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OK, you should be able to access the Configuration utility from here..... (Configure)
If that doesn't work, try.... C:\Program Files (x86)\Mass Effect\Binaries\MassEffectConfig.exe
This is what it looks like.....
Now click on Repair and choose one of the shortcut repair options and see if that works.
Let us know.
And as I mentioned before, make sure you patch the game. Please let us know!
And yeah, Mass Effect is a Role Playing Game..... and darn good one
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This might be a silly question but why must I patch it?
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Basically patches and updates address issues discovered after release, or address/fix potential problems/bugs/security issues.
You can decide to patch/update or not but I can definitely tell you to expect problems such as you're the one you're experiencing now, and some yet to come. That's on both the game, and Windows.
At any rate I've given you a solution for the game. It's up to you to use it or not.
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|16 May 2011
I appreciate your help, Sygnus. Don't think I'm blowing it off. Bandwidth is expensive here though and I'm reluctant to use it if I don't have to...
Here's another puzzler: On the case it says internet connection required to play (I assume both to register and during the game) but mine doesn't seem to need it. I expect this is because the game is now three years old and has been re-released and has had the 'safeties' removed. How do I know that it has been patched already?
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|16 May 2011
At any rate you needed to have internet service so the game could authenticate the product ID number you were supposed to supply when you installed the game. If this didn't happen, well I can only guess at the game's legitimacy - which could also be the reason for your troubles.
Anyway to find the patch version of the game re-read my post - Mass Effect - click Game in the left hand pane and where it says MassEffect.exe, if it says v1.02 you have the latest patch. If it says v1.00, the game is NOT patched.
Other than that I have no other advice other then make sure the game is legit, and to patch the game.
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|16 May 2011
In terms of Internet Connection & Activation:
The game does in fact call home.But, only the 1st time you launch the game.
It calls home, verifies your game is legit, and downloads a really small activation file to your PC.
It does this in the background, and only 1 time ever, at first launch. After that, no internet connection is required to play.
Also keep in mind, Mass Effect will only allow you to have a set number of activations at any given time. (I can not remember if it is 3 or 5)
So, if you decide to Re-Install Windows, it may be a good idea to De-Authorize your game. This revokes the activation from the PC and gives it back to you to be used on any other machine.
The tool can be found at EA's website. Just Google EA De-Authorization Tool if you ever need it.
As far as the patch goes, its 73MB in size.
It can be found here: Mass Effect Community - Game Information
That link will also let you know what the patch changes.
As soon as you can, I would certainly get it. The vanilla ME can be rather buggy at times.
As for the Configuration tool -- Aside from showing the Game Version as Sygnus has pointed out,
theres some options in there that are not available in the games settings.
For example, I have to use it to change to a 16:9 resolution. In game only offers 4:3 and 16:10.
Theres a few other settings as well however that can only be changed in the Config tool.
This is certainly one of the better RPGs out there IMO
If you've never played it before, try to avoid any spoliers and just explore everything you can. Talk to everyone.
Theres tons of side missions to do etc, and it has a great story line.
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|16 May 2011
Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
The game itself had a few patches, if that wasn't already mentioned, that I would recommend downloading and installing. Might do the trick http://masseffect.bioware.com/me1/pc/updates/index.html
They recommend having all updates, especially driver updates (graphics driver is a good example because thats a big part of playing the game) http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-wi...ql-driver.html
you say you have a bandwidth limit, perhaps before they charge you extra? I wonder if there are download managers, perhaps for firefox, that keep bandwidth to a minimum. That would be a cool thing to look into; wonder if the computer itself could be limited, and I just think it may.
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|17 May 2011
Thanks everyone. Here in South Africa bandwidth is expensive. We're way behind the rest of the world in that regard. And if you do happen to find a good offer then its unreliable. Unfortunate but there you go...
The game is legitimate. Generally I only buy 3-4 years after their release due to the massive drop. I think Mass Effect was around R400 when it first came out. Now its available for R50. I have heard many people tell me that the activation is left off the re-releases which is why I brought it up earlier. One thing I can say is I don't buy pirated software (or any stolen goods for that matter). Perhaps we get a different release to you guys in the states?
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Quick question: this patch I am supposed to download and install (still haven't ), must it be installed before I start playing? I am halfway and not too keen on starting over. If I install the patch now can I make configuration changes (resolution, etc) to my current game?
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Klaus Störtebeker was not his real name. Any self-respecting pirate of the late 14th century picked his own nom de guerre, and Klaus of Wismar gave himself a moniker that means "empties the mug in a single gulp." According to the legend, the mug in question would be about equal to four liters today.
After a few years of wreaking havoc on the Northern European coast, Störtebeker was betrayed, captured, and brought to Hamburg for trial. He was beheaded along with 70 or so of his pirate brethren. When a Hamburg senator asked if the executioner was tired after all of this chopping, the executioner said he'd happily behead the whole senate as well. So a second executioner was brought in to behead the first. Störtebeker left a trail of blood (and gold: the core of his ship's mast was full of it) in his wake.
Today, this Robin Hood of Germany has given his name to a theater festival, a punk song, and a brand of beer. A statue of the man has graced Hamburg's Maritime Museum for the past three decades, and he has now been relocated—naked, hands bound, and cast in bronze—to the city's swanky new condominium development district, HafenCity (HarborCity). The statue stands with his back turned indignantly away from the steel-and-glass constructions of HafenCity, turned toward the one neighborhood that has so far resisted gentrification: St. Pauli. Let the city keep condemning land occupied by immigrants and squatters in order to sell it off to young professionals and artists. St. Pauli, a redoubt of anarchist politics and anti-state resolve, is fighting to keep a more corporate Germany at bay. And its soccer club St. Pauli—with its supporters flying a skull-and-crossbones flag to remind them of Störtebeker—is leading the way.
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For the course of the last century, soccer in the city was dominated by Hamburg SV, known as "the dinosaur" of German football. Hamburg SV became European champions in 1983 and boasted players of the caliber of Kevin Keegan and Felix Magath. The city's second team, FC St. Pauli was left in the shadows as their local rivals hogged the limelight.
But what St. Pauli lacked in championships, it made up for in spirit. Dockworkers have always lived in St. Pauli, and they made the area a bulwark of the far left in West Germany since World War II. Though protests, squats, and disobedience—both civil and uncivil—are popular throughout these neighborhoods, it is hardly a dangerous place to have a meal or watch a match. Especially if you are watching the team known as the "Freebooters" (pirates) of the league or wearing one of one of FC St. Pauli's mud-brown jerseys that were unveiled with the motto "KIEZHELDEN"—Heroes of the Neighborhood—on the front in lieu of a corporate sponsor (Hamburg SV's current shirt includes the logo of a major Dubai-based airline.)


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AUCKLAND (Reuters) - Players who had been training together for the past two weeks make up the majority of the British and Irish Lions side to play the opening game of their 10-match tour of New Zealand.
Coach Warren Gatland's squad only arrived in New Zealand on Wednesday and face the Provincial Barbarians in the northern city of Whangarei on Saturday.
The Lions' preparation had been hamstrung by European club commitments with players filtering into training camps after those had been completed.
"The advantage of the team we have selected is that the players were together in the first week in Wales," Gatland said on Thursday.
"Then we had a another group come in in Dublin as well so it has been an opportunity for some combinations to work together for a couple of weeks and to prepare for the first game."
Tour captain Sam Warburton, who has recovered from a knee injury, will lead the side against the Barbarians, who are mostly composed of players from New Zealand's semi-professional provincial competition.
New Zealand-born Ireland centre Jared Payne has been named on the bench for the Lions, which should provide an emotional homecoming for the 31-year-old, who played for local provincial side Northland for three seasons.
