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There is no other university in America that offers over 114 undergraduate degrees, over 57 graduate degrees, a beautiful and centralized campus in one of the top ten safest cities in the heart of America, class sizes averaging 20 to 25 students, and costs less than $23,200 a year for everything: tuition, housing, food, insurance, books and miscellaneous items. Moreover, on-campus housing is highly ranked in satisfaction surveys, and a well-equipped cafeteria and two Starbucks coffee shops are very popular. U.S. News and World Reports Best Colleges 2012 & 2013 lists UCO to be one of the Tier One Institutions among the Regional Universities in the West Region and, most importantly, international students love the community friendliness they find and the extraordinary care and attention they receive from distinguished faculty and staff, including the top ranked professor in America!
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We visited the polls today in Morgantown and Honey Brook to see what issues voters were the motivating force behind who they were voting for.
�For me healthcare is a big issue. Being able to go to a healthcare provider (of your choice) is important. Also, I am not happy with the idea of having my yearly mammogram taken away. My (second amendment) rights also mean a lot to me as well.�
Cindy Miller, Morgantown
�We need to have someone who honors the Constitution and our heritage.�
Donald Edwards, Morgantown
�I was disappointed that (Obama and Romney) did not discuss environmental issues, which I care about a lot. Also, I feel that Romney does not understand women�s issues. Instead of voting for (Obama or Romney) I voted for Gary Johnson.�
Laura Eadline, Morgantown
�We are just here to do our civic duty.�
Two anonymous senior citizen voters, Morgantown
�Women�s rights are the main issue I am concerned about. I do not like Mitt Romney saying that women do not have the right to have an abortion. I also do not agree with his stance on gay marriage.�
Jamie Carroll, Honey Brook
�We have always voted. For us it is important to just come out and vote.�
Harry and Barbara Mullen, Honey Brook
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|5 Dragons named to baseball All-Conference
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Five Holyoke Dragon baseball players who earned All-Conference honors for the 2013 season are pictured from left, Jaydin Goldenstein, Jesus Hermosillo, Trevor Dalton, Brett Cumming and Deyten Klein.
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Holyoke High School led the pack in the Lower Platte Activities Association All-Conference list for the 2013 baseball season.
Five HHS players, more than any other school in the league, were honored as All-Conference players.
Seniors Jaydin Goldenstein, Jesus Hermosillo, Brett Cumming and Deyten Klein and junior Trevor Dalton were all named as All-Conference picks.
Others on the All-Conference list include Andy Mack and Garett Basler of Akron; Brady Heinz and Kyle Pierce of Haxtun; Connor Fiscus of Merino; Chase Dunker and Tyler Woodhams of Sedgwick County; Jaden Valko, Jonas Cure and Matt Hernandez of Wray; and Jaden Koenig, Brody Bueltell and Edgar Peña of Yuma.
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Tallahassee, FL - The Boost Mobile store on Lake Bradford Rd. was robbed at about 11:20 am on Thursday morning.
The clerk says a masked man with a silver revolver held her up at gunpoint. She says she was on the phone when he walked in and the woman she was speaking to on the phone heard her screaming and called 911.
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Now you can help bring an Asian-focused television show to life! Iconic Asians with Dina Yuen showcases influential Asians using "a format that combines the best of Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations and The Oprah Show." The show will feature celebrities, musicians, chefs, politicians, activists, athletes and many more.
"Iconic Asians with Dina Yuen shows Asians (particularly children and young adults) around the world that there are ways to become what they dream of."
Dina Yuen shared a few words with us to let us know why this project is one that the entire Asian community should care about.
Tell us a bit more about yourself and what you do.
After studying Industrial Engineering and Operations Management in college, I founded my first company, Dragon Music International, at the age of 20. With DMI I spent several years as singer/songwriter working with various producers and other artists in the Anglo and Latin music industry. Finding myself at a crossroads in my mid 20's trying to figure out what I really wanted to do with my life, I returned to my Southeast Asian roots.
During my extensive travels through Asia, I grew heavily involved in rescuing children in prostitution, working with orphanages and senior citizens in India, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia and China. The profound impact of witnessing the best and worst of Asia inspired me to create my next endeavor– multimedia company AsianFusion.
Through AsianFusion, I get to wear a multitude of hats: CEO, author (Indonesian Cooking, Iconic Asian Americans, The Shanghai Legacy), food writer, travel & product reviewer, marketing strategist, journalist (interviewing Asian celebrities around the world) and product creator– all with the underlying goal of celebrating Asian cultures and people.
These days I'm focused on finishing my next three books, developing my television show Iconic Asians with Dina Yuen and creating several product lines.
What gave you the idea to create a show focused on Iconic Asians?
Growing up in San Francisco, despite the fact that there were a lot of Asians, I was still bullied for being Asian. Through my teen years, I felt there was something wrong with the way I looked because I wasn't the typical blond, blue-eyed American girl. Later in my 20's, after experiencing the two extremes of Asia– the rich cultures, compassionate people and amazing food, versus the children forced into prostitution, people living in slums and corruption, I wanted to create a platform that celebrates the beautiful aspects of Asian culture. I never had Asian role models growing up, only to find out later that there are "Iconic Asians" around the world doing positive, amazing things on a local and global scale. Iconic Asians with Dina Yuen gives Asians both in America and around the world what they've never had before– one show where awesome Asians are highlighted, celebrated and lauded for their achievements.
What makes this show different?
Iconic Asians with Dina Yuen is unique not only because it's the first show of its kind to focus on interviewing Asian leaders and celebrities of all industries, but also because of a format that combines Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations (the fun lighthearted food scenes) with The Oprah Show (a more in-depth look into each Iconic Asians' personal life).
Why is it so important that we showcase Asians in mainstream Hollywood?
Asians have long been an integral part of America's foundation– structurally, culturally and financially. While mainstream Hollywood still has issues with giving fair representation to the African American and Hispanic American communities, at least our brothers and sisters in those communities have made significant progress. Both have major networks of their own (BET, Univision) in addition to major roles in television and film. Asians however, have made little progress in mainstream Hollywood, still for the most part, relegated to roles that involve cleaning (maids), prostitution, martial arts or heavily-accented stereotypical FOB roles. Given the enormous contributions Asians have made to America and the world, it is high time that Hollywood embraces an Asian-focused show not just because it's Asian but also because it's about amazing people that everyone can get inspired by.
How can we help?
My team's goal is to raise 50k to get Iconic Asians with Dina Yuen off the ground and find a permanent home on a major American network. Hollywood executives have expressed to me that they want me to prove there would be public support for a show like this. We hope that all of you out there will spread the word so that we end up with tens of thousands of people contributing $10, $25, $50 or $100 rather than just a few people contributing $1k (though of course all contributions are greatly appreciated). The power lies in all of you to prove to Hollywood that small gestures from the many voices mean far more than their preconceived and outdated notions of what the public wants to see on television.
For more information and to help contribute to Iconic Asians with Dina Yuen, click here.


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Student Services
Universities are not unlike chapters in a book. Forever evolving and hopefully never stagnant and droll. This analogy works for me when I think of Eastern Oregon University and the role that this community – "our community" – will play in your life. "YOU" are one of the authors in our exciting collegiate story!
The 2015-2016 academic year at Eastern Oregon University is in fact historic as we are in the midst of substantial evolution and change. We have moved from being a part of the Oregon University System to an autonomous self governing public university with an incredible Board of Trustees who are singularly dedicated to our collective success. Politically this is incredibly important as we will no longer be lost in the political morass surrounding Eugene, Corvallis or Portland. Instead we are now accountable to you – our students and to our Board of Trustee's who are passionate about Eastern Oregon University.
