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The day of surgery
Surgery is usually done on an outpatient basis. You may be asked to skip breakfast, depending on the time of your surgery.
Upon arrival for surgery, you will be given eye drops, and perhaps medications to help you relax. You will also be given an anesthetic (the type will depend on your particular situation) to numb the surgery site. Though you may see light and movement, you will not be able to see the surgery while it is happening, and will not have to worry about keeping your eye open or closed.
The skin around your eye will be thoroughly cleansed, and sterile coverings will be placed around your head.
When the operation is over, the surgeon will usually place a shield over your eye. After a short stay in the outpatient recovery area, you will be ready to go home. You should plan to have someone else drive you home.
Following surgery, you will need to:
How is the surgery done?
The most common type of cataract surgery performed in the United States is phacoemulsification.
Under an operating microscope, a small incision is made into the eye.
Microsurgical instruments are used to fragment and suction the cloudy or clear lens from the eye. The back membrane of the lens (called the posterior capsule) is left in place. A plastic intraocular lens implant will be placed inside the eye to replace the natural lens that was removed.
The incision is then closed. When stitches are used, they rarely need to be removed.
When is the laser used?
The posterior capsule sometimes turns cloudy several months or years after the original cataract operation. If this blurs your vision, a clear opening can be made painlessly in the center of the membrane with a laser.
Laser surgery is never part of the original cataract operation. If needed, excimer laser to correct residual refractive error may also be utilized after clear lens or cataract extractions.
Will cataract surgery improve my vision?
Over 95% of cataract surgeries improve vision, but a small number of patients may have problems. Symptoms including infection, bleeding and swelling or detachment of the retina are some of the more serious complications that may affect your vision. Call your ophthalmologist immediately if you have any of the following symptoms after surgery:
- Pain not relieved by non-prescription pain medication
- Loss of vision
- Nausea, vomiting or excessive coughing
- Injury to the eye.
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QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, when you're saying you have a bilat [inaudible], is it the Prime Minister and the Defense Minister?
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: The last I heard the plane's due in and it's going to have on it the Foreign Minister and the Defense Minister. I hope. And I'm going to meet with them. I've already had bilaterals today with the Turkish MOD, the Danish MOD, and the Polish MOD. And coming up would be the Iraqi Foreign Minister and Defense Minister, the Secretary General prior to meeting with the President and then with the President, to be followed by Italy, U.K., Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and several other policides.
Tonight we have the DPC and the NACD and then a cocktail event with the Ministers of Defense and the Iraqi Foreign and Defense Ministers, and then a dinner with the Ministers of Defense from probably, I don't know how many countries. It's probably the 26 NATO countries plus some Partnership for Peace nations. So it will be big.
QUESTION: Tonight is the [inaudible]. Isn't the EAPC the dinner?
VOICE: No. This is the Ministers of Defense of NATO.
QUESTION: So the Iraqi bilat is going to be right away or tonight?
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: This afternoon.
It's interesting, NATO, I read articles in the press and I hear people talking about the relationships in NATO and I think back to when I came to Washington in the '50s, the Suez crisis; the '60s when France pulled out of NATO; in the Kennedy era the skybolt difficulties across the Atlantic; followed by the Vietnam War which caused great divisions within the Alliance. When I was Ambassador to NATO in the '70s, the Year of Europe with Michele Jeaubert in constant hostility with the United States and others in NATO. Big natural gas pipeline issue with Russia that Germany wanted to do and it caused a big split in NATO. The Pershing II during the Reagan administration; nuclear freeze issues; the Mansfield Amendments. If you think about it the last two years have been amazing in terms of not having those kinds of very serious tensions in the Alliance.
I don't know when in the history of the Alliance we've seen so many successes. If you think about it, we've got the NATO Response Force that's been established. The NATO transformation campaign is forcing more aggressive readiness reporting and certification standards and decisionmaking reforms. We've stood up the CBRN Defense Battalion which is an important accomplishment; created a streamlined command structure thanks to the work of J.D. Crouch. All of these have been U.S. initiatives, I might add. And moved from I think 20 to 11 headquarters – dropped out nine. Established the Allied Command Transformation, and we're working on interoperability.
NATO has taken command for the first time in the history of the Alliance of an activity. In this case it was the International Security Assistance Force mission in Afghanistan. The first time outside of the NATO treaty area and outside of Europe.
We have the Polish leadership and the multinational division in Iraq with NATO helping with force generation. I forget how many NATO countries are involved in Iraq now, but I think it's 11. Preparing to terminate the successful SFOR mission in Bosnia. NATO Headquarters will remain behind to kind of help with defense reform and counterterrorism and the hunt for war criminals, but it marks the end of a long, something like nine-year activity there that has been successfully completed, and a good thing. Continuing to act as a stabilizing force in Kosovo. Continuing with the maritime interdiction activities in Operation Active Endeavor.
We welcomed seven new members into NATO and now at this meeting here in Istanbul we very likely will see NATO reflect its decision to take on additional responsibilities in Afghanistan by expanding out of the ISAF Kabul area into some of the Provincial Reconstruction Teams to the north; and second, assuming a responsibility in Iraq for assisting in training the Iraqi security forces.
So if you put that in that context you get a quite different picture than one might otherwise get. If you think of the whole history, the span, from the '50s on and the enormous tensions that have existed in the Alliance and the fact that within the last two and a half to three years the accomplishments that have been made in many instances at the initiation of the United States, but also I would add through the leadership of Secretary General Robertson and now Jaap de Hoop Scheffer as well as the encouragement of so many friends and allies in NATO. I think it's an impressive set of accomplishments and an impressive record for the world's leading military alliance.
That is not, I am sure, a very newsworthy way of characterizing what is taking place, and for that I apologize. It does, however, have the benefit of being the truth.
With that, General Myers and I will sit back, relax, drink our diet colas and be just delighted to respond to anything that might come up.
QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, the Turkish Defense Minister has said before that Turkey has no intention of negotiating for the release of the three hostages in Iraq. I wonder if I might ask what your reaction, sir, is to the taking of more hostages and more threats of beheadings? And General Myers, are you all actively trying to rescue these people? What's your reaction?
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: I'll say what we always say. We're up against a group of people who are terrorists; who are killers; who make it a practice to kill innocent men, women and children; who have increasingly migrated away from attacking hard targets and are concentrating on soft targets, targets that are more vulnerable. It ought not to come as any surprise that there are some very bad people in the world, clusters of extremists, that represent a relatively small minority of the world population, that are engaged in a struggle against the entire rest of the world. That's why this 90-nation coalition is doing what it's doing to try to track down and stop them.
QUESTION: And the threat of beheadings?
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: What do you mean threat? They've already beheaded some people. Saddam Hussein beheaded people, took hands off, pulled tongues out and cut them out, heaved people off the tops of buildings. We've seen these types of things in our world previously. It tells you a lot about them and the importance of stopping them, finding them, tracking them down, squeezing down their finances, making it more difficult for them to organize. And to the extent we can capture them and stop them from doing what they're doing.
