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More than 30 people killed at Lonmin platinum mine where strike over pay has escalated into alleged turf war between unions
Aftermath: South African protesters lie motionless on the ground as heavily armed police officers check them at the Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, South Africa
Live ammunition: Footage shot at the scene clearly shows officers firing live ammunition from automatic weapons and handguns
Taking cover: Protesting miners can be seen cowering within the gun sights of an police officer. Witnesses say as many as 18 could have been killed in the shootings
Surrounded: Police form an armed cordon around strikers. It is unclear whether these miners are injured or lying down for officers to conduct searches
Sticks and stones versus bullets: Miners can be seen between police vehicles throwing rocks at officers. Victims on both sides have been killed in recent days
Gun battle: In the heat of the incident, dust flies and police take cover. Water cannon and tear gas had been fired at miners before police opened fire
Police have been accused of a massacre after opening fire on mine workers in one of the deadliest days of protest in South Africa since the end of apartheid.
In scenes that evoked memories of some of the country's darkest days, national television showed pictures of police in helmets and body armour shooting at workers on Thursday amid shouting, panic and clouds of dust at Lonmin's Marikana platinum mine. After three minutes of gunfire, bodies littered the ground in pools of blood. The South African police ministry said more than 30 striking miners had been killed.
Newspaper reporter Poloko Tau tweeted from the scene: "Auto guns creacking [sic] and cocked like 100 at a time, scary … warzone down here, 1st shot fired … journalist running, diving and hiding amid shots, water canon spewing water at the strikers … my contact has just been shot dead …"
The deaths came after a week of turmoil at the Marikana mine that had already seen 10 people killed, including two police officers and two security guards. Lonmin, the world's third biggest platinum producer, was forced to suspend production at the mine, about 60 miles north-west of Johannesburg, after what it called an illegal strike escalated into an alleged turf war between rival unions.
His voice shaking with anger, the union leader Joseph Mathunjwa accused the Lonmin management of colluding with a rival union to orchestrate what he described as a massacre. Mathunjwa, president of the militant Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU), told the eNews channel: "We have to send condolences to those families whose members were brutally murdered by a lack of co-operation from management. We have done our bit. If the management had changed their commitment, surely lives could have been saved."
South Africa's president, Jacob Zuma, condemned the killings but made no reference to the handling of the situation by the police. "We are shocked and dismayed at this senseless violence," he said. "We believe there is enough space in our democratic order for any dispute to be resolved through dialogue without any breaches of the law or violence.
"We call upon the labour movement and business to work with government to arrest the situation before it deteriorates any further. I have instructed law enforcement agencies to do everything possible to bring the situation under control and to bring the perpetrators of violence to book." Zuma added: "We extend our deepest condolences to the families of all who have lost their lives since the beginning of this violent action."
The opposition called for an independent investigation. Helen Zille, leader of the Democratic Alliance, said: "We call on union leaders, the police and everyone else involved to immediately work towards a de-escalation of the conflict. All action must be taken to avoid further bloodshed.
"An urgent independent investigation is required to determine exactly what happened; and who is responsible for this massacre. The families of everyone involved, and indeed the nation, deserve to know how and why this bloodshed occurred."
Roger Phillimore, the chairman of Lonmin, said: "We are treating the developments around police operations this afternoon with the utmost seriousness. The South African police service have been in charge of public order and safety on the ground since the violence between competing labour factions erupted over the weekend, claiming the lives of eight of our employees and two police officers.
"It goes without saying that we deeply regret the further loss of life in what is clearly a public order rather than labour relations associated matter."
The violence reportedly flared when police laying out barricades of barbed wire were outflanked by some of an estimated 3,000 miners massed on a rocky outcrop near the mine. Witnesses claimed that some of the miners were armed with pistols and fired first, while also charging the police with machetes and sticks.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said: "According to a Sapa report, police tried to disperse striking workers gathered on top of a hill, wielding pangas and chanting war songs. It ended in a three-minute shootout between the two groups, after police fired teargas and then used a water cannon to disperse the strikers, who retaliated by firing live ammunition at the police."
The protests began last week when workers demanded a pay increase to 12,500 rand (ÂŁ976) a month. The action turned deadly when the AMCU clashed with South Africa's dominant National Union of Mineworkers (NUM).
The NUM rejected the charge of collusion with mine bosses. Spokesman Lesiba Seshoka said: "We are not surprised by his allegation … It is not true. Everyone can see through these lies."
Seshoka blamed the AMCU – which has been poaching NUM members in platinum mines – for instigating the bloodshed. "These people said today they want to die on the hilltop. They said they will bring their children to die there. That is why we say the ringleaders must be arrested."
There has been growing frustration with the governing African National Congress and its mainstream union allies for moving too slowly to deliver wage increases and public services. Radical and militant voices are making gains in some areas.
Patrick Craven, the national spokesman for Cosatu, which is aligned to the ANC, said it would "convene an urgent meeting of the unions' leaderships to discuss what is emerging as a co-ordinated political strategy to use intimidation and violence, manipulated by disgruntled former union leaders, in a concerted drive to create breakaway 'unions' and divide and weaken the trade union movement".
He added: "Cosatu calls upon all workers to remain vigilant but calm in the face of the most serious challenge to workers' unity and strength for many years."
South Africa is home to four-fifths of the world's known platinum reserves but has been hit by union militancy and a sharp drop in the price of the precious metal this year. At least three people were killed in fighting in January that led to a six-week closure of the world's biggest platinum mine, run by Impala Platinum. Such incidents are seen as tarnishing South Africa's reputation among investors.
This week's violence has forced Lonmin to freeze production at all its South African operations, which account for 12% of global platinum output. The company's London-listed shares fell more than 7% on Thursday. A spokesman at Lonmin's head office in London confirmed strikers had been served with an ultimatum to return to work on Thursday or face dismissal, but denied that might inflame the situation.
"The mine cannot operate without the rock drill operators," he said. "The company tried every avenue it could to negotiate a settlement and we were left with no option."
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Re: WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT; Police Gun Down 18 Striking South African Minners, Scores Wounded.
Super seriously is that corpse picture really from the Odi massacre or its your media's photo shopping or cropping as usual. I believe OBJ should still account for that his Odi atrocity.
Right Obugi and that is why quite a sizeable few see him Mandela as the global symbol of subservience not of freedom as the Western world have prop him up to be. I remember even Thabo Mbeki described him as the "The white man's favourite politician". A very poignant description if you ask me from a supposedly fellow ANC member and SA freedom fighter.
And if you come to think of it and critically analyse the deal he made with the Apartheid regime, it kind of amount to a betrayal of what the whole struggle was for in the first place.
