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As I sat recently in a local coffee shop working on school assignments, I couldnt help but overhear a couple of well-dressed 50-something women preparing and practicing their snappy response to people who had the audacity to wish them Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas. I am an 18-year-old Christian who celebrates the birth of Christ my savior every year, yet I have to admit I was disturbed by the nastiness of this conversation I overheard in the name of defending Christmas. Im no tree hugger, mind you. Im actually extremely conservative. I just for the life of me, in a time of war, hunger, disease and random killings, cant understand how anyone would discourage people from greeting one another in a peaceful, well-meaning way. So, if you are Jewish, please feel free to wish me a Happy Hannukah; if you are African-American, Id welcome a Happy Kwanzaa it would even give me an opportunity to ask a few questions about something I admittedly know too little about. If you are Christian, wish me a Merry Christmas. If none of these apply to you, Happy Holidays or any greeting given in peace is welcomed and should be by anyone. I can guarantee you that Jesus is frowning upon anyone plotting a nasty response in the name of Christianity. So, Happy Holidays in the name of Christ.
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Sixty Trident Insurance Services employees raised $15,000 during the company's annual campaign benefiting the San Antonio Food Bank. The total, which beat the company's 2008 fundraiser for the food bank, is enough to purchase 150,000 pounds of food, a news release said. Food Bank Executive Director Eric Cooper said the donation could not have come […] [Read More]
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"If the people I've been around are better people when I've left, then that's what I value the most."
Several years ago a young man said this in relation to the legacy he was leaving behind.
The young man was Tim Tebow, as he was getting ready to leave the University of Florida for the NFL. After two national championships, a Heisman trophy, countless other awards and four years worth of once in a lifetime memories for Gator fans, there were a list of things Tebow could have claimed as the legacy he was leaving behind. But the people, that's what meant the most to him.
It's been the people that have been the legacy for Will Muschamp as well.
As the now incumbent head coach, Muschamp will spend the next couple of weeks packing up his office inside Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, during which he'll have time to reflect on the past four years in Gainesville.
He'll most likely pack a picture from his introductory press conference way back on December 14, 2010 when he was the hotshot hire lured away from Texas to come home to Gainesville.
He'll wrap up the bowl gift from the Gators improbable run to the Sugar Bowl after that exciting 2012 11-2 season. "One game away from the national championship" he'll say to himself, as he always does when mentioning that season; then he'll place it in the box and move on down the shelf.
All that's left from 2013 has already gone into the recycling or lost in the bowels of the infirmary right next to the waste bin that holds the hopes and dreams that so many pinned on that season. He'll quickly move on from there.
And then he'll pick up a game ball.
As a defensive coordinator, Muschamp won a national championship while at LSU and coached for another at Texas (if only Colt hadn't got hurt). But the game ball isn't from either of those times. This is from November 1, 2014 and a product of the Worlds Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party.
Muschamp saw the boys from his dream job defeat the boys from his alma mater and that is the game ball he'll cherish. Not because winning that game gave him a couple of more weeks as the head coach at Florida. And not because it was his one and so far only win in the Florida-Georgia rivalry. But because his team, with their backs against the wall, took the field and played their hearts out for the coach that held it.
That is Muschamps legacy.
Or at least a snapshot of the larger picture.
He took a program that had essentially become a heartless factory that only churned out delinquent NFL players and gave it something else to be proud of. Unfortunately it was hardly ever wins and that's ultimately what cost him his job. But he did give this program respectability and if the next coach can just simply build off the foundation that Muschamp toiled over, he'll be in good shape.
This is more than just empty sentiment though. There are numbers to back up the claim.
As University President Bernie Machen said during Monday morning's press conference, the football team's [Academic Progress Rate] was 979 this past spring, which is 10 points above the national average for football.
*Editor's Note: Florida football's APR is actually more than 10 points above the national average. As of May 14, 2014 the national average for football is 951.
Machen also pointed out that Muschamp has had 68 players that are academic All-SEC, has graduated 44 players with degrees and helped bring all of that academic emphasis together by producing a team with the highest composite GPA in the history of University of Florida football.
There was one stat though that Machen didn't touch on, and somewhat surprisingly so as it is perhaps the most telling.
When Urban Meyer was the head coach in The Swamp, he won two national championships…at the cost of having 31 players arrested. That does not include all of the other disciplinary problems that didn't warrant arrest records.
Almost two years ago, I stumbled up on an easel outside of the Gators meeting room. It was a list of four rules that Muschamp was asking his guys to abide by.
- Don't be out after midnight
- Go to class
- Be smart on social media
- Be on time
In Muschamps time at Florida, he had 15 arrested. Now granted the law of simple averages would tell us that Champ was on pace to match Meyer's number, but if you look at the timeline, it tells a different story.
Three of those players were arrested in Muschamp's first month on the job. Those were guys held over from the previous system.
In fact one of them, Janoris Jenkins whom Muschamp kicked off the team, made a parting shot on his way out.
"If [Meyer] was still the coach at Florida, I'd still be there."
Three more arrested were all guys Meyer recruited.
Recruiting "quality young men" was always something Muschamp harped on, and it's effect showed.
When freshman quarterback Treon Harris was accused of sexual assault in early October, Muschamp and staff immediately suspended him while the investigation pended. This was a huge contrast to the way other certain schools in this state are handling the same case.
Other than a citation received by a yet on campus freshman in May, it was also the first real discipline problem that Muschamp had had with his team in over 15 months.
Machen, who worked with Urban Meyer at Utah and essentially brought him to Florida, left his press conference with one final tip of the cap to Will Muschamp.
