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Originally I was gonna be a zombie, and my daughter a soldier, then she decided she wanted to be a zombie too. This lasted until she saw me in my make-up got freaked out and she decided to be a fairy instead.
I wore my TCW Jek and my buddy wore his TD.
Great shots!
wow.. nice...!
I went as Han Solo(ANH)
Good stuff Rob! great accuracy..BTW I went to state : )
My ESB Stormtrooper suit
heres me at a couple of halloween parties in my mando suit.
My gang of ghouls..
(Inspired by the young man from ww and c2e2)
My older boys helped out at a local Haunted House. They designed an Aliens room. (Cheesy but in the dark with smoke and stobes, came out pretty cool)
Store bought alien mask, body was under armour, tubes, and craft foam.
Here's my PART 6 Jason:
Hey Tony you were supposed to post a pic of you IN costume! LOL!
My Road Warrior:
There's also a giant GWAR style hammer there that I made as a Thor's hammer for the mythology themed party. And that's little Boba Fett with me.
Son and I played Luke and Yoda. The wife and daughter were fairy-princesses.
My daughter and I:
I might literally SH_ _ my pants if I saw you on the street LOL! NICE suit man
I was Altair from Assassin's Creed this Year and the Joker in 09'
X-X **** you guys...i wish serbian celebrated halloween...i really need an ocasion to get into a costume but in serbia there really isnt one Q.Q
Here are a few my girl snapped of me in my custom snow clone Commander costume at the Paseo Nuevo mall in downtown Santa Barbara. The kids went cahwazy!
My wonderful girl Angela and trusty photographer
me, wife and son....
My Jack
Holy cr@p, MojoTurbo! I'm not a big fan of the Pirates, but that Jack is AWESOME.
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Topic: RoR development slow on Windows
Although I'm using a top notch development machine (C2D, 2GB Ram) Ruby development under windows seems to be significantly slower than on Mac OS.
Especially the startup of the rails environment (rake, console, ...) takes a considerable amount of time (in the range of 7-10 seconds).
IMHO under Mac OS things come up much faster.
Is there a way to speed up the startup time of the Ruby / Rails tools ?

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Colleen Bassett at our new Studio Console
Oak and Thorn host Colleen Bassett pauses during a training session with our new control console. The screen in front of her shows the new automation system we installed. These are major equipment upgrades that greatly improve our technical stability. Our thanks to the Community Foundation of Mendocino County as well as other private donors for their generous grants that made these purchases possible.
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'Just wondering if there's anyone out there with some info on Neil Aspinall's relationship with him. Honestly, prior to reading the current MOJO retrospective, I knew NOTHING of the fact that Aspinall sired a child with (Pete's Mom) MONA BEST! This is HUGE, and from what I've derived, this has been an "open secret" for decades. Does anyone know the "ins and outs" of this situation? Does Roeg (who is the SPITTING IMAGE of Neil) have any relationship with Aspinall? Did Aspinall support him at all? Someone's GOT
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Skip to comments.Claire McCaskill Destroyed Todd Akin In The Missouri Senate Race
Posted on 11/07/2012 8:59:01 AM PST by doug from upland
U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill beat embattled Republican Congressman Todd Akin by a overwhelming margin in Missouri's Senate race Tuesday night.
With 99% of precincts reporting, the Democratic Senator lead Akin by a whopping 54.7% to 39.2%, according to the Missouri Secretary of State.
Akin conceded the shortly before 10 p.m. CST., the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
"Things don't always turn out the way you wanted," Akin said in his concession speech.
He ran on a platform that criticized incumbent McCaskill for supporting Obamacare, the stimulus act, and her family's close ties to federal money, The Associated Press reported Tuesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Romney won Missouri by 58%. Any other GOP candidate other than Akin would have won.
Only good thing about this is with Aiken not in the Senate, the GOP won't have the lodestone around its neck for the next 6 years of being the "pro-rape" party.
Did she win legitimately? Because the body has ways of shutting down disappointment if it's a legitimate defeat.
What a tool.
The money McCaskill and the Dems spent making him her opponent was well spent. He succeeded in his mission. Since he lost this bad, I think it's safe to say he would have lost even if he had never made those comments.
The pols would do well to just have a copy of a 4-D ultrasound at the third trimester handy and remind people that Democrats think it is OK to kill this.
Yep. Akin absolutely HAD to get out of that race. He dragged down the entire party. He's not the sole reason for our situation, but he contributed a hell of a lot more than Christie's antics did last week. Women outvoted men and went for Obama and the Dem Senators by too much to overcome.
There's a plan.
Lack of messaging discipline. Akin stepped in it huge and failed to recognize how badly. Mourdock the same.
Akin was intellectually shallow if he thought he could make a public statement like this before the election and it not cost him. He demonstrated that he was not politically savy enough to get elected.
We blew taking control of the Senatae in 2010 because of bad candidates. We did it again in 2012. When are we going to quit shooting ourselves in the foot?
Also, lack of party discipline. Akin was requested by everybody in the GOP to step aside and let another candidate carry the torch, but he was arrogant and stupid and thought it was all about him.
As long as abortion is the number one issue expect Republicans to lose. Too many women want to be able to end unwanted pregnancies by medical means. Whether they actually do that or not should not be the paramount issue in national politics. People opposed to abortion should not force the issue into the platform unless they want to lose. Values voters are more than willing to stay home if they think their candidate isn't pure. Sorry Christians. We losw on principles that we can't defend.
Actually, Missouri would have happily elected almost anyone *but* Claire McCaskill. Except for Akin. Once he opened his mouth, he was finished. If he'd have kept his mouth shut, he'd be getting ready for his new Senate seat today.
He went over the Crazy Line and paid for it. If anyone doubts that's the reason why, find out just how much people disliked Claire after four years. Again, anyone but him would have beaten her, including Akin if he had kept his mouth shut.
But he didn't, and probably some of that splatter hit the national election, too. Pissed-off (and rightly so) women in the ballot box voting against the Republicans in other states because of Akin and the other guy hurt us a lot.
He could`ve done a mea culpa and stepped aside after that gaffe... but no, he said God was urging him to stay in the race. No, Todd.. it was your ego. Thanks, turdball.
money down the drain...
Aiken shouldn't have been punished for one stupid remark...it wasn't fair...still, a team player and a patriot steps aside for such things....
which is the biggest problem with "patriots" and so called conservatives.....many of them are arrogant me firsters....the third party people...so many good people could have won their races had it not been for some cockamamie "constitutional" party candidate....
I hate them and their supporters almost as much as I hate the dictator..
We need some sort of Boot Camp for our future candidates. These guys are in need of some serious training on how NOT to take the bait when the media jackals start provoking them.
Nope Akin had a ten point lead ... He destroyed himself... and his massive ego wouldnt let him quit...
But he drug the party down with him and gave the Dims a great weapon to use in the general... thanks pal.
so in truth we are supporting MORE abortion, not less....
is that really what are intent is?.....
personally, I see the bigger picture..and we are failing miserably....
I am all for nominating and backing strong, solid Christian Conservatives. Unfortunately Akin was an idiot trying to play the part of a strong solid Christian Conservative.