Gatland also included Ireland captain Rory Best, Wales skipper Alun Wyn Jones and Scotland's Greig Laidlaw, a late call-up to the squad, all of whom can take the leadership role should Warburton be substituted after getting match fitness under his belt.
"There is some real experience there with Rory Best, Alun Wynn Jones and Johnny Sexton, and Sam as captain," Gatland added.
"So there is a big responsibility on the lot of the experienced players to go out there and start well and get us off to a winning start."
New Zealand-born rugby league convert Ben Te'o has also been named to start in the centres with England team mate Jonathan Joseph, providing Gatland with the combination of a hard ball runner and more creative player in midfield.
All three Scotlish players in the squad - fullback Stuart Hogg, winger Tommy Seymour and scrumhalf Laidlaw - have been named to start the match that kicks off at 1935 (0735 GMT) on Saturday.
Lions: 15-Stuart Hogg, 14-Anthony Watson, 13-Jonathan Joseph, 12-Ben Te'o, 11-Tommy Seymour, 10-Johnny Sexton, 9-Greig Laidlaw; 8-Taulupe Faletau, 7-Sam Warburton (captain), 6-Ross Moriarty, 5-Iain Henderson, 4-Alun Wyn Jones, 3-Kyle Sinckler, 2-Rory Best, 1-Joe Marler
Replacements: 16-Jamie George, 17-Mako Vunipola, 18-Tadhg Furlong, 19-George Kruis, 20-Justin Tipuric, 21-Rhys Webb, 22-Owen Farrell, 23-Jared Payne
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The novel tells the story of a lonely rich businessman Jay Gatsby, who pursues his long-lost love. The lavish parties celebrated at his estate must regain the Gatsby's once lost sweetheart. But it is not the novel about love only. It is the power of enormous emotions, painful failure of all romantic dreams.
Jay Gatsby's parties are well known in New York city, there you can always find many celebrities, cocktails, good music while the host keeps itself hidden behind a wall of secrecy. Hardly even one of his "friends" know who is the person behind all this facade of secrecy.
One day the Nick Carraway from Gatsby's neighborhood attracts hosts attentions. They became a very close and Carraway begins to discover that behind the mask of fascination and decadence Gatsby hides a romantic nature. It revealed that great, famous and rich Gatsby all of his life has only one wish: to regain the love of a woman. But worlds can not be built on the dreams and so the rapid rise ends in a catastrophic crash of Gatsby's life.
"The Great Gatsby" is the symbol of the American dream of the rapid success, which inevitably followed by a deep fall, where every single word is essential for the story and the dialogue. Behind the descriptions of light summer, atmosphere hides so much biting sarcasm that the reader is quickly aware, that it's all that glitters is not gold here. And there you find one more essential thing: and the past cannot be lived again.
The Fitzgerald's novels and stories are all autobiographical. Models for his characters he finds very easily: in his wife Zelda or other relatives, in friends. Etc. He even took the diaries of his beloved and transported whole passages in his stories! You can question his methods of writing novels, but today is the Gatsby as a monolith in American cultural history.
The Great Gatsby was written in 1925. It is the most famous F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel. The grand classics of American literature in it's the best form.


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In 2008, the court received a grant from the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation in the amount of $675,000 over a five year period to implement this concentrated, evidence-based, therapeutic program. MST is an intensive family-and community-based treatment that addresses the multiple influences that contribute to serious antisocial or illegal behavior in youth. To achieve success, interventions are generally necessary within and between a combination of these systems.
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MARCEL Meeuwis was destined for Australia.
Had he followed his gut earlier, the Dutchman could have been lining up for Central Coast Mariners in Perth this weekend rather than for Melbourne Heart in Newcastle.
If he had, the 32-year-old would be challenging for the minor premiership rather than fighting for a spot in the playoffs.
A feeling of regret brought Meeuwis to Heart.
But despite the jetlag, despite the temperature shock, he could not be happier.
"I was without a club in Holland because, my old club VVV Venlo, we talked to each other and said it was better to move on, search for another club," Meeuwis said yesterday.
"Then my agent called and asked if I wanted to go to Australia and I thought about it for two days and said 'yeah I want to do it'.
"In the preparation of the season (Mariners coach) Graham Arnold called me and asked if I wanted to play at the Central Coast. I almost did it and I had a little bit of regret.
"Then Melbourne Heart came. I looked the club up on the internet ... I spoke to (football operations manager) John Didulica, I spoke to Patrick Zwaanswijk at the Central Coast Mariners and then I decided I wanted to come to Australia to enjoy the life also, but as Zwaanswijk told me, the level of the league is higher than a lot of people think in Europe.
"It's a nice experience to play football."
Meeuwis is a defensive midfielder and will slot into the starting line-up for tomorrow night's clash with the Jets at Hunter Stadium should his international clearance come through in time.
He arrives at a time when Heart has seven games to maintain its tenuous grip on a spot in the top six.
The former Feyenoord and Borussia Monchengladbach man has signed a deal taking him only to the end of the season and, already speaking like a true Heart player, the season ahead is all he is thinking about.
"I signed because I want to get into the playoffs with the team and then we'll see what happens," he said.
With so few matches remaining in the season, Meeuwis has little time to get acclimatised.
But he said he had few worries about being able to adapt to coach John Aloisi's style of play.
"I think football is an international language," he said.
"I learned the names very fast and I think that's very important.
"It's not easy, but I think I will succeed. The first thing I noticed here is that everyone is in good shape. In Holland, not everyone is in such good shape I can tell you."
"Almost every player here, they are in good condition, have a good body.
"Luckily I'm also in good shape."
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This example is very nice, that you cannot extinguish by your plans the blazing fire of this material existence. That is not possible. This is foolishness. Andhā yathāndhair upanīyamānāḥ (SB 7.5.31). The so-called rascal leaders, they are making plan, lifelong. The United Nations making plan to stop war, fighting. They cannot do it. It is not possible. You have to take mercy from Kṛṣṇa. Then it is possible to extinguish. We have to seek mercy. But the demons, they don't care for Kṛṣṇa, or God. They think that "We shall do. I am God. I shall do it." Na māṁ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante narādhamāḥ. Because they are narādhama, lowest of the mankind. Why it is called? Kṛṣṇa says. We are not manufacturing this word. Kṛṣṇa says, "lowest of the mankind." Āsuraṁ bhāvam āśritāḥ.
- na māṁ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ
- prapadyante narādhamāḥ
- māyayāpahṛta-jñānā
- āsuraṁ bhāvam āśritāḥ
Those who are demons, those who have developed this asuric bhāva... Asuric bhāva means denying the existence of God. That is asuric bhāva. There are two kinds of men: asura and devatā. Those who are accepting the authority of the Supreme Lord, they are called devatā. And those who are denying the existence of God... Now such demons are prevalent everywhere, especially the Communists. And others, they write, of course, on the note, "We Trust In God," but practically does not do anything. That is also another edition of demons: under the garb of believing in God, doing all nonsense. You see?


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technical examination of the car - it legitimized the standard procedure, which is conducted once a year.By this time, the car owner has to prepare his iron friend and present it for inspection at any service station, where it will be inspected operator.Note that the operator itself to perform all the actions can not, so he will need your help.You'll have to help him in this: press on the pedal, remove caps, open the hood and so on.
So that check on something?
to the outside of
Requirements The first operator will view the state:
- extinguishers.Mainly paying attention to the expiration date.
- kits.Are all the medications available.
- there any warning triangle.
- The condition of the seat belts, rear-view mirrors.
