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It is something many thought they would never see: Michigan, one of the strongest union states in the country, is now a right-to-work state. And it happened with lightning speed.
Michigan Republicans acted so quickly that the unions had little time to react. Within hours of announcing their plans last Thursday, bills were rushed through the Senate. And after a required five-day waiting period, the House approved final passage Tuesday.
Thousands of union members from across the state converged on the state capital in Lansing. Teachers even called in sick, abandoning their students.
In some cases, there was violence. One YouTube video shows a supporter of the new law being punched by union members. Police had to resort to pepper spray to control the crowd.
How did the Republicans win on the right to work issue in the heavily pro-union, Democratic Michigan? Seton Motley, with Less Government, has more.
But the union intimidation wasn't enough to stop the Republican governor from signing the law.
"To have him with a stroke of his pen take our rights away and it's offensive," union member Kris Derry said.
Supporters call the new law right-to-work. But unions say it cuts their bargaining power. Less union dues mean less influence.
President Barack Obama spoke out against the new law.
"These so-called 'right-to-work' laws, they don't have to do with economics; they have everything to do with politics," he charged. "What they're really talking about is giving you the right to work for less money."
But under right-to-work laws workers get to take home more of their money because they prevent the unions from forcing non-union workers to pay dues.
Polls show that given a choice, about a quarter of Michigan government employees would opt out of unions, returning about $100 million a year to their pockets.
Supporters also say the law encourages business.
Chris Beckering, owner of Pioneer Construction, predicts the bill will allow his business to hire more workers.
"This will attract more businesses to Michigan. Those businesses will need space and we're here to build it for them," he said.
The new laws deliver a huge blow to the labor movement in the heart of the U.S. auto industry.
As hard as it is to believe, Detroit was once a jewel. Many Michiganders will attest that Detroit and the state were damaged in part by union power increasing the cost of business and forcing companies to leave, eroding the tax base.
Now Michigan will become the 24th right-to-work state, one of a number of states that have successfully challenged the unions after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker defeated them and then survived a recall election.
But the Michigan law is likely to be only the first act in a political struggle, as opponents fight the new law in court, the legislature, and the voting booth.
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Slash Says Duff McKagan's Guns N' Roses Reunion 'Doesn't Really Concern Me'
Slash shares his thoughts on Duff McKagan's temporary return to Guns N' Roses.
Slash shares his thoughts on Duff McKagan's temporary return to Guns N' Roses.
Aerosmith and Slash have made their plan to tour North America this summer official by finally revealing the dates and places where you check them out.
The rock legends will tour together this summer.
Slash says he has a big regret about his time with Guns N' Roses, and it's not his legendarily fractious relationship with Axl Rose. It's the way he was "limited to the image of me as a crazy loser junkie."
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Governments enact new digital policies in the name of national security and intellectual property, but they often have the effects of chilling free speech and violating privacy. A conference in Bogotá, Colombia, this week called Human Rights in the Digital Age will bring together activists, advocates, and policymakers to examine human rights within the context of these international digital policies and experiences.
In many ways, Colombia has been on the forefront of this conflict. Last year the Colombian Ministry of Justice and Technology issued a decree to compel telecom providers—including Internet service providers (ISPs)—to build-in backdoors to make it easier for law enforcement to spy on Colombians. The same decree also forces telecom companies to continuously collect and store millions of users' online location and subscriber information for five years. These policies are a gross infringement of Colombians' digital privacy.
In the copyright realm, Colombian digital enforcement policies have been equally disastrous. For the past few years, Internet users have fought back against twin bills, both nicknamed Ley Lleras, that were drafted to make their national laws compliant with a trade agreement the country signed with the U.S. in 2006.
The bills carried extreme copyright enforcement provisions that would have heightened criminal penalties, banned and increased restrictions on circumventing DRM even where it was not done for infringing purposes, expand the definition of a copy to even include "temporary" reproductions of files (including temporary storage in computer memory), and lengthened copyright terms at least another 20 years. Congress attempted to fast track the bill, but the courts fortunately struck it down earlier this year because lawmakers had overstepped various legislative procedures in the process. A new version of the bill is in the pipeline however, and advocates from around the world are already making efforts to improve the terms of the agreement before another copyright bill gets re-introduced.
The Human Rights in the Digital Age conference will explore the Colombian experience and circumstances behind these threatening digital policies and work toward the development of strong legal and advocacy strategies to defend users' rights online. The event will be held at Aula Mutis, Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá this Thursday July 25th from 8:00AM to 6:00PM CDT and will be livestreamed in Spanish. Colombian digital rights organization, Fundación Karisma has organized the event alongside Universidad del Rosario, Red Pa Todos, Open Society Justice Initiative, Fundación Para La Libertad Prensa (FLiP), Internews, Access, and the Washington College of Law's Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property.
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Oregon State offers some unique opportunities through its marine biology program, the biggest draw being the work done at the Hatfield Marine Science Center on the Oregon coast.
Nick Ehlers had the opportunity to do research in a wide range of places as an Oregon State University undergraduate student majoring in biology.
With funding from OSU's International Undergraduate Research Program, Nick traveled to Panama and the Bahamas to work as a research assistant alongside OSU faculty members Bruce Menge and Mark Hixon. "Both were such amazing experiences," Nick says. "It was a classroom with no walls and everything and everybody was my professor."
