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2016 ended its reign of terror by taking one last icon from us: BookCourt, the beloved Cobble Hill bookstore closed its doors after 35 years on New Year's Eve. But packaged with that gloomy cloud was a tantalizing silver lining: author and former BookCourt employee Emma Straub announced she and her husband would pick up the mantle and open a new bookstore in the neighborhood. And now it's really happening! Straub posted on Instagram yesterday that the new store, Books Are Magic (aw), will open at 225 Smith St. at the corner of Butler this spring. There's no official opening date yet but construction is well underway according to Instagram pictures. We'll keep you updated on an official date when we hear more.
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Victoria Episode Three Recap – Victoria's Vexation Leads To A Defining Proposal
Victoria Episode Three, 'The Clockwork Prince' Recap
After last week's 'Brocket Hall' episode, Victoria began a new romance to passionately root for.
RELATED | Victoria Episode Two Recap – Lord M's Departure, Victoria's Confession and a Romantic Moment
And it all begins with a single, fleeting, but so important first glance…
The Beginning
The episode picks up immediately where last week's left us (which was in a state of swooning). With that first, romantic glance between Queen Victoria and her cousin Albert. From the moment their eyes meet, there is a kind of wonder and enchantment that passes between them. (Of course, given this couple's history, I also recognize that knowing how their love story blossoms makes it tough to root for any other outcome.) They don't really know anything about each other, but there is something that lingers between them.
In private, Albert is pushed and coached by his brother, Ernest, and their uncle on how best to woo Victoria.
Stamps and Staff
Elsewhere, Victoria looks over stamps for approval, which features her miniature. In her girlish manner, she expresses displeasure with the design but is amused by the idea of writers "licking" her face. When Albert pokes holes in her pleasure over a triviality, she's further displeased by him. As she's wont to do, she voices this to the one man she does trust, Lord Melbourne. Later, Victoria dismisses Albert at a dinner party and the piano, where the two continue to spar. This is all done with nary a second thought… until the night that changes everything.
Below stairs, Skerrett lets her wealthy surroundings tempt and rule her situation. All of this prompts her to steal something to help a relative. But eventually she changes her mind, and without being caught, she returns the item before she's caught. Instead, she sells something of her own and gets the money she needs when the queen gifts her a lace collar.
Affairs of the Heart
A grand ball is held at the castle where Victoria and Albert share their first dance. It's during this dance that everything changes. Victoria is swept off her feet by Albert. As they twirl through the press of couples, it's Albert who holds her gaze affixed to nothing but his eyes. The next morning, Victoria wakes dreamy-eyed with the man that everyone around her wants her to marry.
Shortly after, in response to Albert's request, Victoria packs up her household and takes him for a short stay at Windsor. It's at Windsor where they spend a great deal of time together. They talk about everything even as Victoria notices Albert's serious persona. As they playfully race each other in the woods, Victoria's hat tumbles from her head and dishevels her appearance. Before she can set herself to rights again, Albert tenderly tells her she's "just right" as she is.
But as they so often do, their bubble of happiness bursts and they return to fighting. In response to feeling belittled (and second best to Lord M) in the Queen's life, Albert prepares to leave.
It would seem, at least for the present, Victoria has forgotten she ever had feelings for Lord M. In the aftermath of her argument with Albert, she asks Lord M's advice. They talk of Albert's apparent distaste for smiles, and Victoria admits she would like his rare smiles to be for her.
He responds, "Well, if that is your intention, Ma'am, I don't see how he could resist."
"Do you really believe so?" she asks as she walks away.
With her out of earshot, he finally voices the truth of his feelings and replies, "Only a fool would turn you away, Ma'am."
A Proposal
With Albert's departure imminent, Victoria frets she's lost him. Under the advice of her uncle, she does the one thing that could make him stay.
In a hall lit with candles, Albert meets the Queen at her request. You see she has a question to put to Albert. As the pair meets at the fireplace, their anger fades in the glow of the candles. After a little conversation, Victoria comes to the point, asking, "Should I ask my question now?"
Close together, he softly responds, "I wish you would."
With difficulty and the weight of the importance of this question heavy on her mind, she asks Albert to become her husband. He agrees. A kiss seals their betrothal as the beautiful scene ends on laughter and smiles…
This episode is as beautiful as those that came before. I do feel like Victoria and Albert's romance has been cheated (a bit) considering the interesting dynamic between Victoria and Lord M. Still, in the span of an hour, the relationship between Victoria and Albert blossoms into the familiar hallmark we know and love; a relationship that builds on trust, respect and love. Last night's proposal scene is one of the most beautiful I've seen immortalized on screen, a scene I'll take a closer look at later this week in our Romantic Moment of the Week feature.
Stay tuned for that, and next week's Victoria recap!
What did you think of this episode? Are you sad to see Victoria moving on from her infatuation of Lord M. or glad Albert has finally stolen her heart? Sound off below…
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Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 238252
include sane module
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:12:03 EST
Description of problem:
Python Imaging contains a module to access scanners via SANE. This is currently
not built and distributed but only included in the -devel documentation, i.e.
you have to build it yourself if you want to use it. Which is bad if at some
point you want to distribute anything using that module ;-).
It would be good if this module were built and distributed, possibly in a
subpackage. Speaking about subpackages, it would be good if the Tk-depending
modules were separate from the main module as well so that you don't suck in the
whole Tcl/Tk stack if you weant to use the Imaging module, but use another
toolkit for display. Shout if you want a separate bugzilla entry for that ;-).
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
I'll attach a small patch that fixes an incompatible pointer type warning.
If you wish, I'll work on the necessary spec file changes, just tell me in that
Created attachment 153699 [details]
patch to fix incompatible pointer type warning
(In reply to comment #0)
[All good stuff]
> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
> python-imaging-1.1.6-1.fc6
> I'll attach a small patch that fixes an incompatible pointer type warning.
> If you wish, I'll work on the necessary spec file changes, just tell me in
> case.
Hi Nils,
All the issues you mentioned above have been in my mind for some time. :-)
I was just waiting for a nag message to move my ass and do something about it.
So if you don't mind you could work on them and commit the appropriate
changes, I am a bit busy at moment or else I would do them myself. I do not
want to stop working on python-imaging (that I use) but if you are motivated
by these issues I don't want to stop you from implementing them. I hope you
understand the reasons. :-)
Tell me if there any acl changes that I need to do for this to be possible.
committed to CVS:
* Sun Apr 29 2007 Nils Philippsen <firstname.lastname@example.com> - 1.1.6-3
- add sane subpackage, split off tk subpackage (#238252)
- add sane-types patch
- use -b for patches to save original files
- correct groups
Do you want to build or shall I?
Please, go ahead.