I mean he agreed a deal that no action would be taken against any White man for the atrocious crimes committed against the Blacks and Asians of South Africa. He also agreed that the White who also have monopoly in the exploitation of its gold and diamond mines, would keep everything and continue to manage the economy of the country. Not only that he agreed to discontinue the nuclear weapons programme the Apartheid regime was pursuing because they did not want "nuclear weapons to fall into the hands of Black Africans" can you imagine that?
Come to think of it what did he actually get for black South Africans. I think they need to do a Robert Mugabe in that South Africa. That is why no matter what is said about him and some of his inadequacies, Mugabe always has been and remains one of my highly regarded African leaders.
Re: WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT; Police Gun Down 18 Striking South African Minners, Scores Wounded.
Obugi, I agree with the kernel of your argument. However, I do not feel Mandela is to blame. He did what he needed to do to get political ( not economic) freedom for his people. He must have become a student of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah who admonished every African leader, to "seek ye first the political kingdom and every other thing shall be added unto ye" You have to take a step to get to a desired outcome. It is possible had he not done so, the outcome may be totally different for good or bad. There would have been attempt by the white hegemon to balkanized the country. It is also possible that if he had been tougher he may also have gotten economic emancipation for his people. But there is no way of knowing which outcome the gamble would have thrown up. So he decided to go through the path of least resistance. Mandela at the time of negotiations did not yet control an army, but the will of the people, he had neither an executive power. When he became the President the situation was about the same. The whites still control those levers. His was to make ensure that the country does not degenerate into war which he did effectively
The people, I now blame, are the new black elites currently running South Africa. Those who are made the faces of the various corporations without any degree of responsibilities. Those with political power who are doing nothing to wrest the economy from apartheid. At the very minimum Mandela gave them the political power. But what are they doing with it. Did he shackle their hands. Do they not have majorities in the legislature? Do they not control the Army, the Police, and the weapons? Do they not control the taxing powers? Thabo Mbeki can call Mandela every name he wants but what did he achieve? What change did he make? What is Zuma for all of his rhetoric doing with this power. They are content with being the new beneficiaries of the social order at the expense of the people. Nonsense and ingredients.
I used to loathe Mugabe but I love him now. He did not want to go down to the grave in infamy and did what was right.
Really Val. A man that has single handedly pauperised his country claiming to be a repository of all knowledge. Patriotism or a pretence of it taking to ridiculous extent can be counter productive. No country can prosper in isolation.
Mugabe's style of governance, IMHO should not be replicated anywhere, least of all South Africa.
Re: WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT; Police Gun Down 18 Striking South African Minners, Scores Wounded.
Unfortunately some of these miners fired at the South African police, and they returned fire and mowed down innocent protesters. I saw it on Al Jazeera, one of them clearly shooting a Handgun at the police.
Over the past one week, two South African police were murdered and their weapons stolen by some of the protesting miners.
Unnecessary loss of life but the police were definitely fired on and they returned fire.
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT; Police Gun Down 18 Striking South African Minners, Scores Wounded.
Police gun down striking South African miners as witnesses say up to 18 killed and scores wounded
Wow!!! wow!!! its like one of those "Soweto riot" scene from way back in Apartheid South African or one of those scene one read in the book "Mine Boy". And to think that this is happening in today's South Africa and done black policemen too. Gosh!!just unbelievable.
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We thank God for little mercies.
At least GEJ has enough heart of gold to ignore the blood-thirsty supporters asking him to order the execution of striking PHCN Union officials in Nigeria. Alas, the strike has now been suspended. Where there is peace, progress is certain.
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The link and source for that was provided in the article, I notice. Some of you should please do some homework too, I can't be figuring it all out for unna, It is a crime for me to do homework for you.
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* RAMADI - A suicide bomber blew himself up at a police checkpoint, killing three policemen and wounding five others, in a village east of Ramadi, 100 km (60 miles) west of Baghdad, a police source said.
* BAGHDAD - A bomb exploded in front of the house of Abdul Rahman Abu Raghif, a member of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Dawa party, wounding six people including two of his sons, in the Zaafaraniya district of southeastern Baghdad, police and hospital sources said. Abu Raghif was not hurt.
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BAQUBA - The explosion of a roadside bomb killed one man and wounded seven others in a town near the city of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said. The victims were working as drummers who awaken residents to eat before dawn prayers and before starting their daily Ramadan fast.
BAQUBA - Gunmen using silenced weapons opened fire and killed a soldier who was heading to work in a town near Baquba, police said.
BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb went off near a car carrying an off-duty policeman, wounding him in Baghdad's west-central Mansour district.
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In this Foundations of Photography, Ben Long shows photographers how to develop a black and white vocabulary and explains the considerations to take into account when shooting for this medium. The course follows Ben as he goes on location and explains what makes good black and white subject matter and how to visualize the scene in terms of tonal values and contrast rather than color. Along the way, he demonstrates some exposure strategies for getting the best images. Back at the computer, Ben demonstrates techniques for converting the resulting photos into black and white using Photoshop and other imaging tools, and offers tips on printing and output.
I have a confession to make. I don't get all of this online photo stuff, Flickr and sending photos over Facebook, and all of that kind of stuff, but yeah, yeah, yeah I get that it's a great way to share your images with a lot of people, but I don't understand people who never print their images, because as far as I'm concerned, until trees have been killed and toxic chemicals have been squirted on them to produce a photographic print, until that's happened, your image isn't done. Now, that's not just me being old- fashioned and thinking in some quaint 20th-century idea of photography.
I believe that a well-crafted photographic print always looks better than an image on screen, for one simple reason, and that is the light that we're used to seeing, the light that we see in the everyday world, the light that our eyes are developed for, is reflected light. It's light that bounces off of things into our eyes, just like light bounces off of a photographic print into our eyes. When you look at an image onscreen, you are looking at transmissive light, light that's being shined from a light source directly into your eyes, and that light has very, very different quality.
We go out in the real world, we identify some light that we like, we take a picture of it, and to really recreate that reflected light that we see in the real world, we need to make a photographic print. If you've never seen one of your images printed, I would argue that you're selling yourself short. If you've only ever seen your images on a computer screen then you've only ever seen kind of a garish overwrought version of them that probably doesn't really look that much like what you had seen in the real world. There are a lot of different printers out there for making color prints.
When it comes to making black-and- white prints, things get a little more complicated because it turns out that black-and-white printing is actually a fairly complicated process, for a couple of reasons. The main one being it's very difficult to get a black-and-white print that's truly neutral, and by that I mean where the grays are really gray--they're not gray with a little bit of green cast or a little bit of a magenta cast. They don't have a colorcast of any kind. They simply look gray. While there are a lot of color inkjet printers out there, there are only a few that are capable of producing a truly neutral black-and-white print, and this is one of them.
