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Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been to. Their lavish presidential suite overlooks Monte Carlo, and they surrender: to the sun and pool, to the sashimi and sake, to the Bruno Paillard champagne. For four days they're free to live someone else's life. As the weekend moves into pulsating discos, high-stakes casinos, and beyond, Abbie is transported to the greatest pleasure and release she has ever known.
What happened last night?
In the morning's harsh light, Abbie awakens on a yacht, surrounded by police. Something awful has happened—something impossible, unthinkable. Abbie, Winnie, Serena, and Bryah are arrested and accused of the foulest crime imaginable. And now the vacation of a lifetime becomes the fight of a lifetime—for survival. GUILTY WIVES is the ultimate indulgence, the kind of nonstop joy-ride of excess, friendship, betrayal, and danger that only James Patterson can create.
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Prologue | JULY 2011
THEY TELL ME I will die here. This place I do not know, this dark, dank, rancid dungeon, where nobody wishes me well and most speak languages I don't understand—this is the place I will call home for the rest of my life. That's what they tell me. It's getting harder to disbelieve them.
There are people in here who want me dead, some for retribution but most to establish their own notoriety. It would be a sure path to celebrity to kill me or one of my friends, known collectively as the Monte Carlo Mistresses. That was the moniker that stuck in the international media. More imaginative than the earlier ones—the Gang of Four, the Bern Beauties, the Desperate Housewives. Less chilling, to me at least, than the one that ran on the front page of Le Monde the day after the verdict: Mamans Coupables.
Guilty Moms.
So I wait. For a miracle. For newly discovered evidence. A confession from the real killer. A sympathetic ear to my appeal. Or simply for the morning when I wake up and discover this was all a dream. The last three hundred and ninety-eight mornings, I've opened my eyes and prayed that I was back in Bern, or, better yet, back in Georgetown, preparing to teach American literature to hungover underclassmen.
And I watch. I turn every corner widely and slowly. I sleep sitting up. I try to avoid any routine that would make my movements predictable, that would make me vulnerable. If they're going to get to me in here, they're going to have to earn it.
It started out as a day like any other. I walked down the narrow corridor of G wing. When I approached the block letters on the door's glass window—INFIRMERIE—I stopped and made sure my toes lined up with the peeling red tape on the floor that served as a marker, a stop sign before entering.
"Bonjour," I said to the guard at the station on the other side of the hydraulic door, a woman named Cecile. No last names. None of the prison staff was allowed to reveal anything more to the prisoners than their first names, and those were probably fake, too. The point was anonymity outside these walls: because of it, the inmates, once released, wouldn't be able to hunt down the prison guards who hadn't treated them so nicely.
"Hi, Abbie." Always responding to me in her best English, which wasn't bad. Better than my French. After a loud, echoing buzz, the door released with a hiss.
The prison infirmary was the length and width of an American gymnasium, but it had a lower ceiling, about eight feet high. It was mostly one open space filled with about two dozen beds. On one side was a long cage—the "reception" area—where inmates waited their turn to be treated. On another side, also closed off and secured, was a room containing medical supplies and pharmaceuticals. Beyond this room was a high-security area that could hold five patients, reserved for those who had communicable diseases, those in intensive care, and those who posed security risks.
I liked the infirmary because of the strong lighting, which lent some vibrancy to my otherwise dreary confinement. I liked helping people, too; it reminded me that I was still human, that I still had a purpose. And I liked it because I didn't have to watch my back in here.
I disliked everything else about it. The smell, for one—a putrid cocktail of body odor and urine and powerful disinfectant that always seized me when I first walked in. And let's face it, nobody who comes to the infirmary is having a good day.
I try to have good days. I try very hard.
It was busy when I walked in, the beds at full capacity, the one doctor, two nurses, and four inmates who served as nurse's assistants scurrying from one patient to the next, putting figurative Band-Aids on gaping wounds. There had been a flu going around, and at JRF, when one person got the flu, the whole cell block got it. They tried to segregate the sick ones but it was like rearranging chairs in a closet. There just wasn't room. JRF—L'Institution de Justice et Réforme pour les Femmes—operated at more than 150 percent capacity. Cells designed for four held seven, the extra three people sleeping on mattresses on the floor. A prison intended for twelve hundred was housing almost two thousand. They were packing us in shoulder to shoulder and telling us to cover our mouths when we coughed.
I saw Winnie at the far end, wrapping a bandage on an Arab woman's foot. Winnie, like me, was a nurse's assistant. The warden ordered that we not communicate, so we were assigned to different cell blocks and different shifts in the infirmary.
I felt a catch in my throat, as I did every time I saw her now. Winnie has been my closest friend since my husband and I moved to Bern, Switzerland, for his job at the American Embassy. We lived next door to each other for five years, mourning the late working hours of our diplomat husbands and sharing each other's secrets.
Well, not all our secrets, it turned out. But I've forgiven her.
"Hey." She whispered in her lovely British accent. Her fingers touched mine. "I heard what happened. You okay?"
"Living the dream," I said. "You?"
She wasn't in the mood for humor. Winnie was a stunning beauty—tall and shapely with large radiant eyes, chiseled cheekbones, and silky, ink-color hair—which made it all the harder to see the wear around those eyes, the stoop in her posture, the subtle deterioration of her spirit. It had been just over a year since the murders, and three months since the conviction. She was starting to break down, to give in. They talked in here about the moment when that happened, when you lost all hope. La Reddition, they called it. Surrender. I hadn't experienced it yet. I hoped I never would.
"Movie night," she whispered. "I'll save you a seat. Love you."
"Love you, too. Get some rest." Our fingertips released. Her shift was over.
About ninety minutes later, I heard the commotion as the hydraulic door buzzed open. I had my back turned to the entrance. I was helping a nurse dress a laceration on an inmate's rib cage when one of the nurses shouted, "Urgence!"
Emergency. We had a lot of those. We had a suicide a week in JRF. Violence and sanitation-related illnesses had been on the upswing with the worsening overcrowding. It was impossible to work a six-hour shift without hearing urgence called at least once.
Still, I turned, as guards and a nurse wheeled in an inmate on a gurney.
"Oh, God, no." I dropped the gauze pads I was holding. I started running before the realization had fully formed in my head. The shock of black hair hanging below the gurney. The look on the face of one of the nurses, who had turned back from the commotion to look at me, to see if it had registered with me who the new patient was. Everyone knew the four of us as a group, after all.
"Winnie," I whispered.
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The other day I went out to buy potato chips. This is not something I'm proud of, but it happens. What stopped me in my tracksuit was tripping over a big display of kale chips. And not just plain old kale chips, but chips in flavors like Bombay curry, zesty nacho and a scary-sounding one called mango habanero.
What the kale is going on? Wasn't kale that leafy green vegetable that nobody ate because it's hard to wash and tastes like rubber? I paused in the produce section to ask myself, Where do these trendy foods come from? One day we're happy with iceberg lettuce, the next we're ordering field greens. My caramel is salted; my water is smart; my milk is milk free. And just who started pulling all the pork?
I asked a woman who was loading up on goji berries how they tasted.
"Like cranberries but not as good," she said.
"So why do you buy them?"
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Who can argue with that? I bought some, too, while ignoring the açaí berries. They are so last year.
