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Happy July 14th! I know you're thinking I got my holidays mixed up since July 4th has already passed. But, July 14th of every year is a celebrated French holiday called Bastille Day. It honors the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789.
Since the French have contributed so many nice things to the United States, such as the Statue of Liberty, fine wine and cheese, perfume, fashion, and fancy French cuisine, we thought it was time to pay tribute to the French. We at BaxterBoo thought it was only proper to celebrate with a homage to our French four-legged furballs.
This gentle hunting dog is known for its short legs and long ears. It is a multi-purpose dog that follows its nose just about anywhere. The Basset can be any hound color, which includes combinations of black, tan, white, red and other colors. They're very affectionate and friendly dogs that are well-behaved and adjust to family life very well.
First presented in 1863 at a Paris dog show, the Basset-Hound was a French favorite. With its powerful sense of smell, that breed was great for hunting, but its gentle side was great for companionship. The breed began showing up in America when breeders wanted to breed a dog that exhibited both hunting and companion traits.
A born working dog, the Beauceron is perfect for sheep herding. They're highly intelligent and obedient with a drive of motivation that makes them great for training. As natural guard dogs, they have a loyal and fearless demeanor, making them great for military or police work.
The oldest record of this breed goes way back into the Renaissance from 1578. The breed was primarily a herding dog, but had a tendency to bite and snap in defense of the flock. Through selective breeding, the temperament of this attack dog was softened.
With its protective nature, the dog was also put to work in the military. They could deliever messages, pick up trails, find wounded soldiers, and carry food and ammunition. Their calm demeanor and ability to follow commands on the spot, made them great for both major European wars. Even today, we use them as herders, guard dogs, and military dogs.
A great hunting dog, the Brittany is highly intelligent and easy to train. They are affectionate, gentle, happy, and eager to please. Their good nature and enthusiastic hunting skills make this dog a popular breed.
Even though it looks a lot like the Welsh Springer Spaniel, the Brittany is believed to be a cross between the Orange and White Setter and another non-identified French dog. The dog got its name from the French province of Brittany and is one of the most popular breeds used for bird hunting.
Bred as a companion dog, this small, muscular pup is appreciated for its affectionate nature. Lively and playful, the French Bulldog has a funny personality. They go with the flow, very enthusiastic, goofy and curious. All of these qualities make the Frenchie a great companion and family member.
Their playful demeanor makes them great for company. They get along well with strangers and other animals. This breed is a natural follower, so leadership is important when raising a Frenchie. Their coat will either be a brindle, fawn, white, and brindle and white color.
Since the English Bulldog was a popular breed in the 19th Century in England, the idea arose to make a smaller, lap version breed. This new "toy bulldog" was carried to France during the Industrial Revolvution. The French instantly fell in love with the big earred love bug and gave it the name "French Bulldog."
The breed made its way back to England over time and the British were furious that the name "French" was given to a dog orginally started in England. However, the name stuck and this loveable bulldog was forever known as the French Bulldog.
A small and lively companion, the Papillion is distinguished from other breeds by its butterfly-like ears. They're not shy or aggressive, but are happy and alert. Their coat will either be parti-color or white with patches of any color.
They're smart, friendly dogs that are playful and amusing. With an affectionate and gentle temperment, they love to cuddle which makes them a great household pet. They love outdoor excerise and they are quite amusing to watch. Despite their appearance, they are not considered a yippie dog, but rather an obedient playmate.
Dating back nearly 700 years, the Papillion was orginally breed with dropped ears and went by the name of "epagneul nain" or "dwarf spaniel". They were often depicted in the laps of French and Spanish noblewomen during the 13th and 15th centuries. Overtime, their ears became more erect and gave the appearance of a butterfly, which earned the dog a new name of Papillion (which means "butterfly" in French).
The description is in the name (literally). This French name means, Petit– small; Basset– low to the ground; Griffon– rough or wire coated; and Vendéen- the area of France from which he originated. The Vendéen is a scent hound that has a long, rough coat. Its colors typically include white with any combination of lemon, orange, black, sable, tricolor or grizzle markings.
They're intelligent and alert, but they have a very cheerful and friendly demeanor. They love to dig and is sometimes known for its escaping abilities. They need leadership due to its pack animal hertiage.
They get their name for a few reasons. Bred as a hunting dog for hare and rabbit, the pup orginated in the French region of Vendéen well back into the 16th century. They were bred down in size from the much larger Grand Basset Griffon Vendéen and up until 1975, the two breeds were cross bred.
Have a safe and happy Bastille Day!
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Fifty women, including the mayor's wife, Eula Battle, attended an elegant UNCF First Ladies Tea on National Philanthropy Day, November 15, atop the beautiful Ledges of Huntsville. The women—and some men—representing churches from all over the city including St. Johns AME, Trinity United Methodist, First Missionary Baptist, Oakwood University Church, and others were greeted with corsages and escorted into the ball room amidst the melodic sounds of harpist, Shushanna Smith. The menu included clotted cream, cucumber tea sandwiches, and roasted chicken salad tarts.
The Huntsville/Madison County pastors' wives had a chance to sit and enjoy one another's company and as they sipped Russian spice tea. The ladies were asked to bring their favorite family teacup and don their favorite hat for the occasion, which made for an interesting exchange of stories. First Ladies Tea Chair Rosa Kilpatrick, UNCF Area Director Walvid King, Community Foundation Executive Director Lynne Berry, and UNCF scholarship recipient, Jeremy Jordan, shared their remarks. Each guest left with a UNCF fan as a memento.
Verizon Wireless sponsored the event, and Emma's Tea Room donated chocolate truffles designed especially for the occasion. Gift Basket Expressions and Albert's Flowers donated door prizes. Other surprises included a phone from Verizon Wireless and a gift certificate for Emma's Tea Room for four new faith friends.
In keeping with the "Building Bridges to Opportunity" theme for the North Alabama UNCF campaign, the event was an effort to cultivate a partnership with the Faith Community to create opportunities for more people to earn a college degree. The Tea was a chance to honor and appreciate our local pastors' wives for their philanthropic service to the community, encourage relationships, increase the faith community's awareness about the UNCF, and inspire the women to build a coalition for the purpose of improving the lives of others through education.
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SARAJEVO: U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke received a big bit of leverage for his weekend meeting in Rome with Balkan presidents with the discovery of what NATO officials call a terrorist camp near Sarajevo. Less than 48 hours before the Rome conference to boost compliance with the Dayton peace agreement was scheduled to begin, French soldiers raided a former ski chalet 20 miles west of Sarajevo and found nine men, including at least three Iranians, sitting atop an extensive arsenal of grenades, submachine guns, explosives and boobytrapped toys. The Iranians were in direct violation of the Dayton agreement, which said all foreign forces were to have left Bosnia by January 19. But what has the U.S. most worried were allegations that Bosnia's Muslim government had links to the Iranians. "No one can escape the obvious, that terrorist training activity was going on in this building and it has direct association with people in the government," U.S. Admiral Leighton Smith said Friday after an inspection of the chalet. TIME's Alexandra Stiglmayer reports that there may be a political motivation behind the NATO raid. "As the Holbrooke meeting approaches, NATO officials may have had wanted to arrest bad guys on the Muslim side to balance the Serb officers extradited to The Hague Monday for war crimes."


