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by Alex Glover, PG
Chief Geologist, The Feldspar Corporation
It is amazing that this small 25 mile long by 10 mile wide batholith of the Spruce Pine Mining District (lying in Mitchell, Avery, and Yancey Counties of North Carolina) is so important an ingredient for making products we use everyday. We often take for granted its role in the quality of life that we enjoy today.
The Spruce Pine Districts importance has increased as mankinds need for minerals has progressed from early native American burial decoration to space-age computer parts of today. Even more amazing is the fact that it took colliding continents to place this valuable resource in such a beautiful area as the western North Carolina mountains.
The story of prospecting and mineral production of the Spruce Pine Mining District began before recorded time when the Ancients mined for glittering mica during the Woodland age 2000 years ago. The Ancients, an early name given to the Native Americans by settlers of the area, mined mica for grave decoration and wampum which they traded as money. The mica is known to have been traded as far away as the Ohio valley and is believed to have originated from Native American mines in the spruce Pine area now known as the Clarissa, Ray, and Sinkhole mines. Legend is that this mining of mica led Hernando DeSoto to the Spruce Pine area around 1540 in search of mineral wealth that he thought to be gold and silver. He found only silver mica better known as muscovite mica.
Later, around 1744, legend is that Cherokee Indians mined semi-weathered feldspar and kaolin from the Spruce Pine pegmatites and used oxen-drawn sleds to transport it to the coast where it was loaded on ships bound for England. In England, it was used as an ingredient for patented English ceramic wares.
From 1767 to 1911, mining of feldspar and mica occurred sporadically. Mica was mined to fuel the demand for the newly-developed Edison electric motor in 1878. The motor required the electrical insulating properties of sheet mica.
Around 1910, gem prospector William E. Dibbell of Baltimore became interested in the large waste piles of feldspar discarded by the early mica miners. He sorted material from the Flat Rock Mica mine near Penland and hand-scrubbed it with steel brushes to enhance purity for trial shipment to the Golding Sons Ceramic Plant in East Liverpool, Ohio. Management of the Golding Sons Plant liked the ceramic grade feldspar so much that they contracted Dibbell to supply more. This led to Dibbell receiving bank backing to organize the carolina Minerals Company of Penland. The first production load of feldspar was shipped from the Deer Park mine in 1911 and eventually supplied Golding Sons ceramic plants in Trenton, Wilmington, and East Liverpool, Ohio.
Three years later, in 1914, felspar grinding plants were built in Erwin, Tennessee by the Clinchfield Mineral and Milling Company. This plant was organized by Charles Ingram and financed by Blair and Company of New York. This same company financed building of the Clinchfield railroad, which was completed in 1908.
In 1917, North Carolina became the primary feldspar producer in the U.S. and has continued to maintain that status ever since. Feldspar grinding continued in Erwin, Tennessee along with new feldspar plants constructed in 1921 at Beaver Creek, North Carolina and in 1923 at Micaville, North Carolina. As the feldspar industry became more active and prosperous, many investors and producers were starting new companies and buying others. Feldspar and mica were being hand-mined at hundreds of holes, pits, and mines throughout Mitchell, Avery, and Yancey Counties, which make up the Spruce Pine Mining District.
Until the mid- to late-1940s, most work, especially ore separation of minerals, was done by hand with crude machinery and hand tools. Between 1944 and 1949, the process of chemical separation of minerals was jointly developed by the Feldspar Mining Company, the North Carolina Feldspar Corporation, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the North Carolina State Mineral Research Laboratory of Asheville. This process led to the current large volume, high-capacity process of separating the minerals of feldspar, mica, quartz, and garnet from the rock (ore).
The geologic history of the Spruce Pine Mining District is as fascinating as its mining history. About 380 million years ago, the African Continent was being forced toward the Ancestral Eastern North American Continent by plate tectonic force. The subduction, or forcing down of the Oceanic Crust underneath the North American Continent produced tremendous friction-generated heat from the two colliding continents.
This friction-generated heat in excess of 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit melted the surrounding rock 9 to 15 miles below the surface. This igneous molten rock was generated under intense pressure that forced the molten rock into cracks and fissures of preexisting rock. This molten rock under pressure is similar to hot hydraulic fluid being forced into a chamber. Due to the pressure exerted on the molten fluid, it hydraulically pushed its way through the cracks of the host rock. this opened the rock up, along with melting contact areas of the host rock and sucking up rich mineral forming fluids. As these cooled, they crystallized and became a mineral-rich buried treasure.
It then took an estimated 100 million years for this deeply buried (and insulated) mass to cool and crystallize. The slowly cooling mineral crystals grew within the Spruce Pine District to some of the largest feldspar and mica crystals in the world. After molten emplacement and cooling, it took millions of more years of Appalachian Mountain building and subsequent erosion to expose the deposits we see today.
Modern day mining methods, research, plant production, and product development have enabled the use of these high purity natural resources from the earth to enhance our quality of life.
Feldspar is a major ingredient in the manufacture of many types of glass, from automobile windshields and computer screens to baby food bottles and electric light bulbs. Feldspar comprises about 65% of the rock from the Spruce Pine pegmatite and is a major source of aluminum, sodium and potassium for glass manufacturing. Feldspar provides aluminum, which improves glass workability during forming, retards glass blooming, improves glass strength and imparts resistance to thermal shock. About 110 pounds of feldspar is used to make a ton of container glass (bottles and jars) and about 100 pounds is used to make a ton of flat glass (auto windshields and window glass).
Feldspar is also a major ingredient in the manufacture of ceramic products. it acts as a flux to fuse (melt) other ingredients at lower temperatures; it cements the crystalline phases of other ingredients together; and it imparts strength, durability, and toughness to ceramic bodies. Feldspars special qualities and glazing properties allow ceramic product manufacture of pottery, plumbing fixtures (sinks and toilets), electrical porcelain, ceramic tile, dinnerware, structural ceramics, art pottery, planters and much more. The use of feldspar in the manufacture of ceramics has come a long way since its development during the Tang Dynasty of China around A.D. 621 to 945.
Mica, another ingredient from the rock of the Spruce Pine Mining District comprises about 10% of the rock mass. Once highly valued for wood- and coal-burning stove windows (often called isinglass) and for radio tube insulators during both world wars, it is now used as an industrial products special additive.
Muscovite, which is silver to white mica variety, is mostly ground to a fine particle size. It is valued for its flat particle shape. It is used mostly as a major ingredient of drywall joint compound or sheet rock joint cement. Muscovites flat particle shape and light color allow it to serve as an anti-shrinking agent for the cement after it is applied to sheet rock joints. It applies as smooth, damp putty, but because of muscovite micas flat particle shape, it interlocks the mud as it dries, therefore reinforcing the mud as it dries, without shrinkage. It also acts as a fire retardant within the sheet rock joint.
Mica is also produced from the Spruce Pine Mining District for use as special electrical insulators, automobile metallic flake paint, womens make-up, and as a reinforcing additive in special plastics and paints. It is used in oil well drilling fluids to seal and lubricate the bore hole during drilling.
Another major ingredient of the Spruce Pine rock is quartz. Through the years, quartz was always discarded as waste. Now it is recovered through froth flotation and is used as industrial sand in concrete and concrete mortar. It is also a highly-valued white golf course trap sand and is sold across the country to the finest golf courses, including the Augusta National, the host for the Masters.
Comprising about 25% of the rock, the quartz has now become one of the most strategic minerals of the entire world. Because of its extreme purity, it is used in several critical process steps during the manufacture of computer semiconductors (chips). At present, no other quartz in the world can match the processed quartz purity from the Spruce Pine District. As a matter of fact, EVERY computer chip in the world uses Spruce Pine quartz in its manufacturing process.
Also of high value to the lighting industry, the Spruce Pine quartz meets stringent purity requirements to serve as extreme high temperature light tubing required for light bulbs installed in automobiles, streetlights, and film projectors.
