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September 19, 2013
September 19, 2013
Welcoming and Check In
Announcement and Q & A: Dante James
Kyle welcomed everyone and asked Dante to address the group. Dante explained that he has had discussions with the CEC Steering Committee and asked them to step up and facilitate future CEC meetings. Recruiting and mentoring will also be the Steering Committee's role. He stated that the CEC needs to run the CEC. He added that Muna will take on more of a staff role instead of facilitating the committee. Dante stated that the expertise Muna brought to the committee is not going to disappear. He further stated that the CEC will be facilitated differently and that OEHR's role is to provide support. Patricia acknowledged Muna's efforts as a facilitator and thanked her.
Kyle introduced new members from Bureau of Development Services (BDS), Chariti Montez (Primary) and Nancy Thorington (Alternate). Dante added that there is an effort to recruit new members from Office of Management and Finance (OMF). There was a question about whether there will be representatives from the Commissioners' offices. Kyle stated that Muna is facilitating this prospect. He added that Dora Perry (Commissioner Fritz) and Bryan Hockaday (Commissioner Novick) were present at the recent training.
Kyle further stated that based upon the completion of our first training for all members and their comments, that welcoming alternate CEC members to meetings on a regular basis is beneficial and important for the whole of the team. It was also stated that attendance on behalf of alternate members was never fully discussed. Kyle will add this discussion to the next CEC meeting agenda. Carolina stated that it was always the intent to have alternates in attendance; the timing of implementation was always the questions.
Ground Rules & Membership
Maximo reviewed the ground rules. He stated it is always good to do a reality check and constantly practice the ground rules.
It was also stated that if CEC members did not have meaningful opportunities to comment in the group setting they could Email the Steering Committee and their Email would be forwarded to the entire group.
Discussion: Director Participation
Dante informed the group that the CEC survey stated that he was not visible or engaged enough. He stated that he has felt disconnected from the CEC and would like to be more engaged with the CEC. Input on Dante's participation was taken and then the CEC voted to determine if Dante should attend the full CEC meetings. The vote was unanimous for Dante's participation in the full meetings. However, there was one comment that read "Yes, participate but committee needs to identify breadth of involvement as needed".
Dante will not be a voting member. Joe Wahl is Deputy Director for OEHR and will attend meetings in Dante's absence.
Debrief: CEC Training
Next steps:
Training within City bureaus
Equity Toolkit/Template development
Equity Toolkit/Template - Accountability
Patricia stated the broader purpose of the training, in her opinion, was to ground the CEC members in a unified comprehension of systematic, institutional racism (and the benefits of dismantling it) as common goals.
Update: Work Groups Report Back
Due to time constraints, no updates were made.
Update: OEHR Director
Dante gave an update on the Executive Equity Committee (EEC). He stated that he has provided those on the EEC with the DRAFT Equity Impact Assessment Guide as an example. Dante also mentioned that every Director should be meeting with their CEC committee members once a month. He then asked for a report from the CEC that could be presented to the Executive Equity Committee about the Racial Equity Plan.
Dante advised that the Mayor's office has asked him to identify 4 or 5 initiatives regarding equity; specific ideas that could be a citywide project that the Mayor's office could implement.
Dante mentioned that the demographics for City ofPortlandemployees are now listed on OEHR's website. Dante will send this information to bureau directors first and then send out a citywide Email.
He also updated the Committee on programs and projects his office was working on.


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Heeding the 4:30 a.m. Wake-up Call
Tomorrow morning, when you're filling your cereal bowl, try to envision the origin of that gallon of milk.
Or, better yet, visit the farm itself. Really. They're looking for an audience.
By Lynne Goldman
If you've never been to a working dairy farm, you owe it to yourself—and your children—to visit one before the endangered species becomes extinct.
From a safe distance, farming appears to be enjoying a return to glory of sorts. But come closer and you'll see, as I did, that the reception may be warmer, but it's still one of the hardest-earned livings.
Fulper Farm is a fifth-generation-owned dairy farm in West Amwell, New Jersey, just outside of Lambertville, that houses 120 Holstein cows. Mary Fulper founded the farm over a century ago. Today, Robert Fulper II and his brother, Fred, oversee the operation. It's one of only 65 working dairy farms remaining in New Jersey. Robert and his daughter, Breanna, a recent graduate of Cornell, where she studied animal science, manage the products—and the "agri-tourism."
Fulper grows its own feed and runs on solar power, but too much else remains out of their control: the international commodity markets (corn, soybeans), the cost of gas, the cost of milk, explosive economic growth halfway around the world, in China. In spite of such resistance, or maybe because of their survival in the face of it, the Fulpers possess a pride in their farm of a degree that few of us may ever know within our own careers.
Molly Pfaffenroth, the sales and marketing manager, narrated my recent tour of the property. Another Cornell graduate, Pfaffenroth is applying her two courses of study, animal science and communications, toward drumming up more awareness of—and, thus, interest in—the farm and the fruit it bears. It's one of the precious few in the area that makes and sells its own yogurt and cheese—mozzarella, ricotta and string—she says. It's sold at Stockton Market, in Stockton, NJ, and the Stangl Factory Farmers Market, in Flemington, NJ, as well as at Fulper itself (Thursdays, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., and online at www.fulper
farms.com). In season, add eight more markets to that list. And count among its regular customers Triumph Brewing Company, in New Hope and Princeton, NJ, and Hamilton's Grill Room, in Lambertville.
The cows are milked here twice a day, at 4:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., in a state-of-the-art milking parlor. They'll produce 8,000 pounds of milk in a single day, most of which is sold to Dairy Marketing Services, or "the milk truck," as it's referred to around the farm. A lot of it will find its way to the refrigerated section of a Wegmans near you, Pfaffenroth says.
They feed their herd the hay, straw, corn and soybeans that they grow across 350 acres. Their cows and calves, it can be said, enjoy a good life. On another 850 acres, they grow the feed that they sell to other local farms. Liquid manure is collected in a lagoon and then used to fertilize the fields, which means that there's zero runoff. The solid manure is used for cow bedding. The Fulpers rotate their crops and abide by other soil conservation practices. And, in 2011, they installed solar panels on three-quarters of an acre, which supply every watt of electricity used on the farm.
The Fulpers, you probably gathered already, are a forward-thinking family. Given the aforementioned conditions working against them in one way or another at all times, their innovation was likely born out of necessity, which makes it all the more impressive.
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Amber Rose Talks Kanye On Foxxhole Radio: "I Was An Ill B*tch To A Rockstar"
Kanye is probably twitching in his seat after hearing that his former girlfriend Amber Rose has a new radio show coming to Jamie Foxx's Foxxhole radio. She was a guest on Foxxhole Radio this past weekend and revealed that she would be co-hosting a show with a few of her girls. They will be discussing celebrity news, pop culture as well as their own lives.
During the show, she also discussed her relationship with Kanye West, denied being dropped from Ford Models and threw a little bit of shade on Kanye's ex-fiancee Alexis while on the show. Check out the highlights below:
On when she would be taking off her clothes or releasing a sex tape
Didn't you see my titties on South Beach? There ain't gonna be no sex tape, I'm not into that sh*t. I've been offered a lot of money but I chose not to do it. I chose to take the high road and I feel like just because of my past and my profession and what I did in my past doesn't mean that I [would do that]. I was a stripper since I was 15-years-old. South Philly. I was a South Philly hood rat my whole life.
