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Ducks Unlimited has reached many high conservation milestones since 1937, but recently the DU flag was fluttering at its highest point ever: the peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Dan O'Neal, retired DU regional director, climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in northeast Tanzania, Africa, and after reaching the 19,331 foot summit, he unfurled the DU flag. Climbing with his Tanzanian guide, O'Neal was thrilled to summit Africa's highest peak and share his accomplishment with his DU family. He passed out DU hats to the guides and sherpas while they assisted him with his climb. He explained the difficulty with the climb wasn't the technical climbing aspect, but the altitude. This is why only 12 of the original 29 climbers managed to reach the summit.
"When you are climbing there are only so many things you can put in your pack, the DU flag was one thing I had to take," O'Neal said. "We had to wait a few minutes for the wind to die down, but we managed to get it out and displayed for the photo."
In typical regional director fashion, O'Neal jokingly admitted that he told his guide that the two of them were now considered the official DU Mt. Kilimanjaro Chapter.
"I believe that is the highest elevation the DU flag has ever been displayed," O'Neal said. "I challenge anyone else to get it higher."
O'Neal, who lives in Spartanburg, S.C., plans on continuing to climb and push himself to the next peak. His next challenge is Mt. Elbrus outside of Moscow, Russia. Mt. Elbrus is an 18,442-foot peak, but there is much more technical and ice climbing involved. O'Neal, more than likely will be the founder of the Mt. Elbrus DU Committee as well.


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Roger won his opening match against Albert Ramos (ESP, 43) 6-1, 6-1, 6-1 in Wimbledon today, mking a perfect start to his quest for a record-tying seventh title.
"It's rare to be up in the scoreline like today on a regular basis. It is maybe why it is a good time to try it out, then you can use it in tougher moments, difficult moments, to throw your opponents off. Who knows if I'll need it down the stretch?, " Roger said.
He needed just 79 minutes to breeze through today. Roger dictated the match in all possible ways. He is now the most successful active player on grass with his 106th win on the surface. He said the ease of his win had given him a chance to practise his serve-and-volley game.
Next up is Fabio Fognini (ATP 68), against whom Roger has only played once, dropping just two games.
BOTING I saw that with your comment, you downgraded Roger's victory..
WELL either learn tennis, cause I'm pretty sure you know nothing about tennis, or go and watch Nadal who struggled to pass through to the 2nd round and couldn't win easily Belluci who is currently ranked 80th in the world..
I am very curious to see what you have to say so please reply sth.
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Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe Foreignness and 'the Other' Quotes
How we cite our quotes: (Page Number). We used the 2008 Oxford World Classics edition.
Quote #1
By the best of my Calculation, that Place where I now was, must be that Country, which lying between the Emperor of Morocco's Dominions and the Negro's, lies wast and uninhabited, except by wild Beasts; the Negroes having abandon'd it and gone farther South for fear of the Moors; and the Moors not thinking it worth inhabiting by reason of its Barrenness; and indeed both forsaking it because of the prodigious Numbers of Tygers, Lyons, Leopards and other furious Creatures which harbour there; (25)
Because of his role in trade, Crusoe comes into contact with many other foreign cultures.
Quote #2
I could not tell what Part of the World this might be, otherwise than that I know it must be Part of America, and as I concluded by all my Observations, must be near the Spanish Dominions, and perhaps was all Inhabited by Savages, where if I should have landed, I had been in a worse Condition than I was now; and therefore I acquiesced in the Dispositions of Providence, which I began now to own, and to believe, order'd every Thing for the best; (93)
Crusoe finds himself very far from England. In fact, he's near savages.
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Besides, after some Pause upon this Affair, I consider'd, that if this Land was the Spanish Coast, I should certainly, one Time or other, see some Vessel pass or re-pass one Way or other; but if not, then it was the Savaage Coast between the Spanish Country and Brasials, which are indeed the worst of Savages; for they are Cannibals, or Man-eaters, and fail not to murther and devour all the humane Bodies that fall into their Hands. (93)
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Brynjar wrote:
Brother Ali told the crowd to shut up and stop clapping during his set here in Iceland when people started to clap to the rhythm of his words when he did some acapella stuff.
Sage Francis wrote:
Mind you, I did this without taking off my SFR jacket. All day.
Because...it was a new jacket and I was reppin SFR as well as the east
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Sage Francis wrote: As far as the kid saying all the words in the background, it's a total catch 22 for me. Every time I do a spoken word piece that someone in the crowd knows, it seems I have to fight through their volunteer hypeman vocals. It becomes very distracting and I tend to switch words and phrases up from time to time so it's not only annoying but it clashes with what I'm doing a lot of the time.
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one of my live show pet peeves is the person next you reciting word for word what the performer is saying as if to prove to everyone within an earshot that they are more down that the next man.


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These are some famous divorce quotes. Some of these quotes are for women and some are for men, some are funny and some are not.
"When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse."
~Monica Bellucci said it well.
Funny one:
"My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money."
~Wendy Liebman
"An open marriage is nature's way of telling you that you need a divorce."
"The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce"
"I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters."
"To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while."
~James Caan
"Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce."
"The difference between divorce and legal separation is that a legal separation gives a husband time to hide his money."
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
~Gloria Swanson
"In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity."
"A divorce lawyer is a chameleon with a law book."
~Marvin Mitchelson
"Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse."
"Since her divorce: I haven't had a home since I left there, but hey, I'm glad."
"The only time my wife and I had a simultaneous orgasm was when the judge signed the divorce papers."
~Woody Allen
"Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul."
~Walt Whitman
"The loss of love is not nearly as painful as our resistance to accepting it is."
"The beginning is always today."
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
"The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce."
"Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash. "
"I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house."
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
"Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone."
~Bob Geldof
"One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas."
"Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do."
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by Nicola Nasser
The defensive and guarded Arab reaction to the self-pronounced and reported pro-Israel and pro-America statements of Nicolas Paul Stephane Sarkozy de Nagy-Bocsa, who was sworn in as the new President of France on May 16, as well as his Jewish connection and that of his foreign policy team, have alerted Arab capitals and public opinion to a possibly imminent break with his country's more than a five-decade old balanced approach to Arab conflicts and the Arab – Israeli conflict in particular.
Acting on a campaign pledge to a clean break with France's political past, Sarkozy's declared aim to change France could yet prove easier said than done, but nonetheless Sarkozy has grouped together a foreign policy team that could vindicate Arab fears; however Sarkozy's pragmatism could not but take French huge interests in the Arab world into consideration, which might still prove his Arab critics wrong.