People ... if we want to win the Senate we need to avoid nominating individuals who fit the negative stereotypes that define the Left's description of Conservatives. Todd Akin may be a good man and may share the right values but he was an incredibly weak (and not too bright) candidate. We gave this one away!!
I am all for nominating and backing strong, solid Christian Conservatives. Unfortunately Akin was an idiot trying to play the part of a strong solid Christian Conservative.
People ... if we want to win the Senate we need to avoid nominating individuals who fit the negative stereotypes that define the Left's description of Conservatives. Todd Akin may be a good man and may share the right values but he was an incredibly weak (and not too bright) candidate. We gave this one away!!
Oops, both did. Twice.
The problem is not opposition to abortion. It's not articulating your views on such in a coherent manner. If you get tangled up in the rape aspect of the debate (not that it shouldn't be mentioned, but both Akin and Mourdock mangled it) - you can sink your own campaign.
Just because one is a Christian does not mean you will be a good politician or even a good candidate.
I do not want someone running who is sooooo ego driven that he cannot understand a death inducing gaffe when he makes it. Politics may indeed be a dirty game but when one's ego says I am the only one who can properly convey the message then you are so out of bounds as to be not useful.
Aiken's loss was self induced and he was too ignorant to see it
I'm getting really annoyed by the doom-and-gloomers. The TEA party had an amazing amount of success in 2010, but let's focus on the handful of races that went poorly instead, shall we? Because, anything less than 100% victory means the whole movement is flawed, right?
From what I recall of the Missouri primary, there were three good conservatives running, and any of them would have been acceptable to the base. Akin won, but after he stepped in in, and then doubled down, he would have been wise to have withdrawn in favor of one of the others. He didn't and the result is history. No telling if either of the others would have won, of course.
But the original selection process went fine. Politicians are people too (all evidence to the contrary). They make mistakes. But an individual politician's foul-up isn't a reason to invalidate the philosophy that got them nominated or elected.
We are not celebrating. We are disgusted. Was there no other Christian to support here? Of course there was.
Being christian isn't a free pass to be in idiot or a terrible candidate. Akin being a selfish moron will help allow gay marriage and more abortions. Sonds like a good christian to you?
I will.
If you live in the area, you saw the ads McCaskill had out there quoting all the GOP establishment types ranting on Akin. I think that ad did WAY more damage than anything Akin said. Their public statements were far more idiotic than anything Akin said, and they just kept doing it!
Also, the GOP refused to give him any money. (They may have kicked in a little toward the end, but no ads I saw gave them any "credit" at the end.) Okay, they were ticked because he didn't bow out. But get over it. What was more important - that he didn't do what they wanted, or that McCaskill get beaten. We have their answer.
That's the GOP establishment for you. Democrat lite.
The Democrats successfully beat Republicans over the head over the abortion issue and draw off women voters who believe Republicans want to end contraception. Putting "right to life" in the platform is not serving the candidates nor the people who oppose abortion. It would be better for Republicans to strike "right to life" from the platform and refuse to talk about abortion during campaigns. Take a page from the Democrats and use stealth measures to advance the agenda. Once in power vote for pro life legislation but don't advertise it in the campaign.
Similarly, don't talk about budget cuts. Talk about the federal budget as the family budget and the need to prioritize spending so we as a country can live within our means. Challenge the Democrats to meet after the election in a bipartisan way to bring spending in line with revenue. Romney came close to articulating this concept during one of the debates. He failed to capitalize on it by repeating it daily on the stump. It would sound good to all of the "feel good" voters who profess to value bipartisanship.
We have to face the fact that the demographics in this country have changed forever. A true conservative -— our point of view -— is a minority position. I don't like it, but it is the way it is. Romney had more chance of winning than a true conservative, and we even lost with him. There are more takers than producers, and they will not vote themselves out of benefits. In the next two years, we will see many more California cities going bankrupt. And cities across the country.
"Pretty soon, you run out of other peoples money."
"The pols would do well to just have a copy of a 4-D ultrasound at the third trimester handy and remind people that Democrats think it is OK to kill this."
Exactly. When some reporter tries to pin you down on one extreme end of the abortion debate, such as an extremely early abortion after a rape, why don't these candidates have sense enough to IMMEDIATELY answer that democrats enthusiastically support abortion a day before delivery. Or in the lunatic obamas case, AFTER delivery.
When they try to take you to one extreme, highlight the democrats extremeist position. The democrats are far more radical the what is accepted by swedish feminists. Check the law in Sweden and be amazed.
Christie, Akin and Mourdock,, thanks guys.
Some of the delusional crack pots and clinical psychotics don't understand that people like Akin Mourdok and these other freaks of nature are killing this party with their "holier than thou" bs.
His problem wasn't being a Christian. It was saying something incredibly stupid and not having the sense that he blew up his own candidacy and hurt other GOP candidates, probably even Romney. They even used his words in a congressional race in CA. Some martyr. Thanks in part to him abortions under 0bamacare will commence.
Akin was a moron and an idiot. Many of us BEGGED for him to get out while there was still time and let Steelman take over.
The deusional psychotics and crackpots thought his staying in was going to work out ok.
YEP -- McCaskill saved her most effective commercial for last and that featured the words of McCain and Romney and Priebus attacking Akin for his views. McCaskill sends her thanks to the GOPe for her most effective political commercial.
"Once in power vote for pro life legislation but dont advertise it in the campaign.
Similarly, dont talk about budget cuts. Talk about the federal budget as the family budget and the need to prioritize spending so we as a country can live within our means."
Boy, you must not be very bright. Next thing you'll be telling me i should use available cover and concealment in a gunfight rather than standing boldly in the center of the street, like a real man, like in the movies.
You're probably one of those nuts who would rather get hits on a bad guy than posture for the bystanders.
Id rather have had that commercial than the one of Romney and the GOP agreeing with that idiot Akin. And don't kid yourself, Akin doing that stunt a week before the convention breathed new life into the war on women thing.
It was a punchline for the democrats in theor coonvention.
And just as we recovered all we could by early October, along comes idiot boy Mourdoch, a few days before the debates, speaking for the lord about rape.
How about a commercial where they just keep their mouths shut -- like they said Akin should have done.
Thanks for all your brilliant political analysis.
This is the reason young men won't follow you. You never say anything that is not politically correct. You all are knee-jerk enforcers for the wrong side.
"Political Correctness is Marxism, with all that implies: loss of freedom of expression, thought control, inversion of the traditional social order and, ultimately, a totalitarian state."
Sarah Steelman would have been a better candidate, hands down.
If you actually made sense it might be more convincing. I am not a knee jerk anything (in fact my right knee doesn't jerk at all since the pins were put in many many years ago)
You wouldn't recognize a man driven by ego rather than faith if he had a God written sign over his head.
And by the by I am asking no one to follow me so get off your dumb soap box. It is drowning you in suds
BTW, Akin is quite the leader..
That's some knot you tied, LOL.
Here's the bottom line, America will decline until we ask God for help. We can't do that while we kill babies.
