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i love wax paper for packing lunches; i wrap sandwiches in a piece of wax paper and tie it like a present with a little cotton string. it's so much better looking than a
plastic bag. wax paper comes in handy for more things than i realized, like rolling it up to use for a funnel, or how about rubbing a piece of wax paper on the top of your
shower curtain rod to cut down on that terrible screeching in the morning…problem solved. but who knew that if you iron layers of wax paper together it looks remarkably similar to a capiz shell? this discovery brought me to today's project: the faux capiz chandelier. hung over your dining table, or outside at an outdoor dinner party, it is an easy solution to a dramatic light fixture and will look phenomenal in either setting. i hope you enjoy making your own as much i did! –brenna
CLICK HERE for the full how-to after the jump!
– hanging planter basket
– white spray paint
– ribbon
– scissors
– 1-2 rolls wax paper
– 2 big pieces of parchment paper
– iron
– hot glue gun & glue sticks
– circle cutter (i didn't have any luck with a "punch")
– cutting mat
1. spray paint your planter basket. let dry.
2. start making the capiz shells. lay out the two pieces of parchment paper on your ironing board or on a clean dish towel on the floor or table. (if you use your floor or
table, just make sure it wont be damaged by the heat of the iron)
3. cut three pieces of wax paper about the same length. mine were about 18". sandwich the three pieces of wax paper between the parchment paper. the parchment paper allows the wax to stay within the layers of paper, helps it stick together, and gives the wax paper a smooth finished surface.
4. iron the paper sandwich on a low setting. remove the layered wax paper from between the parchment, and repeat.
5. set the circle cutter to cut 2 ½ inch circles. with the circle cutter, cut circles from the layered wax paper on your cutting mat. it helps to tape the wax paper down to
the mat.
6. cut ribbon pieces and attach the ribbon to the planter basket. the length of the ribbon will depend on the method of attachment to the basket… (single or double strand). my lengths were between 7 (single) and 16 inches (doubled). you can attach them to the basket either by hot gluing the end of a single strand to the basket wire, or by folding the ribbon in half, and creating a knot over the wire. start at the bottom, and work your way up.
7. once you finish one tier of ribbon, attach the capiz shells to the ribbon with a tiny dot of hot glue near the top of each shell. i alternated two and three shells on each ribbon and only attached shells to every other ribbon. overlap the shells by about ¼". finish an entire lower tier, then move on to the next higher tier.
8. once you cover the hanging basket you are done! you can attach a simple bulb of you want this to be a source of light. hang in your desired location, stand back and
this is amazing! such an awesome DIY
So simple and beautiful !! … I love it !!
I absolutely love your idea and can't wait to try it! I did something similar with a tomato cage, tissue paper, wood stain, shoe polish and dimensional paints. I know it sounds weird, but I was trying to make my own" faux goat skin" Moroccan lamp. It worked out great. I'd send you a picture but I don't see a place to post. Thanks!
Well I just posted a picture of my Moroccan lamp in my facebook page, so if you want to see it go to: http://www.facebook.com/handartdrafting
Please PLEASE let me know where I can find/order this hanging planter! I can't fidn one anywhere!
I found them at the dollar store
Hello there. Great examples and tips. I really loved them. Actually, the examples were the best ones that i have seen in a while. Thanks.
Such a great look and so many nice comments. What a nice group of girls you all seem so happy to share. One question. Any thought on what you could use to make a rectangle one. Thank you!
If you have access to a Cricut Die Cutting Machine, you can set to the size and cut circle, square, or whatever shape you wish.
Where did you find the right hanging basket? I can't find any with horizontal wire. Please write back!
thanks so much! is that what you used?
hi all!
just a thought, i see a lot of questions about where to find the hanging basket, or what to use as a substitution/ different shape…
try a thrift store lamp shade… take off the cover, turn it upside down, and you are left with a frame, maybe add a horizontal row of wire if need be… i think it would work if you cant find a hanging basket.
good luck!!
brenna -
the paper tape created a unique design compared to the usual strings.. this is amazing
Love this idea! I want to have some of these at my wedding in May of next year. The only problem I've ran into is that my three layers of wax paper aren't sticking together. I've tried using a higher heat setting on the iron but that didn't work either. Does anyone have any tips for me? I'd appreciate it!
Having the SAME issue – I do t think my wax paper has enough wax ?
Brenna, you have inspired me. I really wanted this light from West Elm but don't love the price. http://www.westelm.com/products/large-rectangle-hanging-capiz-pendant-w425/?pkey=e%7Ccapiz%7C3%7Cbest%7C0%7C1%7C24%7C%7C1&cm_src=PRODUCTSEARCH||NoFacet-_-NoFacet-_-Common%20Rule%20Top%20Wide%20Kitchen-_- . I have purchased a couple tall rectangle baskets that I am going to strip down to the wire and add more, then paint and add a sewn string of faux capiz shells. I still have to figure out how to attach a hanging light to it (we do not have a fixture where I want to put the light). Wish me luck!
just gave you a shout out on my blog today!
I wonder how pretty a stain glass look would be by doing the old melting crayons trick??? I think this is such a pretty project! I could even hang it on my shade arbor outside!!!
Thanks so much it was very helpful! I will upload a picture of mine soon.
Excited to do this for my kitchen chandelier light fixture! thank you for such an amazing (and economical!) idea!! :)
@Brittany- This happened to me too when I bought a brand from costco by Kabnet- So I took it back and bought the more tradional brand at Walmart and yes it works!!
I've searched high and low for the hanging basket with no luck. Home Depot, craft stores, local nurseries, everywhere! I don't know if I trust myself to make it out of wire either. The search continues…Also, I recommend a high quality circle cutter. I bought one from Michael's that was off-brand and it was awful and just cut only part of each wax circle.
