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Watch this video: How Camel Community Supported Agriculture is helping make local food workPosted on June 22nd, 2011 No comments
Camel CSA's contribution in Cornwall to Making Local Food Work is featured in a new YouTube video commissioned by the Plunkett Foundation, made by eclips film.
We turned our grow-your-own dream into reality with the support and guidance of the Soil Association via Making Local Food Work. We have £60,000 funding from the Big Lottery's Local Food programme and the East Cornwall Local Action Group (part of the South West Regional Development Agency).
Camel CSA's funding success makes the headlinesPosted on October 29th, 2010 1 comment
There's been lots of media coverage about our Lottery and ECLAG grants over the past few days.
Camel residents grow their own – BBC News video
Green-fingered enthusiasts in north Cornwall are celebrating – James Churchfield Show 28-10-10 – BBC Radio Cornwall
Cornish vegetable home-growing scheme awarded £60,000 in grants – Western Morning News
Vegetable group wins grants – Cornish Guardian
Community Supported Agriculture near Wadebridge awarded £60,000 in funding – Wadebridge People
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Watch these videos about what Camel CSA doesPosted on October 27th, 2010 No comments
These videos are about what we do and how we make local food work within our north Cornwall community. They were filmed at the Lottery and EU funding launch on our site behind St Kew Harvest Farm Shop at St Kew Highway.
David Wilcock of FoodiesSW recorded the first two videos on his smart phone. He also did own audio report of the event. Camel CSA member Shayne House videoed BBC Spotlight reporter John Danks as he was filming us.
Watch all Camel CSA's videos
Watch new Camel CSA video – Our first harvestPosted on July 15th, 2009 No comments
Camel Community Supported Agriculture's latest video celebrates our first harvest. It marks the red letter day when members received their first vegetable box shares.
This video features our volunteer picking and packing team at work, while two of our three expert growers reflect on what we've achieved so far.
Many thanks to Graham Smith of Ragged Trouser Productions.
Click here to watch our two earlier videos: Camel CSA – Why we got involved and Camel CSA – First volunteer day.
Camel CSA – Why we got involvedPosted on April 2nd, 2009 No comments
There are lots of reasons why members of Cornwall's first community-led agriculture project decided to get involved.
Camel Community Supported Agriculture's latest video features different people explaining what inspired them to join in.
Click here to watch an earlier video about our first volunteer day in March.
Camel CSA sows the first seeds of successPosted on March 12th, 2009 No comments
We've started to get stuck in! Camel Community Supported Agriculture's first vegetables are now in the ground. We've planted several rows of broad beans and Jerusalem artichokes, guided by our team of expert growers. Parsley, cabbage and calabrese seeds are all germinating in the poly tunnel.
We're inviting volunteers to come along and get involved every Sunday morning from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on our site behind St Kew Harvest Farm Shop at St Kew Highway.
Remember to bring wellies, waterproofs, drinks and a snack. And don't forget a pair of gardening gloves! Also bring any tools, ideally wheelbarrows, shovel, spades, forks and rakes. You'll be made very welcome.
Find out more from Alex at email@example.com or Antonina at St Kew Harvest on 01208 841818.
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Project Name – The three-tier security scheme in wireless sensor networks with mobile sinks
Mobile sinks (MSs) are vital in many wireless sensor network (WSN) applications for efficient data accumulation, localized sensor reprogramming, and for distinguishing and revoking compromised sensors. However, in sensor networks that make use of the existing key redistribution schemes for pair wise key establishment and authentication between sensor nodes and mobile sinks, the employment of mobile sinks for data collection elevates a new security challenge: in the basic probabilistic and q-composite key pre-distribution schemes, an attacker can easily obtain a large number of keys by capturing a small fraction of nodes, and hence, can gain control of the network by deploying a replicated mobile sink preloaded with some compromised keys. This article describes a three-tier general framework that permits the use of any pairwise key predistribution scheme as its basic component. The new framework requires two separate key pools, one for the mobile sink to access the network, and one for pairwise key establishment between the sensors. To further reduce the damages caused by stationary access node replication attacks, we have strengthened the authentication mechanism between the sensor and the stationary access node in the proposed framework. Through detailed analysis, we show that our security framework has higher network resilience to a mobile sink replication attack as compared to the polynomial pool-based scheme.
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Ontological bootstrapping which aims at automatically generating concepts and their relations in a given domain is a promising technique for ontology construction. Bootstrapping an ontology based on a set of predefined textual sources, such as Web services, must address the problem of multiple, largely unrelated concepts.
