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The xenophobic attacks against migrant workers in South Africa is having its inevitable knock on impact on people here in Zimbabwe too.
Three people I know directly here in Zimbabwe have been affected so far and I am sure there are many more. One of them is an elderly woman whose daughter is currently in hosptial in South Africa after being attacked.
Initially it was thought her daughter had been the victim of a savage mugging, but we now realise it was the start of the swathe assaults in the news.
This elderly person is deeply worried both for her daughter's welfare, and also for how she herself is going to manage to continue looking after her grandchildren. Her daughter went to South Africa and left her children in the care of her mother; she was there trying to earn enough to send back to educate and feed them all.
Another is a friend whose relative left Zimbabwe years ago - entirely legally. She has a good job in South Africa, pays her taxes and has all the right papers. She rents a home there. Apparently she was approached by a group of people who demanded she speak to them in their language; she couldn't, so they forced the landlord to terminate her rental agreement. She is now homeless and very short of money. The last she spoke to my friend she said she was worried about her safety and how she was going to manage to keep the children in school. Above all she was very fearful the xenophobic insults would extend into the school-yards and her children would be victimised as well.
The third person affected is someone else I know well. Her relative also works legally in South Africa. He lives frugally so he can send money to his family in Zimbabwe and the number if people depending on him to help has grown through the years he has been away. He is terrified he will be attacked and injured so badly that he will not be able to work. He needs to be healthy - too many people rely on him for their survival.
To preserve his job he has taken to sleeping in the bush at night and avoiding populated areas outside working hours. He uses a garage bathroom near to his work to try and keep himself tidy enough to not get into trouble with his employers.
Someone else I spoke to about all this said she was hearing that Zimbabweans in South Africa were saying they would rather return home to be killed in their own country than stay and be killed in South Africa. When you hear things like this the second thing you think of is the impact on votes in the run-off if migrants workers come back (if they are still registered to vote).
The first thing that comes to mind is deep worry for the number of people who will be badly affected. What about their dependents? What about the lack of food here in Zimbabwe? What about the fact that the survival of so many in our country is inextricably linked to the support and money coming in from hard-working Zimbabweans outside?
This is an ugly and desperate situation to be trapped in. Xenophobia is a state of mind I personally think is reserved for the most stupid people in a society and I'm not even going to try and be diplomatic about that. All the attacks are unwarrented and nasty, but in the case of Zimbabweans, the vicious attacks seem especially cruel given everything we are currently going through in our own country.
The fools responsible for this don't even have the wits to see that their stupidity and hatred means they are fouling their own nest and destroying opportunity and possibility for thousands of South Africans who I am sure are just as disgusted and appalled as I am:
The violence helped weaken South Africa's rand as investors backed away from the currency, fearing the xenophobic attacks could hurt the economy. The rand was pushed down further after Asian and European stocks weakened.
"We've got the domestic xenophobic violence which is scaring investors away, so these factors are combining to create a weaker rand," said David Gracey, a trader at Nedbank.
The currency fell over 1.7 percent to 7.68 to the dollar. (via Reuters)
I wonder how many foreigners around the world, looking at this display of violence, are looking forward to travelling to South Africa to watch world cup football there?
This is a tragedy. Mbeki et al doesn't understand the dynamics this scenario presents. The Zims can stay and be murdered or they can go home and be murdered. I feel for them. I wonder how the SA government will react. I suppose RGM is on the phone to Mbeki and saying "Don't make it worse, suppress the violence, make it comfortable for the MDC supporters in SA. Then they won't come home.!!
Fat chance..I think they are moving home now. Good luck all of you. Get a life. Get rid of this Despot.
That last point was well made.
I teach ICT in England and I remember visiting Alexandra nr Joburg some 15 or so years ago.
Actually the sticking point with the World Cup for me is Mugabe. And the balance of evidence seems to suggest the Zenophobia issue (awful as it is) would resolve itself more readily as Zimbabweans were able to live where I suspect they would rather live -- in Zim.
If RM were in power I could not even watch the football on the telly. The fact that economic benefit and kudos would accrue to those politicians (and the old man himself) after this state of affairs is the reason why.
So look out media companies when you bid for the rights to broadcast the World Cup -- you won't make a profit out of me unless we see change on the ground first.
This is disgusting violence by poor South Africans on foreigners and is not justifiable under any circumstances ! Nobody is justified to act out his savage jealousies just because he is poor. This is a completely diabolical moral justification for savagery that's cause is naked covetousness in its most base form and probably one of the base reasons that Africa's poor never prosper. They can never prosper until they learn to celebrate the most talented and entrepreneurial members of society. In fact poor African cultures are of the kind that try to level any individual successes away, down into the mediocre and away from the sublime and to prevent any revelation of personal inadequacies. They violate the 10th commandment : "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's " so they will remain poor. All perpetually poor societies have one thing in common, they appear very covetous. Some people who are not covetous do sometimes go through lean times but they usually bounce back again. Unless South Africa recognizes that this is a sin against God and take ownership of this personal failure and repent of it then we have no hope for Africa. God's laws can be violated but they will break you !
Nevertheless I do see some hope after the Special Assignment program on TV revealed there were a few people who wanted to rectify the situation and did not agree with this type of behaviour at all.
I do not think xenophobia is the right word for these types of South Africans , more like a paranoically jealous form of covetousness against somebody of another country. But government indifference to Zimbabwe, border control and socialist economic policies are probably mostly to blame for the situation.
Is it a crisis now Mr. Mbeki?
Strange world indeed, when we are grateful for men like Jacob Zuma.
Zimbabwe elections are discredited-S.Africa's Zuma
Tue 20 May 2008, 17:31 GMT
[-] Text [+] JOHANNESBURG, May 20 (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress believed the Zimbabwean elections are discredited after the long delay in releasing results, the party's President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday.
"It was unacceptable that the electoral commission should hold the results ... we are criticising the electoral commission. Those elections are discredited, that's our view, from the ANC point of view," he said in an interview with the BBC World Service. (Reporting by Gordon Bell)
I want to apologise on behalf of all sensible South Africans to all Zimbabweans affected by the senseless and mindless violence affecting everyone in South Africa.
It is a tragedy that in a time when Zimbabwe needs us we have turned our backs. The people of Zimbabwe stood shoulder to shoulder with South Africans oppressed under the apartheid regime during their times of need and now instead of helping Zimbabweans through their own hardships we are turning on them and in certain instances even setting them on fire.
