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Roy Hodgson believes the senior England players will find if "harder and harder" to hold on to their place because of the rapid development of the younger talent at his disposal.
Hodgson is expected to revert to a more experienced line-up for Tuesday's testing World Cup qualifier with Poland in Warsaw.
Skipper Steven Gerrard, Glen Johnson, James Milner, Ashley Cole and Jermain Defoe are all expected to return.
But the likes of Tom Cleverley and Danny Welbeck, who netted twice against San Marino on Friday, have staked their claim when given a chance by Hodgson.
It is part of the gradual evolution that has taken place in the squad since the woeful 2010 World Cup campaign in South Africa.
Hodgson said: "There are some very good young players coming on to the scene and the experienced players will find it harder and harder to fight off the challenge of these younger players. I think the turnover of players since the World Cup is (was) probably necessary. Players can't go on and on. In a country like England, it is good, without having a totally fresh start, that you do start thinking are there alternatives out there, is there a another route we could possibly take to achieve our goals. We've started to embark on that route ourselves. There are a lot of younger players either in their teams at the moment or just about to break in who will be important players.
"It is important to start introducing those to the national team as soon as possible. At the moment they might get a chance in friendly matches because some of the senior players are still going strong. But it is good when they get a chance to play against Italy, Moldova and San Marino that they don't let the team down and play well enough to make us believe we should keep faith with them, and ask whether we should include them in the first team."
Hodgson admits he does have a few tough decisions to make in terms of his side after the impressive form of left-back Leighton Baines and Welbeck against San Marino.
He said: "There are a few (decisions) and that's good. It's good to have those decisions. I prefer not to quantify them or put them in any order. But it was very good the players who came in against San Marino, who many people do not see as the first choice, played so well and that does mean you get a bit more of a selection headache."
Hodgson is aware of the significance of England obtaining a positive result in Warsaw particularly as they will not return to qualifying action for five months.
He said: "We were aware when the draw was made that Poland and Ukraine were important fixtures. If we can take more points from them than they take from us it gives us a great advantage. Because it is five months to the next qualifier, it will make a victory that much sweeter and a defeat that much more painful. It is the same as when a club team loses or wins before an international break except at this level the gap before you play again is considerably longer."
Hodgson was impressed with stand-in skipper Wayne Rooney against San Marino but hopes Gerrard, who is back from suspension, is available for the foreseeable future to lead his country.
The England head coach said: "Wayne had captained the team before. He is a senior player despite being younger than the other senior players, with 77 caps, 31 goals. It was a fairly obvious choice in Steven's absence and, if he is absent again, Wayne could captain the team again. Frank Lampard captained the team in Italy and could also do it if Steven is absent. But first of all I'm hoping Steven won't be absent that often."


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CarGo takes night off, eyes Saturday return
DENVER -- Rockies left fielder Carlos Gonzalez said he hopes he can return Saturday from the left index finger injury he suffered Thursday night.
Gonzalez suffered a broken blood vessel, which caused immediate swelling. It happened on a foul ball during his first at-bat -- which finished with him hitting his sixth home run of the season and second in as many games. The swelling, which appeared severe when it happened, has subsided quickly.
"I'm just going to chill today, try to take a day off from swinging, try to avoid impact on my hand, but it's making a lot of progress," said Gonzalez, whose injury is on his throwing hand. "I feel better today. I hope I'll be ready to go tomorrow."
Gonzalez is batting .245, unusually low for him, but there are some signs of a rebound. In his last six games, he is 6-for-25 but four of the hits have been for extra bases -- two doubles and the two homers. Although Gonzalez has been dealing with a flareup of tendinitis in his left knee for the past two weeks, he believes his slump isn't injury-related. He also doesn't believe the finger mishap will disturb whatever is going right for him.
"It doesn't matter," Gonzalez said. "That's how baseball is. You're going to have months where you're going to hit .240. You're going to have months where you're going to hit .340. The biggest thing right now is we're playing good baseball. But I don't need to worry about my numbers. They're going to be up there. It's a long season.
"Hopefully, when I get hot, it's when the team really needs me. Right now everybody is swinging the bats well and we're scoring a lot of runs. I'm getting close to where I want to be. At the end of the day, when my swing is good and I square the ball, it's going to go out, it's going to be extra bases."


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Perhaps Too Real
Is it safe to come out? Have people stopped fucking around with everybody? Alright. Let's go.
It is a problem I did not know about, and probably never would have fully understood it, but your Internet looks really bad on the new iPad. Kiko shuffled in here a week ago, looked at one of our advanced tabloids, and wrinkled his nose. It was as though he could somehow smell the jpeg artifacts. He gave it back by holding it at the extreme reach of his arm, eyes closed, breath held, head turned sharply away.
I do not have that problem.
It's like with anything: I primarily look at text, which is sharp for real. But the future will not wait, and to that end we have begun creating images that manifest an almost terrifying excellence.
My sister was in town last weekend, and since I am the only person in this family who is on speaking terms with technology, she wanted to know what kind of computer she should get. Her old one is old. It has become recalcitrant. It cannot or will not web as it once did. It was a very strange conversation, because it's becoming very clear that for ninety-five percent of usage cases NOBODY needs a computer. She could just as easily have asked me what kind of Anvil she should get.
Invariably, the Blacksmiths in the audience are going to pipe up, their hammer levered over their shoulder, apron covered in the accumulated work of the forge, and say that anvils are the best. But I'm not saying that nobody needs one, I'm saying that almost nobody needs one. I am never bringing a computer anywhere, ever again: I have a wireless keyboard, and the case for this iPad lets it stand with the vigor of a Private at muster. It won't pair with my "mighty mouse," but that's an artifact of the Jobsian era, and should be remedied forthwith.
Dungeon Defenders is very cool, and the people who make it wanted to do something which was also cool for PAX. As people who crave such things, cool ones I mean, we have a vested interest in allowing them - in this case, it's Penny Arcade characters you can use in the game! They sent us such a sequence of incredible shit from the word "go" that I hardly know what to say. Ostensibly, they were sending us these things to give "notes" or to say what they did wrong, but they didn't do anything wrong and everything was amazing.
If you're a fan of Dungeon Defenders, I'd head over and check it out. And if you aren't, this is a matter which may be easily resolved.
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e-Patient Dave has a great story up about his wife's knee replacement surgery done by the popular social media orthopedist Howard Luks. There are many items to note in e-Patient Dave's write up of his wife's experience with Dr. Luks. However, I couldn't help but consider the impact that Howard Luks' blogging has had on his practice.
The most obvious impact is that he's gotten new patients from his blogging. While e-Patient Dave's wife is one example, he's done many posts talking about how new patients have found him through his blog and social media efforts. I won't dig into this more since I think most doctors realize this can happen.
What I think is less obvious is that I believe blogging holds Howard Luks to a higher standard. Think about what happens when you choose to blog about something. You're now on the record for how you'd approach something and you're now accountable to it. By its very nature, this accountability requires a doctor (or anyone in any field) to step up to the plate and make sure that they're working at the highest level possible. No one wants to blog about something and then be called out for not doing what they were telling other people to do.
This is a scary thing for many people and no doubt it's why many people choose not to blog. They don't want to be accountable to their blog. I should also note that blogging about something doesn't mean that you have to be perfect. Some blogs can be exploratory and can help you learn and grow so that you can reach "perfection." In fact, one of the best reasons to blog is to help you refine and improve what you're doing. I'm sure Howard Luks has benefited from this as well. There's nothing like thousands of people educating you on why and how
you're wrong you can improve.
