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A Critical Guide to Erie Railroad Co. V. Tompkins
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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS BEFORE ERIE A. The Bottom Line B. Were People Crazy Then? 1. The Nature and Sources of Unwritten Law 2. Who Should Defer to Whom About What? a. Deference on Questions of "Local" Law b. Non-Deference on Questions of "General" Law II. JUSTICE BRANDEIS'S ARGUMENTS IN ERIE A. Justice Brandeis's Historical Argument B. Justice Brandeis's Practical Arguments 1. The Murkiness of the Distinction Between "General" and "Local" Law 2. Disuniformity and Forum Shopping 3. "Discrimination" Against Citizens of the Forum State C. Constitutional Arguments CONCLUSION
No informed observer has ever been in doubt about the importance of Justice Brandeis's opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins. (1) Almost as soon as it was issued, the cognoscenti were calling it a "transcendently significant opinion," (2) a "thunderclap decision," (3) and "one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of the Supreme Court." (4) Seventy-five years later, Erie remains an "iconic case[]"--one that "every lawyer knows ... by name" and that "is thought to express something basic about the United States legal system." (5) Above and beyond its immediate holding (which is obviously important in its own right), Erie has become the starting point for many modern arguments about federalism and the separation of powers.
Unfortunately, Erie is a shaky foundation for legal reasoning. From the standpoint of technical, lawyerly craftsmanship, Justice Brandeis's opinion has many vices. It relies on contestable premises that it does not make explicit. It delivers grand statements that are misleading in the absence of careful qualification (which it does not supply). Upon close examination, some of the arguments that it endorses fall apart entirely, and others are--at best--much more complicated than it acknowledges. Insofar as it purports to rest on the Constitution, moreover, it advances arguments so cavalierly and impressionistically as to impede responsible analysis. In the words of a contemporaneous student note, "The opinion in Erie Railroad v. Tompkins lacks much of the precision which an important reexamination of constitutional distribution of power might be expected to contain." (6)
None of this means that Erie's bottom line is necessarily wrong. But lawyers and law professors who seek to extend Erie's analysis need to recognize the shoals concealed in Justice Brandeis's opinion. It is easy to overread Erie, and it is also easy to find apparent support in Erie for propositions that are false.
Precisely because Erie is so iconic, of course, it has been analyzed exhaustively. In recent years, revisionist scholars have made great strides in understanding both Erie and what came before Erie. To criticize Justice Brandeis's opinion in light of this new learning is surely unfair. But it is still worth doing, because Erie's status in our legal firmament makes it crucial to understand exactly what Erie held and how that holding might be supported.
Erie addressed one of the recurring questions of American federalism: What is the status in federal court of precedents established by the courts of a particular state? Throughout our history, the answer has depended on what the precedents are about; federal courts have always felt more need to defer to a state's highest court about certain aspects of the state's own law than about the law of other sovereigns. Before Erie, however, federal courts drew the crucial lines in different places than they do now.
As background for analysis of Justice Brandeis's opinion, Part I of this Article provides a brief account of the doctrine that prevailed before Erie. Part II then evaluates each of the main arguments--historical, practical, and constitutional--that Justice Brandeis advanced in support of his claim that federal law required a different doctrine. …


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Tofo Beach Cottages offers the best of Mozambique
It is close to Turtle cove, Fatimas and Dino's Beach Bar yet offering clean facilities such as :
Rooms sleeping 2
11 Chalets catering from 4 to 8 people
Chalets are distributed through Tofo with some adjacent to each other catering for groups up to 40 people
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Properties vary from Beach front to 300 meters from beach. Tofo offers the best of Mozambique with a local relaxed atmosphere. In Tofo time has come to a standstill alowing a real African experience. Beach day and night life. Inhambane has a Airport with customs facilities allowing flying in from major airports such as Maputo Mozambique or Oliver Thambo South Africa. Daily bus services are also available from SA.
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Bowen, John Templeton (1857–1941), American dermatologist. In 1912 Bowen published the first description of the dermatosis which now bears his name.
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Eggnog Fudge Recipe
I experimented with many recipes featuring eggnog before coming up with this winning combination. —Richell Welch, Buffalo, Texas
- 1 tablespoon plus 3/4 cup butter, softened, divided
- 3 cups sugar
- 2/3 cup eggnog
- 2 tablespoons heavy whipping cream
- 1 package (10 to 12 ounces) white baking chips
- 1 cup marshmallow creme
- 1 cup finely chopped walnuts
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1. Line a 13-in. x 9-in. pan with foil and grease the foil with 1 tablespoon butter; set aside. In a large saucepan, combine the sugar, eggnog, cream and remaining butter. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly. Reduce heat; cook until a candy thermometer reads 238° (soft-ball stage), stirring occasionally.
- 2. Remove from the heat. Stir in chips until melted. Stir in the marshmallow creme, walnuts and vanilla.
- 3. Spread into prepared pan. Cool to room temperature. Using foil, lift fudge out of pan. Discard foil; cut fudge into 1-in. squares. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator. Yield: about 3-1/4 pounds.
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Scrambled Egg And Potato Fry
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1 teaspoon ground turmeric
1 pound potatoes cut into cubes
4 eggs beaten
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10 leaves fresh coriander for garnish
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A young boy and an old man were walking with a donkey when a group of people passed by.
"Isn't that ridiculous that no one's riding that donkey," one person said.
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Another group of people passed by and someone said, "That's terrible! Look at that young boy riding that donkey while the old man walks."
The LaRue County Parks and Recreation hosted the first Kicking Cancer Kickball Tournament on Aug. 20.
We would like to say thank you to all of the teams and the sponsors who made this event possible. There were a total of 10 teams from LaRue and Hardin Counties representing a youth division and an adult division.
The event raised more than $1,500 for the American Cancer Society and the LaRue County Parks and Recreation.