QUESTION: Mr. Chairman, are you all actively trying to find these people?
GENERAL MYERS: Of course.
QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, can talk a little bit more about – two things you mentioned, that NATO [inaudible]. That's going to probably improve shortly. What does it mean in practice in northern Afghanistan how many more troops will be up there? And then for Iraq --
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: In northern Afghanistan? Oh, I see.
QUESTION: For the PRTs. What in practice does that mean? And then on NATO, --
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: One at a time. On that one, it means that the Secretary General and the NATO nations have announced that they want to expand out of the relatively narrow task of the current ISAF in Kabul and the immediate environs and expand it to include sequentially a number of the so-called Provincial Reconstruction Teams that are headed by NATO nations in some cases, in other cases by NATO nations plus some non-NATO nations. That's what it means. It means that we have arrived at the point where the capabilities necessary for NATO to do that have been generated according to General Jones, the Supreme Allied Commander. And I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe we're at that point where that will be announced.
QUESTION: And they'll assume control of existing PRTs or create new ones as well?
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: Both things are happening. Precisely which ones they will take control of very likely will start in a defined area and then expand from that. But at the moment it will be ones to the north, and for sure one in Kanduz, I know, a German-led PRT.
QUESTION: On NATO training, what in practice does this mean, particularly in regards to what General Patraeus is already doing now.
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: Patraeus just arrived about a week ago. We have been training and equipping forces in Iraq for a year plus, and we've gone from zero to 206,000. There is still a lot of work to do. Some of the 206,000 need to have their training advanced. Many of them still need to have equipment improved. The new Iraqi government is making judgments about how it's going to recast those various security forces. The Prime Minister –
If you think of it, you currently have the army, the police, the civil defense corps, the site protection and the border patrol. The new government of Iraq is in the process and has been meeting with our people to explain that what they would like to do would be to accelerate the size of the army and one way they might do that is to chop the civil defense corps into it. Add to their training, add to their capabilities and equipping. So it kind of depends on what the Iraqis decide and what the coalition countries then agree is a portion of the needs that the Iraqis have that can best be fulfilled. The important thing is that NATO is assuming a responsibility to assist in the training and equipping of the Iraqi forces.
What will happen is it will be a partnership. NATO will have, we already have a number of countries in there helping to do these things, but they will then work with the Iraqi chain of command and the new Iraqi government and tasks will be assigned out, and among those people involved will be the U.S. activities, will clearly play a significant role in it.
QUESTION: -- inside Iraq?
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: We've been doing it both places, but I think Jaap de Hoop Scheffer just announced today that it will be done both in and out. If you think of it, we've been training some police, for example, in Jordan. But one would have to recognize the overwhelming bulk of the training and equipping will take place in the country.
It's important when you think about this task to not think that you take a recruit, stick him in a training program, and then he comes out and he goes and does it. It just isn't the way it works. These people when they come out have to be fit into a chain of command some place. They have to have a mentoring program so that they have continuing training after they've gotten where they have gotten, and it is a much more sophisticated task than simply putting somebody through school and then shoving them out into the society. He needs to be a part of a unit, he needs to be a mentoring process and in some cases they will be embedded with other types of Iraqi security forces or Coalition security forces.
QUESTION: Are these lessons that you've learned from say the April experience in some of these things you just mentioned, that weren't maybe being done or done as rigorously before?
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: They've been done unevenly around the country and in Afghanistan over two and a half years, and I wouldn't say it's a lesson learned. People knew all along that to get a good police officer trained it took eight or twelve weeks, depending on the prior experience. Conscious decisions were made that it was important to recruit people and get people off the street so that they didn't become criminals or go out and get hired by the terrorists. So a lot of policemen were scooped up by our division leaders, recruited, paid, and made policemen and put out on the beat in three or four weeks with the understanding they'd go back and get the extra training later. So I don't know that I'd call it lessons learned as much as we're now in a stage where we've got lots of people, despite the fact over 400 Iraqi security forces have been killed already. We've got folks standing in line for those jobs and that's a good thing. My guess is we'll keep recruiting heavily for the same reason I said, to get them off the streets as well as to get them trained.
QUESTION: You would envision then some embedding on the part of NATO trainers and so on with Iraqi units?
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: No. NATO's task would be to help train and equip. Once they're trained and equipped they've got to be then fit into Coalition and more sophisticated Iraqi forces and the embedding would be done like that, I would guess.
QUESTION: With the Coalition forces, is that right? Coalition forces with Iraqi units?
GENERAL MYERS: Probably. Let me just mention one thing on the Secretary's earlier comments. The Interim Iraqi Government has already talked about making sure the standards for the ICDC, which will probably become the Iraqi National Guard, but the standards are even. It's a good thing. They've said, just to reinforce the Secretary's point, we need uniform standards across all these different units. They're going to put a command and control structure over the Iraqi National Guard, the ICDC. They're thinking about it, it's their business, and we'll help.
I don't think you can rule out NATO forces, small numbers perhaps embedding to do the mentoring piece, is what I'm thinking.
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: But don't you think they'd be more likely to be NATO Coalition forces as opposed to NATO --
GENERAL MYERS: Yes. Probably. It depends on the unit.
QUESTION: General Myers, you just said the ICDC is likely to become now an Iraqi national guard. Mr. Secretary, you said they were likely to become part of the Army. Are you all looking at this like an [inaudible] structure?
GENERAL MYERS: No.
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: He hasn't refined it yet but the Prime Minister's the one that's A, announced it, not us; B, made the decision, not us; and the national guard as I understand it would be part of the army.
GENERAL MYERS: It would be, but not in the sense that our National Guard is. They have different connotations.
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: They want to change the name of the civil defense because apparently in Iraq the civil defense corps means fire department. It's kind of demeaning to call these folks that, so they're going to change the name, I believe, and get them more connected to the army and the national guard and have more of a military connotation than a fire department connotation.
QUESTION: Just before I came downstairs I was reading on the computer and a story broke out of Afghanistan where the Taliban have killed I want to say 17, perhaps 18 people who they've found out in the provinces, with voting cards. They killed them because they had voting cards. Does this illustrate or highlight the need to put these NATO forces [inaudible] in --
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: I haven't seen the article.
QUESTION: It just said the Taliban claimed credit for doing it and did it because they had voting cards.
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: There's no question but the extremists are killing targets that represent success. The Taliban never wanted women to vote, let alone go out in the street alone or go to doctors or go to school or do anything. So the idea that a woman would register to vote, it should come as no surprise that the Taliban doesn't like that. That's one of the challenges that the Afghan government has is to find ways so that women can in fact register to vote without getting killed and without being harassed or stopped by either Taliban or people in the country who don't think women ought to participate as the constitution provides for.
