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Fast Facts
- Ranked among Best colleges in the United States (U.S. News & World Report, 2013, 2014)
- Ranked #4 in the nation in "12 Top Colleges Where Students Get the Best Bang for Their Buck," meeting performance-based standards in line with those suggested by President Barack Obama (PolicyMic, 2013)
- Ranked #7 out of 49 top colleges in Texas for return on investment (AffordableCollegesOnline.org, 2013)
- Ranked among the Top 25 campuses in the U.S. with the most international students (Open Doors 2012, Institute for International Education)
- Named one of the nation's best colleges in "The Best 377 Colleges," 2013 and "The Best 378 Colleges," 2014 (The Princeton Review)
- Ranked among 150 institutions nationwide on the list of "Princeton Review Best Value Colleges" One of only three universities in Texas included (The Princeton Review, 2012, 2013)
- Only one of three Tier One public research institutions in the nation designated as a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) by the U. S. Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education, and also designated as an Asian-American Serving Institution (U. S. Department of Education, 2012)
- Ranked among 100 "Great Colleges to Work For" nationwide (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2011 & 2012)
- Only one of ten universities in the nation on the U.S. News Short List for enrolling the most transfer students (U.S. News and World Report, 2012)
- Earns Tier One research university distinction (Research-Very High) from the Carnegie Foundation — one of only three Carnegie-designated Tier One public research universities in Texas (Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2011)
- Ranked 7th in the nation for graduating students with least amount of debt (U.S. News & World Report, College Rankings, 2013)
- No. 2 most racially/ethnically diverse university in the nation (U.S.News & World Report, 2010)
- Membership in the Texas Medical Center
- One of the nation's most environmentally responsible colleges (The Princeton Review, 2010, 2011)
Economic Impact
- The UH System attracts $1.1 billion in new funds from external sources to the Houston area annually.
- Every dollar invested in the state's higher education system returns more than $5 for the Texas economy.
Star Programs
Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture
- Only space architecture graduate program of its kind
- No. 4 for architecture degree awarded to Hispanics (Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education Magazine, 2011)
C.T. Bauer College of Business
- No. 1 Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program nationwide (The Princeton Review/Entrepreneur magazine, 2008, 2010 and 2011)
- No. 1 evening MBA program in Houston, No. 20 in the nation among public business schools (BusinessWeek, 2011)
- Among the nation's best business schools (The Princeton Review: The Best 300 Business Schools, 2011 Edition)
- One of only 19 internal audit programs in the world with partner-level membership in the Internal Auditing Education Partnership
- Nearly 2,000 companies recruit Bauer students annually
College of Education
- Outreach programs with 35 area school districts
- Largest recruitment source for the Houston Independent School District
Cullen College of Engineering
- One of only 10 engineering schools in the nation on The Short List for most international students (U.S. News & World Report, 2011)
- Ranked among the top 75 universities in the nation, and first in Houston for engineering research and development expenditures (National Science Foundation, 2011)
- Among the top 100 engineering graduate and undergraduate programs in the nation (U.S. News & World Report, 2011)
- No. 36 in chemical engineering programs nationwide (U.S.News & World Report, 2011)
- No. 39 in aerospace/aeronautics engineeering in the nation (U.S. News & World Report, 2011)
- No. 48 in industrial/manufacturing engineering in the nation (U.S. News & World Report, 2011)
The Honors College
- Home to the university's most academically talented undergraduates
- SAT 1323, average score for the entering class
- SAT 1440, average score for the Tier One Scholars
Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management
- Ranked among the top 20 hospitality programs in the nation (TheBestSchools.org, 2012)
- Home of the Hospitality Industry Hall of Honor — recognizing the industry's most influential icons
- Faculty includes seasoned industry professionals and leaders in their fields
- Faculty achievements — founding HospitaltyLawyer.com, a definitive source on hospitality law; annual National Hospitality Conference; academic and research recognition from the Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education
UH Law Center
- Among the nation's top 100 law schools (U.S.News & World Report, 2011)
- No. 4 intellectual property law program (U.S.News & World Report, 2011)
- No. 8 health Law program (U.S.News & World Report, 2011)
- No. 11 part-time law program (U.S.News & World Report, 2011)
- No. 22 for law degrees awarded to Hispanics (Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education Magazine, 2011)
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
- No. 4 P.h.D. program in Creative Writing (Poets & Writers Magazine, 2011)
- Among the top 5 clinical neuropsychology tracks in the nation
- No. 1 concert chorale in the world (First Prize, 13th Annual International Chamber Choir Competition, 2013)
- One of the largest opera production programs in the nation (Moores Opera Center)
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
- No. 3 among public universities in Texas for strong science and mathematics programs (National Research Council)
- No. 10 physical sciences program in the nation (Nature)
- 1st to receive a grant to help train the world's first generation of nanobiologists (National Institutes of Health)
- More than 180 ranked faculty, including three National Academy of Science members
College of Optometry
- One of only 20 optometry schools in the nation
- No. 3 for optometry degrees awarded to Hispanics (Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education Magazine, 2011)
- Serves more than 40,000 patients annually
- Students work about 920,000 hours in the community annually
- More than 200 college and faculty outreach projects in public schools
College of Pharmacy
- Consecutive 100 percent first-time pass rates on the NAPLEX and MPJE national pharmacy licensing exams (May-August 2013 and 2014)
- More than 3,500 wellness screenings (blood pressure, cholesterol, etc.) and nearly 700 immunizations to community at-large in Fall 2014 alone
- Only U.S. college of pharmacy to win back-to-back National Patient Counseling Competitions
- Only U.S. college of pharmacy with 5 alumni elected president of the Phi Lambda Sigma National Pharmacy Leadership Society
- Nationally recognized for interprofessional student-run H.O.M.E.S. Clinic for homeless patients
Graduate College of Social Work
- Only social work program in the nation with a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
- #37 graduate social work program in the nation (U.S. News & World Report, 2011)
- More than 500 human services agencies interact with student workers
- Office of Field Education has affiliations with approximately 475 nonprofit and governmental agencies and organizations
College of Technology
- Designated the National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the National Security Agency (2009-2014)
Distinguished Faculty
- Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning faculty
- 9 NSF CAREER Awards in 2012, 29 total
- 7 Sloan Research Fellows
- 9 National Academy members
- 31 faculty members have received multimillion dollar awards
- 63 faculty members have received awards recognized by the Association of American Universities and/or Center for Measuring University Performance
- 126 active NIH awards (53 investigator-initiated, R01 grants)
- Nobel Peace Prize — Jody Williams, social work
- National Medal of Science — C.W. "Paul" Chu, physics
- National Academy of Engineering— Fazle Hussain, mechanical engineering; John Lienhard, mechanical engineering (emeritus); Dan Luss, chemical and biomolecular engineering; Michael Y.H. Pao, mechanical engineering; Allen Rhodes, mechanical engineering; Surendra P. Shah, civil and environmental engineering; James Symons, civil engineering (emeritus); and Kaspar William, civil and environmental engineering
- National Academy of Education — Scott Imberman, economics
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences — C.W. "Paul" Chu, physics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences — C.W. "Paul" Chu, also is a member of the Russian Academy of Engineering, Academia Sinica, and the Third World Academy of Sciences.
