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Opposition journalist Ohn Kyaing freed after being held for six weeks
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Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association welcome yesterday's release of Ohn Kyaing, a former journalist and member of the opposition National League for Democracy, who was arrested at his home on 1 October and held in Rangoon's Insein prison.
"We are relieved to learn of Ohn Kyaing's release," the two organisations said. "There has been a wave of arrests of journalists and opposition members for the past six months. At least six journalists are currently in prison for covering the suffering of the victims of last May's cyclone. They include the famous blogger and comedian Zarganar, who is serving a 59-year prison sentence in Myitkyina prison in the northern state of Kachin."
NLD spokesman Nyan Win said Ohn Kyaing was in good shape and had returned to his home. "I am very happy that Ohn Kyaing was freed but it is very unfair that he was held in prison for such a long time without committing any crime," Nyan Win said.
01/10 : Journalist and opposition member Ohn Kyaing arrested again
Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association call for the immediate release of well-known former journalist Ohn Kyaing, who was arrested at his home yesterday. A member of the National League for Democracy, the main opposition party led by Aung San Suu Kyi, he was freed in 2005 after spending 15 years in prison for writing "seditious pamphlets."
"Despite last month's release of about 9,000 detainees, including a handful of political prisoners, the military regime continues to arrest opposition members," the two organisations said. "Once again, a journalist and government opponent has been detained for no apparent reason. It will be an outrage if he is sent back to prison for helping Cyclone Nargis victims, as it would be punishing humanitarian activity."
NLD spokesman Nyan Win said Ohn Kyaing was arrested yesterday by police who went to his home. He told the Associated Press the reasons for the arrest were still not known, but he pointed that Ohn Kyaing had been very involved in efforts to help the survivors of Nargis, the cyclone that devastated Burma in May.
Now aged 64, Ohn Kyaing used to write articles under the pen-name of Aung Wint for such newspapers as Hanthawathi and Botahtaung, which fired him at the government's behest. He jointed the NLD after a long career in journalism and won a parliamentary seat in the 1990 elections, which were swept by the NLD but were never recognised by the military regime.
Arrested in September 1990 by the Military Intelligence Service, he was sentenced to 17 years in prison for "writing and distributing seditious pamphlets" and "threatening the security of the state." He was finally released on 3 January 2005.
U Win Tin, another former journalist and NLD supporter who was himself released just nine days ago after 19 years in detention, described Ohn Kyaing's arrest as "not unusual and something we have to expect." He added that Ohn Kyaing was "a close colleague, a good friend and a highly qualified man."
Blogger and comedian Zarganar and sports journalist Zaw Thet Htwe were previously charged with disturbing public order for helping Cyclone Nargis victims and criticising the government's relief efforts.


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Here's how to avoid being stung with a higher Christmas credit card bill
BANKS increasing charges? Whatever next.
OK, I know we've come to expect being ripped off by banks but the announcement by Bank of Ireland that it's to add a whole set of increases on its credit card products a week before Christmas still smacks of the old Ebenezer Scrooge.
Knowing people are piling on debt at this time of year means they get more money when it can't be repaid.
Interest rate increases of 0.7pc right up to 4pc have been slapped on a range of cards.
Naturally, the biggest increase has gone on the card with the lowest rate -- bringing the 'Clear' card from a quite reasonable 13.8pc to an eye watering 17.8pc.
Credit card debt remains stubbornly high -- as is all personal debt in this country.
We collectively owe an average of €1,274 on plastic according to the last figures issued by the Central Bank.
Based on Bank of Ireland's new card rate, and minimum payments of 2.5pc, it would take 63 months to clear a bill like that.
That's not until March 2018.
Now part of the reason the bank has hiked its rates is precisely because people are taking so long to repay debt.
Banks call these people "high risk loss profiles" and ironically in one way, they're actually the "best" customers as they make the bank the most money over the longest period -- but if they cannot pay, it's expensive to chase them down and get the bill cleared.
Most of us don't pay our whole bill off by direct debit every month as we should so interest on interest racks up, making it harder to do so.
There are, however, some things you can do to at least make it easier for yourself to manage a credit card bill in the new year.
All require discipline, but you'll be making new year's resolutions about getting more exercise and eating less, right? You'll be in the mood for a little pain.
Firstly, switch your balance to a card with no interest for a period of time. Permanent TSB's Ice card and Tesco's Clubcard credit card both offer 0pc for 6 months on balance transfers.
Their normal rates are 17.3pc and 19.1pc outside of this so do NOT put anything new on the card.
Instead use the six months to pay down the existing debt by using whatever you would normally pay, with interest.
Cards with low rates for balance transfers also include AIB 'be' and Ulster Bank's Classic with rates under 4pc for 12 months.
If you're finding it really hard to cope, do not be afraid to contact MABS, your local Credit Union or your Community Welfare Officer.
All will offer sound advice about managing debt into 2013.
But with less than a week to go before the big day, if you're finding it really tough, it's also not too late to contact your local St Vincent de Paul who can offer immediate financial assistance.
Using any savings you have or even your overdraft, is preferable to using credit card.
MABS is great for debt management advice in 2013. Do not spend any money on any other debt management service -- there's no need.
Consider using only pre-pay money cards next year.
Load up in advance, use like a credit card, in stores or online but you can't get into debt.
Moneybookers, Neteller, 02 and Ryanair all offer these, but watch out for charges to set or load them up. Bonkers.ie have a good comparison page.
Make a resolution to use your debit card in 2013 for ordinary purchases.
Credit cards are fine for big ticket items you have a plan to repay, but never put the weekly shopping or a round of drinks on it -- it just stacks up.
And finally, either cut the card in half (horizontally, so you can use it online, but not in a shop), or freeze it (in a plastic bag suspended in a tub of water).
Defrosting lets you really think about that purchase.
Sounds dramatic? Not as shocking as some of the rates you'll be paying on the debt.

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More than a dozen journalists assaulted in Tunisia
|Committee to Protect Journalists
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|9 May 2011
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New York, May 9, 2011 – The Committee to Protect Journalists called on the Tunisian authorities today to restrain from attacking journalists reporting on anti-government demonstrations after plainclothes police physically assaulted 15 local and international journalists on Friday.
Demonstrators in Tunis mounted on Thursday and Friday what Agence France-Presse described as the largest anti-government demonstrations since former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali stepped down from power on January 14. The National Syndicate of Tunisian Journalists, which condemned the attack in a press release, said that "scores of plainclothes police brutally beat the journalists, in spite of knowing that they were in fact journalists, and destroyed their cameras, chasing them all the way to the entrance" of the French-language daily La Presse. The Interior Ministry apologized to journalists on Saturday, vowing to launch an internal investigation into the incident, local and international media reported. AFP, quoting La Presse, said that the Interior Ministry had "identified security officers responsible for attacking 15 journalists covering their crackdown on protests on Friday."