Abstract : The ontology bootstrapping process is based on analyzing a Web service using three different methods, where each method represents a different perspective of viewing the Web service. As a result, the process provides a more accurate definition of the ontology and yields better results. In particular, the Term Frequency/ Inverse Document Frequency (TF/IDF) method analyzes the Web service from an internal point of view, i.e., what concept in the text best describes the WSDL document content. The Web Context Extraction method describes the WSDL document from an external point of view, i.e., what most common concept represents the answers to the Web search queries based on the WSDL content. Finally, the Free Text Description Verification method is used to resolve inconsistencies with the current ontology.
Project Name – Privacy and integrity-preserving range queries in sensor networks
The architecture of two-tiered sensor networks, where storage nodes serve as an intermediate tier between sensors and a sink for storing data and processing queries, has been widely adopted because of the benefits of power and storage saving for sensors as well as the efficiency of query processing. However, the importance of storage nodes also makes them attractive to attackers. SafeQ, a protocol is proposed, that prevents attackers from gaining information from both sensor collected data and sink issued queries. SafeQ also allows a sink to detect compromised storage nodes when they misbehave. To preserve privacy, SafeQ uses a novel technique to encode both data and queries such that a storage node can correctly process encoded queries over encoded data without knowing their values. To preserve integrity, two schemes has been proposed, one using Merkle hash trees and another using a new data structure called neighborhood chains, to generate integrity verification information so that a sink can use this information to verify whether the result of a query contains exactly the data items that satisfy the query.

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So over the last few months I've noticed a disturbing trend. EVERY airport I'm in (which is nostly SEA, ORD, CLT) always seems to have a 'Free Public WiFi' ad-hoc wifi network up and running as shown below (I'm typing this blog post from the D concourse where I'm presently waiting for a delayed flight).
Given that I see this in EVERY airport I travel to no matter what time I'm in that airport – I sort of wondered whether this wasn't an example of organized crime trying to get me to associate so that they could maybe hope to sniff some un-secure POP / SMTP login creds so that they could then try to use those creds over at eBay or something.
To my dismay I found this URL (http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2006/09/free_public_wif.html) which seems to imply it's a 'feature' of Windows XP (one I think we've since patched).
Last time I was in Chicago I connected up and I'm pretty sure I got a 192 address not a 169 address like that would imply . . . I'll try connecting up to this one here in Charlotte and see what I get . . . don't think I'll have time to download Wireshark to see what's going on before I board . . . and I don't even know if it'll work on 64bit Vista anyways . . .


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23736 Sierra Oak Dr., Murrieta, CA 92562
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Beautiful 3 BR 2 BA home for Rent in Murrieta! Upon entrance of the home you are met by vaulted ceilings and upgraded paint in the Dining/living space. The Kitchen features beautiful granite countertops, upgraded cabinets, and stainless steel appliances. Nice tile floors throughout the bottom story of the home and upgraded carpet upstairs. The granite counters and upgraded cabinets continue throughout all the bathrooms as well. The upstairs also features a great sized loft along with two bedrooms, bathroom, and a beautiful master suite with dual sinks and a shower/tub combo in the master bath. Wonderful home in a great area in Murrieta! Don't Miss out!
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In January 2011, FAA issued a press release based on this database, showing that in 2010 there were 2,836 reported "laser events" in the U.S., compared to 1,527 in 2009.
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The ASRS Database Online search form has many search fields as shown below. A quick search using only the Text field, and the word "laser", found 78 ACN reports. It is likely that this number is low in terms of "all-time" laser incidents. (ASRS incident reports go back to at least the mid-1990s, so there should be many more than 78 all-tme reports.)
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Mum turned around as I entered the room.
"Oh, Ingrid, we weren't expecting you back tonight," she said.
"I had a fight with the boys," I said.
"Are you all okay?" she asked worriedly; occasionally we hospitalise each other in our 'arguments'.
"I guess." I looked at my uncle and aunt. "Stella, Jasper, how are you?"
"Good, thanks, Ingrid," smiled Stella. "We were just talking about how you're getting on in school. I hear you're excelling in languages."
"Je va bien," I said.
"So you're trilingual now?" she asked.
"Pretty much."
Uncle Jasper had a suspicious look on his face. It must have been him at the window earlier. He must have seen me. Unless it was too dark; the moon wasn't out after all. I looked away from him.
"Come and sit down, Ingrid," Mum said.
