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Red Cross session to spotlight gardening 'From Plant to Plate'Written by Sarah Ottney | Editor in Chief | email@example.com
Growing your own food can be part of your family's emergency plan and tips on how to get started is the topic of this month's Ready U session.
The hour-long event, titled "Victory in the Garden," is set for 7 p.m. May 23 at the Toledo Botanical Garden conference center, 5403 Elmer Drive.
Horticulture Manager Josh Miller will talk about Toledo Botanical Garden and its community outreach arm, Toledo GROWs, before turning the floor over to two Ohio State University Extension employees.
Extension Educator Amy Stone and Patrice Powers-Barker, program assistant with the Family Nutrition Program, will co-present a program called "From Plant to Plate."
The discussion will cover the growing process from planting to harvest and what to do after the harvest, including food safety, preparation and preservation.
"It's kind of geared toward the beginning gardener, but I think the greenest of the green thumbs can learn something and take away something from the information we present. Whether it's a new vegetable or fruit they haven't used before or a really great recipe," Stone said.
Stone hopes attendees will leave with new confidence, new excitement and new ideas for their gardens.
"I want them to leave knowing they can be successful in the garden and to maybe take a plant or a variety of plants they are excited about trying this year," Stone said. "And then what to do after they harvest it. Maybe they've always eaten it fresh out of the garden and maybe they're interested in canning or freezing or something they haven't done before."
If a family's garden produces more than they need, donation is a great way to give back to the community, Stone said.
"We really want to promote that if you have more than you need or your family needs, to donate that back to the community, to someone in need, whether that's a soup kitchen, food bank or a next-door neighbor, but just to share that harvest," Stone said.
Handouts on specific vegetables will be available at the event as well as a guide to the area's community gardens.
"If you're interested in learning more about community gardens rather than backyard gardens, we will have resources for those people too," Stone said.
Ready U, a 10-session yearlong series presented by the Red Cross of Greater Toledo and the Lucas County EMA, is designed to educate the public and prepare individuals and families for potential emergencies in Northwest Ohio.
Attendees will receive reusable grocery bags and have a chance to win raffle prizes, including a gift card from The Andersons, said Sheri Meeker, community disaster education specialist for the Red Cross. 13abc's Kristin Emery will host the session.
Toledo Free Press is a media sponsor for the Ready U program.
For more information, visit the website ready-u.com.
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Primarily of the Bantu group of south and central Africa, the black Zimbabweans are divided into two major language groups, which are subdivided into several ethnic groups. The Mashona (Shona speakers), who constitute about 75% of the population, have lived in the area the longest and are the majority language group. The Matabele (Sindebele speakers), representing about 20% of the population and centered in the southwest around Bulawayo, arrived in within the last 150 years. An offshoot of the South African Zulu group, they maintained control over the Mashona until the white occupation of Rhodesia in 1890.
More than half of the white Zimbabweans, primarily of English origin, arrived in Zimbabwe after World War II. Afrikaners from South Africa and other European minorities, including Portuguese from Mozambique, also are present. Until the mid-1970s, there were about 1,000 white immigrants per year, but from 1976 to 1985 a steady emigration resulted in a loss of more than 150,000, leaving about 100,000 in 1992. Renewed white emigration in the late 1990s and early 2000s reduced the white population to less than 50,000. English, the official language, is spoken by the white population and understood, if not always used, by more than half of the black population.
The literacy rate is estimated at 76%. Primary and secondary schools were segregated until 1979 when racial restrictions were removed. Since independence, the educational system had been systematically enlarged by the Zimbabwean Government, which is committed to providing free public education to all citizens on an equal basis. As of the late 1970s, some 50% of the African children (5-19 years old) were listed officially as attending rural schools. Today, most African children attend primary school. Primary through post-secondary enrollment has expanded from 1 million to about 2.9 million since independence. About 40% of the rural primary schools were destroyed during the Rhodesian conflict, which delayed improvement of the rural education system. Higher education, offered at the University of Zimbabwe in Harare, the new National University of Science and Technology in Bulawayo, the new Africa (Methodist) University in Mutare, several teacher-training colleges, and three technical institutes, are being expanded with assistance from several donor countries.
Archaeologists have found Stone-Age implements and pebble tools in several areas of Zimbabwe, a suggestion of human habitation for many centuries, and the ruins of stone buildings provide evidence of early civilization. The most impressive of these sites is the "Great Zimbabwe" ruins, after which the country is named, located near Masvingo. Evidence suggests that these stone structures were built between the 9th and 13th centuries A.D. by indigenous Africans who had established trading contacts with commercial centers on Africa's southeastern coast.
In the 16th century, the Portuguese were the first Europeans to attempt colonization of south-central Africa, but the hinterland lay virtually untouched by Europeans until the arrival of explorers, missionaries, ivory hunters, and traders some 300 years later. Meanwhile, mass migrations of indigenous peoples took place. Successive waves of more highly developed Bantu peoples from equatorial regions supplanted the original inhabitants and are the ancestors of the region's Africans today.
In 1888, Cecil Rhodes obtained a concession for mineral rights from local chiefs. Later that year, the area that became Southern and Northern Rhodesia was proclaimed a British sphere of influence. The British South Africa Company was chartered in 1889, and the settlement of Salisbury (now Harare, the capital) was established in 1890. In 1895, the territory was formally named Rhodesia after Cecil Rhodes under the British South Africa Company's administration.
Following the abrogation of the company's charter in 1923, Southern Rhodesia's white settlements were given the choice of being incorporated into the Union of South Africa or becoming a separate entity within the British Empire. The settlers rejected incorporation, and Southern Rhodesia was formally annexed by the United Kingdom that year. Until 1980, Rhodesia was an internally self-governing colony with its own legislature, civil service, armed forces, and police. Although Rhodesia was never administered directly from London, the United Kingdom always retained the right to intervene in the affairs of the colony, particularly in matters affecting Africans.
After 1923, European immigrants concentrated on developing Rhodesia's rich mineral resources and agricultural potential. The settlers' demand for more land led in 1934 to the passage of the first of a series of land apportionment acts that reserved certain areas for Europeans.
In September 1953, Southern Rhodesia was joined in a multiracial Central African Federation with the British protectorate of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland in an effort to pool resources and markets. Although the federation flourished economically, it was opposed by the African population, who feared they would not be able to achieve self-government with the federal structure dominated by White Southern Rhodesians. The federation was dissolved at the end of 1963 after much crisis and turmoil, and Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland became the independent states of Zambia and Malawi in 1964.
The European electorate in Rhodesia, however, showed little willingness to accede to African demands for increased political participation and progressively replaced more moderate party leaders. In April 1964, Prime Minister Winston Field, accused of not moving rapidly enough to obtain independence from the United Kingdom, was replaced by his deputy, Ian Smith. Prime Minster Smith led his Rhodesian Front Party to an overwhelming victory in the 1965 elections, winning all 50 of the first roll seats and demoralizing the more moderate European opposition.
Although prepared to grant independence to Rhodesia, the United Kingdom insisted that the authorities at Salisbury first demonstrate their intention to move toward eventual majority rule. Desiring to keep their dominant position, the white Rhodesians refused to give such assurances. On November 11, 1965, after lengthy and unsuccessful negotiations with the British Government, Prime Minister Smith issued a Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) from the United Kingdom.
The British Government considered the UDI unconstitutional and illegal but made clear that it would not use force to the rebellion. On November 12, 1965, the United Nations also determined the Rhodesian Government and UDI to be illegal and called on member states to refrain from assisting or recognizing the Smith regime. The British Government imposed sanctions on Rhodesia and requested other nations to do the same.