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First place youth division – First Baptist Church Youth Group
Summer is nearing an end and children all across Kentucky have or soon will be headed back to school. While many students may groan at the thought of homework, tests, book reports and science projects, most are also excited to see old friends and to get a fresh start on a new year.
It is a new day at Passport Health Plan. As CEO now for 48 days, and as Interim CEO for 260 days, I can assure you, things have changed. It has been a tough nine months for our associates, advocates, providers and members who make up the Passport family. As with any family experiencing a crisis however, we have pulled together to make things better. Please give me this opportunity to bring you up to date.
Amen to the ones who have already said it, but it needs to be said again. The LaRue County Fair pageants should be for LaRue County residents only, especially if the winners will be representing LaRue County at the State Fair.
It does not honor our county at all if the winners are not from here.
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All kidding aside, I have only body clipped one horse and had a blast but it wasn't with a show coming up in 4 weeks. I know that KaThim's body grew out pretty darn fast after I body clipped him this spring (he is the barn owners horse) and you couldn't tell he'd been clipped. Wait til a week before the show and get a pro out to clean him up and see what you have after that.
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#ParisAttacks Heavy gunfire in Saint-Denis
New York- A hail of bullets can be hear in the video during an anti-terror police operation in the northern commune of Saint-Denis approximately 12 kilometers from central Paris. Here is a map of the precise location according to Youtube user trystero19.
The Intervention
Murşitpinar- Another quick blog entry with some images from Kobane and environs and recent days. The media narrative on the siege has shifted from predictions of the city's imminent fall to IS being on the back foot in the battle thanks to a sharp uptick in coalition bombing. Although on the surface this is a fight between the harshest kind of Islamists engaged in offensive jihad to eradicate those they deem unbelievers–in this case the Kurds of the secular, leftist PYD-YPG/YPJ–the struggle for Kobane is primarily a battle of ethnic identity politics, at least as many Kurds I spoke with see it.
For lightly buried in the takfiri salafism of IS, particularly I suspect the older members with genuine military experience, is an Arab ethnocentrism despite the modicum of ethnic diversity of IS's commanders. Then there are the Turkish troops and border gendarmes who are content to watch all this go on from a barely safe distance. Understandably Turkey does not want to be drawn in, at least not under conditions upon which Ankara is not the actor setting them.
There are those who are opposed to the very concept of military intervention in wars far from home based on their ideological principles or because they reflexively distrust the specific crowd that advocates for military solutions to humanitarian crises. What should have been done to rescue Kobane? The best policy may be that such cases be looked at individually rather than the flawed policies of those that came before. Part of why these situations are deemed failures is when people conduct post-mortems on them and find that once the world took its eyes off supporting state/institution-building and reconstruction, the place rapidly devolves into chaos. See: Libya.
What will happen in Syrian Kurdistan–if it is not overrun by IS–will be determined by the post-intervention steps that are far more difficult than demolishing concrete block structures from many thousands of feet in the air. But for now, the Kurds are cheering.
Peace In Light of War
Barcelona- I realized the other day that going to wars for years and years affects perhaps not only the psyche over the long term but also the synaptic algorithms that are part of an unending string of decision making processes driving daily routines. I can be in the most secure Western city environment but am still often making the smallest decisions in a wartime mindset without even realizing it. Hard to explain but basically always bracing for the worst. Here the most petty detail like the food stores being closed on Sundays somehow evokes the most careful conflict behavioral patterns. I remember in Afghanistan in 2001 when ABC and CBS had teamed up to set up a joint broadcast compound and they had gone to a bottled water warehouse in Tajikistan beforehand and bought half the potable water in Dushanbe to take with them down to Takhar.
Those early experiences had a molding effect on me that is often difficult to gauge. Now even if I am just coming to the EU, I find myself prepping and packing as if I was going off to war. You can leave a war but war never quite leaves you.
The last significant acts of terrorism here were a parking garage bombing in June 1987 that killed 21 attributed to ETA and a bar bombing that December which killed an American sailor during a Christmas port call and was claimed by Catalan radicals. But the wealthy from societies in conflict today seem to all be here as tourists and so to me war is never far away. Just before I shot the above photo, a nouveau riche family with a brand new Porsche bearing unmistakeable Ukrainian plates had their car towed where friends and I were sitting and asked for our help as they did not speak Spanish much less Catalan. As I was shopping for clothes in the discount department store yesterday, I find myself reflexively trying to discern where the niqab-clad North African in line ahead of me might precisely be from. This stuff is just always on my mind. An innate curiosity coupled with too much experience often makes it difficult to zone out.
The past few years the only way I could justify being here was by go to and fro to conflicts; Libya in 2011, Mali in 2012, Iraq in 2013. This summer I decided to simply return to Catalunya without forcing myself to justify it. Did I miss out on the big Sinjar drama? Of course I did. One thing I have learned in all this time is that if you do miss out on a story, if you're patient enough another one will pop up in no time. Despite tracts written about how this is the most peaceful time mankind has yet lived in comparative to the scale of the World Wars that consumed the first half of the last century, there are seemingly always more wars to come. They may not have vast trench networks and poignant ballads written about them but today's wars are many if not 'Great' or "Patriotic' in the grandiose appellations of an era gone by.
For what I suppose is part of the make up of my personality every single trip I have ever done has been alone. I meet other journos in war zones but almost always by sheer happenstance. No one has ever bought me a plane ticket to go anywhere ever. No big name outlet has ever called me up out of the blue and thrown an assignment at me. Everything I've ever done has essentially been as an autodidactic hustler.
I've worked in conflicts since 9/11 yet have never been written up as a 'veteran' while loads of people from the class of Libya 2011 have quickly surpassed me at least in terms twitter/instagram fame and so forth. Hell, one random guy with an iphone who spoke zero Arabic wound up with a spot in the world's most prestigious photo agency and with a documentary then being made about his exploits by a big name Hollywood director. Suddenly people were getting famous for not dying after others did. Coming to NYC and winning big awards in the aftermath. The 'Arab Spring' morphed into a major turning point for journalism itself. It became a veritable free-for-all environment for those just getting started. Safety norms were either not heeded in many instances or simply went out the window of the technical fighting truck.