I happened on the hanging baskets at dollar tree, California. It needs a wire added but otherwise perfect for this project
One thing I've discovered about Dollar Tree. They have an amazing array of products but the selection is not the same at each store. I shop at one that has great book lights. When I needed one in Austin, TX, I search the town over and ended up paying a whole lot more at a different kind of store.
DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT buy cheap wax paper from Dollar store. It is crap! What a waste of time! Doesn't stick together at all. Ironed it on high even and still doesn't work. Just terrible!
I did see a few hanging baskets @ Walmart the other day when I was looking for a form for mine, however i opted to go with a mesh type chandelier that I got from Goodwill. I just cut the mesh type material out of it and used the form. It's working well but I'm still not done, it's taking forever its seems bc I didn't get a circle cutter and i'm doing all the cutting by hand. ay ay ay…but i know it's gonna be well worth it and it beats paying the higher price.
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Thank you for sharing… Absolutley beautiful.
I have been making my own designer wrapping paper using waxed paper for many years. It is very interesting because you use flowers from your garden and create a lovely personal touch. Roll out about half a metre of paper (shiny side up ,not always easy to tell tho) arrange suitable flowers, leaves,bits of thread or anything that will lie flat; then place another sheet of waxed paper over this (shiny side down) and carefully iron with a moderately hot iron all over. Iron again to make sure the wax coating has melted between the sheets.
Ferns, pansies, impatiens, small rose petals, violas or any small flower is suitable. Maybe the rose petals would look nice in this lamp design too. It is worth a try and an easy way to make lovely wrapping paper in a hurry! -
How do u think using pearlized spray paint on some of the wax paper before you iron them together would look? Or using some pearlized or irridecent vellum card stock? This is so pretty by the way, going to have to make one myself :)
BRILLIANT! I have to try this
Will this catch on fire if you have 2 100 watt light bulbs?
I bought a capiz shell hot air-ballon & part of this ballon has capiz shells with black spots on it, looks ugly to me. Is it possible to paint this shells? Some are not messed up, but most are. What can I do? Please help! thanks!
I wonder if this can be place over an existing small ugly chandelier. I live in a rental.
I saw this same chandelier idea on another DIY and they used color sample cards from Home Depot. They used about 4-5 different colors in the same palette and layered the darker color at the top and the lightest at the bottom.
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These are so beautiful! I am making four huge ones for my church-can't wait to see how they turn out! Thanks for the great project idea :)
So clever…so shabby chic…I must tell my friend who has her entire vintage 1800's victorian home done in shabby chic
Im going to do this for my sons prom,( small budget) so this would be great BUT im gong to add tinfoil circles
My biggest issue is that I attached the ribbon doubled over just like you did in the pictures, when you say attach the shells to each ribbon, do I glue the two strands of ribbon together or glue another set of shells on the second doubled over ribbon as well? You had said you had done every other ribbon, does that mean you kept the doubled over (2) strands in between each row of shells free or just one strand on every doubled over line of ribbon free? Sorry if it sounds confusing but I want mine to come out like the one in the picture and I'm not sure how to proceed! Thanks : )
I thought this would be great for my grandson's winter wedding, with twinkle lights and ice blue ribbon.
Brilliant, I live in the Caribbean where raw materials are either too expensive or altogether unavailable. So happy that I saw this as I have to decorate a small hall for a Christmas Ball for Elementary school kids with no budget at all. Thank you Thank you. More more please!!!!
Oh I don't have a circle cutter and there are none on the island any suggestions on cutting the circles??? Please help soon I really want to try this……..
I tried to use a circle cutter and it was terrible. Noting seemed to work, then I dug my Cricut out and set it to a 1.5 inch circle….ITS PERFECT. Why didn't I think of this before. Huge time saver. You can some something mindless like watch TV and let the Cricut do all the work! I making a bunch of these for my winter wedding decorations!
I like it but I wonder how to hung it and attache the light too.
I decided to do star shapes instead of circles for my baby's room, and I cut the shapes out before I ironed the wax paper together. Now that they are cut out they won't stick together when I iron them. Any advice?
Can you use the waxed paper discs that you can buy for making jelly and jam? I don't know if a few ironed together would give the same thickness but it would save cutting out.
I think I'm going to try this, but instead of ribbon use fishing line and pierce right through it to take out the hot glue step. Thanks for the wonderful ideas!!!
This part of the directions confused me "i alternated two and three shells on each ribbon and only attached shells to every other ribbon." Can you reexplain for me?
Love this idea. Looks great!
My sister asked me for a 2 inch punch, which I do not own so I made them on my cricket with the "Plantin SchoolBook" Cartridge. I couldn't get the wax paper to stick so I taped it to the cutting mat on all sides and it works perfectly! So much faster than the circle cutter. Thanks for the great idea!


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YRF teams up with Nicole Kidman News
Cannes Film Festival welcomes Grace of Monaco-View Pics!
Along with Titli, which is the official selection for the Un Regard category at 67th Cannes film festival this year, Yash Raj Films' international production Grace of Monaco is also being premiered
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Yash Raj Films (YRF) Entertainment has joined hands with French filmmaker Pierre-Ange Le Pogam to produce and finance the upcoming Grace of Monaco
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L'introuvable instabilité croissante de l'emploi : et s'il n'existait pas de marché externe ?
Will employment instability be the employment pattern tomorrow? Many studies support this view. This analysis is first discussed. Statistical data don't allow concluding to a general trend of employment instability during the 80's. These data show that different figures of mobility have been changed along with the development of precarity instead of voluntary quits. To explain these changes, we point out that the will of enterprises is more ambiguous than arguments on the employment instability do assert. From a theoretical point of view, it is shown how the very notion of external labour market has to be questioned.
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9 Responses to "Barbecue Part III: Grilled yellowfin tuna"
May 24, 2008 at 5:14 pmOh, YUM! Now I'm going to have to go find some fresh tuna once my gnudi is gone…see what you've done to me?