While this accountability is powerful, what's even more powerful about blogging is that it requires you to really sit down and think through why and how you do something. This is especially true for physician bloggers. That time spent thinking through and evaluating your processes is powerful. I think you see the results of this type of deep thinking in the results described by e-Patient Dave above. His wife likely benefited from Howard Luks spending time thinking deeply about how he practices medicine and ensuring he is practicing in the most effective way possible.
I'm not saying you have to be a blogger and share your processes publicly to think deeply about the way you practice. However, blogging publicly about how you practice medicine is a great way to force yourself to do this evaluation. Plus, the fact that people are going to read, evaluate, comment,
rip to shreds, give feedback, and help you refine your approach forces you to raise your standard.
I've seen this happen over and over again with blogging. It's had that effect on me as a father once I started my daddy blog. I had to start upping my game as a father since I couldn't write about how I was an average father that had average experiences. I was forced to become the father I wanted to be. My wife has benefited too since who wants to write about being the lazy husband who doesn't do the dishes? It doesn't work. However, I can write about the amazing experience of putting the dishes away even though I wanted to sit down with some TV.
How often in medicine do doctors prefer to sit down with TV as opposed to going the extra mile to optimize their practice? Blogging can change that paradigm.
I've seen the same happen for healthcare IT and EHR companies. Once these companies blog about the importance of EHR up time or making EHR software usable, they raise the standard for how they approach those two problems. First, they're not going to blog about those things if they haven't worked hard to make sure they've done a good job in those areas. Second, once they've blogged about it, it often becomes part of the culture of who they are at the company. In fact, healthcare IT CEO's have to be a little careful about what they blog about since it's a powerful medium that can push their company in the right or wrong direction. A few pointed blog posts can really impact a company's culture. Although, as a user I definitely prefer a healthcare IT vendor that blogs. I think it forces the company to think critically and deeply about the challenges their customers face. Plus, it gives you a view into the culture of the company.
Going back to where we started. Would e-Patient Dave have written such a glowing article about his wife's visit to Howard Luks if Dr. Luks wasn't blogging? The obvious answer is no since it would have been unlikely that e-Patient Dave would have known about Dr. Luks. While this is true, I also think that many of the processes and approaches that e-Patient Dave describes would likely not be in place if Dr. Luks wasn't such an avid blogger. Blogging about your business forces you to raise your standard.


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Springboks announce squad for openers
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July 8, 2011
John Smit will lead a 27-man squad for their opening Tri-Nations tour of Australia and New Zealand © Getty Images
South Africa have announced a 27-man squad for their opening two Tri-Nations clashes against Australia and New Zealand.
Springboks captain John Smit will lead a new-look group after 21 players were ruled out through injury earlier this week. As a result, a largely untried side is set to tackle the Wallabies in Sydney on July 23 and the All Blacks in Wellington a week later.
There are five Rugby World Cup winners in the squad as well as six uncapped players in fly-half Elton Jantjies, scrum-half Charl McLeod, loose forward Ashley Johnson and props Coenie Oosthuizen, Werner Kruger and Dean Greyling. All but Greyling have appeared in non-cap matches for the Springboks.
"We've rewarded players who have performed outstandingly in Vodacom Super Rugby," said De Villiers, "although the injury situation has also been critical. But there is a backbone of experience and it means that all our leading players will receive Test exposure this year."
The squad was selected following medical assessments in Cape Town this week, which identified that a large number of players were carrying injuries and that according to the South African Rugby Union (SARU), "required immediate rehabilitation to avoid the risk of break down before the end of the international year."
The controversial selection, that has been queried by the Australian Rugby Union, means a host of the Springboks' leading players including vice-captain Victor Matfield, hooker Bismarck du Plessis, fly-half Butch James and winger Bryan Habana will sit out the first two games of the campaign.
Critics have since alleged that it is an attempt by the South African Rugby Union to rest their top talent ahead of the World Cup whilst still fulfilling their obligation to field the strongest possible side in the competition.
The tour squad will assemble in Johannesburg on Sunday afternoon and leave for Australia on July 15.
South Africa squad for Tri-Nations tour:
Backs: Gio Aplon, Bjorn Basson, Juan de Jongh, Adrian Jacobs, Elton Jantjies, Patrick Lambie, Charl McLeod, Lwazi Mvovo, Odwa Ndungane, Wynand Olivier, Ruan Pienaar, Morne Steyn
Forwards: Heinrich Brüssow, Jean Deysel, Dean Greyling, Alistair Hargreaves, Ryan Kankowski, Werner Kruger, Ashley Johnson, Johann Muller, Coenie Oosthuizen, Chiliboy Ralepelle, Danie Rossouw, John Smit (captain), Deon Stegmann, Adriaan Strauss, Flip van der Merwe
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SubWCRev is Windows console program which can be used to read the status of a Subversion working copy and optionally perform keyword substitution in a template file.
SubWCRev reads the Subversion status of all files in a working copy, excluding externals by default. It records the highest commit revision number found, and the commit timestamp of that revision, It also records whether there are local modifications in the working copy, or mixed update revisions.
If you want SubWCRev to perform keyword substitution, so that fields like repository revision and URL are saved to a text file, you need to supply a template file SrcVersionFile and an output file DstVersionFile which contains the substituted version of the template.
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The Microsoft site asks to install Silverlight first. Done. After downloading Visual C++ 200 Express (vcsetup.exe) trying to install. Setup discovers (on my machine) a previous install of Visual Studio 2008 that must be updated to SP1 before installation can proceed. Trying to fetch that SP1 - estimated download time over 20 minutes on my relatively fast ADSL line. Dedalus 17:07, 17 August 2008 (CEST)


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Candidates share campaign insight
EAGLE COUNTY, Colorado – With this year's election season nearly over, it's time to ask the five candidates for two seats on the Eagle County Board of Commissioners what they've learned while on the campaign trail.
With that in mind, here's the next-to-last question for the candidates:
As you've been talking to voters during your campaign, have you changed any of the opinions you held when you first started running? Which of your opinions have been strengthened as you've talked to county residents?
As always, my opinions have been refreshed by walking and talking with constituents. I hear positive views about county government. We have improvements to make, but these are obtainable.
This is good.
The most significant feedback I've gotten, when opinions about local government are separated from the general dislike of national politics, is that most citizens are happy with where we are going. I am impressed that citizens understand we've met budget challenges competently, without drama. They seem to know what is going on. This is reinforcing because we have sought to be as transparent as possible through this changing media market. Citizens are overwhelmed with information about all the levels of governance. What news used to do was to distill it down for public consumption.
With the lack of traditional coverage, people keep track of what we do through county TV – live or archived. This is impressive. It's is a trend we should all watch. People tune in when they can, get the information they need, as is convenient.
When I talked to people four years ago, most relied on the filtered information from the news. It used to take a serious commitment through the whole process – lots of showing up. Today, you can follow your government in your pajamas.
This trend will depend on local officials to be even more effective at distilling information and communicating directly with constituents who can make their own decisions. I think it will put more direct light on those who actually make decisions.
The greatest benefit derived from campaigning is the opportunity to become acquainted with so many people that, otherwise, may never have crossed your path. Many of my discussions with county residents have reinforced my positions. When I entered this race, I believed the economic position of Eagle County and many residents to be depressed. Now, more than ever, I am convinced that economic stability and jobs in this county are paramount and businesses support to increase commerce.
I knew about the number of foreclosures and that 300 businesses closed in the last three years; but I recently learned that in 2008, the Salvation Army provided 78 individuals with food per month and now provides 200 per month. The county doesn't keep statistics on jobs created, but a more than 100 percent increase in food assistance indicates income for our people is precarious.
I've also met many people expressing ambivalence at how our local government works and that voting doesn't matter. It matters – if you put the right people in those elected positions, it can make all the difference in the world, especially in a county with so many people willing to work together and looking for that facilitation in their county government.