I feel like I grew up. [I'm] more cultured. I've traveled the world now, I've learned more things [and] I've learned how to speak well.
On whether her and Kanye would get back together
No, I don't think so. You know in every relationship you have problems and you try to work through and then sometimes things don't work out. But it was very real for me. I was very much in love. I was with him for two years. We lived together, we traveled the world together, we had a lot of fun together. A lot of really cool moments…I was the ill bitch to a rock star.
On whether she participated in threesomes with Kanye
I'm not into threesomes. I had two, 3 year relationships with women. So, I was with women for six years before I met Kanye. [He knew that]
On whether she was dropped from Ford Models after the break up
I was not dropped from Ford Models, they closed their celebrity division and my contract was up. What people don't understand is when you're in a modeling agency and your contract is up but you still get jobs without them. It's a good thing, so they don't take 20-30% of your money. I walked fashion shows in Paris, London, New York even after my contract was up. I didn't have to [re-sign with them] I was getting work without them and it's easier to get my own money without paying them.
One of the co-hosts argued that she had achieved fame off of Kanye West's name and exploiting the fact that she slept with women, in which Amber responded:
I never wanted to be famous it just happened to me. I literally was with someone that I loved very much and we were out people would say "Kanye I love you but can you snap a picture of me and Amber Real quick?"
Me and Kanye were in a very committed relationship. When I was out with Kanye, I became famous. He was with a girl for six years that he was going to marry. What's her name again??
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Fashion Face-off is a new mobile/web show from VH1, in which two personal shoppers compete to dress a familiar face. Think Project Runway meets Supermarket Sweep. In this premiere episode, the shoppers are competing to dress none other than VH1 Tough Love's Taylor Royce. You know when you combine fashion and a reality TV context, the claws come out and the episode above is plenty catty.
Also VH1 and Shecky's have teamed up for a contest, in which the grand prize includes a trip to New York and a consultation with Steve and JoAnn Ward. Click below for details!
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The push to legalize industrial hemp production in Kentucky will begin in the state Senate, Agriculture Commissioner James Comer says. The Kentucky Industrial Hemp Commission, which met Friday for the second time since its decade of dormancy, discussed possible legislation for the upcoming 30-day session. Finding a bill sponsor won't be difficult, Comer told the panel. Sen. Paul Hornback, R-Shelbyville, was mentioned among those mentioned as a possible sponsor.


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Saint Louie Louie
Early to Mid-Season
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Daffodil color or division may vary as the bloom reaches full maturity.
Gerard Knehans, Jr.
Missouri, United States
Pannill 6 Y-Y seedling
open pollinated
Innovation Medal 2005;
Fl. 71 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, opening pale yellow, becoming white, strongly reflexed, plane, overlapping; the inner segments narrower, with margins wavy or incurved; corona cylindrical, slightly constricted at mid-point, becoming golden yellow, with tinges of orange, mouth flared and even, with rim notched and crenate. Color develops after cutting.
Taken from the song written to promote the 1904 World's Fair, 'Meet Me in St. Louie, Louie, meet me at the fair.'
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AudioOutfitters debuts ezGear ezArmor iPod case
updated 10:35 am EST, Tue March 15, 2005
ezGear ezArmor iPod case
AudioOutfitters has announced its for the iPod, which is made of 100% anodized aircraft grade aluminum. The case is designed to perfectly fit the profile of the iPod and features a clear protective screen and clickwheel cutout, offering full access to the digital music player while it is in the case. The interior is lined with neoprene to cushion the iPod from impact shocks and scratches. The form-fitting metal case weighs a mere 1.76 ounces and includes a removable sturdy belt clip and post. The ezArmor comes in two sizes--for the 4th Generation iPods, iPod Photos, and HP iPods (fits 20GB, 30GB, 40GB, and 60GB iPods) and for the iPod Mini. The cases are now shipping for $35.


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Welcome to the City of Santa Rosa Geographic Information System (GIS) page
Here you will find a wide assortment of PDF Maps you can download directly to your PC to view or print. We also have Interactive Maps for the City and County that allow you to zoom in and out, control which GIS layers are displayed and get various kinds of information through Map Tips and Reports. Additionally, you can get information about other GIS services provided by the City of Santa Rosa.
Downloadable PDF MapsFree, requires Adobe Reader - many pre-formatted maps for viewing and/or printing.
Silverlight Interactive City/County MapFree, works best with IE, does not work with Chrome. Going away soon.
HTML5 Interactive City/County MapFree, works with most browsers, both desktop and mobile. Will replace Silverlight soon.
Subscription GISNot free, requires viewer install and login - adds additional functionality to Interactive Maps.
Other Fee-Based ServicesPrinted Maps, Labels, etc - we are a full service GIS shop!
Send any questions to our GIS Coordinator at firstname.lastname@example.com
The City of Santa Rosa does not guarantee the accuracy, currency, completeness, or usefulness of any information displayed or implied herein. The City of Santa Rosa provides this information on an "as is" basis without warranty of any kind, expressed or implied, including but not limited to warranties, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, and assumes no responsibility for any use or misuse of this information.


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Lately we've all (well, I have) been fawning over excellent frankened glitters. And now they're available to us from a variety of sources. The glitters are unique and the collection concepts are awesome. This is one of them.
Nerd Lacquers are created by a crazy talented lady named Amanda. They're available in her Etsy shop or from the darling Katie of Harlow & Co. If you're still in need of convincing, my love Jen posted awesome swatches of these today! I died.
Each polish is inspired by "sci-fi favourites and other geekery" and they're fabulous. Enough talky talky, onto a LOT of pictures below the cut! I put them under a cut because there's a ton of them and I left them in their extra-large sizing so the details were more visible. :)
Don't Blink
Don't Blink is part of the Oi, Spaceman series, inspired by Dr. Who. I'm a huge Anglophile but most people are surprised that I've never really watched Dr. Who. Perhaps I shall try some day!
Pinin' for the Fjords
Pinin' for the Fjords. One coat over Essie Bangle Jangle. This is the only polish that cannot be built up opacity - at least to my preference. That being said, it's beautiful. Pinin' for the Fjords has purple, two shades of blue, big silver hex and micro black glitter. It's crazy. And you know how I feel about black glitter? Yeah, that. These are also awesome because a lot of them feature black glitter. Just saying.
Pinin' for the Fjords is from the Something Completely Different series and it is that!
Argentum. Three coats. Such a fascinating polish. At first I was like MEH THERE ARE OTHER PRETTIES... and then I wore this and couldn't take my eyes off of it. It's got silver microglitter with larger hex glitters mixed into an almost foily base. Amazing. Beautiful.
Argentum is from the Alchemist series - Argentum is silver, of course. Did you know that silver has the highest electrical conductivity of the elements? I remember that from chemistry wayyyy back when... because I've always loved silver, I think!
It's Just a Flesh Wound
It's Just a Flesh Wound, two coats. Ahh. Glorious. Inky black base with orange, black and red glitter of varying sizes, mixed in with huge silver hex glitter and microglitter that looks to be black. Such hotness. I'm sure it surprises exactly none of you that I love this one lol!
It's Just a Flesh Wound is also from the Something Completely Different series. This series is aptly named and awesome.
Cold & Calculating
Cold & Calculating, two coats. A very cool-toned purple base with varying sizes of silver hex glitter, deep purple (haha) glitter and small silver and purple glitter. Also awesome. I don't wear purples often but I loved this one!