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I made this entire costume by hand using an overstock of metallic dance lycra. Originally I had bought this material for another costume but when that idea fell through I racked my head for another costume I could make with all the extra remnants. I have already done one version of cutey honey before but it was her animated flash version for the tv series so I wanted to re approach the costume again from another angle. Hajime Sorayama created this beautiful statue art of her that I wanted to replicate. Her costume colors are a bit different in his version, being red silver and gold instead of blue and yellow and she has a fencing epee instead of a saber. I hand drew the pattern for this on computer paper. Making this costume want too difficult but the material was a bit fragile so I couldnt make it as form fitting as I wanted without the fear of ripping seams if I did any action poses. I wore a flesh tone leotard underneath too to protect my modesty and also to hide the fact that I am wearing falsies underneath. The epee i made from a half foam ball, clay handle and metal dowl. The boots are a recycled pair of equestrian steam punk boots I had intended to donate but kept them thankfully and repainted them gold to match the costume.
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Late last year, I resolved never to write on the twin topics of Boko Haram and General Olusegun Obasanjo because whatever you wrote would not stop the duo from doing what they know how to do best-setting the polity aflame via inciting harangues that could egg the military to topple any government in power.
Since President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan won the April 2011 election former President Olusegun Obasanjo has variously and severally called for a Nigerian Arab Spring and an outright revolution all in an attempt to bring the President Jonathan administration to a cataclysmic and an abrupt end. And in December 2012 the former president who believes he possesses all the solutions to Nigeria's problems in his kitty advised against another civil war in Nigeria.
But today we hear that President Jonathan has reached out to his political godfather and granted all his requests including conceding the Peoples Democratic Party, Board of Trustees Chairmanship to Gen. Obasanjo's candidate. Other concessions could be the usual ever ready long list for federal appointments.
And so, since the war between father and son is over Nigeria will experience some respite from the General Obasanjo Sector as the carrot-and-stick exponent has been appeased with enough carrots to last a life time.
But by far the more intractable of the two evils is the boko haram scourge. If President Goodluck Jonathan believes that he can appease the northern mafia by giving all federal government appointments to them, then he should return to the drawing board. This is because boko haram is a northern political machinery to harass, torment, frustrate and make the President voluntarily relinquish power or be forced out of power.
Those who vowed to make Nigeria ungovernable did not express themselves via secret wikileak documents. They proclaimed their threat through press conferences in the fullest glare of the whole world. And these same frustrated and defeated politicians have transformed a rag tag, bow and arrow, cutlass wielding boko haram outfit to one of the most sophisticated, most equipped and most daring Islamic fundamentalist groups in Africa. It is incredible to realize that boko haram even attacks soldiers in their own barracks.
I feel very pained and melancholic when people insinuate the pedestrian argument that boko haram is as a result of infrastructural decay in the North, youth pauperization and lack of education for the youth. If there is infrastructural decay in the North, is the state of infrastructure better in the south? If there is youth unemployment in the north, have they been to Lagos where the area boys syndrome is the order of the day? Or have these exponents of infrastructural decay been to the creeks of the Niger Delta where there are no infrastructure and even no schools at all?
Even if there is infrastructural decay in the north, why is it that the Christians in Kaduna, Taraba, Benue, Plateau, Adamawa and even Yobe are not killing and maiming humans of their kind? The truth is that those northerners who lost the April 2011 primaries and elections are all Moslems and they found it most convenient to reach out to their Islamic constituency to convince jihadist-oriented Islamic fundamentalists to unleash mayhem to avenge their electoral defeat and make Nigeria ungovernable for President Goodluck Jonathan.
And the North has displayed an overwhelming consipitorial silence of approval for boko haram and its atrocities to make Nigeria ungovernable. This is because the North according to a former Northern President is "born to rule"
The North is so inured to power and rulership that they are like fish out of water when out of power. Since 1957 when Nigeria had her self-government, the north has ruled Nigeria for years while the south has governed for only 15 years including President Jonathan three years. When the North felt that their grip on power was becoming too scandalous, they approached General Olusegun Obasanjo to rule Nigeria for them but on behalf of the south. General Obasanjo accepted and ruled four years for the North and ruled the remaining four years for the south. Obasanjo planned for a 3rd term but the north vehemently opposed this move as they felt the tough general did not play according to their rules in his 2nd term.
It is therefore illogical to reason that infrastructural decay, lack of developmental efforts and pauperization gave birth to the scourge of boko haram.
Former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar in his recent contribution to the chaotic situation in the North concluded that it will take over 15 years to overcome the economic and social devastation the North has been through. The former Head of State was not a billionaire when he became head of State on 8 June 1998 but today just one year in government made all the difference in his bourgeois status. The former accidental Head of State has no locus standi to be a judge in his own case. History will be the best judge. Today General Abubakar represents Nigeria in various international fora as the best that can represent this country. Nigerians should weep for this country because there is no former Nigerian leader who is qualified to represent this country at any international fora either for election or conference matters. However, the late General Murtala Mohammed would be an exception here.
By far the most acceptable and most candid of opinions from the north has been from the Senate President, Senator David Mark who posits that poverty should not be an excuse for killing and maiming fellow humans and making Nigeria ungovernable, after all poverty is not restricted to the North alone as it is unfortunately pervasive all over the country. Senator Mark is appalled by the tacit acceptance of these bestial Islamic fundamentalists by the Northern elite.
The northern elite who reorganized and equipped boko haram have all kept sealed lips over the atrocities being perpetrated by the horrendous miscreants. From the most senior government officials of Northern Origin to the messenger at the Presidency and throughout the entire civil service no one has come out openly to challenge boko haram as senator David Mark, the Sultan of Sokoto, His Royal Eminence Alhaji Abubakar Sa'ad III and Mrs Sarah Jibril have done.
The Sultan of Sokoto has become so obsessed in finding solutions to this security challenge created by Adamu Ciroma and his cohorts that I fear he may have lost so much sleep. The highly intelligent and fearless ruler has appealed to all in the north and even in the south to rally round the president to find solutions to this odious menace. In those glorious days of yore the Sultan's word was law and no one flouted it. But today these heartless militants even went that far to attempt to kill the Emir of Kano and his two sons after eliminating three of his guards. In the days of Sir Ahmadu Bello, the late former Sultan of Sokoto and former premier of Northern region, nobody dared challenge the Sultan's authority. This total disregard for royalty is a phenomenon that is now widespread in Nigeria. You now hear of armed youths sacking the king's palace. This happened in Delta State last year when irate youths stormed a king's palace in Sapele Local Government Area.