In the dairy aisle, I commiserated with another woman as the two of us pondered the yogurt options. Greek this. Greek that. Strained. Thick. Probiotics.
"It's harder than buying a bra," the woman said.
These hot items from the food world don't just show up on the grocery shelf; they explode into our lives. Suddenly, it's kale in your face 24/7. Good-bye, olive oil. Hello, coconut oil. Me? I'm still mourning orange roughy. There was a time you couldn't open a menu without an orange roughy special. But somewhere along the way, wild salmon kicked its ass.
I want to keep up with all these trends. Apparently, they can make me younger, healthier and smarter and remove my oxidants. But I'm exhausted. It was much easier when I was a kid. My mother slapped down a plate of meatloaf and said, "Eat it." No questions asked.
On my way out of the grocery store, I passed a lonely iceberg lettuce. I patted it on its head. Then I bought some potato chips.
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Niko Bellic
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Badman to Niko Bellic
Teafore Maxwell-Davies, known as Real Badman is a 30-year old Jamaican cannabis dealer in Grand Theft Auto IV, an associate of Little Jacob and the head of the Hillside Posse gang in Broker. He speaks in very thick Jamaican Patois, which Niko Bellic has difficulty understanding; Jacob translates for Badman in his somewhat more comprehensible Iyaric.
Badman is first introduced to Niko in the mission Shadow. After knocking on Jacob's door, Badman grabs him and holds a knife to his throat until Jacob confirms that Niko is his friend. After that, Badman complains about another dealer moving in on his turf. He asks Niko to get rid of these dealers for him so he can continue business as usual. After performing this task, Niko briefly works as a drug runner for the Hillside Posse, Jacob directing the deliveries via cell phone; this job includes conducting drug deals (broken up by police stings which result in extended chases), planting packages in secluded locations (interrupted by rival gangs who attempt to kill Niko and take the loot) and small exchanges in which Niko must take the drugs to the buyer before a tight deadline.
After several jobs, Badman decides to stop giving Niko work due to heavy police investigation. As a sign of gratitude for the jobs, Jacob leaves the custom Huntley Sport driven by the Hillside Posse outside the cafe instead of one of the "beater" cars usually left there.
Later, When Niko is strolling through northern Dukes(just off Dukes Boulevard), he is stopped by Badman who is sitting on a bench in front of a row of shops. Niko fails to recognise him at first, but they manage a conversation despite the language gap, and Niko discovers Badman's business is being threatened by a Russian gang; together, they wipe out the Russians, and Niko is given $500 for his troubles.
Badman attends Roman & Mallorie's wedding alongside Jacob; after the wedding, however, Badman is never seen again, although he can be mentioned by Little Jacob when taken out by Niko. Jacob states that Badman has changed by selling cocaine and is getting very greedy with the money he has earned and is also getting involed with the mafia.
LCPD Database information
- Surname: Maxwell-Davies
- First Name: Teafore "Real Badman"
- Age: 30
- Place of Birth: Jamaica
- Affiliations: Linked to West Indian criminal gangs in East Liberty City.
- Criminal Record:
- 2001 - Armed Robbery
- 2002 - Sale Controlled Substance: Cocaine
- 2006 - Assault
- Wanted For: Aggravated Manslaughter
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- AKA Real Badman
- Jamaican-born gangster.
- Believed to be head of Marijuana and Cocaine distribution network based in East Liberty City.
- Close ties to Jacob Hughes, street name - Little Jacob.
- Suspect in several high profile armed robberies and hijackings.
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21 Mar 2012 - 21 Mar 2012The Women's Major Group, together with UN WOMEN, Brazil and Switzerland invite to this Gender and SDG Side Event during Rio+20 informal informals in New York:
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- Date submitted: 1 Nov 2011
- Stakeholder type: Major Group
- Name: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
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General Contenta) What are the expectations for the outcome of Rio+20, and what are the concrete proposals in this regard, including views on a possible structure of the Outcome document? This submission comes from the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) ? a policy research organisation focused on sustainable development challenges and solutions, particularly in low- and middle-income countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America (see www.iied.org).
IIED hosts the secretariat for the Green Economy Coalition (GEC). We contributed to the GEC submission to the zero draft, and fully endorse the points put forward by the coalition.
We are currently losing the battle for sustainable development. The incremental changes in economic policy and governance that we have been able to bring about are not keeping pace with the more negative trends that persist, notably in the fields of environment, climate and Energy and also in resource scarcity and inequality in access to water, food and fuel both between and within countries. The first Rio Summit 20 years ago achieved major progress in establishing new conventions and shared understanding of common goals and imperatives. But the prognosis for Rio 2012 is worrying: the failure of international climate change talks in Copenhagen in 2009, and the lack of momentum in other global negotiations have led to a decline in engagement in global environmental issues at the senior political and policy level.
Several influential countries show little interest in locking themselves into domestic policy obligations on environmental issues through international commitments, and routinely resist strong consensus agreement in UN fora.
Given the above, while the issues on the agenda for Rio are hugely important and timely, any progress in agreeing common commitments and frameworks for action is likely to be small in scale and of little significance in relation to existing challenges and future trends.
But this doesn?t mean that Rio 2012 can?t have major positive impacts on future policy and practice around the world. All countries recognise the need to shift Energy use away from fossil fuels; to invest in low-carbon technologies and jobs; and to plan for a resource-scarce future. For many poorer countries, the impacts of climate change and resource scarcity are already putting pressure on society and economy ? and locally-relevant solutions are urgently needed, together with support from the wider world.
A high profile global event on green economy and sustainable development governance can have a major impact in:
? sharing lessons from good practice (and cutting out bad practice);
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? enabling high-level dialogue and agreement on the principles and tools needed.
b) What are the comments, if any, on existing proposals: e.g., a green economy roadmap, framework for action, sustainable development goals, a revitalized global partnership for sustainable development, or others? The Rio 2012 event can pave the way for major impact in sustainable development if it provides the space to do three key things:
? showcase highly effective initiatives and policies that can be replicated and scaled up
? support ?coalitions of willing actors? in areas such as job creation, wealth accounting and valuation of ecosystem services, and government procurement policy and practice
? debate and move forward the principles and tools for future global collaboration, notably the post-2015 framework, when most of the Millennium Development Goals reach their target date
As far as the green economy roadmap is concerned, IIED believes that the institutional framework for a green economy requires real change in all countries. Priorities for attention include:
? Moving beyond GDP as the main means to define and measure progress in development
? Integrating environment into national budgets and policy frameworks
? Changing decision-making structures, recognising that powerful actors benefit from the status quo and that existing economic models do not adequately benefit the vast majority
? Empowering ?unrecognised? actors who already play key roles in ?greening? economies and can do more if supported effectively
? Encouraging sustainable practices by businesses, governments and consumers
? Changing environmental management and accounting to enable better management and use of environmental assets
c) What are the views on implementation and on how to close the implementation gap, which relevant actors are envisaged as being involved (Governments, specific Major Groups, UN system, IFIs, etc.); The short answer is to focus on accountability. Rio 2012 will fail if its main output is a ?consensus text? that merely recalls past agreements, or simply reflects the lowest common willingness to change among participating governments. It is much more important to focus on implementing existing targets and strengthening accountability for action.
The summit must challenge countries to make shared political commitments to change, and to show how they will be accountable. It should also offer an attractive stage for showcasing their promises.