I dropped my bag in the corridor and sat down in between my mum and dad on the couch.
"So how was school today?" asked Jasper.
"Fine, I guess. I had an argument with Zev."
"Your boyfriend?" he asked.
I smiled. "No. We were best friends in primary school but when we went into year seven, we were in different forms and we made new friends."
"So who's your best friend now?" he asked.
"Spike," I said with a small smile.
"That's an interesting name for a girl," Jasper contemplated.
"I don't have any friends that are girls."
"Oh. Why not?"
"I don't like them. They irritate me. I have nothing in common with them."
"Are they below you then?"
"I never said that. I just don't get on with them. I don't get on with many people. Only 28 out of the 123 in my year."
"Why so small a number?"
"I've grown up with a very close-knit friendship group. Many people have tried to change that: Mum, Dad, Grandma, all my teachers, just to name a few."
"Interesting," said Stella.
I turned to my mum. "Mum, I'm starving," I whispered. "I've not eaten much for the past two days."
"Well, whose fault is that?" she whispered back. Jasper and Dad were talking, catching up.
"Nature's. There were some deer in town yesterday but they're long gone. There's nothing else big enough for everyone. It would take all night just to hunt for ourselves. That's why we work as a group."
She smiled sympathetically and put her hand on my knee. "Come on then. Coming, Stella?" The three of us stood up and walked out the room.
A wave of dizziness came over me and I nearly fell. Stella caught me and held my arm.
"You okay, Ingrid?"
"Yeah," I said, suddenly breathless, "yeah, I'm all right."
I waited a moment to steady myself. When the furniture stopped flying, I followed Mum into the kitchen. She already had some chicken drumsticks in a frying pan on the hob.
Are you okay, Ingrid? We... about you. You scared us there... like that, said Faolan in my head. It confused me at first; bits of speech were missing and he carried on like he'd actually said something. I didn't respond.
I sat down at the island in the middle of the room. Stella sat opposite me. My eyes unfocused and I couldn't see anything. I heard my heart pounding in my ears. It was fast and weak. I was struggling to breathe.
The room span blurrily. I fell off the chair and whacked my head against the ceramic floor. I groaned. Indistinctly, through the haze of my vision, I saw Stella and Mum crouching over me, shouting – presumably for Dad and Jasper. I saw Stella – or Mum, I wasn't sure which – pull out her mobile and dial a number.


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|Reviews for Though The Desert May Be Dry
| Onba chapter 1 . 9/16/2014
Oh, wow. This is just- just perfect. It's supper creepy and rather heart wrenching but it fits Vader so well. Kudos!
| Guest chapter 1 . 5/3/2013
This is the most symbolic, beautiful, literary piece of fanfiction I have ever read.
| Diathimos chapter 1 . 7/7/2012
He really thought what he was doing was the right thing. And that is what makes his such a tragic story. :'( MTFBWH
| sachariah chapter 1 . 2/13/2012
Wow... powerful peice.
If you don't know, it's worth mentioning that I'm a big Rex fanboy. And among other things, I don't believe he will follow Order 66, or march on the Temple. He'll either desert before then, or - more likely - he'll disobey the order explicitly. Both the show and the writers has left hints to this effect, with Rex's performance in the current season being the most notable.
This isn't a fault of your story be any means, especially since this one-shot predates some of the TCW material that has convinced me of this. But it invariably will affect my perception of this and any tale involving my favorite clone - I've spent a lot of time researching this guy, after all. :P
But first, I have to hand it to you for the likening of Anakin' childhood aspiration (freeing the slaves) to his perception of the clones marching on the Temple. By all accounts, Darth Vader was known to have a fierce loyalty to his Stormtroopers, and this builds perfectly towards that end. In Anakin/Vader's mind, justice is finally being served. The clones have been slaves to the Jedi for three years too long, and it's payback time.
Now, while I concur with this being Anakin's perception, and I applaud your making this connection, I have to say that I - surprise - disagree with Lord Vader. Vehemently. There's no denying that there was a significant moral compromise on the Jedi's part, regarding the clone army. They should have known better than to agree to use an army of humans bred for nothing more than a war (not just war in general, but a single conflict, though a large one admittedly). There's no excuse either, because the Jedi (with a handful of exceptions - Quinlan Vos, for example) frequently demonstrated that they *knew* the clones were real people, individuals, "unique in the Force", as Yoda said. They knew these were *men* they were leading, and instead of standing for their rights as they would for an ordinary Republic citizen, the Jedi passively agreed to lead the vast majority of these men to certain death, for a war that was nothing to the clones other than concepts and vague ideals impressed on their still-developing minds. The Jedi knew the clones had no stake in the war, that they had no parents or children to fight for, no rights to defend.