In anticipation of a run for commissioner, I began meeting with the community exactly one year ago. The following is what I learned and subsequently built into my platform:
The economy is a hot topic. Residents want the county to participate in economic-development efforts. They also want the most efficient use of tax dollars and cutting red tape. I have also heard about service challenges from budget shortfalls, like public safety.
Residents are concerned about our valuable and vulnerable environment. I am now more sensitive to ecosystems, rivers and wildlife. This special place affords a certain quality of life that also sustains us economically. We have to be intentional about preserving it.
There is widespread support for a retirement community with independent living, assisted living and skilled nursing care, all in one place. No amenity like this exists in the region. Given our resort economy, the county must initially contribute to make the numbers work. The current board is close to bringing this to fruition.
Finally, I hear that health care costs are continuing to impact residents and businesses. The county has a major role in starting a federally qualified health center, to be run by a nonprofit. The center would reduce the cost shifting of unpaid medical bills to everyone's insurance premiums.
Because it's a forum where so many are willing to participate, I've discovered that campaigning provides tremendous perspective and context on the important issues in Eagle County. Here are some of the things I've learned from talking with others:
• The positive impact the county can have on the local economy by simply investing in an active approach to implementing economic-development plans that have been largely developed.
• Budgeting philosophy should be influenced in a more meaningful way with current "best practices" and what constitutes healthy reserve balances.
• Eagle County residents of the Roaring Fork Valley helped me understand the challenges of developing true recreational amenities there.
• Horse lovers are excited about the possibility of reinventing the Eagle River Center for high-level equestrian events but acknowledge the risks involved.
• Air-travel experts told me there are great rewards and some risks involved in developing an international terminal at the Eagle County airport.
• Hunters shared with me the importance of open space on the valley floor that serves as critical winter habitat for big game.
• Employee-housing regulations need to be flexible and balanced to reflect the present need.
• It's difficult to develop a modern technology infrastructure, but creativity in government can help.
Perhaps most importantly, the campaign has reinforced my belief that good governance takes a lot of effort and contributions from as many people as possible to create public policy that benefits all. I've been able to meet a wider circle of people who have skills and experience in many different fields who I will consult to inform my decision-making.
The one opinion I have changed is my stance on the open space tax issue. Initially, I was opposed to bringing the issue back up for a vote. That stance was based on a couple of things. One, we voted on it already – I thought we should let the law stand, and during my collection of signatures, only one person brought the issue up.
During the campaign, I have heard from some of the voters how important this issue is for them. I also have made the bold statement that I want to put the public back in public servant. If I am going to do that, I have to give an opportunity to those whom I do not agree with to have a voice.
So let us bring it back up and have the vigorous debate about the value of open space. When the dust settles, the voters will have spoken, and we can move forward. If the voters repeal the open space tax, then we abide by the results of the election. If it is retained, then we must manage the program better to make sure that the voters are confident in our ability to lead.
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Luxury cruising is for the newly wed and nearly dead.
Just one of the long-held clichés I'd heard before embarking from Dover, England aboard the good ship Crystal Serenity.
As one of the world's top mid-sized cruise liners eases into the English Channel and Vera Lynn's fabled white cliffs fade from view, I ponder the next eight days at sea.
Will it feel like a floating retirement home? Will there be long buffet lineups, rampant gluttony, cheesy on-board entertainment and cattle-like shore excursions? Will I have to take up bridge or needlepoint to pass the time on so-called "sea-days" between ports of call?
Turns out, my first ultra-elegant sea voyage is a delightful surprise. As we sail for Barcelona on Crystal Cruise's European Embrace tour, with stops in Guernsey, Bordeaux, Lisbon and Cadiz, I begin to appreciate this oft-maligned form of travel. If you remember to pack an open mind, luxury cruising (if you can afford it) can be a fascinating way to experience the modern world through the lens of yesteryear, an era of serenity at sea when elegance, impeccable service and a more relaxed, reflective pace of travel were the only way to go.
Comprising just two ships, the Serenity and the Symphony, Crystal Cruises is an award-winning boutique line globally recognized for its unparalleled service, spacious quarters and huge array of top-notch on-board entertainment, culinary and cultural choices. Nothing like starting at the top.
Service, second to none
"Welcome aboard, Mr. Sissons. I'll be taking care of you during our voyage, " says Kivanc Dalgic, my jovial Turkish butler. As he unpacks my suitcase, I take in my sumptuous penthouse stateroom with its full sofa, walk-in closet, queen-size bed, Jacuzzi tub, spacious veranda and most importantly, a fridge stocked with complimentary premium spirits, fine wines and Cristal Champagne.
Impeccable service is a hallmark of Crystal Cruises, and the entire staff — from concierges and butlers to waiters and maids — is trained to greet every guest by name and remember even the most trivial of details; how you take your coffee, your favourite wines and spirits, even how you like your pillows fluffed. And their aim to impress is not to curry higher tips — Crystal's all-inclusive policy includes gratuities.
Having the best staff in the business won't keep you afloat if the on-board cuisine and entertainment is just average. Seafaring foodies are spoiled for choice aboard the Crystal Serenity. The opulent Crystal Dining Room offers elaborate multi-course menus featuring international cuisine and regionally-inspired dishes based on the itinerary. And it never repeats a menu.
Intimate Prego, offering fine Italian cuisine created under the direction of famed restaurateur Piero Selvaggio, and ultra stylish Silk Road, serving up superstar chef Nobu Matsuhisa's creations, keep luring me back, as do poolside grilled salmon burgers and every passenger's guilty pleasure, the Ben & Jerry's stocked Ice Cream Bar. All of it, all-inclusive, along with over 50 different wines served in various restaurants and bars, including some premium brand spirits.
Post-dinner entertainment doesn't disappoint, either. Acts include a charming Broadway musical song and dance show, a medley of the Rocket Man's greatest hits sung by a brilliant Elton John impersonator, and a mesmerizing acrobalance show by aerial artists and Guinness World Record holders Rebecca and Donovan, among others.
Shore leave bonanza
They say the average cruise passenger gains about 10 pounds. The Crystal Serenity's five full-day shore excursions, which include biking, hiking and plenty of time to get out and stretch those sea legs, certainly help burn off those calories.
On the English Channel island of Guernsey, I cycle along beaches still dotted with Second World War German bunkers. In Bordeaux, I visit the Romanesque churches and ruins of Saint-Émilion, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, then peddle through vineyards to a winery for lunch.
Hopping into a jeep in Lisbon, I drive out of town along the coast to Europe's most westerly point, Cape Roca, then ride across a dramatic landscape of Sintra National Park to Sintra, where I explore its famous fairy tale palaces and extravagant villas on foot.
My guided walking tour of photogenic Cadiz, Western Europe's oldest continuously inhabited town, is a shutterbug's dream, and cycling through Barcelona's labyrinthine city centre and along beaches built for the 1992 Summer Olympics is the perfect culmination to a fascinating (and invigorating) series of shore adventures.


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By Jill Dougherty reporting from Beijing
Throughout her nearly 24-hour journey from Washington to Beijing, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton avoided the cameras of journalists traveling on her plane.
For nearly a week leading up the trip - ever since the blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng had fled his village home and sought refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing - both the secretary and her spokespersons refused to answer any and all questions about him, save a tight-lipped "We've got nothing on that for you."
But the U.S. officials did have someting, a full-scale diplomatic mess that would play out not just behind closed doors, but through the media and social media with every few hours bringing a new twist.
His arrival had been dramatic. A U.S. official speaking on background because of the diplomatic sensitivity of the issue said that embassy officials took a car to retrieve Chen after he fled. Their vehicle was tailed by Chinese security and the Americans took action to evade those vehicles. Embassy staff began preparing for a long stay by Chen, possibly even a year, as another activist had done more than 20 years previously.
