For a measly $25. When I saw the listing, I immediately … [Read More]
Pics Of My Latest Beading Projects
I've been beading again. Christmas brings out the craftiness in me. 😉 Below are some pics of a peyote tube bracelet I finished recently. The tubes are each handwoven with tiny Czech seed beads, and the dark crystals are Swarovski. The findings are all sterling silver. I really like how these darker colors worked together…garnet, deep purple, burnt orange… [Read More]

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Wednesday night Sony hosted what was reported to be a crowd of more than a thousand people at a rare, Applesque new-product demo. There it debuted the next generation Playstation, officially dubbed the PS4. The event lasted two hours and featured some of the most accomplished game developers in the world, all on stage to promise that the PS4 was going to make gaming even more life-like, more responsive, and more addicting than it already is.
I could have saved the company the two hours and the cost of hosting the event. Because boil Sony's announcement down to its essence, and you get these simple words: Sony believes the future will be like the past and has built the game console to prove it.
Don't get me wrong, the console is definitely next generation (or at least the specs are next generation, since the console itself did not make an appearance at the event). It has stunning graphics and the kind of processing power necessary to create lifelike movement and even give game characters artificial-intelligence capabilities that should make hardcore gamers hungry with anticipation for the end of the year (the most specific Sony got about the release timeframe).
While the technology that goes into the console is definitely of the future, the idea behind the PS4 is rooted firmly in the past. Specifically, the PS4 yearns for a glory day of gaming, around 2006, when Sony's PS2 was at the top of the gaming business having sold in the neighborhood of 150 million consoles. Being the engineering-focused company that it is, Sony's team was already hard at work besting the PS2 with the PS3, a console that would render more polygons than ever before and would hope to expand the role of the console by also putting a newfangled Blu-ray player in it. Though the added horsepower and media functionality cost Sony time to market and drove the cost of the box up, Sony believed then — as it appears to still — that engineering excellence would dictate the success of the next generation of game consoles
Let's see, how did that work for Sony? Today, Microsoft's Xbox 360 is the best-selling and most widely used game console of the current generation. In most months in the US, Xbox 360 titles outsell Wii and PS3 titles combined. Instead of learning its lesson from this problem, Sony has spent a few years, we were told, developing the PS4 as if it were under the impression that the problem with the PS3 was that it was not a powerful enough gaming system.
But it's not just about getting the right console to market because at the same time, the entire console business is under the threat of digital disruption. Sales of consoles have been diminishing month after month. The new Wii U console has failed to gain traction for Nintendo. Tablets and smartphones now engage more people in more minutes of gaming than consoles will ever achieve. GameStick, the Kickstarter-funded gaming console built into a controller, is now available for pre-order for $79 and other companies are betting against dedicated hardware of any kind, instead offering streaming games over commodity hardware.
Gaming, gaming, everywhere, and not a drop for Sony to drink. It's a painful irony of digital disruption that even as something becomes more popular, the companies that built their businesses around it falter. Today we listen to more music in more ways than ever before, yet music labels are half the size they were a decade ago. We read more news than we ever have, yet newspapers are going out of business right and left. By aiming for the glorious past of gaming Sony might as well be announcing the launch of a 24-hour cable news channel or a slick, new weekly newsmagazine.
Most telling is the fact that Sony did not announce a price for the PS4, possibly because they don't know yet what it will cost to make, but more likely because they don't know how aggressively they'll have to subsidize it to sell it. Because sell it Sony must, no matter what the cost, because missteps aside, the PS4 is Sony's best shot at creating a digital customer relationship for eventually building the kind of digital platform that Apple and Google have and Microsoft — on the strength of the Xbox 360 — is working toward. In the end, far more important to Sony's long-term hopes will be amassing the power of a digital platform that spans multiple devices, even devices Sony doesn't manufacture. But making that big of a change will require massive adjustments at the famously siloed Sony and so far the PS4 announcement doesn't reveal even a hint that Sony is ready to join the other digital platforms at this most ambitious game.
Given that, I'll make a bet of my own about the future: Sony will sell fewer PS4s than it did PS3s.
James McQuivey, Ph.D., is a Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, serving consumer product strategy professionals. Follow him on Twitter at @jmcquivey. He is the author of the upcoming book, Digital Disruption, which will be published on February 26, 2013.


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There are three thousand rivers, and three million lakes providing for the 6,640 miles of coastline, supplying anglers the greatest opportunity for steel heads, trout, salmon, halibut, northern pike, and others. Fishing in Alaska can provide the perfect spot for any angler's dream of catching the trophy or the big one.
A lot of these waters are open to various types of fishing categories such as commercial, sport fishing, personal fishing, and subsistence fishing. Each of these categories of fishing have their own requirements for licensing, catch limits, and other guidelines that need to be adhered to or else the violating party or parties can face consequences from the Fish and Game Office.