Cold & Calculating is from the Where No Lacquer Has Gone Before collection. That's the same collection Warrior Ethos is in... which also looks mindblowingly cool.
And last, but certainly not least, is my favourite of the bunch, hence the picspam.
Nebula, two coats. Nghhhh it's amazing. It's like a gritty little glitter galaxy. <3 Nebula has a blackened reddish-purple base, which you can see in the next picture... that's the polish at one coat. It's loaded with so much glitter that I'm still not sure I processed it all. Okay. Holographic glitter, fuchsia and red hex glitters, silver glitter... light purple glitter... light pink glitter... I can't even. It's beautiful. Even if you skip the rest of these, you NEED this one.
It obviously dries pretty gritty... which I don't mind at all, but I bet it would look stunning with topcoat too!
OKAY. Ohmygod so many pictures. So, you can get these directly from Amanda's Etsy shop and from Katie of Harlow & Co., though it looks like almost all of these beauties are sold out. Have no fear, though - she'll be getting restock in next week! Yay!
And if you're feeling a bit lucky, head on over to Harlow & Co.'s Facebook page, where there's a giveaway to win a mini quad of Nerd Lacquers of your choice!
I think the main thing for you to accept is that you need at least one. Preferably Nebula but I'd never tell you what to do. ;) If you need more convincing, don't forget to check out Jen's post! I really think I need Warrior Ethos!
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Acer Iconia W510 and Iconia W710 pictures and hands-on
Acer announced the Iconia W510 and W700 tablet at its press conference in Taipei on Monday and Pocket-lint was on hand to get a quick play with the two new Windows 8 powered tablets.
The Iconia W510
Starting with the Iconia W510, Acer was very secretive as to what hardware this new 10.1-inch tablet will be running, but confirmed it would be an Intel chip of some kind - possibly an Atom processor - but we couldn't coax the Acer representative into admitting this.
The W510 was made out to be your travel companion, as it's perfect for light work, entertainment and more. With an 18-hour battery life, you're not going to run out of juice any time soon either, although it'll be interesting to see if Acer can actually deliver on this.
As with so many other higher-end tablets, the W510 sports dual cameras with an 8Megapixel unit with an LED flash on the rear and an unspecified camera on the front.
One concern we have about the W510, judging by the unit on display, is that the hinge on the dock isn't quite as strong as it needs to be, as when in "laptop" mode, the tablet half of the W510 was sagging backwards when left on its own.
This didn't seem to be an problem when the keyboard was used as a stand though and it's likely that this is just an issue with this pre-production unit, but still something worth noting.
Price-wise the Iconia W510 will be anything but a cheap tablet, as Acer has placed it somewhere between $599 and $799 making it considerably more expensive than the iPad and every other tablet on the market.
The Iconia W700
As for the Iconia W700, it will feature an Ivy Bridge processor and as such is a notebook replacement tablet. Despite sporting Thunderbolt connectivity, the docking station for the W700 relies on USB 3.0. The left-hand side of the dock sports three USB 3.0 ports courtesy of a hub and oddly enough there's a small cut-out to make room for the rear camera on the right-hand side.
The dock isn't as clever as it first seems, because it simply has a removable stand that can be inserted two different ways into the dock itself and it actually looks rather cheap.
We did manage to prod the W700 for a few seconds and the build quality seems pretty good, although it's a fairly chunky piece of kit compared to ARM-powered tablets and even its W510 sibling.
Price-wise the W700 isn't likely to draw a lot of consumer attention, because Acer is hoping that potential buyers are going to be willing to spend between $799 and $999, which seems far too steep considering its many limitations and rather cheap docking solution.
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Green Asks FIFA for Switch to U.S. From Germany
The 18-year-old, who was born in Tampa, Fla., played for Germany in three qualifiers for the 2014 European Under-19 Championship, making his debut last Oct. 10 against Belarus and getting assists two days later against Latvia and on Oct. 15 versus Scotland.
He made his professional debut for Bayern on Nov. 27 as an 88th-minute substitute in a Champions League match at CSKA Moscow.
FIFA since 2009 has allowed a one-time change in national team affiliation for a player who has appeared in an official match for a youth national team as long as the player had dual citizenship at the time.
"We are absolutely thrilled," U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann said in a statement Tuesday. "He is a very special talent. We wanted him to feel comfortable with our program and listen to his heart when making this decision."


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The Santa Barbara Auto Camp is a Hotel for Airstream Lovers
Posted By Morgana Matus On January 21, 2013 @ 10:30 am In Architecture,carousel showcase,Eco Tourism,Environment,Gallery,Green Building,Innovation,Recycled Materials | No Comments
Visitors to the Santa Barbara Auto Camp have the choice of staying in the "Anacapa", "San Miguel", "Santa Cruz", or "Santa Rosa" trailers, all vintage Airstreams sourced from California and Arizona and renovated to include modern luxuries. Each suite offers a sleeping area, full kitchen, bathroom, and outdoor grill. Water filtration [6] systems, coffee makers, flat screen televisions, and internet access keep the trailers up to date and on par with traditional hotel rooms. Two beach cruisers are included with all reservations allowing visitors to explore their surroundings.
Profiled on HGTV, the beautiful Santa Rosa is a 1973 Airstream Sovereign that sports Brazilian koa wood floors, hand-sanded birch wood interior panels, and recycled glass tile. All finishes are VOC-free, and low-voltage halogen lighting glows under the cabinets. White Corian [7] counter tops are used throughout, and raw canvas upholstery covers the cushions. The bathroom amazingly houses a claw foot tub as well as a faucet/shower wand set. The queen, pillow-top mattress 1,000 thread count sheets, and down pillows make for a luxurious bedroom.
Hofmann acquired his first Airstream [8] "on a whim", a beater that he renovated and lived in for a year. He was attracted to the lifestyle that allowed him to get by with fewer possession, and the the new dynamism that enters personal relationships when living in close quarters. With such limited space [9], every element of the trailer had to be adapted to be used for more than one purpose, a challenge that he greatly enjoyed tackling.
To Hofmann, the Airstream is a perfect compliment to the town of Santa Barbara, a sort of "American Riviera" that attracts everyone from the glamorous Hollywood set to surfers and sun-seekers. The Central Coast is "..a place that also embraces simplicity. Airstreams blend this rich history with regular folks going back to the time thousands of travelers stayed overnight in Santa Barbara to camp in farmer's fields and along hidden creeks during their trips up and down the Pacific Coast Highway. The Airstream Auto Camp invites today's travelers back into town to enjoy a genuine local experience, while protecting the fragile ecosystem [10] surrounding area. The site of the Santa Barbara Auto camp honors the history and environment of this rural oasis along Mission Creek — beginning in 1922, and still does today."
To make reservations and tour the Airstreams, take a trip over the the Santa Barbara Auto Camp website [3].