This is the Epson R3000. It uses something called Epson's K3 Ink Set, and they make a few different printers with this ink set, and by the time you are watching this video, there may be more. What separates this printer from a non- black-and-white-capable printer has to do with the inks that Epson has chosen to put in here. So I am going to open this up here, so you can see the vast array of inks that this printer provides. You can see I have got a bunch of color inks. What makes this printer a good black and white though are these things here.
I've got two different blacks, one for printing on matte paper and the other for printing on photo paper, and I have two different grays. So these inks are combined to help me get a nice range of neutral tones. There's another thing this printer does though, that a less capable printer won't do when it comes to bring black and white, and that is that it produces prints that stay neutral no matter what type of light you're in. Whether I am looking at this under sunlight, tungsten light, fluorescent light, it will still always look neutral.
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You want a print that's going to last a long time, that has archival qualities. This printer when you print on the right type of paper, you can get prints that will last a hundred years, maybe longer. And that has to do with the formulation of the inks. These inks are created from photo pigments rather than dyes, like a less archival printer would be. Also, for black-and-white prints, they will mix different colors in to get more archive-ability, to help reduce that color shift that can happen. So, black-and-white printing is a very complicated process, involving all of these different inks.
So when you are out shopping for a printer that's capable of doing good black and white, that's the first thing you want to look for is a printer that can printer truly neutral, without a color shift as you change light source. From there you move on to just the other things that you want to consider when you're looking for any type of printer. What size paper might you want-- how big might you want to go? This can go up to 13x19, and it can go borderless all the way to the edge of the paper. If you want bigger, you are going to need to go tot a larger-format printer. If you want smaller, that's okay. I can feed smaller paper in here. If you think well, I am never going to print 13x19, the fact is you are kind of out of luck.
All of the good black-and-white printers come in this larger size. There are also some networking concerns you might want to consider. This printers can be wireless, which is nice. They can be connected to your network through an ethernet connection, or you can go directly in through USB. Mac and Windows drivers are available, so it doesn't matter what platform you are using on. But again, when it comes to black-and- white printing, you need to be very careful that you're not just grabbing any old color inkjet printer off the shelf. You need one that's specifically capable of doing good black and white.
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Canoe's Wild Rice Pudding with Rhubarb Compote
Living in a city as nice as Toronto, I am surrounded by many great restaurants. I try to cook at home most of the time, for health and economic reasons, but I am slowly scoping out delicious, cheap places to meet over food prepared by someone else.
Currently, some of my favourite places to eat out, if I must, include:
Folia Grill – excellent home-grown Greek fare with a delicious chicken gyro pita for $4
Sky Blue Sky – a quaint sandwich shop, with all under $5, including the suprisingly filling pulled pork sandwich. Chatting with the owner about the trendy (pulled pork) and less popular (cashew butter and cucumber) sandwiches is equally amusing when selecting your choice
The Fish Store – delicious fish sandwiches prepared from your choice of fresh fish, all under $10, and a delicious homemade lemonade for $3
Manpuku – my long-time favourite for Japanese, but you won't find any sushi here. Their nikku udon (beef soup with udon noodles) is a great heart-warming dish for under $6
Guu – still Toronto's newest sweetheart, with a second location expected in the Annexe, this is a popular Japanese izakaya (aka tapa-style bar). Everyone is welcomed as soon as they enter and leave the resto and the dishes have yet to disappoint me. All dishes are under $10, but the sizes are smaller and meant for sharing.
Pomegranate – a newer find that complements my latest love of Middle Eastern food. This is Persian food at its finest, at reasonable prices around $15.
Amaya – A bit of a splurge restaurant (mains under $20), especially since it is Indian, but I am enthralled by their butter chicken. If only I knew how to make it myself!
Canoe – This is arguably Toronto's best restaurant and it has the price-point such that it is very elitist, and limited to special occasions only. You get what you pay for, and it is lip-smacking delicious. I really appreciate their use of local, unique ingredients, prepared, oftentimes, in a myriad of ways. I know these are dishes I would have a difficult time recreating at home, which is important for my restaurant adventures. While the written menu did not immediately appeal to me, I just had to ask the server to explain what each dish entailed. It is here that I had a surreal mushroom soup that tasted like apple due to the varieties used, and I had squab prepared in 3 different ways: marinated with Newfoundland screech, drenched in a Saskatoon berry sauce and served with a side of dinosaur kale.
Enough gushing over Canoe, because I like to post things I make myself on my food blog. Imagine my surprise when I saw Canadian Living had Canoe's recipe for wild rice pudding with a rhubarb compote. I could now bring the taste of Canoe into my own kitchen. :)
It boasted a baked rice pudding with short-grain and wild rice within a orange- and cinnamon-scented creamy base, topped with a sweet-and-tart rhubarb compote.
While I have not had this at the restaurant, I might have to go there to try it out because my kitchen adventures were not as successful as I'd hoped. The rhubarb compote almost seemed to be in excess with the delicious flavours from the pudding. The wild rice added a nice crunch and the orange and cinnamon flavours blended well together, but my pudding was too thick for my liking. I wonder if there was too much evaporation during the baking? I think my substitutions were legit, but you never know. Maybe the recipe was meant to be a teaser, just to bring us back into the restaurant? ;)
This is my submission to My Kitchen, My World, featuring food from Canada, and Ivonne at Cream Puffs in Venice for Magazine Mondays.
Syrian Eggs Scrambled with Rhubarb (Beid Ru'and)
People eat not only with their mouth, but also with their eyes. If something looks hideous, will it taste any good? Of course! I have faith in the power of the underdog, but I know that all our senses go into how food tastes. The perfect meal includes fresh, great-tasting ingredients cooked just slightly to let their colour and flavours shine through. This is coupled with the food perched in perfect balance, as the presentation and warm plate go a long way. And, obviously, the most important part of the meal is who you are sharing it with, with the fantastic flutter of your heart, while enjoying your quiet environment and quaint ambiance.
That is the perfect meal and I rarely go all out for the consumption of food. I try to master part 1 and 2, with fresh ingredients and cooking them nicely. Sometimes I utterly fail in the presentation department and oftentimes I eat in front of my computer by myself (fail, yet again). This brings me to this dish, which I swear is utterly unphotogenic but tastes great. I think scrambled eggs are hard to photograph on the best of days, but theses light and fluffy eggs are scrambled with allspice, which turns their typical golden yellow an unappealing brown. The rhubarb pierces through, though, as little red jewels. Topped with dried mint, this savoury dish is a feast for the tastebuds, but not a masterpiece for the eyes.
I am hoping the allure of soft rhubarb with the homeliness of allspice within fluffy eggs will entice you to try this lovely Jewish Syrian dish, courtesy of Aromas of Aleppo by Poopa Dweck. The photos are not likely to win me any new friends. :P Due to its savoury nature, I thought this was great as a vegetarian main, but the scrambled eggs has me screaming breakfast and brunch. Another fabulous cookbook, Olive Trees and Honey, explains this breakfast or lunch meal is typically served alone, with toast or rice, along with Syrian white cheese and apricot jam. Enjoy!
