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Best Doctor - El Paso, TX
Allergic to suture material from another previous doctor who would not provide me aftercare. READ MORE
Suture Allergy - El Paso, TX
I had a tummy tuck and had to get 5 surgerys after that from different surgeons to correct the problem of my reaction to premicron sutures. I had puss and had to have open wounds. The initial surgery was in 05 and now we are in 2011 and I had a baby 20 mnth ago and had lipo surgery on jan 2011 and another green suture popped out on my side. I thought all of them were gone, but to my... READ MORE
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Yes, but with a little constant throbbing pain. The scar tissue was growing trying to get rid of the foreign suture material and getting larger so bruising me from the inside out. Get an ultrasound if it has any pain and by that test... READ COMMENT
Well continuing on the story, I just had another corrective surgery on Feb. 16, 2012 by another plastic surgeon. He had to correct what my over surgeon said he had corrected. So it comes out that there was still more suture material... READ COMMENT
Better..Just feel bad looking at my scars all the time I shower. Now I am just trying focus on the future of my kids and be there for them and try to talk them out of any of these crazy ideas I have engaged myself into. I have... READ COMMENT
I hadnt either. I had a child in 1995 and never had any complications. I also had my appendix removed and nothing. Then when I chose to remove my tummy from childbirth they made an internal corsett on my muscles and a new belly... READ COMMENT
Thank you for your comment. I am done with elective surgery. I believe my last doctor in Jan 2011 fixed me. Thank God that there are still surgeons out there that really care and are not just in it for the money. God has got me this... READ COMMENT


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Acer America recently announced that its Aspire 4710 Gemstone-series notebook PC is now available in North America.
The Aspire 4710 is a 14.1-inch entertainment notebook delivered in Acer's new chassis design and backed by a selection of Intel Core 2 Duo mobile processors and radiant graphics. The Aspire 4710 has Dolby surround sound with S/PDIF support.
The Aspire 4710 is available at a suggested retail price of US$599.
- Wireless broadband developments in Southeast Asia markets
As of 2013, the 10 ASEAN nations had a total of over 700 million mobile subscriptions, with the CAGR from 2003-2013 reaching 24%. This Digitimes Research Special Report analyzes the various mobile broadband markets in ASEAN and looks at the respective trends in 4G LTE development for those markets.
- 2015 global tablet demand forecast
This Digitimes Research Special Report provides a 2015 forecast for the global tablet market and analyzes the strategies of key market players such as Google, Apple, Intel, and Microsoft.
- 2015 China smartphone panel trend forecast
This Digitimes Research Special Report analyzes the strategies of key China-based major panel makers BOE, Tianma and IVO for attacking the different market segments through technology and pricing, and their relationship to local vendors Huawei, Lenovo, ZTE, Xiaomi and Coolpad.

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Posted by Chris McClean on the Security & Risk Professionals Blog on January 27, 2014
It's once again time to tear open the GRC platform market and uncover all its amazing technical innovations, vendor successes, and impact on customer organizations. This afternoon, we published our latest iteration of the Forrester Wave: Governance, Risk, And Compliance Platforms.
My esteemed colleagues Renee Murphy and Nick Hayes joined me in a fully collaborative, marathon evaluation of 19 of the most relevant GRC platform vendors; we diligently pored through vendor briefings, online demos, customer reference surveys and interviews, access to our own demo environment of each vendor's product, and as per Forrester policy, multiple rounds of fact checking and review. The sheer amount of data we collected is incredible.
No Longer Two Separate Waves
Many of you may remember that we published two Forrester Waves last time around: one for Enterprise GRC platforms and one for IT GRC platforms. As discussed in previous research, the lines between these distinct submarkets have been eroding for some time, and now it's no longer worth separating the two.
Posted by David Johnson on the Infrastructure & Operations Professionals Blog on January 13, 2014
While the consumerization of IT marches on, in its footsteps lurks the specter of unknown risk. We live in a world of zero-sum games of litigation where suffocating regulations are the norm, and failure to comply can draw millions in fines and lawsuits. Technology diversity multiplies the challenge of maintaining compliance — it's no wonder so many IT shops take a one-size-fits-all approach to workforce computing and forbid bring-your-own-device (BYOD). But it doesn't have to be this way. It's possible to craft an approach that brilliantly achieves the conflicting goals of embracing BYOD and consumerization while slashing the risks and costs at the same time. Our recent research on the topic comes from working with lawyers and auditors who specialize in technology law and compliance reveals that it can indeed be done.
You Still Have to Act But the Cure is Often Worse Than the Disease
The technology attorneys we interviewed for this research agree — once you learn that BYOD is happening in your organization, you have a legal obligation to do something about it, whether you have established industry guidance to draw on or not. The answer is seemingly simple: Take action to stamp out the risk. However, the answer isn't that straightforward because:
Posted by Stephanie Balaouras on the Security & Risk Professionals Blog on October 30, 2012
On Monday, Hurricane Sandy slammed into the East Coast of the United States, flooding entire towns in New York and New Jersey, triggering large-scale power outages and killing at least 17 people. The health and safety of individuals is the first and foremost priority, followed by the recovery of critical infrastructure services (power, water, hospital services, transportation etc.). As these services begin to recover, many business and IT leaders are wondering how they will resume normal operations to ensure the long-term financial viability of the company and the livelihoods of their employees and how they will serve their loyal customers.
Most likely, if you have offices that lie in the path of Hurricane Sandy, you are experiencing some sort of business disruption, large or small. The largest enterprises, especially those in financial services, spend an enormous amount of money on business, workforce and IT resiliency strategies. Many of them shifted both business and IT workloads to other corporate locations in advance of the storm, proactively closed offices and directed employees to work from home or a designated alternate site.
If you are small and medium enterprise and, like many of your peers, you didn't have an alternate workforce site, robust work-from-home employee capabilities, an automated notification system or a recovery data center, what do you do now? While it's too late to implement many measures to improve resiliency, there are several things you can do now to help your organization return to normal operations ASAP. Here are Forrester's top recommendations for senior business technology leaders:
Posted by Stephanie Balaouras on the Security & Risk Professionals Blog on April 26, 2012
The current state of business continuity management (BCM) standards? Abysmal. According to a joint Forrester/DRJ study, 69% of respondents said that British Standard (BS) 25999 did not influence or only somewhat influenced BCM at their company. It's not much better for NFPA 1600, 70% of respondents said that it did not, or only somewhat, influenced BCM at their company. I find this shocking. BS 25999 is one of the most widely recognized standards for BCM worldwide and NFPA 1600 has been popular in the US for years. In addition, the U.S Department of Homeland Security's Private Sector Preparedness Program (PS‑Prep) recognizes both of these standards for assessing preparedness. If you're wondering what standards respondents named in the "Other" category, it was mostly the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) and NIST. Not surprising but also a little disheartening, it's clear that unless compelled to do so, most BC professional would not adopt or follow a BCM standard.
Even if you don't intend to certify to these standards, they should strongly influence your BCM program. Why? It's because:


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Yep...Mozambique drill...well discussed.
Welcome to DC.com
This is a discussion on 21 foot rule within the Defensive Carry & Tactical Training forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; A guy running 21 feet to slash an IDPA target to demo the 21 foot rule. YouTube - 21 Foot Rule Less Talk and More ...
A guy running 21 feet to slash an IDPA target to demo the 21 foot rule.
YouTube - 21 Foot Rule Less Talk and More action (compiled and shortened)
Yep...Mozambique drill...well discussed.
Welcome to DC.com
Magazine <> clip - know the difference
martyr is a fancy name for crappy fighter
You have never lived until you have almost died. For those that have fought for it, life has a special flavor the protected will never know
the head shot is risky because you need to be moving off the x with a fast approaching agressor...multiple com and abdominal shots would be more effective as most abdominal hits result in an assailant dropping their weapon and the com shots will be easier to make o a moving target than high head shots while stepping off his line...
the mozambique drill works great in idpa events where the target is still...when its moving its a risky game when the body is such a large and effective target...
I might be wrong, but I thought the 21' foot deal was called 'Tueller Drill'
The Tueller Drill/21' Rule Revisited, IDPA style
The idea is that the average man can cover 21' in about 1.5 seconds, so the drill is supposed to get you to present in less time, with someone closing the distance on you.