On December 16, 1966, the UN Security Council, for the first time in this history, imposed mandatory economic sanctions on a state. Rhodesia's primary exports including ferrochrome and tobacco, were replaced on the selective sanctions list, as were shipments of arms, aircraft, motor vehicles, petroleum, and petroleum products to Rhodesia. On May 29, 1968, the Security Council unanimously voted to broaden the sanctions by imposing an almost total embargo on all trade with, investments in, or transfers of funds to Rhodesia and imposed restrictions on air transport to the territory.
In the early 1970s, informal attempts at settlement were renewed between the United Kingdom and the Rhodesian administration. Following the April 1974 coup in Portugal and the resulting shifts of power in Mozambique and Angola, pressure on the Smith regime to negotiate a peaceful settlement began to increase. In addition, sporadic antigovernment guerilla activity, which began in the late 1960s, increased dramatically after 1972, causing destruction, economic dislocation, casualties, and a slump in white morale. In 1974, the major African nationalists groups--the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU) and the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), which split away from ZAPU in 1963--were united into the "Patriotic Front" and combined their military forces, at least nominally.
In 1976, because of a combination of embargo-related economic hardships, the pressure of guerilla activity, independence and majority rule in the neighboring former Portuguese territories, and a U.K.-U.S. diplomatic initiative, the Smith government agreed in principle to majority rule and to a meeting in Geneva with black nationalist leaders to negotiate a final settlement of the conflict. Blacks represented at the Geneva meeting included ZAPU leader Joshua Nkomo, ZANU leader Robert Mugabe, UANC chairman bishop Abel Muzorewa, and former ZANU leader Rev. Nadabaningi Sithole. The meeting failed to find a basis for agreement because of Smith's inflexibility and the inability of the black leaders to form a common political front.
On September 1, 1977 a detailed Anglo-American plan was put forward with proposals for majority rule, neutrally administered with pre-independence elections, a democratic constitution and the formation of an integrated army. Reactions were mixed, but no party rejected them. In the interim, on March 3, 1978, the Smith administration signed the "internal settlement" agreement in Salisbury with Bishop Muzorewa, Rev. Sithole, and Chief Jeremiah Chirau. The agreement provided for qualified majority rule and elections with universal suffrage. Following elections in April 1979, in which his UANC party won a majority, Bishop Muzorewa assumed office on June 1, becoming "Zimbabwe-Rhodesia's" first black prime minister. However, the installation of the new black majority government did not end the guerilla conflict that had claimed more than 20,000 lives since 1972.
Shortly after British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's conservative government took power in May 1979, the British began a new round of consultations that culminated in an agreement among the Commonwealth countries as the basis for fresh negotiations among the parties and the British involving a new constitution, free elections and independence.
The British and the African parties began deliberations on a Rhodesian settlement at Lancaster house in London on September 10, 1979. On December 10, 1979, in preparation for the transition under British authority to officially recognized independence, the "Zimbabwe-Rhodesia" reverted de facto to colonial status. On December 12, British Governor Lord Christopher Soames arrived in Salisbury to reassert British authority over the colony. His arrival signaled the end of the Rhodesian rebellion and the "internal settlement," as well as the beginning of Zimbabwe's transition to independence. The United Kingdom lifted all remaining sanctions against Zimbabwe that day. The United States lifted sanctions effective December 16.
On December 21, after 3 months of hard bargaining, the parties signed an agreement at Lancaster House calling for a cease-fire, new elections, a transition period under British rule, and a new Constitution implementing majority rule while protecting minority rights. The agreement specified that upon the granting of independence, the country's name would be Zimbabwe. The same day, the UN Security Council endorsed the settlement agreement and formally voted unanimously to call on member nations to remove sanctions.
During the transition period, nine political parties campaigned for the February 27-29 pre-independence elections. The elections were supervised by the British Government and monitored by hundreds of observers, most of whom concluded that, under the prevailing circumstances, the elections were free and fair and reflected the will of the people. Robert Mugabe's ZANU(PF) party won an absolute majority and was asked to form Zimbabwe's first government.
In a series of public statements during the transition period, Prime Minister Mugabe indicated that he was committed to a process of national reconciliation and reconstruction as well as moderate socioeconomic change. His priorities were to integrate the various armed forces, reestablish social services and education in rural areas, and resettle the estimated one million refugees and displaced persons. Mugabe also announced that his government would begin investigating ways of reversing past discriminatory policies in land distribution, education, employment, and wages.
Mugabe stated that Zimbabwe would follow a nonaligned foreign policy while seeking assistance from all actions and would pursue a pragmatic relationship with South Africa. He noted that while Zimbabwe opposed apartheid and would support democratic change in South Africa, it would not provide bases for anti-South African guerillas.
The British Government formally granted independence to Zimbabwe on April 18, 1980. Most nations recognized Zimbabwe following independence. The United States was to first nation to open an embassy in Salisbury on that day. Parliament convened for the first time on May 13, 1980. Zimbabwe became a member of the United Nations on August 25, 1980.
In seeking national reconciliation, Prime Minister Mugabe's first cabinet comprised members of ZANU-PF, PF-ZAPU, and independent white members of parliament (MPs) and senators. The government embarked on an ambitious reconstruction and development program and instituted increases in minimum wages. Land redistribution proceeded under four experimental models on land that the government had purchased at market rates from willing sellers.
Prime Minister Mugabe's policy of reconciliation was generally successful during the country's first 2 years of independence, as the former political and military opponents began to work together. Although additional blacks were hired to fill new places in the civil service, there was no retribution for those whites who had worked for the Smith regime. Smith and many of his associates held seats in the parliament where they participated freely in debates. Likewise, Joshua Nkomo, Mugabe's rival as leader of the nationalist forces, was included in the first cabinet along with several other members of PF-ZAPU.
Splits soon developed, however. In 1981, several MPs from Smith's party left to sit as "independents," signifying that they did not automatically accept his antigovernment posture. More importantly, government security officials discovered large caches of arms and ammunition on properties owned by ZAPU, and Nkomo and his followers were accused of plotting to overthrow Mugabe's government. Nkomo and his closest aides were expelled from the cabinet.
As a result of what they perceived as persecution of Nkomo (known as "Father Zimbabwe") and of his party, PF-ZAPU supporters, some of them deserters from the army, began a loosely organized and ill-defined campaign of dissidence against the government. Centering primarily in Matabeleland, home of the Ndebeles who were PF-ZAPU's main followers, this dissidence continued through 1987 and involved attacks on government personnel and installations, armed banditry aimed at disrupting security and economic life in the rural areas, and harassment of ZANU-PF members. Occasionally, some demanded the Nkomo and his colleagues be reinstated in the cabinet. More frequently, however, dissidents called for the return of farms and other properties seized from PF-ZAPU.
Because of the unsettled security situation immediately after independence and the continuing anti-government dissidence, the government kept in force a "state of emergency," which was first declared before UDI. This gave government authorities widespread powers under the "Law and Order Maintenance Act," including the right to detain persons without charge.
In 1983-84, the government declared a curfew in areas of Matabeleland and sent in the army in an attempt to suppress dissidents. Credible reports surfaced of widespread violence and disregard for human rights by the security forces during these operations, and the level of political tension rose in the country as a result. The pacification campaign, known as the "Gukuruhundi," or strong wind, resulted in as many as 20,000 civilian deaths. Nkomo and his lieutenants repeatedly denied any connection with the dissidents and called for an all-party conference to discuss the political problems facing the country. In the 1985 elections, ZANU-PF increased its majority, holding 67 of the 100 seats. ZANU-PF and PF-ZAPU agreed to unite in December 1987, and the parties formally merged in December 1989.