To my knowledge another photojournalist has never shot my photo while I'm working along a front line. If I went missing in one of these places there wouldn't be a flurry of action shots of me to raise awareness. I've also never worn or had access to a bullet proof vest. Perhaps I simply don't do enough socializing when I'm in these places. To add to that I also occasionally like to cover events before they've been totally blown out in the mainstream. In Iraq last August I didn't encounter a single other war correspondent. Iraq was considered a dormant conflict to many and was definitely not 'hot' story-wise what with Syria going on next door.
I'm currently debating whether its worth doing any more wars from here on out. Perhaps a couple more. There is only so much that can been gleaned from hiking up a mined hillside or facing off a guy with a Dragnov rifle when you only have a long camera lens to shoot back with. Of course to truly understand the human dynamics you have to actually go to these places. There is a middle ground between an adrenalin rush and an armchair twitter warrior also where you can go to Kiev or Erbil and be mostly safe without venturing toward Donbas or Mosul for example. This is the modus of the more reserved journos or more actionable wonks.
There's a whole crew of millennial wunderkinds making their names in prominent think tanks or King's College War Studies Department or Princeton's Near Eastern Studies Department by analyzing trends in salafi social media and venturing into the ummah's safer nodes like Casablanca, Tunis or even Sana'a on a good week without ever really putting their lives at risk. But I don't fit into that category either. A senior analyst in DC once told me on the sidelines of a conference that as far as he was concerned a true subject matter expert concentrates on one, possibly two, but no more than three countries (his were Morocco and Algeria and sometimes Tunisia). That gave me insight into just how competitive the think tank set is.
Rather than befriend gatekeepers who prove difficult, I just move in another direction until a more friendly door opens. Things have a way of falling into place if you let them it seems.
A few weeks ago I went partying with some friends atop a dilapidated bunker from the civil war here where people now congregate for sunset gahterings with a spectacular view of the city below. That bitter war between Franco's Nationalists and the floundering Republicans is firmly in the ash bin of history, its legacy is relegated to anti-fascist graffiti slogans and sparse ruins from the era. Every war, no matter how long or brutal, eventually ends. Even in dark, peace can and will be found in light of war.
Pakistan Triptychs in Barcelona
Barcelona- I installed two triptychs here in Barcelona the other day from when I was conducting my senior thesis in Peshawar, Pakistan back in the autumn of 2000. The one above was on an abandoned storefront in El Clot while the one below was on the side of the Mercat de Poblenou while it was quietly closed on a Sunday. This was a component of my original concept before 9/11 to put up imagery on both sides of the Atlantic in order to educate a viewing public by employing the style of street art phenomenology that was so prevalent in southern California at the time.
Little did I know that while I was in Peshawar trying to persuade the Taliban to grant me entry to photograph the countryside and monuments of the land the controlled most of, Mohammed Atta, Ziad jarrah and others had already recorded martyrdom videos outside Kandahar 10 months previously.
So now 13 years on, I'm still doing my idea. The world has ostensibly changed in the interim but that can't always negate a vision.
Diplomats and Hors d'Oeuvres on the River
New York- I attended a Georgian diplomatic party marking the restoration of Georgian independence this week hosted by Ambassador Kaha Imnadze. Georgia was briefly independent from 1918-1921 following the 1917 Bolshevik revolution and the collapse of the Romanov dynasty. The Menshevik-led Democratic Republic of Georgia was ultimately subsumed into the Soviet Union as neighboring Armenia and Azerbaijan became Soviet Socialist Republics and the Ottoman Empire crumbled giving rise to pragmatic Kemalism.
With badrijani and lobiani wafting through the air (unfortunately there was Pellegrino rather then Borjomi) and interesting discussions being had on the geopolitical primacy of the greater Black Sea region made for an interesting evening.
Anbar-Insurgency Redux
New York- I have an article out now for IHS Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst on the eruption of violence in Iraq's sprawling western al-Anbar Governorate that borders the relatively calm governorates of Ma'an, Amman, Mafraq, and the somewhat sketchier Zarqa in Jordan, the war ravaged governorates of Deir ez-Zor, and Homs in Syria and, lastly, Saudi Arabia's Northern Border Region. Control of Anbar is a security issue for the entire region that surrounds it when considering the war in Syria that is attracting foreign fighters like moths to a flame and the transnational outlook of salafi-jihadi thought in a geographically contiguous KSA.
Anbar became the symbol of anti-American resistance in Iraq so much so that the restive northern town of Hawija in Kirkuk Governorate was referred to as the "Anbar of the North" by the US military at one time. Anbar became almost a catchall term for a place that was difficult to pacify through traditional counterinsurgency doctrine much less purely by means of military hard power. Only through cooperation and co-opting was the Sunni Arab insurgency there quelled for a time with the raising of Sahwa militias.
In the now bloody aftermath of the American troop withdrawal that took place at the tail end of 2011 and was hailed by President Barack Obama as 'ending' the Iraq war, Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq's Da'wa Party die-hard prime minister, has done nothing to tamp down the collective ire of Sunni activists from Fallujah north to Hawija. Maliki's moves have merely moved the Iraq war into a much more indigenous phase.
From accusing notable Sunni politcos of being involved in terrorism, a crime punishable by death in Iraq's draconian penal code, to doing nothing to assuage the concerns of angry protestors, Maliki at least partly set the stage for the arrival of ad-Dawlah al-Islamiyyah fi Iraq w'al Sham, know locally by its acronym DAASH, and by its English acronym ISIL, into Fallujah's city centre and sections of Ramadi and several villages in the respective surrounding areas at the outset of 2014.