The case was beyond sensitive; the timing couldn't have been worse. Secretary Clinton, along with some 20 top U.S. officials, were traveling to Beijing for the U.S./China Strategic and Economic Dialogue and Chen's case was overshadowing every Western media report on the crucial meeting.
At the Beijing airport on Wednesday, as reporters and camera crews were hustled into vans after the morning arrival, Clinton headed for her hotel, ostensibly for some "down time." It was anything but - at 4 p.m., just as U.S. officials were scheduled to begin a media briefing on the trip, the news broke: Chen had left the embassy and was at a medical facility in Beijing, reunited with his family.
Reporters were clamoring for information and, after more than an hour's delay, two senior administration officials finally sat down with them in the hotel filing center. They spoke only on background, however, due to the diplomatic sensitivity of the issue, not allowing their names to be used, and described the deal to free Chen.
This is what they said: Chen would be treated humanely in China; doctors would have access to him; his family would be reunited with him; they would be relocated to a safe location in China where he could study; there would be no remaining legal issues; Beijing officials would investigate the actions of the local authorities. U.S. officials would periodically visit Chen to monitor how the agreement was being carried out.
And there was a striking detail: U.S. officials in a van with Chen as he left the embassy, scrambling to find a cell phone so he could make his first call - to Secretary Clinton. He thanked her for her attention to his case and then, in broken English, one official told reporters, Chen said "I want to kiss you."
But that simple detail, perhaps a sign of what was to come, became a subject of disagreement. Chen later told friends he actually had said "I want to meet you." Later in the week, another version: A U.S. official said on Friday that Chen told Ambassador Locke he lied about the mix-up because he was embarrassed by the "kiss" comment and thought he offended her.
Secretary Clinton finally broke her silence, releasing a statement that read: "Mr. Chen has a number of understandings with the Chinese government about his future, including the opportunity to pursue higher education in a safe environment. Making these commitments a reality is the next crucial task. The United States government and the American people are committed to remaining engaged with Mr. Chen and his family in the days, weeks, and years ahead."
Not long after, the deal seemed to unravel.
The Chinese government, issued an angry demand for an apology from the U.S. for holding a Chinese citizen. U.S. officials indicated no apology would be given.
Some of Chen's friends questioned the whole deal, claiming to the press and in tweets that Chen had been intimidated into agreeing to leave the embassy because of threats to his wife. One report even quoted Chen as saying he didn't want to stay in China after all, that he wanted to go to the United States.
Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell denied it. In an exclusive interview with CNN he said: "We have very strict protocols on how we handle these things and on at least three occasions, our wonderful ambassador here, Ambassador Locke, asked him specifically, as we are required to do, with witnesses around, 'Mr. Chen, are you ready to leave the embassy voluntarily' and each time he said 'zum!' which means 'Let's do it, let's go.' "
To back up that claim, the State Department released digital photos of a beaming Chen, hugging American officials, looking pleased with his decision to leave the embassy and be reunited with his family, even if it was in a Beijing hospital.
The disagreement seemed to put the deal for Chen's future on hold. Clinton's diplomatic team, including Campbell, Ambassador Gary Locke and the State Department's legal adviser Harold Koh began again to work non-stop, meeting with their Chinese counterparts, trying to reach an agreement that would honor Chen's wishes.
In the CNN interview with Kurt Campbell, he was asked to describe those talks. "You're working around the clock," he said. "You're facing challenges that, in many respects, are unprecedented."
"We have never had a Chinese person who came into the embassy that wanted to go back," he said. "Almost in all cases they end up leaving, sometimes to a future in the United States that is sad and lonely. But he was determined to go back to China. He wanted to return to his country. And to create the parameters for that to happen, to work with him, to work with the government, to work with our colleagues was enormously challenging."
But Chen's wishes seemed to be changing as he gave interviews seemingly every few minutes with a different media outlet.
The U.S. misled him and abandoned him at the hospital, Chen told CNN's Stan Grant in an interview Wednesday.
"The embassy kept lobbying me to leave and promised to be with me at the hospital. But this afternoon soon after we got here, they were all gone," Chen said in the interview. "We are in danger. If you can talk to Hillary (Clinton), I hope she can help my whole family leave China."
Behind the scenes, Clinton was closely involved in the American strategy but, at the Strategic and Economic Dialogue, she was silent on Chen. In one speech on Thursday she referred to human rights without mentioning his name: "As part of our dialogue," she said, "the United States raises the importance of human rights and fundamental freedoms because we believe that all governments do have to answer to citizens' aspirations for dignity and the rule of law and that no nation can or should deny those rights."
From the Chinese side, President Hu Jintao saw it differently, saying Washington and Beijing "should approach our differences in a correct way, and respect and accommodate each other's interests and concerns."
Meanwhile, in an extraordinary scene, Chen Guangcheng - on his cell phone - called in from his hospital bed to a hearing on Capitol Hill arranged by his supporter, Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey. "I want to meet with Secretary Clinton," Chen said. "I hope I can get more help from her."
As cameras rolled Smith told Chen that Secretary Clinton should go to his hospital room and "meet with you. And you and your family and your supporters need to be on a plane coming to the United States for, as you put it, that rest that you so richly deserve."
Then, suddenly on Friday, everything changed - again. On its official website, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said that if Chen wanted to study abroad, he could apply for a passport to do that, just as any Chinese citizen can. It was the makings of yet another deal. And this one looked as if it could stick.
It came just in time. Hillary Clinton took to the podium with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, wrapping up the trade and security talks and, in a carefully phrased statement, used Chen's name in public for the first time. The U.S. ambassador had spoken with Chen again, she said, "and he confirms that he and his family now want to go to the United States, so he can pursue his studies."
Clinton said the U.S. was "encouraged" by the government statement "confirming that he can apply to travel abroad for this purpose."
"Over the course of the day, progress has been made to help him have the future that he wants, and we will be staying in touch with him as this process moves forward."
A reporter asked whether the deal with the Chinese government would hold - whether the Chinese government was serious about finding a resolution.
After three days of some of the most intense diplomacy several senior officials said they had ever experienced, the secretary was taking no chances. She pulled the blandest expressions she could find from the diplo-speak shelf:
"As I said, we are encouraged by the progress we've seen today," she said, "but there is more to work to do, so we will stay engaged as this moves forward."
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Million of Chinese travel and living in overseas either as tourist, student, retiree or working abroad. They are free to choose whether or not to go back China. Almost all of them whom I knew wanted to go back. Of course there may be some afraid to return...and I presumed that these people could be either 'dissidents' (by the way this is the most faourarite excuse), criminals, corrupts former officials etc...who are running away from the law. This CHen guy is a parasite and nuisance. What has he contribute to the Chinese society...they don't even have a descend job ....yeah he is blind (likewise million of blind folks do work to earn a living) and uses his big mouth assisted by some dudes behind to make him sounded like a dissident so that this whole episode which CNN have been waiting and dying to sensationalize been played out. Most laughable, the highest officials representing USA been fooled and like clowns by the scrip writer(s) of this cheap drama. Good for Chen and family getting free ride, cheap publicity and sympathy, cooperating with foreigners to demonize his fellow countrymen and country for his selfish personal gains. Well he may finally got what he want ie., to stay in USA....free....no need to study yet able t get admitted into NY University....compliment from the tax payers. Human rights..?...All hypocrites....give me a break....please focus the lies and mess in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine etc...by the way, why this Ansange being charge for freedom of information ?....
Obama guys have put a sipn on this from the get go , only for the truth to come to light . THEY SCREWED UP BIG TIME . folks screw ups like this only encourges the thugs of the world as they see the weakness of obama .