It is absolutely disgraceful and ALL South Africans should feel ashamed and disgusted. I have been a proud South African my entire life, but tonight for the first time I am sad and ashamed to call myself South African.
I just hope Southern Africa as a region has a future, Gods Kingdom is burning and no one seems to care.
Im shckd by thse attacks are thse people who wer in exile in otha countries or mybe they r sme its just another tribalism started among people it wil never end like ths 4 instance if ths if enter kzn its gna b war mre blood the government hvent dne anythng 2 resolve it is an hw linked 2 MUGABE AND MBEKI GAME PLAN WHY NOT CALLED FOR A STATE OF EMERGENCY WHILE PEOPLE ARE BEIN KILLED STOP XENOPHOBIC MASTERING MR MBEKI
So I was looking at the sponsors for FIFA (Im not a football fan give me rugby any day) However, I see Macdonalds, Coke, Adidas, Sony, Emirates, Budwiser, MTN and Satyam, are sponsors and local sponsors are FNB and TeleKom.....Time to hit the money too I say....Greatest consumer power the Uni students and the school kids....Nestles were targeted by the Unis for pushing powdered milk in Africa through the Unis and it hurt them they had to spend more money on advertising so here's what I am proposing Lets flood these guys with emails make suggestions on the Uni boards and get some backing...Not much of writer myself so anyone wants to do the writing.... Im happy to do the cutting and pasting....Oh and I keep having this thought about the fact that Chelsea (Prince Harry's Girl friend)father was very involved in Zimbabwe but ditched all his stuff when they started going out I wonder if we can use this angle somehow?
@ Ricardo What you are struggling with is what is known as being a Third Culture Kid and we are many and we have had to learn tolerance of all culture and language and back ground shows us that underneath all the difference there are more things in common....I would like to suggest to you to look one day at the Third Culture Kids website if you feel you are alone for you are not alone and I think that because there are now more of us that are born from intermingled societies and background we understand the true meaning of the value of Human Life....we are more tolerant...and you are right violence is unacceptable....
Nothing will be done about this, it will just be ignored like everything else that happens in this country.
Same old till South Africa is in the same state as Zim and other african states.
Game Over !!!!
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@ mama,
Going for the sponsors is a really good idea. I have written a letter already for the FIFA President (http://aylesburylife.org/blogs/3/2008/05/17/time-fifa-to-say-no-to-mugab...).
I will gladly adapt the letter and look up names and addresses for the sponsors that you have helpfully identified.
Next week is half-term (I teach) in this part of England. I can see there will be one or two more letters taking a trip to the post office.


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YEAR IN FILM 2012: A look back at the superheroes and standouts of 2012 -- and a sly peek at 2013
Though some of its opening-weekend hype was rightfully muted after the Colorado killings, The Dark Knight Rises — a visually stunning if thematically confusing (soooo, are you anti-Occupy, or what, Batman?) blockbuster — raked in over a billion dollars worldwide. Its haul was second only to another comic-book film, Marvel's The Avengers, as colorful and goofy as Rises was serious and moody. (Hey, there's room for both kinds of superheroes.) But Rises is supposedly Nolan's last Batman movie; there are already two Avengers-related movies slated for 2013, and only Odin knows how many Marvel will end up making. If the company's Amazing Spider-Man was a non-event (and how many people still think Tobey Maguire was in that?), it was a $750 million event, so the webslinger will return, whether you like it or not.
And in case you're plotting out your nerd-alert calendar for 2013 (as one does), there will be plenty to gnaw on: Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim, a giant-monster movie already inspiring geek squeals on Facebook and beyond; Man of Steel (another crack at Superman, with Michael Shannon as General Zod); Star Trek Into Darkness (with Benedict Cumberbatch maybe playing KHAAAAAN); more Hunger Games-ing and hobbits; another Die Hard movie (A Good Day to Die Hard) and The Fast and the Furious 6 (title upgrade: 6 Fast 6 Furious); and another stand-alone Wolverine movie.
Surely there will be pleasures to be had among the above. But as 2012 proved, the most rewarding films are almost always the ones you have to make an effort to see, whether it's planning a midnight date at a single-screen neighborhood theater, or keeping tabs on festivals — practically a weekly event in the Bay Area — to get the inside scoop on films making what might be their only local appearances. If you're lucky enough to live in a place that loves cinema as much as we do, you can practically curate your own festival. And why wouldn't you? Add ninjas if you dare.
1. Holy Motors (Leos Carax, France/Germany)
2. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, US)
3. Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, US)
4. Room 237 (Rodney Ascher, US)
5. Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin, US)
6. The Fourth Dimension (Aleksei Fedorchenko, Harmony Korine, and Jan Kwiecinski, Poland/US/Russia)
7. The Queen of Versailles (Lauren Greenfield, US/Netherlands/UK/Denmark)
8. Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell, US)
9. Miami Connection (Y.K. Kim and Woo-sang Park, US/Hong Kong, 1987)
10. Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, US)
Honorable mentions:
Last Days Here (Don Argott and Demian Fenton, US, 2011)
Argo (Ben Affleck, US)
Bernie (Richard Linklater, US, 2011)
The Flat (Arnon Goldfinger, Israel/Germany, 2011) The Imposter (Bart Layton, UK) The Cabin in the Woods (Drew Goddard, US, 2011) Lincoln (Steven Spielberg, US/India)
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Freedom and Liberty Quotes
"We are reluctant to admit that we owe our liberties to men of a type that today we hate and fear—unruly men, disturbers of the peace, men who resent and denounce what Whitman called 'the insolence of elected persons'—in a word, free men." Gerald W. Johnson
"And reason teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions."
John Locke
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." Theodore Roosevelt, 1918
"As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have combined to make most of us fat and lazy and indifferent to, or actually in favor of, the limits being placed on that freedom." Lyn Nofziger
"Then what is freedom? It is the will to be responsible to ourselves." Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), Twilight of the Idols, 1888
"One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't." Lyn Nofziger [Franklyn C. Nofziger], Press Secretary for President Reagan
"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty." James Madison (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President
"I think that every true reformer, every real friend of liberty, will agree with me in saying that if we must erect safeguards, they should be rather for the security of the individual than of the mass, and that our chiefest care must be to train the majority to respect the rights of the minority, to prevent the claims of the few from being trampled under foot by the caprice or passion of the many." Richard Cartwright, in the Legislative Assembly, Canada, March 9, 1865; reproduced in Janet Ajzenstat, Paul Romney, Ian Gentles, and William D. Gairdner (Eds.), Canada's Founding Debates (Toronto: Stoddart, 1999), p. 19
"Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it." Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), US Founding Father 1787, as recorded by Constitution signer James McHenry in a diary entry
"A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years." Lysander Spooner (1808-1887), political theorist, activist, abolitionist Source: The Constitution of No Authority (Boston: 1870), p. 28.
"Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction." Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President Source: in a letter to John Adams as quoted in John A. Stormer, None Dare Call it Treason (Florissant, MO: Liberty Bell Press, 1964) 93.
"And what sort of philosophical doctrine is this—that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others. ... How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men?" Auberon Herbert (1838-1906), English author, "The Ethics of Dynamite", Contemporary Review, May 1894; reproduced in The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State, and Other Essays by Auberon Herbert (Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1978), pp. 202-203
"The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms." Thomas Jefferson
"One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence." Charles Austin Beard (1874-1948)
"A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts." Euripides
"There are no boundaries in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, for a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory." Ernesto Che Guevara
"Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage. I would not lead you out if I could; for if you could be led out, you could be led back again. I would have you make up your minds there is nothing that you cannot do for yourselves." Eugene Victor Debs, from an address on Industrial Unionism delivered at Grand Central Palace, New York City, Dec. 18, 1905
"Place me not with those who are weak of mind and willingly give up the rights of others, for these poor ignorant souls know not that the rights they give up are their own!" Warren Friton
"To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy." Thomas Jefferson
"Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience." John Locke, 1690
"This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to give vent to perfectly acceptable views for fear of condemnation. Freedom of speech is thereby imperiled, big questions go undebated, and great lies become accepted, unequivocally as great truths." -- Simon Heffer
". . .nothing is more important than freedom. Nothing is more sacred than freedom. Nothing is greater than freedom. Nothing. . .can be permitted to stand in the way of freedom. Freedom. . .is all that makes men great. It is all men have to live for. Without freedom, what good is life?" Allen Drury, A Shade of Difference
"To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man." Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, the compact, liberal majority." Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People, Act 4
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Destin resident Brock Ellis made a new friend while paddle boarding in the Gulf at Sandestin Golf and Beach resort recently.
"I was about to leave the beach when I turned around and spotted a giant shadow in the water," Ellis said. "At first I thought it was a school of dolphins, but I didn't see any fins. That's when I saw a manatee come up for air."
Ellis grabbed his GoPro camera and followed the pod taking pictures and video.
"They didn't seem to mind their spectators," he said. "Toward the end of the video, one of the manatees looks straight into the camera. In my four years working for Sandestin's beach service, I've never seen manatees before this pod spotting."
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Draft proposals have been published today outlining plans to give police and intelligence agencies increased access to the public's internet records.
Initial reports suggest the plans amount to a blank cheque from the government for ISPs to keep records of emails, instant messaging and social media usage for a year.
It is hoped the records will aid police in the fight against crime and terrorism.
Given the government's recent u-turn record on everything from charity donations to pasties, let's hope Home Secretary Theresa May has written the document in soft pencil – particularly as it now faces criticism from civil rights groups and senior Tory Party members.
Former shadow Home Secretary David Davis said the bill amounts to a 'snoopers' charter' that will turn Britain into a 'nation of suspects.'
Meanwhile Lib Dems are expected to tow the line, offering little more than a mutter of dissent as the bill goes through parliament, whilst the plans so closely mirror the surveillance plans unveiled by Labour near the end of their term, that any criticism from opposition would be hypocritical to say the least.
In an attempt to placate critics the new powers are balanced with a series of checks and balances.
Organisations like town halls and The Office of Fair Trading will be stripped of their existing rights to access such data, which itself is restricted to information about who we talk to, where and when we talk, but crucially not what we're talking about.
For illegal data brokers like those featured on Channel Four's Watching the Detectives Dispatches documentary recently, the existence of such records could amount to a license to print money.
Anyone who has had the misfortune of having to contact their internet service provider (ISP) may have been put through to call centres located anywhere from the Yorkshire Dales to Sri Lanka or Mumbai, where an army of poorly paid advisers work within bloated corporate machines whose attempt to provide anything even resembling decent customer service is laughable.
If the Tories go ahead, these organisations will become the official custodians of our innermost secrets.
Quite apart from the precarious security of entrusting our data to enormous corporations that often don't know their backside from their elbow, there is a second, even bigger flaw in Theresa May's plans.
Her assertion that it will help in the fight against paedophiles and terrorists, is plain nonsense.
If paedophiles are in fact using unsecure email and social networks to organise (and I find this very difficult to believe) they need only begin giving more consideration to encrypting correspondence or taking it to the badlands of the 'dark web' where detection is close to impossible.
Alternatively, they might consider taking their activities to the physical universe. (This mythical land does, believe it or not, still exist.)
A result far more likely than the prompt and effective rounding up of the UK's worst terrorists, paedophiles and other assorted miscreants is a sharp increase in cases like that of Paul Chambers, who now faces a drawn out legal battle following a comment about bombing Cardiff airport made on Twitter which, although rather tasteless was obviously lacking in any malicious intent.
Theresa May has already defended the bill, accusing dissenting voices of making the lives of criminals easier. The usual argument that those who have nothing to hide have nothing to worry about will also be trotted out over coming days.
Try telling that to Paul Chambers and anyone who's had private information stolen or blagged from businesses with poor data protection policies.
Campaign Group 38 Degrees has set up an online petition against the proposals which readers can sign online here.
Bob Clowrey works with www.privatedetective.co.uk, a UK-based private investigator working across the UK and internationally.


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- found: His Contemporary Malawian novels, 1980: t.p. (Steve Bernard Miles Chimombo)
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) Center for Green Schools, working in conjunction with its founding sponsor, United Technologies Corp., today released its inaugural "Best of Green Schools 2011" list recognizing school administrators and government leaders in 10 categories for their efforts to create sustainable learning environments.
Recipient schools and regions from across the nation—from K-12 to higher education—were recognized for a variety of sustainable, cost-cutting measures, including energy conservation, record numbers of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)-certified buildings and collaborative platforms and policies to green U.S. school infrastructure. Their commitments to measurable and innovative sustainable building goals serve as models for schools and campuses everywhere.
