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No Pride for family with kids: Carnival Pride Cruise Review by Buff fan
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No Pride for family with kids
Destination: Bahamas
Embarkation: Baltimore
The Ship:
The Carnival Pride is a boat that is showing it's age more than a bit. This may have been in more stark relief for us than for most as our last cruise was on the Allure of the Seas (Royal Caribbean's newest and biggest ship) which is an astonishing vessel. The Carnival Pride, not so much.
I had read a lot of commentary on cruise critic about the Pride and it's decoration and have to side with the naysayers on this one. It's Italianate decor is dark and stuffy feeling...it makes the boat feel smaller than it is and just doesn't provide the 'fun' vibe that Carnival likes to promote. My boys thought it was weird to have half naked women paintings all over the boat as well (the faux frescoes were omnipresent).
Because it is an older More and somewhat smaller (by today's standards anyway) ship, there just isn't as much to do on the Pride as there is on many of the newer ships. Outside activities are limited to pools and hot tubs, putt putt golf, basketball and ping pong. Inside activities pretty much casino and bar related...with the shows in the Taj Majal theatre and comedy club at night. There is a library, but it isn't useful for much other than checking your email. There was a video game arcade as well.
This was a winter-time cruise out of a northern port (baltimore)...which means less good weather on the sea days (we had snow on the first afternoon/evening on the cruise, cool weather on day 2 and brutal weather on day 6 on the way back). Obviously, Carnival can't control the weather. However, knowing sea day 1 and sea day 3 (on the way back) are going to be in cool climate (i.e. no pool/outside activities) , they really should make a much bigger effort at providing stuff to do on the ship. Sea day 1 and sea day 3 were both really boring and Carnival doesn't do much to help. Sorry, but I don't consider casino time and more Parc West art auctions and 'buy 4 crappy pieces of fake jewelry and get your 5th free!' sales to be activites. I mean, show a movie or 2 in the Taj Majal theatre! Host a bridge tournament in the card room. Do something.
We've always liked sea days as much or more than port days on all previous cruises...not so on this one. "Get me off this boat" was a common refrain.
The Cabin:
We had a Ocean Suite and it was pretty darn nice. It had 2 large closets, a make-up space outside of the bathroom that was super useful for my wife, 2 sinks in the bathroom and a jetted tub/shower combo. The 2 twin beds pulled together made up a 'king' (more likely a queen) for my wife and I and a convertible sofa and ceiling drop down bed with ladder for the boys. The main bed was reasonably comfortable and the kids beds were somewhat less so (both boys complaining by the end of the cruise...which is pretty unusual for them). The balcony was quite large and nice to have.
The added 100 sq. ft. or so (over a standard balcony) was well worth the added $ in my opinion to have adequate storage and move around space for a family of 4 in one room.
The suite came with priority boarding, which was a life saver as we were whisked into the heated building in Baltimore and boarded in 15 minutes while the bulk of the passengers had to stand outside for as much as an hour in line in the snow...not exactly the way you would want to start your cruise. No priority for disembarkation, however.
First time booking a suite of any nature for us and I would do it again.
Overall, I would give the dining a 3 star (out of 6) on the Carnival Pride. The Good: The main dining room experience was good. The food was pretty good (some not so good, some very good...as you might expect) and the service was good. Neither (food nor service) was great but it was worth going and the staff tried hard and was entertaining in the singing/dancing and such that make cruise dining rooms fun.
Unfortunately, on the Pride you are either eating in the dining room or you are eating in the Mermaid cafe on the pool deck. That's it. Nothing else. The food in the mermaid is not very good. Typical big deep bins full of cruddy buffet food (burgers, hot dogs, chicken fingers, fries, etc for lunch/dinner and eggs, bacon, pancakes, etc for breakfast). Each day there was a 'chefs special' at one of the stations (i.e. caribbean food, asian food) but otherwise the food was the exact same every single day. There is a salad bar and also a pizza station in the mermaid. The mermaid was also closed a remarkable amount of the time for a cruise. We didn't really care much and didn't eat there much except for breakfast but I've never been on a cruise before where you couldn't pop into a buffet a 3o'clock in the afternoon or 10:30pm and get a nice variety of things to nibble on...you pretty much get pizza on the pride.
Room service: There is room service 24/7. Unfortunately, you have your choice of a dozen hot or cold sandwiches served with potato chips, a salad or two and that's it. You can't get a burger, a hot dog, a pizza or even french fries in your room. Hope you like lays potato chips. Weird. There is continental breakfast only that you must order the night before with the little door hanging menu that you check off...like a hotel, consisting of dry cereal in little boxes, some muffins/pastries (that are dry and not good), yogurt and coffee/tea/milk. Again, that's it. No eggs, no toast, no bacon or sausage, nothing else. Weird.
We've been on a number of cruises and this is the only time I intentionally ate while off the boat so we didn't have to eat while on.
Mostly weak. We saw 4 comedians, 2 were good 2 were not. Both of the 'family' shows were weak (hard to do comedy without cussing and talking about sexual content I guess). We saw "Delisco" in the Taj Majal and his singing/dancing act was pretty darn good. We saw part of the singing/dancing variety show and it was not.
The 2 gentlemen who sang in the main level 2 lobby bar/lounge during the day/evening were both not very good (to the point of wanting to leave to get away from them).
The poolside entertainment consists entirely of a couple of DJ's. First time I've even been on a cruise where the cruise director wasn't leading activities at the pool on the one sea day we had where you could actually be out by the pool when the weather was good. No live band, no steel drums, no caribbean vibe, just canned dance music mixed with some country by a DJ who didn't even talk or mix the music...just turned on his iMac and let it run.
Kids Club:
Here is where I'm going to get really grumpy. I almost didn't book this cruise because of the lack of positive vibes from the cruise critic site around the kids club. In the end, it was worse than I'd feared.
My kids LOVED the kids club on every single boat we've ever been on...except this one. And guess what Carnival? The main reason we choose to go on cruise vacations is because kids club provides a whole bunch of quality fun that the kids love...and quality time together for Mom and Dad while the kids are at kids club...which Dad loves :-)
Kids club in the Pride? I would laugh except that I still want to cry. The facilities are a pitiful afterthought in the front of the ship on deck 5. The entire room for kids 6-11 might be 400 square feet, it is tired and old and has absolutely nothing in it that would entertain my kids...who are pretty easy to entertain. A bunch of toys for little kids (blocks, stacking cups, finger paints and drawing area) and a play station 3. Seriously?
Worse yet, the kids club staff were disinterested teenage girls who 'told us to go play and then spent all their time on their computers' according to my kids after day 1.
The only day they would go to kids club.
Hey carnival, let me fill you in on a simple formula that all of the other cruise companies seem to know. Provide a couple of young (english speaking please) girls and guys who actually LIKE KIDS and give them some age appropriate things to do with the kids. Have your 'camp counselors' actually lead activities adn interact with the kids. Don't expect 11 year old boys to do finger painting with 6 year old girls. Don't expect any kid to sit around for 3 hours in a room doing next to nothing.
I get that carnival is the 'Fun Ship' that caters to younger folks, singles, whatever. However, I didn't see a whole lot of 'Fun Ship' singles on this cruise but I did see quite a lot of bored kids hanging out in the stairwells at night. Pitiful.
You don't have to be Disney, Carnival, but could you at least be Royal Caribbean or Norwegian when it comes to offering kids activities?
Here is where the Carnival really falls down compared to all other cruises we've been on. The service on the Pride was not good. In fact, it was shockingly bad. The staff was generally more surly than friendly. It was notable to both my wife and I the few times we got good service or service with a smile. Even people that we were buying things from (i.e. jewelry) were generally pissed off. Also, the language barrier was the worst on any ship I've been on before. The staff were a mix of, mostly, indonesian, phillipino and eastern european and many of them had really poor english skills. In some positions on the ship that is no problem, but in areas where customer interaction and conversation are necessary it would be nice if the staff could communicate more effectively.
Our cabin steward was good enough, but not great and didn't speak english almost at all. In a suite, where you expect to be able to ask a favor or two of your steward, it is pretty frustrating when you can't.
Port Canaveral: We rented a car and shot over to Universal Studios islands of adventure to see the Harry Potter exhibit thing. It was very cool (we are all harry potter fans) and the theme park was almost deserted and really fun. I guess a tuesday in february is a good day to visit orlando theme parks.