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More:U.S. Response to Humanitarian Crisis in the Horn of Africa | How You Can Help
More than 13.3 million people are in need of emergency assistance in the Horn of Africa, primarily in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia. During a High-Level Meeting on Somalia at the United Nations on September 23, 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced approximately $42 million in additional humanitarian assistance, which includes an additional $30 million for Somalia. Secretary Clinton said:
"...We have an opportunity today because of the withdrawal of al-Shabaab forces from most parts of Mogadishu. That has created a welcome shift in momentum, and that allows the Transitional Federal Government an unexpected opportunity to show Somalis that you can deliver security and basic services and lay the foundation for a stable, funcitoning government. That is what we want to see for the people of Somalia.
"The political instabilty, the limited rule of law, the security threats have tragically affected Somalis for many years, and today it has an added tragic consequence because it has prevented many Somalis from getting acess to aid during the drought and famine. Fully one-third of all Somalis are now displaced in their own country or in countries bordering Somalia. And I thank the bordering countries for their generosity and hospitality under very difficult circumstances.
"But al-Shabaab's efforts to block NGO access to the most vulnerable areas of Somalia and its limitations on the delivery of life-sustaining humanitarian assistance has exacerbated this crisis. As the famine persists and al-Shabaab continues to deny Somalis access to life-saving assistance, the TFG and the international community have to work even harder together.
"The U.S. has provided more than $600 million in this crisis response, including approximately 102 million directly for Somalia to increase access to clean water, sanitation, heath, and of course, food. And I am pleased that the United States today will be contributing an additional $42 million for the region with $30 million specifically for the people of Somalia.
"But we have to send a message to al-Shabaab. And we and all of our partners, including the Arab League and the OIC, must continue to call on al-Shabaab to allow unfettered access. I honestly do not understand what is in it for them, what possible ideological or political motive can compel them to see women and children die because they cannot get access to help.
"But it's not only that we as the international community have an obligation to assist in this crisis. We have an obligation to support Somali efforts to develop a politically stable government. And I am encouraged that such a broad range of partners has comitted to fulfill the goals of the roadmap and its four prioirty tasks to be accomplished by August. These are ambitious but necessary goals.
"By securing Mogadishu, we can create the conditions for the TFG and other international actors to improvide basic services. So I join in the request that I already heard to help strengthen and expand the number of AMISOM troops on the ground within the current mandate and to purchase equipment and uniforms and support training.
"Secondly, we want to put the process toward a constitution to protect the rights of all Somalis, a timelie for parliamentary reforms and credible elections for the president and speaker of the parliament in August 2012.
"Third, we will continue to call for all Somalis to renounce violence, lay down their arms, and to continue this good work with regional leaders to try to create a culture in which such violence is not tolerated.
"And finally, we wish to assist in promoting better goverance by fighting corruption and increasing transparency that in turn will give Somali people confidence in their officials and public institutions."
You can read the Secretary's full remarks here on state.gov.
Adri D. in Indonesia writes:
what happen to extremism ?
Somethings are just beyond our understandings
Eric in New Mexico writes:
@ Dipnote bloggers,
If you'all would be so kind as to send a copy of this post to the Sec of State's office, I'm sure she'll appreciate a citizen's concise answer to her conundrum expressed in the following, for in the complexities of diplomacy it is sometimes the most simple things that causes wonderment at men's actions in this world.
@ Sec. Clinton,
The simple truth of the matter Madam Secretary is that you are blessed with an enormous ammount of empathy for people, therefore it is completely understandable why you can't imagine what motivates al-sheebab to add to people's misery in Somalia.
The answer is this; It is an extention of their total lack of empathy which feeds their desire to create mayhem and misery, in order to justify their ideology, as practiced through terrorism.
Given that if they had even a spark of empathy they would not do what they do, they have to maintain a strict dicipline of having none at all in order to exist with their stated unethical purpose in being intact.
My recomendation as to how to deal with the problem of humanitarian access does not involve asking al shebbab to step aside and let the aid in, but rather shoving them aside rather rudely to deliver it by force in the face of terrorists inhabiting a safe haven they've created and holding thousands of satarving hostages within it, being the opperating conditions whereby such action to protect populations is completely justified and warranted under international law.
I do believe if the intern. comm. won't take responsibility to address the problem in such a manner, then it falls to the US to make good on the civilian efforts and take a military approach to assuring those humanitarian efforts gain universal access to populations and the utter defeat of al sheebab and then and only then can Somalia's refugees think about going home to rebuild their lives and livelyhoods.
Anyway, I hope this helps resolve the question you have in the following referenced quote;
"But we have to send a message to al-Shabaab. And we and all of our partners, including the Arab League and the OIC, must continue to call on al-Shabaab to allow unfettered access. I honestly do not understand what is in it for them, what possible ideological or political motive can compel them to see women and children die because they cannot get access to help."
Maureen in Massachusetts writes:
Secretary Clinton/ UN Somalia:
It looks as though some slight improvement has been made since the last post titled- Famine Spreads in Somalia. Secretary Clinton is addressing this humanitarian crisis in a big way with an excellent balance of sensitivity and persuasiveness.
International support is growing and more attention is being gained to this crisis in the Horn of Africa. Security as intervention and forcing the hand of corrupt organizations that starve women and children are at the forefront. This is the obvious, most immediate route but now let us focus on "the long game" and empower these women with the tools, education and technology needed to feed themselves and become leaders within their nations. The goal and plight of food security for everyone may involve women in a larger way.
Zharkov in the U.S.A. writes:
Bullying is for losers.
No need to start a war over a rice delivery.
Just air drop the food bags and let the starving masses grab their share. They can make tents out of the parachutes.
Label the boxes, "Gifts from The Secretary" and include her speeches and a visa so they can learn English, come to America, and do the jobs that Americans can't find.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
Leaving a country to the whim of terrorists and warlords for the past 20 years is for losers Z, that's why folks are dealing with a famine there now, and if the basic instability is not addressed in whatever fashion you want to call it so long as al Sheebab is history as a result, no longer able to terrorize anyone...then it is just more of the same loser attitude that hasn't got the hard work done yet and creates harder work down the road to fix.
So now folks got a real mess on their hands after 20 years of neglect by the international community and all bombing folks with food will do is give al Sheebab the opportuninty to feed themselves as they take it away from the starving at gunpoint. Nice in theory but not in practicality.
Somalia needs a Marshal Plan, nothing less after folks take the next 6 months in an international effort to rid the nation of terrorists, pirates, and start feeding the people on a massive scale.
And folks would be stopping a war that is already being waged by al sheebab on innocents and has been going on for well over a decade, rather than starting one...as it's going after the neighborhood bully and Al Sheebab very much needs to be shoved aside as rudely as folks are inclined to do so.
Hasn't thew last decade taught you anything?
Terrorists don't respond well to reason or kindness, or plea's to their humanity. Too busy proving how divorced they are from what human is, I guess.
What's not to bully over that? "Comply or die" is more like it.
And that's the message folks need to be sending to Al Sheebab right about now.
Zharkov in the U.S.A. writes:
America doesn't have a monopoly on fighting terrorism and hunger. France has desert experience with their Foreign Legion in Algeria for decades until recently.