This website introduces you to the Division of Student Services which provides you an exciting range of opportunities, support and engagement. The Division is comprehensive in scope and intentionally so in order to meet the needs of each and every EOU student. We do not operate from a "template" as do so many State Universities. Rather, expect the personalized focus that you deserve. No two students are alike and understandably so.
We are Oregon's only rural university dedicated to student access and opportunity. Having the privilege to be located in the scenic Blue Mountains means that we are blessed with one of the most unique and beautiful university environments. Having the deer roam our campus grounds is not the rare occurrence but just another day at EOU! One word keeps coming up when people see this campus…"stunning!"
As you explore the range of Student Services ask yourself what will you contribute to "our" collective story at Eastern Oregon University? I assure you it is going to be a great read!
Welcome to your place in the Blue Mountains at Eastern Oregon University.
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Want to run something by those who are seasoned Zimbra administrators...
I'm currently in the process of planning a migration from our current ZCS NE 6.0.x deployment (CentOS 5.6 x86_64) to a new server hosted in a new location of ours. One of the important factors for this project is to minimize downtime as much as possible, since our single-server deployment currently runs email + calendaring for the entire company (~1000 accounts). Additionally, we're totaling about 3.5TB of content (no quotas).
Because we have 3.5TB of email (etc), shutting down Zimbra and performing a massive rsync/scp to the new system isn't possible as we'd have too much downtime. There's a 100Mbps link between the two sites; would just take too long for our comfort. So, I've been investigating alternative migration practices.
One of the ideas I came up with was to install Zimbra on our new server and join it to our current system as a replica LDAP host and a new mailstore. Then, at my leisure, I could use 'zmmailboxmove' on each account over the course of a week or so, to move each account over to the new system. Our current server would of course have to be reconfigured to be a Web as well as IMAP/SMTP proxy, but from my experiments with Zimbra, this was a rather trivial process and really was only a matter of stopping/starting Zimbra along with a couple commands.
Once all mailboxes have been migrated to the new server, I would stop the old one that now has no remaining users, and promote the new system to become the LDAP master. I'd also adjust DNS at this time such that the new server's IP is officially our mail system and no longer a hidden Zimbra server node behind the old server's proxy services.
What do you think of this migration procedure? Bad idea and you foresee many difficulties on the road ahead? Or have folks used this method time and time again with success?
Or... do you have any other methods of migrating 3.5TB ZCS instances with the least downtime possible? Perhaps doing a backup/restore onto the new server and during our scheduled maintenance window, replaying redo logs?
Any tips and war stories would be most helpful.
Thanks folks.
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LONDON (WXIA) -- A glowing circular object in the shape of a logo from the Halo video game franchise was flown in the night skies over London Monday as part of a promotion for the release of the newest game.
The 50-foot-wide logo from Halo 4 was flown beneath a helicopter over the city's landmarks. Microsoft says the glyph was one of the largest and brightest objects to be flown over a capital city.
As the display was flown over the center of London, actors dressed in costumes from the video game - including the well-known Master Chief character, stood along the banks of the Thames, watching intently.


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Last year, $92 million in gambling proceeds that could have gone into the state treasury to serve any number of useful purposes in West Virginia went elsewhere, instead — into the pockets of......
Gambling is a VICE...what that means is that it is morally wrong.
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Soi you're admitting that the greyhounds are on the up and up, but horses are a problem. Hypocrite! You've attacked greyhounds for years, but this is what you do. You make a mess and worry about someone else cleaning up your blathering mess.
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Perhaps nothing in the legislative history of our state, has exceeded this DECEIT! Honest Representatives like Senators, Kessler & Fitzsimmons remain our only hope to stop it!
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That's almost as bad as providing tax payer funded baseball stadiums in PA for millionaires. After the taxpayers voted that they didn't want to, the "leaders" went to "PLAN B" and did it any way.
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|Rep. Sonnenberg announces bid for Colorado Senate seat
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
"With the war on rural Colorado escalating, it is important that we have a strong, experienced voice in Denver," commented Rep. Jerry Sonnenberg (R-Sterling).
Recognizing the need for ag representation in the Colorado legislature, Sonnenberg has announced his bid to be the next Senator from District 1, which includes over 21,000 square miles in 11 counties on the eastern plains of Colorado.
"The two largest industries that drive our economy in this state are oil and gas, followed by agriculture. Both are rooted in rural areas of the state, and our urban cousins need to know how their actions can hurt our way of life," Sonnenberg added.
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Named for Joan Manuel Serrat's 1967 song, "Penélope," Penélope Cruz Sanchez was born on April 27, 1974, in Madrid, Spain. The firstborn child of salesman Eduardo Sanchez and his hairdresser wife, Encarna, young Penélope demonstrated a flair for drama at an early age and often recruited her younger siblings, Monica and Eduardo, Jr., to perform in family skits. Starting from the age of six, Cruz studied classical ballet at Spain's National Conservatory under the intense tutelage of prominent dance instructors. In her mid-teens, however, Cruz got bitten by the acting bug and decided to pursue a career as an actress.
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Testimony :: Dr. Haris Silajdzic
Former Prime Minister and Head of the Party for Bosnia-Herzegovina -
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Testimony of Dr Haris Silajdzic
Former Prime Minister and Head of the Party for Bosnia-Herzegovina
"Bosnia's Future Under the Dayton Agreement"
June 13, 2000
Thank you, Mr Chairman, members of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen. It is a privilege for me to appear
once again before you today, to address the most important issue facing my country today: the implementation of
the Dayton Agreement. Before I begin, I should like to pay tribute to the enormous contribution of the United
States both during and since the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Nothing that I shall say here is intended to
minimize that contribution, nor the role of the international community as a whole. Some of your soldiers and
officials have lost their lives in so doing, and we shall not forget that. We believe that it commits us to working to
achieve our common aim - a democratic, modern, European state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Before responding to the fundamental question of whether the Dayton Agreement, as it has been implemented, has
encouraged the restoration of a multi-ethnic Bosnian state - which is clearly the central purpose of the Agreement
- it is necessary to consider in brief its structure and interpretation. I shall argue that its structure contains both
integrative and disintegrative elements, and that this has allowed for conflicting interpretations. Nationalist parties
and their sponsors in neighbouring states have been able to emphasize the disintegrative elements, while the
international community has been unduly tolerant towards such interpretations and has given too little support to
indigenous forces that favour the restoration of a multi-ethnic Bosnian state. This is the fundamental reason for its
unsatisfactory implementation to date.
These assertions are supported by data relating to the specific issues raised: returns (especially minority returns),
election outcomes, institutional development and economic reform. I indicate both negative and positive
aspects of these issues.
I comment on the performance of the international community, both military and civilian, and of local politicians
and officials at all levels of government in Bosnia and Herzegovina; and conclude with a personal view of the
continuing threats to the restoration of Bosnia's multi-ethnic society.
Before considering these issues, I should like to point out that Bosnia and Herzegovina is still paying the price for
the international politics that determined the fate of former Yugoslavia, and above all of Bosnia itself, in the early
1990s and during the 1992-1995 war. Although it has now been recognized by the International War Crimes
Tribunal in The Hague that this was a war of aggression against a sovereign state (as was also implicitly recognized
by various UN Security Council resolutions during the war itself), much international policy appears still to be
dictated by the notion that this was a civil war, in which all sides were equally guilty. This has served to equate the
victims (primarily the Bosniaks, victims of genocide, together with other pro-Bosnians whatever their ethnicity)
with the aggressors (primarily Milosevic's Serbia, and secondarily Tudjman's Croatia).