Nassau: We went to Atlantis and spent the day on the water slides and at the lovely beach. Atlantis is awesome! I wish we had longer to spend there. FYI, we booked the cheapest room they had and it was cheaper than a day excursion from Carnival by $300 and cheaper even than just booking 4 day passes directly from the atlantis resort. Plus, we were able to hit the room and shower/clean up before heading back to the ship which was a huge bonus. I hate having to get in a cab with a bunch of beach crap and sand in my shorts to travel back to the boat. No such problem this way. Saw that tip on trip advisor and would wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone considering going to atlantis for the day.
Freeport: We did the Segway excursion with Carnival and it was really fun. Riding (driving?) segways is super fun and we all had a blast. It's a short shore day (only 5 hours) so the segway excursion was just what the doctor ordered.
My concerns (and to some extent pre-conceived notions) about Carnival were mostly borne out on this cruise. I would suggest that it is the right place for college kids and people who are mostly interested in getting something cheap. But be careful, while the up front cost of the cruise was cheap, Carnival charges for a lot of things that other cruise lines do not and I suspect that it probably isn't much cheaper in the long run to choose Carnival.
The food was not good, the service was not good, the entertainment/activities were not great and the kids club was a joke.
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Photographs made during Holy Week in several small Sicilian towns. Give me that old time religion!
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Oaxaca, Mexico (SPX) Sep 09, 2010
With governments across Latin America preparing to implement a new financial mechanism aimed at mitigating climate change by curbing carbon emissions from the destruction of tropical forests, experts have warned against a "one-size-fits-all" approach, calling instead for flexible, balanced solutions to the thorny dilemmas surrounding this new mechanism.
Among the experts' chief worries is that the wealthy and powerful could capture many of the benefits, largely at the expense of rural communities, including indigenous groups.
Organized by Mexico's National Forestry Commission and the Swiss government, with scientific support from CIFOR, this conference is the fourth in a series of country-led initiatives focusing on forest governance and decentralization in support of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF).
It will feed into a UNFF meeting to take place in early 2011, marking the launch of the International Year of Forests. It brought together scientists, as well as representatives of governments and nongovernment organizations, for discussions on governance, decentralization and REDD+ in Latin America.
Under REDD+ (for reducing deforestation and forest degradation), industrialized countries will provide developing nations with sizeable sums of money in exchange for verifiable storage of carbon in forests, in addition to the conservation and sustainable management of forests. Forest destruction currently accounts for 12 to 18 percent of annual global carbon emissions. Several Latin American countries, including Mexico, have taken the lead in designing REDD+ schemes and stand to benefit significantly.
"Good forest governance - involving transparent and inclusive relationships between governments, forests and the people who depend on them - is fundamental for ensuring that REDD+ helps forest-dependent communities move out of poverty, instead of fueling corruption and funding entrenched bureaucracies," said Elena Petkova, a scientist with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). "REDD+ schemes could either flounder on governance failures or flourish under successful governance."
The central aim of the conference in Oaxaca - was to provide science-based advice on the design and implementation of REDD+ schemes, so these schemes can capture carbon and reduce emissions effectively, while at the same time generate significant benefits from sustainable forest management that are equitably shared.
"About 40 years of public sector investment in curbing deforestation, while producing many local successes, has fallen far short of its goal," said CIFOR scientist Andrew Wardell.
"REDD+ might be our last chance to save the world's tropical forests. So, it's extremely important to get it right in Latin America and elsewhere. This region holds nearly a quarter of the world's forests, upon which millions of people depend, and over the last five years, it has accounted for 65 percent of global net forest loss."
The conference in Oaxaca also marks a key milestone in preparations for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP16), to be held later this year in Cancun, Mexico.
Among other contributions, it will help shape the content of Forest Day 4, the fourth in a series of influential events taking place alongside COP16, which have heightened awareness of the important role forests play in mitigating and adapting to climate change. Last year's event attracted 1,500 forestry experts, policymakers, activists and others, including three Nobel Laureates and two former heads of state.
The note of caution about REDD+ sounded by participants in the Oaxaca conference reflects extensive evidence of major barriers to forest governance reform in Latin America, including burdensome, unrealistic and contradictory government regulations; widespread disregard for owners' rights to forest use, even when these have been legally granted; and continuing corruption and illegal logging.
Yet, forestry experts are not necessarily pessimistic, citing a number of positive developments. Among these are Brazil's extraordinary progress in monitoring forests to detect illegal logging and Costa Rica's simplified standards for sustainable forest management. Such achievements provide grounds for hope and useful models from which to learn in designing successful REDD+ schemes.
Another encouraging trend, according to several conference presentations, is the wave of land tenure change that has swept Latin America since the 1980s, often building on earlier agrarian reforms. This has helped greatly to clarify the rights of diverse rural groups, especially those of indigenous people, thus meeting an important, though not sufficient, requirement for sustainable forest management.
As a result of far-reaching land tenure reforms in Mexico, for example, most of the country's 64 million hectares of forest are now owned by rural communities, including many indigenous groups. Much evidence in Latin America has shown that such communities, as local custodians of forest resources, are often more successful in protecting them than are formally protected areas overseen by governments.
Rural people have also proved to be a powerful force for creating local forestry enterprises, which raise rural incomes and foster sustainable practices. In the Sierra Norte region of Oaxaca, for example, community forest management has gained ground economically through commercial timber production, ecotourism and other enterprises, while also registering a modest increase in forest cover.
"Mexico's long tradition of community forest management provides a strong foundation for local action, which is highly relevant to the design and implementation of REDD+," said Jose Carlos Fernandez Ugalde, head of international affairs at CONAFOR, Mexico's National Forestry Commission.
Despite such experiences, some indigenous groups fear they will receive little but crumbs from the REDD+ table, to paraphrase one conference presentation. During recent conferences in Bolivia and Costa Rica, representatives of such groups complained that, just as they have historically been deprived of benefits from the use of natural resources in their territories, including timber, minerals and hydrocarbons, history will likely repeat itself, as "carbon cowboys" descend upon them with new, but ultimately empty, promises of big benefits.
Their fears are fueled by the broader concern that REDD+ will prompt governments to recentralize forest management, reversing many of the gains that have accrued to rural people from recent land tenure and decentralization reforms. The temptation to seize control of large sums of money, the argument goes, on the pretext that only governments can be held accountable for the use of this money to reduce carbon emissions, could prove irresistible.
In the case of Brazil at least, that is an unlikely outcome, according to one conference presentation, because the central government of such a large country cannot possibly monitor land use across its entire territory and must therefore rely heavily on local authorities to perform this function efficiently.
"Far from reversing the decentralization of forest management," the author said, "REDD+ could provide new incentives and resources for building local capacity. Besides, if local populations believe they are being harmed or deprived of due benefits, they can simply sabotage REDD+ schemes."
"If REDD+ is to succeed, it must not come from central government decrees that undermine rural communities," said Christian Kuchli of Switzerland's Federal Office for the Environment. "It must have local support and involve increased resource flows to rural areas, with adequate safeguards in a balanced regulatory framework."
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I rarely play video games and am really not a fan of computer animation. I know, it is amazing. I just don't like the way it looks. In 2012, most movies, if not all, have some element of CG. It's become commonplace. I've begrudgingly gotten used to it and it doesn't take me out of the story as much as it used to. Still, I feel the stories overall have suffered, dwindled to nearly nothing in favor of fast action and flashy, over polished digitoons.
Imagine my surprise when the newest film to skyrocket to the top of my 'must own' list turned out to be entirely computer animated. Not the slick, fuzzy, motion blur kind either. No, no, this is crude, jumpy, early Silent Hill stuff.
And it got to me. It works. For this movie, it works in a way that no other style could.
The story, comprised of three parts, is the star of the show here. It takes us through the most depraved corners of childhood into an adult world where we are all murderers and victims, plagued by spirits and monsters. Then it turns around and takes us back into a childhood where all the same is true beneath a mask of innocence.
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This is top of the line horror, my friends. I challenge you to find something more disturbing on the market this year. Voiced by rising genre favorites Brandon Slagle, Ruby LaRocca and Devanny Pinn, as well as a special appearance by Linnea Quigley, this occult video object is the heaviest dose of brain damage and nightmare to come along in quite some time. It is just dripping with red integrity.
Really, the only problem with this film is that it is something of a wallow in woe. There is no joy here for the casual viewer. The only source of laughter comes from the absurdity of horror and then, only in short, uncomfortable bursts.