Trust in God and keep your powder dry
"A heavily armed citizenry is not about overthrowing the government; it is about preventing the government from overthrowing liberty. A people stripped of their right of self defense is defenseless against their own government." -source
During training when we place targets of an individual holding a knife 21' away and activate the automatic target retreval it is amazing the number of officers who never clear their holsters before the target reaches them. Of the officers that do get rounds downrange less than 50% get 3 hits in vital areas.The same drill from the low ready returns better results which definately says something for having your weapon in your hand. When force on force training with simmunitions is done with an actual attacker closing the distance the results are worse. All uniformed officers are using Level III security holsters.
Investigators have Level II holsters but must draw from a concealed carry.
It is a real wakeup call.
"Violence is seldom the answer, but when it is the answer it is the only answer".
"A nation of sheep breeds a government of wolves".
More food for thought...Get an airsoft gun, paintball masks and a training knife. Then see what the dynamics are REALLY like and just how close you can beat the knife guy by getting off line QUICKLY.
In our FOF classes we run "Tueller Drills" as close as 3 yards and the good guy wins more times than not....if he worries more about moving than he does about drawing. That is to say that if you stand still long enough to draw you'll get stabbed. If you get moving and THEN draw you'll have better results.
Once you have experienced this a few times you'll become far more acclimated to it and suddenly you'll be able to focus on more thanjust getting your gun out. Once you have gotten acclimated to it you will be able to stop using all your mental capacity on panic and actually hit people where you want to hit them. Yes...even in the head.
Don't take my word for it. test it yourself.
Randy Harris
Suarez International Tier 1 Staff Instructor
NRA Certified Instructor
IDPA Master class SSP ,ESP,CCP,BUG
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When we do this drill its AMAZING how many people don't move off center. They just stand there, if someone is doped up and you shoot them they don't always stop. My dad has told me stories about the VC (viet cong) who were on opium and had full mags emptied in them and didn't stop. There is a scientifical term for being dead and not realizing it. I forget what it is. A taser instructor mentioned it to me.
This drill is fun and teaches you alot.
"Put on the whole armor of God..."
"If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge or jury. Therefore what he must be taught to fear is his victim." - LtCol Jeff Cooper


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In January of 2006 I toured Will Allens Growing Power farm. Inspired by the Growing Power vision, my wife, son, a family friend and I constructed a home-based version of the Growing Power system in our sun-room.
We started by building an 8′ X 2′ box in our three-season room, and (with help of good persons at Growing Power and some worms) grew, with mixed results, salad greens and seedlings for the first summers garden. As the seasons change, our focus shifts back and forth between the sun-room and its evolving Growing Power Home Garden Project Box, and our Growing Power backyard garden, where we use the rich soil, worm castings and worms from the indoor box outdoors. Same system yet different.
Digging in the earth can uncover all kinds of things, and so can digging deep in ourselves. In my online journal, I have been recording daily reflections on the progress of our efforts in adapting the Growing Power model to our home and garden, mixed with my observations about life, peace, justice, faith, family, community and friends. Enjoy. Thank you! Bob Graf
Click below to read any post in full — see the Archives for older posts.
The Director of the FBI interfered with results of 2016 election
When he reopened the email case of Clinton right before the election
Now the Director of the FBI is leading the investigation of how Russia may have interfered with 2016 elections.
Some of the liberal media are criticizing and marginalizing Wiki Leaks,
Where a short time ago they were praising and honoring Wiki Leaks.
In his first public statement the new Director of the CIA is criticizing and marginalizing Wiki Leads
Some on the left are blaming and criticizing the Presidents of US, Venezuela, and South Africa
For all the woes the people in these countries face,
Where before these US Presidential election they were not blaming presidents of these countries for same woes.
Bennie Sanders got support of left in the presidential election of 2016.
But after being dumped on by the Democrats and Clinton,
He supports the Democrats and Clinton in pushing for militarism, and other toxic things he spoke against.
Senator Tammy Baldwin won the election in 2012 as peace and justice candidate.
Now she is supporting militarism and more arms
And she is still the candidate of most on left and liberals in Wisconsin.
Some on the left and liberals say President Trump is not their president
The will not allow politicians to corporate with President or Republicans
Yet for eight years with a Democratic President they were sleeping on evils done.
The 1% has gained 99% of wealth in world
While the poor and middle class, republicans and Democrats
Are pitted against each other for a share of 1% of wealth.
The Wall Street and Defense contractor Presidential Candidate lost
Big money did not win
Yet Wall Street and Defense contractors are still winning.
Some on the left and liberals blame Trump and conservatives for everything bad that happens
Some on the right and conservatives blame Obama and Democrats for everything bad that happens
Yet it is US, United States, or us, we the people, that are responsible for US.
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Today the US dropped the Mother of All Bombs on Afghanistan,
This 21,600 lb. pound bomb is equal to 11 tons of TNT,
Obliterates everything within a 1,000-yard radius.
The war in Afghanistan has been going on for 15 years
The more Afghans we kill the more they try to kill us
The former President in Afghanistan, someone we helped to power,
Condemned the attack and accused US of using his country
As testing ground for new and dangerous weapons.
This act of terror by US, as we know from past experiences
Will only create more terror and hatred against US
The Arms Dealers and Terrorist rejoice
With more money for killing and more recruits for terror.
I used to think that the powers behind the use of these types of weapons
Just did not know history and how they are contributing to hate of US
But now I believe they are smart and know exactly what they are doing.
They will not be stopped by anyone except US, US being us
Who believe the propaganda and think killing makes our country safe.
When will we ever learn?
In retaliation for an alleged Syrian chemical attack that killed human beings, including children,
The US drops 85 million dollars of Cruise missiles on a Syrian air base killing human beings;
If the US would have dropped 85 million dollars of food on Syria
Many adults and children would have been saved from starvation and grateful to the US.
The US sells Saudi Arabia millions of dollars of weapons to bomb Yemen,
Killing people, including starving children.
The millions of dollars for destruction could have been used to rebuild Yemen and fed the children.
US gives 11 million dollars a day of military aid to Israel,
Used to suppress Palestinians and promote unrest in the Middle East.
11 million a day of food and supplies could bring peace and harmony between peoples.
The US Defense budget grows bigger and bigger every year,
So the US can drop more and more bombs each day destroying crops and people,
While more and more children go hungry in the US and around the world
When will we, US, ever learn to drop food not bombs?
In 2008 the Democrats won the Senate, House and Presidency.
Republicans on the right promised not to work with Democrats;
And if one did they would run someone against him or her.
In 2016 the Republicans won the Senate, House and Presidency.
Democrats on the Left promise not to work with Republicans;
And if one did they would run someone against him or her.
Divide and Conquer says the 1% who gain in power.
As the people become more divided the powers that be get stronger.
The people divided weaken all except those who thrive on a divide and conquer.
In 2008 the Democrats won the Senate, House and Presidency.
Republicans on the right promised to not work with Democrats;
And if one did they would run someone against him or her.
In 2016 the Republicans won the Senate, House and Presidency.
Democrats on the Left promised not to work with Republicans;
And if one did they would run against him or her.
Divide and Conquer says the 1% who gain in power.
As the people become more divided the powers that be get stronger.
The people divided weaken all except those who thrive on a divide and conquer.
About a week ago I heard on the radio that a young man was found shot to death in a car on the North side of Milwaukee. I felt sad for the young man and his family. No name was given to the young man and there were no suspects in the homicide. I remembered there was another man found shot in a car recently on the North side. Later I found out both their names. Not much was reported about these two young man. Due to the lack of media attention, the lack of suspects and the location of the two homicides I thought they were both young black men. They were.
The other night in the TV news I heard about an older white man who was found shot in the car, also on the North side. His name was identified on the report and the Mayor, Police Chief were on the scene to talk about this tragic death of a city worker. The next day there were five suspects in custody, although none of them had been charged. A newspaper article had family and friends testimony of what a wonderful person he was.
Three deaths of human beings shot in a car on the North Side. One, the older white man, got proper remembrance and was presented as a true tragedy. The other two, young black men, were mentioned in passing. All three were a tragedy and maybe if we gave as much attention to the two black lives we could slow down the killing of young black men.
Before we can understand the power of nonviolence we must first understand what nonviolence is not. It is not a movement to be passive or silent in face of injustice. It is not a movement against a person, be it a friend, enemy or politician.