This is the last of my savoury rhubarb recipes (my others were tofu in a zesty rhubarb sauce, a lentil and rhubarb stew with Indian spices and a raw rhubarb, cucumber and mint salad) and I was incredibly surprised at rhubarb's versatility. I can't wait for next year's crop to provide me with more inspiration. This is my submission to this month's Breakfast Club featuring eggs.
Tofu with a Zesty Rhubarb Sauce
I normally don't go to the trouble of a meal with lots of side dishes, as I prefer one-pot wonders. I like to have a complete meal in one dish. Rather, I like to cook this way as I find it easier. Perhaps I am lazy and don't want to make many dishes that need to be timed to finish at the same time, or maybe because I really don't like to clean dishes.
I am glad that I wasn't intimated by the long list of ingredients, steps and components of this dish. Because it was phenomenal. I have been investigating unique ways of cooking rhubarb and this did not disappoint. Each component was outstanding on its own and together they were simply divine.
First, the rhubarb sauce is zesty: sweet, sour and pleasantly spicy all in one. Ginger, chili flakes, garlic, soy sauce and honey work really well together. Second, we have crisp firm tofu that has been marinated in a sweet and savoury sauce including allspice, ginger, and chili flakes. I have fallen for allspice recently and absolutely love it. This is served over a bed of rice that is combined with wilted kale, and as you use the same pan from the tofu, any brown bits (=flavour!) get included into the rice mixture as well. Topped with chopped cashews and green onions, this is a very tasty dish with many complex textures and flavours.
This recipe was adapted from Mostly Eating, who adapted it from Jamie Oliver's Hot and Sour Pork recipe.
I am a bit late, but we'll see if Ricki can add this to her SOS Rhubarb round-up (I can't wait to see what everyone else made), as well as to this month's Cooking with Seeds event featuring pepper.
Raw Rhubarb, Cucumber and Mint Salad
Earlier this month, I was challenged to think of savoury ways to use rhubarb through Ricki's SOS challenge. I posted a few recipes with rhubarb this month, including an Indian Lentil and Rhubarb Stew, but my mind kept wondering what else I could do with the rest of my rhubarb.
Rustic Fruit Desserts spotlighted two different rhubarb compotes, including a raw rhubarb compote where raw rhubarb, sugar and fresh orange juice meld for 6 hours on your counter for a tasty snack. While I didn't make the dessert, my curiosity was peaked about raw rhubarb.
I subsequently stumbled upon a raw rhubarb salad with cucumber and mint in Paula Wolfert's The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen, although there was nothing slow about this recipe. A bit of salt is added to temper the rhubarb and within ten minutes, you have a savoury salad ingredient – not at all tart! The rhubarb is mixed with thinly sliced cucumber, baby arugula and spinach, squirted with lemon juice and topped with shredded mint leaves. It is a wonderfully delicious, simply refreshing salad. Simple ingredients go a long way for an easy salad for the summertime.
Do not shy away from raw rhubarb. Succumb to it. You will be pleasantly surprised at rhubarb's versatility.
I am a bit late, but we'll see if Ricki can add this to her SOS Rhubarb round-up (can't wait to see what everyone else made) as well as to Deb for this week's Souper Sundays (which also includes salads). Props go to Rob for making the salad – under my supervision – hence why it can go on my blog. :)
Blueberry Rhubarb Cranberry Crisp with Pistachio Crust
Hi. My name is Janet. And I am a hoarder.
I like to buy things on sale. I like to buy things for dishes I plan on making. As such, I have purchased seemingly obscure ingredients and spices for ethnic dishes.
I try to cook with fresh ingredients, so my fridge is usually packed with food and my freezer is filled to the brim. My excuse is that I have a condo-sized fridge, which I feel is not much bigger than a beer fridge. :P One year ago, this is what my fridge looked like, when I was profiled on blogto.com.
Since I have a tiny kitchen in a tiny apartment with limited storage, I have kitchen appliances and food stashed in each room.
I realize this can be a problem, but I still begged my mom to bring me more fresh rhubarb from her backyard. I used the last batch to make a sinfully delicious baked rhubarb and apples with earl grey tea, cardamom and orange zest, a savoury Indian-spiced lentil and rhubarb stew and rhubarb baked oatmeal. And I still had more recipes to try…. so it was justified to ask for more, right? :)
I figured I would also try to help clear some room from my freezer when I saw the blueberry rhubarb crisp with a pistachio crust from Gourmet (June 1999). I knew I had frozen blueberries, so I was off to the races. But then when I measured them out, I was a cup short. Oh no! What to do?! :) Luckily, fruit abounds in my freezer, so I had to decide between mango and cranberries. In the end, I used cranberries to add to the blueberry/rhubarb mixture. And you know what? It was perfect. Sometimes the wacky impromptu substitutions work well!
This seemingly odd combination of tart, soft baked rhubarb with not-so-sweet blueberries and even more tart cranberries was wonderful. The pistachio crisp topping had just the right amount of sweetness for the base and since I squished the topping together, there were nice hearty globs of topping for the fruit filling. The only thing I would do differently next time is increase the fruit filling.
This was delicious slightly cooled from the oven as is, but the leftovers were perfect with vanilla yogurt the next day. The warm crisp with lightly melted vanilla ice cream is an equally decadent treat. Dessert? Breakfast? Sometimes I can't decide.
This is my submission to Magazine Mondays and Gourmet Unbound.
Rhubarb Baked Oatmeal
While I love oatmeal for breakfast, granola with yogurt and fruit has usurped its position as my go-to breakfast lately. However, when I spotted rhubarb baked oatmeal at My Kitchen Addiction, I knew I had to try it. I had no clue what baked oatmeal was, but the rhubarb drew me in.
Baked oatmeal is an kind of like a big fluffy piece of creamy oatmeal and in this case, speckled with pieces of soft rhubarb, which brought it to the next level. At the same time, sweet and savory, this breakfast is perfect for the weekend, or for a brunch, where you can pop it into the oven and serve it easily. It is relatively healthy with oats, flax and applesauce is used to replace the fat. The sugar is needed to sweeten the rhubarb in the dish and it matches flawlessly. For me, the leftovers were perfect as I ate this as a quick breakfast for the remainder of the week. Enjoy!
This is my submission to this week's Weekend Herb Blogging hosted by Rachel at The Crispy Cook.
Lentil and Rhubarb Stew With Indian Spices (& other savory rhubarb ideas)
Dessert comes to my mind first when I think about rhubarb. I have collected a multitude of sweet rhubarb recipes to try, but who says rhubarb needs to be paired with sugar as a sweet dessert? I stumbled upon an Indian-spiced rhubarb and lentil stew by Mark Bittman at the New York Times, and figured it would be a nice way to delve into Indian cuisine without worrying about curries and chilies.