"Never have I worked with a coach in any sport over three different universities who has been more supportive of the university mission and what we're trying to accomplish. In the end, can you say that someone who has to leave has made a positive contribution, and the answer for that is definitely yes, for Will Muschamp. In fact, I would love for my son or my grandson to have the opportunity to be coached by Will Muschamp. Thank you."
I was sitting on the front row during this Monday press conference, with a room full of local and national media, sports and news alike crammed in. Everyone was focused at the time on Bernie Machen and then Jeremy Foley who followed. My attention was on the person sitting six inches to my right.
It was Will Muschamp, and he kept his attention focused forward as well, turning only to smile and ask how I was doing. He didn't fidget or look down. He paid attention to the men speaking with a mellowed version of his infamous stare and his only distraction was when he quietly opened a cherry cough drop. I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who heard the crinkle of the plastic wrapper. He wasn't there to make a scene; he was just quietly waiting his turn to speak.
When he did, he opened with a joke, stating he was underdressed compared to Machen and Foley in suits. Then he proceeded with the same class and blue-collar attitude that has earned him the respect of so many in the football world. He took the time to stick up for his team, ever the player's coach.
"We've got a deep and talented roster, so don't let that new guy tell you he ain't got no good players."
A handful of those players were leaning up against the wall of the press conference room, watching as their coach handled his firing for all the world to see with a dignity that he had spent countless days and months instilling in them.
When Muschamp had done his time at the podium, he left to go game plan for the Gators next opponent, because he is still the coach for the next two weeks after all; then the players stepped forward and cemented his legacy.
Center Max Garcia credit's Muschamp with helping him grow on the field, but more importantly off.
"I've grown so much as a man. When I got here I was just a boy, just a little kid," Garcia says."I didn't know how I could play the game to this level that I'm playing at…so I'm just truly blessed to have met coach Muschamp and all the people he's brought around me."
For defensive lineman Dante Fowler Jr., the past few days have shown him that Muschamp practices what he preaches and for that, Fowler will hold a little tighter to his lessons learned from Champ.
"I'm really impressed with him. You know Champ, one of the things he always taught us no matter what just always show class. And you know that's something he really always taught us just be a class act person, be a blue-collar person, you know. So I respect Champ for that…The biggest lesson [I learned from him] just becoming a man, just learning the game, becoming a student of the game. A lot of people think it's just going out there and playing football on Saturday, but there's a lot of stuff in between that goes on in the facility and the program. A lot of things that he's done. Taught us how to become young men, young grown adults and just being ready for the outside world when it's time for us to leave."
As they do leave, they'll be carrying with them all that Will Muschamp taught them. Athletic Director Jeremy Foley hopes the vestiges of it stick around as well.
"The environment inside our building is the best it's ever been because of Will," Foley remarks.
Looking back on a dismal 2013 season, Foley remembers, "I never saw a guy lose control; I never saw a guy who was walking around with a deer-in-the-headlights look. I saw a guy who just kept grinding and was a leader," he explained.
That leader will now move on, and Dante Fowler predicts he'll only move upwards.
"He's young, a lot of people don't realize that but he has a bright future ahead of him and this really is just only the beginning you know for him and this is something he can say he did. I know it was a dream job for him and he's just accomplishing a lot of things that he wanted to do and he has a really bright future ahead of him."
That bright future will shine through countless players, as they move on to professional careers, some on the field, some not.
It will also be reflected in Gainesville.
The next coach may bring a championship and that would be much appreciated among fans.
He'll do so with young boys that Will Muschamp molded into men; and he'll be building a program on top of a solid foundation with a cornerstone of guys that represent class, respectability and hard work.
That is Will Muschamps legacy at Florida. He left it better than he found it, touching each life he came in contact with along the way, and as Tebow says, that's what Gator Nation should value the most.


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continued In a similar plea, Johnsburg Supervisor Ron Vanselow spoke of how his mother Dawn was a resident at Countryside and was receiving attentive care from the facility's employees.
"I think we need to look beyond the expense and consider what we value," he said. "We are willing to spend a lot of money on other things, but when it comes to human beings do we balk on it?"
Vanselow also warned that moving the Countryside residents elsewhere would mean lengthy commutes for family members to visit their elders.
Questions were also raised about how closing Countryside, located in Warrensburg, would displace a local senior mealsite operated there on weekdays.
Several county supervisors — Bud Taylor and Peter McDevitt of Glens Falls and Bill Mason of Queensbury — suggested that the county should postpone any decision until a sale of Westmount nursing home be completed, as a bidder on that transaction might offer to buy the home, or provide services for Countryside residents.
County Administrator Paul Dusek observed that when Countryside was offered for sale in the past, no viable bid was received.
Regardless of the supervisors' opinions on Countryside closure, there was a consensus that Deana Park was running the facility with expertise.
She noted that the recurring discussion of closure dismayed residents — and Queensbury at-large Supervisor Matt Sokol said the issue indeed ought to be put to rest.
The discussion was concluded with Horicon Supervisor Ralph Bentley calling for a vote to keep the home in operation.
Bentley, Sokol, Loeb and Strainer voted to keep Countryside in operation, and Kenny, Westcott and Thurman Supervisor Evelyn Wood voted against the measure.
After the meeting, Park said she was pleased with the outcome to save the home, which has served elderly county residents with modest means since the 1800s.
"On behalf of the staff and residents, we truly appreciate this vote of support," she said.