The Iraqi elections are approaching quickly on the country's troubled political horizon on April 30th. How 'free and fair' voting will be carried out under such circumstances is entirely unclear.
I'm illustrating this post with the following images because I personally feel much of what is going on in Iraq today can be traced directly back to the elaborately expensive yet incredibly poorly planned Bush/neo-conservative regime decapitation initiative called Operation Iraqi Freedom. That moniker seemed to me to say that 99.9% of all Iraqis were equally oppressed by Hussein's dreadful Ba'ath Party policies.
By and large, yes, Iraqis were treated terribly by an anti-egalitarian strongman in a nation-state rife with deep tribal, sect, and ethnic division. But the late dictator could not have ruled for decades without a degree of genuine support fostered by patronage networks and adroit imbuing of his own ideology among at least a cadre of willing followers.
But it should be noted that not all the Sunnis fighting the state right now are doing so under the black banners of salafi-jihad. Though those banners make for exciting headlines, there is a viable retro or neo-Ba'athist strain of rebellion going on. Though it had been primarily focused more on the Kurds and territorial issues pertaining to the Green Line in terms of strategy and tactics, the Jaish Rijal al-Tariq al-Naqshabandi (JRTN) and Intifada Ahrar al-Iraq which has been described as a political front group for the JRTN–since gone operational, are kind of Ba'athist revivalist groups (or two parts of the same movement depending on perspective).These movements have sought to resuscitate Saddamist symbolism to garner the support of disaffected Iraqis tired of what they perceive as "Safavid" (Iranian)-influenced political primacy in Baghdad. Certainly DAASH/ISIL and JRTN have starkly different ideologies and objectives, but for now they have a common enemy in PM Maliki and those who defend and support him.
Though at the time of this posting Fallujah remains under rebel control in a shaky truce mediated by the Anbar Provincial Council, in my view things aren't likely to improve overnight in terms of Anbar's overall security in the lead-up this spring's election.
Scenes From an Enclave
Erbil- Here are a handful of snapshots from my iPod from my day running around the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan while trying to get situated.
Kachin Days
Guest blogger: Raymond Pagnucco
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New York- I've known Ray Pagnucco for some twenty years now. Ray is constantly on the move in Asia and Africa, often interested in uncovering the world's lesser told e stories that strike his imagination.
The following guest post stems from Ray's most recent trip to what is likely the world's most perennially troubled nation-state if one goes by sheer decades of political violence (sorry clichés about Somalia since 1991 but Burma has been raging since 1948). Ray recently crossed from the western-most region of southern China's Yunnan Province into Burma's northern Kachin State to document the hardscrabble rebels of the Kachin Independence Army. Enjoy!
It is well known to any highly organized ethnic group that the road to greater autonomy is a rough one replete with of hopes, dreams and a considerable amount of uncertainty that come with a national liberation movement. When your an ethnic group in Burma that makes up just 1.5% of the population of a country of 60 million the reality of ever being autonomous in even more challenging.
However the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and their armed wing the Kachin Independence Army ((KIA) have been pushing for greater autonomy since the the early 1960's with only limited success. After about three decades of fighting the KIO and KIA had reached a ceasefire with the Burmese junta then known as the ominous sounding State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC)* in 1994.
*The SLORC was later renamed the State Peace and Development Council in 1997 and then officially dissolved by the infamous General Than Shwe in early 2011 when Than abdicated the junta's rule in the transfer of power to President Thein Sein's civilian government.
The1994 ceasefire gave the KIO and KIA a fair bit of autonomy over a large area of Kachin State and parts of Shan State along the Chinese Border. This Kachin autonomous zone allowed the KIO is able to collects taxes at border crossings with China and engages in various business deals throughout Kachin State. Most of the trade often revolved around the monetization of natural resources such as jade, timber and gold. The KIO-though no angels themselves in this prolonged conflict-also launched a ambitious opium eradication campaign within the territory under its control.
However in June 2011 renewed violence broke out between the KIA and the Burmese military effectively ending the seventeen-year long ceasefire. The fighting was a result of the Burmese regime's attempt to secure areas around lucrative energy projects in Kachin and Shan state, the majority of which are funded by the Chinese government while in an area traditionally controlled by the KIA.
For the first year and a half the KIA was able to hold its ground and tried on eleven separate occasions to end the fight and work on a new ceasefire. Then in late December 2012 the Burmese escalated the fighting using aerial attacks to push the KIA back toward to their de-facto capital of Laiza hugging the Chinese boorder. Government troops have since stopped their larger advance but sporadic fighting continues and an estimated 100,000 Kachin civilians have since been displaced.
For a number of years I have kept a close eye on Burma and the various ethnic conflicts that have plagued the country since it was granted independence from Britain in the wake of the the Second World War. I have travelled several times with the Karen National Liberation Army in Karen State to wittiness the war they had been waging for 63 years. This past February I felt it was time to make a trek to Laiza and see what they Kachin where going through and to understand why they were fighting following the ceasefire's collapse.
When you get to the KIO and KIA controlled areas you will see the result of the former 17 year ceasefire. From roads to schools to sending students abroad for higher education, the Kachin upheld the rule of law and where able to transform their area into a functioning civil society that other ethnic groups like the Karen were not able to achieve after the fall of their d-facto capital of Manerplaw fell to the Burmese in early 1995. The Kachin used their natural resources to create something out of nothing and waited for many year to have a real peace deal with the Burmese military government that went beyond a ceasefire agreement that are so often broken by the Burmese military known locally as the Tatmadaw.
Although Laiza is essentially a city under siege, Stalingrad it is not. Upon arriving in Laiza, I noted that many of the businesses were shuttered.. Its is normally possible to get in and out of the city through either the official nearby Chinese border crossing that has now been closed to non-Kachin. It is also possible or to take a jeep and travel five-six hours on a bumpy mountain road (thought this alternate route is impassable during rainy season). On they way I passed open pit mines, a Chinese dam and elephants employed in logging.