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Jameel Jaffer is a human rights and civil liberties attorney who is deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union and director of the ACLU's Center for Democracy, which houses the ACLU's work relating to free speech, privacy, technology, national security, and international human rights.[1][2][3][4] Since he joined the staff of the ACLU in 2002, Jaffer has litigated many leading cases relating to national security and human rights, including cases concerning surveillance, torture, rendition, and "targeted killing."[5]
Jaffer is particularly notable for the role he played in litigating Freedom of Information Act requests that led to the release of documents concerning the torture of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay and in CIA black sites. Among the documents released were interrogation directives signed by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, emails written by FBI agents who witnessed the torture of prisoners, legal memos in which the Office of Legal Counsel stated that U.S. law did not prohibit the President from authorizing torture, and autopsy reports relating to prisoners who were killed in U.S. custody.[6][7] The New York Times billed the lawsuit "one of the most successful in the history of public disclosure."[8]
In 2013, Jaffer co-led the litigation that resulted in the disclosure of one of the Obama administration's "drone memos."[9][10]
Jaffer is an Executive Editor of Just Security, a national security blog.[11]
On June 29th, 2016, Jaffer was named the founding director of the First Amendment Institute (at Columbia University), which was created to work to preserve and expand freedoms in the digital age. The institute, which will be affiliated with Columbia and involve faculty from its journalism and law schools, will seek to help lawyers navigating First Amendment issues related to new technology and support First Amendment-related research and education. And it will touch on a range of First Amendment issues, such as government surveillance, privacy rights on digital platforms and public access to government records. [12]
Jaffer grew up in Canada, and is a graduate of Upper Canada College, a private school in Toronto.[2] His university education was at Williams College, Cambridge University, and Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the law review.[3] After law school, Jaffer was a law clerk to the Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada.[7]
Legal career[edit]
Jaffer is currently the Director of the ACLU's Center for Democracy.
In 2004, Jaffer litigated a successful constitutional challenge to the USA Patriot Act, obtaining a federal court ruling that invalidated the "national security letter" provision.[13] After Congress amended the law, the federal district court invalidated the provision again in 2007.[14]
In 2006, Jaffer filed a case challenging the Bush administration's refusal to issue a visa to Tariq Ramadan, a well-known Islamic thinker.[15] The case was brought on behalf of the American Association of Religion, the American Association of University Professors, and PEN American Center. A federal appeals court sided with Jaffer and his clients in 2009, finding that the exclusion of Professor Ramadan was unconstitutional.[15] After that ruling, the Obama administration reversed the exclusion of Dr. Ramadan and issued him a visa.[16]
In 2012 and 2013, Jaffer argued two successful appeals, one before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and another before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, relating to the Obama administration's refusal to release Justice Department memos concerning the "targeted killing" program.[17][18]
In 2012, Jaffer argued Clapper v. Amnesty International USA before the U.S. Supreme Court.[19] The case involved a constitutional challenge to a federal statute that gave the National Security Agency broad power to monitor international communications. The Supreme Court ruled against the plaintiffs 5-4, holding that they lacked "standing" to bring their suit.[20]
Along with Jimmy Wales and Lila Tretivok of the Wikimedia Foundation, Jaffer filed a lawsuit in March 2015 against the NSA challenging the agency's surveillance activities "through which the U.S. government intercepts, copies, and searches almost all international and many domestic text-based communications" on the Wikimedia platform.
Community Events[edit]
Jaffer was invited to celebrate Ramadan at the White House in 2009.[21]
- ^ "Jameel Jaffer". Huffington Post. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
- ^ a b Iain Marlow (2009-08-30). "How Canadian lawyer unearthed U.S. torture documents". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 2009-08-30.
- ^ a b "Administration of torture". American Civil Liberties Union. Archived from the original on 2009-08-30.
- ^ Lindsay Fortado (2005-05-09). "Jameel Jaffer, 33: Watchdog leads charge over civil liberties". National Law Journal. Archived from the original on 2009-08-30.
- ^ https://www.aclu.org/blog/author/jameel-jaffer
- ^ Scott Shane (2009-08-29). "A.C.L.U. Lawyers Mine Documents For Truth". New York Times
- ^ a b Colin Freeze (2010-04-19). "Canadian emerges as voice for detainees"
- ^ Scott Shane (2009-08-29). "A.C.L.U. Lawyers Mine Documents For Truth". New York Times
- ^ Benjamin Weiser (2014-03-21). "U.S. Ordered to Release Memo in Awlaki Killing". [1]
- ^ Jameel Jaffer (2014-06-21). "The Drone Memo Cometh."[2]
- ^ http://justsecurity.org/
- ^ http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/jameel-jaffer-columbia-university-first-amendment-224947
- ^ Nat Hentoff (2004-11-09). "Cuffing Bush and the FBI"
- ^ Mark Hamblett (2007-09-07). "Federal Judge Rules Unconstitutional Parts of the Patriot Act". [3]
- ^ a b Benjamin Weiser (2009-07-17). "Court Reverses Ruling Dealing With Visa of Muslim Scholar". [4]
- ^ Kirk Semple (2010-04-07). "At Last Allowed, Muslim Scholar Visits". >
- ^ Debra Cassens Weiss (2013-03-18). "DC Circuit requires CIA to give some drone strike information to judge in ACLU lawsuit"[5]
- ^ Benjamin Weiser (2014-03-21). "U.S. Ordered to Release Memo in Awlaki Killing". [6]
- ^ http://www.oyez.org/cases/2010-2019/2012/2012_11_1025
- ^ Adam Liptak (2013-02-26). "Justices Turn Back Challenge to Broader U.S. Eavesdropping". [7]
- ^ Peter Baker(2009-09-01). "The White House Celebrates Ramadan"


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MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) -- It's too early to proclaim the end of the U.S. conservative tea party movement.
But the Republican Party and its allies are using campaign cash, positions of influence and other levers of power to defuse what they consider primary challenges by weak conservative candidates before the 2014 congressional elections and the 2016 presidential race. The party is cherry-picking other candidates, including some who rode the right-wing tea party wave to a House majority in 2010. Some of those lawmakers are getting boosts from the very establishment the class they vowed to upend.