NO DOUBT obama camp will continue in spin talk of smoke and shame.
The biggest population are getting from the poorest and most hungry to some rich has been the biggest improvement on human rights. It is not a perfect country, but we are pleased to see most of things are going better.
Can you imagine somebody bring a US citizen to a foreign embbosy to run away from American law? At least that is not a polite way.
You cannot require others behave in your way.
In Chen's case, Obama (the 'leade'r who follows others) caved. Obama weaken our world position so he has to succumb to the wishes of the Chinese. Obama is the tail of the Chinese dog. Obama gave Chen to the Chinese.
Imagine a new China, where the censored internet is open,
The single party dictatorship is replaced by a government actually elected by the people,
Where corrupt regional officials are bought to justice,
The police are no longer pawns of the party but are proud to serve the people,
When 'illegal' public assembly is encouraged where dissidents can speak their minds,
and the nation's elected representatives are accountable to the people.
It will happen ..... Go China!
This is the worst grammatically written story I have ever seen from a major news media network.. Please, either have Jill go back to school to learn English or fire the editor who approved this story before printing. I could not even finish reading this because of all the mistakes within the text. Very typically liberal.
This is the worst grammatically written story I have ever seen from a major news media network. Please, either have Jill go to school and learn English or fire the editor who approved this story before printing. There is no way anyone with any literacy could read all of this with out cringing.
Exactly what did he contribute to Chinese society to deserve to be called a "Hero'? from the western media descibed events surrouding him these days. This is someone who doesn't even have intergrity and a clear idea of what he wants in life. Do that sound like a hero to y? can that kind of "hero" ever make any contributaion to mankind or only adavance his own personal agenda?
Chen is a hero because he dared to speak up against human rights violations. He fought for the poor people and women forced to do abortions.
Chen is a rat, not a hero. He and his family got benefit from it, and leave behind is nothing is not changed.
I agree. By the way, he should ask US to give him several million dollars to make sure that he will be safe in US.
This statement taken from Wikipedia might prove to some etenxt that the website is not contributed to by true professionals and can be used as an alternative for information only and at your own risk. It depends on how Standard German is defined. If it means no Germans spoke as the written language was on paper, then no people speak their Standard or de facto Standard Language because they always speak a variant that is is differnt in one way or the other from their country's TV/radio hosts and hosteses.(Sorry, your comment was wrongly identified as spam and I'm replying to it only after I've quoted EB's entry in my reply to your other comment.)
All the official media forums have been shut down and little information can be get from the official medias, why? what are they afraid of, may be most of Chinese know about this but only can be silence because it`s easy to be arrested if you express your disagreements on the internet; That`s means there are no human rights in most of poor and middle class people; Our party is the biggest dictator in the world;-Voice from Chinese
who cares. let worry about our own internal problems. Let China be China, as long as they clean up their pollution and dont meddle in our business, then why should we meddle in theirs. We will never change China or Russia, their next couple generation will do it for them at their own pace.
F Hillary! F Obama! F Chen! Obama administration is like a parasite trying to interfere with other countries' foreign affairs policies
I think you meant to say 'internal' affairs...
What! Our current administration didnt want or need this hassle, they had no interest in Chen..they were there to talk about our shared economics. Big dummy Republican had to make it a political issue by putting Chen on the loud speaker and demanding Cliniton get the criminal out of China...Your precious Republicans once again drag our country closer and closer to disaster.
By the looks of it, it looks like every major component (camera, anntnea, lcd, etc) is easily replaceable.Would this suggest that we would be able to order replacement parts and repair ourselves rather than having to exchange the phone?
If I were a Japanese citizen, and I had disagreements with the Japanese government, and I wanted to leave for the US, the Japanese govt would not stop me.
If I were a South Korean citizen, or a Pakistan citizen, or a Kazakhstan citizen, or a Mongolia citizen, or a ....
But China. What a pathetic country. Their citizens are like little piglets scurrying around waiting for their place to be slaughtered.
Why make a big fuss about this? Why even bother to tail and follow him. China, you are digging yourself again and again into a bigger hole, Leave him alone. Let him go. In fact, tell him "Go! No BIG DEAL." What is all this about, like little children playing with sand – could not find enough sand to throw around? Holy cow!
Why Assange was not able to move around then?
If I were a japanese and I ask the american marines to get lost back home, How come they can refuse ? In China, there are no foreign occupation forces. The Chinese are a free people but the Japanese and South Koreans are slaves. Even the North Koreans are a freer people.
Wherever Hillary goes, deception, war, or mistrust follow. She is friggin awesome!!
I wish david gergen would shut up.......or, better yet, banned from CNN........he's nothing more than a right wing tool.


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2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp salt
4 eggs
2 tsp Vanilla Extract
10 tbsp unsalted butter, softened
1 1/2 cups packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 cups semisweet chocolate, melted and cooled
1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chunks
1 cup mini peanut butter pieces
Melt 2 cups of semisweet chocolate over a double boiler or in microwave, set aside to cool.
In a large bowl whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt; set aside.
In a separate bowl whisk eggs and vanilla extract.
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August 14, 2009
WMTW, a television station in Portland, Maine, owned by Hearst, has produced a slick propaganda piece as part of an emerging effort to stampede people into submitting to a toxic and cancer virus flu vaccine this autumn.
On Thursday, Steve Watson reported on a National Guard "riot scenario" exercise conducted at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School in Paris, Maine. The school was chosen as a distribution site for the H1N1 flu vaccine by state officials. "The National Guardsmen will take on the roles of panicked citizens and military police and practice what they would do, such as using tear gas, in the case of a riot," the Sun Journal reported on August 13.
Sgt. Skip Mowatt of the Paris Police Department told WMTW 8 desperate citizens — arriving without proper ID or living outside the designated area — may overwhelm local police and engage in violence in an effort to get their soft kill vaccination. In such a situation, the television station reports, the police in Paris would team up with the National Guard to baton, pepper spray, and tase rioters.
In late July, the Pentagon said it will establish regional teams of military personnel to assist civilian authorities in the event of a pandemic. The plan calls for all branches of the military to team up with FEMA. CNN reported on July 29 that the proposal is awaiting final approval from Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Northern Command's Gen. Victor Renuart. The Pentagon, however, often announces plans after it has already moved to implement them. "Orders to deploy actual forces would be reviewed later, depending on how much of a health threat the flu poses this fall," CNN reported.
"Much of the groundwork for the intervention of the military has already been established," writes Michel Chossudovsky, who notes that "regional teams" have already been established under NORTHCOM, which has been involved in preparedness training and planning in the case of a flu pandemic. "The pandemic is being presented to public opinion as an issue of National Security, with a view to triggering the militarization of civilian institutions in blatant violation of the Posse Comitatus Act," Chossudovsky noted in an earlier article (Martial Law and the Avian Flu Pandemic).
As Infowars reported on August 6 and investigative journalist Wayne Madsen confirmed on the Alex Jones Show earlier this week, an international conference on the coming flu pandemic will be held in Washington next week. Breakout sessions detailed in a brochure for the conference include discussions on mass fatality planning, business continuity planning, and COOP or Continuity of Operations and Continuity of Government Planning. Additional sessions cover enforced quarantines, mass vaccinations, and how to "control and diffuse social unrest and public disorder." In short, how best to implement martial law.
The WHO and CDC have played prominent roles in hyping the coming pandemic and propagandizing the public on its expected severity. On July 25, the Los Angeles Times reported the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expects the flu pandemic expected this autumn to kill hundreds of thousands. "The number of potential deaths is much higher than that usually seen in seasonal flu, which kills an estimated 36,000 Americans a year, and is even higher than the nation's most recent pandemic." The 1957 pandemic of Asian flu killed 70,000. The 1918 Spanish Flu claimed between 500,000 to 675,000 lives in the United States.