Nonviolence is a movement, by word and action, for something just and peaceful. For example, the civil rights movement of 50s and 60 was not against anyone but for the ability for all races to sit anywhere on the bus, at a lunch carter or to use a public bathroom. Nonviolence is based on values and beliefs, be they Gospel values or human rights, for shelter, clean water, food or health care.
Nonviolence fights wrong and evil not with violence or more injustice but by absorbing the violence and evil and returning it with love and goodness. A nonviolent person knows no fear or hate in the struggle for justice or truth. A nonviolent person struggles with nonviolent word and actions for what is just and right, their opinion of truth formed by conscience.
A nonviolent person does not judge other persons words but judges actions of person. Judge not the sinner but the sin. For example, our former President talked about achieving a world free of nuclear weapons but in realty built new nuclear weapon plants and new and more usable and deadly nuclear weapons. Our present president talks about nuclear superiority but has not done, to my knowledge, anything new about it. Yet many blame or fear him for the nuclear build up. Pope Francis talks to US Congress about arms dealers having blood on their hands. The President and Congress listened and praised him. Yet the USA keeps on being the biggest arms dealers in the world. People killed in Yemen or Palestine with American weapons are killed by us, Americans. We need to take responsibly for these actions and struggle nonviolently to commit this sin no more. We teach in our Catholic Universities the equality and dignity of all life, yet teach war and killing, killing without conscience.
Our reluctance to adopt a nonviolent way of life and action seems to be our fear of sacrifice, being marginalized and suffering loss. An author, Judith Brown, defines Gandhis nonviolent struggle as striving nonviolently to the point of sacrifice rather than fighting to attain ones vision of truth. Martin Luther King Jr., in his letter from the Birmingham jail, talks about how disciple nonviolence totally confused the rulers of the South. They did not know what to do. When they finally reached for clubs, dogs and guns, they found the world was watching, and then the power of nonviolent protest became manifest. St. Ignatius of Loyola when praying for the grace of God in his Spiritual Exercises prays for the desire to be with you (Jesus) in accepting all wrongs and all rejections and all poverty, both actual and spiritual.
This essential element of nonviolence, sacrifice, accepting suffering, inconvenience, insults or injury while still struggling for justice, equality and peace is at the heart of nonviolence power.
Power, for our government and the military/industrial/education complex, means having the ability to inflict punishment and violence on people it considers a threat to the American Way. Power for people of nonviolence means taking responsibility for the violence the USA directly or indirectly imposed on people of Somalia, Palestine, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya and other countries around the world. People of nonviolence need to fight racism here in the United States be it overtly or structurally, as it is in Milwaukee, with the lack of urgency to remove lead water lines that are poisoning our children, predominately in African American and Hispanic neighborhoods. Christian nonviolence chooses the Way of Jesus, even when it means choosing poverty, suffer and a cross over the American Way of power, money and honor.
Nonviolent persons first must be aware of their own sinfulness, participation, by word, deed or silence in evil like segregation or killer drones. Then they can condemn the sins and evils around us. Then by word or action, suffering and loss if necessary, they can strive without violence against this evil, not looking to blame anyone, but to root out the evil. Only then we work together to exercise the power of nonviolence, to change the world, to make society an easier place to be good.
Fear is at the heart of violence and war. The sign about the cross of Jesus declared his crime, treason. It read Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews. Although he was innocent of this crime, he suffered the punishment of death on the cross. The cross is a symbol of nonviolence. If we practice the power of nonviolence in a world that values war, violence, profits, pleasure, greed it is inevitable that we will suffer being insulted, marginalized, ignored or even jailed.
(Based on articleAre Health Systems Failing a Moral Test? (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017)
No Room in Milwaukee Hospitals for the Ill!
In Milwaukee County the County government plans to privatize the treatment at the Mental Health Complex,
Which now is the only place poor and marginalized persons in a major mental crisis can go outside of jail
Over the years, mainly due to a lack of funding by the County for persons with major mental illnesses,
Conditions there have deteriorated and numbers served have declined to where jail is home to more ill persons.
There are three major health care systems in Milwaukee County, Aurora, Froedert and Ascension,
Not one of them these three major health care system wants to treat these poor and marginalized ill.
All three non-profits are profitable, with profit margins of 7.5% to 16.4%.
There is money to be made according to the Director of Milwaukee County Department and Human Services,
But there is money to be made by these non-profits in treatment of persons with commercial insurance.
Aurora, the clear choice, plans to invest 40 million in the Athletic Performance Research Center at Marquette University,
Tied into its nearby Aurora Sinai hospital that used to house a major treatments center for ill with brain illnesses, but no more.
But has no interest in running hospital for persons with major mental illnesses.
Although there is not enough money for the three major Health systems in Milwaukee County,
Two out of State for profit companies are interested in providing the services to Milwaukee County,
One of them is being investigated by the Federal Government for fraud at 20 of its behavior health hospitals,
The other one provides mainly medical and behavioral health care in prisons or sick to prisons and jails.
One wonders how out of state for profit companies can find profit for treatment of those ill with a major mental illness,
While local non-profit health care systems cannot find enough money to care for these poor and marginalized ill persons in community.
There is a sign in Emergency Rooms and Urgent Care Centers of these three large hospital that says:
If you have a medical emergency you have a right to receive treatment at this place.
But added in smaller print is within the capabilities of this hospitals staff and facilities".
By ridding themselves of psychiatric and mental health treatment and staff
They can now refuse the poor and marginalized in mental health crisis
The three local health systems say: there is no room in the inn or hospital for persons with major mental illness,
We only take those ill when we can make more money. Got to Jail
Last Friday I attended a Common Council Water Quality Task force and asked this question, which I thought was the goal of Task Force and community groups. This letter to Mayor, which was ignored by him and city officials, sums up their response.
Dear Mayor,
Last weekend I met a young father who had done what he could do to protect his young son from lead poisoning. He had a lead free of paint house, had a water filter for lead in kitchen and used bottled water; yet when his son was tested the child was found to have over 5 micgrograms per deciliter, dangerous amount of lead in his blood. As you know up to 20% of children, 6 and under, tested in predominately African American zips had dangerous amount of lead in blood.
I was present last summer when Alderman Hamilton formed the water quality tax force of Common Council to come up with a comprehensive pan, over time, to replace all lead water pipes. I was disappointed in the City of Milwaukee when there was no funds City 2017 budget to replace lead water pipes in residential, except for some day care centers and broken or leaking lead water service pipes.
So at the public hearing portion of the Water Quality Committee meeting today I asked the simple and direct question: When is the City of Milwaukee going to develop a plan and fund it to replace lead water service lines? The chairmen said there was no dialog with committee but nevertheless he would answer my question. After some back and forth he said that you, Mayor, would present a 2018 budget to the City Council next September that would have some money in it and Common Council would review it. When he saw the expression on my face he said that perhaps I did not understand the process and to wait till next September. The expression on my face was not due to not knowing the process but to the fact this was that this was the same answer that in 2016, Alderman Hamilton, you and others had given us, about the 2017 City Budget. Some had even given specific suggestions to you and Council Members of how the City could finance over about a 20 year period the replacement of all lead lateral water pipes. Yet there was no money in 2017 budget to begin this process for the nearly 70,000 residential homes, mostly in African-American and Hispanic neighborhoods. All the time, I read in the newspaper about city property taxpayer money going for economic development in the predominately white neighborhood of downtown Milwaukee. No one tells developers seeking profits to wait till the next budget year.
So now I ask you Mayor and the Council Members:
When will the City of Milwaukee develop a comprehensive plan and fund it to replace all lead lateral water pipes in residential homes? I have attached a "racial division" spreadsheet showing the connection between lead water pipes in racially divided neighborhoods and the relationship to high lead blood levels, Homicide, poverty and unemployment rate, city TIF investments and educational achievement.
Ignore or marginalize me the messenger, the problem will not go away until City Officials stop talking, blaming, crying poor and spending money on PR and turn around (repent) the direction of this city and do something it.
I have done other research, have maps and contacts to share. Just let me know if you are interested or care.
Bob Graf
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Last Sunday in the Crossroads section of the local newspaper there was an opinion article called "Most Segregated Metro Area,It is Just Not That Simple". In my opinion this editorial represented of a fundermental problem in Milwaukee, refusing to admit racism and segregation and justifying it. Here is my Letter to the Editor that was not printed.