May 24, 2008 at 7:34 pmHey–I think your blog looks great. Very professional.
Your ideas are great too, I'm printing out several recipes.
How long have you been doing this> I think I found you through Tastespotting. BTW, the Durum Atta Flour has changed my baking forever. I'm throwing it into everything now.
May 24, 2008 at 7:37 pmSmothering the fish in mayo… interesting? If you can't taste it, like you said, I'll give it a try. The spicy corn salad looks great! I make a very similar salad too.
May 26, 2008 at 10:27 amthat slathered mayo pic looks revolting, but i'm definitely going to try it. I've always had trouble with keeping steak cuts of fish moist… where did you come up with this idea?
Oh, and the corn salad looks fantastic; burnt pieces are the best part…
June 2, 2008 at 5:54 amHi 'Spicy Mama'!!
nice recipe.. and nice blog too 😉we love BBQ too!!
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May 5, 2009 at 12:36 pmI'll have to remember this technique! I just started marinating 2 tuna steaks in Italian salad dressing out of habit & then noticed your recipe when I searched for something a little more creative for next time.


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I was travelling around the Southern Hemisphere when my travelling partner - who had a goatee - decided to purchase a Remington beard trimmer to keep it looking neat and pristine.
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Henceforth I embarked on a love affair with the perfectly presented punani. I started out gingerly (not in colour you understand - like most people's they're black and curly), sparing my bikini line from the ravages of depilatory cream, wax, or even - quelle horreur - razors, by using the pubi-trim to keep stray hairs in check.
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TrekInk: The Doctor, the Captain, the Cybermen, and a double dose of the Borg – Reviews & Previews of 2 New Comics
Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation2 concludes and Brannon Braga's Star Trek: The Next Generation – Hive continues. This week's fresh Star Trek comics from IDW Publishing are bad to the Borg. Previews, spoilers, and a brief rant ahead. We also have previews of both new comics


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Nikki Hawkins, a student from Grand View University who has been student teaching in Staci Braun's 4th grade classroom, was visiting us in the library. She is awesome! Nikki read Sock Monkey Boogie-Woogie, A Friend Is Made by Cece Bell....one of our most favorite authors at Van Meter!
Make sure you check out Cece's adorable website called CeceBell.com.
It is packed with great posts, a link on how to join the "Sock Monkey Fan Club"...
fun sock monkey games....
and even a video created by Cece called Learn To Draw Sock Monkey the Cece Bell Way.
Nikki read to the 1st and 2nd graders. It is such a funny book and we all laughed a lot while she read it....and danced a little too.
When she was finished reading, I had the iTouches ready with a new app called "Sock Puppets."
As the website for the app states, "Sock Puppets lets you create your own lip-synced videos and share them on Facebook and YouTube. Add Puppets, props, scenery, and backgrounds and start creating."I was excited to find this app because it is a lot like "Puppet Pals" and it is free. This will be a great addition to our iTouches and iPads for digital storytelling.
I had the students choose groups of 3 or 4 to work in while they checked out the new app. They spread out around the library and found a place to create a little video of their own. All of the groups did a wonderful job of working together.
Our friend Beth Swantz, who was visiting Van Meter, enjoyed watching the little people create their sock puppet productions too.
Next week when the 1st and 2nd graders come to library, they will be creating productions to share with others at Van Meter and online. It is going to be another really FUN day.
This afternoon my 1st grader Hagan and his friend Easton made this movie called Let's Go To The Library and....
my daughter Brianna and her boyfriend Jaden created Jaden and Bri Going Off To College.
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League of Women Voters Positions in Support of Majority Rule, Full Representation and/or Instant Runoff Voting
January 2003
The League of Women Voters has a long tradition of careful study and consensus building prior to taking positions. For example, The Washington League conducted a three-year study with two excellent election system reports, and the Vermont League participated in a citizens' commission created by the Vermont House of Representatives, which issued a final report recommending instant runoff voting for all statewide elections. Part of this process often involves circulating information and then asking for responses to a series of "consensus questions" to promote thoughtful debate and thorough consideration by all members. For example, the Vermont League circulated IRV consensus questions prior to taking their position in favor of such reform in 1999.
The League of Women Voters of the United States adopted a study of electoral systems at its convention in June 2000 and has been seeking funding to conduct it among its many hundreds of state and local branches.
Here are the positions adopted by Washington State, California and Vermont Leagues, as well as by several local Leagues in California.
Washington State League of Women Voters (May 2002)
"Supports the concept of a majority vote requirement for winners of single offices such as mayor or governor, as long as it is achieved using a voting method such as the Instant Runoff Vote, rather than a second, separate runoff election."
Vermont State League of Women Voters (1999)
"In accordance with the League of Women Voters' position of promoting political responsibility through informed and active participation of citizens in government, the League of Women Voters of Vermont supports Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) for all single seat statewide elections to assure that the candidate preferred by a majority of voters wins the election."
California State League of Women Voters (May 2002)
"We support the concept of a majority vote requirement for winner of single offices such as Mayor or Governor, as long as it is achieved using a voting method such as the instant runoff vote rather than a second, separate runoff election " Pasadena (November 1999)
Pasadena (November 1999)
"Advocacy of instant runoff voting for single seat elections."
El Dorado County, CA League of Women Voters (2000)
Adopted the Pasadena position by concurrence
Berkeley-Albany-Emoryville (September 2000)
" 'Instant runoff voting' should be used in all elections involving more than two candidates for a single position."
Oakland (January 2003)
Adopted the Berkeley-Albany-Emeryville position by concurrence.
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Over the past seven decades the exploits of the Tuskegee Airmen have been celebrated, occasionally mythologized, and used as a recent reminder of the patriotism and heroism of African Americans in times of national crisis. Mounting pressure by black leaders such as union activist A Philip Randolph, NAACP chief executive Walter F. White, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and the black press to increase their presence in all branches of military service eventually persuaded a reluctant War Department to allow for the training of blacks as fighter pilots (initially no training for bomber crews) at an isolated field at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, thus preempting contact with white trainees.