This was an interesting dish. I must admit that I am not gushing over it, because its mate that night was the baked rhubarb and apples with earl grey tea, cardamom and orange zest which truly stole the show. It had many complex levels of flavour, with the ginger and garlic, then the cardamom and cloves and finally little pockets of poached rhubarb. I didn't really taste the mustard, though, despite modifying Bittman's recipe to roast the mustard seeds first. It was different and I enjoyed it, which is most important. I served this with rice as a vegetarian entree, but it could also accompany an Indian-spiced meat dish.
This is my savoury submission to Ricki and Kim's SOS Kitchen Challenge, featuring sweet or savoury natural vegan cooking highlighting rhubarb this month, to this month's My Legume Love Affair hosted by Diana at A Little Bit of Spain in Iowa and this month's Side Dish Showdown.
Here are some other savoury rhubarb recipes that caught my eye:
Lemon-Rhubarb Chicken from Bon Appetit
Beet, Rhubarb, and Orange Salad from Bon Appetit
Rhubarb, Cherry, and Golden Raisin Chutney from Bon Appetit
Black Sea Bass with Sweet-and-Sour Orange Rhubarb Sauce from Gourmet
Caramelized Onion, Beet, and Rhubarb Compote from Affairs of Living
Asparagus with Balsamic Rhubarb Reduction from Cook Local
Caramelised Pastry Straws with Sweet Rhubarb Ketchup from BBC Food
Fresh Mackerel with Roasted Rhubarb from BBC Food
Tilapia with Rhubarb and Scallions from the New York Times
Vegan Pulled Pork with Rhubarb Barbecue Sauce from Eating Appalachia
Baked Rhubarb and Apples with Earl Grey Tea, Cardamom, and Orange Zest
It is no secret that I love tea (in addition to visiting Penzeys when I went to the States, I came back laden with tea from Teavana). I only drink herbal and caffeine-free teas (er, tisanes) but I confess that I have one black tea in my collection. It is Earl Grey Cream. It brings Earl Grey with its hint of bergamot orange to the next level with vanilla and cream. It is also wonderful to incorporate into dishes while cooking and baking. I have used Earl Grey in delicious (and not as delicious) shortbread cookies and here it is paired elegantly with baked rhubarb.
Let me preface this by saying this baked rhubarb is stupendously good*. It helps that it has a lot of my favourite flavours mixing sweet and sour perfectly. The rhubarb and apple are baked until softened, but not mush. Pick an apple that holds its shape, like Golden Delicious, Honeycrisp (one of my my favourite apples!), Gala, Northern Spy, etc – unless you prefer apple sauce. The fruit is lightly sweetened and the flavours abound with citrus (lemon juice and orange zest) that complements the pool of Earl Grey sauce. Cardamom adds the finishing touch. Perfect! Bliss!
I originally served it warm from the oven over chilled vanilla yogurt, and I am sure it would be delicious over ice cream as described by Chez Danisse where I found the recipe. The next day, the sauce thickened slightly and was wonderful for breakfast with yogurt again, but also served over oatmeal. If you prefer more of a smoother sauce, zap it in the microwave for 2 minutes and it disintegrates into a thick sauce.
This is my sweet submission to Ricki and Kim's SOS Kitchen Challenge, featuring sweet or savoury natural vegan cooking highlighting rhubarb this month.
PS. Does anyone know where to get a good decaf Earl Grey Cream tea that ships to Canada? Bonus if in Toronto!
*It was so good that I called my mom past her bedtime (and past mine) to tell her how awesome it was. Thankfully I didn't wake her up. It was also too late to share it with all of you, as I try not to photograph food without natural light. I knew I'd have to wait until the morning before I could snap some photos!


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Join us for the 150th Commemoration of the 1864 Burning of Chambersburg
July 19, 2014 | Downtown Chambersburg
A Civil War Re-enactment of the 1864 Confederate Ransoming and Burning of Chambersburg with lights. So real, you won't believe it isn't actually ablaze!
The 150th Commemorative Ransoming and Burning of Chambersburg will begin with pre-burning activities highlighted by a conversation with Robert E. Lee portrayed by Al Stone. This is one of Mr. Stones final performances in more that 25 years of portraying Robert E. Lee. Join us for this historical event!
Schedule of Events | Courthouse Plaza
5 – 6 PM Guided Civil War Walking Tours
6 PM – Welcome, Introductions and Vendor Showcase
6:30 PM – Robert E. Lee Portrayed by Al Stone
7:30 PM – Civil War Burning Certificate Auction
On July 19, as part of the 150th Commemoration of the Ransoming, Burning & Rebirth of Chambersburg–several claim certificates are being exhibited at Courthouse Plaza and some will be auctioned by Gateway Gallery Auction as part of the evening's activities. Samuel W. Crawford's claim certificate will be available for viewing. Crawford, born in Fayetteville, was an assistant surgeon at Fort Sumter and served as a brigadier general in the Eastern Theatre, leading the Pennsylvania Reserves at the Battle of Gettysburg. Among the claims available for auction include: Isaac Allison, James M. Brown, Rev. P.S. Davis, Joseph Deckelmyer, Eli Gates, Dr. J. Montgomery Gelwicks, Sophia Hershberger, Carrie Hetrick, and George Ludwig. A mini biography of each of these Chambersburg residents can be found in "The Franklin County Civil War Damage Claims: Chambersburg Burns, Volume 1," produced by the Franklin County Historical Society. A copy will accompany each auctioned certificate. Additional copies may be purchased at the Franklin Historical Society's booth at the events leading up to the 9:00 PM burning.
Book Signings and Vendor Exhibits until 8:30
9-10:30 PM – The Ransoming & Burning of Chambersburg Reenactment
The event will be held at the Franklin County Courthouse Plaza on the square in downtown Chambersburg.
Seating: Feel free to bring a lawn chair for the event.
Traffic through the center of town is closed. Event is best viewed from the north and southwest quadrant of the square and the central area around the square. Parking areas are listed below.
From Interstate-81
Take Exit 16/US 30 West toward downtown Chambersburg/Memorial Square.
From Gettysburg US Rt. 30 West/Lincoln Way West
Turn right onto Second Street and travel one block across King Street to 218 North Second Street/Rt. 11 North. Parking is available around the Franklin County Administrative Annex Building. It is a brief walk to downtown. Walk back to King Street and turn right, walk one block to North Main and turn left. Memorial Square is one-block south.
From Greencastle on US Rt. 11 entering Chambersburg
Route 11 becomes Derbyshire for 1 block, and then returns to Rt. 11/Second Street. Get into the left lane, travel 7 Blocks, and just after crossing over US Rt. 30/Lincoln Way East, within ½ block turn left into the King Street Church parking lot. It is a brief walk from the parking lot to Memorial Square.