Dear Editor,
Mr. Gurdas essay in Sundays Crossroads, Most segregated Yes, but
. Illustrates the real problem we have with segregation in Milwaukee, failure to acknowledge the problem. He compares Milwaukees African American to immigrant communities, German and Polish that once were the majority on North and South side. Many African American ancestors were brought to USA as slaves and did not enjoy the rights of German and Polish Americans immigrants. He calls for more jobs in the African American community, which all can agree. However he fails to mention while the city of Milwaukee invest $3.85 million dollars for economic development (TIF) in two predominately white Zips 53202 and 53203 it only invests $1.5 million dollars for economic development in two, 53206 and 53210, predominately, African American zips. If city was aware of a toxic poison affecting children in predominately white neighborhoods do you think the city would hesitate to solve it? But there is such a problem in the African American neighborhoods with lead water pipes yet the city has no money in 2017 budget and no plans to replace residential lead water pipes. There is a reason why Milwaukee is the worst city to be a black person and to raise a black child. It is! Failure to admit segregation and institutional racism is the problem in Milwaukee.
Left or Right? Does it matter?
The Right won the Presidential Election in 2000
And we had endless wars, bombed countries, violence and terrorism, spying of citizens and disparity between poor and rich.
The Left won the election in 2008.
And we had more endless wars, bombed more countries, more violence and terrorism, more spying on citizens and more disparity between poor and rich.
The Right won the presidential election in 2016
And fear is growing of more war, more bombed countries, more violence and terrorism, more spying and more disparity between rich and poor.
When will learn that it does not matter, left or right, Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative?
It is the rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system,
That continues to grow until we say No!
(Quote is from Dorothy Day, Catholic Worker, September, 1956)
Dear Friends,
I too was surprise that Donald Trump was elected President of the United States. I understand how upset some of you are. However, I do understand the reaction some are indulging in, the name calling, the fear and hatred, the blaming of the President Elect for present problems, the extraordinary effort and money being put in to overcome the election results and all the energy to protest the President Elect now and in January, the President.
Where were you and all this energy the last eight years when we have seen the number of countries being bombed by the United States increase from four to seven; when the present administration was building three new nuclear bomb plants and a new small but deadly nuclear weapon; when public lands and water rights were being given out to fossil fuel companies; when the gap between the rich and poor widen; when poverty in African-American community got worst; when the president administration was approving record sales of arms, including cluster bombs and sophisticated planes to terrorist states like Saudi Arabia; when the assassination list drawn up at the White House once a week became the norm? This list can go on but your silence was overwhelming and heard by many of the oppressed here and around the world.
This is not true for many of you but for some, particularly those now screaming out of fear of Trump it is sadly true. Even on the local level Democrats ignoring the poor, failing to provide clean water to our children, investing property tax in white areas and ignoring minority neighborhoods has been met by silence. Yes, you have met, discussed, talked about some of this issue but where is the action or protest that you are now showing in fear of what might be with President Trump?
I do not mean to scold or shame any of you. However, I do not get all the anger and hate some of you have shown since the election. My understanding of nonviolence is that it is built on love, not hate, even love of enemies.
Some years ago, at the beginning of the Obama presidency I was at the School of Americas Watch (SOAWatch) event at Fort Benning in Georgia. One of the workshops was conducted by Colombian Union workers who had been deeply suppressed by the US backed government of the time. Someone attending the Workshop ask the workers if they had more hope of better treatment now that President Obama was in office. An organizer said he saw no major difference major between Republicans or Democrats administration in the USA in terms of what they did to oppressed people. He said the Republicans are more overt and loud about all the harm they are doing and the Democrats more indirect and quiet. But the results were the same. In the USA the old Jim Crow of overt racism and the new Jim Crow of mass incarceration are equally evil and destructive.
So I say to all friends struggling against injustice and for peace the last eight years in silence or by action, let us work together. Recently by a bipartisan majority, The Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act was passed by the Senate and House working together. President elect Trump has talked about taking resources for war and diverting them to infrastructure and about dropping out of the new Pacific trade agreement that was a fast tracked and done in secret. Yes we must protest war and injustice and stay awake and alert. However, let us not personalize it as was done by some on the right to the left. Our values, our consistent life ethic for some, must continue. Hate and fear cannot overcome hate and fear. Only by faith, even when we despair, only by hope, even in dark times, and only by love, even of our enemies we can, in word and action, overcome.
Fear not Trump friends, together, left and right, Republican and Democrat, conservative or liberal, we can overcome. We are the ones we are looking for.
In Justice and Peace,
Flowers come and go in our rain garden but a variety of flowers have been blooming since mid-March through mid-November this year. Now, hopefully flowers from the garden that we have dried out will last is till next March when the fresh flowers appear again.
Drying fall flowers is no great task but it gives the feel of flowers throughout the cold and snowing winters of Wisconsin. These dried flowers offer some hope that spring and flowers will return.
Perhaps better than taking D Vitamins these flowers offer a ray of sunlight and hope on dark winter days. These flowers smash the myth that you cannot have flowers in vases of the house in the winter.
These dried flowers are a reminder that there is always something to be grateful for, which I need in dry winter days. Perhaps, like these flowers, we can keep the spark of beauty in us when the days are short and nights are long.
In our hearts we need to keep some dried flowers of beauty when all seems lost. We can, as healthy flowers, retain our beauty, when life becomes ugly.
We need flowers forever, be they alive or dried, to keep us going.
Green, Blue, Red, Black and White
The Green Party does not like the way the Presidential Election went,
(If Clinton had won I doubt if they would be so upset)
So are spending millions and millions of dollars to recount the votes,
Which will most likely make no difference.
The Green Party is all for environment, making it sustainable and healthy,
(That is the principle at least)
But is spending no money to campaign for safe water for our children,
Especially, Black and Brown children who suffer most from toxic lead in water.
The Green Party has the green money to make a big thing about a little thing
But does not have the green money to make a big thing about a big thing.
Maybe the Green party should change its name to the Green and Blue party
Since they support Democrats and hate the turning of States Red.
Or better yet, Greens can rise up with a Rainbow party,
Where Whites, Blacks, Browns, Blues, Reds, Blue and Greens
Can Work Together to Make America great for everyone!
Wake up America!
Two parties had candidates for election as president of the USA.
One party ran a campaign of fear of the other candidate
And promised more of the same of the last eight years,
Which has been
widening gap between rich and poor,
Record number of deportations,
Major arms deals, even to nations that stand for opposite values of USA,
More wars and bombing, now seven countries,
More "killer drones"
Greater incarceration of black men,
Support of fracking and leasing public lands to companies for fossil fuel extraction,
Support of regime change like in Honduras,
Three new nuclear weapon plants and a new and more dangerous nuclear weapon,
Elimination of safety net, like food stamps
This candidate, supported by liberals, progressives, many Democrats, Wall Street, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, left and the Military/Industrial/ educational Complex had the most money and Lost
The other candidate, not a professional politician had no record to run on but promised change and to to drain the swamp of US government.
For his rhetoric he has been called a racist, sexist, Islamophobia and all kinds of other names,
Names his language and promises well deserved
Also he has spoken of taking some of the trillions we are spending our wars and putting it back into our country for needy infrastructure projects,
He does not support regime change,
But Supports term limits, Electoral College reform, health care for those with major mental health illnesses,
Reigning in banks and Wall Street and other stuff the left normally likes.
But all this is just talk also since he has not govern yet.
This candidate is supported by conservatives, many Republicans, working class and right, had less money and Won
The candidate who won has awaked the peace and social justice organization and movements.
Immediately after the election they started protesting the president elect and plan more and bigger actions after he takes office
The large uproar on the left does not seem to be on what he has done or holding him accountable but on his past rhetoric and what he might do.
We were a divided nation going into the election and now are becoming more divided.
The powers that be, who gave us these two unacceptable choices must be glad.
Now that we can fight each other instead of holding the president and government accountable.
They can continue with more wars, rich being richer, poor getting poor, more death, destruction and violence.
If united the people would stand tall and strong no matter who the president is,
But divided, calling each other names and occasional committing acts of violence
Continues the Status Quo of government controlled by 1% of the people.