In October 1987, in accordance with the Lancaster House Accords, the Constitution was amended to end the separate roll for white voters and to establish an executive presidency to replace the whites whose reserved seats had been abolished; among the new members were 15 whites in the Senate and House of Assembly. Elections in March 1990 resulted in another overwhelming victory for Mugabe and his party, which won 117 of the 120 election seats. However, voter turnout was only 54%, and the campaign was not free and fair although the actual balloting was. Not satisfied with a de facto one-party state, Mugabe called the ZANU-PF Central Committee to support the creation of a de jure one-party state in September 1990 and lost. The state of emergency was lifted in July 1990. However, through control of the media, the huge parastatal sector of the economy, and the security forces, the government has managed to keep political opposition to minimum.
Beginning in 1999, Zimbabwe has experienced a period of considerable political and economic upheaval. Opposition to President Mugabe and the ZANU-PF government has grown quickly in recent years, in part due to worsening economic and human rights conditions. The opposition is currently led by the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), established in September 1999.
The first opportunity to test opposition to the Mugabe government came in February 2000, when a referendum was held on a draft Constitution proposed by the government. Among its elements, the new Constitution would have permitted President Mugabe to seek two additional terms in office, granted government officials immunity from prosecution, and sanctioned government seizure of white-owned land. The referendum was handily defeated. Shortly thereafter, the government, through a loosely organized group of war veterans, launched an aggressive land redistribution program often characterized by forced expulsion of white farmers and violence against both farmers and farm employees.
Parliamentary elections held in June 2000 were marred by localized violence, and claims of electoral irregularities and government intimidation of opposition supporters. Nonetheless, the MDC succeeded in capturing 57 of 120 seats in the National Assembly.
Local and international human rights monitors have noted a marked increase in human rights abuses since the February 2000 constitutional referendum. Presidential elections in March 2002, in which Mugabe emerged victorious, were marred by disenfranchisement of urban voters, violent intimidation against opposition supporters, intimidation of the independent press and the judiciary, and other irregularities. The intimidation of opposition supporters, political dissenters, the press, and the judiciary continued post-election.
Seven equal horizontal bands of green, yellow, red, black, red, yellow, and green with a white isosceles triangle edged in black with its base on the hoist side; a yellow Zimbabwe bird representing the long history of the country is superimposed on a red five-pointed star in the center of the triangle, which symbolizes peace; green symbolizes agriculture, yellow - mineral wealth, red - blood shed to achieve independence, and black stands for the native people
Robert Mugabe played a key role in ending white rule in Rhodesia and he and his Zanu-PF party have dominated Zimbabwe's politics since independence in 1980.
He has only recently faced any serious challenge to his authority, in the form of popular protest and substantial gains for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). The MDC has refused to recognise Mr Mugabe as head of state.
Mr Mugabe was declared winner of the 2002 presidential elections, considered seriously flawed by the opposition and foreign observers.
Ideologically, he belongs to the African liberationist tradition of the 1960s - strong and ruthless leadership, anti-Western, suspicious of capitalism and deeply intolerant of dissent and opposition.
His economic policies are widely seen as being geared to short-term political expediency and the maintenance of power for himself.
English Lyrics: Blessed be the Land of Zimbabwe
O lift high the banner, the flag of Zimbabwe
The symbol of freedom proclaiming victory;
We praise our heros' sacrifice,
And vow to keep our land from foes;
And may the Almighty protect and bless our land.
O lovely Zimbabwe, so wondrously adorned
With mountians, and rivers cascading, flowing free;
May rain abound, and fertile fields;
May we be fed, our labour blessed;
And may the Almighty protect and bless our land.
O God, we beseech Thee to bless our native land;
The land of our fathers bestowed upon us all;
From Zambezi to Limpopo
May leaders be exemplary;
And may the Almighty protect and bless our land.
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Nationality: Noun and adjective--Zimbabwean (sing.), Zimbabweans (pl.).
opulation (2003 est.): 12.5 million.
Annual growth rate (2003 est.): 0.83%. (Note: the population growth rate is depressed by an HIV/AIDS adult prevalence rate estimated to be 18% and a high level of net emigration.)
Ethnic groups: Shona 71%, Ndebele 16%, other African 11%, white 1%, mixed and Asian 1%.
Religions: Christianity 75%, offshoot Christian sects, animist, and Muslim.
Languages: English (official), Shona, Sindebele.
Education: Attendance--mandatory for primary level. Adult literacy--90.5% (2004 est.).
Health: Infant mortality rate--51.7/1,000 (2006 est.).
Work force (2006 est.): 900,000 in formal sector. est.)
Life expectancy at birth
total population: 39.5 years
male: 40.62 years
female: 38.35 years (2007 est.)
Total fertility rate: 3.08 children born/woman (2007 est.)
Ethnic groups: African 98% (Shona 82%, Ndebele 14%, other 2%), mixed and Asian 1%, white less than 1%
Religions: syncretic (part Christian, part indigenous beliefs) 50%, Christian 25%, indigenous beliefs 24%, Muslim and other 1%
Languages: English (official), Shona, Sindebele (the language of the Ndebele, sometimes called Ndebele), numerous but minor tribal dialects
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write English
total population: 90.7%
male: 94.2%
female: 87.2% (2003 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 33.7% (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 2.3 million (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 170,000 (2003 est.)
All broadcasters transmitting from Zimbabwean soil and the main newspapers are state-controlled and toe the government line.
The private press, relatively vigorous in its criticism of the government, has come under severe pressure. Publication of the only privately-owned daily, the Daily News, has been badly disrupted. The paper and the government have waged war in the courts.
Restrictive media laws, condemned by the EU, the US and media rights organisations, criminalise the publication of inaccurate information and require journalists to register with a government body.
State-run Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) operates the country's only TV and radio stations. ZBC formerly had two TV channels; its second network was leased to private station Joy TV until the agreement was cancelled in 2002. Some of Joy TV's programming was said to have ruffled government feathers.
Radio is the main source of information for many Zimbabweans. Although no private stations exist, the Voice of the People, set up by former ZBC staff with funding from the Soros Foundation and a Dutch NGO, operates using a leased shortwave transmitter in Madagascar.
Another station, Short Wave Radio Africa, began broadcasting to Zimbabwe via shortwave and the internet in December 2001. It aimed to "give listeners unbiased information so they can make informed choices...". The Harare government accused the US and Britain of financing the station.
Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) - state-run
Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) - state-run, operates four networks
SW Radio Africa - studio in London, broadcasts to Zimbabwe via overseas shortwave transmitter
Voice of the People - studio in Harare, broadcasts to Zimbabwe from hired shortwave transmitter on Madagascar.
Zimbabwe Inter-Africa News Agency (ZIANA) - state-owned
The government of Zimbabwe faces a wide variety of difficult economic problems as it struggles with an unsustainable fiscal deficit, an overvalued exchange rate, soaring inflation, and bare shelves. Its 1998-2002 involvement in the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo drained hundreds of millions of dollars from the economy. The government's land reform program, characterized by chaos and violence, has badly damaged the commercial farming sector, the traditional source of exports and foreign exchange and the provider of 400,000 jobs, turning Zimbabwe into a net importer of food products. Badly needed support from the IMF has been suspended because of the government's arrears on past loans, which it began repaying in 2005. The official annual inflation rate rose from 32% in 1998, to 133% in 2004, 585% in 2005, and approached 1000% in 2006, although private sector estimates put the figure much higher. Meanwhile, the official exchange rate fell from approximately 1 (revalued) Zimbabwean dollar per US dollar in 2003 to 160 per US dollar in 2006.