The same thing is happening in Iraq and other parts of the world. When people see things that do not fit the model that the extremists see of the world which is going back hundreds and hundreds of years to a totally different role for women, a society that is ruled by their likes in a very strict way, then they're going to try to stop it. If they see progress they try to stop it. We just simply have to recognize that the vast majority of the people in the world aren't going to accept that.
QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, I'm just wondering if you might be able to clear up a little confusion about Afghanistan and the PRTs. It's my understanding that NATO had already undertaken the PRT mission, five of them, I think, but had only staffed one. My understanding is the Dutch government just agreed to staff another. I'm wondering if you could clarify how many others are going to be filled.
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: The way to think of it is this. NATO did make announcement of a political commitment to do that. That has to be followed with practical facts. General Jones then had the task of saying okay, NATO, you've made a political commitment. Now I'm going to go out to the countries and see if we'll live up to this political commitment and over a period of weeks and months he had to get so many C-130s, so many helicopters, so many troops, so many quick response capabilities, so much intelligence assets and what have you, and he has been gathering all that up and tin-cupping the NATO countries and in fact got to the point where he can say whew, we did it.
QUESTION: So that's what --
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: That's what's been happening since the political, and what number that encompasses, let's ask Nick Burns. What very likely will happen is as that capability grows they will add additional PRTs to it and as countries decide to take on additional PRTs they will ask that the NATO umbrella include them.
QUESTION: Another subject, does anyone know how many PRTs there are now?
VOICE: Sixteen total.
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: Existent?
VOICE: Existent.
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: How many committed? Another five or so?
VOICE: I think there are five more for a total of 21.
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: Something like that.
QUESTION: And ten of those are U.S., right?
VOICE: I don't know the exact number but I can get it for you.
QUESTION: In other words did you say you had 16 --
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: You can't say you had, because one gets added periodically, it keeps growing. It started with one. We started doing this at our instance a long time ago, a year and a half ago, to see if it worked, whether it would be a helpful way of extending government influence out into the provinces and giving people a stake in how that thing sorts out, and quite honestly.
QUESTION: Sir, on another topic, the Iranians today announced that they are going to resume the construction of centrifuges for enriching uranium.
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: For peaceful --
QUESTION: For peaceful purposes. But I'm just wondering if you have any comment on that.
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: Well, you've got a country that's on the terrorist list that's making mischief in Afghanistan, making mischief in Iraq, working with Syria to support the Hezbollah terrorism in the Middle East, and now has visibly, publicly defied the United Nations IAEA stipulations. I guess the question would be why would one be surprised?
QUESTION: Sir, I'd like to ask you about the rapid response capability being beefed up within NATO. What kind of missions do you see that would be most applicable, and how is it going to be made up? Where would it be based?
GENERAL MYERS: The NATO Response Force will develop over time. This is going to be one of the main ways that NATO transforms itself, gets forces that are usable, deployable, and can meet various missions. I think you'll see it being used for a variety of things, from humanitarian crisis to full-scale conflict. And the nice thing about it is that the force that is asked for every time in the different rotations is tailorable by the military forces depending on the political will of the Alliance to go do what it has to do.
An example would be, and I'm not saying this is going to happen, but an example would be the Olympics in Athens. They need a certain capability the military has. It might be the NATO Response Force would provide those. It certainly wouldn't be the whole Response Force. You don't need a bunch of infantry battalions, but you might need some of the capability -- their chemical, biological, [inaudible] contamination for instance. So it will be tailored for the tasks.
QUESTION: How big would this group be?
GENERAL MYERS: They go on rotations and each one has a list of force requirements. We could get that for you because it will vary a little bit but there's a number we could probably get for you if you want that. It's sort of a kind of capability that it would have. But there are land pieces, there are air pieces, there are naval pieces, special forces pieces and lots of mixed capabilities like I mentioned, the chemical, biological, [inaudible] contamination.
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: When we proposed it a year, year and a half ago, the reality is if NATO's a military alliance, a military alliance has no real relevance unless it has the ability to fairly rapidly deploy military capabilities. NATO did not have a NATO Response Force that could do that in a short period of time, effectively, as committed forces that were known in advance, trained and ready and equipped to do a series of tasks that could be, as Dick says, modular, put together, mix and match depending on the crisis. It could range all the way from peaceful humanitarian type of systems up to full-fledged combat.
Countries then had to make commitments, dedicate assets to it. And the first tranche and the second tranche and the third tranche, I believe in six-month pieces?
GENERAL MYERS: Yes, sir.
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: Have been being committed. Now the task is to use it. There's no point in having it if you don't use it.
QUESTION: So it's all up and ready?
GENERAL MYERS: Oh, yes, it's been [inaudible] third, I think --
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: It hasn't been used yet.
GENERAL MYERS: In fact it takes command today, is today here for I think NRF three. There is a command structure that goes with it, there's a certification of the forces, and it's not like they all go hang out in one place. They are forces that are committed by the various alliances.
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: And are on a short string, ready to go.
GENERAL MYERS: Ready to go.
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: They're supposed to be ready to go.
Now [inaudible] you have to use that. You say where might you do it? Well, one example might you do it is for the Olympics, if there were that kind of a need. Another example, you might do it if it were to be decided that the elections in Afghanistan would benefit from some additional capability so that the kind of thing you're talking about that happens doesn't happen during that period. People who want to disrupt the election are prevented from disrupting the election. That's an example of how it might be --
QUESTION: Host nations do the requesting?
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: I beg your pardon?
QUESTION: The host nation would do the requesting?
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: Yeah. You wouldn't go sending them places that --
QUESTION: Yeah.
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: Generally in an environment like that Greece would have to ask or Afghanistan would have to ask. On the other hand, you could have a hostile environment where the host nation didn't do the requesting, where there was an attack on some NATO nation, a capability somewhere in the world.
QUESTION: You were talking this morning about the fact that there are limits currently that national governments put on the use of their military forces, and that's a discussion that's going to be coming up here. We saw it in operation in [inaudible] to some extent. I'm wondering if that is a reason why this force hasn't been – you're on the third generation – why this force hasn't been used yet, or is it because you haven't received any requests for its use? And will those limitations affect your ability to use this force?
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: On the record, certainly the NATO Response Force would have to have fully understood, fully coordinated rules of engagement. You can't have elements that have one set of rules and elements in a response force that have another set of rules. You'd have to have sorted out national caveats or national differences in those things prior to utilization.
The second thing you have to have is you have, to employ a NATO response force you have to have a consensus in NATO. It operates on consensus. Therefore you would have to have agreement that that use of it would be appropriate.
QUESTION: My question is, because those national caveats exist, is that a reason why the first two generations haven't been used? And how are you going to deal with this question in the future if that's the case?
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: NATO is going to have to – First of all, it's going to have to use its response force or else it will atrophy. Second, you have to sort through those caveats and differences with respect to ROEs to the extent you're going to end up engaged with those forces.