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GCU Department of Dance Presents "Tide" and "Vertex"
Lakewood, N.J., Mar. 9, 2010—The Georgian Court University Department of Dance invites you to explore the diverse and vibrant world of dance with two special performances on Friday, March 12, at 7:00 p.m. in the Wellness Center North Gardens and Studio 2 on the Lakewood campus.
Dance-company-in-residence Scrap Performance Group will present "Tide," a dance piece that explores concepts of eco-psychosis: the deterioration of the soul caused by humans' detachment from the Earth. "Tide" premiered at the 2009 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and features family scrapbooks, ancestral songs, and contact improvisation that contribute to original movement vocabulary to re-sensitize viewers to their own inquiries.
Cardell Dance Theater, directed by Silvana Cardell, director of Georgian Court's dance program, will present "Vertex," a performance centered on dance, storytelling, visual image, and music that explores the union of a moment of peak experience. "Vertex" premiered at the Annenberg Center's 2009, Buy Local Series and illustrates the defining moments about the real people behind the phrase "collateral damage."
Admission is $10 for the general public, $5 for students and senior citizens, and free to members of the GCU community with ID. For more information, please call 732.987.2170.
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SECRETARY OF DEFENSE LEON E. PANETTA: Thank you, guys -- at ease. Great.
It's a great honor to have a chance to come here to Vicenza. Especially as the son of Italian immigrants, it's particularly nice to be in Italy and have a chance to -- we visited Rome, and now we're here in Vicenza.
But I wanted to come here to pay tribute to this great brigade. You guys have carried the burden of war for the last 10 years and paid a high price. I think some 84 of the members of this brigade have been killed in battle. You've got one Medal of Honor winner, who received tremendous honors for bravery in battle. So you've paid a high price, but you've served well, and you serve with distinction. And I want to thank you for your service.
The proudest thing -- the proudest thing that I do as secretary of defense is have the honor and the pride to serve and to lead the men and women in uniform who put their lives on the line every day for our country. A generation of young people since 9/11 who have come forward and been willing to serve this country and willing to fight and, yes, to die has been a great tribute to the dedication of young people to what our democracy is all about.
Our democracy doesn't survive unless there are men and women who are dedicated to keeping our country free and to protecting it. Our fundamental mission -- fundamental mission of the secretary of defense is to keep our country safe. I can't do that job -- nobody can do that job -- without men and women who are willing to dedicate themselves to service, who are willing to dedicate their lives to helping secure the United States of America. And that's what you do.
And that's why I'm here, is to thank you for that service on behalf of the country, on behalf of all of those in the United States who are able to be safe in their homes and safe at home because there are those who are willing to go off to far places and fight an enemy that has made clear that they will not hesitate to attack our country and to attack innocent men and women and children.
So that's -- that's been the challenge of the United States. It's a challenge we've taken on, and it's a challenge that, because of your sacrifice and your service, a mission that we have been able to fulfill.
We're at -- we're at a historic time. We're at a turning point in this country after 10 years of war. After 10 years of war, we have fought hard, military, intelligence operations, have gone after al-Qaeda. And because of those operations, we've been able to decimate the leadership of al-Qaeda. And I've been very proud to have been a part of operations, both on the intelligence side and the military side, that have targeted those who attacked our country and whose intent is to continue to attack our country. We've gone after their leadership. We've decimated it. We've made it very difficult for them to develop the kind of command and control that is essential to putting together a 9/11-type attack. Our country's safer by virtue of what we've done.
We've ended the war in Iraq. This is a brigade that served in Iraq. And because of your service, we were able to bring that war to a conclusion. And now we're in the process of bringing the war in Afghanistan to a conclusion, as well. We just completed meetings in Washington with President Karzai in which we've made clear we're going to continue to implement the plan that General Allen put in place that will ensure that we make the transition to Afghan control and security. We've transitioned almost 75 percent of the Afghan population now, and our hope is next year to do 100 percent of the population, transferring to Afghanistan security and control.
And the reason we're able to do it is because of you, because of the sacrifices that have been made by our men and women in uniform, by this brigade, and by so many others, in ISAF and, indeed, the Afghans themselves have paid a hell of a price.
But the end result is that we are making good progress. We are on the right track. We have weakened the Taliban. They haven't been able to come back and regain any of the territory that they've lost. We've been able to transition, as I said, almost 75 percent of the population to Afghan control and security, and the Afghan army is becoming a hell of a lot better at being able to take on the battle.
A few months ago, when I was in Afghanistan, I had the chance to meet with all of our key generals in Afghanistan. And every one of them -- every one of them said that the Afghan army is becoming much better operationally at being able to provide security. And that's a key. That's a key to our ability to fulfill the mission that we're embarked on.
It's still going to be a battle. The Taliban is still resilient. We're still going to have to confront IEDs. We're still going to have to confront their attacks. We still have to worry about those that come across from Pakistan, from the safe haven in Pakistan, to attack our troops in Afghanistan. But having said all of that, we are on the right track and have to stick to it. And if we do, by the end of 2014, we will have drawn down and we'll maintain an enduring presence in Afghanistan to ensure that we have fulfilled that mission.
All of this has happened because of you, because of the sacrifice of men and women in uniform. And I think all of you can take great pride in the fact that since 9/11 we have taken the battle to the enemy and we have taken on the mission of making sure that that never happens again. The message is that nobody attacks the United States of America and gets away with it.
We're now at a time when, after 10 years of war, we also face the challenge of budget constrictions and budget constraints. It's happening here in Europe, and it's happening in the United States. We're running these huge deficits, record deficits, huge debt, and it's important that the United States begin to exercise some fiscal responsibility.
And the Defense Department has to play its role, as well. We've been handed a number by the Congress in the Budget Control Act to reduce the defense budget by $487 billion over the next 10 years, almost a half a trillion dollars. That's the largest defense cut certainly in the time that I've ever been in the Congress, and I've dealt with budgets, you know, for the last 30 or 40 years. But this is a big cut.
And what we decided to do was not to just cut across the board, not to hollow out the force. That's a mistake that's been made in the past. Coming out of the wars in the past, what happened was that cuts were just made right across the board, and we hollowed out the force. We can never -- we should never do that again.
So what we did was we worked together to develop, what is the defense strategy we need, not just now, but in the future? And I had a chance to work with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, with all of the service chiefs, worked with the civilian leadership at the Pentagon. And we said, okay, what are the key elements of the strategy that we need for the United States for the future?
And it's basically five elements that I'll share with you. Number one, we know we're going to be smaller, we know we're going to be leaner as a result of coming out of these wars, but we have to be agile, we have to be flexible, we have to be deployable, quickly, and we have to be on the cutting edge of technology.
In many ways, that's what you guys are about. It's the ability to move fast, the ability to deploy quickly, the ability to engage an enemy on a fast basis. That's what we have to do. That's the future. It's the present, and it's also the future.
Secondly, we have to have force projection in those areas where we face the biggest threats. So we need to have force projection in the Asia Pacific region. We're facing threats there from North Korea, facing other challenges. It's an area that is going to be vital to the rest of the world economically. And so for all those reasons, we need to have force projection in the Asia Pacific region, and we need to have force projection in the Middle East, confronting the challenges there, from Iran and the kind of Middle East turmoil that we see.
Thirdly, we've got to have a presence elsewhere in the world. The United States is a world power. We have to engage with the rest of the world. So we need to have a presence in Europe, we need to have a presence in Latin America, we need to have a presence in Africa. And the key to that is going to be in strengthening the alliances and partnerships that we have. NATO is a model for that kind of partnership and alliance. It goes back to World War II, just after World War II. It is the strongest alliance we have. And it has been incredible in coming together and working with us in Libya, in Afghanistan, and elsewhere.