Next month marks the fortieth anniversary of the June 5, 1967 Arab – Israeli war, which changed the face of the Middle East. France's Middle East policy made a sharp reversal soon thereafter. Franco-Israeli relations have seen their "Golden Age" in the 1950s, when France was Israel's main ally, weapons supplier and nuclear capability provider. The low point came after the 1967 war, during the presidency of Charles de Gaulle, when France imposed an almost complete arms embargo, left Israel to its strategic alliance with the United States and embarked since then on her balanced approach to the Arab – Israeli conflict. French – Arab relations were reinforced further after the Arab – Israeli war and the oil crisis of 1973.
Just three days after the shooting stopped, late President de Gaulle instructed his foreign minister to denounce Israel before the French National Assembly and the United Nations General Assembly. A month later, he said that, "we told the Israelis not to start a conflict. Now, France does not recognize her conquests." In the following November he elaborated further: "Israel, having attacked, seized, in six days of combat, objectives that she wanted to attain. Now she is organizing, on the territories she has taken, an occupation that cannot but involve oppression, repression, expropriation, and there has appeared against her a resistance that she, in turn, describes as terrorism."
Sarkozy is promising a 180 degree turnabout on de Gaulle's legacy. His pro-Israeli views have prompted a flurry of contacts between Arab capitals and Paris, with Arabs seeking a reassurance of continuity. President Mubarak of Egypt was so worried about a French shift that he sought a meeting to ask Sarkozy about his "Israeli bias" during his recent visit to Paris to bid farewell to his predecessor Jacque Chirac. Arab defensive reaction to his presidency was alerted by several factors.
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The Arab defensive reaction to his presidency was alerted by several factors, but his Jewish connection in particular was interpreted as the reason behind his pro-Israel statements. Within this context, Sarkozy's emerging team on foreign policy is being watched with concern by Arab capitals. .
Sarkozy's election was hailed by Israel and Jewish organizations worldwide, including Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, the umbrella group of French Jewish communal organizations (CRIF), AIPAC in the United States, the Rabbinical Center of Europe, to name a few. They should, and they did, feel relieved with the new Sarkozy-led pro-Israel French administration with a strong Jewish and US connections. Sarko, as his supporters call him, has openly and repeatedly called himself a friend of Israel in good times and in bad, the Israeli French edition of the Jerusalem Post reported on May 3, quoting him as saying that "makes me an 'Atlantist,' pro-Israeli and pro-American." They hope that Sarkozy will adopt a policy more in coordination with the US and in line with that of Britain and Germany than with what they see as a traditional "politique arabe de la France" of recent decades. .
In 2002, the then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon urged French Jews to immigrate en masse to Israel after a spate of anti-Jews attacks. Sarkozy, as interior minister, responded: "France is not a racist country. France is not an anti-Semitic country." Israelis and Jews also could still remember the reference a few years ago by French ambassador to England, Daniel Bernard, to Israel as a "shitty little country." Now, Sarkozy is undoubtedly the most Israel-friendly president since the founding of the Fifth Republic in 1958, The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California, reported on May 11. He is an admirer of the Jewish state and has warm ties with the French Jewish community. His maternal grandfather, Aron Mallah, nicknamed Benkio, was a Greek Jew from Salonika who migrated to France before the Second World War and converted to Catholicism but nevertheless had to hide during World War II because of his Jewish roots. .
In total, 57 of Sarkozy's family members were murdered by the Nazis. His wife Cecilia is also of Jewish ancestry. He is a 2003 laureate of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre Humanitarian Award. However neither his Jewish family background nor his fervent opposition to anti-Semitism would alienate Arabs, but the family's active role in the Zionist movement certainly would alert them to a potential effect on his politics as much as would his personal Israeli friends like former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Beniko's uncle Moshe was a devoted Zionist who, in 1898 published and edited El Avenir, the leading paper of the Zionist movement in Greece at the time. His cousin, Asher, in 1912 helped guarantee the establishment of the Jewish Technion in Haifa, Palestine and in 1919 he was elected as the first President of the Zionist Federation of Greece and he headed the Zionist Council for several years; in the 1930s Asher helped Jewish immigration to and colonization of Palestine, to which he himself immigrated in 1934. After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 another of Beniko's cousins, Peppo Mallah, became the country's first diplomatic envoy to Greece. Sarkozy says he admired his grandfather, who bequeathed to Nicolas his political convictions. His pro –US and pro Israel sympathies and his Jewish connection are reinforced by similar sympathies of his governing team. .
His close confident and Prime Minister, François Fillon's Anglo-Saxon connection is customized by his British-born wife, the first of a French head of government. His foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, who made several visits to Israel and received an honorary degree from Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba at the height of the second Palestinian Intifada (uprising) was born to a Jewish father and a Protestant mother; in a January 2004 interview, Kouchner lamented that the French had become "America-haters." Kouchner is also close to UMP MP and France's ambassador in Washington, Pierre Lellouche, who is Sarkozy's advisor on international issues. Levitte will head a diplomatic team in the presidential administration modelled on the US National Security Council; he is another Jewish figure in Sarkozy's foreign policy team. The New culture minister, Christine Albanel, 51, is a former member of the board of the Foundation for the Memory of the Holocaust.
In an interview Sarkozy gave in 2004, The Jewish Journal online on May 11 quoted him as saying: "Should I remind you the visceral attachment of every Jew to Israel, as a second mother homeland? There is nothing outrageous about it. Every Jew carries within him a fear passed down through generations, and he knows that if one day he will not feel safe in his country, there will always be a place that would welcome him. And this is Israel." How could Arabs interpret this other than being a direct encouragement of a dual loyalty and an indirect call for immigration to Israel in contradiction with his insistence on loyalty by the mostly Arab and Muslim French immigrant citizens to "French identity," for which he created the new ministry of immigration and national identity? Sarkozy visited Israel several times, but never the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. He has repeatedly said that he would not legitimize Hamas or Hizbullah by entering into dialogue with them, a statement that would politically translate into exacerbation of the Palestinian and Lebanese national divides by not recognizing the democratically elected Hamas-led national unity government, thus perpetuating the siege on the Palestinians, and by blocking.
Hizbullah's partnership in Lebanon's decision-making.