It's an expensive and sweeping effort by national and state Republicans to blur the dividing line between factions that many believe cost the party the Senate majority in 2012 and prolonged the presidential nomination fight that year. This year, Republicans are within six seats of controlling the Senate. If they win Senate control this November and keep their House majority, even deeper frustrations would await President Barack Obama in his final two years in office.
"We can't expect to win if we are fighting each other all the time," said Matt Borges, chairman of the Ohio Republican Party.
Merging the factions is uncomfortable for all sides, and weighted heavily in favor of the well-financed and organized Republican Party, its state affiliates and allied groups like the Chamber of Commerce. In contrast, the other faction -- the tea party -- is a loosely affiliated group of conservative activists -- some who now call themselves the "liberty movement" -- who favor smaller government and a balanced budget.
Public opinion suggests that some voters have tired of the tea party's cut-it-or-shut-it approach to governing after years of crises in which House conservatives' refusal to compromise brought the U.S. to the brink of a default and helped drive a partial government shutdown. A Gallup survey out Thursday found that about four in 10 Republicans and Republican-leaning independents classify themselves as supporters of the tea party, down from more than six in 10 -- a high-water mark -- in November 2010.
The Gallup survey follows an AP-GfK poll in March that found about one in five Americans supports the tea party, a modest improvement from public approval of the movement at the height of the government shutdown in October.
By changing rules at the presidential level and showering money and support in the primaries on candidates in North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan and more states, Republican leaders are trying to drum out tea party-approved candidates they consider flawed -- like ones who were seen as costing the party winnable Senate seats in Delaware, Missouri and Nevada in recent years.
As the Republican Party calculates how to cull the best of the tea party's candidates and energy, the activists are trying to figure out what they've won in the four-year-long struggle for control of the party. Some say they have succeeded in pushing the party toward their deeply conservative ideals.
Establishment candidates now "run on our message; they run as populists," said Daniel Horowitz of the conservative Madison Project, which has endorsed candidates in more than a dozen Republican primaries. "In one sense, it's frustration on our part. On the other, it shows that we're winning."
Looking ahead to 2016's presidential race, Republican officials are meeting in Memphis, Tennessee, this week to figure out how to prevent a nominating contest that leaves an establishment-favored candidate battling tea party-styled longshots. Republican National Committee members are rewriting rules to shorten the nomination period and limit the number of debates.
An RNC panel on Thursday recommended a 13-member committee that would pick debate hosts and limit how many can take place. Candidates who participate in rogue forums would be banned from attending future, RNC-sanctioned debates.
The full RNC was set to take up the measure on Friday.
In effect, the tighter rules would make it more difficult for an outsider or under-funded candidate to find success.
In the 2012 presidential race, strong debate performances kept tea party-favored candidates such as Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain in the running well past their viability. In all, 20 media-sponsored debates kept eventual Republican nominee Mitt Romney occupied fending off challengers well into the election year, rather than focusing early on Obama. In 2016, the goal would be for six to 10 debates before February or March.
In the House and Senate contests, there's recent evidence that the Republican Party and their allied groups are winning the political tug of war.
In North Carolina on Tuesday, state House speaker Thom Tillis easily coasted past the 40 percent threshold for securing the nomination without a runoff with his challengers, who had cast him as a tool of the Republican establishment. In Ohio, House Speaker John Boehner shellacked his primary opponent despite being attacked as the very face of the deal-making powers.
Kellman reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Bill Barrow in Atlanta and Director of Polling Jennifer Agiesta also contributed to this report.


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Mr. and Mrs. Raymond K. Mahaffey II, Linden, observed their 25th wedding anniversary Sept. 12, 2012.
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This Building is the first stage of an ensemble of buildings belonging to the Catholic University called "Plaza Alameda", which is part of the Central Campus of the university placed on the Alameda Avenue in Santiago's downtown. Alameda is the city's main avenue and runs East–West. This ensemble was designed to form a "fourth patio" related to the three patio traditional building of the university.
This fourth patio is open to the city, creating an urban void, a raised plaza.
The floor level of this plaza matches the level of the main floor of the old building. Due to the natural slope of Santiago, such level is 4 meters over Lira Street (that runs North–South between the old and new buildings) and allows, through a pedestrian bridge over the street, to connect the four patios. The level difference between the plazas floor and the Alameda Avenue is solved by an ample stairway that expresses a new attitude of the university, one of openness to the city.
Thus, a significant public space is obtained, connected to the existing corridors of the old buildings cloisters, producing a new entrance to the Cultural Centre of the university placed on the west patio of the old building.
Under the new plaza there is a 5 level underground car park with place for 600 cars.
Surrounding the plaza, 3 buildings were designed to create its East South and West borders. Of these buildings, the one at the West, 12 stories high, is the first to be built. The main walls and other structural elements of the building are made of pigmented reinforced concrete, coloured to match the old buildings. The east façade, overlooking the patio is designed as a green-façade with a net of cables supporting climbing plants protecting the inside from the summer sun and generating a green border for the patio.
The concrete columns of the underground parking extend upwards to form a colonnade in the patio in which each column is topped by an inverted pyramid consisting of a soil box hosting a Lima tree. These trees, in a short time will create a summer shadow for the whole patio.
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The Fulford File, By James Fulford | When Records Are Sealed—A Meditation On Martin Luther King Day
"Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma, and who strangled Atahualpa," wrote Lord Macaulay 168 years ago.
Well, they don`t anymore, if they ever did, (it was Cortez and Pizarro, respectively) but, boy, do they know a lot about Martin Luther King, Jr.
Of course, there are many things about him that they don`t know. The NEA has a massive set of Curriculum Resources on Dr. King here—see if you can find the words plagiarism or Communism in there, let alone adultery.
