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Civilization V: Brave New World
The end game of Civilization games (all of them) has always been their biggest weakness. From the ancient and classical era, when everyone is still exploring and expanding, to the medieval and renaissance era, when alliances, religions and border wars wax and wane, the first half of any Civilization V game is always addictive. By like clockwork, right around the middle of the industrial era, the fun seems to tighten, only leaking out in dribs and drabs. Those border wars have mostly settled down, religions are pretty well locked into place, and it's usually just a smooth coast to your chosen victory condition; that means lots and lots of clicking "end turn". Would you believe me, then, if I said with a straight face that now, because of the Brave New World expansion, I look forward to the end game, that everything before the industrial era seems like a prelude to the final climax? It seems farfetched, I know.
Like all Civ expansions, Brave New World adds the trifecta of new civilizations, gameplay mechanics and scenarios. I'll start with the scenarios because much as I usually skip right by them, it seems the developers at Firaxis felt much the same way this time around, only offering two relatively fast-paced entries. There's a civil war scenario that lets you battle across northern Virginia and southern Maryland; it's exactly what you would expect: some historically located cities, lots of units, a few technologies to discover and lots and lots of battles. Much like the Fall of Rome scenario from Gods and Kings, most of your turns in this one are spent smashing units into each other. Not really my cup of tea.
The second scenario, Scramble for Africa, is a far more interesting 100-turn adventure. Picking a civ from amongst a loose collection of factions, you are tasked with either plundering Africa or protecting it. The European nations must explore the landscape and unearth ruins, the northern Africans strive to become economic powerhouses and southern Africans hope to maintain autonomy by boosting their culture. I actually really dig the fact that depending on who you play as, you are building towards different endgames. It's like they took the standard game and focused it into a tighter, more specific experience. Of the two, this one is clearly the one that would bear repeated play-throughs.
But let's be honest, these aren't why most people will decide whether or not to buy Brave New World. What are those new civs like? Well, let's run through the highlights. My favorite new civilizations thus far have to be the Shoshone and Portuguese. Starting with enormous swaths of land and being able to choose your ruin bonuses makes the first fifty turns as the Shoshone insanely fun. And while Portugal's ability isn't some game-bending craziness, being able to steal a city-state's luxury resources by placing a special "Feitoria" improvement in their borders is pretty neat. Plus, who is going to argue with all the gold from those naval trade routes (more on that later). Even France and Arabia got a big overhaul, letting them take full advantage of the new systems.
Of course, a few of the new civilizations aren't quite as exciting. Poland's extra social policy per era and horse focus seems like a bit of a rehash of other civs. And then there's weirdly unique Venice. Masters of trade but only able to found and control one city (all others must remain puppets), these guys looked extremely fun on paper. I won't say they aren't, but damned if I suck at using them. Being able to purchase city-states outright with their special "merchant of Venice" great person sounds incredibly powerful, but it's quite easy to find yourself having to defend far-flung outposts halfway around the world with little or no support. I'm going to keep at them, and maybe I'll find their sweet spot strategy. Regardless of a few lackluster areas, the new civilizations are, on the whole, a more interesting collection than Gods and Kings offered.
The real meat and potatoes of Brave New World, as you might have guessed, are the addition of a slew of new game mechanics. Proceeding in chronological gaming order, the first thing you'll notice is that you have to earn your gold-per-turn through trade routes. Starting out as one simple camel convoy wandering back and forth between your capital and the nearest city-state, eventually you'll grow a trading empire over both land and sea, across the globe, earning not only gold, but spreading science, religion and even tourism. While the profits have gone up, so has the danger, as trade routes can be raided by enemies at any time, which if it happens at a critical point, can change the course of a war. This makes turtling up harder as the only way to stay afloat, financially, is to be proactive in protecting your precious income.
Once someone discovers the printing press and knows all of world's civilizations, the World Congress convenes. In the beginning, proposals such as "world religion" and "trade embargo" take a long time to vote on, giving you time to turn your spies into diplomats and send them to rival capitals so that you can wheel and deal with other leaders to vote the way you want them to. Most of the time, proposals are just harmless extras like initiating a World's Fair, but sometimes, events like the banning of your favorite luxury sneaks through and can be a real detriment to your happiness. Like most aspects of Civ V, if you work the World Congress (and later, the UN) aggressively it can really pay dividends the entire latter half of the game. The diplomatic victory still entails being voted "world leader" with a majority of votes (including city-states), but all along the way, diplomacy feels a great deal more dynamic now.
The other victory condition to get a major overhaul is the culture game. What used to be a pretty boring process of founding three or four cities and then hitting "enter" most of the game has now expanded to include tourism. Culture still functions in the same basic capacity (granting you access to social policies), but once you start producing artists, writers and musicians and use them to craft their appropriate great works (Leonardo di Vinci will paint you the Mona Lisa, for example), you begin the tourism minigame. Placing those works in your museums, amphitheaters and even great wonders generates your "offensive" tourism to other civs' "defensive" culture. I know, it sounds a little complicated but once you get rolling, it's pretty straightforward and you can even arrange your paintings by culture and era to get "theme bonuses" from wonders. Eventually, if your tourism can overcome everyone's culture, you win, simple as that. As such, the culture victory went from being one of the hardest, longest victories in the game to being one of the quicker ones, if you focus on it.
Helping you with your tourism is the new archaeology mechanic. Right from the start, your game begins recording where battles and other significant events took place and seeding hidden antiquity sites around the map. Once you discover the eponymous technology, you can send out archeologists to those sites and either bring home a historical artifact (beads and arrowheads) for tourism purposes, Indiana Jones-style, or you can set up a cultural monument for your cities to work. It's a small touch, in the grand scheme, but still something helpful and fun to choose to interact with as you play.
Finally, once you get into the industrial age, the cold war of Ideologies begins. Freedom, Autocracy and Order have been moved out of the standard social policy lineup and now inhabit a new area where, much like religion, you can pick and choose your bonuses based on how you're playing. What's more, depending on how much tourism you're generating, your ideology can become so dominant that other civs' populations will become unhappy if they picked a different path. And this leads directly into my favorite aspect of the expansion: everything is tied together.
It's not enough to throw a whole bunch of disparate mechanisms into a game and hope for the best. Understanding this, Firaxis worked overtime to make sure that every new feature they added interacted with every other feature, including religion and espionage from Gods and Kings. Trade routes spread religion and tourism, tourism puts added pressure on ideologies, ideologies form voting blocks in the world congress, the world congress affects almost everything in the game…the cycle goes on and on. While I expect a patch or two might address the balance of that interplay, the fact that it's already so integrated and solid at launch makes the whole experience that much more rewarding.
By now, my opinion of Brave New World should be crystal clear. If you enjoy Civ V and Gods and Kings, this latest expansion is a must-buy, no-brainer. And while heaping massive amounts of glowing praise on a game might make for an unexciting review, I can't help but to keep heaping. After all, Civilization V is now the most consistently fun game, from start to finish, in the series' history. Well done, Firaxis.