"It is unfortunate to see Tunisian police revert to their old repressive ways," said CPJ Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator Mohamed Abdel Dayem. "It is not enough for the interior ministry to apologize to journalists and identify the offending officers; a credible investigation must hold accountable all those found to have violated the law by physically assaulting journalists."
Among the journalists who were assaulted were Abdelfattah Belaid, who works for La Presse and AFP. Belaid tried to run after officers began chasing him after he took pictures of the violent dispersal of demonstrators. Police chased him into the building housing La Presse and beat him with a metal rod and took his camera, local media reported. Also among the journalists beaten were The Associated Press' Hassan Duraidi, three Al-Jazeera journalists, and Radio Kalima's Marwa al-Raqiq, local and regional media reported. Al-Raqiq was injured and required hospitalization, Radio Kalima said on its website.


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The first time I installed the Windows 7 RC it took no time at all on a standard velociraptor but when I changed over two a pair of SSDs running in RAID0 I had all kinds of problems. Mostly these problems seemed to relate to proper partitioning of the hard drives as if I got Vista to partition them then Windows 7 would install fine.
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you might want to load some hard disk drivers in the windows 7 install process though. Backup some hard disk and RAID drivers on a usb and click on load driver during the windows 7 instllation. Navigtae to ur drivers and use these drivers instead of the ones in the install disk
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course Explorer would have to display the flag in the detailed file listing.
Is this possible? Are there any utilities out there that can do this now?
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Bundled in sporty parkas and cozy fleece hats, Collette and Rudy Henderson tromp across packed powder on racquet-shape snowshoes. Their steps, a staccato of heavy crunches, resound beneath an inky star-studded sky. "Anybody hear anything?" asks Nicole, their night-hike guide. She scans the forest of white-frosted pines next to the lighted trail. The 50-something couple from East Lansing, Michigan, pause. Silence. "Usually, we hear owls or some kind of animals," Nicole says. But the quiet is welcome on a brisk January night. No traffic. No loud voices. Just the serenity of the wintry woods, with a crescent moon above and the smoky scent of a bonfire in the distance.
That peacefulness keeps drawing the Hendersons to Crystal Mountain Resort and Spa in Thompsonville, Michigan, 28 miles southwest of Traverse City. "We love that it's so isolated," Rudy says. "Yet there's always something to do."
Like a handful of full-service ski resorts in northern Michigan, Wisconsin and northern Minnesota, Crystal Mountain exudes tranquility for travelers needing a little pampering, whether they're interested in the downhill skiing or not. Horse-drawn surrey rides, toasty bonfires and a luxury spa offer calming moments within sight of 45 downhill runs, 30 miles of cross-country trails and snowmobiling trails. "I think our downhill skiing days are behind us," Collette says with a laugh. "But I love the cross-country skiing trails." Families with youngsters take advantage of kid-friendly events: a new outdoor obstacle course race, photo scavenger hunts and bedtime story readings from costumed characters.
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A recent learning experience drove home ever so clearly that teaching and learning must change. The context was an AACP leadership program attended by about 50 members. The first session was a necessary presentation on legal issues in non-profit organizations delivered by an exceptional individual with decades of experience in a wide range of organizations like AACP. For approximately 50 minutes he lectured from his text-heavy PowerPoint slides, providing definitions and examples of pitfalls for directors and other elected leaders. There was time for questions following the presentation and two participants asked simple questions that were answered very well.
After a break the group reassembled. The format of the next session changed dramatically. It was a strategic planning session (not everyone's favorite use of time). The introduction was presented using a program that produces animation, including avatars resembling the three session leaders. Throughout the two-hour session (that could have been at least another hour longer) the group engaged in a variety of exercises related to the three topics the session was built to explore. Thoughts flowed from participants, both in small groups and in the full group recap sessions, enriching the understanding of topics such as educational innovation, enhanced communication and knowledge management. The time went so quickly, too quickly perhaps, but a great deal of learning was accomplished for both the AACP leaders and staff.
If anyone at the AACP leadership meeting had doubts that we must find engaging ways to teach and learn in our education programs at all levels those doubts were dispelled by this one morning's learning activities. AACP has long been highly committed to facilitating faculty members' appreciation of and ability to engage in active learning and we are excited about opportunities on the horizon to take this to a new level.
At the 2014 Interim Meeting, AACP Associate Executive Vice President Dr. Ruth E. Nemire made the first announcement of a new partnership between AACP and the George Mason University Simulation and Gaming Institute (SGI). SGI has accepted AACP as one of its incubator partners in the creation of serious education game technologies to advance interprofessional learning. Much more information will be available on this new initiative and the first game, expected to be available in early 2015, at the Annual Meeting in Grapevine, Texas. Like the 2014 Interim Meeting, the Annual Meeting will provide members with yet another exceptional platform for learning together about advancing pharmacy education and for the exchange of ideas with our colleagues and friends. Registration for the meeting will open in just a few weeks and preliminary information is available on the AACP Web site.
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How To Walk Up To Females And Start The Conversation
Learning how to approach women might sound like a difficult and painful process. You have to gather up the confidence to walk up to a woman and kick off the conversation, and then get her phone number. If this is something that you're not used to doing, then the process can be intimidating, and I know exactly how you feel.
But the bottom line is, you've got to learn how to approach women if you're going to expand your social life and elevate your dating life. I know that most guys are intimidated by the thought of approaching women, especially in public places. Most men would rather have a fight with a UFC champion than approach a woman. If you feel nervous, shy or even hesitant to approach women, then I suggest you start learning some specific techniques to help you approach women without hesitation or fear.
One thing that you can do to help out with approaching women is practice in the mirror. Talking to yourself in the mirror will allow you to see how you look and to build up the confidence you need to approach someone. If you can first be comfortable with yourself, then you will more than likely be comfortable with talking with a woman too.
I'm sure you've heard of men approaching women and seducing them instantly. I don't recommend trying this as this is the fastest way to get a drink thrown into your face. But when you do approach a woman, you need to have no fear of rejection. Not being intimated of rejection is a skill that you need to develop, and you can begin by walking up to women and asking them a simple question.
For instance, you should practice walking up to women and asking them a genuine question. Your question could be if they know what time it is or if they know where the nearest McDonalds is. This will help you to get into the habit of naturally approaching women so when the time comes to ask a woman for her phone number, it won't be as hard to do.
If you can learn how not to be afraid of rejection, then you increase your chances of having success with women by a long shot. When practicing what I suggested above, you should only practice walking up to beautiful women. Ask a woman where the nearest bank is or where the nearest grocery store is. You'd be amazed at the responses and some of these women will even start up conversations with you!