"The Best Of Green Schools 2011 recipients represent high notes for the green schools movement over the past year and were selected from the thousands of examples of leadership we have seen from schools, districts, campuses, cities and states," says Rachel Gutter, director of the Center for Green Schools at USGBC. "Tomorrow's future leaders are in school today. This year's designees recognize the importance of educating high-performing, 21st century leaders in high-performing, 21st century classrooms. Why green our schools? Three words: education, sustainability and jobs."
According to published reports, green schools save on average $100,000 per year on operating costs—enough to hire two new teachers, buy 200 new computers or purchase 5,000 textbooks. On average, green schools use 33 percent less energy and 32 percent less water than conventionally constructed schools, and if all new U.S. school construction and renovation went green today, the total energy savings alone would be $20 billion over the next 10 years.
"Our commitment to green schools is a reflection of our belief in the importance of energy efficiency, sustainability and education," says Sandy Diehl, vice president, integrated building solutions, United Technologies Corp., and a Center for Green Schools advisory board member. "These leaders are taking action today to help improve our schools by saving energy and tax dollars and by creating healthier environments for students and teachers."
The recipients include:
Moment for the Movement: U.S. Department of Education, Green Ribbon Schools
Green Ribbon Schools is the first comprehensive and coordinated federal initiative to focus on the intersection of environment, health and education.
Region: Sacramento area
Mayor Kevin Johnson has led the charge to bring together mayors and superintendents from across the Northern California region to create a $100 million revolving loan fund for green school retrofits.
State: Ohio
With 315 LEED registered and certified projects, including 19 schools registered in 2011, Ohio leads the nation with more green school projects underway than any other state.
City: Philadelphia
The School District of Philadelphia made significant steps in 2011 toward the greening of the city's 291 public schools.
School: Lake Mills Middle School (Lake Mills, Wis.)
In March 2011, Lake Mills Middle School became the first public school in the nation to achieve LEED Platinum certification.
Higher Ed Innovator: University of Texas at Dallas
The University's new LEED Platinum Student Services Building, which was the recipient of this year's Innovation in Green Building Award, was designed to improve departmental efficiency and interaction, includes terra-cotta shades on the building's exterior to provide a unique energy efficient shading strategy. It was built $1.1 million under budget.
Collaborators: Kentucky Reps. Jim DeCesare (R) and Mary Lou Marzian (D)
This bipartisan team has led Kentucky's green school efforts and is a model for teaming on green school collaboration. Together, they've worked with their colleagues in the Kentucky General Assembly to unanimously adopt resolutions in support of green schools, and have encouraged other states to work across party lines on similar efforts.
Convener: Boston
In September 2011, Mayor Menino hosted the Research Summit on Childhood Health and School Buildings, which brought together a team of interdisciplinary researchers to explore the connection between school facilities and student health. Boston's public school district is also home to one of the first Center for Green Schools Fellows—a sustainability coordinator who will work within the school district for three years, bringing together faculty, administration, facilities staff, teachers and students to advance whole-district sustainability initiatives.
Policy Makers: District of Columbia City Council
In May 2010, the Washington, D.C. council unanimously passed the Healthy Schools Act of 2010, building upon the District's existing LEED Silver requirement and encouraging schools to achieve LEED Gold certification. 2011 updates to the bill included participation in the U.S. Department of Education's Green Ribbon Schools program, making D.C. the first—before any state—to sign up for the voluntary federal program.
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Long Beach Island is still closed to homeowners. The narrow stretch of land was completely overwhelmed by the storm surge during Hurricane Sandy.
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In negotiations on the dairy market reform, the EU Council obstinately opposes major progress such as a monitoring agency and binding contracts for dairies throughout the EU
Brussels/Hamm, 06.10.2011: "It is incomprehensible how the Council of the EU is blocking major progress in the dairy market with its obstinate attitude", is how the President of the European Milk Board (EMB), Romuald Schaber, sums it up. At present the European Parliament, the Commission and the Council are holding negotiations on the Milk Package – a first reform of the dairy market. "It is obvious from the Council's first working document that the Council is ignoring the proposals included by the European Parliament, which could at least bring about some minor progress towards overcoming the crisis", says Schaber.
For instance, the Parliament proposes an EU-wide obligation to have contracts between producers and dairies, which the Council rejects. These contracts, which would have to be guided by production costs and negotiated by producer organisations across the board with the dairies, give producers the chance to obtain a fair price for their milk. This will not be achieved if – as the Council evidently intends – each individual member state is to decide whether it introduces compulsory contracts or not.
As the Council's working document goes on to show, what is referred to as the monitoring agency, proposed by the Parliament after talks with the EMB, is not to be included in the final dairy market regulation. According to the Parliament, this agency's initial function should be to collect market data on volume, price and costs. Even if no active supply management is planned yet, the monitoring agency as a market observer would be a beginning at least. Schaber explains the importance of this market instrument: "Once the state quota system comes to an end, it is only through a monitoring agency that we can prevent damaging surplus volumes being produced and the market plunging deeper into crisis."
The problem is also that the Council intends to put very severe limits on the size of producer organisations that negotiate contracts with dairies on behalf of milk producers: 33% of the national milk production and 3.5% of EU production. That is not enough to give producer organisations the requisite bargaining power. Dairies achieve a share of up to 95% of the national market. This enables them to simply dictate contractual terms and conditions – and with it inordinately low prices – to a producer organisation that is never allowed to achieve such numbers.
Whereas before in the EU only the Council and Commission worked everything out amongst themselves, now the Parliament has to be included in decisions on the new dairy market reform. It is questionable, though, whether this will actually result in more democracy. "Unfortunately, as you can see, the old "double act" – Council and Commission – looks as though it still does not want to take the Parliament's opinion on board", is how Schaber criticises the situation in Brussels. Do the policy-makers want to solve the crisis or merely pretend they are doing something? Inactivity will quickly reproduce the Swiss situation in the EU. In 2009 the Swiss legislator abolished the quotas without bringing in a sensible follow-up regulation for the dairy market. Since then, farm-gate prices have been in a downward spiral. For the European milk producers it is incomprehensible how the EU Council in particular is being so irresponsible and ignorant in wasting every opportunity to bring balance into the dairy market and overcome the severe crisis. The problems in milk production are not being taken seriously; the protesting dairy farmers are simply being ignored. Politicians have forgotten that it was their protests that forced them to put the situation in the dairy sector on the political agenda.