One note, in the naming of the tk interface I had thought about using tkinter
instead of just tk, on the other hand there is neither a rule or guideline nor
other similar examples so I trust your choice here. :-)
At least it makes a short name ;-). I've kicked off the builds for FC-6 and
devel with the aforementioned changes.


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Dollar-Yen pair and S&P 500 have a strong positive correlation, given the Yen's status as a funding currency.
However, over the last one month, the correlation weakened. S&P 500 inched higher from Dec 30 low, while the Dollar-Yen pair topped out on January 3.
USD/JPY and S&P 500 daily comparison chart
- As we can see, the index and the currency pair are moving in the same direction (lower) again.
- The selling in the USD/JPY pair stalled around 112.50 levels. Moreover, a double bottom formation can be seen at 112.50 levels.
- A daily close below 112.50 would not only mark the continuation of the retreat from the recent high of 118.66, but could also drag the S&P 500 index lower… given the weakness in the USD (risk currency) and strength in the Yen (funding currency, carry unwind) would mean the Trump Trade has run out of steam.
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Obama's Promise - Letter published in the Globe and Mail from Metta Spencer, Canadian Pugwash member and Editor, Peace Magazine, approving of Obama's Nobel prize.
Obama's Promise
Making a promise is an act. Saying "I do" in a wedding binds you, changes your status. In that sense, Obama's Nobel prize is for his actions. But Obama does not control others' actions. Whether any political leader's actions are fulfilled cannot be determined just by him, but by the people. Obama has made the promises that we wanted the world's most powerful man to make. It is up to us -- the whole world -- to decide whether they will be fulfilled. I vote yes. And I thank the Nobel committee for recognizing Obama is a man whose pledge commits us to a higher course of action.
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These new books from Barry & Janae Weinhold both deepen and expand their developmental approach to human relationships and evolution. They are all Kindle format ebooks available at Amazon.com. If you don't have a Kindle reader device, you can download Amazon's free Kindle reader software and read their books on your PC, Mac or tablet.
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The Servant Leader: What the World Needs Now
This book presents a radically new approach to leadership at all levels. Drawing on ancient principles first proposed by Lao Tsu, a sixth century B.C. Chinese philosopher, the author presents a new, and refreshing look at what a future world might look like if we had more servant leaders at all levels.
The servant leader doesn't lead by being in front of people or even behind them. The servant leader leads from within. This book shows those interested in being a servant leader how to work on themselves in order to be effective servant leaders. Anybody can be a servant leader: a dedicated father or mother who make raising their children a top priority; a volunteer who works at a non-profit or church; a business man or women who truly believes serving the customer is good business; an elected official who refuses to take PAC money to get elected. These are a few examples of where a servant leader could help change the world.
The book describes the characteristics of a servant leader and the optimal personal development of this kind of leader. The key to the self-development of the servant leader is his/her ability to create a fully individuated Self. In addition, servant leaders need to integrate both the masculine and feminine sides of their personality. These personal achievements will enable them to truly serve others, without the interference of ego or other manipulations.
The current Presidential Campaign provides a contrast in leadership to that of a servant leader. The author uses examples of policies and statements of these candidates, to illustrate that none of them meet the criteria for a servant leader.
The servant leader is equipped to be a new kind of social activist, who can help overcome the obstacles to a better world. Unlike the social activists of the 60's and 70's, the modern servant leader, because of his/her inner focus, leads in a very different way. To become a more effective social activist, the servant leader must first overcome any internal personal and psychological obstacles that would prevent him/her from being effective. Armed with a solid personal/psychological foundation, the servant leader can then address the social, cultural, economic, political, religious, and educational obstacles to creating a better world.
The servant leader needs to change any mistaken beliefs about themselves, other people and the world around them. This includes breaking free of the Matrix beliefs that keep him/her trapped. In addition, the servant leader needs to heal any hidden developmental traumas from childhood, learn how to resolve conflicts effectively and identify any family or cultural patterns of behavior that could undermine his/her effectiveness.
The book is organized by first presenting an overview of servant leadership; what it is and what it isn't. Then the book describes the optimal personal development of a servant leader. This is followed by a description of some of the various obstacles to overcome. After each chapter that describes obstacles, there is a chapter offering strategies for the servant leader to use as an agent of change to overcome these obstacles.
Chapter Fourteen focuses on how to become a servant leader. Chapter Fifteen, the last chapter, focuses on what the world might look like if we had more effective servant leaders change agents at all levels.
The Essential Qualities of A Servant Leader
- Being Self-Reflective
- Using Self-Correction Skills
- Employing Good Listening Skills
- Having Empathy
- Healing of Self and Others
- Being Aware
- Being Persuasive
- Utilizing Conceptualization Skills
- Displaying Foresight
- Having Stewardship
- Committing to the Growth of People
- Giving and Receiving Unconditional Love
- Using Restorative Justice Discipline Methods
- Building Community
Self-Quiz: Are You Ready To Become a Servant Leader?
Directions: Place the number in front of each item that best represents your experience with that item. Key: 1 = Not at all; 2 = Occasionally true; 3 = Usually true; 4 = Most of the Time.
__1. I enjoy meeting new people.
__2. I know things without having to figure them out.
__3. I find watching television or most of the mainstream media, including newspapers a waste of time.
__4. Stating something that I know is a lie is impossible for me.
__5. I root for the underdog, those without voices, and those who have been trapped by the Matrix.
__6. I pick up on others symptoms or pain and feel them in myself.
__7. I get tired of taking on other people's emotions.
__8. I turn to drugs or alcohol to try to block myself from feeling the pain of others.
__9. I am interested in becoming a healer.
__10. I see future possibilities before others do.
__11. I require more solitude than others do.
__12. I am a creative person.
__13. I get easily bored but I am quite good at entertaining myself.
__14. I have a difficult time doing things that I don't really enjoy.
__15. I enjoy bringing the truth to light.
__16. I have trouble keeping track of time and I can get lost in what I am doing.
__17. I hate routine.
__18. I disagree with those in authority.
__19. I am kind to others.
__20. I do not enjoy being with people who are obsessed with themselves.
__21. I eat vegan or vegetarian food.
__22. I wear my emotions of my sleeve and have a hard time pretending to be happy, if I am not feeling that way.
__23. I enjoy helping others to bring out their unique gifts.
__24. I regard spirituality as an important part of my life.
__25. I place my psychological well-being on the same plane as my physical well-being.
__26. I volunteer for one or more good causes.
__27. I love nature and spend time and energy trying to take care of my environment.
__28. I am more optimistic about my future and distrust cynical and pessimistic views of the future.
__29. I want to be involved in creating new and better ways of living for other people in the world.
__30. I can see how what happened to me as a child has affected my adult life.
____ Total Score
Interpretation of Scores:
30-60 – Very few servant leader qualities present.