Coordination with US
He stunned a group of Arab ambassadors by telling them "his foreign policy priority as president would be to forge a closer relationship with Israel," The Washington Times on May 12 cited a report by The New York Times as saying. His pledged "friendship" with the US is viewed by Arabs as heralding a new unbalanced approach that will give impetus to Washington's strategic plans for the Middle East and would perpetuate the regional Arab – Israeli, Iraqi, Darfur and Lebanon - Syria conflicts in particular. His foreign minister agrees: "On … the Middle East, on the need for an alliance with America, on the role of France in Europe — we're very close," Kouchner said on record.
Sarkozy's pro-American views have added to Arab concerns that he would break with France's traditionally independent policy in their region, dashing as wishful thinking Arab hopes of an independent European approach that might develop a counterbalance in resolving Arab conflicts to the US Israeli-biased approach. Sarkozy's warm relationship with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the expected accession of British Chancellor Gordon Brown to the premiership signal the rise of a relatively pro-American trio of European leaders.
In his first speech after his election, Sarkozy warned Iran, Syria, and Libya that they could no longer play Europe off against America. Like his predecessor Chirac, Sarkozy is determined to disengage Syria from Lebanon in coordination with the US, but it will not be as "personal" as it was with Chirac, but unlike him he openly called Hizbullah a terrorist organization, which would clear the way for the main Lebanese anti-Israel resistance group to be included in the EU list of terrorist organizations, thus bringing France closer to the US classification of Hizbullah. His foreign minister's visit of support to Beirut last week at the height of fighting between the Lebanese army and a suspiciously al-Qaeda-linked Fatah al-Islam group in a northern one square kilometre Palestinian refugee camp was seen by some as playing into the hands of a US strategy to exacerbate Lebanon's internal political crisis into a violent one.
US – French coordination in Lebanon and vis-à-vis Syria was unveiled following the Israeli war on Lebanon last summer, but was recently confirmed further at the UN Security Council by the joint US-British-French draft resolution to create an international tribunal for Lebanon under chapter 7 of the United Nation Charter.
Sarkozy is expected to be more aggressive as he is also gearing towards more coordination with Washington in the Sudanese region of Darfur; he has called for "urgent" action there, warning that Khartoum would be made to face international justice for its actions. Kouchner, his maverick top diplomat, considers the Sudan's war-torn region his top priority. On May 9, the US State Department said it wants the new elected French president to play an important role in Darfur peacekeeping mission, particularly in the no-fly zone.
On Iraq, Sarkozy's choice of Kouchner, the co-founder of the Nobel Prize winner "Doctors Without Borders," as his foreign minister could send a message to Arabs that priority will go to "humanitarianism" in foreign policy, contrary to the long-held Gaullist French policy, which evaluates crises through the lens of France's national interests. Kouchner is famous for developing the theory of "humanitarian intervention" to justify international military adventures according to which he believes that the US-led invasion was justified to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Sarkozy's declared hopes to forge closer ties with the NATO could mean a greater role for France in training the new Iraqi police and army based on quotas already set by NATO. It could also mean greater involvement in the Arab section of the alliance's southern flank in Lebanon, where French peacekeepers already play a leading role.
On the humanitarian crises in the occupied Palestinian territories and Iraq, Sarkozy's top diplomat is silently passive, more in line with the US deafening silence, revealing a politically selective approach in his humanitarian concerns that took him to Africa, Kosovo, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Darfur and even led him to endorse a boycott of the Olympic Games in Peking in order to force China to break its trade relations with Sudan on Darfur.
Sarkozy's attitude and planned policies for alien immigrants have also a lot in common with those of US President George W. Bush, and will undoubtedly be watched as a test case to judge his cultural and political approach to Arabs and Muslims in general. His view of "radical Islamists" could place him in line with US-led world war on "Islamic terrorism." Leading British writer on the Middle East, Patrick Seale, on April 27 quoted him as saying: "Algeria was very brave to interrupt the democratic process. If the army had not acted, one could have had a Taliban regime in Algeria."
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is looking forward to visiting France and having cooperation with her new French counterpart, the State Department said last week. "There's a lot on the table for the U.S. and France in terms of being able to address issues of mutual concern around the globe, whether that's Iran or the Middle East or dealing with poverty alleviation in Africa or climate change," State Department spokesman Sean McComack told a news briefing.
Counter Arguments
However several factors could yet reign in a complete clean break with Paris' traditional balanced approach to Middle East issues, a "hope" shared by all Arab governments and even by such controversial grassroots movements like Hizbullah of Lebanon and the ruling Hamas of the Palestinian Authority government.
Arabs are already aware that Sarkozy's father was Hungarian and grandfather Jewish, but he himself grew up Catholic and speaks no Hungarian. His heritage "doesn't mean he's going to take Jewish positions," said Shimon Samuels of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Paris. Moreover Arab leaders are already doing normal business with both Israeli and non-Israeli Jewish leaders.
Sarkozy's programs will, first, depend on the legislative elections of the National Assembly to be held in two ballots on June 10 and 17. Second he will spend the lion's share of his time dealing with domestic issues then he will be preoccupied with France's role in Europe and NATO. Third he has to deal with an array of a powerful coalition of vested interests, from the communist-dominated trade unions to the elites who dominate the civil service, not least the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Quai d'Orsay. He, fourth, is on record as saying recently that "he wants excellent links with the Arab states" and there is no reason not to believe him.
Fifth, Sarkozy's pro-Americanism is not a carte blanche as he "is impressed far more by what the United States does at home than by its global aims and presence," according to Jim Hoagland of the Washington Post. His opposition to Turkey's membership in the EU is evidence that both countries' international agendas are not identical. Sixth, if the election of Fran็ois Mitterrand as president in 1981 and 1988 is to serve as a guiding precedent it reminds observers that it caused similar worries in the Arab world, but Mitterrand was also the first Western leader to declare support for Palestinian self-determination and a right to have their own state. Seventh, Sarkozy could be following the leadership of the US, but isn't this is the same leadership with the strongest Jewish connection that most Arab leaders are already in business with, which promises more of the same, but no drastic change.
*Nicola Nasser is a veteran Arab journalist based in Ramallah, West Bank of the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories.
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" I also noticed that reference in the French documents to Chechen rebels -- and what it immediately reminded me of was not Feith's and Perle's adventures, but Peter Dale Scott's "The Global Drug Meta-Group."
