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In their tongue, he is '''"Dovahkiin": Dragonborn!'''''-->-- '''Esbern''', ''Narration of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoXFk-0NrDI&ab_channel=BethesdaSoftworks teaser trailer.]]''''Skyrim'' is the fifth entry into ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' main series, released on November 11, 2011 [[note]]Or, as the advertising put it, [[MeaningfulReleaseDate 11.11.11]][[/note]] across multiple platforms.It takes place 200 years after [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion the events of the fourth game]] in the northernmost part of the continent, home to the [[HornyVikings Nords]], as the province of Skyrim faces the return of [[BigBad Alduin the World Eater]] and his army of dragons. Alduin's return exacerbates the carnage of a bitter civil war between those who support the Empire of Tamriel, whose military presence in the snowbound province is overseen by General Tullius, and those who wish for independence, united under the leadership of Ulfric Stormcloak.Into this enters what may be the last Dragonborn, a person born with the soul of a dragon, who has the ability to kill the dragons and absorb their souls. Under the guidance of Delphine and Esbern, two of the last Blades, and the monastic Greybeards of High Hrothgar, the Dragonborn must oppose Alduin and defeat him, lest [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt he destroy the world.]]The game runs on a heavily modified Gamebryo engine called the ''Creation'' engine, complete with all the GoodBadBugs that Bethesda fans have come to know and love. The soundtrack is once again provided by Music/JeremySoule. The PC version was also the debut title for the UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Workshop, an integrated way to browse and upload mods, which are subscribed to and downloaded automatically via the Steam client. This had never been attempted on such a large scale before.The first DLC for ''Skyrim'', ''Dawnguard'', was released in June 26, 2012 for UsefulNotes/XBox360, and then on the PC on August 3, 2012 after a slight delay (a deal meant that the DLC remained an exclusive for at least a month). UsefulNotes/{{PS3}} users saw it released February 26, 2013 after ''Dragonborn'' and ''Hearthfire''. The add-on puts the Dragonborn in the midst of a battle between a group of ancient vampires and a newly-reformed order of vampire hunters. The second DLC for ''Skyrim'', ''Hearthfire'', was released for the Xbox 360 on September 4, 2012, on the PC on October 4, 2012, and the [=PS3=] on February 19, 2013. Within it you can adopt children and create your own dream house. The third DLC for ''Skyrim'', ''Dragonborn'', was released for the Xbox 360 on December 4th, 2012, and then on the PC on February 5, 2013 while the [=PS3=] version was released on February 12, 2013. ''Dragonborn'' takes place on Solstheim (the island setting of the ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'' expansion ''Bloodmoon''), and involves the Dragonborn facing off against the very first Dragonborn, who is seeking to return to Tamriel.On April 15, 2013, [[http://www.bethblog.com/2013/04/15/moving-to-our-next-adventure/ Bethesda announced that there would be no further content]] for ''Skyrim'', citing that they were moving forward with their next project, but that the game would continue to receive technical support. The [[GameOfTheYearEdition Legendary Edition]] came out on June 4, 2013. It received one more release on September 10, 2013, bundled with the other four games in the series, for PC only. An UpdatedRerelease using the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' engine, ''Skyrim: Special Edition'', was released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and PC on October 28, 2016. The console versions add support for PC mods, a la ''Fallout 4'', and {{UsefulNotes/Steam}} owners of ''Skyrim'' and all its [=DLCs=] [[note]]through the ''[[GameOfTheYearEdition Legendary Edition]]'' or otherwise[[/note]] received a copy of ''Special Edition'' for free. A teaser of the game appeared in the reveal trailer of UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, complete with trademark message, in October 2016. Both Nintendo and Bethesda confirmed that ''Skyrim'' will be headed for the Switch during the Switch presentation event in January 2017. It will feature Toys/{{amiibo}} support and motion controls. Like the ''Legendary Edition'' and ''Special Edition'', the Switch port will contain all three [=DLC=]. It is set to release late 2017.At E3 2017, another [=PS4=] version with virtual reality support was announced, titled ''Skyrim [=VR=]''. It is confirmed to have all three [=DLC=].A list of troper-recommended mods has been added [[JustForFun/SkyrimRecommendedMods here]].----[[index]]* Skyrim/Tropes0ToG* Skyrim/TropesHToM* Skyrim/TropesNToT* Skyrim/TropesUToZ[[/index]]------> I used to be a troper like you... [[MemeticMutation then I took an arrow in the knee.]]


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Hello, my new laptop is running Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 and my old games such as Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 and the addon, Yuri's Revenge, run very slowly. It is so slow that it is pretty much unplayable. Well, you can play it, but it's far away from fun.
I have tried several compatibility options (Windows XP mode, deactivate visual design, run as admin...) but they didn't change anything. Does anyone in here play the game on x64 and can tell me his/her compatibility options? What else can I try?

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Dee Gordon Steals a Base On a Walk
In fantasy baseball, a walk isn't as good as a hit. It just isn't. Unless, you are Dee Gordon who can turn a walk into a stolen base. Now do you know why we love this guy for fantasy baseball...Read More
BallparkBob's Top Sleepers for 2012
We all love value picks. We all love sleepers. Who will be this season's Lance Berkman, Joel Hanrahan, or Ian Kennedy? BallparkBob reviews his top sleepers at each position for the 2012 season. Catcher — Wilson Ramos, Washington Nationals Wilson Ramos is best known as the guy who got kidnapped in Venezuela this off-season before a daring rescue saved him. But, he may be quite more well-known in 2012 now that Pudge Rodriguez is gone. The 24-year-old's ability to hit for power and average makes him an enticing sleeper for 2012. In just 389 at bats, Ramos hit .267 with 15 homers, 52 RBIs and 48 runs scored. He will not be pushed by backup Jesus Flores and should get the vast majority of the playing time. Based on his 2011 season, Ramos is capable of a .270...Read More
Fantasy Baseball Tip: Watch The Games
It seems obvious enough, but it's surprising how many serious fantasy baseball managers don't bother to actually watch the games, especially the Spring Training games. I am just back from my annual Spring Training trip to Florida. If you are a true baseball fan and you haven't done this before, what are you waiting for? Do it. It's a blast, especially when you get to go to the older Spring Training venues like the Pirates home in Bradenton. But, it's also an important part of your fantasy baseball draft preparation. You will learn things that you wouldn't have known had you just read one of those grocery store preview magazines. Case in point. Just a week or so ago, I went on our Spadora on Sports radio show and talked about how I predicted that Ty Wigginton would win...Read More
2011 Busts, 2012 Superstars
This post was written and contributed by Kellen Hunter. Picks for 2012 During the fantasy baseball draft, nothing quite beats the thrill of getting the most in-demand players on your roster. If you're serious about your team, you spend hours poring over predictions and stats, making your picks and setting your lineups. But sometimes, a player that looks great on paper just fizzles on the field. That pick that was such a coup during training camp turns out to be an albatross that brings down your whole team… Just like some of these 2011 fantasy baseball must-haves who turned out to be duds: Justin Morneau, 1B, Minnesota Twins Players returning after injuries are always risky, and Justin Morneau is a textbook case as to why. The once consistent hitter hit only four HRs in 2011 and had an average...Read More
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The renowned fashion designer and creator of the wrap dress appeared Thursday night at the InterContinental Hotel & Conference Center Cleveland as part of the hospital's Ideas for Tomorrow series. Cleveland Clinic CEO and President Toby Cosgrove met the designer about five years ago and asked her to reimagine the hospital's patient gowns. After several years of prototypes and patient trials, the gowns will finally be available to patients in April. In an empty hospital boardroom before Thursday's event, von Furstenberg talked with a reporter about the gown project and why—despite her early hesitation—she agreed to do it.


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It's about 3 years old. It does act like everything is working fine.
OK perfect, thank you for that added information. If the microwave still looks and sounds like it's working, but it's just not heating--that means your magnetron has likely failed. The magnetron is the part that actually creates the microwave to heat the food and it commonly goes bad and rarely gives a warning. The part itself costs about $60 but it's not easy in the least to replace it as the entire microwave needs to come down and the outer shell removed just to gain access to replacing the magnetron. If you decide to do this repair yourself, I would encourage you to wear thick rubber gloves because the high voltage system can store up to 3000 volts even when the microwave is unplugged. Below is a link to the magnetron you'd need for your model.
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Where can you find this magnetron? Will I be able to recognize it in the machine when I get the outer shell taken off?
So, it looks like it is 'plug n play' with maybe a few screws, correct? Would you reccommend total replacement or this part? I'm somwhat handy?
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wikiHow to Care for Micro Braids
Three Methods:Caring for Hair Prior to Micro BraidingCaring for Hair While Micro BraidedCaring for Hair After Micro BraidingCommunity Q&A
Micro Braids, also known as mini-braids or invisible braids, is a popular hairstyle for many black women and some men as well. Many consider these braids to be high-maintenance, with importance placed on the care for micro braids not only while you have the braids, but also before getting the braids and after removing the braids.