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Maryland has hired former Jacksonville head coach Cliff Warren as its new director of basketball operations, the program announced on Wednesday afternoon.
Warren had coached at Jacksonville the past nine seasons but his contract was not renewed following a 12-18 finish in 2013-14. During his tenure with the Dolphins, he captured Atlantic Sun titles in 2009 and 2010. He was named the conference's coach of the year in 2009.
"Cliff is an outstanding addition to our staff," Maryland head coach Mark Turgeon said in a statement. "He brings a wealth of experience at the collegiate level and has had success at a number of different programs. We're excited for Cliff and his family to return to the Maryland area."
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Warren is a native of Silver Spring who began his coaching career as an assistant at Mount St. Mary's from 1994-97. Before becoming a head coach, he was also an assistant at Siena and Georgia Tech.
The director of basketball operations position on Maryland's staff had remained unfilled since Dustin Clark was promoted to an assistant this past season. Clark took the spot of Dalonte Hill, who resigned following an arrest on DUI-related charges.
Maryland still has an assistant coaching spot to fill following the departure of Scott Spinelli, who left to take the same job on Jim Christian's staff at Boston College. Maryland had targeted Indiana assistant Kenny Johnson, but Johnson has since left Indiana for Louisville.


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Because I've been told by various people that I should be more forthcoming about letting folks know where my work is available, I figured I might's well mention that I have an essay in the new issue of Taproot.
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By Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 11, 2011 The United States continues to support NATO efforts in Libya, as Moammar Gadhafi's forces continue attacks on Misrata and Ajdabiya.
Gadhafi has said he will accept a cease fire, but "the latest reports are that Gadhafi is continuing to carry out attacks," said Pentagon spokesman Marine Col. Dave Lapan.
"Talk of a cease fire is just that: Talk," Lapan added.
The African Union has proposed a ceasefire. "Since the start of the crisis, NATO has been in constant touch with the African Union as well as other regional and international organizations," NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said today in Brussels. "I want to be clear: There can be no solely military solution to the crisis in Libya. NATO welcomes all contributions to the broad international effort to stop the violence against the civilian population. Any ceasefire must be credible and verifiable."
NATO aircraft are striking with care and precision while minimizing the danger to civilians, Rasmussen said.
"This is in stark contrast to the pro-Gadhafi forces," he said, "who are besieging their own cities and shelling city centers."
Since April 9, NATO aircraft have flown almost 300 sorties, the secretary general said, destroying 49 tanks, nine armored personnel carriers, three anti-aircraft guns and four large ammo bunkers.
Meanwhile, Gadhafi's forces continue offensive operations against rebels in eastern Libya. The no-fly zone has blunted the effects of the regime force's attacks, but has not ended them.
"We've talked all along about the nature of a no-fly zone and how that restricts the regime's forces, but that doesn't stop them," Lapan said.
NATO officials said the Libyans are using schools and mosques as shields for their armored forces. The proximity to civilians means these targets are off-limits for NATO.
The DOD comptroller estimates the cost of U.S. operations in Libya to be $40 million per month. Total U.S. cost from the beginning of operations in mid-March through April 4 was $608 million, Lapan said.
American forces are not conducting strike missions in Libya. U.S. forces are supporting NATO with air-to-air refueling, reconnaissance and surveillance capabilities and unmanned aerial vehicle support. U.S. ships are also participating in the arms blockade off Libya in the Mediterranean.
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I know Mr. Gates has said publicly, "No American boots on Libyan soil", but with Ghadifi thumbing his nose at the sanctions and the no-fly zone, continuing to kill civilians, and refusing to go, would that not change our position somewhat? The only boots that really need to go there are a few from a special operations group sent in specifically to locate and destroy Ghadifi. Otherwise, we better be hoping we can spot him with an armed survelliance drone.
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Whatever the real story is.....I'm glad that no one died, including no officers.
Some details seem to be missing here.
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Lil Wayne,
Maybe if you get a lawyer named something other than "Shantell" your case would be doing a little better.
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Why is this in US court?
Does this judge have JURISDICTION over this?
Is this person a South African citizen?
No wonder she is "now living in Florida"
Sampling made Dido . It recreates an interest in lost music.
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Under the category of "Props"
Give her a credit & royalties for the ONE song. What goes around come around.
This song is not even on that album. Hands Off ...of that money.
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Lil Wayne, I am talking to you directly.
Maybe this is a good thing. Be glad that those records are out in the open.
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Look at where your official residence is located. Texas has no state income tax, for example.
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This cow is long gone.
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(AP) NEW YORK - Ichiro Suzuki slashed a single the opposite way with his unique swing for the 4,000th hit of a career split between Japan and the major leagues.
The 39-year-old Suzuki hit a liner off Toronto's R.A. Dickey that bounced just beyond diving third baseman Brett Lawrie in the first inning Wednesday night for the milestone hit.
"It's unbelievable, 4,000 hits," Alfonso Soriano said after hitting a tiebreaking two-run homer that led New York to a 4-2 victory over the Blue Jays. "To get 4,000 hits, you have to be a great hitter."
How great?
Pete Rose with 4,256 hits and Ty Cobb with 4,191 are the only two players that have reached the number solely in the major leagues.
Suzuki broke a tie with Lou Gehrig when he got his 2,722nd major league hit in his 13th season. The speedy outfielder amassed 1,278 hits in nine seasons with Orix of Japan's Pacific League.
Suzuki's teammates streamed out of the dugout and surrounded him at first base, Curtis Granderson giving him the first hug. A grinning Suzuki then faced the cheering fans and bowed, doffing his helmet. He bowed several more times, facing the Toronto dugout with the last one.
"It was supposed to be a number that was special to me but what happened tonight I wasn't expecting," Suzuki said. "When my teammates came out to first base it was very special, and to see the fans. I wasn't expecting so much joy and happiness from them and that's what made it very special tonight."
When he went to his position in right field for the second inning, Suzuki tipped his cap to the fans who greeted him with a standing ovation.
"You never want to be the guy that gives up the milestone," Dickey said. "That being said, what an incredible achievement. The manner that he's done it is equally impressive. Just the longevity, the endurance, the durability. Having played with him in Seattle, it was a real treat to play with him and it couldn't have happened to a more professional hitter."
Ken Griffey Jr., a former teammate with the Seattle Mariners, congratulated Suzuki with a message shown on the video board at Yankee Stadium.