A second obstacle to an effective resolution of Bosnia's problems is the continuing tendency by the international
community to treat symptoms rather than causes. This means, in essence, that the situation brought about by war
is permitted to endure, since the factors, and the actors, that gave rise to the war in the first place are still present,
for the most part. As a result, too much of the international effort on our behalf has been less effective than it could
and should have been. In the analysis that follows, many specific factors of this kind will be considered.
Necessary compromises were made at the time of signature of the Dayton Agreement to bring an end to the war
(but note the admission, in his book To End a War, by chief architect of the Dayton Agreement Richard
Holbrooke, that his greatest mistake was the recognition of Republika Srpska [RS]).
The Agreement includes both integrative and disintegrative elements, and is not internally consistent. Examples of
disintegrative elements include not only the recognition of an Entity, RS, that was created by aggression and
genocide, but also the many constitutional provisions that allow for ethnically-based governance at all levels from
the Presidency down. Examples of integrative elements include the centrally important Annex 7 on returns, and
clause III.5.a of the Annex 4 Constitution which provides for the formation of additional state institutions as
required to fulfil the provisions of the Annexes or 'as are necessary to preserve the sovereignty, territorial integrity,
political independence, and international personality of Bosnia and Herzegovina'.
Nor is the Dayton Agreement consistent in all respects with the provisions of the international conventions that
form an integral part of it, nor indeed with the general principles of international law which the Annex 4
Constitution states 'shall be an integral part of the law of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Entities' (Art. III.3.b).
To give just one example, the 1965 International Covenant on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination is an integral part of the Constitution, yet the Constitution's own provisions establish racially
discriminatory government structures, including for example the impossibility of anyone other than a Serb from
Republika Srpska, or a Bosniak or a Croat from the Federation, becoming a member of the joint Presidency -
thereby wholly excluding Bosnia's Jews, Roma, and persons of mixed background or those who do not wish to
declare themselves as belonging to a particular 'constituent people', all of whom are constitutionally classed as
Its official title indicates the nature of the Dayton Agreement - it is a General Framework Agreement (GFAP). Its
eleven Annexes, which include the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Annex 4) go some way to fleshing it
out, but are still far from a complete basis for its implementation. It thus requires interpretation, and its
implementation requires it to be complemented and supplemented by an appropriate legislative framework.
Its interpretation should be informed by its underlying principles set out in the GFAP itself and in its Annexes, that
Bosnia and Herzegovina is a sovereign state 'that shall continue its legal existence under international law as a state
. . . with its present internationally recognized borders' (Annex 4 Constitution, Art. I.1.). The parties signatory
express in the preamble to the Constitution their commitment to 'the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and political
independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina in accordance with international law'.
Because of its inconsistencies, the Agreement allows great scope for differing and conflicting interpretations.
Nationalist parties seize on the disintegrative elements, using them to block the institutions of state, and ignore the
integrative. Non-nationalist, pro-Bosnian parties and individuals who try to use the integrative elements to create a
legislative and political framework appropriate to a sovereign state and to the implementation of the principles and
provisions of the GFAP and its Annexes are consistently prevented from doing so by the obstructive measures of
the nationalist parties, and receive too little support from the international community. This latter point is examined
in greater detail below.
As a result of these differing interpretations, and the lack of support for integrative interpretations, implementation
has been disastrously slow. The only Annex to the Dayton Agreement that has been almost wholly implemented is
Annex 1 on military matters. Implementation of the remaining Annexes is running, in percentage terms, in single
figures only.
Far from restoring a multi-ethnic Bosnian state, slow implementation has allowed the status quo
achieved by aggression, ethnic cleansing and genocide to be maintained and consolidated. I shall show
below that, though party pluralism has advanced in some areas, the outcome of the latest local government
elections provides evidence of the absence of ethnic pluralism, which means the victory of ethnic cleansing.
The core provision of the Dayton Agreement, and the one that, more than any other, has the potential to restore
Bosnia's multi-ethnic society, is the right of refugees and displaced persons to return to their homes (Annex 7). If
this Annex were implemented it would go a very long way to reversing the effects of ethnic cleansing. The reality is
that only a very small percentage of refugees and displaced persons have so far returned to their pre-war homes.
Such returns as are taking place, which receive extensive media publicity, are chiefly of elderly people to rural
areas; the brain drain of young, skilled people from the cities is actually accelerating, and returns of people of any
age to the cities (which are the generators of Bosnia's multi-ethnicity) are at derisory levels, with the sole exception
of Sarajevo.
Obstacles to returns include:
· Security - there have been numerous attacks on would-be returnees and their property, while in many areas
those who have returned live in constant fear for their safety
· Discrimination - of Bosnia's three constituent peoples, as defined in the Constitution, only Serbs have constituent
status in Republika Srpska and only Bosniaks and Croats in the Federation, although this is clearly contrary to the
Constitution. As a result of the continuing failure to restore equal citizenship rights to all peoples throughout the
country, discrimination is entrenched and systematic in what amounts to apartheid, with accompanying and
extensive human rights violations.
· Property - despite the undertakings of Annex 7 on the right to their property, very large numbers of would-be
returnees are unable to regain possession of their property, even where they have a decision issued by a
competent body such as the Commission for Real Property Claims of Displaced Persons and Refugees. This is
largely due to the failure of the authorities, above all in Serb and Croat controlled towns and cities, to evict illegal
occupants of the properties from which refugees and displaced persons were forcibly expelled during the war
· Economic issues - the lack of job prospects acts as a disincentive to returns, particularly of younger people
Minority Returns
The first four years after signature of the Dayton Accord showed very slow progress on all returns, and in
particular so-called 'minority returns' - defined as returns to areas where a different ethnic group retains military
control and a population majority (see Annex A). Yet it is these returns that are most crucial for the restoration of
a multi-ethnic state. (It may be noted that would-be returnees are overwhelmingly 'minorities', in the sense that the
areas from which they were expelled, and where they were in many cases in a relative or absolute majority prior
to the war, are now almost wholly 'ethnically pure'). According to a recent report by the International Crisis
Group (30 May 2000), 'as of 31 August 1999, minority returns throughout Bosnia numbered a mere 100,714,
less than 5 per cent of all the refugees and displaced persons created by the war. As a result, by September
1999, approximately 1,189,150 people, including 836,500 internally displaced persons, were still without
permanent secure access to their pre-war homes four years after the cessation of hostilities' (figures from
UNHCR, of which the total of 1,189,150 appears very conservative, considerably underestimating the numbers
of refugees in third countries whose status remains unresolved). Of these 836,500 displaced persons, 58 per cent
were living in the Federation (Bosniak-Croat majority areas) and 42 per cent in Republika Srpska (Serb majority
areas) (31 May 1999 figures).
The ICG report notes that 'in the first four months of 2000, the number of minority refugees returning to their
pre-war homes without targeted assistance from the international community has increased nearly four-fold over
1999 levels, to 12,579' (which still represents barely more than 1 per cent of the total number of refugees and
displaced persons as of September 1999). 'Many of these returns are occurring in the previously impenetrable
hard-core Serb nationalist heartland of eastern Republika Srpska. In addition to Bosniaks, both Serbs and Croats
are also returning to their pre-war homes, challenging assumptions about the political appeal of pro-partition
policies and ethnic separatism.'