But Vader is utterly wrong when he pins the blame for this injustice solely on the Jedi. For one, the Jedi were basically "handed" this army - it wasn't their idea or their ideal. Sidious had orchestrated events so that a vast number of Jedi were in dire straits, just as this massive and battle-ready army was ready to go, and just as the droid army made its appearance. Palpatine had essentially thrown the Jedi into the ring and handed them only one weapon - the Grand Army of the Republic. It was fight or die, and the Jedi instinctively chose to fight with the resources they had on hand.
But beyond Sidious's manipulation, Vader has also failed to realize an even more fundemental problem with the Jedi Order. The Jedi are *not* the slavemasters. The Jedi *are* the slaves. As was laid out rather profoundly in the Zygerian slaver episodes, the Jedi themselves are literally "Slaves of the Republic", beholden to a group of corrupt politicians and their traitorous figurehead. The Jedi are in fact do similar to the clone troopers they lead, it's almost scary. Like the clones, the Jedi have no familiar ties, no real childhood. Like the clones, the Jedi are raised under one philosophy. They may differ in species and genetics, but they are trained like the clones to operate according to one, unchanging code. Clone and Jedi are sworn to give their lives for the greater good, with no promise of reward or glory for their sacrifice. Clone and Jedi serve at the whim of forces greater than themselves, and - with few exceptions - accept the lot grated them on nothing more than the basis of mere authority.
Certainly, the Jedi have a few extra privileges, and extra powers at their disposal. But the Jedi is not free, no more than is a clone. To leave the GAR or the Order involves stigma, loss of privileges, loss of friends and or reputation.
And no one demonstrated the slavery that the Jedi suffer better than Anakin Skywalker. His loyalty to an impersonal Code, to a malicious mentor, tore him apart emotionally and physiologically, while Palapine's manipulations led him to blame the Jedi Order who were in reality no better off than Anakin was. Anakin recognized the slavery he was in, and that the clones were in, but he failed to make the connection to the true slavemaster.
And in a perfect complex of tragedy, the destruction of the Jedi Orser brought no freedom. Vader was nothing more than the mere pawn he had always been, and as for the Stormtroopers, Sidious and his Empire showed no more concern for their wellbeing than for the Jedi themselves. Vader may have taken an interest in his own men - the 501st - but on a whole, the clones were treated more unfairly, and used more brutally under the Sith than ever before. Yes, the Jedi were imperfect, but they tried. Master Windu, Master Plo Koon, Master Eeth Koth, Master Secura, Master Yoda; all these risked their lives - or attempted to sacrifice themselves in Koth's case - at one point or another to save a lone clone trooper.
I don't know that even Vader would have taken that risk for a Stormtrooper. But I'm certain that Tarkin, the Moffs, the governors, would have had a much more calloused regard for the clones than any Jedi.
Gee, I sure can ramble, eh? :P Excellent peice, and I do look forward to perusing more of your work in the future.
God bless.
| EndlessBlue chapter 1 . 12/30/2011
Great googly moogly this was amazing.
Every single line was a blow. I never once thought I would see reason in the Temple massacre, but this - this just defined it and expanded it and made it so believable, and more than that, managed to make Anakin at this point - at perhaps his most monstrous - a certifiably *sympathetic* character. I hate to say it, but you even made him someone the reader could understand and almost support, and considering the magnitude of the crime he's about to commit, that's really saying something.
Amazing. Favorited without a doubt.
| FalconWing chapter 1 . 4/22/2011
This is so awesome! I love how Anakin was concerned about the clones, saw them as the two-year-olds that they really are, felt their fear and drew the connection to his own slavery with Watto. Especially the way you showed that it was something that Obi-Wan just couldn't understand.
I also love how during the storming of the temple he's thinking about how the clones backing him are more familiar than those in the temple. They are where his loyalty is given. "Because Coruscant always thought it was better than Tatooine, but Anakin sees now that no planet is different from any other. Someone must always be called master." - THIS THIS THIS! So amazing! I always thought that much of the reason that Anakin comes across so resentful of authority is because he was born a slave and then when after being freed still had to call people master.
This whole piece is just so good and I love how the end ties back into the beginning, with Anakin projecting his actions against the temple towards Tatooine, envisaging a slave uprising, so that in his head he sees it as fulfilling his promise to come back to free the slaves, just like he told Kitster.