VOICE: Why don't we shift over to the camera portion.
QUESTION: Can I ask, there have been several airstrikes against Zarkawi safehouses, and yet we've had the kidnappings. It's obviously a very active [inaudible]. Can you sort of lay out what damage you think is done to his network with the airstrikes and sort of what the state of play is now?
GENERAL MYERS: We've picked up a couple of his lieutenants. That's helpful. But we haven't gotten him, the airstrikes have missed. So what I think people need to know is we are working very hard to bring this organization down the best we can. There's a major effort underway to do that.
It sort of reminds me of the conversation we had before we got Saddam Hussein. It's the same sort of thing. We kept saying well, we've almost got him, almost got him. The Secretary said close doesn't count. So --
QUESTION: [Inaudible].
GENERAL MYERS: It doesn't count. But we do have a couple of his lieutenants.
QUESTION: By get them you mean you've captured a couple, you haven't killed them with a bomb.
GENERAL MYERS: Right. We've captured a couple of his lieutenants.
QUESTION: Thanks for your time.


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I can't say way but I love these covers. I guess it is the humor and the fact that it has some many incarnations. Oh, and I love the Justice league International heroes. In each cover everyone is looking forward and slightly up. Usually there is a funny comment added as well. I think I got them all but maybe not. Let me know if I missed one.


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Lee's legal history preserved as part of statewide project
The 2010 fire that heavily damaged the Chatham County courthouse in Pittsboro has now led to a statewide push to document portraits and other historical records from courts in all 100 counties across the state.
Danny Moody, director of the N.C. Supreme Court Historical Society, said he has been thinking about expanding his legal history research outside the confines of the state's high court for years. However, his drive was galvanized after the Pittsboro fire, which was sparked during restoration work and gutted most of the courthouse's interior. The Chatham Historical Society Museum, which was located in the courthouse, was relatively unscathed, but a painting of William Pitt, the Earl of Chatham — for whom both Pittsboro and Chatham County are named — was completely destroyed.
"If someone doesn't record those things, they're going to be lost forever," Moody said Monday. He visited the old Lee County courthouse Friday, and he said the brief biographies he'll write on those locals honored should be available at www.ncschs.net in the next six to eight weeks. He said he might also send hard copies to the library and clerk of court's office to make it more accessible.
"Historical research is not very useful if nobody uses it," he said.
But people do seem to use and appreciate it, as evidenced by the ceremonies planned for the grand reopening of the courthouse — set for Saturday, April 20 — and the outpouring of grief from many community members after it happened.
"Like anything that we lost in the fire, it's regrettable that it happened," Walter Harris, a member of the Chatham County Historical Association board of directors, told The Herald at the time, speaking about the lost painting. "It's a very unfortunate accident."
When it comes to Lee County's legal history-makers, Moody said Clawson Williams comes to mind. Williams was born in Sanford and became the county's first Superior Court judge when the county was formed from pieces of Harnett, Moore and Chatham counties in 1907. In 1925, Williams presided over the state's first capital punishment case since Reconstruction, which was also the first North Carolina trial with photographic evidence.
"It was something to behold in 1925," Moody said of the case, in which one Harnett County man walked up to his neighbor and shot him with a shotgun over an argument about road construction. "... My family moved [to Harnett County] in 1968, and when we got here, people were still talking about the case."
More than mere rulings and precedents, legal history can also act as a lens through which to examine cultural trends and changes — which Moody said is evident through a case in the early 1950s in which Williams sentenced Ku Klux Klan members in Whiteville to jail for a series of attacks.
Moody said that trial stopped much Klan activity in the southeast part of the state, and at the time, Williams toted a carbine rifle he received from the inventor of that gun — a man who Williams had imprisoned for second-degree murder years earlier. The inventor committed the murder in connection to a bootlegging operation he ran during prohibition, and Moody said he apparently didn't have any hard feelings because bootleggers would simply go right back into business after getting out of jail, with the added benefit that more people knew about their services. Hearing about threats on Williams's life from the Klan, he sent him the carbine.
"You can't make this stuff up," Moody said.


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Pepe Reina was an unused substitute as holders Spain crashed out of the World Cup after a 2-0 defeat by Chile at the Maracana in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday night.
After their opening day hammering by Holland, Xabi Alonso and co knew a win was a must.
However, Chile had other ideas as they produced a fantastic performance.
They took the lead after 19 minutes when Eduardo Vargas fired past Iker Casillas after superb play by Alexis Sanchez and Charles Aranguiz.
Then an error from Casillas led to a second goal. The Real Madrid stopper chose to punch away a free-kick rather than a simpl catch, and it was punished ruthlessly when Aranguiz brilliantly fired into the net for 2-0.
Chile now join Holland in qualifying for the next stage while Spain finish their 2014 World Cup campaign with a clash against Australia on Monday evening.
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One of the first things to catch the eye when approaching the Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II Museum in Palembang are the twin semicircular stone staircases that lead up to the entrance. They are attractive and unusual but can trip you up, since they are both quite steep and twisting. Care is needed when climbing them.
Once these attractive yet somewhat challenging staircases have been negotiated, it is time to take off your shoes. In the entranceway to the museum, there is a small huddle of people who are welcoming but quick to point out that they would like you to remove your footwear both to keep the inside clean and to protect the fine timber floors that lie within.
Among the small group of welcoming people will usually be a person who wishes to act as a guide. On this visit, there was an elderly gentleman in a bright South Sumatra T-shirt who was keen to show the way and proud to offer guidance in English, although it had to be said that his English was difficult to catch and Indonesian would have been far more comfortable.
Nonetheless, the guide was enthusiastic about imparting his knowledge to visitors. There was an evident pride in the museum, and this pride is not misplaced as the museum does attempt, in its unique way, to represent and uphold the culture and history of Palembang and South Sumatra.
The building that contains this museum is in many respects a part of that history and culture. It was constructed in the 1820s by the Dutch colonial rulers as an official center for their activities in Palembang. But the choice of the site was both deliberate and symbolic.
The site had been the location of the palace of the then Sultan of Palembang, Mahmud Badaruddin Jayo Wikramo. He resisted and fought the Dutch but was eventually overcome by them in 1821 and was subsequently sent into exile. The Dutch, rather vindictively, then tore down his palace and erected this building instead.
During World War II, the Japanese took over the building and used it as a military headquarters. After the war, the Indonesian Army did the same. Eventually it became a local government office before finally being converted into a museum.
That's arguably its best function to date. The museum has its place in society and it fulfills a role of both preserving heritage and culture and educating people about the town and its region.
The museum organizes its collection in quite an interesting way. The "life cycle," as it exists in South Sumatra, is prominently considered and thus there are exhibits that take the visitor through the typical life cycle of a person living in Palembang or South Sumatra.