The Kachin people differ from other regional ethnic groups in that they are overwhelmingly Protestant or Roman Catholic and cherish democratic societal practices. During my visit the locals appeared be in relatively good spirits, believing that one day they will be victorious even if that means they are forced to withdraw from population centers and retreat into the jungle to fight or a yet another peace deal will be brokered.
The Kachin remain united. Not only those living in Laiza but those living in other parts of Burma, China and India. It is not uncommon to meet Kachin who have come from other parts of Burma or neighboring countries to aid in the effort. This conflict has had the effect of uniting the Kachin transnationally.
When and how this war will end is anyone's guess. The Kachin and the Burmese authorities have met over a dozen times since the current bout of war and a lasting deal has yet to be reached. President Thein Sein has told the international community that he has ordered the army to stop it's war against the KIA and KIO but this has not led to lasting change in the region.
This is a clear sign that the army is still in power in Burma and the civilian government of Thein Sein (a former junta member himself) is mostly a veneer in the brutal realities of Burma's ethnic hinterlands.
Some say that this conflict will only end when the KIA and KIO are completely obliterated. Other say that this battle was only practice for the Tatmadaw for a larger war with the United Wa State Army and they the Kachin will get some kind of deal when fight in Wa State begins."
TWD Editor's Note: Despite having publicly shifted from a military junta to weak civilian rule with promises of reforms coupled with the limited return of Western corporate investment, the harsh militarism entrenched since Ne Win's March 1962 coup d'état followed by the era of SLORC/SPDC-rule after the disastrous student-led People Power Uprising of August 8, 1988, the aggressive stance of Naypyidaw's troops is as strongly felt as ever before in Burma's independent-minded minority homelands as ever before. And it appears the rebels of the KIA will not be abandoning the fight any time in the near future.
For more, see Raymond's short film The Front Lines of Laiza over at CNN's iReport.


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On March 18, 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Gideon v. Wainwright, ruled unanimously that state courts were required to provide legal counsel to criminal defendants who could not afford to hire an attorney on their own.
On this date:
In 1766, Britain repealed the Stamp Act of 1765.
In 1913, King George I of Greece was assassinated in Thessaloniki.
In 1937, some 300 people, mostly children, were killed in a gas explosion at a school in New London, Texas.
In 1938, Mexican President Lazaro Cardenas nationalized his country's petroleum reserves and took control of foreign-owned oil facilities.
In 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Hawaii statehood bill. (Hawaii became a state on Aug. 21, 1959.)
In 1990, thieves made off with 13 works of art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston (the crime remains unsolved).


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Grammy Awards: The Complete List of Nominees
Grammy Awards: The Complete List of Nominees
The nominations for the 56th Annual Grammy Awards were announced Friday night in an hour-long CBS special hosted by LL Cool J.
Gracing the Nokia Theater stage with live, interspersed performances between nomination announcements were Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Taylor Swift, Keith Urban and Miguel, among others.
Just six categories were announced during the 60-minute concert/reveal, but the full list was disclosed shortly thereafter. Here are the nominees:
Song of the Year
"Just Give me A Reason" by P!nk
"Locked Out of Heaven" by Bruno Mars
"Roar" by Katy Perry
"Royals" by Lorde
"Same Love" by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis feat. Mary Lambert
Also read: 'Sound of Music Live' Is a Hit: 10 More Dream Musicals We Want to Hate-Watch on NBC
Best Pop Group/Duo Performance
"Get Lucky" by Daft Punk and Pharrell
"Just Give Me a Reason" by P!nk and Nate Ruess
"Stay" by Rihanna feat. Mickey Echo
"Blurred Lines" feat. T.I. and Pharrell
"Suit and Tie" by Justin Timberlake and Jay Z
Album of the Year
"The Blessed Unrest" by Sara Bareilles
"Random Access Memories" by Daft Punk
"Good Kid M.A.A.D. City" by Kendrick Lamaer
"The Heist" by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
"Red" by Taylor Swift
Best Country Album
"Night Train" by Jason Aldean
"Two Lanes of Freedom" by Tim McGraw
"Same Trailer Different Park" by Kacey Musgraves
"Based on a True Story …" by Blake Shelton
"Red" by Taylor Swift
Also read: The Beatles Get Grammys Special on CBS
Best New Artist
James Blake
Kendrick Lamar
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Kacey Musgraves
Ed Sheeran
Record of the Year
"Get Lucky" by Daft Punk and Pharrell Williams
"Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons
"Royals" by Lorde
"Locked Out of Heaven" by Bruno Mars
"Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell Williams
Best Pop Solo Performance
"Brave" by Sara Bareilles
"Royals" by Lorde
"When I Was Your Man" by Bruno Mars
"Roar" by Katy Perry
"Mirrors" by Justin Timberlake
Also read: CBS Announces Grammy Dates for Next 2 Years
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
"Get Lucky" by Daft Punk and Pharrell Williams
"Just Give Me A Reason" by P!nk featuring Nate Ruess
"Stay" by Rihanna Featuring Mikky Ekko
"Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell Williams
"Suit & Tie" by Justin Timberlake & Jay Z
Best Dance/Electronica Album
"Random Access Memories" by Daft Punk
"Settle" by Disclosure
"18 Months" by Calvin Harris
"Atmosphere" by Kaskade
"A Color Map Of The Sun" by Pretty Lights
Best Rock Performance
"Always Alright" by Alabama Shakes
"The Stars (Are Out Tonight)" by David Bowie
"Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons
"Kashmir" (Live) by Led Zeppelin
"My God Is The Sun" by Queens Of The Stone Age
"I'm Shakin'" by Jack White
Also read: 'The Sound of Music Live' Reviews: Critics Think Carrie Underwood's Acting Is Biggest Problem
Best Rock Album
"13″ by Black Sabbath
"The Next Day " by David Bowie
"Mechanical Bull" by Kings Of Leon
"Celebration Day" by Led Zeppelin
"…Like Clockwork" by Queens Of The Stone Age
"Psychedelic Pill" by Neil Young With Crazy Horse
Best Alternative Music Album
"The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love" by Neko Case
"Trouble Will Find Me" by The National
"Hesitation Marks" by Nine Inch Nails
"Lonerism" by Tame Impala
"Modern Vampires Of The City" by Vampire Weekend


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The city of Graham, North Carolina is located on the southeastern side of Burlington, about 23 miles east of Greensboro. This charming city was formed shortly after Orange County was split in the early 1800s and Alamance County was formed. The new county needed a county seat, so Graham was created to serve that purpose. In 1851, Graham was incorporated and named for Governor William A. Graham.