- sure to check the signal, windshield wipers and washers.
- Do not pass by the operator and some sunscreens, pay attention to the door locks.
- whether to move the driver's seat and front passenger.
If you are the owner of a bus or truck, be sure wheel chocks will be checked.If it sat
brake system brakes are tested in two ways today:
- on the road in motion.
- on a special stand.
Let's face it, the first option is no longer used because of the meeting space requirements, and the requirements for flatness of pavement now much tougher for this test requires a well-asphalted area that is not always available at the service station.Therefore, commonly used displays, which are driven into the car, the front wheels first, then the rear (ie, first checked the brakes of the front wheels, then the rear).And be sure the handbrake is checked.
steering system operators usually pay particular attention to the fluid in the power steering system.If it is not enough, then you do not pass inspection.Therefore, make sure in advance that the fluid was normal.It will take about ten minutes, not more.
sure to check tie rods and finials.For this car they are driving on a viewing hole or overpass.Below is the operator of all checks, drafts attach to force his hands.
Finally in the steering system - a cover on the steering wheel.The convenient thing is beautiful, but the cover must fit tightly to the steering wheel itself.This make sure in advance.
mainly checked the compression inside the engine.The fact that the engine is in poor condition, will show smoke (dark blue), coming out of the exhaust.If smoke is present, you will not pass by anyone.
In this case, the operator pays attention to three main factors:
- tire pressure.
- Outside the disks and the tires (no bumps, dents and other defects).
- magnitude of the tread.
So before you drive a car in service, check that everything was in order.
would seem a trifle.But it is to find fault with most headlights.In this case, everything is checked: front and rear lights, turn signals, brake lights, parking lights.
Remember, in vehicles should be used only light devices, which are installed by the manufacturer.The exceptions are those models that are no longer available.
exhaust Check
This test is now being given great importance.We should all cares for the environment.But on the roads of our country drive different cars, there are those who have been released a long time ago.Therefore, the legislation provides some exemptions cars issued before 1986 to have a norm to 4.5% of the exhaust gas (CO).For newer machines this figure should not exceed 3.5%.
Here's everything you need to pass inspection.As you can see, a lot of requirements, but it is a guarantee that the road you will come across a situation where your iron horse will be the cause of accidents.


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DAVID MARK: A former child protection manager has detailed a litany of concerns about child protection issues at the YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) in New South Wales.
The YMCA is under close scrutiny by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
One of the YMCA's's childcare workers, Jonathan Lord, was convicted of assaulting 12 boys between 2009 and 2011.
The inquiry was told today that more than a year after Jonathan Lord was arrested YMCA New South Wales still didn't know whether all of its other employees had been formally cleared to work with children.
The commission also heard that in 2012, the child protection manager was worried the organisation's child welfare policies were rarely used by staff and required updating.
Emily Bourke reports.
EMILY BOURKE: For a brief time, Catharine Clements was the child protection and compliance manager with the YMCA in NSW.
She was employed last year, several months after police began investigating accusations that a former YMCA childcare worker, Jonathan Lord, had assaulted several boys between 2009 and 2011.
The royal commission is examining how Jonathan Lord was recruited, and how the YMCA and police responded when the allegations surfaced. It's also looking at other child safe policies at the YMCA.
Ms Clements worked for the Y for only a few short months, but the problems she encountered were significant.
CATHARINE CLEMENTS: It seemed to me in the discussions I had of different situations that staff didn't think, oh, I'll refer to the policy. What does the policy say? It didn't seem to be in their minds that it was a resource to their work. It was something in the policy manual, it wasn't applying to their practice.
EMILY BOURKE: She told the inquiry that workers had confided in her about their concerns about child protection.
Ms Clements recalled one example where an irate parent threatened to return to a childcare centre with a gun.
CATHARINE CLEMENTS: He said, "Look, for months afterwards I felt, well is someone going to be waiting there with a gun. That doesn't seem a very good way to work". That's what he raised with the manager, and she completely endorsed her staff's concern, but she had raised that with the managers and didn't get a response for some weeks.
And this worker, he said, "Look, maybe the Y doesn't see it as a problem because I'm a male and maybe they think threats like that don't worry males". That's what was going through his head.
The response, when it came, was for that service to write an apology letter to the parent. And has his view, and that's why he'd wanted to raise it with me, he said "That doesn't seem the right response. And I still don't have any way to protect children when a parent becomes abusive". And I said, "Well I agree with you".
EMILY BOURKE: In the aftermath of the Lord case, the YMCA conducted an audit of its 1,800 staff to see that they were cleared to work with children.
It took more than a year to make sure every staff member had completed a Working with Children check.
Ms Clements described so-called red flags around child protection.
CATHARINE CLEMENTS: Staff said, "Oh I know that I'm meant to report concerns. If I see a risk of significant harm I know I'm meant to report it. But I would be worried if I did that". Staff felt that they might lose their job even. And that's the kind of anxiety I'm talking about. There was this unease about raising concerns with management.
EMILY BOURKE: Jonathan Lord was sacked from a US summer camp for inappropriate behaviour before joining the YMCA in 2009, a detail that wasn't included in his job application.
But Erin Turner, who is an outbound manager for Camp America, told the inquiry Lord's application form for the summer camp itself should have been a red flag.
ERIN TURNER: Talked a lot about one activity, but his reference was a completely different. His reference came from a minister that wasn't talked about in his application.
COUNSEL: Anything else?
ERIN TURNER: Yeah, just some wordings that his best friend was a seven-year-old.
EMILY BOURKE: Late today there was close scrutiny of the YMCA's recruitment policy in 2009.
Under intense questioning by senior counsel-assisting, Gail Furness, the children's services manager of YMCA New South Wales, Jacqui Barnat, couldn't be clear on which policy applied in 2009.
JACQUI BARNAT: I think I did try and locate that policy, just to refer to it.
GAIL FURNESS: And that was over the last month did you, you tried to find it?
JACQUI BARNAT: I believe so.
GAIL FURNESS: Were you successful?
JACQUI BARNAT: No I didn't have versions of 2009 policies, I only had 2007.
GAIL FURNESS: So you haven't been able to locate a policy, notwithstanding you have sought one, that was in place in respect of recruitment in 2009? That's right? But it's still your evidence that there was a policy in place, not the one that I've shown you, for recruitment and selection in 2009? Is that right?
JACQUI BARNAT: I believe so.
DAVID MARK: That's the children's services manager of YMCA NSW, Jacqui Barnat. Emily Bourke was our reporter.


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Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (1753-1811), a Mexican revolutionary priest, is considered the foremost patriot of Mexican independence. He led a revolt against Spanish rule that inaugurated a series of military and political episodes culminating in the achievement of Mexican independence in 1821.
Miguel Hidalgo was born a Creole on May 8, 1753. His father was the administrator of a hacienda in the Bajío (in the present state of Guanajuato). Miguel was trained briefly in a Jesuit school before the order was expelled from the empire in 1767. Later that year he matriculated in the diocesan College of San Nicolás in Valladolid (now Morelia). Hidalgo was intellectually oriented and chose to remain part of the academic community long after he had earned degrees in theology and had been ordained. By 1776 he was a member of the San Nicolás faculty and remained in Valladolid until 1792 as an academician, an exponent of the Enlightenment, and a Don Juan. In 1790 he became rector of the college, but his advanced ideas and mismanagement of funds soon led to his ouster.