Somalia is obviously a French problem for Sarko to handle. He did so well in Libya, that Somalia should be a cakewalk. Somalia needs a French touch.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
Never suggested America did Z, and after all it is esprit de corps I'm looking for, and France is more than welcome to do whatever it feels it needs to, better to go after bad guys with a posse rather than all by their lonesome though...be a lot more strait forward in assuring results if it was a "we thing" among concerned nations among the willing anyway.
You want the killing to stop, but you arn't willing to do what's neccessary to stop it?
That's not a question to you Z, that's my question to world leaders....regarding this, Syria, among a number of other things...that cause my general state of impatience with the pace of change in global mindset.
Folks talk of all the work the UN does as a global forum and yet there's one initiative and debate that hasn't been had that really needs to be, and that's how to prevent little dictators from becoming genocidal maniacs, and how to prevent terrorists from having a longer term life expectancy than neccessary.
And just what it is going to take to protect populations in this quarter of the 21st century.
It's not that these problems are impossible to solve, but they are bigger problems now that they were when no one had the political will prior to 9/11 to deal with them in any kind of permanently effective manner with a strategy attatched that was adaptable to circumstance.
We may not be able to be all things to all people everywhere at once in this world, but we don't need to be as a nation,...only just where it matters, saves lives, and our presence is required to defeat terrorists, and feed people.
I'm sure that will employ folks here at home too.
Maureen in Massachusetts writes:
Secretary Clinton/UN:
@eric @z
France may have an "in" due to their strong African presence in the past and budgets dedicated to initiatives such as Medecins Sans Frontiers.
The awkward balance of UN security intervention and aid missions in the same breath is now an uncomfortable reality in the global community. National security budgets of partnership nations are being re-thought due to this unfortunate terrorist aspect of food security.
If entire populations are being denied the most basic, fundamental life sustaining elements than we, the international community have the duty and "obligation" to act. This is not a job or responsibility for any one country to take on in my opinion. It is so much about prevention and education and really involves commitment qui dure.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
@ Maureen in Mass.,
I think the legal conditions for the protection of populations has been met in that al sheebab is by preventing humanitarian aid access, directly denying the people of that region under their control basic sustinance of life.
They hold no soveregnity over territory, only influence an area by force of arms, and it will take force of arms to remove them as a threat to the population.
Although when multiple nations decide to put about 100,000 troops on the ground w/ equipment, they might choose descretion as the better part of valor and not get stupid with folks...and walk away.
And yeah, unless you want the dying to continue, each and every individual nation is obligated in their own right to uphold the UN charter and put a stop to genocide...there's got to be at least a half dozen actions taken in the UN that set precedent for "all neccessary measures" to be acted upon in this case.
Where it concerns international cooperation, I'd ask China to put her brand spanking new (old) aircraft carrier off the coast filled with gas and helicopters to help unload ship to shore the 5000 tons of wheat Russia is going to give to the crisis, because they both can and they earn international kudos for being nice guys...(chuckle).
And if the military leadership thinks of this as having been invited to a "hunting party" to take care of the varmits so the herd can eat in peace, then it is good to remember that cowboy diplomacy is mostly all about mending fences and leading the herd to greener pastures, and it's fully dependant on the strenth and temperament of the horse ridden.
What's nice about the way this works is that generally the US can find folks willing to ride with our President when the peace of nations is at stake, when a posse must be formed to deal with the occasional outlaw or dictator.
And you know what lessons from history one may draw from the last few decades?
The longer one waits to engage in regime replacement therapy, the more lives get lost, displaced, damaged beyond repair, and a culture of dependancy on foreign aid is not a long term safety net...But if you expect Somali's to take take back their country on their own, that would be expecting a bit much from a bunch of malnorished folks who are unarmed and in refugee camps, let alone a proto-government, barely recognizable in its ability to function under the circumstances.
If AMISOM has the mandate and the resources, then it may just find the confidence to do the stabilization job properly and rise to the occasion,...that would be a big step forward for Africa, because its peoples could live with reasonable assurance that no one would simply be able to ursurp power over a people in unjust manner again. It's the least Africans can do for themselves to gang up on them when they try.
Attitude is everything;
"...It is so much about prevention and education and really involves commitment qui dure."
Agreed, ...folks generaly figure out what works and what doesn't eventually. Ethical infants generally learn the hard way though, and the results of trying to educate them are...well, interesting to say the least.
As for "awkward", war is always at the very least.. that, if not a hell of a lot more unpleasent for everyone, but to solve your concern supplies are supplies, if ngo's can't deliver in a combat zone, someone can, and must.
The hats the President wears between C in C and his other official duties does not include one called "Instigator in Chief", but unnofficially I think it must be taken as a given that to lead this nation, and lead the world in helping to find good grazing, he's kind of got to wear that one underneath all the others.
I appreciate everything the Sec of State said to the Somali's themselves in that it is they who must own the results of any international help, and that makes them either a part of the solution, or by lack of solidarity, an excuse for their failure to succeed along the path agreed as outlined.
But that means folks also have to give them every chance possible to stand up a peaceful Somalia that has a future...not more of this.


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USA Roller Sports is proud to announce the establishment of a new Roller Derby club trophy named in honor of the creator of the sport, Leo Seltzer.
The Seltzer Cup will be presented annually to the winner of the USARS Roller Derby National Championship and will be engraved with the name of the victorious team. The Cup will be displayed to the public throughout the year at the National Museum of Roller Skating in Lincoln, Nebraska.
"We believe that our sport needs to continue moving forward, but we must never forget those individuals who made it possible for us to be here. The Seltzer Cup is a tribute to the person who indirectly has changed the lives of everyone in this community. It is now our opportunity to come together as a community and take the sport to the level of competition that Leo Seltzer and many others only dreamt of," said Richard Hawkins, USARS Executive Director.
Jerry Seltzer, son of Leo and long time promoter of Roller Derby, has given USA Roller Sports permission to use his family's name for the Cup. "I would be honored, and I appreciate it on behalf of my father.....I am intending to be in Fresno," said "The Commissioner", as he is known in the derby community.
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Outlandish And Colorful, 'Priscilla' Is A Lot Of Fun
BUFFALO – If the gray skies and the blankness of snow are getting you down, there is total relief for those who are able to drive to Buffalo.
"Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" opened Tuesday at Shea's Performing Arts Center, and rarely has a show had so many colorful, outlandish sets and costumes, or such an energetic and talented cast.
The show can be a bit controversial, although Tuesday's audience didn't think so. The aisles and lobby were full of people smiling and praising the show, and the ovations at the end went on and on. The book was written by Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott, based on the successful 1990s film by the same name.
The plot concerns a drag queen, a man who earns his living by performing nightclub acts, dressed as a woman. Our hero goes by the name of Tick. He is a headliner in a club in Sydney. Once, while performing at a casino in the central Australian town of Alice Springs, which is hundreds of miles from Sydney, Tick met a kind and sympathetic woman, and now, six years late, he gets a phone call from her: their six-year-old son is wanting to meet him.
Tick enlists two of his friends, and the trio buys an aging tour bus, which they name "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert." They set off through the Australian desert, trying to reach Alice Springs, despite the fact that the bus breaks down regularly, and the towns through which they pass are peopled by gruff, miners and herders, who aren't sympathetic to the trio, nor to how they earn their living.