Then again, this is not a film for a casual viewer.
This film is not safe.
The intrepid horror fan will be mesmerized by the bizarre imagery of twitching shadows with eyeball heads and too red mouths, the surreal bestiality, the overflowing orifices, the oozing violence and debauchery.
The experienced psychonaut, however, will notice something more. Where The Dead Go To Die is akin to an occult conversation with a dark soul on the plight of the Black Adept. To toss some metaphors around, there are lessons to be learned here about the Nightside of Eden, explorations of the Tree of Daath, the Qliphothic Tunnels, the spaces between. Even good ol' Azrael (the Hebrew angel of death with an eye for every soul in the world) finds as true a representation here as in any of the werks of Alex Gray. It is a cornucopic psychedelia of grotesque catastrophy. The tone of the images will hold a sense of familiarity for those who have 'been there', although the psych mimetic style in which they are presented is entirely Mr. ScreamerClauz's own.
More than any film I have seen in recent memory, Where The Dead Go To Die demands interaction, causing you to question the nature of what it is you are actually experiencing and think about it long after it is over.
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Many sights in the culturally rich landscape
The Valley of Alta Pusteria provides art and cultural monuments from different eras. In each village culture lovers can explore many different places. In the Valley of Prags / Braies the church of St. Vitus is a small landmark. The church with the Gothic altar is a place where a lot of couples get married. In the cemetery rests the famous mountaineer Victor Wolf Edler v. Glanvell.
The health spas were of major importance for tourism in Prags / Braies. The water was said to have a healing effect, and so the Countess of Gorizia had a small church built around the springs. Bath Old Prags / Braies and Bath New Prags / Braies were known far beyond the country's borders. The baths were partly destroyed in the First World War.
In the Valley of Alta Pusteria you can find many chapels, museums, contemplative paths, Gustav Mahler's summer residence, war cemeteries and Roman milestones.
Old traditions and customs are worth seeing. To name a few: processions with statues, paintings, chandeliers and candles of saints. Heart of Jesus: On this particular Sunday in June there are fires ignited on the mountains, in the form of hearts, crosses, eagles and so on. Church Day - "Michl" (Michael): a doll in an old costume is bound to a tall tree trunk which is anchored upright in the ground. The boys of the village guard the "Michl" the whole night so that he cannot be stolen by a neighbouring community. On the Church Day Sunday the tree is taken down again.
Krampus - Devils: Together with Santa Claus come the Krampus around the beginning of December. The groups of young men, covered with wooden masks, bells, chains, animal skins and wooden poles, move around the village. The big Krampus parade in Toblach / Dobbiaco attracts thousands of visitors every year.
New Year: it is widely celebrated in Prags / Braies. In the centre a feast is held, and at midnight, the New Year date is displayed by large fireworks.
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Right-Wing Media Will Decide Exactly How Many Muslim Smears Are Enough To Justify Outrage
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It was only a matter of time before the right-wing media, untethered to decency, attacked Rep. Keith Ellison for his emotional testimony explaining the dangers of "stoking fears about entire groups for a political agenda."
Elucidating that point before Rep. Peter King's controversial hearings on Muslim radicalization, Ellison - the first Muslim elected to Congress -- grew emotional while telling the story of Mohammed Salman Hamdani, a Muslim American who died on September 11, 2001, while trying to rescue people trapped in the World Trade Center, and who was subsequently smeared as a possible terrorist:
Mr. Hamdani bravely sacrificed his life to try and help others on 9/11. After the tragedy some people tried to smear his character solely because of his Islamic faith. Some people spread false rumors and speculated that he was in league with the attackers only because he was Muslim. It was only when his remains were identified that these lies were fully exposed.
Hamdani's remains were identified in March 2002. In December 2002, The New Yorker explained the circumstances surrounding the months in between Hamdani's death and the identification of his remains:
For a time, his parents thought that Salman was among the thousand or so Muslims detained for security reasons after the attack. Then, to the family's humiliation, the Post splashed his picture on its pages, along with insinuations of collaboration and treason. The Hamdanis protested to their congressman, and even to President Bush. Six months later, Salman's remains were found at the World Trade Center, where, it turned out, he had rushed to save lives, and he was given a hero's burial. [The New Yorker, 12/9/02, accessed via Nexis]
Indeed, on October 12, 2001, News Corp's New York Post ran a story headlined "Missing - or hiding? - mystery of NYPD cadet from Pakistan":
Hamdani was last seen, Koran in hand, leaving his Bayside, Queens home for his job as a research assistant at Rockefeller University, but he never made it to work.
His family distributed missing-person fliers in the fear that the 23-year- old, who is trained as an emergency medical technician, went instead to the World Trade Center to help and was killed.
But investigators for the FBI and NYPD have since questioned the family about which Internet chat rooms he visited and if he was political.
Hamdani, a graduate of Queens College with a biochemistry degree, had been in the NYPD cadet program for three years. He became "inactive" because he needed to work full time, his mother said.
Police sources said he hadn't been to work at the NYPD since April, but he still carried official identification.
One source told The Post: "That tells me they're not looking for this guy at the bottom of the rubble. The thing that bothers me is, if he is up to some tricks, he can walk past anybody [using the ID card]."
To recap, Hamdani disappeared on September 11, 2001. In October, The New York Post published an article questioning whether Hamdani was actually in hiding, reporting that law enforcement officials were asking about what chat rooms he visited and whether he was political. The Post cited an anonymous source speculating that Hamdani might be "up to some tricks." There can be no question that "some people tried to smear his character."
Yet in response to Ellison's testimony, right-wing media figures are calling Ellison a "bigot" and a liar. From the National Review:
Does Ellison's account check out with reality?
No. It is actually pretty close to the opposite of the truth. In fact, six weeks after the September 11 attacks -- before Hamdani's remains were identified, which Ellison implies to be the turning point of public perception -- Congress signed the PATRIOT Act into law with this line included: "Many Arab Americans and Muslim Americans have acted heroically during the attacks on the United States, including Mohammed Salman Hamdani, a 23-year-old New Yorker of Pakistani descent, who is believed to have gone to the World Trade Center to offer rescue assistance and is now missing." That is, Hamdani was actually singled out for particular high honors among the thousands of victims of the September 11 attacks.
There's little evidence of the "rumors" of which Ellison speaks, either. Poke around yourself. Go to Google and search for Mohammed Salman Hamdani's name, using various time frames from before today's hearings (say, in the week after the September 11 attack). You'll discover two discordant sets of returns: none for sites and news reports accusing Hamdani of being a terrorist, and many thousands of pages honoring him as a hero while claiming that he was "widely accused" of being a terrorist. [NationalReview.com, 3/10/11]
Apparently if Google doesn't have a record of everything people were saying 10 years ago, it never happened.
Hannity pounced, and Fox Nation was quick to blast the National Review's smear:
In a word, this is repugnant. More so, as the National Review is fully aware of The Post publishing these rumors. They're just unimpressed by this one instance of a well-publicized insinuation that Hamdani was a terrorist in hiding:
So the Post reported 1) that Hamdani's family believed he died in the WTC attacks, 2) that the FBI asked Hamdani's mother a few background questions after a mistaken sighting, and 3) that an unnamed source felt such questioning implied guilt. No doubt, that was hard on the grieving mother. But frankly, this -- a mistaken sighting, and very preliminary investigations of many people, most of whom turn out to be innocent -- is the kind of thing that inevitably happens after a major terrorist attack.
See. This just happens.
Particularly when you think it's OK to smear Muslims.
UPDATE: Shaffer responds with a non-correction:
What I find most revolting is the insinuation that the piece is in some way anti-Muslim. That's just wrong. The whole point is to acknowledge and honor Mohammed Salman Hamdani as a hero, and to celebrate an America that has -- outside of the brief, easily explained, and quickly abandoned curiosity of the FBI -- honored him as such all along, by defending him against Representative Ellison's deceptive political appropriation. Ellison's innuendos were misleading, and his claim that Hamdani wasn't honored until his remains were found was flat out wrong.
If my facts are wrong, I want to correct them. But so far I've mostly seen angry gestures from people who are strangely committed to a dubious narrative of victimization where the facts show a story of inclusion.
Actually, the whole point appeared to be to smear Ellison as a liar and a bigot.
And it is ridiculous for Schaffer to suggest that the one instance he found in his Google search of News Corp. blaring insinuations that Hamdani was a terrorist doesn't count since it was only that one time and is apparently the cost of doing business if you're Muslim in America.