Caring for Hair Prior to Micro Braiding
1Determine if your hair is healthy enough for micro braiding. If hair already has damage, then you should concentrate on making it as healthy as possible first.
2Get a hot oil treatment to help moisturize your hair and replenish damaged hair. Performing this treatment once a week for several weeks prior to getting your braids is a common recommendation for healthier hair from the start.
3Moisturize your hair by using a deep conditioner, again to ensure your hair is as healthy as possible before braiding.
4Trim the ends of your hair to get rid of any split ends that might exist. After your trim, make sure your hair is long enough for micro braiding.
5Shampoo and condition your hair thoroughly immediately before getting your micro braids.
Caring for Hair While Micro Braided
1Follow the hair care advice received from your stylist and if you have any questions, be sure you fully understand how to care for micro braids both while you have them and after they're removed.
2Wash your hair and scalp regularly with the proper shampoo for your hair type, and always use conditioner while your hair is micro braided.
- Many stylist recommend waiting four weeks before the first washing, and then washing and conditioning at least once a week while you have your micro braids.
3Spray on a light leave-in conditioner, braid spray or hair oil to keep the micro braided hair moisturized. Use enough so that the hair doesn't feel brittle or dry when you touch it.
4Utilize a light scalp conditioner, especially around the edges of the scalp where the most damage can occur when hair is micro braided.
- You can also use Aloe Vera gel, olive oil, liquid vitamin E or products containing these liquids to keep the scalp well lubricated.
- Be careful not to use a heavy conditioner that can cause a flaky scalp, which is hard to treat when hair is micro braided.
5Visit your stylist or a salon professional if necessary to help maintain your braids or if you feel that damage or breakage has occurred.
Caring for Hair After Micro Braiding
1Remove the micro braids carefully or have them removed by a professional. The hair is going to be fragile after being braided for so long and you must be gentle.
2Use a protein treatment after you've removed the braids to help put strength back into your hair.
3Restore moisture to your hair immediately after removing your braids by using a deep conditioner and moisturizer, because the hair is often very dry after micro braiding.
Community Q&A
How long will microbraids last in my hair?wikiHow ContributorNever go longer than 2 months at the most. If you see breakage, immediately remove them as soon as possible.
Can I wash my hair two weeks before braiding?wikiHow ContributorYes, but definitely use a conditioner immediately after. Also the week of, do a co-wash to strengthen the hair as much as possible to prevent breakage upon and after micro braiding installation.
How long do I have to wait to get my hair put back in micro braids?wikiHow ContributorLet your hair rest for a few days between braids.
What is some good braiding spray for fresh braids that are still kinda tight?
What do I do if my skin is turning black when using micro braids?
- Although micro braids are supposed to be small, make sure the braids aren't too small for your hair, as smaller braids will take longer to remove and generally cause more damage to the hair and scalp.
- Always use a professional stylist experienced in micro braiding to ensure you don't damage your hair.
- Micro braids aren't recommended for anyone with hair that's already really thin, or very fragile or damaged.
- Never leave your hair micro braided if you find white bumps on the scalp, as this is a sign of hair loss from the roots and you should quickly remove the braids before you further damage your hair and scalp.
- Don't leave micro braids in for extended periods of time. Most stylists recommended removing the braids about every 2 to 3 months to avoid damaging the hair.
- Never allow the braids to be braided too tightly. If it's painful during the braiding procedure, ask the stylist to loosen the braids because too tight braids can cause more damage to your hair and scalp.
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A YOUNG girl was inspired to raise hundreds of pounds for a hospital ward which helped with her nan's cancer treatment.
Rachel Doe, 12, started fundraising off her own back to boost the Rhys Lewis cancer ward at Colchester General Hospital.
She was inspired to start collecting cash after her nan, Stephanie Rowe, from Clacton, was diagnosed with cancer in June.
She was given three months to live but is still battling the disease.
And young Rachel was moved to help the Rhys Lewis ward after visiting her nan there.
Rachel's mum Keely said: "Rachel and I were in and out of the ward all the time while my mum was there, visiting from our home in London.
"Rachel noticed that a few of the TVs weren't working in the ward and she said she wanted to raise some money for them.
"There are a lot of ill people there, some of them terminal, and she wanted to help."
She gathered sponsorship and has now raised about £300 for the hospital.
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To get it working I set up a rule on the remote M0n0wall as follows:
Interface: LAN
Protocol: any
Source: remote LAN subnet
Destination: local LAN subnet
Dest Port Range: any
It can now ping local LAN pc's, and successfully logs across the VPN to
the local syslog server.
Hope this helps
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> Can you explain what you did to get this to work? I was thinking about
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Gaining site traffic can be easy through various methods of Search Engine Optimization. However, there are also different kinds of websites and they vary when it comes to the type of traffic they need. This means that the SEO strategy that could work for one site may not be as effective for the goals of the other. Getting quality traffic is perhaps one of the most challenging goals of each SEO professional. If you want to get the specific kind of traffic that your site needs, you have to be cautious of the SEO Company that you are planning to hire. It is best to check the kinds of strategies they apply in order to enable your site to generate a targeted traffic.
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There are certain things you have to be certain about when talking to a SEO consultant. One is the SEO strategies that they use. There are lots of SEO Companies that promise an improvement on the site traffic of their clients but are actually using black hat SEO. These are the strategies that are subject to penalties. You would not want your site to be penalized with a lower search engine visibility or Search Engine Results Page ranking due to this, right?This is the reason why it is important to see to it that your site will not be linked to these kinds of SEO strategies by certain companies. At chronistsempelis, we understand the need of each of our clients to generate a clean and targeted traffic which is why we only apply effective and ethical strategies of SEO.
It is important to keep in mind that SEO takes time especially if you are looking to get a targeted traffic. Most of the online business owners are not aware that there are different kinds of SEO strategies that could and could not be right for their websites. An online business will not be able to get a significant increase of profit if it only applies certain SEO strategies that can only generate a general kind of traffic. It is always possible to get people to go to your site just to find out that they are not interested about your business. It can definitely save you time and effort if you ask the SEO consultant how they can help you generate a targeted traffic and reach your goals. Our SEO consultants at chronistsempelis will guide you step by step on how we can help reach and improve the end goal of your site.
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Since the internet began, there have been lots of strategies that can be applied in order for a site to become popular. Those strategies have been changing to adapt to the continuously evolving search algorithms of Google. One of the most important strategies that have remained highly effective after all these years is link building. This is done through posting lots of high quality links that point to a specific website using the proper context.As a white hat SEO; this is also one of the strategies we apply in chronistsempelis. Online businesses are not the only ones that need a targeted traffic. If your site is one of those that need a targeted market reach or traffic, then link building is one of the best strategy that will definitely work for you.
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Demi Lovato & Joe Jonas Brave Awkward Interview (VIDEO)
Things got totes awkward between Demi Lovato and Joe Jonas when a reporter brought up their past relationship during a live interview. Oops!
The Jonas Brothers and the 17-year-old Demi were both being interviewed by a local news station in Dallas when the interviewer made the mistake of bringing up Jemi's failed relationship. Luckily, Demi handled the potentially disastrous question with the grace and class of a seasoned professional.
At first Demi joked with the boys and acted surprised when the interviewer mentioned that the two had dated in the past (and one of the guys made what sounded like vomiting noises off camera), but then cleared the air about any rumored tension between herself and the rest of the JoBros:
"I first met them when I was 14 and four years later we are doing our second tour together so we've been through a lot.
Yes, Joe and I did date but we're still friends and we're having a really great time and everyone else is having a really great time too. It hasn't been awkward which is pretty cool."
Demi and the JoBros are currently gearing up for their Camp Rock 2 tour. Demi and Joe dated briefly earlier this year but broke things off in the beginning of summer. The 20-year-old Joe has since been linked to Twilight star Ashley Greene.
Do you think Demi and the boys did a good job of keeping things from getting too awkward? Let us know in the comments below.
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Elsa Marie (Rinn) Sharp, 94, of Lodi, died Oct. 18. She was born Elsa Marie Wegehaupt on Nov. 25, 1918 in Stockton.
Mrs. Sharp graduated from high school and attended University of the Pacific, where she earned her teaching credential. She was a teacher at Leroy Nichols Elementary School in Lodi for 26 years. She was a member of St. Peter's Lutheran Church. She was also a seamstress and enjoyed all kinds of crafts.
She is survived by her daughters, Becky Bertolucci, Cathy Medina and Sally Sharp-Fried; sons, Russell Sharp and Donald Knee; eight grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson.
She was preceded in death by her husbands, Paul Rinn and Tom Sharp.