The U.S. government has bought 195 million doses of H1N1 swine flu vaccine for a possible autumn vaccination campaign, a U.S. federal official told Reuters on July 23. The U.S. Health and Human Services Department has also contracted for 120 million doses of adjuvant, a compound to stretch the number of doses of vaccine.
Micropaleontologist Dr. Viera Scheibner and others have conducted research into the adverse effects of adjuvants in vaccines and concluded that the an oil-based adjuvant known as squalene is responsible for severe autoimmune diseases and contributed to the cascade of reactions called Gulf War syndrome. A U.S. Federal Judge ruled that there was good cause to believe squalene to be harmful, and he ordered the Pentagon to stop administering it in October 2004 (see Swine Flu Vaccination Poses Serious Threat to Your Health, June 17, 2009).
On July 24, Prison Planet reported that an experimental H1N1 vaccine will contain squalene. The experimental vaccine is to be tested on 12,000 children nationwide, according to the Oklahoman. The experimental vaccine will be dispensed to the public in the autumn.
On August 7, a German health expert warned that the swine flu vaccine developed by pharma giant Novartis will contain cancer viruses. The nutrient solution for the vaccine consists of cancerous cells from animals and "we do not know if there could be an allergic reaction," Wolfgang Wodarg told Bild. "But more importantly, some people fear that the risk of cancer could be increased by injecting the cells," Bild reported.
A censored WGBH public television (Boston) documentary — produced public health expert Dr. Leonard Horowitz — contains an interview with leading vaccine expert, Dr. Maurice Hilleman, who explains how Merck vaccines have spread AIDS, leukemia and other deadly plagues worldwide. The documentary provides evidence that Merck vaccines have long contained cancer viruses (including SV40 or Simian vacuolating virus 40).
If we are to believe the Hearst affiliate WMTW — and Hearst is the progenitor of yellow journalism — people will be rioting this autumn or early winter in order to injected with a deadly vaccine that demolishes the immune system and causes cancer.
The reporters and news staff at WMTW may not know it, but they are foisting slick propaganda on a largely unwitting public. The coming H1N1 vaccine is an engineered eugenics weapon. The promised flu pandemic will likely not be on the scale ominously predicted by the CDC and WHO, although it may be large enough to stampede people into lining up for their soft kill vaccination.
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Two Wheels in Chiang RaiWeekender
Recently I was shafted good and proper in an elaborate airport taxi scam in Kuala Lumpur and vowed never to let myself fall prey to such tactics again. So when I'm told that there is no option other than a 200baht 'limousine' ride for the 8km into town I shoulder my bag and march off to the road beyond the airport thinking that I'd rather walk it than get fleeced. My stubbornness soon pays off as the moment I'm out of the gates a guy in a van pulls up and offers to take me to town for 100baht.
He drops me at ST Motorcycle on Banphaprakan Road where I get a new 250cc all terrain 6 speed Honda for the inflated price of 700baht a day. By 9.30am I'm on the open road in the direction of Mai Sai and the Burmese border. Red earth, rice paddies and grazing buffalo are plentiful along the road and the scenery just gets better the further I go. The open road, clean air and the natural environment make a welcome break from Bangkok's metropolitan madness. I have a late breakfast of somtam, sticky rice and gai yang at a small roadside restaurant about 19km outside Mai Sai. The staff are inquisitive about what I am doing and where I am going and exceptionally friendly. I just know that I will enjoy my few days in this area.
Mai Sai is not much to look at; a cluster of grubby looking concrete shop houses and street stalls with the border crossing into Burma located, dominantly, at the far end of the main street. The border is busy and is clearly very much used for local commerce. Burmese and Thai traders come and go with goods stacked on their backs, carried on bicycles and samlor, motorbikes and pick-ups.
Just as I think I'm going to get through the vehicle channel on the bike I'm fished out by a smiling soldier and reluctantly have to leave it with the tourist police. On the Burmese side I'm issued with a receipt for my passport, which will be retained and stamped whilst I'm away. The Burmese border town of Thakhilek is even drearier in appearance than Mai Sai and evidently less developed. Wandering through the streets I come across the rather plush Allure Resort and head in to use the bathroom facilities. Inside there is a casino full of slot machines all geared to take Thai baht and there is no shortage of day-tripping Thais happy to pay to watch the reels spin.
I don't want to spend the day travelling further into Burma and can find very little to hold my attention in Thakilek so I stop for a coffee at a quaint little street café before heading back to the border. I order a cup of black coffee which arrives in a glass and thick with condensed milk, accompanied by the obligatory complimentary hot green tea and a selection of savoury buns and cigarettes on a sale or return basis. The furnishings are all miniature, the kind you might find in a kindergarten, and there are plastic spittoons full of the discarded remnants of chewed betel by every table. The waitresses are pleasant and welcoming and waft around the customers with grace and efficiency. All the Burmese here seem to speak Thai and accept Thai Baht. My coffee and two cigarettes (not that I would normally smoke) cost 15baht.
Returning across the border is a painless experience and it suddenly occurs to me that my first impression of this part of the country was right. Everyone here seems so much happier and easy going; surprisingly even the passport control guys have a smile and a few words. In the no-man's land of the bridge between the two border posts there is a collection of women and children sat around begging for money. They are bedraggled and filthy and at the same time pleasant and not pushy. A young girl of about three or four skips along beside me asking for 'sam baht, sam baht ka' in unclear Thai with a smile that would melt the stoniest of hearts. She's grimy and wearing a filthy little dress that could have been a nice party frock in its former life. Normally I wouldn't give money to beggars but looking at this poor little thing, not much older than my own daughter back in Bangkok I couldn't resist and handed over the three baht she was asking for. Her eyes lit up and she thanked me and scampered back to her mother with the good news.
I head out on the road to Chiang Saen through no end of rice paddies, the smell of fires smouldering almost everywhere. Just before the Golden Triangle I pull in to the Hall of Opium, a museum dedicated to the history of the drug that this area is so famous for. It's a large modern building and very impressive. At 300baht entrance (200baht for Thais) it's a bit steep and I challenge the staff about the two tier pricing. The first girl looks embarrassed and can't think of anything to say when her more talkative side-kick steps in, and with more than a dollop of sarcasm asks if I pay tax and if I am Thai and goes on to say this is Thailand etc etc. I point out that Thais don't pay tax in other countries but still pay the same rate as the locals. She shrugs her shoulders and asks for my 300baht. This turns out to be my only negative experience throughout the trip and is actually quite amusing. The museum is well laid out and very informative, the only downside being the rather one sided picture of history that is presented. But despite that and the extortionate entrance fee it is well worth a visit.
A short ride down the road is the Golden Triangle. This is basically a collection of street stalls selling hill tribe goodies at the point of confluence between the Mekong and Ruak rivers, where Loas, Burma and Thailand actually meet, creating a triangle. The golden bit comes from the lucrative production of opium once ubiquitous in this area. The village is actually called Sop Ruak but all the maps have it listed as Golden Triangle, which obviously has better tourist pulling clout than Sop Ruak. The place is positively teeming with tourists foreign and local, mixed with groups of hill tribe kids dressed in colourful traditional dress, licking ice creams and smiling for pictures. The other dominant feature, apart from the river and neighbouring countries, is the large golden Buddha statue, perched high above the road by the side of the river.