From Greencastle on US Rt. 11 entering Chambersburg
Route 11 becomes Derbyshire for 1 block, and then returns to Rt. 11/Second Street. Get into the left lane, travel 5 Blocks and turn left onto Washington Street, travel 2 blocks crossing over US Rt. 11/Main Street South to the old Southgate Mall. From the mall parking area walk back on Washington Street one block to South Main Street. Turn left and walk 3 blocks to Memorial Square.
From Mercersburg/Fort Loudon US RT 30/Lincoln Way East
US Rt. 30 becomes Loudon Street, after passing over the bridge at the Southgate Mall it will become Queen Street. Stay in the left lane and turn left onto the "Shopper's Lot" which is located on the left, on Black Avenue, just after crossing over the "Rails to Trails."
From Mercersburg/Fort Loudon US RT 30/Lincoln Way East
US Rt. 30 becomes Loudon Street, after passing over the bridge at the Southgate Mall it will become Queen Street, follow Queen Street to US Rt. 11/Second Street. Turning left onto Rt. 11/Second Street follow directions listed above to the King Street Church parking area and the Franklin County Administrative Annex Building parking areas.
From Shippensburg US Rt. 11/South/Main Street entering Chambersburg
Get into the left lane; turn left onto King Street, just after turning left, at the end of the King Street Church office building, turn right into the parking area beside the King Street Church. Parking is also available near the rear of the Courthouse. It is a brief walk to Memorial Square
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Military Divorce in Tacoma Washington
Tacoma WA Military Divorce Lawyers – Fort Lewis – JBLM – McChord AFB Attorneys
Military Divorce & Related Family Issues Involving the Military
When people who reside in the state of Washington decide to file for a dissolution of marriage (the term "divorce" is not legally recognized in Washington), they have a great deal to consider after making this decision. Even when the former couple is amicable and trying their best to cooperate with one another, the matter can be difficult. This is true for civilian couples, but when people who are serving our country in the armed forces are engaged in the dissolution of marriage process, there are other factors to contend with. Though the matter may not be any more contentious, the legalities surrounding the proceeding are different in some ways, adding an additional layer of complexity to the filing.
There are those who think that a "military divorce" involves the auspices of the armed forced in some way, but this is not the case, even if both people involved are actively serving. The state of residence is the jurisdictional venue for the case, and this issue alone can be clouded by military service. People who are in the military often do not stay in one place for very long, and they may consider their home to be a state that they haven't physically resided in for years.
Another factor that applies to military divorces is the application of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (which was revised in 2003 and previously called the Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act of 1940). Part of the SCRA states that servicemembers who are actively deployed need not address any civil actions that have been filed against them until they have served their term of duty. This means that a person who is deployed by the military can delay responding to an action for dissolution of marriage until he or she is no longer on active duty.
Yet another issue that is unique to those serving our country revolves around the potential for the state of Washington to award a former partner a share of the military pension that is due his or her former spouse. This is covered in the Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act (USFSPA), and this is something that every former military couple should examine as they move forward with their dissolution of marriage proceeding.
When you are facing a military divorce and/or other related family issues involving the military, always consult with a Tacoma WA divorce lawyer who has a background handling these types of cases.
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Blue screen after 2009 Security update
I got the dreaded blank blue screen after installing the lastest 2009 security update on my 2006 iMac (OS X 10.4). I tried following the hints given here for fixing this situation:
Tutorial: Startup fails (particularly after a system or security update); solving - MacFixIt
My iMac won't boot into Safe Mode. It will boot into Single-User mode, so I ran fsck and it says the HD is okay. I also deleted the caches and plist files, but that didn't help at all.
I can't boot from the OS X install disk - it just kicks the disk out of the drive every time. This may be the result of my 3-year old having stuffed business cards into the drive - I didn't realize this until I went to put the install disk in, and saw 3 cards sticking out. I pulled those out, but it's possible there are more cards still in the drive that I can't see.
Any other suggestions, short of taking the machine to the nearest Apple Store?
- Thanks, Kevin
Hi, I just downloaded the 2009 Security Update and then shut the unit down (PowerMac G4 400mhz with 1.25gb) Came home today, and it was sticking on the blue login screen.....oh dear, I thought MAC OSX was brilliant?
Obviously not, I can't get it to boot into safe mode (after 15 tries, I decided that was enough) I can access the Open OS section, but thats no good, and I attempted to access the single user mode with no success
I don't have a OS boot disc, due to the unit being second hand...seems like Im in a right rut
Neon - I ended up taking mine to the Genius Bar... they could boot from an external USB drive, but repairing permissions from that didn't help... eventually they did an archive/re-install of OSX, which worked - all my files ended up in the "previous systems" directory, and I just had to copy them over to the new user.
That may be the route you have to take...
- Kevin
If I was to get a hold of a copy of Tiger OS X and insert the Disc (without logging in) would that work? would it automatically boot the disc?
Since my Local Apple store is some 40 miles away :S
I managed to get into Single user mode and I ran FSCK, apparently the Macintosh HD is okay....so no problem there
Ran into verbose mode and it says it has a core utility error......no idea
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Q: What has given you the most joy in your life?
A: The joy of teaching and seeing your students blossom. As a music teacher it is joyful being able to see the satisfaction and delight students have when they discover they can create something beautiful. A joy I remember from my younger days was after having been out on assignment for some time and coming back to the community in the summer and seeing the sisters and even just walls and the floors of the monastery was such a joy. Now when I see the younger sisters come back in the summer it is the same kind of joy. Even our funerals are joys. Even if the deceased sister might have been a bit hard to live with, someone will find something wonderful to remember about her. We sing triumphant songs and it makes you feel it's worthwhile to die.


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Sept. 12, 2006
Lamar University men's tennis standout Filip Kanczula has been ranked 125th in the nation by the College Tennis Online.
Kanczula, a junior from Wroclaw, Poland, posted a 10-9 record as a sophomore last season, collecting newcomer of the year honors from the Southland Conference.
"I don't know how long it's been since we've had a player ranked in the pre season standings," Director of Tennis Operations Ron Westbrooks said. "Filip played a really strong number one for us last year and was named Southland Conference newcomer of the year for his efforts. He might be the most disciplined, hard working players we've ever had here at Lamar. He sets a great example for the rest of the team."
Kanczula joins Texas A&M Corpus Christi's Andrey Kumantsov as the only SLC men's players to be ranked among the top 125 players in the nation.


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Now, while my knowledge of Arc System Works' back catalogue is virtually all-encompassing, my know-how of the Persona series is substantially less-than, which is to say "nonexistent." What a shock it was, then, to be thrown head-first into a developed, storied world with characters I've never known and places I've never seen, only to come out the other side deeply invested and hungry for more. Without a doubt, no fighting game has ever made me care about its characters like this.