- Chinese Academy of Engineering — Surendra P. Shah, civil and environmental engineering
- French National Academy of Technology — Roland Glowinski, mathematics
- Swedish Academy of Sciences, Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institute — Jan-Åke Gustafsson, biology and biochemistry
- 40 research centers, laboratories and institutes across every academic department
- Intellectual Property Licensing revenues rose from $600,000 in 2008 to $12 million in 2012.
- On July 1, 2013, the University of Houston Department of Intercollegiate Athletics will move into The American Athletic Conference.
- During its 17-year history in Conference USA, Houston Athletics teams won 58 C-USA championships, the most by the Cougars in any conference in their history.
- 22 Houston student-athletes have won 39 Olympics medals, including 20 Gold… 66 Houston student-athletes, coaches and administrators have competed in the Olympic Games.
- 15 student-athletes received the Conference USA Academic Medal with a cumulative grade-point average of 3.75 or higher (2012-13)
- 162 student-athletes were named to the Conference USA Commissioner's Honor Roll with a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 or higher (in 2012-13). That ranks as the second-highest total in school single-season history.
- Men's Indoor Track and Field captured the 2013 Conference USA Championships title, the program's sixth championship in the last seven years.
- In 2013, Men's Golf won its sixth Conference USA Championship team title and its first since 2001.
- Degrees — More than 8,000 degrees awarded annually
- CEOs — More than 3,500 of our alumni are head of their own company or are presidents or chief executives of businesses or corporations.
- Powerful Alumni — Among our more than 255,000 alumni are Senator Elizabeth Warren; a former U.S. Secretary of Education; congressmen and legislators; the CEO of Neiman Marcus; astronauts, judges, educators, actors, artists and many more.
- Texas Legislature — Second most alumni in the Texas State Legislature.
- Cougars in the Limelight — Our long history of successful alumni in the arts includes actors Dennis and Randy Quaid, Brent Spiner, Loretta Devine, Jim Parsons and Robert Wuhl; authors Alice Sebold and Padgett Powell; singer Larry Gatlin; artists Julian Schnabel, Michael Ray Charles, "The Art Guys" (Michael Galbreth and Jack Massing); broadcasters Jim Nantz, Tom Jarriel, Dominique Sachse; clothing designer Victor Costa; film producer Walter Coblenz; and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Adrees Latif.
- World-class Athletes — Cougar athletic stars include Olympic medalists Carl Lewis, Leroy Burrell, and diver Yulia Pakhalina; Heisman Trophy winner Andre Ware; NBA stars Clyde Drexler and Hakeem Olajuwon; golfers Fred Couples, Steve Elkington and Fuzzy Zoeller; and MLB pitchers Doug Drabek, Ryan Wagner and Woody Williams.
- Student Service — UH optometry students work about 920,000 hours in the community each year through internships and other course-related programs.
- Community Engaged — The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching classified UH with its highest designation for community-engaged institutions in the nation.
- Disaster Relief — Following Hurricane Katrina, UH admitted more than 1,600 Louisiana students, hosted Loyola University's administration and law school, provided vision care for 2,800 evacuees in Houston shelters; and, following the Indian Ocean Tsunami, designed new shelters for survivors in Thailand.
- Summer Camps — UH offers more than 200 programs for children each summer, ranging from science and engineering to theater.
- Design/Build Studio — Each year, the College of Architecture Studio builds, from concept to completion, a new facility for local nonprofits such as schools and Little League teams.
- Public Art — First state university in Texas to establish a Percent for the Art program (1966) — dedicating 1 percent of the budget for each new building for public art. The main campus has more than 260 pieces of public art on display.
- Public Television —Launched KUHT (HoustonPBS), the world's first educational television station, in 1953
- One of the nation's most environmentally responsible colleges (The Princeton Review, 2010)
- The Arts — The Moores School of Music, the School of Theatre, the Blaffer Art Museum and the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts hosts more than 175,000 visitors to campus arts events annually.


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The remains of one of them, an elasmosaurid, was found at the base of the Bookcliffs earlier this year.
"It's definitely the largest" of the three or four finds of similar creatures in the Grand Valley, said John Foster, curator of paleontology for Dinosaur Journey.
The discovery of the elasmosaurid expands the knowledge of the creatures that populated the seas of the late Cretaceous period.
It appears to be a bit younger than the remains of a xicanthinus that lay for millions of years in the muds that became the Mancos Shale below the Bookcliffs until it was unearthed bit by bit by a family and then by Museum of Western Colorado researchers.
Elasmosaurids were marine reptiles with short tails, long necks and paddles that propelled them along.
The vertebrae found near the Bookcliffs suggest a creature stretching to about 40 feet from teeth to tail, Foster said. The bones now in the possession of the museum appear to be from the back end of the creature, he said.
The museum holds the fossils under a permit from the Bureau of Land Management.
The vertebrae were weathered and much of the bone matrix had been eroded away, but Foster said he hopes to return to the site later this year to determine if more of the creature can be found.
Not only would that shed light on the sea creatures of the Cretaceous period, but also on the shadowy background of elasmosaurids themselves.
"Elasmosaurids are pretty rare," Foster said.
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FLEECA is a credit card company featured in Grand Theft Auto IV, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars and Grand Theft Auto V. It is the counterpart of the real world VISA credit card.
In Grand Theft Auto IV
Russian customers who pre-ordered GTA IV received a Niko Bellic FLEECA card with his name, serial no., length of validity and date of commission.[1] FLEECA has three radio ads which includes its slogan "FLEECA, it's time to start paying". In TW@ internet cafes and in many other stores in the city, FLEECA credit cards are accepted.
In Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
Though there are no ads in the radio stations in GTA Chinatown Wars, FLEECA ads can be seen throughout the city, with the same image as in GTA IV.
In Grand Theft Auto V
In some of the GTA V trailers, you can see the FLEECA logo on the jewelry store's door during the robbery scene.
