text: BANNU - The ongoing military operation may be making headway in clearing militant hideouts, but it has shattered the dream of one father of 36 children - to take a fourth wife.Gulzar Khan is one of hundreds of thousands of people who have fled the North Waziristan tribal area since the army moved in to clear longstanding bases of Taliban and other militants.Escaping the military advance meant leaving the 35-room house he shares in the North Waziristan village of Shawa with around 100 family members, including wives, children and grandchildren.The 54-year-old grumbled that paying to transport his brood used up the cash he had set aside for his fourth marriage."The money I had saved was consumed in relocating my family from Shawa to Bannu and now I have again started saving and waiting for the operation to conclude," he told AFP.Islamic permits men to take up to four wives and in Fata large families are the norm.But after giving birth to a dozen children each, Khan said, his wives had told him enough was enough."I was planning to have a fourth marriage because now my wives have boycotted me and told me 'no more children'," Khan said."They do not allow me to go near them, but I have desires I want to fulfil."Khan was 17 years old when he married his 14-year-old cousin in Shawa. They had eight daughters and four sons, but after eight years, the amorous tribesman got married again, to a 17-year-old."I was not satisfied and needed more of it - I mean the love-making," Khan told AFP at his 17-room house in Bannu, where the bulk of people displaced by the military operation have taken refuge."I do not indulge in adultery and sinful acts so I satisfy my natural desires lawfully by marriage," said Khan, who worked as a taxi driver in Dubai from 1976 to 1992. Khan's third wedding came when he married his brother's widow when he was killed in a dispute just a month after tying the knot himself.Two of his sons now work as drivers in Dubai and the money they send home helps support the extended family, along with income from Khan's farmland in Bannu and Shawa."My sons send up to 50,000 rupees ($500) every month from Dubai and we make ends meet with this money," Khan added. He said there were no disputes between his three wives, all living under the same roof, but he admitted he struggled to remember who was who's mother."I can tell you that he or she is my child, but I cannot tell with all of them who is his or her mother," Khan said.As tribal custom forbids women from speaking to men outside their family, AFP's reporter was unable to seek the views of Khan's wives on the matter.Khan said he had no problem feeding and clothing his family, but with so many people around, there was little privacy."Often there are two to three kids lying around me when I go to sleep, so it's difficult to have a private moment with my wives," Khan said."I had a heart attack 12 years ago and also have an ulcer, and my doctor had advised me to stay happy," Khan told AFP."I am happy only when I perform my conjugal rights." Pakistan's 180 million-strong population is growing by more than two percent a year, according to the United Nations Population Fund, which said in late 2012 that a third of Pakistanis have no access to birth control.Some observers have warned that unless more is done to slow the growth, the country's natural resources - particularly water - will not be enough to support the population.But Khan's 14-year-old son Ghufran has no such fears."God willing I will also have several marriages and produce even more kids than my father," he told AFP.This news was published in The Nation newspaper. Read complete newspaper of 18-Jul-2014 here.


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Equally of course there is lawn tennis, and plenty of it close at hand.
I assure you my dressmakers are as fond of lawn tennis as the students of Newnham.
And lawn tennis had not been yet invented, croquet even was but in the mild fervour of its first existence.
No, we set no store of hope on being a sixty-year-old prodigy at lawn tennis.
An English outdoor game similar to lawn tennis but played with shuttlecocks.
lawn tennis seems to suffer in this respect more than most games.
There is a Mr. Ponsonby here, and he and I can beat any other couple at lawn tennis.
A game of lawn tennis in which the hand is used in place of a racket.
One of the numerous court games similar to lawn tennis that is now finding public favour, but played in a semi-indoor court.
Also, the racquet and ball are akin to lawn tennis equipment.

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A weird marine creature that lived 500 million years ago at a time of explosive growth in Earth's biodiversity could be a forerunner of worms and molluscs, a study published on Thursday said.
Palaeontologists in China and Europe have taken a second look at fossils of a species called Cotyledion tylodes -- a small animal that, when it was identified in 1999, was at first thought to be a cnidarian, or part of a group of jellyfish-like species.
C. tylodes had a goblet-shaped body between eight and 56 millimetres (0.3 to 2.2 inches) long, with a cup-shaped upper part and lower cylindrical stalk.
On the upper part, the creature's mouth lay adjacent to its anus, with the two organs connected by a U-shaped gut and encircled by a "crown" of foldable tentacles, the scientists found.
The peculiar anatomy means that C. tylodes is most probably an entoproct, meaning an organism that strains sea water to filter out suspended food particles.
If so, its place in the family tree is wrong, says the study. It is likely to be a primitive lophotrochozoan, a branch that today includes worms and shellfish.
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Imagine the stately bird, the blue heron, in the marshes along Lake Erie. When standing on one leg in the water, the bird is visible to the careful observer, yet their large wingspan makes them majestic flyers. This piece calls for a moderate tempo. After the short introduction, the next 16 measures are played piano, mezzo forte and forte. This is followed by two versions with variations. All players get to play the melody and bowings and dynamics make the music more interesting for the audience and performers as the piece comes to a loud ending.
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The Singapore Polytechnic maintains robust, relevant and innovative curricula that meet students and industry stakeholder requirements and expectations: It designs and develops new course offerings, regularly updates the curricula of existing courses and phases out courses that are losing relevance to the Singapore industry.
To ensure a robust curriculum, each full-time diploma course is structured to include not only course-specific modules but also general elective modules and institutional modules such as Character Development, Critical Reasoning Skills, IDEA and the ITP/Internship Programme.
Each school is supported by an advisory committee, which advises the school on trends, developments and the needs of the industry as well as on appropriate changes to the curriculum.
Each school in turn is also supported by the Department of Educational Development, which helps schools to implement educational initiatives and also to enhance the professional development of all staff.
Responsive and innovative teaching processes that recognise a diversity of learning needs and styles are also put in place at Singapore Polytechnic to meet the changing needs of students.