Rather than abating, the insecurity introduced by the frustrated politicians is widening in scope and organization as a new Islamic group known as JAMBS (Jama'atu Ansarul Muslinminafi Biladis-Sudan) on Saturday, 19 January, 2013 attacked a two-bus load convoy of Nigerian soldiers on their way to Mali, killing two soldiers with an IED device. This boko haram break away group is led by someone whose name I do not want to make popular.
The Northern elite must appeal to their creatures to cease fire and make Nigeria a better place for all Nigerians whether it is northern Nigeria or southern Nigeria. After all the "Malum Pomum" theory states that one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch.
Enough is enough!
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Thank you. I hope your 'away' was holiday and not work.
I've only been away for a little over two weeks and so much is happening. A big welcome from me too!
Hi Lesley Anne, I still think of myself as the newbie here but I just realized you are more newbie than I am. Welcome to this wonderful group. I am looking forward to get to know you and your writing. Bieke
Welcome Lesley! I'm new myself and still acclimating. I've found everyone here helpful, welcoming, and prolific! If I can help, give me a holler.
Welcome, Lesley. I hope you can join in soon and find what you are looking for.
Hi Lesley - and a warm Canadian welcome from me in Nova Scotia where we are having yet another snowy day! Look forward to reading your work and sharing thoughts etc.
Hi Lesley! Welcome to Writers Abroad.I'm in Spain, almost right down the bottom and I write all sorts of romance. Looking forward to reading your work - hope you enjoy the group and get something useful from the interactions. And hope you'll post your novel in the chapter group!
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Thanks for a lovely welcome. Vanessa has also been in touch and mentioned a get together in the near future. We are actually on the D40 between the 2 crossroads, Bez/Naussac and Peyrusse/Naussac. There is only one road on the D40 between the two crossroads, and it is a cul-de cac, leading to us. Feel free to make a detour if you feel like refreshment after playing squash , or even before playing. You are obviously much fitter than I.
I have seen most of the films from Pangol's stories and read some of his books (with a struggle, though my French has improved) I have seen John de Florette/Manon des Sources several times, the end of the story always triggers my emotions. Much of the story was filmed in Mirabeau in Provence, it is the Mirabeau village fountain which was used in the films. My husband (French) has family there and we were married in Mirabeau.
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Wales have won the Grand Slam and I have grown to love rugby. Over the
past weeks I have been completely captivated by the Six Nations and I don't quite know how this has happened, because I used to hate it. I look back to those bitterly cold afternoons up on
the hills above the Gordano Valley near Bristol where the weather always seemed to hover somewhere between horizontal sleet and hail.
I'd loved playing football for my primary school and for the local electricity board team, Portishead Sparks. It seemed unjust that I had been sent to a rugby school at 11. I was small,
skinny and increasingly short-sighted. Rugby provided the proof in brutal sporting form of the disastrous decision my parents had made to send me to a school 11 miles away from home, where I knew
no one and everyone was better at rugby than me. I made one appearance for the Under-13s B-team against Bristol Cathedral School which ended 0-0. And that was it for me and competitive rugby.
I've always been able to enjoy a good game on the telly. I can watch pretty much any sport if I put my mind to it. But I never loved rugby.
Perhaps 9/11 changed that — was it a coincidence that the men who tackled the hijackers of United 93 were rugby players? I wonder. Is there something about the physical courage demanded of
this game that can raise its players above the common herd? This is a game that demands of its individual players that they accept pain as part of their contribution to the team effort. Solidarity
built from personal sacrifice.
I now know that part of the reason I hated rugby is that I couldn't face the fact that I lacked just that physical courage the game demands. I can now accept this about my younger self. And
it is one of the reasons I have such admiration for the young men who play it with such skill and commitment. Unlike football, I can watch rugby without the faintest whiff of pathetic
identification. At no point in my life have I ever dreamed of playing rugby for my country.
I had an inkling of this sentiment when I watched England's World Cup victory in 2003. Then I just felt it was patriotism and the fact that my newborn son was curled on my lap as an
unknowing witness to sporting history. Now I know it is something else. It is awe.
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SANTA CLARA — Serra-San Mateo utilized a physical defense, 32 minutes of intensity and an opportunistic, well-executed offense to drub Leigh-San Jose 61-43 in a CCS boys basketball Open Division quarterfinal at Santa Clara High on Friday night.
The Padres, battle-tested from their West Catholic Athletic League season, jumped to a 16-4 margin, led 17-7 after one quarter and 29-16 at halftime. At that point, Serra's pressure defense had held the Longhorns, champions of the Mount Hamilton Division of the Blossom Valley Athletic League, to just 3-of-17 shooting from the field and had forced 13 turnovers.
After intermission, Serra charged out with a 13-6 burst to extend the advantage to 42-22. Leigh fought back with a couple runs but got no closer than 11 points thereafter.
First-team all-WCAL senior Danny Mahoney led the Padres, now 20-7, with 15 points. Cory Cravalho added 13 and Trevor Brown tallied 10.
The Longhorns, falling to 23-3, were led by 6-foot-6, 220-pound center Jared Williams, with 19 points. Brown and Seth Bartlett starred in the Serra defense against the taller Williams, holding him to just one bucket in the decisive first half.
"I'm really happy we won," Brown said. "The difference was our pressure on defense. We try to make other teams uncomfortable. As a team, we shared the ball well on offense and screened and executed."
Said Serra coach Chuck Rapp: "Trevor Brown and Seth Bartlett did a great job. It takes a village to defend the post, including ball pressure and weakside defense."
Serra moves on to a Tuesday semifinal against Archbishop Riordan-San Francisco, a 61-44 victor over Burlingame. Leigh will face Burlingame in a consolation semifinal.
"Serra plays a very physical game," Williams said. "Their physicality is something else. And Mahoney and (Sean) Watkins are great shooters. Serra sets great screens and they are extremely well-coached."
Leigh sank the first hoop of the night and Serra came back with the next 12 points, 7 from Cravalho. Two of his three baskets came via superb passes, one from Watkins and one from Mahoney.
The lead grew to 23-7 but a Padre cold spell opened the door for the Longhorns. Yet they couldn't get more than a foot in that door as the Serra defense kept them bottled up outside, allowed few good looks and denied entry passes to Williams. Mahoney capped the half with a buzzer-beating 3-pointer for a 29-16 score at the break.
"We established a defensive presence early with our defensive intensity," Rapp said. "On offense, we did a good job sharing the ball and setting screens to get some good looks. That defense is the rock on which we build our church. Man-to-man, hand-to-hand. That's the way we are used to playing. That's the way our league is structured."
Four different Padres scored in a strong start to the second half, a four-minute charge that produced a 20-point lead. Jake Killingsworth nailed a left baseline 3-pointer and another bucket as he joined Mahoney, Watkins and Cravalho in the surge.
Leigh finally found some rhythm and fought back within 44-31, but the Serra defense coupled with sharp Padre passing leading to layups kept the Longhorns at bay. Brown scored two inside buckets in the middle of the fourth quarter as Serra drew back out to a 58-39 lead.