61- 90 – Good servant leader potential.
91-120 – You are already there. Congratulations.
This book is available for purchase at Amazon in both eBook and print versions. The eBook version sells for $3.99 and the print version sells for $15.
The Male Mother: The Missing Skill Set in Fathers.
This book is the first in a series of four books aimed at helping men develop and integrate their feminine side. The culture has emphasized the masculine side of men and devalued the feminine side.
This has left many fathers, who may want to be a vital part of raising their kids, without the nurturing skills necessary to do the job. I have yet to meet a father who honestly said they were pleased with their performance as a father. Most men secretly carry regrets, guilt and shame over the admittedly poor job they did parenting their children. This book will help fathers be more confident and effective in raising their children.
One feature of the book is a description of four essential initiations that fathers need to perform to ensure their children grow up to be mature, responsible adults. The book shows fathers how to facilitate the completion of key developmental processes necessary for optimal growth and well-being. The essential male mother skills are described below.
What Are the Essential Male Mother Skills?
What are the essential male mother skills that you as a father need to impart in order to be able to help your children become mature individuated persons? Those skills are as follows:
- You have the ability to create and model for your children a lifestyle that emphasizes life-giving beliefs and behaviors toward humans, plants, animals and all that are vulnerable and dependent. This serves as a protective function.
- You possess the skills to demonstrate for your children how to use their personal power wisely. You will teach them through your interactions with them how to avoid taking the life force of others in any way. This means they will not have to utilize behaviors such as domination, threats, manipulation, exploitation and acts of violence in order to meet their needs.
- You have the skills to use your mind and heart at the same time so you can resolve difficult situations in such a way that your children learn to do it as well.
- You are able to express genuine sorrow about the suffering they and others experience in such a way that your children learn how to suffer.
- You display genuine empathy toward your children when they are experiencing deep emotions.
- You speak and act in ways that nurture the development of your children's highest good.
- You are able to look your children in the eyes and can connect with them, even at a soul level.
- You show compassion toward your children even when they oppose you or express negative feelings toward you.
- You forgive your children's failings, without judgment or shame.
- You seek peaceful resolution of any conflicts with your children and take into account their needs when resolving conflicts.
- You are comfortable with appropriate physical, mental and emotional intimacy with your children, and do not erect barriers to these experiences.
- You can negotiate effectively with your children to get your needs met, without diminishing their needs.
- You can access to the wisdom of the heart or, your intuition, and are able to show your children how to use this skill in guiding their lives.
- You are able to quickly regulate your emotional state when you are upset by a triggering event involving your children.
- You can receive what your children say and do without resistance or judgment.
- You are able to give emotional support, mirroring an unconditional love to your children rather than just giving them advice.
- You can take charge of your life without feeling guilt or shame, and teach your children how to do the same. A crucial skill to teach your children.
Purchase this book at Amazon. It is in both eBook and Print-On-Demand formats. The eBook format is only $3.99 and the Print-On-Demand version sells for $14.95.
Here is an in-depth interview of Barry about why he wrote the The Male Mother book.
First the podcast video promo:
And the complete podcast (47 minutes):
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Breaking Free: How To Identify and Change Your Addictive Family Patterns
Breaking Free Of Addictive Family Patterns is a classic in the self-help book market. It was first released in 1987 and has gone through five other editions before this expanded edition. Thousands of folks, like you, have read the book and sent me reports about how much it helped them. Here is what some of them wrote:
Comments By Readers
"I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning how their family of origin has impacted their life. Barry shows us with kindness and caring how we can move forward and have a more productive and healthy life." C. H.
Another reader wrote: "The author clearly teaches you how to separate yourself from the issue and gives you the steps to move forward and be the healthy adult you should be. I can say that this helped me very much and would recommend it to anyone whether they have dysfunction in their homes or not!" A. R.
Finally, this reader put it succinctly: "Read this book if you want real change, I recommend it with my full heart." A. B.
Every adult exhibits some addictive family patterns. These are so common that they go unnoticed, until something disrupts your life that clearly originated in your family of origin. This book will help you understand why this happens to everybody and what to do about it.
The Most Common Problems Resulting From Unrecognized Family Patterns
Here are the most common relationship problems that are the result of the Addictive Family Patterns discussed in this book.This book describes 12 addictive patterns of behavior that interfere with sustaining your relationships.
Do you:
- Need the approval of your partner in order to feel good about yourself?
- Feel trapped in your relationship?
- Wait for your partner to change in order to feel better?
- Feel unappreciated and unseen by your partner?
- Walk on eggs so your partner won't criticize you?
- Find it difficult to have fun and be spontaneous?
- Have conflicts that remind you of those you experienced growing up?
- Feel like your partner is treating you like you were treated growing up?
- See parts of your parent's relationship in your current relationship?
- Have trouble enjoying sex the way you would like to?
- Criticize your partner the way you were criticized by your parents?
- Not understand your family's death pattern?
If you struggle with these kinds of issues in your relationships, this book will help you change them. Each one of twelve family patterns are discussed. Each pattern has writing exercises to help you examine how these intergenerational family patterns are currently affecting your relationships and your life.
I have worked with thousands of adults in my private practice as a psychologist and this is where I usually start with a new client. I ask them to connect the dots and identify what didn't get finished for them while growing up that still interferes with them having harmonious relationships. When these things show up in your adult relationships, it is a good sign that you are ready to change. This book shows you how to do that.
This book is available as an e-Book through Amazon/Kindle for $3.99 and as a paperback book through Amazon/ClearSpace for $14.95.
Barry's Breaking Family Patterns e-book series:
Book One, How to Identify Your Family Patterns presents 12 common relational patterns that unconsciously replay in all families and are the primary cause of human suffering. These dysfunctional, addictive family patterns often lay dormant until adulthood, when they begin to interfere with intimacy in relationships.
This book contains many exercises, inventories and self-awareness activities to help you break free of the intergenerational legacy of attitudes and behaviors family patterns carry with them.The author believes that these unconscious patterns are factors in emotional, sexual and physical child abuse and neglect; all crimes of violence; all addictions, including eating disorders, alcoholism, and drug abuse; teenage suicides; all unhappy adult relationships; and perhaps all illnesses.
Book Two, Breaking Family Patterns: How To Change Your Family Patterns, is part of a four e-book series on Building Sustainable Relationships. Book One helps you identify the intergenerational behavior patterns that can disrupt your adult relationships. Once you have identified these patterns, you need to know how to change them. Book Two shows you how to change them. You learned these behaviors while growing up and they helped you survive childhood hopefully with minimum damage. Unfortunately, if they are not changed they will ruin you adult relationships. This book contains Barry's story about how he changed his family patterns.