The legal authority to form a black combat flying unit sprang from Public Law 18, enacted in 1939, which directed the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to allow for the establishment of training programs for "Negro pilots" at designated locations, most notably Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) and a revised Selective Service Act in 1940 that effectively ended discrimination in the recruiting of men for the armed forces. Despite the strictures of brutal and demeaning segregation in the nation's military and the actions of a few of its white commanders to retard their efforts, 992 African American flight cadets participated in the "Tuskegee Experiment" and completed the Army Air Corps course between July 19, 1941 and the end of World War II. Also, because they were a segregated unit, supporting personnel who were black--bombardiers, navigators, mechanics, and instructors—also had to be trained and they too are considered Tuskegee Airmen who kept the pilots aloft.
Graduation of the first five pilots who received their wings took place on March 7, 1942 at the Tuskegee Army Air Field. Roughly 450 men joined the 99th Pursuit Squadron, initially led by whites but later ably commanded by then Capt. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. who also took charge of the all-black 477th Bombardment Group in 1945. The 99th and the 332nd Fighter Group saw action in North Africa and Italy where they distinguished themselves winning hundreds of decorations for skill and gallantry in combat. Flying P-39 Airacobras, Curtiss P-40 Warhawks, P-47 Thunderbolts and, lastly, P-51 Mustangs, among the feats of the fighter pilots who flew more than 15,000 sorties was the downing of more than 100 enemy aircraft in aerial combat including three of Germanys fearsome ME-262, the world's first operational fighter jet; demolishing nearly 150 enemy planes on the ground; and ruining an Italian destroyer that had been converted to a German torpedo boat.
The Tuskegee Airmen were prized and respected in the Army Air Force for their success in closely protecting Allied bombers flying missions into Axis territories. Moreover, their outstanding performance served to bolster African American pride and facilitated the transition to an integrated military in the post-war years. Among the Tuskegee Airmen emerged a number of future leaders including Air Force four-star generals Benjamin O. Davis Jr. and Daniel "Chappie" James, Maj. Gen. Lucius Theus, Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, New York Borough President Percy Sutton, pioneering San Francisco physician Wendell Lipscomb, and sociologist Dr. Dempsey W. Morgan.
Von Hardesty, Black Wings: Courageous Stories of African Americans in Aviation and Space History (New York: HarperCollins, 2008);Lawrence P. Scott, Double V: The Civil Rights Struggle of the Tuskegee Airmen (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1994); Charles W. Dryden, A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman (Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1997); http://tuskegeeairmen.org/pages/2/index.htm
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Beneath its gore-spattered exterior, Carmageddon II was a strikingly innovative game for its time. From a technical perspective, while Grand Theft Auto was still running over pedestrians from a 2D top-down viewpoint, Carmageddon was doing the same in full 3D with an integrated physics engine and a highly detailed damage model. More importantly, its offering of open-world emergent racing was completely unique, throwing together a host of clever AI and driving systems and letting you choose how to play with the results. Pretty darned impressive when you consider it was released in 1998.
Two years and one dismal sequel later, the series disappeared almost completely. But now it is back in the form of Carmageddon: Reincarnation, with an impressively successful Kickstarter under its belt and a robust Early Access build available for players to purchase. We honked our horn at Neil "Nobby" Barnden, Co-founder of Stainless games and repulsificated him with questions to find out how the game is shaping up.
Carmageddon has been sat in the virtual scrapheap for almost fifteen years. Why bring it back now?
Neil: We're bringing Carmageddon back because we can! We have a huge affection for and still love playing the original games, and it's always remained a game with a strong community of fans and modders, even after all these years. And we can't see any reason why the new game shouldn't go down a storm with the contemporary gaming community too.
Stainless has fought long and hard to retrieve the Carmageddon rights. How did you ultimately negotiate them back, and what makes you so keen to return to Carmageddon specifically rather than, say, work on something new?
Neil: There was nothing particularly difficult about the process of negotiating the rights back, it just took a loooong time. Once Square Enix had absorbed SCi/Eidos, we guessed that it might be the case that they wouldn't feel that the Carmageddon brand was a "fit" for them, and so we broached the subject via a contact at Square. Negotiations took around three years, but in the end it worked out great for both parties.
Carmageddon is the driving game that Patrick (Buckland, Stainless co-founder) and I always wanted to play, and still do – and the value is in the gameplay associated with the IP. The name "Carmageddon" really sums up the spirit of the gameplay better than any other title we could come up with, and so it was worth us spending the time and money negotiating these rights back, rather than developing a new IP. It means we continue to develop an IP that has a heritage, a lineage, and a reputation that precedes it. All this is inherently valuable.
The last Carmageddon game, TDR 2000 (which Stainless wasn't involved with) rather tarnished the reputation of the series. Was this somewhat underwhelming send-off for the series a factor in your desire to make a new game?
Neil: The more important factor was the success of the games in the series that we made, prior to its lacklustre final outing. We'd rather just forget about that other one (as most people have!) and concentrate on the positive history.
Looking at Reincarnation, it's clear that it very closely resembles Carmageddon and its sequel, but what new features can players expect to see? How are you expanding upon the original framework?
Neil: We made the decision to "reincarnate" elements of the original game because it was felt that A) it would be great to see an "HD" version of the original game's content, as a comparison to the original's relative crudity, and B) this approach would speed up the development process (as we planned to develop this game self-funded, on a bootstrapped model using available resources as much as possible).
In order to make the new game more than just a remake of the original, there's a whole lot
of new content also designed and being implemented. This includes new vehicles, including an all new class of cop and opponents. Also, because we're expecting the game to be very heavily focused on multiplayer (something that was always the intention for the originals – which were great MP games, but which were limited to LAN play), we're introducing new MP arenas and smaller scale MP levels, as well as remakes of large explorable levels based on the original game's.
