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But Monday night it was Wesley Clark whose ire was on fire. "I don't see why the media and the press can't hold the administration accountable for telling the truth," the retired general complained during an interview in his campaign van on his way to a fundraiser.
As his voice rose in exasperation, Clark launched into a mocking recital of George W. Bush's shifting positions on Saddam Hussein's missing weapons of mass destruction. Trying to mimic Bush on the eve of the Iraqi invasion, Clark shouted, "We're not going to let Saddam keep the worst weapons in the world!"
This unsuccessful theatrical effort to replicate Bush's Texas twang required the Democratic candidate to refresh his vocal chords with a bottle of water. But the annoyed tone immediately returned to Clark's voice as he paraphrased Bush's latest position on Saddam's elusive arsenal: "In the Diane Sawyer interview, he said, 'It didn't make any difference.' Well, it makes a whole lot of difference."
Presumably concerned about how his sharp-edged words might appear in print, Clark offered helpful stage directions: "These are not bitter comments. They're forceful comments." But even as he cited Bill Clinton's dictum that elections are about the future, not the past, Clark could not avoid looking backward to review Bush's record on Iraq. "I think his conduct in office, his misleading of America, is not only fair game for the election, but it's essential for the election," Clark said. "I just don't see how the American people won't hold him accountable."
As 2003 ends with Dean unchallenged as "Democrat of the Year," the political guessing game is about which presidential contender will shoot out of the pack early next year to take on the role of principal challenger. Judging from the interplay of rumor and rumination that defines Democratic politics at this moment of uncertainty, Clark is benefiting from a long second look as the leading anti-Dean option.
The former NATO commander had impetuously entered the race with news-magazine-cover fanfare in September, then stumbled badly from his lack of political experience and his inability to answer simple questions like whether he would have voted for the 2002 Iraq resolution. So it was probably inevitable that he'd make a comeback. It is an unalterable truth of presidential politics that the story line is never fixed and yesterday's chump is often tomorrow's champion.
Yet after spending two days watching Clark in South Carolina, site of a potentially pivotal primary on Feb. 3, I came away with the sense that the general is too similar to Dean to serve as his antithesis. Yes, the two men have widely divergent résumés: Dean the blue-blood doctor who became a successful five-term governor of rustic Vermont and Clark the career Army man who directed the successful war in Kosovo. But more than any other Democrats running, both are blessed with preternatural self-confidence and a refusal to trim their outspoken positions on Iraq even after the capture of Saddam.
Had Dean been afflicted with a dollop of self-doubt, he never could have survived the lean period a year ago when his then woefully underfunded campaign consisted of himself and a lone aide. The best illustration of Clark's can-do confident view came when he explained during the interview his financial game plan after leaving the Army in 2000.
"I wanted to make $40 million," Clark said. "The goal was to make $40 million so then I could become a philanthropist and then go into university teaching or administration, I wasn't sure which. And then I'd work on golf. And by the time I was 70 or so, be a golf pro."
Most Democrats, reflecting the party's populist pedigree, do not discuss their megamillion-dollar ambitions. John Kerry, who is partly self-financing his campaign and is married to heiress Teresa Heinz Kerry, defines himself through his Vietnam War heroism and two decades in the Senate. John Edwards, a former trial lawyer worth upward of $20 million, describes himself as the "son of a mill worker" and emphasizes his roots among "regular people."
But Clark, whose taxable income as a four-star general was a paltry $60,000 in 1999, entered the private sector with pent-up monetary dreams. Through a latticework of business dealings as an investment banker and consultant, augmented by nearly $1.5 million in speaking fees, Clark has a net worth of more than $3 million, according to a recent financial disclosure.
No, Clark never came close to his arbitrary goal of $40 million. But he discovered that, living in Little Rock, "It didn't take $40 million. You could actually do quite well with a lot less than that. We had a great life in Arkansas." That great life, it must be stressed, included ample charitable activities by himself and his wife, Gert. Still, it is hard to imagine a Democrat like Dick Gephardt, who has been living on a congressional salary since 1977, announcing that he intends to make $40 million in the private sector if he fails in his bid for the White House.
None of this is to deny the commitment to public service that undergirds the Clark campaign. Speaking to a group of young Democrats in Columbia on Monday night, Clark lambasted Bush for pledging to get "Osama bin Laden dead or alive, but in reality what he did was to go after Saddam Hussein. He took us in a $150 billion, 450-American-lives, two-year wrong direction. And the chickens are coming home to roost." As an apostle of Democratic foreign-policy anger, Clark has no rival. Except, of course, Howard Dean.
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I couldn't afford to sell one like it for less than fourpence.
He coined sixpences for Ireland worth only fourpence in England.
In all, a financial tribute of thirty-seven pounds three and fourpence was paid to the memory of the late Mr. Gibbs.
"Seven and fourpence 'ap'ny—most of it beer," said the child.
There is old Jones who lives out towards the Bell Rock, he owes three years' tithe—thirty-four pounds eleven and fourpence.
I should be surprised if she submitted meekly to the loss of one and fourpence.
The vendor said he could get fourpence a pound for the whole, and that it made capital Bristol board.
It will indeed, Hetty, and all for fourpence a day, say you?
There was then a general move towards the great white gate, and as he paid his fourpence the nods of recognition and How are ye's?
Why, sir, I tell you he was sellin' them before my face for fourpence a-piece.

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text: Photographs from a church service held by former followers of Warren Jeffs' FLDS church. These people, led by William E. Jessop, were kind enough to welcome us in to document their group. To my knowledge, this is the first time a religious service has been photographed by an outsider in Short Creek. I say that not to brag, but to point out the lengths that these people had gone to in letting me in. Thank you for your openness.


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PowerShell Get-NetAdapter
List Your Network Adapters with PowerShell 3.0
PowerShell 3.0 introduces a new family of NetAdapter of cmdlets. Get-NetAdapter is the default, and its job is to enumerate your computer's network cards (NICs).
Tutorial for Get-NetAdapter
The Magic of PowerShell's NetAdapter
To appreciate the elegance of Get-NetAdapter, you have to experienced the uglyness of enumerating network cards using NetSh or VBScript; even with PowerShell 2.0's Get-WmiObject Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration it wasn't easy to list NICs.
One aspect of elegance that I admire, especially in scripting, is simplicity. Therefore to get started all you need is the command: Get-NetAdapter.
Simple Example of Get-NetAdapter
# PowerShell 3.0 lists all your computer's network cards.
Note 1: You can find more properties by piping the output into | Get-Member.
Research NetAdapter Properties
Important: Adjust the value of my $Nic variable depending on the results of the simple: Get-NetAdapter command.
Note 2: Take care with the ` backtick; in particular avoid spaces after this command that tells PowerShell to word-wrap to the next line.
Note 3: Here is an even better plan, research your own
properties with:
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Understanding Get-NetAdapter's Parameters
Employing the -name parameter is a precise method for specifying the network card, and it saves me having to use Powershell's Where-Object statement to filter the network cards.
Let us call for Get-Help and see which other parameters are available for the Get-NetAdapter cmdlet.
#PowerShell NetAdapter parameter research
Results: I found two interesting parameters -IncludeHidden and -physical.
Research Microsoft's NetAdapter Cmdlet Family
Once you have discovered a useful PowerShell cmdlet such as Get-NetAdapter it's worth investigating alternative verbs; this is how I discovered Enable, Disable and Restart-NetAdapter.
Get-Command -Noun netadapter
CommandType Name
How to Enable or Disabled Your NIC
Here is an example to disable the Wi-Fi's network adapter.
# PowerShell script to disable your network card.
Note 4: To reverse the action substitute Enable-NetAdapter for Disable-Network adapter.
Note 5: See more on PowerShell's Disable-NetAdapter.
NetAdapter Challenge
PowerShell's default verb is 'Get'. Thus, my challenge is to
substitute plain NetAdapter for Get-NetAdapter in the above examples.
Actually, I regard this shortcut as sloppy scripting, but it does explain
why other PowerShell commands work the way they do, for example:
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More PowerShell v 3.0 Networking Cmdlets
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See more examples of PowerShell v 3.0 NetAdapter cmdlets »
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Tibetan music first went on the decline during the Cultural Revolution, a campaign between 1966 and 1976 during which the Chinese government sought to wipe out all "feudal" practices and "make art serve politics..." (Twenty-year-old student Dawa Drolma) said another problem has been the influx of modern Chinese pop music.Link to National Geographic article, Link to video about the Tibetan Music Project, Link to donate via GiveMeaning.com
"People hear this music all the time on the radio, on , and cassette tapes," she said. "It comes in and basically takes over."
Mechanization has also had an impact, she added.
"Butter-churning songs are disappearing, because there are now electric machines to do this and so no need to have a song to provide rhythm."
Previously on BB:
• Xeni.net/trek: Miss Tibet founder, DRM-free Tibet music Link