That's a model for the kind of partnerships and alliances we have to develop elsewhere. What we'll do is we'll do rotational deployments. Units like this will go into an area, exercise, train, assist countries to develop their capabilities so that they can help provide for their own security. That's the future; that's what we have to do, is to develop their capabilities so that they participate in being able to provide security.
Fourthly, we've got to be able to defeat more than one enemy at a time. If I face a war in Korea and, at the same time, have to deal with somebody that closes the Straits of Hormuz, I've got to -- we've got to be able to fight in both places, and we have that capability, and we have to maintain that.
And, lastly, we've got to invest in the future. It can't just be about cutting. We have to invest in the kinds of things we're going to need for the future. We're going to need unmanned systems. We're going to need space. We're going to need cyber investments. We're going to need special forces investments. We're going to need to invest in the ability to mobilize quickly, to maintain a strong reserve, to maintain a strong National Guard, to maintain an industrial base in the United States of America so that if we ever go to war again, we will not have to worry about contracting out our defense to other countries. We need to maintain an industrial base in our own country.
So those are all key elements of a new defense strategy that we have. And we've built our budget based on that strategy. And we feel confident that the United States can remain the strongest power in the world if we implement that strategy.
Frankly, the greatest threat I face right now -- and the military officers that I serve with agree -- greatest threat we face right now is continuing uncertainty in Washington as just -- to just exactly what will happen on the budget. We've got a perfect storm coming up in these next few months. There's the challenge of increasing the debt ceiling in order to make sure that we pay our bills. Congress has yet to do that. We have this whole crazy mechanism called sequester, which has been delayed and now is supposed to take effect on March 1st. Well, that means $1 trillion will be cut across the board, $500 billion out of defense, across the board, in a meat axe approach that will hollow out our force if it happens.
And then I've still got to worry about appropriations. We don't have FY13 appropriations enacted by the Congress. I'm working on a continuing resolution. So we don't know, frankly, what we're going to have for FY13 because the Congress hasn't made those decisions.
So uncertainty is one of the great threats to national security, fiscal uncertainty. And my hope is that Congress will ultimately come together and make the right decisions for the sake of national defense, for the sake of our country, for your sake, make the right decisions that have to be made in order to govern the country. That's the responsibility we expect of people when we elect them, is to govern the country. And so that'll be the challenge, that'll be the fight, you know, that we'll have to make here in these next few weeks.
But understand that, when all is said and done, the fundamental strength of our -- of our defense rests in the men and women in uniform that serve it. We've got great technology. We've got great planes. We've got great ships. I've got great tanks. I've got great technology. But it isn't worth a damn without men and women in uniform that are willing to serve this country.
So, again, I want to extend to you my deepest thanks for your service. You know, I've spent a good part of my life in public service. And the time has come for me to be able to go home. And you'll all have that opportunity, as well, at some point.
And I hope that when all of you go home, that you'll have the same deep sense of pride that I have in the service that we've provided this country. We don't make a hell of a lot of money in these jobs, but if we can have a sense that we have maintained our integrity and that we have given something back to this country that has given us so much, that's the best pay we could ever have.
My parents used to -- I used to ask my parents, why would you come all that way from Italy to come to this country, like millions of other immigrants? And my parents said that the reason was because they really felt they could give their children a better life.
And that's the American dream. That's what my wife and I want for our three sons. That's what they want for our grandchildren. And that's what you want for your children -- give them a better life than you have.
I think because of you, we can look at our children and say, we've given them a safer life. And hopefully, they will make the same commitment to their children in the future.
So, again, thank you. God bless you. And God bless the United States of America. Thank you. (Applause.)
Okay, guys, you've got a chance to ask questions for the secretary of defense, so if there's anything you want to ask, go ahead and shoot away.
Yeah, right here.
Q: Mr. Secretary, Sgt. Jackson, HHC. Mr. Secretary, Sgt. Jackson, HHC, 2nd of the 503rd Infantry. You were talking about appropriation of funding. How is that going to affect the civilians that work alongside us on these posts in Europe in the next 10 years, sir?
SEC. PANETTA: Same problem. If -- you know, if they don't pass a new appropriations for us for FY13, and we're going to operate on a -- in other words, a flat budget for the rest of '13, it's going to create problems for us, and I'll tell you why, because we are now basically spending money pursuant to the budget that we thought we had for FY13. And so our burn rate -- so-called burn rate for putting money into, you know, what we need to do is running at, you know, the level that we thought we were going to get for FY13.
Now, if we suddenly find that we're not going to get that level in the last six months of this fiscal year, after all, almost a half of that fiscal year is already gone. Fiscal years at the federal level start on October 1 and run -- you know, run through the last part of September.
So here we are. We're almost a half -- you know, a half a year into the next fiscal year, and we're running at the level we thought we were going to get for F.Y. '14. Now if suddenly they cut us, and then if this damn sequester goes into effect, we're facing huge cuts, largely that would have to come out of readiness and maintenance. And if it happens, one of the things I've got to do is send a notice out to civilian employees that we may have to furlough them in order to be able to secure the savings we need to meet what -- you know, what Congress has done to us.
So it's going to affect -- it's going to affect readiness. It's going to affect your training. You know, for those -- obviously, we've got to maintain the war effort. We've got to be able to protect the warfighter. We've got to be able to make sure that those who are deployed to Afghanistan are trained, but everybody else, you know, training is going to be cut. Readiness is going to be cut. You know, ships that should go into maintenance won't go into maintenance. That's the challenge we're going to be facing if this uncertainty doesn't get resolved by the Congress.
So for all of those reasons -- and I've made it clear, Marty Dempsey, my -- you know, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and I had a press conference that laid all of this out, laid it all out for the Congress, laid it all out for the country. This has got to be dealt with.
And as a matter of fact, the chiefs just sent a letter to the Congress saying we've -- they are dealing with tremendous uncertainty, we have got to deal with this. So it's going to impact on -- on all of you. It's going to impact on readiness. And it's going to impact on our civilian workforce as well.
Okay, other questions? Back of the room.
Q: Mr. Secretary, Staff Sergeant Mike Caffer. I'm the brigade engineer, so similar question. With the budget cuts, a lot of the government service and non-appropriated fund positions are being dissolved. So our military dependents that are in these positions, is there any plan in place to help them get laterally transferred or some sort of hiring preference?
SEC. PANETTA: You know, we -- we want to make sure that -- that as we go through this transition -- I mean, you know, it -- look, if we can have a rational budget, if we can do what we've -- I mean, if we can follow the -- you know, the defense strategy we've put in place and, you know, implement -- the cuts we've been handed, if we can do that over 10 years, we can do it in a transition basis that allows us to do it and be able to protect, you know, not only you, but your families and those that -- that serve in the United States military. That -- you know, we're able to do this right.
And as long as we're on that track, I think we can -- you know, we'll be able to do what we can to try to assist those that might be impacted by some of the cuts we've made, because, you know, we'll still -- we'll still be able to -- to target investments, we'll still be able to do the things that we -- we need to get done.
But if I face another half-a-trillion in cuts, you know, all bets are off. I don't know what the hell to tell you at that point. We're all going to pay a hell of a price. I hope it doesn't come to that. I mean, look, the United States of America is the strongest military power in the world. We've got the strongest democracy in the world. But the strength of our democracy is the ability to govern our democracy. If we can't govern our democracy, you know, it's the -- it's the surest way to undermine the strength of everything that we hold dear.
So, you know, this is -- it's not like it's an unsolvable problem. This is not an unsolvable problem. We can do this. People have just got to suck it up and take some of the -- you know, take on some of the risks and take on some of the challenges that are required by people in leadership.
Listen, you guys go out and you put your lives on the line. You take the worst risks of all, which is that somebody may shoot you and you may die. It's a hell of a risk. You know, all we're asking of our elected leaders is to take a small part of the risk that maybe, you know, they'll piss off some constituents. But the fact is that we'll be doing what is right for the country.