When will we ever learn that only by working together with love, not hate, with kindness not meanness, by dialog not ignoring we will overcome
I just do not get it. Wake up American the opportunity for peace and justice exist with us.
We are the ones we are looking for.
A Facebook Friend, a retired African American Judge, led me to the web site of BAR, Black Agenda Report, black left newsletter. There I discovered this poem by a poet in residence at BAR, Raymond Nat Turner:
Terror Tuesday is what the White House calls the basement meetings at which the First Black President profiles and targets individuals and groups of people for summary assassination anywhere from Somalia to Standing Rock. Before Donald Trump even assumes the Oval Office, it's already the new normal.
Tuesday Takeout
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner
The Commander has a menu:
Yemeni youth at an outdoor café
Grandmother, grandsons gardening okra
in Afghanistan
Hospital in Pakistan
Menu for us, too:
BP Seafood in Sauce of Crude
Gasoline Spill Soup
Bomb Train Tatar
Baked Buffoons overdone
Stinkslike food poison on a plate;
PTS: Permission To Shudder,
Clinging to crimson combat boots
Of Golda-plated Iron Lady
Haliburton, Boeing, General Dynamic,
Monsanto, Exxon Chefs cut corners,
substitute cuts, pass off overpriced,
over-spiced, sodium-laden,
Empty calorie dishes as democracy
We have a menu too:
To our left, two doors down
Resistance Buffetnew dishes constantly
Aint cheapbut all you can eatfilling,
stick to your ribs, seconds are cool
Even thirds, fourths
Lunch Counter Sit-in
Mass Meeting
Arab Spring Rolls
Tunisian Salad
Standing Rock Soup
Wildcat Strike
Ferguson Fries
Bus Boycott
Occupy/ Wisconsin Coffee
On the way to the grandstand at Hortonville High School
I saw this tree, a shining fall red color under the lights
Friday night high school football has its attraction
Especially when you grandson is on the field
But this tree got my attention
So at halftime on the way back from the concession stand
I stopped and watched this tree for a while.
The tree just stood there in all its fall beauty
And soon I moved on to the Friday night football game.
There are two sides in this election.
One side says to vote for my candidate
Because the other one is worst.
The other side says vote for my candidate
Because the other side is worst.
In my garden the butterfly has its favorite flower,
The bee has its favorite flower.
Both enjoy the nectar of their favorite flowers
But do not demonize the others choice.
But then again the butterfly and bee have no conscience,
There is no right or wrong.
And that makes all the difference.
When both candidates talk or do evil
We, in conscience, cannot pick either one.
But we can learn from the butterfly and bee
And just enjoy the nectar of life
The other day at a local SOAWatch vigil I heard someone say that in countries suppressed by the USA, like Guatemala, the people of the country do not blame the people of the USA for their troubles but the USA government and big corporate interest. This may still be true for some countries in Latin America but it seems less and less true, especially in the war torn countries in the Middle East.
A good example is in the bombing last Saturday by Saudi Arabia of a funeral service in Yemen, killing 140 people and injuring more than 500. In 2011, Hillary Clinton and her closest aides in the State Department celebrated a $29.4 billion sale of over 80 F-15 fighter jets, manufactured by U.S.-based Boeing Corporation, to Saudi Arabia. The arms sales were very profitable to the Clinton Foundation. In the years before Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia contributed at least $10 million to the Clinton Foundation and just two months before the deal was finalized, Boeing the defense contractor that manufactures one of the fighter jets the Saudis were especially keen to acquire, the F-15 contributed $900,000 to the Clinton Foundation.
The country of Yemen,once friendly, to the USA, had been devastated by US drone and bombing attacks. Now Saudi Arabia, US surrogate, using US military equipment, like F-15 fighter jets and cluster bombs, is wrecking death to Yemeni peoples. As of August, 2016 the UN conservative estimates over 10,000 people of Yemen have been killed in civil war and millions displaced.
The people of Yemen, as people in our countries being devastated, know that is it is not just government leaders like Obama and Clinton but it is the American people who support these leaders that are responsible. When I was in Haiti in 2010, I was surprised that the Haitian people called President Clinton the devil. Those of us who elected Bill Clinton and President Obama must take some of the blame for these deaths. Those who vote for Hilary Clinton will need to take some of the blame for the bloodshed in Yemen and other countries. The blood is on our hands.
When I was a seminarian in the 60′s studying at St Louis University I was blessed to live in a house in a low income African-American neighborhood close to the infamous Pruitt Igoe housing project. I traveled nearly daily between the white university and the black neighborhood. One day I was going to an artsy film in a white suburb with my white friends. As we approached the movie theater a strange feeling overcame me. It was a surreal feeling. At the time I did know what it was but now I understand. It was a feeling of white privilege. The contrast between where I lived and where I was got to me.
Much later our family lived in Madison, Wisconsin a fairly white middle class city, we became members of the St. Vincent de Paul Society at our Church. As members,our mission was to visit homes of people in need, treat them with dignity and try to help them, if we could, with a voucher for basics like food or clothing. Most of the people we visited were black. I remember working into apartments that had nothing but a T.V. Set. However, I felt comfortable with the people we visited and instantly made friends with the little children. It was like I was walking into another world where everyone was equal. After I left the home I would join the white world.
After I retired some 10 years or more ago I made some friends with people in the African-American community, sometimes driving friends to a doctors appointment, working in a community garden or meeting around a community issue. It was then I noticed what I now call white privilege. Many did not have computers at home, most did not have cars and the neighborhoods and in a segregated community that often did not have street signs on the corners. I started to notice that at certain events, a la cart food day at the Milwaukee Zoo, at sports and music events at my grandchildrens rural town and a play or musical events the overwhelming majority of people in attendance were white. There is a scattering of Blacks or Hispanics at these events but nowhere in proportion to their numbers. Economics as well as race were in play. Milwaukee is not only the most segregated city by race in the USA but it is the second poorest.
This year I attended a series of workshops sponsored by the African-American Holocaust center in Milwaukee and I found a tag for this feeling of living in two worlds: white privilege. Being aware of white privilege has influenced my view of life and brought attention to the racism in myself and our city.
White Privilege in Milwaukee is a major reason, I believe, why Milwaukee is the Worst City for Black Americans. The latest crisis, toxic lead in the drinking water in 70,000 homes in mostly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods is the latest one ignored or downplayed by city officials. For example in the 95% Black zip code f 53206 19.9 of children, 6 years old or younger have dangerous levels of lead in their blood. The city has committed no money to date to replace the lead lateral water pipes that leach lead into the water yet is spending over $130 million of taxpayers money in just two developments serving the 95% white residents of downtown Milwaukee, a downtown streetcar and sports arena and entertainment district.
If a white privilege area of Milwaukee or suburb had 19.9% of its children 6 and under with dangerous toxic lead levels there is no doubt there would be urgency toward resolving the problem.
White privilege can be a blessing for whites but a curse for blacks. Be careful what you know. You cannot return to normal once you are afflicted by White Privilege Awareness (WPA).
Dear Bob
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Discussion in 'Off The Beaten Track' started by Rex, Dec 4, 2010.
EXCELLENT! Doubled her chances of getting lucky .
I liked Shaun (met him when I was about 14), and my sister was into David.
You also have to remember that Janis was super-hot during the 60's when being all natural and the sloppy-hippie look was all the rage! I think once you become that big of a mega star and she was, finding people to "love you" wasnn't an issue at all. I think back now to some of the outfits and other choices we made to be "cool" and I absolutely SHUDDER!! I was smart enough however to pretty much track down any photographic proof and the negatives and destroy them! My grandchildren ask me what it was like to be a hippie and I just roll my eyes "who me?"
This. Just about EVERY woman wants to be with a man who UNDERSTANDS her deepest emotions, and of course every artistically inclined man is also emotionally articulate and sensitive (right?? right??). Plus, music involves a lot of listening, and what woman doesn't like someone who listens?
That's my pet theory, anyhow.
Is it only limited to women though? I know quite a few gay men who have the same trouble.
I think it's hard to find someone who has something they are passionate about and committed to. Plus, playing music (and actually being able to live off of it) is mighty impressive. I myself am attracted to guys who seem "oh so sensitive" and smart (or at least literate), so I tend to be attracted to writers, artists, musicians, etc. but I am also repelled by self-centered behavior, uber-pretentiousness, and arrogance (of course, who's going to say they're attracted to it?) and you know how the stereotype goes...