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Bank of Queensland has failed to pass on the full extent of the Reserve Bank of Australia's interest rate cut to its customers.
The Queensland bank said it would reduce its standard variable home loan rate by 0.35 percentage points to 7.11 percentage points.
It cut its business lending rates by the same amount.
The RBA on Tuesday slashed the official cash rate by 0.50 of a percentage point to 3.75 per cent.
The Big Four banks are yet to declare their hand on how much of this they will pass on.
BoQ chief executive Stuart Grimshaw blamed the high cost of deposits for keeping back some of the rate cut.
"Increased competition in retail term deposits continues to put upward pressure on the bank's cost of funds," he said.
"When making decisions on rates we consider the needs of our customers and those of our shareholders.
"It is a difficult balancing act, but we believe passing on a 35 basis point cut is the responsible course of action this month."
A spokesperson for Westpac Banking Corp said the bank's rates remained under review, while NAB re-iterated its commitment to have the lowest rates of the Big Four but did not guarantee it would pass on the full amount of the RBA cut to customers.
ANZ Banking Group will make a decision on rates at its next scheduled pricing meeting on May 11.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia chief executive Ian Narev earlier did not comment on whether the bank would pass on the full RBA cut.
"I can't talk at all about our intention on pricing," Mr Narev told reporters ahead of the RBA's decision at a Trans-Tasman Business Circle lunch.
Mr Narev said the decision about whether to pass on rate cuts was a delicate balancing act.
"We have to think of the interests of the 1.8 million mortgage holders, at the same time 40 million deposit holders and 800,000 shareholders and it is always a balance," he said.
"So, the question we ask ourselves is what is the right balance."
In a statement, RBA governor Glenn Stevens said a 0.50 percentage point cut was needed in order to "deliver the appropriate level of borrowing rates".
Mr Narev would not be drawn on what was the most appropriate level for rates for the economy.
"It is a tough question. I see the job that the Reserve Bank does and the whole board and Glenn Stevens at the head of it as absorbing a whole lot of data and needing to make a difficult trade-off," he said.
"They are the only ones that see all the data. Everyone has their own view but the reality is that it is a pretty unanalytical exercise and the question of what the right outcome would be whether it is a zero cuts, one cut or two cuts, think the right people are looking at the right data to make the right decisions."
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Weather Service Bulletin No. 1, 1950. Cover.
Illustrating an important Air Weather Service activity, this RB-29 of the 373rd
Reconnaissance Squadron is shown coming in for a landing at Kindley AFB after
completing a "routine" hurricane mission.
Image ID: wea03676, NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) Collection
Location: Bermuda, Kindley Air Force Base
Photo Date: 1949
Credit: Headquarters Air Weather Service; Courtesy of the family of Nels Johnson, United States Weather Bureau (dec.)
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'A Separation' is a study of a family's pain
Sophisticated and universal yet deeply intimate, A Separation is an exquisitely conceived family drama that has the coiled power of a top-notch thriller.
From the first scene, we're instantly hooked by this window into contemporary Iran.
The scene is deceptively simple. An upper-middle-class couple seek to divorce, but bureaucratic powers set up roadblocks. Simin (Leila Hatami) wants to leave Tehran and go abroad with their 11-year-old daughter, Termeh (Sarina Farhadi), and her husband, Nader (Peyman Moadi), so that their daughter will have better educational opportunities. But Nader wants to stay to care for his elderly father, who has Alzheimer's. Simin argues that his father barely knows Nader is his son. "But I know he's my father," Nader responds.
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It's a painfully real domestic dispute, and the positions of both parties are understandable.
The couple separate. The adolescent Termeh, a diligent student, remains at home with her father in the hopes that her mother will be compelled to return. No one is happy about the split, least of all the sad-eyed, bespectacled Termeh.
About the movie
A Separation
* * * * out of four
Stars: Payman Mohamed Maadi, Leila Hatami, Sarina Farhadi, Sareh Bayat
Director:Asghar Farhadi
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Rating: PG-13 for mature thematic material
Running time: 1 hours, 3 minutes
Opens Friday in select cities
Nader hires Razieh (Sareh Bayat) to take care of his mostly bedridden father (Ali Asghar-Shahbazi) while he is at work. A devout Muslim, Razieh early on faces a moral and religious quandary in her duties tending to the man. Her volatile husband, Hodjat (Shahab Hosseini), complicates things further.
Disasters build upon each other, and Razieh and Nader have a misunderstanding that results in a murder charge. They become further embroiled in the labyrinthine Iranian judicial system, and religious, cultural and class chasms loom large.
The brilliantly calibrated plot grows ever more complex with ethical dilemmas, emotional upheaval and issues of responsibility woven in artfully, never simply for the sake of trumped-up tension.
In Farsi, with English subtitles, this beautifully photographed, superbly acted film, written and directed by Asghar Farhadi, is naturally suspenseful in the way of the most universally engaging and deeply humanistic stories.
The viewer's sympathies are always engaged, though it's impossible to take sides, despite an early inclination to do so. Just as we think we're identifying with one character, another will reveal new dimensions and our concerns shift.
All the parties involved must navigate perilous terrain. But Farhadi keeps the emotional story believable, never straying into melodrama. Realistically messy, unexpectedly devastating and as tense as any Hitchcock thriller, A Separation ensures that no one emerges unscathed. Nor will audiences watch this profoundly resonant film without being captivated and possibly haunted for days afterward.
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Seemingly looking for any way to smear the Fox network, MSNBC's Ed Schultz pointed the finger at Fox for singer and four-time Grammy winner Christina Aguilera's botched rendition of the National Anthem. "Maybe I'm being too critical," Schultz added as he hid behind politeness.
It may not be as bad as "jokingly" blaming the anthem's very author, or blaming President Obama, but Schultz's comment came off as a cheap shot nonetheless.
Aguilera received widespread criticism for her performance, where she repeated the same line twice at different parts of the script. "I guess she just really liked the 'What so proudly' line," chuckled Schultz, who by and large excused Aguilera for her error. "It takes guts to get up there in front of all those people and do that," he remarked, "we all probably would have screwed up, right?"
But Schultz did not save any remorse for the Fox network, which aired the Super Bowl. "For a network like Fox putting itself up there as America's network, reading the Declaration of Independence, flags just pasted everywhere, you would hope that they would get the national anthem right," Schultz snidely remarked.
"Maybe I'm just being too critical," he quickly added.