Reviewed By: Brian Mardiney
Publisher: 2K Games
Rating: 92%
This review is based on a digital copy of Civilization V: Brave New World for the PC provided by 2K Games.

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The 76ers have traded center Spencer Hawes to Cleveland, according to multiple reports.
Yahoo! Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski was first to report the trade Thursday morning, the day of the NBA trade deadline. Wojnarowski reported that the Sixers will receive two 2014 second-round picks, forward Earl Clark and center Henry Sims from the Cavaliers in return for Hawes.
Clark has a $4.25 million team option for next season, and Sims has nothing beyond this season, so the Sixers could financially cut ties with both at the end of this season.
Later in the day, the Sixers got two second-round picks (for an undisclosed draft year) and guard Eric Maynor from Washington in a three-team deal, that also included Denver, in which the Sixers gave up nothing significant. (It'll probably amount to cash.) Maynor has a $2.1 million player option for next season.
Hawes, traded to the Sixers from Sacramento in June 2010, spent nearly four seasons with the team. His two-year deal was set to expire at the end of the season.
The Sixers' initial interest in moving Hawes was to attain a first-round pick in return. As the trade deadline neared, it can only be assumed that Sixers general manager Sam Hinkie lowered his asking price to help facilitate a move.
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The wrong strategy is more likely to be fatal to companies than any other single risk. In the face of financial crises, corporate fraud, and increased regulation, many boards have focused more on financial and compliance risk rather than strategic risk. This webcast will provide guidance for directors and senior executives who support the board to understand and oversee strategic risk management more effectively. The panelist will discuss leading practices in strategic risk management including the use of a strategic risk assessment process and the use strategy maps for risk assessment. They will discuss examples of how companies have developed strategic risk management capabilities and processes which help organizations to link risk management with strategy setting and strategy execution.
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It's Twilight all over Vancouver as there are now almost 20 Los Angeles based paps in the city dedicated to hunting vampires – in particular, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. Which is why the actors are not moving around town as easily and as comfortably as they were before. Gone are the days when Pattinson would be able to walk to Yaletown without security for brunch on Sunday. He now walks nowhere, hiding instead behind a full time security guard and a personal driver always in a vehicle.
On Friday night the cast and crew celebrated at a kick off party to commemorate the beginning of the shoot which officially started today.
On Saturday night, Twi-Hard vaginas exploded everywhere littering the western atmosphere with sparkle dust and crazy glue.
The source of this new level of batsh-tness is a series of photos from the Kings of Leon show at GM Place.
Most members of the cast were up in a box. Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson were sitting together and leaning close. It was the blurry shots of the two of them, as Pattinson's head is bent towards Stewart's, that really lit the match on the insanity, prompting Twilight moms to ditch their kids with the nanny and go for group hugging celebrations at their support groups.
Those who've been hoping for a Stewart/Pattinson/Bella/Edward book to life romance are obviously interpreting that they are kissing, crying themselves to sleep with joy. And hate. My inbox was flooded with hate. For people who are supposed to be happy, they sure seem really angry.
Like Tara here from Calgary:
How did it feel when Robsten kicked your mother's c-nt?! You're a f-cking bitch Lainey and you got yours. It's a great day!
Others are being more cautious, spending a lot of time analysing each frame, breaking down the angles, coming up with a surprisingly rational "inconclusive" verdict. Click here to read one such example. Thanks to Jen T for sending this along.
But as the fans are salivating over these images, they are also pleading for the stars' privacy. These are the same losers who would organise a f-cking parade if a sex tape got leaked.
As for what's really going on between Stewart and Pattinson – they are undoubtedly aware of the speculation, they clearly don't seem to mind fueling it. Quickly learning the art of media play. Excellent.
But while the Twi-Hards are obsessing over the curious kiss pics, I prefer the ones of Kristen's leg hiked up, foot on the ledge, body angled closer to Jackson Rathbone on her right. Mad steez.
Speaking of…
As of today (Monday) Kristen is still rocking Joan Jett hair. I'll have some nice exclusive photos of her for you first thing tomorrow in addition to exclusive details about what was filmed today.
Also attached – Nikki Reed went shopping with Elizabeth Reaser on Sunday who was wearing the ugliest mom pants, like, ever. Not sweet.
Earlier hooked up with her Thirteen co-star Vanessa Hudgens for a catch-up session away from home. As you can see, Hudgens' pants aren't working either. In fact, Hudgens' pants are worse. Christ these are horribly unflattering.
By the way, when Vanessa saw the paps, she turned around and started walking backwards.
Was it the pants?
Hudgens is trying to make herself useful – she's in Sucker Punch filming in Vancouver in a few weeks – after an embarrassing turnout at the box office for her new movie Bandslam.
I've seen Bandslam. It doesn't suck. It's 30 minutes too long, and she's completely irrelevant, but the lead actor is super endearing, the dialogue is – for the most part – clever and snappy, and some of the musical sections are pretty catchy.
Bandslam comes from Summit, the same studio behind Twilight. Summit tried to draw Twilight fans into the seats for Bandslam by promising a brand new trailer accompanying its release on Friday. The brand new trailer turned out to be a budget ass mickey mouse recycled minute and a half of footage that actually featured interview clips with Taylor Lautner – like junket styles – talking about his character's development that ate up a third of the clip.
And totally amateur. Who includes interview footage in a f-cking trailer?
No doubt, New Moon promises to be a superior effort compared to Twilight's cheap cheese. Under Chris Weitz's direction, stuffed teddy bear Jacob wolf graphics aside, it will certainly satisfy the fans. The fans. They're mental, but the fans are the driving force behind the series.
And Summit rewards them with a bullsh-t half ass erection killing fail?
That's what you call a disservice to the fans.
If the movie isn't ready, if it's still being cut, don't con them into the goddamn theatre to make money for Vanessa Hudgens. Please.
Again, more Twilight exclusives tomorrow.
Thanks Emily!
Photos from Kings of Leon concert from INFphoto.com
Exclusive photos of Reed, Reaser, and Hudgens from PUNKD Images/JK
Twilight weekend and KStew's mad steeze
It's Twilight all over Vancouver as there are now almost 20 Los Angeles based paps in the city dedicated to hunting vampires – in particular, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. Which is why the actors are not moving around town as easily and as comfortably as they were before. Gone are the days when Pattinson would be able to walk to Yaletown without security for brunch on Sunday. He now walks nowhere, hiding instead behind a full time security guard and a personal driver always in a vehicle.


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What is "my psychwiki"?
PsychWiki was created by psychologists as a tool for psychologists so you can use it to create your own stand-alone pages to help with your professional life in psychology or use it to disseminate knowledge and publicize your work.
- Stand-alone pages.
Not every page has to be linked or seen by everyone. PsychWiki was created by psychologists for psychologists so the purpose of PsychWiki is for the professional user community to use for whatever professional purpose they wish.