A service will be held in November at St. Peter's Lutheran Church.
Rocha's All Faith Cremation and Burial is assisting the family with arrangements.


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|Section 1 - Chemical Product
MSDS Name: Papaverine hydrochloride 99% Material Safety Data Sheet
Synonym:6,7-Dimethoxy-1-(3,4-dimethoxybenzyl)-isoquinoline hydrochloride; 6,7,3',4'-Tetramethoxy-1-benzylisoquinoline hydrochloride; 6,7-Dimethoxy-1-veratrylisoquinoline hydrochloride; Isoquinoline, 1-[(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)methyl]-6,7-dimethoxy-, hydr
|Section 2 - COMPOSITION, INFORMATION ON INGREDIENTS
Hazard Symbols: T
Risk Phrases: 25
|Section 3 - HAZARDS IDENTIFICATION
Toxic if swallowed.Light sensitive.Toxic.
Potential Health Effects
May cause eye irritation.
May cause skin irritation.
May cause severe digestive tract irritation with abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Toxic if swallowed. May cause rapid heartbeat and cardiac arrythmias.
May cause respiratory tract irritation.
No information found.
|Section 4 - FIRST AID MEASURES
|Eyes: Immediately flush eyes with plenty of water for at least 15 minutes, occasionally lifting the upper and lower eyelids. Get medical aid immediately.
Get medical aid. Flush skin with plenty of water for at least 15 minutes while removing contaminated clothing and shoes.
Never give anything by mouth to an unconscious person. Get medical aid immediately. Do NOT induce vomiting. If conscious and alert, rinse mouth and drink 2-4 cupfuls of milk or water.
Get medical aid immediately. Remove from exposure and move to fresh air immediately. If breathing is difficult, give oxygen. Do not use mouth-to-mouth resuscitation if victim ingested or inhaled the substance; induce artificial respiration with the aid of a pocket mask equipped with a one-way valve or other proper respiratory medical device.
Notes to Physician:
|Section 5 - FIRE FIGHTING MEASURES
|General Information:
As in any fire, wear a self-contained breathing apparatus in pressure-demand, MSHA/NIOSH (approved or equivalent), and full protective gear. During a fire, irritating and highly toxic gases may be generated by thermal decomposition or combustion.
Extinguishing Media:
In case of fire, use water, dry chemical, chemical foam, or alcohol-resistant foam.
|Section 6 - ACCIDENTAL RELEASE MEASURES
|General Information: Use proper personal protective equipment as indicated in Section 8.
Sweep up, then place into a suitable container for disposal. Avoid generating dusty conditions. Provide ventilation.
|Section 7 - HANDLING and STORAGE
Wash thoroughly after handling. Remove contaminated clothing and wash before reuse. Use with adequate ventilation. Minimize dust generation and accumulation. Avoid contact with eyes, skin, and clothing. Avoid ingestion and inhalation. Store protected from light.
Keep containers tightly closed. Store protected from light. Store in a cool, dry area away from incompatible substances.
|Section 8 - EXPOSURE CONTROLS, PERSONAL PROTECTION
|Engineering Controls:
Facilities storing or utilizing this material should be equipped with an eyewash facility and a safety shower. Use adequate general or local exhaust ventilation to keep airborne concentrations below the permissible exposure limits.
Exposure Limits CAS# 61-25-6: Russia: 0.5 mg/m3 TWA Personal Protective Equipment Eyes: Wear appropriate protective eyeglasses or chemical safety goggles as described by OSHA's eye and face protection regulations in 29 CFR 1910.133 or European Standard EN166.
Wear appropriate protective gloves to prevent skin exposure.
Wear appropriate protective clothing to prevent skin exposure.
A respiratory protection program that meets OSHA's 29 CFR 1910.134 and ANSI Z88.2 requirements or European Standard EN 149 must be followed whenever workplace conditions warrant respirator use.
|Section 9 - PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES
Physical State: Powder
Color: white
Odor: None reported.
pH: 3.3 (2% aq. soln.)
Vapor Pressure: Not available.
Viscosity: Not available.
Boiling Point: Not available.
Freezing/Melting Point: 226 deg C
Autoignition Temperature: Not applicable.
Flash Point: Not applicable.
Explosion Limits, lower: Not available.
Explosion Limits, upper: Not available.
Decomposition Temperature: > 226 deg C
Solubility in water: freely soluble in water
Specific Gravity/Density: Not available.
Molecular Formula: C20H21NO4.HCl
Molecular Weight: 375.85
|Section 10 - STABILITY AND REACTIVITY
|Chemical Stability:
Stable under normal temperatures and pressures. May discolor on exposure to light.
Conditions to Avoid:
Incompatible materials, light, dust generation, excess heat.
Incompatibilities with Other Materials:
Direct light, strong oxidizing agents.
Hazardous Decomposition Products:
Hydrogen chloride, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, nitrogen.
Hazardous Polymerization: Will not occur.
|Section 11 - TOXICOLOGICAL INFORMATION
CAS# 61-25-6: Oral, mouse: LD50 = 130 mg/kg; Oral, rat: LD50 = 68800 ug/kg.
Papaverine hydrochloride - Not listed by ACGIH, IARC, or NTP.
See actual entry in RTECS for complete information.
|Section 12 - ECOLOGICAL INFORMATION
|Section 13 - DISPOSAL CONSIDERATIONS
|Dispose of in a manner consistent with federal, state, and local regulations.
|Section 14 - TRANSPORT INFORMATION
Shipping Name: TOXIC SOLID, ORGANIC, N.O.S.*
Hazard Class: 6.1
UN Number: 2811
Packing Group: III
Shipping Name: TOXIC SOLID, ORGANIC, N.O.S.
Hazard Class: 6.1
UN Number: 2811
Packing Group: III
Shipping Name: TOXIC SOLID, ORGANIC, N.O.S.
Hazard Class: 6.1
UN Number: 2811
Packing group: III
|Section 15 - REGULATORY INFORMATION
European/International Regulations
European Labeling in Accordance with EC Directives
Hazard Symbols: T
Risk Phrases:
R 25 Toxic if swallowed.
Safety Phrases:
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There's an ongoing debate about education in our state: does Arizona rank near the bottom, in the middle or towards the top in terms of academic achievement? A new source of testing data sheds light on the discussion.
Two writers I read frequently read have adopted "it's not so bad" stances. The Arizona Republic's chief education reporter Pat Kossan cited slightly improved dropout and TerraNova exam figures to suggest Arizona could be doing worse, likening Arizona to a C student. Espressopundit.com blogger Greg Patterson points out that Arizona has above the national average SAT scores.
How Arizona can replicate Florida's success: 1. Expand parental options through robust school choice programs. Parental choice creates a decentralized, bottom-up system of accountability of schools to parents that's vital for reform.
2. Grade all schools A, B, C, D or F, according to academic performance and make students receiving two F grades in any four-year period eligible for a school voucher.
Arizona fails to rally community support for school improvement by using vague descriptors such as "Performing" to describe school performance.
3. Curtail social promotion for students not reading in the third grade. Students scoring at the lowest level on the reading portion of the state exam should be required to repeat the third grade with extra reading interventions.
4. Provide alternative teacher certification.
Fifty percent of new Florida teachers come through alternative routes – largely mid-career professionals that test their way into the teaching profession.
5. Reform reading instruction emphasizing phonics-mandatory teacher retraining for grades K-3.
6. Provide a financial incentive for schools and teachers to get students to pass AP exams. The number of Florida Hispanic and African American students passing AP exams has more than tripled since 1998 and the number of Hispanics passing AP exams in Florida is eight times greater than in Arizona.
Goldwater Institute But, Arizona's SAT scores are inflated by the fact that we have among the lowest participation rates in the nation. Only 26 percent of Arizona high school graduates took the SAT in 2008, and only 15 percent took the ACT exam, giving Arizona the lowest combined participation rates in the country.
Arizona has other sources of testing data that seem to offer better news, but none of them can withstand critical scrutiny. AIMS scores are up, but the state has made the test easier and easier to pass, so the results can't really be trusted. As for the TerraNova cited by the Republic, the state created its own version of the test to compare Arizona students to others around the country and inserted this test into the AIMS.
The results of this hybrid test are so completely different, however, from the nation's most respected source of K-12 testing data – the Nation's Report Card exam given to random samples of students in all 50 states – that they fail to pass a sniff test. Unlike the AIMS test, no school ranking or funding is based on the results on the Nation's Report Card, so there is no incentive to teach to the test. Even if a teacher wanted to do so, she couldn't because the tests are kept completely secret.
The Nation's Report Card has shown that Arizona students score below the national average on every test, at every grade level and subject, since the early 1990s. But, the state's AIMS/TerraNova hybrid says that Arizona students score above the national average in every grade and every subject tested.