The ICG report also notes, however, that 'the international community needs to improve its capability to support
these long-awaited returns through reconstruction assistance and security, while the Bosnian government must
focus on self-sustainability. Lack of donor support for reconstruction and other infrastructure projects
would compel many returnees to de-mine and de-booby-trap their own homes, and reconstruct their
homes and schools, roads, water, sewage and electrical systems from their own limited or non-existent
funds. Although the security situation is improving gradually, continued attacks on minority returnees have
underlined SFOR's uneven record in providing security for returnees. . . . Despite pledges of new money from the
Stability Pact, available donor aid may be sufficient to support reconstruction in only 10 per cent of the
spontaneous returns to date, with heavier requirements looming this summer. Just when refugee returns are
beginning to increase, major donors, such as the European Union, lag far behind - in some cases years - in the
expenditure of pledged aid. To date, only the U.S. and a few smaller bilateral donors, such as The Netherlands,
have proven able to target aid rapidly and effectively at needed areas. As a result, some refugees who returned to
their homes two years ago are still waiting for assistance to reconstruct their homes and provide electricity and
running water.' (emphases added).
In the light of the above, it is encouraging that the latest Declaration of the Peace Implementation Council, meeting
in Brussels on 23/24 May 2000, includes a commitment on the part of the Council to focus on three key strategic
areas, including:
· Accelerating return of displaced persons and refugees with a particular emphasis on enabling citizens to exercise
their property rights.
Election outcomes
The recent local government elections have seen, once again, the victory of nationalist parties in both
Serb-majority and Croat-majority areas, albeit with a reduced number of votes for nationalist parties in
Croat-majority areas, as a result of low turn-out. In Bosniak-majority areas, voting patterns showed a marked
swing away from the (Bosniak) Party for Democratic Action, especially in many urban areas.
That elections have served to consolidate, rather than to reverse, the effects of ethnic cleansing is
most easily demonstrated in the case of Republika Srpska. The number of Bosniaks in the electorate
in the latest municipal elections was 50% less than in the previous elections. The result is that in not a
single municipality in Republika Srpska does the majority party have any Bosniak participation, although prior to
these elections this was the case in eleven municipalities in RS.
As a result of a sharp fall in the number of out-of-country votes (mainly Bosniak), the percentage of Bosniaks
voting in RS has actually fallen since the first post-war elections. For example, in Zvornik, where before the war
the population of was 60% Bosniak, in the first elections Bosniaks formed 40% of the electorate, while in these
latest elections they formed only 23.5%. In Bratunac, where the pre-war population was 68% Bosniak, they
formed 44% of the electorate in the first elections, while in the latest elections they were only 30%. The position is
similar in all the municipalities of Republika Srpska and in many of those of the Federation.
In 1997 there were 268,374 out-of-country voters, while in 2000 only 115,125 out-of-country voters cast their
vote. This means that more than 150,000 out-of-country voters are missing, most of them Bosniaks, although it is
clear from the figures on returns of refugees and displaced persons that they have not returned to their pre-war
It remains unclear why the OSCE insists upon general elections being held this November when the outcome is
almost certain to repeat this pattern.
Institutional Development
In a post-war state where the population balance has been dramatically altered by ethnic cleansing and genocide,
the merits of decentralization as a means of empowering local communities need to be carefully weighed against
the risks of devolving power to the very forces that, thanks to a combination of divisive constitutional provisions
and elections conducted prior to the establishment of conditions 'for the organization of free and fair elections'
(Dayton Agreement, Annex 3, Art. I.1.), remain in power at lower governmental levels (Entity, Canton,
municipality) in many parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The central institutions established by the Dayton Agreement, and those that are necessary to fulfil the
constitutional responsibilities of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, remain weak and dysfunctional.
As a result necessary reforms, including appropriate legislation to create essential central institutions, continue to
be blocked. This is despite the fact that such reforms have repeatedly been called for by the international
community (eg. Peace Implementation Council Madrid Declaration, 1988; Peace Implementation Council
Brussels Declaration, 2000). In addition, my party and I personally, during my tenure as Co-Chair of the Council
of Ministers, have sought to introduce such legislation, but have been unable to see it through the Parliamentary
process because of obstruction by nationalist parties - the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) and the Croatian
Democratic Union (HDZ).
A list of 138 priority state-level laws that it is essential to pass to establish at least the fundamental legal
framework for the functioning of the institutions of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina was drawn up by me and
my associates three and a half years ago. The list was submitted both to the Parliamentary Assembly and to the
Office of the High Representative. This resulted in the submission of thirty-five legislative projects in the form of
proposed draft laws. Only a small number of those initiatives have been accepted, such as the laws on foreign
trade, foreign investment, customs policy, travel documents, the state borders and the border services. Annex B
gives a selection of the most important of these legislative proposals.
It is encouraging that the Peace Implementation Council agreed, at its latest meeting in Brussels in May 2000, that
one of the three key strategic areas on which it will focus in the future is:
· Fostering functional and democratically accountable common institutions supported by an effective, merit-based
civil service and a sound financial basis, based on the Rule of Law.
Economic Reform and the Issue of Corruption
Economic reform is an undoubted priority, and has also proceeded far too slowly. However, economic reform in
the absence of another priority, steps to reverse the results of ethnic cleansing, risks further perpetuating divisions
in society. Having said this, it is true that the conditions for self-sustaining, market-driven economic growth have
yet to be created, although they are essential if Bosnia is to make a successful transition from a donor-dependent
economy. This involves not only formal economic reform, but also a change in the culture, after fifty years of
communist rule followed by the war years which saw a complete economic collapse. Bosnia's people are being
asked to adapt to a market economy, which carries with it levels of personal economic insecurity unknown to
them under communist rule, at a time when many of them are already living at or below the poverty level.
Unemployment is still running at high levels, pensions are low and are paid late.
Privatization, an essential prerequisite of economic revival, is in practice being effected almost solely on an ethnic
basis, since it is taking place at the entity and not at the state level, and in ethnically cleansed areas is being carried
out in the absence of the expelled population. This is no accidental error, since certain representatives of the
international community (in this case the Office of the High Representative had a different opinion) rejected
state-level privatization, defending this stance with the argument that privatization had to be carried out rapidly.
Contesting this view, my part, the Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina, pressed for a full eighteen months for the
adoption of a law at the state level. Unfortunately the law, when finally adopted, was inadequate; privatization as
currently being carried out continues to represent yet another form of ethnic cleansing, in the field of ownership,
with wealth increasingly being concentrated in the hands of those who are politically (and therefore ethnically)
acceptable to the ruling party in each area. Insistence on speeding up the process of privatization, therefore,
merely further reinforces ethnic divisions, tending towards the disintegration of the state and the fragmentation of
the economic space.
When pressing for the state-level Law on Privatization, I also insisted on the formation of a Privatization
Monitoring Commission. The Commission's Secretariat has just (May 2000) issued its final report, in which it
recognizes many of the problems I have just referred to. The original concept 'was to transfer ownership quickly
from the state to claimsholders. However, what was ignored was the effect . . . of transferring state enterprises to
people without the financial and technical wherewithal to development. . . In addition, fundamental property
issues, such as clear ownership title and restitution, were overlooked. Finally, in an effort to appease local
politicians in the wake of Dayton, privatization was splintered/atomized among Entities, cantons, banks, the special
Brcko District'. The Secretariat's Final Report recognizes that 'in the case of BiH, political and economic goals
were essentially incompatible'. It adds: 'At its inception in 1995, privatization had been perceived not as a means
to create viable enterprises but as a way to satisfy citizens' claims. By emphasizing redemption of claims at the
expense of a dynamic, competitive economy, the BiH privatization program unwittingly reinforced all the elements
Dayton was supposed to remedy: "ethnic cleansing", corruption, stultified economic progress.'
The issue of corruption is a very real one. However, the fundamental problem is the lack of an adequate legislative
framework and appropriate enforcement mechanisms: corruption thrives because there are no means of
controlling it. I have persistently warned of the need for this in the context of legal reform.