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[1] Airstream Trailer: http://www.airstream.com/
[2] Hofmann Architecture: http://www.hofarc.com/
[3] Santa Barbara Auto Camp: http://sbautocamp.com/
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[6] Water filtration: http://inhabitat.com/tag/water-filtration
[7] Corian: http://www2.dupont.com/corian/en-us/bi/corian-solid-surfaces.html
[8] Airstream: http://inhabitat.com/tag/airstream
[9] limited space: http://inhabitat.com/tag/tiny-house
[10] ecosystem: http://inhabitat.com/eco-tourism
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In total 24 standard Happy Cube puzzles were created, all with another colour and other difficulties. Next to these I made special promotion puzzle like for McDonalds, KLM, ... printed with there logo. After that puzzle I invented several other puzzles such the "Planet Cubes" (with 6 segments per side instead of 5 segments on the Happy Cube), the Crissle Crossle puzzles, K.O.-Puzzles, .... and some other puzzles.
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Paulino Masip
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Paulino Masip Roca (May 11, 1899, La Granadella – September 21, 1963) a member of the Generation of '27, was a Spanish playwright, screenwriter and novelist. Driven into exile in Mexico in 1939 by the events of the Spanish Civil War, he became involved with the nascent Golden age of Mexican cinema and was the author of over 50 screenplays. Masip is best known for his novel ¨El Diario de Hamlet Garcia¨ which takes place during the Spanish Civil War.
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Hope everyone's doing well?
I'm quite busy at the moment, but when I find the time, I like to play old standards on piano. It's kind of an oddly specific hobby, at least here in Germany - and I never really play live or make use of this style in my productions.
That's probably why I'm not a very good player, but following the chords is good training for both theoretical and hearing skills. Plus, it's fun!
Anyway, I thought I'd share some of it with you.
Nothing fancy sound-wise, I just put my Zoom H-2 recorder on top of an old piano.
Any feedback welcome, of course!
Any other jazz fans out there? Nate, I recall you play the sax, do you go to sessions from time to time or something?
Some Jazz Piano.
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Nice playing! There's nothing like a one-take recording when playing jazz. I enjoyed it.
Yes, I do sessions for both piano and saxophone. I'd love to collaborate with you on something for fun! (Or for serious!)
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Okay, first one. One of the ponies at work is quite pushy and rude in hand, he snatches at grass and hay, drags you when he wants and often stops when he wants too. He is fine under saddle, though. Well, after reading all the advice on here, the next time he tried anything with me I got after him for it!! Any sign of pulling me, snatching food or anything like that, I sure showed him! And I am pleased to say that he is absolutely beautifully behaved with me now! He still misbehaves with some other people at work, I guess this is because he doesn't respect them, right? Well, he is fine for me now!
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The U.S. government has been taking over a majority stake in banks and is dictating the running of the auto industry. Add that in with talks of a nationalized healthcare system, and it's pretty clear that the United States is leaning ever-so-slightly more towards socialism.
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Popular. I don't think it's a matter of popularity.
I do believe that a growing number of Americans have no idea what real socialism is. I also believe a growing number of Americans have no clue what the consequences of socialism is. Many young people have never experience 17% interest rates and hyperinflation brought on by the Carter years.
So guess what.... They get to learn what the older generation learned a couple from the 70's.... Isn't youth great?
Browsing around - I've seen hundreds people try to define what socialism is, few of them accurate.
"spreading the wealth around" is not socialism. That's simply screwed up taxation.
Socialism is when government takes ownership away from a business owner and then decides what's fair for everyone... You no longer own... you simply receive your "allotment". Boy does that sound lfun..
Unfortunately though, we are well on our way down that path.....
When government officials - like Obama or his underlings - presume to fire a CEO and hire someone in it's place...... an act that has no basis in law..... you are well on your way to socialism.
When banks beg to give bailout money back - but the government tells them they cant.... That is socialism.
When the government begins deciding what executives in a company can make... that's socialism.
All of which have transpired in the past few months.
So the American people are going to have to decide if they are truly ready to become a slave to the state.... To be controlled, owned and rationed by the state.
How is that freedom?
Would you rather fail as a free person..... or just get by as an owned person.
That choice is here.
Danny Vice
As a socialist in America, I can say that you have no Idea what it is. I would correct you if I actually thought it would change your mind, but it wouldn't. But I will say TRUE Socialism is not where the government owns everything No socialist would say that, that is authoritarian communism which has been attack more strongly by the socialist then anyone else. Socialism in a simple form is worker ownership of the means of production, private property is still possible just mines and mills will be nationalized and run by the people that work in it. They make the decisions not some guy on wall street. If it effect the workers lives they should have a say in what goes on, so unions are a closer step towards socialism then anything you just said. Socialist look at how the economy effect people, while capitalist look at how the economy effects money. Two sets of goals that are very different. I will say what is the point of an economy if it does not actually help the majority of people? In all "pure" capitalistic society's there has been mass inequalities both in income and opportunity. During the "business cycle" when unemployment goes up people end up actually going hungry and in a lot of cases dying because of the lack of a social safety net. I do not know of any human right that say's it is a basic right of a human to own uncountable amounts of wealth. Add the fact that that wealth is made off the work of others, then you get into even more troubling ethical and logical grounds.
"That choice is here." When people finally realize that "freedom" means a lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, lower test scores, more pollution etc. than those European "Socialists," the may well choose "socialism." Capitalism has its place but unfettered capitalism, red in fang and claw makes no more sense than insisting that anyone not certified insane has the right to buy as many AK-47's as they can afford because anything less in an infringement on "freedom."
Socialism is as well understood as our Economic condition. We have a nation of citizens who are POLITICALLY STUPID. We have children that advance through our school system, some graduate, the blacks and hispanics bring down the amount learned because their teen age women are pregnant, many of them drop out, then become druggies then criminals. Their teachers preach Socialism and the parents do nothing, the professors do the same. The teachers allow babies to undress in class so they can send their PICs to YouTube. Massachusetts allows 13 year olds in a group of 10 or more to get pregnant – the schools and parents do nothing. For the most part these are Obama's voter machine.
Now we come to the North American Union and someone's goal to bring us down to European Socialism, a World Banking System and the dollar no longer the world currency. It is all by Design.
You sound like a first rate fascist. You could well have played the role of Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) in Inglorious Basterds. Who knows, you, instead of Waltz, might even have won an Oscar for that!
"Many young people have never experience 17% interest rates and hyperinflation brought on by the Carter years."
Ignorant fool. Carter was the most rabid anti-Communist president we've ever had. You filthy capitalists want us to live like rats and roaches, but we know better and we outnumber you.
Most Americans are clueless about the meaning and history of "socialism" and things like it.
Most Americans are taught that socialism means the government runs the economy.
But the original self-avowed socialists like Godwin were basically anarchists(which means a society without hierarchy or forced association not a society without rules or order. Though that term was not used until Proudhon). They did not want a government. Socialism meant worker's ownership of the means of production, not state ownership. European monarchs basically owned everything in their countries centuries ago but you couldn't call them socialist. The first socialists wanted a society where working people owned what they produced with other workers democratically and did not have to give any of their labor to idle owners. Some were also communists, meaning they felt that all should be owned by the community. Generally they believed people should just do what jobs they want, and if nobody wanted to do something there would be a lottery and it would be enforced non-violently through social ostracism(shunning, cold shoulder, shouting at you until you leave the community or do your share)
Eventually people like Marx said we should have socialism but not anarchism. Marx wanted anarchism eventually and called it the "communist" stage, but thought there needed to be a transition first. But even then these people wanted worker's ownership, they just wanted the workers in the factories, the stores, farms, etc. to be the lowest level of government electing higher levels, essentially making the economy part of the state. When Marx split with the anarchist Bakunin people started using "socialism" and "communism" more to refer to Marx's theories. Eventually people who wanted state control without worker control started using the word "socialism" to refer to their ideologies. An example is Francis Bellamy, the author of our pledge who with his brother Edward Bellamy proposed "military socialism", which would've turned our entire society industry, education, etc. into a military organization. Bellamy's ideas would greatly influence Hitler and Mussolini.