So that's what I keep telling them. I said, if I've got men and women in uniform that put their lives on the line in order to fight for this country, you can -- you can have a small bit of the courage they have to do what you have to do.
Other questions? Yeah.
Q: Mr. Secretary (off mic) 503rd. I was wondering if, in the near future, what we're going to see from the Obama administration as far as stopping attacks on our children in schools that don't have to do with tearing apart our Second Amendment.
SEC. PANETTA: I think -- you know, you heard the president yesterday on gun control. And, you know, they've laid out a series of things that, you know, they're going to propose to the Congress and that he will do by executive order to try to tighten up on the situation.
And, you know, I -- I think -- I've been through the Congress. Actually, I was chief of staff in Bill Clinton's administration when we had to implement, you know, some gun control measures at that time, largely dealing with assault weapons. We banned the sale of assault weapons at that time. And then, unfortunately, that ban went out of effect.
I think there are -- you know, there are areas like armor-piercing bullets -- I mean, who the hell needs armor-piercing bullets except you guys in battle? I mean, you know -- look, I'm a hunter. I go out. You know, I've done duck hunting since I was 10 years old. And I love to hunt. And I love to be able to -- you know, to share that joy with my kids.
But I don't -- I mean, for the life of me, I don't know why the hell people have to have an assault weapon. And I don't -- you know, look, I believe in the Second Amendment. I believe people ought to have the right to own weapons. But, you know, when these kids are getting killed in schools -- and I know it's tragic. I know what an impact it must have on those families -- we just have to try to do what we can to make sure that we take some steps here to try to protect those kids.
And I -- you know, I think this can be done -- I think steps can be taken that will not -- that will not undermine the Second Amendment and, at the same time, try to protect some of our schools so that the nuts that are out there won't use these kinds of weapons to -- you know, to wipe them out.
It's going to be a tough debate. This is not going to be easy. I've been in the Congress. I know how politically sensitive these issues are. But I do hope that steps are taken to try to do something to make sure that -- and, look, that's all we can do. All we can do is to try to take some steps to try to protect these kids in the future.
It doesn't mean -- it doesn't mean that there aren't nuts out there. It doesn't mean that there are people that might use other ways to do it. But we have to take some steps to try to make sure that it's a safer environment.
Q: Mr. Secretary, it's -- (inaudible) -- what would you say your greatest achievements, your greatest regret, and one thing -- the one thing that you want us to take away from the military?
SEC. PANETTA: You know, I have -- I've really -- the reason I enjoy public service -- I mean, the greatest satisfaction of public service is the ability to help others. I mean, I -- I think that has always been the greatest satisfaction when you're elected to public office.
When I was -- when I was in Congress, the ability to do things in Congress that could serve my constituents, that could help them in some way and help them get a better life, that could help others get a better life, that was the greatest satisfaction I had. And it was true when I was OMB director. It was true when I was chief of staff to Bill Clinton, working on budget issues. It was true as director of the CIA, you know, the opportunity to have been a part of the bin Laden operation, working with a lot of others, was about, you know, something I'll never forget, in terms of -- of being a part of something that really, I think in the end, helped all Americans and the whole world to be safer.
Are you okay, dear?
And, you know, as secretary of defense, you know, because of you, because of all that you've done, I really do feel that we have kept the world safer. And we -- we have. And that -- that, in the end, is the greatest satisfaction. If I can stare my fellow citizens in the face and say, as secretary of defense, you know, I was able to keep you safer and to keep your families safe, that's the greatest satisfaction of all. And I'm able to do that because of you, because of the men and women in uniform that have served this country.
These are all tough jobs. These are tough jobs, not easy to run a place as big as the Pentagon. It's 3 million people and a big budget. But the reason I'm able to do it is because I have dedicated men and women, and when you tell them to take the hill, they take the hill. And that's what counts.
So, I mean, I -- I am very proud of having had the opportunity to be able to work with all of you, to be a part of your family, be a part of our family that recognizes that freedom is not free. You've got to fight for it.
Next question? Let me go to this side. Yes, sir?
Q: Mr. Secretary, Specialist Whit, Able Company, 2nd, 503rd. Throughout history, we've seen that the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team has been just that, a combat brigade that's activated in time of war and then shuts down after the combat stops. As Operation Enduring Freedom comes to a close, are we going to see history repeat itself? Or are we going to see a couple more operations out of the 173rd?
SEC. PANETTA: You know, look, chances are we're going -- we're going to need to put you to work -- put you to work in a lot of places. I mean, this is not -- you know, I talk about after 10 years of war. When we came out of World War II, when we came out of Korea, when we came out of Vietnam, when we came out of the Cold War, I mean, it's to some extent the enemy we were confronting, you know, diminished.
Today, after 10 years of war, we face a hell of a lot of threats out in this world. Number one, we're continuing to fight terrorism. I mean, yes, we've -- you know, we've gone after al-Qaeda. Yes, we've decimated their leadership. But al-Qaeda is still there. They're still a threat. They're a threat in Yemen. They're a threat in Somalia. They're a threat as we speak in Mali. AQIM is part of al-Qaeda. So we still have a challenge to confront terrorism and to make sure that they never again get the opportunity to attack our country.
Two, we're still fighting a war in Afghanistan.
Three, we're confronting threats in North Korea and Iran. These are two countries that are trying to develop a nuclear capability, unpredictable regimes both places. Who the hell knows what they're going to do from day to day? And right now, you know, North Korea just fired a missile. It's an intercontinental ballistic missile, for god sakes. That means they have the capability to strike the United States. So we've got to worry about what North Korea is going to do. We've got to worry about what Iran is going to do. We've got a Middle East in turmoil.
We've got Syria that is in a tragic situation right now in which millions of Syrians are getting killed. We don't know what's going to happen there, when the Assad regime comes down, and it will. So we've got to worry about that.
We've got to worry about other Middle East turmoil. We've got to worry about cyber attacks. I mean, we're living in a world now where we are increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks. This is a whole new battlefield. You can use cyber to basically take down our power grid system in the United States. You can use cyber to take down our financial systems. You could take down our government systems. You can take down our banking systems. The fact is, we are the target of cyber attacks every day. This is the weapon of the future. And so we're going to have to develop a capability to make sure we know how to respond to that.
So bottom line is, we're facing a hell of a lot of threats. And as long as we're facing those threats, we're going to need units like this to be able to mobilize and respond to the battles that are going to be out there.
GEORGE LITTLE: Mr. Secretary, one more question.
SEC. PANETTA: One more.
Q: Mr. Secretary, (off mic) AJC Brigade. When you spoke of the American dream, do you fear that the American dream is becoming more and more unattainable?
SEC. PANETTA: Is the American dream becoming more and more unattainable? I -- you know, I -- I'm someone that believes deeply in the American dream because I lived it. I had parents from Italy who were immigrants, didn't have -- had no skills, no money, but understood that if they worked hard, they could be able to make use of the great opportunity that America offers people, and they did. And as a result of that, they gave my brother and I a better life. We were the first kids in our family to go to college and then to law school.
And I've seen our kids -- you know, I've got three sons, two lawyers and a doctor. One has served in the military in Afghanistan and others who served in the Peace Corps. I mean, I've seen them be able to, you know, make use of the opportunity that was afforded them.
And I honestly think that the United States can continue to provide that kind of greater opportunity to our children in the future so that every one of them -- every one of them can achieve their dreams. And, you know, that's what it's all about. That's what it's all about. If you have dreams about what you can be and you have a chance to achieve those dreams, then that's what the American dream's all about.