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Sport fishing is permitted for residents and non-residents who are fishing with rods and reels. An Alaska sport fishing license is only issued to those who are fishing for personal use and family consumption. It is not permitted to use seines, gill nets, and other types of commercial gear when fishing with this type of license. It is also not permitted to sell, barter or trade the fish gotten under this license. All waterways are open for fishing with this type of license.
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Personal fishing is only permitted to those who are currently living and have had residency in Alaska for at least one year. Fishing is permitted in non-subsistence waterways and a few others, but not all waterways. The fish caught should be for personal or family consumption or use and fishing is not permitted with a rod and reel with this Alaska fishing license.
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Subsistence fishing is only permitted to current residents who have lived in Alaska for at least a year. Fishing is not permitted in non-subsistence waterways. This license allows for fish to be kept for personal or family use and consumption, trade or bartered, and in some cases selling. There is no requirement on gear in most permitted waterways but rod and reel methods do have restrictions.
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In order to fish in Alaskan waters you will need to obtain a license or a permit. Licenses are available for residents, non-residents, military members and residents who are over 60 or Disabled Veterans. Residents and non-residents who are under 16 years of age are not required to purchase a sport fishing license. A Permanent Identification Card is available for those residents who are 60 years old or older provided they meet residency qualifications and complete an application. All licenses are valid for one year and will expire December 31st of the year purchased with the exception of non-resident licenses which are valid for 1, 3, 7, or 14 days.


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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone 12/1/11 (PennWell) -- Developer Joule Africa announced that Lahmeyer International has begun a bankable feasibility study of expanding Sierra Leone's 50-MW Bumbuna hydroelectric project to a total of 389 MW.
Joule Africa, an American-British unit of Joule Investments Group of the U.S.,signed a US$750 million agreement with the Sierra Leone government in May under which the developer is to carry out Phase 2 of Bumbuna, expanding the project on the Seli River, 250 kilometers from Freetown.
Joule Africa said Lahmeyer of Germany and CENMATS of Sierra Leone are undertaking a full environmental and social impact study of proposed dam sites. They are to perform hydrological studies, a topographical survey, an aerial survey, geotechnical studies, and design work. The work, which began a month ahead of schedule, is to be completed by October 2012.
Started in 1975, the first phase of Bumbuna was 85 percent complete when stalled for years by civil war. It was completed in 2009.
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"We are very pleased at the significant progress the company has made to date and we are still very much on track to deliver this project of vital national importance on time, hoping to commence construction in 2013 and achieve project completion by 2017," Joule Africa Managing Partner Andrew Cavanaugh said November 22.


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The Greatest Blunder in British History
It was 70 years ago on March 31 when Great Britain committed the fatal blunder that led to World War II: issuing a war guarantee to Poland. This was the war, as Pat Buchanan says in his recent book, Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War, that "led to the slaughter of the Jews and tens of millions of Christians, the devastation of Europe, Stalinization of half the continent, the fall of China to Maoist madness, and half a century of Cold War.†Buchanan's book is essential for understanding why World War II was so unnecessary.
So begins my article on The New American website. You can continue reading here.
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Fine essay: Think of all the triggers we have with all our world wide treaties. That doesn't even include Israel, to which we have no treaty obligations, but surly would fight and die for. Ron Paul, Pat Buchanan and all the America firsters were right about all our imperial wars.
Perhaps as great a mistake was the decison to declare war on Germany in 1914. Britain should have avoided war with Germany altogether.
Alliances are a source of weakness, not strength. They draw you into affairs not of your own concern. Countries lose their ability to act as "free agents", reacting to events as they see fit. The Kaiser didn't give a swagger-stick about Serbia, but found himself drawn into a continental war because of his "blank-cheque" promise of support to his ally Austria-Hungary, a decision he didn't think through and soon regretted. Look how Switzerland and Sweden were able to remain neutral in BOTH world wars. When countries, especially smaller countries, know they have allies to back them up they get much more obtuse in their dealings with other states. The United States doesn't even have the 'advantage' of reciprocity in its alliances. An attack on our "ally" South Korea would involve America in a distant war. There is no chance that South Korea would come to America's aid to help repel an Canadian attack on the USA. America has bought a pig in a poke with all these burdensome alliances – and didn't even get the pig!
heh Britain was a Global Empire.
The biggest blunder was right there … being another stupid empire, feeling you're all powerful and making people want to emulate you.
Probably the biggest blunder in British history was Vortigern inviting Hengest and Horsa to help fight other British chieftains.
Blaming the UK for Mao's triumph over Chiang Kai-shek is a blunder, alright, but one by the self-styled historian.
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can anyone guess gordon browns biggest mistake?
hint, it happened back in 2000 and involved their central bank
selling off the gold ? .
anders- you got it. The guy from goldline radio show the other day said that was when he started telling people to buy. when central banks start doing weird stuff.