- Dave Grossman offers his FLEECA card to Johnny Klebitz for a job during his Random Encounter.
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- In Grand Theft Auto V, the logo remains un-changed from GTA IV.
- The name of the credit card could be a reference to the Mitsubishi Freeca, a 5-door minivan which is only sold for the Asian market (except Japan).
- FLEECA comes from "fleecer", which means a person that cons or tricks people out of money.
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Baker is the vice-president of the Shirland School Board. According to the student's mother, Vicki Deberry, her six-year-old son was teasing Baker while the vice-president was playing catch with his son.
Deberry says Baker became upset and whipped the football at her son. Baker's attorney says his client is innocent.
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Normally the neighborhood around Trailmark Loop, located near Airport and Powers, is pretty quiet. The kids play outside often and the neighbors get along fairly well.
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gadu wrote:I can attest that my MN file got around 1800 RP before the errata so I don't believe the line that they sucked before and needed an errata. The real reason they gave out the buffs might be because nobody was playing MN even after the release of Noob Slash Master Gregory and they wanted to push the tribe.
Is that really the reason why gerg got his slash like that?
Wtf, what dummy are they. An single EX isn't enough to make a tribe popular. I have Gerg and its like so what to me and I continue to play MN without gerg.
I suspect its because every single lvl 3 rush gets wrecked by falkow.
What alteil team fails to realize is that fierte is cool, gerg isnt cool.


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Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo 500 Years of State Oppression
Recorded: Tuesday, May 3, 2005
Alvaro Vargas Llosa, author of "Liberty for Latin America:
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Into the Earth: A visit to the 9/11 Memorial
NEW YORK -- I'm peeved. We've hit yet another checkpoint in our attempt to view the current state of the World Trade Center 9/11 Memorial.
It's a freezing afternoon beneath a New York City sky the color of dirty Styrofoam. Overhead, the two-thirds-built Freedom Tower soars like a massive obsidian spearhead aimed at the heavens, soaring toward its symbolic height of 1,776 feet.
We're being asked a third time to produce ID, to again serve up our paper tickets for review and digital recording. And now, a burly security guard the size of a defensive lineman, has cornered my son's small backpack after its journey through an X-ray machine.
"What's that?" he barks, pointing to a pocket.
"Oh," says my son. "It's a souvenir."
He'd preserved a white ceramic beer bottle with a dragon logo as a trophy from a meal at a too-expensive restaurant.
"Throw it in the trash," the guard commands.
Son dutifully throws souvenir in trash.
We finally make it through the labyrinthine security protocol and join a torrent of people streaming into and out of the site. "What's the point of all that?" I complain to the wife about the bottle.
My tourist crankiness dissipates, though, as I think through the security gantlet.
I suppose the bottle, in the guard's eyes, could have been thrown into the 9/11 Memorial fountains we're approaching, making a mess of them. (In fact, some Brooklyn junior high students were ejected from the site in June 2012 for throwing baseballs, soda bottles and other trash into the fountains.)
More important, I suppose some addled al-Qaida or Western Civilization-hating sympathizer might consider it a supreme act of suicidal glory to add an exclamation point to the 9/11 site, blowing himself and a few dozen tourists to smithereens.
Then, I encounter the fountains. And all the words die in the mouth.
Into the Earth
I think it's safe to say we owe the current fashion in tragedy memorial sculpture to Maya Lin and her silence-inducing, tear-wrenching Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Thousands of names punched into stone. Stark-sided, angular geometrics descending into the Earth. Simple lines grasped simply, yet etched upon the eye.
Yet the sheer scale of the 9/11 Memorial fountains and reflecting pools dwarf that D.C. memorial, let alone the human scale of the visitors who come to the heart of New York City to see them. (The pictures I snapped may not do the fountains justice, so check out the short iPhone video atop this story at wvgazette.com/Life.)
It was a powerful design decision to choose such massive fountains and pools, sited upon the footprints of the now-gone north and south towers of the World Trade Center. The two fountains, aptly titled "Reflecting Absence," make up the nation's largest manmade waterfalls.
Michael Arad's fountain design, tweaked and revised in consultation with landscape architecture firm Peter Walker and Partners, was picked from among more than 5,000 submissions from 63 nations. (The 13-member jury that chose the design included Lin.)
The pools are surrounded by a bronze parapet featuring the names of the nearly 3,000 victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the six people killed in a Feb. 26, 1993, attack on the World Trade Center.
The waterfalls pour 26,000 gallons a minute down 30-foot-deep black granite walls into a pool. The water then gathers at the lip of a central square, pouring over and down into a further blackness, deeper into the earth. The water -- nearly a half-million gallons -- is then recirculated back through the fountains via powerful pumps.
You cannot see down into the black pit at the center of the memorial where the water drops a second time, which is both a bit frustrating and darkly poetic. Where did they go, the buildings and the many people in them that used to stand here?
'Meaningful adjacencies'
Taking a cue from Lin's memorial, but with a far different organizational principle, the names of the victims for this memorial are etched into granite slabs that rim the fountains.
While the 58,261 names on the Vietnam Memorial are arranged by the chronological dates upon which people died, the names of the 9/11 victims are grouped differently. Michael Arad has been quoted as saying that the names are grouped in accord with "meaningful adjacencies."
This scheme "allows us to place the names of those who died that day next to each other in a meaningful way, marking the names of family and friends together, as they had lived and died," said Arad. So, groupings of names may reflect where victims were, their affiliations (the companies they worked for or groups attending a conference together) and their personal relationships.
At night, light not only illuminates the streaming fountains, but shines up through the voids created by each letter of a name, which must pack an additional punch.
Running one's hands over the names is ultimately numbing. So many people who went to work one day and didn't come home that night.
My wife finds the name of Huntington native Dr. Paul Ambrose, killed in American Airlines Flight 77, which terrorists commandeered and drove into the Pentagon.
I'm stopped in my tracks by the Italian name of someone I don't know, but whose name etched through granite is doubly resonant: Lauren Catuzzi Grandcolas and her unborn child.
How the world changed on that September day in 2001. The complexities reverberate to this day: the winding up and down of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and their countless deaths; the endless growth of a sprawling national security apparatus; the unresolved incarcerations at Guantanamo Bay, where a hunger strike currently grows by the day.
And it seems like tempting fate to throw up the Freedom Tower, which will rise taller than the World Trade Center towers themselves.
Yet these are political reflections that come days after our visit to the memorial. Sitting near one of the trees growing anew on the World Trade Center site, I remark to my 23-year-old son: "You don't need a devil. Human evil is devil enough in this world."