It`s not only what they don`t know, it`s the things they know that aren`t so—when I read this, ten years ago, I could kind of tell that the author decided he didn`t care if he went to cocktail parties with liberals:
"To take just one example, I gnash my teeth when conservatives argue that `affirmative action` violates `the spirit of Dr. King`—`color-blind justice,` and all that. Nonsense. If King were alive today, he`d certain support state-imposed racial preferences. He was a Marxist, always moving leftward. Liberals are right to claim him as their own; conservatives who appeal to his `spirit` only make fools of themselves."[Media and Mythology, By Joe Sobran, SOBRAN`S, November–December 1998]
This is true. A new article by Benjamin J. Ryan in American Renaissance points out that Dr. King was calling for hard quotas:
"King has been praised, even by conservatives, as the great advocate of color-blindness. They focus too narrowly on one sentence in his `I Have a Dream` speech, in which he said he wanted to live in a nation `where [my children] will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.` The truth is that King wanted quotas for blacks. `[I]f a city has a 30 percent Negro population,` King reasoned, `then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30 percent of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas.`" [The Unknown Martin Luther King, Jr., January 2008]
At VDARE.COM, we`ve featured a lot of coverage of undercovered issues in the Martin Luther King saga. For example, we`ve featured Jesse Helms`s speech on the proposed MLK Day in 1983, which was read on the Senate Floor. ["Remarks of Senator Jesse Helms." Congressional Quarterly 129, no. 130 (October 3, 1983): S13452-S13461.]
Part of that speech was based on research by the late Sam Francis, who reported that his research was not only read on the Senate floor, it was thrown on the Senate floor and stomped on by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who characterized it as "a packet of filth."[The King Holiday and Its Meaning |The origins of our national celebration of multiracialism and political correctness]
Much of the hatred for anyone who criticizes Dr. King comes from the fact that some of the criticism concentrates on his sex life, which resembled Bill Clinton`s. People seem to feel that an investigation that uncovers that kind of detail must be evil. And there may be something in that.
Of course, the only reason Barack Obama got elected Senator was because, as Ann Coulter points out in her new book, Guilty "his media and campaign surrogates ripped open the court-sealed divorce records of his two principal opponents in his Senate race in Illinois."
First there was Blair Hull, who was Obama`s Democratic primary opponent, and then there was Republican Senate candidate Jack Ryan were attacked by Democrats in the mainstream media who managed to get a judge to release the sealed records of their divorces. The records of Ryan`s divorce from Jeri Ryan, (Star Trek`s Seven of Nine) contained accusations of sexual impropriety against Ryan. I won`t detail them, but they lack credibility, and as Ms. Coulter says "there`s a reason you never hear the expression `As true as claims made by an ex-spouse in divorce papers.`"
But my point is that Obama became a Senator because of the same kind of investigation that J. Edgar Hoover conducted on Martin Luther King—the difference being that the Democrats in the media (possibly with the help of David Axelrod) went public with the details, unlike Hoover.
Oh, and unlike Hoover, they didn`t have a lot of embarrassing facts on tape—just a lot of accusations. But it was enough to get Obama in the Senate.
And from there to the Presidency was just a short step—one that a freshman white Senator with his record couldn`t possibly have made.
And so, when you hear that Obama`s Presidency represents the triumph of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., you now have a different perspective on what that means.
If you`re one of the 29 percent of Americans who gets off work on MLK Day, enjoy it! In the words of Chris Rock, "You gotta be pretty racist to not want a day off from work."
If you are stuck at a computer, take some time to look at these.
- VDARE.com: 01/17/05 – Mexicanizing Martin Luther King, by Terry Graham
- VDARE.com: 01/16/05 – Random Reflections on Martin Luther King Day By Steve Sailer
- VDARE.com: 01/30/04 – Free At Last—To Celebrate Immigration On Martin Luther King Day
- VDARE.com: 01/18/04 – MLK Day: The Martin Luther King Cult By "Southern Sympathizer"
- VDARE.com: 01/18/04 – Martin Luther King Day: The Rise Of The New Feudalism By Paul Craig Roberts
- VDARE.com: 01/05/04 – Martin Luther King Day: A Preview in Rocky Mount N.C. By Sam Francis
- VDARE.com: 01/19/03 – Did Pre-MLK America Really Need Redemption? By Paul Gottfried
- VDARE.com: 12/07/03 – The View From MLK Street by Steve Sailer
- VDARE.com: 01/23/02 – Washington Down, King Up – GOP Out By Sam Francis
- VDARE.com: 07/26/01 – Abolishing America (cont.): Rename FBI Building After Who? By Sam Francis
- VDARE.com – 01/19/00 MLK Competition By Peter Brimelow


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The deep dark green of the newly harvested squash quickly began to fade over the last month toward a softer blue-gray tone. Interesting turban-shaped bottom, don't you think?
The outer shell is quite hard, so a very sharp knife is needed. Carefully cut the squash into sections, remove the seeds (set aside... see below) and scrape away the filament. Line cookie sheets with foil or parchment paper, and place the squash cut side up.
Heirloom Squash Puree from Diana's kitchen
extra virgin olive oil
8.5 pounds roasted Marina di Chioggia squash
4 TB softened butter
1 TB raw unfiltered honey
2 teaspoons kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
8 TB heavy cream
Brush the flesh with extra virgin olive oil. Roast the squash 45 to 90 minutes at 375°F (190.6°C) or until the squash is fork tender. It depends upon the size and variety as to the length of cooking. Roasting this one took all of 90 minutes. This 24 pounder filled the entire oven.
Once the roasting is complete, allow to cool slightly, then scoop the flesh out and into a large bowl. Add all the ingredients, combine and puree in food processor in increments. The 24 pound Marina di Chioggia yielded slightly over one-third or 8.5 pounds of puree. I must say that we could eat it just like this. The flavor is so fresh and gently sweet, almost seductive.
What will I do with the puree? Squash ravioli is at the top of my list, followed by a bit more soup per dear husband's request, will freeze some and perhaps I will try my hand at some gnocchi.