Set aside for a second Shaffer's ridiculous premise that only rumors and insinuations from 2001 that are searchable in Google count. There are many reports from the time detailing suspicions that Hamdani might have been involved in the attack. And many reports from the time Hamdani's remains were identified making clear that those suspicions and insinuations ended for good when his body was found.
Shaffer's story is not one of inclusion; it's one of excusing Muslim smears.
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ORIENTATION 2010: Custom Timetables for new students
Published On January 25, 2010 | News
Thanks to Rachel & Jason from the Timetabling Team at the Student Centre we've posted custom timetables for new Undergrad students attending Orientation … here'a quick video tutorial on how to get your timetable:
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So hop along to the Timetable for Units part of the System and search for your timetable just like this:
And here's how you know which timetable to search ….
- Students enrolled in Education programs including: Bachelor of Education; Bachelor of Education (Primary); Bachelor of Education (Primary) with Honours; Bachelor of Education with Honours; Bachelor of Teaching; Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Teaching; Bachelor of Business/Bachelor of Teaching; Bachelor of Information Technology/Bachelor of Teaching; Bachelor of Mathematics/Bachelor of Teaching; Bachelor of Music/Bachelor of Teaching; Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Teaching; Bachelor of Teaching (Early Childhood Education; Graduate Diploma of Education – search for 'Orientation Education'.
- Students enrolled in Arts and Humanities programs including: Advanced Diploma in Arts; Advanced Diploma in Local, Family and Applied History; Diploma in Indigenous Archaeology; Diploma in Modern Languages; Diploma in Town Planning; Bachelor of Archaeology with Honours; Bachelor of Arts; Bachelor of Arts with Honours; Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Business; Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws; Bachelor of Indigenous Studies; Bachelor of International Studies; Bachelor of Communication Studies; Bachelor of Criminology; Bachelor of Languages; Bachelor of Languages and International Business; Bachelor of Music; Bachelor of Psychological Science; Bachelor of Psychology with Honours; Bachelor of Social Science; Bachelor of Social Science with Honours; Bachelor of Theatre Studies; Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning – search for Orientation Arts and Humanities.
- Students enrolled in Health programs including: Bachelor of Nursing; Bachelor of Social Work – search for 'Orientation Nursing'.
- Students enrolled in Science programs including: Advanced Diploma in Agriculture; Advanced Diploma in The Sciences; Diploma in Agriculture; Diploma in The Sciences.Bachelor of Agriculture; Bachelor of Agriculture/Bachelor of Business; Bachelor of Agriculture/Bachelor of Laws; Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science; Bachelor of Biomedical Science; Bachelor of Computer Science; Bachelor of Computer Science/Bachelor of Laws; Bachelor of Engineering Technology; Bachelor of Environmental Science; ; Bachelor of Environmental Science/Bachelor of Laws; Bachelor of Geoscience; Bachelor of Livestock Science;; Bachelor of Marine Science and Management; Bachelor of Natural Resources; Bachelor of Natural Resources/Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning; Bachelor of Rural Science; Bachelor of Science; Bachelor of Advanced Science with Honours; Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Laws; Bachelor of Pharmacy; Bachelor of Exercise Physiology; Bachelor of Exercise Science; Bachelor of Sports Science; Bachelor of Zoology – search for 'Orientation Sciences'.
- Students enrolled in Business, Economics & Public Policy programs including: Bachelor of Agribusiness; Bachelor of Agribusiness with Honours; Bachelor of Agricultural and Resource Economics; Bachelor of Business; Bachelor of Business/Bachelor of Economics; Bachelor of Business/Bachelor of Laws; Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting); Bachelor of Economics; Bachelor of Economics with Honours; Bachelor of Economics/Bachelor of Laws; Bachelor of Financial Administration; Bachelor of Financial Administration/Bachelor of Laws; Diploma of Commerce – search for Orientation BEPP.
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Last season: 4-16-3, 1-7-2 Citrus Belt League (5th)
Key returners: Senior team captains Michael Gomez and Julio Lopez, senior Tanner Herrero and junior Neilsen Ocampo.
Key matches: Today at Valley View, at ML King (Dec. 17) and Citrus Belt League opener at Eisenhower (Jan. 15).
By Ed Castro
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The Redlands High School boys soccer program has never been short of talent.
But the Terriers have won just three Citrus Belt League games the past three seasons, with just eight wins overall in that stretch.
First-year coach Drew Boursaw says structure is what is needed. He has been working on that during the offseason.
"Everyone I have talked when I first got hired says it is structure that I need to instill first," Boursaw said. "I think it has worked so far. I think the kids believe in what I'm trying to do."
Boursaw, Redlands' third coach in as many seasons, is also stressing discipline.
"I want to take it a step further and let the kids know how they act in the classroom affects the team as much as it does when they are on the field," Boursaw said. "That's on everyone."
The first thing Boursaw did was meet with his players and hold a freshman camp.
He liked what he saw.
"It's a very talented team, a very deep team," Boursaw said. "There will be a lot of ball control."
Redlands will look to a solid group of returners, including senior team captains Michael Gomez and Julio Lopez. Other returners include senior Tanner Herrero and junior Neilsen Ocampo.
"We're a young team but we are very talented," Boursaw said. "We scrimmaged Norco and it looked real good."


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Strengthen the Wildlife Protection Act
Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) is relieved to learn that the Wildlife department will beef up security at all entry and exit points into the country through various measures.
This should include the two border towns of Sungai Golok and Betong on the Thai-Malaysian borders as well as all airports and seaports.
SAM welcomes the strengthening of the Wildlife Protection Act as currently the law has failed to deter the criminals even as several species are being mercilessly poached.
Unfortunately most cases of wildlife crime end in acquittal either because the procedures are not followed meticulously or the documents are riddled with loopholes.
Cases of wildlife smuggling should be treated like those in narcotics crime and punishment based on the quantum of seizures to help curb smuggling.
It is time to fight wildlife crime effectively, and collective actions must be taken to stop the key drivers that are bringing tigers and other endangered species to the brink of extinction: poaching, smuggling and illegal trade.
Protected from international commercial trade through the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites) Appendix I listing, tiger numbers are falling alarmingly and efforts to save this magnificent animal have unfortunately not yet lead to a reverse in the decline in tiger populations.
Facts suggest that action taken on the ground remains insufficient and marred by bureaucratic procrastination. There needs to be stronger effort in patrolling forest reserves, protection of tiger prey species, removal of snares and poachers from forest reserves.
On the other hand, the secretariat that runs Cites depends on member states to provide data and enforcement. Yet many Cites parties failed to systematically monitor and report international wildlife trade.
Most Cites listed species occur in countries where governance is often weak and corruption high. Poor data collection also lead to massive underreporting of animal and plant trade.
The other contributing factor to the rapid growth of illegal trade in wildlife is the Internet, which is having a devastating effect on animals and ecosystems. Fast, convenient and anonymous, trading of wildlife on the internet is posing a major challenge to wildlife conservation and law enforcement.
Countries who are parties to Cites should review their domestic legislation to ensure that offers for sale on the Internet of illegal Cites specimens are treated as offenses against Cites implementing legislation. A multi agency approach to counter wildlife trade on the internet
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment should work together with the Malaysian Communications and Multi Media Commission (MCMC) in adopting a multi agency approach to counter wildlife trade on the internet.
Measures include working with Internet auction sites to collect online wildlife trade crime information, reject online trade of animals and their products, raise consumer awareness on illegal wildlife trade on the Internet and engage Internet users to collect information on wildlife crime.
The other serious concern is the pet trade where several threatened and endemic species are being smuggled outside and in the country.
Asian countries have become the hub of dealers engaged in sale and purchase of birds and turtles on a massive scale while deterrent efforts are not forthcoming.
Wildlife crime requires the close collaboration of the Wildlife department, Forestry, Customs and the Police. These bodies should be fully informed and made aware of the new Act and Cites legislation governing wildlife in the country.
Cooperation and criminal intelligence sharing to stop trafficking in endangered species with Interpol playing a lead role in supporting national and international enforcement, is vital to stop transnational trafficking in endangered species .
S M Mohd Idris is the president of Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM)


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Area mountain bikers building local
There's an adage shared among outdoor enthusiasts that the time on the trail must equal or exceed the time driving to it.