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Do you want to learn some tricks on how to approach a girl you like without freezing? It becomes easier for men who have no experience when they understand the basics of macking and how women think. These strategies I'm going to share with you are based on how women think.
How to Approach a Girl You Like Tip #1: Convey Social Value
Never approach a girl directly and introduce yourself before this step. Showing off your personality, charisma and social clout can help you be noticed first and build up a huge amount of attraction. To put it simply, you have to display traits that attract women. For example, make sure your crowd is loving your company; say hi and chat with waiters and bartenders you happen to know; make an effort to talk to people you know in the room.
How to Approach a Girl You Like Tip #2: Control Your Attraction Towards Her
If you show her that you're downright interested from the get go, you lose the game. This is what players do that's why they always bring home the bacon. I didn't say that you're going to be a jerk. Somehow, make her think that you just want to chat a bit just like the way you chat with other people in the room but if she doesn't like the idea, you have no problem with it. As long as you've done tip #1 well, she knows that if she rejects you, it's going to be her loss. This is because she has witnessed how everybody loves your company and anyone would love to talk to you. Instead of being the pursuer, you just made yourself the prize.
You can do this by letting her know from the get go that you just wanted to say something and you're not staying too long. Here's a great example:
"Hey, I see you guys are having fun but this is not going to take long. I saw you from where I was standing and I just think you look great tonight. I just thought I'd drop by and say Hi".
She will smile and thank you for the compliment, do as you said and leave afterwhich.
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Now for some specific approaches and openers…
Neutral openers are the opposite of flirt openers. If you want to use neutral openers, you have to be observant and notice everything about the girl and then you can make comments, questions or compliments using such observations.
It tells the girl that you not only appreciate her but you're also willing to listen to what she has to say. The objective is to make her talk more. Women love it when guys see them as someone of value rather than someon they can sleep with. Although this may be your goal but the point is, you don't make it obvious. Otherwise, she'll just ignore you just like that. Sounds like a long ritual but these steps make it easier for you to make women up to you.
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Before the calendar turned, 2016 already had the makings of a pivotal year for manufacturing, and for the world.
There were the big events for the year, including the United States as Partner Country at Hannover Messe in April and the 2016 International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago in September. There's also the matter of the U.S. presidential elections in November, which promise to shape policy in manufacturing for years to come.
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BOGOTA, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Colombia, the world's fourth-biggest coal exporter, expects to produce 97.8 million tonnes of the fossil fuel this year, up 10 percent from 88.6 million tonnes in 2014, the government's UPME energy planning department said on Tuesday.
Coal output last year fell only slightly short of the government's original target of 89.1 million tonnes even with long-running logistics strife affecting its second-biggest coal producer, U.S.-based Drummond Co Inc and sliding international prices.
Cesar province is expected to produce 54.3 million tonnes. Neighboring Guajira, where Colombia's top producer Cerrejon operates, would produce 36.6 million tonnes. The rest would come from other provinces with smaller output.
Most of Colombia's coal is shipped to Europe where countries including Germany, France and Italy burn it for power generation.
European API2 2015 coal futures edged up 0.3 percent to $61.20 a tonne on Tuesday, after rebounding in recent weeks from a nine-year low of $55.60 hit on Jan. 26. Prices last February were around $73 and around $99 this time two years ago.
Cerrejon, a joint-venture between Anglo American Plc , BHP Billiton Ltd and Glencore Plc produced around 34.4 million tonnes in 2014 according to the government.
Drummond followed with 26.8 million tonnes produced last year. Glencore's Prodeco produced about 12.6 million tonnes and Goldman Sachs Group Inc's Colombia Natural Resources mined just under 870,000 tonnes. (Reporting by Luis Jaime Acosta; Writing by Peter Murphy; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)


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WASHINGTON, April 20 (UPI) -- Irwin Industrial Tool Co. of Huntersville, N.C., is recalling 55,260 circular saw blade sets due to ineffective packaging.
Packaging for the Classic Series circular saw blade 3-Pack can allow the blades to slip out of the bottom, which creates a laceration risk for consumers, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said.
The saw blade sets were sold exclusively at Lowe's stores October 2011 through November 2011 for $40, the commission said.
This recall involves Irwin Classic Series 10-inch Circular Saw Blade Limited Promotion 3-Packs, which were sold with one 10-inch trim and finish saw blade with 60 teeth and two 10-inch general purpose saw blades with 40 teeth.
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BYUI Campus Flooded in Rexburg, Idaho — You Won't Believe These VIDEOS!
Rexburg, Idaho is home to BYUI, formerly Rick's College, and even though you've probably never heard of it, there's a good chance someone you know went there. Those people are glued to social media today, trust me, looking at photos and videos of the campus flooded — sometimes in five feet of water!
The flash flood went right through town (most of which is the campus) in eastern Idaho Tuesday night. Some dorms with basement apartments saw stagnant water up to the door knobs. It's surreal to see people walking through cafeterias and classroom buildings up to their ankles in water:


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Raphael and Andrea Cohen of Wynnewood, and Steven and Linda Friedland of Washington Township, N.J., announce the engagement of their children, Micah Gideon Cohen and Amy Beth Friedland.
Amy and Micah are graduates of the University of Pennsylvania, where they met.
Amy is in her third year at the Brooklyn Law School. Micah, an Akiba Hebrew Academy alumnus, graduated from the Temple University Medical School, and is currently a medical resident at Albert Einstein Hospital. He will continue training in radiology at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan.
Amy is the granddaughter of Michael and Harryette Friedland of Fort Lee, N.J.; and Carl and Ilse Reinach of Fair Lawn, N.J. Micah is the grandson of Rabbi Maurice Cohen of Montreal and the late Rochelle Cohen; Jean Haber of Monroe Township, N.J.; and the late Morris and Ruth Haber.
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had this half-finished and sitting around for a while, so i decided to finish it.
i'll just listen to deerhunter instead then
also have you heard atlas sound?
Album Rating: 3.5Heh, I was thinking of reviewing this a while ago but didn't get round to it. It's grown off me a little bit but i still like it.
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to gaslight, no
to alex, yeah i saw you had this at a four at one point idk we keep disagreeing i dont like it
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I like Deerhunter but I'm passing on this one.