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Jason Sudeikis and Owen Wilson have gotten funny with a lot of other people for many years. The new movie "Hall Pass," though, marks the first time that they've tried to make laughs with each other.
Directed by Bobby and Peter Farrelly, who broke movie taste barriers back in the day with "Dumb and Dumber" and "There's Something About Mary," it's the tale of two horndogs-in-their-heads whose wives give them a week off from marriage to get it out of their systems.
We asked the actors how their comedy styles meshed to portray the inept pair of wingmen.
"Well, I'm much younger," cracked Sudeikis, 35.
"This was the first time either of us have worked for the Farrelly brothers, so that was a factor," Wilson, 42, noted. "I think what usually happens is that you seek common ground. From the first day, the stuff that Jason was coming up with was making me laugh and was giving me ideas. That's always the best way to work, if somebody energizes you to come up with stuff."
"When somebody listens and laughs, you're always in better shape than when you're with those folks who just kind of look at you when you say something funny," Sudeikis added appreciatively. "You wonder if they're looking at you because they're mad that they didn't say it or something. It's hard to handle that."
Since he came out of nowhere (actually, Texas) in the indie "Bottle Rocket" 15 years ago, Wilson has been part of several notable screen comedy ensembles.
There's "Rocket" director Wes Anderson's loose troupe, which includes Wilson's brother Luke and Ben Stiller, with whom Owen has also made the "Fockers" films and numerous other comedies.
There was also Wilson's Jackie Chan Eastern/Western period, his leading role in the "Cars" cartoons' voice cast (the sequel to the popular Pixar pic comes out this summer) and, perhaps, the ultimate buddy comedy of the raunch era, "Wedding Crashers," with Vince Vaughn.
Sudeikis, too, has had quite a humorous run. He's been a member of "Saturday Night Live's" Not Ready for Primetime Players since 2003, did a stint on Tina Fey's "30 Rock" and has been building up his film resume with small roles in "Semi-Pro," "What Happens in Vegas," "The Bounty Hunter" and "Going the Distance."
Despite their own experiences with the show business high life, both actors claimed that they could relate to "Hall Pass' " tale of two uncool suburban guys' misadventures in the singles scene.
"I'm from the Midwest, and I also have a great deal of friends who are happily married with children," said the Kansas-raised Sudeikis, who ended a six-year marriage to writer-producer Kay Cannon last year. "And I know that lifestyle. I was married myself for a while.
"I see it in my friends all the time," Sudeikis added. "I come back to town for five days around Thanksgiving and I think the hall pass that is granted to my married friends is to go out and not have to get up with the kids the next morning after having a few beers and making it home safely the night before."
Wilson found his way into his role by way of a far different, favorite movie of his.
"Did you ever see `Straight Time' with Harry Dean Stanton and Dustin Hoffman?" he asked. "It's a really good movie. They're ex-cons and Dustin's just gotten out of prison. He goes over to Harry Dean's house, where Harry's living a kind of straight life with a family, having a barbecue around the pool out in the Valley. His wife runs in and it just seems idyllic. But as soon as she leaves, Harry Dean's like, `Get me out of here!'
"You don't have to be married to know how many sitcoms are based on the idea that guys are always trying to find a little wiggle room to get out and do stuff," Wilson continued. "Then, of course, once you get out there ... A lot of times, when you go to these things that you think are going to be so incredible and insane, once you get there it's never really as fun as you'd imagined. Then you get tired and you want to get out of there, but you're locked in; you don't want to be the buzzkill for everyone else. `Yeah, this is great' -- you've got to act committed to this shared lie that we're having an incredible time."
There was a time when Wilson seemed to enjoy being one of Hollywood's most in-demand bachelors a lot, so much so that he earned the gossip column nickname the Butterscotch Stallion. That all came to a stop in August 2007, though, when Wilson was hospitalized after a reported suicide attempt.
He's kept a low profile since, and seemed to be in the good spirits we all remember him for during this interview. He certainly had a good reason to be happy: On Jan. 14, Wilson's first child, with girlfriend Jade Duell, was born.
"It's brand-new," Wilson gushed about the baby. "It's a boy, named him after my dad, Robert Wilson, although the middle name Ford is something we came up with. I think that's what he'll go by."
"I go by my middle name," Daniel Jason Sudeikis interjected.
"Even though he seems like a good kid, at some point when he's doing his homework and isn't really paying attention to what he's doing, I'm looking forward to saying to him `Ford, focus!' " Wilson added, indicating that fatherhood isn't going to totally stop him from fooling around.
As for his immediate future, Sudeikis has several more film comedies ("Horrible Bosses," "A Good Old Fashioned Orgy") coming up. But unlike many of his predecessors who graduated to big-screen careers, he has no intention of quitting "SNL" anytime soon.
"It's a good place to work," Sudeikis noted. "I've met all kinds of people, hear a lot of great music up close. Why would you ever want to leave?"
Asked where his sense of humor came from, Sudeikis -- whose uncle is "Cheers" mainstay George Wendt -- blamed both heredity and environment.
"George is a funny guy and my dad's really funny," he said. "And I was very lucky that, as a kid, I was drawn to a lot of funny friends. Even now, I still hang out with a lot of them, and they all have very, very different senses of humor."
"I don't have a background in stand-up comedy," Wilson chimed in. "But in my family, humor was a big thing, and that's how we kind of related to each other. And that's still how I relate to somebody. The number-one quality I'd pick in a friend or someone I'm going to be around is a sense of humor."


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Alki Beach, 62nd Ave SW & Alki Ave SW, Seattle
Sandy beaches, sparkling water, views of downtown, Seattle history: you'll find all this and more at the 2010 Street Scramble season opener at Alki! This year's Alki Street Scramble will support Feet First.
You'll have a chance this year to support Feet First by adding $10 to your entry fee and having Street Scramble match it!