But those are mere words, pontification from a dad imagining what it would be like to have lost my spouse or child that day and aghast at the average folks who were indeed lost.
It's odd to admit, but I entered the memorial site not knowing what to expect. I'd read nothing about the fountains in advance. So, I spent 20 minutes with the north tower fountain and its names, thinking that this fountain was the whole memorial.
I wandered away.
Then, I heard other splashing sounds. I walked over and realized what they were.
Yes. The other tower.
And more names.
Want to go?
You need a pass to visit the 9/11 Memorial. The easiest way to get one is at 911memorial.org/visitor-passes. Reservations made online or by phone carry a $2 nonrefundable service fee. Same-day visits are also available on a first-come, first-served basis at the 9/11 Memorial Preview Site, 20 Vesey St., New York.
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The Power of Independent Thinking
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Full Video of The Independent Institutes 2011 25th Anniversary Gala for Liberty held November 15, 2011.
Part 1: Introductory Remarks and Tribute to Robert Higgs
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From fingerprinting to criminal sentencing, from lawyer licensing to judicial selection, and from eminent domain to wealth transfers via class-action lawsuits, how do perverse incentives impact the law and what reforms would create a more just and efficient legal system?
Experts: David D. Friedman, Alex Kozinski, Edward J. López, David J. TherouxType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Crime, Criminal Justice/ Prisons, Law Enforcement
Is U.S. Justice Broken?
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Many people have wondered how technological progress will affect political, economic, and civil freedoms. With the rise of encryption software, the National Security Agency's Echelon worldwide surveillance system, and the FBI's Carnivore e-mail snooping program, this subject is no longer the exclusive domain of speculative thinkers or futurists, it is the subject of intense public-policy debate. Will privacy-enhancing technology improve faster than privacy-threatening technology? Should the government mandate privacy standards? Should it enforce contracts in cyberspace, or would private law do a better job? Economist, physicist, and legal scholar David Friedman discussed these and related questions about technological change and the case for and against government involvement.
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- "Robb's at war and I'm going beyond the Wall. If something happens to us, you're the heir to Winterfell."
- ―Bran Stark when he sends Rickon away into hiding.
Rickon Stark is a recurring character in the first, second and third seasons. He is played by guest star Art Parkinson and debuts in the series premiere. Rickon is the youngest son of Eddard Stark and Catelyn Stark and lives with his family in Winterfell until the Fall of Winterfell. Rickon adopted the direwolf Shaggydog and they have forged a strong connection. He is now travelling to the Wall with his brother Bran, Hodor, the wildling Osha and Meera and Jojen Reed. He is six when the series begins.
Rickon is the fifth child and youngest son of Lady Catelyn and Lord Eddard Stark. Eddard is the head of House Stark and Lord Paramount of the North. The North is one of the constituent regions of the Seven Kingdoms and House Stark is one of the Great Houses of the realm. House Stark rule the region from their seat of Winterfell and Eddard also holds the title Lord of Winterfell. He is also the Warden of the North to King Robert Baratheon.[1]
Rickon was born and raised at Wintefell. He has two older brothers Robb and Bran and two older sisters Sansa and Arya. He also has an older bastard half-brother of Jon Snow. He is named for his grandfather, Rickard, who died eleven years before Rickon was born. He is six when the TV series begins.[2]
Season 1Rickon is six years old when the series begins, and has just started to learn responsibilities and duties such as carrying weapons for his brothers during practice. His brothers find a litter of direwolves in the wolfswood north of Winterfell. Rickon adopts one of the wolves and names it Shaggydog. He receives the visiting King Robert Baratheon with his family at Winterfell, standing close to his mother. His father accepts King Robert's offer to serve as the Hand of the King. Rickon's brother Bran is found severely injured at the base of a disused tower.[3] Eddard travels south to the capital King's Landing, taking Arya and Sansa with him. Catelyn initially remains with Bran. She protects him from an assassination attempt and then discovers evidence implicating House Lannister in his injuries. She follows Eddard south to warn him in secret. Rickon's oldest brother Robb is left in charge of Winterfell.[4]
King Robert dies following a hunting accident. His son Joffrey Baratheon claims the throne. Eddard challenges his legitimacy and is arrested for treason. Robb decides to ride against King Joffrey and wants to bid his younger brothers goodbye but Rickon is nowhere to be found. Afterwards Bran tries to reassure Rickon that Robb will return but Rickon is adamant that he'll never see Robb again.
Rickon sees his father in the crypts below Winterfell in a dream. He goes down to the crypts with Shaggydog to look for him. He meets his brother Bran who also had a dream about his father being there. When Bran emerges from the crypts Maester Luwin tells him that their father has been killed.[5]
Season 2
In the great hall of Winterfell, Prince Bran Stark holds court for his people. He remains the acting Lord of Winterfell and wears a gorget embossed with the direwolf of House Stark about his neck while the House Tully pin fastens his doublet. Meanwhile, Rickon sat beside his older brother, shelling nuts loudly with a rock. A shepherd reports being unable to tend to his flock with his three sons fighting in the south. He reassures Bran of the loyalty of his sons but says that there are growing numbers of wolves in the north and that he cannot protect his sheep from them alone. Bran offers to assign two orphans from Winterfell's outlying Winterstown to aid him if he will give them room and board. The shepherd gratefully accepts, saying that his wife always wanted more children. When the shepherd leaves Bran tells Rickon to stop. Having seen everyone Bran tells Maester Luwin that he is going to go for a ride before dark and calls for Hodor.[6]
Ser Rodrik Cassel enters the Great Hall calling for Bran. He reports that Torrhen's Square is under siege. Luwin is shocked, remarking that Torrhen's Square is just 14 leagues away and wonders how the Lannisters have reached so far north. The two brothers' Free Folk servant Osha listens intently as she lights candles at the back of the room. Ser Rodrik speculates that it could be a raiding party led by the Mountain or a group of sellswords. Bran says that they must help their bannermen. Rodrik nods agreement and says that even with most of their forces fighting for Robb he can gather 200 decent men. Luwin wonders if Rodrik needs to take so many and Bran cautions that they must protect their bannermen if they expect their bannermen to protect them. Rodrik smiles at the boy's wisdom and Bran orders him to leave as soon as he has his men. Rodrik confidently says that it will not take long because southerners do not do well in their territory.[6]
The attack is a feint orchestrated by Theon Greyjoy to lure away the garrison of Winterfell. He seizes the poorly defended castle and forces Bran to surrender to him by threatening the people. Rickon is distraught when Theon publicly executes Rodrik. Osha manages to free Bran and Rickon and leads them out of the castle.[7] They reach the shepherd's farm in the Winterstown. Rickon remembers that Bran sent Billy and Jack there and wants to approach them for food. Bran is cautious about putting them in danger if they are tracked. Bran's concern proves valid when Theon later reaches the farm but cannot find Bran or Rickon. He brutalizes the shepherd and then returns to Winterfell with the charred corpses of two boys, claiming that they are Bran and Rickon.[8] The escapees actually back tracked through the stream and are hiding in the crypts at Winterfell. The bodies were the orphans from the farm. Rickon is described as being aged six by Yara Greyjoy when she learns of the deaths.[9]
Season 3
Following the Fall of Winterfell, Rickon along with Bran, Osha, Hodor, and the direwolves Summer and Shaggydog travelled north towards Castle Black, the headquarters of the Night's Watch. During the journey, the group encountered Jojen Reed and his sister Meera Reed. The siblings were members of House Reed, a vassal of House Stark, and had been searching for Bran and Rickon so that they can protect them. His older brother Bran also experienced strange dreams of seeing the world through the eyes of his wolf Summer. Bran would later learn from Jogen that he was a Warg and had the ability to enter the minds of animals and control their actions.