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Understand fees and commissions when buying investment gold pieces. Most reputable dealers will charge between five and seven percent. You need to realize this cost incurred to make sure you are still getting a good deal on the pieces you are buying, based on their true value at the time of purchase. At the start of your career in gold investment, stick to straightforward buying and selling. Avoid more common investments, such as gold futures. Futures are complicated and fluctuate wildly. You can end up losing a substantial amount of money very swiftly. Be sure you let seasoned investors grab these types of investments. Before you sell your scrap gold to a dealer at rock-bottom prices, make sure that it isn't worth more to you the way it is. Some things that lay people think aren't good enough for anything other than scrap can turn out to be very valuable. See an appraiser to be sure.
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So I know I have made a couple of these threads and havnt finished everyones drawings but I have completley lost track of everyones requests.
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By Staff Sgt. Ty Stafford
FORT HOOD, Texas - Medics from the Headquarters Support Company, 35th Infantry Division, Missouri National Guard, received emergency medical training while participating in a field support exercise for the III Corps at Fort Hood for their annual training June 3-22.
This training is the same as they would receive if they were mobilizing to a theater of operations overseas.
"We have seven medics for the exercise, and rather than have them sitting inside the tactical operations center I wanted them to get some training in the medical field," said Staff Sgt. Tonya Schelp, the noncommissioned officer in charge of the medics, who lives in Kansas City.
So in a partnership with the Fort Hood Darnall Army Hospital, the four medics were put through a 10 hour program involving emergency medicine.
Participating in the training were Spcs. Brianna Ebersold, Ashlie Mason and Michael Snodell along with Pfc. Jacqueline Woods.
Ebersold and Mason grew up nine miles apart in Kings City and Union Star and were high school rivals. Now, they are teammates in the emergency room for training.
"It has been a real eye opener," said Mason, "I thought I knew medical but I didn't. In training we use dummies to practice an IV stick so you have a landmark every time for a reference to stick the needle. On a real patient its different you actually have to search for the vein sometimes."
Ebersold agreed.
"This training sticks with me better having a real patient," she said.
The medics training included more than IV sticks.
"We did blood draws, EKG's, splints and a lot of stuff the emergency room staff do on a regular basis, but we don't," Ebersold said.
Both Ebersold and Mason share a passion for helping people, and Mason particularly found medicine interesting beginning her junior year of high school.
"I was in tech school and attended an anatomy and physiology class," Mason said. "There's so much to learn about the human body."
Also attending the training were Snodell and Woods.
Woods, a Blue Springs native, is planning on attending nursing school in the fall.
"This training is pretty awesome," she said. "Training at the unit you can only do so much without a doctor or physician's assistant on hand. Working with the NCOs and officers here is some of the best training we can get."
Getting hands-on experience versus classroom instruction is what Snodell craved the most.
"We are blessed to get this training," he said.
Life in an emergency room was laid back at times, but the few trauma cases they observed created a stressful environment conducive to learning.
"We saw a lot of different patients, from infant to elderly," Woods said. "It was a nice change from the normal healthy Soldier parameter we are used to seeing."
Snodell, from Kansas City, said that when they were training with patients, they knew if they made a mistake, the hospital staff would be blamed. That added pressure only enhanced their training.
"They taught us what to do and ensured we did everything right," he said.
At the end of their 10-day cycle each of these Soldiers will receive a certificate of completion for their training and will be able to add to their resumes. More importantly for the Soldiers of the 35th ID, they now know they have qualified medics who can treat and sustain them if ever they need them.
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Recipe by SMUCKER'S®
"Chocolate and peanut butter are a perfect combination in this snack recipe that's always welcome in a lunch bag."
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3 3/4 cups
powdered sugar
1/2 cup
1 (16 ounce) jar
SMUCKER'S® Natural Peanut Butter
3 cups
crispy cereal or corn flakes
1 (16 ounce) package
of semi-sweet chocolate chips
You have to use smuckers natural peanut butter in these bars. For those who said that they were too sweet, or didn't have enough liquid probably didn't use the right peanut butter. I have tried using store brands with this recipe and they never turn out the same. I always use rice crispys and the smuckers natural and they are perfect!
This recipe is odd - the corn flakes make the texture a little different. I agree with previous reviews - 1/2 cup of butter is not enough liquid. I halved this recipe and still used almost 1/2 a cup which is quite a bit of butter. These are very sweet but they aren't bad. I don't think I will make this again.
16 Ratings
Yummy! My son couldn't get enough!! Used half the sugar recommended (3-3/4 cups is FAR too much for anyone-no wonder some said it was too sweet!) and regular Kraft peanut butter (nuked for 30 seconds so its easier to mix) and turned out very well. Great way to use up those large boxes of cereal after the kids decide they have a new favorite!
Delicious. I've made these several times and everyone loves them. This recipe makes more like 60-80 bars, because they are far to rich to be bars, you should really cut them into bite sized pieces.
Delish! The kids loved these. Please not that the recipe calls for ALL NATURAL PEANUT BUTTER, i.e. UNSWEETENED peanut butter. That is why all the sugar is called for. If you are going to make these with regular peanut butter...well, just don't, because the powdered sugar makes the whole thing thicker, so if you leave some out you will change up the consistency. Just pick up a jar of the natural peanut butter, and you will be fine. :)
These were yummy! I made them to share with the whole gang for an annual camping trip with other families. They were gone within the first couple of hours and everyone was fighting for the last ones. So now I have to bring them every year! And they're so easy! I didn't use natural peanut butter, and I used milk chocolate chips instead, since I had a whole bunch of those. Very fun recipe!