Leigh 7 9 15 12 — 43
Serra 17 12 17 15 — 61
Leigh (23-3): Williams 5 9-13 19, Morrison 3 0-0 8, Miller 3 0-0 7, Giacchetti 1 3-4 5, Peterson 1 2-2 4. Totals 13 14-19 43.
Serra (20-7): Mahoney 5 3-4 15, Cravalho 6 0-0 13, Brown 3 4-4 10, Killingsworth 4 0-0 9, Watkins 2 2-2 6, Bartlett 0 3-4 3, Wohrer 1 0-0 2, Healy 1 0-0 2, Nettles 0 1-2 1. Totals 22 13-16 61.
3-point goals: Morrison 2, Miller (L). Mahoney 2, Cravalho, Killingsworth (S).


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New Roles for Banks in Algeria, Remarks by Jules Erik J. De Vrijer, Division Chief, Middle East and Central Asia Department, IMF
February 3, 2005
Remarks by Jules Erik J. De Vrijer, Division Chief
Middle East and Central Asia Department
International Monetary Fund
At the US-Algeria Business Council Banking and Finance Symposium
New York, February 3, 2005
|This paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF. The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the IMF or IMF policy.
Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen:
I am pleased to be here today to address this distinguished audience on the important subject of this Symposium. Why is the role of banks an important subject? And what roles should banks in Algeria play? I think most people will agree that the main challenge for the Algerian economy is to generate high, sustainable economic growth and to significantly reduce the high level of unemployment. Meeting this challenge requires wide-ranging reforms aimed at developing the private sector and attracting private investment, in order to diversify the economy away from its dependence on the hydrocarbon sector. This is where the banking sector comes in. A well-functioning banking sector can play an important role in channeling resources to the best firms and investment projects, and in contributing to ensure the efficient use of these resources. In my presentation, I will focus on some important steps the authorities could consider to modernize the Algerian banking system so that it can better perform these functions.
Before turning to the Algerian banking sector, I would like to selectively review our knowledge concerning the linkages between the quality of financial intermediation and economic performance. By financial intermediation, I mean the functions which financial institutions and markets perform to mobilize society's savings, efficiently allocate these savings to investment projects, and facilitate transactions. In the second part of my remarks, I will summarize the salient features of banking intermediation in Algeria as we see them. This will naturally lead me to discuss some recommendations for Algerian policy makers on how to improve the quality of banking intermediation. I will conclude with a few thoughts on why it makes sense to allow more foreign bankers to enter the Algerian banking system.
Financial intermediation and the real economy
The linkages between the quality of financial intermediation and economic performance have received a lot of attention in recent years, so much so that financial stability has become an explicit mandate of many central banks. A growing body of experience and empirical research also finds that:
• Economies served by better-developed financial systems tend to grow faster because the private sector in these economies has better access to external finance to fund new investments.1 This effect appears to be more pronounced in countries at lower income levels.
• Better information sharing on borrowers and better protection of lenders are associated with higher levels of credit to the private sector.2
• Lower state ownership of banks is associated with higher growth of per capita income and more developed financial markets.3 Independence of bank management from direct state control is conducive to financial intermediation taking place on a sound commercial basis.
• Opening up the financial system to participation of reputable foreign banks often leads to faster development of financial systems.4
These and other studies strongly suggest that policy-makers should aim at bolstering the quality of financial intermediation by enhancing the role of private banks and reducing the direct involvement of the state in the banking sector. At the same time, it is important to develop incentives for good governance and invest in the information infrastructure for credit, without losing sight of the need for strong supervision to monitor risk-taking and enforce prudential regulations.
Banking intermediation in Algeria
Against this background, where does the banking sector in Algeria stand? In my remarks on this issue, I will use the findings of the Financial System Stability Assessment (FSSA) for Algeria. By way of background, I should say that in the wake of the financial crises in emerging markets in the 1990s, IMF staff has undertaken to assess the financial systems of member countries as part of the regular IMF surveillance of these countries' economies. The assessments are conducted at the request of the member countries and Algeria requested one in 2002. We conducted the work jointly with the World Bank in 2003 and the Algerian authorities consented to publish the FSSA on the IMF's website in May of last year. Furthermore, in its discussion of the report on the last Article IV consultation with Algeria on January 12, 2005, the Fund's Executive Board welcomed the fact that some of the FSSA recommendations have been adopted and called on the Algerian authorities to also implement the other recommendations. Both the report on the 2004 Article IV consultation and the Executive Board Assessment have been published on the Fund's website.5
A key feature of the Algerian banking sector is that, despite the licensing of 15 private banks since 1998, public banks continue to account for 9/10th of financial system assets and are burdened by sizable nonperforming loans to public enterprises. Public banks' losses averaged over 4 percent of GDP each year from 1991 to 2002 and continue to accumulate, albeit perhaps at a slower pace. These losses have not affected system stability because the Treasury has repurchased some of the nonperforming loans. These bail-outs, however, have distorted risk pricing and stunted the development of an appropriate credit culture. To address this issue, the 2005 government budget includes for the first time explicit subsidies to loss-making public enterprises to replace new bank credit. The Minister of Finance has also established a task force to determine residual stock losses and prospective flow losses of public enterprises.
Increasing the health of the banking system also requires improving banking supervision in many core areas. The failure of the largest Algerian private bank in 2003 exposed important gaps in supervision and regulation, and tarnished the public's opinion of domestic private banks. Therefore, we welcome that the Bank of Algeria, with Fund technical assistance, is taking steps to increase its supervisory capacity, including by recruiting and training additional inspectors.
In the past, the passivity of the state shareholder of the largest banks has frustrated attempts at making public bank managers accountable. A recent positive development is that managers of public bank have signed performance contracts for 2004-05 with the Ministry of Finance. Public bank executives we met last year mentioned stronger emphasis on tighter credit risk management and more forceful loan recovery.
Many bankers in Algeria note that small- and medium-sized enterprises are very costly to screen and monitor because firms run several books. A business-friendlier tax regime would help improve the quality of their financial information. Also, sustained economic growth should increasingly provide incentives to small- and medium-sized enterprises to seek outside finance and play by the bankers' rules. In this regard, it is also important that progress is being made towards the implementation of a new accounting system by 2007.
Finally, the modernization of the payment system is moving ahead with World Bank assistance. The real-time gross settlement system is programmed to be operational by end-2005 and a contractor for the retail payment system has been selected last December.
The Road Ahead
When looking at the road ahead, the FSSA mainly recommended to privatize public banks over the medium-term and to improve the operating environment for banks to cut intermediation costs. More specifically, as far as public banks were concerned, our most important advice was to quickly sell the better banks, make shareholder control much tougher on the remaining ones, and fully finance unviable public enterprises through the budget instead of through the public banks. As far as the operating environment was concerned, we advised chiefly to improve accounting and audit practices, make supervision pro-active, and modernize the payment system.