Album Rating: 3.0I liked this a lot at one point but I got tired of it quite fast
wow so fucking surprised i like this as much as i did
also wow i give every album a 4
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Roger Rhodes Music,
VAN VACTOR (1906-1994), the son of David Ellsworth Van Vactor, an
inventor, housebuilder, factory owner, Church of Christ minister, and
Mathilda Fenstermacher Van Vactor, was born in Plymouth, Indiana on May
8, 1906. He completed three years in pre-medicine at Northwestern
University before enrolling in the School of Music there. At
Northwestern, he earned the Bachelor of Music degree in 1928 and the
Master of Music in 1935. He was a flute student of Arthur Kitti in the
Chicago area. He studied composition with Anne Oldberg, Mark Wessel,
Ernst Nolte, and Leo Sowerby. In Europe, he studied at the Wiener
Akademie in Austria in 1929 and L'Ecole Normale of Paris in 1931. These
studies prepared him for a long and fruitful career as composer,
conductor, flutist, and teacher.
The songs written
in 1926 and 1927 are his earliest compositions. The first orchestral
work, Chaconne for String Orchestra, was written in 1928; it was
performed the same year by the Rochester Symphony conducted by Howard
Hanson. While in Vienna in 1929, Van Vactor studied flute with Josef
Niedermayr and composition with Franz Schmitt and harmony with Arnold
Schoenberg. That year he composed the Five Small Pieces for Large
Orchestra and Ten Variations on a Theme by Beethoven for
Flute and Piano.
In 1930 he
composed several more songs and the Overture Cristobal Colon.
From this point on his composition career progressed steadily. In 1931
he traveled to Paris to study flute with Marcel Moyse and composition
with Paul Dukas. The Masque of Red Death won honorable mention in
the 1932 Swift Competition in Chicago. On his return from Europe he
began his professional career as a flutist with the Chicago Symphony, a
position he held for the next thirteen years. He was also assistant
conductor of the Chicago Civic Orchestra in 1933 and 1934. Van Vactor
received the Frederick Stock Scholarship in conducting in 1939 and
became Dr. Stock's protegé with the Chicago Symphony until Stock's death
in 1942. From 1936 to 1943, he taught theory and conducted the chamber
orchestra at his alma mater, Northwestern University. He started
composing the First Symphony in April 1936 and completed it in
July 1937. It won a prize of one thousand dollars in a competition
sponsored by the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. The first
performance was given by that orchestra at Carnegie Hall on January
19,1939 with the composer conducting.
During this
productive period Van Vactor composed the Five Bagatelles for Strings,
commissioned by Daniel Saidenberg for The Saidenberg Sinfonietta. Van
Vactor's most often performed composition, Overture to a Comedy, No.
2, was written in 1941 and won the Juilliard Publication Prize in
1942. It was first performed by the Indianapolis Symphony. Performances
followed by the Montreal Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, National
Symphony, Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, St. Louis Symphony,
and the San Francisco Orchestra. His Quintet for Flute and Strings
won the Society for American Music Publication Award in 1941.
Under the
sponsorship of the United States Department of State and the League of
Composers, Van Vactor made four extended tours of South America, as a
member of a woodwind quintet in 1941, and as a guest conductor of the
orchestras of Rio de Janeiro and Santiago de Chile in 1945,1946, and
1965. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Chile during
1945-46. He had a lasting influence on many young Chilean composers. His
Sinfonia Breve was performed by
the Philharmonic de Santiago, in 1965, the composer conducting.
On several occasions in the ensuing years, he conducted the London
Philharmonic Orchestra and the Palmengarten and Hessian Radio Symphony
Orchestras in Frankfurt-am-Main.
From 1943 to
1947, he served as assistant conductor of the Kansas City Philharmonic
Orchestra and head of the Department of Theory and Composition at the
Conservatory of Music. Van Vactor's second symphony was composed
in 1943 with the title Music for the Marines. It was commissioned
by the Sixth Marine Corps and was first performed by the Indianapolis
Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Fabien Sevitzky. During this
period, he ran a family farm in Marshall, Missouri, for the war effort.
In November 1946 he completed his Introduction and Presto for Strings.
This excellent work was first performed by the Allied Arts Orchestra of
Kansas City with the composer conducting.
In 1947, he
founded the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Tennessee,
Knoxville where he was a professor until 1976. He was also appointed
conductor of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra in 1947, a post he held
for the next twenty-five years. Under his direction, the orchestra
experienced a period of growth and technical polish and made its first
professional recording for the CRI label.
The Pastorale
and Dance for Flute and Strings was composed in 1947 also.
Commissioned by Roy Harris for the Summer Music Festival at Colorado
Springs College, it was first performed there with Van Vactor performing
and Harris conducting. Van Vactor wrote a somewhat longer version for
flute and string quartet.
April 10, 1951
saw the first performance of the Violin Concerto, his fourth
concerto. Previously had written the Concerto for Flute in 1931,
the Concerto a Quattro for Three Flutes and Harp in 1935, and the
Concerto for Viola, commissioned
by Milton Preves and performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
in 1940. The new violin concerto was first performed with soloist
William Starr and the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra under the direction
of the composer.
The following
years saw the completion of five more symphonies: the third in 1958 and
the fourth for chorus and orchestra in March 1971, with the title
Walden. The Third Symphony was first performed by William
Steinberg and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and Walden
received its first performance by the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and
the Maryville College Concert Choir with the composer conducting. The
Fifth Symphony was commissioned as a part of the observance of the
American Bicentennial by the Tennessee Arts Commission with the support
of the National Endowment for the Arts. It was completed on September
19,1975, and the first performance was given on March 11, 1976 by the
Knoxville Symphony Orchestra with Arpad Joo conducting. The Sixth
Symphony, of 1980, is in two versions composed more or less
simultaneously. The orchestral version was begun in January of 1979 and
the band version in February of the same year. The Seventh Symphony
followed in 1982.
The Suite for
Orchestra on Chilean Folk Tunes of 1963 was first performed by the
Knoxville Symphony Orchestra. Van Vactor's compositional style has been
described by Katherine K. Preston in The New Grove Dictionary of Music
and Musicians: "He writes in a concentrated and economical manner; his
music is lyric, and often contrapuntal but unmistakably modern in
idiom." He is attracted to traditional forms — passacaglia, chaconne,
fugue, sarabande, etc. Dance rhythms are prominent in his works, and
marches are often found as last movements.
In 1957, Van
Vactor was awarded a Fulbright grant to study comparative reactions of
school children to educational concerts. Every Child May Hear, a book by
David Van Vactor and Katherine D. Moore (The University of Tennessee
Press, 1960), describes the findings of this project. Among his many
awards, David Van Vactor was named "Composer Laureate of Tennessee" by
the State Legislature in 1975.
He was Professor
Emeritus of Composition and Flute at the University of Tennessee,
Knoxville. David Van Vactor and his wife Virginia Landreth (now
deceased), married on May 28, 1931, resided in Knoxville for forty years,
later retiring to California. They had two children, daughter
Raven Harwood (nee Adriaen Virginia, now deceased) and son David
Landreth, living in Boston, Paris, and Normandy.