The country's industry sectors include mining activities such as coal, gold, copper, tin and nickel, as well as agriculture. Chemicals and the production of footwear and clothing are also significant sectors.
The turbulent political climate in Zimbabwe has led many international investors to either withdraw their investments or refrain from investing entirely. The shortage of foreign currency in the country makes it almost impossible to repatriate dividends from investments and there is reportedly a large backlog of such dividends awaiting repatriation.
Many investors have adopted a wait-and-see attitude to the country. They have decided to wait for the outcome of the March 2002 presidential election before taking the decision to invest or not.
Zimbabwe is one of few African countries that have been excluded from AGOA. This has had an adverse effect on the country's trade and contributes to the worsening economic situation.
Zimbabwe's main export items include tobacco, gold and cotton as well as wheat and other cereals. These items are exported to countries such as South Africa, Malawi, Botswana and Japan.
The country imports products such as machinery and transport equipment as well as chemicals. Fuel is an essential import product and the country often suffers from fuel shortages. Import partners include South Africa, the UK, the US as well as China and Germany.


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Victoria Beckham Flight Attendant, Victoria Beckham plays flight attendant in humorous Twitter photo while en route to China, She's topped the pop charts, conquered the design world – and now, Victoria Beckham has mastered the friendly skies.
The former Spice Girl took to Twitter on Friday morning to share a humorous photo of herself aboard a flight en route to China in which she appears to have briefly joined the cabin crew.
In the image, Beckham, who celebrated her 38th birthday on Tuesday, buckled herself in the airplane's jump seat next to a flight attendant who was seemingly in on the joke.


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COLUMBUS COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — We are learning more about a Leland man charged with murder after a car crash friday that killed a 61-year-old woman.
The district attorney says Pierre Walker should never have been behind the wheel in the first place based on his checkered past.
Investigators say Walker, 26, was involved in not one, but two traffic accidents Friday afternoon. After hitting a van in Brunswick County, they say Walker continued speeding west on US 74/76. Near Delco he allegedly crossed over the median at a high rate of speed and hit Martha Mintz head-on and killing her instantly.
Investigators say Walker was high at the time of the accident.
"DWI drivers are a clear and present dangers to folks on the highway," District Attorney Jon David said. "We had a woman who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Just coming home from work. She was literally in her work car at the time of the incident. It was 4 o'clock on a Friday afternoon. It could have been any of us."
Walker is behind bars at the Columbus County Detention Center, where David says he should have been weeks ago.
"Because of the facts of the case and the defendant's prior record, we can show that there is malice, which is something beyond death by motor vehicle, and in this particular circumstance we did the exceptional thing of choosing to charge him with murder, and we will be indicting him for murder and aggressively prosecuting him under the law," David said.
Over the last 10 years Walker has faced 43 charges in New Hanover and Brunswick counties, including three DWIs, two of which he pleaded guilty to in February.
David says after his last conviction Walker should have faced a minimum 60-day sentence, but he says Judge Sandra Ray suspended his sentence to allow him to make a probation hearing in Columbus County set for today. Instead, he appeared in court on the murder charge.
"This is an individual that should not have been on the roadway," David said. "He is somebody that needs to be prosecuted very harshly as we move forward."
Walker faces charges of second degree murder and habitual DWI in Columbus County. David says he also plans to file charges against Walker in Brunswick County for the first of two crashes Friday.
Today a judge set Walker's bond at $1 million.


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Once Upon a Time Season 2 Spoilers: Rumple and Neal's Relationship "Changes Forever"
One of our favorite relationships on Once Upon A Time is the complicated father-son dynamic between Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold (Robert Carlyle) and Neal/Baelfire (Michael Raymond-James). The two just found each other after a 300-year estrangement (Rumple is decidedly more enthusiastic about this than Neal), and we can't wait to see how the storyline will develop.
This week, Robert Carlyle weighed in on the future of the relationship between Rumple and his long-lost son: "Gold, he's such a flawed character, so he's trying to do the right thing but he doesn't really know how," Robert told TV Line.
As for his offer to turn Neal back into the 14-year-old boy he was when they parted so that he can grow up with a father: "He doesn't know how to take that further, so it's going to take a while to get any kind of resolution on that. But in Episode 21 or 22, something happens which changes [their relationship] forever."
Robert wouldn't divulge whether that change would be for the better or for the worse, but we could see it going either way. On the one hand, Rumple has made significant strides in his efforts to be a better person — both for Belle and for his son. On the other hand, he has also vowed to kill the boy who will be his "undoing" — who may be his grandson/Neal's son, Henry. Will Neal ever be able to forgive his father for effectively abandoning him as a child? Will Rumple make the choice he couldn't all those years ago and choose his son over magic and power? We can't wait to find out!
How do you think the relationship between Rumple and Neal will develop? Will they ever be close again? Let us know in the comments below!
Catch the next episode of Once Upon a Time on Sunday, March 24 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.


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Yes! It's finally time to "Rock the Red" once again, and after a long (and stupid) lock out the NHL is back. The Washington Capitals go against South East Division foes the Tampa Bay Lightning tonight and it is sure to be a great game.
Tampa Bay is one of the best all around skilled teams in the NHL, not only can they outscore you but they can also win the turnover battle . Containment will be the key for the Capitals to have success in this game. You have to contain guys like Steven Stamkos, Benoit Pouliot and Vincent Lecavalier and stopping these three should really push the Capitals to a win.
But one thing the Caps have over the Lighting is complete team speed, which should definitely work in favor of the Capitals. Washington needs to make quick line changes to not only keep players fresh for the whole game but to also keep the Lightning completely off balance.
Here are some keys to the game that should help the Capitals to victory tomorrow:
1. Feed Ovechkin!: As it has been shown last year, this team really isn't set up to be a defensive team at all. Adam Oates must dial Ovie's number early and often. You have to let him do his thing instead of leaving one of the NHL's best talents on the bench. I know tha'ts not what team sports is about but when you have one of the premeire talents in your sport, you best utilize him to the fullest.
2. Don't give Stamkos time to do anything: This guys scares me. Stamkos along with Ovechkin and Crosby have developed into the NHL's most marketable guys along with being the most talented. He has a ton of speed and puck skills for days. Stamkos must have an eye kept on him at all times. The best bet on how to defend Steven is be really physical with him, and give him absolutely no room to breath.
3. Keep the puck out of our own end: This has been a problem for the Capitals in years past, as it seemed like the other team had the puck on our end most of the game. We have to make sure that when Tampa Bay dumps the puck into our zone, we must get it out as quick as possible. Don't wait on these guys to plow through our defense and take it for a easy score.
4. Give Holtby an easy night: Capitals need to take over the game early, don't let them stick around to the end. Tampa Bay is a dangerous 3rd period team and just needs one little opening to do a lot of damage. Keep the Lighting's big three away from Holtby for the majority of the game and I think we should be fine.
5. If it aint broke dont fix it: If the Caps have success early, lets not do the "hey lets change it up om them" thing that they always seem to do. The team knows it's in for a dog fight and the Lightning are going to try to be as physical and as dangerous as the Capitals. Washington must play their game and keep it simple. If they try to do to much it could be hard for the Capitals to salvage any kind a momentum in the game.
The fans have been waiting for this for a long time, and now that is finally here, I expect great things from this team and nothing more than that. The Capitals have shown this town how to win again, and now is the time to show us how to win a championship.
The road to the cup starts tonight.