And I think -- I think we can -- we can make that happen. But to make that happen, to make that happen, it doesn't just come about. It happens because there are people who are willing to make sacrifices. Sacrifice sometimes becomes a bad word in politics. I don't know why, because, frankly, that's what makes us great is our willingness to sacrifice, our willingness to put our lives on the line, our willingness to work hard, our willingness to do with less in order to make sure our kids do with more.
It is about sacrifice. And that's true not just for you; it's also true for the people we elect. They've got to be willing to make sacrifices, too. And if people are willing to accept that responsibility, to make a sacrifice, to do something that may be tough, to take a risk, to sometimes take on a challenge that you may not want to do, but if you're willing to do that, if we are willing to do that, then we will give our children that better life. And that's the example we have to set in order to make sure that that happens.
Again, thank you for your service. Thank you for what you've done. You've shown that you have the courage to do what's necessary. And, again, God bless all of you. Take care, guys. (Applause.)
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Do you know any, humanitarianly engaged societies whom study/considder/help develop humanitarian ideas/solutions? (For contact.)
I have been busy developing a great humanitarian idea I had. It is now crucially time I find comprehensable readers whom test my humanitarian 'Solution/Invention' if it does not reveal serious problems I did not solve or not (universally) license my invention against.
I can say, that any bright mind would start to devote its time and thoughts for my, historic major attempting idea and my elaboration, but also to show me some affection.
The basic idea I had was to create a very exclusive unique priviledged humanitarian bank(and managing/moralizing fund) what has 1 account of itselve. On this account it can put a figur and so determine the amount of money on its account. Where with it can finance right 'humanitarian' purposes/plans of approach.
The fund of the bank is the most important. Because the fund must license in order to fund. License according to rules and demands the field works must represent in their favor. Rules like it's financial influence may not create financial/materialistic, nor global/local problems. Also, the purposes must deeply humanitarian reactions to humanitarian problems, also the fund and bank decides what not with the money.
I also handled to invent a concept against fin. sub-motivations, corruptions, etc.
While I elaborated aspects of my idea, I have always tryed to get attention of individuals, organisations, political offices, literary agencies, press and TV, but for an unexplainable reason they have all ignored me and mine, and obviously have not been understanding my list of potential results, and thus must have been probably collectively denying me, mine, and the intellectual states/reality I sended as alone siticen, denying me to get atleast some realistic, upbuilding, comforting or prodessional reaction. For me and to atleast show to be very interested in wether the idea and givens I gathered were and are good as they seem?
Can you mention me where I might have a chance for it to finally get the attention mine diserves?
Apr 20 2012: Your idea is brilliant because it gives birth to a way where people will interact and use resources instead of money, it may be an alternative to a moneyless system.
Don't be offended by the ones that will comment against this, companies or media - even if this is a good idea they are the defenders of the status quo and they will not help you in any way.
Humanity needs a way to exchange resources outside the current system. This system has to be transparent and incorruptible and it has to be connected to our way of life but to tend to the future way of life of humans.
When internet was invented, even if it was a brilliant idea to connect and engage people, no business or rich people wanted to invest in it because it was free.
But now you have the potential to reach other people in seconds :)Apr 20 2012: I wouldn't know. Personally I think there are not enough forums/platforms to share our ideas on the internet and gather support.
You started of wrong by talking to the wrong kind of people, they are and never will be interested unless they can profit from it in some way. Most companies, whether media or not, don't focus on these ideas. Why should they? Most them are horrible and most of the good ones are the result of action rather than speculation.
Such a "cooperative" (I presume) humanitarian bank is in what way going to be different in respect to a foundation? Just the money making part I guess. So what you're basically trying to do is create a system against corruption, within a system of corruption based on the idea of corruption and greed? Instead of a bank the closest you might come is a philanthropic entrepreneur, but for that you need money.
On another note, you do not deserve any attention. I do not mean to sound cruel, but you do not have any right to this. Because if everyone deserved attention then we would spend an eternity talking to each other. Instead of deserving attention, what you should do is demand respect for your actions. A lot more effective and gratifying I would say.
Apr 20 2012: I wrote a reaction to your criticism on the attention part. I did not mean that way and never did want to get the historical attention it got myselve historicly surely into. You know its not just this idea/invention, but many more. And theoretic humanitarian beauty what suits my comforting carreer being an Author.
Anyways you might wonna look for my reaction..I also want to mention good attention is healthy and improves the quality of the project.
I guess you were quiete very convinced I should not lobby for attention I diserve, well, I think being an Author is quiete a calming priviledge cause humanity has a exclusive humanitarianly solving Author to respect the luck, tallent and truth from..because I'm inventually gonna be even more very respected, if we're so lucky, harmers change significantly by the qualities in my books I recently finnished ..
Basicly I recognised it as a mistake I wrote, and I was also thinking I ment the project and my elaboration needs attention..like you mention, we should be able to get attention and perhaps support from one or more influencial humanitarian societies, for attempting humanitarian solutions we create.Apr 27 2012: I have had luck with myselve, I suddenly thought to search google for volunteers, and do you know what I found: Humanitarian volunteer managers sites. I wrote a groovy Email am am this time expecting to be on the right adress.Apr 20 2012: If I were you, I would first look at humanitarian organizations and foundations that do something like what you are describing. Make sure you understand what is different about what you are proposing. There are many foundations devoted to funding humanitarian projects.
I think people are more likely to listen to you if you seem knowledgable about the well-functioning organizations out there and what your idea can add to that mix.Apr 20 2012: I was just reading my explanation and noticed the last sentence is in contradiction with my statement on my personal life to the broad public is invited to the work's historical happening, but is not allowed allover me, and i wanting privacy and discretion, and that I am only I but not the least, and that people should sometimes recognise my failing persue. But about no money is for now certainly not an option. Sorry for the mistake according to my attention rules to its public and mine.


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Dutchess and the rest of the cast of the show are visiting the VH1 office in between filming the show and explains that later in the day, she has to head back to the shop to give a new client a tattoo…on his penis. It's not the first time she's done this and she says it's because she's a woman, she gets stuck with these dirty jobs. "All of the dudes are like, I don't wanna do that. It's always the woman that gets the bulls—! Like you have to do the jobs they don't want to do." A penis tattoo is hardly the worst thing she's ever had to give, however. That honor goes to a woman Dutchess had to ink a few years back. "I've done a starfish on a girl's butt-hole. That is like, ridiculous to me. It was while I was in California, I had a guest spot in a shop out there and she comes in and she's like, I wanna get a starfish. It's disgusting. My thing is, why do you even wanna do that to yourself? Nobody's ever gonna see it, what purpose does it serve? It's not for me."
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Dutchess, who was given her nickname by her grandmother because "I'm the firstborn grandchild, I'm the oldest child, and I'm the person in the family that nobody worries about because I'm always going to be all right," will probably open up her own shop someday. "My goal was never to work for anybody, I've always had an entrepreneurial spirit, but I'd rather be a part of a black-owned and operated situation, I love to support black businesses, so it's a fitting situation for me at Black Ink. But I'm Dutchess. I'm eventually going to have to have my own thing. That's what a queen does."
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ON WRITING is better than I thought it would be. It's marvelous. I finished it in less than two days.
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In the first hundred or so pages, King shares his experiences growing up in Maine and Connecticut, his marriage, his struggles as a novice writer, and his drug and alcohol problems. King intends this section not as an autobiography, but as a curriculum vitae. It ends with the assignment of the paperback rights to CARRIE, his first novel.
In the next 150 pages, the author describes how he performs his craft. He explains the "tools" of writing (vocabulary and grammar), the creative environment (the room, the door, the determination to close the door, and the music - Hard Rock in King's case), style and formatting (paragraphing, narration, description, and dialogue), and the final stretch to a finished piece (drafts, editing, and proofreading by a trusted friend - wife/author Tabitha in King's case).