The entire cast works very hard, and except for the three principals, each member must play close to a dozen different parts, from a blue collar workman to a dancing cupcake, complete with lighted candle on top. And, everything in between, as well.
Wade McCollum was winning as Tick, capable of making us laugh until our sides hurt, then making us feel the loneliness and frustrations of his character, just as effectively.
Praise also, to Scott Willis and Bryan West as Tick's travelling companions. From time to time, a trio known as "the Divas" floated down from the ceiling, each time in a different outrageous costume, to serve as a singing chorus. They were Emily Afton, Bre Jackson, and Brit West, and brava to each.
The orchestra, directed by Brent Frederick, kept musical work after musical work flowing past us, without a noticeable flaw of any kind. Nearly all the music was not original, but rather a collection of already successful hits from popular music, including "I Say a Little Prayer," "Material Girl," "I Love the Nightlife," "Thank God I'm a Country Boy," and "Girls Just Want to Have Fun."
Director Simon Philips managed to get all the hoopla of the original Broadway show into a form which seems to be working very well, as it is disassembled once a week and carted to a new city for the next performance. Praise too, for choreographer Ross Coleman, who had everyone moving fabulously.
Special praise to Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner, who designed the literally hundreds of costumes which seemed to change several times per minute, and each of them was a monstrosity of glitter and glow.
The show is entertaining and a lot of fun. If you've read this far, you have a good idea of whether or not you'd enjoy it. "Priscilla" continues at Shea's through Sunday evening.


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- Le Creuset Signature Cast-Iron Cherry Blossom Round Dutch Oven Sugg. Price $470 – $580 Our Price $325 – $400
- Staub Cast-Iron Essential French Oven, Rooster Design Sugg. Price $429 Our Price $149.95
- Le Creuset Signature Cast-Iron Oval Dutch Oven Sugg. Price $420 – $610 Our Price $300 – $425
- Le Creuset Stoneware Heart-Shaped Covered Casserole $90
- Le Creuset Signature Cast-Iron Matte Round Dutch Oven Sugg. Price $370 – $515 Our Price $179.95 – $360
- Le Creuset 2 3/4-Qt. Cast-Iron Shallow Oven Sugg. Price $310 Our Price $129.95
- Le Creuset Signature Cast-Iron Round Wide Dutch Oven, 6 3/4-qt. $300
- Staub Cast-Iron Pumpkin Cocotte Sugg. Price $179.95 Sale $129.99
- Staub Ceramic Pumpkin Cocotte Sugg. Price $29.95 Sale $19.99
- Staub Cast-Iron Tomato Cocotte Sugg. Price $400 Our Price $179.95
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- Le Creuset Signature Cast-Iron Round Dutch Oven, 3 1/2-Qt. Sugg. Price $370 Our Price $179.95
- Staub Round Wide Cocotte, 4 Qt. $265
- Le Creuset Signature Cast-Iron Bon Appétit Round Dutch Oven Sugg. Price $540 Our Price $375
- Riess Country Dirndl Casserole $100
- Le Creuset Signature Cast-Iron Oval Dutch Oven with Gold Knob, 6 3/4-Qt., Cerise $350
- Le Creuset 90th Anniversary Cast-Iron Cocotte $500
- Le Creuset Signature Cast-Iron Petite Fruit Dutch Oven, 4 1/2-Qt. $400
- Le Creuset Stainless-Steel Deep Casserole with Lid $220
- Revol Flametop Round Cocotte $134.95 – $199.95
- Revol Flametop Round Cocotte, Small $49.95 – $124.95
- Revol Flametop Oval Cocotte $239.95
- Chantal Make and Take Round Casserole $20 – $49.95
- GreenPan™ Black Ceramic Nonstick Casserole, 5 Qt. Sugg. Price $150 Sale $94.99
- Williams Sonoma Professional Ceramic Nonstick Dutch Oven $149.95
- Berndes Vario Click Pearl Ceramic Nonstick Sauté Casserole with Lid $249.95 – $270
- All-Clad TK™ Dutch Oven $350
- Berndes Vario Click Pearl Ceramic Nonstick Dutch Oven with Lid, 1 1/4-Qt. $169.95
- Williams Sonoma Professional Nonstick Dutch Oven with Lid Sugg. Price $200 – $255 Sale $139.99 – $200
- Williams Sonoma Signature Stainless Steel Steam & Braise Oven $299.95
- Wolf Gourmet Stainless-Steel Dutch Oven Sugg. Price $479 Our Price $379.95
- Staub Cast-Iron Round Cocotte Sugg. Price $190 – $715 Our Price $129.95 – $500
- Staub Cast-Iron Oval Cocotte Sugg. Price $235 – $493 Our Price $235 – $390
- Le Creuset Heritage Stoneware Rectangular Covered Casserole Sugg. Price $145 Our Price $100
- Le Creuset Signature Cast-Iron Round Dutch Oven, 5 1/2-Qt., Midnight Blue Sugg. Price $460 Our Price $320
- All-Clad Copper Core Grain & Bean Pot, 2 1/2 Qt. Sugg. Price $300 Our Price $199.95
- Calphalon Contemporary Nonstick Dutch Oven Sugg. Price $180 Our Price $99.95
- Lodge Cast-Iron Camping Dutch Oven $95.95
- Lodge Cast-Iron Dutch Oven $61.95 – $95.95
- All-Clad d5 Stainless-Steel Dutch Oven, 5.5-Qt $325
- All-Clad Copper Core Dutch Oven $450
- Le Creuset Stainless-Steel Dutch Oven Sugg. Price $285 Our Price $200
- Scanpan CTX Nonstick Dutch Oven Sugg. Price $399 Our Price $299.95
- Scanpan Classic Nonstick Dutch Oven $179.95
- Scanpan Professional Nonstick Dutch Oven Sugg. Price $270 Our Price $199.95
- Le Creuset Signature Cast-Iron Tartan Round Dutch Oven Sugg. Price $380 Sale $299.99
- Le Creuset Cast-Iron Chef's Oven, 2 3/4-Qt., Red Sugg. Price $248 Our Price $129.95
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- Le Creuset Signature Cast-Iron Braiser Sugg. Price $410 – $465 Our Price $285 – $325
- Williams Sonoma Professional Nonstick Braiser Sugg. Price $199.95 Sale $159.99
- Williams Sonoma Professional Nonstick Oval Braiser $199.95
- All-Clad Tri-Ply Stainless-Steel 6-Qt. Braiser with Rack Sugg. Price $300 Our Price $249.95
- Ruffoni Omegna Hammered Stainless-Steel Braiser $270
- Ruffoni Opus Prima Hammered Stainless-Steel Braiser Sugg. Price $480 – $550 Our Price $420 – $550
- Ruffoni Opus Prima Hammered Stainless-Steel Shallow Braiser $450
- Ruffoni Historia Copper Artichoke Handle Braiser, 6-Qt. $420
- de Buyer Prima Matera Copper Braiser $700
- Emile Henry Ceramic Stovetop Braiser, 3.4 Qt. $180
- All-Clad TK™ Stainless-Steel Tall Rondeau Sugg. Price $455 Our Price $249.95
- Mauviel Copper Rondeau $500
- Mauviel Copper Triply Rondeau $370
Dutch Ovens & Braisers
Enjoy the benefits of cooking meals and side dishes with Dutch ovens, cocottes and braisers. These bakeware pieces may also be used to make soups, dips, stews and desserts. Most Dutch ovens and braisers are designed to look as good at the table as they perform in the oven and our collection is no exception. For a truly luxurious braiser with a 15-quart capacity to simmer prime rib and brisket to juicy doneness or to give as a spectacular gift, choose the hammered aluminum braiser celebrating Charles Williams's hundredth birthday. The stunning braiser has stainless-steel handles and is made by French company Mauviel, a cookware maker discovered by Williams on an early expedition to Europe.