Janae's Con Job ebook series:
This series of mind-stretching books is designed to help you take charge of your life by lifting you out of the fog created by your personal and collective histories. Once you know what is real and what is illusion, you can make choices that free you from being a victim and from the influence of con artists, sociopaths and predators.
Breaking Free of Con Artists, Sociopaths & Predators is a "101 introductory" book that tells how to identify con artists, sociopaths and predators. It presents a simple framework for understanding these complicated people. It uses the Avatar movie as a framework for understanding the differences between Life-Giving and Life-Taking. This book also describes some of the author's encounters with con artists, sociopaths and predators.
A ruthless Warrior for Truth and Seeker of the Shadow, Janae shares stories about her journey to know the difference between what is real and what is illusion. She talks about her decision to "get smart" rather than be a victim.
How To Spot Con Artists, Sociopaths & Predators is "about the problem." It identifies a spectrum of con artists, including psychopaths, narcissists & emotional manipulators. It will help you distinguish between them and understand why they are the way they are. This book also describes the most common con game ever–The Ponzi Scheme–used by stockbroker Bernie Who Madoff with everyone's money. It also shows what makes people like us vulnerable to these kinds of con games.
This book looks at con artists in institutions–banks & financing, churches, youth workers & coaches, schools & universities, main stream media, the environment and politics and government. It also looks at how institutions use propaganda and Mindf*ck techniques to control the flow of information as part of a larger con job. It also discusses the "big player" con artists known as the Global Elite who conspire (or "breathe together") to manage and control life on Earth.
How To Protect Yourself From Con Artists, Sociopaths & Predators is about "the solution." It tells how to protect yourself from con artists, psychopaths and predators. It describes how con artists are created and looks at the role of early trauma as a factor in their development. It also examines the role of the social and cultural environment in creating con artists, sociopaths and predators.
This book will help you look at how you grew up and to recognize dysfunctional family patterns and experiences that might make you an easy target for con artists. It also looks at how the structure of American society not only protects con artists, but also makes them examples of "success" and the fulfillment of the "American Dream."
You'll learn many things you can do to protect yourself from relational, institutional and societal predators. It specifically focuses on how to protect children from predators, a growing concern for today's parents.
In the last part of this book, Janae shares eleven of stories (there are more!) about her own encounters with con artists, sociopaths and predators. This chapter ends with a summary of what she has learned from her experiences and frames it a way that she hopes will inspire you.
Barry & Janae's book, Breaking Free of Victim Consciousness and the Drama Triangle.
The Drama Triangle is an interpersonal communication dynamic so embedded in human consciousness and social interactions that we call it "the only game in town." The term, Drama Triangle, was first identified in 1968 by Stephen Karpman, an MD who practiced Transational Analysis. The Drama Triangle model is now used in psychology and psychotherapy to describe a rotating series of behavioral roles that people use when they are in conflict.
Drama Triangle mind games play out in groups of people who see themselves as "victims" and operate in Victim Consciousness. The Drama Triangle involves a series of convolconvoluted power and control games between the Persecutor, Rescuer and Victim. In this game, you can only get your needs met when you are in the Victim role.
This book describes how this game works and explains the "payoff" that game players get in each role. Most importantly, it tells you how to exit the Drama Triangle.
Barry Weinhold's Twisted Beliefs ebook Series.
This four ebook series was published starting in Spring 2013! The first book, Twisted Beliefs: Why Smart People Suffer From Premature Hardening Of The Categories, shows you how your hidden beliefs control your behavior and keep you repeating self-defeating behavior patterns.
The books in this series also trace the history of twisted religious beliefs and their impact on civilization as well as documenting how human predators with twisted beliefs have taken over parts of our country. After you have identified any twists in your beliefs, the books show you how to take out these twists. Finally, the books help you move "beyond your beliefs" as a way of deciding your course of action to learning how to rely on your "inner knowing" to guide your life.These books are e-books and are available for Amazon/Kindle.


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One of four events added this year to the World Triathlon Corporation's growing Ironman franchise, Ironman Asia is managed by the same group that organized Ironman Japan, which was discontinued after the 1997 race.
Next year, the same event will be hosted in Japan, and the following year, back in South Korea.
Nearly 1,100 athletes will compete in the race. The vast majority are Japanese, many of them veterans of the Ironman Japan event. A total of 18 nations will be represented in the field of competitors.
Cheju is a small, lushly vegetated island of 1,845 square kilometers located off the southern tip of South Korea. It is dominated by Halla Mountain, situated at its center. Tourism is its only industry.
The 2.4-mile swim will take place in warm, shallow water at Chungmun Beach. The bike leg will loop around the entire island once exactly 112 miles, as though the island had been designed for an Ironman. The route features a mixture of rolling hills and flat stretches. The three-loop run finishes in front of the Lotte Hotel.
The organizers have attracted a respectable pro field to compete. The womens contingent is headed by the legendary Paula Newby-Fraser, 38, an eight-time winner of the Hawaii Ironman who has taken a more laid-back approach to racing in the past two seasons. A native of Zimbabwe, Newby-Fraser has already won another of this years new Ironman events, in South Africa.
Newby-Frasers toughest competition should come from Aussie Robyn Roocke, 30, who won the New Zealand Long-Course Championship and placed third at Ironman New Zealand earlier this year. Katja Mayer, 32, of Germany, who won last years inaugural Ironman Florida, is another contender.
The biggest name on the mens side is Ken Glah, 36, of the United States. In his 16th year as a professional, Glah has won Ironman Brazil (formerly Ironman Pau de Azucar) the past two years. Glah will have his hands full with Petr Vabrousek, 26, of the Czech Republic, who won Ironman South Africa and placed second behind Chris Legh at Ironman California in May.
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The Bombay High Court issued a decree last month ordering Raipur-based company Vandana Udyog Ltd to settle all its loan dues - amounting to Rs 96,39,18,426 - with Mumbai-based finance firm IL&FS Financial Services by October 30 this year.
Vandana Udyog is run by brothers Subhash Chand Agrawal, Prahlad Agrawal, Gopal Agarwal, Vinod Agarwal, Ashok Kumar Agarwal and Vijit Agarwal.
IL&FS had in 2014 approached the court after Vandana Udyog defaulted on payments of a loan amounting to Rs 100 crore given out in 2012. In October 2015, the court had directed the Raipur company to pay back all dues. Since the firm failed to adhere to the court order, the HC issued a decree.
As per the suit filed in 2014, IL&FS had given a loan of Rs 100 crore to Vandana Udyog Limited on January 6, 2012. As per the agreement between the two companies, the loan was to be paid back in four quarterly instalments. Vandana Udyog was prompt with the first two payments, but thereafter, its post-dated cheques bounced. IL&FS then sent notices to the company. When Vandana Udyog still failed to settle its dues, the finance firm filed a suit in the HC that payment of Rs 70,90,43,702 plus interest was still pending.