Any, I don't think that ramble did a particularly good job of articulating what I liked so much about it. Those examples I gave of what I really liked were just snippets really, but even beyond that, you drew it all together really well, made the three scenes flow into one story and the mood got progressively darker throughout. Great job. Favourited!
| Mister Buch chapter 1 . 8/22/2010
That was an excellent story. Very professionally written, carefully plotted, very well-observed characters and it was original.
My only criticism is that it was short. I would have liked those scenes to be longer, so that I could get lost in them a bit.
There are some great concepts in this, which really gave me pause for thought. 'Freeing the slaves' in particular.
I really loved this little bit of imagery:
- "And Kitster settled against the sand and looked at Anakin like maybe he could see a lightsaber in the boy's tight-curled little fists, except that the blade was washed out by the sun like everything else in Mos Espa and you just had to know it by the tiny blue glint that could as easily be sky."
| anakinpadmekenobi chapter 1 . 8/21/2010
How you connect each scene is beautiful. I like the last scene last, mostly because what Anakin is doing is what he feels is right, and you make us believe that it is right. And in a way, it is. Because, as is said, the clone don't have to follow the Jedi.
But they'll have to follow the Sith. Which, is like what Anakin is doing. Going from one master to the other.
("We weren't born slaves, Ani." "I don't think anyone knows that but us, mom." ) That's my favorite line. Very symbolic.
Nicely done!
| TheMacUnleashed chapter 1 . 8/21/2010
Wonderful vignette. The three snapshots of Anakin flowed together perfectly, showing how he changed as he grew, but how he always kept that one goal in the back of his mind. I love how Anakin was able to see and understand the issues with using the clones, but Obi-Wan found it a bit more difficult; that showed a lot about the mindset of the average Jedi, and provided an interesting contrast between the two.


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Gunns flags second pulp mill
The Chairman of Tasmanian timber company, Gunns Limited, has raised the prospect of building a second pulp mill, but not in Tasmania.
Gunns plans to build a $1.5 billion pulp mill at Longreach, in Tasmania's north, but it needs to pass State and Federal Government approval processes.
Environmentalists, as well as some local residents and businesses, are opposing the mill because of concerns it could be polluting and devalue property.
Gunns' Chairman, John Gay, has told the ABC that his company has more plantation timber, including interstate holdings, than it could process in one pulp mill, and that Gunns is looking long-term at adding value with a second mill.
In an interview with Robert Gottliebsen for the online journal, Eureka Report, Mr Gay says that the yield from Gunns' forest plantations will increase even further in 2012.
"If we can get a pulp mill in Tasmania and Gunns can have it, we can do other things with our cash flow in the future," he said
When asked what sort of new things he was talking about, Mr Gay replied,
"Well maybe a second pulp mill.
"The size of the plantations by 2012 or 2015 will lend itself to having another pulp mill," added Mr Gay.
"There are huge cash flows out of this and cash flows always lead to other things. So If we can get a pulp mill in Tasmania and Gunns can have it, we can do other things with our cash flow in the future," he said.


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A Sydney-based Sikh priest, Giani Gurudev Singh (52), the only Sikh minister of religion and marriage celebrant in Australia, solemnised 150th marriage recently. He has been a celebrant since 1995 when he acquired the licence to perform and register marriages after clearing a written test.
He told HT over the phone that he was extremely thankful to the Australian Sikh Association (ASA) which helped him become the minister of religion (marriage celebrant) in Australia. "I am authorised to register and perform civil (multi-cultural i.e. international) and religious (same religion and same community) marriages here," he said.
Having taken primary education from his father Giani Pritam Singh at Batala and later receiving a degree (equivalent to master's degree) in Indian music from Chandigarh based Pracheen Kala Kendra, Gurudev shifted to Sydney in 1994.
Despite shifting to Australia, Gurudev has always remained true to his roots and has been teaching the younger generation of the Indian diaspora to do the same. The Batala-born priest runs a training centre where he teaches Indian music, especially Gurmat Sangeet, Kirtan, Shabad and Gurbani to Sikh and Hindu students.


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Cowboys Collection Takes Over Texas Couple's House
Their home is just a short drive from AT&T Stadium but if you're a fan of the Dallas Cowboys and appreciate someone's dedicated collecting efforts, Stoney and Diana Kersh's house might be more fun to visit. They live in a veritable Cowboys museum. In fact, that's what they call it. Room after room of their Arlington, TX home is full of vintage and modern … [Read more...]