The ICC is targeting African Leaders. Why so when these Bush's Blairs,and the people of Israel comiting war crimes. And no one is taking them to the ICC. God sees if we africans are stupid and senseles the creator is not. So the creator of mankind sees. Small time it will soon be over.
Good point, pjelil. It will be a cold day in hell before we see war criminals like Bush in the dock. "War criminals" is not necessarily hyperbole, as Bush's aggressive war against Iraq is a prime example of what the Nuremberg Tribunals condemned. But victors never put themselves into legal jeopardy.
An even greater blunder was Britain's alliance with Belgium which dragged it into WW1. America's unnecessary entry into that pointless carnage served only to amplify the ensuing madness. Without WW1 there would have been no Soviet Union, Fascist Italy or Nazi Germany. There would have been no depression, no unbacked dollar, no WW2, no cold war, no military industrial complex and no Israeli tail wagging the American dog.
All our ongoing economic nightmares and the leviathan state's assault on our liberty and property can be traced back to that day in 1914 when Western civilization put a gun to its head and pulled the trigger.
America never should have gotten involved in the Great War. Woodrow Wilson has much to answer for.
Bush and Blair accused Basheer of Sudan of genocide and accepted that 200,000 people were killed as a matter of fact.However,they claimed that the study that showed that about 600,000 Iraqis were killed as a result of their invasion of Iraq was unaccurate!Not to mentiom the millions who became refugees.
At least most of the growth occurred BEFORE Great Britain was a democracy. That's an excuse America doesn't have.
Lear K,
I think Barfur is for people who want to have human rights bonafides but who don't want to talk about Iraq or Gaza.
Great comment Andy! Alliances are dangerous because they have the potential to act as a conveyer belt for war. They can draw a major power into a catastrophic World War over some stupid ethnic conflict similar to what happened in WWI. A major step to avoid entangling the people of the United States in anymore foriegn wars would be to terminate the multiplicity of alliances the foriegn policy elite of the US government have entered into over the years. A good place to start would be with NATO.
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2012 Literary Festival Includes Local Authors and Close Ties to the Area
Brunswick, GA – When Bill Starr, Executive Director of the Georgia Center for the Book, considered the Golden Isles as a destination for the Georgia Literary Festival, the abundance of local talent was one of the draws. "The area is gorgeous, and there are so many outstanding writers in the region that we knew it would be among the best and biggest book festivals we've ever held," he said. This year's Festival will be held November 9-10 on Jekyll Island, with some ancillary activities on November 11.
The Georgia Center for the Book, which is headquartered in Decatur, is the annual sponsor of the state literary festival, which began in 1999 as a way to celebrate writers and writing in a different part of Georgia every year. They partner with the Georgia Humanities Council to provide initial funding for the event. This year's Festival – the 14th – is their first visit to the southeastern coast of the state.
Tina McElroy Ansa, a St. Simons Island resident, serves on the advisory council of the Georgia Center for the Book. Her novel, Taking After Mudear, was listed on the Center's "Top 25 Books by Living Georgia Writers" in 2008. Taking After Mudear, her sequel to Ugly Ways, is the book Ansa has selected to feature for her Festival presentation on Saturday afternoon, November 10, at the Jekyll Island Convention Center.
Although now writing full time and living in St. Augustine, Steve Berry practiced law for 30 years in St. Marys, serving in public office for 14 years. His genre is thrillers based on fascinating historic questions - the mysteries of "what if" or "what happened to." After many manuscript rejections (85, according to Berry), one of his novels was accepted for publication by Ballantine Books – The Amber Room. He has 14 million books in print which have been translated into 40 languages. His novels regularly debut on the New York Times bestseller list. The Columbus Affair, his most recent release, will be featured at the Festival.
June Hall McCash discovered Jekyll Island and the Georgia coast in 1983. A few years later, she bought a house on Jekyll, splitting her time between Georgia and Tennessee. Her son and co-author of The Jekyll Island Club Hotel, Bren Martin, was born in Tennessee, but he's been a regular visitor to Jekyll Island for nearly 30 years. She has authored or co-authored four books about Jekyll Island and her fiction includes local coastal settings.
The Jekyll Island Club Hotel, her 10th book, was written as part of the 125th anniversary celebration of the historic hotel and will be released just before the November Festival. Non-fiction, the book is part of the Festival's history track. McCash and Martin will discuss the book Saturday morning at 11:00 in the Jekyll Island Club Hotel Ballroom. A complimentary tour of the hotel will follow the presentation. (Reservations for the tour are recommended: 912.635.2600.)
McCash will discuss two of her novels, Plum Orchard and Almost to Eden, as part of the fiction track during the afternoonat the Jekyll Island Convention Center.