I think women went crazy over Mozart and Beethoven in their day as well as the most popular poets I am sure. So it is not a modern phenomenon. IMHO.
Except of course that Sleater-Kinney did not have a bass player
OF COURSE I've seen Sleater-Kinney live - not only am I a lesbian, but they started in Oly, WA and I'm in Seattle. Plus, I've seen bands that the two front women were in before S-K. Riot Grrrrrl represent!
I think guys that can sing are sooooooooooo sexy . Of course if they look like Keith Richard then all bets are off, LOL (Keith wasn't bad looking at all in his youth though, before all the drugs and wrinkles set in).
John Mayer has had some high profiled bootangs, eventhough he has the reputation of a player.
I think it depends on the woman.I myself,in my teens,I liked guys with musical ability,because I am musical.Something for me to relate to.I've liked 2 guys who were musical,one played bass guitar and one was an extraordinary pianist.Now days,it's more to do with creativity(art etc...) than musical ability.
I too am amazed at all the girls that some singers get,some of those guys,if they were your pizza delivery guy,they wouldn't get hit on at all.I think in those cases,it's the glamour of it all.
I think its a safe fantasy...The person with the crush creates this mental image of a perfect person, and never have to actually deal with a real human with faults and shortcomings...
Speaking of real humans with faults and shortcomings, I just read Late Late at Night, Rick Springfield's memoir.
He was my rock star crush when I was a teenager. I don't know what makes me more uncomfortable: the fact that he was such a sex maniac who took advantage of the whole rock star lifestyle or the fact that he published the details of being a sex maniac who took advantage of the whole rock star lifestyle.
I was married to a classical musician/guitarist, and have been around a lot of world-class musicians in that world. Many--not all--have egos as big as houses, but made of cards. You always have to tippy toe around what you say. They are indeed sensitive, which has its good and bad points. I think I'm attracted to musicians because they are so involved with their art/passion, I'm free to pursue my own. Also, it's never boring.
My only musician crush was Jermaine Jackson during my tween years. Musicians usually don't do it for me; even musicians whose music I really like. My celebrity crushes are usually either actors or elite athletes. As for "bad boys", I grew out of that by the time I was 15.
I don't think half of the population can be counted on to like anything.
I don't like bad boys, I don't want to fix anyone, and I don't think people change.
I like nerds. (Although I will admit that the last nerd I was over did play guitar, but he played metal which I hate and used to tell him that he could pull all the pots and pans out of his cupboard and it would make the same sound. So I don't think it was a factor in my liking him. No, I think it was something about the way he carried three different high powered calculators with him at all times. )
Speaking only for myself, yes I really like musicians that much. Actors do absolutely nothing for me, but I sure do love me some rock stars. I don't know why. They're just hot. That's all.
Riot Grrrrls... Sleater-Kinney... Seattle... Oh, hell yes!!!
Larry Mullen... Strong silent type with those muscular arms and those black leather biker jackets. When he does talk, he has that adorable Irish brogue. And he's the one person in this world who can bring Bono down to earth when the situation calls for it. How can anybody not love a guy like that?
The problem that I have with some of the self-proclaimed nerds that I've encountered are that they think that they are the authority in whatever subject you talk about or that they tend to be very dismissive of any dissenting opinion. I find that those types of nerds (not everyone that calls him/herself a nerd) tend to be very self-centered in their thinking or at least narrow-minded and that can lead others to think they're always being contrarian or just plain negative. They seem to actively refuse to see the world outside their own view of the way things should be and although their type of rationalization sometimes works, I find that it really limits their understanding.
But then maybe those are geeks I'm talking about and re-reading what I wrote seems to apply to every segment of the population. Who knows.
My alternative musical crush is Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age.
And for making me swoon Chris Isaak - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO8enpqoRQY. I dare anyone not to get hot and sweaty watching this.
In my early 20s I thought Paul Young was really cute. And Simon Le Bon. And Tony Hadley, the lead singer of Spandau Ballet.
My current girl crush is kd lang. Any time that woman sings I swoon.
Yes, I have always found musicians attractive and sexy for some reason!
I'm reading it now and enjoying it immensely.
I've been dating a professional musician, a blues bassist and vocalist, for a couple of years. His musicianship doesn't make me love him any less, let's say. It is sexy, no question. It is huge fun to go to a bar where he's playing and to be "with the band." I love that and I sometimes get a song dedicated to me. On the other hand, you're there for hours more or less unescorted (not a serious problem for me, the schmooze queen), you've heard all the songs before, and by the time the evening ends the floor is sticky, you can hardly keep your eyes open, and your ears are ringing from the volume of the music. Sometimes he sings to me when we're alone together and it's fun, tender, can be funny too. He has one CD that I just adore. I listen to it a lot, but especially when I'm a little down or when I miss him (it's a long distance relationship). It's such good music--it makes me proud and it's a fun gift to give. I have a supply of his CDs for gift giving.
He's said that when he was younger all the women wanted to date him because he's a musician, whereas now no women want to date him because he's a musician.
Not that I'd call her representative of the female race (I certainly hope not ), to my knowledge my sister has never had a boyfriend who wasn't a musician. For many, many years it was only guitarists, all of whom strangely looked just like John Lennon, but as it happens, she ended up married to a pianist/singer (who, congrats to him, was inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame this year )
By the way, genevieve, my sister was herself the bassist in a band many, many moons ago (lower right on both covers):
You mean it's not the drummer who scores with all the chicks?
No, because he's usually just banging on his drum all day.
To answer the original question...no. DEFINTIELY not interested in the sensitive-artist, my-guitar-weeps types. I am, however, a sucker for male Latin dancers, especially the British ones, as basically they're trained to behave like alpha males and most are somewhat egocentric showoffs. I go for the I-own-the-floor superconfident type, not the tortured artiste. Them I just want to utterly take down a peg or ten.
And, okay, DAMN but most men who dance Latin can use their hips in ways that should be illegal.
When I was young I was attracted to musicians because I thought they were 'cool' and 'hip'. I thinks that is pretty much the basis for attraction to musicians and actually it's pretty shallow. And I don't believe that musicians or other artists are necessarily more sensitive - that is a romantic myth.
One perpetuated by the musicians themselves....


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Case Conclusion Date: 02.02.2010
Practice Area: Criminal defense
Outcome: Case Dismissed at Motions
Description: My client was involved in a single car accident in Fulton County. She wrapped her car around a telephone poll after losing control while making a legal turn. When officers responded to the scene, they smelled the odor of an alcoholic beverage on her person and after taking her to the hospital, placed her under arrest for DUI. They surveyed the car and found four beers in the back seat, one of which was opened and empty. At the hospital, a sample of my client's blood revealed a .24, three times the legal limit in the State of Georgia. The case went to motions and the results of the blood test were suppressed by the Judge. The Judge then dismissed the case in its entirety for lack of probable cause for the arrest based on numerous procedural issues. My client avoided a conviction for DUI and kept a clean record.


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Global jobless to hit record 200 million this year: ILO
By Tom Miles
GENEVA (Reuters) - The global jobless queue will stretch to more than 200 million people this year, the International Labour Organization said in its annual report on Tuesday, repeating a warning it has made at the start of each of the last six years.
The U.N. jobs watchdog estimates unemployment will rise by 5.1 million this year to more than 202 million, and by another 3 million in 2014, following a rise of 4.2 million in 2012.
If those predictions are right, global unemployment will hit a record. But the ILO has revised its jobless figures down each year as the number of those giving up the job hunt altogether swells, meaning they are no longer classed as unemployed.
A Reuters analysis of previous ILO reports shows that estimates of unemployment made in each of the last six years have subsequently been cut. The original 2007 joblessness figure of 189.9 million is now put at 169.0 million - 11 percent lower.
Figures for 2008-2010 have also fallen by 10-15 million from the original estimates.
Most of the drop is due to people giving up looking for work, said Jose Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, head of director of labour market analysis at the Geneva-based ILO.
"These are people who, because of the seriousness of the crisis, because of long-term unemployment, have given up hope, have decided to not search for work any more, and therefore they are not counted as unemployed but more as discouraged," he said.
