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The ANC
To the Editor:
In his article, "The ANC in Its Own Words" [July], David Roberts, Jr. begins by attributing to me the view that "neither the deep antagonism" of the African National Congress to the United States nor the assistance it receives from the Soviet Union "results in a pro-Soviet attitude on international issues." This may be a naive judgment, but it is not mine. The passage in my article in Foreign Affairs which Mr. Roberts quotes refers to the results of a survey of black South African attitudes, not to my judgment of the attitude of the ANC.
Of course, if one must categorize the ANC as either "pro-Soviet" or "anti-Soviet," it would be "pro-Soviet." But this is a crude characterization. It imputes unthinking motives to a national movement whose pragmatic search for international support is as wide-ranging as its non-doctrinaire search for white and black allies within South Africa. Mr. Roberts does not say that the ANC might also be labeled "pro-Western" since it seeks and receives support from Western governments and organizations, including "anti-Soviet" organizations such as the Socialist International.
Mr. Roberts is said to be "a longtime student of South African affairs," but I have wondered whether to take his article seriously. He has strung together selected quotations of some major leaders that display familiar anti-imperialist rhetoric, some overblown praise of the Soviet Union, and appreciation for the comradeship of South African Communist allies. He discerns in all this "a deeply rooted world view" that—in words I am still puzzling over—has "no logical dependence on the injustices of South Africa's peculiar institution" or Western policy toward South Africa. The upshot is that he has persuaded himself that "the current ANC leadership—all [sic] of it—has accepted the terminology, definitions, political program, tactics, and the entire load of ideological baggage that make up the essence of Leninism."
In selecting other quotations, Mr. Roberts apparently believes that any statement by an ANC member or, for that matter, in the ANC's magazine Sechaba or on Radio Freedom is necessarily ANC policy. He quotes Winnie Mandela, for example, erroneously assuming that she speaks for the ANC. Most prominently, he quotes a paean to Communism written by Nelson Mandela over twenty-five years ago but does not say that Mandela repudiated it. Nor does he quote Mandela's well-known admiration for American and British political and legal institutions.
In Mr. Roberts's analysis there are no doubts or imponderables. The COMMENTARY reader who read the Wall Street Journal of April 18 and 22, 1988 on the ANC would have difficulty recognizing the same movement. Nor is there any recognition of the serious discussion within the ANC in support of an entrenched bill of rights for individuals, including the right to strike, an independent judiciary, a multiparty system, and a mixed economy. One can only speculate about the possibility that this will come to pass. But Mr. Roberts ignores all evidence of such aims. "The notion of limiting government power," he says, ". . . is utterly foreign to the ANC."
The distorted picture of the ANC is due as much to the failure to address relevant questions as it is to simplistic notions about the ANC's internal political dynamics inferred from quotations. What accounts for the ANC's popularity? Why do some pro-government journalists and intellectuals accept the necessity of negotiating some day with the ANC? Why has the ANC in recent decades been restrained in the use of violence? Why did it apparently condone "necklacing" for a period while not encouraging it? What circumstances currently affect differing tendencies in the ANC's thinking about violence?
What conclusions and inferences for policy can be drawn from Roberts's analysis? He implies that the ANC should be excluded from any role in South Africa's future because "its totalitarian character" makes it irredeemable. It is difficult to reconcile this perception with ANC admiration for the responsiveness of American policy to democratic pressures. For example, Thabo Mbeki, the ANC director of information, has written: "We rely on the voters to whom even such people as President Reagan owe their positions to ensure that the West participates in bringing about a democratic South Africa."
Mr. Roberts seems to suggest that the United States should identify itself with "pro-Western black South African democrats, such as Buthelezi and Bishop Isaac Mokoena." The former is of limited and declining appeal even among Zulus, and the latter is a popular object of derision and rejection.
More perplexing is Mr. Roberts's claim that the ANC has an attitude of "contempt and hatred . . . for every political current in South Africa aside from itself, the SACP, and their affiliated [?] organizations." He ignores the effort to reach out widely to whites as well as blacks and the common cause the ANC has made with organizations that do not accept its Freedom Charter. Nor does he note the phenomenon of ANC leaders meeting with a broad array of South Africans, including businessmen and Afrikaans-speaking churchmen. The ANC's welcoming embrace has extended to representatives of the ruling party in the KaNgwane "homeland."
Mr. Roberts's underlying assumption is a straw man: that the ANC can be judged alone, apart from the United Democratic Front, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, and other independent elements of the extraparliamentary opposition that either recognize the ANC as the head of the national-liberation movement or accept alignment with it in the interest of unity. This underlying assumption is the major unreality of an analysis that is grossly deficient in dealing with a pragmatic movement that embodies historical aspirations for democracy and is fluid and evolving.
Thomas G. Karis
New York City
To the Editor:
Although the article by David Roberts, Jr. is an important contribution to public understanding of the African National Congress, I am perplexed by his contention that "in no intelligible sense is the ANC a front" for the South African Communist party (SACP).
In the appendix she contributed to the late Dr. Roberta Goren's book, The Soviet Union and Terrorism (published in 1984), Jillian Becker wrote: "Today, the ANC has been so thoroughly infiltrated and taken over by the SACP that the two are virtually synonymous." The title of this appendix is "How the ANC Became a Communist Front."
The term "Communist front" can be reasonably and intelligibly applied to any organization that does not admit to being Communist but serves Communist purposes under effective Communist control. Good evidence that the ANC serves Communist purposes can be found both in its statements (some of which Mr. Roberts cites) and in the SACP's recognition of the ANC as a close ally. As for the Communists' effective control, Mr. Roberts himself suggests that they may hold as many as 19 out of the 30 seats on the ANC's National Executive Committee (NEC). . . .
Indeed, given the sympathy for Communist views among the ANC's technically non-Communist officials (a category that apparently includes the ANC's president, Oliver Tambo), the SACP could probably exercise adequately effective control with less than a clear majority of the NEC acting under direct party orders. Thus it is disquieting that even Tom Lodge—an anti-government South African scholar who judges the ANC leniently—admitted in South Africa International (October 1985) that "about half" the NEC consisted of SACP personnel. . . .
But there is reason to fear that Communist control extends far beyond the NEC. In World Marxist Review (December 1982), the late Yusuf Dadoo, then chairman of the SACP, boasted about the "many" Communists occupying "leading posts in various sectors of the national-liberation movement." He referred in particular to the "many" Communists in the "combat units" of the ANC's military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), "including their commanders."
In a book somewhat oddly entitled The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist (published in 1984), the anti-apartheid radical Breyten Breytenbach wrote: "I have since many years given my allegiance and support to the African National Congress, . . . an organization working in alliance with several others, and in fact the pacesetter of these organizations is the South African Communist party. The SACP actually has the nerve centers of the liberation movement in its control. . . . The SACP has in its hands the secretariat of the ANC, the financial structure of the ANC, the control over the armed wing of the ANC which is called Umkhonto we Sizwe. . . . Above all the SACP has outlined and enforces the ideology by which the ANC is guided." Breytenbach went on to admit that the SACP has been a "rigidly loyal supporter of Moscow's foreign policy."