Former Cowboys' Star Erik Williams Selling Collection
Former Dallas Cowboys' offensive lineman Erik Williams is selling his personal memorabilia collection including a Super Bowl ring, trophy and two game-worn jerseys. The auction is being conducted by Albersheims, a Las Vegas-based memorabilia company. Highlights from the Erik Williams Collection include: 1992 Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl ring– the first of three … [Read more...]
Texas-Sized Cowboys Collection
Their season is over after a loss to the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Divisional Playoff on Sunday but we found one very large Dallas Cowboys collection worthy of attention. Stoney Kersh of Arlington, TX has been collecting Cowboys memorabilia since he was a pint-sized football fan. Safe to say he's not pint-sized anymore...and neither is his collection. Kersh is one of … [Read more...]
Packers Super Collector in Cowboys Country
He's got a display that would be right at home inside the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame. Custom-made lockers, game-worn jerseys and equipment, vintage memorabilia and other items from throughout the team's history are on display at Glen Christensen's home. He's not located anywhere near Lambeau Field, though. Christensen might be the biggest Packers fan in Texas. He … [Read more...]
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The Dallas Cowboys have hired an archivist to organize and catalog the physical history of the franchise. Joshua Thorn, a 31-year-old Cowboys fan from Philadelphia left a similar job at Campbell Soup and now works for the team. Thorn told the Dallas Morning News he's found a treasure trove of memorabilia including game-worn jerseys, player contracts, film of the team's … [Read more...]
Panini Strikes Deal with Cowboys for Game Used Gear
Panini America has reached a multi-year agreement with the Dallas Cowboys to be the franchise's exclusive provider of game-worn memorabilia through its Panini Authentic memorabilia division. "We're honored to be able to partner with the Cowboys for a meaningful relationship that allows us to obtain rare and valuable game-worn memorabilia directly from the team, offering fans … [Read more...]
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It's been 21 years but Pro Football Hall of Famer Lance Alworth has his Super Bowl ring back. Alworth, who spent several seasons with the San Diego Chargers and still lives in the area, earned the ring when he played for the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl VI at the end of the 1971 season. He caught a touchdown pass in the Cowboys' 24-3 win over the Miami Dolphins in New … [Read more...]
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There were some disappointed fans when Felix Jones said he couldn't sign autographs at a recent minor league baseball game in Arkansas. Jones claimed he had a trading card autograph deal that prevented him from signing. Whether or not it was true, the former Razorbacks and current Dallas Cowboys' running back took some flak. Now, he's fighting back. Jones says the man … [Read more...]


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How the Corporations Broke Ralph Nader and America, Too
Posted on Apr 5, 2010
By Chris Hedges
Ralph Nader's descent from being one of the most respected and powerful men in the country to being a pariah illustrates the totality of the corporate coup. Nader's marginalization was not accidental. It was orchestrated to thwart the legislation that Nader and his allies—who once consisted of many in the Democratic Party—enacted to prevent corporate abuse, fraud and control. He was targeted to be destroyed. And by the time he was shut out of the political process with the election of Ronald Reagan, the government was in the hands of corporations. Nader's fate mirrors our own.
"The press discovered citizen investigators around the mid-1960s," Nader told me when we spoke a few days ago. "I was one of them. I would go down with the press releases, the findings, the story suggestions and the internal documents and give it to a variety of reporters. I would go to Congress and generate hearings. Oftentimes I would be the lead witness. What was interesting was the novelty; the press gravitates to novelty. They achieved great things. There was collaboration. We provided the newsworthy material. They covered it. The legislation passed. Regulations were issued. Lives were saved. Other civic movements began to flower."
Nader was singled out for destruction, as Henriette Mantel and Stephen Skrovan point out in their engaging documentary movie on Nader, "An Unreasonable Man." General Motors had him followed in an attempt to blackmail him. It sent an attractive woman to his neighborhood Safeway supermarket in a bid to meet him while he was shopping and then seduce him; the attempt failed, and GM, when exposed, had to issue a public apology.