Note: All the seeds were soaked in water for about 15 minutes, washed and dried. Half are still drying for next season's garden and for anyone who would like to try their hand at them. Robin, Thomas... ?
The other half was roasted in the oven: toss with a little bit of extra virgin olive oil, garlic salt, sprinkle of cumin and bake at 375°F for 20-25 minutes on a cookie sheet.
1 egg
1 cup Galeux d'Eysines (Butternut or any other favorite) squash puree
1 cup ricotta cheese
3/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon white pepper
1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
zest from 1 small lemon
1/2 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano
2 cups semolina flour, plus more for dusting
2-3 Tablespoons unsalted butter
10-12 sage leaves, thinly sliced
Transfer the puree to a fine sieve, set over a bowl and let drain for about an hour.
Slightly beat the egg in a large bowl; add the puree, ricotta, salt, white pepper, nutmeg, lemon zest and cheese. (Be careful to not get the white of the lemon, only the outer zest.) Using a wooden spoon, gradually stir in the semolina and stir until a soft dough forms. Do not overwork the dough.
Divide the dough into 4 pieces. Lightly dust a work surface with semolina and roll each piece of dough into a 1-inch-thick dowel. Cut the dowels into 1 inch pieces. You can press the gnocchi lightly against the tines of a fork to make a ridged pattern or role them upward on a grater for small indentations.
Freezing: line a baking sheet with waxed paper and arrange the gnocchi in a single layer. Once they are frozen, remove each one and place them in freezer bags for cooking at another time.
Refrigerate those you will be cooking for several hours. Bring a pot of salted water to a boil.
Sage Brown Butter Sauce
In a large skillet, melt the butter, add the sage and cook over moderate heat until the sage becomes crisp and the butter begins to brown.
Add the gnocchi to the boiling water and cook, stirring occasionally, until they float to the surface_ about 4 minutes. Drain the gnocchi in a colander and immediately transfer them to the skillet with the sage butter until lightly browned.


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does this work with NTFS??
NTFS is not a bootable filesystem. NT/2K/XP must boot through a FAT (FAT-16 or FAT-32) partition before it can bring NTFS filesystems on- line. Granted, the FAT partition can be pretty small, but it must boot FAT, then as windows comes up, the NTFS drivers load.
This is the same reason you can't boot a compressed drive--you need a compressed filesystem driver.
----- Original Message ----- *From:* Ben Segbawu <mailto:bsegbawu Solucient com> *To:* 'redhat-install-list redhat com' <mailto:'redhat-install-list redhat com'> *Sent:* Thursday, September 19, 2002 3:31 PM *Subject:* RE: Dual boot with winxp using grub
Actaully I found a way to do it I used grub
Do sfdisk -l to find out what partitions you have on your system. If you have fat patition that xp uses for mbr then
You can vi /etc/grub.conf
Using the same format use
*title** Windows XP*
* rootnoverify (hdx,y)* where x,y is drive, partition
* chainloder +1*
when the bootloader comes up you can select what the os you want
-----Original Message----- *From:* little [mailto:little_hut softhome net] *Sent**:* Thursday, September 19, 2002 3:18 PM *To:* redhat-install-list redhat com *Subject:* Re: Dual boot with winxp using grub
xp will not recognize linux unless you know some trick to do so
anyway install lilo by /sbin/lilo
or make a bootable linux floppy
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*Subject:* Dual boot with winxp using grub
Hi All, I just installed both win xp and red hat 7.3 using grub But the system boots into just xp. I can use the cd to go into Linux rescue mode but how do I get the xp boot loader to recognize grub or do I have to install lilo.
Thanks in Advance
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Pricey prod'n will have a March 23 opening
TORONTO — With rare exceptions, producers like to keep the media as far away from their rehearsals as possible. And the higher the stakes, the greater the level of secrecy.
That conventional wisdom was turned upside down Dec. 12 when Kevin Wallace invited 150 journalists to watch six scenes from the upcoming stage version of "The Lord of the Rings," which begins previews Feb. 2 at the Princess of Wales Theater prior to a March 23 opening.
"It was essentially to get the core message out that we know what we're doing here and that this creative team we've gathered together has truly found the way to bring Tolkien to the stage," is how Wallace explained his unconventional action.
What made this especially daring was the fact that "Lord of the Rings" is a show that relies heavily on a spectacular physical production. With a C$27 million ($23.4 million) budget, a cast of 55 and a 40-ton set that consists of three interconnected turntables with 17 lifts, not to mention numerous special effects, it took courage to offer up the work under fluorescent lights with the cast in sweatpants and T-shirts.
Wallace insists he did this deliberately to focus on the true nature of the adaptation by Shaun McKenna and director Matthew Warchus.
"This is a hybrid piece of text, music and spectacle," Wallace explains. "The spectacle is there to serve the humanity of the story, which is ultimately about the emotional intensity these characters can generate."
The half-dozen sequences selected were evenly balanced between intimate and large-scale.
Tony Award winner Brent Carver, starring as the wizard Gandalf, radiated the emotional intensity he is known for, and young British actor James Loye brought the same kind of commitment to his scenes as the questing Frodo.
Another standout was Carly Street as Arwen. A young Toronto performer whose credits have been mainly in alternative productions, Street commanded attention from the crowd with her striking looks and burnished singing voice.
The music of A.R. Rahman ("Bombay Dreams") and the Finnish group Varttina has been woven by orchestrator Chris Nightingale into a unique sound that samples elements of everything from primal folk ballads to works of near-symphonic texture.
And choreographer Peter Darling ("Billy Elliot") has evolved a style of movement that elevates stage combat into something halfway between pagan ritual and modern dance.
The crowd of media packed into the drafty film studio in the city's East End, where the show is rehearsing, were pleased with what they saw. Comments in print the next day featured descriptions like "touching," "exciting" and "fantastic."