The ANC's own commitment to the Soviet bloc is suggested by the statement of its secretary-general, Alfred Nzo, that the "natural and genuine allies" of independent African nations—presumably including an ANC-ruled South Africa—are "the Soviet Union and other socialist countries" (see World Marxist Review, December 1984). This year, in its March issue, the ANC's magazine Sechaba, printed in East Germany, published the text of a speech delivered in Moscow by Oliver Tambo on the occasion of his being awarded the Soviet Union's "Order of Friendship among Peoples." After proclaiming the ANC's "strong and unbreakable ties of friendship and comradeship with the land of the Soviets," Tambo spoke of the ANC's and Moscow's "shared commitment to the liberation of the peoples." He concluded his speech with these words: "Our common victory on all fronts is assured! Thank you very much, dear comrades."
The evidence cited here reinforces Mr. Roberts's valuable warning about the ANC, and about the folly of Western support or admiration for that group. Further reinforcement can be found in material assembled by Keith Campbell and published in England in 1986 by the Institute for the Study of Terrorism, under the title ANC: A Soviet Task Force?
My only quarrel with Mr. Roberts arises from his objection to describing the ANC as a Communist front. It is true that Communist fronts exist largely to deceive gullible non-Communists, and the ANC is too blatantly pro-Soviet to be the ideal instrument of deception. Nevertheless, it has succeeded in deceiving many people. . . . I hope that the West's all too numerous apologists for the ANC will not seize upon Mr. Roberts's comment that the group is "in no intelligible sense" an SACP front, and quote it out of context to justify their enthusiasm for these anti-democratic revolutionaries.
Kenneth H.W. Hilborn
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada
To the Editor:
David Roberts, Jr.'s article on the African National Congress is an all too rare exposition of that organization's real intentions. This excellent piece should be required reading for anyone in a position to affect our relations with South Africa. Our major media indulge in nebulous descriptions of the ANC which invariably avoid mention of its commitment to terrorism now and the establishment of a Leninist police state and centrally-planned economy upon taking power. . . .
John McCormack
Chicago, Illinois
David Roberts, Jr. writes:
Thomas G. Karis has managed to raise a great many points in a short space. I shall attempt to respond to the more serious allegations.
1. Since Mr. Karis presumed throughout his Foreign Affairs article that the great majority of South Africans support the ANC, I gained the perhaps mistaken impression that he was describing the attitude of ANC supporters in the sentence which reads, in full, "Remarkably, neither the deep antagonism toward the U.S. nor acknowledgment of Soviet assistance to the ANC results in a pro-Soviet attitude on international issues." But granting Mr. Karis this one point leaves unexplained the assertions elsewhere in his article that "the ANC historically, politically, and culturally is more attuned to the United States and the West than it is to the Soviet bloc," that "criticism of U.S. policies does not mean . . . that an ANC-led government would be aligned with the Soviet Union," and his palpably false remark that ANC secretary-general Alfred Nzo, who has spoken in glowing terms of the Soviet system, "does not make judgments about Soviet internal policy."
2. Mr. Karis should be apprised that the Soviet Union itself no longer considers the Socialist International "anti-Soviet," and for excellent reasons: among other things, the Socialist International has extended aid to a number of totalitarian movements in the Third World (e.g., the Sandinistas). So the support of the ANC by the Socialist International and by Western governments (some of which have also supported the Sandinistas), which I implicitly acknowledged in my article, proves nothing. Nor does the willingness to exploit the democratic political process of the West entail an admiration of that process, or an acknowledgment of the legitimacy of bourgeois democracy; and neither does it imply that the ANC intends to imitate Western democracy upon coming to power. As Dumi Matabane, the ANC's Washington representative, once told an American audience, "In the future I don't think we would like to have what you call democracy, because we have seen a lot of its weaknesses."
3. Yes, the ANC has met from time to time with South Africans who do not endorse the Freedom Charter, but only for tactical reasons, not out of a willingness to tolerate opposition forces in a liberated South Africa. The rationale for such contacts was described in a 1969 ANC document, which declared: "[N]or must we ever be slow to take advantage of differences and divisions which our successes will inevitably spark off to isolate the most vociferous, the most uncompromising, and most reactionary elements among the whites." But the ANC remains determined, in the words of Oliver Tambo (Kabwe address of 1985), "to vanquish the efforts of schools of thought, different from our own, to resurrect the idea of a Third Force."
The ANC has had some not unexpected success in winning the support of radical white churchmen like Beyers Naude and Catholic Archbishop Denis Hurley, but its initiatives have had little effect on the South African business sector or on the current leadership of the liberal Progressive Federal party (PFP), despite press reports to the contrary. For example, PFP founder Helen Suzman advised the Oxford Student Union in 1986: "I don't think you ought to bluff yourselves . . . into believing the ANC, which now demands no less than a total transfer of power, is striving for a nonracial, democratic South Africa." As for the business leaders who met with the ANC in various African capitals, they learned to their dismay that the ANC remains determined to nationalize everything they have, which is why Gavin Relly of the Anglo-American Corporation announced over South African television (June 19, 1986): "I hold no brief for the ANC."
4. Mr. Karis faults me for believing "that any statement by an ANC member, or, for that matter, in the ANC's magazine Sechaba, or on Radio Freedom, is necessarily ANC policy." In fact, I never cited an ordinary ANC member, except for the testimony of a former cadre on the Leninist character of ANC political indoctrination. I quoted Oliver Tambo more than anyone else, since he is both president of the ANC and the alleged leader of its putative moderate faction. I employed the early writings of Nelson Mandela to demonstrate that the ANC's anti-American, anti-Western, and pro-Soviet world view goes back to the early 50's, when the United States had little economic influence in South Africa, and could hardly be accused of being the mainstay of apartheid. I quoted Alfred Nzo because he is the ANC's second most important official, and Chris Hani because he is the chief of staff of MK and a possible successor to Tambo. Unsigned articles in Sechaba do indeed reflect the official ANC line, and the broadcasts of Radio Freedom, the contents of which are determined by the ANC's Department of Information and Publicity (headed by Thabo Mbeki), are a principal means of communicating with the ANC's internal supporters. I find all of these choices eminently reasonable.
As for Winnie Mandela, although she is not an ANC official, she is perhaps the favorite ANC personality of American liberals. If I had neglected to quote from the speeches of the woman whom Senator Kennedy and other liberals have called "the first lady of South Africa," I would probably have been accused of excluding a moderate voice.
Finally, I took care not to cite a single acknowledged Communist within the ANC leadership, in order to establish that the non-Communists within the ANC are no less committed than are the Communists to totalitarian collectivism.