I've never felt I've fully understood Scott's article, bit as a result I get something new out of it every time I look at it. In this case, what jumped out at me was these paragraphs:
(The goal of splitting up Russia attributed here to Surikov is that which, in an earlier text co-authored by Surikov, is attributed by Russian "radicals" to the United States:
The radicals believe that the US actively utilizes Turkish and Muslim elements....From Azerbaijan, radicals foresee a strategic penetration which would irrevocably split the Federation. US influence would be distributed to the former Soviet Central Asian Republics, to Chechnya and the other North Caucasus Muslim autonomous republics of T[at]arstan and Bashkortostan. As a result Russian territorial integrity would be irreparably compromised.) . . .
In my conclusion I shall return to the possibility that U.S. government might share common goals with Hizb ut-Tahrir and the meta-group in Russia, even while combating the Islamist terrorism of al-Qaeda in the Middle East and the West.
Most major media outlets have spelled out with a profusion of details the "exact" events that led to the death of what some claim to have been hundreds of people in the eastern Uzbekistan town of Andijan on May 13. Led by British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, the world media condemned much-maligned Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov for yet another bloody and ruthless suppression of "public dissent". Yet, all the details so far provided do not explain who the real players were or their end objectives.
It is certain, however, that the puzzle cannot be solved unless the London factor is understood. The answers lie in London, Birmingham, Bradford and Liverpool. The old British colonial establishment, with former intelligence officer Bernard Lewis as its mentor, appears to have set in motion a series of events that will bring endless bloodshed to Central Asia. London's objective would appear to be to keep both China and Russia under an open-ended threat. At this point, there is no one who can better serve this "Lewis Doctrine" than Muslims nurtured in Britain - the Hizbut-Tehrir (HT). . . .
Apart from various Islamic preachers, two major Islamic groups function in the Ferghana Valley, whose common objective is to change the regimes in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan. These are the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) and the HT. While the IMU openly thrives on violence, the HT is strongly promoted by the United Kingdom, where it is headquartered, as peaceful. But records indicate that that the IMU and the HT work hand-in-hand. Most of the IMU recruits are from the HT, according to Rohan Gunaratna, an expert on world terrorist outfits. Gunaratna claims that Khaled Sheikh Muhammad, the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks in the US, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian of Chechen origin who has remained active in the Iraqi insurgency against the US occupying forces, were both once members of the HT. . . .
The West's policy - in other words, the policy of the Anglo-Americans, as the European Union does not have a policy worth citing - toward the Middle East has long been formulated by Bernard Lewis. The British-born Lewis started his career as an intelligence officer and has remained in bed with British intelligence ever since. Avowedly anti-Russia and pro-Israel, Lewis reaped a rich harvest among US academia and policymakers. He brought president Jimmy Carter's virulently anti-Russian National Security Council chief, Zbigniew Brzezinski, into his fold in the 1980s, and made the US neo-conservatives, led by Vice President Dick Cheney, dance to his tune on the Middle East in 2001. In between, he penned dozens of books and was taken seriously by people as a historian. But, in fact, Lewis is what he always was: a British intelligence officer. . . .
The recent developments in Uzbekistan have all the hallmarks of the same process. This time the objective is to weaken China, Russia, and possibly India, using the HT to unleash the dogs of war in Central Asia. It is not difficult for those on the ground to see what is happening. The leader of the Islamic Party of Tajikistan, Deputy Prime Minister Hoji Akbar Turajonzoda, has identified HT as a Western-sponsored bogeyman for "remaking Central Asia". . . .
It is not a lack of understanding on the part of American neo-conservatives associated with the Bush administration, but their keenness to use the "Lewis Doctrine" to achieve what they believe is justified that promises untold danger. How important a brains-trust is Lewis to the neo-conservatives? Just read the words of Richard Perle, a leading neo-conservative who remains a close adviser to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld: "Bernard Lewis has been the single-most important intellectual influence countering the conventional wisdom on managing the conflict between radical Islam and the West."
So -- we end by coming back round again to Richard Perle, but hopefully in a larger context.
It ain't really about the Middle East, boys and girls -- it's about world domination, by any means necessary. The only question is one of identifying the moves as they happen, instead of many years later."".
BBC comment(atleast her washingtons correspondent's comments) on scooter LibBy's gulity verdit on 6th march,2007--"it does not matter to white house as long as iraq war turns out to be all right"!! for BBc illegal occupation of iraq and killing of million civilians does not matter -it will be al r ight for american occupation. This is human rights and democracy ala BBc and british propaganda.
see and watch todays bbc and realize how much bbc and other british propaganda machinary is responsible for bush war crimes.
He also assuredly told that this "white house is quite safe"as wished for by the british ofocurse. during gore-bush florida tussle bbc was advocating gore to leave bush alone as britian was waiting for american missile defence to come her shore soon and so no delay in small matter of who should be presidentof usa be allowed.d-bit belicve it? look at all british propaganda between 1st novembr till 20th novembr of 2000.
it is high time that engish spies in american establishment be eliminated..
it is high time that these english spies in usa are taken care of .
these protestant baptists((and so callled religious fundamentalists and evnagalicals bastards)) are the agents of england inside america and have always been.
thse baptists are the ones who created civil war for the benefit of british to reconquer america and during attack of britian in 1812 these baptists were acting as enemy agents inside amaerica.
these baptisat are called patrioit--now what a shame? the southern flag is sympbol of american patriotism when it was really an instrument of treachery to the american independence.
" I am afraid the meddling small minded, fearful white boy is indicative of a large group of the amerikan types who still support a corrupt regieme of neo-con syncopants. He and those like him live in suspicion and fear of anyone different from themselves.
He was once a settler who cut down and burned the forest of New England because he was afraid of the wildlife. He was once a trader who passed out smallpox blankets to the Indians. Then later a buffalo hunter who decimated entire herds and left them to rot on the plains. His grandfather herded Japanese into camps, his father was at MyLai. His brothers are at Abu Graib and Gitmo. Where will he be tommorrow?"
" but all non-WASP got (and still get) their time as scapegoat-du-jour: Native, Black, Chinese, Irish, Italian, Jew, Japanese, Catholic, Latino, and now Middle-Eastern, just to name a few. Along with the scapegoating goes the profiling, which is little more than prejudice and stereotypes made legal."