Jack McDevitt is a well-known name to science fiction fans. His stories and novels are regularly nominated for – and frequently win – the top prizes in the genre. McDevitt first came to the area in 1980 for a one-year assignment at FLETC. Five years later he returned on permanent assignment and he says he and his wife, Maureen, have acquired too many good friends to even consider leaving. As part of the fiction track, McDevitt will discuss science fiction in general and three works in particular: Firebird (nominated for the 2012 Nebula); The Cassandra Project; and editing Going Interstellar.
Like McDevitt, Pamela Bauer Mueller has a FLETC connection. She first experienced the Golden Isles as a student at FLETC in 1988. She met her husband-to-be, Michael, while there and they made a pact that if they married, they would return to the area to live some day. Twelve years later they did just that – Michael as an instructor at FLETC and Pamela as a full-time writer. Mueller wrote five children's books – the Kiska trilogy and two about Aloha, a guide dog for the blind – before focusing on historical fiction. She had read Eugenia Price's novels about the area, but discovered others whose stories she felt compelled to tell, such as Neptune Small's and Mary Musgrove's. A former actress and model, Spanish language tutor (she lived in Mexico City for 18 years), and US Customs Agent, the Jekyll Island resident will share her sense of adventure and drama, as well as her love of the area, as she presents Splendid Isolation in the fiction track.
William Rawlings, Jr., is a physician as well as a writer. His practice and his daughter's high school are in Sandersville, but he also has a house on Sea Island and he comes and goes as time and his daughter's schedule permit. His first five novels are thrillers, including The Lazard Legacy and The Rutherford Cipher. A history buff, Rawlings planned to debut his first non-fiction book at the Festival, A Killing on Ring Jaw Bluff, but a rescheduled 2013 publishing date shifted his presentation to fiction - The Mile High Club, his most recent novel.
Janisse Ray grew up in Baxley, about 75 miles from Brunswick, and now lives on her farm in Reidsville, the same distance, more or less. Her first book, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, is a Southern environmental classic and a paean to the longleaf pine ecosystem. Drifting Into Darien, published last year, chronicles her week-long journey down the Altamaha River. Her passion for plants and growing is reflected in this year's book, The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food, which she'll present at the Festival. Writing prose as evocative and melodic as poetry, Ray will also be a featured panelist for The Georgia Review contributors' discussion at the conclusion of Saturday's programs at the Jekyll Island Convention Center, "What Worlds Do Authors Save?"
Jeffrey Small, Jr., was born in Brunswick and lived on St. Simons Island as a toddler. His parents moved to Atlanta, but are part-time residents of Sea Island. Small's life has taken him from Brunswick to Bhutan and back. He is a graduate of Yale and the Harvard Law School with a Masters in the Study of Religions from Oxford University in England. He studied yoga in India, practiced Buddhist meditation in Bhutan, earned a Black Sash in Kung Fu with a specialization in the Internal Arts, competed with his wife as US Champion amateur ballroom dancers, founded MDH Partners in Atlanta, serves on the Board of Trustees of The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in New York, and is passionate about theological discourse and spirituality. His first suspense novel, The Breath of God, which he'll be discussing at the Festival, won the Nautilus Book Awards' Gold Medal for fiction.
Although he now lives in Pawleys Island, South Carolina, Jesse Tullos is a Brunswick native and lived there and on St. Simons Island for a total of 24 years. In fact, his mother and two brothers still live in Brunswick. A graduate of UGA's Grady School of Journalism, Tullos was a newspaper reporter and editor for 35 years. His first job was as a cub reporter at The Brunswick News. Part of the history track, Tullos' book chronicles a historic moment in local football history – The Red Terrors: The Story of Glynn Academy's Drive to Football Glory in 1964.
All of the Festival presentations at the Jekyll Island Convention Center on Saturday, November 10 are free and open to the general public. McCash's presentation at the Jekyll Island Club Hotel on Saturday morning is also free.
The fiction track of the Festival is sponsored by Southeast Georgia Health System and the history track, by GP Cellulose.
|Release Date: 8/31/2012
Source: College of Coastal Georgia
|Media Contact:
Peggy L. Golden
Staff Liaison to the 2012 Georgia Literary Festival


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Happiness is using a 4 Day Parkhopper at Disneyland and DCA.
I live in Chicago, so I have to travel through Ohare Airport to get to Anaheim, California where Disneyland is located. The first thing that I noticed at my home town's airport was this huge skeleton of a dinosaur. I snapped a few pictures, and then I was on my way to gate #B12.
I settled in at my gate, and soon realized that my iPad had absolutely no power. I surmised that I had not turned it off correctly. I looked for one of those charging stations, and I soon settled for just a regular outlet. I discovered that I would not have time to charge it up again before my flight took off.