In reply to the following court summons, Vandana Udyog and the Agarwal brothers told the court that they took loans of over Rs 1,300 crore from several banks and financial companies to set up a thermal power project. But, they couldn't achieve the cut-off debt for it and, hence, the loans could not be repaid on time. They said they committed to giving the company's shares under the Shares Pledge Agreement in 2012 at 2.5 times the disbursed loan amount. Under the decree, Vandana Group owes Rs 96,39,18,426 and the last date for the staggered payments is October 30.


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Memorial Day weekend is great because you can decide at 2 pm on a Friday afternoon to go to a fancy restaurant and they will accommodate your non-planning self. I made a reservation for two of us tonight, and we will be sitting on their patio. I realize there have been numerous posts about Convivio, but a number of them are fairly cursory or deal with unusual service issues -- which is less relevant to me than specific info about the food.
So: those of you who have eaten at Convivio and not posted a review or in-depth observation, what are your thoughts and recommendations? Is the 4-course prix fixe an obscene amount of food? Are any of the sfizi so delicious that it's worth it to order them, even atop the 4-course meal? I find Italian desserts to be frequently hit-or-miss; are there desserts (or types of dessert, such as the crostata or the gelati) that Convivio consistently does well? Would I regret asking to have two primi (pasta) courses, instead of the typical primi and secondi? And -- any real standout dishes that "somebody at the table has to order" (you know how there are those dishes)?
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The book of the prophet Isaiah, chapter 5, Vulgate and King James Version
1 Cantabo dilecto meo canticum amici mei de vinea sua: Vinea facta est dilecto meo in colle pingui;
2 et saepivit eam et lapides elegit ex illa et plantavit in ea vites electas et aedificavit turrim in medio eius et torcular exstruxit in ea; et exspectavit, ut faceret uvas, et fecit labruscas.
3 Nunc ergo, habitator Ierusalem et vir Iudae, iudicate inter me et vineam meam.
4 Quid est quod debui ultra facere vineae meae et non feci ei? Cur exspectavi, ut faceret uvas, et fecit labruscas?
5 Et nunc ostendam vobis quid ego faciam vineae meae: auferam saepem eius, et erit in direptionem; diruam maceriam eius, et erit in conculcationem.
6 Et ponam eam desertam: non putabitur et non fodietur, et ascendent vepres et spinae; et nubibus mandabo, ne pluant super eam imbrem.
7 Vinea enim Domini exercituum domus Israel est, et vir Iudae germen eius delectabile; et exspectavi, ut faceret iudicium, et ecce iniquitas, et iustitiam, et ecce nequitia.
8 Vae, qui coniungunt domum ad domum et agrum agro copulant usque ad terminum loci! Numquid habitabitis vos soli in medio terrae?
9 In auribus meis iuravit Dominus exercituum: "Certe domus multae desertae erunt, grandes et pulchrae absque habitatore".
10 Decem enim iugera vinearum facient lagunculam unam, et triginta modii sementis facient modios tres.
11 Vae, qui consurgunt mane ad ebrietatem sectandam et ad potandum usque ad vesperam, ut vinum inflammet eos!
12 Cithara et lyra et tympanum et tibia et vinum in conviviis eorum, et opus Domini non respiciunt, nec opera manuum eius considerant.
13 Propterea captivus ductus est populus meus, quia non habuit scientiam, et nobiles eius interierunt fame, et multitudo eius siti exaruit.
14 Propterea dilatavit infernus fauces suas et aperuit os suum absque ullo termino; et descendunt fortes Ierusalem, et populus eius, et sublimes et tripudiantes in ea.
15 Et incurvabitur homo, et humiliabitur vir, et oculi sublimium deprimentur;
16 et exaltabitur Dominus exercituum in iudicio, et Deus sanctus sanctificabitur in iustitia,
17 et pascentur agni iuxta ordinem suum velut in prato suo, et alieni comedent in ruinis pinguium.
18 Vae, qui trahunt iniquitatem in funiculis vanitatis et quasi vinculum plaustri peccatum!
19 Qui dicunt: "Festinet et cito veniat opus eius, ut videamus; et appropiet et veniat consilium Sancti Israel, et sciemus illud!".
20 Vae, qui dicunt malum bonum et bonum malum, ponentes tenebras in lucem et lucem in tenebras, ponentes amarum in dulce et dulce in amarum!
21 Vae, qui sapientes sunt in oculis suis et coram ipsis prudentes!
22 Vae, qui potentes sunt ad bibendum vinum, et viri fortes ad miscendam ebrietatem!
23 Qui absolvunt impium pro muneribus et iustitiam iusti auferunt ab eo!
24 Propter hoc, sicut devorat stipulam lingua ignis, et palea flamma consumitur, sic radix eorum quasi tabes erit, et flos eorum sicut putredo ascendet; abiecerunt enim legem Domini exercituum et eloquium Sancti Israel blasphemaverunt.
25 Ideo exarsit furor Domini in populum suum, et extendit manum suam super eum et percussit eum, et conturbati sunt montes; et facta sunt morticina eorum quasi stercus in medio platearum. In his omnibus non est aversus furor eius, sed adhuc manus eius extenta.
26 Et levabit signum nationibus procul; et sibilabit ad eum de finibus terrae; et ecce festinus velociter veniet.
27 Non est deficiens neque laborans in eo, non dormitabit neque dormiet; neque solvetur cingulum renum eius, nec rumpetur corrigia calceamenti eius.
28 Sagittae eius acutae, et omnes arcus eius extenti; ungulae equorum eius ut silex reputantur, et rotae eius quasi impetus tempestatis.
29 Rugitus eius ut leonis: rugiet ut catuli leonum et frendet; et arripiet praedam et in tuto collocabit, et non erit qui eruat.
30 Et sonabit super eum in die illa sicut sonitus maris. Aspiciet in terram: et ecce tenebrae tribulationis, et lux obtenebrata est in caligine eius.
King James Version
1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
8 ¶ Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
9 In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
11 ¶ Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
13 ¶ Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
20 ¶ Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
26 ¶ And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.


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In 2008 two best friends found themselves trapped in one of the most dangerous places on earth - the only western journalists in the Gaza Strip on what was supposed to be a 24-hour assignment. The War Around Us captures the collision of veteran war correspondent and one of TIME's most 100 influential people, Ayman Mohyeldin, with rookie reporter Sherine Tadros. As missiles shower the city and unspeakable atrocities emerge, the pair is torn by fierce professional rivalry, private terror and grim humor - with no way out and the whole world watching.
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Planning for a road trip with your kids and wondering how you can make it exciting for everyone? Usually, a road trip with children turns out to be a hectic and tiring ride. A little knowledge and advanced planning can assure you have a trouble free vacation.