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Sorry, Lady Gaga: Eminem will not have sex with you. The 38-year-old rapper takes a surprising potshot at his Interscope Records labelmate on "A Kiss," a track from his upcoming Hell: The Sequel EP, a collaboration with Royce Da 5'9″ as Bad Meets Evil. "Tell Lady Gaga she can quit her job at the post office/ She's still a mail lady/ Wouldn't f— her with her d—/ You heard it/ The verdict's in." In case you missed the pun "mail lady" sounds like "male lady," undoubtedly a reference to the "Gaga is a hermaphrodite" rumors of 2009—back when he awkwardly handed Gaga her Best New Artist trophy at the MTV Music Awards (remember, he's a 38-year-old dad, most of them still quote pop culture gossip from 2009).
So far Gaga has not responded to the track, on which Eminem also announces that "Shady" is on Katy Perry's "tail, he's tailgating." Since "A Kiss" is not the EP's single, it seems unlikely we'll get a video a la "We Made You" where Eminem can explore his complicated/asinine feelings about these female celebs further, but if the hype around this dis spreads—and if Interscope execs decide the drama is good for business—who knows? Maybe "Weird" Al won't be the only guy planning a Gaga impersonation on TV.
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DC cancels some new titles, adds othersWritten by Jim Beard | | firstname.lastname@example.com
September of 2011 brought a massive line-wide change to DC Comics, promoted as the "New 52." In subsequent months, the bold relaunch of the company's entire portfolio of properties awarded DC the top position in industry sales and market share, but reality seems to be setting in with the recent announcement of cancellations among its 52 core comic series.
"Men of War," "Mister Terrific," "OMAC," "Hawk and Dove," "Blackhawk" and "Static Shock" will all end after less than a year's worth of issues. Some of the titles represent DC's experiment in thematic and racial diversification in their output.
"DC's first round of cancellations of 'New 52' titles was not only not surprising, but planned in advance by DC," said Ed Katschke of Monarch Cards & Comics. "Any company debuting 52 new titles in a single month is clearly utilizing a 'throw mud at the wall and see what sticks' strategy of publishing and would naturally assume that not everything would succeed. The cancellations have very little bearing on my store as they are naturally the titles that are selling the least. Although, on a personal note, I am sorry to see both 'OMAC' and 'Static Shock' go the way of the dodo."
But with the note of endings comes the company's news of six additions to its line: "Batman Incorporated," "Earth 2," "World's Finest," "Dial H," "G.I. Combat" and "The Ravagers." One of the titles, "Earth 2," brings DC's popular multiple-universes theme back into play, while "Dial H" brings the comics debut of novelist China Miéville.
"I'm really excited about the replacement titles DC has lined up for April," Katschke said. "I think 'Earth 2' and 'World's Finest' will do particularly well, considering the popularity among comic fans of DC's Golden Age characters who will be featured prominently in both titles. 'Batman Incorporated,' continuing writer Grant Morrison's critically and commercially successful Batman story line, should continue its popularity as well. The other titles seem to fit the profile of some of the titles being canceled and I don't expect for them to have quite as wide an audience, but you have to give DC credit for trying to produce alternatives to the same old style of superhero comics."
Tags: Batman, China Miéville, DC Comics, Earth 2, Grant Morrison, Monarch Cards and Comics, Ravagers, World's Finest


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done it all step by step but still get the 1020 on neogamma??
replaced the ios download and restores the 15...
but usb loader works but it does not load the dvd from the icon..
maui... THANKS FOR EVERYTHING! The wii is up and working great and i owe it all to you and your patience and knowledge!!!! THANK YOU!!!
done it all step by step but still get the 1020 on neogamma??
replaced the ios download and restores the 15...
but usb loader works but it does not load the dvd from the icon..
I finally got my hbc back after deleting it THANK YOU!..
im on.. Step3: Replacement of cIos34 with IOS34-64-v3087.wad
i downloaded the 4.2 Mirror..after i extracted and put it on my sd card..when i open it on wii im gettin only a white box with a "question mark ?"..
wut do i do from there?
Just to mention some stupidities i ran into while modding a wii:
2 simple ways to corrupt some beloved installers like hackmii, cioscorpuninstall and specific ios installs::
a) use a wiimote that has been used by kids or drunken people; if the 4way control sticks (due to some juicy adhesive stuff flown over it) to 'down' or 'left' direction you can be sure the installs will fail. I don't really know why, but it seems there happens some comparable to a buffer overflow you can get on PC-keyboards; However it will fail, but the problem is you won't recognize that, because the wii system menu doesn't make use of the 4way control (at least not where you have to go to BannerBomb and run installs) AND the installers mentioned didn't use the 4way control either, BUT the other buttons on the wiimote are triggered and scanned seperately from this.
b) The most simple and most forgotten way to let a wiimote die on installs: No Sync. Either you changed your wiimote after doing 'research' in the Web or at WC, so your second controller syncs as your primary one after standby;
You never synced your Wiimote via the sync-buttons
You did not Sync via sync buttons after coldshut (4s Power Button Override)
Possibly this might help someone wondering why everything should be fine but it isn't
Claudius Raphael Paeth, A3lyphe
A3lyphe.Boss | email@example.com
hi i did step 1 and 2 but when i get 2 step 3 it shows a ? mark cant even load it up any help plz
I'm wondering if I should uninstall cIOSCORP which I had installed back when the Twilight Hack was out....I have since then successfully updated my wii using 3.1-4.1 mod guide and running USB Loader fine...I am not planning to use my dvd backups any longer. So should I just remove those useless cIOS?
And if so what else will it removed? Will my current setup be screwed?
Thanks in advance.
When I get to Step3: Replacement of cIos34 with IOS34-64-v3087.wad
I am getting the exact same error many other people are
the boot.dol is a question mark with white background, and upon starting states "This channel cannot be launched on this Wii console." What's going on?? IOS38 rev14 installer worked fine, installed as IOS249, and IOS250 just in case...but I also used the Virgin Wii thread to clean out everything I had from a previous softmod, deleted all IOS 200 and above.
Daughter updated the Wii last night by accident, and said that the update failed. So I went into Wii Settings, and it said 4.2U even though it failed? So I kept trying to update and kept getting numerous error codes about the servers. It's midnight so I don't see how the server is overloaded.
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If the step 3 file fails, try to download bannerbomb and replace the private folder. Or try to use the step A files. It sounds the you are using the wrong version of bannerbomb, perhaps I goofed or the file is corrupted.
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Sun level 3 engineer needed for testing - Solaris 11 T4-4 machines
Hourly - Est. Time: Less than 1 week, 10-30 hrs/week - Posted
We need an engieer to walk the onsite tech here through installing HBAs in each of 4 Sun t4-4 machines and setting them up with teamviewer (which we have on a pc in back), and then running Sun VTS. [start it and then come back in 24hrs and evaluate the outcomes] There are two batches of 4 and this is the first batch.
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Do you have a pet snake? If so, you may have some idea what it's like when the airlines lose your bag. I'll explain - once class is underway.
Yes, today we grade the airlines for on-time flights, lost luggage (or as the airlines so amusingly put it, "mishandled" baggage) and complaints about airline service. You may be surprised; in some categories, the airlines are showing significant improvement, yes, even when it comes to lost bags. But I'll show you the numbers so you can see for yourself.
First things first: which carrier gets you where you need to go on-time?