In 1917 there was a communist revolution in Russia. The Bolsheviks stated an intent for worker's control, but gradually starting with the Communist Party declaring itself the sole legal party as an emergency measure they created a system where the workers had no power.
Why do we allow our lives to be run by politicians and bureaucrats? Or owners who don't work a day in their lives? We have constructed a social reality where people are considered to have ownership or to have authority. These realities are formed and maintained by consensus. If the workers all stopped working for the owners and if all the people who enforce the rule of the politicians and bureaucrats, the police and the military stopped enforcing their power all these words "owner", "politician", "administrator", and all their titles and their laws become meaningless words. These people would have to stop exploiting people and find real jobs. If the masses wanted we could have a new society tomorrow. We could be in charge. Workers could run their own work, and deal with other groups of workers how ever they find necessary such as by creating larger voluntary associations. Order could be maintained as people work together to stop violent crime and to set up courts to judge innocence or guilt but without the corruptive influences of capitalism and the state system that enables its existance. This could all be achieved with no violence, just a large-scale general strike in every aspect of the public and private sectors.
Why are we so afraid of "socialism"? Socialism means a society where we exercise our power to run our own lives and don't abdicate to others based on myths about property or social contracts.
It is embarrassing how LITTLE Americans DON"T know what socialism is!
They believe what the media, (controlled by corporations!) tell them!
Of course the media and the ruling class WANTS you to believe socialism is bad! Because socialism endangers the ruling class!
Also USSR was NOT socialist, it was a dictatorship! They just told they were socialist, but again, are you going to believe a murdering dictator for his word??
I come from Europe, lived in Belgium, which is for a big part a socialistic-democratic country...everyone has good healthcare for only 5 euro a month! People are truly free to do whatever they want because education is cheap.
I worked at a company where we had 31 PAID vacation days per year! And if the company made profit, WE (as workers) got part of it!! And of course people owned houses and cars (that was not state owned, like so many gullible people here claim socialism is)
Type-O in the former comment, of course the comment means to say "How little people DO know what socialism is" instead of 'don't'
OR "how MANY don't know what socialism is", either way....
Apologies for that, I was just so stunned about the fact ;-)
Socialism does not mean the government must take over and "decide what's fair for everyone." Let's distinguish two different things: economic philosophy and political philosophy. Capitalism, Socialism, Communism- these are economic philosophies. Totalitarianism, Oligarchy, Democracy- these are political philosophies. The worst things about the Soviet Union was its political philosophy (totalitarianism) not it's economic philosophy. Much of Western Europe is socialist-democratic, the two ideas get along just fine and it's not surprise to me that a lot of people in this country think it might be worth a try.
You say it works just fine in Western Europe? isn't it true most of those countries are in just as bad a shape and worse? Isn't it true that their economic policies have put them in a position to be begger nation? Your correct that Socialism is an economic philosophy but it always lead to complimentary political philosophy. It never turns out well.


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March 14, 2008
To Iraq. And back.Reviewer: James van Maanen
To Iraq. And back. Followed by torture, terrorism, genocide--and history.
The films under consideration and their ratings (out of five):
Redacted (* * *½)
In the Valley of Elah (* * *½)
Rendition (* * * *)
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One of the beauties of DVDs is that you can rent a batch of similarly-themed movies and--over a weekend or a week--expand your knowledge and appreciation of our world due to the opportunity to see these films (along with their "Special Feature" extras) as a group in which one enriches the next and/or harks back to its predecessor. A single day in February saw the release of four such movies (Redacted, Rendition, In the Valley of Elah and Terror's Advocate) preceded one week earlier by Screamers and followed the week after by Goya's Ghosts , a film that surprised me by unexpectedly bringing many of the themes of the former five together under the panoply of history.
Brian De Palma's Redacted is commendable for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that it is only the second movie I know of (after Philip Haas' The Situation) to deal with the current Iraq war as narrative rather than documentary--even though the incident on which it is based should be well-known to anyone who has followed this despicable war. During festival jaunts and upon its commercial release, the film divided critics. Commercial audiences, as expected, stayed away in droves. DVD may be the perfect format in which to view this ragged, challenging, alternately moving, funny and frightening feature that uses several video formats (home movies via camcorder, stationery surveillance cameras, a documentary being made by a French crew and Al Jazeera-like newscasts) to piece its story together.
Writer/director De Palma has done a fine job of assembling the pieces: his movie clips along at a good pace, and you won't get lost amidst the disparate characters and locations. You'll also come to know enough about the recruits to understand their actions--which is what I think De Palma most wants us to do. This does not mean we approve, but simply better comprehend. We may also begin to ask some worthwhile (if nearly eight-year-old) questions: What kind of soldiers are we accepting into the military today? What kind of training (not to mention protection--armor and the like) are we giving them? Only at its end does the movie feel both forced and not enough. Perhaps the actors did not rise to the occasion, or maybe the finale in the bar was not the best choice of a concluding scene. Even if De Palma means to lay responsibility at the feet of Americans who blindly elect incompetent leaders and then follow them into the abyss (a point I would agree with), what we see and hear seems underwritten and overacted. Still, what precedes this scene puts you squarely in the soldiers' position and sculpts events so that they cohere about as well as anything I've seen--including most of the documentaries.
The return of American soldiers from the first Iraq war, in which there was little or no "ground" action, nonetheless left some infantrymen (and women) in terrible disrepair, suffering ailments our military either refused to acknowledge or swept under the usual carpet (remember Agent Orange from Vietnam?). The current Iraq war will leave returning soldiers--and our country--much worse off, which is the point of writer/director (from a story co-written with Mark Boal) Paul Haggis' In the Valley of Elah. The title pertains to the Biblical location in which David slew Goliath, and it is among the few symbolic notions that Haggis has needlessly dragged into his movie and then made too much of (he had a lot more of these in his overrated Crash). The story--in which Tommy Lee Jones plays a father insistently looking for answers to his Iraq War vet son's disappearance--is no metaphor and is sturdy enough to stand on its own.
Basically an "investigation" movie (of a crime, of the military then and now, of soldiers' bonding, of prejudice and more), Elah boasts generally good writing and direction plus fine performances from Jones, Charlize Theron and a number of young and old men who play soldiers, current and ex-. In the course of the investigation, what slowly becomes clear is scary indeed. Who are these men returning from Iraq, what have they become, and how will our society be able to cope with them? If the denouement is a tad obvious (a quality Haggis demonstrated both in Crash and in his screenplay for Million Dollar Baby), it also seems truthful. And the aftermath has barely begun.
What is helping to send our soldier boys around the bend in Iraq (as reflected by Redacted and Elah) is the central subject of the woefully under-seen and under-appreciated Rendition. Written by Kelley Sane and directed by Gavin Hood (whose somewhat overpraised Tsotsi won the Best Foreign Film Oscar for 2006), the movie does, I admit, look like a glossy Hollywood terrorist thriller. But just as you can't judge a book by its cover, you should not judge a movie by its cinematography--which in this case, though glossy, is also damn good (Oscar-winner Dion Beebe was in charge). What makes Rendition so interesting and watchable, however, is its full-speed-ahead story and willingness to confront our country's power elite with its actions regarding torture.