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'The Lone Ranger' Gets Destroyed By 'Despicable Me 2′ In This Week's One Minute Movie Buzz
The Lone Ranger is sure eating a lot of dust at the box office.
Despicable Me 2 dominated the Fourth of July weekend sales, which was a big surprise given the sequel was up against one of the biggest summer blockbusters starring Johnny Depp.
Meanwhile in the upcoming films department, Kristen Bell slips into a swimsuit for her new flick, The Lifeguard. How does this stack up against the upcoming Veronica Mars movie?
So while Disney tries to work out how they are going to get back the $200 millon they spent on the Lone Ranger, sit back and enjoy this week's cinema news in the One Minute Movie Buzz — above.


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Professor Stam has been adjunct professor of Mulitnational Estate Planning for five years.Professor Stam received his undergraduate degree in English from the University of California, Irvine; his Juris Doctor cum laude from Western State University College of Law, where he was Executive Editor of Western State's Law Review; his Master of Laws in Taxation with honors from Golden Gate University; and his Master of Science in Financial Planning from the College of Financial Planning.Professor Stam is a frequent public speaker on estate and financial planning techniques and has been featured on numerous occasions on San Diego television news station KUSI Channel 9. Professor Stam is a past Trustee of South Coast Repertory, Orange County's oldest theater production company, and chaired the Planned Giving Committee for that organization.


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Attorney General of Ohio: Charge the homeowners that hosted the parties in the Stuebenville rape case.
If I have underage children drinking in my home and the police find out, I expect to be arrested.
These underage teenagers were drinking, carrying an unconscious girl from house to house, and, to top it off, some adult left a gun which is on the floor next to drunk kids.
If my child goes to a party in Ohio and the homeowners allow drugs and alcohol and my child gets hurt, do the adult homeowners have no culpability?
Please, charge the adults that own the homes and hosted the parties.
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Karl Haspil was born in New York City, New York, in 1966. He was raised in Queens, New York, by his parents who are of Haitian descent. He experienced a new birth in Christ, as described by Jesus Himself, in the Gospel of John 3:1-18, on February 23 1993. During the next few months after being born again, the Lord began to clearly show Karl through His word (specifically Jeremiah 1:1-10 and Psalm 32:1-8) that He was calling him to be a pastor.
In September 1993, the Holy Spirit led Karl to Calvary Chapel Miami, in Miami, Florida, where Pastor Razz Vazquez expositionally taught the Bible, book-by-book, chapter-by-chapter and verse-by-verse. Thanks to Pastor Razz' s fervent prayers and through his faithful discipleship, Karl began to walk in the Lord and His ways. Over time, daily devotion to prayer, study of God's word, consistent church attendance and service unto the Lord caused Karl to grow spiritually by leaps and bounds. In June 2004, Karl was officially ordained as a minister by Calvary Chapel Miami.
In July 2007, after faithfully serving the Lord there for nearly 14 years, in various ministry positions ranging from usher to youth pastor, Pastor Karl responded to God's call to take a difficult venture of faith and to step out of Calvary Chapel Miami to bring the love of Christ, through simple expositional bible teaching, to the spiritually thirsty in other parts of South Florida.
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(CNSNews.com) - Citing a pro-life voting record and electability, the nation's largest pro-life organization endorsed Republican Fred Thompson for president Tuesday.
The endorsement by the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) comes just weeks after Thompson said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that he opposes "criminalizing" abortion and that he does not support the call for a pro-life amendment to the Constitution in the Republican Party platform. Thompson campaign spokesman Darrell Ng told Cybercast News Service that Thompson has since clarified his remarks and does not favor changing the platform.
Thompson has had a 100 percent pro-life voting record during his eight years in the U.S. Senate on issues concerning federal funding to abortion providers, parental notification and partial-birth abortion.
"Since announcing his candidacy in September, Fred Thompson has run second only to pro-abortion candidate Rudy Giuliani for the Republican nomination in the overwhelming majority of national polls," NRLC President Wanda Franz said Tuesday in announcing the group's endorsement.
"As pro-lifers throughout the nation begin to unite behind his candidacy, he will be well positioned to win the nomination and the presidency," she said.
The endorsement from the pro-life group could offer a boost for the former Tennessee senator and actor, as it comes a week after socially conservative Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback endorsed Arizona Sen. John McCain for president, and Christian conservative leader Pat Robertson announced his support for GOP front-runner Giuliani.
"I'm deeply appreciative for the past support by the National Right to Life Committee PAC in my Senate campaigns, and today I am blessed and grateful to have their endorsement for president of the United States," Thompson said in a written statement. He was not present for the endorsement.
"In supporting me, those who have worked tirelessly to defend life are supporting a consistent conservative who has stood with them yesterday, who stands with them today, and will stand with them tomorrow," Thompson continued.
Thompson's past stance on abortion is not spotless, as he has not only questioned the GOP platform language, but also supported an effort at the 1996 Republican National Convention by nominee Bob Dole to include a "tolerance" plank in the platform on abortion.
"We could not endorse Fred Thompson based on our criteria" in a primary or general election, Colleen Parro, executive director of the Republican National Coalition for Life, told Cybercast News Service.
"All I can say is our criteria for endorsement is a candidate who supports a human life amendment to the Constitution and will work for it - someone who will support every issue with respect to life, including embryonic stem cells and end-of-life issues," she added.
The Republican Party platform has included a pro-life plank since 1984 that supports a "human life amendment" and endorses "legislation to make it clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's protections apply to unborn children."
Asked on NBC's "Meet the Press" if he could run on that platform, Thompson said, "No."
He also said, "I do not think it is a wise thing to criminalize young girls and perhaps their parents as aiders and abettors or perhaps their family physician. And that's what we're talking about. It's not a sense of the Senate. You're talking about potential criminal law."
The "Meet the Press" comments are not a concern for the NRLC.
"No one here can promise a human life amendment," NRLC Executive Director David Osteen told Cybercast News Service.