Despite concerns over the existing political context, we see a strong need for international consensus on sustainable development goals and the potential for ?green economy? and effective governance. In our ideal scenario, the very language that the world uses to discuss the economy would change. The big shifts that Rio 2012 could help the world to understand, commit to, and be accountable for, include:
A new way of understanding and supporting innovation. To break out of existing systems and infrastructures ? such as fossil fuel-based mobility, fragmented decision making, and national or local regulations to global challenges ? more radical innovation processes and pathways are needed. In many cases, innovation will have to involve many more stakeholders and industries to tease out bottom-up, community or workplace advances that can help reorganise society. It may be rooted less firmly in market contexts.
An end to financial practices that fuel environmental degradation and economic insecurity. The unconstrained expansion of the global financial sector has produced too many negative social and environmental returns. Strong international accords must be agreed to rein in dangerous speculation and instead encourage positive side-effects from economic activity. One piece of the solution should be a global commitment to sustainable employment through decent and green job creation.
Recapitalisation of our natural resource base. Leaving environmental protection in the hands of markets or governments has failed. What is needed now is a sustained global commitment, matched by robust financial mechanisms, to recapitalise eroded soils, depleted water bodies, degraded forests and fisheries; and to incentivise investment in the ?green infrastructure? that provides countless goods and services to society, from flood protection or timber to recreation and clean drinking water.
An alignment of profit with sustainable development. The more that sustainable development can be associated with profitability, the more likely it is that business will strive to deliver it. This will require getting not just the prices right but also the incentives. The WTO and other international trade and financial institutions often undermine efforts to move in this direction. But if the goals and values by which they operate are reframed these institutions can be important partners in achieving a more sustainable world.
d) What specific cooperation mechanisms, partnership arrangements or other implementation tools are envisaged and what is the relevant time frame for the proposed decisions to be reached and actions to be implemented? Before entering into new arrangements for co-operation and partnership, the UN must assess the effectiveness of past initiatives. The ?Type 2? partnerships from the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development were in the main badly conceived and entered into with very weak accountability and clarity on mutual obligations between actors. Most quickly fell into disuse and by and large the only ones that can claim success would have happened anyway.
The following suggestions focus on the issues that require cooperation and partnership but their precise arrangements should be developed by the main actors involved. For each issue, we present why the focus is needed, suggest some specific mechanisms that could be used to encourage cooperation, and outline a relevant time frame for action.
Many involve transforming national institutions, which will require strong political commitment, capacity, and international support. Rio 2012 should challenge governments to assess the extent to which they can claim to address these issues, and also how they can effectively support and learn from others? efforts.
Redefine progress in development and how it is measured.
? Why? GDP has proven to be a grossly inadequate tool for measuring national development, and GDP-driven policies have led to many of today?s problems.
? Specific mechanisms: regional and global means to share lessons, experience, build common metrics and apply them in mainstream economic contexts.
? Time frame: over the next ten years countries should shift away from GDP to better models that internalise environmental and social costs.
Bring environment into national budgets and policy frameworks.
? Why? Industrial, economic, fiscal, agricultural, health, land use, transport and many other policies can have impacts, both positive and negative, on ecosystems and the goods and services they provide. Achieving a green economy requires that environmental concerns and priorities are taken into account at all levels of national policymaking and spending, and are also integrated into the countless tributaries of development ? sectoral government ministries and departments, local government institutions, businesses, the media, academia and civil society.
? Specific mechanisms: as above.
? Time frame: varies according to country.
Change decision-making structures.
? Why? One barrier to change is that those who are setting economic and market policies believe they are well served by the status quo and so make invalid assumptions about others? demand for, and willingness to, change. The language and tools of public participation, while widely accepted in many areas of development, are rarely used in economic and financial planning. Yet there is much that such approaches can do to bring economic policies and decisions more into line with the widely-shared desire for a sustainable future. Decentralising decision-making processes can also help ensure that those affected by economic decisions have a say in them. In Brazil and several other countries, participatory budgeting, in which citizens are directly involved in setting budget priorities, has been used to ensure greater allocation of government resources to expenditures such as health care, with widespread impacts on well-being.
? Specific mechanisms: Primarily to be developed at national level.
? Time frame: shifting the ethos of economic measures and policies to be more inclusive, open and fair is a high-level challenge, so it?s hard to quantify targets and time tables.
Empower unrecognised actors.
? Why? Much of the contribution to the emerging green economy comes not from governments or mainstream businesses but from economic actors that are often overlooked, including the informal sector, local communities and social enterprises. For example, the Self-Employed Women?s Association in India has established a system in which poor women in the informal sector get organised, receive training and earn better wages by providing communities with electricity through renewable Energy sources. Not only are the contributions of these actors rarely considered in economic planning, but in many countries some of them are systematically excluded, particularly those within the informal sector. In many countries, the government and others must find ways to identify, scale up and strengthen unconventional innovative initiatives, which have positive environmental and social as well as economic outcomes; and assure these actors a voice, rights, and legal and social protection.
? Specific mechanisms: both the UN and individual governments must promote sharing of innovative entrepreneurial tools and approaches pursued outside the formal business sector. It?s also vital to support rigorous independent assessment of the economic, social and environmental impacts of these approaches.
? Time frame: it would be useful to have a post-2012 focus on this area as part of the Commission on Sustainable Development?s future agenda.
?Tilt the playing field? to encourage sustainable practices by businesses, governments and consumers.
? Why? This means making ?good? behaviour cheaper and ?bad? behaviour more expensive. For consumers, a sustainable lifestyle should be the easy and right choice. But the reverse is more often true. So we need to level and then tip the rules in favour of positive behaviour and business practice. One good example is Germany?s ?feed-in? tariff that has given the country 200,000 green jobs and has significantly increased the amount of renewable Energy used. By providing an incentive for people and companies to generate their own renewable Energy and input the surplus to the national grid at a guaranteed premium, the playing field was tilted effectively in favour of both small- and larger-scale renewable Energy production.
? Specific mechanism: the UN and governments should support analysis and dissemination of effective instruments to promote good practice, across a wide spectrum of contexts and actors.
? Time frame: depends on context and issue. Useful to have a UN-commissioned overview to frame future priorisation and sharing of practice in the next 2 years.
Specific Elementsa) Objective of the Conference: To secure renewed political commitment for sustainable development, assessing the progress to date and remaining gaps in the implementation of the outcomes of the major summits on sustainable development and addressing new and emerging challenges. Contributions could include possible sectoral priorities (e.g., (e.g., energy, food security and sustainable agriculture, technology transfer, water, oceans, sustainable urbanization, sustainable consumption and production, natural disaster preparedness and climate change adaptation, biodiversity, etc.) and sectoral initiatives that contribute to integrate the three pillars of sustainable development could be launched and endorsed at Rio+20. The priority at Rio 2012 must be to relaunch the concept of global sustainability, focusing on responsible and equitable economic models and sustainable prosperity.
As a result of high-level political engagement in climate change policy, the concept of sustainability is now much more anchored in future economic and resource development. If climate change is the problem, sustainable development is the solution ? and ?green economy? is the means by which to achieve that solution. While future climate change accords are clearly necessary, it is new economic and governance goals and structures ? a ?green economy? ? that will drive sustainable development.