But far from ending their effort to destroy Nader, corporations unleashed a much more sophisticated and well-funded attack. In 1971, the corporate lawyer and future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell wrote an eight-page memo, titled "Attack on American Free Enterprise System," in which he named Nader as the chief nemesis of corporations. It became the blueprint for corporate resurgence. Powell's memo led to the establishment of the Business Roundtable, which amassed enough money and power to direct government policy and mold public opinion. The Powell memo outlined ways corporations could shut out those who, in "the college campus, the pulpit, the media, the intellectual and literary journals," were hostile to corporate interests. Powell called for the establishment of lavishly funded think tanks and conservative institutes to churn out ideological tracts that attacked government regulation and environmental protection. His memo led to the successful effort to place corporate-friendly academics and economists in universities and on the airwaves, as well as drive out those in the public sphere who questioned the rise of unchecked corporate power and deregulation. It saw the establishment of organizations to monitor and pressure the media to report favorably on issues that furthered corporate interests. And it led to the building of legal organizations to promote corporate interests in the courts and appointment of sympathetic judges to the bench.
"It was off to the races," Nader said. "You could hardly keep count of the number of right-wing corporate-funded think tanks. These think tanks specialized, especially against the tort system. We struggled through the Nixon and early Ford years, when inflation was a big issue. Nixon did things that horrified conservatives. He signed into law OSHA, the Environmental Protection Agency and air and water pollution acts because he was afraid of the people from the rumble that came out of the 1960s. He was the last Republican president to be afraid of liberals."
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The Congress, between 1966 and 1973, passed 25 pieces of consumer legislation, nearly all of which Nader had a hand in authoring. The auto and highway safety laws, the meat and poultry inspection laws, the oil pipeline safety laws, the product safety laws, the update on flammable fabric laws, the air pollution control act, the water pollution control act, the EPA, OSHA and the Environmental Council in the White House transformed the political landscape. Nader by 1973 was named the fourth most influential person in the country after Richard Nixon, Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren and the labor leader George Meany.
"Then something very interesting happened," Nader said. "The pressure of these meetings by the corporations like General Motors, the oil companies and the drug companies with the editorial people, and probably with the publishers, coincided with the emergence of the most destructive force to the citizen movement—Abe Rosenthal, the editor of The New York Times. Rosenthal was a right-winger from Canada who hated communism, came here and hated progressivism. The Times was not doing that well at the time. Rosenthal was commissioned to expand his suburban sections, which required a lot of advertising. He was very receptive to the entreaties of corporations, and he did not like me. I would give material to Jack Morris in the Washington bureau and it would not get in the paper."
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Last post before bailing tomorrow morning. Direct flight to Frankfurt and then ICE train to Berlin. Yes, I could fly but, like Sheldon Cooper, I love trains. More space, bigger windows, better view, less common, no airport hassles. I've been moving through international airports since I was a kid in the early 1970s and the changes are not all for the better – they've become impersonal and overcrowded zoos without a decent bar in sight. Nothing to do with rums, just thought I'd mention it.
Grandma Caner has all in readiness. Sample bottles check, tasting glasses check, Fest tickets, check, transport cards are a roger. Pens, notebook, backpack, laptop, cameras, maps, addresses, everything from that perspective is a go. She has no internet access in her place, so I'm sorry to report that updates will cease until I can find both the sobriety and a wired cafe somewhere, to let you know how things went.
Not sure I mentioned this but the 'Caner AfterParty will have around eighty rums in it. About half of those are from last year which the boys did not get a chance to sample or share. The other half are all new, ordered online or passed on by friends who wanted to share, didn't like them, or just wanted to apprise me of something unusual and hopefully original. A few are samples, some are purchases, and there's a couple that are outright thefts. Did I mention the Caputo 1973 from the Heisenberg distillery? No? Better not, then. Forget I brought it up.
You'll forgive me for being so childishly enthusiastic about all this, but if you're stuck in DryLand for months at a stretch and can't regularly taste the Liquid Candy of the Lord, well, I think you'd be pretty peppy yourself at the thought of meeting friends, tasting the hooch and wandering around with the beautiful Mrs. Caner next to you, not a respectful three steps behind. And (gasp!) being able to hold her hand, look into her eyes, and maybe steal a kiss in public.
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A spouse suffering from mental disorder cannot be the sole ground for dissolution of marriage, the Supreme Court has held.
A bench headed by justice GS Singhvi said divorce can be granted only if the illness is of such nature that it is difficult to live together. Turning down the plea of a man seeking divorce on the ground his wife was suffering from schizophrenia, the bench said the existing Hindu Marriage Act (HMA) did not make existence of a mental disorder of any degree sufficient to grant divorce.
"This court cautioned that Section 13 (1) (iii) of HMA does not make a mere existence of a mental disorder of any degree sufficient in law to justify the dissolution of marriage," said the bench, upholding the Andhra Pradesh HC's verdict that had set aside the trial court order to grant divorce to the doctor couple.