The ILO's revised figures mean global unemployment has risen by 28 million since 2007, before the start of the financial crisis, said ILO Director-General Guy Ryder. Continued...


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Back in mid-December, I cited 101 reasons the market looks overheated. One of the examples I offered of a speculative stock showing signs of froth was Hyperdynamics (AMEX: HDY), a small company with a large exploration license in offshore Guinea. Amazingly, the stock has doubled since then.
Your first guess might be that Hyperdynamics made a huge discovery sometime in the past month. Well, that's not the case. The firm isn't planning to drill its first well until the fourth quarter. The only material news is that Hyperdynamics has entered into a letter of intent with a large independent E&P regarding a farm-out.
Farm-outs are pretty straightforward. A license holder sells down its interest in the exploration block to a partner who, in addition to possibly paying a signing bonus, agrees to foot a portion of future costs, as well as project-related costs incurred to date. Hyperdynamics brought in Dana Petroleum (since taken over by KNOC, Korea's national oil company) as a 23% partner about a year ago. It's now looking to farm out an additional 30% to one or more companies, in order to fund a three-well program expected to cost $129 million.
I should note that Hyperdynamics announced a letter of intent with Repsol (NYSE: REP), which was to operate the project with a 37% interest, in late 2009. That deal was not completed. If the current negotiations fall through, I expect the shares to take a dive. But let's assume Hyperdynamics does bring in a strong partner like Noble Energy (NYSE: NBL) or Nexen (NYSE: NXY) to take the entire 30% farm-out. That leaves the company with its desired 47% interest and the ability to proceed with drilling.
How much is that barrel in the window?
Netherland, Sewell (NSAI), one of the top independent reserve estimating outfits, has placed a best estimate of 2.26 billion barrels of gross unrisked resource potential on Hyperdynamics' block. On the December conference call, management said that NSAI assigned the company a "risk-weighted resource estimate of about 350 million barrels." That translates to about a 20% chance of success on Hyperdynamics' 77% working interest pre-farm-out. If we use the same chance of success on Hyperdynamics' post-farm-out 47% working interest, that's 212 million net risked barrels.
With a touch over 125 million shares outstanding, Hyperdynamics' market capitalization is currently around $900 million. On an adjusted enterprise value basis, assuming the closing of the pending farm-out, I see the market valuing Hyperdynamics at roughly $4 per risked barrel.
$4 per barrel? Sign me up!
That might not sound like much, compared to an international oil price flirting with the $100 level. An oil barrel in hand is worth a heck of a lot more than two in the possible bush, however. Four dollars is on the high side for undiscovered oil barrels in a virtually undrilled frontier province. I used a $5-per-risked-barrel metric for my valuation exercise on Cobalt International Energy (NYSE: CIE) last year, but that company focused on the Gulf of Mexico, Angola, and Gabon. Unlike those well-developed oil markets, Guinea has not seen any modern offshore drilling, and I assume it has little to no relevant infrastructure.
I'm not questioning the prospectivity of offshore Guinea. Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE: APC) made a discovery in neighboring Sierra Leone in its first attempt. Further up the coast in Mauritania, there have been a string of discoveries as well. I do think Hyperdynamics should get a larger frontier risk discount than investors are currently awarding it, however.
An attempt at an apples-to-apples comparison
Consider Chariot Oil & Gas, a U.K.-listed company with major acreage offshore Namibia. Namibia, another virtually unexplored oil frontier, is just south of OPEC member Angola, and smart folks such as HRT Oil & Gas' Marcio Mello (formerly of Petrobras (NYSE: PBR)) argue that it's analogous to offshore Brazil and its massive pre-salt oil deposits. It would seem that Namibia is at least as prospective as Guinea.
Chariot has brought in Petrobras as a 50% partner on part of its acreage. Looking at only the portion covered by that farm-out, and assuming the same 20% chance of success as with Hyperdynamics, Chariot is valued at around $0.80 per net risked barrel. These guys use NSAI to do their reserve estimates as well, though this week's resource update has not yet been independently verified.
Chariot doesn't have much money, and it also has no drilling timetable, so I would expect it to trade at a fairly hefty discount to Hyperdynamics. Still, the valuation gap is pretty striking. Is Hyperdynamics really worth five times as much? As always, I encourage you to sound off in the comments section below.
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"Skip this Input cell" module?
How about a module or command called, say, "skipThis" that's defined in
the opening cells of a notebook, such that if you put
as the first line in any subsequent Input cell in the notebook, the
remainder of that Input cell will be skipped, i.e. not executed --
without your having to wrap the remainder of the cell in an explicit
If[ ] statement or similar coding.
Or, an inputOff statement such that
as the first line of any Input cell will turn off execution of any
subsequent Input cells (and perhaps the remainder of the cell containing
the statement), until an Input cell beginning with
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Recipes - Page 3
2 3
Cowpunchers took just
what they got - sowbelly, beans and the ol' coffeepot.
– H.H. Knibbs
1 lb split peas
2 eggs
2 T butter
salt and pepper
Soak and cook
split peas, drain liquid, and puree peas. Mash peas into a
smooth puree. Add butter, eggs, salt and pepper. Pour into a greased
bowl and cover tightly so it won't dry out. Steam for 1 hour. Place
bowl on atrivet in a Dutch oven. Place 2 inches of water in the bottom
of the Dutch ovev, cover tightly, and bake for 20 minutes at 350F.
Left-overs can be sliced and fried in butter. Traditionally served
with pork or sausage.
1 onion,
thinly sliced
2 strips bacon
1/2 C oatmeal
salt and pepper
Chop bacon into
1-inch chunks and fry. When grease coats the pan, add sliced onion.
Cook until transparent. Add oatmeat to absorb the fat, keeping
the mixture thick. Stir for 7-10 minutes, till cooked. Serve
with mincemeat roasted poultry, or as a main dish when the larder is
Mouse Pie
5 fat field
1 cup macaroni
1/2 thinly
sliced medium onion
1 medium can
1 cup cracker
and pepper
Boil macaroni
10 minutes. While it is cooking, fry the field mice long enough to fry
out some of the excess fat. Grease a casserole with some of this fat
and put a layer of macaroni on it. Add onions, then tomatoes, salt and
pepper well. Add field mice and cover with remaining macaroni.
Sprinkle the top with cracker crumbs. Bake at 375 degrees about 20
minutes or until mice are well done.
Buffalo Stew
1 buffalo
2 rabbits
Salt and pepper
Cut buffalo in
bite-size pieces. Salt and pepper. Cover all with brown gravy. Cook over
kerosene fire about four weeks at 465 degrees. This will serve 3800
people. If more are expected, two rabbits may be added. But do this only
in an emergency. Most people do not like hare in their stew.
Beaver meat is similar to muskrat. The flesh is
dark, tender and soft. This animal has scent glands that are found between
the front forelegs, under the thighs, and along the spine in the small of
the back. They should be removed immediately after the skin has been
removed, taking great care not to cut into them. Beaver fat has a
strong flavor and odor, and should be cut away completely before cooking.
Beaver meat was often soaked in salted water prior to cooking to draw out
some of the strong flavor. Another method was to cover it with boiling
water to which 1 teaspoon of baking soda has been added. Then drain and
cook in the usual way.
Take care to remove every speck of fat on the
surface of the flesh. Soak the meat in a vinegar bath overnight. 1/4 cup
of vinegar with enough water to cover the meat. Wash the meat in
cold clear water. Place in a roaster and cut several slits into the lean
meat. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, and put 4 stips of salt pork
over the slits, and dust with a little flour. Put 1/4 cup water in
the pan and roast with the lid on until half done. Add more water if
needed to keep pan from going dry. Cut into small pieces, onion,
celery, and carrots to fill a cup and sprinkle over the meat. Finish
roasting with the lid off. The meat should be falling off the bones. Add water and flour to the juices to make a gravy.
Pan Hoss
1 hog's head
4-6 cups water
1 medium onion
6 stalks celery
salt and pepper to
1 cup corn meal
Simmer the first five ingredients together
until meat falls from bones. Grind and chop meat fine. Neck bones
(chicken, turkey or lamb) may be substituted if hogs head is not
Strain liquid from meat. Boil down to reduce
amount or add water to increase to 4 cups. To boiling liquid add 1 cup
corn meal, adding more if necessary in order to make mush thick. Add 1
teaspoon salt. Boil over heat 3-5 minutes. Add ground meat and place over
boiling water for 10-15 minutes. At this time additional seasoning may be
added if necessary.