For example, some people have created pages for:
- their classes (example), individual class assignments (example and example), helping teaching assistants coordinate the lab sections (example), brainstorming ideas for courses (example), association website (example), student group website (example), organizing events (example), lab groups (example), brownbags and speaker series (example), professional development series (example), announcing workshops (example), posting online studies (example), group events (example), collaborative notes from conferences (example), posting interesting study results (example)
How to create a new page
- Disseminate knowledge and publicize your work
psyc-hub® is a way to sync together all the information on a given topic, connect people with common psychology interests, and disseminate previously inaccessible information.
Why have "hubs" in psychology?
- Information in psychology is currently decentralized in databases, on the web, conference booklets, filedrawers, researchers websites, school websites, etc.
- Much information is also not posted anywhere such as feedback, comments about research, discussion, helpful advice, critiques, etc.
How to use "hubs"?
- Categories -- We have already created categories for major concepts in Psychology, such as Research, People, Psychology Concepts, Null Findings, Virtual Lab Meeting. Click on each category to see how to use it, or see the summary of how to use each category page.
- Individual Pages -- You can also create "hubs" around individual pages. See the following for how to create hubs and how to use each one:
Finally, PsychWiki also provides a way to disseminate previously inaccessible information such as:
- Null Findings research -- see the Null Findings category
- Comments on published and pre-published works -- each article as a "Discussion" tab at the top of the page
- Feedback about your research ideas/designs -- see the Virtual Lab Meeting category
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Every town would love to have a market like this! The Sunday Village Market in Mount Dora, FL is held in Elizabeth Evans Park each Sunday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. It is the perfect lakeside setting to enjoy time discovering superb quality local produce, eclectic food, and handmade crafts. Plus the market has ample parking!


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This competitive rental landscape speaks true even at the top of the rental market with today's property developers drastically limited with options for breaking ground on new projects. This is not a new trend and has been the case for several decades, one that has successfully pushed both developers and residents into new locations and city burrows that once were not an option for most. But this ability to breathe new life into an overlooked location is one of the most important factors allowing the city to keep on the uprise as it creates the grounds for vibrant new communities with residents and businesses happy to inhabit them.
With experience in both investing and developing in new or untapped areas himself, CEO and Founder Marcus Hiles of Western Rim Properties has seen the impact it can have on the city's or even state's whole community. "By creating housing options that are tailored towards introducing new demographics into an overlooked area, you are not only helping to stabilize the housing demand you are also creating opportunities for existing and new residents." shares Marcus who has made a successful career out of taking a chance on locations that have potential for growth.


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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark's former world number one Caroline Wozniacki is in no hurry to find a permanent new coach with her father Piotr again playing a key role in her coaching team.
The 23-year-old has been without a coach since sacking Swede Thomas Hogstedt in January although she has appointed former player Michael Mortensen to help out in the immediate future.
In 2011 Wozniacki asked her father, who had coached her for much of her career, to stand aside but she has yet to find the right coach to help her return to the top of the rankings.
"It sounds like a cliche, but after trying various coaches I've found what works best. When my father is there it is safe and fun," she told Tuesday's edition of the Politiken newspaper.
"I won't go out and get a new coach in my team at any price. One thing I've learned is that a coach shouldn't just be good professionally. Because we are so close when we travel, we have to click personally," she added in the interview.
Mortensen will work alongside Wozniacki, who is engaged to golfer Rory McIlroy, and her father to prepare the 2009 U.S. Open finalist for future tournaments including the event in Miami which starts next week.
On Tuesday, Wozniacki lost 6-3 6-1 to Serbia's Jelena Jankovic in the fourth round at Indian Wells.
Although she has never won a grand slam event, Wozniacki has claimed 21 WTA singles titles, which has given her financial security and the chance to enjoy playing.
"When I became world number one I'd pretty much never experienced adversity. I'd won so much since my junior years, it was a different feeling to lose, and that things didn't work took some time to process," she said.
"I'm in a situation where I do not have to think about money, everything I achieve from now on is just a plus. It's about enjoying it, you only live once."
Wozniacki also stressed her desire to rediscover the motivation that led her to the top of the world rankings.
"When you start playing, everything is new and it's easy to find the motivation. Now, it's about finding the desire to play - and if you don't have that, you may as well give up."
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Elizabeth Drake comes to us from a previous position with The Falls Church Anglican church (TFCA) as Administrative Assistant to the Children's Ministry, where she helped implement an array of new programs such as WOW, their "Wednesdays of Worship," where children gather for fellowship, food, classes, and bible lessons each week. She helped re-introduce and organize a Vacation Bible School hosted by TFCA that involved over 300 people. A passion for service inspires her to volunteer a mentor to a group of TFCA middle school girls. When she isn't working or volunteering she can be found playing board games with friends, singing karaoke, or kayaking down the Shenandoah. Elizabeth is a native of Memphis, TN and attended the University of Memphis.
Elizabeth brings her love for people, her creativity, and organizational skills to the table as Program Manager for Christian Legal Society's Christian Legal Aid program. She looks forward to helping to grow the ministry and touching as many lives with the love of Christ as she possibly can.


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Display Locker
From Openmoko
The display locker is an extension of neod which intends to prevent accidentially caused triggering of events on the screen.
Use case
Willi wants to hear music when he is jogging, but he can't because "lock down" gets his neo in suspend mode where he can't here music and "dim only" won't prevent accidental triggering of events in his pocket.
Make an uncloseable widget, which can only be hidden when the user draws a specific motion on the screen.
The user has to drag something from the buttom of the screen to the top of the screen. The display locker is now in mainline OpenMoko.
If you have any ideas or a fancy new image set, please contact me ("borg" in #openmoko or firstname.lastname@example.com).
The following themes are available: To install one, just put the .png's in the /usr/share/neod/ folder of your neo.
- puzzle theme: http://homepages.upb.de/olaf/dinge/openmoko/display_lock/moko_puzzle/ by IfChinsCouldKill
- choice theme: http://homepages.upb.de/olaf/dinge/openmoko/display_lock/moko_choice/ by IfChinsCouldKill
- bees theme: http://homepages.upb.de/olaf/dinge/openmoko/display_lock/moko_bees/ by IfChinsCouldKill
- cheese theme: http://homepages.upb.de/olaf/dinge/openmoko/display_lock/moko_cheese/ by ScaredyCat
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If you've been reading my blogs for awhile now, you may remember two of my previous posts. While OVH surgery involves removal of the uterus and both ovaries, with OVE surgery just the ovaries are removed. Both are effective techniques for spaying (neutering) female dogs and cats. I am bringing this topic to your attention for a third time based on a recently published article within the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association.