The Mariners tweeted a statement: "Ichiro's historic milestone is testament to his position as one of the greatest hitters in the game of baseball."
Suzuki's postgame news conference with the Japanese media lasted a whopping 47 minutes.
According to STATS, Suzuki has the most hits through the first 13 seasons of a big league career. Paul Waner is second. He had 2,648 for Pittsburgh from 1926-38.
Even though the approach to the unprecedented milestone didn't generate a lot of buzz in the United States because it doesn't count in the record books, players have great respect for Suzuki's accomplishment.
"That's a lot of hits, man," Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter said last week. "It's pretty impressive. I don't care if it's 4,000 in Little League. It shows how consistent he's been throughout his career. It makes you look at how many hits he's got in a short amount of time. That's difficult to do, so Ichi has been as consistent as anyone."
To Suzuki, though, the rarefied number means one thing.
"Not necessarily the 4,000, just the fact that you're getting a hit in the game," he said through an interpreter after getting three hits in the opener of a doubleheader Tuesday to leave him at 3,999. "If you don't produce you're not going to play in games. Me producing in games is what's good for me."
He has been producing since he was an 18-year-old rookie with the Blue Wave.
A career .353 hitter in Japan, Suzuki became the first Japanese-born non-pitcher to sign with a major league team. He smoothly made the move from Orix to the Mariners in 2001 when he was 27. He was selected AL Rookie of the Year and MVP in his first season when he batted .350, had 242 hits and stole 56 bases.
The slender 10-time All-Star seemingly could place the ball wherever he wanted with a slashing swing that makes him look more like an epee-wielding fencer than a professional baseball player.
Suzuki had at least 206 hits in each of his first 10 years in the majors, peaking in 2004 when he set the record for hits in a season with 262, topping George Sisler's mark of 257 established in 1920.
His hit Wednesday night was the 2,209th single of his career.
"It's an amazing feat," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "It's a testament to how hard he's worked, how long he's been in the game, how he stays healthy, how he goes about his business."
Uniquely fashionable, Suzuki often wears skinny jeans cuffed at the bottom to show off a rainbow of shoes and socks. Sporting clothes by his favorite designer, Thom Browne, he looks more like a 20-something than a graying star.
Despite his age, Suzuki should have a good shot at the revered major league mark of 3,000 hits, one that doesn't come with debates over the merits of the achievement. He is signed for one more year with New York at $6.5 million, and the 10-time Gold Glove winner is still is an outstanding outfielder.
But he's not thinking about that mark.
"I don't make goals that are so far away," Suzuki said. "What I do is what I can every day and really build off that and see where that takes me."
After a down season in 2011 in which he hit a career-low .272 for a Seattle team that lost 95 games, Suzuki was traded to New York in July 2012. Accused of isolating himself in the young Mariners clubhouse, Suzuki easily fit into the star-studded Yankees room and hit .322 the rest of the season.
He is batting .275 with New York this year, and he's really enjoying his time with the team. His treatment Wednesday reinforced that.
"What I realized today is that the Yankees are so used to things like this happening that they're so good at ceremonies like this," Suzuki said.
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The theme for the 2013 Books That Inspire exhibit is award-winning books and authors. Many readers are aware of
literary awards of national notoriety such as the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prizes, the National
Book Awards, and the Newbery Award. However, Oklahoma also has many literary awards that we hope to highlight in
the exhibit.
The Neustadt International Prize for Literature is a biennial award sponsored by the University of Oklahoma's
World Literature Today, a leading journal of world literature. The award was endowed by the Neustadt family,
who are also the namesake of the 1982 addition of our own Bizzell Memorial Library. The prize consists of a
replica eagle feather cast in silver, and a statue of Ms. Doris Neustadt holding an eagle feather graces the
south entrance of Bizzell. Neustadt Prize Laureates include such notable authors as Gabriel Garcia Marquez,
Octavio Paz, and Elizabeth Bishop as well as many other international writers.
OU benefactor Peggy V. Helmerich sponsors the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award each year. This
award is co-sponsored by the Tulsa Library Trust and the Tulsa City-County Library and recognizes a distinguished
body of work in the field of literature in letters. Award winners include Toni Morrison, John Updike, David
McCullough, and Norman Mailer among many others.
The Sequoyah Book Awards for Children's, Intermediate, and High School Literature are sponsored by the Oklahoma
Library Association. These awards are unique in that the students themselves vote for the winning books each year,
which encourages students to read books of literary quality. As educators, we know it is important to instill the
love of reading in children at an early age so that it becomes a lifelong habit, and this award helps to encourage
There are just a few of the literary awards given in Oklahoma. Other organizations in the state, including the
Oklahoma Center for the Book and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, also sponsor awards that
recognize greatness in this field. I think the breadth of awards available in our state indicates the importance
of reading and literature in Oklahoma. As you browse the exhibit, I hope you will find a book or idea that
interests and inspires you to read the full book or learn more about the author.
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Ariwara no Narihira
Ariwara no Narihira (在原 業平?, 825 – July 9, 880) was a Japanese waka poet and aristocrat. He was one of six waka poets referred in the preface in kana to Kokin Wakashū by Ki no Tsurayuki, and has been named as the hero of The Tales of Ise, whose hero was an anonym in itself but most of whose love affairs could be attributed to Narihira.
He was the fifth son of Prince Abo, a son of Emperor Heizei. His mother Princess Ito was a daughter of Emperor Kammu, so he was therefore linked to Emperor Kammu by both maternal and paternal lineage. Along with his other brothers, he was relegated to civilian life, receiving a new clan name, Ariwara.
Although he belonged to the noblest lineage, his political life was not prominent, especially under the reign of Emperor Montoku. During the thirteen years of the Emperor's reign, Narihira was not raised to a higher rank within the court. This setback was supposedly caused by a scandal involving him and Fujiwara no Takaiko (藤原高子), an imperial consort or another loyal lady. Both love affairs were referred to in The Tales of Ise.
As a waka poet, his thirty waka were included in Kokin Wakashū. Traditionally he was considered the model for the hero of Tales of Ise, which contains many of his waka, although not all waka in it were his works and some of its episodes can hardly belong to his real life. Thanks to a reference to him in the preface of Kokin Wakashū he is listed as one of the Six best Waka poets and also one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals.