We also carry plenty of everyday braisers including several styles of Staub enameled cast-iron Dutch ovens and cocottes. No seasoning is required for Staub covered bakers and ovens, and they are available in a variety of sizes, styles and colors including versions with majolique finishes that resemble fine ceramic ware. That doesn't mean they can't be fun since you can order Staub cocottes in fun shapes like tomatoes to make kids laugh while the cookware makes soup they'll ladle out enthusiastically.
If you want a Dutch oven, but you have a cramped kitchen already, go French with the Staub Petite Cast-Iron French Oven that makes rice and grains as well as braised meats and sauces in smaller portions. The sapphire blue or graphite colors are lovely accents in any kitchen. Revol from France has been making cookware since the 18th century, and their flameproof ceramic cocottes are available in 1/4-quart, 1/2-quart and 3/4-quart sizes for compact baking and braising for one or a couple. Like nesting cup measures, the innovative space-saving tools that do the job as well as big tools make meals in tiny kitchens delicious and easier to prepare in the limited spaces. Le Creuset and other makers also offer cast-iron braisers and ovens in a variety of sizes to accommodate small and mid-size kitchens.
If shiny silver is your thing you'll find gleaming stainless-steel and brushed steel Dutch ovens, braisers and cocottes from Scanpan, Ruffoni, All-Clad, Wolf Gourmet and Demeyere. Styles range from the traditional to modern and coordinate with our other stainless-steel cooks tools.
Fans of copper cookware will appreciate the warm red-golden glow of de Buyer, Ruffoni and Mauviel rondeaus and braisers. These are elegant pieces that mix and match with any color cookware and make cooking and presentation a seamless operation. The de Buyer braiser is 90 percent copper and performs on any cooktop. It's made in France with stainless-steel interior and lid. The artichoke-shaped handle on the Ruffoni copper braiser gives just a hint of the skill and expertise of the Italian coppersmiths who handcraft the braisers high in the Alps. Copper rondeaus and braisers coordinate with other cookware, serveware and dinnerware in our copper collection. Add one copper accent or many to your rustic, vintage, traditional or modern kitchen decor.
If you're committed to sustainability and wish to select cookware that's 100 percent recyclable choose the porcelain enamel Riess casseroles made with steel cores. The nonporous finishes of the white or blue pieces resist scratching, and chipping and the casseroles and covers are more lightweight than cast-iron. The enamel finishes are odor-neutral, antibacterial and very easy to clean. Riess cookware has been made in Austria since 1922, and their 2-quart casseroles are ideal for macaroni and cheese, baked ziti or cooked grain dishes. You'll find more green ideas in our recycling collection. It's always a wise choice to elect quality cookware like pieces from our Berndes, Chantal, and Williams-Sonoma collections. When cookware lasts like our casseroles, Dutch ovens and cocottes, there's less waste from making new items and fewer discarded items to end up in landfills.


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Today is International Youth Day (IYD), marking the close of the United Nations' International Year of Youth -- but not of America's commitment to young people.
The theme for International Youth Day is "Change Our World" -- an accurate description of the role youth have played in reshaping the global landscape this year. Young people have been drivers of innovation and of economic and social progress. They have also been one of the great challenges to regional stability and security: 86 percent of all countries experiencing a new outbreak of civil conflict have populations with a significant majority under 30. At the State Department, we have recognized that and launched the Office of Global Youth Issues. Created by Secretary Clinton as a result of a Department-wide review of youth policy, that office is overseeing an historic effort to empower young people as economic and civic actors through U.S. programs, encourage governments to respond to youth through U.S. diplomacy, and directly engage young people around the world.
America is doing its part to create environments where young people can have a voice and a source of livelihood. We are working directly to foster young people that are leading peacefully in their communities. I'm inspired by young people like Shamshad Hussein, who, after participating in a State Department scholarship program that brings foreign students to U.S. community colleges, returned home to Pakistan to build an English-language training program in the remote Gilgit-Baltistan region. Samat Panov who studied with a grant from the U.S. government returned to his native Kazakhstan and led local initiatives to train young business leaders.
Elsewhere, the Yemen Student Councils project has established councils for youths in hundreds of schools across that country and familiarizes young people with community participation and the basics of democracy. Meanwhile, the Yes Youth Can Initiative in Kenya features an innovative youth-led and managed social innovation fund.
And we are keeping young people front and center in our discussions with the international community. Last month, I had the honor of speaking at the United Nations High-level Meeting on Youth, where I met with government officials from around the world and felt firsthand the growing global understanding that our responsiveness to our young people is at the very core of our prosperity and stability.
This International Youth Day, let's celebrate those great young leaders making their voices heard loud and clear for peace and progress; and let's join arms with them to create opportunities for young people all around the world to make their voices heard.
Related Content: Remarks by Ronan Farrow, Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Global Youth Issues, at a High Level Meeting on Youth, in the General Assembly
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"My first husband, Wendling
Hastings ('45B), went to his Princeton Seminary commencement
on a blistering summer day. At the time, he was serving a
Presbyterian church in Ridgeview, New Jersey, and his family
members were all present: his mother, daughter, son, and I.
Seeing the women dripping perspiration in their long, bouffant
summer dresses, serving punch in the blazing sun, he spoke to
Mrs. Mackay about it.
'Mrs. Mackay,' he said, 'it seems cruel to have these women
suffer in this weather. Couldn't we move the serving table
into the shade? There are enough men here to do it.' She
looked at him with a deadpan expression, but with a twinkle in
her eyes when she answered, 'But Mr. Hastings, it's just never
been done that way.'
I wonder if it has ever changed!"


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The top shelf stuff, if you use a lot of it, tends to take over.
How do the kids like your pies?
Edit: And what tomatoes are those? I know sauce on top really makes the color pop, but that color is especially appealing.
I must be the only one not sold on the steel plate! It reduced my cooking time on my standard NYish style pie by one minute, with the distinct possibility of burning the bottom and creating too much char for a NY pie. I'll be sticking with my trusty stone, I'm letting @dhorst borrow my steel to let her see if she gets more out of it then I did.
I wasn't at first either for the same reasons, but I've been trying a new method that produces much better results. @ 550, the pizza is only on the steel for 2 minutes to take advantage of the explosive oven spring, and then on the top shelf (no stone) for a bit to get the browning. An interesting hybrid method which I think has produced some great pizza, but I've only done it twice so far.
Steel is so...2012.
I have not but I am going to make a cardboard template of my oven to order a custom size. I spoke to them today to get a quote and a weight for my specs. It should be around $110 and free shipping for orders over $50.