As well as the all-new assets, we've got expansions planned for the gameplay too. In the first two games, the single player gameplay was identical from event to event, and saw the player able to finish every event by wasting all the opponents, or killing all the peds, or finishing all the laps. The AI couldn't "win" – it relied on you to complete the event successfully in order to progress through the game. In the new game, we're mixing the MP game types into the single player game, so that the player can choose the sort of event they want to play (even RACE, if they really want to!). At the same time, they could still win an event using the other techniques – for instance, wrecking all the opponents during a Checkpoint Stampede – so that we retain the freedom to "play the way you want to play".
Finally, we'll have Achievements, Challenges and Easter Eggs through the course of the game as an extra layer of gameplay texture.
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Last week, McAfee -- which dubs itself as the world's largest dedicated security technology company -- released its first-quarter 2012 threats report, highlighting an increase in malware across all platforms. The report shows that, in the first quarter, PC malware reached its highest levels in four years, with a steep increase in malware targeting the Android platform. Mac malware was also on the rise, indicating that total malware could reach the 100 million mark within the year.
"In the first quarter of 2012, we have already detected 8 million new malware samples, showing that malware authors are continuing their unrelenting development of new malware," said Vincent Weafer, senior vice president of McAfee Labs.
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It appears that the Flame virus, which has been topping news reports for the past week, may have been used for espionage in the Middle East for years. Iran has disclosed that Flame infected computer systems controlling the flow of oil in that country, and it was forced to cut Internet links to its main oil export terminal to try to contain the virus.
The virus appears to be the work of a well-funded organization, possibly a national government. It is reportedly capable of logging keystrokes, taking screen shots, using a computer's audio system to listen into conversations or Skype calls, and even to tap into nearby Bluetooth-enabled cellphones.
We caught up with Neil Roiter, director of research at Corero, about Flame. He told us Flame is remarkably sophisticated and can be used against a variety of targets.
"Learning that Flame has been in use for two years, perhaps longer, underscores concerns that similarly complex malware could be directed against U.S. companies, institutions and government agencies," he said.
"Organizations should not be lulled by the fact that this particular malware has been used against selected targets -- primarily in the Middle East," Roiter said. Instead, they need to "increase vigilance in network monitoring and analysis to detect anomalous, surreptitious activity within their perimeters."
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We also asked Gunter Ollmann, Damballa's vice president of research, to discuss his insights regarding Flame. He cautions our readers against some of the jumps people are making related to where the threat is coming from. As he sees it, the actors behind this threat have successfully managed their targets and victims, keeping a low profile and not going for the masses or complex setups.
"The collection of files doesn't point to anything not already seen in most common banking Trojans or everyday hacking tools," Ollmann said. "This doesn't make it less dangerous, it reflects the state of malware development -- where 'advanced' features are standard components and can be incorporated through checkbox-like selection options at compile time."
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State Route 150 to be restricted for tree trimming work
ODOT clearing canopy over roadway and performing right of way maintenance
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Beginning Monday, March 3
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ODOT's Jefferson County crew will be using a "SkyTrim" unit for canopy removal and right of way clearing and maintenance.
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What do you guys think of the latest Burberry Prorsum collection for Autumn/Winter 2012 ? What are your favourite pieces and which ones do you dislike ?
Sorry to disappoint you mate but I would not wear anything from their W/A collection. The whole thing just looks a little to modern for my taste and unless you are a 20 something freelance graphic designer from Dalston, you would not get away with wearing those clothes(well maybe the Mac but that is about it!!
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Mixed earnings by Long Island banks in the second quarter due to a refinancing slowdown and the closing of some branches.


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There is an awesome trend these days for stuffed plush animal friend creatures. Gone are the days of the common stuffed cat or classic puffy teddy bear, for the days of dysfunctional Ugly Dolls and cute abstract monsters like the Alphabeasts are here. It took me about 26 hours to narrow down my first Alphabeast choice to E, or Eioio.
Each beast style is unique and adorned with a letter, one side upper cased the other side lower cased. They also sport a vibrant color contrast from side to side. Most are very cute, some are kind of scary, and some are just darn strange.
Did I mention they are OH-SO-SOFT? Yeah they are OH-SO-SOFT, made of nice soft washable velveteen material, and the letter is my favorite material fleece. Yes, I would drape myself in fleece if it were socially acceptable. Since Alphabeasts do this for me, I will just go with that.
Alphabeasts are both a friend and a learning tool. Eioio has already begun teaching spelling at The Toy Museum, which is a great thing, as if you have wread my posts over the years... Yeah.
They are a pretty good sized toy, and not a bad price too at $15.99. There is a baby book set available, that features the Alphabeast's adventures too. Now I just have to figure which one I would get next, to start spelling something, as they look really good in groups.
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Subject: | [Openstack] git-based jenkins jobs and pre-approval check jobs | |
From: | Monty Taylor (mord...@inaugust.com) | |
Date: | May 25, 2012 12:58:26 pm | |
List: | net.launchpad.lists.openstack |
Hey guys!
We just finished rolling out the first in a sequence of upcoming changes to gerrit and jenkins based on needs described at the design summit.
We now have the basic jobs for all of the projects (except for horizon, because it's slightly different and I want to spend a little more time with it) applied to jenkins based on some scripts and some yaml files that are in a git repo. This means that anybody could conceivably do some hacking and submit a change to gerrit, instead of the current status quo which is that you have to be a jenkins admin to touch anything.
If you want to look at it, it's all in this dir:
Additionally, it's grouped/templated, so we've actually got identical jenkins jobs running for all of the projects... which means we can hopefully stop running in to the whole "oops, I forgot to update the glance jobs" situation.
But wait, that's not all ...