"Quite frankly, it's highly, highly, highly, highly unlikely that would come out of even the Senate in the next presidential term, much less two-thirds of House, much less ratify two-thirds of the states. Of course, the president has nothing to do with passing a constitutional amendment. He doesn't have a vote," Osteen added.
"What he said was, he was going to concentrate on what he could affect, and that's what we want him to do," Osteen said. "What he can affect is to see that judges are appointed that will interpret the Constitution according to its actual text. Abortion on demand is not in the Constitution of the United States, and Fred Thompson knows it."
Thompson has said he wants to see the reversal of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision in the Supreme Court that legalized abortion nationwide. If the decision is overturned, the matter would go back to the states, but abortion would not be banned.
Though some Tennessee newspapers referred to Thompson as "pro-choice" in 1994 and 1996, Osteen said the NRLC met with him when he first entered the 1994 Senate race, and he then confirmed to them that he was pro-life.
Osteen stressed that the NRLC's endorsement was made at the grassroots level from state and local chapters across the country that voted for a candidate. He didn't provide the actual vote but said it was decisive for Thompson.
All of the Democratic candidates for president are pro-abortion.
On the Republican side, Giuliani, a former New York mayor, maintains his pro-abortion stance but has said he would appoint strict constructionist judges to the courts.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was pro-abortion but changed his position on the issue before entering the Republican primary. Arizona Sen. John McCain has a strong pro-life voting record as far as abortion is concerned, but he has supported federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
Asked during the press conference about former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who has a virtually unblemished pro-life record, Osteen referred again to the electability issue and Thompson's standing in the national polls.
On another front, Parro criticized Thompson for saying last month that the government should not have intervened in the Terri Schiavo case in 2005. Schiavo was a Florida woman whose feeding tube was removed under her husband's directives and despite her parents' objections. Schiavo died on March 31, 2005.
Osteen said his pro-life group sought clarification on Thompson's remarks. Noting that Thompson opposes assisted suicide, Osteen also said Thompson supports keeping people alive as long as the family wants them to be kept alive.
"We have talked with him, and in cases when the family is divided, he believes the benefit of the doubt should be given to life," Osteen added.
On another sticking point that led largely to the group's angst toward McCain in 2000 was the issue of campaign finance reform, a bill that Thompson supported.
"Our opposition to McCain-Feingold dealt with our consideration of the ability of National Right to Life and grassroots citizens to express themselves in the process," Osteen said. "That cannot be compared to the question of protecting the lives of innocent unborn children and protecting them from being slaughtered."
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November 20, 2009 Approval Letter - ActHIB
November 20, 2009
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Please submit all final printed labeling at the time of use and include implementation information
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DEL RIO, Texas — Canceling what would have otherwise been the first day of the Battle on the Border presented by Mahindra Tractors obviously changes the complexion of the tournament on Lake Amistad. But how? And to what degree?
"It changes things in a major way," said Texas pro Gary Klein. "It makes it a lot harder to make the cut."
Tournaments usually feature the full field on the first two days, and then the top 50 on Day Three and the top 12 on Day Four. This weekend, there'll be no cut to 50, only a cut to 12 for Sunday.
"There's no shot to make a third-day comeback," said Mississippi pro Paul Elias, who set the BASS weight record with a 132 pound, 8 ounce, winning total last week at Falcon Lake.
California pro Skeet Reese said anglers will have to kick conservatism to the curb.
"You can't work your way into the top 50 like you usually can," Reese said. "The hard part is that you need to gamble a little bit more. You've got to gamble to get the big bites. You can't be as conservative."
The goal in any tournament is to put as many big fish in the boat as possible. But several anglers said the shortened tournament will emphasize the need to get big bites. While a four-day tournament allows anglers some wiggle room for a lackluster day — it can be made up with a bigger sack the next day — an abridged version won't allow for that.
"Now that it's cut to two days (with the full field), you have to bust two big bags," Klein said. "The top 12 will all have caught 20-pound-plus bags the first two days."
Likewise, while mistakes can always be costly, the expense is now magnified.
"There's absolutely no room for error," said Oklahoma pro Fred Roumbanis. "I have to capitalize on every bite. I have to catch everything."
Luck will likely become a bigger factor, too.
"The shorter you make a tournament, the more luck becomes a factor," said Missouri pro Denny Brauer. "That's why we don't have one-day tournaments. Shorter tournaments take away from the consistency factor. What really comes into play is the luck factor of big fish."
Another consideration is sight-fishing. Amistad's bass appear to be all over the place right now — pre-spawn, post-spawn and active spawners. Anglers seem split on how the shortened tournament will affect sight-fishing. Some contend that a shorter event will allow anglers who are on locked-down bass to stretch their bedding fish to the end of the event instead of running out on the third and fourth days. Others say the missed day may hurt sightfishermen.
"They don't stay there long," said Ohio pro Charlie Hartley. "They may not be there when you go back out there today."
Roumbanis agreed: "I've got a few bed fish, but I'm not banking on them because I haven't seen them since Tuesday. I really don't think bed fish will be the way to win it."
But the changes aren't all negative. A three-day tournament has positive changes, including bass that might be more apt to bite, less pressure on the fish and better finishing strength for the anglers who make the cut.
Hartley said the off day will refresh the bass and the anglers.
"The fish had a day off to rest," he said. "That may sound stupid to the guy at home, but when you put 100 of the best fishermen in the world out here, it can make a big difference when the fish get a break like that. They'll be eating today. Not to mention that the fishermen got a day of rest. They needed it, and it gave them a lot of time to get all their tackle in order. They're so ready. I wouldn't want to be a fish out there today."
For anglers who've found fish, the truncated tournament could also bode well.
"The guys on fish won't have to harass them for four days," Elias said.
It may favor anglers who've found fewer groups of quality bass, too.
"I really hadn't found that many groups of good fish," said Arkansas pro Mike McClelland, winner of this year's season opener at the Harris Chain in Florida. "So now that it's down to two days to make the cut, I won't have to pound on them as hard, and they may hold up for me."