The article is titled, "Ovariohysterectomy Versus Ovariectomy for Elective Sterilization of Female Dogs and Cats: Is Removal of the Uterus Necessary?" Let me get right to the article's punch line by presenting the authors' final paragraph:
We do not believe that there is any scientific evidence for the preferential teaching of ovariohysterectomy instead of ovariectomy by schools and colleges of veterinary medicine in the United States and Canada, and it is our view that ovariectomy provides an equally effective technique for elective sterilization of female dogs and cats with no recognized disadvantages. Potential advantages of ovariectomy include a smaller incision, better viewing of the ovarian pedicle, and possibly less risk of complications associated with surgical manipulation of the uterus.
The authors' conclusion is based on a review of recent literature comparing these two surgical techniques. When I've previously recommended OVE as the spay surgery of choice, here are the two concerns that you, my readers have voiced:
- You are unable find a surgeon who will perform OVE surgery. Here is what I recommend. Call multiple veterinary hospitals in your community and ask if the vets on staff are willing to perform ovariectomies (if the receptionist is uncertain about what you are asking, you may wish to tactfully ask to speak with a veterinarian or technician). If nothing else, you will be raising awareness about this recommended alternative. Based on what you've told me, some of your vets have been willing to educate themselves and perform their very first OVE surgery in response to their client's request, and the results have been fabulous. If one is adept at removing ovaries and uterus, removing just the ovaries is a "no brainer." So, it is perfectly fine if your vet performs his or her very first OVE on your dog or cat (I would normally strongly advise against your pet being your vet's "first" surgery or procedure of any kind). Board certified surgeons gladly perform OVE surgery and may do it the conventional way (incision made on the underside of the abdomen) or via laparoscopy (a method that employs scopes which are introduced into the abdominal cavity via small incisions). The only drawback to having a specialist do the work is that the price tag for the work will be considerably higher than the norm.
- You have voiced concern that if the uterus is not removed, your pet could develop pyometra, an accumulation of pus/infection within the uterus that necessitates its surgical removal. Please don't buy into this ridiculous notion! Pyometra only occurs under the influence of progesterone, a hormone produced by the ovaries. Without the ovaries no progesterone is produced and there is no risk for development of pyometra. Period!
I want to emphasize that if you cannot find a surgeon who will perform OVE surgery on your dog or cat, no biggee! There is truly nothing wrong with removing the uterus. I only wish to create recognition for the fact that it is completely unnecessary to do so. Lastly, if you are contemplating spaying your older pet (her uterus has been around the block a few times), visual inspection of the uterus at the time of surgery is warranted. If the uterus appears abnormal, it should definitely be removed- the one situation where OVH rather than OVE makes perfect sense.
Has your pet recently been spayed? Which surgical procedure was performed?
Happy holidays to you and your loved ones,
Nancy Kay, DVM
Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine
Author of Speaking for Spot: Be the Advocate Your Dog Needs to Live a Happy, Healthy, Longer Life
Author of Your Dog's Best Health: A Dozen Reasonable Things to Expect From Your Vet
Recipient, Leo K. Bustad Companion Animal Veterinarian of the Year Award
Recipient, American Animal Hospital Association Animal Welfare and Humane Ethics Award
Recipient, Dog Writers Association of America Award for Best Blog
Recipient, Eukanuba Canine Health Award
Recipient, AKC Club Publication Excellence Award
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The environmental impact of the plant would be minimal, Matute says, and getting the permits should not take more than three weeks, which would enable the company to complete the 18 month construction period by end 2001.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) will finance 75% of the project and once the PPA is signed, Zond will continue negotiations with US and Honduran partners to take a 25% equity stake. California based Enron Wind will provide the equipment, while other Enron subsidiaries will undertake construction. Although the concession area covers 210 square kilometres, micrositing to concentrate the plant into a smaller area has already been completed, Matute continues.
The project would be the first wind power generation scheme in Honduras. A few years ago hydroelectric sources accounted for 90% of the country's generation, with thermoelectric sources providing the balance. The government is seeking to reduce this dependency, says Glenda Castillo, an executive with ENEE. The hydro/thermal balance is now roughly 50-50.
The government remains keen to further diversify and offers a number of financial incentives for wind and other renewables. Generators can import study and construction machinery and materials tax free, are excluded from sales tax on those items as well as services when bought nationally, are given duty free import permits for construction machinery that will be in the country only temporarily, and are exempt from taxes on profits for the first five years of operations.
Furthermore, renewable generators with up to 450 MW installed capacity can sell to ENEE for 10% more than their short term marginal costs, which Congress fixed at the end of April at $0.074/kWh during peak time (about four hours a day), $0.062/kWh for semi peak demand (eight hours) and $0.048/kWh for off peak (12 hours). The maximum PPA term permitted is 20 years.
The government is currently in the process of privatising ENEE, but as the Zond project is already in place any agreement that ENEE and Zond reach will be honoured, Matute says.


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TORONTO – The Toronto stock market closed higher Wednesday amid a major oilpatch acquisition along with earnings disappointments and dividend cuts in the resource sector.
The S&P/TSX composite index gained 42.26 points to 14,119.73 as investors also considered another example of how the U.S. economy is being hit by severe winter weather.
The Canadian dollar fell 1.08 cents to 90.24 cents US.
New York indexes were lower as the U.S. Commerce Department reported that U.S. housing starts fell by 10 per cent to an annualized rate of 899,000 in January, down 16 per cent from December. In December, construction had fallen almost five per cent.
"The housing data was soft and, to a certain extent, I think the ongoing weather distortions will probably continue through another month because February hasn't been any better in the U.S.," said Colin Cieszynski, senior markets analyst at CMC Markets.
The Dow Jones industrials fell 89.84 points to 16,040.56, the Nasdaq was 34.83 points lower at 4,237.95 and the S&P 500 lost 12.01 points to 1,828.75.
Markets also reacted negatively to the mid-afternoon release of the minutes from the January meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve, where officials decided to further cut back on Fed bond purchases.
Officials discussed the need to stress to investors that the Fed's key short-term interest rate would remain near zero but they couldn't agree on how to modify their commitment to keep the rate near zero "well past" the time unemployment falls below 6.5 per cent. The rate is now 6.6 per cent.
On the earnings front, Sherritt International Corp. (TSX:S) reported a $38.1-million adjusted net loss in the fourth quarter, equal to 13 cents per share as it recognized a $466.8-million impairment loss related to the sale of its coal business. Analysts had expected Sherritt's adjusted earnings would break even.
Sherritt also cut its quarterly cash dividend to one cent from about four cents per share. Its stock fell 41 cents or 11.95 per cent to $3.02.
Cargojet (TSX:CJT) shares jumped $3.72 or 25.91 per cent to $18.08 after the cargo carrier was awarded a domestic air cargo network services contract for the Canada Post group of companies, including Purolator's national air cargo network.
The energy sector led advancers, up one per cent as the March crude contract in New York gained 88 cents to US$103.31 a barrel.
Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (TSX:CNQ) jumped $1.45 or 3.7 per cent to C$40.63 as it said that it will pay $3.125 billion in cash to buy conventional oil and gas assets near its core areas in Western Canada in a major land deal with Devon Canada.