As noted above, the authorities have initiated a number of reforms but much remains to be done to allow the banking sector to better play its role in financing investment and growth. Furthermore, the government has recently sent a confusing signal about its intentions by prohibiting public entities from dealing with private banks. In our view, the key actions for the period ahead would include:
• End the practice of public banks to finance loss-making public enterprises. We welcome the replacement of part of public banks' credit to loss-making public enterprises by government subsidies. These, however, should be framed in a comprehensive public enterprise restructuring plan, with clear guidelines on the relation between public banks and these enterprises.
• Enhance transparency, governance, and competition in the sector by: (i) requiring public banks to only lend to creditworthy clients; (ii) rescinding the recent prohibition for public entities to deal with private banks; and (iii) publishing public banks' performance contracts and ex-post evaluations.
• Significantly intensify efforts to strengthen banking supervision, in particular by improving on-site and off-site supervision of the large public banks, and strictly enforcing prudential rules. We also encourage the authorities to continue to enhance the supervisory capacities of the Bank of Algeria, speed-up the implementation of the new information system for reporting bank data, and undertake risk-based surveillance that ensures effective early warning.
• Formulate an action plan for privatizing several public banks. In this regard, we consider that selling one public bank quickly to a reputable foreign bank would be important for its demonstration effect, including by transferring know-how to the sector, and would help contain the cost of restructuring other public banks.
Concluding Remarks
In recent years, Algeria has succeeded in increasing economic growth while keeping inflation low, and the country's macroeconomic outlook is good. However, progress in structural reforms has been slow with the exception of external trade liberalization.6 The increased political stability and Algeria's strong financial position have now opened an excellent window of opportunity to accelerate the transition to a market economy. The 2005 budget and the economic program of the government for the next five years go in this direction. Given the strategic role of the banking sector in the economy, we encourage the authorities to be more decisive on financial sector reforms. The topics chosen for this Symposium and the fact that senior policy makers are here today suggest that we see eye to eye on this.
In particular, we encourage the authorities to push ahead with their efforts to put the relationship between public banks and public enterprises on a sound footing; significantly strengthen banking supervision; and privatize a number of public banks.
Political stability and macroeconomic discipline will help to convince the banks represented in this room to establish themselves in Algeria. The operations of foreign banks already present in Algeria have reportedly so far been rewarding. However, further progress on financial sector reform is needed to enable banks to fully play their role in enhancing economic efficiency and growth, and in helping Algeria achieve its economic potential. For its part, the IMF will continue, within our areas of expertise, to advise and provide technical assistance to the Algerian policy makers in support of their reform agenda.
1 Levine, "The Financial Sector and Growth" NBER Working Paper No. w10766, 2004.
2 Djankov et al., "Private Credit in 129 Countries," World Bank Working Paper, 2004.
3 La Porta et al., "Government Ownership of Banks," Journal of Finance, Vol. 57, 2002; and Barth et al., "Banking Systems Around the Globe," University of Chicago Press, 2001.
4 Fries et al., "Cost Efficiency of Banks in Transition: Evidence from 289 Banks in 15 Post-Communist Countries," EBRD Working Paper No. 86, 2004, and Bonin et al., "Privatization Matters: Bank Efficiency in Transition Countries," University of Michigan Business School Working Paper No. 679, 2004.
5 There is currently no lending arrangement between Algeria and the Fund, and therefore there is no economic program supported by Fund resources. Fund policy discussions with, and advice to, Algeria are now undertaken mainly in the context of the annual surveillance exercise, also known as Article IV consultation, that the Fund conducts with every member country. This exercise culminates in a discussion and assessment by the Fund's Executive Directors, which constitutes the collective view of the international official community regarding the Algerian economy.
6 An association agreement with the European Union was signed in 2002 and negotiations towards accession to the WTO should conclude by end-2005.
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Matt McGloin could easily get overlooked this offseason.
Last year's rookie quarterback, who worked his way into a starting role, is now No. 2 on the depth chart behind veteran Matt Schaub, and will likely also be challenged by a rookie taken in next month's draft.
But last year's undrafted free agent appears to have a future in the organization.
Even though general manager Reggie McKenzie said after the season he was still looking for a franchise quarterback in Oakland, McKenzie was positive about what he'd seen from McGloin. And the Raiders recently parted ways with Terrelle Pryor, clearing the way for McGloin to stay on the roster.
"I thought he came in and I thought he did a pretty good job for what he was asked to to," McKenzie told Paul Gutierrez of ESPN.com. "He was confident in where he could throw the ball, his timing, his decision-making. Kind of sputtered a little bit, trying to throw the football when he shouldn't have.
"I thought McGloin showed some positive things that looked like a real quarterback from a standpoint of getting the ball out of his hands and, not being the greatest of mobile, moving, running guys, he didn' take a lot of sacks."
McGloin completed 55.9 percent of his throws for 1,547 yards in six starts, with eight TD passes and eight interceptions.
McKenzie said he believes McGloin has the makeup to continue improving.
"If you can build on it and get better with the throws and the timing and all that, he should be solid," McKenzie said.
McGloin, too, is working hard this offseason to cement his spot in the Raiders' future. It's a familiar story for McGloin. At Penn State, McGloin was lightly regarded yet became a starter. And last year, he outshined fourth-round pick Tyler Wilson and veteran Matt Flynn, then became the starter over Pryor.
Recently, the San Francisco Chronicle's Vic Tafur talked with McGloin after McGloin spent nine days at the passing academy of former 49ers quarterback Jeff Garcia in San Diego.
Garcia worked with McGloin on his footwork and spent time with him analyzing game film.
"He really pushed me," McGloin told Tafur. "It felt like camp. We cleaned up some mechanics and it was a great tuneup."
So, though McGloin will enter camp as No. 2 – and could be battling a touted rookie – he's doing everything he can to continue improving and produce when he gets his chances.
"I can't control what they do," McGloin said. "I am excited about learning from (Schaub) and hopefully his experience can rub off on me. We have already had some great talks."


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LORAIN — Vehicles equipped to withstand gunfire and explosive attacks in the Afghanistan war are being repurposed to deal with Lorain County crime scenes.
The Lorain County Sheriff's Office and the Lorain Police Department each were given one armored vehicle this week through the Ohio LESO Program. The vehicles, which weigh about 47,000 pounds, previously were used in the military, said Lorain police Capt. Roger Watkins.
The Sheriff's Department and Lorain police applied for the vehicles through the program more than a year ago. They were told a month ago that they would receive an armored vehicle at no cost.
"No local funding (was used)," Lorain County Chief Deputy Sheriff Dennis Cavanaugh said, adding that the vehicles are valued at more than $700,000 each.
The vehicles can travel 65 mph and go on most kinds of terrain, police said. The inside of the vehicles can fit two stretchers, which can be used to treat victims wounded at a crime scene and transported to a hospital, Cavanaugh said.
While the steel plates on the side of the vehicles and much of the equipment inside have been removed since the vehicles were used in the military, Watkins said they still are capable of withstanding more gunfire than other vehicles in the police fleet.