"We don't do torture," a certain ex-official of ours is on record as telling us, a line that is repeated by his semi-stand-in for the film, capably played (would you expect anything else?) by Meryl Streep. Of course, this is a blatant lie, and the fact that the movie says so and shows so in no uncertain terms probably accounts for its failure at the box-office. (Even a trashy terrorist pot-boiler like The Kingdom drew bigger crowds at the multiplexes.) Rendition is difficult to watch and even more difficult to countenance because it is our country that now subscribes to this vicious and pointless (the tortured will confess to anything) procedure. Watching Rendition is like looking into a shit-encrusted mirror. And the crack performances by Reese Witherspoon, Peter Sarsgaard, Jake Gyllenhaal, Alan Arkin, Streep and especially Yigal Naor and Omar Metwally (as, respectively, torturer and tortured) simply add to the uncomfortable verisimilitude.
A word should also be said about the film's canny construction. Two stories unfold in front of you as the movie proceeds. Then, toward the end, the filmmakers pull the rug from under you. What you've been assuming is simply wrong, and the disorientation is stunning. Not unlike perhaps, one's initial reaction to being whisked out the side door of an airport, told that you're suspected of terrorism and then flown to a foreign country where...But it's only a movie, folks.
Torture? Big deal -- it's a good way to combat terrorism, right? This is partially the subject of our next film, one honored with France's César award for best documentary of the year. Terror's Advocate is a creation of the very intelligent director Barbet Schroeder (La Vallée, Barfly, General Idi Amin Dada, Reversal of Fortune), who works in a variety of genres and is a little hard to pinpoint in terms of style (not much, whatever the subject calls for) and belief. It's often hard to know where Schroeder stands and what he thinks, which, I suspect is exactly how he wants it. In this film, he explores one Jacques Vergés, a man who began his "career" fighting the Nazis with the Free French during WWII and looks to end it as a lawyer who loves the good life and pays for it by defending the likes of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, while hob-nobbing with terrorists such as Carlos the Jackal and his former main squeeze Magdalena Kopp.
Schroeder enjoys (to borrow from Kevin Smith) the view askew. While he interviews Vergès and allows the man his say, his fingernails (via camera and sound) lift and pry into all sorts of odd places and people, giving us a much more nuanced, if not so nice, look at the enigmatic lawyer. Initially, it seems as if Vergés legitimately wanted to offer help to those defendants who lacked money, power or friends. As the documentary moves along however, it is difficult not to question many of the man's choices--not to mention his relatively luxurious lifestyle, together with his rather feeble explanations. But that's my take; you'll have your own.
Of particular interest are the interviews and snippets that feature ex-terrorist Hans-Joachim Klein, a man who has a much more important role in Jessica Yu's recent and fascinating documentary Protagonist. In that film, Klein gets to tell his own tale in his own manner and comes off quite the intelligent, sensitive penitent. Schroder, weaving Klein into his entire tapestry, shows the man in not exactly a contrary, but certainly a different, light.
How big a step is it from torture/terror to genocide? Some would argue it's only a matter of degree. Hitler, after all, in planning his Holocaust-to-come, did mention that no one would remember the ethnic cleansing of the Armenians by the Turks that took place only 20-some years before. Carla Garapedian's Screamers fuses performances by the rock group System of a Down with interviews and information about the genocide to the Armenian people. Some of this information you may already know [read interview with Garapedian here], but I found a good deal that was new to me here.
The title of Garapedian's film refers to those people who simply cannot remain silent about this genocide, despite the constant pressure from Turkey over the decades to ignore it and claim that it never happened. Enough evidence has been presented to make any thinking person admit to its reality. But not the Turks--or at least those Turks in control of the government, hence possessing the ability to inform and control the people. I recall Croatian film director Ognjen Svilicic telling me that the Bosnian genocide could happen again because too much has been kept secret and not investigated properly. This assumption, if correct (and I suspect it is), does not bode well for either the perpetrators who insist on burying the truth--or for their victims, past and future.
While many viewers will come for the music but stay for the message, I'm rather the reverse. Although I am pleased to have watched Screamers, I must admit to not particularly enjoying rock groups who "scream" their songs, though this style is certainly a la mode. If this is your reaction as well, you can fast forward through some of the numbers (while others are intercut with information you won't want to miss). I mean no disrespect to the System of a Down performers, who seem like a thoughtful, intelligent and talented bunch. And their hearts and heads are in the right place. But their music is just not my cup of tea.
There is a shocking yet oddly amusing scene from Goya's Ghosts in which the family of the character played by Natalie Portman hangs the character played by Javier Bardem backwards by his arms from their chandelier. As I watched, I had one of those little epiphanies that can come from viewing similarly-themed films in quick succession. Portman, you see, has been tortured and remains imprisoned by the Church (represented by Bardem) during the Spanish Inquisition. Her family wants her back, and they're ready to fight fire with fire. At this point I flashed back to Rendition, and the scene in which the character played by Peter Sarsgaard confronts the one played by Meryl Streep with the fact that a most-likely innocent man is being held against his will and probably tortured. The exchange is brief and filled with barely concealed contempt on both sides, ending in a short speech that encapsulates the problem nicely. Still, these are just words, and Streep is able to wave them off. How unfortunate, I thought, that Sarsgaard could not have immediately hung Streep backwards by her arms from the local chandelier until her character could experience the kind of simple empathy needed to condemn torture.
It's difficult to believe that one of the world's great writer/directors Milos Forman did not have our current times in mind when he filmed his most recent work, a movie rich in history, the uses/abuses of power, and the sad, relentless and numbing fact of who it is that inevitably pays power's price. Forman is from the Czech Republic and the American movies he has chosen to direct and/or write/adapt reflect a keen interest in society at various points in history. Forman's "takes" on this have not always proven as popular as in his Academy-honored films (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus, the former of which, to my mind, offer the least depth of any of his work), but they remain worth seeing for their rich, disparate mix of appropriate style and thoughtful content: Taking Off, Hair, Ragtime, Valmont (by far the best of the several "Choderlos de Laclos" adaptations), The People vs. Larry Flynt and now Goya's Ghosts.
Forman is especially good, I think, with historical films -- Amadeus, Valmont, Ragtime and his Goya piece. These are all visual feasts, yet the sets and costumes never override what is going on with the films' characters or with the bigger picture--in this case, what happens to Spain, first under the Inquisition, then via the conquering French (who toss out the creeps at the top of the Church but still treat the people as easily dispensable). Once the British conquer Napoleon, those same Church creeps take over again. Through it all, Brother Lorenzo, the monk played by Bardem--as one of the more successful opportunists you're likely to encounter--takes advantage of one and all. As a director, Forman usually manages to coax wonderful performances from his casts. Portman is as good as she's ever been, as a character who ages by 15 years, and then plays her daughter, too. Bardem, as always, is magnetic. Though his large, craggy face lends itself easily to villain roles, I'll treasure him more as the complex people he portrays in films like Second Skin, Before Night Falls, Mondays in the Sun and The Sea Inside. And Stellan Skarsgård is a splendid Goya, combining reticence and honesty, cowardice and courage to excellent effect.