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I was picked up at the airport by a friend from MiceChat and his wife. That part went really well, and I was actually at my hotel about 7 p.m. in the evening. So, all in all, I spent about 8 1/2 hours traveling.
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We're remembering a good friend of ours, and yours. Long time KOB 4 Meteorologist Bill Eisenhood passed away.
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Eisenhood loved forecasting the weather and loved New Mexico. He was a legend in his own time - when a new "kid-on-the-block" named Steve Stucker came to KOB 4.
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As the curtains part, I hear my name announced. The bright spotlight suddenly illuminates the massive stage. I flow through my routine, performing one move after another under the gaze of hundreds of people. Rather than being nervous, I feel comfortable on stage. After the show my face glows when the winners are announced.
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David Visentin is a jeep man. The veteran realtor and host of Love it or List — W Network's popular series in which he and co-host Hilary Farr, an interior designer, compete for a homeowner's decision to keep their house and renovate it, or sell it — doesn't have just one jeep. He has two: A 1977 CJ5 Jeep, which he calls his "fun, summer car," and a 2005 Jeep Liberty, which he uses all winter.
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The Defense Business Board's task group created to review the National Security Personnel System announced its schedule of public meetings today.
The meetings will be held June 25 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., and June 26 from 9 a.m. until noon, resuming from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., at the Hyatt-Arlington, 1325 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, Va. On June 25 the task group will invite experts who have previously testified before Congress on the NSPS. On June 26 the task group will hear from select members of the public where the task group requires additional information or explanation regarding previously submitted written comments.
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"Roasted eggplant in a French roll with feta cheese, basil and garlic mayonnaise. This was my favorite sandwich of all time, adapted from a cafe at the University of California, Irvine."
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1 small
eggplant, halved and sliced
1 tablespoon
olive oil, or as needed
1/4 cup
2 cloves
garlic, minced
2 (6 inch)
French sandwich rolls
1 small
tomato, sliced
1/2 cup
crumbled feta cheese
1/4 cup
chopped fresh basil leaves
Here's what you can do to prevent sogginess: slice YOUNG eggplant crosswise 3/8" thick, place on rack and salt both sides. Allow to sit for several hours, then dab off excess moisture w/a paper towel. Eggplant is just like a sponge so to prevent more sogginess VERY LIGHTLY brush on olive oil; broil on a rack until very nicely browned on both sides. Young eggplant skin is more tender, so you won't have to peel it. Use fruits that are about 2 1/2" at their widest part. I needed 2-3 to make four sandwiches. This gives a really meaty texture without sogginess OR being overdone. To sweeten the loud garlic, after dicing it, I cooked it in a bit of olive oil until soft (do not brown or it will turn bitter), then mashed it before adding to the mayo.
These are the worst! The eggplant was so soggy, it reminded me of guacamole. You should try instead to microwave the eggplant for about 1 1/2 minutes, or until the centers are cooked, then melt margarine in a large skillet over medium heat and fry them until lightly toasted on each side. That's how it's done in the eggplant burger recipe on this site that's fantastic! They come out perfectly. If the eggplant hadn't been ruined, this recipe might've been good.
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Mmmmm! I really liked this recipe. I did change a few things though. First of all, I would peel the eggplant. The skin on mine got a little tough after it was cooked, and slice the eggplant into 1/2-inch slices. When they're too thin, they do come out crispy! Instead of brushing with oil, I sprayed the slices with cooking spray and dusted with salt and pepper. I used light mayo and reduced the amount to cut calories. I added 1/4-1/2 tsp garlic powder instead of the garlic cloves because I was short on time. It was delicious!
Truly the most delicious sandwich ever. I cut the eggplant about 1/2" thick and grilled it on a charcoal grill, and I used Portuguese rolls. My husband and I couldn't stop raving about them. This sandwich now has a place of honor in my repetoire.
I make this almost every week! One of the best veggie meals. Even my carnivore of a husband said that he liked it! OMG! Thank you for such a great recipe! A few changes: Soak in basalmic first....just grill. I use goat cheese instead of feta.
My husband (who is a meat and potatoes man) loved this recipe exactly like it is and can't wait for us to have more eggplant in our garden ready so he can eat it again!
I thought this was one of the best sandwiches I have ever had! I followed the recipe. I did peel the eggplant and I think I would slice it thicker next time - but delicious!!
ooooh this did not turn out for me! It was so disaterous that we have decided to enjoy eggplant when ordered out from now on. But for those of you who have more kitchen success, I'd suggest reducing the broiling time a bit, my eggplant was a bit... excessively crispy :)
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Serving Size: 1/2 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 2
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 802
Calories from Fat: 355
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They say that listening is more important than speaking, and that's why we have two ears but only one mouth. The thing is, people don't say much directly on the web. They just come to your site, look at a few things, and then leave silently. But even if they are not saying anything directly, you can still listen indirectly. You do that through a web site analysis system. Drupal Gardens integrates well with Google Analytics, the most popular such system. You first have to sign up for it though, which you do it google.com/analytics.