Although reform of the customs system has begun, very large sums are still being lost to the economy through
customs fraud.
The lack of economic reform contributes to the absence of jobs; and the absence of employment prospects
contributes directly to the accelerating brain-drain of Bosnia's young and best-educated potential. This in turn will
have a negative impact on the future economic growth of the country, which lacks almost an entire generation of
skilled personnel as a result of the interruption to studies during the war and the post-war brain-drain.
International Presence
Without the international presence things would undoubtedly be worse than they are, in particular as regards the
military presence, which has successfully maintained the peace. However, as noted by the International Crisis
Group in its report of 30 May 2000, much more could have been done by IFOR/SFOR within its mandate to
ensure the return of refugees and displaced persons, and to arrest indicted war criminals.
The civilian international presence has been far less successful than the military. While paying lip service to the
integrative elements of the Dayton Accord, the international community has shown excessive tolerance towards
the obstructive tactics of nationalist parties and individuals at all levels, consistently following the line of least
resistance, and a disinclination to take advantage of powers conferred upon the High Representative to overcome
such obstruction by the imposition of laws, dismissal of individual functionaries, etc. Some functionaries have been
dismissed, but such dismissals have been too few and too late.
Initiatives by pro-Bosnian politicians and parties to introduce even a minimal legislative framework for the effective
functioning of a normal modern state receive too little support, and indeed are at times met with criticism. Calls by
the international community for Bosnian politicians to 'take responsibility' have rung hollow when those who
attempt to do so have too often been marginalized in this way.
When state-level laws are imposed by the High Representative, it is only after long delays, ostensibly to allow the
Bosnian authorities the chance to take responsibility, even when it is manifestly clear that nationalist obstruction
will continue to prevent their adoption by the Parliament without the intervention of the High Representative. It
was not until some years had passed from the time the initiatives were first launched that OHR imposed individual
laws such as the Framework Law on Privatization and regulations to prohibit the abuse of state property in the
entities, and some of these regulations were imposed too late for the damage already caused to be reversed. In
this connection the Final Report of the Secretariat of the Privatization Monitoring Commission notes that 'although
lack of political will on the part of BiH politicians at the state, Entity, cantonal and municipal levels, and their
cronies in line ministries or enterprises, has contributed to the failure [of the privatization process], the International
Community also bears responsibility, through sponsorship of a privatization program neither well thought through
nor well executed'.
The election process, overseen by the OSCE, has been conducted from the very outset in such a way
as to consolidate rather than reverse war gains, and in the absence of the conditions for 'free and fair
elections, in particular a politically neutral environment', that the OSCE was required to certify as
existing before effective elections could be held (Annex 3 Art. I.1 and 2.).
The Peace Implementation Council has issued some excellent Declarations, but in practice has done very little to
ensure their implementation, since obstruction does not lead to sanctions. The past four and a half years of civilian
implementation have been characterized above all by the line of least resistance. It is to be hoped that more
resolve will be shown in implementing the commitments set out in the most recent Declaration (Brussels, 23/24
May 2000).
Performance of local politicians
As noted above, nationalist politicians continue to obstruct effective governance at all levels, and are too often
able to appeal to the disintegrative elements of the Dayton Accord in justification. It could be said cynically that
they are highly effective in achieving their aims, which are in fact contrary to the spirit and fundamental provisions
of the Dayton Accord.
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Road Tour 1940 Ford Interior - Internal AffairsWritten by on February 19, 2013 The Road Tour '40 gets a complete interior
We have reported on the many exterior modifications made to the Road Tour 1940 Ford. The outer appearance is very important—it's what people look at the most. Except one guy—Jerry Dixey, fearless leader of the AMSOIL/STREET RODDER Road Tour, has spent hundreds, if not thousands, of hours inside this car. So the interior, in addition to being as good looking as the exterior, had to be comfortable, functional, and equipped with a few amenities. We owed it to Dixey.
Elegance Auto Interiors in Upland, California, has finished the inside of several cars built by Hollywood Hot Rods (HHR). In many cases, this involves reviving a worn-out interior. In this case, Mark Lopez and his crew created a brand-new custom interior for a brand-new street rod.
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The floor, wheelwells, transmission tunnel hump, inner doors, and all interior panels were finished with Dynamat to reduce outside heat, noise, and vibration.An 1/8-inch sheet of lauan plywood provides a foundation for the headliner. Multiple overlapping pieces of thin flexible chipboard were glued in place to blend the inner roof with the curved portions of the top. The shingled boards were smoothed with a pneumatic sander.The plywood and board were covered with a sheet of closed-cell foam, 1/4-inch thick. The foam was carefully pressed into place to provide a tight, smooth surface and trimmed to fit.Upholstery decking fabric was trimmed to create a pattern for the Ultraleather material that was used for the headliner and the rest of the upholstery.The Ultraleather headliner was installed and trimmed. Here Mark Lopez used an upholstery tack tool to work the edge of the headliner material into the doorframe.Custom sunvisors were constructed at Elegance. The top-to-bottom dimension was kept short due to the chopped top. Note the copper-colored French stitch in the headliner.A great way to make your final wiring installation look good and to protect the wiring is by using the Painless PowerBraid harness kit that comes with planty of 1/8-, 1/4-, 1/2-, and 1-inch braid. Also supplied are shrink tubing, cable ties, electrical tape, and stretch and seal tape.Hollywood Hot Rods was in charge of installing the Painless 18-circuit fuse center and then branching off wiring, which in any hot rod is a serious project but then throw in the requirements of a computer-controlled engine with EFI, an electronic, trans, A/C, and on and on, and you can see there will be lots of wiring.
Vintage Air supplied the Gen II Compac heat/cold/defrost system all operated by the Vintage Air control panel that's simple and compact enough to be placed just about anywhere you want.During the mock-up stage the refrigerant hoses are cut, fitted, and ready to be removed and crimped prior to final installation.The variable servo heater control valve is in the foreground, and the receiver/dryer is off to the left in the background. Also visible is the four-way bulkhead fitting mounted in the firewall.The Vintage Air Gen II Compac heat/cool/defrost system is first test-fit underneath the '40 dash. From here the staff at HHR made the required brackets and fit it all neatly and out of the way.The controller is convenient, but covert behind the glovebox door. A pair of tweeters was hidden behind the grille in the center of the dash.The steering wheel and tilt column came from Flaming River (the Twisted Machine paddle shifters had not been added yet). The instrument cluster is Dakota Digital's VHX System for '40 Fords.After creating a chipboard template, Lopez cut a door panel from 1/8-inch lauan and marked out an upholstery design in pencil.The pattern was transferred to black Ultraleather with copper French stitching and piping to match the paint. The lower portion of the door was finished with black carpeting to protect it from the wear and tear of Dixey's tennis shoes.
The imported German loop carpet is good looking but tough. Pedals, emergency brake, and floor shifter are all Lokar products.Once the rear panel was carpeted, Art of Sound mounted the rear speakers (designed for such applications). The tuner/amp unit was located on the floor. Wooden platforms were made to keep the amps safe and out of sight.The pattern used on the door panels is repeated on the seat bottom and back. French stitching with exposed stitches (sewn on a double-needle machine) is a classy alternative to tuck 'n' roll.This Wise Guys seat is equipped with sliders along the mounting brackets and two 12V ports at the front of the lower seat.Before the finished bench was mounted in the car, Lopez gave it a seat-of-the-pants test to make sure the driver would be situated correctly.