The recent director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights, Michael Ignatieff, proposed in the New York Times in May 2004 that we should give U.S. presidents the authority to preventively detain U.S. citizens and to engage in "coercive interrogations" should the United States experience another terrorist attack like 9/11. Ignatieff argued that "defeating terror requires violence" and "might also require coercion, secrecy, deception, even violation of rights." "Sticking too firmly to the rule of law simply allows terrorists too much leeway to exploit our freedoms," he said.[1]
In addition to Harvard's top human rights academic arguing on behalf of "torture lite," Harvard Law School's Alan Dershowitz supports "torture warrants" so that U.S. presidents can torture detainees in so-called "ticking bomb" cases.
28th april,2007.
The foreign policy sections of Putin's Message were relatively brief, but pointed. They continued what he began Feb. 10 in his speech to the Munich "Wehrkunde" Conference on Security. Putin zeroed in on the types of programs that go by the name of Project Democracy (since the founding of the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy, in the 1980s):
"There are those who, making clever use of pseudodemocratic phraseology, would like to bring back the recent past: some, in order to be able to loot our national wealth with impunity, as in the past, to rob the people and the state; others, to strip our country of its economic and political independence. In addition, there is a growing influx of foreign money, used for direct interference in our internal affairs. If we look to more distant times in the past, we see that during the hey-day of colonialism, there was talk about an alleged civilizing role of the colonizing states. Today, 'democraticizing' slogans are used. But the goal is the same: to achieve unilateral advantage for one's own benefit and interests."
LaRouche: Yes. President Putin is correct. You must look at the change from Roosevelt to Truman. Truman and Churchill were the enemy of the United States. What you had is a process in which the U.S. system, which was the dominant system in the world at that time, financial and so forth, went through a succession of changes, in the world system.
Now immediately, the policy of building a postwar world, in cooperation with the Soviet Union, and Roosevelt, collapsed at that point. Now you had then, something similar to now. You had an Anglo-American turn for conflict with the Soviet Union. Here's where the thing becomes tricky for the case of modern Russia.
The control of this was from the British Empire. What happened was that the enemies of Roosevelt, in alliance with Churchill's crowd in England, changed their policy, and the faction within the United States, the financier faction in the United States, which had supported Hitler earlier, took predominant control of U.S. policy. So, what happened then: We went through a series of changes in the world monetary system, beginning with the assassination of President Kennedy.
31st jan.2007.
it is very important to realize and understand the trickery of the english race in manipulating USA to wage wars on behalf of britain which gains most from iraq war and any war that usa imposes on the third world and even on europe.
here are some of the writings done years ago to give a global picture of what is REALLY happening in the world and by WHOSE agency.
please read thse if u get some time
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The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
The Book Thief Courage Quotes
How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Look proud, he advised himself. You cannot look afraid. Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book – the greatest book you've ever read. Come on, Max, you're only a few hours away. (26.6)
Max is making an ultimate voyage of courage. Imagine how he must feel, being in public after two years of hiding. Ironically, Hitler's book is the only thing between him and a complete freak-out. Courage usually includes some amount a fear.
Quote #5
Walter opened Mein Kampf and slid [the ticket] inside, next to the map he'd bought with the book itself. (26.11)
Walter is another courageous character, even though we don't get to know him. His courage in helping Max truly does save Max's life. It also takes courage for Max to go with him, leaving his family behind.


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Applying Litigation Economics to Patent Settlements: Why Reverse Payments Should be Per Se Illegal
Joshua P. Davis
University of San Francisco - School of Law
October 1, 2009
Lawyers, Drugs & Money Symposium, Lawyers, Drugs & Money: A Prescription for Antitrust Enforcement in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2009-24
One of the most pressing issues in antitrust law is how to assess settlements of patent disputes that involve payments from brand name to generic drug manufacturers. At stake are billions of dollars, both in inflated prices to consumers attempting to meet their medical needs and in exposure to liability for drug manufacturers. This Article applies the economics of dispute resolution to clarify the costs and benefits of various approaches to assessing patent settlements in the context of the Hatch-Waxman Act. It concludes that reverse payments should be banned under a per se rule, unless and until courts are presented with evidence that brand name drug manufacturers are at some sort of systematic disadvantage in their settlement negotiations with generic drug manufacturers, an unlikely possibility.
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Keywords: patent settlements, antitrust, reverse payments, Hatch-Waxman Act
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Hi everyone! I know I don't come here as often as I used to, but I still know where to come for answers!
DH and I bought a second home in VA. By the middle of next year, it will become our primary home. For those of you who know our struggles (basically, me hating to go to work and leave my kids) this is a very good thing for us. It will allow me to not work for a while and then work part time while my kids are in school. I'm very excited about this. We're both still working, meanwhile. It's extremely likely that we'd both be laid off next year so this plan really works for us. We're waiting around for a few reasons and we're also doing some work on the VA house in the meantime.
So I have a few questions and you'll probably see me around looking for advice and opinions! But I do miss everyone here and I see so many new "faces" too!
Okay, so here's the question. We originally thought we'd keep the carpet in the VA house. Turns out that after the sellers moved their very large furniture out, the carpet wasn't in such good shape. DH and I decided on laminate flooring and I'd like to begin that process on one of our trips down there. However, I know very little about it.
Last night, we were discussing which way the flooring should lay. Should it go straight across longways or should we have it go across the shorter way? When I picture it in my mind, I see it going long ways. DH said that'd be too much- that we'd have too many long peices lying there- he thinks we should have it lie across the shorter way because there won't be as many seams- thus fewer problems.
We're definitely going with the laminate- we have pets and kids so this is a good choice for us.
I have my eye on a brand at Lowe's- Swiftlock premium in a light oak color. It says it's sound absorbing, has a rubber underlayment, and a 30 year warranty. Also has a rebate of 30 cents per sq foot right now. It's normally $3.97/sq ft. I see cheaper Swiftlock, but I'm afraid. Looks really easy to put down. This is my project. We'll probably do the kitchen and dining area, too. But we'll see how the living room goes first. We don't plan to live in this house forever, but I'm guessing about 10 years (with the way we do things ) Besides, if we fix it up real nice, maybe we'll want to stay there! We like all the neighbors we've met so far.


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BabyPing updates with iOS7 and iPhone 5 support
With yesterdays news of our BabyPing+ app update, which included, amongst other things, support for iOS7, today we complete our offering with an update to the BabyPing Video Monitor app, so parents at home can now use the latest Apple iOS to continue to monitor their baby.
Available now to download from the App Store, the BabyPing app comes with full support for iOS7 across iPhone, iPad and iPod. The release also includes other superb improvements which BabyPing users will love – including a new full screen size for iPhone 5 series users, improved background connection reliability plus other bug fixes and improvements.