Through Google Analytics you won't be able to watch someone as they move through your site or discover their e-mail address and pester them afterwards. What you get instead is what's called aggregated information. So you might find out, for example, that we get more visitors from Mexico than from Japan. We then know that we would get a better return producing translations in Spanish than Japanese: very useful information, although again not for specific people-- only aggregated groups of people who visit your site. First, you have to add your site's domain to your Google Analytics account.
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But right now, I am going to go back to our site and turn on the Google Analytics module, which is turned off by default. To do that go to Modules and then scroll down to the Google Analytics Module. It's fairly far down under Statistics. Turn it on and Save configuration. Now that it's turned on we have to take that code that we got from Google Analytics and put it into our Drupal Gardens site. To do that, go up to Configuration and scroll down to Google Analytics.
Now you will notice we now have this error message up here. This is actually just telling us that we haven't added our information into Google Analytics. If you click on the status report link, you will see that; as we scroll down see Google Analytics Module, and in fact you can get directly to the Settings page here as well. Now this is where we paste in that Property ID. I will go back and copy it and then go back to Google Analytics in our site and paste it and scroll down and Save configuration.
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There are actually quite a few options. You can have Google Analytics only look at certain roles--that is, what certain users do, see exactly what all the bloggers are doing, what pages they tent to go to, for example--only have Google Analytics watch certain pages, or you could have it track downloads from your site. I won't go into all of these details, but if you want to learn some more about it, there are several courses on lynda.com that will help you: One of them is "SEO, Search Engine Optimization Getting Started"; another is "Google Analytics Essential Training"; and finally, "Google Website Optimizer Essential Training." All of these will help you to get more information out of your site though Google Analytics.
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The search to replace Medical University of South Carolina President Ray Greenberg will be long, and it may spill over into 2014, MUSC Board of Trustees Chairman Tom Stephenson said Wednesday.
Words of praise
Some local reaction to the news that Ray Greenberg is leaving MUSC:
"Ray's many contributions to MUSC and to South Carolina during his distinguished tenure as president cannot be understated, and he will be greatly missed. It has been a privilege and a pleasure to work with Ray over the past three years, and I wish him great success in his new role."
Etta Pisano, dean of the MUSC College of Medicine
"Dr. Greenberg's national reputation has certainly made him a sought-after leader in health sciences and health education in our country. The University of Texas has found a superb leader. This is a great opportunity, and I am very happy for him."
Charleston Mayor Joe Riley
"He has been a leader and a friend to so many on this campus. He will truly be missed."
Lisa Montgomery, MUSC executive vice president for finance and operations
"Under his leadership, MUSC not only weathered economically hard times that were unprecedented, but the institution grew in its capacities to treat and care for patients while fulfilling ambitious goals in our research endeavors. In particular, Dr. Greenberg's unwavering support of the Hollings Cancer Center helped us achieve prominent standing throughout the country as a center with National Cancer Institute designation."
Dr. Andrew Kraft, Hollings Cancer Center director
"He's a true visionary, leader, scholar. But to have the opportunity to work with him — day-in, day-out — to witness and to play a small piece in helping him put his extraordinary vision into action — I know I am one lucky lady. No words can express how much he will be missed."
Dena Gregory, assistant to the president, MUSC
"MUSC is where we train our future health providers, and Governor Haley is grateful for the leadership and service Dr. Greenberg has given as its president."
Rob Godfrey, Gov. Nikki Haley's spokesman
Greenberg announced Wednesday morning that he is leaving the post for a top position within the University of Texas health care system.
Many accomplishments
Ray Greenberg said it's difficult to pick one thing he is most proud of during his 13-year tenure as MUSC's president.
"It's like who's your favorite child? There's lots of things that have happened that have been wonderful," he said.
Here are some of those accomplishments:
Carolina e-Health Alliance
Directed efforts to establish a shared medical records system among hospital emergency departments in the Lowcountry in 2010, overcoming often intense competition among the health care systems.
South Carolina College of Pharmacy
Helped combine separate pharmacy schools at MUSC and the University of South Carolina to create a new, joint institution. The first class of students graduated in August 2010.
Campus expansion
Oversaw more than 1 million square feet of new construction, including the $400 million Ashley River Tower, which opened in 2008, and the Drug Discovery Building, completed in 2011.
Cancer Center
Helped the Hollings Cancer Center achieve a designation by the National Cancer Institute, marking it one of the premier facilities in the country.
The board convened a special executive session via conference call Wednesday afternoon to name Dr. Mark Sothmann as the university's interim president to fill the role while the board searches for a permanent replacement.