Thanks to Pauline S. Bayne & H. Stuart Garrett
the University of Tennessee Music Library
Knoxville, Tennesse
and David L. Van Vactor, son of the composer.
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New Delhi, June 6 (IANS) Even as the withdrawal orders on Maggi noodles are applicable pan-India, more states joined in to post their own orders on the popular snack, including Tripura and Maharashtra, while Meghalaya sent some samples for testing.
According to a set of frequently asked questions posted on the website of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), the legislation that set up this watchdog was applicable throughout India. Officials said the orders, too had similar sanctity.
The reason for states also initiating similar measures was attributed to the Food Safety and Standards Act of 2006 vesting the responsibility of enforcement on both the central and state authorities.
Amid these developments, officials in Bengaluru said initial tests on the Maggi noodles' samples sent by the Karnataka government showed permissible levels of lead content.
The samples were sent to two laboratories.
"We received the reports. Lead, which is the main concern, is within the permissible limits. Nothing wrong, there is no issue here,z' said H. Shiva Kumar, joint director, food safety and standards, Karnataka, revealing the results of the seven samples analysed.
But reports from several states suggested that Maggi noodles were available at stores despite the order for withdrawal pertaining to nine variants – as also Maggi oats noodles with tastemaker – that was issued by the central authotity on Friday in New Delhi
Among the other states, Tripura banned Maggi noodles, while Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh sent its samples for testing, according to official statements issued on Saturday. At Dimapur, the Nagaland government asked people not to buy Maggi noodles till further orders.
The Assam government on Friday evening had banned the sale of Maggi Xtra – chicken noodles marketed by Nestle India in the state – for 30 days. Similarly, the Maharashtra government also resorted to a similar measure.
Maharashtra Food and Civil Suplies Minister Girish Bapat announced the ban after receiving the test reports of six Maggi samples sent to a Pune lab. The test reports found lead to be far in excess of the permissible 2.5 parts per million (ppm).
Amid the Maggi noodle controversy, concern were expressed over other products as well.
Micro-blogging sites were abuzz with comments from all sections, with actor Kabir Bedi mentioning that the government should focus on more important sanitation issues.
"State governments should focus more on undrinkable tap water, unbreathable air, adulterated spices & fake medicines. #Maggi #Nestle," Kabir posted.
Echoing this, actress Gul Panag shared: "While we outrage about #Maggi & processed food, spare a thought for the 'freshly' cooked highly contaminated street food bulk of India eats."
Maggi noodles, a popular snack from the Nestle India 'kitchen', has been in the news following a lab report that samples of the product contained more lead than the permissible limit.
The food safety body's eight-page order dwelt on three issues: Presence of more-than permissible levels of lead in samples analysed in some states, Nestle's claims that there was no added mono-sodium glutamate and the sale of its oats noodles and tastemaker without prior safety approval.
Some state governments banned Maggi for 15 to 30 days and many called for tests on the popular noodle brand. This apart, the celebrities who endorsed the brand in the past – Amitabh Bachchan, Madhuri Dixit and Preity Zinta – also got embroiled in the controversy.


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International Championship: Marco Ful beats Joe Perry in a thriller
Joe Perry lost 9-8 to Hong Kong's Marco Fu in the semi-finals of the International Championship in China.
Last Updated: 01/11/13 5:39pm
Despite leading the semi-final 5-3 at the interval, Perry was pegged back and overtaken by Fu before forcing a deciding frame.
With £30,000 going to losing semi-finalists, but £65,000 on offer to the runner-up and £125,000 to the champion, a nail-biter unfolded with Fu just edging it as midnight approached after cutting in a tough brown to leave Perry requiring snookers.
"It was a very tight match," said the 35-year-old Fu. "Neither of us were at our
best and we dragged each other down. I just feel very fortunate that I'm in the final.
"Towards the end I couldn't control my arms because I was so tired."
Fu added on worldsnooker.com: "I'm really looking forward to the final. I hope I can play 10 times better than today otherwise I won't stand a chance."
Perry, 39, has been a professional since 1991 but can point to only one previous final appearance, when he was well beaten by Stephen Hendry at the 2001 European Open in Malta.
He was a World Championship semi-finalist in 2008, losing to Ali Carter, and looked to have Fu's measure early on in their Chengdu battle.
Breaks of 83 and 72 gave him the interval advantage, but Hong Kong potter Fu, who has won the Australian Open title already this season, improved in the evening and edged ahead for the first time with a run to 88 in the 11th frame.
Perry responded with the only century of the match, 103, and he soon led again, but it went to the decider and Fu prevailed to set up a clash with Chinese crowd favourite Ding Junhui or Scotland's Graeme Dott on Sunday, when he will play for the biggest cash prize of his career.
Ding and Dott contest their two-session semi-final on Saturday, with the former looking to become the first player since Hendry in 1993 to win three successive major ranking titles.
Ding, 26, beat Xiao Guodong to land the Shanghai Masters in September, and Aditya Mehta to win October's Indian Open.


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The year is not over yet, and already Greece's banks have lost €36.7 billion of their deposit base in 2011, and a whopping €64.6 billion since the beginning of 2010, which is down from €233 billion to €173 billion in under two years. In October another €3.5 billion was withdrawn from Greek banks and likely either redeposited somewhere deep in the heart of Switzerland, or converted to various inert metals and buried somewhere in the back yard. The good news: the outflow is just over half of October's record €6.8 billion. The bad news: at this rate of outflows, Greek banks will have zero deposits in around 4 years. Which at the end of the day is all the matters, because while the Troica can keep funding capital shortfalls indefinitely, all faith in the country's banks has now been lost and Greece is officially a zombie economy. The fact that the country's deficit as a % of GDP is about to be re-revised even higher is no longer even meaningful: the Greek economy and its banking sectors are now officially dead. We merely feel bad for anyone who still has cash in banks as, just like gold in 1930s America, any residual cash may soon be "sequestered" for national security purposes. After all there are bankers who need record bonuses, and Military sales from Europe and the US that have to proceed using what will likely soon be "commingled" deposit cash.
Greece Bank Run Shows No Sign Of Stopping: Deposit Outflows Continue In November
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The surprise is that there is still a bank left to run from!
Typically through history we see that it takes a long time for a country to come apart when it gradually deteriorates through government mismanagement, loss of moral values, etc.
This can go on a for a long time yet (kicking the can). Or something could blow up, and the game ends quickly. This is now Black Swan Country, where one of those could land on us, and then it's lights out.
Bank runs will come here too. And I always liked the analogy that the first rats off the ship usually get it right.