Graham is a beautiful city with much to offer new residents. Rent an apartment in Graham and enjoy the lovely town square, Sesquicentennial Park. Stroll through the pedestrian-friendly downtown and enjoy the restaurants and shops, or take the historical walking tour and visit the area's historic sites. For those who prefer outdoor adventures, go canoeing along the Haw River or go golfing at nearby Shamrock Golf Course or Quarry Hills Country Club.
Enjoy attending community events or spend an afternoon at any of Graham's parks. Bill Cooke Park includes tennis courts, a basketball court, baseball fields, a playground, a paved walking track, picnic areas, and a historic farmhouse. South Graham Municipal Park features basketball courts, tennis courts, volleyball courts, picnic areas, a playground, and a walking track. Events include a Youth Fishing Derby, a Spring Play Day, concerts, movies, and Fire & Ice – a holiday-themed, outdoor synthetic ice skating rink located at the Children's Museum of Alamance County.
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America–it is time to liberate yourself from the idea that the government will take care of you. The question during the 2008 Presidential Campaign was "Are you better off than you were 8 years ago?" I ask you this: Will you be better off 10 years from now? What will you give to your children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren?
While the government is bankrupting Social Security and Medicaid, manipulating citizens with the Federal Reserve, and expanding its power over the private sector, what will you do? Will we continue to cling to a government that depends on China and Saudi Arabia for oil instead of decreasing our dependency on foreign oil or will we remain silent?
It is time for our minds to be liberated. It is time for us to hold our elected officials accountable. The longer we are silent, the less chance we have of becoming truly liberated.
Demetrius Minor is a member of the national advisory council of the Project 21 black leadership network and is co-host of the blogtalkradio show "He Said, She Said" with Project 21 member Stacy Washington.
In addition, Demetrius is a blogger (demetriuspeaks.com), former White House intern, preacher, and columnist for Townhall, Red Alert Politics and Conservative Daily News.
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My first meal out in Geneva
Was excited to see that they have a subscription to Scientific American and then looked at the date: they're issues from 1998. Ha!
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This was a birthday cake for a five-year-old girl who requested a pink Rody carrot cake. Rody is her favorite toy represented by that creature on top. It's decorated with cake balls. Cream cheese icing is a bit challenging to work with :/
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Just had a sunshine sandwich and noticed theres no cheese, sauce packet and plate to microwave on. Yesterday had a baked potato with cheese and broccoli, The potato was completely scooped out and filled with mushy cheese(?) and broccoli. Also, a few years ago they took the turkey dinner off the menu which was the best ever, maybe they can bring it back.
Food changes
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Posted 13 September 2013 - 08:18 AM
I believe they are bringing back the turkey dinner this Fall. As for the Sunshine Sandwich, it never had cheese that I can remember, but they are doing away with the tray and sauce packet, which has some of us a little peeved, but it's not a big enough deal to worry about for me. I actually don't care for the Sunshine Sandwich all that much to begin with, so now that they've taken away the sauce, I think this is a good time for me to switch it out for another of my faves...French Toast. Yum!
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Are you confused with an egg mc muffin? Cause the sunshine sandwich never had cheese?
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Getting that recommended five servings of fruits and veggies each day can be a challenge, whether you like the taste of veggies or not. But for folks that fall into the "not" category (or cook for someone who does), it can be especially hard. Here are a few easy ways to pack more veggies (read: nutrients) into any meal — without compromising the flavor or texture of your favorite foods.
- Cauliflower. Steam and puree it for an easy add-in for mashed potatoes, or chicken or tuna salad.
- Avocados. (Shush! We know it's not technically a vegetable, but they aren't sweet, so we're counting them.) Mashed or pureed, avocados are a surprisingly simple way to make pudding, smoothies, or Hollandaise sauce healthier.
- Squash. Whether it's zucchini or summer squash, these sneaky vegetables can be grated up and added to almost any casserole out there.
- Carrots. Get that beta carotene by grating carrots and adding to tomato sauce, meatloaf, or burgers.
Read on for even more easy tips — for the veggie lovers and haters alike.
The Takeaway: Whether you're 5 or 55, eating enough vegetables can be a struggle. Try adding more of 'em into the foods you already love without sacrificing flavor.
Cut Out the Pasta
What's pasta casserole without the pasta? Delicious, actually. Try this recipe, which uses spaghetti squash instead of grain-based noodles.
Fun Fact
A berry known as the "miracle berry" doesn't taste like much on its own, but it can actually make sour foods (like vinegar or lemons) taste sweet on the tongue.


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Can Virtual Stores Make Shopping More Sustainable?
Is virtual reality shopping more sustainable? New tech is making online shopping more common and convenient.
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Is virtual reality shopping more sustainable? New tech is making online shopping more common and convenient.