5. Since Mr. Karis cannot understand how the sum of these quotations might describe a world view, let me try to explain. In the first place, the ANC routinely describes itself as a "vanguard movement"—a term that only has meaning in the argot of Leninism. It describes as "democratic" places like Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, Ethiopia, Bulgaria, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, giving one a pretty good idea of how it defines democracy. It uses the word "imperialism" to describe the West and the West only. According to the ANC, even Western Europeans have suffered from American imperialism in the form of the Marshall Plan which Nelson Mandela denounced as a mechanism for "gaining control of the economies of European countries and reducing them to a position analogous to that of dependencies." The fact that during the administration of Jimmy Carter, Oliver Tambo could anoint the U.S. the successor to Nazi Germany as "the spearhead of international reaction" indicates something about the depth and virulence of the ANC's anti-Americanism.
In the economic sphere, the ANC has declared its resolve to imitate the Stalinist policies of Angola and Mozambique in liberated South Africa. It has promised to nationalize "the big-business operations which are synonymous with this nation's economy," to take back the land from "the racist white farmers," and to nationalize most of it, to politicize education, to curtail the right of free speech in the name of combating racism and fascism, and, according to ANC sympathizer Howard Barrell, to "break the existing press monopolies—perhaps by nationalization."
This is a world view that the ANC would continue to hold if apartheid were abolished tomorrow. The United States would still be guilty of militarizing the Indian Ocean, of trying "to roll back socialism," of perpetuating the cold war and the arms race, and of plotting nothing less than "world conquest" for the benefit of a few multinational corporations. The Soviet Union would still be, for Alfred Nzo, "the bulwark of peace, security, and happiness for all mankind," while capitalism would still be held responsible for the misery of most of the world's population. In the ANC's view, the future happiness and the very survival of mankind depend upon the planetary triumph of socialism (which it believes is inevitable), and will continue to do so after South Africa is free, democratic, and liberated. This is what I meant when I said that the ANC world view had "no logical dependence on the injustices of South Africa's peculiar institution"; so Mr. Karis can cease being puzzled.
6. Finally, Mr. Karis assails me for assuming "that the ANC can be judged alone," rather than in the context of all political forces in South Africa. But this is only to say that I should have written about something other than the ANC. The "straw man" in question is the ANC itself as described in its own words, which Mr. Karis and others (including Roger Thurow of the Wall Street Journal) have been striving to keep obscured.
As for Kenneth H.W. Hilborn, I think his fears about the potential misuse of my article are groundless. In saying that the ANC was not a front for the South African Communist party, I merely meant that non-party ANC leaders have no sense of prior organizational allegiance to the SACP, that they are not being "manipulated," as some critics have charged, for the very good reason that there is no need to do so, and that decisions of the ANC's politico-military committee are not predetermined by the SACP. Even the lowest ANC cadre should have some notion of the ANC's ideological character upon the completion of his Communist-directed political education, as Mr. Hilborn himself clearly understands.
Mr. Hilborn is, of course, correct in pointing out that the ANC has in effect served as its own front by effectively concealing its Leninist character and totalitarian intentions from many influential Westerners, as John McCormack also notes, and I thank them both for this and other interesting observations in their letters.


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A beverage carrier assembly including a pair of article supporting end carrier units each having interlocking means for engagement with a center carrier unit. In one form, the three carriers may each be an eight-pack carrier providing a tri-unit assembly for use as a standard 24 bottle or can beverage transporting case. The carriers are readily separable into individual hand carrying units by upward lifting of the center carrier. A dovetail coupling structure interlocks the carriers and may include a releasable detent locking arrangement.
1. A beverage carrier assembly comprising: a pair of identical end bottle transporting carriers and a center bottle transporting carrier; each said end carrier being substantially box-shaped having bottom, side and end walls, each said side wall having an exterior surface provided with a pair of mirror image, block-like shoulder members, said shoulder members having opposed guide faces downwardly tapered at a draft angle of approximately 30 degrees from the vertical so as to define a vertically extending, downwardly converging, angular-sided slot, said guide faces being separated by a horizontal distance no less than one-half the length of said side walls; said center carrier being substantially box-shaped having bottom, side and end walls, each of said center carrier sidewalls being provided with a pair of mirror image, block-like half key members having outward-facing, angled spline faces of said half key members being aligned to interlockingly engage the guide faces of said end carrier shoulder members; said end carriers and said center carrier each including handle means; said center carrier being moveable downwardly between a pair of end carriers oriented in side-by-side predetermined spaced array to cause said spline faces of said center carrier to interlockingly engage the corresponding guide faces of said shoulder members of said end carriers to form a dovetail interlocking structure; each of said end carrier handle means being operative to be grasped by the user when said center carrier is in interlocking engagement with said end carriers whereby the end carriers and said center carrier may be lifted and transported as a unit assembly, said center carrier being separable from said end carriers by the lifting said center carrier upwardly by its handle means thereby disengaging said center carrier half key members from their associated end carrier shoulder members.
2. The combination assembly as set forth in claim 1 wherein said center carrier pair of half key members have opposed inner faces defining a vertically extending channel with their associated side wall surfaces, said center carrier side wall having a rectangular aperture, said end carrier sidewall having a detent member; said detent member having a rectangular shaped base with a resilient integral locking tab projecting outwardly and downwardly at an inclined angle from the base outer surface; downward movement of said center carrier places said half key members in their full interlock position with said shoulder members of said end carriers, causing said resilient tab portion to be flexed inwardly for sliding travel in its associated center carrier channel, wherein the resilient tab returns to its unflexed position when brought in registry with its associated center carrier side wall aperture, said arrangement positively retaining the center and end carriers in dovetail interlocked composite assembly.
3. A tri-unit beverage carrier assembly comprising a pair of identical end bottle carriers and a center bottle carrier; said end and center carriers being rectangular in shape and adapted to carry eight bottles, having bottom, side and end walls, each said end carrier sidewall having an exterior surface provided with a pair of mirror image, block-like shoulder members, said shoulder member having opposed guide faces downwardly tapered at a draft angle of approximately 30 degrees from the vertical so as to define a vertically extending, downwardly converging, angular-sided slot, said guide faces being separated by a horizontal distance greater than or equal to one-half the length of said sidewall; each said center carrier side wall provided with a singular, key member having outwardly facing spline faces, said spline faces of said key member aligned to interlockingly engage the guide faces of said end carrier shoulder members; each said end and center carriers having a retractable handle means disposed along the longitudinal axis of said carriers; said center carrier being moveable downwardly between a pair of end carriers oriented in side-by-side predetermined spaced array to cause such spline faces of said center carrier to fully engage the corresponding guide faces of said end carrier shoulder members to form a dovetail interlocking whereby said tri-unit assembly may be lifted and transported by grasping said end carrier handle means and wherein said center carrier is adapted to be separated from said end carriers by lifting said center carrier by its handle means thereby disengaging said center carrier key member from its associated end carrier shoulder member.
This invention relates to article carriers and more particularly to a carrier assembly suitable for being separable into a plurality of units such as 6 or 8-pack beverage carriers.