Persona 4 Arena gave me feelings.%Gallery-148152% That isn't to say that I've never been fond of characters in fighting games before – surely anyone who sticks with a fighting game long enough will develop an affinity for his favorite. This was different, though; by the time P4A's lengthy story mode had been completed, I had bonded with Chie – I actually cared about who she was, what her personal motivations were and what personal faults made her human. That never happened with Astaroth, or Ermac, or Sol Badguy.
As ultimately rewarding as it is, however, Persona 4 Arena's story mode can be quite taxing to finish – so much so that it may dissuade some players from playing the entire game. The problem is the story mode's somewhat unorthodox presentation for the genre. Unlike Mortal Kombat's story mode, which was composed of cinematics and was fully voiced, P4A's story mode is a very traditional Japanese visual novel.
This means that while playing, a lot of time is spent reading – the majority of it, in fact. A good 95 percent of the overall story mode is spent advancing text – one sentence at a time, with about 50 percent accompanied by Atlus' terrific voice acting – and watching the very occasional animated cut scene. The actual fighting fills in that remaining five percent: When matches do happen, they last for only one round and can be anywhere from 20 minutes to more than an hour apart.
Where Mortal Kombat's single continuous story arc changed narrative perspective as it progressed, Persona 4 Arena instead allows players to select their own characters and live out slightly different versions of two main story arcs, depending on whether the fighter of choice is originally from Persona 4 or Persona 3.
Once the key to Persona 4 Arena's narrative climax is unlocked, however, everything changes. What had eventually become a tired retelling of the same basic series of events evolved into the enthralling, captivating and heart-wrenching story of a character that I'd previously cared very little for. Even better, this bridge between the first and second half of each character's story explained all the nagging, unanswered occurrences that had once infuriated with their persistent ambiguity, like Labrys' psuedo-Brooklyn/Cockney 1930s police detective accent. What once passed as a confusing artistic choice revealed itself as the meticulously planned, well-crafted seed of a much stronger, deeper narrative.
The emotional experience of playing P4A is actually quite reminiscent of playing through Catherine, another esoteric title from Atlus, in that the true scope of Catherine's symbolism and brilliance was not apparent until the very, very end of the game. Persona 4 Arena's ending may not be as existential as Catherine's, but after unlocking the plot bridge and finishing Chie's story, I found myself wearing a smile generally reserved for Miyazaki films and Adventure Time. The experience was completely and unequivocally worth it, despite every single hour of reiterative storytelling that made a meaningful payoff seem impossible, and the fact that each character gets its own ending means that after dozens of hours of play, I'd only scratched the surface.
Persona 4 Arena's fighting engine has more sub-systems than you can shake a stick at, but the matrix of flexibility upon which those sub-systems are built allows for effective play at any skill level. Some mechanisms, like a simplified air/ground recovery system and one-button Auto Combos, make it easier for new players to acclimate to the engine and effectively defend themselves against more seasoned players. Even without the use of advanced techniques like One More Cancels, which allow the player to spend super meter and end an ability's animation early, it's possible to pull off impressive looking combos and do well enough to enjoy yourself.
High-level play didn't require so much effort that I was too busy concentrating on one-frame links, but it also wasn't so easy that any sense of accomplishment had been removed. It's exquisitely balanced between making the players work for something amazing, and making them feel amazing when it happens, as every perfectly executed combo carries with it an intoxicating sense of self-congratulatory accomplishment.
Obviously, those who master P4A's nuances will have an advantage, but complete mastery of the game isn't a prerequisite for fun. Either way, the resulting experience is a delectable nougat center of combo deliciousness, firmly sandwiched between a crunchy wafer of Guilty Gear complexity and creamy, smooth BlazBlue-style character design. Movement during a fight is akin to the graceful fluidity of a choreographed dance, rather than the sputtering staccato rhythm of Street Fighter 4 and/or Mortal Kombat matches. The fighters themselves have a satisfying sense of weight and momentum about them, as do their attacks, and landing an incredible combo in the middle of that beautiful chaos is satisfying.
The game's Lesson Mode does a great job of teaching every aspect of every system, and Challenge Mode is a decent way of learning bread-and-butter combos, though it would benefit greatly from a system that teaches input timing in addition to the inputs themselves. Arcade Mode also falters in its execution. Rather than a stock, fighting-only experience, Arcade Mode serves as a condensed/Reader's Digest version of the main Story Mode. This means that, depending on the fighter chosen, the player fights the same series of characters every single time they play through the mode.
Not only does this remove most replayability, but it's also one of the rare instances in which a game spoils its own story – by completing Arcade Mode before Story Mode, many important plot points are revealed ahead of schedule, so to speak. A randomly-generated Arcade Mode with no story elements would have been much more appropriate, though Versus Mode functions as a somewhat viable alternative as it allows the player to choose a CPU-controlled opponent.
Like so many other modern fighting games, Persona 4 Arena's online match architecture suffers from Street Fighter 4 syndrome, meaning that there is nothing on offer beyond ranked matches and 8-person player lobbies. Propers should be given, however, for the amount of customization options available when creating a player room. Region, signal strength and a dozen other parameters can be set by the room's host, who can also advertise what characters they regularly use and what attitude the room has (competitive, casual, etc.).
Persona 4 Arena's online play is powered by the same netcode that underpinned the Blazblue series, which has historically been very strong. Unfortunately, an error in the code's implementation on the Xbox 360 version (and only the 360 version) of P4A has caused both Ranked and Player matches to reach virtually unplayable levels of lag.
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Meanwhile, the PlayStation 3 version is completely fine. Joystiq EIC Ludwig Kietzmann tested and confirmed that P4A's online modes play without issue on the PS3. Synchronization between players was quick, and aside from Arc System Works' trademark match-intro slowdown, fights proceeded without major framerate lag or input delay.
Persona 4 Arena and its characters have a special place in my heart now, but not for the reason that fighting games usually take up shop under my left ventricle. I am in love with this engine, true, and I probably spent as much time finding combos in Training Mode as I did finishing Story Mode, but it was Story Mode that got me honestly choked up. These characters are more than just concept art and frames of animation; they're people, haunted by their own weaknesses and limitations and yet stronger because of it. Atlus has raised the bar for mature, coherent storytelling in the fighting game universe.
This review is based on a retail copy of the Xbox 360 version of Persona 4 Arena, provided by Atlus. Some multiplayer testing was also performed on the PlayStation 3 version.
Joystiq's review scores are based on a scale of whether the game in question is worth your time -- a five-star being a definitive "yes," and a one-star being a definitive "no." Read here for more information on our ratings guidelines.