From 1792 until 1810 Hidalgo served as parish priest in a succession of curacies. While in San Felipe (1793-1803), he made his house a salon and promoted French theatrical works (which he translated), orchestral music, dances, and literary discussions. The Inquisition investigated his activities (1800-1801) but did not press charges. On his arrival in Dolores near Guanajuato in 1803, Hidalgo turned to more socioeconomic interests. These he expressed through his development of local craft industries (ceramics, tanning, sericulture) for the benefit of the Indian and caste population.
Start of a Rebellion
With the Napoleonic invasion of Spain in 1808, Mexico's own crisis began. Hidalgo's search for intellectual companionship had brought him into contact with prominent Creoles throughout the Bajío, Michoacán, and adjacent areas. When the Creoles in Querétaro organized a plot to expel the dominant peninsular Spaniards and to substitute themselves in power, Hidalgo joined. Articulate, well informed, and charismatic, he soon emerged as the uprising's leader, with Ignacio Allende, a militia captain, as second in command.
Exposed in early September 1810, the conspirators were forced to revolt prematurely. In a dramatic episode, Hidalgo put the plan into effect on September 16 by delivering an impassioned speech, the Grito de Dolores, to his parishioners. Avoiding abstractions like "independence, " which were meaningless to the untutored villagers, he couched his revolutionary appeals in traditional protest language: the Catholic religion and the exiled king, Ferdinand VII, were extolled, and "death to bad government, " represented by the peninsular Spaniards, was urged. The native patroness, the Virgin of Guadalupe, was added to the slogans, and her image became the banner of the revolt.
Hidalgo permitted Indians and castes to join his holy war of redemption in such numbers that the original white Creole motives of the insurrection were obscured. The jacquerie swept through the Bajío, burning and looting, until it engulfed the mining center of Guanajuato on September 28. The massacre of the Spanish defenders of the fortress granary and the subsequent sack of the city set the tone for the Hidalgo revolt. Hidalgo took Valladolid in mid-October and then marched on Mexico City. His horde numbered some 80, 000 as it approached the viceregal capital.
Turn of the Tide
Meanwhile, the royalist government in Mexico City, under the leadership of Viceroy Francisco Venegas, had prepared defenses as much psychological as military. An intensive propaganda campaign had advertised the destructive horrors of the social revolution and revealed its threat to vested Creole interests. Hidalgo won a Pyrrhic victory on October 30 at Monte de las Cruces on the divide between Toluca and the capital but found the sedentary Indians and castes of the Valley of Mexico as much opposed to the Bajío intruders as were the Creoles and Spaniards. Threatened from the north by an army under the royalist general Félix Calleja, Hidalgo withdrew to Guadalajara to recoup without attacking Mexico City.
From his new base, Hidalgo made rudimentary efforts to establish a separatist government and to ameliorate the economic plight of the lower sectors of society (abolition of slavery and tribute were confirmed, and lands were ordered restored to Indian communities). Hidalgo, a strong egoist, however, assumed grandiose airs and exacerbated a growing schism with Allende's Creole faction. In January 1811 Calleja threatened Guadalajara, and Hidalgo advanced east to meet him at the bridge of Calderón with nearly 100, 000 men. Calleja's disciplined army of 7, 000 men defeated Hidalgo's horde on January 17, and Hidalgo fled north.
Suspended from command by the Allende party, Hidalgo was only a figurehead during the retreat. Allende's attempt in March to reach the United States was thwarted at Baján north of Saltillo, and the major leaders of the rebellion were captured. Hidalgo and his companions were removed to Chihuahua for trial and the inevitable executions. Aware that his enterprise had been a catastrophe, Hidalgo repented and apparently signed a public retraction. He was shot on July 30, 1811, and his body decapitated.
After Hidalgo's death his cause languished in spite of the efforts of José María Morelos, for the Creole majority remained opposed. In 1821 Agustín de Iturbide engineered a conservative independence and established a short-lived empire. After the republican overthrown of Iturbide, Hidalgo emerged as a patriotic hero. Modern Mexico venerates him as the Padre de la Patria, and the anniversary of his Grito is celebrated on September 16 as Mexico's independence day.
Further Reading
Hugh M. Hamill, Jr., The Hidalgo Revolt: Prelude to Mexican Independence (1966), is more concerned with the nature of the rebellion than with the man. For the general background see Lesley Byrd Simpson, Many Mexicos (1941; 4th ed. 1966), and Charles C. Cumberland, Mexico: The Struggle for Modernity (1968). A wealth of detail about the independence movement is in Hubert H. Bancroft, History of Mexico, vol. 4 (6 vols., 1883-1888).
Additional Sources
De Varona, Frank, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla: father of Mexican independence, Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook Press, 1993.
Hamill, Hugh M., The Hidalgo revolt: prelude to Mexican independence, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981.
Noll, Arthur Howard, The life and times of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, New York, Russell & Russell, 1973.
Perlin, D. E., Father Miguel Hidalgo: a cry for freedom, Dallas, Tex.: Hendrick-Long Pub. Co., 1991.
Scott, Bernice, The grito of September sixteenth: biography of Padre Miguel Hidalgo, father of Mexican independence, Ingleside, Tex.: Hemisphere House Books, 1981. □
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Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (mēgĕl´ ēŧħäl´gō ē kōstē´yä), 1753–1811, Mexican priest and revolutionary, a national hero. A creole intellectual, he was influenced by the French Revolution. As parish priest of the village of Dolores, Hidalgo attempted to improve the lot of the natives. Under his direction the indigenous peoples set out olive groves and vineyards, built a porcelain factory, engaged in the silk industry, and began other forbidden projects. As a result he antagonized the government and was also brought before the Inquisition to be tried for heresy, but the case was suspended.
When Napoleon invaded Spain and captured Ferdinand VII, the aftermath in Mexico, as in other South American countries, was the birth of separatist movements. Hidalgo was one of a group of creoles who met at Querétaro and planned a revolution. The plot was soon discovered, but he took a bold step and openly adopted the cause of independence. On Sept. 16, 1810, he issued the Grito de Dolores [cry of Dolores], launching the revolt against Spain. Hidalgo gathered an immense army of local Indians. With the banner of Our Lady of Guadalupe (see Guadalupe Hidalgo) as his standard, he injected religious zeal into the insurrection, but the Indians' cry for freedom and land was just as fervent. Ignacio Allende and other creole officers who had taken part in the conspiracy now brought colonial militia into Hidalgo's ranks, and certain radical creoles also joined. The church and the landowning creoles remained hostile.
Success attended Hidalgo's ill-organized army: Guanajuato, Guadalajara, and Valladolid fell to the revolutionaries, and they set out for Mexico City. They defeated a royalist force at Monte de los Cruces (Oct. 30, 1810) but did not pursue their victory. Rather, on Hidalgo's orders, the insurgents turned away from the capital and, retiring northwestward, were routed at Aculco. At Guadalajara, Hidalgo reorganized the army that was sent forth only to be crushed by Calleja del Rey, the royalist general, at Calderón Bridge (Jan. 17, 1811). Hidalgo, Allende, and the other leaders made their way north, hoping to reach the United States, but were betrayed and captured. Hidalgo, after being degraded (defrocked) by the Inquisition, was shot. His schemes for social reform, exemplified in the emancipation of slaves, the cessation of the tribute tax, and the return of the land to the indigenous Indians, had come to nothing, but the war for Mexican independence continued; leadership of the movement was passed on to Morelos y Pavón.
See studies by H. Hamill (1966), J. A. Canuso (1967), and A. H. Noll (1973).