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|New Byers Peak Trail
Date Climbed: Aug 31, 2013
|My original plan was to hike Greenhorn Mountain south of Pueblo, but I decided to stay closer to Denver. I started around 7AM, reached the summit around 9:30, got back down around 11:30. I didn't see anyone on the way up, until I got near the summit and a trail runner passed me. There were more hikers on the way down. The weather was sunny and beautiful, but with the breeze, we're starting to move into the cooler months. I wanted to go over to Bottle directly from Byers, but I could not find the trail in the trees, and besides, the clouds were already starting to build up. There will be another time.
|Posted Aug 31, 2013 4:58 pm
|Route: Trail from Frasier Experimental Forest
Date Climbed: Aug 26, 2012
|Great time. Not many people, just a couple of mountain goats. The tundra was starting to change for autumn. Beautiful hike.
|Posted May 12, 2013 9:43 pm
|Bills and Byers
Date Climbed: Oct 20, 2012
|Took the Kinney Creek trail to St Louis Divide trail, up Bills, then out and back to Byers and another out and back to PT 12686 A. A windy day, seemed the wind was always in my face no matter which direction I was going, but luckily the temps were good. Great views in this area of the Gore and IPW!
|Posted Oct 20, 2012 8:49 pm
|Byers and Bills
Date Climbed: Aug 12, 2012
|Wife, pup and I on a nice loop of the area from Byers Peak Trailhead.
|Posted Aug 13, 2012 7:59 am
|East Ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 31, 2011
|Beautiful hike, views, and weather! I love this peak-it is a great reconditioner for my post-partum regime! A family of mountain goats greeted us at the summit!
|Posted Sep 1, 2011 7:22 am
|Summit Surprise
Date Climbed: Aug 16, 2011
|We were the only ones on the mountain as we approached the summit. I was 1st to the summit by 45 minutes. As I approached a mountain goat was standing guard at the summit stick. Very cool experience.
|Posted Aug 21, 2011 6:27 pm
|Brian Kalet
|With 9810, Ninemile Mountain & Genesee Mountain.
Date Climbed: Oct 9, 2010
|Posted Oct 11, 2010 1:25 pm
|A fun climb
Date Climbed: Aug 15, 1995
|I really liked this climb. Short and steep with some fun scrambling on the summit ridge. The weather was excellent and the view was fantastic!
|Posted May 12, 2009 10:23 pm
|Had the mountain to myself
Date Climbed: May 25, 2008
|Besides the two guys at the trailhead I had the mountain to myself. There was a lot of snow up there yet and I'm pretty sure that was the biggest cornice I've personally been around. Impressive. I'll have to upload a pic.
|Posted Jun 2, 2008 3:14 am
|Multiple routes and approaches
Date Climbed: Oct 7, 1989
|Great mountain I used to live near and climb all the time, the first when I was 7. Nice little afternoon trip. Perfect view from the summit. Usually never saw anyone up in there on our traverses of the Vasquez during the weekdays. Favorite place in Colorado, by far.
|Posted Aug 9, 2007 10:45 pm
|Great climb from the Winter Park area
Date Climbed: Jul 18, 1996
|We spotted a couple of mountain goats and barely made it back to the car with enough light to see our feet. A wonderful after work climb!
|Posted Feb 13, 2007 3:54 am
|Followed church group up
Date Climbed: Sep 6, 1997
|Loop with Ptarmigan and Bottle
|Posted May 10, 2006 9:39 pm
|Route Climbed: Standard from trailhead Date Climbed: July 15, 1990
|Lots of false summits but a great hike. Excellent views from the top.
|Posted Aug 14, 2005 9:59 pm
|Route Climbed: Nw Route Date Climbed: July 30th, 2005
|I found this to be a great hike with a wonderful view of RMNP. The directions to the trailhead as posted on this site are misleading. Follow the sins in the forest, and you should be fine. The trailhead now starts about 1 mile down the road from the actual trailhead (you must follow a closed portion of the road up about a mile and 500 vertical feet). Storms rolled in around 1:30 PM.
|Posted Aug 1, 2005 5:17 pm
|Route Climbed: Old Byers Peak Trail Date Climbed: June 1999
|One of the first few mountains I summited...and very dear to my heart since I looked at it practically every day when I lived in my first mountain environment, the Fraser Valley.
|Posted Jul 28, 2005 6:38 pm
|Route Climbed: Byers Peak Trail Date Climbed: July 24th 2004
|Great hike. Short but steep.
|Posted Aug 23, 2004 4:19 pm
|Route Climbed: normal
|Carried by mom at 13 months old.
|Posted Mar 16, 2004 6:38 pm
|Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: June 1, 2002
|Camped at timeberline and hiked to the suumit by 7 am. A glorius early morning ascent. Snow was still prevalent on the peaks and I enjoed a magnificent view of the Gores to the west and the Indian Peaks to the east. Byers is a prominent summit with a mighty view. My dog Sopris was along for the summit ride on this mountain.
Jon Bradford
|Posted Nov 8, 2003 8:04 pm
|Byers Peak
Date Climbed: Aug 23, 2003
|My wife and 15 month old Kessler waited above timberline, just below the summit while I went to the top.
|Posted Aug 24, 2003 9:38 am
|Route Climbed: main trail Date Climbed: July 7, 2003
|Left trailhead at 5:35am going solo to peak. On top by 6:45am which surprised me. The trailhead sign warned of three "false summits." I never could figure out which humps were these alleged false summits because it was always obvious that there was more mountain to climb just over each hump. I was surprised to be on top so quickly. All my marathon training (even though at low elevation) paid off.
Great sunrise on the way up the trail. Only stayed 15 minutes due to windy conditions. Ran back down the trail. Back at the car by 7:35am. Great two-hour hike.
|Posted Jul 15, 2003 7:17 pm


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text: The Yellow Jackets got off to an early qualifying start for the 2008 indoor season as five athletes set qualifying marks for the NAIA Championships to be held in early March in Johnson City, TN. Aubrey Baxter (Redfield, SD) was a double event winner and posted automatic qualifying marks in both the shot put and weight throw with tosses of 49'3.75" and 62'3.75". Amber Brodersen (Wolsey, SD) also hit an automatic qualifier in the shot put with a 2nd place toss of 47'1". The men followed suite as Eric Flores (Custer, SD) and Tyg Long (Custer SD) captured first and second place finishes in both the shot put and weight throw. The two of them posted automatic qualifying marks in both events, earning themselves a trip to the National Meet in March. Eric finished the day with marks of 53'3" in the shot put and 60'7.25" in the weight throw. Tyg followed closely in both with a shot put mark of 52'4.75" and 58'3" in the weight throw. The final qualifier of the day was senior Lee Diede (Gillette, WY). Diede cleared a height of 15' for his first vault competition of his final season, which was good enough for a provisional qualifying mark. Overall the Yellow Jackets had top finishers in twelve of the thirty events held in competition. Other teams competing included Chadron State College, South Dakota School of Mines, and Montana State- Billings. The next competition for the Yellow Jackets will be on January 19th in Vermillion, SD, when the University of South Dakota hosts the Bill Hillenbrand Open.


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July 21, 2013
Party loyalty continues to rule in the U.S. Senate, to judge by the vote Thursday to confirm President Barack Obama's nomination of Gina McCarthy to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency....
Consider this, if you can. Human CO2 emmissions are not uniform. Most of it comes from industrial societies, so the air above Europe, Western Asia and North America should, and does, have higher levels than, say, Africa or the open ocean. Therefore, there should be a measureable effect due to that higher concentration, right?
Researchers have been looking for two decades. No results that fit the models.
BTW, have you seen the shots from an aerial survey of Greenland, done in the 30s? Those retreating glaciers that clearly "show" warming trends? The same coastlines were bare stone, with glaciers barely visible miles from the water.