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The Gift of Giving Back Slideshow!
Life has been hectic and we are always on the go...Sometimes a good thing but sometimes we often neglect the simple things like updating your blog.
I thought I would post a slideshow from the Burlington Eagles Hockey organization. There are approximately 30 hockey teams in the organization. The age of the boys range from about 6 to 17 years old. All the children, parents and friends contributed to this food drive. The food was collected and given to the Salvation Army. Please view the slideshow for all the pictures from this event. The outcome was amazing :o)


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If you ever wanted to watch mind-blowing cat clips, epic fails (NSFW), or a fantastic horse-dancing superstar, YouTube is the place for all of that. But beyond just hosting a colossal compendium of randomness, there are many channels on YouTube that have very valuable, community-based, regular content.
When it comes to video hosting, YouTube undoubtedly stands as one of the most popular sites. It's also very easily integrated with other social media outlets such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Tumblr, which can help to maximise the exposure of your video content. For example, on Facebook, if you post a video, you can get an image preview of the link.
Whilst the topic of creating regular content for YouTube is a massive universe in itself (which will have to wait for another post!), there are a few basic tips for the first time YouTube user. Before anything, you'll have to create an account (which, again, is easily integrated with your Google account). As a content creator, this will allow you to upload videos onto your channel, and for those that enjoy your content to subscribe to you.
Even as a viewer (or "viewser", as some might say), it can be incredibly handy to have an account. Whilst some may argue that the casual browsing of catchy autotune songs won't necessitate that, having an account allows you to favourite videos (to re-watch and share later), post comments (caution: beware of flame wars! [NSFW]), make playlists (like the "Super sad break-up songs because my ex is a jerk" playlist and the "Recipes for meals I'll never be bothered to cook" playlist) and to subscribe to channels you want to keep up-to-date with.
Whilst just having a favourites list is all well and good, subscribing to channels with steady streams of well produced content can actually provide you with a quality source of regular entertainment as much as television does. I, for one, have a wide variety of channels that I watch on a daily basis that ranges from YouTube exclusive music to Q 'n' A's to news, and everything in between.
So what kind of YouTube channels do you subscribe to? Make sure one of those subscriptions is to the SocialGO channel! Thumbs up and favourite!


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text: This is hardcoded into src/resmom/linux/mom_mach.c around line 1910. The kill procedure iterates up to 20 times with a nanosleep call of 0.25 seconds before it continues and does a hard kill on the process. I do not know why this have to be there, the -TERM and -KILL signalling should be left at the discression of pbs_server which has the kill_delay variable. I do not think the kill_delay variable is forwarded to the moms. r.


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Nomi and Jack Forman of Flemington, N.J.; and Mary and Rob Gingold of Melbourne, Australia, announce the engagement of their children, Zev Adam Forman and Naomi Fay Gingold.
Naomi is a graduate of the University of Melbourne. Zev, who attended Ithaca College, is currently in his first year of culinary school in Melbourne.
Naomi is the granddaughter of the late Dave and Rebecca Gingold, and Elizabeth and Joseph Herzog of Melbourne. Zev is the grandson of Beverly and Jack Kogan of Voorhees, N.J.; and Mildred Forman of Del Ray Beach, Fla., and the late Joseph Forman.
The couple, who will live in Melbourne, is planning a June wedding.


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NEW YORK (Jul. 25)
PEC Israel Economic Corporation has completed the private sale of $3,000,000 of its 5-1/2 percent notes due July 1, 1980 with warrants to purchase 36,000 shares of common stock, it was announced this weekend. The notes and warrants were purchased in equal amounts by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company and National Life Insurance Company, Goldman, Sachs and Co, assisted in arranging the financing.
PEC, now in its 40th year, has helped to organize, finance and administer more than 90 business enterprises in Israel. It has over 900,000 shares of common stock outstanding, held by some 11,000 stockholders mainly in the U.S. The proceeds of the new financing, together with the proceeds from the company's recent offering to stockholders, will be used for the expansion of PEC's investment program in Israel.


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Family Medicine Comes to Massachusetts
In Massachusetts, however, another five years were required for Family Medicine to become part of residency offerings in the state, and even then, the new UMass Medical School was the only medical school willing to incorporate the new specialty. Three prestigious, private medical schools (Harvard, Boston University, and Tufts) were clustered inside the state's population center, Boston, and its suburbs. By the 1960s, all of these schools encouraged their graduates to enter practice as specialists. Massachusetts had a higher than average proportion of physicians to the general population. But maldistribution of physicians was becoming a recognized problem for the state due to a lack of primary care practitioners in rural counties.(31) As a report prepared for the President of the UMass system, Robert Wood, summed up the situation in 1973, "Massachusetts ranks among the top ten states in every category in 15 of the 20 specialties. However… the relative ranking of physicians engaged in general practice is 33rd. As will be shown below, this figure is significant for the type of health care that will be required in the Commonwealth in the years ahead."(32) These data were based on a 1970 survey, but clearly the situation had not improved by 1973. In October 1974, the Board of Governors of the Massachusetts Academy of Family Practice surveyed physicians across the state to see "if there exists a deficit of primary care physicians, and if so, what the deficit is, and where it exists in the Commonwealth."
Their survey defined "primary care" to encompass not only family physicians, but pediatricians, general internists, and osteopaths. The inventory, as of December 31, 1973, found 4240 primary care physicians, including 595 primary care residents (out of 2312 residents in all in MA) in active practice in Massachusetts, of whom 1124 were family physicians. But, one-third of the latter were over 60 years of age. Based on these criteria, there existed "a shortage of 1564 Family Physicians in Massachusetts … most prominent[ly] in Essex, Middlesex, and Worcester Counties." The ratio in Worcester was 19.7 per 100,000.(33) Between 1973 and 1975, in fact, the fate of the University of Massachusetts Medical School would become bound up with its willingness to promote primary care and especially Family Medicine. Thus, by 1973, it became apparent that the school would need to develop a more coherent and positive approach to increasing the numbers of family practitioners in the state.
Until the school formally created such a program, however, a small group of General-Practitioners-turned-Family-Physicians began to actualize the ideals of Family Medicine within their own private or community health center practices. In the towns and rural counties of Central and Western Massachusetts, some large practices still were led by doctors who had graduated before World War II and who had never felt the need to continue their postgraduate education (residency) beyond the internship year. Some of them were anxious to move beyond general practice and involved themselves at the level of their own state specialty societies. Dr. Robert Babineau, originally a GP and the founder of the Fitchburg residency, remembers this period of transition from the perspective of a Massachusetts general practitioner with a thriving practice and an active presence in the state's Academy of General Practice:
I'd been in practice from 1951. I got involved with the Massachusetts Academy of what was then called General Practice, you know, just to become involved in what was going on in the medical world, and over the '50s and early '60s, there was a big debate as you know about the future of general practitioners, because this was the era of specialties and everyone was beginning to specialize, in the '50s and '60s. So those of us who were family doctors (well, what we called ourselves then were GPs), thought that we should at least get involved in the discussion, because we felt that our type of practice made a lot of sense. You certainly needed specialists, but you also needed people who could kind of function as the primary care physician, to be the quarterback of the team, so called.
So we got involved in that and through that I got involved not only at the [national] level but at the state level, where we were having big discussions about the future of general practice, and through that … of course … the discussions then were about whether it should survive and those of us of course felt it should … [T]hen we had discussions about the name of this new group, and we didn't think "general practice"—it sounded too broad—so we had big discussions at the national level and state levels about the future, and that's when we decided to change the Academy. Along with those discussions were discussions that if we're going to survive, we need more training, so the residency issue was brought up along with the discussions about name change, and eventually we all decided that we needed to develop a residency program to train our future doctors, and we decided that they should be called "family physicians."(34)