Eventually, Rickon and his companions reached The Gift, a region south of the Wall which was considered to be beyond the borders of the Seven Kingdoms. The Gift had been gifted to the Night's Watch thousands of years ago by Brandon the Builder, from which the Watch draws support for its material needs. While the region was fertile, it was uninhabited due to frequent Wildling attacks which had forced the Smallfolk to migrate south over the centuries.
Rickon and his companions took shelter at an abandoned mill to escape a thunderstorm. Later, the group noticed a band of Wildlings chasing down a Northman. During the ensuing incident, Bran used his Warg powers to Warg through Summer and Shaggydog and fight off the Wildlings. This party of Wildlings included Rickon's half-brother Jon Snow, who earlier had been taken captive by the Free Folk. Using his Warg abilities, Bran helped Snow to escape from his captors and return to the Night's Watch.
Following the events of that night, Bran arranged for Osha to bring Rickon to the holdfast of Greatjon Umber, the Lord of Last Hearth and the head of House Umber. Lord Umber was a loyal ally of the Starks. Rickon was upset to be separated from his brother but cooperated with Bran and Osha. During their journey to Greatjon Umber, Rickon and Osha were accompanied by the former's direwolf Shaggydog. Meanwhile, his older Bran and the remaining members of the party continued on their journey to the Wall.
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|Winter is Coming
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|Cripples, Bastards and Broken Things
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|And Now His Watch is Ended
|Kissed by Fire
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In the books
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels Rickon is three years old when the narrative begins. As with several other younger characters he was aged-up by a few years in the TV series (stated to be six years old in Season 1). He is very young, but fierce and strong for his age. He and Robb are the only ones out of Ned Stark's six children who are not POV characters. While Robb is an important character, he isn't a POV for dramatic reasons (most of his actions are told through Catelyn's POV). Rickon, meanwhile, isn't a POV character due to his very young age. Much as in Seasons 1 and 2, Rickon usually appears in chapters narrated by Bran's POV. Another similarity is that as Rickon gets older he gradually gets a larger speaking roll, as seen in both book 2 and Season 2 compared to his small roll in book 1 and Season 1.
Rickon is deeply affected by the massive loses occurring in his young life, compounded by the fact that he is only three to six old (between the first and third novels) and thus has difficulty comprehending why these horrible things are even happening. Within a span of only two years, the Lannisters and their allies killed Rickon's father, burned down his home castle of Winterfell, and killed his mother and oldest brother. The loss of Maester Luwin was also a heavy blow to him. As a result Rickon becomes very angry and aggressive, which is reflected in the attitude of his direwolf Shaggydog. Rickon is so upset when his mother leaves home to travel with Robb's army to the south that he refuses to have his hair cut. As a result his hair becomes long and very unruly, signifying the mountain of anger and grief the young boy sits on due to the loss of his slain family members and followers.
See also
- ↑ HBO viewers guide, season 2 guide to houses, House Stark entry
- ↑ HBO viewers guide, season 2 guide to houses, House Stark - Rickon Stark entry
- ↑ "Winter is Coming"
- ↑ "The Kingsroad"
- ↑ "Fire and Blood"
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "The Ghost of Harrenhal"
- ↑ "The Old Gods and the New"
- ↑ "A Man Without Honor"
- ↑ "The Prince of Winterfell"
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|King in the North · Lord Paramount of the North · Lord of Winterfell
|Brandon the Builder · Brandon the Breaker · Dorren Stark · Rodrik Stark · Karlon Stark · Osric Stark · Torrhen Stark · Cregan Stark
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|Sansa Stark · Arya Stark · Benjen Stark
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|Rickard Stark · Brandon Stark · Lyanna Stark · Eddard Stark · King Robb Stark · Talisa Stark · Catelyn Stark · Jon Snow
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- March 2011: Light Gives Heat visits Solar Cookers International demonstration in Kisumu, Uganda - Light Gives Heat is a non-profit promoting grass-root economic sustainability and creative endeavors in Africa. Ugandan Director, Amberle Reyes and a staff member recently visited a demonstration of sustainable cooking methods sponsored by Solar Cookers International. It included traditional fixed and portable earthenware stoves, called upesi in Kiswahili, which more efficiently use charcoal or wood as fuel, CooKit solar panel cookers, and Heat-retention cooking baskets. They were most interested in solar cookers and fireless baskets. Locals were initially attracted to solar cooking not because of the possibility of saving money by buying less fuel, or the health benefits of indoor smoke reduction, but because solar cookers can bake cakes. Cake is seen as a "rich person food", and LGH saw an entrepreneurial opportunity: Cakes are sold for weddings and birthdays. Most people cannot make high quality cakes because of the irregular temperatures of charcoal and wood stoves, but solar cookers bake perfect, moist cakes with very little worry of burning or overcooking. At the end of March, SCI staff will bring CookIts and fireless baskets to Jinja and demonstrate first-hand their effectiveness to all their employees. Light Gives Heat has received an 8,000 USD grant to supply their Uganda Artisans with these solar cookers. More Information and photos...