The full list of changes are:
- iOS 7 support
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- Improved background connection reliability
- Updated video player
- General bug fixes and improvements
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Kid-Friendly Calendars Keep Everyone in the Loop
But a new year is the perfect time to start some new patterns. My girl is just turning 4, and it's definitely time to start including calendars and lists into our routine. She's always asking what day it is, or what we're doing on that particular day. Here are some kid-friendly calendar ideas to help us get started.
- Perpetual Calendar DIY on Bread and Buttons
- Today Is Calendar by Alma's Designs
- Coloring Calendar by Be Happy Now
- DIY Erasable Calendar Board on Ten June blog
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Are you fed up with mushy sprouts with your Christmas lunch?
Here's a whistle-stop tour on how to cook Brussel sprouts and some great ideas for side dishes. If you've got any sprouts recipes of your own that you'd like to share, please feel free to comment! (I'm particularly looking for a Brussel sprouts soup recipe that I've heard rumours of!).
Here goes!
Sprouts Are Good For You…
Sorry! Packed with vitamin C, folic acid and more, sprouts (lightly cooked) are really nutritious. But overcooking destroys most of the vitamins…
Avoid Smelly Sprouts
Sprouts stink when you over cook them. They release sulphur, which is what overpowers whatever else is in your kitchen. So, to avoid the stench, steam them for 5-8 minutes – 10 minutes max for steaming. If they're big, cut them in half, to reduce cooking time.
Avoid Mushy Sprouts
There are those who are rumoured to enjoy sprouts you can squash with a fork. I'm not one of them. The thought of a melt-in-your-mouth sprout does unpleasant things to my stomach… Leave your sprouts with a bit of crunch and your Christmas lunchers will be eternally grateful. The easiest way to do this is to make sure your sprouts are similar sizes – cut in half if necessary. No sprouts should need more than 8 minutes – any longer and you're in dangerous territory!
Quick Sprout Guide
If your sprouts are on their sprout top, snap them off. (See this Sprout Top Recipes post for ideas of what to do with the remains). Peel off any yellow outer leaves and discard. Trim the stems, but only to remove any brown bits. If the sprouts are large, you can cut them in half to reduce cooking times. There's no need to cut a cross shape in the base. Although this can make them cook faster, it also makes them harder to drain, leaving a watery mess on your plate.
Steam or plunge in boiling water for about 5 minutes. The colour changes when they're cooked, so keep an eye on them and test one, to see if they're ready. Drain and serve immediately. Toss in a little salted butter for a luxurious taste.
Other Brussel Sprout Recipe Ideas
You can stir fry sprouts. Prepare as above, cut in half and stir fry in sesame oil for 5 minutes, tossing regularly. Dress with a little soy sauce or tamari and some sesame seeds. You could also add a teaspoon of honey.
Brussel Sprouts With Almonds
Frying Brussel Sprouts with a little garlic and then dressing them with cream and almonds puts a whole new slant on the UK's least favourite vegetable.
Brussel Sprouts With Nutmeg
A quick and simple variation.
Brussel Sprouts Salad
Fresh, young sprouts work well in this raw salad. The sweetness of Balsamic vinegar gives it a delicious twist and the pumpkin seeds and pine nuts give it a nutty crunch.
Let me know what you do with your Brussel Sprouts this Christmas!
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Fundraiser for local refugee relief.
$20 (includes the premiere screening of Healing, starry Hugo Weaving and Don Hany; a special live performance from Little Wise; and some wonderfully donated door prizes). More info or to book online at www.trybooking.com/ENLS. 6.30pm. Sun Theatre, 8 Ballarat Street, Yarraville. Organised by Hobsons Bay Refugee Network & West Welcome Wagon.


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Margan Hunter Valley Wines
Single vineyard wines allow for the ultimate expression of terroir and the management of our own vineyards has allowed us to achieve this goal.
My wines have their own style and personality and each bottle produced is a reflection of its unique terroir.
In any given vintage there is often an opportunity to isolate unique parcels of wine. These limited volumes are treated separately in the winery and if they exhibit both high quality as well as unique character we bottle them under our "White Label" range.
From outstanding Hunter vintages we ensure we keep back limited quantities of the two great Hunter varieties of Semillon and Shiraz. Carefully matured in our temperature controlled storage sheds, secured by Stelvin capsules and then re-released after 5-6 years of maturation we package these under our "Limited Release White Label & Aged Release" range.
Our "Margan Range" with its distinctive Margan style provides a pure expression of single vineyard, Hunter Valley varietals. I have been making these single varietal wines since our first vintage in 1997 and continue to believe in their pure expressions of regional varietal distinctiveness.
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Long time lurker, occasional commenter, first post on DWIL!
BG: DH and I have been married for 15 years and we have 3 kids, ages 9, 7 and 4. My inlaws have been boundary stompers since before we were married and have ramped up the crazy this past year. Luckily they live 1200 miles away and we don't see them very often.
I posted previously on the "Things that make you stabby Host edition" thread about what horrible houseguests my inlaws are. Here are the highlights:
During their last - ever! - 10 day stay with us (they don't know this yet), my inlaws: moved half of their household into our spare bedroom, their smelly dog stank up our house and barked at everyone and everything, FIL drank all of our milk (he drinks a gallon a day ). We refused to buy milk after a couple days. Even though they said "don't worry about us as far as meals go", they still ate our food, including dinners I had prepared several times. They never reciprocated by helping out with meals, and we have 3 kids and very busy schedules. Any snacks/chips/cookies I had in the house were inhaled by FIL. I have to hide them when he comes over. They disrupted our routines. They took over our living room and TV every night, when DH and I wanted to relax and unwind after the kids are in bed. They put their dishes in the sink - the dishwasher is right next to it. How hard is it to put them in the dishwasher??
Over the years they have broken our belongings and not bother to replace them, the latest being my vaccuum.
FIL "helped" us with some plumbing problems we were having and made a huge mess.