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The e-mail was short and to the point: "Would Jasper be willing to work his magic with one of our strays who needs to learn how to be a pet?"
The Jasper in question is my mutt, a sweet-natured guy who since his rescue years ago has been paying it forward by helping dogs that are troubled and scared (as he once was) and in need of a temporary stopping-off point to relax, recover and rediscover themselves.
He does not, of course, teach these dogs we foster to stay off furniture or leave the trash can alone; that's my job. His is to be gracious; play with them if they're ready; show them it's thrilling to go for walks or car rides; and, most important, demonstrate through his happy, confident interactions with me just how great it can be to snuggle up to humans.
He has ushered, from their tortured memories to human-trusting joy, two rejected, completely unsocialized sled dogs (one half-dead from neglect and near starvation), four Katrina refugees, a blind puppy, a young dog that had just had a leg amputated and a traumatized Vizsla.
The dog that prompted the early-December e-mail from the shelter where I volunteer was Noelle, 2-ish, a pretty blonde with Lab-like head and tail and an Australian heeler's size, body shape and freckled legs. Picked up running the back roads with two other dogs, she was timid, scared and hand shy and spent weeks hugging the shelter walls and avoiding most human contact.
She didn't understand toys, she wouldn't approach people, her tail was tucked much of the time, and she startled at any motion or noise. We figured she was a poorly treated farm dog before she was tossed out or run off; she had no familiarity with life inside a building or anything resembling human kindness.
Jasper is always the decider, of course, of whether such animals share our home. And he was instantly A-OK with Noelle. Within minutes they were ripping around the yard together, she happily following his lead, looking content for the first time since I'd met her.
But she couldn't bring herself that first afternoon to enter the house until Jasper enticed her (she still, three weeks later, has trouble with entries) and kept her distance from me (still does).
Although she has reached the point that she'll do anything for and with Jasper, including hang out in my office as he does while I'm working and in the kitchen during meal prep, she's still working on trusting people.
But her comfort and confidence are growing. She has learned how to play with a toy — a lurid-green 2-foot-long squeaky dragon she tosses about. She has decided there are three "safe situations" with me. When she's in her bed, when Jasper's at my knee getting love or when she's sprawled on my office loveseat, she thinks I'm swell, and she nuzzles about, seeking and accepting petting and belly rubs; she even kisses me.
At no other time, however, will she move close enough to be touched. And any contact with me still must be initiated by her; if I call her or approach, she's off in a flash. Moreover, just the other day, while she was in a safe place, she glanced at me, appeared to decide she'd never seen me before in her life, and tore off in terror.
So many people now share their lives with such dogs — puppy mill refugees, abused animals given a chance instead of being instantly put down in shelters as once was the case — that there's increasing awareness and knowledge among trainers and rescuers, information I've tapped into over the years.
What they've all said is that progress is often extremely slow; it can take months before such dogs, finding themselves suddenly in a loving environment, can vanquish most of their ugly-days demons. Moreover, progress isn't always linear; setbacks can happen without clear cause; and the "safe places" phenomenon is common, though no one seems to know why (and my job is to block Noelle's access to all but the sleeping one so she'll develop new ones and eventually realize every place is safe).
Most also would agree that Jasper is definitely accelerating Noelle's progress. Though behaviorists historically pooh-poohed the dog-helping-dog notion of assimilation into a new environment, believing that dogs aren't "imitative learners," sufficient cases have been observed that many now accept that it happens.
That said, there's a cautionary note: Not every pet dog is willing to take on the role of mentor, and it would be a mistake for owners to assume theirs will cheerfully assume it.
Jasper is. So we're hanging in there, he and I. Noelle is whip-smart and incomparably sweet and lovey when she can screw up her courage to share that. She deserves the time to return to what she once was, before someone systematically knocked all that out of her.
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World history is replete with leaders, that upon reflection, wish they could do stupid over. Sadaam Hussien, while hiding in hole in Iraq, more than likely regreted his initial stupid decision to invade Kuwait. Noriega had more than twenty-years in jail to reflect on his decision not to negotiate differences with the US Government. Khadaffi would probably like to have back the option to leave Libya instead of leaving the planet. I could go on for hours with these examples, but will move to the present situation in the US Congress.
The US House of Representatives willingness to default on the debt ceiling is in a league of its own. Yes the near-brights are going to do the super-stupid. The stupidity of the aforementioned leaders dulls in comparison to the House T-Nuts. Why is this so? Because the regrettable end these leaders experienced was likely, but not as clearly discernible as the outcome of a default.
The super-stupids are intent on immediately destroying the US credit rating, wrecking the US economy in a way much more significant than the result of not doing things their way. Once they do it, The T-nut leverage is gone, fini, caput! Now they have created unbearable chaos and financial pain on everyone. That includes those low info voters that sent them to Washington to fix things. The phones of the stupids will be ringing of the proverbial hook. The low info voter will want the pain to stop.
The super-stupids upon reflection; finally realizing what they have really done, and knowing that it can not be undone will probably wish that they could rent Sadaam Hussien's dirt-hole.


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Liberty Completes Day Three of Spring Football
The Flames were forced to move the time of practice up one hour due to the weather, which affected their schedule for the day. Due to the time change, several key personnel were missing due to classes, and various pre-practice meetings had to be postponed. Despite the weather, Liberty was still able to practice their traditional individual drills, as well as offense versus defense simulations and special teams situations, and several positives were drawn from the day's proceedings.
The Liberty quarterbacks continued to improve and develop, as stated by quarterbacks coach Brandon Streeter. "I think the quarterbacks are progressing each and every day. It was tough, we were missing some personnel and some receivers who weren't there because of classes. Because of that, timing was a little off at certain points, but overall, I believe the quarterbacks are progressing each and every day."
As a whole, the Liberty coaching staff continues to emphasize focus, and the players have been continually learning during practice. "I think the kids are learning. During spring practice, you put in a lot of plays each day because you work on your whole offense, especially at the beginning since we're only finishing our third day", explained Streeter. "So I think the players, as far as understanding what we're trying to do offensively, are doing a very good job. I think today, especially with the missing receivers, everyone did a good job of remembering what they needed to do."