For more travel news and insights view Rick's blog at farecompare.com
Airline On-Time Performance: C
If you have to fly but don't have time for delays, you want Hawaiian Airlines. For the past six years, it's held the top spot for on-time airline performance according to the monthly numbers amassed by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). Since the most recent stats cover June 2011, that's the month we'll examine here, and Hawaiian has ruled June (and most other months) since 2005. In fact, this past June, its flights were on-time more than 93 percent of the time.
Well, of course Hawaiian is number one! The weather is great in Hawaii and the bulk of this carrier's flights, more than 85 percent of them, are inter-island hops. The number two spot is more interesting: for the past few years, Alaska Airlines has dominated June. In third place this year: Southwest, but there's a lot of movement here; best on-time performance in June 2010 was US Airways and it was ExpressJet in June 2009.
Worst on-time performances: June 2011 offenders included both US Airways and ExpressJet, which only goes to show some years are better than others. The honor for very worst went to Atlantic Southeast (on-time only 66 percent of the time). You'll typically see a lot of regional carriers in the "worst list" but American Airlines made the cut in June of 2009, 2008 and 2007.
By the way, if the airlines continue to cut capacity as has been suggested in the wake of the latest economic downturn, on-time performances should improve thanks to fewer flights (although the recent alleged pilot sickouts at Continental and US Airways aren't exactly helpful).
I mentioned weather just a moment ago and in fairness to all these airlines, it must be said that bad weather caused more than a third of all these June flight delays (yes, summer storms often cause more delays than snow). Not much you can do about the weather, unfortunately.
Collectively, I give the airlines a "C" grade for on-time performance, mainly because the percentage of on-time arrivals is on the rise, though it could be better. Take a look:
• June 2011: 76.9%
• June 2010: 76.4%
• June 2009: 76.1%
• June 2008: 70.8%
• June 2007: 68.1%
One reason for the improvement may be that there are fewer airlines to be late: back in 2007, there were 20 airlines reporting their stats to the BTS but thanks to mergers such as Delta/Northwest and bankruptcies (ATA, etc.) this year just 16 airlines reported.


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By Donna MilesAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26, 2005 A federal judge handed down a decision today that the Defense Department has no authority to eliminate a Pennsylvania Air National Guard fighter wing without the state governor's okay.
U.S. District Judge John Padova called DoD's recommendation to deactivate the Pennsylvania Air National Guard's 111th Fighter Wing "null and void" because Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell had not consented with the decision, a Department of Justice official confirmed.
Today's decision came as the Defense Base Realignment and Closure Commission voted today to close Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove, Pa., the 111th Fighter Wing's home.
The BRAC commission's decision on the suburban Philadelphia base was among many expected later today as the commission deliberates on sweeping recommendations to revamp the Air National Guard.
The panel was slated to continue its deliberations tonight.
News reports said the state of Illinois has filed a lawsuit similar to Pennsylvania's involving its Air National Guard and Missouri has threatened to do the same.
During a mid-July interview with the American Forces Press Service, Army Lt. Gen. Steven Blum, chief of the National Guard Bureau, acknowledged that the Defense Department's recommendations could have a big impact on the Air Guard.
But the proposed changes are important measures that will increase the Air Guard's contribution to the Air Force and U.S. military, Blum said. "We want (the Air National Guard) to be an organization that has modern capabilities and a vital essential part of the Air Force."
"Overall, BRAC equals transformation," Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard Smith, Air National Guard command chief master sergeant, said when the BRAC proposals were initially announced in May. "The Air National Guard is always changing. Change has been done for generations before, and now it's our turn."


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If you're worried about christianity in government, don't be so sure about democrats
Still the best choice.
Once-Proud Canadian, Enlightened Atheist, Gaming God.
Which might be one reason why I don't like either one of the parties.
Governments and politicians are all full of shit.
They are going to play to, pander to, or say anything to get votes.
"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."
― Giordano Bruno
i'm not worried about christianity in government. that would be like worrying about sand in your food at the beach. i'm worried about too much christianity in government.
i'm stickin' with the dems. at least till the revolution comes. then i'm reachin' for a rifle, and i'll put a bullet in the head of of obama himself if he stands in the way.
"I asked my father,
I said, 'Father change my name.'
The one I'm using now it's covered up
with fear and filth and cowardice and shame."
--Leonard Cohen


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Ukulele Club and Teacher discounts are available for all ukulele and guitar books by Curt Sheller. Curt Sheller Publications is a small publishing company, basically me, myself and I. I can work directly with teachers and ukulele clubs. I offer a 20% discount when ordering multiple copies of any title by me, Curt Sheller.
As a private music/instrument teacher myself, I know the importance of supplementing your teaching income with performance and product sales. Selling books or writing your own book or books, which I can help with as well, is a great way to earn some extra income.
Contact Curt at 484-942-4080 for more information or send an email.
Ukulele Clubs and Teachers can order my books using this handy order form at Ukulele Clubs Order form.
With the popularity of the ukulele on the rise. There is no shortage of books for learning the ukulele.
Books run from easy beginner books for introducing one to playing the uke to advanced books covering more advance "jazz" chords.
Jim Beloff's Flea Market Music has a great selection song books.
My publications and books are available direct from me, right here on this site site.
Here are a few links to songs to get a uke player rollin'
A lot of the clubs listed on the Ukulele Clubs page have a list of the songs that the club performs when they get together.
Songs that can be played all the way through using only the I, IV, and V7 chords of the key in which the tune is being performed.
By just knowing three chords, the I, IV and V7, you can play thousands of songs.
FREE ukulele chord charts are available right here on my web CurtSheller.com site at: Ukulele Charts
They're a lot of sites on-line for looking up and finding chords for the ukulele. Sites with free charts, I even offer a few of those myself. There's software for your computer and smart-phone applications. These are basically chord dictionaries, you look up the chord. Not the way to go in the long run. Charts, software and dictionaries don't really help you learn chords beyond a few basic chords.
If your goal is to expand your chord vocabulary and not have to look up chords anymore then – My book A Guide to Advanced Chords for Ukulele is your answer. A Guide to Advanced Chords for Ukulele presents a highly organized and efficient approach to the mysterious subject of advanced chords. Chord dictionaries are not the answer. Even chord theory does not offer any insight into unraveling the complexity of Ukulele chord voicings.
A companion book to A Guide to Advanced Chords for Ukulele is Exploring Jazz Chords on Ukulele. This book takes the chords covered in A Guide to Advanced Chords for Ukulele and shows one solution using the chord changes to songs commonly in a jazz musician's repertoire.
Beyond a few basic open position and movable form chords there's NO way you can memorize all the possible chords shapes. You wouldn't even want to try. Learning and knowing how chords are created, constructed and work is the way to go. You can checkout all my chord books on the ukulele chords page.
The links to the chord sites below are here for reference only. I've visited all of the sites and I'm typically not impressed ( see above ). Their inclusion is the list is not an indication of their value or a recommendation from me. After reading above you should know my stance on chord charts, software, apps and the like. A chord chart of basic chords is only a start of building a solid chord foundation. It's from these basic chords you can build your chord vocabulary, knowing a few principles and tools of chord construction you can build any chord you will ever need.
Some points to remember when visiting and checking out these sites.
Chord dictionaries are not the answer. Even chord theory does not offer any insight into unraveling the complexity of chord voicings. Beyond a few core open position and movable form chords, there is no way to memorize all the possible chord shapes available on ukulele. Knowing how chords work and deriving new chords from these know chords is a lot more beneficial in the long run to enjoying and exploring ukulele.
Be leery of magic potions and too good to be true claims to learning chords. There is no shortcut to doing the work. But with a solid foundation, a few core chords and a well organized plan, it's a goal any player can achieve - Just takes time and is well worth it.