"And it's a conventional pickup, which is not a bad thing for them because they have such a big piece of oilsands and this is more conventional oil so it probably balances out their production a bit more," Cieszynski said.
Financials were supportive with the group up 0.57 per cent.
The gold sector led decliners, down about two per cent as April bullion faded $4 to US$1,320.40 an ounce.
The base metals sector was down 0.69 per cent while March copper was unchanged at US$3.29 a pound.


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Laurel's Kitchen is a vegetarian cookbook, first published in 1976, that contributed to the increasing awareness of vegetarian eating in the US. By Laurel Robertson, Carol Flinders and Brian Ruppenthal.
A worthy successor to I AM THAT Ramesh's most accessible and easy to understand book. An excellent place to start or end your search. It is highly recommended both for the newcomer to Advaita and the more knowledgeable student of the subject.
In this collection of first-person accounts, doctor and author Siegel (Love, Medicine, and Miracles) brings together almost three dozen cancer patients (or close relations of) to share their stories and the lessons they've learned. Many entries tackle the moment of diagnosis (the first, from survivor Angela Passidomo Trafford, opens with the line, "How many times do I have to have cancer?!"), while others pick up at the moment the diagnosis first hits home; still others focus on the end, like Ann Martin Bowler, whose sick brother passed days after a reinvigorating near-death experience. Lynn Zeller contributes a list of the "eight practices" she discovered through cancer that have led to a "wonderfully expanded experience of life" (including a focus on gratitude, mindfulness, and the idea that the universe "is in a conspiracy for my good"); Edwina Ford focuses on her afflicted husband's admiration, and efforts on behalf, of Lance Armstrong's post-surgery Tour de France comeback. For each piece, Siegel provides a reflection and a moral ("Life's difficulties are what teach us to grow") that clarify and encourage. Anyone struggling with cancer will find many relatable voices and, in Siegel, a compassionate expert commentator.
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NEW SALE DATES!! Due to the recent and devastating fires in our area, we have decided to push our September sale dates back to October 16-18. Our full sale schedule can be found below.
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Effingham Health System invites community members to attend a special one-day event to learn more about the wide variety of healthcare services available on the expanded campus.
On Friday, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m., staff will be on hand in the hospital's community room to answer questions about the types of advanced medical services available, while members of the Effingham Health System team will be offering free blood pressure screenings.
Since opening the new facility in January, Effingham has grown its team of health care providers, and now offers 24-hour customer service along with world class surgeons providing expert care in a patient-centered and healing environment. With the advances made in technology and in the new state-of-the-art surgical suite, these accomplished surgeons are performing a wider variety of more complex procedures.
In addition to sharing details about the advances that have been made in the surgery department, hospital leaders believe it's important for the community to know that Effingham Health System is a window to a world of healthcare waiting to be discovered. Services that will be featured include:
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For more information about the Community Health Fair, contact Melissa Waller at 754-0480 or visit www.Effinghamhealth.org.


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I am a little confused with the objective lock rule here.
When finding objective A it says that all objective locks should be removed.
Does this mean that the "Escape Route" (objective C)-card can be gained and acted upon before players even have progressed to "3 - Keep Moving"?
If you'd make a comparison to Traffic Jam, the earlier scenario, then as per the lock rules you wouldn't get to start the "Recently Fed Walker" (objective B) until you had completed "2 - Protect Sophia".
Thanks for answer on this.


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Dinner Tonight: Ancho Chicken Soup with Masa Dumplings Recipe
Your source for quick recipe every single week day.
I'm finally, belatedly beginning to discover just how rich and deep the cuisine of Mexico really is. I guess I always knew that tacos were just the beginning, but that's literally true when it comes to masa, the ground corn staple among all the various regions of Mexico. Discovering masa is the equivalent of discovering a whole culinary world: Probably every region of Mexico uses it in some form. It's the daily bread.
A few weeks ago i wrote about the empanada-like tlacoyos, a sort of street snack that can be whipped up in surprisingly little time if you can find maseca, a common brand of just-add-water masa mix. This chili-laced soup from Veracruz uses masa as a chewy dumpling—a Mexican version of chicken and dumplings. The heat from the chile and a squeeze of lime keep it refreshing enough even in summer, but I'm also filing this away for my next winter cold.
- Yield:4
- 6 bone-in chicken thighs
- 1/2 cup maseca masa flour plus 1/2 cup water
- 2 dried ancho chiles, stems removed
- 2 medium tomatoes, cut in half
- 1 large onion, peeled and quartered
- 3 cloves garlic, peeled
- 2 chayote squash, or 2 large potatoes
- 1 pound corn kernels
- Small bunch epazote, or substitute cilantro
- Fresh lime juice, as needed
Place the chicken in a medium pot and cover with cold water. Bring to a boil and simmer while preparing the rest of the ingredients.
Mix together the masa and water, adding more of either as needed to create a relatively dry dough. Roll into small dumplings. Set aside.
In the meantime, soak the ancho chiles in hot water for 10 minutes, until softened. Deseed them, if desired, to lessen the spiciness. While the chiles are soaking, heat a dry, large, preferably heavy skillet over medium-high heat and cook the onions, garlic, and tomatoes, turning only occasionally, until softened and charred all over. (This can also be done under a broiler or on a grill). Discard the tomato skins and combine the tomatoes, garlic, onion, and rehydrated ancho chiles in a blender with a pinch of salt. Purée.
Stir the chile mixture into the pot with the chicken and season to taste with salt and pepper. Peel and cube the chayote squash or potato and add to the pot along with the masa dumplings and the epazote or cilantro. When the squash or potato are nearly tender, add the corn. Season with salt, pepper, and lime juice and serve with a garnish of more epazote or cilantro.
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Mad Max
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Objective-C enhancements
In 2005, I wrote a three-part series of articles titled "Avoiding Copland 2010" that expressed concern about the long-term future of Apple's development platform. (Copland is a reference to a failed next-generation OS project at Apple.) The summary is that all of Apple's competitors had higher-level languages that freed developers from increasingly archaic concerns like memory management and protected them from costly mistakes like improper memory access.
In 2010, I revisited these ideas. Read the article to see how things turned out, but I think you already know the gist of it. Regardless of any technical concerns I may have had, the years since 2005 have been pretty darn good for Apple.
But Apple has not ignored the shortcomings of its development platform. In fact, through a careful series of changes over many years, Apple has almost completely overhauled its development tool chain. It all started with LLVM, a new compiler toolkit which Apple used to extricate itself from the GNU compiler toolchain. Apple hired LLVM's creator and poured substantial time and money into building a modern, high-performance compiler of its own.
Apple also began enhancing Objective-C, the C-based programming language that the iOS and OS X platforms are built on (and that the NeXT platform, from which both iOS and OS X are derived, was built on as well). I wrote about LLVM and Objective-C 2.0 in my Leopard review in 2007.