Various holders for bottles and cans in units of six or more have been proposed such as the interlockable carrier shown in U.S. Pat. No. 3,317,081 issued to Cornelius. The '081 Cornelius patent discloses a bottle-carrier adapted to be coupled with other units to provide a composite carrier assembly. The U.S. Pat. No. 3,131,829 issued to Masser and the U.S. Pat. No. 3,851,936 issued to Muller disclose article-carrying containers which are interlockable by dovetailed means.
The Muller and Masser patents are examples of prior art interlocking carriers which have asymmetrical interlocking arrangements that are both difficult to fabricate and time consuming to assemble. The Cornelius patent requires that the carriers be moved in a defined longitudinal manner to separate the units.
It would be highly desirable and it is an object of this invention to provide carrier units which may be readily interlocked into a multi-carrier assembly.
It is another object of the present invention to provide symmetrical container carrying units which may be readily oriented and interlocked to provide a composite carrying case assembly wherein the user may lift a center carrier for separation from a pair of end carriers.
It is still another object of the present invention to provide a multiple unit carrier assembly as set forth in the above objects wherein the units may be readily interlocked by dovetail interlocking structure together with a releasable detent locking arrangement.
A carrier assembly is provided wherein at least a pair of identical end carrier units may be interlocked with an intermediate center unit by a dovetail interlocking structure. The intermediate center carrier unit is dropped into interlocking engagement with the pair of spaced end carriers enabling the user by grasping handle means on the end carriers, to transport the carriers as a tri-unit assembly. Each of the end carriers includes vertically extending angle-sided slot means of a dovetail locking structure disposed in symmetrical relation with respect to the transverse medial plane of the carrier. The center intermediate carrier has vertically extending angle sided projection means of the dovetail locking structure disposed symmetrical with the transverse medial plane. Both the slot means and the projection means of the dovetail structure are spaced a predetermined distance from the upper and lower edges of their associated carrier side wall. This arrangement allows the dovetail projection portion of the center carrier to be brought into flush abutment with a side wall of an end carrier. Thus, with the end carriers oriented in predetermined spaced array the center carrier projection means may be readily coupled and uncoupled from the end carriers by lowering and raising the center carrier, respectively.
These and other features and advantages of the present invention will be apparent from the following disclosure and the drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view illustrating a plurality of carriers in separated form constructed in accordance with the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a fragmentary horizontal elevational view, partly in section, showing a plurality of carriers interlocked in accordance with the present invention;
FIG. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary vertical sectional view taken on line 3--3 of FIG. 2 showing an additional positive locking means which may be used with the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a perspective view illustrating a modified carrier unit of the present invention; and
FIG. 5 is an enlarged fragmentary, vertical sectional view taken substantially on the line 5--5 of FIG. 4.
In the preferred embodiment of FIGS. 1 and 2 the carrier assembly, generally indicated at 10, consists of a plurality of individual box-shaped carrier units namely, a pair of outer or end carriers 12 and an inner or center carrier 14. Each end carrier 12 comprises a bottom or base wall 16, opposite spaced parallel side walls 17 and 18, and end walls 19. In a similar manner the center carrrier comprises a bottom or base wall 20, opposite spaced parallel side walls 21 and 22, and end walls 23.
Each of the carriers 12 and 14 have substantially identical internal divider construction, which dividers in the preferred embodiment are adapted to support a plurality of containers. Thus, only the center carrier 14 internal construction will be described in detail. In the form shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 the carrier 14 has a longitudinal divider 24 extending between the end walls 23 and a plurality of transverse dividers. FIG. 1 shows carrier 14 having a central transverse divider 26 located on the transverse medial vertical plane of the carrier and a pair of end dividers 27. The dividers 26 and 27 extending from the longitudinal divider 24 to each of the side walls 21 and 22, providing two rows of container supporting cells 28.
In the tri-carrier assembly shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, each of the three units serves as an 8-pack carrier. Upon the two end carriers 12 and the center carrier 14 being interlocked into the assembly 10 a twenty-four container case is provided. It is contemplated that the tri-carrier assembly 10 may have overall dimensions comparable to the standard twenty-four bottle wooden cases that are conventionally used with bottling plant machinery.
The longitudinal divider 24 includes handle means which, in the FIG. 1 embodiment, is an inverted U-shaped liftable handle 29 preferably formed integral with the longitudinal divider 24. In the disclosed form the carriers are molded from a suitable plastic material such as impact polystyrene, for example. It will be understood, however, that the applicant's invention could be fabricated from various materials such as paperboard, wood, metal, etc. without departing from the scope of the invention.
As shown, the pair of end carriers 12 are interlocked with the center carrier 14 by means of dovetail interlocking structures indicated by numeral 30 in FIG. 2. The dovetail interlocking structures include vertically extending, downwardly converging slot means 32 provided on each sidewall 17 and 18 of the end pair of carriers 12. As viewed in the right-hand separated carrier 12 of FIG. 1, the slot means 32 is formed by a pair of mirror image, block-like shoulders 34 integral with each sidewall 17 and 18. The shoulders 34 are symmetrical with the carrier transverse medial plane defined by the central transverse divider 26.
Each of the shoulders 34 included upper 36 and lower 37 ends and opposed guide faces 38 downwardly tapered at a draft angle of about 30� from the vertical in the form shown. The guide faces define acute notched angles with respect to the carrier's sidewalls 17 and 18, as shown in FIG. 2.
As best seen in FIGS. 1 and 2, to provide for proper weight distribution and ease of operation, the shoulders 34 must be positioned on each side wall 17 and 18, so that the horizontal distance between the opposed guide faces 38, as measured from the junction of the upper end 36 and the guide face 38, is no less than one-half the length of the side walls 17 and 18.
As best seen in FIG. 1 the center carrier sidewalls 22 and 21 each include projection means in the form of key portion 40 of identical locking structures 30. The key portion 40 in FIGS. 1-3 comprises a pair of block-like, mirror image, half key members 42 integrally formed on each sidewall 21 and 22 aymmetrical to the medial vertical plane of the central divider 26. Each half key 42 includes an upper end 43, a lower end 44 and a pair of inward facing opposed sides 45 defining a vertical channel 46. Each half key member 42 has an outward facing angled spline face 47 downwardly tapered at an angle of about 30� from the vertical. The spline faces 47 define acute dihedral angles with their associated sidewalls 21 and 22. As seen in FIG. 2 the angled shoulder guide faces 38 and spline faces 47, when slidably indexed together in an interlocked dovetailed manner, prevent separation of the carriers in a transverse direction normal to the carrier sidewalls.
Each sidewall of the carriers 12 includes handle means to enable lifting of the assembled carriers. FIGS. 1 and 2 show handle means on the sidewalls 17 and 18 of the end carrier 12 in the form of elongated finger gripping openings 50 provided between the spaced shoulders 34.