"It's likely not to happen real quickly," Stephenson said. "It might not happen this year."
Sothmann currently serves as MUSC provost and vice president for academic affairs.
In an internal letter to faculty and staff, Greenberg wrote, "The decision to depart feels to my wife, Leah, and me like leaving a much beloved home and family."
"It's very difficult," he said during an interview. "I've been here for 18 years, if you combine the presidency and vice presidency. Obviously, I have a very large network of friends and colleagues that have been built up here over time."
Greenberg, 57, will leave MUSC in late August. He has been named the executive vice chancellor for health affairs at The University of Texas System, overseeing six health sciences institutions, including the prestigious MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. His new job will be based in Austin. He said he has never lived in Texas.
"This is going to be a first," he said.
Greenberg succeeded former Gov. Jim Edwards as MUSC president in 2000. He previously taught at Emory University's medical school in Atlanta and was the founding dean of the Rollins School of Public Health there. Greenberg holds degrees from Duke University, Harvard University and the University of North Carolina.
He said he is most proud of collaborative statewide projects that he has helped spearhead in his tenure as president, and said MUSC's biggest challenge moving forward will be money.
"There's going to be less money from the clinical enterprise to help subsidize the teaching and research missions," he said.
The federal sequester is partly to blame, he said. So are declining appropriations from the state government.
This is "the biggest challenge for academic health centers in general," he said. "Ours is not atypical."
Greenberg's contract with MUSC was set to expire in 2015.
A University of Texas spokeswoman confirmed Greenberg has been offered $700,000 a year in his new role, slightly less than his current salary. At MUSC Greenberg makes more than $750,000 a year, which includes his state employee base pay of $250,629 and a privately funded compensation package.
"It is not about the money," he said. "It is about the opportunity to be part of a growing and dynamic enterprise that has statewide impact."
Stephenson said Greenberg is "going to a very good place and a very good job," and that "we're terribly distressed to lose him."
Charleston Mayor Joe Riley praised Greenberg's accomplishments as president. He also called him a friend.
"He has a rare combination of extraordinary intellect, great wisdom and personal leadership," Riley said. "Ray and Leah Greenberg have become friends. I will personally miss their presence in our community very much, and I hope that when Dr. Greenberg retires that Ray and Leah Greenberg will make Charleston their home."
Stephenson said internal candidates will be considered to replace Greenberg, but the recruitment process also will include interviewing candidates across the country.
"We'd be stupid not to do a national search," he said.
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Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented April 30, 1907.
Application filed March 15,1907. Serial No. 362,486.
To (ti/Z 'lUll/(fln/ it may concern.-
Be it known that I, ANNA M. HOFFMAN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at McKees Rocks, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bedclothes-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.
This invention relates to bed clothes holders, and the invention has for its object to provide a novel holder which can be easily and quickly attached to a bed or crib for retaining the various clothes upon a bed or crib, thus preventing a restless infant or person from becoming uncovered during their slumber.
Another object of this invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive holder that can be adjustably connected to a bed or crib, the holder being designed whereby it can be easily and quickly fastened upon the side rails, head or foot posts of a bed or crib, without injuring or marring the bed or crib in any respect.
A further object of this invention is to provide a bed clothes holder which will present a neat appearance when used in connection with a bed or crib, and of such a construction that it will not injure an infant contacting with the same.
Vith the above and other objects in view, which will more readily appear as the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described and then specifically pointed out in the appended claims.-
Referring to the drawing forming part of this specification, like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, in which:
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bed equipped with my improved clothes holder, Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the clothes holder, Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view of the same illustrating one of the retaining bands.
To put my invention into practice, I employ two spring clamps 1, of a conventional form, said clamps having gripping aws 2 and handles 3. The handles 3 are provided 1 with openings l to receive the loop ends 5 of a double cable or cord 6, the cables or cords being retained together by bands 7. The ends of the cables or cords are provided with a cross bar or rod 8, which is connected to the double cable by a cord or string 9.
The retaining bands 7 are arranged in sets, whereby the strands of the double cable or cord can be separated between the retaining bands to provide loop openings 10. The bar or rod 8 is used in connection with the loop openings for securing the holder upon a bed or crib. After the end of the double cable or cord 6 has been passed around a bed post or bed rail, as illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings, the end of .the double cable is passed through one of the loop openings 10 and then the cross bar or rod 8 is passed through one of the loop openings at the end of the cable, thus preventing the end of the cable from being withdrawn from the loop opening in which it is mounted. In provid ing a plurality of loop openings, the double cable carrying the loops 5 and the clamps 1 can be fitted upon the rail or post of a bed or crib having a large diameter or cross section or a small diameter or cross section, it being obvious that where the rail or post of the bed is of a large cross section, the end of the double cable is secured in the loop hole nearest the loops 5. It will be thus seen that when the double cable is secured to a bed or crib and the spring clamps placed in engagement with the covers thereof, that it will be impossible for the covers to become accidently displaced or even to shift upon the bed or crib especially when a clothes holder is used in connection with each post or rail of a bed or crib.