You are on the internet - where is "here"?
"This can go on a for a long time yet (kicking the can)."
I agree DoChen. We ain't seen nuttin yet. Our 'problem' is that we have a sense of outrage. So we see the manipulation and can kicking for what it really is. Sadly, for the great unwashed masses as well as those who directly benefit from the Ponzi, much of what is to come will be welcomed, even cheered on, as necessary, needed and desperately wanted. Thus there will be popular support for a great deal more can kicking.
We have (many) miles to go before the deep sleep.
I disagre CD. From my perspective, the supply chains of essential materials is pretty damn fragile right now. I agree in so much as we see a slow deterioration in the standard of living for a while until a major supply line is interupted (most likely in the energy sector, but could be as crazy as fresh water). Then the world simply goes to war over the remaining resources.
I have someone in my ear on a daily basis who constantly reminds me of the eventuality of supply line disruption. I have no doubt it will happen. I also have no doubt it will be spun by the 'leadership' as all the more reason to do this or that even more. The urge to kick the can will become irresistible to both the can kickers and the general population.
Certainly more and more average Joe's are becoming angry and/or concerned. But when their little corner of the world starts to deteriorate they will demand someone do something about it to stop their pain. Thus they will kick the can some more.
The real questions are this. When will can kicking no longer "work" to stave off a (massive) collapse and what exactly is meant by a "(massive) collapse"? I contend that the sheer number of (half) asleep people in America and the rest of the developed world, when rudely awakened, will not let go of their cheap gas and supermarket food very easily. This all but assures us that we will go to war in a big way if for no other reason than to distract the population from what's really going on.
This is an old game that has been played for thousands of years. Yes, it will collapse. But not as soon as we expect it to happen. Momentum is a very difficult force to overcome.
I think the oilgarchs are watching closely and that they will bleed the Fiat Ponzi until the disruption, then only to go to war so to have an exuse for the disruption.
The turning point could be as simple as debt outweighing gdp. It could be a sharp decease in oil supply. It could be a leverage up situation of collective balance sheets due to the debt, spurring gold to new (real) highs. This would incight panic, and the panic will usher in chaos. The chaos will bring destabolization and it could be a very small event that gets the ball rolling.
Yes, but what happens when everyone knows the plan ahead of time? When instantaneous communication renders the knowledge gap much more narrow? How do you go through with a secret plan when those secrets are much more difficult to keep?
The sad part is that exposure has an increasingly less chance of being materially punished... (thus the exposure of plans/secrets has an increasingly smaller effect).
10 years and counting of slow-motion collapse in Argentina. 100% agree.
When a moving object hits an immovable wall, all that kinetic energy gets converted to heat and light, you know: an explosion!
E = 1/2mv2
@ Laws
So far in MY business the supply lines are running just fine. Even Japanese bearing productiosn was only a little affected by the earthquake.
'Our 'problem' is that we have a sense of outrage.'
Not really sure what you mean but I get the feeling that the 'sense of outrage' is something people tell themselves out of sheer vanity. MsCreant's piece about MF Global reminded me of how that is always the first reaction among the 'great unwashed' as if those of us who simply say: 'Yeah, that's about right' are living in some dark underworld of cynicism.
At what point does the flight of deposits turn insolvent banks into bankrupt ones?
". . . down from €233 billion to €173 billion in under two years. In October another €3.5 billion was withdrawn from Greek banks . . ."
The surprise to me is that these outflows have been so sluggish. Tyler is telling us that total deposits are down 26 per cent in 23 months, and that November's withdrawals were about two per cent of the October 31 balance.
So, compared to January 2010, three-quarters of the money hasn't moved. I couldn't say whether the Greek people lack imagination, or whether they fear burglary more than they fear their banks closing, or what the reason might be. Seems odd to me.
I agree.
I would have expected large balances to have been wired long ago to a location outside Greek jurisdiction, and J6P's small balances to have been converted to EUR (or CHF) notes, and buried.
A four year wipeout period is not a 'run', more a gentle stroll.
Why is the decline so slow?
Does anyone have equivalent stats for Argentina?
What is the other $173 billion thinking?
Saganaki is a better place for their Euros than Piraeus.
I'm looking forward to my summer vacation to a bankless state...
What the Hellene authorities ough do is forge a strong Greco-Roman "lend-lease" partnership -- say, for instance, the Italian Financial Police ( "Guardia di Finanza" ) can lend ( not lease -- the Greeks have nothing with which to pay ) a kennel of their currency-sniffing dogs to the Greek Ministry of Finance. Posting several "Eurohunds" at strategic border crossings will go far in fostering a more ordered civic comity: bank runs are a symbol of the freedom of capital movement -- in this case, flight -- and are in poor taste, you know. The State simply cannot allow it to continue.
I have had the pleasure of many a nice seafood meal for less than a few hundred drachma ($ 10.00 or less) at the time.
Way before the Euro and when the dollar was still strong and just beginning its long, sad Nixonian voyage away from any semblance of soundness.
Another shocker headline. Who could have guessed this? Maybe this is what Taleb meant by a "black swan" event?
Happy 3rd Birthday ZH!!
Let's all send them some love in the form of cash contributions!
I did, they are the best place for news, and that I am grateful for!!
THE EU is not meant to fail - the weaker member countries will get tossed out and replaced with stronger ones (if their is such thing)
It took them awhile to build this baby up - they are not going to let it go down. Having the EU fail is going against the grain of the agenda they want to achieve - a One World Government.
I think we will have a 10 member nation at the end of it all.
The New Holy Roman Empire...
Nothing NEw Under the Sun. History is just repeating itself...
Based on my recommendations, two of my buddies in Greece moved their money out.
Greek default by March simultaneous with an Iran attack.
Transports are rocking. UNP and KSU making new 3-year highs today.
What happened to the "Recession"?
I thought we were supposed to have bank runs and gas lines by now?
Gold rocking hard today!
Nice job on finding yourself 2 brand new rear-view stocks to glom onto.
Gold rocking hard because Gold has been moving the same direction as the market.
So might as well go long on equities .
Gold rocking hard because Gold has been moving the same direction as the market.
So might as well go long on equities .
No thanks, Mr. Squid. Priced in gold, the market is going down and has been for years. It's funny how often in those "equities surging" days (as CNBC gushes) that gold is going up more. Like today.
It's also funny (not ha-ha funny in this case) how often the gold market is manipulated down just as folks are beginnning to notice that it is going up more than equities. Hmmm...
While I agree that much of the latest action across the markets is liquidity driven, I think that when people realize the true mess we are in, they will flee the stock markets and pile on to gold and silver, as a means of storing wealth.