This was a very sweet recipe. Next time I will either use less or no COrn Flakes. It was way to much. Overall it was very easy to make.
YUM! I took these to work and they disappeared! :) There's no way I'll make them again and leave them home, we'd eat WAY too many!
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- Okey Ndibe
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From founder to villain
By Okey Ndibe
My friend and colleague Sonala Olumhense recently offered a prayer for ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo. He wished for the man to live long in order to get a true measure of how Nigerians regard him.
Well, the verdict is not just trickling in, it's coming in a deluge. Many Nigerians want the man in the dock - to answer for his myriad misacts in office. Last week proved instructive in this regard. First, activist lawyer Femi Falana told an audience that it's a matter of time before Obasanjo is invited to account for the source of his sudden wealth. Like many Nigerians, Falana is amazed that a man who was virtually bankrupt when he emerged from Sani Abacha's gaol has turned into a mega commercial farmer. Temperance Farms in Ota, all but moribund in 1999, has become a miracle cash cow, generating - as Femi Fani Kayode told the BBC two years ago - a monthly profit of about $250,000. Besides, Obasanjo has gone ahead to buy choice farmland throughout the country.
If Obasanjo can demonstrate that he managed the feat of turning around his business fortunes without resorting to corrupt means, then he deserves the most prestigious endowed chair at the Harvard Business School. The rest of the world should drink from the spring of his business genius. But if he can't account for the startling rejuvenation of his businesses, then he may deserve a different kind of endowed chair - back in the hole where Abacha put him. And there are, I hazard, millions of Nigerians who won't mind seeing that happen - sooner rather than later.
Falana was not Obasanjo's lone nemesis from last week. An unlikely salvo came from Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, one of the ex-president's erstwhile acolytes. This is how close Iwuanyanwu was to Obasanjo: he anchored the ex-president's campaigns in the southeast in 1999 and 2003. He was also one of the misguided champions of Obasanjo's third term gambit. When the ruling PDP orchestrated one of the political farces of this young century by declaring Obasanjo the founder of modern Nigeria, Iwuanyanwu was there to lend his imprimatur.
In short, Iwuanyanwu, who can't seem to decide between road and political contracting, is not one to be mistaken for a reflexive Obasanjo-basher. Yet, Iwuanyanwu seems to know a troubled, expired political product when he sees one. Last week, fresh from a meeting with Umar Yar'Adua, the current occupant of Aso Rock, Iwuanyanwu felt a need to disabuse Nigerians of the notion that Obasanjo was the nation's remote controller. Obasanjo, declared Iwuanyanwu, has no power in the party or government. He stopped short of dubbing the ex-president a spent force.
Last week as well, Pastor Tunde Bakare, for eight years a consistent thorn in Obasanjo's side, asked his congregants to pray that no corrupt public officer, including Obasanjo, escaped justice. Turning his attention to the ex-president, Bakare said: "We know how much you weighed before you became head of state, you have to give account of how much you are worth now and how you came by it."
There was more of the same in the Vanguard of last Saturday, August 4. The headline told much of the story: "Probe Obasanjo, others now, Nigerians tell EFCC." Part of the report disclosed that many Nigerians believe that "what EFCC is doing is mere scratching on the surface of the problem" of corruption until the agency turns "its searchlightŌĆ"on the bigger boys of the last administration at the federal level for the wanton and flagrant looting of the national treasury."
Continued the report: "Specifically, many Nigerians are demanding that the
EFCC turns its searchlight on former President Olusegun Obasanjo who also doubled as the energy minister and his vice president, Atiku Abubakar who presided over the affairs of the PTDF and bring them to account for their actions in office."
Among those who made the cry for justice was Iro Dan-Musa, a member of the Board of Trustees of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party. His exact words: "If the EFCC would be sincere and extend its investigation to all levels of government in the former administration, nobody would be spared. If we look at the resources this country made from 1999 to the present time at all levels, we will agree that there is a problem. In other words, you can hardly let anyone off the hook in this war against corruption and financial impropriety."
One of Obasanjo's wives, Major Moji Obasanjo, even lent her voice to the chorus to probe the ex-president. For her, it was appropriate for the EFCC to pry into her husband's wealth. "It is okay to do that," she said, "because I have been asked several questions on the official conduct of former President Obasanjo. When I went for a presidential debate during the election, somebody said that Obasanjo has a refinery outside the country and expected me to react to that." Her reaction? "I told them that I don't know because really I don't. We don't need to bring sentiment in anything that has to do with the nation especially in its fight against corruption. There should be no sacred cows. Yes, former President Obasanjo is my husband but then, justice has to be done. If he has a case to answer, let him be quizzed because I have been asked questions on his official conducts on many occasions."
Balarabe Musa, former governor of old Kaduna State, was even more direct in echoing Mrs. Obasanjo. The anti-corruption agency's failure to investigate Obasanjo, said Musa, makes "nonsense of everything the EFCC has been doing." Then he added: "Former President Obasanjo has many allegations against him some of which have been made public at different times but he made no replies to them. If you ask me, Obasanjo is more corrupt than those indicted by the EFCC who are currently being tried. EFCC, ICPC and Code of Conduct Bureau should probe Obasanjo now that he has lost the immunity that covered him all these years."
Ayo Adebanjo, a politician and leader of Afenifere, told the newspaper that Obasanjo and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar ought to be queried. "There are many questions begging for answers of these former public officers," said Adebanjo. "For instance, Obasanjo allegedly had only N20,000 in 1999 when he came out of prison. How did he become the multi-billionaire that he is now? Atiku Abubakar allegedly saved him from bankruptcy but he has not said anything on that. How did he purchase Transcorp multi-million shares with only N20,000? He has questions to answer and EFCC should go after him now."