- January 2011: African solar cooking partnership project visited by Dr. Jill Biden, wife of the U.S. Vice President. Lift Up Africa is a strong believer that partnering and sharing resources is a key to successful implementation and sustainability. This project was designed to introduce solar cooking and related technologies to ten communities in Kenya. The partnership relied on Africa HEART, a Kenyan-based NGO recently visited by Vice President Biden's wife Dr. Jill Biden, to identify three community groups in each district, the fifty trainees in each community, and training venues. Africa Heart covered expenses and handling logistics related to transport for the solar cooking equipment, distribution venues, and follow-up on usage and other needs. Solar Cookers International East Africa Office (SCI-EA) provided the trainers and supplies, written reports, and conducted the training. Lift Up Africa provided a grant to cover direct expenses related to equipment purchase and SCI-EA's travel, partnership connections, and worked with Africa Heart on follow-up and project evaluation. This project was a success and 150 families, approximately 1,200 people, have benefitted from their new training and solar cooking equipment. This project demonstrates the value of independent organizations working together, each providing their area of expertise, to achieve substantial results. Hopefully, this will be a continuing pattern for projects initiated by members of the Solar Cookers World Network.
- November 2010: (Emuhaya) Early this year, Solar Cookers International East Africa Office, using funds from Goldman Foundation, piloted the Safe Water project in Emuhaya District. This involved identifying vulnerable families and making them aware of the status of their water, by testing their water source, interpreting the results with them and then training them how to make it safe for drinking. One hundred households were selected by the community to be part of the pilot project. Safe water storage is becoming part of life for these pilot families, and a reduction in water borne diseases as well as more productive lives by the people of this community is expected. Another one hundred families are in the process of receiving their water treatment training.
- November 2010: (Nyanza) Since HABITAT invited Prof. Bob Metcalf to train its staff on point source water testing using the portable micro lab (PML), the community of Bondo have become a sensitive lot in regards to their drinking water. It is common for community members to ask for a testing kit so that they can be sure their water source is safe. Councellor Opondo Jabungu of Nyawita Ward, has been selling piped water to the community – all believing that it was safe – alas! Recently he decided to test it and to their dismay, there were 17 ecoli, counts in a 1 mil petrifilm, too dangerous to drink. He decided to call for a meeting of the users in his home and educate them to treat the water. The participants, even though they were using piped water, found their children were often sick, having diarrhea and vomiting - a clear case of unsafe water. This is a great breakthrough, it is a case of adoption and a call for indicated that behavior change. As an elected leader, this councillor is leading from the front, enlightening his people and urging them to treat their water, using water guard, and solar pasteurization.
- November 2010: Leonida Bodo, an energy entrepreneur, in Kawino location of Kadibo division says, "The message is getting home! We have been on our toes, talking, discussing and even singing about the dangers of smoke and in – door air pollution and offering alternative ways and technologies that reduce or eliminate indoor air pollution! We are offering a basket of choices to the communities: solar cookers, fireless cookers, gas, rocket stoves, upesi stoves with eve spaces, KCJs and now we even have an ethanol stove – moto poa!" "Beyond these we also offer for sale the d.light, a solar lamp that charges during the day and is replacing kerosene lamps for use at night while also charging cell phones" She says that awareness is very high in the area. During the last season, many parted with grains in exchange for an improved stove and eve space. This was a worthy sacrifice. Through behavior change and technology adoption, these villages are tackling global warming issues while reaping health benefits. USEPA in partnership with Solar Cookers International East Africa Office and Practical Action, are targeting 3,000 households by the end of 2010.
- July 2010: Awareness is rising amongst the residents of Machakos District, in the Eastern Province of Kenya. that one can cook using direct solar energy. In July, during the annual agricultural fair, the Mayor of Machakos witnessed the sun cooking and tasted the food, he exclaimed; "Wonders will never cease - you mean to tell us that all these foods were cooked out here in the sun without any fire or smoke!?" "Definitely Sir." replied Stella, the Solar Cookers International project Officer of the province. The guest of Honor was the Assistant Minister for Agriculture, Hon. Mututho, who on seeing the cooked food said "This would be very brilliant for the IDPs in Naivasha who are causing havoc on the environment."
- October 2009: Kenya: Entrepreneurs Cashing in on Green Campaign - Business Daily (Nairobi)
- October 2009: A training of trainers took place in Musoma, Tanzania for the Global Resource Alliance. Thirty Tanzanians graduated as solar cooking trainers. The training was provided by Solar Cookers International and Solar Cooking Kenya. Participants learned to prepare and cook a wide variety of foods, pasteurize water and how to build and use their own solar cookers and fireless cookers.
- Spring 2009: Hamomi Children's Centre Starts Cooking Solar - Lift Up Africa
- February 2009: The photo on the right shows a community group in the Siaya District of western Kenya that just had a demonstration by the Solar Cookers International East Africa Office. The demo was given in a local market place with local authority figures present and these wonderful "guardians" of nearly 350 orphans. More information...
- 2008: Moto uko wapi? "Where is the fire?" This is the question asked by people experiencing solar cooking and solar cooked foods for the very first time. Dieter Aneca, from Belgium, and Calvin Chikawe assisted by two local women are causing a stir solar cooking in Morogoro, Tanzania. Deiter writes; "In 2007 I finished my studies in Belgium in the environmental sector. Before coming to Tazmania, I came in contact with Sol Suffit, who have solar cooking projects in Senegal. They gave me two cookers to use in Tazmania, to test solar cooking myself. Following up with Sol Suffit, we decided to start a project here and named it Sola Sufuria. In this project we plan to make solar cookers available in and outside of the Morogoro region. Solar Cookers International (EA) has assisted us in sourcing for reflective aluminum foil papers and plastic cooking bags as well as leading us to a supplier for the correct glue. We are grateful to SCI (EA) and will continue to work with them as we plan for a permanent production center to meet the growing demand.
- Fall 2006: The Kenyan government is gradually warming up to the potential of solar energy in complementing conventional energy sources. In a two day fair at the KICC, the government called together solar thermal and solar photovoltaic promoters as well as government officers from the districts to discuss the possibilities. SCI (EA) gave a short presentation emphasizing that solar energy does not only heat water and give light but that it also cooks! Outside the conference center, a big solar cooking exhibition stole the show. Seeing water boil and foods cook and tasting a solar-baked cake was a dramatic confirmation! The Minister for energy himself was on hand to cut the solar Valentine cake and try his hand at cooking naturally! Three more solar energy fairs were planned for Central, Coast and Nyanza provinces later in the year.
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We have solar CooKits going for 1,200 per complete set and fireless cookers going for between 600 - 1,000/=.