Police plan to use them at crime scenes such as stand-offs, shootings and whenever a person is barricaded inside a building. Both vehicles are equipped with air conditioning and heat, Watkins said.
"I hope it is intimidating," Watkins said.
"The outcome is to keep everyone safe," Cavanaugh said.
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If you happen to read MBA on a regular basis, you may remember me discussing my fear of yeast and my attempt to conquer that fear with the help of Amber from Bluebonnets and Brownies. Well since that post a couple of months back, I have been a bread baking fool and no longer doubt myself in the yeast department. In fact, I probably have more bread baking supplies and tools than some bakeries and with that came a serious addiction to the King Arthur Flour website.
Since I'm no longer a yeast novice, you can imagine how excited I am to flaunt my newly developed skills for this week's Holiday Recipe Exchange sponsored by Red Star Yeast.
As soon as we gained Red Star Yeast as a sponsor, I knew exactly what I was going to make – Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls. These three words alone are enough to get any pumpkin lover jonesing – smother the Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls with a Maple Cream Cheese Frosting and you'll pretty much be in sugar-coma heaven.
The pumpkin puree in the roll base creates a slightly denser dough, so these definitely are not as pillowy as a traditional Cinnamon Rolls – but they are just as delicious. I generously spiced these gorgeous rolls with homemade pumpkin pie spice and tossed in chopped pecans for a pleasant textural crunch.
As with most yeast based recipes, these Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls definitely take a little time and effort, but I promise you the results will be well worth it.
Remember – the longer you let yeast develop in a recipe, the more flavor it will have. Red Star Yeast pride themselves on providing the freshest, best yeast around, so let the little yeasties do their job and add tremendous flavor to your baked good. Once you've done it once, I swear you'll never look back. Be sure to check out Red Star Yeast on Facebook and Twitter for delicious recipes, great information on yeast and much more!
Now , we want you to share your favorite recipe using yeast and be sure to head over to Good Life Eats, because Katie has a wonderful recipe for Sweet Potato Rolls waiting for you!
1 cup canned pumpkin or squash
2 large eggs
2 tablespoons to 1/4 cup lukewarm water*
1/4 cup soft butter
2 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1 3/4 cups King Arthur White Whole Wheat Flour
1/4 cup nonfat dry milk
1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
3 tablespoons brown sugar, light or dark
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons Red Star Quick Rise Yeast or instant yeast
*Adjust the amount of water by the time of year or your climate. For summer, or in a humid environment, use the lesser amount of water. In winter, or in a dry climate, use the greater amount. It's always best to start with the lesser amount; you can always add more. (I needed the full 1/4 cup in my rolls).
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
2/3 cup light brown sugar, packed
1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
1/2 cup chopped pecans
4 ounces cream cheese, softened
4 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
1/4 cup pure maple syrup (I used Grade A)
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar, sifted (see recipe notes)
1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1. Mix and knead all of the dough ingredients together — by hand, mixer, or bread machine — until you've made a soft, fairly smooth dough.
2. Place the dough in a lightly greased bowl, cover the bowl, and allow the dough to rise for about 1 1/2 hours, until it's almost doubled in bulk.
3. Turn the dough out onto a lightly greased surface. Roll it into a 14" x 22" rectangle; the dough will be pretty thin.
4. Use a pastry brush to brush the melted butter onto the top of the dough. In a medium bowl, mix together the filling ingredients and sprinkle them onto the butter creating an even layer, leaving one short edge free of filling (about 1 inch).
5. Starting with the short end that's covered with filling, roll the dough into a log.
6. Cut the log into nine 1 ½"-thick rolls.
7. Place the rolls into a lightly greased 9" x 9" pan that's at least 2" deep. Set aside, covered, to rise for 1 hour, or until the rolls look puffy.
8. Bake the rolls in a preheated 375°F oven for 25 to 30 minutes, until they're lightly browned and feel set. Remove them from the oven, and set them on a rack. Turn them out of the pan, and allow them to cool for about 15 minutes. Towards the end of the cooling time, make the glaze.
9. To make the glaze: In a medium bowl with an electric mixer, combine the cream cheese, butter, maple syrup, confectioners' sugar and pumpkin pie spice. Mix on low speed until thoroughly combined and creamy. Feel free to adjust the frosting to meet your needs. If you like a thinner frosting, add in a little milk (start with 1 teaspoon) and slowly increase until you reach the desired consistency. If you want it to be thicker, add in a little more confectioners' sugar.
- Feel free to adjust the frosting to meet your needs. If you like a thinner frosting, add in a little milk (start with 1 teaspoon) and slowly increase until you reach the desired consistency.
- The pumpkin puree in these Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls make them a bit more dense when compared to a traditional cinnamon roll.
- According to King Arthur Flour, you can substitute the White Whole Wheat Flour for All-Purpose, you will just need to decrease the amount of water needed by about 2 teaspoons.
- If you are unsure what the dough should look like, definitely check out this post on KAF for an in-depth photo tutorial.
-If you prefer more maple flavor in your frosting, just play around with the proportions until it meets your needs.
-The frosting pictured above is a bit on the thick side because I made it the night before and refrigerated it until the next day. Ideally, it should be a bit thinner.
Adapted from King Arthur Flour via Good Life Eats.
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Karen Ensle Ed.D., RD, FADA, CFCS
Family & Community Health Sciences Educator
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Union County
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I have a wii with system menu 4.2 which I followed softmod guide and install HBC successfully, but i tried to use some usbloader to load my HDD like CFG, GX, SD-USB, Wii Flow and Neo gamma.
USB-Loader GX channel crash to the system menu after I start it from the menu ( Same with the forwarder). When I load it the HBC it's freeze at the start-up picture.
The Neogamma channel gives black screen but when I used the r9 thing and load it from HBC it's work but when I choose load WBFS ( My HDD is WBFS) it's just count the tries to 24 and freeze and never load my HDD ( I tried several times but it's always freeze at 24 tries), the load DVD option works fine.
Wii Flow stuck at the picture where it's tell me to put the USB to the left USB port which I did ( I think it's freeze).
The rest of the loader just give black screen, crash or freeze at start-up .
Thanks for those who will help me and sorry for bad english.
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I'm a little newbie though, can you help? I think have installed it correctly. It's actually works before.
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For USB Loader GX, it can use either IOS222, IOS249, or IOS250. (Depends of which version you have)
For CFG USB Loader, it can use either waninkoko's 247, 248, 249 and 250; Hermes 222, 223, 224 (mload) v4, v5; kwiirk 222 and 223 (yal).
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A few weeks ago, we had another get together with some family friends I grew up with. I was determined to see them all again, partly because they're great, and partly because they have a new addition - baby Lennon! She has got to be one of the most beautiful girls I've ever seen, and so sweet tempered that I could've carried her around all day. In fact, I kind of tried to, and my arm was sore the next day.
I mean, just look at this little face! Can you stand it? I guess she can be shy with new people sometimes, but she must've known me somehow because when I walked in, she looked at me and gave me her heart-melting grin and let me hold her right away. Love it!