Roumbanis said Sunday's finalists may benefit from the missed day.
If you do have two good days and make the cut, your chances are a lot better now," he said.
But even with anglers saying Amistad won't play out as strong as it has in years past, it's still going to take impressive sacks of fish to win here.
"It used to be the day where, if you got five fish in the boat, you felt pretty good," Hartley said. "But that's not good enough any more."


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Beef Taco Frito Skillet
READY IN: 30mins
Recipe by KGCOOK
Just happened to run across a recipe in a magazine. Read it and decided to renovate it. So this is my finished keeper. This is a versatile recipe. You can make this as hot or mild as you like. You can even bake it in the oven with the cheese. This recipe does not include oven time.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 1⁄2 lbs ground beef
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 1 (10 3/4 ounce) can tomato soup
- 1⁄2 cup salsa (any heat)
- 1⁄2 cup water
- 4 cups Fritos corn chips, slightly broken
- 1 cup cheese, Mexican blend
- 1 (4 ounce) can green chilies
- 2 tablespoons taco seasoning mix
- 2 tablespoons chili powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cumin (optional)
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- Cook beef in a large skillet with onion till done.
- Drain well.
- Return meat to skillet and add everything except the cheese and fritos and heat till hot.
- When meat mixture is hot again add the fritos.
- When serving top each portion with cheese and your favorite taco toppings.
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- Stir in 1/2 cup sour cream with the soup, omit the fritos and add torn flour tortillas.
- Variation #2 Ranchero Style.
- Omit the fritos and add torn corn tortillas or broken taco shells.
- If you bake this; heat oven to 350.
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CPB chairman Tomlinson failed to refute NY Times ' "false" charges against him
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In a July 24 interview on C-SPAN's Q&A, Corporation for Public Broadcasting chairman Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, a Republican, claimed that "virtually every charge" leveled against him in a May 2 New York Times article had "either been discredited or proven false." The article documented Tomlinson's efforts to correct perceived "liberal bias" in public broadcasting and focused primarily on four broad issues. While Tomlinson didn't identify which of the specific charges in the Times story he is contesting, evidence surfacing since the article's publication backs up its principal assertions and refutes Tomlinson's subsequent statements on those issues.
Times claim: Tomlinson hired a private consultant to monitor PBS' Now With Bill Moyers
The May 2 Times article reported that Tomlinson "contracted last year with an outside consultant to keep track of the guests' political leanings on one program, 'Now With Bill Moyers,' " a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) program. The Times presented several details regarding the methodology employed by the unnamed consultant (later revealed to be Frederick W. Mann, who worked at a conservative journalism center for 20 years). Tomlinson never denied that he paid Mann in excess of $14,000 to sort the program's guests in such categories as "anti-Bush," "anti-business," and "anti-Tom DeLay" -- as the Times reported and as the raw data compiled by Mann confirmed. But documentary evidence contradicts at least one key statement he made regarding Mann. He wrote in a letter to Sen. Byron L. Dorgan (D-ND), that the contract to hire Mann had been "approved and signed by then CPB President, Kathleen Cox." But the Times reported on June 22 that a copy of the contract obtained by the paper shows that Tomlinson signed it on February 3, 2004 -- five months before Cox became CPB president. Asked specifically about this apparent discrepancy, Tomlinson "declined through a spokesman to comment," according to the Times.
Times claim: Tomlinson hire Mary Catherine Andrews had done work for CPB while still at White House
The Times reported that Tomlinson "hired the director of the White House Office of Global Communications [Mary Catherine Andrews] as a senior staff member" and that, while "she was still on the White House staff, she helped draft guidelines" for the new ombudsmen positions created by the CPB. Tomlinson initially denied that Andrews's work for the Bush administration overlapped with her work for the non-partisan CPB. For example, a May 20 Washington Post article reported that Tomlinson "vigorously denies published reports that the new adviser, Mary Catherine Andrews, helped draft guidelines for the ombudsmen's job while she was working at the White House." According to a June 18 Times article, in an April 2005 interview, Tomlinson was asked if he had "instructed anyone to send material to Ms. Andrews while at the White House," to which he replied, "I don't think so." When asked if Andrews had worked on the ombudsmen project while still employed by the White House, he again answered, "I don't think so."
But evidence cited in the June 18 Times article substantiated the original claim. It reported that a broad inquiry by the CPB inspector general had uncovered a series of emails proving that Andrews "worked on a variety of ombudsman issues ... while still on the White House payroll." Further, the emails disproved Tomlinson's denial that he "instructed anyone to send material to Ms. Andrews while at the White House." According to the Times, Tomlinson "directed Kathleen Cox, then president of the corporation, to send material to Ms. Andrews at her White House e-mail address."
Beyond broadly condemning the Times' article, Tomlinson now appears to be taking a different tack on the Andrews hire. From the Q&A interview:
TOMLINSON: Mary Catherine Andrews knew she was leaving the White House. She's very capable. I worked with her in international broadcasting for a year and a half. She's an important part of launching the Arabic service to the Middle East. And she was hired by CPB to come over to CPB to work. People move all the time in this town. But she was not ordered. I was not pressured to hire her. No one even suggested I hire her.
Times claim: Tomlinson was "instrumental" in delivering funding and distribution for The Journal Editorial Report
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The Times reported on May 2: "[P]ublic broadcasting officials said Mr. Tomlinson was instrumental in lining up $5 million in corporate financing and pressing PBS to distribute" The Journal Editorial Report, a PBS program hosted by Wall Street Journal editorial page editor Paul A. Gigot. During a June 18 interview on the National Public Radio (NPR)-distributed Diane Rehm Show, Tomlinson claimed "he did not participate" in the decision to fund the show. In his July 11 testimony before the Senate Education Appropriations Subcommittee, he asserted that any "press reports" claiming he played a role in the decision were false.