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Police yesterday launched a fresh court bid to obtain a blood sample from accused underworld hitman Victor Brincat amid claims that he had contaminated a DNA sample taken from his mouth.
The Melbourne Magistrates Court was told that an oral sample provided recently by Brincat had been saturated with an unknown "brown substance".
Police have been trying to take a sample from Brincat so his DNA can be compared with genetic material found on a T-shirt linked to the shooting murder of former kickboxer and hot-dog vendor Michael Marshall.
Brincat, 43, of Southbank, and Thomas Hentschel, 41, of Cheltenham, have been charged over the murder of Marshall, 38, outside his South Yarra home on October 25 last year.
The court heard yesterday that at Barwon Prison earlier this month an almost silent Brincat had motioned for police to take a cheek swab from him after he refused to give a blood sample.
Sergeant Lauren Callaway said she asked Brincat to place the swab inside his mouth and scrape the inside of his cheek, when he instead placed the swab under his tongue.
Sergeant Callaway said that when Brincat removed the swab it was "saturated in an unknown brown substance". She then asked Brincat to take the swab again but he did not comply.
"I had formed the opinion earlier on in the process that he had something in his mouth," Sergeant Callaway said.
Prosecutor Geoff Horgan, SC, said Brincat had deliberately refused to take the test because he had contaminated the sample. Mr Horgan said the swab was useless because there may have been a mixture of DNA and any analysis would be fruitless.
Brincat's barrister, Sean Grant, said the application should be denied because an earlier application to connect Brincat with the killings of Marshall and of underworld identity Jason Moran and his associate Pasquale Barbaro had been refused in March.
Mr Grant said Brincat spent 23 hours a day in confinement. "What did he do? Did he tongue-kiss a prison officer?" he said.
In the dock, behind a glass window, Brincat shouted that the police application was "just another attempt to fit me up".
The court was told that police had recorded the movements and conversations of Brincat and Hentschel in the nine days before Marshall's murder.
Detective Senior Sergeant Gavin Ryan of the Purana Taskforce said police had seen Brincat driving in the vicinity of Marshall's home on 32 occasions during that period.
Senior Sergeant Ryan said that on the day of the killing, police had recorded a conversation between Hentschel and Brincat as they drove to Marshall's Joy Street home. The pair had discussed whether to use a large or small firearm, where Brincat would be let out of the car and where he would be picked up. He said Hentschel told Brincat "it would be necessary for him to have a shower or bathe and change his clothes".
The court was told they parked near Marshall's house and waited for him to arrive. Marshall was shot three times in the head from a range of five to 20 centimetres. Witnesses had identified Brincat as having shot Marshall, Senior Sergeant Ryan said.
The pair then drove to Hentschel's Cheltenham home where Brincat showered. The two men were later arrested in Elsternwick, where police searched Hentschel's Toyota Hiace and found a camera containing photographs of Marshall's home.
At Hentschel's house they found a .375 magnum revolver and a .45 magnum pistol. Analysis of the revolver showed that five shots had been fired. Blood found on Brincat's shoe matched Marshall's DNA, the detective said.
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This article was published 26/2/2014 (1241 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Doug Armour of Souris is looking for his 10th Manitoba curling championship title this week, and his second in eight days.
Three days after winning the provincial senior men's crown at the Brandon Curling Club as Kelly Robertson's third, Armour is skipping a team at the Manitoba Credit Unions masters championships at Winnipeg's Assiniboine Memorial Club. Since Armour has spent a lot of time in the last month with Robertson's squad, which also competed at the Safeway Championship, his masters team of Ken Sabad, Bill Scott and Reg Warren haven't played a lot to prepare for the masters provincials, which start today. Armour, however, is confident in his group.
"Bill Scott spares with me in the club quite a bit and Ken Sabad is playing five or six times a week and I know him like a book," said Armour, who skipped teams to the 2005 Canadian masters men's title and the 2008 national final. "Reg Warren hasn't played a lot with us, but he's a competitor and a good player. I don't think we'll have any problem blending together. I think our biggest enemy will be ourselves and catching on to the ice."
Although they haven't played together much since Christmas, the team had a lot of success before the break. They went undefeated at the Westman regional playdowns in December and the team, with Wayne Dillabough at lead instead of Warren, also won the Westoba Credit Union Masters Super League.
Armour's foursome enters the event as the third seed, behind Winnipeg's Ron Westcott and Carl German. Brandon's Lory Saban is the fifth seed, while Virden's Murray Duncan and Dauphin's Russell Murray are also in the field.
Armour expects the ice in Winnipeg to be fast and swingy and said their key to success is to take a little more ice and get out to the broom. If they do that, he feels his squad will be fighting for a playoff position and possibly a spot in Monday's final at 1:30 p.m.
"We're pretty excited about our chances," he said. "Now we may go in there and stink the joint out, but hopefully we'll make some teams sit up and take notice."
Meanwhile, Brandon's Joyce McDougall will go for a fourth straight masters women's title this week in Winnipeg, but her team has a different look to it.
After their ninth-place finish at the Canadian masters women's championship last year, McDougall and her team of Linda Van Daele, Karen Dunbar and Cheryl Orr were exhausted and contemplated whether they wanted to play another year.
In the fall, McDougall got the itch to get back on the ice and Van Daele returned as her third. The other two had already found other teams, so McDougall picked up Pam Horn, who won provincial senior women's titles with McDougall in 2004 and 2006, to play lead and Deborah Valcourt at second.
The new team finished second in the Stream 'N' Wood Curlettes League with a 6-2 record, but struggled to a 2-3 record at the senior women's provincial championship last week in Brandon.
McDougall admitted she was a little shaky, but hopes she get her game together before the five-team round robin starts today. There isn't a lot of pressure early as four of the five teams make the Page playoffs and McDougall is just hoping to have a good time.
"We always look forward to the event," she said. "We enjoy coming in and curling and being together and having a little bit of fun."
The women's final is slated for Sunday at 4 p.m.
SUPER LEAGUE: The Westman masters super league is looking for new teams for next season. Contact Don Sumner at 204-728-9946.
EXTRA ENDS: The Minnedosa men's bonspiel will run from March 7-9. The cost for the three-event bonspiel is $140 per team. Call Miles Dalrymple at 204-867-3645 … Killarney's St. Pat's bonspiel will run March 13-16. Contact Don Chatham at 204-523-8412 … The 115th annual Virden men's bonspiel will run from March 18-23. Contact Jay Kinnaird at 204-851-1267 … Neepawa's spring mixed bonspiel is slated for March 21-23. Call Wanda Rainka at 204-476-3545.