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A Mädchen of Honor
On 18 November 1931 in Berlin, audiences loudly applauded the premiere of Mädchen in Uniform, a film that would go on to ignite both controversy and a burgeoning lesbian cinema. Adapted from Christa Winsloe's novel Das Mädchen Manuela, and her later play Gestern und Heute (Yesterday and Today), the film tells of a budding love affair between a teacher and a student in a strict Prussian girls academy. While many critics argued the film's storyline was more an attack on Prussian strictness than sexual conformity, lines like "What you call sin, I call the great spirit of love, which takes a thousand forms," left little doubt where the film's heart really was. Along with the 1919 gay male film Anders als die Andern, Mädchen aligned itself with the free-thinking and sexual experimentation of the Weimar Republic. Unfortunately, the film would soon be banned by the Nazis and its Jewish director Leontine Sagan and bisexual author Winsloe would be forced to flee the country. While the film was also banned in the US, and then seriously cut and censored, it was finally restored to its original form and spirit in 1994.


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quote:Originally posted by maccastheman
This song has always reminded me of Gordon Lightfoot. There's clearly a George feel about it too, but not as pronounced as it is on some of his other productions. (Like Ringo, etc.)
I know where the Gordon Lightfoot thingy came from now - this guy that used to sit at the desk next to me played his stuff all the time, as well as other early '70s lite rock. (The Air That I Breath by the Hollies, etc.) It drove me nuts! He included Day After Day in his set as well. I need to break the association![xx(]


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Antiques Roadshow (UK) Season 19 Episode 19 - Chatsworth (2)
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As for the woodstone ovens. I just started doing some consulting for a pizzeria that has one. And they are hooked up to a hood system which sucks out the ambient temperature of the oven. We are considering using minimal logs and basically breaking/adjusting the thermostat so that we can reach hotter temperatures. I guess too much wood burning clogs the pilot.If you guys figure anything else out about the sticking i would love a little more technique on the matter. I think a dusting of semolina might help.


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Former JCC Professor To Speak At Jamestown Church Sunday
Dr. Jeffrey Victor, a retired Jamestown Community College sociology professor, will speak at the 10:30 a.m. Sunday service in the Unitarian Congregation of Jamestown, 1255 Prendergast Ave., Jamestown.
His topic will be on mistaken assumptions concerning life in the socialist countries of Western Europe and explain why Americans are so critical of European socialism. He will share experiences of his French family and friends with social services; describe his own personal experience with the French national health care system when hospitalized for a serious illness; and speak on the benefits of national maternity care, free professional day care, tuition free universities and medical schools, five week paid vacation and public high speed railroads.
Victor continues to teach part-time during fall semesters at JCC. He has published two books, nine chapters in edited books, 25 articles in popular and scholarly magazines and has received the New York State University's Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence.
His book, "Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend," is a study of rumors and false claims about secret criminal satanic cults including a chapter about the rumors in Jamestown.
In 1993, the book received the H.L. Mencken Book Award from the Free Press Association and it has been used in many criminal cases involving false accusations of crime.
Victor has appeared on several national television programs and was a guest speaker at conferences in France, Scotland and the Netherlands.


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Do the Just ThingPosted by Jerry Bowles in Classical Music, Composers, Contemporary Classical, Just Intonation
Dear Jerry-
Thanks for your kind words earlier this year about the Ben Johnston String Quartet release on New World Records. I am the producer of that disc, and also the 2nd violinist in the Kepler Quartet (so, not an unbiased perspective…)
I am writing you and your readership with a plea, an invitation (however you wish to frame it) to become a part of bringing this great composer's legacy into broad daylight. We recently received a Copland grant towards finishing the recorded cycle of Ben's 10 string quartets, but still need to raise significant dollars to make it happen.
Mr. Johnston just turned 80, is in reasonable health, and has just moved to Wisconsin for family reasons-which means that his expertise is now wonderfully available to us. We have have a talented, committed ensemble, schooled in the challenges of Just Intonation, and a stable, supportive label behind the project.
All the pieces are in place to finish this project except for getting past the aforementioned monetary hump.
Wouldn't it be a healthy scenario if we could get a grassroots, Howard Dean-like campaign going, and include as many individuals as possible from the new music online community, at modest contributions, in support of this truly great, and largely-overlooked composer late in his career?
Could be worth a small investment for the Karma alone, not to mention the accessibility of this ground-breaking music…
We're going to attempt it, because we know it's the right thing to do, not the commercial thing to do—anyone out there with us?
For details, please see
May we all have each other's support when we need it!
Eric Segnitz
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Topic: Error message trying to run 'rake test' after rails upgrade
I get the following error after I upgraded to rails 1.2.3-2.0 on Debian when I try to run 'rake test'.
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/version.rb:296:in `parse': Illformed requirement [~>1.2.3-2.0] (ArgumentError)
I updated config/environment.rb to reflect the upgrade, and it seems to work when I run 'rake db:migrate'. I also tried editing the config to be 1.2.3 without the postfix 2.0, but that results in rails not being found when I run 'rake db:migrate'. I'm using Ruby version 1.8.6. Anyone have an idea what could be wrong?