Mountain bikers in Ozaukee and Waukesha counties are working to make the standard easier to meet by building trails closer to home. The trails now being cleared, marked and packed by volunteers will be relatively short, roughly four- to six miles, but more convenient for post-work rides for bikers in Cedarburg, Port Washington, West Bend, Waukesha and New Berlin.
"A lot of mountain bikers in this area, we have families, obligations," said Greg Madden, a patent agent and father who lives in Cedarburg. "This is an option. We can jump on the bike and be on the trail in five minutes.
"For me personally, it's just getting out into the woods and getting outdoors."
Pleasant Valley Park & Trails
Madden is one of the leaders of the Ozaukee County Mountain Bikers group, which won approval last month from the Town of Cedarburg Board of Supervisors to develop four miles of single-track (one-bike wide) trails in the park off Pleasant Valley Road. About a dozen volunteers have been working every weekend since, with support from the Glacial Edge Area Riding Society, Hayes Components and the Belgianwerkx Bicycle Studio.
Members of the Metro Mountain Bikers club in Milwaukee helped design two loops: a two-mile trail for beginners and a two-mile trail for more advanced riders.
The brush has been cleared from most of the trail, and Madden expects at least two miles to be open for riding in the spring.
The terrain will be similar to what riders would find on the Greenbush Trails in the Northern Unit of the Kettle Moraine State Forest – moderately technical and suitable for families - but five minutes away by bike instead of 45 by car.
"I think there seemed to be a big need for this in the area," said Jim Hinze, an architect with Groth Design Group. "It seems to be a pretty popular idea, and we've had people out and helping with the work."
Check out the Ozaukee Mountain Bikers Facebook Page to track their progress.
Minooka Park
The mild, late-fall weather has helped volunteers with the Waukesha County Bike Alliance make significant progress on the first mountain bike trails in a Waukesha County park.
Off Sunset Dr., on the southeast corner of Waukesha, Minooka will be something of a pilot project to determine how mountain bikers mix with hikers, archery enthusiasts and dogs in an urban park setting. The trails will be convenient for Waukesha residents looking for a quick outing, without the 30- to 45-minute drive to the John Muir Trails in the Southern Kettle Moraine.
"Urban trails, or local trails, have been happening around the country for a while, and it's finally catching on in southeast Wisconsin," said Ron Stawicki, vice president of the Waukesha County Bike Alliance. "If I want to do a long, 30-mile ride, then I'll go to the Kettle Moraine, but if I want to ride for an hour before work, these will be great trails for that."
The Metro Mountain Bikers and the Cyclesmith Shop, in Waukesha, have been supporting roughly two-dozen volunteers working on weekends to develop the single-track system.
Based on their current progress, Stawicki expects the first section, 1.5 miles, will open in Spring. Another two miles should be ready in May. The final layout will cover six miles and open in two years.
Follow the trail development at the Waukesha Bike Alliance website.
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Greensburg Laurels & Lances
An observation: There is no consolation in using private money from the state-run Neighborhood Partnership Program to erect a barrier around the long-shuttered, deteriorating Monsour Medical Center and to raze adjacent buildings. Instead of devoting that money to a worthwhile public need, it's earmarked to mop up the mess left behind by Monsour Medical Center Inc. because the hospital's rightful owners have eluded that responsibility. And that's inexcusable.
On the "Watch List": The Greensburg Catholic Diocese. First came outrage from some parents over the firing of Denise Myers as principal of Greensburg Central Catholic Junior-Senior High School. Then came word from the diocese in October that an outside audit confirmed "financial irregularities," which still haven't been detailed. Now a statement from Bishop Lawrence E. Brandt informs that Trent Bocan no long serves as superintendent of schools for the diocese. At some point in this unfolding melodrama, the diocese owes an explanation to the parents and parishioners who financially support its schools.
Laurel: To Fayette County Judge Nancy Vernon. A sweetheart house-arrest deal offered to a shop foreman, accused with three other ex-employees of stealing $600,000 in stainless steel from a former employer, didn't cut it with the judge. She rejected this "slap on the wrist," noting that Robert Showman's alleged involvement could have bankrupted the company. The proposed plea bargain would have been a gross injustice.


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Newsmaker: Teresa Gregory
Noteworthy: Gregory made a presentation about student interns at the Association of Arts Administration Educators' 2014 Annual Conference in Montreal.
Age: 52
Residence: Mt. Lebanon
Family: Husband, Daniel Hudock Jr.; children, Jada, 11, and Kira, 8
Occupation: Assistant professor in the Sports, Arts and Entertainment Management program in Point Park University's School of Business
Education: Associate degree, individual studies, State University of New York at Morrisville, 1981; Bachelor of Fine Arts, theatre management with a business minor, Ithaca College, 1983; Master of Fine Arts, theatre arts, University of California at Los Angeles, 1986
Quote: "Pittsburgh is our classroom, so we rely on a large number of community partners who host our students as interns. … Getting hands-on experience and networking are key to getting jobs."


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Release notes for v3.2.1
These are the release notes for Commons Collections v3.2.1:
Commons collections is a project to develop and maintain collection classes based on and inspired by the JDK collection framework. This project is JDK1.2 compatible, and does not use JDK1.5 generics.
This v3.2.1 release is simply a re-packaging of the v3.2 release, with appropriate OSGi meta data added to the jar's manifest file.
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Turkish riot police storm Taksim Square protest site
Assault on key Istanbul protest site raises the stakes for Erdogan's Islamist government
Riot police stormed Istanbul's protest square yesterday, firing tear gas and rubber bullets at firework-hurling demonstrators in a fresh escalation of unrest after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would meet protest leaders.
Hundreds of police poured into Taksim Square, the epicentre of nearly two weeks of anti-government protests, warning demonstrators to stay away as bulldozers began clearing the makeshift barriers erected by protesters after police pulled out of the area on June 1.
The police's return to the square in armoured cars raised the stakes in the nationwide unrest that has posed the fiercest challenge yet to Erdogan and his Islamic-rooted government's decade-long rule.
Smoke filled the area as police doused protesters with tear gas, urging them to return to adjoining Gezi Park, with some protesters, in helmets and gas masks, throwing petrol bombs, fireworks and stones in response.
The intervention came just hours after Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said Erdogan would meet protest leaders today, in his first major concession since the trouble began.
But in a sign of the action to come, he warned: "Illegal demonstrations will not be allowed any more in Turkey."
The nationwide unrest first erupted after police cracked down heavily on a campaign to save Gezi Park from demolition on May 31.
The trouble spiralled into mass displays of anger against Erdogan and his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), seen as increasingly authoritarian.
Nearly 5,000 demonstrators, scores of whom are young and middle-class, have been injured and three people have died, raising concerns among Turkey's Western partners about its democratic credentials.
"This spectacle (of protesters in Taksim Square) upset people... tarnished the country's image before the eyes of the world," Istanbul governor Huseyin Avni Mutlu said in televised remarks, blaming the unrest on "fringe elements".
In a clear signal they were reclaiming Taksim, police removed dozens of flags and anti-Erdogan banners that had adorned a cultural centre overlooking the square in recent days. They were replaced with a single Turkish flag and a large portrait of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the father of modern Turkey, whose image has also been adopted by the protesters.
Tens of thousands over the weekend defied Erdogan's call to end their protests in cities across Turkey after he warned that his patience "has a limit".
Turkey's combative leader has so far responded with defiance to the protesters. On Sunday, he inflamed tensions by staging his own rallies, firing up AKP supporters with combative rhetoric.
Opponents accuse Erdogan of repressing critics - including journalists, minority Kurds and the military. But the 59-year-old, in power since 2002, remains the country's favourite politician. His AKP has won three elections in a row and took nearly half the vote in the 2011 polls.
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Race Day: 26th June 2016
What are the distances?
Swim; 1.2 miles in open water. A wetsuit is compulsory for the swim.
Bike, 56 miles the bike course is 2 laps
Run, 13.1 miles the run course is three laps in the grounds of Wimbleball Lake Country Park, Exmoor
What are the cut off times?
From the race start you will must complete each section of the course within the times below
Swim: 1 hour 10 minutes
Bike: 5 hours 30 minutes
Run: 8 hours 30 minutes
For the avoidance of doubt, you must complete the swim and bike within 5 hours 30 mins and the swim, bike and run within 8 hours 30 mins.
By entering the event you agree to abide by the rules and regulations of IRONMAN and instructions from race officials, including the cut off times above.
The organisers reserve the right to amend the format and distance of the race due to water temperature, weather conditions or road conditions.