Further down the road, about 10km or so is, Chiang Saen. Much older than Mae Sai, Chiang Saen has a lot more character and various ancient ruins for viewing. The sun is starting to go very low and I want to get back to Chiang Rai to find some accommodation, via Chiang Saen Lake, so I more or less just drive through Chaing Saen, stopping very briefly for a look at Wat Chedi Luang. It looks like a good place to spend a night and I make a mental note to return. A few km out of Chiang Saen on the road to Mae Chan is the lake. I don't really know why I make the effort to go there except that it is a peaceful spot to stop for a drink and to get off the bike and stretch my legs. Back in Chiang Rai I blindly cruise the streets on the bike looking for accommodation and for some daft reason settle on a grubby place called the
Krung Tong Hotel just off Banphaprakan Road. It's more of a cheap and aged apartment block than hotel and I get a very basic room with 'en-suite' and a fan for 270baht. The shower is filthy and has evidence of previous guests encrusted on the walls, the mattress feels like solid teak and the pillow feels as though it's been stuffed with granite. However, it seems a good idea at the time and isn't too expensive.
Having not eaten since the morning I gorge myself on Thai food just around the corner from the hotel and set off to wander the Chiang Rai nightlife. In the centre there is a really good night bazaar that is definitely worth a wander, even if you're not interested in buying anything. I weave in and out of the rows of stalls and open fronted shops free from the usual hard sell you get in Bangkok. The main focus of the bazaar seems to be handicrafts and there's an abundance of wooden ornaments and ceramics for sale plus clothes, food, cloth, and the usual array of weaponry available in most Thai tourist areas. There are also several stalls with artists prepared to sketch your portrait for a reasonable amount of cash, and given the quality of what they are producing it seems like a bargain.
Not far from the clock tower on Banpharakan Road is the main drinking area and I wander past numerous pubs with pool tables and TVs, restaurants and massage parlours. There is also a small section devoted to go-go bars and what looks like pick up joints. Not being a regular frequenter of this kind of establishment I decide to have a quick beer in one and see what the more seedier side of Chiang Rai nightlife is like. I wander in to a go-go bar with the rather unimaginative name of, The Go-Go Bar, perch myself on a seat as close to the door as possible and order a Heineken. It's a narrow bar with mirrored walls, neon and ultra-violet lighting and a small stage at one corner of the far end where a young woman in bra and knickers with a wisp of black lace tied around her waist is shuffling nonchalantly between two stainless steel polls to the Crazy Frog's rendition of Axel F. She looks happy enough but would never win any dancing awards. Five minutes later and she's replaced by another young woman who strips to bra and knickers and ties on her bit of lace and begins her little shuffle. The clientele is mainly Thai, with the exception of one foreigner who is holding court with three of the women, who appear to be genuinely hanging on his every word. Nobody approaches me or tries to talk to me and I'm left alone to drink my beer in peace and watch the 'show'. Maybe I'm too smelly from my day on the bike or maybe the fact that my trainers, normally beaten-up and dirty, have come to life and started to glow radiantly in the ultra-violet light.
Sunday morning and it's an early start. I walk the early morning streets and watch the town come to life. Monks are in abundance collecting charitable offerings from merit making locals. The early morning fruit and veg market is in full swing and doing a brisk trade with its sellers' wares laid out on stalls and on the streets. Near the clock tower on Banpharakan Road is Doi Chaang coffee shop. I take a seat on the terrace and order coffee and a pancake whilst trying to decide on my route for the day. The local Doi Chaang coffee is definitely worth a try.
By 9am I'm on the road again, speeding along the main road towards Mae Chan feeling more confident with the bike and fast becoming addicted to the idea of exploring on two wheels. Just the other side of Mae Chan I hang a left onto the 1130 road and follow a series of windy roads indirectly up Doi Tung towards Phrathat Doi Tung. On the way I stop in an area completely devoid of all signs of life and rest. The scenery is truly stunning and the almost heavenly silence is broken only by the occasional and unmistakable sound of gunfire in the distance, a reminder that the Burmese border is close by.
The temple is bursting with Thai and what sounds like Chinese people, praying, making merit, banging on bells and walking around the Lanna style chedis that are said to date back to 911AD.
I assume that the view from here would normally be breathtaking but today there is a haze that restricts visibility to about 1 or 2 km so there is not a lot to see.
From the temple my exact route is hazy as the map I have is not concise enough to cover the small roads I end up on, so I just push on and on as the roads get narrower. I aim towards Mae Fah Luang and turn right onto the 1334 and then take several turns and go down some very narrow roads. I ride through hill tribe villages where children wave frantically and try to run alongside my bike, shouting and laughing, and mothers holding babies smile. I decide not to stop and take pictures. I know that most people do and I'm sure these people are quite happy with this but I always feel it is a bit voyeuristic and feel uncomfortable with the idea of treating someone's home as and way of life as a museum.
At one point I realise that I've not seen a living soul for half an hour or more and the roads are becoming poorer in quality and less travelled. Eventually I come to a military check point on a dusty road near the Thai/Burma border where I'm stopped by a soldier with a semi-automatic rifle. He's young and actually seems more nervous of me than I of him. He can't speak English and asks questions in Thai; most of which I can understand. I return several questions about why he is there and about Burma etc and take the opportunity for a rest and drink of water. He's quite friendly and lets me take some photos and seems quite happy for some company; I can't imagine he sees an awful lot of people during his average day. Whilst I'm stretching my legs and drinking, his phone rings and he's questioned about my presence. He then asks to see my passport. Taking it into his little hut he fingers through the pages looking for I don't know what and it seems apparent that he can't actually read what he's looking at. Even so he finds the passport number and jots it down. The barrier is lifted and I'm allowed to continue with my journey.
I continue on for quite some time and eventually the roads start to get better again. At one point whilst winding my way through a series of very sharp hairpin bends I have my first, and hopefully only, fall. I take the bend too sharp, lose control and go flying. The bike has minimal damage and I'm just slightly bruised and grazed. I pick the bike up again and I'm thankful that there was no one here to witness my idiocy. But then I realise that if I had been more seriously injured I could have lay there for a long time before being found. Having a mobile is good I guess but useless if you don't know where you are.
From then on I take more care and start to worry about the damage to the fairing on the bike. The bike is presumably an import job and therefore difficult and pricey to repair. Will I be faced with a huge bill back at ST Motorcycle? Eventually I get out onto better roads and find road signs I recognise and get back to the Mae Chan/Mae Sai road. My concerns are unfounded, as when I return the bike the woman in charge looks at the damage, makes a call and says, 'mai pen rai ka'.
There are many things to see and do in and around Chiang Rai and I'm sure you could spend a weekend in Chaing Rai alone, before even thinking of venturing further afield and, if the signs are to be believed, it even boasts its very own beach. There are guesthouses and hotels in far better positions than the one I stayed at and a plethora of tours available. If I was to go again I would definitely stay further out in a more remote area and maybe spend longer, exploring the whole region by bike.
As for my thoughts on Chiang Rai and its people. Just great. They have a wonderful attitude towards life and a splendidly cheery disposition. The tuk-tuk driver who took me to the airport in the evening epitomised the Chaing Rai way beautifully. I asked him if he would take me to the airport and he replied 'Yes, ok. But slooowly na, no hurry', and proceeded to give me a guided tour of Chaing Rai on the way.


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Users on Apple's discussion board have been experiencing issues with their PCs locking out iPhones when using Windows 7 with the Intel P55 USB chipset. It's a pretty specific combo that you're probably not running, so don't panic.
The thread is only five pages long, but multiple users are claiming the exact same "0xE8000065" error message when trying to sync their data. The issue appears on P55-based motherboards from Asus, MSI and Gigabyte, and it seems like Windows 7 64-bit is more prone to the problem than its 32-bit brother.
Keep in mind the P55 is a new chipset, and unless you're computer is brand-spankin' new or you're the DIY type, chances are you have a setup that works perfectly fine.