He has been traditionally regarded as the epitome of the bel homme in the Japanese culture. It is believed he was one of the men who inspired Murasaki Shikibu when she created Hikaru Genji, the hero of Genji Monogatari, especially in the aspects of her story concerning forbidden love between a high ranked woman and a member of the court.
- Trans. Helen Craig McCullough (1968). Tales of Ise: Lyrical Episodes from 10th Century Japan. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-0653-0.
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This week was especially productive in the Senate. Here are some things you may have missed:
On Monday, The State published an article titled "SC Senate Cranking Out Bills," and only three days later, the South Carolina State Senate moved three more important bills, continuing its quick work for South Carolina families.
The early voting and the NDAA nullification bills both passed the Senate on third reading, while a bill expanding gun rights for CWP holders was placed in special status.
S.4 will allow South Carolinians to cast ballots during a seven-day period before Election Day.
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This is an easy and inexpensive way to repair American Girl Dolls' hair using household items.
Approximate Time: 4 hours (approx.)
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You can also just use shampoo and conditioner. Someone gave me a doll with frizzy hair (it had been sitting in a damp basement with water for several years). I washed the doll's hair with shampoo then used a general hair conditioner after. Tangles and hair went smooth immediately. I brushed gently with a wide toothed hairbrush to separate strands and used a blow dryer to dry (no brushing needed). I also used a 1 1/2" barrel large curling iron to straighten bangs. It took about 15 minutes altogether.
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We are renovating our kitchen, and it won't be done for at least 5 weeks. I have a makeshift kitchen that includes a microwave, toaster oven, fridge and freezer. But no stove or oven. While going out to eat is fun, I'd love some ideas for at-home dinners that are feasible with our current "kitchen." So far I have thought of cheese plate, and salad. Any ideas for no cook dinners? Thanks!
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Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has announced that the party will abandon their headline manifesto promise to eradicate university tuition fees.
The party now plans to phase out the fees over six years at a cost of £7.5 billion. The plans would not see tuition fees finally scrapped until the parliament after next.
The move comes after the Lib Dem leader suggested that the party might not be able to afford the policy in the current economic climate, which has made it "more difficult to find the money to fund our priorities".
Mr Clegg said: "We are right to adapt our plans for big spending commitments and it is right that our general election manifesto will focus this time on a smaller number of key commitments."
The move has drawn criticism from the National Union of Students (NUS). President Wes Streeting said: "For too long the Liberal Democrats' position on scrapping tuition fees has been about as clear as mud."
Mr Streeting has accused the party of promoting "woolly long term pledges" and taking "the student vote for granted".
He continued: "The Liberal Democrats need to be honest about where they stand on expanding student numbers and widening participation."
Student leaders have voiced concern over the likelihood of the cap on tuition fees being lifted if David Cameron's Conservative Party form the UK's next government.
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In an effort to raise the profile of the issue, the NUS has launched 'Funding Our Future', a campaign which aims to change the system for the better at the government review.
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In Edinburgh South, which includes the student area of Marchmont, both sitting MP Nigel Griffiths and his Lib Dem challenger Fred Mackintosh have signed the pledge.
In the Edinburgh North & Leith constituency, the Lib Dem candidate Kevin Lang has signed the pledge. However the area's incumbent MP, Labour's Mark Lazarowicz, has so far failed to commit.
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They're shaped more like biscuits and very easy to handle, so this is a good recipe for bread noobs. :)
Step 1: Ingredients + Tools
- 1 tbsp dry active yeast
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 2 tbsp melted butter
- 3/4 cup warm water (115-120 F)
- 3 tbsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- hand mixer
- rolling pin
- baking sheet
- clean towel
- spatula
- large bowl
- timer
- cooling rack
- 375 F oven
Step 2: Dry ingredients.
Step 3: Wet ingredients.
I tend to use the hottest water I can get out of my tap, and I use a probe thermometer to make sure it's between 115-120 F. I like to be sure.
Step 4: Mix!
The mixture should be very smooth at the end - and, if your yeast has activated properly, it will be smelling nice and yeasty.
Step 5: Add in more flour.
Dump in no more than half of the reserved flour and mix with a spatula, scraping down the sides and folding until all the flour is absorbed. Check the consistency - if it's still wet and very stringy, add more flour and mix. See the difference between photos 3 and 4? Three still doesn't have enough flour, and four is right where it needs to be.
Thank you for all the compliments too! :D
I do not bake. I just recently made my very first loaf of no knead bread and it was okay, but not great. I had the same problem.... don't know about yeast or baking on tiny bit. The only things I have baked are quick breads and easy cakes.
And thanks for the recipe and how to do.
I'm glad you included a video of kneading, it's something I've considered doing for a few of my baking projects but never actually did.


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Find the perfect cut of jeans and stick with it
When it comes to picking out the right pair of jeans, some people are under the persuasion that the cut of the pants doesn't matter. Boot cut, straight leg, relaxed fit – what's the difference? This lazy man's philosophy will get you into trouble. Jeans are essentially the king of casual, but if you are walking around with a pair of skinny jeans and you are just a bit too plump, you will undoubtedly look a fool. It is important to take the time out to find the perfect fitting jeans to compliment your body type. Some men can't find the time to do this, and for them, there is a very easy solution: just buy Levis 501 jeans.
If you are completely out of the know when it comes to the numbering of Levis, 501s are Levis original cut jeans. They are a proper fitting cut that is loose without being baggy and extremely durable. While these jeans do not have the most pizzazz, they are the go-to choice for anybody who really doesn't care too much about what their clothes look like, but also doesn't want to look absolutely horrendous. Levis 501 fit everybody type and are a great casual and comfortable pair of pants for weekend and day trips.
If you find that Levis 501s are the perfect for you, or when you find the perfect fitting jeans for your body type, it is highly advisable that you remember the cut of that pair. Levis has a large collection of cuts and each comes in a variety of different fades and washes. This means that you'll be able to have a diverse array of jeans and they will all be the perfect fit! All you'll have to worry about then is fluctuations in your waist line.
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Donna Sue Lewis Melton, age 60 of Burkesville passed away on Wednesday October 17, 2012 at the Cumberland County Hospital.
She is survived by one son: James Harve Melton of Monticello, Kentucky; one daughter: Christie Sue Sizemore of Burkesville and one sister: Alta Sherrell of Burkesville.
Funeral services for Donna Sue Lewis Melton will be at 1PM Saturday, October 20, 2012 in the Memory Chapel of Norris-New Funeral Home in Burkesville with burial to follow in the Smith Grove Cemetery. Visitation will be after 10AM Friday, October 19, 2012 and until service time Saturday.