There is some momentum behind efforts to use Rio 2012 to start setting the framework for international co-operation that will succeed the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (see for example the work of the UN High Level Panel on Global Sustainability). The summit should play a key role in elaborating this framework and helping to establish credible and ambitious effort to put this new framework in place over the next four to five years.
b) Green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication: views regarding how green economy can be a means to achieve sustainable development in its three dimensions, and poverty eradication; what is its potential added value; experience to date, including what has worked and how to build upon success, what are the challenges and opportunities and how to address the challenges and seize opportunities, and possible elements of an agreement in outcome document on a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication Attempts to make our economies fairer and more sustainable are essential if efforts to tackle poverty, now and in the future, are to have any chance of success. The last few years have seen a combination of crises that threaten our ability to spread prosperity and sustain our planet, and show no sign of abating. Climate change, environmental degradation, unemployment, poverty, insecurity and inequality seem to feed off one another. At their roots are prevailing ?extractive? economic models and governance systems that cannot respect nature?s potentials and limits.
It is now considered inevitable that climate change ? a by-product of unsustainable growth ? will threaten the lives and livelihoods of many millions, especially poor people. Past gains in development are already being reversed, with an expected loss of 5 to 20 per cent in World Gross Product by 2050, and 55?90 million more people living in extreme poverty and 100 million more suffering hunger.
Real ?tipping points? are looming in environmental, social and economic systems. The 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment revealed how the environmental foundations of development are threatened. It calculated that 60 per cent of ecosystems are now degraded with, for example, 75 per cent of marine fisheries fully or over-exploited, and a freshwater crisis imminent. In 2009 an authoritative paper in the journal Nature identified the world as having exceeded three of nine interconnected ?planetary boundaries?.
What is true for the environment is true for many development issues. The Millennium Development Goals stand out not only because they were adopted by heads of state at the Millennium Summit but because they are realistic and can be implemented. No insurmountable financial, institutional, cultural or diplomatic obstacle stands in the way of smooth progress towards their realisation. Yet as we approach the target dates, it appears that very few goals will be met.
Why, then, take the current wave of interest in ?green economies? seriously? There are several good reasons to do so now, despite the limited impact in the past:
1. The dominant global economic paradigm ? called the Washington Consensus or neo-liberalism ? collapsed with the economic crisis of September 2008, provoking the deepest global economic downturn since the Great Depression. Despite prominent, and increasingly desperate, efforts to put the economy back on its feet on the same basis as before, many governments, businesses and civil society organisations also believe that the crisis is an opportunity to amend economic organisation.
2. The economic collapse coincides with the growing fear of irreversible environmental crises, and a realisation that returning to environmentally-destructive growth would only precipitate these crises and undermine the economic foundations of recovery. Fear of climate change is the most visible of these, but it is likely that influential people will begin to take seriously the evidence that other crises are imminent. Most of the recovery packages claim ? at least in name ? various shades of green.
3. If a new economy is to be designed to control climate change, then attention will shift to imagining what that economy might look like and how we might get there. The emerging scenarios are attractive ? most proposals emphasise ?low-carbon? models, ambitiously reframing our approaches to generating and using Energy, and promising a range of new green jobs, industries and business opportunities, especially for the first movers. The imperative stems from observing the jobless growth, the breakdown of social institutions and the rapid degradation of natural resources and ecosystems that appeared to be an inevitable companion of the form of growth followed by the neo-liberal agenda.
4. There have also been recent calls to shift economic goals towards resilience, rather than growth. Some of these also point to social justice and equity, and investment in good management of the environmental asset base.
All of the above provides a basis for Rio 2012 to challenge governments to recognise that short-term economic fixes will do little to tackle the structural problems facing the global economy ?and that there are real long-term benefits in rethinking why and how they use economic instruments to reduce volatility, increase resilience and improve wellbeing for the many rather than the few.
c) Institutional framework for sustainable development: Priorities and proposals for strengthening individual pillars of sustainable development, as well as those for strengthening integration of the three pillars, at multiple levels; local, national, regional and international. IIED is less concerned with the institutional architecture of environment and sustainable development than with the key functions that must be performed. The challenges set out under c) above (views on implementation) all require urgent attention.
Two further areas of institutional uncertainty also demand immediate global attention:
Assessing the future role of development aid and climate finance. Over the coming decade climate finance from high-income to middle- and low-income countries looks set to dwarf official aid flows, but the links between the two are still very unclear. Climate-resilient poverty reduction will not be cheap: making the MDGs in Africa resilient to climate change over the next decade was recently estimated to be 40 per cent more expensive than in a non-climate change affected scenario. All countries should use the Rio 2012 summit to explore how climate finance can take on board lessons from aid effectiveness about the need to align with, and support, national development and policy.
Supporting better REDD strategies. There?s been a strong global push to create the means to pay for avoided deforestation but with insufficient attention to the complex systems governing rights to forest resources. This poses a significant hurdle to strategies for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). Dialogue involving key countries and relevant nongovernmental actors in Rio could lead to significant improvements in the management and use of REDD funding. In particular, it could increase recognition of the need for effective and accountable national governance to deliver clear and fair benefits for forest-dependent people while also helping to reduce global emissions.
d) Any proposals for refinement of the two themes. Recall that Resolution 64/236 describes the focus of the Conference: "The focus of the Conference will include the following themes to be discussed and refined during the preparatory process: a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication and the institutional framework for sustainable development". Various refinements have been put forward above. The answer to question b) in particular summarises the main ways in which IIED proposes to improve the focus of the Rio 2012 summit.
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Lisa Boyce Caps Brilliant Season With Top 15 Finish, All-America Honors
Finally, Lisa Boyce was able to have a swim completely free of pressure. After her morning swim at the final day of the 2013 NCAA Championships clinched All-America honors, Boyce moved up a spot in the 'B' final and placed 13th overall in the 100 free.
The two-time reigning Ivy League champion in the event set both the Ivy League and Princeton record in the prelims by swimming a 48.37 in the 100 free to place 14th during the session. That assured her a spot in the 'B' final, where she went 48.47 to finish 15th. It was the best finish for a Princeton swimmer since Alicia Aemisegger '10 finished second in the mile at the 2010 NCAA Championships.
"It was a rocky start, going from Ivies at home with my teammates and the alumni, to being here," Boyce said on the weekend experience. "I just wanted to go for it today. I went out and was just going to push as hard as I could."
"What a great swim," said a thrilled head coach Susan Teeter after prelims. "We knew she was capable of a great swim. I'm very happy for her that she can now add NCAA All-American to her list of accomplishments. She's earned it."
Boyce is Princeton's first swimmer to earn All-America honors in the 100 free since Grace Cornelius in 1991. She joins an exclusive list of Princeton All-Americas in the event, which includes Cathy Corcione '74, Jane Fremon '75, Mary Sykes '79, Elizabeth Lind '86 and Cornelius.
"I am proud of the way Lisa came in this morning ready to swim the way she knows how," assistant coach Suzanne Yee said. "She had two tough races to start off the meet and her 100 free in prelims showed how she has matured as a swimmer and can learn from each swim to become an even better competitor. I knew as soon as I saw her first 25 that she had put herself in a place to become an All-America."
Boyce is a seven-time individual Ivy League champion, and she led Princeton to an upset win over Harvard in the 2013 Ivy League championships last month. She has won the 50 free, 100 back and 100 free in each of the last two Ivy League championships, and she won the 100 back as a freshman.