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Been doing a tour of Rochester Hotels because of some recent tests and procedures at the Mayo Clinic. GuestHouse is the third hotel I have stayed at in the last 10 days and is probably the place I will stay the next time I have to visit Rochester. By no means is this a luxury hotel, but it does have a the base amenities that I need. Check-in was easy, even though there was an issue with the hotel broker's payment, they gave me my keys and said it was not my problem they would take care of it. Room was clean, a little dated, but very adequate. Very convenient to St. Mary's Hospital and plenty of eating options close by. There is a Famous Dave's attached to the hotel and it looked like they would provide room service (a rarity in a value hotel). There is also an Olive Garden, Perkins and Wild Bill's within a block.
This will be my new home in Rochester, when I visit again.
(Pool area was being refurbished, looks like it will be very nice).
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The site was purchased by the previous owners, Inchcape in 2007, with the building having been vacated only a few months earlier with Ford consolidating their offer to their franchise on Basingstoke Road. Inchcape purchased the site with a view to obtaining planning permission for a new BMW and Mini showroom. Planning was obtained for a 3 storey dealership in January 2009, but due to the polarisation of motor dealers around the A33, Inchcape re-thought their strategy. Lidl completed their purchase of the site in July 2015.
Our proposal will regenerate the site which has been disused for many years with a Lidl food store to the company's new specification. The new specification store is larger than older generation stores and will be modern and efficient, offering a light, spacious and attractive shopping environment for customers. 95% of Lidl's offer is own-brand products, with this store predicted to generate an average annual turnover of £4.4m. A Tesco Express will generate circa £3M in annual turnover whereas a large Waitrose, ASDA or Sainsbury's could have an annual turnover of £30M - £40M.
As Lidl is not a one-stop shop, linked shopping trips to with other local retailers would be likely. The development would not only aid competition in the Calcot area, but would also bring greater shopping choice to local residents and create up to 40 new local jobs.
We will shortly be publishing a full set of development plans and we have launched a website (www.calcot.lidl.co.uk) as part of our comprehensive public consultation exercise.
2. Anti-infrastructure petition to NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman asking him to intervene in the Reading, NY gas-storage issue
Salt-cavern gas storage is the most dangerous form of gas storage and is responsible for most of the catastrophic gas-storage accidents over the past thirty years. These particular salt-caverns were years ago rejected by the Department of Energy for the storage of nuclear waste, because the DOE found them too geologically unstable. Fault lines run through them, and there is evidence that the roof has collapsed in one of the storage chambers. If this expansion takes place, we will also face dangers from the transport of gas by pipeline, rail and truck, and the possible contamination of Seneca Lake, the drinking water source for more than 100,000 people.
There are many aspects of this plan that should be investigated, among them, a county legislative chair with gas-industry ties who pushed through an endorsement of this project; and a local fire department that, on the one hand, publicly claims it can handle potential Crestwood-related emergencies when it can't, and on the other hand, takes money from Crestwood.
We hear stories that employees at Crestwood subsidiary US Salt were threatened with job loss if they didn't support the project. We have questions about why the Reading town board approved this project while nearby towns oppose it. And we have serious concerns as to why the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation is keeping the most important documents related to safety (e.g. revised geological reports) secret from the public at the request of Crestwood.
3. Support a Third Reading Road Bridge
Reading's Labour council is seeking to work with Conservative run Wokingham as well as with councils in Oxfordshire and business organisations to build support for a new bridge.
4. A secondary school for east Reading with the best facilities at the best location
The conservative MP for east Reading is promoting the conversion of the iconic North entrance of the Royal Berkshire Hospital on London Road. This site is located on a main road, has no outdoor space, playing fields or parking, and in addition, it is a grade 2 listed building and currently houses hospital clinical facilities.
5. Erect cycle barriers on Bath Road footbridge Reading
A three year old girl was hit by a cyclist there recently.
Cycle barriers would stop cyclists using this narrow footway and ensure that pedestrians and pushchairs can safely cross the bridge.
6. Construct a Barnes and Noble in Brownsville, Texas
Children are missing out on the pleasure and joy of literacy.
7. Allow disabled people access to all on street parking bays 24/7
These changes include restricting access to the majority of the on road bays immediately surrounding the town centre so that they may only be accessed from 11am to 4pm and again after 7pm.
The roads most affected are St Mary's Butts, West Street and Friar Street
This has made it unreasonably difficult for many disabled people to access the shops and other facilities in the town.
A council representative has claimed that the the majority of people are happy with the changes, this is obviously true as the majority of people are not disabled and have little or no understanding of the real life ramifications of these changes for disabled people.
Examples of things that are now virtually impossible for many disabled people to do include:
A drink out with work friends/ family after work,
A meal before seeing a show at the local theatre
Early morning shopping to beat the crowds
Staying in town after shopping to eat out
Getting to one of the opticians who has served the community for many years
Getting to a number of well known high street shops
The current proposals to resolve the access issues appears to be to force all blue badge holders into wheelchairs of some form (Shop mobility) regardless of their individual needs and to expect the local shops/traders to cover the cost.
With economic downturn comes cuts, and the proposals leave disabled people reliant upon the funding of retailers/traders and upon charities. If they decide to remove the funding in the future, disabled people will be yet again unable to use the town and its facilities
The only long term way to ensure access to the town for disabled people during the same periods as able bodied people is to provide appropriately placed kerbside parking that is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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9. Allow Gunner Kruze-Wilde into rpworldgroup.com
It's not right to continue to exclude him from the group. Please send this link your family and friends, anyone who is an avid reader. We need all the help we can to overturn this decision.
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10. Bring in 20 mph zones to residential roads in Reading
The Coalition Government has recently relaxed restrictions on councils making it easier for them to introduce 20mph zones and variable speed limits outside schools.
We are calling for action now.
11. More funding for individualised literacy programmes in schools
It is tragic,that more and more funding is being taken out of the classroom. It is a money game for the schools trying to balance and share out what meagre monies they do receive. They receive money for children with a formal diagnosis, but even that is not much in the scheme of things.
So, we see teacher's aids shared around the school, between children with the greatest need- usually literacy programmes are left to the over stretched classroom teachers, and thus we see children slipping further and further behind. If the school is lucky, they may have a specialist coming in once a week, who will write recommendations, but its up to the teacher to find the time and resources to implement.
Parents are very often brought in to help in the classroom, but these children need one to one individual help. So what is the answer?
Parents and teachers alike, must petition government at all levels to make literacy a priority.
Every child must have access to quality, individualised literacy intervention.
Sign this online petition and comment.
12. Reading Residents Say No to New Visitor Parking Rules
This has now been changed, each household will receive 1 book with 20 permits these are now called Half Day Permits. The restrictions are that your visitor will have to specify either am or pm for one permit. AM times are 8am - 2pm and PM at 2pm - 8am the following morning.
This means you will now have to specify when your visitors arrive to your home, if they arrive mid morning and left after 8am the following morning you would potentially use 3 permits for just one visit!
As each permit costs £1 this will be a charge of £3 per visit after 6 visits you would definitely have to order a new permit book (with 2 permits left from your free book) at a cost £20.
Even if visitors did not stay over night you would use on average 2 permits per visit. So each book would give you 10 visits!
No doubt visitors will be caught out after failing to leave at 8am ( if an additional permit isn't used, with the intention of leaving at 8am) and finding a parking ticket at a cost of £30! Leaving us all on edge due to having an overnight visitor.
Residents are allowed a further five (paid) books after the free permit book is issued.
13. Protect Young People from the Tobacco Industry
14. Support New Reader Libraries
There is some great work going on in the public library service, and we want to celebrate that (see Libraries We Love) , but change is needed.
Libraries could do much more to meet social and individual needs. New thinking and additional money needs to be brought so that libraries can reach out to the greatest and growing need.
Our own experience shows that shared reading can play a practical and important role in delivering outcomes in public health, employment and educational attainment and we want to further develop the reach of the library services to deliver these and other outcomes.