By popular demand, as part of rolling out those jobs, we have added pre-approval check jobs. We are now running merge checks, pep8 checks and unittest jobs on the patch-uploaded event and reporting the results into the code review so that people can skip code reviewing patches that don't work yet. We're also still running tests post-approval so that we ensure the patch as it is to be merged is still good.
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Hey, we are allowed to have the club banner in our signatures right? As long as we give credit right?
Hey, we are allowed to have the club banner in our signatures right? As long as we give credit right?
Thanks for applying, accepted! I also think Johto had a great story line behind it
Yeah you can if you want to, but you it's definitely compulsory, so don't feel forced to put it in
But thanks for putting it in dirkac
( If you do put it in for at least a week to promote it, you'll get into the Celebi Rank because you helped out the team in some way )
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I need to be Dunsparce Rank though before I can be Celebi Rank, and it probably won't dissapear until I get kicked out this club, or it falls into disrepair, which is what I think is happening to the other two club banners/userbars/oshawutever in my sig. :P
Anyway though, did anyone else here get the Pichu event? I like them because Micheena (my Spiky-Eared Pichu) has perfect Pokéathlon stats.
Also, can anyone guess why I named it Micheena?
Edit about the celebi rank:
It's now the Celebi Award, so you can earn your normal ranks to.
And now it's four days, so after that the period i'll add you to it
I actually didn't get the Pichu event D: I didn't get it where I live, which sucks, you're lucky to get one And wow,perfect Pokeathlon stats!!
Is Micheena an athlete??
oh and since everyone else is putting up there teams, I do to
Waffles the Meganium : lv. 64 (don't ask me where I got the name o.o )
Leap Frog the Politoad : lv. 68 ( I couldn't think of another nickname)
FLAREBLITZ the Rapidash : lv.81 ( yeah I know, real original name)
Eggbert the Togekiss : lv.83
Jirachi : lv: 88 ( this one's a special night sky one)
Muscle the machamp : lv65 ( i didn't choose that nickname, it was traded over)
HG is the only game I nicknamed Pokemon :l
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Yeah, Micheena's an athlete. Can you guess where the nickname comes from?
Also, like you I wasn't supposed to get the event, it was just pure luck they had the event in Jakarta (Indonesia) when I was travelling...
You got the Night Sky Jiravhi though, which I couln't get, because my DS's hate WiFi.
Umm, because Pichu's good at Pokeathlon?
I'm really surprised they had the Spiked ear pichu event in Indonesia o.o One of the least places I thought they have it
Oh btw, I got my Night Sky Jirachi at an in game event.
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Aww, you did?
Anyway, the reason I nicknamed it Micheena (this'll only make sense if you watched the movie with Arcues) is that the town where it came from in the past, is called Micheena.
Username: Nyula
Favorite Pokemon from Johto: Cyndaquil or Sneasel, then Heracross
One thing you love about Johto: Just one? The Pokemon; I find their aesthetic to be very appealing, there was some elan to them. I find Pokemon like Xatu and Quilava to be both creative and original.
And do you think that unto such as you;
A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew:
God gave the secret, and denied it me?--
Well, well, what matters it! Believe that, too.
~Omar al-Khayyām, poet of Persia.
Thanks Nyula, I agree he aesthetics were very appealing Accepted
And OceanicLanturn ,I didn't get it in my area ( Australia )
I just think it's weird how Indonesia got it and Australia didn't :l
Because I heard somewhere might (might not be true) that Indonesia didn't get Keldeo, that's why I thought that.
New Topic! : Do you like Johto Gym Leaders? What's your favorite?
I love the Johto Gym leaders, and I think they're some of the best around.
My favorite would be Falkner and Morty, I like they're design, pokemon and they have cool hair-styles
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Mah favorite gym leader is Jasmine of course. She's soooo cute (her vs sprite) male wise? Falkner looks pretty Nice.
My favorite Johto gym leader is Morty. He has always been awesome to me.
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My favourite Gym Leader in Johto is Jasmine. She's been my favourite since I first played against her in Silver back in the days. She's the main reason the Steel-Type is my favourite, and Steelix is one of my favourite Pokemon in general.
Pryce, Morty or Jasmine.
Jasmine because Steel types are awesome, and her VS Sprite is cute.
Pryce and Morty for their designs, and their types. Oh, and because they wear SCARVES! Those Scarves are awesomely designed.
Hmm, I would have to say that either Whitney, Bryce or Morty. Bryce and Morty use two of my most favorite elements in the game, although I was disappointed that Morty's gym is devoid of Misdreavus. I mentioned Whitney because her Miltank is very challenging if you're not prepared; when I first played in Johto for the first few times, I would lose to Whitney at least once each play-through. I like hard battles and Whitney gives a good fight, even if you bring a Graveller/ Machoke.
And do you think that unto such as you;
A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew:
God gave the secret, and denied it me?--
Well, well, what matters it! Believe that, too.
~Omar al-Khayyām, poet of Persia.
I like the dragon gym leader. she used kindra, unlike lance for some reason.
Oh yeah, not sure if I can suggest a topic, but does anyone find Lance hard?
My list (post-Ruby)
Iris (yes BW2 spoilers... She was really easy) < Lance < Steven < Wallace < DP Cynthia < PT Cynthia
All I need was a Lanturn and Sudiwoodo, cut through that team like cheese and butter
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Favorite Pokemon from Johto: Marill, Azumarill, Umbreon, Cyndaquil, Qwilava, Typhlosion, Espeon, Noctowl,...There's too many to choose just one! It'd be Marill, though.
One thing you love about Johto: The towns, especially Azaela (sp?), Ecruteak, and Blackthorn. And Johto itself, it's my favourite region.
What's the least favorite Johto Pokemon and why? ...I can't really answer that one, but maybe Ledyba?
What's your favorite legendary? Lugia
Do you like Johto Gym leaders? What's your favorite? Oh yeah, Morty's my favourite.