Carry Entertainment
Carry toys and games that your kids would like. If you are traveling with more than one child, make sure they have separate toys to avoid fights.
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Avoid boredom for your kids and ensure everyone is making the most out of the trip. If there is more than one child, don't forget to plan on the seating arrangements beforehand. For instance; make sure that one child gets the window seat. Come up with a few driving games as such activities are great to keep everyone involved.
Take Frequent Breaks
Don't forget to take regular breaks during the trip. It would give everyone a chance to stretch. If you are on a plane, get up every hour and take your kid for a walk on the aisles. If you're on a road trip for more than a few hours then stop at the local town supermarkets to purchase a few snacks.
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Keep a stock of your child's favorite refreshments at hand on a road trip. Children are much less irritable on a full stomach and the trip will be pleasant for both you and them.
Most important of all, don't forget to ensure that everyone gets something to participate in. Try and plan for one major stop for the kids like an amusement park or the zoo so that they have something to look forward to. If you follow these tips in and plan a road trip with children in your mind, they can be a source of unparalleled joy and fond memories to bring back from the trip.
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This cake was for a special little boy who was turning 7 . Apparently , he is obsessed with the Titanic! Well, so is my husband so he took the lead on this one. He designed the ship and iceberg which were both made of cookie, covered in fondant. I will have to get him to help out more often, he did a great job!
Thanks Justin, and Happy Birthday Jaiden!
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November 7, 2006
The gains from America's recent economic growth have been widely shared throughout society, as low- and middle-income families -- not just the wealthy -- have seen their standards of living improve dramatically, says James Sherk, a policy analyst with the Heritage Foundation.
But despite the facts, some still claim that few Americans have benefited from the growing economy. Their analysis is based on four specific claims, says Sherk:
- The share of income earned by the wealthiest Americans has risen, and these are the only Americans whose standards of living have improved.
- Inflation-adjusted wages have not risen for most Americans.
- Wages have not kept pace with rising productivity.
- Wages and salaries, as a share of the economy, have fallen in recent years, while corporate profits have risen.
But a closer look at the data reveals that most Americans have shared in the rising prosperity. Consider:
- Between 1979 and 2004, the proportion of Americans with inflation-adjusted incomes below $75,000 fell by 10.1 percentage points.
- The largest portion of the decrease came from households earning less than $35,000.
- Workers total compensation -- wages plus benefits -- have risen by 3 percent since 2003 and 9 percent since 2000, after adjusting for inflation.
- Net worth of the median American family rose from $70,800 in 1995 to $93,100 in 2004.
And beyond rising incomes, Americans have also seen dramatic improvements in their standard of living. For example:
- Newly built homes -- in terms of square feet -- almost doubled from 1979 to 2004.
- Medical advances have improved the health and quality of life of all Americans, raising the life expectancy from 73.7 years in 1980 to 77.9 years today.
- Between 1997 and 2003, the proportion of Americans with computers at home went from 37 percent to 62 percent; and internet access leapt from 18 percent to 55 percent.
Source: James Sherk, "Shared Prosperity: Debunking Pessimistic Claims About Wages, Profits, and Wealth," Heritage Foundation, Backgrounder 1978, October 16, 2006.
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Saturday, August 08, 2009
yesterday i got off WAY late, but i got there a FEW(aybe 2) minutes to close. great part of WAWAtosa. old home-1920's? early 30's?. my photo didn't work. hard to tell now that the view thingy is dead. like using a 35mm. no idea what i have.
anyways, i got in. snagged the trivet in the mostly empty livingroom. lot of baskets. kitchen had most of what i grabbed. i was the onlt one left shopping i think. NOBODY TOOK THE CARVED SPOON + FORK SET??? so what if they were sticky? clean at home. i guess grime helped save the GLASS salt/pepper grinder combo. never seen that before. oh, when i walked in, i spotted the chimes-'is that for sale'. yes. got that at the end, they sound expensive! filled a little basket with the shakers, the wood set, the p/d, the mini melon baller, the carved sticky set. but under the cash out table. went back for more(left my african bag in the car. how much can be left in the last 5 min?
went in the basement, took the repaired crock. has to be worth $1 eh? nothing else in the basement. back in the kitchen, nobody took the steel bowls? take and shift something and HEY! level! i like those. and before i knw it i have a better $4 bag than i have had in a while. ebay will say more. the house was in good shape, but really needed some fresh paint + scrubbing. but it had a lot of leaded windows and was small,, but very nice. didn't do upstairs. pushing my stay. it wasn't great, but it was good.
at home looking over the stuff. cleaning off the wood s+f a bit. no where. east europe? german? the level is a late 1800's stanley + the liquid is not chartreuse! needs some polishing, but it's nice. i'll keep the melon baller. the single salt shaker and i think the windchimes for now. and see what is unsold. oh, keep the smallest steel bowl. i have some of my grandma's. extra big for cheesecake + popcorn.
but what is the wood thing? just a spoon rest?
the cam was down for several days and yesterday it was back. i am assuming they had a gale. it looks like it was cold and new snow.
Friday, August 07, 2009
oops. i knew i was forgetting something. NEXT week i will find new stuff. maybe. anyways, my injuns are worthy.
Thursday, August 06, 2009
basil enjoying his 1st pole bean of the season. i had my first bowl just now. do not taste normal. extra sweet. hope we do get rain soon.
may test to see if basil would like a frozen bean.
a scuptor has been making 'masks' out of used toilet paper rolls. junior jacquet. way cool.


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I had been reorganizing and thinning out my bookshelves for a good part of the week.
My collection of books on Israel, due to inheriting the collections of a few family members, is half in boxes. It is a problem because it has now grown so large it could take over one entire floor-to-ceiling bookcase on its own.
A few months ago, I shelved all the Israel books, just to see what it would be like, and it was more war than I wanted around me every day in my office, and so I put some back in boxes, feeling guilty.
Why not the Moshe Dayan autobiography? Why not Entebbe Rescue? If my bookshelves represent who I am, are the Itzhak Rabin memoirs not more essential to my heritage than Harry Golden's schmaltzy Enjoy! Enjoy!
My mom calls. I am holding a commemorative picture book put out in July 1967 by the Maariv newspaper, called The War: 1967, with near-mythical photographs of Israel's "Army of Citizens" and a reprint of the letter then-prime minister Levi Eshkol sent to Mr. Rabin, then commander in chief of the Israeli Defense Forces, congratulating him on adding "an illustrious and awesome chapter with no counterpart in other eras" to the span of Jewish history.
"I cancelled tennis," said my mom, in Hebrew, although usually my Israeli-born mom speaks to me in English. It's only Hebrew when she's gossiping, or it's serious.