If it were not for Monsanto, GMO's, being politically blocked from reducing our carbon footprint, obscene hospital childbirth practices (inamay.com), an interest based financial system, innocent victims of war (and it's my view that all people are), an unconscionable treatment of animals farmed for our consumption, corporate greed, the spread of competition among us by a system based in and of Superiority being "The Truth," then this might make sense. But we are being further and further disconnected from the Earth, from our own mammalian inheritance, from being our own source for defining our humanity, from thinking and feeling for ourselves. When this is going on http://uncheeseparty.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/morningland-dairy-the-final-solution/ by force, we cannot let ourselves be further disconnected by corporate control over our existence and survival. We are more than a farmed workforce benefitting only financial and remote over our power.
Plus points : it saves time, saves fuel consumption because ten families taking their cars each to the shopping centre will always consume more energy than one car doing the deliveries in the same neighbourhood. Less jam on roads and more delivery jobs. An intelligent client will buy only his/her favourite products, and thereby not be bothered by the-same-but-packed-and-advertised-differently-competitor(s) because spending hours online for shopping is much less fun than playing video games, reading e-books, Facebook, online films, etc etc.
Minus points: We won't know what we buy until it drops on our doorstep, like where it's been made, what's gone into it and so on. And we will of course pay the financial price for the setting up of such virtual shops on platforms and corridors.
A huge problem facing us already is the disconnect between what we buy and how it's made. This seems like another huge way to separate consumers from the products they are purchasing.
I like it from the standpoint that consuming should create as little waste as possible, but we still need to learn how to consume only what we need.
I agree. And from the standpoint that this might encourage more consumption—if people are suddenly shopping on subway platforms or in empty squares—it's not a good thing. If they're only using it to buy necessities like groceries, though, it's an interesting idea...
I'm torn. A part of me says, yes this is an awesome idea. Imagine how much waste would be saved plus the time shopping that could be used doing something more productive. However, this would definitely affect all businesses, including small ones that could not afford the manpower and technology to go virtual. If this is what our world is shifting towards, I don't now how local stores will thrive.


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Anything to do with &0keh is BS.This thread belongs in the bulshitters thread!
a) blade count is mostly irrelevant for bokeh because generally (unless there are very few) you can't count 'em in the image. There are lenses with few blades and beautiful bokeh (e.g. CZJ Flektogon 35/2.4 with hexagons)
b) the dominant factor for smooth bokeh in a traditional lens is the presence of spherical aberration. It dims the edges of the blur discs, thereby reducing hard edges
c) the ultimate bokeh machine is the Minolta/Sony 135 STF due to the presence of its apodisation filter. You get blur gaussians not blur discs, therefore absolutely NO hard edges in the OOF area. It's like taking a defocused image of a defocused image...
d) second choice are the sink-strainer lenses as seen on some MF systems
e) anyone who thinks poorly of Mamiya bokeh# - on the basis of half-remembered internet "wisdom" - needs a good slap.
# or any major brand. They all have "good" and "bad" lenses and if you stick to primes, the bad are few and far between. You can get horrific bokeh from super-zooms though - again with the correction of SA to enhance sharpness often causes nisen bokeh.


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The National Association of Drug Court Professionals commissioned an observational study of the interaction of drug court judges with offenders and jurors.
Drug courts were first established in Miami, Fla., in 1989 as a way to divert nonviolent, drug-abusing offenders to court-supervised drug treatment.
The principal investigator observed 15 courtrooms on site or by film and interviewed 23 judges in person or by telephone to inquire about:
Preliminary observations based on the study's small, nonrepresentative sample revealed:
Although there are a wide variety of courtroom environments and styles of proceedings, judges share similar views as to their roles.
Interviews with the judges suggested that drug court processes were often dictated more by workload than by judges' conceptions of how a drug court should be run.
Judges also indicated that they valued the relationship between themselves and the defendant.
An article on the study was published in the first edition of the National Drug Court Institute Review, a professional journal for drug court personnel.


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I have an account but didn't post any images yet. Hopefully I'll get around to it soon :D
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Witchboard 2: The Devil's Doorway (1993)
A young woman living alone begins to be possessed by the spirit of a former resident through a Ouija board. Then, as we might guess, other residents start getting murdered.
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Penske knows landing Dale Jr. a longshot
Updated: May 11, 2007, 5:33 PM ETBy Terry Blount | ESPN.com
INDIANAPOLIS -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. might want to give Roger Penske a call.
Penske said Friday that he has an interest in adding Dale Earnhardt Jr. to his Nextel Cup team, but he realizes it isn't likely to happen.
"Certainly we'd like to talk to him," Penske said. "Obviously, he's one of the top drivers in the sport. But from everything I've heard, he wants to say in a Chevrolet. We have a contract with Dodge and we're loyal to that."
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This program is designed to empower high school sophomores to recognize their talents and apply them to become effective, ethical leaders in their home, school and community. Foster will attend a three-day seminar at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond. The seminar will take place June 9-12. She will participate in hands-on leadership activities, meet leaders in Kentucky and explore their personal leadership skills, while learning how to lead others and make a positive impact in the community.
On Career Day at Taylorsville Elementary School, students learned what it takes to be successful in various careers. Many of the children were dressed up for the careers they aspire to, as several guests came to the school to talk about their jobs.
Megan Dysinger is the sophomore Most Valuable Bear at Spencer County High School for November. She is a positive, polite and hardworking young lady. She takes time to assist other students who are struggling, without being asked. She is always eager, pleasant and courteous to everyone – students and adults. She is one of the most uplifting students at SCHS. Dysinger is in the band and is a cheerleader. She plans to attend Morehead State University to major in music.
About 1,200 grandparents visited Spencer County Elementary School last week as the school hosted its annual Grandparents Days.
"It's very important to us, as a community school, to reach out into the community," principal Mark Thomas said.
Grandparents Day was held Tuesday for Kindergartners and fifth-graders, Wednesday for first- and second-graders, and Friday for third- and fourth-graders. The grandparents spent 30 minutes to an hour with their grandchildren in class and then ate lunch with them in the cafeteria.