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Modern Moroccan
Traditional Moroccan Mint Tea
10 sprigs fresh mint, plus extra for garnish
3 tsp green tea
3 tbsp sugar (or more to taste)
4 c. water
Boil the water and pour a small amount in the teapot.
Add the mint, green tea and sugar to the teapot, then add the rest of the hot water. Let brew for three minutes.
Fill a glass with tea, then pour it back in the pot. Repeat. This helps to dissolve and distribute the sugar.
To serve, pour the tea into skinny glasses or tea cups, holding the teapot at a high distance above the glasses to create a little foam on the top of the tea.
Garnish with the remaining sprigs of mint.


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In the Community
AU Celebrates Launch of Peace Corps Community Archives
SIS and the AU Alumni Association celebrated the launch of the University Library's Peace Corps community archive with the event "Waging Peace Through a Lifetime of Service " on March 21.
AU community members, either returned Peace Corps volunteers or friends of the organization, spoke about their work in education, foreign service and peacebuilding. They explained how their Peace Corp experience influenced their work.
Tom Lent, SIS/BA '70, CEO of Protecting the Future Alliance, a Washington, D.C.-based, child- protection organization, served in the Peace Corps in Afghanistan from 1973 to 1975. He discussed his initial difficulty in adapting to the country's customs.
"Being in Afghanistan meant that you had to understand the world from an Afghan point of view, not an American one," Lent said. "There were no movie houses, no televisions, and radios were few and far between. Social life was drinking tea and being a guest."
All of the speakers spoke of challenges - acclimating to living arrangements in Malaysia and acquiring adequate healthcare skills in Guatemala - but also of triumphs. SIS professor Ambassador Dane Smith and his wife, Judy, taught square dancing in Ethiopia. Shannon Alston, SIS/MA '14, still corresponds with the teens who were incarcerated when she worked with them in the Dominican Republic.
Dean James Goldgeier linked the goals of the Peace Corps with those of SIS.
"We're very proud of our role as an educational institution that was founded to 'wage peace.' We have many students who come to SIS with that vision in mind," he said, adding that 10 percent of the incoming master's students in fall 2013 will be returned Peace Corps volunteers.
University Librarian Nancy Davenport introduced the archive, which has been in the works for years under University Librarians Emeriti Pat Wand and Bill Mayer.
"Your memorabilia will help to tell the stories," Davenport said. She noted that current archival material includes airplane tickets, letters from home and field diaries.
SIS has recently launched two programs in partnership with the Peace Corps. The first, the Master's International, integrates academics and Peace Corps service for a graduate degree. The second, the Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Program, offers six credit hours of remitted tuition to returned Peace Corps volunteers, who must complete a degree-related internship in an underserved local community. In 2013, the Peace Corps ranked AU second among medium-sized universities for service among graduates.
If you are interested in donating to the University Library's Peace Corps archive, please contact the University Archivist. To watch the event, visit UStream.


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Evanston, Ill. - Hot start doesn't quite cut it for the University of Colorado soccer team. The Buffs are off to their best start in program history.
After tying Northwestern 2-2 in their first ever meeting, Colorado's record moves to 3-0-2, marking the first time the team has remained undefeated through its first five games.
Colorado head coach Danny Sanchez is pleased by his team's performance in the beginning of the season, but hopes in the future the team will avoid getting down 2-0 fifteen minutes into games.
"We're down 2-0 on the road against a good opponent," Sanchez said. "We faced adversity, but I like how the team responded. We just can't put ourselves in that position."
The Buffs couldn't find the net in the first half, but the offense came up big in the second. The defense stayed strong in extra minutes, ending the game in a tie.
Seniors Amy Barczuk and Quinn Krier set the Buffs in motion for CU's first goal off a free kick. Just minutes later, freshman Madison Krauser scored her first goal as a Buff to tie the game. Annie Brunner racked up a season-high six saves.
"We talked about 'Get that next goal, and it's game on,'" Sanchez said. "Krauser had a great individual effort. We had the potential to get the win. It wasn't meant to be, but we got something out of the trip."
Darcy Jerman made her first appearance of the season and took the first shot for the Buffs in the ninth minute that went wide to the left.
Two quick fouls on the Buffs led to two quick goals for the Wildcats. At the 13:21 mark, sophomore Georgia Waddle headed the ball in from 15 yards assisted by a free kick by freshman Jennifer Korn.
Less than two minutes later, Northwestern scored again. Junior Kate Allen got her third goal of the season off a penalty kick.
Annie Brunner felt the pressure at the net in the 18th minute when freshman Margo McGinty and Waddle both took shots on goal. The Buffs couldn't seem to find any offensive rhythm until later in the half. At 31:09, Amy Barczuk sent one high, taking just the second shot for CU.
The Buffs took three more shots, but couldn't net anything before the break. Brunner came up big again for her third save of the half, denying sophomore Sami Schrakamp in the 37th minute. Colorado came close just before the buzzer, but Rachel Bergman grabbed the save against Barczuk's shot.
Barczuk was ready from the opening minutes of the second. In the 51st minute, Krier's corner connected with Barczuk, who headed it in to put the Buffs on the board.
Three minutes later, freshman Madison Krauser headed it wide but rebounded the ball and put it in to tie the game at 2-2.
"She was good on the dribble, dynamic and I think she's growing in confidence," Sanchez said. "The first half wasn't her best, but she was more dynamic in second. She got the ball home, and that's why she's in that forward position."
Colorado outshot Northwestern nine to five in the second, but neither team would score again in regulation, though both came close in the final minutes. Brunner helped send the game into overtime, saving a shot by sophomore KK Barr in the last 17 seconds.
Both teams took just two shots a piece in overtime. Again, Brunner held strong, saving a shot by sophomore Niki Sebo with just over one minute left. The second overtime wasn't much different, with CU's Krauser taking the only shot in the final 10 minutes, but not being able to score against Bergman, ending the game in a 2-2 tie.
The Buffs head to Denver next weekend for the Denver Invitational. First up for the Buffs are the hosting Pioneers on Friday, Sept. 7 at 7 p.m. Colorado concludes against Cincinnati on Sunday at 11 a.m.


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ZF-2999: performance optimization
// instead of
array_key_exists($locale, self::$_localeData)
if ( isset(self::$_localeData[$locale]) && ($locale == 'root' || self::$_localeData[$locale] === false) ) {
// ....
// instead of
if (($locale == "auto") or ($locale == "root") or
($locale == "environment") or ($locale == "browser")) {
// ...
// -> OK this isn't for performance but for flexibly
- cache return value of getBrowser and if the environment variable must changable add an argument e.g. $reparse=false
Could you please evaluate and categorize as necessary.
has been integrated with r9534 within the I18N core, not only Zend_Locale.
brakes existing functionality as it disallows locales like "en_DE" and therefor brakes the downgrading
is not necessary as the locale itself is cached, so the browser response has not to be cached alone.