In 2009's Snow Leopard, Apple further modernized its platform by adding closures and anonymous functions to Objective-C with the "blocks" language extension, and by creating an innovative concurrency library called Grand Central Dispatch using blocks. Its burgeoning new compiler also allowed Apple to add an impressive static analyzer to its Xcode IDE.
Last year, Apple added Automatic Reference Counting to Objective-C, finally relieving most of the burden of manual memory management. (An earlier attempt to accomplish the same thing using garbage collection was less successful.)
As of Mountain Lion, Objective-C garbage collection has been officially deprecated. Apple's LLVM compiler is now the default compiler for Xcode. The new LLDB debugger has replaced GDB. All vestiges of the GNU compiler will be removed in a future release of Xcode. Apple is finally in complete control of its development tools.
As part of my article revisiting the Copland 2010 series, I argued that a better development language also deserves a better API. Here's an excerpt.
A framework with methods like this:NSInteger myCount = [[myDict objectForKey:@"count"] integerValue]; NSArray *myArray = [myString componentsSeparatedByString:@","]; myItem = [myArray objectAtIndex:i];
is just not going to fly in a language that (hypothetically) supports this:myCount = myDict["count"]; myArray = myString.split(","); myItem = myArray[i];
A new API that's a better match for the new language is definitely needed.
This year, Apple further emphasized its apparent belief that enhancing Objective-C can and will lead to a programming language and API that can stand shoulder to shoulder with any of its more modern competitors. Objective-C's syntax has been extended to support number, boolean, and collection literals, object subscripting, and boxed expressions. Even if you have no idea what any of that means, I believe you may still find the table below compelling.
[array objectAtIndex: i]
[dictionary valueForKey: key]
[NSArray arrayWithObjects: a, b, c, nil]
@[ a, b, c ]
[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: value1, key1, value2, key2, nil]
@{ key1: value1, key2: value2 }
(And yes, non-Objective-C programmers reading this, those
nil terminators on the collections are actually required, and
NSDictionary really does make you specify values before keys. Happily, these "features" are not repeated in the new syntax.)
Does this finally transform Objective-C into a modern, high-level, memory-safe language? Well, no, not really. This is all just syntactic sugar that doesn't change the actual functionality or expressive power of the language. It does make Objective-C much more pleasant to use and easier to read.
Is it really possible for Apple to fully modernize its language through a continuing series of incremental changes in the same vein as blocks, ARC, and this new syntax for literals, expressions, and subscripts? I have serious doubts. But this is the path Apple seems to have chosen for the foreseeable future. In fact, around this time next year, I would not be surprised to see a table like the one below.
NSArray *array = @[ a, b, c ];
array = @[ a, b, c ];
Type inference for Objective-C? Or maybe just a port of C++11's auto keyword? Stranger things have happened.
How many more changes can Objective-C bear? The amount of syntax piggybacking on the poor
@ character is already getting a bit out of hand. This is the price of C (and C++) compatibility, I suppose, but I still feel like this all has to come to a head eventually.
It's hard to argue with the results so far, however. Through hard work and extremely clever engineering, Apple's language and compiler team has been able to hold its own against the youngsters with their virtual machines and dynamic languages for the past seven years. I wouldn't bet against them keeping up for at least seven more.


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Within this section you will find details of all competitions and events run by Volleyball England. The Competition and Events team aims to promote and encourage the game of Volleyball.
We provide a range of events that not only support the competitive performance playing structure for Volleyball but to also provide events for juniors and mass participation to enjoy one of the worlds most popular sports
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The CEV Campaign to highlight the positive elements of both of our disciplines of Volleyball, in today's very fast moving and developing society.
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Community Groups Aren't Restricted by National Labor Laws Governing Unions
BRONX, N.Y.—Juan Campis was sweating in the 90-plus degree heat as he whipped a white towel across a gleaming black Chevy TrailBlazer at a carwash here—one of six in the city that was unionized in recent months with help from two nonprofit community groups.
"They're the ones that kept us all together and showed us the steps we needed to take," Mr. Campis, 20 years old, said of the community groups. Workers probably wouldn't have joined the union without daily contact from the two groups, he said.
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Frustrated Tarvaris Jackson will 'do my job, collect my check'
- Tarvaris Jackson had his best year while playing for the Seahawks in 2011%2C but was traded to Buffalo
- He never played a down for the Bills in 2012
- Now he%27s back in Seattle%2C battling for the backup job with Brady Quinn
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Tarvaris Jackson spent seven years trying to earn the starting job as quarterback of an NFL team. Now, as he prepares for his eighth season and a second stint with the Seattle Seahawks, he has a new outlook.
"I could have gone to other teams, but I'm in the eighth year of my career now, and I'm just trying to get to the Super Bowl," he said. "I'm all about winning championships. I feel like that was my best chance among the teams I could choose from."
Forgive Jackson if he doesn't sound quite as competitive as he used to be.
The last two years have been frustrating, downright mystifying at times, for a player who feels he has shown he has what it takes to be an NFL starting quarterback.
"I found out the hard way, it's a business," he said. "It had always been football first for me, but now it's kind of shown me the business part of the NFL. That's what I signed up for, so I can't really complain. I just have to do my job, collect my check and keep this going the best I can."
Jackson had spent his career with the Minnesota Vikings after being drafted in the second round of the 2006 draft, but was acquired by the Seattle Seahawks two years ago this week when the Seahawks released veteran Matt Hasselbeck.
Jackson responded with the best season of his career in 2011 -- 271 completions for 3,091 yards and 14 touchdowns in a 7-9 season. The Seahawks responded by bringing in free agent Matt Flynn from the Green Bay Packers and drafting Russell Wilson.
Jackson was sent to the Buffalo Bills. The timing, for Jackson, couldn't have been worse.
Acquired by the Bills in late August, he had no time to learn the playbook or the players before the start of the 2012 season. He became a third-stringer who never played a snap.
In June, history repeated itself as the Bills' new coaching staff brought in free agent Kevin Kolb and drafted EJ Manuel, then cut Jackson.
"They got me early, then Kevin Kolb, then they drafted Manuel," Jackson said. "I really feel like they want to push (Manuel) into the competition. I wish him the best of luck. I just feel like that's the trend right now. They've got a new head coach, and they feel like they can grow with (Manuel). I'm an older guy, been around. I don't fault them. I actually appreciate them for letting me go as early as they did.
"They could have held on to me until after (training) camp and it could've been a tough situation like it was last year, which I really didn't want."
A day later, he was back with the Seahawks for the 2013 season.
"It was a business decision, but I felt like I was the best quarterback on the roster," Jackson said. "That lets you know it's all about business, about money. It really was a blessing in disguise. The situation at Buffalo was a rough situation and I appreciate the opportunity, but going back to Seattle was a better situation even though I'm not the starter. I've got a chance to get back with some familiar faces, back at a place I'm familiar with."