Wallace is happy with how ticket sales have been going. "We just passed the C$12 million mark, and we're noticing a sudden surge in single tickets as people suddenly realize the first preview is only eight weeks away.
"My ambition," he continues "is to open with C$17 million or C$18 million," which would come in just slightly behind the previous record Canadian advance of C$20 million for "The Lion King" in 2000.
That show ran four years, and while Wallace is unwilling to make any similar predictions for "The Lord of the Rings," he confidently states: "We have a huge momentum building toward the opening. The world will be looking toward Toronto on March 23."


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A few weeks ago, I was posed with a hypothetical question of which breed of people I would wish extinction upon. My options were as follows: Tyrants, corrupt politicians, thieves, auto rickshaw drivers, customer care 'executives', and Coldplay. So I chose Coldplay. In hindsight, I feel I was a bit hasty with my decision, and if I could go back in time and answer the question all over again, I would probably pick customer care execs.
Or Coldplay.
You see, I genuinely hate Coldplay. I know (on some level) that my indignation at the band's existence is irrational; I haven't even heard enough of their music to form a balanced opinion of it. But they piss me off. I'm not sure why, but I think the reason probably stems from an unhealthy, stalker-ish obsession that I harbour for another British band, Radiohead, one that predates Coldplay considerably, and that set me thinking.
At first glance, Coldplay sound like a very inferior rip-off of Radiohead. They use lush and full layers of guitar or keyboard driven melodies to build (the at times borderline gloomy) soundscapes, the rhythm section has a job of holding the fort and accentuating the moment, and the vocals serve to enhance the atmosphere within the song through hooks and falsetto-laced lines. As much as one may try to steer clear of boundaries and definitions in music, this particular formula is one that I like, in theory at least. And Radiohead are known, or even notorious for, their extreme levels of experimentation in their music, so I should have been excited that another band is on a similar path, but I wasn't. Last I checked, imitation was considered the sincerest form of flattery. As an aside, I love Nirvana, but I also quite like the thousands of post-grunge replicas that the band's success spawned. So why doesn't the same logic apply to Coldplay?
At what point does imitation turn into an unself-aware parody? I continued to dig deeper, and came up with further revelations. The band's vocalist, Chris Martin, looks like Thom Yorke, who just so happens to be the Radiohead frontman. That could be a British thing, or just an odd coincidence, I thought, so I let it go. Then I noticed how much Martin sings like Yorke. Another coincidence, or maybe just a form of homage to Yorke, or maybe even an unconscious disclosure of his own influences. I let that go.
I continued my search, and stumbled upon a website which told me that Martin is heavily involved in raising awareness about the environment and climate change. Yorke also happens to be a very strident propagator of environmental awareness, global warming, carbon footprints, and all those other cool terms. I found that to be a little fishy, but then better sense prevailed and I realized that the cause is a noble one, and Yorke doesn't hold the patent to environmental activism. So I let it go. Maybe it was all in my head.
Then, I found out that their fourth album, called Viva la Vida or Death and all his Friends, was produced by Brian Eno, a revolutionary and a man whom I greatly admire for his philosophical as well as aesthetic ideas of music (he's widely considered to be one of the creators, or main actors, in the movement of Muzak, or ambient music – colloquially the best example of Muzak would be the piano melodies you hear in a restaurant or the stuff played at airports). Thus, I had to reconcile myself to the fact that they had lured Eno to the dark side. That pissed me off. But I made my peace with it; it only showcased how open-minded Eno was, and how bigoted I was being for doubting his integrity for working with Coldplay. I heard a few songs from the album (which I didn't like), and I moved on.
Finally, I came to Mylo Xyloto, their latest disaster, which came out last year. Once more, they had Eno on board for a couple of songs. I read about how Martin himself had mocked Coldplay in a self-deprecating attempt at garnering some street cred, and how the band genuinely wanted to experiment with music. A very noble thought, I smirked. But I gave the album an honest listen, and there were even a couple of songs that I happened to like. Then I found out that they collaborated with Rihanna on one song, which I felt was a cheap gimmick aiming towards commercial success, and even more monies. But I gave them the benefit of the doubt, telling myself that maybe, just maybe, they actually wanted to collaborate with her for musical reasons. I continued listening. Oh, and I also realized that the Radiohead comparisons were well and truly dead now, since this particular album sounded nothing like Radiohead.
I heard the entire album, which I thought was distinctly mediocre, with a couple of nice moments here and there, but nothing more. I read about how they had sampled a song by Icelandic post-rock outfit, Sigur Ros – a band that practically oozes class and hipness like you wouldn't imagine – on one of the closing tracks. That made me angry again, since Sigur Ros are yet another band that I love, and I didn't want a band like Coldplay diluting their music. But my anger was short-lived, and it lacked conviction.
So I obsessed about it a little more, unable to find any definite grounds to explain my Coldplay angst, and my conclusions are jotted down hereafter –
- I don't like the music; I detest it, but I can live with it. It's not the worst thing ever, and I can always hit the stop button.
- It's not about them being Radiohead duplicates. It bothers me, but not that much to be honest. And anyway, they sound nothing like Radiohead now.
- It's not about all the other cool artists (Eno, Sigur Ros) that they're trying to corrupt by getting them onto the Coldplay bandwagon in some capacity in order to build up some credibility and false integrity for themselves – who am I to question their motives, right?
- It's not about Chris Martin and his likeness to Thom Yorke. That just makes me laugh more than anything else. Yes, he still does piss me off, but that's about it.
Yet I still hated Coldplay, and I couldn't, for the life of me, figure out why. So I thought harder still, and thought my fixation with John Cage, a man who propagated the idea that every sound in the universe constitutes music (please read about his iconic philosophical experiment titled 4'33" to understand the full context), and his musical inclinations. I'm a firm believer of Cage's philosophy, but I also believe that there exists an exception to most rules. And Coldplay is the exception.