One of Obasanjo's gravest scams was his diversion of the nation's resources to wangle a constitutional amendment that would have enabled him to own the presidency unto death. It was no secret that billions of naira was spent to bribe legislators into assenting to the rape of the national will. In the heat of the illicit campaign, each reluctant legislator was reportedly offered a bait of N50 million.
Jigawa State's former governor, Saminu Turaki, has told the EFCC that, at Obasanjo's behest, he put in over N10 billion of his state's income in the third term war chest. Turaki specifically named Andy Uba as the man who picked up the money on behalf of the former president. Uba rushed out with a tepid refutation, implying that Turaki's fertile imagination had run away with him. I'm sorry, but I found Turaki's claim more convincing than the denial.
In fact, Turaki was far from being the only governor to make a foolish, imprudent investment in the dud that was third term. Many other governors, seduced with promises of getting automatic third term berths, also dipped hands in their state treasuries to support a crooked proposition. Obasanjo and his aides threw slush funds into a diseased political project, but the former president could neither find the money nor the inclination to repair the Sagamu-Ore-Benin expressway - perhaps the most heavily used highway in the nation.
In the past, with Obasanjo still in the saddle, the EFCC had chosen to feign ignorance. The commission pretended not to know that the whole third term charade was sponsored and sustained through corrupt inducement. It is time the commission got cracking, and got to the bottom of this mess. Obasanjo's depraved pursuit of third term in the face of unmistakable national opposition brought the nation dangerously close to anarchy.
Obasanjo's major contribution to Nigeria's political experience may well be as a chastening, cautionary tale about the limits of power. Though gifted with a great outpouring of goodwill in 1999, Obasanjo chose to fritter away his fund of goodwill in pursuit of self-aggrandizement. At each dramatic turn he placed himself on the wrong side of public expectation. He consorted with thugs and more than a smattering of criminals. Then, as he faced the certainty of his exit from office, he began an effete attempt to rig history. He declared himself founder of modern Nigeria. He even suggested that, without him as our perpetual guide, Nigeria was lost.
He has lived long enough after leaving office to grasp the low regard in which he's held in and outside of Nigeria. Any praise that's come Yar'Adua's way so far owed precisely to his reversal of Obasanjo's policies and renunciation of the ex-president's odious style. Last week, few Nigerians used a flattering word while speaking about Obasanjo. The delusive founder of modern Nigeria has turned into Nigeria's chief villain.
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Re: From founder to villain
Eja posted on 08-06-2007, 16:07:23 PM
"Behind every great fortune, there is a crime." Honore de Balzac.
Unless a person is committed to a 100% no-compromise, no extenuating circumstances type of anti-capitalist line, then all polemics against successful players of the game are worthless. Non-credible.
There is no one successful player in the capitalist globe, I repeat, NO ONE BIG-BALLER CAPITALIST (at any period of history), who has not cut corners, suborned the law, taken unfair advantage, rigged the markets, skinned the customers, or committed straight-up atrocities in order to accumulate a fortune.
In other words, if we are so hot-up about the alleged sheenanigans of the likes of General Obasanjo, then, rather than to keep making personal attacks on their person, it would be more productive to dissect and disintegerate the system that enabled their actions. Or, is it assummed that all it would take to transform our Nigeria into heaven on Earth would be for Obasanjo to give up his moneys and properties and be thrown under some jail?
Please, let us get real. As long as we are operating this s**tstem, then if not Obasanjo, it would have been someone else. And, for as long as we keep operating this s**tstem, then, sad to say, we aint seen nothing yet. Wait till Nigeria itself gets sold off lock stock and barrel. Wait until all Nigerians (at home and abroad) become the inalienable property of some foreign based corporation. Nightmares? Life is long.
So please Professor, wind down the anti-Obasanjo based polemics. You are a fine writer and it would be of great benefit to us all if you would shift your attack (and powers of analysis) onto this incredible s**tstem that keeps handing over control of our ship-of-state to incompetent boss-eyed pilots.
Re: From founder to villain
Mikky jaga posted on 08-06-2007, 17:02:31 PM
Eja, well said.
But before we clean up the s hitstem as you called it, let us prosecute all that took unfair advantage of the s hitstem to corruptly enrich themselves or we stop the selective prosecution going on at present. The latter option will give all of us the right to loot as we will till the s hitstem is overhauled.
Re: From founder to villain
Tonsoyo posted on 08-06-2007, 17:07:50 PM
"So please Professor, wind down the anti-Obasanjo based polemics. You are a fine writer and it would be of great benefit to us all if you would shift your attack (and powers of analysis) onto this incredible s**tstem that keeps handing over control of our ship-of-state to incompetent boss-eyed pilots"
Why begging a hunch-back to stand tall, if he can he would. I think Okey Ndibe got his professorship in Obasanjo-ism.
Even Sunny Okosun who was famed for making his money singing about nothing else but apartheid South Africa was smart enough to shift his focus to religion when the region became independent. He tried moslem songs for a while when he discovered that it was not as lucrative, quickly embraced xtian songs and became a Pastor.
Okey is still dancing in the market square when the drummers are long gone.
We are still waiting to hear what he has to say about his boss Kalu an Obasanjo's begotten child in thievery.