Our current price list is:
- Panel type called the CooKit, This one is most popular and it is the one we can deliver as parcel to destinations within Kenya and northern Tanzania. This one costs 1,200/= Kenya shillings and it comes with a black pot and lid already painted. Anyone buying more than 10 we give them at a discounted cost of 1000/= about (13-15$).
- Water Pasteurization indicator (WAPI) = 150/= each.
- The parabolic type - ( currently out of stock) but will have by end of August goes for 18,000/- (240$)each. It comes with a pot and lid already paited.
- The box or oven type goes for 6,000/= and it comes with two pots and two lids. (80$)
- Fireless cookers, different sizes ranging from 600/= - 1,500/= each.
- We also undertake to demonstrate how the cooker works, even train on how to make and also train trainers at a fee that is negotiated. With each type we have a manual with a several recipes.
SCI also distributes solar cookers out of Musoma, Tanzania through TanzSolar and Global Resource Alliance (GRA).
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I've made this a few times now and have modified it just a little to kick up the flavors a bit. Try using (canned) fire roasted diced tomatoes and smoked mozzarella. For a non-vegetarian version, add chorizo. Definitely a crowd pleaser!
Skillet Gnocchi with Chard & White Beans
From EatingWell: January/February 2009
In this one-skillet supper, we toss dark leafy greens, diced tomatoes and white beans with gnocchi and top it all with gooey mozzarella. Serve with a mixed green salad with vinaigrette.
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O-M-G. I adore this recipe. It did not take too long to make, with all of the chopping & prep - maybe 25 minutes. I found rainbow swiss chard at my local grocery store and coarsely chopped that. I might try a different brand of shelf-stable gnocchi next time as the one I used (and I can't remember the name of it) tasted a tad floury. I also might try adding artichoke hearts - but that's just a personal preference. It's only 11 AM but I'm contemplating getting out the leftovers for lunch.
This recipe is wonderful! It was a warm and filling meal the whole family enjoyed. I used the spinach instead of swiss chard and would recommend adding the cheese onto each plate instead of the pot. It doesn't use as much this way and clean up was easier. You can also use wheat pasta in a pinch instead of gnocchi.
I liked the ingredients, and frying the gnocchi was inspired, but on the whole I thought it was a little bland. I'd make it again, but might include a couple of ounces of pancetta and maybe a pinch of crushed red pepper, or maybe even a splash of vinegar. Or all of the above. I used the spinach as some others did, but I think a stronger green like the chard would be better.
As someone who enjoys flavorful and healthy recipes enough to host my own healthy cooking blog, I give this recipe 2 big thumbs up! Made 6 servings for us and the leftovers reheated like a champ for filling lunches. I would suggest using regular diced tomatoes and adding your own seasoning, but in a pinch the seasoned diced tomatoes work too...


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SANTA ANA – The City Council took no action in a closed session Thursday that came two days after a vote to dismiss the city manager.
The City Council, on a 6-1 vote, decided in a closed session Tuesday to direct city staff to work toward the release of Paul Walters from his contract.
With similar language in Walters' contract, the city charter calls for a minimum two-thirds of the council, or five votes, supporting a resolution to dismiss the city manager. The vote must take place at least 30 days before a dismissal becomes effective. Under the charter, Walters has the right to reply in writing and any member of the City Council may request a public hearing, which would be held within 20 to 30 days.
The vote on the resolution has not taken place in public session, City Attorney Sonia R. Carvalho said in explaining Tuesday's vote, so the 30-day time period hasn't come into play.
"Paul remains our city manager until he's not our city manager," she said. "We will strictly comply with all the rules and procedures which are required by his contract and by the charter."
Thursday's meeting was called to deal with the dismissal and release of the city manager, as well as appointment of an interim.
Walters' contract allows for him to return to the position of police chief, a civil service position. In place since August as interim police chief is Carlos Rojas, who is also deputy chief for field operations.
If he chooses not to return, he gets severance pay of one year's base salary – $265,000 – or three years and eight months of military service added to his retirement benefits. He gets to decide which.
Either way, he gets an estimated $100,000 in unused leave. If he were to be fired for cause – for facing criminal charges or not following the council's directives – he gets nothing.
Wendell Phillips, an attorney for Walters, said the city manager was leaning toward requesting a public hearing.
"Whether he'll go back to chief, that's all to be decided," he said earlier Thursday. "That's certainly the elephant in the middle of the room."
Phillips said the council majority is trying to prevent that. And if it wanted him out as chief, Phillips said, "There'd have to be a for-cause determination. I don't think anyone suggested a hint of a cause for why they're removing him as city manager. What would be the allegation against him as chief?"
He contends that removing the city manager is a way for the council majority "to show the mayor who's in charge."
A four-member bloc on the council that placed Tuesday's dismissal action on the agenda contend city staff has deferred to Mayor Miguel Pulido, who dissented Tuesday, when the council is made up of seven officials. Council members have also expressed regret about not having concluded a national search after Pulido lobbied for Walters' appointment as city manager.
"I'm incredulous with the fact that someone with city 42 years experience and who has served the city with distinction is going out in a body bag – and to make a point with the mayor?" Phillips said. "Is this really necessary, this lack of respect, is it really necessary?"
Before Thursday's closed session began, several members of the Santa Ana Coalition for Responsible Development urged the council to include the community's perspective in the selection of a new city manager. The organization advocated on behalf of the Sunshine Ordinance, which the council adopted last year, aimed at making city government more transparent.
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Calvin Barreras said Sunday that Command Sgt. Maj. Martin R. Barreras was instrumental in orchestrating Lynch's rescue, but he was humble about his part in it. "It was something he took part in, and it wasn't anything he wanted recognition for," Calvin Barreras said.
The Department of Defense confirmed this week that Barreras died Tuesday in San Antonio Military Medical Center. Officials say the 49-year-old was injured earlier this month when his unit was attacked in Herat Province, Afghanistan.
Based on an email from an unidentified friend and fellow Ranger, Fox News on Friday reported that Barreras served in the Army battalion that conducted the rescue. According to the friend, Barreras handed Lynch to another soldier to take her to a waiting helicopter, Fox reported.
The U.S. Department of Defense has not commented on the matter.
Barreras was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 5th Infantry, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division in Fort Bliss, Texas. A funeral service will be held May 24 in Tucson.


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Stylish Sapeur: A Return to Elegance
[ Photos taken by Hector Mediavilla]
I was ecstatic to find these wonderful photos of elegantly dressed older Congolese men. Their style of dress is called Sape from the french slang" dressing with class". This is just too great not to share. I have imported an article from ZoneZero below. Make sure and CLICK HERE to see an amazing photo essay about sapeurs done by Hector Mediavilla, shown below.