There is an exhibit looking at birth in this region. This includes a quaint little baby's bed that is a miniature four-poster bed. Another exhibit looks at the ritual and ceremony involved in the circumcision of young boys. Marriage, too, is extensively considered as the gifts required to set up a marriage are presented and the amazing costumes and furnishings of the marriage ceremony are also represented here.
Throughout these exhibits there is a significant representation of the famous songket textile from these parts. This amazing fabric is shown off to good effect; its typically deep maroon color and rich golden embroidery is something of a cultural splendor of these parts, and throughout this museum it adds a very attractive element.
The remarkably skilled process of making this cloth is also explicitly represented by the presence of the wooden weaving machines that are used to create it. These quite rudimentary machines look so simple it is almost hard to believe that such exquisite materials are made on them. The skills and patience that the workers must have is considerable.
Elsewhere in the museum, the tools of impatience and intolerance are represented. In a section considering the colonial rule of the Dutch, a collection of small cannons is displayed. These cannons are mounted on small wheels, almost giving them the look of toys, but there is no doubting the ruthlessness and violence that has been historically wrought on Palembang and its surroundings.
The Sultan after whom this museum is named was removed from power by the Dutch, and as the colonials laid siege to the town many people must have died a violent death. Some of their weapons are also on display here, but they are only traditional knives and these blades would have been no match for the guns and cannons of the Dutch.
The museum's buildings are impressive and thus a better legacy of the Dutch time here, but outside the museum are some pieces that reflect the fact that this area has a history that significantly predates the arrival of the Dutch. Standing in specially erected shelters are four stone statues.
Two of these statues represent the god Ganesha, but one of these has suffered badly over the centuries. So, too, has a now-headless lion statue. One of the Ganesha statues is impressive, as is the statue of the Buddha.
The statue of the Buddha stands alone and seems rather lonely. It, too, has suffered damage over the centuries, but it does apparently date from the sixth or seventh century. This statue illustrates the long history that is to be found here and the museum itself interestingly and uniquely represents the often fine culture and heritage of Palembang and the surrounding region of South Sumatra.


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GDC 2013 Demo: Real Time Dynamic Fracture with Volumetric Approximate Convex Decompos
Quite interesting technical demo video was revealed today by Matthias Müller-Fischer, PhysX SDK Research Lead in NVIDIA.
It is showcasing a further evolution of a dynamic real-time fracturing and GPU accelerated rigid body simulation algorithm, firstly presented at GDC 2012. As you may see, improved method works perfectly with complex arbitrary meshes, not just basic shapes.
A paper describing this technology, called 'Real Time Dynamic Fracture with Volumetric Approximate Convex Decompositions', will be available for public download later on, once it will be approved for SIGGRAPH.
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The pricing for iStudiez Pro is as wrong as the day is long. It's $2.99. :)
Best iPhone and iPad apps for high school students: iStudiez Pro, Khan Academy, Flashcards+, and more!
The best iPhone and iPad apps to help high school student be more productive both at home and in the classroom!
Whether back to school has already come and gone, is about to be here, or is still waiting to happen, for students, parents, and teachers alike it means stocking up on all the basics - clothes, supplies... and apps! Yes, we're living in the educational future now, and there are lots of apps available in the App Store for both iPhone and iPad that can help make any school year better. From helping manage to helping complete homework to better preparing for and passing tests, there really are high school apps for all that. And here are some of our favorites!
iStudiez Pro
iStudiez Pro provides students with a great way to track homework assignments and due dates. Being organized is something high school students sometimes struggle with. Using iStudiez Pro can help boost productivity and ensure that things are getting turned in on time. With notifications for assignments and approaching due dates, staying on top of classes has never been easier.
If you are a student that has trouble remembering when assignments are due or you're a parent that wants to be able to check in easily with your child on what's due and when, make sure you pick up iStudiez Pro.
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Khan Academy
Khan Academy contains a plethora of information, basic and advanced alike. You can drill down into individual categories from broad subjects to narrow ones. The way Khan Academy helps students is by breaking down different topics and showing videos on each that demonstrate different theories and topics.
If you want a supplemental learning tool to help you get through touch subjects, get Khan Academy.
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Pages lets you write everything from essays to newsletters, and store and sync them on all your devices from iPhone to iPad to Mac. Pages also has a good amount of templates for outlines and reports that can help get you started with different types of assignments.
Everyone needs Pages. It's simply a must-have.
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Dropbox is a great tool to use for storing assignment, papers, and anything else school related you may need. With an app for almost every platform, you can access your files regardless of where you are or what computer you're on. No more forgetting assignments or losing track of papers that you need in order to complete something. Creating folders for each subject will keep you organized and make sure all your stuff is safe. With 2GB of free storage, most students will have the space they need for free to stay on top of things.
If you need a cloud storage service to keep track of all your school paperwork, Dropbox is a great choice.
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Wolfram Alpha is a huge database of knowledge that can provide lots of reference information, math computations, and more. It contains information on literally every topic you could think of and makes for an invaluable resource especially at times when you need information quickly. It also ties into Siri on devices that support it making it as easy as asking Siri to answer a question for you. The actual app is still more robust than the Siri integration.
If you want a quick reference tool that spans any subject you could think of, get Wolfram Alpha.
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Flashcards+ lets you create flashcards for anything you need to in order to study with them. Repetition is the way most of us learn and having flashcards that you can carry with you anywhere and create with less effort than writing them out can make students be more apt to actually use them regularly. Whether it's between a break at school or while relaxing at home, Flashcards+ lets you bring studying with you anywhere you go.
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Your picks for best apps for high school students?
There are tons of apps in the App Store specifically catered to help students of all ages. These are our favorites but if you're a parent or high school student, make sure to let us know in the comments what apps you've found to be useful in helping with homework and studying throughout the school year.
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Best iPhone and iPad apps for high school students: iStudiez Pro, Khan Academy, Flashcards+, and more!
Nice article, i use most of these. I also use "Periodic Table for iOS" on the iPhone. It's freemium and looks great (beware of other crap in the App Store): http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tavola-periodica-periodic/id550462956?at=...
Instead of Dropbox, I would recommend Copy. This is a newer company but also has a good interface and multi platform apps. There are 2 advantages for Copy. You'll get more free space, namely 15GB even 20GB if you use a referral link like this one: https://copy.com?r=FZ98KB. (this gives me, just like you, 5gb extra :D)
And when you share you're map with other students or friends, you'll split the amount of cloud storage needed. If you use a 10gb folder for a project with 4 persons, it will cost you only 2.5gb of your own storage capacity.
Grouptime (www.grouptime.com) is amazing for group messaging and private sharing with fellow students. Far better than any other group messaging apps...
Hi, we are group of parents that are very dedicated to our kid's education. After looking at how our kids use the current offering of IPAD apps and desktop applications, we discovered that traditional productivity applications don't cater to the needs of students well because they don't follow school life and workflows close enough.
So we built our own.