Beautiful, sometimes thrillingly so, and filled with strange moments (the last of which takes hand-holding into a whole new realm), Goya's Ghosts is an odd duck. There is such a distance between its personal story and its larger canvas, yet I think Forman manages to bridge this gap with finesse and feeling. I recommend the movie highly, as I do a revisit to this filmmaker's earlier work. Even if you don't watch Goya, as I did, to cap off a week of Iraq-and-back-cum-torture/terror, I believe you'll still find it more than worthwhile in its own right.
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May 21 2010
Charles in Charge: By Design of the Master
Both of Charles' parents labored hard in the rice paddies all day long but brought home little money. When Charles mother got sick, they did not have money to take her to the hospital.
Charles never found out why she was sick. She just grew weaker by the day, until finally she died. He still wonders…
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Who Leads Our Emerging Leaders in South Asia?
The Leadership Development Program (LDP) in India produces eminent young leaders to influence and inspire their churches, society and nation. And Andrew Christopher plays a vital role in the South Asia region as team lead.
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There are at least two musicians using the name Natty: 1) Fresh from supporting Kate Nash and Adele on tour and following the release of the highly acclaimed 'The Mixtape', Natty returns with his debut single 'Cold Town', an upbeat ska tinged pop track with a very candid meaning. Hailing from North London Natty grew up surrounded by an eclectic mix of sounds from Neil Young to Marvin Gaye and it was while working in Sphere Studios in Battersea that he first discovered his talent.
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Treasure Coast book news April 28, 2013
Most-circulated books
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1. "Collateral Damage," by Stuart Woods
2. "The Forgotten," by David Baldacci
3. "Zoo," by James Patterson
4. "Notorious Nineteen," by Janet Evanovich
5. "The Walking Dead," by Robert Kirkman
Martin County
1. "Mad River," by John Sandford
2. "I, Michael Bennett," by James Patterson
3. "Gone Girl," by Gillian Flynn
4. "The Forgotten," by David Baldacci
5. "Fool Me Twice," by Robert Parker
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MOPS (Mothers of PreSchoolers) is an international ministry for women with children aged newborn through kindergarten. MOPS supports the unique needs of a mom through this age and stage of parenting.
MOPS helps moms through relationships established in the context of local groups that provide a caring atmosphere for today's mother of young children. The mothers have a chance to meet with other moms and hear speakers that touch their lives emotionally and spiritually, along with receiving some practical information to help make their lives a little easier!
MOPS is open to all women -- you do not have to be a member of First Church to attend.
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Because there are only so many complaints that can be lodged at Israel (thought the well does seem bottomless at times), it was perhaps inevitable that the criticism of the Jewish state would produce some strange narratives. Those who feel compelled to oppose whatever Israel is doing at any given time are going to have to latch on, occasionally, to counterintuitive accusations. And a recent critique of Israeli policy fits that bill.
Portraying Israel as the warlike aggressor gets increasingly ridiculous, as Hamas initiates each round of violence with indiscriminate rocket attacks against civilians in much of the country, including Israel's major port city, its capital, and the area near its major international airport. Additionally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has exhibited restraint, attempting to stave off the need for a limited ground incursion, which has now commenced, with repeated attempts at a truce. And that, apparently, is the new objection to Israel's actions.
BuzzFeed's Sheera Frenkel reports on two consecutive efforts by Israel to get Hamas to "yes" in talks for a truce:
"There were talks, and they were a step in the right direction, but to declare that a cease-fire agreement was reached is premature," said one Palestinian official currently in Cairo on the delegation. "Hamas has made it clear that their demands have not yet been met, and there are further discussions to be held." This appeared to echo previous concerns when a cease-fire deal was announced by Israel on Tuesday, despite claims from Hamas that it had not been consulted and would not have accepted the offer.
Chief among the demands of Hamas, he said, was that Egypt open its Rafah crossing with Gaza, and Israel ease the naval blockade of Gaza.
"We do not understand the reports currently in the media, they are misleading," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as the group had agreed not to speak to media until a cease-fire was officially announced. He added that it was his suspicion that someone from the Israeli delegation leaked information to the BBC, in the hopes that announcing a cease-fire deal would pressure Hamas into agreeing to the offer already on the table.
Israel tried to get a ceasefire–not just a temporary humanitarian ceasefire, but a cessation of the current round of violence–on Tuesday, but couldn't get Hamas to sign on. They tried again, and the Palestinians accused Israel of leaking news of an agreement in order to pressure Hamas to accept the truce. The Israelis, in other words, stand accused of being too aggressively peace-minded.
There was a similar complaint, though concerning a different era, in the July 12 edition of the Economist. The magazine ran a book review on Ahron Bregman's latest history of the post-1967 conflict. According to the review, Bregman–who served in the Israel Defense Forces during its first Lebanon war and subsequently left Israel "unhappy about the country's policy towards the Palestinians," according to the Economist–accuses then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak of manipulating the U.S. and Yasser Arafat into the peace process. From the review:
In 1999 Israel's prime minister, Ehud Barak, lured Mr Clinton, Mr Bregman suggests, into one failed summit after another, providing Mr Barak with enough cover to allow him to claim that Israel had no partner for peace.
After persuading Mr Clinton to tempt President Assad to Geneva in March 2000 with the promise of ground-breaking proposals, says the author, Mr Barak back-pedalled on an earlier Israeli promise of a full withdrawal. Hours before the summit was due to start, Mr Barak insisted that Israel should keep a sliver of land, 400 metres wide, on the edge of the Sea of Galilee. Mr Assad withdrew.
Four months later Mr Barak persuaded Mr Clinton to try again, cajoling a wary Yasser Arafat to negotiate a final settlement at Camp David.
Yet Barak didn't walk away from the deal on the table; Arafat did. Bregman seems to paint Barak as a serial flake, ending the prospect of peace with Syria and "cajoling" Arafat to a peace summit in order that Barak's grand gamble would fail, forever tarnishing his legacy and beginning the end of his career as a potential premier and heralding the descent of his Labor Party into near-irrelevance.
No one looks very intelligent claiming that Israel is run by warmongers. So the new plan is to condemn Israel for its enthusiasm for peace negotiations. Israelis have long known that whatever they do, they'll be criticized for it, and this appears to be just the latest iteration of Israel's opponents' fundamental hypocrisy.


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Phylogenetic split of Larix : evidence from paternally inherited cpDNA trn T-trn F region
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A molecular phylogeny of Larix comprising 12 species was constructed from the sequence analysis of the paternally inherited cpDNA trnT-trnF region of 46 individuals. The most parsimonious tree split Larix into three sister clades: one clade was composed of two North American species, the other two were short-bracted and long-bracted species of Eurasia respectively except that L. sibirica was clustered in the long-bracted clade. The difference between the present cpDNA phylogeny and previous nrDNA ITS phylogeny in the position of L. sibirica seems to suggest that ancient cytoplasmic gene flow might exist between sections Larix and Multiserialis. The short-bracted L. laricina and long-bracted L. occidentalis have an identical sequence of the trnT-trnF region, which implies that the bract length divergence among North American larches might have occurred recently or chloroplast capture happened during the early differentiation of the two species. The cpDNA results also shed some light on the biogeography of Larix.