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by Shelby
Jada and Serenity were my babies. Jada was a Tortie point Himalayan and Serenity was a calico Persian. They had the same dad, different moms. They were always together, even at the end.
Both were healthy, and never showed any signs of being sick. I moved down to Texas and they, of course, came with me. However, things didn't work out down in Texas, so we moved back to Michigan. Both cats were fine or, at least, put on a really good show of being fine.
A few days ago, they started being picky eaters. I had gotten a different type of food, hair ball control, and they refused to touch it. I was not going to force them to eat it so I went back to the old brand of food that they did like. They, however, barely ate that. I got worried, and was going to take both cats in to see a vet. Before I had a chance to, they both passed away.
This happened last night and I don't think I will ever completely be able to get over this loss. They were my babies, my heart, and now they are just gone. The worst part of this is that I was not there when they passed. I came home to find them laying together. I need to know what happened to them.
Rest in peace Jada and Serenity.
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Jeans - Younique, thriftedBoots - Gianni Bini, gift
These are one of the two pairs of jeans I picked up when I went thrifting. I grabbed them off the rack and giggled because they looked so crazy. But after trying them on, I knew I had to give them a chance. They're like a pants version of my sailor skirt! I figured even if I only wore them once or twice, they would more than be worth the PPW.
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Ableton debuts Sampler for Live 6
updated 02:20 pm EDT, Mon July 17, 2006
Sampler for Live 6 debuts
Ableton has released Sampler, an advanced sound-design and sound-sculpting instrument available as an upgrade within Ableton Live 6. Multiple samplers combine with Ableton's Instrument and Effects Racks in Live 6 to provide greater depth of control, automation, and sonic capability. Each instance of Sampler can host any number of sample zones, while users can define key and velocity ranges as well as crossfades using a graphical editor. The software supports the setup of numerous playback/looping options for each zone, and Sampler helps with mapping while assisting users in locating appropriate loop points. The Sampler GUI is designed to be instantly familiar to users accustomed to Live's look and feel, with short loading times and efficient handling of large-volume libraries. Sampler is priced at $200, and is slated for shipment in September (system requirements were unavailable).
Control modulation
Users can modulate Sampler's controls with clip envelopes, stack Samplers, attach effects, and save projects including all samples used by Sampler to send to colleagues for collaboration.
Memory usage, file support
Sampler avoids RAM shortages and loading-wait times by employing Live's disk preloading technology. The software also imports common sample formats which include AKAI S1000; S3000; GigaStudio; EXS; SoundFont; and (non-encrypted) Kontakt. Users can also access and edit Ableton's own Essential Instrument Collection shipping with each boxed version of Live 6.
Unique processing and modulation
- Modulation: A dedicated oscillator can modulate samples by frequency or amplitude, enabling selective harmonic or disharmonic enrichment of the original timbres.
- Morphing: Every voice is processed with a "morphable" multimode filter and polyphonic saturation stage. Users can polyphonically modulate each aspect of the original sample, including sample start and loop position as well as loop length.
- More modulation: Three LFOs, five multimode envelopes, and various MIDI inputs serve as modulation sources. Sampler offers the ability to modulate not only post processing but also the sample playback characteristics to extend the instrument's functionality in the direction of wavetable and granular synthesis.


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The three most famous and oldest are the UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG, the UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG, and the UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN. All three are located in beautiful, picturesque cities and were founded in the 14th and 15th centuries. Because they developed along with the cities in which they are located, they are not contained in a central campus facility. Rather than having one central location, their buildings are interspersed throughout the cities with whose history they are intertwined. All three offer a large variety of courses in the liberal arts and have a fully developed program of study in Deutsch als Fremdsprache - German as a Foreign Language. The Deutsch als Fremdsprache programs offer courses in language (grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary building) and content courses in German literature and German culture. In addition to taking Deutsch als Fremdsprache courses, you can take regular university courses. A small number of regular university courses are taught in English (for example, courses in American studies).
The UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ has a profile very similar to the three traditional universities described above. The largest program of study in Konstanz is political science/public administration. Unlike the others, however, Konstanz is a campus university and is housed in ultra modern structures in close proximity to each other. Konstanz was founded in 1967. It lies on the shores of Lake Konstanz (German Bodensee) which shares its borders with Switzerland and Austria.
The UNIVERSITY OF ULM was founded in 1967 and, like the University of Konstanz, is a campus university housed in ultra modern buildings. Ulms curriculum centers on medicine, mathematics and the sciences (including electrical engineering and computer science). Ulm does not have courses of study in the humanities and social sciences with the exception of economics. Ulm is situated on the banks of the Danube River and borders on Bavaria. To get to Stuttgart from Ulm takes one hour; to get to Munich, one hour and a half.
The UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE (1967) opened its doors in 1825 as a polytechnic school to 250 students. With 20,000 students today, it is a major technical university comparable to MIT or California Polytech. Karlsruhe offers degrees in 40 different fields. Its largest programs are in civil, electrical and mechanical engineering; computer science; and the natural sciences. It also has offerings in the humanities and social sciences.
The UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART began life in 1829 as a high school of commerce and trade. By 1890 it had developed into a technical college. In 1967, it was elevated to a full university. Today Stuttgart boasts 120 departments housed in 14 schools. Some of the best known are the school of architecture and city planning and the school of aeronautical and space engineering. It is highly regarded in all branches of engineering and has an especially strong profile in the natural sciences and mathematics. Liberal arts students would do well to consider Stuttgart. The course offerings in the humanities and social sciences are impressive as well. Like Karlsruhe, the University of Stuttgart has much in common with MIT or California Polytech.
The UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM is Stuttgarts other university. Its roots reach back to 1818 with the founding of an agricultural research and teaching institute. This institute later became a college of agriculture and a full-fledged university in 1967. While emphasis at Hohenheim University remains on the biological and agricultural sciences (including animal science), economics (including business administration) and the social sciences are well represented.
The UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM began as a school of commerce and business in 1907. A university since 1967, its largest program is in business administration and economics. It is also highly regarded in the social sciences (including history and education) and has excellent programs in the humanities (including modern and ancient languages). Mannheim is an excellent choice for many fields of study. As a school of business, Mannheim has consistently received the highest ranking not only in Germany but also throughout Europe.
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