As a result, we just released SchoolKit Mobile for high school students. With it, students can create notes, take and manage photo notes, write their homework with a fully featured editor, share with other students, send their assignments back to their teachers in PDF and print, all within the context of the relevant course. We have streamlined the interface to facilitate the workflow during class and we have built a look and feel that blends well with the teenager's culture.
It's currently available on the app store. You can also go to the website where we have put more information: www.schoolkitmobile.com.
In this blog post valuable information is shared about the school apps. The usability of such apps is limited to school, so schools have to subscribe the unlimited edition for school app usage, as they offer following benefits.
Reduces paper work..
Parent directly communicate with Teachers.
School Admin update student relevant information to the school app.
Beside these school save time and cost even collect fees online.
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About 1 out of every 3 children lives in a home where someone smokes regularly. Children exposed to secondhand smoke are at increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), ear infections, colds, pneumonia, bronchitis, severe asthma, headaches, sore throats, dizziness, nausea, lack of energy, and fussiness. The younger the child, the greater the risk is.
Secondhand smoke is made up of two things:
Secondhand smoke is also called passive or involuntary smoking. It contains over 250 harmful chemicals; about 50 of these can cause cancer.
What you can do to protect your child from secondhand smoke
For more information, read "How can secondhand smoke harm my child?" from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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Scientists are debating whether BPA (bisphenol A) and phthalates pose a risk to children's health. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has expressed concerns about chemicals used in plastics. BPA is used to make plastics clear, strong and hard to break. Some baby bottles, dishes and toys contain this chemical. Some research has found that bisphenol A can affect the brain, behavior and prostate gland in infants and children.
If you're concerned, buy BPA-free plastic baby products. You can also use baby bottles made of glass, polypropylene or polyethylene. If you use plastics, avoid plastics numbered 3 or 7 (look for the number in a triangle typically found on the bottom of containers). Use plastics numbered 1, 2 and 4. If plastic baby bottles and infant cups contain BPA, discard them if they have scratches. Don't put boiling or very hot liquids, such as formula, into plastic bottles or containers that contain BPA.


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Iterate 38: Aged & Distilled and Napkin
Marc, Seth, and Rene talk to Guy English, Chris Parrish, and Thomas Unterberger about Aged & Distilled's new image annotation app, Napkin, it's origins, the choices they made, and how they got it shipped.
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- Marc Edwards (@marcedwards) of Bjango
- Seth Clifford (@sethclifford) of Nickelfish
- Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie) of iMore.com
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Villanova University is seeking a Student Loan Coordinator to be responsible for activities related to the administration and management of the Federal Direct Loans and Alternative Loans and assist with the processing and management of the Federal Perkins, Federal Nursing and Nurse Faculty Loan programs. This position is responsible for certification, origination and transmittal of electronic loan data files to the US Department of Education and external agencies. This individual will also supervise the process through which loans are disbursed. This individual is responsible for the monthly and annual reconciliation of the Direct Stafford, Direct PLUS and Direct Grad PLUS programs and assist with the annual reconciliation of the Federal Perkins, Nursing, and Nurse Faculty Loan programs. This individual coordinates, with the Bursar's Office, the return of funds to lenders, and makes all adjustments to the institutional database. This individual will serve as the primary contact for all requests from lenders, servicers, borrowers, and guarantors. This individual will also coordinate the required entrance and exit interview process required of all borrowers as well as assist in the development of publications or web based programs related to default prevention and fiscal responsibility. The individual will also assist in the review, verification and awarding of undergraduate and graduate files. This individual will assist in the Return to Title IV calculations and return of funds returned in a timely manner.
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As school costs rise, private foundations and banks are chipping in to help more students access education.
At the Sampoerna Academy, an international-class school network with facilities across the country, 136 of the 150 newly enrolled junior high students accepted a full scholarship from the Putera Sampoerna Foundation this year.
"For us, education development is not solely the government's responsibility, but it's everyone's, the public and the private sector," said Nenny Soemawinata, the foundation's managing director.
Irma, a private school teacher whose son Abu Hanifah received one of the foundation's scholarships, called on the private sector to continue increasing its role in country's education sector.
"There are many smart people who have no access to education or a good school," she told the Jakarta Globe while accompanying her son in Bogor on Saturday.
Sampoerna academies were established in 2009 in several regions around the country, including in Malang, East Java; Palembang; Bali and Bogor.
To keep the schools running, the foundation collaborates with several private companies and state-owned enterprises.
State-owned Bank Mandiri has worked with the foundation for two years to help students from underprivileged families pay for their education.
This year, the bank set aside Rp 1.375 billion ($146,000) for scholarships, bringing the total amount of scholarship funds to Rp 5.5 billion since last year.
"We posted a Rp 12.2 trillion profit last year and we set aside some of that for the Putera Sampoerna Foundation," said, Ogi Prastomiyono, Bank Mandiri's director for compliance and human capital.
Nenny said the Putera Sampoerna Foundation had developed a holistic education system that aimed to develop positive character traits, leadership skills and entrepreneurial thinking.
The foundation prioritizes accepting high-achieving students from underprivileged families.
The students undergo a selection process that includes academic testing, psychological testing, an interview and a focus group discussion.
Those enrolled at the school in Bogor come from 21 provinces in the country.
Hanifah, who is from Palembang, will study and live in a dormitory in the West Java city for the next three years.
"If you want to make your dream come true, some things have to be sacrificed," Irma advised her son Hanifah as he prepared to live far away from his parents.


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A road between Holsworthy and Bradworthy was closed yesterday to allow the air ambulance to land after a man suffered a medical episode while driving.
Police said the Devon Air Ambulance was forced to land on the road after the man was reportedly found unconscious in his vehicle.
It is understood the engine of the black Mercedes Estate was still running, although the car had come to a halt, when the man suffered a medical episode on the road near Lufflands Caravan Site, at Solden Cross, at around 11am.
A spokesman for Devon and Cornwall Police confirmed the man, who has a property in the Sutcombe area, had suffered a medical episode. No other vehicles were involved.
The main road between Holsworthy and Bradworthy was closed for around one hour while the man received treatment and the air ambulance landed.
He was flown to North Devon District Hospital for treatment and the road was reopened by 12.30pm.


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Anderson (1650y Free), Ishimatsu (Platform) Win Titles To Close NCAAs
Trojans finish seventh overall; Kropp, Stewart, Tosky all swim in 'A' final on last day.
Tosky, Stewart, Kropp, Ishimatsu Earn Finals Berths On Last Day Of NCAAs
Carlson, Gardell to swim in 'B' finals, as will 400y free relay.
Carlson, Gardell Lead Troy On Night Two Of NCAAs
Carlson takes second in 100y breast, Gardell fourth in 400y IM; 200y medley and 800y free relays each sixth.
Carlson, Gardell, 200 Free Relay Earn NCAA Final Spots
Troy's relay breaks school record, claims top seed in final.