Recently, an important new source of data came available that might help clear up the confusion. On April 22, 2009 almost 12,000 juniors from eight Arizona districts – Mesa, Flagstaff, Globe, Lake Havasu, Peoria, Phoenix, Round Valley and Window Rock – took the ACT exam. By having essentially all students take the exam, these eight districts were able to much more accurately understand how they compare to other states where all students take the ACT, like Colorado and Illinois.
A delicate way to describe the results would be "mixed" but "occasionally catastrophic" would also be accurate. The highest scoring district, Mesa, did not match the statewide average for either Colorado or Illinois. Most districts were far below these statewide averages. Phoenix Union outscored the Detroit Public Schools, well-known as among the worst in the nation, only by a whisker. Another district fell well below Detroit.
The good news is that we can make Arizona's schools much better, even without spending huge amounts of new money, which the state doesn't have in any case.
In 1998 Florida students scored near the bottom, alongside Arizona, on the Nation's Report Card, but since then has radically improved their performance. Like Arizona, Florida has a majority-minority student population, ranks in the bottom half on spending, and has a large percentage of low-income children.
Despite all of this, in 2007 after years of stunning improvement, Florida's low-income Hispanic students outscored the statewide average for all students in Arizona on the critical Nation's Report Card fourth-grade reading exam. Florida's Hispanic students outscored 15 statewide averages that year, and their African Americans outscored two, and are within striking distance of several others, including Arizona.
Florida's policymakers achieved these results with a multifaceted education reform approach, not with a single magic bullet. Reliable testing, real consequences for school failure, expanded parental choice, alternative teacher certification, reforming reading instruction and curtailing social promotion all played critical roles in improving Florida schools.
With the correct mix of policies, Arizona could enjoy the same level of success. But we first have to admit that we have a serious problem and summon the moral courage required to enact serious reform.
Matthew Ladner is vice president of research at the Goldwater Institute. For more information, visit www.goldwaterinstitute.org.


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Ohanaeze Commends Jonathan over Price Reduction
By Victor Efeizomor
President-General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Mr. Raph Uwechue, has hailed the decision of President Goodluck Jonathan to reduce the pump price of fuel from the current N145 to N97 per litre, saying the action demonstrates the hallmark of a leader who has a listening ears.
Uwechue also called on the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and other Civil Society Organisations to suspend the ongoing strike action, in view of the Federal government decision, in order to mitigate the economic loss occasioning by the civil unrest, so that the country can move forward.
Uwechue, who spoke exclusively to THISDAY Monday in Asaba, said: "What the president has done is commendable, he has shown a spirit of compromise and we think that he has not met the total demands of Labour but he has shifted grounds, so my advice would be that Labour should go back to work while other details would be sorted out if there are more thing they want to be done, but not to continue with the strike which is destroying the economy."
He stated that: "The president does not own the economy, it's the population that owns it, and if you destroy it, it's the population's property you are destroying, not President Goodluck Jonathan private property.
"So we recognise Labour's right to use strike but normally, strike is suppose to be the last resort, you don't start with it, its when nothing else works, we are saying that if government has shifted its ground, our advice is that Labour should also shift it ground especially to resume work while they may continue to discuss further details of the needs."
He described as "heinous crime" the killing of innocent and defenceless people by the Boko Haram sect in some parts of the North and called on the Federal government not only to step up security of lives and property in the country but to also bring to book those found to be behind the atrocious acts.
He further described as "rubbish" the call by Boko Haram sect on Christians, to leave the North , saying the country belongs to all of us, and that Nigeria is a joint venture and as such a Nigerian should be able to leave where he choose to leave.Source: This Day, 17th January 2012.
Ohanaeze cautions on insecurity as northerners flee Enugu, others
A FRESH dimension may have been added to the parlous security situation in the country, as non-indigenes especially from the Northern parts of the country have begun fleeing the South-East in droves.
At Lokpanta on the Enugu-Port-Harcourt highway, Ugwuoba and Artisan village, all in Enugu State occupied by Hausa communities, several lorries were noticed over the weekend being boarded by fleeing northerners with their luggage.
The development came as the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, said yesterday that the recent call ascribed to Boko Haram elements on Christians and southerners to vacate the North had brought the security crisis of the country to a dangerous climax.
The massive movement of northerners from the South-East further heightened fears among the state residents as the issue has become a subject of discussion in various circles.
Although none of the fleeing northerners was ready to speak, the development, however, might not be unconnected with the 14 day ultimatum issued by an Igbo group, the Ogbunigwe Ndigbo, which had last week in a statement urged the non-indigenes to vacate South-East or risk being attacked.
The Guardian also gathered that the relocation of the northerners to their home states was as a result of the directive from Muslims for their members in the South-East to return to the North.
Responding to the threat by the Ogbinigwe Ndigbo, the General Officer Commanding the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Enugu, Maj.- Gen. Sunday Idoko, had restated the readiness of the Army to combat any uprising or reprisal from any group in the South-East.
He had asked residents to go about their normal duties, stressing that such threatening text messages if allowed to continue, could lead to serious breakdown of law and order. He pointed out that security challenges facing them could call for information gathering and sharing among security agencies.
Meanwhile, Ohanaeze Ndigbo in a statement signed by the President General, Ralph Uwaechue, recalled various bombings and killings targeted at Christians and Igbos, explaining that enough was enough.
Ohanaeze said: "When in 2011 the United Nations Building in Abuja was bombed with massive loss of lives, Ohanaeze Ndigbo condemned the dastardly act as they did and many others preceding it and asked the Federation Government to take effective steps to stem the tide.
However, in spite of the government's efforts, the only change has been for worse. "It is now clear that unpatriotic political and religious elements are bent on making our country ungovernable.
"Ohanaeze Ndigbo is convinced that enough is enough and while reiterating its urgent demand on the Federal Government to arrest this dangerous development capable of destroying this nation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo calls on the Moslem leaders of our country to take immediate steps to rein in their hawks to prevent irreparable damage to the delicate ethno-religious harmony that all well-meaning Nigerians are strenuously striving to maintain."Source: The Guardian, 9th January 2012.
New refineries: Ohanaeze condemns exclusion of South-east By PETER ANOSIKE
Ohanaeze Ndigbo has condemned the exclusion of the southeast in the proposed refineries to be established by the federal government.The Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, had told aviation correspondents that government would use the money realized from the removal of oil subsidy to rehabilitate the existing refineries and then build new ones in Bayelsa, Kogi and Lagos states.president of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Lagos State chapter, Chief Oliver Akubueze, said that the exclusion of south-east from the states where the new refineries would be located is not fair.According to him, Southeast should be considered for the location of the refineries, going by the fact that it is also oil producing geo political zone and has the least of federal presence among all the geo-political zones in the country.He urged President Goodluck Jonathan to ensure that the neglect of the southeast, which has been the trademark of successive governments does not continue.Akubueze said that southeast deserves one refinery among other numerous federal presence.His words," It is very disheartening to hear from the Minister of Information Labaran Maku, that how the revenue to be generated from the proposed removal of oil subsidy would be shared has been concluded without a mention of the southeast. I want to say that this is not acceptable to us. The time has gone when Ndigbo are relegated to the background. President Jonathan should make sure that Ndigbo is involved in the scheme of things in the country. What is the basis of selecting Bayelsa, Kogi and Lagos for the location of new refineries while no state in the southeast was selected. For how long would they continue to remind us that we were vanguished? Ndigbo has a very big stake in this country and we urge president Jonathan to make sure that there is equity in the distribution of federal government presence. What is good for the goose is also good for the gander. Nobody is more Nigerian than the other".On the proposed removal of oil subsidy, he advised government to make sure that the interest of the masses is protected in any programme it wants to come up with."The essence of government is the happiness of the greater number of the populace. Based on that, government should make sure that whatever decision it wants to take with regard to the removal of the oil subsidy is mass oriented. We don't want policies that would be in the interest of only a few people. The interest of the majority should always be protected. If government feels that removal of subsidy should be the best for the country then it should go on to convince the masses. For now, I think that it is only the elites that have understood it. Government should take the message of how removal of subsidy would change their lives for the better to the grass roots using the appropriate channels. "he saidSource: Sun, 22nd December 2011.