When he tore down the ceiling in our family room there was mold on the drywall from a water leak. Since nothing was done to cover anything in the room or block the dust/mold, we breathed it in for days. DH and I were less than thrilled. Really we should have had a mold expert come clean it up but FIL insisted he got rid of it all. Then he used our vaccuum to attempt to clean up the mess. The vaccuum is filled with drywall dust and mold and the hoses are stuffed with drywall bits. It is completely unuseable, gee thanks FIL. I had to buy a new vaccuum. The leak was fixed and he put up new drywall. He did the messiest job ever with the spackling, applied it thickly and unevenly and just left it. So now that is his excuse to come over when they are in town, to finish sanding, which would take forever and create more mess. He insists it can be done wet and dust free. He wanted to do his "wet sanding" during DD's 1st communion party. WTF! We told him no. Last time they were in town MIL INFORMED me they were coming over and FIL was going to work on the drywall. No, "do you mind if" or "is it a good time to do this?" I shut that down. FIL insisted. DH said no. It's just a matter of time before it's brought up again. I should hire a handyman to finish the job.
I came home one day to find my powder room sink on my kitchen table. I had no idea anything was wrong with it, he just took it upon himself to "fix" it, without asking us first of course. He didn't bother to put anything down, no towel or anything, got water and gunk on papers. DH was furious and made him fix it right away.
Oh and the plumbing issues that he fixed, we were informed after Christmas that was our gift. Merry Christmas to us!
My FIL actually had the nerve to complain about how plumbing and electrical in our house wasn't done correctly. As if he has a right to complain - it's our house! My inlaws did not help with the down payment or with any mortgage payments, even when DH was laid off for 6 months. Yet somehow he feels like he has authority to do whatever he wants.
FIL lost our house key! How to do lose your son's housekey? The last time he was here he kept asking me for my keys so he could make another copy. Are you fucking kidding me?? I ignored him. He will ask again, he is so annoying. No way. He lost that privilege, that he shouldn't have had them to begin with. I told DH we should have the locks changed and that can be our Christmas gift to them.
Last year my inlaws asked if they could buy us a new mattress for the daybed in the extra bedroom/office and we agreed. This was before the horrible 10 day stay and before I found DWIL. I'm sure that will come up when DH tells them they cannot stay here this year. He can tell them they can come and pick up their goddamn mattress anytime. I told DH we need to sell the daybed on Craigslist.
My inlaws bought BIL (the golden child) and SIL a house to live in while BIL goes to college. The house belongs to my inlaws, it's about 3 hours away from us. Inlaws pay for: the mortgage, utilities, taxes, BIL's car, insurance, all upkeep and maintenance, BIL's cell phone, all tuition and fees and god knows what else, while BIL is on welfare. BIL has his xbox and kinect, inlaws bought him a fancy computer and DSLR camera. You get the idea.
When inlaws visit BIL & SIL, they stay at a hotel! And that is their house!
We received an email from MIL letting us know when they will be in town, after they are done visiting BIL and SIL (and staying at a hotel):
"wanted to let you two know when we will be visiting with you in November, following our cruise. We should be arriving on Friday and leaving in the morning of Sunday. Yep, it's another whirlwind trip! Hoping it would be okay to stay with you on the beds in the office so we can save some $$'s. :) "
They are going on a 2 week cruise, yet they need to save some $$s. I told DH I could give two shits that they want to save money by staying with us. I don't care that it's only 2 nights - it's not happening.
DH is in total agreement that they are not going to be staying with us. I have been suggesting what to say and told him to not JADE. He hasn't replied yet.
What MIL doesn't know is, this is a test. If she throws a huge fit and imposes guilt trips for our decision, we will sell the daybed and mattresses and not have any houseguests again, ever. But even if she is agreeable, I might sell them anyway. My house, my decision, my rules.
Now this is sort of funny: the Friday they are arriving, DH and DS1 have an event at school and won't be home in the evening. That Saturday, the one full day they are here, we have plans and won't be home! Not my problem they didn't let us know until less than a month before. I made reservations at one of our favorite restaurants at the beginning of September for our nuclear family and we are NOT changing or cancelling our plans. This restaurant is very hard to get into. And it just so happens it is a certain ethnicity that MIL hates. (One of my kids in the past wanted to go to the same type of ethnic local restaurant for their birthday and MIL refused to go.) So, they are not welcome to come with us. The last thing I want is them tagging along and ruining a special birthday outing for DD. DH is in total agreement with me!
Holy crap, that is not going to go over well with MIL at all. Oh well!
I will update once DH replies to MIL's email.


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As a member of STEMS (formerly known as Alegbra in Motion, or AIM), you will focus on tutoring math and science at Hope High School, either in the classroom or after school.
In-class Brown tutors act as assistant teachers twice a week, often working with small groups. By integrating themselves into the regular classroom cadence, in-class tutors are able to form close working relationships with their teacher and students alike. In the afterschool tutoring room, Brown tutors work one-on-one with students who seek homework help or want to review class material.
The program also offers hands-on workshops that develop students' math skills in fun and practical ways as well as the opportunity to learn and bond with a community of Brown students who are passionate about service, teaching, education, math, science, or all of the above!
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The Iron Horse Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisc., with a team of volunteers and motorcycle enthusiasts, is offering local high school students the chance to learn vintage motorcycle restoration while developing work and life skills.
The hotel is helping to connect mentors with six teams of local high school students, who have 90 days and $2,000 per team to rebuild a vintage Honda CB or CL 160. The build kicked off on February 15 and ends in mid-May.
Teams are rewarded with incentives along the way, recognition through displays over the summer, prize packages and seeing their bikes race at Road America (Elkhart Lake) in June.
Teams and bikes will be judged in five categories, including: Crowd Favorite, a social-media driven vote through Facebook and Twitter; Fastest Bike (based on a dyno competition); Art Bike; MilVinMoto Best of Show; and Best Documentation, presented to the team that captures the best documentation of their build.
Each team has two mentors, a dedicated faculty advisor and three to five students. Each got a Flip Video UltraHD Cam with instructions on how to shoot dynamic video of their build. The teams will upload video each week to their school's designated 'dropbox' for editing by Dactyl Transmedia, a Milwaukee company that specializes in multimedia narratives. Each team will be featured twice on The Iron Horse Hotel's Facebook page with a pictorial and video clip, more details and specific information posted on the Build Milwaukee Community Organization page. The hotel's page is at facebook.com/theironhorsehotel and the BUILD page is at facebook.com/pages/ pages/Build-Milwaukee/110349039042930.
At the conclusion of the build, footage from all six teams will be compiled into a 5 to 7-minute short film. At the end of the build, the six bikes will be displayed throughout the region over the summer of 2011. The 'summer tour' begins June 2 at The Iron Horse Hotel, kicking off the hotel's 2011 Bike Night Calendar. There the bikes will be judged and team prizes awarded before the bikes are raced by the teams' mentors at the AHRMA races at Elkhart Lake's Road America June 10 to 12.