Agreed, but lots have fled the equity markets already - thus the ultra-low and declining volumes. I think it gets really interesting when people realise what's going on and flee the US Treasury market. All bets are off then...
<< Gold rocking hard today! >>
Ag following suit, as of this writing. Even Cu is up nearly 3%. Stuff found in the ground is the trade du jour, for January 10.
Now, come January 11 ? Who the Devil knows. Too long-term.
In Switzerland, they discontinued the last in-train ticket buying possibility that existed in intercity trains last december. Surprisingly, they managed to earn around CHF 500'000 in around 2 weeks just in fines.
Actually fines cost more than almost any single ticket (even first class) you can buy to travel in Switzerland. Less than 10 years ago the fine was half, and you could buy your ticket in almost ANY train (even in little regional lines). You can check that fact: www.cff.ch geneva airport to saint-gall in 1st class costs just CHF100 = today's fine.
How do you spell growth, RT?
Meanwhile the totaly overt and desperate act of pumping equity markets thru futures manipulation continues in your face.
If I lived in Greece, I'd want my money, too.
Nevertheless, Greek female ass smells like roses.
Screw the banks.
It's time for the Drachma.
The Algo Machines from Hell are going haywire lately. LULU? NFLX? WTF?
Greece HAS to go back to the Drachma this year. They will be forced to, by the market!
looks like $/Yen intervention coming soon
If only they were smart enough to let Greece restructure in 2010, everybody would have been much better off now. This unexplainable fear of a default is causing nothing but suffering for everybody involved.
The Euro is dead meat. The sweet-talking Frenchman, Sarkozy, is dictating the gameplan for Merkel.
The biggest fallacy of this crisis is the one saying that the Euro needs to break up if a country (or countries) default? Why exactly should that happen? Should California succeed if it defaults? This argument makes no sense. Greece, Italy, Ireland, Portugal and Spain should all restructure their debts and move on. It will only make the euro stronger.
"Greece, Italy, Ireland, Portugal and Spain should all restructure their debts and move on. It will only make the euro stronger."
By that you mean the above countries should decide to pay less to banks, thereby affecting the profits/survivability of banks, and at the same time saving their taxpayers billions? Sorry friend, that's not how the game plays, as the banks control the governments, and the governments are the ones that at least appear to make decisions on restructuring/default. Won't happen.
Sweet-talking Frenchman ?
I thought Sarkozy was Hungarian -- simply with an accent like Maurice Chevalier ?
My question is what are the owners of the other 173bil waiting for?
KRE straight up off the lows, $19 to $26 in 3 months.
Where's the "banking crisis" everyone has been harping on???
Did you think Obama was going to "Roll Over"?
hey robo, great hindsight call again on KRE. btw, those two consumer charts we peeked at the other day, you know, the one that shows consumers depleting their savings for the holiday season, and the other chart, that shows consumers spending on credit at double the pace of their savings wind down----not looking too good for the strength of the consumer, eh???
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Hostess Brands Inc. is preparing to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as soon as this week, said people familiar with the matter, a move that would mark the second significant court restructuring for the Twinkies and Wonder Bread baker in the past several years.
Augghh! NOT Twinkies too!
Hey TD/ZHers, did anybody see this article slamming ZH??? Calling TD out for an article on PSLV being described as physical vs. the paper it really is. I kind of agree with them. WTF is the reason for the 30% premium on PSLV??? It isn't anything more than paper.


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Come As You Are
Come As You Are tells the moving and amusing Hangover-style story of three disabled lads - one blind, one paraplegic and the other with an incurable tumour - who decide that they will not die virgins, and head off to Spain in a clapped-out minivan, driven by an equally clapped-out nurse, to find a special seaside brothel that will cater to their needs. While it does not have the wit of The Sessions, a similar tale of disabled sexual emancipation, this little European film turns in some good performances. 15, 115min


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" Brand: Lush / Type: Makeup "
This Glitter is made by B Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful, Lush's grown-up sister, with all of the same ethical considerations and aims as the original company.
The glitter itself is very nice, a little of this goes a long way as it is 100% loose glitter and quite fine. Lush suggest that you use it to highlight your body and spinkle in your hair as well as on your eyelids, and it works well for all of these purposes although for body and hair it needs to be mixed with some lotion or mousse to hold it on. For my face I use a lip brush dipped in water to apply it and I find it stays put all night with just water holding it on. If you find this doesn't work for you try mixing it with Vaseline or moisturiser, but I prefer to use use water to help me apply it because other liquids interfere with the rest of my make-up. When applying I advise you to go carefully, slowly, and be sparing with the glitter because if you have too much on your brush and flick it suddenly you will make a huge mess on your face and anywhere else that will be almost impossible to properly clean up!
Another good idea for this glitter is to mix it with nail varnish or apply it to nail varnish that it still wet. Top coat essential to hold it on!
It comes in a range of shades, the website lists nine but there have been others in the past. It's impossible for me to say which is the best colour. All the shades are gorgeous but I use some more than others because they match more of my clothes. I have some favourite ways to use each shade:
Gold I like to use to highlight the inner and outer corners and upper lash line of my eye when I'm wearing slightly sparkly gold eyeshadow.
Red (not available anymore on the website) stands out really well against black eyeliner and shadow.
Emerald Green I like to use with silver glitter or eyeshadow.
Sky Blue looks best with blue eyeshadow to make it more exciting.
The Iridescent and Iris shades are both white but are very different from each other. The Iridescent shimmers pink and lilac in the light, whereas the Iris reflects light to produce a multicoloured effect. I like to use the Iris on my body and in my hair and keep the Iridescent to mix with plain white eyeshadow to make the latter more exciting.
Dusky Pink is probably my least favourite shade. It's kind of salmon, so I mix it with Iris or Iridescent to make it less bright, and then use it sparingly to highlight. It'd rather have the Mauve instead!
Poodle Pink I sometimes use during the day, it's quite subtle because it doesn't seem to sparkle as much as the other shades, and it's not as bright.
Silver I use everywhere - it goes with everything, and I often use it with the Black to draw lines coming out of the outer corners of my eyes when I'm going for a glamorous evening look.
Black is the messiest shade and the one that will look the worst if it goes wrong - but it can look absolutely amazing. Mixed with Vaseline and spread over eyelids it looks stunning but is difficult to keep looking good all night. I prefer to use it to put little lines or firework bursts at the outer corners of my eyes. I wouldn't use this on the body, it would just look dirty!
Throughout the year you can buy each colour individually, in a carved wooden pot as shown on this page, but at Christmas a gift set called "Bling Bling" is available featuring mini screw-top tubes of almost all the colours (last year they left out the mauve). Ordinarily these glitters are very expensive - £8 - and despite the Lush credentials, the pot, the quality of the product, and colour range, I wouldn't buy them for this price.