Anderson Swims To Title, Claiming 500 In Indy To Open NCAAs
Senior successfully defends her 2012 win; Carlson, Hawthorne, Gardell also swim in finals.
THIS SEASON: Kendyl Stewart, a 2015 junior and career five-time All-American, is one of the top sprint butterfly and backstrokers in the country who is versatile enough to score major points in the free, back or IM events. She is also a vital cog on USC relays. She is USC's record holder in the 100y fly and 200y back and is part of two relay records. Stewart will represent the U.S. in the 100m fly at the 2015 World Championships.
2014: Stewart was a two-time All-American and a two-time conference finalist as a 2014 sophomore. Though suffering from an illness during the NCAA Championships, she was able to help USC's 200y free relay and 400y medley relay qualify for `A' finals. She was 18th in the 100y fly (52.35) and 35th in the 200y back (1:55.84) ... At the Pac-12 Championships, Stewart was second in the 100y fly (51.36) as she tried to defend her 2013 title, touching 0.10 out of first. She earned her first trip to the Pac-12 100y back `A' final, taking sixth in 53.09 and finished first in the 200y back `B' final for the second year in a row (1:54.93) ... Stewart rebounded at the national level in the summer of 2014. She won a pair of titles at the 2014 U.S. Nationals on back-to-back days, first claiming the 50m fly (25.99) and following that up with a victory in the 100m fly (57.98) ... The strong showing earned her a trip to the 2014 Pan Pacific Championships, where she won a bronze medal in the 100m fly (57.82, 0.18 out of first) and a silver in the 400m medley relay ... She earned 2014 Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention honors.
2013: Stewart was a three-time All-Americas as a 2013 freshman, highlighted by a fourth-place finish with a school-record 1:51.28 in the 200y back at the 2013 NCAA Championships. She also helped USC's 200y free and 200y medley relays to sixth-place finishes. She missed a spot in the 100y fly final by 0.02 and came back in the consolation final to tie for first at 51.89. She was also 23rd in the 100y back (53.24) ... At the 2013 Pac-12s, Stewart broke USC's school record with her title-winning swim in the 100y fly in 51.32. The time erased Lyndsay DePaul's 51.34 from 2011. She was also 10th in the 100y back (53.27) and won the 200y back `B' final for ninth (1:53.44) ... She also was part of USC's second-place and then-school-record setting 200y free relay (1:28.50) and Troy's second-place 200y medley relay (1:36.41) ... At the 2012 U.S. Winter Nationals, Stewart was second in the 100y fly (51.89), fifth in the 200y fly (1:57.47), sixth in the 200y back (1:55.20) and seventh in the 100y back (53.09). She is a member of the 2012-13 U.S. Junior National team in the 100m fly and 200m back ... Stewart was a four-time finalist at the 2013 U.S. Summer Nationals, including a second in the 50m fly in 26.19 (she was the top seed out of prelims in 26.26). She tied for seventh in the 100m fly (59.52) and was seventh in the 50m (29.09) and 100m back (1:01.14). She was also fourth in the 200m back prelims (2:10.22), but didn't race in the final ... At the 2013 World University Games, Stewart earned a bronze for the U.S. in the 400m medley relay after helping the U.S. qualify for the final by swimming the opening backstroke leg in prelims (where America finished second). Stewart swam in the final of the 200m back, finishing seventh in 2:12.19. She went 2:11.85 in the semis. She also reached the semifinals of the 50m back with a prelim 29.26, but did not make it to the final, taking 15th in the semis (29.58) ... Stewart also will represent the U.S. at the 2013 Duel in the Pool.
HIGH SCHOOL: Stewart, who prepped at La Costa Canyon High in Carlsbad, Calif., won a silver medal at the 2011 World Junior Championships in the 50y fly and was a fifth in the 100y fly and sixth in the 200y back. At the 2011 CIF San Diego Division Championships, she set a national age group record (15-16) with a 52.43 in the 100y fly, breaking a mark held by Katie Hoff. She also owns the 100y fly record in the 13-14 age group. She is in her second year as a member of the U.S. National Junior team ... At the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials, Stewart posted three top 40 finishes, taking 25th in the 100m fly (1:00.28), tying for 29th in the 200m back (2:25.17) and finishing 37th in the 100m back (1:03.02).
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Who would ever think to make a fish schnitzel? Thank god these peeps did because it is out of this World! I unfortunately ordered the veggie bimbimbop so mine was ok while I dug away at my husbands lunch! The cocktail menu looked outstanding too so I'd definitely go back here for some unique mixes.
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I didn't expect much when I got to the restaurant. But the waffle I ordered was the best I've ever had. It was a simple food but it was really good. I am glad I didn't go to IHOP. It is a bit pricy but I wanna go back again.
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If I'm looking for great food, great drinks, great service, and that consistency each time I visit a restaurant, I head to The Smith in the East Village. I've been going since they opened their first location in the East Village in 2007, but they've since opened two more locations in NYC. And, it's no wonder, people really like it here. I started off with a cocktail, the Angry Apple (vodka, fresh apple, jalapeño, apple liqueur, lemon). This drink is so bomb. It has some of my favorite elements, apple, spice, and, well, everything nice. You have the perfect amount of natural sweetness from the apple, and then the great heat of the jalapeño. Killer combo.
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I would recommend this place for drinks but pass on the food, which was fair and pretty expensive.
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Loud, uncomfortable chairs, hot a stuffy. No air conditioning although the outside temperature was 78 degrees. The mussels were tasteless, As for service it was hard to get attention of waitress. The final affront was as they cleared the table--- theydumped all sorts of table detritus-paper, leftovers, etc. in the pot of mussels sitting in front of me.
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The Smith is one of those neighborhood restaurants that win you over with a combination of accessible prices, great execution of most dishes on the menu, and ambience. I almost always start my meals with their amazing roasted tomatoes soup, which is by far the best I've had anywhere in the city. I follow with their excellent steak salad, the steak cooked medium rate, which comes dressed with a simple yet excellent balsamic and olive oil mix.
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Love this place. I think the french fries are the best!! Cocktail list is super yums. Try the Angry Teacher and a steak and fries and you will be blissfully happy. It is a very loud fun resto. Enjoy.


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Now that the campaign to stop global warming is losing steam (pun intended) the protect the environment crowd is moving the struggle to the seas. We now hear that carbon dioxide, you know, the evil stuff you spew into the air when you exhale, is raising the level of acid in the oceans. A stark warning has been issued that the oceans are 30 percent more acidic than they were before the Industrial Revolution, roughly 200 years ago. And if we don't stop exhaling, this acidity could increase by 200 percent by the end of this century.
Conveniently left unstated is the exact level of acidity of the oceans and thus there is no benchmark against which to measure these increases. In other words is it 0.05 percent that will rise to 0.2 percent by the year 2100 or what?