2015: Igbo'll be President –Uwechue
From EMMANUEL UZOR, Onitsha
Love him or hate him, Ambasador Ralph Uwechue, the President General of Ohaneze Ndi Igbo an apex social cultural group of Igbo extraction is a man who stands by his word. His role during the election of President Goodluck Jonathan elicited many controversies among Igbo race who questioned his interest in electing a man from the South South geopolitical zone of the country instead of supporting the emergence of Igbo man as the President of Nigeria. In this report, EMMANUEL UZOR writes on the true situation of things among Ndi Igbo including the recent marriage between South East and South South ahead of 2015.The true position As the head of Ohaneze Ndigbo, the overall caretaker of Igbo interests worldwide, I am taking the opportunity of the solemnity of this occasion, firstly to nip in the bud, incipient but potentially dangerously divisive controversy involving some political highly placed Igbos vis-a vis the position of Igbo nation on the vexed question of South East Presidency. The stand of the Igbo nation on the issue of South-East Presidency was made abundantly clear in the statement issued by Ohaneze Ndigbo on 15th October 2010, titled presidential election and zoning which stressed inter allia as follows. Ohaneze Ndigbo firmly believes in the reality and absolute equality of the six geo political zones and strongly holds the view that the topmost executive office in the land-Prime Minister or President which has eluded the two geo political zones of South East and South-South since the birth of our nation half a century ago should now go to them in turn of unbroken succession as a mater of national priority, before any other zone can justly claim the right to second or even third turnWhy Ndigbo voted President Jonathan This said it all, the overwhelming Igbo support at the elections last April, was for a hitherto politically deprived South-South zone, with President Goodluck Jonathan, already on seat, as its providential pre-positioned flag bearer. On an issue of such national importance and of special interest to Ndigbo as securing the presidency for the South-East, the Igbo nation expects its politically active sons and daughters, no matter how highly placed to respect and comply with its clearly defined goal, as set out in that statement endorsed by Ohaneze Imeobi and approved by the General Assembly, which met at Enugu on 30th October 2010 and 6th November 2010 respectively.Ethnic plurality Nigeria , with over 300 ethnic and sub ethnic units, brought together by the force of British Imperialism to forge a modern nation, is still in the process of nation building, struggling to blend together and harmonize the various very rich but differing traditions, customs and cultures of people. The recognition of the significance of ethnicity was clear at the birth of an Independent Nigeria in 1960. The larger ethnic units of Hausa/Fulani-Igbo-Yoruba formed the basis of the three regions North-East-West. The conception of the six geopolitical zones is also based, with three zones accorded to the larger ethnic groups, to balance term out, three also to be conglomerate of the smaller ethnic units.The lesson from this structural arrangement is that the ethnic units are recognized and acceptable as veritable building blocks in the on going construction work and nation building process in Nigeria . So in our socio-political economic intercourse, all geo political groups big or small must be allowed free play and equitable access to our country's resources and strategic political command posts, including particularly the presidency. Sustained imbalance in sharing responsibilities and the 'national cake' could conceivably induce those units aggrieved a re-think of the value to them of much vaunted national unity.The marginalization of Ndigbo Today, there is a general feeling within the Igbo nation especially among the young up-coming generation, that as a people, Ndigbo are being deliberately sidelined particularly in the sphere of political leadership of the country. No Igbo person has so far been deemed suitable to be put at the helm of affairs, at the apex management position of Nigeria since Independence in 1960. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigeria 's pioneer titular head of state, took a shot at the real thing-the executive presidency, in 1979 and in 1983. In spite of this nationally acknowledged role as the foremost crusader for our nation's Independence, he scored abysmally in both electoral tests. Dr. Alex Ekwueme fared no better, even as he teamed up with a scion of Northern Oligarchy- Alhaji Shehu Shagari. Their joint ticket under the National Party of Nigeria, (NPN) won presidential slot in the successive elections of 1979 and 1983.Somewhat like today Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the National Party of Nigeria NPN was the dominant party at the time. Securing its presidential candidate's nomination was as good as clinching presidential position. Dr. Ekwueme was poised to replace Shagari at the impending end of his second tenure as the party's presidential flag bearer come next election. He was eminently qualified and was clearly favoured by Shagari himself for the presidential job ahead. He had to be stopped, hence the coup of 31st December 1983 carried out by a tiny crop of ambitious anti-Igbo and anti-Shagari military elements.This event denied Ndigbo, perhaps the largest ethnic group in Nigeria , their federal character chance of producing an executive president and their constitutional right to exercise presidential powers for a possible eight year period of two terms. The callous and contemptuous treatment meted out to Ndigbo is in clear contrast with the compassionate concession, massively supported by Ndigbo, given to Yoruba South-West in 1999 to field the two Olus-Obasanjo and Falae, from three different political parties, the (PDP) and joint ticket of All Peoples Party, (APP) and Alliance for Democracy, (AD) respectively for the universally acknowledged South-West presidential slot missed by their kinsman, Chief M.K.O Abiola in 1993.Source: Sun, 5th December 2011.
Ohanaeze Youths Blame Politicians Over Ezekwelu's Travails At Tribunal
THE Ohanaeze Youth Council has condemned activities of some political leaders in Anambra State, saying they were behind the removal of Tony Ezekwelu of APGA from the state House of Assembly by the election tribunal sitting in Awka.
The Justice Y. A. Adesanya-led tribunal had in a judgment delivered November, 10, 2011 in Awka, declared Ebele Obi of ACN winner in the April election, to represent Idemili South constituency in the state House of Assembly, thereby voiding the earlier announcement of Ezekwelu by INEC.
Reacting to the development in a press statement made available to The Guardian yesterday in Awka, the Secretary General and a member (BOT) Ohanaeze Youth Council, Uzochukwu C, Uzochukwu and Mazi Okwu Okwu respectively condemned what they termed mischievous activities of some politicians in Idemili South constituency, who swore not to see Ezekwelu get into such leadership position.
They viewed appeals from various quarters for active participation of youths in governance at all levels as insincere, arguing that society lacks mechanism that encourages and guarantees political empowerment of youths.
Though they did not mention names, they warned such politicians that Igbo youth would use all arsenals within their disposition to protect their mandate.
The group declared that the election in which INEC announced Ezekwelu winner was peaceful, fair and credible, regretting that efforts were being made to frustrate the APGA candidate out of the system.Source: The Guardian, 20th November 2011.
2015: Igbo on the march again
By Augustine AVWODE
Even though 2015 is still 42 and a half months away, the quest of a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction is already gathering steam. The fire was stoked recently when the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex pan-Igbo cultural and socio-political group, in conjunction with the Igbo World Congress (IWC) held the Igbo Day celebrations in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, between September 26 and 28, 2011.
Not unexpectedly, the event, boasting of the presence of notable Igbo sons and daughters at home and abroad, turned out to be a forum for the examination of the possibility of the emergence of an Igbo as president in 2015.
Though many people have argued to the contrary, the Igbo, one of the major tripodal ethnic groups upon which Nigeria stands, has only had a shot at the highest political office in Nigeria since independence, for barely six months, January to July 1966, under the late Major General J.T. U. Aguiyi-Ironsi, a purely military regime.
Those who disagree, however, claimed that the late Nnamdi Azikiwe, an Igbo, was Nigeria's first president. Ever since then, the Igbo have been sidelined. Apart from these two, the most the Igbo have risen politically ever since then has been the office of the Vice President to which Dr. Alex Ekwueme was elected during the administration of Alhaji Shehu Shagari during the second republic from 1979 to 1983.
The second of its type was Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe when he was appointed the Chief of General Staff, and, therefore, the second in command during the early part of General Ibrahim Babangida's administration. However, it was not for a long time.
At the Abakaliki event, Senator Uche Chukwumerije, (PDP Abia North), who headed the propaganda desk during the Biafra war and later held sway as Secretary of Information (Minister) of the Federation, passionately canvassed a path that he believed would ensure the realisation of presidency for the Igbo.In a lecture he delivered titled "Wake up call: Path to Igbo self – Realisation", Senator Chukwumerije posited that other major ethnic groups were able to make it because they took a rather unorthodox route to the presidency.
According to him: "It was the Niger Delta militancy that ensured that President Goodluck Jonathan became President of Nigeria, while the Boko Haram sect is being used by the North to achieve its presidency bid in 2015," he said.
He also argued that the Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, used the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, to achieve the presidency 12 years ago. "The Igbo should, therefore, incorporate the MASSOB into its system to ensure that an Igbo emerges as President of Nigeria," he argued.
Yet, he acknowledged, even tacitly, the daunting challenge realising this dream poses. He stated that: "The dialectal pendulum of Nigeria's power politics may swing the presidency to our side sooner or later, but such opportunities can only come if we unite as a group. My submission is that the Ohanaeze Ndigbo should take up its fatherly duty of devising means of constructive engagements with our youths to achieve this ultimate objective. As members of one large family, we must stop behaving like the proverbial victim of a bee sting who flees at a mere hum of a house fly."
And with all the emphasis at his disposal, he submitted that "Igbo nation must produce the Presidency in 2015 and all hands must be on deck to achieve this noble task. To implement this, a 20-man committee should be constituted, including the five Eastern governors, to look into the challenge of getting Igbo presidency in 2015."That was in September and less than two months after that declaration to the admiration of many youth groups in the South East geo-political zone, another reputable voice upped the ante last week.
Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife, one-time governor of Anambra State and erstwhile Political Adviser to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, declared in an interview he granted to newsmen that only Igbo can stop an Igbo from becoming president in 2015. A statement many think is heavily pregnant. It is at once a veiled threat to those who may be working on other alternatives as well as a clarion call to Igbo to unite, knowing full well that the issue of forging a united front has always been the major political Achilles heels for the Igbo in this regard.
According to him, realising the Igbo presidency dream "depends on every Igboman. Nobody from outside Igboland can take away the presidency from us in 2015, if we truly want it because we are comprehensively justified to fight for it. The God of justice must be with us. By the time Jonathan finishes his tenure, every zone should have supplied Nigeria with a president for at least five years, except the South East".
Referring to the Gen Ironsi administration that was followed by a tragic 30-month war, Ezeife said: "What we had was a coup that lasted for six months and two million people buried with it. God knows about it, Nigerians know about it. Therefore, when I was the chairman of power sharing committee of the national political reform conference, the members of the committee agreed that there should be rotation by geopolitical zones for presidency. Since every zone has had it, except the South East, what reason can anybody give for the Igboman not to fight for it?", was his question.
He made it clear that the Igbo would view a denial to produce the president in 2015 seriously. In his words "By virtue of rotation, we should demand and get the presidency. Refusing it, to us, means refusing us membership of Nigeria, and that is when they will play into the hands of those agitating for Biafra. For us advocating for one Nigeria, we are gradually finding it harder to continue our advocacy, if there is persistency in injustice and unfairness".Payback timeMore than anything else, some Igbo leaders think that apart from the demand of fairness and justice, it is only proper to expect some reciprocal behaviour. During last year's tussle for the presidency, a section of the South East, especially the elderly ones and the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, categorically threw their weight behind President Jonathan with the understanding that in 2015, he would support the zone to produce the president. In equal measure, the Igbo Political Forum (IPC), described as young political turks from the zone, threw its weight behind the North and was ready to back whoever emerged as the consensus candidate from the North on the understanding that in 2015, the South East would be supported to produce the next president. In the ensuing political clash, President Jonathan prevailed. Divided house The events that culminated in the emergence of President Jonathan as the presidential flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in December 2010 clearly suggest that as a zone, the South East and as a people, the Igbo, still have a lot of home work to do in the art of forging a united front and speaking with a common voice.Ezeife narrated a moving drama that graphically illustrated this. Hear him: "I was the chairman of a think-tank formed by Senator Pius Anyim and myself, whose aim was to talk to the North and South-South, collect their aspirations, go to Owerri to talk to our people and get their mandate. Before then, the North had already invited us. We had been Vice to them already, and if they were ready to support us, we were ready to talk about it.
"We agreed before we left for Yar'Adua Centre that fateful August that the discussions would be preliminary and exploratory. In no way, were we going to issue a communiqué or make commitments to anybody. Along the line, some of our delegates started taking the position of the North. I was flabbergasted; I wanted to challenge things, but discovered that some people were pre-lobbied before we came.
"They started lobbying for Vice-Presidency, and barely one week after that meeting, names of people appeared as members of the Babangida campaign group. Our own chairman even gave way to the Northern chairman. No Igboman with any sense of history will prefer at that stage to support the North instead of the South-South. But, unfortunately, this communiqué was published, supporting the North. Some people quoted me as saying it was a political ambush. Those who knew my politics were shocked, and called me. I had to tell them the truth.
"So, at the Igbo summit in Enugu chaired by Mbazulike Amaechi, six days after, we endorsed Jonathan unconditionally. We did this in order to give our people a clear sign of where we were going. Gradually, all Igbo abandoned the position of the pre-Northerners and we dumped all our eggs in Jonathan's basket".The fact is that long before now, and given the developments that took place in 2007, the South East has all along been eyeing 2015. That was before the untimely death of the late President Umaru Yar'Adua. His demise paved the way for what some people called "divine zoning".
The South East region was, therefore, content with play the "beautiful bride" or if you like being the "king maker," while making it clear that 2015 would be its own turn. It was little wonder, therefore, that all the presidential aspirants, particularly those of the PDP, courted the zone with all the attention it deserved.
This was reinforced by the suggestion that in 2015 the South East in the light of the party's zoning arrangement, would produce the president and that Jonathan's participation in the primaries was not because the party had jettisoned the zoning arrangement, but because of his constitutionally provided right to contest as a sitting president.
And while the Ohanaeze and other political stalwarts backed Jonathan, ahead of the 2011 elections, the Igbo Political Forum, IPF, (a group of Igbo elders that insists on zoning) weeks later, met in Enugu State, with the campaign directors of the four northern presidential candidates under the PDP and declared that they would support whoever emerged as the consensus candidate from the North. The candidates included former military president, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, rtd; former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar; former National Security Adviser, Gen. Aliyu Gusau, rtd; and former Governor of Kwara State, Bukola Saraki.
In explaining the position of the Igbo, Ohaneze's president-general, Ambassador Ralph Uwechue, had argued that Jonathan had done more for the Igbo than anybody else to deserve their support, but importantly for him to support them in 2015: "Jonathan comes from the South-South, and Nigeria has six zones; and that if we reinforce the importance of the zones, other things would follow. And we insisted that the positions in the country should rotate among the six zones.
"Also, those we consulted told us that they had been watching what Jonathan has done since he took over, that action speaks louder than words. They said that since the late General Aguiyi Ironsi was killed in Ibadan that an Igbo is now the head of the Nigerian army, and it was Jonathan who did it. They also said that for 50 years, Ndigbo have been asking why the Enugu airport has not been given the full international status. The people who have suddenly discovered that they are lovers of Ndigbo, feeding the public with false pretence, ignored the Enugu airport because making it an international airport would boost Igbo economic activities and save our people from travelling to Lagos and Abuja before flying out of the country. Jonathan has done it for us.
"For the first time in the history of Nigeria, an Igboman has been appointed Minister of Internal Affairs. This is an important ministry. When Senator Ike Nwachukwu was the Foreign Minister, when he was to be appointed Minister of Internal Affairs, it was changed overnight. They didn't trust an Igbo man enough to head that ministry; they didn't want an Igbo man to be in charge of security. That was how Ike Nwachukwu became Foreign Minister twice.
"Talking about zoning, there are six zones in Nigeria, one has seven states, four have six states each, and only the Igbo South-East has five states. But some people say Nigeria is zoned between the North and South. That is not true. We must correct that wrong impression. We have six zones, and that was why the late Yar'Adua was president and Senator David Mark, also from the North is the president of the Senate. It means that in 2007, until Yar'Adua died, the North was completely in control of Nigeria politically with the two important political offices in the country, president of the country and the president of the Senate as were occupied by them."
On the part of the IPF, it advanced that the South-East had agreed with the North over 2015. After the meeting in Enugu, former Minister of Health, Prof ABC Nwosu, said: "There are five points of disagreement. The first is that the meeting between the IPF and Northern Elders was a public meeting and the agreements have been widely publicized with the list of those in attendance. The Ohanaeze fangled argument on rotation to the South-East does not exist anywhere except in their imagination. If they reached an agreement with the INC, let them make it public.
"The second difference is that the Igbo presidency 2015 proposed by the IPF is predicated on a four-year completion tenure by the North of the presidency to terminate in 2015. The northern presidential candidates have gone public on this and IBB, at his declaration of interest, said he would do only four years, "So help me God." President Jonathan, who declared three days later, kept silent on the matter of tenure and has remained silent on it ever since; and his campaign handlers have remained silent too. People like me would want the president-general of Ohanaeze to say something on tenure before he says anything on Igbo presidency in 2015, because the two are closely linked".
This is the type of internal disagreement which many fear could once again wreak havoc on the esteemed ambition of the Igbo as a nation and South East as a zone. Zoning policy and Igbo's ambition But while some people are of the view that internal disagreement may pose a problem to the 2015 bid, others also hold that the zoning arrangement in the PDP, being the dominant party, may also abort the dream.
The PDP zoning arrangement is such that while some people claim that it is between the North and the South, others say it should strictly be among the six geo-political zones. And whereas the South West has produced the president for two terms totalling eight years, the South-South currently has President Jonathan who had completed one year left of the late Yar'Adua tenure before beginning his own afresh on May 29, 2011. By the time he completes his tenure in 2015, assuming he does just only one tenure, he would have grossed five years and the total, to those who sees zoning only in the light of South and North, would be 13 years while the North would have only the three years of the late Yar'Adua.
Whether such people would allow the presidency go to the South East, therefore, remains a critical factor. It must not be forgotten that the same set of people made it almost impossible for Jonathan to emerge as they claimed that the North still had five more years to complete the turn which Yar'Adua started. The fact that they lost the battle in 2011 means that they may not want to play the second fiddle in again in 2015.