Also from Greenland, archaeologists have found Viking farms on the south coast, in places where today the warm season is too short for crops. Must have been all those Dark Ages steelmills and powerplants causing warming then.
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Truthy Despite several decades being told we are destroying the planet (remember Ted Danson saying we had 10 years, twenty years ago?)there is no measureable effect on the climate that doesn't compare to other times. And don't give me that stuff about all-time records. The hottest years on record when you do direct data were in the 30s. More importantly, considering the planet is a few billion years old and human history goes back to the ice ages, we have a tiny fraction of a percent of that for recorded temperatures.
I get youngsters telling me how terrible the pollution is. Anyone else remember the Fifties? This is NOTHING!
Playing with other people's lives is Rockefeller's hobby. He has his, he doesn't give a bleep about anyone else. He's helping "THE MASSES", whether they want to be helped or not.
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Ever think that they may be more concerned with the well-being of the planet than their own pocketbooks and votes? Please see my posts under the "news" article "Murray brings John Boehner to Wheeling" for some insight into what coal's doing to our fragile globe. You might find it a little more enlightening than the tripe these fools write every day in this rag.
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When I was about six or seven, my parents were tarring the basement walls to waterproof them in preparation for making a playspace for us. My mother accidentally kicked over the little burner they were using to keep the tar soft, and the whole wall went up in flames. (Don't ask me why they chose tar instead of some kind of water-barrier paint, or why they were handling such hazardous materials themselves; this was the 1970s.) Long story short, although I refused to believe taunting Tommy Lewis when he sing-songed that the fire engines were at my house and my house was on fire, he turned out to be right.
Everything was fine. But shortly after that, our parents sat us down and asked us to think very carefully about what we would grab to take out of the house with us if we were ever caught inside during a fire. The rule was that we could only pick ONE thing. We had to decide what it was, and tell what it was, and promise that if there were ever a fire, we would grab that ONE thing, and then get out of the house as fast as possible.
In retrospect, I think this is quite a brilliant idea of my parents'. The panic of trying to save everything has no doubt trapped some people in burning buildings before.
And so, every time I move to a new place, I find myself thinking about what exactly I would save, where that thing is, and how I would get it out. Normally this train of thought occurs to me just as I'm trying to fall asleep but can't, and I lie awake planning escape routes that include the shortest distance between all the things I MUST save. At one time or another in my life, the things I would rescue have included the box of letters from my English boyfriend, the disks/laptop containing my dissertation, or the photo albums of my childhood.
Now that I have kids, it's a no-brainer, of course, that my first priority would be getting them out. After them (I'm assuming Husband is able to get himself out), the next priority is Dog. And since she weighs 80 pounds, this is no small feat. Trust me when I say that I have already figured out the complex harness made of bed sheets that I would rig up to winch her out the second-story window, were that necessary. (Yes, again, I am always in bed while planning these things, and hence hatching nighttime escape routes as well.)
BUT assuming that I was home alone, or all the humans and pets were already safe, there's always lingering in the back of my mind: what STUFF would I save? I need to know the answer to this because it was impressed upon me as such a serious question for such a long time. Here's what I'd grab:
* My great-grandmother's filigree ring. It's a lovely piece that has been worn by four generations of women in my family (including me), and that I will someday give to Daughter. Though I have seen similar ones in many an antique shop, I would be crushed to lose it due to the memories it holds. I wear it whenever I'm facing a particularly difficult task, as a sort of good luck talisman, and I always wear it on the first day of school each term, as a personal charm for a good semester. (Note to potential thieves: it's not worth a lot of money, just has sentimental value, so don't bother.)
* The quilt Husband and I received for our wedding. MIQuilter (my middle sister, quilter extraordinnaire) had the brilliant idea to send everyone who had been invited to the wedding a pattern and directions for making a quilt square in the Wedding Ring pattern. Those who chose to participate made one square each and sent them to our mother, who assembled the whole quilt, added necessary interspersing pieces, and had it quilted. They surprised Husband and I with the quilt the night before our wedding. Everyone signed their square of the quilt, and every time I look at it, I think of the love that surrounded us on that day when we took our vows in a little room filled with all the people to whom we felt closest in the world.
* Boring alert: my laptop. I do my best to back things up, but I don't do it often enough. My research, book manuscript, photos, so many things are on that hard-drive. But since this is a lot of things to grab, and since many other things besides fire can destroy a laptop, I have to learn to be better at the whole backing up thing.
Now, here's the part in the post where I would normally just ask you what you would grab, curious as I am about the things people value most in their lives. But, freaky alert!, although I started writing this post last Friday, MommyPie posted this exact question on her blog Saturday morning. Exactly. She asked her Doogs what TWO things (she's more generous than my parents were) people would save when exiting their homes during a fire. She was curious. Apparently, MommyPie and I are currently sharing a brain. Because, seriously, I'd already written the whole "my parents tarred the basement..." bit by the time I'd read her post. But because she is an incredibly generous soul, she chose to believe me when I told her that. And she was classy enough to email me to say that she really wouldn't mind if I put up my post with the exact same question in it that she'd just asked her readers. And she even told me that she sort of believes in ESP. Which? SO. DO. I. This would prove that we have the same brain, if only she weren't so much funnier than I am.
So, anyway, here I am with my post that totally looks like a copycat post, even though I promise it isn't, wondering: if you have only ONE pass through the house to grab something(s) important before you bolt out the door, and your children and other loved ones are already safe outside. What would you fill your arms with? And why? And just to make this fun: let's assume that for reasons unexplainable, your laptop/hard drive is already safe because we all know that we're a computer-reliant lot. What else REALLY matters to you?
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
What I Think About Late at Night
When I was about six or seven, my parents were tarring the basement walls to waterproof them in preparation for making a playspace for us. My mother accidentally kicked over the little burner they were using to keep the tar soft, and the whole wall went up in flames. (Don't ask me why they chose tar instead of some kind of water-barrier paint, or why they were handling such hazardous materials themselves; this was the 1970s.) Long story short, although I refused to believe taunting Tommy Lewis when he sing-songed that the fire engines were at my house and my house was on fire, he turned out to be right.
21 comments:
- Lisa said...
The box of photos that I took before I had a digital camera, with the albums created from pre-digital pictures, because once they are gone; I could never get them replaced.
I don't own much else that couldn't be replaced if it needed to be.
I do own the grand piano that was my great-grandmother's wedding present, and I would be extremely sad to lose it. But it doesn't really apply to this fire question because it is not in my possession now, since it doesn't fit in our apartment. And even when I can fit it in our living space, there is no way I could walk out the door with it.
- July 16, 2008 at 8:30 AM
- The Roaming Southerner said...
I don't own alot of irreplaceable things and all of the priceless memories my mom keeps back ups: no seriously. She has a replica of my wedding album, college pics, baby blankets, quilts, etc: Still this would be my first instinct...
My computer-because I never back anything up, EVER...but that is why I have a blog so something remains if the house burns down (because I will totally need that picture of me in my 50's dress, right?)
My baby blanket-I still have it, would be really sad to see it gone
Oh, and a mosaic of pictures that my hubs made for our first Christmas together. Although, I think his mom has a copy...cause she thinks of things like that.
- July 16, 2008 at 8:50 AM
- Juli said...
Oh, good question. I'm going to think about it and I'll blog later!
- July 16, 2008 at 8:52 AM
- Marcy - The Glamorous Life! said...