By virtue of the foregoing arrangement, wherein the carriers 12 and 14 are symmetrical about both their longitudinal and transverse medial vertical planes, end carrier 12 may be oriented with either sidewall 17 or 18 interlocked to either sidewall 21 or 22 of the center carrier 14. Further, it will be seen that the dovetail locking structure shoulders 34 and half key members 42 are located in vertically spaced relation from their associated sidewall top and bottom longitudinal edges. This structure defines upper and lower sidewall longitudinal marginal areas shown at 17a and 17b, respectively, for end carrier sidewall 17; and 22a and 22b, respectively, for center carrier sidewall 22. As a result, center carrier 14 may be initially positioned with its sidewall marginal lower areas 22b in flush abutment with the coplaner surfaces 48 of the shoulders 34. With the carriers 12 having their end walls 19 arrayed in substantial aligned relation with the center carrier endwalls 23 the center carrier 14 may be readily interlocked with the end carriers 12 by lowering key portions 40 into their associated slots. This movement causes half key member spline faces 47 to interlock with their associated shoulder guide faces 38.
Upon the center carrier 14 being interlocked with the pair of end carriers 12, as described above, a tri-carrier assembly is provided. The user by grasping a slotted handle 50 of each end carrier 12, may lift and transport the assembled three carriers in the manner of a twenty-four bottle case.
FIG. 3 shows additional automatic positive catch or detent locking means 54 may be employed to prevent unwanted disengagement of the dovetail interlocking structure 30 between the end carriers 12 and the center carrier 14. In the disclosed embodiment the center carrier 14 has a rectangular aperature 52 of the catch 54 centered on the transverse medial vertical plane of divider 26 as seen in FIGS. 1 and 2. A notched opening 53 is shown in FIG. 3 formed in the central divider 26 communicating with the aperture 52. The catch locking means 54 includes a detent member 56 located on the end carrier sidewalls as shown in FIGS. 1-3. The detent 56 includes a rectangular-shaped base 57 with a resilient integral locking tab 58 projecting outwardly and downwardly at an inclined angle from the base planer upper surface 59.
The locking detent operates upon the center carrier 14 being aligned with an end carrier 12 enabling matching engagement of the dovetail guide faces 38 and spline faces 47. Carrier sidewall marginal area 22b is located in flush abutment with the detent face 59. This results in the resilient tab 58 being depressed into its dashed-line position shown in FIG. 3. Upon relative sliding movement of the carriers to their interlocked position the tab 58 slides within the channel 46 to its solid-line FIG. 3 position in registry with aperature 52 positively retaining the carrier 14 in locked engagement with the carrier 12. The detent tab 58 may be readily released by the user inserting a finger in the opening 52 and depressing the tab 58 while lifting the carrier 14 relative to carrier 12.
Whether or not the locking means 54 is employed and if desired, the mating guide faces 38 and spline faces 47 can be provided with additional detent means in the form of a small convex protrusion and a complementary concave depression as indicated at 59a. With carriers interlocked the additional detent means 59a serve to resist accidental separation by requiring a slight additional force initially to separate the carriers from each other.
FIGS. 4 and 5 disclose an alternative retractable lifting handle. A modified box-like carrier, generally indicated at 60, substantially corresponds to the carrier 14 and like numerals are used to indicate like or corresponding parts. As seen in FIG. 4 the carrier 60 includes a longitudinal dividing bar 62 connected by a medial transverse divider bar 64 and a pair of outer divider bars 66. The outer bars 66 and the longitudinal bar 62 are thickened at their intersections to define hub portions 68 having a vertically extending bore 69 formed therein. A handle member, in the form of a inverted U-shaped circular rod 70 has a pair of downwardly extending arm portions 72 telescopically received in their associated bores 69. This arrangement allows the handle member 70 to assume a normally retracted dash-line position shown in FIG. 4. Suitable retaining means, such as stops 74, are integrally molded on the end of the handle arm portions for engagement with the underside of hubs 68. The stops 74 limit the upward movement of the handle member 70 to its extended lifting position indicated by dimension "X".
It will be noted that in one form, the carrier assembly may be employed without the use of the locking detent arrangement 54 of FIG. 3. In this mode it will be appreciated that the half-key members 42 may be formed as a single projection member without the channel 46, as shown at 76 in FIG. 4.
From the foregoing description of the invention, it is seen that there is provided a novel beverage carrier assembly 10 of light weight and sturdy construction.
Whereas, the present invention has been described with respect to specific embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that modifications and changes may be suggested to one skilled in the art.
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5 stars from me!
written: 31 Jul 2010
The book opens with Justine at dinner with Cubby, her boyfriend. She is obsessing over a man named Ben Foley, whom she's had a dire run in with in the past and who is currently sitting with a couple across the restaurant. She wants to warn this couple how shady and disastrous this man can be to thei... See full review
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Meet Katniss Everdeen, a 16 year-old female who lives with her younger sister, Prim, and their mother. Katniss has had an unfortunately difficult life but she has made the best of it. She lives in District 12, the final district of Panem. It is the Coal producing district, and she lost her father, a... See full review
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There may be a tad bit of spoilery below. Meet Nora. She is currently sitting in 10th grade biology with her best friend, Vee. They are starting the section on Human Reproduction! (Boy, do I remember those lectures!) when the teacher decides to break up the lab partners and seat them with someone... See full review
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Neverwhere is my favorite book! It's a dark, gothic urban fantasy that takes place in London Underground. While the characters are eccentric and unique, you will find no vampires, weres or faeries in this novel. Instead, Gaiman's fantastical world is a reflection of reality - an alternate reality. ... See full review
Once Dead, Twice Shy
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I liked it, but I wasn't on the edge of my seat...
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I'm a major fan of Kim Harrison's The Hollows series. In fact, I think she is one of the top Urban Fantasy writers out there. I was very much looking forward to her new YA series about a dead girl whose afterlife turns utterly complicated. I think I might be a tad spoiled due to my love for KH's oth... See full review
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Joanna, amateur photographer, has grown up in a wealthy family in fabulous Las Vegas. Unfortunately, her dad's a complete asshole, she endured a horrific event as a teen and now her future is looking pretty damn grim. Joanna, lucky gal that she is, finds herself in the middle of a war of the signs o... See full review
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I really believe that the Hornets will win tonight.
If LeBron leaves Cleveland, it will be very difficult for anyone to have a winning season as coach. I am sure that they will sign another player to replace LeBron. They may not be a very good team without LeBron. Maybe not even a playoff team next year.
He is a great coach and definitely will be missed by the Celtics. I agree that the Hornets need some roster changes to be more competitive next year. I look forward to watching the Hornets make the playoffs next year.
What a great win last night. It is always great when the Lakers lose. I agree that if Chris Paul had not been injured that the Hornets season would have been different, possibly being
the 4th or 5th seed.
Whenever you attend a Lakers game in Boston, you see many in attendance wearing Lakers jerseys. It happens everywhere and the Lakers have fans in every city, not just New Orleans.