1 tsp grated onion, 1/2 tsp ground sage, 1/4
teaspoon nutmeg, dash pepper, cayenne if available
1/2 teaspoon ground thyme, 1/2 teaspoon
oregano, 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg, 1 teaspoon celery seed.
Pour meat and mush mixture into bread pan
rinsed in cold water. Cover and cool over night. Fry slices in slightly
greased pan using bacon fat.
Sonofabitch Stew
From the guts of a young
Liver – small amount
Marrow gut
Cube the top five meats. Add them to a hot Dutch oven that has a small amount of lard melted in the
bottom. Brown the meats. Slice the marrow gut and add it to
the pot. The brains are cooked in a separate pan and a few
tablespoons of flour are added to thicken them. They are then added
to the pot. Add a diced onion, salt and pepper. Cover in water
and allow to cook for 304 hours (yes, we really mean 304 - not a
misprint.) Continue to stir and do not allow it to stick.
Fried Salt Pork
Soak the slabs of por in water overnight, or
boil and pour off the water. Dredge in flour and fry in a greased
skillet until golden brown. Instead of flour, you can dip it in a
thick batter of cornmeal, flour and water.
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It seems like whenever I have a question regarding one of the themes I've purchased and I can't find the answer in the documentation that was provided from the designers, the next place I go is the comments section for that theme here at themeforest.
The problem I'm running into, and I would think a lot of folks would agree, is that there is no easy way to search through the comments.
It would be nice if I didn't have to read through every comment to see if there was already a thread created with the same issue I am having with the template and whether or not there is currently a solution.
Please create a search function to search within the comments of a specific theme.
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Simbarashe Mumbengegwi
|The Right Honourable
Simbarashe Mumbengegwi
|Minister of Foreign Affairs of Zimbabwe
|Assumed office
15 April 2005
|Robert Mugabe
|Prime Minister
|Morgan Tsvangirai
|Preceded by
|Stan Mudenge
|Personal details
20 July 1945
Chivi, Southern Rhodesia
|Alma mater
|Monash University
Simbarashe Simbanenduku Mumbengegwi (born 20 July 1945[1]) is a Zimbabwean politician and diplomat who has served as Zimbabwe's Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2005.
Life and career[edit]
Mumbengegwi was born in Chivi, Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia). After receiving his primary and secondary education in Zimbabwe, he attended a Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, in the late 1960s and 1970s.[1] Invariably known as Simba, he was the popular and affable president of the African Students Association,[citation needed] and also worked as a teacher. He was a ZANU activist in exile at this time and served as a ZANU representative during the 1970s: he was Deputy ZANU Chief Representative in Australia and the Far East from 1973 to 1976, then Chief Representative in Australia and the Far East from 1976 to 1978, and Chief Representative to Zambia from 1978 to 1980.[1]
From 1980 to 1990, he was a member of parliament in the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe from the Midlands Province, and he was the Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees of the House of Assembly from 1980 to 1981. He joined the Cabinet as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1981, serving in that position until 1982, when he became Minister of Water Resources and Development. Later in the same year, he was moved to the position of Minister of National Housing, in which position he remained for two years. He was then Minister of Public Construction and National Housing from 1984 to 1988 and Minister of Transport from 1988 to 1990.[1]
From 1981 to 1984, he was Provincial Treasurer of ZANU-PF for the Midlands Province. From 1984 to 1994, he was a member of the Central Committee of ZANU-PF, and he was the Central Committee's Deputy Secretary for Publicity and Information from 1984 to 1989.[1]
Mumbengegwi was Zimbabwe's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1990 to 1995; while there, he was Vice-President of the United Nations General Assembly from 1990 to 1991 as well as a member of the United Nations Security Council from 1991 to 1992.[1] He twice served as President of the Security Council, in February 1991 and April 1992.[1][2] He was subsequently Ambassador to Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Permanent Representative to the European Communities in 1995. He later became High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Ambassador to Ireland in 1999, remaining there until 2005 (although he became Ambassador to the United Kingdom rather than High Commissioner in 2003, upon Zimbabwe's withdrawal from the Commonwealth of Nations).[1]
He became a Non-Constituency Member of Parliament in 2005.[1] On 15 April 2005, he was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs in a cabinet reshuffle, replacing Stan Mudenge.[3]
In the March 2008 parliamentary election, Mumbengegwi was nominated by ZANU-PF as its candidate for the Senate seat from Shurugwi-Zvishavane in the Midlands.[4] He won the seat according to official results, receiving 24,055 votes against 11,988 for Vincent Gwarazimba of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).[5]
When the ZANU-PF–MDC national unity government was sworn in on 13 February 2009, Mumbengegwi was retained as Minister of Foreign Affairs.[6]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Profile of Mumbengegwi at Ministry of Foreign Affairs website at the Wayback Machine (archived 23 February 2007).
- ^ "Presidents of the Security Council : 1990–1999", UN.org.
- ^ "Zimbabwean President Mugabe names cabinet", People's Daily Online, 16 April 2005.
- ^ "Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF Names Poll Candidates", The Herald (allAfrica.com), 15 February 2008.
- ^ "Zimbabwe senate election results", newzimbabwe.com.
- ^ "Cabinet sworn in amid chaotic scenes", Newzimbabwe.com, 13 February 2009.
External links[edit]
- Transcript of David Frost interview of Simbarashe Mumbengegwi and Lord Carrington on 6 March 2005.
- 1945 births
- Members of the Senate of Zimbabwe
- Members of the House of Assembly (Zimbabwe)
- Zimbabwean diplomats
- Living people
- United Nations Security Council officials
- Permanent Representatives of Zimbabwe to the United Nations
- Government ministers of Zimbabwe
- Ambassadors of Zimbabwe to Belgium
- Ambassadors of Zimbabwe to Luxembourg
- Ambassadors of Zimbabwe to the Netherlands
- Ambassadors of Zimbabwe to the European Union
- Ambassadors of Zimbabwe to Ireland
- Ambassadors of Zimbabwe to the United Kingdom
- High Commissioners of Zimbabwe to the United Kingdom


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Andrea Jaime
A Mass of Christian Burial for Andrea Segovia Jaime, 82, of Lodi, who died Jan. 26, will be held at 10 a.m. today at St. Anne's Catholic Church, 215 W. Walnut St., Lodi. Committal will follow at Lodi Memorial Park, 5750 E. Pine St., Lodi.
Memorial contributions may be made to St. Anne's Catholic Church Plaza Project, call 209-367-1907; or Hospice of San Joaquin, 3888 Pacific Ave., Stockton, Ca 95204.
Please sign the guest book at www.lodinews.com/guestbook.
Parminder Shergill
A funeral for Parminder Singh Shergill, 43, of Lodi, who died Jan. 26, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Chapel of Flowers at Cherokee Memorial Park, Highway 99 at East Harney Lane, Lodi. Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at Cherokee Memorial Funeral Home, 831 Industrial Way, Lodi.
John Herrera
A celebration of the life of John (De Herrera) Herrera, 81, of Acampo, who died Jan. 6, will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. March 8 at Faith Community Church Fellowship Hall, 18261 N. Highway 99, Acampo.
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Revisiting this question: chains on 17" wheels?
The question didn't get answered, and I have the same question! I have 17" OEM on an '02 525iT (yes, sport package too) and the manual says don't use chains on 17" wheels and above. I'm going to Tahoe soon (BlueBee I loved your photo diary of the same trip, but you have 16s.)
I do not believe it's due to the tire profile, rather, the clearance between the wheels and the fenders. However since I'd only be putting the chains on the rear (drive) wheels, in other words those wheels don't turn and have potential to rub fender linings .. wouldn't I be OK?
Has anyone actually put 17" chains on the rear wheels and been A-OK? I need chains for chain control at Tahoe and want to drive my car, not borrow another.
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PadmaVonSamba wrote:...Is it because being human only happens in the human realm?
It is axiomatic that human birth can only happen to humans. Where ever there are humans, there is womb birth. That is not the case in our idealized paradises like Sukhavat (but unlike Abhirati) where there are no wombs at all, not even women in fact. I never met human being that did not derive in some way from a human womb (even test tube babies), have you?