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i had vaser and it was practically painless. im 3 days post up and feel preety good. so this is just to update evry1
i hd vaser on monday. i did a thorough research and settled for dr K in cape town. im not much of a talker...heheh
all i can say is, i had my procedure under LA with mild sedation. i did my upper and lower abs. i toook pain killers affter words. barely felt and pain. afterwards, i was put in a spanx and compression garment. i also had a drain.
my drain is to be removed tomorrow.
since my procedure, i go to te nurse potie for lymph drainage masssage and ultrasound twice daily.
i have some swelling but thats espected.
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i had vaser and it was practically painless. im 3 days post up and feel preety good. so this is just to update evry1
Its post up 4days. had swelling today. was out...
I am 11 days post op today. welll, this past week...
my upper ab is really flat and no hardness. im still wearing my CG all the time and i self massage. anyone with ways to get rid of the hardness should pls share.
also, i bought arnica massage oil but have used it only once, it felt good, but wen i put on my garment afterwards, i felt some mild sting feeling. who has used this?
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Rights group Odhikar reported 805 rape cases in 2012 based on newspaper reports alone.
Dhaka: Bangladeshi rights groups and experts on Monday asked for revision of a century-old "demeaning" medical evidence law that requires rape victims to undergo a test during which doctors use their two fingers to confirm sexual assaults.
"The so-called two-finger test used by Bangladesh doctors in their examination of rape victims must be stopped," said a statement issued by Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) containing signatures of 100 experts including rights activists, doctors and legal experts.
It added: "The two-finger test is demeaning and does not provide any evidence that is relevant to proving the offence".
The "two-finger" test is used to gauge if a woman who is alleging rape is `habituated to sex` and if her hymen is broken under a law enacted in 1872 when the country was under British colonial rule.
"I have asked them (rights groups and experts) to give their recommendations in details so the government could take appropriate steps to review it also involving the health and home affairs ministries," State Minister for Women and Children Shirin Sharmin said.
Sharmin, however, added that since it was technical and medical issues were at play, the expert opinions of forensic doctors would be of crucial importance in taking any decision on the law for the two-finger test.
He was replying to a query on the demand made by the activists.
Additional Deputy Police Commissioner of Dhaka Ayesha Siddika said the two-finger had shortfalls in examining a rape victim while use of the term "habituated to sex" is problematic, particularly in cases of married women, and persons who`ve previously had relations with the rapist.
BLAST`s executive director Sara Hossain said sexual history of the victim was not "legally relevant to whether sexual assault or rape has occurred, and the law needs to change to reflect this".
The rights groups have long been campaigning for revision of the law and the activists demand came as Bangladesh in recent years has witnessed growing complaints of rape or sexual assaults.
Rights group Odhikar reported 805 rape cases in 2012 based on newspaper reports alone and believed to be under reported but the figure appeared almost double compared to newspaper reports appeared in 2009.


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ARLINGTON, Va. – As fall and winter approach so does cold and flu season, but, there are a number of ways that service members can ensure they stay healthy throughout the season. That all starts with getting a seasonal flu vaccination.
"The best way to prevent the flu is by getting vaccinated each year," said Army Col. Jack Husak, chief of preventative medicine for the Army National Guard. "The upcoming season's flu vaccine will protect against the three influenza viruses that research indicates will be most common during the season."
Receiving the vaccination is also mandatory for service members, said Husak, adding that the vaccine cuts down on the chances of both getting the flu and of passing it on to others.
Service members can also further reduce their chances of becoming sick—from the flu or many other illnesses—by following simple things like washing hands to stop the spread of germs.
"Wash your hands or use hand sanitizer frequently, especially before meals, after using the latrine or touching common surfaces like public door handles," said Husak.
Other things, such as a balanced diet, also go a long way in preventing sickness.
"Eating a well-balanced, nutritional diet gives our bodies the fuel to live and also the vitamins and minerals necessary to have a strong immune system to fight off infections," he said.
Eating healthy is only part of the equation, said Husak. Maintaining an active lifestyle with plenty of exercise is also important to staying healthy.
"Exercise is a also beneficial to create a strong body," he said. "Exercise should be a mix of strength training to produce muscle tone and strong bones and aerobic exercise to increase endurance."
The key is maintaining a balanced lifestyle between exercise, diet and other elements.
"When it comes to healthy living, balance is important," said Husak, adding that rest is an important part of that as well.
"Sleep is essential part of balance," said Husak. "Maintain good sleep habits and strive for eight hours of rest or more per night."
But, Husak said, even healthy people can get sick. Should service members feel sick, they should get plenty of rest and visit a doctor.
"Call your healthcare provider if you have symptoms of flu: fever, cough, runny nose, sore throat, headache, muscle aches, fatigue, nausea or vomiting," said Husak. "Protecting yourself is your responsibility and enhances readiness."
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Olympic gold medalist Jennifer Jones brought some hardware to the Winnipeg Free Press News Cafe today.
Fresh off skipping her team to an undefeated run in Sochi and retrieving her daughter from Toronto, the corporate counsel at National Bank Financial has spent more time than she would like in airports.
She sat down for an interview with reporter Geoff Kirbyson.
The other three members of Team Canada, Dawn McEwen, Jill Officer and Kaitlyn Lawes, stopped by the News Café last week.
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Sandra Fluke, the young Georgetown Law student who has become the face of the pro-birth control mandate push, received quite a phone call before appearing on air with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell today: President Obama.
Fluke says that the President had some words of encouragement for her, and thanked her for speaking out on behalf of American women. In addition, he said her parents should be proud of her.
In addition from Presidential support, Fluke's University has defended her, calling Limbaugh's remarks misogynistic and Fluke "a model of civil discourse," even though it's Georgetown University's refusal to provide birth control coverage for its students that prompted Fluke to speak out in the first place.
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When things calmed down another Cockney bawled out, "lumme, that was a near one, Bill."
lumme, that do bring the war 'ome to a bloke, don't it, miss?
"lumme," he said aloud to himself, "there's anuvver of 'em wiv knock-knees," and disillusionment cannot have been long delayed.
One of the men turned to me and said, "lumme, mate, if old Hindenburg ain't been and gone and finished the blooming job for us!"
"lumme, if it ain't our sub-lootenant," exclaimed his benefactor.
Seeing Coo bending over him, he said: "lumme, I thought peace 'ad come at last, but it ain't—not wiv you 'ere."
"Lor' lumme," said the incensed Mr. Kidd, pushing Mr. Gibbs forward.


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There will be children's activities and crafts demonstrations and, in addition to the festival, visitors can see the Juried Art Exhibit which showcases 74 works by 59 artists from 10 states.
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Outdoor Juried Arts and Crafts Market with more than 60 artists' booths, indoor juried fine art exhibition, live musical entertainment, craft demonstrations, food and refreshments and creative children's activities.
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"Betas Brainstorms" by Herschel Chambers from Athens.
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Very easy to make, just put in the crock and let it simmer all day. It's almost a weekly meal around here.
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These were awesome! I was a little skeptical because the recipe sounded so easy, but it made a great dinner. The meat shredded perfectly and smelled amazing in the crock pot all day. Thanks for this keeper!
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- 3 chicken breast halves
- 2 (14 ounce) cansold el paso enchilada sauce
- 1 1⁄2 cups cheese (I use mexican in the bag)
- 8 flour tortillas
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- 1. Start up crock pot, put just 1/4 of a can of enchilada sauce in the pot.
- 2. Put chicken in, and pour the rest of the first can or enchilada sauce in the pot.
- 3. Let cook on Low for 7-8 hours or High for 3-4 hours. 1 hour before you want to assemble the enchiladas, take chicken out and shred it.
- 4. Put chicken back in crock with enchilada sauce and let simmer for about 30-60 minutes. (You don't have to do this, but it makes the chicken more flavorful because you are getting the sauce all over the chicken).
- 5. Pre-heat oven to 350. Pull out a 9X13 pan to put the enchildadas inches Pour enchilada sauce, just enough to coat the bottom of the pan.
- 6. Start assembling the enchiladas by scooping up some chicken and putting in the tortillas, topped with cheese.
- 7. Roll the filled tortillas and put in to the 9X13. Keeping doing this until the chicken is all gone or the pan is filled. ( I squish a lot of enchiladas in one pan).
- 8. Pour remaining enchilada sauce on top and top with remaining cheese.
- 9. Put in to preheated oven for 20 minutes. Just enough to warm all the way through.