What an impressive win last night. It is always nice when I can watch a Hornets game and even better when they win. I try to watch as many games as I can. Since I live in Boston, I don't always get an opportunity to watch a Hornets game. Hopefully, the Hornets can win most of their remaining games with the return of Chris Paul. I love James Posey, but he certainly is not the player that he once was and if he nad not signed with the Hornets, he would probably still be playing for the Celtics.
Great win by the Hornets last night. I told you they would win. The Celtics have been discouraging lately. They started the season strong, but have been on a downward spiral for the past two months. The Hornets should have a good season when Chris Paul returns. I don't know if anything is going to help the current Celtics team. Their are many rumors of trades happening, but I am not sure that would help.
I think that the Celtics will lose tonight. It has been discouraging to watch them recently. I enjoyed watching the game Monday night. I really thought that New Orleans would win. Orlando played very well at the end of the game. I will enjoy watching the game tonight. Since the Hornets are my favorite team in the Western Conference, I don't really care who wins the game.
It must have been a great Super Bowl celebration that you had in NewOrleans. I predict that New Orleans will be in the Super Bowl again
in the next few years. They really have a terrific team.
We have been very lucky in Boston to have had many championships during the past decade, (in different sports). It is really great for the sports fans of the city.
Congratulations to the Saints from all of us in Boston.
Get well soon Chris! The Hornets really need you.
Congratulations to the Saints and the city of New
Orleans. Myself and many of my friends in Boston also want you to win the Super Bowl. I am looking forward to watching the game.
Good luck to the Saints on Sunday. I really want you to win the Super
Bowl this year.
I agree with you that Stoudemire should not be playing this position. What about Al Jefferson? He is a very good player. I think that the all-star team should be chosen equally by the coaches, players, fans and sportswriters. I also think that Nash is a good player, but think that Chris Paul, (who is the best point guard in the game), should be the starter.
I will have to read the book that you mention.
It was great to see James Posey getting those winning shots in the last two games. We still really miss him in Boston.
I really enjoyed the game yesterday and was very happy that the Saints won. Hope to see the Saints win the Super Bowl.
Great effort by the Hornets lately. Hopefully, this winning streak will continue.
Great accomplishment for Chris Paul! Does anyone know how he is doing in the All-Star voting. In my opinion, he deserves to be first in overall voting, but should at least be second to Kobe. Just wondering if anyone knows.
I agree that it is very much a popularity contest. If anyone deserves to be # 1 in the voting, it is Chris Paul. He is one of my favorite NBA players and definitely the best point guard in the league this year.
It is especially great to hear that James Posey played well. He was always a great defensive player when he played for the Celtics, If the Hornets continue to keep playing this way, they should be able to win most of their games and have one of the best records in the NBA.
Great win tonight by the Hornets.
Great win by the Hornets. It was great for me to be able to watch the game and even nicer that they won the game. Especially a great win without Chris Paul, and a win over one of the best teams in the league. Hopefully, they can continue on this winning streak.
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science has shown that Evolution is an observed fact, and Natural Selection is its best explanation.
You are correct, but I would say that natural selection is the most plausible theory that science can support at this time. Science changes, it's never a fact.
Global Warming is also an observed fact, and its consequences can no longer be ignored (I guess you believe that the cold winter in a selected part of North America means that Global Warming is not true? When in fact it's a predicted consequence of Climate Change).
We are having an impact on the earth, consuming fossil fuels at a rate that far exceeds their creation is bound to have consequences. However, I'm of the opinion that the earth will far outlive humans - regardless of whether or not we get off this rock. I personally enjoy the comforts of modern technology - and would like to see our resources spent on finding a way to colonize the stars. Extending our stay here for a few extra thousand years isn't going to do anything in the grand scheme of things.
Gay marriage a matter of human rights, just like mixed-race marriages were 40 years ago.
Nope nope nope. Marriage isn't a right - and is only wrapped up in politics because certain benefits are bestowed upon those who sign a contract stating they will be together for life. This would be such a non-issue if those benefits were no longer tied to marriage but to a binding contract that grants one person of your choosing those benefits. At what point do you say that denying marriage among multiple adults is an abuse of human rights, or what about brothers and sisters? How about your children or grand children? If we're going to throw out the whole foundation of morals based on religious beliefs - let's at least commit 100%.
you claim there's no difference between a foetus and a child
I walk up to a pregnant woman, stab her in the gut, kill the 'foetus'. I should only be charged with assault (or possibly attempted murder). Right?
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Some common sense can go a long way, I didn't lose my ass when the markets tumbled in 07-08, and I sure as hell didn't put all my eggs in the bitcoin basket - or mtgox for that matter. My money doesn't stay in an exchange very long, anywhere.
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Why? Because they hope that in the next 6 months I become intimately familiar with their application and can produce more value than the wage they pay me.
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the cycle is somewhat humorous to me, and I laugh at every job posting I see looking for `rockstars` at 55-65k a year when other companies in the area are offering up 65-85k for the same job. (caveat, I don't work in the valley or in NY - so wages aren't on par with those markets)


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From the heights of the mountain tops one can glide down to the bottom of the valley on a tandem paraglider controlled by the instructor. He manoeuvres the parachute while the passenger enjoys the ride and fantastic views. Taking off is the only scary moment; once you have been equipped with a helmet, and strapped to the instructor behind you in a rather intimate way, both of you simply point your skis (or board) downhill, and carry on getting faster and faster until the parachute lifts you into the air.
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Donald B. Taylor, Ph.D., became the eighth President of Cabrini College on July 1, 2014, and soon created the mission-driven, entrepreneurial Cabrini 2020 Roadmap to Growth and the Cabrini Promise.
Both initiatives will strengthen the Catholic liberal arts education experience for the College's diverse population of undergraduate and graduate students who are often the first in their family to attend college.
Taylor serves as the chief executive at Cabrini following a 22-year career at Benedictine University in Lisle, Ill., where he most recently served as provost and chief academic officer from 2008 to 2014.
Taylor was integral in the evolution of Benedictine University from a small, residential, liberal-arts college of 1,000 students to a comprehensive doctoral institution of more than 10,000 students with branch campuses in Springfield, Ill. and Mesa, Ariz.
He also helped plan and implement Benedictine's Global College, developing partnerships with prestigious universities in China and Vietnam.
Prior to his appointment as provost, at Benedictine Taylor served as the initial Dean of the College of Sciences, Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences, and Program Director for the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Program.
Taylor joined the faculty at Benedictine in 1992. He was awarded the Scholl Endowed Chair in the Health Sciences in 1997.
Before Benedictine, he was supported by a research fellowship from the Van Vleet Cancer Foundation. Taylor earned a B.S. in education and a Ph.D. in cell and molecular biology from the University of Memphis.