A monkey banging frying pans against the door is making music, but Coldplay is just a group of people playing instruments and writing songs that largely lack direction, integrity, or conviction. They are anti-music, and they will continue to piss me off for god only knows how long; not that it bothers them in any way.


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: very honest : incapable of being corrupted
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: incapable of corruption: as a : not subject to decay or dissolution b : incapable of being bribed or morally corrupted
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text: Queens, New York collective World's Fair returns on the heels of their recent single/video "Suspect" with "Jasmine Guy," an easygoing song with a summertime vibe. Inspired by the title woman, the melodic Chuk Le Garcon-produced track features a shorthanded World's Fair crew comprised of Prince SAMO, Nasty Nigel, and Lansky Jones rapping out the trials and tribulations that come along with finding that special lady. You can listen to and download the track below.


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KALAMAZOO — Republicans Lorence Wenke and Rep. Tonya Schuitmaker are neck and neck in total campaign collections in the race for the 20th District Senate seat.
With the August primary less than two weeks away, Schuitmaker, an Antwerp Township resident, has raised a total of $274,975 through this election cycle for her Senate bid, with a balance of $106,086.Wenke, who lives in Comstock Township, has collected a total of $249,655 in his campaign for the 20th District seat and has a balance of just $121 remaining.
Spending may be evident to voters in yard signs dotting the community, mailings and television or radio ads on airwaves.
Rep. Larry DeShazor, R-Portage, is a distant third to his Republican opponents, having raised a total of $34,141 for his war chest, with $3,332 yet to spent.
The three are vying for the GOP nomination on Aug. 3.
The latest campaign finance reports were due Friday and list candidates' contributions and spending from January to July, as well as total contributions for the entire election cycle dating back to last year.
During the January-to-July reporting period, Wenke collected $192,260 and all but a few thousand dollars was of it was from his own largesse.
Schuitmaker raised $126,465 during the latest reporting period. Among the top donations: $10,000 from the Business Leaders of Michigan, $9,850 from the Michigan Chamber Political Action Committee, and $5,000 from the Michigan Beer and Wine Wholesalers Association. Dozens of individuals also contributed to her campaign.
The candidates are seeking to replace state Sen. Tom George, R-Texas Township, who is barred by term limits from running again. The 20th District covers all of Kalamazoo County and Antwerp and Paw Paw townships in Van Buren County.
On the Democratic side, Michigan State University law professor Mark Totten has again outraised his opponent for the seat, Rep. Robert Jones, who represents the 60th District and is forgoing a third term to run for the Senate.
|Read what the candidates said on different issues at MLive.com's 2010 Voter Guide.
Totten's report showed he raised a total of $198,205 for the entire election cycle and $64,743 of that he collected from January through this month. The Michigan State University law professor's report shows he has a balance of $71,850. His donations were from individual who contributed $1,000 or less.
Jones' report showed he raised a total of $61,096 for the entire election cycle and $47,521 between January and July. He has a balance of $6,881.
Jones' largest contribution is $10,378 from his own campaign and another $10,000 from his PAC, Jones Advocating for Michigan. He also has many contributions from individual donors.
|Read the candidates' finance reports here.
Incumbent Republican Ann Nieuwenhuis collected $4,020 and spent $3,645, according to the campaign filing, while Democratic challenger Leroy Crabtree raised $6,268 and spent $1,453 of it.
Board chairman David Buskirk was the biggest fund-raiser by gathering $7,010 and spending $1,966 of it.
His biggest donation was $5,000 from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Committee on Political Education. Buskirk, a Democrat, will face Republican Kai Phillips in the November general election.
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I think in terms of a new battle system, it should be tweaks to the current system. I'd like to see more focus on combo attacks beyond the Pledge moves in double/triple battles; they took the time to add these combo moves to the game, so I hope they spend more time on this concept.
I'm sure there'll be more now that the idea made it into the games.
I've been thinking of dual type moves also...
For example Muddy Water being Water&Ground, would mean 2x dmg to Fire, 1.5x to Poison, etc. And STAB would only improve it by 25% unless both types matching, giving the usual STAB.
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Also, I really believe Water should be weak to Poison. First off, poison can contaminate water, so the change already makes sense. But Poison is such an underused attack type in PvP battles, and it's because it only has one type it can hit super-effectively; the only Poison moves you'll typically see are Toxic and Toxic Spikes; offensive Poison attacks are ignored. Water Pokemon are also quite a common sight, due to their versatility. I think this change could balance things out a bit more in the game.
Next, Ice needs to be better defensively; they're way too fragile. Ice Pokemon are hardly used in battle because of how many common attack types they're weak to. Also, they only resist themselves. The problem is that there's no good weakness to remove from Ice, since all the weaknesses (Fire, Fight, Rock, Steel) make sense, since fire melts ice and physical force can break ice. Perhaps adding resistances would be a good start in making Ice Pokemon better. I say making Ice-types resistant to Dragon attacks would be a good start, plus they could be used as a safe switch-in to Dragon-types. Maybe a resistance to Water would work, too; for a long time, I used to think Ice could resist Water, anyway, since ice is just frozen water. If Water can resist Ice, perhaps Ice can resist Water (except Scald; dealing normal damage to Ice-types with Scald would make sense).
There's probably other changes that need to be made to balance out the type system, but I don't want to spend too much time right now trying to figure them all out.
This is my attempt at balancing it a bit. Ive changed it a few times over years.
Initially I didn't wanna make Water weak to poison because, well you can find a reason to make anything weak to poison, and because a Water pokemon is not made of water or even has to live in it, but merely specialized in Water based attacks.
So I kept the Poison reasoning to technique types...and noticed Dark, the only type besides Normal that doesn't have a real elemental ability or strength, it just plays unfair and uses dirty tricks. And faking a strong immune system wont make health issues go away.