She is about 7 or 8 months, and kept doing that awesome arm-flapping and leg-kicking thing that they do around that age... adorable little birdy! Plus, her g-ma sings her a song that makes her break into a HUGE smile every single time, I could not get enough of it.
Too much mashed yam...
Lennon was so well behaved and sweet, even with no nap, I could not believe it. She wasn't bothered by anything, and seems so intrigued by the world, which is something I love about spending time with little ones. Now, if only we could get her to let her poor mama sleep more than 3 hours a night!
More photos of the family day coming soon - but I felt the baby photos deserved their own post, cause, awwwwww.
Monday, April 07, 2008
baby Lennon!, Harris-Smith party part 1, Petaluma, California
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who's cute!
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Definitely a cutie!
My hubby is from Petalum -It's such a cute little town and I love visiting!
Were you using the 85 1.8 for these shots?
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I was using the 50 f1.4 with my 5D, LOVE it!
That's so funny your husband is from Petaluma. I'm sure we know the same people (hard to escape in that small of a town). If you're ever up and would like to get some tea, let me know!
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World's Richest Black Man is Aliko Dangote
Nov 18, 2011 – The Richest Black Man in The World is Aliko Dangote
According to Forbes 2011's List of the Richest Black People in The World, Nigerian Billionaire, Aliko Dangote is number one.
As at now, he is the richest black man in the world. Alhaji Aliko Dangote is not new from making world headlines. His name has significantly become a recurring decimal in the country's business arena. Aliko has also expanded his frontier from Nigeria to entire African region where he now enjoys a leading position in the area of manufacturing. Just last week, the federal government announced his name among top Nigerians to be honoured in this year national honour award. He is to be conferred with Grand Commander of Niger GCON. Having been a grand commander in business, especially in cement, sugar and flour, the honour did not come to many as a surprise; rather it complements his status as true business mogul of our time.
The award is the country's second highest national honor, after the Grand Commander of the Federal Republic (GCFR) – an award which is only reserved for Nigerian Presidents and Heads of state. Dangote becomes the first individual outside government to receive the nation's second highest national honor. In the past, the GCON has only been awarded to Vice-Presidents, Chief Justices of the country and Senate Presidents. Dangote's GCON award according to information is in recognition of the immense contributions he has made to the economic development of Nigeria.
It is on record today that Aliko was the first Nigerian to enter the Forbes list of billionaires and was also adjudged the richest man in Africa.
Aliko Dangote made his name in commodity trading especially sugar importation into Nigeria which he admits he controls over 60 per cent today. Given the heavy demand by Nigeria's breweries and confectionery industries for sugar, he makes a kill by doing volume business and gaining advantages to undercut competitions. Dispelling rumours of his cornering the market with the connivance of government support, he says it is an open market but because of his enormous investment in the business and his transport haulage business, he can distribute his sugar faster, cheaper and at a uniform prize nationwide which the competitions cannot match. Dangote is reputed to have good investments even in foreign-based sugar refineries that supply him.
His business interest spans the export. He exports cashew nuts, cotton, cocoa, millet ad textile. His extensive network enables him to source these commodities not only in Nigeria but the entire west coast of Africa where he is increasingly becoming a visible player. He also exports fish. Interestingly, he started out importing fish but when the local market proved difficult and less profitable, he diverted his supplies to the export market.(www.naijagists.com)
Dangote also imports and sells rice, vegetable oil, and cement. He employs similar strategies in the distribution of these commodities as in the sugar business. In December 1996, Dangote says, in response to a mandate from government, he imported and sold so much rice that the local market crashed by almost 80 per cent.
In the 1980s, Dangote decided to move from being just a successful commodity dealer to a more rounded entrepreneur with solid investments in finance and manufacturing. His style was acquisition and buying into existing companies. www.naijagists.com
He started out with Dangote General Textile Products which he acquired from its former owners thereby establishing control over the source of his trade. In 1993, he acquired controlling shares in the Lagos-based Nigerian Textile Mills. He invested enormous resources in re-capitalising, refurbishing its machinery and restructuring its management. And within a few years, he turned it from a loss maker back to its days of good profits. Looking beyond just making and exporting textile materials, the Dangote Group is exploring opportunities to manufacture jeans materials for the export market. Even in sugar, Dangote currently has a joint venture with a Pakistani firm to set up a refinery in Nigeria to locally make sugar to cap his years of sugar business. Dangote bought controlling shares of the Nigerian Salt Company to broaden his investment portfolio. With this, National Salt has become a dominant player in the Nigeria's salt market.
Alhaji Dangote founded the Dangote Group, which he currently presides over as President and Chief Executive. Currently, the Dangote Group has 13 subsidiaries spread all over Nigeria. The subsidiaries include cement, sugar, salt, flour, pasta, noodles, poly products, logistics, real estate, telecommunications, steel, oil and gas and beverages. The Group operates in 14 African countries including Senegal, Zambia, Tanzania, South Africa, Congo (Brazzaville), Ethiopia, Cameroun, Sierra Leone, Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia and Ghana, among others. The Group, whose core business focus is to provide local, value-added products and services that meet the 'basic needs' of the Nigerian population, recorded a turnover in excess of $3 billion (N450 billion) in 2010. www.naijagists.com
The Dangote Group has risen from its humble beginnings to win several awards-both locally and internationally. Last year, Dangote Cement Plc, one of the four listed subsidiaries of the Group, made history when it became the largest quoted company in the country, following its historic merger with sister company Benue Cement Company Plc (BCC) and the eventual listing of the emergent company on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). The Dangote Group was rated among Top 40 African Challengers in 2010 by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and was also adjudged the Investor of the Year 2010 by the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) and the Commonwealth Business Council (CBC). Read Aliko Dangote's Biography
What an achievement. This man is not a university graduate yet he is now the richest black person in the world.
Inconclusion, education is never a barrier to success in life. The only barrier is our state of mind.


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FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin spoke Thursday at a deployment ceremony for more than 4,000 soldiers heading for Iraq, including her son, Track Palin.
In remarks at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, the Republican vice presidential nominee called the Iraq War a "righteous cause," the Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News said.
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As I Got The Answers From You, Our Mutual Constent Divorce Is On Aug-5. In Draft She Has Given Me Sole Custody Of My Minor Son. She Just Needs Divorce From Me More Than Custody Of Child, Shes Seeking Divorce From Me. I Dont want To Give Her Any Visitation Rights, This Is How Its Been Drafted ( The Sole Custody wil Remain With The Petioner 2 Without Any Visitation Rights To Petioner 1) Is It Oke For me. Wil i Have a Problem. Can I Say To The Judge That Im Not Ready To Give any visitation rights To The Mother. An Even Shes Ready To Say That She doesnt want ant visitation Rights, So She Wil Do As I Say. Coz She Just Needs Divorce. Im Ready To Give Her Visitation Rights But Shes a Very Bad Women Who as Met Her 2 Guys(Affair) With My Kid. an Im Scared In Future If I show or leave my kid to her it will Harm My Son Nature/Behaviour. Pls Suggest Me. Is It Oke When i say no visitation rights to the mother an even when she says she dsnt want visitation rights, wil the judge ok our agreement of child custody or the judge can change By his choice ? wil the judge ok all our agreements made on paper as we both will agree for it, does he (Judge) have rights to change anything in drafted paper of mutual constent divorce. Shes Ready To Say Anything as i wish.