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TOMLINSON: Well, like, for example, I called Karl Rove only after lobbyists for public broadcasting boasted or implied that Karl Rove's office was supporting this board-packing measure. Karl got involved in this in no way, shape, or form directly after that. He just told me, "Of course we're not."
Tomlinson made a similar claim in a May 6 interview on NPR's On the Media. He stated: "I asked Karl Rove -- are you all going to be supporting this? And he said no. End of involvement."
While no new evidence has surfaced to either support or refute Tomlinson's portrayal of the White House's involvement on this specific issue, he has also stated unequivocally that he had no contact with White House officials concerning public broadcasting matters -- a claim that has since been disproved. A May 9 Los Angeles Times article quoted Tomlinson: "There has been absolutely no contact from anyone at the White House to me saying we need to do this or that with public broadcasting." But the leaked CPB emails regarding Mary Catherine Andrews illustrate that Tomlinson had, in fact, consulted White House officials regarding his decision to hire her. According to the June 18 Times article, the White House even insisted the title of Andrews's new position at CPB be "senior advisor to the president."
Media Matters has documented numerous false claims made by Tomlinson.
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On 01/12/2011 04:45 PM, Egbert Jan van den Bussche wrote:
> One solution I can think of is assigning a secondary addresss on the WAN
> port. There is no way how to do that, though... Is it possible at all,
> via the exec interface perhaps? I would be very grateful if somebody has
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You can enable sysctl commands in the config file that will use ifconfig
to multi-home. You may also have to set up some routing. Or, you can
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Samsung's all set to roll out the Android 4.4 KitKat update to its devices, and it seems US Cellular could be among the first carriers to update both flagship smartphones that the Korean giant launched last year. Earlier this week, a leaked document confirmed that US Cellular would be pushing out the KitKat update to the Galaxy S4 from February 19th, and now another leaked document indicates that Galaxy Note 3 owners will start getting the coveted update on the same day as well. It would perhaps be the first time that both yesteryear flagships are getting a major update on the same day, and for the end-user that's a pretty good thing.
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Report on an unknown sea cucumber
Tuesday 1 December 2009
Back in high school, I played around with fractals, after finding a writeup about the Mandelbrot set in a back issue of Scientific American. The article had loads of dazzling colour renderings, the likes of which would grace psychedelic CD covers a few short years later: spidery frost patterns, seahorse-like whorls, lighting licking around tiny replicas of the snowman-shaped set.
All that colour and infinite detail came from a mind-bendingly simple equation, calculated over and over: zn+1 = zn2 + c. The article provided a snippet of pseudocode, which I compiled in C and ran for days on end on the family PC/AT, pumping the raw results through DeluxePaint to colour them. (Later on I added a pause function so my mum and dad could use the computer again.)
It was a window into a mysterious mathematical world: look at the latest image and pick out an interesting looking bit, work out its co-ordinates, and start up the calculations again, and a day or two later, enjoy the results. There was no end to its detail no matter how much you zoomed in on it, and always with those circles upon circles. Similar but never the same: a fractal.
I hadn't thought much about the Mandelbrot set until a few days ago, when I happened on a link to the Mandelbulb, a recently-discovered 3-D analogue to the old-school set.
It's… a little creepy.
Running in the family
Tuesday 15 July 2008
Lots of funny little coincidences today.
I've been working at Evergreen for a few months now. Not long after joining, I stumbled across my father's name on one of our pages, listed as a contact for the Field Botanists of Ontario. And today, in the big list of projects we've helped fund over the years, I found my mother's name, in an image credit for a hand drawn map of Willow Park Ecology Centre in Norval, near where I grew up. (There's a better, non-coloured version on the WPEC site.)
That also means both of us have done maps on our site (I did a bus route map a few weeks ago, partly as a change of pace from staring at HTML all day). A neat reminder of where I got a good deal of grounding in visual communication, not to mention my appreciation for the natural world. Thanks, Mum and Dad.
Happy birthday to me.
Glimpses of the past
Friday 11 January 2008
(It's been a whole month since I last posted, and what a month. Lots of things are up in the air, but in general it's been going well. There are promising job leads, I've had time to reorganize the studio at last, and resume work on some projects, both musical and electronic - more about those soon. Meanwhile…)
The other day, while Sean and I were out for a bite to eat, we noticed a store sign across the street proudly announcing "Claremont Confectionery - Smoke and Gifts - Complete Line of Guns & Fishing Tackle" in handsome hand-painted lettering… might have been forty or fifty years old, by the look of it. The building is now a restaurant, but the owners had apparently liked the sign enough to keep it around. It's not the only such "historic" sign on Queen Street, either.
I like this sort of nod to the past. I've heard it criticized as pretentious and empty - like "façadism" in architecture, where the front of a historic building is kept, and attached to a brand new, usually much larger building. You're appropriating a cultural artifact that has its own layered history, the argument goes, presumably hoping that some of its essence carries over into your new enterprise.
But nah… it's pretty neat that elements like this are being kept, however superficial they might be. If it's done with a bit of reverence and respect, they can help connect us with our surroundings, and remind us that we're all part of this vast stretch of history.
I once designed a logo for a friend, which was eventually made into a sign that hung over her storefront on Queen West. I'd designed logos before, and web sites and business cards, but this felt different - the first time seeing something I'd created become such a visible part of her shop's public face, physical and permanent.
Well, not that permanent, of course. It's been gone for years now. Dozens of signs appear on and vanish from that block alone every year, only slightly more permanent than the cards, posters and other ephemera that flutter through it. It's cool that every once in a while one survives.
(Next: decay, ruins, and aesthetics.)
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Monday 22 October 2007
One of the comics I've been keeping up with online is Sordid City Blues. It stands out among the throngs of webcomics out there, with a cast of smartly written and charmingly drawn characters wrestling with issues of love, faith and art. The author, Charles Schneeflock Snow, is taking a few weeks off to work on other projects, and recently put out a call for guest artists to fill in for him on the web site. So I chipped in with a page, and went for the most obvious subject: Luther and his bandmates. (Luther's the one in the blue hat - the central characters in SCB are colour-coded.) Here it is!