If you do have a new P55-based motherboard, Microsoft is looking into the issue. Hopefully a fix for you unlucky few will come soon enough. [The Register via Engadget]


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January 11th, 2011
Ben Johnson, FloydReports.com
The Left has gone out of its way to blame Saturday's tragic shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on anyone to the Right of the Mensheviks. Among the first to pile on the blood libel was New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who pinned the shooting on an alleged conservative "climate of hate." Most of us countered that the murderer, Jared Lee Loughner, clearly seemed mentally ill, addicted to mind-altering drugs, or perhaps the victim of an LSD-induced psychosis. Krugman should read his own newspaper — and I rarely make that suggestion. The NYT reported yesterday that most assassins are unhinged, not politically motivated, and any intelligent American should have known that was the likely motive. That means those accusing Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, and the Tea Party of facilitating this crime are either unintelligent or transparently politically motivated (or both).
The New York Times reported yesterday, "A 1999 study of assassins and attackers found few common threads. Many had delusional ideas, but few heard voices; still fewer abused drugs or belonged to militant groups." (Emphasis added.)
To make matters clearer, many of those who appear to kill for a political cause are merely demonstrating symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia. Forensic psychologist Dr. Michael Stone told the Times the paranoid mind…


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SmartTutor Wins a Parents' Choice Award
SmartTutor Wins a Parents' Choice Award
SmartTutor.com Announced as Winner of Reading & Math EDDIE Awards
Learning Today, Inc., a South Florida-based reading and math software publisher announced today that the company's Smart TutorTM program was awarded EDDIE Awards from the ComputED Learning Center. Smart Tutor received EDDIE Awards in two categories including Upper Elementary Reading/Literacy and Upper Elementary Math. The EDDIE Awards target innovative and content-rich programs and websites that augment the classroom curriculum and improve teacher productivity, providing
Smart Tutor Wins Reading & Math Best Educational Software Awards
Smart Tutor Wins the 2012 Reading & Math Best Educational Software Awards


text: There needed to be a gloomy remotely intimate glam pop group named after a character created by Franz Kafka who detuned their pained, pining guitars like the Velvet Underground, who screwed up dance beats with as much nimble knowingness and/or amateurish exuberance as Devo, who faced up to long lasting reality with as much sad, mad grace as Magazine, who got stuck into logic as defiantly as Pere Ubu, who had spent a lot of time watching Television and listening to the first six or seven songs written by Buzzcocks. At the end of the 1970s, after punk rock had to some extent realigned British musical history and established urgent new priorities, there just had to be something, somewhere at the rainy edge of reason. Something that was christened The Sound of Young Scotland, together with Orange Juice, whose guitars were also radiant and brittle, whose rhythms were also scrubbed and blunt, whose vocals were also proud and serious, but who sounded like another group completely. They played desolate, fidgety songs by David Bowie, Talking Heads and Television that could have belonged to a dry, extravagant musical based on the definitively alienated life of Josef K, cerebral, visceral songs that were filtered through the newly minted post-punk attitude that clich?s murdered inspiration. They took themselves very seriously whilst circling the idea that fun was a very peculiar notion. They wore suits, even ties ? fastidiously peeling away from the leather, pins and gunk of the trad punk look - and their pale, trim and amused, vaguely guilt ridden lead singer Paul Haig was a ghostly hint of a non-existent mod Samuel Beckett who played double bass in 60s Paris for a visiting Sonny Rollins. Josef K and Orange Juice were both operating high above England, tense and certain, cool and fraught, closer in a way to New York and Detroit than London. They were on the cusp between the 70s and the 80s, closer in a way to the 60s and the 21st Century. Nearly everyone ignored Josef K, including ultimately themselves. But they were right all along. They wrote prickly, plaintive pop songs that were the sound of depressed young men having lethargic tantrums about the mysteriously inevitable everyday. They added something new to the possibility of pop, combining that which needs to be leisurely interpreted with a quick, sensational celebration of the moment that just needs to be taken, prized, and thrown away. A touch more rational. A little less glaring. A splinter less uptight. Lacking, perhaps, the art for art's sake element that some of us swooned over, and which we see explicitly echoed in the way, say, the popular Franz Ferdinand express themselves.


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Swiss bank UBS was hit with a $1.5 billion fine on Wednesday, admitting to fraud, paying bribes to brokers and "pervasive" manipulation of global benchmark interest rates by dozens of staff in a deal with international authorities.
The penalty agreed with U.S., UK and Swiss regulators is more than three times the $450 million fine levied on Britain's Barclays in June, also for rigging the Libor benchmark rate used to price financial contracts around the globe.
It is the second-largest fine paid by a bank and comes a week after Britain's HSBC agreed to pay the biggest ever penalty - $1.92 billion - to settle a probe in the United States into laundering money for drug cartels.
The revelations are another blow to UBS, which has had a tough 18 months after suffering a $2.3 billion loss in a rogue trading scandal, management upheaval and thousands of job cuts.
"We deeply regret this inappropriate and unethical behavior. No amount of profit is more important than the reputation of this firm, and we are committed to doing business with integrity," UBS Chief Executive Sergio Ermotti said in a statement disclosing the extent of the wrongdoing, which took place over six years from 2005 to 2010.
UBS said it will pay $1.2 billion to the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), 160 million pounds to the UK's Financial Services Authority and 59 million Swiss francs from its estimated profit to Swiss regulator Finma.
"The core thing is it compares very poorly with Barclays' fine as it's three times the scale. It suggests there's more egregious behaviour," said Chris Wheeler, analyst at Mediobanca in London
The bank said the fines would widen its fourth quarter net loss but said it would not need to raise new capital as a result and traders said the fines were largely priced into the bank's shares, which were expected to open slightly higher in Zurich.
Britain's financial regulator said at least 45 people were involved in the rigging across three continents, which took place across a range of Libor currencies. It i n volved senior managers at UBS directing traders to keep Libor submissions low in order to give the impression that the bank was able to borrow more cheaply than it would actually have been able to do so.
The British FSA said that after August 2007, when the U.S. sub-prime crisis raised doubts about the financial health of banks, UBS told its staff to "protect our franchise in these sensitive markets".
The extent of the wrongdoing was highlighted in documents released by the FSA which showed that in January 2007, a trader asked a manager who supervised the submitter for Yen Libor and asked him to "...try to keep 6m and 3m libors up".
The manager responded: "standing order, sir".
The FSA said "the manipulation was conducted openly and was considered to be a normal and acceptable business practice by a large pool of individuals".
The Libor benchmarks are used for trillions of dollars worth of loans around the world, ranging from home loans to credit cards to complex derivatives.
Tiny shifts in the rate, compiled from daily polls of bankers, could benefit banks by millions of dollars. But every dollar a bank benefited meant an equal loss by a bank, hedge fund or other investor on the other side of the trade - raising the threat of a raft of civil lawsuits.
In a memo to staff on Wednesday, Ermotti said it was too early to determine whether or how clients were affected, pending further regulatory probing of the rate fixing.
The steep fine for UBS is despite the bank, since 2011, cooperating with law-enforcement agencies in their probes. The bank said it received conditional immunity from some regulators.
A similar admission by Barclays in June touched off a political firestorm that forced its chairman and chief executive to quit. Ermotti said around 40 people had left UBS or been asked to leave the bank as a result of the investigation.


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Most vintage printed Holiday tablecloths are from the 1960s but I carry as many as possible from every decade. Most Christmas tablecloths are red, green and gold but I try to add as many nontraditional Christmas cloths as possible. I will be adding vintage inspired or reproduction cloths for unusually shaped tables like oval and round. These tables did not become popular until the very end of the Vintage Tablecloth era
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