Now, a little older and a little wiser, Jackson knows barring injury or any unforseen circumstances that's it's unlikely he will ever get another shot at a starting job in the NFL.
He signed a one-year deal to compete with Brady Quinn for the role as backup to Wilson.
If he wins the job, he is likely to receive a contract extension next year. If not, he may be released again. After all, it's a business where eight-year NFL veteran quarterbacks are for emergencies in case the starter is injured.
"I know the city, and I'm with a good team," he said. "We know we can win every game we play. At Buffalo, it was a little different. We were an up-and-coming team trying to find ourselves. They released me on a Monday (in June). I worked out, I left and came back home and the Bills called me back up there and told me they were releasing me.
"My agent asked me, 'Tarvaris, who do you have in mind?' I said, 'I want to go back to Seattle.' "
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I use both terms - but not to mean the same thing.
I regard self protection as an umbrella term to describe the area of confrontation management knowledge and skills relating to protecting oneself from unlawful verbal or physical harm. So as a very brief list (of things that in themselves overlap and of titles that can be further divided): avoidance, deterrence, body language, verbal distraction and de-escaltion techniques, the legal uses of force and self defence.
I regard self defence as an umbrella term for the area of self protection relating to the use of physical tactics to defend oneself or another from unlawful harm. That includes the use of pre-emptive force where appropriate.
I regard self protction itself as a subset of the broader term Confrontation Management, which also includes areas such as physical intervention and restraint. These activities may lead into or overlap with self protection but I regard them as having separate (though linked) elements.
I tend to be quite specific as to whether I say I am teaching a self protection or a self defence class. In advertising though I will use both terms, partly because I'm doing both things, but also because the public may not be aware or agree with my distictions. It is not helpful not to have self defence on a web page if the public is using that as their search criteria.
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I see where you are coming from. A number of the things you mention I would say overlap with self protection, but I'd also include under the heading of 'security'. While I like the term Personal safety, it can be misunderstood as 'Personnel Safety', which is another overlapping area. I've used the term 'personal safety' less and less in recent years as for some reason people seem to associate it with weapon handling.
Is it important to properly define what we are teaching and talking about? My answer would be "it depends." It depends on what you are teaching, to whom you are teaching, what they are expecting to learn, and how they learn best. Some people prefer working with meta models, others repsond better with milton models. I use a mixture of both. Being over specific in some contexts can hamper learning and limit expectations, being under specific can often faciliate learning (and custom). There is a time and place for everything.
I don't think you are ever going to get a 100% concensus on definite meanings for each term.
Personally I use 'self-protection' for the most. To me, SP encompasses the 'totality' of personal protection, which for instance, might include the defensive concept of preemptive offense. Personally, I find the idea of SD tend to typically indicate more 'reactive' methods, or as you note, the 'fitting' of an 'art' style in (supposedly) 'real' fighting or at least non-athletic contexts. But I really think (with no offense to the question) that its largely semantic or personal distinction.


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Thanks to a great volunteer effort by George Silvis, Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance (SID) observers can now use the SID Data Grabber help prepare an AAVSO SID report file from their Stanford/SARA superSID monitor log files. Please visit the SID Data Grabber page to read more and download this handy application.
The SID Data Grabber is an application to help prepare an AAVSO SID report file from your Stanford/SARA superSID monitor log files. It offers a zoomable graphical view of the log data where you can click the graph to grab the times then puts them into the AAVSO format report file, ready for submission at the end of the month.
The latest version of the Gyrator series of VLF receivers (first developed in the 1990s) is the Gyrator III, a revision of Arthur Stokes' Gyrator II by Guglielmo Di Filippo (observer A-93).
Circuit diagrams and wiring for the Gyrator III are available here in Microsoft Word and PDF formats: .doc, .pdf
(Extracted from SID Technical Bulletin Vol. 3, Number 4, Oct. 1992)
The reduction process is quite simple, and consists of the steps which follow. First, the universal time for each of three event-phases must be measured for each SID. Examples are indicated on the recording at the end of this report.


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Palestinian women waiting at the Qalandia checkpoint to enter Jerusalem and pray at the Al-Aqsa mosque during Ramadan. Photo (archive) by Lazar Simeonov.
The Israeli government has revoked 500 entry permits for Gazans intending to visit their families and re-imposed travel restrictions on the West Bank's residents travelling to Jerusalem during Ramadan to pray in the Al-Aqsa mosque. According to the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories Unit (COGAT), these steps were taken amidst the recent surge in what they "terrorist attacks" and last week's rocket fire from Gaza.
"Due to the recent terrorist attacks, family visits from [the West Bank] to Gaza during Ramadan are cancelled. Palestinian women ages 16-30 and men under 50 will require a permit to pray in Jerusalem for Ramadan," reads the COGAT's Facebook post.
"Hamas is responsible for the attacks against Israeli civilians and the closing of the crossing," added COGAT, referring the rockets fired from Beit Hanun in Gaza last Tuesday.
In the first two weeks of Ramadan, Israeli authorities and COGAT reported an upsurge in violent incidents against Israeli citizens in Jerusalem and near Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
The most recent incident occurred on Monday, when four Israelis were injured in gunfire from a passing car near the Israeli settlement of Shvut Rachel, south of Nablus.
On Tuesday night, one of Israelis, 25-years old Malachi Moshe Rosenfeld, succumbed to his wounds in Jerusalem Medical Centre, where he was transported shortly after the attack, reported Wafa News Agency.
Following the incident, the IDF announced it would bolster military presence in the Occupied West Bank in order to prevent further attacks and arrest the perpetrators.
Searching for the suspects, the Israeli military stormed the nearby village of Kafr Malik and detained tens of Palestinians.
The IDF's spokesman told the Ma'an News Agency that the attacks are unlikely to be part of a wider terrorist operation.
"We believe this string of terror attacks will stop as soon as we lay our hands on the perpetrators of the latest terror attacks. There is no infrastructure that guides the terrorists in the Jordan Valley, near Dolev, Rachel's Tomb or Qalandiya," he added.
The Palestinian Authority reported several acts of violence against Palestinian citizens of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
On Tuesday, an Israeli soldier fired gun at and wounded an unarmed Palestinian at Qalandiya military checkpoint. The day before, a Palestinian woman was shot by an Israeli guard at Bethlehem crossing after stabbing an Israeli female soldier, who suffered light injuries and was transferred to a hospital in Jerusalem.
Overnight Tuesday, an elderly Palestinian man in his sixties was attacked by a group of Israeli settlers near the West Bank village of Ras Karkar, west of Ramallah. According to the witnesses, he suffered mild injuries and was immediately taken to the Palestinian Medical complex.
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Im very close;
The last time I had stability in my life; I was about 12 or 10 or 11, I had half stability! I was given away to relatives!