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>Runner's World - My Event Ratings>
In short: Love Conquers AllIn full: Date of review: March 25, 2013
In short: Another elephantIn full: Its difficult to describe the unique qualities of a Trionium event. Its like an elephant. Difficult to describe but you know it when you see it. BRILLIANTDate of review: January 3, 2013
In short: Great British Summer 1 - New Forest Runners 0In full: There was ample parking at the start, in fact I had a ten acre field to myself enabling me to park right next to where I thought the start line might have been. The queues for the porta-loos were pleasingly short and the loos themselves nicely unsoiled and unstinky - I could get to like this kind of race. The start area was surprisingly quiet and uncrowded, with a complete absence of announcers, supporters, timing mats or indeed other runners. Still this enabled me to line up right at the front without any of those bothersome "competitors". My garmin was a solitary beep in the rural silence.... I set off at 1115 and I led from the start a position I was able to hold without undue effort all the way round. Unlike previous years the course wasn't very well marked, I had to make it up as I went, and unlike last year there were surprisingly few marshals or words of encouragement. The drinks stations were, well, infrequent to the point of non-existent but one musn't complain. It was kinda quiet out there churning out those ten miles, just a few ponies and walkers and when I did see other runners they didn't have their race number on - I assume they were later disqualified. The ten miles passed reasonably quickly if a little soggily. In previous years the runners have been greeted at the finish line by the announcer shouting ones name and home town over the tannoy with words of encouragement. It was a little quieter this year though a cow did moo and a walker did shout "pillock" at me. I cruised to an easy victory, my first in twenty years of running. HOWEVER I was greatly saddened not to receive the "Overall First Male Trophy" nor the "Category M40" trophy as promised on the web site. Come on New Forest Runners give me the 2012 trophies! What kind of idiot do you take me for? (Actually, the kind of idiot who'd make a 100 mile round trip without first checking the race was on first......come on it is summer and we still have a hosepipe ban!!)Oh well see you next year...Date of review: July 8, 2012
In short: Pleasant enough, great marshalling, quiet roads, good facilitiesDate of review: May 20, 2012
In short: Super scenic super hard race - the worst climb was after the finish line going back to the car parkIn full: It starts in the middle of deepest darkest Devon so just getting to the event is a logistical challenge. The course itself takes in some staggering climbs over the cliffs and coastal path around north Devon. The atmosphere amongst the runners is first rate. A i had a horrid fall and several runners offered help. I got marvellously lost at the end missed the turning for the finish and ran a couple of miles of the ultra course thus guaranteeing me last place? Elic. This race should be twinned with the Six Foot Track in the Blue Mountains in Australia, as they are identical in nature even down to the remote hotel which forms the race hq both are just over marathon distance and have the same 5200ft of climb and both have awesome cliffs. Date of review: April 15, 2012
In short: Running's very own bunga bunga partyIn full: Date of review: November 28, 2011
In short: A little gem of a raceDate of review: April 10, 2011
In short: Good solid trail run well organised with nice touches all the way roundDate of review: October 31, 2010
In short: Things this good are usually illegal.....In full: Trionium (to the tune of Jerusalem) And have your feet in recent timesRun over Dorking's hills so green?And was that famous Doctor RobOn that first hill climb to be seen? And did that Doctor Rob divineSay that "the last ten k was fine"?But calves and quads did cramp up thereUpon that last Satanic climb!Bring me my cup of lucozadeBring me my endless rolling trailsBring me now, st. johns first aidBring me my tee and many alesI will not stop to view the sightsNor will I call for Medivac'Til I have run TrioniumOut to Winterfold Hill (and back!)Date of review: October 18, 2010
In short: Whooooooooopeeeeeee! Pass another custard cream.In full: For a first time event this was a remarkable feat of organisation.As most other runners have said the marshalling made the day. I could get lost in a phonebox but these guys got me home despite myself. I ran an ultra on the North Downs Way earlier this year and managed to get hopelessly lost on more than one occassion - not fun. No danger of that this time. And on top of that the food and drink was copious and frequent. I didnt carry any food or water and never felt I'd made the wrong choice.Every marathon needs a Heartbreak Hill, this one had loads to choose from. I felt sorry for the poor lady who had to tell the marathon runners "up the hill and round the chapel and back". And then have to say "Yes. Really". It was a nice quirk. And that summed up the course, never ever did one really know quite what was coming next. You never had a chance to get bored. It made it.Like other Garmin wearers I clocked more than the regulation distance - about 43km for those metric types out there. But time and distance didn't really matter that much at the end of the day - it was just a great day out.Back next year - definately....Date of review: September 21, 2010
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Other injury news/updates:
Two other offensive starters, wide receiver Mohamed Massaquoi and lineman Eric Steinbach, did not practice. Massaquoi wore a walking boot on his right ankle. Steinbach had his left knee wrapped.
"Mo has a little foot deal," Shurmur said. "He came in with it and we'll evaluate it as we go. We want to make sure it's just right. Steinbach has the same type of deal with his knee. They're nothing we feel are serious."
Shurmur said he could not elaborate on how or when Massaquoi was hurt. The third-year receiver appeared fine a couple of weeks ago when he was seen working out with quarterback Colt McCoy and other Browns in Texas.
"There's some question as to when it happened," Shurmur said. "I'm not being evasive. I'm just not sure."
Both Steinbach and Massaquoi opened camp on the active/non-football injury list and can be activated anytime.


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Immune Attack 2.0 is being developed with funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The NIAID funds research in everything from basic viral replication mechanisms to innovative AIDS treatments, from basic
To read more about the NIAID and their work, you can download their PDF, or see their website. Today, the NIAID published a report on the educational programs the fund. And that includes, of course, Immune Attack 2.0. So, go read the report on all the great innovative work the NIAID is sponsoring for educating the next generation of Scientists!


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How we carry what has gone wrong for us is essential to being at home in ourselves, and present to the world with all of its failings.
Krista's tweet (@kristatippett) spoke to so many people following her. And so did this bit of wit from the incomparable Oscar Wilde:
"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
And Peter Edmonds (@peterdedmonds) pointed Krista to this SciLogs blog post on the difficulties of communicating controversial science:
Can't fathom dark matter or "modified gravity" but such ideas have a gravitational pull on me...
It's a bit beyond my ken too. Help!
From the road, Krista writes:
At a hermitage, trying to write. Being in a Catholic place lends itself to such apt allusions: Limbo. Dark Night of the Soul. Purgatory.
Between bouts of not writing, preparing to interview poet Marie Howe here in the sacred wild tomorrow. Oh my what beauty.
Working with the College of Saint Benedict Literary Arts Institute, we've coordinated a face-to-face interview with former poet laureate of New York:
"I love stories. Stories have saved my life, and I also question stories even as I tell them... We all have stories to tell. It's the complexity of the human heart that I think is poetry's subject — the complexity of the human experience. I think the best poets writing today represent that complexity in the broadest, deepest sense."
The conversation will take place in the college's "old library," a gorgeous brick building with boxed beams, wood floors, and open hearths tiled with the Latin words such as fides and scientia wrapping each side. And, yes, sometimes we even take our children to scout locations.
Which brings me to these lines of poesy from Ms. Howe:
This is how things happen, cup by cup, familiar gesture
after gesture, what else can we know of safety
or of fruitfulness?
From a Benedictine monastery in the Midwest to outside the Vatican in Rome, what an overwhelming response to this image on the occasion of the election of Pope Francis:
The pope is fully illuminated. The ubiquity of screens in eight short years. I'm not sure whether to be amazed or mortified.
What does this say about us? Folks on Facebook gave all sorts of good counsel. We could use a little more.
People expressed their gratitude for the lead quotation in the sketchnotes of our show with humorist Kevin Kling:
"Sometimes we need to rewrite our stories so that we can sleep at night."
On our Facebook page, Jean Archambeau of Eden Prairie, Minnesota added this:
One of my other favorite Kevin nuggets from this interview (besides the one you listed at the top of this post): "When you dwell in the past, it's regrets, when you dwell on the future, it's anxiety. So many great pearls of wisdom shared. I think I will have to go see Kevin live very soon!
How about these magnificent, lyrical words from Dominique Ashaheed, a spoken word poet from Denver, Colorado, who recently competed in the Women of the World Poetry Slam finals this past week:
"A poet is the 'Amen' before the utterance of prayer."
Check out the City Pages images of other participants, a remarkable set of photos that speaks to our core here at On Being.
A bit of insight from Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children paired with Marc van Woudenberg's photo:
"I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss."
And, this video continues to be a source of inspiration and discussion from many of people:
If you could stand in someone else's shoes… Hear what they hear. See what they see. Feel what they feel. Would you treat them differently?
The horizon ahead is vast and full of potential. As our project here at On Being grows and evolves, Krista contemplates the road ahead. Who is she looking to?
At a big scary thrilling juncture of life. And Pema Chodron as contemplative reading is helping - especially "When Things Fall Apart."
Krista follows up with these words of wisdom from Roshi Chodron:
"The present moment is a pretty vulnerable place… and this can be completely unnerving and completely tender at the same time."
"Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth."
"Fear can come out looking like anger, and when it does it yields chaos rather than clarity."