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Compared to the probiotic product I used previously, I have found this product to be less pleasant to use. While I have never had difficulty swallowing large tablets previously, I do have trouble with these. I presume the chalky consistency of the tablets may have contributed to this issue. Not every product is going to work effectively for everyone and while this one was not well-assimilated by my body or provide a particular benefit for me, it may work wonderfully for someone with a different metabolism.
This has higher C value
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I used to take this before eating but now take it after eating. I also used to take regular vitamine C, but Ester C is better I have found.
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bought for husband after antibio/illness who knows? bowels calmer
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I bought this for my dog, as he has allergies and bitamin C is an antihistamine. It seems to be helping a lot, the fur is growing back on his paws and belly.
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Pawan Kalyan's 'Attarintiki Daredi' is right now limited to reel-boxes sitting in processing labs in Hyderabad, as the protests in Seemandhra are still at large. But how many days should the movie actually wait? Will this protest die down any sooner?
All these answer less questions are now promoting the distributors of the movie to force Pawan Kalyan and his producer BVSN Prasad to fix a release date. With protest not going to drop at anytime in the next 3-4 months, a distributor who has spent huge money for acquiring rights of the flick will be feeling uneasy to pay interests for the mammoth investment. So, rather waiting for months, it is best to release the movie immediately such that it will make whatever amount it will, if not profits it will recover invested capital, a distributor said.
'Right now we'll lose only in parts of Seemandhra. But if Congress goes back on Telangana or announces bitter news to T-folks about Hyderabad, then we have to lose both in Seemandhra and Telangana', another distributor told to producer, say sources.
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Get an overview of this hotel3-star hotel with 2 restaurants and 3 outdoor pools
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Situated by the sea, this spa hotel is within a 15-minute walk of Kata Porpeang Market and Dino Park Mini Golf. Karon Temple and Kok Chang Safari Elephant Trekking are also within 3 mi (5 km).
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Along with 2 restaurants, this hotel has 3 outdoor pools and a full-service spa. Free WiFi in public areas and a free beach shuttle are also provided. Additionally, a fitness center, a bar/lounge, and a poolside bar are onsite.
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Vincent Piazza was between gigs a few years ago when he thought it would be a good exercise to play a gangster. On his own, he filmed himself playing one.
Little did he know that the resulting monologue - of a gangster telling an old children's story to his son - would help him snag the role of Charles "Lucky" Luciano on "Boardwalk Empire."
As the HBO series premieres, this is not the Luciano of lore, the godfather of organized crime as we know it. No, he's a young gun working for criminal figure Arnold Rothstein, taken under the latter's wing.
To prepare for the role, Piazza pored over books on his subject, researching with Rothstein portrayer Michael Stuhlbarg and visiting New York coffee joints from the era. Piazza, who first came to "Empire" creator Terence Winter's radar during a stint on "The Sopranos," immersed himself in the man and the time.
"You felt a great responsibility," he says. "Whether he's a violent murderer or Gandhi, you feel a great responsibility to get it right."
For Piazza, that meant forgetting what Luciano becomes.
The Luciano of "Boardwalk Empire" is unrefined, a hothead more likely to act first without thinking things through.
This notion of force versus power is a driving theme for the character as the first season develops.
"Vincent brings just the right level of authority and menace to the role," Winter says. "You totally believe he'll grow into the character we already know he becomes."
"He's someone who grew up using force to get what he wants. But what he hasn't figured out is power," Piazza says. "He strikes me as a guy who had to learn not to explode on people."
This is where Stuhlbarg's Rothstein comes in. In early episodes, you see him trying to mold his protege, teach him the ropes. As the duo researched their roles together, Piazza soaked up all he could from Stuhlbarg, who won raves for his role in "A Serious Man."
"(Luciano) is a kid who was from a slum, not only in New York but in Sicily. I joked with Michael early on: 'I see the dynamic. I'm the Julia Roberts to your Richard Gere,'" Piazza says, pulling out a "Pretty Woman" reference. "I'd argue his relationship with Rothstein was the main driving force in making him what he was in organized crime."
As the series develops, we'll see exactly how Luciano grows. But the actor playing him knows how, pardon the pun, lucky he is.
"It was challenging and fun and scary. You start tapping into other parts of yourself and you wonder where they come from," he says of bringing to life the infamous mobster. "I've done television, but I've never done anything this intensive."
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