The bikes will shown in two bike shows, at Milwaukee's 'Rockerbox' Street Festival July 30 and Chicago's 'Mods vs Rockers' Vintage Motorcycle and Scooter Rally June 17 and 18. Discovery World in Milwaukee serves as the program's exclusive museum exhibit, where the bikes will displayed from the end of June through July. Besides showcasing the bikes themselves, the BUILD display will feature information about the program, imagery of this year's build and information about how other schools and Mentors can get involved in 2012 and beyond.
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PIKEVILLE, Ky. – Joanna Bernabei-McNamee leads the University of Pikeville women's basketball team into action for the first time at 7:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday against Asbury (Ky.) in an exhibition at the East Kentucky Exposition Center.
The game is part of Halloween Hoopla, featuring music, giveaways, dance routines, costume contests and a chance to meet the basketball team.
Bernabei-McNamee is in her first season as head coach at UPIKE after previously holding the top spot at West Virginia Wesleyan. She was also part of the Maryland staff that captured the 2006 NCAA National Championship as recruiting coordinator.
The 2013-14 Bears feature eight returning players, including starters Brogan Conley, Peyton Wright, Jayme Jackson and Callisha Johnson.
UPIKE finished 11-19 overall last season and 6-14 in the Mid-South Conference.
Regular-season play begins on Nov. 12 at Alice Lloyd (Ky.), while the home openers is scheduled for Nov. 14 against King College (Tenn.).


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Dienhart: Car Care Bowl of Texas Preview
Northwestern makes a school-record fourth straight bowl trip when it plays Texas A&M at noon ET Dec. 31 in the Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas. BTN.com senior writer Tom Dienhart breaks down the game, gives his keys and offers his prediction. See it all in this post. Also, view our entire 2011-12 bowl schedule.


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The Lahaina Bypass, then and now
November 12, 2015 LAHAINA — What's up with the Lahaina Bypass? It's been on the state Department of Transportation (SDOT) drawing board, some say, for 40 years or more. more »»
King Kamehameha III Elementary School kindergarten teacher honored as 2016 Maui District Teacher of the Year
November 12, 2015 LAHAINA — King Kamehameha III Elementary School kindergarten teacher Joy Aulani Takatsuka was recently honored as the 2016 Maui District Teacher of the Year by the state Department of Education. more »»
Lahaina to pay tribute to 'Father of Modern China'
November 12, 2015 LAHAINA — Lahaina Restoration Foundation will pay tribute to Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the "Father of Modern China," in its annual festival on Friday, Nov. 13, and Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015. more »»
Residents give generously to Rotary End Polio Now campaign
November 12, 2015 LAHAINA — The Rotary Club of Lahaina Sunset raised over $600 in the fight to end polio thanks to the generous contributions of community members. On Oct. more »»
Makana goes to school
November 5, 2015 LAHAINA — Abundant research shows the benefits of having a dog present in the work, school and healing environments. more »»
Workshop to cover marine resource stewardship and regulations
November 5, 2015 LAHAINA — On Saturday, Nov. 14, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. more »»
Housing Choice Voucher Program applications available online
November 5, 2015 WAILUKU — The county Department of Housing and Human Concerns has begun accepting online applications for its Housing Choice Voucher Program (Section 8) waitlist and will continue accepting online... more »»
Help care for a rain garden and native plant project in Kaanapali
November 5, 2015 KAANAPALI — On Friday, No. more »»
Art meeting registration still open
November 5, 2015 WEST MAUI — The public can still sign up to attend one of the three meetings this month sponsored by the Maui Arts League, according to Sara Foley, one of the organizers. more »»
Maui Music Mission expanding its team and music programs
November 5, 2015 LAHAINA — Ask anyone how music has inspired hope in them, and you will know what inspired Maui Music Mission to place keiki music programs in West Mau. more »»
Lahaina to host family- friendly Halloween party
October 29, 2015 LAHAINA — Front Street on Saturday night will transform into a giant Halloween party full of family-friendly activities, live music and a world-renowned flood of ghosts, ghouls and revelers in... more »»
Westside Hoops working to send Lahaina students to college
October 29, 2015 WEST MAUI — Westside Hoops currently has more than 40 young men practicing basketball, lifting weights, conditioning, shooting and, most importantly, studying to prepare for life after high school. more »»
Lahaina Plantation Days ends on high note
October 29, 2015 LAHAINA — On Oct. 16-17, thousands of people came out to celebrate the final Lahaina Plantation Days. Among the festivities was the announcement of this year's food contest winners. more »»
Events slated at Lahainaluna High School
October 29, 2015 LAHAINA — Feeling creative? The Lahainaluna High School PTSA is pleased to announce that Lahainaluna students will once again have an opportunity to participate in the National PTA's Reflections Art... more »»
Bayudan to be honored for essay on volunteering
October 29, 2015 LAHAINA — The Hawaii Access to Justice Commission and Hawaii State Bar Association recently announced that Lahainaluna High School student Krizhna Bayudan was selected to receive a $500 award for an... more »»
Art expert to lead meetings on proposed fine arts museum
October 29, 2015 LAHAINA — Jean Stern, art authority, author of 17 books and developer of the highly successful Irvine Museum in California, will run what promises to be three lively discussions on the world of art... more »»
Public input sought on proposed expansion of Maui Bus Service
October 29, 2015 WAILUKU — The County of Maui Department of Transportation seeks input on proposals to increase Maui Bus Service, as outlined in the draft Maui County Short-Range Transit Plan. more »»
Saribay finds fun ways to help Lahaina non-profits
October 22, 2015 LAHAINA — One of the West Side's most colorful personalities continues to enhance the vivid hues of Lahaina's collective community improvement effort. more »»
The first annual Maui Food Smackdown at Lahaina Civic Center raised $1,000 for the Kula Kaipuni O Maui organization at Princess Nahi'ena'ena Elementary School.
October 22, 2015 WAILUKU — Maui County Councilmember Elle Cochran of West Maui has been selected by the Obama Administration to serve on the National Ocean Council's Governance Coordinating Committee. more »»
Rotary golf tourney to raise money for scholarships
October 22, 2015 KAANAPALI — The Rotary Club of Lahaina is sponsoring its third annual Golf Scramble on Saturday, Oct. 24, at the Kaanapali Kai Golf Course. more »»