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Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Aug 24, 2009
Israeli President Shimon Peres claims that Lebanon's Hezbollah now has an arsenal of 80,000 rockets to bombard Israel -- double the previous estimate by Israeli intelligence and almost four times the number the Iranian-backed militants possessed during their 2006 war with the Jewish state.
Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh has dismissed as "lies" the claim made by Peres in an interview with the Kuwait daily Al-Rai published Sunday. "I don't know how he counted these rockets."
But the Israeli leader's claim has fuelled regional fears that a new conflict between Hezbollah and Israel is brewing.
There has been no independent confirmation that Hezbollah has that many rockets, although it has hinted at 40,000.
However, the allegation that Hezbollah, armed by Iran and Syria, has been able to amass such a vast inventory of rockets, some of them supposedly capable of hitting Tel Aviv, was seen by the jittery Lebanese as a possible pretext by Israel to justify attacking its tiny Mediterranean neighbor again.
Peres was quoted as saying that Israel was "not interested" in another conflict with Lebanon and that all differences could be settled through negotiations.
But, in a surprising disclosure, he admitted that Israel ran a large-scale espionage network in Lebanon.
That was the first confirmation by an Israeli leader that the Mossad intelligence service was involved in large-scale spying in Lebanon after dozens of suspected agents were rounded up by Lebanese security forces and Hezbollah since November 2008.
The main objective of the Israeli operation was locating Hezbollah's rocket and arms dumps, its elaborate defense system of underground bunkers, its leadership and its command centers linked by a difficult-to-penetrate, fiber-optic communications system.
Lebanese security officials say the spy ring was also responsible for assassinating several Hezbollah and Palestinian figures in Lebanon and Syria between 1999 and 2008.
The most prominent Hezbollah leader slain was the movement's shadowy operations chief, Imad Mughniyeh, one of the world's most wanted terrorist fugitives since 1985. He was blown up in a car bomb in Damascus, capital of Syria, Feb. 12, 2008.
Hezbollah has blamed Israel and vowed to avenge him, and, according to Israeli and Western intelligence officials, has made at least three attempts to do so, including plotting to blow up the Israeli Embassy in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, in April 2008.
Asked if Israel would retaliate against any Hezbollah attack to take revenge for Mughniyeh's death that succeeded, Peres said that "obviously if Israel is attacked it will defend itself."
According to U.S. analysts and diplomatic sources in the region, Hezbollah is not seeking renewed conflict with Israel at this time because it is deeply involved in advancing its political agenda in Lebanon and securing its position if Syria is lured into the Western orbit by U.S. President Barack Obama's administration.
Hezbollah and its pro-Syrian allies were beaten in parliamentary elections June 7 by the Western-backed, anti-Syrian March 14 alliance headed by Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri, son of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, who was assassinated in Beirut Feb. 14, 2005.
Nonetheless, Hezbollah insists that it should be included in the Cabinet Hariri is still struggling to put together 10 weeks after the elections. This has paralyzed political life in Lebanon, continuing the crisis triggered by Rafik Hariri's murder.
Israeli leaders have repeatedly warned that if Hezbollah is given Cabinet seats Lebanon as a state will be held responsible for any military action initiated by the group, whose guerrilla campaign drove Israeli forces out of south Lebanon in May 2000 to end 22 years of occupation.
Both sides have been ratcheting up their rhetoric in recent weeks amid concerns that Israel may be planning a pre-emptive attack on Iran aimed at knocking out its nuclear infrastructure.
It is widely accepted that if that happened, Tehran would order Hezbollah to unleash its rockets on Israel. That, in turn, has stirred concerns that Israel might take pre-emptive action against Hezbollah as well.
On July 27 Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, who has been in hiding since 2006 following at least two attempts to assassinate him, threatened to bombard Tel Aviv if the Israelis bombed Hezbollah's nerve center in south Beirut.
Parts of that quarter were pounded into rubble by Israeli airstrikes throughout the 34-day 2006 war.
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Hourly surface observations from the Canadian Weather Energy and Engineering Dataset were analyzed with respect to long-term wind direction drift or rotation. Most of the Canadian landmass, including the High Arctic, exhibits a spatially consistent and remarkably steady anticyclonic rotation of wind direction. The period of anticyclonic rotation recorded at 144 out of 149 Canadian meteostations directly correlated with latitude and ranged from 7 days at Medicine Hat (50°N, 110°W) to 25 days at Resolute (75°N, 95°W). Only five locations in the vicinity of the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Coast were found to obey a "negative" (
There is an increasing demand for high accuracy prediction of low-level winds in applications such as wind power, wildfire management and air quality assessments. The latter can concern terrorist threats (where the location of source is frequently unknown), emergency planning, probabilistic safety assessments pertaining to design-based accidents and licensing submissions pertaining to routine industrial releases. One of the most important parameters required by these applications is the speed and direction of the wind, which is rarely known both at the source and at the receptor. Characteristics of the wind for a specific location can be assimilated from point measurement sites and (or) dynamically interpolated using a mesoscale numerical model.
The need for improving the accuracy of mesoscale models is on-going, and increasing the model resolution (by diminishing the grid-cell size) was generally associated with a gain in predictions accuracy, however there is a limit to the effectiveness of this approach [
As many air quality applications (e.g., safety and licensing of industrial sources of pollutants) are based on probabilistic assessments of atmospheric transport and dispersion, it is important to know whether there is an accumulation of a significant bias, or whether these anomalies largely cancel out when the long term record of modeled wind is deployed. This is a motivation for our work which focuses on the in-situ quantification of deterministic large-scale spatio-temporal patterns in the evolution of wind and subsequent quantification of the associated wind variability.
Deterministic in-situ quantification of wind and particularly its low-frequency variability (LFV) immediately beyond the synoptic scale (7–30 days) has been sought, but as yet remains elusive. Indirect support for the existence of beyond-synoptic LFV at the surface comes from the observations of LFV aloft in the mid atmosphere. For example, Hamilton [
Further support for atmospheric LFV is provided by periodicity observed in global Reanalyses data, particularly in that of ECMWF ERA-15 and NCEP-DOE [
Our study was focused on the analysis of continental surface wind, particularly its directional rotation. Historical records of wind rotation go back to observations of anticyclonic rotation of wind that have been reported in regions subjected to diurnally oscillating forces of land-sea breezes [
It is important to note that, although anticyclonic rotation is expected to dominate, cyclonic rotations are nevertheless frequently reported in the NH at as many as nearly half of the analyzed stations [
The objective of our study is to present observational evidence for the existence of LFV in surface winds, to quantify surface winds' LFV (frequency and direction of rotation) and to show that observed LFV of wind is spatially consistent over the continent. In addition, we show that regions influenced by the coast and by large-scale orography provide the exception to the general rule of "positive" (anticyclonic) and spatially consistent rotation.