In practice, the double cable is neatly woven and its color scheme in harmony with the finish and color of the bed and bed clothes in connection with which it is used.
\Vhat 1 claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is
1. In a bed clothes holder, the combination with spring clamps having openings formed in the handles thereof, of a double cable having loops engaging in the openings of said clamps, retaining bands carried by said cable and providing loop openings, a
bar or rod loosely connected to the end of i tend into 100p openings formedinsaid double said double cable and adapted to retain the cable. TO end of said double cable in one of said loop In testimony whereof I affix my signature Openings. in the presence of two Witnesses:
2. The combination with clamps, of a dou- ANNA M. HOFFMAN. ble cable having loops connecting With said Witnesses: clamps, a bar or rod loosely connected to the MAX H. SROLOVITZ,
end of said double cable, and adapted to eX- F. M. KATTSUSTRATT.
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Agricultural Subsidies in the WTO Green Box
Ensuring Coherence with Sustainable Development Goals
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- Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz, ICTSD, Geneva, Switzerland
- Christophe Bellmann, ICTSD, Geneva, Switzerland
- Jonathan Hepburn, ICTSD, Geneva, Switzerland
- Date Published: January 2010
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Do the World Trade Organization's rules on 'green box' farm subsidies allow both rich and poor countries to achieve important goals such as food security, or do they worsen poverty, distort trade and harm the environment? Current WTO requirements set no ceiling on the amount of green box subsidies that governments can provide, on the basis that these payments cause only minimal trade distortion. Governments are thus increasingly shifting their subsidy spending into this category, as they come under pressure to reduce subsidies that are more directly linked to production. However, growing evidence nonetheless suggests that green box payments can affect production and trade, harm farmers in developing countries and cause environmental damage. By bringing together new research and critical thinking, this book examines the relationship between green box subsidies and the achievement of sustainable development goals, and explores options for future reform.Read more
- Examines the issue of green box subsidies from a sustainable development perspective, as opposed to a purely economic or legal viewpoint
- Addresses a set of farm subsidies that are of increasing importance, enabling the reader to engage critically with a new and important field of analysis
- Offers analysis and opinions from a range of leading thinkers in the field, who are expected to inform the emerging debate in this area
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- Date Published: January 2010
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521519694
- length: 706 pages
- dimensions: 233 x 160 x 35 mm
- weight: 1.22kg
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Table of Contents
1. Overview Christophe Bellmann and Jonathan Hepburn
Part I. The Recent Evolution of Agricultural Trade Policy Reform:
2. The historical context of the green box Néstor Stancanelli
3. Doha Round negotiations on the green box, and beyond Jonathan Hepburn and Christophe Bellmann
4. The reform of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy Alan Swinbank
5. Farm policy reform in the US: past progress and future direction David Orden
6. Agricultural trade policy reform in Japan Masayoshi Honma
Part II. The Focus, Extent and Economic Impact of Green Box Subsidies:
7. Agricultural support in the green box: an analysis of EU, US and Japanese green box spending Jesús Antón
8. Green box subsidies and trade-distorting support: is there a cumulative impact? Carlos Galperín and Ivana Doporto Miguez
9. The distributional structure of green box subsidies in the European Union and France Vincent Chatellier
10. The distributional structure of US green box subsidies Harry de Gorter
Part III. Green Box Subsidies and Developing Countries:
11. Agricultural subsidies in the WTO green box: opportunities and challenges for developing countries André Nassar, Maria Elba Rodriguez-Alcalá and Cinthia C. Costa
12. Use of green box measures by developing countries: an assessment Biswajit Dhar
13. A Chinese perspective on the green box Jianmin Xie
14. African countries and the green box Abena Oduro
Part IV. Green Box Subsidies and the Environment:
15. The environmental impact of green box subsidies: exploring the linkages Ron Steenblik and Charles Tsai
16. The environmental impact of European Union green box subsidies Ariel Brunner and Harry Huyton
17. The environmental impact of US green box subsidies Jane Earley
18. Biofuels subsidies and the green box Tim Josling, Freeman Spogli and David Blandford
Part V. Looking Forward: How Can Change Take Place?:
19. Improving monitoring and surveillance of green box subsidies Andrea Cerda
20. Subsidy reform in the EU context: options for achieving change Teresa Cavero
21. Subsidy reform in the US context: deviating from decoupling Ann Tutwiler
22. Subsidy reform in Japan: options for achieving change Kazuhito Yamashita
23. Towards a green box subsidy regime that promotes sustainable development: strategies for achieving change Pedro de Camargo Neto and Renato Henz.
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