Of course there are the predictable arguments on both sides of the argument with those warning about the catastrophes that this increase in acidity will cause and those saying the acid level is nothing to worry about. The most dire predictions are that the increased acidity will alter the life forms in the seas, from coral to fish to whales. On the other side, one spokesman says that rainwater, that collects carbon dioxide from the air, is 100 times more acidic than ocean water, and we live on rainwater.
Once more the subject is change, this time in the seas, instead of the air. But the battle remains the same, those who want to stop changes that are caused in part by human beings, and those who insist that the only constant is change and we should continue to adapt to it. I go with the latter crowd.


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"I got this recipe from summer camp, and when I made them at home, my whole family was impressed. Layers of tortilla chips and salsa with the works on the side - tastes just like the nachos they serve at restaurants. Perfect for a party!"
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1/4 cup
chopped red onion
tomatoes, seeded and finely chopped
1/2 cup
chopped fresh parsley
1/4 cup
olive oil
lime, juiced
1 pinch
salt and black pepper
1 (8 ounce) package
tortilla chips
2 cups
shredded Cheddar cheese, divided
1/2 cup
sour cream
1/2 cup
Simple and fun to make. We added some chopped up green peppers and omitted the extra guacomole and sour cream. I made this with a group of kids and they ate it all up!
Simple and tasty. I didn't do the teaspoonfuls of salsa thingy... Just sort of layered the ingredients. Meant to add green onions but forgot. Think that will be a good addition.
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These were really good. However, I found the suggestion of the one reviewer to add green onions, on top after they were done, to be needed. I used baked tortilla chips and reduced fat cheese and it worked fine. I had all of the ingredients for the pico de gallo except lime, but subbed lemon juice. To save time, I just followed the layering technique and microwaved them for 2 minutes. 1/2 recipe fit on a large dinner plate and served 2 well. TY
I left out the olive oil since I used prepared salsa, which made chips soggy so I will only be using salsa for dipping or topping after baking chips! I modified this by adding orange bell pepper and using a shredded mexican cheese blend, green onions and only a few tablespoons of parsley. Thanks for a simple yet great tasting meatless nacho recipe!
Delicious and easy to make.Easy and fast to make and faster to go into peoples stomach. Will definitely make this again, this time I'll use the sour cream and guacamole.
Excellent! The lime juice makes the difference! Because of the use of lime, I substituted Cilantro for Parsley and Canola oil for Olive oil (too heavy). I also added sliced olives. Tested this at dinner party last night - it was a big hit with diners!
Yummy and simple! I topped the nachos with some chopped green onion and fresh cilantro. Thanks!
I love this, also added some chopped up jalaneo peppers. Will make this again no doubt!
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Classic Pub Style Nachos
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Calories: 504
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This salad is packed with protein, calcium, iron and fibre.
1 lb. broccoli, separated into florets (4 cups)
1 tbsp Dijon mustard
2 tbsp red wine vinegar
2 tbsp olive oil
1 red onion, finely chopped
Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
1 can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
1/2 red pepper, slivered
Step 1: In a large pot with a steamer insert, bring 1" of water to a boil. Add broccoli, cover, and steam until crisp-tender, about 5 minutes.
Step 2: In a large bowl, whisk together mustard, red wine vinegar, olive oil, and chopped onion; season with salt and pepper.
Step 3: Add chickpeas, red pepper and broccoli. Toss to combine with dressing. Let cool 5-10 minutes. Serve at room temperature or chilled.
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Labour blasts flood defence spending cuts
Posted: November 27, 2012|
Labour has renewed its criticism of Government cuts to flood defence spending after households were battered by storms and torrential rain in the last week.
The broadside came as MPs from across the Westcountry raised concerns about the region's infrastructure, and the prospect of homes and businesses being without insurance in the future, during an urgent ministerial statement to the Commons.
The Government earlier this year announced £7.4 million was going to 22 new or ongoing flood defence schemes in Devon and Cornwall from April. But the flood prevention cash was £4.4 million less than the £11.8 million doled out to the two counties in 2011/12.
Labour claims flood investment will be cut by £400 million in total across the country, and that ministers are playing "Russian roulette" as homes are at risk.
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Mary Creagh, Labour's Shadow Environment Secretary, said: "Everyone's thoughts will be with those hit by this latest severe flooding. I want to salute the fantastic work of all the emergency services in Devon and Cornwall, and of local people helping one another.
"Extreme weather conditions are likely to be more common in future. The Tory-led Government has cut investment in flood defences by 27% despite the risk of flooding increasing.
"The Government needs to get a grip on flood investment for the South West and put in place an insurance framework that will ensure high-risk homes are able to access the protection they need."
Around 150 proposed flood defence schemes to protect thousands of Westcountry homes and businesses will not get state support this year.
Projects waiting for money include refurbishments in Exeter and Crackington Haven, North Cornwall, which was battered by flash floods at the same time as Boscastle in 2005.
But the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs argues it has shielded flood spending from cuts and has committed £2.17 billion to safeguard properties by 2015.
In his statement, Environment Secretary Owen Paterson offered condolences to the family and friends of those killed.
He told MPs: "Heavy rainfall is not unusual at this time of year, however we have experienced bands of low pressure over the weekend bringing often intense rainfall falling on catchments that are now saturated."


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WASHINGTON, Nov. 20, 2007 If asked, American troops stand ready to help the victims of Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh, Pentagon officials said today.
The cyclone struck Bangladesh Nov. 15. More than 3,100 people are known dead, and possibly thousands more are missing in the densely populated South Asian nation.
Navy Adm. Michael G. Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, offered his condolences to the people of Bangladesh. "The United States military is assisting with some medical teams on the ground and is ready to assist further with a couple of Navy ships, should they be required," he said. "They are headed in that direction."
As of now, Bangladesh has not requested U.S. Defense Department support, Pentagon officials said.
To be prepared to respond, the department is moving select naval assets in the direction of Bangladesh. The USS Kearsarge, with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit embarked, and USS Essex, with the 31st MEU, have been identified as potential naval assets that could provide assistance if it's requested.
The ships' extensive medical facilities and berthing capabilities enable them to provide effective care to returning troops under battle conditions, or for disaster relief in support of humanitarian missions during peacetime. The ships can support up to 600 patients while still providing routine care to crewmembers and embarked troops.
Major medical facilities include four main and two emergency operating rooms, four dental operating rooms, X-ray facilities, a blood bank, laboratories and intensive-care ward facilities.
An 18-person Defense Department medical team from U.S. Pacific Command was in Bangladesh conducting military-to-military training and is available to assist as needed. Medical supplies and a mobile clinic have been transported from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, to Thailand in preparation. The clinic can support 500 patients a day for 30 days.
A 23-person Humanitarian Assistance Survey Team has deployed to Bangladesh to coordinate with the U.S. Embassy country team and relief agencies to identify key areas, scope and duration of military support if requested by Bangladesh. The team came from the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force based in Okinawa, Japan. The team is led by Marine Brig. Gen. Ronald Bailey.


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