There are some references to earlier stories - particularly Chapter 43, which deals with the origin of the mural. The conversation about the bass is one I've had several times (the Fury LS-4 I play has an unusual headstock which tends to attract the attention of gear nerds) but also, Barkey does play a rather odd-looking bass.
(Like SCB? The first collection of stories is available in book form… help support independent artists!)
I've played around with comics before but never in a big way. And I've used Adobe Illustrator for years, but this is one of the few times I've actually been using it for hand-drawn illustration. Lessons learned: use layers. Lettering using a tablet is a pain in the ass. Background detail really helps a panel to spring to life (as was the case with the graffiti and cinder-block wall in the second panel). Also, it's really freeing to write in a different voice for a while, and play with someone else's characters. I did my best to capture a little of SCB's look and its rhythms.
For quite some time I've been tossing around some story ideas, but I've never settled on a satisfying way of telling them. The format and characters keep shifting around on me - first it was a series of radio plays, then it was going to be podcasts, or maybe just short stories, and now I'm thinking of doing it in comic form. It may end up being a combination of all of the above. This has been a good chance to test the comics waters, and see if I'm really up to the task.
Some of the characters I'm developing are musicians as well, which means that at some point there will be music played. Which brings up the fascinating question of how to represent music in a silent, static medium. Usually comic artists just resort to a sprinkling of eighth-notes and some lyrics. But what about taking a crazy graphical approach, one that breaks out of the usual rhythm of panels, the way a big number in a musical jumps out of the "real world" of theatrical/cinematic structure?
The example that springs to my mind at the moment is Hot Jazz by the ever-wacky Hunt Emerson. I don't know a whole lot about comics history, so I'm sure there are others… Any suggestions? I should probably look into some Matt Howarth, for instance.
In the meantime I've been hunting through The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics (see here for images, mostly the ones by Alan Aldridge). I'll have to have a look for What The Songs Look Like too, which does the same for Talking Heads… and I wish I had a copy of More Dark Than Shark, a collection of artworks created by Russell Mills inspired by Brian Eno's early "rock" albums, now out of print and hard to find.
My next comic-related project, then, is going to be this: pick a few songs that really inspire some visuals, and do one or two pages for each one. Strong contenders for the first couple: Stereolab and the Pixies.
Thursday 1 November 2001
It's finally sunk in.
Back on the first of January 2000, even with the rollover of the Great Year Odometer, the world didn't seem any different.
"It's a funny feeling," I wrote then, "knowing that I and the rest of my relatives will bear a year starting with '2' on their tombstones. You don't usually think of your grandma being part of the 21st century - but she is, as much as you are…
"And it's funny to think of that state of mind we had - I'm not sure when it'll fully leave… the feeling that on the stroke of midnight, 31 Dec 1999, all the brick buildings in the world would turn to glass, all the cars would turn into airships, all the planes to rockets and the subways to maglevs…"
And again in 2001, it still didn't feel like a new century.
Last night, we were at my grandmother's place having dinner, and watched the first couple of innings of Game 3 of the World Series in New York City. And finally, it felt like The Future: George W. Bush throwing the first pitch - probably the longest minute in the entire lives of most of the security people there, the patriotic messages and memorials, the ads for United Airlines and gene-research firms, the jet flyovers…
I always used to mentally picture the decades as a series of impressions of colour and tone and shape, running from left to right, the synthesis of many visual memories of images and styles. For the 20th century, the years up to about 1930 were sepiatoned, then black and white and pale blue. The Thirties were deep wine red, the Forties black and white and deeper blue. The Fifties were sunny yellow and pink and white, the Sixties bright primary red and white, shading into psychedelic paisley purples and dark reds. The Seventies were pale yellow and off-white, then darkened to the sleek boxy black of consumer electronics in the early Eighties. Pastels and silvers and rough, chaotic textures followed in the Nineties.
In 2000 I wrote: "The 2000s were a blank slate, a great unknown. But I do remember it was white, shiny, gleaming, green, hopeful.
"Now I'd like it to be vast, multicoloured, joyous, rooted, honest, bright, rich."
We'll see…
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And then suddenly, ahead of my friend Heather's 27th birthday party, everything changed. First, a bit of background: Heather is the kind of girl whose birthday fete prompts people to book plane tickets in advance. In other words, the girl has star power—and I needed a cool hairstyle to mark the momentousness of the occasion. After doing some Birchbox research, I learned how to create an updo so simple even I could do it, and I raided our product closet for a formula that could help me seal the deal. That's when I landed on Number 4 Non-Aerosol Hairspray. Reading the label, I had no ethical qualms to contend with—the aerosol-free spray is environmentally friendly and totally vegan. So I decided to throw it in my bag and take it for a test run.
After creating the updo, I took the plunge and gave my hair a thorough spritzing before the party. The stuff smelled good—like perfume, not the mildew-remover type of fragrance I'd associated with hairspray—and it immediately sealed my hair in place. The coolest part, though, was that it didn't feel crispy. My hair wasn't as soft as before spraying, obviously, but it was still touchable.
All throughout Heather's birthday shenanigans, from D.C. bar crawl to awkward dance moves, my hair stayed in place. It even survived sleeping on Heather's couch. And the next morning, when I released my hair from its bobby-pin coils, it wasn't stiff or sticky at all. In fact, it resolved into a perfectly normal style, much as it looked when I blew it out the day before. I went two full days without washing my hair after Heather's party. How's that for sustainability?
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A crucial top-secret report into the Australian authorities' response to the distress of the ill-fated asylum seeker boat known as the SIEV 358 was deliberately withheld from a West Australian police investigation into the sinking that killed 104 men.
The West Australian Coroner's Court has been told that a Australian Federal Police agent had told Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Defence not to give the classified document to the police officer who had been asked to investigate the sinking on June 21 last year as a major crime.