Did you have any trouble with any of the Gym Leaders? Not really; only Clair gave me some trouble, but I still beat her in one try.
Did you play the orignal, or just Heart Gold and Soul Silver? I've played Silver and Heart Gold.
Do you think HGSS were decent remakes? The best remakes thus far!
Did anything annoy you in the game? The low wild pokemon levels, I was training Lv 40s against Lv 17s when training for Pryce.
What's your favorite town? Would you live there if you could? I favourite would be Ecruteak and yes.
What's your team in Gold / Silver / Crystal? Typhlosion, Ampharos, Noctowl, Gyarados (non-shiny), Weepinbel, HM Slave Sudowoodo/Lugia
What's your team in HG/ SS? Typhlosion, Ampharos, Noctowl, Gyarados (non-shiny), Victreebel, Mamoswine
What's your favorite starter and why? Cyndaquil, he's just so cute, yet cool at the same time. Perfect amount of both, I'd say.
If you could choose one place to go to in the game where would it be? Dragon's Den
Best moment in the game? When I found out Pokemon walk with me!
Did you like the music? Yep
Would you like it if they remade Crystal? Sure, probably wouldn't get it but it'd be cool.
Favorite Non playable character? Silver, or Morty.
Which was better? Gold, Silver or Crystal? Silver
Do you use the Pokewalker? I got HG used, so I didn't get a Pokewalker with it.
What do you think of the Pokeathlon? Meh, could've been better
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In HG/SS, I didnt have any trouble.
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I never got that either. I think it would of been really cool if Lance used a more variety of dragon Pokemon. 3 Dragonites? Come on lol.
This is what he should of had
Red Gyarados!, Charizard, Dragonite, Kingdra, wait that's all lol. Well then they should of gave him Pokemon that are kind of dragon I guess.


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Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission members learned this spring's paddlefish harvest in Oklahoma was lower than it was in 2013, based on data gathered by the Wildlife Department's Paddlefish Research Center near Miami, Okla. But the lower harvest is going to benefit the state's paddlefish resource, which has received some heavy angling pressure in recent years.
Brent Gordon, coordinator of the Department's paddlefish and caviar program, said the PRC processed 2,405 paddlefish from April 1 to May 15, about 45 percent of the usual harvest seen in recent years. Gordon presented his report on the status of Oklahoma's paddlefish fishery at the Commission's June 2 meeting in Oklahoma City.
The drop in numbers wasn't surprising. Gordon cited several factors that played a role in this year's smaller harvest. Foremost among those was a new annual harvest limit on paddlefish: just two per angler for the entire year.
Gordon cited other factors: A colder-than-normal March and drought conditions in April and May caused delays in staging and disturbed the normal spawning runs. "The fish just never staged properly for us this season" at Grand Lake, he said.
Researchers also were able to process some paddlefish from Fort Gibson reservoir this spring to gain some baseline data on that fishery.
Because of the poor conditions, he said this year's paddlefish spawn can likely be written off as nonexistent. The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation has taken larvae samples twice a week since March, and no paddlefish have been collected. That means the 2014 year class will be missing from the breeding paddlefish population for the next 15 or so years.
The lower harvest also curtailed the number of fish that biologists could study, and it cut caviar production to about half of the 2013 amount. The caviar produced at the PRC is sold on the international market, and revenues are used to fund paddlefish management. Most of Oklahoma's paddlefish caviar is consumed in Europe and Japan.
Paddlefish, also called spoonbills, are among the state's more unusual fish, having a primitive shark-like appearance and a prominent blade extending from the snout. They can live for decades and can grow to more than 120 pounds. They range throughout the U.S. from Montana to Louisiana. In Oklahoma, paddlefish are found mainly in the Grand, Neosho and Arkansas river systems.


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NSA armed with capacity to track whole globe for 100 years
WASHINGTON — It is a top-secret data-mining program that "connects the dots" for terrorism detection and helps determine patterns for the U.S. intelligence community to access multiple digital data gateways – including data from other nations.
It is called PRISM, until now a clandestine national security electronic surveillance program operated by the National Security Agency, sometimes referred to as "No Such Agency."
PRISM stands for "protect, respond, inform, secure and monitor."
This highly secretive program offers the U.S. intelligence community a major information-gathering capability, since most of the world's communications flow through the United States.
Based on leaked PRISM documents with the classification of top secret/SI/ORCON/NORFORN viewed by WND, the flow of most communications through the U.S. allows NSA to target phone calls, emails and text messages by the cheapest path and not physically the most direct route.
The documents reveal the bulk of the world's communications move through companies based in the U.S., most of the electronic data flowing through bulk taps in switches at Verizon and AT&T.
As the documents state, "Your target's communications could easily be flowing into and through the U.S.," indicating foreign communications as well as domestic.
In addition to top secret, the other initialed designations are: ORCON – information controlled by originator; SI – meaning communications intelligence at the top secret Umbra level; and NORFORN – not for foreign disclosure.
Another highly classified PRISM document viewed by WND shows that the current providers from which NSA acquires data electronically are Microsoft (Hotmail, etc), Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, PalTalk, YouTube, Skype and Apple.
Separately, LinkedIn and Twitter also are included in this information gathering.
There supposedly is enough data to store a yottabyte of data – in other words, enough to store all the electronic communications of everyone for the next 100 years.
Classified PowerPoint slides on the PRISM program reveal what the intelligence collectors will obtain through electronic surveillance and stored communications. They include e-mails; chat – video and voice; videos; photos; stored data; voice over Internet protocol, or VOIP; file transfers; video conferencing; notifications of target activity such as logins, etc; online social networking details; and "special requests."
It is a super-secret system that originally was designed to capture data on foreign nationals who use telephones, emails and other electronic means of communicating to determine patterns of a possible terrorist threat to the security of the United States.