I've had new guitar students say to me, "I know all the chords.". Nobody can make that claim but can say, "I can create any chord I ever need." That I would have a chance of believing.
Knowing the notes of chords and the ukulele fingerboard is the way to go for transposing known chords to additional keys and deriving new chords from known chords. There are just way too many chord 'shapes' to memorize as a way to building a massive chord vocabulary.
Web site chord finders, mobile phone apps, chord dictionaries, chord charts and watching other players for the chords just doesn't work when the song starts playing. You can't look up chords in the middle of a song. You need to know the chords are what substitutes are possible ahead of time. And, have the ability to switch between chords in performance tempo.
There's no magic or secret to knowing a lot of chords. It's a solid foundation and a lot of work. Now get to work!!!
This is my site, right here. I have FREE basic and core chord charts, eBooks and hard copy books for learning chords and finally learning how chords are created.
Very nice lesson on learning chords: Approach To Learning Basic Chords
Over 1,000,000 chords by Jim Cranwell
ChordSongs provides a simple interface for creating chord charts. Chords for six tunings are available: Soprano Uke (ADF#B), Tenor Uke (GCEA), Baritone Uke (DGBE), Guitar (EADGBE), Mandolin (GDAE), and Mandola (CGDA). You only need to create a chord chart once. Selecting a different tuning will convert your tune to that tuning.
Create your own lead sheets, including chord tablature, lyrics and simple notation.
In Japanese - but usefull for any language.
Can be transposed to any key.
A Java program for reading in ChordPro fomatted files and adding ukulele chords for the chords in the song.
A collection of over 2500 ukulele chords for use with a word processor to create song sheets. GCEA & DGBe tunings.
UkeMaster iPhone app From Sheep-Entertainment
Uku Fingers is more than a ukulele chord chart that shows you one way to play each chord. It shows you ALL the ways to play each chord – anywhere on the fretboard. Chord forms are color coded to quickly and easily find which inversion or fretboard placement makes the most sense.
A Window application - Shows what positions should be held for various chord. It shows a fingerboard, staff, and tab score.
ukulelechords.fm is a free ukulele chord finder with thousands of chords for soprano and concert ukulele (tuned GCEA). There is also a small number of baritone ukulele chords.
A growing collection of contemporary rock and pop chord sheets for ukulele.
This is my site, right here, link takes you directly to the ukulele Chords and Chord Progressions lesson section of my main site. Used to be a separate site but is now part of this (right here) larger site.
Ukulele Chord tables and the ability to transpose songs to different keys. Cool site for songs.
There's no magic or secret to knowing a lot of chords. It's a solid foundation and a lot of work. Now get to work!!!
There are many web site around the world with ukulele content for learning the uke. Here are a few, starting with my my site, naturally.
This page contains a MASSIVE list of ukulele sites around the world.
Classical and early music for the Ukulele
Richard has a big list of links to ukulele TABs around the web.
Tabs for Baritone Ukulele,Tenor Ukulele, and Harmonica
The Easy Way To Learn Fingerstyle On Any Ukulele.
Don't forget to checkout other instruments for sources of great transcriptions.
Steve Khan is one of my all-time favorite guitarists. Steve has a wealth of great information and transcription on his site.
FREE ukulele fingerboard charts are available on my web CurtSheller.com site at: Ukulele Charts
Click on the link to the left to submit or update a Ukulele Club listing.
All submissions will be verified before posting. I DO visit all club sites.
Content is always being added and updated. So check-in often. Thanks, for visiting!!!
One of the largest collections of lessons, songs and TABS, archtop luthiers, ukulele builders, festival information, ukulele links on the web. I've been on the web since the early 90's and growing everyday. This site just never stops growing!!!


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110 W. New York Ave.
DeLand, FL 32720
Raucous peafowl cause trouble at DeLand center
Officials would like to find the birds a new home
By Joe Crews
posted Jul 7, 2014 - 12:23:48pm
A family of peacocks has taken up residence outside a nursing home on DeLand's north side, and the birds are raising a ruckus and sometimes damaging cars.
Facility officials want them gone — relocated, that is, not killed.
"They're beautiful birds," said Maureen Kehoe, administrator of Ridgecrest Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on North Stone Street. "It's a male, three babies and a mama."
But the birds are very territorial, Kehoe said, and the adults — the peacock daddy and peahen mama — react angrily when they see their reflections in cars parked around the facility. The peacocks think the reflected images are intruding birds. (There is a reason dumb people are called bird brains!)
Apparently, the peafowl were abandoned when the owners of a nearby farm moved out. Now, they're feral, and roosting near the nursing home.
"It's a Catch-22 here," Kehoe said. "They're beautiful to look at, but they're not toilet-trained, and they peck at their reflections in cars."
Kehoe stressed that the preference is for relocation over euthanizing.
"We have calls out to the Sanford Zoo and other places," she said.
Relocating the birds to the wild is not an option, said Greg Workman, spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
"They're not regulated, but they shouldn't be allowed into the wild," Workman said. "Whoever did that is in violation."
The fowl can be taken to a facility that is willing to take them, he said, although the facility might need a license to keep peacocks.
According to the FWC website, peafowl are native not to Florida but to India and Sri Lanka. However, they've been reported in 17 Central and South Florida counties. They first appeared in Orange County in the 1950s and in the other counties in 1986; they have not been eliminated in any Florida county.
"Semi-domesticated populations can be a nuisance in residential communities, and their loud raucous calls sometimes result in complaints from neighbors," the FWC reports. "Peafowl are omnivorous, feeding on seeds, grain, berries, young shoots, flowers, snails, insects, lizards, and frogs. ... Feral populations tend to die out over time unless restocked."
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The news today that President Obama has raised $86 million for his campaign and the Democratic National Committee in the last three months has to encourage Democrats who will rightly feel this haul shows their party is well on their way to another record-breaking fundraising effort for a presidential election. But despite the efforts in some quarters to compare the combined totals of the Republican presidential candidates unfavorably to Obama's figures, there is no reason for the GOP to be discouraged by these numbers.
First, despite the much ballyhooed number of $86 million, that should not be treated as Obama's total when comparing his fundraising to that of his potential Republican opponents. The president raised a staggering $47 million for his campaign with the rest going to the DNC. It is true the figure dwarfs even the largest totals raised by a Republican — Mitt Romney's $18.25 million — but that is exactly what you'd expect for an incumbent running against an open field of contenders from the other party. The party that has control of the White House always has an enormous advantage in raising money, so while Democrats can be glad they surpassed their goals for the last quarter, this ought not to be interpreted as an indication that 2012 will be a Democratic year. Nor is it necessarily a signal, as some would have it, of disinterest in the GOP candidates.
The fact is, other than Romney, the most compelling figures in the Republican race are just getting started raising money. Rep. Michele Bachmann has vaulted ahead in the Iowa polls and is establishing herself as a first-tier threat to the frontrunner, but she has yet to report her totals from the last three months. Of all the numbers that come in by the July 15 reporting deadline, Bachmann's will be the most interesting since it will give us a better idea of just how successful her grass roots Internet campaign has been. Texas Gov. Rick Perry, another potent threat to Romney's status as the leader, hasn't even decided whether he will run.
Although Obama will be swimming in cash throughout this election cycle, whoever emerges from the GOP scrum won't be caught short. Once the primaries are sorted out early next year, there is little doubt the eventual winner will begin to haul in the usual large amounts that will fund a vigorous general election campaign. The concentration on the candidate's totals also ignores the fact groups that are not directly connected with a campaign, such as Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS and its various counterparts on the left, will spend much of the money raised in the next 18 months.