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The purpose of Zinn's work, Voices included, is to engage in an act of political dissidence and activism. "What is common to all of these voices," Zinn and co-editor Anthony Arnove write in the book's introduction, "is that they have mostly been shut out of the orthodox histories, the major media, the standard textbooks, the controlled culture ... to create a passive citizenry." With Voices, Zinn and Arnove seek to address that malaise, showing that the impossible--slaves rising up against their slave masters, for example--is not only possible, but has occurred repeatedly throughout the country's history. "Whenever injustices have been remedied, wars halted, women and blacks and Native Americans given their due," they write, "it has been because 'unimportant' people spoke up, organized, protested, and brought democracy alive." The common thread throughout Voices is this mandate, and each selection is preceded by a brief introduction by the authors, written from a far-left perspective. (As an example, one section is titled "The Carter-Reagan-Bush Consensus.")
Voices often works better as a reference book than a sit-down-to-read title. Its early chapters--on Columbus, slavery, the War of Independence, and the early women's movement--tend to be more engaging than later excerpts, largely because a contrary point of view to mainstream mythology has been so rarely heard. The modern sections have a haphazard, "greatest hits of the left" feeling, as the book jumps from an Abbie Hoffman speech to the lyrics of Public Enemy's "Fight the Power." The problem may be inherent in the format of the book. Everything is treated equally, and a speech by Danny Glover is given as much weight as an excerpt from W.E.B. DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk. For context and background, it's best to stick with the original People's History, but to hear the words right from the speakers' mouths, there's no better resource than Voices. --Jennifer Buckendorff


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When you move out of home waters, one of the dangers of cruising is ending up with dirty fuel which clogs and stops your engine. Here we talk about some of the solutions:
Don't let dirty fuel wipe the smile off your face
One of the greatest dangers is complacency. Sailing in home waters, you get used to checking your fuel filter at a certain rate, which may not be appropriate if the fuel comes from a different source. And don't be by the idea that just because you are in a so-called 'Western' country that you can't get dirty fuel. Stories abound of cruising sailors who inadvertently received a dose of dirty fuel when it was delivered that way to the reseller from the refinery.
Routinely replacing your fuel filter is relatively simple and ensures that contaminates can't reach your engine's fuel injectors and other sensitive parts in the fuel system, but there's something else. Many long range cruisers usually use not one, but two fuel filters, to ensure that, if there is small contamination, it is caught before it spoils your day or your entire voyage.
So the key to proper fuel filtration is to approach it in a sequential fashion, a process known as multistep filtration.
The best advice is that you should use two filters of sequentially finer filtration. The first, or primary, filter should have about a 10-micron rating. The specification of the secondary filter typically carries a 2-micron rating.
Permanent fuel filters in tandem
This, of course, means that you must carry spare filters of two types, and the checking and cleaning processes are doubled. However, if you have ever been caught out with engine problems because of dirty fuel, you will think the process well worth while.
The other desirable, when taking fuel from a suspect source, and sometimes when you leave home waters this is unavoidable, is to filter the fuel as it goes INTO boat. This can provide difficulties, particularly if the fuel source is used to catering for large ships, and the flow is very strong.
There is one filter known as a Baja (pronounced Baha) filter, which is reputed to be excellent by those who have used them for years. There is also one easily available from your local marine store or West Marine, which is less expensive and seems, by reports, to work just as well. It is a teflon-coated, stainless-steel filter which separates water and dirt from gasoline, diesel and kerosene fuels.
Baja fuel filter - as the fuel goes into the boat
It is made from industrial standard electroconductive polypropylene that can be grounded for extra safety. Fuel flows through the filter into the tank and water and sediment stay in the funnel.
Whether you actually need these precautions depends greatly on where you sail, but keeping your engine working at all times is vital to happy cruising, and, in taking the chance by NOT filtering, you might see your engine gasp and die just when you most need it.


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-pedantic-errors is an option to GCC which forces it to complain about every slight non-conformance (the pedantic) and to treat them all as errors (rather than warnings). The effect of this is that GCC will not compile any code which contains anything even vaguely dubious. This is very good to use when writing your own code (it helps cut down on bugs) but horrid to use on existing code (since it shows every minor, unimportant, wrinkle).
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- Study of E. coli Hfq's RNA annealing acceleration and duplex destabilization activities using substrates with different GC-contents (2012)
- Folding of RNA molecules into their functional three-dimensional structures is often supported by RNA chaperones, some of which can catalyse the two elementary reactions helix disruption and helix formation. Hfq is one such RNA chaperone, but its strand displacement activity is controversial. Whereas some groups found Hfq to destabilize secondary structures, others did not observe such an activity with their RNA substrates. We studied Hfq's activities using a set of short RNAs of different thermodynamic stabilities (GC-contents from 4.8% to 61.9%), but constant length. We show that Hfq's strand displacement as well as its annealing activity are strongly dependent on the substrate's GC-content. However, this is due to Hfq's preferred binding of AU-rich sequences and not to the substrate's thermodynamic stability. Importantly, Hfq catalyses both annealing and strand displacement with comparable rates for different substrates, hinting at RNA strand diffusion and annealing nucleation being rate-limiting for both reactions. Hfq's strand displacement activity is a result of the thermodynamic destabilization of the RNA through preferred single-strand binding whereas annealing acceleration is independent from Hfq's thermodynamic influence. Therefore, the two apparently disparate activities annealing acceleration and duplex destabilization are not in energetic conflict with each other.
- Atomic-level structure characterization of an ultrafast folding mini-protein denatured state (2012)
- Atomic-level analyses of non-native protein ensembles constitute an important aspect of protein folding studies to reach a more complete understanding of how proteins attain their native form exhibiting biological activity. Previously, formation of hydrophobic clusters in the 6 M urea-denatured state of an ultrafast folding mini-protein known as TC5b from both photo-CIDNP NOE transfer studies and FCS measurements was observed. Here, we elucidate the structural properties of this mini-protein denatured in 6 M urea performing 15N NMR relaxation studies together with a thorough NOE analysis. Even though our results demonstrate that no elements of secondary structure persist in the denatured state, the heterogeneous distribution of R2 rate constants together with observing pronounced heteronuclear NOEs along the peptide backbone reveals specific regions of urea-denatured TC5b exhibiting a high degree of structural rigidity more frequently observed for native proteins. The data are complemented with studies on two TC5b point mutants to verify the importance of hydrophobic interactions for fast folding. Our results corroborate earlier findings of a hydrophobic cluster present in urea-denatured TC5b comprising both native and non-native contacts underscoring their importance for ultra rapid folding. The data assist in finding ways of interpreting the effects of pre-existing native and/or non-native interactions on the ultrafast folding of proteins; a fact, which might have to be considered when defining the starting conditions for molecular dynamics simulation studies of protein folding.