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The Tazo Tea store (operated by Starbucks) will be closing this fall. If you have not had a chance to visit it, you should go soon – within the next month or so. It's clear from Howard Schultz's comments at the July 25, 2013, investor quarterly conference call, the Tazo Tea store will close. (You can stream these investor events on the investor relations page on Starbucks.com). I thought this entire segment discussing both La Boulange and Tazo was interesting – here is exactly what Howard said, verbatim:
In Q3, we significantly expanded our La Boulange baked-goods platform. Truly delicious and differentiated La Boulange-branded products are now available in over 1,000 Starbucks stores across Northern California and the Pacific Northwest. When you try La Boulange, you'll understand why we're seeing both an enthusiastic customer response and substantial lift in incrementality compared to the baked goods that La Boulange is replacing. And we are now on track to bring La Boulange food to more than 2,500 of our stores by the end of September, including stores in New York, Chicago, Boston, and Los Angeles.
We are also deep into the strategic development and integration of Teavana. Tea, as we have shared with you before, is a 40-billion dollar global category. And we are leveraging all of our unique internal assets – including our knowledge in creating best-in-class retail experiences and handcrafted beverages – to create a premium tea experience for our customers, just as we have done for coffee.
You will see all of these strengths come together this fall, as we open our first re-imagined Teavana street-front store on New York City's Upper East Side, and evolve the Tazo Tea concept store in Seattle under the Teavana brand. Over time, many unique hand-crafted Teavana tea beverages will also find their way in Starbucks stores.
While it doesn't blare at you in that Howard Schultz quote above, it's clear that the Tazo Tea concept store will close. He suggests that these changes -transforming the Tazo store to a Teavana store – will happen this fall – that's right around the corner.
Goodbye Tazo Tea store. I will miss you! I loved the Tazo Tea store. The partners there were all fantastic. And I loved being able to buy so many rare Tazo teas available only at that store. I fell in love with Berry Blossom White as an iced tea. I adored being able to buy a sparkling Bramblewine Tazo Tea beverage. I expect by sometime in September the Tazo Tea store will close, and there will be construction and remodeling to turn it into a Teavana.
For those that don't recall, the Tazo Tea store opened new November 16, 2012.
I dropped by the Tazo Tea store on Saturday, July 20, 2013, and took all the photos in this article. I hope you enjoy this trip to the Tazo store – please go visit soon if you can!
(I can imagine that the Tazo card will become much more collectible once the Tazo store closes. Check out this article for photos of the collectible subsidiary branded cards – Teavana, Tazo, and Evolution Fresh.)
Edit on July 27, 2013:
I dropped by the Tazo tea store this morning, shortly after it opened. I chatted with a partner about the changes, and 'off the record' he indicated that every Starbucks partner in the Tazo Tea concept store has been 'invited to come work at the new Teavana store.' For me, that is great news – the Tazo team is super friendly. I hope that the new Teavana store will carry forward the wonderful momentum started by the Tazo store's current partners. I don't know how much residual effect the Tazo store will have on the new Teavana store, but I am hopeful that the new Teavana store will set a high benchmark as a tea concept store. I'm going to start dreaming of sparkling Pineapple Kona Pop iced tea – a Teavana tea that I already know that I like.


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On 6/4/05, Adam Hawkins <hawkos at tpg dot com dot au> wrote:
> The default setting for access to the ADSL modems WebGUI is 192.168.1.1, but
> as I have just re-configured m0n0wall to use its default 192.168.1.1, what
> should I do now to re-establish a connection to my modems WebGUI. Now that
> m0n0wall is setting IP's for my network and the fact that the modem comes
> before m0n0wall, its IP, (the modem that is), should probably remain
> unchanged from it's default 192.168.1.1 yeah?
You need to change one or the other to a different subnet. When
they're both the same, the only way you could get to your DSL modem is
by plugging in outside of m0n0wall with a 192.168.1.0/24 address.
Then after you change the address, it's kind of a kludge to get to
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Monday, 14 October, 2002, 10:04 GMT 11:04 UK
Ron Kirk aims at the heart of Texas
Democrat Ron Kirk, an African-American Senate hopeful from normally Republican Texas, has got the Grand Old Party worried.
When three-term Republican Senator Phil Gramm announced his retirement last year, Mr Kirk seized the chance to wrest the seat from the party that has held it for more than 40 years.
And if successful the former mayor of Dallas would bloody the American's president's nose.
Texas is Bush country and the Republicans maintain a stranglehold on the state, with all 27 elected state-wide office-holders representing the GOP.
Texas is pivotal to Republican hopes of dislodging the Democrats from their one-seat hold on the Senate.
If Mr Kirk's political ambitions are successful, he will be the only African-American in the current Senate and the third African-American to claim a seat since Reconstruction in the 1870s.
Vice-Presidential material
Commentators say the symbolism of the victory would be so great that Mr Kirk could not help but be propelled onto the Democrats' shortlist of prospective vice-presidential candidates.
And, as a senator from the nation's second-most-populous state, he would be the most prominent of a rising generation of black politicians in their 30s and 40s.
He is said to represent the rise of a new generation of pragmatic black politicians. He displays little of the firebrand qualities of fellow Democrat Jesse Jackson, and sees things in terms of co-operation rather than confrontation.
Business support
In order to win the seat, Mr Kirk needs strong support from state's black and Hispanic voters. He is expected to do well with both groups, partly because he is running on the same ticket as Tony Sanchez - a Hispanic candidate for Texas governor.
But he will also need white votes and is said to have forged alliances across ideological and racial lines.
He has built up a strong base of support among white moderate voters in Dallas for his a solid record as a pro-business mayor.
Commentators say he has shown his deal-making talents by pushing through a number of projects in the city - such as a gleaming new sports arena, a light rail system, a new police HQ which is under construction, and helping secure some $500m of funding for development.
The economy is a big issue in Houston - the hometown of the scandal-wracked Enron Corporation. And Mr Kirk, who lost some of his own money in the collapse of the energy giant, has been quick to exploit the issue as part of his campaigning for corporate accountability.
Mr Kirk is said to be a tough, polished operator, with an engaging personality.
At 48, he is a product of the civil rights movement. His father was the first black to work for the postal service in Austin and his mother was a teacher and activist. He graduated from the University of Texas Law School in 1979.
Shortly after, he worked as a defence adviser to Senator Lloyd Bentsen, a moderate Democratic Senator. He then joined a prominent law firm in Dallas, and worked mainly as a lobbyist for corporate clients.
He received political recognition in 1994 when he was appointed as the first African-American to serve as Texas Secretary of State.
Opinion polls indicate that Mr Kirk has a chance of winning the seat. But his opponent's most valuable resource, the personal support of the US president, could prove too much.
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Dedicate an armoire or a corner of a linen closet to your finishing touches, says New York City–based Erica Domesek, the founder of the style blog psimadethis.com. Screw hooks into the bottom of the upper shelf to hang delicate necklaces. Protect sunglasses in an organizer with drawers. (Acrylic case for glasses, $29.50; case with drawers, $25.50, muji.us.) For bangles, there's nothing as efficient as those velvety T-shaped stands you see in store displays. (Triple-tier jewelry organizer, $20, containerstore.com.)


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Linkin Park Collaborate On New Music Software System
With their new disc 'Living Things' currently sitting pretty at No. 1 on the Billboard charts, Linkin Park seem to have the golden touch. Now the band is taking that success and branching out into software with a new collaboration with Dell and Open Labs.
Happy Fourth of July – Rockers Celebrate on Twitter
Happy Fourth of July! As we descend upon Independence Day here in the United States, people around the country are celebrating our great nation. Always patriotic, your favorite rockers are speaking out as well. Several musicians have posted on Twitter wishing America a Happy Birthday and safe celebrations to all their fans. See what everyone from Slash to the Canadian born Nickelback had to say below.
The Offspring Bring 'Days Go By' to 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!'
Former Guns N' Roses Drummer Steven Adler's Mother Set To Release Tell-All Book
Former Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler has had his share of ups and downs throughout his career. From his tumultuous split with the legendary band to battling drug abuse throughout his life it's been quite a roller coaster ride and now, someone very close to the drummer has chronicled his entire journey from her personal view.
Linkin Park Bring the Rock on Two Nights of 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!'
Linkin Park celebrated the release of their new disc 'Living Things' with a two-night appearance on the 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' late night show.