Re: From founder to villain
Tonsoyo posted on 08-06-2007, 17:09:14 PM
"So please Professor, wind down the anti-Obasanjo based polemics. You are a fine writer and it would be of great benefit to us all if you would shift your attack (and powers of analysis) onto this incredible s**tstem that keeps handing over control of our ship-of-state to incompetent boss-eyed pilots"
Why begging a hunch-back to stand tall, if he can he would. I think Okey Ndibe got his professorship in Obasanjo-ism.
Even Sunny Okosun who was famed for making his money singing about nothing else but South Africa was smart enough to shift his focus to religion when the region became independent. He tried moslem songs for a while when he discovered that it was not as lucrative, quickly embraced xtian songs and became a Pastor.
Okey is still dancing in the market square when the drummers are long gone.
We are still waiting to hear what he has to say about his boss Kalu an Obasanjo's begotten child in thievery.
Re: From founder to villain
Tonsoyo posted on 08-06-2007, 17:15:19 PM
To do your above the focus should then shift to Yar'adua the man in charge now, to make sure that there are no sacred cows, but Okey has chosen to remain in the past. You can tell by the style of his writing that he is not interested in change, but a man pursuing Obasanjo with vengeance. What does he have to say about OBJ that has not been written about or that we have not heard before.
His writing is now nothing but another noise in the market place. He has refused to distinguish himself, that is a mark of writer lacking in ideas.
Re: From founder to villain
Willy posted on 08-06-2007, 18:56:22 PM
After the posturing by some villagers it will get down to a single question: Do you have any problem with probing Obasanjo, and other past government officials especially those suspected, and named for graft?
And to this regards, I ask the Admin, or is it Robot to give villages an opportunity to vote for either probing Obasanjo and former office holders, or not, period!
Re: From founder to villain
Tony posted on 08-06-2007, 19:04:37 PM
your bias is clearly on tribal grounds, so no sane person can take you serious.
And for your information Obasanjo cannot be forgotten because he put Nigeria in the mess we are in today. After 7 years of oil boom under his watch there is nothing to show for it. No roads, no electricity, no hospitals, no schools, no sovereign national conference,crashing planes, crashing buildings, 419 elections, massive corruption etc
Obasanjo came to power with so much goodwill, but he ended up becoming a shameful failure. Without restructuring Nigeria he has handed it back to the North for another rough ride. A traitor, a failure and a charlatan, history cannot forget him, for then there would be no history.
Re: From founder to villain
Auspicious posted on 08-06-2007, 19:18:26 PM
Ah, Mr. Tony!
How do you know - how do you know that Tosonyo's \"bias\" is \"clearly on tribal grounds\"? From his history of comments here on NVS, Tonsoyo's thoughts of that former President who wasted the considerable amount of goodwill is clear - like that of many of Olusegun Obasanjo's fellow Yorubafolks, who view his 8-year rule with mixed feelings.
If anyone here is guilty of ethnic bias - especially of the sickening variety which you have been found bandying around this Square - it is YOU! Sooner or later, we will read you again boasting how you willl murder the \"Yoruba Couple\" who live in your Family Compound in the East, or how the Yoruba and Hausa are the most \"incompetent\" group in Nigeria..
(or how the Ijaw are an \"Ogogoro-Drinking never-do-wells\"..)
Thank goodness we haven't read Tonsoyo spewing such despicable bile around this Forum with the unabashed shamelessness that you do. Thank goodness there are many decent Igbo here than shameless hypocrites like yourself. You need to shut-up and stop preaching an example you never lived here on the Nigeria Village Square!
I am Auspicious the \"Village Oloopa\" (respects, Soul Sista)..and I approve this Message!
Re: From founder to villain
Tonsoyo posted on 08-06-2007, 19:26:07 PM
Yeah right Tony, who can fault the warped "reasoning" of our great Tony. Obasanjo of course put Nigeria in the mess we are today. Nigera was afterall better than America before 1999, when Obasanjo came and destroy all.
Thank you jare Prof. Emeritus Tony. BBC (Lond); VOA (America); LTV (Lagos); OGTV (Abeokuta) ati bebee lo apology EMJ.
But like Martin Luther King, I also have a dream that I shall one day participate in cyber dicussions, where I shall not be judge by my tribal affiliation but the content of my writings. I have a dream today.
Re: From founder to villain
Denker posted on 08-06-2007, 19:35:05 PM
Nigeria Quo Vadis...
I don't see much HOPE - the situation is absolute hopeless; Obj or no Obj, Okey or no Okey.
What is seriously in lacking are wo/men with workable solutions! Where are these wo/men?


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"Pasta in a red sauce with bacon and peas."
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1 (16 ounce) package
1 tablespoon
olive oil
1/4 pound
turkey bacon, cut into small pieces
1/2 large
onion, chopped
1 clove
garlic, minced
2 (15 ounce) cans
tomato sauce
1 1/2 teaspoons
chopped fresh parsley
1/4 teaspoon
dried basil
1 teaspoon
garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon
1 (15 ounce) can
peas, drained
1/4 cup
grated Romano cheese
very good, quick easy meal. I did not have turkey bacon on hand so I used very lean center cut bacon. I didn't see the point of using garlic powder and fresh garlic so I used 3 cloves of fresh garlic in place of the garlic powder and added a sprinkle of red pepper flakes, I also upped the basil, and added some oregano too. I am not a canned pea person so I used frozen peas and cooked a few minutes longer.
I didn't care for this recipe at all. To me the bacon flavor did not work with the sauce and the cheese didn't go flavorwise with the rest of the food. I won't be making this again.