However, the gift set is much better value for money as the tubes are full to the top and you get to try the different colours. I can't see myself using up this set any time in the next eight years unless I become a rock star or have some other excuse to wear glitter on a daily basis.
Sprinkle a little glitter over your body and highlight what you want to get noticed / arms, legs and shoulders /


text: This is not ground braking but its was my first. My dad gave me some beautiful wild caught north west salmon and I dry brined it with 1 cup dark brown sugar and 1/4 cup canning salt and some fresh minced garlic (about 1 tbs) I picked the smallest piece of fish for a tester. Because of that I left it hole with the skin on. Brined it over night then gave the fish a rinse and pat dry with paper towels. After that I set it in cool place (the garage) with a fan blowing on it. after 2 hours this is what it looked like...nice and sticky! ground some fresh black pepper on it before going in the smoker. Im testing out my new pellet smoker trays. I used a 50/50 mix of apple and hickory pellets. I found out they will smoke for 8 hours each and there smaller size keeps them away from the heat from the burner in the middle. I put the fish in at 155* for 2 hours then 200* for the last 30 min. I had both trays filled up but next time I will only do half. Its nice not having to keep feeding smoker chips every few hours! After 2 hours in the fridge this is what I got! I cut the tip off and saved the rest for thanksgiving but its going to be hard to stay out of it! It was the best smoked fish I've ever had! and will be doing a bigger batch soon! The salty sweetness from the brine was just right with the smoke flavors. The texture is a biggie for me and it was spot on! not mush but not dry....Simple and very good!


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Does anyone know if he is keeping the ….not exactly sure what he calls this feature…but it's the stars at the top that give you bonuses if you don't reload a game? That was the most unique and interesting gameplay additions in the pilot. That and the writing was what I loved about the pilot.


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Leslie McLoughlin was Director of Studies at the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies (MECAS) in Shemlan, Lebanon, between 1965-68 and 1970-75. He lectured in Arabic and Islamic studies at Edinburgh University between 1969-70 and also taught at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania in 1969 and 1970. In 1987 he founded the MECAS Association.
He has lectured in Arabic in many Arabic countries.
He interpreted for HM The Queen and Her Majesty's Government from 1983-2009.
As a University Fellow in retirement at Exeter he is active in consultancy on the teaching of Arabic as a foreign language.
As a historian he has specialized in the history of Saudi Arabia after publishing a biography of the first King, Ibn Saud, in 1993.
The following video features Leslie McLoughlin's work in the Institute of Arab and islamic Studies at Exeter.
Ibn Saud: Founder of a Kingdom, Palgrave Macmillan / St.Antony's,1993.
A Nest of Spies...? An Informal History of MECAS, Alhani Books, London, 1994.
In A Sea of Knowledge: British Arabists in the 20th Century, Ithaca Press, 2002.
Confessions of an Arabic Interpreter: The Odyssey of an Arabist 1959-2009, Motivate Books, 2010.
Guide to Speech Making in Arabic, 2012
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"Did you authorise anyone in Downing Street or in the Ministry of Defence to release David Kelly's name?" he was asked. "Emphatically not," responded Blair."I did not authorise the leaking of the name of David Kelly". The prime minister added: "Nobody was authorised to name David Kelly. I believe we have acted properly throughout."
This week, the Hutton inquiry heard the clearest unequivocal evidence that Blair was personally involved in the decisions which led to the public naming of the government's chief adviser on Iraq's chemical and biological weapons programme. Sir Kevin Tebbit, the top civil servant at the Ministry of Defence, told the inquiry that the key meeting from which everything else flowed was chaired by the prime minister on July 8.
"A policy decision on the handling of this matter had not being taken until the prime minister's meeting. It was only after that that any of the press people had an authoritative basis on which to proceed," said Sir Kevin. He agreed with Jeremy Gompertz, the Kelly family's counsel, that the decision which led to the naming of Kelly was therefore taken at Downing Street and not the MoD, though he said his department "concurred" with it.
The July 8 meeting was "decisive", insisted Sir Kevin. Not only did it decide that the MoD should issue a press statement giving details of Kelly's background, it also led, Sir Kevin agreed, to the decision to prepare a question and answer briefing paper for the media which provided even more clues to Kelly's identity, including confirmation of his name to those journalists who had guessed it, in a procedure of which Kelly was totally unaware.
Both Downing Street and the MoD had reasons for outing Kelly. He was potentially their trump card in the battle with the BBC. He could demonstrate that the reporter, Andrew Gilligan, had embellished what he had been told by Kelly about the government's dossier on Saddam Hussein's weapons programme.
Kelly could further show that Gilligan had been misleading about his source - Kelly was not a member of the intelligence services and was not as intimately involved in drawing up the dossier as the BBC had claimed.
In his evidence to the Hutton inquiry, Blair said he was worried that the government would be accused of a cover-up at a time when the Commons foreign affairs committee had just completed its report on the decision to go to war with Iraq, and when the parliamentary intelligence and security committee was just about to start its separate inquiry.
"My concern was to get the information not concealed but, as it were, out there so that no one could say afterwards: look, this is something that you people were trying to cover up or conceal."
This, too, is understandable, but it hardly squares with Blair's initial protestations on the plane to Hong Kong. Blair was also asked then why the MoD confirmed Kelly's identity when his name was put to it by newspapers. He said that was "a completely different matter, once the name was out there".
Government witnesses to the Hutton inquiry, including Sir Kevin, argued it was inevitable Kelly would be outed, it was simply a matter of time. They avoided the fact that journalists were helpfully being steered in Kelly's direction by the government's own officials.
The evidence is quite clear. Downing Street and the MoD wanted to out Kelly. They both contributed to his outing. The strategy was decided by Downing Street, specifically at a meeting chaired by the prime minister on July 8 when no minutes were taken. Unfortunately - for himself and the government - Kelly did not play ball. Understandably, perhaps, he did not tell his MoD bosses the full truth about what he told Gilligan or other journalists. But whatever the government's motives - including buck-passing - Sir Kevin's evidence and the prime minister's assertions cannot both be right. There is a lingering smell of cowardice over Whitehall's treatment of Kelly. That, or other failings, were reflected at the Labour party conference which bottled out of the issue.
There is surely something unhealthy about a body politic with a huge parliamentary majority and self-destructing opposition which cannot focus on such an important issue as the honesty of a prime minister. James Dingemans, Lord Hutton's counsel, ended by saying that the inquiry had thrown up questions which should be investigated by "other institutions".
Will MPs be brave enough to rise to his challenge?
· Richard Norton-Taylor is the Guardian's security affairs editor