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Clearwater, FL (Sports Network) - Freddy Galvis tied the game with a two-run triple in the fifth, and scored the go-ahead run shortly after on a Jimmy Rollins sacrifice fly to lift the Phillies past the Tigers, 4-3, in spring training action on Monday.
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Personal Goals: Run Western States 100
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Personal Goals: To get back to a sub 3:30 marathon
Occupation: I'm a stay at home mom of 3 and I work part time at Fleet Feet
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Personal Goals: Run hard, stay healthy, and have fun.
Occupation: Report Writer.
Best Running Advice: Don't be afraid to try.
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Personal Goals: Qualify for Kona one day
Occupation: Civil Engineer
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Educator Curtis Clough sees the last 24 years as a launching pad to an ideal job. The 46-year-old Ashland County native is one of two applicants still under consideration for Superintendent of Mount Vernon Local Schools, and he doesn't mask his enthusiasm.
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UBS Case Weakens Swiss Bank Secrecy
Professor Kenneth Scott is quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle concerning Swiss Bank UBS, which has agreed to disclose names of U.S. account holders to the IRS:
Is Swiss banking secrecy as holey as its cheese?
That question comes to mind after the Swiss government agreed last week to facilitate a settlement under which UBS will turn over the names of about 4,450 accounts held in the Swiss bank by American residents to the Internal Revenue Service.
Bank secrecy "is what the Swiss trade in; this and watches and chocolate," says Christopher Bergen, president and publisher of Tax Analysts.
Despite its famed privacy laws, "there are always provisions under which Switzerland would break bank secrecy," says Andrew Pike, a professor of tax law at American University. For example, if funds in a Swiss bank account were used to pay a contract killer, "that's enough of a crime that Switzerland would say we are not going to protect contract killers. Tax fraud has not been viewed as a real enough crime that would justify that."
What distinguishes last week's agreement "is that you have (a Swiss bank) disclosing thousands of accounts to a tax authority in another country. It's not a particular person or handful of cases," says Ken Scott, a Stanford University professor of business and law. "It has moved to a different level. It makes a lot of people think, this may reach me."


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While trying to help Dare make his MovieFinder page run in Firefox, I ran into an issue that can make developing AJAX applications a pain: when testing your pages, you need to host them in the same domain as your services.
I explain the details of the problem and how the "XMLHttpRequest - Bypass Security" Greasemonkey user script solves it.
Note: this script is meant for development only, as it gives the page access to a potentially dangerous API. The default @include is "file:///*", but feel free to restrict it even further to the path for the pages you're trying to tweak. You should never have to @include an http url.
Greasemonkey has its own XMLHttpRequest API, which is more powerful than that available to web pages. It bypasses the same origin policy, thus allowing user scripts to truly compose and remix websites.
XMLHttpRequest - Bypass Security replaces the regular XMLHttpRequest API from Firefox with an unsafe version based on Greasemonkey GM_xmlHttpRequest. It allows the local page that you are developing to make requests to an online service.
Although IE also follows a same-domain policy for javascript, the local web page opened in IE was able to connect to Dare's server with only a security confirmation prompt. So the problem doesn't exist in IE (I'm not sure it's as secure though).
Update (2006/05/16): I updated the script to emulate more XMLHttpRequest methods, including setRequestHeader and getResponseHeader. Let me know if you need more methods supported.
Update (2006/05/19): After working with another Microsoftie, Yaron Goland, who needed this script, investigating why it was not working for him, it seems that there is a problem. I suspect its related to the GM 0.6.4 security model. Basically, when the callback (onreadystate) is called, it doesn't appear to be in the right context and it cannot even see global variables from the script...
I'll dig some more, but consider this script back in a "alpha" stage at this point. It may turn out that a full blown Firefox extension is needed for this...
Update (2006/05/22): I received more feedback confirming that the script works. It also works on my own test page. I haven't figured out why the problem I described above is occuring with Yaron's page.
This one attempts to fix the page titles on Dave Pollard's blog, "How to Save the World". Clean and meaningful titles really make it easier to bookmark/email/tag pages.
Here's a bunch tiny scripts to clean the titles on various other sites:
I get the following error when using this script.
'GM_xmlhttpRequest is not a function'
What am I doing wrong?
A.Posted by: Andy Hume at October 11, 2005 05:43 AM
Maybe you might indicate than greasemonkey is a plugin for mozilla. And it has to be installed before you run the script.
With this point of view your solution is equivalent to tell to the end user than he has to change his browser to view the page he has requested ...
There is no magic solution to pass thru the mozilla security restrictions.
You're right, but you seem to forget one thing: this is not meant for end users, but for developers.Posted by: Julien Couvreur at December 13, 2005 08:19 AM
mmm... ok ok
when you develop something, it is supposed to be for somebody. By "end user", i mean this person who will use your script.
If the end user as enought knowledge to be abble to install greasemonkey plugin, he will also be abble to push down the mozilla security restrictions, which is the simpliest solution I think.
I mean you are presenting your solution as an easy way to pass thru the mozilla security restrictions, but it is quite ambiguous around the fact tahn it is based upon greasemonkey.
And If you don't know what is greasemonkey, it seems to be a marvelous solution !
Look at Andy Hume's comment ... it is exactly the problem that I am talking about.
Here was my point of view :)
Matthieu.Posted by: Matthieu Peschaud at December 13, 2005 08:50 AM
mmm... ok ok
when you develop something, it is supposed to be for somebody. By "end user", i mean this person who will use your script.
If the end user as enought knowledge to be abble to install greasemonkey plugin, he will be abble to push down the mozilla security restrictions.
I mean you are presenting your solution as an easy way to pass thru the mozilla security restrictions, but it is quite ambiguous around the fact tahn it is based upon greasemonkey.
And If you don't know what is greasemonkey, it seems to be a marvelous solution !
Look at Andy Hume's comment ... it is exactly the problem that I am talking about.
Here was my point of view :)
Matthieu.Posted by: Peschaud Matthieu at December 13, 2005 08:52 AM
Andy, you need to use a newer version of Greasemonkey.Posted by: Julien Couvreur at December 18, 2005 11:14 AM
I just updated the script to run in Firefox 1.5 and Greasemonkey 0.6.4. Older versions are not supported anymore.Posted by: Julien Couvreur at January 13, 2006 10:51 AM
Andy, you need to use a newer version of Greasemonkey.Posted by: resimler at February 2, 2006 08:32 AM
This is a great greasemonkey script. I'm trying to write a Mac OS X Dashboard Widget and needed to have my XMLHttpRequest access an external URL. Is there anyway I can get this user script with setRequestHeaders and the ability to send data for posting?
Thanks.Posted by: techniq at May 14, 2006 09:46 PM
@Matthieu: I think what Julien means is that the script is intended to allow you to run your xmlhttprequest .js files locally, and still be able to connect to your (non-local) server-side code. Hence it is a useful tool during development.
However, once you upload the scripts, you can use the regular Mozilla request to access your server code, since it will be on the same site.
So, the end user most definitely doesn't need to use Greasemonkey, or even know what it is.
One thing I'm curious about though (I'm just starting to teach myself AJAX): does the Mozilla security problem also affect a script that's trying to access server code from another site, or is it just a problem for local (i.e. C: drive) testing?Posted by: Louis at May 18, 2006 07:55 AM
I am not able to digest the sample code give by you!
Please guide me how to make use of it. I am having issues with
in my code! and get error as Permission denied.
Any suggestion??
Kind Regards
If thought that was a magic solution too, but if it's for developers only, i think it's way too complicated to set up; here is a lighter solution:
in mozilla based web browser just type 'about:config' in the adress, and then turn the field 'signed.applets.codebase_principal_support' to true
Now if you have the permission denied again just include in top of the failing instruction the following code:
'try {netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege(\'UniversalBrowserRead\');} catch(e) {}'
it works, i use it
If think the only magic solution for end-user is to sign our web-apiPosted by: Shaft at June 28, 2006 03:05 AM
Shaft, if you need cross-domain XMLHttpRequest for end-users, you can use Flash.