Taylor's research interests have included the biochemical, cellular and molecular mechanisms of blood platelet aggregation, blood clot formation, and cell-cell interactions, to the design, synthesis, and characterization of novel pharmaceutical compounds for the use in the study of hemostasis and thrombosis.
His research interests in higher education have included problem-based learning, effective partnerships in science education at the K–16 level, and educational technologies.
He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed abstracts, manuscripts, and reviews in scientific journals and has given and participated in more than 60 presentations on science and higher education.
Taylor has received 20 awards for teaching, research, and service and secured millions of dollars in extramural funding, including large awards from the Department of Energy, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the National Science Foundation.
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Please pray for Sunday School Minsitry of Peshawar Diocese and all its programs going on in all the major Parishes and sub Parishes of Peshawar Diocese. Pray for all the Teachers Tranings.
Pray for all the Diocesan Schools and its heads and staff.
Pray for all the ongoing projest of Peshawar Diocese.
Pray for Church of Paksitan and its leadership.
Specially pray for IDPs coming from Wazirstan to Bannu, Peshawar and other cities of KPK.
Pray for Bishop Humphrey S. Peters and Revd. Ijaz Gill, Priest Incharage All Saints' Church and all the clergy of Peshawar Diocese.
Prayer request for the Tribal Belt: The Christian Community living in the Tribal Belt needs support and the Priests who share the Good News need your prayers as well. Kindly pray, as it is an extremely important ministry for sharing the Good News of Peace, Consolation, Reconciliation and Healing in the affected Tribal Belt.
Please Pray for;The War on Terror is still going on, kindly pray for those who are determined to eradicate this menace for good.
The Diocesan Relief Work in Pateka, Balakot, Earthquake victims (2005), and for the Flood victims (2010) in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, FATA and Northern areas of the Province.
Pakistan, Minorities and Inter-faith harmony in the region.
Special Prayer requests;
Kindly pray for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in D.I. Khan and Bannu.
Bishop Humphrey along with other Priests leading the Ascension Day Service, at St. Augustine's Church, Kohat.
Bishop Humphrey with Sunday School Kids of Thall Church
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1. What was your prime motivation and inspiration behind creating your book, "Sustainable Revolution Permaculture in Ecovillages, Urban Farms, and Communities Worldwide"?
The inspiration came from my perspective as an aspiring anthropologist, coming out of a radical graduate program in San Francisco at California Institute of Integral Studies. I wanted to write an ethnography of an international subculture that I felt had
the potential to contribute to a broader cultural revolution toward ecological and social restoration. But the dedication came from my perspective as a mother. Louis Fox (my co-author, known for his short film The Story of Stuff) and I first came up with the idea for the book when we found out we were going to be parents, almost 8 years ago. You could see this book as the obsessive work of parents searching for evidence that their children would have the solutions they need to face our changing planet.
Permaculture is a design approach founded on the patterns and relationships of nature and the ethics of sustainable societies. Based
on principles echoed in traditional cultures throughout history, it is geared toward transitioning communities toward a new, regenerative paradigm, which includes peace building as well as localizing food and energy resources. The approach is being used to design new sites, both urban and rural. It is being applied by individuals and communities in existing towns and cities, on every scale. Permaculture design initiatives have achieved inspiring results: restoring degraded landscapes, reversing desertification, creating self-sustaining food production cycles. It includes hundreds of strategies that together begin to mitigate climate change, including practices that directly draw carbon from the atmosphere through healthy soil building cycles, no-plow farming methods, and planting trees that lock in carbon and restore nitrogen to the landscape.
2. Can you please share with us about some of the communities in your book and what they do exactly when it comes to the Sustainable Revolution?
Along with a small, dedicated army of contributors, we documented 60 sites around the world, including urban farms, ecovillages, Transition towns, and indigenous collectives. The ecological design system of permaculture is the common thread that weaves them into a powerful, potentially revolutionary- or evolutionary- movement. They each have different strengths-- Findhorn, an ecovillage in Scotland, claims to have achieved the lowest carbon footprint of any settlement in the industrial world. Auroville, a township in India, is demonstrating a number of solar technologies, has reforested the surrounding area, and is innovating in education. Badilisha, in Kenya, is a project where local people partnered with permaculture organizations to regenerate their food , energy, and water systems. In Fuzhou, China, they used Living Machine water filtration technology to restore a polluted river and the surrounding urban neighborhood.
3. What are some of the communities in the United States and can anyone go to them or are they private or what? I keep imagining places to go to if the world goes to war or a zombie apocalypse or something. I'm sure these places are more than that. What can you share about them?
In the U.S. most of the places we feature are much more integrated with the mainstream than you might imagine. In California we feature the People's Grocery and Mo' Better Foods in Oakland (bringing fresh, local organic produce to the inner city), the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (a cohousing community with a successful school ecoliteracy program across the Bay Area), and the Los Angeles EcoVillage (bringing bicycle culture and collectively-owned housing for low-income residents to L.A.). The other sites include co-housing projects in New York, Tennessee and Hawai'i, and educational centers in New Mexico and Milwaukee.
4. What will it take for more of the world to catch unto the revolution and to overcome the greed that is so prevalent in our society?
It will likely be a combination of necessity and desire. People will need to make change and become more reliant on local resources as the true cost of the globalized economy becomes more apparent and we move toward an energy-conserving, lower-impact system. I believe that many people within the industrialized world are waking up to the fact that we have designed a system based on unlimited growth on a finite planet, and we need to come up with a new plan.
5. At times I find it saddening the way the world is here where I live in the South of the USA, in Florida. Originally from Georgia and its like that there in a lot of ways to. People in their homes and not talking to each other or participating in anything together like these communities do. I would love to live in a community like some of the ones in your book. The tribe is broken and in disrepair. What is the solution to bringing people more into living in tune with the Earth?
We are starting to realize that to be disconnected from the source of all that sustains us- our water, our food, our land, each other--is to be in a broken culture. Author Thomas Berry calls it our "great work" to see ourselves in the larger pattern, as he says, a communion of subjects, rather than as a collection of objects. The Achuar elders of the Amazon have called this work "changing the dream of the North." I see the culture of regenerative design as the seed of that change, spiraling into life. The healing of our hearts and the healing of our landscapes go hand in hand.
6. What can our readers do to help and to get involved when it comes to the cause of Sustainable Revolution?
While I think there is some value to making personal changes toward simplicity and being creative about meeting our needs from more sustainable sources, we also need to be part of imagining a larger, systems-level change. I think one of the most promising networks for people to get involved in is Transition Initiatives, which has several chapters in the Bay Area: http://www.transitionus.org/
7. This is a wild card question. What would you like to share with us from your book that our readers might find beneficial?
The edge--where two elements meet--is key to regenerative design, because of the expanded possibility for cycling of materials and information, allowing for more synergy. Dr. Joanne Tippett, a community planner and contributor to our book, writes that "The edge is seen as increasing possibilities for creativity, as it is the zone of merging, change and new ideas. Permaculture design could be seen to be acting at the edge of chaos, at the edge of a change between systems. Information is echoed throughout the system. It is implicit in each of our actions. Small changes can act as the trigger element to restructure a system.