The paper is organized as follows.
Multi-decadal records of hourly observations of wind were obtained from a publicly available Canadian Weather Energy and Engineering Dataset (CWEEDS) representing the period from 1953 to 2003 [
The 149 stations selected comprised of 131 Weather-Bureau-Army-Navy (WBAN) stations and 18 other stations recently added to CWEEDS. Gap-filling methods for sporadic temporal omissions in the surface wind data for the 149 Canadian meteostations and for calms (where no actual wind direction was identified) were based on the work of Fernandes and colleagues [
Full rotations completed by the vane anemometer are absent in the standard record of wind direction due to discontinuity when crossing the compass bearings from 360° to 0°. The traditional compass-based CWEEDS data was therefore reconstructed to accommodate directional continuity by adding 360° to the wind direction angle if the indication was that the wind direction passed through 360°/0°. For example, if five consecutive anticyclonic readings were 270°, 290°, 5°, 10°, and 30°, then this data was reconstituted as 270°, 290°, 365°, 370°, and 390°. Readings indicating a cyclonic rotation were treated in a similar fashion (
Therefore, reconstruction of full rotation counts at the 360°/0° crossing appears a generally straightforward task even when taking into account infrequent occurrences of large shifts in wind direction. Large wind shifts in the standard compass-based record of say +270° were substituted by the smaller and thus more likely shifts in the opposite direction,
In the present study, the trend in wind direction drift (specifically, the net anticyclonic drift) is termed SWR, instead of the more broadly defined term LFV. The long-term average of SWR was assigned a positive value if anticyclonic (
Wind direction drift (trend) was established and analyzed for all 149 selected CWEEDS stations. The degree of long-term stationarity of rotation was assessed by linear correlations of the continuous SWR record to time (
Spatial analysis consisted of investigating the zonal structure of SWR by assessing the correlation of SWR with longitude within the whole dataset and in moderately narrow (
Standard record of wind direction (the upper panel, limited to the end of 2001) and the corresponding reconstruction of the continuous evolution of wind direction at North Bay Ontario, 46.37°N, 79.42°W during 1953–2001. The upper three plots represent wind direction in degrees
The net anticyclonic drift, or SWR, subsequently represents the net asymmetry between cyclones and anticyclones. Observations of much longer than a month are required to clearly identify consistent anticyclonic SWR and to subsequently measure SWR frequency (
Most of the Canadian landmass (144 out of 149 meteostations), including the High Arctic, appears to be marked by anticyclonic SWR (
Map of Canadian climate regions with mean SWR rates observed at 149 CWEEDS stations; marker's color is mapped to SWR cycles per annum (cpa). Anticyclonic (clockwise) rotation is assigned a positive (+) sign, and cyclonic (anticlockwise) rotation is assigned a negative (–) sign.
In addition to the analysis of the continuous SWR (completed by vane anemometer), the rotary spectra of wind were calculated at 15 random locations in order to assess the robustness of the observed SWR effect. The frequency corresponding to SWR was clearly seen in each analyzed case; this is illustrated in
Zoomed fragment of rotary wind spectra between known diurnal and seasonal oscillations at six Canadian Weather Energy and Engineering Dataset (CWEEDS) stations: (
Most of the Canadian landmass, including the High Arctic, exhibits anticyclonic and steady SWR, which also appears directly correlated with latitude (as seen in
Test on stationarity and on latitudinal dependence of SWR performed in 9 N-S transects. The number of stations in each transect is
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|Province a
|Outliers b
a Province abbreviations: ALTA: Alberta; BC: British Columbia; MAN: Manitoba; NB: New Brunswick; NFL: Newfoundland; NS: Nova Scotia; NW-ON: NW-Ontario; NWT: North West Territories; NU: Nunavut; PEI: Prince Edward Island; QC: Quebec; SASK: Saskatoon; SE-ON: SE-Ontario; YU: Yukon.
b Set comprises of 5 stations with cyclonic SWR and 3 with intermittent and nonsteady SWR; the number of stations is presented in parentheses beside the province name.
No significant association was found at the level of
The latitudinal tendency is apparent in SWR rates shown in
SWR rate per annum (cpa) at CWEEDS stations
The existence of a certain number of exceptions to the general rule of steady latitudinal dependent SWR makes it more logical to use an arbitrarily chosen dispersion threshold
A "core" subset of stations where SWR exhibited both strong latitudinal dependency and steadiness was identified. Steadiness in SWR is important, as it means a constant asymmetry between cyclones and anticyclones. Latitudinal dependence is perhaps the more important of the two features of SWR, because it defines the SWR frequency in each particular location. We started with a subset of stations exhibiting clear latitudinal dependence of SWR, and proceeded to reassess the stationarity within this subset. The number of stations within the identified core subset (n = 118) provides a clear measure of the strength of the latitudinal dependency and steadiness of SWR. Nine illustrations are presented as inserted plots in
Nine examples from a set of 118 "core" stations, which strongly correlate with latitude (and also exhibit exemplary steady SWR). Inserts show temporal drift of historic wind direction angle in units of total rotations.
Exceptions (subtle exceptions) to the whole dataset were identified on the basis of goodness of fit of SWR to Equation (1) provided by Kendall tau
Nine examples from 31 exceptions to latitudinal tendency and to steadiness of SWR shown in
The analysis shows that the core subset of stations (n = 118) exhibits exemplary steadiness in terms of anticyclonic rotation, with an SWR inter-annual variability characterized by
Our key finding is the observation of consistent anticyclonic rotation of wind direction at the continental surface (
There are three main reasons why this deterministic SWR may not have been noted previously. Firstly, the phenomenon may be masked: (a) in the vicinity of large water bodies,
In line with previously published observations [
Regarding studies related to the SWR period it is important to reiterate, that Luo and colleagues [
The frequency of SWR appears to be lower than that of synoptic events, and therefore SWR could be interpreted as being the basic asymmetry (or net anticyclonic imbalance) between cyclonic and anticyclonic events (e.g., caused by high and low pressure systems). No association of SWR frequency with the surface pressure at CWEEDS stations, analyzed by means of spectral analysis, has been established yet. Correspondingly the expansion of future analysis towards mid-atmospheric pressure systems seems important.
The stationarity over many decades of basic anticyclonic asymmetry manifested by SWR should be emphasized and is worth explanation. Another important feature of SWR is its spatial consistency combined with its dependence on latitude, likely pointing to the influence of the Coriolis force and its variation according to latitude (the beta-effect) via Rossby waves. If this is the case, a similar effect (anticyclonic rotation of continental winds) is expected in the Southern Hemisphere.
Observed periodicity could be associated with known periodic phenomena, like the weekend effect. For example, wherever the complete rotation of wind takes a week (
In summary, our study finds that:
(1) The surface wind in most of Canada generally undergoes slow anticyclonic SWR,
(2) The frequency of SWR was inversely correlated with latitude.
(3) Of the meteostations analyzed, a small proportion (3%) exhibited negative (cyclonic) rotation in regions subject to the influence of the ocean and/or mountains.
(4) The observed continental SWR appears to be deterministic, virtually ubiquitous, and highly persistent.
(5) The role of orography and local meteorological forcings in SWR small-scale variability merits investigation.
CWEEDS data and Canadian Daily Climate Data were provided by the Environment Canada, from their web sites at


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