See my FlashXMLHttpRequest project at
I originally started out with "remote scripting" and "cross-domain requests" and "single page applications" long before I knew what they were...
Originally programmed in ASP (IIS) using a free API called ASPTear, I wrote some pages for personal use that pulled information from different websites, did a text-extract, and just dumped it back out as PRE formatted text. In those days, we didn't HAVE CSS -- and we wrote webpages on the sides of caves with sticks.
Anyway, when I lost access to the IIS server I was using, I re-wrote the ASP pages as .HTM vbscript to run in IE, from my desktop/harddrive. The pages expanded to 9, and work well, but I really want to re-write them so they'll run in most JS-standard browsers.
It will take me a while, but it's time to modernize, add more CSS, convert more extraction routines to use RegExp, etc. I am looking forward to the conversion, but the first step already had me hosed... CROSS-DOMAIN JS... I am hoping the hints here will help me.
Strangely, I had absolutely NO problem doing Cross-Domain in IE using the ActiveX XML API.
In case anyone is wondering, the original SPA was used to pull job ads from various online sources, then expanded to pull random jokes from the Internet humor Newsgroups, then...
Well, today it's a start page with random Photo Of The Day pictures, weather, quotes from the Andy Griffith Show, various pundits, DHS Threat Advisory Status, Moon Phase, personal links and search feeders for Half and Amazon... and that's just the start page... the rest are... 8 pages of comics pulled from multiple sites. It was fun to write, and sure makes my comic reading easier and faster, but IE is too limiting. Time to expand the horizons.
Thanks for the page.Posted by: Marc at July 30, 2006 07:10 PM


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Mistura 2014: The 7 Strangest Foods at South America's Largest Food Fair
For the last seven years, food lovers have flocked to South America's most grandiose food festival – Mistura – and this year is no different (save for a few details). With the Pacific Ocean on one side and the Costa Verde on the other, Mistura stretches 37 acres in Lima's Magdalena del Mar district. It is there that chefs and restaurants from every corner of Peru cook up their most-loved dishes. For 10 days each September locals and foreigners, travelers and foodies walk through Mistura's gates and into a new world, or as 2014 would have it 12 new 'worlds.'
Buenos Aires Food Week is Back
The fourth edition of the quickly growing biannual food event benefits the Buenos Aires food bank – and features fifteen new participating restaurants, Campari aperitifs, and a creative banana split with cognac that everyone's talking about.
More than 40 restaurants are onboard for the current edition of Buenos Aires Food Week, running now through September 14th. The three-course menus run AR$140 for lunch and only AR$220 for dinner, not including tip or drinks – unless, of course, you're counting the complimentary aperitifs offered at many restaurants. Cocktails aside, Food Week is a convenient opportunity to sample the cuisine at some of the city's more prestigious dining venues. I talked to Anne Reynolds, co-founder of the event, about highlights of this year's line-up.
Carlo Cocina: Chilean Food in Small Portions
Traipsing through your local mall does not always yield the best food options, but there's a mall in Santiago that may turn your thinking around. And even more so with the newly-opened Carlo Cocina, a restaurant showcasing the best Chilean food in small portions, so you can custom build your own meal out of what you like best.
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Top 5 Places: Ceviche in Cartagena
Though ceviche originated (and may have been perfected, depending on who you ask) in Peru, Colombia's Atlantic coast has put its own distinctive spin on it – camarones en salsa rosada, anyone?
Cartagena's diverse and excellent food scene has the challenge of trying to cater to locals and international tourists alike, which has led restaurants to try to outdo each other when it comes to this coastal favorite. Each place – and each resident — has an individual interpretation of what makes a good ceviche, and the possibilities, from Asian fusion to traditional corvina, are almost as colorful as the city's famous architecture. These are some of the best places in the city to go to get a taste of the full spectrum of flavors.
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Helena Rizzo: World's Best Female Chef
While the S. Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants list continues to climb in status among foodies the world over – some give it more clout than Michelin these days – so does Brazilian cuisine, which in the 2014 awards not only maintained another top 10 placement (D.O.M. in São Paulo at No. 7), but trumped the world over for one of the side awards, the Veuve Cliquot World's Best Female Chef.
Photo: Paul Silva
Mistura 2014: Your Guide to Getting your Grub On
While it's only recently received a nod from the international food community for its innovative dishes, creative ingredients and chefs who are committed to nothing less than perfection, Peru is (and has always been) a serious food country. Case in point – each September it hosts Mistura, South America's largest and most popular food festival. This year half a million hungry food enthusiasts are expected to visit Costa Verde de Magdalena for the ten-day event which kicks off September 5.
Things to Love about Argentina (According to the National Team)
So what if they're finely trained millionaire superstars bathing in the flattering glow of an international spotlight? These guys are Argentine – and they like all the same things you like about Argentina. Steak on the parrilla, the Pope, a relaxing gourd of yerba mate at the end of a hard day's work: La Selección Argentina, they're just like us.
Photo: Carlos Varela
3 Winter Soups to Try in Chile
Winter is upon us in Chile, and that means cooler temperatures, with more humidity, and the ever-present snow capped Andes on clear, sunshiny days. And with those cool temperatures come all the ways in which humans like to keep warm. We've got layers, and scarves, woolen gloves, hats and scarves. But perhaps the most warming thing of all is a nice bowl of hot soup.
Chile has many soups to call its own, and though they are popular year-round, this is a particularly good time of year to order some cazuela, a caldillo, paila marina or mariscal.
Photo: What's Gaby Cooking
Where to Eat in Brazil? A Map of the Best Restaurants
With the soccer event of the year nearly here, Brazil is the destination of choice for many travelers. If you're jetting off to one of the host cities, make sure to check out its bustling culinary scene. But where to find the best food? Our friend and food blogger Gaby Dalkin from What's Gaby Cooking rounded up her favorite places in a fun map on where to eat in Brazil. From the best caipirinhas in Fortaleza to the traditional Brazilian seafood stew moqueca in Salvador, each host city offers an unforgettable gastronomical adventure. Read the full story here.
Indulge Your Taste Buds at Boragó
It's hard to know what to expect at Boragó, one of the world's best restaurants, ranked 8th in Latin America, and first place in Chile. Chef Rodolfo Guzmán dishes out innovative small-plate creations into a several-course tasting menu, featuring harvested products from all over Chile, much of it from close to Santiago.


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Mr Philip Johnson
Chairman of the Cheadle Hulme School Board of Governors, Philip Johnson was a senior partner at accountants Deloitte until his retirement in May 2007, having been a member of the firm's Board of Partners, Chairman of the Deloitte Audit Committee and head of Quality and Risk Management for the UK audit practice. Philip was the senior partner in the Manchester office for a number of years.
His career, which spanned 30 years as a partner, centred on audit, mergers and acquisitions and investigations, including the investigation into the collapse of both Banco Ambrosiano and BCCI.
Philip is a director and chairman of the Audit Committee of Yorkshire Building Society, a member of the Audit Committee of its Wellcome Trust and a member of the advisory group of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) in the United States. In 2011 and 2012 Philip was President of the Federation of European Accountants (FEE), based in Brussels.
Philip is married with two daughters, one of whom attended Cheadle Hulme School. His interests are travel, sport and good food and good wine.
Mr Michael Birchall
Michael Birchall is a Solicitor and a Partner in international law firm Addleshaw Goddard LLP. He heads the firm's corporate finance practice in Manchester and his work involves all aspects of corporate finance transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, takeovers, joint ventures, financing projects and advising on corporate governance. For some 5 years he was the firm's partner in charge of graduate recruitment, overseeing the process of recruitment of around 40 graduates per year as trainee solicitors.