But thinking about it again, and how everyone always first thinks of Water as something that should watch out for Poison attacks, maybe that'd make sense after all, and Water is defensively doing great anyways, so bringing it closer to Grass' "league" would be fine.
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I think the poison condition got severely nerfed in Gen V. The poison-while-walking needs to come back. I also feel like basic poison is pretty weak and forgettable compared to bad poison, which is much more commonly used. The burn condition has the advantage of lowering attack. Perhaps poison should lower a stat, as well. Special Attack, perhaps? And then, Toxic could be balanced out by not lowering any stats, but would still be useful by dealing much more damage every turn. I just think basic poison needs to be equally as handy as burn.
Poison while walking being removed is good, because now it makes perfect sense that pokemon are in a "frozen" state while inside pokeballs, since nothing else ever seems to affect them and they dont recover or anything.
Not sure about buffing regular poison that way. Turning it into a special will-o-wisp would be overpowered. Although Id love to see a status effect do that, its likely better if its a new one.
Bad poison is just a stronger version of poison, as Toxic spike layers prove.
What I would do instead is perhaps make it lower Sp.Defense? Either way Id apply that to bad poison too then obviously. Would still make regular poison better.
Also, I would make it so that poisoning a poisoned pokemon changes it to badly poisoned.
Frozen status comes to mind... lowered physical defense comes to mind. lol
There needs to be a Hypnosis like move for freezing.
Wonderng what new status effect could be the special equivalent of burn... if possible a type that lacks such moves.
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the red Basculin could evolve by being traded holding a DeepSeaTooth, while the blue Basculin could evolve by being traded holding a DeepSeaScale. (Some of those trade items do need to be less exclusive to certain Pokemon; there's beginning to be a bit too many evolutionary items in all, IMO) Speaking of evolutions, Jynx still needs her evolution. How is it that Electabuzz, Jynx, and Magmar all got their baby forms simultaneously, but Jynx got left out of an evo in Gen IV?
They've tried keeping evolution methods consistent, by never using an old item to give an old pokemon a new evolution. Otherwise Eevee would have evolved by stone everytime, and every trade+item evo could simply be a trade evo, among other cases, all the way to breeding incenses....
Initially Jynx Magmar and Electabuzz were meant as a trio but that never fully made it into the games, and even what was left of that concept was scrapped with GSC, and since then the group has been only going further apart every gen, while Electabuzz and Magmar not just stayed a duo (which they were from the beginning anyways, what with being version exclusives, remember?), but actually got even closer related by new evos.
Jsut getting an evo too wouldn't make it fit into the group suddenly as there are some serious differences, like Jynx being female, having a secondary type, Psychic, and having way lower stats. Also its design doesn't do what the other do: heavily showcase their element. You look at them and go "whoa, a Fire and an Electric pokemon", unlike Jynx which barely anyone would even guess to be an Ice type.
So in short, Smoochum was more like a one-time homage to the scrapped trio concept.
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The Nasiriyah attack was the deadliest against an American ally since the occupation began and appeared to send a message that international groups are not safe anywhere in Iraq. It came on the same day the chief U.S. administrator for Iraq went to the White House to put forth proposals on transferring more authority to the Iraqis.
Col. Gianfranco Scalas said 18 Italians were killed: 12 Carabinieri paramilitary police, four soldiers, a civilian working at the base and a documentary filmmaker. A spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition said at least eight Iraqis also died. The bomber - whose nationality was not known - also died.
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Firefighters battled a barn fire Tuesday afternoon on Town Line Road in Menomonee Falls, near Lannon.
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So you steal a car (what else?) and start mowing down people and generally causing a bit of a ruck in order to attract some attention. It's not long before the cops come calling. Niko rams into the cop car, gets out, uses his own car as cover and starts blind firing with a pistol. Then, once all of the cops have left their vehicles, our demo dude makes Niko sprint towards a cop car, jumps inside, and speeds off.
We've only accumulated a couple of stars worth of attention, so it's a fairly simple escape out of the search area. But we're told that the police can become incredibly difficult to dodge. They will communicate with each other over police radio (you'll hear them talking about specific streets), set up road blocks and combine to force you to a halt. They will also readjust their search depending on where you were last spotted. So, if they see you while you're trying to get away the search radius will restart from that position. In all, it looks like Rockstar have tried to create a more realistic getaway experience then ever before, one that's based on line of sight and feels like a game of cat and mouse.
Once we've escaped we're given a glimpse of the police database. You simply type in the name of the person you're after and it will cycle through hundreds of faces, eventually returning a selection of results. You pick the right one, in this case Lyle Rivas, and get his address. You mark it on your sat-nav and head towards the mark on the mini-map, smashing multiple posts and destroying fire hydrants along the way.
Niko arrives and, predictably, Lyle does a runner. Here we witnessed a known bug where the mission will fail one out of four times, but don't worry, Rockstar's on it. Incidentally, if you do fail a mission Niko will receive a text message which lets him give it another go. You jump in the cop car, put the sirens on (to smooth the journey so to speak) and give chase. Here we're given a look at how driving and shooting at the same time works in GTAIV. In a first for the series you can smash the near side window, lean out and shoot forwards while in a car, aiming with the right analogue stick. Luckily Niko has an Uzi at his disposal, and goes straight for Lyle's tyres. The car crashes to a halt and Lyle makes a run for it. He doesn't get far.
Back with the speedboat and our demo comes to an inevitable conclusion as we park up on a beach area. Here we find a random computer-controlled resident of the city sitting on a bench reading a paper and minding his own business. Perhaps he highlights Rockstar's most impressive achievement with taking Liberty City into next-gen territory on the PS3 and Xbox 360 - that is to create the most atmospheric video game sandbox we've ever seen. We just can't wait to try it out for ourselves.


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