Hi Thomas
Regarding my last statement: it is very slow to parse the result of "$locale->getBrowser()" on every method call, because the clients browser will not change in one connection, but the environment value of "HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE" can change in one connection during script execution. To get the array of user accepted locales is not the same as to create a browser locale "new Zend_Locale('browser')". Furthermore the method getBrowser will be called by getDefault() and the method getDefault() will be called by setLocale()
public function getBrowser($reparse=false)
if ($reparse === false && $this->_getBrowserCache !== null) {
return $this->_getBrowserCache;
// ... parse
return $this->_getBrowserCache;
Locale is locale, independently from the creation. The locale can change within the same session.
Also if you need the browsers locale you would not parse it again and again. You would normally store it within your session to reuse it.
Only if you accept that the locale can change within the same session you would parse the locale once more. And when you use setLocale the browser will only then be parsed when you give one of the autolocales or define that you want to retrieve the autolocale.
In my opinion there is still no benefit of having another option added.
Hi Thomas
this is a little test script which displays all calls of the getBrowser-method and its output:
public function getBrowser()
echo " - getBrowser called\n";
// ...
echo "new Zend_Locale():\n";
$locale = new Zend_Locale();
echo "new Zend_Locale():\n";
$locale = new Zend_Locale();
echo "new Zend_Locale(Zend_Locale::BROWSER);\n";
$locale = new Zend_Locale(Zend_Locale::BROWSER);
echo "\$locale->getDefault();\n";
echo "\$locale->getDefault(Zend_Locale::BROWSER);\n";
echo "\$locale->setLocale(Zend_Locale::BROWSER);\n";
new Zend_Locale():
- getBrowser called
- getBrowser called
- getBrowser called
- getBrowser called
new Zend_Locale():
- getBrowser called
new Zend_Locale(Zend_Locale::BROWSER);
- getBrowser called
- getBrowser called
- getBrowser called
- getBrowser called
Updating for the 1.6.0 release.


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Chances are you don't know who Khari Mateen is, but we've known this cat since he was a newbie to The Roots crew family at just 18 years old. Some may recognize Khari as the bassist from his current band, Elevator Fight with the illustrious Zoe Kravitz. Others may have heard his production work on The Roots' "Game Theory," "Clock With No Hands," nearly half of How I Got Over, and finally, on the most recent leak with The Roots and Big K.R.I.T., "Make My."
So, really – you already know Khari's music. Late last month, Khari gave the world an introduction to his work as a solo artist on his Khari EP. The project features Khari's production and also puts his vocal talents on front and center. The music is impressively (but not surprisingly) diverse with R&B, funk, rock, jazz, downtempo, classical, electronic, and hip hop influences. Do yourself a favor a get put on – ASAP. And heads up that half of the EP tracks are actually free downloads, including one of our favorite tracks, "Mother."
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Aug. 30, 1997
Arizona State Defeats New Mexico State
A raging sea of 58,607 fans watched anxiously at Sun Devil Stadium, hoping that the Sun Devils would live up to the moniker of "defending Pac-10 champions." What they saw was an indication of how many new faces there were on the team. The Sun Devils, in their first game of the post-Plummer era, showed the heart and pride of a champion, great flashes of potential and a minor case of butterflies.
The inexperience was visible throughout the game. Without the senior leadership of last year's team, the Sun Devils racked up 13 penalties for a total of 75 yards. But the Sun Devils would not let their chemistry fall apart as they sucked in their gut and pushed on to a 41-10 victory over the New Mexico State Aggies. The Sun Devils have won 10 of their last 12 season openers and their last 12 regular season games. They improve to 1-0, while the Aggies fell to 0-1.
Tailback J.R. Redmond noted after the game, "Obviously we have a lot to improve on. I think that we got rid of a lot of cobwebs. We went out there and showed that we had a lot of talent. It felt real good to get out there and get the jitters out."
There were several question marks for the Sun Devils after last year's massive departure of senior players. Ryan Kealy, in his first start of his career at Arizona State, showed signs of just how powerful of an arm he has. Kealy completed 11-of-19 passes the game for 107 yards and one touchdown. Kealy spread the action evenly during the game, hitting six different receivers at least once. In a first half highlight, Kealy made his first connection with his former teammate and favorite target at St. Mary's High School, redshirt freshman Tariq McDonald, for an 11-yard completion. He later found McDonald in the end zone late in the third quarter for a four-yard touchdown, the first touchdown for both players at ASU.
"It was nice to get one to Tariq," remarked Kealy. " Just like the old days. He's a go-to-guy, so I went to him."
Kealy also showed signs of his inexperience, occasionally letting his strong arm get the best of him. During the Sun Devils initial drive into New Mexico State territory, Kealy aimed for the end zone and put a little too much on the ball, overthrowing his receivers. The Sun Devils settled for a 42-yard, Robert Nycz field goal at the 4:08 mark in the first quarter. Kealy quickly bounced back quickly, coordinating another drive late in the first quarter setting up an 11-yard touchdown run by fullback Darrin Ransom.
"I showed poise, but I think I got routed and that should not have happened," Kealy said.
New Mexico State would drive early in the second quarter to set up a 29-yard field goal by Nick Cecava, their only score in the entire first half. The Sun Devil defense held the Aggies to only 75-yards of total offense in the first half and allowing only three first downs.
The Sun Devils would turn the heat up a notch in the third, scoring three times on offense and holding the Aggies scoreless on the defensive end. Taking over the helm for several drives in the second half was junior Steve Campbell. Campbell also showed a mild case of the jitters, holding his ground in the pocket and getting sacked seven plays into his first drive at the Sun Devil three-yard line. Campbell later redeemed himself by driving the Sun Devils 38 yards in four plays in just over a minute for a touchdown in the third quarter and 43 yards in under three minutes to set up a Robert Nycz field goal in the fourth. Campbell finished the day with 3-of-7 passing for 43 yards and one touchdown.
The quarterback situation was not the only notable position filled with new faces. Senior Michael Martin, sophomore J.R. Redmond, and junior Marlon Farlow had the task of replacing the departed Terry Battle. Martin, who was the starter last season until a neck injury at UCLA, started the game and carried the ball 15 times for 64 yards and one touchdown. The Sun Devils are 10-0 when Martin is the starter. Even more impressive was Redmond, who carried 10 times, racing for 176 yards, including a 93-yard foot race during the third quarter for his only touchdown of the game. Redmond's run ties for the fifth longest run from scrimmage in ASU history. He also notched his first 100-yard game of his career. Farlow, who also saw considerable playing time, had seven carries and rambled for 68 yards, breaking the longest run of his career with a 36-yard carry early in the fourth quarter.
Redmond stated after the game, "My performance says a lot about my offensive line. It shows they care about me and protect me. They opened holes and all we had to do was pick and choose."
ASU's offense finished with 425 total yards, moving the chains 20 times and pushing the ball an average of 6.3 yards per play. The offense was distributed evenly, with three touchdowns being scored on the ground and two in the air.
The defense was also a question for the Sun Devils. Would the Sun Devils be able to reproduce the smothering defense that helped carry them to an 11-1 season? The evidence was clear. The Sun Devil defense held the Aggies to only a touchdown and a field goal. The Sun Devils put constant pressure on quarterback Ty Houghtaling forcing two interceptions and sacking him once for a seven-yard loss. The Aggies' offense was only able to move the ball 198 total yards and were held to 11 first downs. They were forced to punt nine times in fourth and long situations.
The Aggies would score once more late in the fourth quarter on a 33-yard pass from Houghtaling to receiver Duane Gregory for the final score of the game.