Michael read Jurisprudence (Law) at New College, Oxford University, prior to which he was educated at Lymm High School.
He is married with three sons, all of whom attend Cheadle Hulme School. He enjoys watching rugby from the school touchline, skiing and playing golf when time permits.
Michael was appointed as a Governor in January 2014
Mrs Catherine Boyd
Catherine graduated from Durham University and her career has included management roles with Marks & Spencer, in higher education and consultancy. She is Contracts Manager for APEM an Environmental Consultancy based in Stockport.
Catherine has also been involved in Medical Regulation for many years and Chairs Interim Orders Panels for the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service. The Panels consider whether a doctor's registration should be restricted while the General Medical Council investigates allegations about their conduct and performance.
Catherine is Chair of the Trustees of Family Link, a Stockport Charity. She is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. Two of her children attended Cheadle Hulme School before going to university and her third is a current pupil.
Mr Hans van Mourik Broekman
Hans is a native of the Netherlands. He attended high school in USA at St Anselm's Abbey School, Washington DC and then gained his Masters Degree with Honours in Classics from the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
Following teaching positions at Plymouth College and Edinburgh Academy, Hans moved back to the USA in 1994, when he was appointed deputy headmaster at St. Anselm's Abbey School, Washington DC.
In 1998, he was appointed headmaster of Subiaco Academy in northwest Arkansas. He led a capital campaign that enabled the school to renovate its academic buildings and sports facilities. In 2002 he became the first Principal of Pope John Paul ll High School, a brand new and now thriving school, in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
He was appointed 17th Principal of Liverpool College in July 2007 and took up the appointment in June 2008.
Since he arrived at the College, Hans has pursued an ambitious development programme which has included a major College-wide refurbishment and restructuring programme, an innovative partnership with the University of Liverpool and the introduction of Sixth Form international boarding. All this was rounded off with an excellent inspection report from ISI in February 2012.
In June 2012, Liverpool College announced that the Secretary of State for Education had accepted its submission to transition the College to Academy status (an academy is an independent school funded directly by central government). This followed a comprehensive and strategic review of the future options for the development of Liverpool College, led by Hans and the governing body. The government felt that the College's submission, which included an educational plan and vision, would enhance and develop the educational opportunities offered by the College for current and future pupils.
Hans is married to Eleanor, a theologian and teacher, and they are the parents of five children.
Mr Barney Brown
Barney Brown is a founder and company director of The WorkCast Corporation, a technology services company which specialises in webcasting services and technology for the corporate market. Prior to this, he worked in management positions for global technology organisations, eg. BMC Software, QAS Experian and Compuware, responsible for sales, delivery and support of complex technology solutions and services to corporate clients.
He is married with three children, all of whom attend Cheadle Hulme School. His outside interests include most sports, especially rugby, golf and tennis.
Barney was appointed as a Governor in October 2011.
Mr Robin Cridland
Rob Cridland is the Chief Financial Officer, Company Secretary and an Executive Director of Revolymer plc, a polymer technology development and commercialisation company listed on AIM in London. Prior to this, he worked in a number of senior finance and commercial roles in both the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry (namely Renovo plc and GSK).
After graduating from the University of Oxford, Rob qualified as a chartered accountant with PWC and then worked in investment banking in the city of London.
Rob is married with three children, two of whom currently attend Cheadle Hulme School. Ln his spare time he is a keen scuba diver and enjoys keeping fit.
Rob was appointed as a Governor in January 2014.
Mr Peter Driver
Peter was born and brought up in Burnley, Lancashire, before attending Manchester University. After graduation he joined Greater Manchester Police serving in Manchester, Tameside, Bolton, Oldham and Stockport with spells in HR, Training, and Specialist Operations.
He has been involved in designing GMP's promotion selection processes; has been head of the Force's Training Evaluation, and been responsible for a variety of specialist functions such as Mounted Policing and Air Support. He has been a Firearms and a Public Order Commander. He was seconded to Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, assessing and reporting on the effectiveness and efficiency of police forces. He subsequently served with the Civil Nuclear Constabulary, the armed anti-terrorist police force protecting the country's nuclear energy capability. He was responsible for all operational matters along with HR and Training branches. Since leaving the police, he has been engaged in Corporate Security Consultancy.
In his spare time, Peter was a member of the Territorial Army (TA). He served in the Royal Military Police and latterly was the Provost Marshal's advisor on TA matters with the rank of Lt. Colonel. He has a degree in English Language and Literature from Manchester University and a post-graduate diploma in Criminology from the University of Cambridge. He is a graduate of both the Police Strategic Command course and the Army's Command and Staff College. He was awarded the Territorial Decoration by the Queen in 1996 and received a bar to it in 2001.
Other interests include skiing, classic car restoration and whatever his family tell him to do. He is a past President of Peterloo Speakers Club. He is married to Carolyn who is a past chair of the CHS Parents Association and his daughter Kathryn attended the School.
Dr David Riley
Dr David Riley has been associated with Cheadle Hulme School for over 40 years, initially as a pupil and then as a parent with both his daughters attending the School and in 2001 became a governor.
In addition to his role as governor, Dr Riley is also a trustee of Cheadle Hulme School 150th Anniversary Bursary Trust and a committee member of the Old Waconians' Association.
Dr Riley worked as a General Practitioner before retiring from the practice in 2014. During that time he had a special interest in medical education. He is currently undertaking a Christian ministry training course.
As a governor, Dr Riley's priorities are to maintain both the academic success and caring environment for which the School is known, and to develop further the social inclusiveness represented by the School's founders.
Mr Chris Roberts
Christopher Roberts, a surveyor, has been with Bruntwood, a large property investment and development company, primarily based in the North of England, for 17 years. He is currently a Director of the business with particular responsibility for acquisition and development of new projects. He is also acting as Director of Manchester Science Park.
He is married with two children, a boy and a girl (his daughter currently attends Cheadle Hulme School Infants).
Other interests include most sports, rugby and golf in particular, but he has also completed a number of half and one full marathon.
Mr David Shipley
David Shipley, a Chartered Accountant, retired in 2001 from the accountancy firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers, after 25 years as a partner in London and Manchester.
A former Foundationer pupil and boarder at Cheadle Hulme school from 1951 to 1962, David went on to read Natural Sciences at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, following a student apprenticeship in the steel industry.
His career at PWC included responsibility for many of the firm's major audit clients in the North West, financial investigations and the establishment of a public sector audit department in the region. He was a member of the firm's national executive for the audit and advisory practice for several years. While a partner, he was seconded as Group Financial Director of Ferranti International Plc in the aftermath of that Company's major fraud, and he was Integrated Professor of Financial management at Salford University.
He enjoys playing golf, skiing, fellwalking, classsic cars and the orchestras and theatres of Manchester. He lives in Alderley Edge and has three daughters, all of whom were educated at Cheadle Hulme School. David is also Chairman of the Trustees for the Cheadle Hulme School Bursary and Development Trusts, and a Trustee of Seashell Trust (The Royal Schools for the Deaf).
Mrs Joanne Squire
Joanne has been a Governor of Cheadle Hulme School since 1999. Joanne was born in the West Midlands and is a graduate at Bristol University. She has extensive professional experience of managing corporate change programmes and all aspects of Human Resource and Performance Management. Joanne joined the Executive Trainee Programme at Marks and Spencer before joining Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) in 1991. At Accenture she was involved in managing large scale change programmes in both public and private sectors prior to becoming Human Resource Director. As Human Resources Director she helped build Accenture into one of the leading global consultancies in the world employing 215,000 people in management consulting, technology services and outsourcing.
Joanne has travelled extensively and has lived and worked in Europe, the United States and Africa. She now works as a freelance consultant and angel investor and advises a number of start-up businesses. Joanne played basketball at National level and is a qualified fitness instructor. She is married and her son attends the School.