I offer this little gem from systems theory, this idea that new energy, that change can only enter a system from the edge, especially to empower our local community here in the Bay Area. We have a history of being the change makers at the margins, the Golden Gate culture of "edge dwellers," freaks, artists, cultural pioneers, dreamers, and poets. Part of what I see going on over here at the edge, is a reconnection to place, to the ethics of the tribe, to heirloom skills, the skills of our grandparents, to ritual and story. From here at the edge of the continent, may we find ways to speak truth to power and make change happen faster.
8. What are you up to next book wise and projects wise and any links you'd like to share?
We are looking for funding to continue our work researching and documenting the global ecological design [r]evolution and further develop our website with links to information about more of the hundreds of thousands of sites that are pioneering solutions to the world's urgent social and environmental problems. Perhaps it could develop into a second volume. Our site is CultureofPermaculture.org, and we also have an active Sustainable Revolution Facebook page these days.
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Below is the poem entitled Alanis morisette which was written by poet
Nelson. Please feel free to comment on this poem. However, please remember, PoetrySoup is a place of encouragement and growth.
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Troy Nelson
I know you got my letter
from years ago
the one about all my problems
and the crush i had on you
about my dresser and my mispelled name
and what slide meant to me and why
I should be accountable
but im not sure what im supposed to do
ive heard you
and understand your sick of your voice and why
ive even tried joining your fan club
but i think that fell through
I told u about my friend sherri shepherd and her family
and how they blindly ylead eachother
but im not allowed to be her friend
Im not sure what id do if i was in your shoes
recieving a letter from a child fan
telling a stranger their suicidal tendencies
and molestations and abuse at home
and their witchcraft circle and strange experiences that involved
making love to a famous artist before their career had changed
its like unexplainable to me
what you are
a reminder of a mother figure i never knew
a saving grace when the angels seemed soo far away
and i understand all of ur lyrics from im not ur mother
i diont carry you in my womb for nine months
to not the doctor
and now i wonder if im like an adopted 27 year old
life lesson
object to crave
side project
you never wanted but got handed
and passed with flying colors
even though a few of your lyrics are two edged swords
im not sure what i wrote and sent off to you
but by the time you read it and wrote that song a lot had changed
i spoke of love like yours
and the help i needed and how i was fascinated with you
things i needed help with no one else could
i dont remember what i wrote
i think i wrote marilyn manson one too
Thank you
we bruised eachother
and i know you did a lot more for me
an object to crave?
its there u know...and it might not be me
but if u want one and u cant find one
i can help u look, or show u places to start
life is strange
i cant fathom the loops we sent eachother through
and who knows what anymore
but thank you soo much
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In 2010 the iconic British chocolate manufacturer Cadbury was taken over by the US food giant Kraft. The deal caused a public furore and prompted many to ask whether we should be allowing such a major national enterprise to fall into foreign hands. Yet, despite the hand-wringing, there was nothing unusual about what was going on. In recent years hundreds of billions of pounds worth of British businesses have been sold off abroad. Today, foreign companies control vast swathes of the British economy, from ports to bridges, from the National Lottery to airlines, and from high tech companies to gas and electricity suppliers. In Britain for Sale, award-winning financial journalist Alex Brummer explains why British companies are so irresistible to overseas buyers. He considers the impact of foreign deals on Britain's enterprise culture. And he asks the key question: How damaging is the takeover bonanza to our future economic health?
Alex Brummer in one of the UK's leading financial journalists and commentators. After a long and successful stint at the Guardian he moved to the Daily Mail, where he has been City Editor for the past ten years. He has won prizes both as a foreign correspondent and as an economics writer, and was named Financial Writer of the Year at the London Press Club in 2010. He is the author of The Crunch and The Great Pensions Robbery.
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International goalscorers: 3
9th Oct 2013 - Have You Seen
No.3: Luis Suarez (22 goals)
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Whether you are visiting the Caribbean from Europe, escaping from more northerly American climes or are a full time cruiser, the place to be at the beginning of April is the Cruising Association's Caribbean Rendezvous, taking place in North Sound Virgin Gorda at the easterly end of the British Virgin Islands.
Virgin Gorda is the place for the Caribbean Rendezvous this season
It is the Association's Blue Water Section which is organising their Caribbean Rendezvous from 11–13 April 2013, and it is an ideal time for many.
Being towards the end of the Caribbean season, it's designed to be convenient for members sailing north to USA, towards Panama, back to UK, onwards to the Mediterranean or preparing to lay-up locally.
The fleet will anchor-off and will be organised by the Association's BVI Honorary Local Representative (HLR) Christopher Lloyd. Other boats that find themselves in the vicinity are welcome to join-in what should be quite a party! Just look for the CA burgees.
The Cruising Association now has 18 'Sections' that service members keeping their boats in – or visiting – specific locations. Around the UK, which is the original home of the Cruising Association, there are Sections around most of the UK coast.
Further afield, Biscay, the Mediterranean and the Baltic also have dedicated sections. The most diverse, though, is the Blue Water section, with members spread around the globe.
For more information or to view the association's full events calendar visit www.cruising.org.uk.
About the Cruising Association:
The Cruising Association is a leading British-inspired organisation for cruising sailors. From its headquarters in London's Limehouse Basin it maintains close contact with more than 4300 members worldwide. Founded in 1908 it has one of the most extensive nautical libraries and cruising information centres in the world and works closely with government and international bodies to protect the interests of leisure sailors. It also has specialist sections in 18 different cruising regions. The Association's patron is Sir Robin Knox-Johnston CBE and the current President is Desmond Scott.


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Leadtek WinFast GeForce2 MX DH Pro TV Review
By: Mike Chambers - December 12, 2000
Leadtek has added on-board hardware monitoring to these GeForce2 MX models which is also found on other WinFast graphics cards such as their GeForce 256 and GeForce2 GTS. To assist the user in visual troubleshooting, there are three LED lights which indicate the status of the graphics card:
Here's a picture of the Leadtek PCI card in my system. The card is in the PCI slot located directly under the AGP slot which has a yellow sticker attached to it. The green LED on the graphics card is in the center of the picture and is about the size of a pinhead.
Power On LED
Note that the AGP4X indicator is not active. This is due to the overclocking of the front side bus speed (FSB) on my Abit CUSL2 motherboard which reverts back to AGP2X in this situation.
The WinFox Hardware Monitoring provides key information on the temperature and voltage of the graphics card. The sampling time can be adjusted as well a the temperature threshold which is reported in celcius or farenheit.
A test of running a looping demo of Quake 3 in a window for 30 minutes verified that the temperature settings were being recorded. After running the demo with both the core and memory speeds overclock to 200MHz, the chip edge and surface temperatures had both risen 2 degrees celcius. It would proably have been higher, but I had my case open at the time.
Hardware Monitoring
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