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Pasta the way it oughta be - fresh tasting and lightly dressed. But...I used fresh, diced, red-ripe tomatoes,no garlic powder, no dried basil. I used bright green, frozen peas, not bothering to cook them. I used regular bacon and found I needed to add some butter to the pasta at the end. I didn't measure anything, just added and tossed till it was delicious and looked right.
I thought this recipe was great, but I did make a few additions to it. I added: 1/4 tsp oregano, 1/4 tsp italian seasoning, 1/4 tsp cayenne red pepper and 1/4 tsp Coriander. I added all the additional ingredients at the same time as with the garlic and basil. I didn't have fresh basil, so I added 1 tsp of dried basil. Kids loved it.
I really enjoyed the combination of flavors and textures in this recipe. Thought it was a nice change from the usual spaghetti/pasta sauce. I followed the suggestion to use coriander and used parmesan cheese for a topping. I also "swished" out the remaining tomato sauce in the can with a little wine and then added that to the sauce-gave it another flavor layer.
I liked this recipe. It reminded me of something my mom used to make us growing up. I've made it twice now but used my home grown tomatoes instead of tomato sauce. I used regular bacon and I tossed it with rigatoni noodles instead of spaghetti. Makes a a nice change for a pasta dish without being too heavy. Thanks!
I didn't love this recipe. It was sort of in-between...not too spicy, not bland, but couldn't really get a good taste out of it, everything just sort of blended together. Not sure if that's at all helpful, but I'm not planning to make it again.
very nice i made it with passata so it was very quick no simmering needed i also followed yolandas tips the cayenne pepper great addition!
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Greetings, All!I joined the forum because I love the richness of the discussions going on here. By the grace of God and His mercy, last year ET was removed from my mind, not that I ever really believed it anyway. Praise God in the name of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the WHOLE WORLD!Amen!


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So, everyone is welcome to buy my pixels, which are available in 100-pixel 'blocks' (each measuring 10x10 pixels). You will see the homepage is divided into 10,000 of these 100-pixel blocks (hence there are 1,000,000 pixels in total). The reason for selling them in 100-pixel blocks is because anything smaller would be too small to display anything meaningful.
You can buy as many pixels as you like, as long as there are some available (see the live stats in the top right corner of the page). When you buy some pixels, you can then display an image/ad/logo of your choice in the space you have purchased. You can also have the image click through to your own website. However, no obscene or offensive images are allowed.
The pixels you buy will be displayed on the homepage permanently. The homepage will not change. Using some of the money I make from the site, I guarantee to keep it online for at least 5 years, but hopefully much longer. I want it to become a kind of internet time capsule. So, in the long run, I believe the pixels will offer good value. You will have a piece of internet history!
Some people have even asked if I am actually 21 and going to University. Fair question I guess. The answer is of course yes, as this photo of me and my uni acceptance form should prove to any doubters:
For non-UK folks, 'UCAS' is the 'Universities and Colleges Admissions Service' who, as the name suggests, handle all University admissions in the UK. Forgive me for deliberately blurring out my address :)
So anyway, after an hour of two of jotting random things on paper, the idea seemingly popped out of nowhere. Almost like my subconscious mind had been ticking over in the background, working it all out. So it just kind of happened. That's about it. I scribbled it down and within about 10 minutes a picture of what needed to be done had emerged.
Infact, making any money whatsoever by selling pixels had to be worth a try. Afterall, I had plenty of pixels to start with! Furthermore, I knew the site had to be 'The Million Dollar Homepage' in order to catch people's attention - anything else just wouldn't cut it, eg. '$100,000 Homepage'. Er... no.
After that, I would like to pay for my parents to have some time off because they work so hard and they deserve a break. I would like to return some of the support they have given me over all these years.
Thirdly... socks! I definitely need some new socks. Whenever I buy new ones they seem to disappear, or they disintegrate. So I want to buy some really expensive, long-lasting socks.
Finally... if I reach the $1m target and still have money left over after buying my swanky new socks, then I have a couple of interesting business ideas I would love to invest some money in. So watch this space!
I also thought that the site would appeal more to people with businesses/websites to advertise than it would to individuals, or to put it more accurately, businesses would pay more to have a meaningful graphic on the homepage. Hence the minimum purchase is $100 - a 10x10 block.
However! If you really want to own a single pixel, there is always the option of clubbing together with your friends/family/colleauges and buying a 10x10 block.
The idea is to create something of an internet time capsule: a homepage that is unique and permanent. Everything on the internet keeps changing so fast, it will be nice to have something that stays solid and permanent for many years. You can be a part of that!
Also, given that the US has the largest online population in the world, more people will be able to relate to the concept than had I done it in British pounds. Plus, Ł1 GBP per pixel would probably be too expensive (would equate to around $1.80 US per pixel).
So I say good luck to the imitators! While in my opinion it's not very cool - I would prefer to come up with something original - in many ways the act of copying (perhaps more on a subconcious level than anything) is the basis of all creativity. But yeah, really bad rip-offs are seriously lame - I mean, if you're gonna copy the concept, at least come up with your own design and text!
UK folks > am I bothered? :)
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On the Hook: Suppose it was all catch and release
Over the centuries, philosophers have extolled the virtues of sportfishing in terms capturing the tranquility, charm, and genuine wholesomeness of the sport.
It was the ultimate respite from the pressures and stress of everyday life. You transfer all cares and worries to the exercise of tricking a creature with a brain the size of a grain of rice into taking your dangling bait.
Maybe the modern world with it's self centered focus on achievement and reward has altered that historic intent or perhaps it just evolved as civilization has over time but, in today's world, for many who participate, it has definitely been altered.