By the time I was 23 all my grandparents had died-and I inherited a lot of amazing things I cherished. Then it happened. I left on a business trip and returned to a ransacked home. Everything was gone. Everything. (they even took my clothes)...so I have very little left of family value. But I deciced to be prepared for another disaster like a fire and I have a set of antique suitcases which are stacked next to a sofa outside my bedroom door (like an end table) and in those are the scrapbooks I made for my kids until age 3 (when I wised up and went digital with it), my back up DVDs (which reminds me it is time to do again)which are replaced every 6 months, and an odd assortment of memories including a little football jersey my son wore everyday he could when he was 2. I throw about 2 things a year in the suitcase like that. A letter. A ticket stub. Sometimes I take stuff out too- if it no longer holds the 'magic' for me. So incase of a fire...I can just grab the suitcases and go.
- July 16, 2008 at 9:33 AM
- Momo Fali said...
My wedding video (footage contains a lot of family members who have since passed) and as many pictures as I could grab!
- July 16, 2008 at 10:31 AM
- zoeyjane said...
I would my father's ashes. Cuz anything else, I could buy or remember, but him...I'd need him.
- July 16, 2008 at 11:18 AM
- lattemommy said...
I have to confess that I have never given this question much thought. Can I assume that I will grab my purse? Because I've had to replace all my personal identification before, and it's not fun.
Assuming that... I think I would grab my wedding photos. I have no other copy of them, and I'd never be able to replace them. (I'd love to say that I'd grab the beautiful professional portraits I had done of my children when they were babies, but, um.... I never quite got around to that. I suck.)
- July 16, 2008 at 11:55 AM
- LceeL said...
The TV remotes.
- July 16, 2008 at 11:57 AM
- Aimeepalooza said...
I would save my pictures and my box of kids school/art work that I've been saving since they first held crayon to paper.
- July 16, 2008 at 1:33 PM
- Amy said...
Wow, that is a great question and one I haven't really thought about before. But I would probably scoop up the photo albums from my childhood since my dad is gone, that's all I have left of him. And the afghan my great-grandmother knitted for me when I was born.
- July 16, 2008 at 10:58 PM
- Adcock Circus said...
Great Post! 1st time lurker..
It is simple for me, since neither of my parents are living I would take my pictures of them so that my boys would have it in the future.
- July 17, 2008 at 8:56 AM
- MIQuilter said...
I LOVE "marcy - the glamorous life"s solution - genius! Me? not nearly that organized. I'd grab my purse (it has my computer backup in it and everything else i need in "life") and then probably my photo albums - starting with the wedding album.
- July 17, 2008 at 10:38 AM
- All Adither said...
Laptop for sure.
- July 17, 2008 at 11:04 AM
- Asianmommy said...
Honestly, all I would want is my kids and my purse. Everything else is just stuff. I might need to go wake up my husband, though. He's a deep sleeper. :)
- July 17, 2008 at 3:07 PM
- JackeeG4glamorous said...
You know those collage type picture frames? Those were made with the intent that if your house were burning to the ground, and you could go back for one more thing, grab it too on your way out the door. Yeah, technically that would be two things, but your pictures all done up in a frame? FREE PASS as you exit!
So, go ahead and take your grandma's ring - and your photo collage with the kids baby pictures in it. There will be no consequences.
- July 17, 2008 at 4:47 PM
- MultiplesMommy said...
At the risk of sounding materialistic, I think I'd grab my jewelry box. It has all the jewelry my hubby every gave me, which are all things to mark really special occasions, as well as some things that were my mom's, my grandmother's, my great uncle's pocket watch and ear rings that belonged to Husband's grandmother. Lot of sentiment in that box, all of it irreplaceable. Haven't thought about this in years!
- July 17, 2008 at 8:41 PM
- mommypie said...
Seriously ... I'm convinced we TOTALLY had a brain-share day.
Assuming all the home movies were still on the laptop, I'd grab the embarrassingly HUGE Sears-Photoshopped-to-look-like-a-fancy-painting of my daughter the week she turned one. I'm the first to admit it's a little tacky. But I adore it. It hangs in my bedroom and I look at that sweet face on the wall each night before turning out the light.
Awesome post. Ya Copycat.
Heh heh. :)
- July 18, 2008 at 2:45 AM
- Auds at Barking Mad said...
Although it pains me to know that hundreds, possibly thousands of my books are burning - even my precious first edition LM Montgomery books, I would have to grab a little safe box we have which holds everything near and dear to us. It holds my nightly back-up of my computer (and the 25K plus photos on it), passports, birth certificates and every other single precious piece of paper or jewelry that means something to us. It also contains a few special momentos that my late father in law left for my hubby. So yeah, even though it claims to be fireproof to a certain degree, it's going.
I have to admit, I'm not sitting here thinking about how we're going to get our 70+ pound puppy out of the house and two cats...should the unthinkable happen.
As for the partridge in the pear tree. Well, I suppose I'll shed a tear, but he kinda creeps me out anyhow.
- July 18, 2008 at 11:23 AM
- lauren said...
since i live in a condo building with some often-drunk-fire-alarm-pulling-coeds, i've had to think about this. grab the baby and the external harddrive. it has all our banking backups, all our digital photos going back about 5 years, etc.
less importantly, but very practially... a blanket (cuz who knows how long you'll have to wait around) and the keys for the car so we can stay warm or cool and get to a friend's house for some support.
- July 18, 2008 at 12:00 PM
- MommyTime said...
Marcy, that is a completely brilliant suggestion, and I think I'll have to figure out how to do that too.
Photos, which so many of you mention, are a great choice that I'll have to think about how to manage (store my albums in my new antique suitcases?)
Roaming Southerner and Lauren, thanks for chiming in.
Adcock Circus! Big shout out to a new commenter. So nice to have you here. I look forward to getting to know you.
- July 19, 2008 at 1:16 AM
- Red Flashlight said...
Cell phone, ftw.
- July 19, 2008 at 10:55 PM


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For years I have been suffering in pain with a pair of Trek Criterium shorts, with only a 2 way chamois. I was hesitant to switch to a bib short and leery of the price. After seeing all the positive reviews I decided to give it a go. The chamois is absolutely perfect. Like the pamphlet says it form fits to your body as soon as you sit on the saddle. I've only taken them out of a few 20 mile rides thus far, which I would always notice perineum pain afterwards. Not with these shorts. The materials are high quality and while this garment requires extra special washing care, I suspect it will last a very long time if treated properly. My only real complaint is that I am on the shorter size of the Medium sized bib and as a result the legs are larger that my normal short size (small). As a result the leg grippers are looser than I'm used to. Aside from this the bibs fit perfect. 4.5 stars out of 5
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Long history riding and being skeptical of claims of best this or that and so called technological advancements in chamois, etc.
I've typically used Pearl, Capo, Hincapie, Giordana, and found that for minor differences only price made an impact. Pearl was the best in terms of value to comfort ratio. I decided to try Assos Mille and at first the difference was marginally better at start of ride. After 110 miles, the chamois remained comfortable whereas the others broke down under my weight at 3-4 hours in the saddle. This marginal improvement in comfort at the beginning was the critical difference at 4 hours into a 6+ hour ride gaining altitude all day long. The comfort remained consistent the entire ride. These shorts lived up to the hype.
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These are super comfortable for long hours in the saddle. I've owned 2 pair for 3+ years & they've held up well after many miles & many washes. The only bibs I might replace them with would be the new s7's.


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Following two weeks in increasing prices after a month of declines, diesel prices dipped 0.6 cents to $3.862 per gallon, according to the Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration.
Spurred by last week's 4.8 cent gain, diesel prices were up 5.8 cents over the previous two weeks. And during the four week span of declines, prices dropped 2.5 cents, 6.2 cents, 4 cents, and 1.2 cents per gallon, respectively. And before that month of declining prices, diesel saw a cumulative 9.9 cent gain over a three week period.
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