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The arrival of the French to the Congo, at the beginning of the 20th Century, brought along the myth of Parisian elegance among theCongolese youth working for the colonialists. Many considered the white man to be superior because of their technology, sophistication and elegance. In 1922, G.A. Matsoua was the first–ever Congolese to return from Paris fully clad as an authentic French gentleman, which caused great uproar and much admiration amongst his fellow countrymen. He was the first Grand Sapeur.Respected and admired in their communities, today's sapeurs see themselves as artists. Their refined manners and impeccable style in their attire bring a little glamour to their humble surroundings. Each one has his own repertoire of gestures that distinguishes him from the others. They are also after their own great dream: to travel to Paris and to return to Bacongo as lords of elegance.
What is Sape and who are the sapeurs?
Sape is French slang for "dressing with class". The French often use the expression "il est bien sape" to talk about a sharp dressed man. The term "sapeur" is a new African word that refers to someone that is dressed with great elegance.However, the Congolese sapeurs are not only concerned about elegance, but also with good manners, politeness and morality. Generally, they only dress up on weekends and special occasions. Designer brands of suits and accessories are a big deal to Sapeurs. Complete attire can cost up to 1500 euros, although ironically, many of them don have a job. To get the whole outfit that can get them the sought-after prestige can take several years. Most of them start up with suits borrowed from established sapeurs that initiate them in the secrets of the Sape.The Congolese Sape, except for very rare exceptions, is a man thing, which sometimes is inherited whereas most of the times is acquired by choice.


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Strawberries, brown sugar, and balsamic vinegar are one of the dessert world's perfect combinations. Each element echoes the others and the sweet-sour-savory dynamic is irresistible. Your balsamic vinegar should be decent, but not artisanal, quality.
In a large frying pan, combine the vinegar and sugar over medium heat, bring to a simmer, and cook, stirring, until syrupy, about 1 minute or so once it's come to a simmer. Watch out for the vinegar fumes, which can be startlingly potent! Add the berries and simmer, stirring gently, until they start to collapse and the juices are running but the berries have not turned to mush, 6 to 8 minutes.
Remove the pan from the heat and gently stir in the vanilla and salt. Taste and adjust the seasoning. You want a balance that is fruity and sweet, with just an intriguing edge of vinegar. Chill until cold.
Have ready six parfait glasses or wineglasses.
Set aside about 1/2 cup of the sauce. Scrape the remaining sauce into a food processor and pulse until the berries are crushed. (I like to leave some texture to the berries, but you can pulse until smooth, too.)
In a large bowl, using a handheld electric mixer, beat together the cream, goat cheese, sugar, and salt on medium-low speed until smooth, about 1 minute. Increase the speed to high and beat until firm peaks form when the beaters are lifted (don't forget to stop the mixer before lifting), about 2 minutes. Add the reserved sauce and the processed sauce and, using a rubber spatula, fold just until blended. (The mixture can be covered and refrigerated for up to 1 day before continuing.)
Spoon about 3-1/2 Tbs. of the cream mixture into each glass. Top with about 3 Tbs. of the cookie crumbs. Spread about 3-1/2 Tbs. of the cream mixture over the cookie crumbs in each glass. Top with the remaining crumbs and then with the remaining cream mixture.
Serve immediately or cover and refrigerate up to 3 hours (the cookie crumbs will soften a bit). Top with the strawberry halves just before serving.
The sauce can be refrigerated in an airtight container for up to 5 days or frozen for up to 2 months.
The sauce can be folded together with the goat cheese-cream mixture 1 day ahead, and refrigerated, covered.
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Joseph J. Zilber, Bus Ad '39, Law '41
You name it, he built it.
In a career spanning nearly 70 years and nearly every U.S. state, Joseph Zilber constructed, developed, owned or operated everything from single-family homes to towering office buildings, sprawling resorts and entire subdivisions. But the project he may be remembered for most is one he did for love, not money.
In May 2008, Joe, founder and chairman of Zilber Ltd., his family-owned real estate and investment company, announced that the Zilber Family Foundation was donating $50 million to revitalize deteriorating neighborhoods in his beloved hometown of Milwaukee.
"By God, Milwaukee needs this," he said at the time.
Joe died March 19 in Milwaukee at the age of 92.
Joe's massive rebuilding effort, encompassing bricks and mortar as well as the social fabric of the city, employed a strategy he used his entire career: Lead by example. His $50 million gift was intended to spur a wave of philanthropy, ultimately creating a $200 to $300 million investment pool.
"Our hope for a brighter future for Milwaukee starts right here, right now," he said when announcing his initiative at Milwaukee's City Hall. "Let's roll up our sleeves and get to work."
Joe's own sleeves had been rolled up since 1941. Back then, fresh out of Marquette Law School and eager to work, he strolled into the finest law firm in Milwaukee — and walked out without a job.
So he went to work in real estate instead, closing deals for $5 apiece. Four years later, he started his own business. He likes to tell the story of the first house he built, a modest home on Milwaukee's north side. It sold for $5,950, netting Zilber a loss of $100. From this inauspicious beginning, he drew a lesson.
"It taught me that I cannot build one house," he later told a reporter. "I'd have to build hundreds of houses, thousands of houses, to make anything out of the real estate business."
Within a few years, he'd done just that. GIs were returning from World War II, and they needed places to live. Through his new company, Towne Realty, Zilber built and sold them houses. He purchased office buildings in downtown Milwaukee and eventually owned 10 percent of the real estate in the city's center. People tiring of Wisconsin weather sought warmer climates, so Joe opened branch offices and built homes in Arizona, Hawaii, California, Texas and Florida.
The sleeves-rolled-up attitude paid off handsomely for Joe, whose modest real estate business grew into an empire generating hundreds of millions in annual revenue. So he decided it was time to give back, in part through the Zilber Neighborhood Initiative.
In the words of Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett: "Joe Zilber climbed the ladder of opportunity. And when he got to the top, he never forgot about those who did not climb it."
Joe also never forgot his alma mater. In 2007, he gave $30 million to Marquette Law School: $25 million in law school scholarships and $5 million to fund a forum in the new building, which is scheduled to open in 2010.
"Marquette provided me with a strong sense of community, a belief in the value of collaboration and cooperative efforts," he says. "My commitment to rebuilding Milwaukee's most challenged neighborhoods is deeply rooted in the knowledge and values that were a critical part of my Marquette education."
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Tour the walk-through gardens and browse the nursery selling 170 different ornamental grasses, trees and shrubs.
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