We want to work with library staff and local authorities to bring these great changes about.
15. John Hollingsworth Field at RMHS
Over a span of twenty years, he coached five Middlesex League champions, won 100 games, and has been elected to both the Massachusetts Football Coach and RMHS Athletics Halls of Fame. Coach Hollingsworth is arguably the most successful football coach in RMHS history, and his on-field record is unassailable. However, for the community in which he lived and raised his family, his impact stretches far beyond the field, into the classroom, and through the fabric of Reading life.
There is no greater example of leadership and devotion to Reading's youth, as he inspired generations of Reading students to live principled lives and strive for excellence through discipline, hard work and unwavering commitment. More than 25 years after his retirement, scores of Reading families fondly remember this man, his words, his demeanor, and his general approach to life. It is because of these of these attributes that his impact shines to this day.
As a means of honoring its most influential educators, the Reading Public Schools established a process for naming various educational facilities after deserving individuals. Suggestions for naming the football field for Coach Hollingsworth have been floated about since the 1980s, but there was no defined means to make this happen. By following the newly created process, a group of ardent supporters nominated Coach Hollingsworth in 2010. His name was the only finalist chosen by a special Naming Sub-Committee to be forwarded to the School Committee for consideration. In February, 2011, contrary to strong public support and the Naming Sub-Committee's recommendation, the Reading School Committee rejected John Hollingsworth as worthy of this honor by a 5-1 vote.
The explanations given to date for this decision seem to be at odds with the clear intent of the facility naming process. No other names have been placed in nomination and no objections have been voiced by the school committee members regarding Coach Hollingsworth's character, contributions or record of achievement.
We feel the School Committee's decision is arbitrary and without merit. We therefore ask that the School Committee immediately reopen the nomination of John Hollingsworth for public discourse, re-examine the merits of his nomination and, accordingly, name the football field at Reading Memorial High School "John Hollingsworth Field". Doing so will not only honor the man, but also the Town of Reading and all of its citizens, past and present.
16. NO MORE CUTS TO Senior Services in Reading!
2010- The Coordinator of Volunteers was cut from the town budget.
2011- The FY12 budget presented to the Selectmen on 1/11 & 1/18 proposed to cut the Elder Services Administrator to part time.
When the Reading Elder Services Budget is cut, seniors will be impacted. The Senior Center will be impacted, and services to help seniors remain in their homes will be impacted.
17. The Ban of Tobacco Sales in Reading, MA Pharmacies
Our hope is to pass a legal ban against their sale, following in the footsteps of other youth-based organizations across the state. Tobacco is a toxin not only literally within the cigarette, but tobacco is a toxin to society. It is hypocritical that a place that sells life saving medications, also sells a life draining drug. We need your help to rectify this apparent problem.
We ask of you to sign your name on this petition and spread the word about our actions. We appreciate your support in joining this cause.
Thank you.
18. Save Whitley Excellence Cluster
This petition was presented to Reading Borough Council on 14th February and received extensive local press coverage.
There were over 600 paper based signatures as well as the online ones
Unfortunately the lead councillor for education, Cllr Mark Ralph was not willing to take any action to support the continuing work.
This is despite the impact he acknowledged it has had on education in the area.
This petition doesn't ask Reading Borough council to keep necessarily keep funding at the existing level, but for them to stop being complacent and to act now find a way to protect this essential support to children in South Reading.
However the campaign will continue and we will look for other ways to support South Reading's schools, so please sign and we will send you occasional updates.
Please also take a look at the website.
19. Protect Reading's elderly and vulnerable people
The Local Green Party believes that the cuts will affect thousands of Reading families who rely on these services to support them in living their day to day lives and it is essential that we fight to keep these services.
Recent local news articles on the proposed cuts can be found on line by following the links below.
If you or anyone you know are concerned about how these cuts might affect you, please have your say by signing the petition.
If you would like to get more involved in campaigning against these cuts then please get in touch with Rob White or Melanie Eastwood through the Reading Green party website.
20. Save Jobs at the University of Reading
Moreover, by singling out film and television specialists, the University is effectively undermining the interdisciplinarity of the department, which is one of its renowned features. For example, the BA in Film and Theatre is a single-honours degree. The disciplines are substantially integrated through the department's teaching, both at undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as through the department's research. Moreover, the recently advertised post of reader/professor in theatre would be the replacement of a retired member of staff whose job title was 'professor in film and drama'.
We note that the department has been unable to appoint at reader level or above in theatre on two separate occasions (the post was last advertised in August 2010 and the University was unable to draw up a shortlist of a sufficient calibre). In effect, this means that the University will fire two (almost certainly junior) academics in order to have the 'research leadership' of a person who they cannot find. This is not only morally indefensible but is also severely misguided. The department is a very young one (in terms of the age of its lecturers), the University having repeatedly invested in the long-term potential of junior staff. Neither the University nor the department has ever suggested junior staff are not fulfilling this potential, so they should have the patience to realise the long-term vision their previous appointments demonstrated and reward the excellence in teaching and research displayed by this vibrant department. The University has also invested in an £11 million building for the department (opening Easter this year), which will contain state of the art facilities for theatre, film and television, and we, the undersigned, suggest the University should better value the staff who will work in its new buildings.
In the current climate, many will feel that financial savings must be made at Reading and at other universities. However, here as elsewhere, savings can be made by voluntary redundancy and the non-replacement of staff. We do not accept the University pursuing a misguided and short-termist agenda that will destroy careers, staff morale, will weaken the diversity of research and teaching in the department and is part of a 'strategy' that is ill-conceived and lacks an objective grounding in fact.
Please read on...
To those signing the petition, we ask if you would please email as many of the senior members of the University of Reading management that you can in order to protest against its mistreatment of staff and to demand that it withdraw from its plans for a new appointment in theatre so that it can save existing posts.
The email addresses are below and we have also included a suggested template for the email at the bottom. Please use/don't use as you see fit. We would be so grateful if you can show your support for the staff in Reading FTT in any way you can and protest against the sacking of two lecturers in order to get in a new, more senior member of staff. This is all part of a severely misguided (not to mention callous) management agenda.
Thank you so much for your support!
Gordon Marshall (Vice Chancellor): firstname.lastname@example.com
Christopher Fisher (President of University Council): firstname.lastname@example.com
Tony Downes (Deputy Vice Chancellor): firstname.lastname@example.com
Rob Robson (Pro-Vice Chancellor for Teaching and Learning): email@example.com
Sue Walker (Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities): firstname.lastname@example.com
Jonathan Bignell (Head of School of Arts, English and Communication Design and member of FTT department): email@example.com
Dear *,
I call on the University of Reading to withdraw its plans to make two lecturers redundant in its Film, Theatre and Television department (FTT) while appointing a new reader/professor in the same department. The University says that its 'intention remains of course to avoid the need for compulsory redundancy where this is possible' yet these redundancies are clearly avoidable here – a reader/professor clearly costs a lot more than the lecturers the University plans to dismiss. These redundancies will not only potentially destroy two careers, they will undermine the interdisciplinarity the FTT department is known for and the diversity and vibrancy of its teaching and research.
In the current climate, the University management clearly feels that financial savings must be made. However, here as elsewhere, the savings can be made by voluntary redundancy and the non-replacement of staff. I contend that this would be a much less divisive and much less destructive way of coping with the current funding crisis and would therefore prove to be a much more effective management policy in the longer term.
Thanks for your time in reading this.
Yours *
21. Do Not Exclude Reading Borough Children from Maiden Erlegh School Catchment Area
This change will remove the opportunity for Alfred Sutton Primary school children to attend their traditional and local Senior school. This change is unwelcome and is something that many Alfred Sutton School parents would resist.