"What? Why?"
"You didn't speak to your brother? He and the kids are all in the safe room. I can't play tennis when my family is in a bomb shelter."
If there was a book on the helplessness of the diaspora Jew in the face of escalating violence in Israel, my mom may have just come up with a very good title. Playing tennis while your family is in the bomb shelter.
You are suddenly crushed by the scale of your triviality, or the absurdity of the thing you were planning on doing before you got the news from Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, the South. Those rockets shot from Gaza can now get as far Haifa and you're flouncing around in tennis whites? You're wondering whether Entebbe Rescue gets a spot on your precious bookshelves, while your brother is carrying in his arms, from a playground, his three small children, the survival hormones turning him into Hercules? It's intolerable.
So you turn on the news, to feel like you are doing something.
I spoke to my brother on the phone this morning. Tel Aviv is not overly equipped with safe rooms, he says.
The missiles? They were always in the south. People in Tel Aviv with new houses all have a safe room — it's the law: one room with four concrete walls and no windows — but those with old houses need to seek and find.
Contrary to my mom's story, my brother said he didn't actually make it to a safe room with the kids within the allotted minute and a half, so they just stood against the wall of a big building.
The sirens had gone off again this morning. He was at the bus stop, on his way to his chemistry lab, and again, he was not near a safe room, so he just stood there until he heard Israel's air defence system had taken care of the incoming missile.
"How did you know it was shot down? From Twitter or something?"
"Twitter? No. You can hear it. It's a pretty unmistakable boom, a big bullet hitting a big bullet. It's like Star Wars. Anyway, everything is back to normal now. Same old crap, right?"
"How are the kids?"
"Oh, fine. The biggest thing was that swimming got cancelled."
And we were supposed to go for ice cream last night. But the streets were pretty empty. We might go tonight
This casualness is 100% my brother. He has lived in Tel Aviv so long he has perfected the inhabitants' steadfast nonchalance against anything that might encroach on leisure, city life, normality.
It is the Tel Aviv coping mechanism: you don't notice the bombs if the music in the café is good and loud enough. There are photos of dozens of Tel Avivis sitting on blankets in a park watching a World Cup match Wednesday, directly after a Code Red incoming rocket siren sounded.
"And we were supposed to go for ice cream last night. But the streets were pretty empty. We might go tonight."
I went back to my books. I put on a shelf Hillel Halkin's excellent 2010 biography of 12th-century poet and philosopher Yehuda Halevi. At the time of writing, it's been at least five missiles into Tel Aviv Wednesday.
I think about how I met Mr. Halkin, about a decade ago. When asked why he, a Columbia-educated New York Jew, an award-winning Yiddish and Hebrew translator, totally in his element in Manhattan, chose to move to Israel, he said, simply, "I wanted to be where the Jewish story is unfolding in our time. And that is here."
It's a sentiment redolent of Halevi, who wrote, "My heart is in the East and I am at the end of the West."
My mom phones again.
"Your brother is driving me crazy!"
"I am sitting here, going nuts, I can't even cut the grass because I am afraid I won't hear the phone, and so I call him and he is says everything is normal. How can things be normal when missiles are falling on your city? And what if the Iron Kippa makes a mistake and a missile gets into the middle of Tel Aviv? I asked him if he is worried and he said, 'You mean about the kids missing swimming?' "
The question is how to participate in medias res when there is barely anything you can do; how to focus yourself when the world is turned upside down.
Do you make your Zionist son take a last-minute long holiday to Canada with his whole family? Do you go into the war zone yourself? Do you phone your son every hour to make sure he is okay, driving him mad in the process? Do you keep on watching the news, as if standing vigil in front of the TV?
I have no idea. I tell my mom she should probably go cut the grass. That is, after all, what my brother would do.


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I'm a craft beer junkie and, if you're a regular Alcoholmanac reader, you might have picked up on that in my past bar features. The excitement of visiting bars that boast an ever-changing array of craft beers keeps me on the hunt. I feel it's my mission in life to dig up these places around the Milwaukee area and bring them to you. With that in mind, on a recent Friday afternoon, I found myself down in Oak Creek pulling up a stool at Erv's Mug on Howell Avenue and Ryan Road.
This was my first trip to Erv's. Once inside, I could feel the maturity of this 33-year-old family owned and operated establishment. The place was packed with a lunch crowd that more closely resembled a Friday night dinner rush. The staff and their regulars called to each other by name, while first timers like me soaked in the atmosphere over a tasty brew. Yes, Erv's Mug was full that afternoon (you knew that was coming).
Erv's has the personal touch of a friend's house with a cozy interior and a patio just begging for warmer weather. The walls and ceiling are covered in old tap handles, beer signs and mirrors, Easter bonnets ... Wait—Easter bonnets? Yes, Easter bonnets. I'll leave it at that. If you want to know more, I guess you'll have to head down to Erv's Mug.
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Yesterday, the New York Times, in an article by journalist Carlotta Gall, "the queen" of the Kabul press corps, published an article accusing Special Forces trained Brigadier General Sultan Amir, a hero of the war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan a supporter of terrorism in Afghanistan. Referred to by her as "Col. Imam," General Amir is hardly anything this article says. I wonder what sources and motivations could have produced such a travesty:
Col Imam and Jeff Gattes
Today those Taliban forces are battling his onetime mentor, the United States, and Western officials say Colonel Imam has continued to train, recruit and finance the insurgents. Along with a number of other retired Pakistani intelligence officials, they say, he has helped the Taliban stage a remarkable comeback since 2006.
In a lengthy article, this glaring falsehood, unattributed and extremely inaccurate stands out. In fact, nothing else in the article supports this charge, certainly nothing that can be proven and nothing with any basis in reality. Why would someone write something like this, something likely to endanger the life of a heroic patriot, American ally and one of my friends?
He hasn't done anything wrong. He is playing by the rules. You don't hear him talking about the massive drug dealing Americans are involved in or the corruption looting billions out of the American treasury. I am saying these things, things everyone in the region knows but keeps their mouths shut about or "access" will be cut off by a bureaucracy looking the other way.
Tell the truth about drugs, rendition, torture and a "house could fall on you."
"Col. Imam" simply tells the truth on issues where he is an expert, military tacts and tribal interrelationships in Afghanistan. We choose not to listen to him and other real experts. US policy is idiotic. We are pretending to win a war and well know the enemy simply goes underground and is waiting for us to leave. Our plans for an army and police force in Afghanistan is childish. He is simply pointing it out. We all know it. We are making fools of ourselves, pretending to win a war and stabilize a country while we are really planning to put up a bit of a show and sneak out the back door like the British and Russians did.
It is the job of our MSM/Corporate press to print the lies, keep their access and serve those that own America's media, defense contractors and Israel.