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SummaryRuff ruff ruff!
The GoodAhh...what can you say against Duck Hunt ? So many memories. Like not letting your sister have the zapper after an hour. Ahh... memories. But how could you not put it down? It's great arcade action! And extremely addicting!
You start the game, your hunting dog sniffs around, barks, and jumps into the grass and starts chasing out ducks.
The gameplay is very simple. Just point the light gun at the and shoot ! You only get three shots to get a duck that flies up on screen. Shoot too many times, or miss and it'll fly away. And then we all know what happens next. Your trusty dog pops out of the grass and laughs at you. I personally think it's kind of funny. He also holds up the ducks you shoot.
The real challenge of the game is increasing speed of the ducks, and your aim. If you're a lousy shot, you won't get very far. I got almost all the way to 22,000 points.
If you get tired of shooting ducks, you can always shoot clay targets! Yes, there's another game included ! It's at the bottom of the selection screen. It's slightly more challenging than the ducks. One cool aspect is you can shoot a target when it's really far away.
Oh yeah, and you have to use the Zapper gun with this game. There's only one downside though, but I'll get to that later. It's far better than using a controller.
The dog barking, the ducks, and that little chord that plays when you shoot a duck. Oh yeah, and the dog laughing at you. There's some music at the title screen, but it's not very memorable. And that's it more or less.
There's actually no control at all (unless you use cheats.) When you pull the trigger on the zapper, if you hit a duck, it registers it as a hit. It's only as accurate as your aim, so you can't say it cheats (Ha ha! You stink !)
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The only downside as far as I can see is the need of the Zapper gun. You see, it works with reflection. That was no problem with old glass screen TV's, but today's flat screen TV's won't work with it. I know, I've tried. Other than that I have no complaints !


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Say goodbye to the Danny Jessup Show -- for now at least. The music-oriented cable-access talk show -- which has been airing every Saturday night on Miami Springs TV for more than two years now -- has been dropped following sweeping cable-access programming changes at WLRN, which carried MSTV.
Jessup, a congenial, self-deprecating host and an all-around nice guy, seems undaunted by the recent changes. Likening his show's current state to a child in surgery rather than a body six feet under, Jessup remains optimistic that the show will return -- either on another cable-access channel or on commercial TV. "I don't consider this the end at all," says the perpetually wisecracking Jessup, a self-described "low-rent contractor" and four-year TV vet who has also hosted programs such as Cooking for the Babes and What's Your Opinion? "I'll use this break to figure out where I'll be happening next. You never know what the crystal ball will show, but I know I'll be in TV somewhere."
Since it began airing in 1994, The Danny Jessup Show has provided countless South Florida bands an outlet for TV exposure. Among the groups and artists who've performed on the show: Diane Ward, Snatch the Pebble, Mr. Tasty and the Breadhealers, Brian Franklin, I Don't Know, the Holy Terrors, Rat Bastard, and Magda Hiller (who played on Jessup's first program).
"I'm not a music guy at all," Jessup proclaims. "I can't carry a tune and I don't know anything about music notes, but I'm a huge fan. I've always been struck by how good so much local live music is, and I've always tried to have as many different types of music on the show as I could. Whether it was someone with a new CD out or a bunch of high-schoolers, I never had any real requirements."
Wherever his show winds up, Jessup will carry that philosophy with him, as well as his sharp, sly humor and off-the-cuff production values (both practical and aesthetic). "When this first started, I didn't know what I was doing," Jessup admits. "Now, I know that I don't know what I'm doing. This isn't ever going to be perfect, but I'm optimistic it will return. I'm thinking TV every waking hour of every day."
Lounge Act is now a band. Following the masterful debut Enjoy the Cancer, recorded almost single-handedly by Mike Boudet but issued under the name Lounge Act, Boudet has turned the venture into a real-life, flesh-and-blood group. The trio -- guitarist/vocalist Boudet, bassist Orlando Rey, and drummer Oscar Guardado -- will debut Friday, September 27, at Rose's Bar & Music Lounge (754 Washington Ave., Miami Beach) with opening acts Orgasmic Bliss and Y. Lounge Act will also trek up north to Orlando for an October 19 show at the Go Lounge.
"We've been practicing for about three or four months now," says Boudet, adding that the threesome has worked up six new songs in addition to most of the cuts featured on Cancer. "They're more stripped down," he says of the older songs. "They've also evolved a lot. I think I've made them into better songs. You play them a few times and realize that a different part might sound more interesting here, or that maybe this bridge could be edited down. It comes with getting better at writing songs."
In addition to performing with Rey and Guardado, Boudet has been writing songs and assembling samples for the followup to Cancer, an ornately arranged blast of pop venom and post-punk vitriol that chronicled the aftermath of a failed romance. He's also tied up with the scheduled move of Tapeworm, the studio he co-owns and -manages that's moving to the former site of Who Brought the Dog studio in North Miami.
"I'm still thinking about the whole direction of it," Boudet says of the next record, which he estimates will be ready sometime next January. "I think it will be better than the last one, because now I have a clearer picture of what I want to do. The newer songs are really good -- they're better written and better structured than the other ones." Those new songs don't have titles just yet -- he doesn't name them until they're finished -- but he has a working title for the next disc: Introvert. "It's something I heard a lot as a kid," he says.
Churchill's Hideaway this weekend commemorates its 50th anniversary as a drinking establishment -- they've had live music for only about the last eighteen or so years -- with a ten-band roster spread out over two nights. Featured acts will include some of the surviving groups included on the pair of Churchill's-theme compilations issued in 1993 on Esync (Sun Brewed Action Music and the wonderfully titled Music Generated by Geographical Seclusion and Beer).
The lineup for Friday: I Don't Know, Kreamy 'Lectric Santa, the Holy Terrors, Boise & Moss, and the Wahoos; the next night (that would be Saturday, for the intellectually impaired): Charlie Pickett (featuring Walter Czachowski, ex-Chant), the Goods, Load, Quit, and Killing Season.
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Cowboystight end Jason Witten has been named to the AP All-Pro Team for the second time in his career, it was announced Monday.
Witten finished the 2010 season with 94 catches for 1,002 yards and a career-high nine touchdown catches, while earning Pro Bowl honors for the seventh time. The veteran tight end is currently in Honolulu preparing for the game, which will be played next Sunday at Aloha Stadium.
The only Cowboy to earn the honor this season, Witten was also named All-Pro in 2007, when he set a franchise record for tight ends (and became just the third tight end in history) with 96 catches over a single season.
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