Herein lies the import of the Igbo quest for the presidency in 2015. It certainly will be a titanic political tussle, yet if the Igbo would not divide their ranks, and remain resolute in their determination, knowing that the late Gen Ironsi, the last Igbo man to sit on the number one seat, did that 44 years ago as at today, and that it will be 48 years by 2015, they could still realise the dream.Source: The Nation, 12th November 2011.
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Dr. Ikedife's HAND OVER SPEECH
Group Politics Editor of Independent Newspapers Limited (INL), Sunny Igboanugo; and distinguished Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mike Ahamba; were among eminent Igbo men who were awarded certificates of recognition by the pan Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo for their contributions to the cause of the Igbo nation. Others who were recognised include Chief Enechi Onyia (SAN), Sir Chris Okoye, Prof. Ben Obumselu,Prince( Engr.) Ralph Ndigwe and newly- inaugurated Secretary General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nduka Eya. Outgoing President General of Ohanaeze, Dr. Dozie Ikedife, presented certificates to these personalities at the weekend during the handing over ceremony of Ohanaeze Ndigbo at Awka, Anambra State.Delivering his valedictory address titled 'The Ethnic Group and the Nation', Ikedife thanked the entire Ndigbo for electing him to the high office and supporting him whole-heartedly during the difficult years of his tenure.In the address that contained some parting words to his successor, Ambassador Ralph Uwaechue, he noted that the presidency of Ohanaeze is ideally a full-time job, though people do not appreciate fully what it entails presiding at Imeobi (inner caucus) meetings, National Executive Committee meetings and several other committee meetings.The Igbo patriot recalled that the last two years under his reign were exceptionally difficult characterised by problems, some of which arose from the way the 2003 election was conducted.According to him, in some South East states, the people knew which parties won election but did not know who their candidates were while the Houses of Assembly were torn by factional conflicts between Abuja men and local men.Also recalling that the tenure of the Governors was always in danger, Ikedife noted that Senate presidents of Igbo extraction were also liable to step on banana peels, all being manoeuvrings of the imperial presidency in Abuja which wanted to take personal control of politics in Igboland.Pointing out that Ohanaeze believes in justice and equity in the country, he demanded that there should be parity of states among the geo-political zones and that South East gets a sixth state to bring it at par with other zones that have at least six states each, though one has seven.Ikedife regretted that Nigeria became a federation only in name but a unitary state in reality, where economically, it narrowed the perspective of government from many development issues which regional issues used to address to petroleum only."Ohanaeze Ndigbo is convinced that the Nigerian economy will not be diversified until the constitution is reviewed to provide for six or eight federating units," he said.
Tony Otoiheoma EgbeAsst. Deputy Secretary GeneralIWA Media & Publicity Institute.
CHAMPION NEWSPAPERNdigbo: Today and tomorrowPublished on 11 October 2010
"The Oha-Na-Eze Ndigbo is a successor to the Igbo State Union which was banned in May 1966 by the military regime of General J. T. U. Aguiyi-Ironsi. Also all political parties, tribal, cultural and social organizations were banned. After the ban, there was a vacuum. No other organization as powerful as the Igbo State Union could represent and speak for the Igbo.
The history of the pan-Igbo organisation go back to the early 1930s when some Igbo in Lagos formed the Lagos Igbo Union in order to organize a reception for Dr. Akanu Ibiam, the second Igbo medical doctor who had newly returned from Britain where he had qualified. The union brought together several towns, clans, and divisional organizations and became a voice for Igbo and its objectives were mainly for the welfare of the Igbo in Lagos
In December 1948 a pan-Igbo conference was held at Port Harcourt "to organize the Igbo linguistic group into a political unit". At the conference a new Igbo union called Igbo State Union was inaugurated. The membership was opened to all towns and clans in Igboland. The founders of the new union had anticipated that Nigeria would be re-arranged into states based on cultural and linguistic affinity, and Igbo State would be a member of the Commonwealth of Nigeria.
This certainly was the idea Nnamdi Azikiwe had advocated in his book, Political Blueprint of Nigeria published 1943. At the conference Azikiwe was elected president of the Igbo State Union. He did not stay long in the post and resigned. The reason was that his national view of a Nigerian leader conflicted with his leadership of a tribal organization.
Dr. Azikiwe was succeeded by a dynamic, venerated, honest and outspoken businessman, Chief Z. C. Obi as the new president of the Igbo State Union.The union tried to be neutral in politics, though its members could be involved in politics."C. DE AGUOMBA"
The Igbo a few days ago celebrated their national day all over Nigeria. This year's celebration was hosted by Abia State, and Umuahia, the State capital witnessed a conglomeration of Igbo dignitaries C monarchs, chiefs, titled gentlemen, youth leaders, women associations and all and sundry.
The national day celebration was originated by the Oha-Na-Eze Ndigbo headed by Ambassador Ralph Uwechue. The Oha-Na-Eze is the supreme body of the Igbo people. It is the heart and soul of Igboland and its decisions which are democratically arrived at, are virtually binding, though there is no imposition of its will on anybody. The Oha-Na-Eze Ndigbo affirms the Igbo principles of equity, justice and fair-play, equal assess to opportunity and fair-hearing in the resolution of all matters.
The Oha-Na-Eze Ndigbo believes in the government that is democratically-oriented and allows equal opportunities to all, and is accountable to the people. While the organization is concerned with socio-economic problems as they affect Ndigbo, it does not turn a blind eye to political decisions that give rise to inequity, gross injustice and the abuse of the rule of law.
The Oha-Na-Eze Ndigbo stresses that if the Nigerian society is free and fair to all citizens, irrespective of ethnic origin, the Igbo considering his adventurous spirit, determination, courage, confidence and freedom will work for the general good of all.
The Igbo culture praises the value of individual achievement, yet the Igbo are known for their cooperative propensities as well, attested by their eagerness for community development. And in all Igbo towns and villages there are town unions, clan unions and divisional unions, all aimed at development. It is an unholy act for an Igbo who had made a success in his business or profession and has become wealthy to turn his back and stay aloof without making a worthy contribution towards the development of his town. Igbo are generally very patriotic as far as community contributions are concerned.
They are indeed generous and are open-minded. And it is this attitude that made them to be exceptionally receptive to new ideas and change.
The Oha-Na-Eze Ndigbo is a successor to the Igbo State Union which was banned in May 1966 by the military regime of General J. T. U. Aguiyi-Ironsi. Also all political parties, tribal, cultural and social organizations were banned.
After the ban, there was a vacuum. No other organization as powerful as the Igbo State Union could represent and speak for the Igbo.
The history of the pan-Igbo organisation go back to the early 1930s when some Igbo in Lagos formed the Lagos Igbo Union in order to organize a reception for Dr. Akanu Ibiam, the second Igbo medical doctor who had newly returned from Britain where he had qualified. The union brought together several towns, clans, and divisional organizations and became a voice for Igbo and its objectives were mainly for the welfare of the Igbo in Lagos.
When Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe returned to Nigeria in 1937 and established his newspaper, The West African Pilot in Lagos, the Igbo Union began to gain momentum. Azikiwe gave the union enormous support. By 1943 it changed its name to Igbo Federal Union and began to expand to all the regions and strong branches were established.
The union brought Igbo together and infused them with the consciousness of being Igbo and to always think of the development and progress of their homeland, and also contributing to the good of their host communities.
This certainly was the idea Nnamdi Azikiwe had advocated in his book, Political Blueprint of Nigeria
published 1943. At the conference Azikiwe was elected president of the Igbo State Union. He did not stay long in the post and resigned. The reason was that his national view of a Nigerian leader conflicted with his leadership of a tribal organization.
Dr. Azikiwe was succeeded by a dynamic, venerated, honest and outspoken businessman, Chief Z. C. Obi as the new president of the Igbo State Union.
The union tried to be neutral in politics, though its members could be involved in politics.
But in the early 1950s when there was a serious inter-tribal rivalry between the Yoruba and Igbo in Lagos led by their leader unions, the Egbe Omo Oduduwa and the Igbo State Union, the Igbo showed that they can be united in the face of any challenge to their race. The quarrel between the two peoples was later resolved amicably.
In the struggle for national unity and independence the Igbo were the most vocal and patriotic Nigerians. But it was paradoxical that the people in the forefront of Nigerian unity and independence turned round to want secession and their own independence from Nigeria. The reason was that they experienced injustice, inequity, unfair-play and destruction of their lives and property by other Nigerians. Their horrendous and tragic experience before and during the civil war made some psychological impact on the Igbo. They emerged from the war hopeless, impoverished, traumatized, but not spiritually defeated. Like the phoenix, the Igbo have risen again., Forty years after the civil war, the Igbo voice is loud, the Igbo asserts himself and works towards the progress of Nigeria. He has not allowed bitterness, hatred and jealousy to becloud his view of the world. He looks straight to the future with confidence, courage, enthusiasm and love. The Igbo has the sacred philosophy of live and let live and give and take.