Slash To Headline Fall 2012 North American Tour With Support From Foxy Shazam
Staind To Release 'Live From Mohegan Sun' CD and DVD / Blu-ray This Summer
It's hard to believe that throughout their 17-year career together, Staind have never released an official live disc, but all that changes this summer when 'Live From Mohegan Sun' makes its debut in several formats. The CD version will be available on July 10 followed by the DVD/Blu-ray out on Aug. 14.
Green Day To Deliver New Single 'Oh Love' in July
The Offspring Set To Host 'Pop-Up' Release Party For 'Days Go By'
Korn's Jonathan Davis Visits U.S. Troops At Ramstein Air Base
Avenged Sevenfold + Halestorm Unleash Rock 'N' Roll 'Nightmare' – Review and Photos
Avenged Sevenfold fans in North America were bracing for a summer without any live shows from their favorite band until Metallica came and saved the day. Invited to participate in the Orion Music and More Festival in Atlantic City on June 24, Avenged Sevenfold decided to make the most of it, adding a few one off shows prior to their festival appearance. The first of the three shows was in Quebec City, Canada on June 21 followed by a second show on June 22 in Uncasville, Conn. The two shows would serve as a warm-up for their highly anticipated Orion performance.
Shinedown Set for Live Loudwire Twitter Chat and Conan Performance on June 20
Shinedown will continue to celebrate the release of their new disc 'Amaryllis' throughout the summer as the headliner on the Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR Festival kicking off in August with Godsmack, Staind, Papa Roach and more – but even leading up to that, they have a lot of creative surprises in store for fans.


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Dean Forms PAC for Presidential Campaign
(Host) Governor Howard Dean is moving closer to a formal decision to run for president. Dean says he'll create a political action committee later this week that will help finance a presidential campaign. That's something that Dean cannot do with his current PAC known as the Fund for a Healthy America. It was established to help Dean offer financial support to like-minded state and federal candidates across the country.
Dean says he is very pleased with the support his potential presidential campaign has received. He says the time has come to take his campaign to the next level. That means hiring staff and putting a campaign structure in place.
Under federal law, once a candidate has raised $5,000, they must file a report with the FEC:
(Dean) "We've just got to get ourselves organized and start raising some money and this is the right vehicle to do it. You know, there's a big game that goes on in Washington maybe you will and maybe you won't and all this stuff. And you know, I'm pretty direct and when I decide I'm going to do it, I think you have to file for it. As I said before, I'm 7/8 of the way there but I'm close enough so we really need to be running for president here, not pussyfooting around about will we or won't we."
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Kenneth M. Roemer
University of Texas at Arlington
ne of the most efficient ways to become acquainted with the dramatic changes in how "American literature" is conceived, packaged and delivered is to browse through examples of titles, covers, and tables of contents reproduced from significant anthologies and histories. Even glancing at a few table of contents pages can raise fundamental questions about the importance of literary movements; periodization; geographic, gender, race, class, and age representations of "America," and theoretical, institutional, and disciplinary changes.
For instance, how can anthologies be used to demonstrate that a particular "literature" has sufficient "quantity" to be studied and sufficient "quality" (including "masterpieces" and "renaissances") to be studied "seriously" and passed on to the next generation as a worthy representation of American culture? Should a history or an anthology stress coherent themes, motifs, and patterns that distinguish a cultural or national identity or should they stress pluralities and the blurring of identity definitions? To what degree does/should an anthology or history reflect current theoretical and ideological orientations? What do the changing natures of editorial boards and publishing companies say about who defines American culture?
These questions may sound "academic," and indeed they are. But they should also concern any group in America dedicated to forming, preserving, and distributing concepts of our literature and culture, whether they be teachers, students, librarians, book dealers, publishers, parents serving on school boards, or political and religious leaders.
As I indicated in a fall 1999 Heath Anthology of American Literature Newsletter article "The Tales Tables (of Contents) Tell," (included as the "Introduction" to this web site), the present collection began with anthologies of early American literature. This focus reflects my belief that the definition of the "beginnings" often sets patterns for the rest of the portrait of American literature.
There is still some emphasis on early American literature and the collection is certainly not exhaustive. The most significant improvement reflected in the present collection of more than100 volumes is the additional coverage of the 19th and 20th centuries. The online collection has almost tripled in size since its first appearance in the fall of 2000. Much of the expansion is due to the inclusion of entire two-volume tables of contents; the earlier collections frequently omitted much of the 19th and all of the 20th century. There are also important additions of anthologies not previously listed, including significant volumes mentioned in Jane Tompkins' "But Is It Any Good" chapter in Sensational Designs (1985). The publication time frame has also expanded back to 1829.
The web site is once again in transition. During the summer of 2009, we compared our collection to the anthologies list in the primary sources bibliography of Joseph Csicsila's Canons by Consensus: Critical Trends and American Literary Anthologies (2004). We added the missing volumes. We have also scanned all the subject indices (i.e., lists of all the American authors in each issue followed by the number of times that issue includes mention of articles and books about the author; 1963 — current) from the annual publication, American Literary Scholarship (ALS). These indices provide important historical insights about canon formation by suggesting which authors scholars deemed worthy of study since the mid-20th century. Other additional items scanned include Csicsila�s secondary bibliography of studies of canon formation and selected "The Extra" articles that focused on canon formation from the journal American Literature during the height of the Canon Wars in the 1980s.
We will move all the new material (at least 86 volumes) and the present web site to the Research Commons (D-Space) of the University of Texas at Arlington where the site can be better maintained. We are also hard at work making the future site searchable by year, author, editor, and anthology and selection title. The eventual goal over the next few years is a comprehensive collection that will eventually also include high school anthologies and, for example, permit Internet users to type in "Herman Melville" or "Toni Morrison" and find all the selections anthologized for these authors or selections from particular historical periods. This research archive will, thus, allow students, school boards, librarians, teachers, and researches to formulate accurate generalities about how anthology editors, publishers, and, by implication, academic institutions "behind" them defined American literature, Americans, and American culture.
Even with all these additions and improvements, the collection will still be selective, if we take into consideration developments such as the Pearson Custom Library of American Literature, which allows instructors to create customized print anthologies drawing from more than 1700 selections, and the numerous online opportunities that open up a new world of customized electronic anthology creation.
The responses to the present collection, as limited as it is, have been encouraging. Between November 2006 and the end of 2009, the site received almost 10,000 "hits." The web site is also the first resource discussed in the Introduction ("What is American Literature?" section) to Martha L. Brogan and Daphn�e Rentfrow's A Kaleidoscope of Digital American Literature (Washington, D.C.: Council on Library Information Resources and Digital Library Federation, 2005 (2-3).
Brogan and Rentfrow are recognizing the work of a team, not an individual. I would like to thank Paul Lauter of Trinity College and Carla Mulford of Pennsylvania State University for encouraging me and offering advice about this project. Phil Cohen and Tim Morris, my former Departmental Chairs, and Victor Vitanza, the former Departmental Webmaster, allowed me to occupy Departmental virtual space at the University of Texas at Arlington. I owe a special debt to Matthew Levy and Robert Flach, who designed and redesigned the web site, and who, along with Ryan Beatty and Jared Chambers, spent many hours transforming my hard copies into the electrons before your eyes. Professor Carolyn Guertin, the Director of the University of Texas at Arlington's e-Create Lab has graciously offered her expert advice about design and distribution of the Web site. I am also indebted to scholars from around the country, in particular John Bryant, Loren Gruber, and Sondra Reid for pointing out possible improvements in design and omissions in the earlier collections.
Since the summer of 2009, I have been especially indebted to the team working on the beginning stages of the next major development in expansion and redesign. This University of Texas at Arlington team includes two new Associate Editors, Lorie Jacobs and Bethany Shaffer; the Coordinator of Digital Media Services, Karen Horsfall, and two of her Web Specialists, Julie Williams and Scott Holmes; a Librarian, Ramona Holmes, assisting with the transfer to the Research Commons; and Fillia Makedon, the Chair of Computer Science, who will offer advice on grant proposals and web design. In the near future we will also be adding an Advisory Board.
Finally I would like to thank the College of Liberal Arts, which provided a Seed Grant that supports the new Associate Editors, summer work, and software; Duke University Press for permission to include the ALS indices and the selected "The Extra" articles; and the University of Alabama Press for allowing us to include Csicsila�s secondary bibliography.


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Interactive Stingray Exhibit Opens At Henry Doorly Zoo
Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo will unveil a new interactive experience for guests on Friday.