Raja Mujtaba, Jeff Gates and I recently had dinner with the Colonel and a number of other members of a Pakistan based think tank he advises. They all support a settlement that will involve elements of the 50,000,000 Taliban in the region. Our inability, ours and some reporters, to be able to tell the difference between local insurgents and regional bandits and criminals doesn't surprise me. American leaders in Afghanistan are surrounded by liars who advise them. It is hard to tell who is playing who, as the layers of lies, deceit and trickery keep unfolding, one after another.
After all, our own allies in Afghanistan are, themselves, criminals, drug lords and bandits. We are building an army and national police force around them. Most of the people of Afghanistan consider them, not only "collaborators" but, in fact, foreigners. Afghanistan is a country of many divisions. America's alignment with the "Northern Alliance" is why we are sending in tens of thousands of troops to gain temporary control of a country that we only control 3% of after 9 years of war.
After we "conquer" Afghanistan, we have plans to set up new warlords in the south and keep their "gun culture" going for generations.
"Little Omar, what do you want to be when you grow up?"
"I want to be a mercenary or drug lord or maybe a suicide bomber, I can't decide really. There isn't much future in being a suicide bomber and to be a mercenary or drug lord I have to work with Americans all the time. Maybe I should see a guidance counselor."
More of the insanity of it all is the charge that the Colonel is supplying material support for the Taliban. Does anyone ever wonder where the Taliban gets its money. The answer is easy.
We are now paying $900 per truck or more for each of the thousands of trucks passing from Karachi into Afghanistan, more than enough money to finance the Taliban for a century. What is keeping the New York Times from reporting that? Anyone have ideas how the Taliban moves the tons of opium in and out of a landlocked country? Anyone know "agencies" with a history of gun running, questionable partners and aircraft that make "secret flights?"
Is it worth sitting around Kabul being hand fed lies at press conferences, same as in Saigon, same as in Baghdad, same as in Washington?
In Lord of the Rings, Tolkien is quoted:
One of the things we are supposed to do as journalists is to ask the question: "Why am I being told this?"
There is only one reason for this story. The United States is trying to set up Pakistan as the next "evil doer." The Pentagon boys, General Petraeus in particular, are joined at the hip with Israel, a country busy, in partnership with India, eating up the natural resources of the region with gas and oil operations in several countries nearby. Control of Afghanistan and the dismemberment of Pakistan with help of the United States will make any people extremely rich, even richer than they are getting running narcotics around the world.
Sibel Edmonds, FBI whistleblower told the American Conservative:
EDMONDS: Okay. So these conversations, between 1997 and 2001, had to do with a Central Asia operation that involved bin Laden. Not once did anybody use the word "al-Qaeda." It was always "mujahideen," always "bin Laden" and, in fact, not "bin Laden" but "bin Ladens" plural. There were several bin Ladens who were going on private jets to Azerbaijan and Tajikistan……bringing people from East Turkestan into Kyrgyzstan, from Kyrgyzstan to Azerbaijan, from Azerbaijan some of them were being channeled to Chechnya, some of them were being channeled to Bosnia. From Turkey, they were putting all these bin Ladens on NATO planes. People and weapons went one way, drugs came back.
GIRALDI: Was the U.S. government aware of this circular deal?
EDMONDS: 100 percent. A lot of the drugs were going to Belgium with NATO planes. After that, they went to the UK, and a lot came to the U.S. via military planes to distribution centers in Chicago and Paterson, New Jersey. Turkish diplomats who would never be searched were coming with suitcases of heroin.
Edmonds goes on, in an article by Brad Bradstein naming key US official as part of the racket, not only drug smuggling and supporting terrorists but trading nuclear secrets and more. Among those standing accused but, a of today, totally unreported by the New York Times are "lawmakers Dennis Hastert, Bob Livingston, Dan Burton, Roy Blunt, Stephen Solarz and Tom Lantos, as well as at least three members of George W. Bush's inner circle: Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz and Marc Grossman."
Bradsteins article goes further:
Edmonds testified that Congressman Dennis Hastert (R-Illinois), a former Speaker of the House, was involved in "several categories" of corruption on behalf of Turkish agents, according to information she claims to have heard while translating and analyzing FBI counterintelligence wiretaps recorded from 1996 through 2002. She mentioned his "acceptance of large sums of bribery in forms of cash or laundered cash" coupled with the ability "to do certain favors…make certain things happen for… [the] Turkish government's interest."
Edmonds also alleged, on the public record, Hastert's use of a "townhouse that was not his residence for certain not very morally accepted activities" and said that "foreign entities knew about this. In fact, they sometimes participated in some of those…activities in that particular townhouse."
The allegations against Hastert include accepting some half-million dollars in bribes. While several FBI sources have corroborated Edmonds's account, the best Hastert's attorneys could do was offer a nondenial denial to the charges. But the proof, as they say, may be in the post-Congressional pudding. As Edmonds had predicted years earlier, Hastert—who left Congress in 2007—now makes $35,000 a month lobbying his old colleagues as a registered foreign agent for the Turkish government.
With an aging warrior, "Col. Imam" retired in Rawalpindi after a lifetime of service, much for the United States, the best the New York Times can do is lap up the leavings of liars, drug runners and thieves and join the queue, the MSM/Corporate media, the "mouthpiece" of a generation of racketeers working to create a new "Third Reich" with an Israeli twist.
Gordon Duff is a Marine Vietnam veteran, grunt and 100% disabled vet. He has been a UN Diplomat, defense contractor and is a widely published expert on military and defense issues. He is active in the financial industry and is a specialist on global trade. Gordon Duff acts as political and economic advisor to a number of governments in Africa and the Middle East. Gordon Duff is currently …
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Jimmy Fallon, The HBO Effect and Netflix
The HBO phenomenon: The US television network HBO has had a profound impact, not just on TV drama but on American culture, argues Dean de Fino, author of The HBO Effect. He says the network's pioneering approach, while driven by market forces, crosses boundaries between high and low art and the very idea of storytelling.
Where to from here? Also, how do you discover new television shows? Steph Harmon and Dan Barrett discuss Australia's changing viewing habits.
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- Steph Harmon is managing editor of the online pop culture magazine, Junkee.
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- Dan Barrett is the founder of the website and weekly podcast Televised Revolution and deputy editor at Mediaweek.
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- Dean De Fino is Associate Professor of English and Director of Film Studies at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York and author of The HBO Effect.
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22 Feb 2014 12:58:40pm
Why do you refer to Obama's apparent interest in House of Cards? I seem to remember you have mentioned Obama's interest in programs before, but, whether you have or have not, why should really be of any interest? The mere fact that he is a major political figure does not make his views on television, even a clearly political one like this, especially noteworthy.