The West Australian officer in charge of the investigation, Detective Inspector David Bryson, told the court he had no idea that information had been hidden from him until he arrived at court on Friday morning.
He he had top secret clearances which meant he could have seen any classified or secret information, but he was never told it existed.
Detective Inspector Bryson told the court he could no longer stand by the conclusions in his own report into the deaths knowing he had not been given full disclosure of all the facts. He said it would no longer be a full and honest report.
''My brief was to treat this job as a serious crime,'' he said.
Det Inspector Bryson said he asked the AFP liaison officer who was to be the single point of contact for all Commonwealth agencies to provide all documents, videos and reports relating to the investigation. ''It was a coverall request for all documents either secret or top secret.''
But the counsel for Customs and Border Protection and Defence, Peter Hanks, QC, then revealed that an AFP officer had given direct instructions that Customs and Defence should not hand over the internal review of the sinking commissioned by Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare.
''The AFP specially asked that the document not be provided,'' said Mr Hanks.
The WA Coroner Alastair Hope expressed surprise at the revelations and, with counsel assisting the inquest, Marco Tedeschi, has asked for the name of the officer who made the request, the date, the reasons and on whose direction it was made.
The inquest has been hearing evidence about the adequacy of the response of the Australian authorities to the passengers on the boat.
It has been revealed they made 16 desperate phone calls to the Australian Safety Maritime Authority pleading for help, saying their boat was taking on water and they had no lifejackets. The phone calls began on June 19 and continued until the boat sank two days later.
The report that was withheld from WA Police criticised the authority for not being proactive enough in helping the boat and for transferring the responsibility for the search and rescue to its Indonesian counterparts, despite being told that they did not have the capability to conduct the search.
The authority manager Alan Lloyd has told the court he had no record of being told that.
The Coroner has already told the court that he does not intend to make any adverse findings against any individuals but has said it is clear that if there had been an earlier response to the calls for help from the boat, all their lives could have been saved.
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Life Friendly Policies: Do They Really Help?
Chang, Artemis, Gudmundsson, Amanda, & Yuile, Colleen (2005) Life Friendly Policies: Do They Really Help? In Davies, D, Fisher, G, & Hughes, R (Eds.) Engaging the Multiple Contexts of Management: Convergence and Divergence of Management Theory and Practice: Proceedings of the 19th ANZAM Conference, 7 December - 10 December 2005, Australia, Australian Capital Territory, Canberra.
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The Police mix work and play
Love them or hate them, you probably grunt in annoyance when you see their red and blue lights in your rearview mirror or panic when you see them pull up to your noisy, underaged house party. Either way, the police is what keeps festivals like Roots 'N Blues 'N BBQ running.
By 9 p.m. on Saturday, Roots 'n Blues is not only packed with people, it's packed with a good number of sloppy, tripping people. So naturally, a police officer's main concern at a big festival is safety.
"We don't want anybody to get hurt -- that could be we don't want anyone to get injured in any way by assault or by falling down or just drinking too much," Columbia Police Officer Todd Alber said.
Understandable concern, given the amounts of spilled beer on the street and the block of people down Elm Street who waited in lines that stretched from one curb to the other in front of each of the 20 porta-potties, but the police had a relatively easy job with this festival.
"We haven't really had any problems at all," Alber said. "I don't think we've had one disturbance yet."
Beyond the safety factor, Alber said he wanted people to have fun.
"The biggest thing is to make sure everybody has a good time," Alber said. "They're down here to have a good time and we want to encourage that as long as they're not causing any problems."
With such a quiet night, the officer was able to enjoy the festival himself.
"I ate a little barbecue, and the music's great," Alber said. "Joanne Shaw Taylor -- she was amazing this afternoon. She's probably the best female guitar player I've ever seen in my life. And I'm old."
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Now that everyone's been in camp for a week and games are set to start in a couple of days, the aches and pains are piling up. Steven White's neck strain turned out to be nothing. Brian Bruney experienced a stabbing pain on his left side (or back, depending on the source), but an MRI came back negative and he should be back in action shortly.
More problematically, Humberto Sanchez experienced tightness near his right elbow and stiffness in his right forearm, as well as a throbbing sensation. His MRI revealed some inflammation, but no structural damage. Still, any such discomfort is troubling given Sanchez's history of elbow problems.
Speaking of injury histories, Carl "Heavy Legs" Pavano was hit on the left instep by an Alberto Gonzalez line drive during batting practice on Saturday. His MRI revealed a bone bruise. Pavano threw 27 pitches in his BP session after getting hit with the comebacker and Joe Torre considers the injury a non-issue. The proof will be in the pitching as Pavano's scheduled to throw a bullpen session today, then another on Thursday to put him on pace to start the Yankees' fourth exhibition game on Sunday.
Finally, as Alex has already reported below, Bobby Abreu [1] will miss at least half of the Yankees' exhibition schedule after having strained his right oblique muscle during batting practice yesterday. Apparently Abreu felt a tweak in his right side, but kept hitting, resulting in a worse injury than if he had cut his BP session short. Abreu will be unable to hit or throw while recuperating, but should be ready for Opening Day, though the pace of healing on oblique injuries is often hard to predict. Still, even this injury should prove to be ultimately insignificant. Rather, it's Sanchez that bears the closest watching right now.
For those wondering, Cashman and Torre have both ruled out the possibility of Bernie Williams coming to camp given the playing time made available by Abreu's injury. As well they should, Melky and the Kevins will fill in just fine. Oh, and Johnny Damon took a couple of personal days away from camp. He's back now. Nothing to see there.
Today the Yankees will play their intrasquad game. Last year this turned into a pivotal event in the season as Jorge Posada creamed a Mike Mussina changeup, then taught Moose how to better disguise the pitch, leading to a 7-1, 2.42 ERA start for Mussina. Today's intrasquad hurlers [2] are less prominent, with only Kei Igawa appearing from the projected rotation.
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