To see 5 reasons why you should object to Wokingham's proposals go to: https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B5vPtbNJX9PFMzM0NGNmMjctNjFjMi00ZjliLTk3NTgtYWYyM2Y2MGU4YmFl&hl=en
22. Financial support for Thames Valley University students being forced to move
The students involved are deeply concerned about the financial cost to them; commuting to London will cost some students up to £50 a day, not to mention the time lost during the commute. The stressed caused from the move is disrupting the lectures and the quality of work. A few have been forced to quit and many are considering dropping out the course we have been paying for.
We are asking for financial support from Thames Valley University to help us continue the course we enjoy. It seems reasonable to ask for help toward our increasing travel expenses.
He was one of the players that decided to stay at Reading despite relegation and growing interest from Premier League clubs. He was an integral part of our promotion push which soon failed in the Play-Off semi-final.
At the start of the 09/10 season, there was apparent interest in Rosenior from Hull City but said he wanted to stay and Reading and try and get them back to the Premier League. This provoked a great response from the fans and was also one of the candidates for the captaincy at one point. Only to be let go days later on deadline day to Ipswich on loan and to sign a player in Shaun Cummings who is nowhere near the quality of Rosenior.
The reason for his departure was the Premier League wages and as his contract was running out at the end of the season. The simple answer was to give him a new contract but Reading Football Club refused too. Its not too late and you can help by telling all your family and friends to sign up and try and get Rosey back!!
25. Reading's weekly veggie day
It is hoped the move will cut Ghent's environmental footprint and help tackle obesity. Around 90,000 so-called "veggie street maps" have printed to help people find the city's vegetarian eateries. The British city of Liverpool is also following Ghent's lead. We would like Reading to also become vegetarian once a week.
If Reading's citizens went vegetarian one day a week that would save the equivalent of 25,000 tons of CO2 p.a. (that's the same as removing 8300 cars from the roads). If they went vegan (no diary or eggs) then that would be nearly 50,000 tons (that's 16,600 cars!). This initiative would also have a very beneficial effect on our citizens health.
Debate this issue at the Reading Eco Veggie Fayre
26. Get Stephanie Meyer to Publish Midnight Sun
Please sign!
Author Stefan Lonce conceived the NATIONAL READ-IN PETITION while searching for a publisher for his forthcoming book, "LCNS2ROM – LICENSE TO ROAM: VANITY LICENSE PLATES AND THE GR8 STORIES THEY TELL. Please visit www.nationalreadin.com for NATIONAL READ-IN FAQ's; show your support by signing the petition, and by getting READN vanity license plates.
28. Bring Back Rugby Posts In Reading
This leaves the people of Reading nowhere to play Rugby except private clubs.
This restricts Rugby to Public Schools and Countrysides.
This Petition is designed to pressure local authorities to bring back the posts so that WE have the choice of what sports we play and not them.
29. Second Storey Ruin to Play Reading Festival 2008 OR Festival Republic to put on a local band stage!
Why not have a local band stage for Reading, Leeds already do!
30. Billerica Public Schools Summer/Vacation Homework Petition
We are also asking in the Petition Below for Summer Homework to be counted as extra credit as many students go away over vacation and do not have the time to do the assigned homework.
We are also asking for the elimination of homework assigned over vacation and due, for full credit, during the middle of the vacation.
If you have any comments, concerns, or anything you would like to add please email me through this website or at firstname.lastname@example.com and I will try to get back to you as soon as possible.
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Name: Chris W.
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Size: 400 s/f Studio Apartment
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My Favorite Resource is Dwell Magazine and DWR
What inspired you?
I was inspired by the idea of having an open space to make paintings and still have a liveability function.
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A Rambling on Current Events in Bahrain and Beyond
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Monday, November 08, 2004
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Warning: The comments below might be extremely controversial and highly offensive to some people. They do not in anyway represent my held opinion, but they only reflect thoughts that have passed at my mind at one point. You have been warned.
(please read explanatory note at
previous post).
Lately, I've come to really disdain, in fact hate, many of the Arabic blogs online.
We are completely against the Iraqi insurgency in Iraq, and we think them absolutely barbaric. The American troops, on the other hand, although we might criticize them, we still say the jury is out, and we can't even begin to compare them to our own brutal armies.
We don't really like Arafat, and it's about time he left. George Bush and Sharon, on the other hand, although we might criticize them, but we still say the jury is out, and we can't put them in the same position as our own corrupt and barbaric leaders. In fact, we can't wait to have an ever lasting peace based on the road map (i.e. their terms), where we all live happily ever after with our cuddly, peaceful new neighbour. It's just our leaders who bigoted and hard-headed!
Life here is so fucked up. Arrests in our home countries are happening all the time, and poverty is rocketing. America, on the other hand, where 35 million people don't even receive healthcare, and raving evangelical christians who think an Israeli state somehow will lead to the coming of chirist run the country,is pretty rosy, and oh do we wish our country was America.
Basically, as I've mentioned in an earlier post, most arabic bloggers cater to an American and Western audience. Saying extremely controversial and politically incorrect things about arabs is fine, but there are certain limits that when criticizing Americans should not be endorsed by the blogger. All of our leaders are absolute shitholes, while their leaders might be controversial, we might not even agree with them, but describing them as evil shitholes? No way.
This was epitomized to me on a comment exchange I viewed not too far ago on some blog. Two guys, one who was very pro-Islamic and anti-American, and the other who was very pro-american and anti-Arabic, started off in a heated debate. The arabic guy decided to bring in sweeping stereotypes about Jews, and the American decided to bring in sweeping disgusting stereotypes about Islam and muslims. The owner of the blog decided to intervene after the Arabic guy posted another comment, and said he will not tolerate anti-semitism here (and I doubt here he had the tact or the brains to mean by semitism both Arabs and jewish people).
In other words. Let's tolerate stereotypes about muslims, but let us not dare say stereotypes about jews. After all, there are certain established poltical correctnes standards in all the western medias, which include not making very general and controversial claims about jews, and we dare not break them. Muslims? Well, we're in the news very often, and there isn't a single thing that hasn't been said about Islam, so hey, why break the tradition. Most of our readers are Western anyway.
Then another commenter decided to reach the startling, (and obviously well researched conclusion), that judging by reading middle-eastern blogs online, he can reach the conclusion, which he posted as an absolute truth, that most arabs welcome american presence in the middle East, and are very happy about the liberation of Iraq. Well let me then reach my own sweeping conclusion from my very thorough research, and post them as absolute truths (and they're definitely more true than this commenter's conclusions):
1.Most arabs might want the American troops to establish security and for Iraq to have freedom, but they definitely want to see the maximum amount of casualties on the way inflicted on American troops. After all, that is the tried and tested way of making them leave a country eventually (Vietnam, anyone?). Basically, we hope them the best because they are the lesser of two evils, but to use Mr. Bush lingo, still evil non the less. They are like a swarm of locusts, better yet vermin, who have spread around our countries eating everything green in their way. They are in Bahrain, qatar, saudi arabia, iraq, afghanistan, jordan, egypt, and in Israel. We do not think, like these blogs might lead you to believe, in the extremely idealistic and wellsounding but bullshit thoughts that the american troops are here to spread prosperity and freedom. Instead, we believe they are here to profit from our oil, make a strategic presence in the middle East, help Israel, and generally follow their own self-interest. The sooner we can get rid of them, and send them back to the bum-fuck red-neck town they came from, the better.