For those many, it no longer is it the relaxation, beauty and pure sport, it has become a matter of acquisition or "how many filets did you bring home." Too bad!
Suppose for a minute that sportfishing became just that, all catch and careful release. Would it make any difference? Is it the filets in the cooler or the sheer thrill of the strike, fight and catch?
I dug through my trip notes and found a trip a few years back which brings the issue to life in a unique sort of way. Let me share what happened.
One early afternoon, as I finished a charter and was cleaning a few fish for the day's customer's lunch, I couldn't help but notice a family group hop scotching from charter boat to charter boat obviously checking the volume of each captain's catch.
They arrived over by our cutting table rubbernecking the catch without a word but moved off to make a note. Probably a scribble of disappointment, I surmised, with our take home of just a couple luncheon filets.
I thought no more about the incident until a phone call that evening.
"We were at the marina today at noon today and were checking various catches," was the callers opening shot.
"I know. I saw you and your family," I acknowledged.
The conversation dealt solely with how many fish they could expect to put in the cooler on a half day trip. Honesty always prevails in a inquiry like that and explaining fishing is a day to day thing with some days are better than others and that there are no guarantees, met with abject silence on the other end. The call ended abruptly.
So I was surprised when I got a booking inquiry from our inquisitive family asking about availability for the next day. I had the day available and confirmed the booking but not without satisfying my curiosity; "you checked my minimal catch and heard my honest forecast for a box full, why me?
"You were the only charter with the day open" was the ego shattering response. Touche!
So our appointed hour arrived the next morning. Good tides but, unfortunately, the wind had picked up out of the west overnight and stirred up the water clarity so we would have some definite issues satisfying the "take" expectations especially not being able to get out on the reefs. But we'd give it our best shot in the backwaters.
Their crew was a family of four: Mom, dad and two teenage boys. All had the same drive to take every legal fish they could get their hands on. Their associated comments came fast and furious as we searched for our first spot with some clean water.
"When are we gonna start fishin.' ... Sure hope we get some big grouper back here ... What's taking so long, captain?" ... and lots of other snide remarks to make the trip a relaxing event.
We finally found a spot around the back side of a small island with clean water and good current. We went to work with shrimp on small hooks weighted with as little weight as possible. We had strikes almost immediately on mangrove snapper. Nice fish but, unfortunately, just a half inch or so undersized.
Convincing the kids that it's unlawful to take undersize fish was a significant task fending off offerings like "whose gonna know?" "It's close, we can take it." After well over a half hour, we had the grand total of one fish in the box.
Dad and mom began to fret with the time waning and the fish take well less than expectation. They asked about other spots and we moved frequently with a continued problem of boxing fish. We were catching lots of fish, albeit most undersized.
We even put them on some undersized snook in the mid 20 inch range that gave terrific action but they were distraught when told they couldn't even take a fish that size.
The anxiety level reached a crescendo with an hour left on the trip. They were beside themselves on the lack of "keepers" to the point where it was ruining the trip.
I asked them to take a time out and we'd discuss the issue. "Some days are like this," was my opening shot and implored them to enjoy the day and catching the nice fish we were catching. I went on all the boilerplate discussion as to the pleasures of fishing ... not necessarily taking.
They remained borderline defiant. I asked why they needed the fish filets. Mom popped up with "we promised my mom and dad we bring home some fish for dinner."
I did something I don't usually do. "Tell you what, I'll give you guys a $25 discount on today's trip with the provision that you spend it at the local fish market for some great snapper and grouper. It's almost as fresh as the fish we catch and it'll take the pressure off you, so you can really enjoy the pure fishing."
They all looked at one another and nodded.
There wasn't much time left but the difference in stress level and pure enjoyment of the fishing experience was immense. They all smiled, laughed and forgot about making the fishing experience a competitive event, as it should always be.


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2 women attacked outside northwest San Antonio apartments
San Antonio police: Man assaults 2 women, steals purse outside Montecito Apartments on Hausman Road
San Antonio police say two women were assaulted early Thursday morning in the parking lot of a northwest side apartment complex.
Police said the suspect attacked both women outside the Montecito Apartments in the 8300 block of West Hausman Road and stole one of their purses.
Police believe the suspect may have struck the first victim in the head with a large flashlight.
Police said she dropped her purse, but the suspect left the bag on the ground and attacked another woman instead.
The second victim also dropped her purse and the man fled with the bag, police said.
Investigators said they have a description of the suspect. Police have not announced an arrest in the case.
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Artist: Naledge
Album: Brain Power 2
Chicago emcee Naledge has returned with a freebie project, the Brain Power 2 mixtape. Featured on the 17-track project, hosted by DJ Sean Mac, is previously-released lead single "63rd and Hayes." Guests on BP2 include BJ... More
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Robert Downey Jr. is back. In other, more surprising news, Robert Downey Jr. is still alive.
Janet Jackson has secret teenage daughter with that DeBarge guy. Secret
meaning of "Who's Holding Donna Now" can finally be revealed.
Zach Morris set to play media strategist on "Commander in Chief." Producers deny Screech-as-Chief-Justice subplot.
to encrypt this year's Oscar screener DVDs, in effort to prevent piracy
of hot commodities like "Ice Princess" and "Herbie: Fully Loaded".
For the right price, Star Jones might just be willing to participate in an eating contest.
And lo, the sea's turned to blood and the sky to fire, Ashlee Simpson's CD at the top of the charts over Stevie Wonder.
John McCain to guest star on the new season of 24. Reportedly will make
compromise between terrorists and CTU, declared traitor by that wuss
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