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- Phylogenetic split of Larix: evidence from paternally inherited cpDNA trnT-trnF region
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Plant Systematics and Evolution
Volume 239, Issue 1-2 , pp 67-77
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- 2003-06
- 10.1007/s00606-002-0264-3
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- 0378-2697
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- 1615-6110
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- Springer-Verlag
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- Larix
- Pseudotsuga
- trnT-trnF region
- molecular phylogeny
- biogeography
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- X.-X. Wei (1)
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- 1. Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, Beijing, 100093, China


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Hiking in the wilderness can bring about a sense of tremendous peace and relaxation, and the Pacific Northwest offers plenty of deep forests and long tracts of wilderness for escaping the demands of daily life. The farther you stray from the beaten path, however, the greater the chances your situation might turn on a dime, transforming peace and relaxation into a fight for survival.
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Crucial Camping Gear for WinterTuesday, February 22nd, 2011
Very few people prefer to camp during the winter, because there is the scare of frostbite or other curveballs Mother Nature might decide to throw. However, camping in the winter has its advantages, such as having more options for camping locations. The lack of other campers yields a quiet experience that bonds nature, spirit and body together.
2011 Tour of the Northwest's Big Game AnimalsMonday, January 31st, 2011
COAST is proud to be Northwest Big Game Inc.'s newest sponsor for the 2011 Tour of the Northwest's Heads & Horns Wall of Kings Display. This travelling display features record breaking trophy heads from across the Northwest, as well as some of the most unique A-typical horns you can find. Along with this selection, show attendees are welcome to bring in their own game heads to be measured by an official from NW Big Game, Boone & Crockett, and Pope & Young for a chance to get their name (more…)
Multi-Tools: How Much Do You Need?Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
The versatility of a multitool makes it a great holiday gift for just about anyone. Like a Swiss Army knife, this all-in-one gadget lets you carry multiple tools in one compact, easily portable form.
Holiday Gift Ideas For D-A-DFriday, November 14th, 2008
As the holidays loom closer with each passing day, it's inevitably time to start thinking about gifts. And if you're like me, shopping for Dad can be the most difficult. What exactly do you get a guy who already has everything? And how do you find that balance between practicality and thoughtfulness—because, really, how many neckties does one man need? After wrestling with those same questions year after year, I decided to compile a list of new and fresh, fail-safe gift ideas that are sure to be a hit with dear ol' Dad.


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Yesterday Veggies, Today Flowers
And Gold Bond Powder. Yesterday I posted about critters eating my melon leaves and what to do about it. One gardener wrote that she puffed Gold Bond Medicated Powder (the cheap store brand) on her melon leaves, and the cucumber beetles (or whatever critter was chowing down) left her plants alone. Apparently they didn't like either the menthol or the powder. Figured it was worth a try. If it killed the plants, well, the bugs would have done that anyway, right? So I misted the leaves and dusted with powder, and it didn't look like there were any new holes today. Couldn't say for sure, so I cut all the chewed leaves off and dusted again. This way, I'll know for sure if it worked or not. I'm hoping it does, cuz those critters decimated the poor melons last year. I'll let you know.
Before I get on with the flowers, got a quick question. I've mentioned previously that we were thinking of moving into a bigger home here in the park. We've decided that since it's unlikely we'll be getting out of this god-forsaken Valley any time soon, we might as well buy something. There are a bunch of foreclosed homes down here, so we can probably find something nice that we can still afford. So, the question becomes, am I a total garden geek for spending until 3 am this morning "daydreaming" about how I want my garden when we actually do get a house? I mean, really. I have no idea at all what kind of space I'll have, and here I am planning a garden already. What kind of sense does that make? LOL!
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First, the side of the stairs container garden. Got one lone Bachelor Button still hanging in there. The mini roses are blooming. Aren't they cute? The night-blooming jasmine I bought last year has grown quite a bit since I put it in Al's Gritty Mix in a whiskey half-barrel. The gaillardia are blooming like crazy; salvia and lantana are blooming nicely too. Oh, the white thing around that one pot is a wind shield I rigged up. I planted some cosmos Sonata seeds in there, but it's been so windy that the seeds that did sprout just dried up and died. Or blew away, maybe. Planted some more, and this time put the sun/wind shield around it. Hope it works.
Side-Of-The Stairs Container Garden
Speaking of night-blooming jasmine, it's blooming right now. When I open the door at night, it smells like…sugar, kind of. Reminds me of how cotton candy smells when it's being made.
A branch of jasmine buds
Side-of-the-stairs from the top.
This little guy stayed still long enough to get a pic while I was out with the camera yesterday.
Butterflies love gaillardia.
Butterfly garden, beginnings…
Speaking of butterflies, here's the humble beginnings of my butterfly garden. The pots with the pipes are cleome. As I've mentioned, it tends to be windy here, so I expect I'll have to stake the cleome. The windowbox has Carpet Cosmos, which are only supposed to grow 6″ tall, and in the middle, 3 red penta. Two of the seeds have sprouted, but the babies are really small, about the size of thyme when it first sprouts. Hope they make it. The black container has just-transplanted blue salvia and some Cosmos Bright Lights seeds. The round pot has blue ageratum seeds, just planted today. The seeds are so tiny, and it was so windy, that I was afraid to try to plant them until the wind died down a bit. Also want to try zinnia, Cosmos Sonata mix, and maybe even a tithonia. Don't tell me it won't do well in a container; I refuse to accept that until I try! More on that as it evolves. Need more potting soil first; hoping to go get it tomorrow.
Mums and gazania
A while ago, I posted about dividing mums and gazania. Here's a pic of the windowbox, blooming like crazy. I swear, I cut off all the buds when I divided the mums, but they would not be denied. They wanted to bloom, so I'm letting them. I think we probably have a long enough growing season to let them bloom again in fall. Seen it happen before with my mums.
I guess that's about all she wrote, for now. Tired after staying up too late tomorrow, so g'nite, y'all.
3 Responses to "Yesterday Veggies, Today Flowers"
Ya, you're a total garden geek. Isn't it fun? I garden all night long in my sleep
Your flowers are beautiful. I planted a few flowers this year, I hope they grow.
Excellent blog you have there, thanks for sharing, iv bookmaked you!
hey, nice blog…really like it and added to bookmarks. keep up with good work


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Don Diego Robusto 5 Pack
5 x 52 - Natural - Pack of 5
For decades, Don Diego cigars have been a solid, reliable cigar for cigar smokers who want a well made, smooth and mellow cigar at a fair price. Always consistent, flavorful and aromatic with silky, light-bronze U.S. Connecticut wrappers, each Don Diego Robusto 5 Pack offers a mild tobacco flavor using a smooth Dominican and Brazilian tobacco blend. A good cigar for the money that's satisfying any time of day and for any occasion. An excellent selection for new and Lady cigar smokers, too.
For me, cigar this was non-smokeable. I gave 2 of them a try but could not finish it. It was slightly better than smoking a paper bag.
pretty much ruined a nice vacation. Bought 27 Robustos, which burned unevenly, drew terribly, and canoed all over the place. August brand gone bad! Never again
Overall a very mild and smooth smoke. I found the burn to be quite even in a humid environment, the flavor was consistently tasty throughout, and the smoke was magnificent and nearly perfect. Produced fairly warm smoke (Very noticeable). I enjoyed the taste, but the after taste was less than preferred and stuck a little more than I would personally have liked as it wasn't terribly pleasant. For the price you can't really go wrong, but for an extra dollar their are better mild cigars available. For a less diversified smoker though, it would be enjoyable to say the least. Worth a try. (I got mine in a Dominican 6 pack sampler)