Before the civil war, neighours of the Igbo homeland had worried and feared the specter of Igbo domination and oppression which was non-existent. Today, everybody has realized that the Igbo is most friendly, accommodating, forgiving and helpful. He is guided by principle of live and let live.
The Igbo population today is well over 45 million in the various states that they live. The Igbo is a democrat and vehemently abhors despotism and autocracy. It is because under any autocratic rule his freedom is restricted and his potentials are not given free rein.
The Igbo of today under the Oha-Na-Eze Ndigbo believes in a vibrant, virile and democratic Nigeria where his success as a citizen lies. He believes that tomorrow will be better than today and the Igbo nation will rise again. His star will shine more in the firmament that is Nigeria.By C.de Aguomba


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Israeli Nationalists Urge Bar Refaeli To Ditch Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo DiCaprio and his gorgeous Israeli supermodel girlfriend Bar Refaeli have apparently gotten too close for an Israeli organization called Lehava. In Hebrew Lehava means "flame" and is the Hebrew acronym for "Preventing Assimilation in the Holy Land." Basically, it "assists" Jewish girls to get out of relationships with non-Jews. The organization wrote Refaeli a letter and sent it to her mother. It said, "It is not by chance that you were born Jewish. Your grandmother and her grandmother did not dream that one of their descendants would one day remove the family's future generations from the Jewish people. Assimilation has forever been one of the enemies of the Jewish people." Oy gevalt. They also added a "no offense" to Leo clause, as this "has nothing against Mr. DiCaprio, who I have no doubt is a talented actor." I guess you can't blame them for trying, but you can't stop love, especially when it's for Leo DiCaprio. Why don't they tell her to convert the guy and start an ultra race of sexy Israeli ex-pats? And haven't we seen what happens when people try to keep their race "pure"? Nothing good, that's what. [L.A. Times]


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Siliguri, Feb. 6: Two persons were arrested last night in connection with the murder of four alleged cattle rustlers at Balaram in Ambari.
Shahidul Mohammad and Lutfar Rehman were remanded in police custody for nine days by the chief judicial magistrates court in Jalpaiguri today. Mohammad is a resident of Bhandarigach, a village adjacent to Balaram, while Rehman is from Rajganj.
While two charred bodies had been spotted in a car that was gutted, the others were found dead 100-150m away at Balaram on February 2 morning. The burnt body of a cow was also found in the car near the India-Bangladesh border.
The police arrested Nanu Mohammad on Tuesday in connection with the incident.
We were conducting raids and could arrest two more persons last night. Both of them were involved in the case. We will interrogate them to obtain more information, said S. Rajkumar, the additional commissioner of police, Siliguri (east).


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It is remarkably easy to make your own chicken stock. Marlene uses the Ball Blue Book as a guide for making her stock. It starts, of course, with a stock pot full of backs and necks:
Marlene fills the pot with enough water to cover the meat. Then she puts in coarsely chopped celery and onion. She adds maybe a tablespoon of salt, along with a teaspoon or so of black peppercorns. The Ball Blue Book recommends bay leaves too.
Bring the pot to a boil and let it simmer for two hours or more, until the meat is tender. Here's what it looks like while it's simmering:
We pour the cooked mixture into a colander over another, smaller stock pot in the kitchen sink. The stock goes through the colander. The meat doesn't.
And that gives us a pot of golden-colored broth...
Here's what the Blue Book says to do next:
"Allow stock to cool until fat solidifies; skim off fat. Bring stock to boil. Ladle hot stock into hot jars, leaving 1" headspace. Adjust two-piece caps. Process pints 20 minutes, quarts 25 minutes, at 10 pounds pressure in a steam pressure canner."
Marlene doesn't usually let the stock cool down until the fat solidifies. She lets it cool down a bit, the fat rises to the top, and she skims most of it off. Here are some of the finished jars just out of the canner...


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A Charming Life
The charms offered on the Wynwoods Gallery and Studio website contain all the love, joy and enthusiasm of their designer, Lois Venarchick. ( me! )
An artist since childhood and educated in the fine arts of painting, drawing and printmaking, I still paint, knit, write and compose a universe of thought and love into little pieces of art to wear. I began designing charms in the early 1990's when after working on a big painting, I realized that I wanted to wear the images contained in the artwork. Images that spoke to me of love, life, family, hope, dreams, friendship and all that glitters and sparkles in the sunlight of our souls.
With the images from that long ago painting, I created my first series of charms and I still get my best inspiration from my drawings and paintings.
Thanks, Lois


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Past Reviews
Off Broadway Reviews
Judging by this play, Busch is currently mired somewhere between stories one and two. While he might have some worthwhile things to say about parents and children, he spends far too much time stating and restating them to ever actually communicate anything. Of the four stories that collide here like a four-car freeway pileup, none merits even so much as momentary rubbernecking.
That Busch, the reigning monarch of elegant Off-Broadway camp, could derive such dreariness from such a potentially juicy subject as Hollywood's obsession with treacly family topics shoehorned into any genre is as unfortunate as it is unexpected. When he wants to, Busch can absorb and exude raw and honest - if oversize - maternalism; he demonstrated this as recently as late 2007 with a revival of his female-empowerment spoof Die Mommie Die!.
He does, however, need both a point and the wisdom to not make it 20 times if once will suffice; he displays neither with The Third Story. Instead, he conjures up an Omaha house in 1949 to serve as the epicenter for a quartet of woozy flights of fancy, three of which two faded writers design to return themselves to prominence. The son, Drew (Jonathan Walker), is brilliant but unambitious; he's given up on women and writing, and is content to live out his life as a postman. His maybe-blacklisted mother, Peg (Kathleen Turner), however, insists he get back on as many horses as possible, if only so she'll be able to come along for a ride.
With critical plot threads (frequently involving parental dissatisfaction and mistaken identity) appearing over and over, any two of these stories might have made a complete play by themselves. But Drew and Peg rehashing their rivalries and expiating their stressors three times over is simply overkill in a play with so little on its mind. Because Drew and Peg have little substance outside their creations, and because their characters must all share the stage with each other, the overall effect is one of reading single pages at random from a half-dozen different books.
So even when Drew and Peg's relationship becomes the evening's dramatic anchor, the play is never moving. And because, unlike much of Busch's frothier work, the characters aren't developed past the storyboard stage, the play is almost never funny. Busch's unblinking, camera-fellating takes are, as always, good for a chuckle or two, especially when kitted up as the mafia matron; and Van Dyck fashions a vivid comic caricature of her eerily sexy scientist, especially sinking her claws into a howlingly pulpy speech explaining both her fear of children and her own unnatural experience with twins. Everyone else comes across more eggy than they do hard-boiled.
This includes Turner, who brings an appropriate mannishness to her emasculating role, but with her slurred speech and pensive-to-the-point-of-forgetful line readings seems to be gearing up for a revival of her 2005 revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. As Peg, she never radiates gossip-drenched Old Hollywood; but she's more convincing than she is as Constance's cohort and confidante, Dr. Rutenspitz, created only (and barely) by a pair of thick classes and a German accent approximate enough to fail slicing through sauerkraut.
Part of the problem is director Carl Andress, who shows more flair in setting up individual "shots" than he does in editing them into a complete picture of mother-and-child pairing, let alone four. But the real troublemaker is Busch, who in giving Andress too much has in effect given him nothing. Matters don't improve even in the final moments, when Peg and Drew's various climactic revelations come as a surprise less because of their emotional content than because they're supported by so little. Busch may see in all his fairy tales here analogues for the troubled interactions between the generations, but any parallels come across only as functions of a play that is itself too flighty to ever mature properly.
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Just over a year ago, the Book Tower was vacant and its then current owner was behind on utility payments. So far, in fact, that electrical and water utilities had been disconnected.
A lot can change in a year.
In August 2009, the building was purchased by Key Investment Group (located in Clinton Township, Michigan) who recently announced plans to transform the tower and building. In know as recently as two weeks ago, general contractors were in the building, scoping some preliminary plans. I'm still waiting for my photos :).
The Detroit News Reports:
The Book will house 260 rental residences, and three floors of retail and office space. The entire project will be built with strict attention to sustainability: green or reflective roofs, and geothermal heating and cooling, in collaboration with DTE Energy. The goal is to achieve a LEED Gold designation. LEED is a voluntary, green building rating system developed by the U.S. Green Building Council for constructing high-performance, sustainable buildings.
Link to article (until the Detroit News archives it…)
Construction is expected to start in Summer 2010 and take three years. The first residential units will become available in Summer 2011.
This is good news. Let's hope the renovation moves forward as planned. You can read more about the Book Tower by checking out the related articles below.