If you aren't blessed with an over abundance of talent, you'd better make up for that with effort. That's the recipe Coach Jason Burns hopes to use for success this season as the Spencer County Bears prepare to take the court next week.
"This is the least talented bunch that we've had in my three years here, but we do have really good kids that work their butt off," he said.
A casual glance at the roster, and one might think the Spencer County Lady Bears are in for a long year. With just one senior and a host of underclassmen, they'll once again be one of the youngest teams in the state.
However, they do return a considerable amount of experience, including a seasoned backcourt of sophomore Lauren Lambdin and freshmen Alyssa Howie, both of whom have two years of varsity experience.
Heads were hung as the Spencer County Bears walked off the field at John Hardin High School nearly two weeks ago, falling 23-15 to the Bulldogs in the second round of the playoffs. However, Coach Mike Marksbury said the memories of this season will not be of that game, but rather the thrills that encompassed a 10-2 season that saw records set and a community energized.
The team's amazing season produced some individual awards this week.
Spencer County senior running back Logan Holbrook was named the 4A District Player of the Year.
Holbrook gained over 1600 yards rushing and had 24 touchdowns during the year. He occasionally lined up at quarterback and threw a couple of touchdown passes, caught passes out of the backfield, was the team's punter, kickoff returner, and was a key defensive player as well.
The work done by conservation groups as well as state and federal fish and wildlife agencies over the past 60 years to increase waterfowl populations is nothing short of remarkable.
"This year, we've had the highest counts of ducks as a whole by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Canadian Wildlife Service," said John Brunjes, migratory bird coordinator for the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources. "It is the highest counts ever with 49,522,000 ducks as well as 11,643,000 mallards, also a new record."
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North West - The North West ANC will nominate its candidates for the party's leadership by Sunday night, spokesman Kenny Morolong said.
"Registration is continuing and everything is going well. We should conclude (the nominations) by midnight," he said.
The province was to have held its provincial general council (PGC) at the Kosmos Hall in Hartbeespoort on Friday.
However, proceedings were delayed because of verification issues and because of a parallel conference being held in Mafikeng.
The parallel conference was organised by provincial secretary Kabelo Mataboge, who was supporting the nomination of Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe for president of the party.
Provincial chairman Supra Mahumapelo supports the nomination of President Jacob Zuma for a second term.
The African National Congress' national executive committee (NEC) endorsed the Hartbeespoort conference as the official PGC.
Delegates were given the green light to start registering on Saturday, but the conference was delayed again while the provincial executive committee and national executive committee (NEC) members held talks overnight to try and resolve the parallel conference problem.
It was decided at the meeting that the two factions would hold one PGC, together, at a new venue in Rustenburg.
Morolong said the conference would be held at the Rustenburg Civic centre.
The official deadline for all provinces to hold their nomination conference was Friday. - Sapa
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For the first time, there are drugs within sight to protect brain cells from the motor and cognitive damage that continues long after the impact of severe head injury, international trauma experts told a recent seminar for medical writers in New York City.
"With impressive research from laboratories now being made available to physicians, coupled with very innovative drug development by pharmaceutical companies, several substantial remedies should be ready in two to three years," said Lawrence H. Pitts, M.D., chief of neurosurgery, University of California in San Francisco.
The need is urgent, he and other speakers stressed. Some 75,000 Americans annually sustain disabling brain damage from car crashes, gunshot wounds, or falls. The cost: about $25 billion.
Two promising antioxidant drugs--designed to reduce the damage that spreads through the brain after the initial trauma--have completed clinical trials in Europe and the United States, and their results are being analyzed. The data should be available this fall, said Pitts.
Tirilazad (Freedox, Upjohn) blocks the effects of free radicals that pour into the brain cells for days, even weeks, after impact. Speaking to one benefit from the drug, Pitts noted: "Preclinical research showed that when vasospasm set in, due to compression from swelling or bleeding, treatment with tirilazad led to reopening of blood vessels and restoration of blood flow to the brain," thereby heading off irreversible damage. Thus "we're eagerly awaiting the data analysis from nearly 3,000 patients," he said.
Similarly, the antioxidant superoxide dismutase (PEG-SOD, Sanofi-Sterling), a free-radical scavenger that just completed phase III trials in thousands of patients here and abroad, is also being analyzed.
Perhaps even more promising, several speakers said, are the new glutamate blockers, also called excitatory amino acid inhibitors, which have passed U.S. phase II safety trials and are starting phase III trials in trauma centers here.
Pharmaceutical companies are racing to produce antiglutamate. Rhone-Poulenc Rorer and Burroughs Wellcome seem to be in the forefront at this time, according to Pitts.
A natural chemical, glutamate reaches levels up to 70% higher than normal in the traumatized brain, explained Tracy McIntosh, Ph.D., director of the head injury center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. …


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NY Design Week kicks off on Friday and what do you know? I'll be out of town until the following Friday. Shucks.
However, I was around for the seventh annual BKLYN DESIGNS show in my home turf this past weekend. The event bills itself as the "hottest exhibition of designers and manufacturers of contemporary furnishings, lighting and accessories made and/or designed in Brooklyn." Hottest? Try sweltering. I was leaking sweat out of every pore five minutes after I stepped into the event space, St. Ann's Warehouse in DUMBO (the acronym means "Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass" in case you were wondering).
Despite the uncomfortable climes inside and outside the show, there was plenty of excellent locally grown — much of it green — talent on display. I was a tad underwhelmed by the quantity of exhibitors (love you, Inhabitat, but the week of sneak previews didn't help) but the goods on display were of the utmost quality.
Below is some questionable photography courtesy moi from BKLYN DESIGNS. I'll be devoting individual posts with proper photos to a few of the exhibitors that stuck out to me — Uhuru, Flavorpaper, and EcoSystems — as the week goes on.
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