2. Most Arabs might say now that a peaceful solution is the best for Palestine, but that is simply because we are powerless to bring any other solution ourselves. If we had the choice of a peaceful solution or the state ofIsrael collapsing tomorrow, I can absolutely guarantee you most would want the latter. and although most arabs would think the main reason for our failures are of our own doing, we do not, as these blogs might lead one to believe, only blame ourselves and our leaders, but we also put a lot of the blame on the west. After all, we were not the ones who decided to award them a land based on the slogan, "a land without people, for the people without a land." Neither were we the ones with big hangovers of permitting the massive and barbaric slaughter of millions of jews in concentration camps. Furthermore, contrary to what these blogs might lead one to believe, we revile Sharon, and have no wish whatsoever to conduct peace talks with him. In fact, we wish that a very horrible death is inflicted upon him, such as his flesh being slowly eaten by rats, while he shrieks loudly from the pain.
3.We might have many problems and difficulties in our region, but contrary to what these blogs would lead one to believe, most arabs do not want westerners to intervene and help us. In fact, the west is the last resort of help we want for our problems.
4. Contrary to what many blogs might lead one to believe, these are not views held by a small fundamentalist, and even terrorist minority, but they are very widespread, indeed if not the mainly held opinion.
5. Contrary to what most arabic blogs would lead one to believe, they do not reflect the viewpoint of the average person in the middle east, nor are they written by the average person in the middle east. Most of these blogs, including mine, are written by people who are very much entangled with western thoughts, or have studied in the west, or have a very solid western influence in their life. Therefore, take what they blog, including myself, with A VERY BIG pile of salt.
My whole point here is not to discuss the merits of these beliefs, nor to say if they are right or wrong. My point is to make sure people out there do understand that these are mainstream viewpoints, and not viewpoint of scruffy, smelly jordanians holed up in a house in falluja foaming in the mouth at then next oppurtunity to behead someone.
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Houston, TX (PressExposure) May 18, 2009 -- While tens of thousands of parents in Houston and across Texas are re-evaluating their school choice for the coming year, thousands of their parents - and their school-age kids - will gather at the Houston Reliant Center on June 5th and 6th, to learn more about homeschooling. The 23rd Annual Gulf Coast Home Education Conference, hosted by the Southeast Texas Home School Association, features workshops, fellowship, facts and fun.
"Focusing on homeschooling - - a choice millions of families across America are choosing as a more viable option than public schools - our annual Home Education Conference not only helps homeschooling parents, but helps other parents to make informed choices about their children's schooling," according to Holly Wallis, board member of the South East Texas Home School Association.
Leigh Ann, an experienced and successful homeschool mom from Houston, notes that "Going to this conference is likely to be the one single best thing you can do to make your first year of home schooling a success!"
With workshops for beginning homeschoolers, as well as programs for parents with special needs children and for parents taking their children all the way to high school and college from home, this conference has something for everyone with school-aged children who seek a better alternative than Southeast Texas's troubled public school system.
The teen program will be presented by the Toastmasters offering teens a sample of public speaking and leadership workshops. The children will have choices from a Walk Thru the Bible program and Junior Master Gardening class to a drama workshop by Houston's own AD Players.
Workshops include: Teaching Art with Math, Combing Classical Education with Charlotte Mason and Unit Studies, "Help! What do I do with my Toddler?â, Homeschooling 101 for Imperfect Moms, and Home School: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The Sound of Joy choir, made up of local homeschooled kids, will be performing. The entries from the SETHSA Art Contest will be displayed in a speicial area showing the homeschooled children's work.
Tickets are available for $18 per person or $25 per couple on sale now at [http://sethsa.org/conferences.htm] Prices at the door will be slightly higher.


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Discussion in 'Pro Sports' started by cyclonefan1983, Feb 17, 2010.
Tiger Woods to speak Naples Daily News
Well, he's back. It'll be interesting to watch him. I sure hope we'll see a humble person.
He is leaving the PGA to join the Big Ten?
Good one.
I want to see a brash, arrogant Tiger. Jerry Springer-esque press conference. "Yeah, I ****ed them. You would too if you had ***** being thrown at you like me!"
Or to become an adult film star...
Holy cow, can you imagine the TV sets he will bring in? Oh and he will definitely make more money in the Big Ten!!!:yes:
Woods has been linked to over a dozen women and reportedly went to sex rehabilitation in Mississippi.
My visual is a scene from Pulp Fiction.
Where they get the Gimp out of his box.
I bet he will say he is going to play in the Tavistock and then the Masters. Two heavily controlled environments which will be perfect for him to come back to.
Think TMZ will be invited?
Maybe we'll see a very honest Tiger Woods who says "I'm running out of hush money, so I say it's high time to hit the links!".
Cybookie on the number of questions dodged by Tiger?
:wideeyed: fixed
it will be an ARod interview where he doesnt actually inteview just makes a statement.
Friday is Tiger Time
Tiger to hold news conference Friday - News - FOX Sports on MSN
Chinese are celebrating the Year of the Tiger. When will he be back?
Re: Friday is Tiger Time
Anybody else hoping he's decided to just go with it and own the whole sleazebag, playboy persona?
Re: Friday is Tiger Time
I wish he wouldn't have rushed into this presser..........he should have taken some time to let the dust settle....
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Please merge with the other thread.


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Donovan Park
5805 North Knoxville Ave
Donovan Park was formerly Donovan Golf Course.
Donovan Park is located in the heart of Peoria, adjacent to the Peoria Park District Rock Island Greenway. It is popular in the winter with cross-country skiers. Northmoor Observatory is also located on the grounds.
Northmoor Observatory
In 1955, Northmoor Observatory opened to give area residents an unobstructed view of the night sky.
Get a view of the sky through this nine-inch refractor telescope. The Observatory is about half-way across the Donovan Park toward Proctor Hospital.
Join the Peoria Astronomical Society at Northmoor Observatory for free public viewing from dusk to 11:00 pm every cloudless Saturday from May 20 through October 15, 2017. Cancellations due to weather will be posted online at www.astronomical.org and on the Peoria Astronomical Society's Facebook page: www.facebook.com/PeoriaAstronomicalSociety
Northmoor Observatory is run by the Peoria Astronomical Society (www.astronomical.org), and donations are always welcome.


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My apologies for the unintended blogging hiatus.
As I mentioned last week, I came down with a nasty sinus infection right before the wedding.
And I've had to spend the last few days in bed recovering.
I haven't been this sick in years.
But, I'm feelin a bit better now so I thought I'd write something for ya.
I got hitched last weekend!!
The wedding was so much fun.
I promise I'll post pictures to prove it soon.
But for now all I have are a few blurry iphone photos.
Here's a sneak peak at my dress
Marriage is wonderful.
Its like having a endless sleepover with my best friend.
At least for me - he's had to spend the first week of marriage nursing me back to health.
Sorry lover! I promise I'll get healthy for you soon.
We took our wedding photos at an abandoned cathedral.
Its a gorgeous place.
The History Channel made this video below.
They make the cathedral sound scary and dangerous but its really not that bad.
This video actually makes me laugh - its just so silly.
To prove that it isn't just a creepy old church, here's a cute little music video that was shot inside.
It was so much fun to go on an adventure before all the craziness of the day began.
I can't wait to see the pictures.
one last little piece of news
Austin bought me this beautiful thing for my twentieth birthday last Friday!
Its a Nikon D70!
He worked three days of overtime to buy it for me!
He's the absolute best husband ever!
And now that I have a big girl camera, I'll be able to do more outfit posts :)
have a wonderful weekend!
turn that frown upside down,
Jess (Caldwell!)
P.S. Isn't Christen from Two Happy Hearts the best!?