After the game, Sun Devil head coach Bruce Snyder had several comments on the game and his players. He had particularly high praise of Ryan Kealy's poise during his first start.
"His first pass was a strike right at one of our guys. There are things he did very well in terms of managing the game," Snyder said.
Snyder also noted the importance of this first game.
"This was the most important thing, to have us start off with a win at home. This was really significant because we have now won eight straight at home. We want to build a tradition of winning at home."


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Thursday, January 5, 2012
Here are the rules I'm supposed to follow:
1) Nominate 15 fellow bloggers
2) Inform the Bloggers of their nomination
3) Share 7 random things about yourself
4) Thank the blogger who nominated you
5) Post the award badge.
I feel a bit silly posting the badge, but here goes:
A number of bloggers I would consider versatile have already been tagged -- Clarissa, Cloud, feMOMhist, Alyssa, Grumpies...
Here are some people who I think are great and versatile bloggers but who may not yet common fixtures on people's blogrolls.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you (in the order in which they popped into my mind) the following Awesomely Versatile Bloggers:
Thoreau of Unqualified Offerings -- politics, academia, pop culture. Always fun.
Massimo of Exponential Book -- physics, academia, gadgets, Canadian politics. Clairvoyant.
Cath of VWXYNot -- someone said she's one the silliest science bloggers. Truer words have rarely been spoken. She covers a wide variety of topics and is always funny.
Hermitage -- a STEM student, a gamer, fluent in German and lolcatz. Awesomesauce.
Namnezia of Take It to the Bridge -- academia, cooking, astronomy, kids, taxidermy.
Bee of Backreaction -- Bee writes really well about physics and physicists, science in general, philosophy, books... Also adorable twin baby pics.
Dr Sneetch -- a math prof, a snarky academic, a mom. Lots of cool photographs.
The Barefoot Doctoral -- a STEM postdoc, solving a 2+epsilon body problem. Also writes poetry. Nuff said.
Female Computer Scientist -- a new prof, but a CS industry veteran, FCS writes about feminism, CS in general (e.g. internet security) and lots of geek-friendly whimsy.
Cherish the Scientist -- academia, science, engineering, mommyhood. Cherish also writes for Engineering Blogs.
Now for the random things about me...
1) I love, love, loooove driving. I only learned how to drive after I had come to the US, at the age of 26. Driving alone on the open road is one of my greatest pleasures.
2) Way back when, as a high school senior, I represented my home country at the International Physics Olympiad. I was the first girl (from my country) to ever do so.
3) I am 6' tall. I am also the runt of the family -- my baby sister is 6' 3".
4) When I was young I used to play volleyball. I was pretty good. My position was the middle blocker.
5) I also used to be a heavy smoker -- I spent my late teens and a better portion of my 20's (essentially the entire 1990's) going through 2 packs a day. Go ahead, judge -- but be aware that I come from a culture where smoking is not particularly frowned upon. Ironically, some of my heavy smoking years overlapped with my active volleyball playing years. I quit when I got pregnant with Baby #1, in 1999. Started again amidst much stress and turmoil in 2003. Stopped for good in late 2004.
6) I like to drink socially, but I have never been drunk. The idea of losing control and not knowing what I am doing scares me to death.
7) I don't like chips. I hate, hate Doritos because of how they smell. Unfortunately, everyone else in my family loves Doritos. "Gross mom out by blowing in her face with Dorito breath" is a popular game with my older kids.
8 comments:
- Thoreau said...
It is an honor just to be nominated. I'd like to thank the Academy...
- January 6, 2012 at 10:48 AM
- Barefoot Doctoral said...
I agree with Thoreau. But this thing explodes really FAST! 15^4 > 50,000
15^9 has more than enough room for every human being on earth to have 5 of their blogs nominated (whether they blog or not).
- January 6, 2012 at 11:18 AM
- Cloud said...
I like your random facts! Except that now I'm craving Doritos....
- January 6, 2012 at 11:14 PM
- inBetween said...
love learning these cool tidbits about you!
- January 7, 2012 at 1:17 AM
- Cherish said...
Thanks for the nomination! Now I need to see if I have 15 blogs I can nominate that haven't already been nominated. Hmmmm....
- January 8, 2012 at 5:34 PM
- Dr. Sneetch said...
Thanks GMP. I'm encouraged to be a more regular blogger now.
- January 11, 2012 at 5:52 AM
- Dr. Sneetch said...
Wow, International Physics Olympiad. That's great!
- January 11, 2012 at 5:54 AM
- Cath@VWXYNot? said...
Oh my goodness, I am soooo embarrassed that I didn't see this post until today! Christmas plus work-related travel plus grant deadlines have put me ridiculously behind on my blog reading. Thank you so much, and I'm very sorry for being such a delinquent blog reader!
Now I have to go and see if any of my fave bloggers remain untagged!
Thanks again :D
- January 30, 2012 at 5:34 PM


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Crossing the Border
Every day nearly 5,000 Mexican men, women, and children try to dig, run or climb across the Arizona-Mexico border, looking for work and a better life. Some scale razor-sharp metal fences; others crawl through storm drains. But most of them simply walk into the unforgiving heart of the Sonoran Desert, a stark landscape of thorny mesquite, giant saguaro, rugged mountains, and — with increasing frequency — human remains. In 2007, the U.S. Border Patrol and humanitarian volunteers found 235 bodies, some just bleached skeletons, in the Sonoran's arid expanse. "It's a hard crossing," says Arizona governor Janet Napolitano, 50, as she gazes out the window of the police cruiser that doubles as her second home during weekly treks around the state. "The desert is picturesque, but it's deadly if you're walking in 120-degree heat. And you can't carry enough water to make it across."
It is a rare unguarded moment for Napolitano, who knows only too well that expressing sympathy for people trying to duck across the border can be politically costly. Indeed, all the presidential candidates, Democratic and Republican alike, are finding slippery footing in what commentators call the immigration swamp. Nowhere is this debate more frenzied than in Arizona, where a human wave is cresting along the state's southern tier, the nation's busiest portal for illegal immigrants. In 2007, the Border Patrol arrested 416,231 of them here — almost half the number detained in the entire United States. For millions of immigrants, blocked by crackdowns at formerly busy crossings in California and Texas, Arizona is the only way in.
It's Janet Napolitano's job to stop them.
Hard Right at the Border
Policing the border is an uncomfortable task for a moderate Democrat of immigrant stock who came to power promising more money for schools, improved healthcare, and an even shake for women, Hispanics, Native Americans, and the poor. But Napolitano — a turbocharged five-foot-four-inch woman with short black hair and a white forelock — has shown she can do it all. A Manhattan-born former prosecutor, she combines Rosie O'Donnell's brash charm with the political shrewdness of Bill Clinton and, reaching further back, the common touch of Fiorello La Guardia, New York's blustery former mayor. "I am very pragmatic," says Napolitano, relaxing in her statehouse office near a custom-tooled leather saddle, a gift from the governor of the neighboring Mexican state of Sonora. "I'm not a flowery speaker. But I'll talk with anybody about what needs to happen and why."