Stingray Beach is a seasonal, interactive experience that puts guests hand to fin with Cownose rays and Southern stingrays. There is also an aquatic gift shop located at the exhibit.
Stingray Beach will be open 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. The admission cost is $3 for Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium members and $4 for non-members.
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U.S. Bishops visit archdiocese of Hanoi
J.B. An Dang1/22/2009
A group of U.S. Bishops has come to visit the archdiocese of Hanoi to show their support and solidarity with Vietnamese bishops, priests and laity in the capital city, those who have suffered injustice and a series of crackdowns from the atheist government.
The Church in Vietnam has been struggling to survive in rough water especially during the last year, which was filled with tough challenge and uncertainty as a result of series of clashing with the Communist regime over the ownership of properties that were seized by the government throughout the years. The most dramatic conflicts have occurred in Hanoi, where lay Catholic activists have staged public protests demanding the return of a building that once housed the offices of the apostolic nuncio in Vietnam, and a piece of property that belonged to a Redemptorist monastery. Last December, eight Catholic activists were tried for charges of destroying state property during a protest at the Redemptorist monastery. The case resulted in guilty verdict that followed by stayed sentences for all defendants, regardless of evidence overwhelmingly supporting the innocence of the victims- turned -defendants.
Earlier, in September of last year, government officials attacked Archbishop Ngo for his failure to denounce the Catholic demonstrators, and threatened legal action against the prelate. The archbishop's residence has frequently been surrounded by mobs of government supporters and put on 24 hour surveillance in addition to numerous death threats against the archbishop which had severely curtailed his public activities to a minimal. He has virtually become a prisoner in his own home.
U.S. Bishops and their companions concelebrated Mass with Archbishop Joseph Ngo and hundreds of Vietnamese priests in St. Joseph Cathedral on Wednesday morning.
In his sermon, Bishop Todd Brown, noted that the liturgical calendar for Wednesday honored St.Agnes, a Roman young woman who was only thirteen years old when she received martyrdom for her Faith. Her love for the Lord was very great and she hated sins even more than death! Agnes was promised with wonderful gifts if she would only deny God, but she refused and bowed her head for the death-stroke of the sword.
"Each year on this day young lambs are brought to the Roman Church named in her honor," Bishop Todd continued. "The lambs are blessed and then cared for until they are sheared and their wool woven into the pallia given to the new archbishops named that year. That is the history of the pallium Archbishop Joseph Ngo Quang Kiet is wearing today."
The sermon was viewed by many as an encouragement to the attitude of the archbishop not to compromise with injustice and immorality even at the cost of grave sufferings.
Catholics in Hanoi had found great comfort with Bishop Todd's conclusion: "Please be assured of our prayers and support."
The Diocese of Orange California and the Archdiocese of Hanoi had established "sister diocese" relationship last August. Under the partnership, the American diocese for the first time would sponsor four seminarians from Vietnam in their training to become priests. The diocese would also send priests to Hanoi to teach English and at seminaries.
After the Diocese of Orange established its partnership with Hanoi, other dioceses in the United States followed. The Diocese of Los Angeles and the Archdiocese of Saigon, for instance, are now sister dioceses.
Vietnam: Vives réactions après l'arrestation de l'avocat Nguyên Van Dai
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Vietnam: Nouvelle arrestation de Nguyên Van Dai, défenseur de la liberté religieuse
|Eglises d'Asie
Vietnam: Mobilisation populaire pour garder à l'Histoire son caractère propre au sein de l'enseignement scolaire
|Eglises d'Asie
Vietnam: Même « amendé », le Code pénal reste un instrument au service du contrôle de la société civile
|Eglises d'Asie
Vietnam: Nomination d'un évêque coadjuteur pour le diocèse de Ba Ria
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Vietnam: Projet de loi sur la religion : nouveau débat à l'Assemblée nationale
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Vietnam: Un militant catholique malmené par la police après avoir achevé sa peine de prison
|Eglises d'Asie
Vietnam: Interview des deux nouveaux évêques de Vinh Long et de Kontum
|Eglises d'Asie
Vietnam: Les Amantes de la Croix persistent dans leur résistance à l'expropriation et portent plainte
|Eglises d'Asie
Vietnam: Les Amantes de La Croix de Thu Thiêm déterminées à défendre leur patrimoine
|Eglises d'Asie
Press Release: On the haughty confiscation of the property of the Order of the Lovers of the Holy Cross by Vietnamese government
|The Federation of Vietnamese Catholic Mass Media
The Order of The Lovers Of The Holy Cross of Thu Thiem, Saigon: Our legitimate properties are being robbed by the government, please help.
|Sr. Maria Ngoan Thi Nguyen
Vietnam: Vigoureuse lettre ouverte de l'évêque de Kontum à propos de la liberté religieuse sur les Hauts Plateaux
|Eglises d'Asie
Viet Nam: Bishop appeals to the government to put an end to the harassment against Catholics in Central Highlands
|Stephanie Nguyen
Vietnam: Tradition familiale et changement démographique, les deux pôles de la famille au Vietnam
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Vietnam; Libérée avant l'achèvement de sa peine, une célèbre dissidente prend le chemin de l'exil
|Eglises d'Asie
Vietnam: La plupart des Montagnards vietnamiens réfugiés au Cambodge sont renvoyés dans leur pays
|Eglises d'Asie
Vietnam: Malgré l'opposition des milieux religieux, le projet de loi sur la religion est en passe d'être adopté
|Eglises d'Asie
Amnesty International: Vietnam - All prisoners of conscience must be immediately and unconditionally released
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Vietnamese-born bishop Calls Australians to Show Same Generosity He and His Family Received When they Fled Vietnam 40 years Ago
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Attractions near La Posada Hotel: Places to Hike, Climb, Boat, & More
Winslow's location on the scenic Colorado Plateau means easy access to some spectacular destinations. These are just a few.
Petrified Forest National Park
• Distance: 55 Miles
Best known for globally significant Late Triassic fossils, the park attracts many researchers. Geologists study the multi-hued Chinle Formation. Archeologists research over 13,000 years of history. Biologists explore one of the best remnants of native Arizona grassland. Air quality is an ongoing study in the park. Download the Friends of Petrified Forest National Park newsletter to learn more.
McHood Park / Clear Creek
• Distance: 5 miles
Outdoor enthusiasts will enjoy Clear Creek, which offers canoeing, fishing, swimming, and picnicking. Canoeist can paddle to Clear Creek Canyon — a deep, magnificent, secluded canyon. McHood Park is the perfect spot for camping and picnicking. From Winslow, take Route 87 south to Highway 99 and turn left.
Little Painted Desert County Park
• Distance: 13 miles
This park offers 660 acres of colorful formations of red, violet, green and gray, which were deposited by an ancient ocean and carved by the wind. View the panorama from the scenic overlook or use the picnic ramadas and restroom. Take Exit 257 from I-40; the park is located less than 1/4 mile from Highway 87, near the Navajo reservation.
Meteor Crater
• Distance: 20 miles
Meteor Crater is the best-preserved impact site on earth, with topographical terrain that closely resembles the surface of the moon. In fact, NASA designated the crater as the training site for astronauts. From Winslow, take I-40 west to exit 233.
Jack's Canyon
• Distance: 30 miles
For rock climbers, Jack's Canyon features over 200 steep (5.5–5.13) routes concentrated in a section of the canyon called Moenkopi. All routes are well protected. Go south on Highway 87 to mile marker 313.7 and turn right, through gate (always close gate).
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|I had the pleasure of climbing this route a couple months ago. I thought it was one of the best best pitches I've seen in several years.
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George Carlin is dead and I missed the Mermaid Day parade. At least other timelier folks took cameras: The story of *how* I missed the parade is a comedy of errors -- after all, I was there. At least I got to see some detritus/aftermath. Photos TK.
That picture of the mermen comes courtesy of JJ, who takes awesome pictures her own self. She and Charrow, my oldest & bestest, the fantastic creature who wore a tiger-print dress to my rehearsal dinner and then a suit to my wedding, will be moving here in the fall. Next summer we will all be arm and arm on W10th, yodeling at the passing sea creatures and painted 'mos. I cannot wait.
While sweating to the oldies in Atlanta, the team of Charrow & JJ has created these cards of which I am in dire need. They're like a ink blot test: do you see narcissism? Self-sufficiency? Energy independence? Masturbation? Confuse your friends! They're for sale here.
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