I was later raped by these people and thrown away! I had no other place to go! The only stable person that appeared in my life was my father! he was a fake; and it was fraudulent! he was a sociopath; and a potential serial rapist! A predator! I had no idea of this when young! The sociopath will allow children to get near them because the children accept them; no one else will, no adults; adults see through the scam and wont get near them! I didn't start seeing problems until I was 7 years old; and then I started to hear the cowardly voice of this predator! At the time I did not understand! He would force sex upon my mother; I used to listen to him; and it; it meant nothing to me; I was to young for it to mean anything to me! I thought it was strange.
later, at the ages of 10; I thought I had a best friend; he was no friend! he was a rich snob that was and had been looking for a way out of my association with him; His parents allowed me to come over to his house; they did not want me! He did not want me; but I didnt know about him; what he was like; I was 2 young! In fact, it took me along to time understand what type of relationship I was actually having with these people! yet, with a little investigation; the whole thing unfolded quit fast! So, I had no childhood friend As I hoped for! nothing! no friend at all! and the rest of the rich kids shut their doors in my face for good! they dont need to know what my story is; it matters not! they are privileged! They simply slam their doors in your face and never talk to you again!
So, I had 2 brothers and a grandmother left! My 2 brothers turn out to be destroyed people; on becomes a sociopath with sadistic pushing's! A pure sociopath; bad; no sign of any conscious! nothing! zero. the other brother is similar; he has personality disorder; a kind of pathological state! its a bit sociopathic; but not! not that bad. he is more socially inept. he turns out in life to be much less then his potential, but does not care; acts like everything is OK, when in reality his behavior is insane! deeply sick; but does not need any help for it because he does not question that anything is wrong. And like the sociopath; its hard for them to get help because theirs no conscious to tell them something is wrong with him! So; no support by brothers. These were the 2 supports that I have left! and they are no support! later, they become my enemies by nature of the fact that I have a conscious! The pathological sycophant, the psychopath, the sociopath will not be friends with a person of conscious; not possible. I have my Grandmother left as possible stability! My Grandmother does act as a stability; yet its very horribly contained! I must remember; she brought up my mother; and my mother was a sadistic psychopath; therefore, what could you say about the people that raised her! and unfortunately, they raised me for a long time period! So, no one was left! most of my life; no support! not one person. no one.
Into the present; Now, Im getting better, and have almost;90% worked through the past in order to leave it! in addition, I have success with my success based thinking programs and books and LOA! Im having success with the techniques used by billionaires for success based thinking applied to my general life experience! Im starting to get back dreams that were taken from me when young; all things were taken from me when young; I was 100% erased! So, anything coming back to me is hard earned; its coming back. I have intent to manifest a goal through a desire; and its working! I am attracting the people and places and things that are rebuilding my interests and my life! Hurray for me; smile!@@@@
Ive ended up on the street I grew up on. God brought me back to the origins of my life! Im living on the street I grew up on; on the street I was erased as a human being; on the street of the rich where all doors were slammed in my face as if I had never been their; lived their!
So, Ive done allot of work on myself! I know what happened, who did it; why. I know the kinds of monsters I was dealing with! I know why my schooling was destroyed, I had pure neglect, but never expected it, never saw it coming, because I was born into it and it was already happening to me and had been happing to me for a long long time; all of my life! I never had a chance; I did not know! However, their was a better chance I would die through suicide; so, Im very lucky! and their was a reasonable possibility of being a life long criminal of violent crime and other things; luckily I held on, and this never happened! drugs were a part of it for a time, and alcohol; but this was cut off before it could get more out of control; thank you God! and many other problems!
The biggest problem I faced is time. almost all of my life was consumed by the damage of my upbringing and work in recovery to render myself back to a working order of possibilities! I've had very little time to be myself and or relationships or activities!
Im now learning about real women and how to interact with them! My sexual abilities were ruined by my mother and by rape from my Grandfather and what ever else happened to be when very small! most of the women I associated with when very young were monsters or 2 faced! A may have never actually dealt with real normal women! I may have never really interacted with women or made friends with them!
I will clarify that the women Im describing as monsters are my mother, Grandmother, certain friends mother's, who I dealt with at a later date! I was ran over by these female monsters when still a child! and later into adult hood! Ive never been women to have normal relationships!
The next gaol, after getting over the monsters of the past is to make friends with women; break bread with them; at peace with them; become friends with them! Im looking forward to being around old fashion real people again!
Im starting to respond to my own life again! This type of behavior is something sought after by parents for their children when coming from a good home! The parents want the children to grow up independently so they have the ability to take care of themselves and build their dreams! No such situation occurred for me; not around the treacherous liars and thieves I came from! And remember, I came from an upper middle class or middle class type of people; but they were fakes! meaning, they looked the part, but were monsters!
What does the future look like for me; It looks like anything I want to make of it! I know how to set a desire, imagine it, create it, dream it up, and attract it! Im learning. Im taking care of myself and Im seeing independent real results; results in the present from the present.
biggest issue Im dealing with is women; I have massive defenses up against people; and women are people, so this interferes in my love life and friend life! I will continue to work on it until the defenses drop and I feel I can be myself around women again!


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Old Main Fest II
Just when you thought you were done shaking off your hangover from the last Old Main Fest (held in May at the Albuquerque Press Club), Burque music hellion and The Old Main frontman Rod Lacy is asking you to get wild again—"in the tall pines of the Zuni Mountains."
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The Air Guitarist
Hot lixx and jump splits
In a kilt and leather Viking helmet with duct-taped-in Heidi braids, Erik Peterson takes the stage in San Diego. The song: "Who's Your Daddy?" by Finnish heavy metal band Lordi. As the second challenger, he gives it his best for 60 seconds, even incorporating his signature jump splits.
Flyer on the Wall
Annie, Git Yer Gun
The Launchpad (618 Central SW) goes a-barefoot cousin-kissing with The Porter Draw, The Saltine Ramblers and Q's Revenge this Thursday, July 31. But just for bumpkins aged 21 and yonder. (LM)
Patti Littlefield Goes Woof!
Vocalist heads genre-crossing quartet at the Outpost
On a recent Sunday evening, vocalist Patti Littlefield took a drive up NM 14 to Madrid to catch the Alpha Cats' last set at the Mine Shaft, that venerable kick-ass tavern featuring the longest bar in New Mexico.
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Oxford Collapse Bits · Ellis Marsalis Quartet An Open Letter to Thelonious · Son Ambulance Someone Else's DÈj� Vu
Monk fans might not jump with joy to hear that the Ellis Marsalis Quartet (Derek Douget, saxes; Jason Stewart, bass; Jason Marsalis, drums) has released a collection of Monk tunes. After all, how far can the pianist's elegant swing take the angular material? The high points in this uneven effort make it worthwhile, though, particularly the softened "Monk's Mood," the lively fun of "Rhythm-a-ning" and the harmonically rich and sensitive rendering of "'Round Midnight." Kudos to J. Marsalis for understanding that Monk was just plain funky, and to E. Marsalis for playing Monk's tunes, not bronzing them. (MM)