But recent revelations have shown that PRISM is much more – it's also acquiring data from telephone calls, emails and other electronic transactions on Americans – all Americans – without the benefit of a search warrant or even a basis to suspect that a U.S. citizen may be involved in potential terrorist activities.
The authority for such an intrusion was implemented following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon by al-Qaida.
The George W. Bush administration initially conducted such electronic surveillance without the approval of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or FISC.
However, the FISC created PRISM by authority allowed under the Protect America Act of 2007 and the amendments in 2008 to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. These amendments are due to expire on December 31, 2017.
It gave the federal government authority to monitor electronic communications of foreigners abroad.
However, recent revelations by Edward Snowden, reportedly a former disgruntled employee of the Central Intelligence Agency who then when on to work for a few months for the defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, revealed that such surveillance was far more vast than envisioned by the FISA Amendments of 2008.
In making this revelation, Snowden, thought to be in Hong Kong, violated a non-disclosure agreement that all government employees and defense contractors with top-secret special compartmented intelligence, or TS/SCI, clearances must sign upon being granted those clearances.
Snowden now is seeking asylum in various countries. Being in Hong Kong, which now is under the jurisdiction of Beijing, Snowden could potentially offer the Chinese government an intelligence bonanza of how the intelligence community targets information worldwide.
The Russians similarly are considering his asylum request. Like Beijing, Moscow would be most eager to acquire that information from this technology specialist who apparently had accesses that now appear to have been beyond what he needed to do his job.
In a recent interview with the Guardian newspaper out of Great Britain, Snowden claimed, "Any analyst at any time can target anyone, any sector, anywhere. Where those communications will be picked up depends on the range of the sensor networks and the authorities that the analyst is empowered with."
It is known that NSA has listening posts around the world and has cooperative arrangements with signals intelligence agencies of friendly countries such as Germany, France, Great Britain and Australia.
"Not all analysts have the ability to target everything," Snowden said. "But I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone … from you or your accountant to a federal judge to even the president if I had a personal email."
The U.S. government, however, claims that PRISM is being used in the narrowest sense when it comes to gathering electronic information from Americans.
In essence, NSA analysts are at the "top of the food chain," as one WND source described it. "They can see, hear and in some cases are given access to everything, including all sensor networks and data sets worldwide."
Similarly, executive branch departments and agencies involved in national security have smaller PRISMs unique to their particular mission. These department-based intelligence analysts, however, only are given authority to access a limited number of sensors and data sets to support what they do.
"Put another way," the source said, "each department represents a subset or smaller PRISM, while the NSA amalgamates and is the superset PRISM of the larger, Big Brother machine."
A Defense Department official confirmed to WND that NSA already has access to all the content of intercepted emails and phone calls, not just the "metadata" or data on data, as such as to who contacted who, when and where.
He confirmed President Obama's recent admission that the government indeed is collecting the content of all calls.
Making matters worse, the Defense Department official said there are people in the intelligence community who "aren't concerned about the law or their oaths."
Civil libertarians, however, claim such an intrusion is an invasion of privacy forbidden under the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.
It reads as follows: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Now the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit saying that the NSA program violates the rights of all Americans.
"The program goes far beyond even the permissive limits set by the Patriot Act and represents a gross infringement of the freedom of association and the right to privacy," according to Jameel Jaffer , the ACLU's deputy legal director.


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Poverty matters blog + Voluntary sector
Scarlett Johansson and Oxfam: is celebrity sponsorship a lost cause?
Catherine BennettCatherine Bennett: Scarlett Johansson chose SodaStream over Oxfam, but do charities really need famous ambassadors?
Jill Filipovic: NGOs and aid groups should collaborate with Haitians, not perpetuate an often harmful 'we'll tell you what to do' culture
Ian Birrell: Journalists should be challenging the media's outdated and controversial views on fundraising and aid
It should have been a car crash. But despite some grinding gear changes, the risky format proved to have lots of fuel in the tank
Open thread: Remember Make Poverty History? What progress has been made? Will anything be different this time around?
Response A celebrity's support for a charity has to be more than just lending their name
David HarewoodDavid Harewood: Response: As soon as you get media attention the charity requests start rolling in, but you have to be committed to your causes
Marina Hyde: Charities may be waking up to the fact that, far from aiding their causes, celebrity advocacy is actually damaging them
Haiti's hard road to recovery
Isabeau DoucetIsabeau Doucet: Two years after the earthquake life is improving, but the nation still faces a cholera epidemic and a huge rebuilding challenge
Jonathan Glennie: The offence caused by a film that highlights rape and violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is worth it if it leads to action
Jane Martinson: Using shock tactics in a film designed to bring attention to rape and blood minerals in Congo means fewer people will watch
The debate Are celebrities a help or hindrance to charities?
Peter Stanford and Justin ForsythDo celebrities trivialise – even jeopardise – good causes? Journalist Peter Stanford and Justin Forsyth of Save the Children go head to head
Jonathan Glennie: An RSA animation makes Slavoj Zižek's analysis almost convincing, but good charity is about acting amid profound contradictions to create change
Madonna's folly in Malawi
Claire ProvostClaire Provost: A western charity fails in a top-down development project. But the spotlight shines more on the star than on the unbuilt school
Is philanthropy taking off in India?
Nina MartyrisNina Martyris: Rich Indians have been better at giving their time than their money. But British aid won't last forever -
John Hilary: The charity War on Want was formed 60 years ago. But its assertion that all poverty is political regularly brings it into conflict with the authorities
Madeleine Bunting: A Canadian NGO has posted its shortcomings online in a bold attempt to learn from them and encourage others to do the same
Madeleine Bunting: There is no simple answer to whether we should or should not use stars to promote good causes
Save Haiti from aid tourists
Rory CarrollRory Carroll: The 'republic of NGOs' is in a vicious circle of dependence and institutional infantilism
Fiona Fox: Reducing suffering is an aim of both religion and science – but religious groups have made a disproportionate contribution


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