A rising star in the national Democratic party, Napolitano fairly hums with intensity. She's pugnacious, fiercely opinionated, thin-skinned, and hooked on goofy one-liners. Supporters say she has perfect political pitch in a swing state that's an economic and social blueprint for a changing America. Critics call her a chameleon, willing to embrace any position that bolsters her approval ratings. But nobody sells Napolitano short. As Jana Bommersbach, a veteran Arizona journalist, says, "Janet is easily the smartest person in the room in any situation."
One recent afternoon, though, Napolitano was nearly knocked off balance — and by a most unlikely challenger: Uriel Martinez, 17, a shy, bespectacled youth who's part of an Arizona State University program for gifted math and science students. Martinez rose to greet Napolitano during a campus visit and then told the class that he would not be able to attend college. "This is the closest I can get," he said softly. "Because I'm not a U.S. citizen. I was 12 when my parents came. And so I'm not eligible for financial aid."
Four years ago, Arizona voters passed a series of ballot measures that barred illegal immigrants from receiving a host of benefits, including tuition assistance. Every student in the room grew silent, waiting for Napolitano's response. "I want to talk directly to you," she told Martinez. "It is a hard time now, a hard historical time and a hard time for you. But I want you to know: There is private money that can help you go to college. You're not out there by yourself."
The Razor's Edge: Janet Napolitano
Arizona governor Janet Napolitano is on the front lines of the battle over immigration.
Crossing the Border


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Class includes 13 football student-athletes
Ten Sun Devils Earn Pac-12 XC All-Academic Honors
ASU led the men's team with four First-Team selections, two more than any other school.
Houlihan Takes Fourth at NCAA West Regional
The Sun Devil men were sixth overall in a stacked field on Friday in Seattle.
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Northern Arizona: Competed for two years at Northern Arizona (Flagstaff, Ariz.) before transferring to Arizona State... finished as the Big Sky Conference runner-up in the 1,500m run at the 2010 outdoor championships... helped the distance medley relay to a Big Sky title at the 2009 indoor championships... was a member of three Big Sky Championship teams, including the 2009 and 2010 indoor champions and the 2009 outdoor champions... competed in the USA Junior Championships and took third in the 1,500m run in 2009 and 2010.
High School: A 2008 graduate of Piedmont Hills High School (San Jose, Calif.)... lettered three times each in cross country and track & field... captained the track team twice and the cross country team once... named his team's MVP for track & field as a junior and senior... also was MVP in cross country as a senior... named the Senior Class Athlete of the Year... holds the school record in the mile at 4:15.
Personal: Majoring in English... parents are Kerry Sr. and Cherise Terry... has two siblings: brother Kerry Jr. and sister Jasmine... born February 23, 1991, in San Jose, Calif.... hobbies include sleeping, running, basketball and video games... full name is Darius Kwame Terry.
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It Could Be Worse…At Least We Aren't Cleveland
Last night, the Twins got pounded by the Blue Jays…plain and simple:
They homered us right out of their stadium, beating up on Scott Baker in the process. Besides a solo shot from Michael Cuddyer, we couldn't do squat against their pitchers and ended up in third place in the standings because of it.
However, as I lamented that fact, I happened to flip over to Lebron James TV (oh, sorry, aka ESPN) to hear "The Big Decision". After hearing the outcome (James to the Heat), I'm just glad I'm not a sports fan in Cleveland. Consider:
The Cavaliers just lost (arguably) the best player in the NBA and, despite what their owner says, will likely not win a championship before he does. I don't follow professional basketball closely enough to say that with impunity, but without King James they will be a worse team…plain and simple.
The Browns are just as exciting as their pure orange logo, having one decent season (which only proved to be a few lucky passes from Derek Anderson to Braylon Edwards) since their franchise resurrection in the 1990s.
The saddest case, though, is probably that of the Cleveland Indians. Three seasons ago, they were on the verge of a World Series berth, what with CC Sabathia and Cliff Lee in the rotation and Travis Hafner looking like the natural version of Mark McGwire. Now, they are battling the KC Royals for the AL Central cellar.
So, perhaps I should just be thankful for a competitive ballclub…although I still want an SP and a closer!
Preview (45-40, 3rd, 1.5 GB CWS): Francisco Liriano (6-6, 3.32) vs. Justin Verlander (10-5, 3.85). Ace vs. Ace. Never has a team needed the All-Star break more than the Twins do right now, but they need to keep the fire burning for three more crucial division games.
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No starting pitcher, but we'll give you Jhonny Peralta for a 40 of King Cobra.


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^.^ Poignant stuff, pants.
i am the wisest of these birdbrained buffoons that trample upon my holy land.
your welcome
you have an intresting way to describe your people Pants
The amount of political awareness shown in this thread is stunning
youtube: when you have finally lost faith in television, and you turn to even fatter people to deliver your daily news.
your welcome
Myspace: when you finally lost faith in real life friendships, and you turn to even fatter people to talk to you.
Facebook: when myspace isn't fat fuckish enough
your welcome
Twitter: when updating your status on Facebook every other day isn't enough.
That is another win mate
Life expectancy goes up as modern medicine advances and medicine always become cheaper over time as it is mass produced like anything being sold in a mass quantity.


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https://www.flickr.com/photos/klaus_s_henning/collections/ :: Biography :: Born and raised in Hermannstadt/Sibiu in the heart of central Romania, German artist Klaus S. Henning has lived in Germany and in Canada since the late 80's pursuing a career in electrical engineering and software development. As a craftsperson and artist, he is mostly self-taught and has been influenced by his surroundings and travels across Europe, North-America, and more specifically to Canada, Romania, Israel and India. Klaus has been a photographer for many years as well as having done drawings and paintings for about 26 years concentrating his efforts on china ink, collage and stained glass(tiffany)-style drawings. In the past couple of months Klaus has added ceramic sculpting to his mix of interests. Klaus has spent 13 + 6 months in the Seoul Metropolitan Area and the Province of Songkhla (Thailand) ... and has absorbed many vibrant cultural impressions from these magnificent Asian countries.
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GIVEN: For a Given Network, all routers share a common multi-access segment. One router is elected the Designated Router (DR) and another is elected the Backup Designated Router (BDR).
1. Which Parameter determines the router that will be selected as the DR in an OSPF network?
The router with the Highest OSPF Priority on a particular network segment will become the designated router (more info). The DR default OSPF priority for a Cisco Router is 1 but can be manually changed. If there are multiple routers with default OSPF Priority then the Routers elect a Designated Router using the Router ID (more info) (RID) which is basically the highest IP Address with loopbacks being preferred (if configured)
2. Could a router with a priority value of zero assume the role of a DR or a BDR in the OSPF?
An OSPF Priority of 0 (zero) means that the Router is not eligible to be elected for either DR or BDR. The zero interface state is DROTHER.
3. How is the OSPF router ID determined on a Cisco Router?
The OSPF Router ID (RID) on a Cisco Router is determined by the highest IP address configured on an interface (if not manually configured), or IP Address on a loopback interface.
4. What is the role of the DR and BDR in the OSPF network?
The role of the DR and BDR in an OSPF Network is to handle and monitor adjacencies with other routers in the network. This is because in an OSPF network adjacencies grow at a quadratic rate. This means that instead of exchanging routing information with all other routers the routers exchange information with the DR and BDR. Then in turn the DR and BDR relay the information to other routers.
Stewart, B,D., Gough, C (2008). CCNP BSCI Official Exam Certification Guide, Fourth Edition. Indianapolis: Cisco Press.
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