Obama's cash balance is impressive, but his ability to rake in contributions was already a given. That will be an undoubted advantage for the president next year. But despite the focus on the money primary, it is the numbers that measure unemployment and growth that will determine who wins in 2012, not fundraising totals.


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Pumpkin Walnut Cream Cheese Muffins
With crunchy walnuts and chunks of cream cheese this easy pumpkin recipe is sure to please. Great for breakfast, snacking and school lunches!
- 1 cup coarsely broken or chopped California walnuts
- 1/3 cup finely chopped crystallized ginger
- 2 cups prepared baking mix
- 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1 cup canned pumpkin
- 1/2 cup milk
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This is pretty cool, i didn't know they had a saturn 2 planned, or is that what became the dreamcast?
I think even if they did get a more powerful gpu in their console they would still not succeed as they had already doomed them selves earlier with the mismanagement of the CD and 32x addons for the Megadrive only to get abandoned too soon followed by lackluster support for the difficult Saturn as it was launched too soon (surprising developers and potential customers alike) as a response to the announcement of the PSX, leading to yet another console being abandoned too soon and a new console rushed out. Sega payed dearly to be first.
It wasn't really a fault in hardware but stupid management and poor communication. Fastest and most powerful isn't what defines a successful console as there is a whole host of unsuccessful powerhouses attesting to that.
Too many people were simply unwilling to commit to Sega at that time due to their track record in support of their own hardware or rather lack their of.
I had the MegaDrive II with the MegaCD II addon and the 32X, while i did like them they left a really bad taste of poor support and I was fortunate to have sold it all while it was still hot and got a lot of cash for it.
It was amazing to see the Dreamcast in action back in the day and I did want one but me and most of my friends had already decided it to be a safer bet to wait for the Ps2.
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At the risk of shedding all pretense that I am anything but a curmudgeon, let me start off this review of Angus E. Taylor's General Theory of Functions and Integration by saying that "they don't make 'em like that anymore!" In fact, they weren't even making them like that when I was a UCLA student in the 1970s, given that Angus Taylor, a UCLA stalwart and classic, was no longer in evidence there: he had chaired the department at UCLA in the 1960s and by the time I got there had moved on to his chancellorship at UC Santa Cruz. He had been a major force in building UCLA's department up in the preceding decades, and there was no doubt that analysis was very powerfully represented.
By the time I got there as an undergraduate, the baton had been passed to the next generation. Arens and Johnny Green were still going strong, but the seminars were being run by Garnett and Koosis: what Taylor and his fellows had started and nourished had undergone at least one evolutionary jump. The analysis texts used in the advanced courses were at this stage characterized by corresponding evolutionary features that could probably be traced to the post-Sputnik boon in mathematics education that had just swept the country in the preceding decade or so. More substantial prerequisites could be assumed as gifted kids swarmed into mathematics departments with measurably better preparation than even their older siblings had had a decade earlier.
Taylor's General Theory of Functions and Integration is an "older sibling book," then, in the sense that it reads as very old-fashioned: the material between the book's covers goes back to lectures Taylor gave in the early 1950s and the book was written in 1960–61, after all. But I claim that it's precisely this old-fashioned style and perhaps somewhat anachronistic approach that makes this book exceptionally valuable today, for curmudgeonly reasons.
The obvious trouble we face in higher mathematical education today is that our charges (are we on generation Z yet?) are given to communicate and, possibly, to think and reason in ways that don't exactly jive with ours. Yes, to be sure, the evidence of this disconnect is largely anecdotal. But there are so many anecdotes at the disposal of all of us of a certain age who stand in front of a class on a regular basis that to deny the unpleasant reality is just plain impossible. Today's mathematical youths are largely unable to deal with Rudin, blue or green, baby or papa, partly because their pre-Rudin training has been staccato: undergraduate real analysis is now largely advanced calculus with some epsilons and deltas thrown in, and the serious results that should provide continuity and analytic ability, if I may be forgiven an egregious pun, are given in sound bites. To be blunt, what took a semester in 1975 now takes more than a year, and the dozen or so upper division students whining in today's classroom would have been utterly reduced to tears in their first lower division course back in the old days… except of course for the (very) proper subset of truly talented kids for whom it's all candy, just as it was in those old halcyon days.
All right, then, with my spleen appropriately vented, we still have a population of majors and graduate students to educate, different beasties than we were, so the question of how best to serve them, as far as a good real analysis and measure theory textbook is concerned, is crucial. Indeed, we owe something to especially the ones who really do want to go all the way, the kids who'd be in the desks next to us in the old days, replete with long hair, tie-dyed T-shirts, jeans and sandals, and pencil and paper (no infernal machines like the PC I'm using to write this and no cell-phones like the one on my desk next to me). It's this niche Taylor's book fills to a tee.
The book's first three chapters contain, roughly speaking, all the analysis situs and topology of the reals (or Cartesian products of such) needed for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students, done in a thoroughgoing but effective style. Taylor provides motivation, gives examples, and adds a lot of problems (of the right degrees of difficulty) to his chapters, and the prose is all very readable: if the reader sits down and works through the material, success — a true knowledge of real analysis — will result. In fact, Taylor's coverage is so thorough that what is now generally postponed to topology proper (most often occurring first in graduate school) is dealt with very effectively in the third chapter of General Theory of Functions and Integration.
The centrally important third chapter closes with a very suggestive quartette of sections forming a conduit to the fourth chapter and therewith the book's main thrust. Specifically, with his coverage of vector spaces, normed linear spaces, Hilbert spaces, and spaces of continuous functions, Taylor opens the door to a very, very careful and ramified treatment of the theory of integration, spread over some 240 pages. Both Lebesgue and Daniell integration are covered in great detail, and the book's closing chapters deal with iteration of integrals, signed measures, and, as what is surely Taylor's pitch to future hard analysts, a careful closing discussion of "functions of one real variable." In this last chapter the Stieltjes integral makes an appearance.
I think this book is a great introduction to serious (real) analysis for serious students, and its reappearance on the mathematical scene is particularly well-timed given what we're dealing with today in the way of hugely disparate levels of preparation among incoming graduate students.
Michael Berg is Professor of Mathematics at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA.
I'm burning red with rage after reading Dr. Berg's review. I'm burning red born of frustration and sadness since he beat me to reviewing one of my all-time favorite - no, check that, my favorite - advanced analysis book. I've dreamed of reviewing it since joining this website. But once again, my penchant for delay has cost me. Making it worse is the fact I can find nothing to disagree with him with in his review. I do have some personal comments to add to it, though. Firstly, I believe this is the perfect text to supplement Papa Rudin. Not only does it cover incredibly important material that every graduate student should know in a beautiful and thorough manner, it really covers what Rudin either skims over or goes through far too quickly for such students to be able to master. Working simultaneously through Taylor's opus concurrently with the Green Bible will vastly improve both their speed and depth of comprehension of modern analysis.
Secondly - the exercises in Taylor are outstanding. Not only do they run the gamut from simple proofs and calculations to major problem sets, how they are constructed will be of enormous help to students. One of the things I love the most about these exercises is how Taylor supplies the best hints I've ever seen to substantial exercises - without giving the punchline away, he instinctively seems to know exactly what piece of information to give the good student to point her in the right direction. This is the work of a gifted teacher. Lastly - it's in Dover,which means there's absolutely no good reason not to have a copy. You can probably get one used for under 5 dollars. Not getting such a remarkable work so cheap is a crime. Period. Get yourself a copy. You'll thank both Dr.Berg and me.


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